Summary: Xi Jinping issued an important directive on flood prevention and disaster relief, emphasizing the severe casualties and property damage in regions like Beijing, Hebei, Jilin, and Shandong due to recent heavy rainfall. He stressed the need for thorough flood control and disaster relief efforts, prioritizing search and rescue operations, and the safe relocation of threatened populations. Xi highlighted the critical period of flood season and urged all regions and departments to strengthen their bottom-line thinking and implement detailed flood control measures to safeguard people's lives and property. Li Qiang also issued instructions emphasizing the need to minimize casualties and strengthen disaster prevention efforts in the face of extreme weather.
Summary: During his time in Zhejiang, Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of culture as a component of comprehensive national strength, integrating into economic, political, and social forces. He stressed the need to prioritize cultural development, enhance cultural cohesion, and improve public cultural services. Xi visited places like Jiaxing Nanhu, where he highlighted the importance of revolutionary tradition education and the "Red Boat Spirit." He also focused on Zhejiang's unique cultural characteristics, including its entrepreneurial spirit and historical figures, and promoted the idea of "cultural economy," emphasizing the interplay between culture and economic development. Xi also underscored the importance of meeting the cultural needs of the people, such as with the comprehensive protection of West Lake.
Summary: The General Offices of the CCP Central Committee and the State Council have issued the "Implementation Plan for the Childcare Subsidy System." Starting January 1, 2025, subsidies will be provided for infants and toddlers under 3 years old, at a base rate of 3,600 RMB per year, per child. The subsidy is intended to reduce the cost of raising children and foster a more birth-friendly society, in line with the spirit of Xi Jinping Thought. Applications will be processed through a unified national system, with funding shared between the central and local governments. The plan emphasizes financial sustainability and coordinated implementation across different regions, and calls for the improvement of policy evaluation.
Summary: During Zhao Leji's official visit to Hungary, he met with President Tamás Sulyok, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, and Speaker of the National Assembly László Kövér. Zhao conveyed Xi Jinping's greetings and emphasized the importance of the all-weather comprehensive strategic partnership established during Xi's May visit, highlighting the Belt and Road Initiative and the Budapest-Belgrade railway. Orbán affirmed Hungary's commitment to friendly cooperation with China, viewing it as strategically important for Hungary's development. Zhao also expressed China's desire for Hungary to play a positive role in the healthy and stable development of China-EU relations.
Summary: Recent heavy rainfall in eastern, northern, and northeastern China has led to significant flooding, landslides, and casualties. Under the leadership of the CCP Central Committee with Xi Jinping at its core, affected regions and departments have responded to implement flood control measures. On July 28th, China upgraded the flood control emergency response for Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, dispatching working groups to assist with disaster relief. Beijing initiated its highest-level flood control emergency response, closing schools and tourist sites. The National Development and Reform Commission has allocated 50 million RMB to support post-disaster recovery efforts in Hebei.
Summary: Multiple regions in China have experienced heavy rainfall, leading to significant casualties and property damage. The immediate priority is to implement Xi Jinping's instructions, effectively carrying out flood prevention, disaster relief, and ensuring the safety of people's lives and property. It emphasizes strengthening inspections of rivers, reservoirs, and urban areas, as well as resolutely relocating affected people to minimize losses. The article stresses the importance of rapid responses in weather warnings, emergency rescue, and medical services. Cadres are urged to take the lead in disaster relief.
Summary: Anhui province is focusing on strengthening its real economy through technological upgrades and strategic emerging industries, according to the article. Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group has implemented over 700 research projects since the 14th Five-Year Plan, focusing on the high-end of the copper industry chain and developing ultra-thin lithium battery copper foil. The province is also developing strategic emerging industries such as new displays and quantum computing, attracting companies and fostering industrial clusters, particularly in the Hefei and Wuhu areas. Anhui's strategic emerging industries now account for 43.6% of the province's industrial output, up from 20.7% in 2013. The province is also making efforts to reduce carbon emissions and promote green development.
Summary: During his time in Zhejiang, Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of culture as a source of comprehensive national strength, integrating into economic, political, and social spheres. He stressed the need to prioritize cultural development, enhance its cohesive force, and boost cultural productivity. Xi highlighted the "Red Boat Spirit" as the source of China's revolutionary spirit, underscoring its significance for Zhejiang's development. He also emphasized that cultural construction should focus on the people. The article notes that In 2006, Xi Jinping visited the Dashan Island and promoted the island's spirit.
Summary: Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China shows that China's GDP grew by 5.3% year-on-year in the first half of the year, with domestic demand contributing 68.8% to economic growth. HSBC's Liu Jing stated that China is accelerating the construction of a unified national market and improving fair competition laws. Foreign companies like Honeywell and Schneider Electric expressed confidence in China's business environment and long-term growth potential, citing China's large market and innovation. Foreign investment is focusing on modern service industries and advanced manufacturing.
Summary: During a meeting with foreign representatives of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), Xi Jinping affirmed the organization's progress and emphasized its role in injecting stability into a turbulent world. Since assuming the SCO presidency last July, China has been actively promoting cooperation guided by Xi's vision of "five communities." The article highlights the UAE's active participation within the SCO framework as a dialogue partner. China and the UAE will strengthen communication and coordination within the SCO framework to practice multilateralism, improve global governance, and maintain international order. The SCO Tianjin Summit is scheduled for August 31st to September 1st.
Summary: The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Media and Think Tank Summit was held in Zhengzhou, Henan, bringing together over 400 representatives from media, think tanks, government bodies, and international organizations from SCO member states, observer states, and dialogue partners. Attendees emphasized that the "Shanghai Spirit" of mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality, consultation, respect for diverse civilizations, and pursuit of common development is key to addressing global challenges. A survey indicated strong support within SCO member states for the organization's development cooperation and China's development experience. The summit also featured the release of the "Zhengzhou Consensus" and several think tank reports, and included visits to cultural and industrial sites in Henan province.
Summary: Jurgen Crueger, co-founder of the Europe Silk Road Link Association, emphasized the importance of the 50th anniversary of EU-China relations as an opportunity to deepen high-level dialogue and cooperation in areas like trade, green economy, and climate change. He highlighted technology and green energy as emerging bright spots in EU-China relations, citing China's advancements in robotics and electric vehicles after attending the Zhongguancun Forum in Beijing and visiting a new energy vehicle factory in Baoding. Crueger noted China's shift from being a manufacturing base to a global innovation leader, advocating for increased EU-China cooperation to address global challenges. He underscored the importance of openness, rationality, and cooperation in the current global context, noting China's commitment to multilateralism. The article does not discuss the U.S.
Summary: In a phone call with South Korea's new Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi stated that China seeks a higher level of strategic partnership with South Korea based on mutual benefit and policy stability. Wang emphasized that China-South Korea relations should be independent, not targeting or controlled by any third party, and that both countries should resist decoupling and maintain stable supply chains. He also conveyed China's support for South Korea hosting the upcoming APEC meeting in the second half of the year. Cho responded that South Korea values its relationship with China and hopes to advance the strategic partnership, deepen economic cooperation, and jointly safeguard regional peace and stability.
Summary: On July 28th, Chinese and U.S. trade teams held trade talks in Stockholm, Sweden. The meeting was reported by People's Daily. The article does not mention the names of individuals accompanying the trade teams. It focuses solely on the fact that U.S.-China trade negotiations took place.
Summary: NPC Standing Committee Vice Chairman Cai Dafeng addressed the opening ceremony of the second ASEAN parliamentarians' seminar in Beijing. He stated the seminar's theme was strengthening legislative exchange and cooperation to build a closer China-ASEAN community with a shared future. Cai expressed hope that mutual learning would solidify consensus, enhance friendship, and contribute legislative support to deepening cooperation between China and ASEAN in various fields, ultimately building a community with a shared future. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: NPC Standing Committee Vice Chairman Peng Qinghua met with a South Korean delegation from the 25th China-ROK Forum for Prominent Figures at the Great Hall of the People. Peng and the delegation exchanged views on China-ROK relations and exchanges between the two countries' legislative bodies.
Summary: CCP International Department Head Liu Jianchao led a delegation to the African Liberation Movement Summit in Johannesburg, advocating for stronger Sino-African party cooperation to pursue modernization and protect the interests of the Global South. During the summit, Liu met with leaders from various African ruling parties, including South Africa's ANC, Zimbabwe's ZANU-PF, Mozambique's FRELIMO, Namibia's SWAPO, Tanzania's CCM, and Angola's MPLA. Discussions focused on strengthening party-to-party relations and collaboration on development initiatives. The United States was not mentioned in the article.
Summary: A youth leader peace dialogue was held in Beijing on July 28, co-hosted by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and the Center for China and Globalization. Approximately 200 representatives from nearly 20 countries, including China, Argentina, France, Kiribati, South Korea, Myanmar, and the United States, participated in the event. Representatives came from government departments, friendly organizations, university think tanks. Participants engaged in in-depth discussions and exchanges, reaching broad consensus.
Summary: During a formal visit to Hungary, Zhao Leji met with President Tamás Sulyok, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, and Speaker of the National Assembly László Kövér. Zhao conveyed Xi Jinping's greetings and emphasized the elevation of China-Hungary relations to an all-weather comprehensive strategic partnership, highlighting the Belt and Road Initiative and the Budapest-Belgrade railway. Orbán affirmed that developing friendly cooperation with China is Hungary's strategic choice. Zhao also expressed hope that Hungary would play a positive role in the healthy development of China-Europe relations, as this year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the EU. Zhao also inspected the Budapest Chinese Cultural Center and the Hungary section of the Hungary-Serbia railway.
Summary: The "City of Summer Art Festival - Shanghai Day," co-hosted by the China Shanghai International Arts Festival Center and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, took place in New York, attracting 20,000 attendees. The event featured over ten performances and interactive experiences, including the overseas premiere of the Shanghai Grand Theatre's original dance drama "White Snake" and a screening of the animated film "Havoc in Heaven" from Shanghai Animation Film Studio. Attendees expressed admiration for the cultural vitality of Shanghai and its blend of tradition and innovation. Li Ming, president of the China Shanghai International Arts Festival Center, expressed his pleasure at seeing the performances resonate with New York audiences. Lincoln Center president Mariko Silver noted the event as a starting point for further cooperation.
Summary: Li Shulei, a member of the Politburo and head of the Propaganda Department, attended and addressed the 2025 New Thought Forum on traceability in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Attendees highlighted Xi Jinping's contributions to Zhejiang's cultural development during his time working there, emphasizing the "Eight-point Program" for cultural construction as foundational to Xi Jinping Thought on Culture. Forum participants stressed the need to promote the creative transformation and innovative development of traditional Chinese culture. They also underscored the importance of strengthening mainstream values and culture in the internet era to better showcase China. The forum, co-hosted by the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee Propaganda Department and the Zhejiang Academy of Social Sciences, focused on reviewing and summarizing the 20-year implementation of Zhejiang's "Eight-point Program" for cultural construction.
Summary: Amidst severe flooding in several regions of China, including Beijing, Hebei, and Jilin, Xi Jinping stressed the importance of prioritizing search and rescue efforts and minimizing casualties. In response, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters upgraded emergency responses for Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei. The People's Liberation Army and armed police forces were deployed to assist in rescue operations. Beijing activated its highest-level flood control emergency response, halting construction and advising non-essential personnel to stay home. The article notes that Tianjin also activated flood control responses and Hebei has reported fatalities and missing persons due to landslides.
Summary: The article highlights the efforts of Party organizations and cadres in responding to recent heavy rainfall and flooding in various regions of China, including the Northeast, North China, and East China. It details specific examples of Party members leading rescue and disaster relief efforts, such as mobilizing emergency teams, reinforcing flood defenses, and evacuating residents. Cadres like Zhu Caibin in Tianjin organized local defense systems while cadres such as Gao Fengke in Hebei and Wu Xiuji in Shandong led hands-on rescue operations. Cadres such as Zhang Jialong in Jilin emphasized the need for vigilance and preparedness in flood control, ensuring round-the-clock monitoring and timely repairs. The article emphasizes the importance of relying on Party members during critical times, as demonstrated by cadre action in Inner Mongolia.
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Summary: China will implement a national childcare subsidy program starting January 1, 2025, providing RMB 3,600 per year for each child under the age of three. The program, outlined in a recent document from the General Offices of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, aims to reduce the financial burden on families and encourage higher birth rates. Experts emphasize that the subsidy is a universal cash benefit, covering all eligible children regardless of birth order and is an investment in people. The initiative is seen as a step towards building a more birth-friendly society. While subsidies can alleviate financial stress, experts acknowledge that systemic changes are needed to significantly boost fertility.
Summary: The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) announced that in June, approximately 27,977 violations of the "Eight-Point Regulation" were investigated nationwide. These investigations led to disciplinary action against 37,217 individuals, including one provincial-ministerial level official and 112 at the prefectural-departmental level, and 25,871 individuals faced Party or government disciplinary measures. Among the violations, 14,106 cases involved formalism and bureaucracy, while 13,871 cases related to hedonism and extravagance, with a significant portion of the former concerning dereliction of duty impacting high-quality development. The most common violations of the latter category involved receiving expensive gifts and illegal bonuses. The report did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: This article features a dialogue between commentators Zhou Shanshan and He Shanshan discussing the recent addition of the Western Xia Mausoleums in Yinchuan, Ningxia, to the UNESCO World Heritage List. He Shanshan emphasizes that the mausoleums showcase the unique integration of Han Chinese and Dangxiang cultures, reflecting the unity within the Chinese nation and the importance of further research, protection, and display of the heritage. She also notes the economic benefits, including increased tourism and job creation, resulting from the designation. He Shanshan concludes that the designation provides opportunities for international exchange, allowing the world to better understand Chinese culture. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses the rise of "emotional consumption" in China, driven by consumers, especially younger generations, seeking emotional satisfaction and connection through purchases. Examples include the popularity of blind boxes, "companion economy" products like pets, and "emotional tourism." To succeed in this market, businesses must offer genuine value and cater to consumers' emotional needs, avoiding exploitative practices. The article suggests that a supportive regulatory environment is needed to protect consumers and ensure the healthy development of "emotional consumption." Focusing on meeting the increasingly differentiated and personalized consumer preferences will create new growth points for domestic demand.
Summary: A recent report indicates that foreign-funded industrial enterprises in China have significantly increased their R&D expenditure and patent numbers in the past decade. This rise in R&D investment reflects the attractiveness of China's large consumer market, complete industrial chain, and innovation drive, which attracts foreign companies. Foreign firms are increasingly focusing on high-tech industries and deepening their integration into the Chinese economy. Examples include Volkswagen's new R&D center in Anhui and ArcelorMittal's partnership with Hunan Steel. Despite global economic headwinds, China continues to attract foreign investment in high-end services and manufacturing.
Summary: The 12th World High-Speed Rail Congress was recently held in Beijing, marking its return to China after 15 years. China's operational high-speed rail mileage has reached 48,000 kilometers, accounting for over 70% of the world's total. China is promoting cooperation on high-speed rail projects such as the Jakarta-Bandung Railway, Hungary-Serbia Railway, and China-Thailand Railway. The article highlights China's willingness to share its high-speed rail development opportunities with other countries.
Summary: This article discusses the transformation of traditional pastoral practices in Otog Banner, Inner Mongolia, focusing on the "integration for shared prosperity" ("统养共富") model. To overcome challenges like small individual landholdings and limited bargaining power, the local government promoted the establishment of professional cooperatives to integrate resources and modernize livestock management. This involved consolidating livestock and equipment management, professionalizing operations, and establishing a diversified mechanism of benefit for the community through shareholding. The cooperatives then collaborated with leading enterprises to achieve economies of scale, improve risk resistance, and increase income for herders by around 20%.
Summary: Tianjin University is reforming its approach to education and research by breaking down barriers between academic departments and encouraging cross-disciplinary collaboration, exemplified by Professor Liu Hong's "Power System Basics" course moving to the Future Technology College. This shift involves integrating faculty from diverse fields like materials and mechanics to address industry needs and design relevant products, fostered by new performance evaluation mechanisms. The initiative aims to create a vibrant innovation ecosystem where education ("teaching") and industry ("production") are closely linked, enabling the smooth flow of knowledge, technology, capital, and talent. Reforms in teacher performance evaluations and support for faculty entrepreneurship in the Tiankai High-level Science and Education Innovation Park are incentivizing faculty to engage with industry and pursue innovation. Ultimately, these efforts seek to foster new productive forces (新质生产力) driven by innovation.
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Summary: The article summarizes the core tenets of Xi Jinping's thought on ecological civilization, as outlined in the recently published "Selected Works on Ecological Civilization by Xi Jinping (Volume I)," emphasizing its significance in guiding China's modernization efforts towards harmony between humanity and nature. The article highlights Xi's historical emphasis on environmental protection dating back to his early career, and how this evolved into a comprehensive framework integrating Marxist principles with traditional Chinese philosophy. It emphasizes the need for a holistic approach, balancing development with environmental protection and ensuring the benefits of a healthy environment for all citizens. The article concludes by arguing that Xi Jinping's ecological thought has led to significant environmental improvements in China and provided a blueprint for a "Beautiful China" in the context of global sustainability.
Summary: The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs recently issued a notice on promoting the high-quality development of integrated rice-fish farming, outlining ten requirements across standardization, upgrading, income enhancement, and safeguards. The notice emphasizes prioritizing rice production while promoting mutual benefits between rice and aquaculture, adhering to green development principles and safeguarding grain and land resources. It aims to achieve more efficient and greener production models with improved quality and safety within three to five years. The notice calls for comprehensive improvements in various areas, including technological innovation, standardized practices, and the development of new agricultural entities to promote integrated production and sales.
Summary: As of July 28th, over 10,000 China-Europe (Central Asia) freight train trips have passed through Xinjiang's Alashankou and Horgos railway ports this year. Alashankou's cargo volume reached 9.778 million tons, a 3.7% year-on-year increase, while Horgos saw 7.96 million tons, a 20.3% increase. Infrastructure improvements, such as the new Jinghe-Alashankou railway, have enhanced port capacity. Alashankou now has 124 train routes reaching 21 countries including Germany and Poland, and Horgos has 89 routes reaching 18 countries and 46 cities. Scheduled train services have expanded, reducing transit times by over 30%.
Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of private enterprises to China's modernization and high-quality development, highlighting their contributions to technological innovation and economic growth. It showcases examples of private companies achieving breakthroughs in areas like space computing, renewable energy, and traditional industries through innovation. The article also underscores the commitment of private entrepreneurs to national development, poverty alleviation, and environmental protection, including through technological advancements which broke dependence on foreign markets. It promotes the idea that private enterprises should have the spirit to fulfill social responsibilities. There is no mention of the United States.
Summary: Tourism in Tibet's Nagqu City, particularly in Biru County around the Sapu scenic area, is booming due to improved transportation infrastructure, including the completion of the G349 national highway. The upgraded tourism services led to the Sapu tourism area being formally approved as a national 4A-level tourist attraction in July. Local governments are incentivizing residents to participate in the tourism sector by offering financial support for opening family hotels and creating jobs in ecological protection. This has led to increased incomes for local herders and farmers as they capitalize on the growing number of tourists visiting the region's glaciers and lakes. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: An expert engineer named Wang Chao within the Eastern Theater Command is focused on improving joint operations capabilities through technological advancements. Wang led a team to develop quantitative models for evaluating combat effectiveness, addressing a key bottleneck in joint operation command efficiency. His team improved data processing efficiency to support command decisions and is building a tech team to promote tech-enabled warfare. Wang stated that he and his team will be closely monitoring their "strong enemies" to improve their technological expertise. The article does not discuss or allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The CCP Central Committee General Office and the State Council General Office jointly issued the "Implementation Plan for the Child-raising Subsidy System," effective January 1, 2025. Subsidies of 3,600 RMB per year will be provided for children under 3 years old, with funds shared between the central and local governments. The plan emphasizes improving people's livelihoods, ensuring fairness, and adapting to local conditions while maintaining financial sustainability. A national information management system will be established to oversee the program. No mention is made of the United States or of U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Shanghai-Nanjing-Hefei high-speed railway's Anhui section's major bridge across the Shanghai-Shaanxi Expressway was completed on July 28, laying the foundation for subsequent construction. This railway is an important part of the "eight vertical and eight horizontal" coastal passage in the national medium and long-term railway network plan. The railway will establish a fast and direct route between cities along the Yangtze River north of the river, and the Nanjing and Shanghai metropolitan areas.
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Summary: At a State Council Information Office press conference, State Taxation Administration (STA) Commissioner Hu Jinglin reported that tax and fee revenue is projected to exceed 155 trillion yuan during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, with newly reduced taxes and fees reaching 10.5 trillion yuan, supporting economic growth. STA Deputy Commissioner Wang Daoshu noted improvements in China's green tax system, with revenue from environmental taxes reaching 2.5 trillion yuan. STA Deputy Commissioner Cai Zili stated that the individual income tax system has been improved to promote fair distribution and improve people's livelihoods. The officials also emphasized the construction of "smart taxation" to improve the business environment by improving the efficiency of tax payments, with over 61 million taxpayers now using digital e-invoices.
Summary: At a press conference on July 28th, China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment reported that overall environmental air and surface water quality continued to improve in the first half of the year. The average proportion of days with good air quality in 339 cities increased, and PM2.5 concentrations decreased nationally, especially in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Surface water quality saw a slight improvement in the proportion of sections rated as good, but a slight increase in the proportion of the worst water quality. There is no mention of U.S.-China relations or the United States in the article. The report also detailed specific improvements and regressions within key regions and river basins.
Summary: China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) will focus on bolstering domestic demand and stabilizing the industrial economy in the second half of the year. This includes implementing growth initiatives for ten key industries and promoting technologies like AI terminals and drones. The MIIT will also prioritize supply chain autonomy, strategic mineral resource security, and industrial innovation, including policy support for humanoid robots and IoT. Furthermore, the ministry aims to enhance industrial energy efficiency, promote 5G and gigabit networks, and strengthen the development of specialized and innovative SMEs.
Summary: Agricultural aviation operations are underway in Heilongjiang Reclamation Area's Beidahuang Group, covering over 30 million mu of dryland crops. These operations aim to "strengthen and prevent diseases" in the crops to promote increased grain production. The use of agricultural aircraft was specifically observed at Zhao Guang Farm Co., Ltd. in the Beian Branch. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: During the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Ramsar Convention in Zimbabwe, China's National Forestry and Grassland Administration hosted a side event on wetland conservation, sharing China's approach to high-quality wetland development. Representatives from seven countries and international organizations, including France and the FAO, participated in the event. Zimbabwe officially joined the International Mangrove Center with the signing of an agreement, bringing the intended membership to 19. The International Mangrove Center, approved in 2023, is based in Shenzhen, China, with the agreement to establish it signed in November 2024 by 18 initial member states.
Summary: Anhui province is focusing on upgrading traditional industries and expanding strategic emerging industries, with an eye towards future industries. Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group has focused on the high-end of the copper industrial chain, implementing over 700 research projects since 2021. The province is promoting the integration of the innovation and industrial chains, aiming to have enterprises lead 80% of industrial innovation platforms and research projects. Emerging industries have grown from 20.7% to 43.6% of the province's industrial output from 2013 to 2024, helping Anhui become a hub for domestic EV production. The province is also investing in areas like quantum computing and low-altitude aviation.
Summary: This article recounts the story of Liang Xixian, a Kuomintang general who died fighting the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Born in Shaanxi province, Liang graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy and fought in multiple battles before becoming a deputy division commander. During the 1941 Battle of Zhongtiaoshan, Liang chose to remain with his troops despite illness, and ultimately jumped into the Yellow River to avoid capture after his forces were overwhelmed. In 2022, a memorial was erected at his birthplace, and local officials are collecting materials to commemorate his contributions to the war. The article emphasizes the sacrifices made by Liang and others in resisting Japanese aggression.
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Summary: According to the article, at the Central Urban Work Conference held from July 14th to 15th, Xi Jinping delivered an important speech summarizing China's urban development achievements since the new era, analyzing the situation facing urban work, and clarifying the overall requirements, important principles, and key tasks for urban work. The conference emphasized the concept of "people's city," which prioritizes people's needs and participation in urban development. It also highlighted the need to strengthen the Party's leadership in urban work and to promote high-quality urban development. In doing so, the conference aimed to promote a new path of Chinese-style urban modernization.
Summary: The article emphasizes Xi Jinping's call for teachers to become "great teachers" (大先生) who serve as role models for students in all aspects of life. It argues that these teachers must possess a strong sense of national duty, integrating their educational work with the broader goals of national rejuvenation. Teachers should instill in students a love for the country and a commitment to serving its needs. Furthermore, they must be knowledgeable, embrace innovation, and have a broad international perspective to prepare students for a changing world.
Summary: This article discusses China's efforts to build a modern industrial system through intelligentization, greening, and integration. It highlights the development of new industries like electric vehicles, lithium batteries, and solar products, as well as the application of AI in manufacturing and other sectors, and the role of financial institutions in supporting technological innovation. The piece emphasizes the importance of technological innovation and resource aggregation to foster new growth drivers. It also touches on the need to improve the business environment and participate in global technological and industrial cooperation. One case study discusses how the Chinese automobile industry has been able to rapidly innovate to produce high end vehicles due to the complete domestic supply chain.
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Summary: A Xinhua article reports on a panel discussion regarding integrating technological and industrial innovation to boost China's economy. Participants including Liu Qing from the Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center, Qin Haoyuan from the Ministry of Science and Technology, and Gan Xiaobin from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, discussed topics such as matching industrial needs with research, promoting collaboration between large and small enterprises, and improving the efficiency of technology commercialization. They emphasized the importance of enterprise-led innovation, open innovation ecosystems, and further reforms to facilitate technology transfer. Panelists noted the need for China to foster an innovation-friendly environment conducive to the development of "new productive forces." The U.S. was not mentioned in the article.
Summary: To commemorate the 50th anniversary of China-EU diplomatic relations, the Ministry of Science and Technology, along with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently launched the "China-EU Young Scientists Exchange Program" in Beijing. Representatives from the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the China Association for Science and Technology, as well as over 150 Chinese and European scientists, attended the launch. The program, led by the Ministry of Science and Technology, aims to support European scientists in collaborating with Chinese universities, research institutions, and tech companies. Following the launch, a "China-EU Young Scientists Forum" was held, focusing on cooperation in physics, chemistry, life sciences, information, and management.
Summary: China successfully launched the Satellite Internet Low Orbit 05 Group satellites using the Long March 6A carrier rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center on July 27th. The satellites successfully entered their predetermined orbit. This launch marks the 585th flight of the Long March series carrier rockets. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A delegation of twelve sinologists and literary translators from eleven countries, including Spain and the Netherlands, along with several domestic writers, participated in the "Discovering Qingxi on the World Literary Map" event held in Qingxi Village, Hunan Province. The event, co-sponsored by the Chinese Writers Association and the Hunan Provincial Writers Association, focused on Qingxi Village as the hometown of writer Zhou Libo and the inspiration for his novel "Great Changes in a Mountain Village," highlighting the village's transformation through literature and tourism. Activities included the opening of the Qingxi Bookstore, the launch of the "Global Sinologist Literary Translation Qingxi Bookshelf," and a symposium on locality and globality in the context of Qingxi. Participants also explored the village and watched Yiyang Flower Drum Opera. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: Karamay, Xinjiang is focused on attracting and cultivating talent to drive industrial upgrading and economic development. The city has established a comprehensive policy system and a talent development fund to attract strategic, leading, and young talents. Karamay leverages Shanghai's assistance to promote intelligent computing industries and is building a quantum electronic hybrid computing network. The city also supports local universities to expand enrollment and encourage graduates to stay in Xinjiang.
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Summary: HanZhong city is promoting high-quality development by emphasizing both ecological preservation and economic development, focusing on building a modernized industrial system and promoting rural revitalization through green industries. Nanzheng district has implemented measures to improve the business environment, resulting in the successful launch of key projects and increased industrial output. Ningqiang County has focused on protecting the Han River's water quality, maintaining it at a national level I standard. The city's overall economic growth for 2024 is reported to be 6.2%, with significant increases in industrial investment and the number of technology-based SMEs. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The State Council has issued Order No. 812, the "Regulations on Housing Leasing," effective September 15, 2025, to regulate housing rental activities and promote a high-quality housing rental market. The regulations cover leasing activities on urban state-owned land and emphasize the combination of market-led and government-guided approaches. The regulations specify requirements for leased housing, contracts, and the responsibilities of lessors and lessees, as well as regulations for housing rental enterprises and real estate agencies. The regulations also include measures for supervision and management, as well as legal responsibilities for violations.
Summary: Yuzhong district in Chongqing is using a comprehensive intelligent supervision system to improve high-rise fire safety, focusing on early warning and rapid response. The district has implemented a "one building, one code" system for its 2005 high-rise buildings, integrating 254,900 fire safety sensors into a unified data platform. This system allows for real-time monitoring of potential hazards like blocked fire lanes and abnormal electricity usage, enabling faster response times and early intervention by micro fire stations. The district is also working with electric companies to monitor abnormal electricity usage, as Chongqing's high temperatures increase electricity use. While effective, officials note the district has shortcomings such as outdated sensors and lack of training.
Summary: During the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, the China Southern Power Grid (南方电网) announced the launch of a national AI pilot application base focused on the energy sector. This base aims to bridge the gap between AI research and practical application in the power industry, with 19 entities already partnering. The pilot base, according to Southern Power Grid's Digitalization Department General Manager Long Yun (龙云), will provide services to address the disconnect between research and practical applications in power AI. Southern Power Grid is aiming to promote the deep integration of AI and electric power, with a focus on building a diversified AI industry ecosystem in the power sector.
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Summary: A recent special action led by the Ministry of Justice is underway to standardize administrative law enforcement related to enterprises, aiming to rectify issues like excessive inspections. Local governments in Hunan and Hebei are implementing measures such as publicizing inspection lists, streamlining inspection procedures through technology like QR codes, and consolidating enforcement powers to reduce burdens on businesses. These efforts include establishing mechanisms for companies to report irregularities via hotlines and ensuring that enforcement actions are transparent and accountable. Hunan is also pioneering a "supervision + service" model to offer guidance and support to businesses during inspections, avoiding punitive measures for minor issues. These initiatives aim to create a more favorable business environment by reducing unnecessary interference and promoting regulatory efficiency.
Summary: The Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and the Ministry of Public Security jointly issued opinions on handling criminal cases related to assisting cybercrime, clarifying standards for conviction and sentencing. These guidelines aim to address the evolving landscape of cybercrime, particularly involving "two cards" (bank and phone cards), and the increasing professionalization and cross-border nature of such crimes. The new opinions refine the criteria for determining "serious circumstances" related to "two cards" offenses, adjusting standards based on the number of accounts or phone cards involved. The guidelines also emphasize a balanced approach to sentencing, advocating for leniency towards minors and those on the periphery of criminal networks, while calling for strict punishment for organizers and key members of cybercrime operations. There is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Shanghai's Municipal Party Committee Social Work Department initiated the "People's City, Overall Friendliness" project in November, aiming to improve the sense of gain and integration for new employment groups. The project focuses on constructing friendly service systems, including optimizing 7,395 friendly service locations near workplaces, residences, and rest areas. Initiatives include the "New Era Urban Builders and Managers Home" project, providing approximately 43,800 beds through subsidized rental housing. Legal service resources were also released for ride-hailing and truck drivers, alongside 22 "Warm Bee Love Home" service points for delivery workers. The project aims to help workers with things like housing and legal aid.
Summary: The "Taihu Has Wind" youth market in Changxing County, Zhejiang Province, leverages the Taihu lakefront to stimulate local tourism through nighttime activities. The market aims to meet personalized consumer demands and encourage local youth to participate in cultural and tourism entrepreneurship. The initiative focuses on nighttime leisure activities such as entertainment and food. The article does not mention any political figures or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Shenzhen's Shekou Cruise Homeport has launched China's first international transit zone for seaport passengers. The new zone allows international passengers arriving via Hong Kong/Macau ferries to transfer to cruise ships bound for destinations like Vietnam without traditional immigration procedures. This streamlining reduces the number of steps from eight to four, cutting transit time from 2.5 hours to under 30 minutes. Shekou Customs implemented a "one machine, dual screen" inspection system to facilitate faster customs and security checks. The new system also allows international cruise berths to serve both international and domestic routes.
Summary: The Poly Property Management team in Zhouzhuang Ancient Town has implemented a "full-domain service" concept, addressing management challenges in the community-based scenic area, deploying a grid management system and intelligent platforms to improve efficiency. The team divides the scenic area into five grids, each managed by designated personnel who conduct comprehensive safety inspections and manage peak tourist flow to ensure bridge safety. A digital management platform with over 500 HD cameras enables real-time monitoring and rapid response to issues like illegal dumping and helps locate missing persons. A convenient service station established by the government and Poly Property provides repair and emergency services to residents, businesses, and tourists, including support for elderly residents.
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Summary: The Chinese delegation to the 2025 Rhine-Ruhr World University Summer Games achieved a second-place finish in the medal count with 30 gold medals. According to Liu Lixin, head of the delegation, the team fulfilled its goals, showcasing the achievements of China's school sports reforms and the spirit of Chinese university students. Liu noted the increasing global emphasis on the educational function and value of sports, with schools serving as talent pools for competitive sports. The Chinese University Women's Basketball team won gold, and both women's basketball teams comprised students from six domestic universities. Liu Lixin highlighted the development of campus basketball leagues and joint training programs with the Chinese Basketball Association to improve coaching and cultivate student interest in the sport.
Summary: Chinese divers Wang Zongyuan and Zheng Jiuyuan won gold in the men's synchronized 3-meter springboard at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. Wang, an experienced diver with changing partners over the years, acknowledged the pressure from competitors and the importance of a strong final dive. He expressed gratitude to his previous teammates and discussed his evolving role from being mentored to sharing his experience. Reflecting on his career, Wang mentioned overcoming injuries and his determination to continue diving due to his passion for the sport. Both divers asked for patience and expressed confidence in their future performance as a team.
Summary: At the 2025 Singapore World Aquatics Championships, Chinese athletes achieved significant success in swimming and diving. Qin Haiyang won gold in the men's 100m breaststroke, securing China's first swimming gold of the competition. Chinese divers Wang Zongyuan/Zheng Jiuyuan and Chen Yuxi/Zhang Minjie won gold in the men's synchronized 3m springboard and women's synchronized 10m platform events, respectively. Zhang Yufei finished fourth in the women's 100m butterfly, with the gold medal going to U.S. athlete Gretchen Walsh. Finally, Yu Zidi ranked fourth in the women's 200m individual medley, as Canadian athlete Summer McIntosh took gold.
Summary: The 11th Ethnic Games of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region were recently held in Bairin Right Banner, Chifeng City. This year's games featured 18 competitive events and 12 performance events, marking the most extensive and diverse edition to date. The article highlights the "running horse picking Hada" individual competition with an accompanying photograph. The article does not mention anything related to US-China relations.
Summary: A 2025 China Rubik's Cube sports tour event was held in Shantou, Guangdong Province, featuring over 500 athletes competing in individual and team categories. The competition utilized a hybrid online and offline format to promote wider participation. The event follows the establishment of the China Rubik's Cube Sports Working Committee in June, which aims to make Rubik's Cube an official Asian intellectual sport. A training course for national-level Rubik's Cube referees was also held prior to the competition. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were mentioned in the article.
Summary: Guangxi province plans to promote pickleball by establishing associations, providing training, and building a competition system. The province aims to establish pickleball associations in all 14 cities by 2026 and create a three-tiered organizational network. Existing badminton courts will be converted, and at least 1,000 new or renovated pickleball courts are planned by 2026. The initiative seeks to develop a distinct model for pickleball development in the region. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Zhang Zheng, a 70-year-old former professional basketball player, has been running a free summer basketball training camp in Xingtai, Hebei Province for 18 years. The camp, which started with a handful of participants, now serves over 4,000 children with the help of volunteer coaches and community support. Zhang emphasizes instilling a spirit of perseverance and sportsmanship, aiming to empower children through basketball. The program has seen success, with former participants like Zuo Xinying becoming certified basketball referees. Zhang plans to continue the camp, confident that the growing coaching team will sustain the program in the future.
Summary: Guangzhou has released a plan to become a leading sports hub, aiming to build an international center for sports consumption, the Greater Bay Area, and international sporting events. The plan focuses on creating themed sports consumption zones throughout the city. The plan also seeks to boost cooperation with Hong Kong and Macau. The effort hopes to achieve standardization and resource sharing in sports industries, venues, events and talent.
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Summary: During summer vacations, children in Germany, Egypt and Thailand participate in various activities to develop skills, explore interests, and increase knowledge. In Germany, libraries offer reading challenges and workshops, while sports camps focus on athletic development and social inclusion. Egyptian museums provide workshops on ancient arts and crafts, aiming to connect children with their cultural heritage. In Thailand, students participate in outdoor training camps to build resilience, discipline, and teamwork.
Summary: A U.S.-China "Flying Tigers" friendship forum was recently held in Urumqi, Xinjiang, co-organized by the U.S. Sino American Aviation Heritage Foundation and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Committee of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade. The forum aimed to promote U.S.-China friendship by carrying forward the spirit of the Flying Tigers, a group of American volunteer pilots who fought alongside the Chinese against Japanese aggression during World War II. Huang Ping, Vice President of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, stated that the spirit of the Flying Tigers should illuminate the new journey of U.S.-China relations. Gary Dvorchak, son of the Iowa host family of Xi Jinping in 1985 and current China representative for Blue Shirt Group, emphasized that increased exchanges between U.S. and Chinese youth could enhance bilateral friendship. Xinjiang enterprises invited American businesses to cooperate in energy, agriculture, and other sectors.
Summary: Approximately one hundred Chinese and Japanese scholars attended a symposium in Tokyo commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Japanese Communist Party Vice Chairman Yasuo Ogata stated that Japan's wartime aggression was illegitimate and that facing history is crucial for Japan's national development. Former Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry official Shigemaki Koga argued Japan should reduce dependence on specific countries and build a healthy relationship with China to maintain peace. Professor Song Lishui emphasized the importance of understanding global diversity and promoting cooperation, while Chinese historian Shen Zhihua highlighted the importance of diplomacy and communication to avoid conflict. The symposium, organized by the Japanese Association of Chinese Professors and co-organized by the China-Japan Academic Exchange Center, addressed concerns about the erosion of the post-war international order.
Summary: European tourism is seeing a resurgence of Chinese tourists, even as overall global travel to Europe declines, with a significant 72% of surveyed Chinese tourists planning European trips this summer. European countries such as Spain and France are actively courting Chinese tourists by creating accounts on Chinese social media platforms and streamlining visa processes. These countries are also improving services for Chinese tourists, including offering Chinese-language guides, mobile payment options, and navigation apps. European tourism agencies are partnering with Chinese companies to promote unique experiences via social media, noting a shift in Chinese preferences towards experiential and personalized travel. The European Travel Commission emphasizes the need for the European market to adapt to Chinese tourists' evolving demands for sustainability, flexibility, and customized experiences.
Summary: After a multi-year hiatus, Russia has re-established passenger flights between Moscow and Pyongyang, with the inaugural flight departing on July 27th. Operated by Nordwind Airlines, the route will initially run monthly. Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Alexander Kozlov was a passenger on the first flight, and suggested frequency could be adjusted based on demand. The possibility of a future direct flight from Russia to Wonsan, North Korea was also raised.
Summary: The World Health Organization (WHO) released a statement on July 27, 2024, detailing the rapidly deteriorating nutritional situation in Gaza. Malnutrition cases have surged since May, with over 5,000 children under five receiving outpatient treatment in the first two weeks of July alone, and 74 malnutrition-related deaths reported this year, 63 of them in July. Gaza City is reported to be the most severely affected area, and the WHO is calling for immediate action to ensure the sustained delivery of diverse nutritional food and supplies to Gaza. Over 1060 people have died and 7200 have been injured since May 27 while searching for food. The WHO also reported that restrictions on movement have limited access to health resources.
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Summary: The city of Hunchun, located in Jilin province, is experiencing growth in cross-border trade and tourism due to its location bordering Russia and North Korea. Specifically, traditional Chinese medicine is becoming increasingly popular with Russian tourists. The import of Russian king crab via Hunchun accounts for 80% of the national market share. Hunchun is improving its cross-border infrastructure and streamlining customs to accommodate growing tourism, especially among Russians who are drawn to the unique blend of cultures and ease of travel. These developments are aimed at fostering international exchange and trade.
Summary: The city of Hunchun, a Chinese border city, showcases cultural integration and people-to-people connectivity through trilingual signage and Russian tourism. Hunchun has institutionalized these exchanges through events like the China-North Korea-Russia New Year's Blessing activities since 2009, fostering regional cultural exchange and cooperation. This openness reflects China's historical embrace of cultural exchange, as highlighted by Xi Jinping. The city promotes deeper understanding and a sense of shared community through diverse activities like cross-border New Year's celebrations. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: This article highlights the crucial role of vocational education in supporting China's major engineering projects, citing examples like the Baihetan Hydropower Station, high-speed railways, and the "China Sky Eye." Peng Binbai from the Ministry of Education emphasized that vocational education provides a comprehensive talent supply chain, ensuring the smooth operation and indigenous control of key industries. The report also focuses on the integration of practical training with technological innovation, fostering a "craftsman spirit" (工匠精神) among students. The article suggests that the integration of vocational education with industry is crucial for driving technological advancements and cultivating skilled workers who contribute to national strategic goals. By connecting education to national projects, vocational education aims to instill a sense of responsibility and pride in students, emphasizing the importance of precision and quality in their work.
Summary: This article discusses the promising future for students attending vocational schools in China, highlighting opportunities arising from the alignment of vocational education with economic and social development. It emphasizes the importance of improving the quality of vocational education through integration with general education and industry collaboration. The article also acknowledges existing challenges, such as unequal treatment in hiring and promotion, and calls for raising the status and compensation of skilled workers. Ultimately, the piece argues that vocational education offers a viable path to success, contingent on both systemic improvements and individual effort. The article does not discuss or allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Peking University's centennial lecture hall is promoting aesthetic education (美育) through various initiatives, including film screenings with commentary by Professor Dai Jinhua, art classes, and collaborations with art troupes. The lecture hall aims to cultivate students' artistic appreciation and aesthetic sensibilities. Zhang Yong, deputy director of the Peking University Conference Center, mentioned plans to launch a "Starry Sky Project" to support student-led original artistic creations. The initiatives are in line with national guidelines emphasizing the importance of aesthetic education in universities. Li Boqiao, vice dean of the Yuanpei College, highlighted the transformative impact of these programs on students' perspectives and confidence.
Summary: A lecturer at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics' Marxist College observes that AI poses challenges to traditional ideological and political education (思政教育). The lecturer emphasizes the importance of teaching students to critically evaluate information provided by AI and to avoid being misled by algorithms. Furthermore, the lecturer stresses the need for teachers to address students' feelings of isolation and guide them in constructing their values and beliefs. The lecturer advocates for helping students develop independent thinking skills and a strong sense of purpose.
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Summary: The article discusses Jiangxi Province's efforts to strengthen grassroots governance by focusing on talent recruitment and development, reducing burdens on local officials, and promoting collaborative governance. To cultivate talent, Jiangxi is attracting skilled individuals to rural leadership positions and training community workers. The province is also alleviating burdens on local officials by streamlining assessment metrics and reducing unnecessary tasks. Jiangxi fosters collaborative governance by engaging diverse social forces, such as residents and delivery drivers, in community affairs through digital platforms and volunteer initiatives. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A recent notice from Guangdong Province criticized Shantou city for excessively extending a video conference on college graduate employment to district and town levels, forcing local officials to attend repetitive meetings. This practice of "attending meetings for the sake of attending" stems from some leaders' distorted views on political achievements, where attendance equates to importance. The article advocates for reducing unnecessary meetings and emphasizes practical work and problem-solving at the grassroots level, suggesting that officials should prioritize action over repetitive meetings. It also stresses the importance of establishing regulations to control the frequency and scope of meetings, promoting efficient alternatives like online meetings, and preventing redundant sessions to free up local cadres for more productive tasks. The article argues that liberating officials from unnecessary meetings will allow them to better serve the people.
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Summary: An investigation by discipline inspection officials in Tongdao Dong Autonomous County, Hunan Province, revealed that Yang, the head of a local animal husbandry station, was delaying the issuance of animal quarantine certificates to extort gifts from farmers. Yang would cite vague issues with application materials as a pretext for delay, but would expedite the process after receiving gifts. The investigation was initiated after data analysis showed unusually long processing times for these certificates. Yang was disciplined, and the station was ordered to rectify the situation and apologize to the affected farmers. The case highlights the issue of "micro-corruption" at the grassroots level, where officials abuse their limited power for personal gain.
Summary: The article reports on Pingdingshan city's "Goose Return Project" (雁归工程) aimed at attracting talented individuals back to rural villages to serve as village Party secretaries. Pingdingshan is focusing on recruiting individuals like successful entrepreneurs and veterans, and providing them with training and mentorship to revitalize rural areas. The project has successfully attracted nearly 2,000 people back to villages, improving the overall quality and education level of village Party secretary candidates. The city is using methods such as offering positions in the party and material incentives to attract talent. The city has also partnered veteran party members with younger members to pass on knowledge.
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Summary: The article discusses the increasing integration of technology into artistic expression in China, highlighting examples like digital avatars in concerts and VR historical experiences. It argues that while technology offers new possibilities, it also presents challenges such as over-reliance on special effects and a superficial approach to art. The author emphasizes the need to uphold humanistic values, respect artistic integrity, and promote elevated aesthetic appreciation in the face of technological advancements. The core issue is framed as a systematic problem of transformation and upgrading in the literary and artistic field. The solution is to focus on the comprehensive development of people, actively promoting technology and art to go hand in hand and complement each other.
Summary: A recent controversy has erupted in Chinese literary circles regarding alleged plagiarism and excessive borrowing in the works of several young authors. The debate centers on the line between acceptable inspiration and outright copying, raising concerns about the future of originality in literature. The article argues that true literary creation requires unique world-building, insightful observation, and skillful use of language, all of which are undermined by copying and pasting of sentences and paragraphs. It criticizes authors who prioritize speed and quantity over quality, or who lack originality due to limited life experience and reliance on secondary sources. The piece concludes by emphasizing the importance of originality for maintaining reader trust and ensuring the health of Chinese literature in an era of AI writing and database-driven narratives.
Summary: The film *Nanjing Photo Studio*, released on the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, tells the story of ordinary people in Nanjing during the 1937 Japanese occupation. A Chinese postal worker, by chance, develops photos for a Japanese military photographer, witnessing the horrors of the occupation through his lens and sacrificing his life to preserve historical memory. The film criticizes the aesthetics of Fascism through the Japanese photographer's arrogance and portrays the resilience of the Chinese people symbolized by the postal worker, the photo studio owner, and others who strive to survive and preserve their culture. The characters reject collaboration, choosing resistance and preserving hope for the future. The film is presented as a symbolic "development" of China's attitude towards history and civilization, contributing a new perspective to Chinese war resistance cinema.
Summary: Chen Peisi's film adaptation of his popular stage play "The Stage" is receiving significant attention, with audiences responding positively to its humor. The article highlights Chen's decades-long pursuit of comedic excellence, emphasizing his "structural comedy" approach, which prioritizes intricate plot mechanisms over improvisation. His work is rooted in observations of daily life, and uses comedic techniques to explore the human condition. Chen's theories developed from his own creative practice, his in-depth study of Chinese and Western comedies, and his deep understanding of social life and public aesthetics. The film’s release comes at a time when humor is often algorithmically driven, underscoring the value of Chen's work.
Summary: The popular historical drama "Chao Xue Lu," blending mystery and romance, initially received praise for its cast's appearance and acting. However, criticism has emerged regarding weak plot logic and unrealistic political intrigue. While the drama features a compelling revenge narrative, its later episodes suffer from a disjointed plot and forced romantic misunderstandings. The article argues that successful historical dramas like "Nirvana in Fire" and "The Longest Day in Chang'an" prioritize intricate plots and genuine emotions over mere aesthetics, which are lacking in "Chao Xue Lu". The author contends that while aesthetics may initially draw audiences, compelling narratives are ultimately necessary for lasting success. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The documentary series *But There Are Still Books* explores the profound impact of reading and writing on individuals, acting as a metaphorical ark that carries personal meaning amidst life's challenges. The series highlights how reading provides liberation and self-discovery for marginalized groups like the visually impaired, allowing them to transcend physical limitations and explore new worlds. Furthermore, the series showcases how writing serves as a mirror for self-reflection, as seen in the lives of writers like Lai Zi Shu, enabling individuals to confront anxieties, explore personal identity, and strive for self-improvement. By focusing on the experiences of ordinary people, the documentary emphasizes that the true benefit of reading lies in internalizing and applying knowledge to one's own life. The series ultimately aims to illuminate the transformative power of books and foster a sense of connection among readers.
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Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 28th. Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, made important instructions on flood prevention and disaster relief work.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that recently, East China, North China, Northeast China and other places have continued to experience heavy rainfall, triggering floods and geological disasters, causing significant casualties and property losses in Beijing (北京), Hebei (河北), Jilin (吉林), Shandong (山东) and other places. We must do a solid job in all aspects of flood prevention, emergency rescue and disaster relief, make every effort to search for missing and trapped people, resolutely transfer and resettle the threatened people, and minimize casualties.
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that the current period is the critical period of flood prevention of "late July and early August." All regions and relevant departments must firmly establish the bottom-line thinking and extreme thinking, comprehensively consolidate political responsibilities, implement various flood prevention measures in detail, closely monitor and guard weak links and key parts, scientifically allocate rescue forces and disaster relief materials, and ensure that they respond and deal with emergencies as soon as possible, and do everything possible to protect the safety of people's lives and property.
Li Qiang (李强), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, made instructions, pointing out that the rainstorm and flood disaster in Miyun District (密云区), Beijing (北京), caused significant casualties. We must make every effort to search for missing persons, properly resettle the affected people, and do our best to reduce casualties. Recently, heavy rains have continued in some areas of North China. The State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters should guide relevant localities to further strengthen the prevention and response to rainstorm and flood disasters, do a good job in monitoring and early warning of extreme weather, strengthen the inspection and risk investigation of rivers, reservoir dams, and urban waterlogging hazards, transfer people at risk in a timely manner, and effectively protect the safety of people's lives and property.
Return to TopDuring his work in Zhejiang, Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out: "The power of culture, or what we call the cultural soft power that constitutes comprehensive competitiveness, always integrates into economic, political, and social forces like a 润物细无声 (rùn wù xì wú shēng - "moistening things silently," to influence subtly without being noticed), becoming an 'accelerator' for economic development, a 'navigation light' for political civilization, and a 'cohesive agent' for social harmony."
Placing cultural development in a more prominent position, enhancing the cohesiveness of advanced culture, liberating and developing cultural productive forces, and improving social public service capabilities... Xi Jinping (习近平) has always considered major issues of Zhejiang's reform and development from the depths of culture, injecting the soul of culture into Zhejiang's modernization process.
The highest excellence is like that of water, benefiting all things without striving. 上善若水，润物无声 (shàng shàn ruò shuǐ, rùn wù wú shēng - "supreme goodness is like water, moistening things silently," the greatest virtue is like water, benefiting all without contention).
Following the cultural footprints of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) in Zhejiang, tracing the origin, we deeply feel the scientific truth value, powerful spiritual strength, and broad cultural feelings contained in the great thought...
"Spirit Gathers People's Hearts"
Jiaxing Nanhu (嘉兴南湖), is crowded with tourists.
The Red Boat, Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall (南湖革命纪念馆), stirs people's hearts; the Mist and Rain Tower (烟雨楼), and Lanxiu Garden (揽秀园), the misty rain of history, make people sigh with emotion—
7,000 years ago, the Majiabang Culture (马家浜文化) appeared here; for thousands of years, the Mist and Rain Tower (烟雨楼) has witnessed the endless stream of exiled poets and writers, the cultural pulse gurgling and surging;
104 years ago, a Red Boat witnessed a groundbreaking event in Chinese history, a new page was opened in the history of the Chinese revolution, and the red culture has been flowing for a century...
In October 2002, Xi Jinping (习近平) came here not long after taking office in Zhejiang. He said with emotion that Jiaxing (嘉兴) is indeed a treasure land with outstanding people and a long history and revolutionary culture.
"He went into the memorial hall to visit historical materials and boarded the Red Boat to pay homage to the site of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China," Huang Xiaoqi (黄晓琦), the former commentator of the Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall (南湖革命纪念馆), recalled the scene of that year. "At that time, the exhibition area of the Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall (南湖革命纪念馆) was only more than 500 square meters, which could not accommodate the constantly enriched cultural relics and historical materials, nor could it bear the increasing number of visitors."
Can a new memorial hall be built at another location?
Xi Jinping (习近平) immediately agreed and pointed out: "Revolutionary tradition education is very important, and we must continue to expand its influence."
He said with emotion that if our party members can come to Nanhu (南湖) to see an exhibition, listen to a party lecture, learn the party constitution, watch a special film, pay homage to the Red Boat, and review the oath of joining the party, they will receive "spiritual inheritance and ideological sublimation."
After the trip to Nanhu (南湖), the construction of the new museum was quickly put on the agenda. Site selection, design, style... Xi Jinping (习近平) personally asked about every link.
The trip to Nanhu (南湖) made Xi Jinping (习近平) think even more—
How to transform the cultural values bestowed on us by history into an inexhaustible driving force for opening up the future?
On June 21, 2005, Guangming Daily (光明日报) published an article signed by Xi Jinping (习近平), "Promoting the 'Red Boat Spirit' and Walking at the Forefront of the Times." The "Red Boat Spirit" was first proposed and explained—"the pioneering spirit of opening up the world and daring to be the first, the fighting spirit of firm ideals and perseverance, and the dedication spirit of serving the party for the public and being loyal to the people."
He profoundly pointed out that "the Red Boat sails through the waves, and the spirit gathers people's hearts." The "Red Boat Spirit" is the source of the Chinese revolutionary spirit.
"'Red Boat Spirit' is a powerful ideological weapon to encourage us to grasp the theme of development of the times and the primary task of the party in governing and revitalizing the country, and to boldly explore, innovate and start businesses."
The Red Boat set sail from Zhejiang and is also the spiritual power to promote Zhejiang's development. As the times progress and the situation changes, how to promote the "Red Boat Spirit" and "Zhejiang Spirit"? How to give the "Zhejiang Spirit" new connotations of the times?
Xi Jinping (习近平) repeatedly thought and explored.
Every time he went to a place for investigation and research, Xi Jinping (习近平) would read the local chronicles, often reading until late at night, exploring the spiritual code of Zhejiang from a broad historical perspective—
Lying on firewood and tasting gall, serving the country with loyalty, applying knowledge to practical use, attaching equal importance to righteousness and profit, regarding industry and commerce as the foundation, and integrating knowledge and action... "Zhejiang's culture and the humanistic spirit internalized in people's hearts are the deepest reasons for leading and promoting Zhejiang's development."
Every time he went to a place for investigation and research, Xi Jinping (习近平) carefully observed and deeply felt the tension of the times surging in the blood of the people of Zhejiang—
Ant Island Spirit, Dachen Island Reclamation Spirit, Haixia Spirit, "Four Thousand" Spirit... "The world is changing, the times are progressing, and the situation is developing. Keeping pace with the times is the theoretical quality of Marxism and the inherent requirement of the Zhejiang Spirit."
Xi Jinping (习近平) personally guided and conducted special large-scale investigations.
The research team went to various parts of the province, rooted in the front line where there were more difficulties, complex situations, and sharp contradictions. Xi Jinping (习近平) told everyone that the research should focus on answering three questions: What did the ancestors leave behind? What has been created since the reform and opening up? What is still lacking for the future?
Report after report, instruction after instruction, word by word, sentence by sentence.
At the beginning of 2005, Zhejiang Province launched a major discussion on "Zhejiang Spirit that Keeps Pace with the Times." During this process, Xi Jinping (习近平) personally held symposiums with people from all walks of life. The discussion lasted for a year, and the enthusiasm rose one after another.
The more truth is debated, the clearer it becomes, and the more refined the thought becomes.
On February 5, 2006, the first day of work after the Spring Festival, Xi Jinping (习近平) published an article signed on the front page of Zhejiang Daily (浙江日报), "Zhejiang Spirit that Keeps Pace with the Times." The full text clearly states that the Zhejiang Spirit has been passed down from generation to generation, becoming more and more new over time, and has always inspired the people of Zhejiang to work hard and forge ahead and innovate. The article proposes the 12-character "Zhejiang Spirit"—seeking truth and being pragmatic, being honest and harmonious, and opening up and striving for strength.
Seeking truth and being pragmatic originates from the Marxist principle of seeking truth from facts, being honest and harmonious draws on the essence of Confucianism, and opening up and striving for strength is the call of the times for reform and opening up.
These 12-character spirits contain historical heritage, breed the power of the times, and inspire the people of Zhejiang to never be complacent, never stop, work hard and be at the forefront...
Dachen Island (大陈岛), Taizhou (台州), is an island of spirit—
More than 60 years ago, 467 reclamation workers built this barren island, which had suffered from war, into a vibrant "Pearl of the East China Sea," creating the Dachen Island Reclamation Spirit of "hard work, striving for strength, selfless dedication, and pioneering innovation."
"At that time, during the fishing season, the fishing boats were densely packed, and there were more than 10,000 permanent residents on the island at most. Around 2000, due to overfishing and marine pollution, the fishery declined, and many fishermen sold their fishing boats and went ashore to make a living. By 2006, there were only more than 1,000 permanent residents on the island," Sun Shangquan (孙尚权), then director of the Dachen Island (大陈岛) Development and Construction Management Committee, recalled to us, "When Dachen (大陈) was at its most difficult, Secretary Xi (习) came."
On August 29, 2006, the scorching sun was dazzling, and the sea breeze rolled up huge waves. The ship was shaking violently, but Xi Jinping (习近平) insisted on boarding the island.
When he arrived on the island, he did not stop. He discussed the wind power generation project in a cement rough house, surveyed the tourism plan on the beach, went to the fishermen to learn about the situation of fishery production and industrial transformation, and made a special trip to visit the old reclamation team members... He encouraged everyone:
"In the future, the development of Dachen Island (大陈岛) will have a very splendid blueprint and a very bright prospect. The development and construction of Dachen Island (大陈岛) has a lot to offer. We must vigorously promote the Dachen Island Reclamation Spirit of 'hard work, striving for strength, selfless dedication, and pioneering innovation,' and strive to build Dachen Island (大陈岛) into a 'well-off Dachen (大陈) and a modernized Dachen (大陈).'"
Keeping pace with the times, there is a lot to be done. In marine aquaculture, Dachen Island (大陈岛) has become the largest copper enclosure net aquaculture area for large yellow croaker in China; in wind power generation, Dachen Island (大陈岛), which has always lacked electricity, is now transporting rolling energy to thousands of households—Dachen Island (大陈岛) has blazed a new path of transformation and development.
Xi Jinping (习近平) has always been concerned about this place. In 2010 and 2016, he successively replied to the old reclamation team members and the new generation of Dachen Island (大陈岛) people, paying attention to the development of the island and encouraging the inheritance of the spirit. Today, the Dachen Island Reclamation Spirit has been included in the national primary school textbook reading materials, encouraging the younger generation to become "reclamation workers" in various fields in the new era.
From Dachen Island (大陈岛) to Zhejiang, and then to the whole country, the power of the spirit is like a giant axe that opens mountains, cutting through thorns and creating history;
From Zhejiang to China, and then to the world, the power of the spirit is more like a living spring, nourishing the heart and opening up the future.
On February 17 this year, a symposium for private enterprises was held in Beijing (北京). At the meeting, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) mentioned the names of Xu Guanju (徐冠巨) and other entrepreneurs when he talked about his work in Zhejiang. Xu Guanju (徐冠巨), chairman of the Transfar Group (传化集团) who attended the symposium, was very moved. He recalled the past more than 20 years ago to us:
"In 2003, I went to work at the Zhejiang Provincial Federation of Industry and Commerce (浙江省工商联). In order to build the 'Zhejiang Businessmen' brand, we held a Zhejiang Businessmen Conference every year at that time, and Secretary Xi (习) would basically take the time to participate and give a speech. Every speech he gave had a very profound impact on Zhejiang businessmen."
In 2004, Zhejiang became the fourth province in the country with a total economic volume of more than one trillion yuan, and the province of strong private economy became famous throughout the country. Zhejiang businessmen have created one legendary "Zhejiang phenomenon" after another, which has become a vivid portrayal of the Zhejiang spirit.
But the "troubles of growing up" followed: the internal contradictions of Zhejiang's economic quantity expansion began to emerge, with tight electricity, water, and land supply... The profits of industrial enterprises above designated size in the province once declined, and for a time, external doubts arose, and the confidence of enterprises and the market was hit.
How can Zhejiang's private economy develop steadily and far?
"At the critical moment of the development of Zhejiang's private economy, Secretary Xi (习) inspired us to calmly analyze the gains and losses of economic development," said Xu Guanju (徐冠巨).
Xi Jinping (习近平) wrote in Zhijiang New Words (之江新语): "Now, the state's implementation of macroeconomic control policies and the resource and factor bottlenecks in real economic activities have formed a new 'reverse forcing' mechanism, which is actually an opportunity to adjust the economic structure and change the mode of growth."
On June 3, 2006, at the Zhejiang Businessmen Conference and Zhejiang Businessmen Forum, Xi Jinping (习近平) put forward earnest hopes: Zhejiang businessmen should continue to promote the Zhejiang spirit that keeps pace with the times, strive to achieve a new leap in Zhejiang's private economy, and work together to achieve faster and better development in Zhejiang.
He encouraged everyone to pay more attention to independent innovation, brand building, resource conservation, talents and management, fundamentally change the extensive growth mode, and realize the rebirth and transformation of industries and enterprises.
Keeping pace with the times, reborn from the ashes. Zhejiang's private enterprises "jump out of Zhejiang to develop Zhejiang," "change cages for birds and phoenix nirvana," Zhejiang is accelerating the pace of transformation and upgrading, and a large number of "handsome birds" that eat less, lay more eggs, and fly high have emerged, and advanced manufacturing bases have sprung up.
Keeping pace with the times, reborn. Many private enterprises in Zhejiang have torn off labels such as "poor quality," "OEM," and "low technical content," closely combined industrial innovation with technological innovation, and devoted themselves to building a province strong in science and technology and a province with great brands.
Today's Zhejiang private economy has bright data and strong "combat power." From Zhejiang's own perspective, it is "67889"—creating 67.2% of the province's gross domestic product, 73.4% of tax revenue, 80.8% of imports and exports, 87.5% of employment, and 96.8% of business entities; from the perspective of national rankings, the number ranks first in five lists such as the "Top 500 Chinese Private Enterprises."
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"Facing Zhejiang to the north, the spine strengthens the magnificence of the vast ocean." The Zhejiang spirit that keeps pace with the times is like a surging river, surging and surging...
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has repeatedly talked about the power of the spirit on different occasions and put forward the overall concept of the "spiritual genealogy of Chinese Communists."
On October 31, 2017, only one week after the closing of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) led the members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to Shanghai (上海) and Jiaxing (嘉兴) to pay homage to the site of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Nanhu Red Boat.
In front of the Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall (南湖革命纪念馆), commentator Yuan Jing (袁晶) said affectionately: "This is the new museum that you personally laid the foundation for. After more than ten years, we have finally waited for you!"
"From the moment the memorial hall was laid, I have been thinking about visiting it after its completion. Today, my wish has come true. I am indeed deeply educated and encouraged." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that it is necessary to vigorously promote the "Red Boat Spirit" in combination with the characteristics of the times, so that the "Red Boat Spirit" will always shine brightly.
The 17th issue of Qiushi (《求是》) magazine published on September 1, 2021, published an important article by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), "The Great Spirit of the Party Is Always the Precious Spiritual Wealth of the Party and the Country."
The article emphasizes that a person cannot stand without spirit, and a country cannot be strong without spirit. Only by standing firm and standing firm spiritually can a nation stand tall and stand at the forefront of the tide in the torrent of history.
On the side of Nanhu (南湖), the beautiful water is vast, and the Red Boat remains the same. As times change, the spirit is eternal.
"Break Through All Ideological Concepts and Systems and Mechanisms that Restrict Cultural Development"
"All things in the world are born from existence, and existence is born from nothing" is an ancient philosophical proposition. A cultural system reform that began in Zhejiang more than 20 years ago has repeatedly confirmed this truth.
Hengdian World Studios (横店影视城) is a classic example.
From a "simple shop next to the road" to the world's largest film and television shooting base, Hengdian (横店) has experienced a process from nothing to everything and then to infinite possibilities.
In 2003, Zhejiang was listed as the first batch of comprehensive pilot provinces for cultural system reform in the country, shouldering the mission of exploring the way.
At that time, Hengdian World Studios (横店影视城) had 12 shooting bases and was facing development problems—it urgently needed to expand from the base to the upstream and downstream industries of film and television, but it lacked the policy basis for private capital to legally enter key links such as film production, distribution, and screening... Xi Jinping (习近平), who had just taken office in Zhejiang, noticed this.
In June, Xi Jinping (习近平) came to Hengdian (横店) for investigation and research. "At that time, the theater chain was state-owned, and the Class A licenses for TV dramas and movies could only be state-owned. After the investigation and research, Secretary Xi (习) believed that Hengdian (横店) could do something. He encouraged us to boldly explore and vigorously develop the film and television culture industry," recalled Xu Tianfu (徐天福), vice president of Hengdian Group (横店集团).
More than a month after the investigation and research, Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: We must further liberalize and invigorate like supporting the development of the private economy, break through the institutional bottlenecks in the development of the cultural industry, open the floodgates for the development of the cultural industry, seize the first opportunity for the development of the cultural industry, and vigorously develop private cultural enterprises.
Soon, a provincial research team was sent to Hengdian (横店) to study relevant policies to support the construction of the experimental zone, taking the establishment of the Hengdian Film and Television Industry Experimental Zone as a breakthrough point for reform pilots. Soon, a report was submitted to the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television.
On March 16, 2004, the Zhejiang Provincial Government issued the "Approval on the Zhejiang Hengdian Film and Television Industry Experimental Zone Enjoying Relevant Policies"; in April, with the approval of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the first national film and television industry experimental zone in the country—the Zhejiang Hengdian Film and Television Industry Experimental Zone (浙江横店影视产业实验区)—was officially listed.
Since then, the experimental zone has integrated film and television creation, shooting, production, distribution, and trading. It not only has the power to review movies and TV dramas, but also enjoys preferential policies such as tax incentives, land use inclination, financial subsidies, and listing rewards for enterprises in the zone...
"'Creating something from nothing will lead to everything,' this is what Secretary Xi (习) told us," said Xu Tianfu (徐天福).
Creating something from nothing is by no means fabricating out of thin air, but guiding according to the situation, adapting to local conditions, innovating and creating, and working hard to become stronger.
Three months after the experimental zone was listed, Xi Jinping (习近平) came to Hengdian (横店) again, encouraging Hengdian (横店) to become the world's largest film and television shooting base and film and television product production base.
Xi Jinping's (习近平) series of requirements and decisions have promoted the great development of Hengdian. This reform experimental field, supervised by government departments and with enterprises as the main body of development, has "grown" the country's first Sino-foreign joint venture film and entertainment company, the country's first overseas joint venture film and television industry project, and the country's first local film censorship center, among other "new things." Today, "film and television + tourism," "film and television + technology," "film and television + finance," "film and television + creative design"... Hengdian has not only successfully cultivated new film and television cultural formats, but also built a modern film and television cultural industry cluster, and Hengdian World Studios is full of infinite vitality.
Xi Jinping (习近平) clearly saw the historical significance and contemporary value of liberating and developing cultural productive forces. He pointed out incisively that it is necessary to "break through all ideological concepts and institutional mechanisms that bind cultural development with the spirit of reform and innovation, further liberate and develop cultural productive forces," and systematically deployed key areas of Zhejiang's cultural system reform.
Opening the floodgates of cultural industry development, Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed to draw on the successful experience of economic system reform and accelerate the cultivation of cultural market entities and cultural market systems; to form a cultural development pattern adapted to the development pattern of multiple ownership economies.
In 2024, the domestic 3A game "Black Myth: Wukong" topped the sales charts in 29 countries and regions around the world as soon as it was released, and Chinese culture amazed the world. Many foreign players began to study "Journey to the West" in order to understand this action game based on Chinese mythology.
For a time, the online space was hotly debated: "Why was this monkey born on the shore of West Lake (西湖)?"
This is another miracle out of nothing.
In 2003, Zhejiang's animation industry was just starting.
On April 8, 2005, Xi Jinping (习近平) came to the School of Media and Animation of the China Academy of Art (中国美术学院) for investigation. This first batch of "National Animation Teaching and Research Bases" in the country was born under his direct promotion. Xi Jinping (习近平) attached great importance to the integration of production, education and research in Zhejiang animation.
In the three-dimensional machine room of the animation school, the relevant person in charge reported to him the concept of building a "City of Animation," and he immediately responded: "The animation industry has broad prospects, and we have this strength."
That afternoon, Xi Jinping (习近平) rushed to Zhejiang Zhongnan Cartoon Company (浙江中南卡通公司).
At that time, Zhongnan Cartoon had just moved into its new office building, the air conditioner had not yet been installed, and the room was stuffy. Xi Jinping (习近平) carefully watched the animation creation process while wiping his sweat with a towel. Xi Jinping (习近平) asked carefully about all aspects from the early stage director, mid-term production, to broadcasting and distribution.
"China's animation has an industry, but no industry. China's animation market is very large, but 90% is taken away by foreign cartoons..." Wu Jianrong (吴建荣), chairman of the board of directors of Zhejiang Zhongnan Holding Group (浙江中南控股集团), said with some anxiety.
After listening, Xi Jinping (习近平) said: "Animation is not measured by money. It can provide healthy spiritual food for young people. Chinese civilization has a history of more than 5,000 years, and you can create some animated works of our national heroes."
Encouraged by Xi Jinping (习近平), Zhongnan Cartoon quickly produced a number of national trend animations such as "Zheng He's Voyages to the West" (郑和下西洋) and "Koxinga" (郑成功). With its extremely Chinese flavor and Chinese characteristics, the company not only made a large number of IP derivatives, but also sold the copyright overseas - "I still remember in a hotel in Hong Kong at that time, a foreign buyer took 100,000 US dollars in cash to buy four boxes of animation discs from me. After I came back, I reported to Secretary Xi (习书记), and he was very happy and said with a smile: Animation is a smokeless factory, and we must let our culture go out." Wu Jianrong (吴建荣) recalled.
In fact, Xi Jinping's (习近平) animation research trip was related to the fact that Hangzhou (杭州) had just won the right to host China's first national and international animation event, the first China International Cartoon & Animation Festival (中国国际动漫节), two months ago.
Hangzhou (杭州) was able to get this "ticket" is closely related to its long history of painting art, the strong China Academy of Art (中国美院) and the talent team of Zhejiang University (浙江大学), with strong genes, but it needs to be sown and irrigated, and guided according to the situation.
In the summer of 2005, the first China International Cartoon & Animation Festival (中国国际动漫节) opened in West Lake (西湖). The on-site sales exceeded 10 million yuan, and the transaction amount of contracts (letters of intent) reached 3 billion yuan. Bodo, the founder of the World Animation Society, exclaimed: "The most imaginative career in the world must be in the most beautiful place."
The seeds of the industry have been sown, how to make it grow into an evergreen tree on the shore of West Lake (西子湖畔)?
Xi Jinping (习近平) wrote a special letter to the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (国家广电总局) to promote the permanent settlement of the Animation Festival in Hangzhou (杭州). He also promoted the establishment of the China International Cartoon & Animation Festival (中国国际动漫节) Festival Exhibition Office, and the Hangzhou Municipal Finance invested special funds. An innovative ecosystem of the animation industry has gradually formed, and the practice of integrating economy into humanities and humanities into economy has been continuously enriched.
"Where culture is very developed, the economy still leads the way." During the National People's Congress (全国两会) in 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) put forward the major proposition of "humanistic economics."
As early as when he was working in Zhejiang (浙江), Xi Jinping (习近平) keenly noticed this problem. He pointed out that "a prominent feature of Zhejiang culture is that it is full of a strong economic pulse." In his article "Cultural Economy Lights Up Zhejiang Economy," he profoundly expounded the dialectical relationship between culture and economy: "The so-called cultural economy is a general term for the economization of culture and the culturalization of economy, and its essence is the interaction and integrated development of culture and economy."
Following the road guided by Xi Jinping (习近平), today, Hangzhou (杭州) has more than 270 upstream and downstream animation game companies with more than 12,000 employees, becoming a veritable "City of Animation"; Zhejiang (浙江) private cultural enterprises have exceeded 300,000, more than 7 times that of 2003.
While private cultural enterprises have developed by leaps and bounds, state-owned cultural units are also undergoing "gorgeous transformations." Zhejiang Song and Dance Theater (浙江歌舞剧院), Zhejiang Traditional Opera and Acrobatics Troupe (浙江曲艺杂技总团), Zhejiang Repertory Theatre (浙江话剧团), and other units have completed the "transformation from institutions to enterprises"; a wave of group-based reforms has been set off in the fields of news publishing, radio and television...
To grasp cultural system reform, it is necessary to distinguish between undertakings and industries. To grasp public welfare cultural undertakings, in Xi Jinping's (习近平) view, reform must never be simply understood as the government "unloading its burden" and economic "weaning." The focus should be on increasing investment, transforming mechanisms, and improving services, so as to continuously enhance its vitality.
Yantou Town (岩头镇), Yongjia County (永嘉县), the 300-mile Nanxi River (楠溪江) has nurtured Yongjia Kunqu Opera (永嘉昆曲), which has been sung for more than 600 years and is a "living fossil" for the study of Southern Opera.
On May 20, 2005, Xi Jinping (习近平) went to Yongjia (永嘉) for investigation. At that time, Yantou Town (岩头镇) was staging Yongjia Kunqu Opera (永嘉昆曲) repertoire. He quietly came to the audience and watched the performance with the villagers. The old actor Lin Meimei (林媚媚), who was busy in the backstage, heard that Secretary Xi (习书记) was here, so she came out and sat on the bench with Xi Jinping (习近平) and chatted while watching.
"How many young actors are there now?"
"In recent years, only 10 students have been recruited in total."
"Tell me, what are the difficulties in the protection and inheritance of Yong Kun (永昆)?"
This asked Lin Meimei's (林媚媚) heart, and she told the difficulties of Yong Kun (永昆) one by one.
At the end of the 1980s, the Yongjia Kunqu Opera Troupe (永嘉昆剧团) disbanded, the opera could not form a class, and there was no successor, and Yong Kun (永昆) was on the verge of being lost.
"I want to cry when I think of the old gentlemen." Lin Meimei (林媚媚) said, "They held my hand when they were dying and said that Yong Kun (永昆) cannot be without, we have been passed down from generation to generation for hundreds of years."
Lin Meimei (林媚媚) still remembers that the troupe did not have its own headquarters, and lived in dilapidated houses. They rehearsed in a small temple and performed in front of clay sculptures and wooden statues. In 2000, in order to save Yong Kun (永昆), they gathered people and money to participate in the first China Kunqu Opera Art Festival (中国昆剧艺术节). She was almost 60 years old and wore borrowed old high boots to "put on the battle," and was called "Hua Jia Xiao Sheng" (花甲小生).
"How many people are needed to really build a troupe to perform?" Xi Jinping (习近平) asked after listening.
"With 30 places, we should be able to cope with basic performances."
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Lin Meimei's (林媚媚) request soon had results. More than ten days later, Xi Jinping (习近平) made an instruction on the "Report on Rescuing and Revitalizing Yong Kun" (《关于抢救和振兴永昆的报告》), clearly pointing out: "The protection of Yong Kun (永昆) should be included in the non-material cultural heritage protection plan of our province."
In the same year, Yongjia Kunqu Opera (永嘉昆剧) was selected into the first batch of Zhejiang (浙江) intangible cultural heritage representative works list, and the provincial cultural department allocated 1 million yuan of special funds every year. The troupe was thus restored to its establishment, the establishment was expanded to 38 people, and young actors were recruited from all over the country, becoming the only county-level troupe among the seven Kunqu Opera troupes supported by the Ministry of Culture at that time.
With funds and people, the "blood-making" function of Yong Kun (永昆) has also been activated -
Gradually restore the performance function of professional art groups, with more than 200 performances a year; complete the rescue of 219 Yong Kun (永昆) tunes; cooperate with Zhejiang Vocational Academy of Art (浙江艺术职业学院) to open a "Qing Miao Class" (青苗班) to explore the school-troupe order-style talent training model; try "Yong Kun (永昆) + leisure tourism," immersive real-life performance "Peony Pavilion: A Dream in the Garden" (《牡丹亭·游园惊梦》) sings the new voice of ancient rhyme...
"We Yong Kun (永昆) people are grateful!" Lin Meimei (林媚媚), who is now a representative inheritor of Kunqu Opera (Yongjia Kunqu Opera) (昆曲（永嘉昆曲）), a national intangible cultural heritage project, said with emotion, "The incense of Yong Kun (永昆) has not been broken, and I am worthy of the ancestors!"
During that time, in addition to the rescue instructions for Yongjia Kunqu Opera (永嘉昆曲), Xi Jinping (习近平) made 6 instructions on the protection of intangible cultural heritage in just 28 days, sending a "timely rain" to the protection, inheritance, innovation and development of Zhejiang (浙江) folk crafts and folk arts. Under this concern and promotion, Zhejiang (浙江) celadon has rejuvenated its millennial kiln fire, the mellow aroma of rice wine fills the alleys of Jiangnan (江南), and the tea rhyme curls up and dyes the green mountains...
Marx said that consciousness and culture are the prerequisites for understanding human society. Every leap in human society is accompanied by the historical progress of culture.
From prospering cultural undertakings, strengthening cultural industries, to promoting cultural prosperity and building a cultural power, under the guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) cultural thought, we nourish life and enrich the spirit in civilization inheritance and cultural continuity, and promote industry with culture, shining brightly every day.
"Realize, safeguard and develop the cultural interests of the people"
"I couldn't bear to leave Hangzhou (杭州), half of my stay was this lake." West Lake (西湖) always evokes people's millennium nostalgia, and its millennium transformation is the ambition of people -
The "Qiantang Lake Stone Record" (《钱塘湖石记》) on the wall of the Shengtang Sluice Pavilion is Bai Juyi's (白居易) reluctance to the people; the Qian Wang Temple (钱王祠) is the historical witness of Qian Liu's (钱镠) "protecting the territory and securing the people" and "serving China well"; the Su Causeway (苏堤) is a long song co-built by Su Dongpo (苏东坡) and the people...
For thousands of years, West Lake (西湖) has always been rippling with a strong humanistic feeling.
"Around West Lake (西湖), there is history everywhere, and culture at every step." When he first arrived in Zhejiang (浙江), how to nourish the people with West Lake (西湖) culture was Xi Jinping's (习近平) consideration of West Lake (西湖).
On November 28, 2002, Xi Jinping (习近平) went to West Lake (西湖) for investigation. At that time, the West Lake Comprehensive Protection Project had been launched. Standing at the construction site of Yanggong Causeway Scenic Area (杨公堤景区), Xi Jinping (习近平) carefully examined the planning drawings of "West Lake Westward Advance."
"Secretary Xi (习书记) required that the project should not blindly seek novelty, but should retain and respect the 'old' and 'old' things that are truly charming. The Yanggong Causeway Scenic Area (杨公堤景区) fought for 300 days and recovered 300 years of history. This is a virtuous and good deed, and it is a deed that wins the hearts of the people." Zhang Jianting (张建庭), then director of the Hangzhou West Lake Scenic Area Management Committee (杭州西湖风景名胜区管委会), recalled.
Since then, in less than a year, Xi Jinping (习近平) investigated West Lake (西湖) three times, emphasizing "restoring both the natural ecology and the human landscape." The West Lake Comprehensive Protection Project was successfully promoted, gradually restoring more than 180 historical and cultural landscapes. At the same time, it excavated and restored the surrounding historical and cultural landscapes, combining the gardens, pavilions, temples, and pagodas of West Lake (西湖) with the Wu Yue culture (吴越文化), Southern Song culture (南宋文化), and Ming and Qing culture (明清文化), enriching the historical and cultural connotation of the West Lake Scenic Area... This laid a solid foundation for the official inclusion of "Hangzhou West Lake Cultural Landscape" (杭州西湖文化景观) in the "World Heritage List" in 2011.
The changes in West Lake (西湖) have not stopped. Under the promotion of Xi Jinping (习近平), all parks around the lake have been opened for free since October 1, 2003. West Lake (西湖), with one scene and one culture at every step, has entered the homes of ordinary people.
Returning the lake to the people, every branch and leaf is always concerned.
After West Lake (西湖) was opened for free, the public toilets closed as soon as it got dark. Xi Jinping (习近平) directly opposed: "This is completely wrong." Since then, the public toilets on the shore of West Lake (西湖) have been open 24 hours a day.
He noticed that the benches on the shore of West Lake (西湖) were too close, hindering couples from dating, so he asked that a certain distance be maintained between the benches.
After the West Lake (西湖) water area was expanded, tour boats often bumped into the bridge holes on the new West Lake (西湖) when passing through, which was not only unsafe, but also caused damage to the bridge holes and the hull of the ship. He suggested that it be improved. After that, the tour boats were equipped with protective rubber tires.
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Restoring human landscapes, removing the West Lake (西湖) fences, increasing maintenance costs, and losing ticket revenue. What is the significance of the changes in West Lake (西湖)?
"The cultural environment of a certain society has an assimilating effect on the people living in it, and then turns into a huge force that maintains the endless life of the society and the nation." When we read this passage in "Zhejiang New Words" (《之江新语》), we can more deeply understand the deep logic of Xi Jinping's (习近平) returning the lake to the people.
West Lake (西湖) gives us a concrete perspective, from which we truly feel a Marxist's philosophical thinking on the "relationship between people and culture" from the perspective of social development and national survival. Then we more deeply understand what he said at the 17th collective study of the 20th Political Bureau of the Central Committee (二十届中央政治局) in 2024: "Always adhere to the cultural construction focusing on people and landing on people."
"Realize, safeguard and develop the cultural interests of the people," closely focusing on the word "people," in July 2003, Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed to take "continuously meeting the people's growing multi-level spiritual and cultural needs and promoting the all-round development of people" as a major and urgent task of Zhejiang's (浙江) modernization construction.
The 7th China Art Festival (中国艺术节) is a sample he created himself.
It was the highest-level and largest-scale national art event Zhejiang (浙江) had ever hosted.
September 10, 2004, Hangzhou Huanglong Sports Center (杭州黄龙体育中心).
The lights were bright and the stars were shining. Amidst the anticipation of the crowd, Xi Jinping (习近平) announced: "Now, I specially entrust a nonagenarian and a five-year-old child to represent the people of Zhejiang (浙江) and strike the gong to open the 7th Art Festival."
"Dong!" The first note of the art event sounded, interpreting the purpose of "the art event, the people's festival."
The art feast, the people are the protagonists - the audience's opinions were added to the "Wenhua Award" (文华奖) for the first time; the "Audience's Favorite Repertoire Award" voted by the audience was set up for the first time; 4 opening ceremony previews were held, inviting workers, teachers, community representatives and others to watch for free; low-priced tickets were constantly discounted, allowing ordinary people to see the exhibition and watch the opera...
More than 600 cultural activities, nearly 1 million viewers directly participated. The concept of culture for the people has taken root and blossomed in people's hearts.
"Our 7th Art Festival was held very vigorously, and many excellent works were produced, but how to truly send these cultural masterpieces to the people and let the people share these artistic achievements, these still need to be well grasped." Xi Jinping (习近平) has a heavy thought in his heart: the most in need of culture is the grassroots, especially the countryside.
At the beginning of the 21st century, a saying circulated in some rural areas of Zhejiang (浙江): "**千年不听锣鼓响，万年才见戏开场** (qiān nián bù tīng luó gǔ xiǎng, wàn nián cái jiàn xì kāi chǎng - "a thousand years no sound of gongs and drums, ten thousand years to see a play," describes the rarity of cultural events in rural areas)." The phenomenon of farmers' lack of spiritual and cultural life is prominent.
In June 2005, at a symposium on investigation and research in the provincial publicity and cultural system, Xi Jinping (习近平) listed the problems he saw one by one: many rural cultural positions lack facilities, funds, talents, and content, and some remote rural areas cannot even receive radio and television programs...
After this symposium, the "Qianjiang Waves" Art Troupe (“钱江浪花”艺术团) was established. Lu Xianghan (陆湘汉), 52, was ordered to drive a literary and artistic caravan to deliver performances to the grassroots.
"'Qianjiang Waves' (钱江浪花) was named by Secretary Xi (习书记). He also set a goal that within five years, the art troupe should travel to all the towns and villages in the province," recalled Lu Xianghan (陆湘汉).
With the support of the Provincial Party Committee, literary and art troupes across the province responded enthusiastically. Leading performers, winners of the Plum Blossom Award (梅花奖) and outstanding works from the Seventh China Art Festival all appeared on the "caravan," performing at the doorsteps of ordinary people, much to the delight of the villagers.
The story of Longyang Township (龙洋乡) touched us—
Once, the "caravan" set off for Longyang Township (龙洋乡), Suichang County (遂昌县). On the way, they encountered a landslide, and the vehicle couldn't pass, so the performance was about to be canceled. The performers called the village.
The villagers were anxious when they heard this. They hung up the phone, grabbed ropes and carrying poles, jumped on hand tractors, and quickly arrived.
Without a word, they carried the props and equipment, crossed mountains and ridges, and rushed to the village. There was even a pregnant woman, with a big belly, who picked up the performers' costume bags and walked towards the village.
At the entrance of the village, men, women, old and young, waited in the cold wind, preparing hot tea, noodles, and huang guo cake. The performers were moved. During the two-hour performance, they showed off all their "eighteen martial arts," and cheers rang out continuously, with the villagers' palms clapping red...
This was a two-way journey—the villagers received cultural nourishment, and culture received rich nourishment from the countryside.
Regarding such "performances carried on shoulders," Xi Jinping (习近平) gave instructions affirming: "Distinctive features, diverse forms, close to the grassroots, and effective."
"That day, I went to the Provincial Administrative Center to get the instructions. Just as I was about to leave, the staff said that Secretary Xi (习书记) was waiting for me..." Lu Xianghan (陆湘汉) was a little excited.
In the office, Xi Jinping (习近平) shook Lu Xianghan's (陆湘汉) hand forcefully: "Thank you for doing so many good things for the farmers! I hope you will carefully summarize, continuously improve, and send more wonderful programs to the countryside."
This meeting made Lu Xianghan (陆湘汉) even more motivated, and his pace of going to the countryside became more frequent. Over 20 years, "Qianjiang Waves" (钱江浪花) has delivered more than 5,000 performances, attracting more than 10 million viewers...
"Qianjiang Waves" (钱江浪花) is like the front wave leading the back wave—over the past 20 years, farmers' bookstores, cultural halls, rural museums... have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, making villagers "want to go as soon as they put down their chopsticks," and attracting countless city dwellers to come admiringly.
Staying true to the original aspiration, never stopping. In April 2024, Zhejiang (浙江) took the lead in the country to create a cultural special commissioner system, selecting and dispatching more than 1,500 high-quality cultural talents to drive high-quality cultural resources directly to the grassroots level, helping villages solve the needs for high-quality and diversified culture, promoting rural industrial development, and exploring, refining, and promoting excellent regional culture, vividly practicing Xi Jinping's (习近平) cultural thought in the vast fields.
"Culture is 'humanization,' and cultural undertakings are undertakings that nurture people's minds and cultivate people's sentiments. People are essentially cultural beings, not 'materialized' beings; they are dynamic and comprehensive people, not rigid and 'one-dimensional' people." In "Zhejiang New Words" ("之江新语"), Xi Jinping (习近平) further discusses the relationship between people and culture.
Leading by example in nurturing people with culture, Xi Jinping (习近平) acts personally.
Wushi Village (乌石村), Pan'an (磐安), is more than 560 meters above sea level and has a history of more than 600 years.
The courtyards from the Ming and Qing dynasties are quaint and filled with cooking smoke. People who have lived in the city for a long time can truly experience the comfort of their hearts flying in the depths of the flowers.
More than 20 years ago, however, it was so poor that only more than 200 old black houses remained—houses built by the villagers with the unique local black basalt.
In 2006, Xi Jinping (习近平) walked into the village and was immediately attracted by these black stone houses. Touching the black stones, he said to everyone: "This stone is good! Look, this basalt is so good..."
At that time, the village was developing tourism, and the villagers were thinking about demolishing the old houses and building high-rise buildings. "Secretary Xi (习书记) said that this old village is very distinctive. You should not demolish the old houses, but protect and utilize them. If you demolish all the old villages, you will also demolish the culture and the roots..." recalled Zhang Weiping (张威平), then the Party branch secretary of Wushi Village (乌石村).
Xi Jinping (习近平) repeatedly urged the village cadres: the construction of new rural areas should not blindly "seek big and foreign," but should protect ancient villages and deeply explore their cultural connotations in accordance with local conditions.
A word awakened the dreamer—the old house is the root, and culture is the golden key! They did not move any of the more than 200 old houses. Today, it has become one of the best-preserved ancient villages in the country and has been named a national civilized village. In the past 20 years, the village's beautiful scenery and culture have attracted more and more people to come here. In 2024 alone, there were 1.07 million tourists, and the village's cultural tourism revenue reached 200 million yuan... The power of culture has been transformed into material power, and the soft power of culture has been transformed into the hard power of the economy.
Culture is the soul, and nurturing people with culture is like a spring breeze and rain, nourishing the heart.
On the afternoon of September 27, 2006, Zijingang Campus (紫金港校区) of Zhejiang University (浙江大学). The small theater with more than a thousand people was packed. The students were going to listen to Secretary Xi's (习书记) report, "Inheriting Cultural Traditions and Promoting the Zhejiang Spirit" ("继承文化传统 弘扬浙江精神"). This was the third time Xi Jinping (习近平) had lectured college students, and Zhang Dongliang (张栋梁), who had just enrolled, was fortunate enough to listen to this lecture.
As soon as Xi Jinping (习近平) sat down, he told everyone a story.
"The story was very interesting. It was about Chairman Mao (毛主席) taking a special train through Henan (河南) and testing the secretary of the Nanyang (南阳) Prefectural Committee: Chairman Mao (毛主席) asked the secretary about the history and current affairs of Nanyang (南阳), but the other party could not answer. Chairman Mao (毛主席) asked him his age, and he said he was fifty-five. So Chairman Mao (毛主席) said humorously: 'You know neither the present nor the past, you only know that you are fifty-five.'" Zhang Dongliang (张栋梁), who is now the deputy director of the Party Committee Office of Zhejiang University (浙江大学), recalled.
Amidst the laughter of the students, Xi Jinping (习近平) continued, when others ask you "How is Zhejiang (浙江)?" how do you answer?
"This question immediately triggered my thinking. Not only do leading cadres need to understand the history, culture, and customs of a place, but also college students who will be going to work in the future need to master them." Xi Jinping (习近平) encouraged the students to inherit and carry forward the excellent Chinese cultural traditions, promote the Zhejiang (浙江) spirit, and work hard and be at the forefront.
The report lasted more than two hours. From the diverse cultural traditions of Zhejiang (浙江) to the cultural characteristics of the "Zhejiang Spirit" ("浙江精神"), from the culture of Zhejiang (浙江) businessmen to the economy of Zhejiang (浙江), Xi Jinping (习近平) cited extensively, using allusions readily, and interacted with the students from time to time, making the atmosphere very lively.
The students were deeply impressed by Xi Jinping's (习近平) broad knowledge. "I felt that Secretary Xi (习书记) was really a good mentor who imparted knowledge and solved doubts." Xi Jinping's (习近平) calm and peaceful voice, profound knowledge, refined temperament, and strong affinity are still vivid in Zhang Dongliang's (张栋梁) mind.
During his work in Zhejiang (浙江), Xi Jinping (习近平) attached great importance to the ideological and political education of students, especially emphasizing the need to give play to the role of ideological and moral values in uniting people's hearts and guiding behavior. Such cultural nurturing has influenced the lives of many students; such cultural nurturing has become a valuable spiritual wealth in their lives.
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"The people-oriented nature is the essential attribute of Marxism." Taking the people as the center is the fundamental position of Xi Jinping's (习近平) cultural thought, the value orientation of Zhejiang's (浙江) promotion of the "Eight Projects" ("八项工程") and the construction of a culturally strong province over the past 20 years, and a clear main line running through the cultural construction of the new era.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our Party has insisted on placing cultural construction in a prominent position in governing the country, and the spiritual and cultural life of the people has become richer.
On October 28, 2024, the Political Bureau of the 20th Central Committee held its 17th collective study session, and General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) issued a call to "accelerate the construction of a culturally strong country"!
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The 'strength' of a culturally strong country should ultimately be reflected in the people's ideological realm, spiritual state, and cultural accomplishment." Nurturing people with culture is an important task in the construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
On West Lake (西子湖), there are misty painted boats. On the shore, there are playful children and couples holding hands, and sometimes you will meet "Xu Xian" (许仙), "White Snake" (白娘子), and "Wukong" (悟空). Walking around, it's like being in a painting—the people's West Lake (西湖)! The ancient saying spontaneously arises in my heart—
"To govern with virtue is like the North Star, dwelling in its place while all the other stars pay homage to it"!
Tracing the origins and understanding the truth.
The Great Way is practiced, and there is no distance that cannot be reached.
Under the guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) cultural thought, let us better shoulder the cultural mission of the new era, create a new culture that belongs to our era, build a strong socialist cultural country, create new socialist cultural glories, and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 28, Zhejiang Daily Interview Team: Qiu Yijiao (裘一佼), Zeng Fuquan (曾福泉), Lu Yao (陆遥), Yan Lili (严粒粒))
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 28th (北京) -- Recently, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央办公厅) and the General Office of the State Council (国务院办公厅) printed and distributed the "Implementation Plan for the Child-raising Allowance System" (《育儿补贴制度实施方案》), and issued a notice requiring all regions and departments to conscientiously implement it in light of their actual conditions.
The main contents of the "Implementation Plan for the Child-raising Allowance System" are as follows.
This plan is formulated to implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee (党中央) on improving the fertility support policy system and incentive mechanism, and to promote the construction of a fertility-friendly society.
I. Overall Requirements
Guided by Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的二十大) and the Second and Third Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee, adhere to the people-centered development philosophy, ensure and improve people's livelihoods in development, establish and implement a child-raising allowance system, and create a social atmosphere conducive to fertility.
In our work, we must: adhere to improving people's livelihoods, benefiting the people and making things convenient for them, and effectively reduce the cost of family birth and raising; adhere to overall coordination and ensure fairness, connect with existing livelihood policies, and ensure that eligible infants and young children enjoy subsidies equally; adhere to doing our best and acting according to our capabilities, comprehensively consider the population development status and the level of economic and social development, reasonably determine the scope and standards of subsidies, and ensure fiscal affordability and policy sustainability; adhere to safety and standardization, simplicity and ease of implementation, strictly verify qualifications, standardize the issuance process, improve efficiency, ensure the safety of funds, and earnestly do good things well.
II. Subsidy Recipients and Standards
(I) Subsidy Recipients. Starting from January 1, 2025, subsidies will be issued to infants and young children under the age of 3 who are born in compliance with laws and regulations, until they reach the age of 3.
(II) Subsidy Standards. Child-raising allowances are issued annually, and the current national basic standard is 3,600 yuan per child per year. Among them, for infants and young children born before January 1, 2025, who are under 3 years old, the subsidy will be calculated and issued based on the number of months they should be subsidized. Child-raising allowances issued in accordance with the provisions of the child-raising allowance system are exempt from individual income tax. When identifying recipients of minimum living security, people in extreme poverty, and other assistance recipients, child-raising allowances are not included in family or individual income.
III. Application Procedures
Child-raising allowances shall be applied for by one of the parents or other guardians of the infant or young child to the place where the infant or young child's household registration is located, in accordance with regulations. The specific procedures are as follows.
(I) Application. The applicant fills in relevant information, provides the infant or young child's birth medical certificate, household registration book, and other materials, and makes a commitment to the authenticity and completeness of the information and materials provided. Applicants mainly apply online through the child-raising allowance information management system, but can also apply offline.
(II) Preliminary Review. The township government (街道办事处) (street office) where the infant or young child's household registration is located conducts a preliminary review of the application information, and the village (居)min committee assists in relevant work.
(III) Review and Confirmation. The county-level health department conducts review and confirmation, and provides relevant information to the finance department at the same level.
(IV) Spot Check. The municipal health department conducts spot checks on the information of subsidy recipients at a certain percentage. The provincial health department conducts spot checks as needed, implements dynamic supervision, and ensures the safety of funds.
IV. Sources of Funds and Subsidy Issuance
(I) Fiscal Sharing Ratio. Starting in 2025, the central government will establish a common fiscal power transfer payment project called "Child-raising Allowance Subsidy Funds" (育儿补贴补助资金) to subsidize the funds required for issuing national basic standard child-raising allowances to the eastern, central, and western regions in proportion. The funds required for local standard increases shall be borne by local finances.
(II) Subsidy Issuance Time. Each province shall determine the specific issuance time in light of its actual conditions, improve issuance efficiency, and ensure that subsidies are issued in a timely and full amount.
(III) Subsidy Issuance Channels. The issuance channel is the applicant's or the infant or young child's bank card or other financial account. It is encouraged to issue subsidies through the "one-card" system for benefiting people and farmers or the infant or young child's social security card.
V. Management and Supervision
(I) Information Management. Establish a nationally unified child-raising allowance information management system, combine it with the joint handling of "one matter at birth," and strengthen information sharing between regions and departments. Establish an information management system, do a good job in information collection, processing, and utilization, implement information security responsibilities, and protect personal information security. Strengthen dynamic information monitoring, regularly carry out data summary and analysis, and provide support for policy evaluation and adjustment and optimization.
(II) Full Supervision. Audit departments and finance departments shall strengthen the whole-process supervision and inspection. Discipline inspection and supervision agencies shall strengthen supervision, discipline enforcement, and accountability, and strictly investigate and deal with unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems that damage the interests of the masses. The implementation of the child-raising allowance system shall be subject to social supervision. Health departments and finance departments shall strengthen the management of the use of funds, organize performance evaluations in a timely manner, and effectively improve the efficiency of the use of funds.
VI. Strengthen Organization and Implementation
(I) Strengthen Organizational Leadership. Under the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央), all regions and relevant departments shall carefully organize and arrange, clarify their responsibilities and division of labor, and ensure that responsibilities are in place, guarantees are in place, and implementation is in place. Provincial governments shall strengthen overall management and fiscal affordability assessment to ensure that child-raising allowance policies are coordinated with the level of economic and social development in their regions, maintain a general balance with similar regions, and ensure that their own finances and the finances of lower-level governments are affordable and sustainable. Provincial health departments and finance departments shall, in accordance with this plan, and in light of the actual population and development of their regions, formulate implementation plans for their provinces, and submit them to the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委) and the Ministry of Finance (财政部) for record after being approved by the provincial government. Relevant management regulations for the child-raising allowance system shall be formulated separately by the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委) and the Ministry of Finance (财政部).
(II) Do a Good Job in Connection and Standardization. Each province shall implement unified child-raising allowance policies and standards within the municipal administrative region. Provinces with small regional differences may also implement unified child-raising allowance policies and standards within their provinces. Governments below the county level shall not independently issue child-raising allowance policies or standards. If provincial or municipal government departments intend to issue other child-raising allowance policies or increase standards, they shall strengthen prior demonstration and evaluation, and report to the higher-level competent department for record in accordance with the relevant requirements for the record of livelihood policies.
(III) Enhance Implementation Effectiveness. Combine maternal and child health care, hospital delivery, and infant and young child vaccination, health management, household registration, social security card application, etc., optimize service processes, do a good job in policy publicity and interpretation, and improve public awareness. All regions and relevant departments shall conduct in-depth research, widely listen to opinions and suggestions, evaluate the implementation of the child-raising allowance system, and promptly summarize experiences and practices and improve policies and measures.
(Related reports are on page 4)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Budapest, July 28 (Reporters Zhu Chao (朱超) and Huang Fuhui (黄富慧)) At the invitation of Hungarian National Assembly Speaker László Kövér (格维尔), Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Zhao Leji (赵乐际) paid an official friendly visit to Hungary from July 24 to 28. In Budapest, he met with Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok (舒尤克) and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (欧尔班) respectively, and held talks with National Assembly Speaker László Kövér (格维尔).
During his meeting with Tamás Sulyok (舒尤克), Zhao Leji (赵乐际) first conveyed the cordial greetings and best wishes of President Xi Jinping (习近平). Zhao Leji (赵乐际) said that in May 2024, President Xi Jinping (习近平) successfully paid a state visit to Hungary, elevating China-Hungary relations to an all-weather comprehensive strategic partnership for the new era, opening up broader prospects for friendly cooperation between the two countries. China is willing to work with Hungary to be good friends who respect and trust each other, good partners for mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation, and good brothers who know and are close to each other, promote the deep integration of the "Belt and Road" initiative with Hungary's "Opening to the East" strategy, and complete the construction of landmark projects such as the Belgrade-Budapest Railway with high quality; encourage and support more exchanges between the two countries in culture, localities, media, youth and other fields, and promote people-to-people connectivity.
Tamás Sulyok (舒尤克) asked Zhao Leji (赵乐际) to convey his sincere greetings to President Xi Jinping (习近平). He said that Hungary and China have always adhered to developing bilateral relations on the basis of mutual respect, mutual trust, and mutual benefit, which has important practical significance and value of the times. Participating in the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" is crucial to Hungary, and the Belgrade-Budapest Railway project is an example of major project cooperation between the two sides. It is hoped that the two sides will continue to deepen cooperation in green energy, artificial intelligence, digital economy, as well as culture, youth, education and other fields.
During his meeting with Viktor Orbán (欧尔班), Zhao Leji (赵乐际) said that in recent years, China-Hungary relations have achieved leapfrog development and are at their best in history. China appreciates Hungary's firm adherence to the one-China principle and is willing to continue to firmly support each other with Hungary. China-Hungary mutually beneficial cooperation has a solid foundation and fruitful results. China welcomes more high-quality Hungarian agricultural and food products to enter the Chinese market and hopes that Hungary will provide policy support and security guarantees for Chinese companies to invest and develop in Hungary. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the EU. It is hoped and believed that Hungary will continue to play a positive role in the healthy and stable development of China-EU relations. Hungary has always firmly supported and actively participated in China-Central and Eastern European cooperation, and China is willing to work with Hungary to continue to promote practical results in cooperation.
Viktor Orbán (欧尔班) said that President Xi Jinping's (习近平) state visit to Hungary last year was a milestone in the history of Hungary-China relations. The long history and independent culture of the two countries constitute a solid foundation for the traditional friendship between Hungary and China. China's rise is based on its own efforts. Developing friendly cooperation with China is Hungary's strategic choice, which will provide important opportunities for Hungary to develop technology and expand its market.
During his talks with László Kövér (格维尔), Zhao Leji (赵乐际) said that the National People's Congress of China is willing to work with the Hungarian National Assembly to promote the implementation of the important achievements of President Xi Jinping's (习近平) visit to Hungary last year and contribute to the high-level and high-quality development of China-Hungary relations. The two sides should strengthen exchanges between special committees, friendship groups, NPC deputies and members of parliament, formulate, revise and approve legal documents conducive to bilateral cooperation in a timely manner, and strengthen coordination and cooperation in multilateral occasions such as the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
László Kövér (格维尔) said that a constantly developing and growing China helps promote world peace and development and promote the construction of a multipolar world, which is fully in line with Hungary's interests. The Hungarian National Assembly is willing to work with the National People's Congress of China to provide firm support for the two countries to carry out mutually beneficial cooperation.
After the talks, Zhao Leji (赵乐际) and László Kövér (格维尔) jointly witnessed the signing of a memorandum of cooperation between the general offices of the legislative bodies of China and Hungary, and jointly met with reporters.
During his visit to Hungary, Zhao Leji (赵乐际) inspected the Budapest Chinese Cultural Center, encouraging everyone to actively publicize and practice the Global Civilization Initiative, and tell the stories of China and the friendship between China and Hungary well; inspected the Hungarian section of the Belgrade-Budapest Railway project, emphasizing the need to build the Belgrade-Budapest Railway into a model project for high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road"; and also inspected the Vác Smart Warehouse of the China-Europe Commercial and Logistics Park, and laid a wreath at the Memorial to Hungarian National Heroes.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on July 28th that recently, East China, North China, Northeast China and other places have continuously encountered heavy rainfall, triggering floods and geological disasters, causing significant casualties and property losses in many places. Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, relevant localities and departments responded and handled the situation immediately, comprehensively consolidated political responsibilities, and implemented various flood control measures with practical actions. At present, all flood prevention, emergency rescue, and disaster relief work are being carried out in an orderly manner, making every effort to protect the safety of people's lives and property.
On July 28th, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters upgraded the flood control Level III emergency response for Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北). Three working groups dispatched by the General Office of the State Flood Control Headquarters have gone to the front lines of the three provinces and cities to assist and guide flood control and disaster relief work. The National Disaster Reduction Committee launched a national Level IV disaster relief emergency response. The National Development and Reform Commission urgently arranged 50 million yuan of investment within the central budget to support Hebei (河北) in its post-disaster emergency recovery from rainstorm and flood disasters.
On the 28th, the Beijing (北京市) Flood Control Headquarters activated the city's Level I flood control emergency response. Schools suspended all offline teaching activities and outdoor teaching activities, closed all scenic spots, parks, and forest farms, and made arrangements for the evacuation and shelter of threatened tourists. The Tianjin (天津市) Planning and Natural Resources Bureau and the Tianjin (天津市) Meteorological Bureau jointly issued a geological disaster meteorological risk warning. Due to heavy rainfall causing a landslide in Xigou Village (西沟村), Mayingzi Manchu Township (马营子满族乡), Luanping County (滦平县), Chengde City (承德市), Hebei Province (河北省), the local authorities quickly organized forces to carry out rescue efforts. Relevant rescue personnel have arrived at the scene to search for missing persons.
(Related reports are on page 4)
Return to TopBy: 桂从路
Many regions continue to experience heavy rainfall, resulting in significant casualties and property losses. The immediate priority is to implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions, earnestly carry out all tasks related to flood prevention, emergency rescue, and disaster relief, and make every effort to protect the safety of people's lives and property.
The more we are in the critical period of flood prevention, the more we must keep the string of responsibility taut at all times. Whether it is strengthening the inspection and hazard investigation of rivers, reservoir dams, and urban waterlogging risks, or resolutely relocating and resettling people in danger, only by firmly establishing bottom-line thinking and extreme thinking, and discovering and resolving various risks in a timely manner, can we ensure the safety of the people and minimize losses to the greatest extent in extreme situations.
Fighting against rainstorms and disasters, the key is to use speed to counter speed. Meteorological early warning, emergency rescue, medical and health care, etc., must all maintain a state of readiness with the arrow on the string, ensuring "first response, first disposal" after sudden emergencies occur.
At the critical juncture of flood prevention, it is also the time for Party members and cadres to play an exemplary role.勇挑重担 (yǒng tiāo zhòng dàn - "bravely shoulder heavy burdens," to bravely take on heavy responsibilities) and 冲锋在前 (chōng fēng zài qián - "charge ahead," to be at the forefront) in times of crisis for the people is a political responsibility that Party members and cadres must shoulder, and it is also a powerful practice of mission and responsibility.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 柯仲甲 徐 靖
Only 3.5 microns thick—in the past year, the ultra-thin high-performance lithium battery copper foil produced by Anhui Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group (安徽铜陵有色金属集团) has been showcased at several international exhibitions.
"Only with deep accumulation can one achieve great development," 厚积薄发 (hòu jī bó fā - "accumulate richly, burst forth thinly," great achievements come from gradual accumulation) introduced Gong Huadong (龚华东), Party Secretary and Chairman of Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group (铜陵有色金属集团), "Since the '14th Five-Year Plan,' we have focused on the mid-to-high end of the copper industry chain, implementing over 700 scientific research projects cumulatively."
The real economy is the foundation of a major country. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has made important instructions on developing the real economy during his multiple visits to Anhui (安徽): "Adhere to making the real economy stronger and better as the main direction of attack" and "Safeguard the foundation of the real economy."
Grasping the real economy firmly, Anhui (安徽) is focusing on accelerating the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, strengthening strategic emerging industries, proactively laying out future industries, developing new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, and building a globally competitive advanced manufacturing cluster.
A green development path reflects the "old trees sprouting new buds" of traditional industries.
How can such a large factory area have no chimneys or waste residue? Walking into the waste-free factory of Tongling Nonferrous Jin Guan Copper Industry Branch (铜陵有色金冠铜业分公司), Chief Engineer Zhang Zhiguo (张志国) revealed the answer: "We have achieved internal recycling of waste gas, waste residue, and wastewater through technological upgrades and transformations, focusing on consuming the solid waste generated during the smelting process."
Today, Jin Guan Copper Industry (金冠铜业) generates 230 million kilowatt-hours of electricity from waste heat annually, which can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 120,000 tons. It recovers more than 30,000 tons of copper metal annually, equivalent to the output of a medium-sized copper mine; it also recovers more than 12 kinds of valuable elements associated with the copper smelting process, including rare metals such as rhenium and palladium.
Based on industrial resource endowments and industrial foundations, Anhui (安徽) is actively exploring new paths for the high-end, intelligent, and green development of traditional industries. New products with high technological content and high added value are constantly emerging, and traditional advantageous industries such as steel, nonferrous metals, and cement are transforming towards new directions.
A high-level project witnesses the "size" of strategic emerging industries growing larger.
In Hefei Xin Zhan High-tech Zone (合肥新站高新区), the construction of the Hefei Guoxuan Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. (合肥国显科技有限公司) 8.6th generation active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) display device production line project is in full swing. This project, with a total investment of more than 50 billion yuan, will powerfully promote Hefei (合肥) to build a new display industry cluster with international influence and competitiveness.
Seizing the opportunities of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, Anhui (安徽) is meticulously cultivating ten emerging industries, continuously optimizing the business environment, and fully attracting leading enterprises and cultivating industrial ecosystems according to the path of "leading enterprises—industry chain—industry cluster—industrial ecology."
From 2013 to 2024, the proportion of Anhui's (安徽) strategic emerging industries' output value in the industrial sector above designated size increased from 20.7% to 43.6%. More than 4,000 auto parts and aftermarket companies have settled in, gathering chains into groups and clusters into momentum, helping Anhui (安徽) to independently manufacture a new energy vehicle without leaving the province.
Adhering to the path of "scientific and technological innovation + industry," Anhui (安徽) continues to promote the deep integration of the industry chain and the innovation chain, promoting innovation resources to serve industries and gather towards enterprises. Among the newly recognized industrial innovation platforms each year, those led by enterprises must reach 80%; among the industrial science and technology tackling projects each year, those "proposed" by enterprises must also reach 80%.
Proactively laying out future industries, Anhui (安徽) takes on responsibilities with new concepts, forward-looking vision, and greater efforts.
In Wuhu (芜湖), the Aviation Town is "taking off" in the wind.
Aiming at the low-altitude economy, a future industry, the Aviation Town located in Wanzhi District (湾沚区), Wuhu City (芜湖市) has attracted nearly 200 enterprises, creating a complete industrial chain. "You can produce a domestically-made general aviation aircraft without leaving the park!" Gao Yu (高宇), Director of the Aviation Industry Development Service Center Office of Wanzhi District (湾沚区航空产业发展服务中心办公室主任), is very proud.
In Hefei (合肥), "Wukong" is setting off a quantum computing storm.
Walking into the laboratory of Origin Quantum Computing Technology (Hefei) Co., Ltd. (本源量子计算科技（合肥）股份有限公司), a "white can" looks unremarkable, but it is quite famous. "This is China's third-generation independently developed superconducting quantum computer 'Origin Wukong'," introduced Dai Qun (代群), Vice President of the company. "Since its launch on January 6, 2024, 'Origin Wukong' has completed more than 500,000 quantum computing tasks for users in 143 countries and regions, and the global access volume has exceeded 30 million times." A "Quantum Avenue" of only a few hundred meters in Hefei (合肥) gathers more than 30 quantum technology companies.
More solid, stronger, and better, the development level of Anhui's (安徽) real economy continues to leapfrog. In 2024, Anhui's (安徽) manufacturing investment increased by 13.3% year-on-year; the revenue of the automotive industry and the equipment manufacturing industry both exceeded one trillion yuan; from 2013 to 2024, Anhui's (安徽) industrial revenue above designated size increased from 3.3 trillion yuan to approximately 5.5 trillion yuan.
Return to TopDuring his work in Zhejiang, Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out: "The power of culture, or what we call the cultural soft power that constitutes comprehensive competitiveness, always integrates into economic power, political power, and social power in a way that 润物细无声 (rùn wù xì wú shēng - "moistening things silently," to influence subtly and imperceptibly), becoming an 'accelerator' for economic development, a 'navigation light' for political civilization, and a 'binder' for social harmony."
Placing cultural construction in a more prominent position, enhancing the cohesion of advanced culture, liberating and developing cultural productive forces, and improving the capacity of social public services... Xi Jinping (习近平) has always pondered major issues of Zhejiang's reform and development from the depths of culture, injecting a cultural soul into Zhejiang's modernization process.
The highest excellence is like that of water, benefiting all things without striving. 上善若水，润物无声 (shàng shàn ruò shuǐ, rùn wù wú shēng - "supreme goodness is like water, moistening things silently," the greatest virtue is like water, benefiting all things without contention).
Following the cultural footprints of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) in Zhejiang, tracing the origin, we deeply feel the scientific truth value, powerful spiritual strength, and broad cultural feelings contained in the great thought...
"Spirit Gathers People's Hearts"
Jiaxing Nanhu (嘉兴南湖), tourists are surging.
The Red Boat, Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall (南湖革命纪念馆), make people's hearts surge; Yanyu Tower (烟雨楼), Lanxiu Garden (揽秀园), the misty rain of history, make people sigh with emotion—
7,000 years ago, Majiabang Culture (马家浜文化) appeared here; for thousands of years, Yanyu Tower (烟雨楼) has witnessed a constant stream of exiled poets and scholars, cultural pulse, gurgling and surging;
104 years ago, a Red Boat witnessed a groundbreaking event in Chinese history, a new page was opened in the history of the Chinese revolution, red culture, a century of glory...
In October 2002, Xi Jinping (习近平) came here shortly after taking office in Zhejiang. He said with emotion that Jiaxing (嘉兴) is indeed a treasure land, outstanding people and spirits, with a long history and revolutionary culture.
"He went into the memorial hall to visit historical materials, boarded the Red Boat, and paid homage to the site of the First National Congress." Huang Xiaoqi (黄晓琦), the former commentator of the Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall (南湖革命纪念馆), recalled the scene of that year to us, "At that time, the exhibition area of the Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall (南湖革命纪念馆) was only more than 500 square meters, which could not accommodate the constantly enriched cultural relics and historical materials, nor could it bear the increasing number of visitors."
Can another site be opened to build a new memorial hall?
Xi Jinping (习近平) immediately agreed, pointing out: "Revolutionary tradition education is very important, and we must continue to expand its influence."
He said with emotion that our party members can come to Nanhu (南湖) to see an exhibition, listen to a party class, learn the party constitution, watch a special film, pay homage to the Red Boat, and review the oath of joining the party, they can get "spiritual inheritance and ideological sublimation."
After the trip to Nanhu (南湖), the construction of the new museum was quickly put on the agenda. Site selection, design, style... Xi Jinping (习近平) personally asked about every link.
The trip to Nanhu (南湖) made Xi Jinping (习近平) think a lot—
How to transform the cultural values given to us by history into an inexhaustible driving force for opening up the future?
On June 21, 2005, Guangming Daily (光明日报) published an article signed by Xi Jinping (习近平), "Promoting the 'Red Boat Spirit' and Walking at the Forefront of the Times," the "Red Boat Spirit" was first proposed and explained—"The pioneering spirit of opening up the world and daring to be the first, the fighting spirit of firm ideals and perseverance, and the dedication spirit of serving the public and being loyal to the people."
He profoundly pointed out that "the Red Boat sails through the waves, and the spirit gathers people's hearts," and the "Red Boat Spirit" is the source of the Chinese revolutionary spirit.
"'Red Boat Spirit' is a powerful ideological weapon to encourage us to grasp the theme of development of this era and the primary task of the party's governance and revitalization of the country, and to boldly explore, innovate and start businesses."
The Red Boat set sail in Zhejiang, and it is also the spiritual power to promote Zhejiang's development. As the times progress and the situation changes, how to promote the "Red Boat Spirit" and the "Zhejiang Spirit"? How to give the "Zhejiang Spirit" new connotations of the times?
Xi Jinping (习近平) repeatedly thought and explored.
Every time he went to a place for investigation and research, Xi Jinping (习近平) would read local chronicles, often flipping through them until late at night, exploring the spiritual code of Zhejiang from a broad historical perspective—
Lying on firewood and tasting gall, serving the country with loyalty, applying knowledge to practical use, emphasizing both righteousness and profit, regarding industry and commerce as the foundation, and combining knowledge and action... "Zhejiang's culture and the humanistic spirit internalized in people's hearts are the deepest reasons for leading and promoting Zhejiang's development."
Every time he went to a place for investigation and research, Xi Jinping (习近平) carefully observed and deeply felt the tension of the times surging in the blood of Zhejiang people—
Ant Island Spirit, Dachen Island Reclamation Spirit, Hai Xia Spirit, "Four Thousand" Spirit... "The world is changing, the times are progressing, and the situation is developing. Keeping pace with the times is the theoretical quality of Marxism and the inherent requirement of the Zhejiang Spirit."
Xi Jinping (习近平) personally guided and conducted special large-scale investigations.
The research team went to all parts of the province, rooted in the front line where there were many difficulties, complex situations, and sharp contradictions. Xi Jinping (习近平) told everyone that the investigation should focus on answering three questions: What did the ancestors leave behind? What has been created since the reform and opening up? What is still missing for the future?
One report after another, one instruction after another, carefully considering every word and sentence.
At the beginning of 2005, Zhejiang launched a province-wide discussion on "Zhejiang Spirit that Keeps Pace with the Times." During this process, Xi Jinping (习近平) personally held symposiums with people from all walks of life. The discussion lasted for a year, and the enthusiasm rose one after another.
The more truth is debated, the clearer it becomes, and the more refined the thought becomes.
On February 5, 2006, the first day of work after the Spring Festival, Xi Jinping (习近平) published an article signed on the front page of Zhejiang Daily (浙江日报), "Zhejiang Spirit that Keeps Pace with the Times." The full text clearly stated that the Zhejiang Spirit has been passed down from generation to generation, becoming more and more new, and has always inspired the people of Zhejiang to work hard and pioneer and innovate. The article proposed the 12-character "Zhejiang Spirit"—seeking truth and being pragmatic, being honest and harmonious, opening up and striving for strength.
Seeking truth and being pragmatic originates from the Marxist seeking truth from facts, being honest and harmonious draws on the essence of Confucianism, and opening up and striving for strength is the call of the times of reform and opening up.
This 12-character spirit contains historical heritage, breeds the power of the times, and inspires the people of Zhejiang to never be complacent, never stop, work hard and be at the forefront...
Dachen Island (大陈岛), Taizhou (台州), an island of spirit—
More than 60 years ago, 467 reclamation workers built this barren island, which had suffered from war, into a vibrant "Pearl of the East China Sea," creating the Dachen Island Reclamation Spirit of "hard work, striving for strength, selfless dedication, and pioneering and innovation."
"At that time, during the fishing season, the fishing boats were densely packed, and there were more than 10,000 permanent residents on the island at most. Around 2000, due to overfishing and marine pollution, the fishery declined, and many fishermen sold their fishing boats and went ashore to make a living. By 2006, there were only more than 1,000 permanent residents on the island." Sun Shangquan (孙尚权), then director of the Dachen Island (大陈岛) Development and Construction Management Committee, recalled to us, "When Dachen (大陈) was at its most difficult, Secretary Xi (习) came."
On August 29, 2006, the scorching sun was scorching, the sea breeze was rolling with huge waves, and the ship was shaking violently. Xi Jinping (习近平) insisted on landing on the island.
When he came to the island, he did not stop. Discussing the wind power generation project in a cement rough house, surveying the tourism plan on the beach, going to the fishermen to learn about the fishery production and industrial transformation, and specially visiting the old reclamation team members... He encouraged everyone:
"In the future, the development of Dachen Island (大陈岛) will have a very splendid blueprint and a very bright prospect. The development and construction of Dachen Island (大陈岛) has a lot to offer. We must vigorously promote the Dachen Island Reclamation Spirit of 'hard work, striving for strength, selfless dedication, and pioneering and innovation,' and strive to build Dachen Island (大陈岛) into a 'well-off Dachen (大陈) and a modern Dachen (大陈).'"
Keeping pace with the times, there is a lot to be done. Marine aquaculture, Dachen Island (大陈岛) has become the largest large yellow croaker copper enclosure net aquaculture area in China; wind power generation, Dachen Island (大陈岛), which has always been short of electricity, is now transporting rolling energy to thousands of households—Dachen Island (大陈岛) has broken out of a new road of transformation and development.
Xi Jinping (习近平) has always been concerned about this place. In 2010 and 2016, he successively replied to the old reclamation team members and the new generation of Dachen Island (大陈岛) people, paying attention to the development of the island and encouraging the inheritance of the spirit. Today, the Dachen Island Reclamation Spirit has been incorporated into the national primary school textbook reading book, inspiring the younger generation to become "reclamation workers" in various fields in the new era.
From Dachen Island (大陈岛) to Zhejiang, and then to the whole country, the power of the spirit, like a giant axe, cuts through thorns and creates history;
From Zhejiang to China, and then to the world, the power of the spirit is like a source of living water, nourishing the heart and opening up the future.
On February 17 this year, a symposium for private enterprises was held in Beijing (北京). At the meeting, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) mentioned the names of Xu Guanju (徐冠巨) and other entrepreneurs when he talked about his work in Zhejiang. Xu Guanju (徐冠巨), chairman of Transfar Group (传化集团) who attended the symposium, was very moved. He recalled the past more than 20 years ago to us:
"In 2003, I went to work in the Zhejiang Federation of Industry and Commerce (浙江省工商联). In order to build the 'Zhejiang Businessmen' brand, we held a Zhejiang Businessmen Conference every year at that time, and Secretary Xi (习) basically took the time to participate and make a speech. Every speech he gave had a very profound impact on Zhejiang businessmen."
In 2004, Zhejiang became the fourth province in the country with a total economic volume of more than one trillion yuan, and the province of strong private economy became famous throughout the country. Zhejiang businessmen have created one legendary "Zhejiang phenomenon" after another, which has become a vivid portrayal of the Zhejiang spirit.
But the "troubles of growth" followed: the internal contradictions of Zhejiang's economic quantity expansion began to appear, electricity shortage, water shortage, land supply shortage... The profits of industrial enterprises above the province's scale once declined, and for a time, external doubts arose, and the confidence of enterprises and the market was hit.
How can Zhejiang's private economy go steadily and far?
"At the critical moment of the development of Zhejiang's private economy, Secretary Xi (习) inspired us to calmly analyze the gains and losses of economic development." Xu Guanju (徐冠巨) said.
Xi Jinping (习近平) wrote in Zhijiang New Talk (之江新语): "Now, the state's implementation of macro-control policies and the resource element bottleneck constraints in real economic activities have formed a new 'reverse forcing' mechanism, which is actually an opportunity to adjust the economic structure and change the mode of growth."
On June 3, 2006, at the Zhejiang Businessmen Conference and Zhejiang Businessmen Forum, Xi Jinping (习近平) put forward earnest hopes: Zhejiang businessmen should continue to promote the Zhejiang spirit that keeps pace with the times, strive to achieve a new leap in Zhejiang's private economy, and work together to achieve Zhejiang's faster and better development.
He encouraged everyone to pay more attention to independent innovation, more attention to brand building, more attention to resource conservation, and more attention to talents and management, fundamentally change the extensive growth mode, and realize the rebirth and transformation of industries and enterprises.
Keeping pace with the times, reborn from the ashes. Zhejiang's private enterprises "jump out of Zhejiang to develop Zhejiang," "change cages for birds and phoenix nirvana," Zhejiang accelerated the pace of transformation and upgrading, a large number of "handsome birds" that eat less, lay more eggs, and fly high emerged, and advanced manufacturing bases rose from the ground.
Keeping pace with the times, reborn. Many private enterprises in Zhejiang have torn off labels such as "poor quality," "OEM," and "low technical content," closely combined industrial innovation with technological innovation, and devoted themselves to building a province strong in science and technology and a province with great brands.
Today's Zhejiang private economy has bright data and strong "combat power." From the perspective of Zhejiang itself, it is "67889"—creating 67.2% of the province's GDP, 73.4% of tax revenue, 80.8% of imports and exports, 87.5% of employment, and 96.8% of business entities; from the perspective of national ranking, the number ranks first in 5 lists such as "China's Top 500 Private Enterprises."
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"Facing Zhejiang to the north ridge, strong Canghai's grand flow." The Zhejiang spirit that keeps pace with the times is like a surging river, surging...
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has repeatedly talked about the power of the spirit on different occasions, and put forward the overall concept of "the spiritual pedigree of Chinese Communists."
On October 31, 2017, only one week after the closing of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) led the members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to Shanghai (上海) and Jiaxing (嘉兴) to pay homage to the site of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Nanhu Red Boat.
In front of the Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall (南湖革命纪念馆), commentator Yuan Jing (袁晶) said affectionately: "This is the new museum that you personally laid the foundation for. For more than ten years, we have finally waited for you!"
"From the moment the memorial hall was laid, I have been thinking about coming to see it after it was completed. Today, my wish has come true, and I have been deeply educated and encouraged." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) stressed that it is necessary to vigorously promote the "Red Boat Spirit" in combination with the characteristics of the times, so that the "Red Boat Spirit" will always shine.
The 17th issue of Qiushi (《求是》) magazine published on September 1, 2021 published an important article by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), "The Great Spirit of the Party is Forever the Precious Spiritual Wealth of the Party and the Country."
The article emphasizes that a person cannot stand without spirit, and a country cannot be strong without spirit. Only by standing firm and standing firm in spirit can a nation stand tall and stand at the forefront of the tide in the torrent of history.
On the side of Nanhu (南湖), the beautiful water is vast, and the Red Boat is still there. As the times change, the spirit is eternal.
"Break Through All Ideological Concepts and Systems and Mechanisms that Restrict Cultural Development"
"All things in the world are born from existence, and existence is born from nothing" is an ancient philosophical proposition. A cultural system reform that began in Zhejiang more than 20 years ago has repeatedly confirmed this truth.
Hengdian World Studios (横店影视城) is a classic example.
From "a simple shop beside the road" to the world's largest film and television shooting base, Hengdian (横店) has experienced a process from nothing to everything to infinite possibilities.
In 2003, Zhejiang was listed as the first batch of comprehensive pilot provinces for cultural system reform in the country, shouldering the mission of exploring the road.
At that time, Hengdian World Studios (横店影视城) had 12 shooting bases and was facing development problems—it was urgent to expand from the base to the upstream and downstream industries of film and television, but there was a lack of policy basis for the legal entry of private capital into key links such as film production, distribution, and screening... Xi Jinping (习近平), who had just taken office in Zhejiang, noticed this.
In June, Xi Jinping (习近平) came to Hengdian (横店) for investigation and research. "At that time, the theater chain was state-owned, and the Class A licenses for TV dramas and movies could only be state-owned. After the investigation and research, Secretary Xi (习) believed that Hengdian (横店) could do something. He encouraged us to boldly explore and vigorously develop the film and television culture industry." Xu Tianfu (徐天福), vice president of Hengdian Group (横店集团), recalled.
More than a month after the investigation and research, Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: We must further liberalize and invigorate like supporting the development of the private economy, break through the institutional bottlenecks in the development of the cultural industry, open the floodgates for the development of the cultural industry, seize the opportunity for the development of the cultural industry, and vigorously develop private cultural enterprises.
Soon, a provincial-level research team was sent to Hengdian (横店) to study relevant policies to support the construction of the experimental zone, taking the establishment of the Hengdian Film and Television Industry Experimental Zone as a breakthrough for the reform pilot. Soon, a report was submitted to the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television.
On March 16, 2004, the Zhejiang Provincial Government issued the "Approval on Zhejiang Hengdian Film and Television Industry Experimental Zone Enjoying Relevant Policies"; in April, with the approval of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the first national-level film and television industry experimental zone in the country—Zhejiang Hengdian Film and Television Industry Experimental Zone (浙江横店影视产业实验区) was officially listed.
Since then, the experimental zone integrates film and television creation, shooting, production, distribution, and trading. It not only has the right to review movies and TV dramas, but also enjoys preferential policies such as tax incentives, land inclination, financial subsidies, and listing rewards for enterprises in the zone...
"'Creating something from nothing will make everything available,' this is what Secretary Xi (习) told us." Xu Tianfu (徐天福) said.
Creating something from nothing is by no means fabricating out of thin air, but guiding according to the situation, adapting to local conditions, innovating and creating, and striving for strength.
Three months after the experimental zone was listed, Xi Jinping (习近平) came to Hengdian (横店) again, encouraging Hengdian (横店) to become the world's largest film and television shooting base and film and television product production base.
Xi Jinping's (习近平) series of requirements and decisions have promoted the great development of Hengdian. This reform experimental field, supervised by government departments and with enterprises as the main development body, has "grown" the country's first Sino-foreign joint venture film and entertainment company, the country's first overseas joint venture film and television industry project, and the country's first local film censorship center, among other "new things." Today, "film and television + tourism," "film and television + technology," "film and television + finance," "film and television + creative design"... Hengdian has not only successfully cultivated new film and television cultural formats, but also built a modern film and television cultural industry cluster, and Hengdian World Studios is full of infinite vitality.
Xi Jinping (习近平) clearly saw the historical significance and contemporary value of liberating and developing cultural productive forces. He pointed out incisively that it is necessary to "break through all ideological concepts and institutional mechanisms that hinder cultural development with the spirit of reform and innovation, further liberate and develop cultural productive forces," and systematically deployed key areas of Zhejiang's cultural system reform.
Opening the floodgates of cultural industry development, Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed to draw on the successful experience of economic system reform and accelerate the cultivation of cultural market entities and cultural market systems; to form a cultural development pattern adapted to the development pattern of multiple ownership economies.
In 2024, the domestic 3A game "Black Myth: Wukong" topped the sales charts in 29 countries and regions around the world as soon as it was released, and Chinese culture amazed the world. Many foreign players began to study "Journey to the West" in order to understand this action game based on Chinese mythology.
For a time, the online space was hotly debated: "Why was this monkey born on the shore of West Lake (西湖)?"
This is another miracle out of nothing.
In 2003, Zhejiang's animation industry was just starting.
On April 8, 2005, Xi Jinping (习近平) came to the School of Media and Animation of the China Academy of Art (中国美术学院) for investigation. This first batch of "National Animation Teaching and Research Bases" in the country was born under his direct promotion. Xi Jinping (习近平) attached great importance to the integration of production, education, and research in Zhejiang's animation industry.
In the animation school's 3D computer room, the relevant person in charge reported to him the concept of building a "City of Animation," and he immediately responded: "The animation industry has broad prospects, and we have the strength to do it."
That afternoon, Xi Jinping (习近平) rushed to Zhejiang Zhongnan Cartoon Company (浙江中南卡通公司).
At that time, Zhongnan Cartoon (中南卡通) had just moved into its new office building, and the air conditioning had not yet been installed. The room was stuffy and hot. Xi Jinping (习近平) wiped his sweat with a towel while carefully watching the animation creation process. Xi Jinping (习近平) asked carefully about all aspects from the early stage director, mid-term production, to broadcasting and distribution.
"China's animation has an industry, but no industrial chain. China's animation market is very large, but 90% is taken away by foreign cartoons..." Wu Jianrong (吴建荣), chairman of the board of directors of Zhejiang Zhongnan Holding Group (浙江中南控股集团), said with some anxiety.
After listening, Xi Jinping (习近平) said: "Animation is not measured by money. It can provide healthy spiritual food for young people. Chinese civilization has a history of more than 5,000 years, and you can create some animated works of our national heroes."
Encouraged by Xi Jinping (习近平), Zhongnan Cartoon (中南卡通) quickly produced a batch of national trend animations such as "Zheng He's Voyages to the West" and "Zheng Chenggong." With its extremely Chinese flavor and Chinese characteristics, the company not only made a large number of IP derivatives, but also sold the copyright overseas - "I still remember in a hotel in Hong Kong (香港) at that time, a foreign buyer took 100,000 US dollars in cash to buy four boxes of animation discs from me. After I came back, I reported to Secretary Xi (习书记), and he was very happy and said with a smile: Animation is a smokeless factory, and we must let our culture go out." Wu Jianrong (吴建荣) recalled.
In fact, Xi Jinping's (习近平) animation research trip was related to the fact that Hangzhou (杭州) had just won the right to host the first national and international animation event in China, the first China International Cartoon & Animation Festival, two months earlier.
Hangzhou (杭州) was able to get this "ticket" is closely related to its long history of painting art, the strong talent team of the China Academy of Art (中国美院) and Zhejiang University (浙江大学), and its strong genes, but it needs to be sown and irrigated, and guided according to the situation.
In the summer of 2005, the first China International Cartoon & Animation Festival opened in West Lake (西湖). The on-site sales exceeded 10 million yuan, and the transaction amount of contracts (letters of intent) reached 3 billion yuan. Bodo, the founder of the World Animation Society, exclaimed: "The most imaginative career in the world must be in the most beautiful place."
The seeds of the industry have been sown, how can it grow into an evergreen tree on the shore of West Lake (西子湖畔)?
Xi Jinping (习近平) wrote a special letter to the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (国家广电总局) to promote the permanent settlement of the Animation Festival in Hangzhou (杭州). He also promoted the establishment of the China International Cartoon & Animation Festival Exhibition Office, and the Hangzhou (杭州) Municipal Finance invested special funds. An innovative ecosystem of the animation industry has gradually formed, and the practice of integrating economy into humanities and humanities into economy has been continuously enriched.
"Where culture is very developed, the economy is still at the forefront." During the 2023 National People's Congress (全国两会), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) put forward the major proposition of "humanistic economics."
As early as when he was working in Zhejiang (浙江), Xi Jinping (习近平) keenly noticed this problem. He pointed out that "a prominent feature of Zhejiang (浙江) culture is that it is full of a strong economic pulse." In his article "Cultural Economy Lights Up Zhejiang (浙江) Economy," he profoundly expounded the dialectical relationship between culture and economy: "The so-called cultural economy is a general term for the economization of culture and the culturalization of economy. Its essence is the interaction and integrated development of culture and economy."
Following the road guided by Xi Jinping (习近平), today, Hangzhou (杭州) has more than 270 upstream and downstream animation game companies with more than 12,000 employees, becoming a veritable "City of Animation"; Zhejiang (浙江) has more than 300,000 private cultural enterprises, more than 7 times that of 2003.
While private cultural enterprises are developing by leaps and bounds, state-owned cultural units are also undergoing a "gorgeous transformation." Zhejiang Song and Dance Theater (浙江歌舞剧院), Zhejiang Traditional Opera and Acrobatics Troupe (浙江曲艺杂技总团), Zhejiang Repertory Theatre (浙江话剧团) and other units have completed the "transformation from institutions to enterprises"; a wave of group-based reforms has been set off in the fields of news publishing, radio and television...
To grasp cultural system reform, it is necessary to distinguish between undertakings and industries. In Xi Jinping's (习近平) view, when grasping public welfare cultural undertakings, reform must never be simply understood as the government "unloading its burden" and economic "weaning." The focus should be on increasing investment, transforming mechanisms, and improving services, so as to continuously enhance its vitality.
Yantou Town (岩头镇), Yongjia County (永嘉县), the 300-mile Nanxi River (楠溪江) has nurtured Yongjia Kunqu Opera (永嘉昆曲), which has been sung for more than 600 years and is a "living fossil" for the study of Southern Opera.
On May 20, 2005, Xi Jinping (习近平) went to Yongjia (永嘉) for investigation. At that time, Yantou Town (岩头镇) was staging Yongjia Kunqu Opera (永嘉昆曲) programs. He quietly came to the audience and watched the performance with the villagers. The old actor Lin Meimei (林媚媚), who was busy in the backstage, heard that Secretary Xi (习书记) was here, so she came out and sat on a bench with Xi Jinping (习近平), watching and chatting.
"How many such young actors are there now?"
"In recent years, only 10 students have been recruited in total."
"Tell me, what are the difficulties in protecting and inheriting Yong Kun (永昆)?"
This asked Lin Meimei (林媚媚) in her heart, and she told the difficulties of Yong Kun (永昆) one by one.
At the end of the 1980s, the Yongjia Kunqu Opera Troupe (永嘉昆剧团) was disbanded, and the opera was not a class, and there was no successor, and Yong Kun (永昆) was on the verge of being lost.
"I want to cry when I think of the old gentlemen." Lin Meimei (林媚媚) said, "They held my hand when they were dying and said that Yong Kun (永昆) must not be without it. We have passed it down from generation to generation for hundreds of years."
Lin Meimei (林媚媚) still remembers that the troupe did not have its own headquarters and lived in dilapidated houses. The rehearsal was in a small temple, performing in front of clay sculptures and wooden statues. In 2000, in order to save Yong Kun (永昆), they raised people and money to participate in the first China Kunqu Opera Art Festival. They were almost 60 years old and wore borrowed old high boots to "put on the battle clothes," and were called "Hua Jia Xiao Sheng (花甲小生)."
"How many people are needed to really build a troupe to perform?" Xi Jinping (习近平) asked after listening.
"With 30 places, we should be able to cope with basic performances."
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Lin Meimei's (林媚媚) request soon had results. More than ten days later, Xi Jinping (习近平) gave instructions on the "Report on Rescuing and Revitalizing Yong Kun (永昆)," clearly pointing out that "the protection of Yong Kun (永昆) should be included in the non-material cultural heritage protection plan of our province."
In the same year, Yongjia Kunqu Opera (永嘉昆剧) was selected into the first batch of Zhejiang (浙江) intangible cultural heritage representative works list, and the provincial cultural department allocated 1 million yuan of special funds every year. The troupe was thus restored, the establishment was expanded to 38 people, and young actors were recruited nationwide, becoming the only county-level troupe among the seven Kunqu Opera troupes supported by the Ministry of Culture at that time.
With funds and people, Yong Kun's (永昆) "blood-making" function has also been activated -
Gradually restore the performance function of professional art groups, with more than 200 performances a year; complete the rescue of 219 Yong Kun (永昆) tunes; cooperate with Zhejiang Art Vocational College (浙江艺术职业学院) to open a "Qing Miao Class (青苗班)" to explore the school-troupe order-style talent training model; try "Yong Kun (永昆) + leisure tourism," immersive real-life performance "The Peony Pavilion: A Dream in the Garden" sings the new sound of ancient rhyme...
"We Yong Kun (永昆) people are grateful!" Lin Meimei (林媚媚), now a representative inheritor of Kunqu Opera (Yongjia Kunqu Opera) (昆曲（永嘉昆曲）), a national intangible cultural heritage project, said with emotion, "Yong Kun's (永昆) incense has not been broken, and I am worthy of the ancestors!"
During that time, in addition to the rescue instructions for Yongjia Kunqu Opera (永嘉昆曲), Xi Jinping (习近平) gave 6 instructions on the protection of intangible cultural heritage in just 28 days, sending a "timely rain" for the protection, inheritance, innovation and development of Zhejiang (浙江) folk crafts and folk arts. Under this concern and promotion, Zhejiang (浙江) celadon has rejuvenated its millennial kiln fire, the mellow aroma of rice wine permeates the alleys of Jiangnan (江南), and the charm of tea curls and dyes the emerald mountains...
Marx said that consciousness and culture are the prerequisites for understanding human society. Every leap in human society is accompanied by the historical progress of culture.
From prospering cultural undertakings, strengthening the cultural industry, to promoting cultural prosperity and building a cultural power, under the guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) cultural thought, we nourish life and enrich the spirit in the inheritance of civilization and the continuation of cultural context, and promote industry with culture, shining brightly every day.
"Realize, safeguard and develop the cultural interests of the people"
"I can't bear to leave Hangzhou (杭州), half of my heart is still here." West Lake (西湖) can always evoke people's millennium nostalgia, and its millennium transformation is the ambition of people -
The "Qiantang Lake Stone Record (钱塘湖石记)" on the wall of the Shengtang Sluice Pavilion (圣塘闸亭) is Bai Juyi's (白居易) reluctance to the people; the Qian Wang Temple (钱王祠) is a historical witness of Qian Liu's (钱镠) "protecting the territory and securing the people" and "serving China well"; the Su Causeway (苏堤) is a long song co-built by Su Dongpo (苏东坡) and the people...
For thousands of years, West Lake (西湖) has always been rippling with a strong humanistic feeling.
"Around West Lake (西湖), there is history everywhere and culture at every step." When he first arrived in Zhejiang (浙江), how to nourish the people with West Lake (西湖) culture was Xi Jinping's (习近平) consideration of West Lake (西湖).
On November 28, 2002, Xi Jinping (习近平) went to West Lake (西湖) for investigation. At that time, the West Lake (西湖) Comprehensive Protection Project had been launched. Standing at the construction site of the Yanggong Causeway Scenic Area (杨公堤景区), Xi Jinping (习近平) carefully examined the planning drawings of the "West Lake (西湖) Westward Advance."
"Secretary Xi (习书记) required that the project should not blindly seek novelty, but should retain and respect the 'old' and 'old' things that are truly charming. The Yanggong Causeway Scenic Area (杨公堤景区) fought for 300 days and recovered 300 years of history. This is a good deed of virtue and a deed of popular support." Zhang Jianting (张建庭), then director of the Hangzhou West Lake Scenic Area Management Committee (杭州西湖风景名胜区管委会), recalled.
Since then, in less than a year, Xi Jinping (习近平) investigated West Lake (西湖) three times, emphasizing "restoring both the natural ecology and the human landscape." The West Lake (西湖) Comprehensive Protection Project was successfully promoted, gradually restoring more than 180 historical and cultural landscapes. At the same time, it excavated and restored the surrounding historical and cultural landscapes, combining the gardens, pavilions, temples, and pagodas of West Lake (西湖) with the culture of Wuyue (吴越), the culture of the Southern Song Dynasty (南宋), and the culture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (明清), enriching the historical and cultural connotation of the West Lake (西湖) Scenic Area... This laid a solid foundation for the official inclusion of the "Hangzhou West Lake Cultural Landscape (杭州西湖文化景观)" in the "World Heritage List" in 2011.
The changes in West Lake (西湖) have not stopped. Under the promotion of Xi Jinping (习近平), all parks around the lake have been opened to the public for free since October 1, 2003. West Lake (西湖) has a culture in every step and every scene, and it has entered the homes of ordinary people.
Returning the lake to the people, every branch and leaf is always concerned.
After West Lake (西湖) was opened to the public for free, the public toilets closed as soon as it got dark. Xi Jinping (习近平) directly opposed: "This is completely wrong." Since then, the public toilets on the West Lake (西湖) have been open 24 hours a day.
He noticed that the benches on the West Lake (西湖) were too close together, which hindered couples from dating, so he asked that a certain distance be maintained between the benches.
After the West Lake (西湖) water area was expanded, the cruise ships often bumped into the bridge holes on the new West Lake (西湖) when passing through, which was not only unsafe, but also caused damage to the bridge holes and the hull of the ship. He suggested improvements. After that, the cruise ships added protective rubber tires.
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Restoring human landscapes, removing the West Lake (西湖) fences, increasing maintenance costs, and losing ticket revenue. What is the significance of the changes in West Lake (西湖)?
"The cultural environment of a certain society has an assimilating effect on the people living in it, and then transforms into a huge force that maintains the endless life of the society and the nation." When we read this passage in "Zhejiang New Discourse (之江新语)," we can more deeply understand the deep logic of Xi Jinping (习近平) returning the lake to the people.
West Lake (西湖) gives us a concrete perspective, from which we truly feel a Marxist's philosophical thinking on the "relationship between people and culture" from the perspective of social development and national survival. Then we more deeply understand what he said at the 17th collective study of the 20th Political Bureau of the Central Committee in 2024: "Always adhere to cultural construction focusing on people and based on people."
"Realize, safeguard and develop the cultural interests of the people," closely focusing on the word "people," in July 2003, Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed to take "continuously meeting the people's growing multi-level spiritual and cultural needs and promoting the all-round development of people" as a major and urgent task of Zhejiang's (浙江) modernization construction.
The 7th China Art Festival (中国艺术节) is a sample he created himself.
It was the highest-level and largest-scale national art event ever hosted by Zhejiang (浙江).
September 10, 2004, Hangzhou (杭州) Huanglong Sports Center (黄龙体育中心).
The lights were bright and the stars were shining. Amidst the anticipation of the crowd, Xi Jinping (习近平) announced: "Now, I specially entrust a nonagenarian and a five-year-old child to represent the people of Zhejiang (浙江) and strike the gong to open the 7th Art Festival."
"Dong!" The first note of the art event sounded, interpreting the purpose of "the art event, the people's festival."
The art feast, the people are the protagonists - the audience's opinions were added to the "Wenhua Award (文华奖)" for the first time; the "Audience's Favorite Drama Award" voted by the audience was established for the first time; 4 opening ceremony previews invited workers, teachers, community representatives, etc. to watch for free; low-priced ticket discounts continued, allowing ordinary people to see the exhibitions and watch the plays...
More than 600 cultural activities, nearly 1 million viewers directly participated. The concept of culture for the people has taken root and blossomed in people's hearts.
"Our 7th Art Festival was held very vigorously, and many high-quality products were produced, but how to truly send these high-quality cultural products to the people and let the people share these artistic achievements, these still need to be well grasped." Xi Jinping (习近平) has a heavy thought in his heart: the most in need of culture are the grassroots, especially the rural areas.
In the early 21st century, a saying was circulating in some rural areas of Zhejiang (浙江): "**千年不听锣鼓响，万年才见戏开场** (qiān nián bù tīng luó gǔ xiǎng, wàn nián cái jiàn xì kāi chǎng - "a thousand years no gongs and drums heard, ten thousand years to see a play," describes the extreme rarity of cultural events in rural areas)." The phenomenon of farmers' lack of spiritual and cultural life is prominent.
In June 2005, at a research symposium of the provincial publicity and cultural system, Xi Jinping (习近平) listed the problems he saw one by one: many rural cultural positions lack facilities, funds, talents, and content, and some remote rural areas cannot even receive radio and television programs...
After this symposium, the "Qianjiang Waves (钱江浪花)" Art Troupe was established. Lu Xianghan (陆湘汉), 52, was ordered to drive a literary and artistic caravan to send performances to the grassroots.
"'Qianjiang Waves' (钱江浪花) was named by Secretary Xi (习书记). He also set a goal that within five years, the art troupe should travel to all the townships in the province," Lu Xianghan (陆湘汉) recalled.
With the support of the Provincial Party Committee, literary and art troupes throughout the province responded enthusiastically. Leading performers, winners of the Plum Blossom Award (梅花奖) and high-quality works from the Seventh China Art Festival all appeared on the "caravan," performing at the doorsteps of ordinary people, much to the delight of the villagers.
The story of Longyang Township (龙洋乡) touched us—
Once, the "caravan" set off for Longyang Township (龙洋乡), Suichang County (遂昌县). On the way, they encountered a landslide, and the vehicle couldn't pass, so the performance was about to be canceled. The performers called the village.
The villagers were anxious when they heard this. They hung up the phone, grabbed ropes and carrying poles, jumped on a walking tractor, and quickly arrived.
Without saying a word, everyone carried the props and equipment, crossed mountains and ridges, and headed towards the village. There was even a pregnant woman, with a big belly, who picked up a costume bag for the actors and walked towards the village.
At the entrance of the village, men, women, old and young, waited in the cold wind, preparing hot tea, noodles, and huang guo cake. The actors were moved. During the two-hour performance, they showed off their "**十八般武艺**" (shí bā bān wǔ yì - "eighteen kinds of martial arts," all sorts of skills and talents), cheers were constant, and the villagers' palms turned red from clapping...
This was a two-way rush—the villagers received cultural nourishment, and culture received rich nourishment from the countryside.
Regarding such "performances carried on shoulders," Xi Jinping (习近平) gave instructions and affirmed: "Distinctive features, diverse forms, close to the grassroots, and effective."
"That day, I went to the Provincial Administrative Center to get the instructions. Just as I was about to leave, the staff said that Secretary Xi (习书记) was waiting for me..." Lu Xianghan (陆湘汉) was a little excited.
In the office, Xi Jinping (习近平) shook Lu Xianghan's (陆湘汉) hand vigorously: "Thank you for doing so many good things for the farmers! I hope you will carefully summarize, continuously improve, and send more wonderful programs to the countryside."
This meeting made Lu Xianghan (陆湘汉) even more motivated, and his pace of going to the countryside became more frequent. Over 20 years, "Qianjiang Waves" (钱江浪花) has delivered more than 5,000 performances, attracting more than 10 million viewers...
"Qianjiang Waves" (钱江浪花), the front wave leads the back wave—over the past 20 years, rural libraries, cultural halls, village museums... have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, making villagers "**放下筷子就想去**" (fàng xià kuài zi jiù xiǎng qù - "want to go as soon as they put down their chopsticks," very attractive), and attracting countless city dwellers to come and admire them.
Staying true to the original aspiration and never stopping. In April 2024, Zhejiang (浙江) took the lead in establishing a cultural special commissioner system in the country, selecting more than 1,500 high-quality cultural talents to bring high-quality cultural resources directly to the grassroots level, helping villages solve the needs for high-quality and diversified culture, promoting rural industrial development, and exploring, refining, and promoting excellent regional culture, vividly practicing Xi Jinping's (习近平) cultural thought in the vast fields.
"Culture is 'humanization,' and cultural undertakings are undertakings that nurture people's minds and cultivate people's sentiments. People are essentially cultural beings, not 'materialized' beings; they are dynamic and comprehensive people, not rigid and 'one-dimensional' people." In *Zhejiang New Discourse* (*之江新语*), Xi Jinping (习近平) further discusses the relationship between people and culture.
Leading by example, Xi Jinping (习近平) promotes culture.
Wushi Village (乌石村), Pan'an (磐安), is more than 560 meters above sea level and has a village history of more than 600 years.
The courtyards from the Ming and Qing dynasties are quaint and fragrant, with wisps of smoke curling up. People who have lived in cities for a long time can truly experience the comfort of their hearts flying in the depths of the flowers when they come here.
More than 20 years ago, it was so poor that only more than 200 old black houses were left—houses built by the villagers with the local unique black basalt.
In 2006, Xi Jinping (习近平) walked into the village and was immediately attracted by these black stone houses. Touching the black stones, he said to everyone: "This kind of stone is good! Look, this basalt is so good..."
At that time, the village was developing tourism, and the villagers were thinking about demolishing the old houses and building high-rise buildings. "Secretary Xi (习书记) said that this old village is very distinctive. You should not demolish the old houses, but protect and utilize them well. If all the old villages are demolished, the culture and roots will also be demolished..." Zhang Weiping (张威平), the then Party Branch Secretary of Wushi Village (乌石村), recalled.
Xi Jinping (习近平) repeatedly urged the village cadres: The construction of new rural areas should not blindly "**贪大求洋**" (tān dà qiú yáng - "greedy for big and seeking foreign," to blindly pursue grandeur and foreign styles), but should protect ancient villages and deeply explore their cultural connotations in accordance with local conditions.
A word awakened the dreamer—the old house is the root, and culture is the golden key! They did not move any of the more than 200 old houses. Today, it has become one of the best-preserved ancient villages in the country and has been named a national civilized village. In the past 20 years, the village's beautiful scenery and culture have attracted more and more people to come here. In 2024 alone, there were 1.07 million tourists, and the village's cultural tourism revenue reached 200 million yuan... The power of culture has been transformed into material power, and the soft power of culture has been transformed into the hard power of the economy.
Culture is the soul. To cultivate people with culture is like a spring breeze turning into rain, nourishing the heart.
On the afternoon of September 27, 2006, Zijin'gang Campus (紫金港校区), Zhejiang University (浙江大学). The small theater with more than a thousand people was packed. The students were going to listen to Secretary Xi's (习书记) report, "Inheriting Cultural Traditions and Promoting the Zhejiang Spirit (继承文化传统 弘扬浙江精神)." This was Xi Jinping's (习近平) third time giving a lecture to college students, and Zhang Dongliang (张栋梁), who had just enrolled, was fortunate enough to listen to this lecture.
As soon as Xi Jinping (习近平) sat down, he told everyone a story.
"The story was very interesting. It was about when Chairman Mao (毛主席) was on a special train passing through Henan (河南) and tested the Secretary of the Nanyang Prefectural Committee (南阳地委书记): Chairman Mao (毛主席) asked the secretary about the history and current affairs of Nanyang (南阳), but the other party could not answer. Chairman Mao (毛主席) asked him his age, and he said he was fifty-five. So Chairman Mao (毛主席) humorously said: 'You know neither the present nor the past, you only know that you are fifty-five.'" Zhang Dongliang (张栋梁), who is now the Deputy Director of the Party Committee Office of Zhejiang University (浙江大学党委办公室), recalled.
Amidst the laughter of the students, Xi Jinping (习近平) continued, when others ask you "How is Zhejiang (浙江)?" how do you answer?
"This question immediately triggered my thinking. Not only do leading cadres need to understand the history, culture, and customs of a place, but also college students who will be going to work in the future need to master them." Xi Jinping (习近平) encouraged the students to inherit and carry forward the excellent Chinese cultural traditions, promote the Zhejiang spirit, and "**干在实处，走在前列**" (gàn zài shí chù, zǒu zài qián liè - "work practically and be at the forefront," to be practical and pioneering).
The report lasted more than two hours. From Zhejiang's (浙江) diverse cultural traditions to the cultural characteristics of the "Zhejiang Spirit," from Zhejiang (浙江) business culture to the Zhejiang (浙江) economy, Xi Jinping (习近平) cited extensively, used allusions readily, and interacted with the students from time to time, and the atmosphere at the scene was very active.
The students were deeply impressed by Xi Jinping's (习近平) broad knowledge. "I felt that Secretary Xi (习书记) was really a good teacher who imparted knowledge and solved doubts." Xi Jinping's (习近平) steady and peaceful voice, profound knowledge, refined temperament, and extremely strong affinity are still vivid in Zhang Dongliang's (张栋梁) mind.
During his work in Zhejiang (浙江), Xi Jinping (习近平) attached great importance to ideological and political education for students, and especially emphasized the need to give play to the role of ideological and moral values in uniting people's hearts and guiding behavior. Such cultural cultivation has influenced the lives of many students; such cultural cultivation has become a valuable spiritual wealth in their lives.
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"The people-oriented nature is the essential attribute of Marxism." Taking the people as the center is the fundamental position of Xi Jinping's (习近平) cultural thought. It is the value orientation of Zhejiang's (浙江) promotion of the "Eight Projects" (八项工程) and the construction of a culturally strong province over the past 20 years. It is also a clear main line running through the cultural construction of the new era.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our Party has insisted on placing cultural construction in a prominent position in governing the country, and the spiritual and cultural life of the people has become richer.
On October 28, 2024, the 17th collective study of the 20th Political Bureau of the Central Committee was held, and General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) issued a call to "accelerate the construction of a culturally strong country"!
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The 'strength' of a culturally strong country should ultimately be reflected in the people's ideological realm, spiritual state, and cultural accomplishment." To cultivate people with culture is an important task in the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics.
On West Lake (西子湖), there are misty painted boats. On the shore, there are playful children and couples holding hands. Sometimes you will also meet "Xu Xian (许仙)," "Bai Niangzi (白娘子)," and "Wukong (悟空)." Walking around, it is like being in a painting—the people's West Lake (西湖)! The ancient saying spontaneously rises in my heart—
"**为政以德，譬如北辰，居其所而众星拱之**" (wéi zhèng yǐ dé, pì rú běi chén, jū qí suǒ ér zhòng xīng gǒng zhī - "governing with virtue is like the North Star, which remains in its place while all the other stars revolve around it," to govern with virtue will win the respect and allegiance of the people).
Tracing the origin and understanding the truth.
The great road leads to everywhere.
Under the guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) cultural thought, let us better shoulder the cultural mission of the new era, create a new culture that belongs to our era, build a strong socialist cultural country, create new socialist cultural glories, and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 28 (新华社北京7月28日电) Zhejiang Daily Interview Team: Qiu Yijiao (裘一佼), Zeng Fuquan (曾福泉), Lu Yao (陆遥), Yan Lili (严粒粒))
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Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China (中国国家统计局) shows that China's gross domestic product grew by 5.3% year-on-year in the first half of this year, with domestic demand contributing 68.8% to economic growth. The World Bank and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development have maintained their overall stable forecasts for China's economic growth, while Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and other international investment banks have raised their forecasts for China's economic growth this year. Relevant personnel from foreign-funded enterprises interviewed by this reporter believe that in the face of an increasingly complex and severe external environment, the Chinese economy has withstood the pressure and **迎难而上** (yíng nán ér shàng - "meet difficulties and go forward," to face difficulties head-on and overcome them), and China's large market has demonstrated strong resilience, becoming a key force supporting high-quality development towards excellence and innovation.
"Accelerate the construction of a unified national market and create a first-class business environment"
Since the issuance of the "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Accelerating the Construction of a Unified National Market" (《中共中央国务院关于加快建设全国统一大市场的意见》) in 2022, the construction of a unified national market in China has been continuously advancing in depth. The sixth meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission (中央财经委员会) held recently, made arrangements for promoting the construction of a unified national market.
Liu Jing (刘晶), chief economist for Greater China at HSBC Global Research, said that since the beginning of this year, China's Private Economy Promotion Law has been introduced, the Anti-Unfair Competition Law has been revised, and the draft amendment to the Price Law has been released to the public for comments, marking the continuous improvement of China's laws and regulations to promote fair competition. "Relevant departments and industry associations in China have worked together to comprehensively rectify 'involution' competition, promote the construction of a unified national market in depth, and jointly boost the confidence of enterprises and residents; China has continued to deepen the reform of the foreign investment promotion system and mechanism, pragmatically promote financial opening-up and cooperation, and continuously attract foreign companies to deeply cultivate China's super-large market."
"China's business environment continues to optimize, and the degree of marketization, rule of law, and internationalization are steadily improving. We deeply feel the all-round support of governments at all levels for enterprise development." Yu Feng (余锋), relevant person in charge of Honeywell, said that the advantages of the Chinese market such as scale, resilience, and innovation vitality provide a solid foundation for foreign companies to develop in China. China has demonstrated strong vitality in fields such as technological innovation, the digital economy, and low-carbon development, creating more development opportunities for foreign companies. Honeywell is full of confidence in its continued growth in China.
"China adheres to the basic national policy of opening up to the outside world for a long time, accelerates the construction of a unified national market, and creates a first-class business environment, which makes Schneider Electric firm in its confidence in developing in China." Yin Zheng (尹正), Executive Vice President of Schneider Electric, said that as a key engine of global economic growth, China has the advantages of a super-large market, a complete industrial system, rich innovation elements, and a resilient supply chain network. It is not only Schneider Electric's second largest market in the world, but also one of its most important supply chain bases and one of its four major R&D bases. China's continuous development of new quality productive forces provides broader development space for global industrial technology leaders like Schneider Electric.
"The Chinese market maintains strong resilience and long-term growth potential"
Since the beginning of this year, foreign-funded enterprises have focused on modern service industries and advanced manufacturing industries, and have continuously expanded and deepened their investment in China. Data from the Ministry of Commerce shows that in the first half of this year, the actual use of foreign capital in high-tech industries was 127.87 billion yuan, of which the actual use of foreign capital in e-commerce services, chemical pharmaceutical manufacturing, aerospace vehicle and equipment manufacturing, and medical instrument equipment and device manufacturing increased by 127.1%, 53%, 36.2%, and 17.7% respectively.
Mohammed Al Ajlan (穆罕默德·艾尔·阿吉兰), Chairman of the Saudi-Chinese Business Council and Vice Chairman of Ajlan & Bros Holding Group, said that China is in a global leading position in emerging fields such as the digital economy, artificial intelligence, and new energy. These fields are highly consistent with the development direction of Saudi Arabia's "Vision 2030," providing broad space for cooperation between the two countries. Specifically, the two sides have great potential for cooperation in energy transition, high-end manufacturing, medical technology, logistics and transportation, and financial technology. "We will continue to explore new opportunities in the Chinese market, and we also look forward to working with more Chinese companies to jointly explore the Saudi and Middle Eastern markets and inject new impetus into Saudi-Chinese cooperation," said Ajlan (阿吉兰).
"We have always believed that investing in China is investing in long-term certainty." Xu Xinxiong (许馨雄), CEO of Thailand's TCP Group, said that China's continued promotion of high-level opening up to the outside world and optimization of the business environment have further enhanced TCP Group's confidence in long-term development in China. The Chinese market is one of TCP Group's most important strategic markets in the world and is the focus of the group's long-term investment. In the past five years, the group has continued to increase its investment in China, with a cumulative investment of 4.36 billion yuan, including the establishment of its China headquarters in Beijing (北京) and the construction of new Red Bull beverage production bases in Sichuan (四川) and Guangxi (广西).
The vigorous vitality of China's innovation ecosystem has also become an important factor attracting foreign investment. In 2024, Beijing (北京) newly recognized more than 110 foreign-funded R&D centers. As of January 2025, the number of foreign-funded R&D centers reached 221, achieving a multiple increase; as of May of this year, the cumulative number of foreign-funded R&D centers in Shanghai (上海) has exceeded 600. China's technological breakthroughs in fields such as artificial intelligence and 5G, rich application scenarios, and a large number of high-quality innovative talents provide a good innovation environment for foreign-funded enterprises.
"Through a series of investments, Henkel continues to consolidate its innovation strength, continuously optimize its product portfolio, and enhance its end-to-end capabilities, working hand in hand with industry partners." Anna (安娜), a relevant person in charge of Henkel, cited an example, saying that in March of this year, Henkel's Kunpeng Factory (鲲鹏工厂) in Yantai (烟台), Shandong (山东), with a total investment of approximately 900 million yuan, started trial production, enhancing the production capacity of high-end products with intelligent production and green manufacturing; the new Henkel Adhesive Shanghai Application Technology Center was officially put into use in May, further accelerating the landing and transformation of innovative achievements through localized application testing and process amplification. "Although global economic dynamics are changing rapidly, the Chinese market maintains strong resilience and long-term growth potential."
"Not only quickly meets the needs of the Chinese market with Chinese R&D results, but also continuously exports 'Chinese wisdom' to the world"
In the view of many foreign-funded enterprise personnel, China's super-large market advantage not only provides enterprises with in-depth development opportunities and innovation incubation space, but also helps them use localized results to feed back global business.
Italian chocolate and confectionery manufacturer Ferrero Group recently announced that Ferrero's Hangzhou Factory (费列罗杭州工厂) in China, with an investment of nearly 3 billion yuan, celebrated its 10th anniversary. As one of the most important investment projects in China, the Hangzhou (杭州) factory has greatly shortened the supply chain cycle of Ferrero products in the Chinese market. Zhang Suyi (张甦毅), a relevant person in charge of Ferrero Group, said that after 10 years of development, the Hangzhou (杭州) factory has become the group's advanced quality model factory, and its products not only meet domestic market demand, but are also exported to more than 20 overseas markets such as Australia (澳大利亚) and Mexico (墨西哥), with increasing export volume.
"Deeply cultivating the Chinese market for 38 years, Schneider Electric continues to strengthen the construction of the 'China Center,' create an agile mechanism integrating R&D, production, sales, and continuously increase investment and localization layout in the Chinese market." Yin Zheng (尹正) said that Schneider Electric has established five major R&D centers in China in Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海), Wuxi (无锡), Xi'an (西安) and Shenzhen (深圳), as well as an artificial intelligence innovation laboratory, "We not only quickly meet the needs of the Chinese market with Chinese R&D results, but also continuously export 'Chinese wisdom' to the world."
Gao Qi (高启), Global CEO of Louis Dreyfus Group, said that the Chinese consumer market is huge, and the demand for high-quality products is becoming more and more diversified, which makes companies constantly strive to enter new, higher value-added product fields to meet consumers' diversified needs for high-quality products. "Looking to the future, Louis Dreyfus will continue to work with local partners in the Chinese market to deepen cooperation in food innovation, green development, and digitalization, ensure food safety, promote fairness and sustainable development across the entire value chain, and jointly build a more resilient future."
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Recently, President Xi Jinping (习近平) collectively met with the heads of foreign delegations attending the Council of Foreign Ministers Meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). He fully affirmed the solid steps taken by all parties to jointly build a better home for the SCO, and emphasized that in the face of the turbulent international situation, the SCO should identify the direction, strengthen confidence, act efficiently, and be more proactive, injecting more stability and positive energy into the world. Since officially taking over as the rotating presidency of the SCO in July last year, China has been guided by the "five common homes" proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平) – building a united and mutually trusted, peaceful and secure, prosperous and developing, friendly and good-neighborly, and fair and just community – and has actively carried out activities and promoted cooperation.
China and the United Arab Emirates (阿联酋) are both important members of the Global South and have always been committed to promoting the unity and revitalization of the Global South. As a dialogue partner of the SCO, the UAE actively participates in the organization's construction and is an action-oriented advocate of the "Shanghai Spirit." At the beginning of the UAE's partnership with the SCO, UAE Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullah (阿卜杜拉) stated that the UAE is willing to build a bridge for SCO countries to deepen cooperation and achieve common goals. Not long ago, the first Global South Economic Forum, co-hosted by China and the UAE, was successfully held in Abu Dhabi (阿布扎比). The participating representatives highly praised the important role of the SCO and contributed wisdom to promoting unity and cooperation in the Global South by continuing to make good use of mechanisms such as the SCO and BRICS.
The UAE is one of the Middle Eastern countries with the widest range, deepest degree, and most substantial results in conducting practical cooperation with China. The high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" (一带一路) between the two countries has many points and broad areas of cooperation, repeatedly setting regional and global firsts. This year, China is carrying out a series of activities in the eight key areas of the Global Development Initiative (全球发展倡议) around the theme of "SCO Year of Sustainable Development." China and the UAE will deepen and expand practical cooperation in various fields on the basis of existing good cooperation, further benefiting the two countries and the "SCO family."
The SCO practices true multilateralism, clearly opposes hegemony, domineering behavior, and bullying, advocates adherence to the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter, adheres to consultation, joint construction, and sharing, and provides a new platform and model for multilateral cooperation to improve global governance. The UAE advocates multilateralism and has actively played a role in hot issues such as the Gaza conflict, the Ukraine crisis, and the Iranian nuclear negotiations in recent years. Facing the accelerated evolution of the century-old changes and the continuous escalation of geopolitical conflicts, China and the UAE will continue to strengthen communication and coordination within the SCO framework, practice multilateralism, improve global governance, and safeguard the international order with practical actions, and are committed to building a China-UAE community with a shared future and a community with a shared future for mankind.
The SCO Tianjin Summit (上海合作组织天津峰会) will be held from August 31 to September 1 this year, which is another important milestone in the development of the SCO. At a new starting point, China will continue to work with the UAE to practice the slogan "Promoting the 'Shanghai Spirit': The SCO in Action," promote the SCO to a new stage of high-quality development that is more united, more collaborative, more dynamic, and more proactive with higher-level China-UAE cooperation, provide "SCO solutions" for global governance, and contribute "SCO strength" to promoting the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.
(The author is the Chinese Ambassador to the UAE)
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From July 23rd to 27th, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Media Think Tank Summit was held in Zhengzhou (郑州), Henan (河南) Province. Nearly 400 Chinese and foreign guests from nearly 200 media outlets, think tanks, government agencies, and international and regional organizations from SCO member states, observer states, and dialogue partners attended. Participating guests stated that the summit provided a more direct and comprehensive understanding of China, and they are full of expectations for China to lead the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in jointly addressing global challenges and writing a new chapter of win-win cooperation.
"The 'Shanghai Spirit' advocating mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality, consultation, respect for diverse civilizations, and pursuit of common development is the key for us to respond to challenges and create the future," said Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Secretariat Advisor Kochkonov. Unilateralism and closed exclusion cannot cope with global challenges, and only unity and cooperation are the right way out.
From the initial 6 founding member states to the "SCO family" covering 26 countries, the influence of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is growing, and the public opinion foundation for building a community of common destiny for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is becoming more solid. Not long ago, the International Department of the People's Daily (人民日报) and the Global Times (环球时报) Research Institute jointly released the "Common Home - Public Opinion Survey Report on the Development Vision of SCO Member States." The report shows that more than 80% of respondents recognize that development cooperation under the SCO framework has brought tangible benefits to their countries; 95% of respondents believe that China's development experience is worth learning from their own countries.
"Each country and its culture is unique, which is fully demonstrated at this summit. When these unique and beautiful things come together, they can blossom into brilliant flowers of cooperation," said Hassan Daud Butt, Associate Professor at Bahria University (巴赫利亚大学) in Pakistan. He believes that the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is like a big stage, allowing members to deeply understand each other's cultures and build an important bridge to enhance friendship between countries.
During the summit, the "Zhengzhou Consensus of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Media Think Tank Summit" and the think tank reports "Jointly Safeguarding the Treasures of Human Civilization - Concepts and Practices of Cultural Heritage Protection in the New Era in China" and "Research on the Construction of a Community of Common Destiny for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation" were released.
The participating guests also visited Kaifeng (开封), Luoyang (洛阳), Anyang (安阳) and other places. Robindro Sachdev, President of the New Delhi Think Tank and Research Center in India, was deeply impressed by his visit to the Yin Xu Museum (殷墟博物馆). "China is worth learning from in terms of archaeological excavation, cultural heritage protection, and modern museum construction," said Sachdev.
During a visit to China Yituo Group Co., Ltd. (中国一拖集团有限公司), Salah Eddin Abdullah, Executive President Advisor of Qatar's Al Jazeera Media Network, praised the various types of tractors. "In my hometown of Sudan (苏丹), agricultural resources are very rich. If Sudan can use the agricultural machinery and equipment here, I believe it will further increase agricultural product output and promote agricultural development," he said.
"This is my first time visiting Henan (河南), and the experience is great. I would like to stay one more day if possible to experience the diverse culture here," said Najem Al-Ghanem, Kuwaiti Ambassador to China (科威特驻华大使纳吉姆).
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"This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the European Union and China. We look forward to using this important milestone as an opportunity for both sides to further promote high-level dialogues in various fields and deepen mutually beneficial cooperation in areas such as economy and trade, green economy, and addressing climate change." Jürgen Klute, co-founder and director of the European Silk Road Connect Association, said in an exclusive interview with this reporter recently that cooperation in areas such as science and technology and green development is becoming a new highlight of EU-China relations.
The European Silk Road Connect Association is a non-governmental organization headquartered in Brussels (布鲁塞尔) dedicated to promoting cooperation and development between the EU and China in jointly building the "Belt and Road" initiative. Klute said that the organization has established extensive contacts with many European universities and companies, promoting cooperation between Europe and China in science, technology, economics, and other fields through organizing mutual visits by delegations and holding exchange activities. "We hope to be a bridge between Europe and China, helping both sides find new opportunities for cooperation and development."
Not long ago, Klute went to Beijing (北京) to participate in the 2025 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference. The robot exhibition at the Zhongguancun Forum (中关村论坛) opened his eyes. "There are not only humanoid robots here, but also chess robots, diagnostic robots, etc. They are combined with artificial intelligence, demonstrating China's great progress in science and technology." Klute also visited a new energy vehicle factory in Baoding (保定), Hebei (河北) during this trip. He said that China's research and development level of electric vehicles is among the world's leading. "The development in related fields shows that China is playing a more active role in global climate governance."
Klute said that after years of development, China is no longer an "extended production line" for European companies. The emergence of a large number of local enterprises and research institutions with global competitiveness has made China an innovative country with independent research and development capabilities. Through exchanges with Chinese researchers and business representatives, he deeply felt the vigorous development of China in the field of science and technology, as well as the efforts China has made to promote scientific and technological innovation.
"Faced with climate change, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, and profound changes in the international landscape, the EU and China need to promote cooperation with a higher position, a larger pattern, and a broader vision." Klute said that through multi-level linkages in dialogue mechanisms, scientific and technological industry collaboration, youth exchanges, and other aspects, the EU and China can build a more sustainable and resilient comprehensive strategic partnership.
"China advocates upholding the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章), practicing true multilateralism, and creating a better future with unity and cooperation." Klute said that in the current context, an open, rational, and cooperative attitude is particularly valuable. "The EU and China should strengthen communication and collaboration, give full play to their respective advantages, and jointly promote scientific and technological progress and economic development."
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 28th (July 28th) - On July 28th, Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, had a phone call with the newly appointed South Korean Foreign Minister, Cho Tae-yul (赵显), at the latter's request.
Wang Yi (王毅) stated that China and South Korea are important close neighbors and partners, and adhering to good-neighborliness and friendship is in the common interest of both peoples. After the inauguration of the new South Korean government, the two heads of state had a phone call, and China-South Korea relations have achieved a good start, which has also pointed out the direction for our next step of work.
Wang Yi (王毅) emphasized that China and South Korea should be strategic partners in name and in fact, and promote the relationship between the two countries to a higher level. First, it is necessary to maintain policy stability. China has always attached importance to the development of China-South Korea cooperation and maintained continuity and stability in its policy towards South Korea. It is hoped that South Korea's policy towards China will also be stable, sustainable, and predictable, and avoid 摇摆 (yáo bǎi - "swaying," fluctuating or wavering). Second, it is necessary to adhere to independence and autonomy. China-South Korea relations are based on the common interests of both sides, which is beneficial to the people of both countries, and does not target any third party, nor should it be subject to any third party. Third, it is necessary to enhance mutual benefit and win-win results. China and South Korea have close economic ties, and their production and supply chains are highly intertwined. The two sides should deepen mutually beneficial cooperation and achieve common development. As beneficiaries of multilateralism and free trade, China and South Korea should jointly oppose "decoupling and chain breaking" and maintain the stability and smooth flow of global production and supply chains. China supports South Korea in hosting the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in the second half of this year.
Cho Tae-yul (赵显) stated that South Korea attaches great importance to South Korea-China relations and looks forward to close high-level exchanges between the two countries, facing the future, and promoting the South Korea-China strategic cooperative partnership to achieve greater development. South Korea and China have close economic and trade relations and have formed a good cooperation model. South Korea is willing to actively promote the free trade negotiations between the two countries and deepen South Korea-China economic and trade cooperation. It is hoped that communication and coordination with China will be strengthened, history will be faced squarely, and regional peace and stability will be jointly maintained.
The two sides also exchanged views on coordination and cooperation in multilateral fields.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Stockholm, July 28) (Reporters Xu Xin (徐馨), Yin Miao (殷淼), Han Shuo (韩硕)) Local time, July 28, the Chinese and American economic and trade teams held Sino-US economic and trade talks in Stockholm, Sweden (斯德哥尔摩).
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 28th. Cai Dafeng (蔡达峰), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, attended the opening ceremony of the second ASEAN National Legislators Seminar in Beijing (北京) on the 28th and delivered a speech. He stated that the seminar, themed "Strengthening exchanges and cooperation between legislative bodies to promote the building of a closer China-ASEAN community of common destiny," hopes to build consensus, enhance friendship, and contribute the strength of legislative bodies to deepening cooperation between China (中国) and ASEAN in various fields and building a community of common destiny through mutual learning.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 28th (Xinhua) - On July 28th, Peng Qinghua (彭清华), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, met with the South Korean delegation of the 25th China-South Korea Forum for the Future in the Great Hall of the People. The two sides exchanged views on China-South Korea relations and exchanges between the legislative bodies of the two countries.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Johannesburg, July 28th. From July 25th to 27th, Liu Jianchao (刘建超), Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央对外联络部), led a CPC delegation to Johannesburg, South Africa, to attend the Liberation Movement Summit and delivered a speech, emphasizing that Chinese and African political parties should strengthen solidarity and cooperation, work together on the path to modernization, and safeguard the common interests of countries in the Global South. During the conference, Liu Jianchao met and exchanged views with Cyril Ramaphosa (拉马福萨), President of the African National Congress (非国大) of South Africa and President of South Africa; Fikile Mbalula (姆巴卢拉), Secretary-General of the African National Congress; Gwen Ramokgopa (拉莫豪帕), Treasurer-General of the African National Congress; Emmerson Mnangagwa (姆南加古瓦), President and First Secretary of the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (津巴布韦民盟); Filipe Nyusi (查波), President of the Mozambique Liberation Front (莫桑比克解放阵线党); Nangolo Mbumba (恩代特瓦), President of the South West Africa People's Organisation (纳米比亚人组党); Mizengo Pinda (平达), Central Committee Member of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (坦桑尼亚革命党) and former Prime Minister; and Luisa Damião (齐奥萨), Vice-President of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (安哥拉人民解放运动), and other political party leaders.
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency (新华社), Beijing (北京), July 28th, on July 28th, the Youth Leaders Peace Dialogue, co-sponsored by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (中国人民对外友好协会) and the Center for China and Globalization (全球化智库), was held in Beijing (北京).
More than 200 representatives from government departments, friendly organizations, and university think tanks from nearly 20 countries, including China (中国), Argentina (阿根廷), France (法国), Kiribati (基里巴斯), South Korea (韩国), Myanmar (缅甸), and the United States (美国), attended the meeting and had in-depth discussions and exchanges, reaching broad consensus.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Budapest, July 28 (Reporters Zhu Chao (朱超) and Huang Fuhui (黄富慧)) At the invitation of Hungarian National Assembly Speaker László Kövér (格维尔), Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Zhao Leji (赵乐际) paid an official friendly visit to Hungary from July 24 to 28. In Budapest (布达佩斯), he met with Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok (舒尤克) and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (欧尔班) respectively, and held talks with National Assembly Speaker László Kövér (格维尔).
During his meeting with Tamás Sulyok (舒尤克), Zhao Leji (赵乐际) first conveyed the cordial greetings and best wishes of President Xi Jinping (习近平). Zhao Leji (赵乐际) said that in May 2024, President Xi Jinping (习近平) successfully paid a state visit to Hungary, elevating China-Hungary relations to an all-weather comprehensive strategic partnership for the new era, opening up broader prospects for friendly cooperation between the two countries. China is willing to work with Hungary to be good friends with mutual respect and mutual trust, good partners with mutual benefit and win-win results, and good brothers with mutual understanding and affinity, promote the deep integration of the "Belt and Road" initiative with Hungary's "Opening to the East" strategy, and complete the construction of landmark projects such as the Budapest-Belgrade Railway (匈塞铁路) with high quality; encourage and support more exchanges between the two countries in culture, localities, media, youth and other fields, and promote people-to-people connectivity.
Tamás Sulyok (舒尤克) asked Zhao Leji (赵乐际) to convey his sincere greetings to President Xi Jinping (习近平). He said that Hungary and China have always adhered to developing bilateral relations on the basis of mutual respect, mutual trust, and mutual benefit, which has important practical significance and value of the times. Participating in the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" is crucial to Hungary, and the Budapest-Belgrade Railway project is an example of major project cooperation between the two sides. It is hoped that the two sides will continue to deepen cooperation in green energy, artificial intelligence, digital economy, as well as culture, youth, education and other fields.
During his meeting with Viktor Orbán (欧尔班), Zhao Leji (赵乐际) said that in recent years, China-Hungary relations have achieved leapfrog development and are at their best in history. China appreciates Hungary's firm adherence to the one-China principle and is willing to continue to firmly support each other with Hungary. China-Hungary mutually beneficial cooperation has a solid foundation and fruitful results. China welcomes more high-quality Hungarian agricultural and food products to enter the Chinese market and hopes that Hungary will provide policy support and security guarantees for Chinese companies to invest and develop in Hungary. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the EU. It is hoped and believed that Hungary will continue to play a positive role in the healthy and stable development of China-EU relations. Hungary has always firmly supported and actively participated in China-Central and Eastern European cooperation. China is willing to work with Hungary to continue to promote pragmatic results in cooperation.
Viktor Orbán (欧尔班) said that President Xi Jinping's (习近平) state visit to Hungary last year was a milestone in the history of the development of Hungary-China relations. The long history and independent culture of the two countries constitute a solid foundation for the traditional friendship between Hungary and China. China's rise is based on its own efforts. Developing friendly cooperation with China is Hungary's strategic choice, which will provide important opportunities for Hungary to develop technology and expand its market.
During his talks with László Kövér (格维尔), Zhao Leji (赵乐际) said that the National People's Congress of China is willing to work with the Hungarian National Assembly to promote the implementation of the important achievements of President Xi Jinping's (习近平) visit to Hungary last year and contribute to the high-level and high-quality development of China-Hungary relations. The two sides should strengthen exchanges between special committees, friendship groups, NPC deputies and parliamentarians, formulate, revise and approve legal documents conducive to bilateral cooperation in a timely manner, and strengthen coordination and cooperation in multilateral occasions such as the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
László Kövér (格维尔) said that a constantly developing and growing China helps promote world peace and development and promote the construction of a multi-polar world, which is fully in line with Hungary's interests. The Hungarian National Assembly is willing to work with the National People's Congress of China to provide firm support for the two countries to carry out mutually beneficial cooperation.
After the talks, Zhao Leji (赵乐际) and László Kövér (格维尔) jointly witnessed the signing of a memorandum of cooperation between the general offices of the legislative bodies of China and Hungary, and jointly met with reporters.
During his visit to Hungary, Zhao Leji (赵乐际) inspected the Budapest Chinese Cultural Center (布达佩斯中国文化中心), encouraging everyone to actively promote and practice the Global Civilization Initiative, and tell the stories of China and the friendship between China and Hungary well; he inspected the Hungarian section of the Budapest-Belgrade Railway (匈塞铁路匈牙利段) project, emphasizing the need to build the Budapest-Belgrade Railway into a model project for high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road"; he also inspected the Vác Smart Warehouse of the China-Europe Trade and Logistics Park (中欧商贸物流园瓦茨智能仓), and laid a wreath at the Monument to Hungarian National Heroes (匈民族英雄纪念碑).
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from New York on July 27th (Reporter Cao Lingjuan (曹玲娟)) Local time, July 26th, the "Summer for the City Festival: Shanghai Day," jointly hosted by the China Shanghai International Arts Festival Center (中国上海国际艺术节中心) and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, sparked a craze in New York (纽约), USA. From afternoon to late night, more than 10 performances and interactive experiences unfolded simultaneously in multiple spaces at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, attracting 20,000 spectators.
Inside the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Shanghai Grand Theatre's (上海大剧院) original dance drama *White Snake* made its overseas premiere. The elegance of pointe ballet, the charm of traditional water sleeves, and the stage design full of poetic Jiangnan (江南) misty rain were all presented on stage. New York (纽约) audience member Ben Barrios exclaimed that he "touched the beauty of Chinese culture."
In the lobby of the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Shanghai Animation Film Studio's (上海美术电影制片厂) color animated feature film *Havoc in Heaven* led the audience to follow the Chinese mythological hero Sun Wukong (孙悟空) and soar thousands of miles on a somersault cloud. Audience member Julian said, "I like playing the game *Black Myth: Wukong*, and I am a 'fan' of Sun Wukong (孙悟空). Today I came for 'Shanghai Day' and it was 不虚此行 (bù xū cǐ xíng - "this trip was not in vain," a worthwhile trip)."
In the family area, the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra (上海民族乐团) used suona, pipa, and other instruments to play *The Twelve Zodiac Animals in Chinese Music*. After the concert, the children lingered around the stage, reluctant to leave.
Under the night sky, the garden of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts was transformed into a "Shanghai Cultural Experience Hall" - at this market called "Magic City Carnival," scissors danced nimbly at the edge of paper, pankou (盘扣) gracefully bloomed on the chest, and calligraphy brushes were wielded freely on paper. Jones, a fashion blogger from New York (纽约), shared the paper-cut she received live to her friends online: "Look, this is a work given to me by a Chinese paper-cutting master."
Mark, a software engineer from Chicago (芝加哥), pointed to the winding queue behind him and said, "This kind of cultural vitality makes people yearn for the city of Shanghai (上海), and I have already started planning my trip to China (中国) next year!"
"Game music, street dance... these are all popular elements that are deeply loved by young people all over the world. I am very happy to see that the performance content is loved by the New York (纽约) audience," said Li Ming (李明), President of the China Shanghai International Arts Festival Center (中国上海国际艺术节中心).
"Today feels like traveling to the other side of the world." New York (纽约) resident Fromm, who has never been to Shanghai (上海), said that he "fully felt this city that is both deeply rooted and innovatively integrated, both Eastern and global." Mariko Silver, President and CEO of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, said, "Art builds bridges between different cultures, and today's collaboration is just the beginning."
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Hangzhou, July 28th (Xinhua) On July 28th, the 2025 Tracing New Thought Forum was held in Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang Province (浙江省). Li Shulei (李书磊), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部部长), attended and delivered a speech.
Participating guests stated that during his time working in Zhejiang (浙江), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) incorporated accelerating the construction of a major cultural province into the "Double Eight Strategy" ("八八战略"), planned and implemented the "Eight Projects" for cultural construction, and led Zhejiang's (浙江) cultural construction to achieve remarkable achievements. General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平总书记) cultural concepts and practices during his time working in Zhejiang (浙江) deepened the understanding of cultural laws, reflected the historical context of theoretical innovation, and provided a theoretical foundation and practical material for the formation of Xi Jinping's (习近平) cultural thought. On the new journey, it is necessary to more deeply study and practice Xi Jinping's (习近平) cultural thought, and solidly promote cultural prosperity and the construction of a strong cultural country.
Participating guests believe that it is necessary to enhance cultural awareness, continuously promote the creative transformation and innovative development of outstanding traditional Chinese culture, consolidate and expand the mainstream values, mainstream public opinion, and mainstream culture of the Internet era, and better showcase China's (中国) image with the power of culture and civilization. It is necessary to follow cultural laws, adhere to the Party's leadership over culture, cultivate high-level cultural talents, improve the historical and cultural protection and inheritance system, and safeguard the cultural treasures of the Chinese nation. It is necessary to promote cultural prosperity, liberate and develop cultural productive forces, accelerate the construction of an independent knowledge system of Chinese philosophy and social sciences, promote the healthy development of new mass literature and art, and strive to create a new culture that belongs to our era.
The theme of this forum is the review and summary of the 20th anniversary of the implementation of the "Eight Projects" for cultural construction in Zhejiang (浙江) , and it was jointly organized by the Propaganda Department of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the CPC (中共浙江省委宣传部) and the Zhejiang Academy of Social Sciences (浙江省社会科学院).
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing (北京) on July 28th that recently, East China, North China, Northeast China and other places have continued to experience heavy rainfall, triggering floods and geological disasters, causing significant casualties and property losses in Beijing (北京), Hebei (河北), Jilin (吉林), Shandong (山东) and other places. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) made important instructions on flood prevention and disaster relief work, emphasizing the need to earnestly carry out all flood prevention, emergency rescue and disaster relief work, make every effort to search for missing and trapped people, resolutely relocate and resettle people under threat, and minimize casualties.
Currently, we are in the critical period of flood prevention known as "seven down, eight up," and all regions and relevant departments must resolutely implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions, firmly establish a bottom-line mentality and an extreme-case mentality, implement all flood prevention measures in a detailed and practical manner, and make every effort to protect the safety of people's lives and property.
On July 28th, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters upgraded the level III emergency response for flood control in Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北), and initiated a level IV emergency response for flood control and typhoon prevention in Shanghai (上海), Jiangsu (江苏), and Zhejiang (浙江). The National Meteorological Center issued an orange alert for heavy rain, and the China Meteorological Administration upgraded its emergency response for major meteorological disasters (heavy rain) to level II. The Safety Committee of the State Council and the Ministry of Emergency Management issued safety alerts, requiring the strengthening of comprehensive investigation and management of road sections prone to water accumulation, landslides, and flooding, strengthening traffic guidance and control in key areas such as flooded bridges, underpass bridges, and culverts, and strictly prohibiting drivers from taking risks. The Ministry of Water Resources and the China Meteorological Administration jointly issued a red meteorological warning for mountain torrent disasters. The Ministry of Water Resources upgraded the level IV emergency response for flood defense in Beijing (北京) and Hebei (河北) to level III, initiated a level IV emergency response for flood defense in the four provinces of Shanghai (上海), Jiangsu (江苏), Anhui (安徽), and Jiangxi (江西), maintained the level IV emergency response for flood defense in Zhejiang (浙江), and initiated a level IV emergency response for flood defense in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团). Local water resources departments and river basin management agencies further consolidated their defense responsibilities, making every effort to block and reduce flood peaks to ensure the safety of people's lives.
Officers and soldiers of the People's Liberation Army and the Armed Police Force, as well as militiamen, acted upon orders and quickly engaged in emergency rescue operations. Officers and soldiers of the Beijing (北京) General Detachment of the Armed Police Force, carrying assault boats and other rescue equipment and materials, rushed to severely affected areas such as Fengjiayu Town (冯家峪镇) in Miyun District (密云区) and Liulimiao Town (琉璃庙镇) in Huairou District (怀柔区) at the first time, racing against time to engage in emergency rescue operations. As of the 28th, the Beijing (北京) General Detachment of the Armed Police Force had dispatched more than 1,800 officers and soldiers in four directions to support the disaster-stricken front lines. Tumed Left Banner (土默特左旗) in Hohhot (呼和浩特市), Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), successively encountered extremely heavy rainstorms, resulting in the collapse of a flood discharge dike in Duli Ba Village (独立坝村), Shandai Town (善岱镇), threatening the lives and property of surrounding residents. On the 28th, the Party Committee of the Northern Theater Command Air Force guided a task force of 62 people from a certain aviation brigade stationed in Hohhot (呼和浩特), Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), to rush to the disaster-stricken site to assist in the dike repair work. The task force has completed the reinforcement of the dike breach, and follow-up work is ongoing.
On the 28th, the Beijing (北京市) Flood Control Headquarters initiated a level I emergency response for flood control throughout the city. Except for those ensuring urban operations and people's livelihood services, enterprises and institutions in Beijing (北京) are not required to have employees go to work unless necessary, properly resettle and safely transfer corresponding stranded personnel, construction sites under construction are suspended, and relevant construction site personnel are transferred and properly resettled in a timely manner. Beijing (北京市) transportation departments are making every effort to ensure the safety of citizens' travel. Mountainous and riverside routes are completely suspended, all trains on the suburban railway S2 line, Huairou-Miyun (怀柔—密云) line, and Tongmi (通密) line are suspended, all inter-provincial bus lines are suspended, and all cruise ships are completely suspended. State Grid Beijing (北京市) Electric Power Company continues to carry out emergency repairs to damaged power facilities. As of 12:00 on the 28th, power supply has been restored to 48 villages and some high-voltage users in Miyun (密云), Yanqing (延庆), and Huairou (怀柔) districts, and power repair work is still in full swing. Miyun District (密云区) urgently relocated people, establishing 227 temporary resettlement sites with high safety factors in village committees, primary and secondary schools, homestay households, farmyards, and high-altitude residential buildings, fully guaranteeing the basic needs of the people for accommodation, food, and medical care. Affected by this round of heavy rainfall, the inflow of water into the Miyun Reservoir (密云水库) has increased significantly. In order to cope with subsequent inflows, the Miyun Reservoir (密云水库) started discharging water at 15:00 on the 27th, reserving flood control storage capacity for possible subsequent heavy rainfall.
On the 28th, the Tianjin (天津) Flood Control Office initiated a level IV emergency response for flood control in Jizhou District (蓟州区). Thirteen villages along the Ju River (泃河) in Jizhou District (蓟州区) were flooded, and more than 1,000 people from seven professional rescue teams went to the scene to carry out rescue operations. As of 23:00 on the 28th, the local area had relocated 10,527 people. Affected by heavy rainfall, a landslide occurred in Xigou Village (西沟村), Mayingzi Manchu Township (马营子满族乡), Luanping County (滦平县), Chengde City (承德市), Hebei Province (河北省) on the 28th. According to preliminary verification, the disaster caused 4 deaths and 8 people are still missing. At 14:33 on the 28th, the first batch of fire and rescue personnel arrived after walking for 9 hours. As of 18:00 on the 28th, Chengde City (承德市) had organized a total of 570 professional personnel from emergency response, fire protection, transportation, public security, electricity, and communications to rush to the scene. Facing the impact of heavy rainfall, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区) quickly launched an emergency response mechanism, with a total of 37,800 person-times of rescue forces invested throughout the region.
(Comprehensive reports from reporters Liu Zhiqiang (刘志强), Liu Wenxin (刘温馨), Jin Zhengbo (金正波), Li Longyi (李龙伊), Li Hongmei (李红梅), Li Xiaoqing (李晓晴), Qi Yukun (亓玉昆), Wang Haonan (王昊男), Pan Junqiang (潘俊强), Wang Zhou (王洲), Zhang Tengyang (张腾扬), Jin Bo (靳博), Zhang Cheng (张枨) of this newspaper, and Xinhua News Agency reports, Jia Junfeng (贾俊峰), Yin Bo (尹博), and Li Shijie (李仕杰) participated in the writing)
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Go to where the people need it most, and do everything possible to protect the safety of people's lives and property. In the face of the recent heavy rainfall in East China, North China, Northeast China and other places, Party organizations at all levels and the vast number of Party members and cadres have acted swiftly and taken the lead, devoting themselves to flood prevention and disaster relief.
"Go all out, live up to our mission, and resolutely complete all tasks!" On the morning of July 28, after receiving the cross-regional reinforcement order from the Beijing Municipal Fire and Rescue Corps (北京市消防救援总队), the Daxing District Fire and Rescue Detachment (大兴区消防救援支队) immediately dispatched 60 fire and rescue personnel, as well as 14 fire trucks, 5 fire and rescue boats, and more than 500 pieces (sets) of fire and rescue equipment to support Miyun District (密云区).
Xiqing District (西青区) in Tianjin (天津) is located on the front line of flood control in the Dongdian Flood Diversion and Storage Area (东淀蓄滞洪区) of the Haihe River Basin (海河流域). In the face of the severe flood situation, Xiqing District (西青区) formed a "Gong Chang" (锣长) team composed mainly of Party members, grid members, and volunteers. "We have established a flood control emergency system of 'the district party committee taking overall responsibility, the sub-districts and towns being responsible for the areas, the villages and communities guarding their homes, and the Party members protecting the embankment sections'," said Zhu Caibin (朱财斌), Secretary of the Xiqing District Committee (西青区委书记).
On the evening of July 25, a sudden rainstorm hit Cuijiazhuang Village (崔家庄村), Beiguoyuan Town (北果园镇), Fuping County (阜平县), Baoding City (保定市), Hebei Province (河北省). Gao Fengke (高风科), secretary of the village Party branch, immediately organized village cadres to conduct a rain-night patrol. When they found several people trapped, the Party members and cadres comforted the trapped people by phone, asked them to find high ground to wait for rescue, and urgently contacted a excavator for support. Gao Fengke (高风科) stood in waist-deep water to direct the operation and successfully rescued the trapped people.
In the early morning of July 22, extremely heavy rainfall occurred in Laiwu District (莱芜区), Jinan City (济南市), Shandong Province (山东省). At the critical moment, Wu Xiuji (吴修吉), director of the Urban and Rural Infrastructure Construction Service Center of Laiwu District (莱芜区城乡基础设施建设服务中心主任), led a Party member commando team to carry out rescue work, fighting from morning to 11 pm. After nearly 20 hours of continuous rescue, Wu Xiuji (吴修吉), soaked and covered in mud, hurriedly swallowed a few mouthfuls of bread with rainwater, and rushed to the next landslide point to participate in the rescue.
In Shanghewan Town (上河湾镇), Jiutai District (九台区), Changchun City (长春市), Jilin Province (吉林省), Party members, cadres and the masses formed a 40-member flood control emergency team. "Flood control is a protracted war, and we must not be careless," said Zhang Jialong (张佳龙), Minister of the Armed Forces Department of Shanghewan Town (上河湾镇武装部部长) and a member of the flood control emergency team. "The team members are on duty 24 hours a day, repairing weak and dangerous sections in a timely manner, and comprehensively overhauling reservoir gate equipment."
On the afternoon of July 23, on the banks of the Yinma River (饮马河) in Fengzhen City (丰镇市), Ulanqab (乌兰察布), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区), the rain suddenly became heavier. Party member cadres responsible for monitoring at the hydrological station found that the water level of the Yinma River (饮马河) began to rise. On the east and west banks, two "battles" were launched simultaneously - on the west bank dam, the Party member commando team began to move sandbags, and the sandbags were quickly stacked into walls to defend against the flood; in the village alleys on the east bank, Party members and cadres knocked on doors from house to house to evacuate the masses. "When I encountered such a big flood, I felt panicked. But when I turned around, I saw so many of our Party members and cadres rushing forward without hesitation to protect the people to higher ground. At critical times, we still have to rely on these people wearing Party member badges!" said Zhao Wuhu (赵五虎), an old man from Dongyuan Village (东园村).
(Reporters Zhang Yang (张洋), Zhao Cheng (赵成), Wu Shaomin (武少民), Wang Zhou (王洲), Zhang Tengyang (张腾扬), Li Rui (李蕊), Zhang Cheng (张枨), Zheng Zhiwen (郑智文), and Shen Tongrui (沈童睿) of this newspaper)
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The state is giving out subsidies for having children! The General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央办公厅) and the General Office of the State Council (国务院办公厅) recently issued the "Implementation Plan for the Childcare Subsidy System" (《育儿补贴制度实施方案》) (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"), which has aroused widespread social attention.
The "Plan" clarifies that from January 1, 2025, subsidies will be issued to infants and young children under the age of 3 who are born in compliance with laws and regulations, until they reach the age of 3. Childcare subsidies will be issued annually, and the current national basic standard is 3,600 yuan per child per year. Among them, infants and young children born before January 1, 2025, who are under 3 years old, will receive subsidies calculated based on the number of months they should be subsidized. Childcare subsidies issued in accordance with the childcare subsidy system are exempt from individual income tax. When identifying recipients of minimum living security, people in extreme poverty, and other assistance recipients, childcare subsidies will not be included in family or individual income.
Implementing the childcare subsidy system is a major livelihood policy of the Party Central Committee. How "valuable" is the childcare subsidy? What is the deep meaning behind the childcare subsidy? Recently, relevant experts have provided interpretations.
Why issue cash subsidies?
The "Decision" of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (党的二十届三中全会) proposed "establishing a生育补贴制度" (shēngyù bǔtiē zhìdù - "birth subsidy system"). This year's "Government Work Report" clearly stated "issuing childcare subsidies."
Since 2021, more than 20 provinces across the country have explored and implemented childcare subsidy-related policies at different levels, which has to some extent alleviated the economic burden of raising young children for local families, and has been welcomed by the masses and achieved positive results.
Zhu Kun (朱坤), a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Fiscal Sciences (中国财政科学研究院), believes that childcare subsidies are China's first universal cash subsidy issued to residents, and are also a concrete practice of implementing a people-oriented approach and investing in people, fully reflecting the Party Central Committee's high regard for safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods in development.
"The childcare subsidy system is a national, universal economic subsidy system with characteristics such as starting with low standards, covering a wide range, sustainable development, and dynamic adjustment," said He Dan (贺丹), director of the China Population and Development Research Center (中国人口与发展研究中心). In terms of coverage, the subsidy targets all infants and young children under the age of 3 who are born in compliance with laws and regulations. It is estimated that more than 20 million infants and young children across the country can receive cash subsidies each year. As a basic institutional arrangement for supporting childbirth, childcare subsidies have both childbirth security and incentive guidance functions.
He Dan (贺丹) believes that the national childcare subsidy system has achieved four "basic unifications," namely "unified objects, unified standards, unified forms, and unified processes." In terms of subsidy objects, first, second, and third children can all receive subsidies, breaking through the limitations of previous local subsidy policies that focused on second and third-child families, and including first-child families in the support system, achieving full coverage of family support under the three-child policy; in terms of subsidy standards, first, second, and third children all receive subsidies according to the same standard, eliminating treatment differences between children; the subsidy form is all cash subsidies, and the operation process is to apply through a unified childcare subsidy information management system.
"Issuing childcare subsidies is a new reform measure to promote burden reduction through increased income," said Zhang Benbo (张本波), a researcher at the Institute of Social Development of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委). Currently, China's economic support for childcare families focuses more on reducing burdens. Issuing childcare subsidies, on the other hand, focuses policy on directly increasing the disposable income of childcare families. This policy not only improves the consumption capacity of families, but also gives families greater autonomy in consumption, allowing them to spend money where it is most needed. Issuing childcare subsidies to all families with children under the age of 3 directly increases the disposable income of childcare families, improves the sense of gain and happiness of childcare families, and is a policy that promotes family welfare and social well-being, achieving a win-win situation for all parties.
Mao Zhuoyan (茅倬彦), a professor at the Population and Development Research Center of the Capital University of Economics and Business (首都经济贸易大学), believes that the establishment of a childcare subsidy system marks China's population policy entering a new stage guided by "guidance" and "incentives." As an important means of directly alleviating the cost of raising children for families, the childcare subsidy system is not only related to family well-being, but also to the strategic overall situation of the country's long-term balanced population development.
Jiang Quanbao (姜全保), a professor at the School of Labor Economics of the Capital University of Economics and Business (首都经济贸易大学), believes that the state's introduction of a childcare subsidy system can ensure the uniformity and fairness of the policy. On this basis, local governments should supplement and introduce differentiated subsidy policies within the scope of their financial capacity based on the level of local economic development and population development characteristics. Through the coordinated efforts of the central and local governments, a multi-level and three-dimensional childbirth support policy can be formed, which can not only improve the accuracy of childcare subsidies, but also give full play to local advantages.
Can it reduce the burden of raising children?
The "Plan" points out that it is necessary to adhere to improving people's livelihoods, benefiting the people, and effectively reducing the cost of childbirth and raising children for families; adhere to overall coordination and ensuring fairness, connect with existing livelihood policies, and ensure that eligible infants and young children enjoy subsidies equally.
"In modern society, raising a child requires a large amount of investment, from pregnancy-related expenses to milk powder, diapers, education, and other expenses after the child is born, each of which puts a lot of pressure on families. Childcare subsidies alleviate the economic burden on families to a certain extent, provide support for parents to raise children, and create better material conditions for children's growth," said Yang Fan (杨凡), a professor at the School of Population and Health of Renmin University of China (中国人民大学). Childcare subsidies reflect the state's attitude of respecting and supporting childbirth, and reflect the importance and support for family childcare. The state's comprehensive implementation of the childcare subsidy system has a wider coverage, greater support, and stronger policy sustainability, allowing more childcare families to enjoy the benefits of childbirth and raising children. Especially for low-income families, this kind of support is even more important.
Huang Wei (黄炜), an associate professor at the National School of Development of Peking University (北京大学), believes that the state's introduction of a childcare subsidy system aims to reduce the burden of raising children for families and increase the willingness to have children through economic support. The current childcare subsidy system mainly targets families with children aged 0-3, reflecting the accuracy and pertinence of the policy. This design is in line with international practice, because 0-3 years old is a critical stage of child development. Research by the World Bank shows that low- and middle-income families are more sensitive to economic subsidies, and the effect of subsidies is more significant.
"Childcare subsidies can directly alleviate the economic pressure on families," said Mao Zhuoyan (茅倬彦). Although cash subsidies cannot fully cover the cost of raising children, they can play a bottom-line role in key stages and alleviate the anxiety of young families about raising children. Of course, economic subsidies alone cannot fundamentally reverse the trend of childbirth, and must be promoted in coordination with childcare services, family support, and gender-friendly systems to form a systematic support system.
Research shows that the high cost of raising children is the main factor inhibiting the willingness and behavior of families in China to have children, and nearly 1/3 of families of childbearing age are at risk of insufficient supply of childcare resources, with insufficient supply of economic resources being particularly prominent. Song Jian (宋健), a professor at the School of Population and Health of Renmin University of China (中国人民大学), believes that although at the micro level, the promotion effect of childcare subsidies on childbirth varies among different families, from a macro perspective, the implementation of a childcare subsidy system helps to reduce the economic burden on families, reduce the pressure of raising children, and improve the overall benefits of individuals, families, and society by investing in children.
Can it increase the willingness to have children?
The "Plan" proposes to establish and implement a childcare subsidy system to create a social atmosphere that is friendly to childbirth.
In recent years, the problems of accelerated aging and continued low fertility rates in China have attracted much attention. The implementation of the childcare subsidy system is a positive response to the public's desire to reduce the burden of raising children, demonstrates the value orientation of being friendly to childbirth, and reflects the country's determination to build a childbirth-friendly society.
Song Jian (宋健) said that China's low fertility rate is mainly affected by economic and social factors, and the high cost of childbirth, raising children, and education is one of the important reasons. Family childbirth decisions are, to some extent, a rational trade-off between the cost and effectiveness of childbirth. When the net benefit of childbirth is too low, it often leads to low fertility intentions. The implementation of the childcare subsidy, an economic incentive measure, will help to increase family fertility intentions and promote the achievement of a moderate fertility level.
Mao Zhuoyan (茅倬彦) believes that the childcare subsidy system is not a "**万能钥匙**" (wàn néng yào shi - "universal key," a panacea), but it plays an irreplaceable role in alleviating the real difficulties of families of childbearing age, stabilizing fertility expectations, and improving the population structure. Establishing a fair, universal, and sustainable childcare subsidy system is an important step towards a childbirth-friendly society.
She Yu (佘宇), a researcher at the Department of Social and Cultural Development Research of the Development Research Center of the State Council (国务院发展研究中心), said that the impact of childbirth support policies on fertility levels is not immediate, and it usually takes a certain amount of time to manifest. With the initial formation and continuous improvement of the basic framework of China's childbirth support policy system, by playing a "combination punch" of policies, we will definitely be able to create a more friendly childbirth environment, maximize the release of childbirth potential, and achieve long-term balanced population development.
Huang Wei (黄炜) believes that childcare subsidies, as an incentive measure, can alleviate the economic pressure on families to a certain extent, but to fundamentally increase the willingness to have children, it is necessary to incorporate it into a full life-cycle childbirth support system. Childbirth and raising children is a long-term process, involving multiple stages from pregnancy to old age. The implementation of the childcare subsidy system lays an important foundation for a full life-cycle childbirth support system.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on July 28th (Reporter Zhao Cheng (赵成)) - The website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission (中央纪委国家监委网站) published the monthly report data on the handling of violations of the Eight-Point Regulation spirit nationwide on July 28th. The report shows that in June of this year, a total of 27,977 cases of violations of the Eight-Point Regulation spirit were investigated and dealt with nationwide, with 37,217 people being criticized, educated, and processed (including 1 provincial and ministerial-level cadre and 112 prefectural and departmental-level cadres), and 25,871 people were given Party disciplinary and administrative sanctions.
According to the report, in June of this year, a total of 14,106 cases of formalism and bureaucracy were investigated and dealt with nationwide, with 19,067 people being criticized, educated, and processed. Among them, the most cases were found in the area of "failure to assume responsibility, failure to act, acting recklessly, and feigning action in performing duties, serving economic and social development, and ecological and environmental protection, seriously affecting high-quality development," with 11,773 cases investigated and dealt with, and 16,112 people criticized, educated, and processed.
According to the report, in June of this year, a total of 13,871 cases of hedonism and extravagance were investigated and dealt with nationwide, with 18,150 people being criticized, educated, and processed. Among them, 6,997 cases of violating regulations by accepting and giving expensive local products, gifts, and gift money, 1,727 cases of violating regulations by issuing allowances or welfare benefits, and 3,438 cases of violating regulations by engaging in eating and drinking were investigated and dealt with.
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He Shanshan (贺姗姗), Commentator of Ningxia Daily
Zhou Shanshan (周珊珊): The Western Xia Mausoleums, once somewhat mysterious, have suddenly entered the global spotlight. As China's sole application for this year's 47th session of the World Heritage Committee, the Western Xia Mausoleums (西夏陵), located in Yinchuan (银川) City, Ningxia (宁夏), were successfully inscribed on the World Heritage List. What is unique about the Western Xia Mausoleums and the cultural relics unearthed there?
He Shanshan (贺姗姗): As the largest, highest-ranking, and best-preserved archaeological remains of the Western Xia (西夏) Dynasty, which lasted nearly 200 years in Chinese history, the Western Xia Mausoleums provide irreplaceable evidence of the dynasty and its line of monarchs, showcasing the unique charm of the Chinese nation's unity in diversity.
The gilded bronze bull unearthed within the mausoleum, along with the residual iron sand inner mold in its abdominal cavity, represents a combination of the lost-wax casting method from the Central Plains and the casting techniques of the Dangxiang (党项) people. The glazed chiwen unearthed from Tomb No. 6 demonstrates a "double variation" of Central Plains rituals and Dangxiang innovation. The more than 7,100 exquisite cultural relics, together with the magnificent mausoleum architecture, showcase the Western Xia's inheritance and development of traditional Chinese culture in various aspects, from architecture and writing to agricultural production technology, confirming the inherent mechanism of the Chinese nation's continuous existence and holding an important position in the history of Asian and even world civilization.
Zhou Shanshan (周珊珊): From site protection to environmental remediation and museum construction, the journey of the Western Xia Mausoleums' World Heritage application has been filled with the sweat of countless individuals. Successful inscription is not the end but a new starting point for the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage. After this successful application, how can we better explore the cultural value of the Western Xia Mausoleums site and further improve protection and research work?
He Shanshan (贺姗姗): Strengthening the protection, research, and display of heritage requires standing at the height of forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation and deeply exploring the rich historical and cultural connotations of the Western Xia Mausoleums.
In the next step, on the one hand, protection should be the foundation, continuing to safeguard the authenticity and integrity of the site. For example, the Western Xia Mausoleums were mainly built using rammed earth technology. How to start from both consolidating the main body and improving the weathering resistance of the rammed earth surface to form a protection method suitable for the Western Xia Mausoleums still requires multi-party cooperation and exploration. On the other hand, archaeological research should be the focus, continuously excavating and refining the value and connotation of the Western Xia Mausoleums. In the future, using technological means to digitally piece together a large number of broken steles, sorting out massive amounts of Western Xia literature, and analyzing the exchange and integration of multi-ethnic art from cultural relics will all become research priorities.
Zhou Shanshan (周珊珊): The protection and inheritance of cultural heritage is not only a matter for experts and scholars but also requires public participation and benefits. From the Western Xia Mausoleums scenic area regularly offering free first-entry tickets to tourists nationwide to the "World Cultural Heritage - Western Xia Mausoleums" exhibition being held in the Yinchuan (银川) City Civic Center in Ningxia (宁夏), practices that stimulate the public to consciously participate in cultural heritage protection are unfolding. Only when the awareness of protection and inheritance is deeply rooted in people's hearts can cultural heritage truly become a spiritual link connecting the past and the future.
He Shanshan (贺姗姗): Relying on heritage resources to create a cultural tourism complex integrating an archaeological site park, a museum, and a research and study base; using VR (virtual reality) technology to restore the construction scenes of the mausoleum towers; using digital steles to allow the broken steles to "speak"; opening intangible cultural heritage workshops to revitalize the gilding techniques and the firing of Western Xia porcelain... Data shows that in 2024, the number of tourists received in the mausoleum area increased by 67% year-on-year, and related cultural tourism revenue exceeded 300 million yuan, driving employment for more than 2,000 people.
These efforts have also been highly praised by UNESCO: "The protection practices of the Western Xia Mausoleums provide Eastern wisdom on how humanity should handle the relationship between civilization inheritance and development." Only by keeping up with the requirements of the times, being close to consumer demand, and exploring more channels for participation can the visibility of cultural heritage be broader and more people be upgraded from bystanders to participants.
Zhou Shanshan (周珊珊): From the Great Wall (长城), the Forbidden City (北京故宫) and other first batch of heritages being included in the "World Heritage List" in 1987 to the successful application of the Western Xia Mausoleums this year, the total number of Chinese World Heritage sites has reached 60, ranking among the top in the world. The process of continuous "new additions" is also a process of continuous updating of protection concepts and continuous deepening of practices. Only by continuously strengthening efforts and persevering in protection, inheritance, and promotion can we do a good and detailed job in the protection, inheritance, and utilization of cultural heritage, so that cultural heritage can become a valuable resource for strengthening cultural confidence and building a strong cultural country.
He Shanshan (贺姗姗): After the successful application, the World Heritage gold-lettered signboard will inevitably bring more attention and traffic to Ningxia (宁夏), help Ningxia (宁夏) open up greater development space, further enhance people's well-being, and promote the construction of a pilot zone for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River (黄河) Basin and a demonstration zone for forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation to move forward steadily.
World Heritage is not just about poetry and the distance but also means protection and inheritance. A new starting point, a new departure. We must make an article on the word "protection," further strengthen the overall and systematic protection of cultural heritage, effectively improve the ability and level of heritage protection, and safeguard the cultural treasures and natural treasures of the Chinese nation; we must use our brains on the word "transformation," make good use of the power of scientific and technological innovation, and continuously strengthen the inheritance and utilization of cultural heritage, so that cultural heritage can radiate new vitality and shine new brilliance in the new era, and better meet the people's needs for a better life; we must think of ways on the word "enjoyment," further strengthen international exchanges and cooperation, so that the international community can "see" more outstanding traditional Chinese culture through cultural heritage, and contribute to promoting exchanges, mutual learning, and sharing among civilizations and prospering the garden of world civilizations.
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Closely following consumers' increasingly differentiated, personalized, and individualized consumption preferences, and capitalizing on the trend to improve consumption quality and the consumption environment, will surely unearth new growth points for domestic demand and continuously inject vigorous vitality into economic development.
What kind of travel do you yearn for? A market survey shows that "positive emotional value" is favored by the most tourists among various travel experiences, surpassing traditional sightseeing needs.
In recent years, from "fan-pampering cultural tourism" to "decompression cultural tourism" and "healing cultural tourism," "emotional cultural tourism" that focuses on meeting tourists' emotional needs, rather than just sightseeing and exploring local customs, has gradually become popular, and related new services are emerging endlessly.
Looking at the entire consumption field, the driving force of emotions and feelings is forming new consumption hotspots. For example, young people are keen to bring pleasure and meet social needs through blind boxes and buying "goods," and the total market value of China's trendy toy industry has increased from 6.3 billion yuan in 2015 to about 60 billion yuan in 2023. Another example is the rise of the "companion economy" represented by pets, and the consumption market size of urban pets (dogs and cats) in China will exceed 300 billion yuan in 2024. Research reports show that the size of China's emotional consumption market will exceed 2 trillion yuan.
Why is emotional consumption gaining momentum? Taking the younger generation, who pay attention to self-feeling and personalized expression, as an example, they are no longer satisfied with pure material possession, but yearn for a sense of identity and emotional connection, and are willing to pay for emotional resonance and spiritual pleasure. The suspense and surprise when drawing blind boxes, the interaction and sense of accomplishment in the handmade experience... These emotional gains are the driving force behind consumer behavior. Under the background of expanding domestic demand and promoting consumption, emotional consumption represents a category of consumption upgrade with great potential.
For business entities in related industries, the "opportunity" of emotional consumption is very tempting. To truly seize the opportunity, you must first cultivate your "internal skills." Consumption that is purely based on emotional value as a selling point is relatively subjective and can easily lead to 一失万无 (yī shī wàn wú - "one loss, ten thousand losses," a single mistake causes complete failure). The evaluation criteria for this type of consumption are clear. What can you heal in me? How does your culture move me? Can I become part of your story? Only by answering these questions well can we meet consumers' high expectations and continuously increase merchants' reputation and market competitiveness.
Selling points are not the only thing; high-quality service is the only way to withstand market testing. Taking the highly popular "healing economy" as an example, some merchants vigorously sell anxiety when marketing projects such as "spiritual SPAs" and "decompression courses," which not only fail to make consumers feel comfortable but also make them feel worse. In the final analysis, the underlying logic of emotional consumption is the care for people. Therefore, to achieve the transition from "value for money" to "belonging to the heart," it is impossible to engage in gimmicks and attract attention with the idea of "making quick money." Accurately understanding the "emotional folds" in people's hearts and launching products and services with humanistic core and emotional connotation with more ingenuity and craftsmanship is the key to business entities seizing the opportunity of emotional consumption.
At the same time, it should also be seen that the long-term healthy development of emotional consumption also depends on building a clearer and more friendly consumption environment. Emotional value is often difficult to quantify and often lacks clear industry standards and pricing norms. How to determine false advertising, price fraud, and other behaviors? How should consumers provide evidence when safeguarding their rights? A series of questions need to be answered by relevant departments with higher governance wisdom. Strengthening market supervision and providing guarantees in terms of consumer rights protection can ensure that the industry always stays on the right track of development. For ordinary consumers, paying for emotions in moderation can add color to life, but happiness should not be excessively tied to "buying, buying, buying." To properly place psychological and emotional needs, one must also be good at identifying and consuming rationally.
The "Special Action Plan for Boosting Consumption" issued by the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央办公厅) and the General Office of the State Council (国务院办公厅) proposes: "Support the promotion of new consumption formats and models." After the consumption needs of traditional clothing, food, housing, and transportation are met, many consumers are turning to the pursuit of high-quality and aesthetic personal experiences and feelings, which is a realistic manifestation of consumption shifting and upgrading. The growth and expansion of new consumption fields such as emotional consumption show that closely following consumers' increasingly differentiated, personalized, and individualized consumption preferences, and capitalizing on the trend to improve consumption quality and the consumption environment, will surely unearth new growth points for domestic demand and continuously inject vigorous vitality into economic development.
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Observing the development of foreign investment in China, "research and development" is an important dimension.
Not long ago, the "Multinational Corporations in China" report released by the Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce showed that in the 10 years after 2013, the R&D expenditure of foreign-funded industrial enterprises above designated size in China increased by more than 86%, and the number of valid invention patents increased by 336%. The rising willingness, expanding scale, and increasing results of foreign investment in R&D in China have helped China's high-level opening up to a new level.
As an important part of China's scientific and technological innovation system, foreign-funded R&D centers have broadened international horizons and gathered international resources for the development of new quality productive forces. Foreign-funded enterprises attract and gather a large number of high-end talents at home and abroad, bringing advanced technology, management experience and market opportunities, which can promote the transformation of China's economic structure and industrial upgrading. At the same time, foreign-funded enterprises have unique advantages in linking domestic and foreign innovation resources, and are an important interface for domestic R&D institutions to embed in the global innovation network. In recent years, China's ties with the global industrial chain and innovation chain in the fields of information technology, biomedicine, new materials, and new energy have become increasingly close, which is inseparable from the interconnection, mutual learning, and mutual reference with foreign-funded enterprises.
Foreign-funded enterprises are vying to deepen their scientific research layout in China, which stems from the "magnetic attraction" of China's unified large market. China has the world's largest middle-income group, with a large and multi-layered consumer market, and the potential for consumption is constantly being released. The complete manufacturing industrial chain and supply chain system, as well as the burgeoning wave of scientific and technological innovation, provide a broad stage for foreign-funded enterprises to share development opportunities. The further deep integration of foreign-funded enterprises into the Chinese economic system is a witness, participant and beneficiary of China's high-level opening up.
The new trends in investment by foreign-funded enterprises are also a strong footnote to the accelerated development of new quality productive forces and the advancement of industries to the high end of the value chain in China. Foreign-funded enterprises take high-tech industries as their focus, continue to increase investment in scientific research, and move towards "new" and climb towards "high". For example, Volkswagen Group (大众汽车集团) has established a new R&D center in Hefei (合肥), Anhui (安徽), introducing advanced technologies into the early stages of product development, making models and other products more responsive to the needs of Chinese customers. Seizing the development opportunities of new quality productive forces, foreign-funded enterprises have cast a "vote of confidence" in the prospects of the Chinese economy with practical actions.
Today's Chinese economy is undergoing a comprehensive and systematic upgrade from "whether there is" to "whether it is good" and from "volume advantage" to "quality advantage" under global attention. The stability and certainty of China's development provide a rare "safe harbor" for foreign-funded enterprises to resist global economic fluctuations. In the first half of this year, the actual use of foreign capital in e-commerce service industry, aerospace vehicle and equipment manufacturing industry, chemical pharmaceutical manufacturing industry, and medical instrument equipment and instrument manufacturing industry increased by 127.1%, 36.2%, 53% and 17.7% respectively. Despite facing the intensified headwinds of economic globalization and rising geopolitical risks, China continues to attract inflows of high-end service industries and manufacturing industries. This is a vivid proof that China is sharing the dividends of development with the world, fully demonstrating that the importance of the Chinese market is steadily increasing.
To go with China is to go with opportunities, which is an important revelation that the "sea" of the Chinese economy brings to the outside world. BASF (巴斯夫) of Germany began investing in production in Pudong (浦东), Shanghai (上海) in 1994. Today, the Pudong base is no longer a single production base, but an integrated base integrating R&D, production, marketing and sales; ArcelorMittal Group (安赛乐米塔尔集团) and Hunan Iron and Steel Group (湖南钢铁集团) signed a comprehensive strategic partnership agreement to build a global R&D center for automotive steel in Hunan (湖南)... More and more foreign-funded enterprises have extended from "market-oriented" and "cost-oriented" to "innovation-driven", enhancing their competitiveness in the Chinese market and even the global market. Believing in China is believing in tomorrow, investing in China is investing in the future, and China will surely become a fertile ground for foreign-funded enterprises to invest and develop for a long time.
Expanding international scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation is an inevitable requirement for accelerating the implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy, and it is also a firm choice to achieve mutual promotion of domestic and international dual circulation. It is expected that foreign-funded enterprises will continue to deeply cultivate the Chinese market, integrate more closely into the Chinese industrial chain, share the dividends of China's high-quality development, and achieve win-win development in China and benefit the world.
Return to TopNot long ago, the 12th World High-Speed Rail Congress was held in Beijing (北京), marking the return of the congress to China after 15 years. Today, the total operating mileage of China's high-speed railways has reached 48,000 kilometers, accounting for more than 70% of the world's total. The Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway, the Hungary-Serbia Railway, the China-Thailand Railway... China Railway is opening its arms and sharing high-speed rail development opportunities with more countries.
This is precisely:
Silver dragons sometimes appear,
A long rainbow leans against the edge of the clouds.
The ends of the earth become near,
Mountains and rivers are connected by a single line.
Liao Yuanwen (廖沅文)
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Under the blue sky and white clouds, herdsmen ride horses, driving herds of cattle and sheep – this may be the image many people have of pastures. In fact, many of today's pastures have taken on a very different form.
Setting instructions, feeding robots automatically "prepare meals"; opening a mobile phone, the condition of livestock and pastures is clear at a glance... Walking into the Qiancheng Wanrong Cashmere Goat Ranch (千成万绒山羊大牧场) in Otog Banner (鄂托克旗), Ordos City (鄂尔多斯市), Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), rows of standardized enclosures are well-organized, and livestock breeding is managed semi-automatically. More than 10,000 mu of pasture and more than 3,000 sheep only require 2 people to manage.
In Otog Banner (鄂托克旗), such large-scale ranches are not uncommon. How did such a modern production and operation method take root in pastoral areas?
The application of new technologies is not easy. Although Otog Banner (鄂托克旗) is the origin of the precious livestock breed Albas cashmere goat (阿尔巴斯绒山羊), the average pasture area per household is less than 1,000 mu. To ensure the balance of grass and livestock, each household can only raise about 50 sheep, resulting in low efficiency.
To get rid of this unfavorable situation, the local government promoted technological transformation, but soon discovered that building enclosures, sheds, and buying equipment for each household required large capital investments, and the enthusiasm of herdsmen was not high. The local government then turned to introducing leading enterprises to develop order-based animal husbandry, but still faced bottlenecks such as few optional channels and little room for price negotiation.
To shift traditional animal husbandry to a modern business model, where should the breakthrough be made? Constantly summarizing experience in trial and error, Otog Banner (鄂托克旗) finally embarked on a path of "unified breeding and common prosperity" (统养共富).
Before introducing new technologies and large enterprises, first organize the herdsmen and aggregate resources. Establish professional cooperatives to uniformly manage livestock and equipment, and professionally operate procurement, epidemic prevention, and sales; set value targets and convert pastures, livestock, and mechanical equipment into shares; develop joint household operations, shareholding operations, and cooperative operations to form a diversified interest linkage mechanism... Gather resources, clarify rights and interests, and focus on the key word "cooperation." Herdsmen have shifted from "fighting alone" to "developing together," creating favorable conditions for the implementation of advanced breeding technologies and socialized services.
Relying on professional cooperatives to cooperate with leading enterprises to achieve large-scale operation has also improved the risk resistance and income level of herdsmen. For example, Otog Banner (鄂托克旗) uniformly plans the ratio of grazing and stall feeding time according to the quality of pastures in different periods and regions, effectively reducing operating costs, and increasing the average household income by about 20% compared with decentralized operations. Under this cooperative model, in addition to receiving dividends from livestock sales and cashmere sales, herdsmen can also enjoy the convenience and benefits of intensive processing, live broadcast sales, and brand premiums.
To focus on the key word "cooperation," it is not only necessary to integrate resources in terms of land, labor, and equipment, but also to focus on the entire chain of industrial development and take targeted measures to make up for shortcomings and strengthen weaknesses. In recent years, Otog Banner (鄂托克旗) has focused on providing special subsidies for weak links in the industrial chain, and has jointly tackled key problems with scientific research institutes, universities, and enterprises to explore the application of intelligent breeding technologies to achieve mechanization of the entire process of forage planting, livestock breeding, and meat processing, significantly improving the efficiency of industrial development. For example, the average price of mutton products after intensive processing has increased by more than 30% per catty. Speaking with tangible benefits can continuously improve the enthusiasm of herdsmen to participate in new models and new business forms.
Cultivating new quality productive forces (新质生产力), the challenges faced by various regions are different, but they must all find the right breakthrough point, effectively clear the bottlenecks and blockages, and at the same time aim at the points of integration to better leverage their own advantages and potential. By exploring practical and feasible development paths with heart, and rationally allocating various policies, resources, elements, and forces, there will be solid support for cultivating new industries and expanding new spaces.
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Adapting to change is the key to taking the initiative. This is the logic of innovation and the key to opening the door to development.
Recently, Professor Liu Hong (刘洪) of Tianjin University (天津大学) received his new course schedule for the next semester. Three years ago, the "Fundamentals of Power Systems" course, originally taught by him and belonging to the School of Electrical Automation and Information Engineering, was assigned to the Future Technology College. Combining the needs of the new energy storage major, the university broke down the "walls" between departments and formed an interdisciplinary team. Working "across borders" with Liu Hong (刘洪) are teachers from more than a dozen other majors, including materials and mechanical engineering. According to the new assessment mechanism, they will lead students to design related products around the needs of enterprises.
Dismantling "walls" is also building "bridges." Today, facing cutting-edge major scientific problems, "solo" innovation has become weak. Breaking down the invisible "walls" between disciplines and promoting the cross-integration and collaborative innovation of knowledge in different fields is becoming a new trend. Taking the tackling of new energy storage technology as an example, it is inseparable from the support of knowledge in multiple fields such as electrical, materials, and mechanical engineering. From a practical point of view, the intersection of disciplines is precisely where major scientific breakthroughs are likely to occur.
Dismantling "walls" and building "bridges" is also building an ecosystem. In the entire innovation system, "teaching" is like soil, which is the source of industrial innovation, injecting fresh water into the creation of an innovation ecosystem; "production" is like seedlings, which not only take root and grow in the soil, but also release new demand signals to the soil according to environmental changes. The close interaction between the two promotes a smoother flow of knowledge, technology, capital, and talent, so that the innovation ecosystem can be full of vitality. Education is the source of innovation. It needs to "dig deep wells" in basic fields, and also needs to open up its horizons, actively connect with the industrial chain and innovation chain, and provide new knowledge, new technologies, and new ideas for industrial innovation. When "teaching" no longer only focuses on the principles in books, but is closely integrated with industrial needs, "production" and "teaching" can achieve closer co-frequency resonance, empowering and helping innovation and development.
When the mechanism is "flexible," the water of source innovation can be "flexible." In the past, the main battlefields for teachers and researchers were in the classroom and in the laboratory. How can we make them more proactive in connecting with enterprises and carrying out innovation in the front line of production? Reform is the key. Tianjin University (天津大学) has launched a reform of the teacher performance appraisal mechanism, allowing "cross-border" teachers to taste the sweetness of doing academic work around the industry; the Tiankai High-level Scientific and Technological Innovation Park (天开高教科创园) uses solid support to help many university teachers complete the transformation from "educators" to "entrepreneurs"... Deploying reforms with demand as the guidance and development as the goal, and breaking down institutional barriers will surely promote the writing of more exciting innovation stories in various fields.
When there are fewer and fewer "walls" that hinder deep integration and more and more "bridges" that promote handshakes, new quality productive forces driven by innovation will surely flourish.
(Excerpted and compiled from Tianjin Daily (天津日报), originally titled "Breakthrough, Starting from Daring to 'Dismantle'")
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Ecological civilization construction benefits the present and impacts the future. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has comprehensively strengthened ecological civilization construction, regarding it as a fundamental plan concerning the sustainable development of the Chinese nation. They have put forward a series of new concepts, new thoughts, and new strategies, forming Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization. The recently published first volume of "Selected Works on Xi Jinping's (习近平) Ecological Civilization" includes 79 important documents by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) on ecological civilization construction, systematically reflecting the rich content, scientific system, and original contributions of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization. Seriously studying this important work is of great significance for thoroughly studying and implementing Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization and comprehensively promoting the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature with the construction of a beautiful China.
1. Systematically answering a series of major theoretical and practical issues in the construction of ecological civilization in the new era, and promoting the transition to a new era of socialist ecological civilization
The relationship between man and nature is the most fundamental relationship in human society. How to achieve harmonious coexistence between man and nature is a fundamental issue in the development of human civilization. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), standing at the height of the sustainable development of the Chinese nation and human civilization, has vigorously promoted theoretical, practical, and institutional innovation in ecological civilization. The National Ecological and Environmental Protection Conference held in May 2018 formally proposed Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization for the first time, holding high the ideological banner of ecological civilization construction in the new era. The first volume of "Selected Works on Xi Jinping's (习近平) Ecological Civilization" is permeated with General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) profound insights, keen judgments, and theoretical creations on a series of major issues in China's ecological civilization construction, vividly presenting the formation and development process of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization, and fully reflecting the complete logic of the close combination and organic unity of scientific theory and rich practice.
The creation of any scientific thought will experience a process of coming from practice and going to practice, and will be constantly tested in practice. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has always attached great importance to ecological and environmental work. During his work in Zhengding (正定), Hebei (河北), Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) put forward the concept of "rather not have money than have pollution." During his work in Xiamen (厦门), he presided over the compilation of a special chapter on ecological and environmental issues in the Xiamen (厦门) economic and social development strategy, and creatively proposed a 20-character guideline for the comprehensive management of Yundang Lake (筼筜湖). During his work in Ningde (宁德), he clarified the development idea of "relying on the mountains to sing mountain songs and relying on the sea to chant sea sutras," and creatively proposed the scientific conclusion that "forests are reservoirs, money banks, and granaries." During his work in Fujian (福建), he took the lead in planning the construction of an "ecological province" in the country, promoted the implementation of the forest tenure system reform, and formed the first provincial-level forest reform document in the country. In April 1997, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out during his inspection in Sanming (三明), Fujian (福建): "Green mountains and clear waters are invaluable assets. Mountainous areas should draw 'landscape paintings' well and do a good job in mountain, water, and field articles." During his work in Zhejiang (浙江), he put forward the important concept that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets," proposed to use "Green Zhejiang (绿色浙江)" to solve the problem of Zhejiang's (浙江) ecological province construction, personally planned the "Thousand Villages Demonstration, Ten Thousand Villages Renovation" project, and promoted Zhejiang (浙江) to become a national ecological civilization pioneer demonstration zone. On August 15, 2005, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) affirmed the local practice of closing down mines that polluted the environment and starting ecological tourism during his inspection and research in Yucun (余村), Anji (安吉), Zhejiang (浙江), and pointed out with a forward-looking strategic vision that "we used to say that we need both lucid waters and lush mountains and invaluable assets. In fact, lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets." A few days later, he published an article entitled "Lucid Waters and Lush Mountains Are Also Invaluable Assets" in the "Zhejiang Daily (浙江日报)" "Zhejiang New Words (之江新语)" column, profoundly expounding the dialectical unity between "lucid waters and lush mountains" and "invaluable assets," and pointing out the basic path for transforming lucid waters and lush mountains into invaluable assets from a strategic height. During his work in Shanghai (上海), he required Chongming (崇明) to follow the idea of building an ecological island and do it seriously. Comrade Xi Jinping's (习近平) profound thinking on the relationship between man and nature during his work in local areas, creatively combining the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments with the specific realities of the local area, provided important ideological resources for the formation of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization.
The 18th National Congress of the CPC clearly included ecological civilization construction in the overall layout of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, emphasizing the need to strive to build a beautiful China. The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core profoundly grasped the important position and strategic significance of ecological civilization construction in the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, carried out a series of fundamental, pioneering, and long-term work, and put forward a series of new concepts, new thoughts, and new strategies. The 35 important documents of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) included in the first volume of "Selected Works on Xi Jinping's (习近平) Ecological Civilization" from the 18th National Congress of the CPC to the 19th National Congress of the CPC concentratedly reflect the development process of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization during this period. In December 2012, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out during his inspection in Guangdong (广东) that to achieve sustainable development, we must focus on ecological civilization construction. In May 2013, he proposed during the sixth collective study of the Political Bureau of the 18th CPC Central Committee that we should build a beautiful China and strive to move towards a new era of socialist ecological civilization; in November, he proposed the systematic idea that "mountains, rivers, forests, fields, and lakes are a community of life" at the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee. In October 2015, he proposed the new development concept of innovation, coordination, green, openness, and sharing at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, emphasizing that green development focuses on solving the problem of harmony between man and nature. In May 2017, he pointed out during the forty-first collective study of the Political Bureau of the 18th CPC Central Committee that promoting the formation of a green development mode and lifestyle is an inevitable requirement for implementing the new development concept and a profound revolution in the concept of development. In addition, important content related to improving the national natural resource asset management system and improving the natural resource supervision system, improving the livability of urban development, promoting the joint protection of the Yangtze River Economic Belt (长江经济带) and not engaging in large-scale development, and building a "Green Silk Road (绿色丝绸之路)" are also specifically presented in the documents of this period. In practice, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core accelerated the top-level design and system construction of ecological civilization through comprehensively deepening reforms, and successively issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Promotion of Ecological Civilization Construction" and the "Overall Plan for the Reform of the Ecological Civilization System," formulating dozens of reform plans involving ecological civilization construction, and comprehensively and systematically deploying ecological civilization construction from the aspects of overall goals, basic concepts, main principles, key tasks, and institutional guarantees. After unremitting efforts, China's ecological environment quality has continued to improve, the concept of ecological civilization has become increasingly popular, the ecological civilization system has been accelerated, and the intensity of pollution control, the frequency of the introduction of systems, the strictness of supervision and law enforcement, and the speed of environmental quality improvement have been unprecedented, and ecological civilization construction has achieved remarkable results.
Since the 19th National Congress of the CPC, anchoring the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and resolutely winning the battle against pollution prevention and control, Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization has been formally proposed and continuously enriched and developed in practice. The 29 important documents of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) included in the first volume of "Selected Works on Xi Jinping's (习近平) Ecological Civilization" from the 19th National Congress of the CPC to the 20th National Congress of the CPC vividly reflect this historical process. In October 2017, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) included "adhering to the harmonious coexistence of man and nature" in the basic strategy for upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era in the report of the 19th National Congress of the CPC, and included "Beautiful China (美丽中国)" in the goal of building a strong socialist modern country. In April 2018, he made systematic arrangements for resolutely winning the battle against pollution prevention and control at the first meeting of the Central Finance and Economics Commission. In May 2018, at the National Ecological and Environmental Protection Conference, he clearly put forward the six major principles that must be adhered to in promoting ecological civilization construction in the new era. In September 2020, he solemnly announced the goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality at the general debate of the 75th United Nations General Assembly. In March 2021, at the ninth meeting of the Central Finance and Economics Commission, he clarified the principles to be adhered to in achieving the "dual carbon" goal; in the same year, at the "Leaders Climate Summit" and the leaders summit of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the "Convention on Biological Diversity" and other occasions, he issued international initiatives to "jointly build a community of life between man and nature" and "jointly build a community of life on Earth." Important content related to improving the ecological civilization system, building ecologically livable and beautiful villages, and promoting ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin (黄河流域) are also specifically presented in the documents of this period. In practice, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core vigorously promoted ecological civilization construction, the ecological civilization system was further improved, the battle against pollution prevention and control was advanced in depth, and green, circular, and low-carbon development took solid steps.
Since the 20th National Congress of the CPC, Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization has continued to be enriched and developed in the vivid practice of comprehensively promoting the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature. The 15 important documents of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) included in the first volume of "Selected Works on Xi Jinping's (习近平) Ecological Civilization" from the 20th National Congress of the CPC to April 2025 are a wonderful presentation of this historical process. In October 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly revealed the scientific connotation of Chinese-style modernization in the report of the 20th National Congress of the CPC, emphasizing that Chinese-style modernization is the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and respecting nature, conforming to nature, and protecting nature are inherent requirements for comprehensively building a socialist modern country, and promoting the green and low-carbon transformation of economic and social development is a key link in achieving high-quality development. In July 2023, at the National Ecological and Environmental Protection Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) summarized the great achievements made in ecological civilization construction in the new era with "four major transformations," put forward the "five major relationships" that must be handled well to continue to promote ecological civilization construction, systematically deployed the strategic tasks and major measures for comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China, and enriched and developed Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization. In January 2024, when presiding over the eleventh collective study of the Political Bureau of the 20th CPC Central Committee, he pointed out that green development is the background color of high-quality development, and new quality productive forces are themselves green productive forces. Content related to promoting the high-quality development of the "Three-North (三北)" Shelterbelt Project, strengthening arable land protection, promoting the high-quality development of new energy, and working together to promote global climate governance are also concentratedly reflected in the documents of this period. In practice, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core plans and promotes ecological and environmental protection work on the new journey with a higher position, a broader vision, and greater efforts, and issued the "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Comprehensively Promoting the Construction of a Beautiful China," coordinating industrial structure adjustment, pollution control, ecological protection, and climate change response, synergistically promoting carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth, and promoting the construction of a beautiful China to take major steps.
Since the new era, China's ecological civilization construction has undergone historic, transformative, and overall changes from theory to practice. Practice has fully proved that the remarkable achievements made in ecological civilization construction in the new era are fundamentally due to General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) leadership and scientific guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization.
2. Continuously deepening the understanding of the laws of ecological civilization construction, and forming a systematic, complete, logically rigorous, rich in content, and profound theoretical system
Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization is an important part of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era, systematically answering major theoretical and practical questions such as what kind of ecological civilization to build and how to build ecological civilization, raising our Party's understanding of the laws of ecological civilization construction to a new height, and is the fundamental guideline and action guide for ecological civilization construction in the new era. The first volume of "Selected Works on Xi Jinping's (习近平) Ecological Civilization" fully reflects the rich content, scientific system, and important original contributions of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization.
A major achievement of adhering to the "two combinations." The most prominent feature of the selected works is that it has both profound Marxist theoretical implications and rich connotations of outstanding traditional Chinese culture. Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization adheres to combining the basic principles of Marxism with the specific reality of China and combining it with outstanding traditional Chinese culture, starting from the objective reality and rich practice of China's ecological civilization construction, inheriting and innovating the Marxist view of nature and ecology, and absorbing and developing outstanding traditional Chinese ecological culture. It is a concentrated embodiment of contemporary Chinese Marxism and 21st century Marxism in the field of ecological civilization construction. Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization closely combines Marxism's ideas on the relationship between man and nature and the dialectical unity between production and ecology with China's ecological civilization construction practice, profoundly revealing that Chinese-style modernization is the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, emphasizing that China cannot follow the old path of Western modernization of polluting first and then treating it, and must adhere to ecological priority and green development, and take the path of civilized development of production development, affluent life, and good ecology, realizing the advancement of Marxism's ideas on the relationship between man and nature with the times. Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization is rooted in outstanding traditional Chinese ecological culture, inheriting and developing the philosophical ideas of harmony between man and nature, following the laws of nature, and taking it in time and using it in moderation, which have always been emphasized in Chinese civilization, promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of outstanding traditional Chinese ecological culture, and is a concentrated embodiment of the essence of Chinese culture and Chinese spirit in the field of ecological civilization construction, not only providing a fundamental guideline for the sustainable development of the Chinese nation, but also contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to the sustainable development of human society.
Profoundly expounding the fundamental guarantee and purpose requirements of ecological civilization construction. Ecological civilization construction is a major political issue related to the Party's mission and purpose, and also a major social issue related to people's livelihood and well-being. Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization places ecological civilization construction in a prominent position in the overall work, adheres to the Party's overall leadership over ecological civilization construction, adheres to taking a good ecological environment as the most inclusive people's livelihood and well-being, and profoundly expounds the fundamental guarantee and purpose requirements of ecological civilization construction in the new era. The important documents included in the selected works, such as "A Good Ecological Environment is the Most Inclusive People's Livelihood and Well-being," "Environmental Issues are Both Major Economic Issues and Major Social and Political Issues," and "Strengthening the Party's Overall Leadership over Ecological Civilization Construction," fully reflect these important contents. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that building a beautiful China is an important goal of comprehensively building a socialist modern country, and we must adhere to and strengthen the Party's overall leadership. Leading cadres at all levels, especially senior cadres, must bear in mind the "major affairs of the country" and earnestly shoulder the political responsibility for ecological civilization construction and ecological environmental protection. We must unswervingly adhere to the "Party and government with the same responsibility" and "one post with dual responsibilities" for ecological environmental protection, and establish a responsibility system that covers all aspects, has consistent powers and responsibilities, has clear rewards and punishments, and is closely linked. We must promote the improvement of the central and provincial two-level ecological environmental protection supervision system, strengthen organizational leadership, and promote the in-depth development of ecological environmental protection supervision. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that the environment is people's livelihood, green mountains are beauty, and blue sky is also happiness. We must actively respond to what the people want, expect, and urgently need, vigorously promote ecological civilization construction, provide more high-quality ecological products, so that the people can breathe fresh air, drink clean water, eat safe food, live in a livable environment, and truly feel the real environmental benefits brought about by economic development.
Deeply expounding on the historical basis and basic principles of ecological civilization construction. Civilization prospers with ecological prosperity, and declines with ecological degradation. Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on ecological civilization adheres to a grand historical perspective, grasps the historical laws of how changes in the ecological environment affect the rise and fall of civilizations with a broad vision, profoundly summarizes the experiences and lessons of violating natural laws and destroying the ecological environment that have brought severe challenges to human survival and development throughout history, and deeply expounds on the historical basis and basic principles of ecological civilization construction. In important manuscripts included in the Selected Works, such as "Efforts to Promote Harmonious Coexistence between Man and Nature" and "Strive to Build a Modernization of Harmonious Coexistence between Man and Nature," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that humans and nature are a community of life. Mankind must respect nature, conform to nature, and protect nature, otherwise it will be retaliated by nature, and no one can resist this law. We must protect nature and the ecological environment like we protect our eyes, and promote the formation of a new pattern of harmonious coexistence between man and nature. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that the modernization we want to build is a modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, which should not only create more material and spiritual wealth to meet the people's growing needs for a better life, but also provide more high-quality ecological products to meet the people's growing needs for a beautiful ecological environment. Harmonious coexistence between man and nature is a distinctive feature of Chinese-style modernization. It is necessary to fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept, maintain strategic focus, plan economic and social development from the height of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, adhere to the basic national policy of conserving resources and protecting the environment, adhere to the principles of prioritizing conservation, prioritizing protection, and prioritizing natural restoration, form a spatial pattern, industrial structure, production mode, and lifestyle that conserves resources and protects the environment, promote continuous improvement of the ecological environment, and strive to build a modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
Deeply expounding on the core concepts and strategic paths of ecological civilization construction. Concepts are the guide to action. Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on ecological civilization scientifically grasps the dialectical unity between economic development and ecological environmental protection, profoundly reveals the truth that protecting the ecological environment is protecting productivity and improving the ecological environment is developing productivity, and deeply expounds on the core concepts and strategic paths of ecological civilization construction in the new era. "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets," "Promote the achievement of carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals in a scientific and orderly manner," and "New quality productive forces are themselves green productive forces," which are included in the Selected Works, are representative manuscripts. In these manuscripts, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets. Correctly handling the relationship between ecological environmental protection and development, that is, the relationship between lucid waters and lush mountains and invaluable assets, is an inherent requirement for achieving sustainable development and a major principle for us to promote modernization. Lucid waters and lush mountains are by no means opposed to invaluable assets; the key lies in people and the key lies in ideas. We want both lucid waters and lush mountains, and invaluable assets. Lucid waters and lush mountains are not only natural wealth, but also social wealth and economic wealth. Protecting the ecological environment is protecting natural value and increasing natural capital, which is protecting the potential and stamina for economic and social development, so that lucid waters and lush mountains can continue to play ecological, economic, and social benefits. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that ecological and environmental problems are ultimately problems of development and lifestyles. Promoting the formation of green development and lifestyles is a profound revolution in the concept of development. Establishing and improving a green, low-carbon, and circular development economic system and promoting the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development are the basic strategies for solving China's ecological and environmental problems. It is necessary to adhere to and implement the new development concept, firmly establish and practice the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, incorporate the "dual carbon" work into the overall layout of ecological civilization construction and the overall situation of economic and social development, adhere to the coordinated promotion of carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth, unswervingly follow the path of ecological priority and green development, accelerate the formation of green production and lifestyles, and cultivate the green background of high-quality development, and support high-quality development with a high-quality ecological environment.
Deeply expounding on the systematic concept and institutional guarantees of ecological civilization construction. The systematic concept is a fundamental ideology and working method; institutional construction is the top priority in promoting ecological civilization construction. Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on ecological civilization emphasizes the systematic concept and institutional construction, providing scientific methodological guidance and important institutional guarantees for ecological civilization construction in the new era. The important manuscripts included in the Selected Works, such as "Protect the Ecological Environment with the Strictest System and the Most Stringent Rule of Law" and "Adhere to the Systematic Thinking that Mountains, Rivers, Forests, Fields, and Lakes are a Community of Life," provide multifaceted explanations of the systematic concept and institutional guarantees of ecological civilization construction from theory to practice. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that ecology is a unified natural system and a natural chain in which various natural elements are interdependent and realize circulation. We must look at problems with the thinking method of systems theory, take into account overall planning, implement overall policies, and take multiple measures, and carry out ecological civilization construction in an all-round, all-regional, and all-process manner. We must adhere to the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts, accelerate the implementation of major projects for the protection and restoration of important ecosystems; strengthen the construction of a natural protected area system with national parks as the main body, maintain the authenticity and integrity of natural ecosystems, and protect biodiversity; scientifically carry out large-scale national land greening actions, and continuously improve the quality and stability of ecosystems. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that we must protect the ecological environment with the strictest system and the most stringent rule of law, accelerate institutional innovation, increase institutional supply, improve institutional support, strengthen institutional implementation, and make the system a rigid constraint and an untouchable high-voltage line.
Deeply expounding on the social forces and global initiatives of ecological civilization construction. Building a beautiful China is the common cause of all the people, and building a green home is the common dream of mankind. Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on ecological civilization proposes to transform the construction of a beautiful China into the conscious action of all the people, actively promote global sustainable development, and gather the universal consensus and common strength to jointly build a beautiful China and a clean and beautiful world. "Join Hands to Build a Climate Change Governance Mechanism of Cooperation and Win-Win and Fairness and Reasonableness," "Seek Green Life Together and Build a Beautiful Home Together," "Jointly Build a Community of Life on Earth," and "Jointly Meet the Challenges of the Times and Promote Global Climate Governance Together," which are included in the Selected Works, are important manuscripts focusing on this ideological feature. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that everyone is a protector, builder, and beneficiary of the ecological environment, and no one is a bystander, outsider, or critic. We must advocate environmental awareness and ecological awareness, advocate green values of respecting nature and caring for nature, form a civilized and healthy lifestyle, build an environmental governance system with the participation of the whole society, and make ecological and environmental protection ideas become the mainstream culture in social life. Standing at the height of being responsible for human civilization, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) issued an initiative to jointly explore the path of global ecological civilization construction, advocating accelerating the construction of an ecological system that respects nature and promotes green development, and jointly building a clean and beautiful world. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that China firmly practices multilateralism and strives to promote the construction of a fair, reasonable, cooperative, and win-win global environmental governance system. We must adhere to environmental friendliness and guide international cooperation in addressing climate change. We must make green the background color of jointly building the "Belt and Road" and let the concept and practice of ecological civilization benefit the people of countries along the route. Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on ecological civilization is the common ideological wealth for human society to achieve sustainable development. It keeps up with the times, looks at the world, promotes China's major transformation from a participant in global environmental governance to a leader, and makes Chinese contributions to promoting human sustainable development and building a clean and beautiful world.
III. Leading the New Era of Ecological Civilization Construction to Achieve Remarkable Achievements and Providing Scientific Methods and Strategic Guidance for Comprehensively Promoting the Construction of a Beautiful China
Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on ecological civilization is a scientific system that originates from practice and guides practice. It is the general policy, general basis, and general requirement for planning ecological civilization construction. It demonstrates great power of truth and unique ideological charm in guiding practice, and it will surely further fully demonstrate the practical power of scientific theory in guiding practice and promoting practice. This important selection truly records the great achievements made by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core in leading the construction of ecological civilization in the new era, and systematically reflects the practical power, scientific methods, and strategic measures of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on ecological civilization.
Guiding the historical, transformative, and overall changes in China's ecological civilization construction. 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 comprehensively strengthened the construction of ecological civilization with unprecedented efforts. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) attended the National Ecological and Environmental Protection Conference twice in 2018 and 2023 and delivered important speeches; he presided over the collective study of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee on the theme of ecological civilization construction four times in 2013, 2017, 2021, and 2022, and put forward clear requirements for strengthening the construction of ecological civilization. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) also presided over meetings of the Central Finance and Economics Commission (Leading Group) and the Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform (Leading Group) many times to specifically study issues related to ecological civilization construction. Relevant important manuscripts are fully reflected in the Selected Works. Under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on ecological civilization, the construction of ecological civilization in the new era has achieved remarkable achievements that have attracted worldwide attention, becoming a significant symbol of the historic achievements and historic changes in the cause of the Party and the country in the new era. In July 2023, at the National Ecological and Environmental Protection Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) highly condensed and summarized the historic achievements made in the construction of ecological civilization in the new era with "four major transformations." The first major transformation is to start with solving prominent ecological and environmental problems, focusing on the combination of points and surfaces, and addressing both symptoms and root causes, realizing a major transformation from focusing on remediation to systematic governance. The second major transformation is to adhere to changing concepts and consolidating responsibilities, and continuously enhance the consciousness and initiative of the entire Party and the country in promoting the construction of ecological civilization, realizing a major transformation from passive response to proactive action. The third major transformation is to keep up with the times, look at the world, assume the responsibilities of a major country, and demonstrate the responsibility of a major country, realizing a major transformation from a participant in global environmental governance to a leader. The fourth major transformation is to continuously deepen the understanding of the laws of ecological civilization construction, form Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on ecological civilization, and realize a major transformation from practical exploration to the guidance of scientific theory. Practice has proved that Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on ecological civilization has demonstrated a powerful force of truth in guiding the great practice of ecological civilization construction in the new era.
Deeply expounding on the major relationships that need to be correctly handled in promoting the construction of ecological civilization. With the in-depth advancement of the practice of ecological civilization construction in the new era, our understanding of the laws of ecological civilization construction has been continuously deepened. Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on ecological civilization adheres to dialectical materialism and historical materialism, and deeply expounds on the five major relationships that need to be handled well in promoting ecological civilization construction in the new era and on the new journey. The first is the relationship between high-quality development and high-level protection. Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on ecological civilization emphasizes that high-quality development and high-level protection complement each other and enhance each other. We must plan development from the height of harmonious coexistence between man and nature and continuously enhance the potential and stamina of development. The second is the relationship between key breakthroughs and coordinated governance. Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on ecological civilization emphasizes adhering to key breakthroughs, grasping the main contradictions and the main aspects of contradictions, and taking effective measures to address prominent ecological and environmental problems; at the same time, taking into account overall planning, promoting coordination between local and overall situations, connecting both symptomatic and radical treatments, and combining current and long-term goals, and continuously enhancing the systematicness, integrity, and coordination of various tasks. The third is the relationship between natural restoration and artificial restoration. Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on ecological civilization emphasizes fully respecting and conforming to nature, giving nature enough time and space to recuperate; at the same time, organically unifying natural restoration and artificial restoration, adapting measures to local conditions and times, implementing policies according to different regions and categories, and striving to find the best solution for ecological protection and restoration. The fourth is the relationship between external constraints and internal driving forces. Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on ecological civilization emphasizes always adhering to protecting the ecological environment with the strictest system and the most stringent rule of law, and maintaining normalized external pressure; at the same time, it is necessary to stimulate the internal driving force of the entire society to jointly care for the ecological environment. The fifth is the relationship between "dual carbon" commitments and autonomous actions. Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on ecological civilization emphasizes that promoting carbon peaking and carbon neutrality is an inherent requirement for achieving high-quality development. The goal is unwavering, but the paths and methods, rhythms and strengths to achieve this goal should and must be determined by ourselves, and should never be influenced by others. These important viewpoints fully embody materialist dialectics and provide scientific methodological guidance for comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China.
Systematically deploying the strategic tasks and major measures for comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China. Promoting the construction of a beautiful China is an inherent requirement for comprehensively building a modern socialist country. At present, China's economic and social development has entered a stage of high-quality development that is accelerating green and low-carbon transformation, and the construction of ecological civilization is still in a critical period of overlapping pressures and heavy burdens. Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on ecological civilization proposes to place the construction of a beautiful China in a prominent position in building a strong country and realizing national rejuvenation, emphasizing adhering to precise pollution control, scientific pollution control, and law-based pollution control, maintaining strength, extending depth, and expanding breadth, and continuing to deeply fight the battle against pollution prevention and control; emphasizing adhering to green and low-carbon development as the fundamental solution to ecological and environmental problems, and accelerating the green and low-carbon transformation of development methods; emphasizing standing at the height of safeguarding national ecological security, the sustainable development of the Chinese nation, and being responsible for human civilization, strengthening ecological protection and restoration, focusing on enhancing the diversity, stability, and sustainability of ecosystems, and leaving a beautiful ecological space for future generations; emphasizing adhering to the principles of national overall planning, prioritizing conservation, dual-wheel drive, smooth internal and external circulation, and preventing risks, implementing the "1+N" policy system, and actively and steadily promoting carbon peaking and carbon neutrality; emphasizing implementing the overall national security concept, firmly guarding the safety bottom line of the construction of a beautiful China, and ensuring that the natural environment and conditions on which we depend for survival and development are not threatened or damaged; emphasizing coordinating resources in various fields, gathering strength from all aspects, and playing a good "combination punch" of the rule of law, the market, science and technology, and policies, and improving the guarantee system for the construction of a beautiful China. These major tasks and measures provide strategic guidance for supporting high-quality development with a high-quality ecological environment and making green the most distinctive, most profound, and most reliable background color of a beautiful China.
Great practice produces scientific theory, and scientific theory guides great practice. Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on ecological civilization is a concentrated embodiment of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core in the field of ecological civilization construction, which is an innovation in governance and theoretical innovation, and provides a powerful ideological weapon for comprehensively promoting the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature with the construction of a beautiful China. We must combine the study of Volume 1 of "Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Ecological Civilization Selection," thoroughly implement Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on ecological civilization, deeply understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," resolutely achieve the "Two Safeguards," accelerate the promotion of the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, comprehensively promote the construction of a beautiful China, and continuously create a new situation in the construction of ecological civilization in the new era, and unremittingly strive to achieve the sustainable development of the Chinese nation.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on July 28th (Reporter Yu Jingxian (郁静娴)) - The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) recently issued the "Notice on Steadily Promoting High-Quality Development of Integrated Rice-Fish Farming Industry," putting forward 10 requirements from four aspects: standardized improvement, transformation and upgrading, increasing income for the people, and safeguard measures. It is reported that in 2024, the national integrated rice-fish farming area reached 46.05 million mu, an increase of 2.6% year-on-year, producing approximately 23 million tons of rice and 4.43 million tons of aquatic products, playing an important role in stabilizing grain, promoting fisheries, and increasing income.
The notice pointed out that the development of integrated rice-fish farming should firmly establish the concept of "rice as the mainstay, mutual promotion of rice and fish, and green development," resolutely adhere to the bottom line of "not competing with people for grain, and not competing with grain for land," and better play the role of integrated rice-fish farming in ensuring food security and stable supply of aquatic products, and driving farmers to increase income and become rich. Strive to achieve more efficient farming models, greener farming production, more guaranteed quality and safety, and more typical examples of linking farmers and benefiting farmers together in three to five years.
The notice requires that all regions should standardize and improve the promotion of integrated rice-fish farming models, implement the national standard of "General Technical Requirements for Integrated Rice-Fish Farming," shoulder the responsibility of protecting cultivated land, stabilize rice production, coordinate various platform resources, strengthen innovation in technology, varieties, equipment, and models, cultivate new agricultural business entities, promote the integrated development of production, processing, and sales, deeply explore the multi-functionality of integrated rice-fish farming, and promote the development of the entire industry chain cluster.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on July 28th (Reporter Li Xinping (李心萍)) - The reporter learned from China Railway Urumqi Group Co., Ltd. (国铁乌鲁木齐局) that as of July 28th, this year, the number of China-Europe (Central Asia) freight trains passing through the Xinjiang (新疆) Alashankou (阿拉山口) and Horgos (霍尔果斯) railway ports has exceeded 10,000. The cargo volume handled at the Alashankou (阿拉山口) railway port reached 9.778 million tons, an increase of 3.7% year-on-year, while the cargo volume handled at the Horgos (霍尔果斯) railway port reached 7.96 million tons, an increase of 20.3% year-on-year.
Capacity expansion and efficiency improvement are steadily advancing. Since the full opening of the second line of the Jinghe (精河) to Alashankou (阿拉山口) section of the Lanxin Railway (兰新铁路) last year, the infrastructure capacity of the port has been further enhanced, and the standard-gauge and broad-gauge handling capacity of Alashankou Station (阿拉山口站) have increased by 15% and 30% respectively.
Service quality is continuously improving. The number of full-schedule China-Europe freight train routes entering and exiting via the Alashankou (阿拉山口) railway port has increased to 4, with 14 full-schedule China-Europe freight trains entering and exiting each week. There is 1 full-schedule China-Europe freight train route entering and exiting via the Horgos (霍尔果斯) railway port, with 2 full-schedule China-Europe freight trains entering and exiting each week. The running time of full-schedule trains is reduced by more than 30% compared with ordinary trains.
Currently, the Alashankou (阿拉山口) railway port has 124 China-Europe (Central Asia) freight train routes, reaching 21 countries such as Germany (德国) and Poland (波兰). The Horgos (霍尔果斯) railway port has 89 train routes, reaching 18 countries, 46 cities and regions abroad.
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"It is hoped that the vast number of private enterprises and private entrepreneurs will have the ambition to serve the country, wholeheartedly seek development, operate lawfully and be good at business, and promote common prosperity after becoming rich, so as to make new and greater contributions to promoting Chinese-style modernization."
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 always attached great importance to the healthy development of the non-public sector of the economy and the healthy growth of people in the non-public sector of the economy, and has introduced a series of major measures to encourage and support the development of the private economy, injecting strong impetus into promoting the healthy and high-quality development of the private economy in the new era and on the new journey.
With broad prospects and great potential, the vast number of people in the non-public sector of the economy are working hard and striving to move forward, firmly establishing their ideals and beliefs, bravely shouldering the responsibilities of the times, promoting high-quality development, actively fulfilling their social responsibilities, and firmly becoming builders of socialism with Chinese characteristics and promoters of Chinese-style modernization, and unremittingly striving to comprehensively promote the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Breakthrough: Promoting High-Quality Development with Independent Innovation
Sending artificial intelligence into space to empower satellites to process Earth observation data in real time in orbit, supporting scientists to explore more unknowns... In May of this year, with the successful launch of the space computing satellite constellation at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (酒泉卫星发射中心), China's whole-orbit interconnected space computing constellation, the "Three-Body Computing Constellation," officially entered the networking stage.
The "Three-Body Computing Constellation" plan, initiated by Wang Jian (王坚), Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, founder of Alibaba Cloud (阿里云), and Director of the Zhijiang Laboratory (之江实验室), collaborates with global partners to jointly build space computing infrastructure, promote computing into space, inter-satellite networking, and model uploading, and achieve innovative breakthroughs in computing and artificial intelligence.
In the wave of the digital economy, breakthroughs in technological innovation can often rewrite the industry landscape. In 2008, Wang Jian (王坚) joined Alibaba (阿里巴巴) and pioneered the "data-centric" distributed cloud computing system architecture, presiding over the research and development of the Alibaba Cloud (阿里云) computing platform "Apsara" (飞天) with independent intellectual property rights, allowing China's cloud computing to be in line with international standards from the start, achieving a "from 0 to 1" leap. Today, Alibaba Cloud (阿里云) services cover more than 4 million customers in more than 200 countries and regions around the world.
Currently, with the accelerated evolution of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, the accelerated development of new quality productive forces, and the continuous emergence of new technologies, new industries, and new business formats, private entrepreneurs have been provided with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to "have great potential."
With the policy east wind being mighty, it is even more necessary for those who strive to sail.
Being good at innovation and daring to venture and work hard are key qualities for private entrepreneurs to make achievements.
Continuously increasing technological investment in the field of new energy, Zhong Baoshen (钟宝申), Chairman of LONGi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd. (隆基绿能科技股份有限公司), led the company to repeatedly break world records in the conversion efficiency of crystalline silicon and crystalline silicon-perovskite tandem batteries, and the cumulative shipment volume of monocrystalline silicon wafers in the past 10 years has ranked among the top in the world. Photovoltaics, as a representative of the "new three items," set sail overseas and are located all over the world;
Deeply cultivating the silk industry, Tu Hongyan (屠红燕), Chairman of Wensli Holding Group Co., Ltd. (万事利集团有限公司), promoted the transformation and upgrading of the enterprise, built high-energy-level platforms such as the National Enterprise Technology Center and the National Postdoctoral Research Workstation, and explored the integration of digital and real with digital innovation, so that the old brand has been rejuvenated with new vitality;
Relying on Yunnan's (云南) resource endowments and focusing on the field of biomedicine and health, Li Biao (李彪), Chairman of Haobang Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd. (昊邦医药集团有限公司), led the team to draw on the essence of Yi (彝族), Naxi (纳西族), Dai (傣族) and other ethnic medicines, and developed more than 10 ethnic medicine characteristic products, opening up a new path for the inheritance and innovation of ethnic medicine;
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The private economy is a vital force in promoting Chinese-style modernization and an important foundation for high-quality development. At present, the number of private enterprises in China accounts for more than 92% of the total number of enterprises, and private enterprises contribute more than 70% of technological innovation achievements, covering more than 80% of the national specialized, refined, and new "little giant" enterprises and more than 92% of the national high-tech enterprises.
Strengthening the real economy with innovation and promoting innovation with the real economy, from digital technology to green energy, from traditional medicine to manufacturing upgrades, the vast number of private entrepreneurs are increasing their efforts in independent innovation, accelerating the pace of transformation and upgrading, continuously cultivating and developing new quality productive forces, enhancing the core competitiveness of enterprises, and injecting strong vitality into China's high-quality economic development.
Responsibility: Writing the Ambition to Serve the Country with Firm Ideals and Beliefs
More than 20 years ago, taking a plane was still a luxury consumption for many Chinese people.
Wang Yu (王煜), Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Spring Airlines Co., Ltd. (春秋航空股份有限公司), made up his mind after joining the company that year: "We must make it affordable for more people to fly." He led the team to overcome technical difficulties, independently developed an independent reservation system and a departure system, and won 127 software copyrights and 34 domestic independent intellectual property software, breaking the "stranglehold" dilemma of foreign software.
Today, Spring Airlines (春秋航空) has a fleet of more than 130 aircraft, and ticket prices are maintained at a low level in the industry, and more than 20% of its routes are invested in old revolutionary areas, ethnic areas, etc. In 2024, it transported 3.8 million passengers in ethnic areas alone. One route after another is like a link, closely connecting ethnic areas with the eastern coastal areas.
Patriotism and the ambition to serve the country are genes engraved in the bones of generations of Chinese private entrepreneurs, and they are also an important source of motivation for hard work and struggle.
From being in a dilemma of no raw materials, no funds, no technology, and no talent, to breaking multiple international monopolies and becoming an industry leader, Li Xiangping (李湘平), Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Shandong Dongming Petrochemical Group Co., Ltd. (山东东明石化集团有限公司), has always firmly believed: "We will never be worse than what foreign countries can do!" He formed an innovation leading group, focusing on the technology of catalytic cracking of crude oil to produce olefins, and jointly carried out scientific research with universities and research institutes. The crude oil super catalytic cracking to produce olefins technology jointly developed has independent intellectual property rights, reaching the international leading level and breaking the foreign monopoly.
Taking responsibility and seeking change, there are both innovative breakthroughs in the ups and downs of the industry and forward-looking layouts in times of peace.
China is a large agricultural country, and agriculture is the foundation of the national economy. Qin Yinglin (秦英林), Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Muyuan Foods Co., Ltd. (牧原实业集团有限公司), led the company to deeply cultivate independent breeding for more than 20 years, breaking the restrictions on imported breeding pigs. The company also innovated the "pig farming and field feeding" cycle model, treating pig manure into organic fertilizer and providing it to farmers free of charge to replace chemical fertilizers, increasing crop yields. At present, it serves 4.72 million mu of farmland and reduces the use of chemical fertilizers by 154,600 tons. The model was selected as a sustainable agriculture case by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
With the courage to be the first to try and the determination to be unwavering, from investing heavily in tackling "stranglehold" technologies to actively participating in the development of green agriculture, batches of private entrepreneurs and builders have deeply rooted their feelings for the country and integrated enterprise development and personal growth into the overall situation of national development, bravely shouldering the responsibilities of the times, maintaining the spirit of "those who dare to fight will win," and realizing greater dreams and creating greater value in being of one heart and one mind with the motherland.
Diligence: Practicing Social Responsibility with Entrepreneurial Spirit
Waterbirds soaring on the shore of Qinghai Lake (青海湖), Tibetan girls dancing under the snow-capped mountains... In the workshop of Shengyuan Carpet Group Co., Ltd. (圣源地毯集团有限公司), female workers are weaving exquisite and three-dimensional patterns.
After graduating from university in 2007, Xue Ting (薛婷) founded Shengyuan Carpet Group Co., Ltd. (圣源地毯集团有限公司) with the original intention of serving the country through industry. Over the past 18 years, traditional skills have embarked on the road of industrial development, and Tibetan carpets have gone from the plateau of Qinghai (青海) to more than 40 countries and regions. Not only that, Xue Ting (薛婷) also built training bases in agricultural and pastoral areas, allowing farmers and herdsmen to achieve employment at their doorstep, and industrial development has become a bond of national unity.
Being rich and responsible, rich and righteous, and rich and loving are valuable qualities of outstanding private entrepreneurs in the new era.
The vast number of private entrepreneurs interpret the entrepreneurial spirit with practical actions, and are models of patriotism, dedication, law-abiding operation, entrepreneurial innovation, and giving back to society, leaving solid footprints in areas such as industrial revitalization, ecological protection, and people's livelihood improvement—
In Sichuan (四川), Geng Funeng (耿福能), Chairman of Good Doctor Panxi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (好医生攀西药业有限责任公司), has led the company to take root in Butuo County (布拖县), Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture (凉山彝族自治州) since 1996, promoting the planting of Chinese medicinal materials in the "company + branch + cooperative + base + farmer" model to create a whole industrial chain system. As of 2024, it has driven the planting of Chinese medicinal materials in 33,800 mu in 9 counties of Liangshan Prefecture (凉山州), and the national planting area has reached 65,400 mu.
In Zhejiang (浙江), Song Hanping (宋汉平), Chairman of Ningbo Fubon Holding Group Co., Ltd. (宁波富邦控股集团有限公司), closely integrates enterprise development with ecological civilization construction. With technological innovation, relying on the intelligent garbage classification two-network integration system and big data management system, he has built a resource recycling network covering more than 3,200 points in Ningbo (宁波) with 1.19 million registered users, achieving more than 500,000 tons of resource recycling in 5 years.
In Guangdong (广东), Zhang Chunhua (张春华), Chairman of Shenzhen Langhua Investment Holding Co., Ltd. (深圳市朗华投资控股有限公司), takes providing professional productive services for Chinese manufacturing as his belief, and has created a productive service platform that integrates the entire manufacturing chain service, serving more than 30,000 manufacturing enterprises, responding to the needs of industrial upgrading with professional services, and supporting manufacturing enterprises to "go global" with platform innovation.
When hundreds of boats compete, those who row hard come first.
Bravely fighting in the waves of economic environment changes and transforming and upgrading towards high-quality development, the survival and development of private enterprises is also an epitome of a country and a nation overcoming difficulties and forging ahead bravely in the era of great changes.
Looking at the land of China, the vast number of private entrepreneurs are interpreting the spirit of outstanding entrepreneurs with practical actions. From technological innovation to transformation and upgrading, from serving the country through industry to common prosperity, the private economy bravely shoulders its responsibilities, stands at the forefront, and innovates and creates in the process of Chinese-style modernization, injecting inexhaustible impetus into high-quality development.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 鲜 敢 吕九海 安博文
The asphalt road leads to the glacial lake, and wisps of smoke rise from the guesthouses. Herdsmen drive cattle and horses, pitch tents, and dance and sing joyfully.
The Sapu Scenic Area in Biru County (比如县), Nagqu City (那曲市), Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区), features majestic glaciers and mirror-like lakes. In Tibetan, "Sa (萨)" means "snow leopard," and "Pu (普)" means "deep in the mountain valley." In recent years, with the continuous improvement of transportation conditions, more and more tourists come here to enjoy the unique snow-capped mountains and ice lake scenery.
"In July this year, the Sapu Tourist Scenic Area was officially approved as a national 4A-level tourist scenic area. Behind this is a comprehensive upgrade of tourism services and facilities," said Danzeng Dajie (旦增达杰), a scenic spot guide, on the shore of the glacial lake.
Smooth Roads Drive Tourism Boom
"The road is full of rocks, impassable for people and horses, extremely difficult, and indescribable." In the past, people described the roads in Tibet (西藏) in this way.
At the end of September last year, the Xiagongla Mountain Tunnel (夏贡拉山隧道) was completed and officially opened to traffic, turning the "most dangerous road to Tibet" into a thoroughfare, and also realizing the full connection of the G349 National Highway, known as the "Central Sichuan-Tibet Line (川藏中线)."
Zhaxi (扎西), who lives in the county seat of Bianba County (边坝县), Changdu City (昌都市), Tibet (西藏), has a direct feeling: "The number of vehicles and tourists has doubled and increased. Parking and accommodation are full." A series of major transportation projects in the area have been approved and started construction one after another. The national and provincial trunk roads are smooth, and the "capillaries" inside the county and township are also accelerating dredging, bringing tangible convenience to local villagers.
"Yak meat and cordyceps can now be transported out quickly and sold at a good price, and our pockets are getting more and more bulging!" The road to prosperity is wider; "The children can get on the bus and go to the county to receive education." It is no longer a problem for children to go to school; "In case of emergency, a phone call can immediately send people to the county hospital." Medical conditions are not what they used to be... Villagers can't finish talking about the changes around them.
Puyu Village (普玉一村) in Bianba Town (边坝镇), more than 50 kilometers away from Bianba County (边坝县), has unique natural landscapes such as the Xianggrila Glacier (祥格拉冰川) and Gongga Blue Ice Cave (贡嘎蓝冰洞). At the beginning of 2024, the Bianba County (边坝县) government donated 50 off-road motorcycles to the village and actively created a "snow and ice exploration + off-road riding" characteristic tourism project. All 149 households in the village joined in. "Relying on this motorcycle, my annual income exceeds 10,000 yuan," said villager Pingcuo (平措).
Under a series of policy incentives, Bianba County (边坝县) received more than 300,000 tourists throughout last year, driving tourism revenue of 34.54 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 225.84%.
Beautiful Scenery Requires Beautiful Ecology
Sapu Snow Mountain (萨普雪山) is located at the junction of Yangxiu Township (羊秀乡), Biru County (比如县) and Jiagong Township (加贡乡), Bianba County (边坝县), attracting many tourists with its majestic posture and magnificent large oceanic glaciers.
"Now it is very smooth to drive from the township to Sapu Snow Mountain (萨普雪山). More and more tourists come to our side to see the millennium glacier, and I am very busy at work!" said Ciren Duoji (次仁多吉), a guide from Jiagong Township (加贡乡).
At the end of 2023, Biru County (比如县) successfully created an autonomous region-level demonstration county for all-area tourism. In July this year, 14 tourist attractions in Tibet (西藏), including the Sapu Tourist Scenic Area, were officially approved as national 4A-level tourist attractions. "Three-color Lake (三色湖), Sapu Scenic Area, Tang-Tubo Ancient Road Scenic Area (唐蕃古道景区)... There are quite a few 4A-level attractions along the way." Spreading out the tourist map, Mr. Bu (步先生), a self-driving tourist from Hubei (湖北), marked his target "check-in points" one by one.
Living in guesthouses, setting up tents, eating Tibetan food, having hot pot, galloping on horses, and taking scenic travel photos... There are more and more new cultural tourism consumption scenarios. After the rain, the actors and tourists of the Biru County (比如县) Art Troupe formed a circle, leading everyone to dance intangible cultural heritage dances, and songs, applause, and laughter merged into one.
In order to promote cultural tourism consumption, "supporting intangible cultural heritage and performing arts into scenic spots" was written into the "Policy Measures for Special Actions to Boost Consumption in Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区提振消费专项行动政策措施)." In addition, Tibet (西藏) is implementing a characteristic cultural tourism industry cultivation project, promoting the deep integration of tourism with sports, agriculture, transportation, commerce and other fields by creating a number of high-quality scenic spots, cultural tourism corridors and famous tourist counties.
"To keep the beautiful scenery permanent, we also need to protect the ecology of the scenic spot." Jiayang (加央), member of the Standing Committee of the Biru County (比如县) Party Committee and Minister of the Propaganda Department, said that in order to allow more people to participate in ecological protection, Biru County (比如县) has set up 36 positions in the Sapu Scenic Area, including forestry ecological protection, water ecological protection, and highway maintenance workers, which not only solves the employment problem of the masses, but also protects the ecological environment.
Empty Houses Become "Golden Houses"
With the booming tourism industry, more and more farmers and herdsmen are employed at their doorsteps.
Danzeng Dajie (旦增达杰) is a native of Biru County (比如县). After graduating from the Tourism Management major of Tibet Vocational and Technical College (西藏职业技术学院) in 2021, he chose to return to his hometown to work as a guide. "It is very fulfilling to tell the story of my hometown to more people," said Danzeng Dajie (旦增达杰).
"My bed costs 100 yuan a night. Not only are these few days fully booked, but the next few days have also been booked early." Bum (布姆), a villager in Parong Village (帕荣村), Yangxiu Township (羊秀乡) and a guesthouse operator, said while busy, changing bed sheets, cleaning rooms, and placing toiletries skillfully... In more than 20 minutes, a room was cleaned up.
Empty houses have become "golden houses," and the people's "road to prosperity" has become wider.
Since 2017, the Biru County (比如县) Cultural Tourism Department has encouraged and guided local people to use their own vacant houses to open family hotels to provide accommodation and catering services for tourists, and has invested 2.26 million yuan in guesthouse decoration, purchase of oxygen production equipment and accommodation supplies.
In the Three-color Lake Scenic Area (三色湖景区), the first inn officially opened in Puyu Village (普玉一村) at the end of 2022. Today, there are 7 family guesthouses operating locally, and each family's annual income has increased by an average of 50,000 to 100,000 yuan.
Not only Bianba (边坝) and Biru (比如), in the Basongcuo Scenic Area (巴松措景区) in Nyingchi City (林芝市), family hotels that retain the ancient village style of the Gongbu Tibetan ethnic group are very popular among tourists, and the local per capita annual income exceeds 20,000 yuan; in Kangbu Township (康布乡), a hot spring resort in Shigatse City (日喀则市), the once inconspicuous rural houses have now become an excellent choice for tourists to get close to nature...
In recent years, through policy support, brand building and other measures, Tibet's (西藏) cultural tourism industry has been booming, driving more and more farmers and herdsmen to participate in it, realizing employment and income increase at their doorsteps, and sharing the dividends of high-quality development. "Green mountains and clear waters" have truly become "golden mountains and silver mountains" 金山银山 (jīn shān yín shān - "gold mountain silver mountain," a metaphor for natural resources being a source of wealth).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李龙伊
As dusk falls, the war research office of a certain unit of the Eastern Theater Command (东部战区) is brightly lit, and a special seminar focusing on new-quality combat issues is underway.
Wang Chao (王超), a senior engineer of the unit, holds a laser pointer and explains the technical model of a complex combat system in a certain field. Those listening to the explanation below the stage are all staff officers and technical experts from the theater command. Everyone's eyes are fixed on the future combat dynamic conceptual diagram on the big screen, and they take notes from time to time.
This is a microcosm of the officers and soldiers of the theater command concentrating on war research, and it is also Wang Chao's (王超) normal work state.
After the establishment of the Eastern Theater Command (东部战区), the unit where Wang Chao (王超) is located was also reorganized, and its functional tasks were expanded from supporting a single service to serving joint operations. "To devote oneself to joint operations research, one must not only make a role change, but also reshape one's thinking." Facing the new task, Wang Chao (王超) set higher demands on himself.
"How is the target strike effect? Is there a quantitative assessment? What impact does it have on the battlefield situation?" At a war problem research meeting, the commander raised three questions, which triggered Wang Chao's (王超) thinking. He keenly realized that these problems are the key bottlenecks restricting the improvement of joint operations command efficiency.
"Without a unified quantitative model, the evaluation results can only rely on experience judgment, which will directly affect the accuracy of command decisions." Wang Chao (王超) took the initiative to request the establishment of a key research group, determined to take on this "hard bone."
For three consecutive months, he led the team to stay on the "digital battlefield," retrieving and analyzing data from dozens of exercises, innovating evaluation algorithm models, distinguishing between combat stages, task types, and action styles, allowing the system to automatically decide on evaluation dimensions and dynamically generate effectiveness data.
Whether the model is good or not still needs to be tested by actual combat. In one exercise, the system relied on the algorithm model to accurately assess that the effect of a certain action was not good. The command organization adjusted its troop deployment and action plan accordingly, and finally achieved a reversal. This achievement filled the technical gap in the theater command in the field of combat effectiveness evaluation, realized the transformation from "relying on experience judgment" to "using data to speak," and won the third prize of the Army Science and Technology Progress Award, providing solid technical support for joint operations command.
"As a member of the theater command, we must put all our心思 (xīnsi - "thoughts/efforts," all our thoughts and efforts) into planning and researching war, and constantly overcome difficulties to contribute to joint operations," Wang Chao (王超) said. During the upgrade and expansion of a certain command support system, because the volume of data resources from various services increased exponentially after aggregation, the background server frequently "dropped the chain" and the calculation response time of a certain key function was too long. If these problems are not solved, the system will be difficult to support command decisions.
The higher authorities required that the repairs be rushed, and Wang Chao (王超) was urgently transferred to form a task force to be responsible for finding out the root cause of the problem and proposing solutions. He did not hesitate and issued a "military order."
The seemingly ordinary technical troubleshooting actually requires breaking through the bottlenecks of multiple technical problems. In two months, Wang Chao (王超) led three key members to devote themselves to research day and night. They regarded the computer room as a "battlefield" and used keyboards, mice, and digital codes as "weapons" to vigorously carry out the task. Through thousands of data analyses, they finally accurately locked the root cause of the problem—there was redundancy in a certain function module of the system.
Finding the problem is key, and solving it is the key. He led the team to repeatedly deduce and optimize the plan, successfully increasing data processing efficiency by more than 40%, which means that they cleared the blockage in the command link of the professional field, and the speed of information flow was greatly improved.
"One person being strong is not strong, the team being strong is the real strength." Wang Chao (王超) said this in his annual work report. He deeply knows that promoting high-tech empowerment cannot rely on "**单打独斗**" (dān dǎ dú dòu - "fighting alone," acting alone without coordination), but must "**集智聚力**" (jí zhì jù lì - "pool wisdom gather strength," pooling collective wisdom and strength) to create a technological team that understands technology, is proficient in tactics, and can fight.
"Thank you to Teacher Wang Chao (王超) for his patient guidance, which has allowed me to gradually gain growth and progress," said an assistant engineer in Wang Chao's (王超) team. In those years, when this assistant engineer was assigned to the unit, he did not have a deep understanding of joint operations, and he knew very little about the use of combat forces. Wang Chao (王超) took him to learn the basic knowledge of data sources, transmission chains, model algorithms, and other links. In less than 3 years, he has become a key member of the team. In a recent military-local joint competition, he also won the gold medal.
After Wang Chao (王超) was named a top talent in the theater command's discipline field, he established a war-technology integration task force in the unit, inviting experts from colleges and universities and key members of the troops to participate in team building, opening up the "last mile" between combat needs and technological realization. In the past 5 years, the task force he led has achieved 15 outstanding achievements for the entire army.
"In the future, we will continue to focus on strong enemies and opponents, constantly improve our technology, and empower efficient command decisions!" Wang Chao (王超) said.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing (新华社北京) July 28th - Recently, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央办公厅) and the General Office of the State Council (国务院办公厅) printed and distributed the "Implementation Plan for the Childcare Subsidy System" and issued a notice requiring all regions and departments to conscientiously implement it in light of their actual conditions.
The main contents of the "Implementation Plan for the Childcare Subsidy System" are as follows.
This plan is formulated to implement the Party Central Committee's decision-making arrangements on improving the fertility support policy system and incentive mechanism, and to promote the construction of a fertility-friendly society.
I. Overall Requirements
We must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second and Third Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee, adhere to the people-centered development philosophy, guarantee and improve people's livelihoods in development, establish and implement a childcare subsidy system, and create a social atmosphere conducive to childbirth.
In our work, we must: adhere to improving people's livelihoods, benefiting the people and making things convenient for the people, and effectively reduce the cost of family childbirth and raising children; adhere to overall coordination and ensuring fairness, connect with existing people's livelihood policies, and ensure that eligible infants and young children enjoy subsidies equally; adhere to doing our best and acting according to our capabilities, comprehensively consider the population development situation and the level of economic and social development, reasonably determine the scope and standards of subsidies, and ensure fiscal affordability and policy sustainability; adhere to safety and standardization, simplicity and ease of implementation, strictly verify qualifications, standardize the distribution process, improve efficiency, ensure the safety of funds, and truly do good things well.
II. Subsidy Recipients and Standards
(I) Subsidy Recipients. Starting from January 1, 2025, subsidies will be issued to infants and young children under the age of 3 who are born in compliance with laws and regulations, until they reach the age of 3.
(II) Subsidy Standards. Childcare subsidies will be issued annually, and the current national basic standard is 3,600 yuan per child per year. Among them, for infants and young children born before January 1, 2025, who are under 3 years old, the subsidy will be calculated and issued based on the number of months they should be subsidized. Childcare subsidies issued in accordance with the childcare subsidy system regulations are exempt from individual income tax. When identifying recipients of minimum living security, people in extreme poverty, and other assistance recipients, childcare subsidies will not be included in family or individual income.
III. Application Procedures
Childcare subsidies shall be applied for by one of the parents or other guardians of the infant or young child to the place where the infant or young child's household registration is located, in accordance with regulations. The specific procedures are as follows.
(I) Application. The applicant fills in relevant information, provides the infant or young child's birth medical certificate, household registration book, and other materials, and makes a commitment to the authenticity and completeness of the information and materials provided. Applicants mainly apply online through the childcare subsidy information management system, but can also apply offline.
(II) Preliminary Review. The township government (街道办事处) (jiedao banshichu) where the infant or young child's household registration is located conducts a preliminary review of the application information, and the village (居)min committee (村(居)民委员会) assists in relevant work.
(III) Review and Confirmation. The county-level health department conducts review and confirmation, and provides relevant information to the finance department at the same level.
(IV) Spot Check. The municipal health department conducts spot checks on the information of subsidy recipients at a certain percentage. The provincial health department conducts spot checks as needed, implements dynamic supervision, and ensures the safety of funds.
IV. Sources of Funds and Subsidy Distribution
(I) Fiscal Sharing Ratio. Starting in 2025, the central government will establish a joint fiscal power transfer payment project called "Childcare Subsidy Subsidy Funds" to subsidize the funds required for the distribution of national basic standard childcare subsidies to the eastern, central, and western regions in proportion. The funds required for local standard increases shall be borne by local finances.
(II) Subsidy Distribution Time. Each province shall determine the specific distribution time in light of its actual conditions, improve distribution efficiency, and ensure that subsidies are distributed in a timely and full amount.
(III) Subsidy Distribution Channels. The distribution channel is the applicant's or the infant or young child's bank card or other financial account. It is encouraged to distribute the subsidies through the "one-card system" for benefiting people and benefiting agriculture fiscal subsidies or the infant or young child's social security card.
V. Management and Supervision
(I) Information Management. Establish a nationally unified childcare subsidy information management system, combine it with the joint handling of "one matter at birth," and strengthen information sharing between regions and departments. Establish an information management system, do a good job in information collection, processing, and utilization, implement information security responsibilities, and protect personal information security. Strengthen dynamic information monitoring, regularly carry out data summary and analysis, and provide support for policy evaluation and adjustment optimization.
(II) Whole-Process Supervision. Audit departments and finance departments shall strengthen whole-process supervision and inspection. Discipline inspection and supervision agencies shall strengthen supervision, discipline enforcement, and accountability, and severely investigate and deal with unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems that damage the interests of the masses. The implementation of the childcare subsidy system shall be subject to social supervision. Health departments and finance departments shall strengthen the management of fund use, organize performance evaluations in a timely manner, and effectively improve the efficiency of fund use.
VI. Strengthen Organization and Implementation
(I) Strengthen Organizational Leadership. Under the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, all regions and relevant departments shall carefully organize and arrange, clarify responsibilities and division of labor, and ensure that responsibilities are in place, guarantees are in place, and implementation is in place. Provincial governments shall strengthen overall management and fiscal affordability assessment to ensure that childcare subsidy policies are coordinated with the level of economic and social development in their regions, maintain a general balance with similar regions, and ensure that their own finances and lower-level finances are affordable and sustainable. Provincial health departments and finance departments shall, in accordance with this plan and in light of the actual population and development of their regions, formulate implementation plans for their provinces, and submit them to the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委) and the Ministry of Finance (财政部) for the record after being approved by the provincial government. Relevant management regulations for the childcare subsidy system shall be formulated separately by the National Health Commission and the Ministry of Finance.
(II) Do a Good Job in Connection and Standardization. Each province shall implement unified childcare subsidy policies and standards within the municipal administrative region. Provinces with small regional differences may also implement unified childcare subsidy policies and standards within their provinces. Governments below the county level shall not independently issue childcare subsidy policies or standards. If provincial or municipal government departments intend to issue other childcare subsidy policies or increase standards, they should strengthen prior demonstration and evaluation, and report to the higher-level competent department for the record in accordance with the relevant requirements for the record of people's livelihood policies.
(III) Enhance Implementation Effectiveness. Combine maternal and child health care, hospital delivery, and infant and young child vaccination, health management, household registration, social security card application, etc., optimize service processes, do a good job in policy publicity and interpretation, and improve public awareness. All regions and relevant departments shall conduct in-depth research, widely listen to opinions and suggestions, evaluate the implementation of the childcare subsidy system, and promptly summarize experiences and practices and improve policies and measures.
(Related reports are on page 4)
Return to TopOn July 28th, the Anhui section of the new Shanghai-Nanjing-Hefei High-Speed Railway's grand bridge across the Shanghai-Shaanxi Expressway was successfully completed, laying the foundation for subsequent construction. It is reported that the new Shanghai-Nanjing-Hefei High-Speed Railway is an important part of the "eight vertical and eight horizontal" coastal passage in the national medium and long-term railway network plan, and it is a fast and direct channel for cities along the Yangtze River north of the river to reach the Nanjing Metropolitan Area (南京都市圈) and the Shanghai Metropolitan Area (上海都市圈).
Photo by Sun Chaoqing (孙朝庆) (Xinhua News Agency) (新华社发)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王 观
On July 28th, the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办公室) held a series of thematic press conferences on "High-Quality Completion of the '14th Five-Year Plan'," introducing the relevant situation of tax reform and development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
Hu Jinglin (胡静林), Director of the State Taxation Administration (国家税务总局), stated that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's economy has grown steadily, and the total tax revenue collected by tax authorities is expected to exceed 155 trillion yuan, accounting for about 80% of the total fiscal revenue. The financial foundation for economic and social development and improvement of people's livelihoods will be continuously strengthened. The cumulative new tax and fee reductions nationwide are expected to reach 10.5 trillion yuan, and export tax rebates are expected to exceed 9 trillion yuan, which has strongly promoted the economy and society to improve and innovate.
Manufacturing Development: Stable in Quantity and Improving in Quality, Innovation Momentum is Good
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (党中央) and the State Council (国务院) deployed and implemented a series of tax and fee preferential policies, which not only brought tangible tax reduction dividends to business entities and residents, but also continuously injected strong impetus into high-quality economic development.
According to statistics, from 2021 to the first half of this year, the cumulative new tax and fee reductions nationwide reached 9.9 trillion yuan, and are expected to reach 10.5 trillion yuan by the end of this year, with an average annual new tax and fee reduction of over 2 trillion yuan. From the perspective of policy orientation, preferential policies focusing on supporting technological innovation and advanced manufacturing development have resulted in new tax and fee reductions of 3.6 trillion yuan, accounting for 36.7%. From the perspective of beneficiaries, among various economic entities, private economic taxpayers, including private enterprises and individual businesses, have received new tax and fee reductions of 7.2 trillion yuan, accounting for 72.9%. Among various sizes of enterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises have enjoyed new tax and fee reductions of 6.3 trillion yuan, accounting for 64%.
Under the strong promotion of tax and fee incentives and other related policies, China has achieved positive results in high-quality development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
Manufacturing Development: Stable in Quantity and Improving in Quality. Invoice data shows that from 2021 to 2024, the proportion of manufacturing enterprises' sales revenue in all enterprises has remained at around 29%, providing important support for economic growth. In particular, the high-end and intelligent development of manufacturing has steadily advanced, with the average annual growth of sales revenue of equipment manufacturing and high-tech manufacturing reaching 9.6% and 10.4% respectively, and year-on-year growth of 8.9% and 11.9% respectively in the first half of this year.
Innovation Momentum is Good. The additional deduction of research and development expenses is an important tax support policy to promote technological innovation. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the policy of additional deduction of research and development expenses has been continuously optimized and strengthened. In 2024, enterprises enjoyed an additional deduction of 3.32 trillion yuan for research and development expenses, and the number of beneficiaries was 615,000, an increase of 25.5% and 16.7% respectively compared with 2021.
The Private Economy is Steadily Growing. Invoice data shows that the proportion of sales revenue of the private economy in the country has increased from 68.9% in 2020 to 71.7% in the first half of this year. Among them, the average annual growth of sales revenue of private enterprises in the fields of industrial robots and new energy vehicles from 2021 to 2024 was 24.1% and 50.1% respectively, showing stronger development vitality and potential.
Wang Daoshu (王道树), Deputy Director of the State Taxation Administration (国家税务总局), introduced that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's green tax system construction has been continuously improved. From 2021 to June this year, specialized green tax categories such as environmental protection tax and resource tax have achieved tax revenue of 2.5 trillion yuan; tax and fee preferential policies to promote green development have reduced taxes and fees by 1.5 trillion yuan. Through this "increase and decrease" adjustment, the policies of the green tax system have been continuously optimized, the preferential policies have become more precise, and management has continued to innovate.
Continuous Improvement of the Individual Income Tax System to Promote Fair Distribution, Improve People's Livelihoods, and Enhance the Whole Society's Awareness of Tax Law Compliance
Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," the tax authorities have conscientiously implemented the new Individual Income Tax Law, continuously improved collection and management and services, and the continuously improving individual income tax system has played a positive role in promoting fair distribution, improving people's livelihoods, and enhancing the whole society's awareness of tax law compliance.
In terms of promoting fair distribution, from the perspective of individual income tax declaration data from 2021 to 2024, the top 10% of the population in terms of annual income paid about 90% of the individual income tax; individuals with an annual comprehensive income of less than 120,000 yuan basically do not need to pay taxes after the final settlement.
Cai Zili (蔡自力), Deputy Director of the State Taxation Administration (国家税务总局), said that China's individual income tax deduction items are relatively large from an international perspective, including the basic deduction, commonly known as the "threshold," as well as the "three insurances and one fund" special deduction, and seven special additional deductions such as children's education and elderly care, as well as other deductions such as commercial health insurance and personal pensions, which basically cover most livelihood expenditures.
In terms of promoting the improvement of people's livelihoods, during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the state focused on reducing the expenditure burden of residents' family birth, raising children, and supporting the elderly, and continuously improved the special additional deduction policy for individual income tax, both increasing the "expansion" of deduction items and increasing the "efforts" to raise deduction standards, so as to convey the state's "efforts" to improve people's livelihoods with the "temperature" of the new individual income tax preferential policies. Taking the individual income tax final settlement that just ended this year as an example, more than 100 million people across the country enjoyed special additional deductions, among which, young and middle-aged people aged 30-55 are the main beneficiaries, accounting for more than 80% of the number of people and more than 90% of the amount of tax reduction enjoyed.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the state also issued or continued a series of individual income tax preferential policies, including continuing to implement preferential policies with a wide audience, such as separate taxation of annual one-time bonuses and exemption from final settlement tax payments of less than 400 yuan, reducing individual income tax by 580 billion yuan. Since the implementation of the housing exchange tax refund policy in October 2022, 11.1 billion yuan of individual income tax has been refunded, effectively reducing the tax burden on this part of the population.
From the perspective of the individual income tax final settlement that just ended this year, more than 100 million taxpayers applied for tax refunds of more than 130 billion yuan in accordance with the law, and more than 7 million taxpayers voluntarily declared and paid more than 48 billion yuan in supplementary tax in accordance with the law. This refund and supplement reflects the legal norms and fairness and justice brought about by China's new individual income tax system.
Building Smart Taxation, Focusing on Providing a More Worry-Free, Labor-Saving, and Time-Saving Tax Payment Experience
The convenience of tax payment is closely related to the production and life of the people, and it is also an important indicator reflecting China's business environment. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the tax authorities have carried out the "Spring Breeze Action for Convenient Tax Payment" for years, focusing on providing a more worry-free, labor-saving, and time-saving tax payment experience.
Nowadays, there are fewer tax payments "running on the road" and more "walking on the Internet," and long queues in tax service halls have basically become history; there are fewer invoice "paper tickets" and more "electronic tickets," and taxpayers spending a lot of manpower, material resources, and energy to collect, issue, and send tickets has basically become history; there are fewer "manual filling" of reports and more "automatic filling," and enterprises holding thick materials to go to the tax authorities for on-site declaration and tax payment has basically become history. These changes not only reflect the improvement of the tax business environment, but also the epitome of the improvement of national governance capabilities.
Building smart taxation is a key task clearly defined in the "Opinions on Further Deepening the Reform of Tax Collection and Management" issued by the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中办) and the General Office of the State Council (国办), and has been included in the national "14th Five-Year Plan."
Rong Hailou (荣海楼), Chief Economist and Spokesperson of the State Taxation Administration (国家税务总局), said that building smart taxation aims to facilitate tax payment, realize the efficient handling of various tax businesses, and ultimately serve the overall development situation and help the efficient governance of the national economy and society. Taking digital electronic invoices as an example, as of the end of June this year, more than 61 million taxpayers across the country have used digital electronic invoices, and the amount of invoices issued accounts for more than 90% of the total amount of invoices. Through the comprehensive digital reconstruction of invoices, an important commercial voucher, it not only makes it more convenient for taxpayers to use invoices, but also improves the financial turnover efficiency of "invoicing-settlement-payment collection," which is conducive to reducing institutional transaction costs in economic activities.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing (北京) on July 28th (寇江泽, 周畅): The Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部) held a regular press conference on the 28th. It was announced at the meeting that in the first half of this year, the overall quality of ambient air and surface water environment in China continued to improve.
Regarding ambient air quality, in the first half of the year, the average proportion of days with excellent or good air quality in 339 cities at or above the prefecture level was 83.8%, an increase of 1.0 percentage point year-on-year; the average proportion of days with heavy or more severe pollution was 1.5%, unchanged year-on-year. The national average PM2.5 concentration was 32.1 micrograms/cubic meter, a year-on-year decrease of 2.4%; the average PM10 concentration was the same as last year, at 55 micrograms/cubic meter.
From the perspective of key regions, the average PM2.5 concentration in the "2+36" cities in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) region and surrounding areas was 40.8 micrograms/cubic meter, a year-on-year decrease of 15.4%; the average proportion of days with excellent or good air quality was 67.6%, a year-on-year increase of 9.9 percentage points; the average proportion of days with heavy or more severe pollution was 1.2%, a year-on-year decrease of 1.8 percentage points.
The average PM2.5 concentration in 31 cities in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角地区) region was 37.4 micrograms/cubic meter, a year-on-year decrease of 4.3%; the average proportion of days with excellent or good air quality was 76.9%, a year-on-year increase of 1.6 percentage points; the average proportion of days with heavy or more severe pollution was 0.3%, a year-on-year decrease of 0.5 percentage points.
The average PM2.5 concentration in 13 cities in the Fenwei Plain (汾渭平原) was 38.3 micrograms/cubic meter, a year-on-year decrease of 13.7%; the average proportion of days with excellent or good air quality was 68.4%, a year-on-year increase of 7.1 percentage points; the average proportion of days with heavy or more severe pollution was 2.9%, a year-on-year increase of 1.2 percentage points.
Regarding surface water environmental quality, among the 3,641 national surface water assessment sections in the first half of the year, the proportion of sections with excellent or good water quality (Class I-III) was 89.0%, a year-on-year increase of 0.2 percentage points; the proportion of sections with water quality worse than Class V was 1.0%, a year-on-year increase of 0.2 percentage points. Among them, the proportion of sections with excellent or good water quality (Class I-III) in the seven major river basins including the Yangtze River (长江), Yellow River (黄河), Pearl River (珠江), Songhua River (松花江), Huai River (淮河), Hai River (海河), and Liao River (辽河), as well as the rivers in Northwest China, Southwest China, and the rivers in Zhejiang (浙) and Fujian (闽) provinces, was 90.4%, a year-on-year increase of 0.1 percentage points; the proportion of sections with water quality worse than Class V was 0.8%, a year-on-year increase of 0.3 percentage points.
Among the 209 key lakes (reservoirs) monitored, the proportion of lakes and reservoirs with excellent or good water quality (Class I-III) accounted for 78.0%, a year-on-year decrease of 1.5 percentage points; the proportion of lakes and reservoirs with water quality worse than Class V accounted for 3.8%, a year-on-year decrease of 0.5 percentage points.
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 28th (Reporter Zhou Yuan (周圆)), in the second half of this year, the industrial and information technology sector will implement the strategy of expanding domestic demand and make every effort to consolidate the fundamentals of the industrial economy. This will include implementing a new round of ten key industry stabilization and growth actions, giving full play to the leading role of major industrial provinces; accelerating the technological development and application promotion of artificial intelligence terminals, ultra-high-definition video, smart wearables, drones, etc.; and accelerating efforts to promote the action of clearing overdue payments to enterprises.
The main person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) stated that it is necessary to fully promote the independent control of key industrial chains, strengthen the guarantee of strategic mineral resources, and continue to organize industrial transfer and docking activities. Greater efforts will be made to promote the integrated development of technological innovation and industrial innovation, improve industrial development policies for humanoid robots, the Internet of Things, high-end instruments and meters, etc., and vigorously develop industrial culture. Improve the high-quality development policies for basic software and industrial software, build a national-level artificial intelligence open-source community, and promote the "Artificial Intelligence + Manufacturing" action to go deeper and more practically.
In addition, the industrial and information technology sector should improve industrial energy efficiency and green development levels, and strengthen the management of recycling and utilization of power batteries for new energy vehicles and lithium-ion batteries for electric bicycles. Promote the popularization and quality improvement of 5G and gigabit optical networks, orderly promote the construction and layout of computing power centers, and optimize satellite communication business access. Improve the gradient cultivation system for high-quality enterprises, and issue policy documents to build a mechanism to promote the development and growth of specialized, refined, and new small and medium-sized enterprises. Accelerate the implementation of reform tasks, do a good job in the preparation of the "15th Five-Year Plan," consolidate the comprehensive rectification results of the "involution-style" competition in the new energy vehicle industry, strengthen the governance of key industries such as photovoltaics, force the withdrawal of backward production capacity through standard upgrades, and strengthen the construction of a mandatory national standard system in the industrial and information technology sector.
Return to TopRecently, aerial spraying operations in dryland farming areas of the Heilongjiang Reclamation Area Beidahuang Group (黑龙江垦区北大荒集团) have been gradually launched, aiming to "strengthen and protect against diseases" for the growth of over 30 million mu of dryland crops, and to help increase grain production and achieve a bumper harvest.
On July 25th, in the Fifth Management Area of Zhaoguang Farm Co., Ltd. (赵光农场有限公司) of the Beian Branch (北安分公司) of the Beidahuang Group (北大荒集团), an agricultural aircraft was conducting aerial spraying operations.
Qian Boyu (钱泊羽) photographed (Xinhua News Agency (新华社) issued).
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on July 28th (Reporter: Dong Siyu (董丝雨)) On July 25th, local time, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration of China (中国国家林草局) held a side event themed "China's Plan for High-Quality Wetland Development: Building a Community of Life for Humans and Nature" during the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands in Victoria Falls City, Zimbabwe (津巴布韦维多利亚瀑布城). Representatives from seven countries, international organizations, and related institutions, including France (法国), Madagascar (马达加斯加), and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (联合国粮农组织), shared their insights and experiences on wetland conservation. On the same day, the Government of Zimbabwe (津巴布韦政府) signed the "Agreement on the Establishment of the International Mangrove Center," officially joining the International Mangrove Center. The number of prospective member states of the International Mangrove Center has increased to 19.
In September 2023, the 62nd meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ramsar Convention (《湿地公约》常委会) reviewed and approved the establishment of the International Mangrove Center in Shenzhen (深圳), China (中国). In November 2024, the agreement on the establishment of the International Mangrove Center was officially signed, and representatives from the first 18 member states jointly signed the agreement and unveiled the International Mangrove Center.
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Only 3.5 microns thick—over the past year, the ultra-thin, high-performance lithium battery copper foil produced by Anhui Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group (安徽铜陵有色金属集团) has been showcased at multiple international exhibitions.
"Only with deep accumulation can one achieve great success," said Gong Huadong (龚华东), Party Secretary and Chairman of Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group (铜陵有色金属集团), "Since the '14th Five-Year Plan,' we have focused on the mid-to-high end of the copper industry chain, implementing over 700 scientific research projects cumulatively."
The real economy is the foundation of a major country. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has made important instructions on developing the real economy during his multiple visits to Anhui: "Adhere to making the real economy stronger, better, and larger as the main direction" and "Safeguard the foundation of the real economy."
Grasping the real economy firmly, Anhui is focusing on accelerating the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, expanding strategic emerging industries, proactively planning for future industries, developing new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, and building a globally competitive advanced manufacturing cluster.
A green development path reflects the "old trees sprouting new buds" of traditional industries.
How can such a large factory area have no chimneys or waste residue? Walking into the waste-free factory of Tongling Nonferrous Jin Guan Copper Industry Branch (铜陵有色金冠铜业分公司), Chief Engineer Zhang Zhiguo (张志国) revealed the answer: "We have achieved internal recycling of waste gas, waste residue, and wastewater through technological upgrades and transformations, focusing on consuming solid waste generated during the smelting process."
Today, Jin Guan Copper Industry (金冠铜业) generates 230 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually from waste heat, which can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 120,000 tons. It also recovers more than 30,000 tons of copper metal annually, equivalent to the output of a medium-sized copper mine; it recovers more than 12 kinds of valuable elements associated with copper smelting, including rare metals such as rhenium and palladium.
Based on industrial resource endowments and industrial foundations, Anhui is actively exploring new paths for the high-end, intelligent, and green development of traditional industries. New products with high technological content and high added value are constantly emerging, and traditional advantageous industries such as steel, nonferrous metals, and cement are transforming towards new directions.
A high-level project witnesses the "bulk" of strategic emerging industries growing larger.
In Hefei Xin Zhan High-tech Zone (合肥新站高新区), the construction of the Hefei Visionox Technology Co., Ltd. (合肥国显科技有限公司) 8.6th generation active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) display device production line project is in full swing. This project, with a total investment of more than 50 billion yuan, will powerfully promote Hefei (合肥) to build a new display industry cluster with international influence and competitiveness.
Seizing the opportunities of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, Anhui is focusing on ten emerging industries, meticulously cultivating them, and continuously optimizing the business environment and making every effort to attract leading enterprises and cultivate industrial ecosystems, following the path of "leading enterprises—industry chain—industry cluster—industrial ecology."
From 2013 to 2024, the proportion of Anhui's (安徽) strategic emerging industries' output value in the province's total industrial output above designated size increased from 20.7% to 43.6%. More than 4,000 auto parts and after-market enterprises have settled in the province, gathering chains into groups and clusters into momentum, helping Anhui (安徽) achieve the ability to independently manufacture a new energy vehicle without leaving the province.
Adhering to the path of "scientific and technological innovation + industry," Anhui (安徽) continues to promote the deep integration of the industry chain and the innovation chain, promoting innovation resources to serve industries and gather towards enterprises. Among the newly recognized industrial innovation platforms each year, those led by enterprises must reach 80%; among the industrial science and technology tackling projects each year, those "proposed" by enterprises must also reach 80%.
Proactively planning for future industries, Anhui (安徽) is taking responsibility and acting with new concepts, forward-looking vision, and greater efforts.
In Wuhu (芜湖), the Aviation Town is "taking off" in the wind.
Aiming at the low-altitude economy, a future industry, the Aviation Town (航空小镇) located in Wanzhi District (湾沚区) of Wuhu City (芜湖市) has attracted nearly 200 enterprises, creating a complete industrial chain. "We can produce a domestically-made general aviation aircraft without leaving the park!" said Gao Yu (高宇), Director of the Aviation Industry Development Service Center Office of Wanzhi District (湾沚区航空产业发展服务中心办公室), with great pride.
In Hefei (合肥), "Wukong" is setting off a quantum computing storm.
Walking into the laboratory of Origin Quantum Computing Technology (Hefei) Co., Ltd. (本源量子计算科技（合肥）股份有限公司), a seemingly unremarkable "white can" is actually quite famous. "This is China's third-generation independently developed superconducting quantum computer 'Origin Wukong' (本源悟空)," introduced Dai Qun (代群), Vice President of the company. "Origin Wukong" (本源悟空) has completed more than 500,000 quantum computing tasks for users in 143 countries and regions since it was launched on January 6, 2024, and the global access volume has exceeded 30 million times. A "Quantum Avenue" (量子大道) in Hefei (合肥), only a few hundred meters long, has gathered more than 30 quantum technology companies.
More solid, stronger, and better, Anhui's (安徽) real economy development capacity continues to leapfrog. In 2024, Anhui's (安徽) manufacturing investment increased by 13.3% year-on-year; the revenue of the automobile industry and the equipment manufacturing industry both exceeded one trillion yuan; from 2013 to 2024, Anhui's (安徽) revenue of industries above designated size increased from 3.3 trillion yuan to approximately 5.5 trillion yuan.
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In Wangyi District (王益区), Tongchuan City (铜川市), Shaanxi Province (陕西省), the small village of Liangjiayuan (梁家塬), surrounded by the loess plateau hills, not far from three ordinary cave dwellings, stands the monument of "Martyr Liang Xixian's Former Residence" (抗日英烈梁希贤故居). Liang Sanxing (梁三姓), a 72-year-old villager, regularly maintains it. Every Spring Festival and Qingming Festival, he accompanies Liang's descendants who come from other places, and local villagers, to pay their respects here.
The hot summer wind blows across the Loess Plateau (黄土高原), reaching the roaring Yellow River (黄河), taking people back to the thrilling Battle of Zhongtiaoshan (中条山战役) 84 years ago. Liang Xixian (梁希贤), then Deputy Commander of the New 27th Division of the 80th Army of the National Revolutionary Army (国民革命军陆军第80军新编第27师), fought alongside his comrades who marched out of Tongguan (潼关). When ammunition and food ran out, to avoid being captured and humiliated, he jumped into the turbulent Yellow River (黄河), sacrificing his 43-year-old life.
Liang Xixian (梁希贤) was born in 1898 in Liangjiayuan Village (梁家塬村), Huangbao Town (黄堡镇), Tongguan (同官) (now Tongchuan City (铜川市), Shaanxi Province (陕西省)). Influenced by stories of heroic figures since childhood, Liang Xixian (梁希贤) aspired to serve the country. In 1925, against his family's wishes, he bid farewell to his inland hometown, went south to Guangzhou (广州), and was admitted to the fifth term of the Whampoa Military Academy (黄埔军校) in March 1926.
After graduation, he immediately participated in the Northern Expedition (北伐战争). After the full outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he went to the Battle of Shanghai (淞沪会战). With his military knowledge and command ability, Liang Xixian (梁希贤) was promoted all the way through battle merits, serving as platoon leader, company commander, battalion commander, and regimental commander, until he was transferred to the Deputy Commander of the New 27th Division. This army, mainly composed of soldiers from Shaanxi (陕西), was stationed in the Dali County (大荔县) area of Shaanxi (陕西) on the west bank of the Yellow River (黄河), guarding against the Japanese invaders who had occupied Shanxi (山西) and were across the river.
Standing on the bank of the Yellow River (黄河) in Tongguan County (潼关县), Shaanxi's (陕西) "Eastern Gateway," looking into the distance, the Zhongtiao Mountains (中条山) in Fenglingdu (风陵渡) on the opposite side are obviously much higher, suppressing the ancient pass with a commanding posture. Wang Ximin (王喜民), director of the Party History Research Office of Tongguan County (潼关县委党史研究室), told reporters that the Japanese army entrenched in the Zhongtiao Mountains (中条山) area had repeatedly shelled and bombed Tongguan (潼关), threatening the Longhai Railway (陇海铁路线). "Once the enemy successfully crossed the river, it would greatly threaten the safety of the anti-Japanese rear," he said.
In 1940, Liang Xixian's (梁希贤) unit was ordered to cross the Yellow River (黄河) and enter the Jinnan (晋南) Zhongtiao Mountains (中条山) area to confront the Japanese army. During this period, he led his troops to launch repeated attacks, destroying transportation lines and warehouses, giving the enemy a heavy blow.
On May 7, 1941, the Japanese army brazenly launched the Battle of Zhongtiaoshan (中条山战役), gathering 100,000 troops, and under the cover of aircraft and artillery, launched a large-scale offensive against the various passes of the Zhongtiao Mountains (中条山) guarded by the Chinese army. Liang Xixian (梁希贤), who was suffering from illness at the time, should have gone to the rear hospital for treatment, but when he learned of the Japanese army's offensive, he resolutely decided to stay with the troops to command the battle.
Liang Sanxing's (梁三姓) father participated in the Battle of Zhongtiaoshan (中条山战役). He learned from his father that the general who came out of Liangjiayuan Village (梁家塬村) braved the enemy's crazy offensive of releasing poison gas on the ground and repeated bombings from the air, inspected the positions while ill, and encouraged the officers and soldiers to resist to the death.
On May 9, under the enemy's frantic offensive, the Chinese army fought and retreated, resisting stubbornly. Backed by a Yellow River (黄河) ferry crossing that served as a "lifeline" for material transportation, the New 27th Division defended its position to the death, but was eventually defeated due to being outnumbered. Seeing the critical situation, Liang Xixian (梁希贤) ordered the remaining troops to break through separately. After retreating to a cliff and fighting fiercely for a long time, Liang Xixian (梁希贤), who was wounded in many places, ran out of ammunition, turned around and jumped into the turbulent Yellow River (黄河), sacrificing himself for the country.
In August 2015, Liang Xixian (梁希贤) was included in the second batch of 600 famous anti-Japanese martyrs and heroic groups announced by the Ministry of Civil Affairs (民政部).
In November 2022, the "Martyr Liang Xixian's Former Residence" (抗日英烈梁希贤故居) monument was erected in Liangjiayuan Village (梁家塬村) under the joint witness of the village committee and relevant departments of Wangyi District (王益区), Tongchuan City (铜川市). Li Jingqun (李景群), a member of the Tongchuan Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (铜川市政协委员) and a standing committee member of the Wangyi District Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (王益区政协常委), also began collecting Liang Xixian's (梁希贤) relics, searching for Liang Xixian's (梁希贤) descendants and veterans of the War of Resistance, and sorting out Liang Xixian's (梁希贤) related materials from that time. He told reporters that two of Liang Xixian's (梁希贤) brothers also fought against the Japanese invaders, and many men in Liangjiayuan Village (梁家塬村) gave up their small families and resolutely rushed to the anti-Japanese battlefield.
"The profound history of Liangjiayuan (梁家塬) is even more glorious because of General Liang Xixian (梁希贤) and other anti-Japanese soldiers in the village," said Li Jingqun (李景群). "Although I am not from Liangjiayuan (梁家塬), as a Chinese son and daughter, I have a responsibility to collect and preserve as much of General Liang Xixian's (梁希贤) historical data as possible, so that more people know how the martyrs built a great wall of flesh and blood with 同仇敌忾 (tóng chóu dí kài - "common hatred enemy spite," united in hatred against the enemy) more than 80 years ago."
From the Loess Plateau (黄土高原) to the banks of the Yellow River (黄河), the martyrs went into the waves, leaving behind the unstoppable and surging trend of national rejuvenation.
(According to Xinhua News Agency (新华社) Xi'an (西安) July 24th)
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Held from July 14th to 15th, the Central Urban Work Conference saw General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) deliver an important speech. He summarized the achievements of China's urban development in the new era, analyzed the situation facing urban work, and clarified the overall requirements, important principles, and key tasks for doing a good job in urban work, providing fundamental guidance for urban work in the new era and on the new journey. Cities are cities of the people. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), adhering to the people's position, has profoundly grasped the laws and trends of China's urban development under the new situation, and creatively proposed the concept of "people's city." This is an original contribution of the people-centered development thought in the field of urban work, providing new ideas and opening up a new situation for urban work in the new era. Under the guidance of the concept of "people's city," the Party Central Committee has adhered to the Party's comprehensive leadership over urban work, adhered to the principle of "cities built by the people and for the people," and promoted historical achievements in urban development. In the new era and on the new journey, we must conscientiously study and comprehend, and fully implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on urban work, profoundly grasp the important connotations, theoretical contributions, and practical paths of the "people's city" concept, vigorously build modern people's cities, and embark on a new path of urban modernization with Chinese characteristics, providing strong support for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.
Deeply Understand the Theoretical Contributions of the "People's City" Concept
The formation of the "people's city" concept has a profound theoretical foundation. It is a theoretical achievement of the organic combination of scientific theory and China's practical exploration, and it is the inheritance and sublimation of Marxist urban thought, traditional Chinese people-oriented thought, and the Communist Party of China's urban construction experience.
Inheritance and development of Marxist urban thought. Marx and Engels, based on dialectical materialism and historical materialism, profoundly revealed the essential laws of urban development and the duality of the capitalist urbanization process. Marxist urban thought affirmed the historical progressive significance of capitalism in developing modern large industrial cities and promoting the transformation of cities from traditional towns to modern metropolises, and proposed: "It established modern large industrial cities—their appearance like bamboo shoots after a rain—to replace naturally formed cities. Wherever it penetrates, it destroys all the old stages of handicrafts and industry. It makes the city ultimately triumph over the countryside." At the same time, it also criticized the capital logic and exploitative attributes followed by capitalist cities, and profoundly pointed out: "Subjecting the countryside to the rule of the city" and "Making the nation of peasants subordinate to the nation of the bourgeoisie." In this process, the bourgeoisie, with capital appreciation as its core, forced peasants to leave their homes and fall into the poverty trap of the city. With the rapid development of cities, the proletariat was forced to huddle in the dark corners of the city, enduring the dual shackles of physical and mental oppression. Marx profoundly revealed: "Making workers develop abnormally, becoming partial people, degrading workers into appendages of machines, and subjecting workers to the torment of labor." In order to transcend the inherent contradictions of capitalist urbanization, Marx and Engels envisioned an ideal picture of urban development, that is, urban development should transcend the logic of taking capital appreciation as the sole goal and become a field where the essential power of people is fully displayed. Lenin further linked the city with the people, emphasizing: "The city is the center of the people's economic, political, and spiritual life, and the main driving force of progress." The city is no longer "capital-centered," but has become a source of gain, happiness, and security for the people. Marxist urban thought's critical analysis of capitalist cities and its exposition of explicitly linking the people with the city laid a solid theoretical foundation for the "people's city" concept.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) clearly put forward: "Adhere to the principle of cities built by the people and for the people." This Central Urban Work Conference proposed: "Adhere to the systematic planning of the city as an organic life form," "Focus on optimizing the modern urban system," "Focus on building vibrant and innovative cities," "Focus on building comfortable and convenient livable cities," "Focus on building green and low-carbon beautiful cities," "Focus on building safe and reliable resilient cities," "Focus on building morally noble and benevolent civilized cities," and "Focus on building convenient and efficient smart cities." This is in line with Marxist urban thought, abandoning the one-sided urban development strategy focusing on economic growth and material space, and realizing the Sinicization and modernization of Marxist urban thought.
Absorption and deepening of traditional Chinese people-oriented thought. The "people's city" concept is a creative transformation and innovative development of traditional Chinese people-oriented thought in modern urban construction. From "the world is for the public" to "people's city for the people," from "the people are the foundation of the state" to "cities built by the people," and from "valuing the people and slighting profit" to "ensuring the well-being of the people," ancient Chinese people-oriented thought has profound ideological wisdom for the "people's city" concept. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "It is necessary to respect citizens' right to know, participate in, and supervise urban development decisions, and encourage enterprises and citizens to participate in urban construction and management in various ways." He requires that when formulating policies and plans, the actual needs of the people should be fully considered, the quality of life of the people should be improved, and the fruits of urban development should benefit the people, which is in line with the essence of the "people-oriented" thought contained in the excellent traditional Chinese culture. From a principle level, the "people first" of the "people's city" concept is in line with the "people-oriented" concept in ancient people-oriented thought.
The "people's city" concept further emphasizes the main position of the people. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The city belongs to the people, and urban construction must implement the people-centered development thought, so that the people can live a happier life." This emphasizes that the people are the main body of urban construction and development, and the people's yearning for a better life must be taken as the fundamental goal of urban work. From the perspective of people's livelihood and well-being, the people's livelihood and well-being thought in the "people's city" concept draws on the essence of the "valuing the people and slighting profit" concept in ancient people-oriented thought. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The core of the city is people. Whether urban work is done well or not, whether the people are satisfied or not, and whether life is convenient or not are important criteria for judgment." The "people's city" concept focuses on realizing the vital interests of the people and enhancing the people's sense of gain. This is not only an innovative development of China's ancient people-oriented thought, but also a contemporary expression of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) deep feelings for the people.
Continuation and sublimation of the Communist Party of China's urban construction experience. Looking back on the development process of more than a hundred years, our Party has always adhered to combining Marxist urban thought with the actual situation of China's urban construction, and constantly explored a new path of urban modernization with Chinese characteristics. The "people's city" concept is deeply rooted in the practice of urban modernization with Chinese characteristics, and has realized the innovation and development of modern urban theory in inheritance. Comrade Mao Zedong (毛泽东) profoundly realized the importance of cities for the liberation of the people and future construction, and actively created conditions conducive to the construction of people's cities in the process of liberating and taking over cities. In 1948, Comrade Mao Zedong (毛泽东) proposed in the "Telegram to the Luoyang Front Command after Recapturing Luoyang": "The city already belongs to the people, and everything should be based on the spirit that the city is managed by the people themselves." Comrade Deng Xiaoping (邓小平) profoundly realized the key position of urban construction in national economic and social development, and pointed out: "The proportion of 'bones' and 'meat' (that is, industrial and residential construction, transportation and municipal construction, commercial service industry construction, etc.) is imbalanced, and the proportion of accumulation and consumption is imbalanced. This year's plan is better, but it will take a lot of effort to fundamentally reverse this situation." This important exposition emphasizes that urban construction cannot be divorced from reality, let alone from the actual life of the masses. With the deepening of reform and opening up, Comrade Jiang Zemin (江泽民) proposed "accelerating the process of urbanization" and "coordinating urban and rural economic and social development." Comrade Hu Jintao (胡锦涛) further proposed to strive to form "a new pattern of urban development that is resource-saving, environmentally friendly, economically efficient, and socially harmonious," emphasizing the promotion of scientific urban development. The "people's city" concept proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) is the crystallization of the wisdom of our Party's urban construction experience for more than a hundred years, and provides a scientific guide for exploring a new path of urban modernization with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
Accurately Grasp the Profound Connotation of the "People's City" Concept
The "people's city" concept profoundly answers major theoretical and practical questions such as "for whom" cities are built, "who" they rely on, "who" evaluates them, and "what kind of cities to build and how to build them." It is a vivid embodiment of the people-centered development thought in the field of urban work, with lofty intentions and profound connotations, providing scientific theoretical support and practical guidance for urban work in the new era.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Urban construction is a major subject, and we must earnestly improve the level of urban construction with a high degree of responsibility to history and the people." "The people's daily food, clothing, housing, and transportation are inseparable from urban management and services." This Central Urban Work Conference emphasized: "Urban work must profoundly grasp and actively adapt to changes in the situation, transform the concept of urban development, and pay more attention to being people-oriented." This requires us to transform the people-centered development thought into a tangible and real urban life experience for the people through systematic reforms and practices in urban governance and development.
Anchor the target orientation and achieve a high degree of unity between urban development and the interests of the people. This Central Urban Work Conference emphasized "taking the construction of innovative, livable, beautiful, resilient, civilized, and intelligent modern people's cities as the goal," scientifically answering the era proposition of "what kind of cities to build," profoundly interpreting the rich connotation of "adhering to the systematic planning of the city as an organic life form," and further enhancing the target positioning of modern people's city construction.
Among them, "innovation" is the core driving force, occupying a leading position, injecting strong vitality and providing continuous momentum for urban transformation and upgrading; "livability" is a comprehensive indicator, focusing on providing residents with high-quality, comfortable, safe, convenient, and sustainable living conditions in many aspects such as environment, society, economy, and culture; "beauty" is the pursuit of quality, committed to building a harmonious coexistence between man and nature; "resilience" is the bottom-line guarantee, emphasizing a urban resilience system that focuses on prevention, rapid response, and continuous optimization to promote safe, orderly, efficient, and reliable urban operation; "civilization" is a spiritual symbol, which not only shows the cultural heritage through the tangible urban landscape, but also shapes the city's character with an intangible cultural temperament, and builds a new form of urban civilization that combines "form and spirit"; "wisdom" is the transformation engine, focusing on driving with both technological innovation and institutional innovation to achieve the simultaneous improvement of urban governance effectiveness and people's livelihood service quality. This goal is a concrete expression of the "people's city" concept, comprehensively explaining the profound connotation of high-quality development of modern people's cities, and fully conforming to the people's specific and real yearning for a better life, fully reflecting the high degree of unity between urban development and the interests of the people.
Keep in mind the fundamental purpose and let the people truly share the fruits of urban development. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that "we must adhere to development for the people, development relying on the people, and development results shared by the people," emphasizing that "the city is a place where people live in concentration, and urban construction must put the people's livability and settlement in the first place, and leave the best resources to the people." "For whom" is urban construction, this is the core proposition that concerns the direction and fundamental purpose of urban development. A brief and accurate answer to this question provides a fundamental guideline and action guide for the construction of modern people's cities.
"Sharing" is the purpose of joint construction and co-governance. Its essence lies in development for the people and shared by the people, highlighting that the people jointly enjoy the governance results in the process of urban construction. The people are the main body of urban sharing, and all work in urban construction should be carried out around the needs of the people, responding to the people's yearning for a better life, from planning to layout, from needs to guidance, from response to practice, accurately anchoring the focus, weaknesses, and blind spots in urban construction, meticulously grasping the pain points, difficulties, and blockages in people's lives, and effectively solving the small, urgent, and difficult matters in people's urban life, forming a virtuous interactive pattern of "universal sharing, comprehensive sharing, joint construction and sharing, and gradual sharing." Adhere to leaving the best resources to the people and serving the people with the best supply, so that the people can enjoy a higher quality of living space. When every urban plan responds to the people's expectations for a better life, and when every urban construction decision takes the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security as the benchmark, the "people's city" concept can truly become a vivid footnote to the construction of modern people's cities.
Gather the power to rely on, and achieve mutual empowerment between the people and the city in joint construction. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that "citizens are the main body of urban construction and urban development," emphasizing that "sharing is possible only through joint construction, and the process of joint construction is also the process of sharing," which profoundly clarifies that the construction of modern people's cities needs to rely on uniting the people and realizing the benign interaction between urban construction and people's livelihood improvement through a joint construction and sharing mechanism. This process emphasizes taking the people as the main body and multi-party subjects working together to build, "so that the government's visible hand, the market's invisible hand, and the citizens' hardworking hands work in the same direction." From spatial planning to infrastructure construction, from cultivating social customs to creating a cultural atmosphere, every step of the city's development should gather the wisdom and strength of the people.
This kind of joint construction is not passive participation, but fully respects the people's pioneering spirit and transforms the people's enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity into the endogenous driving force for urban development. "Cities built by the people" reflects the two-way empowerment of the city and the people. On the one hand, the city is the city of the people, and the city should uphold the characteristics of openness and inclusiveness, provide a stage for each individual to shine in life, and jointly achieve the development of people and the development of the city, so that the realization of people's value resonates with urban development. On the other hand, we must always place the people in the center of urban construction, strengthen the people's sense of ownership, gather the wisdom and strength of the people, and transform the people's creativity into a lasting driving force for urban development, so as to truly realize the organic unity of "cities built by the people and for the people."
Clarify the evaluation criteria and let the people participate in the entire chain of urban governance. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Whether urban planning and construction are done well or not, it will ultimately be measured by the people's satisfaction." The people are both participants in urban governance and evaluators of urban work. The "people's city" concept emphasizes that the people are not only the main body of urban needs, but also the main body of urban governance, and clarifies the role of the people as judges in urban construction and governance. Different from the Western urban construction centered on capital pursuit, it breaks the traditional governance path of "manager-oriented" and establishes the co-governance concept of "people-centered," which is essentially to build a governance evaluation system centered on the people.
From the overall urban plan to the formulation and implementation of policies, from the supply of public services to the refined governance of communities, this kind of co-governance is not formal democratic participation, but every decision needs to be tested by the people, and the people's expectations for a better life are transformed into quantifiable evaluation indicators through effective measures and institutionalized channels. This elevates the people's subjectivity to the height of urban construction and governance. From decision-making hearings to effectiveness evaluations, the governance process is made perceptible, participatory, and supervised, so that the people's reputation becomes a hard indicator for measuring the effectiveness of urban governance. When citizens directly participate in urban governance through platforms such as the 12345 hotline and residents' councils, and when the urban intelligence system takes the pain points of people's livelihood as the optimization orientation, the evaluation criteria for the construction of modern people's cities will be transformed from abstract concepts into concrete and perceptible governance effectiveness, so as to truly realize the modernization of urban governance with the people evaluating the city.
In-depth Practice of the Realistic Path of the "People's City" Concept
The "people's city" concept is a systematic, complete, and logically rigorous scientific system that profoundly explains the essential attributes of China's cities and determines the basic positioning and direction of China's urban development. The key to promoting the "people's city" concept to take root and blossom lies in adhering to the Party's comprehensive leadership, adhering to the people-centered development thought, and embarking on a new path of urban modernization with Chinese characteristics.
Adhere to the Party's comprehensive leadership. The Central Urban Work Conference held in 2015 proposed: "To do a good job in urban work, we must strengthen and improve the Party's leadership." This Central Urban Work Conference emphasized: "Adhere to and strengthen the Party's comprehensive leadership, and conscientiously practice the people-centered urban development concept" and "To build a modern people's city, we must strengthen the Party's comprehensive leadership over urban work." This profoundly clarifies the core position of the Party's leadership in practicing the people-centered urban development concept, and the Party's leadership is a main thread running through the construction of a modern people's city.
Strengthening the Party's leadership is a fundamental guarantee for deeply practicing the people-centered urban development concept and achieving high-quality urban development. For example, Beijing (北京市) adheres to Party building as a guide, improves leadership systems and working mechanisms, builds the "central nervous system" of a people's city, strengthens the executive power of all aspects with grassroots Party building as the foundation, consolidates the "nerve endings" of a people's city, and effectively transforms the Party's organizational advantages into the governance effectiveness of a people's city by "grasping the direction, grasping planning, grasping decision-making, grasping the team, and grasping major issues." Shanghai (上海市) consolidates the foundation of a people's city with grassroots Party building. By establishing a three-level linkage of "district-street/town-community" and a regionalized Party building organizational structure combining "special committees and street/town branches," it innovates the "Everyone's Discussion Hall" platform to realize the deep integration of the "Party building circle," "life circle," and "governance circle," allowing the people to truly become the "masters" of the city. These explorations and practices vividly interpret the institutional advantages of the Party's comprehensive leadership in solving the governance problems of people's cities. We must adhere to and strengthen the Party's comprehensive leadership over urban work, further improve leadership systems and working mechanisms, enhance the synergy of urban policies, and strengthen the executive power of all aspects. Establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, establish and improve a scientific urban development evaluation system, strengthen the quality and capacity building of the urban work team, and encourage the vast number of Party members and cadres to start businesses, take responsibility, and make achievements. Adhere to seeking truth from facts and being pragmatic, and resolutely oppose formalism and bureaucracy. Transform political and organizational advantages into urban governance effectiveness, so that the people can have more livelihood benefits, a better life experience, and more reliable security guarantees in urban development.
Adhere to the people-centered development thought. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Adhere to the people-centered development thought, and adhere to the people's city for the people" and "The core of the city is people, and the key is twelve words: clothing, food, housing, transportation, birth, aging, illness, death, living in peace and working happily." The construction of a modern people's city must adhere to the people-centered approach and carry out work closely around the actual needs of the people. This requires that the people-centered development thought be implemented in all aspects of the entire life cycle management of the city.
The planning, decision-making, and governance improvement of the city must fully consider the basic living needs of the people and realize the organic unity of urban development and the promotion of people's well-being. For example, Hangzhou (杭州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省) innovatively promotes block-style urban renewal, and realizes "renewing a block, revitalizing a block, and upgrading a block" through the "integrated overall planning and unit implementation" model, so that the fruits of urban development can be transformed into the people's real sense of happiness, and create a happy home that the people are satisfied with; Fuzhou (福州市), Fujian Province (福建省) takes the needs of the people as the guidance, increases the efforts to renovate shantytowns, and transforms the people's "worries about housing" into "better housing" through continuous promotion of old renovation projects, and truly realizes the urban development goal of benefiting the people; and so on. Adhering to the "embroidery" effort to improve urban governance conforms to the people's new expectations for a better life and is a vivid manifestation of the people-centered urban development concept blooming and bearing fruit in urban governance. We must deeply grasp the goal orientation of building a modern people's city, change the concept of urban development, pay more attention to people-oriented, gather consensus and synergy, develop inclusive people's livelihood, and better meet the people's needs for a better life.
Adhere to the new path of urban modernization with Chinese characteristics. This Central Urban Work Conference proposed: "Vigorously promote the optimization of urban structure, the transformation of kinetic energy, the improvement of quality, the green transformation, the continuation of cultural context, and the enhancement of governance efficiency, firmly guard the bottom line of urban safety, and take a new path of urban modernization with Chinese characteristics." The people-centered urban development concept is an inherent requirement and theoretical guide for taking a new path of urban modernization with Chinese characteristics and realizing Chinese-style modernization.
To conscientiously practice the people-centered urban development concept, we must transform the driving force of urban development, pay more attention to characteristic development, transform the focus of urban work, pay more attention to urban governance investment, and strive to promote the coordination of population, resources, and environment, and the unity of economic, social, and ecological benefits, highlighting the advantages and characteristics of urban development in our country. For example, Suzhou (苏州市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省) adheres to the innovation and sharing mechanism and optimizes spatial functions, integrates classical gardens into the 15-minute living circle, promotes the transformation of the historical city from "heritage protection" to "livable life," and allows the beauty of the gardens to be integrated into daily life and the vitality of the ancient city to benefit everyone. Chengdu (成都市), Sichuan Province (四川省) innovatively creates a "micro-grid and real grid" governance system, and coordinates the promotion of "one network management" for urban operation, "one network sharing" for data resources, and "one-key response" for social demands, so that people's livelihood services can be accurately delivered to each building unit, and urban governance is more warm and citizens' lives are more textured. Practice fully proves that the new path of urban modernization with Chinese characteristics is the inevitable choice for the construction of a people's city, and it is also the key to realizing the people's happy life.
Adhere to high-quality development. High-quality development is the core path to solving urban development contradictions and achieving sustainable governance. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "High-quality development is development that can well meet the people's growing needs for a better life" and "Completely change the extensive management mode, so that the people can live more conveniently, more comfortably, and more beautifully in the city." This Central Urban Work Conference further proposed: "Take promoting high-quality urban development as the theme," "Transform the urban development mode, pay more attention to intensive and efficient," and "Transform the urban work method, pay more attention to overall coordination."
The people-centered urban development concept and high-quality development have an inherent unity. The people's city clarifies the value coordinates of "development for whom," and high-quality development provides the practical framework of "how to achieve development." The two are highly consistent on the logical origin of "development for the people," pointing out the key path to solving urban development contradictions and achieving sustainable governance. For example, Beijing (北京市) has taken a new path in promoting reduced development and overcoming big city problems, shifting from the pursuit of scale and speed to the improvement of total factor productivity, relying on the innovation resources of more than 90 universities, more than 1,000 scientific research institutes, and more than 70 national key laboratories in Beijing (北京), and transforming the advantages of scientific and technological innovation into the driving force for high-quality development. Shenzhen (深圳市), Guangdong Province (广东省) takes the high-quality development of the city and the benefit of science and technology to the people as the guidance. In 2024, it innovatively opened 94 drone logistics routes and vigorously promoted the construction of smart parks, allowing citizens to fully enjoy the urban convenience of "technology empowerment" and the quality life of "smart parks."
Under the guidance of the people-centered urban development concept, promoting high-quality urban development is both a goal and a means. It requires that urban development always revolves around "people's needs," and through institutional innovation and technological empowerment, the "people-oriented" is deeply rooted in the entire process of urban planning, construction, and governance. At present, China's (中国) urbanization is shifting from a period of rapid growth to a period of stable development, and urban development is shifting from a stage of large-scale incremental expansion to a stage mainly focused on stock quality improvement and efficiency enhancement. We must adhere to "development for the people, development relying on the people, and development results shared by the people," deeply grasp the strategic orientation of urban connotative development, and improve the quality of urban development in a more targeted manner; deeply grasp the inherent requirements of enhancing the driving force and vitality of urban development, do a good job in the great article of reform and innovation, realize the coordinated progress of urban kinetic energy transformation, spatial optimization, and governance upgrading, and draw a realistic picture of "the city, making people's lives better."
(Author's units: Beijing (北京市) Research Center for Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Marxism School of Beijing Jiaotong University (北京交通大学))
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The fundamental plan for the nation is education. The fundamental plan for education is teachers. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Teachers should become great educators, setting an example for students in learning, working, and conducting themselves, and promoting students' all-round development." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest exhortations and sincere expectations are the responsibilities and missions entrusted to the vast number of people's teachers in the new era and on the new journey.
To become a great educator, one must have "great feelings" in their heart. To be a disseminator of the truth, one must first understand and believe in the truth. Teachers bear the important responsibility of disseminating knowledge, spreading ideas, and spreading truth, shaping souls, shaping lives, and shaping people. This professional nature and responsibility determine that teachers must have national sentiments, have the "big picture of the country" in mind, and establish the ambition and aspiration of "devoting oneself to teaching and strengthening the country." Huang Danian (黄大年), who said, "As long as the motherland needs it, I will do my best," Zhang Guimei (张桂梅), who rooted herself in poor areas and lit up the dreams of rural girls, and the old professors of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交通大学) who set off with their backpacks and went to the places where the motherland needed them most to make contributions... They all integrated education into the great cause of building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation, and transformed their belief in Marxism, their belief in socialism with Chinese characteristics, and their confidence in realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation into a trickle of words and deeds and infinite sincerity towards education, demonstrating the feelings and responsibilities of a great educator.
Educator Tao Xingzhi (陶行知) once said that of the thousands of teachings, teaching people to seek truth is paramount, and of the thousands of learnings, learning to be a true person is paramount. Education is an encounter that moves towards beauty, and a practice that warms people's hearts. Only with love can there be responsibility. This great love and great responsibility inspires the vast number of teachers to keep in mind the mission of cultivating people for the Party and cultivating talents for the country, to be willing to stick to the three-foot podium, to concentrate on teaching and educating people, to narrow the distance with students through sincerity, sincerity, and genuine feelings, to pour their warmth and emotions into every student, to allow every student to grow up healthily, and to allow every student to have the opportunity to shine in life.
To become a great educator, one must have "great knowledge" in their mind. As the saying goes, "To give a student a bowl of water, a teacher must have a bucket of water." This bucket of water is not only the accumulation of knowledge, but also the precipitation of wisdom. To fill this "bucket of water" well, teachers need to continuously consolidate their theoretical armaments, consciously use the Party's innovative theories to arm their minds, adhere to and make good use of the worldview and methodology of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, as well as the positions, viewpoints, and methods that run through it, truly learn the skills of Marxism, and become firm believers and loyal practitioners of Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
To be a good educator who cultivates morality and cultivates people in the new era, it is far from enough to have just "a bucket of water." More importantly, it is necessary to use a constant stream of living water to cultivate the roots and cast the soul, enlighten the mind and nourish the heart. This requires teachers to focus on what the country needs and what the people expect, to be brave in exploring new knowledge, to dare to break through old conventions, to be good at using new technologies to empower education and teaching, to vigorously promote knowledge innovation and method innovation, and to use solid skills, superb teaching skills, rigorous attitudes, and scientific methods to make the courses "lively," "thorough," and "trendy," and to come up with real skills and produce good results to solve real problems and big problems.
To become a great educator, one must have a "grand vision" in their heart. The world today is in a period of great development, great change, and great adjustment. Multipolarity, economic globalization, social informatization, and cultural diversification are developing in depth, and the reform of the global governance system and the international order is accelerating. "To establish a heart for the world, to establish a life for the people, to continue the unique learning for the past sages, and to create peace for all generations" is the world's feelings of Chinese intellectuals. When teachers have a broad mind, students can face the sea, look up at the stars, and stand tall.
In the face of the rapidly changing world and China, to cultivate socialist builders and successors who develop morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetically, and in terms of labor, teachers themselves must have a broad international perspective, and constantly improve their ability to use the Party's innovative theories in the new era to understand and grasp the overall strategic situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the major changes unseen in a century in the world, to look at and think about problems in the interconnectedness of the international and domestic situations, to observe the general trend of the times with a comprehensive, dialectical, and long-term perspective, and to embrace students, accept students, appreciate students, and encourage students with a broad mind that embraces all rivers, and to influence and shape students with their words and deeds, like a gentle breeze and drizzle, and strive to become messengers who spread the seeds of knowledge and pass on the torch of civilization, and become shapers and guardians of students' minds, and cultivate more new people of the era who can shoulder the great responsibility of national rejuvenation.
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The construction of the industrial system is an important means to promote high-quality economic development and a strategic focus of major-country competition, playing a pivotal role in the economic system. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, China has achieved remarkable results in building a modern industrial system, basically forming an industrial system with a large scale, complete system, and strong competitiveness. To continuously promote the industrial system to a higher level, it is necessary to deeply grasp this goal requirement and its interrelationship, promote industrial intelligence, greening, and integration, and focus on building a modern industrial system with integrity, advancement, and security.
We see that personalized and flexible manufacturing products for consumers are rapidly entering thousands of households, leading consumption upgrades; the "new three" represented by electric vehicles, lithium batteries, and photovoltaic products are booming, becoming a vivid portrayal of the green development of the industry; photovoltaic power stations and pastures coexist in the same frequency, depicting a beautiful picture of the integrated development of the primary, secondary, and tertiary industries.
These visible and tangible changes are underpinned by the profound transformation of China's modern industrial system—the digital, intelligent, and green transformation of China's traditional industries is accelerating, emerging industries and future industries are booming and growing, and the resilience and security level of the industrial chain and supply chain have been significantly improved.
The intelligence of the industrial system is an inevitable choice to grasp the new round of technological revolution and build a modern industrial system.
China has initially built a relatively complete artificial intelligence industry system. The number of enterprises related to the artificial intelligence industry system exceeds 4,500, the scale of the core industry has approached 600 billion yuan, and the industrial chain covers upstream and downstream key links such as chips, algorithms, data, platforms, and applications. With the support of data, algorithms, and computing power, artificial intelligence is becoming the key to breaking through the development bottlenecks of traditional industries, accelerating the cultivation and expansion of emerging industries and future industries, and improving the resilience and security level of the industrial chain and supply chain.
The greening of the industrial system is a key path for China to achieve high-quality development and the "dual carbon" goals.
China has become one of the countries with the fastest reduction in energy consumption intensity in the world. Under the guidance of policies, technological innovation, and market promotion, the green transformation of China's industrial system continues to advance. As of the end of 2024, the number of national-level green factories reached 6,430, with their output value accounting for about 20% of the total output value of manufacturing, and the proportion continues to grow. These factories have basically achieved intensive land use, harmless raw materials, cleaner production, waste resource utilization, and low-carbon energy, and continue to contribute a steady stream of "green kinetic energy" to promote high-quality industrial development and shape new national competitive advantages.
The integration of the industrial system is a significant feature and development trend of the modern industrial system, and is continuously improving the overall efficiency of the industrial system.
In terms of resource elements, the innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain are deeply integrated; in terms of industrial structure, the primary, secondary, and tertiary industries, as well as various industrial categories and upstream and downstream enterprises, are developing in high-quality coordination; in terms of spatial layout, regions have formed an industrial layout of complementary advantages and high-quality development. As of now, China's "5G + Industrial Internet" projects exceed 15,000, covering all 41 industrial categories; China's national production and finance cooperation platform has gathered 381,000 high-quality enterprises, 3,090 financial institutions, and more than 800 financial products; in 2024, the online retail sales of agricultural products increased by 15.8% year-on-year.
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed "building a modern industrial system," opening a new chapter in China's industrial transformation. The Central Economic Work Conference in 2024 proposed "leading the development of new quality productive forces with scientific and technological innovation and building a modern industrial system," and regarded it as one of the key tasks to be grasped this year, further pointing out the direction for China's high-quality economic development.
Understanding and grasping this important task can be approached from the following three aspects.
The first is to promote industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation. It is necessary to firmly grasp the "ox nose" of independent innovation, and work hard on consolidating the stock, expanding the increment, extending the industrial chain, and increasing the added value. Focusing on the "bottleneck" technology fields, innovate organizational models and accelerate the tackling of core technologies. Increase support for basic research and give full play to the role of original technological breakthroughs in promoting industrial development. Strengthen the role of technological changes in catalyzing new industries, new business forms, and new models, promote the integration of technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things with traditional industries, establish a cross-field and cross-regional collaborative innovation network, vigorously develop strategic emerging industries, and actively cultivate future industries.
The second is to gather various resources to cultivate innovative enterprises in a gradient manner. Improve the multi-level financial service system, cultivate and expand patient capital, promote cooperation between various innovation entities and entrepreneurial service institutions, and promote the rapid emergence and iterative innovation of business entities. Continuously improve the gradient cultivation system of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, "specialized, refined, and new" small and medium-sized enterprises, specialized, refined, and new "little giant" enterprises, manufacturing single champion enterprises, leading enterprises, and world-class enterprises, and promote the construction of a modern industrial system with high-quality business entity cultivation. Optimize the allocation of market factors and innovation resources such as capital, talent, and technology, and jointly build a modern industrial ecosystem through the multi-party linkage of enterprises, scientific research institutions, governments, and capital markets.
The third is to further optimize the business environment and promote the high-quality construction of a modern industrial system. Build a system of institutions and policies conducive to the construction of a modern industrial system, comprehensively rectify "involution" competition, avoid vicious competition, effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of private enterprises and entrepreneurs, and create a good development environment conducive to innovation, entrepreneurship, and creation. Create an external environment for industrial development with a high level of openness, deeply participate in global technological cooperation, industrial cooperation, ecological and environmental cooperation, etc., and deepen economic and technological cooperation and international exchanges with countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" initiative.
"What should be taken advantage of is the momentum, and what cannot be lost is the timing." Amidst the century of changes, leading the development of new quality productive forces with scientific and technological innovation and building a modern industrial system is a key path for China to anchor the goal of high-quality economic development, seize opportunities to win strategic initiative, and achieve the rise of a major country. It is necessary to grasp the opportunities of the technological revolution and industrial transformation, strengthen the leading role of scientific and technological innovation, gather various resource elements, strengthen strengths and make up for weaknesses, stimulate the enthusiasm of various business entities, strive to cultivate new momentum, new advantages, and new engines for industrial development, transform various positive factors into practical achievements in the construction of a modern industrial system, and inject surging power into the high-quality economic development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period!
Case 1
Building Good Cars: A Complete Industrial Chain Adds Confidence
Narrator: Wang Kaiyu (王开宇), Deputy General Manager of Audi FAW New Energy Vehicle Co., Ltd.
I am a native of Northeast China. Since I was a child, I knew that the black soil can grow good food and build good cars.
In 2021, Audi Group, China FAW (中国一汽), and Volkswagen China (大众中国) jointly established Audi FAW Super Smart Ecological Factory. It took only 18 months from groundbreaking to the first car rolling off the production line.
Drawing a circle with the factory as the center and a half-hour drive as the radius, half of the suppliers needed to assemble a car can be found within the circle. If the scope is expanded to Jilin Province (吉林省), more than 70% of the parts for each of our cars come from here.
China's increasingly complete automotive industry chain provides the possibility for the rapid landing of joint venture projects and has become a solid foundation for the continuous upward growth of the factory.
In the welding workshop, 824 robots operate in coordination; on the chassis station, the operating accuracy of the 3 multi-axis fully automatic tightening stations is as high as ±0.1%; in the painting workshop, Audi's global production system introduced China's independently developed online visual inspection technology for the first time, which greatly improved the efficiency of the key process of "skid accuracy detection" compared with traditional manual detection.
From "**筚路蓝缕**" (bì lù lán lǚ - "hacking one's way through brambles," to start an undertaking in hardship) "catching up and following" to "complete system" and "becoming a benchmark," China's manufacturing has achieved a leap from "being able to build cars" to "building good cars" and then to "building high-end cars," and will integrate innovation and leap forward in openness and inclusiveness, and continue to move towards a higher level.
(Compiled by Shen Jiaping (申佳平), reporter from People's Daily Online)
Case 2
Special Steel: A Group of AI Models Calculate Recipes
Narrator: Li Jinyan (李瑾彦), Dean of Nangang Group Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
Shi Mao (石矛), President of Huawei Steel and Nonferrous Metals Corps
If you move the artificial intelligence (AI) large model to industrial scenarios with higher requirements and lower error tolerance, can it still play a role?
In Nangang (南钢), the "AI chef" has taken up his post, breaking the traditional research and development paradigm of relying on experience and trial and error, and transforming steelmaking from experience-driven to intelligent decision-making.
Taking carbon-manganese low-temperature steel, a key material for high-end ships such as liquefied gas ships, as an example, in the process of material research and development, if there is too much carbon, the steel will become brittle, and if there is too much manganese, it will affect the welding performance. Dozens of variable factors interact with each other. Therefore, we thought of using large models to find the "recipe" for developing steel. However, at the same time, problems such as the complexity of the steelmaking process, the diverse and dispersed data modalities, and the difficulty in eliminating the "hallucinations" of large models have become problems that need to be overcome.
Different from building a large model covering the entire scenario process, the method we finally adopted was to train a group of scenario models with "professional capabilities": some are responsible for studying whether the steel can meet the strength design requirements, and some are responsible for studying the low-temperature toughness of the steel... They spontaneously divide and cooperate to achieve the prediction and calculation of different performance indicators.
It can be said that digitalization is to make "data visible," while intelligence is to make "decisions better." Today, the application of industrial large models has been extended to multiple industry scenarios such as home appliance manufacturing and cold chain logistics, empowering thousands of industries to move from "seeing clearly" to "doing better" and "thinking newer."
(Compiled by Wang Zhen (王震), reporter from People's Daily Online)
Case 3
Besides Electricity, What Else Can Nuclear Energy Provide?
Narrator: Zhang Xiangui (张祥贵), Director of Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant No. 2 Plant of China National Nuclear Corporation (中核集团)
Nuclear energy is one of the most efficient clean energy sources. The energy released when 1 kilogram of uranium-235 is completely fissioned is equivalent to the energy released when 2,700 tons of standard coal are burned. If so much energy is only used for power generation, the utilization rate is less than 40%.
How to allow more industries to use this green energy? In 2024, China's first industrial-use nuclear energy steam supply project, "Heqi No. 1" (和气一号), was officially put into operation, staging a nuclear energy "metamorphosis" and extending nuclear energy from single power generation to the field of industrial steam supply.
From "theoretically feasible" to "practically feasible," this transformation journey is not smooth. Three months before the project was delivered, the steam flow was stuck at 120 tons/hour, far below the design target of 200 tons/hour. The project team worked day and night to finally find the problem—high temperature caused the liquid level gauge reading to be distorted. After nearly a month of precise calculations and repeated debugging and verification, the steam flow finally reached the standard.
One technical breakthrough after another has helped the upstream and downstream of the industry to reduce carbon emissions in coordination. In the year since it was put into operation, "Heqi No. 1" has transported more than 3.17 million tons of clean steam to the Lianyungang Petrochemical Industrial Base (连云港石化产业基地) in Jiangsu (江苏), saving 462,300 tons of carbon emission indicators.
With the continuous staging of "metamorphosis," nuclear energy will become an "all-round player" providing a variety of zero-carbon energy products such as heat, electricity, hydrogen, and water, providing strong support for achieving the goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality!
(Compiled by Yang Xi (杨曦), reporter from People's Daily Online)
Case 4
Seawater Rice: Turning Saline-Alkali Land into a "Granary"
Narrator: Yang Jigun (杨记磙), Seawater Rice Breeding Expert of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (中国农科院) and Chairman of Zhongnong Haidao (中农海稻)
In the spring of 2018, I flew more than 5,000 kilometers from Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东) to Kashgar (喀什), Xinjiang (新疆). At first glance, it was a vast expanse of white, with no grass growing; after a test, the soil salinity was 39‰. The local villagers said: "Our ancestors have not been able to grow food. Can you do it?"
The "seawater rice" we brought can not only take root in saline-alkali land, but also "detoxify" the land. In the past few years, the planting scale has increased from 1 mu of experimental field to 10,000 mu of demonstration base, and the yield per mu has risen from 450 kg to 853 kg.
The transformation of scientific and technological achievements often has to go through "eighty-one difficulties." Expanding planting requires money, building factories requires money, and scientific research requires even more money, but scientific and technological enterprises have no factory buildings and equipment to mortgage, and it is difficult to approve loans.
At a critical moment, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (工商银行) provided timely financial support. The bank evaluated the enterprise from the dimensions of patent gold content, R&D investment ratio, and talent strength, matched the credit line with "innovation points," and the Shenzhen Branch (深圳分行) and Xinjiang Branch (新疆分行) of ICBC linked up to provide a total of more than 20 million yuan of inclusive loans in 3 years.
The chain of deep integration of "technology-finance-industry" is accelerating. "Seawater rice" has taken the lead, and high-quality, salt-tolerant wheat, corn, soybeans, etc. have followed one after another. The 500 million mu of saline-alkali land that can be developed across the country is the future "granary"!
(Compiled by Zhao Zhuqing (赵竹青), reporter from People's Daily Online)
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The electric manned airship AS700D has completed its first scientific research flight, humanoid robots are accelerating their iterative applications, and Harmony (鸿蒙) computers equipped with self-developed operating systems have been launched... Since the beginning of this year, scientific and technological achievements have continued to emerge, injecting new impetus into economic and social development.
Xi Jinping (习近平) General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must solidly promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation to help develop new quality productive forces."
How can scientific and technological achievements be transformed into tangible productivity? What problems still exist in connecting the innovation chain and the industrial chain? How can the "dual-wheel drive" of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation be strengthened?
On July 28th, Xinhua News Agency launched the twentieth episode of the "China Economic Roundtable" (中国经济圆桌会) large-scale all-media interview program, inviting Liu Qing (刘庆), Director of the Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center (长三角国家技术创新中心), Qin Haoyuan (秦浩源), Deputy Director of the Seventh Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology (科技部), Gan Xiaobin (甘小斌), Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部), and Gao Qianfeng (高千峰), co-founder and Vice President of GalaxySpace (银河航天), to share their views on the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, combined with the news from Xinhua News Agency reporters who recently participated in the "Vitality China Research Trip" (活力中国调研行) theme interview activity.
Technological empowerment helps China's economy show new vitality.
Inside the Beijing Xiaomi Auto Factory (北京小米汽车工厂), a new energy vehicle can be produced every 76 seconds; in the Shenzhen Zhongqing Robotics (深圳众擎机器人) showroom, a humanoid robot completes a front flip stunt... Recently, reporters followed the "Vitality China Research Trip" activity into the front line of industry, and the innovative vigor came to the fore.
At the "China Economic Roundtable" site, the data brought by the guests were also full of "new" ideas—
In the first half of the year, the added value of China's high-tech manufacturing industry above the designated size increased by 9.5% year-on-year, 3.1 percentage points faster than the added value of all industries above the designated size; the output of 3D printing equipment, new energy vehicles, and industrial robot products increased by 43.1%, 36.2%, and 35.6% year-on-year, respectively; nearly 410,000 technology contracts were registered nationwide, with a transaction value of more than 3 trillion yuan, an increase of 14.2% year-on-year...
Behind the progress towards the new is the two-way rush of technology and industry.
Gao Qianfeng shared the innovation story of space-ground integrated network technology: To realize the integration of satellite Internet and ground 5G networks, it is necessary to build not only a communication platform, but also many complex technological innovations. "We have established a joint laboratory with Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (北京邮电大学) to fully verify massive terminal direct access and on-orbit information intelligent processing." He said that the joint efforts of universities and enterprises have created a verification environment that is "visible and usable," promoting new technologies to engineering applications.
Continuously improve the supply of high-quality technology. China's total social R&D investment ranks second in the world, of which more than 75% comes from enterprises. The world's largest R&D personnel team, 26 global top 100 science and technology innovation clusters, and more than 460,000 high-tech enterprises... The constantly jumping numbers are the footnotes of technological progress.
Since the beginning of this year, many places have promoted the solid implementation of concept verification centers and common technology platforms to accelerate the maturation of source transformation technology. Up to now, China has cultivated more than 1,600 national-level science and technology business incubators. From supporting the "first kilometer" to opening up the "last kilometer," the support of the entire chain accelerates the application of innovation.
"From practice, China has produced a number of important scientific and technological achievements." Qin Haoyuan said that quantum measurement has begun to move towards application, indicating that China has achieved new leaps in basic frontiers and strategic high-tech fields.
It is worth noting that the forms of achievement transformation are more diversified. Not long ago, several awards were announced at the "Second Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition Finals" (第二届长三角国创中心创新创业大赛总决赛) hosted by the Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center (长三角国家技术创新中心) and the National University Regional Technology Transfer and Transformation Center (Jiangsu) (全国高校区域技术转移转化中心（江苏）). The "competition-investment linkage" innovation model connects competition review with project financing, shortening the path of technology to the market.
"Based in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) and facing the world, we are constantly building an innovation ecosystem with deep integration of industry, academia, and research. At present, we have jointly established innovation centers with more than 500 enterprises and successfully connected more than 1,200 technology demand projects," said Liu Qing.
Various places have actively built bridges for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements: some provide a pilot test for market-oriented applications through scenario opening; some provide resource, policy, and service support for the entire life cycle to help enterprises complete the growth "from 0 to 10 and then to 100"...
Standards and metrology are the basic support for new quality productive forces. Gan Xiaobin said that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) has formed a number of industry standardization technical committees in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things, completed the formulation of a number of standards urgently needed for industrial development, and accelerated manufacturing metrology innovation to ensure that key technologies and products can be "measured," "measured accurately," "measured completely," and "measured quickly."
Break bottlenecks and promote seamless connection between innovation chain and industrial chain.
The reporter's investigation found that in the process of promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, there are some problems and challenges, and it is necessary to further smooth the links and remove the stuck points.
The first is to accurately identify the needs of the industry and carry out "targeted" innovation.
"No matter how good the technology is, it is a castle in the air if it is divorced from reality." Gao Qianfeng said that only by overcoming the real pain points of industrial development and then iterating innovation from application can a virtuous cycle be achieved.
Gan Xiaobin believes that at present, there is a certain degree of disconnection between the scientific research problems of enterprises and the R&D projects of institutions. He hopes to establish more docking platforms to discover real needs and solve real problems through the platform. "Only by doing this can we achieve the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation."
To discover real needs, there must be new methods. Liu Qing said that the Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center (长三角国家技术创新中心) is trying to take leading enterprises in subdivided fields as the starting point and conduct analysis and research along the upstream and downstream of the enterprises. "We collect problems in this way and jointly promote solutions. We have established a cooperation mechanism with hundreds of leading enterprises." He said that it is also necessary to further form a trust mechanism between enterprises and platforms to improve the efficiency of joint research and co-creation.
Large enterprises occupy an important position in the industrial chain innovation chain, and promoting large enterprises to open up innovation resources is related to the effectiveness of the integration of the two chains.
"At present, the degree of integration between large, medium and small enterprises needs to be strengthened." Gan Xiaobin said that on the one hand, it is necessary to mobilize the enthusiasm of large enterprises, encourage large enterprises to "issue lists" and small and medium-sized enterprises to "unveil lists" so that the innovative technologies and products of small and medium-sized enterprises can enter the supply chain more smoothly; on the other hand, it is also necessary to reduce the innovation costs of small and medium-sized enterprises, carry out special actions to empower small and medium-sized enterprises with scientific and technological achievements, and promote the further opening of innovation resources to small and medium-sized enterprises.
In addition, the efficiency of the transformation of scientific and technological achievements needs to be further improved. The participating guests believe that this includes both improving the policy system for the entire chain of scientific and technological achievement transformation in terms of system and building a market-oriented and professional achievement transformation service system.
The process of solving problems is the process of development and progress. During the interview, several guests introduced the exploration and practice in related fields—
Improve the matching degree of science and technology and industry. A set of data attracted attention: As of June, China has built 33 national-level manufacturing innovation centers, established a number of major science and technology projects, and carried out the "unveiling and commanding" of industrial innovation tasks. Gan Xiaobin said that the industrial sector is trying to guide more enterprises to undertake industrial chain tackling tasks in various ways. At the same time, by building a docking platform, the industrial demand and technology supply are organically connected.
Accelerate the improvement of the science and technology service system. Not long ago, the "Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of the Science and Technology Service Industry" (关于加快推进科技服务业高质量发展的实施意见) was issued, making comprehensive deployments around key areas such as research and development, technology transfer and transformation, enterprise incubation, and technology promotion, and striving to build a bridge connecting the innovation chain and the industrial chain.
Qin Haoyuan introduced that focusing on the problems of scientific researchers "dare not transfer, do not want to transfer, and will not transfer," the Ministry of Science and Technology (科技部) promoted three reform pilots: empowering job-related scientific and technological achievements, managing job-related scientific and technological achievements as separate assets, and evaluating scientific and technological achievements. Among them, during the three-year pilot project of empowering job-related scientific and technological achievements, the contract amount for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements through transfer, licensing, and capital contribution exceeded 12 billion yuan.
"We have clearly felt that the industry has formed a consensus on promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation." Gao Qianfeng said frankly, "**这非常关键** (zhè fēi cháng guān jiàn - "this is very crucial," this is extremely important), recognizing the importance will promote the goal together and solve it step by step."
Reform is exerting its strength to make the momentum towards "new" more surging.
In Hefei (合肥), quantum seals are being piloted in some government service windows, and scenario opening promotes the accelerated growth of the quantum industry; in Shenzhen (深圳), the implementation of special regulations in the low-altitude field and the establishment of a low-altitude economy standardization technical committee continuously improve policies to escort the development of the low-altitude economy... The reporter saw in the investigation that various places are taking reform as the starting point to promote the integration of the innovation chain and the industrial chain.
Looking to the future, how can the "dual-wheel drive" of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation be more powerful? Where does the focus of reform point?
Strengthen the main position of enterprises in innovation—
Enterprises face market changes directly and have keen insights. Promoting the integration of industry, academia, and research led by enterprises is the key to doing a good job in the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation.
What is the leading role? Liu Qing said frankly: "Let enterprises become the main body for proposing innovation needs, the main body for innovation investment, and the main body for the application of innovation achievements."
During the interview, Qin Haoyuan brought the measures that the Ministry of Science and Technology (科技部) will launch: starting from four aspects: innovation decision-making, innovation investment, scientific research organization, and achievement transformation, the main position of enterprises in innovation will be implemented in terms of system. For example, establish a mechanism to cultivate and strengthen leading science and technology enterprises, support capable enterprises to take the lead in undertaking major national technology tackling tasks, and explore the establishment of a new mechanism for enterprise projects to rise to national projects.
Gan Xiaobin said that in terms of innovation investment, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) will expand corporate financing channels through the National Production and Finance Cooperation Platform (国家产融合作平台) and will adhere to scenario traction to accelerate the promotion and application of landmark technologies and products in enterprises.
Build an open innovation ecosystem—
From more than 100 to more than 1,000! During the interview, Gao Qianfeng shared the good news of the expansion of the GalaxySpace (银河航天) supply chain. Based on the local manufacturing system, the company's satellite development costs continue to decrease. In the production process, new technologies and products are jointly developed with partners to achieve coordinated development.
Aggregating multi-party forces and promoting integrated innovation cannot be separated from the accelerated construction of a unified national market and an open and cooperative innovation ecosystem.
Gao Qianfeng said that China is orderly promoting the reform of the access system for satellite Internet services, allowing private enterprises to see broad space. It is hoped that by accelerating the opening of major scientific research infrastructure to private enterprises and promoting the integrated development of large, medium, and small enterprises, innovation vitality can be further released.
Liu Qing believes that the next step is to focus on cross-regional and cross-field collaboration, break down barriers to factor flow, make good use of the advantages of the large market and industrial system, and promote the mutual promotion and integration of the innovation chain and the industrial chain.
Deepen institutional and mechanism reform—
"Pay after use" of scientific and technological achievements. During the interview, the word mentioned by the guests attracted attention.
In reality, some small and medium-sized enterprises dare not take the risk when facing scientific and technological achievements because they cannot see the prospects for the time being. "Pay after use" reduces the cost of trial and error and revitalizes the stock of patent resources in universities and research institutes.
"We must vigorously promote reforms such as 'pay after use' of scientific and technological achievements and separate asset management, improve the income distribution mechanism for the transformation of achievements, and form an incentive mechanism for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements," said Gan Xiaobin.
"Continue to deepen the reform of the mechanism for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements," "Incentivize scientific researchers to transform their achievements through property rights incentives," "Build a science and technology financial system adapted to scientific and technological innovation"... During the interview, the guests talked about a series of measures to improve the system, conveying an important signal that reform is advancing in depth.
Liu Qing said that it is necessary to improve the national innovation policy system, accelerate the formation of an innovation environment that is more adapted to new quality productive forces, and promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation to a new stage.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), July 28)
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on July 28th (Reporter Zhao Yongxin (赵永新)) On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the European Union, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (中国科技部), together with relevant departments such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), recently held the launching ceremony of the "China-EU Young Scientists Exchange Program" in Beijing (北京). Representatives from the Chinese Academy of Engineering (中国工程院), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (国家自然科学基金委), the China Association for Science and Technology (中国科协), and other departments, as well as representatives from the Chinese and European science and technology communities and young scientists, totaling more than 150 people, participated.
The "China-EU Young Scientists Exchange Program" is led by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (中国科技部), and jointly implemented with departments and local institutions such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), the Chinese Academy of Engineering (中国工程院), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (国家自然科学基金委), and the China Association for Science and Technology (中国科协). It supports European young scientists to come to China to carry out exchanges with Chinese universities, research institutions, and technology-based enterprises. After the launching ceremony, Chinese and European young scientists jointly held the "China-EU Young Scientists Forum," focusing on exchanging cooperation experiences and proposing cooperation suggestions in fields such as physics, chemistry, life sciences, information, and management.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on July 28th (Reporter Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶)) At 18:03 Beijing (北京) time on July 27th, China (中国) successfully launched the Satellite Internet Low-Orbit 05 Group satellites into space using the Long March-6A carrier rocket at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center (太原卫星发射中心). The satellites successfully entered their predetermined orbit, and the launch mission was a complete success.
This mission was the 585th flight of the Long March series carrier rockets.
Return to TopThis newspaper Changsha July 28th (Reporter Yang Xun (杨迅)) The "Discovering Qingxi on the World Literary Map - Sinologists and Literary Translators走进清溪村" activity, sponsored by the Chinese Writers Association (中国作协) and the Hunan Provincial Writers Association (湖南省作协), was recently held in Qingxi Village (清溪村), Heshan District (赫山区), Yiyang City (益阳市), Hunan Province (湖南省). Twelve Sinologists and literary translators from 11 countries, including Spain and the Netherlands, participated in the event along with a number of domestic writers.
Qingxi Village (清溪村) is the hometown of modern writer Zhou Libo (周立波) and the prototype for his novel "Great Changes in a Mountain Village" 《山乡巨变》. With the help of literature, Qingxi Village (清溪村) has changed its appearance, and cultural tourism has flourished. During the event, the unveiling ceremony of the Qingxi Bookstore (清溪书屋) of the Hunan Provincial Writers Association (湖南省作家协会), the launching ceremony of the "Global Sinologist Literary Translation Qingxi Bookshelf," and the symposium "Locality and Globality - Starting from Qingxi Literary Village" were held. Participants also took part in activities such as visiting the literary village and watching Yiyang Flower Drum Opera (益阳花鼓戏).
Return to TopKaramay City (克拉玛依市), Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区), is known as the "eldest son of the Republic's petroleum industry." It is an important national petroleum and petrochemical base, a city born and thriving because of oil, and a city that relies on talent and prospers because of talent. Since the No. 1 Karamay Oil Well (克拉玛依一号井) gushed industrial oil in 1955, marking the birth of the first major oilfield in New China—Karamay Oilfield (克拉玛依油田)—the city has deeply ingrained the values of valuing, employing, and developing talent into its development DNA over the past 70 years.
In recent years, Karamay City (克拉玛依市) has accelerated the construction of a policy system that "supports strategic talents with tens of millions, supports leading talents with millions, subsidizes young talents with hundreds of thousands, and accurately rewards various platforms." It aims to create a "strong magnetic field" for attracting talent and a "grand stage" for innovation and entrepreneurship, comprehensively attracting, cultivating, and utilizing talent to promote urban transformation and upgrading, as well as high-quality economic and social development.
Precisely Constructing a Talent Attraction System
Karamay City (克拉玛依市) closely focuses on the autonomous region’s high-quality construction of "Ten Industrial Clusters" and Karamay City’s (克拉玛依市) "One Primary and Multiple Secondary" modern industrial system construction. It has formulated a "1+2+27" talent policy and established a 3-year, 500 million yuan talent development fund to continuously promote the superposition of benefits from the autonomous region's key talent programs and Karamay City's (克拉玛依市) key talent programs.
Since 2022, a total of 390 projects in Karamay City (克拉玛依市) have been selected for the autonomous region's "Tianshan Talent" ("天山英才") and other talent programs, introducing and cultivating 1,071 high-level and urgently needed talents, of which doctoral students account for 34.22% and associate senior titles or above account for 46%.
Focusing on introducing and utilizing strategic talent, the city has systematically introduced two strategic teams of 106 high-level talents to carry out major research on the entire CCUS (carbon capture, utilization, and storage) industrial chain and the green and low-carbon development of the petroleum and petrochemical industry.
Making full use of Shanghai's aid to Xinjiang (上海援疆) resources, the Karamay (Shanghai) Intelligent Computing Industry Promotion Conference was held, inviting experts and talents in the field of computing power to lead the construction of a strategic technology R&D center for digital new infrastructure. The city is focusing on promoting the demonstration and construction of the "Belt and Road" quantum electronic hybrid computing power network Karamay (克拉玛依) main node infrastructure. In 2024, Karamay City's (克拉玛依市) computing power scale reached 17,000P, ranking among the top in the country.
Fully supporting the China University of Petroleum (Beijing) Karamay Campus (中国石油大学（北京）克拉玛依校区) and Xinjiang Second Medical College (新疆第二医学院) to continue expanding their enrollment scale, the two universities have more than 16,000 students. The number of graduates employed in Xinjiang (新疆) is continuously increasing. In the past 5 years, the proportion of college graduates in the city who stay in Xinjiang (新疆) for employment has reached 72.3%, providing talent support for the high-quality development of Xinjiang's (新疆) petroleum industry and medical and health undertakings.
Systematically Constructing a Talent Cultivation System
Karamay City (克拉玛依市) always adheres to facing the main battlefield of industrial development and focusing on the main position of new and old kinetic energy conversion. It implements the "Talent Gathering Oil City" key talent cultivation program. Since 2022, a total of 282 various talent projects have been selected and supported, 53 technical achievements at all levels have been completed, 154 authorized invention patents have been obtained, more than 200 standards have been participated in the formulation, more than 300 honors at all levels have been obtained, and more than 3,000 young talents have been helped and cultivated, achieving a regional GDP growth of 1.35 billion yuan.
Implementing the "Three Famous" project of famous teachers, famous principals, and famous schools in the education field, promoting the reform of the principal professional title system in primary and secondary schools, cultivating "Oil City Famous Teachers" according to 30% of the total number of primary and secondary school teachers, and building famous teacher and famous principal studios in teaching institutions at all levels, cultivating more than 5,000 education workers in layers and categories.
Focusing on building industrial innovation platforms, vigorously supporting universities, enterprises, and other entities to carry out innovation, a total of 6 academician workstations, more than 200 new R&D institutions, high-level talent studios, skill master studios, and other types of industrial innovation platforms have been built, effectively integrating industry-university-research innovation resources and significantly improving the efficiency of serving industrial development.
Implementing the "Artificial Intelligence+" action plan, taking the promotion of "Artificial Intelligence + Industry Application" as the starting point, it is planned to hold the Karamay City (克拉玛依市) Artificial Intelligence Application Competition and Innovation Achievement Exhibition in September this year to promote learning and application through competitions, and comprehensively cultivate no less than 1,000 compound talents who understand both artificial intelligence and business.
With the integrated advancement of education, science and technology, and talent work in the autonomous region, Karamay City (克拉玛依市) has 234 high-tech enterprises, the transaction volume of technology contracts has reached 2.816 billion yuan, and 25 technological achievements have won the autonomous region's science and technology awards.
Comprehensively Constructing a Talent Service System
Karamay City (克拉玛依市) always adheres to the working concept of "striving for a soft environment even more than hard treatment," increasing the reform and innovation of the talent management mechanism and the guarantee of talent services, and taking the optimization of the talent development environment as a fundamental project to be implemented effectively.
Improving the system of party committees contacting and serving experts, focusing on strengthening the reform of the talent classification evaluation mechanism and incentive mechanism, rewarding talents who have made important contributions at the annual science and technology conferences and education conferences, and effectively enhancing the sense of gain for talents.
Building more than 1,700 sets of "move-in ready" talent apartments, establishing a complete settlement subsidy policy, firmly establishing the talent retention concept of "open and inclusive, coming is being a Karamay person" (来了就是克拉玛依人) (lái le jiù shì Kè lā mǎ yī rén - "once you arrive, you are a Karamay person," emphasizes the city's welcoming attitude), and truly making talents feel more belonging.
Promoting the "Oil City Rose Gold Card" for high-level talents, integrating 12 talent service items in 4 categories, such as medical security and children's education. Establishing a four-level talent service system at the city, district, street (township), and community (village) levels, selecting and strengthening 126 talent service specialists, providing comprehensive "companion-style" services for talents, and truly making it more convenient for talents to handle affairs.
Karamay (克拉玛依) is opening its arms to gather talents from all over the world and use them. A talent introduction and cultivation pattern of "those nearby are pleased and those far away are attracted" (近悦远来) (jìn yuè yuǎn lái - "those nearby are pleased, those far away are attracted," describes a place that attracts people from both near and far due to its good reputation and benefits) has gradually taken shape.
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Karamay Municipal Committee (中共克拉玛依市委宣传部)
Return to TopAt dawn, in Hanshuiyuan Village (汉水源村), Ningqiang County (宁强县), Hanzhong City (汉中市), Shaanxi Province (陕西省), the Han River (汉江) source is clear and the banks are green, reflecting Hanzhong City's vivid practice of basing itself on ecology and focusing on development.
More than a hundred kilometers away, in the Guda CNC Machinery workshop in Nanzheng District (南郑区), Hanzhong City (汉中市), domestically produced five-axis CNC machine tools are carving aviation parts with millimeter-level precision, helping the development of the high-end CNC machine tool manufacturing industry in the Northwest region.
One still and one moving, one water and one instrument, outline Hanzhong City's journey of high-quality development, using ecology as a pen and industry as ink, promoting a harmonious and beautiful picture of ecological protection and economic development complementing each other.
Intelligent Manufacturing Strengthens the Chain and Accumulates Kinetic Energy; Project Tackling is Like a Rainbow
Inside the Jihua 3503 intelligent workshop in Nanzheng District (南郑区), the data on the MES (Manufacturing Execution System) screen jumps in real time, and the efficient linkage of the automatic cutting bed and the intelligent hanging system promotes a 40% increase in production efficiency. This achievement is inseparable from the "park move-in + government full agency" mechanism innovatively launched by Nanzheng District (南郑区). Through this mechanism, the time for starting a business is compressed to 1 working day, and administrative licenses are 100% online. In order to promote the rapid landing of the Jihua project, Nanzheng District (南郑区) established a special working group to implement a countdown schedule and a wall chart operation model. It only took a hundred days from project signing to trial operation. The "Nanzheng speed" continues to inject development confidence into investors.
Relying on a high-quality business environment and precise service model, 90 key projects such as Xinkaixin Outdoor Equipment, Overseas High-level Talent Innovation and Entrepreneurship Incubation Park, and Hanzhong E-sports Intelligent Computing Cloud have been successively launched. In the first half of this year, all 3 provincial-level key projects and 37 municipal-level key projects in Nanzheng District (南郑区) started construction, with investment completion rates reaching 60.6% and 57.8% respectively. The total industrial output value above designated size exceeded 5.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.4%. These bright data have become a strong footnote to the high-quality regional development of Hanzhong City (汉中市).
At the city level, the overall plan of "High-Quality Project Promotion Year, Business Environment Breakthrough Year, and Cadre Style and Ability Improvement Year" is planned at a high level, and mechanisms such as special classes for key nodes, project whistle-blowing department registration, and industry chain investment promotion and consultation are closely linked. Focusing on the optimization of "five environments," the improvement of "three services," and the reduction of "six costs," we will accelerate the construction of a market-oriented, legalized, and internationalized business environment to help promote the high-quality economic and social development of the city.
In the first half of this year, Hanzhong City (汉中市) dynamically reserved 1,724 policy-based fund projects for 2025, with a total investment of 234.8 billion yuan; all 275 newly started municipal-level key projects have started; and 411 industry chain investment projects have been signed. There were 14,240 newly registered business entities and 177 newly cultivated "above five" private enterprises. Social capital investment increased by 20.4% year-on-year, accounting for 74.9% of fixed asset investment, and the momentum for development continued to surge.
Urban and Rural Transformation Paints a New Picture; Green Waters and Green Mountains Show a New Look
As the core water source conservation area of the central route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, Ningqiang County (宁强县) is making every effort to protect the clear flow of the Han River (汉江): shutting down dozens of pollution-risk enterprises in the water source protection area, and the sewage treatment plant built in 2011 reduces chemical oxygen demand by 1,095 tons and ammonia nitrogen by 100 tons annually; a total of 600 million yuan has been invested to implement ecological protection at the source of the Han River (汉江), the Danjiangkou Reservoir area and upstream soil and water conservation projects, managing 37 kilometers of river channels and 1,586 square kilometers of soil erosion, and greening 42,000 square meters of river banks. Today, the water quality at the source of the Han River (汉江) remains stable at the national Class I standard.
The Han River (汉江) flows eastward into the city, and the former sand and gravel field has been transformed into Tianhan Wetland Park (天汉湿地公园), becoming a "happiness garden" for citizens, and also a practical sample of Hanzhong's implementation of the concepts of "minimum intervention," "flexible water management," and "sponge city." A 20-kilometer slow-walking path connects beaches, boardwalks, and highways, 6 square kilometers of natural water area embrace 1.32 square kilometers of wetlands, 1.456 million square meters of green space spread out, 219 ecological islands are scattered, and 314 species of plants, 30 species of fish, and 90 species of birds live here. From leisure trails to landscape boardwalks, hardware upgrades make the "happiness garden" both "beautiful" and "meaningful."
The transformation of Tianhan Wetland Park (天汉湿地公园) is a vivid microcosm of Hanzhong City's (汉中市) adherence to ecological priority and green development. The city's water environment quality is excellent, with excellent water bodies accounting for 100%. The water quality of the Han River (汉江) and Jialing River (嘉陵江) leaving the country remains stable at the national Class II standard, and the Han River (Hanzhong section) (汉江（汉中段）) has been selected as an excellent case of happy rivers and lakes in the country.
At the same time, Hanzhong City (汉中市) integrates ecological concepts into the urban fabric. In Tianhan Wetland Park (天汉湿地公园), charging piles are neatly arranged; within the urban area, the charging network achieves full coverage with a service radius of 2 kilometers; between towns, the layout of "urban areas leading towns and trunk lines radiating villages and groups" has taken shape. As of now, the State Grid Hanzhong Company (国家电网汉中公司) has put into use all 144 stations and 355 DC fast charging guns for automobiles built in townships without public charging infrastructure coverage, taking the lead in achieving full coverage of public charging infrastructure in townships in the western region. Hanzhong (汉中) takes new urbanization as the carrier, and urban infrastructure and public services continue to extend to the countryside, and the ecological urban space is expanding.
Develop in Accordance with Local Conditions; Green Industries Promote Common Prosperity
In the core area of the Hanzhong Crested Ibis National Nature Reserve (汉中朱鹮国家级自然保护区) in Caoba Village (草坝村), Zhifang Street (纸坊街道), Yang County (洋县), organic rice is growing vigorously. In 2009, Caoba Village (草坝村) established the county's first organic agriculture professional cooperative dominated by farmers, transforming the ecological advantages of the Crested Ibis Reserve into organic industrial advantages. Today, the village's 3,800 mu of organic pear orchards and 6,050 mu of organic rice and rapeseed bases have an annual output value of over 23 million yuan, and the modern agricultural development path of "central base + core area + professional farmers" continues to expand.
As the first batch of national organic product certification demonstration zones, Yang County (洋县) had 115 kinds of organic products in 15 major categories covering 182,300 mu of land by the end of 2024, and the annual output value of the organic industry exceeded 5.5 billion yuan. The signboard of "China's Organic Fragrant Rice Township" is becoming brighter and brighter.
Entering the summer vacation, Luozhen Mingyuan (罗镇茗园) in Yankou Town (堰口镇), Xixiang County (西乡县) is crowded with tourists. The landscape sketches in front of the tea companies incorporate elements such as tea baskets and tea rollers. Xixiang County (西乡县) connects Luozhen Mingyuan (罗镇茗园) with Wuzishan Scenic Area (午子山景区), Feifengshan Cliff Carvings (飞凤山摩崖石刻), Tanmu Village Plum Picking Garden (檀木村李子采摘园), and Sanhe Village Tea Culture Style Street (三合村茶文化风情街) into a line. In the first half of this year, it received 130,000 tourists and achieved a comprehensive tourism income of 14.6 million yuan.
As a traditional tea-producing county in Hanzhong (汉中), Xixiang County (西乡县) has upgraded the entire chain from seedling to sales by transforming low-yield tea gardens, eliminating aging tea gardens, expanding asexual reproduction of improved tea gardens, and promoting green planting and ecological management. In 2024, the county produced 20,100 tons of tea, with a comprehensive output value of 7 billion yuan. 260,000 tea farmers benefited from it, and more than 70,000 tea farmers increased their annual income by more than 15,000 yuan.
Xixiang County (西乡县) has built a "core scenic spot + county town + key tourist town + rural tourism" all-for-one tourism pattern, and formulated the "Xixiang County Implementation Plan for Creating a 10 Billion-Level Cultural Tourism Industry Cluster," planning 102 projects with a total investment of 10.2 billion yuan around the "Nine Major Improvement Actions," and 15 high-quality routes with rapeseed flowers, tea culture, and landscape humanities as themes connect the entire scenic area. In the first half of this year, the county received tourists and comprehensive tourism income increased by 5.24% and 26.98% year-on-year, respectively.
In the clear flow of the Han River (汉江), the determination to protect the ecology is reflected; in the misty tea gardens, the hope of green development is nurtured; in the intelligent workshops, the pulse of industrial upgrading is beating. In 2024, Hanzhong City's (汉中市) regional GDP increased by 6.2% year-on-year, and many indicators ranked among the top in the province; industrial investment has maintained double-digit growth for 24 consecutive months, and the number of technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises has increased by 55% year-on-year. This answer sheet comes from the clear positioning of "green cycle? Han style and ancient charm" (绿色循环?汉风古韵), and is rooted in the tough style of "planning big, solving difficulties, and grasping reality" (谋大、解难、抓实). Hanzhong (汉中) is using green as the foundation and hard work as the pen to depict a harmonious and beautiful picture of ecological and development complementing each other in the Qinba Mountains and rivers.
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Hanzhong Municipal Committee (中共汉中市委宣传部)
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The "Regulations on Housing Leasing" was adopted at the 62nd Executive Meeting of the State Council on June 27, 2025, and is hereby promulgated and shall come into force on September 15, 2025.
Premier Li Qiang (李强)
July 16, 2025
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 These Regulations are formulated to regulate housing leasing activities, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of parties involved in housing leasing activities, stabilize housing leasing relationships, promote the high-quality development of the housing leasing market, and promote the accelerated establishment of a housing system that combines renting and purchasing.
Article 2 These Regulations apply to housing leasing activities on urban state-owned land and their supervision and management.
Article 3 The development of the housing leasing market shall implement the Party and state's guidelines, policies, and decisions, and adhere to the combination of market dominance and government guidance.
Article 4 The housing and urban-rural development department of the State Council (国务院) shall be responsible for the supervision and management of housing leasing activities nationwide.
The real estate management departments of local people's governments at or above the county level shall be responsible for the supervision and management of housing leasing activities within their respective administrative regions.
The market supervision and management, public security, and other departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall be responsible for the supervision and management of housing leasing activities within their respective responsibilities in accordance with these Regulations and other relevant laws and regulations.
Article 5 The state encourages resident families to use their own housing for leasing, supports enterprises in revitalizing and transforming old factories, commercial office buildings, self-held commercial housing, etc. for leasing, and increases the supply of rental housing through multiple channels.
The state encourages lessors and lessees to establish stable housing leasing relationships in accordance with the law, and promotes equal rights in enjoying public services for rented and purchased housing.
Article 6 Engaging in housing leasing activities shall comply with laws and regulations, follow the principles of equality, voluntariness, fairness, and good faith, and shall not endanger national security, harm public interests and the legitimate rights and interests of others, or violate public order and good customs.
Chapter II Leasing
Article 7 Housing for lease shall comply with the laws, regulations, rules, and mandatory standards in terms of construction, fire protection, gas, and interior decoration, and shall not endanger personal safety and health.
Non-residential spaces such as kitchens, bathrooms, balconies, corridors, underground storage rooms, and garages shall not be leased separately for residential purposes.
The upper limit of the number of people renting a single room and the minimum per capita rental area shall comply with the standards stipulated by the local people's governments at or above the level of cities divided into districts.
Article 8 Lessors and lessees shall sign housing lease contracts using their real names.
Lessors shall, in accordance with regulations, register the housing lease contract with the real estate management department at the location of the leased housing through housing lease management service platforms and other means. The real estate management department shall improve the service level of housing lease contract registration and shall not charge any fees for housing lease contract registration.
If the lessor fails to register the housing lease contract, the lessee may handle the registration.
Article 9 Lessors shall comply with the following provisions:
(1) Present to the lessee identity verification materials, the real estate ownership certificate of the housing to be leased, or other materials proving that they have the legal right to lease, and cooperate with the lessee in inquiring and verifying relevant information about the housing to be leased in accordance with the law;
(2) Verify the lessee's identity verification materials, and shall not lease the housing to units or individuals who refuse to present identity verification materials;
(3) Shall not enter the leased housing without authorization, unless with the consent of the lessee or as permitted by law.
Article 10 If the lessor collects a deposit, the amount of the deposit, the time of return, and the circumstances under which the deposit may be deducted shall be agreed upon in the housing lease contract. Unless otherwise agreed in the housing lease contract, the lessor shall not deduct the deposit without justifiable reasons.
Article 11 Lessees shall comply with the following provisions:
(1) Present identity verification materials to the lessor;
(2) Use the leased housing safely and reasonably, and shall not damage, dismantle, disable fire protection facilities without authorization, or alter the load-bearing structure of the leased housing, and shall not privately install water, electricity, or gas pipelines;
(3) Without the consent of the lessor, shall not change the use of the leased housing, dismantle indoor facilities, or alter other structures of the leased housing without authorization;
(4) Comply with property management regulations, and shall not arbitrarily discard garbage, discharge pollutants exceeding standards, or generate noise, raise animals in violation of regulations, build structures in violation of regulations, occupy public passages, throw objects from heights, or engage in other acts that harm the legitimate rights and interests of others;
(5) Cooperate with the lessor when the lessor needs to enter the leased housing in accordance with the law.
Article 12 If the lessor terminates the housing lease contract in accordance with the law, the lessee shall be notified and a reasonable time shall be allowed for the lessee to vacate the leased housing.
The lessor shall not use violence, threats, or other illegal means to force the lessee to terminate the housing lease contract or vacate the leased housing.
Article 13 If the housing lease contract is continuously performed for a prescribed period, the lessor shall enjoy corresponding policy support in accordance with relevant regulations, and the lessee shall enjoy corresponding basic public services in accordance with relevant regulations.
Chapter III Housing Leasing Enterprises
Article 14 The state improves policies and measures to cultivate market-oriented and professional housing leasing enterprises.
Housing leasing enterprises refer to enterprises that engage in housing leasing business with their own housing or housing of others that they have legally obtained the right to operate and manage. Housing leasing enterprises shall have their own funds, employees, and management capabilities commensurate with their business scale.
When housing leasing enterprises lease housing, the provisions of these Regulations regarding lessors shall apply.
Article 15 The business scope of housing leasing enterprises registered in accordance with the law shall use the expression "housing leasing".
Housing leasing enterprises shall, within 30 days from the date of obtaining a business license, report their business commencement information to the real estate management department of the local people's government at or above the county level where they are located. The real estate management department shall disclose the business commencement information of housing leasing enterprises to the public.
Housing leasing enterprises shall publicize their business commencement information, service specifications, and standards in a prominent position in their business premises.
Article 16 The housing address, area, rent, and other housing information released by housing leasing enterprises shall be true, accurate, and complete. The housing information released in different channels such as their business premises and the Internet shall be consistent, and the housing pictures released shall be consistent with the actual housing. False or misleading housing information shall not be released, and important information about the housing to be leased shall not be concealed or refused to be provided.
Article 17 Housing leasing enterprises shall establish housing leasing files, truthfully record relevant information, and improve internal management systems such as housing leasing information verification.
Housing leasing enterprises shall not illegally collect, use, process, or transmit the personal information of others, and shall not illegally buy, sell, provide, or disclose the personal information of others.
Article 18 Housing leasing enterprises shall report the information of the leased housing they operate and its changes to the real estate management department of the local people's government at or above the county level where they are located in accordance with regulations.
Article 19 Housing leasing enterprises engaged in subletting business shall establish a housing leasing fund supervision account in accordance with regulations and publicize it to the public, and handle housing leasing fund receipt and payment business through the account. The specific measures shall be formulated by the housing and urban-rural development department of the State Council (国务院) in conjunction with relevant departments of the State Council (国务院).
Article 20 If a natural person sublets housing of others to engage in housing leasing business, and the business scale reaches the standards stipulated by the housing and urban-rural development department of the State Council (国务院) in conjunction with the market supervision and management department of the State Council (国务院) and other relevant departments, the provisions of these Regulations regarding housing leasing enterprises shall apply.
Chapter IV Brokerage Agencies
Article 21 Real estate brokerage agencies engaged in housing leasing business (hereinafter referred to as housing leasing brokerage agencies) shall have their own funds, employees, and management capabilities commensurate with their business scale.
Article 22 Housing leasing brokerage agencies shall file the list of their employees with the real estate management department of the local people's government at or above the county level where they are located. Employees of housing leasing brokerage agencies shall not engage in business in two or more housing leasing brokerage agencies at the same time.
Employees of housing leasing brokerage agencies shall not undertake housing leasing brokerage business in their own name.
Article 23 Before releasing housing information, housing leasing brokerage agencies shall verify and record the identity information and housing ownership information of the client, inspect the housing on-site, sign a housing leasing brokerage service contract with the client, and prepare a housing condition statement. The housing leasing brokerage service contract and the housing condition statement shall be affixed with the seal of the housing leasing brokerage agency and kept in accordance with relevant regulations.
Article 24 The provisions of paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 15, Article 16, and Article 17 of these Regulations shall apply to housing leasing brokerage agencies.
Article 25 Housing leasing brokerage agencies shall not engage in the following acts:
(1) Providing brokerage services for leasing housing that does not comply with the laws, regulations, rules, or mandatory standards in terms of construction, fire protection, gas, and interior decoration;
(2) Providing brokerage services for separately leasing non-residential spaces such as kitchens, bathrooms, balconies, corridors, underground storage rooms, and garages for residential purposes;
(3) Providing brokerage services for leasing housing where the upper limit of the number of people renting a single room or the minimum per capita rental area does not meet the prescribed standards;
(4) Collecting or paying housing rent or deposits on behalf of others;
(5) Signing housing lease contracts in the name of the parties without their consent;
(6) Other acts prohibited by laws, regulations, and rules.
Article 26 Housing leasing brokerage agencies shall clearly mark the prices of charged service items and shall not increase prices beyond the marked prices or charge fees that are not marked.
Article 27 If lessors and lessees sign a housing lease contract through a housing leasing brokerage agency, the housing leasing brokerage agency shall handle the registration of the housing lease contract.
Chapter V Supervision and Management
Article 28 The housing and urban-rural development department of the State Council (国务院) shall, in conjunction with the market supervision and management department of the State Council (国务院), formulate and publish model texts of housing lease contracts and housing lease brokerage service contracts.
Article 29 Local people's governments at or above the level of cities divided into districts shall establish a housing rent monitoring mechanism and regularly publish information on the rent levels of different regions and different types of housing within their respective administrative regions.
Article 30 Real estate management departments of local people's governments at or above the county level shall use housing lease management service platforms to carry out management and services such as contract registration, rental housing information management, and statistical monitoring, and establish information sharing mechanisms with departments such as civil affairs, natural resources, education, market supervision and management, financial management, public security, taxation, and statistics.
Article 31 Real estate management departments of local people's governments at or above the county level shall, in conjunction with relevant departments, strengthen the supervision and inspection of housing leasing activities and handle illegal acts in a timely manner in accordance with the law.
Article 32 Real estate management departments of local people's governments at or above the county level may entrust implementing units to undertake specific tasks related to supporting and assisting housing lease management. The implementing units entrusted by the real estate management departments shall not be for profit.
Real estate management departments of local people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen supervision of the implementing units they entrust and bear legal responsibility for the consequences of the implementing units' actions within the scope of the entrustment.
Article 33 Real estate management departments of local people's governments at or above the county level shall, in conjunction with relevant departments and housing lease-related industry organizations, strengthen the integrity construction of the housing lease industry, establish a credit evaluation system for housing lease enterprises, housing lease brokerage agencies, and their employees, record relevant violations in the credit record, include them in the national credit information sharing platform, and implement classified and graded supervision based on credit status.
Article 34 Housing lease-related industry organizations shall establish and improve industry norms, strengthen industry self-discipline management, and promote the healthy development of the industry.
Article 35 In housing leasing activities, disputes arising from deposit refunds, housing maintenance, housing evacuation, etc. shall be resolved through negotiation between the lessor and the lessee; if negotiation fails, mediation, arbitration, or litigation may be applied for in accordance with the law.
Article 36 Network platform operators that provide housing lease information release services (hereinafter referred to as network platform operators) shall verify the true identity information of housing lease information publishers.
If a network platform operator knows or should know that an information publisher has illegal circumstances such as providing false information, it shall take necessary measures such as deleting relevant information in accordance with the law, keep relevant records, and report to relevant departments.
Network platform operators shall not collect or pay housing rent or deposits on behalf of others.
Article 37 Lessors shall truthfully register and report information on lessees and actual residents as required, and shall promptly report illegal and criminal activities to the public security organs upon discovery. Specific measures shall be formulated by the public security department of the State Council (国务院).
Lessees shall not use leased housing to carry out illegal or criminal activities.
Chapter VI Legal Liability
Article 38 In any of the following circumstances, penalties shall be imposed in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws, regulations, and rules:
(1) Leasing housing that does not comply with the laws, regulations, rules, or mandatory standards in terms of construction, fire protection, gas, and interior decoration;
(2) Damaging, dismantling, or disabling fire protection facilities without authorization;
(3) Altering the load-bearing structure of leased housing;
(4) Privately installing water, electricity, or gas pipelines.
Article 39 If non-residential spaces such as kitchens, bathrooms, balconies, corridors, underground storage rooms, and garages are separately leased for residential purposes, or if the leased housing does not meet the prescribed standards for the upper limit of the number of people renting a single room or the minimum per capita rental area, the real estate management department of the local people's government at or above the county level shall order correction and give a warning; if correction is refused, a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan and not more than 100,000 yuan shall be imposed on the unit, and a fine of not less than 2,000 yuan and not more than 10,000 yuan shall be imposed on the individual; if there is illegal income, the illegal income shall be confiscated.
Article 40 If a housing leasing enterprise or housing leasing brokerage agency does not have its own funds, employees, or management capabilities commensurate with its business scale, the real estate management department of the local people's government at or above the county level shall order correction and give a warning; if correction is refused and serious consequences are caused, it shall be ordered to suspend business for rectification.
Article 41 If a housing leasing enterprise or housing leasing brokerage agency has any of the following circumstances, the real estate management department of the local people's government at or above the county level shall order correction and give a warning; if correction is refused, a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan and not more than 100,000 yuan shall be imposed:
(1) Failing to report business commencement information as required;
(2) Failing to publicize the enterprise's business commencement information, service specifications, and standards in a prominent position in its business premises;
(3) Failing to establish housing leasing files and truthfully record relevant information, or failing to improve internal management systems such as housing leasing information verification;
(4) Failing to register housing lease contracts as required.
If a housing leasing enterprise fails to report the information of the leased housing it operates and its changes as required, or if a housing leasing brokerage agency fails to sign a housing leasing brokerage service contract with the client or fails to prepare a housing condition statement as required, it shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
Section 42: Where a housing rental enterprise or housing rental brokerage institution publishes false or misleading housing information, or conceals or refuses to provide important information about the housing to be rented, the real estate management department of the local people's government at or above the county level shall order it to make corrections, give a warning, and impose a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan; if there is illegal income, the illegal income shall be confiscated; if it refuses to make corrections, it shall be ordered to suspend business for rectification; if the circumstances are serious, the real estate management department of the local people's government at or above the county level shall request the market supervision and management department at the same level to revoke its business license in accordance with the law.
Where a housing rental enterprise or housing rental brokerage institution illegally collects, uses, processes, or transmits the personal information of others, or illegally buys, sells, provides, or discloses the personal information of others, it shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of laws and regulations on the protection of personal information.
Section 43: Where a housing rental enterprise engaged in subletting business fails to establish a housing rental fund supervision account and publicize it to the public as required, or fails to handle the receipt and payment of housing rental funds through the account as required, the real estate management department of the local people's government at or above the county level shall order it to make corrections, give a warning, and impose a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan; if it refuses to make corrections, it shall be fined not less than 100,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan.
Section 44: Where a housing rental brokerage institution has any of the following circumstances, the real estate management department of the local people's government at or above the county level shall order it to make corrections, give a warning, and impose a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan; if there is illegal income, the illegal income shall be confiscated; if it refuses to make corrections, it shall be ordered to suspend business for rectification:
(1) Failing to verify and record the identity information and housing ownership information of the client, or failing to inspect the housing in person before publishing housing information;
(2) Providing brokerage services for renting out housing that does not meet the laws, regulations, rules, or mandatory standards in terms of construction, fire protection, gas, and interior decoration;
(3) Providing brokerage services for renting out non-residential spaces such as kitchens, toilets, balconies, corridors, underground storage rooms, and garages for residential purposes;
(4) Providing brokerage services for renting out housing where the maximum number of tenants in a single room or the minimum per capita rental area does not meet the prescribed standards;
(5) Collecting and paying housing rent and deposits on behalf of others;
(6) Signing a housing rental contract in the name of a party without the consent of the party;
(7) Failing to file a list of its employees as required.
Where an online platform operator collects and pays housing rent and deposits on behalf of others, it shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
Section 45: Where an employee of a housing rental brokerage institution engages in business in two or more housing rental brokerage institutions at the same time, or undertakes housing rental brokerage business in his or her own name, the real estate management department of the local people's government at or above the county level shall order him or her to make corrections, give a warning, and may impose a fine of not more than 10,000 yuan; if there is illegal income, the illegal income shall be confiscated; if he or she refuses to make corrections, he or she shall not engage in housing rental brokerage business within 1 year; if the circumstances are serious, he or she shall not engage in housing rental brokerage business within 5 years.
Section 46: Where an online platform operator fails to fulfill its verification responsibilities, the real estate management department of the local people's government at or above the county level shall notify the Cyberspace Administration Department, which shall handle it in accordance with its duties and may impose a fine of not more than 100,000 yuan; if the circumstances are serious, it may be ordered to suspend relevant business or suspend business for rectification.
Section 47: Staff members of real estate management departments and other relevant departments who abuse their powers, neglect their duties, or engage in malpractice for personal gain in the supervision and management of housing rental activities shall be given sanctions in accordance with the law.
Section 48: Anyone who violates the provisions of these Regulations and causes losses to others shall bear compensation liability in accordance with the law; if it constitutes a violation of public security administration, the public security organ shall impose a public security administration penalty in accordance with the law; if it constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated in accordance with the law.
Chapter VII Supplementary Provisions
Section 49: If the state has other provisions for the rental activities and supervision and management of guaranteed housing, those provisions shall prevail.
The people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall formulate management measures for housing rental activities on collective land based on actual conditions.
Section 50: These Regulations shall come into force on September 15, 2025.
(Xinhua News Agency (新华社) dispatch)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 姜 峰
Shuanggang Road Community in Yuzhong District, Chongqing (重庆市渝中区) is a typical old residential area with a total of 40 residential buildings, including 12 high-rise buildings. Walking into the community, one can see an eye-catching "High-Rise Fire Safety Code" posted at the entrance of Building 28. Scanning it with a mobile phone reveals information such as the number of floors above ground, building height and area, property management entity, fire protection maintenance unit, monthly inspection report, and grid patrol status at a glance. "There is also my name and mobile phone number, which can be dialed by clicking on it," said Jin Zewei (金泽维), a staff member of Chongqing Xiangjia Property Management Co., Ltd. (重庆市祥佳物业管理有限公司), who is the primary responsible person for fire safety in the community.
Chongqing (重庆市) is a mountainous city with dense high-rise buildings. Taking Yuzhong District (渝中区) as an example, 2,005 high-rise buildings (public buildings above 24 meters and residential buildings with 10 floors or more) are distributed in an area of 23 square kilometers. In recent years, Yuzhong District (渝中区) has built a comprehensive intelligent supervision system covering perception, early warning, decision-making, and disposal to safeguard the fire safety of high-rise buildings.
Intelligent perception enhances the ability to detect hidden dangers. "The liquid level monitoring value of the fire water tank on the roof of Building 28 is 1.23 meters, reaching the lower limit warning." The fire water pressure monitoring terminal in Shuanggang Road Community (双钢路小区) automatically prompted a warning. Jin Zewei (金泽维) reported the problem immediately, and the maintenance unit quickly arrived to resolve the hidden danger. This event was recorded in the IoT data system of the micro fire station in Shuanggang Road Community (双钢路小区). The system has collected a total of 187 intelligent sensing devices, such as independent combustible gas detectors, fire escape cameras, and high-decibel alarms, deployed in the community, and has automatically discovered and promptly handled 9 police situations.
After scanning the "High-Rise Fire Safety Code" and clicking "Report Hidden Dangers," you can see the hidden danger information reported by residents of Shuanggang Road Community (双钢路小区). "The fire hydrant in the corridor was blocked by debris. I scanned the code to report it, and someone cleaned it up the next day," said Zhu Jianguo (朱建国), a resident of the community.
"Based on the integrated intelligent public data platform, the district has connected 254,900 fire safety perception resources, covering life channel monitoring, fire control room monitoring, water pressure monitoring, and intelligent smoke sensing," Zhang Jun (张峻), director of the Yuzhong District Big Data Development Bureau (渝中区大数据发展局), told reporters. "We have already achieved 'one building, one code' management for all 2,005 high-rise buildings."
Intelligent coordination and multi-departmental collaboration in handling police situations. "Smoke was detected in a residence at No. 85 Kaixuan Road (凯旋路), Nanji Men Street (南纪门街道)." At 11:49 a.m. one day, the "Yuzhong Fire Safety Comprehensive Scenario" (渝中消防综合场景) detected a fire in real time and pushed the information to the District Fire and Rescue Bureau (区消防救援局), the Traffic Police Detachment of the District Public Security Bureau (区公安分局交巡警支队), Nanji Men Street (南纪门街道) and other collaborative units through the Yuzhong District Digital City Operation and Governance Center (渝中区数字化城市运行和治理中心), simultaneously dispatching grid members and micro fire station personnel to the scene quickly. It turned out that debris on a resident's windowsill had caught fire. Ma Tengfei (马腾飞) and Peng Hong (彭洪) from the micro fire station extinguished the fire in time and sent photos of the scene to the firemen who were dispatched. At 11:57 a.m., the firemen conducted an on-site investigation and confirmed that the fire had been extinguished. In a total of 8 minutes, a fire was "fought early and extinguished small" in its initial stage.
This is a practice of the "Yuzhong Fire Safety Comprehensive Scenario" (渝中消防综合场景). "The early fire disposal time has been shortened by 2 to 3 minutes, and 30% of the fire disposal is completed before the arrival of fire trucks," said Zhang Xuemei (张雪梅), director of the Yuzhong District Fire and Rescue Bureau (渝中区消防救援局). "We have also integrated intelligent plans for 7 types of matters, such as hidden danger investigation and fire truck traffic guarantee, into the District Digital City Operation and Governance Center (区数字化城市运行和治理中心) to form a closed-loop mechanism for pre-event, mid-event, and post-event management," Zhang Jun (张峻) introduced.
Changcheng Community (长城小区) in Daping Street (大坪街道), Yuzhong District (渝中区), has a compact internal layout, and the phenomenon of fire lanes being occupied occurs frequently. In the past, relying on manual supervision was repeatedly prohibited. Video monitoring, image analysis, timeout warning, rapid response, and immediate disposal... The "Yuzhong Fire Safety Comprehensive Scenario" (渝中消防综合场景) used image recognition automatic warning technology to solve the problem. Today, 1,269 cameras have been installed in 1,152 fire lanes in Yuzhong District (渝中区) to help ensure smooth passage for fire trucks.
Xiao Lu (肖璐), deputy director of the Information and Communication Division of the Chongqing Fire and Rescue Bureau (重庆市消防救援局信息通信处), introduced that in response to the reality of a sharp increase in electricity consumption during the summer high-temperature season, the Fire and Rescue Bureau (消防救援局) relies on the "High-Rise Fire Safety" application to share abnormal electricity consumption data with power grid companies to accurately identify the types of high-power electrical appliances and the arc discharge, leakage, short circuit, overload, and over-temperature of power lines, and to monitor and warn key places such as high-rise public buildings and large commercial complexes in real time.
"In terms of fire safety supervision, Yuzhong District (渝中区) also faces shortcomings such as fewer perception points in old buildings, limitations in the reachable height and rescue efficiency of existing high-altitude rescue equipment, insufficient investment in fire safety training by some enterprises and social organizations, and residents' illegal use of fire and electricity," Zhang Jun (张峻) said. "We will focus on the problems and strive to find a new path for intelligent supervision of high-rise fire safety."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 陈尚文
On July 27th, during the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, the special forum "'AI+' Power Innovation and Development" hosted by China Southern Power Grid (南方电网公司) was held at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center (上海世博中心). At the forum, the National Pilot Application Base for Artificial Intelligence (Energy Field Power Direction) (国家人工智能应用中试基地（能源领域电力方向）) was released to the public, aiming to jointly connect upstream and downstream partners in the power industry to bridge the "last mile" from research and development to application of power artificial intelligence technology achievements. The base has reached cooperation intentions with 19 enterprises and research institutes, including China Huadian (中国华电), Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (上海人工智能实验室), and Guangdong Yueshu (广东粤数). It is expected that by 2027, the base will form pilot test results for more than 10 major categories of typical industry application scenarios, serve more than 150 upstream and downstream artificial intelligence enterprises inside and outside the industry, achieve an average annual growth of 25% in the artificial intelligence application market, and strongly promote the construction of the power industry and artificial intelligence industry chain.
"Pilot testing, that is, intermediate testing, connects scientific research and achievement incubation at the top, and industrial demonstration device design and product production at the bottom, undertaking the mission of transforming industry application ideas into product solutions and rapidly launching them into the market." Long Yun (龙云), General Manager of the Digitalization Department of China Southern Power Grid (南方电网公司), introduced that the National Pilot Application Base for Artificial Intelligence in the energy and power direction can provide diverse services such as testing and certification, achievement transformation, product development, and ecological support, which is of great significance for solving the problem of disconnection between scientific research achievements and practical applications in the power artificial intelligence industry.
"The pilot test base is equivalent to an open and shared experimental incubation platform." Hu Rong (胡荣), General Manager of Southern Grid Digital Research Institute (南网数研院), said that in addition to providing public services such as computing power support, data sample sets, full-process tool chains, and capital introduction for resident enterprises, the base will also build a complete set of digital twin simulation environments for power grids. Enterprises can train and verify AI technology achievements in realistic power grid scenarios, and quickly iterate on technologies based on the results, reducing the threshold for innovation.
The sustainable operation of the pilot test base is inseparable from an open and collaborative industry ecosystem. The government provides policy and financial support, the research institute is responsible for the base operation and management services, technology companies provide technical support, and power grid companies implement application scenarios... By attracting the joint construction of all parties in the upstream and downstream of the power industry chain, the base can effectively promote the open flow of innovative elements such as data, computing power, and algorithm models, so that different types of participants can benefit from the base ecosystem.
"The pilot test base can not only provide landing application scenarios for our products, but these scenario requirements can also further feed back into the research and development and upgrading of technologies. We believe that more and more robot products can be more widely used in power grid industry scenarios." Said Wang Qizhou (王启舟), Deputy General Manager of the Research and Development Department of Zhejiang Hangzhou Unitree Technology Co., Ltd. (浙江杭州宇树科技股份有限公司).
In recent years, China Southern Power Grid (南方电网公司) has taken the "AI+ Action" as a traction, accumulated a deep foundation in the fields of energy digitalization and smart grids, built an energy big data center covering Guangdong (广东), Guangxi (广西), Hainan (海南), Guizhou (贵州), Yunnan (云南) and other provinces, explored and implemented scientific research innovation models such as "revealing the list to take command" (揭榜挂帅), cultivated a group of compound talents proficient in power and digital technologies, and built a prosperous and diverse power artificial intelligence industry ecosystem. The company's self-controllable power industry large model "Da Watt" (大瓦特) has covered nearly 300 "AI+" innovative application scenarios in more than 10 fields such as transmission, substation, distribution, and dispatch. Artificial intelligence is gradually becoming the "ballast stone" for the high-quality development of China Southern Power Grid (南方电网公司).
China Southern Power Grid (南方电网公司) will further base itself on the leading unit positioning of the pilot test base construction, join hands with upstream and downstream partners in the power industry chain, accelerate the development of technology research and industrialization applications, focus on promoting the pilot test base to become a benchmark model in the industry, and contribute to promoting the deep integration of artificial intelligence and power.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张 璁
Recently, a cross-departmental joint inspection was officially launched in a certain operation area of the National Pipeline Group Hunan Company (国家管网集团湖南公司): archive verification simultaneously covered safety production, occupational health, and environmental protection ledgers; on-site inspections integrated all aspects such as storage tank safety, fire protection facilities, and hazardous waste disposal; the supervision team was embedded throughout the process, instantly marking problem lists and tracking evaluations in real time... The local Emergency Management Bureau, together with functional departments such as fire protection, health, and ecological environment, used the "one team enters the enterprise, full-subject diagnosis" model to greatly reduce the enterprise's inspection time.
Since March this year, the Ministry of Justice has deployed a special action to regulate administrative law enforcement involving enterprises. Recently, the guiding group for the special action to regulate administrative law enforcement involving enterprises, composed of the Ministry of Justice and relevant departments, went to various places to guide and evaluate the work, and provided on-site "diagnosis and treatment" for the administrative law enforcement work involving enterprises in various places. The reporter learned from Hunan (湖南) and Hebei (河北) that the local authorities have launched a "combination punch" to regulate administrative inspections involving enterprises, vigorously rectify problems such as random inspections, reduce the burden on enterprises, increase the efficiency of law enforcement, and promote the optimization of the business environment.
Unimpeded
Expand supervision channels and resolutely investigate and handle administrative law enforcement issues that infringe upon the rights and interests of enterprises and the public.
"The same company was inspected 5 times in a month. Who can stand such law enforcement?" Previously, the person in charge of a building materials company in Shijiazhuang City (石家庄市), Hebei Province (河北省) complained on the 12345 hotline. This complaint was quickly included by the judicial and administrative organs in the clues of law enforcement issues involving enterprises, and the relevant non-standard law enforcement issues were promptly and effectively rectified.
In Hebei (河北), the Provincial Department of Justice and the Provincial Data and Government Services Bureau have now established a cooperation mechanism, clarifying that all localities and departments should connect with the 12345 hotline in terms of information docking, information processing, and mutual communication of results.
In response to the insufficient discovery of problems in administrative law enforcement supervision, the Hebei Provincial Department of Justice further broadened supervision channels, collecting clues of law enforcement issues involving enterprises in all directions through eight channels: 12345 hotline, online public opinion, reconsideration error correction cases, litigation defeat cases, petition cases, case file review, unannounced visits, and complaints and reports. As of now, a total of 1,658 clues of law enforcement issues involving enterprises have been collected.
"In the past, supervision and law enforcement mainly relied on case file review and occasional spot checks, and the discovery of problems was limited. Now, with eight channels working simultaneously, it is like installing a 'radar' for law enforcement supervision, making it difficult for non-standard law enforcement behaviors to escape supervision," said the relevant person in charge of the Hebei Provincial Department of Justice.
After discovering supervision clues, how to promptly investigate and handle them is the key.
According to reports, the Hebei Provincial Department of Justice strengthens the thinking of handling cases, and resolutely investigates and handles administrative law enforcement issues that infringe upon the rights and interests of enterprises and the public through five methods: giving play to the role of law enforcement departments themselves, giving play to the supervisory role of judicial and administrative departments, accurately using law enforcement supervision methods, transferring to discipline inspection and supervision organs, and strengthening interviews and notifications.
Open
Clarify law enforcement authority with "list-based" management, making it clear "what to check, who checks, and when to check."
As a top-ranked economically strong county in the country, Changsha County (长沙县), Hunan Province (湖南省) currently has nearly 88,000 various types of enterprises, and the private economy is active.
"In February this year, we took the lead in piloting in the logistics industry, which has a large market volume, multiple inspection levels, and high frequency, and disaggregated and refined the inspection items of the industry into 46 quantifiable indicators, unifying and clarifying the content and authority of enterprise inspections," said the relevant person in charge of the Changsha County (长沙县) Bureau of Justice. At present, 45 administrative inspection units involving enterprises and 891 inspection items in Changsha County (长沙县) have achieved full public disclosure, clarifying law enforcement authority with "list-based" management, making it clear "what to check, who checks, and when to check."
To make administrative inspections operate in the sunshine, it is necessary to clarify authority to prevent "arbitrariness" and also to regulate the main body to prevent "random inspections."
In order to explore and solve the problems of multiple law enforcement entities, overlapping powers and responsibilities, and multi-headed law enforcement, Changsha County (长沙县) took the lead in launching comprehensive administrative law enforcement reform in Hunan Province (湖南省) in 2011, and established the first county-level administrative law enforcement bureau in 2016, centrally exercising 3,099 administrative law enforcement powers in 30 fields, realizing the transformation from "nine dragons governing the water" to "one dragon managing the water" and from "decentralized intersection" to "centralized unity."
In March this year, Changsha County (长沙县) issued an announcement, publicly confirming 70 statutory administrative inspection entities at one time, clarifying the law enforcement entity from the source and eliminating the chaos of unclear law enforcement entities.
The "Regulations on Optimizing the Business Environment in Hunan Province (湖南省)" will be officially implemented on January 1, 2025. "In order to implement the statutory requirement of the regulations that the same entity generally does not have more than two annual inspections, we focus on reducing burdens and achieving results through sorting out matters, formulating plans, and system early warning," said the relevant person in charge of the Hunan Provincial Department of Justice. In the future, it is necessary to further clarify the boundaries of law enforcement powers and responsibilities, realize "no inspection outside the list," and reduce problems such as random inspections from the operational level.
Standard
Scanning the code to enter the enterprise and displaying the certificate electronically not only restricts law enforcement behavior but also gives enterprises a "reassurance pill."
Now in many places, enterprises have the right to say "no" to administrative inspections that do not "scan the code."
Open the "Xingtai Law Enforcement (邢台执法)" mobile APP to scan the QR code on the company's business license, and ask the relevant person in charge of the enterprise to verify the electronic law enforcement certificate and the information of the inspected enterprise... Recently, law enforcement officers from the Xingtai City (邢台市) Market Supervision and Administration Bureau, Hebei Province (河北省) conducted a "double random, one public" inspection of Xingtai Jinshahe Noodle Industry Co., Ltd. (邢台金沙河面业有限责任公司) by scanning the code to enter the enterprise.
"When we first required scanning the code to enter the enterprise, our first reaction was that it was troublesome," said Wang Hao (王浩), a law enforcement officer on the scene. Only when we used it did we realize that law enforcement inspections are more transparent and standardized, and enterprises are more willing to cooperate. Scanning the code to enter the enterprise and displaying the certificate electronically have now become the prescribed actions for administrative law enforcement officers at the three levels of Xingtai City (邢台市), county, and township before entering the enterprise for law enforcement inspections.
Since the beginning of this year, Hebei (河北) has deployed the application of the "Scan Code to Enter Enterprise" APP throughout the province. Administrative law enforcement officers can only enter the enterprise for inspection after scanning the QR code on the enterprise's business license through the APP. The APP automatically conducts "cloud filing" to the law enforcement supervision platform to ensure "no inspection without filing, no entry without scanning the code."
This measure not only restricts law enforcement behavior but also gives enterprises a "reassurance pill." The person in charge of a chemical enterprise in Baoding (保定), Hebei (河北) said, "After the implementation of the 'Scan Code to Enter Enterprise' system, inspections have become more and more standardized, and we can focus more on development."
At present, Hebei (河北) is stepping up the construction and application of the "Scan Code to Enter Enterprise" provincial-level information platform to realize the interconnection, full tracking, and prompt early warning of administrative inspection data involving enterprises throughout the province, and improve the efficiency of administrative inspections involving enterprises through information technology means.
Temperature
Promote the "supervision + service" law enforcement supervision model to avoid "replacing management with fines."
The Changsha City (长沙市) Transportation Bureau in Hunan Province (湖南省) found in administrative inspections involving enterprises that 90% of road transportation accidents in more than 2,000 transportation enterprises in the city were due to enterprise management loopholes and other issues. Starting from the needs of enterprises, the transportation department deeply integrated inspection and service, and launched a "Enterprise Service Day + Appointment Physical Examination Law Enforcement" dual mechanism.
"'Appointment Physical Examination Law Enforcement' focuses on guiding rectification for general problems found in the first inspection to avoid 'replacing management with fines'," said the law enforcement officer. Previously, when invited to inspect a transportation enterprise, it was found that its prevention mechanism was unsound, so it immediately stationed in the enterprise to guide rectification "hand in hand." Now the enterprise's recurrence rate of hidden dangers has decreased by 78%, and the efficiency of emergency response has increased by 40%.
Risk-based response, reducing the frequency of inspections for well-managed enterprises, and precisely strengthening supervision of high-risk entities; scan code evaluation mechanism, enterprises evaluate the standardization of law enforcement in real time through the "Hunan Business Code (湖南营商码)"; accompanying guidance, law enforcement officers simultaneously interpret legal risks and provide compliance suggestions... Now Changsha (长沙) innovates measures to regulate administrative inspections involving enterprises, reduce the burden of inspection on enterprises, and strive to create a legalized business environment of "no disturbance without incident, and response to every request."
"Regulating administrative inspections involving enterprises requires breaking through the one-way supervision logic and actively building a 'law enforcement-feedback-improvement' closed loop," said the relevant person in charge of the Changsha City (长沙市) Bureau of Justice. It is necessary to steadily promote the "supervision + service" law enforcement supervision model, continuously improve the comprehensive supervision effectiveness of the government, and stimulate the vitality of enterprise development.
Return to TopPeople's Daily, Beijing, July 28th (Reporter Wei Zhezhe (魏哲哲)) The Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院), the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院), and the Ministry of Public Security (公安部) jointly released the "Opinions on Handling Criminal Cases such as Assisting Cybercrime Activities," providing clearer and more specific standards and policy guidelines for the judicial application of crimes such as aiding and abetting cybercrime.
To address the evolving landscape of new types of cybercrimes, the 2015 Criminal Law added the crime of assisting cybercrime activities (hereinafter referred to as "aiding and abetting cybercrime"). Although the situation of aiding and abetting cybercrime has improved, the number of cases involving "two cards" (两卡) remains high. Aiding and abetting cybercrime is characterized by professionalization and cross-border operations. Furthermore, defendants in such cases often exhibit "three lows and one high" characteristics: low age, low education, low income, and a high proportion of first-time offenders. In judicial practice, there are issues such as improper application of rules, inconsistent judgment standards, and inaccurate grasp of policies, necessitating unified standards for legal application and policy understanding. Against this backdrop, the "two highs and one department" (两高一部) jointly formulated the opinions to combat aiding and abetting cybercrime and sever the upstream and downstream chains of cybercrimes such as telecom network fraud.
The opinions consist of 5 parts and 16 articles, providing comprehensive and systematic regulations on the overall requirements for handling aiding and abetting cybercrime and its related crimes, legally determining aiding and abetting cybercrime, accurately grasping criminal policies, and adhering to comprehensive governance.
According to reports, the opinions further clarify the rules for determining subjective knowledge in aiding and abetting cybercrime, the standards for determining "serious circumstances" in aiding and abetting cybercrime involving "two cards," and the rules for distinguishing between aiding and abetting cybercrime and accomplice crimes such as concealing criminal proceeds and fraud, effectively resolving the problem of inconsistent legal application and judicial determination.
To better adapt to the changing situation of crimes involving "two cards," the opinions integrated and adjusted the "serious circumstances" determination standards for crimes involving "two cards" stipulated in the "Opinions on Telecom Fraud (II)" and related meeting minutes, further unifying judgment standards. The original "serious circumstances" standard for selling or renting one's own bank account or payment account and reaching a corresponding transaction volume has been clarified as selling or renting three of one's own bank accounts or payment accounts and reaching a corresponding transaction volume. Simultaneously, in response to the current high incidence of illegal and criminal activities involving phone cards, the original provision that acquiring, selling, or renting more than 20 phone cards belonging to others constitutes "serious circumstances" has been adjusted to no longer distinguish between others and oneself. As long as more than 20 phone cards are acquired, sold, or rented, it is deemed to constitute "serious circumstances," further tightening the criminal law net.
In light of the increasing professionalization, organization, concealment, and intelligence of aiding and abetting cybercrime, the opinions stipulate that handling agencies should comprehensively and accurately implement the policy of combining leniency and severity, ensuring leniency where appropriate, severity where necessary, and proportionate punishment. For activities that are organized, professional, and cross-border in nature, as well as organizers, planners, commanders, and key members who commit crimes such as aiding and abetting cybercrime, they should be severely punished according to law. For minors, students, and those at the end of the criminal chain with minor circumstances, they should be treated leniently according to law. Specific circumstances for both severe and lenient treatment are clarified to facilitate accurate understanding and application by handling personnel.
In addition, the opinions detail specific rules and implementation measures for issues such as coordinating administrative and criminal justice, implementing occupational bans and prohibition orders, issuing judicial and prosecutorial recommendations, and conducting legal publicity and education.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Shanghai on July 28th (Reporter Ju Yunpeng (巨云鹏)) The reporter learned from the Shanghai Municipal Committee Social Work Department (上海市委社会工作部) that the Shanghai Municipal Committee Social Work Department (上海市委社会工作部) launched the "People's City, Citywide Friendliness" initiative in November of last year. By building a friendly position system, a friendly resource system, and a friendly guidance system, it promotes the implementation of friendly scene construction, and continuously enhances the sense of gain and integration of new employment groups.
Shanghai takes the Party-Masses Service Position as the main position, deeply integrates group organizations and various social resources, and along the "workplace," "residence," and "resting place" of new employment groups, has cumulatively optimized and built 7,395 friendly service positions. In friendly positions, new employment groups can not only rest and enjoy preferential catering, but also receive medical, legal aid, and employment guidance services.
Relevant functional departments also have some new measures. The Shanghai Municipal Construction and Transportation Work Committee (上海市建设交通工作党委) released the "New Era Urban Builders and Managers Home" project. As an important part and demonstration benchmark of Shanghai's "one bed, one room, one apartment" multi-level rental housing supply system, at present, the city has raised and supplied approximately 43,800 beds through the selection method of guaranteed rental housing. The Shanghai Municipal Transportation Commission (上海市交通委), the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions (市总工会), and the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Justice (市司法局) released legal service resources for online car-hailing drivers and truck drivers. The Shanghai Municipal Postal Administration (上海市邮政管理局) released the first batch of 22 "Warm Bee Love Home" service points in the Shanghai Express Delivery Industry. These service points rely on the construction of transshipment centers and service outlets of various express delivery companies, and are open to new employment groups such as express delivery workers inside and outside the stations.
Return to TopTaihu Street, Changxing County, Zhejiang Province, relies on the Taihu Lake shoreline to create the "Taihu You Feng" (太湖有风) Youth Market, highlighting nighttime tours, nighttime food, and nighttime entertainment. While meeting the personalized and high-quality consumption needs of citizens, it also guides returning young people to actively participate in cultural and tourism entrepreneurship. The picture shows the night scene of the "Taihu You Feng" (太湖有风) Youth Market.
Chen Haiwei (陈海伟) Photo (Image China)
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on July 28th (Reporters Ouyang Jie (欧阳洁) and He Linping (贺林平)) On July 26th, China's first seaport passenger international transit area, the Shekou Cruise Homeport International Transit Area, was officially launched in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东). Ten international passengers, after arriving at Shekou Cruise Homeport (蛇口邮轮母港) via the Shenzhen Shekou (深圳蛇口) to Hong Kong and Macao (港澳) high-speed passenger ferry, were able to transfer visa-free directly through the international transit area without going through traditional entry and exit procedures. They quickly boarded the "China Merchants Yidun (招商伊敦)" cruise ship and began their cruise to Vietnam (越南).
After the international transit area was put into use, passengers arriving at Shekou Cruise Homeport (蛇口邮轮母港) via Hong Kong and Macao (港澳) high-speed passenger ferries or international cruise ships can transfer visa-free in the international transit area. The original eight steps, such as ticket checking and security inspection, have been streamlined to four, and the transfer time has been reduced from a maximum of 2.5 hours to within 30 minutes, with a 40% reduction in walking distance, greatly improving the passenger experience.
According to reports, Shekou Customs (蛇口海关), which is under the Shenzhen Customs (深圳海关), guided the formulation of the transit area's operation plan and innovatively implemented a new "one machine dual screen" inspection model. Luggage can complete customs inspection and terminal security inspection in one pass, realizing “一次过检、无感通关” (yī cì guò jiǎn, wú gǎn tōng guān - "one-time inspection, seamless customs clearance," refers to a streamlined and efficient customs process where passengers or goods undergo inspection quickly and without significant disruption or inconvenience). In addition, it supports the terminal in improving the domestic and foreign trade switching function of berths, giving international cruise berths the dual business attributes of international and domestic, and improving the utilization efficiency of Shekou Cruise Center (蛇口邮轮中心) berths.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吕钟正
Walking into Zhouzhuang Ancient Town (周庄古镇) in Kunshan (昆山), Jiangsu (江苏), one sees crisscrossing rivers and lanes, and ancient residences scattered about. The unique Jiangnan (江南) water town scenery and cultural landscape attract tourists from all directions.
"We are grateful to the property service team here for a smooth opening," said Guan Yinhui (管寅辉), the store manager of Yin Cha Teahouse (寅茶茶室). This April, the teahouse added dozens of tables and chairs, thanks to the convenient service boat provided by the property management. After the "No Motorcycles" campaign was launched in the ancient town, the property service team under Poly Developments (保利发展) in the scenic area converted the electric cleaning boats into convenient service boats to transport goods for merchants and original residents.
The convenient service boat is a microcosm of Zhouzhuang Ancient Town's (周庄古镇) exploration of operating a community-based scenic area. In addition to tourists, there are more than 200 original residents and more than 1,000 shops in the ancient town. Combining the actual situation of the ancient town, Poly Property (保利物业) proposed the concept of full-domain service. Since entering the area in July 2024, the service team has effectively solved the management problems existing in community-based scenic areas by using a grid-based governance model and an intelligent management platform.
The core area of the ancient town scenic area is only 0.47 square kilometers, but it is densely populated and has many ancient buildings and bridges, so order maintenance and environmental management must be more refined. "We divide the scenic area into 5 grids, and each grid is staffed by service team members as grid chiefs and grid members to cooperate with multiple departments to carry out full-coverage inspection and management of fire safety, etc.," said Wang Mengnan (王梦楠), general manager of the Suzhou (苏州) area of Poly Property City Service (保利物业城服) in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) Company. In addition to daily patrols, the team also adds special positions during peak tourist seasons and assigns people to fixed positions at key points to ensure the safety of bridge traffic in the scenic area.
"A child was stung by a wasp, and the parents were not around." Grid member Wang Zhen (王震) quickly handled the situation and reported it to the platform. Zhouzhuang Ancient Town (周庄古镇) launched a digital comprehensive management platform last year to achieve "**一屏观全域、一网管全域**" (yī píng guān quán yù, yī wǎng guǎn quán yù - "one screen views the whole area, one network manages the whole area," to have a comprehensive overview and management through a single platform), enabling rapid response and rapid disposal. With the assistance of the platform, Wang Zhen (王震) and his colleagues quickly found the child's mother and accompanied her to the hospital for treatment. The management platform is connected to more than 500 high-definition cameras, which can not only monitor problems such as garbage dumping and illegal construction rebound in real time, but also assist in finding lost people.
In the duty room of the comprehensive management platform, duty officer Zhao Yan (赵岩) opened the page, and data such as scenic area assets and passenger flow were clear at a glance. In the "Work Order Details" column, problems such as "water tap sensor failure" and "risk of ceiling falling off" all show "assigned" and "completed." "After the platform receives the reported work order, it will quickly transfer it to relevant personnel for on-site resolution," said Zhao Yan (赵岩). In addition to daily work, the management platform can also play a key role in guiding passenger flow and evacuating tourists.
At No. 22 Fuhong Street (福洪街) in the ancient town, the convenient service station built by Poly Property (保利物业) under the leadership of the government is bustling with people. "Here, we can provide convenient services for residents, merchants, and tourists, including facility maintenance, pipe dredging, and circuit troubleshooting," said Wang Mengnan (王梦楠). The service station also provides small appliance repairs, errands, and emergency services for elderly people over 80 living alone in the scenic area, and regularly organizes volunteers to deliver daily necessities to these residents' homes.
Dozens of banners witnessed the changes that took place in the ancient town within a year. "After Poly Property (保利物业) moved in, order maintenance and environmental management have been completely renewed," said Zhu Sufen (朱素芬), general manager of Jiangsu Water Town Zhouzhuang Tourism Co., Ltd. (江苏水乡周庄旅游股份有限公司). Today, the community-based scenic area service model continues to be explored and improved, and constantly stimulates the vitality of residents and merchants to "**共治共享**" (gòng zhì gòng xiǎng - "joint governance and shared benefits," collaborative governance and shared prosperity).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 陶相安
Local time July 27th, the 2025 Rhine-Ruhr World University Summer Games (hereinafter referred to as the "Universiade") closed. The Chinese University Sports Delegation sent a total of 116 athletes to participate in more than 90 events across 14 major categories, winning a total of 30 gold medals, 27 silver medals, and 17 bronze medals at this Universiade, ranking second in the gold medal standings. Liu Lixin (刘立新), the head of the Chinese University Sports Delegation, chairman and secretary-general of the China School Sports Federation (中国学生体育联合会), stated that the Chinese University Sports Delegation successfully completed its participation tasks and established goals, comprehensively demonstrating the achievements of school sports reform and development in the new era and the good spirit of Chinese university students.
The Universiade included a total of 18 major events such as badminton, basketball, and track and field, and for the first time included events for people with disabilities in the 3x3 basketball program. Mao Lijuan (毛丽娟), a professor at Shanghai University of Sport (上海体育大学), believes that the Universiade is a good platform for testing and showcasing the development level of college sports education in various countries and regions. According to statistics from the organizing committee, delegations from 102 countries and regions participated in the competition, and a total of 28 new Universiade records were set. Many participants were outstanding athletes with experience in the Olympic Games, World Championships, and Continental Championships.
From the further expansion of the Universiade's participation scale to the significant improvement of student athletes' competitive level, Liu Lixin believes that countries around the world are paying more and more attention to the educational function and value of sports, and regard schools as "reservoirs" for cultivating competitive sports talents, and build a complete reserve talent training and selection mechanism for competitive sports through school clubs, campus leagues, etc. "Basing on schools to cultivate high-level athletes has become a global trend," said Liu Lixin.
Shu Heng (舒衡) from Peking University (北京大学) won the gold medal in the men's long jump at the Asian Athletics Championships in May this year, and he continued his good form into this Universiade. Local time July 24th, Shu Heng quickly adjusted in the fourth jump after falling behind in the first three jumps, and rose to the top of the ranking with a score of 8.07 meters. In the last jump, Shu Heng continued to challenge himself and finally won the championship with a score of 8.09 meters. In his opinion, every game helps him build confidence.
Local time July 25th, the Chinese University Women's Basketball Team defeated their opponents 81-69 in the final to win the gold medal in the event. Li Sunnan (李笋南), the team's coach and deputy dean of the School of Physical Education and Sports of Beijing Normal University (北京师范大学体育与运动学院), revealed that although the team only trained for two weeks for this competition, everyone was very motivated. "The players are very smart, have high professional qualities, and devote themselves to every training session and game. The team has a strong cohesion," said Li Sunnan.
In the 3x3 basketball competition, which was established for the first time at this Universiade, the Chinese team composed of Gao Ziyue (高梓悦), Zhang Tao (张涛), Wang Xiaoqing (王小青), and Liu Bei (刘贝) won the silver medal in the women's 3x3 basketball event. The two women's basketball teams of the Chinese University Sports Delegation are composed of current students from 6 universities in China, and their impressive results reflect the effectiveness of school sports reform and development.
Liu Lixin introduced that campus basketball has initially formed a campus league system that connects elementary school, junior high school, high school, and university, as well as national, provincial, municipal, county, and school levels. In addition, the China School Sports Federation and the Chinese Basketball Association (中国篮球协会) jointly conduct coach training to continuously improve the coaching ability and level of physical education teachers and campus basketball coaches. Liu Lixin believes that grassroots basketball coaches and campus leagues play a leading role in stimulating students' interest in participating in basketball, and continuously expanding the population base of basketball, which can not only play the educational function of sports, help students strengthen their physique, improve their personality, and temper their will, but also continuously transport reserve talents for competitive sports.
At this Universiade, all four athletes of the Chinese University Table Tennis Women's Team came from East China University of Science and Technology (华东理工大学), and ultimately won two gold medals in women's singles and women's doubles. Coach Zang Yuying (臧玉瑛) introduced that the development of the table tennis program at East China University of Science and Technology benefits from the integrated model of sports and education from elementary school to middle school to university. "We hope to provide help for the diversified development of students through such efforts."
The friendly exchanges between athletes off the field were also impressive. In the mixed interview area of the women's basketball court, Liu Yutong (刘禹彤), a Chinese University Women's Basketball Team athlete, high-fived and congratulated the Hungarian women's basketball team members who won the bronze medal: "We shared our food with each other off the court and became very good friends." Shu Heng agreed: "Compared to track and field individual events, I prefer the atmosphere of the Universiade. Participating in the competition allows me to meet friends from all over the world, exchange ideas, and learn from each other." Gathering and getting to know each other, deepening exchanges, and enhancing friendship, this Universiade provided a platform for Chinese university athletes to fully communicate with young student athletes from other countries and regions.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 陈晨曦
On the evening of July 28th, Chinese divers Wang Zongyuan (王宗源) and Zheng Jiuyuan (郑九源), the "Shuang Yuan" duo, joined forces to complete the final dive of the men's synchronized 3-meter springboard final at the 2025 Singapore World Aquatics Championships, scoring 99.18 points! This highest score of the entire competition was enough to secure the gold medal for the leading Chinese team.
From Budapest to Singapore, over 4 years, Wang Zongyuan (王宗源) has participated in the finals of the men's synchronized 3-meter springboard at four World Championships. His partners have changed, but the quality of the medals has remained the same.
As the award ceremony began, Wang Zongyuan (王宗源), who debuted earlier and is three years older, followed his new partner Zheng Jiuyuan (郑九源), appearing more like a newcomer. "He won the 1-meter springboard earlier and stood on the podium once. I haven't stood on it yet, so I definitely need him to lead me," said Wang Zongyuan (王宗源). "It's my first time leading an older brother onto the podium," Zheng Jiuyuan (郑九源) said somewhat shyly.
From Cao Yuan (曹缘) in 2022 to Long Daoyi (龙道一), with whom he partnered for two World Championships, and now Zheng Jiuyuan (郑九源), Wang Zongyuan's (王宗源) partners have changed, and his role in the synchronized event has also changed. "I have learned a lot from different teammates, and I am grateful for their companionship. In the past, older brothers led me in competitions, but now I also share my experiences and insights with my teammates. Perhaps this is inheritance," said Wang Zongyuan (王宗源).
Despite leading the final with his new partner, Wang Zongyuan (王宗源) still felt the pressure of his opponents closing in, especially after the Mexican team scored a high 95.94 points on their final dive. The Chinese team had to perform perfectly on their final dive to have a chance of winning. This made Wang Zongyuan (王宗源), who has experienced countless big events, feel a little nervous: "Although the result was good, this competition made us feel some pressure. Fortunately, we performed well from the preliminary round to the final, and each dive was better and better."
Having entered the national diving team at the age of 15, Wang Zongyuan (王宗源), now 24, has become a veteran. His nickname in the team has also changed from "Fatty" to "Old Wang (老王)". He changed his WeChat nickname to "Old Wang (老王)", hoping that he could be as mature and steady as the name suggests.
Before the Paris Olympics, Wang Zongyuan (王宗源) started his own 3-meter springboard era with a series of achievements, but in the individual event at the Paris Olympics, he was reversed and won gold by his teammate Xie Siyi (谢思埸), failing to achieve his dream of winning two gold medals. Now, people have new expectations for Wang Zongyuan (王宗源) and this new combination. "This World Championship is our first collaboration, please take it with a normal attitude, and also believe that we will definitely perform in the future," said Wang Zongyuan (王宗源), which was echoed by Zheng Jiuyuan (郑九源): "The results of the competition prove that we have this strength, stabilize our mentality and don't rush, take it step by step."
Regarding the future, Wang Zongyuan (王宗源) said: "The outside world may see us winning the championship relatively easily, but I know best about the road I have traveled. From the last Olympic cycle to now, injuries have been 如影随形 (rú yǐng suí xíng - "like shadow follows form," inseparable, always following), especially the back injury, which once forced me to suspend training and competition in the past few years. As I get older, I need to protect my body better. Since I have chosen diving, I will continue to go on, because love will continue."
Return to Top(Reported by Chen Chenxi (陈晨曦) from Singapore, this newspaper, July 28th) On the 28th, six gold medals were awarded in swimming and diving events at the 2025 Singapore World Aquatics Championships. Chinese athlete Qin Haiyang (覃海洋) won the gold medal in the men's 100m breaststroke with a time of 58.23 seconds. This is also the first gold medal won by the Chinese swimming team at this World Championships.
The two diving gold medals produced on the 28th were swept by Chinese athletes. The Wang Zongyuan (王宗源) / Zheng Jiuyuan (郑九源) duo won the men's synchronized 3m springboard gold medal, and the women's synchronized 10m platform gold medal went to the Chen Yuxi (陈芋汐) / Zhang Minjie (掌敏杰) duo. As of now, a total of 6 gold medals have been awarded in diving, and the Chinese team has won 5.
In the men's 100m breaststroke final, Qin Haiyang (覃海洋) did not take the lead in the first half, but with his strong late-race ability, he overtook Italian athlete Nicolò Martinenghi in the sprint stage and touched the wall first. Martinenghi won the silver medal, and Kyrgyz athlete Denis Petrashov won the bronze.
In the women's 100m butterfly final, Chinese star Zhang Yufei (张雨霏) finished fourth with a time of 56.47 seconds. Although she missed the podium by one place, she said that this result exceeded expectations. American athlete Gretchen Walsh won the gold medal in this event.
Chinese team's 12-year-old athlete Yu Zidi (于子迪) qualified for the women's 200m individual medley final. In the final, she was once ranked third, and finally swam a time of 2 minutes 09 seconds 21, ranking fourth with a narrow margin of 0.06 seconds. Canadian athlete Summer McIntosh won the championship with a time of 2 minutes 06 seconds 69.
Return to TopThe 11th National Traditional Games of Ethnic Minorities of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region recently took place in Balinyou Banner, Chifeng City. This year's games featured 18 competitive events and 12 performance events, making it the edition with the most events and the richest forms in history. The picture shows contestants competing in the individual "Picking Hada While Riding" event.
Wang Zheng (王正) Photo (People's Vision)
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) July 28th dispatch (Reporter Zheng Yi (郑轶)) The 2025 China (中国) Rubik's Cube Sports Tour Series (Shantou (汕头) Station) and the "Belt and Road" Mass Sports Series WCU Rubik's Cube Competition was recently held in Shantou City (汕头市), Guangdong Province (广东省). More than 500 athletes competed fiercely in three events: individual singles, individual all-around, and team relay. This competition adopted a combination of online and offline modes, which is helpful for the wider development of Rubik's Cube competition.
In recent years, the low-threshold Rubik's Cube sport has been loved by many enthusiasts, especially teenagers, for its unique charm. In order to promote the popularization and development of Rubik's Cube sports, the Chess and Card Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport (国家体育总局棋牌运动管理中心) took the lead in establishing the China (中国) Rubik's Cube Sports Working Committee in June this year, and is actively promoting Rubik's Cube to become an official Asian intellectual sports event. Before this competition, the China (中国) Rubik's Cube Sports Level 1 Referee Training Course was held in Shantou (汕头), with more than 100 students from more than 80 Rubik's Cube sports associations and training institutions across the country participating in the training.
Return to TopThe Nanning (南宁) edition of this newspaper, July 28th (Reporter: Pang Ge Ping (庞革平)) - The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区) Sports Bureau recently issued a notice promoting pickleball and organizing the Guangxi (广西) Pickleball Super League work plan. It will explore a pickleball development model with regional characteristics through establishing associations, conducting training, building a competition system, and constructing a number of courts.
Guangxi (广西) plans to promote the establishment of municipal-level pickleball associations in 14 prefecture-level cities by 2026, and counties (cities, districts) with the conditions should build as many as possible, to build a three-level pickleball sports organization management network. It encourages prioritizing the conversion of existing badminton courts into pickleball courts, and promotes the "one court for two purposes" and "one hall for multiple functions" model. It is estimated that no less than 1,000 pickleball courts will be newly built or renovated throughout the region by 2026.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 史自强
In the early morning, in Dahuoquan Park (达活泉公园) in Xindu District (信都区), Xingtai City (邢台市), Hebei Province (河北省), the sound of cicadas in summer is accompanied by the rhythmic thumping of basketballs on the ground.
"One, two, one, two..." More than 200 children participating in the summer basketball training camp are focused on practicing dribbling under the guidance of coaches, creating a fluctuating "basketball wave" on the scene.
"Alternate left and right with bow stance ball taps," "Pull the ball apart with one in front and one in back"... Among the crowd, a coach about 1.9 meters tall is particularly eye-catching. He wears wristbands, has a megaphone on his waist, and a whistle around his neck, and his voice is loud and powerful.
He is Zhang Zheng (张正) (pictured, photo by Chen Lei (陈雷)), the founder and coach of this basketball training camp. Over seventy years old, he has been running the summer public welfare basketball training camp in Xingtai City (邢台市) for 18 consecutive years. Regardless of age or gender, as long as children are interested, they can participate for free.
"Children, there is 'magic' in my palm. As long as you give me a high-five, you will jump higher and practice better!" Zhang Zheng (张正) is full of affability and encourages the children in various ways. During training breaks, the children confidently show off their newly learned skills, some dribbling with alternating hands, some dribbling while running, all extremely happy.
Eight-year-old Zhang Youyi (张佑伊) is participating in the training camp for the third year. "The child's physique was relatively weak. After strengthening physical exercise, his physical fitness has improved significantly." Zhang Youyi's (张佑伊) mother accompanies her child's training not far away, with a look of relief on her face.
"In the first year, there were only a dozen students, in the second year more than 100 came, and in the third year it increased to more than 300..." Zhang Zheng (张正) said that this year, more than 4,000 children have received basketball enlightenment education in the training camp.
Zhang Zheng (张正) was once a professional basketball player, but later had to give up his beloved career due to injury. Nearing retirement, coinciding with the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Zhang Zheng's (张正) love for basketball rekindled from the bottom of his heart. In that year, the first public welfare basketball training camp opened.
With the joint efforts of all sectors of society, the training camp has been successfully carried out year after year: there are free venues in the park, and later charitable enterprises and units sponsored teaching supplies such as megaphones and whistles, and parents spontaneously brought pumps, first aid kits, etc. In addition, the training camp has contacted manufacturers of affordable jerseys and basketballs for the children. Trainees can purchase them voluntarily or prepare their own.
Liu Ye (刘叶), a parent of a trainee, has insisted on accompanying her child to participate in the training camp for 5 years. "The child is constantly growing in sports, and I have also developed the habit of getting up early to exercise." Full of gains, Liu Ye (刘叶) has become a volunteer in the training camp, helping to manage student information, organize event materials, etc.
Physical education teachers Wang Lipu (王利浦) and Xie Jianli (谢建立), veteran coaches Xue Dahu (薛大虎), Zhang Chengxiang (张呈祥), and Yan Zhao (闫召), as well as citizens who love sports, have successively joined and become public welfare coaches in the training camp. "众人拾柴火焰高 (zhòng rén shí chái huǒ yàn gāo - "many people gather firewood, the flames rise high," many hands make light work. We teach children passing skills, but we also hope to pass on the spirit of striving and upward sportsmanship," said Wang Lipu (王利浦).
The light of public welfare has illuminated the children's sports dreams. Zuo Xinying (左新影) was a thin little girl when she participated in the training camp, but now she has become a first-class basketball player. In 2024, she graduated from the sports training major of Capital University of Physical Education and Sports (首都体育学院) with a master's degree. This summer, she appeared in the referee team of the Hebei Provincial Youth Basketball Championship.
In recent years, although Zhang Zheng (张正) has settled in Shijiazhuang (石家庄), he and his family have agreed to return to Xingtai (邢台) every summer to leave time for the training camp and keep his promise to the children.
"I feel that I am not old yet and want to keep going. Even if I can't do it one day, I am not worried. The coaching team of the training camp is constantly growing, and I believe they will continue this cause," said Zhang Zheng (张正), hoping that more children will gain confidence and strength through sports, "Even the most ordinary court can carry dreams."
Return to TopThis newspaper's Guangzhou (广州) July 28th dispatch (Reporter Luo Aihua (罗艾桦)) - Guangzhou (广州) City, Guangdong (广东省) Province, recently issued the "Guangzhou (广州) City Sports Powerhouse Construction Plan (2024-2035)," proposing to fully build an international sports consumption center, an international bay area sports center, and an international sports event center.
The plan clarifies the innovative creation of a batch of sports-themed consumption areas represented by the Huadu (花都) Ice and Snow Fashion Sports Zone, the Tianhe (天河) 24-hour Fashion and Vitality Zone, the Nansha (南沙) Coastal Sports and Leisure Zone, the Zengcheng (增城) Rural Sports Consumption Zone, and the Conghua (从化) Equestrian Sports and Horse Industry Consumption Zone; further establish a Guangzhou-Hong Kong-Macao sports exchange and cooperation mechanism to promote the interconnection of rules, mutual recognition of standards, and sharing of resources in the fields of sports industry, venues, events, and talents in the three regions.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 徐 馨 沈小晓 孙广勇
During the summer vacation, children from different countries participate in a variety of skill courses or experience distinctive cultural and tourism activities. Government agencies, social organizations, schools, and parents strive to create convenient conditions, organize various activities, and encourage children to explore freely, discover interests, increase knowledge, improve themselves, and spend a happy and meaningful summer vacation.
Germany——
Reading and sports activities enhance comprehensive quality
This summer, all children aged 8 to 12 who hold a public library card can participate in the "Summer Reading Challenge" jointly launched by the Berlin Public Library Association and 37 libraries in Berlin (柏林).
Ella (埃拉), a sixth-grade student in the Kreuzberg (克罗伊茨贝格) district of Berlin (柏林), came to the Pablo Neruda Library (帕布罗·聂鲁达图书馆) near her home, received the "Summer Reading Challenge" stamp booklet, and began her reading journey this summer. "The protagonist in the story has magical powers. If you could cast a spell, what would you do?" "Does any character in this book remind you of your friend? If so, what do they have in common?" "If the friendship in the book were ice cream, what flavor would it be?"... Every time Ella (埃拉) reads a book, listens to an audiobook, or watches a movie, she has to answer an interesting question and get a stamp. As long as she finishes reading 3 books, she can participate in a lottery, and the prizes include the skateboard that Ella (埃拉) has been longing for. This reading activity, which runs throughout the summer, is funded by the "Strengthening and Innovation Project Fund," which is specifically used to encourage libraries to propose innovative and future-oriented projects.
During the summer vacation, public libraries in Germany (德国) have launched various special activities. For example, the "Watertower Library" (水塔边图书馆) in northern Berlin (柏林) holds outdoor story sessions for young children every Wednesday, where children can lie in hammocks in the park and listen to stories, and also participate in rich game activities. The Gottfried Benn Library (戈特弗里德·本图书馆) offers handicraft workshops every Wednesday and creative board games every Friday. Some libraries also provide creative writing workshops for teenagers and hold readings of children's works, and so on.
In addition to reading, sports camps for different age groups have also appeared. Local football clubs supported by the German Football Association (德国足协), such as the popular Bayern Munich (拜仁慕尼黑) youth training camp, recruit children aged 6 to 16. The camp period of about a week focuses on training ball control, passing, shooting, tactical drills, etc., and also has the intention of selecting seedlings. The sports clubs under the German Athletics Association (德国田径协会) offer youth athletics training camps: running, long jump, shot put, obstacle training, etc., focusing on the comprehensive improvement of physical fitness.
There are also some inclusive summer sports projects that use sports as a medium to help young people break through themselves and promote social integration. The "Unlimited Possibilities" camp activity, created by "German Paralympic Ski Queen" Anna Schaffelhuber (安娜·沙费尔胡伯), is open to young people aged 14 to 21, with 24 people in each session, usually including 12 young people with disabilities and 12 able-bodied young people, who participate in paragliding, lake kayaking, hiking and other activities together, learning how to increase self-confidence, responsibility and the courage to try new things, and exercise social skills. Here, regardless of whether they have disabilities, they are encouraged to challenge themselves. "That's what 'unlimited possibilities' means - I really like all the challenges and tasks," said Valentina (瓦伦丁纳), who participated in the camp activity.
Egypt——
Workshops and experience classes focus on edutainment
During the summer vacation, many museums in Egypt (埃及) have launched various workshops and experience classes to enrich children's cultural and artistic experiences. The Egyptian Museum (埃及博物馆) has launched a "Wooden Veneer Art" workshop for young people aged 12 to 18, introducing the history of wooden veneer art and its connection with ancient Egyptian civilization, and children can experience and learn wood veneer processing and production. The Children's Museum (儿童博物馆) offers a series of art and science workshops, drama performance workshops, entertainment and heritage workshops, and human development workshops. The Sharm el-Sheikh Museum (沙姆沙伊赫博物馆) has launched 17 educational and art workshops for teenagers aged 6 to 16, covering different themes such as pottery making, mummy art, hieroglyphic writing, etc., to introduce ancient Egyptian civilization and art to children.
The reporter recently came to the Kafr el-Sheikh Museum (卡夫拉谢赫博物馆) and saw children concentrating on learning sculpture art from the teacher around a large wooden table. The Kafr el-Sheikh Museum (卡夫拉谢赫博物馆) has opened a sculpture workshop during the summer vacation. 7-year-old Mohamed Hassan (穆罕默德·哈桑) excitedly played with clay, "I like to use clay to shape various shapes. I want to become a great sculptor when I grow up. I can also make many new friends here." Osama Farid (奥萨马·法里德), the curator, said: "The purpose of setting up the workshop is to encourage children to create art, cultivate aesthetic ability, improve hands-on skills, and transform their artistic ideas into sculpture works, **寓教于乐** (yù jiào yú lè - "teach through pleasure," to educate through entertainment). Children can also enhance their teamwork awareness and eventually create unique works of art."
Muamen Osman (穆阿门·奥斯曼), head of the museum department of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt (埃及最高文物委员会), said that these projects help transform history, culture and art into lively and interactive experiences, stimulate children's imagination and creativity, and enhance their sense of national belonging and cultural literacy.
In addition to museums, youth centers, clubs and other institutions also offer art and cultural courses and cultural seminars such as painting, sculpture, and photography to help young people master more skills. 16-year-old Mahmoud (马哈茂德) participated in a technical course to learn computer science and artificial intelligence, "I chose this course because I am very interested in the field of modern technology and eager to explore further. This kind of course enriches my summer life and allows me to better plan my future professional direction." Houssaim Atef (侯赛姆·阿特夫), a teacher at the Faculty of Sports Science of Helwan University (赫勒万大学), said: "Children explore new things by participating in summer courses, broaden their horizons, and lay some foundations for achieving their life development goals."
Thailand——
Wilderness training camps hone will and cooperation
During the holidays, Thai (泰国) junior high schools often organize students to conduct closed training at training bases in other provinces. Recently, the reporter walked into the wilderness training camp of teachers and students of Wuthiyakrai School (武提亚学校) in Chonburi Province (春武里府).
At 5 a.m., the sky was pitch black, and Songchai (颂猜) got up. He put on a gray short-sleeved shirt, a green epaulette, a cyan-pink scarf and a beret, gray shorts and thick-line stockings, a brown belt tied around his waist, and shiny brown leather shoes, looking very energetic.
Songchai (颂猜) carried a backpack containing toiletries and change of clothes, and held a wooden stick and a multi-purpose rope in his hand, and came to the school playground to assemble. Students from the three grades of junior high school lined up neatly, shouting slogans and marching in neat steps, to the mountains and forests of Nakhon Ratchasima Province (呵叻府) for a two-night and three-day camping trip. Near noon, the convoy arrived at the wilderness training camp in Nakhon Ratchasima Province (呵叻府). Under the leadership of the squad leader, the students began to set up tents. First find suitable branches, build the frame of the tent on a flat piece of land, then fix the structure with the newly learned rope binding method, and then put on the canvas, and the camp is set up.
On the second day, each team came to the teaching point to learn etiquette, knot tying, using a compass, wilderness first aid, wilderness survival and other knowledge. The teachers taught vividly, and the students imitated seriously. They shuttled through the forest, experiencing various wilderness survival skills. Students need to cross rope bridges, climb hanging ladders, step on gasoline drums, crawl under barbed wire, and march long distances. Each project is full of challenges. When crossing the rope, step on a thick rope and pull another rope to move forward. If you are not careful, you will fall, which is a test of students' physical strength and perseverance. When crossing the lake by bamboo raft, the team members worked hard to paddle together, and some simply jumped into the water to push the bamboo raft. "Pay attention to balance when paddling, and also coordinate your efforts, otherwise you may capsize into the water, which requires teamwork," said Giti (吉滴), who successfully crossed the lake.
As the sky gradually darkened, each team took turns performing programs at the bonfire party, and songs and laughter echoed in the valley. At the graduation ceremony on the third day, Thiraleuk (蒂拉乐), the principal of Wuthiyakrai School (武提亚学校), made a summary: "The training has improved the students' wilderness survival skills, honed their will, and cultivated their sense of discipline and teamwork."
The experience of youth holiday closed training camps is a common memory for many Thai (泰国) people. Pomthong (蓬普), former Minister of Education of Thailand (泰国教育部), said that participating in wilderness adventure activities can improve young people's physical fitness, help them cultivate a sense of discipline and responsibility, enhance their hands-on skills and teamwork concepts, stimulate internal motivation, and grow into people who are more valuable to society in the future.
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The China-U.S. "Flying Tigers" Friendship and Cooperation Forum was held recently in Urumqi (乌鲁木齐), Xinjiang (新疆). The forum was jointly organized by the American Aviation Heritage Foundation and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Committee (新疆维吾尔自治区委员会) of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (中国国际贸易促进委员会), aiming to inherit the Flying Tigers spirit and enhance China-U.S. friendship.
In 1941, a large group of young American pilots, led by General Claire Lee Chennault (陈纳德), formed the "Chinese Air Force American Volunteer Group" (中国空军美国志愿援华航空队) (Flying Tigers), and fought alongside the Chinese military and civilians against the Japanese invaders. They shared a common hatred for the enemy and underwent the test of blood and fire, forging a deep friendship. Chinese and American pilots successfully flew over the Tianshan Mountains (天山) and opened the Hump Route, leaving a strong mark in the history of China-U.S. relations. "The core of the Flying Tigers spirit is unity and cooperation in the face of common threats, mutual trust in transcending differences, and the courage and responsibility to fight for justice." Huang Ping (黄屏), Vice President of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (中国美国人民友好协会), said in his address at the forum, "Currently, the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, and China-U.S. relations are also at a new crossroads. We need to draw wisdom from the Flying Tigers spirit more than ever, and let the Flying Tigers spirit illuminate the new journey of China-U.S. relations."
Anna Antonia Lee's father was one of the first Americans to fly fighter planes to China during World War II. She shared her father's story at the forum and said, "We must inherit the Flying Tigers spirit, because the unity it represents is exactly the spirit our era needs."
In 1985, Xi Jinping (习近平), then Secretary of the Zhengding County Party Committee (正定县委书记) of Hebei Province (河北省), led a delegation to visit Iowa (艾奥瓦州), USA, and stayed at the home of the Dvorchak family. Today, the Dvorchaks' son, Gary Dvorchak, serves as a director and general manager of Blue Shirt Group and is the company's representative in China. "Only by coming to China can you truly feel the real life here." Gary has lived in China for 12 years. He said that by strengthening exchanges, young people from the U.S. and China are expected to become "folk ambassadors" of friendship between the two countries and contribute to enhancing people-to-people friendship between the U.S. and China.
The American Aviation Heritage Foundation, founded in 1998, has long been committed to spreading the story of the Flying Tigers and enhancing understanding and friendship between the two peoples. "I firmly believe that the story of the Flying Tigers and the Flying Tigers spirit, which demonstrates the friendship between the American and Chinese people, will be passed down from generation to generation." Jeffrey Greene, Chairman of the American Aviation Heritage Foundation, said that the forum provides an important opportunity for the American people, especially young people, to correctly understand and fully understand China.
During the forum, representatives of Xinjiang (新疆) enterprises extended cooperation invitations to American entrepreneurs. "China-U.S. trade and logistics industries are pregnant with unlimited business opportunities." Kaishaer (卡伊沙尔), Deputy General Manager of Xinjiang Trade and Logistics Group Co., Ltd. (新疆商贸物流集团有限公司), said that he hopes to expand cooperation with American companies in the fields of energy, agriculture, medicine, and equipment manufacturing.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Tokyo, July 28th (Reporter Chen Ze'an (陈泽安)) Approximately one hundred Chinese and Japanese scholars participated in the academic symposium "Verification of the 80th Post-War Year and Outlook for the Future" on the 27th, reviewing the history of the 80 years since the end of World War II and discussing the essence of peace. Japanese Communist Party Vice Chairman Yasuo Ogata (绪方靖夫) said that the illegality and impropriety of Japan's history of aggression cannot be erased, and that Japan's facing up to history is "not only important for Asian countries, but also crucial for its own national construction."
Koga Shigeaki (古贺茂明), a former official of the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, pointed out that a series of recent trends in Japan show a tendency to deviate from the spirit of the pacifist constitution. "In order to maintain peace, Japan should get rid of its dependence on specific countries and build a healthy and stable diplomatic relationship with China."
Song Lishui (宋立水), a professor at Meiji Gakuin University (明治学院大学) in Japan, said that 80 years ago, the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War not only defended human dignity and freedom, but also laid the foundation for the international order, pointing the way for world peace and development. "Eighty years later, the world stands at a new crossroads. We must understand the diversity of the world with a more inclusive mind, safeguard and maintain dialogue with a more firm belief, and promote cooperation with more pragmatic actions," said Song Lishui (宋立水).
Chinese historian Shen Zhihua (沈志华) emphasized the importance of diplomacy and dialogue, using some events during the Cold War as examples. He pointed out that in order to maintain peace and avoid misjudgment, accidental clashes, and further escalation towards war, timely communication is very important.
The symposium was hosted by the Japanese Association of Chinese Professors (日本华人教授会) and co-organized by the China-Japan Academic Exchange Center (中日学术交流中心). The organizers of the symposium pointed out that in recent years, the trend of de-globalization has gradually emerged, the foundation of the post-war international order is being shaken, and the world is facing structural changes. At this historical turning point, it is necessary to review the 80-year history after the war and re-examine its faults and experiences.
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Famous for its paella and Tomato Festival, historic buildings full of artistic atmosphere, and silk museums, Valencia, Spain (西班牙瓦伦西亚) is globally renowned for its unique cultural heritage and rich tourism resources. Currently, more and more Valencia (瓦伦西亚) restaurants and shopping malls are displaying Chinese welcome signs and WeChat (微信), Alipay (支付宝) and other payment codes to welcome a large number of Chinese tourists. Miguel Angel (米盖尔·安格尔), Deputy Director of the Valencia (瓦伦西亚) Tourism Bureau, told reporters that the tourism industry in Spain (西班牙) and other European countries is paying close attention to the Chinese market. "We have registered official accounts on almost all Chinese social media platforms to promote tourism resources and understand the needs of Chinese tourists."
According to the long-distance travel barometer released by the European Travel Commission and the European Railway Company from May to August this year, global tourists' willingness to travel to Europe has declined this summer, but the Chinese market has shown strong growth momentum. Among Chinese outbound tourists surveyed, as many as 72% plan to travel to Europe this summer, an increase of 10% year-on-year. Chinese tourists have become one of the important forces supporting the European tourism market.
Currently, the number of direct flights between China and Europe continues to recover, and major routes between China and France (法国), Germany (德国), Spain (西班牙) and other countries are gradually returning to 2019 levels. At the same time, many countries have simplified visa application procedures for Chinese tourists, and the proportion of multiple-entry visas issued has increased. The combination of aviation recovery and visa facilitation provides a more feasible path for Chinese tourists to travel to Europe. Data from the French National Tourism Development Agency shows that the number of Chinese tourists to France (法国) in 2024 reached 1 million, and during the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, the number of Chinese citizens entering France (法国) by plane increased by approximately 354% compared to the same period in previous years. Starting this year, France (法国) has further shortened the visa processing cycle for Chinese tour groups and business travelers, hoping to maintain the enthusiasm of Chinese tourists to visit France (法国).
Improvements in service details for Chinese tourists are reflected in many tourist attractions in Europe. This summer, major scenic spots and museums in many European countries have restored and upgraded Chinese audio guides, supported mainstream mobile payment methods, and improved the convenience of Chinese tourists in terms of transportation, payment, and language. In Italy (意大利), the Milan (米兰) Municipal Government has cooperated with the city's transportation company to launch a Chinese version of a mobile application. Tourists can use the application to query routes, purchase tickets, and navigate in real-time for subways, trams, and buses. The Chinese interface is simple to operate and supports tourists to use international bank cards to purchase tickets online and generate QR code boarding passes. The application also provides a Chinese prompt function for emergencies and has become an important auxiliary tool for local reception of independent Chinese tourists.
The use of digital means has also become a new trend. Tourism organizations in many European countries cooperate with Chinese companies to promote local cultural experiences, art courses, gourmet learning, natural exploration and other special tourism products through social media platforms and other channels. For example, France (法国) promotes the "Night of Museums" theme event, Spain (西班牙) carries out the "Olive Oil Manor Visit" route, and Switzerland (瑞士) promotes tourism resources through Chinese tourism service software. This type of content is mostly disseminated in the form of short videos and graphic guides, which has received a positive response among young Chinese users. Miguel Angel (米盖尔·安格尔) said that Chinese outbound tourists are showing a trend of shifting from "sightseeing" to "experiential" in terms of travel content selection, emphasizing cultural understanding, life integration, and personalized itinerary planning. The demand for independent travel, family travel, and in-depth experience routes has increased significantly, and the mature European tourism market can provide more optimized targeted services.
European Travel Commission Chairman Miguel Sanz (米格尔·桑斯) said that Chinese tourists' demand for sustainable development, flexibility and customized experiences is constantly growing, and the European market needs to better accept the interests and preferences of Chinese tourists. "The European tourism industry must improve the competitiveness and accessibility of experiences and continue to provide meaningful and high-quality tourism products to global tourists, including Chinese tourists." Miguel Sanz (米格尔·桑斯) said.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Moscow, July 27th (Reporter Liu Kai (刘恺)) A flight from Moscow (莫斯科), the capital of Russia, to Pyongyang (平壤), the capital of North Korea, took off from Sheremetyevo Airport (谢列梅捷沃机场) at approximately 19:00 Moscow time on the 27th, marking the resumption of the Moscow-Pyongyang passenger route by Russia after many years.
The Russian Federal Air Transport Agency said that the flight is operated by Russian Nordwind Airlines (俄罗斯北风航空公司) and the flight time is approximately 8 hours.
It is reported that the return flight from Pyongyang (平壤) to Moscow (莫斯科) is scheduled to take off on the 29th. The Russian Ministry of Transport (俄交通运输部) stated that the Moscow-Pyongyang flight will be operated once a month.
According to TASS, the Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Kozlov (科兹洛夫) was one of the passengers on the inaugural flight. In an interview, he said that the frequency of flights between Moscow (莫斯科) and Pyongyang (平壤) will be determined based on the analysis of future passenger traffic. In addition, direct flights from Russia to Wonsan (元山), North Korea, may also be opened in the future.
Currently, North Korea's Air Koryo (朝鲜高丽航空公司) operates three flights per week between Vladivostok (符拉迪沃斯托克), Russia, and Pyongyang (平壤).
The Pyongyang (平壤) to Moscow (莫斯科) railway passenger service was restored on June 17.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Geneva, July 28th (新华社日内瓦7月28日电) - The World Health Organization (世界卫生组织) released a press release on the 27th, stating that malnutrition among the people in the Gaza Strip (加沙地带) continues to worsen, with a surge in malnutrition-related deaths in July. The WHO (世卫组织) is calling on all parties to take action to ensure the continuous arrival of food and other aid supplies to Gaza (加沙).
The press release stated that malnutrition cases in the Gaza Strip (加沙地带) have increased rapidly since May. In the first two weeks of July, more than 5,000 children under the age of 5 have received outpatient treatment for malnutrition, with 18% suffering from severe acute malnutrition. A total of 74 malnutrition-related deaths have been reported in the Gaza Strip (加沙地带) this year, including 63 in July, including 24 children under the age of 5, 1 child over the age of 5, and 38 adults.
The press release pointed out that the malnutrition situation in Gaza City (加沙城) is currently the most serious, with approximately 1/5 of children under the age of 5 suffering from acute malnutrition. Due to factors such as traffic restrictions, many families are unable to reach medical institutions, and the actual data may be even higher. In addition to young children, many pregnant and lactating women are also in a state of severe malnutrition.
The press release also stated that the surge in inpatient cases has overwhelmed the only four specialized malnutrition treatment centers in the Gaza Strip (加沙地带). Fuel and medical supplies are running out, medical staff are exhausted, and the collapse of water and sanitation systems has accelerated the spread of diseases, forming a 恶性循环 (è xìng xún huán - "vicious cycle," a situation in which one problem causes another, which in turn exacerbates the first problem).
In addition, many families are forced to search for food in dangerous and chaotic environments. Since May 27, more than 1,060 people have died while searching for food, and 7,200 have been injured.
The WHO (世卫组织) calls on all parties to immediately take sustained action to deliver diversified nutritious food to the Gaza Strip (加沙地带) on a large scale, and to accelerate the provision of therapeutic nutritional supplements, essential medicines, and other items to children and vulnerable groups.
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The morning sun spills over the Hunchun River (珲春河), and Hunchun City (珲春市), a border town located in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture (吉林延边朝鲜族自治州) of Jilin (吉林), awakens amidst a rich tapestry of multiculturalism.
In the bustling morning market, vendors hawk their wares in a mix of Northeastern Chinese, Korean, and Russian; at the Hunchun Port (珲春口岸), buses filled with Russian tourists stream in; in the Korean villages, Korean Sangmo dance, Manchu paper-cutting, and Russian king crabs create an interesting contrast...
"Hunchun (珲春)" originates from the Jurchen language, meaning "borderland" or "frontier." Here, China, North Korea, and Russia are connected by land, and China, North Korea, Russia, South Korea, and Japan are interconnected by sea, earning it the reputation of the "crossroads of Northeast Asia." Today, this city named "borderland" sees far more inbound and outbound travelers each year than its permanent residents, with the small border city winning "big traffic" and its unique activities becoming a hit. The exchange and mutual learning of diverse cultures write a story of cultural integration and friendly relations with neighboring countries, where people's hearts are connected.
Transnational "migratory birds" in the moxibustion clinic—
"Traditional Chinese medicine is becoming increasingly international in Hunchun (珲春)"
"How has your hip felt these past few days after the moxibustion? How have you been sleeping?" Inside the "Han Yi Jiu Moxibustion Clinic (韩一灸艾灸堂)" in Hunchun (珲春), traditional Chinese medicine practitioner Han Shiming (韩示明) takes a patient's pulse while asking about their condition.
Sitting across from Han Shiming (韩示明) is not a Chinese patient, but a Russian patient named Galia. "I've been feeling much better lately, and my body feels very relaxed!" A translator relays Galia's response to Han Shiming (韩示明).
"That's good, then let's do another moxibustion treatment today to stabilize your condition." Han Shiming (韩示明) makes a note in the medical record and arranges for a staff member to take Galia to the moxibustion room. Amidst the pervasive aroma of moxa, a Russian banner behind Han Shiming (韩示明) is particularly eye-catching, reading: "Thank you for the professionalism, care, and kindness shown to Russian patients – Zinaida Petrovna, Vladivostok." The waiting area outside the moxibustion clinic is filled with Russian patients.
Han Shiming (韩示明) has been practicing medicine for 30 years and is a representative inheritor at the prefecture level of the Manchu moxibustion therapy, a representative intangible cultural heritage item. "The appeal of traditional Chinese medicine and other Chinese intangible cultural heritage is growing worldwide," says Han Shiming (韩示明). To date, tens of thousands of foreign patients have experienced Manchu moxibustion therapy in Hunchun (珲春), with Russians accounting for the vast majority, and Koreans and Japanese also increasing in number.
"The first time I saw a foreigner walk in, I was terribly nervous." Han Shiming (韩示明) still vividly remembers the scene of treating a Russian patient for the first time in the early 2000s. "At that time, we couldn't communicate verbally, so I relied entirely on the patient gesturing with their hands, and then I would treat them."
With the deepening of Sino-Russian exchanges and the continuous spread of traditional Chinese medicine culture, Han Shiming (韩示明) now sees more than 20 Russian patients a day during peak periods. The moxibustion clinic has a Russian translator all year round, and Han Shiming (韩示明) also wears a Russian name tag that reads "Misha." "This is the name given to me by Russian patients, meaning little bear," Han Shiming (韩示明) says with a smile, adding that the Russian climate is cold, and most locals have dampness and cold in their bodies, requiring moxibustion. The moxibustion clinic has also specially improved and optimized moxa sticks that are more suitable for the Russian physique.
Good therapeutic effects spread by word of mouth. The origin of Russian patients has gradually expanded from nearby Vladivostok to Moscow, Sochi, and other places. Several Russians have also become apprentices to Han Shiming (韩示明), opening moxibustion clinics in Vladivostok and other places.
Han Shiming's (韩示明) experience is a microcosm of the booming cross-border medical care in Hunchun (珲春). In recent years, the number of Russians coming to Hunchun (珲春) for traditional Chinese medicine treatment has been increasing year by year. To provide Russian patients with a better medical experience, the Hunchun City (珲春市) Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital has established an international business department, integrating registration guidance, triage, outpatient examination, and other services, and is also equipped with professional translators to provide one-stop services for Russian patients.
"Traditional Chinese medicine is becoming increasingly international in Hunchun (珲春). We will continue to keep pace with the times, providing high-quality diagnosis and treatment services to Russian patients while spreading excellent Chinese traditional culture to more places overseas," says Han Shiming (韩示明).
A new path for the development of "crab" seafood—
"Russian king crab has become a popular product in Hunchun (珲春)"
"'Old irons,' take a good look. This 5-jin king crab transported from Kamchatka is jumping around. We'll pack it up immediately and ship it live!" Inside the king crab exhibition and sales hall of the Hunchun Northeast Asia Cross-border E-commerce Industrial Park (珲春东北亚跨境电商产业园), a staff member faces the camera of a mobile phone, scoops up a king crab waving its huge claws from the temporary holding pool, skillfully clamps the crab's body, boxes it, lays ice, fills it with oxygen, and packs it all in one go.
Although it is not near the sea, this is the largest distribution center for live king crabs in China. More than 1.5 million live king crabs are imported through the Hunchun Port (珲春口岸) every year, accounting for about 80% of the national market share. "The seafood business that dares to be the freshest in the world has broad development space in Hunchun (珲春)," says Wang Hai (王海), general manager of Shengjin International Trade Co., Ltd. (圣金国际贸易有限公司) in the exhibition and sales hall. In 2024, the company's retail sales of king crabs and other fresh seafood products exceeded 10 million yuan, and the exhibition and sales hall received more than 500,000 visitors.
As a native of Hunchun (珲春), Wang Hai (王海) only knew the name of king crab as a child, but had never seen one. "The king crab trade is an emerging business in recent years, and its popularity is inseparable from the deepening of Sino-Russian economic and trade cooperation." Wang Hai (王海) introduced that Russia is one of the world's main producing areas of king crab. In 2016, the Hunchun Port (珲春口岸) was officially approved as a designated port for the import of chilled fresh seafood and aquatic animals for human consumption, becoming the main channel for Russian king crabs to enter China.
In recent years, Hunchun (珲春) has focused on building the Northeast Asia Cross-border E-commerce Industrial Park (东北亚跨境电商产业园), a cross-border e-commerce supervision center, and an intelligent logistics distribution center, gradually forming a complete industrial chain ecosystem. Customs has opened a green channel for the import of fresh aquatic products, with goods being inspected and released as soon as they arrive. The border inspection station has implemented measures such as "priority reservation for customs clearance of fresh products" and "delayed closing of customs."
"Russian king crab has become a popular product in Hunchun (珲春)." Wang Hai (王海) strokes the king crab cultural and creative products in the exhibition hall—a "clamp bag" with the crab legs of 15 kinds of deep-sea crabs combined together, a crab shell-shaped bottle opener, king crab plush toys... These products have become new growth points for the company's revenue.
In just six years, Hunchun's (珲春) cross-border e-commerce trade, represented by king crab, has achieved more than a hundredfold increase, with the trade volume increasing from 43 million yuan in 2018 to 6.65 billion yuan in 2024.
"We are focusing on building a trade pattern of 'buying from Northeast Asia and selling to the world.'" Fang Minghao (方明浩), deputy director of the Hunchun City (珲春市) Bureau of Commerce, introduced that relying on its geographical advantages as an important node in Northeast Asia, as well as pilot policies such as the comprehensive bonded zone and border trade, Hunchun (珲春) imports high-quality products from neighboring countries for intensive processing, while selling domestic new energy vehicles, textiles, and other products to the world.
In-depth exchanges build a "bridge of hearts" between China and foreign countries—
"Transnational exchanges are like visiting relatives"
"Happy New Year!" "S Novim Godom!" At midnight on January 1, 2025, the streets and alleys of Hunchun (珲春) were brightly lit, crowded with people, and cheers rose and fell. More than 3,300 Russian tourists chose to welcome the New Year here. "This is the second time I've spent the New Year in Hunchun (珲春). I really like this place. The city is very clean, and the people are very enthusiastic. I feel the warmth of home here," said Natalia, a Russian tourist, with a smile on her face.
"This year, we held two New Year's Eve parties for Russian tourists, and the results were very good." Xu Li (许丽), general manager of Hunchun Yutong International Travel Agency (珲春宇通国际旅行社), introduced that inbound tourism for Russian tourists has become the travel agency's main business. In the first half of this year alone, the travel agency received more than 20,000 Russian tourists. During peak tourist seasons such as New Year's Day, Russian tourists come to Hunchun (珲春) in droves.
Yu Mei (俞美), deputy director of the Hunchun City (珲春市) Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau, introduced that Hunchun (珲春) has a permanent population of only over 200,000, and in 2024, the Hunchun Port (珲春口岸) saw more than 300,000 inbound travelers, most of whom were Russians, which is equivalent to an average of nearly a thousand Russian tourists coming to Hunchun (珲春) every day.
Why are they so fond of Hunchun (珲春)? "With the joint efforts of all parties and continuous efforts, transnational exchanges are like visiting relatives." Xu Li (许丽) introduced that Russian tourists like the free and easy "city-switching vacation" model. Hunchun (珲春) has done enough homework in terms of tourism services. The Hunchun Port (珲春口岸) implements a 7-day-a-week, 10-hour-a-day customs clearance system. The signboards in the business district are in Chinese, Korean, and Russian. Most of the service personnel in local supermarkets and shops can speak simple Russian, and the people are also very enthusiastic and friendly. Russian tourists can travel freely in Hunchun (珲春) without a guide.
Hunchun (珲春) not only has the customs of the Guandong region between the white mountains and black waters, but also the unique ethnic customs of the Korean and Manchu ethnic groups, as well as the "international style" of the three-country border, forming a strong attraction with its diverse cultures. "Russian tourists can not only visit the morning market and dance in the square, but also taste pot-wrapped meat and stone pot bibimbap, and experience traditional Chinese medicine moxibustion. Their daily itinerary is very rich," Xu Li (许丽) said. Nowadays, experiencing "Chinese life" in Hunchun (珲春) has become a trend for Russian tourists.
A list in the office of the Hunchun City (珲春市) Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau shows that in March of this year, Chinese and Russian students jointly produced "intangible cultural heritage moxa sticks" in Hunchun (珲春); in April, the "Border City Martial Arts" China-Russia Youth Wushu Competition kicked off; in May, the first self-driving tour group from Hunchun (珲春) to Russia embarked on its journey... "Mutual exchanges are being transformed from activities into a whole set of mechanisms, which are being carried out on a regular basis," said Yu Mei (俞美).
On July 1, Jilin Province's (吉林省) "one-stop" port entry tourism comprehensive service window for public security business and socialized services was officially launched in Hunchun (珲春). A self-driving tour group composed of 16 Russian tourists became the first batch of inbound foreign tourists received by the window. "This is the first time I've driven myself to Hunchun (珲春). It's very convenient and fast to go through customs clearance procedures at the port," said Dagyana, a Russian tourist. "We will taste Yanbian's (延边) special cuisine and experience the charm of Chinese culture here."
As the convoy drove towards the urban area of Hunchun (珲春) following the road signs in Chinese, Korean, and Russian, the sunlight dyed the national gate of the Hunchun Port (珲春口岸) golden. With more convenient exchanges, more frequent communication, and more prosperous trade, Hunchun (珲春), at the junction of the three countries, is constantly composing a magnificent symphony of diverse cultures.
■Link·Yanbian (延边), Jilin (吉林)
Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture (延边朝鲜族自治州) is located in the east of Jilin Province (吉林省), with a border line of 768.5 kilometers. It faces North Hamgyong Province, Ryanggang Province, and Rason City of North Korea across the Tumen River (图们江) in the south, and borders Primorsky Krai of Russia in the east. It has 9 ports to North Korea, 2 ports to Russia, and 1 international airport. The cargo throughput of the ports accounts for more than 90% of Jilin Province (吉林省).
In recent years, Yanbian (延边) has vigorously optimized and upgraded various opening platforms, accelerating the transformation of its location advantages into opening advantages and development dividends. The RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement) Yanbian Cross-border Import and Export Center innovates the "offline experience + online connection" model, helping the prefecture's cross-border e-commerce import and export volume to grow by more than double digits. The Yanji Airport (延吉机场) International Cargo Station and the cross-border e-commerce supervision operation area have been put into use. The Hunchun Highway Port (珲春公路口岸) implements a "7-day 10-hour working system + peak season reservation customs clearance," and the Hunchun Railway Port (珲春铁路口岸) expands the "direct loading and direct pickup" model... Efficient and smooth opening channels allow "good goods" from neighboring countries to complete "global distribution" at the Hunchun Port (珲春口岸).
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In Hunchun (珲春) streets, shop signs and road signs marked with Chinese, North Korean, and Russian languages are ubiquitous. Russian tourists on "city-swap vacations" stroll through the streets and alleys. The air in moxibustion clinics is filled with the fragrance of medicinal herbs, and waitresses in Korean restaurants greet customers in multiple languages. This border city presents a picture of people-to-people connectivity and the blending of civilizations everywhere.
People-to-people connectivity and the blending of civilizations are rooted in the daily lives of people in border areas and have also received increasing institutional guarantees. Since 2009, Hunchun City (珲春市) has continuously held the China-North Korea-Russia New Year Blessing Event for 17 sessions. Through sub-projects such as the "China-Russia New Year's Eve Carnival" and the "China-Russia Cultural Grand Gathering," it has built a regular platform for non-governmental exchanges among the three countries, providing institutional guarantees for regional cultural exchange, opening up, and cooperation.
President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Chinese civilization has been known for its openness and inclusiveness since ancient times, and it has continuously rejuvenated its vitality in exchanges and mutual learning with other civilizations." As one of the first cities in the country to open up along the border, Hunchun (珲春) has internalized openness and inclusiveness into the city's cultural genes, constantly radiating new vitality in exchanges and mutual learning.
Russian tourists participate in New Year's Eve parties in Hunchun (珲春) city, Chinese and foreign tourists watch the sunrise together at the Fangchuan Scenic Area (防川景区), and dazzling fireworks are set off simultaneously along the border line. By continuously enriching the content of exchanges, expanding cooperation channels, and promoting mutual understanding and affinity among the people, the awareness of a community with a shared future in the surrounding areas is becoming increasingly strong.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 丁雅诵
In the Jinsha River (金沙江) canyon at the junction of Sichuan (四川) and Yunnan (云南), green mountains rise steeply, and dams stand tall and majestic. The Baihetan Hydropower Station (白鹤滩水电站) operates non-stop, transforming the rushing river water into clean electrical energy, transmitting it to thousands of households.
Along the river valley of the Baihetan Hydropower Station reservoir area, Li Xiaofei (李小飞), a graduate of the Yellow River Conservancy Technical Institute (黄河水利职业技术大学), is conducting crustal deformation monitoring of the hydropower station. Having been rooted in Baihetan (白鹤滩) for over 10 years, he is intimately familiar with the data here.
Recently, good news came from the Baihetan Hydropower Station: the total power generation exceeded 200 billion kilowatt-hours. "I am very proud to be able to contribute to such a major project." Li Xiaofei's (李小飞) sentiment is shared by thousands upon thousands of vocational education students.
From "West-East Electricity Transfer" (西电东送) optimizing the energy landscape, to the Fuxing high-speed railway (复兴号高铁) speeding across the land of China, and then to the "China Sky Eye" (中国天眼) exploring the depths of the universe, behind these major projects, there is a vibrant force forged by vocational education. With their exquisite skills and craftsmanship, they have become an important force serving major national instruments.
Full-Chain Talent Supply
"Consolidate a solid skilled talent support for important links and technologies of major projects"
Why is vocational education irreplaceable in delivering talent for major projects?
Find the answer in the data: Currently, there are more than 30 million students in vocational schools across the country, and about 10 million high-quality workers and skilled talents are trained for society every year. A vocational education system with the largest scale in the world has been built, which strongly supports China to become the only country in the world with all industrial categories.
"In recent years, vocational education has gradually built a full-chain talent training system covering the entire life cycle safety guarantee of major projects, consolidating a solid skilled talent support for important links and technologies of major projects, and ensuring the independent control, safety, and reliability of key industrial chains," introduced Peng Binbai (彭斌柏), Director of the Department of Vocational Education and Adult Education of the Ministry of Education (教育部职业教育与成人教育司司长). The entire process of the construction and operation of the Baihetan Hydropower Station (白鹤滩水电站) is a vivid microcosm.
——Bold and meticulous, forging major national instruments. The separate manufacturing of core equipment is a prerequisite for the smooth operation of the Baihetan Hydropower Station (白鹤滩水电站). Taking the water turbine in the generator unit as an example, the precision of each component determines whether the unit can withstand the impact of the river water.
Song Wei (宋伟), a graduate of Sichuan Engineering Technical College (四川工程职业技术大学), and his team are responsible for the initial processing, grinding, and repair welding of casting blanks. "The production difficulty lies in the large size and thin walls of the castings, which are prone to deformation," said Song Wei (宋伟). "We take turns guarding in front of the heat treatment furnace 24 hours a day, and we are fully aware of the temperature changes."
——Grasping every detail, precise installation and commissioning. The installation and commissioning of world-class projects are extraordinarily difficult. Many vocational education students are like "calibration engineers," allowing equipment to reach its optimal operating state.
At the water turbine runner installation site, Zhang Anxian (张安贤), a graduate of Harbin Vocational and Technical College (哈尔滨职业技术大学), is responsible for operating a large 10-meter vertical lathe. "The temperature difference here is large in the morning and evening, which has a great impact on the machining accuracy of the runner. By using a laser tracker and implementing multiple measurements throughout the day, the water turbine runner we debugged successfully passed the acceptance," Zhang Anxian (张安贤) said proudly.
——Day and night, guarding the lifeline of the project. After the Baihetan Hydropower Station (白鹤滩水电站) was put into operation and generated electricity, the operation and maintenance tasks followed. After the first batch of units generated electricity, Jiang Deti (蒋德体), a graduate of Yunnan Water Conservancy and Hydropower Vocational College (云南水利水电职业学院), took on the operation and management of 6 hydrological stations and 18 rain gauge stations. "Data is sent in real time every day to provide information for the comprehensive dispatch of downstream hydropower stations for flood control, power generation, and shipping," said Jiang Deti (蒋德体). "The tedious work requires more meticulousness and patience."
"The full-chain talent supply of vocational education ensures the precise landing and stable operation of major projects," said Lin Kesong (林克松), Director of the Institute of Vocational and Adult Education at Southwest University (西南大学职业教育与成人教育研究所所长). The linkage mechanism between vocational education and major projects should be further strengthened, and the "project demand database" should be transformed into a "talent training guide" to drive the continuous upgrading of vocational education with major national projects.
Innovative Technology Application
"Increase knowledge and skills in practical training, and promote technological change in the integration of industry and education"
In the Liuwudian (刘五店) sea area of Xiamen (厦门), Fujian (福建), the tide surges, and the sea breeze carries salty and humid water vapor.
"0.5 meters, 0.3 meters..." The intelligent adjustment system for extra-large prefabricated piers is constantly updating data. Liu Kuitai (刘奎太), a graduate of Fujian Chuanzheng Transportation Vocational College (福建船政交通职业学院), stared at the monitoring screen and operated steadily. As the boom of the double-arm variable amplitude crane slowly lowered, the No. 35 prefabricated pier of the right span of the main bridge of the Xiamen-Jinmen Bridge (厦金大桥) (Xiamen Section), weighing 3,000 tons, was precisely connected with the offshore pile foundation.
"The project uses a domestically leading intelligent adjustment system. Through our operation, we can monitor the tidal current velocity in real time, dynamically adjust the hoisting parameters, and achieve millimeter-level docking." Liu Kuitai (刘奎太), who has been stationed on the offshore platform for 72 consecutive hours, is still "online."
The application of innovative technologies in the key links of major projects depends on thousands upon thousands of on-site engineering technicians. And their growth relies on the "classroom directly to the construction site" training model of vocational education.
"Increasing knowledge and skills in practical training and promoting technological change in the integration of industry and education are the directions of our teaching reform," introduced the relevant person in charge of Fujian Chuanzheng Transportation Vocational College (福建船政交通职业学院). The college and Xiamen Road and Bridge Group (厦门路桥集团) jointly built a "bridge construction training room" to restore the offshore pile foundation construction scene, so that students can master key skills such as tidal cycle calculation and hoisting safety specifications during practical training.
In recent years, vocational colleges have given full play to the advantages of professional clusters and the role of collaborative innovation platforms for industry, academia, and research, providing intellectual support for key technology research, process optimization, and equipment research and development, and have become an important source of innovation and solution providers for major engineering technology breakthroughs.
In the Gaoligong Mountain Tunnel (高黎贡山隧道) in Yunnan (云南), the stratum is complex and changeable. Facing the "geological kaleidoscope," Pang Pengdiao (庞鹏雕), a graduate of Shaanxi Railway Engineering Vocational Technical College (陕西铁路工程职业技术学院), led the team to break the routine and build a cement concrete mixing station inside the tunnel. In the mud, they fought against frozen soil and carved out "China Speed" in the "most difficult tunnel."
At the construction site of the Ali-Central Tibet Power Grid Interconnection Project (阿里与藏中电网联网工程) in Tibet (西藏), Huang Xiaohong (黄小洪), a graduate of Chongqing Electric Power College (重庆电力高等专科学校), and his team erected iron towers in the frozen soil layer at an altitude of 5,000 meters and minus 35 degrees Celsius. He led the team to create the unique process of "excavator low-speed and high-torque driving spiral anchor," which solved the problem of spiral anchor drilling into the frozen soil layer.
"The cultivation of great craftsmen is not achieved overnight, but requires continuous accumulation, refinement, and precipitation. Only by continuously deepening the integration of industry and education and school-enterprise cooperation can we continuously cultivate great craftsmen, skilled craftsmen, and highly skilled talents for economic and social development," said Peng Binbai (彭斌柏). In April of this year, the Ministry of Education (教育部) launched the High-Skilled Talent Cluster Training Program, adopting the "three leaders" system of leading enterprises, high-level schools, and industry organizations to systematically reform around key teaching elements and promote the transformation of vocational education talent training from knowledge imparting to comprehensive skill improvement.
Cultivating the Spirit of Craftsmanship
"Precision is dignity, it is the safety of the country and the people"
In the early morning, at Guiyang North Station (贵阳北站) in Guizhou (贵州), a high-speed comprehensive inspection train slowly drove out and headed for Libo Station (荔波站). In the driver's cab, Chen Xin (陈鑫), a high-speed rail driver of Guiyang Locomotive Depot (贵阳机务段), held his breath and concentrated on controlling the joystick.
Ahead is about to enter the most difficult section of the Guiyang-Nanning High-Speed Railway (贵南高铁) - from a 9‰ uphill slope to a long downhill slope of 25‰ before entering Libo Station (荔波站), with a straight drop of nearly 400 meters, and there are many tunnels on the line, and the speed needs to be reduced from 350 kilometers per hour to 75 kilometers per hour. Problems such as large impact and difficult speed control have been troubling the joint commissioning team.
"After 3 months and thousands of braking operation tests, we finally found the best speed control method and operation process, controlled the train to accurately cut into the predetermined deceleration range, accurately stopped at the designated position, and ensured the on-time opening of the first high-speed rail line with a speed of 350 kilometers per hour in Guizhou (贵州)," said Chen Xin (陈鑫).
This kind of skill in controlling thousands of pounds between millimeters is the result of the ingenuity of vocational education. During his studies at Shandong Vocational College (山东职业学院), Chen Xin (陈鑫) was deeply impressed by the joint training between the school and the Jinan Bureau of China Railway (国铁济南局).
"Many front-line technical experts are our professional course teachers. During the internship stage, on-site masters will also guide apprentices one-on-one," said Chen Xin (陈鑫). "The words and deeds of the masters convey the spirit of craftsmanship, and also become the driving force and code of conduct for my progress."
"The educational mission of vocational education is not only to impart knowledge and train skills, but also to immerse the mind with the spirit of craftsmanship and help students establish lofty professional beliefs and value pursuits," said Nie Wei (聂伟), Associate Researcher at the Institute of Vocational and Continuing Education of the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences (中国教育科学研究院职业教育与继续教育研究所副研究员). In major projects, the spirit of craftsmanship is extending from the classroom to the industrial front line, becoming the spiritual power to support "China Precision."
Great craftsmen who have grown up in major projects also integrate their experience into classroom teaching through entering campuses and establishing master studios, guiding more students to internalize the spirit of craftsmanship and externalize it into action.
In the laboratory of Chengdu Aeronautic Polytechnic (成都航空职业技术大学), Tang Limin (汤立民), the specially appointed dean of the School of Aviation Equipment Manufacturing Industry, is guiding student Liu Jianfei (刘建飞) to perform milling operations to process key parts for a certain type of aircraft. During his work at AVIC Chengdu Aircraft Industrial Group (中航工业成飞), Tang Limin (汤立民) participated in solving a number of technical problems.
"Teacher Tang (汤老师) often says that precision is dignity, it is the safety of the country and the people," Liu Jianfei (刘建飞) said with emotion. "Looking at the processed aviation parts, a sense of pride arises spontaneously from the bottom of my heart."
"The fundamental task of education lies in fostering virtue through education. Vocational education has moved out of the 'small logic' of self-development and self-circulation and moved towards the 'big logic' of serving the economy and society and supporting national strategies," said Peng Binbai (彭斌柏). The next step will be to closely focus on the requirements of "high-level school-running ability and high-quality integration of industry and education," strengthen the training positioning of highly skilled talents in vocational education, solidly promote the "New Double High" comprehensive reform pilot, promote the reform and development of vocational education to resonate with industrial transformation and upgrading and technological iteration and updating, and encourage more young people to take the road of skill-based success and skill-based service to the country.
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Paving roads through mountains, building bridges over water, reaching for the skies, exploring the cosmos... From the graduates of vocational schools working on the front lines of major projects, I see that vocational education has opened the door to success and fulfillment for many young people.
This reminds me of several recent news stories: After the *gaokao* (高考), some high-scoring students applied to vocational schools; during the job search season, some vocational school students were "reserved" by well-known companies before graduation.
Today, when it comes to the importance of master craftsmen and vocational education, many people nod in agreement. But when they really consider attending a vocational school, they often hesitate: How broad are the prospects? How far can one go after graduation? This is the question in many people's minds.
To view the prospects of attending a vocational school, it is best to first consider the prospects of economic and social development. Vocational education resonates with industrial development, giving students new opportunities and space to succeed.
The future can be very "hot." Rockets soaring into the sky embody the craftsmanship of Gao Fenglin (高凤林), an aerospace special fusion welding worker; high-speed trains speeding by are safeguarded by Wang Xiaobing (王笑冰), the "most beautiful railway worker," who ensures the safe operation of signal equipment... They have all benefited from vocational education. Against the backdrop of promoting the high-end, intelligent, and green development of manufacturing, high-quality technical and skilled personnel have an incredibly broad stage.
The future can be very "cool." The dazzling special effects of animated films involve graduates majoring in animation and game production; artificial intelligence trainers are active with vocational school students... In recent years, many new majors in the vocational education professional catalog have focused on strategic emerging industries such as artificial intelligence, opening up new possibilities for students.
The future can be very "warm." The China Vocational Education Development Report released in 2024 shows that since 2021, the annual growth rate of the number of higher vocational schools offering majors in smart health and elderly care management, modern housekeeping service and management, and other livelihood-related shortage areas has exceeded 5%. High-quality life cannot be separated from the heartwarming creation of vocational education.
Currently, China's vocational education offers a total of 1,434 majors, basically covering all fields of the national economy. The matching of talent supply with economic and social needs makes the future promising for more students.
Having seen the development prospects, let's look at the level of education. The prospects of attending a vocational school are also closely linked to the supporting capacity of vocational education.
Starting from vocational schools, some have won championships in the WorldSkills Competition, and some have studied all the way to a doctorate. Good vocational education can take people far. It must also be admitted that there are objective differences in the schooling capabilities of vocational schools. To truly do a good job in vocational education, we must accelerate the construction of a vocational education system that integrates vocational and general education and promotes the integration of industry and education.
Looking at the integration of vocational and general education, some places are promoting the mutual selection of courses, mutual recognition of credits, mutual sharing of resources, and mutual transfer of student status between secondary vocational schools and general high schools. At the same time, the vocational education *gaokao* is becoming more complete, and there are more and more vocational undergraduate schools, and the channels for further education are constantly widening. Looking at the integration of industry and education, deepening the construction and reform of the modern vocational education system in provinces, creating municipal industry-education consortia and industry-education integration communities, and promoting the reform of key elements such as majors, courses, teaching materials, teachers, and practice, will help students learn real skills and develop real abilities.
The prospects of attending a vocational school also depend on the development space in the workplace and the development environment provided by society.
It should be said that some parents' concerns are not unfounded, and the obstacles on students' paths forward cannot be ignored: the treatment of skilled personnel needs to be improved, some units set higher thresholds for recruitment and professional title evaluation, and the stubborn malady of "only valuing academic qualifications" still exists...
The Vocational Education Law stipulates that employers shall not set application, recruitment, and employment conditions that hinder vocational school graduates from equal employment and fair competition. The "Outline for Building a Powerful Education Country (2024-2035)" proposes to implement the "New Eight-Grade Worker" system and increase the wage level of skilled personnel on the front lines of production and service based on skill level and creative contribution. When the status of skilled personnel is further improved and social prejudice is gradually eliminated, breaking the tangible and intangible "glass ceilings," vocational students will have more hope and motivation.
It must also be seen that the prospects of attending a vocational school depend not only on the environment for success but also on oneself.
The future is not only defined by academic qualifications. Everyone has different interests and talents, and the fields in which they shine are also different. Choosing a suitable path, relying on one's own hard work, and loving what one does can withstand the long years.
Cao Bo (曹博), a post-00s young man who grew from a secondary vocational school student to a WorldSkills Competition champion, said that attending a vocational school does not mean there is no future; **躺平** (tǎng píng - "lying flat," to do the bare minimum to get by) is. Xing Xiaoying (邢小颖), a vocational college graduate who entered the Tsinghua University (清华大学) Basic Industry Training Center with the first place in her major and became a teacher, firmly believes that opportunities are always reserved for those who keep working hard, and vocational education students can also see a higher, farther, and broader world.
With the help of education, the support of industry, the efforts of policies, and personal efforts, "in the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, vocational education has broad prospects and great potential." The dream is ahead, and the road is under our feet.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴 丹
The movie "Daocang" (倒仓) finished screening, the house lights gradually brightened, and applause rang out.
In the expectant gazes of nearly 2,000 audience members, Professor Dai Jinhua (戴锦华), 66, walked to the center of the stage to begin her fiftieth film appreciation session: "Having been involved with film my whole life, giving post-screening talks with teachers and students in Peking University's lecture hall is a very unique experience for me."
A table, a chair, and a beam of light—this three-year-long dialogue through film has become a vibrant example of aesthetic education at Peking University (北京大学). Ding Ruoxuan (丁若轩), a doctoral student at the School of Physics, regards the weekly film appreciation session as a fixed ritual: "In the 50 screenings, I saw a different world." Wang Jue (王珏), an undergraduate student in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, learned how to better appreciate art and understand life: "Immersing myself in art allows me to more delicately perceive the emotions conveyed by the works and more keenly discover the beauty in life."
Beyond just film, Peking University's 百周年纪念讲堂 (Bǎizhōunián Jìniàn Jiǎngtáng - Centennial Memorial Hall) has launched a series of popular art classes with lectures, demonstrations, interactions, and exchanges as the main content, inviting experts from all walks of life to enter the Yanyuan (燕园 - another name for Peking University campus) and approach young people, forging a path of aesthetic education that combines "art + academics." Kunqu Opera performer Zhang Xunpeng (张洵澎) lectured on "Kunqu Opera 'Guimendan' (闺门旦 - young female roles) Performance"; Professor Zhang Jialin (张佳林) of the Central Conservatory of Music lectured on "Art Classroom: Beethoven's Piano Trio"... Experiencing the beauty of art is the Centennial Memorial Hall's beautiful promise to young students.
In recent years, aesthetic education venues in universities have received more attention. The General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Comprehensively Strengthening and Improving School Aesthetic Education in the New Era," proposing to "strengthen the construction of aesthetic education venues in universities." The "Notice of the Ministry of Education on Comprehensively Implementing the School Aesthetic Education Immersion Action" proposed to "strengthen the guarantee of venues for aesthetic education practice activities."
Located in the central area of Yanyuan (燕园), Peking University's 百周年纪念讲堂 (Bǎizhōunián Jìniàn Jiǎngtáng - Centennial Memorial Hall) has formed a nurturing chain of "experiencing the beauty of art—appreciating the connotation of beauty—participating in artistic practice—displaying the achievements of aesthetic education," continuously exerting the immersive effect of aesthetic education.
"In 2000, at the beginning of the Centennial Memorial Hall's operation, there was no precedent to follow, and the founders could only 摸着石头过河 (mō zhe shítou guò hé - "feel the stones to cross the river," to feel one's way; to proceed with caution)." Zhang Yong (张勇), Deputy Director of the Peking University Conference Center, said, "At that time, the operating team rode bicycles and went door-to-door seeking cooperation with performing arts groups." In the same year, the Centennial Memorial Hall welcomed its first ticketed performance—the Chinese version of "The Nutcracker" performed by the National Ballet of China. The model of cooperation between institutions of higher learning and professional performing arts groups was initially successful, breaking the convention of "giving away tickets for activities" in campus auditoriums.
"Over the past 25 years, we have cooperated with many high-level art troupes to create a series of unique cultural and artistic platforms. The love of teachers and students has strengthened our determination to build the Centennial Memorial Hall into a 'palace of high art and a classroom for quality education'," Zhang Yong (张勇) introduced. Facing the further requirements of artificial intelligence development for people's aesthetic literacy, the Centennial Memorial Hall plans to launch the "Starry Sky Project" to support students' independent creation and incubate original campus literary and artistic works.
Cai Yuanpei (蔡元培), the former president of Peking University (北京大学), once said: "Aesthetic education complements intellectual education to achieve moral education." At Peking University (北大), the Centennial Memorial Hall, in addition to its role as an auditorium and theater, is more importantly a classroom for educational resources.
On the one hand, moral education comes first, introducing positive energy works so that young students can listen to the strong voice of the times and feel the power of role models from literary and artistic works. On the other hand, aesthetic education empowers, jointly launching the "Centennial Memorial Hall Art Practice Class" with Yuanpei College (元培学院), the Student Financial Aid Center, and other campus units, as well as professional institutions such as the National Art Museum of China (中国美术馆) and the Yungang Research Institute (云冈研究院), covering a variety of art categories such as vocal music, instrumental music, sculpture, dance, and drama. The course positioning of "zero art foundation, one semester of study" has attracted many students to feel beauty and create beauty.
"Aesthetic education immersion is not only an aesthetic education, but also an emotional education and a spiritual education." Li Boqiao (李泊桥), Deputy Dean of Yuanpei College (元培学院), said that the college and the Centennial Memorial Hall jointly offer courses such as "Easy Singing" and "Basic Principles and Skills of Director Creation," and use stage performances as a way to conclude the courses. "After a semester, I can see the light in the students' eyes—the aesthetic perception and self-confidence gained in practice are becoming their new perspective on observing the world."
At the end of the spring semester this year, a special concert was staged at the Centennial Memorial Hall. More than 40 Yuanpei College (元培学院) students with zero foundation, after a semester of systematic study in the "Easy Singing" course, stepped onto the professional stage and sang the movement of aesthetic education immersion in classic works such as "Yellow River Cantata" (黄河大合唱) and "La Traviata" (茶花女).
(Qiu Zirui (邱子睿) participated in the writing)
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"Teacher, will using AI to do my homework affect my grade?" "Teacher, what you teach is different from AI's answers." In ideological and political classes, hearing such questions and seeing many students using artificial intelligence to search for answers, I, standing on the podium, deeply realized that the traditional physical classroom is deeply influenced by artificial intelligence technology.
As a teacher, my duty is to cultivate morality and guide students to establish correct values, but artificial intelligence seems to be able to do a lot: provide massive amounts of information, answer questions online 24 hours a day, and even provide emotional value. A role competition of "knowledge transmitter" has emerged between artificial intelligence and teachers, and it has also launched a challenge to teachers as "value guides" for students. Because of this, it is particularly important to help students develop 火眼金睛 (huǒ yǎn jīn jīng - "fiery eyes and golden pupils," to have keen insight and the ability to see through deception) in ideological and political education, and guide them to grow into new era individuals who are independent thinkers, able to distinguish right from wrong, and full of a sense of mission.
Sometimes, students will come with answers and information provided by artificial intelligence and ask, "Teacher, what do you think?" I often don't rush to give a direct answer, but instead guide students to think: "Before judging, you must first distinguish between truth and falsehood, and trace the source. This is the most basic way of thinking. Is what AI says necessarily correct?" Behind the students' questions is the curiosity and confusion of today's college students about new technologies, and it also reflects the new challenges facing ideological and political education in colleges and universities. Faced with new technologies, teachers cannot simply ask students to reject or exclude them, but must teach students how to correctly view and use new technologies, and guide them out of the maze of algorithms.
In daily communication, some students frankly say that "sometimes they feel lonely," "are affected by information cocoons," and "virtual social interactions bring some troubles." Teachers' emphasis on value guidance can break the illusion of artificial intelligence. When carrying out ideological and political education, teachers should pay more attention to the construction of students' spiritual world, deeply understand the characteristics, needs, and confusions of young students, encourage them to open their hearts and express their true feelings, and then guide students to explore the meaning of life, establish ideals and beliefs, and create life value under the encouragement of striving goals, so that the spiritual home becomes more fulfilling.
Digital intelligence technology has brought new challenges and also bred new opportunities for ideological and political courses. How can artificial intelligence become a teaching assistant rather than the leader of the course? The key to solving the problem is to return to the students themselves—to help students better understand themselves and the world, and grow into independent-thinking and spiritually rich college students.
(The author is a teacher at the School of Marxism of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (南京航空航天大学), compiled by Yan Yiqiao (闫伊乔), a reporter from this newspaper)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 朱 磊
Not long ago, a short video titled "Garlic Fields Before Dawn" unexpectedly went viral. In just one week, more than 20,000 kilograms of unsold garlic were snapped up. "'Garlic Secretary' is a name the villagers call out of trust!" Li Gang (李刚) is full of energy. As a reserve force for the Party branch secretary of Tianjingyuan Village (天井源村), Tianjingyuan Township (天井源乡), Nancheng County (南城县), Fuzhou City (抚州市), Jiangxi Province (江西省), he took the initiative to take on the challenge of "rural industrial development" and actively sought solutions. The "listing and tackling" mechanism is an exploration by Nancheng County to strengthen the construction of grassroots talent teams. At present, more than 140 projects have been led, and 83 reserve forces for village Party branch secretaries like Li Gang (李刚) have emerged.
Li Gang's (李刚) "problem-solving" is no accident. Behind this is Jiangxi's (江西) deep consideration of grassroots governance in the new situation: how to efficiently respond to heavy and complex governance tasks and make the "nerve endings" pulsate powerfully? In recent years, Jiangxi (江西) has issued the "Opinions on Promoting Party Building to Lead Grassroots Governance Reform" and built a three-level coordination mechanism at the provincial, municipal, and county levels, launching a vivid practice of solving governance capacity improvement in the land of Ganpo (赣鄱大地).
Focusing on Talent
Attracting Capable People and Cultivating Backbone, Consolidating the Foundation of Governance
Grassroots governance is all about people. The structure and vitality of the talent team determine the effectiveness of governance. However, a real problem once stood in the way:
"The survey found that some grassroots Party branch secretaries have a weak awareness of governance and not many methods; some grassroots Party branch secretaries are older and have a lower level of education, and their ability to grasp the team, lead the team, and develop industries needs to be improved," said Zhan Yanhui (詹艳辉), director of the Second Organization Division of the Organization Department of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee (江西省委组织部组织二处), frankly.
The solution gradually became clear in the exploration.
Yangma Village (羊马村), Datangbu Town (大塘埠镇), Xinfeng County (信丰县), used to have weak infrastructure and lagging industries. In less than two years, it is a different scene: the Taojiang River (桃江河) meanders like a belt, and the construction site at the entrance of the village is in full swing. Zhang Buqing (张步青), secretary of the village Party branch, pointed to the project planning map on the wall and introduced: "These 34 projects covering industry, people's livelihood, and tourism are the new blueprint for Yangma Village (羊马村)."
In October 2024, Zhang Buqing (张步青), who had been doing business outside for many years, responded to Xinfeng County's (信丰县) call for "talent to return to their hometown" and returned to the village to take office. As soon as he took office, he quickly started work: he hung a "Key Work Progress Chart" at the entrance of the village department and took the lead in establishing a cadre performance incentive mechanism.
In Xinfeng County (信丰县), a village Party branch secretary reserve force cultivation and reserve action focusing on "capable people returning" is injecting vitality into the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside. Through "top-level efforts to attract talent, precise policies to cultivate talent, and warm-hearted policies to retain talent," the county has reserved 712 village-level reserve forces, with an average age of 38.4 years, and college degrees or above accounting for 94%, driving the structural optimization of the "leading goose" team in 177 villages.
Looking to the long term, the Organization Department of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee (江西省委组织部) issued the "Notice on Solidly Doing a Good Job in the Cultivation and Reserve of Village Party Branch Secretary Reserve Forces," and a total of 41,000 reserve forces were reserved in 17,900 villages across the province. At the same time, it strengthens incentive guidance, selects a group of outstanding village (community) Party branch secretaries to become township (street) leaders and public institution staff, so that grassroots backbones can settle down with peace of mind.
In order to further forge the backbone, Jiangxi Province (江西省) also focused its attention on the social worker team that has been working on the front line for many years.
"The premise of excitement is safety" "Let students participate in volunteer activities throughout the process"... On June 20, in the Party-Masses Service Center of Senlin Community (森林社区), Xijiao Street (西郊街道), Changjiang District (昌江区), Jingdezhen City (景德镇市), Li Jinxia (李金霞), a mentor from the Jinxia Party Building Studio (金霞党建工作室) in Changjiang District (昌江区), was organizing social workers to discuss the details of the event.
"'Stand up and be able to speak, sit down and be able to write, and rush down and be able to do it,' this is the goal," Li Jinxia (李金霞) taught by example. Fang Shihui (方施惠), the first batch of students, grew from a shy girl to the Party Committee Secretary of Wangwangmiao Community (汪王庙社区), Xijiao Street (西郊街道). She said: "I have tasted the bitterness and sweetness of community work, and every step is inseparable from Teacher Jinxia's (金霞) guidance." Today, under the leadership of Li Jinxia (李金霞), a large number of social workers are active on the front line, and a clear growth chain of "college graduates - social workers - members of the two committees of the community - secretary of the community Party organization" has been formed. 39 people from the social worker team have taken up posts as members of the two committees of the community.
Focusing on Reducing Burdens
Clearing Items and Reducing Assessments, Empowering the Front Line
Formalism was once like heavy shackles: complicated assessment indicators, mountains of meetings and documents, and constant APP check-ins... This made some grassroots cadres exhausted and unable to focus on their main responsibilities.
"The seven stations and eight offices in the town work in a decentralized manner, and the most worrying thing is coordination. After making a round of phone calls, things may not be done," Yan Zhiqiang (严志强), a cadre in Huzhe Town (湖泽镇), Fenyi County (分宜县), Xinyu City (新余市), said with deep feelings. As the person in charge of civil affairs, he has to connect with many tasks such as elderly care services, funeral management, and social assistance. His daily routine is already non-stop, and overtime is even more common at the end of the year.
In recent years, the local area has continued to deepen the rectification of formalism to reduce the burden on the grassroots. Fenyi County (分宜县) systematically sorted out and clarified the basic duties and the duties to be cooperated with, and vigorously streamlined the grassroots assessment indicators. "After the reform, the powers and responsibilities are clear, and the efficiency has been significantly improved," Yan Zhiqiang (严志强) said, pointing to the clear guide map of the people's livelihood service post on the wall, "Now 18 'stalls' have been integrated into 7 departments, and the responsibilities of the departments and posts are posted on the wall, so the masses know who to look for when they come."
In order to clarify the boundaries of grassroots responsibilities, Xinyu City (新余市) cancelled or recovered nearly 40 APP check-ins, municipal demonstration creation activities, and other items, cleaned up 4,126 unlicensed plaques, and cleaned up 8,222 non-standard on-the-wall systems and propaganda signs; the city's townships averaged 157 items recovered, and the streets averaged 142 items.
Xinyu's (新余) practice is an epitome of Jiangxi's (江西) efforts to reduce the burden on the grassroots: assessment is "subtracted," and the number of assessment indicators at the provincial level has been reduced by nearly 70%; items are "slimmed down," and in the first batch of "three lists" in townships (streets), the proportion of cooperative duties and items recovered by higher authorities reached 65%; cleaning up "redundancy," the province has cumulatively cleaned up 1,101 work affairs outside the catalog, streamlined and integrated 1,583 work mechanisms, standardized 1,719 matters that should not be issued certificates, and cleaned up 43,900 unlicensed plaques outside the catalog.
The effect of reducing the burden was immediate. Cadres at all levels generally felt that: work is more focused on the main responsibilities, assessments are more accurate and pragmatic, and energy can be concentrated on serving the masses and promoting development.
"In the past, when villagers came to open a certificate of kinship, we were in a dilemma: if we opened it, there was no policy basis; if we didn't open it, the villagers felt that we were not doing practical things," said Yu Menghui (余孟辉), director of the Zhugiao Village (竹桥村) Village Committee, Shuangtang Town (双塘镇), Jinxi County (金溪县).
Jinxi County (金溪县) included 69 legally performed and assisted government service items in the village-level item access list, and clarified 27 items that should not be issued certificates. Zhugiao Village (竹桥村) not only had a "list of certificates that should not be issued," but also received a "list of items that must be completed on time."
"With the 'instructions' for handling affairs, when villagers come to consult, we can see the list at a glance," Yu Menghui (余孟辉) said, the procedures and required materials for various business handling are very clear, so that cadres can handle affairs in a reasonable and legal manner, and the masses can handle affairs clearly.
Focusing on Co-governance
Changing "Solo Show" into "Chorus," Stimulating Diverse Vitality
Grassroots affairs are complicated, and it is difficult to be comprehensive relying solely on government forces. To open up the "last mile" of grassroots governance, we must change the "solo show" into a "chorus" and stimulate diverse vitality.
"In the past, I always felt that community renovation was the government's business. Now we can make suggestions and keep an eye on the progress, and we live more comfortably!" Jiao Na (焦娜), a resident of Zhanggong District (章贡区), Ganzhou City (赣州市), felt that the deep transformation of the grassroots governance mechanism.
Last year during the rainy season, there was water accumulation in many places in the community. Jiao Na (焦娜) clicked on the "Zhanggong Governance" (章贡治理) applet to report the repair, and the community cadres and construction personnel arrived at the scene to investigate the next day, and completed the dredging and repair within a week.
Such high efficiency is due to the digital governance platform built by Zhanggong District (章贡区). The masses can upload problems and participate in voting on matters in real time. Up to now, the platform has handled more than 12,000 public demands, with a completion rate of 95%.
Offline, a dense governance network is also operating efficiently. In Zhongshan Road Community (中山路社区), Jiefang Street (解放街道), Zhanggong District (章贡区), Wang Jianguo (王建国), the captain of the "Silver Hair Volunteer Service Team" (银发志愿服务队), leads more than 20 retired veteran Party members to patrol the jurisdiction every day. They are not only environmental remediation workers and civilized persuasion workers, but also the community's "public sentiment sentry" and "mediation experts." At present, the district has cultivated more than 200 community social organizations such as the "Neighborhood Helping Group" (邻里帮帮团) and the "Red Property Alliance" (红色物业联盟), solving more than 8,000 urgent and difficult problems for the masses.
One evening in March this year, Fan Weiming (樊伟明), a takeaway rider, passed by the Steel City Theater (钢城剧院) in Xiashankou Street (峡山口街道), Xiangdong District (湘东区), Pingxiang City (萍乡市), and found a trash can on fire. He immediately stopped the car and reported the fire information directly to the street through the exclusive work platform. Thanks to the timely discovery, the fire was quickly controlled, avoiding greater losses.
Behind this is the innovative "Red, Blue, and Yellow Rider" (红蓝黄骑士) working mechanism in Xiangdong District (湘东区). The mechanism organizes new employment groups such as takeaway riders and couriers to form volunteer service teams. At present, there are more than 320 "Yellow Riders" (黄骑士) (ordinary riders) registered in the district, led by 31 Party member riders, activists applying for Party membership, and other "Red Riders" (红骑士), who have transformed into "mobile safety probes" all over the streets and alleys.
Xiangdong District (湘东区) has also formulated a clear list of governance matters for riders to participate in and implemented an integral management system. Points can be exchanged for daily necessities and deducted for living services in the 157 Love Merchant Alliance (爱心商家联盟), effectively stimulating the enthusiasm of new employment groups to participate in grassroots governance.
Gathering wisdom and gathering strength. From the efficient response of the digital platform to the co-governance network woven by the "Silver Hair Pioneers" (银发先锋) and "Rider Probes" (骑士探头), Jiangxi (江西) has gathered thousands of social forces under the banner of the Party. The convergence of every ray of light injects momentum into grassroots governance.
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Recently, a notice from the Guangdong Province Special Work Mechanism Office for Rectifying Formalism and Reducing Burdens at the Grassroots Level directly addressed a pain point at the grassroots: the Shantou Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau (汕头市人社局) arbitrarily "expanded" a video conference on employment and entrepreneurship for college graduates, which should have been limited to the municipal level, extending it layer by layer to districts, counties, towns, and streets. After the province held its meeting, the city held its meeting; after the city held its meeting, the districts and counties held their meetings. Town and street cadres were forced to "attend" the entire process across three levels of venues, covering the same content.
"We are not afraid of meetings, but we are afraid of treating meetings as work." During interviews at the grassroots level, the heartfelt words of a township cadre fully expressed the suffering of "attending meetings as escorts." As soon as the higher-level meeting ends, the lower-level meeting begins, with highly repetitive content, nothing more than "re-transmission, re-emphasis, and re-escalation." Grassroots cadres are "nailed" to the meeting venue, unable to handle everything, and the time to implement work is squeezed.
The chronic disease of "attending meetings as escorts" is difficult to eradicate, and the root cause lies in the distorted view of performance and work inertia of a few leading cadres. In their view, "not holding a meeting means not paying attention, and not 'attending a meeting as an escort' means not implementing." It seems that only when grassroots cadres sit upright in the meeting venue and leave records can it be considered "highly valuing" the higher-level deployment. Once a mindset of "holding a meeting is implementation" is formed, requiring all staff to "attend meetings as escorts" at every turn, grassroots cadres are prone to being deeply trapped in a "sea of meetings," exhausted.
To curb the unhealthy trend of "attending meetings as escorts" and untie the grassroots, it is necessary to take real action.
Transmitting the spirit is certainly necessary, but the key to implementation is to bend down and work practically. The "Neighborhood Deliberation Courtyard" model in some places allows cadres to walk out of the meeting venue and into the fields and among the masses, with very good results. This inspires us: instead of holding meetings layer by layer to "recite scriptures," it is better to summarize more actionable grassroots guidelines and go to the front line to solve problems. The vitality of a policy lies in taking root, not idling in the conference room. The standard for measuring work should shift from "how many meetings were held" to "how many things were done."
The system is fundamental, and rules must be established and strictly controlled. A township party secretary in Hubei Province was severely held accountable for holding as many as 208 meetings in a year, filled with empty talk and clichés. This typical case warns us: to eradicate "attending meetings as escorts," the key is to strictly control and establish rules in the system. Adhering to the principle of "no meeting unless necessary," meeting approval must be strict; extending downwards must be even more cautious, precisely controlling the level and scope of participation. In recent years, some local explorations are worth promoting: clearly limiting the size and number of meetings, and resolutely showing a red card to "matryoshka-style" meetings with repetitive content and a lack of substantive deployment; vigorously promoting practical measures such as "bundled meetings," "replacing meetings with documents," and "online quick meetings" to truly "slim down" meetings.
Perhaps some people will say that certain important tasks do require "inserting to the end" to allow grassroots cadres to directly understand the spirit. This has its rationality, but the key lies in "coordination." If the spirit of the provincial meeting has directly reached the cadres of districts, counties, towns, and streets, what is the point of holding meetings with the same content at the municipal, district, and county levels? Higher-level departments should strengthen systematic thinking and improve coordination capabilities. For important deployments that do need to be known by the grassroots, strive to reach the most needed level through a single high-quality and efficient meeting, avoiding letting grassroots cadres repeatedly "accompany" the same theme meetings at different levels. This is both respect for grassroots cadres and an improvement in work efficiency.
Currently, the in-depth implementation of the Central Eight-Point Regulation (中央八项规定) spirit learning and education is being promoted throughout the party. All localities should take this as an opportunity to resolutely show their swords against the trend of "attending meetings as escorts," completely freeing grassroots cadres from unnecessary meeting venues, allowing them to go into battle lightly, and truly use their time and energy to serve the masses on the front line and overcome difficulties on the forefront.
Return to TopNot long ago, discipline inspection and supervision cadres in Tongdao Dong Autonomous County (通道侗族自治县), Huaihua City (怀化市), Hunan Province (湖南省), during a special inspection of law enforcement to optimize the business environment, keenly discovered through big data comparison that the time spent by a certain town's animal husbandry station in processing animal origin quarantine certificates far exceeded the normal process time limit.
"If the materials are complete, this type of certificate can be processed on the same day, but many people spent more than ten days to complete it. Why is the handling so delayed?" The discipline inspection and supervision cadres immediately launched an in-depth investigation.
During the visits, a farmer, Shi (石), reflected: "When applying for the certificate, Yang (杨), the head of the animal husbandry station, said that there was a problem with the materials, but he didn't say what the specific problem was, and asked me to go back and wait for news. Later, I heard from another farmer that to get things done with Yang (杨), you have to 'show your appreciation,' otherwise you will be stuck. I really couldn't afford to wait, so I bought a carton of cigarettes and sent it over, and the certificate was processed the next day."
The investigators visited more than 10 farmers and found that the situation reflected by Shi (石) was not an isolated case. Yang (杨) often delayed processing with vague reasons such as "the materials do not meet the requirements." However, as long as the people sent gifts, the certificate could often be processed on the same day or the next day. Farmer Zhou (周) did not send a gift, and the certificate was not processed for a long time, which delayed the sale of live pigs and caused a loss of tens of thousands of yuan.
As the investigation deepened, the discipline inspection and supervision cadres retrieved the animal husbandry station's processing ledgers, public payment records, and related surveillance videos for the past two years. In the face of conclusive evidence, Yang (杨) confessed: "Farmers can't sell without a quarantine certificate. I used their urgent mentality to imply that they should give gifts. I have failed the trust of the organization and the people."
In the end, Yang (杨) was punished. At the same time, the county discipline inspection commission supervised the town's animal husbandry station to reissue certificates to the people who had been deliberately made difficult and apologized to them in person.
[Disciplinary Officer's Remarks] Grassroots stations are at the forefront of serving the people and should be efficient, honest, and transparent in performing their duties. However, this case exposes the unhealthy trend of individual personnel transforming the "micro-power" in their hands into a tool for "eating, taking, and demanding"—making things difficult for the people with the unspoken rule of "no 'appreciation,' no action," infringing on the interests of the people and damaging the credibility of the government. This kind of "micro-corruption" must be treated with zero tolerance and strictly investigated and dealt with. It is necessary to strengthen technological empowerment to achieve precise supervision, and also to unblock channels for public reporting; it is necessary to strictly enforce discipline and accountability to form a deterrent, and also to tighten the institutional cage to plug loopholes, promote the standardized operation of grassroots power under the sun, let the people feel that fairness and justice are around them, and make "easy access, pleasant faces, and easy handling" the norm.
(Li Shangyin (李尚引))
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The cicadas chirped in the summer heat, interweaving with the sounds of power grid renovation construction. In Xiading Village (下丁村), Lizhuang Township (李庄乡), Baofeng County (宝丰县), Pingdingshan City (平顶山市), Henan Province (河南省), Ye Zixin (叶子欣), the village Party branch secretary, was leading villagers to trim trees along the power lines, making a final sprint for meter installation and power delivery.
"Zixin (子欣), this young man is really capable; he accomplished such a big thing in just a few months after taking office!" villagers praised. This project, costing ten million yuan, will solve the long-standing problem of unstable electricity supply and save the village more than 400,000 yuan in electricity bills each year.
Once, this small village of 183 households with over 680 people was labeled a "weak and disorganized village." Ye Zixin (叶子欣) led the villagers to answer with practical work: repairing drainage ditches, replacing new street lights, hardening village roads, and the trial planting of ginger took root in the improved hardened soil... In just a few months, the village appearance has ushered in a series of new changes.
In Pingdingshan (平顶山), a group of young "leading geese" like Ye Zixin (叶子欣) with passion and courage are soaring in the fields of hope.
In recent years, in order to reserve and cultivate strong reserve forces for village Party branch secretaries, Pingdingshan City (平顶山市) has vigorously implemented the "Goose Homecoming Project" ("雁归工程"), listing nine types of groups, such as business leaders and retired soldiers, as key targets. County and township cadres formed working groups to conduct in-depth and accurate research on the performance of current village Party branch secretaries, while simultaneously playing the three cards of "career, policy, and emotion," using festival visits, off-site symposiums, and policy publicity to fully mobilize talents outside the village to return home to start businesses and take office.
In the e-commerce park of Cangtou Township (仓头乡), Lushan County (鲁山县), the sound of silk quilts being packaged mixed with the shouts of live streamers. "Last year's turnover was more than 3 million yuan, and this year will be even better!" Wang Linyi (王麟懿), the person in charge, replied to customer inquiries with flying fingers. This young man, invited back by the township, brought back a thriving e-commerce industry. He has become a training target for the village Party branch secretary. "The village needs young people with education and brains like this," said Yu Haiqin (于海琴), Secretary of the Party Committee of Cangtou Township (仓头乡).
Speaking of village planning, Li Jinchao (李进超), deputy secretary of the Party branch of Fengmiao Village (风庙村), Mimiao Town (米庙镇), Ruzhou City (汝州市), is full of energy. After returning to his hometown at the age of 37, the three rural cross-country tracks he carefully created attracted many tourists, and the newly built loving canteen explored a new model of mutual aid elderly care, transforming the once-closed hilly mountain village into a popular online check-in spot integrating agriculture, culture, and tourism.
Since last year, Pingdingshan (平顶山) has connected with more than 22,000 people working and doing business outside the city and local university graduates, attracting nearly 2,000 people to return to their villages. The structure of the city's village Party branch secretary reserve force has been continuously optimized, with the average age dropping to 40.2 years old, and the proportion of those with a college degree or above reaching 68.4%.
How to make the young "leading geese" grow rapidly? Pingdingshan (平顶山) carefully built a helping and mentoring mechanism. County-level cadres in charge of townships, township leaders, and outstanding old branch secretaries are paired to help and mentor the reserve forces. He Junhe (何俊鹤), 36, is a key training candidate for the Party branch secretary of Dahezhuang Village (大何庄村), Longquan Town (龙泉镇), Ye County (叶县). He served as an assistant to the old branch secretary Li Xiaochuang (李小闯) and successfully introduced two large-scale indoor door manufacturing enterprises. "Passing on experience and lessons to young people so that they can avoid detours is the best way to pass on knowledge and help," said Li Xiaochuang (李小闯) in simple words.
Pingdingshan (平顶山) also relies on the linkage of Party schools at the city, county, and township levels to conduct training in different layers and categories, and organized nearly 200 people to go to Fenghua (奉化), Zhejiang (浙江), Zaozhuang (枣庄), Shandong (山东), and other places for immersive on-the-job training. As of now, the city has trained a total of 11,000 village-level reserve cadres.
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The current relationship between technology and art can be described as a systemic issue in the transformation and upgrading of the literary and artistic field. The solution lies in focusing on the all-round development of people and actively promoting technology and art to move towards each other, complementing each other and shining brightly.
Not long ago, at the "Time and Space Poetry Journey" digital human concert of Shui Mu Nian Hua (水木年华), a visual and auditory feast integrating digital technology and immersive interaction showcased a brand-new scene of technological and cultural integration. Millions of viewers around the world gathered in the metaverse space. With the support of high-precision motion capture and artificial intelligence technology, the singer's digital avatar engaged in diverse real-time interactions with the audience, bringing a dazzling artistic experience.
This is not an isolated case. Almost at the same time as this concert, the virtual reality large-space experience "Finding the Secret Score: Traveling Through Shanghai 1930," which landed at the Shanghai Concert Hall (上海音乐厅), also opened an immersive "time and space journey." Wearing the equipment, the audience can "travel" to Shanghai in the 1930s, follow in the footsteps of the characters in the play, and feel the unique atmosphere of the era and the vivid historical legends. From the performance scene and performance subject to the way of on-site experience, everything seems to be updated and reshaped, bringing a strong impact to traditional cognition.
This is not a new phenomenon either. The convergence of technology and art has run through human civilization, and the reason why "technology empowerment" has become a high-frequency word in cultural production and artistic creation in recent years is closely related to the current technological revolution and industrial transformation. With the accelerated integration of technology and culture, cutting-edge digital technologies represented by big data, 3D projection, virtual reality, augmented reality, motion capture, metaverse, and artificial intelligence are gradually integrated into stage performances, film and television production, exhibition experiences, and other fields, participating in all aspects of the artistic creation, production, dissemination, and consumption chain, injecting vitality, increasing efficiency, expanding influence, and bringing a new atmosphere.
This is an opportunity, but also a challenge. When technological elements continue to open up new scenarios and tracks, upgrade technical tools and methods, and update artistic language and experience dimensions, all the released "possibilities" face the "adaptation" problem with the inherent laws and attributes of culture and art. We must face up to this issue: in the process of technology and culture integration, how to ensure that technology is used for good and culture is innovative, so that cultural production and artistic creation do not deviate from civilization traditions, cultural subjects, and artistic ontology.
In the field of literature and art, some phenomena need to be paid attention to. On the one hand, the convenient production brought about by technological development has formed a "creative comfort zone." Among them, network materials replace life experiences, fast-paced processes drive batch replication, and the emergence of "routine" models leads to creative over-reliance on special effects, visual presentation, and stage design, leading to the missteps of "emphasizing appearance over acting skills," "emphasizing form over content," and "emphasizing setting over ontology." On the other hand, in the appreciation environment of sensory enhancement and experience expansion, the process of art dissemination and acceptance is greatly compressed, "double speed" fast-forwarding has become the norm, and artistic aesthetics are increasingly showing fragmentation and superficiality. For example, one-sided pursuit of "pleasure" and emotional value satisfaction, ignoring ideological content, narrative logic, and emotional expression, being enthusiastic about "shipping CPs," and paying attention to actors rather than the performance itself, and so on.
The emergence of these phenomena is related to the cultural scene switching and upgrading brought about by technological development. Technology releases the infinite possibilities of creative production, and in essence, it also releases the infinite possibilities of spiritual needs. No matter how technology develops, "people" are always the key to solving problems. In the context of technology and art integration, how should people maintain awe, maintain composure, and adhere to their original intentions with regard to civilization history, cultural traditions, and artistic laws?
In the face of the impact of the technological wave on culture and art, the following three levels especially need our attention: First, adhere to the humanistic spirit. The methods of literary and artistic creation can be diverse, but their functions and roles have always been directed at the self-development of people and the inheritance of human civilization. It should be seen that the experience expansion brought about by the rapid development of technology itself has a phased characteristic of the creative subject's inertia and the audience's curiosity. Looking at the long term, whether it is creation or acceptance, we must return to the cultural position and attach importance to the humanistic spirit and value emotions. Literature and art are the products of civilization history, cultural traditions, and contemporary life, and also play an irreplaceable role in cultivating the spirit.
Second, respect the artistic ontology. The reason why any art category forms its own unique expression vocabulary and grammar is the result of long-term practice, carrying the genetic code of geographical environment, historical traditions, customs, culture, aesthetic psychology, and other characteristics that embody civilization and cultural character. Updating and upgrading technological tools and methods must take this as the starting point and foothold, driving the renewal and upgrading of the artistic ontology, and avoiding the phenomenon of "drama without drama, dance drama without dance, full stage of sound, light, and electricity, and costumes for fashion shows."
Third, promote aesthetic upgrading. In the face of some superficial abundance and internal poverty of formal innovation, we must deeply understand that great beauty is simple and ultimate beauty originates from ultimate truth and goodness; in the face of information overload and aesthetic cocoons, we must have the confidence in knowledge advancement and aesthetic upgrading, maintain vigilance against the "feeding" of algorithms and entertainment clamor, and constantly deepen thinking and rational choices. This requires long-term effort, reshaping people's subjective consciousness, and gradually promoting it by further improving national quality, especially strengthening aesthetic education.
The current relationship between technology and art can be described as a systemic issue in the transformation and upgrading of the literary and artistic field. The solution lies in focusing on the all-round development of people and actively promoting technology and art to move towards each other, complementing each other and shining brightly. The integrated development of technology and art is worth looking forward to, and it is also worth people's efforts.
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One cannot, under the guise of "imitation," "application," or "borrowing," surrender the possibilities of creation, surrender the future of literature.
Recently, a literary "plagiarism detection" controversy has continued to ferment. Some book bloggers have repeatedly pointed out, by posting comparison pictures, that the works of several young writers are similar to the works of others. From a small metaphor to a large paragraph, are these similarities "harmonious variations," "excessive borrowing," or "plagiarism"? Where is the line between imitation and plagiarism? Is passing the "sentence duplication check" the bottom line requirement for literature, or an excessive constraint? Related topics have sparked heated discussions.
The "eye of the storm" of the heated discussion lies in the question: if even literature, which has always been regarded as highly creative, can appear in the form of application, piecing together, or even copying and pasting, then how can the vitality of originality be guaranteed?
Originality is a solemn promise that literature makes to its readers, and it is also the cornerstone of literary development. Literature has always been regarded as the source of cultural originality. The birth of an excellent literary work requires the author to have life experience and understanding, to be able to build a unique world out of nothing; it requires the author to have thought and refinement, to be able to keenly perceive the warmth and coldness of the world and accurately strike the heart of the times; literature is also a magic of language, "writing the unique one," "every sentence has only one best way of saying it," which is the lifelong pursuit of many writers. Behind the seemingly original ideas is often the accumulation of style and the painstaking management of skills.
Creation is a systematic project. If sentences can be copied and paragraphs can be pasted, it can only mean that the writing itself is ambiguous and full of clichés; if rhetoric can be misappropriated and styles can be mixed and matched, it can only mean that the entire work is loose, fragmented, and not a whole.
Furthermore, the form of a work is also a reflection of the creative attitude. Some young authors lack life experience, rely on second-hand information for creation, and easily fall into the trap of text-to-text, confined to the maze of words, and write in a familiar tone. There are also some writers who are driven by utilitarianism, seeking quantity over quality, publishing quickly, lacking the patience to fully polish the text, and lacking the perseverance to anchor their own style. Even worse, some people disguise and plagiarize the creative achievements of others, ignoring that literature should be an art of seeking truth, and throwing sincerity and reverence to the back of their minds.
This literary "plagiarism detection" controversy can be regarded as a kind of feedback from readers. It shows that losing originality will also lose readers' trust in literature. Whether the creative attitude is sincere and whether the textual innovation has gold content determines whether readers will buy it and whether literature has a market. If "similarities" become more and more common and originality becomes more and more scarce, one cannot blame readers for leaving literature. From the responses of some literary journals recently, it can be seen that increasing the intensity of plagiarism checks on submissions, respecting originality, breaking down the cliquishness of the literary circle, having impartiality towards newcomers, and having patience with good works, forming such a consensus is particularly necessary for the healthy development of literature.
Nowadays, the fusion-梗 (róng gěng) style of writing and database writing, in which type elements are shared in online literature, have become common, and artificial intelligence writing and human-machine co-creation writing that "integrate" the strengths of hundreds of schools have also appeared. Literary originality itself is undergoing tests. At such a moment, one cannot, under the guise of "imitation," "application," or "borrowing," surrender the possibilities of creation, surrender the future of literature.
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On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, "Nanjing Photography Studio" (南京照相馆), a film about a small corner of that history and a few ordinary people, comes to the audience. In 1937, Nanjing (南京) fell, and a young Chinese postman accidentally washed and printed photos for a Japanese military photographer. Through the latter's camera, he saw the hellish scene at that time and preserved the true memory of this period of history at the cost of his life.
The film focuses on "photography." Images were an important medium at the time, combining information credibility, visual impact, and widespread dissemination. The invaders were well aware of this, and the military photographer Ito (伊藤) therefore had many privileges. Achang (阿昌), a Chinese postman, got a chance to survive by claiming that he could develop photos. The kind-hearted man shared this glimmer of hope with the owner's family hiding in the basement of the photo studio. With repeated photographing, developing, and publishing in newspapers, the urban landscape of Nanjing (南京) extends spatially, and the fates of several characters gradually advance in time, weaving into a dense and delicate plot network. These clues are enough to construct a story, but the support for the characters is not strong enough, and it may break and dissipate at any time. The suspense is maintained, and the plot twists are unexpected but reasonable, creating a thrilling sense of pain.
The invader Ito (伊藤), as one of the protagonists of the film, symbolizes the typical face of Japanese fascism: because he controls weapons, cameras, and film, these war resources, he swells to think that he is the embodiment of "evolution." His so-called "love" for Chinese culture is just to coax the Chinese and eventually lure and kill "friends." The film uses Ito's (伊藤) arrogance to reflect and criticize the so-called "aesthetics" concocted by fascism on a small scale. This set of things is both anti-human and anti-civilization, but it is extremely deceptive and bewitching, and images are an important part of it.
Fortunately, as Mr. Lu Xun (鲁迅) said, the Chinese people have not lost their self-confidence, nor have they believed the lies of the invaders. The plot of the postman, the small business owner, and the minor characters gritting their teeth and insisting on survival implicitly alludes to the Chinese nation's unyielding spirit in the dark night of history. They learn skills in the shortest possible time and seek a way out. Even if there is only one in ten million chance, they must resolutely leave behind children representing hope and the memory of the nation. In the flames of war and blood, they temper their souls: the actress despises the translator's tattered and dirty umbrella, living with fortitude; the veteran, who has escaped danger, kills the Japanese invaders again and sacrifices heroically; Achang (阿昌) tells Ito (伊藤) frankly that Chinese people and those who like to invade cannot be friends! Especially moving is the scene where the photo studio owner uses a series of hand-painted "foreign films" of beautiful rivers and mountains as the background to take the last family portrait, and then heads towards life and death. The perseverance of the Chinese people and the continuous extension of the roots of Chinese culture are presented in an extremely concrete way.
If the bloody "darkroom" in the film, where photos are developed, symbolizes a painful chapter in history, then the film itself can be seen as an "image development" of China's attitude towards history and civilization. "Nanjing Photography Studio" (南京照相馆) writes a page of history in the difficult rebirth of the entire Chinese nation with a narrative of living towards death. In the solemn atmosphere of reviewing and promoting the great spirit of the War of Resistance, it appears in a timely manner, making new explorations for Chinese war-themed films in both aesthetic and historical dimensions.
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Recently, the movie "The Stage" directed by Chen Peisi (陈佩斯) has been released in theaters. The namesake stage play has been performed for many years, enjoying long-lasting popularity and critical acclaim. The film's release has also garnered widespread attention, with bursts of laughter frequently erupting from the audience during screenings. Behind this laughter lies an artist's half-century of exploration and dedication to comedic creation.
In a time when "laughter" is being redefined by fast consumption, editing, and algorithms, Chen Peisi's (陈佩斯) creative trajectory appears increasingly clear and valuable. His comedy is not merely a vehicle for laughter, but also an understanding of life, a touch of humanity, and a reflection on the joys and sorrows of life.
Chen Peisi's (陈佩斯) comedic creation began with performance. In the late 1970s, Chen Peisi (陈佩斯) collaborated with his father, Chen Qiang (陈强), in the film "Look at This Family," opening up a path for comedy films to break through in the literary and artistic market with its depiction and refinement of ordinary people's lives. Subsequently, the successive releases of the "Erzi" series of films made Chen Peisi (陈佩斯) one of the most popular actors of the 1980s. The characters he portrayed were not stereotypical, and his performance style was realistic yet highly condensed, originating from life but transcending it. After "Father and Son," he gradually broke through his father's influence and formed his own comedic performance style. Behind the seemingly casual humor and uncoordinated body movements lies a subtle observation of life and a clever conception of performance.
The creation of variety show skits marked Chen Peisi's (陈佩斯) gradual transition from a pure comedic actor to a mature comedic creator integrating writing, directing, and acting. In the 1984 Spring Festival Gala, Chen Peisi (陈佩斯) and Zhu Shimao (朱时茂) collaborated on "Eating Noodles," their dialogue being fast-paced and full of jokes, successfully touching the funny bone of audiences across the country. Subsequently, they launched skits such as "Lamb Skewers," "The Protagonist and the Supporting Role," and "The Policeman and the Thief." In these works, he not only focused on the "punchlines" of the performance but also emphasized the logic and rhythm behind the "laughter." Chen Peisi's (陈佩斯) works during this period all have relatively complete dramatic structures and character logic. His comedic philosophy broke through the intuition of performance and gradually became systematic and complete, laying a solid foundation for later stage play creation.
During the stage play creation period, Chen Peisi (陈佩斯) began to summarize comedic creation theories from practice, exploring the internal principles of comedy that make people laugh. In 2001, he formed a comedy studio and began creating and rehearsing stage plays. From "The Imposter," "Relatives and Friends Settle Accounts Easily," and "The Balcony" to "The Stage" and "Dreaming," each stage play created box office success. In 2004, he first proposed the concept of "structural comedy" in the creation and rehearsal of "The Balcony": not relying on actors' improvisation, but relying on a meticulous playwriting mechanism, through clever spatial design and the dislocation of character identities, allowing the comedic points to advance sequentially and layer by layer. The establishment of this theory comes from his rich creative practice, in-depth research on Eastern and Western comedic works, and, more importantly, his profound understanding of social life and public aesthetics.
The creation of "The Stage" can be regarded as a mature example of Chen Peisi's (陈佩斯) "structural comedy." The story takes place during the period of warlord melee. A famous actor in an opera troupe is unconscious, and an act of impersonation unfolds. The audience is clearly aware of the predicament and motives of each character, while the characters in the play are unaware and fall into chaos. Every "crisis" is cleverly designed to be resolved, and the tension is no less than the "last-minute rescue" of a Hollywood blockbuster. This contrast of "everyone is clear offstage, but everyone is foolish onstage" is one of the core techniques of "structural comedy." The viewing process is relaxed and pleasant, but after leaving the theater, the tragic core of fate beneath the comedy has a rather strong "after-effect," able to withstand careful chewing.
Interestingly, from "The Stage" to "Dreaming," from the Wuqing Troupe (五庆班) to the Hechun Society (和春社), the characters played by Chen Peisi (陈佩斯) are all troupe leaders, which is consistent with his identity outside the play. The themes of both plays also include his dedication to creation and his unwavering confidence in excellent traditional art.
The ending of the movie "The Stage" is slightly different from that of the stage play. The stage is illuminated, the audience is seated, and the play will continue. In this era when "laughter" can be constructed by algorithms, Chen Peisi's (陈佩斯) comedy seems particularly rare. Looking back at his artistic path, from film to skit to stage play, from that bowl of "noodles" to that "stage," he has always been searching for the true meaning of laughter and, more importantly, exploring the meaning of comedy to life. He has used more than half a century of artistic life to impact the peak of comedic art in constantly changing performance forms, always treating the audience with gentleness.
Return to TopThe drama "Chao Xue Records" (朝雪录), which blends ancient costumes, detective work, and romance, is currently popular, topping the Yunhe Data long drama chart, which is followed by the film and television industry. At the beginning of its broadcast, it received many positive reviews such as "both good looks and acting skills coexist," but as the plot progressed, criticisms such as "the logic of the case is far-fetched" and "the power struggle line is floating" gradually emerged. Being attracted by "good looks" and "persuaded to quit" by the plot seems to be a common pain point for costume dramas. At first, the audience will be attracted by the exquisite costumes, delicate props, and exquisite scenes, but when the plot logic repeatedly jumps out, even the best packaging will become a castle in the air.
In this drama, the overturning narrative framework of solving serial strange cases and redressing grievances for the father is theoretically very attractive, but it can't stand the scattered plot in the later stage. Some key clues appear too abruptly, and the tension of reasoning is weakened. The emotional line between the male and female protagonists from cooperation to acquaintance also appears stiff due to several forced misunderstandings.
The charm of costume dramas has never been just "good-looking," but more importantly, "durable." Some creators put their energy into costumes, makeup, and props, but lose patience in polishing the script. Dramas like "Nirvana in Fire" (琅琊榜) and "The Longest Day in Chang'an" (长安十二时辰), which have left a deep impression on the audience with their brain-burning core and sincere emotions, are still scarce in the industry. After all, good looks are a stepping stone, and the plot is the touchstone.
Wang Shuzhe (王澍哲), Shenzhen (深圳市), Guangdong Province (广东省).
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"But There Are Still Books" has reached its third season, and some viewers are still curious about what the "but" in the title means. In fact, it raises a question we all share: in the torrent of the times, the trends of life, and the turbulent flow of information, how can books build an "ark" on a "page" to carry the meaning of life and sail to infinite distances?
An ark can be used for long voyages. The first episode, "Chasing Light in the Sea of Books," focuses on the visually impaired community, immediately creating a sense of tension in the audience's minds: we may never have thought about how those who cannot see read. The story begins with the self-narration of visually impaired individuals: "There is a body that can't go anywhere, but it seems like there is an omnipotent soul," gradually connecting the stories of Shi Ran (史然), a Braille proofreader, He Chuan (何川), deputy director of the China Braille Library (中国盲文图书馆), and others. Their common identity is that of visually impaired individuals, but they are also "new people" who have gained new life through reading.
The camera scans the raised dots on the book as delicately as a finger, and the visually impaired readers look askance, pondering carefully, feeling the words entering their bodies one by one. Accompanied by the "rustling" sound like silkworms eating leaves, the audience also experiences the dull pain and excitement of their fingertips. Then, a commentary summarizes this sense of experience and empathy: "Reading freely, for the blind, means breaking free from the shackles of the body and reaching the endless spiritual wilderness. Taking reading as a boat, they salvage themselves, measure the world, and autonomously write their own destiny."
This is the charm of "But There Are Still Books," which has maintained its "fan base" for three seasons. It doesn't shout from the rooftops "literature needs attention" or "the spirit urgently needs salvation," but always uses a literary, poetic, and aesthetic perspective to linger between different emotions and groups, forming a two-way flow.
An ark can also be used for self-salvation. If the theme of the first episode is that reading takes people to distant places, the second episode clarifies that reading makes people look to the nearest place—exploring the self. The "two-way rush" and "mutual questioning" of the lives and writings of three protagonists—Malaysian writer Li Zishu (黎紫书), who regards Chinese writing as dignity, Fan Yusu (范雨素), a grassroots author who writes while working as a cleaner, and Lin Bai (林白), who resists anxiety through reading and writing—show how writing becomes a mirror of the self. The documentary allows them to be seen again in a real way—not only the charm of literature, but also the philosophy of life in them, the inward exploration, the extraordinary imagination in the face of life's difficulties, and the vitality that flourishes due to persistent watering.
In Li Zishu's view, becoming a "great writer" is never the most important thing; what is really important is to become "the person I am most satisfied with," to become a better version of oneself. The meaning of writing is to deeply explore the self, so that every day of awakening becomes another opportunity to improve oneself.
What "But There Are Still Books" shows is mostly such ordinary and unique slices of life. Ordinary people rarely have experience in professional writing, translation, or Braille proofreading, but reading and writing are indeed closely related to you and me. Mr. Ye Shengtao (叶圣陶) said: "The most important thing about reading is to transform the experience in books into one's own experience. Being able to 'transform' at any time is the ultimate achievement of 'opening a book is beneficial'." Books will certainly provide navigational guidance to every reader, but the skill of understanding the world and people, and exploring the true self, exists only in the waves of each person's life. In subsequent episodes, this skill of "transformation" will meet again with those who love books. Like an ark, when crossing together, there are always kindred spirits.
All good articles must have a reason why they have to be written, and all lives that can be told must have a glimmer of light worth illuminating. What "But There Are Still Books" wants to do is to gather the micro-lights related to books into starlight with a plain and profound sense of ritual, attracting you and me to ride the ark together and look up at the starry sky.
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