People's Daily - August 20, 2025

Gesang Flowers Bloom, Reflecting the Mountains and Rivers: A New Journey of Unity and Progress

The majestic Himalayas witness the human miracles that will go down in history.

The Yarlung Zangbo River flows endlessly, singing the praises of the children of the snowy plateau striving forward.

In September 1965, the first session of the First People's Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region was held in Lhasa (拉萨). The establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) and its People's Government was announced, and people of all ethnic groups in Tibet embarked on the broad road of socialism together with the people of the whole country.

Sixty years of weathering storms and a cycle of transformations.

Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, Tibet established a socialist system and a people's democratic government, implemented reform and opening up, and comprehensively built a moderately prosperous society, realizing a historic transformation from backwardness to progress, from poverty to prosperity, and from isolation to openness.

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 deployed and planned Tibet work from the height of coordinating the two major domestic and international situations, established the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era, focused on grasping the four major tasks of stability, development, ecology, and strengthening borders, and led the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet to forge ahead on the journey of building a new socialist modern Tibet.

Looking Ahead and Pointing the Direction

——"The Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era is the fundamental guideline for doing Tibet work well, and it must be adhered to for a long time and fully implemented"

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) replied to the letter!

In the summer of 2025, the exciting news spread throughout Gala Village (嘎拉村), Bayi District (巴宜区), Nyingchi City (林芝市).

Gala Village (嘎拉村), "a place where peach blossoms bloom." On July 21, 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came here to inspect, visited villagers' homes, chatted about their daily lives, and talked about the future.

Developing rural tourism, strengthening the collective economy, and promoting ethnic unity... Four years later, the villagers wrote a letter to General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) to report on the development and changes in the village. The phrase "Looking at the Big Dipper, we won't get lost; following the Communist Party, we will be happy" expressed the aspirations of the villagers.

"I hope that under the guidance of the Party's good policies of enriching the border and benefiting the people, you will earnestly safeguard ethnic unity and create a happier and more beautiful life" - General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) encouragement to the villagers in his reply made the children of the snowy plateau more confident in the future.

The beautiful life of Gala Village (嘎拉村) is a vivid microcosm of the economic and social development achievements of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) over the past 60 years since its establishment.

Under the strong leadership of successive central leadership collectives and with the strong support of the people of the whole country, the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet have united and worked hard, transforming the poor and backward old Tibet into a new Tibet with economic and cultural prosperity, comprehensive social progress, a good ecological environment, and a happy life for the people, creating a human miracle of "crossing thousands of years in just a few decades."

In the southwest border region, Tibet, with an area of more than 1.2 million square kilometers, is an important national security barrier and ecological security barrier, and a key area for safeguarding national unity and opposing ethnic separatism.

The Party Central Committee has always attached great importance to Tibet work, adopted a series of major guidelines and policies in the historical process of promoting Tibet's reform, development, and stability, and explored and practiced the formation of the Party's strategy for governing Tibet, providing an important guarantee for Tibet's sustained economic development, sustained social stability, and sustained improvement of people's livelihoods.

Entering the new era, Tibet's development faces both new opportunities and new challenges:

Looking at the domestic situation, from comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society to comprehensively building a modern socialist country, no border area can be left behind, and Tibet is concerned by the Party Central Committee and the people of the whole country;

Looking at the global situation, the century-long changes are accelerating, the world is entering a new period of turbulence and change, and various risks are superimposed under major adjustments, major divisions, and major reorganizations.

"Tibet work is related to the overall work of the Party and the country," "Tibet's realization of sustained stability and rapid development is an important contribution to the overall work of the Party and the country"... Facing the new situation, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has taken the overall situation into consideration, constantly thinking about how to govern Tibet and how to further promote Tibet's long-term peace and stability and high-quality development.

"To govern the country, one must govern the border; to govern the border, one must first stabilize Tibet."

On March 9, 2013, the Tibet Hall of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing (北京). General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech while participating in the deliberation of the Tibet delegation to the First Session of the Twelfth National People's Congress not only condensed the common wisdom of successive central leadership collectives in developing Tibet, but also reflected General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) creative development of the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era.

Standing at the height of "governing the country" to look at "governing the border," and based on the perspective of "governing the border" to look at "stabilizing Tibet." Entering the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) forward-looking strategic thinking on Tibet's status and the Party's strategy for governing Tibet has elevated Tibet's strategic position in the overall work of the Party and the country to a new height.

In August 2015, the Sixth Central Tibet Work Symposium, a meeting convened by the Central Committee since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China to focus on studying Tibet work, was held. At the meeting, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) summarized the Party's strategy for governing Tibet formed in the process of more than 60 years of practice with "six musts."

This strategy not only inherits the long-term guidelines and policies for Tibet work, but also closely fits the needs of development in the new era, and makes comprehensive arrangements for various tasks in Tibet.

Planning for long-term strategies and taking measures to strengthen the foundation.

Five years later, in August 2020, at the Seventh Central Tibet Work Symposium, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) clearly put forward the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era:

It is imperative to uphold the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and the system of ethnic regional autonomy;

It is imperative to adhere to the strategic thinking that to govern the country, one must govern the border; to govern the border, one must first stabilize Tibet;

It is imperative to take safeguarding national unity and strengthening ethnic unity as the focus and starting point of Tibet work;

It is imperative to adhere to the important principles of governing Tibet according to law, enriching the people and revitalizing Tibet, building Tibet for the long term, uniting people's hearts, and consolidating the foundation;

It is imperative to coordinate the two major domestic and international situations;

It is imperative to take improving people's livelihoods and uniting people's hearts as the starting point and end result of economic and social development;

It is imperative to promote exchanges, interactions, and integration among all ethnic groups;

It is imperative to adhere to the direction of Sinicization of religion in our country and manage religious affairs according to law;

It is imperative to adhere to the principle of ecological protection first;

It is imperative to strengthen Party building, especially political construction.

From "six musts" to "ten musts," "adhering to the leadership of the Communist Party of China" has always been in the first place. Other content has been updated and improved with the times, fully reflecting the inherent laws of governing, stabilizing, and revitalizing Tibet, and scientifically answering a series of directional, overall, and strategic questions. The Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era has been further enriched and developed.

"On behalf of the Party Central Committee, I would like to extend warm congratulations and sincere greetings to the cadres and people of all ethnic groups in Tibet who are fighting on the snowy plateau!"

In late July 2021, the snowy plateau was boiling - General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to Tibet as the General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, the President of the State, and the Chairman of the Central Military Commission to celebrate the peaceful liberation of Tibet, which was the first time in the history of the Party and the country.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) watched, asked, and listened all the way. Seeing that the happy days of the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet were like blooming Gesang flowers, the General Secretary said with satisfaction: "I am happy to witness the beautiful and magnificent scenery of the snowy plateau and the vibrant new atmosphere!"

History profoundly shows that without the Communist Party of China, there would be no New China, and there would be no New Tibet. The Party Central Committee's guidelines and policies on Tibet work are completely correct.

Practice eloquently proves that the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era is a summary, refinement, and innovative development of the successful experience of the Communist Party of China in leading the people to govern, stabilize, and revitalize Tibet. It is a concentrated embodiment of Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era regarding Tibet work, and provides a fundamental guideline for doing Tibet work well.

Drawing a Blueprint to Add Momentum

——"Grasp the four major tasks of stability, development, ecology, and strengthening borders"

In the Yarlung Zangbo River valley, the Fuxing high-speed train on the Lhasa-Nyingchi Railway roars past.

In the four years since the opening and operation of the Lhasa-Nyingchi Railway, it has transported more than 3.95 million passengers and more than 1.27 million tons of goods.

"The national transportation map is like a painting. The central, eastern, and northeastern regions of China are all meticulous brush paintings, and the western region has too much blank space. In the future, we need to add a few strokes..." In July 2021, after inspecting the construction of this railway, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out the direction.

"Grasp the four major tasks of stability, development, ecology, and strengthening borders" - 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 focused on the "four major tasks" from the overall situation of the Party and the country's cause, and has devoted a lot of effort to promoting Tibet's long-term peace and stability and high-quality development, and has continuously expanded the new practice of the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era.

Unity and stability are the cornerstone of Tibet's development and progress.

Walking along Barkhor Street (八廓街) in Lhasa (拉萨), the air is filled with the aroma of ghee.

"Hello, Gongkang Sang..." Neat reading sounds came from the activity room of Lugu Community (鲁固社区) in Barkhor Street (八廓街). In order to promote better communication among people of all ethnic groups in the embedded and integrated community, the Lugu Community (鲁固社区) Neighborhood Committee has opened "bilingual small classes" in recent years. As language communication becomes smoother, hearts become closer and closer.

In July 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) walked to inspect the style of Barkhor Street (八廓街), entered a specialty store, and inquired about the development of the tourism and cultural and creative industries and the inheritance and protection of Tibetan culture.

"I came here once 23 years ago, and now it is built so well!" The General Secretary said with emotion, "The thousand-year-old Barkhor Street (八廓街) was built by all our ethnic groups. The cultures of all ethnic groups exchange, interact, and integrate here, and our big family of the Chinese nation is happy and harmonious here."

The prosperous Barkhor Street (八廓街) writes a vivid footnote to Tibet's ethnic unity.

General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important thoughts on strengthening and improving ethnic work have been deeply implemented in the hearts and minds of the people. All 7 cities (prefectures) have been created as national demonstration cities (prefectures) for ethnic unity and progress, and the community ethnic unity family pro-construction action has been steadily promoted... Exchanges, interactions, and integration among all ethnic groups in Tibet have continued to deepen, the sense of community of the Chinese nation has been continuously strengthened, the overall social situation has remained stable, and the foundation for jointly building a new socialist modern Tibet has become increasingly solid.

High-quality development is the hard truth of the new era.

In July 2025, the hydropower project in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River in Nyingchi (林芝), Tibet, officially started construction.

This "century project" personally planned and promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) uses the rich hydropower resources of the Yarlung Zangbo River to drive the development of surrounding solar and wind energy resources, build a complementary clean energy base of water, wind, and light, and will play a positive role in accelerating the construction of a new development pattern and promoting high-quality development.

Visiting Baji Village (巴吉村) in Nyingchi (林芝) twice, encouraging villagers to "The road to prosperity is under your feet, which is to use your brains and be smart people. Smart people actually have to choose a good path for development"; listening to the work reports of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) Party Committee and Government, urging everyone to "take a path of high-quality development that conforms to Tibet's actual situation"; sending a congratulatory letter to the "2023 China Tibet Development Forum," hoping that Tibet will "fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept and accelerate the promotion of high-quality development"...

All along the way, Tibet's development has always been a major concern for General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平).

Today's Tibet has built and opened the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the Lhasa-Nyingchi Railway, and the Lhasa-Nyingchi high-grade highway, and has initially established a comprehensive transportation network covering various modes of transportation such as highways, railways, and aviation; the Qinghai-Tibet, Sichuan-Tibet, Central Tibet, and Ali power grid interconnection projects have been built and put into operation, and the main power grid covers all counties (districts, cities); clean energy, green industry, digital economy, cultural tourism and other emerging industries are accelerating their development, and the plateau light industry, which is closely related to the people of the plateau, has made breakthrough progress...

Ecology is Tibet's "matter of national importance."

In the Yani Wetland (雅尼湿地) at the confluence of the Yarlung Zangbo River and the Nyang River (尼洋河), the water is rippling, and black-necked cranes and bar-headed geese fly by from time to time.

Daily patrols, wildlife rescue, migratory animal monitoring... The work of ranger Nyima Phuntsok (尼玛平措) is full every day: "We have all firmly remembered General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) instructions four years ago."

In July 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to the Nyang River Bridge (尼洋河大桥), looked out over the Yani Wetland (雅尼湿地), and said earnestly: "We must adhere to the priority of protection, adhere to the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and ice," and "protect the creatures, plants, and thousands of mountains and rivers here."

From pointing out at the Seventh Central Tibet Work Symposium that "building the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau into a national and even international ecological civilization highland," to presiding over the Twentieth Meeting of the Nineteenth Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform and deliberating and approving the "Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Ecological Environment Protection and Sustainable Development Plan," to signing a presidential decree to promulgate the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Ecological Protection Law... In General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) mind, "protecting the ecological environment of Tibet is beneficial for thousands of years and benefits the world."

The "Regulations of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) on the Construction of a National Ecological Civilization Highland" and other regulations have been officially implemented, providing strong legal support for firmly grasping the ecological bottom line; major ecological projects such as the "Two Rivers and Four Rivers" basin afforestation project, degraded wetland protection and restoration, and natural forest protection have been implemented one after another, bringing clear water, green grass, and blue skies to the snowy plateau; ecological posts have been established and subsidy funds have been issued, and the protectors of green mountains and clear waters have eaten "ecological meals"... Today, Tibet is one of the regions with the best ecological environment in the world.

Safeguarding the southwest border of the motherland is Tibet's unshirkable responsibility.

At the end of June 2021, on the eve of the centenary of the founding of the Party, the Party Central Committee awarded the "July 1st Medal" for the first time.

Wearing traditional Tibetan clothing, Tsering Chodron (卓嘎), the former head of Yumai Township (玉麦乡) in Lung County (隆子县), stood in the golden hall of the Great Hall of the People and accepted the "July 1st Medal."

"Tashi Delek!" General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) greeted this border guard with a smile, who believed that "home is Yumai (玉麦), and the country is China."

With mixed feelings, Tsering Chodron (卓嘎) tightly held the General Secretary's hand and shyly said, "Hello, General Secretary, you have worked hard!"

The precious photo freezes an unforgettable moment.

Whenever Yumai (玉麦) welcomes new builders, Tsering Chodron (卓嘎) will take the photo and tell everyone: "The 'July 1st Medal' awarded by the General Secretary does not only belong to me. The Party and the country will not forget all the people of all ethnic groups who are guarding the border of the motherland."

"I hope that you will continue to inherit the spirit of loving the country and guarding the border, and lead more herders to take root in the snowy border like Gesang flowers" - this is the leader's entrustment to the Tsering Chodron (卓嘎) sisters, and it embodies the expectation of "strengthening the border."

Today, Yumai (玉麦), once known as the "three-person township," is now a well-known "well-off township"; looking at Tibet, the action of consolidating the border, revitalizing the border, and enriching the people is being steadily promoted, the infrastructure of border villages and the production and living conditions of the masses have been significantly improved, and various industries are booming.

Tibet's development cannot be separated from the central government's support and the support of the people of the whole country.

As early as 1998, Xi Jinping (习近平), then Deputy Secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, came to Tibet to pick up and drop off aid-Tibet cadres.

The aid-Tibet cadres were escorted to Tibet by the Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee at a high level - Fujian's emphasis on aid-Tibet work left a deep impression on the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet. Xi Jinping's (习近平) speech warmed people's hearts: "The affairs of Nyingchi Prefecture (林芝地区) are the affairs of our province." "We must send the best cadres, and choose the best from the good."

Time flies, and true feelings remain the same.

In July 2021, when General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) inspected Tibet, he said emotionally to the aid-Tibet cadres whose faces were tanned bronze: "Your spirit is higher than the plateau," and emphasized that "this matter must be done by one generation after another."

Xu Po (徐坡) from China Baowu Group still remembers the excitement he felt when General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) met with representatives of aid-Tibet cadres: "After the expiration of my aid-Tibet period, I chose to stay and was transferred to Tibet to continue to contribute to the development of this land."

Great love crosses mountains and seas, and true feelings converge on the plateau.
The country has continuously increased its support for Tibet, and the central ministries and commissions and relevant provinces across the country have leveraged their strong organizational advantages in counterpart assistance to Tibet, mobilizing broad social participation. The "group-style" assistance to Tibet has created a new situation. Batches of cadres and talents from all over the country, together with cadres and people of all ethnic groups in Tibet, are jointly composing the Tibet chapter of Chinese-style modernization.

Bathing in the sunshine, spring blossoms and autumn bears fruit.

Entering the new era, Tibet has entered a period of best development, greatest changes, and most benefits for the people. According to the grand blueprint drawn by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), people of all ethnic groups are united and working together to create a happier and better life.

Affection for the Snowy Region Warms Hearts

——"To make the people of all ethnic groups feel more fulfilled, more sustainable happiness, and more secure"

Walking into Senga Village (森嘎村), Changsuo Township (长所乡), Dingri County (定日县), Shigatse City (日喀则市), at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters, the village road damaged by the earthquake has now been completely renewed.

On January 7, 2025, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake severely damaged Dingri (定日). General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) attached great importance to this and gave important instructions: "We must make every effort to carry out personnel search and rescue, do our best to treat the injured, minimize casualties, prevent secondary disasters, properly resettle the affected people, and do a good job in the aftermath."

Two days later, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) chaired a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to study and deploy earthquake relief work in Dingri (定日), Tibet.

In just a few months, as one of the villages most severely affected by the disaster, the reconstruction project of Senga Village (森嘎村) has progressed smoothly, and a group of villagers have moved into new homes and started a new life.

The warmth and coldness of people's lives are always a concern. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) is deeply concerned about the people of all ethnic groups living on the snowy plateau.

"Now in Motuo (墨脱), there are clean and spacious hardened roads everywhere, and the villagers are also taking cars in and out. A trip that can be taken at any time is no longer a dream..."

During the 2025 National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the Great Hall of the People in Beijing (北京). Baima Yuzhen (白玛玉珍), a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, walked onto the "Member Channel" to tell everyone about the transformation of her hometown, Motuo County (墨脱县), Nyingchi City (林芝市), from a "plateau isolated island" to a "beautiful border town."

Thousands of miles away in Motuo (墨脱), Baima Quzhen (白玛曲珍), a deputy to the 12th National People's Congress, saw this scene on TV and couldn't help but recall the unforgettable scene.

"Is the road to Motuo (墨脱) open now?" At the deliberation site of the Tibet delegation to the National People's Congress in 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) asked with concern.

Sitting across from him, Baima Quzhen (白玛曲珍) told General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) that the highway in Motuo County (墨脱县) is expected to be fully opened to traffic by the end of that year. The General Secretary nodded with satisfaction.

Roads witness progress and connect people's hearts.

During his inspection in Tibet, when he visited people's homes, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) saw and remembered every aspect of people's lives, including the kitchen, storage room, and bathroom.

At the symposium on winning the battle against poverty alleviation, he was concerned about people's health and asked the responsible comrades in relevant areas of Tibet, "Are there many people with Kashin-Beck disease now?";

At the symposium of the first training class for county party secretaries at the Central Party School, he cared about grassroots cadres in Tibet: "Have you implemented the subsidies according to altitude? Is there a difference in heating costs compared to Lhasa (拉萨)?"...

Putting the people at the center is the core concept of Xi Jinping's (习近平) governance; the pulse of Tibet's development in the new era beats for the people.

--Currently, there are more than 42,000 deputies to the four-level people's congresses in Tibet, of which Tibetans and other ethnic minorities account for 89.2%, and the rights conferred by the Constitution and laws are fully exercised;

--In 2024, the per capita disposable income of urban residents in Tibet reached 55,444 yuan, which is 121 times that of 1965, with an average annual increase of 8.5%; the per capita disposable income of rural residents reached 21,578 yuan, which is 199 times that of 1965, with an average annual increase of 9.4%;

--The five-level health service network protects people's healthy lives, and the average life expectancy in Tibet has increased to 72.5 years;

--A series of practical measures for people's livelihood have been implemented, and people of all ethnic groups in Tibet have bid farewell to the history of "difficulty in drinking water, difficulty in using electricity, difficulty in traveling, and difficulty in communication" and live a comfortable and convenient modern life;

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June 6, 2025, Zhongnanhai (中南海), Beijing (北京).

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) received Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu (班禅额尔德尼·确吉杰布) and encouraged the Bainqen (班禅) to make greater contributions to promoting ethnic unity, religious harmony, and the stable development and progress of Tibet.

In the past 10 years, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has received Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu (班禅额尔德尼·确吉杰布) twice in Zhongnanhai (中南海), expressing his deep concern and earnest expectations for the Tibetan Buddhist community.

People will never forget that in 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) visited the famous Tibetan Buddhist temple, Drepung Monastery (哲蚌寺).

This was the first time in more than 600 years since the temple was built that the people's leader came to inspect it.

Inside the temple, the monks listened attentively to General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) explanation of the significance of "harmony" for religious development: "The law of religious development lies in 'harmony'. The survival and development of any religion must be adapted to the society in which it is located. This is the universal law of religious development and dissemination in the world. The development of Tibetan Buddhism should be conducive to improving people's lives and maintaining social stability. Religion should be harmonious, society should be harmonious, and ethnic groups should be harmonious."

In the new era, Tibet has fully implemented the Party's policy of freedom of religious belief, adhered to the direction of Sinicization of religion, the role of patriotic religious figures has been given full play, the legalization level of guaranteeing freedom of religious belief has been continuously improved, all religions and sects have been respected and protected, and religious harmony has been achieved.

Religious harmony promotes long-term peace and stability in Tibet; cultural inheritance builds a common spiritual home for the Chinese nation.

Jiru Basang Robu (吉如·巴桑罗布), deputy curator of the Tibet Museum, has recently been fully engaged in the preparation of a special exhibition of Thangka. Looking at the cultural treasures carefully cared for in the display cabinets, a precious memory came to his mind--

That was in July 2011, when Xi Jinping (习近平), then Vice President of the country, visited the Tibet Museum and viewed the pictures and objects of the prosperous development of Tibetan culture.

Seeing Tibetan opera and other items listed as masterpieces of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity by UNESCO, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) fully affirmed that the excellent traditional culture of the Tibetan ethnic group has been protected and developed, especially a large number of cultural heritages have been effectively protected, making contributions to the inheritance of Tibetan culture.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out: "The excellent traditional cultures of all ethnic groups are part of Chinese culture. Chinese culture is the main trunk, and the cultures of all ethnic groups are branches and leaves. Only when the roots are deep and the trunk is strong can the branches and leaves be luxuriant."

Cultural identity is the deepest level of identity, and it is the root of ethnic unity and the soul of ethnic harmony.

Tibet has earnestly strengthened the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, properly protected cultural relics and monuments, scientifically protected ancient books and documents, and the excellent traditional cultures of all ethnic groups have been protected and inherited, providing strong spiritual and cultural support for promoting the construction of the Chinese national community.

Education is the foundation for building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation.

"I hope that the students will have lofty aspirations, serve the motherland, and make their own contributions to enhancing ethnic unity and safeguarding national unity." In July 2011, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) visited Tibet University and cordially visited teachers and students, encouraging the students to be determined to take root in Tibet, actively go to agricultural and pastoral areas, go to the places where the motherland and Tibet need them most, temper their will, increase their talents, make contributions, and serve the motherland.

Mima Tsering (米玛次仁), a junior student who was present at the time, was deeply touched. When he graduated, he originally had the opportunity to stay at the school to work, but he resolutely chose to take root at the grassroots level and participate in village work, gaining growth in dedication and practicing the true meaning of youth.

Since its establishment, Tibet University has trained more than 130,000 students, of which more than 70% of full-time graduates like Mima Tsering (米玛次仁) have stayed in Tibet to work, and more than 25% have taken root in difficult areas.

Earnest expectations light up the lamp of knowledge and illuminate the road ahead.

As of 2024, there are 3,618 schools of various levels and types in Tibet, with 96,600 faculty members and a total of 970,000 students, accounting for more than 25% of the total population of Tibet. The historic leap in Tibet's education provides talent support and injects endogenous impetus for Tibet's long-term peace and stability and high-quality development.

The snowy region embraces the new era and joins hands to create new glories.

Standing at a new historical starting point, the sons and daughters of all ethnic groups in Tibet will unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) as the core, unite and work together, be grateful and forge ahead, and strive to build a united, prosperous, civilized, harmonious and beautiful new socialist modern Tibet, and contribute new strength to comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the nation with Chinese-style modernization.

(Reported by Xinhua News Agency, Lhasa (拉萨), August 19, Xinhua News Agency reporter)

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"Xi Jinping's Excerpts on Respecting and Protecting Human Rights" Uzbek Version Premiered in Tashkent

Xinhua News Agency, Tashkent, August 19th (Reporter Li Ao (李奥)) The launching ceremony and exchange seminar for the Uzbek version of "Excerpts from Xi Jinping's (习近平) Discourses on Respecting and Protecting Human Rights" was held on August 19th in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.

Jiang Jianguo (蒋建国), member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协) and Deputy Director of the Ethnic and Religious Affairs Committee, Executive Vice President of the China Society for Human Rights Studies (中国人权研究会), Akmal Saidov, Director of the National Human Rights Center of Uzbekistan, Yu Jun (于骏), Chinese Ambassador to Uzbekistan, and other Chinese and Uzbek political figures, think tanks, universities, media, representatives of diplomatic missions in Uzbekistan, representatives of international organizations, and representatives of Chinese-funded enterprises in Uzbekistan, totaling nearly 300 people, attended the event and delivered speeches.

In his speech, Jiang Jianguo (蒋建国) stated that "Excerpts from Xi Jinping's (习近平) Discourses on Respecting and Protecting Human Rights" is an authoritative work that embodies deep feelings for the people, contains rich governance wisdom, and cares about global human rights governance. It runs through the people-centered human rights concept, reflects the value orientation of putting the people first, the institutional arrangements for equal sharing, and the international responsibility for fairness and justice. The translation and publication of this book in Uzbekistan is a dialogue and mutual learning on human rights conducted on the soil of historical, practical, and conceptual connections between China and Uzbekistan. It is hoped that it will open a new window for the Uzbek people to observe and perceive Chinese human rights and build a bridge of mutual understanding between Chinese and Uzbek intellectuals and the public.

In his speech, Akmal Saidov stated that the launch of the Uzbek version of "Excerpts from Xi Jinping's (习近平) Discourses on Respecting and Protecting Human Rights" is an important event in the history of cooperation between Uzbekistan and China in the fields of cultural exchange and human rights protection, marking the beginning of a new chapter in this cooperation. The concepts put forward by President Xi Jinping (习近平), such as enhancing people's well-being, promoting human rights through development, and advocating solidarity and cooperation among the Global South, will open up broad prospects for cooperation between Uzbekistan and China. China is committed to providing tangible care for its people, ensuring the broad participation of its citizens in social life, and shares similar development goals and concepts with Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan highly appreciates the cooperation and efforts carried out with China in protecting human rights.

Yu Jun (于骏) said in his speech that China and Uzbekistan are both firmly moving forward along the path of modernization that suits their respective national conditions, and have many common languages. The deepening of exchanges and cooperation in the field of human rights between the two sides further enriches the connotation of the comprehensive strategic partnership and community of shared future between China and Uzbekistan in the new era.

At the launching ceremony, Chinese and Uzbek guests jointly unveiled the new book. Jiang Jianguo (蒋建国) and others presented the new book to the main Uzbek guests.

After the launching ceremony, well-known experts and scholars from China and Uzbekistan in the fields of human rights and law conducted exchanges and discussions on topics such as human rights and development, human rights and the rule of law, respect for the diversity of human rights paths, and human rights cooperation between China and Uzbekistan, and between China and Central Asia.

The Uzbek version of "Excerpts from Xi Jinping's (习近平) Discourses on Respecting and Protecting Human Rights" is the thirteenth foreign language version of the book, and was jointly translated and published by Foreign Languages Press, affiliated to China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration (中国外文局), and Uzbekistan Publishing and Printing House. The launching ceremony of the Uzbek version was co-sponsored by the China Society for Human Rights Studies (中国人权研究会), China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration (中国外文局), the Chinese Embassy in Uzbekistan (中国驻乌兹别克斯坦大使馆), and the National Human Rights Center of Uzbekistan.

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Make good use of development opportunities, potential, and strengths

By: 金社平

The "14th Five-Year Plan" is more than halfway through its final year.

How is China's economy performing in the first half of the year?

China's gross domestic product increased by 5.3% year-on-year, a growth rate higher than the same period last year and the annual level, ranking among the top major economies; the scale of imports and exports reached a record high for the same period, with exports increasing by 7.2% year-on-year... Amidst the changing global economic landscape, China's economy is operating steadily and showing strong vitality and resilience.

How should we view the current situation?

On July 23, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized at a symposium with non-Communist parties: "Currently, China's economic operation still faces many risks and challenges. We must correctly grasp the situation, enhance our awareness of potential dangers, adhere to the bottom-line thinking, make good use of development opportunities, potential, and advantages, and consolidate and expand the momentum of economic recovery."

What should be done for the next step in economic work?

The meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局) held on July 30 pointed out: "Maintain the continuity and stability of policies, enhance flexibility and foresight, focus on stabilizing employment, stabilizing enterprises, stabilizing the market, and stabilizing expectations, vigorously promote the domestic and international dual circulation, strive to complete the annual economic and social development goals and tasks, and achieve a successful conclusion to the '14th Five-Year Plan'."

One-part deployment, nine-parts implementation. All regions and departments should promote high-quality development with a stronger sense of responsibility and more proactive actions, consolidate and expand the momentum of economic recovery, and resolutely win the decisive battle for the "14th Five-Year Plan."

(I)

To do a good job in the current economic work, we must first correctly grasp the situation, recognize the advantages of development, and maintain strategic focus.

Looking around the world, unilateralism and protectionism are on the rise, and the complexity, severity, and uncertainty of the external environment are increasing.

Looking at ourselves, China's economic foundation is stable, its advantages are numerous, its resilience is strong, and its potential is great. The supporting conditions and basic trends for long-term improvement have not changed.

The future of China presents both opportunities and challenges.

The key to consolidating and expanding the momentum of economic recovery lies in concentrating our efforts on managing our own affairs well and firmly grasping the initiative in development.

The "Village Gala" has boosted rural cultural tourism, the "Su Chao" (苏超) has leveraged the ticket stub economy, the ice and snow economy and the flower appreciation economy are gaining popularity, and service consumption is showing many bright spots; the national trend and national costumes are frequently "breaking the circle," and new types of consumption are booming... In the first seven months, the total retail sales of consumer goods increased by 4.8% year-on-year; in the first half of the year, the contribution rate of final consumption expenditure to the growth of gross domestic product reached 52%, and domestic demand has become the main driving force and stabilizing anchor for economic growth.

Domestic demand-led and internal circulation are unique advantages of a major economy. The more complex the external environment, the more we must place the strategic focus of development on strengthening the domestic cycle and take multiple measures to expand domestic demand.

Stimulate consumption with potential.

Let residents "dare to consume." Enhance consumption capacity by promoting reasonable growth in wage income, broadening channels for property income, and promoting income growth for farmers.

Let residents "be willing to consume." Innovate diversified consumption scenarios, improve the supply in the fields of culture, tourism, catering, leisure, health, and sports, and continuously optimize the consumption environment.

Deepen the implementation of special actions to boost consumption, and while expanding commodity consumption, cultivate new growth points for service consumption, and the demand potential of the super-large-scale market will continue to be released.

Expand effective investment.

Renovate old residential areas, build underground pipe networks, promote urban greening, and improve public service facilities... New urbanization contains massive scenarios for "investing in people." Every 1 percentage point increase in China's urbanization rate can add more than 200 billion yuan of consumption demand each year, which can drive trillions of yuan of new investment demand.

Whether it is "promoting the 'two major' constructions with high quality" or "carrying out urban renewal with high quality," it will better play the key role of investment and provide strong support for stabilizing growth, adjusting structure, cultivating momentum, and benefiting people's livelihoods.

To consolidate and expand the momentum of economic recovery, we must also make good use of development opportunities and respond to the uncertainty of the external environment with certainty in opening up.

In the first seven months, the total value of imports and exports of goods increased by 3.5% year-on-year, with exports increasing by 7.3% year-on-year, and the export value of high-tech products increased by 7.2% year-on-year, with the technical content of export products gradually increasing; in the first half of the year, 30,014 new foreign-invested enterprises were established nationwide, an increase of 11.7% year-on-year... Since the beginning of this year, China's foreign trade and foreign investment have shown stable performance, demonstrating full resilience.

Opening up and cooperation are the inevitable choice to conform to the historical trend and the inevitable requirement for the steady progress of China's economy. Doing a good job in the current economic work requires us to smooth and upgrade the international cycle and stabilize the fundamentals of foreign trade and foreign investment.

Steadily expand international market space.

In the first half of the year, China's imports and exports to more than 190 countries and regions achieved growth, and the number of partners with a trade scale of more than 50 billion yuan reached 61, an increase of 5 compared with the same period last year. Actively build a diversified international market pattern, deepen the integration of domestic and foreign trade reforms, and increase support in terms of market channels, domestic consumption, fiscal finance, and service guarantees for some enterprises that are greatly affected by tariffs... We must play a "combination punch" to continue to exert the stable role of foreign trade in economic growth.

Continuously enhance the magnetic force of the Chinese market.

"'First-tier' liberalization, 'second-tier' control, and freedom within the island," the full island customs closure operation of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自贸港) will be officially launched on December 18 this year. The scope of "zero-tariff" commodities has been expanded to approximately 6,600 tax items, accounting for 74% of all commodity tax items; low-intervention and high-efficiency precision supervision will be implemented for "zero-tariff" goods... A complete set of liberalized and facilitated policies and systems demonstrates the firm determination to "open the door wider and wider."

Optimize export tax rebate policies, build high-level free trade pilot zones and other open platforms, expand pilot programs for opening up in the fields of telecommunications, medical care, and education, encourage foreign-invested enterprises to reinvest in China, and implement the "2025 Action Plan for Stabilizing Foreign Investment"... Steadily expand institutional opening up in terms of rules, regulations, management, standards, etc., China will continue to become an "ideal, safe, and promising" destination for multinational investment.

Maintaining focus, enhancing confidence, and accelerating the construction of a new development pattern, we will continuously consolidate and enhance the certainty of high-quality development in the current complex and volatile international situation and effectively respond to various uncertainties.

(II)

To do a good job in the current economic work, we must continuously shape new momentum and new advantages for economic development in accordance with the new development concept.

At sea, the second domestically produced large cruise ship successfully floated out of the dock, and the construction of large liquefied natural gas carriers is proceeding non-stop.

On land, the world's fastest high-speed train CR450 (CR450) successfully reached its speed.

In the sky, the three astronauts of Shenzhou XX (神舟二十号) successfully entered the Chinese space station, and the domestically produced large aircraft C919 (C919) has carried more than 2 million passengers cumulatively.

In the first seven months, the added value of high-tech manufacturing above the designated size increased by 9.5% year-on-year; in July, the output of industrial robots increased by 24% year-on-year; as of June, the number of valid domestic invention patents reached 5.01 million, an increase of 13.2% year-on-year... Since the beginning of this year, China's innovation field has been full of vitality, and industrial upgrading has been striding forward.

The concept is the guide for action. Taking the new development concept as the command stick and traffic light, continuously igniting the innovation engine and developing new quality productivity is a major article that needs to be continuously done well.

We must make good use of the unique advantages we possess.

"Only China." From an iron ore to a chip, a battery, and then to a complete vehicle, the third Chain Expo (链博会) presented a panoramic view of China's entire intelligent vehicle industry chain, which made Pang Chunlei (庞春雷), general manager of Beteri's product line, feel a lot.

The time for a cup of coffee is enough to handle tens of thousands of parts for electric locomotives; within a 1-hour commute circle, 95% of the parts for mobile phones can be equipped... The complete industrial system and strong supporting capabilities have helped China's manufacturing industry maintain the world's largest overall scale for 15 consecutive years, and the output of more than 220 major industrial products ranks first in the world, which will also help us take the initiative in the face of global industrial chain and supply chain restructuring.

We must also see that China has abundant talent resources. The full-time equivalent of R&D personnel ranks first in the world, the number of highly cited scientists ranks second in the world, and the number of graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors exceeds 5 million each year... Coordinating the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, and continuously releasing talent dividends, the innovation momentum will be even more surging.

We must grasp the valuable opportunities we face.

The future is here! Automatically walk to the charging station, bend your arms, take out the battery pack embedded behind you, and then install a new battery, the whole process takes up to 3 minutes... Recently, Ubtech (优必选) announced that its industrial humanoid robot Walker S2 has learned to change its own battery.

From twisting Yangko at the Spring Festival Gala to participating in marathons and then working in factories, 2025 is hailed as the first year of mass production of humanoid robots in China, and various robots are accelerating their evolution.

Empowering industrial production, new drug research and development, transportation and other fields, and deeply integrating with emerging industries such as robots and quantum computing, with more than 5,100 companies and a core industry scale exceeding 700 billion yuan... Currently, the artificial intelligence industry is accelerating its growth in China. Seizing the valuable opportunities of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation and transforming to high-end, intelligent, and green, China's manufacturing has broad prospects.

We must grasp the key tasks on our road ahead.

Strive to "strengthen muscles and bones." We must increase efforts to make up for shortcomings, forge strengths, and strengthen guarantees, and make every effort to promote the independent control of key industrial chains; we must deepen the empowerment and application of digital technology and promote the deep integration of informatization and industrialization; we must adhere to green development and improve industrial energy efficiency and green development levels.

Go all out to "move towards the new." Unblock the mechanism, both deploy the innovation chain around the industrial chain and arrange the industrial chain around the innovation chain, promote the integrated development of technological innovation and industrial innovation with greater efforts, promote the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements, and accelerate the transformation of innovation achievements from "bookshelves" to "shelves."

Climbing to new heights, igniting the engine of scientific and technological innovation, developing and expanding new momentum, new formats, and new industries, the innovation "potential energy" will continue to be transformed into economic "kinetic energy."

(III)

To do a good job in the current economic work, we must fully mobilize the enthusiasm of all parties and provide strong momentum for high-quality development.

Fully release policy effects and maintain stable economic operation.

Issue ultra-long-term special treasury bonds to implement the "two major" and "two new" policies with greater efforts; comprehensively use various monetary policy tools such as RRR cuts to maintain ample liquidity; stabilize jobs and reduce burdens on the one hand, and expand jobs and tap potential on the other hand to maintain overall stability in the employment situation... In the first half of the year, all regions and departments withstood the pressure, faced the difficulties, and accelerated the implementation of more proactive and promising macro policies.

In particular, the meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局) held on April 25 proposed "focusing on stabilizing employment, stabilizing enterprises, stabilizing the market, and stabilizing expectations" and deployed a package of policies and measures, which played an important role in effectively and effectively responding to external shocks and promoting sustained economic recovery. Facts have fully proved that "more proactive and promising macro policies" are pragmatic, effective, and powerful.

Monetary policy tools such as RRR cuts and interest rate cuts have left sufficient room for adjustment, and there is still room for further expansion of fiscal deficits, special bonds, and special treasury bonds depending on the situation. Currently, China's macro policy toolbox is still sufficient.

In the next step, we will continue to exert efforts and increase efforts in macro policies, both promoting the continuous implementation of existing policies and established policies, maintaining the continuity and stability of policies, and doing a good job in policy reserves, and promptly promoting the introduction and implementation as needed, enhancing flexibility and foresight, and then responding to changes in the external situation with the effectiveness of macro governance.

Unswervingly deepen reform and cultivate fertile ground for enterprise development.

In May, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (中国汽车工业协会) issued a proposal calling on "advantageous enterprises not to monopolize the market and squeeze the living space of other entities"; in June, the "Regulations on Guaranteeing Payment of Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Funds" came into effect, and since then, more than 10 car companies such as China FAW (中国一汽) and Dongfeng Motor (东风汽车) publicly promised that "the payment period for suppliers will not exceed 60 days"; in July, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) opened a "Key Car Companies Implementing Payment Period Commitment Online Problem (Suggestion) Reflection Window"... At present, the comprehensive rectification of "involution" competition is continuing to advance.

This year is an important year for further comprehensively deepening reform. Promulgate and implement the Private Economy Promotion Law, newly revise the Anti-Unfair Competition Law, and ensure fair participation in market competition for various economic organizations; reduce the negative list for market access and issue the "National Unified Market Construction Guidelines (Trial Implementation)" to further break down market barriers... In the first half of the year, comprehensively deepening reform has been advancing in depth, continuously injecting momentum and vitality into high-quality economic development.

The more we face difficulties and challenges, the more we must deepen reform and opening up and give full play to the breakthrough and leading role of reform. From "promoting the construction of a national unified market in depth and continuously optimizing market competition order" to "adhering to the 'two unwavering' and stimulating the vitality of various business entities," we must both look to the long term and work hard for a long time, and grasp the present and do practical work.

Beijing (北京) publicly promoted 119 projects to private capital, Chongqing (重庆) proposed 200 work tasks to optimize the business environment, and the "top leaders" of Anhui (安徽) province, cities, and counties faced face-to-face with technology-based export-oriented enterprises to solve practical problems... All regions and departments are seeking new strategies and taking practical measures to create a first-class business environment that is market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized, which will provide better conditions for the innovative development of various enterprises.

Implement precise policies in accordance with the time and situation to protect economic cells.

Enterprises are the basic cells of the national economy and the source of power for economic growth. To consolidate and expand the momentum of economic recovery, we must closely focus on the current concerns of enterprises, try every means to help them overcome difficulties, and continuously stimulate the vitality of micro-entities.

How to promote "domestic and foreign trade integration"? Accelerate the solution of product standard certification issues, and quickly unblock the capital, standards, channels, and supervision barriers, so that enterprises can freely switch between domestic and foreign sales and be comfortable in both areas.

How to reduce operating costs? Implement structural tax reduction and fee reduction, social security "deferral, refund, and subsidy" policies; create a risk-sharing tool for science and technology innovation bonds and provide low-cost re-lending funds; implement flexible law enforcement such as "exemption from punishment and mitigation of punishment"... Accurately diagnose and implement comprehensive policies, and enterprises will be more confident in overcoming obstacles.

Huawei (华为) has increased its investment in artificial intelligence research and development and used domestic computing power platforms to train large models; CATL (宁德时代) has built a new energy storage and power battery production base in Shandong (山东) to create a zero-carbon factory; SF Express (顺丰) has invested in a multimodal transport international hub project in Henan (河南) to establish a benchmark for smart logistics... The vast number of enterprises that love to work hard and dare to stand at the forefront will win the initiative in market competition with high-quality products and services.

It is the right time to show your talents and move forward through wind and rain.

Adhering to Xi Jinping's Economic Thought (习近平经济思想) as the guide, fully implementing the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee (党中央), maintaining focus, enhancing motivation, stimulating vitality, making good use of development opportunities, potential, and advantages, and consolidating and expanding the momentum of economic recovery, we will surely complete the goals and tasks of the "14th Five-Year Plan" with high quality and lay a solid foundation for achieving a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan."

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Showing a New Look and焕发 New Vitality (Vital China Research Trip)

By: 本报记者

The integrated urban-rural development is an inherent requirement of Chinese-style modernization.

During the theme interview activity "Vitality China Research Trip," reporters delved into the provinces of Jiangxi, Jilin, and Qinghai to explore the new era of integrated urban-rural development:

An egg possesses an exclusive "digital ID," enabling full-cycle traceability from temperature-controlled henhouses to intelligent warehouses through barcode scanning. A digital breeding base in Jiangxi can produce 40,000 eggs daily, with an annual output value of approximately 13 million yuan.

A snow field has become popular not only in winter but also in all seasons, with the ingenuity of "year-round operation" continuously stimulating consumption vitality. The Songhua Lake Ice and Snow Resort (松花湖冰雪胜地) in Jilin transforms ice and snow resources into year-round tourism resources, leading to a continuous increase in visitor traffic.

A herdsman "sells agricultural products" and "sells beautiful scenery" by Qinghai Lake (青海湖). Through ecological tourism, more than 20,000 people in 20 villages in 8 townships around the lake benefit, and ecological dividends benefit more people.

Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary, emphasized: "Strengthen the organic integration of comprehensive rural revitalization and new urbanization, and accelerate the pace of integrated urban-rural development."

Bearing in mind the entrustment and forging ahead, Jiangxi, Jilin, Qinghai, and other places adhere to promoting the organic integration of comprehensive rural revitalization and new urbanization. The county economies have their own characteristics, the urban-rural circulation is continuously smooth, the beautiful countryside is livable and workable, and the integrated urban-rural development is bursting with vigorous vitality.

County economies are blooming in many places, broadening channels for increasing production and income.

In Liangshan Town (良山镇), Xinyu City (新余市), Jiangxi Province, 5G and Internet of Things technologies are quietly changing the "journey" of an egg. Li Hao (李浩), general manager of Senfeng Egg Chicken Free-range Co., Ltd. (森凤蛋鸡散养有限公司), opened his mobile phone, and parameters such as the temperature and humidity of the chicken house jumped in real time, "With this monitoring system, all relevant data is available."

Automatic feeders accurately feed nutritional meals, and three-dimensional intelligent warehouses accurately dispatch. Each egg has an exclusive "digital ID," and the entire process can be traced by scanning the code. Thanks to digital closed-loop management, the eggs produced by the breeding base have become sought-after products in the market.

New technologies help the breeding industry to transform and upgrade, enhancing the competitiveness of county characteristic industries. Li Hao said that the next step will be to deepen the application of artificial intelligence in precise nutrition regulation and other aspects, and drive more surrounding farmers to develop together.

Jiangxi's "digital egg" is a microcosm of technology empowering modern agriculture, while Jilin's "ice and snow brand" vividly interprets how to transform ecological resources into development advantages.

In Songhua Lake Resort (松花湖度假区), Jilin City (吉林市), Jilin Province, a grassland concert is being staged, and tourists from all directions enjoy the coolness with the melodious music. "We are creating summer resort and leisure products focusing on mountain sports, ecological leisure, and cultural experience." Zhao Lanju (赵兰菊), general manager of the resort, introduced that the number of visitors this summer is expected to exceed 400,000.

The green mountains in summer are also snow fields in winter, and cold resources burst into hot economy. In winter, it turns into a ski resort, with 50 ski trails with a total length of 55 kilometers, winding down from the top of the mountain, igniting the enthusiasm for ice and snow sports. In Jilin City (吉林市), Nangou Village (南沟村), not far from Beida Lake Ski Resort (北大湖滑雪场), runs homestays and restaurants... The village's business formats are becoming increasingly rich. "There are 149 homestays in the village, which can accommodate 2,000 tourists at the same time, with an annual income of more than 15 million yuan," said Zhang Zengfa (张增发), secretary of the Party branch of Nangou Village.

By Qinghai Lake (青海湖), protecting the beautiful scenery ushers in a good prospect. The water and sky are the same blue, and the lake is sparkling. The "Zaxi Ranch (扎西牧场)" farm stay in Garila Village (尕日拉村), Gonghe County (共和县), Qinghai Province, has cozy and unique Tibetan-style wooden houses. "This is still a lake view room!" Following the direction pointed by Zaxi Nanjie (扎西南杰), the person in charge, the "plateau sapphire" Qinghai Lake (青海湖) is right outside the window.

From "a tent and a horse" to a farm stay with more than a dozen rooms, from selling yogurt and dried meat to "selling scenery" and "selling services," Zaxi Nanjie deeply felt: "Only by keeping the beautiful scenery can we usher in a good prospect."

In recent years, the area around Qinghai Lake (青海湖) has explored new models of cultural tourism, and the pattern of ecological tourism development has gradually become clear. Through a distribution mechanism dominated by government leadership, village collective participation, and farmer and herdsman dividends, it has radiated and driven more than 20,000 people in 20 villages in 8 townships around the lake to increase their income and become rich.

"We will coordinate the promotion of new urbanization and comprehensive rural revitalization, vigorously promote agricultural industrialization, and promote integrated urban-rural development and common prosperity." Yin Hong (尹弘), Secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee, introduced that in recent years, Jiangxi has adhered to the concept of industrialization and market-oriented thinking, deeply implemented the "double hundred action" of agricultural industrialization, accelerated the efforts to make up for the shortcomings of deep processing and circulation, and strived to build agriculture into a modern major industry. At present, there are 81 national-level and 1,147 provincial-level leading agricultural enterprises in Jiangxi Province, driving an average annual income increase of 4,260 yuan for 3.76 million farmers.

Two-way flow of urban and rural factors, enhancing the vitality of agricultural and rural development.

In Zhenlai County (镇赉县), Jilin Province, the rice waves are rolling, and the saline-alkali belt, which was once a barren land, has become a "rice granary" of more than 1.5 million mu of rice fields. Behind the transformation is the relay and adherence of three generations of scientific research workers from the Jilin Academy of Agricultural Sciences (吉林省农业科学院) for more than 30 years, promoting the selection of salt-tolerant rice varieties, soil improvement, and supporting cultivation technologies to help the local area achieve "treating alkali with rice and getting rich with rice."

"Thanks to these scientists for awakening the 'sleeping' land resources!" Mao Yinhua (毛印华), a large grain grower, deeply felt the power of science and technology. "Last year, my 150-plus hectares of rice fields produced 2.4 million catties of grain, an increase of more than 200,000 catties compared with the previous year, with a net profit of more than 1 million yuan."

Thanks to the village service of agricultural science and technology personnel, the rice planting area in Zhenlai County (镇赉县) reached 1.55 million mu last year, with an output of 2.06 billion catties. Ma Wei (马巍), associate researcher at the Rice Research Institute of the Jilin Academy of Agricultural Sciences (吉林省农业科学院水稻研究所), introduced that the team is targeting high quality and efficiency, promoting new technologies and new models such as rice seedling substrate and rice-crab co-culture to help farmers save costs and increase efficiency.

Similarly, in Shangrao City (上饶市), Jiangxi Province, Chen Yifei (陈亦飞), a returnee entrepreneur, used cultural tourism creativity to revitalize abandoned mines. As night falls, in Wangxian Valley Scenic Area (望仙谷景区), the ancient-style streets are bustling with tourists, and the homestays "hanging" on the cliffs are brightly lit, with full of vitality. Who would have thought that a dozen years ago, this was still an abandoned mine scarred by over-exploitation.

The return of talent and capital brings more possibilities for comprehensive rural revitalization. Chen Yifei joined hands with partners to explore local history and culture, and invested in building Gan-style rammed earth homestays, intangible cultural heritage experience, and other projects, turning Wangxian Valley (望仙谷) into an "internet celebrity tourist destination." In 2024, Wangxian Valley Scenic Area (望仙谷景区) received 3.1 million tourists.

The popularity of the scenic spot has attracted a large number of villagers to return to their hometowns to work and start businesses, and Wu Qi'an (吴启安) is one of them. "I came back to open a restaurant, so I can take care of my family nearby. In the first half of the year, the restaurant received more than 36,000 tourists, with an average monthly revenue of more than 300,000 yuan," said Wu Qi'an. The development of the scenic spot provides more than 6,500 direct employment opportunities for villagers and drives more than 30,000 jobs in the surrounding area.

Behind the rural development, the continuous irrigation of financial "living water" is indispensable. Sangke (桑科), a herdsman living in Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (果洛藏族自治州), Qinghai Province, signed a procurement contract with a local meat processing company, but the funds to expand the breeding scale are still a problem. "I took a photo of the company's purchase contract, and without even entering the bank, I received a loan of 60,000 yuan," Sangke said excitedly. This money can not only buy a mowing machine, but also introduce several breeding cattle, and the income is expected to double next year.

Behind this is the financial products such as live livestock mortgage and order financing innovatively launched by the Qinghai financial system for agricultural and pastoral areas. "Focusing on promoting the development of green and organic agricultural and livestock industries, we have increased the investment of inclusive financial resources. As of now, financial institutions have cumulatively issued more than 3 billion yuan in live livestock and agricultural land mortgage loans." Shi Jingjing (侍晶晶), a staff member of the Credit Policy Management Department of the Qinghai Branch of the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行青海省分行信贷政策管理处), introduced that they will also increase the credit funds investment in plateau characteristic industries in the future.

"We will adhere to the coordinated development of population, industry, public services, towns, and ecological protection, promote urbanization construction with counties as important carriers in different categories." Wu Xiaojun (吴晓军), Secretary of the Qinghai Provincial Party Committee, introduced that in recent years, Qinghai has promoted the construction of "four places" for industries and the coordinated development of green computing and electricity according to local conditions, guided the population to moderately gather in towns, industrial clusters, and low-altitude areas, and actively built a new pattern of integrated urban-rural development.

Integrated urban-rural construction layout, drawing a new picture of a harmonious and beautiful countryside.

"I would have been embarrassed to invite everyone into the house before." Wang Dandan (王丹丹), a villager in Guangdong Village (光东村), Helong City (和龙市), Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture (延边朝鲜族自治州), Jilin Province, smiled and welcomed tourists into her bright and clean home. She is most satisfied with the indoor toilet in her home, with a toilet, water heater, and washbasin, "In the past, I had to go out to go to the toilet in winter, and I was shivering from the cold. Now the house is clean and warm."

A "toilet revolution" has leveraged a profound change in the rural living environment. Guangdong Village (光东村) piloted first, and Helong City (和龙市) fully rolled it out. Sewage pipe networks replaced three-grid purification tanks to achieve centralized treatment.

"Toilet renovation is the key to improving the rural living environment. After renovation and upgrading, the coverage rate of the rural domestic waste collection, transportation, and disposal system in Jilin Province has exceeded 98%, and the control rate of rural domestic sewage treatment has reached 47.1%. The appearance of villages has undergone gratifying changes," said Liu Xiangyi (刘翔宜), Director of the Jilin Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (吉林省农业农村厅厅长). From Guangdong Village (光东村) to Baishan Songshui (白山松水), a livable, workable, harmonious, and beautiful countryside is spreading from point to area.

Looking at the vast countryside, the hardware of infrastructure is continuously improving, and the software of public services is constantly upgrading. In Qinghai, where the average altitude exceeds 3,000 meters, the problem of "difficulty in seeing a doctor and seeing a doctor far away" is being effectively solved. Sangduojie (桑多杰), a herdsman in Jiuzhi County (久治县), Guoluo Prefecture (果洛州), felt unwell a few days ago and hurried to the township health center. "I happened to meet the attending physician of the county medical community's general hospital on duty. After a few days of treatment, my health has greatly improved," Sangduojie said with emotion, "There are experts on duty at my doorstep, and it is accurate and convenient to see a doctor."

Sangduojie's experience is a vivid portrayal of Qinghai's efforts to promote the sinking of high-quality medical resources to rural areas. As of now, the medical community in Qinghai Province has achieved full coverage of counties, and the county medical service capacity has gradually improved. "Personnel, technology, services, and management" are sinking, and "post assignment + mobile medical treatment + remote guidance" are used to direct high-quality medical resources to the grassroots level. Township health centers that "can only give injections and sell medicines" in the past can now independently diagnose and treat and screen for major diseases, weaving a health protection network.

The environment is beautiful, the services are good, and rural governance must keep up. In Wanli Management Bureau (湾里管理局), Nanchang City (南昌市), Jiangxi Province, reporters personally experienced the convenience of the "Wanli Office (湾里办)" smart platform. Liu Sixiang (刘斯享), a villager in Dongyuan New Village (东源新村), found that several street lights beside the village road were not lit after taking a walk after dinner. He immediately took a photo of the faulty street lights with his mobile phone and scanned the code to upload it to the "Wanli Office (湾里办)" smart platform.

After submitting the information, the platform transferred the situation to the township government through intelligent distribution. After receiving the work order, the staff immediately contacted the street lamp maintenance unit, and the technicians arrived at the scene to repair it as soon as possible. From reporting to solving the problem, the whole process took no more than 24 hours. Liu Sixiang called it "really efficient" when he saw the repaired street lights while walking the dog the next day.

Behind the "fingertip access and rapid response" is the "graded disposal-department linkage-feedback improvement" mechanism built by the "Wanli Office (湾里办)" smart platform. Efficient, transparent, and convenient digital governance is deeply embedded in the local rural texture. More than 90% of the people's demands are accepted and resolved on the same day. Digital technology makes rural governance smarter and more considerate.

"We will plan the urban-rural spatial layout, industrial development, public services, and infrastructure construction in a coordinated manner, promote the integrated development of industrial revitalization, county strengthening, and people's prosperity, and promote common prosperity in urban and rural areas." Huang Qiang (黄强), Secretary of the Jilin Provincial Party Committee, introduced that in recent years, Jilin has steadily implemented the new urbanization strategy and eliminated the institutional and mechanism barriers that affect the two-way flow of urban and rural factors. Learning from the experience of the "Thousand Villages Demonstration, Ten Thousand Villages Renovation (千万工程)," we have promoted rural construction, built more than 18,000 new livable farmhouses, and newly built and renovated more than 3,700 kilometers of rural roads, making every effort to create a livable, workable, harmonious, and beautiful countryside.

(Reporters Chang Qin (常钦), Zheng Zhiwen (郑智文), Ge Mengchao (葛孟超), Men Jiewei (门杰伟), Liu Tianliang (刘天亮), Chen Ling (陈凌), Zhou Huan (周欢), Yang Yanfei (杨颜菲), and Jia Fengfeng (贾丰丰) of this newspaper)

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The first extra-long tunnel exceeding 20 kilometers on the Chongqing-Kunming high-speed railway is completed.

On August 19th, the first extra-long tunnel over 20 kilometers on the Chongqing-Kunming High-Speed Railway (渝昆高铁), the Binghui Tunnel (炳辉隧道), was successfully completed. The Binghui Tunnel (炳辉隧道) is located in Yiliang County (彝良县), Zhaotong City (昭通市), Yunnan Province (云南省), and is a key control project of the entire Chongqing-Kunming High-Speed Railway (渝昆高铁) line. After the full completion and opening of the Chongqing-Kunming High-Speed Railway (渝昆高铁), it will improve transportation convenience in the southwest region and help regional economic development.

The above pictures are all taken by Xinhua News Agency reporter Hu Chao (胡超).

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Enterprises' Sales Revenue Achieved Steady Growth in the First Half of the Year

Beijing, August 19th (People's Daily reporter Wang Guan (王观)) Value-added tax invoice data released by the State Taxation Administration (国家税务总局) shows that in the first half of the year, national enterprise sales revenue grew steadily. The growth rate of manufacturing sales revenue was 1.5 percentage points faster than the overall growth rate of national enterprises; among them, the sales revenue of equipment manufacturing and high-tech manufacturing increased by 8.9% and 11.9% year-on-year, respectively.

In the first half of the year, the sales revenue of high-tech industries increased by 14.3% year-on-year. The sales revenue of the core digital economy industries increased by 10.1% year-on-year, and the amount of digital technology purchased by enterprises nationwide increased by 9.9% year-on-year, reflecting the continued acceleration of the digital industrialization and industrial digitalization processes. The series of policies for trading in old consumer goods for new ones continued to show effects, with retail sales of household audio-visual equipment such as televisions and retail sales of daily household appliances such as refrigerators increasing by 45.3% and 56.6% year-on-year, respectively.

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China has won 519 world championships in competitive sports.

Beijing, August 19 (People's Daily reporter Sun Longfei (孙龙飞)) - This reporter learned on August 19 from the General Administration of Sport of China (国家体育总局): As of the end of 2024, China has won a total of 519 world championships and set 68 world records since the "14th Five-Year Plan" in competitive sports.

As of 2024, the national sports venue area reached 4.23 billion square meters, an increase of 1.131 billion square meters compared with the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan." The total scale of the sports industry has grown at an average annual rate of over 10% in the past five years. The scale of the ice and snow industry has increased from 381.1 billion yuan in 2020 to 970 billion yuan in 2024, with an average annual growth of 26.3%. (Related reports on page 4)

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Introduction

Theory

Six Words to Understand the World Influence of the "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" Concept

Ninth Edition

Selected Works from the First China Mobile Photography Exhibition

Eighth Edition

Everyone Talks About Life: In one's life, one must always leave something behind.

Twentieth Edition

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Cultivating Medical Ethics, Improving Medical Skills, and Continuously Enhancing the People's Health and Well-being

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 19th (Xinhua) Today is the eighth Chinese Doctors' Day, with the theme "Virtue in Action, Skill in Diligence." Liu Guozhong (刘国中), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, visited the Guang'anmen Hospital of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (中国中医科学院广安门医院) and the Guangwai Community Health Service Center (广外社区卫生服务中心) in Xicheng District (西城区), Beijing (北京), to visit and extend greetings to frontline medical workers, and to extend festive greetings to the vast number of medical workers across the country. He emphasized the need to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions, earnestly implement the Party's health and health work guidelines for the new era, cultivate medical ethics, refine medical skills, enhance the health and well-being of the people with high-quality and efficient services, and make new contributions to accelerating the construction of a healthy China.

Liu Guozhong (刘国中) engaged in in-depth exchanges with medical personnel, learning in detail about the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine therapies and inheritance education, family doctor contract services, and health management for children and pregnant women. He stated that in recent years, the health level of the Chinese people has continuously improved, and the average life expectancy increased to 79 years last year. Medical workers have played an important role and made outstanding contributions in this regard.

Liu Guozhong (刘国中) emphasized that the vast number of medical workers are the guardians of the people's life and health. It is necessary to inherit and promote the noble professional spirit, adhere to medical ethics, medical conduct, and medical principles, promote the progress of medical science and technology, and continuously improve the level and quality of medical services, so as to better provide the people with all-round and full life cycle health services. Localities and relevant departments should solidly promote the basic engineering of strengthening medical and health services, develop and strengthen the grassroots medical and health team, and actively promote the inheritance, innovation, and development of traditional Chinese medicine. It is necessary to care for and cherish medical workers, earnestly implement various incentive and guarantee policies, vigorously publicize advanced typical deeds, and create a good professional environment and social atmosphere for them.

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Meeting celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Jiusan Society held

This newspaper reported from Beijing (北京) on August 19th (本报北京8月19日电) (Reporter Yi Shuran (易舒冉)). A conference celebrating the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Jiusan Society (九三学社) was held in Beijing (北京) on the 19th. Li Ganjie (李干杰), a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央统战部部长), attended the conference and delivered a congratulatory speech on behalf of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央).

The congratulatory speech stated that over the 80 years since its founding, the Jiusan Society (九三学社) has adhered to its original aspiration of cooperation, kept its mission of struggle firmly in mind, and always shared weal and woe with the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), marched forward hand in hand, and worked together to achieve great undertakings, making important contributions to promoting the development of the united front and multi-party cooperation, and continuously winning new victories in the cause of the Chinese revolution, construction, and reform. History and practice have proven that the Jiusan Society (九三学社), as a close friend and good advisor, good helper, and good colleague of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) that has stood the test of time, is worthy of being an important force in promoting the great leap of the Chinese nation from standing up, getting rich, to becoming strong, and is worthy of being an important force in winning new victories in socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, comprehensively building a modern socialist country, and comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

The congratulatory speech pointed out that the system of multi-party cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) is a basic political system in our country, with historical necessity, great creativity, great superiority, and strong vitality. The CPC Central Committee (中共中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平同志) at its core attaches great importance to the cause of multi-party cooperation, and has made a series of major deployments to adhere to, develop, and improve the new type of party system in China, promoting the continuous and healthy development of the cause of multi-party cooperation in the new era.

The congratulatory speech stated that at present, comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and national rejuvenation with Chinese-style modernization is a great and arduous undertaking. It is hoped that the Jiusan Society (九三学社) will unswervingly adhere to the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), unremittingly use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想) to strengthen its soul, carry forward the fine traditions of patriotism, democracy, and science, earnestly perform its duties, strengthen its own construction, and contribute to comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.

Wu Weihua (武维华), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and Chairman of the Central Committee of the Jiusan Society (九三学社中央主席), reviewed the glorious course of the Jiusan Society (九三学社) over the 80 years since its founding, and called on all members to unite more closely around the CPC Central Committee (中共中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平同志) at its core, carry on the fine traditions, gather strength for progress, and make new and greater contributions to comprehensively building a strong socialist modern country, achieving the second centenary goal, and comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.

Jiang Zuojun (蒋作君), Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协副主席) and Chairman of the Central Committee of the China Zhi Gong Party (致公党中央主席), delivered a congratulatory speech on behalf of the central committees of various democratic parties and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (全国工商联).

Shao Hong (邵鸿), Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协副主席) and Executive Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Jiusan Society (九三学社中央常务副主席), presided over the conference. Zhang Qingwei (张庆伟), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会副委员长), attended the conference.

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Jointly Announcing the "Most Beautiful Doctors" of 2025

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 19th -- In order to thoroughly study and implement the important expositions of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) on health work, vigorously promote the lofty spirit of "respecting life, rescuing the dying and healing the wounded, being willing to dedicate, and boundless love," and create a good atmosphere in the whole society of respecting doctors and valuing health, on the occasion of "Chinese Doctors' Day," the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部) and the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委) publicly released the 2025 "Most Beautiful Doctors" to the whole society.

Wang Yufeng (王玉凤), Shen Xiaohui (申小惠), Nima Lhamo (尼玛拉毛), Xing Shaoyun (邢少云), Liu Zhihong (刘志宏), Nong Kang (农康), He Jianxing (何建行), Zhang Junqiao (张军桥), Zhou Jianhong (周坚红), and Liang Chunrong (梁春荣), 10 comrades in total, were honorably selected. They advocate medical ethics, delve into medical skills, uphold medical style, and bravely shoulder heavy responsibilities. Some focus on patients' needs to explore breakthroughs in medical technology, some use integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine to overcome disease problems, some are rooted in grassroots areas to protect the health and well-being of the masses, some have developed excellent skills to build a solid public health prevention and control barrier, and some practice the spirit of great love in foreign aid medical care with their lives... They adhere to their mission, work diligently, cultivate medical ethics, practice benevolence, have a heart to relieve suffering, and become great doctors for the people, demonstrating the noble spirit of medical benevolence and the good demeanor of medical workers in the new era.

The vast number of medical workers expressed that they should take the "Most Beautiful Doctors" as examples, consciously be guardians of the people's life and health, climbers of medical peaks, promote medical ethics, delve into medical skills, adhere to professional ideals, uphold professional ethics, and do their best to promote the improvement of medical and health service quality, so that the people can enjoy higher-level and more satisfactory health services.

It is reported that the special program for the release ceremony of the 2025 "Most Beautiful Doctors" will be broadcast on China Central Television (中央广播电视总台) in the near future.

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Photo Report

August 18, the Dalongwan section of the Yangtze River Channel in Jiujiang District, Wuhu City, Anhui Province, is bustling with various ships carrying production and living materials.

Photo by Wang Yushi (王玉实) (Image China)

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China's national railway shipped 2.331 billion tons of goods in the first seven months

Beijing, August 19th (Reported by Li Xinping (李心萍)) - A reporter learned from the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. (中国国家铁路集团有限公司): In the first seven months, the national railway cumulatively transported 2.331 billion tons of goods, with an average of 183,300 wagons loaded per day, representing year-on-year increases of 3.3% and 4.1% respectively.

The transportation of key materials was strongly guaranteed. In the first seven months, the national railway transported 1.196 billion tons of coal, including 816 million tons of thermal coal. Coal reserves at power plants directly supplied by the railway remained at a high level. The volume of transported mineral building materials, smelting materials, and grain increased by 13.6%, 8.2%, and 12.7% year-on-year, respectively. Key materials were loaded and delivered efficiently, helping to meet peak summer demand and promote industrial development.

Service quality continued to improve. In the first seven months, railway logistics centers cumulatively signed logistics general contracting contracts for 1.275 billion tons of freight. The railway 95306 platform launched 60 multimodal transport "single bill of lading" product lines. The national railway cumulatively transported 9.76 million TEUs of intermodal containers, a year-on-year increase of 17.1%. At the same time, logistics financial services such as "freight loan" improved in quality and expanded in scale, with customers cumulatively receiving a total credit line of 21.41 billion yuan, which better served the development of the real economy.

Cross-border transportation was stable and smooth. In the first seven months, China-Europe freight trains maintained stable operation. A total of 8,526 China-Central Asia freight trains were operated, a year-on-year increase of 23.2%. The China-Laos Railway cumulatively transported 3.441 million tons of cross-border goods, a year-on-year increase of 6.4%, effectively promoting international economic and trade exchanges.

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Gesang Flowers Bloom, Reflecting the Mountains and Rivers: A New Journey of Unity and Progress

The majestic Himalayas bear witness to human miracles that will go down in history.

The Yarlung Tsangpo River flows endlessly, singing the praises of the people of the snowy plateau striving forward.

In September 1965, the First Session of the First People's Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region was held in Lhasa (拉萨). The establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region and its People's Government was announced, and the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet, together with the people of the whole country, embarked on the broad road of socialism.

Sixty years of weathering wind and rain, sixty years of great changes.

Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, Tibet established a socialist system and a people's democratic government, implemented reform and opening up, and comprehensively built a moderately prosperous society, realizing a historic transformation from backwardness to progress, from poverty to prosperity, and from isolation to openness.

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 deployed and planned Tibet work from the height of coordinating the overall domestic and international situations, established the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era, focused on grasping the four major tasks of stability, development, ecology, and strengthening the border, and led the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet to forge ahead on the journey of building a new socialist modern Tibet.

Looking far ahead to point the direction

——"The Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era is the fundamental guideline for doing Tibet work well, and it must be adhered to for a long time and fully implemented"

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) replied!

In the summer of 2025, the exciting news spread throughout Gala Village (嘎拉村), Bayi District (巴宜区), Nyingchi City (林芝市).

Gala Village (嘎拉村), "the place where peach blossoms bloom." On July 21, 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came here to inspect, visited villagers' homes, chatted about their daily lives, and talked about the future.

Developing rural tourism, strengthening the collective economy, promoting ethnic unity... Four years later, the villagers wrote a letter to General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) to report on the development and changes in the village. The sentence "Looking at the Big Dipper, we will not get lost; following the Communist Party, we will be happy" expresses the aspirations of the villagers.

"I hope that under the guidance of the Party's good policies of enriching the border and benefiting the people, you will earnestly safeguard ethnic unity and create a happier and better life" - General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) encouragement to the villagers in his reply gave the sons and daughters of the snowy plateau more confidence in the future.

The beautiful life of Gala Village (嘎拉村) is a vivid microcosm of the economic and social development achievements of the Tibet Autonomous Region in the 60 years since its establishment.

Under the strong leadership of successive central leadership collectives and with the strong support of the people of the whole country, the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet have united and worked hard to build the poor and backward old Tibet into a new Tibet with a prosperous economy and culture, comprehensive social progress, a good ecological environment, and a happy people's life, creating a human miracle of "crossing thousands of years in just a few decades."

In the southwest border region, Tibet (西藏), with an area of more than 1.2 million square kilometers, is an important national security barrier and ecological security barrier, and a key area for maintaining national unity and opposing ethnic separatism.

The Party Central Committee has always attached great importance to Tibet work, and in the historical process of promoting Tibet's reform, development, and stability, it has adopted a series of major policies and explored and practiced the Party's strategy for governing Tibet, providing an important guarantee for Tibet's sustained economic development, social stability, and continuous improvement of people's livelihoods.

Entering the new era, Tibet's development faces both new opportunities and new challenges:

Looking at the domestic situation, from building a moderately prosperous society in all respects to building a socialist modern country in all respects, no border area can be left behind, and Tibet is concerned by the Party Central Committee and the people of the whole country;

Looking at the global situation, the century-old changes are accelerating, the world is entering a new period of turbulence and change, and various risks are superimposed under major adjustments, major divisions, and major reorganizations.

"Tibet work is related to the overall work of the Party and the country" "Tibet's realization of sustained stability and rapid development is an important contribution to the overall work of the Party and the country"... Facing the new situation, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) sized up the situation, constantly thinking about how to govern Tibet and how to further promote Tibet's long-term stability and high-quality development.

"To govern the country, we must first govern the border; to govern the border, we must first stabilize Tibet."

On March 9, 2013, the Tibet Hall of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing (北京人民大会堂). At the deliberation of the Tibet delegation to the First Session of the Twelfth National People's Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech not only condensed the common wisdom of successive central leadership collectives in developing Tibet, but also reflected General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) creative development of the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era.

Looking at "governing the border" from the height of "governing the country" and looking at "stabilizing Tibet" from the perspective of "governing the border." Entering the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) forward-looking strategic thinking on Tibet's status and the Party's strategy for governing Tibet has elevated Tibet's strategic position in the overall work of the Party and the country to a new height.

In August 2015, the Sixth Central Tibet Work Symposium, a meeting convened by the Central Committee since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China to focus on studying Tibet work, was held. At the meeting, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) summarized the Party's strategy for governing Tibet formed in the process of more than 60 years of practice with "six musts."

This strategy not only inherits the long-term guidelines and policies for Tibet work, but also closely fits the needs of development in the new era, and makes comprehensive arrangements for various tasks in Tibet.

Planning for long-term strategies and taking measures to strengthen the foundation.

Five years later, in August 2020, at the Seventh Central Tibet Work Symposium, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) clearly put forward the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era -

We must adhere to the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and the system of ethnic regional autonomy;

We must adhere to the strategic thinking that to govern the country, we must first govern the border, and to govern the border, we must first stabilize Tibet;

We must take maintaining national unity and strengthening ethnic unity as the starting point and focus of Tibet work;

We must adhere to the important principles of governing Tibet according to law, enriching the people and revitalizing Tibet, building Tibet for a long time, uniting people's hearts, and consolidating the foundation;

We must coordinate the overall domestic and international situations;

We must take improving people's livelihoods and uniting people's hearts as the starting point and end result of economic and social development;

We must promote exchanges, interactions, and integration among all ethnic groups;

We must adhere to the direction of Sinicization of religion in our country and manage religious affairs according to law;

We must adhere to the principle of ecological protection first;

We must strengthen Party building, especially political building.

From "six musts" to "ten musts," "adhering to the leadership of the Communist Party of China" has always been in the first place. Other content has been updated and improved with the times, fully reflecting the inherent laws of governing, stabilizing, and revitalizing Tibet, scientifically answering a series of directional, overall, and strategic questions, and the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era has been further enriched and developed.

"On behalf of the Party Central Committee, I would like to extend warm congratulations and sincere greetings to the cadres and people of all ethnic groups in Tibet who are fighting on the snowy plateau!"

In late July 2021, the snowy plateau was boiling - General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to Tibet, and as General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, he came to Tibet to celebrate the peaceful liberation of Tibet, which was the first time in the history of the Party and the country.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) watched, asked, and listened all the way. Seeing that the happy days of the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet were like blooming Gesang flowers, the General Secretary said with satisfaction: "I am happy to witness the beautiful and magnificent style of the snowy plateau and the vibrant new atmosphere!"

History profoundly shows that without the Communist Party of China, there would be no New China, and there would be no New Tibet. The Party Central Committee's guidelines and policies on Tibet work are completely correct.

Practice eloquently proves that the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era is a summary, refinement, and innovative development of the successful experience of the Communist Party of China in leading the people to govern, stabilize, and revitalize Tibet. It is a concentrated embodiment of Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era on Tibet work, and provides a fundamental guideline for doing Tibet work well.

Drawing a blueprint to add impetus

——"Grasp the four major tasks of stability, development, ecology, and strengthening the border"

In the Yarlung Tsangpo River valley, the Fuxing high-speed train on the Lhasa-Nyingchi Railway roars past.

In the four years since the opening and operation of the Lhasa-Nyingchi Railway, it has transported more than 3.95 million passengers and more than 1.27 million tons of goods.

"The national transportation map is like a painting. The central, eastern, and northeastern regions of China are all meticulous brushwork, and the white space in the west is too large. In the future, we will have to add a few strokes..." In July 2021, when inspecting the construction of this railway line on the spot, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out the direction.

"Grasp the four major tasks of stability, development, ecology, and strengthening the border" - 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 focused on the "four major tasks" from the overall situation of the Party and the country, and has devoted a lot of effort to promoting Tibet's long-term stability and high-quality development, and has continuously expanded the new practice of the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era.

Unity and stability are the cornerstone of Tibet's development and progress.

Walking through Barkhor Street (八廓街) in Lhasa (拉萨), the air is filled with the aroma of ghee.

"Hello, Gongkang Sang..." The activity room of Lugu Community (鲁固社区) in Barkhor Street (八廓街) resounded with neat recitations. In order to promote better exchanges among people of all ethnic groups in the embedded and integrated community, the Lugu Community (鲁固社区) Neighborhood Committee has opened "bilingual small classes" in recent years. As language communication becomes smoother, hearts become closer and closer.

In July 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) walked to inspect the style of Barkhor Street (八廓街), entered a specialty store, and inquired about the development of the tourism and cultural and creative industries and the inheritance and protection of Tibetan culture.

"I came here once 23 years ago, and now it is built so well!" The General Secretary said with great emotion, "The millennium-old Barkhor Street (八廓街) is a Barkhor Street (八廓街) built by all our ethnic groups. The cultures of all ethnic groups exchange, interact, and integrate here, and our big family of the Chinese nation is happy and harmonious here."

The prosperous Barkhor Street (八廓街) has written a vivid footnote to Tibet's ethnic unity.

General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important thoughts on strengthening and improving ethnic work have been deeply implemented, all 7 cities (prefectures) have been created as national demonstration cities (prefectures) for ethnic unity and progress, and the community ethnic unity family pro-construction action has been steadily promoted... Exchanges, interactions, and integration among all ethnic groups in Tibet have continued to deepen, the sense of community of the Chinese nation has been continuously strengthened, the overall social situation has remained stable, and the foundation for jointly building a new socialist modern Tibet has become increasingly solid.

High-quality development is the hard truth in the new era.

In July 2025, the hydropower project in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Nyingchi (林芝) officially started construction.

This "century project," personally planned and promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), uses the rich hydropower resources of the Yarlung Tsangpo River to drive the development of surrounding solar and wind energy resources, build a complementary clean energy base of water, wind, and solar energy, and will play a positive role in accelerating the construction of a new development pattern and promoting high-quality development.

Visiting Baji Village (巴吉村) in Nyingchi (林芝) twice, encouraging villagers to "the road to prosperity is under your feet, which is to use your brains and be smart people. Smart people actually have to choose a good development path"; listening to the work reports of the Tibet Autonomous Region Party Committee and the government, urging everyone to "take a path of high-quality development that is in line with Tibet's actual situation"; sending a congratulatory letter to the "2023 China Tibet Development Forum," hoping that Tibet will "fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept and accelerate the promotion of high-quality development"...

All the way, Tibet's development has always been a major concern for General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平).

Today's Tibet (西藏) has built and opened the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the Lhasa-Nyingchi Railway, and the Lhasa-Nyingchi high-grade highway, and has initially established a comprehensive transportation network covering various transportation methods such as highways, railways, and aviation; the Qinghai-Tibet, Sichuan-Tibet, Central Tibet, and Ali power grid interconnection projects have been built and put into operation, and the main power grid covers all counties (districts, cities); clean energy, green industry, digital economy, cultural tourism, and other emerging industries are accelerating their development, and the plateau light industry, which is closely related to the people of the plateau, has made breakthrough progress...

Ecology is Tibet's "national priority."

In the Yani Wetland (雅尼湿地) at the confluence of the Yarlung Tsangpo River and the Niyang River, the water is rippling, and black-necked cranes and bar-headed geese fly by from time to time.

Daily patrols, wildlife rescue, migratory animal monitoring... The work of ranger Nyima Phuntsok (尼玛平措) is full every day: "We have all firmly kept in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) instructions four years ago."

In July 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to the Niyang River Bridge, looked out over the Yani Wetland (雅尼湿地), and said earnestly: "We must adhere to the priority of protection, adhere to the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and ice," and "protect the creatures, plants, and trees, and the thousands of rivers and mountains here."

From pointing out at the Seventh Central Tibet Work Symposium that "building the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau into a national and even international ecological civilization highland" to presiding over the Twentieth Meeting of the Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform and deliberating and approving the "Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Ecological Environment Protection and Sustainable Development Plan" to signing a presidential decree to promulgate the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Ecological Protection Law... In General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) heart, "protecting the ecological environment of Tibet is beneficial for thousands of years and benefits the world."

The "Regulations of the Tibet Autonomous Region on the Construction of a National Ecological Civilization Highland" and other regulations have been officially implemented, providing strong legal support for firmly grasping the ecological bottom line; major ecological projects such as the "Two Rivers and Four Rivers" basin afforestation project, degraded wetland protection and restoration, and natural forest protection have been implemented one after another, bringing clear water, green grass, and blue sky to the snowy plateau; ecological posts have been established and subsidy funds have been issued, and the protectors of green mountains and clear waters have eaten "ecological meals"... Today, Tibet (西藏) is one of the regions with the best ecological environment in the world.

It is Tibet's unshirkable responsibility to safeguard the southwest border of the motherland.

At the end of June 2021, on the eve of the centenary of the founding of the Party, the Party Central Committee awarded the "July 1st Medal" for the first time.

Wearing traditional Tibetan clothing, Tsering Yangzom (卓嘎), the former head of Yumai Township (玉麦乡) in Lung County (隆子县), stood in the Golden Hall of the Great Hall of the People and accepted the "July 1st Medal."

"Tashi Delek!" General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) greeted this border guard with a smile, who believed that "home is Yumai (玉麦), and the country is China."

Overwhelmed with emotion, Tsering Yangzom (卓嘎) tightly held the General Secretary's hand and shyly said, "Hello, General Secretary, you have worked hard!"

The precious photo captured an unforgettable moment.

Whenever Yumai (玉麦) welcomes new builders, Tsering Yangzom (卓嘎) will take the photo and tell everyone: "The 'July 1st Medal' awarded by the General Secretary does not only belong to me. The Party and the country will not forget all the people of all ethnic groups who are sticking to the border of the motherland."

"I hope that you will continue to inherit the spirit of loving the country and guarding the border, and lead more herders to take root in the snowy border like Gesang flowers" - This is the leader's entrustment to the Tsering Yangzom (卓嘎) sisters, and it is entrusted with the expectation of "strengthening the border."

Today, Yumai (玉麦), once known as the "three-person township," is now a well-known "well-off township"; looking at Tibet (西藏), the action of consolidating the border, revitalizing the border, and enriching the people is being steadily promoted, the infrastructure of border villages and the production and living conditions of the people have been significantly improved, and various industries are booming.

Tibet's development cannot be separated from the support of the central government and the assistance of the people of the whole country.

As early as 1998, Xi Jinping (习近平), then Deputy Secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, came to Tibet (西藏) to pick up and drop off aid-Tibet cadres.

The high-profile escort of aid-Tibet cadres by the Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee to Tibet (西藏) left a deep impression on the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet. Xi Jinping's (习近平) speech warmed people's hearts: "The affairs of Nyingchi Prefecture (林芝地区) are the affairs of our province." "We must send the best cadres and choose the best from the best."

Time flies, and the true feelings remain the same.

In July 2021, when General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) inspected Tibet (西藏), he said emotionally to the aid-Tibet cadres whose faces were tanned bronze: "Your spirit on the plateau is higher than the plateau," and emphasized that "this matter must be done by one generation after another."

Xu Po (徐坡) from China Baowu Group still remembers the excitement he felt when General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) met with representatives of aid-Tibet cadres: "After the end of my aid-Tibet period, I chose to stay and was transferred to Tibet to continue to contribute to the development of this land."

Great love crosses mountains and seas, and true feelings converge on the plateau.
The country has continuously increased its support for Tibet, and the central ministries and commissions and relevant provinces across the country have brought into play their strong organizational advantages in pairing assistance to Tibet, mobilizing broad social participation, and creating a new situation in assistance to Tibet through "group-style" assistance. Batch after batch of cadres and talents from all over the country have joined the cadres and masses of all ethnic groups in Tibet to jointly compose the Tibet chapter of Chinese-style modernization.

Bathing in the sunshine, spring blossoms and autumn bears fruit.

Entering the new era, Tibet has entered a period of the best development, the greatest changes, and the most benefits for the masses. According to the grand blueprint drawn by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), people of all ethnic groups are united and working together to create a happier and better life.

Affection for the Snowy Region Warms Hearts

——"To make the people of all ethnic groups feel more fulfilled, more sustainable happiness, and more secure"

Walking into Senga Village (森嘎村), Changsuo Township (长所乡), Dingri County (定日县), Rikaze City (日喀则市), which is more than 4,000 meters above sea level, the village road damaged by the earthquake has now been completely renewed.

On January 7, 2025, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake severely damaged Dingri (定日). General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) attached great importance to this and gave important instructions: "We must make every effort to carry out personnel search and rescue, make every effort to treat the injured, minimize casualties, prevent secondary disasters, properly resettle the affected people, and do a good job in the aftermath."

Two days later, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) chaired a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to study and deploy the earthquake relief work in Dingri (定日), Tibet.

In just a few months, as one of the villages most severely affected by the disaster, the reconstruction project of Senga Village (森嘎村) has progressed smoothly, and a group of villagers have moved into new homes and started a new life.

The warmth and coldness of people's lives are always on his mind. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) is deeply concerned about the people of all ethnic groups living on the snowy plateau.

"Now in Motuo (墨脱), there are clean and spacious hardened roads everywhere, and the folks are also taking cars in and out. The dream of traveling whenever you want is no longer a dream..."

During the 2025 National People's Congress, the Great Hall of the People in Beijing (北京). Baima Yuzhen (白玛玉珍), a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, walked onto the "Member Channel" to tell everyone about the transformation of her hometown, Motuo County (墨脱县) in Linzhi City (林芝市), from a "plateau isolated island" to a "beautiful border town."

Thousands of miles away in Motuo (墨脱), Baima Quzhen (白玛曲珍), a deputy to the 12th National People's Congress, saw this scene on TV and couldn't help but recall the unforgettable scene.

"Is the road to Motuo (墨脱) open now?" At the deliberation site of the Tibet delegation to the National People's Congress in 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) asked with concern.

Sitting opposite him, Baima Quzhen (白玛曲珍) told General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) that the highway in Motuo County (墨脱县) is expected to be fully opened to traffic by the end of that year. The General Secretary nodded with satisfaction.

Roads witness progress and connect people's hearts.

When inspecting Tibet, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) went into the homes of the masses, kitchens, storage rooms, bathrooms... He saw everything and kept everything in mind about all aspects of people's lives.

At the symposium on winning the battle against poverty with precision, he was concerned about the health of the people and asked the responsible comrades in relevant areas of Tibet, "Are there many people with Kaschin–Beck disease now?";

At the symposium of the first training class for county party secretaries at the Central Party School, he cared about the grassroots cadres in Tibet: "Have you implemented the subsidies according to altitude now? Is there a difference between the heating fee and Lhasa (拉萨)?"...

Putting the people at the center is the core concept of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) governance; the pulse of Tibet's development in the new era beats for the people.

——Currently, there are more than 42,000 deputies to the people's congresses at four levels in Tibet, of which Tibetans and other ethnic minorities account for 89.2%, and the rights conferred by the Constitution and laws are fully exercised;

——In 2024, the per capita disposable income of urban residents in Tibet reached 55,444 yuan, which is 121 times that of 1965, with an average annual increase of 8.5%; the per capita disposable income of rural residents reached 21,578 yuan, which is 199 times that of 1965, with an average annual increase of 9.4%;

——A five-level health service network protects people's healthy lives, and the average life expectancy in Tibet has increased to 72.5 years;

——A series of practical things for people's livelihood have been implemented, and people of all ethnic groups in Tibet have bid farewell to the history of "difficulty in drinking water, difficulty in using electricity, difficulty in traveling, and difficulty in communication" and live a comfortable and convenient modern life;

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June 6, 2025, Zhongnanhai (中南海), Beijing (北京).

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) received Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu (班禅额尔德尼·确吉杰布) and encouraged the Bainqen (班禅) to make greater contributions to promoting ethnic unity, religious harmony, and the stable development and progress of Tibet.

In the past 10 years, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has received Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu (班禅额尔德尼·确吉杰布) twice in Zhongnanhai (中南海), expressing his deep concern and earnest expectations for the Tibetan Buddhist community.

People will never forget that in 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) walked into the famous Tibetan Buddhist monastery, Drepung Monastery (哲蚌寺).

This was the first time in more than 600 years since the temple was built that the people's leader came to inspect it.

In the temple, the monks listened attentively to General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) explanation of the significance of "harmony" for religious development: "The law of religious development lies in 'harmony'. The survival and development of any religion must be adapted to the society in which it is located. This is the universal law of religious development and dissemination in the world. The development of Tibetan Buddhism should be conducive to improving people's lives and conducive to social stability. Religion should be harmonious, society should be harmonious, and ethnic groups should be harmonious."

In the new era, Tibet has fully implemented the Party's policy of freedom of religious belief, adhered to the direction of Sinicization of religion, the role of patriotic religious figures has been brought into full play, the level of legalization of the protection of freedom of religious belief has been continuously improved, all religions and all denominations have been respected and protected, and religious harmony and harmony have been achieved.

Religious harmony promotes long-term peace and stability in Tibet; cultural inheritance builds a common spiritual home for the Chinese nation.

Jiru Basang Robu (吉如·巴桑罗布), deputy curator of the Tibet Museum (西藏博物馆), has recently been fully engaged in the preparation of a special exhibition of Thangka. Looking at the cultural treasures carefully cared for in the exhibition cabinet, a precious memory came to his mind——

That was in July 2011, when Xi Jinping (习近平), then Vice President of the country, walked into the Tibet Museum (西藏博物馆) to visit the pictures and objects of the prosperous development of Tibetan culture.

Seeing that Tibetan opera and other items were included in the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) fully affirmed that the outstanding traditional Tibetan culture has been protected and developed, especially that a large number of cultural heritages have been effectively protected, making contributions to the inheritance of Tibetan culture.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out: "The outstanding traditional cultures of all ethnic groups are part of Chinese culture. Chinese culture is the main trunk, and the cultures of all ethnic groups are branches and leaves. Only when the roots are deep and the trunk is strong can the branches and leaves be luxuriant."

Cultural identity is the deepest level of identity, and it is the root of ethnic unity and the soul of ethnic harmony.

Tibet has earnestly strengthened the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, properly protected cultural relics and monuments, scientifically protected ancient books and documents, and the outstanding traditional cultures of all ethnic groups have been protected and inherited, providing strong spiritual and cultural support for promoting the construction of the Chinese national community.

Education is the foundation for building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation.

"I hope that the students will have lofty aspirations, serve the motherland, and make their own contributions to enhancing ethnic unity and safeguarding national unity." In July 2011, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) came to Tibet University (西藏大学) to cordially visit teachers and students, and encouraged the students to be determined to take root in Tibet, actively go to agricultural and pastoral areas, and go to the places where the motherland and Tibet need them most, to temper their will, increase their talents, make contributions, and serve the motherland.

Mima Tsering (米玛次仁), a junior student who was present at the time, was deeply moved. When he graduated, he originally had the opportunity to stay at the school to work, but he resolutely chose to take root at the grassroots level and participate in village work, gaining growth in dedication and practicing the true meaning of youth.

Since its establishment, Tibet University (西藏大学) has trained more than 130,000 students, of which more than 70% of full-time graduates like Mima Tsering (米玛次仁) have stayed in Tibet to work, and more than 25% have taken root in difficult areas.

Earnest expectations light up the lamp of knowledge and illuminate the road ahead.

As of 2024, there are 3,618 schools of various levels and types in Tibet, with 96,600 faculty members and a total of 970,000 students, accounting for more than 25% of the total population of Tibet. The historic leap in Tibet's education has provided talent support and injected endogenous impetus for Tibet's long-term peace and stability and high-quality development.

The snowy region embraces the new era and joins hands to create new glories.

Standing at a new historical starting point, the children of all ethnic groups in Tibet will unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, unite and work together, be grateful and forge ahead, and strive to build a united, prosperous, civilized, harmonious and beautiful new socialist modern Tibet, and contribute new strength to comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the nation with Chinese-style modernization.

(Xinhua News Agency, Lhasa (拉萨), August 19, Xinhua News Agency reporter)

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Green and Eco-Friendly Technologies Open Up Promising "Going Global" Prospects (Private Enterprises "Going Out")

By: 本报记者 焦思雨 胡婧怡 刘军国

Green development and innovative development are profoundly changing China. As an important force in technological innovation, Chinese private enterprises are participating in the high-quality construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative, actively carrying out project cooperation in environmental governance, green energy, and environmental protection technology. While continuously improving the international competitiveness of enterprises, they are making important contributions to the global green and low-carbon transition. Recently, our reporter interviewed three high-tech enterprises deeply involved in water-saving agriculture, power equipment, and environmental protection equipment. Relying on their own technological innovation capabilities, these companies have begun to emerge in overseas markets, working hand in hand with partners for mutual benefit and win-win results, demonstrating the power of technological innovation and the charm of open cooperation.

Ningxia Worth Origin Technology Co., Ltd. (宁夏沃之源科技有限公司) –

"Let Chinese wisdom in desertification prevention and control go to the world"

Walking into the product display area of Ningxia Worth Origin Technology Co., Ltd. (宁夏沃之源科技有限公司) (hereinafter referred to as "Ningxia Worth Origin"), the walls are covered with patent certificates, honorary plaques, etc., and the independently developed "hardcore" achievements are particularly eye-catching.

"This is a composite drip irrigation pipe, which has 13 international and domestic invention patents and is not restricted by extreme environments such as deserts, saline-alkali land, and freezing damage, ensuring that water, fertilizer, and medicine are accurately delivered directly to the plant root zone. It has been implemented in countries such as Qatar and Oman." "This is a photovoltaic cabin, integrating 'water-saving +' and 'photovoltaic +' technologies, which can remotely achieve precise control and has reached multiple cooperation agreements in countries such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar"... Sun Zhaojun (孙兆军), the head of the company, knows these products very well.

As a high-tech enterprise, Ningxia Worth Origin focuses on technological innovation in the field of water-saving agriculture, continuously cultivating core areas such as intelligent control constant temperature water-saving photovoltaic greenhouses, composite drip irrigation pipes, and saline-alkali land salt control optimization and utilization. It has successfully broken through multiple "bottleneck" problems in the development of agriculture in arid areas, and its technology has been successfully applied in 13 provinces and regions in China and 9 countries including Oman, Egypt, and Qatar. In Sun Zhaojun's view, the key to the company's successful overseas expansion is an honest cooperative attitude and high-quality technology and products.

When the Qatar World Cup was held in 2022, the laying of the stadium turf became a major problem. Qatar has a tropical desert climate with scarce annual precipitation. Under extreme high temperatures and drought, it is very difficult to grow lawns on sandy land. The "intelligent wind-solar complementary water-saving irrigation technology" developed by Sun Zhaojun's team stood out. The "intelligent control underground seepage pipe" invented based on this technological achievement can evenly and controllably seep out water droplets, thereby implementing precise irrigation for crop roots, and ultimately cultivating high-quality turf that meets the World Cup event standards for Qatar.

Subsequently, Ningxia Worth Origin signed an agreement with Qatar to carry out in-depth cooperation in areas such as photovoltaic intelligent agriculture and desertification prevention and control. Ibrahim, manager of Qatar Al-Mahdiya Agricultural Company, said: "The photovoltaic temperature and humidity control system provided by Chinese companies effectively solves the problems of difficult control of temperature and humidity in greenhouses in the past and the large impact of the environment on crop growth. This system operates stably in the high-temperature environment of Qatar and can also automatically run according to set parameters, greatly reducing labor costs and water consumption."

In 2024, Ningxia Worth Origin won an order from a Saudi company with its "photovoltaic cabin" greenhouse technology, and the two parties will cooperate on smart agriculture and water-saving agriculture. The head of the Saudi company said: "This technology helps us grow crops, improve the ecology, and bring considerable economic benefits."

"The 7th China-Arab States Expo is about to be held, and we strive to reach technology transfer and transformation again and achieve substantial cooperation." Sun Zhaojun said, "Desertification control is not a simple greening, but a complementary and circular utilization of resource advantages to achieve the symbiosis of ecology and industry. We will further build our brand and let Chinese wisdom in desertification prevention and control go to the world."

Shenyang Huade Haitai Electric Co., Ltd. (沈阳华德海泰电器有限公司) –

"Achieve carbon neutrality throughout the entire life cycle from raw materials to finished products"

At this year's Hannover Messe in Germany, the "zero-carbon" switchgear and overall solutions independently developed by Liaoning Shenyang Huade Haitai Electric Co., Ltd. (辽宁沈阳华德海泰电器有限公司) (hereinafter referred to as "Huade Haitai") attracted many foreign companies to come for exchanges and negotiations, and cooperation intentions were reached with 12 foreign customers on the spot.

"Our products have impressed many buyers with just the environmental protection indicators alone. It is estimated that overseas orders will exceed 100 million yuan this year," said Xing Wei (邢威), Deputy General Manager of Sales of the International Business Department of Huade Haitai.

Why are the company's products so popular? Guo Shizheng (国世峥), Chairman of Huade Haitai, introduced that sulfur hexafluoride gas is widely used in electrical equipment as a high-quality insulation and arc extinguishing medium, but it is also a greenhouse gas that needs to be reduced. The greenhouse effect caused by every 1 ton of sulfur hexafluoride gas emitted is equivalent to the emission of 25,200 tons of carbon dioxide. Guo Shizheng said that the company aimed at the green and low-carbon development needs of the industry, gathered more than 20 domestic and foreign expert teams, and used clean air or nitrogen to replace sulfur hexafluoride gas to develop "zero-carbon" switchgear, "and also achieved carbon neutrality throughout the entire life cycle from raw materials to finished products through blockchain carbon footprint tracking technology."

After learning that the 40.5 kV voltage level "zero-carbon" switch produced by Huade Haitai could pass the temperature rise test under high current, Fazi, the project manager of a German energy technology engineering company, couldn't help but exclaimed: "China's green technology in this field has reached the world's leading level." At present, Fazi's company has selected some models of "zero-carbon" switchgear as the first batch of cooperative products, and the two parties are discussing in-depth cooperation through joint ventures, cooperative bidding, and other forms.

Market recognition stems from continuous technological innovation. In recent years, Huade Haitai's R&D investment has accounted for an average of more than 9% per year. It has the R&D capabilities of a full range of "zero-carbon" switchgear in 5 voltage levels, which can adapt to various extreme environments such as extreme cold, high temperature, humidity, and salt spray. It has obtained 145 national patents and applied for 2 international patents.

At the end of 2023, Huade Haitai reached a cooperation intention with the UAE Federal Electricity Zubair Group to jointly develop a "zero-carbon" switchgear. "In order to adapt to the local high-temperature and salt-spray outdoor environment, we need to specially develop the product's shell, heat dissipation system, etc. to ensure the safety and service life of the equipment," said Liu Dianfei (刘殿飞), Minister of the Medium Voltage R&D Department of Huade Haitai. After a year and a half of hard work, this model of product is about to undergo the type test of the International Short-circuit Test Alliance, and it can enter the order production stage after passing the test.

Arun Parakkil Irinavavidu, Head of the Transformer Division of the UAE Federal Electricity Zubair Group, said: "Huade Haitai's professionalism and high efficiency in technology research and development are gratifying, and we are full of expectations for deepening cooperation between the two parties."

"The 'Belt and Road' special loans, support for foreign trade transformation and upgrading bases, and other policies have reduced costs and increased confidence for companies to expand overseas markets." Guo Shizheng said that the company has fully launched a new round of overseas expansion plans, and will continue to deeply cultivate the field of environmental protection power equipment, lead the overseas market layout with technological innovation, and let China's green technology help the global energy transition.

Ningbo Taiji Environmental Protection Equipment Co., Ltd. (宁波太极环保设备有限公司) –

"Contribute to the ecological protection and environmental governance of more countries"

In the North Morowali Industrial Base in Indonesia, a set of flue gas desulfurization systems independently developed by Zhejiang Ningbo Taiji Environmental Protection Equipment Co., Ltd. (浙江宁波太极环保设备有限公司) (hereinafter referred to as "Taiji Environmental Protection") is operating efficiently. This set of equipment has a desulfurization rate of over 99%, helping the local area achieve ultra-low emissions.

"Last year, we signed nearly 100 million yuan in overseas orders, accounting for 40% of the annual output value; in the first quarter of this year, 4 overseas projects were promoted simultaneously, and the production line was operating at full capacity," said Shi Yuezhan (史跃展), General Manager of Taiji Environmental Protection.

The "DS Sulfur Dioxide Desulfurization Technology" and "DS Fuel Purification Heat Energy Recovery System" independently developed by Taiji Environmental Protection are at the leading level in the industry and have 1 foreign and more than 30 domestic invention patents.

"Advanced technology is our core competitiveness for going overseas, but the main reason for successfully entering the overseas market is the opportunity brought by the high-quality construction of the 'Belt and Road'." Shi Yuezhan introduced that Taiji Environmental Protection has established a good cooperative relationship with a leading domestic new energy company. The latter has a large industrial base in Indonesia, and Taiji Environmental Protection has successfully embarked on the road to overseas expansion as a supporting environmental protection equipment company. In his view, the high-quality construction of the "Belt and Road" is like a big ship, and small and medium-sized enterprises such as Taiji Environmental Protection have successfully taken the first step towards internationalization by "taking a ride" overseas.

How to go well after going overseas? "Technological innovation and cost control allow us to stand out in overseas competition." Shi Yuezhan said that in the face of overseas customers' requirements for prefabricated production and modular assembly, Taiji Environmental Protection invested more than 3 million yuan to digitally reshape the entire process of the production line, converting the previous two-dimensional planar design into a more accurate three-dimensional design. "In this way, production efficiency has been greatly improved, and the products can not only meet strict environmental protection standards, but also reduce errors and waste, reduce investment costs for customers, and truly achieve a 'win-win' situation."

Taiji Environmental Protection has reached cooperation with more and more overseas customers. Wang Xun (王荀), the Chinese person in charge of partner Thai Saifei Industrial Co., Ltd., said that traditional environmental protection projects rely on two-dimensional design, which has large errors, high rework rates, and long construction periods. "Taiji Environmental Protection's three-dimensional modular design can ensure that the entire system is complete and accurate."

Talking about future development, Shi Yuezhan is full of confidence: "We will adhere to innovation and bring more of China's green and sustainable development concepts and technologies to overseas countries, and contribute to the ecological protection and environmental governance of more countries."

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The China-Belarus Friendship Forged in the Flames of War Remains Strong (Ambassador's Notes: Learning from History, Jointly Safeguarding Peace)

By: 张汶川

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. Eighty years ago, righteous forces around the world, including China, Belarus (白俄罗斯), and other countries, united with common hatred and fought heroically, defeating the fascist aggressors and writing an epic chapter of heroism. This year, the people of China and Belarus solemnly commemorate this great victory, jointly safeguarding historical memory and creating a better future.

Since the beginning of this year, I have visited many war memorial facilities and sites in Belarus (白俄罗斯) and have been invited to attend relevant commemorative activities on several occasions. Visiting the Brest Fortress (布列斯特要塞), the scene of soldiers sacrificing their lives to defend their country appeared before my eyes. Visiting Khatyn (哈丁村), I learned about the massacre committed by the German fascists here, which made me think of the brutal acts of the Japanese invaders against the Chinese people. At the military parade in Belarus (白俄罗斯) commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Great Patriotic War, when the guard of honor of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (中国人民解放军) marched powerfully past the rostrum, the local people sincerely admired and applauded warmly. On July 3, Belarus (白俄罗斯) celebrated its National Independence Day and the 81st anniversary of its liberation from German fascist occupation during World War II. The old soldiers wearing medals and the happy smiling faces in the crowd made me deeply feel the local people's remembrance of the war and their cherishing of peace. The similar experiences in World War II make China and Belarus (白俄罗斯) better understand each other and closely link the two peoples together.

The friendship between China and Belarus (白俄罗斯) has been tempered by the flames of war and has become even stronger over time. In the World Anti-Fascist War, the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression started the earliest and lasted the longest. Over the course of 14 years, more than 35 million Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed or injured, making huge national sacrifices and composing a great chapter in the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. In June 1941, the Belarusian people fired the first shot of the Great Patriotic War at the Brest Fortress (布列斯特要塞). In four years, more than 3 million Belarusian soldiers and civilians gave their lives to defend their country. The people of the two countries fought side by side and supported each other. Chinese people in Vitebsk (维捷布斯克) established an underground organization to resist the fascist aggressors. Chinese pilot Tang Duo (唐铎) flew a plane to participate in the liberation of Minsk (明斯克) and was awarded the Order of Lenin. Mao Zedong (毛泽东), Chairman Mao's (毛泽东) eldest son, Mao Anying (毛岸英), fought against foreign aggression with the Belarusian people. Belarusian soldiers traveled to China to participate in air battles against Japanese invaders and important battles to liberate Northeast China. In May 2015, during his state visit to Belarus (白俄罗斯), President Xi Jinping (习近平) met with representatives of Belarusian World War II veterans and presented them with commemorative medals, expressing the high respect and sincere greetings of the Chinese government and people to them. Not long ago, the Chinese Embassy in Belarus (白俄罗斯) sent personnel to visit Belarusian veterans who participated in the war against Japan, expressing their gratitude and sending their blessings.

Both China and Belarus (白俄罗斯) adhere to a correct view of the history of World War II and resolutely fight against acts that distort the truth of World War II history and deny the achievements of victory. China and Belarus (白俄罗斯) are both founding members of the United Nations, both uphold and safeguard the authority of the United Nations, and firmly safeguard the international system with the United Nations as its core, the international order based on international law, and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter. The people of China and Belarus (白俄罗斯) all remember history and cherish peace. "Adhering to the path of peaceful development" is written into the Constitution of China, and the first sentence of the Belarusian national anthem is "Belarusians are peaceful people." Both China and Belarus (白俄罗斯) deeply understand the value of independence and sovereignty and firmly support each other's efforts to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity.

The Belarusian people often say: "A strong friendship is hard to break with an ax." Under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Lukashenko (卢卡申科), the all-weather comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries has maintained a high level of development, becoming a model of a new type of international relations and a stabilizing factor in the midst of a century of changes. The two sides will take the 80th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War as an opportunity to remember history, cherish the memory of the martyrs, cherish peace, create the future, and work together to build a community with a shared future for mankind, making unremitting efforts for world peace, stability and prosperity.

(The author is the Chinese Ambassador to Belarus (白俄罗斯))

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Indian Prime Minister Modi Meets with Wang Yi

Xinhua News Agency, New Delhi, August 19th (Reporters Wu Yue (伍岳) and Chen Dongshu (陈冬书)) On August 19, 2025, local time, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (莫迪) met with Wang Yi (王毅), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, at the Prime Minister's Office in New Delhi (新德里).

Modi (莫迪) asked Wang Yi (王毅) to convey his cordial greetings to President Xi Jinping (习近平) and Premier Li Qiang (李强), and expressed his great anticipation for attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Tianjin (天津) Summit in China and meeting with President Xi Jinping (习近平). India will fully support China's work as the rotating chair of the SCO and ensure the summit is a complete success.

Modi (莫迪) stated that both India and China are ancient civilizations with a long history of friendly exchanges. Last October, the meeting between the leaders of the two countries in Kazan (喀山) was a turning point in the improvement and development of bilateral relations. India and China are partners, not rivals, and both face the common task of accelerating development. They should strengthen exchanges, enhance understanding, and expand cooperation, so that the world can feel the great potential and bright prospects of India-China cooperation. The two sides should also steadily manage and handle border issues and not allow differences to become disputes.

Modi (莫迪) said that this year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between India and China. The two sides should view bilateral relations from a long-term perspective. The arrival of the "Asian Century" is inseparable from India-China cooperation. Working together will contribute to world development and benefit all mankind.

Wang Yi (王毅) conveyed the cordial greetings of President Xi Jinping (习近平) and Premier Li Qiang (李强) to Modi (莫迪), and welcomed Prime Minister Modi (莫迪) to China to attend the SCO Tianjin (天津) Summit. Wang Yi (王毅) said that last October, the successful meeting between the leaders of the two countries in Kazan (喀山) led to the restart and re-departure of China-India relations. The two sides have earnestly implemented the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, promoting bilateral relations into a new process of improvement and development. This situation has not been easy to achieve and should be cherished. This invitation to India to attend the Special Representatives' Meeting on the Boundary Question is also to prepare for high-level interactions between the two countries. After comprehensive and in-depth communication, on the bilateral relations front, we reached consensus on restarting dialogue mechanisms in various fields, deepening mutually beneficial cooperation, adhering to multilateralism, jointly addressing global challenges, and opposing unilateral bullying. On the border issue, we have formed new consensus on carrying out normalized management and control, maintaining peace and tranquility in border areas, properly handling sensitive locations, and initiating boundary negotiations in areas where conditions permit.

Wang Yi (王毅) said that China-India relations have experienced ups and downs, and the lessons learned from them are worth remembering. No matter what the situation, both sides should adhere to the correct positioning that they are partners rather than rivals, and adhere to steadily managing differences, and not allow border disputes to affect the overall situation of bilateral relations. Under the current international situation, the strategic significance of China-India relations is even more prominent, and the strategic value of China-India cooperation is even more prominent. We will earnestly implement the important consensus of the leaders of the two countries, strengthen exchanges and cooperation in various fields, promote China-India relations to move forward steadily and far, better benefit the people of the two countries, and make due contributions from the two major civilizations of China and India to the cause of human progress.

During the visit, Wang Yi (王毅) held the Special Representatives' Meeting on the China-India Boundary Question with Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval (多瓦尔), and held talks with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (苏杰生).

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China and India Foreign Ministers' Meeting Achieves 10 Outcomes

Xinhua News Agency, New Delhi, August 19th (Reporters Wu Yue (伍岳) and Chen Dongshu (陈冬书)) Local time, August 18, 2025, Wang Yi (王毅), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, held talks with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (苏杰生) in New Delhi (新德里). The two sides conducted positive, constructive, and forward-looking discussions on bilateral, regional, and international issues of common concern, and reached the following consensus and results:

1. Both sides emphasized that the strategic guidance of the leaders of the two countries plays an irreplaceable and important role in the development of China-India relations. Both sides believe that a stable, cooperative, and forward-looking China-India relationship is conducive to fully releasing the development potential of both sides and is in line with their common interests. Both sides further believe that it is necessary to earnestly implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries and promote the continuous, healthy, and stable development of China-India relations.

2. The Chinese side welcomes Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (莫迪) to attend the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) Tianjin (天津) Summit. The Indian side reiterated its full support for China's (中国) assumption of the rotating presidency of the SCO and looks forward to the complete success of the SCO Tianjin Summit and the achievement of fruitful results.

3. Both sides agreed to support each other in hosting major diplomatic events. The Chinese side supports the Indian side in hosting the 2026 BRICS Leaders' Meeting. The Indian side supports the Chinese side in hosting the 2027 BRICS Leaders' Meeting.

4. Both sides agreed to explore restarting various intergovernmental bilateral dialogue and exchange mechanisms, strengthen cooperation and take care of each other's concerns, and properly manage differences. Both sides agreed to hold the third meeting of the China-India High-Level People-to-People and Cultural Exchanges Mechanism in India in 2026.

5. Both sides agreed to continue to support each other in successfully holding a series of commemorative activities for the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and India in 2025.

6. Both sides agreed to resume direct flights between mainland China (中国内地) and India (印度) as soon as possible, and to revise the civil aviation transport agreement between the two countries. Both sides agreed to provide visa facilitation for personnel engaged in tourism, business, media, and other activities to travel to and from the two countries.

7. Both sides agreed to continue to organize pilgrimages for Indian pilgrims to Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar (神山圣湖) in the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) of China in 2026 and expand the scale.

8. Both sides agreed to take concrete measures to facilitate the flow of economic, trade, and investment between the two countries.

9. Both sides agreed to jointly maintain peace and tranquility in the border areas through friendly consultations.

10. Both sides agreed to promote multilateralism, strengthen communication on major international and regional issues, safeguard the multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization (世界贸易组织) as its core and based on rules, promote world multipolarization, and defend the interests of developing countries.

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China and India Hold Special Representatives' Meeting on Border Issue

Xinhua News Agency, New Delhi, August 19th (Reporters Chen Dongshu (陈冬书) and Wu Yue (伍岳)) On August 19, 2025, local time, the 24th Meeting of the Special Representatives on the China-India Boundary Question was held in New Delhi (新德里). The Chinese Special Representative, Wang Yi (王毅), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, and the Indian Special Representative, Ajit Doval (多瓦尔), National Security Advisor, conducted comprehensive, in-depth, and productive communication on the China-India boundary question and bilateral relations.

Wang Yi (王毅) stated that the important consensus reached by President Xi Jinping (习近平) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi (莫迪) at the Kazan meeting has pointed the direction and provided impetus for the improvement of China-India relations and the proper handling of the boundary question. Since the beginning of this year, bilateral relations have entered a track of steady development, and the border situation has continued to stabilize and improve. As two major neighbors and two major developing countries, China and India share similar ideas and have broad common interests. They should trust and support each other, which is the proper state for two emerging major countries. China attaches great importance to Prime Minister Modi's (莫迪) visit to China to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Tianjin Summit and expects India to make positive contributions to the success of the summit.

Wang Yi (王毅) emphasized that history and reality have repeatedly proven that the healthy and stable development of China-India relations is in the fundamental interests of the two peoples and is also the common expectation of the vast number of developing countries. The two sides should follow the strategic guidance of the leaders of the two countries, adhere to the concept of "dual-track approach, mutual promotion, and virtuous cycle" in viewing and handling bilateral relations and the boundary question, enhance mutual trust through dialogue and communication, expand exchanges and cooperation, and jointly promote the convergence of consensus, clarification of direction, and setting of goals in border management and control, boundary demarcation negotiations, and cross-border exchanges, so as to properly resolve specific issues and achieve more positive progress, and continuously create favorable conditions for the improvement and development of bilateral relations.

Doval (多瓦尔) stated that the meeting between the leaders of the two countries in Kazan was a turning point in the improvement and development of India-China relations. Positive changes have taken place in mutual understanding, peace and tranquility have been maintained in the border areas, and breakthrough progress has been made in bilateral relations. In the current turbulent international situation, India and China face a series of common challenges, and it is necessary to enhance understanding, deepen trust, and strengthen cooperation, which is related to the well-being of the two peoples and world peace and development. India has always adhered to the one-China policy. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between India and China. Prime Minister Modi (莫迪) looks forward to visiting China to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Tianjin Summit and believes that this will promote new development in bilateral relations. India supports China in hosting a successful summit as the rotating chair of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. India is willing to maintain communication and dialogue with China in a positive and pragmatic manner, and continuously accumulate conditions for the final resolution of the boundary question.

The two sides exchanged views on the early harvest of boundary negotiations, reaffirmed that they will give full play to the role of the meeting mechanism of special representatives, and in accordance with the political guiding principles reached in 2005, in the spirit of mutual respect and mutual understanding, explore fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable solutions. At the same time, strengthen normalized border management and control, and jointly maintain peace and tranquility in the border areas. The two sides agreed to hold the 25th Meeting of the Special Representatives on the China-India Boundary Question in China next year.

The two sides also exchanged views on major international and regional issues of common concern.

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Special Representatives' Meeting on China-India Boundary Issue Reaches 10-Point Consensus

Xinhua News Agency, New Delhi, August 19th (Reporters Chen Dongshu (陈冬书) and Wu Yue (伍岳)) Local time, August 19, 2025, the 24th meeting of the Special Representatives on the China-India Boundary Question was held in New Delhi, India. The Chinese Special Representative, Wang Yi (王毅), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, and the Indian Special Representative, Ajit Doval (多瓦尔), National Security Advisor, under the strategic guidance of the leaders of the two countries, in a positive and constructive manner, exchanged candid and in-depth views on the China-India boundary issue, and reached the following 10-point consensus:

1. Both sides positively evaluated the progress made in implementing the important consensus of the leaders since the Kazan meeting, and believed that the China-India border area has maintained peace and tranquility since the 23rd meeting of the Special Representatives.

2. Both sides reiterated the importance of maintaining peace and tranquility in the border areas, and emphasized properly handling relevant issues through friendly consultations to promote the overall development of China-India relations.

3. Both sides agreed to proceed from the political perspective of the overall situation of bilateral relations and seek a fair, reasonable, and mutually acceptable framework for resolving the boundary issue in accordance with the political guiding principles agreement signed by the two countries in 2005.

4. Both sides agreed to establish a demarcation expert group under the framework of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on China-India Border Affairs (WMCC) to explore the advancement of demarcation negotiations in sections where conditions are ripe.

5. Both sides agreed to establish a working group under the framework of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on China-India Border Affairs to promote effective border management and maintain peace and tranquility in the border areas.

6. In addition to the existing general-level talks in the western sector of the border, a general-level talks mechanism will be established in the eastern and middle sectors of the border, and a new round of general-level talks in the western sector will be held as soon as possible.

7. Both sides agreed to leverage the role of the border control mechanism through diplomatic and military channels, first reaching consensus on relevant principles and methods to promote de-escalation and the management and control process.

8. The two sides exchanged views on cross-border river cooperation and agreed to leverage the role of the expert-level mechanism for cross-border rivers between the two countries and maintain communication on the renewal of the relevant memorandum of understanding on cross-border river hydrological data. The Chinese side agreed to share relevant emergency hydrological information of relevant rivers with the Indian side based on humanitarian principles.

9. Both sides agreed to reopen the three traditional border trade markets of Renqinggang-Changgu (仁青岗—昌古), Pulan-Gongji (普兰—贡吉), and Jiuba-Nanjia (久巴—南加).

10. Both sides agreed to hold the 25th meeting of the Special Representatives in China in 2026.

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Wang Yi to Visit Pakistan and Hold the Sixth Round of China-Pakistan Foreign Ministers' Strategic Dialogue

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 19th. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson announced on the 19th: Wang Yi (王毅), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, will visit Pakistan from August 20th to 22nd and hold the sixth China-Pakistan Foreign Ministers' Strategic Dialogue with Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Dar (达尔).

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Wang Xiaohong Holds Video Call with Member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam and Minister of Public Security of Vietnam, Luong Tam Quang

Beijing, August 19 (Reporter Zhang Tianpei (张天培)) Wang Xiaohong (王小洪), Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of the Ministry of Public Security (公安部), held a video call with Luong Tam Quang (梁三光), member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam and Minister of the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam, on the 19th.

Wang Xiaohong (王小洪) congratulated the Vietnamese People's Public Security Forces on their 80th anniversary. He expressed hope that both sides would implement the important consensus reached by the top leaders of the two parties and countries, anchor the overall goal of "six mores," focus on safeguarding political security and combating transnational crimes, strengthen communication and cooperation, and achieve more practical results, so as to continuously deepen the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership and accelerate the building of a China-Vietnam community with a shared future that is of strategic significance.

Luong Tam Quang (梁三光) said that he is willing to strengthen law enforcement and security cooperation with China to maintain the security and stability of the two countries.

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Dong Jun Meets with Singapore's Permanent Secretary of Defence

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 19th (Reporter Mei Changwei (梅常伟)) - Minister of National Defense Dong Jun (董军) met with Chan Heng Kee (陈庆基), Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence of Singapore, in Beijing on the 19th.

Dong Jun (董军) said that since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Singapore 35 years ago, the traditional friendship between the two countries has been continuously consolidated, and fruitful results have been achieved in cooperation. China is willing to work with Singapore to implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, maintain regular exchanges at all levels and in all fields, strengthen coordination and cooperation in regional and multilateral platforms, firmly support each other's core interests and major concerns, and jointly safeguard international and regional peace and stability.

Chan Heng Kee (陈庆基) said that Singapore adheres to the one-China policy and is willing to continuously strengthen high-level exchanges with China, expand and deepen joint exercises and training, exchanges between institutions, and multilateral cooperation, and promote greater development of relations between the two countries and the two militaries.

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Exhibition of Documents and Photos Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression Held in Tanzania

This newspaper's Nairobi (内罗毕) dispatch on August 19th (Reporter Huang Weixin (黄炜鑫)): Dar es Salaam (达累斯萨拉姆) news: A documentary photo exhibition commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War was recently held at the National Museum of Tanzania (坦桑尼亚国家博物馆) in Dar es Salaam (达累斯萨拉姆). People from all walks of life in Tanzania (坦桑尼亚), media representatives, and overseas Chinese attended.

Chana (查娜), the Tanzanian (坦桑尼亚) Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, said in her speech that commemorating the victory of World War II is not only about remembering history, but also about inspiring future generations to cherish the hard-won peace. She said: "This commemoration reminds us that courage and unity can overcome oppression." She thanked the Chinese government and people for their long-term contributions to world peace and development.

The documentary photo exhibition was hosted by the Chinese Embassy in Tanzania (中国驻坦桑尼亚大使馆). The exhibition is open to the public and will last until September 5th.

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Xiao Jie Meets with Delegation from the Lao National Assembly's Committee for Planning, Finance and Audit

Xiao Jie (肖捷), Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, met with Leeber Leebouapao (李白·李波保), Chairman of the Planning, Finance and Audit Committee of the Lao National Assembly, in Beijing (北京) on the 19th. The two sides exchanged in-depth views on consolidating strategic mutual trust, enhancing exchanges and cooperation between legislative bodies, and budget review and supervision.

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Mass sports flourish, sports industry brimming with vitality (Authoritative release: High-quality completion of the "14th Five-Year Plan")

By: 本报记者 孙龙飞

On August 19th, 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 achievements in building a strong sports nation during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.

"During the '14th Five-Year Plan' period, the national sports system adhered to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想) as its guide, based on high-quality development, strengthened reform and innovation, the goals for building a strong sports nation became clearer, governance capabilities improved, and diverse values and functions became increasingly prominent," introduced Gao Zhidan (高志丹), Director of the General Administration of Sport of China (国家体育总局).

Public Fitness Spaces Continuously Expanding

"Building and utilizing venues and facilities well is a topic of concern for the public and a core element of improving the national fitness public service system," said Ding Dong (丁东), Director of the Mass Sports Department of the General Administration of Sport of China (国家体育总局群众体育司). Currently, the "15-minute fitness circle" in communities has been basically realized, and the public's needs for conducting fitness activities locally and conveniently have been basically met.

Public fitness spaces are continuously expanding. Actively carrying out activities such as "National Ball Enters Communities" and "National Ball Enters Parks," more than 170,000 sets of small and diverse fitness facilities such as table tennis tables have been installed in nearly 20,000 old residential areas and more than 5,000 urban parks. At the same time, efforts to build "three major ball" venues, sports parks, ice rinks, ski resorts, and national fitness centers have been continuously increased. As of the end of 2024, more than 1,300 sports parks with an area of more than 40,000 square meters have been built and put into use.

The comprehensive utilization efficiency of sports venues has been improved. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the state has invested a total of 5.65 billion yuan to support the free or low-cost opening of public sports venues to the public. In 2025, nearly 1,500 county-level administrative regions were subsidized with 3,370 venues, and the public benefit opening of public sports venues has become a new normal.

Brand events attract national participation. Each year, various national fitness theme activities are carried out throughout the year in a planned and rhythmic manner, which are widely welcomed by the public. During the 2025 "National Fitness Day" activities, more than 22,000 events were held across the country, with direct participation exceeding 11 million people. The National Fitness Games were held for the first time in the form of "Greater China Competitions," with as many as 6,000 events reaching the public. The National Fitness Online Games have been held for three consecutive years, with total participation exceeding 58 million people, providing convenient services to the public through online sports.

Promoting the physical and mental health development of adolescents. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, more than 145,000 "Run, Youth" activities were held, with 151 million adolescents participating, basically achieving full coverage of the age groups and time periods of the activities. In response to prominent problems such as myopia, obesity, and scoliosis common among adolescents, a model for intervening in the physical health of adolescents has been initially formed in 12 provinces, and problems such as "little fat墩" and "little glasses" in pilot schools have been effectively controlled.

Overall Level of Competitive Sports Further Improved

"During the '14th Five-Year Plan' period, Chinese athletes have repeatedly achieved excellent results in international competitions, the overall level of competitive sports in my country has been further improved, and balanced development has achieved remarkable results," said Zhang Xin (张新), Director of the Competitive Sports Department of the General Administration of Sport of China (国家体育总局竞技体育司).

Zhang Xin said that on the new journey from a large sports country and an Olympic power to a strong sports nation, diving, weightlifting, gymnastics, shooting, table tennis, and badminton, three basic major events of track and field, swimming, and water sports, and the "three major balls" of football, basketball, and volleyball will be used as the lead to consolidate the advantages of advantageous projects, enhance the competitive strength of basic major events, and continuously improve the comprehensive strength of competitive sports.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China successfully hosted five international comprehensive sports events, including the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Hangzhou Asian Games, the Harbin Asian Winter Games, the Chengdu World University Games, and the Chengdu World Games, demonstrating the attractiveness and influence of China in the new era.

In terms of deepening sports reform, Gao Zhidan said that it is necessary to adhere to and strengthen the Party's comprehensive leadership over sports work, resolutely punish corruption in the sports field, strengthen case-based warnings and warning education, and restore the political ecology of sports. Taking the governance of "fake gambling and black" as an opportunity, we will severely rectify the development chaos of football, Xiangqi (象棋), and other projects, and maintain the order of the sports industry. Taking the revision of the Sports Law as an opportunity, we will improve the sports laws and industry standard system, improve the sports dispute resolution mechanism, and continue to improve the legalization and standardization of the sports industry.

During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the General Administration of Sport of China will continue to deepen all aspects of competitive sports reform, and adhere to open-door sports. Reform and improve the competitive sports management system and operating mechanism, and establish a new mechanism for the common development of competitive sports by an active government, an organic society, and an effective market. Accelerate the establishment of a policy system for social forces to participate in competitive sports, broaden the ways and means for market mechanisms to promote the development of competitive sports, and mobilize more social forces and business entities to participate in all aspects of competitive sports training, competition, talent cultivation, and equipment research and development.

Sports Industry Becomes a New Highlight of Economic Development

Yang Xuedong (杨雪鸫), Director of the Sports Economy Department of the General Administration of Sport of China (国家体育总局体育经济司), introduced that since the "14th Five-Year Plan," China's sports industry has developed steadily. In 2023, the total scale of the national sports industry has reached 3.67 trillion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 10.3%.

The structural quality has steadily improved. The sports service industry, led by the competition performance industry and the fitness and leisure industry, has grown rapidly, and its proportion of the added value of the sports industry has increased from 68.7% in 2020 to 72.7% in 2023. The sports manufacturing industry has improved its quality and efficiency. At the end of 2024, there were 146 national-level specialized, refined, and new "little giant" enterprises in the sports field, more than double the number at the end of 2022. Advanced materials and technologies are accelerating the transformation and application in the sports field, and a large number of high-tech products such as carbon fiber bicycles and intelligent fitness equipment have entered thousands of households.

Platform support is more effective. 81 national day and Spring Festival sports tourism boutique routes, 19 outdoor sports boutique routes, and 26 national-level ski tourism resorts have been launched successively to promote the development and coordinated development of advantageous resources in the region. The influence of the China Sports Goods Fair, the China Sports Culture Expo, and the China Sports Tourism Expo continues to expand. In the first half of this year, the total import and export volume of sports goods exceeded 15.5 billion US dollars.

The competition economy is booming. The holding of the Hangzhou Asian Games (杭州亚运会) has driven the highest consumption growth of more than 40% in surrounding areas. Ticket sales for popular professional events such as F1 are booming, and last year's China Open (中国网球公开赛) tennis tournament had ticket revenue of over 80 million yuan. Mass sports events are constantly innovating. A number of mass sports events around the public, such as "Village Super" ("村超") and "ZheBA" ("浙BA"), have become popular, and "Su Super" ("苏超") has a single-game attendance of over 60,000 people, driving 38 billion yuan of multi-scene consumption in Jiangsu (江苏), which has strongly promoted consumption.

The scale and industrial influence of outdoor sports continue to expand. In 2024, the number of online consumers of outdoor sports in my country is about 200 million, and the total consumption is over 300 billion yuan. The construction of high-quality outdoor sports destinations is being promoted in depth. As of the end of 2024, there are 171,800 fitness trails with a length of 407,500 kilometers, and the number of national flight camps, automobile camps, etc. has reached 2,055, and there are 914 ski resorts nationwide.

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How to Curb AI "Lying" (In-depth Reading)

By: 本报记者 张天培

The manufactured false information is more deceptive, and "AI (Artificial Intelligence) hallucinations" lead to "**一本正经地胡说八道** (yī běn zhèng jīng de hú shuō bā dào - "to talk nonsense in a serious manner," to speak solemnly but utter nonsense)." The easily spread and difficult-to-prevent "AI rumors" pose new challenges to government regulatory departments, internet platforms, technology developers, and all sectors of society.

How to curb artificial intelligence from "lying"? It requires technological improvement and regulation, as well as systematic governance. Many experts interviewed said that it is necessary to improve laws and regulations and departmental supervision, and promote the formation of a multi-party collaborative governance pattern.

Clarify the legal bottom line and enhance the deterrent effect against "AI rumors."

Recently, Zheng (郑), a Guangxi (广西) netizen who used AI to create rumors about gas price increases, was given administrative punishment; a number of online accounts that spread "AI rumors" were ordered by the Cyberspace Administration of China (网信部门) to be banned from speaking or closed in accordance with the law and agreements; accounts that taught users how to use AI for "one-click undressing" and "face swapping," and online stores that publicly sold related software, were jointly punished by the Cyberspace Administration of China, the Public Security Bureau (公安) and other departments.

Behind the legal punishment is the continuous improvement of AI-related laws and regulations in recent years. The "Provisions on the Administration of Deep Synthesis of Internet Information Services," the "Interim Measures for the Administration of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services," and the "Measures for the Identification of Artificial Intelligence Generated and Synthesized Content" have been introduced, clarifying the legal bottom line for AI users and platform managers, and providing a legal basis for law enforcement.

Yang Qingwang (杨清望), Deputy Dean of the School of Law of Central South University (中南大学), said that the problem of the low cost of illegal "AI rumors" still exists, and illegal acts must be severely punished, relevant laws and regulations must be improved, and the deterrent effect must be enhanced.

Xu Xiaoke (许小可), a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication of Beijing Normal University (北京师范大学), suggested that for high-risk areas of generating and spreading false information, the boundaries of obligations of all parties should be clarified through legal forms such as judicial interpretations, and scientific and reasonable guiding standards for the determination of AI infringement liability should be formulated.

At the same time, the difficulty in collecting evidence in "AI rumor" cases has plagued the handling authorities. "To solve the difficulty in collecting evidence in cases involving 'AI rumors,' it is necessary to construct a set of evidence collection and identification systems that adapt to the characteristics of AI technology." Yang Qingwang suggested that by establishing and improving judicial identification rules and standards for case evidence, and making platform algorithms that do not involve trade secrets and personal privacy transparent, the difficulties in evidence and liability identification can be solved.

Some local public security organs have already explored monitoring and identifying "AI rumors." "We closely cooperate with scientific research institutions and enterprises to further improve the monitoring, early warning, and rapid identification capabilities of malicious 'deepfake' information, and cooperate with relevant departments to establish a closed-loop mechanism for online rumor patrol monitoring, verification feedback, consultation and judgment, clue transfer, and crackdown and disposal. For false information synthesized through AI and other methods, we will handle it in accordance with laws and regulations as soon as possible," said Yang Yongzhi (杨永志), a police officer from the Cyber Security Protection Detachment of the Shenyang (沈阳) Public Security Bureau (公安局) in Liaoning (辽宁).

Strengthen the technical dam and cut off the transmission chain of "AI rumors."

Some netizens have found that on some online platforms, the prompt "suspected AI technology generation" does not appear in time when AI-generated pictures and videos are released, giving false information time to spread.

"In order to maintain its own development and interests, the platform should consciously govern 'AI rumors' and cut off the transmission chain of 'AI rumors'." Yang Qingwang believes that after discovering AI rumors, the platform should immediately take measures such as removing, deleting, and refuting rumors, especially in the face of major events and sensitive topics, it is necessary to strengthen the verification of the authenticity of pictures and videos, and eliminate the negative impact of rumors in a timely manner.

How to strengthen the verification of authenticity?

Pay attention to netizen feedback. "Establish convenient reporting and complaint channels, and promptly verify and deal with suspected rumor information reflected by netizens. For users who repeatedly use AI to create rumors, prohibitive measures such as blacklisting can be taken to regulate user behavior," said Yang Qingwang.

"AI identification also requires strong technical support." Li Huaisheng (李怀胜), director of the Institute of Internet Law at China University of Political Science and Law (中国政法大学), said that technically, rumors can be identified and blocked through methods such as algorithm identification, big data analysis, and blockchain traceability. For example, using AI systems to detect, automatically mark suspicious content and reduce recommendations through natural language processing and image recognition technology.

"Regulatory departments can also introduce a 'dynamic traceable responsibility chain' mechanism, use content explicit identification and implicit identification, and explore carrying out content retrospective investigation and dynamic accountability of 'AI rumors'," said Xu Xiaoke.

Improve the ability to distinguish and see the true face of "AI rumors."

Count your fingers, AI may generate "six fingers"; look for the direction of shadows, AI may hang the sun in the opposite direction; look at facial expressions, AI-generated pictures may have uncoordinated eyes and mouths... AI rumors are difficult to distinguish between true and false, but clues can still be found.

Being vigilant is the first step in improving the ability to identify "AI rumors."

When you see words like "netizen broke the news" and "exclusive insider information," or find that there are loopholes or contradictions in the logic of the information, you should pay attention - it is likely to have been tampered with or fabricated. "Be careful to distinguish and try to find authoritative information to verify; you can also verify the authenticity of the information through cross-validation," said Xu Xiaoke.

It is also necessary to enhance legal awareness and prevent helping the spread of rumors in "unconsciousness."

"Some people may not have the subjective awareness of creating rumors, but just publish AI-synthesized content on the Internet, which is then forwarded in large numbers, resulting in negative impacts," said Li Huaisheng.

In this regard, Li Huaisheng reminded that AI-generated content may have factual deviations, logical loopholes, or time lag problems. A cautious attitude should be maintained during use, and AI-generated content that has not been verified should not be directly published to prevent unintentional misleading information dissemination.

In terms of media responsibility, experts believe that media platforms should improve content review capabilities and verify the authenticity of information through official channels and authoritative sources; self-media practitioners should enhance legal awareness and publish information truthfully, accurately, and objectively.

To prevent and control "AI rumors," knowledge popularization is essential. Xu Xiaoke believes that by publishing typical cases and guiding people to understand the generation mechanism, communication logic, rhetoric routines, and identification methods of "AI rumors," it can help people see the true face of "AI rumors."

AI technology is developing rapidly. Learning to "wisely" use "smart tools" can make AI better serve people's production and life.

(Hou Yiyang (侯依阳) participated in writing)

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State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters Initiates Level IV Flood Control Emergency Response for Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region

According to meteorological department forecasts, starting from August 19th, some areas of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) will experience heavy to torrential rain. Specifically, Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and parts of central and northeastern Hebei (河北) are expected to experience localized torrential rain. In accordance with the "National Flood Control and Drought Relief Emergency Plan" and relevant regulations, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters has decided to initiate a Level IV flood control emergency response for Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) at 8:00 AM on August 19th. The State Flood Control Headquarters Office has dispatched two working groups to the front lines in Beijing (北京) and Hebei (河北) to assist and guide flood control and disaster relief efforts.

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Photo Report

On August 18th, the 2025 China Youth Aircraft Design Innovation Competition opened at Moganshan General Airport in Deqing County (德清县), Huzhou City (湖州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省). More than 400 young aviation enthusiasts from all over the country participated. The competition features distinctive events such as simulated carrier-based aircraft takeoff, model rocket launch and return, and multi-rotor UAV transportation, fully demonstrating the innovation and practical abilities of young people in the aviation field. The picture shows contestants in the model rocket launch and return event.

Photo by Wang Shucheng (王树成) (People's Vision (人民视觉))

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Ministry of Water Resources Initiates Level IV Emergency Response for Flood Defense in Four Provinces

According to the Ministry of Water Resources, as reported on August 19th from Beijing (北京) by our correspondent Deng Jianyang (邓剑洋): The Ministry of Water Resources initiated a Level IV emergency response for flood prevention in Tianjin (天津), Hebei (河北), Liaoning (辽宁), and Yunnan (云南) provinces at 14:00 on the 19th, and maintained the Level IV emergency response for flood prevention in Beijing (北京). The Ministry of Water Resources has dispatched a working group to the front lines of rainstorm and flood prevention in Tianjin (天津) and Hebei (河北) to assist and guide the work.

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People's Bank of China Adds 100 Billion Yuan in Re-lending Quota for Agriculture and Small Businesses to Support Flood Control, Disaster Relief, and Post-Disaster Reconstruction in Some Regions

Beijing, August 19th (Reporter Wu Qiuyu (吴秋余)) To support flood control, disaster relief, and post-disaster reconstruction with financial services, the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行) recently increased the re-lending quota for agriculture and small businesses by 100 billion yuan, guiding and encouraging financial institutions to increase credit support to business entities, especially micro and small enterprises, individual businesses, as well as agricultural and breeding enterprises and farmers in disaster-stricken areas such as Beijing (北京), Hebei (河北), Jilin (吉林), Shandong (山东), and Gansu (甘肃).

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Showing a New Look and Radiating New Vitality (A Survey of Vibrant China)

By: 本报记者

The integrated development of urban and rural areas is an inherent requirement of Chinese-style modernization.

During the "Vitality China Research Trip" themed interview activity, reporters went deep into the three provinces of Jiangxi, Jilin, and Qinghai to conduct on-the-ground explorations of the new era of urban-rural integrated development:

An egg has its own exclusive "digital ID card," from temperature-controlled chicken coops to intelligent warehouses, achieving full-cycle traceability through scanning codes. A digital breeding base in Jiangxi can produce 40,000 eggs per day, with an annual output value of approximately 13 million yuan.

A snow field has become popular from winter to all seasons, and the ingenuity of "four-season operation" continues to stimulate consumption vitality. The Songhua Lake Ice and Snow Resort (松花湖冰雪胜地) in Jilin transforms ice and snow resources into all-season tourism resources, and the flow of visitors continues to increase.

A herdsman "sells agricultural products" and "sells beautiful scenery" on the shores of Qinghai Lake (青海湖). Through ecological tourism, more than 20,000 people in 20 villages in 8 townships around the lake benefit, and ecological dividends benefit more people.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Strengthen the organic combination of comprehensive rural revitalization and new urbanization, and accelerate the pace of urban-rural integrated development."

Bearing in mind the entrustment and forging ahead, Jiangxi, Jilin, Qinghai and other places adhere to promoting the organic combination of comprehensive rural revitalization and new urbanization, the county economy has its own characteristics, the urban-rural cycle continues to be smooth, the harmonious and beautiful countryside is livable and workable, and the urban-rural integrated development bursts with vigorous vitality.

The county economy is blooming in many places, broadening the channels for increasing production and income.

In Liangshan Town (良山镇), Xinyu City (新余市), Jiangxi Province, 5G and Internet of Things technologies are quietly changing the "journey" of an egg. Li Hao (李浩), general manager of Senfeng Egg Chicken Free-range Co., Ltd. (森凤蛋鸡散养有限公司), opened his mobile phone, and parameters such as the temperature and humidity of the chicken house jumped in real time, "With this monitoring system, all relevant data is available."

Automatic feeders accurately feed nutritional meals, and three-dimensional intelligent warehouses accurately dispatch. Each egg has an exclusive "digital ID card" that can be traced throughout the entire process by scanning the code. Thanks to digital closed-loop management, the eggs produced by the breeding base have become sought-after products in the market.

New technologies help the breeding industry to transform and upgrade, and enhance the competitiveness of characteristic industries in the county. Li Hao said that the next step will be to deepen the application of artificial intelligence in precise nutrition regulation and other aspects, and drive more surrounding farmers to develop together.

Jiangxi's "digital egg" is a microcosm of technological empowerment of modern agriculture, while Jilin's "ice and snow brand" vividly interprets how to transform ecological resources into development advantages.

In Songhua Lake Resort (松花湖度假区), Jilin City (吉林市), Jilin Province, a grassland concert is being staged, and tourists from all over the world enjoy the coolness with the melodious music. "We are creating summer resort and leisure products focusing on mountain sports, ecological leisure and cultural experience." Zhao Lanju (赵兰菊), general manager of the resort, introduced that the number of visitors this summer is expected to exceed 400,000.

The green mountains in summer are also snow fields in winter, and cold resources burst into hot economy. In winter, it is transformed into a ski resort, with 50 ski trails with a total length of 55 kilometers, winding down from the top of the mountain, igniting the enthusiasm for ice and snow sports. In Jilin City (吉林市), Nangou Village (南沟村), not far from Beida Lake Ski Resort (北大湖滑雪场), runs homestays and restaurants... The formats of small mountain villages are becoming increasingly rich. "There are 149 homestays in the village, which can accommodate 2,000 tourists at the same time, with an annual income of more than 15 million yuan." Zhang Zengfa (张增发), secretary of the Party branch of Nangou Village, said.

On the shore of Qinghai Lake (青海湖), protecting the beautiful scenery ushers in a good prospect. The water and sky are the same blue, and the lake is sparkling. The "Zaxi Ranch" (扎西牧场) farm stay in Garila Village (尕日拉村), Gonghe County (共和县), Qinghai Province, has cozy and unique Tibetan-style wooden houses. "This is still a lake view room!" Following the direction pointed by Zaxi Nanjie (扎西南杰), the person in charge, the "plateau sapphire" Qinghai Lake (青海湖) is outside the window.

From "a tent and a horse" to a farm stay with more than a dozen rooms, from selling yogurt and dried meat to "selling scenery" and "selling services," Zaxi Nanjie deeply felt: "If you keep the beautiful scenery, you can usher in a good prospect."

In recent years, the area around Qinghai Lake (青海湖) has explored new models of cultural tourism, and the pattern of ecological tourism development has gradually become clear. Through a distribution mechanism dominated by government leadership, village collective participation, and farmer and herdsman dividends, it radiates and drives more than 20,000 people in 20 villages in 8 surrounding townships around the lake to increase their income and become rich.

"We will coordinate the promotion of new urbanization and comprehensive rural revitalization, vigorously promote agricultural industrialization, and promote urban-rural integrated development and common prosperity." Yin Hong (尹弘), Secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee, introduced that in recent years, Jiangxi has adhered to the concept of industrialization and market-oriented thinking, and has deeply implemented the "Double Hundred Action" of agricultural industrialization to accelerate the completion of intensive processing and circulation shortcomings, and strive to build agriculture into a modern large industry. At present, there are 81 national-level and 1,147 provincial-level leading agricultural enterprises in Jiangxi Province, driving an average annual income increase of 4,260 yuan for 3.76 million farmers.

Two-way flow of urban and rural elements enhances the vitality of agricultural and rural development.

In Zhenlai County (镇赉县), Jilin Province, the rice waves are rolling, and the saline-alkali belt, which was once a barren land, has become a "rice granary" of more than 1.5 million mu of rice fields. Behind the transformation is the relay and adherence of three generations of scientific research workers from the Jilin Academy of Agricultural Sciences (吉林省农业科学院) for more than 30 years, promoting the selection of salt-tolerant rice varieties, soil improvement and supporting cultivation technologies, and helping the local area achieve "governing alkali with rice and getting rich with rice."

"Thanks to these scientists for awakening the 'sleeping' land resources!" Mao Yinhua (毛印华), a large grain grower, deeply felt the power of science and technology. "Last year, his 150-plus hectares of rice fields produced 2.4 million kilograms of grain, an increase of more than 200,000 kilograms compared with the previous year, with a net profit of more than 1 million yuan."

Thanks to the village service of agricultural science and technology personnel, the rice planting area in Zhenlai County (镇赉县) reached 1.55 million mu last year, and the output reached 2.06 billion kilograms. Ma Wei (马巍), associate researcher at the Rice Research Institute of the Jilin Academy of Agricultural Sciences (吉林省农业科学院水稻研究所), introduced that the team is aiming at high quality and efficiency, promoting new technologies and new models such as rice seedling substrate and rice-crab co-culture to help farmers save costs and increase efficiency.

Similarly, it is the awakening of resources. In Shangrao City (上饶市), Jiangxi Province, Chen Yifei (陈亦飞), an entrepreneur who returned to his hometown, used cultural tourism creativity to revitalize abandoned mines. As night falls, in the Wangxian Valley Scenic Area (望仙谷景区), the ancient-style streets are bustling with tourists, and the homestays "hanging" on the cliffs are brightly lit, and full of vitality is coming. Who would have thought that a dozen years ago, this was still an abandoned mine scarred by over-exploitation.

The return of talent and capital brings more possibilities for comprehensive rural revitalization. Chen Yifei joined hands with partners to explore local history and culture, and invested in building Gan-style rammed earth homestays, intangible cultural heritage experience and other projects, turning Wangxian Valley (望仙谷) into a "Internet celebrity tourist destination." In 2024, the Wangxian Valley Scenic Area (望仙谷景区) received 3.1 million tourists.

The popularity of the scenic spot has attracted a large number of villagers to return to their hometowns to work and start businesses, and Wu Qi'an (吴启安) is one of them. "I came back to open a restaurant, so I can take care of my family nearby. In the first half of the year, the restaurant received more than 36,000 tourists, with an average monthly revenue of more than 300,000 yuan." Wu Qi'an said. The development of the scenic spot provides more than 6,500 direct jobs for villagers and drives more than 30,000 jobs in the surrounding area.

Behind the development of the countryside, the continuous irrigation of financial "living water" is indispensable. Sangke (桑科), a herdsman living in Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (果洛藏族自治州), Qinghai Province, signed a procurement contract with a local meat processing company, but the funds to expand the scale of breeding are still a problem. "I took a photo with the company's purchase contract, and without even entering the bank, a loan of 60,000 yuan was credited to my account." Sangke said excitedly that this money can not only buy a mowing machine, but also introduce several breeding cattle, and his income is expected to double next year.

Behind this is the financial products such as live livestock mortgage and order financing innovatively launched by the Qinghai financial system for agricultural and pastoral areas. "Focusing on promoting the development of green and organic agricultural and livestock industries, we will increase the investment of inclusive financial resources. As of now, financial institutions have cumulatively issued more than 3 billion yuan of live livestock and agricultural land mortgage loans." Shi Jingjing (侍晶晶), a staff member of the Credit Policy Management Department of the Qinghai Branch of the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行青海省分行信贷政策管理处), introduced that in the next step, they will also increase the credit funds invested in plateau characteristic industries.

"We will adhere to the coordinated development of population, industry, public services, towns, and ecological protection, promote urbanization construction with counties as important carriers in a classified manner." Wu Xiaojun (吴晓军), Secretary of the Qinghai Provincial Party Committee, introduced that in recent years, Qinghai has promoted the construction of "four places" for industries and the coordinated development of green computing and electricity according to local conditions, guided the population to moderately gather in towns, industrial agglomeration areas, and low-altitude areas, and actively built a new pattern of urban-rural integrated development.

Integrated layout of urban and rural construction, drawing a new picture of harmonious and beautiful countryside.

"If it had been before, I would have been embarrassed to invite everyone into the house." Wang Dandan (王丹丹), a villager in Guangdong Village (光东村), Helong City (和龙市), Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture (延边朝鲜族自治州), Jilin Province, smiled and welcomed tourists into her bright and clean home. She is most satisfied with the indoor toilet in her home, with a toilet, water heater, and wash basin. "In the past, I had to go out to go to the toilet in winter, and I was shivering from the cold. Now the house is clean and warm."

A "toilet revolution" has leveraged profound changes in the rural living environment. Guangdong Village (光东村) piloted first, and Helong City (和龙市) fully rolled out, with sewage pipe networks replacing three-cell purification tanks to achieve centralized treatment.

"Toilet renovation is the key to improving the rural living environment. After renovation and upgrading, the coverage rate of the rural domestic waste collection, transportation and disposal system in Jilin Province has exceeded 98%, and the control rate of rural domestic sewage treatment has reached 47.1%. The appearance of villages has undergone gratifying changes." Liu Xiangyi (刘翔宜), Director of the Jilin Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said. From Guangdong Village (光东村) to Baishan Songshui (白山松水), a livable, workable and beautiful countryside is spreading from point to surface.

Looking at the vast countryside, the hardware of infrastructure continues to improve, and the software of public services continues to upgrade. In Qinghai, with an average altitude of more than 3,000 meters, the problem of "difficult and distant access to medical treatment" is being effectively solved. Sangduojie (桑多杰), a herdsman in Jiuzhi County (久治县), Guoluo Prefecture (果洛州), felt unwell a few days ago and rushed to the township health center. "I happened to meet the attending physician of the county medical community general hospital on duty. After a few days of treatment, my health has greatly improved." Sangduojie said with emotion, "There are experts on duty at my doorstep, and it is accurate and convenient to see a doctor."

Sangduojie's experience is a vivid portrayal of Qinghai's efforts to promote the sinking of high-quality medical resources to the countryside. As of now, the medical community in Qinghai Province has achieved full coverage of counties, and the county's medical service capacity has gradually improved. "Personnel, technology, services, and management" have been sunk, "post assignment + mobile medical treatment + remote guidance," high-quality medical resources flow to the grassroots level, and township health centers that once "only sold injections and medicines" can now independently diagnose and treat and screen for major diseases, weaving a health protection network.

The environment is beautiful, the service is good, and rural governance must keep up. In Wanli Management Bureau (湾里管理局), Nanchang City (南昌市), Jiangxi Province, reporters personally experienced the convenience of the "Wanli Office" smart platform. Liu Sixiang (刘斯享), a villager in Dongyuan New Village (东源新村), found that several street lights next to the village road were not lit after taking a walk after dinner. He immediately took a photo of the faulty street lights with his mobile phone and scanned the code to upload it to the "Wanli Office" smart platform.

After submitting the information, the platform transferred the situation to the township government through intelligent distribution. After receiving the work order, the staff immediately contacted the street lamp maintenance unit, and the technicians arrived at the scene to repair it as soon as possible. From reporting to solving the problem, the whole process took no more than 24 hours. Liu Sixiang called it "really efficient" when he saw the repaired street lights while walking the dog the next day.

Behind the "fingertip access and rapid response" is the "graded disposal-department linkage-feedback improvement" mechanism constructed by the "Wanli Office" smart platform. Efficient, transparent, and convenient digital governance is deeply embedded in the local rural texture. More than 90% of the people's demands are accepted and resolved on the same day. Digital technology makes rural governance smarter and more intimate.

"We will plan the urban and rural spatial layout, industrial development, public services, and infrastructure construction in a coordinated manner, promote the integrated development of revitalizing industries, strengthening counties, and enriching the people, and promote common prosperity between urban and rural areas." Huang Qiang (黄强), Secretary of the Jilin Provincial Party Committee, introduced that in recent years, Jilin has steadily implemented the new urbanization strategy and removed institutional and mechanism barriers that affect the two-way flow of urban and rural elements. We will learn from the experience of the "Thousand Villages Demonstration, Ten Thousand Villages Renovation" project to promote rural construction, build more than 18,000 new livable farmhouses, and build and renovate more than 3,700 kilometers of rural roads, and strive to build a livable, workable and beautiful countryside.

(Reporters Chang Qin (常钦), Zheng Zhiwen (郑智文), Ge Mengchao (葛孟超), Men Jiewei (门杰伟), Liu Tianliang (刘天亮), Chen Ling (陈凌), Zhou Huan (周欢), Yang Yanfei (杨颜菲), and Jia Fengfeng (贾丰丰) of this newspaper)

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Page 1 Editors: Xu Nuo, Zhang Shuaizhen, Luan Xinyi; Page 2 Editors: Jiang Xuejie, Qi Jiarun, Guo Xueyan; Page 3 Editors: Wu Gang, Zhou Zhou, Li Anqi; Page 4 Editors: Hu Anqi, Yang Shuobi, Chen Zhen

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Embracing History with Composure (Commentator's Observation)

By: 彭 飞

A sense of history is embodied as a sense of orientation. A sense of history is also a kind of logic, embodied in the grasp and understanding of laws.

Looking at the past with a scientific, dialectical, and comprehensive perspective, discerning the unchanging laws in changing times, and connecting the past, present, and future.

Laying bricks cannot be done in one go; you have to wait for the cement mortar below to dry before laying the ones above. The water retention test in the bathroom, no matter how rushed, must be done for a full 24 hours. Apply latex paint in 2 to 3 coats, allowing sufficient drying time between each coat... "Don't rush," "Wait a little longer." In home renovation, experienced masters work efficiently, but never try to rush through necessary procedures, appearing calm and composed.

The more you do and the more you see, the more naturally you know which key points cannot be ignored and which steps cannot be reduced. Speed where you should, and slow down where you must. This is true for renovating a room, building a city, and promoting economic and social development.

"Without a sense of historical depth to grasp what we are doing now and formulate our goals, we cannot do today's work well," President Xi Jinping (习近平) once pointed out earnestly, associating eagerness for quick success with a lack of historical perspective. This profound statement inspires us to think about the dialectical relationship between history and reality, and to grasp the philosophy of time in terms of fast and slow.

A sense of history is embodied as a sense of orientation.

Rapid industrialization has boosted economic growth, but it has also brought problems such as ecological degradation and resource constraints. After the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党第十八次全国代表大会), ecological civilization construction was placed in a prominent position, and China (中国) embarked on a new path of green development. Keenly aware that "the environmental conditions of large-scale import and export have changed," the strategic concept of "dual circulation" emerged, effectively enhancing China's (中国) ability to respond to risks. After decades of rapid urbanization, the deep-seated contradictions of the traditional development model have gradually become prominent, and "intensive development" has become the way to break the deadlock. The reason why the "China (中国) ship" can always steer into the correct course at the right time is that it is good at grasping the historical orientation. With a broad vision and a mindset that values learning from the past to understand the present, countries, enterprises, and individuals can move more calmly and steadily.

A sense of history is also a kind of logic, embodied in the grasp and understanding of laws.

At the end of the last century, the color TV industry engaged in a fierce price war, which ultimately led to a double loss of market share and reputation. This history has injected a sobering agent into the high-quality development of today's manufacturing industry. Avoiding falling into "involutionary" competition has become an industry consensus, and innovation and quality improvement are unwavering directions. Having learned the historical lessons of closing the country to the outside world, we have more confidence and determination to expand high-level opening up. Having strived for self-reliance in the early days of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国) due to economic blockade, we know the value of self-reliance even more. Having witnessed the problems caused by deindustrialization in some countries in recent years, we can understand the profound meaning of the real economy as the foundation of a strong country. Having a sense of history means being able to clearly grasp the successes and failures of history, extract wisdom from them, form regular understanding, and feed back to the present and inspire the future.

History is a textbook, but this book cannot be read mechanically. If we cling to the old and unchanging, and deviate from reality, simply applying the experiences of others, historical experience will also become a burden.

In developing new quality productive forces, we are not trapped in the interest structure of traditional industries or caught in path dependence, but are adapting to local conditions and finding suitable paths for transformation. In practicing the "dual carbon" goal, we have not simply copied the experiences of some developed countries, but have based ourselves on the reality of being rich in coal, poor in oil, and lacking in gas, without engaging in campaign-style "carbon reduction" or stepping on the "emergency brake," but moving forward steadily step by step.

The true sense of history lies in looking at the past with a scientific, dialectical, and comprehensive perspective, discerning the unchanging laws in changing times, and connecting the past, present, and future, always seeking development, promoting reform, and benefiting the people with a pragmatic attitude. With this way of thinking and development concept, we will neither hesitate to move forward nor be greedy for success and rush forward.

How to look forward to the future of a nation? It depends on how the nation treats its past and history. The Chinese nation (中华民族) is a nation that is good at looking back, and even more so a nation that is brave in moving forward. Coming from a profound historical culture and drawing on rich development experience, today's China (中国) is moving towards a better future and creating a more splendid tomorrow with unprecedented patience, confidence, and determination.

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Let Technological Iteration and Governance Upgrade Resonate in the Same Frequency (New Knowledge)

By: 刘温馨

[Phenomenon] When taking a ride-hailing service, contacting the driver to provide an accurate location, and making a phone call, you find that the number is not the common 11-digit mobile phone number starting with "1," and the driver can only see the user's "virtual number." Similar experiences are not new in life. Not long ago, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) issued the "Notice on Carrying Out Pilot Projects for Number Protection Services," planning the 700 number segment as a dedicated code number resource for number protection service businesses. This means that China will more strictly regulate the management of "privacy numbers."

[Commentary]

A "privacy number," also known as an "intermediate number," refers to a temporary number assigned to individual users by internet platform companies such as express delivery, food delivery, and ride-hailing services, as well as other enterprises and institutions, to replace their real mobile phone numbers. A privacy number is equivalent to adding a "firewall" to a real mobile phone number. Using this service can ensure that businesses and delivery personnel can contact users while not providing the actual phone numbers of users to relevant personnel, which helps reduce the risk of personal information leakage.

Data shows that the current daily order volume of number protection service businesses in China is at least 350 million. Due to the large volume of business and the inconsistent number formats, companies previously used mobile phone numbers, fixed telephone numbers, 95 numbers, etc., to carry out related services, which easily caused confusion and brought trouble to users. The lack of unified technical implementation standards and service specifications also affects the stability of privacy number services. In this sense, carrying out pilot projects for number protection service businesses is of great significance for protecting personal information, facilitating daily life, combating telecommunications network fraud, and promoting the development and growth of the platform economy.

In the future, when users make or receive calls and see a 15-digit number starting with "700," they will understand that the communication uses a number protection service and can make calls with confidence. The 15-digit dedicated number segment can not only be clearly distinguished from the current mobile phone number and fixed telephone number formats, making it convenient for users to identify, but also lay a good foundation for future development, meeting the future demand for hundreds of billions of code number resources in scenarios such as express delivery, food delivery, and ride-hailing services, reflecting a unified thinking that takes into account both the present and the long term.

In the information age, mobile phone numbers are not only communication carriers but can also be regarded as "digital ID cards" that connect personal identities, financial accounts, and social relationships. To weave a dense and solid protective net for personal information security, we need to focus on the risk of personal information leakage and address vulnerabilities in a targeted manner.

For example, after a mobile phone number is canceled, it is "recycled," and various accounts bound to the number are logged in and used by strangers; another example is that when "scanning a code to order food" in some restaurants, users are required to register as members using their mobile phone numbers; yet another example is that information such as the recipient, mobile phone number, and delivery address on express delivery waybills is illegally collected, and harassing calls and promotional offers follow one after another... Eliminating similar pain points, creating a healthier, cleaner, and safer information communication consumption environment, and better safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of consumers are inherent requirements for boosting consumption and are also inevitable requirements for promoting technology for good and ensuring that technological progress serves and benefits people.

Problems in development need to be solved through development. Facing the new challenges brought by new technologies, taking a "two-pronged approach" of using technological iteration to prevent risks and using governance upgrades to eliminate chaos can both nurture and protect new business forms and ensure that the development process of new technologies is not delayed. This requires the continuous updating of technical tools and the continuous improvement of the level of refined governance. Specifically, in the field of information communication, on the one hand, operators and internet platforms must be responsible for their own territory and fulfill their responsibilities, enhance their "sense of boundaries," and provide users with a safer digital environment; on the other hand, on the basis of improving the industry's regulatory system, it is necessary to further strengthen implementation and promote the industry's steady and long-term development.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the implementation of universal telecommunications services in China. From "broadband access for every village and 5G access for every township" to the completion of age-appropriate and barrier-free transformations for thousands of websites and apps suitable for the elderly, these small steps forward have laid a universal mark on technological development. While unswervingly promoting technological innovation, promoting the accelerated transformation of technological achievements into tangible and accessible benefits for the people will provide a continuous impetus for economic development and improvement of people's livelihoods.

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Participation Provides Pathways, Small Lights Form a Torch (Warm News & Hot Commentary)

By: 史 哲

# Role: Expert Translator
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[Person] The Delivery Rider with a "Dual-Track Life"

[Story] At the entrance of the Fujian Provincial Sports Center (福建省体育中心) on Wusi Road (五四路), Gulou District (鼓楼区), Fuzhou (福州市), a car crashed into the guardrail and overturned. Zeng Bing (曾兵), who was busy with deliveries, rushed to the scene, lifted the car to rescue the people inside, put out the fire, and helped the traffic police clear the road, leaving quietly afterward. He provides assistance to non-locals working hard in Fuzhou like himself, contacts volunteer lawyers to apply for work-related injury compensation for fellow villagers, and rescued a pedestrian who was knocked down by an electric vehicle during a typhoon... "Helping people is like delivering orders, every second counts." Rider Zeng Bing interprets "greatness in the ordinary" with his actions.

[Commentary]

In the afternoon streets, the speeding figures of delivery riders connect the everyday lives of thousands of households. "Being in a hurry" is the norm for riders, and it is not easy for most practitioners to devote themselves to public welfare in addition to their busy work. That is why Zeng Bing's choice is even more commendable.

On one side is the delivery time requirement, and on the other side is someone in urgent need of help. Zeng Bing has chosen the latter time and time again—stopping to rush to those who need help. Solving the difficulties of others is his priority. "Running deliveries in the morning and doing public welfare in the afternoon." For more than a year, the public welfare organization he initiated has served more than 1,000 migrant workers in Fuzhou. He said that doing deliveries to earn rewards is to take care of the "small family"; doing public welfare to give full play to his strengths can take care of the "big family." Isn't this a microcosm of national sentiment? Wheels measure livelihood, and footsteps spread kindness. One person's light can also warm a group of people.

Data from the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (中华全国总工会) shows that there are 84 million new forms of employment laborers represented by food delivery riders, couriers, and online car-hailing drivers in China, accounting for more than 20% of the country's employees. Figures like Zeng Bing are by no means isolated cases in the new employment group. They are quietly becoming new and vibrant "cells" in the urban body.

Some have transformed into helpful "Little Red Hats," guiding tourists in the right direction; some have become "woodpeckers" of the urban environment, discovering unsanitary corners and damaged facilities and reporting them in a timely manner; some have become "mobile supervisors" of food safety, guarding the "safety on the tip of the tongue" of citizens... They are creators and guardians of a better life, and also "potential stocks" for social governance.

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) made arrangements such as "improving the social work system and mechanism." Relying on the social work mechanism to reasonably guide and effectively stimulate the enthusiasm and initiative of new employment form laborers can not only give them more sense of accomplishment and gain, but also help gather more strength for urban construction.

"I would also like to do public welfare, but I don't understand the 'know-how' of how to participate specifically." A courier interviewed expressed the feelings of many enthusiastic people. How to transform "wanting to participate" into "being able to participate" and "easy to participate"? The key lies in building convenient bridges and opening up the "last mile" of participation.

Currently, various regions are actively exploring and unblocking paths. In Zhuhai (珠海), Guangdong (广东), food delivery riders can report improperly parked shared bicycles and vendors occupying roads with a tap of their fingers through a mini-program; in Sanmenxia (三门峡), Henan (河南), communities distribute "Observer Friendly Maps" and "Practical Operation Guides" to couriers, who can easily report traffic and fire hazards according to the procedures; in Ma'anshan (马鞍山), Anhui (安徽), the community's "Residents' Council Hall" is open to new employment groups, and suggestions can be made face-to-face. Rider Lao Liu's (老刘) suggestion to "add electric vehicle charging piles" was adopted, and he was full of a sense of accomplishment... Reducing the threshold for participation, simplifying participation procedures, and enriching positive feedback mechanisms such as material rewards and spiritual commendations will continuously gather collective wisdom and strength.

Of course, encouraging everyone to participate widely in social governance does not require everyone to become "Zeng Bing (曾兵)", but rather to provide everyone with convenient participation channels that suit their characteristics. When the sense of ownership is carefully supported, and when more goodwill is passed on in warmth, our home will become more beautiful.

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Photo Report

Not long ago, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) and other 6 departments jointly issued the "Implementation Opinions on Promoting the Innovative Development of the Brain-Computer Interface Industry," proposing two-step development goals for 2027 and 2030. It clarifies five key tasks: strengthening basic software and hardware research, creating high-performance products, promoting the application of technological achievements, strengthening innovative entities, and enhancing industrial support capabilities, to accelerate the cultivation and formation of a new track for future industries.

This is precisely:

Mind power connects with black technology,
Human-machine co-dancing is intelligently amazing.
Carefully planning development strategies,
The future is here and is especially promising.

Wang Jingwen (王静文)

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Opinion

The Name of the Clinic Matters

Yu Baoyue (于保月), Qingdao (青岛), Shandong Province (山东省)

Not long ago, the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委) issued the "Notice on Regulating the Management of Clinic Names in Medical Institutions," focusing on various chaotic phenomena in the naming of clinics in medical institutions, clarifying the principles of legality and compliance, scientific standardization, and clarity and accuracy, which has been well received.

For a period of time, there have been frequent occurrences of some medical institutions naming their clinics arbitrarily, vaguely, exaggeratedly, and even violating public order and good customs. Some have styled themselves as "International Medical Centers" or "Royal Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospitals," some have added words such as "miraculous" and "quick-acting" to exaggerate the effects of diagnosis and treatment, and some have used the names of well-known hospitals such as "Peking Union Medical College Hospital (协和)" and "Huashan Hospital (华山)" to create "knockoffs." The issuance of documents by relevant departments to regulate this is conducive to curbing chaos, creating a healthy and orderly medical environment, fully protecting patients' right to know, and maintaining the overall reputation and image of the medical industry.

To enhance mutual trust between doctors and patients and build a harmonious doctor-patient relationship, we must start with details and small matters such as standardizing names. Only by sincerely considering patients, avoiding routines and gimmicks, and truly providing good medical care and optimizing services can we truly win reputation and trust.

"AI + Advertising" Focuses on Regulation

Xiao Xue (肖雪), Chaoyang District (朝阳区), Beijing (北京市朝阳区)

Currently, AI large models are widely used in search engines. This has also spawned a new type of advertising marketing model: merchants place content that AI "likes" on the platform by producing it, so that when consumers search for keywords, the names of their own products and services appear as much as possible in AI's answers, thereby gaining more exposure.

The combination of AI search and advertising has positive significance. AI provides a new way for precise advertising reach, and compared with traditional advertising, the results of AI comparison and analysis are often more targeted. However, there are also potential risks. For example, advertisements mixed into AI searches are more hidden and cannot be clearly identified like traditional advertisements; illegal operators use this as a channel to place false advertisements, which are more likely to mislead consumers. If these chaotic phenomena are allowed to develop, AI search will lose credibility and even become a breeding ground for harmful information.

To maximize benefits and avoid harm, in addition to the role of regulatory authorities, search engine service providers and platforms must be more responsible. Strengthening review and management, and using technical means to identify and curb the manipulation of AI answer content, is not only responsible to users, but also accumulates "trust points" for their own long-term development.

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Medical科普 should not become a "traffic-driven business" (People's Daily Commentary)

By: 周人杰

No matter how technology iterates, we must adhere to the ethical bottom line.

An academician once said, "Only by telling science as a story can science enter every household." In recent years, riding the wave of short videos, medical popular science has gained countless fans. A report shows that among the 1.074 billion online audio-visual viewers in the country, 92.1% have been exposed to health popular science content through short video platforms, and 63% of them have developed the habit of regularly following health popular science accounts.

Short video medical popular science provides professional knowledge, which is conducive to the public's improvement of health literacy. However, at the same time, related chaos cannot be ignored. For example, some rely on homogeneous copywriting to simply repeat and dominate the screen, some are "named popular science, but actually sell medicine," some play "soft pornography" and "edge ball" under the guise of medicine, and some abuse AI technology to impersonate authoritative experts. On the surface, it is popular science, but behind it is a "traffic business." Bad content misleads the public and pollutes the online space, which urgently needs systematic treatment.

With standardized guidance, healthy and orderly development can be achieved. Not long ago, the Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办), the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委) and other four departments jointly issued the "Notice on Regulating the Medical Popular Science Behavior of 'Self-media'," which clearly requires "self-media" accounts to be responsible for the authenticity and scientific nature of the medical popular science information they publish and forward. From classifying and verifying account qualifications to strictly marking the source of medical popular science information, from strictly prohibiting irregular disguised advertising to severely punishing illegal and irregular information and accounts, implementing relevant requirements in detail can curb the "barbaric growth" of irregular medical popular science short videos and better protect the health of the masses.

Focusing on the platform as the intersection of governance, we must not only vigorously rectify chaos, but also improve the mechanism. Governing the Internet according to law means taking action when it is time to take action. A doctor in Nanjing (南京), Jiangsu (江苏) was punished for publishing a short video on a certain platform containing content related to the therapeutic effect of "botulinum toxin" because it violated the Advertising Law. Some platforms have seen exaggerated publicity such as "curing diabetes in 5 days" and have been seriously interviewed by regulatory authorities. Think of more ways to improve the quality and efficiency of platform supervision. For example, a short video platform has jointly launched a "peer review" mechanism with the Health Communication Working Committee of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association (中国医师协会健康传播工作委员会) to evaluate and identify the quality of popular science content, while improving platform rules, publishing daily operation specifications for medical accounts, review guidelines for medical and health content, etc., and publicizing some cases of violations.

No matter how technology iterates, we must adhere to the ethical bottom line. Prohibiting improper profit-seeking behavior, prohibiting unauthorized use of job titles, and not exaggerating treatment effects... A detailed look at Shanghai's (上海) first "Internet Health Popular Science Negative Behavior List" in the country highlights the focus on regulating the words and deeds of medical personnel. Promoting industry self-discipline and ensuring that "key roles" adhere to the original intention of popular science can safeguard the rules and boundaries of the market economy, the bottom line of the rule of law, and promote a fashion of respecting science and pursuing innovation.

Of course, promoting the healthy development of popular science short videos, strong supervision does not mean "sudden braking," but rather taking the rectification of chaos as the basis, encouraging high-quality content creators, and letting positive energy surge with large traffic. For example, explore the establishment of an "AI pre-review + expert review" mechanism; pilot a credit points method for high-quality creators, giving them traffic tilt and priority in commercial realization; promote the "pairing" plan between medical institutions and popular science talents; set up a "popular science creation fund" to reward rigorous and professional popular science short videos. By blocking loopholes and opening up the right path, purifying the platform and building the stage, high-quality content can occupy the high ground of communication and amplify the positive effects of popular science.

"Prevention is the most economical and effective health strategy," and health popular science is like a "social vaccine" for disease prevention and control. At present, the "Healthy China 2030" Planning Outline (《“健康中国2030”规划纲要》) is being steadily implemented, and taking multiple measures to promote the high-quality development of medical popular science will surely allow medical and health knowledge to better benefit the masses in a vivid form and help build a healthy China.

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Protecting the health of the people is what gives my life meaning.

By: 本报记者 白剑峰

Core Reading

Recently, the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部) and the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委) jointly announced the 2025 "Most Beautiful Doctors," and 10 comrades including Wang Yufeng (王玉凤), Shen Xiaohui (申小惠), Nima Lamu (尼玛拉毛), Xing Shaoyun (邢少云), Liu Zhihong (刘志宏), Nong Kang (农康), He Jianxing (何建行), Zhang Junqiao (张军桥), Zhou Jianhong (周坚红), and Liang Chunrong (梁春荣) were honorably selected. They admire medical ethics, delve into medical skills, uphold medical style, and bravely shoulder important responsibilities; they adhere to their mission, work diligently, respect life, and are willing to dedicate themselves. This issue focuses on several "Most Beautiful Doctors," recording their moving stories of guarding life.

A prescription, radiating care; a stethoscope, conveying warmth; a scalpel, pouring out painstaking effort... They are the "Most Beautiful Doctors," adhering to the principle of putting the people first and life first, using "moral character" as ink and "technical excellence" as a pen, writing an era chapter of respecting life.

"Hope to light a lamp for more patients and help them stay away from pain"

At 1 a.m., a light is still on in the pediatric psychiatry clinic of Peking University Sixth Hospital (北京大学第六医院). Wang Yufeng (王玉凤) sorted through children's medical records while looking up at the time: "Today broke the record."

Because many patients come from other places, the clinic number of Wang Yufeng (王玉凤), chief physician of the Children's Mental Health Center of Peking University Sixth Hospital (北京大学第六医院), is always increased, and the result is that the original half-day clinic unknowingly sees late at night.

Most of the children who come to see a doctor suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. In Wang Yufeng's (王玉凤) eyes, these children are her "babies" and "sweethearts."

Wang Yufeng (王玉凤) took the lead in introducing a series of diagnostic and treatment methods for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. For each new child, Wang Yufeng (王玉凤) patiently chats for dozens of minutes. She knows that children like to eat sweets, so she gives them lollipops and chats with them. After a child insisted on treatment for a period of time, he quietly said to Wang Yufeng (王玉凤) during a follow-up visit: "Grandma, the classmates in the class said that I have changed from a 'naughty ghost' to a 'little angel.'"

"The patient's affairs are more important than the sky." For more than 50 years, Wang Yufeng (王玉凤) has changed from a confidante sister and confidante aunt in the eyes of children to a confidante grandmother. She took the lead in conducting domestic brain function research on the adult period of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, helping to build a national children's mental health protection network to protect children's mental health.

"The scalpel is cold, but the hand holding the knife must be warm." He Jianxing (何建行), director of the National Respiratory Medical Center of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University (广州医科大学附属第一医院). In the past 40 years, his team has completed nearly 20,000 thoracic surgery operations.

He proposed the "three noes and one less" concept of thoracic surgery - no endotracheal intubation, no drainage tube, no urinary catheter, and less pain, and completed "tubeless" single-port thoracoscopic radical resection of lung cancer under spontaneous breathing anesthesia, breaking the traditional general anesthesia intubation surgery model.

Liu Bo (刘伯), 65, is a lung transplant patient. Before the operation, he suffered from severe emphysema and respiratory failure, and needed oxygen all year round. He Jianxing's (何建行) team successfully performed a lung transplant operation for Liu Bo (刘伯). During the operation, the patient retained spontaneous breathing, which greatly reduced the use of sedative drugs and muscle relaxants.

"I hope to light a lamp for more patients and help them stay away from pain." In 2015, He Jianxing (何建行) launched the "Love Lung Plan," established the "Lung Cancer Prevention and Screening Alliance," carried out early screening, early diagnosis and early treatment of lung cancer in many places, and built a three-level diagnosis and treatment network. At present, the number of lung cancer screening and COPD screening has exceeded 260,000.

"Treating diseases and saving people, not seeking rewards, responding to requests"

"I want to go to the place closest to the masses!" Kequ Town (柯曲镇), Gande County (甘德县), Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (果洛藏族自治州), Qinghai Province (青海省) is 4080 meters above sea level, with high cold and lack of oxygen, and difficult conditions. In 2010, Nima Lamu (尼玛拉毛), who had worked in Gande County People's Hospital (甘德县人民医院) for 14 years, took the initiative to apply to the Kequ Town Health Center (柯曲镇卫生院) with difficult conditions.

The Kequ Town Health Center (柯曲镇卫生院) covers 2 communities and 9 administrative villages. The farthest village is more than 50 kilometers away from the health center, and Nima Lamu (尼玛拉毛) often has to walk for half a day during the mobile clinic to see one or two households. Even so, whenever a patient is bedridden and his family calls for help, she is always on call. During home visits, Nima Lamu (尼玛拉毛) often brings daily necessities to residents with limited mobility and financial difficulties, and saves as much as possible on medicine costs, reduces as much as possible, and exempts as much as possible.

Kequ Town (柯曲镇) is located in the hinterland of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the incidence of plateau diseases, chronic diseases, hydatid disease and women's "two cancers" is high. In order to improve this situation, Nima Lamu (尼玛拉毛) vigorously carried out health education work, cultivated residents to develop good hygiene habits, and effectively reduced the incidence of chronic diseases and infectious diseases in the local area. "In the beginning, everyone had concerns and was unwilling to do the examination. I calmed down and told everyone about the benefits of disease screening," Nima Lamu (尼玛拉毛) said.

"As a doctor, it is meaningful to protect the health of the masses." Year after year, Nima Lamu's (尼玛拉毛) figure shuttles through the grasslands of Gande County (甘德县), and the "plateau red" on her face is deeper. "I am willing to take root in the snowy plateau!" She said with a smile.

Liang Chunrong (梁春荣), a village doctor in Alxiang Village Health Center (阿尔乡镇阿尔乡村卫生室), Alxiang Town (阿尔乡镇), Zhangwu County (彰武县), Fuxin City (阜新市), Liaoning Province (辽宁省). For thirty years, he has silently stuck to the Horqin Desert and is affectionately known as the "Desert Village Doctor" by the locals.

Liang Chunrong (梁春荣) is a native of Alxiang (阿尔乡). When he was a teenager, his mother suffered from unbearable pain due to illness, and the remote rural areas lacked medicine. Every time she fell ill, villagers needed to drive a horse-drawn cart to the doctor. Liang Chunrong (梁春荣) was determined to be a doctor at that time. In 1993, after graduating from the integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine major of Jianping Traditional Chinese Medicine School (建平中医学校) in Chaoyang City (朝阳市), Liaoning Province (辽宁省), Liang Chunrong (梁春荣) founded the village health center and became the "health gatekeeper" for the villagers.

Liang Chunrong (梁春荣) set an unwritten rule for himself: "Treating diseases and saving people, not seeking rewards, responding to requests." Regardless of wind and rain, day and night, Liang Chunrong (梁春荣) is on call. He won the trust and respect of the villagers with three "medicines": "preventing illness," "treating illness with small money," and "treating illness even without money."

"Doctor Liang (梁大夫), I can't breathe because of chest pain..." At 2 a.m. one day, Zhang (张), a 64-year-old villager, called Liang Chunrong (梁春荣). The voice on the other end of the phone was weak and trembling, and Liang Chunrong (梁春荣) ran to Zhang's (张) house with a first aid kit on his back. When he arrived at his house, Zhang (张) was sweating profusely and clutching his chest. Liang Chunrong (梁春荣) asked him to take Suxiao Jiuxin Pills (速效救心丸) sublingually and drove him 50 kilometers to the county hospital in his car. The doctor at the county hospital said: "Fortunately, he arrived in time! Half an hour later, he would be gone."

"I must lend a helping hand when I see someone in need," Liang Chunrong (梁春荣) said.

"Give full play to the advantages of combining traditional Chinese and Western medicine to provide patients with better treatment plans"

Zhou Jianhong (周坚红) sees patients very "slowly." She listens carefully to the situation of each patient, just like treating her own family. She is the director of the Third Department of Gynecology of the Women's Hospital of the School of Medicine of Zhejiang University (浙江大学医学院附属妇产科医院). She has been practicing medicine for 37 years and has relieved pain for a large number of patients.

"Menopause is a very special stage for women. In addition to physical pain, psychological problems are also worthy of attention. As a doctor, we must not only treat diseases, but also treat the heart," Zhou Jianhong (周坚红) said.

Zhou Jianhong (周坚红) found that many women suffer from diseases due to lack of health knowledge, especially in rural areas, where women generally lack awareness of their own health, leading to missed optimal treatment opportunities. In 2016, Zhou Jianhong (周坚红) took the lead in establishing the "Colorful Years" science popularization team. Almost every holiday, Zhou Jianhong (周坚红) goes to various places to give women's health science lectures. Every time she goes to a place, she invites local gynecologists to form a public welfare exchange group to allow local doctors to participate in women's health management. She also uses the science popularization public welfare exchange group of social accounts to answer questions for group members.

"I want to repay the land that gave birth to me and raised me." In 2012, after graduating from Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (上海中医药大学) with a doctorate degree, Shen Xiaohui (申小惠) resolutely returned to her hometown and came to work in the Department of Hematology of Gansu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (甘肃省中医院).

Shen Xiaohui (申小惠) said: "Traditional Chinese medicine is a huge treasure house. We must adhere to integrity and innovation, inherit the essence, and give full play to the advantages of combining traditional Chinese and Western medicine to provide patients with better treatment plans." Under her and the team's efforts, the Department of Hematology has grown from scratch and from weak to strong, and has successively carried out hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for lymphoma, multiple myeloma, senile leukemia and other diseases, as well as a series of new technologies and new therapies such as plasma exchange, blood cell single collection, and bedside blood filtration.

"I know the pain of patients, so I try my best to relieve their pain." Shen Xiaohui (申小惠) studied traditional Chinese medicine classics day and night, accumulated clinical experience, and formulated her own characteristic plasters, which were used to treat various types of anemia, coagulation disorders, and blood tumors, and achieved significant clinical results. Today, the multiple myeloma project led by the department has been selected into the national "Major and Difficult Diseases Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Clinical Collaboration Project."

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Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection and Inheritance: Integrating into Modern Life

By: 本报记者 郑海鸥

"Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) + Exhibition," "ICH + Technology," "ICH + Shopping"... From August 15th to 19th, the 2025 "Xinjiang is a Good Place" ICH Aid-Xinjiang Theme Exhibition Activity (hereinafter referred to as "Theme Activity"), jointly hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部) and the People's Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区人民政府), was held in Hotan Prefecture (和田地区), Xinjiang (新疆). ICH dance, ICH markets, ICH handicrafts, ICH study tours, and cloud ICH, each with its own characteristics, vividly demonstrated the achievements of ICH protection, inheritance, exchange, and cooperation in Xinjiang (新疆), the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团), and 25 other provinces, promoting the integration of ICH into modern life.

"Being able to have such close contact with so many ICH skills at my 'doorstep' is especially wonderful." Guhairnisa, a sophomore at Kizilsu Vocational Technical College (克孜勒苏职业技术学院), is a traditional culture enthusiast, and the theme activity opened her eyes. "Many skills are the first time I've seen them, and the excellent traditional Chinese culture is truly rich and colorful."

The theme of this theme activity is "Culture Nourishes Xinjiang, ICH Adds Color," with 435 representative ICH projects and 383 representative ICH inheritors gathered together. The collision and integration of different regional cultures have stimulated the creative inspiration of representative ICH inheritors, and a series of ICH works with both creativity and charm have been born.

"The New Year paintings feel so textured to the touch," "The texture of handmade paper is very beautiful"... Several visitors surrounded the Foshan woodblock New Year painting (佛山木版年画) booth, praising a cross-border innovative work.

Liu Zhongping (刘钟萍), a municipal representative inheritor of Foshan woodblock New Year paintings (佛山木版年画), introduced: "Hotan's mulberry paper (桑皮纸) is well-known. I just exchanged ideas with Bilal (比拉力), a county-level representative inheritor of local mulberry paper making skills, and found that the integration of Foshan's New Year paintings and Hotan's mulberry paper has a very good performance effect."

Bilal (比拉力), born in the 2000s, comes from a family of mulberry paper makers, and his grandfather is a national-level representative ICH inheritor. "Mulberry paper has a long history and is mainly used for calligraphy, painting, and mounting. The 'encounter' with New Year paintings is the first time, which undoubtedly opens up a new world for the development of the two ICH items," said Bilal (比拉力).

Xue Qun (薛群), a municipal representative inheritor of Yangzhou jade carving (扬州玉雕), came to Hotan (和田) with a learning attitude. She said, "Full communication and mutual learning between inheritors from different regions and different projects can help to learn from each other's strengths and make up for weaknesses, complement each other's advantages, and help improve skills, expand horizons, and develop markets."

Yangzhou jade carving (扬州玉雕) and Hotan jade (和田玉) have long been connected. In the 1980s, Yangzhou Jade Factory (扬州玉器厂) and Hotan Prefecture Arts and Crafts Company (和田地区工艺美术公司) cooperated to establish a jade carving factory, empowering Hotan jade (和田玉) with the skills of "Jade of the World, Craftsmanship of Yangzhou." In recent years, Yangzhou (扬州) has trained more than 100 jade carving practitioners for Hotan (和田), two of whom have become autonomous region-level arts and crafts masters; it has helped Hotan (和田) develop many jade carving cultural and creative products, which have won the favor of consumers.

Currently, China has established a four-level representative ICH project directory system at the national, provincial, municipal, and county levels to systematically protect the excellent traditional culture of various regions and ethnic groups. ICH has also become a carrier and link for promoting exchanges, interactions, and integration among all ethnic groups and forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation. The theme activity has been held for 5 consecutive years, with a total of 1,450 inheritors participating and 1,217 representative ICH projects exhibited.

Folk embroidery (Fanshi Jin embroidery) (民间绣活（繁峙晋绣）), a provincial-level representative ICH project in Shanxi (山西), is characterized by a wide variety of colors, bright colors, and boldness. "The embroidery techniques here cannot embroider small pieces. We taught the embroiderers the delicate needlework of Jin embroidery, which solved this problem," said He Zhijian (贺志坚), a provincial representative inheritor of Fanshi Jin embroidery (繁峙晋绣).

Designing cultural and creative products, creating new products, and cooperating in sales... Over the past 10 years, with the help of Fanshi Jin embroidery (繁峙晋绣) inheritors, "More than 100 Xinjiang embroiderers have increased their income by more than 20,000 yuan per year, and they can take care of their families while doing embroidery," said He Zhijian (贺志坚).

ICH is both traditional and fashionable, both culture and industry.

At the theme activity, many visitors stopped in front of the immersive interactive space - "Weaving Brocade Dreams." This interactive space replicated the traditional patterns of "Five Stars Rise in the East Benefit China" brocade (“五星出东方利中国”织锦), Xinjiang Uygur Edles silk (新疆维吾尔族艾德莱斯绸), etc. into digital looms, allowing the audience to experience the charm of ICH in light and shadow. "Interacting with the digital loom, I felt the ingenuity of ICH skills and the 'high-end' of traditional aesthetics," said visitor Guli (古丽).

The ICH market is also very popular. Xinjiang's (新疆) characteristic ICH products such as Edles silk (艾德莱斯绸), Hotan jade carvings (和田玉雕), and Karamay purple clay (克拉玛依紫砂) attracted many citizens and tourists to appreciate, experience, and consume. "Edles silk (艾德莱斯绸) has gorgeous colors and diverse patterns. I want to take it home and enjoy it with my friends," said Li Yahan (李雅涵), a tourist from Shandong (山东).

Data shows that the number of visitors to the theme activity exceeded 70,000, and the sales of the Xinjiang (新疆) special live broadcast of the "ICH Summer Shopping Month" exceeded 150 million yuan.

(Li Xianna (李贤娜), a reporter from *Minsheng Weekly*, participated in the writing)

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The Central Office of Spiritual Civilization Construction and Four Other Departments Jointly Release the Advanced Deeds of the 2025 National "Good New Era Youth"

Xinhua News Agency, Ningbo, August 19th (Reporter Tang Tao (唐弢)) The Central Office of the Spiritual Civilization Construction Steering Commission (中央精神文明建设办公室), the Ministry of Education (教育部), the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团中央), the All-China Women's Federation (全国妇联), and the China National Committee for the Well-Being of the Youth (中国关工委) jointly held the 2025 National "Good Young People of the New Era" Advanced Deeds Release Ceremony in Ningbo (宁波), Zhejiang (浙江) on the 19th, introducing to the society the advanced deeds of 50 outstanding children and teenagers.

The release ceremony, themed "Chasing the Light, Young People," used vivid short films of deeds, sincere and moving story narrations, and diverse stage presentations to focus on releasing the deeds of the 50 (groups) of good young people. These 50 (groups) of good young people were produced based on the widespread "Good Young People of the New Era" learning and publicity activities in various regions, through student self-recommendation, mutual recommendation, and recommendations from teachers, parents, and society. They are excellent in character and learning, full of vigor, and outstanding in promoting excellent traditional culture, inheriting the red gene, studying diligently, loving science, being willing to help others, and being self-reliant, demonstrating the demeanor of good young people of the new era who love the Party and the country, are diligent in learning, and develop in an all-round way.

At the event, role models of the times Qian Haijun (钱海军) and Chen Liqun (陈立群), national moral model Cui Yiwen (崔译文), national March 8th Red Banner Holder Xu Qin (徐琴), and other guests had face-to-face exchanges and interactions with the good young people of the new era, encouraging them to establish lofty ideals, strive to grow and become talented, and become useful people to the country and society when they grow up. At the release ceremony, the good young people of the new era issued a proposal to children and teenagers across the country, calling on everyone to strive to be good children with aspirations and dreams, who love learning and labor, understand gratitude and kindness, dare to innovate and dare to fight, and develop morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetically, and in labor, and strive to be good young people of the new era who love the Party and the country, are diligent in learning, and develop in an all-round way, and are always ready to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!

It is reported that since 2018, the Central Office of the Spiritual Civilization Construction Steering Commission (中央精神文明建设办公室) and other organizers have continuously released nine batches of advanced deeds of national "Good Young People of the New Era." Through in-depth excavation and multi-angle display of touching stories that happened around children and teenagers, they have continuously discovered and introduced approachable, respectable, credible, and learnable typical children and teenagers, creating a strong atmosphere among minors of learning from the advanced, becoming advanced, and striving to be "Good Young People of the New Era."

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Photo Report

Located on the Zheda Highway in Dongxiang Autonomous County (东乡族自治县), Gansu Province, the Liujiaxia Bridge (刘家峡大桥) is 568 meters long. It is one of the largest-span suspension bridges in Northwest China and an important bridge project of the Zheda Highway. The unique bridge structure and the surrounding lake and mountains form a beautiful picture. The picture shows the Liujiaxia Bridge (刘家峡大桥).

Photo by Cao Hongzu (曹红祖) (Image China (影像中国)).

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2025 Nan Guo Book Festival Concludes

This newspaper's Guangzhou (广州) August 19th dispatch (Reporter Jiang Xiaodan (姜晓丹)) On August 19th, the 5-day 2025 Nan Guo Bookfragrance Festival, held at the Area B main venue of the Canton Fair Complex in Guangzhou (广州), Guangdong Province (广东省), came to a successful conclusion. With the theme of "Bookfragrance Bay Area · Reading the World · Sharing the Future," this year's Bookfragrance Festival, based in the Bay Area, radiating across the country, and connecting the world, has successfully upgraded from a regional reading activity to an international cultural event, offering a national reading carnival to millions of readers.

According to reports, this year's Bookfragrance Festival has reached new historical highs in terms of scale, number of participants, and social impact. The main venue covers an area of approximately 40,000 square meters and features 4 themed exhibition halls. At the same time, 467 distinctive branch venues have been established in 21 prefecture-level cities and above throughout the province, as well as the Macao Special Administrative Region (澳门特别行政区) and Kashgar (喀什), Xinjiang (新疆), covering a total area of over 1 million square meters. More than 1,500 publishing institutions from home and abroad brought nearly 500,000 kinds of publications and cultural and creative products. The main and branch venues jointly held 2,335 wonderful cultural activities, attracting a cumulative total of over 55 million online and offline participants.

In addition, this year's Bookfragrance Festival attracted publishing and cultural institutions from 23 countries and regions to participate in the exhibition, reaching 102 Sino-foreign copyright agreements (including letters of intent), and focusing on promoting more than 30 works to the world.

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Fujian Introduces 10 Measures to Build a Child-Friendly Society

Fuzhou, August 19th (People's Daily reporter Liu Xiaoyu (刘晓宇)) - Recently, the General Office of the People's Government of Fujian Province (福建省人民政府) issued the "Notice on Several Measures to Promote the Construction of a Fertility-Friendly Society" (关于推动建设生育友好型社会的若干措施) (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures"), proposing ten measures, including enhancing the guarantee function of生育 insurance, implementing childcare subsidies and other systems, and strengthening the protection of workers' rights and interests, to promote the construction of a fertility-friendly society. The "Measures" are valid for 10 years.

The "Measures" emphasize strengthening the guarantee role of生育 insurance for the生育 medical expenses and生育 allowance benefits of female employees who participate in the insurance. Childbirth medical expenses such as prenatal check-ups and childbirth that meet the conditions will be included in the生育 insurance or reimbursed by basic medical insurance as stipulated. At the same time, the special additional deduction policy for individual income tax for childcare and children's education under the age of 3 should be implemented.

In terms of strengthening the protection of workers' rights and interests, the "Measures" pointed out that employers should be urged to implement labor protection for female employees, especially pregnant and lactating female employees, in accordance with laws and regulations. Employers are encouraged to adopt flexible work schedules and telecommuting methods in combination with their actual situations to create a family-friendly work environment. Unblock labor security rights protection channels, and resolutely investigate and deal with employment discrimination based on gender, age, etc.

In terms of strengthening reproductive health services, the "Measures" support the construction of rescue centers for critically ill pregnant women. Traditional Chinese medicine hospitals are encouraged to open eugenics clinics and integrate traditional Chinese medicine technology into gynecological, obstetrical, and postpartum rehabilitation medical services. Strengthen the research and application of reproductive health technology, and encourage cities and prefectures with conditions to provide infertility treatment subsidies to families in need.

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Delivery Driver and Police Work Together to Rescue Trapped Woman (Heartwarming Story)

By: 本报记者 王永战

At approximately 4:00 PM on August 12th, Zhang Kun (张焜), a delivery driver working a summer job, had just completed an order downstairs at Building 6 of the Shihao Hui (世豪荟) in the Shizhong District (市中区) of Leshan City (乐山市), Sichuan Province (四川省), when suddenly a pillow with writing on it landed in front of him.

"The pillow had the numbers '110' and '625' written on it." Seeing this, Zhang Kun (张焜) realized that someone might be in danger and immediately called the police.

At that moment, police officer Yang Yi (杨祎) and his colleagues were on duty at the Panlong Outpost Police Station (蟠龙前哨警务站) of the Pengshan Road Police Station (彭山路派出所). Upon receiving the call, Yang Yi (杨祎) quickly led auxiliary police officers Pan Juncheng (潘俊丞) and Li Junhao (李俊豪) to the scene.

Upon arriving, Yang Yi (杨祎) quickly analyzed the pillow with the writing: "The presence of '110' indicates someone is definitely in danger, and '625' likely represents a room number."

Arriving at a nearby hotel, staff indicated that the pillow resembled those commonly used in a homestay on the 25th floor of Building 6. The police determined that the pillow likely came from the 25th floor of Building 6 and, based on where it landed, determined it was probably from Room 15, which is close to the outside of the building.

"We need to rescue them immediately!" The police and property management personnel quickly went to Room 15 on the 25th floor of Building 6. Property management provided the owner's phone number, and Yang Yi (杨祎) called it. The phone rang inside the room, but no one answered. At that moment, a banging sound came from inside.

"At the time, we requested support from the SWAT team of the Public Security Bureau through the 110 command center," Yang Yi (杨祎) recalled. However, because it would take time for the support to arrive, everyone worried about delaying the rescue. Calming down, Yang Yi (杨祎) carefully examined the door structure, tried multiple times, and finally kicked it open.

Entering the room, they found a cell phone on the table, and continuous banging sounds were coming from the bedroom. Subsequently, Yang Yi (杨祎) kicked open the bedroom door.

After the bedroom door opened, a pale and weak woman slowly walked out, leaning against the wall. "We are the police, please don't be afraid," Yang Yi (杨祎) said.

It turned out that the person banging on the door and throwing the pillow with the writing was Ms. Zhou (周女士), the owner of the homestay. The police learned that Ms. Zhou (周女士) had been accidentally locked in the bedroom around 10:00 AM on August 11th when a gust of wind blew the door shut while she was cleaning the room. Because her phone was in the living room and the bedroom door lock was faulty, Ms. Zhou (周女士) had been trapped in the room for more than 30 hours.

During that time, Ms. Zhou (周女士) had tried to extend clothes out the window and wave them for help, and had also torn off the sponge from the mattress and written "110" on it for help, but neither worked. "Finally, she wrote a message for help on the pillow and threw it downstairs, where it was luckily discovered by the delivery driver," Yang Yi (杨祎) said.

Having been trapped for so long and finally rescued, Ms. Zhou (周女士) was very grateful. On August 15th, she went to the Panlong Outpost Police Station (蟠龙前哨警务站) of the Pengshan Road Police Station (彭山路派出所) to present the police with a silk banner to express her gratitude. "I especially want to thank that enthusiastic delivery driver!" Ms. Zhou (周女士) said.

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This edition's editors: Zhang Yanchun, Kang Yan, Liu Juanxi

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Study tours target quality (Exploration)

By: 本报记者 孙海天 窦 皓

During the summer vacation, educational study tours have become a popular trend in cultural and tourism consumption. Experiencing artificial intelligence, visiting space launches, exploring tropical rainforests... a batch of study tour products are researched more deeply, learned more widely, and traveled further, better meeting market demands.

The "2024-2025 China Study Tour Economic Market Operation Monitoring Report" shows that the market size of study tours is expected to reach 213.2 billion yuan this year, an increase of 19% year-on-year. Why are walking classrooms so popular? How should the study tour industry develop in a healthy and sustainable direction? The reporter interviewed on this topic.

Focus on Personal Experience, Emphasize Tangibility

In the laboratory of Zhejiang University (浙江大学), a study tour course with the theme of artificial intelligence is underway.

"The building collapsed, and someone is trapped." At the simulated rescue site, the instructor introduced the task to the children, "Would you like to write a program to control this robot dog and let it enter the field for rescue?"

"Yes!" 10-year-old Lele's voice was loud. With the help of the instructor, he and his friends clicked and dragged on the screen to complete a simplified version of the programming work. Under the instructions of the program, the robot dog crossed cracks and other obstacles in the ruins, successfully found the injured and transmitted information.

"Study tours are not as simple as visiting and checking in. In the course setting, we must consider the children's acceptance level and focus on personal experience." Yang Yang, vice president of Zhejiang Haoshi Education Technology Co., Ltd. (浙江皓石教育科技有限公司), said that her company is responsible for the development of study tour courses and has a team of teachers with academic backgrounds including computer science, education, psychology, and other majors, which can improve course details in continuous practice and feedback.

"5, 4, 3, 2, 1, ignition!" On the morning of July 15, at the Hainan Wenchang Space Launch Site (海南文昌航天发射场), the Long March 7 Y10 carrier rocket (长征七号遥十运载火箭) lifted the Tianzhou 9 cargo spacecraft (天舟九号货运飞船) into the air, and the flames reddened the sea and sky. On the viewing platform not far away, Huang Jinhe (黄晋和), a middle school student from Nanning City (南宁市), Guangxi (广西), and his classmates witnessed this moment. "Coming to the site with the study tour group is the only way to feel this shock!" Huang Jinhe said.

Wenchang Aerospace Supercomputing Center (文昌航天超算中心), a giant screen shows a simulated image of the rocket advancing into the universe; Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site (海南商业航天发射场) in Dongjiao Town (东郊镇), Wenchang City (文昌市), the tower stands tall, and the rocket flies to the sky... In these places, batches of study tour children observe on-site and feel the charm of aerospace. Yang Jing, a study tour instructor from a Hainan (海南) study tour institution, introduced that aerospace courses are tailored for students of different academic levels: "For elementary school students, the focus is on hands-on practice such as assembling rocket models; for junior and senior high school students, advanced knowledge such as orbital calculation is introduced. Our vision is to make knowledge tangible."

Broaden Growth Paths and Help Quality Education

In the eyes of many parents, diversified scenarios such as science and technology venues, fields and mountains provide children with growth paths different from schools and families.

"Sending my child to a study tour with the theme of artificial intelligence is to cultivate his interest in science more outside of school courses." Lele's mother, Ms. Yang (杨女士), said that she saw her child writing programs and controlling robot dogs for rescue through online live broadcasts, and felt that her child's trip was worthwhile.

A parent from Chongqing (重庆) signed up her child for a study tour group to Hainan (海南) this summer vacation, "Our family has participated in study tours for several consecutive years. In addition to broadening the child's horizons, we also hope to cultivate the child's independence, such as packing luggage and making friends."

Some educators also believe that children going out of campus and participating in practice during the holidays will help them **知行合一** (zhī xíng hé yī - "unity of knowledge and action," integrating learning with practice) and empower their growth.

Huang Yuxin (黄煜馨), a teacher from Nanning No. 14 Middle School (南宁市第十四中学) in Guangxi (广西) who took students to Wenchang City (文昌市) for study tours, said that scientifically designed and clearly oriented study tour products can help students better absorb the knowledge learned in school, "Watching rocket launches turns the physics formulas in textbooks into vivid scenes, and children often remember them more firmly and understand them more thoroughly."

"The country has vigorously advocated interdisciplinary and comprehensive learning methods in recent years, aiming to improve students' comprehensive quality." Zhao Xinxin (赵欣欣), deputy director of the Basic Education Management Department of Hainan Normal University (海南师范大学), believes that study tours extend classroom education to social practice, effectively meeting the relevant requirements put forward by quality education.

Aiming at the market's demand for high quality, some study tour institutions and relevant management departments are working together to optimize supply.

"We guide relevant business entities to develop more high-quality study tour courses by collecting high-quality study tour bases and holding study tour route design competitions." Xing Li (邢莉), a second-level researcher at the Hainan Provincial Department of Tourism, Culture, Radio, Television and Sports (海南省旅游和文化广电体育厅), introduced.

Strengthening the training of instructors is also one of the focuses. "How to deal with minor injuries?" "What if a child's tooth falls out accidentally?" In order to help study tour institutions improve their services, the Haoshi Education (皓石教育) team applied artificial intelligence large models to the training of instructors, using the summarized policy documents and industry experience as a database to provide disposal suggestions for difficult problems. "We must understand education and safety. The instructor team must have composite capabilities to ensure the service quality of study tours." Deng Dezhi (邓德智), a professor at Zhejiang Tourism Vocational College (浙江旅游职业学院), said.

Uneven Qualifications, Need to Improve Standards

Currently, the study tour market also has the phenomenon of uneven heat and uneven quality.

According to media reports, some study tour camps have been preparing for many months, but have not reached the number of people required to form a group; and some very popular study tour projects have even less than half the number of inquiries this year compared to last year.

As for service quality, there are also worrying issues. "I signed up my child for a science and technology-themed study tour, but the goods were not as advertised. When promoting, it was said that there would be expert explanations and professional research, but when we arrived at the site, only visits and check-ins were left." A parent from Zhejiang (浙江) said.

Some institutions that carry out study tour business do not even have qualifications. "We once investigated and dealt with a science popularization education company that engaged in travel agency business online in the name of 'rocket launch viewing study tour,' but in fact, they did not obtain relevant business licenses." Liu Pengtao (刘朋涛), a law enforcement officer from the Hainan Provincial Department of Tourism, Culture, Radio, Television and Sports (海南省旅游和文化广电体育厅), introduced that this kind of unqualified operation is prone to disputes and accidents.

"In terms of institutional qualifications, course content, tutor level, charging standards, and safety guarantees, there are indeed many problems that need to be solved in the industry." Deng Dezhi (邓德智) said, "Children and parents 'complain' a lot, which reflects that the study tour market needs further standardization."

How to promote the healthier and more sustainable development of the study tour market? In May of this year, the three industry standards for study tours released by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部) were officially implemented, which standardized the overall requirements, product and service content, service entities, personnel configuration and job responsibilities, and safety management of study tour products and services, and clearly required the establishment of a quality management system to evaluate the implementation of each link of study tour services.

Some places are exploring the introduction of qualified institutions into the study tour market. For example, in Quzhou (衢州), Zhejiang (浙江), the Quzhou Municipal Primary and Secondary School Quality Education Practice School (衢州市中小学素质教育实践学校), a public institution directly under the local education department, has launched more than 200 in-school comprehensive practice activity courses and 16 high-quality study tour routes. Because it has added the brand of "Quzhou Municipal Primary and Secondary School Practice Education Guidance Center" (衢州市中小学实践教育指导中心), the school also has the functions of identifying and assessing study tour bases and training study tour instructors.

In Hainan (海南), a provincial-level study tour tourism association has also been established, and relevant standards have been released to continuously carry out training for study tour instructors. "Systematically cultivating talents and 'creating blood' for the industry will help the development path go further." Xie Xiangxiang (谢祥项), associate professor at the School of International Tourism and Public Management of Hainan University (海南大学国际旅游与公共管理学院), said.

"Study tours run through the entire tourism chain of eating, living, traveling, traveling, shopping, and entertainment, covering a wide range and involving many links." Deng Dezhi (邓德智) suggested that education, culture and tourism, market supervision and other departments should strengthen overall coordination and establish a comprehensive governance system to ensure the quality of study tour services.

"The Hainan Provincial Tourism and Culture Law Enforcement Department is working with relevant units and institutions to explore the establishment of a white list system for study tour institutions." The relevant person in charge of the Hainan Provincial Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports (海南省旅文厅) said that while strengthening supervision and standardizing order, it is also necessary to encourage and guide institutions to shift from "land grabbing" to "**精耕细作**" (jīng gēng xì zuò - "intensive cultivation and meticulous work," to cultivate carefully and meticulously), providing sufficient and high-quality products to meet market demands.

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A Walking Classroom: Only Stability Leads to Success (Editor's Notes)

By: 卢 涛

"Read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles." In recent years, study tours that combine education with entertainment and integrate knowledge with practice have gradually become an important part of the collaborative education mechanism involving families, schools, and society. They are welcomed by the market and have spawned broad business opportunities. At the same time, some problems in the study tour market have also become prominent: qualifications are uneven, teaching is superficial, products do not match the description, and safety is not guaranteed.

How can study tours move towards high quality? Where to go, what to learn, and who will teach are particularly crucial questions. The Ministry of Education (教育部) has selected "National Primary and Secondary School Students' Study and Practice Education Bases (全国中小学生研学实践教育基地)," the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部) has released three industry standards, including the "Study Tourism Curriculum and Route Design Guidelines (研学旅游课程与线路设计指南)," and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部) has announced "Study Tourism Instructor (研学旅游指导师)" as a new profession. These measures reflect the strengthening of management synergy, and the foundation for the healthy and sustainable development of study tours is becoming more solid.

As a key party, study tour organizations, in addition to accepting regulatory constraints, must also actively enhance self-discipline. Only by doing a good job in products and services can they withstand the 大浪淘沙 (dà làng táo shā - "big waves wash away sand," survive intense competition). The walking classroom can only go far if it proceeds steadily, requiring sustained effort. This effort is related to the growth of every child and is worth all parties working together to carefully nurture and strongly support. This process of effort is also like a "study tour," which will eventually bring substantial development and rich rewards.

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Li Zhenghua: Leaving the Teaching Post to Shoulder a Rifle, Father and Son Sacrificed for the Country (Remembering History, Cherishing the Memory of Martyrs - Anti-Japanese War Heroes)

By: 新华社记者 滕军伟

At the foot of Mount Tai (泰山), the Tai'an Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery (泰安革命烈士陵园) is evergreen with pines and cypresses, and crape myrtles are in full bloom. On the north side of the cemetery, 10 large granite tombs are lined up in a row, where the anti-Japanese hero Li Zhenghua (李正华) is buried.

Li Zhenghua (李正华), originally named Li Lianxiu (李连秀), was born in 1905 in a wealthy family in Caoheya Village (漕河涯村) in Tai'an County (泰安县) (now Caohe Village (漕河村), Mazhuang Town (马庄镇), Daiyue District (岱岳区), Tai'an City (泰安市)). From an early age, he was upright, had a strong sense of justice, and dared to fight against reactionary forces.

In the 1920s and 1930s, the Chinese people were in dire straits. Li Zhenghua (李正华) was filled with grief and indignation. He raised funds to establish a primary school in the village, providing free education to poor students. He also opened a Pujitraditional Chinese medicine store to treat villagers. During this period, he united a group of passionate young people and sowed the seeds of revolution among the masses. In 1937, Li Zhenghua (李正华) joined the Communist Party of China.

After the July 7th Incident in 1937, the Japanese army launched a full-scale invasion southward, and Jinan (济南) and Tai'an (泰安) fell one after another. Faced with national crisis, Li Zhenghua (李正华) resolutely entrusted the primary school and traditional Chinese medicine store he had painstakingly managed to others, took off his long gown, picked up weapons, organized anti-Japanese armed forces, and devoted himself wholeheartedly to the anti-Japanese national salvation movement.

On New Year's Day morning in 1938, Li Zhenghua (李正华) and Zhang Jie (张杰) led more than 50 guerrillas to gather at the bridgehead of Caoheya Bridge (漕河涯大桥) to participate in the Dongxiang Uprising. More than ten days later, the team arrived at Xiangshui Temple (香水寺) in Xiazhang (夏张) and joined the Shanxi Western District People's Anti-Enemy Self-Defense Regiment (山东西区人民抗敌自卫团), embarking on the armed anti-Japanese journey under the leadership of the Party.

After joining the Self-Defense Regiment, Li Zhenghua (李正华) demonstrated good command and combat capabilities, commanding and participating in dozens of battles such as the Feicheng Battle, the night attack on Jieshou, and the ambush at Wuliangdian, greatly inspiring the anti-Japanese fighting spirit of the military and civilians in western Tai'an. The Self-Defense Regiment gained fame, and uprising teams from surrounding areas joined one after another.

On April 22, 1941, Li Zhenghua (李正华) went to the Tai'an Western Military Region Command (泰西军分区司令部) for a meeting. On the way back, he stayed overnight at the home of a villager in Songjiazhuang (宋家庄), Feicheng (肥城), and was surrounded by the enemy. In the critical moment, the villagers advised him to hide in the cellar. However, in order not to implicate the villagers, he resolutely refused, led the signalman to rush out of the village, and was unfortunately shot and heroically sacrificed when breaking through to the village entrance.

In order to commemorate this anti-Japanese hero, the Tai'an County Party Committee (泰安县委) and the County Anti-Japanese Democratic Government held a grand memorial service in the martyr's hometown. In 1963, the remains of martyr Li Zhenghua (李正华) were moved from Caoheya Village (漕河涯村) to the Tai'an Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery (泰安革命烈士陵园). In September 2020, Li Zhenghua (李正华) was selected into the third batch of famous anti-Japanese martyrs and hero group lists.

After Li Zhenghua (李正华) sacrificed, his eldest son Li Ruiyun (李瑞云) inherited his father's aspirations and participated in the Anti-Japanese War, and heroically sacrificed in October 1945 at the young age of 20. In 1951, the village farmers' association presented Li Zhenghua's (李正华) descendants with a plaque that read "Two Martyrs from One Family" (一门双烈).

In 2021, the Memorial Hall of the Fifth Detachment of the Shanxi Western District People's Anti-Enemy Self-Defense Regiment (山东西区人民抗敌自卫团五大队纪念馆) opened in Caohe Village (漕河村), and has now become a patriotic education base in Daiyue District (岱岳区), receiving nearly a hundred batches of Party members, cadres, and the masses who come here to receive red education every year. Ma Xiaohua (马晓华), Secretary of the Caohe Village (漕河村) Party Branch and head of the memorial hall, said: "Li Zhenghua's (李正华) deeds of adhering to his original aspirations, 舍生忘死 (shě shēng wàng sǐ - "disregard one's own safety," to be ready to sacrifice oneself; to risk one's life) in difficult environments are a vivid display of the red gene. His spirit transcends time and space, inspiring contemporary people to remember history and inherit the mission."

At the entrance of Caohe Village (漕河村), where Li Zhenghua (李正华) led the guerrillas to gather, a stone monument and a pavilion were built with the inscription "Starting Point of the Caohe Guerrilla Team" (漕河游击队出发地). The couplet on the pillars of the pavilion reads: "Patriots stepped forward to perform great deeds in the face of national crisis; the smoke of gunpowder has dissipated, and the heroic achievements inspire people today."

(Xinhua News Agency, Jinan (济南), August 11)

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Make good use of development opportunities, potential, and strengths.

By: 金社平

The "14th Five-Year Plan" is more than halfway through its final year.

How was China's economy in the first half of the year?

The gross domestic product increased by 5.3% year-on-year, a growth rate higher than the same period last year and the annual level, ranking among the top among major economies; the import and export scale reached a record high for the same period, with exports increasing by 7.2% year-on-year... Amidst the changing global economic landscape, China's economy is operating steadily and making progress, demonstrating strong vitality and resilience.

How should we view the current situation?

On July 23, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized at a symposium with non-Party figures: "Currently, China's economic operation still faces many risks and challenges. We must correctly grasp the situation, enhance our awareness of potential dangers, adhere to the bottom-line thinking, make good use of development opportunities, potential, and advantages, and consolidate and expand the momentum of economic recovery."

What should be done for the next step of economic work?

The meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局) held on July 30 pointed out: "Maintain the continuity and stability of policies, enhance flexibility and foresight, focus on stabilizing employment, stabilizing enterprises, stabilizing the market, and stabilizing expectations, vigorously promote the domestic and international dual circulation, strive to complete the annual economic and social development goals and tasks, and achieve a successful conclusion to the '14th Five-Year Plan'."

One-tenth of the plan, nine-tenths of implementation. All regions and departments should promote high-quality development with a stronger sense of responsibility and more proactive actions, consolidate and expand the momentum of economic recovery, and make a decisive victory in the "14th Five-Year Plan."

(I)

To do a good job in the current economic work, we must first correctly grasp the situation, recognize development advantages, and maintain strategic focus.

Looking around the world, unilateralism and protectionism are on the rise, and the complexity, severity, and uncertainty of the external environment are increasing.

Looking at ourselves, China's economic foundation is stable, with many advantages, strong resilience, and great potential. The supporting conditions and basic trends for long-term improvement have not changed.

The future of China presents both opportunities and challenges.

The key to consolidating and expanding the momentum of economic recovery lies in concentrating our efforts on managing our own affairs well and firmly grasping the initiative in development.

"Village Galas" have boosted rural cultural tourism, the "Su Chao" (苏超) has leveraged the ticket economy, and the ice and snow economy and flower appreciation economy are gaining popularity, with service consumption offering many highlights; "Guochao" (国潮) and traditional Chinese clothing are frequently "going viral," and new types of consumption are booming... In the first seven months, the total retail sales of consumer goods increased by 4.8% year-on-year; in the first half of the year, the contribution rate of final consumption expenditure to the growth of gross domestic product reached 52%, with domestic demand becoming the main driving force and stabilizing anchor for economic growth.

Domestic demand as the mainstay and internal circulation are unique advantages of a major economy. The more complex the external environment, the more we must base our development strategy on strengthening the domestic major circulation and take multiple measures to expand domestic demand.

Stimulate potential consumption.

Make residents "dare to consume." Enhance consumption capacity through measures such as promoting reasonable growth in wage income, broadening channels for property income, and promoting increased income for farmers.

Make residents "willing to consume." Innovate diversified consumption scenarios, improve the supply in the fields of culture, tourism, catering, leisure, health, and sports, and continuously optimize the consumption environment.

Deepen the implementation of special actions to boost consumption. While expanding commodity consumption, cultivate new growth points for service consumption, and the demand potential of the super-large-scale market will continue to be released.

Expand effective investment.

Renovate old residential areas, build underground pipe networks, promote urban greening, and improve public service facilities... New urbanization contains massive scenarios for "investing in people." Every 1 percentage point increase in China's urbanization rate can add more than 200 billion yuan of consumption demand annually and drive trillions of yuan of new investment demand.

Whether it is "promoting the construction of 'two major projects' with high quality" or "carrying out urban renewal with high quality," it will better play the key role of investment and provide strong support for stabilizing growth, adjusting structure, cultivating momentum, and benefiting people's livelihoods.

To consolidate and expand the momentum of economic recovery, we must also make good use of development opportunities and respond to the uncertainty of the external environment with certainty in opening up.

In the first seven months, the total value of goods imports and exports increased by 3.5% year-on-year, with exports increasing by 7.3% year-on-year and the export value of high-tech products increasing by 7.2% year-on-year, with the technological content of export products gradually increasing; in the first half of the year, 30,014 new foreign-invested enterprises were established nationwide, an increase of 11.7% year-on-year... Since the beginning of this year, China's foreign trade and foreign investment have shown stable performance, demonstrating full resilience.

Opening up and cooperation are the inevitable choice to conform to the general trend of history and the inevitable requirement for the steady progress of China's economy. Doing a good job in the current economic work requires us to smooth and upgrade the international circulation and stabilize the fundamentals of foreign trade and foreign investment.

Steadily expand international market space.

In the first half of the year, China's imports and exports to more than 190 countries and regions achieved growth, and the number of partners with a trade scale of more than 50 billion yuan reached 61, an increase of 5 compared with the same period last year. Actively build a diversified international market pattern, deepen the integration of domestic and foreign trade reforms, and increase support in terms of market channels, domestic consumption, fiscal finance, and service guarantees for some enterprises that are greatly affected by tariffs... We must play a "combination punch" to continuously exert the stabilizing role of foreign trade on economic growth.

Continuously enhance the magnetic force of the Chinese market.

"'First-tier' liberalization, 'second-tier' management, and freedom within the island," the full island customs closure operation of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自贸港) will be officially launched on December 18 this year. The scope of "zero tariff" commodities has been expanded to approximately 6,600 tariff items, accounting for 74% of all commodity tariff items; low-intervention and high-efficiency precise supervision will be implemented for "zero tariff" goods, etc.... A complete set of liberalized and facilitated policies and systems demonstrates the firm determination to "open the door wider and wider."

Optimize export tax rebate policies, build high-level free trade pilot zones and other opening-up platforms, expand pilot projects for opening up in fields such as telecommunications, medical care, and education, encourage foreign-invested enterprises to reinvest in China, and implement the "2025 Action Plan for Stabilizing Foreign Investment"... Steadily expand institutional opening up in terms of rules, regulations, management, standards, etc., China will continue to become an "ideal, safe, and promising" destination for transnational investment.

Maintaining focus and enhancing confidence, and accelerating the construction of a new development pattern, we will continuously consolidate and enhance the certainty of high-quality development in the current complex and volatile international situation, and effectively respond to various uncertainties.

(II)

To do a good job in the current economic work, we must continuously shape new momentum and new advantages for economic development in accordance with the new development concept.

At sea, the second domestically produced large cruise ship successfully achieved in-dock floating, and the construction of large liquefied natural gas carriers is proceeding non-stop.

On land, the world's fastest high-speed train CR450 successfully reached its speed target.

In the sky, the three astronauts of Shenzhou XX (神舟二十号) successfully entered the Chinese space station, and the domestically produced large aircraft C919 has carried more than 2 million passengers cumulatively.

In the first seven months, the added value of high-tech manufacturing above the designated size increased by 9.5% year-on-year; in July, the output of industrial robots increased by 24% year-on-year; as of June, the effective number of domestic invention patents reached 5.01 million, an increase of 13.2% year-on-year... Since the beginning of this year, China's innovation field has been full of vitality, and industrial upgrading has been advancing vigorously.

The concept is the guide for action. Taking the new development concept as the command baton and traffic light, and continuously igniting the innovation engine and developing new quality productive forces, is a major article that needs to be continuously written well.

We must make good use of the unique advantages we possess.

"Only China." From an iron ore to a chip, a battery to a complete vehicle, the third Chain Expo (链博会) presented a panoramic view of China's entire intelligent vehicle industry chain, which made Pang Chunlei (庞春雷), general manager of Beteri's product line, feel deeply moved.

The time it takes to drink a cup of coffee is enough to handle tens of thousands of parts for electric locomotives; within a 1-hour commute circle, 95% of the parts for mobile phones can be assembled... The complete industrial system and strong supporting capabilities have helped China's manufacturing industry maintain the world's largest overall scale for 15 consecutive years, and the output of more than 220 major industrial products ranks first in the world, which will also help us take the initiative in the face of global industrial chain and supply chain restructuring.

We must also see that China has abundant human resources advantages. The full-time equivalent of R&D personnel ranks first in the world, the number of highly cited scientists ranks second in the world, and the number of graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors exceeds 5 million each year... By coordinating the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, and continuously releasing the talent dividend, the innovation momentum will be even more surging.

We must grasp the valuable opportunities we face.

The future is here! Automatically walk to the charging station, bend your arms, take out the battery pack embedded behind you, and then install a new battery, the whole process takes up to 3 minutes... Recently, UBTECH (优必选) announced that its industrial humanoid robot Walker S2 has learned to change its own batteries.

From twisting Yangko at the Spring Festival Gala to participating in marathons and working in factories, 2025 is hailed as the first year of mass production of humanoid robots in China, and various robots are accelerating their evolution.

Empowering industrial production, new drug research and development, transportation and travel, and deeply integrating with emerging industries such as robots and quantum computing, with more than 5,100 companies and a core industry scale exceeding 700 billion yuan... Currently, the artificial intelligence industry is accelerating its growth in China. Seizing the valuable opportunities of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and transforming to high-end, intelligent, and green, China's manufacturing industry has broad prospects.

We must focus on the key tasks on our road ahead.

Strive to "strengthen muscles and bones." We must increase efforts to make up for shortcomings, strengthen strengths, and strengthen guarantees, and fully promote the independent control of key industrial chains; we must deepen the empowerment and application of digital technology and promote the deep integration of informatization and industrialization; we must adhere to green development and improve industrial energy efficiency and green development levels.

Go all out to "move towards the new." Unblock the mechanism, both deploy the innovation chain around the industrial chain, and arrange the industrial chain around the innovation chain, promote the integrated development of technological innovation and industrial innovation with greater efforts, promote the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements, and accelerate the transformation of innovation achievements from "bookshelves" to "shelves."

Climbing to higher levels, igniting the engine of technological innovation, developing and expanding new momentum, new formats, and new industries, the innovation "potential energy" will continue to transform into economic "kinetic energy."

(III)

To do a good job in the current economic work, we must fully mobilize the enthusiasm of all parties and provide strong impetus for high-quality development.

Fully release policy effects and maintain stable economic operation.

Issue ultra-long-term special treasury bonds to implement the "two major projects" and "two new projects" policies with greater efforts; comprehensively use a variety of monetary policy tools such as RRR cuts to maintain ample liquidity; stabilize employment and reduce burdens on the one hand, and expand employment and tap potential on the other hand, to maintain overall stability in the employment situation... In the first half of the year, all regions and departments withstood the pressure, faced difficulties, and accelerated the implementation of more proactive and effective macro policies.

In particular, the meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局) held on April 25 proposed "focusing on stabilizing employment, stabilizing enterprises, stabilizing the market, and stabilizing expectations" and deployed a package of policies and measures, which played an important role in effectively responding to external shocks and promoting sustained economic recovery. Facts have fully proved that "more proactive and effective macro policies" are pragmatic, effective, and powerful.

Monetary policy tools such as RRR cuts and interest rate cuts have left sufficient room for adjustment, and fiscal deficits, special bonds, and special treasury bonds still have room for further expansion depending on the situation. Currently, China's macro policy toolbox is still sufficient.

In the next step, we must continue to exert efforts and increase efforts in macro policies, both promote the continuous implementation of existing policies and established policies, maintain the continuity and stability of policies, and do a good job in policy reserves, and promptly promote the introduction and implementation according to needs, enhance flexibility and foresight, and then respond to changes in the external situation with the effectiveness of macro governance.

Unswervingly deepen reform and cultivate fertile ground for enterprise development.

In May, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (中国汽车工业协会) issued a proposal calling on "advantageous enterprises not to monopolize the market and squeeze the living space of other entities"; in June, the "Regulations on Guaranteeing Payment of Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Funds" came into effect, after which more than 10 car companies such as China FAW (中国一汽) and Dongfeng Motor (东风汽车) publicly promised that "the payment period for suppliers will not exceed 60 days"; in July, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) opened an "online problem (suggestion) reflection window for key car companies to fulfill their payment period commitments"... Currently, the comprehensive rectification of "involution" competition is continuing to advance.

This year is an important year for further comprehensively deepening reform. Promulgate and implement the Private Economy Promotion Law, newly revise the Anti-Unfair Competition Law, and ensure fair participation in market competition for various economic organizations; reduce the negative list for market access, and issue the "National Unified Market Construction Guidelines (Trial Implementation)" to further break down market barriers... In the first half of the year, comprehensively deepening reform has been advancing in depth, continuously injecting impetus and vitality into high-quality economic development.

The more we face difficulties and challenges, the more we must deepen reform and opening up and give full play to the breakthrough and leading role of reform. From "promoting the construction of a national unified market in depth and continuously optimizing market competition order" to "adhering to the 'two unwavering' and stimulating the vitality of various business entities," we must both look to the long term and work hard for a long time, and grasp the present and do practical work.

Beijing (北京) publicly promoted 119 projects to private capital, Chongqing (重庆) proposed 200 work tasks to optimize the business environment, and the "top leaders" of Anhui (安徽) province, cities, and counties faced reality and solved practical problems with technology-based and export-oriented enterprises... All regions and departments are seeking new strategies and taking practical measures to create a first-class business environment that is market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized, which will provide better conditions for the innovative development of various enterprises.

Implement precise policies in response to the times and circumstances to protect economic cells.

Enterprises are the basic cells of the national economy and the source of power for economic growth. To consolidate and expand the momentum of economic recovery, we must closely focus on the current concerns of enterprises, do everything possible to help them overcome difficulties, and continuously stimulate the vitality of micro-entities.

How to promote "integration of domestic and foreign trade"? Accelerate the solution of product standard certification issues, and quickly unblock the capital, standards, channels, and supervision barriers, so that enterprises can freely switch between domestic and foreign trade and be comfortable in both areas.

How to reduce operating costs? Implement policies such as structural tax cuts and fee reductions, and social security "deferral, refund, and subsidy"; create a risk-sharing tool for science and technology innovation bonds and provide low-cost re-lending funds; implement flexible law enforcement such as "exemption from punishment and lighter punishment"... Accurately diagnose and implement comprehensive measures, and enterprises will be more confident in overcoming difficulties.

Huawei (华为) has increased its investment in artificial intelligence research and development and used domestic computing power platforms to train large models; CATL (宁德时代) has built a new energy storage and power battery production base in Shandong (山东) to create a zero-carbon factory; SF Express (顺丰) has invested in a multimodal transport international hub project in Henan (河南) to establish a benchmark for smart logistics... The vast number of enterprises that love to work hard and are good at winning will take the initiative in market competition with high-quality products and services.

It is time to show your skills and move forward through wind and rain.

Adhering to Xi Jinping's Economic Thought (习近平经济思想) as guidance, fully implementing the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee (党中央), maintaining focus, enhancing motivation, and stimulating vitality, making good use of development opportunities, potential, and advantages, and consolidating and expanding the momentum of economic recovery, we will surely complete the "14th Five-Year Plan" goals and tasks with high quality and lay a solid foundation for achieving a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan."

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This edition's editors: Liu Nian, Lu Tao, Shang Rongzheng

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Selected Works from the First China Mobile Photography Exhibition

The first China Mobile Phone Photography Exhibition, hosted by organizations such as the China Photographers Association (中国摄影家协会), attracted the enthusiastic participation of over 50,000 creators and received more than 240,000 submissions in less than 100 days. The exhibition featured six categories: "Telephoto and Macro," "Series," "Landscape," "Portrait," "Night Scene," and "Sports," and selected 120 winning works (series), with "Photographer of the Year" awards presented in each category. The final selected masterpieces not only embody the ingenuity of professional creators but also showcase ordinary people's love for everyday life, vividly illustrating how technology empowers art.

Today, the convenience, immediacy, and communicability of mobile phone photography far surpass other photography tools. As a result, mobile phone photography has become an important carrier of new mass culture and art. Everyone is a creator, everyone is a sharer, and everyone is an appreciator.

With a simple tap, a myriad of scenes unfold. The rapid advancements in mobile phone technology have continuously updated its photography functions, expanding the field of visualization. The infinite possibilities of mobile phone photography are transforming into the public's endless creativity. The magnificence of the motherland's mountains and rivers, the individuality of portraits, the rich layers of night scenes, the wonderful moments of sports... When mobile phones can be easily zoomed, panned, and tilted, they can present all aspects of the world, and even deeply showcase observation and reflection. The scenery of China's mountains and rivers, the charm of its culture, the appearance of its cities, and the beauty of its traditions, all have infinite splendor within a small space, presenting a myriad of wonderful scenes.

(Chai Xuan (柴  选))

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This section edited by: Zhi Chunli, Guan Xuanyue, Dong Yingxue

Layout Design: Shen Yiling (沈亦伶)

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Six Words to Understand the Global Impact of the "Lucid Waters and Lush Mountains are Invaluable Assets" Concept

Twenty years ago, the concept that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" was proposed in Anji (安吉), Zhejiang (浙江) Province. Today, this scientific concept, shining with Eastern wisdom, is transcending geographical boundaries and radiating the brilliant light of truth across the world. Looking at the grand picture of global ecological governance, Chinese theory is leading ideological change, reshaping development logic, injecting spiritual impetus and providing feasible solutions for promoting coordinated progress in global protection and development. We invite experts and scholars to discuss their thoughts, feelings, and visions for the future, focusing on the enlightening significance of the concept that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" for the transformation of global ecological governance, to share with our readers.

-- Editor

Green "Belt and Road"

Empowering Green and Low-Carbon Transition in "Belt and Road" Partner Countries

Bao Cunkuan (包存宽) Li Hongli (李红丽)

President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "China promotes the construction of a green 'Belt and Road,' will continue to deepen cooperation in green infrastructure, green energy, green transportation and other fields, and support the vast number of developing countries to enhance capacity building through the South-South Cooperation Special Fund for Climate Change." Most of the countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" are developing countries and emerging market economies, facing arduous tasks in achieving modernization. At the same time, the ecosystems and natural conditions of these countries are mostly complex and diverse. Jointly building a green "Belt and Road" follows important concepts such as a community with a shared future for mankind and a community of life for man and nature, becoming an important practice for promoting global green and low-carbon transition and advancing harmonious coexistence between man and nature.

Promoting the transformation and upgrading of the energy industry, and enhancing the driving force of the green "Belt and Road." As a staunch actor and important contributor to global green development, China is one of the countries with the fastest reduction in energy consumption intensity in the world, has built the world's largest and fastest-growing renewable energy system, has built the world's largest and most complete new energy industry chain, and has contributed 1/4 of the world's new green area... Jointly building a green "Belt and Road," coordinating economic development and environmental protection, transforming natural resources into green production factors, transforming ecological advantages into development advantages, and integrating green and low-carbon technologies into the green industry development and energy transition of relevant countries and regions. As of June this year, China has signed more than 200 cooperation documents on jointly building the "Belt and Road" with more than 150 countries and more than 30 international organizations, and has signed South-South cooperation documents on climate change with many developing countries, empowering the green and low-carbon transition of "Belt and Road" partner countries through a series of cooperation and exchanges.

Promoting green infrastructure construction, and consolidating the foundation of the green "Belt and Road." Connectivity is an important support for "Belt and Road" partner countries to deepen practical cooperation, achieve mutual benefit and win-win results, and achieve common development. Infrastructure construction is an important cornerstone for promoting connectivity, and it is also a development bottleneck faced by many developing countries. China has globally leading capabilities in the construction of large-scale infrastructure projects, and at the same time, it has deeply integrated the important concept of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" and "protecting the ecological environment is protecting productivity, and improving the ecological environment is developing productivity" into green "Belt and Road" infrastructure projects. For example, the Karot Hydropower Station (卡洛特水电站) in Pakistan (巴基斯坦), which is mainly invested and constructed by Chinese enterprises, has ecological flow release holes and gates set up in the spillway for releasing ecological flow during unit shutdowns; in Kenya (肯尼亚), Chinese enterprises increased the height of bridge piers and set up sound barriers when building the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway (蒙内铁路) to protect the migration routes of wild animals; and so on.

Coordinating ecological governance, and enhancing the effectiveness of the green "Belt and Road." Over the years, China has adhered to the path of ecological priority and green development, increased efforts in ecological environment governance, and the battles to defend blue skies, clear waters, and pure land have continued to advance in depth. Significant progress has been made in addressing climate change, and the quality of the ecological environment has continued to improve, accumulating many good research results and practical experiences. In jointly building the green "Belt and Road," China has integrated the concept of ecological civilization of respecting nature, conforming to nature, and protecting nature into all aspects and the entire process of project construction and ecological environmental protection. For example, in addressing desertification, China has launched a "Belt and Road" cooperation mechanism for desertification prevention and control with relevant countries, sharing successful experiences in desertification prevention and control, promoting the integrated remote sensing information application of desertification and sandstorm risk assessment and monitoring, and supporting desertification prevention and control projects through information sharing platforms. Relevant experiences are blossoming and bearing fruit in the construction of the "Belt and Road." In Egypt (埃及), China's water-saving terraced field model helps the mountainous areas of the Sinai Peninsula (西奈半岛) conserve water sources; in Uzbekistan (乌兹别克斯坦), the Aral Sea (咸海) ecological restoration project assisted by China not only improved the local ecological environment, but also brought economic benefits to local residents... These explorations, efforts, and fruitful results have become vivid footnotes to the green "Belt and Road" and made important contributions to global green development.

(Authors' affiliations: Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University (复旦大学); Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Fudan University)

Biodiversity Conservation

Building a Beautiful Home Where All Things Coexist in Harmony

Quan Zhanjun (全占军)

All things obtain their harmony to live, and obtain their nourishment to grow. President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Biodiversity makes the Earth full of vitality and is also the foundation for human survival and development. Protecting biodiversity helps to maintain the Earth's home and promote sustainable human development." The concept that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" not only reshapes China's ecological protection and economic development pattern, but also provides a Chinese solution for global biodiversity governance with profound practical wisdom.

The concept that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" establishes the multiple values of lucid waters and lush mountains, including not only the ecological value of purifying air and conserving water sources, but also the development value of nurturing ecological industries and creating economic benefits, and the social value of meeting people's aspirations for a better life, breaking the inherent perception of opposition between ecological protection and economic development, and consolidating the value foundation for biodiversity protection. This conceptual innovation elevates biodiversity protection from a purely environmental issue to a strategic proposition concerning the comprehensive, coordinated, and sustainable development of the economy and society, promoting biodiversity protection from "passive guarding" to "active integration" into the overall development situation, providing a fundamental guideline for coordinated promotion of biodiversity protection and sustainable development.

Under the guidance of the concept that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets," in recent years, China has built a virtuous cycle of biodiversity protection and sustainable development through the participation of multiple parties and multi-dimensional practices. Strengthening the top-level design of biodiversity protection, updating and releasing the "China Biodiversity Conservation Strategy and Action Plan (2023-2030)," and organizing the implementation of major biodiversity protection projects. Focusing on building a natural protected area system with national parks as the main body, establishing and improving the ecological protection red line system, effectively protecting more than 30% of the land area, the number of flagship species continues to grow, the number of Tibetan antelopes (藏羚羊) has recovered from less than 20,000 in the early 1980s to more than 70,000, and the wild population of Hainan gibbons (海南长臂猿) has increased from only 2 groups of less than 10 individuals 40 years ago to 7 groups of 42 individuals. The diversity, stability, and sustainability of ecosystems have steadily improved, and the sources of the Yangtze River (长江), Yellow River (黄河), and Lancang River (澜沧江) have achieved overall protection. Steadily promoting the construction of a national botanical garden system, and long-term preservation of more than 3 million copies of physical germplasm resources of crops, livestock, poultry, forests, and grasses. This series of measures promotes maintaining the authenticity and integrity of natural ecosystems, protecting biodiversity, protecting ecological security barriers, and leaving valuable natural assets for future generations.

In the process of economic and social development, China focuses on natural carrying capacity as the foundation, accelerates the transformation of economic development methods, and coordinates the promotion of biodiversity protection and high-quality development. Improving the realization mechanism of ecological product value, promoting the construction of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" practice innovation bases, exploring government-led, enterprise and social participation, and market-oriented ecological product value realization paths, transforming ecological advantages into development advantages, and stimulating the endogenous动力 (dòng lì - "driving force," inherent power) of biodiversity protection. For example, Anji (安吉), Zhejiang (浙江) Province, relying on the country's first county-level bamboo forest carbon sink storage and trading platform, transforms green bamboo into quantifiable "carbon assets," creating an ecological common prosperity model of "bamboo turning into tickets and resources turning into capital," providing a "Chinese sample" for the value transformation of global bamboo forest ecosystems. The Chinese bamboo forest carbon sink methodology provides standardized measurement and monitoring standards for the development of bamboo forest carbon sink projects and entering the carbon emission reduction trading market, and has established a standardized system for bamboo forest carbon sink trading in the global scope. Through cooperation with the International Bamboo and Rattan Organisation (国际竹藤组织) and other institutions, this methodology has been promoted and applied in countries such as Kenya (肯尼亚) and Ethiopia (埃塞俄比亚). At the same time, China continues to strengthen biodiversity protection publicity, education, and popular science activities, and holds a series of activities at time nodes such as the International Day for Biological Diversity and World Wildlife Day to further enhance public awareness of protection. From community residents participating in ecological management and protection, to volunteers devoting themselves to species monitoring, to the public practicing green consumption, all people jointly promote biodiversity protection.

Faced with the severe challenges of accelerating global species extinction and ecosystem degradation, China firmly practices multilateralism and actively carries out international cooperation in biodiversity protection. As the president country of the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (生物多样性公约), China promoted the achievement of the "Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework" (昆明—蒙特利尔全球生物多样性框架), took the lead in funding the establishment of the Kunming Biodiversity Fund (昆明生物多样性基金), and the first batch of 9 small-scale projects supported covers 15 countries, aiming to help other developing countries jointly promote biodiversity protection and sustainable development. Through platforms such as the "Belt and Road" Green Development International Alliance (“一带一路”绿色发展国际联盟) and the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (中非合作论坛), it shares experiences in natural protected area management and ecological industry development, and jointly builds cross-border natural protected areas and ecological corridors with countries such as Russia (俄罗斯), Mongolia (蒙古国), Laos (老挝), and Vietnam (越南), promoting more than 80 countries around the world to benefit from biodiversity protection "South-South cooperation." China, together with countries around the world, jointly safeguards the beautiful home of harmony between all things, and injects strong impetus into solving the global biodiversity crisis and promoting sustainable development.

(The author is the Vice President of the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (中国环境科学研究院))

Improving Global Ecological Governance

A Participant, Contributor, and Leader in Global Ecological Civilization Construction

Xu Qinhua (许勤华)

With the acceleration of economic globalization, ecological and environmental problems are no longer limited to individual countries or regions, but have become global challenges that cross national borders, such as global climate change, biodiversity loss, marine pollution, and deforestation. These problems not only constitute damage to the Earth's ecological balance, but also seriously threaten human survival and development. International principles and intergovernmental conventions based on global environmental issues, such as the "Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment" ("人类环境宣言"), the "World Charter for Nature" ("世界自然宪章"), "Agenda 21" ("21世纪议程"), the "Convention on Biological Diversity" ("生物多样性公约"), and the "Paris Agreement" ("巴黎协定"), show that the international community's actions to promote ecological governance are constantly deepening, and also reflect that the core of global ecological governance is how to handle the relationship between man and nature.

The concept that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" breaks the traditional thinking that environmental protection and economic development are mutually opposed, realizes a new leap in the relationship between the two, and provides a new idea and direction for countries around the world to handle the relationship between environmental protection and economic development. Since the Industrial Revolution, mankind has increasingly regarded nature as a resource that can be arbitrarily exploited, causing an ecological crisis that continues to this day, resulting in the opposition between man and nature and the tension between the environment and society. The concept that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" places man and nature in a community of life, and views national relations and ways of getting along with civilizations in this way, fundamentally pointing out the correct direction for solving the various ecological crises caused by the industrial civilization's erroneous understanding of the relationship between man and nature, and providing ideological guidance for global ecological governance.

Today, many developing countries face the dual tasks of developing the economy and protecting the environment. The Chinese practice under the guidance of the concept that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" provides other countries with a development model that can be used for reference, helping them explore sustainable development paths that conform to their own national conditions and people's livelihood needs, and contributing practical and feasible practical solutions to global ecological transformation. For example, in Mauritania (毛里塔尼亚), China is helping its capital build a quicksand rapid fixation and water-saving irrigation experimental demonstration zone; in Nigeria (尼日利亚), China has built an "economic forest conservation" experimental demonstration zone in Kano State (卡诺州); in Nepal (尼泊尔), the Chinese green fertilizer experimental zone in the Terai Plain (特莱平原) has promoted a maximum increase of 400% in wheat and other crops... A series of green development practices are helping "Belt and Road" partner countries move towards "green prosperity."

The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (联合国2030年可持续发展议程) covers 17 sustainable development goals in the economic, social, and environmental fields. The concept that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" is highly consistent with many goals of the agenda, providing theoretical support and practical paths for achieving these goals. The achievements of Chinese-style modernization and ecological civilization construction have prompted the international community to re-examine the intrinsic value of natural ecosystems, promote the dissemination and practice of green development concepts on a global scale, and help achieve global sustainable development goals.

The harmonious coexistence between man and nature advocated by the concept that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" helps to promote the formation of a more fair, reasonable, and win-win global environmental governance system in the international community, allowing different countries to assume corresponding responsibilities in jointly addressing global environmental challenges. Guided by the concept that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets," China actively participates in international environmental governance cooperation through environmental diplomacy, creates platforms such as the "Belt and Road" Green Development International Alliance, shares ecological protection and green development experiences with partner countries, strengthens cooperation in environmental protection technology and talent training, and jointly enhances the ability to address environmental problems. For example, in September 2020, President Xi Jinping (习近平) announced the carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals at the general debate of the 75th United Nations General Assembly, changing the pattern of the global response to climate change, and countries around the world responded and joined the trend of carbon neutrality development. As another example, at the Second China-Central Asia Summit (第二届中国—中亚峰会), a desertification prevention and control cooperation center was established within the framework of China-Central Asia cooperation. From "sand advancing and people retreating" to "green advancing and sand retreating," China shares technology and experience in desertification control, effectively enhancing the action of global environmental governance. This is one aspect of China becoming an important participant, contributor, and leader in global ecological civilization construction, and it is also a powerful proof that the concept that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" is being implemented in a practical way and benefiting future generations.

(The author is the Vice President of the National Academy of Development and Strategy, Renmin University of China (中国人民大学))

Responding to Climate Change

Providing Stability and Certainty for Global Climate Governance

Chai Qimin (柴麒敏)

Responding to climate change is a common cause for all mankind. President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in his address to the Leaders Summit on Climate and Just Transition: "No matter how the international situation changes, China's actions to actively respond to climate change will not slow down, its efforts to promote international cooperation will not weaken, and its practice of promoting the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind will not stop." China actively participates in global climate governance and promotes the realization of a higher level of global sustainable development. This is an important part of deeply practicing the concept that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets," and provides stability and certainty for global climate governance.

In 2015, China determined the national independent contribution goals of peaking carbon dioxide emissions around 2030 and striving to achieve the peak as soon as possible. Since then, China has increased its national independent contribution efforts, adopted more powerful policies and measures, and strived to peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and strive to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. By 2030, China's carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP will be more than 65% lower than in 2005, non-fossil energy will account for about 25% of primary energy consumption, the forest stock volume will be 6 billion cubic meters higher than in 2005, and the total installed capacity of wind power and solar power generation will reach more than 1.2 billion kilowatts. China will also announce its 2035 national independent contribution goals covering the entire economic scope and including all greenhouse gases before the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Belém.
Under the guidance of the national independent contribution goals, China has achieved positive results in green and low-carbon development. In 2024, non-fossil energy accounted for 19.8% of total energy consumption. As of April 2025, the cumulative transaction volume of carbon emission quotas in China's carbon emission trading market was 640 million tons, with a cumulative transaction value of 44.05 billion yuan. China has built the world's largest and fastest-growing renewable energy system. Currently, the advantages of green and low-carbon new quality productive forces are gradually emerging, and new energy has become the mainstream of incremental energy consumption. China has built the world's largest carbon market covering greenhouse gas emissions and is steadily promoting the healthy development of the carbon emission trading market and the voluntary emission reduction trading market. Innovative carbon pricing mechanisms are used to promote the optimal allocation of carbon reduction technology resources and guide more investment to green and low-carbon fields. As of the end of the fourth quarter of 2024, China's outstanding green loans in local and foreign currencies amounted to 36.6 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 21.7%, which was 14.5 percentage points higher than the growth rate of various loans, with an annual increase of 6.52 trillion yuan. Among them, loans invested in projects with direct and indirect carbon emission reduction benefits were 12.25 trillion yuan and 12.44 trillion yuan respectively, accounting for 67.5% of green loans.

Against the background of accelerating changes in the world pattern, some countries, under the pretext of "supply chain security," "overcapacity," and "de-risking," intend to suppress China's advantageous green and low-carbon industries represented by the "new three items" (新能源汽车, 锂电池和光伏产品). This has caused a serious impact on international rules and order and has also seriously hindered the development and promotion of global green and low-carbon technologies. History always moves forward in twists and turns. The more we are at such a "crossroads," the more we must strengthen our strategic determination for green and low-carbon transformation.

To better cope with climate change, innovation must be strengthened. China has a good innovation foundation and environment for accelerating the development of green and low-carbon industries and technologies. We must vigorously develop new power systems, fourth-generation nuclear energy and nuclear fusion technologies, carbon dioxide capture, utilization and storage, and other emerging industries, give full play to the advantages of the new national system, accelerate technological breakthroughs in key areas, and continuously promote the upgrading of traditional industrial processes, technologies, and equipment.

In the future, China's policy dividends, technological potential, and market vitality in addressing climate change will continue to be released, and the role of guaranteeing high-quality development and high-level security will be significantly enhanced, which will further drive higher-quality green investment and consumption, and achieve more inclusive green employment and social welfare. Adhering to Xi Jinping's (习近平) ecological civilization thought as guidance, taking the concept that **绿水青山就是金山银山** (lǜ shuǐ qīng shān jiù shì jīn shān yín shān - "green mountains and clear water are gold and silver mountains," lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets) as the lead, and sharing the economic, social, and ecological benefits of green and low-carbon transformation with countries around the world, we can promote global climate governance to go steady and far, and gather strong joint efforts to build a clean, beautiful, and sustainable world.

(The author is the Director of the Strategic Planning Research Department of the National Climate Strategy Center (国家气候战略中心).)

A Community of Life for Man and Nature

Let the Concept and Practice of Ecological Civilization Better Benefit the People of the World

Wang Yuchen (王雨辰)

The relationship between man and nature is the most basic relationship in human society. Since the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has continuously enriched and developed the concept that **绿水青山就是金山银山** (lǜ shuǐ qīng shān jiù shì jīn shān yín shān - "green mountains and clear water are gold and silver mountains," lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets), and proposed the important thesis of "a community of life for man and nature" in the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. This important thesis profoundly reveals the organic symbiotic relationship between human beings and nature, which are interdependent and interact with each other. When human beings respect, conform to, and protect nature in their practical activities, nature will reward human beings. Conversely, human beings will be punished by nature. "A community of life for man and nature" is the inheritance and development of Marxism's thought on the relationship between man and nature.

The concept that **绿水青山就是金山银山** (lǜ shuǐ qīng shān jiù shì jīn shān yín shān - "green mountains and clear water are gold and silver mountains," lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets) clarifies that the ecological environment is the foundation for human survival and development, solves the "dilemma" of economic development and environmental protection in the traditional development model, and realizes the transformation from exchanging the environment for growth to optimizing growth with the environment. **绿水青山就是金山银山** (lǜ shuǐ qīng shān jiù shì jīn shān yín shān - "green mountains and clear water are gold and silver mountains," lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets), as an important new development concept, is embodied in the "ecological productivity view" that protecting the ecological environment is protecting productivity, and improving the ecological environment is developing productivity. As a major principle for promoting modernization, it is embodied in the need to plan development from the height of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, respect the objective law that "man and nature are a community of life," realize the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, continuously meet the people's yearning for a better life, seek happiness for the people, seek happiness for mankind, and strive to achieve the goal of building a beautiful China and a clean and beautiful world.

In today's world, increasingly serious ecological crises such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and desertification pose severe challenges to human survival and development. President Xi Jinping (习近平), upholding the concept of a community of common destiny for mankind and the world sentiment of maintaining the survival foundation of future generations, issued an international initiative to "jointly build a community of life for man and nature" at the "Leaders Climate Summit" in 2021, demonstrating China's responsibility and commitment to actively participate in global ecological governance. In the practice of jointly building a community of life for man and nature, China stands at the height of the sustainable development of the Chinese nation and human civilization, practices the concept that **绿水青山就是金山银山** (lǜ shuǐ qīng shān jiù shì jīn shān yín shān - "green mountains and clear water are gold and silver mountains," lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets), abandons the zero-sum game thinking of winner-take-all, improves the global ecological governance system, and promotes the green transformation of global development.

In addressing the issue of biodiversity loss, China earnestly abides by and fulfills the responsibilities and obligations stipulated in the Convention on Biological Diversity, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the Paris Agreement on biodiversity governance, adheres to respecting, conforming to, and protecting nature, enhances the diversity, stability, and sustainability of ecosystems, and strives to achieve harmonious coexistence between man and nature. On the issue of environmental governance, China adheres to systematic governance. Environmental governance is a comprehensive and systematic issue. We cannot treat the head when the head aches and the foot when the foot hurts. We must conduct dialectical analysis and solutions. China adheres to the integrated protection and systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grass, and sand, solves ecological and environmental problems such as soil degradation and desertification, and coordinates the promotion of carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's forest coverage rate increased to more than 25%, contributing 1/4 of the world's new greening area, making it the country with the most greening in the world.

China has always practiced multilateralism, actively promoted the construction of a fair, reasonable, and win-win global environmental governance system, accelerated the promotion of South-South cooperation, jointly built a green "Belt and Road" (一带一路), provided high-quality public ecological products for the international community, provided technical and financial assistance for developing countries to achieve green and low-carbon development, strengthened the interconnection of culture, technology, and policies between countries, and strived to achieve mutual benefit, win-win results, and common development, so that the concept and practice of ecological civilization can benefit the people of all countries. From climate remote sensing satellites in Africa to low-carbon demonstration zones in Southeast Asia to energy-saving lamps in small island countries, China's South-South cooperation achievements in addressing climate change are visible, tangible, and effective. At the same time, China adheres to the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, clarifies the responsibilities and obligations of different countries in global environmental governance according to the historical responsibility for causing the ecological crisis and the reality of national development, and unites global ecological governance efforts to jointly build a community of life for man and nature.

(The author is the Dean of the School of Philosophy of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (中南财经政法大学).)

Green Trade

Helping Build a Clean and Beautiful World

Wu Hongmei (吴红梅)

Generally speaking, green trade mainly refers to a comprehensive trade model that integrates environmental protection and sustainable development concepts into the entire process of international trade, covering green products, technologies, services, and rules. In April 2025, President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized in his speech at the Leaders Summit on Climate and Just Transition: "We must transcend estrangement and conflict with openness and inclusiveness, and promote technological innovation and industrial transformation through cooperation, so that high-quality green technologies and products can circulate freely, and all countries, especially the vast number of developing countries, can use them, afford them, and use them well." The concept that **绿水青山就是金山银山** (lǜ shuǐ qīng shān jiù shì jīn shān yín shān - "green mountains and clear water are gold and silver mountains," lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets) emphasizes the coordinated progress of ecological environmental protection and economic and social development. This important concept not only leads and promotes China's sustainable development but also provides Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions for improving global ecological governance and building a clean and beautiful world. Entering the new era, the share of "new three items" (新能源汽车, 锂电池和光伏产品) of new energy vehicles, lithium batteries, and photovoltaic products in China's foreign trade has continued to expand. In 2023, the total exports of the "new three items" exceeded one trillion yuan for the first time. The vigorous development of green trade represented by the "new three items" has made important contributions to promoting the green and low-carbon transformation of the global energy industry.

New energy vehicles have become a "new calling card" for China's exports. In 2024, China's annual production and sales of new energy vehicles reached 12.888 million and 12.866 million respectively, ranking first in the world for 10 consecutive years. Over the past 10 years, China's annual production and sales of new energy vehicles have jumped from the 10,000-level to the 10 million-level, with products exported to more than 70 countries and regions, and a complete and efficient industrial system has been built. For example, BYD's (比亚迪) new energy passenger vehicles have covered many countries and regions around the world, including Brazil, Germany, Australia, Japan, etc.; Chinese car companies such as Great Wall (长城) have entered the Malaysian market, launching new energy models and increasing local production and assembly to better meet the green travel needs of local residents.

New energy batteries have established a global leading position. In the research and development of new energy vehicles, the choice of power battery technology route is crucial. According to statistics from Gaogong Industry Research Institute (高工产业研究院), in the first two months of this year, global sales of new energy vehicles totaled 2.28 million, a year-on-year increase of 27%, driving the installed capacity of power batteries to approximately 118.5 GWh, a year-on-year increase of 32%. Driven by the substantial increase in the installed capacity of lithium iron phosphate power batteries in China, the global installed share of lithium iron phosphate power batteries exceeded that of ternary power batteries for the first time, accounting for 49.9%. In 2024, six Chinese power battery companies entered the top ten in global installed capacity. Chinese company CATL (宁德时代) has established its first overseas battery production base in Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany, injecting new impetus into promoting electrification travel and energy transformation in Germany and Europe. In international trade, BYD (比亚迪) exports an ecological combination of "battery factory + charging network + energy storage system." In Chile, its integrated photovoltaic storage and charging project provides clean energy for electric vehicles; in Hungary, its battery factory directly supports European vehicle bases.

Exports of photovoltaic products help promote the global green energy transition. China's photovoltaic module production has ranked first in the world for many years. In 2024, the global share of production capacity and output of all links in China's photovoltaic industry chain reached more than 80%. The global photovoltaic industry has developed from the former "European and American dominance" to today's "China leading." China's wind power and photovoltaic products are exported to more than 200 countries and regions around the world, helping the vast number of developing countries obtain clean, reliable, and affordable energy. In 2024, a report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (国际可再生能源署) showed that in the past 10 years, the average levelized cost of electricity for global wind power and photovoltaic power generation projects has cumulatively decreased by more than 60% and 80% respectively, a large part of which is attributed to Chinese innovation, Chinese manufacturing, and Chinese engineering. The vigorous development of China's green trade and its important contribution to building a clean and beautiful world powerfully confirm the practical power and world influence of the concept that **绿水青山就是金山银山** (lǜ shuǐ qīng shān jiù shì jīn shān yín shān - "green mountains and clear water are gold and silver mountains," lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets).

(The author is a professor at the School of Economics and Management of Beijing Forestry University (北京林业大学).)

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Guangdong Yangjiang: Changes and Constants in the Fishing Season (Economic Focus)

By: 本报记者 姜晓丹

On the early morning of August 16th, the Zhapo National Central Fishing Port Wharf (闸坡国家级中心渔港码头) on Hailing Island (海陵岛), Yangjiang (阳江), Guangdong (广东) was bustling with activity.

Fisherman Zhang Run (张润) stood on the deck of his fishing boat, vigorously patting the gleaming hull: "This 'Yue Yangjiang Yu 06288' (粤阳江渔06288) can withstand strong winds and has good positioning, making me feel secure when sailing in distant waters." Behind him, fishing boats were neatly lined up, with the five-star red flag hanging from their masts fluttering in the wind.

At 12 noon, with the sound of the fishing ban lifted and the whistle blowing, thousands of boats set sail. The fishermen steered their boats towards the South China Sea fishing grounds (南海渔场), which had been dormant for three and a half months, embarking on a new round of plowing the waves and cultivating the sea.

In Yangjiang (阳江), the fishing season is not only an annual festival but also a platform carrying marine culture display, fishery resource protection, and industrial transformation and upgrading.

A Steel Fishing Boat

"Young people are willing to take over, there is hope in this industry"

Zhang Run (张润), 60 years old this year, has been fishing for 40 years. When he was young, he could only squeeze on a wooden boat about ten meters long with his companions. "At that time, going out to sea was nerve-wracking, and we could only hide in the cabin when encountering big storms," Zhang Run (张润) said.

Now standing on a 400-ton steel fishing boat, Zhang Run (张润) skillfully operates Beidou navigation (北斗导航) and sonar fish finders. "The location of the fish school is clear at a glance, and we can also plan the best fishing route, greatly improving efficiency," he said with a smile.

In recent years, the local government has promoted steel fishing boats. Zhang Run (张润) replaced his old boat with a new one and equipped it with cold chain cabins, satellite navigation, and sonar, greatly improving its ability to withstand wind and waves. Policy support also gives fishermen more confidence. Zhang Run (张润) roughly calculated: "The marine fishery resource conservation subsidy is 150,000 yuan a year; there are 15 people on our boat, and each person can not only receive a subsidy of 2,100 yuan during the fishing moratorium but also earn money by doing other work."

"In the past, we relied on experience, but now we rely on technology. Efficiency has increased several times. Last year, the income exceeded 2 million yuan, and my two sons also went to sea with me. Young people are willing to take over, there is hope in this industry!" In Zhang Run's (张润) view, what has changed is his own boat, but what remains unchanged is the fishermen's yearning for the sea.

Yangjiang (阳江) currently has more than 3,400 registered marine fishing boats, of which about 850 are steel fishing boats, making it the prefecture-level city with the most steel fishing boats in Guangdong Province (广东省); the marine fishing output is about 300,000 tons, accounting for more than 1/4 of Guangdong Province (广东省), ranking first in the province.

Deep-sea aquaculture is also booming. Guan Tianbiao (关天表), Deputy Mayor of Yangjiang (阳江), introduced that Yangjiang (阳江) has built two national-level marine ranch demonstration zones, with a total seawater aquaculture area of 24,300 hectares and an output of 820,000 tons, and 955 deep-water cages have been put into production.

A Cultural and Tourism Feast

"I didn't expect the fishing season to be so interesting"

Today's fishing season is not only a sailing ceremony for fishermen but also a cultural and tourism feast.

The night before the fishing season, thousands of banquets were lined up along the golden beach of Hailing Island (海陵岛), and seasonal seafood was cooked using ancient Danjia (疍家) methods, filling the air with fragrance.

"This fisherman's banquet is a traditional folk custom of the Danjia people (疍家人)," said chef Tan Jinbu (谭进步), standing in front of a temporarily built stove, holding an iron pot, and with a flick of his wrist, a golden and shiny red snapper landed steadily on the plate. "Five-willow red snapper, sweet and sour and appetizing, the fish is tender and smooth without any fishy smell!" Chef Tan (谭师傅) introduced while drizzling a secret sauce, "Not only sea fish, but also sea shrimp, abalone, and other seafood in the pot dishes, these seafood are all raised in our deep-sea cages. In the past, fishing at sea depended on the weather, but now deep-sea aquaculture provides a stable supply, and there are fresh ingredients even during the fishing moratorium, so we have the confidence to make banquets."

Yangjiang (阳江) not only attracts tourists with delicious food but also enriches the tourist experience with colorful activities.

Fishermen's weddings, sea sacrifice ceremonies, and immersive experiences of folk customs; coastal style photography competitions, model competitions, beach concerts, and other activities provide a full sense of experience.

"I didn't expect the fishing season to be so interesting!" Zhao Zhiwen (赵志文), a tourist from Guangzhou (广州), praised repeatedly. In his view, what has changed are the new ways to play, but what remains unchanged is the inheritance of celebrating the fishing season and looking forward to a good harvest.

Promoting industry with activities and boosting tourism with industry. Today, the Yangjiang (阳江) fishing season has become a cultural and tourism brand in Guangdong Province (广东省) that drives consumption.

"This year's fishing season is from August 15th to 17th, and we have carefully prepared 13 activities, the most in previous years. In three days, Hailing District (海陵区) received 547,000 tourists, an increase of 262% year-on-year, and achieved a tourism revenue of 560 million yuan, an increase of 273% year-on-year," introduced Lin Yichao (林艺超), Deputy Director of the Management Committee of Yangjiang Hailing Island Economic Development Experimental Zone (阳江市海陵岛经济开发试验区管委会).

A Public Brand

Enhancing the added value of local specialty products

On the early morning of the 17th, some fishing boats returned to the wharf, bringing the first net of catches that diners were looking forward to, and many vendors rushed to buy them in bulk. More fishing boats will return to port in about a week.

Along with the debut of the first batch of catches on the market, there is also a new marine business card - "Yangjiang Seafood" (阳江海鲜).

Thanks to the natural advantages of ocean current convergence and effective marine ecological protection, Yangjiang's (阳江) seafood is of excellent quality, the marine fishery industry is large in scale and complete in the chain, the number and output of deep-water cages rank second in Guangdong Province (广东省), and the output of various seawater fish seedlings accounts for about half of Guangdong Province (广东省). However, for a long time, the name "Yangjiang Seafood" (阳江海鲜) has not been well-known.

"I just learned that 80% of the chilled seafood products supplied to Hong Kong from the mainland come from Yangjiang (阳江)," said Mr. Huang (黄先生), a tourist from Hong Kong (香港) who came to Hailing Island (海陵岛) for the first time.

"It turns out that my relationship with Yangjiang (阳江) has been planted long ago." In Mr. Huang's (黄先生) eyes, what has changed is the understanding of Yangjiang (阳江), and what remains unchanged is the unique delicious experience.

At the opening ceremony of this fishing season, the "Yangjiang Seafood" (阳江海鲜) regional public brand was released, and 16 Yangjiang (阳江) enterprises were awarded the "Yangjiang Seafood" (阳江海鲜) regional public brand plaques. The local government will label characteristic products such as "Chengcun Oysters" (程村蚝), "Jianshan Crabs" (尖山蟹), and "One Night Dried Salted Fish" (一夜埕咸鱼) through standardized production and full-chain supervision. Relying on the regional public brand, Yangjiang (阳江) aquatic product enterprises have begun to negotiate with domestic and foreign purchasers for deep-processed product cooperation, preparing to upgrade from the traditional model of "selling catches by the basket" to "brand premium pricing."

"Yangjiang (阳江) is accelerating its blue rise, and a modern marine industrial system integrating green energy, port-adjacent industries, marine fisheries, and coastal tourism is gradually taking shape," said Lu Yixian (卢一先), Secretary of the Yangjiang Municipal Party Committee (阳江市委书记).

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The Fishing Season Opens, But It's More Than Just the Catch (Editor's Notes)

By: 王东辉

From simple offshore fishing to diverse cultural tourism activities, from selling fish and shrimp "by the basket" to focusing on "building a brand," the annual fishing season in Yangjiang (阳江), Guangdong (广东) is constantly innovating.

　　Shaping a cultural tourism brand to expand popularity. From taste buds to audio-visual experiences, folk customs blend with trendy activities such as beach concerts, transforming the fishing season ceremony into a cultural tourism extravaganza. Relying on distinctive culture, carefully designed activities enrich the tourist experience and accelerate the integration of culture and tourism. Shaping a cultural tourism brand amid the cheers of tourists has become an important way to boost consumption.

　　Creating a public brand to increase added value. Standardized production and full-chain supervision ensure that fresh-tasting, high-quality seafood products are labeled with a regional public brand, which will achieve a leap in value. A well-known brand can allow good products to be sold at good prices.

　　The fishing season is not just about the catch. We expect the local area to play its two "cards" well and continuously expand the development space of modern fisheries, so that the fishermen's road to happiness becomes wider and wider. 越走越宽 (yuè zǒu yuè kuān - "the more you walk, the wider it gets," a path or road becoming increasingly broad, symbolizing progress and improvement).

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Make greater contributions to the inheritance, innovation, and development of traditional Chinese medicine

By: 徐浩宇

The Sixth National Commendation Conference for Outstanding Builders of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics from the Non-Public Sector was recently held. As a member of a private entrepreneur, I was commended and felt the increasing support from the country for private enterprises. I feel warm, full of confidence, and even more deeply aware of the heavy responsibility on my shoulders. Constantly participating in various industries and serving people's livelihoods with a sincere heart, and contributing more to the construction of Chinese-style modernization, is the mission entrusted to us in the non-public economy by the times.

In practice, I have realized that in the face of the changes of the times, non-public economic figures must unswervingly follow the Party and be strivers with the ambition to serve the country. Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group insists on using Party building to lead the overall situation and actively integrate into the overall national development. We deeply study the "Two Mountains" theory and promote standardized ecological planting of Chinese medicinal materials in the authentic Chinese medicinal material producing areas; we continue to improve the manufacturing level of "intelligent transformation, digital transformation, and network connection," continuously improve the group's quality control system, and steadily improve product quality.

**济大事者，必以人为本** (jì dà shì zhě, bì yǐ rén wéi běn - "Those who accomplish great things must put people first," emphasizing the importance of prioritizing people's needs and interests in achieving significant goals). As a member of the pharmaceutical and health industry, we deeply understand and implement the people-centered development thought. From innovative drug research and development to chronic disease management, from supporting disaster relief to grassroots medical benefits, from industrial revitalization to rural revitalization to stabilizing employment and promoting employment, from supporting various national fitness activities to developing a series of health science programs, private enterprises should strive to give back their own development results to the people and benefit the people, demonstrating responsibility and commitment.

Currently, China's pharmaceutical industry is gaining more and more recognition on the global stage. Private enterprises must stand at the forefront, actively capture cutting-edge trends in this round of technological iteration and industrial transformation, seize technological opportunities, lead or participate in the formulation of international standards and ecological construction, promote the docking of development results with global needs, and build first-class enterprises with the entrepreneurial spirit of hard work and the determination to seek development wholeheartedly, so as to better integrate into the new development pattern.

Maintaining integrity is the prerequisite for innovation, and private enterprises must firmly establish the bottom line of abiding by the law and respecting morality. Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group is based on the "healthy marketing and marketing health" strategy, gaining customer trust, expanding the market, and winning recognition with professionalism and integrity; it also regards compliance as a global and systematic project, continuously promoting the modernization of corporate governance, and improving corporate competitiveness in building law-based private enterprises, honest private enterprises, and clean private enterprises.

Tracing back to the source, the outstanding traditional Chinese culture provides cultural heritage and theoretical support for the development of the big health industry. Pharmaceutical and health companies draw wisdom from traditional Chinese medicine culture such as "treating diseases before they occur" and "harmony between man and nature," and use technological innovation to create high-quality products and personalized services, so that traditional health concepts and modern health management methods are deeply integrated, and use the visible health results of the people to enhance cultural self-confidence, and make greater contributions to the inheritance, innovation, and development of traditional Chinese medicine.

With the spirit of forging ahead and pragmatic action, it is the right time for private entrepreneurs to show their talents. Let us realize our own value in serving people's livelihood and show our responsibility and commitment in maintaining integrity and innovation.

(The author is the Party Secretary, Chairman, and President of Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group (扬子江药业集团))

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Six Departments Deploy Measures to Further Regulate Competition Order in the Photovoltaic Industry

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 19th. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部), the Central Social Work Department (中央社会工作部), the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (国务院国资委), the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局), and the National Energy Administration (国家能源局) jointly convened a photovoltaic industry symposium on the 19th to further regulate the competitive order of the photovoltaic industry.

The meeting proposed that all parties in the photovoltaic industry should deeply recognize the importance of regulating the competitive order for the high-quality development of the photovoltaic industry and jointly promote the healthy and sustainable development of the industry. Strengthen industrial regulation, reinforce investment management of photovoltaic industry projects, and promote the orderly withdrawal of backward production capacity in a market-oriented and rule-of-law manner. Curb low-price and disorderly competition, improve price monitoring and product pricing mechanisms, and crack down on illegal and irregular activities such as selling below cost and false marketing.

The meeting also required standardizing product quality and cracking down on behaviors such as reducing quality control, falsely marking product power, and infringing intellectual property rights. Support industry self-regulation, give play to the role of industry associations, advocate fair competition and orderly development, strengthen the leading role of technological innovation, adhere to the bottom line of quality and safety, and earnestly maintain a good development environment for the industry. We must 严守质量安全底线 (yán shǒu zhì liàng ān quán dǐ xiàn - "strictly adhere to the bottom line of quality and safety," to firmly maintain the minimum acceptable standards for quality and safety).

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Qingdao Cruise Home Port Welcomes Double Cruise Ship Docking

On August 19th, the Qingdao Cruise Home Port of Shandong Port Cruise Development Group welcomed the simultaneous docking of two cruise ships, the "Zhao Shang Yidun" (招商伊敦) and the "Lan Meng Zhi Ge" (蓝梦之歌). This is the first time that the Qingdao Cruise Home Port has had two ships docked at the same time since its resumption of operations.

Yang Xuemei (杨雪梅) Photo (Image China)

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China's national general public budget revenue increased by 2.6% year-on-year in July

This newspaper Beijing (北京) August 19th (Reporter Qu Zhehan (曲哲涵)) The Ministry of Finance (财政部) announced the fiscal revenue and expenditure situation for July on the 19th. In July, the national general public budget revenue was 2,027.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.6%, the highest increase this year; among them, the central and local revenue increased by 2.2% and 3.1% respectively, and the monthly increase was the highest this year. From January to July, the national general public budget revenue was 13,583.9 billion yuan, an increase of 0.1%, and the increase was 0.4 percentage points higher than in the first half of the year.

The national general public budget expenditure maintained growth, and expenditures in key areas were well guaranteed. Fiscal departments at all levels conscientiously implemented a more proactive fiscal policy, increased expenditure intensity, and optimized the expenditure structure. From January to July, the national general public budget expenditure was 16,073.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.4%, of which social security and employment expenditure increased by 9.8%, education expenditure increased by 5.7%, health expenditure increased by 5.3%, science and technology expenditure increased by 3.2%, housing security expenditure increased by 0.2%, energy conservation and environmental protection expenditure increased by 4.3%, and culture, tourism, sports, and media expenditure increased by 5.3%. At the same time, fiscal departments at all levels accelerated the issuance and use of bond funds. From January to July, the expenditure of local government special bonds, ultra-long-term special treasury bonds, and special treasury bonds for capital injection into central financial institutions included in the government fund budget was 2.89 trillion yuan, driving the growth of government fund budget expenditure by 31.7%.

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Hidden Delicacies in the Mountains and Forests: The Time is Ripe for Mushroom Hunting (High-Quality Development on the Front Line: Treasures of a Small City)

By: 本报记者 李茂颖

"Opening the mountain!" In August, in Sapiwu Village (洒披武村), Yulu Township (雨露乡), Nanhua County (南华县), Yunnan Province (云南省), with a shout of joy, people who had been waiting at the foot of the mountain rushed up together. "Look, there must be good things under this pile of green grass." "Mushroom Guide" He Cunliang (何存亮) carried a bamboo basket, followed by tourists who went into the mountains with him to pick mushrooms.

Under the decaying leaves and green grass, there are many mushrooms waiting to be discovered. Nanhua County (南华县), located in the hinterland of central Yunnan (滇中), has vast forest land and diverse forest types. Its unique three-dimensional climate has nurtured more than 300 kinds of wild edible mushrooms.

"Ten years ago, I wouldn't have dared to think that picking mushrooms could become a 'treasure'?" He Cunliang (何存亮) wiped the sweat from his forehead. His bamboo basket was already filled with seven or eight kinds of delicacies, such as boletus and green head mushrooms. As a "Mushroom Guide," he must not only be familiar with the growth habits of each mushroom, but also keep a close eye on safety: "Some mushrooms are poisonous, and it won't work if you misidentify them."

In various townships of Nanhua County (南华县), loudspeakers broadcast knowledge about identifying poisonous mushrooms, and village officials distributed prevention and control notices to households, printed with high-definition pictures of 12 kinds of highly poisonous mushrooms. The local government has also formulated village rules and regulations, dividing the main producing areas of matsutake and boletus, and focusing on key management by region. A set of scientific prevention and control systems protects the safety of tourists.

In recent years, following guides into the mountains to pick mushrooms has become a characteristic tourism project in Nanhua County (南华县). Parent-child study tours, in-depth experiences, and mushroom banquet making are all very popular. From simple picking and selling to in-depth experiences, the local area has turned mushrooms into a "tangible ecological lesson." In the research and study base, children hold mushroom atlases and squat in the forest to observe, learning to identify mushrooms with the villagers. In the mushroom banquet workshop at the foot of the mountain, tourists personally slice the freshly picked mushrooms and put them into the pot, tasting the authentic forest delicacies in the "bubbling" local chicken hot pot.

There are nearly a thousand "Mushroom Guides" like He Cunliang (何存亮) in Nanhua County (南华县). During the peak season, they can take three or four groups of guests into the mountains a day. Cold chain logistics vehicles in the county town depart every morning, sending matsutake, morels, and other mushrooms to various places, and even to foreign tables through cross-border e-commerce.

In order to make the gifts of the mountains more sustainable, the local area has taken a long-term view. Nanhua County (南华县) has formulated and promulgated interim measures for the standardized management of matsutake and other edible mushrooms, implemented two local standards, "Matsutake Collection Method" and "Boletus Collection Method," and designated 6 wild mushroom protection areas, with an area of 2.026 million mu. Seventeen high-standard wild mushroom conservation and propagation technology demonstration bases with 8,140 mu have been built to scientifically conserve them.

"In the past, every time the mushroom season came, the whole village, young and old, would go up the mountain to find mushrooms, and some mushrooms that had just grown to the size of a finger would be picked. Sometimes villagers would even have disputes over grabbing mushroom nests," said Luo Chengzhang (罗成章), a villager in Miheimen Village (咪黑们村), Wujie Township (五街镇). "Now villagers all know that they need to pick and promote propagation scientifically, and the yield and quality of matsutake have been increasing year by year."

In 2024, the volume of wild mushroom collection and trading in Nanhua County (南华县) was 13,833.5 tons, with a transaction value of over 1.9 billion yuan. From careful protection in the mountains and forests to the delicious taste on the table, and then to the innovative vitality of the industrial chain, the "golden nuggets" emerging from the mountains are supporting a characteristic industrial chain that integrates ecological protection, agriculture, culture, and tourism.

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Hunan exported 2.15 billion lighters in the first seven months.

The Changsha (长沙) Customs recently released data showing that in the first seven months of this year, Hunan Province (湖南省) exported 2.15 billion lighters, an increase of 28.8% year-on-year; the value of the goods was 1.36 billion yuan, an increase of 29.9%. The export volume and value accounted for 52.8% and 51% of the country's total lighter exports during the same period, respectively.

In the first seven months, Shaoyang City (邵阳市) exported lighters worth 1.3 billion yuan, an increase of 34.2%, accounting for 95.9% of the total value of lighter exports in the province during the same period. Asia is the main market for Hunan (湖南) lighters. Since the beginning of this year, Africa has become the fastest-growing regional market for Hunan (湖南) lighter exports.

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This edition's editors: Lü Zhongzheng, Wu Yan, Wang Donghui

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"Wherever there are wounded and sick, I will go there" (Dialogue Across Time and Space)

By: 本报记者  施  钰

"Being a soldier means not fearing death; if you fear death, don't be a soldier." In June of this year, Zhang Yishun (张宜顺), a 92-year-old veteran of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, shared his unforgettable wartime experiences at a book donation ceremony for books about the war in Zhangzhou (漳州), Fujian (福建).

Born in 1933 into a poor family in Zibo (淄博), Shandong (山东), Zhang Yishun joined the war effort in 1944 at the young age of 11, becoming a caregiver. Later, he participated in the War of Liberation and the Korean War, becoming a nurse. In 1978, Zhang Yishun transferred to work in Zhangzhou, contributing to the medical and health system.

Why did he join the army?

"Children under 10 were being抓去挖矿啊, this life was impossible to live."

"Japanese invaders are not to be feared, send them up and shout 'Kill!' We will eliminate them! We will defeat them! Kill, kill, kill..." Zhang Yishun is still familiar with the anti-Japanese war songs he learned in his hometown as a child.

In 1938, Liao Rongbiao (廖容标), commander of the Fifth Army of the Shandong People's Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army, led his troops to Zhang Yishun's hometown to mobilize the masses to resist Japan. Witnessing the atrocities of the Japanese army, Zhang Yishun's elder brother, Zhang Yiyun (张宜蕴), responded to the call and joined the Eighth Route Army Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Force in 1939. "After that, we didn't hear from my brother for five years," Zhang Yishun said.

At that time, the Japanese army occupied Zibo and forcibly conscripted laborers to mine coal. Zhang Yishun was taken to the mine at the age of 9. In the mine tunnels, which were only 80 centimeters high, small, thin children were naked, tied with ropes, and carried coal baskets to mine coal. "Once you went down the mine, it would take a whole day and night to get back up. One person had to mine a lot of coal every day. If you mined too little, you would be beaten. Willow branches would be whipped on your body, leaving a bloody mark with each strike." Zhang Yishun said as he demonstrated, his memory of the dark days in the mine still vivid. "After going down the mine, you couldn't sleep, and there was no water to drink. When everyone was extremely thirsty, they would dig a small pit under the dripping wall and take turns lying on the ground to drink a sip." Mine collapses, accidental contact with electric wires... The young Zhang Yishun narrowly escaped death many times in the mine. "Children under 10 were being 抓去挖矿啊, this life was impossible to live. I especially hate the Japanese invaders," Zhang Yishun said.

In 1944, due to his status as a family member of an anti-Japanese soldier, Zhang Yishun's father was arrested and interrogated. During this period, Zhang Yishun's father learned about Zhang Yiyun's whereabouts. After escaping, Zhang Yishun's father resolutely went to the Yimeng Mountain (沂蒙山) Anti-Japanese Base Area to join Zhang Yiyun's unit. In the same year, Zhang Yishun's mother also took the 11-year-old Zhang Yishun and her young daughter all the way to the Yimeng Mountain Anti-Japanese Base Area.

"The road was so far! We didn't dare to walk during the day, we could only travel at night. My mother had bound feet, and my younger sister was young, so she couldn't walk fast." Talking about the ten-odd days of traveling to the base area, Zhang Yishun couldn't help but choke up. "We carried a load of ceramics from our hometown and exchanged them for food along the way, and that's how we made it to the base area."

After finding his father and brother, Zhang Yishun's mother and sister settled down locally, were allocated land and housing, and a wooden sign identifying them as family members of anti-Japanese soldiers was openly hung at the door of their house. "This child also wants to be in the Eighth Route Army." After his mother and sister were settled, the 11-year-old Zhang Yishun put on a military uniform like his brother and became a young caregiver in the Third Branch of the Rear Hospital of the Luzhong Military Region (鲁中军区).

Why treat Japanese prisoners of war well?

"Japanese imperialism is a deadly enemy, but some soldiers were forcibly conscripted, we must influence them."

"I was young at the time and afraid that the army wouldn't want me, so I was even more eager to perform well, doing things that adults did." Looking back on his growth, Zhang Yishun mentioned the old squad leader, Lü Youai (吕友爱). Zhang Yishun introduced that Lü Youai joined the army in 1940, was only a few years older than Zhang Yishun, and had been named a model worker in the Luzhong Military Region. "The squad leader took care of our lives and taught us how to be good caregivers." Zhang Yishun said emotionally that he learned to deliver meals and water to patients in the rear hospital and take care of their daily lives.

In 1944, the Eighth Route Army annihilated the Japanese and puppet troops guarding the city in Yishui County (沂水县). That was the first time Zhang Yishun went to the battlefield to rescue the wounded. "Going to the battlefield, I was indeed a little scared at first, but I got used to it after fighting many battles," Zhang Yishun said. "Wherever there were wounded and sick soldiers, I would go there." In this battle, the Eighth Route Army captured three wounded Japanese soldiers, and Zhang Yishun's squad was assigned to take care of the wounded prisoners.

"At first, I didn't want to. I especially hated the Japanese invaders. I couldn't wait to beat them, let alone take care of them," Zhang Yishun said. Later, the instructor called him to the office and did ideological work on him. "Japanese imperialism is a deadly enemy, but some soldiers were forcibly conscripted, we must influence them." After listening to the instructor's words, Zhang Yishun decided to obey the organization's arrangements and take care of them.

Because of the language barrier and the fact that Zhang Yishun was illiterate at the time, but the three wounded prisoners could all write Chinese characters, Zhang Yishun would have them write down the items they needed on a piece of paper, and then ask the instructor to help him recognize the characters, or use gestures to communicate simple needs such as bathing and brushing their teeth.

"They saw that the Eighth Route Army was very good and changed their position. After being discharged from the hospital, they all went to work in the Luzhong Military Region Arsenal." Zhang Yishun recalled that after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, Ma Shan (马山), a prisoner of war who had been cared for by Zhang Yishun, also wrote a speech expressing his support for the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. "We must remember history and cherish peace even more," Zhang Yishun said with emotion.

Which sentence from a comrade-in-arms do you remember most deeply?

"Little Zhang, you are so lucky! Japan surrendered less than two years after you joined the army."

While fighting, Zhang Yishun began to "eliminate illiteracy" for himself. "To be a soldier, to be a good soldier, a soldier with combat effectiveness, you must have culture. To better serve the people, you must learn cultural knowledge."

"At that time, the veteran soldiers all said that being a soldier was to protect the country, protect the family, protect the fields, and protect the rice bowl." Zhang Yishun said that the cadres and soldiers of the military region, with a common belief, went through arduous battles and ushered in the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. "Many comrades-in-arms unfortunately sacrificed and did not see this day." The veteran soldiers of the Luzhong Military Region said to Zhang Yishun, "Little Zhang, you are so lucky! Japan surrendered less than two years after you joined the army."

In December 1952, Zhang Yishun honorably joined the Communist Party of China. In 1953, Zhang Yishun followed his troops south to work in a military hospital in Fujian. Since then, he has continued to study and pursue advanced studies, eventually graduating from university and becoming a backbone member of the hospital.

In 1978, Zhang Yishun transferred to Zhangzhou, where he served as the Party Secretary and Attending Physician of the Zhangzhou Municipal Health and Epidemic Prevention Station. "No matter what I do, I demand that I be focused and serious." Zhang Yishun loves to learn and is diligent in research, and he also strictly demands the same of his children. Although he is 92 years old, Zhang Yishun often goes to schools and communities to tell stories of defending the country.

Currently, Zhang Yishun is also cooperating in completing the Zhangzhou City "Memory Rescue of Anti-Japanese War Veterans" special action. The Zhangzhou Veterans Affairs Bureau, in conjunction with the Political Work Department of the Zhangzhou Military Sub-district and the Zhangzhou Municipal Committee Old Cadre Bureau, uses multi-dimensional recording methods to collect oral histories of veterans and establish complete audio and video archives; for veterans with communication difficulties, the history is restored through the oral accounts of family members and comrades-in-arms; and high-definition digital archiving is carried out for physical objects such as medals, certificates, and letters.

"Without the Communist Party, there would be no happy life today. I have used practical actions throughout my life to express my love for the Party, and I also educate my children and grandchildren to pass on and continue this love," Zhang Yishun said.

Illustration: Zhang Danfeng (张丹峰)

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Sincere Hearts, True Feelings: Offering Advice and Suggestions

By: 本报记者  银  燕

The United Front Work Department of the Central Committee (中央统战部) recently organized a national condition research and service delegation of non-Party affiliated academicians, experts, and returned overseas students to visit Gansu (甘肃), carrying out research and service activities, leveraging their advantages and expertise to provide practical suggestions for Gansu's (甘肃) high-quality development.

Through this on-site research and service, the delegation members learned about the practical results achieved by Gansu Province (甘肃省) in accelerating the construction of a new development pattern and focusing on promoting high-quality development. The delegation members stated that they will base themselves on their positions and give full play to their strengths, devote themselves to the magnificent torrent of Chinese-style modernization, and actively offer suggestions, take responsibility, and dedicate themselves wholeheartedly.

Strengthening Exchanges and Cooperation, Reaching Multiple Consensus

Led by Guo Lei (郭雷), the head of the delegation and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院院士), the delegation visited the School of Mathematics and Statistics and the School of Information Science and Technology of Lanzhou University (兰州大学), and the Lanzhou Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院兰州分院), and conducted symposiums and exchanges with relevant institutes and researchers on systems and automation control, artificial intelligence, applied mathematics, and other aspects.

"We hope to start cooperation with the School of History and Culture and select and retain outstanding talents." Yu Jing (喻静), Vice President of the Chinese National Academy of Arts (中国艺术研究院副院长), held in-depth discussions with the heads of the School of History and Culture, the Dunhuang Studies Institute, and the School of Arts of Lanzhou University (兰州大学历史文化学院、敦煌学研究所及艺术学院) on talent co-cultivation and Silk Road culture research, and jointly discussed in-depth cross-institutional cooperation. The two sides reached a consensus on jointly building a talent delivery mechanism and jointly carrying out major scientific research projects.

Duan Jiang (段江), a professor at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (西南财经大学教授), gave a lecture at the Gansu Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology (甘肃省工业和信息化厅) on the theme of "Generative Artificial Intelligence." He suggested that Gansu (甘肃) should strengthen the research and application of cutting-edge technologies in generative artificial intelligence and seize development opportunities. Xu Kebiao (许克标), director of the Quantum Sensing Laboratory of the Wuxi Quantum Sensing Institute (无锡量子感知研究所量子传感实验室主任), conducted on-site research at the Digital Network Security Artificial Intelligence and Communication Laboratory and the New Power System Simulation Center of the State Grid Gansu Electric Power Company (国网甘肃省电力公司数字化网安人工智能及通信实验室、新型电力系统仿真中心), providing ideas for technical problems in the fields of quantum sensing and new materials.

Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) is a strong engine for Gansu's (甘肃) economic development. Qing Fengling (卿凤翎), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院院士) and director of the Key Laboratory of Advanced Fluorine and Nitrogen Materials of the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院上海有机化学研究所先进氟氮材料重点实验室主任), and Yan Jianwen (严建文), Vice President of the Anhui Western Returned Scholars Association and Chairman of Hefei HF Intelligent Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (安徽欧美同学会副会长、合肥合锻智能制造股份有限公司董事长), held discussions and exchanges with relevant departments of Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) on petrochemical industry, high-end equipment manufacturing, intelligent manufacturing, and other fields, providing technical guidance. Experts said in the symposium that it is recommended to leverage the advantages of low electricity prices and abundant raw materials in the Northwest region and focus on developing high value-added materials; leverage the talent advantages of the Lanzhou New Area Vocational Education Park (兰州新区职教园区), strengthen the linkage between the vocational education park and industries to solve the "difficulty in recruiting workers" in the manufacturing industry, and at the same time improve education and medical levels to enhance talent attraction.

Focusing on the Grassroots Level, Offering Suggestions to Directly Address Pain Points

From enterprise workshops to fields, from universities and research institutes to scientific research bases, the delegation members conducted thorough research and careful thinking. Many experts and scholars paid attention to the pain points of Gansu (甘肃) in retaining and using talents and put forward suggestions.

At the symposium, Guo Lei (郭雷) suggested further strengthening technological empowerment and talent team building in the planning and implementation process of the "Seven Places, One Screen, and One Channel." For example, guided by the needs of local industries in the province, further promote the deep integration of industry, academia, and research; combine with the actual development of Gansu (甘肃) to further explore flexible talent introduction models; establish a provincial-level talent docking service platform to further optimize the spatial allocation of scientific and technological talents, etc.

At the School of Physical Science and Technology of Lanzhou University (兰州大学物理科学与技术学院), when Wu Xiangping (武向平), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院院士), and Luo Minxing (罗民兴), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院院士) and director of the Beijing Computational Science Research Center (北京计算科学研究中心主任), learned that the special support plan for serving young scientific and technological talents in Gansu Province (甘肃省) has a significant gap compared with developed provinces and that there is a lack of major platform layout, resulting in problems such as talents "wanting to stay but having no platform," they suggested strengthening the attraction of talents with major scientific research platforms and providing talents with a stage where "there is something to do" through measures such as the implementation of national projects in Gansu (甘肃).

"National-level platforms are key support for discipline development and talent introduction. Universities need to make up for the shortcomings of basic disciplines, solve problems such as insufficient teachers and a shortage of leading talents, and increase resource investment." Duan Wenhui (段文晖), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院院士) and Vice Dean of the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering of Tsinghua University (清华大学材料科学与工程研究院副院长), suggested flexible talent introduction, making good use of policies to attract Gansu (甘肃) scholars to return to their hometowns, and at the same time sending more young teachers to first-class universities for further study.

Yu Xianghui (于湘晖), Vice President of Jilin University (吉林大学副校长), suggested that Gansu (甘肃) integrate disciplines and jointly build international platforms, use characteristic disciplines to attract talents to serve the overall situation, make full use of preferential policies in the western region, prioritize solving talent concerns, improve services, grant greater scientific research autonomy, and reduce administrative constraints.

Doing a Good Job in Follow-up Docking and Promoting the Implementation of Suggestions

During the research period, the delegation members visited red education bases such as the Lanzhou Office of the Eighth Route Army (八路军兰州办事处) and the Memorial Hall of the Western Route Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (中国工农红军西路军纪念馆), deeply feeling the glorious history of China under the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) from poverty and weakness to great rejuvenation. "This trip stimulated my patriotism and pride, and I deeply feel that I need to integrate my personal ideals into the overall situation of national development. I will give full play to my professional expertise, deepen research and suggestions, and serve regional and national development," said Huang Lei (黄蕾), a member of the University Affairs Committee of Minjiang University (闽江学院校务委员会委员) and a representative of returned overseas students.

After in-depth research on the Wuwei Heavy Ion Center (武威重离子中心) in Gansu (甘肃), many related experts and scholars put forward professional opinions and suggestions. Huang Yuguang (黄宇光), a professor at Peking Union Medical College Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (中国医学科学院北京协和医院教授), said: "The Wuwei Heavy Ion Center (武威重离子中心) has achieved the first treatment cost reduction to 49,000 yuan and has an annual reception capacity of 2,000 cases, but it needs to strengthen clinical data accumulation and cross-regional collaboration to avoid 手握重器却利用率不足 (shǒu wò zhòng qì què lì yòng lǜ bù zú - "holding a powerful weapon but the utilization rate is insufficient," possessing a great resource but not using it to its full potential)." "Heavy ion equipment is a high-precision medical resource. As the earliest region to invest in this technology, Gansu (甘肃) is recommended to open up cooperation and sharing of high-quality medical resources to give full play to its value," said Tian Mei (田梅), Dean of the Human Phenome Institute of Fudan University (复旦大学人类表型组研究院院长).

After careful and in-depth research, Li Can (李灿), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院院士) and Minister of the Solar Energy Research Department of the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院大连化学物理研究所太阳能研究部部长), and Tian Xuan (田轩), Dean of the National Institute of Financial Research of Tsinghua University (清华大学国家金融研究院院长), and other experts gave suggestions, believing that Gansu (甘肃) should not be limited to simple power transmission, but should convert green electricity into high value-added products locally through technological innovation, store new energy as transportable green fuels and chemical raw materials, and simultaneously drive the development of the hydrogen energy and carbon capture industry chains. Build a national-level green energy demonstration zone in the Hexi Corridor (河西走廊) to transform Gansu's (甘肃) wind and solar advantages into real industrial competitiveness.

"Promoting Chinese-style modernization and comprehensively building a strong socialist modern country is inseparable from the participation and contribution of the vast number of non-Party members and non-Party intellectuals. We will do a good job in follow-up promotion and continue to do a good job in service and docking with relevant parties in Gansu (甘肃) to contribute to local development," said the relevant person in charge of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee (中央统战部有关部门负责同志).

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Cross-Disciplinary Practice and Training: Young Cadres Gain Experience

By: 本报记者  肖家鑫  本报通讯员  张  艳

In an old residential area of Lucheng Subdistrict (鲁城街道), Qufu (曲阜) City, Jining (济宁) City, Shandong (山东) Province, Liu He (刘贺), Deputy Director of the Comprehensive Management Center of the Qufu Municipal Party Committee Political and Legal Affairs Commission (曲阜市委政法委), is dealing with the garbage disposal problem that the masses strongly reflect. "In the past, when dealing with the demands of the masses, we were more focused on organizing research and judgment and supervising implementation. Now that I'm working at the front line, I have a deep understanding of the complexity of grassroots governance," said Liu He (刘贺).

Three months ago, this young cadre, who was accustomed to sitting in the office hall to handle daily affairs, was sent to the subdistrict for practical training. From the office of the agency to the front line, he completed the role transformation from dispatcher to clerk. Liu He (刘贺) opened his work notebook, which was densely filled with 55 civil livelihood demands reflected by the masses.

A few kilometers away at the Investment Promotion Headquarters, Zhang Bingchuan (张炳川), a young cadre from Wucun Town (吴村镇), is coordinating a zero-carbon heating project with an investment of 50 million yuan. From the township to the headquarters, he frankly said that he experienced a "painful adaptation period": "In the town, I was focused on my ‘一亩三分地’ (yī mǔ sān fēn dì - "one mu three fen land," one's own small plot of land; one's limited scope of responsibility), but now I have to learn to calculate economic accounts and long-term accounts, and every sentence in the contract must be carefully considered."

The opportunity for Liu He (刘贺) and Zhang Bingchuan (张炳川) to change positions for training benefited from the "Two-way Tempering" project for young cadres implemented by Qufu (曲阜) City. Since the beginning of this year, Qufu (曲阜) City has innovated the training model for young cadres, deepened the "two-way tempering" mechanism, and set up a two-month practical training session in the youth cadre training class to allow agency cadres to "sink down" to connect with the grassroots and allow grassroots cadres to "float up" to broaden their horizons.

Qufu (曲阜) City selected 50 young cadres from 38 departments and asked them to go to new positions with topics: cadres from municipal departments should participate in front-line tasks such as handling demands and flood and drought resistance in towns and subdistricts; cadres from towns and subdistricts should enter special classes such as investment promotion and project construction to learn alongside. According to Wang Hongxin (王洪新), Deputy Minister of the Organization Department of the Qufu (曲阜) Municipal Party Committee (曲阜市委组织部) in charge of daily work, in order to ensure the effectiveness of the training, a work review is conducted every week and a comprehensive assessment is conducted every month. In the most recent assessment, 3 cadres were adjusted their positions due to "unsuitability," and 5 cadres with outstanding performance were included in the key training scope.

"The growth of cadres is like the growth of trees, which must both take root downwards and grow into timber upwards," said Zhang Weiguo (张卫国), member of the Standing Committee of the Qufu (曲阜) Municipal Party Committee (曲阜市委常委) and Minister of the Organization Department (组织部). "We plan to arrange 20% of young cadres to conduct short-term practical training in cross-fields every year to broaden their horizons and increase their skills."

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Photo Report

Guizhou Province, Liupanshui City, focuses on utilizing distinctive resources such as ethnic customs to develop tourism, integrating folk cultural activities into ancient town tourism. The picture shows citizens and tourists watching a performance in Hecheng Ancient Town (荷城古镇), Zhongshan District (钟山区), Liupanshui City (六盘水市) on August 17.

Shang Yujie (尚宇杰) photographed (Image China (影像中国)).

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Lanzhou New Area: Thirteen Years of Hard Work and Pioneering a New Chapter

Since being approved in August 2012 as the fifth national-level new area in China and the first in Northwest China, Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) has gone through thirteen years of hard work and progress.

Standing on this thriving land of Qinwangchuan (秦王川) and looking back, Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) started from a blank sheet of paper, and the modern urban landscape is becoming increasingly bright. Bearing in mind the mission and responsibility of a national-level new area, Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) has actively undertaken major national development and reform and opening-up strategic tasks, delivering a weighty answer sheet: In the 13 years since its approval, it has closely focused on the strategic positioning of "pole, place, platform, and zone," taking "innovation" as the pathfinder and "newness" as the response to change, striving to write an era chapter of "dynamic new area, industrial new area, ecological new area, open new area, and quality new area." The regional GDP has grown from less than 500 million yuan to 44.8 billion yuan, the actual population has grown from less than 100,000 to 720,000, and the number of business entities has grown from less than 1,000 to more than 50,000. In the first half of 2025, Lanzhou New Area's (兰州新区) regional GDP increased by 16.6% year-on-year, and the growth rate continued to rank among the top in the national-level new areas, continuing to write a new chapter of high-quality economic and social development, vigorous reform and innovation, and a happy and beautiful life for the people.

Daring to Break New Ground in Reform and Stimulating New Vitality

Reform is the "source of power" for the high-quality development of Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区).

The Aima Lanzhou New Area Industrial Park (爱玛兰州新区产业园) took only 12 days from initial negotiation to project signing. Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) provided full assistance services, promptly coordinating and completing difficult and blocked issues such as the opening of intersections and the relocation of power poles, allowing enterprises to concentrate on seizing the construction period and catching up with the progress. Lanzhou New Area's (兰州新区) high-quality business environment and attentive service have become the core competitiveness for attracting enterprise investment and project implementation.

In the past 13 years, Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) has dared to venture and try, taking the lead in piloting, adhering to the principle of "large departments, large services, and flattening," and exploring the formation of a management system that meets development needs, providing a strong institutional mechanism guarantee for the high-quality development of the new area.

Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区), anchoring the goal of "nationally leading, western first-class," has always regarded the construction of the business environment as a key project to enhance regional carrying capacity, competitiveness, and influence, adhering to benchmarking and taking the lead in piloting, launching "ten reform characteristic cards," carefully creating the "New Things, Heartfelt Handling" service brand, and taking the lead in Gansu (甘肃) to promote "unfeeling renewal of licenses," "one seal management of excavation and occupation," "full regional handling," and "private customization" and other government services. 1,742 application-based government service items have achieved "nearby handling, multi-point handling," injecting surging momentum into the high-quality development of the new area.

Industry Promotes Development and Gathers New Momentum

Industry is the "basic plate" for the high-quality development of Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区).

Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) has always anchored the "industry-based area, industry-strong area" unswervingly, accelerating the construction of a diversified, multi-level support, and distinctive "2+4+X+N" modern industrial system, cultivating new quality productivity, forming new growth points, and providing strong support for high-quality development.

In the Lanzhou New Area Modern Agriculture Industrial Park (兰州新区现代农业产业园), 300,000 fresh cut flowers are fragrant all over the world every day; in the Lanzhou New Area Green Chemical Park (兰州新区绿色化工园区), which ranks among the top 100 in the country, the first fine chemical pilot demonstration base in Northwest China has been built and put into operation, forming an integrated space for "R&D pilot test - mass production transformation," with a cumulative introduction of 197 projects and 100 production plants put into operation, becoming an important carrier for Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) to cultivate new quality productivity.

In the past 13 years, Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) has accelerated the improvement of the innovation chain, expanded the industrial chain, and enhanced the value chain around "strengthening the leading enterprises, supplementing the chain, and gathering clusters," with a cumulative introduction of more than 1,300 high-quality projects and a total investment of about 610 billion yuan, building a green chemical, new energy and new materials, advanced equipment manufacturing, biomedicine, data information, modern services and other advantageous industrial clusters. The nation's largest high-performance copper foil production base, an advanced equipment manufacturing base with national influence, and a highland for the development of the circular economy in the Northwest are accelerating their formation in Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区), and the role of Gansu's (甘肃) main battlefield for the development of the real economy and an important national industrial base is becoming increasingly prominent. At the same time, aiming at the forefront of world science and technology, actively absorbing and gathering innovative elements and resources, planning and constructing the Lanzhou New Area "Ganzhihui" Science and Technology Innovation Park (兰州新区“甘智汇”科创园), building 183 various innovation carriers such as the Gansu Province Ion Beam Radiotherapy Technology Innovation Center (甘肃省离子束放射治疗技术创新中心) and 24 industrial incubation platforms, with R&D investment intensity reaching 3.7%, and the innovation momentum continues to gather, supporting the new area to move to a higher level.

Ecology Lays the Foundation and Depicts a New Picture

Green is the distinctive background color of the high-quality development of Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区).

In the past 13 years, Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) has adhered to ecological priority and green development, innovatively implemented comprehensive land consolidation in the whole region, actively created a demonstration zone for ecological restoration and comprehensive management of soil and water loss in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River, and coordinated the systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grass, and sand, carefully depicting a new picture of ecological governance.

A cumulative afforestation of 210,000 mu, and the urban greening rate has jumped from less than 5% to 36%... The ecologically fragile area with sparse vegetation in the past has now been transformed into a modern ecological new city with full of greenery, suitable for business and living. Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) innovatively implemented the "ecological restoration and management + modern agriculture + high-quality forestry and grassland industry + urban development" model, effectively expanding the "three spaces" of ecology, production, and life. The proportion of days with excellent air quality is stable at more than 93%, the "14th Five-Year Plan" goal for water consumption per 10,000 yuan of GDP has been completed ahead of schedule, the construction of "waste-free city" is progressing smoothly, and 38 "waste-free city" indicator systems have reached the mid-term evaluation target of the national pilot city.

What is particularly eye-catching is that Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) innovatively explored the path to realize the value of ecological products, innovatively landed green financial products such as "ecological restoration loans" and "urban public transport net-zero emission loans," and the "Green Finance Pass" platform helped enterprises finance 138.9 billion yuan. The outstanding practice of ecological civilization construction in Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) won the "United Nations Outstanding Environmental Governance Engineering Award," setting a benchmark for ecological priority and green development.

Silk Road Builds Golden Bridges and Leaps into a New Stage

Opening up is the posture of high-quality development of Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区).

In the past 13 years, Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) has practiced the mission and responsibility of a national-level new area, deeply integrated into the joint construction of the "Belt and Road," adhered to the "port + channel + industry" development model, actively expanded the two markets of domestic and international, and the import and export trade volume in the first half of this year increased by 46.1% year-on-year, and the open economy has achieved a new leap.

A train of Central Asia and China-Europe freight trains loaded with goods, like "steel camel teams," departs from the Zhongchuan North Railway Station Logistics Park (中川北站物流园) in Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) to Central Asia and Europe; a full cargo plane takes off from Lanzhou Zhongchuan International Airport (兰州中川国际机场) and flies to all parts of the world... The distance between Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) and the world is constantly shortening.

In recent years, Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) has given full play to the superimposed advantages of comprehensive bonded zones, international airports, and international land ports, highlighting the construction of two key centers for processing and manufacturing, and commercial and trade logistics, focusing on developing two emerging business service centers for emerging international trade and "bonded +" characteristic services, and simultaneously cultivating two characteristic economies of platform economy and port economy, building a three-dimensional open platform of "one zone, two ports, six designated supervision sites, and two cross-border e-commerce supervision centers." Layout and construction of "overseas warehouses" and international economic and trade service bases, opening more than 240 domestic and international routes and 21 international cargo destinations, more than 70 kinds of high-quality products such as Lanzhou Petrochemical Drilling Equipment (兰石集团钻采装备), Foci Traditional Chinese Medicine (佛慈中药), Dahong Mineral Thermal Furnace (大宏矿热炉), Chuanqi Dairy (传祁乳业), and Nongtou Fresh Cut Flowers (农投鲜切花卉) are sold to more than 60 countries and regions, and have been approved to establish national functional open platforms such as the National Import Trade Promotion Innovation Demonstration Zone, the Key Undertaking Place for Gradient Transfer of Processing Trade, and the Foreign Trade Transformation and Upgrading Base (Petroleum Equipment). The multimodal transport center and logistics distribution hub of Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) facing the "Belt and Road" countries has taken initial shape, providing a strong guarantee for Gansu Province (甘肃省) to build a national westward opening strategic channel.

The City Has Quality and Shows a New Style

Quality is the foothold of the high-quality development of Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区).

Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) conscientiously practices the concept of a people's city, focusing on improving the modernization level of the urban governance system and governance capacity, taking "smart growth and compact city" as the guidance, turning the "precision" of governance into the "temperature" of service, realizing the "two-way rush" between people and the city, and drawing the largest "concentric circle" of co-construction, co-governance, and sharing.

In the past 13 years, Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) has created a "15-minute living circle," built more than 100 primary and secondary schools and kindergartens, providing 75,000 degrees, various medical institutions provide more than 2,200 beds, and 78 cultural venues have been built; explored the "elderly care facilities + elderly meal assistance" model, built 63 urban and rural community elderly day care centers, and built a widely covered elderly care service network. The Lanzhou New Area Social Security Comprehensive Management Center (兰州新区社会治安综合治理中心), which is built to a high standard of "seven centers in one," promotes the transformation of grassroots governance from "unit dispersion" to "integration and coordination."

The urban construction is changing with each passing day, and the radiation range is gradually expanding. The T3 terminal of Lanzhou Zhongchuan International Airport (兰州中川国际机场T3航站楼) has been completed and put into use, and the "one ring and six radiation" highway network and the "one ring, two horizontal and two vertical" railway network of Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) are connected, and the status of the Northwest Comprehensive Transportation Hub is becoming increasingly prominent.

The changes in the "urban capillaries" vividly tell the concept of "fine products and quality" of this new city, so that people's well-being can take root in the details.

After thirteen years of hard work, Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) has written a magnificent chapter of high-quality development from scratch, from weak to strong, on Qinwangchuan (秦王川) with the courage to be the first and the pragmatic and resolute style.

Standing at a new historical starting point, Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) will keep in mind the entrustment, be grateful and forge ahead, dare to break into the "deep water area" of reform, explore the "new blue ocean" of opening up, activate the "strong engine" of innovation, weave a dense "guarantee network" for people's livelihood, and strive to build a leading area for high-quality development, a new highland for reform and opening up, and a new benchmark for urban construction, and write a new chapter in the Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) practice of Chinese-style modernization.

Data source: Lanzhou New Area Party Group Political and Legal Affairs and Social Work Department (兰州新区党群政法和社会工作部)

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Essential skills for summer outdoor activities (Focus on People's Livelihood: Summer safety requires attention)

By: 本报记者 赵景锋

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Summer vacation is a good time for outdoor activities and exploring nature. Many parents take their children to the mountains and streams to learn and grow in nature. However, in the face of complex and ever-changing outdoor environments, safety is a "required course" that must be taken seriously. Adequate pre-trip emergency preparation and mastering the correct common sense of self-rescue and rescue are essential for ensuring that happiness and peace of mind go hand in hand.

During the summer vacation, many parents choose to take their children to play outdoors. However, the outdoor environment is complex and changeable, with some potential risks. What preparations should be made for parent-child outdoor activities? How to properly deal with injuries and illnesses? How to self-rescue and seek help in case of danger?

Prepare Emergency Items for Wilderness Survival

If parents take their children to travel to high mountains, grasslands, deserts, etc. during the summer vacation, what preparations should they make before departure?

Not long ago, Mr. Zhang (张先生) from the Xincheng District (新城区) of Hohhot (呼和浩特市), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区), took his 10-year-old son to Jiufeng Mountain Scenic Area (九峰山景区) in Baotou (包头市) for hiking. Due to a lack of understanding of the destination, the father and son accidentally entered a wild mountain under the wrong guidance of navigation. The mountain was foggy and the mobile phone signal was interrupted, and the two quickly lost their way. After nearly 3 hours of wandering, they met patrolling police officers, and the two successfully left the mountain.

"When taking children to outdoor activities, be sure to make plans in advance." Luo Xuan (罗玄), a staff member of the Fire and Rescue Corps of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区消防救援总队), reminded parents to pay close attention to the weather conditions of the destination before traveling, and try to avoid bad weather such as thunderstorms and heavy fog. Carefully understand the terrain and road conditions of the destination and surrounding areas, choose regular scenic spots and mature routes, do not go to undeveloped scenic spots, and try to end the activity before dark.

Luo Xuan (罗玄) recalled that most of the rescues he encountered involving children were because the children were separated from their parents and lost contact. He suggested that before going outdoors, parents should write their names, addresses, and mobile phone numbers on a card for their children to carry with them. At the same time, give children a phone watch or locator and carry a spare power source. If you are going to complex environments such as mountains, grasslands, and deserts, you should also teach children how to use a distress whistle and compass correctly. For different terrains, he specifically reminded that the climate in mountainous areas is changeable and the roads are slippery, so prepare trekking poles, non-slip hiking shoes, windproof jackets, satellite phones, raincoats, flashlights, emergency food, drinking water, etc.; the temperature difference between day and night in grasslands and deserts is large, so prepare sunscreen, windproof and warm clothing, portable fans, cooling patches, thermal blankets, etc.

Carry a Medicine Kit to Handle Injuries and Illnesses

You should also pay attention to disease prevention when traveling outdoors. In mid-July, Ms. Bao (包女士)'s family of three from Hangjin Banner (杭锦旗), Ordos (鄂尔多斯市), returned from a grassland tour, and the child suddenly developed symptoms of fever and local skin redness and swelling. After seeing a doctor, it was confirmed that it was fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome caused by a tick bite. The condition was dangerous, and it took a week of treatment with antibiotics and other drugs to recover.

"Ticks often live in places with dense vegetation and can transmit a variety of pathogens, which can lead to paralysis or even death in severe cases." Liu Bubao (刘补报), deputy chief physician of the Emergency Surgery Department of the Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University (内蒙古医科大学附属医院), reminded parents that if they are going to grasslands or forests, try to wear long-sleeved shirts and trousers in light-colored fabrics, and apply repellents to exposed skin. If you find that you have been bitten, use tweezers to clamp the tick's head or mouthparts, pull it out vertically, stably, and slowly upwards, and then disinfect the bite with iodophor. Afterwards, closely observe the bite site and physical condition for several weeks. If symptoms such as rash, fever, and fatigue occur, seek medical attention immediately.

"If you are going to the desert, children are more likely to suffer from heatstroke because their body temperature regulation ability is weak." Liu Bubao (刘补报) suggested that children should apply special sunscreen before entering the desert, and reapply it every two hours; avoid strenuous activities during high-temperature periods and rest indoors or in the car; and replenish water and electrolytes in time. If a child is found to have heatstroke, immediately move him to a cool place, loosen his clothes, apply a wet towel to his body, and seek medical attention in time if the situation is serious. "In addition, pay attention to food hygiene during outdoor activities, do not mix raw and cooked food, and do not drink raw water in the wild to avoid acute gastroenteritis and other diseases." Liu Bubao (刘补报) said.

Based on years of diagnosis and treatment experience, Liu Bubao (刘补报) recommended an outdoor travel medicine kit for parents, including basic cleaning and disinfection items such as sterile gloves, iodophor cotton swabs, alcohol wipes, and saline flushing solution; wound treatment tools such as waterproof bandages, sterile hemostatic cotton, tweezers, and blister plasters; daily medicines such as children's antipyretic and analgesic drugs, children's antiallergic drugs, heatstroke prevention drugs, motion sickness drugs, antidiarrheal drugs, and external anti-inflammatory and swelling drugs; and protective products such as repellents and sunscreen.

Master Common Sense and Methods of Self-Rescue and Rescue

If a child encounters a safety accident outdoors, how should he self-rescue and seek help?

"Outdoor safety accidents involving children mainly include getting lost, drowning, and natural disasters." Fu Yu (傅钰), a member of the Blue Sky Rescue Team of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区蓝天救援队), suggested that if you want to learn self-rescue, parents should let their children master some basic common sense and methods in advance. "For drowning, children can learn to swim and master self-rescue methods such as the 'jellyfish float'; for getting lost, children can learn to use a compass and the North Star to identify directions; when encountering natural disasters such as mountain floods, they should tell children to move to high ground on both sides of the ditch, and if they fall into the water, they can grab floating objects, etc."

"When seeking help, if communication devices such as mobile phones and phone watches are turned on and can receive signals, call 110, 119, or 120 as soon as possible." Fu Yu (傅钰) suggested that parents must teach their children to describe their location, for example, they can use a landmark around them as a reference to locate themselves by describing the landmark and their relative position to the landmark. At the same time, tell the children that if they get separated from their parents, they should stay where they are or in a place with obvious landmarks and wait for rescue. If you are in a crowded scenic spot, do not go with strangers. If you see police officers, firefighters, and related staff in uniform, tell them that you are lost and need help.

Fu Yu (傅钰) reminded that if you are lost in the wild, your mobile phone has no signal and you cannot find anyone to ask for help, you can climb to the nearest hilltop or the highest point of the dune if your physical strength allows. This makes it easier to find distant landmarks and also makes it more likely to restore the mobile phone signal, making it easier to contact the outside world for help. In addition, you can use surrounding stones and branches to create an "SOS" distress symbol in an open area to facilitate discovery during aerial reconnaissance, and use flashlights and distress whistles to send signals at the same time. If you are spending the night in mountains, grasslands, deserts, etc., you should also avoid hypothermia. You can wrap a thermal blanket around your body and replenish food in time to maintain your body's heat production capacity.

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Beware of "Student Loan Application" Scams (Service Window)

Beijing, August 19th (Reported by Yan Yiqiao (闫伊乔)) The National Student Financial Aid Management Center of the Ministry of Education (教育部) recently issued Warning No. 3 of 2025: Be alert to scams involving "student loan processing."

The warning indicates that recently, during the peak period for processing student loans from the place of origin, the National Student Financial Aid Management Center of the Ministry of Education (教育部) discovered that some criminals have infiltrated QQ and WeChat groups for student loan consultation, posing as staff members to add students in the groups as friends, and using the excuse of problems encountered in student loan processing to carry out fraud. Students applying for student loans must be vigilant and should not easily accept friend requests from strangers. National student loans do not charge any fees, nor will they require transfers. If students have any questions during the student loan application process, please contact the local county-level or the student financial aid management department of the university they are attending. In case of property loss, please report the case to the public security authorities as soon as possible.

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Hainan Improves Individual Income Tax Preference Policies for Urgently Needed Talents

(People's Daily, Haikou, August 19th) (Reporter Dong Zeyang (董泽扬)) On the 19th, the People's Government of Hainan Province (海南省人民政府) released the "Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) High-End and Urgently Needed Talents List Management Measures for Enjoying Individual Income Tax Preferential Policies," optimizing and improving the old measures released in 2022.

The 15% individual income tax preferential policy is one of the important policies of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港), which exempts the portion of the actual individual income tax burden exceeding 15% for high-end and urgently needed talents working in the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港).

"Accumulated residence of 183 days" is one of the conditions for enjoying the 15% individual income tax preferential policy. The new measures optimize the calculation method of the number of days, including reasonable off-island business trips, vacations, and study and training days in the scope of residential days statistics, and at the same time clarify that "the actual residence in the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) shall not be less than 90 days."

In order to support the development of Hainan's (海南) aerospace industry and further strengthen the talent support role of policies for key industries, the new measures optimize the specific industry scope of "aviation, shipping, and offshore oil and gas exploration" enjoying preferential treatment in the old measures to "aerospace, shipping, and offshore oil and gas exploration."

In order to prevent policy risks, the new measures clearly require that the enterprises and units to which talents enjoying preferential policies belong must operate substantially in Hainan (海南), and their business development must match the enjoyment of preferential treatment.

As of the end of December 2024, the Hainan Free Trade Port's (海南自由贸易港) individual income tax preferential policy has cumulatively benefited 39,000 person-times, continuously empowering the high-end and green industries encouraged by Hainan (海南), such as modern service industries and high-tech industries.

The release of these new measures is an important step for the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) to improve its policy system. Further optimizing the conditions for enjoying individual income tax preferential policies lays a good foundation for the policy environment before the customs closure operation, and also injects new impetus into attracting more high-end and urgently needed talents to take root in Hainan (海南) and help the high-quality development of industries.

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Kunming, Yunnan Optimizes Medical Treatment Processes with Multiple Measures

This newspaper reports from Kunming on August 19th (Reporter Li Maoying (李茂颖)) This year, Kunming (昆明), Yunnan (云南) has comprehensively utilized big data monitoring, artificial intelligence, and other technologies to explore personalized services and continuously optimize the city's hospital medical treatment processes.

The reporter learned from the Kunming Municipal Health Commission (昆明市卫生健康委) of Yunnan Province (云南省) that, on the one hand, Kunming (昆明) has innovatively launched "flexible outpatient services" during weekends, holidays, and evenings in municipal hospitals; on the other hand, it has launched a pilot program of "Benefiting the People with First Visit," where patients only need to register once for the entire medical treatment process from entering the hospital, seeing a doctor, undergoing examinations, to obtaining medication. If patients do not complete their diagnosis and treatment after the initial visit due to long examination cycles or pending results, they do not need to pay a second registration fee for subsequent visits.

As of the end of June, a total of 222 "flexible outpatient services" have been opened in municipal public Grade III Class A hospitals, serving approximately 5.2 million patients cumulatively, allowing citizens to receive timely medical treatment at night, on weekends, and during holidays. Municipal hospitals have provided free follow-up consultations to more than 278,000 patients, reducing registration fees by approximately 2.255 million yuan.

In addition, to facilitate medical treatment for elderly patients, Kunming (昆明) has opened "caring channels" for patients over 80 years old, providing one-stop services.

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This edition's editors: Cheng Chen, Lu Fanbing, Li Zhiyao

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Enhanced Appearance, Increased Value: Hometown Scenery Can Generate Wealth

By: 本报记者  贺  勇  阿尔达克  李亚楠

Core Reading

In order to protect Sayram Lake (赛里木湖), Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture (博尔塔拉蒙古自治州) in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区) has implemented grazing bans and fallow periods, restored grassland vegetation, and managed streams flowing into the lake. After years of protection and management, the ecological environment of Sayram Lake (赛里木湖) and its surrounding areas has improved, helping the local area develop diverse business formats and driving income growth for the people.

In August, Sayram Lake (赛里木湖) in Xinjiang (新疆) is characterized by blue skies, vast waters, and verdant mountains. In a small shop by the lake, the owner, Erzha Toreubek (俄热扎·托留别克), is carefully counting the goods on the shelves. This girl, who once chased sheep on the grassland, now runs this small shop, with a daily turnover of over 1,000 yuan.

The changes in Erzha's (俄热扎) family are a result of the changes in Sayram Lake (赛里木湖). In recent years, Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture (博尔塔拉蒙古自治州), where Sayram Lake (赛里木湖) is located, has implemented measures such as grazing bans and fallow periods, vegetation restoration, and strengthened environmental supervision and law enforcement to carefully protect Sayram Lake (赛里木湖). The development advantages brought about by ecological protection have benefited the local people.

Grazing Ban Protects Grass

"Cattle and sheep move, grass grows"

Sayram Lake (赛里木湖) is the highest and largest alpine cold-water lake in Xinjiang (新疆). The lakeside has a lush grassland that can hide sheep, which is how Erzha (俄热扎) remembers it from her childhood. "When I was herding sheep as a child, when a sheep lay down in the grass, you couldn't even see its head."

However, as the number of cattle and sheep increased, the pasture gradually became "thin." "The grass was barely over my ankles before it was eaten by the cattle and sheep. When the wind blew, the soil ran into the lake, and the water became muddy. It was heartbreaking to see," Erzha (俄热扎) said.

Protecting "Sayram Lake Blue (赛里木湖蓝)" is urgent. Since 2012, grazing bans, fallow grazing, rotational grazing, and grass-livestock balance management systems have been implemented in key protected areas of Sayram Lake (赛里木湖). To date, the cumulative area of grazing bans around the lake has reached 425,000 mu. Determining the carrying capacity of grasslands, returning grazing land to grassland, and settling herdsmen... a systematic set of measures has been fully implemented.

"At first, many herdsmen couldn't understand it," said Fan Jiangwei (樊江伟), director of the Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau of the Sayram Lake Scenic Area Management Committee (赛里木湖风景名胜区管理委员会综合执法局). To this end, local officials took satellite remote sensing maps and grassland monitoring data to the homes of herdsmen, breaking down the ecological and long-term benefits: "If the sheep exceed the carrying capacity, the grass will be eaten, and the wind and sand will come, and the lake water cannot be protected." At the same time, the local government strictly implements the grassland ecological subsidy and reward mechanism, with policies to support and explain the principles thoroughly. "Wanting ecology" has gradually become the consensus of herdsmen.

To truly implement the grazing ban and make it effective, it is also necessary to solve the practical difficulties of herdsmen. The state, prefecture, county, township, and village levels are linked to investigate grassland conditions household by household, coordinate alternative grasslands in Wenquan County (温泉县) and other places, and solve the relocation problems of more than 200 herdsmen. The Sayram Lake Scenic Area (赛里木湖景区) implements artificial grass planting and fence management to shorten the natural recovery cycle of grasslands.

"Cattle and sheep move, grass grows," said Fan Jiangwei (樊江伟). More than 1.3 million mu of grassland are full of vitality, with a vegetation coverage rate of over 95%, an increase of 35% compared to before the grazing ban, and the average grass yield per mu has increased by at least 50 kilograms. What is gratifying is that rare wild animals such as snow leopards and North China ibex, which were once difficult to find, now appear frequently.

Water Management Cleans the Lake

"At the bottom of the water, which is more than ten meters deep, the texture of the sand and gravel is clearly visible"

Dai Min (戴旻), who is engaged in the sailing industry in Sayram Lake (赛里木湖), loves Moon Bay (月亮湾) the most. "Looking down from the boat, you can see to the bottom at a glance. At the bottom of the water, which is more than ten meters deep, the texture of the sand and gravel is clearly visible."

The automatic water quality monitoring station on the lake shore uploads data in real time: In recent years, the water quality of Sayram Lake (赛里木湖) has been steadily improved to Class II, and some areas have reached Class I standards.

"The water is clear, and more and more tourists are coming," Dai Min (戴旻) said, pointing to the long line of tourists waiting to take a boat on the shore, his tone full of excitement.

Sayram Lake (赛里木湖) is an alpine barrier lake with closed water bodies and weak self-purification ability. How can we protect a lake of clear water?

"In recent years, we have implemented the Sayram Lake ecological protection project, covering ditch management, shoreline consolidation, and ecological restoration," said Abuduwali Abulizi (阿布都瓦力·阿布力孜), a forestry engineer at the Resources and Environmental Management Bureau of the Management Committee. Comprehensive care requires both systematic thinking and detailed craftsmanship. The streams flowing into the lake are scientifically arranged with stepped water retaining dams to effectively slow down the flow rate and promote sediment deposition; all fishing spots around the lake are banned, and ships are only allowed to enter the lake center to carry out standardized fishing...

How is the sewage generated in the scenic area treated? Yu Ting (余亭), deputy director of the Tourism Development Administration Bureau of the Management Committee, gave the answer: "The sewage is collected uniformly, and then transported by special tankers to two sewage treatment plants 3 kilometers away from the lake. After the sewage is treated to meet the standards, it can be reused for greening in the lake area, realizing the recycling of resources."

Developing by the Lake

"Put down the whip and pick up the tourism bowl"

Erzha's (俄热扎) small shop is booming. Not far away, her husband and three herdsmen have jointly formed a sightseeing horse team, with a monthly income of more than 30,000 yuan during the peak season. "Put down the whip and pick up the tourism bowl, and life is getting better and better!" Erzha (俄热扎) said.

Ecological improvement has been effectively transformed into development opportunities. In May 2021, Sayram Lake Scenic Area (赛里木湖景区) became a national 5A-level tourist attraction. Since the beginning of this year, as of August 18, the scenic area has received 5,761,900 tourists, an increase of 12.39% year-on-year.

"The vigorous development of ecological tourism has spawned a rich and diverse range of business formats on the lakeside, and also provided herdsmen with employment and entrepreneurial opportunities at their doorsteps," Yu Ting (余亭) introduced. Since January of this year, the Management Committee has jointly customized training courses for herdsmen with the State Human Resources and Social Security Department and the Culture and Tourism Department, including tourism service specifications and etiquette, and Mandarin communication skills.

"Tourists have a comfortable time, and word of mouth spreads, so our business can last for a long time," Erzha (俄热扎) said with a smile.

The income from the development of the tourism industry benefits more people. In Bole City (博乐市), Wenquan County (温泉县) and other places, brand-new teaching buildings have sprung up, township health centers have been equipped with new equipment, and rural roads have been connected to the doorsteps of herdsmen's settlements... "The ecology is good, tourism is booming, and more people can benefit," said Zhang Liying (张莉英), member of the Standing Committee of the Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture (博尔塔拉蒙古自治州) Party Committee and Minister of the Propaganda Department (宣传部部长).

"If we protect the water so that it is clear and bright, and the grass grows densely, our lives will become more and more prosperous," Erzha (俄热扎) said with emotion, standing by the lake, watching the lake water reflecting the blue sky and the green grass spreading to the foot of the mountain.

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"China National Park Development Report" Released

The third National Park Forum opened in Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川) on August 19, according to a report in this newspaper (People's Daily) on August 19th by reporters Dong Siyu (董丝雨) and Song Haoxin (宋豪新). With the theme of "Protecting Natural Treasures and Co-creating Harmony and Beauty," the forum released important achievements such as the "China National Park Development Report" and the "National Park Monitoring System Construction Plan" at the opening ceremony.

The "China National Park Development Report" shows that the first batch of national parks integrated more than 120 various nature reserves, and implemented integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, and grasslands, comprehensively improving the diversity, stability, and sustainability of the natural ecosystems of the national parks, and achieving a steady increase in the number of wild animal and plant populations. The Sanjiangyuan National Park (三江源国家公园) has powerfully maintained the safety lifeline of the "Water Tower of China" and even Asian water ecology. The Giant Panda National Park (大熊猫国家公园) has realized the complete unity and interconnection of the concentrated distribution area and main breeding habitat of wild giant pandas in China. The number of wild tigers and leopards in the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park (东北虎豹国家公园) has increased from 27 and 42 at the beginning of the pilot project to about 70 and 80, respectively. The Hainan Gibbon population in the Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park (海南热带雨林国家公园) continues to grow. The Wuyishan National Park (武夷山国家公园) protects the world's natural and cultural heritage and has become the most complete mid-subtropical forest gene bank at the same latitude in the world.

Since the beginning of this year, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (国家林草局) has approved and issued the first batch of five national park monitoring system construction plans. Relevant officials from the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (国家林草局) stated that, in accordance with the "National Park Monitoring System Construction Plan," the latest scientific and technological achievements will be used to build an integrated "sky-earth" monitoring system to achieve normalized and accurate identification and real-time perception of wildlife in key areas of national parks, better serving protection and restoration, online supervision, public services, and other work, and comprehensively improving the intelligent and refined management level of national parks.

In the past 10 years, the construction of national parks has achieved a historic transformation from pilot exploration to comprehensive advancement, delivering a bright "report card." Continuously innovating the national park system and mechanism, gradually forming a unified and standardized management system, and building the "four beams and eight pillars" of the national park system with Chinese characteristics. All of the first batch of five national parks have completed the confirmation and registration of rights. Through ecological relocation, franchise operations, volunteer services, and ecological management public welfare positions, more new development opportunities have been brought to local communities, and nearly 50,000 local residents have become ecological rangers. Under-forest economy, ecological animal husbandry, ecological tea industry, and characteristic cultural tourism industries are showing a vigorous development trend, and constantly promoting ecological benefits for the people and ecological benefits for the people.

In the next step, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (国家林草局) will work with relevant regions and departments to continue to consolidate the achievements of national park construction, accelerate the advancement of national park legislation, and improve supporting systems. In accordance with the principle of "**成熟一个、设立一个**" (chéng shú yī gè, shè lì yī gè - "establish one when it is ready," establish a new national park when it is mature and ready), the creation of new national parks will be steadily promoted.

During this forum, there will be one main forum and three sub-forums. The forum will also hold a thematic achievement exhibition, which will comprehensively display the achievements of national parks in ecological protection, scientific research and monitoring, nature education, and community development through videos, pictures, and physical objects.

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China Meteorological Administration Adds 13 New Field Science Experiment Bases

This newspaper's Beijing (北京) August 19th dispatch (Reporter Li Hongmei (李红梅)) Recently, the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局) announced the newly added list of field scientific experiment bases, including 13 bases such as the Lushan (庐山) Cloud-Fog Physics and Chemistry Field Scientific Experiment Base and the Polar Atmosphere Field Scientific Experiment Base.

The selected experiment bases come from relevant units inside and outside the meteorological department, universities, and research institutes, covering fields such as climate change, agricultural meteorology, and marine meteorology. These experiment bases will be committed to building an open and shared observation and experiment platform, strengthening scientific and technological support capabilities, cultivating high-level innovation teams, creating a collaborative development mechanism for scientific research and business, and simultaneously promoting platform opening, sharing, and popular science demonstration.

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5 million mu of black soil to receive "precise care"

This newspaper's Shenyang (沈阳) report on August 19th (Reporter Liu Hongchao (刘洪超)) - This reporter learned from the Liaoning Province (辽宁省) Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs that the "Liaoning Province (辽宁省) 2025 Provincial Black Soil Protection Project Implementation Plan" was officially released recently. The plan clarifies that 5 million mu of black soil protection will be implemented in typical black soil areas, and a number of concentrated and contiguous, fertile soil, ecologically sound, well-equipped, and stable production capacity black soil protection demonstration zones will be built.

The key contents of this provincial-level black soil protection project include the implementation of straw returning to the field, composted fertilizer returning to the field, cultivation of thick and fertile cultivated layers, monitoring and evaluation, and mapping and storage. For example, straw returning to the field should adopt different measures according to differences in hydrothermal conditions, topography, tillage patterns, and agricultural mechanization levels. Dry land should adopt technical measures such as crushing and burying, crushing and mixing, stubble mulching and shallow rotary tillage, and mulching, according to local conditions. Paddy fields should promote technical measures such as autumn wet harrowing, autumn plowing and burying, and spring stubble plowing and burying.

In addition, Liaoning (辽宁) will also strengthen technology integration and work guidance, increase guidance and training for grassroots agricultural technicians and new agricultural business entities, interpret black soil protection laws and policies, cultivate "local experts" in the fields, strengthen technical assembly and integrated application according to local conditions, and improve the comprehensive technical model for black soil protection and utilization.

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Beijing's parks and green spaces cover over 90% of areas within a 500-meter radius

According to the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Landscape and Greening, Beijing's green coverage rate has reached 49.84%, and the service radius coverage of parks and green spaces within 500 meters has reached 92.92%. As the construction of garden cities is integrated into the entire process of urban governance, Beijing's urban landscape has been optimized and upgraded, the vitality of ecological spaces has burst forth, and biodiversity has become increasingly rich.

Data shows that Beijing has now built 344 urban leisure parks, 709 pocket parks and small green spaces, and 2,015 kilometers of greenways. The per capita park green space area has reached 17.09 square meters. As of the end of 2024, Beijing has included 1,100 parks in the directory, and park green spaces have become the "living room" at the doorstep of citizens.

It is reported that in the 40-plus years since the launch of the national voluntary tree planting campaign, a total of 110 million people in Beijing have participated in voluntary tree planting in various forms. This year, Beijing's task of building 100 community micro-gardens has been fully completed.

Since 2021, Beijing has built 558 natural zones in urban parks, woodlands, and green areas by retaining dead wood and fallen leaves, restoring native vegetation, building Benjes hedges and insect hotels, hanging artificial bird nests, and transforming small and micro wetlands. These include biodiversity demonstration areas, ecological conservation communities, etc., leaving space for wild animals in the city to inhabit and reproduce.

(Reported by Pan Junqiang (潘俊强), a reporter from this newspaper in Beijing (北京))

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The Gross Ecosystem Product of Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City Exceeds 10 Billion Yuan

According to reports from Tianjin (天津) on August 19th (Reporter Jin Bo (靳博)), the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City (中新天津生态城) has completed GEP (Gross Ecosystem Product) accounting for four consecutive years: 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. After research and calculation, the total GEP of the Eco-City (生态城) in 2024 is approximately 11.1 billion yuan, of which the material supply value is approximately 100 million yuan, the regulation service value is approximately 7.5 billion yuan, and the cultural service value is approximately 3.5 billion yuan.

It is reported that the Eco-City (生态城) has accumulated a greening area of more than 1,000 hectares, and the green space rate in the built-up area has reached more than 50%. The achievements of ecological construction have strongly supported the growth of ecological product value accounting indicators such as air purification, water purification, and carbon sequestration, and the value of regulation services has steadily increased. At the same time, thanks to resource integration, the integrated development of cultural tourism and commerce, and the innovative "park+" operation model, the annual number of visitors to urban leisure and recreation areas and parks in the Eco-City (生态城) has increased significantly, and the economic benefits of parks and the regional cultural service value have increased significantly.

In the process of ecological product value accounting, the Eco-City (生态城) has constructed a "1+3" ecological product value accounting micro-regional framework with the ecological system of large cities as a whole, covering sub-ecosystems such as wetlands, oceans, and urban green spaces, forming a catalog list of three major categories and 16 medium categories of ecological products, and adding two major characteristic indicators: species conservation and industrial ecological premium.

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Hebei: Strengthening the Guarantee of Natural Resource Elements to Promote Stable Economic and Social Operation

Hebei Provincial Department of Natural Resources has taken multiple measures to fully ensure the supply of natural resource elements, ensuring that the land and sea use needs of major projects are fully guaranteed, and promoting the stable operation of the province's economy and society. As of the end of July 2025, the province had approved 181,400 mu of construction land and supplied 150,500 mu of construction land; approved 56 sea use projects, with a sea area of 2922.25 hectares.

Strengthening awareness of security and proactively providing front-line services

The Hebei Provincial Department of Natural Resources (河北省自然资源厅) has launched special actions such as "Ensuring Investment, Ensuring Projects, and Ensuring Development" and "Concentrated Efforts on Major Infrastructure Projects" throughout the province, focusing on key areas such as Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) and national-level development zones, as well as the construction needs of projects such as additional national debt, ultra-long-term national debt, and major infrastructure, establishing security ledgers one by one. It has established a joint meeting system with the Hebei Provincial Development and Reform Commission (河北省发展改革委), the Department of Transportation (交通运输厅), and other departments, implementing a "department leader in charge of supervision and guidance, department and bureau point-to-point contact, and service teams providing on-site assistance" working mechanism, going deep into the grassroots level, changing "open door service" to "door-to-door service," proactively delivering policies, building bridges, and solving problems.

Strengthening policy support and improving security effectiveness

In recent years, Hebei Province (河北省) has intensively introduced a series of targeted policy measures such as the "Ten Measures on Accurately Allocating Land Elements to Ensure the Construction of Key Projects" and the "Ten Land Use Policy Measures to Support the High-Quality Development of Enterprises." Establish and improve an early warning mechanism for "construction before approval" of major engineering projects to ensure the legal and compliant and timely commencement of infrastructure and key projects. Establish a docking service mechanism, proactively connect with key provincial and municipal enterprises and investment promotion enterprises, provide door-to-door services to relieve difficulties, and respond to corporate demands in a timely manner. Focusing on "two major" (两重) (referring to major projects) and provincial key land use and sea use projects, establish list ledgers, establish a land security working group at the provincial level, and corresponding working institutions at the municipal and county levels, forming a three-level linkage security synergy between the province, city, and county to serve the high-quality economic and social development.

Strengthening mechanism innovation and streamlining approval procedures

Hebei Province (河北省) actively promotes the reform of delegating provincial construction land approval authority, granting some provincial approval authority to municipal governments, strengthening informatization and digitalization construction, and constructing a full-process online approval system covering the province, city, and county levels with "unified platform, consistent text, online processing, and parallel approval," realizing "no need to run even once" and "non-face-to-face" processing for project application, review, correction, payment, approval and other links, facilitating enterprises and the public to handle affairs, simplifying grassroots reporting and approval processes, and significantly improving approval efficiency.

Data source: Hebei Provincial Department of Natural Resources (河北省自然资源厅)

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Editor in Charge for This Section: Zhang Ye, Yang Xiaoyu, Ren Tongtong

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A Development Agreement Spanning Mountains and Seas

By: 郭江平

In August, the foot of the Tianshan Mountains (天山) is full of greenery. The Global Development Youth Leaders Home 2025 "China Tour" event, sponsored by the China International Development Cooperation Agency's (国家国际发展合作署) Global Development Promotion Center, was held in Xinjiang (新疆). More than 30 youth representatives from nearly 20 countries, including Germany, Australia, Egypt, Thailand, Cambodia, and Tajikistan, conducted research visits and exchange dialogues. From the bustling urban life of the Urumqi (乌鲁木齐) International Grand Bazaar (国际大巴扎) to the millennium-old alleys of Kashgar (喀什) Ancient City, from the warmth of people's livelihoods in Guyuan Lane (固原巷) Community to the technological highlights of the Xinjiang (新疆) Agricultural Expo Park (农业博览园) in Changji (昌吉), foreign youth representatives gained a close understanding of the Xinjiang (新疆) practice of Chinese-style modernization and built international consensus on development cooperation.

The Scene of People's Livelihood Warms Hearts

In the community, the dance studio's rhythm is lively, the entertainment room's laughter is hearty, and the meal service point's food is fragrant. Every detail is imbued with the warmth of people's livelihoods. The scenes witnessed in the Guyuan Lane (固原巷) Community of Urumqi (乌鲁木齐) impressed Nadia, the Australian youth representative. "The elderly are stretching their bodies in the dance studio, and the children are exercising in the training room—this is a vivid portrayal of being people-centered," she said. "As a multi-ethnic community with ethnic minorities accounting for more than 95%, it is a place where diverse cultures coexist harmoniously, and we can draw beneficial experiences for diversified development from it."

Laksmei, Chief Technology Transfer Officer of the Cambodian Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation, was deeply moved by witnessing the harmonious coexistence of people of all ethnic groups. "From policy formulation to the implementation of people's livelihoods, the wisdom of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) in governing the country is reflected in the daily lives of the people. The government builds development platforms and paves the way to happiness, allowing people of all ethnic groups to share the fruits of development and enjoy the warmth of people's livelihoods together."

"The rumors of some Western media are 不堪一击 (bù kān yī jī - "cannot bear a single blow," unable to withstand a single blow; easily defeated) in the face of the real Xinjiang (新疆)!" Omar, the Egyptian youth representative, showed the pictures of the International Grand Bazaar (国际大巴扎) on his mobile phone: Uyghur (维吾尔族) dancers danced side by side with tourists, and merchants of all ethnic groups enthusiastically greeted customers in various languages. "In the future, I will bring more friends to Xinjiang (新疆) to let them see how multicultural integration and coexistence is achieved here, after all, the smiles on people's faces do not lie."

Technology Empowers a New Look

In Urumqi (乌鲁木齐), at the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography (新疆生态与地理研究所) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), a youth seminar with the theme of "Global Development Initiative: Building a Green Future for Arid Regions" is underway. Youth scientists from more than 10 countries expressed their opinions on green practices under the Global Development Initiative, and sparks of thought constantly collided in the exchanges. "Xinjiang's (新疆) desertification prevention and control experience is of great reference significance to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上合组织) countries," said Zhuo Wei, a young scientist from Tajikistan. "Ecological problems are global challenges, and only by promoting transnational cooperation and gathering multidisciplinary forces can we better protect our common home."

Walking into the Kashgar (喀什) Cross-border E-commerce Import and Export Commodity Exhibition and Trading Center, there are Pakistani handmade soaps, Korean skin care products, French red wine and other special products from various countries on the shelves. "These commodities that cross mountains and seas are a vivid proof of breaking trade barriers in the digital age," said Louis, Assistant President of the German Euro Financial Group. "China (中国) has proposed the Global Development Initiative. Under this cooperation initiative, sustainable development technologies are helping to narrow the North-South development gap and provide systematic solutions to global problems."

Gazing at the flowing "digital galaxy" of the trading center and the spreading "ecological veins" on the desertification prevention map, many foreign youth representatives lamented that the Xinjiang (新疆) practice of Chinese-style modernization proves that solving development problems does not have to sacrifice the ecological environment, and embracing modern civilization does not have to abandon cultural roots. This path of sustainable development brings many inspirations to the Global South.

Development Initiatives Gather Strength

In the intelligent greenhouse of the Xinjiang (新疆) Agricultural Expo Park (农业博览园) in Changji (昌吉), the vegetables on the soilless cultivation racks are stretching their tender leaves. Nititawan, a political party advisor of the Thai Palang Pracharath Party (国民力量党), raised his mobile phone to record the scene in the greenhouse. "Chinese agricultural universities and enterprises have joined hands to bring water-saving irrigation and circular agriculture technologies from the laboratory to the fields, providing a valuable demonstration of industry-university-research collaborative development for the Global South," said Nititawan.

In the ancient city of Kashgar (喀什古城), the earth-yellow dwellings retain the historical texture of thousands of years, and the live broadcast lens in the copper shop pushes the intangible cultural heritage craftsmanship to the world stage. Chen Jiayi, Chairman of the World Academy of Young Scientists from Malaysia, lamented: "The development of the ancient city is full of vitality, which fully proves that protecting tradition is not 墨守成规 (mò shǒu chéng guī - "adhere to established rules," to stick to conventions and be unwilling to change), and developing the economy does not necessarily require large-scale demolition and construction."

At the exchange meeting held at Kashgar University (喀什大学), Felix from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management in Germany said: "Under the guidance of the Global Development Initiative, China (中国) has always actively shared its wisdom and experience in implementing the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with the Global South. European countries, including Germany, should strengthen cooperation with China (中国) with a more inclusive and open mind, seek consensus in differences, and solve problems in cooperation."

When leaving Xinjiang (新疆), the youth from various countries bid farewell to the young friends they met here, and everyone had a better understanding of how to practice the Global Development Initiative. A Uyghur (维吾尔族) youth said: "When we plant grapes, we let the vines entwine each other and grow upwards, so that they can grow more steadily and firmly and bear more and sweeter fruits. The same is true for the principle of global common development!"

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Extreme Heatwaves Hit Multiple Regions Globally

By: 本报记者  尚凯元

The World Meteorological Organization recently released a statement saying that July of this year was the third hottest July on record globally, behind only the same period in 2023 and 2024. Data from the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service shows that in July this year, the global average sea surface temperature was the third highest on record for the same period, and the Arctic sea ice coverage was close to its historical low. This high-temperature trend continued into August, causing heat waves and wildfires to form a "resonance effect" in many parts of the world, posing a severe challenge to the ecological environment, public health, and the normal functioning of society.

Affected by the combined effects of sustained high temperatures and drought, Europe is experiencing its most severe climate test this summer. Extreme heat waves and widespread wildfires are intertwined, putting significant pressure on public health systems, infrastructure, and ecosystems. Among them, a wildfire occurred in the Corbières Massif in the Aude department of France in early August, which has burned about 16,000 hectares of forest land, becoming one of the largest single wildfires in the country since 1949. Forest fires have also occurred frequently in León (莱昂省) province in northwestern Spain recently. The fires have not only led to the emergency evacuation of some residents but also threaten the Las Médulas (拉斯梅杜拉斯古矿区) ancient Roman gold mines, a World Heritage Site. The Spanish government has deployed military emergency personnel, forest firefighters, rescue helicopters, and the Civil Guard to participate in firefighting operations, working in coordination with local rescue forces, and has established a 24-hour monitoring and alert mechanism for fire sites with complex terrain and difficult firefighting conditions.

North America is also plagued by the dual problems of wildfires and high temperatures. From the end of July to the beginning of August, hundreds of wildfires in Canada produced a large amount of smoke, which not only enveloped several provinces in the country but also spread to the northern states of the United States, causing a serious decline in air quality in the region. Affected by strong air currents, some of the smoke even drifted to Western Europe. In the United States, a wildfire occurred in the Grand Canyon National Park (大峡谷国家公园) in Arizona, affecting the normal operation of the attraction.

Many Asian countries have also experienced extreme high temperatures recently, and many high-temperature records have been broken one after another. Japan experienced an extreme high temperature of 41.8 degrees Celsius, breaking the country's highest meteorological observation record, and rewriting the national high-temperature extreme value twice in a week. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a special heatstroke warning, urging the public to strictly take heatstroke prevention measures. South Korea simultaneously issued an extreme high-temperature warning and launched relevant response plans. According to information released by the World Meteorological Organization, from the end of July to the beginning of August, the maximum temperatures in southern West Asia, southern Central Asia, and southern Pakistan generally exceeded 42 degrees Celsius, and some areas exceeded 45 degrees Celsius. The temperature in some areas of southwestern Iran and eastern Iraq even exceeded 50 degrees Celsius. Extreme high temperatures have led to problems such as power outages and limited water supply in some areas.

Omar Baddour, head of climate monitoring at the World Meteorological Organization, pointed out that the abnormal combination of extreme high temperatures near the surface and cold air at high altitudes may induce extreme rainfall and flash floods in high-altitude areas, which will further threaten people's lives and property safety, damage infrastructure, and may also cause secondary disasters such as landslides. The organization also emphasized that although the harm of extreme high temperatures is not as instantly visible as hurricanes and floods, it hides long-term risks. At present, the health threats, power outages, air quality deterioration, and wildfire risks caused by high temperatures are becoming increasingly prominent, and millions of people around the world are affected, among which urban areas and vulnerable communities face more severe challenges.

The World Meteorological Organization calls on countries to strengthen the construction of early warning capabilities for high-temperature disasters, improve public health response plans, and improve cross-departmental coordination to respond to increasingly severe climate risks with more powerful measures. At present, the World Meteorological Organization is actively promoting the optimization of early warning systems related to high temperatures and is working with partners at all levels to implement high-temperature health action plans. According to a joint estimate by the World Health Organization and the World Meteorological Organization, if high-temperature health early warning systems are fully promoted in 57 countries, nearly 100,000 lives can be saved each year.

Guillermo (吉耶莫), head of the World Health Organization-World Meteorological Organization Joint Office for Climate and Health, said that extreme high temperatures are no longer a distant potential risk or a seasonal problem, but a real challenge that millions of people must face in their daily lives. He called on the international community to increase policy support and action, "because this is not only a major issue in the field of climate, but also a public health emergency that requires global attention."

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5th Rio Innovation Week Held

Recently, the 5th Rio Innovation Week was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (巴西里约热内卢). This year's exhibition set up 15 special topics including agriculture, health, science and education, finance, creative economy, and retail, attracting about 2,200 start-ups and 430 exhibitors, with more than 200,000 scholars, entrepreneurs, and students participating. The event also promoted the development of regional innovation ecosystems and accelerated the commercialization of future technologies through keynote speeches, exhibition area interactions, and forum exchanges.

(People's Daily reporter Shi Yuanhao (时元皓))

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China Urges Orderly Advancement of South Sudan's Political Transition

Xinhua News Agency, United Nations, August 18th. Sun Lei (孙磊), China's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, spoke at the UN Security Council's review of the South Sudan issue on the 18th, emphasizing that an orderly advancement of the political transition is a matter of paramount importance.

Sun Lei (孙磊) stated that South Sudan is the world's youngest country, and its political process is destined to not be achieved 一蹴而就 (yī cù ér jiù - "accomplish in one step," to achieve something in one go; to be done in one fell swoop). China calls on all political factions to bridge their differences through dialogue, accelerate the implementation of the revitalized agreement, and adhere to political solutions as the only path to peace. The international community should maintain necessary inclusiveness and patience, support regional mediation efforts, and support African solutions to African problems. All parties must especially respect South Sudan's sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity, and avoid illegal and inappropriate interference and pressure.

Sun Lei (孙磊) said that the unstable security situation in South Sudan's Upper Nile State and other places is worrying. China calls on all parties in South Sudan to remain calm and restrained, cease hostilities, and avoid the conflict affecting civilians and civilian facilities. The prolonged conflict in Sudan continues to spill over, and problems such as the cross-border flow of armed personnel and the illegal proliferation of small arms are becoming increasingly prominent. The international community should support South Sudan in strengthening border control and improving security capacity building. The Security Council should adjust or lift unreasonable sanctions against South Sudan as soon as possible.

Sun Lei (孙磊) stated that since the beginning of this year, China has supported the resumption of production and transportation of oil fields in South Sudan, and has provided multiple batches of food and material assistance to disaster-stricken people in Eastern Equatoria State and other places, effectively alleviating the local humanitarian situation. China will continue to provide support for South Sudan to improve its economy and people's livelihoods within its capabilities. As a major troop-contributing country to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) (联合国驻南苏丹特派团), China will, as always, support UNMISS in fulfilling its responsibilities and is willing to continue to work with the international community to play a constructive role in South Sudan's early realization of peace and stability and its path towards development and prosperity.

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European Expert: US Tariffs Impact European Exports

Xinhua News Agency, Brussels, August 18 (Reporter Kang Yi (康逸)) – Carsten Brzeski, Global Head of Macro at ING, said on the 18th that the latest trade data shows that the United States' high tariff policies have impacted European exports.

Brzeski said that the data released by Eurostat on the same day showed the state of European exports after the first round of U.S. tariff shocks. Overall, European industrial data has been highly volatile in the first few months of this year. This is mainly due to companies rushing to export to the United States before the tariffs took effect, followed by a reduction in exports due to high tariffs.

Brzeski believes that since the beginning of the year, factors such as the strong euro, U.S. tariff measures, and uncertainty in the global trade outlook, coupled with the intense competition faced by European exporters, may continue to drag down European exports in the future.

The data released by Eurostat on the same day showed that in June, exports from the Eurozone fell by 2.4% month-on-month, imports increased by more than 3% month-on-month, and the seasonally adjusted trade surplus narrowed from 15.6 billion euros in May to 2.8 billion euros. In June, EU exports to the United States fell by more than 10% year-on-year.

Since the beginning of this year, the United States has been escalating tariffs on the EU. In June, many European exporters faced a 10% "reciprocal tariff" from the United States, automobile manufacturers faced a 25% tariff, and steel and aluminum producers faced tariffs as high as 50%. In August, the U.S. imposed a 15% "reciprocal tariff" on most EU goods imported into the U.S., which took effect. These rates are much higher than the previous average tariff level of less than 5% between the U.S. and Europe.

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U.S. National Guard's involvement in Washington D.C. security sparks controversy

By: 本报记者  张朋辉

Recently, the White House in the United States announced the deployment of 800 National Guard soldiers to the capital, Washington, D.C. (华盛顿特区), to address violent crime and homelessness in the capital region. According to U.S. media reports, on the evening of August 13, the National Guard officially began its mission in Washington, D.C. (华盛顿特区). On August 16, the states of West Virginia, South Carolina, and Ohio all announced that they would send National Guard soldiers to Washington, D.C. (华盛顿特区). The U.S. federal government's direct intervention in local city governance has sparked widespread opposition from the Washington, D.C. (华盛顿特区) government, the public, and the media. Some U.S. media outlets have stated that this highlights the increasing power struggle between the U.S. federal government and local authorities, and also exposes deep-seated contradictions in U.S. social governance.

In early August, Coristine, an employee of the U.S. Social Security Administration, was attacked by about 10 people on the street in a carjacking incident in Washington, D.C. (华盛顿特区). Afterward, the police only caught two 15-year-old suspects. The White House subsequently accused the Washington, D.C. (华盛顿特区) government of losing control of public order, calling the capital's violent crime rate, which is higher than that of some dangerous areas in the world, a "national disgrace." It announced the deployment of the first 800 National Guard soldiers and demanded that the federal government take over the capital's police department. U.S. media analysis suggests that the White House's plan to intervene in the governance of cities such as Washington, D.C. (华盛顿特区) has been in the works for some time, and the recent announcement of the deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C. (华盛顿特区) is the result of careful selection.

The U.S. newspaper *The Washington Post* believes that in recent years, the Republican Party has repeatedly criticized the issues of public security and homelessness in Washington, D.C. (华盛顿特区), accusing local governance of being ineffective and advocating for full federal government intervention. From a legal perspective, the National Guard of each U.S. state is usually controlled by the governor, but the Washington, D.C. (华盛顿特区) National Guard is directly under the President. At the same time, the "District of Columbia Home Rule Act" passed by Congress in 1973 stipulates that the President can only take over the special district police system for 48 hours in "emergency special circumstances," and can extend it for up to 30 days. This is the first time the White House has invoked this law to take over Washington, D.C. (华盛顿特区) policing.

This move by the U.S. White House has been strongly opposed by Democratic figures such as Washington, D.C. (华盛顿特区) Mayor Muriel Bowser (缪丽尔·鲍泽). Bowser (鲍泽) stated bluntly that the federal government's takeover of the special district police department is "disturbing and unprecedented" and a "blatant interference" in local autonomy. Some Democrats pointed out that in 2024, the violent crime rate in Washington, D.C. (华盛顿特区) has dropped to its lowest point in 30 years, and public security has continued to improve. The White House's claim of "loss of control of public security" is an exaggeration, and federal intervention will not help solve the root causes of crime.

The power struggle between the U.S. federal government and the Washington, D.C. (华盛顿特区) government over law enforcement has rapidly escalated. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi (帕姆·邦迪) appointed Drug Enforcement Administration Director Terry Cole (特里·科尔) as the "Emergency Police Chief" of Washington, D.C. (华盛顿特区) and attempted to revoke Washington, D.C.'s (华盛顿特区) status as a "sanctuary city." Washington, D.C. (华盛顿特区) Attorney General Brian Schwalb (布莱恩·施瓦尔) called Bondi's (邦迪) directive illegal and filed a lawsuit regarding the federal takeover of policing, accusing the federal government of "malicious seizure of power." Although the U.S. Department of Justice agreed after the hearing that the special district police chief would continue to manage the police force, it explicitly required federal law enforcement personnel to participate in law enforcement, forming a "dual control" situation.

According to statistics from *The Washington Post*, Washington, D.C. (华盛顿特区) already has more than 6,300 federal and local police officers on a daily basis. With the addition of approximately 500 new federal police officers and 800 National Guard soldiers, the total number of law enforcement personnel in the area has exceeded 7,600. Based on Washington, D.C.'s (华盛顿特区) population of approximately 700,000, the police density has reached a new high. Cas Mudde (卡斯·马德), a professor of political science at the University of Georgia, believes: "The White House's linking of cities and violence essentially associates minority communities with 'criminal danger,' deliberately reinforcing the impression that 'Democratic-managed cities are out of control.'"

U.S. media believes that urban wealth disparity, violent crime, and other issues are chronic diseases of American society that require systematic governance. With the federal government's high-profile intervention in the governance of Washington, D.C. (华盛顿特区), there are concerns that the federal government may replicate this model in other Democratic-governed states, further exacerbating social divisions and antagonism in the United States.

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This edition's editors: Zhang Mengxu, Yue Linwei, Liu Gang, Zhang Kaifeng

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Chongqing High-tech Zone in Western Science City: Innovatively Building Digital and Intelligent Integrated Application Scenarios, Exploring a New Path for Modernized Governance of Megacities

People's cities are built by the people, and people's cities are for the people. As the city with the largest area and population in China, Chongqing (重庆) deeply practices the concept of people's city and actively explores new ways of modern governance for megacities. Chongqing High-tech Zone (重庆高新区) in the Western Science City (西部科学城) implements the spirit of the Central Urban Work Conference, follows the work deployment of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, fully embraces artificial intelligence, emphasizes the "integration of planning, construction, operation, and governance," systematically reshapes the concepts, ideas, mechanisms, and methods of urban development service governance, and explores the creation of a batch of landmark achievements in AI-empowered comprehensive application scenarios with the distinctiveness of the Science City, serving Chongqing's (重庆) high-level construction of a modern people's city.

Empowering Project Management

Weaving a Dense Protective Net for Civilized Construction

At 14:49 on August 2nd, the aerial surveillance AI camera in Zhaishanping Village (寨山坪村), Hangu Town (含谷镇), Chongqing High-tech Zone (重庆高新区), captured suspected dust pollution at the construction site of Central China Normal University Chongqing School (华中师范大学重庆学校). The Digital City Operation and Governance Center of Chongqing High-tech Zone (西部科学城重庆高新区数字化城市运行和治理中心), relying on the "High-tech Construction Management Integrated Platform" intelligent plan, immediately instructed the construction unit to verify. At 15:33, the construction unit uploaded the verification situation, and the event was simultaneously pushed to the grassroots governance center of the local town. The Hangu Town (含谷镇) Governance Center quickly dispatched ecological environment staff to the scene, completing the event handling in less than 2 hours.

The effective governance of dust pollution is attributed to the "Comprehensive Scenario for Risk Management of Projects under Construction" created by Chongqing High-tech Zone (西部科学城重庆高新区). This digital and intelligent comprehensive scenario application can not only improve the refined level of dust pollution control but also integrate modules such as construction safety and muck truck supervision, integrate multi-level platform data from the city and district, and use technologies such as video monitoring, IoT perception, and drone inspection to build a "monitoring-early warning-disposal-feedback" management closed loop, realizing "one-click issuance" of emergency instructions and "seamless connection" of multi-department联动, transforming uncivilized construction problems from "post-event disposal" to "pre-event prevention," safeguarding blue skies and white clouds, and adding color to green homes.

Today, through the three-level governance center event flow of Chongqing High-tech Zone (西部科学城重庆高新区), real-time data sharing and collaborative disposal among multiple departments, the average processing time for town matters has been shortened from 1.5 days to 0.5 days, and governance efficiency has been significantly improved.

Chongqing High-tech Zone (西部科学城重庆高新区) creates digital and intelligent comprehensive scenario applications to improve the refined, intelligent, and collaborative level of urban governance, which not only efficiently solves specific problems such as dust pollution control but also explores replicable and scalable experiences for megacities to cope with management problems such as dense populations and complex affairs.

Gathering Multi-party Efforts

Exploring New Paths for Collaborative Governance

Recently, the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute's (四川美术学院) "Open June" 2025 Graduate Works Exhibition was held in Chongqing High-tech Zone (重庆高新区) in the Western Science City (西部科学城). With over 800,000 reservations for visits and a peak daily reception of over 32,000 people, under the dual pressure of a surge in large-scale crowds and traffic flow, ensuring the event became a realistic test for urban governance in Chongqing High-tech Zone (西部科学城重庆高新区).

Chongqing High-tech Zone (西部科学城重庆高新区) selected Sichuan Fine Arts Institute (四川美术学院) and Xijie (熙街), carefully creating the "Xijie·Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Safety Intelligent Management Comprehensive Scenario," reconstructing the safety management system for major cultural and sports activities in universities through digital technology, ensuring the order of venues and surrounding areas during the exhibition, and providing an innovative sample of "data-driven, full-chain control, and school-district collaboration" for modern governance of megacities.

In the past, when holding major cultural and sports activities, schools needed to submit activity applications to multiple departments offline. Now, schools can declare online through the Chongqing High-tech Zone (西部科学城重庆高新区) Governance Center. The Governance Center connects to data from multiple departments such as transportation and urban management, which can automatically identify 14 types of risks in real-time, realizing the direct flow of event orders to departments such as fire protection and the Public Service Bureau, greatly improving the efficiency of activity declaration. Now, schools only need to declare online to complete activity declaration and approval.

Next, Chongqing High-tech Zone (西部科学城重庆高新区) plans to introduce AI intelligent agents into the corresponding comprehensive scenario applications, which can automatically generate optimization suggestions for activity plans, intelligent risk assessment, and emergency plans, trigger corresponding digital plans according to different levels of risk, and automatically generate review and improvement plans after the event, pushing them to various collaborating units to provide optimization support for subsequent events.

Chongqing High-tech Zone (西部科学城重庆高新区) is committed to promoting deep collaboration among "government + universities + culture + commerce and trade + art + scientific research" to form a governance community of "resource sharing, risk sharing, and achievement sharing," realizing the "consistent to the end and panoramic view" of university resources and urban governance, and then exploring new ways of multi-party联动 and efficient collaboration for modern governance of megacities.

Innovating Community Governance

Enhancing the Happiness of Thousands of Households

The community is the "last mile" of urban governance, which is related to the happiness of thousands of households. To improve the effectiveness of community governance, Chongqing High-tech Zone (重庆高新区) in the Western Science City (西部科学城) widely collected public opinions and relied on the "141" platform to create the "Residential Community Safe and Easy Living Comprehensive Scenario," comprehensively collecting and mapping basic information of residential communities, realizing a "one-screen overview" of residential community assets.

At the same time, Chongqing High-tech Zone (西部科学城重庆高新区) also used the grassroots intelligent governance platform to optimize traditional work processes, allowing data to run more and the masses to run less, which not only improved the quality and efficiency of people's livelihood services but also reflected the temperature of humanistic care, making the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security more substantial, more secure, and more sustainable.

Currently, the "Residential Community Safe and Easy Living Comprehensive Scenario" has been successfully selected into the "Application Scenario Leader" list of the town streets in the second quarter of the 2025 Digital Chongqing (数字重庆) Construction Application Scenario Competition. This is not only an affirmation of the digital construction achievements of Chongqing High-tech Zone (西部科学城重庆高新区) but also provides useful reference for other regions to empower grassroots governance with digital technology.

Urban data "comes alive and runs," empowering convenient life and improving governance efficiency. In the future, Chongqing High-tech Zone (西部科学城重庆高新区) will comprehensively promote the advancement of key indicators, the practical effectiveness of application scenarios, and the efficient application of digital resources, accelerate the creation of landmark achievements with distinctiveness, and gather scenario innovation experiences into the "Science City Plan" for modern governance of megacities with a "pioneering" attitude, illuminating the corners of the city with the light of digital intelligence and warming the lives of citizens with governance efficiency.

Data source: Administrative Committee of Chongqing High-tech Industrial Development Zone (重庆高新技术产业开发区管理委员会)

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Experiencing Cross-Border Travel Between China and Vietnam by Bus on the Beilun River (Border Town Observations)

By: 本报记者  屈 佩  侯露露  刘玲玲  张云河

Guangxi's Dongxing City (广西东兴市) is named for its rise on the east bank of the Beilun River (北仑河), with unique geographical coordinates: at the intersection of China's land border and mainland coastline. Starting from the mouth of the Beilun River (北仑河), westward, China's approximately 22,000-kilometer land border stretches tortuously to the Yalu River (鸭绿江) estuary in Dandong (丹东), Liaoning (辽宁); eastward, China's approximately 18,000-kilometer mainland coastline extends windingly to the northern starting point of the Wanli (万里) sea frontier at the Yalu River (鸭绿江) estuary.

The Beilun River (北仑河) originates in China, with a total length of 109 kilometers, and its downstream 60 kilometers form the border between China and Vietnam. Before entering the sea, the Beilun River (北仑河) outlines a beautiful arc, with Dongxing City (东兴市), Fangchenggang (防城港), Guangxi (广西), China, and Mong Cai City (芒街市), Quang Ninh Province (广宁省), Vietnam, on either bank.

Countries are adjacent, cities face each other, and mountains and seas are connected. Standing on the bank of the Beilun River (北仑河), one can appreciate China's mountains, rivers, and seas, as well as overlook the street scenes of Vietnam. A picture of friendly neighborliness and integrated life between China and Vietnam is slowly unfolding here.

A Picture of Integrated Life—

Enjoying a Dual-City Lifestyle on Both Sides of the River

As early as the Han (汉) and Tang (唐) dynasties, Dongxing (东兴) was a node on the Maritime Silk Road. Ships came and went frequently, and goods were collected and distributed. In 1900, the Beilun River International Railway Bridge (北仑河国际铁桥) was completed, making border trade contacts even closer. Over time, the old railway bridge no longer exists; today, the Beilun River Bridge No. 1 (北仑河一桥) and No. 2 (北仑河二桥), spanning both sides of the river, undertake the functions of customs clearance and transportation, and the prosperity on the riverbank is even greater than before.

At 8:00 a.m., the misty water vapor has not yet dissipated, and the banks of the Beilun River (北仑河) are already crowded with people. In front of the Dongxing Port (东兴口岸) in China and the Mong Cai Port (芒街口岸) in Vietnam, people queuing for customs clearance have formed long lines. The Beilun River Bridge No. 1 (北仑河一桥) lies between the two ports, and the red and white dividing line in the center of the bridge is a favorite place for tourists to take pictures. During peak hours, 26,000 people pass through this bridge every day.

Next to the Mong Cai Port (芒街口岸), the motorcycle parking lot is busiest in the morning. People ride from all directions, park their vehicles, and cross the bridge to work in China. Vietnamese girl Yang Shizhuang (杨氏庄) is one of them. After crossing the bridge and walking another hundred meters, she arrives at the Saigon Coffee shop where she works. After eating a bowl of pho nearby, she enters the shop, changes into the Vietnamese traditional dress "Ao Dai" and starts working, finishing at 6:00 p.m. and returning home. "Going abroad to work and returning home after work is a common thing here," she said.

At 9:00 a.m., the Dongxing Tourist Distribution Center (东兴旅游集散中心). A bus drives out of the station, with "China Dongxing—Vietnam Mong Cai (中国东兴—越南芒街)" written on the body in both Chinese and Vietnamese. Dongxing (东兴) and Mong Cai (芒街) jointly optimized the port joint inspection mechanism and opened a cross-border bus route at the end of 2024. This cross-border bus runs once a day, with a total of 7 stops and a one-way trip of 1 hour. For only 15 RMB, you can unlock the experience of "going abroad by bus." The passengers on the cross-border bus include tourists and office workers, and some people have become familiar with each other due to frequent rides, and the bus is often filled with laughter.

When the bus arrives at Dongxing Port (Beilun River Bridge No. 2) (东兴口岸（二桥）), conductor Li Changyan (利长燕) gets off the bus and completes the vehicle's departure procedures in 5 minutes. Then, she guides passengers to check their documents. Li Changyan (利长燕) speaks Vietnamese. Since the opening of this bus route, she has been shuttling between Dongxing (东兴) and Mong Cai (芒街). Opening her border crossing documents, which are covered with dense entry and exit stamps, she said with a smile: "These are the cards I punch to work."

As the bus enters Mong Cai (芒街), bilingual signs are everywhere, with Vietnamese coffee shops, pho restaurants, and Chinese small commodity retail stores lining the streets. The farmers' market is filled with Chinese seasonings and Vietnamese fruits, and vendors enthusiastically explain various matching secrets. The two cities are adjacent, and food and scenery can be shared. Convenient transportation makes people's lives closely connected.

At 8:00 p.m., the night market in the Langtaosha (浪淘沙) · Erqiaoli (二桥里) Tourist Culture Street in Dongxing (东兴) is brightly lit, the barbecue stalls "sizzle," and the fruit shops are filled with fragrance. This is a good place for Chinese and Vietnamese border residents and tourists to relax.

"Bingbing (冰冰), give me a bowl of sweet soup with more durian!" "Okay!" Vietnamese girl Nguyen Thi Lan Bing (阮氏兰冰) has been running a sweet soup shop in the night market for more than a year, and regular customers call her "Bingbing (冰冰)." Durian puree, coconut milk jelly, taro balls... the glass bowl is full of ingredients. "The durian is purchased from Mong Cai (芒街), and the taro balls are delivered by logistics from Hanoi, with authentic Vietnamese flavors," said Nguyen Thi Lan Bing (阮氏兰冰). Opening a shop in China, renting a stall, attracting customers, and doing takeout require solving many problems. The market management team guides Vietnamese merchants hand-in-hand. "Many Vietnamese people do business in Dongxing (东兴). The market environment here is very good, and it is very convenient to do things."

An Artistic Painting—

A Stroke of Ink, Evoking Natural Resonance

Walking up the path along the Beilun River (北仑河), through the lush banana forest, you will come to the "Baishi Banana Bookstore (白石芭蕉书屋)." The Qi Baishi (齐白石) Cultural and Art Museum next to the bookstore is now an important stop on the China-Vietnam cultural tourism route.

"Qi Baishi's (齐白石) only experience abroad in his life was to Vietnam. In 1907 and 1909, he came to Dongxing (东兴) twice and set off from here to visit Mong Cai (芒街), Vietnam. His 'Banana Bookstore Picture (芭蕉书屋图)' depicts the border scenery," said Chen Yicheng (陈艺诚), the founder of the art museum, whenever a Vietnamese study tour group visits.

More than 100 years ago, Vietnamese scenery entered Qi Baishi's (齐白石) paintings; today, Chinese and Vietnamese painters often wield their brushes side by side. To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Vietnam, 16 Chinese and Vietnamese calligraphers and painters jointly created a 16-meter scroll "Beilun River Memory (北仑河记忆)," with a painting connecting the scenery on both sides: starting from Dongxing Beach (东兴海滩), with fishing boats and seabirds soaring; the middle section depicts the Overseas Chinese Remittance Museum (侨批馆) and the China-Vietnam People's Friendship Park (中越人民友谊公园), with lush mountains and forests and numerous tourists; the final stroke is in Mong Cai (芒街), with waterside pavilions, lotus fragrance, and towering pavilions.

In a corner of the art museum, 10-year-old Lin Yongzheng (林泳铮) is painting a loofah picture. "The lines must be stable, the shape must be accurate, and then talk about the layout," she is guided by Tang Shuzhan (唐舒展), president of the Dongxing Qi Baishi Cultural Research Association (东兴齐白石文化研究会).

Lin Yongzheng's (林泳铮) mother is from Guangyi (广义), Vietnam, and her father is from Fujian (福建). The family settled in Dongxing (东兴). "Because the living habits here are similar to those in Vietnam, and it is convenient to go to Mong Cai (芒街)," said her mother, Zhang Shimeiniang (张氏美娘). "Once, while playing in Mong Cai (芒街), we met Teacher Tang (唐老师) who was holding a Qi Baishi (齐白石) painting exhibition, and the child liked it at first sight. Since then, she has been learning to paint with Teacher Tang (唐老师) for two years."

Tang Shuzhan (唐舒展) is now stationed at the art museum, often receiving Vietnamese students and tourists, and holds painting exhibitions in Mong Cai (芒街) every year. "Vietnam also has a tradition of painting with brushes, and China and Vietnam have a natural resonance in brush and ink," said Tang Shuzhan (唐舒展).

"Traveling through the mountains and rivers of Vietnam, hundreds of wild bananas reflect the sky into a green color." This is Qi Baishi's (齐白石) "outbound travel" experience. Today, Dongxing (东兴) and Mong Cai (芒街) are jointly creating a tourism route, turning the impression of brush and ink into a real-life experience. On the Mong Cai (芒街) side, banana trees have been planted in the places Qi Baishi (齐白石) visited. In April this year, Dongxing (东兴) launched the China-Vietnam Boundary River Tour project, where tourists can take a boat to enjoy the mountains and rivers of the two countries. Rich and diverse cultural tourism activities bring the people of China and Vietnam closer and closer.

At the recently held 2025 China Dongxing-Vietnam Mong Cai Boundary River Grand Joint Celebration, Zhao Xia (赵霞), the inheritor of the Jing ethnic group's (京族) unique single-stringed zither art, and Vietnamese performer Phan Kim Thanh (潘金成) jointly performed "Nomadic Love Song." A single string and a rocker are gently plucked in the hands of the artists, and moving melodies flow out. Phan Kim Thanh (潘金成) said that it is very meaningful to enhance friendship between the two countries and build a bridge of communication through music.

A Sporting Scene—

Sports Events, Conveying Neighborly Friendship

On May 1 this year, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the establishment of friendly cities between Dongxing (东兴) and Mong Cai (芒街), the first China-Vietnam cross-border cycling event in 2025 was held. As the starting gun sounded, more than 240 Chinese and Vietnamese cyclists set off from the "Mountain and Sea Connected Landmark Square (山海相连地标广场)" in Zhushan Village (竹山村), Dongxing City (东兴市). The wheels whizzed, the mangrove forests flashed by, and the sea breeze brought the sound of waves. Along the way, there were both the lively street scenes of Dongxing (东兴) and the urban scenery of Mong Cai (芒街).

Zhang Wanchun (张万婵), a cycling enthusiast from Dongxing (东兴), signed up early. "I used to ride alone to see the scenery, but now it's more atmospheric to ride together," she said. When the cycling team entered Mong Cai (芒街), local residents dressed in beautiful traditional costumes stood on the roadside and waved enthusiastically. At the Mong Cai Chagu Square (芒街茶古广场), the finish line of the cycling event, Zhang Wanchun (张万婵) received a commemorative medal symbolizing friendship. The yellow and green medal depicts two cyclists riding side by side, with the Beilun River Bridge No. 1 (北仑河一桥) connecting the two countries in the background.

Sports are becoming a bright name card for Dongxing's (东兴) foreign exchanges. This year, from cross-border football and cross-border cycling to China-Vietnam martial arts competitions, China-Vietnam co-organized sports events are being staged in turn. One exciting game after another is driving the friendship between the people of the two countries to warm up.

In February this year, the China Dongxing-Vietnam Mong Cai Lantern Festival Football Friendship Match (中国东兴—越南芒街元宵节足球友谊赛) kicked off at the Dongxing City Stadium (东兴市体育场), with nearly 20,000 spectators from both countries attending, and the shouts resounded through the sky. This football match, which has a 30-year history, is an annual sports event on the banks of the Beilun River (北仑河), and is now becoming a cross-border event jointly created by Dongxing (东兴) and Mong Cai (芒街).

Le Van Ha (黎文河), a 36-year-old Vietnamese worker, is an "old face" on the Dongxing (东兴) stadium, having participated in 10 football friendship matches and performed well. Now, he is a member of three football clubs in Dongxing (东兴). He told reporters: "Almost every football club in Dongxing (东兴) has Vietnamese players. We learn from each other and grow together."

"Come to compete in April, come to train in May, and come to visit in June" - Le Van Ha (黎文河) told reporters with a smile that his relationship with Dongxing (东兴) is not limited to football. He likes to ride around Dongxing (东兴) and often sits with local friends at roadside stalls, chatting about football while tasting authentic food. "Football has allowed me to meet many good Chinese brothers."

People in Mong Cai (芒街) are enthusiastic about pickleball, and Dongxing (东兴) has followed suit; air volleyball is popular in China, and Vietnamese friends also try their hand at it. This summer, pickleball, air volleyball, and tennis events will be staged in Dongxing (东兴) and Mong Cai (芒街) in turn, and men, women, old and young can participate. "In the Dongxing (东兴) stadium, you can often see Chinese and Vietnamese people mixed together to form teams, playing ball and exercising together," said Shi Linli (石林丽), head of the Dongxing City Sports Center (东兴市体育中心). These events are mostly organized spontaneously by the people, and the atmosphere is relaxed and free.

On the banks of the Beilun River (北仑河), the picture of friendship is constantly unfolding: the bridge is full of people, and the dual-city life is busy and orderly; in the art museum, Chinese and Vietnamese tourists share the ink paintings of the two countries and experience the charm of cultural integration; on the riverbank stadium, players run like the wind, and the audience cheers enthusiastically... The river flows quietly, witnessing the cross-border neighborly friendship and affection.

Link·Fangchenggang (防城港), Guangxi (广西)

Fangchenggang City (防城港市), Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区), is located at the southwesternmost end of the Chinese mainland coastline, with a land border of 101 kilometers and a coastline of 538 kilometers. It is the only city in China connected to ASEAN by sea, land, and river. It gathers a number of national-level opening platforms, including the Fangchenggang International Medical Open Pilot Zone (防城港国际医学开放试验区), the Dongxing National Key Development and Opening Pilot Zone (东兴国家重点开发开放试验区), and the Guangxi Dongxing Industrial Park (广西东兴产业园区), with 5 national first-class ports and 5 border people's mutual trade zones (points). Fangchenggang (防城港) is the first 100-million-ton port in western China, with commercial shipping to more than 250 ports in more than 100 countries and regions.

In recent years, Fangchenggang City (防城港市) has built a bridge for cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries by holding characteristic festivals such as the "Beibu Gulf Fishing Festival (北部湾开海节)" and the "Jing Ethnic Group Ha Festival (京族哈节)," as well as sports activities such as cross-border football matches and sea dragon boat races. Fangchenggang City (防城港市) is also committed to creating distinctive cultural tourism brands such as the "Border Customs Style Belt (边关风情带)" and the "Border Sea Scenic Road (边海风景道)," allowing tourists to experience the open vitality and humanistic charm of China's border cities in the new era in the process of "going up the mountain, down to the sea, and going abroad."

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Turning the advantages of neighboring countries into momentum for cultural exchange (Reporter's notebook)

By: 刘玲玲

Beilun River flows quietly, connecting Dongxing (东兴) and Mong Cai (芒街) on both sides, reflecting a vivid picture of people-to-people connectivity. During the day, Chinese and Vietnamese vendors bargain with customers in both languages at the market; as night falls, singers from both countries sing songs, attracting tourists to linger. Life becomes more colorful in the daily interactions and exchanges.

People-to-people connectivity is the most fundamental, solid, and lasting form of connectivity. In Dongxing (东兴), the connection of hearts is immersed in daily life. On cross-border buses, Chinese and Vietnamese passengers chat freely, sharing local anecdotes from both places; in the night market, Vietnamese sweet soup and Chinese snacks attract people to taste them, and the interaction on the tip of the tongue brings each other closer; on the green field, Chinese and Vietnamese players form teams together, and audiences from both countries cheer together... Natural exchanges and integration deepen the emotional identity of the two peoples.

Dongxing (东兴) is using the "tourism+" model to transform the advantages of neighboring countries into cultural exchange momentum—the Jing ethnic group's unique single-stringed zither and Vietnamese folk songs are performed on the same stage, Chinese and Vietnamese painters jointly paint the scroll "Memories of the Beilun River (北仑河)," cycling enthusiasts measure friendship with their wheels... Cultural performances are not only artistic presentations, but also heart-to-heart dialogues; sports activities are not only competitions, but also the deepening of friendship. People are close to each other, hearts are connected, and the bright road of good-neighborliness, friendship, and win-win cooperation is becoming wider and wider.

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This edition's editors: Hou Lulu, Qu Pei

Layout design: Cai Huawei (蔡华伟)

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How the "0.01 Millimeter" Barrier Was Broken (Accelerating the Construction of a Manufacturing Powerhouse: Visiting Old "First Five-Year Plan" Factories)

By: 本报记者  李心萍

Machine tools, the machines that make machines, are known as the "mother machines of industry," influencing manufacturing precision and efficiency. From small screws to large ocean liners, their manufacture is inseparable from machine tools.

Evolved from the Shenyang No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 Machine Tool Plants during the "First Five-Year Plan" period, General Technology Group Shenyang Machine Tool Co., Ltd. (通用技术集团沈阳机床股份有限公司) (hereinafter referred to as "Shenyang Machine Tool" (沈阳机床)) is currently China's largest R&D and production base for mid-to-high-end CNC machine tools.

Having journeyed for more than 70 years, Shenyang Machine Tool is determined to tackle high-end machine tools, and its breakthrough process offers many insights.

Breaking Through 0.01 Millimeters

Overcoming Five-Axis联动 Machine Tools

Five-axis联动 machine tools are likened to the brightest and most difficult "pearl" on the industrial crown. This high-end precision machine tool once constrained "Made in China."

Five-axis联动 requires the machine tool to simultaneously control three linear axes and two rotational axes to achieve spatial complex curved surface machining.

What are the difficulties? For example, under five-axis联动, the tool path is no longer a simple straight line or arc, but a complex spatial curve, and the machine tool needs to perform tens of thousands of spatial trajectory calculations per second.

What are the uses? In life, for irregularly shaped parts such as curved glass molds, using three-axis or four-axis联动 machine tools to cut in a "fixed posture + step-by-step machining" method often results in errors. Only five-axis联动 can adjust the posture in real time and meet all requirements at once.

"For many complex precision parts, five-axis联动 machining is the only solution. In a sense, five-axis联动 machine tools determine a country's manufacturing autonomy in high-end fields," said Xu Yongming (徐永明), General Manager and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of General Technology Shenyang Machine Tool.

Have we broken through now?

A standard is encouraging.

In 2020, after eight years of effort, China's "S-shaped Specimen" five-axis machine tool testing method officially became an international standard, which is also the first international standard in China's metal cutting machine tool professional field.

"A great source of pride!" Xu Yongming (徐永明) said that as a participant, Shenyang Machine Tool provided data and processing experience for the "S-shaped Specimen" testing method, becoming an important basis for demonstrating the "S-shaped Specimen" international standard.

As early as 2006, Shenyang Machine Tool began test-cutting "S-shaped Specimens." Since then, more than 2,000 "S-shaped Specimen" processing experiments have been carried out, recording tens of thousands of sets of real and reliable original processing and testing data, providing an important basis for the successful application of the standard.

The "S-shaped Specimen" may seem like just an S-shaped curved surface, but it very cleverly integrates several machining features of precision parts. One specimen can detect the machine tool's machining accuracy, geometric accuracy, positioning accuracy, and comprehensive machining efficiency.

"In a word, as long as a five-axis联动 machine tool can process qualified 'S-shaped Specimens,' then this machine tool can be safely used for complex precision parts machining," Xu Yongming (徐永明) said that Shenyang Machine Tool is the first enterprise in China to use "S-shaped Specimen" processing and testing as the factory inspection standard for five-axis联动 machine tools. At present, every five-axis联动 machine tool produced here has passed the "S-shaped Specimen" test and has been widely used in the automotive, mold, and other industries.

One piece of equipment is convincing.

In June 2023, in the Shenyang Machine Tool assembly workshop, as technical expert Yan Haoming (严昊明) pressed the start button, the more than 7-meter-high high-precision gantry machining center executed machining operations according to the program...

"The test results are out, and the performance is perfect." There was a burst of cheers at the scene, followed by a long applause.

The high-precision gantry machining center is known as the "machine tool for manufacturing machine tools" and has extremely high requirements for production accuracy. Yan Haoming (严昊明) explained: "When using a machine tool to process parts, the accuracy of the machine tool must be at least one accuracy level higher than the parts being processed, and the accuracy of the machine tool used to manufacture the machine tool must be one to two accuracy levels higher."

Yan Haoming (严昊明) told reporters that internationally, this large-volume gantry machine tool is considered to be at a precision level if its positioning accuracy reaches 0.01 millimeters. At present, Shenyang Machine Tool's gantry series products have successfully crossed this 0.01 millimeter industry threshold.

Shenyang Machine Tool's self-developed high-end products have shouldered the heavy responsibility of production and manufacturing, continuously supplying high-end CNC machine tools to the market.

Yan Haoming (严昊明) admitted that although we have achieved breakthroughs in five-axis联动 machine tools, there are still gaps in reliability and stability compared with internationally leading machine tools, and we still need to continue our efforts.

Focusing on Basic Components

Improving the Basic Capabilities of Machine Tools from the Source

The machine tool industry is a typical technology-intensive industry. To achieve breakthroughs in high-end machine tools, it is necessary to exert efforts in all aspects, including basic materials, basic components, and CNC systems. To this end, Shenyang Machine Tool has calmed down, focused on research and development, and overcome difficulties one by one.

Take the guide rail, which affects the stability of machine tool machining, as an example. "The guide rail is one of the core components of the machine tool that is most easily worn. To ensure that the accuracy of the machine tool remains unchanged for a long time, the quality of the guide rail must be improved," said Yan Haoming (严昊明).

However, most domestic high-hardness, large-depth hardened guide rail quenching technologies can only process parts with a length of 2 meters, while the guide rails of large gantry machining centers often exceed 10 meters. If the quenching technology cannot achieve a breakthrough, it will directly affect the performance and life of the guide rail, restricting its quality improvement.

To this end, Yan Haoming (严昊明) led the team to work day and night, and finally successfully quenched 11-meter-long parts, breaking through the technical barriers.

It's not just the guide rail. The high torque spindle speed directly affects the operating efficiency of the machine tool. From 2,000 rpm, 3,000 rpm to the current 6,000 rpm, 8,000 rpm, Shenyang Machine Tool has gradually overcome difficulties through a large number of experiments.

Behind each achievement is the reconstruction of the innovation system.

In 2019, Shenyang Machine Tool Group (沈阳机床集团) and Shenji Co., Ltd. (沈机股份) underwent bankruptcy reorganization, and China General Technology (Group) Holding Co., Ltd. (中国通用技术（集团）控股有限责任公司) took over.

On the one hand, General Technology Group (通用技术集团) invested real money to promote Shenyang Machine Tool's return to relying on technological innovation to achieve product iteration and upgrades. On the other hand, it promoted institutional and mechanism reforms to stimulate the vitality and motivation of scientific researchers to start businesses.

After the reorganization, Shenyang Machine Tool quickly built a two-level R&D organization based on the group's three-level R&D system framework. The "whoever can do it best takes the lead" system was promoted in key technology research projects, and technical personnel spontaneously formed teams and were very enthusiastic. In recent years, Shenyang Machine Tool has successively overcome more than 10 key core technologies, such as high-precision main engine design and manufacturing, and high-dynamic motion component servo drive.

Internally, it actively promotes new scientific research models and builds a new innovation system; externally, it makes full use of the power of General Technology Group (通用技术集团) to jointly tackle industry common technologies.

Precision displacement measurement devices are known as the "precision eyes" of CNC machine tools. These "eyes" have been monopolized by foreign countries for many years.

"Previously, the internationally accepted technical route was grating, using the diffraction and interference effects of light to measure distance," Yan Haoming (严昊明) introduced that Guoce Shizha Technology Co., Ltd. (国测时栅科技有限公司) of General Technology Group (通用技术集团) took a different approach, adopting the technical route of "time measurement space" and innovatively developed nano-time gratings, breaking through the precision position detection problem of high-end equipment.

Xu Yongming (徐永明) said that compared with traditional technology, the "time grating displacement sensor" has the advantages of high measurement accuracy and good environmental adaptability, which can effectively avoid dust and oil pollution interference and is very helpful for improving the machining accuracy of machine tools.

Adhering to "Market as the Sail"

"Customized R&D + Scenario Verification" Makes Machine Tools Better and Better

Machine tools are the origin of modern industry. In addition to focusing on high-precision and cutting-edge technologies and striving to make up for shortcomings, Shenyang Machine Tool also focuses on improving quality and increasing efficiency.

"In the field of new energy vehicles, we have formed a series of professional solutions such as friction stir welding machines, five-axis vertical machining centers for subframes, inverted ball cage lathes, and double-sided milling machines for torsion beams," said Zhang Chenglong (张成龙), General Manager and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Shenyang Machine Tool Marketing Service Center.

Taking the battery tray as an example, as a key component on the chassis of new energy vehicles, it is relatively large in size. Shenyang Machine Tool adopts a multi-spindle solution to launch products to achieve efficient machining, and the use efficiency is 4 to 5 times higher than that of ordinary equipment.

In February of this year, Shenyang Machine Tool once again received an important order from the new energy vehicle field, with a contract amount exceeding 100 million yuan, proving its strength.

Not only in the field of new energy vehicles. In the wind power industry, Shenyang Machine Tool has become a strategic partner with key industry customers, and its high-precision vertical lathe products help customers process high-precision wind power bearings. "Shenyang Machine Tool's vertical lathe products can achieve 'turning instead of grinding' when processing inner holes, outer circles, end faces, inclined surfaces, and curved surfaces, and the surface contact rate of machined workpieces can reach more than 80%, which significantly improves product quality." Many key industry customers praised it in this way.

Shenyang Machine Tool has established long-term partnerships with leading enterprises in crankshafts, molds, and other industries, providing comprehensive "equipment + service" solutions, covering manufacturing needs from parts to complete vehicles.

Zhang Chenglong (张成龙) said that in recent years, the reason why Shenyang Machine Tool has been able to achieve breakthroughs in the new energy field is that it adheres to "technology as the key" and "market as the sail." "We insist on making high-end products and providing customized solutions."

For example, in the process of cooperating with customers, Shenyang Machine Tool is deeply involved in the product research and development and production line design stages, organizes special teams to carry out process technology research, and customizes tooling solutions. At the same time, it provides exclusive 7×24-hour on-site service response and regularly maintains and optimizes equipment performance to ensure continuous and efficient operation of the equipment.

"‘Thinking about what customers find difficult and being anxious about what customers are anxious about’ has moved many customers, who have actively proposed to use our newly developed products to promote product iteration and upgrades," said Zhang Chenglong (张成龙).

At present, Shenyang Machine Tool is laying out the supporting field of humanoid robots and developing targeted special high-efficiency CNC machine tools.

From the first six-foot belt lathe in New China, the first ordinary lathe in New China, the lathe C620-1 that appeared on the 1960 edition of the 2 yuan Renminbi, to the first automatic machine tool in New China, the first CNC lathe in New China... After more than 70 years of deep cultivation in the machine tool industry, Shenyang Machine Tool has closely followed the needs of "Made in China," been determined to tackle key problems, and made successive breakthroughs.

Recently, Shenyang Machine Tool released an announcement, expecting that the net profit in the first half of this year will reach 35 million yuan to 45 million yuan, turning losses into profits year-on-year.

"Revitalizing and developing the machine tool industry is a major responsibility and a glorious mission." Yu Xubo (于旭波), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Chairman of General Technology Group (通用技术集团), said that it will adhere to developing high-end CNC machine tools as the primary core business, strive to build a world-class high-end machine tool equipment group, and go all out to promote the high-quality development of the high-end CNC machine tool industry.

■Reporter's Notes

Industrial Upgrading, Do a Good Job in "Integration"

Integrate machine tool manufacturing with downstream applications, integrate all parties to tackle common technologies... Referring to the experience of the machine tool industry, doing a good job in "integration" will make the pace of industrial upgrading more solid.

During the interview at Shenyang Machine Tool, a change was encouraging. From the first flexible automated production line in China for titanium alloy processing to the new generation of high-precision gantry five-sided machining center, this old enterprise has filled many domestic gaps.

As a machine for manufacturing equipment, the machine tool industry can be called the "foundation of manufacturing," but China's machine tool industry has long faced the problem of being large but not strong, with the world's largest industrial scale, but insufficient supply of high-end products.

All along, the machine tool industry has made a lot of efforts to break through high-end CNC machine tools, but it has only achieved qualitative breakthroughs in recent years. The reason is mainly that it has made sufficient efforts in "integration."

On the one hand, integrate machine tool manufacturing with downstream applications.

"To develop domestic machine tools, we must first use them." This is a long-term call from many machine tool people. Even Shenyang Machine Tool has encountered the dilemma of spending five or six years finding users from the time the prototype is off the assembly line to actual use.

Downstream users dare not use or are unwilling to use them, and local enterprises cannot achieve technological iteration and performance improvement. Facing this upstream and downstream cooperation paradox, collaborative innovation in the industrial chain has become a breakthrough point.

In recent years, many central enterprises have taken the lead in forming various innovation consortia. As important downstream customers in the industrial chain, central enterprises play the role of leading customers, clarifying demand characteristics and technical requirements, and opening up actual application scenarios and usage data to drive breakthroughs in key core technologies with demand.

Shenyang Machine Tool has formed a "partner" for tackling key problems with many central enterprises. This joint research and development mechanism with leading customers as the leader in tackling key problems has changed the situation in China's machine tool industry of "focusing on prototype research, neglecting application verification, and the project is completed once the prototype passes acceptance," and has successfully opened up the key step for machine tools from "usable" to "easy to use."

On the other hand, integrate all parties to tackle common technologies.

The machine tool industry has two characteristics. One is that it is technology-intensive, involving multiple professional fields such as materials science, mechanical design and manufacturing, electrical control and automation, and the technical barriers are extremely high. The second is that it is capital-intensive. From basic research, applied basic research, applied technology development, to engineering verification or pilot testing, and industrialization of technological achievements, all links are inseparable from a large amount of financial support, and the R&D investment is large and the return cycle is long. This makes the machine tool industry, which has long been in a "small, scattered, and weak" industrial pattern, often feel inadequate when it comes to entering high-end CNC machine tools.

In this context, the advantages of central enterprises are once again highlighted. As a central enterprise with high-end CNC machine tools as its main responsibility and business, General Technology Group (通用技术集团) has promoted the professional integration of the industry on the one hand, and has completed the reorganization of seven enterprises including Shenyang Machine Tool (沈阳机床) and Dalian Machine Tool (大连机床); on the other hand, it has increased capital investment and established a machine tool engineering research institute, focusing on common technology and applied technology research.

Clenching fingers into fists and forming a joint force is conducive to breaking the "involutionary" competition, and is more conducive to uniting the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, university research institutions, and other forces to form a complete innovation system.

At present, China is accelerating the construction of a manufacturing powerhouse, and a series of shortcomings are being gradually filled, but there are still shortcomings in basic parts, basic materials, and other fields. Referring to the experience of the machine tool industry, doing a good job in "integration" will make the pace of industrial upgrading more solid.

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Technology Empowers Firefighting and Rescue in High-Rise Buildings (New Perspective)

By: 本报记者  刘温馨

The recently held Central Urban Work Conference pointed out, "Focus on building safe and reliable resilient cities" and "Comprehensively improve the level of housing safety protection." Strengthening safety protection is an important aspect of firefighting and rescue in high-rise buildings.

A fire broke out in a 34-story building! After receiving the police report, a formation of glass-breaking and tethered firefighting drones took to the air, a 101-meter aerial fire truck stood tall, and firefighters wearing AR smart helmets went deep into the fire line. Intelligent reconnaissance, human-machine collaboration, and three-dimensional rescue effectively controlled the fire in less than 10 minutes... At the end of June, a special exercise on firefighting and rescue in urban high-rise buildings was held in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东), showcasing the latest technologies in firefighting and rescue in high-rise buildings.

Data shows that by the end of 2024, China had more than 1.39 million high-rise buildings. "High-rise building fires face challenges in evacuation and rescue, high-altitude operations, interception and fire control, water and liquid supply, and on-site communication." The relevant person in charge of the Rescue Coordination and Preparedness Bureau of the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部) said that, taking the exercise scenario as an example, the fire spread through vertical pipe wells and the outer facade in a multi-point three-dimensional combustion pattern. The complex structure of high-rise buildings, blind spots in signals, and limited rescue operation surfaces increase the difficulty of firefighting. In recent years, new equipment, new technologies, and new tactics have emerged one after another, providing strong support for solving the problem of firefighting in high-rise buildings.

——Equipment is becoming more and more "hardcore."

It is no longer new to use drones to monitor fire conditions and spray fire extinguishing agents in firefighting and rescue. Now, the new four-rotor glass-breaking drone can also perform "demolition" tasks—equipped with 6 glass-breaking bullets, it can rise to the target floor at a height of 100 meters in a short time. By starting the device to launch glass-breaking bullets, it can simultaneously penetrate 2 pieces of tempered glass with a thickness of 12 mm.

"After demolition, the drone quickly releases a new type of fire extinguishing agent, which can open a key smoke exhaust port in the smoke-filled building," said Kang Qinjian (康芹健), deputy station chief of the Shekou Station of the Nanshan Brigade of the Shenzhen Fire and Rescue Detachment (深圳市消防救援支队南山大队蛇口站).

"In the past two years, in response to the needs of urban high-rise building fire protection applications, we have developed air-ground collaborative drone firefighting and rescue equipment that can cooperate with ground fire trucks. It has intelligent operation capabilities such as one-button platform deployment and retrieval, and autonomous take-off and landing of drones on vehicles. It has functions such as broken paddle protection, reserve power supply, power failure protection, and emergency parachute opening. It can complete no less than 6 hours of high-altitude hovering and uninterrupted firefighting operations," Shen Hongxin (沈宏鑫), chief engineer of Emerging International China (Beijing) Intelligent Equipment Technology Research Institute (新兴际华（北京）智能装备技术研究院), told reporters that the new equipment has completely independent intellectual property rights and has mastered key technologies such as redundant high-altitude firefighting flight control technology and high-power tethered power transmission technology.

——Technology is becoming more and more intelligent.

The internal structure of high-rise buildings is complex, and quickly sensing the fire situation and obtaining information is a key point in firefighting and rescue.

"From information acquisition and decision-making deployment to carrying out actions, with the precise assistance of the 'smart brain,' high-rise building firefighting and rescue is more precise and efficient." The relevant person in charge of the Rescue Coordination and Preparedness Bureau of the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部) introduced a series of new technologies to reporters: building information, water source information, traffic route planning, etc., are transmitted to the combat terminals of firefighters at all levels through the intelligent alarm receiving and handling system; multi-channel positioning technology is used to lock the location of trapped people, fire intelligent helmets are linked with robots, and artificial intelligence systems analyze data in real time to plan escape routes for trapped people; using a single-soldier integrated positioning system, the command center can monitor the physical condition and action trajectory of each firefighter in real time...

——The guarantee is becoming more and more reliable.

Entering high-temperature smoke, firefighters are often unclear about their location and situation. With the new AR smart helmet that integrates advanced materials and technology, the firefighter's real-time location and respirator status data can be transmitted back to the command headquarters in a timely manner, solving the problem.

"In the past, manual high-altitude transportation of equipment and materials was inefficient and consumed a lot of energy. Now, the wearable titanium alloy 'exoskeleton assistance system' weighs only 5 kilograms, but it can help firefighters carry up to 100 kilograms of items, and the battery life can reach 6 hours. While the physical exertion of personnel crawling with heavy loads is greatly reduced, it ensures that equipment and materials can be delivered and transported in large quantities," Kang Qinjian (康芹健) introduced.

The relevant person in charge of the Rescue Coordination and Preparedness Bureau of the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部) said that it will apply more new equipment, new technologies, new tactics, and new materials to practice, and use new quality emergency rescue capabilities to protect urban safety.

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Information Express

Perfecting the Provincial Natural Gas Pipeline Transportation Pricing Mechanism

According to a report from this newspaper, the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) and the National Energy Administration (国家能源局) recently issued the "Guiding Opinions on Perfecting the Provincial Natural Gas Pipeline Transportation Pricing Mechanism to Promote High-Quality Development of the Industry" to strengthen price supervision of natural monopoly links and improve the efficiency of natural gas pipeline transportation. The document requires all regions to improve the provincial natural gas pipeline transportation pricing mechanism. First, it clarifies that the provincial development and reform departments formulate the provincial natural gas pipeline transportation prices, and the pricing authority will generally no longer be delegated. Second, it clarifies the implementation of a unified pricing model, transitioning from "one price per line" and "one price per enterprise" to zoned pricing or a province-wide unified price, to achieve effective connection with the inter-provincial natural gas pipeline transportation pricing mechanism and help form a "national unified network." Third, it clarifies that the provincial natural gas pipeline transportation prices are verified according to the "permitted cost plus reasonable return" method, and relevant pricing parameters are specified. Next, the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) and the National Energy Administration (国家能源局) will guide all regions to systematically evaluate the construction, operation, and price management of provincial natural gas pipelines, accelerate the improvement of relevant policies, and organize implementation in a stable and orderly manner.

(Liu Zhiqiang (刘志强))

Excavator Sales Increased by 16.8% Year-on-Year in the First Half of the Year

According to a report from this newspaper, the reporter recently learned from the China Construction Machinery Association (中国工程机械工业协会) that the construction machinery industry operated well in the first half of the year, with the domestic market gradually recovering and exports maintaining stable growth. Specifically, excavator sales reached 120,520 units in the first half of the year, an increase of 16.8% year-on-year, of which domestic sales increased by 22.9% year-on-year; loader sales reached 64,769 units, an increase of 13.6% year-on-year, of which domestic sales increased by 23.2% year-on-year. In terms of exports, China's construction machinery import and export trade volume increased by 9% year-on-year in the first half of the year. Among them, the import volume increased by 2.18% year-on-year, and the export volume increased by 9.34% year-on-year. While the main economic indicators are stable and improving, the industry is accelerating its transformation towards high-end, intelligent, and green development, and the independent and controllable capabilities of the industrial chain and supply chain have been further enhanced.

(Li Xinping (李心萍))

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Taikang Health Wealth Planner HWP Smiles with You Towards the Future

According to the *2024 National Aging Development Bulletin*, by the end of 2024, the national population aged 60 and above was 310 million, accounting for 22.0% of the total population; the national population aged 65 and above was 220 million, accounting for 15.6% of the total population; and the national average life expectancy reached 79.0 years. China has entered a stage of moderate aging. A larger and longer-lived aging population brings about a continuous increase in the demand for health, elderly care, and wealth management, promotes the development of the big health industry, and spawns new professions. In order to meet people's diversified and personalized health and wealth management needs, at the end of 2018, Taikang Insurance Group (泰康保险集团), a Fortune Global 500 company, innovatively launched the Health & Wealth Planner (HWP), integrating the three roles of "insurance advisor, medical and elderly care advisor, and financial advisor" to provide customers with one-stop, customized consulting and planning services for insurance, health, elderly care, and wealth management.

Relying on the new life insurance business model of "payment + service + investment" coordinated at three ends, and backed by Taikang's (泰康) big health industry ecosystem, Taikang HWP attracts a large number of high-quality talents from industries such as insurance, finance, real estate, education, and healthcare to join. In the first half of 2025, among the newly joined Taikang HWPs, there were 15 doctoral degree holders, 401 master's degree holders, and 1,674 graduates from "Double First-Class" construction universities.

Responding to the call of the times and meeting the needs of the public, Taikang HWP, with its professional, vocational, honest, and benevolent professional image, not only provides a broad development track for high-quality talents, but also injects new vitality into the high-quality development of the insurance industry.

Data source: Taikang Insurance Group Co., Ltd. (泰康保险集团股份有限公司)

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A Person's Life: Leaving Something Behind (Talking About Life)

By: 钟南山

I was born the year before the "July 7th Incident" (卢沟桥事变). My parents named me "Nanshan" (南山) because I was born in Nanjing (南京), and Nanjing (南京) has Zhongshan Mountain (钟山). My father said, why not name him Zhong Nanshan (钟南山)! He hoped that I would be like a mountain, able to stand tall and grow strong even after experiencing great storms.

According to my grandmother, when I was less than two years old, Japanese planes began bombing Nanjing (南京), collapsing our house. I was buried in the soil. My grandmother was extremely nervous, frantically digging through the bricks and tiles, desperately trying to dig me out. At that time, my face was already black and purple. She cleared my nose, pressed my body... and I came back to life. I have a pretty big life.

Later, we fled to Guiyang (贵阳). We had just bought a new house and furnished it when Japanese bombs came again. At that time, life was difficult at home, and we only had pickled vegetables to eat. Occasionally, a piece of fermented bean curd was considered very good. In Guiyang (贵阳), there were never three sunny days in a row, and no three feet of flat ground. There were many bedbugs and fleas in the room, and lice in our hair. One night, I suddenly heard the sound of firecrackers outside. I ran to the street and saw lights everywhere, and everyone was cheering happily. Then I heard the radio say, "Japan has surrendered!"

In 1946, our family left Guiyang (贵阳) and settled in Guangzhou (广州). My father, Zhong Shifan (钟世藩), was the president of Guangzhou Central Hospital (广州中央医院), and my mother, Liao Yueqin (廖月琴), was the head nurse. One year, many white mice suddenly appeared on the rooftop of the small building where we lived. I learned that my father was conducting experiments on Japanese encephalitis virus. At that time, the hospital was in difficulty, so my father used his own salary to buy white mice and raise them at home. I found it very interesting, so my father arranged for me to feed the white mice. Because there were so many white mice, our house always had a rat smell. When people came to find us, the neighbors would say, "You just have to smell the rat smell to know where their house is."

Neighbors often brought their children to see my father for medical treatment. When the children got better, the parents were happy, and my father was happy too. These things influenced me from a young age, making me feel that being a doctor could help people solve problems and reduce suffering, which was a very good profession.

If I hadn't become a doctor, I might have become a professional athlete. When I was in my third year of high school, at a sports meet in Guangdong Province (广东省), I ran the 400-meter event in 53.05 seconds, unexpectedly breaking the Guangdong Province (广东省) record! Later, I participated in the National Games and won third place in the country. The Central Institute of Physical Education (中央体育学院) (now Beijing Sport University (北京体育大学)) asked me if I wanted to become an athlete. I went home and discussed it with my parents for a long time and decided to study medicine. My father said that studying medicine would not only make your own body healthy but also help others and make their bodies healthy too. So I was admitted to Beijing Medical College (北京医学院) (now Peking University Health Science Center (北京大学医学部)).

However, I still like sports. Competitive sports are not just about training the body, but also about cultivating a person's will, striving for the top, emphasizing unity and time efficiency, and having a spirit of not admitting defeat. It is extremely valuable to bring this competitive spirit of sports to work and study.

My relationship with my wife, Li Shaofen (李少芬), is also related to sports. After moving from Guangzhou (广州) to Beijing (北京), I often went to my aunt's house on weekends, where I met Li Shaofen (李少芬). At that time, Li Shaofen (李少芬) was a member of the national basketball team, and I often went to her training base to exercise. One Saturday night, I rode my bike from Peking University (北医) to Longtan Lake (龙潭湖) to find her. I rode for an hour and a half, the weather was very cold, and it was not convenient to call. I couldn't find her, so I rode back to school for an hour and a half, feeling very frustrated. As a result, my classmate told me that she had ridden her bike from Longtan Lake (龙潭湖) to Peking University (北医) to find me! I suddenly felt very warm inside. Although we didn't see each other, we confirmed our feelings for each other.

Li Shaofen (李少芬) had always been a key player on the national team. At the end of 1963, at the Games of the New Emerging Forces, the leaders joked to her that if the women's basketball team won the championship, she could get married. A few days later, they really won the championship! We, who had been in love for 8 years, got married.

In 1971, I returned to Guangzhou (广州) and worked at the Fourth People's Hospital (第四人民医院). One night, my father and I were chatting, and halfway through, he suddenly asked, "Are you 35 years old this year? That's terrible." Then he fell silent. When my father was 35 years old, he had already completed his doctorate in medicine in the United States and returned to China to become a well-known pediatrician. But I had experienced being sent to the countryside and working as a boiler stoker, and had just returned to the position of a doctor, and hadn't even been exposed to clinical practice. My 35 years were far behind!

This sentence awakened me, and I wanted to make up for the lost time. In the hospital, I was just the lowest-level resident doctor. I volunteered to work in the emergency room because I could learn more ways to solve urgent medical problems. After half a year, I had basically mastered the diagnosis and treatment of common emergency patients. I was about to apply to the ward for further improvement when suddenly one day, I received a request to participate in the research on the prevention and treatment of chronic bronchitis. Unexpectedly, this became a turning point in my life.

At that time, there were only medical personnel engaged in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis in the country, and few experts in respiratory diseases. There was no specialized respiratory department in the hospital. This was a discipline that started from scratch, which was very difficult. One day, when I was examining a patient with chronic bronchitis, I found that the sputum coughed up by these patients was not only different in volume but also in color, viscosity, and odor. Combining the knowledge I had gained from studying in the biochemistry teaching and research group at Peking University (北医), I suddenly had a whimsical idea that the patient's sputum might be a breakthrough point for research! I collected sputum from different patients, conducted biochemical composition and enzyme analysis, and classified chronic bronchitis into four different pathophysiological types based on the analysis results, and then used a combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine for classified treatment. The efficacy was 50% higher than conventional methods. This research won the first prize of the National Science Conference Achievement Award in 1978.

At the age of 43, I got the opportunity to study abroad at public expense. When I arrived at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom, I went to see my supervisor, Mr. Franey, for the first time. That meeting was not "face to face" but "face to back." He was making coffee in the room, and I went in. He asked, "What research do you want to do?" I talked about my ideas. He said, "The diplomas of your Chinese medical graduates are not recognized abroad. You should go and see my laboratory first, and do some research if you are interested." The supervisor talked to me with his back to me for six or seven minutes and then sent me away.

I was a little lonely, but when I thought about how difficult it was for the country to send us here, I secretly made up my mind to let foreigners see the strength of the Chinese people!

The supervisor's change of opinion towards me stemmed from an experiment. The topic I was researching was the effect of carbon monoxide, the main component of smoking, on hemoglobin in the blood. Previously, my supervisor had used mathematical formulas to calculate the relationship between carboxyhemoglobin and oxygen transport, becoming an authority in this field. But I believe that observing with experimental methods can lead to more rigorous conclusions. The experiment required a lot of blood. It was far from enough to find friends to collect blood, so I had to draw it from myself. I drew about 800 milliliters back and forth in 3 weeks to calibrate the instrument. For the smoking experiment, I decided to do it myself, inhaling carbon monoxide while drawing blood for examination. When the carbon monoxide concentration reached 15%, which was equivalent to smoking 60 cigarettes in a row, my colleagues were worried that something would happen to me. I was a little dizzy, but in order to obtain complete process data, I insisted on continuing to inhale until the concentration reached 22%, and finally obtained complete curve results.

The experiment proved that half of the mathematical curve used by the supervisor was correct, and the other half was wrong. I asked the supervisor to look at my results. He was very surprised and happy. He grabbed me and said, "How did you do it? That's great! I want to recommend you to give a speech at the Internal Medicine Society of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom!" After that, the supervisor and colleagues changed their views on "Doctor Zhong (钟医生)."

During my study abroad, my biggest gain was learning how to do a good job in basic skills. Don't take the second step without taking the first step well; the first step must be confirmed to be correct, effective, or have good repeatability before taking the second step. This is consistent with my father's teachings to me. I once saw a child with kidney disease in the countryside. Based on the blood and urine symptoms, a doctor thought he had renal tuberculosis and gave him some related treatments. After returning home, I told my father about this, and halfway through, my father asked me, "How do you know he has renal tuberculosis?" Hearing this, I was stunned and couldn't answer. My father rarely spoke, but when he did, he would get to the point.

In his later years, my father had difficulty coughing up phlegm and had difficulty breathing, so his quality of life was very poor in the last 3 years. I served as my father's attending doctor. He trusted me very much and allowed me to boldly conduct experiments, but the medical treatment at that time could only reach that level. Less than two years after his death, a new instrument was introduced—a non-invasive ventilator, which was most suitable for him. With this instrument, he might have lived to be 90 years old. This has also become my lifelong regret.

I have always remembered my father's instructions—whatever you do and whatever you say, you must have a basis. When fighting SARS, I pointed out that the chlamydia infection mentioned in the news was wrong. When fighting the new crown epidemic, I was the first to say on television that it was "human-to-human transmission." I dared to make these judgments only after I had a basis.

On December 22, 2002, there was a patient transferred from Heyuan (河源), Guangdong (广东), who said that he started to have a high fever after eating a meal and soon developed difficulty breathing. Many antibiotics were used, but they still didn't work. His lungs turned completely white in 3 days. Unusual!

This was the first reported SARS patient.

Immediately afterward, patients with the same symptoms appeared one after another. At the end of January 2003, when the outbreak was most severe, one person infected the whole family. After the patients were admitted to the clinic, some doctors were afraid to go in, and they delivered medicine and meals through the windows. I felt that this atmosphere was not right. I believe that as long as good indoor ventilation and masks are maintained, it is not easy to be infected. After the consultation, I said, "Transfer those seriously ill patients in the city to our hospital." When the patients came, our nurses still saw him and took his temperature. The atmosphere of terror was immediately dispelled.

With the joint efforts of the staff of the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Diseases (广州呼吸疾病研究所), everyone explored an effective treatment plan and proposed "three earlies and three rationalities," that is, early diagnosis, early isolation, early treatment, rational use of corticosteroids, rational use of ventilators, and rational treatment of complications, which can effectively avoid more casualties. This plan later became a common treatment plan. The stability of the medical team ensures social stability.

During the Spring Festival holiday in 2020, the new crown epidemic struck, and the country once again faced a very difficult situation. Many medical staff volunteered to go to the front lines, the most difficult places, and the most easily infected places to fight. I pay tribute to them. If everyone is of one mind, we will definitely be able to overcome the difficulties.

What I face is life, the problem of life and death, and there can be no ambiguity at all. My pressure comes from the lives of patients. Faced with doubts, I didn't think too much, I just wanted to save the patient's life. This is my biggest pursuit.

In recent years, I have proposed to the central government to build a national laboratory to deal with the next X disease. What is X disease? No one knows, but we can predict what it might be using artificial intelligence methods. The next 10 years may be an era of great change in medicine. Many problems in our lives and our health can be solved to a certain extent through artificial intelligence. Whoever does not seize artificial intelligence now will fall behind in a few years.

For medical workers, they must learn to apply artificial intelligence to their own profession. But at the same time, artificial intelligence cannot replace medical humanities and cannot replace doctor-patient communication. Artificial intelligence solves problems technically, but it is difficult to solve patients' psychological anxiety. When a person gets sick, he will definitely get sick psychologically. The psychological state plays a great role in whether the disease develops for the worse or for the better. To solve the patient's "heart disease," doctors need to communicate. What doctors save is not the disease, but the person.

Now I am ninety years old, but I don't think I am old yet. I get up at 7 am, work until 12:30 pm, take a lunch break, continue working at 3 pm, work for another two hours after dinner, and go to bed at 11 pm. The main clinical work is to conduct grand rounds, which is to jointly see difficult and complicated diseases with many hospitals across the country. I also read some of the latest medical journals, don't limit myself to the laboratory, and read more international news to broaden my horizons. In addition, I take time to run, row, and lift weights indoors. Different types of sports are my best rest. The real aging is not wanting to learn new things.

At my age now, the main task is not to study a project myself, but how to better coordinate and unite everyone to complete a common task. The Guangzhou National Laboratory (广州国家实验室) now has more than 1,000 people and can create a good platform for young people. I have no regrets.

My father once said: "In one's life, one must always leave something in this world. As long as you leave something, you have not lived in vain." I often use this sentence to encourage myself. After thinking about it, I am a doctor. If my existence and my work bring some value and progress to society, I think my life is still beneficial.

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Old Trades and New Professions (Jintai Musings)

By: 许 锋

Wandering along Enning Road (恩宁路) and Datong Street (打铜街) in Guangzhou (广州), one sees a world of copperware at a glance: copper spoons, copper kettles, copper plates, copper pots, exquisite and complete. "Suzhou style, Guangzhou craftsmanship" refers to the copper beating craftsmanship of Xiguan (西关), Guangzhou. For hundreds of years, generations of craftsmen have gathered here, not only creating the characteristics of copperware, but also creating a professional brand. This is the charm of old trades, like aged wine, rich and fragrant, relying on the persistence and dedication of generations of craftsmen to continue the heritage.

Old trades have not "gone away," and new professions have "arrived." As the name suggests, the value of new professions lies in the word "new." Such as generative artificial intelligence system application personnel, intelligent connected vehicle testers, intelligent manufacturing system operators, industrial Internet operators, robot brain trainers... arouse curiosity and are dazzling. With the rise of the Internet and the development of artificial intelligence, a number of new professions have been spawned and emerged.

On one side, old trades are persistent and dedicated, and on the other side, new professions are booming. Seemingly "fighting on their own," they actually complement each other, with the old containing the new, and the new containing the old.

The most taboo thing for old trades is to 倚老卖老 (yǐ lǎo mài lǎo - "rely on seniority to be self-important," to rest on one's laurels). Following the old ways will stop progress, and being old-fashioned will be eliminated by the market. Old trades are rooted in tradition, but also keep pace with the times, constantly焕发 new vitality. I have been in contact with some representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage, who are all adhering to tradition and constantly innovating. For example, the traditional "Zhuangyuan Jidi (状元及第)" pattern of Guangdong Foshan (广东佛山) woodblock New Year paintings, which originated in the Ming Dynasty (明代), has been innovated into a "Q version," which is refreshing. In the past, most of the practitioners in old trades were older people, but now, more and more young people are joining them.

Among the practitioners of new professions, young people account for the absolute mainstream, especially in the Internet field. These practitioners of new professions are also paying more and more attention to those "old" elements. For example, some Internet content creators focus on intangible cultural heritage, integrating traditional culture into their creations. Li Ziqi (李子柒), a post-90s internet celebrity, released her first video content after "stopping updates," which showed the process of lacquerware production, an intangible cultural heritage. Such videos are very attractive. On the Internet platform, there are many similar content creators and internet celebrities.

Of course, "old" is not necessarily all good and useful. Some old trades have faded or are fading from people's sight, which is the inevitable trend of the times. "New" is not necessarily long-lasting. Some change their appearance as they go along, and some are just a flash in the pan. Only those that can stay and be favored by people, and be chosen by more and more people, have high gold content. Only when the "new" and "old" alternate, complement, and integrate, and become the norm, can it reflect the healthy development of society.

Whether it is an old trade or a new profession, there are always people who are sticking to it and people who are pioneering it. 千磨万击还坚劲 (qiān mó wàn jī hái jiān jìng - "subjected to all kinds of grinding and pounding, it remains firm and strong," to remain steadfast despite all setbacks). This spirit of not admitting defeat, not being afraid of hardship, and never stopping is admirable. Let us pay tribute to all the practitioners of old trades and new professions who are devoted to the torrent of the times and resonate with the times.

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Seaweed and shellfish (Duoweizhai)

By: 徐荣木

In the vast East China Sea, islands and reefs simmer with heat under the scorching sun. As the tide recedes, the intertidal zone reveals brownish-black mussels, crowded together, covering the rough rocks and reef crevices. Waves crash and recede, and the mussels shake themselves, still clinging tightly to the rocks. These easily exposed mussels have thin shells and little meat; the plump ones are hidden in the underwater reef clusters, requiring diving to find.

Mussels, scientifically known as *Mytilus edulis*, are called "dàn cài (淡菜)" or "hǎi hóng (海虹)" by people living by the sea. They are a type of bivalve mollusk with a light but fresh taste. Although mussels are delicious, harvesting them requires some effort. On the coast of eastern Zhejiang (浙江), I saw a young man wearing a wetsuit, a net bag around his waist, and a special iron pry bar in his hand, dedicated to prying the byssal threads of mussels from the crevices of the reefs. As soon as the tide receded, he plunged into the sea near the reef shore, his feet straddling the rocks, his body pressed against the stone wall, holding his breath, and fiercely stabbing the stone crevices with the iron pry bar. The mussels "簌簌" fell into the net bag.

Diving and harvesting tests one's swimming ability. Others need to surface for air every minute, but this young man can hold his breath for two or three minutes. When I saw him emerge from the water, the net bag was heavy, with more than 10 kilograms of fist-sized mussels. Water droplets dripped down his chin, he exhaled deeply, wiped his face with his hand, and his arm revealed scars from being scratched by the rocks. Looking at these "spoils of war," he grinned. After unloading his catch, he dived back into the sea, his joys and sorrows soaked in the saltwater.

Seaside people often use the simplest and most effortless cooking methods for seafood. A common way to prepare mussels is to tear off the byssal threads from the outside, wash them clean, put them in a pot, add a few slices of ginger, boil them over high heat for a few minutes, and then plate them when the shells open. If any byssal threads remain, just pinch them with your fingers and pull. Dip them in soy sauce or rice vinegar when eating, and the fresh taste goes straight to your head.

However, I prefer to peel the mussel meat, dry it in the sun, and then, when cooking, soak it in water to rehydrate it. Then, cut the pork belly into chunks, add seasonings such as wine, vinegar, soy sauce, sugar, and ginger, bring to a boil, and simmer over low heat for a quarter of an hour. The fat from the pork belly seeps into the mussels, and the freshness of the mussels permeates the meat. The sauce thickens, the color turns golden, and before the lid is even lifted, the fresh sweetness eagerly escapes from the cracks in the lid. On the islands, this can be considered a "hard dish." Dried mussels are versatile, whether stir-fried or added to soups, the word "fresh" doesn't even begin to describe it.

The hot summer is the mussel harvesting season. I once took a boat to the Shengsi (嵊泗) "sea pasture." On the vast sea, buoys are densely packed, and the fishermen guard this "granary," smiling as they look at the buoys. Drones hover overhead from time to time, checking the water quality and monitoring growth. The floating bridge made of pine planks underfoot sways, and a string of buoys is pulled up, with mussels hanging densely below, colliding in the waves with a dull thud. The hospitable host casually cuts off a handful, rinses them in seawater, and then throws them into the pot. When the water boils, the shells "pop" open. When served, you can smell the sea, dip them in vinegar and put them in your mouth, that tenderness is unforgettable.

Recently, a friend came to Zhoushan (舟山). I invited him to eat seafood at a night market by the sea. A cool breeze gently blows, and the waiter brings a pot of plump, blanched mussels to the table. My friend picks up one with chopsticks, the meat column is full and slightly trembling. He chews slowly, and a rich aroma fills his lips and teeth. After taking a few sips of ice-cold beer, he exclaims, "This penetrating freshness and sweetness is truly the ultimate flavor!"

At this moment, the sizzling sound of the oil in the fryer, the clanging of pots, pans, bowls, and spoons, the conversations and laughter of the neighboring tables, and the sound of the waves lapping against the shore, all blend together and surge. Carried away by the excitement, my friend even began to sing loudly, the fatigue of the journey instantly disappearing. So happy, he almost forgot the time to return.

In the ebb and flow of the tide, the mussels grow new byssal threads.

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Sister (Encounter)

By: 应小青

My sister came from Tongren (同仁) to the provincial capital Xining (西宁) to participate in a public welfare sports meet. She smiled so hard her eyes narrowed, gesturing with sign language as she spoke. The fair and delicate girl from back then is now past her age of no confusion, the corners of her eyes and brows tinged with the frost of the years, but her smile is still kind.

　　More than ten years ago, I was studying at the Radio and Television University and living in a dormitory building of a special education school. One day, as I was going upstairs, I was suddenly stopped by a girl who handed me a note: "Hello, please help me rewrite this letter, okay?" Looking at her clear eyes, and also having a slight hearing impairment, I nodded. It was a letter home, instructing her parents not to pick her up during the summer vacation, but just to send the travel expenses to the teacher, and she and her classmates would take the bus home. It turned out that her name was Dorje Zhuoma (多杰卓玛), a year older than me, so I called her sister. Many people with hearing and speech impairments have a slightly reversed writing habit. I tried hard to understand the content of the letter and rewrote it. "In the future, you can use 'okay' or 'is it okay'. If you use 'okay, is it okay?', it's a bit strange," I wrote patiently on the paper. My sister suddenly understood and expressed her gratitude in sign language. She took out some money, gesturing to tell me that she had no small gifts to give, so this money would be for a bowl of beef noodles. I couldn't refuse, so I had to accept it. The next day, when I returned to the dormitory, I brought snacks, and she was very surprised. That's how we became friends.

　　So many years after graduation, people around me have come and gone, and many classmates have gradually lost contact, but this sister is like a ray of sunshine in my life, shining on me from afar. She pays close attention to my WeChat Moments, "liking" almost every post, and also asked me to buy clothes online, and later learned to shop online herself. She uses photos and videos to record her family's happiness. I know that my sister is now living an ordinary and peaceful life.

　　After a long separation, I am especially happy that my sister came to Xining (西宁) this time. She is always busy for her family and worried about her children. This time, she picked up her old hobby of sports again, and her eyes were full of radiance. She said in sign language that it was my positive attitude towards life that influenced her. I smiled and typed a line on WeChat, you are also infecting me. This time, my sister specially brought me homemade Kun Guo (焜锅) steamed buns and a small bucket of yak yogurt. I only took one bite and grimaced. My sister covered her mouth and smiled, poking her dimple with her index finger, meaning: "Add some sugar, and it will be sweet."

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In the Mirror of the Zhengshui River (Selected Poetry Contest Entries)

By: 朱 弦

Crowds flow along the Zhengshui River (蒸水河).

The river surface spreads out like ink wash painting that hasn't dried.

Crossing a stone bridge spanning the river,

Childhood splashes down amidst the crackling sounds of fireworks.

Colorful stories, on the bamboo rack not far away,

Record grandma's hardworking years.

Strings of crescent-moon-like chili peppers

Repay the vicissitudes in her wrinkles with a harvest.

The golden ox at the bottom of the water, only for a moment,

Uses its horns to arch out of the water, carrying away

The magnificent, sea-like twilight.

The legends narrated by grandma are hidden in the rippling waves.

When the clamor is about to fall into the tranquil finale,

Those who gaze on the shore

Use time as bait, angling for the harvest of a river.

And in the mirror of my youth,

I see the fiery red outline of the setting sun.

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Photo Report

Watercolor "Fisherman's Song," by Wang Keda (王可大).

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By: 丁以绣

Because I work as an editor at a newspaper, I inevitably have to go around promoting and advertising for the newspaper's circulation. Our newspaper is positioned in the news and publishing industry, and it is our duty to advocate for writing, selling, and recommending books. Therefore, I have become a salesperson for reading books and newspapers. Not long ago, I "promoted" it again from the perspective of someone who is 食不果腹 (shí bù guǒ fǔ - "eat not full belly," not having enough to eat) and 腹无诗书 (fù wú shī shū - "belly no poetry books," lacking knowledge).

Recently, I participated in a training program where most of the participants did not have a direct relationship with news and publishing. However, I found a common denominator between news and publishing and politics and law: reading books and newspapers. Our newspaper has a reading section, which mainly introduces recently published new books, including top book recommendation lists, book reviews, and famous people talking about reading. This time, I had something to say.

On this day, it was a class discussion. Before the class, I told the class monitor: some students wanted me to recommend new books to them, so I might as well talk about how to use our newspaper's reading section to buy books after the discussion. The class monitor agreed.

The students came from all over the country, and they spoke 口若悬河 (kǒu ruò xuán hé - "mouth like hanging river," to speak rapidly and eloquently). The class monitor couldn't bear to interrupt them, which caused the discussion class to run significantly overtime. It was dinner time before I got a chance to speak. In order not to delay dinner, I had to promote our reading section in the shortest amount of time.

I first distributed sample newspapers. Then, this is how I advertised:

"Let me tell you two sets of numbers. Earlier, it was said that China uses 8 million tons of cotton for cotton products every year, about half of which is used for export. Calculated this way, the average annual consumption of cotton products per person in China's 1.4 billion people is 5.71 jin. Also, I checked, the average annual consumption per person in China is 8 jin of mutton, 16 jin of beef, 61 jin of pork, and 274 jin of grain."

These numbers were interesting. I said them all in one breath, while emphasizing them with exaggerated gestures. The curious eyes of the students seemed to be asking: You are recommending books, what are you talking about eating and wearing for?

"Let me tell you the second set of numbers. According to a survey, in 2024, the average adult in China read 4.79 paper books and 3.52 electronic books, for a total of 8.31 books. How many books do you read each year?"

Then, I asked: "What happens if your meat and grain consumption does not meet the standard? You will be '食不果腹'; what happens if your cotton product consumption does not meet the standard? You will be '衣不蔽体' (yī bù bì tǐ - "clothes not cover body," inadequately clothed). And if you reach this level of consumption, you will have no worries about food and clothing, and you will not look pale or be dressed in rags."

I raised my voice: "So, what happens if you read two or three books a year, or don't read a whole book properly? Nothing happens, you still look rosy and radiant, but do you know what kind of changes will happen in your brain?"

"The ancients said: 腹有诗书气自华 (fù yǒu shī shū qì zì huá - "belly have poetry books, spirit naturally elegant," Knowledge enriches one's personality). This makes sense. Reading is a complex brain nerve activity. Reading stimulation causes huge amounts of brain nerve dendrites and axons to undergo mysterious and complex physiological changes. You can't see anything if you don't read for one day. If you don't read for two days, only you know. The ancients said that if you don't read for three days, speaking is like chewing wax. Over time, just like material consumption not meeting the standard will show, your spiritual temperament will change, there will be no noble spirit in your chest, and there will be no torch-like light in your eyes..."

The students are all managers, so talking like this is a bit abstract. It's better for me to talk about things that are closer to everyone's work.

"As a leader, you always have some power in your hands, but whether you have prestige is another matter. Experts have analyzed this problem a long time ago. Power comes from your leadership position, and prestige comes from your personal charm. A leader without personal charm, even if he is in a high position, will not have prestige. Where does prestige come from? From leadership! Leadership is reflected in foresight, decisiveness, knowing people and being good at assigning them, and clear rewards and punishments. Leadership is closely related to reading and learning. If you don't read, how can you plan? If you don't read, how can you know people? To be a wise person, how can you do it without drawing wisdom from the ancients and others?"

Having said this, recommending books is inevitable. I continued: "Reading more, reading good books, and reading well have become a consensus in the whole society. So what is a good book? China publishes more than 400,000 kinds of books every year, and more than 200,000 kinds of new books. How to find good books in the ocean of books?"

I shook open the newspaper in my hand: "This is our newspaper, in which the 'Reading Weekly' section is dedicated to introducing the latest published good books to the public, with book lists, expert recommendations, scholar book reviews, reporter interviews with famous people, important book activity recommendations, reading sharing, etc. We also have a WeChat official account, where you can see all the good books in the world and new book information at a glance."

With a burst of applause, I didn't hear any impatience or dissatisfaction, and a worried heart was finally put down. I think that as long as I "promote" diligently, there will be more people who love books and read books.

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