Summary: A celebration was held in Lhasa to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Tibet Autonomous Region, attended by Xi Jinping, Wang Huning, and Cai Qi. Wang Huning, speaking on behalf of the central government, delivered a speech highlighting the achievements in Tibet under the CCP's leadership, particularly since the 18th Party Congress and emphasizing Xi Jinping's leadership and policies. Wang Huning also presented a plaque with an inscription by Xi Jinping. The celebration included a parade and speeches from local officials and Tibetan representatives.
Summary: On the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region, the CPC Central Committee, the National People's Congress, the State Council, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the Central Military Commission sent congratulations and greetings to cadres and people of all ethnic groups in Tibet. The message emphasized the achievements made in Tibet under the leadership of the CPC, particularly since the 18th Party Congress, including poverty alleviation, social stability, and economic development. It called for strengthening the sense of community of the Chinese nation and focusing on stability, development, ecology, and border consolidation, while also mentioning the importance of the military in safeguarding national security and border regions. The message did not directly discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Following celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the Tibet Autonomous Region, Xi Jinping returned to Beijing on August 21st. Xi was accompanied by Cai Qi, He Lifeng, Wang Xiaohong, and other central government officials. Prior to his departure, Xi entrusted Wang Huning to lead a central delegation to Tibet from August 21st to 23rd to express regards to cadres and people of all ethnic groups. The article highlights the enthusiastic farewell from the Tibetan people towards Xi, expressing their gratitude and confidence in building a modern socialist Tibet.
Summary: A reader's sharing session on "Excerpts from Xi Jinping's Discourses on Respecting and Protecting Human Rights" was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, attended by figures including Jiang Jianguo, Yu Tao, and Chinese Ambassador to Ethiopia Chen Hai. Jiang emphasized that the book has been published in 13 foreign language versions, advocating for independent human rights development and criticizing the ideologicalization of human rights and hegemony in its name. Chen Hai stated that China and Africa agree on prioritizing people and opposing the politicization of human rights, highlighting the exemplary role of China and Ethiopia in human rights exchange and cooperation. The event aimed to promote China-Africa cooperation in human rights and contribute to a shared future.
Summary: During his visit to Lhasa for the 60th anniversary celebrations of the Tibet Autonomous Region, Xi Jinping delivered an important speech, emphasizing the need to maintain stability, ethnic unity, and religious harmony. He stressed adherence to the Party's new strategy for governing Tibet, promoting high-quality development tailored to local conditions, especially in advantageous industries such as highland barley. Officials and cadres expressed their commitment to implementing Xi's directives, focusing on strengthening Party leadership, promoting ethnic unity, improving people's livelihoods, and safeguarding the ecological environment. They also pledged to consolidate achievements in poverty alleviation and promote employment. Shanghai cadres were reported to be assisting.
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Summary: Speaking at the 60th anniversary celebration of the Tibet Autonomous Region, a representative of the CPC Central Committee extended congratulations and well wishes to the people of Tibet, highlighting the region's significant economic and social progress over the past six decades. The representative emphasized the importance of upholding the CPC's leadership, safeguarding national security, fostering ethnic unity, and promoting high-quality economic and social development in Tibet. They stressed that Tibet is an inseparable part of China, opposing any external interference in its affairs, and also noted the considerable financial and personnel support provided by the central government and other regions of China to Tibet. The representative called for greater unity under Xi Jinping to build a modern socialist Tibet and contribute to the realization of the Chinese Dream. The article does not mention the United States.
Summary: Wang Huning, as head of the central delegation, conveyed Xi Jinping's greetings and blessings to cadres and citizens in Lhasa, emphasizing the importance the Party and Xi attach to Tibet. He urged thorough study and implementation of Xi's directives concerning Tibet's long-term stability and high-quality development. The delegation visited Lhasa leadership, religious figures at the Jokhang Temple, and residents, presenting gifts bearing Xi's inscription on building a shared Chinese national community. Wang stressed consolidating the sense of community, focusing on stability, development, ecology, and border security, and guiding religious followers to support the Party and contribute to Tibet's socialist modernization.
Summary: The article highlights the socio-economic progress and ethnic unity in the Tibet Autonomous Region over the past 60 years, emphasizing the central government's support and policies. It notes achievements in economic growth, improved living standards, ecological protection, and infrastructure development in border regions. The article also stresses the strengthening of ethnic unity through various initiatives and the pairing of Tibetan regions with other provinces for support. The piece further mentions that Tibet's GDP is expected to exceed 300 billion yuan this year. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A central delegation attended the 60th anniversary celebration of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region and presented commemorative gifts on behalf of the Party Central Committee with Xi Jinping at its core, conveying the greetings of the Party and the people. The gifts, categorized into seven types, included plaques, portraits of leaders, and practical items like automatic butter tea kettles and projectors. The gifts were primarily distributed to Party and government organs, military units, enterprises, villages, monasteries, schools, hospitals, and various segments of the Tibetan population.
Summary: A celebration was held in Lhasa marking the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region, attended by Xi Jinping, Wang Huning, and Cai Qi. Wang Huning, heading the central delegation, delivered a speech highlighting the achievements in Tibet over the past 60 years under the leadership of the CCP, emphasizing the historical achievements since the 18th Party Congress under Xi Jinping's leadership, and presented a plaque with an inscription by Xi Jinping. He called for continued efforts to build a united, prosperous, and modern socialist Tibet under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought and the spirit of the 20th Party Congress. The celebration included a mass parade with displays of unity and gratitude towards the party and state.
Summary: A reader's sharing session on "Excerpts from Xi Jinping's Discourses on Respecting and Protecting Human Rights" was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The event was attended by figures like Jiang Jianguo, Yu Tao, and Chinese Ambassador to Ethiopia Chen Hai, along with representatives from African countries. Jiang Jianguo emphasized that the book highlights China's independent path for human rights development and opposes the politicization of human rights. Chen Hai noted that China and Ethiopia exemplify human rights exchange and cooperation between China and Africa, opposing the politicization of human rights issues and promoting a people-centered approach. The event also involved the donation of the book's English version and discussions on human rights promotion and protection.
Summary: The People's Publishing House has released a standalone edition of the "Regulations on the Work of Party Schools (Administrative Colleges) of the Communist Party of China." The book includes the full text of the regulations and a Q&A with a Central Party School (National Academy of Governance) official regarding the revised regulations. The book is available nationwide through Xinhua bookstores. This document likely pertains to the internal workings of the CCP and the training of its cadres.
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Summary: The article emphasizes China's role as a major victor in WWII and a founding member of the UN, positioning itself as a defender of the "correct" historical view of WWII and the current international order. It criticizes historical revisionism, particularly in Japan's denial of wartime atrocities. The piece also implicitly criticizes the U.S. by denouncing hegemony and unilateralism that undermines the UN-centered international system. Furthermore, it promotes multilateralism, dialogue, and a shared future for humanity, drawing lessons from WWII to advocate for a community of shared security and mutual respect among civilizations. It calls for upholding the UN's authority and the principles of the UN Charter in the face of global challenges.
Summary: On the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region, the CPC Central Committee, the National People's Congress, the State Council, the National Committee of the CPPCC, and the Central Military Commission sent congratulations and greetings to cadres, people of all ethnic groups, and all sectors of society in Tibet. The message emphasized the significant achievements in Tibet over the past 60 years under the leadership of the Party, especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China with Xi Jinping at its core. The message called for strengthening the sense of community of the Chinese nation and building a modern socialist Tibet. It also called on the military and police to safeguard national security and the border.
Summary: During his visit to Lhasa for the 60th anniversary of the Tibet Autonomous Region, Xi Jinping delivered an important speech emphasizing the need to maintain stability, ethnic unity, and religious harmony, while also promoting high-quality development tailored to local conditions. Officials highlighted the importance of studying and implementing Xi's directives, focusing on strengthening the sense of community among ethnic groups and guiding Tibetan Buddhism to align with socialist society. Efforts are underway to promote rural revitalization, improve people's livelihoods, and strengthen ecological protection. Local leaders also pledged to enhance Party leadership and construction. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: During the sixth China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Ministers' Dialogue in Kabul, Wang Yi stated that China is willing to deepen mutual trust with Afghanistan and Pakistan, supporting each other on core interests and opposing external interference in the region. Wang also expressed China's support for Afghanistan in normalizing diplomatic relations. He said that the three countries should expand trade, investment, connectivity, and strengthen counter-terrorism efforts, addressing the root causes of terrorism with security indivisible. Both Muttaqi and Dar expressed their appreciation of the dialogue mechanisms.
Summary: During the sixth China-Pakistan Foreign Ministers' Strategic Dialogue in Islamabad, Foreign Minister Wang Yi, accompanied by Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, emphasized the strategic importance of the China-Pakistan all-weather strategic cooperative partnership under the guidance of both countries' leaders. Wang expressed China's willingness to work with Pakistan to implement the consensus reached by President Xi Jinping and Pakistani leaders, preparing for high-level interactions in the second half of the year, and advancing the construction of a China-Pakistan community of destiny. Wang also stated China's support for Pakistan's development and strengthening, advocating for the safeguarding of the multilateral trading system and opposing unilateral bullying. Dar reaffirmed Pakistan's commitment to its friendship with China and support for the Belt and Road Initiative.
Summary: Fortescue CFO Liang Wanxin stated that China continues to demonstrate its ability to adapt, invest in long-term development, and maintain its leading position in global manufacturing and infrastructure. She highlighted the company's successful 14.2 billion RMB syndicated loan, emphasizing the recognition of China's economic resilience by foreign companies. Fortescue considers China its largest customer, crucial partner for innovation, supply chain development, and decarbonization, and has signed MOUs with various Chinese companies to reduce carbon emissions. Liang emphasized China's leading capabilities in technology, engineering and clean energy application, and the company's active exploration of cooperation in supply chain decarbonization and green iron production.
Summary: Zhang Qingwei, Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, met with Tran Quang Phuong, Vice Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly, in Beijing. Both sides expressed their commitment to implementing the consensus reached by the top leaders of both parties and countries. They further agreed to deepen exchanges and cooperation between legislative bodies to promote the building of a China-Vietnam community with a shared future.
Summary: Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning stated on August 21 that China's foreign trade continues to improve, demonstrating the resilience of the Chinese economy and global demand for Chinese products. Mao Ning attributed this to high-level opening up, high-quality development, and industrial upgrading. She emphasized that international trade based on comparative advantages benefits all parties, and that China's quality products and diverse markets cannot be altered by tariff or trade wars. Mao Ning was responding to a question about China's July economic data and differing commentary on China's export market pressures given external risks like tariff wars, alluding to the U.S.-China trade relationship.
Summary: The "Blue Book on International Situation and China's Diplomacy (2024/2025)" was released in Beijing, systematically explaining the theoretical and practical innovations of Xi Jinping's diplomatic thought in 2024. The book analyzes the evolving international situation and comprehensively elaborates on the new achievements and progress of China's diplomacy and foreign relations in 2024. It asserts that China's diplomacy promoted the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. The Blue Book also states China will promote the implementation of the three major global initiatives and high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road." The document envisions China leading the development of an equal and orderly multipolar world and inclusive economic globalization.
Summary: Ambassador Wang Yajun hosted a reception at the Chinese Embassy in North Korea commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, attended by Choe Ryong-hae and other North Korean officials. Wang emphasized the historical significance of the victory and the importance of defending the correct view of World War II for the sake of national rejuvenation and world peace. He highlighted the historical camaraderie between China and North Korea in fighting against Japanese aggression and expressed China's willingness to work with North Korea to strengthen bilateral relations based on the consensus of both countries' leaders. Minister of Culture Sung Jong-gyu echoed the importance of the historical alliance and North Korea's commitment to developing the traditional friendly and cooperative relationship with China. The ambassador mentioned the need to promote regional and world peace, but made no mention of the United States.
Summary: A conference promoting logistics and tourism potential along the China-Laos-Thailand railway was held in Khon Kaen, Thailand. The conference aimed to maximize the railway's impact on logistics and tourism sectors. No specific attendees or speakers are mentioned in the provided text. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: According to the article, Xi Jinping led a central delegation to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region, praising the region's economic and social development. The article highlights the significant increase in Tibet's GDP and improvements in infrastructure, including roads and transportation networks, emphasizing the role of the Communist Party in these advancements. It also mentions the support from other regions of China, which it described as the "deep affection of forging a sense of community of the Chinese nation." The article further emphasizes the spirit of dedication and unity in overcoming challenges in the region. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses the importance of creating a healthy and mutually beneficial tourism market where both merchants and tourists can thrive. It emphasizes the need for government regulation to prevent price gouging and other unfair practices, while also encouraging businesses to offer differentiated products and services. The piece argues that fostering a market based on trust and respect between vendors and tourists is crucial for unlocking the full potential of tourism and boosting domestic consumption. It also acknowledges the need for tourists to show empathy for vendors and notes that some premium pricing is inevitable, and in some cases, acceptable. The article frames this issue as one of prioritizing people-centered development.
Summary: The article discusses the need to address online harassment (wangbao, 网暴) against doctors in China, following the recent death of a doctor allegedly driven to suicide by such attacks. It argues that while China has laws and procedures to handle medical disputes, online harassment exacerbates tensions between doctors and patients. The author suggests using technology to identify and intervene in online harassment early, providing support to victims, and making online harassment costly for perpetrators. The piece emphasizes the importance of building trust between doctors and patients through better communication, transparency, and empathy-building initiatives, to foster a better environment for medical professionals, though it does not mention the United States.
Summary: Several localities in China are incorporating individuals from diverse fields into urban observer teams to act as "outposts" in urban governance. These observers, including delivery personnel and ride-hailing drivers, are tasked with identifying overlooked issues within the city. By participating in inspections and offering suggestions, these observers, representing the public, are expected to contribute to urban governance that better meets the needs of the population. To enhance their effectiveness, improvements in training, reporting mechanisms, and reward systems are deemed necessary. The goal is to create more livable and convenient cities through collaborative governance.
Summary: This short commentary celebrates the 20th anniversary of the "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" (绿水青山就是金山银山) concept. It highlights China's achievements in ecological governance over the past two decades, including its carbon peak and neutrality goals, global leadership in solar and wind power capacity, and cooperation with over 100 countries on green energy projects. The piece emphasizes that China's improved environment now supports sustainable economic and social development, marking a "green development miracle." There is no mention of the United States in this short commentary.
Summary: A university counselor in Shandong Province is innovating ideological and political education (思政) by engaging students through immersive activities like "script murder" (剧本杀) games based on Party history and live-streaming e-commerce to promote rural revitalization. Students participate in script-writing competitions to retell red stories and sell agricultural products online to increase farmers' incomes. The counselor emphasizes the importance of connecting students with history and national realities to cultivate their understanding of national priorities. She aims to make 思政 education more relatable and inspiring, encouraging students to contribute to the nation's development. The counselor hopes to inspire students to embrace their roles in national rejuvenation.
Summary: This article is a call for submissions to various opinion and commentary sections of the People's Daily, including "Everyone's Opinion," "Heartwarming News and Hot Reviews," "The Chinese Road and the Chinese Dream," and "Forum." It specifies the email address for submissions and requests that contributors avoid submitting the same manuscript to multiple publications simultaneously. There is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Chinese construction teams from state-owned enterprises like China Railway and China Academy of Building Research have completed the construction of China's fifth Antarctic research station, Qinling Station, focusing on installation of microgrids, hydrogen energy systems, and communication infrastructure. The station was built with a modular design to facilitate rapid construction, and is currently being maintained by 32 workers overwintering at the site. The project faced extreme conditions, including temperatures as low as -45 degrees Celsius and frequent high winds, requiring innovative construction techniques and careful protection of materials during the 7570-nautical-mile journey to Antarctica. The article highlights the use of advanced technologies, such as digital simulation systems and new environmentally friendly energy systems, to ensure the station's reliable operation, and does not mention the United States.
Summary: Retired teacher Fan Liyang has dedicated himself since 1999 to preserving the history of the "Second Jimei School Village" in Datian, Fujian, which housed relocated Jimei schools founded by Tan Kah Kee after the Japanese invasion of Xiamen in 1938. Fan identified 28 remaining school buildings, collected over 2.2 million words of historical materials through interviews with former students, and established a volunteer team to promote the site's history. His efforts, along with community support, led to the site's recognition as a national-level anti-Japanese war memorial in 2020. The story of the "Second Jimei School Village" will soon be featured in an exhibition in Fuzhou.
Summary: The 2025 China Farmers' Harvest Festival Village Song Competition has launched in Beijing, themed "Celebrating Agricultural Harvest and Enjoying a Better Life." Lei Liugong, Director-General of the Market and Informatization Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, stated that the competition aims to enrich cultural life, promote rural civilization, publicize the Party's policies on agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, and showcase achievements in agricultural and rural development. The competition is expected to promote rural industries, boost consumption, and uplift the spirit of farmers by celebrating the harvest and rural life through song.
Summary: Heilongjiang Province is launching a plan to standardize and expand its "Science and Technology Small Courtyards" (科技小院) by 2026. The initiative, detailed in the "Heilongjiang Province Science and Technology Small Courtyard Cultivation Action Plan (2025-2026)," aims to establish over 100 provincial-level or higher courtyard sites, covering all 13 cities/regions in the province. The plan emphasizes multi-disciplinary collaboration, agricultural technology transfer, and the training of over 200 agricultural professionals. These courtyards will follow the model of "establishing a small courtyard, stationing a team, radiating an industry, and demonstrating a large area", with the goal of becoming a vital force in Heilongjiang's rural revitalization and will be built through a mechanism of "government guidance, expert leadership."
Summary: The Guangzhou branch of the National Archives of Publications and Culture held its 2025 donation and acquisition conference. In the past year, the Guangzhou branch has acquired over 30,000 volumes/items and temporarily stored 11,000 volumes/items, including ancient Chinese and foreign books, celebrity paintings and calligraphy, and Lingnan arts and crafts. The branch has now accumulated over 4 million volumes/items and 40TB of digital versions. Future plans include focusing on collection, strengthening version research, promoting active utilization, and ensuring security.
Summary: A former delivery driver in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province became a jewelry polisher at a "common prosperity workshop" after receiving skills training, increasing his income. The Keqiao district has conducted 25,700 skills trainings this year and built a comprehensive training network. A Keqiao Human Resources and Social Security Bureau representative stated that the district will continue optimizing skills training to foster high-quality talent and support common prosperity. The "common prosperity workshops" aim to resolve employment and income issues for villagers while allowing them to care for their families. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article discusses the evolution of Chinese grain storage facilities from rudimentary earthen structures to modern, technologically advanced "smart" and "green" warehouses. Early storage methods suffered from significant losses due to pests and poor environmental control. The introduction of Soviet-style warehouses and later brick-concrete structures marked improvements, culminating in the current generation of facilities equipped with sensors, IoT technology, and big data analytics for real-time monitoring and intelligent management. China aims to build 100 green storage technology demonstration sites across seven major grain storage ecological zones to promote new technologies and equipment.
Summary: The article discusses China's advancements in grain storage and management, emphasizing the shift from traditional methods to technologically advanced "smart" and "green" granaries. It highlights initiatives like government-supported grain storage tools for farmers in Yunnan and "shared storage" services in Hebei. The piece also notes the broader technological upgrades across the agricultural supply chain, including AI-driven breeding and high-standard farmland construction, aimed at improving both the quantity and quality of grain production. The article emphasizes that the modernization of Chinese agriculture is driven by both technological advancement and improving people's livelihood. No mention of the United States or of U.S.-China relations were made in this text.
Summary: A short play at the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army History Exhibition Hall in Liaoning province tells the story of Deng Tiemei, a hero who resisted the Japanese. Deng formed a volunteer army after the September 18th Incident (Mukden Incident), leading over a hundred battles against the Japanese and puppet forces. Deng was captured and executed in 1934 after refusing to collaborate, and his unwavering spirit of resistance is upheld as an example of patriotism in the modern day. The Anti-Japanese United Army Middle School near the museum regularly educates students on the anti-Japanese spirit.
Summary: Hong Kong and Macau's first patriotic education base in the mainland for youth has been established at the Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Xu Qifang, Chen Guoji, Ke Lan, and Xia Linmao attended the ceremony. The initiative aims to deepen patriotic education among Hong Kong and Macau youth, fostering national consciousness and patriotism, in line with Xi Jinping's instructions. The special administrative region governments will leverage mainland resources to establish more patriotic education bases for youth.
Summary: China's Daqin Railway, a key energy artery transporting coal from Shanxi to Hebei, has surpassed 9 billion tons in cumulative freight volume. The railway, responsible for one-fifth of the country's total rail coal transport, supports over 300 power plants and 6,000 enterprises. Over the last 30 years, the Daqin Railway has successfully tested 30,000-ton trains, making China one of the few countries with the technology. Its large transport capacity and low energy consumption contribute to China's green development goals by reducing coal consumption and carbon emissions.
Summary: Zhang Jiling, a 55-year-old woman, graduated from Shanxi Business College, majoring in pre-school education, after previously working various jobs and raising a family. Despite failing the Gaokao three times, she finally realized her dream of attending university after her son entered military academy. As an outstanding graduate representative, Zhang delivered a speech emphasizing the importance of pursuing one's dreams regardless of age. She balanced her studies with family and personal obligations, demonstrating a strong commitment to education. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: An exhibition and symposium commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory against Japan and Taiwan's recovery was held in Macau, celebrating the joint efforts of compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait during the war. Over 600 people attended the event which highlighted the history of Taiwan's resistance against Japanese occupation and its eventual return to China. The event aimed to guide youth on both sides to correctly understand history and work together to promote national reunification and rejuvenation. A seminar on the history of the Chinese nation's war of resistance against Japan was also held, continuing a series of such seminars since 2017.
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Summary: This article recounts the story of Chen Yulan, a 105-year-old veteran of the Qiongya Column in Hainan, focusing on her experiences as a messenger during the anti-Japanese war. Chen described her dangerous work of delivering messages, navigating enemy territory, and evading Japanese patrols, at one point nearly drowning while saving donated funds for the resistance. She also detailed how local guerilla forces used tactics like poisoning water sources to disrupt Japanese operations. Chen Yulan's husband, also a soldier in the Qiongya Column, was found to be alive after Hainan's liberation and had been honored as a "Special Meritorious Person". Chen donated revolutionary relics to the Hainan Provincial History Museum.
Summary: Xinhua News Agency announced the release of a series of reports by its national high-end think tank, titled "The Truth About the South China Sea," arguing China's historical and legal basis for its claims in the South China Sea. The reports accuse external powers, explicitly referencing the United States, of instigating regional tensions by using the South China Sea issue to contain China through its "Indo-Pacific" strategy. The reports claim that the US is inciting countries like the Philippines to provoke China. The reports advocate for regional peace and cooperation in the South China Sea, urging vigilance against the disruptive tactics of the West.
Summary: The city of Haimen in Jiangsu province is piloting a program called "Bureau Chiefs (Secretaries) Enter 12345" where local Party secretaries and heads of district-level government departments and state-owned enterprises directly address citizen complaints via a hotline. These officials listen to demands, conduct return visits, and organize consultations to identify shortcomings in local governance and departmental performance. The program has conducted 29 sessions, effectively revisited 245 people, and tracked 71 unresolved cases. According to Zhu Wenwei, Deputy Minister of the Haimen District Party Committee Organization Department, the program facilitates timely discovery of policy implementation deviations and service bottlenecks. The initiative also introduces a "black," "red," and "yellow" three-color warning system and multi-dimensional coordination mechanism to standardize closed-loop management.
Summary: The 33rd Guangzhou Fair will be held from August 22nd to 24th, focusing on "dual empowerment to promote circulation, and new quality inventions to create the future." The fair will feature four themed exhibition areas, including new quality productive forces, rural revitalization, the silver economy, and quality living. The event aims to promote regional coordination and consumption upgrades and will include a domestic cities exhibition showcasing local products and tourism resources. It will also feature a Guangzhou New Quality Productive Forces Exhibition, displaying cutting-edge technologies and innovative products, including robots and smart elderly care products. The fair emphasizes building a "two-way empowerment" cooperation ecosystem, facilitating collaboration between Guangzhou and its partner regions to promote new quality productive forces.
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Summary: The article emphasizes the importance and urgency of promoting high-quality and full employment (高质量充分就业) in China, particularly in light of the complex and volatile international environment and domestic economic restructuring. It argues that supporting business entities, fostering employment-friendly industries, and standardizing new employment patterns are crucial for expanding employment. The article recommends coordinating employment policies with other policies, improving labor rights, and increasing investment in human capital to match industrial development. It also mentions that the United States' unilateral tariff policies have put pressure on China's foreign trade companies, leading to increased uncertainty on employment. The author argues that the digital revolution impacts the need for traditional jobs, but also creates new employment opportunities.
Summary: This article emphasizes the importance of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cadres prioritizing and diligently addressing the concerns of the people, highlighting Xi Jinping's focus on people's livelihood within the framework of Chinese-style modernization. It criticizes cadres who neglect their duties and fail to address public concerns due to factors such as prioritizing personal interests, inadequate performance evaluations, and insufficient accountability mechanisms. The article advocates for improved communication with the public, enhanced problem-solving skills, and the establishment of robust accountability and evaluation systems to ensure cadres are responsive to the needs of the people and are rewarded for prioritizing the needs of the people. The author suggests that the CCP should implement mechanisms for both public feedback and internal protection of cadres who take risks. The article did not allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of building a unified national market in China, with fair competition as a key component for fostering innovation and efficient resource allocation. It notes that unfair competition and market disorder hinder the development of a unified market and high-quality growth. To address these issues, the article calls for improved legal frameworks, effective regulatory measures, and enhanced public awareness of fair competition principles. It advocates for a balance between an active market and an effective government, promoting innovation and preventing unfair practices. There is no explicit mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The popularity of study tours ("研学游") is rapidly increasing in China, but the market suffers from issues like high prices, misleading advertising, and a lack of educational content. Parents have complained about tours that promise visits to prestigious universities but offer little more than superficial sightseeing. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has issued industry standards to regulate study tours, but problems persist due to a lack of qualified instructors and unified oversight. To avoid pitfalls, parents should verify the qualifications of tour operators and choose products from recognized demonstration bases.
Summary: This article discusses the current state of "research tours" (研学游) in China, a popular form of educational tourism for students. It criticizes instances where these tours prioritize "游" (travel) over "研" and "学" (research and study), resulting in overpriced, low-quality experiences that fail to provide genuine educational value. The article calls for stricter regulations and standards from education and tourism authorities to ensure that these tours adhere to educational principles and provide meaningful learning opportunities for students. The author recommends that relevant authorities should improve oversight to ensure the quality of instruction, clarify the standards of fees, and ensure the relevant organizations engaging in these tours are qualified to do so. The piece advocates for a deeper integration of education and tourism expertise to improve the overall quality and legitimacy of research tours.
Summary: Guangdong Power Grid (part of China Southern Power Grid) held an open day for Pacific Island countries, showcasing its emergency response capabilities, including VR training simulations and a typhoon experience room. The company highlighted its "one base, one center" framework for emergency response, emphasizing pre-disaster prevention, mid-disaster protection, and post-disaster recovery, and demonstrated its use of technologies like drones and AI in disaster relief. Guangdong Power Grid also emphasized its quasi-militarized training for emergency response teams. In June, the company conducted a joint emergency drill in the Greater Bay Area and assisted the National Energy Administration in organizing a joint exercise involving five national-level power emergency bases. The company aims to modernize its emergency management system to support Guangdong's economic development and the Greater Bay Area's construction.
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Summary: Fuzhou's Yongtai County in Fujian Province is leveraging digital technology to enhance water resource monitoring and protection, aiming to transform the ecological value of its abundant water resources into economic benefits. The county has implemented a "river chief" system and river management through property management companies. The "One Gate, Three Lines" project, which transfers water to other areas, is expected to generate over 100 million yuan annually in ecological compensation for Yongtai. Yongtai County has also been introducing environmentally friendly enterprises to boost the local water industry.
Summary: The article discusses the traditional Chinese solar term "Chushu" (处暑), marking the end of summer heat, while noting that most regions, especially those south of the Yangtze River, will continue to experience high temperatures due to the lingering subtropical high pressure system. It highlights that while northern China will experience greater temperature differences between day and night, with rain bringing cooler temperatures, southern China will still see humid and hot weather. The piece emphasizes the importance of monitoring weather forecasts for autumn harvests and agricultural activities. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The East Juyan Lake in the Heihe River basin has remained unfed for 21 consecutive years, maintaining a water area of 30-40 square kilometers. Since 2000, China has implemented unified water allocation for the Heihe River. To address potential water scarcity in 2024-2025, the Heihe River Basin Authority is coordinating water needs for various sectors and monitoring rainfall to ensure water reaches East Juyan Lake. During the spring ice melt and concentrated allocation periods, 52 million cubic meters of water were diverted to the lake. The Heihe River Basin Authority has focused on ecological water transfers to East Juyan Lake since late July.
Summary: In the summer of 2025, State Grid Anhui Electric Power Co. implemented three rounds of "electricity saving response" activities, attracting 3.1 million households and saving 2.48 million kWh. These activities reduced peak load by 500,000 kW, encouraging residents to conserve energy. In response to the province's growing electricity demands, exceeding 68 million kW in the summer of 2025, the initiative offered residents incentives of 3 RMB per kWh saved, reducing strain on the grid during peak hours and allowing industrial users to maintain operations. The program effectively shifted some of the peak shaving burden from industrial consumers to households, fostering economic development. This initiative also promotes energy conservation and reduces carbon emissions.
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Summary: To mark the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region, Shannan city is focusing on upgrading its industrial structure by developing clean energy, characteristic agriculture and animal husbandry, and cultural tourism. The city is also promoting ecological protection and cultural heritage. It is creating a favorable business environment by attracting investment in areas like AI language models and eco-tourism. Shannan aims to achieve high-quality development and build a modern socialist Tibet by balancing economic growth with ecological conservation. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses efforts to combat "involution" (内卷) or cutthroat competition in China, particularly focusing on e-commerce, manufacturing, and local government investment practices. E-commerce platforms are optimizing "refund-only" policies to protect merchants, following regulatory pressure to prevent the abuse of these policies and the resulting low-price competition. In manufacturing, exemplified by the eyewear industry in Taizhou, the focus is shifting from price wars to innovation and quality improvements. Local governments, such as Jiaozuo, are moving away from offering preferential policies to attract investment, instead focusing on improving the business environment and providing better services. The article does not allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses the positive outcomes for companies in Wuzhi County, Henan, after the local government ceased offering unconventional preferential policies to attract investment. Instead of focusing on short-term benefits like tax breaks and cheap land, companies are now prioritizing factors such as infrastructure and supply chain integration. The article argues that this shift away from "involutionary" competition requires coordinated efforts from industries, businesses, and the government, with the government focusing on improving the business environment and efficiency. Companies are urged to focus on innovation and quality instead of merely seeking lower prices. This system is seen as benefitting the establishment of a unified national market where all businesses are on an equal playing field.
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Summary: The article provides a guide to understanding and playing pickleball, a sport combining elements of tennis, badminton, and table tennis. It details the basic rules, including court dimensions, serving regulations, and scoring systems (both "serve to score" and "rally scoring"). The guide also covers practical techniques for serving and hitting, and emphasizes the importance of preventing injuries through proper equipment and technique. Finally, it offers tactical advice for beginners, recommending a defensive approach to minimize errors. There is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: China is reforming its approach to national-level sports team development, highlighted by recent successes at the Chengdu World Games, where squash gained popularity. The General Administration of Sport of China (GASC) is delegating more responsibilities to provincial sports bureaus, granting them increased autonomy in team formation, competition, marketing, and event hosting. This initiative aims to foster a more dynamic and collaborative environment in Olympic preparation, involving both the GASC and provincial entities. The reforms are expected to be fully implemented within one to two Olympic cycles. This new sport is part of a package of 5 new sports, including wall climbing, that will be added to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
Summary: Chinese athlete Shang Chunsong won a gold medal in the World Games Chengdu parkour women's freestyle final after a scoring review. Initially awarded silver, her score was adjusted upward following a referee determination that a visual obstruction led to an incorrect penalty during her run. This victory completes Shang's personal grand slam in parkour. The former gymnastics team captain transitioned to parkour after retiring from gymnastics, overcoming the challenges of a new sport at age 26. Shang expressed hope that parkour will become an Olympic sport, giving her another chance to compete at the Olympic games.
Summary: The newly opened Chuanjiang Shipping Culture Park in Chongqing's Jiangbei district, built on the site of the former Minsheng Machinery Factory, showcases the history and culture of the Yangtze River shipping industry. The park uses modern technology to create immersive experiences, highlighting the spirit of pioneers like Lu Zuofu. Its exhibits depict the evolution of the industry, from traditional trackers to modern vessels, and also reflect on China's wartime resilience. Jiangbei district aims to integrate cultural heritage with urban development, promoting tourism and contributing to the construction of the Bashu Cultural Tourism Corridor. From January to July, the area received 57,600 inbound tourists.
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Summary: The article reports on the Ceke Port, a key land port in Inner Mongolia shared by five provinces, highlighting its increasing trade volume and the development of a China-Mongolia border trade zone. Ceke Port has implemented automated guided vehicles and remote-control operations to shorten customs clearance times. International bus routes facilitate cross-border movement, acting as a bridge between communities. The port's success has allowed it to expand trade links to regions as far away as Yunnan, and the local government in the surrounding region has expanded ties and cooperation with multiple Mongolian provinces.
Summary: The article discusses the transformation of the Ceke port on the China-Mongolia border, emphasizing its evolution from a remote frontier to a key economic hub. It highlights how enhanced trade, such as fresh vegetable exports and electricity transmission projects, have fostered closer ties and mutual benefit between China and Mongolia. Technological advancements at the port, including automated transportation, have significantly improved efficiency. The article argues that this mutually beneficial economic and cultural exchange strengthens the relationship between the two nations, promoting shared development and trust. The narrative suggests that such cooperation is a model for neighborly relations.
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Summary: According to JD.com's "2025 Enterprise Mid-Autumn Procurement Trend Insight Report," companies are shifting from standardized procurement to more refined operations, with health, outdoor, and digital products becoming key growth drivers. Over 80% of employees believe Mid-Autumn Festival benefits increase their sense of belonging to the company, and while employees value practicality, they also desire innovative and personalized options. The report highlights regional and industry-specific preferences, with Southern regions favoring traditional pastries and Northern regions preferring staple foods, while internet companies seek customization and manufacturing firms prioritize practicality. JD.com aims to provide convenient and cost-effective procurement solutions for businesses through digital tools and supply chain advantages. There is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this article.
Summary: Actor Liu Ye reflects on his experiences with anti-fascist films, from childhood viewings of Chinese war movies to his role in *Nanjing! Nanjing!*, a film about the Nanjing Massacre that deeply affected him. He recounts presenting the film to Meryl Streep at a U.S.-China cultural forum in Beijing, where she expressed a desire to learn more about China's history. Liu also discusses his collaboration with Bruce Willis on a Chinese war film, highlighting the universal appeal of the anti-fascist theme. He emphasizes the importance of remembering historical events and promoting love and understanding, recounting a visit with his wife to the widow of Dutch documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens, who filmed the Chinese resistance during the war against Japan.
Summary: Murano, Italy, an island known for its glassmaking tradition since the 13th century, continues to produce intricate glass art, including "thousand flower" and "gold star" techniques. Antonio Barovier, a 78-year-old craftsman, exemplifies the island's dedication to traditional methods, while his grandson Luca incorporates 3D printing for design, bridging the old and new. Murano's glassmakers maintain specialized roles, a legacy of its historical guild system that fueled the island's prominence during the Renaissance. The island's blend of traditional workshops and modern adaptations allows Murano glass to be shipped to destinations like China, the United States, and Africa, while retaining its unique character. The article alludes to the importance of preserving cultural heritage and innovation.
Summary: To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, and the 75th anniversary of China-Switzerland diplomatic relations, the National Theater of China has revived Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play "The Physicists." This revival reinterprets the anti-war theme with a contemporary perspective, focusing on the ethical dilemmas faced by scientists in a rapidly developing technological landscape, symbolized by the physicist Möbius's invention with the potential to change humanity. The play uses black humor and modern stagecraft to highlight the dangers of unchecked technological advancement and the importance of maintaining peace. The stage design features a large turbine-like device, creating a sense of tension and oppression related to nuclear radiation. The play warns that science, like a knife, can be used for good or evil, emphasizing the need for caution and ethical considerations in its application.
Summary: A performance commemorating the centennial of Greek musician Mikis Theodorakis was held at the National Museum of China, featuring his students Tania Tsanaklidou and Maria Papageorgiou. The performance included traditional Greek instruments and songs, aiming to bring Greek culture and Theodorakis's wish to share his work with China to the Chinese audience. Theodorakis, a member of the Greek Communist Party, sought to connect Greek music traditions with modern Western music. His music, deeply rooted in patriotism and the struggles of the Greek people, aimed to unite and inspire. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article provides contact information for the People's Daily international forum. It lists the email address rmrbigjfk@peopledaily.cn and the name of the designer responsible for the layout, Cai Huawei. There is no reported mention of the statements or actions of an official, nor is there discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article discusses the revitalization of formerly impoverished regions in China, highlighting the shift in mindset from dependence to self-reliance among residents. It notes improvements in education, infrastructure, and employment opportunities, leading to increased income and a renewed sense of purpose. The piece emphasizes the importance of skills training and local talent development in driving industrial upgrades and promoting sustainable growth. It also highlights the integration of agriculture with tourism and other sectors to create new economic opportunities in rural areas. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article emphasizes the importance of consolidating poverty alleviation achievements and promoting rural revitalization by fostering internal drive within formerly impoverished regions. It highlights successful examples of economic development in Hebei, Sichuan, and Yunnan through local initiatives like ecotourism, specialty agriculture (silver ear mushrooms), and potato industry development. The piece stresses the need for continued support and optimized policies post-poverty alleviation phase, along with human capital development through attracting external talent and cultivating local skills. Furthermore, the article calls for a focus on increasing incomes and promoting high-quality development in these areas to ensure sustainable progress towards rural revitalization. There is no mention of the United States.
Summary: The article reports on the success of ecological aquaculture practices in Gaoyou, Jiangsu province, specifically focusing on the farming of Gaoyou prawns. Traditional methods have been replaced with ecological approaches such as planting aquatic plants, releasing filter-feeding fish and snails, and circulating water to improve water quality and prawn quality. These practices have increased yields and profitability for farmers like Tang Taihong, who used to struggle with traditional methods. The Gaoyou prawn industry has also implemented technological upgrades like IoT and source heat pumps, and has built a complete industrial chain from breeding to processing and sales. The area has been selected for a 2025 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs green fishery project.
Summary: The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs' Bureau of Land Reclamation recently held a "Field Day" event in Ningxia, focusing on integrated water and fertilizer technology. The event highlighted the origins of this technology in land reclamation areas and its importance for increasing grain and oil crop yields. Twenty-six integrated and innovative technical models were released during the event. The Bureau of Land Reclamation aims to further promote the application of this technology, enhance cooperation between reclamation areas and research institutions, and extend services to surrounding regions. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
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Summary: China faces a growing challenge with over 53 million citizens aged 60 and above experiencing cognitive impairment. Beijing and Shanghai are piloting initiatives such as community memory clinics for early screening and specialized care facilities to address the increasing need for professional support. These memory clinics provide screening, treatment, and rehabilitation for mild cognitive impairment, and also offer referral pathways for more severe cases. Shanghai is building "memory cafes" staffed by elderly volunteers with mild cognitive impairment to build stronger social support networks. These combined efforts aim to improve early detection, care services, and societal support for individuals with cognitive impairment and their families.
Summary: The article discusses the increasing integration of medical insurance (医保) and healthcare data in China to improve efficiency and prevent fraud. By linking insurance settlement data with hospital records, medical institutions and insurance regulators are collaborating, improving resource allocation, and optimizing medical practices. The National Medical Security Administration (国家医保局) has begun releasing medical insurance data to designated medical institutions to promote transparency and data-driven decision-making. Data sharing enables hospitals to improve management and make informed operational decisions. Ultimately, this data integration aims to provide better and more efficient healthcare services to patients.
Summary: The article discusses traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) methods for preventing mosquito bites and treating mosquito-borne illnesses, which TCM categorizes as "damp-heat" conditions. It suggests using herbal sachets containing ingredients like mugwort, incense sticks made with duckweed, and dietary adjustments to reduce body heat and dampness that attract mosquitoes. For bites, the article recommends herbal foot soaks and cold compresses with ingredients known for their heat-clearing and astringent properties. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article discusses the importance of understanding health checkup reports and when to seek medical attention. It highlights key indicators to watch out for in blood, urine, and liver function tests, as well as the significance of nodules found in the lungs, thyroid, and breasts. Experts recommend specific checkups based on age and gender, such as mammograms for women over 40 and colonoscopies for people over 45. The article also notes the limitations of routine checkups and the need for specialized screenings, referencing a Shanghai initiative for early cancer detection.
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Summary: A new comprehensive history of World War II, *Xinbian Di'erci Shijie Dazhan Shi*, emphasizes China's crucial role as the main Eastern theater and the Chinese Communist Party's leadership in resisting Japan. The book highlights China's immense sacrifices, including 35 million casualties and enormous economic losses, while also exploring China's support for other Allied fronts, including Chinese volunteers in the Spanish Civil War and naval trainees in the Normandy landings. It also sheds light on the contributions of often-overlooked nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The book asserts that China's wartime contributions secured its place as a major power in the postwar international order. The article concludes by emphasizing the importance of learning from history to uphold peace and promote cooperation in international affairs, indirectly criticizing any US inclination towards unilateralism.
Summary: This article is the afterword to a collection of essays by the author, who is also the vice president of the Beijing Writers Association. She reflects on the process of compiling the collection, noting the interconnectedness of seemingly disparate pieces centered on themes like land, objects, and family. She emphasizes the enduring power of childhood memories and the act of writing as a "morning flower picked up in the evening," allowing for a re-examination and a renewed appreciation of the past. The author references Lu Xun's "Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk" and expresses a desire to be forever "deceived" by cherished memories. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this text.
Summary: Wang Jinkang's science fiction novel "Xingge Sandie" (行歌三叠) expands upon his short story "A Lifetime's Story," exploring themes of humanity's relationship with AI and the complexities of time travel. The story follows Ge Liang, who travels back in time to prevent the development of AI, but instead falls in love with the scientist Chen Ying and alters his mission. The novel ultimately suggests that history cannot be changed by time travel, and that humans must overcome their own challenges with optimism. It also posits that AI and humans can coexist through mutual understanding and cooperation, offering insights into current debates surrounding AI development. The United States is not mentioned in this text.
Summary: This article reviews Zhao Xia's collection of children's songs, "Big Dipper in the Sky," highlighting its artistic value and appeal to children through sound and rhythm. It praises the collection's use of traditional folk rhymes alongside contemporary themes like high-speed rail and ocean exploration. The author emphasizes the importance of children's songs in fostering a love for language and providing children with joy and a positive outlook. The collection is described as aiming to create lasting, bright memories for children, like stars in the night sky. The review emphasizes the collection's success in avoiding didacticism and instead fostering a sense of wonder and exploration.
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Summary: During the Second Sino-Japanese War, amid widespread destruction of libraries and books, Zheng Zhenduo, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Jinan University, remained in Shanghai to rescue endangered cultural artifacts. He secretly collaborated with others to save over 15,000 rare books from the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties from looting by the Japanese, who had organized teams to confiscate Chinese cultural relics. Zheng operated in the Shanghai International Settlement, navigating complex commercial rules and battling various factions, including Japanese intelligence, to protect and preserve these materials while documenting the fate of books and individuals during the war. Thanks to Zheng and those who helped him, almost 30,000 ancient books were secretly transported to Hong Kong. His efforts helped preserve Chinese culture and history during a period of intense conflict.
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This newspaper reported from Lhasa (拉萨) on August 21st: Sixty years of struggle against wind and rain, sixty years of tremendous changes in the snowy plateau. On the morning of the 21st, about 20,000 cadres and people from all ethnic groups in Tibet gathered in Lhasa (拉萨) at the Potala Palace (布达拉宫) Square to warmly celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended the celebration.
Wang Huning (王沪宁), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and head of the central delegation, attended and delivered a speech. Cai Qi (蔡奇), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee, attended.
The ancient city of Lhasa (拉萨) was filled with colorful flags, and everywhere was filled with a festive atmosphere. Under the magnificent Potala Palace (布达拉宫), a Tibetan-style conference rostrum was built. Above the rostrum, the national emblem of the People's Republic of China and the banner "Celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region" were very eye-catching. On the background wall hung the celebration emblem and the words "1965" and "2025," with 10 red flags arranged on both sides. On the Potala Palace (布达拉宫) Square opposite the rostrum, people of all ethnic groups in festive costumes gathered from all directions, waving red flags in their hands, forming a sea of joy.
At about 10 am, amidst cheerful music, Xi Jinping (习近平) and other leading comrades walked onto the rostrum, and the audience burst into prolonged and warm applause.
Gama Zeden (嘎玛泽登), Deputy Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region Party Committee and Chairman of the People's Government of the Autonomous Region, announced the start of the conference. The audience stood up and sang the national anthem, and the bright five-star red flag was slowly raised in the Potala Palace (布达拉宫) Square.
Zhang Guoqing (张国清), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Vice Premier of the State Council, and Deputy Head of the Central Delegation, read out the congratulatory message from the CPC Central Committee, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the State Council, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the Central Military Commission on celebrating the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region. (Full text to be published separately)
Wang Huning (王沪宁) presented the Tibet Autonomous Region with a congratulatory plaque inscribed by Xi Jinping (习近平): "Jointly Build a Community of the Chinese Nation and Write a New Chapter of Beautiful Tibet."
Wang Huning (王沪宁) delivered a speech. (Full text on page 3) He said that in September 1965, under the cordial care of the Party Central Committee and the brilliant light of the Party's ethnic policies, the Tibet Autonomous Region was proclaimed established. This was a major event of epoch-making significance in the history of Tibet's development, consolidating the great achievements of Tibet's peaceful liberation and democratic reform, and realizing the historic leap of Tibet's social system. Over the past 60 years, Tibet's economy and society have developed in an all-round way, the system of ethnic regional autonomy has been successfully practiced, ethnic unity has been increasingly consolidated, and the lives of people of all ethnic groups have been thriving, fully demonstrating the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China and fully demonstrating the remarkable political advantages of our country's socialist system.
Wang Huning (王沪宁) said that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) as the core has attached great importance to and comprehensively strengthened Tibet's work, established the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era, and systematically planned and promoted Tibet's long-term stability and high-quality development from the overall situation of the Party and the country. Tibet has won the battle against poverty alongside the whole country and built a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way. Tibet's economic and social development has achieved historic achievements, the cause of ethnic unity and progress has undergone historic changes, and the living standards of the people have achieved historic leaps. Tibet has entered the best period of development, the greatest changes, and the most benefits for people of all ethnic groups. The construction of a new socialist and modern Tibet is showing vigorous vitality.
Wang Huning (王沪宁) said that standing at a new historical starting point, we must adhere to Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as our guide, fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second and Third Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee, profoundly understand the decisive significance of the "**两个确立**" (liǎng gè què lì - "Two Establishes," establishing Comrade Xi Jinping's core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, and establishing the guiding role of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era), strengthen the "**四个意识**" (sì gè yì shí - "Four Consciousnesses," political consciousness, overall situation consciousness, core consciousness, and conformity consciousness), strengthen the "**四个自信**" (sì gè zì xìn - "Four Confidences," confidence in the path, theory, system, and culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics), achieve the "**两个维护**" (liǎng gè wéi hù - "Two Upholds," resolutely uphold General Secretary Xi Jinping's core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, and resolutely uphold the Party Central Committee's authority and centralized, unified leadership), implement the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era, firmly grasp the main line of forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, and focus on the four major tasks of stability, development, ecology, and strengthening the border, and strive to build a united, prosperous, civilized, harmonious, and beautiful new socialist and modern Tibet, and work tirelessly to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Wang Junzheng (王君正), Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region Party Committee, and Zhoma Renzeng (卓玛仁增), a representative of the Tibetan people, spoke at the meeting.
Subsequently, a grand mass parade full of auspicious and festive atmosphere was held. The parade was divided into four units: "Flag Leading," "Four Major Events," "Striving for a New Era," and "Towards the Future." 26 mass parade formations and floats marched in sequence to cheerful music. People of all ethnic groups wore colorful costumes and danced enthusiastically, expressing their joy of living a happy life and their gratitude to the Party and the country. Xi Jinping (习近平) and others waved to the people from all walks of life from time to time.
In the passionate melody of "Ode to the Motherland," peace doves spread their wings and flew high, and colorful balloons soared into the air. The scene was filled with warm applause and cheers, and the conference came to a successful conclusion.
Li Ganjie (李干杰), He Lifeng (何立峰), Wang Xiaohong (王小洪), Losang Jamcan (洛桑江村), Hu Chunhua (胡春华), Pagbalha Geleg Namgyal (帕巴拉·格列朗杰), and Zhang Shengmin (张升民), veteran comrades who have worked in Tibet, responsible comrades from relevant departments of the central and state organs, all members of the central delegation, and responsible comrades from the Party, government, and military of the Tibet Autonomous Region attended the conference.
Return to TopTo the CPC Tibet Autonomous Region Committee (中共西藏自治区委员会), the Standing Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region People's Congress (西藏自治区人大常委会), the People's Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区人民政府), the Tibet Autonomous Region Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (西藏自治区政协), and the Tibet Military Region (西藏军区):
On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区), the CPC Central Committee (中共中央), the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会), the State Council (国务院), the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协), and the Central Military Commission (中央军委) extend warm congratulations and cordial greetings to the cadres and people of all ethnic groups and people from all walks of life in the Tibet Autonomous Region, to the officers and soldiers of the People's Liberation Army stationed in Tibet, the officers and soldiers of the People's Armed Police Force, and the public security police, and to all those who have participated in and supported the construction of Tibet and cared for and supported the development and progress of Tibet!
The establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) in 1965 was a milestone in the history of Tibet's development, marking the official implementation of the system of regional ethnic autonomy in Tibet and opening a new chapter in the era of common unity and struggle and common prosperity and development for all ethnic groups in Tibet. Over the past 60 years, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央) and with the strong support of the people of the whole country, the cadres and people of all ethnic groups in Tibet have worked hard and struggled tenaciously, the system of regional ethnic autonomy has been successfully practiced, the anti-secession struggle has been effective, freedom of religious belief has been fully respected and guaranteed, economic and social development has been comprehensive, people's lives have been greatly improved, and the face of Tibet and the face of the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet have undergone earth-shaking historical changes.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has attached great importance to the development of Tibet and has been very concerned about the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet, established the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era, and promoted all-round progress and historic achievements in various undertakings in Tibet. Chinese-style modernization has continuously created new miracles on the roof of the world. Tibet has won a complete victory in the fight against poverty and has achieved a comprehensive well-off society together with the rest of the country; the overall social situation has continued to be stable and improving, the anti-secession struggle has been carried out in depth, and the frontier has been consolidated and the border has been secure; the sense of community of the Chinese nation has been continuously strengthened, and ethnic unity and religious harmony have been achieved; reform and opening up have been continuously deepened, high-quality development has been steadily promoted, infrastructure construction has been accelerated, cultural undertakings have flourished, the ecological security barrier has become increasingly solid, and the people live and work in peace and contentment; the Party's leadership and Party building have been comprehensively strengthened, and the Party's foundation for governing Tibet has been further consolidated. Today's Tibet is thriving and full of vitality, and the people of all ethnic groups are helping each other and working together with one heart and one mind, and are striding forward on the broad road of building a new socialist modern Tibet in an all-round way!
The glorious achievements of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) over the past 60 years have not come easily, and the experience is invaluable. This is the result of the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央), the result of the unremitting efforts of the successive Party committees and governments of the Tibet Autonomous Region in uniting and leading the cadres and people of all ethnic groups in the region, and the result of the strong support of the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country. Practice has fully proved that without the Communist Party of China, there would be no New China, and there would be no New Tibet, and the Party Central Committee's (党中央) policies and guidelines on Tibet work are completely correct. Only by adhering to the leadership of the Communist Party of China, adhering to the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, adhering to the system of regional ethnic autonomy, adhering to the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era, and adhering to the consolidation of the sense of community of the Chinese nation can we build a new socialist modern Tibet and jointly create a better future for the Chinese nation.
The current and future period is a critical period for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the nation with Chinese-style modernization. Doing a good job in Tibet is related to the overall situation. It is hoped that the cadres and people of all ethnic groups in Tibet will always hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, adhere to the guidance of 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), thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second and Third Plenary Sessions of the 20th CPC Central Committee, profoundly understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," strengthen the "Four Consciousnesses," strengthen the "Four Confidences," and achieve the "Two Safeguards," implement the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era, earnestly consolidate the sense of community of the Chinese nation and promote the construction of the Chinese national community, grasp the four major tasks of stability, development, ecology, and strengthening the border, and strive to build a united, prosperous, civilized, harmonious, and beautiful new socialist modern Tibet, and work together with the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country to comprehensively build a strong socialist modern country and achieve the second centenary goal, and unite and struggle to comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization!
The People's Liberation Army (人民解放军), the People's Armed Police Force (武警部队), and the public security forces stationed in Tibet are important forces for safeguarding national security, defending the motherland's borders, and promoting the development and progress of Tibet. We must always bear in mind the great trust of the Party and the people, carry forward the fine traditions and work styles, be loyal to defending the country and guarding the border, consolidate and strengthen the unity between the army and the government, the army and the people, and the police and the people, and make new contributions to achieving long-term peace and stability and high-quality development in Tibet.
Let us unite more closely around the Party Central Committee (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, strengthen our confidence, work hard and struggle, work together with one heart and one mind, and forge ahead courageously, and strive to write a chapter of Chinese-style modernization in Tibet!
I wish the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) prosperity and strength!
I wish the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet happiness and well-being!
Long live the great unity of the Chinese nation!
CPC Central Committee (中共中央)
Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会)
State Council (国务院)
National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协)
Central Military Commission (中央军委)
August 21, 2025
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 21)
Return to TopAfter attending the 60th anniversary celebration of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region in Lhasa, Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, returned to Beijing (北京) by special plane on the 21st. Entrusted by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), the central delegation headed by Wang Huning (王沪宁) will visit and extend greetings to cadres and people of all ethnic groups in various parts of Tibet from the 21st to the 23rd.
When Xi Jinping (习近平) left Tibet, people of all ethnic groups came to both sides of the roads in Lhasa (拉萨) city, waving red flags and holding Hada scarves, cheering and greeting the General Secretary, and expressing their heartfelt love for the General Secretary. At Lhasa Gonggar Airport (拉萨贡嘎机场), cadres and people dressed in festive costumes waved red flags and bouquets, singing and dancing, and shouting "Tashi Delek," expressing the gratitude of the sons and daughters of the plateau to the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, and their firm confidence in building a new socialist modern Tibet.
Cai Qi (蔡奇), He Lifeng (何立峰), Wang Xiaohong (王小洪), and responsible comrades from relevant departments of central and state organs returned on the same plane.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Addis Ababa, August 21 (Reporters Liu Fangqiang (刘方强) and Han Xu (韩旭)) A reader sharing session of "Excerpts of Xi Jinping's (习近平) Discourses on Respecting and Protecting Human Rights" was held on the 21st in Addis Ababa (亚的斯亚贝巴), the capital of Ethiopia (埃塞俄比亚).
About 150 people from all walks of life attended the event, including 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, and Executive Vice President of the China Society for Human Rights Studies (中国人权研究会), Yu Tao (于涛), Deputy Director of China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration (中国外文局), Chen Hai (陈海), Chinese Ambassador to Ethiopia (中国驻埃塞俄比亚大使馆), Jedy Mowatt-Mabrey, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Liberia (利比里亚外交部), and representatives from African countries' political, academic, media, and student circles.
In his speech, Jiang Jianguo (蒋建国) pointed out that "Excerpts of Xi Jinping's (习近平) Discourses on Respecting and Protecting Human Rights" has been published and distributed in 13 foreign language versions, attracting readers from the global human rights field and many political, academic, think tank, and media circles. From this book, readers can appreciate President Xi Jinping's (习近平) people-centered feelings and global vision as the leader of a major party and a major country, understand the Chinese Communist Party's (中国共产党) wholehearted pursuit of respecting and protecting human rights for a century, clarify China's (中国) independent human rights development path, and feel China's (中国) responsibility for jointly discussing and building human rights governance.
He emphasized that the vigorous development of the Global South, represented by China (中国) and Africa (非洲), is becoming a key force in reshaping the world order. It is necessary to resolutely oppose the ideologicalization of human rights, resolutely oppose the condescending "human rights teachers," and resolutely oppose the practice of hegemony in the name of human rights. It is hoped that this book will bring useful references for African countries to promote modernization, improve human rights governance, and enhance people's well-being, so as to jointly promote a new chapter in the high-quality development of China-Africa (中非) human rights cause.
In his speech, Chen Hai (陈海) said that China (中国) and Africa (非洲) believe that it is necessary to adhere to a people-centered approach and follow a path of human rights development that suits their own national conditions, and unanimously oppose the politicization of human rights issues. China (中国) and Ethiopia (埃塞俄比亚) have played an exemplary role in China-Africa (中非) human rights exchanges and cooperation. Relying on deep political mutual trust and the foundation of people's friendship, China-Africa (中非) human rights exchanges and cooperation will not only promote the development of China-Africa (中非) human rights cause, but also contribute to deepening the China-Africa (中非) community of common destiny and promoting the progress of mankind.
In his speech, Jedy Mowatt-Mabrey said that "Excerpts of Xi Jinping's (习近平) Discourses on Respecting and Protecting Human Rights" not only allows readers to see the unique human rights concept rooted in China's (中国) national conditions and historical changes, but also provides a practical sample of a country. This sample is shaped by history, rooted in the reality of development, and always maintains an open attitude to dialogue with the world. He believes that each country must open up a path that suits its own national conditions based on its own history, culture, and stage of development, while adhering to the common pursuit of dignity, justice, and equality. For the countries of the Global South, this concept resonates deeply.
In his speech, Yu Tao (于涛) said that through this book, readers can fully understand China's (中国) consistent adherence to the people-centered human rights concept, China's (中国) adherence to the practical path of promoting human rights through development, and China's (中国) global vision of adhering to jointly promoting the development and progress of human rights civilization.
During the event, Jiang Jianguo (蒋建国) and others presented the English version of "Excerpts of Xi Jinping's (习近平) Discourses on Respecting and Protecting Human Rights" to the guest representatives of the Ethiopian Policy Research Institute (埃塞俄比亚政策研究所).
At the sharing session, experts and scholars combined their reading experience of "Excerpts of Xi Jinping's (习近平) Discourses on Respecting and Protecting Human Rights" and conducted exchanges and discussions on topics such as how to promote and protect human rights.
It is reported that the event 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 Ethiopia (中国驻埃塞俄比亚大使馆), and Zhejiang Normal University (浙江师范大学).
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On August 20, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) led a central delegation to Lhasa (拉萨) to attend the 60th anniversary celebration of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region, listen to the work reports of the Autonomous Region Party Committee and the government, and deliver an important speech.
General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech pointed out the direction of advancement, gathered powerful strength, and inspired cadres and the masses of all ethnic groups on the snowy plateau to forge ahead and take responsibility. Everyone expressed that they should conscientiously study and comprehend the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, fully implement the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era, adhere to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, fully and accurately implement the new development concept, solidly promote high-quality development, continue to deeply grasp the four major tasks of stability, development, ecology, and strengthening the border, and strive to build a united, prosperous, civilized, harmonious, and beautiful socialist modern new Tibet.
Maintaining political stability, social stability, ethnic unity, and religious harmony in Tibet
In the classrooms of the Party School of the Tibet Autonomous Region Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共西藏自治区委员会党校) (Tibet Autonomous Region Academy of Administration (西藏自治区行政学院)), the students had heated discussions. In the past five years, 10 special seminars on forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation have been held here. "We must deeply implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, run the Party's innovative theories through all aspects of cadre education and training, further forge a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, promote the construction of the Chinese national community, widely publicize the glorious achievements of the Tibet Autonomous Region since its establishment 60 years ago, tell the story of Tibet in the new era, and guide cadres and the masses of all ethnic groups to continuously enhance the 'five recognitions'," said Wang Xuzhang (王煦樟), Deputy Director of the Teaching Affairs Department of the Party School of the Tibet Autonomous Region Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共西藏自治区委员会党校) (Tibet Autonomous Region Academy of Administration (西藏自治区行政学院)).
Since the beginning of this year, Nagqu (那曲) City has carried out 4,384 "Ethnic Unity as One Family" activities and solved 3,159 urgent problems for the masses through the "Hundred-Day Visit to Villages and Households for Major Research" activity. "We will continue to consolidate the achievements of the National Model City for Ethnic Unity and Progress and promote exchanges, interactions, and integration among all ethnic groups," said Chilai Taji (赤来塔吉), member of the Standing Committee of the Nagqu (那曲) Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the United Front Work Department.
"Religious harmony is inseparable from the steady advancement of the legalization, standardization, and institutionalization of religious affairs management." Liu Zhouping (刘周平), a member of the Party Group and Secretary-General of the Tibet Branch of the Buddhist Association of China, said that it is necessary to deeply implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, and in accordance with the requirements of systematically promoting the Sinicization of religion in China and strengthening the rule of law in the governance of religious affairs, guide Tibetan Buddhism to adapt to socialist society.
"The implementation of the points exchange mechanism has stimulated the enthusiasm of farmers and herdsmen to participate in rural governance, promoted the elimination of outdated customs and bad habits, and resolved conflicts and disputes, achieving obvious results. We must continue to strengthen Party building leadership, do a good job in serving the masses, and consolidate the foundation of social governance," said Gado (嘎多), Secretary of the Party Branch of Qiangji Village (强吉村), Layu Township (拉玉乡), Qonggyai County (琼结县), Shannan (山南) City, full of confidence.
Promoting high-quality development from reality
Shigatse (日喀则) City currently has 9 leading barley processing enterprises with an annual processing capacity of over 25,000 tons of barley. "General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: 'We must develop plateau characteristic advantageous industries in accordance with local conditions.' As an important barley producing area, Shigatse (日喀则) will focus on promoting the quality and efficiency of the barley industry, making this plateau characteristic advantageous industry a 'golden key' for increasing the income of the masses," said Yang Chao (杨超), member of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Shigatse (日喀则) Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
On the vast Sejila Mountain (色季拉山), at the construction site of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway project, Mu Yongqi (母永奇), chief shield driver and senior technician of China Railway Tunnel Group, has been fighting here for 5 years, "Bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) entrustment, I will inherit and carry forward the spirit of the 'Two Roads' and the spirit of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, and contribute my youth and strength to the construction of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway!"
Today's Lhasa (拉萨) is full of green mountains and clear waters, with lush greenery on the north and south mountains. "General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) requires us to protect the 'Roof of the World' and the 'Water Tower of Asia'. We must strengthen ecological civilization construction, effectively protect the ecological environment of Tibet, deeply implement the national action for building a beautiful Tibet, and further consolidate the national ecological security barrier," said Li Sang (李桑), Secretary of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Department of Ecology and Environment of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
At present, 124 households and 553 people monitored to prevent returning to poverty in Chaya County (察雅县), Qamdo (昌都) City, have been dynamically cleared, and 46,800 laborers have achieved high-quality employment. "General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: 'We must coordinate the promotion of new urbanization and comprehensive rural revitalization, consolidate and expand the achievements in poverty alleviation, and solidly do a good job in people's livelihood work such as employment, education, medical and health care, social security, elderly care, and childcare.' We deeply feel the great responsibility, and in the next step, we must implement relevant work measures in detail," said Li Chengguang (李成光), County Mayor of Chaya County (察雅县).
As of August 20, 3,723 households and 20,468 people in the Dingri (定日) earthquake-stricken area received the keys to their new homes. "Being able to move into a strong and beautiful new home so quickly is thanks to the Party's good policies." Zaxi Luobu (扎西罗布), a villager in Sengga Village (森嘎村), Changsuo Township (长所乡), Dingri (定日) County, was filled with happiness. Zaxi Dunzhu (扎西顿珠), Deputy Secretary of the Dingri (定日) County Party Committee and County Mayor, said: "We will continue to do a good job in the follow-up work of post-disaster reconstruction, accelerate the improvement of industrial facilities, focus on improving the appearance of villages, and continue to promote employment and income increase."
Always adhere to the Party's leadership and strengthen Party building
In Kejia Village (科迦村), Pulan County (普兰县), Ali Prefecture (阿里地区), the village work team has organized 58 centralized learning sessions for farmers and herdsmen Party members in the past year. "We must unite and lead cadres and the masses of all ethnic groups to unswervingly listen to the Party and follow the Party, and solidly promote key tasks such as border construction, characteristic industrial development, and improvement of people's livelihood," said Li Ping (李平), Vice Chairman of the Ali Prefecture (阿里地区) Political Consultative Conference and Secretary of the Pulan County (普兰县) Party Committee.
Recently, a new batch of Shanghai aid-Tibet cadres are conducting in-depth visits and research, and reserving projects that meet policy guidance and capital investment direction. Shen Min (沈敏), leader of the 11th batch of Shanghai aid-Tibet cadres liaison group, Deputy Secretary of the Shigatse (日喀则) Municipal Party Committee and Executive Deputy Mayor, said: "To deeply implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, the aid-Tibet cadres will promote all counterpart support work to a deeper level with practical work and achievements, benefiting the local people."
In Gala Village (嘎拉村), Bayi District (巴宜区), Nyingchi (林芝) City, peach blossoms bloom every spring, attracting tourists from all directions. Party member cadres in Gala Village (嘎拉村) took the lead in demolishing cowsheds and walls, leading the whole village to carry out human settlement environment improvement. "We will continue to strengthen the cohesion and combat effectiveness of Party organizations, make the 'Peach Blossom Village' brand brighter, and let the villagers live a happier and better life," said Baima Yang (白玛央), a member of the village work team.
Lhasa (拉萨) City has solidly carried out in-depth study and education on thoroughly implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation, with more than 21,000 centralized learning sessions, covering 3,949 grassroots Party organizations. "We must transform the new achievements in work style construction into a powerful driving force for governing Tibet, stabilizing Tibet, and revitalizing Tibet," said Mima Ciren (米玛次仁), Deputy Minister of the Organization Department of the Lhasa (拉萨) Municipal Party Committee and Deputy Director of the Municipal Study and Education Work Special Class.
Dang Wanjun (党万军), Deputy Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region Discipline Inspection Commission and Deputy Director of the Supervisory Commission, said: "Guided by the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, we must promote the integrated advancement of 'not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt', adhere to the combination of strict management and love, and the combination of incentives and constraints, to provide a strong guarantee for building a united, prosperous, civilized, harmonious, and beautiful socialist modern new Tibet."
(Reporters Yuan Quan (袁泉), Qiongda Zhuoga (琼达卓嘎), Xian Gan (鲜敢), Xu Yuyao (徐驭尧) of this newspaper)
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Comrades and friends,
Yesterday, Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央), President of the People's Republic of China (国家主席), and Chairman of the Central Military Commission (中央军委), led the central delegation to the beautiful Lhasa (拉萨). Today, he is here in person to celebrate the grand meeting, joining people of all ethnic groups in Tibet (西藏) to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区). The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央), the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会), the State Council (国务院), the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协), and the Central Military Commission (中央军委) extend warm congratulations to the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区)! We extend festive greetings and best wishes to cadres and people of all ethnic groups in Tibet (西藏)! We express our heartfelt gratitude to people from all walks of life who have long been concerned about and supported the development and progress of Tibet (西藏)!
In September 1965, under the cordial care of the Party Central Committee (党中央) and the brilliant illumination of the Party's ethnic policies, the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) was proclaimed established. This was a major event of epoch-making significance in the history of Tibet's (西藏) development, consolidating the great achievements of the peaceful liberation and democratic reform of Tibet (西藏), and realizing the historic leap of Tibet's (西藏) social system.
Over the past 60 years, Tibet's (西藏) economy and society have developed in an all-round way. The region's GDP has increased from 327 million yuan in 1965 to 276.5 billion yuan in 2024, an increase of 154 times, with an average annual growth of 8.9%. The mileage of highways open to traffic has exceeded 120,000 kilometers. The "Fuxing" (复兴号) giant dragon traverses the mountains, 183 air routes quickly connect the world, the "electric sky road" lights up thousands of homes, and 5G signals are sent to the summit of Mount Everest (珠峰之巅). The lives of people of all ethnic groups are thriving. The per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents has increased from 456 yuan and 108 yuan in 1965 to 55,444 yuan and 21,578 yuan in 2024, with an average annual growth of 8.5% and 9.4% respectively. The education, medical and health, and social security systems have been continuously improved. Fifteen years of free education were implemented first. There are 3,618 schools of all levels and types, with a total of 970,000 students. The number of medical and health institutions has increased from 193 in 1965 to 7,231 in 2024. The average life expectancy has increased by more than double compared with the early days of the establishment of the autonomous region. Tibet's (西藏) ecological civilization construction has achieved remarkable results. The forest coverage rate and the comprehensive vegetation coverage of grasslands have been continuously improved. The water quality of major rivers and lakes has generally remained excellent, and the proportion of days with excellent air quality has reached more than 99%. Tibet's (西藏) ethnic unity has been increasingly consolidated, the sense of community of the Chinese nation has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, freedom of religious belief has been fully respected and guaranteed, and cultural undertakings have flourished. Excellent traditional cultures such as the Epic of King Gesar (格萨尔史诗), Tibetan opera (藏戏), Tibetan medicine (藏医药), and Thangka art (唐卡艺术) have been rejuvenated.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大), the Party Central Committee (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has attached great importance to and comprehensively strengthened Tibet's (西藏) work, established the Party's strategy for governing Tibet (治藏方略) in the new era, and systematically planned and promoted Tibet's (西藏) long-term stability and high-quality development from the overall situation of the Party and the country. Tibet (西藏) has entered the best period of development, the greatest changes, and the most benefits for the masses of all ethnic groups in history. Tibet (西藏), together with the whole country, has won the battle against poverty and built a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way. A large number of major national projects have been implemented in Tibet (西藏), and a series of major policies and measures have benefited the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet (西藏). Tibet's (西藏) economic and social development has achieved historic achievements, the cause of ethnic unity and progress has undergone historic changes, and the people's living standards have achieved historic leaps. The construction of a new socialist modern Tibet (社会主义现代化新西藏) has shown vigorous vitality.
Over the past 60 years, the central government and various localities have given strong support and selfless assistance to Tibet (西藏). From 1965 to 2024, the central government's financial investment in Tibet (西藏) totaled 2.6 trillion yuan. The system of counterpart assistance to Tibet (对口支援西藏) has been gradually improved. A total of 64.3 billion yuan of aid funds have been invested, and 11 batches of more than 14,000 cadres and talents have been selected and sent to Tibet (西藏) to work, forming a full coverage pattern of 17 provinces and cities, relevant central enterprises, and central financial institutions providing counterpart assistance to 74 counties and districts in Tibet (西藏). This fully demonstrates the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) and fully demonstrates the significant political advantages of China's socialist system.
The glorious achievements of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) over the past 60 years fully prove that only under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), adhering to the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics, adhering to the system of regional ethnic autonomy, and adhering to the Party's strategy for governing Tibet (治藏方略) in the new era, can we realize Tibet's (西藏) prosperity and progress, create a bright future for Tibet (西藏), and enable the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet (西藏) to live a happy and prosperous new life.
Comrades, friends!
At present and for a period of time to come, our country is in a critical period of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way and realizing the second centenary goal. The modernization construction of Tibet (西藏) is also at a new historical starting point. We must adhere 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 our guide, fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的二十大) and the Second and Third Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee, deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments" ( “两个确立”), strengthen the "four consciousnesses" ( “四个意识”), strengthen the "four self-confidences" ( “四个自信”), and achieve the "two safeguards" ( “两个维护”), implement the Party's strategy for governing Tibet (治藏方略) in the new era, firmly grasp the main line of forging a strong sense of community of the Chinese nation, and focus on the four major tasks of stability, development, ecology, and strengthening the border, and strive to build a united, prosperous, civilized, harmonious, and beautiful new socialist modern Tibet (社会主义现代化新西藏).
First, we must unswervingly adhere to and strengthen the Party's overall leadership. The Communist Party of China (中国共产党) is the core of leadership for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the most reliable backbone for the people of all ethnic groups. We must adhere to using 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 unify thinking, unify will, and unify action, consciously maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core in thought, politics, and action, and ensure that the Party's major policies and guidelines are fully implemented in Tibet (西藏). We must adhere to managing the Party with the spirit of reform and strict standards, comprehensively strengthen the construction of leading bodies at all levels, the contingent of cadres and talents, and grassroots organizations, and guide cadres and the masses of all ethnic groups to always firmly listen to the Party and follow the Party.
Second, we must unswervingly ensure national security and long-term stability. We must consolidate the harmonious and stable social situation in Tibet (西藏), promote the rule of law in Tibet (治藏), strengthen and innovate social governance, and form an impregnable fortress for maintaining stability. We must carry out in-depth anti-secession struggles to ensure the consolidation of the border and the security of the border. Tibet (西藏) has been an inseparable part of China's sacred territory since ancient times. Tibetan affairs are China's internal affairs and brook no interference from any external forces. All attempts to split the motherland and undermine Tibet's (西藏) stability are doomed to failure!
Third, we must unswervingly consolidate and develop ethnic unity. We must deepen the construction of the Chinese national community, strengthen exchanges, interactions, and integration among all ethnic groups, and enhance the recognition of the great motherland, the Chinese nation, Chinese culture, the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), and socialism with Chinese characteristics among the masses of all ethnic groups. We must adhere to the direction of Sinicization of religion in our country and actively promote religious harmony. We must carry forward the spirit of old Tibet (老西藏精神) and the "two roads" spirit ( “两路”精神), unite and guide the masses of all ethnic groups to jointly safeguard the sacred land and build a happy homeland.
Fourth, we must unswervingly promote high-quality economic and social development in Tibet (西藏). We must fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept, serve and integrate into the new development pattern, deepen reform and opening up, accelerate the construction of major infrastructure and the development of distinctive and advantageous industries, and embark on a path of high-quality development that conforms to Tibet's (西藏) actual conditions. We must adhere to ecological priority and green development, so that the sky is bluer, the land is greener, the water is clearer, and the environment is more beautiful on the snowy plateau.
Fifth, we must unswervingly improve people's well-being and promote common prosperity. We must adhere to the people-centered development ideology, continue to increase investment and support for Tibet's (西藏) development, consolidate and expand the achievements in poverty alleviation, coordinate and promote new urbanization and comprehensive rural revitalization, and deepen the new era's campaign to enrich the people and strengthen the borders, so that the fruits of reform and development will benefit the people of all ethnic groups more and more fairly. We must combine the care of the Party Central Committee (党中央) and the support of the whole country with the hard work of cadres and the masses of all ethnic groups in Tibet (西藏) to continuously meet the people's aspirations for a better life.
Comrades, friends!
History inspires the future, and struggle creates glory. Let us unite more closely around the Party Central Committee (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, work together, forge ahead, and jointly continue to advance the construction of a new socialist modern Tibet (社会主义现代化新西藏), and strive unremittingly to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!
I wish our great motherland prosperity and strength!
I wish the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet (西藏) happiness and well-being!
Tashi Delek!
(Xinhua News Agency, Lhasa (拉萨), August 21)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Lhasa on August 21st (Reporters Yuan Quan (袁泉) and Li Changwu (李昌禹)) Entrusted by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), and carrying the cordial greetings of the Party Central Committee and the deep blessings of the people of the whole country, some members of the Central Delegation visited and extended their regards to cadres and the masses of all ethnic groups in Lhasa (拉萨) on the afternoon of the 21st. Wang Huning (王沪宁), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and head of the Central Delegation, participated in the visit and condolences. He said that General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) led the Central Delegation to Tibet (西藏) and personally attended the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区). This is the first time in the history of the Party and the country, fully demonstrating the great importance attached by the Party Central Committee and General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) to the work in Tibet (西藏), the strong support for the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区), and the great concern for the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet (西藏). We must conscientiously study and comprehend the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech when listening to the work reports of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) Party Committee and the government, and fully implement it into the practice of promoting lasting peace and stability and high-quality development in Tibet (西藏).
The delegation visited and extended condolences to the members of the Lhasa (拉萨) leadership team and representatives from all ethnic groups and all walks of life and took a group photo, presenting Lhasa (拉萨) with a congratulatory plaque inscribed by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平): "Jointly Build a Community of the Chinese Nation and Write a New Chapter of Beautiful Tibet (共建中华民族共同体 书写美丽西藏新篇章)". Wang Huning (王沪宁) said that in the past 60 years, Lhasa (拉萨) has undergone 翻天覆地 (fān tiān fù dì - "earth-shattering change," a tremendous change) changes. Especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Lhasa's (拉萨) economic and social development has reached a new level, and new achievements have been made in various undertakings. On the new journey, it is necessary to adhere to Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as guidance, fully implement the Party's strategy for governing Tibet (西藏) in the new era, firmly grasp the main line of forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, focus on the four major tasks of stability, development, ecology, and strengthening the border, and make new contributions to promoting lasting peace and stability and high-quality development in Tibet (西藏).
The delegation visited the Jokhang Temple (大昭寺) to visit and extend condolences to patriotic figures in the Tibetan (西藏) religious community, presenting a congratulatory banner inscribed by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平): "Jointly Build a Community of the Chinese Nation and Write a New Chapter of Beautiful Tibet (共建中华民族共同体 书写美丽西藏新篇章)". Wang Huning (王沪宁) said that Tibetan Buddhism has a fine tradition of patriotism and love of religion, protecting the country and benefiting the people. It is hoped that the broad masses of religious figures will fully implement the Party's basic policy on religious work, actively promote religious harmony, social harmony, and ethnic harmony, resolutely safeguard national unity and ethnic solidarity, and guide religious believers to firmly listen to the Party, follow the Party, and devote themselves to the construction of a new socialist and modern Tibet (西藏).
The delegation also visited the Najin (纳金) campus of Tibet University (西藏大学) to investigate the development of higher education in Tibet (西藏), visited Nanshan Park (南山公园) to investigate the afforestation of the northern and southern mountains, and visited Tama Village (塔玛村) in Chengguan District (城关区) to visit Tibetan (藏族) people. Wang Huning (王沪宁) said that it is necessary to implement the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, focus on strengthening the sense of community for the Chinese nation in schools, and cultivate more outstanding talents for the development of Tibet (西藏). We must unswervingly follow the path of ecological priority and green development, and achieve the unity of people's prosperity and ecological beauty. We must focus on guaranteeing and improving people's livelihoods, promoting employment and income growth for the masses, and steadily promoting common prosperity.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 袁 泉 琼达卓嘎 鲜 敢 徐驭尧
In Gala Village (嘎拉村), Bayi District (巴宜区), Nyingchi City (林芝市), Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区), villager Qijia (其加) recalls his childhood:
At that time, the family ate by oil lamp, with a belief: "Although life is hard, we firmly believe that we can strive for a better life."
Sixty years have passed, and now the lives of the villagers in Gala Village (嘎拉村) are getting better and better. "We are grateful for the Party's good policies, and we will continue to create a better tomorrow," said Qijia (其加).
Over the 60 years since the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区), the snowy plateau has undergone earth-shaking changes. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has attached great importance to Tibet's work. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has made many important instructions and approvals on Tibet's work, established the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era, led Tibet into the best period of development, the greatest changes, and the most benefits for the people, and promoted all-round progress and historic achievements in various undertakings in Tibet.
Today, the sense of security and satisfaction of the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet has remained above 99%. The growth rate of major economic indicators has ranked among the top in the country for many consecutive years. More than 50% of the autonomous region's territory has been included in the ecological protection red line. The infrastructure of border villages has been significantly improved, and various industries are booming.
Earnestly Safeguarding Ethnic Unity
Since the new era, exchanges 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.
A pair of big hands, feeling the warmth of unity - Zhang Zhanqun (张展群) is from Shaanxi (陕西). Since coming to work in Gar County (噶尔县), Ngari Prefecture (阿里地区) in 2017, he has taught local people professional operations such as cutting and grafting by hand.
A platform, measuring the height of unity - Song Yugang (宋玉刚) is from Henan (河南). He has been rooted in Riduo Township Central Primary School (日多乡中心小学), Mozhugongka County (墨竹工卡县), Lhasa City (拉萨市) for 28 years, opening up a new world for children.
A piece of pulu, weaving the length of unity - With the support of Shanghai's aid to Tibet, the "Aji Gesang" (阿佳格桑) workshop was opened in Banjuelunbu Village (班觉伦布村), Gyantse County (江孜县), Shigatse City (日喀则市), providing employment for nearly 30 local women at their doorsteps...
As of now, Tibet has a total of 154 collectives and 204 individuals who have been awarded the title of "National Model of Ethnic Unity and Progress" (全国民族团结进步模范). All 7 cities (prefectures) have been created as national demonstration cities (prefectures) for ethnic unity and progress, 30 counties (districts, cities) have been created as national demonstration counties (districts, cities) for ethnic unity and progress, and 54 units have been named national demonstration units for ethnic unity and progress.
The counterpart assistance system in Tibet has been gradually improved, becoming an important link in consolidating ethnic unity. Eleven batches of more than 14,000 cadres and talents of various types have come to Tibet to work; a total of 64.3 billion yuan has been invested in the implementation of 8,204 aid-Tibet projects. Taking counterpart assistance to Tibet as a link, through activities such as pairing and recognizing relatives, 332 counties (districts) and townships (towns) in Tibet have established paired assistance relationships with 284 counties (districts) in the aid-Tibet provinces (cities).
Tibet and the aid-Tibet provinces and cities, and enterprises are closely related and help each other. Brothers and sisters of all ethnic groups are as closely united as pomegranate seeds.
In Lhasa (拉萨), Jiangsu (江苏) aid-Tibet cadres introduced excellent yak breeds, shortening the time to market by 3 years, driving the average annual income of farmers to increase by more than 20,000 yuan; in Qamdo (昌都), Fujian (福建) aid-Tibet cadres promoted the upgrading of the walnut oil industry, and 90 farmers and herdsmen achieved employment at their doorsteps; in Ngari (阿里), 100 famous teachers from Shaanxi (陕西) went to 7 counties in Ngari to teach, and more than 800 teachers and students from Ngari went to Shaanxi for research...
"Loving each other like tea and salt." Tibet has always unswervingly implemented the Party's ethnic work guidelines and policies, the system of ethnic regional autonomy has been successfully practiced, and ethnic unity has been increasingly consolidated.
Enhancing the Sense of Gain, Happiness, and Security of People of All Ethnic Groups
Sanyou Village (三有村), Qushui County (曲水县), Lhasa City (拉萨市), located on the banks of the Lhasa River (拉萨河), has a happy station that integrates Tibetan style, providing elderly care and childcare services for people of all ethnic groups.
"In the morning, the village doctor measures our blood pressure and asks about our health; after lunch, my friends and I play chess and chat here," said 70-year-old villager Ciren Zhaxi (次仁扎西) with a smile.
"The elderly are cared for" and "children are nurtured" are a microcosm of Tibet's efforts to improve people's livelihoods and enhance people's well-being. In recent years, Tibet has insisted on investing more than 80% of its fiscal revenue in people's livelihood fields, building a security system covering education, medical care, elderly care and other fields, and continuously enhancing the sense of gain, happiness, and security of people of all ethnic groups.
From 2006 to 2024, the central government and Tibet have allocated a total of 37.263 billion yuan in subsidies, continuously increasing the supply of affordable housing;
From 2014 to 2024, Tibet has invested more than 300 billion yuan in fiscal education funds, and took the lead in implementing 15 years of free education;
As of 2024, the total number of medical and health institutions in Tibet has exceeded 7,200, and a five-level health service network has been basically established at the autonomous region, prefecture (city), county (district, city), township (town), and village (community) levels, and the average life expectancy has increased to 72.5 years...
A set of data vividly shows the human miracle that has occurred on the snowy plateau.
Today's Tibet has achieved comprehensive and rapid economic development. Clean energy, cultural tourism, plateau light industry... various modern industries are booming, a modern industrial system has been initially established, the quality and efficiency of development have been significantly improved, and in 2024, the per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents reached 55,444 yuan and 21,578 yuan respectively.
Today's Tibet has an increasingly prosperous and progressive cultural undertaking. Great importance is attached to the protection, inheritance and development of the excellent traditional culture of all ethnic groups, the quality of public cultural services is continuously improved, the national common language and writing is promoted and used, the right to learn and use the Tibetan language and writing is guaranteed, and cultural construction has achieved unprecedented prosperity and development.
Today's Tibet has significantly improved the living standards of the people. The problem of absolute poverty that has existed for thousands of years has been completely eliminated, and the achievements of poverty alleviation have been consolidated and expanded, effectively connecting with rural revitalization. People of all ethnic groups have housing, employment, elderly care, education, and medical care, and share the fruits of reform and development.
"In the 60 years of development, it took the Tibet Autonomous Region 50 years to reach the first 100 billion yuan in GDP, while it took only 6 years to reach the second 100 billion yuan." On August 5, at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office, Wang Junzheng (王君正), Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region Party Committee, said that this year the GDP of the Tibet Autonomous Region is expected to exceed 300 billion yuan, reaching the third 100 billion yuan target.
Protecting the Ecological Environment
Walking in the Seabuckthorn Forest Ecological Park (沙棘林生态公园) in Longzi County (隆子县), Shannan City (山南市), wild birds can be seen playing everywhere. Suolang Lajie (索朗拉杰), a villager in Mangcuo Village (芒措村), always likes to take his children for a walk here.
"Before sand control, when the strong wind blew, the farmland was covered with a thick layer of yellow sand, and high sand dunes piled up around the houses." As one of the first people to plant seabuckthorn on the Longzi River (隆子河)滩, 77-year-old Suolang Lajie (索朗拉杰) has witnessed the changes in this land, "Planting seabuckthorn has prevented wind and sand, and the front and back of the houses are shaded by green trees."
Since the 1960s, generations of Longzi (隆子) people have planted seabuckthorn and fought against wind and sand, successfully turning the barren beach ravaged by wind and sand into a lush green barrier, creating a miracle of sand prevention and control on the plateau.
In recent years, Tibet has adhered to the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grass, and ice, and has deeply promoted the land greening action. From 2021 to 2024, the comprehensive vegetation coverage of Tibet's grasslands increased from 48.02% to 48.07%, and the forest coverage rate remained stable at 12.31%.
"In the past, a sheep weighed less than 60 jin, but now a sheep weighs more than 100 jin, and is fat and strong!" Zhan Dui (占堆), a herdsman in Kangma County (康马县), Shigatse City (日喀则市), said proudly.
The change stems from the successful promotion of artificial grassland planting technology in alpine pastoral areas, which effectively solves the problem of grassland degradation, turning scattered low grasslands into continuous high-yield grasslands, and achieving a win-win situation for grassland ecological protection and modern animal husbandry development.
"At present, the total output value of the cooperative's planting, breeding and processing is nearly 7 million yuan, driving more than 300 people to find employment at their doorsteps, creating an annual income of more than 1.6 million yuan, and distributing more than 600,000 yuan to the masses," introduced Gama Danda (嘎玛旦达), the head of Nieruidui Township (涅如堆乡), Kangma County (康马县).
Building a Prosperous and Stable Borderland of the Motherland
In Tibet, children of all ethnic groups jointly contribute to building a prosperous and stable borderland of the motherland.
Yumai Township (玉麦乡), Longzi County (隆子县), was once inhabited by only Sangjie Quba (桑杰曲巴), an elderly man, and his two daughters, Zhuoga (卓嘎) and Yangzong (央宗), guarding this vast territory. "If we leave, this territory will be unmanned! Protecting the land under our feet is protecting our lifeline," Yangzong (央宗) still remembers her father's words.
Today, new houses have sprung up in Yumai Township (玉麦乡), roads are smooth, and water, electricity, and the Internet are accessible throughout the township. The former "three-person township" now has 67 households with 253 people. "The roads are open, there is electricity, and young people are willing to come back," Yangzong (央宗) said with satisfaction.
"Friends of tourists who have booked the No. 5 homestay, I am waiting for you in Gelin!" In Gelin Village (格林村), Gandeng Township (甘登乡), Motuo County (墨脱县), Renqing Cuomu (仁青措姆), a post-90s Menba (门巴族) girl, is broadcasting live in front of her mobile phone, enthusiastically promoting her homestay.
In 2024, the number of tourists visiting Motuo (墨脱) reached 600,000, more than 40 times the county's population.
"The roads are open, and now every household is busy with tourism." Duojie Pingcuo (多杰平措), director of the Gelin Village (格林村) Village Committee, introduced that nearly half of the 28 households in the village have opened homestays, and 8 restaurants have also been opened, with tourism revenue reaching more than 900,000 yuan last year.
Over the past 60 years, Tibet has continued to deeply grasp the major event of strengthening the border, making up for the shortcomings in infrastructure such as housing, drinking water, electricity, and communication, sinking educational and medical resources, and significantly improving the production and living conditions of the masses. The foundation of "being able to stay and have development" is becoming increasingly solid.
Return to TopLhasa, August 21st (People's Daily reporter Xu Yuyao (徐驭尧) and Chen Shangwen (陈尚文)) To express the cordial concern of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) as the core and the profound friendship of the people of the whole country, the central delegation attending the 60th anniversary celebration of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region presented souvenirs to Tibet.
The souvenirs are arranged according to the principles of classifying categories, taking into account practicality, and ensuring quality, with a total of seven categories, including congratulatory plaques, congratulatory banners, portraits of leaders, fully automatic butter tea pots, craft ornaments, projectors, and books.
The souvenirs are mainly presented to Party and government organs at all levels in the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区), troops stationed in Tibet, enterprises and institutions, villages, monasteries, schools, health centers, nursing homes, welfare homes, as well as farmers and herdsmen, urban residents, and cadres and workers.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Lhasa (拉萨) on August 21st: Sixty years of struggle against wind and rain, sixty years of tremendous changes in the snowy plateau. On the morning of the 21st, approximately 20,000 cadres and people from all ethnic groups in Tibet gathered in Lhasa (拉萨) at the Potala Palace (布达拉宫) Square to warmly celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended the celebration.
Wang Huning (王沪宁), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and head of the central delegation, attended and delivered a speech. Cai Qi (蔡奇), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee, attended.
The ancient city of Lhasa (拉萨) was adorned with colorful flags, filled with a festive atmosphere everywhere. Beneath the magnificent Potala Palace (布达拉宫), a Tibetan-style grandstand was erected. Above the grandstand, the national emblem of the People's Republic of China and a banner reading "Celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region" were prominently displayed. The backdrop featured a celebratory emblem and the years "1965" and "2025," flanked by ten red flags on either side. Across from the grandstand, in Potala Palace (布达拉宫) Square, people of all ethnic groups dressed in festive attire gathered from all directions, waving red flags, creating a sea of joy.
At approximately 10:00 AM, amidst cheerful music, Xi Jinping (习近平) and other leaders walked onto the grandstand, greeted by prolonged and enthusiastic applause from the audience.
Gama Zeden (嘎玛泽登), Deputy Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region Party Committee and Chairman of the People's Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region, announced the commencement of the celebration. The entire audience stood and sang the national anthem, as the vibrant five-star red flag was raised in Potala Palace (布达拉宫) Square.
Zhang Guoqing (张国清), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Vice Premier of the State Council, and Deputy Head of the Central Delegation, read the congratulatory message from the CPC Central Committee, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the State Council, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the Central Military Commission on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region. (Full text to be published separately)
Wang Huning (王沪宁) presented the Tibet Autonomous Region with a congratulatory plaque inscribed by Xi Jinping (习近平): "Jointly Build a Community of the Chinese Nation, Write a New Chapter of Beautiful Tibet."
Wang Huning (王沪宁) delivered a speech. (Full text on page 3) He said that in September 1965, under the cordial care of the Party Central Committee and the brilliant light of the Party's ethnic policies, the Tibet Autonomous Region was established. This was an epoch-making event in the history of Tibet's development, consolidating the great achievements of the peaceful liberation and democratic reform of Tibet, and realizing the historic leap of Tibet's social system. Over the past 60 years, Tibet's economy and society have developed in an all-round way, the system of ethnic regional autonomy has been successfully practiced, ethnic unity has been increasingly consolidated, and the lives of people of all ethnic groups have been improving day by day, fully demonstrating the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China and the significant political advantages of China's socialist system.
Wang Huning (王沪宁) stated that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has attached great importance to and comprehensively strengthened the work in Tibet, established the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era, and systematically planned and promoted long-term stability and high-quality development in Tibet from the overall perspective of the Party and the country. Tibet has won the battle against poverty alongside the rest of the country, comprehensively built a moderately prosperous society, achieved historic achievements in economic and social development, undergone historic changes in the cause of ethnic unity and progress, and achieved a historic leap in the living standards of the people. Tibet has entered the best period of development, the greatest changes, and the most benefits for the people of all ethnic groups, and the construction of a new socialist and modern Tibet is showing vigorous vitality.
Wang Huning (王沪宁) said that standing at a new historical starting point, we must adhere to Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as our guide, fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second and Third Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee, profoundly understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," strengthen the "Four Consciousnesses," strengthen the "Four Confidences," and achieve the "Two Safeguards," implement the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era, firmly grasp the main line of forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, focus on the four major tasks of stability, development, ecology, and strengthening the border, and strive to build a united, prosperous, civilized, harmonious, and beautiful new socialist and modern Tibet, and work tirelessly to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Wang Junzheng (王君正), Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region Party Committee, and Zhuoma Renzeng (卓玛仁增), a representative of the Tibetan people, spoke at the meeting.
Subsequently, a grand mass parade full of auspicious and festive atmosphere was held. The parade was divided into four sections: "Flag Leading," "Four Major Tasks," "Striving in the New Era," and "Towards the Future," with 26 mass parade formations and floats proceeding in sequence to cheerful music. People of all ethnic groups, dressed in colorful costumes, danced enthusiastically, expressing their joy at living a happy life and their gratitude to the Party and the country. Xi Jinping (习近平) and others waved to the people from all walks of life from time to time.
In the stirring melody of "Ode to the Motherland," peace doves soared, and colorful balloons rose into the air. The scene was filled with enthusiastic applause and cheers, and the conference concluded successfully.
Li Ganjie (李干杰), He Lifeng (何立峰), Wang Xiaohong (王小洪), Losang Jamcan (洛桑江村), Hu Chunhua (胡春华), Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai (帕巴拉·格列朗杰), and Zhang Shengmin (张升民), veteran comrades who had worked in Tibet, responsible comrades from relevant departments of the central and state organs, all members of the central delegation, and responsible comrades from the Party, government, and military of the Tibet Autonomous Region attended the conference.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Addis Ababa, August 21 (Reporters Liu Fangqiang (刘方强) and Han Xu (韩旭)) A reader sharing session of "Excerpts of Xi Jinping's (习近平) Discourses on Respecting and Protecting Human Rights" was held on the 21st in Addis Ababa (亚的斯亚贝巴), the capital of Ethiopia (埃塞俄比亚).
About 150 people from all walks of life attended the event, including 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, and Executive Vice President of the China Society for Human Rights Studies (中国人权研究会), Yu Tao (于涛), Deputy Director of China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration (中国外文局), Chen Hai (陈海), Chinese Ambassador to Ethiopia (中国驻埃塞俄比亚大使馆), Jedy Mowatt-Mubray, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Liberia (利比里亚外交部), and representatives from African countries' political, academic, media, and student circles.
In his speech, Jiang Jianguo (蒋建国) pointed out that "Excerpts of Xi Jinping's (习近平) Discourses on Respecting and Protecting Human Rights" has been published and distributed in 13 foreign language versions, attracting readers from the human rights field and many political, academic, think tank, and media circles around the world. From this book, readers can appreciate President Xi Jinping's (习近平) people-centered feelings and global vision as the leader of a major party and a major country, understand the Chinese Communist Party's (中国共产党) wholehearted pursuit of respecting and protecting human rights for a century, clarify China's (中国) independent human rights development path, and feel China's (中国) responsibility for jointly building human rights governance.
He emphasized that the vigorous development of the Global South, represented by China (中国) and Africa (非洲), is becoming a key force in reshaping the world order. It is necessary to resolutely oppose the ideologicalization of human rights, resolutely oppose the condescending "human rights teachers," and resolutely oppose the practice of hegemony in the name of human rights. It is hoped that this book will provide useful references for African countries to promote modernization, improve human rights governance, and enhance people's well-being, so as to jointly promote a new chapter in the high-quality development of China-Africa (中非) human rights cause.
In his speech, Chen Hai (陈海) said that China (中国) and Africa (非洲) both believe that it is necessary to adhere to a people-centered approach and follow a human rights development path that suits their own national conditions, and unanimously oppose the politicization of human rights issues. China (中国) and Ethiopia (埃塞俄比亚) have played an exemplary role in China-Africa (中非) human rights exchanges and cooperation. Relying on deep political mutual trust and people-to-people friendship, China-Africa (中非) human rights exchanges and cooperation will not only promote the development of China-Africa (中非) human rights, but also contribute to deepening the China-Africa (中非) community with a shared future and promoting the progress of mankind.
In his speech, Jedy Mowatt-Mubray said that "Excerpts of Xi Jinping's (习近平) Discourses on Respecting and Protecting Human Rights" not only allows readers to see the unique human rights concepts rooted in China's (中国) national conditions and historical changes, but also provides a practical sample of a country. This sample is shaped by history, rooted in the reality of development, and always maintains an open attitude to dialogue with the world. He believes that each country must open up a path that suits its own national conditions based on its own history, culture, and stage of development, while adhering to the common pursuit of dignity, justice, and equality. For the countries of the Global South, this concept resonates deeply.
In his speech, Yu Tao (于涛) said that through this book, readers can fully understand China's (中国) consistent adherence to the people-centered human rights concept, China's (中国) adherence to the practical path of promoting human rights through development, and China's (中国) global vision of adhering to jointly promoting the development and progress of human rights civilization.
During the event, Jiang Jianguo (蒋建国) and others presented the English version of "Excerpts of Xi Jinping's (习近平) Discourses on Respecting and Protecting Human Rights" to the guest representatives of the Ethiopian Policy Research Institute (埃塞俄比亚政策研究所).
At the sharing session, experts and scholars combined their reading experience of "Excerpts of Xi Jinping's (习近平) Discourses on Respecting and Protecting Human Rights" and exchanged and discussed issues such as how to promote and protect human rights.
It is reported that the event 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 Ethiopia (中国驻埃塞俄比亚大使馆), and Zhejiang Normal University (浙江师范大学).
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 21st -- The standalone edition of the "Regulations on the Work of Party Schools (Administrative Colleges) of the Communist Party of China" (《中国共产党党校（行政学院）工作条例》) has been published by People's Publishing House (人民出版社) and will be available in Xinhua bookstores (新华书店) nationwide starting today.
The book includes the full text of the regulations and the content of the Central Party School (National Academy of Governance) (中央党校（国家行政学院）)负责人's answers to reporters' questions on the revision and promulgation of the "Regulations on the Work of Party Schools (Administrative Colleges) of the Communist Party of China" (《中国共产党党校（行政学院）工作条例》).
Return to TopAs a major victor of World War II and a founding member of the United Nations, China has always been a defender of the correct view of World War II history, a maintainer of the current international order, and a practitioner of true multilateralism.
The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, as well as the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. Standing at this historical juncture, looking back at the painful lessons of World War II and the great victory of the World Anti-Fascist War is not only to remember history and promote the correct view of World War II history, but also to draw wisdom and strength from it and jointly create a better future for human peace and development.
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Engels once said, "History is everything to us." The authenticity of history is the foundation of justice. Defending the achievements of the victory of World War II and maintaining the post-war international order is essentially defending the common justice and conscience of mankind.
The World Anti-Fascist War was a global struggle that transcended national borders, races, and ideological differences. From the "400 million people rising up with one heart and one mind" of the Chinese Anti-Japanese National United Front to the 26 anti-fascist nations "convinced that they are now engaged in a common struggle against savage and brutal forces seeking to conquer the world," forming the broadest international anti-fascist alliance, the world's forces of justice united and cooperated, and defended the cause of human peace with enormous sacrifices.
As the main battlefield in the East, China fired the first shot of the World Anti-Fascist War in 1931. After 14 years of bloody battles and the sacrifice of more than 35 million soldiers and civilians, China contained and consumed the main force of Japanese militarism, making an indelible contribution to the final victory of the World Anti-Fascist War.
The victory of World War II gave birth to the United Nations. China, together with important members of the anti-fascist alliance, jointly discussed the establishment of the United Nations and jointly formulated the *Charter of the United Nations*. The international system with the United Nations as its core is a concentrated embodiment of the achievements of the victory of World War II, which has guaranteed the overall peace of the post-war world and promoted global development and progress.
The victory of the World Anti-Fascist War was a great victory for the forces of human justice, indicating that light will surely dispel darkness, and justice will eventually triumph over evil. History tells us that only by holding high the torch of history, building a solid and correct view of World War II history, and firmly defending historical justice can we illuminate the road to the future.
(II)
"Whoever closes his eyes to the past is blind to the present." Former German President Richard von Weizsäcker warned the German people after the war.
For 80 years, historical nihilism and historical revisionism have resurfaced from time to time, blurring the standards of right and wrong and challenging justice and conscience with erroneous historical views, eroding the foundation of the post-war international order and posing a real threat to world peace.
In Japan, a countercurrent of denying the history of aggression continues to surge – enshrining war criminals at the Yasukuni Shrine (靖国神社), summoning the spirit of militarism; tampering with history textbooks, denying the Nanjing Massacre (南京大屠杀), the forced recruitment of "comfort women" and other irrefutable crimes; fabricating narratives of "war victims," distorting aggression as "liberating Asia," and reversing the verdict on the war... The Japanese side's various erroneous acts of denying its guilt for aggression and distorting the truth of history have deeply hurt the feelings of the people of victimized countries. Michio Tsuda (津田道夫), who once apologized to the Chinese people as an ordinary Japanese intellectual, believes that Japan has never conducted a nationwide reflection on the war of aggression after the war, "so that today, after the war, all kinds of strange arguments for redressing grievances for the war can be rampant."
In recent years, a force challenging the post-war international order has been eager to move – individual countries pursue hegemonism and unilateralism, wantonly impacting the post-war international order with the United Nations as its core, trampling on the basic norms of international relations established by the *Charter of the United Nations*, and disrupting the global economic and trade order. This behavior is ignorance and disregard for history, and irresponsibility to the world and the common future of mankind.
History cannot be tampered with, and the truth cannot be desecrated. The erroneous view of World War II history is a betrayal of human civilization and a stumbling block to human progress. As *The Guardian* of the United Kingdom pointed out, humanity should learn lessons from the darkest history, and if such behavior is allowed to spread, humanity may repeat the same mistakes.
(III)
History, reality, and the future are closely linked. Adhering to the correct view of World War II history is precisely to draw wisdom and strength from history to avoid the recurrence of tragedy.
"To save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind," the preface to the *Charter of the United Nations* states the original intention of the people of the world to reflect on war and yearn for peace. Never let the historical tragedy of World War II, in which the flames of war spread across four continents and more than 100 million soldiers and civilians were killed or injured, be repeated. This is the deepest consolation to the innocent souls who were massacred, and the most sublime tribute to the heroic souls who sacrificed themselves to safeguard human freedom, justice, and peace.
History and reality profoundly reveal that only by replacing confrontation with dialogue and cooperation can lasting peace be achieved. Continuously expanding military alliances, expanding one's own sphere of influence, and squeezing the security space of other countries will inevitably create a security dilemma, leading to insecurity for all countries. The international community should learn from historical lessons, resolve differences through equal consultation, adhere to dialogue rather than confrontation, partnership rather than alliance, and win-win rather than zero-sum, and work together to build a security community.
History and reality profoundly reveal that only by maintaining the current international order can we effectively respond to global challenges. The more turbulent the international situation is, the more we must stand on the right side of history, stand on the side of fairness and justice, adhere to 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 *Charter of the United Nations*.
History and reality profoundly reveal that only by adhering to exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations can we build a solid foundation for peace in people's minds. The diversity of civilizations is the basic feature of the world and the source of human progress. The international community should be vigilant against practices that advocate "clash of civilizations," "superiority of civilizations," and divide the common values of mankind with ideology, advocate a civilized view of equality, mutual learning, dialogue, and inclusiveness, transcend civilizational estrangement with civilizational exchanges, transcend civilizational conflicts with civilizational mutual learning, transcend civilizational superiority with civilizational coexistence, and build a solid ideological foundation for peace.
The victory of World War II was a victory for human justice, and its achievements still guide the world forward. As a major victor of World War II and a founding member of the United Nations, China has always been a defender of the correct view of World War II history, a maintainer of the current international order, and a practitioner of true multilateralism. China is willing to work with all countries to draw wisdom and strength from history, promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, and create a better future for mankind.
Return to TopTo the CPC Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee (中共西藏自治区委员会), the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区人大常委会), the People's Government of Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区人民政府), the CPPCC Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee (西藏自治区政协), and the Tibet Military Region (西藏军区):
On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区), the CPC Central Committee (中共中央), the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会), the State Council (国务院), the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协), and the Central Military Commission (中央军委) extend warm congratulations and cordial greetings to the cadres and people of all ethnic groups and people from all walks of life in the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区), to the officers and soldiers of the People's Liberation Army stationed in Tibet (驻藏人民解放军), the officers and soldiers of the Armed Police Force (武警部队), and the public security cadres and police, and to all those who have participated in and supported the construction of Tibet (西藏), and cared for and supported the development and progress of Tibet (西藏)!
The establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) in 1965 is a milestone in the history of Tibet's (西藏) development, marking the official implementation of the system of ethnic regional autonomy in Tibet (西藏), and opening a new chapter in which all ethnic groups in Tibet (西藏) unite and strive together for common prosperity and development. Over the past 60 years, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央) and with the strong support of the people of the whole country, the cadres and people of all ethnic groups in Tibet (西藏) have worked hard and struggled tenaciously. The system of ethnic regional autonomy has been successfully practiced, the anti-secession struggle has been effective, freedom of religious belief has been fully respected and guaranteed, the economy and society have developed in an all-round way, and people's lives have been greatly improved. The face of Tibet (西藏) and the face of the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet (西藏) have undergone earth-shaking historical changes.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has attached great importance to the development of Tibet (西藏) and has been very concerned about the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet (西藏), established the Party's strategy for governing Tibet (治藏) in the new era, and promoted all-round progress and historic achievements in various undertakings in Tibet (西藏). Chinese-style modernization continues to create new miracles on the roof of the world. Tibet (西藏) has won a complete victory in the fight against poverty and has achieved a comprehensive well-off society together with the whole country; the overall social situation has continued to stabilize and improve, the anti-secession struggle has been carried out in depth, the border has been consolidated, and border security has been ensured; the sense of community of the Chinese nation has been continuously strengthened, ethnic unity and religious harmony have been promoted; reform and opening up have been continuously deepened, high-quality development has been steadily advanced, infrastructure construction has been accelerated, cultural undertakings have flourished, the ecological security barrier has become increasingly solid, and the people live and work in peace and contentment; the Party's leadership and Party building have been comprehensively strengthened, and the Party's ruling foundation in Tibet (西藏) has been further consolidated. Today's Tibet (西藏) is thriving and full of vitality. People of all ethnic groups are helping each other and working together with one heart and one mind, and are striding forward on the broad road of building a new socialist modern Tibet (西藏) in an all-round way!
The glorious achievements of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) over the past 60 years have not come easily, and the experience is invaluable. This is the result of the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央), the result of the unremitting efforts of the successive Party committees and governments of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) in uniting and leading the cadres and people of all ethnic groups in the region, and the result of the strong support of the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country. Practice has fully proved that without the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), there would be no New China, and there would be no New Tibet (西藏). The Party Central Committee's (党中央) policies and principles on Tibet (西藏) work are completely correct. Only by adhering to the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), adhering to the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, adhering to the system of ethnic regional autonomy, adhering to the Party's strategy for governing Tibet (治藏) in the new era, and adhering to the consolidation of the sense of community of the Chinese nation can we build a new socialist modern Tibet (西藏) and create a better future for the Chinese nation.
The current and future period is a critical period for comprehensively promoting the building of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the nation with Chinese-style modernization. Doing a good job in Tibet (西藏) is related to the overall situation. It is hoped that the cadres and people of all ethnic groups in Tibet (西藏) will always hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, adhere to the guidance of 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), thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second and Third Plenary Sessions of the 20th CPC Central Committee, deeply understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," strengthen the "Four Consciousnesses," strengthen the "Four Confidences," and achieve the "Two Safeguards," implement the Party's strategy for governing Tibet (治藏) in the new era, earnestly consolidate the sense of community of the Chinese nation and promote the building of the Chinese national community, grasp the four major tasks of stability, development, ecology, and strengthening the border, and strive to build a united, prosperous, civilized, harmonious, and beautiful new socialist modern Tibet (西藏), and work together with the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country to comprehensively build a strong socialist modern country, achieve the second centenary goal, and unite and strive to comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization!
The People's Liberation Army stationed in Tibet (驻藏人民解放军), the Armed Police Force (武警部队), and the public security teams are important forces for maintaining national security, defending the motherland's borders, and promoting the development and progress of Tibet (西藏). We must always bear in mind the great trust of the Party and the people, carry forward the fine traditions and work styles, be loyal to the country and guard the borders, consolidate and strengthen the unity between the army and the government, the army and the people, and the police and the people, and make new contributions to achieving long-term peace and stability and high-quality development in Tibet (西藏).
Let us unite more closely around the Party Central Committee (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, strengthen our confidence, work hard, work together with one heart, and forge ahead courageously, and strive to write a chapter of Chinese-style modernization in Tibet (西藏)!
I wish the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) prosperity and strength!
I wish the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet (西藏) happiness and well-being!
Long live the great unity of the Chinese nation!
CPC Central Committee (中共中央)
Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会)
State Council (国务院)
National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协)
Central Military Commission (中央军委)
August 21, 2025
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 21)
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On August 20, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) led a central delegation to Lhasa (拉萨) to attend the 60th anniversary celebration of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region, listen to the work reports of the Autonomous Region Party Committee and the government, and deliver an important speech.
General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech pointed out the direction for advancement, gathered powerful strength, and inspired cadres and the masses of all ethnic groups on the snowy plateau to forge ahead and take responsibility. Everyone expressed that they should conscientiously study and comprehend the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, comprehensively implement the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era, adhere to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, fully and accurately implement the new development concept, solidly promote high-quality development, continue to deeply grasp the four major tasks of stability, development, ecology, and strengthening borders, and strive to build a united, prosperous, civilized, harmonious, and beautiful socialist modern new Tibet.
Maintain Tibet's political stability, social stability, ethnic unity, and religious harmony.
In the classrooms of the Party School of the Tibet Autonomous Region Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共西藏自治区委员会党校) (Tibet Autonomous Region Academy of Administration (西藏自治区行政学院)), the students had heated discussions. In the past five years, 10 special seminars on forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation have been held here. "We must thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, integrate the Party's innovative theories into all aspects of cadre education and training, further forge a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, promote the construction of the Chinese national community, widely publicize the glorious achievements of the Tibet Autonomous Region since its establishment 60 years ago, tell the story of Tibet in the new era, and guide cadres and the masses of all ethnic groups to continuously enhance the 'five recognitions'," said Wang Xuzhang (王煦樟), Deputy Director of the Academic Affairs Department of the Party School of the Tibet Autonomous Region Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共西藏自治区委员会党校) (Tibet Autonomous Region Academy of Administration (西藏自治区行政学院)).
Since the beginning of this year, Nagqu (那曲) City has carried out 4,384 "Ethnic Unity as One Family" activities and solved 3,159 urgent problems for the masses through the "Hundred-Day Visit to Villages and Households for Major Research" activity. "We will continue to consolidate the achievements of the National Model City for Ethnic Unity and Progress and promote exchanges, interactions, and integration among all ethnic groups," said Chilai Taji (赤来塔吉), member of the Standing Committee of the Nagqu (那曲) Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the United Front Work Department.
"Religious harmony is inseparable from the steady advancement of the legalization, standardization, and institutionalization of religious affairs management." Liu Zhouping (刘周平), a member of the Party Group and Secretary-General of the Tibet Branch of the Buddhist Association of China, said that it is necessary to thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, and guide Tibetan Buddhism to adapt to socialist society in accordance with the requirements of systematically promoting the Sinicization of religion in China and strengthening the rule of law in the governance of religious affairs.
"The implementation of the points exchange mechanism has stimulated the enthusiasm of farmers and herdsmen to participate in rural governance, promoted the elimination of outdated customs and bad habits, and resolved conflicts and disputes, achieving obvious results. We must continue to strengthen Party building leadership, do a good job in serving the masses, and consolidate the foundation of social governance," said Gado (嘎多), Secretary of the Party General Branch of Qiangji Village (强吉村), Layu Township (拉玉乡), Qonggyai County (琼结县), Shannan (山南) City, full of confidence.
Promote high-quality development based on actual conditions.
Shigatse (日喀则) City currently has 9 leading enterprises in highland barley processing, with an annual processing capacity of over 25,000 tons. "General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: 'We must develop plateau characteristic advantageous industries in accordance with local conditions.' As an important main producing area of highland barley, Shigatse (日喀则) will focus on promoting the improvement of the quality and efficiency of the highland barley industry, so that this plateau characteristic advantageous industry will become a 'golden key' for increasing the income of the masses," said Yang Chao (杨超), member of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau of Shigatse (日喀则) City.
On the vast Mount Sejila (色季拉山), at the construction site of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway project, Mu Yongqi (母永奇), the chief shield machine driver and senior technician of China Railway Tunnel Group, has been fighting here for 5 years, "Bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) entrustment, I will inherit and carry forward the spirit of the 'Two Roads' and the spirit of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, and contribute my youth and strength to the construction of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway!"
Today's Lhasa (拉萨) is full of green mountains and clear waters, with lush greenery on the north and south mountains. "General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) requires us to protect the 'Roof of the World' and the 'Water Tower of Asia.' We must strengthen ecological civilization construction, effectively protect the ecological environment of Tibet, deeply implement the national action for building a beautiful Tibet, and further consolidate the national ecological security barrier," said Li Sang (李桑), Secretary of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Department of Ecology and Environment of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
At present, 124 households and 553 people monitored to prevent returning to poverty in Chaya County (察雅县), Qamdo (昌都) City, have been dynamically cleared, and 46,800 laborers have achieved high-quality employment. "General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: 'We must coordinate the promotion of new urbanization and comprehensive rural revitalization, consolidate and expand the achievements in poverty alleviation, and solidly do a good job in people's livelihood work such as employment, education, medical and health care, social security, elderly care, and childcare.' We deeply feel the great responsibility, and in the next step, we must implement relevant work measures in detail," said Li Chengguang (李成光), County Mayor of Chaya County (察雅县).
As of August 20, 3,723 households and 20,468 people in the Dingri (定日) earthquake-stricken area received the keys to their new homes. "To be able to move into a strong and beautiful new home so quickly, we are grateful for the Party's good policies." Tashi Robu (扎西罗布), a villager in Sengga Village (森嘎村), Changsuo Township (长所乡), Dingri County (定日县), was filled with happiness. Tashi Dondrup (扎西顿珠), Deputy Secretary of the Dingri (定日) County Party Committee and County Mayor, said: "We will continue to do a good job in the follow-up work of post-disaster reconstruction, accelerate the improvement of industrial facilities, focus on improving the appearance of villages, and continuously promote employment and income increase."
Always adhere to the Party's leadership and strengthen Party building.
In Kejia Village (科迦村), Pulan County (普兰县), Ngari Prefecture (阿里地区), the village work team has organized 58 centralized learning sessions for farmers and herdsmen Party members in the past year. "We must unite and lead cadres and the masses of all ethnic groups to unswervingly listen to the Party and follow the Party, and solidly promote key tasks such as border construction, characteristic industrial development, and improvement of people's livelihood," said Li Ping (李平), Vice Chairman of the Ngari Prefecture (阿里地区) Political Consultative Conference and Secretary of the Pulan County (普兰县) Party Committee.
Recently, a new batch of Shanghai aid-Tibet cadres are conducting in-depth visits and research, and reserving projects that meet policy guidance and capital investment direction. Shen Min (沈敏), leader of the 11th batch of Shanghai aid-Tibet cadres liaison group, Deputy Secretary of the Shigatse (日喀则) Municipal Party Committee, and Executive Deputy Mayor, said: "To thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, the aid-Tibet cadres will promote the various counterpart support work to a deeper level with practical work and achievements, and benefit the local people."
In Gala Village (嘎拉村), Bayi District (巴宜区), Nyingchi (林芝) City, peach blossoms bloom every spring, attracting tourists from all directions. The Party members and cadres of Gala Village (嘎拉村) took the lead in demolishing cowsheds and walls, leading the whole village to carry out human settlement environment improvement. "We will continue to strengthen the cohesion and combat effectiveness of the Party organization, make the 'Peach Blossom Village' brand brighter, and let the villagers live a happier and better life," said Baima Yang (白玛央), a member of the village work team.
Lhasa (拉萨) City has solidly carried out in-depth study and education on thoroughly implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation, with more than 21,000 centralized learning sessions, covering 3,949 grassroots Party organizations. "We must transform the new achievements in work style construction into a powerful driving force for governing Tibet, stabilizing Tibet, and revitalizing Tibet," said Mima Tsering (米玛次仁), Deputy Minister of the Organization Department of the Lhasa (拉萨) Municipal Party Committee and Deputy Director of the Municipal Study and Education Work Special Class.
Dang Wanjun (党万军), Deputy Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region Discipline Inspection Commission and Deputy Director of the Supervisory Commission, said: "Guided by the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, we must promote the integrated advancement of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt, adhere to the combination of strict management and love, and the combination of incentives and constraints, to provide a strong guarantee for building a united, prosperous, civilized, harmonious, and beautiful socialist modern new Tibet."
(Reporters Yuan Quan (袁泉), Qiongda Zhuoga (琼达卓嘎), Xian Gan (鲜敢), Xu Yuyao (徐驭尧) of this newspaper)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Kabul, August 20 (Reporters Nie Xinyu (聂新宇) and Li Ang (李昂)) On August 20, 2025, local time, the sixth China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Trilateral Foreign Ministers' Dialogue was held in Kabul, Afghanistan. Wang Yi (王毅), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Afghan Foreign Minister Muttaqi, and Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Dar attended.
Wang Yi (王毅) said that since the restart of the trilateral foreign ministers' dialogue mechanism in Tunxi (屯溪), Anhui (安徽) in 2022, we have continued to advance cooperation in the political, development, and security fields based on the principles of mutual respect, equal consultation, and mutual benefit, safeguarding regional peace and stability, and responding to various risks and challenges. The current world has entered a new period of turbulence and change. President Xi Jinping (习近平) has proposed the important concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, as well as the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, and the Global Civilization Initiative. These important international public goods provide important guidance for the three countries to jointly build a better home and jointly build a foundation for security.
Wang Yi (王毅) stated that China is willing to deepen good-neighborly friendship and mutual trust with Afghanistan and Pakistan, understand and support each other on issues involving each other's core interests, resolutely oppose any external forces interfering in the region, and resolutely oppose any organization or individual engaging in activities within their own countries that harm each other's national sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity. The three parties should further strengthen exchanges at all levels and continuously consolidate strategic mutual trust. China supports Afghanistan and Pakistan in improving bilateral relations, deepening the convergence of interests, adhering to proper handling of differences through dialogue and consultation, and promoting the steady and long-term development of China-Afghanistan-Pakistan trilateral cooperation.
Wang Yi (王毅) pointed out that China and Pakistan are at the forefront of the international community and regional neighbors in helping Afghanistan stabilize its situation, rebuild, and expand foreign exchanges. China will continue to uphold justice for Afghanistan on multilateral occasions, promote constructive contact and exchanges between the outside world and Afghanistan, and support Afghanistan in promoting the normalization of diplomatic relations.
Wang Yi (王毅) said that the three parties should expand development cooperation, expand trade and investment exchanges, strengthen the construction of interconnected networks, and enhance people-to-people connectivity. It is necessary to improve the security dialogue mechanism, deepen law enforcement and security cooperation, strengthen the fight against transnational terrorist activities, and eradicate the breeding ground for terrorism by addressing both the symptoms and root causes on the basis of consensus. It is necessary to adhere to the principle of indivisible security, attach importance to each other's legitimate security concerns, and embark on a path of cooperative security and common security.
Muttaqi and Dar highly praised the positive progress made in the trilateral foreign ministers' dialogue mechanism and appreciated China's contribution to promoting trilateral cooperation. Muttaqi welcomed the foreign ministers of China and Pakistan to attend this dialogue and thanked China and Pakistan for their firm support for Afghanistan on the international stage. The current international and regional situation has undergone major changes, and Afghanistan hopes to take this meeting as an opportunity to deepen friendly relations, strengthen coordination and cooperation, and promote greater development in trilateral cooperation.
Dar stated that Pakistan, China, and Afghanistan have close historical, cultural, and economic ties. The potential for trilateral cooperation is enormous. We should jointly promote partnership, strengthen cooperation in trade, the joint construction of the "Belt and Road," connectivity, counter-terrorism, and other fields, and achieve common development. As a neighbor of Afghanistan, Pakistan is willing to make greater contributions to achieving the Afghan peace process and improving the people's livelihood. Pakistan calls for the lifting of frozen Afghan overseas assets. Based on the principles of equality, mutual trust, and shared responsibility, we will jointly combat cross-border terrorist attacks and all forms of terrorist activities.
The three parties unanimously agreed to give full play to the role of the trilateral foreign ministers' dialogue mechanism, strengthen exchanges and cooperation in various fields, and promote regional peace, stability, development, and prosperity.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Islamabad, August 21st (Reporters Jiang Chao (蒋超) and Yang Kai (杨恺)) On August 21st, Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, co-chaired the sixth China-Pakistan Foreign Ministers' Strategic Dialogue with Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Dar (达尔) in Islamabad (伊斯兰堡).
Wang Yi (王毅) said that under the strategic guidance of the leaders of the two countries, the China-Pakistan all-weather strategic cooperative partnership is moving forward steadily, and its strategic significance is becoming more important. He congratulated Pakistan (巴基斯坦) on its successful assumption of the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council in July, upholding justice for developing countries and enhancing Pakistan's (巴基斯坦) international status and influence.
Wang Yi (王毅) stated that China (中方) is willing to work with Pakistan (巴方) to implement the important consensus reached by President Xi Jinping (习近平) and Pakistani leaders, prepare for high-level interactions in the second half of the year, and allow the construction of the China-Pakistan community of common destiny to continue to be at the forefront of the construction of a community of common destiny in the surrounding areas.
Wang Yi (王毅) pointed out that China (中方) supports Pakistan (巴方) in developing its economy and strengthening its national power, so as to fundamentally enhance its ability to cope with internal and external challenges. The two sides should work together to safeguard the multilateral trading system and oppose unilateral hegemonic acts.
Dar (达尔) said that the strategic dialogue between the foreign ministers of Pakistan (巴中) and China (中方) is timely and a concrete manifestation of the ironclad friendship between the two countries. Friendship with China (对华友好) is the cornerstone of Pakistan's (巴) foreign policy and a common understanding of the whole country. Pakistan (巴方) will continue to fully support China (中方) as the rotating presidency of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) and jointly promote the successful holding of the Tianjin (天津) summit.
Dar (达尔) said that Pakistan (巴方) looks forward to further deepening pragmatic cooperation between Pakistan (巴) and China (中) in various fields and continuously enriching the connotation of the all-weather strategic cooperative partnership between Pakistan (巴) and China (中). Pakistan (巴方) will firmly support the building of a Pakistan-China community of common destiny and support the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" and the three major global initiatives. Pakistan (巴方) will make every effort to combat all forms of terrorism and take all measures to ensure the safety of Chinese institutions and personnel in Pakistan (巴).
The two sides also exchanged in-depth views on international and regional issues of common concern.
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"China has consistently demonstrated the ability to adapt to change and invest in long-term development, maintaining its leading position in global manufacturing and infrastructure construction," said Liang Wanxin (梁婉心), Chief Financial Officer of Fortescue River Group (福德士河集团) (hereinafter referred to as "Fortescue River"), in a recent exclusive interview with this reporter.
In early August, Fortescue River announced the successful completion of a syndicated term loan financing totaling RMB 14.2 billion. "This is a major breakthrough for Australian companies in achieving RMB syndicated loans for the first time, which not only demonstrates the long-term and profound cooperative relationship between Fortescue River and its Chinese partners, but also reflects foreign companies' recognition of the resilience of the Chinese economy," said Liang Wanxin (梁婉心). "This also shows that under the new development pattern of mutual promotion of domestic and international dual circulation in China, foreign companies continue to increase investment in China and share the opportunities for high-quality economic development in China."
In 2019, Fortescue River established a wholly-owned subsidiary in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone (上海自贸区). The company directly supplies iron ore to Chinese steel companies through RMB cross-border settlement, realizing the localization of services. Liang Wanxin (梁婉心) said that Fortescue River's port sales in the Chinese market are priced in RMB, effectively reducing the impact of exchange rate fluctuations on profits. This measure has enriched the company's financing channels and capital sources.
Since entering the Chinese market in 2007, Fortescue River has maintained close cooperative relationships with Chinese partners. In May 2007, Fortescue River established a representative office in Shanghai (上海); in May 2008, Fortescue River's first bulk carrier carrying 180,000 tons of iron ore sailed from Port Hedland (黑德兰港) in Western Australia to Shanghai Baosteel Majishan Port (上海宝钢马迹山港), officially starting iron ore trade with China. As of May 2024, Fortescue River has cumulatively exported more than 2 billion tons of iron ore to China, becoming one of China's major iron ore suppliers.
The Chinese market accounts for 90% of Fortescue River's global iron ore annual shipments, occupying an important position in Fortescue River's global layout. Liang Wanxin (梁婉心) said that Fortescue River regards China as its largest customer and a key partner in innovation, supply chain development, and decarbonization. Since 2023, Fortescue River has signed Memorandums of Understanding with companies such as China Baowu (中国宝武), COSCO Shipping Group (中远海运集团), CITIC Pacific Special Steel Group (中信泰富特钢集团), and Hunan Iron and Steel Group (湖南钢铁集团), conducting in-depth discussions on reducing carbon emissions in the ironmaking process, decarbonizing the shipping industry, and green ferrous projects. Through strategic cooperation with leading Chinese new energy equipment manufacturers, Fortescue River is integrating cutting-edge technologies into wind energy, solar energy, energy storage, railways, and mining equipment projects. These collaborations not only create economies of scale for decarbonization actions but also enhance economic value, operational efficiency, and innovation capabilities, significantly reducing the carbon footprint of mining operations.
Liang Wanxin (梁婉心) believes that the Chinese economy continues to demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and a firm commitment to promoting structural transformation. The high-quality development of the Chinese economy has brought significant opportunities, especially in areas such as clean energy, green ferrous, and supply chain innovation, which are the focus of Fortescue River's investment. "Cooperation with Chinese institutions is a key pillar for the company to achieve its long-term growth strategy and lead the green industry transformation," said Liang Wanxin (梁婉心). "China's capabilities in technology, engineering, and clean energy applications are among the world's best. Fortescue River is actively exploring cooperation in areas such as supply chain decarbonization and green ferrous production, and looks forward to further enhancing the level of cooperation."
(Yang Wanshi (杨宛诗) also contributed to this article)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 21st, reported that Zhang Qingwei (张庆伟), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, held talks in Beijing on the 21st with Tran Quang Phuong (陈光方), Vice Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam and Chairman of the Vietnam-China Friendship Parliamentary Group. Both sides expressed their commitment to implementing the important consensus reached by the top leaders of the two parties and two countries, deepening exchanges and cooperation between legislative bodies, and promoting the building of a China-Vietnam community with a shared future that is of strategic significance.
Return to TopBeijing, August 21st (Reporter Cui Qi (崔琦)) Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning (毛宁) stated on the 21st that China's foreign trade operations continue to improve, demonstrating the strong resilience of the Chinese economy and the strong demand of the global market for Chinese products.
At the regular press conference that day, a reporter asked: We have noticed that China recently released its economic data for July, among which the foreign trade data is particularly impressive, with the total value of imports and exports of goods reaching a new high this year. Some commentators believe that the continued growth of China's foreign trade highlights the widespread recognition of Chinese goods globally, which will continue to be an important driver of China's economy. However, some analysts say that external risks such as tariff wars are impacting global trade, putting continued pressure on China's export market. What is the spokesperson's comment on this?
Mao Ning (毛宁) said that in the face of a complex and volatile external environment, China's foreign trade operations continue to improve, demonstrating the strong resilience of the Chinese economy and the strong demand of the global market for Chinese products. This is the result of the combined effects of expanding high-level opening up, promoting high-quality development, and promoting industrial optimization and upgrading.
"Facts have proved that carrying out international trade based on comparative advantages, achieving common development, and all parties benefit from it. China's high-quality products enjoy a worldwide reputation, and diversified and stable markets are widely favored. This is something that tariff wars and trade wars cannot change," Mao Ning (毛宁) said.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on August 21st (Reporter Ren Yan (任彦)) The "Blue Book on International Situation and China's Diplomacy (2024/2025)" was released in Beijing (北京) on the 21st. The book systematically elaborates on the theoretical and practical innovations of Xi Jinping's (习近平) diplomatic thought in 2024, deeply analyzes the new trends in the evolution of the international situation in 2024, and comprehensively expounds on the new achievements and new progress made in China's (中国) diplomacy and Sino-foreign relations in 2024.
The Blue Book believes that in 2024, China's (中国) diplomacy held high the banner of building a community with a shared future for mankind, adhered to the principles of self-confidence and self-reliance, openness and inclusiveness, fairness and justice, and cooperation and mutual benefit, promoted the implementation of the three major global initiatives, promoted the construction of a new type of international relations, promoted the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road," and led the equal and orderly multipolarization of the world and the inclusive economic globalization, making new Chinese (中国) contributions to the cause of world peace and development.
Return to TopPeople's Daily, Pyongyang, August 21st (Reporter Liu Rong (刘融)) The Chinese Embassy in North Korea held a reception on the 20th to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. Chinese Ambassador to North Korea Wang Yajun (王亚军) and diplomats from the embassy, Choe Ryong-hae (崔龙海), member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, along with heads of various departments of the North Korean party, government, and military, as well as representatives from all walks of life, diplomatic envoys to North Korea, representatives of overseas Chinese and students in North Korea, and more than 140 people attended.
Wang Yajun (王亚军) said in his speech that the great victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was a victory for the Chinese people and also a victory for peace-loving and justice-minded people all over the world. We commemorate the great victory in order to defend the correct view of the history of World War II, to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and to open up a bright future for the cause of peace and justice for mankind.
Wang Yajun (王亚军) emphasized that the Chinese and North Korean military and civilians stood together with 同仇敌忾 (tóng chóu dí kài - "common hatred enemy sigh," united in hatred against the enemy) and severely attacked the Japanese aggressors. Today, we commemorate the common great victory in order to inherit and carry forward this precious fighting friendship. The Chinese side is willing to work with the North Korean side to resolutely implement the important consensus reached by the top leaders of the two parties and countries, develop the traditional friendly and cooperative relations between China and North Korea, promote the steady and long-term development of the socialist cause of the two countries, benefit the two peoples, and promote regional and world peace and stability.
North Korean Minister of Culture Sung Jong-gyu (承正奎) reviewed the history of the victory of the anti-Japanese war between North Korea and China in his speech, saying that August 15 (North Korea's "Fatherland Liberation Day") and September 3 (China's Victory Day of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression) are historically significant anniversaries of progress defeating reaction and light dispelling darkness, and are common festivals for progressive people all over the world who love justice and peace.
Sung Jong-gyu (承正奎) said that inheriting and deepening the development of the North Korea-China friendship is the unwavering position of the North Korean side. The North Korean side is willing to work with the Chinese side to abide by the noble will of the top leaders of the two parties and countries, inherit and carry forward the fighting friendship and friendly unity tradition forged in blood between the two countries, and continuously deepen and develop the traditional friendly and cooperative relations between North Korea and China.
Return to TopThis report comes from Khon Kaen, Thailand, August 21st (Reporter Sun Guangyong (孙广勇)) To fully leverage the potential of the China-Laos-Thailand Railway in promoting logistics and tourism, the China-Laos-Thailand Railway Logistics and Tourism Promotion Conference was held on the 19th in Khon Kaen (孔敬), a city in northeastern Thailand.
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Time moves straight forward, but history does not flow at a constant speed.
Tibet's gross domestic product (GDP) increased from 327 million yuan in 1965 to 276.5 billion yuan in 2024. In the 60-year development process, it took 50 years for the region's GDP to reach the first 100 billion yuan, and only 6 years to reach the second 100 billion yuan... A comparison of these figures reveals the human miracle of "leaping over thousands of years in just a few decades."
"The Tibetan Plateau has undergone earth-shaking changes, and together with the rest of the country, has achieved the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects on schedule and embarked on a new journey of building a modern socialist country in all respects." Recently, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), leading a central delegation, attended the 60th anniversary celebration of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区), and highly affirmed the achievements of the Tibet Autonomous Region in economic and social development.
Only by ascending to a high place can one have a broad vision. Standing on the roof of the world, looking back at the past and comparing it with the present, one can better understand the source of power behind the transformation of the "Third Pole of the World," and better understand the wisdom of the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era.
The great changes originated from the realistic logic of "the Communist Party has come and bitterness has turned to sweetness." The changes in roads reflect the turning point in destiny and the rise of hope.
How difficult was it to travel the roads in Tibet in the past? "A Complete Record of Tibet" records: "The rocks are scattered and crisscrossed, the roads for people and horses are cut off, and the dangers are indescribable." Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, it took a year to travel back and forth from Ya'an (雅安) in Sichuan (四川) or Xining (西宁) in Qinghai (青海) to Lhasa (拉萨).
The opening of the Medog Highway (墨脱公路) removed the label of "the only county in the country without highway access." The formation of a three-dimensional transportation network means that the roof of the world is no longer an isolated island. By the end of 2024, the total mileage of highways open to traffic in Tibet and the operating mileage of railways reached 124,900 kilometers and 1,359 kilometers respectively, and the number of international and domestic air routes reached 183.
"Without the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), there would be no new socialist Tibet." "Transportation Sky Road (交通天路)," "Electricity Sky Road (电力天路)," "Digital Sky Road (数字天路)"... One "Plateau Sky Road" after another crisscrosses, breaking down spatial barriers, eliminating development disparities, and benefiting every household on the snowy plateau with days sweeter than honey.
"The place where peach blossoms bloom" has embarked on a road to ecological prosperity, "Sanren Township (三人乡)" has become a well-known "moderately prosperous township," and the hydropower project in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River (雅鲁藏布江) has broken ground... Adhering to the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era, the steps of our Party leading Tibet forward are being transformed into tangible happiness for the people of the plateau.
The great changes originated from the deep friendship of "forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation." The prosperity of industry reflects the superiority of the system and the power of unity.
The fish from the coast of Nanhai (南海) in Guangdong (广东) are raised in the lakes on the roof of the world; the deer from the Northeast have settled in the mountains and forests of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (青藏高原); the grapes from Yunnan (云南) have been successfully cultivated at an altitude of more than 3,600 meters... These seemingly "unrestrained" development stories are the fruitful results of counterpart assistance to Tibet and the epic of struggle through the unity of all ethnic groups.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The central government's support for Tibet and the whole country's assistance to Tibet is a consistent policy of the Party Central Committee, which must be adhered to for a long time. We must carefully summarize experience and create a new situation in aid-Tibet work."
"One family" is not separated by mountains and seas. Since the launch of the "group-style" aid-Tibet program, more than 2,100 educational talents have supported 21 primary and secondary schools in Tibet, promoting the expansion and improvement of basic education; nearly 2,000 medical talents have brought more than 4,400 new technologies, filling more than 2,500 medical technology gaps in the local area; Pumatang Township (普玛江塘乡), where the oxygen content of the air is less than 40% of that at sea level, has full coverage of oxygen and heating, and the people do not have to spend a penny... Wherever there is a need, that is the battlefield of struggle and the forefront of dedication.
"Community" sees true feelings in times of crisis. In January of this year, a 6.8-magnitude earthquake occurred in Tingri County (定日县), Shigatse City (日喀则市), Tibet. Rescue forces from all sides gathered and rushed to the scene as soon as possible. On the first winter night after the earthquake, the children who had a hot meal blurted out: "Jinzhumami Yagudu (金珠玛米亚古都) (The People's Liberation Army is good)." What is blood thicker than water, and what is unity of purpose? This is a concrete presentation.
Why are Gesang flowers so gorgeous? The emotional nourishment of mountain and sea relay. Some people choose to take root in Tibet after teaching, because "I am teaching, but the plateau is teaching me more"; some people have changed from volunteers to "old Tibetans" because of the trust of the masses, and have worked in plateau hospitals for more than 20 years... Like pomegranate seeds tightly embracing each other, jointly drawing the concentric circle of the snowy plateau, the superiority of the socialist system is reflected here, and "no ethnic group can be left behind in building a modern socialist country in all respects" is engraved here.
The great changes erupted from the firm perseverance of "lacking oxygen but not lacking spirit, not being afraid of hardship, and having a higher realm at a higher altitude." The torch of the spirit illuminates the integration of nationalities and the inheritance of careers.
Extremely remote, extremely cold, extremely bitter... In the restricted area of life, one can always see "blooming life" and "burning youth." Countless people are striving to be guardians of the sacred land and builders of happy homes. Everyone is a coordinate of the motherland.
Chulu Songjie (楚鲁松杰) is the most remote township on the southwestern border of the motherland. From November to May of the following year, heavy snow closes the mountains, making it a veritable "snowy isolated island." Why not leave? Township head Zhalo (扎罗) said: "We can't leave. The place where we stand is China."
The Gangba Border Defense Battalion (岗巴边防营) is the highest-altitude established battalion in the entire army. There are more than 200 days a year with gales of level 8 or higher. Every day, all outposts hold a national flag-raising ceremony. The soldiers say: "The national flag is flying here, which means that someone is guarding here."
There is no mountain higher than people, and no road longer than feet. From the "Old Tibet Spirit" of "being especially able to endure hardship, especially able to fight, especially able to tolerate, especially able to unite, and especially able to dedicate," to the "Two Roads Spirit" of "not being afraid of hardship, not being afraid of death, fighting tenaciously, being willing to be a paving stone, and uniting the army and the people and all ethnic groups," to the aid-Tibet spirit of "revolutionary ideals are higher than the sky" created by generations of aid-Tibet cadres and talents who have stepped forward one after another... The vicissitudes of the snowy plateau have been achieved through the united efforts of the sons and daughters of China. Is not the summit of the world admired by the world also a spiritual highland worthy of admiration?
Standing at a new historical starting point, adhering to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as guidance, fully implementing the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era, firmly grasping the main line of forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, and thoroughly grasping the four major tasks of stability, development, ecology, and strengthening the border, Tibet's tomorrow will surely be a united, prosperous, civilized, harmonious, and beautiful socialist modern new Tibet.
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Striving to achieve a win-win situation for businesses and tourists, wealth creation and recreation, is not only a topic of consumption and tourism, but also a development issue that demonstrates a people-centered value orientation.
Many years ago, I went to a certain ancient village in southern Anhui (皖南) for sightseeing. Because the layout of the houses resembled the Bagua (八卦) and it was easy to get lost, I hired a local as a guide and also tasted farm-style dishes at her home. The whole trip, including the tour and meal, cost less than 100 yuan. Both the host and guests were happy.
During peak tourist seasons, one often sees individual lose-lose situations caused by disputes over interests. From the "magic weighing" at seafood stalls to the "yin-yang menus" of catering businesses, from the "sky-high priced rooms" in scenic spot homestays to the hidden costs of chartered cars and boats, some merchants' methods of ripping off customers are difficult for tourists to guard against.
Severely punishing illegal and irregular activities such as fraud, selling inferior goods as quality ones, and **哄抬价格** (hōng tái jià gé - "drive up prices," to artificially inflate prices), maintaining order in the tourism market, and allowing consumers to consume without worries is the responsibility that a "proactive government" must shoulder. In addition to supervision and law enforcement at the end of consumption, resolving the dilemma of disputes between businesses and tourists, allowing businesses and tourists to be at peace with each other, and promoting both tourism and prosperity, it is also necessary to start from leveraging the role of market mechanisms, improving channels for sharing benefits, and strengthening high-quality supply to create an honest and standardized tourism market.
The tourism industry is an important pillar for stabilizing employment and promoting income growth. Turning the "scenery at the doorstep" into "income in the pocket" and transforming green mountains and clear waters into gold and silver mountains is the desire of many rural residents. Guiding and promoting small and micro business entities such as farmhouses and small shops with homogeneous operations and extensive development to transform towards standardized management, quality operation, and differentiated development is the key to breaking the situation. For example, promoting the linkage of scenic spots and villages, and the joint construction of villages and enterprises, to replace fighting alone with unified management. Another example is strengthening brand awareness and integrity awareness, and guiding businesses to operate legally and jointly maintain reputation and word-of-mouth.
Businesses and tourists represent supply and demand, respectively. If businesses dispel the idea of "ripping off customers" and provide more differentiated products and value-added services, tourism consumption will release its potential, and businesses' income will improve. To optimize the supply side, the government should also strengthen planning and guidance, help enterprises play a major role, innovate cultural tourism consumption formats and scenarios, create competitive cultural and creative products, and form new growth points for service consumption. When the market is well cultivated, it can not only absorb more labor employment and expand beneficiary groups, but also create effective demand with high-quality supply, and promote the realization of a higher level of dynamic balance between supply and demand.
Currently, we are focusing on boosting consumption and expanding domestic demand, and we are more advocating rational consumption and quality consumption. Tourists and businesses are not a zero-sum game. When tourists and businesses move towards each other and respect each other, rights and benefits can be balanced.
At the same time, it should be seen that the tourism and related industries will inevitably have premiums on products and services due to factors such as shop rents, difficulty in supply, and peak season adjustments. As long as this premium is within a reasonable range, it should not be labeled as "inflated prices" or even "ripping off customers." Tourists also need to look at the difficulties of operators with empathy and understand the needs of operators. For example, if you see that melons and fruits are unsalable during an outing, buy some more back. Another example is that if you encounter a windy day during a seaside tour, it is not easy to go out to sea to fish, and the price of seafood on that day will inevitably rise. Tourism consumption can also release warmth and transmit positive energy. More understanding and tolerance between tourists and businesses, mutual understanding and mutual support, are conducive to creating harmonious consumer relations.
Striving to achieve a win-win situation for businesses and tourists, wealth creation and recreation, is not only a topic of consumption and tourism, but also a development issue that demonstrates a people-centered value orientation. Only by making the goals of increasing income for the masses, making profits for enterprises, and making tourists comfortable compatible with each other can the value orientation of creating happiness for the people be put into practice.
Return to TopBy: 白剑峰
Not long ago, Dr. Shao (邵医生) of the Sixth People's Hospital of Zhoukou City (周口市) in Henan Province (河南省) unfortunately died after allegedly experiencing cyberbullying due to a medical dispute. This tragedy is regrettable and thought-provoking. In the era of self-media, how to build a harmonious doctor-patient relationship and create a good practice environment for doctors has become a challenging question.
For a period of time, violent attacks on doctors occurred frequently in China, and "medical disturbances" were repeatedly prohibited but not stopped, leading to tense doctor-patient relations. In order to reverse this situation, China has introduced a series of laws and regulations, such as the Basic Medical and Health Care and Health Promotion Law and the Physician Law, and has taken joint actions by multiple departments to punish medical-related illegal and criminal activities and strengthen the security inspection system of medical institutions, so that the handling of doctor-patient disputes has gradually returned to the right track.
In medical activities, medical disputes are inevitable. Regarding medical disputes, China has clear legal procedures and appraisal channels to divide responsibilities and resolve disputes. In addition to voluntary negotiation, there are also various methods such as people's mediation, administrative mediation, and judicial litigation. Many places have third parties with credibility involved in the handling, providing a better framework for resolving doctor-patient disputes.
Due to the complexity and professionalism of medicine, there will inevitably be some differences and contradictions between doctors and patients. Even if the handling methods and results of medical disputes are not satisfactory, both parties should not resort to illegal means or violence. That will not only not help resolve disputes, but also expand harm and increase hostility, and some excessive behaviors may even impact the bottom line of social fairness and justice.
Currently, with the rapid development of self-media, cyber violence has become an important factor affecting doctor-patient relationships. This "soft violence" breaks through the limitations of time and space, is lower in cost, has smaller consequences, and is highly concealed, and its harm should not be underestimated.
In reality, it is not uncommon for medical personnel to suffer from cyber violence. Relevant departments should increase their attention, refine response measures, achieve a shift in the governance threshold, and try to resolve risks in the bud. For example, public security, cyberspace administration and other departments should jointly work with Internet platforms to use big data and other technical means to detect signs of cyber violence early and intervene quickly; health departments and medical institutions should prepare plans in advance to provide victims with legal support, emotional support, and psychological intervention. Only by forming a strong deterrent against "soft violence" and making cyber bullies pay the price they deserve can we create more space and provide better solutions for resolving doctor-patient disputes.
Medical care is a product of trust. To safeguard this trust, efforts must also be made in ordinary times. For example, turning informed consent forms into visual process displays can reduce patient misunderstandings; implementing a full electronic medical record retention system can avoid suspicion, etc. Fundamentally speaking, there is only one common enemy between doctors and patients, and that is disease. Medical institutions should continuously optimize systems, reduce the randomness and ambiguity of medical behaviors, strengthen humanistic care, improve service quality, and allow patients to more fully feel the warmth of medicine.
Empathy is a bridge to building understanding. Some places hold "doctor-patient role exchange" experience activities to allow doctors to experience the shortcomings of services from the patient's perspective, and patients to feel the difficulty of treatment from the doctor's perspective; some hospitals have developed VR experience systems to allow patients to experience the medical dispute handling process in an immersive way. These are all the correct ways to open up healthy doctor-patient relationships. By sowing the seeds of trust in daily interactions and enhancing understanding and recognition through positive interactions, and becoming "comrades" in the same trench in the face of disease, then even if disputes occur, doctors and patients will not become irreconcilable "enemies."
Life is priceless. As guardians of life, doctors deserve respect. This is an important symbol of social civilization. It is hoped that the whole society will care for and cherish medical workers more, jointly create a good atmosphere of respecting doctors and valuing health, so that they can work with peace of mind, reassurance, and comfort, so as to better meet the health needs of the majority of patients and continuously improve the health and well-being of the people.
Return to TopBy: 陈宏江
Shaanxi Lantian (陕西蓝田) mobilized 86 couriers and food delivery riders to serve as "mobile grid members"; Yudu (于都), Jiangxi (江西), guided 336 couriers and ride-hailing drivers to serve as urban governance observers; the first batch of 20 provincial-level social work observers publicly recruited in Guangdong (广东) took office... Recently, many places have absorbed people from different fields to join the urban observer team. With diverse identities, they shuttle through streets and alleys in their daily work and life, promptly discovering uncivilized behaviors, facility damage, environmental problems, and other issues in the city that are easily overlooked, becoming the "vanguard" of urban governance.
A people's city is built by the people and for the people. Establishing urban observers is a vivid practice of this concept. Citizens are the main body of urban construction and urban development. As representatives of the citizens, urban observers actively participate in urban "physical examinations" and offer suggestions, making governance more in line with the needs of the masses. For example, in the urban "physical examination" in Dongying (东营), Shandong (山东), by summarizing government hotline, public opinion data, and questionnaire survey content, the blockages of public concern were cleared, providing direction for refined governance.
Urban observers can not only keenly discover problems but also help solve them. After 30 property representatives in Fengqiao (枫桥) Street, Suzhou (苏州), Jiangsu (江苏) became the first batch of urban observers, they carried out joint inspections and joint governance with administrative law enforcement departments, reducing the processing time for high-frequency problems such as encroachment on roads and illegal parking, forming a "15-minute rapid response circle." They also devoted themselves to legal publicity and volunteer services, enhancing citizens' awareness of civilization and enthusiasm for participating in governance, and building a governance pattern of "government-led, social collaboration, and universal co-construction."
To enable urban observers to play a better role, it is also necessary to improve relevant systems and mechanisms. On the one hand, provide necessary training and tool support to enable urban observers to clarify the channels and paths for discovering and reporting problems; on the other hand, establish a rapid response and processing mechanism to provide timely feedback and efficient processing of reported problems, forming a "patrol collection - intelligent feedback - community co-governance" full-chain closed-loop system to improve governance effectiveness. At the same time, incentives such as point systems can be used to stimulate enthusiasm and enhance the sense of participation and gain.
As a new force in urban governance, urban observers are practicing the concept of "a people's city is built by the people and for the people" with practical actions. It is believed that with the joint efforts of all parties, they will play a greater role, making cities more livable and beautiful, and making life better and more convenient.
(Excerpted and compiled from *Shaanxi Daily (陕西日报)*, originally titled "Let Urban Observers Become the 'Vanguard' of Social Governance")
Return to TopThis year marks the 20th anniversary of the concept that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets." Announcing carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals; photovoltaic and wind power installed capacity ranking first in the world; carrying out green energy project cooperation with more than 100 countries and regions... Over the past 20 years, China's ecological environment governance level has significantly improved, and a good ecological environment has become a strong support for the sustained and healthy development of the economy and society, creating a green development miracle that has attracted worldwide attention.
This is precisely:
Twenty years of spring breeze deeply moisturizing things,
Green mountains are dotted with emerald green,焕然新 (huàn rán xīn).
A river of clear water contains stars,
Leaving lush greenery to future generations.
Xu Zhiwen (徐之文)
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I am a college counselor who loves to "tinker." In my spare time, I lead students in playing "script murder" games and hosting live broadcasts. What seems like play is actually learning, igniting the red spark in the hearts of young students through edutainment.
Why play "script murder"? Some students frankly say that Party history is profound and moving, but they always feel it's difficult to empathize and that there's "a layer of纱 (shā - gauze/veil)" between them and it. This sparked my thinking. "Script murder" is a popular form of entertainment among young people with strong content inclusiveness. Why not use this method to enrich the form of ideological and political courses and let students "step into" Party history? Students transform into "anti-Japanese war county magistrates," understanding the great righteousness of the country in life-and-death plot choices; holding script creation competitions, participants learn and comprehend Party history, innovatively interpreting red stories; bringing original scripts into middle schools, communities, and enterprises, sharing fervent beliefs with everyone... In the "trilogy" of entertainment, creation, and promotion, young students transform from bystanders and recipients of education into educators and disseminators. Seeing students burning the midnight oil to research the history of the Anti-Japanese War to write scripts, I feel the charm and significance of innovative educational forms. Strengthening the connection between students and history, allowing them to have insights in practice, helps awaken red genes and light up the lamp of faith.
What to sell in the live broadcast room? "Teacher, we've sold 300 orders of kiwi fruit!" Late at night, the dormitory building is brightly lit, and orders are constantly coming in from the college student e-commerce agricultural assistance live broadcast room. Using live broadcasts to help the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, turning "蜻蜓点水 (qīng tíng diǎn shuǐ - "dragonfly skimming the water," touching on something superficially)" social practice into a "真刀真枪 (zhēn dāo zhēn qiāng - "real swords and real spears," real action)" effort to help the villagers sell goods and increase income, an ideological and political classroom full of "烟火气 (yān huǒ qì - "the smell of gunpowder/fireworks," the atmosphere of daily life)" and "泥土气 (ní tǔ qì - "the smell of earth," down-to-earth quality)," allows students to deepen their understanding of national economy and people's livelihood through personal experience. We have built a new media communication matrix, using small screens to open up a broad market for agricultural products. "Selling goods" brings a sense of accomplishment, and a sense of accomplishment promotes practical work. Such positive interaction stimulates the enthusiasm of students. From offline sales where few people were interested, to a cumulative viewership of over 300,000 in the live broadcast room and over 800 intended orders, the wisdom and strength of young people are injected into the rural fields, giving rise to the fruitful results of the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside. What a vivid "双向奔赴 (shuāng xiàng bēn fù - "two-way rush," a mutual commitment)"!
How should a college counselor guide students? I have found the answer in two cards. One is a photo of a student making a passionate speech while playing "script murder," with the light of faith shining in his eyes; the other is a postcard sent to the alma mater by a graduate participating in the Western China Volunteer Program, who wrote, "You taught me that struggle is the most beautiful footnote to youth." Ideological and political courses are key courses for implementing the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, playing an irreplaceable role. College counselors devote themselves to innovating teaching forms, enhancing the affinity and appeal of ideological and political courses, which can deepen young people's recognition and understanding, and awaken their conscious action to actively devote themselves to the cause of the Party and the people. Being a good guide is our "大作为 (dà zuò wéi - "great achievement," significant contribution)."
New era ideological and political education with leadership is by no means rigid preaching, but should inspire resonance. When red history "comes alive" in campus communities, and when practical classrooms "catch fire" in the fields, young people will have a deeper understanding of the "国之大者 (guó zhī dà zhě - "the most important things for the country," the nation's greatest priorities)" in the unity of knowledge and action. I will continue to integrate the "大资源 (dà zī yuán - "great resources," abundant resources)" of ideological and political teaching, be a good guide for youth, add vitality to the innovative development of ideological and political courses, and contribute to cultivating more new talents of the times who can shoulder the great task of national rejuvenation.
(The author is a counselor at the School of Economics and Management, Shandong University of Science and Technology (山东科技大学))
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李心萍
As the last glimmer of polar day sunlight quietly fades from the Ross Sea ice shelf, winter officially arrives in Antarctica. On the ice sheet, the Qinling Station (秦岭站), having completed the construction tasks of the microgrid system, hydrogen energy system, communication system, etc., stands firmly like a gray ark.
The construction and maintenance of each scientific research station cannot be separated from the efforts of the builders. Since first participating in the construction of Antarctic research stations in the early 1990s, polar construction teams from central enterprises such as China Railway (中国中铁) and China Academy of Building Research (中国建科) have traveled to Antarctica more than 20 times, helping China's Antarctic scientific research undertakings to continuously develop.
What kind of team is this? What kind of builders are these? Recently, reporters interviewed these "master craftsmen of a great power" who have fought in Antarctica.
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Less than 60 days of rapid construction
Prefabricated and modular construction, all steel structure construction is completed by tightening screws.
In China's 41st Antarctic expedition, there were more than 100 builders from central enterprises such as China Railway (中国中铁) and China Academy of Building Research (中国建科). "Most people participated in the 40th Antarctic expedition. This time, they are mainly responsible for the interior decoration, mechanical and electrical installation, and supporting infrastructure construction of the Qinling Station (秦岭站), such as communication, sewage, seawater desalination, and microgrids. Some people have more than 10 Antarctic construction experiences," said Luo Huangxun (罗煌勋), the team leader.
Currently, 32 construction personnel are performing overwintering tasks at the Qinling Station (秦岭站), simultaneously carrying out interior decoration and mechanical and electrical installation operations. The various processes on site are closely connected and progressing in an orderly manner, fully ensuring the station's operation and maintenance.
The Qinling Station (秦岭站) is China's fifth Antarctic research station, filling the gap in China's exploration of the Ross Sea area in Antarctica. The Enkesburg Island (恩克斯堡岛), where the Qinling Station (秦岭站) is located, has an average temperature of minus 20 degrees Celsius, and extreme low temperatures can reach minus 45 degrees Celsius, with more than 100 days of strong winds every year.
With such extreme and harsh climate, how is construction progressing?
In order to reduce the difficulty of construction, the Qinling Station (秦岭站) innovatively adopted a prefabricated and modular construction system from the beginning of its design—steel structural components and functional modules are made in China, and after being transported, moved, assembled, and installed on site like building blocks, they can be "moved in with luggage."
Since Antarctica does not have welding conditions, all steel structure construction of the Qinling Station (秦岭站) must be completed by tightening screws.
"In Antarctica, tightening screws is not easy." Xie Shuaishuai (谢帅帅), a post-00s assembler, introduced that in order to protect hands from frostbite, it is definitely necessary to work with gloves on. However, wearing gloves makes hands sweat easily, and when encountering cold wind, the gloves freeze and stick to the tools. "You need to constantly warm your gloves and wear them to complete the work." Xie Shuaishuai (谢帅帅) said that by repeating this process again and again, a total of 11,000 screws were tightened.
In less than 30 days, the main building steel structure of the Qinling Station (秦岭站) was capped. After that, the builders began to "fill meat" into the steel structure skeleton—installing functional modules. In less than 60 days, the main construction task of the Qinling Station (秦岭站) was completed.
"The Qinling Station (秦岭站) has created the five 'mosts' in the construction of Antarctic research stations—the largest number of people building the station, the largest amount of materials unloaded and transported, the largest single building scale, the most difficult construction conditions, and the shortest construction time," Luo Huangxun (罗煌勋) said. "What we rely on is the experience passed down by generations of Antarctic builders."
In 2002, China Railway Construction Engineering Group (中铁建工) participated in the renovation and construction of the research station for the first time. The team had only 3 people, relying on extremely limited tools to undertake the demolition and renovation of the old facilities of the Antarctic Great Wall Station (南极长城站) and Zhongshan Station (中山站). In 2007, Luo Huangxun (罗煌勋) joined the polar construction team and has been working for 18 years, completing 13 Antarctic construction tasks, with the longest continuous stay in Antarctica for 17 months. Through repeated tempering, he and his team have successively completed the expansion of Zhongshan Station (中山站), the main project construction of Qinling Station (秦岭站), and other construction tasks.
7,570 nautical miles of difficult voyage
Do a good job of protecting building modules and design drawings layer by layer.
The 40th Antarctic expedition completed the main construction of the Qinling Station (秦岭站); the 41st Antarctic expedition required the construction team to complete infrastructure support such as "water, electricity, and road access." From structure to support, is the task difficulty reduced?
Luo Huangxun (罗煌勋) said that polar construction is very difficult and full of challenges.
On November 1, 2024, the 41st Chinese Antarctic expedition team embarked on a long journey.
Deep in the cargo hold of the "Yongsheng" (永盛) ship, building modules weighing thousands of tons were tightly fixed by steel cables and protected by three-dimensional shock absorption frames; in the cabin of the "Xuelong 2" (雪龙2) ship, hundreds of design drawings were sealed and stored in boxes. "The most important task is to protect the safety of these building modules and drawings," said Zheng Di (郑迪), Antarctic project manager of China Railway Construction Engineering Group (中铁建工集团).
The real test lies in the Southern Ocean Westerly Belt between 40 and 60 degrees south latitude. This is the only way to Antarctica, with gales blowing all year round, and the maximum wind force can reach level 12.
After entering the Westerly Belt, cyclones came one after another. Although the icebreaker had a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, it still tilted left and right in the wind and waves, and the surge hit the hull, making "creaking" sounds.
Zheng Di (郑迪) is most concerned about the design drawings. Although the drawings had already been tightly sealed and protected, Zheng Di (郑迪) still inspected them daily, checking for omissions and filling in waterproof seals in a timely manner. "Each drawing must be covered with a waterproof seal and wrapped with high-grade sealant," Zheng Di (郑迪) said.
On November 30, 2024, overcoming the scorching sun of the equator and the strong winds and huge waves of the Westerly Belt, after a difficult voyage of 7,570 nautical miles in 29 days, the expedition team successfully arrived at the Antarctic Zhongshan Station (南极中山站). Mechanical engineer Wan Shang (万尚) wrote in his log: "When the cracking sound of the Antarctic ice sheet came, we seemed to feel the pulse of the earth."
After arriving in Antarctica, the first task for the builders was to unload the goods.
Considering the remaining fuel of the helicopter, they optimized the unloading plan; the 4 cranes on the command ship closely cooperated to break down large cargo into smaller parts and transport them in batches; all members stood in a row to form a human transmission belt, moving the materials in the large containers out one by one... In less than 5 days, the construction team completed nearly 6,000 tons of material handling.
"Once, when I unscrewed the thermos cup and poured in the steaming ginger tea, it had already frozen into a lump of ice," said technician Wang Zhong (王忠).
Integration of advanced technology and construction links
Large-scale application of digital simulation systems, innovative use of new technologies and new materials
With the material handling completed, the construction work officially began.
"This time, we brought the most advanced construction technology to Antarctica, deeply integrating it with key construction links such as design, manufacturing, transportation, and construction," Luo Huangxun (罗煌勋) said.
Among them, there is the large-scale application of digital simulation systems.
"Antarctica is too far away, and the material transportation capacity is limited. Once there is an unexpected situation, the construction plan may be disrupted," Zheng Di (郑迪) introduced. The team brought building model information to the Antarctic continent, deepened and refined the construction drawing design through the digital system, and simulated and optimized the construction organization plan.
Taking the mechanical and electrical installation system as an example, its total pipeline length exceeds 100,000 meters. Through digital simulation technology, the complex mechanical and electrical system is broken down into multiple functional units, reducing the construction difficulty and increasing work efficiency by 72%.
Among them, there is the innovative use of new technologies and new materials.
For example, the sewage treatment system is innovatively equipped with a new type of pipeline shredder and oil-free screw fan, which not only improves the sewage treatment capacity but also reduces noise pollution. When the seven-stage reverse osmosis system slowly filtered out the first clear stream of water, the engineer Xiao Liu's (小刘) monitoring instrument suddenly sounded an urgent sound—the effluent purity far exceeded the design standards.
At present, the energy system of the Qinling Station (秦岭站) has completed the installation of core hardware such as wind power generation, photovoltaic power generation, energy storage batteries, hydrogen production, hydrogen storage, and hydrogen energy power generation. "These environmentally friendly energy systems will bring a continuous and reliable power supply to the Qinling Station (秦岭站)," Zheng Di (郑迪) said, "Even in the polar night environment, it can guarantee at least 14 days of 30 kilowatts of power supply."
The construction of the Qinling Station (秦岭站) has changed the construction technology, but the inheritance of the spirit of craftsmanship remains unchanged.
Sometimes, strong winds bring sand, stones, and blizzards, and the visibility drops sharply to less than 5 meters; in the extremely cold weather, the exhaled heat instantly condenses into ice on the mask... Facing the extreme climate, construction personnel must first wear thermal underwear, then thermal underwear, thermal lining, and finally put on cold-proof clothing before each work. "The cold-proof equipment, safety equipment, and tool materials weigh nearly 30 pounds." Once, after 7 hours of continuous work, Zheng Di (郑迪) found that the glove pattern of the pipe fitter Lao Zhang (老张) actually left an imprint on the cold steel components.
After the summer construction task of the Qinling Station (秦岭站) was completed, more than 30 overwintering builders remained in Antarctica to carry out follow-up operation and maintenance work. "Everyone was reluctant to leave when the ship left and the whistle sounded," said Luo Huangxun (罗煌勋), who has had two overwintering experiences. The challenge of the Antarctic overwintering task is much greater than that of the summer. Everyone needs to face a polar night of up to 58 days. However, whenever he thinks of the scientific research station being built little by little in their hands, Luo Huangxun (罗煌勋) feels a sense of accomplishment and pride in his heart.
"Would you still be willing to go to Antarctica next time?" Luo Huangxun (罗煌勋) is 59 years old this year, and he is always asked this question after each task. He always answers like this: "As long as there is a need, as long as my old Luo (老罗) is physically fit, I will go to Antarctica with everyone next time!"
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 施 钰
Yutian Village (玉田村), Junxi Town (均溪镇), Datian County (大田县), Sanming City (三明市), Fujian Province (福建省) is located in the center of Datian County (大田县) city. Many modern buildings have been built in the village, but in the central area surrounded by buildings, there are still 28 wooden-structured earth-walled bungalows. "This is the old site of Datian's 'Second Jimei School Village' (大田‘第二集美学村’)." Stroking the red protection plaque of "Yutian 'Second Jimei School Village' Site during the Anti-Japanese War (抗日战争时期玉田‘第二集美学村’旧址)," Fan Liyang's (范立洋) thoughts returned to 1999. "In those years, I followed several elderly people who had personally experienced the War of Resistance against Japan, identified the old school buildings one by one, and installed these protection plaques."
Fan Liyang (范立洋), 74 years old this year, is a retired teacher from Datian No. 1 Middle School (大田一中). Since 1999, he has been committed to protecting the old site of Datian's "Second Jimei School Village" (大田‘第二集美学村’) and rescuing the historical memory of the "Second Jimei School Village" (第二集美学村) in the flames of the War of Resistance.
In 1938, after Xiamen (厦门), Fujian (福建) fell, the Jimei School Village (集美学村) founded by patriotic overseas Chinese Chen Jiageng (陈嘉庚) in his hometown was often attacked by Japanese artillery and aircraft. Chen Jiageng (陈嘉庚) decided to move all the schools in the school village. About 600 teachers and students from the Jimei (集美) Advanced Vocational Schools of Aquatic Products and Navigation, Agriculture and Forestry, and Commerce moved to Datian County (大田县) city. A few months later, they were bombed by Japanese warplanes. The villagers of Yutian Village (玉田村) vacated ancestral halls and residential houses to accommodate the displaced teachers and students until the schools moved back after the victory of the War of Resistance.
"While some of us are still alive, this period of history should be recorded." In 1999, Fan Liyang (范立洋) met Lin Zhiqiu (林志群), the first chairman of the student union of Jimei Vocational School (集美职业学校) and former secretary of the school's underground party general branch, and since then took over the work of recording and protecting.
So, Fan Liyang (范立洋) found the old party members of Yutian Village (玉田村) and the old landlords who provided school buildings in those years, identified the remaining 28 school buildings, and installed protection plaques. Subsequently, Fan Liyang (范立洋) began to look for old alumni. He mobilized his students in various places to participate. "I learned that there were old alumni in Tai'an (泰安), Shandong (山东), so I wrote a letter to a student studying at Shandong University (山东大学) and asked him to help with the interview records."
Finally, thanks to the efforts of Fan Liyang (范立洋) and the volunteer team, the precious memories of the old alumni turned into valuable historical materials of more than 2.2 million words.
Collecting historical materials sometimes involves more than 10 years of continuous attention and visits. In 2009, Fan Liyang (范立洋) heard a story from an old alumnus: During the school's operation in Datian (大田), a teacher couple donated the money given by colleagues as wedding gifts to the school's "National Salvation Drama Society" (救亡剧社) to purchase a curtain for rural performances. When the students learned about this, they took the initiative to save on food expenses and organized charity sales and donations, donating the money saved and raised to the front line of the War of Resistance. Who were this couple? What did they look like? Fan Liyang (范立洋) always kept these questions in mind until he learned in a visit in 2013 that the couple was Qiu Fangkun (邱方坤) and Chen Bijiao (陈碧蕉). In 2023, Fan Liyang (范立洋) contacted the grandchildren of the couple through alumni in Hong Kong (香港). "It took 14 years to try to complete the historical materials of the historical story," said Fan Liyang (范立洋).
Over the years, Fan Liyang (范立洋) has also received a lot of help: When he missed the bus while visiting villages, local villagers took him back in motorcycles and private cars; when he went to the archives to consult newspapers and periodicals during the War of Resistance, the person in charge of the archives helped him find information; some old alumni generously donated money to repair school buildings and erect monuments... In 2012, Fan Liyang (范立洋) formed the "Second Jimei School Village" Site Volunteer Service Propaganda Team (第二集美学村旧址志愿服务宣讲队). Currently, the team has more than 100 members, receiving tens of thousands of visitors every year and conducting dozens of special lectures.
With the joint efforts of everyone, more people have learned about the story of the "Second Jimei School Village" (第二集美学村). In 2017, Datian County (大田县) established relevant institutions to be specifically responsible for the protection and development of the school village site. In September 2020, the Datian "Second Jimei School Village" Site (大田“第二集美学村”旧址) was included in the third batch of national-level anti-Japanese war memorial facilities and sites.
Soon, the story of Datian's "Second Jimei School Village" (大田“第二集美学村”) will enter the exhibition hall in the Sanfang Qixiang (三坊七巷) historical and cultural district in Fuzhou City (福州市). These days, Fan Liyang (范立洋) is busy leading the team to write texts and sort out pictures. Arriving at the office at 7:00 in the morning and leaving at 7:00 in the evening, Fan Liyang (范立洋) has put almost all his energy on the "Second Jimei School Village" (第二集美学村). "I'm getting old, but I want to work harder. I dare not slack off and do more to record history."
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on August 21st (Chang Qin (常钦), Wang Jiayi (王佳一)). Recently, the launch event for the 2025 China Farmers' Harvest Festival Village Song Competition was held in Sijiazhuang Village (四家庄村), Yangfang Town (阳坊镇), Changping District (昌平区), Beijing (北京市). The reporter learned from the event site that this village song competition will revolve around the theme of "Celebrating the agricultural harvest and enjoying a better life," reflecting the great achievements made in the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside and praising the happy lives of farmers.
Lei Liugong (雷刘功), Director-General of the Market and Informatization Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部), introduced that holding the village song competition can not only enrich the cultural life of the masses and cultivate good rural customs and civilization, but also deeply publicize the Party's "San Nong" (三农) policies and showcase the achievements of agricultural and rural development. This year's village song competition carries more expectations and higher hopes: Sing the main theme of the harvest well. The competition will use down-to-earth and meaningful village songs to showcase harvest scenes, sing harvest stories, and praise the spirit of labor, allowing farmers to enjoy happiness and boost their enthusiasm from the harvest; Sing the grand rural industries. Using songs as a medium, deeply explore the "things" and "products" in the "songs," and connect the "sales" and "tourism" behind the "competition," so that the village song competition becomes a "carnival" that drives the prosperity of rural industries and invigorates the urban and rural consumer market; Sing the spirit of the farmers. Make good use of the village song, a literary form that is popular among farmers, promote the main theme of rural culture, cultivate civilized rural customs, good family traditions, and simple folk customs, boost the spirit of farmers, and show a new look of rural civilization.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Harbin on August 21st (Reporter Guo Xiaolong (郭晓龙)). Recently, the Heilongjiang Provincial Science and Technology Association (黑龙江省科学技术协会), the Provincial Department of Education (省教育厅), the Provincial Department of Science and Technology (省科学技术厅), and the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (省农业农村厅) jointly issued the "Heilongjiang Province Science and Technology Small Courtyard Cultivation Action Plan (2025-2026)", to promote the standardization, normalization, and branding of Science and Technology Small Courtyard construction in Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省).
According to the action plan, by the end of 2026, Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省) will have built more than 100 provincial-level or higher Science and Technology Small Courtyards, achieving full coverage of all 13 cities (prefectures) in the province. It will establish industrial and regional Science and Technology Small Courtyard clusters to create a comprehensive innovation platform for multidisciplinary joint research and agricultural technology transformation and promotion. The cumulative number of resident graduate students will exceed 200, and more than 200 high-quality "San Nong" (三农) (agriculture, rural areas, and farmers) workers will be cultivated. A number of typical Science and Technology Small Courtyard models with regional characteristics will be created, making Science and Technology Small Courtyards a vital force for Heilongjiang (黑龙江) in promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
The action plan clarifies 12 key tasks, including making overall planning and layout, building a joint construction mechanism for Science and Technology Small Courtyards, innovating graduate student training methods, improving the talent cultivation model, carrying out key technology research, promoting the application of scientific and technological achievements, widely carrying out practical technical services, and enriching rural science popularization activities. It proposes to carry out the creation of Science and Technology Small Courtyards according to the idea of "building a small courtyard, stationing a team, radiating an industry, and demonstrating a large area," and actively organize the application for national-level Science and Technology Small Courtyards. Build a "government-guided, expert-led" joint construction mechanism for Science and Technology Small Courtyards. Promote the formation of alliances or clusters of Science and Technology Small Courtyards with high industrial or technological relevance. Implement a chief expert responsibility system, with academic supervisors from the school and practical supervisors from the Science and Technology Small Courtyard jointly training graduate students.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Guangzhou (广州) August 21st dispatch (Reporter Luo Aihua (罗艾桦)): Recently, the Guangzhou Branch of the National Archives of Publications and Culture (中国国家版本馆广州分馆) (hereinafter referred to as "Guangzhou Branch (广州分馆)") held the 2025 Donation and Collection Conference. According to statistics, in the past year, the Guangzhou Branch (广州分馆), following the idea of "collecting through all channels, covering all categories of content, and fully covering digital resources," has newly collected more than 30,000 volumes (items) of donated versions and 11,000 volumes (items) of versions under entrusted custody, including ancient Chinese and foreign books, calligraphy and paintings by celebrities, red versions, and Lingnan (岭南) arts and crafts. At present, it has cumulatively collected more than 4 million volumes (items) of versions and 40TB of digital versions.
It is understood that the versions donated and collected this time are large in quantity, complete in variety, and distinctive in characteristics. In the future, the Guangzhou Branch (广州分馆) will further focus on its main collection business, accelerate the construction of a characteristic version preservation and inheritance system; strengthen version research to provide strong support for the collection and service of classic versions; pay attention to revitalization and utilization to create an important window for displaying Chinese culture; and adhere to the bottom line of safety, focusing on building a "safe treasure house" for preserving the seeds of Chinese culture.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 窦瀚洋
Hong Libing (洪利炳), 32, is from Zhanwang Village (展望村), Yangxunqiao Street (杨汛桥街道), Keqiao District (柯桥区), Shaoxing City (绍兴市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省). He used to work as a delivery driver, with an unstable income. After receiving professional skills training, he became a jewelry polisher and works at the "Common Prosperity Workshop" (共富工坊) in Yangxunqiao Street (杨汛桥街道). His monthly base salary plus piece-rate wages have significantly increased his income. It is understood that the "Common Prosperity Workshop" (共富工坊) in Yangxunqiao Street (杨汛桥街道), Keqiao District (柯桥区), provides professional training to help villagers master relevant skills, which not only solves the problem of taking care of their families but also helps villagers achieve employment and increase their income.
Since the beginning of this year, Keqiao District (柯桥区), Shaoxing City (绍兴市) has cumulatively conducted skills training for 25,700 people, with key areas and employee skills training reaching 11,000 people. It has built one skills training base, one skills training station, and added four skills training centers and ten skills training stations, building an all-round and multi-level skills training network.
"Keqiao District (柯桥区) will continue to optimize the skills training system, cultivate more high-quality skilled personnel that meet the needs of industrial development, and provide talent support for achieving common prosperity," said the relevant person in charge of the Keqiao District (柯桥区) Human Resources and Social Security Bureau (人力资源和社会保障局).
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 欧阳洁 杨 迅
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The summer grain harvest yields grain from fertile fields that "resides" in new types of granaries.
From earthen and wooden granaries to smart and green granaries, from relying on the weather for grain storage to intelligent grain management, and from having enough to eat to eating well and healthily, the history of granary changes over the decades is also an upgrade history of food security. A reporter interviewed experts and conducted on-site visits to explore the path of change in China's granaries.
As a large agricultural country, solving the problem of feeding more than 1.4 billion people has always been a top priority in governing the country. The level of grain storage facilities directly affects grain storage capacity and grain storage safety, and is an important guarantee for achieving food security. At present, the country's standard grain warehouses have a good storage capacity of over 700 million tons, the storage capacity of low-temperature and quasi-low-temperature grain storage exceeds 200 million tons, and the storage capacity using modified atmosphere grain storage technology exceeds 55 million tons.
Initial Stage: Simple conditions, limited storage efficiency
Wu Zidan (吴子丹), former deputy director of the State Grain Administration (国家粮食局), has worked in the grain field for his entire life, understanding and witnessing the changes in China's granaries. He introduced that early granaries were mostly simple earthen and wooden structure warehouses, and some were converted from ancestral halls, temples, and civilian houses, with a capacity of only 30,000 to 60,000 kilograms per warehouse. These granaries relied solely on natural ventilation and simple pest control measures to store grain, with poor conditions, high losses, and inconvenient management. Moreover, a large amount of grain was stored in open-air mat stacks (traditional circular grain storage tools surrounded by mats and rushes), where insect and rodent damage was more serious, resulting in huge grain losses.
"Taking earthen and wooden structure granaries as an example, the overall structure was built with mud, bricks, stones, and wood, with poor sealing and weak moisture-proof and insect-proof capabilities. Every rainy season, we had to worry about the grain getting damp and moldy, and being infested by insects. At that time, the grain keepers were worried day and night, fearing that something might happen to the grain," said Wu Zidan (吴子丹). At that time, the older generation of grain keepers in Yuhang (余杭) in Zhejiang (浙江) and Yutian (玉田) in Hebei (河北) took the lead in proposing the slogan "**宁流千滴汗，不坏一粒粮**" (nìng liú qiān dī hàn, bù huài yī lì liáng - "rather shed a thousand drops of sweat than spoil a single grain," emphasizing dedication to preserving grain quality) and created many indigenous methods for manual pest control, drying and mildew prevention, and rodent and bird prevention, trying their best to reduce grain storage losses.
In the 1950s, China's grain storage ushered in its first technological upgrade. The "Soviet-style warehouse" became the representative of the first generation of standardized granaries. The first batch of national grain reserves began construction in 1955, using Soviet drawings, with a single granary area of 1,000 square meters. This type of warehouse adopted a brick-wood structure, multi-span wooden roof trusses, with a span length of about 50 meters and a storage capacity of about 2,500 tons. It was designed with through-going ditches and overpasses, and the internal installation of belt conveyors realized mechanized grain loading and unloading for the first time.
"At that time, the 'Soviet-style warehouse' was a remarkable progress," said Wu Zidan (吴子丹). Due to the poor lateral pressure resistance of the brick-wood structure, the grain pile height was only more than 3 meters, so it was called a "short and fat warehouse," and the storage efficiency was still limited. Moreover, the original design was based on the northern climate, with insufficient thermal insulation and airtightness, and it was not suitable for safe grain storage in the high-temperature and high-humidity climate of central and southern China.
Development: Technological progress, exploring scientific grain storage
In the 1980s and 1990s, brick-concrete warehouses emerged. With the improvement of national economic conditions, brick-concrete warehouses with reinforced concrete roof truss structures gradually became popular. This type of warehouse has good sealing performance, improved moisture-proof and insect-proof capabilities, and is also equipped with simple ventilation equipment.
Brick-concrete warehouses not only increased grain storage capacity but also improved the quality of grain storage, providing a basic guarantee for food security. "At that time, we finally no longer worried about the grain getting damp and moldy. Although the conditions were still difficult, it was much better than earthen and wooden granaries," Wu Zidan (吴子丹) recalled.
Around 1998, China ushered in a large-scale granary construction boom. Modern warehouse types such as high-rise flat warehouses, shallow round warehouses, and vertical silos sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. This construction not only built modern warehouses but also equipped them with the "four-in-one" grain storage technology of grain condition detection, mechanical ventilation, circulating fumigation, and grain cooling, marking a new stage in China's grain storage technology.
From 1998 to 2005, China built a large number of central grain reserves, which significantly improved the storage quality and utilization efficiency of grain. At the same time, through large-scale technical training, the management and technical application level of grain depots were effectively improved, greatly reducing grain losses.
At present, the country's granaries are still dominated by high-rise flat warehouses, shallow round warehouses, and other warehouse types. These warehouses are distributed in various major grain-producing areas and major marketing areas, becoming the main force of grain storage. The reporter saw that modern high-rise flat warehouses and shallow round warehouses not only have good sealing performance and strong moisture-proof and insect-proof capabilities but are also equipped with advanced grain storage equipment and technology, realizing intelligent management of grain.
Renewal: Smart granaries, moving towards green and high-quality storage
In recent years, a new generation of granaries using smart and green new technologies has begun construction, and the construction standards of national high-standard granaries have also been gradually improved. The new granaries pay more attention to intelligent monitoring and management, as well as green preservation and energy conservation and environmental protection of grain storage. At the same time, new warehouse types such as air-membrane warehouses, new underground granaries, and building warehouses are constantly emerging.
In Changsha (长沙), Hunan (湖南), a group of tall, large, white, and fat new-type granaries are particularly eye-catching. As the first batch of 9,000-ton air-membrane granaries, they are affectionately called "White Fatty," and their three-layer composite structure forms super-insulating "cotton clothes" and moisture-proof "raincoats," with an airtightness of more than 6 times the national standard. Combined with nitrogen modified atmosphere technology, they accurately combat the high-temperature and high-humidity environment in the south.
In Hebi (鹤壁), Henan (河南) and Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东), new-type building warehouses allow grain to live in "unit rooms" - multi-story concrete frames, with a storage capacity of tens of thousands of tons, divided into areas like residential buildings, and equipment such as air cushion machines and bucket elevators efficiently transfer grain within the compartments.
As a new benchmark for grain storage, smart and green granaries are equipped with advanced sensors, Internet of Things technology, and big data analysis systems, realizing real-time monitoring and intelligent regulation of the grain storage environment. The intelligent grain condition monitoring system "diagnoses" 24 hours a day, and green pest control builds a three-dimensional protection network. Technological upgrades promote grain storage from safe grain preservation to a new stage of green and high-quality storage.
The relevant person in charge of the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration (国家粮食和物资储备局) introduced that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China will increase the construction of grain storage facilities, accelerate the promotion and application of green grain storage technology, and continue to improve the level of scientific grain storage and the ability to guarantee grain quality. "Now, China has built the world's largest grain Internet of Things system, and the grain storage capacity has reached a scale of more than 700 million tons, which matches the annual grain output." Zhang Zhongjie (张忠杰), director of the Grain Storage and Transportation Research Institute of the National Academy of Food and Strategic Reserves (国家粮食和物资储备局科学研究院粮食储运研究所), introduced that China plans to build 100 demonstration sites for the integrated application of green grain storage technology in the seven major grain storage ecological zones across the country within 3 years, to promote the finalization of new storage technologies and equipment, the finalization of standard procedures, and industrialization applications.
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When the granary is full, the country is at peace. China's consecutive years of bumper harvests and ensuring the quality of stored grain are crucial to guaranteeing national food security. From simple earthen and wooden granaries to technologically advanced, smart, green granaries, grain storage management has undergone profound changes and achieved gratifying results over the past few decades.
With the advancement of science and technology, the state's large granaries are becoming increasingly intelligent, and farmers are more secure in storing their own grain. Yuanyang County (元阳县), Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture (红河哈尼族彝族自治州), Yunnan Province, adopts a method of government investment and farmer participation to provide farmers with small granaries, vacuum bags and other grain storage tools. Technicians also enter villages and households to provide guidance on scientific grain storage. Yongnian District (永年区), Handan City (邯郸市), Hebei Province, has launched a "shared storage" service, where farmers can store their grain in the post-production service center for free and enjoy services such as drying and sales on their behalf.
The evolution of granaries is also an epitome of the technological upgrade of the entire agricultural industry chain. From drone plant protection to mechanized harvesting to intelligent drying, agricultural technology is driving innovation, improving production efficiency, and reducing grain loss. AI is boosting smart breeding, certified seeds are entering the market, and high-standard farmland is accelerating construction... Better seeds and more fertile land allow crops to grow vigorously, ensuring a bumper harvest.
Not only must we eat enough, but we must also eat well and eat fresh. The Chinese people's pursuit of a good harvest is not just a simple number of output. With science and technology as the guide and people's livelihood as the goal, China's agricultural modernization is moving forward with great strides.
Return to TopBy: 新华社记者 赵洪南
"I would rather rest with the grass and trees, and coexist with the ancients in death. I would rather die than live..." In the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army History Exhibition Hall in Benxi, Liaoning (辽宁本溪), a immersive short play performed by students tells the story of the anti-Japanese hero Deng Tiemei (邓铁梅) and his legendary fight against the Japanese, including his unyielding oath before his execution.
Deng Tiemei (邓铁梅) was born in October 1892 in a wealthy family in Moshiyu Village (磨石峪村), today's Benxi Manchu Autonomous County (本溪满族自治县), Liaoning Province (辽宁省). After the September 18th Incident (九一八事变), facing the shattered country and the endangered nation, he resolutely stepped forward. To defend national independence and dignity, in October 1931, Deng Tiemei (邓铁梅) officially founded the Northeast People's Anti-Japanese National Salvation Self-Defense Army (东北民众抗日救国自卫军), serving as the commander-in-chief.
This news was undoubtedly a battle song for the people of eastern Liaoning (辽东) who shared the same hatred against the enemy, inspiring the patriotic passion of countless people who came to join him in an **络绎不绝** (luò yì bù jué - "endless stream," describes a continuous flow of people or things). From the spring to August of 1932, the troops led by Deng Tiemei (邓铁梅) fought more than a hundred battles, large and small, against the Japanese and puppet troops, severely打击 the enemy. The team also had a great development, the number of troops reached more than 15,000 people, becoming a strong force in the Northeast Anti-Japanese armed forces.
Zhou Hao (周浩), director of the Research Department of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army History Exhibition Hall, introduced that the troops led by Deng Tiemei (邓铁梅) were fighting for many years and could not get rest. Due to the long-term combat, Deng Tiemei (邓铁梅) also suffered from serious diseases. In May 1934, Deng Tiemei (邓铁梅) was seriously ill and could not move with the army, and was secretly sent to Zhangjiabaozi (张家堡子), Xiaocaigou (小蔡沟), Fengcheng County (凤城县), Liaoning Province (辽宁省) to recuperate.
In the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army History Exhibition Hall, a medicine pot on display records the last years of Deng Tiemei (邓铁梅). This medicine pot was used by Deng Tiemei (邓铁梅) during his recuperation.
"On May 30, 1934, during his recuperation, Deng Tiemei (邓铁梅) was unfortunately arrested due to the betrayal of a traitor," Zhou Hao (周浩) said. Under the coercion and inducement of the Japanese and puppet troops, Deng Tiemei (邓铁梅) did not waver in the slightest. Japanese and puppet officials invited him to eat and drink well, but he responded with a hunger strike, and encouraged himself with Yue Fei (岳飞) and Wen Tianxiang (文天祥): "Born as a Chinese, die as a Chinese ghost, I know nothing else." A Japanese officer asked Deng Tiemei (邓铁梅) to inscribe a poem on a fan, and he generously wrote: "What is there to regret about a five-foot body? When will the lost land of the four provinces be recovered?"
On September 28, 1934, Deng Tiemei (邓铁梅) was brutally murdered by the Japanese invaders at the age of 42.
What is the spirit of the Anti-Japanese War? It is Deng Tiemei's (邓铁梅) unwillingness to lower his head and his forever straight spine; it is his ability to震慑 Liaodong (威震辽东) even with illness while fighting against the Japanese invaders; it is his unyielding spirit after being unfortunately arrested, facing death calmly and **慷慨就义** (kāng kǎi jiù yì - "generously face death for a just cause," to die willingly for a noble cause).
History has not been forgotten. Not far from the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army History Exhibition Hall is the Anti-Japanese United Army Middle School (抗联中学). This middle school named after "Anti-Japanese United Army" conducts anti-Japanese spirit education every year and organizes students to go to the exhibition hall for on-site teaching.
"The knowledge in textbooks is 'flat', while learning in the exhibition hall is 'three-dimensional'. I hope that students can remember the history of national heroes fighting bloody battles and resisting aggression, and cherish the hard-won peace we have now," said Wang Hao (王浩), secretary of the Communist Youth League Committee of the Anti-Japanese United Army Middle School.
(According to Xinhua News Agency, Shenyang (沈阳), August 13)
Return to TopBeijing, August 21st (Reporter Zhang Shuo (张烁)) On the 21st, the first "Patriotic Education Base for Hong Kong and Macao Youth" established by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特别行政区) Government and the Macao Special Administrative Region (澳门特别行政区) Government in the Mainland was established at the Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (中国人民抗日战争纪念馆).
Xu Qifang (徐启方), Deputy Director of the Central Office for Hong Kong and Macao Affairs (中央港澳工作办公室) and the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council (国务院港澳事务办公室) in charge of daily work, Chan Kwok-ki (陈国基), Chief Secretary for Administration of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, Ao Ieong U (柯岚), Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government, and Xia Linmao (夏林茂), member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Committee (北京市委) and Executive Vice Mayor of Beijing (北京), attended the ceremony and delivered speeches. Leading officials from the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部), the Ministry of Education (教育部), the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部), and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团中央), as well as more than 100 youth representatives from Hong Kong and Macao, participated in the event.
It is reported that the establishment of the "Patriotic Education Base for Hong Kong and Macao Youth" is a concrete measure for the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Region Governments to implement the important instructions of President Xi Jinping (习近平) and further deepen patriotic education for Hong Kong and Macao youth, which is of great significance for enhancing the national consciousness and patriotic spirit of Hong Kong and Macao youth. The Special Administrative Region Government will take this as an opportunity to make full use of the Mainland's rich red resources, establish more patriotic education bases, organize more Hong Kong and Macao youth to visit and study, and cultivate a sense of national identity and love for the country.
Return to TopBeijing, August 21st (Reporter Li Xinping (李心萍)) The reporter learned from China Railway Taiyuan Bureau (国铁太原局) that at 9:50 AM on August 21st, with the departure of the 73003rd 20,000-ton heavy-haul train, the cumulative freight volume of the Datong–Qinhuangdao railway (大秦铁路) exceeded 9 billion tons.
The Datong–Qinhuangdao railway (大秦铁路) starts from Datong (大同), Shanxi (山西) in the west and ends at Qinhuangdao (秦皇岛), Hebei (河北) in the east, with a total length of 653 kilometers. It undertakes the transportation of coal for more than 300 major power plants and more than 6,000 enterprises. The coal transportation volume accounts for 1/5 of the total national railway coal transportation volume. It is an important energy channel for transporting coal from the west to the east in China.
Over the past 30 years since its opening, the Datong–Qinhuangdao railway (大秦铁路) has adhered to innovation-driven development, realized the normalized operation of 10,000-ton and 20,000-ton heavy-haul trains, formed a complete set of heavy-haul transportation systems with independent intellectual property rights, and successfully applied it to multiple heavy-haul railways such as the Wari railway (瓦日铁路) and the Haoji railway (浩吉铁路). In 2014, a nearly 4-kilometer-long 30,000-ton heavy-haul train was successfully tested on the Datong–Qinhuangdao railway (大秦铁路), making China one of the few countries in the world to master 30,000-ton railway heavy-haul technology.
At the same time, the Datong–Qinhuangdao railway (大秦铁路) leverages its advantages of large transportation capacity and low energy consumption to help green development. According to calculations, for every 100 million tons of freight volume increased by railways, it can save about 1.1 million tons of standard coal in energy consumption and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 2.706 million tons compared to fuel vehicles completing the same transportation volume. The Datong–Qinhuangdao railway (大秦铁路) has completed 9 billion tons of transportation volume, which is equivalent to saving 99 million tons of standard coal in energy consumption and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 240 million tons.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 付明丽
Zhang Jiling (张计玲), 55 years old, graduated from university this year. At the graduation ceremony, she spoke on stage as an outstanding graduate representative, expressing her heartfelt feelings with the words "With dreams, anyone can be extraordinary."
Four years ago, Zhang Jiling was admitted to the preschool education program of Shanxi Institute of Technology and Business (山西工商学院) with a score 45 points higher than the C-level line of the second tier in Shanxi (山西). She proved with her efforts that pursuing dreams is not a matter of early or late.
Zhang Jiling was born into an ordinary farming family in Mazhuang Village (马庄村), Haozhuang Town (郝庄镇), Yingze District (迎泽区), Taiyuan City (太原市), Shanxi (山西). Three failures in the college entrance examination deprived her of her university dream. Eager to study, Zhang Jiling studied at night school for several years, but always felt it was not enough.
Later, Zhang Jiling got married and had children, putting most of her energy into her family. To make a living, she worked as a nanny, a caregiver, and set up a barber stall, working as many as three jobs a day at most. The burden of life left Zhang Jiling with no time to be distracted, but studying was always a dream she never gave up: "The college entrance examination does not restrict age. When the opportunity is ripe, I will definitely return to the examination hall."
In 2019, Zhang Jiling's son was admitted to a military academy, tuition-free, which greatly reduced the burden of life. "My son has been successfully cultivated, and now it's time to cultivate myself." In 2021, after preparing for two consecutive years, Zhang Jiling, who had longed to be a teacher since she was a child, was finally admitted to the preschool education program of Shanxi Institute of Technology and Business (山西工商学院), becoming the oldest student in the school.
At first, Zhang Jiling was afraid of having a generation gap with her classmates, but she quickly integrated with everyone and adapted to university life. Zhang Jiling said that the preschool education program has many courses that require memorization and recitation. "Being older, I can't always remember, so I can only recite repeatedly. I have high demands on myself, not just to avoid failing."
During her university years, Zhang Jiling got up early every day, studied hard, and always sat in the first row in class. Over the four years, all her courses passed, she scored 98 points in the compulsory major course "General Psychology," successfully passed the College English Test Band 4, and obtained a teacher qualification certificate. Every year at the beginning of the semester, Zhang Jiling would speak on stage as a student representative, becoming a "celebrity" at the school.
Many people don't understand why she is working so hard. Facing the questions of "retiring upon graduation" and "no meaning," Zhang Jiling said: "I have never linked going to university with work. I just want to learn more while I still have the energy and realize my dream."
During the preparation for the exam, Zhang Jiling got up at 5 o'clock every day to review, and did not rest until 11 o'clock in the evening. The professional books were marked full with colorful markers. People around her said she was "没苦硬吃 (méi kǔ yìng chī - "enduring hardship unnecessarily," to take on unnecessary hardship or suffering)," she retorted: "You think learning is suffering, I think it is a blessing!"
Zhang Jiling usually shares her study experiences on social media to encourage more people to bravely pursue their dreams. "Age is just a number, and pursuing dreams is not a matter of early or late. For me, the speed of acquiring knowledge must be greater than the speed of aging," said Zhang Jiling.
Return to TopMacau, August 21st (People's Daily reporter Fu Zimei (富子梅)) An exhibition of pictures, calligraphy, historical materials, and an academic seminar commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the restoration of Taiwan opened in Macau (澳门) on August 20th. The event commemorates the heroic feats of compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait in jointly fighting against the Japanese, the struggle for the restoration of Taiwan, pays tribute to the predecessors on both sides of the Strait who fought side by side against the enemy, and guides young people on both sides of the Strait to correctly understand history and work together to promote the complete reunification of the country and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
It is reported that more than 600 people from all walks of life attended the meeting. At the opening ceremony, a commemorative short film was played, panoramically showing the magnificent historical picture of Taiwan compatriots and the mainland of the motherland being **心手相连** (xīn shǒu xiāng lián - "hearts and hands linked," closely connected and cooperating) from 1895, when Japan forcibly occupied Taiwan (台湾), to 1945, when Japan surrendered, achieving victory in the War of Resistance and the restoration of Taiwan. The historical picture exhibition, calligraphy and painting exhibition, and historical materials exhibition opened on the same day. The Symposium on the History of the Chinese Nation's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the Inheritance of the Spirit of Resistance was also held on the afternoon of the 20th. Since its first held in Nanjing (南京), Jiangsu (江苏) in 2017, the seminar has been held many times in different cities over the past 8 years, telling the stories of the War of Resistance and promoting the spirit of the War of Resistance.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 孙海天
In a simple old house in the Workers' Cultural Palace dormitory area of Haikou (海口), Hainan Province (海南省), 105-year-old Chen Yulan (陈玉兰) sits on the sofa. On the cabinet are commemorative medals and honorary certificates such as "50 Years of Glory in the Party," "50th Anniversary of the Liberation of Hainan Commemorative Medal," and "Qiongya Column Old Soldier." When asked about her experiences during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, she slowly rolled up the left leg of her trousers, revealing a scar more than ten centimeters long. "This was left when I was delivering intelligence," the old woman said, her voice not loud, but very firm, "I almost lost my life that time, but I don't regret it, I'm not afraid of sacrifice."
How dangerous was the work of a messenger?
"Walking may step on landmines, and sometimes even heavy breathing can reveal your whereabouts."
"Many people in my family died in the war, and the seeds of this hatred were buried in my heart," said Chen Yulan (陈玉兰). "I joined the revolution to avenge my relatives." In 1939, in Nanyang Township (南阳乡), Wenchang (文昌), Hainan (海南), Chen Yulan (陈玉兰) resolutely joined the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) and became a messenger.
As a messenger behind enemy lines, Chen Yulan (陈玉兰) was often accompanied by danger. The transportation line she was responsible for led out of Nanyang Township (南阳乡) into the enemy-occupied area, with sentry posts and rivers densely distributed along the way. "Sending letters and guiding comrades were all done at night. It was pitch black all around, and we could only rely on moonlight and starlight to identify the direction," said Chen Yulan (陈玉兰). "Walking may step on landmines, and sometimes even heavy breathing can reveal your whereabouts."
"As an underground messenger, I explored five routes," the old woman said, holding out her fingers and counting, "Taking large troops requires walking on open roads, which is fast, but you must hurry; taking important personnel requires taking the safest secret paths, even if it takes several times longer, to ensure foolproof safety; taking ordinary comrades requires taking the roads that are usually taken, which is convenient for contact; I have a special route for delivering money and goods, traveling light and being flexible; and there is also a backup route in case of emergency, which is a real line of life and death."
Chen Yulan (陈玉兰) not only memorized the terrain but also learned to listen to various "sounds." Once, she escorted an important cadre to Baishi Creek (白石溪) in Qiongshan (琼山). Before setting off, she carefully planned the most concealed route as usual. But halfway there, she suddenly smelled a faint smell of tobacco in the air, which was the smell of dry tobacco that local farmers did not smoke. She immediately became alert and pulled the cadre to squat in the ditch, remaining silent. Sure enough, not long after, a patrol of Japanese puppet troops passed by the small road they had originally planned to take. It was this extraordinary vigilance that allowed her and her comrades to safely complete their missions many times.
"Walking at night, you have to be careful while walking, paying attention to whether there are smells of feces, cigarettes, etc., which are signals of enemy ambushes." Recalling her past work, Chen Yulan (陈玉兰) said, "Why do birds suddenly fly up, why are animals calling? These subtle signs can help us judge the enemy's situation. The two transportation lines I was responsible for were never exposed, and everything I paid was worth it."
What did you do when you encountered a flood that washed away the money?
"It wasn't easy for the villagers to donate this money, so I plunged into the water regardless and groped again and again."
In 1942, the Japanese army launched a frenzied "mopping-up" operation against Nanyang Township (南阳乡), carrying out "large-scale clearing" and massacres. At that time, more than 300 martyrs and more than 2,000 people were killed in Nanyang Township (南阳乡), and 18 villages were razed to the ground, so the Nanyang Township (南阳乡) government was transferred.
Chen Yulan (陈玉兰) had been injured by a tree branch while delivering intelligence and could not follow the organization to evacuate. The organization placed her in a hidden thatched shed in the mountains to recuperate, and a villager named Huang Yunfa (黄云发) risked his life every day to deliver food and take care of her. "There was no medicine, so the wound just festered." She washed the wound with herbs, wrapped it in rags, and endured the severe pain, barely surviving.
Another escape from death was to escort the villagers' donations for the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. At that time, the Qiongya Column (琼崖纵队) was extremely short of supplies, and the Party organization secretly launched a fundraising campaign among the masses. The villagers saved money and put together a valuable sum of money. The organization trusted Chen Yulan (陈玉兰) and entrusted her with the task of escorting this sum of money. That night, Chen Yulan (陈玉兰) was passing through Baishi Creek (白石溪) when a mountain flood broke out. Halfway through, the simple bamboo bridge under her feet was washed away by the flood, and both she and the money fell into the rushing river.
Chen Yulan (陈玉兰) swam ashore first. "It was almost dawn, and the enemy was about to come out, and I was so anxious that I didn't know what to do." Chen Yulan (陈玉兰) recalled, "It wasn't easy for the villagers to donate this money, so I plunged into the water regardless and groped again and again." In the flood, she was knocked down by the rapids again and again, and almost drowned several times. But she used all her strength to grab the trees and grass by the river and finally recovered all the money without losing a penny.
"At first, I joined the revolution to avenge my relatives," Chen Yulan (陈玉兰) said again about her original intention, "Later I understood that only by defeating the Japanese devils and establishing a new China can our people live a good life."
How to deal with the Japanese occupation?
"Destroy the enemy's water sources so they can't drink clean water and can't eat a stable meal."
"Our weapons were poor, but we had our own methods," Chen Yulan (陈玉兰) recalled. In the absence of heavy weapons, the guerrillas used local materials to create many simple weapons that made the Japanese army tremble with fear: they hollowed out thick and hard lychee tree trunks to make earthen cannons, filling them with gunpowder, iron sand, and iron pieces, which were called "lychee cannons"; they scraped poison from the Antiaris toxicaria tree and applied it to weapons.
Nanyang Township (南阳乡) is a famous model township for resisting Japan, and the masses used the tactic of 坚壁清野 (jiān bì qīng yě - "firm walls clear fields," a scorched earth tactic) to make the Japanese army uneasy. Chen Yulan (陈玉兰) and the guerrillas collected local poisonous plant vines and, under the cover of night, threw these mashed plants into the wells or streams occupied by the Japanese army. Chen Yulan (陈玉兰) said: "Destroy the enemy's water sources so they can't drink clean water and can't eat a stable meal." The Japanese army stationed there suffered from epidemics and low morale, and were disturbed day and night, eventually being forced to withdraw from Nanyang Township (南阳乡).
Chen Yulan's (陈玉兰) husband, Lin Hongcun (林洪存), was also a brave and skilled commander of the Qiongya Column (琼崖纵队). Because they were separated most of the time, the two could only rely on letters to express their longing. After 1948, Lin Hongcun (林洪存) followed the troops to fight in various places, and there was no news of him. In 1950, when Hainan (海南) was liberated, Lin Hongcun (林洪存) was awarded the title of "Special Meritorious Person" at the celebration meeting held by the military region. Chen Yulan (陈玉兰) then learned that he was still alive. After the celebration meeting, Lin Hongcun (林洪存) found Chen Yulan (陈玉兰), took her to the army, and the two officially married.
"Qiongya Column (琼崖纵队) leaders Feng Baiju (冯白驹) and Zhuang Tian (庄田) both lived in our house," Chen Yulan (陈玉兰) said proudly. Not long ago, she asked her children to donate precious cultural relics such as tables, beds, and bowls used by revolutionary predecessors to the Hainan Provincial History Museum (海南省史志馆) free of charge. Chen Yulan's (陈玉兰) daughter told reporters: "We will never forget the history written by our predecessors with their blood."
Illustration: Zhang Danfeng (张丹峰)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 21 (Reporters Wang Huiyu (王晖余) and Xia Tian (夏天)) On August 21, the Xinhua News Agency National High-end Think Tank released the "Truth About the South China Sea" series of Chinese and English think tank reports to the world. The report systematically clarifies the historical and legal basis of China's territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests in the South China Sea Islands, reveals the truth about the interference of extraterritorial forces in the "South China Sea issue," and deeply interprets China's advocacy of building the South China Sea into a sea of peace, friendship, and cooperation.
The series of reports includes three sub-reports: "China in the Deep Blue Sea - The Historical and Legal Basis of China's Territorial Sovereignty and Maritime Rights and Interests in the South China Sea," "Provocation, Threat, Lies - The Truth About Extraterritorial Forces Interfering in the South China Sea Issue," and "China's Practice of Building the South China Sea into a Sea of Peace, Friendship, and Cooperation."
Previously, the sub-report "China's Practice of Building the South China Sea into a Sea of Peace, Friendship, and Cooperation" was released on "World Oceans Day" on June 8.
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. The report pointed out that 80 years ago, as part of the post-World War II international order and world pattern, China restored the exercise of sovereignty over the South China Sea Islands in accordance with international legal documents such as the Cairo Declaration (《开罗宣言》) and the Potsdam Proclamation (《波茨坦公告》), which laid the foundation for the post-World War II international order. China's sovereignty and related rights and interests in the South China Sea are generally recognized by the international community.
The report believes that the fundamental factor driving the continuous escalation of the South China Sea situation is that extraterritorial forces have launched a "great power competition" against China in the so-called "Indo-Pacific region," using the South China Sea issue as a tool to contain China, and instigating relevant claimant states such as the Philippines to launch provocations against China. The erroneous actions of extraterritorial forces to smear and contain China reflect the self-projection in their hearts of the modern Western strategic view with hegemonic contention and maintenance as its core.
The report calls for, when the world is facing challenges of turbulence and unrest, to see clearly the various tricks of the United States and the West in provoking, threatening, and alienating on the South China Sea issue, to maintain regional peace and stability, to achieve development and prosperity of all countries, and to jointly build the South China Sea into a sea of peace, friendship, and cooperation.
On the same day, the book "China in the Deep Blue Sea - The Truth About the South China Sea" (《碧波深处有中华——南海真相》), which includes the "Truth About the South China Sea" series of think tank reports, was published and distributed by Xinhua Publishing House (新华出版社).
The Xinhua News Agency National High-end Think Tank focuses on public policy and international policy research, and in recent years has carried out forward-looking, strategic, and reserve research on major domestic and foreign issues, forming many influential think tank research results.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Nanjing (南京) August 21st dispatch (Reporter Bai Guangdi (白光迪)) -- Haimen District (海门区), Nantong City (南通市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省), innovatively launched the special activity "Service at Zero Distance, Government and People Heart-to-Heart" -- "Bureau Directors (Secretaries) Enter 12345" to handle complaints. Eleven town Party committee secretaries, 39 district-level government departments and major state-owned enterprise "top leaders" entered the hotline platform to listen to demands, conduct return visits, and organize consultations, grasping business loopholes and pain points in local governance and departmental performance. As of now, 29 sessions of the activity have effectively revisited 245 people and tracked and handled 71 improperly handled matters.
"Through face-to-face communication with the masses, we can more timely discover implicit problems such as deviations in policy implementation and obstructions in service processes, and further improve the system mechanism," said Zhu Wenwei (朱文蔚), Deputy Minister of the Organization Department of the Haimen District (海门区) Party Committee. The activity also innovatively launched a "black," "red," and "yellow" three-color early warning and multi-dimensional coordinated handling mechanism, forming a standardized closed-loop management system, and promoting the realization of the goal of "solving one problem, improving one type of mechanism, and governing one area" – 政民心连心 (zhèng mín xīn lián xīn - "government people heart connect heart," government and the people are of one heart and mind).
Return to TopThe Guangzhou Fair is a comprehensive economic and trade exhibition held by the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government (广州市人民政府). Since its establishment in 1993, it has continuously improved and upgraded, becoming a window for Guangzhou's reform and opening up and promoting coordinated regional high-quality development. The 33rd Guangzhou Fair is scheduled to be held from August 22nd to 24th in Area A and B of the China Import and Export Fair Complex (Canton Fair Complex) (中国进出口商品交易会展馆（广交会展馆）), with the theme of "Two-way Empowerment to Promote Circulation, New Quality Inventions to Create the Future," opening a new chapter of empowering Guangzhou's economic and social high-quality development.
Striving for more than 30 years, moving towards a new stage of market-oriented reform
The Guangzhou Fair has strived for more than 30 years, writing a history of continuous iteration and upgrading.
1.0 Stage (1993-2002): Based on the Liuhua Exhibition Hall of the China Export Commodities Fair (中国出口商品交易会流花展馆), with the concept of "embracing all rivers and exhibiting the world," it showcases Guangzhou's urban construction, business environment, and economic and trade exchanges with domestic cooperative cities, laying the foundation for a comprehensive exhibition.
2.0 Stage (2003-2013): Relocated to the newly built China Import and Export Fair Complex (中国进出口商品交易会展馆), it innovated the "comprehensive exhibition + professional exhibition" model, explored the path of "promoting specialization through comprehensiveness and promoting comprehensiveness through specialization," and opened the road to incubating professional exhibitions.
3.0 Stage (2014-2023): The professional exhibition has achieved remarkable results. The Guangzhou Amusement Equipment Exhibition, Guangzhou International Fisheries Expo, etc. have become world-class and Asian leaders; the China (Guangzhou) International Elderly Health Industry Expo (referred to as "Guangzhou Old Expo") has been held for 9 consecutive sessions and is a professional elderly care exhibition certified by the Union of International Fairs (UFI).
Market-oriented Reform Stage (from 2024): Since 2024, the Guangzhou Fair has entered the stage of market-oriented reform. The exhibition focuses on urban development strategies, focusing on incubating and cultivating professional exhibitions related to strategic emerging industries, and amplifying the "Guangzhou Fair +" effect. In 2025, the municipal finance will achieve "zero investment." The Guangzhou Fair will be dominated by the market in resource allocation, accelerating the transformation from a government-led exhibition to a market-oriented one.
Five Highlights of this Guangzhou Fair Outline a New Development Vision
The exhibition area is expanded and improved, covering diverse fields. This Guangzhou Fair plans to set up four theme exhibition areas: new quality productivity, "Hundred Counties, Thousand Towns, Ten Thousand Villages Project" (百千万工程) and rural revitalization, silver economy and medical and health, and quality life, covering professional exhibitions such as innovation and invention, urban renewal, auto aftermarket, consumption assistance, packaging, elderly care and health, medical treatment, gift home furnishings, cultural and creative IP, and arts and crafts. The total exhibition area is about 180,000 square meters, and the scale has increased by more than 50% year-on-year.
Market-oriented reform is deepened, and the value of the exhibition is comprehensively improved. It is held for the first time concurrently with the 11th International Invention Exhibition and the "Belt and Road" and BRICS Skills Technology Competition, attracting more than 300 guests from more than 30 countries and international organizations to participate, and exhibiting more than 2,000 Chinese and foreign invention achievements. The introduction of arts and crafts and geographical indication boutique exhibition, the establishment of Guangzhou consumption assistance special exhibition, to further expand the international, cultural and social nature of the exhibition; linkage business associations and enterprises to visit and purchase, accurately improve the matching degree of supply and demand; innovative "enterprise co-construction" model, with market-oriented mechanisms to stimulate the new vitality of the exhibition.
Activate domestic demand, regional synergy, and serve the unified national market. In order to further strengthen the domestic cycle and promote regional synergy and consumption upgrading in multiple dimensions, this Guangzhou Fair has a special domestic city exhibition, focusing on promoting local famous and high-quality products, cultural tourism resources and business environment, and promoting cross-regional industrial interconnection; the "Hundred Counties, Thousand Towns, Ten Thousand Villages Project" (百千万工程) and Rural Revitalization Exhibition Area attracted more than 1,000 Guangzhou counterpart cooperation areas and domestic cooperative cities and enterprises to participate in the exhibition; the 2025 Consumption Assistance Special Exhibition linked key regions across the country and Guangzhou's relevant e-commerce platforms, and made simultaneous efforts online and offline to help characteristic products expand the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) market; FPackAsia2025 Packaging Exhibition built a "one-stop" trade platform for the food and beverage industry.
A series of scientific and technological achievements are unveiled to help cultivate new quality productivity. Connect with Guangdong Province's "1310" deployment and Guangzhou's "12218" modern industrial system strategy, and focus on presenting cutting-edge technologies and innovative products. Focusing on the application of new quality productivity scenarios, a special Guangzhou New Quality Productivity Exhibition Area will be set up to showcase cutting-edge technologies and innovative products in intelligent manufacturing; a robot performance area will be set up for the first time, with more than 130 robots staging a smart and fun feast; emotional emotion engine robots, exoskeleton intelligent wearable devices and other smart elderly care products will be unveiled at the Guangzhou Old Expo for the first time; the Guangzhou Medical Expo Special Exhibition Area will focus on displaying gene editing, cell therapy, 3D printing and other cutting-edge technologies in biopharmaceuticals.
Build a "two-way empowerment" platform to jointly draw a new picture of high-quality development. The Guangzhou Fair is committed to building a "two-way empowerment" cooperation ecosystem, matching the needs of all parties through display and sales, new product promotion and other forms. For the first time, the Guangzhou Municipal Cooperation Office (广州市协作办公室), the China Invention Association (中国发明协会), and Jingdong Industrial (京东工业) jointly launched a joint initiative, linking industrial parks and science and technology innovation demonstration enterprises in Guangzhou and counterpart cooperation areas and domestic cooperative cities (counties and districts) to jointly sign a "Hundred Parks and Thousand Enterprises" (百园千企) strategic framework agreement on economic cooperation to strengthen the domestic cycle and promote the development of new quality productivity, and further deepen regional synergy through technology sharing, capacity synergy, and market interconnection. New quality productivity new enterprise new product promotion meetings and other activities will be held at the same time to provide a high-quality platform for deepening cooperation.
For more than 30 years, the Guangzhou Fair has always been in sync with urban development. As an important platform for activating innovation momentum, the 33rd Guangzhou Fair will inject new vitality into Guangzhou's construction of a modern industrial system, build a bridge for the coordinated development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区), and write a new chapter of high-quality development.
Data source: Guangzhou Municipal Cooperation Office (广州市协作办公室)
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Employment is the most basic livelihood issue, concerning the immediate interests of the people, the healthy development of the economy and society, and the long-term stability of the country. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has scientifically grasped the new changes in the employment situation, made major deployments to promote high-quality and full employment, and formed a series of important expositions. Many works in the first volume of "Xi Jinping's Economic Anthology" (《习近平经济文选》) have made profound discussions on promoting high-quality and full employment, providing scientific guidance for adhering to the people-centered development philosophy in the new era, creating a better employment environment and working conditions, and promoting high-quality and full employment. For example, "Correctly Understanding and Grasping Major Theoretical and Practical Issues in China's Development" points out: "We must strengthen the employment-first orientation in promoting high-quality development. Employment is the foundation of people's livelihood. We must improve the employment-driving force of economic growth and continuously promote the expansion of employment quantity and the improvement of quality"; "Enhancing People's Well-being and Improving the Quality of People's Lives" points out: "Implement an employment-first strategy. Employment is the most basic livelihood issue. Strengthen the employment-first policy, improve the employment promotion mechanism, and promote high-quality and full employment"; and so on. The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局) meeting held on April 25 proposed to "focus on stabilizing employment, stabilizing enterprises, stabilizing the market, and stabilizing expectations," placing stabilizing employment at the top of the "four stabilities"; the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee meeting held on July 30 emphasized again: "Focus on stabilizing employment, stabilizing enterprises, stabilizing the market, and stabilizing expectations." We must thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on promoting high-quality and full employment, deeply understand the evolution of the internal and external environment and the changes in employment contradictions, accurately grasp the common aspirations of the people, and continuously explore the laws of employment development, so that the formulated employment promotion plans and employment policy system reflect the characteristics of the times, grasp the laws, and be full of creativity.
Deeply Understanding the Importance and Urgency of Promoting High-Quality and Full Employment
Promoting high-quality and full employment is the new positioning and new mission of employment work in the new era and new journey. In the digital age, profound changes are taking place in the internal and external environment of China's economic development. Only by soberly recognizing the opportunities and challenges facing stable employment can we accurately grasp the characteristics of the times in promoting high-quality and full employment, and more deeply understand the importance and urgency of promoting high-quality and full employment.
The turbulent international environment has led to increased uncertainty in world economic growth. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in "Grasping the New Development Stage, Implementing the New Development Concept, and Building a New Development Pattern": "The world today is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century. Recently, the most important feature of the world is a 'chaos,' and this trend seems to continue." At present, trade protectionism is rising, geopolitical conflicts are intensifying, and the global order and trade pattern are accelerating their evolution, leading to a more fragmented international market and an unpredictable trade policy environment, resulting in increased uncertainty in global trade growth. Overall, the world economy faces both the accumulated costs of unresolved old conflicts and the new shocks from the uncertainty of the geopolitical conflict game. China must seek development in a more unstable and uncertain world, resolutely do its own thing well, and strive to cope with the uncertainty of the situation with the certainty of its own work. Since the beginning of this year, a series of policies and measures to stabilize employment have been introduced and have achieved positive results. In the first half of this year, China's employment situation was generally stable, with 6.95 million new urban jobs, completing 58% of the annual target; in June, the national urban surveyed unemployment rate was 5.0%, the same as the same period last year. It is precisely because of the adoption of a number of measures to stabilize employment and stabilize the economy that, on the basis of achieving a good start in the first quarter, China's economy has continued its steady and positive development trend, and the overall social situation has remained stable. Facts show that promoting high-quality and full employment is not only an inevitable requirement for strengthening people's livelihood security, but also enhances the confidence to maintain economic resilience and cope with changes in the external environment.
The transformation of domestic new and old growth drivers increases structural unemployment. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in "Ensuring that China's Economic Ship Rides the Wind and Waves and Moves Steadily and Far": "We must coordinate the relationship between cultivating new kinetic energy and updating old kinetic energy." China's economy is in a critical stage of transformation between new and old kinetic energy. Emerging industries are rising rapidly, and the economy as a whole is showing a trend of recovery and improvement, but domestic effective demand is still weak, and the foundation for recovery is not yet solid. In the process of industrial transformation and the conversion of new and old kinetic energy, employment structure and job demand are also facing profound adjustments. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in "Chinese-style Modernization Must Rely on Scientific and Technological Modernization for Support": "At present, the structural contradiction between talent cultivation and the supply and demand of scientific and technological innovation in China is relatively prominent." At present, the coexistence of "difficulty in employment" and "difficulty in recruiting workers" and the mismatch between labor skills and job requirements are the main manifestations of structural employment contradictions, and industrial structure adjustment is one of the main factors leading to structural unemployment. Strategic emerging industries such as artificial intelligence, integrated circuits, and high-end equipment manufacturing have spawned a large number of knowledge-intensive jobs, but the existing knowledge and skill structure of some workers is difficult to adapt to these job requirements. At the same time, changes in the age structure of the population have brought about adjustments in the labor supply structure, and the proportion of older workers in the working-age population has gradually increased, while the knowledge and skill transformation of older workers is more difficult, which to some extent exacerbates the structural employment contradictions caused by the mismatch between skills supply and demand. In addition, there is a mismatch between workers' job search expectations and employment concepts and the actual needs of enterprises in recruiting and employing workers. For example, the manufacturing industry and domestic service industry have long faced a "labor shortage." Enterprises tend to recruit specialized and younger workers, but these industries are not attractive to the new generation of workers. Structural employment contradictions are both long-term problems and deep-seated problems. Implementing an employment-first policy, coordinating education, training, and employment, and promoting high-quality and full employment are the fundamental ways to solve structural employment contradictions.
The widespread application of digital and intelligent technologies has had a certain impact on the demand for traditional jobs. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in "Solidly Promoting Common Prosperity": "The new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation has powerfully promoted economic development, and has also had a profound impact on employment and income distribution, including some negative impacts, which need to be effectively addressed and resolved." At present, digital and intelligent technologies such as artificial intelligence are accelerating their penetration into thousands of industries, and the trends of industrial intelligence, greening, and integration are profoundly affecting traditional production methods, causing a certain impact on traditional employment positions. The job substitution effect of digital and intelligent technologies has significantly reduced low-skilled employment positions. For example, the application of technologies such as artificial intelligence reduces the demand for low- and medium-skilled labor that performs routine, repetitive, and standardized work tasks, which has a negative impact on existing jobs and creates technological unemployment. At the same time, the job creation effect of digital and intelligent technologies has spawned diverse working methods such as remote work and human-machine collaboration, stimulating the rapid growth of demand for intelligent-related positions. Compared with the rapidly iterating digital and intelligent technologies, the speed of labor skill improvement is relatively slow, so stable employment still faces greater pressure in the short term. In the long run, driven by the digital wave, more diversified new employment forms will be widely derived, forming new job demands. The new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating its evolution, with both opportunities and challenges. We must actively embrace the digital wave, explore new paths for digital technology to help employment, improve the level of human capital, and promote high-quality and full employment.
Promoting High-Quality and Full Employment Must Focus on Key Areas
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Focus on stabilizing employment, stabilizing enterprises, stabilizing the market, and stabilizing expectations, and respond to various uncertainties with the certainty of high-quality development." In the face of the evolution of the internal and external environment and the changes in employment contradictions, only by strengthening confidence, resolutely doing our own thing well, continuing to implement the employment-first strategy, and intensifying efforts to tap potential and expand employment positions in key areas can we effectively promote high-quality and full employment.
Supporting business entities to stabilize and expand employment, and effectively respond to changes in the external environment. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in "Promoting Entrepreneurship": "At present, employment pressure has increased, and some workers face the risk of unemployment. Caring for employees is an important aspect of entrepreneurs fulfilling their social responsibilities. We must strive to stabilize employment positions, care for employees' health, and tide over difficulties with employees." Enterprises are an important force in promoting innovation, promoting employment, and improving people's livelihood. Taking effective measures to promote enterprises to increase employment positions is crucial to stabilizing employment and ensuring people's livelihood. Affected by the U.S. unilateral tariff policy, the production and operation and stable employment of enterprises exporting to the U.S. face greater challenges, and the pressure to stabilize employment is spreading along the foreign trade industry chain to upstream and downstream supporting enterprises. To effectively respond to the impact of external shocks, it is necessary to take supporting business entities to stabilize and expand employment as the starting point, establish a normalized mechanism for assisting enterprises to stabilize employment, and implement policies such as unemployment insurance stabilization return, employment absorption subsidies, and tax preferences for key groups. For enterprises that are greatly affected by the U.S. tariff increase, we must exert efforts from both the supply and demand sides, make good use of existing policies, quickly introduce incremental policies, and study and reserve policies in advance to reduce burdens, stabilize employment, and expand employment with greater efforts.
Creating employment-friendly industries and actively adapting to the transformation of growth drivers. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in "Creating a New Situation in Ecological Protection and High-Quality Development in the Yellow River Basin": "Put employment in a prominent position, and both urban industrial development and rural industrial cultivation should attach importance to expanding employment capacity." Based on the long-term perspective of economic development, only by actively adapting to the transformation of growth drivers and creating employment-friendly industries can we fundamentally promote the expansion and improvement of employment. We must strive to promote industrial upgrading and create more high-quality jobs. Accelerate the development of advanced manufacturing clusters, strengthen emerging industries, and lay out future industries to enhance the employment absorption effect of new industries; accelerate the integration of productive service industries and the diversified development of life service industries to further expand employment capacity. Promote the coordinated development of industrial transformation and upgrading and employment expansion and quality improvement. Improve the employment impact assessment mechanism, and promote the simultaneous development of major policy formulation, major project determination, major productivity layout, job creation, and unemployment risk assessment.
Supporting and regulating the development of new employment forms and striving to expand employment growth space. In August 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out at the seventh meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Leading Group: "We must grasp the balance between technological innovation and stable employment, and we must unswervingly accelerate innovation, and we must also implement effective social policies, especially education and social security policies, to solve the problem of enhancing the employment capacity of the labor force and ensuring basic living, and ensure overall social stability." As the integration of digital and intelligent technologies and the real economy deepens, new economic forms represented by the platform economy, the gig economy, and the sharing economy are competing to develop, spawning new employment forms, creating a large number of job demands, and supporting the overall stability of the employment situation. The new employment form presents new characteristics of flexible employment driven by digital technology, supported by the network, and coordinated by the platform, and has become a new "reservoir" for absorbing employment. At the same time, the new employment form has shortcomings such as a low social security coverage rate, large fluctuations in labor income, and relatively limited career development. We must dialectically view the impact of digital and intelligent technology innovation and development on employment, actively adapt to the new changes and new trends in employment in the digital and intelligent era, and while grasping the new opportunities for the development of digital and intelligent technology and building new competitive advantages for major countries in the digital and intelligent era, we can expand the employment creation effect of digital and intelligent technology by supporting and regulating the development of new employment forms and other methods, and strive to expand employment growth space.
Strengthening Policy Coordination and Continuously Promoting the Effective Improvement of Employment Quality and the Reasonable Growth of Quantity
To scientifically plan high-quality and full employment during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, we must be guided by Xi Jinping's economic thought, grasp the characteristics of the times, focus on key areas, accelerate the construction of a high-quality and full employment work system with departmental coordination, vertical linkage, precise service, and scientific management, and continuously promote the effective improvement of employment quality and the reasonable growth of quantity.
Adhere to the employment-first orientation and strengthen the coordination and cooperation of employment policies and various policies. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in "Grasping the New Development Stage, Implementing the New Development Concept, and Building a New Development Pattern": "Economic work has never been abstract or isolated, but specific and connected." Economic and social development is an organic whole. Only by promoting close cooperation and coordinated progress in various fields and links can we achieve high-quality development. We must enhance the consistency of macroeconomic policy orientation, strengthen policy coordination, ensure that they move in the same direction and form a joint force, and create employment-friendly policies. First, promote the organic connection between employment policies and industrial policies. Coordinate the transformation of traditional manufacturing and service industries and the development of strategic emerging industries to promote the coordinated development of industrial transformation and upgrading and employment expansion and quality improvement. Second, strengthen the coordinated linkage between employment policies and regional policies. Actively guide various regions to accelerate the development of new quality productive forces in accordance with their own resource endowments and industrial foundations, and strive to create more high-quality employment positions. Third, strengthen the joint efforts of employment policies and other economic and social policies. Promote the coordinated efforts of employment policies and distribution policies to increase the proportion of labor remuneration in the initial distribution. Increase security support for flexible employment and create a good environment for flexible employment.
Build a high-quality and harmonious labor relationship and improve the labor rights and employment service guarantees for workers. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in "Adhering to the People-Centered Development Thought and Promoting the Process of Building a Comprehensively Well-Off Society": "While maintaining economic growth, what is more important is to implement the people-centered development thought, think about what the masses think, be anxious about what the masses are anxious about, and solve the problems of the masses." Only by always adhering to the people-centered development thought, strengthening the protection of the rights and interests of workers in flexible employment and new employment forms in accordance with the times, and improving the public employment service system can we effectively realize, safeguard, and develop the legitimate rights and interests of workers. First, improve the labor rights protection system for workers in new employment forms. Actively promote legislation and labor dispute mediation in the field of new employment forms, strengthen public services and rights protection for workers in new employment forms, and establish an income distribution mechanism that matches the labor intensity of new employment groups. Second, strengthen employment support and guidance for key employment groups. Improve employment support policies for college graduates and other young people, promote high-quality employment for veterans, and expand new channels for farmers to increase employment and income. Third, accelerate the construction of an employment quality assessment system. Explore the establishment of employment quality evaluation standards that are conducive to the implementation of employment policies and are internationally comparable. From the dimensions of employment quality such as employment environment, labor protection, and employment of key industries and key groups, explore the setting of corresponding assessment and evaluation indicators.
Increase the "investment in people" and build a human capital accumulation system that matches industrial development. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in "Solidly Promoting Common Prosperity": "We must adhere to safeguarding and improving people's livelihood in development, put promoting high-quality development in the first place, create more inclusive and fair conditions for people to improve their education level and enhance their development capabilities, improve the human capital and professional skills of the whole society, improve employment and entrepreneurship capabilities, and enhance the ability to get rich." To improve the quality of employment, we must increase the "investment in people." Only by continuously improving the quality of workers, better protecting the dignity of people, and creating more development opportunities can we form a virtuous circle of economic development and livelihood improvement. We must improve the digital and intelligent skills talent training system. Give full play to the key role of "chain owner" enterprises in the training of digital and intelligent skills talents, deepen the collaborative education mechanism of industry-education integration, build a digital and intelligent skills resource supply system, and build a digital and intelligent skills key research platform. Optimize the vocational training and development environment for workers. Improve the lifelong vocational skills training system and establish a diversified training funding investment and guarantee mechanism. Optimize the occupational development environment for workers, improve the talent evaluation and selection mechanism, and expand the career development channels for skilled talents.
(The author is a professor at the Business School of Nanjing University (南京大学))
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People's livelihood is no small matter; every twig and leaf is always a concern. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Chinese-style modernization prioritizes people's livelihood" and "Fulfill and perform duties for the Party and the people with a sense of responsibility of 'always being concerned' and a spirit of actively taking responsibility." To implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition, the vast number of Party members and cadres must always maintain a firm people's stance, uphold an attitude of "always being attentive," devote themselves wholeheartedly, and earnestly and diligently solve the urgent and difficult problems that concern the masses, so as to win the people's support, benefit the people's livelihood, and warm the people's hearts with practical actions, and truly ensure that the masses are "assured in everything."
In practical work, a few Party members and cadres are inattentive to the affairs of the masses. For example, some Party members and cadres delay in addressing the problems reflected by the masses, and are passive and slack in dealing with matters concerning the vital interests of the masses, resulting in the demands of the masses not being responded to and resolved for a long time; others simply try to smooth things over when faced with complex problems and conflicts, and adopt an evasive attitude towards the problems and reasonable demands raised by the masses, making the problems more and more serious in the process of buck-passing; and so on. These "inattentive" behaviors seriously damage the image of the Party and the government in the hearts of the masses, undermine the harmonious relationship between the Party and the masses, and hinder the implementation of policies and the sound development of society.
Delving into the root causes, the problems at the ideological level are the most prominent. Some Party members and cadres have wavering ideals and beliefs, place personal interests above the interests of the masses, lack a sense of responsibility and mission for their work, and regard their positions as platforms for a stable life or even for seeking personal gain, rather than as positions for seeking the well-being of the people. In terms of values, utilitarianism and hedonism are at play, and work is dealt with passively. From an objective point of view, the unreasonable allocation of work tasks in some units leads to the breeding of a bad atmosphere of "**干多干少一个样、干好干坏一个样**" (gàn duō gàn shǎo yī ge yàng, gàn hǎo gàn huài yī ge yàng - "doing more or less is the same, doing well or badly is the same," meaning there is no incentive for hard work or quality performance). At the same time, the assessment and evaluation mechanisms in some places need to be improved, and the assessment of the effectiveness of cadres' work fails to accurately focus on the satisfaction of the masses and the actual results of the work, so that cadres who do practical work and serve the masses wholeheartedly do not receive the rewards they deserve, while those who are perfunctory are not effectively punished.
Cadres, cadres, the word "干 (gàn - do)" comes first. Serving the people and solving their problems cannot remain at the verbal level, but must be implemented in concrete actions, and truly treat the "things that the people are looking forward to" as the "top priority" to be completed and implemented. We must exchange sincerity for sincerity, and true feelings for true feelings, and take the initiative to go deep into the front lines of the grassroots, such as fields, streets, factories, and workshops, to communicate with the masses face-to-face and heart-to-heart, and understand what they are thinking, wanting, and hoping for. We must take the initiative to improve our ability to work with the masses, adhere to the working method of "from the masses, to the masses," actively respond to the concerns of the masses, and with the attitude of "**天下大事，必作于细**" (tiān xià dà shì, bì zuò yú xì - "great undertakings of the world must be accomplished through attention to detail," meaning that even the most important things require careful attention to detail) and the spirit of nailing nails, solve every "small matter" of the masses in a down-to-earth manner, and truly safeguard and protect the fundamental interests of the people.
To promote cadres to be "always attentive," on the one hand, it is necessary to establish and improve the responsibility mechanism and supervision mechanism. Further clarify and refine the work responsibilities of each link and each position to ensure that there is someone in charge of solving the problems of the masses and that everyone is responsible. Give play to the role of mass supervision, set up special people's livelihood service hotlines, online complaint platforms, etc., so that the masses can promptly reflect the problems in the work of Party members and cadres, and promptly investigate and deal with the problems reflected by the masses, and make public the results of the handling, so as to ensure that the demands of the masses are addressed and that everything is responded to. On the other hand, it is necessary to improve the assessment and evaluation mechanism, and give priority to cadres who have performed outstandingly in serving the people and have been highly evaluated by the masses in terms of job promotion and commendation, and establish a clear employment orientation. At the same time, establish a mechanism for tolerating errors and correcting mistakes, support and encourage cadres who dare to take responsibility and are courageous in innovation, and tolerate non-principled mistakes they make in the process of reform and innovation and serving the people, so that cadres can put down their ideological burdens, move forward lightly, and more actively and proactively do practical things for the masses and solve their problems.
On the new journey, only by taking solid measures to think about practical policies for development, come up with practical measures for reform, and seek practical benefits for the people with a sense of urgency and execution of "always being attentive" can the expectations of the masses be translated into reality in concrete actions, so that the masses can be "assured in everything," and their sense of gain, happiness, and security can be more substantial, more secure, and more sustainable.
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Building a national unified market is the foundational support for constructing a new development pattern, and fair competition is an objective requirement for building a national unified market. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) attaches great importance to building a national unified market, pointing out that "efforts should be made to correct market failures, regulate competition order, and make the national unified market a grand stage for fair competition among various business entities." The meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局) held on July 30 proposed: "Promote the construction of a national unified market in depth, and promote the continuous optimization of market competition order." At present, the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, and the external environment facing China's development is undergoing profound and complex changes. It is urgent for us to accelerate the construction of a national unified market and use the inherent stability and long-term growth of the domestic cycle to hedge against the uncertainty of the international cycle. To implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech and the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee (党中央), it is necessary to deeply understand the importance of continuously optimizing market competition order for building a national unified market, continuously improve governance capabilities and levels, and promote greater results in the construction of a national unified market.
In today's world, the market is the most scarce resource. China has a super-large domestic market, with advantages such as broad economic depth and rich application scenarios. Giving full play to China's super-large market advantages and building a national unified market is conducive to promoting division of labor and cooperation in a broader space, realizing economies of scale and specialized production. It is also conducive to forcing inefficient and ineffective production capacity to withdraw and promoting better development of high-quality and efficient production capacity through market mechanisms, thereby enhancing new momentum and creating new prospects for high-quality development. In this process, continuously standardizing and continuously optimizing market competition order is of great significance. This is because competition is the basic principle of a market economy. Continuously optimizing market competition order and promoting fair and orderly competition in the process of building a national unified market is the key to stimulating innovation vitality and optimizing resource allocation. It is also the foundation for stabilizing market expectations and boosting market confidence, which can better coordinate the relationship between vitality and order, efficiency and fairness, fully stimulate the endogenous power of the market and the innovation vitality of enterprises, form a virtuous ecology of integrated development of large, medium and small enterprises, and protect consumer rights and social public interests.
At present, China's economy is in a period of transition between old and new driving forces, with new industries, new business formats, and new models emerging in competition, and traditional industries accelerating transformation and upgrading. In recent times, the phenomenon of low-price, low-quality, and low-level competition has spread in some industries, and unfair competition and disorderly competition have occurred frequently. These have broken through the boundaries and bottom lines of market competition, distorted market mechanisms, and disrupted the order of fair competition, which is not only detrimental to the healthy development of enterprises and industries, but also detrimental to building a national unified market and constructing a new development pattern. Strengthening governance in accordance with laws and regulations, and truly implementing the concept of building a national unified market into the entire process of industry development, industrial cultivation, and market competition, can continuously consolidate the foundation for high-quality development. To this end, it is necessary to promote the continuous optimization of market competition order, so that the national unified market becomes a grand stage for fair competition among various business entities.
Improve laws and regulations to consolidate the foundation of the rule of law. To promote the continuous optimization of market competition order, it is necessary to further strengthen the supply of high-level legal systems. Closely focusing on the primary task of high-quality development, with unified market, fair competition, and effective supervision as the basic guidance, forming a complete, scientific and standardized legal system can provide a solid legal foundation for regulating competition order and optimizing the market competition environment. To this end, it is necessary to adapt to the new characteristics and new trends of economic development, and focus on improving the identification standards and regulatory requirements for various unfair competition behaviors in response to new situations and new problems emerging in the field of market competition, so as to provide clear and definite behavioral guidelines for business entities. At the same time, clarify the boundaries of government behavior through legal means such as statutory powers and the establishment of power lists, effectively regulate behaviors such as setting up hidden barriers to entry and creating obstacles to the flow of factors, provide clearer guidance for regulating government behavior, and minimize direct government intervention in microeconomic activities.
Adhere to comprehensive policies and improve governance effectiveness. Promoting the continuous optimization of market competition order is a systematic project, which requires promoting the better combination of an effective market and a promising government to form an economic order that is both "vibrant" and "manageable." To this end, it is necessary to promote the implementation of the Fair Competition Review Regulations and its implementation measures to effectively enhance the authority and effectiveness of the system; strengthen supervision and law enforcement in key industries and fields, and comprehensively use various methods such as law and credit, and rely on modern technologies such as the Internet, big data, and artificial intelligence to empower "smart supervision," and investigate and deal with unfair competition and price violations in accordance with the law. Promote industries to strengthen self-discipline, consciously resist chaos such as low-price dumping, and guide enterprises to shift from homogeneous and inefficient competition to high-quality and high-level competition. Strengthen the main position of enterprises in technological innovation, give play to the supporting role of quality and standards, promote the concentration of more innovative resource elements to enterprises, and support enterprises to achieve innovative development. Support enterprises to explore diversified markets and participate in fair competition in the international market in accordance with the law.
Strengthen publicity and guidance to enhance the whole society's awareness of fair competition. Vigorously promoting the concept of fair competition and cultivating a culture of fair competition throughout society can gather consensus from all parties on a larger scale and enhance the initiative and sense of responsibility of all parties to accelerate the construction of a national unified market. To this end, we can carry out publicity and advocacy activities of fair competition laws and policies "into government agencies, into Party schools, and into enterprises," and focus on showcasing new ideas, new practices, and new achievements of various regions and relevant departments in protecting and promoting fair competition, optimizing the business environment, and accelerating the construction of a national unified market. Continue to hold activities such as China Fair Competition Policy Promotion Week to create a social atmosphere of respecting the law and abiding by regulations. Use various forms such as media communication and education and training to publicize and interpret relevant laws and regulations. Better use new technologies, explore new forms of activities, create fair competition advocacy activity brands with broad social influence, and advocate that the whole society enhance awareness of fair competition.
(The author is a professor at the Party School of the Jilin Provincial Committee of the CPC (Jilin Provincial Academy of Administration) (中共吉林省委党校（吉林省行政学院）))
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Coming to the fields to experience farm work, visiting museums to feel the historical culture, entering university laboratories to explore cutting-edge technology... During the summer vacation, various study tour products have been launched, attracting many parents to place orders.
In recent years, the popularity of study tours has continued to rise, and the market has flourished. However, the quality of study tour institutions is uneven, leading to frequent safety incidents. There are also problems such as inflated prices, mismatch between goods and descriptions, and a lack of "research" and "study," which have repeatedly been questioned by parents.
What are the causes of the chaos in the study tour market? How should parents avoid pitfalls when choosing study tour products for their children?
The market is booming but there are hidden worries.
"I wanted my child to experience the atmosphere of a famous school, but not only did they not even enter the school gate, but they also broke their leg." During the summer vacation, Ms. Wang, a citizen of a city in Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), signed her child up for a study tour organized by an institution. However, the actual itinerary was seriously inconsistent with the advertised content, and the child was accidentally injured during the process. Ms. Wang then complained to the relevant authorities. After investigation, it was determined that the institution promoted and operated study tour business without obtaining relevant qualifications, and was ordered to return the illegal income and fined 20,000 yuan.
Similarly, Ms. Wang, who lives in Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江), ordered a five-day, four-night study tour product with artificial intelligence as the theme for her daughter, but the result was not so satisfactory.
"It was described in glowing terms, saying that they would go to technology companies and university research institutions to 'carry out enlightening courses,' but it was actually just visiting and checking in, but it cost more than 6,000 yuan," Ms. Wang said.
The reporter searched on platforms such as Douyin (抖音), Kuaishou (快手), and Xiaohongshu (小红书) and found that many parents complained that the study tour projects on the market have inflated prices and mismatch between goods and descriptions.
The reporter also tried to order a product called "Tsinghua University and Peking University In-Depth Study Tour" on an e-commerce platform. The product introduction stated that it was a high-end group in-depth tour, which could visit two locations, Tsinghua University (清华大学) and Peking University (北京大学), and have interesting explanations. However, after consultation, it was found that paying a group fee of 298 yuan only allowed you to choose one school, and only helped buyers make reservations to enter the campus. The explanation service required an additional 700 yuan, and the explainers were not professional study tour teachers, but social part-timers.
"Many ordinary tourism products on the market are using the banner of study tours in their publicity and packaging, and the prices are also rising," said Lü Jiaying (吕佳颖), deputy director of the Department of Tourism and Hotel Management at the School of Management of Zhejiang University (浙江大学). Many parents tend to sign their children up for study tours with the theme of famous schools, but many organizers only take their children to visit and take pictures on campus, without professional curriculum design and teaching staff, and the study tour is reduced to a "**到此一游**" (dào cǐ yī yóu - "a visit here," a superficial visit).
At the same time, there is a lack of unified standards for the fees charged for study tours. The reporter found on relevant platforms that the study tour products for Tsinghua University and Peking University on the market range from several hundred yuan to several thousand yuan, with a large gap. "More often, they are promoted and charged according to the standards of study tours, but the results are not so satisfactory." One parent said that some products will mark the name of the hotel, and the price is relatively transparent, while others use vague names such as "student apartments," and the actual reception standards are far below expectations. Some parents said that they signed their children up for products that were advertised as quality study tours, but they became check-in style tours without learning links and curriculum design, which was very disappointing.
Industry standards urgently need to be standardized.
The rise of study tours is inseparable from policy support. The "National Tourism and Leisure Outline (2013-2020)" issued by the General Office of the State Council (国务院办公厅) in 2013 already mentioned study-related content. Since this year, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部) has issued a number of industry standards such as the "Study Tourism Service Requirements," "Outbound Study Tourism Service Requirements," and "Study Tourism Curriculum and Route Design Guidelines" to regulate study tourism.
A person in charge of study tour business at a travel agency said that compared with ordinary tourism products, the price of study tours is much higher. In addition to travel agencies and educational training institutions, museums, technology companies, parent-child hotels, etc. have also entered the market.
"Institutions that carry out study tours need to have travel agency qualifications. If educational institutions want to carry out study tours, they need to obtain travel agency qualifications or cooperate with institutions that have travel agency qualifications. However, many institutions that do not have travel agency qualifications are carrying out study tour business, which has led to industry chaos such as false advertising, leading to market confusion," said Deng Dezhi (邓德智), professor at Zhejiang Tourism Vocational College (浙江旅游职业学院) and director of the Study Tour Research Institute of the Zhejiang Tourism Development Research Center (浙江省旅游发展研究中心).
The "Occupational Classification Dictionary of the People's Republic of China (2022 Edition)" issued by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源和社会保障部) added the occupation of study travel instructor, which was renamed study tourism instructor in 2024, further clarifying the connotation and extension of study. The reporter searched online and found that there are endless training and certification services for study tourism instructors from various educational and training institutions, many of which use rhetoric such as "certificates are verifiable," "universally recognized in various places," and "one-stop full tracking service." It only takes a few hundred yuan to train for a few days or just participate in an online exam to get a certificate, and the training effect is questionable.
"Study tours require compound talents who understand both education laws and are familiar with tourism services, but the professional standards of study tourism instructors are still being formulated. Due to the lack of unified norms and evaluation institutions, there is no unified standard for what kind of training study tourism instructors should receive, what qualities they should have, and how to obtain qualifications. Various training courses have been created on the market, and the issuing units are also diverse," said Deng Dezhi.
"The healthy development of the market is inseparable from the improvement of industry norms and the cultivation of professional talents," said Deng Dezhi. Since study tours involve multi-departmental management by market supervision, education, and culture and tourism departments, it is even more necessary to establish comprehensive coordination departments and related mechanisms in the top-level design to improve governance effectiveness.
Confirm qualifications before signing up.
"To ensure the safety of study tours, the first thing is to choose a regular travel agency." Zhang Hu (张虎), director of the Science and Education Department of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区文化和旅游厅), reminded that travel agencies must obtain valid business licenses and travel agency business operation licenses before they can organize and undertake study tour activities. Before signing up, parents can check the qualification information of the institution through the "National Tourism Supervision and Service Platform" (全国旅游监管服务平台). If it is found that an unqualified institution is organizing study tour activities, they can report it to the local culture and tourism department. Parents can also check the company's credit status through the "National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System" (国家企业信用信息公示系统) to avoid travel agencies with abnormal operations or complaint records.
"Before signing up, parents can also read the 'Study Tourism Service Requirements' to check whether this activity meets the safety guarantee requirements." Zhang Hu gave an example: the ratio of accompanying service personnel to participants should not be less than 1:20; there should be a medical institution that can provide treatment within 30 minutes of the accommodation; purchase travel agency liability insurance, and formulate corresponding insurance plans for study tour activities, and prompt participants to purchase personal accident insurance... The more specific and detailed the safety guarantee measures are, the more they can reduce risks.
In November 2024, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism decided to carry out pilot work to improve the quality of study tourism bases, and determined that six provinces, including Heilongjiang (黑龙江), Zhejiang, Anhui (安徽), Shandong (山东), Hubei (湖北), and Sichuan (四川), would be the first pilot provinces. Previously, many places across the country have also released lists of study demonstration bases. "Choosing products from this type of nationally recognized demonstration base and related institutions will also better guarantee the quality of the study tour," said Chi Jing (池静), director of the Study Travel Management and Service major at Zhejiang Tourism Vocational College.
"It is also important to sign a legal and effective contract (agreement) with the relevant institution to clarify the responsibilities and rights of all parties. Parents should pay special attention to important clauses related to their own rights," Chi Jing suggested.
Regarding complaints, Chi Jing suggested that the competent authority of the corresponding study tour organizer should be clarified. "If the study activity is organized by a travel agency, if a dispute arises, you can directly complain to the culture and tourism department."
Many parents are still worried about letting younger children participate in study tours alone. Outdoor study activities organized by schools and communities provide more choices for these children.
"During the summer vacation, we not only provide public welfare custody for community children, but also regularly organize outdoor study activities." Guo Peipei (郭培培), secretary of the Party branch of Yili Jinwei Community (亿利金威社区), Jianshe Street (建设街道), Dongsheng District (东胜区), Ordos (鄂尔多斯), Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), said that the activities purchased accident insurance for the children who went out, and the community staff led the team, recruiting more than 10 volunteers to form a care team to achieve a high supervision ratio of "2 adults caring for 3-4 children" to ensure that responsibility is assigned to each person and attention is in place.
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Since it's a study tour, research and learning should be the purpose, and travel should only be the carrier. We must prevent situations where there is only "travel" and no "learning."
During the summer vacation, study tours are booming. As a product that focuses on edutainment and combines education and cultural tourism, study tours emphasize students' personal participation and observation, opening the door to knowledge during travel, and combining reading ten thousand books with traveling ten thousand miles. In recent years, they have been very popular among parents and students, and the market scale has continued to expand.
When the market becomes large and the benefits are good, some practitioners have bad ideas, engaging in study tours under the guise of education, but setting "traps" everywhere. Some only "travel" and don't "study," with sightseeing tours being comprehensive, and good food and accommodation, but lacking in-depth learning and detailed exploration; some have inflated prices, often costing thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan, far exceeding ordinary tourism products; and some are not what they seem, using the guise of "famous school study tours" and "lectures by famous teachers" to attract customers, but in reality, they only take students to the school gate to check in and take photos, and the promised content is far from the services provided... These routines seriously disrupt the normal market order, parents' financial expenditures are wasted, and children also lose valuable learning opportunities, turning study tours sour.
Blindly pursuing profit will lead to impetuosity. To promote the healthy development of study tours, we must focus on education, formulate norms, strengthen supervision, and truly achieve the deep integration of education and cultural tourism.
Since it's a study tour, research and learning should be the purpose, and travel should only be the carrier. To ensure that "study" is worthy of its name, practitioners must first follow the laws of education, and formulate scientific and reasonable curriculum plans, goals, and standards based on the study objectives and the characteristics of students' age and interests, and then continuously optimize them based on feedback, instead of rushing into action and engaging in **一锤子买卖** (yī chuí zi mǎi mài - "one hammer deal," a one-off transaction; a business that doesn't care about repeat customers). Study tour instructors are not simple "versions" of tour guides, and need to scientifically design each link, guiding students to think about problems and explore answers.
Education, cultural tourism, and other relevant departments should also formulate relevant standards and norms to provide a basis for practitioners' access and service quality improvement. Some institutions are willing to operate in good faith, but their capabilities are still lacking, resulting in low product quality. We must strengthen guidance for them, make up for their shortcomings, and change the situation where "tourism professionals do not understand education, and education professionals do not understand tourism," and promote study tours to be more professional and standardized.
In response to some market chaos, the competent authorities should clarify responsibilities and increase supervision. On the one hand, it is necessary to standardize charging standards, break inflated prices, and prevent study tour fees from becoming a confusing mess. On the other hand, it is necessary to clarify the evaluation mechanism, and resolutely prohibit unqualified institutions from undertaking study tour activities. Institutions that have already made illegal profits and touched the bottom line of the industry should be severely punished in accordance with laws and regulations to purify the market atmosphere.
Return to TopRecently, Guangdong Power Grid Co., Ltd. of China Southern Power Grid (hereinafter referred to as "Guangdong Power Grid" (广东电网)) held the 2025 State-Owned Enterprise Open Day and a visit and tour activity for Pacific Island countries, and simultaneously released the company's 2024 "Five-Star Excellent" social responsibility practice report. On the day of the event, Guangdong Power Grid (广东电网) conducted an immersive drill of the VR training site, simulated the operation scene under strong winds and heavy rain in the typhoon experience room, and completed a special activity integrating corporate responsibility display and emergency strength assessment at the National Electric Power Emergency Base (South) (国家级电力应急基地（南方）).
Strengthening Drills, Consolidating "Emergency Power" with "Peacetime Efforts"
In recent years, Guangdong Power Grid (广东电网) has actively integrated into the construction of the comprehensive safety and emergency framework, building a "one base and one center" dual platform of the National Electric Power Emergency Base (South) (国家级电力应急基地（南方）) and the National Electric Power Emergency Research Center (Guangzhou) (国家级电力应急研究中心（广州）), making full preparations for emergency response in "prevention before disaster, guarding during disaster, and rescue after disaster," and has successively won emergency battles against typhoons, rainstorms, and other disasters, earning widespread praise from all sectors of society.
In the virtual reality training room of the National Electric Power Emergency Base (South) (国家级电力应急基地（南方）), as the equipment started, special operations team members wearing VR equipment accurately completed a series of operations such as pole climbing and wiring in a virtual scene, with a complete set of smooth movements. This immersive training allows team members to accumulate "actual combat" experience in a safe environment, enhancing the emergency response capabilities of the Guangdong Power Grid (广东电网) emergency team.
Moving to the typhoon experience room, the simulated wind instantly lifted the corners of clothing, the simulated lightning crackled, and the ground shook slightly, simulating the operation scene when a typhoon landed, providing an important "actual combat" position for Guangdong Power Grid (广东电网) to forge an emergency team.
Only by doing solid "peacetime work" can we consolidate "emergency power." These immersive "actual combat" trainings accumulate experience for Guangdong Power Grid (广东电网) to carry out "lightning war" repairs. Facing natural disasters such as typhoons, heavy rainfall, floods, and mudslides, Guangdong Power Grid (广东电网) gives full play to the advantages of emergency teams, emergency equipment, and management mechanisms, and has successfully won many power emergency repair and supply guarantee battles.
In 2024, in response to the super typhoon "Mojo," Guangdong Power Grid (广东电网) coordinated resources across the entire jurisdiction, gathered forces from all parties, and achieved "large-scale" joint multi-line operations, with a cumulative dispatch of 42,530 personnel-times and 13,127 repair vehicles, and the activation of 336 power emergency power vehicles and 728 emergency generators. More than 20,000 party members fought on the front line of repair and power restoration, achieving full power restoration for more than 1.04 million users in Guangdong (广东) in 10 days, undertaking more than half of the repair tasks of the Hainan (海南) main grid, and achieving "power to every household" two days ahead of schedule.
In 2025, Guangdong Power Grid (广东电网) actively carried out flood rescue and disaster relief work in Huaiji County (怀集县), Zhaoqing City (肇庆市), organizing more than 2,500 people to provide emergency power to government, hospitals, and other units, cooperating in rescuing affected people, and promoting the resumption of power production for enterprises, fully restoring power to 49,700 local residents within 72 hours.
Strengthening the Team, Using "Technological Weapons" to Ensure "Full Protection"
In the emergency equipment warehouse, various types of emergency equipment are neatly arranged, the metal tracks of the crawler-type pole erecting robot gleam with cold light, the mechanical arm of the drilling and pole erecting vehicle rotates flexibly, and the high-throughput satellite portable station is demonstrating real-time communication effects... These "technological weapons" have played an important role in responding to natural disasters.
In 2024, Guangdong Power Grid (广东电网) applied the "relay drone + satellite real-time transmission" technology for the first time in the country, playing a key role in the disaster survey work on Liuji Island (六极岛), Jinhe Town (锦和镇), Xuwen County (徐闻县), Zhanjiang City (湛江市). Guangdong Power Grid (广东电网) used relay drones for emergency disaster surveys and used satellite channels to transmit on-site images to the emergency command center in real time, providing accurate data support for repair and power restoration decisions, ensuring the smooth progress of subsequent work.
At the Huaiji County (怀集县) repair and power restoration site this year, Guangdong Power Grid (广东电网) used technological equipment such as lighting drones, heavy-lift drones, digital cluster communication, broadband self-organizing network systems, and high-throughput satellite portable stations to help the rear understand the on-site situation in all directions at the first time, greatly improving the efficiency of repair and power restoration.
In addition, Guangdong Power Grid (广东电网) also comprehensively applies cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and algorithms, relying on the emergency command digital platform to complete the development and application of the "emergency one map," establishing a "space-air-ground integrated" three-dimensional disaster prevention, identification, and relief technology system, achieving more scientific disaster prevention, more thorough protection during disasters, and more efficient repair after disasters, fully supporting disaster survey, rescue, and relief work.
The foundation of emergency response capability lies in a professional talent team. Guangdong Power Grid (广东电网) pioneered a quasi-military resident training management mechanism for emergency special operations teams, using a "two batches per year, one year per batch" training mechanism, with a resident emergency force of 30 emergency special operations team members, and 7×24-hour standby duty. After the one-year term of resident training emergency special operations team members expires, they will be transferred to the reserve, forming a high-quality power emergency team to fully ensure the energy security of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区).
In June of this year, in order to enhance emergency response capabilities and collaborative handling levels, Guangdong Power Grid (广东电网) conducted a three-party, four-party emergency drill in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区), assisting the National Energy Administration (国家能源局) in organizing the first joint cross-enterprise, cross-regional "Bright Guardian—2025" power emergency rescue comprehensive drill for five national-level power emergency bases, giving full play to the multi-departmental coordination mechanism and enhancing the cross-regional support capabilities of national-level power emergency bases.
Emergency management is not "post-event remedy" but "full protection." In the future, Guangdong Power Grid (广东电网) will adhere to standing by the bay, prospering in the counties, and strengthening through innovation, promoting the modernization of the emergency management system and emergency capabilities, and safeguarding Guangdong's (广东) "economic powerhouse taking the lead" and the construction of a world-class bay area with high-level security.
Data source: China Southern Power Grid Guangdong Power Grid Co., Ltd.
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Core Reading
Yongtai County (永泰县) in Fuzhou City (福州市), Fujian Province (福建省), which boasts abundant water resources, utilizes digital means to strengthen water resource monitoring and protection, develop the "water economy," explore mechanisms for the ecological value transformation of water resources, and promote the improvement of water ecology and the development of water industries.
The Daiyun Mountains (戴云山脉) feature towering peaks, and the Dazhang River (大樟溪) winds around the mountains, with sparkling blue waters and occasional birds flying by... This is Yongtai County (永泰县), Fuzhou City (福州市), Fujian Province (福建省).
Yongtai County (永泰县) is the main area through which the Dazhang River (大樟溪), a tributary of the lower reaches of the Min River (闽江), flows, with an average annual surface water resource volume of over 2 billion cubic meters. In recent years, Yongtai County (永泰县) has actively explored mechanisms for the ecological value transformation of water resources on the basis of ecological water protection, striving to make the most of the "water article" and realize the prosperity of thousands of families with a bay of clear water.
260 River Sections of the Dazhang River (大樟溪) Included in River and Lake Property Management
Along the Qingliang Creek (清凉溪) river channel in Qingliang Town (清凉镇), Yongtai County (永泰县), river channel supervisor Yan Shengzhi (严生志) walks with brisk steps. On the mobile app, a river patrol route is clearly outlined. "As long as it's not raining heavily, I patrol the river on time, and I can't let sewage enter the river channel," said Yan Shengzhi (严生志).
"Look, there are floating branches ahead, which are large in volume and must be reported and transferred for processing in a timely manner." Yan Shengzhi (严生志) immediately took a photo and uploaded it. In less than half an hour, the mobile phone prompt sounded, and the reported event had been transferred to Qingliang Town (清凉镇), the location of the river and lake property management service center, for disposal. Soon, a truck drove up, and several staff members went down to the river to drag the branches ashore, and then loaded them onto the truck for cleaning and transportation.
Government-led, market-operated. In 2019, Yongtai County (永泰县) launched river and lake property management services, established a river and lake property management service center, and introduced social forces to participate in river and lake management, improving the efficiency of river patrol and management.
What's different about river and lake property management?
"Simply put, we rely on a digital platform to realize full-process management of each river channel," said Chen Hui (陈辉), Director of the Yongtai County (永泰县) Water Resources Bureau. "On the platform, you can clearly see the river channel supervisor's patrol track, duration, and kilometers. If problems are found during the patrol, the supervisor uploads them to the platform, and after verification, the task is transferred to various departments; after the task is completed, the river and lake property management service center evaluates the disposal situation."
28 main and tributary rivers and 260 river sections of the Dazhang River (大樟溪) are included in river and lake property management. According to monitoring, the water quality of the main river basins in Yongtai County (永泰县) has reached the Class II standard, and the compliance rate of water quality in 14 small river basins, urban drinking water sources, township drinking water sources, and rural water sources with more than 1,000 people has remained at a high level.
Currently, Fuzhou (福州) is actively exploring the construction of an integrated sky-earth sensing application system, and the resource monitoring and protection model of "looking from the sky, patrolling on the ground, and checking online" has basically taken shape and is showing initial results.
Relying on Water Conservancy Projects to Promote Ecological Compensation and Develop the "Water Economy" to Drive Income Growth
"'One Gate Three Lines' project has brought in live water, and we have to thank the folks hundreds of miles away," said Lin Tengcai (林腾财), who lives in Matui Village (马腿村), Pingtan Comprehensive Experimental Zone (平潭综合实验区), Fujian (福建).
In July 2023, the Fujian Pingtan (福建平潭) and Minjiang Estuary (闽江口) Water Resources Allocation Project ("One Gate Three Lines" project) was fully connected, and the water shortage problem in the Minjiang Estuary (闽江口) urban agglomeration and Pingtan Comprehensive Experimental Zone (平潭综合实验区) was solved, benefiting 5.8 million people. Tangqian Township (塘前乡), Yongtai County (永泰县), is the main water intake area.
"The 5 water quality monitoring stations have all reached Class II water quality, and the water supply is normal." On the electronic screen in the Jukou Dispatch Center (莒口调度中心) hall in Tangqian Township (塘前乡), the water transfer information of each pipeline of the "One Gate Three Lines" project is clearly displayed. "This is the 'smart brain' of the project," said Liu Shixiong (刘世雄), Deputy Manager of the Jukou (莒口) Operation Department of Fuzhou Water Affairs Water Resources Development Co., Ltd. (福州水务水资源开发有限公司).
"At present, the project has supplied more than 500 million tons of water in total, and the ecological compensation water price is being negotiated. It is expected that it can increase the ecological compensation income of Yongtai County (永泰县) by more than 100 million yuan per year," said Xing Yixiong (邢义雄), Deputy Director of the Yongtai County (永泰县) Water Resources Bureau.
"If we protect the source of live water, we will have a better life." Jiang Jiandong (江健栋), born in the 1990s, is from Jukou Village (莒口村). He returned to his village to start a business a few years ago and established the Juxi Valley (莒溪溪谷里) Farmers Professional Cooperative with his fellow villagers, repurchasing the operating rights of the Juxi Scenic Area (莒溪风景区). Jukou Village (莒口村) has embarked on the road of developing the "water economy," with a net income of more than 1.5 million yuan per year.
Introducing Eco-Friendly Enterprises to Increase the Output Value of the Water Industry
Yuxi Village (渔溪村), Qingliang Town (清凉镇), an antique well platform has become the town's new "internet celebrity" - the pipeline goes directly to the deep volcanic rock fracture 125 meters underground, and nearly 500 tons of mineral water is drawn from here every day and sold to many cities including Fuzhou (福州).
In recent years, Yongtai County (永泰县) has joined forces with various parties to form Fujian Qingliang Mineral Water Co., Ltd. (福建清凉矿泉水有限公司) and obtained a mineral water mining license to launch a local mineral water brand.
Song Daoyuan (宋道渊), a relevant person in charge of the company, has worked in many water plants in Fujian (福建). He saw the development opportunities and chose to participate in the construction of a factory in Qingliang Town (清凉镇). "The resources here are good, and the prospects are good." Song Daoyuan (宋道渊) said that the company's production capacity is steadily increasing, with an annual output of more than 150,000 tons and annual sales exceeding 10 million yuan.
Jiang Tianfeng (蒋天锋), a young man who returned to his hometown in Chengfeng Town (城峰镇), is also optimistic about the development of water resources. In the Flower Sea Park (花海公园) in Taiyuan Village (太原村), Chengfeng Town (城峰镇), a wasteland three years ago has now become a characteristic town filled with the aroma of beer, with a fully intelligent beer brewing production line with an annual output of 30,000 tons. Jiang Tianfeng (蒋天锋) is responsible for the operation of the beer town. "The water of the Dazhang River (大樟溪) is clear and sweet, which provides good conditions for the production of craft beer," he said.
Testing the quality of the wine, receiving visitors, preparing for the food festival... Jiang Tianfeng (蒋天锋) is very busy. At present, the beer town is building a whole industrial chain integrating beer culture, sightseeing, tourism, leisure and vacation.
With a constant stream of live water, Yongtai County's (永泰县) "water article" is getting better and better. In recent years, Yongtai County (永泰县) has introduced eco-friendly enterprises, focusing on building 8 key water-related industrial projects, driving the increase in the output value of the water industry.
"We will continue to explore the ecological value transformation mechanism of water resources, further improve the water ecology, develop the water industry, and increase the gold content of development with the ecological green content," said Chen Jinyou (陈金友), Secretary of the Yongtai County (永泰县) Party Committee.
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Most areas still experience high temperatures during the End of Heat solar term. The temperature difference between day and night widens in northern regions, making it easy for the saying "one autumn rain brings a spell of coolness" to appear.
The End of Heat is approaching. "End" means cessation, indicating that the summer heat is gradually receding. So, does the End of Heat mean that the weather is no longer hot?
Looking at the end dates of high temperatures across the country over the past 10 years, high temperatures in Heilongjiang (黑龙江), Jilin (吉林), Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) and other places generally retreat before the End of Heat. Most areas still experience high temperatures during the End of Heat solar term, especially in the Yangtze River (长江) and its southern regions, such as Shanghai (上海), Changsha (长沙) in Hunan (湖南), Guangzhou (广州) in Guangdong (广东), Hangzhou (杭州) in Zhejiang (浙江) and other places. High temperatures may still occur for a long time after the End of Heat.
This is mainly because, although the subtropical high pressure retreats southward after the End of Heat, it may still remain stable in the southern regions. In areas controlled by the subtropical high pressure, the sky is clear and cloudless, and the ground heats up quickly. At this time, the accumulation of surface heat in the south easily forms continuous high-temperature weather. In addition, the air humidity in the southern region is high, and the high temperature is accompanied by high humidity, making the body feel even more sultry.
The "coolness" of the End of Heat is hidden in the details. The temperature difference between day and night widens in northern regions, and if there is an occasional rain, it will easily appear the scene of "one autumn rain brings a spell of coolness." During the End of Heat, the rain in the north mainly presents the "cool and humid" characteristics of autumn rain. The rain in the south is still dominated by the warm and humid air flow on the edge of the subtropical high pressure, which belongs to the "humid and hot" attribute.
During the End of Heat, the increase in the temperature difference between day and night is conducive to the accumulation of dry matter, and crops mature faster. Agricultural activities need to pay special attention to weather forecasts, seize the agricultural season and do a good job in autumn harvesting.
(The author is a senior engineer at the Meteorological Publicity and Science Popularization Center of the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局), interviewed and compiled by Li Hongmei (李红梅), a reporter from this newspaper)
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Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on August 21st (Reporter Wang Hao (王浩)) On August 20th, East Juyan Lake (东居延海) at the tail end of the Heihe River (黑河) achieved 21 consecutive years without drying up, with the water area maintained at 30 to 40 square kilometers year-round.
Since 2000, China has implemented unified water volume regulation for the Heihe River. In the 2024-2025 period, facing the increasing risk of reduced water flow in the Heihe River and prominent contradictions between water resource supply and demand, the Heihe River Basin管理局 (Heihe River Basin Administration) coordinated the water needs of all parties in the basin for production, living, and ecology, closely monitored rainfall and water conditions, and scientifically formulated a water allocation plan to ensure water delivery to East Juyan Lake (东居延海).
During the spring ice melting period water volume regulation and the spring centralized regulation period, the Heihe River Basin管理局 (Heihe River Basin Administration) achieved a water transfer of 0.52 billion cubic meters to East Juyan Lake (东居延海) in winter and spring. Since late July, the Heihe River Basin管理局 (Heihe River Basin Administration) has been centrally transferring ecological water to East Juyan Lake (东居延海).
Return to TopIn the summer of 2025, State Grid Anhui Electric Power Co., Ltd. (国网安徽省电力有限公司) (hereinafter referred to as "State Grid Anhui Electric Power (国网安徽电力)") innovatively implemented three rounds of residential "electricity saving response" activities during peak electricity consumption periods. A total of 3.1 million households participated, saving 2.48 million kilowatt-hours of electricity, and accurately reducing the load by 500,000 kilowatts during peak hours, effectively guiding residents to conserve energy and reduce consumption, and actively promoting the concept of green and low-carbon living.
In recent years, the maximum electricity load of the Anhui power grid has been increasing year by year, and the average annual growth rate of electricity consumption in the whole society has reached 10.3%. In the summer of 2024, the maximum electricity load of the Anhui power grid reached 63.54 million kilowatts, a year-on-year increase of 13.36%. This summer, the province's maximum electricity load hit a new high, increasing by 7.92% compared with the previous year, reaching 68.57 million kilowatts.
In response to the prominent characteristics of large residential electricity load in summer, high proportion of evening peaks, and short duration, State Grid Anhui Electric Power (国网安徽电力) joined hands with the Anhui Provincial Development and Reform Commission (安徽省发展改革委), the Provincial Energy Bureau (省能源局) and other departments to innovatively implement the residential "electricity saving response" activity. In early June, the Office of the Leading Group for Ecological Civilization Construction in Anhui Province (安徽省生态文明建设工作领导小组办公室) officially released the "Anhui Province's 2025 Peak Summer Residential 'Electricity Saving Response' Activity Plan" (《安徽省2025年迎峰度夏居民“节电响应”活动方案》), proposing the activity principles of "residents' voluntary participation, incentive guidance, openness and transparency," and clarifying the scope of participation, participation methods, activity process, and reward standards of the residential "electricity saving response" activity. During the peak summer electricity consumption period from July to August this year, users can receive a 3 yuan electricity bill reward for every kilowatt-hour of electricity saved. Electricity bill rewards are used to guide residents to use electricity reasonably, achieve peak load shifting of the power grid, and achieve a balance between power supply and demand.
Under high-temperature weather conditions, State Grid Anhui Electric Power (国网安徽电力) releases "electricity saving response" invitations in advance based on the forecast results of power supply and demand. Residential users can sign up and participate in the activity with one click through various channels such as the State Grid Anhui Electric Power (国网安徽电力) WeChat official account or mini-program, and the "Wan Shi Tong (皖事通)" APP or mini-program. Relying on smart meter data collection, on the first day after the end of the "electricity saving response" activity, the system completes the calculation of the electricity saving amount of all participating users, and the rewards can be distributed to the corresponding electricity bill accounts on the third day, and users are notified of the arrival of the account in the form of SMS messages. Through tangible electricity bill rewards, the residential "electricity saving response" activity has attracted a large number of residents to participate. Many residential users actively reduce household electricity consumption during specific periods. The peak load of the power grid is effectively reduced, and the power grid resources during peak hours are released accordingly, helping industrial and commercial users to achieve full-load "unperceived" summer, achieving a win-win situation for all parties, and also providing a new path for the new power system to achieve supply and demand balance.
In previous years, during the peak summer period, industrial and commercial users often participated in power grid peak shaving by adjusting production arrangements and reducing production loads during periods of tight power supply, which had a greater impact on enterprises that require continuous production and whose production plans are based on orders. The orderly implementation of this year's residential "electricity saving response" activity has effectively released power grid resources during peak hours, "allowing electricity for enterprises" through independent and voluntary market-oriented adjustments, so that the production and operation of enterprises are not affected, and the vitality of provincial economic development continues to stand out.
The residential "electricity saving response" activity significantly improves the investment benefits of the power system. This summer, residential electricity load accounted for more than 40% of the total load of the Anhui power grid, and the duration of more than 99% of the peak load was 1-3 hours. In the traditional way, the power system mainly meets the short-term needs of peak load by adding new supporting power sources and power grid construction, but the investment cost is high. State Grid Anhui Electric Power (国网安徽电力) further reduces electricity costs through effective market-oriented means. Taking the second round of residential "electricity saving response" activities as an example, a total of 903,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity were saved, and the average load reduction was 451,500 kilowatts, which is equivalent to reducing nearly 1% of the peak load, and the economic advantages are obvious.
The residential "electricity saving response" activity effectively promotes social energy conservation and carbon reduction. Guiding residents to participate in activities helps to accelerate the formation of a green and low-carbon lifestyle and cultivate a social atmosphere of saving electricity and low-carbon consumption. At the same time, the electricity saved during the evening peak hours is mainly coal-fired power, which will effectively reduce fossil energy consumption and carbon emissions, and help achieve the "dual carbon" goals.
Data source: State Grid Anhui Electric Power Co., Ltd. (国网安徽省电力有限公司)
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Return to TopThis year marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区), and it is also the final year of the "14th Five-Year Plan." Spanning more than half a century, Tibet (西藏) has achieved all-round progress and historic achievements in various undertakings.
Shannan City (山南市), located in the southern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区), was historically known as "Yalong" (雅砻), named after the Yalong River (雅砻河). It is considered the cradle of the Tibetan ethnic group and one of the birthplaces of Tibetan culture. Over the years, Shannan City (山南市) has comprehensively implemented the Party's strategy for governing Tibet (治藏方略) in the new era, based on the new development stage, fully and accurately implementing the new development concept, and coordinating development and ecological protection. By upgrading industries and optimizing the business environment, it vigorously develops clean energy, characteristic agriculture and animal husbandry, and cultural tourism industries, developing new quality productive forces in line with local conditions; adhering to ecological priority and green development, and promoting the systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, and grasslands; strengthening the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage, allowing excellent traditional culture to radiate new vitality... This fertile plateau is striding forward with an open and innovative attitude on the journey of building a new socialist modern Tibet (西藏).
Industrial Structure Upgrading: Creating a New Engine for Development
Optimizing the primary industry, strengthening the secondary industry, and upgrading the tertiary industry. In recent years, Shannan City (山南市) has focused on upgrading the industrial structure, consolidating the foundation, and cultivating advantages.
Adhering to the development path of digital-real integration. Tibet's (西藏) first large-scale intelligent computing center, "Yajiang No. 1" (雅江1号), has been launched and is operating in Shannan City (山南市), providing computing power services to the whole country, focusing on industries such as intelligent driving, biomedicine, and media entertainment, and is committed to building a leading artificial intelligence training ground in Tibet (西藏) and even the southwest region.
Adhering to the concept of ecological priority and green development. Relying on its rich wind and solar resources, Shannan City (山南市) is vigorously developing the clean energy industry around the "dual carbon" goal, innovating and exploring the development path of clean energy in plateau areas, and helping Tibet (西藏) build a national clean energy base. At present, the total installed capacity of local photovoltaic power stations has reached 150,000 kilowatts, which can achieve an annual power generation of more than 250 million kilowatt-hours, and the actual power generated each year is expected to meet the annual electricity demand of about 12,000 households.
Adhering to the power support of scientific and technological innovation. Shannan City (山南市) regards the development of the low-altitude economy as an important starting point for cultivating new competitive advantages, creating new growth engines, and enhancing new development momentum, actively laying out new tracks, increasing support for factor guarantees, continuously improving application scenarios, continuously promoting the construction, extension, strengthening, and supplementation of industrial chains, and making every effort to promote the agglomeration and rise of the low-altitude economy.
In the field of general aviation, the drone technology and products of Tibet Chuangbo General Aviation Technology Co., Ltd. (西藏创博通航科技有限公司) are widely used in earthquake relief, forest fire fighting, power巡检, agricultural and forestry plant protection, and other fields, shortening the time for material transportation. In addition, Tianjin 764 Communication Navigation Technology Co., Ltd. (天津七六四通信导航技术股份有限公司) has planned a low-altitude communication surveillance network platform in Shannan City (山南市) that is adapted to the unique geographical characteristics of the Tibet (西藏) region. As a key component of Shannan's (山南) low-altitude economic infrastructure, it provides three-dimensional support for drone inspections, emergency response, and material transportation scenarios.
Optimizing the Business Environment: Building a New Pattern of Investment Attraction
In recent years, Shannan City (山南市) has made every effort to create a first-class business environment, providing solid support for enterprise development throughout the entire process from project landing to operation and development.
On June 13, the signing ceremony of the Naidong District (乃东区) Artificial Intelligence Language Large Model Laboratory project was held in Shannan City (山南市), officially opening in-depth cooperation between the government and enterprises in the field of artificial intelligence language large models, which will bring advanced technology and talent resources to the local area, help improve the city's intelligence level, and promote the transformation of traditional industries to digitalization and intelligence.
On July 20, Jiacha County (加查县) held the 2025 Investment Promotion and Cultural Tourism Promotion Conference. The projects signed this time focused on three major areas: ecological and cultural tourism integration, intensive processing of characteristic resources, and extension of the clean energy industry chain. Relying on the advantages of the "Millennium Walnut Township" (千年核桃之乡) and the rich Cordyceps resources, Jiacha County's (加查县) ecological agriculture and cultural tourism experience projects have become investment hotspots. At the same time, the local rich clean energy resources have also attracted the key attention of related supporting industries. Seven projects were successfully signed on the spot, with a total intended investment of 756 million yuan.
Departing from Lhasa Gonggar International Airport (拉萨贡嘎国际机场), it only takes 3 hours for a full cargo plane loaded with "Tibet Good Products" (西藏好物) to directly reach Ezhou Huahu International Airport (湖北鄂州花湖国际机场) in Hubei (湖北), building an efficient connection between Tibet (西藏) and the core logistics hub in central China, increasing cargo transportation efficiency by more than 50%. The large-volume transportation capacity and high-energy hub radiation effect allow Tibetan (西藏) characteristic products to reach the consumer market faster, which not only activates regional industrial vitality but also injects动力 into the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
Since 2021, Shannan City (山南市) has landed 472 investment promotion projects, with 27.882 billion yuan in place, completed 23.404 billion yuan in fixed asset investment, solved employment for more than 17,000 farmers and herdsmen, and solved employment for nearly 1,400 college graduates. The investment promotion work has achieved a qualitative leap from quantitative accumulation.
With the continuous optimization of the business environment, Shannan's (山南) private economy has grown stronger, accelerating its extension from traditional industries to industries such as biotechnology and modern agriculture, and the industrial structure has been optimized and upgraded. As of the end of June this year, the total number of local business entities reached 58,900, an increase of 10.35% year-on-year, of which non-public economic entities accounted for 97.62%. The private economy has been particularly prominent in terms of tax contribution, becoming the main channel for driving mass employment and income increase and promoting social harmony and development.
From the consolidation and upgrading of traditional industries to the vigorous growth of emerging industries, and then to the full stimulation of market vitality... Shannan City (山南市) closely focuses on the primary task of high-quality development of the plateau economy, innovates its methods, implements precise policies, and optimizes services, delivering a bright answer sheet for investment promotion.
Accelerating Green Transformation: Drawing a New Ecological Picture
Zhanang County (扎囊县) is located in the middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River (雅鲁藏布江) valley, and the area of desertified land once accounted for nearly half of the county's area. Four years ago, the local government invested 545 million yuan to successfully introduce dwarfing apples suitable for growing in the river valley sandy land, and the windbreak and sand fixation effect was remarkable. Subsequently, this successful experience was replicated and promoted throughout the city. Today, the planting scale of dwarfing apples in Shannan City (山南市) exceeds 30,000 mu, with an annual output of nearly 3,000 tons, and has been successfully launched into the international market, driving more than 600 fruit farmers to increase their income and become rich. Sand control brings a good ecology, and green development benefits more people.
In Longzi County (隆子县), the vast number of cadres and farmers and herdsmen have spent 60 years creating a bright ecological business card - the world's largest artificially planted contiguous sea buckthorn. On this basis, the local area continues to extend the sea buckthorn industry chain and expand into fields such as health products, medicines, and cosmetics. Relying on a good ecology, the local area has cultivated and created the "four black" industries of black highland barley, black Tibetan pigs, black Tibetan chickens, and black-and-white dairy cows, and has deeply integrated them with the cultural tourism industry, allowing the masses to truly benefit from ecological protection.
In 2024, Tibet's (西藏) only "National Desertification Prevention and Control Demonstration Zone" was completed in Shannan (山南). Along the middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River (雅鲁藏布江) valley, from Gonggar County (贡嘎县) to Sangri County (桑日县), this forest belt, which is 160 kilometers long and has an average width of 1,800 meters, has now formed a three-dimensional ecological barrier combining shrubs and grasses.
Today, Shannan City (山南市) has formed a new pattern of afforestation combining trees, shrubs, and grasses, "planting grass where it is suitable, planting trees where it is suitable, planting tall trees where it is suitable, and planting shrubs where it is suitable" (宜草则草、宜林则林、宜乔则乔、宜灌则灌 - (yí cǎo zé cǎo, yí lín zé lín, yí qiáo zé qiáo, yí guàn zé guàn - "plant grass where suitable, plant trees where suitable, plant tall trees where suitable, plant shrubs where suitable," adapting afforestation to local conditions). The survival rate of trees has been increased to 85%, and the forest coverage rate has been increased to 24.79%.
Not only that, Shannan City (山南市) adheres to the path of "ecological industrialization and industrial ecology" (生态产业化、产业生态化), striving to allow the people to enjoy green welfare. The "Hundred-Mile Ecological Corridor" (百里生态走廊), the "Hundred-Billion Industry Corridor" (百亿产业走廊), and three "Ten-Thousand-Mu Ecological Industries" (万亩生态产业) help Shannan (山南) build an ecological security barrier, build a highland of ecological civilization, and thicken the green foundation, achieving "increasing green and increasing income" (增绿又增收).
Inheritance and Innovation Go Hand in Hand: Exploring New Cultural Paths
Cuomei County's (措美县) Zhazha Village (扎杂村) has the national intangible cultural heritage - the Zhazha clothing of "Reverse-Woven Flower Pulled Wool" (反穿花氆氇). In order to promote the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, the local national representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage boldly improved and innovated, widely absorbed local people to "learn art," and opened up a new path to increase income and become rich.
In Douyu Loba Ethnic Township (斗玉珞巴民族乡) in Longzi County (隆子县), local craftsmen combine intangible cultural heritage with modern life, innovate in skills and product display, and weave a new picture of a beautiful countryside with silk threads, allowing more people to understand and recognize the traditional weaving skills of the Loba ethnic group.
Short dramas empower cultural tourism, and ancient Tibetan opera is rejuvenated. In April of this year, in Zaxi Quden Community (扎西曲登社区) in Naidong District (乃东区), the inheritance site of the national intangible cultural heritage Yalong Zaxi Xueba Tibetan Opera (雅砻扎西雪巴藏戏), the short drama "Inheritance Under the Mask" (面具下的传承) began filming. The short drama innovatively interprets the cultural elements of Tibetan opera masks, singing, costumes, etc., vividly showing the practice of活化传承 of intangible cultural heritage in the modern context. Shannan City (山南市) has thus explored a transformation path from "traffic" to "retention," helping the inheritance and development of Tibetan (西藏) folk culture and intangible cultural heritage skills.
Cultural tourism integration, ancient charm is reborn. In recent years, Shannan City (山南市) has based itself on cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage inheritance to create a number of 3A-level and above tourist attractions such as Yongbulakang (雍布拉康) and Night Accompanying Bee Sounds (夜伴蜂声), and created the Zaxi Quden (扎西曲登) National Tourist Leisure Block. In 2024, the city received a total of 7.59 million domestic and foreign tourists, realizing a total tourism revenue of 2.88 billion yuan.
This year, Shannan City (山南市) signed project cooperation agreements with a number of enterprises inside and outside the autonomous region. Through the construction of intangible cultural heritage workshops, the development of cultural IPs, the research and development of cultural and creative products, and the creation of intangible cultural heritage theme parks, it has achieved a gorgeous transformation from ordinary villages to new tourist villages, and has also achieved a win-win situation for cultural inheritance and economic benefits.
Shannan City (山南市) carried out an intangible cultural heritage census, excavated and sorted out 126 intangible cultural heritage projects, which were used to enrich the list of representative projects of intangible cultural heritage in Shannan City (山南市). At the same time, it innovatively carried out intangible cultural heritage inheritance activities, and included local characteristic intangible cultural heritage songs and dances into the content of课间操 or amateur interest classes in more than 70 primary and secondary schools, and nearly a thousand students learned and mastered the performance skills of intangible cultural heritage songs and dances.
Based on the present, Shannan City (山南市) is writing a new chapter of high-quality development with an昂扬 attitude, and is welcoming the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) with practical work and achievements. Looking to the future, Shannan (山南) will continue to adhere to the path of ecological priority and green development, so that the thousand-year-old "Tibetan Source" (藏源) and modern civilization will complement each other, and that people's livelihood improvement and economic development will resonate at the same frequency, and will write a more magnificent Shannan (山南) chapter in the journey of striving to build a united, prosperous, civilized, harmonious, and beautiful socialist modern new Tibet (西藏).
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Shannan Municipal Committee (中共山南市委员会宣传部)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 方 敏 李建广 窦瀚洋
Introduction
Some time ago, major e-commerce platforms announced adjustments and optimizations to the "refund only" mechanism, stating that in the future, platforms will no longer actively intervene in consumers' "refund without return" requests after receiving goods.
To counter "involution," platforms cannot stand by as bystanders. Qin Tian, head of small and medium-sized business operations at Kuaishou E-commerce (快手电商), stated that platforms must balance the protection of merchants' and consumers' rights and interests to create a healthy consumption ecosystem.
"We can't compete on price anymore!" Li Yuesheng, the head of an eyewear manufacturing enterprise in Taizhou (台州), Zhejiang (浙江), said with deep feeling, "In the past, Taizhou sunglasses were 'sold by the kilogram,' but now we rely on innovation to shed the labels of low-end and cheap."
"Previously, investment promotion focused on preferential policies, leading to a series of problems; now, we compete on the business environment and the work style of officials!" Ren Lihong, Director of the Jiaozuo (焦作) Municipal Bureau of Commerce in Henan (河南), exclaimed.
The Central Economic Work Conference held in December 2024 proposed comprehensively addressing "involution-style" competition and regulating the behavior of local governments and enterprises. The sixth meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission held in July this year emphasized, "To advance the construction of a unified national market in depth, we must focus on key difficulties, govern enterprises' low-price and disorderly competition according to laws and regulations, guide enterprises to improve product quality, promote the orderly exit of backward production capacity," and "regulate local investment promotion."
Recently, reporters visited Beijing (北京市), Taizhou City (台州市) in Zhejiang Province (浙江省), and Jiaozuo City (焦作市) in Henan Province (河南省) to explore how to achieve high-quality development by breaking free from "involution-style" competition through the changes in an industry, an industrial sector, and a region.
Looking at Rule Optimization from an Industry Perspective
Transforming "price involution" into "value creation," adjusting and optimizing "refund only" rules, expanding the space for industry development, and achieving win-win results for all parties.
A set of data bears witness to the changes: Since the beginning of this year, the Beijing Internet Court (北京互联网法院) has concluded fewer than 20 cases involving "refund only" consumer disputes, a decrease of more than 60% compared to the same period last year.
How was this achieved? E-commerce platforms have adjusted and optimized the "refund only" rules, no longer "being generous at the expense of merchants."
The so-called "refund only" refers to a type of after-sales service where consumers can request a "refund only without returning the goods" if they encounter issues such as product quality problems or discrepancies with the description while shopping on e-commerce platforms. The original intention of the rule was to protect consumer rights and seek solutions for issues such as the difficulty of returning fresh products.
"Unfortunately, some 'wool-gatherers' abuse the 'refund only' rule to 'clip the wool,' coupled with e-commerce platforms' mechanisms such as 'automatic price tracking' and 'whole network price comparison,' leading to vicious competition among merchants," introduced Yu Ze, Deputy Dean and Professor of the School of Economics at Renmin University of China (中国人民大学).
In recent years, "refund only" has become a focal point for e-commerce platforms to compete on rules and vie for users, seriously harming merchants' rights and interests, which in turn leads merchants to adopt low-quality and low-price strategies. In the long run, this will harm consumers' interests.
A sofa worth 9,800 yuan, the buyer used it for a period of time and suddenly requested a "refund only," and the platform actually approved this request! Zhang Lianyong, Presiding Judge of the Second Comprehensive Trial Division of the Beijing Internet Court (北京互联网法院), opened the case file and introduced to reporters this case accepted last year: The buyer's reason for requesting a refund was loose buckles, but the buyer neither communicated with the merchant nor applied for after-sales service, but directly initiated a "refund only" request. After the platform approved the request, the merchant was surprised and asked the consumer to return the goods, but the consumer ignored the request, leading to litigation.
In Yu Ze's view, the goods involved in this case were of a higher price, and the merchant chose to litigate. However, in more "refund only" disputes, due to the long litigation cycle and high cost of rights protection, many merchants reluctantly choose to settle the matter, suffering losses of both goods and money.
In March 2024, the Beijing Internet Court (北京互联网法院) and the China Consumers Association (中国消费者协会) jointly advocated for the standardized application of the "seven-day no-reason return" rule, advocating for the continuous optimization and improvement of the "refund only" rule. In November of the same year, the State Administration for Market Regulation (国家市场监督管理总局) interviewed six e-commerce platforms, pointing out issues such as the "refund only" rule squeezing merchants' living space and fostering a trend of low-quality and low-price competition, and put forward specific rectification requirements.
Subsequently, major e-commerce platforms introduced measures such as unblocking merchant appeal channels and strengthening the identification of abnormal high-frequency returns to optimize the "refund only" rule—the "refund only without return" application after the consumer receives the goods is negotiated by the merchant and the consumer themselves, and the platform only intervenes in mediation if there is a dispute.
In January this year, Taobao Tmall (淘宝天猫) released data showing that after loosening the "refund only" rule, the number of abnormal refund proactive interceptions on the Taobao Tmall platform increased by 3 times, and the total amount of "refund only" decreased by about 30%.
"'Refund only' rule changes are in line with the new expectations of all sectors of society for regulating e-commerce order, and are conducive to building a sound and orderly business environment." Yu Ze believes that e-commerce platforms have a responsibility to protect consumers' legitimate rights and interests, but cannot "pull sides" and make merchants suffer. Optimizing "refund only" is a correction, which is conducive to maintaining market order and purifying the consumption ecology.
In February this year, the State Administration for Market Regulation (国家市场监督管理总局) held a symposium on price supervision and inspection and anti-improper competition, emphasizing the need to strengthen price supervision in key industries in accordance with the law and rectify "involution-style" vicious competition.
"Rectifying 'involution-style' competition is not about eliminating competition, but about encouraging fair competition, allowing merchants to firmly take the road of innovative development and truly create value in competition." Gao Niandong, Director of the Beijing Municipal Administration for Market Regulation (北京市市场监督管理局), introduced that not long ago, in order to maintain the online transaction order during the "618" period, the city's market supervision departments relied on the platform economy comprehensive supervision and service system to closely monitor key links such as promotion rules, commodity services, and price labeling, and conducted key investigations into possible behaviors such as brushing orders and hype and illegal promotions.
"Does traffic flow to excessively low-priced goods, or does it flow to merchants who truly create value? Different orientations give rise to different business ecosystems." Qin Tian, head of small and medium-sized business operations at Kuaishou E-commerce (快手电商), introduced that Kuaishou platform launched the "New Merchant Launch Plan" this year, planning to invest more than 100 billion-level traffic throughout the year, dedicated to making more high-quality merchants be seen.
A new store, a single clothing item, sells thousands of orders a day. Kuaishou merchant Gao Shenghua (高生话语) said excitedly, "I didn't expect that small merchants like us could 'explode orders' without competing on low prices!"
In March this year, Gao Sheng opened a small store on the Kuaishou platform (快手平台). Having worked in the clothing industry for many years, he knows that if you compete on low prices, the product quality will definitely not keep up, and the road of homogeneous "involution" will not work. Therefore, he put effort into styles and quality, and launched differentiated new clothing products. At first, product sales were not high, but the good reviews were very high, which attracted the attention of the Kuaishou e-commerce team and was included in the "New Merchant Launch Plan," enjoying exclusive traffic incentives and equipped with systematic training and other support policies.
At the beginning of this year, Douyin E-commerce (抖音电商) launched 9 merchant support measures to respond to commonly concerned issues such as returns, price competition, and traffic investment, prohibiting merchants from inducing users to click to purchase at prices significantly lower than the market price. In 2024, Douyin (抖音) released a number of governance measures for "low-price tours," disposing of more than 2,500 "low-price tour" live broadcast rooms.
Expanding the development space of the e-commerce industry and achieving win-win results for all parties. "It is necessary to guide merchants to transform 'price involution' into 'value creation' and avoid bad money driving out good." Ma Xiaosen, Vice President and Secretary-General of the Beijing E-Commerce Association (北京电子商务协会), believes that comprehensively addressing "involution-style" competition is a systematic project that requires strengthening the collaborative governance of the government, enterprises, and industry associations.
Looking at Innovation Breakthrough from an Industrial Perspective
Transforming "price competition" into "technology competition," establishing and improving a quality management system, and practicing innovative "internal skills."
Following the rumbling of machinery, stepping into the eyewear manufacturing workshop of Zhejiang Yingchang Group Co., Ltd. (浙江盈昌集团有限公司), rows of mechanical arms come into view. Thanks to the newly put into production CNC equipment, the eyewear cutting efficiency of this enterprise has increased by 8 times.
"With higher production efficiency and better eyewear quality, enterprises don't have to 'compete' on price." Li Yuesheng, Chairman of Yingchang Group (盈昌集团) and President of the Taizhou Eyewear Chamber of Commerce (台州市眼镜商会), still vividly remembers the price war of many years ago.
Taizhou (台州市) has more than 1,600 eyewear manufacturing enterprises, with an annual output of 400 million pairs of sunglasses and a total output value of more than 13 billion yuan. At that time, the ex-factory price of more than 60% of Taizhou's finished sunglasses was only about 5 yuan, and the profit margin was only 4%. In order to retain workers, many enterprises took orders at a loss.
Why are goods that cost hundreds or thousands of yuan in optical shops so low-profit at the production end? "Low technical content, complex distribution channels, and fierce competition." Having been in the industry for more than 50 years, Li Yuesheng often hears the evaluation of "low-end eyewear looks at Taizhou."
As the main production area of Taizhou eyewear, Duqiao Town (杜桥镇) in Linhai City (临海市) once had numerous family workshops, and the profit of a pair of sunglasses was compressed to units of fen and li. Sunglasses were weighed "by the kilogram," and optical glasses were "picked" like cabbage, becoming a helpless joke in the Taizhou eyewear wholesale market. "At that time, customers would directly lower the price as soon as they heard it was Taizhou eyewear, and the industry fell into a vicious cycle of 'diseconomies of scale,'" Li Yuesheng recalled.
Transformation and upgrading are effective means to break the involution. Facing the problems of "low, scattered, and chaotic," and shedding the labels of low-end products, Taizhou is reshaping the eyewear industry pattern.
In 2021, Linhai City (临海市) took the lead in building a high-standard Duqiao Eyewear Micro-Enterprise Innovation Park (杜桥眼镜小微创业园). Enterprises entering the park must meet the access standards: the enterprise's equipment, production technology, technical level, etc. must reach or be close to the advanced level of the domestic industry...
In the past, the cost of producing eyewear was high and the selling price was low. After moving the factory to the Duqiao Eyewear Micro-Enterprise Innovation Park (杜桥眼镜小微创业园), Huang Ronghua, head of Taizhou Baiyuan Eyewear Co., Ltd. (台州百源眼镜有限公司), was pleasantly surprised to find that more than 100 upstream and downstream eyewear enterprises were gathered here, and the supply chain response speed was shortened from weeks to days. "If a screw is missing on the production line, the enterprises in the front and rear buildings can match it in a few minutes. Upstairs and downstairs are upstream and downstream. Enterprises in the park can also share environmental protection treatment equipment, which improves the technical level and saves expenses."
In 2024, Taizhou (台州) issued administrative compliance guidelines for the eyewear and eyewear accessories industry, guiding enterprises to transform "price competition" into "technology competition." In terms of technical tackling, a "Mirror Enjoy Future" comprehensive service platform was built, attracting 36 "shared talent officers" to remotely settle in, introducing innovative achievements from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other regions to the front line of enterprise production, and promoting continuous breakthroughs in technologies such as lens color change range and lightweight design; In the testing link, the Donghua University Testing Laboratory (东华大学检测实验室) and the Taizhou Eyewear Chamber of Commerce (台州市眼镜商会) jointly established a Taizhou office. In the past, enterprises had to run to Shanghai to test products, but now they can be completed locally, which improves efficiency and reduces the average testing cost by 50%.
"To break the involution with innovation, the key is to help enterprises establish and improve a quality management system." Li Sendi, Director of the Taizhou Municipal Administration for Market Regulation (台州市市场监督管理局), used data to speak: In 2024, the qualified rate of Taizhou eyewear spot checks was 94.3%, an increase of 16 percentage points compared to 2022.
Relying on innovative "internal skills" to jump out of the involution "vortex," many Taizhou eyewear brands have broken into the big market: Jingke Eyewear Co., Ltd. (镜客眼镜有限公司) invested 2 million yuan to develop feather titanium frames, which are as light as a piece of A4 paper, and the price has increased by 6 times; Dimai Optical Eyewear Co., Ltd. (迪迈光学眼镜有限公司) launched Bluetooth sunglasses, which can make voice calls with a light touch of the temples... The Taizhou (Duqiao) International Eyewear Exhibition (台州（杜桥）国际眼镜展) held last year attracted more than 7,000 buyers from more than 50 countries to participate in the exhibition, with a transaction volume of more than 100 million yuan.
Looking at Investment Promotion Transformation from a Local Perspective
Transforming "preferential policies" into "optimizing the environment," exploring professional and market-oriented investment attraction models, and competing on services rather than preferential treatment.
High-quality enterprises are "sweet pastries" that all regions are vying for. How can they be attracted?
In order to attract enterprises to settle down, many places often implement preferential policies such as tax reductions and exemptions and financial subsidies. Jiaozuo (焦作) in Henan (河南), which rose because of coal and is wholeheartedly seeking transformation, is no exception.
"Seemingly real money support is actually a helpless move under the mutual comparison of many places." Ren Lihong, Director of the Jiaozuo Municipal Bureau of Commerce (焦作市商务局), bluntly said that in the past, when attracting investment, enterprises first asked "what preferential policies are there?" "If other places give preferential policies, you have to increase the amount and give more, and 'involution' is formed."
Some local governments dig up each other's existing enterprises, which cannot bring incremental growth to the national economic development, but also increase the fluke mentality of some enterprises.
"Some enterprises go to this city and county to ask for 'preferential treatment,' and then go to another city and county to ask for it. Not only is there a risk of overdrawing finances, but it is also easy to cause a decrease in policy effectiveness, attracting enterprises that are not suitable for local development, leading to resource misallocation," Ren Lihong said.
To break the "involution-style" competition, the key is to coordinate the relationship between an active government and an effective market. The more standardized the government's behavior, the more effective the market's role.
The "Decision" of the 20th Third Plenary Session of the Party proposed: "Standardize local investment promotion regulations and systems, and strictly prohibit illegal and irregular policy preferences."
In August 2024, Jiaozuo City (焦作市) announced the results of the cleanup of investment promotion policies, deciding to abolish 3 policy documents that conflicted with relevant laws and regulations, such as the "Notice of the Jiaozuo Municipal People's Government on Issuing the Jiaozuo City Investment Promotion Preferential Support Policies" (《焦作市人民政府关于印发焦作市招商引资优惠支持政策的通知》).
If we don't compete on preferential policies, how should investment promotion work be carried out?
Focusing on problems and consolidating responsibilities. Jiaozuo City (焦作市) holds a "Key Industrial Chain Group Cultivation and Investment Promotion Scheduling Meeting" every two weeks. The city's main leaders take the lead, and relevant municipal departments and districts and counties report on the progress of investment promotion and existing problems one by one, and discuss solutions.
On a recent investment promotion progress chart, the reporter saw that the progress of each project from investment promotion and signing to commencement was noted. Unresolved items are marked with a cross, and resolved items are marked with a checkmark. The city leaders ask about each unresolved issue and how to solve it in the next step, and implement it to individuals. At the next meeting, they will be asked again to form a full-cycle tracking service.
Tracking services to form synergy. Investment promotion is not the work of the Municipal Bureau of Commerce (市商务局) alone. The Municipal Development and Reform Commission (市发展改革委), the Bureau of Industry and Information Technology (工信), the Finance Bureau (财政) and other departments must provide supporting policies and jointly promote investment.
We must also innovate working methods. Wuzhi County (武陟县) in Jiaozuo City (焦作市) has adopted the "special post, special salary" method since 2022, and has successively introduced more than 20 professional and technical talents to form an investment promotion team. The county uses the form of entrustment and purchase of services, and the investment promotion team introduces high-quality projects, which has become an effective supplement to local investment promotion.
"In the past, the government selected businesses. With the increasing specialization of investment promotion, it is difficult to attract good projects by relying solely on comrades from relevant departments." Qian Baoxing, Deputy Secretary of the Party Working Committee and Deputy Director of the Management Committee of the Wuzhi Economic and Technological Development Zone (武陟经济技术开发区), said frankly.
How is "special post, special salary" implemented?
Wuzhi County (武陟县) uses Xingfucheng Industrial Investment Operation Group Co., Ltd. (幸福城产业投资运营集团有限公司) as the main operating company, publicly recruits and selects the best, and specially hires a number of professional talents from the financial and legal fields from Beijing (北京), Wuhan (武汉) and other places as investment promotion personnel. Liu Na, General Manager of Xingfucheng Industrial Investment Operation Group (幸福城产业投资运营集团), is one of them, "We don't occupy the establishment, and the salary is determined according to the investment promotion performance. There are bonuses for completing the investment promotion tasks."
According to regulations, 70% of the salary of investment promotion personnel is the post salary and 30% is the performance salary. At the same time, investment promotion personnel need to sign a target responsibility letter, obtain performance salaries with different coefficients according to 5 assessment levels, and adopt a last-place elimination system to achieve the goal of those who are capable go up, those who are mediocre give way, and those who are incompetent go down. "Currently, 2 investment promotion personnel have been eliminated," Liu Na said.
What are the changes when professional talents engage in investment promotion?
As soon as Liu Na and her colleagues arrived in Wuzhi (武陟), they set the investment promotion ideas: Zhengzhou (郑州) is vigorously developing the new energy vehicle industry, and Wuzhi County (武陟县) is adjacent to Zhengzhou (郑州), and can take advantage of the trend to develop the auto parts supporting industry. However, as a county, it is difficult to attract leading parts supporting enterprises to settle down. Therefore, focusing on the investment promotion of second-level parts supporting enterprises is a pragmatic and feasible direction.
This idea was recognized by the county, and the investment promotion team quickly produced a map of secondary component supporting enterprises, searching and contacting them 按图索骥 (àn tú suǒ jì - "follow the map to find the horse," to act according to plan; to follow clues to find something). Through efforts, companies such as Henan Lanpu Electrical Technology Co., Ltd. were introduced. Currently, Lanpu's factory in the Wuzhi Economic Development Zone (武陟经开区) has been built and is debugging equipment, and is about to start trial production. After reaching full production, the annual output value will be about 150 million yuan.
Let professional people do professional things. Since Wuzhi (武陟) implemented the "special post, special salary" investment promotion mechanism, it has cumulatively introduced 26 projects with a contracted amount of 8.7 billion yuan.
The change in investment promotion reflects a change in thinking. "Changing 'preferential policies' to 'optimized environment,' we no longer compete on preferential policies, but on service, cadre style, and business environment." Ren Lihong (任立宏) introduced that in the first half of this year, Jiaozuo City (焦作市) newly signed 230 domestic projects from outside the province, ranking first in the province.
The change in thinking has brought about a change in the environment, and enterprises have the most say. In Wuzhi (武陟), Henan Hongqiao Cable Co., Ltd. (河南宏桥线缆有限公司) built a new bridge cable production base. From settlement to the completion and commissioning of the first phase of the project, the government provided full-process tracking services, taking less than a year. Cao Dongwei (曹东伟), the relevant person in charge of the company, said with emotion that compared with the financial rewards given by the government, they would rather see the transformation of the business environment. "With a better business environment, we can earn much more money than financial rewards!"
(This series of reports ends here)
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After cleaning up and halting unconventional preferential policies, some enterprises that settled in Wuzhi County (武陟县), Jiaozuo (焦作), Henan (河南) Province, reflected: "We are developing better!" "We have more confidence!"
This phenomenon seems unexpected, but upon closer examination, it is reasonable.
In previous years, some places competed with each other using unconventional preferential policies, resulting in **内卷** (nèi juǎn - "involution," excessive internal competition). Some enterprises tasted the sweetness and moved for profit. When settling in a place, they focused on cheaper land prices and more tax rebates, but ignored factors such as whether the local facilities were sound, whether there were enough industrial workers, and whether the market was a good fit. As a result, there were more and more constraints on the development of enterprises after they settled...
Now, as various places continue to clean up and halt unconventional investment promotion policies, the government has more funds to improve infrastructure and more energy to do practical things for enterprises. Enterprises have also calmed down and chosen suitable locations from their own development perspectives, resulting in more breakthroughs in production and operation. This change fully demonstrates that rectifying "involutionary" competition is a systematic project that relies on the joint efforts and comprehensive measures of industries, enterprises, and governments.
The industry should play the role of "ecological reconstructor." Taking the e-commerce industry as an example, platform enterprises gather industry data and resources, which can not only provide a panoramic view but also "adjust the layout." They are an important force in breaking the industry's involution. At present, small and medium-sized businesses are small in scale and weak in their ability to resist risks. They urgently need platforms to continuously improve rules and optimize the ecosystem to give them more support. In the long run, the better the small and medium-sized businesses are, the more the platform's development can **水涨船高** (shuǐ zhǎng chuán gāo - "when the water rises, the boat floats," things improve as general conditions improve).
Enterprises must seek impetus from innovation and efficiency from quality. After all, attracting customers through low prices may initially taste sweet, but in the long run, it will destroy the foundation of the enterprise's survival. Only by jumping out of the rut of low-level competition and creating products that are "unique" or "better than others" is the only way to achieve sustainable development.
The government needs to accelerate the transformation of its development thinking. What to compete on if not preferential policies? Many enterprises have put forward demands: optimize the business environment, improve efficiency, and provide complete infrastructure and industrial chain support... These are more attractive than tax incentives and policy preferences.
Comprehensive rectification of "involutionary" competition cannot be achieved overnight or with one single solution. We should consider the long-term, follow economic laws, unify the standards of government behavior, gather the strength of all parties, take multiple measures, and work persistently to make the unified national market a large stage for fair competition among all types of business entities.
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In recent years, pickleball has developed rapidly. This emerging sport, which combines the characteristics of tennis, badminton, and table tennis, is relatively simple to learn and full of fun, attracting many enthusiasts. How to "unlock" pickleball? This guide will help you understand.
I. Basic Rules
(1) Court and Stance
The pickleball court is 13.4 meters long and 6.1 meters wide. The following areas on the court need attention.
Baseline, Centerline: When serving, the player must stand behind the baseline, and the ball must cross the centerline and be served into the opponent's valid service area.
Kitchen (Non-Volley Zone): The area within 2.13 meters of the net. Players are prohibited from volleying in this area.
(2) Serving Rules
Serving Method: It is recommended that beginners use an underhand serve. When serving, the head of the racket should be lower than the wrist, and the ball should be hit with an upward trajectory, with the hitting point below the waist.
Serve Diagonally: The ball must be served to the opponent's diagonal service area. Touching the net does not result in a re-serve.
Single Foot Touching Line Restriction: At least one foot must be behind the baseline when serving, and the line cannot be stepped on before the ball is served and lands.
Kitchen (Non-Volley Zone): The ball cannot land in this area when serving.
(3) Scoring Mechanism
When using the "serve to score" system, the specific rules are as follows.
Serving Position: The side that gains the right to serve must serve from the right side.
Serving Right Rotation: In doubles matches, each of the two players on each team has one chance to serve. If both players fail to serve, the serve is transferred to the opponent. At the beginning of each game, the serving side only has one chance to serve.
Receiving Side Does Not Score: When the serving side has the right to serve, the receiving side does not score even if the serving side makes a mistake.
When using the "rally scoring" system, the specific rules are as follows.
Serving Position: When the serving side's score is odd, serve from the left side of the court; when the score is even, serve from the right side of the court.
Serving Right Rotation: Each team only has one chance to serve. If the serve is missed, the serve is transferred to the opponent, and the opponent scores.
(4) Double Bounce Rule
After the ball is served and bounces once, the receiving side must wait for the ball to bounce again before hitting it. From the third shot onwards, both players are free to choose to let the ball bounce before hitting it, or to volley it directly.
II. Practical Tips
When serving, you can start with the grip, stance, and ball toss.
Grip Method: It is recommended to use the "three-finger grip" to ensure the flexibility of the wrist and the stability of the shot.
Stance: Feet shoulder-width apart, move the non-racket-side foot forward about 15 centimeters, and the body forms a 45-degree angle with the baseline.
Ball Toss Height: Toss the ball to a height of 25-30 centimeters from the ground, and hit the ball when it falls below the waist to reduce the probability of touching the net.
Kinetic Chain Conduction: It can be divided into three stages of force: pushing off the ground and rotating the hips, sending the shoulder and swinging the arm, and locking the wrist.
When hitting the ball, you can pay attention to the following aspects.
Forehand Baseline Drive: Applicable when the opponent's return is deep. The hitting point is 30 centimeters in front of the body, and the racket face should be kept as perpendicular to the ground as possible.
Net Volley: Applicable when the opponent returns a short ball. Fix the elbow joint 25 centimeters in front of the body and push slightly when hitting the ball.
III. Key Points
If you exercise improperly when playing pickleball, it may lead to some sports injuries, such as wrist tenosynovitis, knee joint strain, etc. To prevent these injuries, it is recommended to wear wrist muscle tape and patellar straps, and use a fascia gun to relax the forearm extensor muscles after exercise.
In the game, beginners should pay attention to developing tactical awareness. You can adopt a "70% defense + 30% offense" mode, giving priority to ensuring the depth of the return and avoiding mistakes due to blind offense.
In terms of equipment selection, it is recommended to choose a professional carbon fiber pickleball racket weighing 200-240 grams.
(Chen Zifeng (陈紫风) participated in the writing)
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Short-distance sprints, fast-paced ball hitting, three-dimensional spatial thinking... Squash has gained many fans at the Chengdu World Games, which recently concluded.
Squash, cricket, flag football, and two other sports have been added to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. In March of this year, the General Administration of Sport of China (国家体育总局) initiated a pilot program, entrusting local authorities to manage national teams in cricket and squash, which received enthusiastic responses from various regions. After open application and comprehensive evaluation, the Zhejiang Provincial Sports Bureau (浙江省体育局) was ultimately entrusted with managing the national cricket team, and the Sichuan Provincial Sports Bureau (四川省体育局) with managing the national squash team.
At the Chengdu World Games, the national squash team sent 11 athletes to participate. Although no one made it past the first round, the young players continued to fight in the consolation matches, with Liu Ziyi (刘子仪) winning the first World Games victory for the Chinese squash team. "The younger generation is the future of Chinese squash, and they still have a lot of room for improvement," said Islam, the Egyptian coach of the national squash team.
Recently, the General Administration of Sport of China (国家体育总局) issued the "Administrative Measures for Cooperative Establishment of National High-Level Sports Teams (Trial Implementation)." According to the person in charge of the Competitive Sports Department of the General Administration of Sport of China (国家体育总局竞体司), the measures, through the formulation of implementation plans and agreement framework templates, scientifically and rationally divide rights and responsibilities, delegate more power and enable local authorities, and transfer core rights related to the establishment, participation, market development, and application and hosting of international events of national teams, fully stimulating the enthusiasm of local participation.
Innovating and reforming the establishment model of national high-level sports teams is the key to the current development of competitive sports. "Through one to two Olympic cycles of cultivation, it is expected that a group of qualified provincial sports administrative departments will be able to **独当一面** (dú dāng yī miàn - "take charge of one aspect," to assume sole responsibility) in the Olympic preparation tasks, expanding the original Olympic preparation model centered on project management units into a new model of 'project management unit + provincial sports department' jointly participating in Olympic preparation, and building a more dynamic competitive cooperation relationship," said Huang Haiyan (黄海燕), Dean of the School of Management at Beijing Sport University (北京体育大学).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 季 芳
At the recently concluded Chengdu World Games, 29-year-old Chinese athlete Shang Chunsong (商春松) won the gold medal in the women's freestyle parkour final. Standing on the highest podium, the tear stains on her face were still wet.
Before the award ceremony, a dramatic scene unfolded. Originally, Shang Chunsong's (商春松) final performance earned her 22.7 points, just 0.2 points behind the gold medal. However, after a post-match review, the judging panel determined there was a misjudgment and ultimately raised Shang Chunsong's (商春松) score to 24.7 points, surpassing Japanese athlete Nagai Otone (永井音宁).
Why the reversal? Zhou Jun (周俊), who served as a judge on-site, explained: "When the athlete landed, the judges in the stands had a visual blind spot. Initially, they thought Shang Chunsong (商春松) hit her head during the roll, so they deducted 3 points." But after the competition, the judges in the field raised objections. After reviewing the game footage, the judging panel changed the 3-point deduction to a 1-point deduction according to the rules.
This World Games gold medal allowed Shang Chunsong (商春松) to achieve a Grand Slam in individual parkour events.
Shang Chunsong (商春松) was once the captain of the Chinese women's gymnastics team, winning a bronze medal with her teammates in the women's team event at the 2016 Rio Olympics. In the uneven bars event, the "Shang Chunsong (商春松) Tumble" move is named after her. Unfortunately, in her more than 10-year gymnastics career, Shang Chunsong (商春松) never reached the highest podium at the World Championships or the Olympics.
After retiring, Shang Chunsong (商春松) was also confused. Later, inspired by her predecessors, she decided to try parkour. She was already 26 years old when she made this decision.
"Gymnastics involves doing fixed movements on equipment and is protected by soft mats, while freestyle parkour requires improvising movements based on the props in different venues," said Shang Chunsong (商春松). "Parkour is a hard landing, which requires overcoming psychological fear."
Thanks to her years of gymnastics foundation, Shang Chunsong (商春松) quickly adapted to the rhythm of parkour. With unremitting efforts, she improved rapidly. In 2023, just over a year after switching to parkour, Shang Chunsong (商春松) successfully won the National Parkour Championships; in 2024, she won China's first World Cup champion and World Championship champion in parkour.
"She is a very talented athlete with a persistent spirit," coach Sun Jie (孙洁) commented on Shang Chunsong (商春松) after the game. "In training, for difficult movements, even if she fails many times, she will practice repeatedly until she **'抠'下来为止** (kōu xià lái wéi zhǐ - "to 'dig' it down until it stops," to meticulously work on something until it is perfected)."
Stepping onto a new track, Shang Chunsong's (商春松) dream continues, "I look forward to the day when parkour enters the Olympics, and I will have the opportunity to return to the Olympic arena."
There is no standard answer on the parkour track. In Shang Chunsong's (商春松) view, life is the same. "Parkour requires constantly breaking through obstacles and overcoming fear; life will also encounter ups and downs. As long as you keep a calm mind, any low point can pass."
Return to TopThe mighty Yangtze River, with its myriad sights, nourishes the land of Ba Yu and irrigates its vibrant vitality. As an important section of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, the Sichuan River is not only a golden waterway but also a cradle of culture, carrying the historical memory of Sichuan River shipping.
The river flows, witnessing great changes. On August 15, the Sichuan River Shipping Culture Park officially opened, becoming a new cultural landmark in Jiangbei District (江北区), Chongqing (重庆). The Sichuan River Shipping Culture Park is based on the "Minsheng Machinery Factory Site (民生机器厂旧址)," covering an area of 100,000 square meters. With the theme of "Torrential River Boats," it connects indoor exhibitions, outdoor parks, and underground air-raid shelters through mountain city trails, creating a unique landscape of "Three-Dimensional Sichuan River," becoming a brilliant "new pearl" of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park and a shining "new coordinate" of the Bashu Cultural Tourism Corridor.
Traditional cultural relics and modern technology collide, bursting forth with new vitality in cultural inheritance. From a high-altitude perspective, the main building of the Sichuan River Shipping Culture Park presents the appearance of a giant ship sailing against the waves, the entire building seemingly navigating the rapids of the Sichuan River. Stepping into the park, mottled engine equipment and precious cultural relics allow visitors to deeply appreciate the weight of history; technologies such as digital twins, virtual reality, and holographic images allow visitors to immerse themselves in the vicissitudes of Sichuan River shipping and the ambition of Lu Zuofu (卢作孚), a pioneer of China's shipping industry, to save the country through industry, and to appreciate the spirit of striving forward on the Sichuan River...
In addition, the park permanently hosts the "Striving on the Sichuan River (奋楫川江)" cultural exhibition, which is divided into five distinct themed chapters. Among them, "Ancient Sichuan River, Silhouette of the Boat Tracker (古川江 纤夫影)" captures the struggling figures of the boat trackers battling dangerous shoals; "Opening of the River Gate, Sound of the Engine (江门开 轮机响)" records the budding development of national industry; "Patriotic Heart, Industrialist (赤子心 实业家)" highlights the patriotic feelings of love for the country; "Backbone Supporting in the Flames of War (烽火中 脊梁擎)" eulogizes the national integrity during the Anti-Japanese War; "New Era, New Journey, New Chongqing (新时代 新征程 新重庆)" showcases the brand-new appearance of the Sichuan River... From the ropes of the boat trackers to the whistles of the ships, from the flames of war during the Anti-Japanese War to the voyage of the new era, the five chapters are interlocked, jointly depicting a historical scroll of Sichuan River culture.
The construction of the Sichuan River Shipping Culture Park demonstrates Jiangbei District's (江北区) commitment to inheriting and promoting Sichuan River culture, is a true reflection of Jiangbei District's (江北区) integration into the construction of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park, and is also a vivid practice of Jiangbei District's (江北区) integration into the construction of the Bashu Cultural Tourism Corridor.
Developing through protection, and protecting through development. In recent years, Jiangbei District (江北区), relying on its rich historical and cultural resources, has deeply explored the Bayu culture, the Anti-Japanese War culture, and the immigrant culture, among other Chongqing Yangtze River cultural identification systems, cultivated and created the Xu Beihong Art Block (徐悲鸿艺术街区), built the Ba Ren Jishui Park (巴人汲水公园) and the Xu Beihong (Chongqing) Art Museum (徐悲鸿（重庆）美术馆), and successively planned nine Xu Beihong themed exhibitions such as "Climbing a Hundred Zhangs is a Long and Difficult Road (汲登百丈路迢迢)," exhibiting more than 400 original works by Xu Beihong (徐悲鸿), attracting more than 100,000 visitors. Vigorously promote the construction of the Yangpao Bureau 1862 Cultural and Creative Park (洋炮局1862文创园), creating a domestic military industry themed tourist destination. The first phase of the project has been completed and opened, becoming a popular tourist destination in Chongqing (重庆). Promote the transformation of the Minsheng Machinery Factory Site (民生机器厂旧址) into the Sichuan River Shipping Culture Park. A series of pragmatic measures have not only promoted the protection and utilization of historical and cultural heritage, but also integrated Yangtze River culture into the urban development fabric.
In addition, as an important node of the Bashu Cultural Tourism Corridor, Jiangbei District (江北区) actively integrates into the joint construction of the "Yu-in-Rong-out (渝进蓉出)" and "Rong-in-Yu-out (蓉进渝出)" high-quality tourism routes of the Bashu Cultural Tourism Corridor, vigorously promotes the construction of major commercial, tourism, cultural, and sports projects such as the Guanyinqiao World-Renowned Business District (观音桥世界知名商圈) and the Wubao International Sports and Leisure Town (五宝国际运动休闲小镇), lights up themed consumption scenarios such as art experiences, urban small theater performances, marathon events, and "Yu Flavor 360 Bowls (渝味360碗)," and shapes a new highland for Bashu cultural tourism characteristic consumption. From January to July this year, the district received 38.7858 million domestic and foreign tourists, an increase of 10.35% year-on-year, of which 57,600 were inbound tourists, an increase of 75.94% year-on-year.
From protecting historical relics to innovating cultural expression, from creating single attractions to integrating cultural tourism across the region, Jiangbei District (江北区) is exploring a new path of coordinated progress between cultural inheritance and urban development. In the future, Jiangbei District (江北区) will take the opening of the "Qianli Qingzhou (千里轻舟)" freight liner as an opportunity to upgrade and create projects such as the Sichuan River Shipping Culture Park, continue to promote the construction of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park, and continuously improve cultural tourism supporting facilities and service quality, so that more "sleeping" historical and cultural resources can be revitalized, and contribute "Jiangbei strength" to the construction of the Bashu Cultural Tourism Corridor.
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Chongqing Jiangbei District Committee (中共重庆市江北区委宣传部)
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Return to TopBy: 环球人物记者 田 亮 环球时报记者 樊 巍 本报记者 姜 波
Traveling west along the Hexi Corridor to Jiuquan (酒泉), Gansu, and then taking a bus north from Jiuquan (酒泉) for 6 hours, you arrive at Dalaihubu Town (达来呼布镇), the seat of the Ejina Banner government in Alxa League (阿拉善盟), Inner Mongolia, which has the largest area, the smallest population, and is the location of the Dongfeng Space City (东风航天城) (Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (酒泉卫星发射中心)). Then, transfer to a car and continue north for more than an hour to reach Ceke Port (策克口岸). This small border town deep in the desert has a permanent population of only a few thousand people, but it often sees visitors from home and abroad who have come from thousands of miles away.
"Ceke (策克)" means "river bend" in Mongolian. This oasis in the vast Gobi Desert has several rivers distributed on its east and west sides. The "Heihe River (黑河)" (anciently known as Ruoshui (弱水), with "Ejina (额济纳)" meaning "Black Water"), China's second largest inland river originating from the northern foothills of the Qilian Mountains (祁连山), has multiple tributaries flowing into the inland lake "Juyan Lake (居延海)" a few dozen kilometers away. This is an important node and transportation hub on the ancient Silk Road. Wang Wei (王维) of the Tang Dynasty mentioned "Juyan (居延)" in his poem "An Envoy to the Frontier," leaving behind the famous lines "In the vast desert, a lone smoke rises straight; on the long river, the setting sun is round." During the Yuan Dynasty, the Italian traveler Marco Polo traveled north from here and was deeply impressed by the "frequent traffic of caravans." During the Qing Dynasty, the "Daku Camel Trail" from Dalaihubu Town (达来呼布镇) to Kulun (库伦) (now Ulaanbaatar (乌兰巴托), the capital of Mongolia), a city in the heart of the Mongolian grasslands, also passed through this area.
Today, Ceke Port (策克口岸) is an important international channel for Alxa League (阿拉善盟) to open to the outside world, and it is also a land port shared by five provinces and regions: Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, and Qinghai. Each year, tens of millions of tons of goods are imported and exported, and hundreds of thousands of people cross the border. As an important transportation hub and distribution center in Northwest China connecting Mongolia, Ceke Port (策克口岸) carries the important mission of tightening the ties of economic, trade, and cultural exchanges with surrounding areas.
The Charm of Camel Bells in the River Bend—
Continuing the Legend of the Millennium-Old Trade Route
The Ceke Port International Cultural Tourism Zone (策克口岸国际文化旅游区) is a national 4A-level tourist attraction. A group of camel sculptures facing north and carrying large boxes of goods attracts many tourists to stop and admire. Historically, during the peak season for transportation, the sound of camel bells rang out here, and camel caravans traveled back and forth, either heading north fully loaded with silk, tea, and groceries, or heading south carrying furs, medicinal materials, and other goods. Today, border residents' mutual trade makes this place full of life.
To the east of the majestic Ceke Port (策克口岸) national gate is a row of commercial districts, complete with shops, restaurants, and cultural facilities, attracting many tourists and bustling with activity during holidays. To the west of the national gate, rows of white buildings resembling Mongolian yurts are neatly arranged; this is the China-Mongolia Border Residents' Mutual Trade Zone. Zhang Rui (张锐), a staff member at Ceke Port (策克口岸), introduced that since 2014, after continuous construction and improvement, the China-Mongolia Border Residents' Mutual Trade Zone has gradually taken shape. Relying on this platform, the port regularly holds special commodity fairs, which have gathered popularity and driven border tourism.
On January 16, 2024, the first Alxa International New Year Shopping Festival (阿拉善国际年货节) was held at Ceke Port (策克口岸), lasting for 21 days and showcasing more than 3,000 kinds of goods from more than 30 countries. "After seeing the news, I drove more than 600 kilometers to get here. The variety of goods here is rich and the prices are reasonable, and I have gained a lot," said a tourist from Zhangye (张掖), Gansu. During the National Day holiday of the same year, the 5th China (Ejina) Port International Commodity Fair (中国（额济纳）第五届口岸国际商品博览会) and the 19th China-Mongolia Border Residents' Mutual Trade Fair of Ceke Port Economic Development Zone (策克口岸经济开发区2024年第十九届中蒙边民互市贸易博览会) were held here, once again attracting many merchants. A Mongolian merchant who often participates in exhibitions at Ceke Port (策克口岸) praised: "Ceke Port (策克口岸) has complete exhibition infrastructure and a large flow of customers, and the exhibition income is very considerable."
Ceke Port (策克口岸) also frequently holds sports competitions, international cultural tourism festivals, and other activities, making this border town full of vitality and showing an international flair. With the continuous improvement of infrastructure, the port's development momentum is getting stronger and stronger. In 2024, the total volume of import and export freight exceeded 24 million tons, an increase of 24.8% year-on-year, hitting a record high; the number of inbound and outbound personnel reached 392,500, an increase of 23.36% year-on-year. In 2025, the throughput of Ceke Port (策克口岸) is expected to reach 26 million tons.
The Affection of Cross-Border Buses—
Carrying the Expectations of Border Residents of Both Countries
Ceke Port (策克口岸) has an international bus that travels daily between Ceke Port (策克口岸) and the Shiberkhuran Port (西伯库伦口岸) in Mongolia. Driver Yan Jianzhong (燕建忠) has been holding the steering wheel for more than a decade. Some people jokingly say to him: "You must be the person in the country who goes abroad the most every year!" This is not an exaggeration—Yan Jianzhong travels back and forth between the ports of the two countries twice a day, and he goes abroad almost every day of the year.
This international bus facilitates the people on both sides of the border. Even staff from the Commerce Bureau of Subei Mongolian Autonomous County (肃北蒙古族自治县) in Jiuquan (酒泉), Gansu, which is more than 900 kilometers away, take this bus to go abroad for exchanges.
Yan Jianzhong (燕建忠), 58, is a native of Ejina Banner (额济纳旗). Ceke Port (策克口岸) was opened in 1992, and at that time it was a seasonal port. Yan Jianzhong ran freight transport all over the country. In 2007, with the increase in personnel exchanges between China and Mongolia, he switched to passenger transport, departing from Dalaihubu Town (达来呼布镇) to Ceke Port (策克口岸), running for only 20 days a quarter. In 2009, the port achieved year-round customs clearance, and cross-border international buses began to operate in both directions, and his route became longer and longer.
In September 2014, Yan Jianzhong's bus route was extended to the county seat of Gurvan Tes (古尔班特斯县) in South Gobi Province (南戈壁省), Mongolia. "At that time, we ran twice a week: departing from Dalaihubu (达来呼布) on Monday, passing through Ceke Port (策克口岸), and arriving at the local county seat around 12:00 noon, staying overnight in the county seat; departing from the county seat at 10:40 am on Tuesday, arriving at Shiberkhuran Port (西伯库伦口岸) at 1:00 pm, and then re-entering China after the Mongolian side opened the gate at 2:00 pm." His wife understands Mongolian and runs the bus with him, serving as both a ticket inspector and a translator. The couple's bus has become a "mobile bridge" for communication between border residents of the two countries.
Yan Jianzhong (燕建忠) recalled that at that time, there was a bank in Shiberkhuran Port (西伯库伦口岸), Mongolia, which often entrusted them to transfer cash. When the cash accumulated to a certain amount, it was packed in boxes, sealed, and handed over to them to be sent to the county bank; when the port bank needed cash, the county bank would also seal it and hand it over to the bus for transportation. "At that time, their conditions were limited, and they did not have special transportation tools, so they handed the boxes over to us and were particularly relieved," Yan Jianzhong (燕建忠) said with a smile, "At that time, our bus was their 'cash transport vehicle.'" Some Mongolian border residents also used the bus to do cross-border small business—purchasing daily necessities in China and then taking the bus back to their country to sell them. Yan Jianzhong (燕建忠) said that he was also very happy to see the surrounding residents using the money they earned to improve their lives.
Today, Yan Jianzhong's (燕建忠) bus travels back and forth between the ports of the two countries twice a day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon. The wheels are rolling, carrying the border residents of both countries' yearning for a better life.
The Smoothness of Intelligent Customs Clearance—
Pioneering Unmanned Cross-Border Transportation
The freight channel at Ceke Port (策克口岸) is very busy. Thousands of truck drivers travel back and forth between China and Mongolia, many of whom are Mongolian drivers like Dubuxingjirigala (都布兴吉日嘎拉).
Dubuxingjirigala (都布兴吉日嘎拉), 56, comes from Ulaanbaatar (乌兰巴托) and has been engaged in cargo transportation for 10 years. He is now employed by a company in Inner Mongolia and drives a large truck with 4 carriages. At Ceke Port (策克口岸), he told reporters: "The port closed at 8:00 last night, and I came in at 7:00 and spent the night in the drivers' dormitory." According to company staff, many Mongolian truck drivers are the pillars of their families. They earn at least four or five hundred yuan and up to thousands of yuan for a trip from Mongolia to Ceke Port (策克口岸). This transportation line has become their "road to prosperity."
Technological innovation at Ceke Port (策克口岸) has also provided convenience for Dubuxingjirigalas (都布兴吉日嘎拉) and others. In 2022, Ceke Port (策克口岸) launched the country's first unmanned cross-border transportation mode using automated guided vehicles. "These vehicles have no cab and only have a cargo-carrying body, and they do not require driver control throughout the entire process. We send empty containers to the Mongolian side, and then the Mongolian side loads them with goods and pulls them back to the Chinese side, and the cycle runs fully automatically," said Chen Chen (陈琛), deputy general manager of Ejina Banner Haotong Energy Co., Ltd. (额济纳旗浩通能源有限公司).
"Automated guided vehicles are guided by magnetic nails buried underground. When the vehicle passes over the magnetic nails, the magnetic nail antenna panel installed at the bottom energizes the magnetic nails through electromagnetic induction and reads the location information. Each magnetic nail is like a 'rail' buried underground," said Geng Zikuan (耿自宽), the project leader of the company's automated guided vehicles. He said that this technology is already very mature in port terminals, but Ceke Port (策克口岸) is the first in the country to apply it to cross-border transportation. This greatly shortens the customs clearance and inspection process—in the traditional mode, a one-stop joint inspection of people and vehicles takes about 3 minutes, while automated guided vehicles eliminate the need for sanitary quarantine inspection of people, and inspection can be completed in about 1 minute.
Remote control driving is also showing its skills here. A remote control driving device from Inner Mongolia Dechuang Energy Co., Ltd. (内蒙古德创能源有限公司) has recently been put into use. The driver can sit in the studio and load the containers outside the operating room onto the truck, which is both safe and efficient. "Automated guided vehicles and remote control driving are Ceke Port's (策克口岸) exploration of technology and also the future trend," said Bai Geli (白戈力), deputy director of the Port Affairs Bureau of Ceke Port Economic Development Zone (策克口岸经济开发区口岸事务局). "With the application of new technologies, Ceke Port (策克口岸) is becoming more and more vibrant. The port not only radiates the five northwestern provinces and regions, but also reaches Qujing (曲靖), Yunnan, 2,700 kilometers away. We also have several trade companies from Chongqing here."
From the melodious sound of ancient camel caravans to the rolling wheels of trucks today; from a seasonal border crossing to an intelligent customs clearance international hub... Ceke Port (策克口岸), deep in the desert, is using its responsibility as a "channel" and its posture as a "bridge" to bring people thousands of miles away closer and closer, and to write more and more new stories of benefiting the surrounding areas and achieving mutual benefit and win-win results.
Link·Alxa League (阿拉善盟), Inner Mongolia
Alxa League (阿拉善盟) is located in the westernmost part of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and is known as the "Land of Colorful Splendor." It has jurisdiction over 3 border banners and two border ports, Ceke (策克) and Uliji (乌力吉), with a total border line of 735 kilometers. The Ejina Populus Euphratica Forest (额济纳胡杨林), one of the three largest Populus euphratica forests in the world, and the Dongfeng Space City (东风航天城) (Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (酒泉卫星发射中心)), one of the three major manned spaceflight centers in the world, are located here. The Juyan Han Bamboo Slips (居延汉简) unearthed in the Ejina area are known as one of the four major discoveries of ancient Chinese documents in the early 20th century.
Relying on its geographical advantages, Alxa League (阿拉善盟) has carried out in-depth cooperation with neighboring provinces in Mongolia in many fields. In 2024, the total value of foreign trade import and export of the league reached 14.206 billion yuan, an increase of 8.71% year-on-year. The league established friendly relations with South Gobi Province (南戈壁省), Mongolia in 2015, and established friendly cooperative relations with Khangai Province (前杭爱省) and Bayankhongor Province (巴彦洪戈尔省), Mongolia in 2024. The league is continuing to promote the intelligent construction of ports and cross-border tourism cooperation, expand the connection with foreign industrial chain supply chains, and comprehensively improve the level of opening up to the outside world.
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From an ancient strategic border area to today's forefront of economic and trade, the transformation of Ceke Port (策克口岸) profoundly illustrates a principle: good neighbors, good friends, and good partners are an active choice of sharing the same breath and destiny.
Economic and trade exchanges are the blood vessels of "sharing the same breath." In December last year, 5 tons of fresh vegetables were transported directly to South Gobi Province (南戈壁省) in Mongolia through Ceke Port (策克口岸), opening up a new green fruit and vegetable transportation channel for the local area; in July this year, the Ceke Port (策克口岸) 110 kV power transmission project to Mongolia was officially put into operation, allowing the mining area of South Gobi Province (南戈壁省) in Mongolia to bid farewell to coal-fired heating, and spawning a raw coal processing industrial chain. From one-way coal transportation to two-way circulation, precise cooperation closely connects the livelihoods of the two countries, vividly interpreting that "common development is true development."
Technological progress is the engine of "sharing a common destiny." Automated guided vehicles replace camel caravans, and remote-controlled driving innovates customs clearance, doubling coal transportation efficiency. Ceke Port (策克口岸) empowered by technology transforms the understanding that 远亲不如近邻 (yuǎn qīn bù rú jìn lín - "distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors," a close neighbor is better than a distant relative) into a picture of infrastructure connectivity and smooth trade, providing a more solid support for mutual benefit and win-win results.
The transformation of Ceke Port (策克口岸) brings enlightenment: it is rare for good neighbors to have affection, and the way to get along also needs innovation. When the people of China and Mongolia share the dividends of development in economic and trade cooperation and enhance understanding and trust in cultural exchanges, "sharing the same breath and destiny" becomes a visible and tangible reality of life, laying a solid foundation for state-to-state relations and people-to-people affinity.
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Return to TopRecently, JD.com released the "2025 Enterprise Mid-Autumn Procurement Trend Insight Report" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report"). Based on a survey of hundreds of enterprise procurement personnel and thousands of employees, the report deeply explores the massive transaction data of the JD.com platform, outlining the new trend of enterprise Mid-Autumn procurement from "standardized supply" to "refined operation." The "Report" shows that healthy outdoor and digital trendy product categories have become new growth engines for enterprise procurement. Among them, healthcare, sports outdoor, and nutritional health products rank in the top three with growth rates of 61.65%, 59.66%, and 56.98% respectively, and have become the main choices for enterprise procurement. In terms of regional differences, southern regions prefer traditional pastries, while northern regions prefer rice, flour, grains, and oil. In terms of industry characteristics, Internet companies pursue customized products, while manufacturing companies prefer practical products... The "Report" provides a "trend guide" for enterprise procurement, aiming to help enterprise users do a good job in procurement, improve management efficiency, and is a practical move by JD.com to explore diverse solutions for user needs.
Quantifying "Supply" and "Demand" to Make Enterprise Procurement More Convenient
As a key link connecting enterprise organizational culture, employee emotions, and employer image, the emotional connection value of enterprise Mid-Autumn procurement is becoming increasingly prominent. The "Report" shows that more than 80% of employees believe that Mid-Autumn benefits can enhance their sense of identity with the company. In terms of category selection, 55.4% of employees pay more attention to practicality, while procurement personnel actively introduce diverse categories such as health, digital, and household cleaning products.
From the perspective of procurement personnel, employees' demands for Mid-Autumn benefits focus on "flexible autonomy, practicality, and festive characteristics." Enterprise procurement must not only meet employees' personalized selection demands but also reduce the cost of large-scale personalized adaptation. The "Report" shows that 43% of procurement personnel bluntly say that welfare homogenization is serious, and 42% of procurement personnel face the dilemma of satisfying everyone's tastes.
From the perspective of employees, employees not only adhere to the pragmatic concept of practicality first for Mid-Autumn benefits but also extend to the direction of emotional value-added. The "Report" shows that 55.4% of employees list "strong practicality" as the primary consideration, and rice, flour, grains, oil, and digital products are high-frequency choices; 36.8% of employees hope that "products are novel" and look forward to "surprises" such as cross-border co-branding and creative design; 32.4% of employees pursue the value attributes and emotional attributes of products. At the same time, the interviewed employees also put forward diverse needs such as multi-address ordering, welfare sharing with families, attention to health and wellness, and pursuit of personalized trends.
Overall, more than 70% of procurement personnel tend to seek a balance between historical data and established plans. At the same time, procurement personnel's awareness of implicit cost management has significantly increased. Employees regard practicality as the primary consideration, and some employees also look forward to diversified choices and have a strong demand for cross-category combinations that integrate tradition and fashion.
While serving the traditional procurement needs of enterprises, JD.com has developed online digital tools to optimize the enterprise procurement experience in response to new consumer demands. For example, the multi-address ordering service supports one-click submission of multiple addresses at a time, greatly compressing the time required for traditional processes; the one-click group sending function can solve problems such as employee address changes and inconvenient receipt. At the same time, the JD.com Hui Cai platform focuses on the compliance of enterprise procurement, provides customized procurement processes, and is traceable throughout the entire process from budget control to data analysis, meeting the "standardized management" needs of enterprise procurement. Data shows that these digital tools not only reduce enterprise procurement management costs by more than 30% but also alleviate the short-term financial pressure of enterprises through the "procure first, pay later" Jin Cai account period service.
Matching "Quality" and "Price" to Make Employee Care More Intimate
The "Report" shows that employees' welfare preferences have distinct regional cultural imprints. For example, the proportion of grain and oil purchased by Shandong (山东) enterprises is much higher than that of Shanghai (上海) enterprises, and the proportion of essential categories such as grain, oil, seasoning, water, beverage, and household cleaning products purchased by Heilongjiang (黑龙江) enterprises is considerable. In first-tier cities such as Beijing (北京) and Shanghai (上海), enterprise procurement choices are highly diversified, and the proportion of emerging categories such as digital trendy products and housekeeping service coupons is gradually increasing. Because Lingnan (岭南) culture attaches importance to the traditional custom of enjoying the moon and eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Guangxi (广西) has become a "mooncake essential area," and the proportion of mooncake transaction amounts in enterprise procurement leads the country.
The "Report" shows that industry differences also have a significant impact on employees' welfare choices. For example, manufacturing companies prefer traditional benefits such as mooncakes, rice, flour, grains, and oil; financial practitioners have a large age span, and fresh food and rice, flour, grains, and oil are popular; Internet practitioners are younger on average and prefer digital products, food, and beverages.
For procurement personnel, cost control of enterprise Mid-Autumn procurement is a key consideration. 49% of procurement personnel are most concerned about "the purchase price of a single product," 39% of procurement personnel are particularly wary of "implicit costs caused by poor welfare effects," and 29% of procurement personnel focus on "internal management costs." The labor and time costs consumed by processes such as product selection and price comparison, cross-departmental communication and coordination, and handling returns and exchanges have become the focus of optimization. Direct expenditure, implicit losses, and management efficiency constitute a comprehensive cost awareness of the entire procurement chain; cost priority, experience-driven, and risk avoidance have become the distinct characteristics of enterprise Mid-Autumn procurement decisions.
In the entire process of enterprise Mid-Autumn procurement, the platform role is very important. JD.com insists on strictly selecting genuine products, and the platform's self-operated product SKU (stock keeping unit) exceeds 10 million, which has won the trust of many enterprise users. The "Report" shows that online channels are increasingly favored by procurement personnel, and JD.com has become the preferred online procurement platform for many procurement personnel, and its advantages in supply chain stability, invoice management, and delivery efficiency have been recognized by enterprises. As of now, JD.com has served more than 8 million active enterprise customers, covering more than 30,000 large enterprises, more than 90% of the Fortune Global 500 enterprises in China, and nearly 70% of specialized, refined, and new enterprises.
The formation of new trends in enterprise Mid-Autumn procurement stems from the upgrading of enterprise management concepts. In this regard, JD.com will rely on its efficient supply chain network system and leading digital and intelligent procurement technology capabilities to provide customers with one-stop "product + service" procurement solutions, making enterprise procurement more convenient, employee care more intimate, helping enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency and achieve high-quality development, and boosting the further release of vitality and potential in the consumer market.
Data source: JD.com (京东)
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I was born at the Changchun Film Studio (长春电影制片厂) (formerly the Northeast Film Studio (东北电影制片厂)), known as the "cradle of new Chinese cinema." From a young age, I had the opportunity to watch various films. The various airplanes and cannons in the studios and prop workshops captivated us boys. We loved movies about the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression the most. Whenever there was a screening of such a film, my friends and I would rush to the cinema early to grab the best seats, excitedly watching the heroes on the screen strategize and fiercely strike the invaders. Whenever we encountered the actors and actresses who played the heroes in the studio, we would chase after them, asking about stories from behind the scenes. They patiently told us about the filming process, the history, and the spirit of the Chinese people's resistance against Japan. As the light flickered, a group of adolescents silently dreamed of becoming heroes, listening to the elders' stories.
From the late 1940s, Changchun Film Studio (长春电影制片厂) released many excellent domestic anti-Japanese war films, such as *Daughters of China* (《中华女儿》), *Guerrillas on the Plain* (《平原游击队》), *Zhao Yiman* (《赵一曼》), and *Two Little Eighth Route Armymen* (《两个小八路》), all of which are well-known classics. These films influenced generations of Chinese audiences and accompanied me and my peers as we grew up. Many lines from the films became our childhood game "scripts." At that time, there was always a "unlucky" friend who drew the role of the enemy and grumbled unwillingly: "高，实在是高 (gāo, shí zài shì gāo - "high, truly high," expressing admiration or grudging respect for an opponent's cleverness)." Then another child playing the hero would shout the classic line: "Don't move, hands up! I am Li Xiangyang (李向阳)!"
During my growth, in addition to domestic anti-Japanese war films, dubbed films on the theme of anti-fascism were also very popular. For example, the French film *La Grande Vadrouille*, released in 1966, tells the story of how the crew of a British Air Force bomber shot down over Paris in 1942, with the help of the citizens of Paris, broke through the Nazi siege and successfully escaped from France. The film's thrills and tension made us sweat, while its humor made everyone laugh, exclaiming that it was a great experience.
After graduating from high school, I was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama (中央戏剧学院), and later entered the National Theatre of China (国家话剧院), becoming an actor. In my more than 20 years of acting career, I have shaped many roles and realized my dream of becoming a hero. However, what I can't forget the most is not playing a hero, but a film about the experiences of ordinary Chinese people during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression - *City of Life and Death*, released in 2009. Unlike the inspiration I received when watching anti-Japanese war films as a child, the creation process of this film was extremely painful because it touched a wound in the hearts of the Chinese people that was difficult to heal, because its story took place in Nanjing (南京) in 1937.
*City of Life and Death* (《南京！南京！》) was directed by Lu Chuan (陆川) and focused on the Nanjing Massacre. I played an ordinary Chinese soldier in the film. Every staff member involved in the film knew the weight of this history. From clothing, makeup, and props to set design, every detail was made as close to reality as possible. It was this sense of reality that pushed me step by step into the reality of history: the brutal faces of the invaders, the bloody bayonets, the desperate cries of the crowd, the heartbreaking cries of children... These scenes dragged me back time and time again into the abyss into which more than 300,000 compatriots had fallen. Even when the camera stopped rolling, I couldn't control my tears. Pain, humiliation, anger, despair... The memories during the filming process were heavy, and I even wanted to quit filming several times. Not only me, but many actors in the crew suffered from severe insomnia due to that experience and were unable to calm down for a long time.
Even though we tried our best to restore that period of history, our greatest feeling was: "It's hard to imagine!" - It's hard to imagine what kind of hell on earth Nanjing (南京) became in the winter of 1937. And all of this is less than a century away from us. The survivors of that year are now in their nineties, and they may no longer be able to tell about the brutal crimes they suffered, but the memory is still there. Are they still tormented by nightmares? Do they still feel fear from time to time?
Filming movies and recording historical facts is to remind those of us who live in peaceful times that we and those survivors of the massacre are people living in the same era. It is also to remind people that the devil has never really gone away. It lurks in the shadows of human nature, hidden in prejudice, fanaticism, and numbness, waiting for the moment to be forgotten, ignored, and condoned.
After its release, *City of Life and Death* (《南京！南京！》) won honors at several international film festivals. In 2023, *Variety*, a century-old American publication focusing on the entertainment and film industry, selected the 30 best war films in film history, and *City of Life and Death* (《南京！南京！》) was among them. The reason why this film can resonate widely is because people from all over the world have a resonance with this history that transcends language and culture. I remember in 2011, I attended the "China-US Cultural and Artistic Forum" held in Beijing (北京) with American actress Meryl Streep. We had collaborated on a film shoot in 2005. When we met again, I solemnly presented her with the disc of *City of Life and Death* (《南京！南京！》) as one of my most important works as a souvenir. Streep said with emotion that she was willing to learn more about China, including Chinese history.
It is precisely because of common memories and emotions that filming anti-fascist films has become a continuous expression worldwide. From 1940 to 1945, approximately 300 anti-fascist films were released. To date, filmmakers around the world have made more than 1,300 anti-fascist films, and the number is constantly increasing. According to the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), more than 4,900 films, TV series, and short films labeled "anti-fascist" have been marked. It was also because of filming another Chinese anti-Japanese war film that I had the honor of working with my idol when I was young, American actor Bruce Willis. I asked what made him come all the way to China to make this film? His answer moved me: This subject belongs to the whole world, and everyone should participate, no matter where they are.
In order to learn more about anti-fascist stories outside of China, I traveled to Europe to visit some of the people and things that still exist. The cold bunkers and fortifications on the border seem to remind us that that period of history is not far away. Later, I successively watched European and American anti-fascist films such as *Stalingrad*, *The Bridge on the River Kwai*, and *Life Is Beautiful*. Their stories and expressions are different, but the core expression is the same - recording and reflecting on this disaster that brought catastrophe to mankind.
In 2017, my wife Anna (安娜) and I made a special trip to Paris (巴黎), France, to visit Ms. Marceline Loridan-Ivens, the widow of Dutch documentary master Joris Ivens. In 1938, during the difficult period of the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Mr. Ivens came to China and used his camera to record invaluable historical materials of the military and civilians fighting against the Japanese, such as the Battle of Taierzhuang (台儿庄战役). These images also became a window for the world to understand the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression during that period.
Chinese porcelain was placed in Ms. Marceline's home, and embroidery and a Chinese dragon painting created by painter Huang Yongyu (黄永玉) specifically for her were hung on the wall. The old lady was very happy to see me, a young Chinese man who had come from afar, and told us many stories about her and Mr. Ivens in China, and many stories about their friendship with the Chinese people. It can be seen that she cherishes the friendship she made in China that year. When I expressed my respect and gratitude for Mr. Ivens' filming of anti-Japanese war images in China, the old lady just smiled and took the hands of Anna (安娜) and me, and said warmly: "Record, remember. Also love, love each other."
In 2018, Ms. Marceline passed away. On July 2 this year, two more lights went out on the survivor photo wall of the Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders (侵华日军南京大屠杀遇难同胞纪念馆). The people who personally experienced history are gradually passing away, but the memory must not be forgotten. What we have to do is to record, to remember, and also, as Ms. Marceline said, to love, to love each other.
Liu Ye (刘烨) is an actor and a member of the China Film Association (中国电影协会). He debuted in 1998 with the film *Postmen in the Mountains* (《那人那山那狗》). Since then, he has starred in films such as *City of Life and Death* (《南京！南京！》), *The Founding of an Army* (《建军大业》), and *The Pioneer* (《望道》), and TV series such as *All Quiet in Peking* (《北平无战事》), shaping diverse screen images. He has won awards such as the Huabiao Award for Outstanding Actor and the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor. His works have been shown at international film festivals such as Cannes, Venice, and Tokyo. In 2013, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Liu Ye (刘烨) the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters.
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The morning mist over the Venetian Lagoon in Italy always carries a touch of poetry. Pale blue vapor drifts across the crisscrossing waterways, tinting the hundred-plus small islands into faint shadows in a painting. Wooden oars break the mirror-like surface of the water, startling a few egrets. After the ripples swept by their wingtips settle, one can glimpse swaying seaweed and fragments of porcelain on the seabed—traces left by merchant ships that have come and gone over the centuries. In this body of water gently embraced by the Adriatic Sea, Murano Island, like a piece of glass polished by time, floats quietly on the water, waiting for the morning light to unveil its veil.
Before the morning mist has completely dissipated, 78-year-old Antonio Barovier has already placed a red-hot glass tube on the edge of a crucible. His calloused hands move as nimbly as a dancer as he rotates the blowpipe. The molten glass at the end of the pipe glows with an amber halo in the morning light, gradually expanding into the rough shape of a vase. In this old workshop on Murano, the flames have been burning for five centuries.
As a sacred place for European glass craftsmanship, Murano's name is closely linked to unique skills such as "millefiori" and "aventurine glass." At the end of the 13th century, the Republic of Venice moved all glass artisans here to prevent fires and the leakage of technology. Today, many workshops on the island continue the traditional techniques, and the Barovier family's "Flame Flower" is one of them.
The workshop showroom is like a solidified rainbow. The millefiori vase at the entrance is the most eye-catching: the craftsmen first melt and entwine dozens of red, blue, and green glass rods, stretch them into slender glass threads while hot, and then remelt and blow them into shape. The body of the vase reveals star-shaped patterns layered like a kaleidoscope. When sunlight passes through, it casts flowing spots of light on the ground. The aventurine glass ornaments in the corner hide another kind of magic: adding copper or silver crystal particles to the molten glass, and after slow firing at a specific temperature, countless twinkling stars appear on the surface. One of them, a Renaissance-style disc, has golden starlight flowing on a deep purple background, as if locking the night sky into the glass.
The history of Murano is a legend of coexistence with fire and light. After the craftsmen moved here, this originally quiet island quickly became the "glass heart" of Europe. The island's guild system gave rise to a fine division of labor—some specialized in color matching, some were good at blowing, and some families even only made glass beads for generations. This strict system allowed Murano's glass products to reach their peak during the Renaissance, and even the Palace of Versailles (凡尔赛宫) in France once placed large orders.
Strolling through Murano, the scene of red-tiled roofs and bluestone alleys hides hundreds of years of life imprints. The stone houses on both sides of the canal are mostly buildings from the 16th to 18th centuries, with bougainvillea climbing on the walls and colorful glass-blown flower pots on the windowsills. The most distinctive are the "workshop residences"—the ground floor is a red-hot furnace and workbench, and the upper floor is a bedroom. The smoke and fire from the chimney mixed with the salty taste of the sea have become a unique atmosphere on the island. There are many glass decorations around the church in the central square, and when the sunlight shines through, the entire square is dyed with a soft, colorful halo.
Exquisite craftsmanship leaves behind brilliant works of art for the world, but technological development also poses new challenges to the continuation of tradition. Antonio's grandson, Luca, studied industrial design in Milan (米兰). Three years ago, when he brought back a 3D printer, he was almost driven out of the workshop by his grandfather. "He said the machine can't make 'the breath of glass'," Luca said with a smile, pointing to the workbench, "Now we use 3D modeling to design the shape, and then use traditional blowing to complete the final process."
At the Murano pier in the evening, cargo ships full of glass products are slowly leaving. Luca stands on the shore, watching the sunset gild the water surface, like flowing liquid glass. "My grandfather told me that the secret of Murano is not in the recipe, but in the dialogue between the flame and the craftsman." He pointed to the container ship in the distance, "Those glasses are going to China (中国), the United States (美国), and Africa (非洲), but they are forever rooted in the flames of the island."
As night falls, the lights of each workshop light up one after another, like a constellation on the lagoon. In the "Flame Flower" workshop, Luca is using a tablet to record the process parameters of the day, while Antonio is modifying the traditional recipe. The two handwritings are intertwined, much like the intertwined two-color stripes in Murano glass.
This reminds me of the old book stalls on the banks of the Seine (塞纳河), and the cultural perseverance in the Bamiyan Valley (巴米扬山谷). The ancient and the modern have always been mutually illuminating waves in the long river of civilization. The preciousness of human civilization lies in these cross-temporal inheritances and innovations. Like Murano glass, it needs both the quenching of flames and the acceptance of light refraction to bloom with colorful colors over the years.
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This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, as well as the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Switzerland. The National Theatre of China (中国国家话剧院) is reviving "The Physicists," a play written in 1962 by Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt. This is both a tribute to the classic and a contemporary reinterpretation of the anti-war theme.
Formally, the revival of "The Physicists" follows the two-act structure and the unities of drama of the original, compressing 20 years of time into 2 hours in a closed setting. The story takes place in a sanatorium, where three young nurses are successively murdered. The police chief suspects three "mentally ill patients," the physicists "Newton," "Einstein," and "Möbius." Through a series of ingenious ideas, the play naturally transitions from the playful and farcical first act of murder investigation to the shocking truth of the second act: the physicists are actually feigning madness. "Möbius" invented a technology that could change humanity. His conscience tells him that if this technology is allowed to proliferate, it will be exploited by ambitious people and cause even greater disasters, so he pretends to be crazy. "Newton" and "Einstein" want to obtain this technology, so they also choose to feign madness in the asylum. But the manuscripts that "Möbius" thought he had burned ultimately fall into the hands of the truly insane director, "Fräulein Doktor," and his sacrifice is ultimately worthless. When the comedic shell suddenly peels away, paradox and absurdity rush in, and the audience is left to ponder after the laughter.
Dürrenmatt is good at presenting tragic propositions in comedic form. In this round of performances, the creators have made a contemporary translation of this style with a strong sense of contrast. They compressed the heavy expressions in the original work, blurred the overly specific symbols of the times, and replaced them with black humor and lighthearted comedy that are more characteristic of modern theater. For example, the iconic props of "Newton" and "Einstein," the apple and the violin, suddenly become pistols, as well as "Fräulein Doktor's" electric wheelchair and the police chief's mobile phone. The intention is self-evident: in the present day, when technology is developing rapidly and ethical challenges occur from time to time, the dilemma faced by physicists is not only not outdated, but has become urgent. In the laughter, the seriousness of the work's theme is more prominent.
The stage design of "The Physicists" is characterized by a cold and restrained visual language and a flexible and changeable spatial arrangement, providing performance support for the actors and synchronously showing the psychological split of the characters and the absurd progression of the plot. Walking into the theater, the first thing that catches the eye is the giant three-leaf fan device in the center of the stage, which is reminiscent of the warning symbol representing nuclear radiation, and a sense of tension and oppression arises spontaneously. After his wife and children leave, "Möbius" huddles in the huge shadow cast by the rapidly rotating three-leaf fan. At this time, the fan blades seem to be crushing his last remaining human warmth, deeply imprinting the dramatic connotation of "disturbing rather than comforting" pursued by the original work in the hearts of the audience.
In recent years, the relationship between science and ethics has attracted increasing attention. The revival of "The Physicists" demonstrates the creators' sense of responsibility to pay attention to society and observe reality from an artistic perspective. As "Möbius" exclaimed: "Formulas are neutral. Like a knife, a cook uses it to cut bread, and a murderer uses it to kill." Reviving this work this year is not only to reflect on war, but also to warn people: technology is a double-edged sword, do not abuse it, and maintain the hard-won peace.
(The author is a researcher at the Institute of Drama, Chinese National Academy of Arts (中国艺术研究院))
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"My star, my moon, the branches of my spring..." Even today, walking through the streets and alleys of Greece, in coffee shops, taverns, and the tunes people hum, you can still find traces of the 20th-century Greek musician Mikis Theodorakis (Μίκης Θεοδωράκης). His melodies are deeply rooted in daily life, influencing generations of artists. Now, these melodies cross borders, carrying the voice of the Greek people to faraway China.
On the evening of July 30th, the "Lyrical Mikis Theodorakis" centenary commemorative performance was held at the Concert Hall of the National Museum of China (中国国家博物馆). On the day of the performance, the venue was packed. Modern instruments such as electric guitars and bass guitars were played on the same stage as the Greek traditional instrument, the bouzouki. "Now the Flowers are Fading," "I Asked the Little North Wind," "Who is Hunting My Life, Who?"... Theodorakis's two students, Tania Tsanaklidou (Τάνια Τσανακλίδου) and Maria Papageorgiou (Μαρία Παπαγεωργίου), performed several classic songs with deep emotion for the audience. At the end of the performance, accompanied by the bouzouki, the two singers danced a traditional Greek dance barefoot, bringing people's thoughts to that country of islands and oceans, a place where poetry is not to embellish life but to construct it—Greece.
For most Chinese listeners, the name Theodorakis is not familiar, but the theme song he composed for the film "Zorba the Greek" is a melody in many people's memories. This is a Greek Syrtaki folk song, the melody sounds like a question, the tone gradually rises, and with the repetition of the melody, the audience can't help but want to open their arms and dance together. This song was composed by Theodorakis in an impromptu performance late one night in 1964. When it first sounded in the film, the wise old Greek farmer was telling the young British writer how to cherish the santouri like a child.
Theodorakis was born in 1925. This outstanding Greek composer and conductor experienced war, imprisonment, and exile throughout his life, and his turbulent life became the soil for artistic creation. At the age of 17, Theodorakis joined the Greek National Liberation Front (Εθνικό Απελευθερωτικό Μέτωπο), an anti-fascist united front organization led by the Greek Communist Party (Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας). In the 1950s, Theodorakis went to Paris, France (法国巴黎), to study. At that time, Parisian music was characterized by high modernism and avant-garde aesthetics. Surrounded by it, Theodorakis never forgot his motherland and the roots of his music.
In 1960, Theodorakis returned to turbulent Greece because he "could not strictly follow any aesthetic trends prevalent in the West" and published the "Draft Plan for the Reorganization of Greek Music," calling for music education reform, the creation of independent symphony orchestras, and increased research on native Greek music.
After returning to China, Theodorakis constantly thought about how to make music truly close to the Greek public and explore a path connecting Greek musical traditions with modern Western music. His creation turned to folk music and popular music, drawing inspiration from the works of Greek poets such as George Seferis (Γιώργος Σεφέρης) and Yannis Ritsos (Γιάννης Ρίτσος), and integrating Western traditional symphonic music with Greek blues Rebetiko and island folk songs, creating a large number of popular songs. To this day, people can still see the shadow of Theodorakis in the works of contemporary Greek singers.
Theodorakis's artistic creation is rooted in deep patriotism. The feelings, spirit, and experiences of the people in struggle are the source of his inspiration. Theodorakis often said: "No matter what we create, we come from the people and go to the people." His music has a strong moral and emotional power, giving the Greek people hope and motivation. These melodies have forged collective memories. To this day, whether it is on important festivals such as Greek Independence Day or at young people's weddings and birthday parties, Theodorakis's works such as "My Sun, My Beloved Light" and "Beautiful City" are still often played.
In the last few years of his life as a musician, he wrote in a letter to the Greek Communist Party that his most critical, strongest, and most mature years were spent under the banner of the Greek Communist Party, "Therefore, I want to leave this world as a communist." In 2021, Theodorakis passed away. One of his lifelong wishes was to have his works performed in China. Although he never set foot on Chinese soil in his lifetime, his wish was finally realized with the conclusion of this Chinese tour.
On the occasion of commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, listening to Theodorakis's melody again, one can still feel that deep and unchanging spiritual power. "Theodorakis's music is created for the people, for people to sing together with comrades, compatriots, and friends," Tsanaklidou said, "He constantly reminds us that humanity is a whole. People need to maintain connections with each other and unite as one."
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Enhancing the intrinsic motivation and development capabilities of formerly impoverished areas and people is a necessary requirement for effectively connecting the consolidation and expansion of poverty alleviation achievements with rural revitalization. This year is the final year of the five-year transition period. How are the lives of those who have been lifted out of poverty? How can formerly impoverished areas rely on their own strength to achieve sustainable development?
With these questions in mind, reporters delved into formerly impoverished areas, walking through fields and visiting farmhouses. We found that, from "hoping" to "striving," from "making a living" to "seeking development," the intrinsic development momentum of formerly impoverished areas and people has been fully activated, constantly converging into a surging force to promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside. As one village cadre said in an interview: "Everyone's spirit has been lifted!"
Change in Spirit
From "Hoping for Basic Needs" to "Striving for the Future"
Yuan Yiyan insisted that reporters visit her new home—a bright and clean three-bedroom apartment, with sunlight streaming in through the windows and several pots of green plants on the TV cabinet full of vitality.
Five years ago, Yuan Yiyan and her husband moved with their family from a small mountain village in Yongshan County (永善县), Yunnan Province, to Maojiawan (卯家湾) in Ludian County (鲁甸县), a large resettlement area with nearly 40,000 people. Among the villagers who moved with her, registered impoverished households accounted for 91.7%. At that time, the biggest concern in everyone's mind was the same: "Can the 'food' problem be solved?"
Today, the answer is written in the family's life. Yuan Yiyan's husband runs a fruit business in the community, she herself found a job in a nearby supermarket, her parents-in-law go to the elderly activity center for exercise after meals, and her children attend school near their home. "Now both of us have work, and we can basically save one person's salary each month."
The happiness on Yuan Yiyan's face stems from "settling down" steadily moving towards "enjoying work." During the poverty alleviation period, more than 9.6 million people across the country living in areas where "the local environment cannot sustain the population" achieved relocation. As of the end of 2024, the employment rate of relocated people nationwide reached over 96%, and the goal of "being able to settle down, and gradually become prosperous" is being realized.
Visiting the Maojiawan resettlement area, reporters found that even more profound than the material improvement is the quiet change in the mental outlook of those who have been lifted out of poverty. The wall full of certificates of merit behind the sofa in Yuan Yiyan's home is very eye-catching. "The children have changed a lot!" she said with a smile. "Before moving here, the eldest was still in the third grade of elementary school and could only score 50 or 60 on exams. Last year, when he entered junior high school, his grades never fell below 80."
The certificates of merit are like a mirror, reflecting the changes. From "hoping for basic needs" to "striving for the future," Maojiawan has built a complete education system from kindergarten to high school. Xiong Juan (熊娟), secretary of the Yanchi Street (砚池街道) Party Working Committee, introduced that when they first moved here, the average score of the elementary school entrance examination was only a dozen or twenty points. With the help of various parties and the efforts of the children, the comprehensive education quality of Maojiawan's primary and secondary schools has "overtaken on a curve" from the bottom and now ranks first in the county.
From shaking off poverty to heading towards prosperity, the hope of a new life is surging in the fields. In Xiaoluoma Village (小骡马村), Nuoshuihe Town (诺水河镇), Tongjiang County (通江县), Sichuan Province, we met Li Guozhi (李国芝). Having had enough of hard times, he once wrote "Rather fight hard than endure hardship" on his own wall.
"This year, we can harvest more than 1,000 catties of rapeseed, which will not only provide us with fresh rapeseed oil, but also be exchanged for a lot of money," said Li Guozhi, with dark skin, squatting by the rapeseed field, his eyes full of joy.
Walking into Li Guozhi's newly built production room, the sheep in the pen are fat and strong. Having shaken off the label of poverty, he did not stop, but expanded the scale of pig and sheep breeding, and also engaged in the planting of Chinese prickly ash, corn, medicinal materials, etc. "More than 3 mu of prickly ash trees have entered their peak fruiting period, and this item alone can earn more than 20,000 yuan."
Under the leadership of Li Guozhi, more than 10 neighboring households have also engaged in planting and breeding. Everyone follows Li Guozhi to learn technology and run the market. He has now become a veritable "rural expert" and "leader" in the village.
During the research, reporters found that the infrastructure in formerly impoverished areas has been gradually improved, the assistance policies have become increasingly sound, and the industrial foundation has been continuously consolidated, opening up new space for local people to develop industries and increase their income, and stimulating the spirit of entrepreneurship.
Dayingzi Village (大营子村) in Fengning Manchu Autonomous County (丰宁满族自治县), Hebei Province, was once a well-known "poor village" in the area, with almost every household growing "earth eggs" (potatoes). Zhao Haitao (赵海涛) returned to his hometown to start a business, growing potatoes. The villagers did not understand, but Zhao Haitao was confident, "In recent years, the roads in the village have been repaired, the fields have been leveled, and our potatoes have a high starch content and a sandy and glutinous taste, so we will definitely be able to find a new way out."
With the help of local financial institutions, Zhao Haitao used a small agricultural loan of 550,000 yuan to establish a cooperative, turning his hometown's potatoes into "golden nuggets," which were sold to residents in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and also drove employment and income growth for those who had been lifted out of poverty.
The scale of employment of the labor force lifted out of poverty has remained stable at more than 30 million people for four consecutive years; more than 130,000 rural artisans have been trained, driving more than 5 million rural laborers to start businesses and find employment... The self-development ability of those lifted out of poverty has been continuously enhanced, transforming from "beneficiaries" of policies to "contributors" to development, and from passively accepting "blood transfusions" to actively enhancing "blood-making" functions. Consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation has a solid foundation, and the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside has a surging momentum.
Change in Ability
From "Having Work" to "Being Able to Do Well"
Having the ambition of "I want to do it," one must also have the ability of "I can do it well." Research has found that in formerly impoverished areas, talent and technology are becoming the "new engines" of rural industrial development, and villagers are shifting from being satisfied with "having work" to pursuing "being able to do well."
Making starch paste, pounding vermicelli, cooling and scooping vermicelli... In the vermicelli processing factory in Gushan Village (孤山村), Weichang Manchu and Mongolian Autonomous County (围场满族蒙古族自治县), Hebei Province, workers are busy making handmade potato vermicelli. "I used to work in the city, but now I have returned to my hometown to help the villagers embark on the road to prosperity!" Sun Jinlong (孙金龙) is very proud.
Sun Jinlong is a native of Gushan Village. In 2015, he set his sights on the advantages of potato planting and invested 2 million yuan to start a vermicelli processing factory.
Sun Jinlong built more than just a factory. Upstream, he directly purchases potatoes from farmers to solve the problem of sales; midstream, he built three production lines and registered a trademark. In addition, the factory also provides stable jobs for 15 villagers.
In Zhenxiong County (镇雄县), Yunnan Province, a major county for labor export, we heard a story of "factories returning home." Chang Lüxuan (常吕宣), a 54-year-old villager from Bijiu Village (比旧村), Wude Town (五德镇), had worked outside for many years and developed a skill in hardware processing. In the past, he chased after factories, but now he works at his doorstep. Zhenxiong County has built a hardware industrial park, attracting upstream and downstream enterprises from outside to create a platform for returning home to start businesses and find employment. Chang Lüxuan and his wife quickly found jobs, engaged in door cover edging, and could also take care of their elderly parents after work.
The returning talent is becoming a new force for local industrial upgrading. Zhenxiong County has more than 200,000 skilled workers outside the county. The local government is taking advantage of the situation to vigorously develop the hardware industry. Most of the enterprises in the park are founded by returnees, and 80% of the technical and management positions are held by returnees. "Returnees have brought technology and management experience to the local industrial development, promoting the flow of resources between urban and rural areas," said Wang Hongnan (汪红男), deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of Zhenxiong Industrial Park.
"The forging of abilities not only relies on 'attracting phoenixes back to the nest,' but also on local cultivation," said Xiang Bin (向斌), deputy county magistrate of Nanjiang County (南江县), Sichuan Province. He introduced that the local area combines intellectual support with ambition support to vigorously cultivate local rural talent.
Zhang Sihai (张四海), a major Huangyang (goat) breeder in Nanjiang County, staged a "goat herder transformation." Zhang Sihai said, "In the past, raising goats relied entirely on old experience, and when the goats got sick, I could only worry anxiously." The turning point came with the skills training for "rural artisans" organized by the county. From Huangyang breed selection, feed ratio, to disease prevention, Zhang Sihai studied hard and became a well-known local goat expert. Today, Zhang Sihai has taken the lead in establishing a cooperative, opening a "technical classroom" to share his experience, signing a supply agreement with a food company, and leading more than 30 villagers on the road to prosperity by "increasing income through goats."
Impoverished villages are transforming from developing primary industries to the comprehensive integration of primary, secondary, and tertiary industries. Since the transition period, all 832 formerly impoverished counties across the country have cultivated and formed 2-3 characteristic leading industries, and 3/4 of the population lifted out of poverty have established interest linkage mechanisms with new agricultural business entities, gaining more value-added income. More and more people lifted out of poverty have mastered new skills, the foundation of rural industries is more stable, and the color of development is more sufficient.
Change in Vitality
From "Making a Living" to "Seeking Development"
During the research, reporters found that many formerly impoverished areas have shaken off the "relying on the heavens for food" model and turned to actively "seeking development." The county economies have their own characteristics, the beautiful and harmonious villages are livable and workable, and the regional development vitality has been stimulated.
In Tongjiang County, a small silver ear fungus has "grown" into a 100-billion-level industrial cluster. The local development path is very clear: "Strengthen the brand of log-cultivated silver ear fungus, and deeply process wood-chip silver ear fungus."
Lifting the curtain and walking into the silver ear fungus planting greenhouse, the silver ear fungus "blooms" in the mist. Long Xu (龙旭), a major grower in Chenjiaba Village (陈家坝村), Chenhe Town (陈河镇), relies on 30 years of experience and more than 80 greenhouses to adhere to traditional log cultivation. In the standardized production workshop, Yue Jinsong (岳劲松), the head of a leading enterprise, uses wood-chip bionic cultivation technology to shorten the production cycle of silver ear fungus to 45 days.
How to sell well after growing well? Tongjiang County focuses on three main directions: food and beverage, pharmaceutical health products, and beauty cosmetics, and has successfully developed more than 30 kinds of high value-added products such as silver ear fungus masks, oral liquids, and silver ear fungus soup, continuously extending the industrial chain. The local area adheres to the development of traditional agriculture with industrial thinking, establishes a 50 million yuan industrial fund, launches "Tongjiang Silver Ear Fungus Loans," and builds an industrial pattern of "one belt, two districts, three parks, and one hundred bases."
Li Yufu (李玉甫), secretary of the Tongjiang County Party Committee, introduced that we cannot only be satisfied with selling agricultural products. We must use the thinking of "integrating into circles, entering chains, and clustering" to attract technology-based enterprises, build a modern industrial system, and strive to find a new way for formerly impoverished areas to catch up and achieve leapfrog development.
With industrial prosperity comes popularity. Research has found that formerly impoverished areas are based on their own characteristic resource advantages, tap into the multiple values of agriculture, adapt to the new changes in the consumption needs of urban and rural residents, and concentrate on cultivating new industries and new business forms. The economic value, ecological value, social value, and cultural value of the countryside are becoming increasingly prominent.
In Baozang Village (宝藏村), Xiaocaoba Town (小草坝镇), Yiliang County (彝良县), Yunnan Province, reporters met tourists who drove from Sichuan to camp. Relying on the resource advantages of the high-mountain "oxygen bar" and the Gastrodia elata producing area, with the support of east-west cooperation funds, Baozang Village has created the "Secret Baozang" agricultural, cultural, and tourism complex. The village collective introduced a professional rural CEO team to develop projects such as Gastrodia elata harvesting, Gastrodia elata gourmet banquets, and boutique homestays. The village has become a "Golden Tourist Village in Yunnan Province."
In the Baozang Village Tourist Service Center, village cadre Cai Ting (蔡婷) is using the e-commerce knowledge she learned in college to recommend her hometown's agricultural products to tourists. "My family grows 6 mu of Gastrodia elata, and my younger siblings are still in school, so there is hope for the future," said Cai Ting.
Such a story is also being staged in No. 83 Village (八十三号村), Halihai Town (哈里哈镇), Weichang County. This village, adjacent to the Saihanba National Forest Park (塞罕坝国家森林公园), is inheriting the Saihanba spirit of "remembering the mission, starting a business with hard work, and green development," and is eating the "cultural tourism meal." No. 83 Village has established a tourism cooperative, unified planning and management, and transformed ecological advantages into development advantages. Villager Fu Chongmin (付崇民) invested more than 200,000 yuan to open a homestay and farmhouse, earning more than 70,000 yuan a year. Today, there are 45 homestays in the village, driving employment for hundreds of people.
From focusing on a single product to creating an industrial cluster, from a silent village to a popular check-in destination, the pursuit of those lifted out of poverty is constantly transforming from "survival" to "life" and then to "vitality." The gap between formerly impoverished areas and other areas continues to narrow, and the pace of comprehensive rural revitalization is more steady.
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Winning the battle against poverty and connecting with rural revitalization requires continuous and determined progress.
In No. 83 Village (八十三号村) of Weichang Manchu and Mongolian Autonomous County (围场满族蒙古族自治县) in Hebei (河北), the villagers have developed new business formats such as hot spring homestays and forest health preservation, creating a good life with their own efforts. In Tongjiang County (通江县), Sichuan (四川), the local government has worked continuously to cultivate the silver ear fungus industry, turning a single silver ear fungus into a pillar industry for prosperity. Zhaotong City (昭通市) in Yunnan (云南) is taking a path of collaborative innovation between industry, academia, and research, creating a complete potato industry chain from breeding to processing. On the road to a better life, people lifted out of poverty are working hard to get rich and live prosperous lives through their own efforts.
In recent years, infrastructure and public services in poverty-stricken areas have continued to improve, the quality and efficiency of rural industrial development have been enhanced, the development gap between poverty-stricken areas and other regions, and the income gap between people lifted out of poverty and national farmers have continued to narrow, making the foundation for poverty alleviation more solid and the results more sustainable.
"Success is not difficult; perseverance is." Consolidating and expanding the achievements in poverty alleviation and promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, the road ahead will not be smooth. To meet challenges and overcome difficulties, it is necessary to stimulate the ambition, morale, and confidence of people lifted out of poverty to rely on their own development, and it is necessary for poverty-stricken areas to continuously make up for shortcomings and strengthen advantages. Only by working together can we further enhance endogenous power, improve development capabilities, consolidate and expand the achievements in poverty alleviation in the long term, and stimulate a strong impetus for promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
To stimulate endogenous power, it is necessary to grasp the relationship between internal and external factors. Poverty-stricken areas and people lifted out of poverty are both objects of assistance and subjects of development. Poverty-stricken areas should base themselves on their own advantages, identify the right development model, make up for shortcomings in technology, markets, and talent, and cultivate poverty alleviation industries into effective and driving forces for people's prosperity in a down-to-earth manner. In particular, it is necessary to establish a variety of interest linkage mechanisms, and encourage people lifted out of poverty to participate in characteristic planting and breeding, handicraft workshops, and courtyard economies through policies such as leading enterprises and industrial rewards, so as to get rich by their own hands. At the same time, it cannot be ignored that, restricted by geographical location, transportation conditions, economic and social development level, etc., the development capacity of poverty-stricken areas is relatively weak. After the end of the transition period, assistance policies cannot be "suddenly braked" or "completely abandoned." Various assistance policies should be classified, optimized and improved, and a long-term management mechanism for assistance assets should be established. Only by exerting efforts in both internal and external directions can poverty-stricken areas and people lifted out of poverty not fall behind or catch up in the process of modernization.
To stimulate endogenous power, it is necessary to adhere to the combination of intellectual and moral support. Talent revitalization is the foundation of rural revitalization. On the one hand, we should guide talents to serve the countryside and gather talents from all over the world. Jiangjin District (江津区) in Chongqing (重庆) selects rural revitalization instructors based on villages, who use their own advantages to run projects and find funds. Nanan City (南安市) in Fujian (福建) has more than 3,600 science and technology commissioners at the provincial, municipal, and county levels, helping rural industries solve problems and break new paths. These talent teams have brought advanced technology and management, injecting a source of living water into rural revitalization. On the other hand, we should strengthen the cultivation of local talents in rural areas, and encourage order-based training, continuing education, craftsman inheritance, and other methods to enable people lifted out of poverty to master practical skills and cultivate more people lifted out of poverty into high-quality farmers and rural craftsmen.
Good days are all achieved through hard work. Firmly guarding the bottom line of no large-scale return to poverty, taking increasing the income of people lifted out of poverty as the main direction, thinking of more ways to promote the accelerated development of poverty-stricken areas, and continuously promoting the increase of income and prosperity of people lifted out of poverty and the high-quality development of poverty-stricken areas, the pace towards rural revitalization can be more stable and more solid.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 邓剑洋
Inside the aquaculture base of Taihong Aquatic Products Professional Cooperative in Longqiu Town (龙虬镇), Gaoyou City (高邮市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省), shrimp farmer Tang Taihong (汤太宏) scoops up a net, dips it into the water, and pulls out dozens of blue-shelled, lively Gaoyou prawns.
Tang Taihong's (汤太宏) face is all smiles, "In the past, shrimp farming depended on the weather, and the quality was difficult to control. Now, we are raising ecological shrimp, the quality is good, and I feel very secure."
A few years ago, Tang Taihong's (汤太宏) shrimp ponds were far from this scene. Traditional farming had excessive density and overfeeding, the water environment was overwhelmed, and after a year of hard work, the profit per mu was only one or two thousand yuan. "When the shrimp seedlings were released, my heart was also hanging in the balance. If the density was too high, I was afraid of disease, and the quality of the shrimp was not guaranteed, so I couldn't sell them at a good price." Recalling those days, Tang Taihong (汤太宏) frowned.
The turning point began with the local promotion of ecological farming. Under the guidance of the municipal and township agricultural and rural departments, Lao Tang's (老汤) shrimp ponds began an "ecological transformation" - changing farming concepts, changing farming models, planting aquatic plants in the ponds, releasing silver carp and bighead carp and snails in the water, and building "racetrack" circulating water tanks on the banks. "Aquatic plants are natural habitats and water purifiers, snails eat residual bait, and silver carp and bighead carp inhibit the growth of harmful blue algae," said Tang Taihong (汤太宏).
Ecological farming is quietly rewriting the shrimp farmers' accounts. Lao Tang (老汤) counts on his fingers and calculates realistically: "The water is clean, the shrimp 'live' well, grow strong, and the quality has reached a new level. In the past, we were looking for sales channels everywhere, but now customers are chasing after the ponds." This year, the specifications of the prawns in his 200 mu of shrimp ponds have reached 15 heads per jin.
"Once you taste it, you will know that ecological shrimp has firm meat, delicious taste, and the nutritional value is even more unquestionable," said Lu Xingxin (陆星新), a staff member of the Gaoyou Prawn (高邮大虾) Modern Agriculture High-Quality Development Demonstration Park. "Technological innovation has accelerated the 'upgrade' of Gaoyou prawns (高邮大虾). The park has introduced new technologies such as the Internet of Things and source heat pumps, which not only realize transparent and precise management of the entire breeding process, but also allow for staggered listing and seize the market."
In the nearly 10,000 mu of modern aquaculture bases in the Gaoyou Prawn (高邮大虾) Modern Agriculture High-Quality Development Demonstration Park, ecological aquaculture models such as "two reductions and one prohibition," "high-position pond rotation and release," and "planting grass and raising shrimp" have been vigorously promoted. Shrimp ponds can harvest an extra season of shrimp each year, with a yield of up to 600-650 jin per mu, and the annual output is 1.5 times that of ordinary aquaculture.
The value of ecological shrimp is fully released. In the modern processing plant of Yangzhou Fanze Food Technology Co., Ltd. (扬州凡泽食品科技有限公司), workers classify and clean the freshly caught prawns, and use liquid nitrogen flash freezing technology to lock in the freshness and sweetness, and quickly freeze them into pieces, which are sent to all parts of the country through the cold chain.
Establishing industry associations, designing exclusive logos, cultivating distinctive brands... Gaoyou City (高邮市) implements a "regional public brand + enterprise sub-brand" dual-wheel drive strategy, and the brand value assessment of the regional public brand "Gaoyou Prawn" (高邮大虾) has exceeded 5 billion yuan.
After long-term development, Gaoyou Prawn (高邮大虾) has formed a complete industrial chain from breeding and preservation, shrimp seedling breeding, ecological aquaculture, to feed animal protection production, market transactions, and frozen food processing. Upstream, 20 seedling companies and 8 research institutions guarantee seed sources and carry out technological innovation. In the middle reaches, 8 cooperatives and 38 feed processing companies support standardized production. Downstream, 15 deep-processing enterprises, 6 direct-sale stores, and multiple e-commerce platforms facilitate sales.
Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) announced the list of projects for the 2025 Fisheries Green Circular Development Project, and the Gaoyou Prawn (高邮大虾) industry project was successfully selected. Gaoyou City (高邮市) is accelerating the development of the Gaoyou Prawn (高邮大虾) industry towards ecological, park-based, and integrated development, and is building ecological prawns into a "prosperity shrimp" that revitalizes industries, strengthens counties, and enriches the people.
Return to TopAccording to reports from this newspaper, the Bureau of Agricultural Reclamation (农垦局) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) recently held the Agricultural Reclamation "Field Day" event in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (宁夏回族自治区), concurrently conducting observation and training on agricultural reclamation's integrated water and fertilizer technology.
The reporter learned from the event that the large-scale promotion and application of integrated water and fertilizer technology originated from agricultural reclamation and gradually spread throughout the country. It has now become a key technology for promoting large-scale yield increases in grain and oil crops. According to statistics, the application area of integrated water and fertilizer technology in the agricultural reclamation system is about 25 million mu, of which more than 8.5 million mu are grain crops. At the same time, it has driven the local application of integrated water and fertilizer technology by about 7 million mu, forming a batch of agricultural reclamation integrated water and fertilizer green, high-yield, and efficient technology models covering crops such as corn, wheat, soybeans, and rapeseed in practice.
During the Agricultural Reclamation "Field Day" event, 26 integrated and innovative technology models were released. These models focus on the key areas and key links of integrated water and fertilizer technology, and centrally demonstrate the effectiveness of preliminary planning, engineering construction, system operation and maintenance, agronomic support, cost reduction, and efficiency enhancement. For example, two soybean integrated water and fertilizer technology models from Jilin Agricultural Reclamation (吉林农垦) and Da Hinggan Ling Agricultural Reclamation (大兴安岭农垦) are mainly organized and implemented around key technologies such as micro-irrigation fertilization, UAV aerial photography modeling, three-level pipe network layout, and intelligent irrigation systems, which can effectively promote an average yield increase of about 20% per mu and an income increase of more than 150 yuan.
The relevant person in charge of the Bureau of Agricultural Reclamation (农垦局) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) introduced that the next step will focus on key crops and key links, promote the application of integrated water and fertilizer technology on a larger scale, effectively promote large-scale yield increases in grain and oil crops, and give play to the demonstration and leading role of agricultural reclamation. The agricultural reclamation system will optimize engineering design and equipment selection, select suitable integrated water and fertilizer application methods for different crops, strengthen cooperation between reclamation areas and with scientific research institutes, actively carry out the "agricultural reclamation socialization service + local" action, and drive the surrounding areas to apply integrated water and fertilizer technology through methods such as facility co-construction, technology output, and equipment sharing.
(Yu Jingxian (郁静娴))
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 杨彦帆 季觉苏
Cognitive impairment is a disease caused by brain lesions that leads to abnormalities in cognitive functions such as memory, language, and logic, affecting patients' social functions and behavioral abilities. It is estimated that in China, among people aged 60 and above, there are more than 53 million people with cognitive impairment, including 38.77 million with mild cognitive impairment and 15.07 million with dementia.
With the acceleration of population aging and the increase in average life expectancy, the number of cognitive impairment patients in China is increasing, posing challenges to individuals, families, and society. Cognitive impairment has an insidious onset, and currently still faces problems such as insufficient public awareness, low early screening rates, and scarce professional care resources. From early screening and care services to social support, what measures are being taken by various departments and institutions? How can we better care for this group? Beijing (北京) and Shanghai (上海) have made pragmatic explorations. Recently, reporters conducted interviews on this topic.
Community memory clinics take on the responsibility of screening and treatment, and professional institutions undertake the heavy responsibility of care.
"Have you had more difficulty remembering things in recent years?" "Has your reaction slowed down?" At the memory clinic on the third floor of the Dongxiaokou Community Health Service Center (东小口社区卫生服务中心) in Changping District (昌平区), Beijing (北京), 68-year-old Aunt Pan (潘阿姨), with the assistance of community doctor Huang Jie (黄洁), used a tablet screening device to perform memory and sleep assessments. After the assessment, based on the results, Aunt Pan (潘阿姨) also underwent cognitive rehabilitation training and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy with the help of a rehabilitation therapist. This is a neuromodulation therapy that can regulate the excitability and neuroplasticity of the cerebral cortex, improving insomnia and memory decline, with a course of treatment lasting about two weeks.
Currently, the Dongxiaokou Community Health Service Center (东小口社区卫生服务中心) has jointly opened a memory clinic with Aviation General Hospital (航空总医院), with a total of 4 doctors and 3 therapists, equipped with assessment, training, and treatment instruments for cognition, speech, and psychology. For patients with mild cognitive impairment, a closed loop from screening to training and treatment is formed, combining Western and traditional Chinese medicine to provide patients with comprehensive treatments such as acupuncture and auricular point pressing, and also providing a two-way referral mechanism for patients with moderate or severe conditions, arranging for patients to be referred to cooperative hospitals for further intensive treatment.
Special screening is also one of the tasks of the memory clinic. The reporter followed Huang Jie (黄洁) to the home of Grandpa Wang (王大爷), who suffers from Parkinson's disease and hypertension, for door-to-door screening. Not long ago, when the family doctor came to recheck Grandpa Wang's (王大爷) blood routine, he also assessed his cognitive function at the memory clinic and diagnosed him with severe cognitive impairment. This "home visit" was Huang Jie (黄洁) coming to the door to provide rehabilitation guidance to Grandpa Wang's (王大爷) family members.
"Early screening for cognitive impairment is crucial. After early screening, timely treatment can delay the progression of the disease and prevent the subsequent occurrence of more serious or even disabling symptoms," said Xu Zhitao (许志涛), director of the Dongxiaokou Community Health Service Center (东小口社区卫生服务中心). He suggested that all elderly people over 65 should undergo a cognitive assessment. He said that in the future, the health service center will also include memory screening in routine physical examinations for the elderly.
This year, the Beijing Municipal Health Commission (北京市卫生健康委) included "building more than 20 memory clinics" in the 2025 health task list. Relevant负责人 of the Beijing Municipal Health Commission (北京市卫生健康委) stated that community health service institutions, as the first line of defense in the prevention and control system for dementia in old age, undertake important responsibilities such as cognitive impairment screening, intervention, publicity, care guidance, and follow-up management. By 2030, Beijing (北京) will build no less than 100 community memory clinics, covering 16 districts and economic development zones.
With the development of the disease, the vast majority of elderly people with cognitive impairment will experience memory loss and difficulty in self-care, often accompanied by emotional problems, manifested as irritability or resistance, which not only requires caregivers to have professional knowledge, but also requires a lot of energy and patience. For families with moderate to severe dementia, how to reduce the burden of care is a common problem they face. Choosing professional institutional care is undoubtedly the better solution.
Liu Meihua (刘美华), 45, is the dementia care supervisor at Chunxuanmao (Beijing Shuangqiao) Elderly Apartment (椿萱茂（北京双桥）老年公寓) and has been engaged in dementia care for 9 years. She told reporters, "Caring for elderly people with cognitive impairment is not only about daily life care, but also requires more humanistic care, paying attention to their emotional needs, and professional, patient, and loving care are indispensable."
"Look, I also have an IV sticker on my hand, don't be afraid." 81-year-old Platoon Leader Wang (王排长) is one of the elderly people currently cared for by Liu Meihua (刘美华) at Chunxuanmao (椿萱茂), suffering from severe Alzheimer's disease. Recently, the elderly person contracted pneumonia and needed an IV, but her resistance was very obvious. Liu Meihua (刘美华) put an IV sticker on her own hand, "coaxing" her to accept the injection.
Zhang Liyan (张丽彦), the project负责人 of Chunxuanmao (Beijing Shuangqiao) Elderly Apartment (椿萱茂（北京双桥）老年公寓), told reporters that 80% of the elderly people in the elderly apartment are now Alzheimer's patients, and most of them are moderate to severe. "We have now formed a relatively complete care process and have an independent disease record model. The nursing home cooperates with domestic medical institutions in related fields and surrounding hospitals, and also has a medical room internally. Doctors and nurses form a family doctor team that can carry out some basic medical services."
Chunxuanmao (椿萱茂) adopts a team nursing approach, assigning two to three familiar caregivers to each elderly person to give them a sense of security. At the same time, caregivers can also support each other and reduce stress. Before starting work, caregivers must undergo professional theoretical and life care training, from understanding the reasons behind the elderly's behavior to how to communicate with the elderly and how to deal with and respond to abnormal behavior. After passing the training, they gradually transition to independently completing the elderly's care. "The most important thing for elderly care institutions is service. Through professional care, the elderly gradually regain their confidence and feel the warmth of home," said Zhang Liyan (张丽彦).
In Beijing (北京), more and more养老机构 with different fee levels, such as Phoenix Elderly Nursing Home (凤凰老年养护院) in Haidian District (海淀区) and Jingkang Gucheng Elderly Care Center (京康古城养老照料中心) in Shijingshan (石景山), are undertaking the work of caring for elderly people with dementia, meeting the care needs of different families. However, how to improve the level of care and ensure the rights and dignity of elderly people with dementia still requires more training and supervision.
Mobilize all parties to participate together, and the support network is more three-dimensional, full, and powerful.
Walking along Juye Road (巨野路) in Pudong New Area (浦东新区), Shanghai (上海) to No. 717, pushing open the door of the "Memory Cafe" (记忆咖啡馆) in the Yangjing Community Cultural Activity Center (洋泾社区文化活动中心), coolness and the aroma of coffee greet you, making you unable to help but breathe a sigh of relief. Behind the bar, 73-year-old Zhao Linan (赵丽南) is carefully making coffee. She looks up and smiles at the guests: "Would you like to try my iced Americano today?"
Six years ago, when Zhao Linan (赵丽南) discovered through community screening that she had mild cognitive impairment, she didn't even recognize the road and needed her husband to accompany her throughout. Now, she can take the bus alone to work here, participate in activities, make coffee, greet guests, and is busy.
Next to the bar, there is a line of text that makes people smile: "If you order an Americano but get a latte, please forgive us! If you order a small cup but get a large cup, please don't be surprised!" It turns out that most of the baristas here are "old treasures" like Zhao Linan (赵丽南) - elderly people with mild cognitive impairment. They form a team with middle-aged and young volunteers to make coffee, deliver meals, clean tables, and receive guests in a real operating environment.
Gu Chunling (顾春玲), director of Shanghai Jinmei Elderly Service Center (上海尽美长者服务中心), introduced that the "Memory Cafe" (记忆咖啡馆) was originally intended to provide a place for families of cognitive impairment patients to rest and communicate. "In Yangjing Community (洋泾社区), this has become a bridge, with one end connecting elderly people with cognitive impairment and the other end connecting ordinary residents, allowing their lives to truly integrate and allowing more people to care for elderly people with cognitive impairment."
Now, the街道 relies on the "Yangjing Memory Home" (洋泾记忆家), a distinctive cognitive impairment comprehensive elderly service sub-center, to create brands such as the "Memory Cafe" (记忆咖啡馆), promoting the construction of a cognitive-friendly community. The center has completed more than 10,000 cases of cognitive impairment initial screening, established files for more than 3,000 families, and extended services such as science popularization, screening intervention, and care support to residential areas, forming a hierarchical prevention and intervention system. Currently, more than 50 "old treasure" volunteers have participated in hundreds of activities in the "Memory Cafe" (记忆咖啡馆), serving nearly 10,000 people. More specifically, the cafe has also stepped out of the community and "bloomed and fruited" in buildings and business districts, bringing the concept of cognitive impairment friendliness to more people with cups of coffee.
Not only in this 街道, in recent years, Shanghai (上海) has mobilized all parties to participate together, weaving a more three-dimensional, full, and powerful support network for elderly people with cognitive impairment and their families. Since 2018, it has carried out elderly cognitive impairment care services, promoting the construction of an elderly cognitive impairment care service system with Shanghai (上海) characteristics by establishing cognitive impairment special zones in养老机构 and building elderly cognitive impairment friendly communities at the street and town level. In September 2019, it fully launched the construction of elderly cognitive impairment friendly communities, widely carrying out full-process services for elderly cognitive impairment in communities, and has now achieved full coverage of pilot construction streets and towns for elderly cognitive impairment friendly communities... More and more elderly people with cognitive impairment and their families are beginning to feel the warmth and strength of elderly care in big cities.
Social care for elderly people with cognitive impairment has been put on a more important agenda. This year, "reconstructing 3,000 cognitive impairment care beds" has become one of the practical projects of the Shanghai Municipal Government (上海市政府). Information from the Shanghai Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau (上海市民政局) shows that this work was broken down and issued indicators in February, completed site selection, clarified points, and all started program design or construction. As of the end of July, 1,333 new cognitive impairment care beds have been added.
Not only that, in order to further create a good atmosphere in the whole society of caring for elderly people with cognitive impairment, and strengthen the service guarantee system of early screening, early intervention, diversified empowerment, and diversified support, in April this year, the Shanghai Municipal People's Suggestions Solicitation Office (上海市人民建议征集办) and the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau (市民政局) jointly launched the "Invite You to Contribute a Plan to Deepen the Construction of Elderly Cognitive Impairment Friendly Communities" people's suggestions solicitation activity, which received positive responses from all sectors of society. The Shanghai Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau (上海市民政局) clarified that the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau (市民政局) has analyzed and studied the collected suggestions, will focus on improving them, and will take this people's suggestions solicitation activity as an opportunity to further deepen and improve the construction of elderly cognitive impairment friendly communities in the city and improve the elderly cognitive impairment care service system.
(Song Jiayin (宋佳茵) participated in writing)
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In the clinic of a top-tier hospital in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角), 67-year-old Auntie Li (李阿姨) asked the doctor to order a thyroid ultrasound. The system automatically popped up a reminder: "You have completed a thyroid function test in the community hospital in the past 3 months. This application is a duplicate." The doctor immediately withdrew the order and suggested referring to the community test results first. Behind this scene is the connection between medical insurance settlement data and hospital diagnosis and treatment data playing a role.
Medical insurance departments and medical institutions are often considered to be in an adversarial relationship of "regulation and being regulated." In some cases, medical insurance departments may even over-rely on ex-post audits to prevent fraud, while medical institutions may engage in improper medical behaviors such as breaking down hospitalizations and excessive examinations to control costs and increase revenue. Today, medical insurance and the medical system are shifting from passive connection to proactive collaboration. The core code of this shift lies in the flow and integration of massive amounts of data. Medical insurance data and medical institution data are, respectively, a "medical security ledger" and a "health diagnosis and treatment log." When the two break down barriers and deeply integrate, they form a two-way governance digital engine, which not only builds a solid defense line for the safety of medical insurance funds, but also injects momentum into improving the quality and efficiency of medical services.
Medical insurance data is a barometer of the medical needs of insured individuals. It not only records the basic information of more than 1.3 billion insured individuals, such as payment base, benefit enjoyment, and out-of-town medical treatment trajectory, but also precipitates dynamic expenditure data such as diagnosis and treatment items, drugs, and consumables. Medical data is a microscope of diagnosis and treatment behavior, covering the entire process of electronic medical records, examination and test reports, surgical records, medication trajectories, etc. It not only contains the technical details of "how to treat diseases," but also implies the behavioral patterns of "how patients see."
For medical insurance departments, data is an important means of precise supervision. By opening up medical insurance settlement data, hospital information system data, and drug and consumable traceability data, medical insurance departments can build a full-chain supervision system. For example, Zhejiang Province (浙江省), relying on the National Medical Insurance Information Platform (国家医保信息平台), cross-compares the historical medical records of insured individuals, drug sales data, and real-time settlement information. In the first half of 2024, it identified 12,000 suspicious clues such as "lying-in hospitalization" and "falsely opening inspections," recovering 230 million yuan in fund losses.
For medical institutions, timely access to medical insurance payment data, patient flow data, and drug use data can more scientifically optimize resource allocation. However, in the past, data calls were one-way, that is, medical insurance departments could grasp relevant information of medical institutions, but medical institutions could not obtain the operating conditions of medical insurance funds and the data comparison between medical institutions mastered by medical insurance departments, which was not conducive to medical institutions improving service efficiency.
In July 2024, the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局) issued the "Notice of the General Office of the National Healthcare Security Administration on Issuing the 2.0 Version of the Grouping Scheme for Payment by Disease Group and Disease Value and Deeply Promoting Related Work," proposing that all regions should establish medical insurance data working groups, further publicize the operating conditions of medical insurance funds to the public, and regularly "reveal the bottom line" to designated medical institutions, thus kicking off the curtain of data "two-way rush."
In March of this year, medical insurance data working groups in various regions basically completed the first information release, not only analyzing the income and expenditure of medical insurance funds, fund settlement, and the quality and efficiency data of medical institution services, but also organizing data communication meetings to communicate data analysis results face-to-face with designated medical institutions, and collecting opinions and suggestions from medical institutions on data analysis, medical insurance fund settlement, and payment method reform.
In Dalian (大连), Liaoning (辽宁), the average cost per hospitalization, the proportion of examination and testing and drugs, monthly cost changes, and the average cost structure of the same disease... Data sharing helps hospitals say goodbye to the "experience decision-making" model, and the early warning function of the intelligent monitoring system provides strong support for refined management; in Fuzhou (福州), Fujian (福建), through the data visualization application system, designated medical institutions can not only quickly obtain their own summary analysis data, but also obtain various types of indicator content and institutional horizontal analysis statistics data disclosed by medical insurance, which enables hospitals to easily benchmark and find differences, analyze reasons, and formulate precise operation strategies. These practices show that deep collaboration starting from data connection is promoting the governance model of medical insurance and medical institutions from "passive response" to "active empowerment."
Improving the level of medical insurance supervision and medical services, the ultimate goal is to benefit the insured. It is believed that the two-way flow of relevant data and regular face-to-face communication between medical insurance and medical care will definitely promote medical insurance policies to be closer to clinical practice, medical behaviors to be more in line with medical insurance rules, and allow the public to enjoy more efficient and warmer medical services.
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As the saying goes, "Nothing is more poisonous than autumn mosquitoes." Mosquito-borne infectious diseases refer to a class of diseases that spread pathogens through mosquito bites. Common ones include Chikungunya fever, dengue fever, and malaria, which can cause symptoms such as high fever and body aches. Traditional Chinese medicine classifies mosquito-borne infectious diseases as a type of damp-warm disease. In late summer and early autumn, mosquito prevention should not be ignored.
Sachet to repel mosquitoes. Lu You (陆游) wrote in a poem: "The swamp country has many mosquitoes, which are strangely annoying at night. Fanning cannot repel them, so burning moxa is a quick solution." Mugwort is used to produce smoke to repel mosquitoes and is one of the main raw materials for making sachets. Take 10 grams of mugwort leaves, 10 grams of agastache, 10 grams of Atractylodes lancea, 10 grams of Angelica dahurica, and 10 grams of Ligusticum chuanxiong, grind them into a coarse powder, take an appropriate amount and put it into a non-woven bag to make a sachet, wear it on your body or hang it on the head of the bed, and replace it every month to effectively repel mosquitoes. Pregnant women and those allergic to the Chinese medicine in this prescription should not use it.
Incense sticks to repel mosquitoes. Sun Simiao’s (孙思邈) *Qian Jin Yue Ling* (*千金月令*) records: "On the fifth day of the fifth month, take duckweed, dry it in the shade and burn it to produce smoke to get rid of mosquitoes." Take 10 grams of duckweed, 6 grams of Atractylodes lancea, 6 grams of Angelica dahurica, 3 grams of rosemary, and 40 grams of elm bark, grind them into a very fine powder, mix with cold water to make a fragrant paste, then use an incense extruder to make incense sticks, and dry them in the shade. When using, light it to fumigate and repel mosquitoes.
Take care of personal conditioning. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mosquitoes prefer to bite people with damp-heat constitutions, who often exhibit symptoms such as excessive sweating, body heat, and sticky skin. Personal mosquito prevention and conditioning should focus on clearing heat and removing dampness to reduce body odor that attracts mosquitoes.
After being bitten by mosquitoes, you can use traditional Chinese medicine physiotherapy to relieve symptoms. For Chinese medicine foot bath, take 30 grams each of Agastache rugosa and Lophatherum gracile, boil water for a foot bath. It can clear heat, remove dampness, and relieve muscles, improving discomfort such as fever, fatigue, and joint pain. For Chinese medicine wet compress, take 30 grams each of Phellodendron amurense and Portulaca oleracea, decoct and apply cold wet compress to the affected area twice a day. It can clear heat and astringe, improving skin rash and itching.
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Health checkups are an important measure for detecting and preventing diseases. Many people receive their health checkup reports and find that they recognize all the words and symbols, but they don't understand the specific content. So, how do you understand the key indicators, and what abnormalities require timely medical attention? A reporter interviewed relevant experts.
Health checkups cover basic examinations in various clinical departments, including medical equipment examinations such as ultrasound, electrocardiogram, and radiology, as well as laboratory tests focusing on human blood, urine, and stool. The Health Checkup Center of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital (首都医科大学附属北京朝阳医院) affiliated with Capital Medical University suggests: Young people around 30 years old should focus on blood routine, urine routine, and electrocardiogram examinations; people aged 40-50 should focus on blood lipids, blood sugar, bone density, and tumor marker screening; women over 40 years old are advised to undergo mammography X-rays; people over 45 years old are advised to undergo colonoscopy; and people over 50 years old should focus on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular function assessment, fundus examination, lung CT, hearing, and vision tests.
Blood routine is a basic test item. In the blood routine report, some values are marked with (↑) or (↓) symbols, which indicate that the result is higher or lower than the reference range. Wang Fei (王斐), an assistant researcher at the Department of Laboratory Medicine of Peking Union Medical College Hospital (北京协和医院), said that the blood routine report has many items, but they can be roughly divided into three parts: red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. If there are no clinical symptoms and the values fluctuate around the reference range, there is no need to worry too much. Just pay attention regularly and recheck in time as your physical condition changes. If the values deviate too much from the reference range, or if you have related symptoms yourself, it is recommended to consult a hematologist for diagnosis and treatment.
Urine reflects the body's metabolic status, and urine routine test items are important indicators for the diagnosis of many diseases. In urine routine reports, "-" and "+" are usually used to indicate negative and positive results. Xu Aimin (徐爱民), deputy chief physician of the Health Checkup Center of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital (北京朝阳医院), introduced that the focus should be on four key indicators of urine routine: urine leukocytes, urine erythrocytes, urine protein, and urine sugar (glucose). If multiple "+" signs appear in these indicators, it is best to go to the relevant professional department for re-examination. For example, the urine protein indicator should normally be negative, indicating "-"; an abnormal result is positive, indicating "+". If there is no strenuous exercise, but the urine protein is positive and indicates multiple "+", it may be renal insufficiency or glomerulonephritis, and it is recommended to go to the Department of Nephrology for re-examination in a timely manner.
Liver function tests mainly include liver function laboratory tests and ultrasound examinations. Yang Zhiying (杨志英), director and chief physician of the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery of China-Japan Friendship Hospital (中日友好医院), analyzed that liver function laboratory tests need to focus on transaminases, cholangiokinases, and bilirubin. If the transaminase value is higher than the normal value, it indicates liver damage. The higher the value, the more severe the liver damage. Cholangiokinases are divided into alkaline phosphatase and transpeptidase. If they exceed the normal value, you may have bile duct obstruction, inflammation, stones, tumors, etc., and it is recommended to go to the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery for diagnosis in a timely manner. If bilirubin exceeds the normal value, it may be a problem with the liver or bile duct obstruction, and it is recommended to go to the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery for diagnosis in a timely manner. Ultrasound examination mainly looks for space-occupying lesions, cysts, calcifications, fatty liver, cirrhosis, etc. in the liver. When a color Doppler ultrasound examination of the liver reveals a slightly high echo nodule, if there is no history of liver disease such as hepatitis, it is usually a small liver hemangioma. The first time it is discovered, you can go to the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery for examination, and after diagnosis, you can observe it regularly. If cirrhosis is found, seek medical attention in a timely manner to prevent the condition from worsening.
After some people have a health checkup, the report shows nodules. "Common ones include lung nodules, thyroid nodules, and breast nodules. Slightly larger volumes are called masses or lumps," said Xu Guogang (徐国纲), director of the Department of Health Medicine of the Second Medical Center of the People's Liberation Army General Hospital (解放军总医院第二医学中心). More than 90% of lung nodules found in health checkups are benign. The reasons for their formation may be inflammation, old changes, benign tumors, etc., and a very small number are malignant tumors. If the diameter of the lung nodule is less than 8 mm, the possibility of developing into a malignant tumor in a short period of time is small, and a chest CT can be rechecked every year. If the diameter is greater than or equal to 8 mm, it is recommended to go to the Department of Thoracic Surgery for further examination. If the nodule increases in size and has burrs, lobulation, unclear nodule boundaries, rich blood supply, or rapid nodule growth in a short period of time, it is likely to be a malignant tumor, and you must pay close attention to it and seek medical attention in a timely manner. If a thyroid nodule is found during a health checkup, it is best to go to the general surgery or endocrinology department of a regular hospital for further examination in a timely manner and have it evaluated by a specialist doctor. Most breast nodules are benign. If the breast ultrasound shows that there are irregular hypoechoic nodules in the breast with unclear or blurred boundaries with surrounding tissues, rich blood flow signals, visible penetrating vessels, and enlarged axillary lymph nodes, you should go to general surgery in a timely manner to clarify the cause.
Routine health checkups have limitations. Experts suggest that a "normal" routine health checkup report is not an absolute guarantee of good health, because some potential diseases and tumors need to be discovered through special screening. For tumor screening, in April of this year, the Shanghai Anti-Cancer Association (上海市抗癌协会) and the Fudan University Cancer Hospital (复旦大学附属肿瘤医院) jointly released the "Recommendations for Screening and Prevention of Common Malignant Tumors in Residents (2025 Edition)" (《居民常见恶性肿瘤筛查和预防推荐（2025版）》), which summarized the high-risk groups for more than 20 malignant tumors, as well as the standards for correct screening. This is conducive to early detection, early diagnosis, and early treatment of cancer.
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"War is a mirror that allows people to better understand the preciousness of peace." To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, the Institute of World History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院世界历史研究所) has compiled "A New History of the Second World War" (《新编第二次世界大战史》, hereinafter referred to as "A New History"). "A New History" is committed to absorbing the latest achievements in the study of the history of World War II at home and abroad, promoting a correct view of the history of World War II, and constructing a narrative of the history of World War II with distinctive Chinese characteristics and characteristics of the times. The book is divided into 6 parts, examining the historical process from the collapse of the Versailles-Washington system and the outbreak of war to the surrender of the fascists and the reshaping of the international order. It discusses the roles of the Eastern Main Battlefield, the European Battlefield, the Pacific Battlefield, the Atlantic Battlefield, and the North African Mediterranean Battlefield, as well as the linkage and cooperation between the battlefields, presenting a panoramic view of the magnificent World Anti-Fascist War.
"A New History" clearly points out that the Chinese battlefield was the Eastern Main Battlefield, and the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) was the mainstay of the national resistance against Japan. China's War of Resistance began the earliest, lasted the longest, faced the most difficult situation, and made the greatest sacrifices. From the September 18th Incident (九一八事变) in 1931 to the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, China independently persisted in resisting the Japanese army for 10 years, and was the only large-scale anti-fascist battlefield in the East. After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Chinese battlefield continued to resist the main force of the Japanese army and some naval and air military forces. At the critical moment of the life and death of the Chinese nation, the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) took the lead in raising the banner of armed resistance against Japan, and successively put forward a series of major ideological theories and policies, adhered to the line of all-out resistance, formulated correct strategies and tactics, opened up vast enemy-occupied areas, and forged the great spirit of resistance against Japan. The Communist Party of China's (中国共产党) resistance against Japan was not only related to the life and death of the Chinese nation, but also had far-reaching international significance. The anti-Japanese resistance behind enemy lines led by the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) provided valuable experience and strong support for neighboring countries to carry out anti-Japanese struggles.
The Chinese people made huge sacrifices for the World Anti-Fascist War. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the casualties of Chinese soldiers and civilians amounted to 35 million. According to the 1937 parity, it caused direct economic losses of US$100 billion and indirect economic losses of US$500 billion to China. If calculated in gold, it is equivalent to US$60 trillion today, which is an extremely alarming figure. There is no doubt that as the Eastern Main Battlefield of World War II, the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was a great and arduous struggle in the history of the Chinese nation and an important turning point in the process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Correspondingly, the historical status of the Soviet-German battlefield as the main European battlefield of World War II has also been clarified. In the battle with the Soviet Red Army, Nazi Germany lost 70% of its living forces and 75% of its weapons and equipment.
"A New History" extensively explores the historical facts of the Chinese people's support for major battlefields around the world and sorts out the Chinese people's support for other battlefields, which has been rarely involved in past writings. Despite the arduous task of resisting Japan, the Chinese people still supported other battlefields with practical actions. In addition to our well-known support for Korean independence and sending troops to Myanmar to fight, the Chinese people also actively participated in the war in Europe. When the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, Chinese volunteers with internationalist spirit joined the International Brigade. They included Xie Weijin (谢唯进) (alias Lin Jishi (林济时)), a member of the Communist Party of China (中共党员) in Europe, Zhang Ji (张纪) and Chen Wenrao (陈文饶), Chinese from the United States, Zhang Ruishu (张瑞书) and Liu Jingtian (刘景田), Chinese workers in Europe, and Chen A'gen (陈阿根) from Shanghai, providing Chinese strength to the international anti-fascist camp. Because of his bravery on the battlefield, Zhang Ruishu (张瑞书) was also featured on the cover of the Spanish magazine "Illustrated". There were also a group of Chinese people in the Normandy landings. In 1942, the Chinese government sent Zhou Xianzhang (周宪章) to lead Huang Tingxin (黄廷鑫), Guo Chengsen (郭成森) and other 24 Chinese naval cadets to Britain for training and internship. Among them, 20 people participated in the Normandy landings, performing naval main attack, anti-submarine escort and air defense alert missions. These voices and support are a tribute to the heroic battles of the Allies and a testimony to the full participation of the Chinese people in World War II. These historical facts are due to recent research findings.
Pay attention to the World War II experiences of countries and nations outside of Europe and the United States, and tell the touching stories of resistance in Asia, Africa and Latin America. For more than half a century, the World War II stories of Asia, Africa and Latin America have been forgotten by the world. In fact, its excitement is no less than that of major countries such as the United States and the Soviet Union. During World War II, the British African colony with a population of only 42 million contributed approximately 400,000 soldiers. The 81st and 82nd Divisions of the British 14th Army were African divisions, and they even rushed to the Myanmar battlefield to fight against Japanese fascists. Africa also provided huge amounts of minerals. In the Asia-Pacific region, in September 1940, the people of French New Caledonia chose to stand on the side of justice, launched a coup, and supported the Free France led by Charles de Gaulle (戴高乐). More than 3,500 Papua New Guineans joined the Pacific Islands Regiment, more than 2,000 Fijians participated in the Solomon Islands campaign, and 680 Solomon Islanders joined the Solomon Islands Defense Force. Even those areas far from the battlefield made the right choices. The Brazilian Expeditionary Force, with only 25,000 people, not only gained a foothold in the battle, but also captured more than 20,000 Axis soldiers, playing a key role in the liberation of Italy. Even the New Zealand Maori organized the 28th Battalion (Maori Battalion) to go to Europe to directly participate in the war, and in 1942 organized the "Maori War Preparedness Organization" to coordinate conscription, food production and labor affairs throughout the country.
"A New History" comprehensively discusses the determination of China's status as a major power, extending the discussion angle to the international economic field, which has received less attention in the past. In the post-war order, China became one of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, and its shares in the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank ranked among the top four, and it established its status as a major power in the world's political and economic fields in the early post-war period. The acquisition of this status did not come from the gift of others, but from the important position of China's War of Resistance in the World Anti-Fascist War. First, China resolutely resisted Japanese aggression, effectively contained the main force of the Japanese army, and became the main eastern battlefield for resisting fascist aggression. Second, China's War of Resistance was a necessary prerequisite and foundation for the formulation and implementation of the Allied powers' major strategy of prioritizing Europe over Asia. Without the Chinese people's persistent resistance to the Japanese army's aggression, which plunged its main force into the Chinese battlefield, the Allied powers would never have been able to implement the strategy of "defeating Germany first and then defeating Japan," and the time for the anti-fascist war would have been greatly extended. These two points laid the foundation for China's important position in the international order, which also shows that China's post-war status was exchanged for by the Chinese people with heroic fighting and fearless sacrifice.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "We must take history as a mirror and firmly maintain our determination to safeguard peace." The historical experience of the World Anti-Fascist War tells us that peace needs to be strived for and maintained, and win-win cooperation should become the basic policy orientation for all countries in handling international affairs. From the principles of equality and sovereignty established in the Treaty of Westphalia (《威斯特伐利亚和约》) more than 370 years ago, to the spirit of international humanitarianism established in the Geneva Convention (《日内瓦公约》) more than 160 years ago; from the four purposes and seven principles clearly defined in the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章) 80 years ago, to the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence (和平共处五项原则) advocated by the Bandung Conference (万隆会议) 70 years ago, the evolution of international relations has accumulated a series of recognized principles. These principles should become the basic guidelines for building a community with a shared future for mankind. The international community should adhere to a correct view of the history of World War II, always be vigilant against the revival of fascism, take multilateralism as the cornerstone for addressing common challenges and maintaining the international order, promote the reform of the global governance system with the concept of fairness and justice, and jointly write a new chapter of peaceful development and win-win cooperation.
(The author is a professor at the School of History, Wuhan University (武汉大学历史学院))
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Following the usual practice of compiling essay collections, I have divided the chapters of this book into sections. But as I divided them, I felt that it was not easy to do so. Each essay is like a small tree, with rows separating them, seemingly independent. However, above the ground, the branches and leaves of the trees touch each other, and below the ground, the roots are connected. It is really difficult to separate them.
For example, in the section "On the Land," essays like "The Taste of Earth" (《土味儿》) and "Thinning Seedlings" (《蹲苗》) seem to be related to the land. But the land is so vast and rich that it can encompass all the fables in the world. In the section "I Am a Tile," tiles, fans, balsam flowers, popcorn, and so on, all seem to be writing about things and events, but how can there be no people in things and events? And in the section "Running Under the Moonlight," it is certainly about relatives, but my relatives all live on the land, living in things and events that are inseparable from the countryside.
For example, cotton fields. When I first started learning to write fiction, I wrote about it in a short story. A few years ago, I also wrote a fairy tale about a little girl named Duoduo (朵朵) searching for her star of wisdom in the wilderness and spending the night in a cotton field. While preparing this manuscript, I dredged up another detail: once I fell asleep in a cotton field, and my mother came to find me. After she found me, we walked home chatting. This scene is so ordinary, but more than 40 years later, when I think of it again, I finally understand my mother's roller-coaster-like mood at that time: the panic and fear when she called me, the angry scolding when she saw me, the casual conversation on the way home—all of these meant my mother's love. How could I, as a young child, have understood it then? And many years later, at the moment of writing "In the Sea-like Cotton Field, I Am Like a Boat," when I began to understand, I suddenly felt that the twilight that day was deafening.
And then there's Grandma. The relative I write about the most is Grandma. She is like a book that can never be finished reading. She is in "I Am a Tile" (《我是一片瓦》), she is in "The Fan Affair" (《扇子的事》)... No matter how many somersaults my youthful years turned, I could not turn out of her palm. That thick and vast palm, I suspect I originally didn't want to turn out of it.
"When We Were Young" (我们小时候), the name of this series is well chosen. It seems that every generation has its own "we" and its own "when we were young," and there must be more or less differences between them. If there are similarities, let experience embrace them. If there are differences, they can be compared and contrasted—it seems that this "if" is not needed, there must be both similarities and differences. Differences are mostly in appearance, and similarities are mostly in the inner essence. The basis for this judgment is very simple: all were once children, all had a childhood. It is said that flowers look most similar when they first sprout. Isn't our childhood the time when the flowers of life are just sprouting?
Speaking of flowers, I often think of the wonderful title *Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk* (《朝花夕拾》). Whenever I read Lu Xun's (鲁迅) preface to *Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk* (《朝花夕拾》), I feel very sympathetic: "There was a time when I often remembered the vegetables and fruits I ate in my hometown when I was a child: water chestnuts, broad beans, water bamboo, and cantaloupe. All of these were extremely delicious and tempting; they were all the temptations that made me homesick. Later, when I tasted them after a long absence, they were only so-so; only in memory did the old flavor remain. They may deceive me for a lifetime, making me look back from time to time."
I am also willing to be deceived by such memories for a lifetime. Picking up the flowers that bloom in the morning at dusk is like those long-separated past events. Because they are unforgettable, many years later, they slowly return in retrospect, review, and recollection, allowing them to be shaped between the lines, re-examined, presented at the tip of the pen, and reunited with the present self after a long separation.
Of course, this flower is different from that flower. Writing makes a flower bloom twice. The first time was in the past, and the second time is in the present. In the long-lasting fragrance, I petal by petal depict the appearance of the flower in my heart. And the flowers that bloom on paper have a longer fragrance than the flowers that bloom on branches, and once they fall on paper, the flowers never wither.
So, writing is really **朝花夕拾** (zhāo huā xī shí - "dawn blossoms plucked at dusk," reminiscing about past memories), it is really such a fascinating thing.
(The author is the vice chairman of the Beijing Writers Association (北京市作协). This article is the postscript to the book *Where Did the Sun Set?* (《太阳落在了哪座山》), and this edition has been abridged.)
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Wang Jinkang's (王晋康) full-length science fiction novel "Xing Ge San Die (行歌三叠)" is expanded from his short story "A Lifetime's Story (一生的故事)," retaining the original story's outline while deepening the theme and innovating the narrative structure. A time travel event, related to the fate of two generations, intertwines magnificent and splendid science fiction fantasies with the life and death circumstances of life, profound and far-reaching.
In the 24th century, young Ge Liang (戈亮), in order to eliminate the artificial intelligence "Big Mama (大妈妈)" that controls humanity, travels back to the 21st century in a time machine, attempting to prevent scientist Chen Ying's (陈影) research and development to change the trajectory of human history. However, in this process, Ge Liang unexpectedly falls in love with Chen Ying, abandons his plan, and the two marry and have children. Afterward, Ge Liang, who traveled through time and space, becomes a quantum state, only able to resist "diffusion" with strong willpower, but he does not return to his own era, but silently guards his wife and children like a shadow.
The intricate and tortuous story points to two important topics in science fiction.
One is the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence. At the beginning, the author raises the question of whether artificial intelligence is a helper or an enemy of humanity. As artificial intelligence, "Big Mama" has improved the quality of human life, but has also led to a decline in human learning ability and creative ability. For such artificial intelligence, should we let it be or eliminate it completely? Ge Liang's hostility towards "Big Mama" and Chen Ying's defense against it both reflect humanity's early attitudes towards artificial intelligence. The author shows optimism and open-mindedness between the lines, that artificial intelligence is not a scourge, and its emergence is the result of scientific and technological development. Humans should not blame their own degradation on artificial intelligence, but should reflect on themselves. Like Mary (玛丽), who does not advocate "killing Big Mama," she does not attempt to eliminate artificial intelligence, but initiates an immigration movement, preparing to build a new home on a new planet and restart human creativity. And "Big Mama" also realizes the way to coexist with humans, not to obey blindly, but to love and live together, so she takes the initiative to go to Xirang Star (息壤星), returning the Earth to humans. This understanding of cooperation and mutual fulfillment brings many inspirations to our real-world interaction with artificial intelligence.
The other is time. Time constitutes history, and history is the sum of time, which contains endless treasures for science fiction creation. In Ge Liang's time-traveling adventure, the past, present, near future, and distant future are juxtaposed, and readers can stand at any point on the timeline to recall the past or look forward to the future. Whether it is the 24th century where Ge Liang is located, or the 21st century where Chen Ying is located, they are mutually cause and effect, and mutually the beginning, sometimes even forming a paradoxical closed loop. The interwoven switching of multiple personal perspectives complements and fits together the plots, outlining a complete story. The author also uses a variety of methods such as flashbacks, interjections, foreshadowing, and supplementary narratives to connect pieces of cut time fragments, making the narrative level clear and diverse.
In the complex chain of time, will history deviate due to time travel? The author gives a clear and powerful answer: the ending of history will not be changed by time travel, and humanity is destined to complete the breakthroughs it should.
After reading this book, a picture seems to appear before my eyes: humans are walking forward along the endless river of time, walking and singing, the singing is powerful. Perhaps the meaning of science fiction lies in this, seeing the future has come, and also looking back at the road we have come from, every step must be taken firmly and optimistically.
("Xing Ge San Die (行歌三叠)": Written by Wang Jinkang (王晋康); Published by Cultural Arts Publishing House (文化艺术出版社).)
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In my childhood memories, my mother's voice reciting folk rhymes was very pleasant. For young children, the sound of the rhyme is more important than the content. Children may not understand what is being sung, but the rhythm and cadence are enough to infect us. The most interesting teaching material for cultivating children's love of their mother tongue is none other than this. Therefore, when I started writing children's literature in the mid-1950s, I recognized that nursery rhymes have a special artistic value in children's literature. This kind of literature that appeals to the sense of hearing, with the beauty of sound, **先声夺人** (xiān shēng duó rén - "gain the upper hand by a show of force," to overwhelm others with one's powerful presence or argument), is direct, fast, and strong, reaching the heart like music, and then being preserved in the depths of memory for a long time.
Zhao Xia's (赵霞) collection of nursery rhymes opens this box of "先声夺人". The book title "The Big Dipper in the Sky" uses a melodious opening rhyme to render a kind of vast poetic feeling, implying the curiosity and yearning of children when they look up at the stars. The unit names of the nursery rhymes are also full of musicality and playfulness, completely in line with a child's temperament - "Playing House Under the Apple Tree" is innocent daily life; "No Melon Grows on the Melon Vine" is imagination that breaks the rules; "Swinging to the Clouds to See the Birds" is unconstrained exploration, all revealing the author's natural, comfortable, and free feelings. This kind of feeling largely determines her artistic style.
When creating nursery rhymes for children, we often draw on folk rhymes. In terms of form and rhythm, "The Big Dipper in the Sky" well absorbs the artistic nourishment of traditional nursery rhymes. Nursery rhymes such as "Peach Blossoms Bloom" and "Under the Eaves" are natural and easy to recite, and one can read the typical sound, rhythm, and interest of traditional nursery rhymes. But today, the creation of nursery rhymes seems to have more abundant themes. We look around the world we live in. In addition to flowers, plants, trees, birds, beasts, fish, and insects, there is also the ever-changing modern life surrounding us. Nursery rhymes such as "Jiaolong (蛟龙) Goes to Sea" and "High-Speed Rail (高铁) High" are such keen and fresh attempts. Through the eyes of children, they lightly trigger current new things, new fields, and new themes. The lines are full of kindness, sincerity, comfort, and joy, which is gratifying.
The ancients called nursery rhymes "the wonderful writing of heaven and earth." I think the wonder lies in the fact that it does not admonish or preach, but gives children a good attitude and a happy expression. Zhao Xia's (赵霞) "The Big Dipper in the Sky" is making such efforts. I would like to say that nursery rhyme creation is a career full of love and wisdom. May these nursery rhymes, like the stars of the Big Dipper, adorn the night sky of childhood, accompany children through the long river of years, and become the softest and brightest memories of their lives.
("The Big Dipper in the Sky": Written by Zhao Xia (赵霞), illustrated by Chen Tianxue (陈天雪); published by Zhejiang Juvenile and Children's Publishing House (浙江少年儿童出版社).)
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Amidst the ravages of war and societal upheaval, books were inevitably caught in the crossfire. Before the July 7th Incident (七七事变) in 1937, China boasted 3,744 libraries. By the end of 1937, the losses amounted to 2,166 libraries, with nearly 90 million books destroyed. These figures represent only the official statistics from the library system; the widespread destruction of private collections across the country was catastrophic, with losses so immense that they remain unquantifiable to this day.
On August 13, 1937, the Battle of Shanghai (淞沪会战) erupted, and Zheng Zhenduo (郑振铎), then the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Jinan University (暨南大学), faced a critical decision: to leave or to stay? Jinan University (暨南大学), where he taught, insisted on continuing its operations in Shanghai, and he had nearly 20,000 volumes of ancient books stored in various locations throughout the city. Ultimately, he chose to remain, thus beginning the story of a scholar with no weapons engaging in a cultural resistance in occupied Shanghai.
During the first four years of Shanghai's "isolated island" period, Zheng Zhenduo (郑振铎) devoted his energy to searching for and collecting documents, working with colleagues from the "Document Preservation Society" (文献保存同志会) to rescue over 15,000 rare Song (宋) and Yuan (元) dynasty books, as well as finely printed Ming (明) and Qing (清) dynasty editions. In the subsequent four years, he lived in anonymity, economizing on food and clothing, and dedicated himself to preserving and organizing the documents he had already acquired.
At that time, the Japanese army's plunder of Chinese cultural relics and documents was an organized and planned covert operation. Each division was equipped with a "military geography data unit" that gathered intelligence before the occupation and drafted a "receipt" (confiscation) list. Upon occupation, they immediately began looting. After the Japanese army's plunder, a large number of surviving ancient books were scattered throughout Shanghai. Due to the turbulent war situation and rampant corruption, calligraphy, paintings, ancient books, and antiques, as "hard currency," became the primary choice for various sectors of society to accumulate and generate wealth, leading to the abnormal prosperity of the second-hand book industry.
Although nominally aimed at preserving culture for the nation, in the Shanghai concessions where national power was temporarily absent, Zheng Zhenduo's (郑振铎) document rescue work could only follow the commercial rules of the antiquarian book trade, conducting secret transactions in his own name and skillfully maneuvering among various forces. Each action was a battle of wits and courage for survival in extraordinary times. He was constantly in a dangerous situation of being "hunted," and his actions, research, and book collection were closely watched by the Japanese military, intelligence community, and academia. "There was danger at every moment, terror at every moment, living in the giant shadow of the enemy's clutches," yet he repeatedly "rescued it from the ashes of destruction and snatched it from the hands of the enemy."
This was an international commercial war that took place in Shanghai, and even more so, a spy war to compete with the enemy and puppets for intelligence. Ultimately, it was a cultural defense war against imperialist aggression.
The book "Secret Struggle: A Scholar's Cultural Resistance" ("暗斗：一个书生的文化抗战") tells the story of this cultural war without gunpowder, recounting how Zheng Zhenduo (郑振铎), in a treacherous environment, amidst the struggles of various forces, and with the help of underground workers, rescued and preserved cultural relics and ancient books. By interpreting Japanese and Wang puppet regime archives, as well as constantly revealed private diaries, letters, and memoirs of those involved, we can approach this maneuvering and fighting in the darkness.
Burning books to escape death, selling books to survive, rescuing books to resist Japan, and preserving books to continue the cultural bloodline. While Zheng Zhenduo (郑振铎) was doing his best to rescue private collections, he also consciously left a large number of written records of the books that had survived the war, documenting the shared fate of individuals and books. For example, regarding the group of booksellers who were often portrayed as solely profit-driven, Zheng Zhenduo (郑振铎) said, "I am very grateful to them; in these long eight years, they did not reveal a single word about me." The booksellers not only protected Zheng Zhenduo (郑振铎) but also concealed the transportation of books. It was Yang Jinhua (杨金华) and other associates of the China Bookstore (中国书店) who secretly transported nearly 30,000 ancient books rescued by the Document Preservation Society (文献保存同志会) in Shanghai to Hong Kong using private commercial transportation methods, crossing the military iron curtain and opening up a secret "isolated island book route."
Qian Zhendong's (钱振东) "Brief Account of Book Calamities" ("书厄述要") points out: "Culture is to a country as spirit is to a body. Books are what culture relies on to be passed down." "Book Calamity" ("书厄") refers to the disasters in Chinese history that caused a large number of books to be lost or damaged. Facing the shocking "Book Calamity" ("书厄") caused by the Japanese invasion of China, Zheng Zhenduo (郑振铎) firmly believed: "Our national documents, which have survived thousands of calamities without being destroyed, will not be destroyed this time either." The ancient books that he personally searched for, rescued, and preserved during his lifetime constitute the basic collection of ancient books in libraries on both sides of the Taiwan Strait today. In the fields of Chinese vernacular literature research, printmaking research, and cultural relic research, where he pioneered the way, many of the precious documents and cultural relics studied by today's researchers were painstakingly sought and preserved by Zheng Zhenduo (郑振铎) in those years.
Nearly a century later, looking back at this "cultural resistance of a scholar," looking back at Zheng Zhenduo's (郑振铎) arduous book career during the War of Resistance, we can more deeply appreciate its significance for the inheritance and protection of civilization.
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