People's Daily - September 17, 2025

"Always a heroic force that the Party and the people can fully trust."

By: 本报记者 金正波 李龙伊

On September 3rd, a grand gathering commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War was solemnly held in Beijing (北京), the capital. The glorious People's Army honorably accepted the review of 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), and accepted the review of the Party and the people.

"The Chinese People's Liberation Army is always a heroic force that the Party and the people can completely trust." On the Tiananmen Rostrum (天安门城楼), President Xi's voice was firm and powerful, piercing through time and space. On Chang'an Avenue (长安街), the steel Great Wall formation of the Republic stood like a mountain, with a momentum like a rainbow.

As the parade began, the bugle call urged the advance. The majestic "March of the Chinese People's Liberation Army" resounded through the sky, with the Party flag, national flag, and military flag shining brightly. "Salute!" With a command, the officers and soldiers under review paid their highest respect to President Xi with military salutes.

This was the first military parade since the comprehensive advancement of Chinese-style modernization entered a new journey, and it was a brand-new appearance of the People's Army striving to build a century-strong military.

Crossing thousands of mountains and rivers, and traversing long and arduous passes, from the first gunshot at Nanchang (南昌), to striding forward on the new journey of strengthening the military, the spirit tempered by the People's Army in the flames of war has never dimmed, and the bugle call to defend the country has never ceased.

With a journey of thousands of miles, the original aspiration remains as firm as a rock. The People's Army led by the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) will always be the defender of the country, always be the defender of socialism, and always be the defender of the people's interests.

A strong country must have a strong military, and only a strong military can ensure national security.

This was a moving scene from the commemorative gala for the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War:

"Do we have our own planes now? Do they still dare to come?"

"They will never dare again, no one will dare! Now, the Chinese sky, the Chinese land, and the Chinese sea are all decided by the Chinese people themselves!"

A dialogue spanning time and space stirred up the historical confidence that justice will prevail and imprinted the People's Army's efforts to strengthen itself.

This is the People's Army's firm defense of national sovereignty, security, and development interests:

"I am the Air Force of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. You have entered the control zone of the Chinese Air Force. Please leave immediately!" "I am Chinese Navy Ship 101. Please maintain a safe distance from me."

Entering the new era, whether in the vast depths of the ocean or the boundless expanse of the sky, the People's Army is advancing bravely towards victory with stronger capabilities and more reliable means.

History moves forward through trials, and the era is written in struggle.

In December 2012, when President Xi made his first inspection outside Beijing (北京) after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大), he clearly pointed out: "Realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the greatest dream of the Chinese nation since modern times. It can be said that this dream is a dream of a strong country, and for the military, it is also a dream of a strong military."

This significant judgment contains profound historical and realistic logic.

Looking back at modern China, the country was humiliated, the people suffered, and civilization was tarnished. Starting with the Opium War, Western powers used their strong ships and cannons to bombard China's gate. From that time on, the powers forced the old China to sign more than 750 unequal treaties. Ceding land and paying reparations – each stroke was a scar on national dignity.

President Xi repeatedly mentioned the "heart-wrenching pain" of modern Chinese history: "Once military backwardness is formed, the impact on national security will be fatal. I often look at some historical materials from modern China, and I feel heartbroken when I see the tragic scenes of being backward and vulnerable to attack!"

As the wheels of history roll forward, one truth remains consistent:

A strong country must have a strong military, and only a strong military can ensure national security.

Currently, the new military revolution in the world is unprecedented in its speed, scope, and depth. Great opportunities and great changes are rare. Failure to seize them may mean missing an entire era.

Facing the risks and challenges on the road ahead, without a strong People's Army, it will not be possible to realize the Party's will and propositions, and there will be no support for rise or guarantee for rejuvenation.

"The entire army must fully recognize the new situation and new challenges facing our country's security and development, fully recognize the important position and role of national defense and military construction, and consciously shoulder the major responsibility of safeguarding national sovereignty, security, and development interests."

This earnest admonition reflects a far-sighted strategic vision that grasps the overall trend and focuses on the overall situation.

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, focusing on realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, has led the entire army to thoroughly advance political building of the military, strengthening the military through reform, strengthening the military through science and technology, strengthening the military through talent, and governing the military according to law, and comprehensively strengthening military training and preparedness. The People's Army has safeguarded its roots and soul, embarked on a path of rapid development, and won the initiative to move towards becoming a world-class military.

Navigating the course of strengthening the military, it stands as a pillar in the torrent. Grasping the era's requirements for a strong country and a strong military, innovating the Party's military guidance theory in keeping with the times, forming Xi Jinping's thought on strengthening the military and continuously enriching and developing it, leading the People's Army to continue writing new era chapters on the path of strengthening the military with Chinese characteristics. The most fundamental reason for the historic achievements and historic changes in the cause of strengthening the military in the new era is President Xi Jinping's leadership and the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping's thought on strengthening the military.

With bold and resolute measures, it has reformed and eliminated malpractices. Comprehensively implementing the strategy of strengthening the military through reform, continuously deepening the reform of national defense and the military, achieving historic changes in the leadership and command system, profoundly reshaping the size, structure, and composition of the military, comprehensively advancing the reform of military policies and institutions, and realizing an overall revolutionary reshaping of the People's Army, with a new system, a new structure, a new pattern, and a new outlook.

Daring to struggle and daring to win. The entire army resolutely and flexibly carries out military struggles, resolutely fulfills its missions and tasks in the new era, and resolutely safeguards national sovereignty, security, and development interests with firm will, flexible strategic tactics, and powerful military actions, actively and proactively opening up a new pattern of military struggle.

Stepping forward towards the future, the People's Army has a more steadfast ideological guidance, a more vigorous spiritual outlook, and a stronger foundation for struggle.

The military soul will never change, and the military flag will always follow the Party.

"Hello, comrades!" "Hello, Chairman!"

"Comrades, you have worked hard!" "Serve the people!"

On the parade ground, the commander's cordial greetings were full of care, and the officers' and soldiers' loud responses were engraved with loyalty.

On Chang'an Avenue (长安街), flags fluttered in the wind. The August 1st Army Flag (八一军旗), the flags of the military services, the flags of the arms of service, and the flag of the People's Armed Police Force (武警部队旗) made their first concentrated appearance on the parade ground.

The military soul will never change, and the military flag will always follow the Party. The red background of the flag, with a golden five-pointed star and the characters "八一" (August 1st), fully demonstrates the Party's absolute leadership over the People's Army and vividly reflects the People's Army's consistent high degree of centralization and unity, marching forward in unison.

Faith forges the military soul, and the flag guides the journey.

Coming from the smoke of war, thousands upon thousands of revolutionary soldiers have unswervingly listened to the Party and followed the Party, rising up even more vigorously in the face of setbacks and advancing bravely in the face of difficulties. Riding on the historical trend, the People's Army has always struggled to strengthen the military under the guidance of the Party flag, striding forward to a new journey.

Looking back at the magnificent and arduous journey, President Xi said earnestly: "Adhering to the Party's command of the gun and building our own people's army is an **颠扑不破** (diān pū bù pò - "unbeatable," refers to a truth that cannot be overthrown) truth that the Party has drawn from the struggle of blood and fire."

"The Party branch is an iron fist, and the Party members are all sharp knives." Facing the complete replacement of main battle equipment, the Party branch of the "Red First Company" (红一连) of a certain brigade of the 83rd Group Army (陆军第83集团军) proposed "Mastering new equipment, the Party committee members should be vanguards."

In 1927, during the "Sanwan Reorganization" (三湾改编), the "Red First Company" (红一连) established a Party branch, pioneering the precedent of "building Party branches at the company level" in our army. "Building Party branches at the company level" ensures that the Party's absolute leadership over the People's Army takes root at the grassroots level. After more than ninety years of accumulation, the political genes of listening to the Party and following the Party have been deeply integrated into the blood of revolutionary soldiers.

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 insisted on placing the strengthening of the Party's leadership and Party building in our army in the context of advancing the new great project of Party building and planning it in the historical process of advancing the construction of a strong country and the rejuvenation of the nation.

The People's Army implements the new era's strategy of building the military politically, promotes the spirit of thorough self-revolution, continuously deepens political rectification, forges strong Party organizations that are politically firm and capable, and forges a high-quality cadre team that is loyal, clean, responsible, and capable of shouldering the heavy responsibility of strengthening the military, providing a strong political guarantee for the cause of strengthening the military.

Gutian (古田), Fujian (福建), the site of the Gutian Conference (古田会议) with its white walls and blue tiles is solemn and simple, and the eight characters "古田会议永放光芒" (The Gutian Conference will shine forever) shine brightly.

Looking back to the source, drawing wisdom and nourishment; facing the future, thinking about mission and responsibility. In 2014, the All-Army Political Work Conference was held in Gutian (古田). Here, it witnessed the deep reflection of the People's Army on "where it comes from and where it is going."

"Revolutionary political work is the lifeline of a revolutionary army." President Xi's important instructions provide guidance for strengthening and improving the political work of the People's Army in the new era.

At the foot of Baota Mountain (宝塔山), on the banks of the Yan River (延河), Yan'an (延安), the revolutionary holy land, is full of vitality. On June 17, 2024, President Xi led the members of the Central Military Commission (中央军委) and the main leaders of various departments and units to visit the Wangjiaping Revolutionary Site (王家坪革命旧址).

President Xi pointed out: "Senior cadres of the entire army must keep their original aspirations and missions firmly in mind, take the lead in promoting the Yan'an Spirit (延安精神), take the lead in strengthening revolutionary forging, shoulder the historical responsibilities entrusted by the Party and the people, unite and lead the vast number of officers and soldiers to fight a tough battle to achieve the centenary goal of army building, and continuously advance the cause of strengthening the army."

"History can often be seen more clearly after the passage of time." From holding the All-Army Political Work Conference in Gutian (古田) to holding the Central Military Commission Political Work Conference in Yan'an (延安), the People's Army more consciously and strictly rectifies its ideology, rectifies its personnel, rectifies its organization, rectifies its work style, and rectifies its discipline, **挽住云河洗天青** (wǎn zhù yún hé xǐ tiān qīng - "hold back the Milky Way to wash the sky blue," to turn the tide and rectify the situation).

The great waves wash away the sand, but the true gold does not perish; the wind and rain wash away the dust, and the red flag is even more vibrant.

In the new era, the People's Army engraves its loyalty in its bones and writes it in its actions: in disaster relief, the soldiers of the people bravely step forward, protecting life with their lives; in international peacekeeping, the soldiers of the people go to foreign lands, conveying peace with their responsibility; in all-domain operations, the soldiers of the people break through traditional battlefields, winning in the electromagnetic sky and the digital battlefield...

Wherever the Party flag points, that is where the military's heart is. Taking the Party's flag as its flag, the Party's direction as its direction, and the Party's will as its will, the officers and soldiers effectively fulfill their missions and tasks, and deliver a new era's answer sheet for strengthening the military.

Always a fighting force, its vitality lies in combat effectiveness.

Invited to watch the ceremony on the Tiananmen Rostrum (天安门城楼), Liu Shiyue (刘世钺), a veteran of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in his nineties, was filled with emotion. Every formation (echelon) that passed by, he solemnly saluted. The steel division marching in high spirits, and his comrades who fought bravely against the enemy with their铮铮铁骨 (zhēng zhēng tiě gǔ - "unyielding spirit," describes someone with great integrity and courage) back then, converged in his mind.

"In those years, we fought against the Japanese invaders for the survival of the nation. How many comrades fell one after another, shedding their blood on the battlefield." Liu Shiyue's (刘世钺) voice was firm and powerful, "Now, the country's military strength is even stronger, and I believe that the enemy will not dare to invade!"

The People's Army is always a fighting force, and the vitality of the People's Army lies in its combat effectiveness. "Only by being able to fight can we stop war, only by preparing to fight can we possibly avoid fighting, and the more incapable we are of fighting, the more likely we are to be beaten." The dialectic of war and peace is timeless.

At the beginning of his tenure as Chairman of the Central Military Commission (中央军委), President Xi's words were deafening: "What I think about most is, when the Party and the people need us, can our army always adhere to the Party's absolute leadership, can it be pulled up and win battles, and can commanders at all levels lead troops to fight and command battles?"

These three "cans" are the questions of victory that the People's Army's combat effectiveness building must answer.

The core of strengthening the military and rejuvenating the military is being able to fight and win battles; the "strength" of strengthening the military is ultimately the strength of combat effectiveness. "Focus all thoughts on fighting, use all efforts for fighting, and ensure that when the Party and the people need us, we can be pulled out, go up, and win." This is a profound warning from history, and it is also a command to improve the ability to win.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大), President Xi has led the convening of the Central Military Commission Military Work Conference (中央军委军事工作会议), the Central Military Commission Military Training Conference (中央军委军事训练会议), etc., to promote the establishment of the new era's military strategic thought, the establishment of the new era's military strategic policy, the establishment of the command baton for preparing for war and fighting, and the establishment of the responsibility for grasping war preparedness and fighting.

Focusing on war preparedness and fighting, the orientation towards actual combat is even more distinct:

The sky is high and the clouds are wide, and the waves are vast. The Shandong Ship (山东舰) is like a unsheathed sharp sword, cutting through the boundless blue sea.

"Foreign aircraft approaching!" Suddenly, a burst of urgent alarms sounded. In just a few minutes, the carrier-based aircraft accurately completed multiple actions such as taxiing, stopping, and afterburning. One after another, war eagles roared into the sky, piercing the sky. In the actual combat training in the distant sea, the officers and soldiers actively explored the actual combat application of formation combat elements and forces, and effectively improved the system combat capability of the aircraft carrier formation.

This is a microcosm of the People's Army closely following the changes in technology, the changes in war, and the changes in opponents, and vigorously promoting the coupling of combat and training, system training, and technology training.

In the new era, all levels of the entire army resolutely implement President Xi's important decisions and instructions on war preparedness and fighting, insist on taking war preparedness and fighting as the primary task, resolutely return the focus of work to war preparedness and fighting, and clearly establish the public opinion orientation, work orientation, personnel orientation, and policy orientation of everything for improving combat effectiveness.

The equipment of major national weapons makes the confidence in winning even more abundant:

Looking back at the 1950s and 1960s, in order to break the nuclear monopoly of the great powers, we overcame all difficulties and resolutely promoted the "Two Bombs, One Satellite" (两弹一星) project; looking at today, the East Wind is mighty and shakes the world. The "Dongfeng-5C" (东风-5C) liquid intercontinental strategic nuclear missile made a shocking appearance, stopping war with force and stabilizing the world.

"The bleak autumn wind is here again, but the world has changed." Decades of light and shadow overlap, illuminating the path of strengthening the military with Chinese characteristics.

From "no guns, no cannons, the enemy makes them for us" during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, to "not enough planes, so fly twice" at the founding ceremony, to today's "long tassel in hand, dare to bind the blue dragon," the People's Army closely follows the development pace of the Party and the people's cause, and its level of revolutionization, modernization, and regularization is constantly improving, and its deterrence and actual combat capabilities are constantly enhanced.

From weak to strong, we once overcame "more steel and less spirit" with "less steel and more spirit." Today, looking at the training grounds of the entire army, the People's Army has more steel and more spirit, and its bones are harder!

"Stepping on the land of the motherland, carrying the hope of the nation, we are an invincible force..." The loud military song was once a tragic cry of a suffering nation, and has now become a bold declaration of daring to fight and win.

The People's Army loves the people, and the people love the People's Army.

"Do not deceive my China for lacking courage, a million soldiers under the mother's knees!"

On September 3rd, in the Great Hall of the People (人民大会堂), in the situational drama "The Eternal Designation" (永远的番号), the villagers of Liulaozhuang (刘老庄) sent their children to the battlefield with tears in their eyes, replenishing the "Liulaozhuang Company" (刘老庄连) with all its members. The sonorous oath was magnificent and moving.

This is the inheritance of faith, the symphony of history and reality – the People's Army loves the people, and the people love the People's Army.

82 years ago, in order to protect the people, 82 officers and soldiers of the "Liulaozhuang Company" (刘老庄连) fought to the death with the Japanese army. The warriors fought to the last breath with bayonets, gun butts, shovels, and even their teeth. No one surrendered, and no one survived.

Yang Jingyu (杨靖宇), Zhao Shangzhi (赵尚志), Zuo Quan (左权), Peng Xuefeng (彭雪枫), the "Five Heroes of Langya Mountain" (狼牙山五壮士), the eight female soldiers of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army (东北抗联)... They are the epitome of thousands upon thousands of revolutionary soldiers fighting bravely against the enemy with their铮铮铁骨 (zhēng zhēng tiě gǔ - "unyielding spirit," describes someone with great integrity and courage) and building a great wall with their flesh and blood. In order to protect the country, in order to defend justice, and in order to protect the people, they were willing to shed their blood to nourish China.

Without a people's army, there would be nothing for the people.

President Xi profoundly pointed out: "The Chinese nation's emergence from suffering and the Chinese people's realization of liberation depend on a heroic people's army; the Chinese nation's realization of great rejuvenation and the Chinese people's realization of a better life must accelerate the building of the People's Army into a world-class army."
From hardship to glory, the People's Army has always kept its mission and responsibility firmly in mind, profoundly understanding "who I am," "for whom," and "relying on whom."

From the Land Revolution War's "arousing millions of workers and peasants to work together with one heart," to the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression's "trapping the enemy in the overwhelming sea of destruction"; from the Liberation War's "tidal wave of small carts and stretcher teams," to the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea's "the whole country is willing to contribute its material and financial resources"... History tells us that the people are the foundation of victory, and the roots of the People's Army are deeply rooted in the vast land of the people.

The two characters "人民" (rén mín - people) carry immense weight. In the new era, the People's Army maintains its true colors and adheres to its original aspiration of serving the people.

The original aspiration is written on the battlefield of defending the country—

That year, Chen Xiangrong (陈祥榕), who was less than 19 years old, heroically sacrificed himself to defend the territory. When the troops came to express their condolences, Chen Xiangrong's (陈祥榕) mother said, "I just want to know, was my son brave when he was fighting?" Hotan (和田), Xinjiang (新疆), the "Road of Asking About Courage" was named after this.

"Clear love, only for China," was the battle slogan left by Chen Xiangrong (陈祥榕) before his death. 疾风知劲草 (jí fēng zhī jìng cǎo - "strong wind knows strong grass," only the strong survive severe tests). No matter when or where, for the sake of the Party and the people, the choice of Chinese soldiers is always firm, and the bravery of Chinese soldiers is always beyond doubt.

The original aspiration is written in the actions of protecting the people—

This summer, Beijing (北京) continued to experience heavy rainfall, causing floods and geological disasters. The soldiers and officers marched towards the danger and devoted themselves to rescue.

Soldier Wan Cong (万聪) just turned 18 this year. Before joining the army, he only felt moved when he saw the soldiers and officers charging in reverse. Now, when he rushes to the front line of disaster relief, he truly understands the responsibility of a soldier, "Protecting the lives and property of the people is our unshirkable responsibility!"

When earthquakes break out, when floods strike, when mountain fires spread... the soldiers and officers stand together with the people through thick and thin, united as one. They prove with their actions that the purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly is a vow engraved in their hearts, a practice of risking their lives.

"The military and local authorities should cooperate closely, consolidate and develop the rock-solid unity between the military and the government and between the military and the people, and jointly continue to write a new chapter of the era of loving our people and loving our army." The earnest exhortation reflects the army commander's sincere expectations for the people's soldiers and officers, and is full of the people's leader's sincere feelings for the people.

"Love our people and love our army"—this is an inspiration from the depths of history, and it is also the People's Army's forever unchanging original aspiration.

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This is a long march full of glory and dreams—

In 2027, the centenary goal of army building will be achieved; in 2035, socialist modernization will be basically realized, and the modernization of national defense and the army will be basically realized; by the middle of this century, a strong socialist modern country will be fully built, and a world-class army will be fully built. Strengthening the army and revitalizing the military, the blueprint has been drawn.

The journey is long, enduring wind and rain; striving to strengthen the army, seizing every minute and second.

Always being a heroic force that the Party and the people can completely trust, all officers and soldiers are firm in their beliefs and their oaths are sonorous—

We have the confidence and ability to safeguard national sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity, we have the confidence and ability to provide strategic support for the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and we have the confidence and ability to make greater contributions to world peace and development!

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Opening Up Creates a Highland, Inland Transforms into a Frontier (Embracing the Market, Observing Resilience, Strengthening Confidence)

By: 本报记者 张 铁 高 炳

Starting from Xi'an (西安), Shaanxi (陕西), traveling through mountains and seas for 15 days, Chinese-made kitchen and bathroom products arrive in Europe; in about 7 days, flour from Kazakhstan is delivered to the kitchens of Xi'an citizens, "transforming" into oil-splashed noodles... One "steel camel caravan" after another makes such scenes no longer novel.

To date, the China-Europe Railway Express (Xi'an) has operated more than 30,000 trains, exceeding 1/4 of the national total; on average, a China-Europe Railway Express departs from or arrives in Xi'an every 80 minutes.

Setting up points, establishing routes, connecting networks, and arranging layouts... The construction of the China-Europe Railway Express Xi'an Assembly Center is steadily advancing. As a logistics hub serving the westward opening-up of the country, it has become an important tool for Xi'an to deeply integrate into the grand pattern of jointly building the "Belt and Road" initiative. The Asia-Europe land-sea trade corridor and the western land-sea new corridor have converged in Xi'an, basically forming a modern logistics system facing Asia and Europe and reaching the globe.

With the China-Europe Railway Express as a link and open platforms as support, Xi'an, which is not near the sea, a river, or a border, is opening up new horizons for development through expanded opening-up. Recently, reporters visited the China-Europe Railway Express Xi'an Assembly Center to experience the great changes from Silk Road camel bells to train whistles, and from inland hinterland to an open highland.

Expanding the Network

Working Together to Build and Connect Asia and Europe for Smooth Flow of Goods

Early in the morning, at Xi'an International Port Station (西安国际港站), the sound of a train whistle breaks the silence.

"This train will arrive in Azerbaijan in 12 days." Watching the train depart, Lu Ming (路铭), the duty stationmaster of Xi'an International Port Station, recalls November 28, 2013—the day the first China-Europe Railway Express from Shaanxi departed.

"In the early days of operation, the China-Europe Railway Express (Xi'an) only had two or three trains per month," Lu Ming said. "Now, the railway express operates 18 trains per day on average, and Xi'an International Port has become a logistics hub connecting Asia and Europe."

Chen Xiangnan (陈向南), Deputy General Manager of Xi'an Kemike Industry Development Co., Ltd. (西安克米克实业发展有限公司), feels this deeply: "Previously, our goods started from Zhejiang (浙江), transported by sea and then by road, taking dozens of days to reach Baku (巴库), Azerbaijan. The goods were transported to the Port of Baku (巴库港), separated by the Caspian Sea (里海), and we never thought there would be a possibility of rail transport."

In 2023, Xi'an Chanba International Port (西安浐灞国际港) and Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (哈萨克斯坦国有铁路公司) (hereinafter referred to as "KTZ") joined hands to promote the construction of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route. In November 2023, the first China-Europe Railway Express from Xi'an to Baku departed, heading west to the Port of Baku, taking only 12 days for the entire journey.

With high efficiency and strong stability, demand is steadily increasing. As of the end of June this year, the Trans-Caspian Railway Express has operated a total of 390 trains. "Since boarding the Trans-Caspian Railway Express, the number of cooperative customers of the company has increased from 15 to more than 40," said Chen Xiangnan.

Currently, the China-Europe Railway Express Xi'an Assembly Center has opened 18 international trunk lines, covering the entire Eurasian continent, and assembled 26 domestic lines, radiating to major domestic sources of goods.

"Where the lines reach, opportunities extend," Chen Xiangnan said, full of expectations for the future. "We are closely following the Trans-Black Sea Railway Express and plan to expand into the Romanian market."

Increasing Efficiency

Digital Empowerment, Significantly Improving Operational Efficiency

Recently, Li Xiang (李想), Deputy General Manager of Xi'an Proficient International Logistics Co., Ltd. (西安普菲特国际物流有限公司), has been busy "grabbing tickets"—a customer called, asking him to help book a cabin on the China-Europe Railway Express to Almaty (阿拉木图), Kazakhstan within 15 days.

Opening the China-Europe Railway Express (Xi'an) Comprehensive Service Platform, Li Xiang found that only 2 trains had remaining cabins within half a month. After confirming information such as box type and number, Li Xiang successfully "grabbed tickets" for the customer's goods.

"By entering packing lists and other documents into the comprehensive service platform, materials such as international railway combined transport documents can be generated," Li Xiang told reporters. This information will be simultaneously transmitted to KTZ for pre-approval. "The waiting time for cargo to be transshipped at the port of entry is greatly reduced."

In early 2024, Xi'an Chanba International Port and KTZ jointly built a digital platform, realizing instant sharing of key documents in the cloud. "'Clicking a mouse' in advance replaces 'hand-delivering documents' on site," Yuan Xiaojun (袁小军), General Manager of Xi'an International Port Group Co., Ltd. (西安国际港集团有限公司), told reporters. With digital empowerment, the operating efficiency of the China-Europe Railway Express (Xi'an) has increased by more than 30%, and the comprehensive cost has decreased by more than 15%.

"In the past, we didn't dare to accept urgent orders. Now, customers can place an order today and pack it tomorrow," Li Xiang said. Last year, the company only sent 1,200 containers to Central Asia, but in the first half of this year, it has already sent 4,500 containers.

Digitalization helps improve the operating efficiency of the railway express, and also changes the operating mode of the station.

At Xi'an International Port Station, the intelligent station system built by China Railway Xi'an Bureau Group Co., Ltd. (中国铁路西安局集团有限公司) can monitor and intelligently dispatch vehicles entering and exiting, and cargo loading and unloading in real time.

"Container trucks can not only enter the station through the intelligent gate in 10 seconds, but also directly navigate to the designated cargo area and cargo location," said Gao Bin (高斌), Customer Manager of Shaanxi Haorong Yunda International Freight Forwarding Co., Ltd. (陕西浩荣运达国际货运代理有限公司). "The process that used to take 1 hour has now been compressed to 5 minutes."

"Since the beginning of this year, Xi'an International Port Station has broken the single-day loading record 8 times, with a maximum of 1,530 vehicles," said Liu Shunli (刘顺利), Duty Director of the Business Department of Xi'an International Port. In the first half of this year, the China-Europe Railway Express (Xi'an) operated 3,055 trains, a year-on-year increase of 28.8%.

Win-Win

Optimizing Services, Enterprises and Railway Express Grow Together

In the production workshop of Shaanxi Konka Smart Appliance Co., Ltd. (陕西康佳智能家电有限公司), a washing machine rolls off the assembly line every 20 seconds.

"The newly produced appliances can be transported to the port for shipment on the same day," said Chen Zhao (陈钊), General Manager of the company. "Demand exceeds supply, and orders have been scheduled until October this year."

Konka Group's largest production base in Northwest China was built and put into operation in 2022, only 1.5 kilometers away from Xi'an International Port Station. In the past, it took more than 40 days for goods to reach Europe by sea; now, it only takes 12 to 15 days by taking the China-Europe Railway Express. "Air conditioners and other appliances produced by the company in other provinces will also be assembled in Xi'an and sold overseas by railway express," Chen Zhao said.

"The 'old three items' of clothing, furniture, and home appliances are popular in the market, and the 'new three items' of new energy vehicles, lithium batteries, and photovoltaic products are also very popular," Liu Shunli introduced. As of the end of June this year, 17,000 companies have taken the China-Europe Railway Express (Xi'an).

Optimizing transportation services and deepening international cooperation, foreign trade enterprises and the China-Europe Railway Express are growing together.

"Door-to-door" transportation. At the beginning of this year, the China-Europe Railway Express, loaded with 1,300 tons of finished flour from Kazakhstan, directly entered the industrial park of Xi'an Aiju Grain and Oil Industry Group (西安爱菊粮油工业集团), greatly reducing transportation costs.

"Hub-to-hub" connectivity. In February last year, the Kazakhstan Xi'an Terminal (哈萨克斯坦西安码头) located at Xi'an International Port Station was put into operation; in June this year, the China-Xi'an Kazakhstan Terminal (中国·西安哈萨克斯坦码头) located in Almaty was officially put into operation... Echoing each other, they have improved the ability of China and Kazakhstan to assemble and distribute goods.

Railway express operation "passengerization." In October 2022, the country's first China-Europe Railway Express (Xi'an-Duisburg) domestic and foreign full-schedule train was launched, and freight trains operate on time like passenger trains. As of the end of June this year, the China-Europe Railway Express (Xi'an) full-schedule train has operated a total of 534 trains.

As night falls, another train departs from Xi'an International Port Station, and Lu Ming watches it go away, "Over the past ten years, the hub has become busier and busier, and our path has become wider and wider."

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Coordinating high-quality development and high-level protection to build a modern industrial system that reflects local characteristics and advantages.

Xinhua News Agency, Xining, September 16 (Reporter Zou Wei) Li Qiang (李强), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, conducted research in Gansu and Qinghai from September 15 to 16. He emphasized the need to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions on coordinating high-quality development and high-level protection, firmly grasp the strategic positioning in the overall national development, adhere to innovation-driven development, promote green development, cultivate and strengthen new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system that reflects local characteristics and advantages, and better benefit the people.

In Lanzhou (兰州), Gansu, Li Qiang visited Taiji Ion Technology Co., Ltd. and the Aerospace High-tech Industrial Park of the Institute of Space Technology and Physics, viewed the latest equipment and component displays, and learned in detail about the relevant technical principles and product production, sales, and application. Li Qiang said that Gansu has a good foundation for developing heavy ion technology, space technology, and other fields. It is necessary to keep a close eye on international frontiers, support enterprises and research institutions to increase R&D investment, innovate talent training and incentive mechanisms, devote themselves to basic research, and consolidate core technology capabilities. It is necessary to actively connect with market demand, promote the coordinated development of the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, support more participation of private enterprises, and accelerate the iterative upgrading of products and services. Li Qiang visited the observation point of the environmental greening project on the north and south mountains and the Waterwheel Expo Park, inspected the afforestation and ecological protection and management of the Lanzhou section of the Yellow River (黄河), and talked with the citizens present. Li Qiang affirmed the local achievements in ecological protection and restoration, and required the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, and grasslands, and continued to increase the hard-won green assets. He urged local cadres to design and build the public space along the Yellow River well, form more good places for residents to exercise, rest, and entertain, and continuously improve the quality of life of the people.

In Xining (西宁), Qinghai, Li Qiang visited the China Unicom Sanjiangyuan (三江源) National Big Data Base and the Qinghai Green Computing and Electricity Integration Scheduling and Ecological Monitoring Center, listened to relevant reports, and inquired in detail about ecological protection and the use of green electricity and computing power. Li Qiang said that Qinghai has a significant responsibility for ecological and environmental protection, and at the same time has significant advantages in developing clean energy and green computing power. It is necessary to unswervingly follow the path of green development, combine the creation of a computing power platform with the use of clean energy, strengthen the integration of advantages, and deeply promote the integrated development of green computing and electricity. It is necessary to give full play to the role of the market mechanism, mobilize the enthusiasm of all parties, create conditions and environment conducive to innovation, further deepen industrial applications, and better promote the development of the digital economy. At Qinghai Kekexili (可可西里) Food Co., Ltd., Li Qiang listened to a report on Qinghai Province's efforts to build a green and organic agricultural and livestock product export base, and inspected yak beef deep processing and product display. Li Qiang encouraged enterprises to deeply cultivate green agriculture and animal husbandry, optimize brands with healthy and safe quality, innovate production management, and promote the integrated development of the entire industrial chain, including catering services, industrial tourism, and trade circulation, so as to play a greater role in promoting the quality and efficiency of agriculture and animal husbandry and increasing the employment and income of farmers and herdsmen.

Li Qiang fully affirmed the economic and social development achievements of Gansu and Qinghai, and hoped that the two provinces would thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions, be determined to forge ahead and work hard, make greater progress in promoting green development and western development, and make new contributions to the overall national development.

Wu Zhenglong (吴政隆) accompanied the research.

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Han Zheng Meets with ASEAN Leaders Attending the 22nd China-ASEAN Expo

Nanning (南宁), September 16 (Reporter Liu Quan (刘泉), Zhao Yipu (赵益普)) Vice President Han Zheng (韩正) met with Myanmar's Prime Minister Min Aung Hlaing (敏昂莱), Laos's Vice President Bounthong (本通), Cambodia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Office of the Council of Ministers Vongsey Vissoth (翁赛维索), and Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang (梅文政) in Nanning (南宁), Guangxi (广西) on September 16, who came to China to attend the 22nd China-ASEAN Expo and China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit.

When meeting with Min Aung Hlaing (敏昂莱), Han Zheng (韩正) said that this year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Myanmar. Not long ago, President Xi Jinping (习近平) held a fruitful meeting with Acting President Min Aung Hlaing (敏昂莱), reaching important consensus and pointing out the direction for the development of bilateral relations. China is willing to work with Myanmar to implement the above-mentioned important consensus and deepen the construction of a China-Myanmar community with a shared future. China supports Myanmar in maintaining national stability and sovereign independence, and steadily advancing its domestic political agenda. It is hoped that Myanmar will increase its efforts to combat cross-border crime and safeguard the safety of Chinese personnel, institutions, projects, and the China-Myanmar border.

Min Aung Hlaing (敏昂莱) said that Myanmar appreciates China's timely provision of valuable assistance to the earthquake-stricken areas of Myanmar, supports China's proposed global governance initiatives, adheres to the one-China principle, and is willing to deepen high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" cooperation with China, jointly combat cross-border crime, and promote the construction of a Myanmar-China community with a shared future.

When meeting with Bounthong (本通), Han Zheng (韩正) said that under the strategic guidance of the top leaders of the two parties and two countries, the construction of the China-Laos community with a shared future is steadily advancing. Not long ago, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Xi Jinping (习近平) held a cordial meeting with General Secretary and President Thongloun Sisoulith (通伦), drawing a blueprint for deepening China-Laos comprehensive strategic cooperation in the new era. China is willing to work with Laos to jointly implement the important consensus of high-level officials, deepen the construction of the China-Laos community with a shared future, and make good preparations for the 65th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations next year, so that the traditional friendship between the two countries will be more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Bounthong (本通) said that the relations between the two parties and two countries of Laos and China are at their best historical period. Laos adheres to the one-China principle, supports China's major initiatives and propositions, and is willing to strengthen high-level exchanges with China, deepen political mutual trust, strengthen pragmatic cooperation, and promote greater development of relations between the two parties and two countries.

When meeting with Vongsey Vissoth (翁赛维索), Han Zheng (韩正) said that in April this year, President Xi Jinping (习近平) paid a state visit to Cambodia, leading China-Cambodia relations to the forefront of building a community with a shared future for mankind. The two countries maintain close high-level exchanges, pointing out the direction for building a new era of all-weather China-Cambodia community with a shared future. China is willing to work with Cambodia to accelerate the implementation of the important consensus of the leaders of the two countries, give play to the role of the China-Cambodia Intergovernmental Coordination Committee, continuously enrich the "Diamond Hexagon" cooperation framework, accelerate the construction of the "Industrial Development Corridor" and "Fish and Rice Corridor", and help each country's modernization.

Vongsey Vissoth (翁赛维索) said that the ironclad friendship between Cambodia and China is unbreakable and their destinies are closely linked. Cambodia regards China as the most trustworthy friend and is willing to deepen cooperation with China in various fields to continuously inject new impetus into the construction of the Cambodia-China community with a shared future.

When meeting with Tran Luu Quang (梅文政), Han Zheng (韩正) said that the high-level officials of the two parties and two countries of China and Vietnam maintain frequent exchanges, reaching important consensus on promoting comprehensive strategic cooperation, pointing out the direction for the construction of a China-Vietnam community with a shared future under the new situation. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries and the "Year of Cultural Exchange." China is willing to work with Vietnam to take the strategic consensus of the leaders of the two parties and two countries as a guide, continue the traditional friendship, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, accelerate the construction of a China-Vietnam community with a shared future with strategic significance, and inject strong impetus into the socialist modernization of each country.

Tran Luu Quang (梅文政) said that developing friendly relations with China is an objective requirement, strategic choice, and top priority of Vietnam's foreign policy. Vietnam is willing to strengthen high-level exchanges between the two parties and two countries with China, deepen cooperation in various fields, and jointly promote the construction of a Vietnam-China community with a shared future.

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Taking the people's heart as our heart, and the benefit of the world as our benefit.

By: 任 平

(I)

In today's world, peace and development are the common aspirations of people of all countries, but the deficits in peace, development, security, and governance are increasing.

At the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Tianjin Summit held from August 31 to September 1, President Xi Jinping (习近平) solemnly proposed the Global Governance Initiative, which aims to promote joint action by all countries to build a more just and reasonable global governance system. This is another important public good that China has contributed to the world in the new era, following the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, and the Global Civilization Initiative, injecting stability and certainty into a turbulent world.

From the "historical answer" of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence to the "era answer" of building a community with a shared future for mankind, the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) has always kept the future of mankind in mind and the well-being of the people at heart, and has made it its mission to make new and greater contributions to mankind.

At the meeting commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) solemnly declared: "The Chinese people stand firmly on the right side of history and on the side of progress of human civilization, adhere to the path of peaceful development, and work with the people of all countries to build a community with a shared future for mankind."

Chinese-style modernization is a modernization that follows the path of peaceful development, and China will always be a force for world peace, stability, and progress.

Follow the right path in the world and do the right thing.

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Cooperation and win-win results are the trend of the times. Only by adhering to cooperation and win-win results can we promote global sustainable development.

Poverty is the root cause of turmoil, and development is the key to solving various problems and realizing people's happiness. At present, the global development process is suffering shocks, the world's openness index is declining, and unilateralism and protectionism are intensifying. In June of this year, the World Bank lowered its global economic growth forecast for 2025 to 2.3%.

Grasping the general trend from the long cycle of history, resisting all acts that turn back the clock of history, and promoting inclusive economic globalization can strengthen the momentum of global development and enhance the well-being of people of all countries.

The world is calling for open cooperation and mutual benefit, and China is injecting certainty into global development—

In the face of a complex external environment, China is firmly committed to managing its own affairs well, unswervingly expanding high-level opening up to the outside world, and constantly providing new opportunities for the world with China's new development.

Building platforms such as the China International Import Expo (进博会), the China International Consumer Products Expo (消博会), the Canton Fair (广交会), the China International Fair for Trade in Services (服贸会), and the China International Supply Chain Expo (链博会), granting zero-tariff treatment to 100% of tariff items for all least developed countries that have diplomatic relations with China, and expanding unilateral opening up to the least developed countries... China's door to opening up is opening wider and wider.

In Laos (老挝), Chinese-funded companies are helping local people develop ancient tea products, and the tea industry is driving people out of poverty and towards prosperity; in Burkina Faso (布基纳法索), after Chinese hybrid rice technology was introduced, local grain output increased significantly, basically achieving "zero imports" of rice...

High-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" has cumulatively lifted more than 40 million people out of poverty. In the first eight months of this year, China's imports and exports to countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" reached 15.3 trillion yuan, an increase of 5.4% year-on-year.

The people of all countries yearn for a better life, and China has proposed and promoted the implementation of the Global Development Initiative—

Having gone through untold hardships and made huge sacrifices, and mostly emerging from the historical quagmire of colonialism, emerging market countries and developing countries understand even more the value of development and prosperity.

The Global Development Initiative focuses on solving the problem of unbalanced development, promoting the international community to embark on a path of common development, and revitalizing the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

At present, more than 80 countries have joined the "Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative," more than 70 countries, regions, and international organizations have joined the Global Development Promotion Center Network, the total number of projects in the Global Development Project Library has exceeded 1,100, and the Global Development Initiative has mobilized nearly 20 billion US dollars in development funds...

From China and Africa working together to promote the ten partnership plans for modernization, to China's eight actions to support global development, to China and Latin America working together to launch five major projects, China has always been a member of the "Global South" and an actionist and pragmatist in supporting the global development cause.

"What China pursues is not a modernization that benefits itself alone, and it is willing to work with all countries to achieve a world modernization of peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation, and common prosperity."

(III)

Harmony and coexistence are the correct way for countries to get along with each other. Only by adhering to harmony and coexistence can we promote the sharing of security and danger in the world and maintain world peace and tranquility.

The world is turbulent, and "peace is under attack from all sides." The "2025 Global Peace Index" released by the Institute for Economics and Peace shows that 59 interstate conflicts are taking place, the highest number since the end of World War II, and the global peace situation is at its lowest level since the index was created.

President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Security is the prerequisite for development, and mankind is an indivisible community of security." Achieving lasting peace in the world, allowing every country to enjoy a peaceful and stable external environment, and allowing the people of every country to live and work in peace and contentment, this is a common vision and should become a universal action.

The world urgently needs peace, and China has always been a builder of world peace—

**和衷共济、和合共生** (hé zhōng gòng jì, hé hé gòng shēng - "work together with one heart, harmony and coexistence," emphasizes unity, cooperation, and peaceful coexistence). China adheres to working together with all countries in an open manner, promoting development through cooperation and security through cooperation, and working together to build a world of lasting peace and universal security.

Issuing position documents on the Ukraine crisis, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Afghanistan issue, etc., forming a "Friends of Peace" group on the Ukraine crisis with Brazil (巴西) and other Global South countries, successfully facilitating the reconciliation between Saudi Arabia (沙特) and Iran (伊朗), promoting internal reconciliation in Palestine (巴勒斯坦), proposing and working with regional countries to accelerate the implementation of the "Horn of Africa Peace and Development Initiative";

Building international security exchange and dialogue platforms such as the Beijing Xiangshan Forum (北京香山论坛), the China-Africa Peace and Security Forum (中非和平安全论坛), and the China-Latin America High-Level Defense Forum (中拉高级防务论坛), and deepening international cooperation in areas such as peacekeeping, counter-terrorism, climate change, disaster prevention and mitigation, and combating transnational crime;

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The security interests of all countries are equal, and the legitimate and reasonable security concerns of any country should be valued and properly resolved. China actively promotes the international peace cause and constantly gathers the consensus and joint efforts of the international community to address global security challenges.

The people of all countries yearn for peace, and China has proposed and promoted the implementation of the Global Security Initiative—

Human beings live on the same planet and should help each other and live in harmony. In today's world where countries are interdependent, pursuing one's own so-called absolute security and exclusive security is not feasible.

The Global Security Initiative advocates practicing a common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security concept, precisely to promote a new path of security that is dialogue rather than confrontation, partnership rather than alliance, and win-win rather than zero-sum.

Evaluated as a "powerful weapon to defend the common values of all mankind" and "visionary and wise"... At present, the Global Security Initiative has been supported by more than 130 countries and international and regional organizations, and has been clearly written into more than 140 bilateral and multilateral documents between China and foreign countries, and has achieved important gains in maintaining regional stability and other fields.

Uphold justice and value peace.

China does not have the gene of seeking hegemony and is the only major country that has written peaceful development into its constitution and the constitution of its ruling party and elevated it to a national will. China's modernization is the growth of the world's peaceful forces and the strengthening of international justice forces.

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Exchanges and mutual learning are the essential requirements of civilization development. Only by adhering to inclusiveness and mutual learning can we promote new progress in human civilization.

"Wars originate in the minds of men." Looking around the world, some people are trying to create prejudice and hatred with "clash of civilizations," "racial superiority," and "system confrontation," inciting ideological confrontation and exacerbating the risk of division and opposition facing the world.

"We must use an open and inclusive mind to draw a civilizational picture that promotes the building of a community with a shared future for mankind." President Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition reveals the direction of efforts to continue the torch of human civilization.

The progress of human civilization calls for equality, respect, dialogue, and inclusiveness, and China adheres to civilization exchanges and mutual learning—

There are more than 200 countries and regions, more than 2,500 ethnic groups, and many religions in the world, and diversity is the true color of human civilization. It is precisely because the history, culture, and systems of various countries are different that we need to exchange mutual learning, learn from each other's strengths, and make progress together.

From the romantic imagination of "Neon Feather Dress" to the cultural image of "Three Rabbits Sharing Ears"... Millennium Dunhuang (敦煌), a hub of cultural exchange between East and West, is a shining pearl in the long river of world civilization.

When Tang Xianzu (汤显祖) and Shakespeare "join hands" at the Zhejiang Literature Museum (浙江文学馆), when Chinese Zeng Chu (曾楚) art shines in San Francisco (旧金山), USA (美国)... Different civilizations cross mountains and seas and collide with brilliant sparks in exchanges.

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Chinese civilization is an open system formed in constant exchanges and mutual learning with other civilizations, and it has become more and more new in its inclusiveness. Chinese-style modernization creates a new form of human civilization and contributes unique wisdom to the development of world civilization.

Different civilizations need to coexist peacefully and seek common ground while reserving differences, and China has proposed and promoted the implementation of the Global Civilization Initiative—

**和而不同** (hé ér bù tóng - "harmony without uniformity," seeking common ground while accepting differences). The Global Civilization Initiative aims to promote mutual understanding and affinity among people of all countries, inclusiveness and mutual learning among various civilizations, and promote the building of a world civilization garden where everyone appreciates each other's beauty.

In June 2024, the 78th United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the resolution proposed by China to establish the International Day for Dialogue among Civilizations. The resolution fully embodies the core meaning of the Global Civilization Initiative and decided to set June 10 as the International Day for Dialogue among Civilizations;

"Carry out 'Confucian-Islamic Civilization Dialogue' cooperation and work together to build a platform for civilization exchanges at the level of the two countries and even the region." In June of this year, in Kuala Lumpur (吉隆坡), the capital of Malaysia (马来西亚), the "Confucian-Islamic Civilization Dialogue" injected positive energy into deepening South-South cooperation and promoting world peace and development;

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China is willing to work with all countries to uphold the civilizational view of equality, mutual learning, dialogue, and inclusiveness, promote the common values of all mankind, and inject new impetus into the progress of human civilization and the peaceful development of the world.

(V)

Fairness and justice are the lofty goals pursued by the people of all countries and the foundation of lasting security. Only by adhering to fairness and justice can we promote a just and reasonable international order.

"Without fairness and justice, power politics will run rampant." Eighty years ago, the United Nations (联合国) came into being, and a new page was opened in global governance. Eighty years later, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and change, and global governance has reached a new crossroads.

Strengthening global governance is the right choice for the international community to share development opportunities and address global challenges. The world wants justice, not hegemony. The affairs of the world should be discussed by all countries, and no one should have the final say just because they have stronger arms or louder voices. The Global Governance Initiative conforms to the universal aspirations of the people of all countries, meets the urgent needs of today's world, is timely, guides the direction, and demonstrates responsibility.

The world is calling for fairness and justice, and China insists on upholding justice and upholding justice—

To address global challenges, we must adhere to the global governance concept of consultation, joint construction, and sharing, and insist that international rules be jointly written and jointly maintained by all countries.

Promoting innovation in the field of international rule of law, China has established the International Mediation Institute (国际调解院) with 32 countries to provide new choices, new ways, and new platforms for the efficient and peaceful settlement of international disputes.

Expanding and strengthening the Global South cooperation platform, leading the high-quality development of "Greater BRICS Cooperation," building the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织) into the largest regional international organization in terms of area and population, proposing the Global South Open and Inclusive Cooperation Initiative, and announcing eight measures to support Global South cooperation.

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China firmly safeguards the basic norms of international relations, insists on speaking fairly and doing fair things, advocates an equal and orderly multipolar world, and opposes all forms of hegemonism and power politics.

The people of all countries yearn for fairness and justice, and China has proposed and promoted the implementation of the Global Governance Initiative—

Multilateralism is an important reliance for world peace and development. To practice true multilateralism, we must firmly safeguard the international system with the United Nations (联合国) as the core, the international order based on international law, and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章).

To reform and improve global governance, sovereign equality is the primary prerequisite, international rule of law is the fundamental guarantee, multilateralism is the basic path, people-centeredness is the value orientation, and action-orientedness is an important principle, and the common direction is to firmly support the United Nations in playing a central role in international affairs and promote countries to rely on the United Nations and other multilateral mechanisms to participate in the reform and construction of the global governance system.

On September 5, the 79th United Nations General Assembly passed by a high vote the resolution proposed by China on "Cooperation between the United Nations and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation," with nearly 40 countries, including all member states of the SCO, participating in the co-sponsorship.

All parties believe that "the world today urgently needs more effective governance concepts and governance systems" and that "the Global Governance Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平) conforms to the trend of the times and will play an important role in addressing global challenges and improving global governance."

United Nations Secretary-General Guterres (古特雷斯) believes: "China has made important contributions to maintaining international law and ensuring the international rule of law and has become a cornerstone of defending multilateralism."

Bravely shoulder great righteousness and earnestly practice the great way.

Building a community with a shared future for mankind, practicing the four global initiatives, and jointly building the "Belt and Road," China is committed to working with all countries to promote the world towards a bright future of peace, security, prosperity, and progress.

"Take the people's heart as one's own heart and take the world's interests as one's own interests."

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Han Zheng to Attend Opening Ceremony of the 22nd China-ASEAN Expo and China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit

This newspaper's Beijing (北京) September 16th dispatch (Reporter Chu Jun (褚君)) Foreign Ministry Spokesperson announced on the 16th: Vice President Han Zheng (韩正) will attend the opening ceremony of the 22nd China-ASEAN Expo and China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit in Nanning (南宁), Guangxi (广西) on September 17th and deliver a speech.

Prime Minister of Myanmar Min Aung Hlaing (纽梭), Vice President of Laos Bounthong Chitmany (本通), Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Office of the Council of Ministers of Cambodia Vongsey Vissoth (翁赛维索), Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy Transition and Water Transformation of Malaysia Fadillah Yusof (法迪拉), Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam Tran Hong Ha (梅文政) and other foreign leaders and senior officials, as well as ASEAN Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn (高金洪) and others will attend the opening ceremony.

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Grain Production Reaches Record High, Rural Development Thriving (Authoritative Release: High-Quality Completion of the "14th Five-Year Plan")

By: 本报记者 朱 隽

On September 16th, the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办) held a series of thematic press conferences on "High-Quality Completion of the '14th Five-Year Plan'," introducing the achievements of agricultural and rural development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Han Jun (韩俊) stated that since the "14th Five-Year Plan," all regions and departments have focused on the goal of building a strong agricultural country, steadily and effectively promoting key tasks for the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, maintaining a good momentum of steady progress and improvement in agricultural and rural development, and providing strong support for high-quality economic and social development.

Grain production has reached a new level, and the autumn grain crop this year is growing normally and well.

"In less than 20 days, the autumn grain in the north will begin to be harvested on a large scale. This year, the area of autumn grain has increased steadily, and the growth is normal and good, laying a very good foundation and conditions for achieving a bumper harvest of autumn grain," said Han Jun (韩俊). "We must go all out to manage the fields well, take agricultural disaster prevention and mitigation work in place, and achieve the goal of about 1.4 trillion jin of grain production for the whole year."

In 2024, China's grain production exceeded 1.4 trillion jin for the first time, and the per capita grain possession reached 500 kilograms, achieving basic self-sufficiency in grains and absolute security in staple foods. Han Jun (韩俊) analyzed that the achievement was due to the earnest implementation of the national food security strategy of "primarily relying on ourselves, based on domestic resources, ensuring production capacity, moderately importing, and supported by science and technology," adhering to the simultaneous focus on output and capacity, production and ecology, and increased production and income, especially strengthening grain storage on land and grain storage through technology, and comprehensively consolidating the foundation of food security. China has cumulatively built more than 1 billion mu of high-standard farmland, cultivated a number of major varieties urgently needed for production, and selected urgently needed varieties such as high-quality and high-yield rice, water-saving and disease-resistant wheat, machine-harvested corn kernels, and high-oil and high-yield soybeans. The area of independently selected crop varieties accounts for more than 95%, achieving "Chinese grain" mainly using "Chinese seeds."

Increase yield per unit area - launched a large-scale action to increase the yield per unit area of grain and oil crops, implemented in 702 counties this year. Promote the deep integration of good fields, good seeds, good machinery, and good methods, and integrate and promote yield-increasing technical models such as reasonable close planting, precision seeding, one spray for multiple purposes, and integrated water and fertilizer management. Last year, the national grain yield per mu was 394.7 kilograms, an increase of 12.5 kilograms compared with the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan," and the contribution of yield increase to grain production growth exceeded 80%.

Optimize the structure - adapt to market demand changes and actively optimize the agricultural production structure. In 2024, soybean production reached 20.65 million tons, and the self-sufficiency rate increased by 4 percentage points compared with 2020; oil crop production was 39.787 million tons, and the self-sufficiency rate of edible vegetable oil increased by nearly 5 percentage points.

More diverse - the production capacity of cotton, oil, and sugar continues to increase, and the supply of fruits, vegetables, tea, meat, eggs, milk, and aquatic products is sufficient and diverse. Mairdan Maktihan (麦尔丹·木盖提), Vice Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, introduced: "While the sources of food development are constantly expanding, the nutritional and health level of residents' food is more balanced."

More secure - deeply promote the breeding of excellent agricultural varieties, quality improvement, brand building, and standardized production, and strictly supervise the quality and safety of agricultural products with the strictest standards. "During the '14th Five-Year Plan' period, the pass rate of routine monitoring of agricultural product quality and safety has been stable at over 97.5%. The total number of green, organic, famous, special, excellent, new, and geographical indication agricultural products exceeds 86,000, and more and more green and high-quality agricultural products are placed on daily tables," said Zhang Xingwang (张兴旺), Vice Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

The policy system for strengthening agriculture, benefiting farmers, and enriching farmers is more mature and complete.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, a series of policies to strengthen agriculture, benefit farmers, and enrich farmers were introduced, with increasing support and a more mature and complete institutional system.

Stabilize the basic income of farmers growing grain, improve the "three-in-one" support policy system of subsidies, prices, and insurance, steadily implement subsidies for arable land fertility protection, rice subsidies, and corn and soybean producer subsidies, increase the minimum purchase price of wheat and early indica rice for five consecutive years, and fully implement the full cost insurance and planting income insurance policies for the three major grain crops.

In order to improve the completeness of rural infrastructure and the convenience of public services, the state has made agriculture and rural areas a priority area for general public budget guarantees and has continuously increased investment. The total mileage of rural roads exceeds 4.64 million kilometers, the penetration rate of tap water reaches 94%, and the 5G coverage rate of administrative villages exceeds 90%. 2,199 counties (cities, districts) have carried out the construction of close-knit county medical communities, and more than 95% of village health rooms have been included in medical insurance. A total of more than 140,000 rural mutual elderly care service facilities and more than 16,000 rural nursing homes have been built.

Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," rural reforms have been further deepened, the pilot project of extending the second round of land contracts by another 30 years has been carried out in a solid manner, and pilot projects for the entire province have been launched in 7 provinces including Anhui (安徽) and Hunan (湖南). Other provinces have organized pilot projects for the entire county and township. The standardized management of rural homesteads, the reform of collective construction land, and the rural collective property rights system have been steadily promoted. "In order to better protect the land and property rights of farmers, we have always emphasized adhering to the principle of legality, voluntariness, and compensation, and clearly require that land transfers cannot be forcibly promoted by setting targets, assigning tasks, or conducting assessments; it is clearly not allowed for urban residents to purchase farmhouses and homesteads in rural areas, and it is strictly forbidden for retired cadres to occupy land and build houses in rural areas; farmers can revitalize and utilize legally owned idle housing through leasing, shareholding, cooperation, and other methods in accordance with the law," said Han Jun (韩俊).

The "toolbox" of assistance policies is constantly enriched, and the results of poverty alleviation are effectively consolidated and expanded.

"Setting up a 5-year transition period is to consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation," said Han Jun (韩俊). All localities and departments have continued to increase policy support and assistance, the living standards of the people who have been lifted out of poverty have been further improved, the economic vitality and stamina of the areas that have been lifted out of poverty have been further enhanced, and the results of poverty alleviation have been effectively consolidated and expanded.

The "toolbox" of assistance policies is constantly enriched. "On average, households lifted out of poverty and people at risk of returning to poverty receive 3 to 5 items of support in the 'toolbox'. We have improved measures such as industrial awards and subsidies, employment support, and medical insurance subsidies to achieve early detection, early intervention, and early assistance," said Han Jun (韩俊). More than 6 million monitoring targets have been cumulatively identified and assisted to steadily eliminate the risk of returning to poverty.

During the transition period, focus on 160 key national counties for rural revitalization assistance, as well as 35,000 centralized resettlement areas for relocation, and strengthen tilted support. Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," the central government has cumulatively invested 850.5 billion yuan in subsidies to promote rural revitalization, helping to further improve the infrastructure and public service levels of transportation, water conservancy, education, and health in poverty-stricken areas, and continuously enhance the stamina for development.

Han Jun (韩俊) said that in the next step, in accordance with the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, we will continue to do a good job in regular assistance, adhere to the combination of development-oriented assistance and bottom-line guarantees, and permanently maintain the bottom line of preventing large-scale return to poverty.

Reporter's Notes

The "Three Rural Issues" ballast stone, stable!

If the "Three Rural Issues" are stable, the world is safe. Abundant harvests and full homes are the foundation of a happy life and the cornerstone of national security. A total grain output of 1,413 billion jin, a per capita grain possession of 500 kilograms, an annual output of more than 200 million tons of facility vegetables, and a total output of aquatic products that has ranked first in the world for 36 consecutive years... The "Chinese rice bowl" is fuller, more stable, and more colorful, which increases our confidence and adds to our strength in effectively responding to various risks and challenges.

Agriculture is an industry that employs nearly 200 million people, and rural areas are the homes of nearly 500 million farmers. "Apple Village (苹果村)," "Muer Township (木耳乡)," "Huanghua Town (黄花镇)," people-enriching industries are booming, conditions such as water, electricity, roads, gas, housing, and information have been significantly improved, and "village-level" cultural and sports activities are wonderful... The completeness of rural infrastructure, the convenience of public services, and the comfort of the living environment are constantly improving, and hundreds of millions of farmers are releasing huge creative energy and consumption potential.

To say a thousand words and ten thousand words, increasing farmers' income is the key. Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," farmers' income has grown rapidly, and the ratio of urban and rural residents' income has decreased from 2.56:1 in 2020 to 2.34:1 in 2024. Behind this is the increasing policy support for strengthening agriculture, enriching farmers, and benefiting farmers, the increasing coverage, and the increasingly mature and complete supply system.

To promote Chinese-style modernization, the most arduous and onerous task is in rural areas, and the most extensive and profound foundation is also in rural areas. Anchoring the goal of building a strong agricultural country, making every effort to promote the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, strengthening the foundation, making up for shortcomings, tackling difficult problems, and improving quality and efficiency, the foundation for agricultural and rural development will be more solid, the prospects will be brighter, and the role of the "Three Rural Issues" ballast stone will be more stable.

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Deeply Implement the Quality Power Strategy and Continuously Enhance Quality Governance Capabilities

Xinhua News Agency, Nanjing, September 16th. Zhang Guoqing (张国清), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended the opening ceremony of the China Quality (Nanjing) Conference in Jiangsu on the 16th and delivered a speech. He emphasized the need to thoroughly implement the important instructions and directives of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), implement the deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, deeply implement the quality-strong country strategy, continuously improve the quality governance capabilities, and better serve high-quality development and high-quality life.

Zhang Guoqing (张国清) emphasized that under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, the quality and brand competitiveness of Chinese products, projects, and services have significantly improved in recent years, and the modernization level of the quality governance system and governance capabilities has steadily improved. On the new journey, it is necessary to accelerate the construction of a quality-strong country to provide strong support for achieving Chinese-style modernization. Efforts should be made to increase high-quality supply, accelerate the technological iteration and quality upgrading of traditional industries, strengthen the coordinated innovation of technology, quality, and management in strategic emerging industries, and firmly follow the development path of winning by quality. It is necessary to consolidate the foundation of quality supervision, use new technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data to strengthen penetrating supervision, and severely punish, in accordance with the law, acts such as manufacturing and selling fake and shoddy goods, infringing on intellectual property rights, and violating laws and regulations regarding project quality. It is necessary to give full play to the leading role of standards, optimize the supply structure of standards, improve the quality level of standards, strengthen the implementation and application of standards, and build a solid bottom line for quality and safety. It is necessary to give play to the role of industry associations, research institutions, news media, etc., to promote co-governance by the whole society. Zhang Guoqing (张国清) stated that China is willing to work with all countries in the world to strengthen quality research and development cooperation, promote the interconnection of quality infrastructure, strengthen quality supervision collaboration, and jointly promote the development of the global quality cause.

During his stay in Jiangsu, Zhang Guoqing (张国清) also went to Xugong Mining Machinery Co., Ltd. (徐工矿业机械有限公司), Jingchuang Electric Co., Ltd. (精创电气股份有限公司), and Xuzhou National High-tech Zone (徐州国家高新区) to investigate and understand the production and operation, innovation and development, and high-tech zone construction. He emphasized the need to solidly promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and promote the high-quality development of manufacturing. It is necessary to anchor the direction of high-end, intelligent, and green development, accelerate the deep application of artificial intelligence in research and development, design, production, manufacturing, and other links, actively carry out green manufacturing benchmark upgrading actions, and focus on cultivating a number of leading manufacturing enterprises and specialized, refined, and new small and medium-sized enterprises. It is necessary to give play to the demonstration, leading, radiating, and driving role of national high-tech zones, and promote technological innovation, enterprise incubation, and park development in an integrated manner, and make greater efforts in strengthening technological innovation, achievement transformation, and industrial cultivation, to create internationally competitive advanced manufacturing clusters.

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Policy dividends translate into increased job opportunities (Supporting stable employment for migrant workers)

By: 本报记者 李 刚

Entering the peak production season, the Skyworth Group (创维集团) Shiyan Industrial Park (石岩工业园) in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东) is a hive of activity, with digital factories operating efficiently: transport vehicles on the top of the workshop autonomously navigate along magnetic tracks, avoiding obstacles in real time through LiDAR, and precisely deliver precision backlight modules, lamp beads and other components to the workstations; six-axis robotic arms complete the laser alignment and bonding of the screen and motherboard with a repetitive positioning accuracy of 0.02 mm; artificial intelligence vision systems monitor assembly errors of 0.1 mm in real time...

In the circuit board mounting workshop, dozens of production lines are running at full capacity. Lin Xiangde (林祥德) from Nanyang (南阳), Henan (河南) carefully monitors every process of the chip mounter. When a bare substrate enters the production line, it goes through three main processes: solder paste printing, component mounting, and reflow soldering, and comes out as a finished product full of precision components. Lin Xiangde (林祥德) has only completed 3 months of induction training, and now he can operate independently online.

Wang Taotao (王涛涛), a young man from Baoji (宝鸡), Shaanxi (陕西), has been with the company for more than two months and is still in induction training. He holds a computer and tests the newly produced circuit boards under the guidance of a master craftsman; Yan Yaqiao (严亚乔) from Jingmen (荆门), Hubei (湖北) guards the last checkpoint of the production line, ensuring the quality of the entire production line. She has only been with the company for more than five months.

"The implementation of the trade-in policy for home appliances has activated the consumer market, especially the high-end color TV market." Guan Xinyang (关新洋), director of the Manufacturing Headquarters Office of the Skyworth Group (创维集团) Color TV Business Department, introduced that policy dividends and industrial development have promoted the company's job stabilization and employment. "In the first half of the year, the number of employees in the color TV business at the group's Shenzhen (深圳) Shiyan (石岩) base increased by more than 800." Guan Xinyang (关新洋) said that terminal service positions in various sales companies, such as installation and after-sales teams, have also expanded their staff, and the teams of shopping mall guides and live broadcast e-commerce are also expanding.

"Price concessions release consumption potential, directly driving the growth of high-end color TV sales; and enterprises convert policy dividends into job increases by increasing subsidies, optimizing services, and improving the recycling system, while also improving employee benefits." Guan Xinyang (关新洋) told reporters that since the beginning of this year, the salaries of employees in the color TV production department of the Shiyan (石岩) base have generally increased by 20% to 25%, and various benefits have also followed.

Wang Taotao (王涛涛) introduced that his income during the training period is between 5,000 and 6,000 yuan. Lin Xiangde (林祥德) said that after completing the training, his salary has been increased to 6,000 to 7,000 yuan. He and his wife have both joined Skyworth (创维) and also enjoy the company's "couple room" benefits. Yan Yaqiao's (严亚乔) salary has increased to more than 7,000 yuan, and her 3-year-old daughter is well taken care of in the company's kindergarten.

"'National subsidy' policies continue to be strong, and the peak production season in the second half of the year has already begun. The upcoming National Day (国庆) and Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋) holidays, as well as the 'Double 11' (双11) and 'Double 12' (双12) afterwards, will stimulate consumption, and market vitality has already appeared in the production link in advance, which will further promote job stabilization and employment." Guan Xinyang (关新洋) said.

As a major economic province, Guangdong (广东) has more than 70 million employees. Since the beginning of this year, Guangdong (广东) has fully implemented the employment-first policy, vigorously implemented the "Million Talents Gathering in Southern Guangdong (百万英才汇南粤)" action plan, and promoted the employment situation to remain stable. As of the end of August, Guangdong (广东) Province had a cumulative increase of 1.0921 million new urban jobs, an increase of 4.2% year-on-year.

Guangdong Province (广东省) proposed 10 measures in the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in Stabilizing Employment (关于做好稳就业工作的通知)", including implementing special loans for stabilizing and expanding employment, supporting enterprises to carry out on-the-job training for employees, increasing training efforts for key groups, strengthening employment guidance for enterprises, and increasing the implementation of one-time employment expansion subsidies, in an effort to stabilize employment, stabilize enterprises, stabilize the market, and stabilize expectations, and promote high-quality economic development.

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Coordinating high-quality development and high-level protection to build a modern industrial system that reflects local characteristics and advantages.

Xinhua News Agency, Xining, September 16 (Reporter Zou Wei) Li Qiang (李强), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, conducted research in Gansu and Qinghai from September 15 to 16. He emphasized the need to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions on coordinating high-quality development and high-level protection, firmly grasp the strategic positioning in the overall national development, adhere to innovation-driven development, promote green development, cultivate and strengthen new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system that reflects local characteristics and advantages, and better benefit the people.

In Lanzhou (兰州), Gansu (甘肃), Li Qiang visited Taiji Ion Technology Co., Ltd. (泰基离子技术有限公司) and the Aerospace High-tech Industrial Park of the Institute of Space Technology Physics (空间技术物理研究所航天高新产业园), viewed the latest equipment and component displays, and learned in detail about the relevant technical principles and product production, sales, and application. Li Qiang said that Gansu has a good foundation for developing heavy ion technology, space technology, and other fields. It is necessary to keep a close eye on international frontiers, support enterprises and research institutions to increase R&D investment, innovate talent training and incentive mechanisms, devote themselves to basic research, and consolidate core technology capabilities. It is necessary to actively connect with market demand, promote the linkage development of upstream and downstream industries in the industrial chain, support more participation of private enterprises, and accelerate the iterative upgrading of products and services. Li Qiang visited the observation point of the environmental greening project on the north and south mountains and the Waterwheel Expo Park (水车博览园) to inspect the afforestation and ecological protection and management of the Lanzhou section of the Yellow River (黄河), and talked with the citizens present. Li Qiang affirmed the local achievements in ecological protection and restoration, and required the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, and grasslands, and continued to increase the hard-won green assets. He urged local cadres to design and build the public space along the Yellow River well, form more good places for residents to exercise, rest, and entertain, and continuously improve the quality of life of the masses.

In Xining (西宁), Qinghai (青海), Li Qiang visited the China Unicom Sanjiangyuan National Big Data Base (中国联通三江源国家大数据基地) and the Qinghai Green Computing and Electricity Integration Scheduling and Ecological Monitoring Center (青海绿色算电融合调度及生态监测中心) to listen to relevant reports and inquire in detail about ecological protection and the use of green electricity and computing power. Li Qiang said that Qinghai has a significant responsibility for ecological and environmental protection, and at the same time has significant advantages in developing clean energy and green computing power. It is necessary to unswervingly follow the path of green development, combine the creation of a computing power platform with the use of clean energy, strengthen the integration of advantages, and deeply promote the integrated development of green computing and electricity. It is necessary to give full play to the role of the market mechanism, mobilize the enthusiasm of all parties, create conditions and environment conducive to innovation, further deepen industrial applications, and better promote the development of the digital economy. At Qinghai Kekexili Food Co., Ltd. (青海可可西里食品有限公司), Li Qiang listened to a report on Qinghai Province's efforts to build a green and organic agricultural and livestock product export base, and inspected the deep processing of yak beef and product display. Li Qiang encouraged enterprises to deeply cultivate green agriculture and animal husbandry, optimize brands with healthy and safe quality, innovate production management, and promote the development of the entire industrial chain including catering services, industrial tourism, and trade circulation, so as to play a greater role in promoting the quality and efficiency of agriculture and animal husbandry and increasing the employment and income of farmers and herdsmen.

Li Qiang fully affirmed the economic and social development achievements of Gansu and Qinghai, and hoped that the two provinces would thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions, be determined to forge ahead, work hard, make greater progress in promoting green development and western development, and make new contributions to the overall national development.

Wu Zhenglong (吴政隆) accompanied the research.

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Han Zheng Meets with ASEAN Leaders Attending the 22nd China-ASEAN Expo

Nanning (南宁), September 16th (Reported by Liu Quan (刘泉) and Zhao Yipu (赵益普) of this newspaper) Vice President Han Zheng (韩正) met with Myanmar's Prime Minister Min Aung Hlaing (敏昂莱), Lao Vice President Bounthong Chitmany (本通), Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister in charge of the Office of the Council of Ministers Vongsey Vissoth (翁赛维索), and Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang (梅文政) in Nanning (南宁), Guangxi (广西) respectively on the 16th, who were in China to attend the 22nd China-ASEAN Expo and China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit.

When meeting with Min Aung Hlaing (敏昂莱), Han Zheng (韩正) said that this year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Myanmar. Not long ago, President Xi Jinping (习近平) held a fruitful meeting with Acting President Min Aung Hlaing (敏昂莱), reaching important consensus and pointing out the direction for the development of bilateral relations. China is willing to work with Myanmar to implement the above-mentioned important consensus and deepen the construction of a China-Myanmar community with a shared future. China supports Myanmar in maintaining national stability and sovereign independence, and steadily advancing its domestic political agenda. It is hoped that Myanmar will increase its efforts to combat cross-border crime and safeguard the safety of Chinese personnel, institutions, projects, and the China-Myanmar border.

Min Aung Hlaing (敏昂莱) said that Myanmar appreciates China's timely provision of valuable assistance to the earthquake-stricken areas of Myanmar, supports China's proposed global governance initiatives, adheres to the one-China principle, and is willing to deepen high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" cooperation with China, jointly combat cross-border crime, and promote the construction of a Myanmar-China community with a shared future.

When meeting with Bounthong Chitmany (本通), Han Zheng (韩正) said that under the strategic guidance of the top leaders of the two parties and two countries, the construction of a China-Laos community with a shared future is steadily advancing. Not long ago, General Secretary and President Xi Jinping (习近平) and General Secretary and President Thongloun Sisoulith (通伦) held a cordial meeting, charting a blueprint for deepening China-Laos comprehensive strategic cooperation in the new era. China is willing to work with Laos to jointly implement the important consensus of high-level officials, deepen the construction of a China-Laos community with a shared future, and successfully host the 65th anniversary celebration of the establishment of diplomatic relations next year, so that the traditional friendship between the two countries will be more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Bounthong Chitmany (本通) said that the relations between the two parties and two countries of Laos and China are at their best historical period. Laos adheres to the one-China principle, supports China's major initiatives and propositions, and is willing to strengthen high-level exchanges with China, deepen political mutual trust, strengthen pragmatic cooperation, and promote greater development of relations between the two parties and two countries.

When meeting with Vongsey Vissoth (翁赛维索), Han Zheng (韩正) said that in April this year, President Xi Jinping (习近平) paid a state visit to Cambodia, leading China-Cambodia relations to the forefront of building a community with a shared future for mankind. The two countries maintain close high-level exchanges, pointing out the direction for building a new era of all-weather China-Cambodia community with a shared future. China is willing to work with Cambodia to accelerate the implementation of the important consensus of the leaders of the two countries, give play to the role of the China-Cambodia Intergovernmental Coordination Committee, continuously enrich the "Diamond Hexagon" cooperation framework, accelerate the construction of the "Industrial Development Corridor" and "Fish and Rice Corridor", and help each country's modernization.

Vongsey Vissoth (翁赛维索) said that the ironclad friendship between Cambodia and China is unbreakable and their destinies are closely linked. Cambodia regards China as the most trustworthy friend and is willing to deepen cooperation with China in various fields to continuously inject new impetus into the construction of a Cambodia-China community with a shared future.

When meeting with Tran Luu Quang (梅文政), Han Zheng (韩正) said that the high-level officials of the two parties and two countries of China and Vietnam maintain frequent exchanges, reaching important consensus on promoting comprehensive strategic cooperation, pointing out the direction for the construction of a China-Vietnam community with a shared future in the new situation. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries and the "Year of Cultural Exchange." China is willing to work with Vietnam to take the strategic consensus of the leaders of the two parties and two countries as a guide, continue the traditional friendship, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, accelerate the construction of a China-Vietnam community with a shared future with strategic significance, and inject strong impetus into the socialist modernization of each country.

Tran Luu Quang (梅文政) said that developing friendly relations with China is an objective requirement, strategic choice, and top priority of Vietnam's foreign policy. Vietnam is willing to strengthen high-level exchanges between the two parties and two countries with China, deepen cooperation in various fields, and jointly promote the construction of a Vietnam-China community with a shared future.

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Taking the people's heart as our heart, and the benefit of the world as our benefit.

By: 任 平

(I)

In today's world, peace and development are the common aspirations of people of all countries, but the deficits in peace, development, security, and governance are increasing.

At the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上合组织) Tianjin Summit held from August 31 to September 1, President Xi Jinping (习近平) solemnly proposed the Global Governance Initiative, which aims to promote joint action by all countries to build a more just and reasonable global governance system. This is another important public good that China has contributed to the world in the new era, following the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, and the Global Civilization Initiative, injecting stability and certainty into a turbulent world.

From the "historical answer" of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence to the "answer of the times" of building a community with a shared future for mankind, the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) has always kept the future of mankind in mind and the well-being of the people at heart, and has made it its mission to make new and greater contributions to mankind.

At the meeting commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) solemnly declared: "The Chinese people stand firmly on the right side of history and on the side of progress of human civilization, adhere to the path of peaceful development, and work with the people of all countries to build a community with a shared future for mankind."

Chinese-style modernization is a modernization that follows the path of peaceful development, and China will always be a force for world peace, a force for stability, and a force for progress.

Follow the right path in the world and do the right thing.

(II)

Cooperation and win-win is the trend of the times. Only by adhering to cooperation and win-win can we promote global sustainable development.

Poverty is the root of turbulence, and development is the key to solving various problems and achieving people's happiness. At present, the global development process is being impacted, the world's openness index is declining, and unilateralism and protectionism are intensifying. In June of this year, the World Bank lowered its global economic growth forecast for 2025 to 2.3%.

Only by grasping the general trend from the long cycle of history, resisting all acts that reverse the course of history, and promoting inclusive economic globalization can we strengthen global development momentum and enhance the well-being of people in all countries.

The world is calling for open cooperation and mutual benefit, and China is injecting certainty into global development—

In the face of a complex external environment, China is unswervingly doing its own thing well, unswervingly expanding high-level opening up to the outside world, and constantly providing new opportunities for the world with China's new development.

Building platforms such as the China International Import Expo (进博会), the Consumer Products Expo (消博会), the Canton Fair (广交会), the China International Fair for Trade in Services (服贸会), and the Supply Chain Expo (链博会), giving all least developed countries that have diplomatic relations with China zero-tariff treatment for 100% of tariff items, and expanding unilateral opening up to the least developed countries... China's door to opening up is opening wider and wider.

In Laos (老挝), Chinese-funded companies are helping local people develop ancient tea products, and the tea industry is driving people out of poverty and towards prosperity; in Burkina Faso (布基纳法索), after Chinese hybrid rice technology was introduced, local grain production has increased significantly, basically achieving "zero imports" of rice...

High-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" (一带一路) has cumulatively lifted more than 40 million people out of poverty. In the first eight months of this year, China's imports and exports to countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" reached 15.3 trillion yuan, an increase of 5.4% year-on-year.

The people of all countries yearn for a better life, and China has proposed and promoted the implementation of the Global Development Initiative—

After experiencing untold hardships and making huge sacrifices, most of them emerged from the historical quagmire of colonialism, and emerging market countries and developing countries understand the value of development and prosperity even more.

The Global Development Initiative focuses on solving the problem of unbalanced development, promoting the international community to take the road of common development, and revitalizing the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

At present, more than 80 countries have joined the "Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative," more than 70 countries, regions and international organizations have joined the Global Development Promotion Center Network, the total number of projects in the Global Development Project Library has exceeded 1,100, and the Global Development Initiative has mobilized nearly 20 billion US dollars in development funds...

From China and Africa working together to promote the Ten Partnership Programs for Modernization, to China's eight actions to support global development, to China and Latin America working together to launch five major projects, China has always been a member of the "Global South" and an actionist and pragmatist in supporting the global development cause.

"What China pursues is not a modernization that benefits itself alone, and it is willing to work with all countries to achieve a world modernization of peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation, and common prosperity."

(III)

Harmony and coexistence are the right way for countries to get along with each other. Only by adhering to harmony and coexistence can we promote the sharing of security and danger in the world and maintain world peace and tranquility.

The world is turbulent, and "peace is under attack from all sides." The "2025 Global Peace Index" released by the Institute for Economics and Peace shows that 59 interstate conflicts are taking place, the highest number since the end of World War II, and the global peace situation is at its lowest level since the index was created.

President Xi Jinping (习近平) stressed: "Security is the prerequisite for development, and mankind is an indivisible community of security." Achieving lasting peace in the world, allowing every country to enjoy a peaceful and stable external environment, and allowing the people of every country to live and work in peace and contentment is a common vision and should become a universal action.

The world urgently needs peace, and China has always been a builder of world peace—

**和衷共济、和合共生** (hé zhōng gòng jì, hé hé gòng shēng - "work together with one heart, harmony and coexistence," work together in harmony and seek common development). China adheres to working together with all countries with an open attitude, promoting development through cooperation and promoting security through cooperation, and working together to build a world of lasting peace and universal security.

Issued position papers on the Ukraine crisis, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Afghanistan issue, etc., formed a "Friends of Peace" group on the Ukraine crisis with Brazil (巴西) and other Global South countries, successfully facilitated the reconciliation between Saudi Arabia (沙特) and Iran (伊朗), promoted Palestinian internal reconciliation, and proposed and worked with regional countries to accelerate the implementation of the "Horn of Africa Peace and Development Initiative";

Building international security exchange and dialogue platforms such as the Beijing Xiangshan Forum (北京香山论坛), the China-Africa Peace and Security Forum (中非和平安全论坛), and the China-Latin America High-Level Defense Forum (中拉高级防务论坛), and deepening international cooperation in areas such as peacekeeping, counter-terrorism, climate change, disaster prevention and mitigation, and combating transnational crime;

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The security interests of all countries are equal, and the legitimate and reasonable security concerns of any country should be valued and properly resolved. China actively promotes international peace and constantly gathers the consensus and joint efforts of the international community to address global security challenges.

The people of all countries yearn for peace, and China has proposed and promoted the implementation of the Global Security Initiative—

Human beings live on the same planet and should help each other and live in harmony. In today's world where countries are interdependent, it is impossible to pursue so-called absolute security and exclusive security.

The Global Security Initiative advocates practicing a common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security concept, which is precisely to promote a new path of security that is based on dialogue rather than confrontation, partnership rather than alliance, and win-win rather than zero-sum.

It has been evaluated as "a powerful weapon to defend the common values of all mankind" and "visionary and wise"... At present, the Global Security Initiative has been supported by more than 130 countries and international and regional organizations, and has been clearly written into more than 140 bilateral and multilateral documents between China and foreign countries, and has achieved important gains in maintaining regional stability and other fields.

Advocate justice and value peace.

China does not have the gene of seeking hegemony and is the only major country that has written peaceful development into its constitution and the constitution of the ruling party and elevated it to the national will. China's modernization is the growth of the world's peaceful forces and the strengthening of international justice.

(IV)

Exchange and mutual learning are the essential requirements of civilization development. Only by adhering to inclusiveness and mutual learning can we promote new progress in human civilization.

"Wars begin in the minds of men." Looking around the world, some people are trying to create prejudice and hatred with "clash of civilizations," "racial superiority," and "institutional confrontation," inciting ideological confrontation and exacerbating the risk of division and opposition facing the world.

"We must use an open and inclusive mind to draw a civilizational picture that promotes the building of a community with a shared future for mankind." President Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition reveals the direction of efforts to continue the torch of human civilization.

The progress of human civilization calls for equality, respect, dialogue and inclusiveness, and China adheres to civilization exchange and mutual learning—

There are more than 200 countries and regions, more than 2,500 ethnic groups and many religions in the world, and diversity is the true color of human civilization. It is precisely because the history, culture and systems of various countries are different that we need to exchange mutual learning, learn from each other's strengths and make up for our weaknesses, and make progress together.

From the romantic imagination of "Neon Feather Dress" to the cultural image of "Three Rabbits Sharing Ears"... Millennium Dunhuang (敦煌), a hub of Eastern and Western cultural exchanges, is a bright pearl in the long river of world civilization.

When Tang Xianzu (汤显祖) "shakes hands" with Shakespeare (莎士比亚) in the Zhejiang Literature Museum (浙江文学馆), when Chinese Zeng Chu (曾楚) art shines in San Francisco (旧金山), USA... Different civilizations cross mountains and seas and collide with brilliant sparks in exchanges.

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Chinese civilization is an open system formed in the continuous exchange and mutual learning with other civilizations, and it has become more and more new in its inclusiveness. Chinese-style modernization creates a new form of human civilization and contributes unique wisdom to the development of world civilization.

Different civilizations need to coexist peacefully and seek common ground while reserving differences, and China has proposed and promoted the implementation of the Global Civilization Initiative—

**和而不同** (hé ér bù tóng - "harmony but not uniformity," seek harmony without uniformity) is the law of the spread and development of human civilization. The Global Civilization Initiative aims to promote mutual understanding and affinity among people of all countries, inclusiveness and mutual learning among various civilizations, and promote the building of a beautiful world of civilization.

In June 2024, the 78th United Nations General Assembly adopted by consensus the resolution proposed by China to establish an International Day for Dialogue among Civilizations. The resolution fully embodies the core meaning of the Global Civilization Initiative and decided to set June 10 as the International Day for Dialogue among Civilizations;

"Carry out 'Confucian-Islamic Civilization Dialogue' cooperation and work together to build a civilization exchange platform at the level of the two countries and even the region." In June this year, Kuala Lumpur (吉隆坡), the capital of Malaysia (马来西亚), the "Confucian-Islamic Civilization Dialogue" injected positive energy into deepening South-South cooperation and promoting world peace and development;

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China is willing to work with all countries to uphold the civilizational view of equality, mutual learning, dialogue and inclusiveness, promote the common values of all mankind, and inject new impetus into the progress of human civilization and the peaceful development of the world.

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Fairness and justice are the lofty goals pursued by the people of all countries and the foundation of lasting security. Only by adhering to fairness and justice can we promote a just and reasonable international order.

"Without fairness and justice, power politics will run rampant." Eighty years ago, the United Nations (联合国) came into being, and a new page was opened in global governance. Eighty years later, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and change, and global governance has reached a new crossroads.

Strengthening global governance is the right choice for the international community to share development opportunities and address global challenges. The world wants justice, not hegemony. The affairs of the world should be discussed by all countries, and no one should have the final say just because they have strong arms and a loud voice. The Global Governance Initiative conforms to the universal aspirations of the people of all countries, meets the urgent needs of today's world, is timely, guides the direction, and demonstrates responsibility.

The world is calling for fairness and justice, and China insists on upholding justice and upholding justice—

To address global challenges, we must adhere to the global governance concept of consultation, joint construction and sharing, and insist that international rules be jointly written and jointly maintained by all countries.

To promote innovation in the field of international rule of law, China has established the International Mediation Institute (国际调解院) with 32 countries to provide new choices, new ways and new platforms for the efficient and peaceful settlement of international disputes.

To make the Global South cooperation platform bigger and stronger, lead the high-quality development of "Greater BRICS Cooperation," build the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织) into the largest regional international organization in terms of area and population, propose the Global South Open and Inclusive Cooperation Initiative, and announce eight measures to support Global South cooperation.

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China firmly safeguards the basic norms of international relations, insists on speaking fairly and doing fair things, advocates an equal and orderly world multipolarization, and opposes all forms of hegemonism and power politics.

The people of all countries yearn for fairness and justice, and China has proposed and promoted the implementation of the Global Governance Initiative—

Multilateralism is an important reliance for world peace and development. To practice true multilateralism, we must firmly safeguard the international system with the United Nations (联合国) as the core, the international order based on international law, and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章).

To reform and improve global governance, sovereign equality is the primary prerequisite, international rule of law is the fundamental guarantee, multilateralism is the basic path, people-centeredness is the value orientation, and action-orientedness is an important principle, and the common direction is to firmly support the United Nations (联合国) in playing a central role in international affairs and promote countries to participate in the reform and construction of the global governance system based on the United Nations (联合国) and other multilateral mechanisms.

On September 5, the 79th United Nations General Assembly (联合国大会) adopted by a high vote the resolution on "Cooperation between the United Nations and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织)" proposed by China, with nearly 40 countries, including all member states of the SCO (上合组织), participating in the co-sponsorship.

All parties believe that "the world today urgently needs more effective governance concepts and governance systems" and that "the Global Governance Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平) conforms to the general trend of the times and will play an important role in addressing global challenges and improving global governance."

United Nations Secretary-General Guterres (古特雷斯) believes that "China has made important contributions to maintaining international law and ensuring the international rule of law and has become a cornerstone of defending multilateralism."

Bravely shoulder great righteousness and practice the great way.

Building a community with a shared future for mankind, practicing the four global initiatives, and jointly building the "Belt and Road" (一带一路), China is committed to working with all countries to promote the world towards a bright future of peace, security, prosperity, and progress.

"Take the people's heart as the heart and the world's benefit as the benefit."

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Pooling Governance Wisdom, Jointly Planning Global Ecological Civilization Construction (Authoritative Release)

By: 本报记者 吴月辉

On September 16th, the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办) held a press conference to introduce the scientific and technological support for ecological civilization construction and the relevant situation of the 5th World Network of Biosphere Reserves Congress. At the press conference, He Hongping (何宏平), Vice President and member of the Party Leadership Group of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), introduced that the 5th World Network of Biosphere Reserves Congress, jointly organized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) and the People's Government of Zhejiang Province (浙江省人民政府), will be held in Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang Province (浙江省) from September 22nd to 25th. This is the first time that the decennial conference has been held in Asia, and it will also be the most widely participated session by member states of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (联合国教科文组织).

He Hongping (何宏平) introduced that the conference is expected to welcome about 4,000 representatives from more than 150 countries and regions around the world. The conference will release the "UNESCO Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme and its World Network of Biosphere Reserves Hangzhou Strategy Action Plan (2026-2035)", formulate a blueprint for the next ten years of development, and will also release the "Hangzhou Declaration (杭州宣言)" to convey to the international community China's firm determination to work with countries around the world to address ecological and environmental challenges and build a community of life on Earth.

The "Man and the Biosphere Programme" is a large-scale intergovernmental scientific program initiated by UNESCO (联合国教科文组织) in 1971. China joined the program in 1973, and the Chinese National Committee for Man and the Biosphere (中国人与生物圈国家委员会) was established in 1978. At present, China has 34 World Biosphere Reserves, ranking first in Asia. Through active participation in the program, China continuously shares its concepts, wisdom, and practices in ecological civilization construction with the international community, demonstrating the responsibility of a major country, and promoting the construction of a community of life on Earth and a community of shared future for mankind.

He Hongping (何宏平) introduced that the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), in conjunction with relevant departments, relies on the "China Biosphere Reserve Network (中国生物圈保护区网络)" to systematically promote scientific protection work and has achieved positive results.

In terms of endangered species protection, by promoting the construction of national park and national botanical garden systems, and implementing wildlife protection projects, a large number of rare and endangered species populations such as giant pandas, Northeast China tigers and leopards, Tibetan antelopes, Yangtze finless porpoises, and *Gastrodia elata* in Fujian (福建天麻) have steadily recovered, and their habitats have continued to improve.

In terms of ecosystem and species monitoring, the "China Ecosystem Research Network (中国生态系统研究网络)", which includes 44 national field stations, has been established to jointly carry out national ecosystem surveys and assessments, reveal their evolutionary trends and driving mechanisms, and provide systematic and comprehensive basic scientific data for national ecological environment decision-making and optimization of the ecological security barrier system. The "China Biodiversity Monitoring and Research Network (中国生物多样性监测与研究网络)" has been established to carry out systematic dynamic monitoring of major categories and types of biodiversity such as mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles, soil microorganisms, forests, grasslands, and deserts, and to keep abreast of the changing trends of biodiversity in China.

In terms of new technology integration and application, intelligent identification technology for animal and plant species integrating images, soundprints, and videos has been developed. Integrating satellite remote sensing, drones, and mobile intelligent terminals, an integrated "space-air-ground" intelligent monitoring system has been built, and demonstration applications have been carried out in Wuyishan (武夷山), Wolong (卧龙), Chebaling (车八岭) and other World Biosphere Reserves, providing key technical support for "smart reserve" construction, management and control zoning, ecological restoration, and corridor planning.

In terms of scientific and technological strategic consulting, the role of a national high-level scientific and technological think tank is fully utilized to provide important support for major national decisions such as the demarcation of ecological protection red lines, the ten-year fishing ban in the Yangtze River (长江十年禁渔), the construction of national parks, and the accounting of ecological value. Comprehensive scientific expeditions are organized to Xinjiang (新疆), the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (青藏高原) and other regions to further understand the ecological background and continuously serve the construction of important national ecological barriers and ecological civilization highlands.

Qin Changwei (秦昌威), Secretary-General of the Chinese National Commission for UNESCO (中国联合国教科文组织全国委员会), said that China has long actively participated in important scientific programs and projects initiated and implemented by UNESCO (联合国教科文组织), deeply participated in global scientific governance, and has hosted important UNESCO (联合国教科文组织) conferences many times. Dozens of scientific programs initiated by Chinese scientists, such as "Deep-time Digital Earth", have been successfully selected into UNESCO's (联合国教科文组织) relevant action plans, making significant contributions to promoting the implementation of the Global Development Initiative and accelerating the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Zhang Yujun (张玉军), Director-General of the Department of Nature and Ecology Conservation of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部自然生态保护司司长), introduced that the "Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (昆明—蒙特利尔全球生物多样性框架)" has drawn a blueprint for global biodiversity governance. China actively promotes the implementation of the framework's tasks, strengthens the construction of a scientific and technological support system, and continues to deepen biodiversity protection work, such as relying on the national ecological protection red line supervision platform, using satellite remote sensing, drones, artificial intelligence and other means to strengthen data collection at multiple scales and levels, and establish and improve a sound supervisory investigation and observation network.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) adheres to the development concept of "giving equal importance to protection and development, and promoting production and ecology in parallel" (保护与发展并重、生产与生态同行), and comprehensively and scientifically conserves aquatic biological resources. Carrying out investigation, monitoring and evaluation, constructing and managing aquatic germplasm resource protection areas, implementing fishing moratorium systems, standardizing stocking and release, constructing marine pastures, developing ecological fisheries, and strengthening law enforcement supervision, promoting the organic unity of ecological protection, fishery development and fishermen's income increase, and promoting the harmonious coexistence of man and nature.

The National Forestry and Grassland Administration (国家林草局) pointed out that natural protected areas are an important symbol of a beautiful China. In view of their primary position in maintaining national ecological security, China further leverages the supporting role of high and new technologies, focusing on building an integrated "space-air-ground" monitoring system and an ecological network sensing system for natural protected areas, which plays an important role in ecological protection effectiveness assessment, flagship species monitoring, human activity control, and wildlife hazard prevention, and effectively enhances the effectiveness of protection construction and management.

Zhejiang Province (浙江省), as the host of this conference and one of the first pilot projects of UNESCO (联合国教科文组织) to practice the concept of green conference organization, jointly launched the "Zero-Carbon Conference" activity with Ant Forest (蚂蚁森林). Dong Xubin (董旭斌), Director of the Zhejiang Provincial Forestry Bureau (浙江省林业局局长), said: "As of the end of August, the number of participants has reached 3.35 million, accumulating 4,452 tons of carbon sinks, and the 'low-carbon' conference will achieve significant results."

The important progress made by China in the field of scientific and technological support for ecological civilization construction will help implement the Hangzhou Strategic Action Plan released by the 5th World Network of Biosphere Reserves Congress and contribute Chinese wisdom to building a community of life on Earth.

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Upholding Mutual Benefit and Win-Win Results, Resolving Economic and Trade Issues Through Equal Consultation (Zhong Sheng)

From September 14th to 15th local time, China and the United States held talks in Madrid (马德里), Spain. Guided by the important consensus reached by the two heads of state during their phone call, the two sides conducted candid, in-depth, and constructive communication on economic and trade issues of mutual concern, and reached a basic framework consensus on properly resolving the TikTok issue through cooperation, reducing investment barriers, and promoting relevant economic and trade cooperation. This once again demonstrates that by adhering to mutual respect and equal consultation, China and the United States can enhance consensus through dialogue and promote win-win results through action.

Mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation is the essence of China-U.S. economic and trade relations, and it is also the foundation for continued dialogue between the two sides. From Geneva (日内瓦) to London (伦敦), from Stockholm (斯德哥尔摩) to Madrid (马德里), China and the United States have deepened understanding and accumulated consensus through equal dialogue, creating conditions for promoting mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation. During this meeting, both sides agreed that a stable China-U.S. economic and trade relationship is of great significance to both countries and has an important impact on global economic stability and development. This is a consensus reached after repeated dialogues and consultations between the two sides, and it is a deepening of the understanding of the mutually beneficial and win-win nature of China-U.S. economic and trade relations and their global importance. This consensus lays the foundation for further dialogue and consultation between the two sides, provides guidance for properly resolving issues of concern to both sides, and injects confidence into world economic development.

The TikTok issue was an important topic of this meeting, and properly resolving relevant issues through cooperation was a positive development achieved at this meeting. China has always opposed politicizing, instrumentalizing, and weaponizing science and technology and economic and trade issues, and will never seek to reach any agreement at the expense of principled positions, corporate interests, and international fairness and justice. During this meeting, based on full respect for corporate wishes and market rules, China and the United States reached a basic consensus on resolving the TikTok issue through methods such as entrusting the operation of TikTok's U.S. user data and content security business and authorizing the use of intellectual property rights such as algorithms, which fully proves that hegemonic pressure is not the way to solve problems, and mutual respect and equal consultation are the wisdom for win-win cooperation.

The reason why China reached a relevant consensus with the United States on the TikTok issue is because this consensus is based on the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation, and is in the interests of both sides. This reflects China's constructive and responsible attitude. China's principled position of resolutely safeguarding national interests and the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese-funded enterprises has not changed, and it will approve matters involving TikTok's technology exports and intellectual property rights usage authorization in accordance with the law. The Chinese government fully respects corporate wishes and supports enterprises in carrying out equal commercial negotiations based on market principles. The U.S. should, in accordance with the consensus reached by both sides, provide an open, fair, just, and non-discriminatory business environment for the continued operation of Chinese-funded enterprises in the U.S., including TikTok. Both sides further recognized the importance of a healthy and stable China-U.S. economic and trade relationship, and will continue to communicate closely and move in the same direction.

It must be pointed out that after a series of economic and trade consultations, the U.S.'s erroneous practice of unilaterally taking economic and trade restrictive measures against China has not stopped. The U.S. has generalized national security, continuously expanded the list of sanctions against Chinese entities, and extended the reach of its long-arm jurisdiction. This kind of unilateral hegemonic behavior violates international law and the basic norms of international relations. China raised serious concerns with the U.S. during this meeting. The achievements of China-U.S. economic and trade talks have not come easily. The U.S. should not, on the one hand, ask China to take care of its concerns, and on the other hand, continue to suppress Chinese enterprises. This is not the correct way for major countries to get along. If the U.S. substantially infringes on China's interests, China has abundant means and tools to counter it. To maintain the hard-won achievements of China-U.S. economic and trade consultations, the U.S. should cancel restrictive measures as soon as possible, stop suppressing Chinese enterprises, and at the same time, should be cautious in its words and actions and not try to form cliques and engage in "collective bullying." All parties should earnestly assume their responsibilities to maintain world trade order and the security and stability of global production and supply chains.

The best way to bridge differences and solve problems is to conduct equal dialogue and seek mutually beneficial cooperation. China and the United States should continue to implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state during their phone call and the results of previous economic and trade talks, give full play to the role of the China-U.S. economic and trade consultation mechanism, continuously enhance consensus, resolve differences, strengthen cooperation, strive for more win-win results, promote the healthy, stable, and sustainable development of China-U.S. economic and trade relations, and inject more stability into the world economy.

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Wang Yi Meets with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sun Chanthol

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 16th (Reporter) - Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, met with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sun Chanthol (孙占托) in Beijing (北京) on September 16th.

Wang Yi (王毅) stated that President Xi Jinping (习近平) paid a successful state visit to Cambodia in April of this year. China is willing to work with Cambodia, guided by the strategic consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, to accelerate the implementation of cooperation projects in various fields, make good use of the "Industrial Development Corridor" and the "Fish and Rice Corridor" plans, and create more visible results.

Sun Chanthol (孙占托) said that Cambodia will continue to firmly jointly build the "Belt and Road" with China with high quality, and continuously promote the construction of a new era of all-weather Cambodia-China community with a shared future.

The two sides also exchanged views on the Cambodian-Thai border conflict. Wang Yi (王毅) said that Cambodia and Thailand are close neighbors, and he hopes that the two sides will seize the opportunity to accelerate the reconciliation process.

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Wang Xiaohong Meets with Guests from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Belarus Respectively

This newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on September 16th (Reporter Zhang Tianpei (张天培)) State Councilor and Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong (王小洪) met in Beijing (北京) on the 16th with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (刚果（金）) Shabani (沙巴尼) and Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Belarus Gora (戈拉), who were in China (中国) to attend the Global Public Security Cooperation Forum (Lianyungang (连云港)) 2025 Conference.

During the meeting with Shabani (沙巴尼), Wang Xiaohong (王小洪) stated that China (中国) is willing to work with the DRC (刚果（金）) to be guided by the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, actively implement the Global Security Initiative and the Global Governance Initiative, improve law enforcement and security cooperation mechanisms, strengthen security guarantees for joint construction of "Belt and Road" projects, deepen cooperation in law enforcement capacity building, and make greater contributions to promoting the development of the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between the two countries. Shabani (沙巴尼) expressed his willingness to maintain close communication with China (中国) and take effective measures to fully protect the safety of Chinese personnel, institutions, and projects in the DRC (刚果（金）).

During the meeting with Gora (戈拉), Wang Xiaohong (王小洪) stated that he hopes both sides will implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, deepen cooperation in areas such as combating transnational crime and maintaining cybersecurity, explore and improve cooperation mechanisms for security of major "Belt and Road" projects and personnel, jointly write a new chapter in law enforcement and security cooperation, and promote the high-level development of the China-Belarus (中白) all-weather comprehensive strategic partnership. Gora (戈拉) stated that Belarus (白俄罗斯) highly appreciates the Global Security Initiative and the Global Governance Initiative and is willing to deepen practical cooperation with China (中国) in law enforcement and security. The two sides signed relevant cooperation documents.

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The 8th China-Myanmar Ministerial Meeting on Law Enforcement and Security Cooperation Held

This newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on September 16th (Reporter Zhang Tianpei (张天培)) The 8th China-Myanmar Law Enforcement and Security Cooperation Ministerial Meeting was held in Beijing (北京) on the 15th. State Councilor and Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong (王小洪) and Myanmar's Minister of Home Affairs, Tun Tun Naung (吞吞楠), co-chaired the meeting.

Wang Xiaohong (王小洪) pointed out that the people of China and Myanmar have been close and integrated since ancient times, and the "Paukphaw" friendship has a long history. President Xi Jinping (习近平) and Senior General Min Aung Hlaing (敏昂莱), in their meeting in Tianjin (天津), reached important consensus, which pointed the direction and provided guidance for China-Myanmar law enforcement and security cooperation.

Wang Xiaohong (王小洪) stated that China is willing to work with Myanmar to earnestly implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, actively practice the Global Security Initiative and the Global Governance Initiative, deepen practical cooperation in the field of law enforcement and security, strengthen communication and coordination within the multilateral framework, continue to jointly combat prominent cross-border crimes such as telecom network fraud and drugs, jointly carry out law enforcement capacity training, jointly maintain peace and tranquility in the China-Myanmar border area, effectively protect the safety of Chinese personnel, institutions, and projects in Myanmar, and 保驾护航 (bǎo jià hù háng - "escort and protect," to safeguard or protect) the accelerated advancement of the China-Myanmar community with a shared future.

Tun Tun Naung (吞吞楠) said that since the seventh China-Myanmar Law Enforcement and Security Cooperation Ministerial Meeting, the cooperation between the two sides has achieved fruitful results. Myanmar is grateful for China's long-term assistance and support, and is willing to take practical and effective measures to increase the crackdown on cross-border crimes and fully strengthen the security guarantee for Chinese personnel, institutions, and projects in Myanmar.

After the meeting, Wang Xiaohong (王小洪) and Tun Tun Naung (吞吞楠) jointly signed the meeting minutes.

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Peng Qinghua, Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, Visits Serbia

Xinhua News Agency, Belgrade, September 16th (Reporter) - At the invitation of the National Assembly of Serbia, Peng Qinghua (彭清华), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, led a delegation to Serbia from September 15th to 16th. During the visit, Peng Qinghua (彭清华) met with Serbian National Assembly Speaker Brnabić (布尔纳比奇) and Prime Minister Mačut (马楚特) respectively, and co-chaired the fifth meeting of the China-Serbia Legislative Bodies Cooperation Committee with Serbian National Assembly Vice Speaker Raguš (拉古什).

Peng Qinghua (彭清华) stated that under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Vučić (武契奇), the construction of a China-Serbia community with a shared future in the new era is being comprehensively advanced. The National People's Congress of China is willing to work with the Serbian National Assembly to implement the consensus reached by the two heads of state, make good use of the institutionalized platform, promote close strategic coordination between the two sides, deepen pragmatic cooperation in various fields, and continuously consolidate the legal guarantee for the construction of a community with a shared future. Peng Qinghua (彭清华) also introduced the Global Governance Initiative and China's economic development.

The Serbian side highly praised China's development achievements and the 铁杆友谊 (tiě gǎn yǒu yì - "ironclad friendship," extremely strong and reliable friendship) between Serbia and China, emphasizing their willingness to strengthen high-level exchanges and exchanges between legislative bodies with China, and to promote the construction of a Serbia-China community with a shared future with high quality.

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Azerbaijan's Prime Minister Asadov Meets with Su Hui

Xinhua News Agency, Baku, September 16th (Reporter Liu Shuchen (刘书辰)) Azerbaijani Prime Minister Asadov met with Su Hui (苏辉), Vice Chairperson of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协), in Baku (巴库) on the 15th.

Su Hui (苏辉) conveyed Premier Li Qiang's (李强) cordial greetings to Prime Minister Asadov, stating that in recent years, under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Aliyev, China-Azerbaijan relations have maintained a rapid development momentum. China is willing to work with Azerbaijan to implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, consolidate mutual support, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, strengthen international collaboration, and continuously promote the development of the China-Azerbaijan comprehensive strategic partnership.

Asadov asked Su Hui (苏辉) to convey his best wishes to Premier Li Qiang (李强), congratulated China on holding grand activities 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 expressed that developing relations with China is a priority direction of Azerbaijan's foreign policy. Azerbaijan is willing to take the establishment of a comprehensive strategic partnership as an opportunity to continuously deepen cooperation in areas such as cross-border transportation, green energy, and the digital economy.

Su Hui (苏辉) led a delegation from the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协) on an invitation to visit Azerbaijan, during which she also met with Speaker of the National Assembly Gafarova.

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Chinese Delegation Attends the 69th IAEA General Conference

According to a report from our Berlin office on September 16th (Reporter Liu Zhonghua (刘仲华)), Vienna news: Local time September 15th, the 69th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was held in Vienna (维也纳), Austria (奥地利). The Director of the China National Atomic Energy Agency (中国国家原子能机构), Shan Zhongde (单忠德), led a delegation to participate in the conference and delivered a speech in the general debate.

The Chinese side pointed out that the four major global initiatives proposed by Chinese leaders are of great significance for solving the current global governance dilemma in the nuclear field and promoting the peaceful, safe, and sustainable development of the atomic energy industry.

The Chinese side emphasized that the current global governance in the nuclear field is facing multiple challenges such as politicization, camp formation, and confrontation, but development and cooperation are still the main theme of the IAEA. China is willing to work with the IAEA and other countries to jointly promote a more just and reasonable global nuclear energy governance, a more inclusive development, and a more open and orderly cooperation. First, practice the Global Development Initiative and jointly cultivate new momentum for the development of the nuclear industry. Adhere to development first, universal benefit and inclusiveness, and action-oriented, jointly promote the IAEA flagship initiative to go deeper and more solid, help the Global South countries consolidate the foundation of development, cultivate development momentum, and actively promote "atomic energy to benefit the Global South." Second, practice the Global Security Initiative and jointly build a community of nuclear safety destiny. Adhere to a rational, coordinated, and progressive nuclear safety concept, build a fair, cooperative, and win-win international nuclear safety system, properly handle the relationship between nuclear non-proliferation and peaceful use of nuclear energy, and adhere to political and diplomatic means to peacefully resolve regional nuclear issues. Third, practice the Global Civilization Initiative and jointly plant a garden of nuclear technology exchange. Fourth, practice the Global Governance Initiative and jointly create a new pattern of nuclear governance system. Jointly safeguard the integrity and authority of the international nuclear non-proliferation system, and oppose unilateralism, protectionism, exclusivity, and discriminatory practices in nuclear energy development cooperation.

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Wang Dongfeng Meets with President Amara of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council of Morocco

Wang Dongfeng (王东峰), Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协) and Chairman of the China Economic and Social Council, met with Ahmed Réda Chami (阿马拉), Chairman of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council of Morocco, in Xi'an (西安) on September 16. He introduced China's achievements in poverty alleviation and the work of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (人民政协), and expressed China's willingness to work with the international community to promote the international poverty reduction cause and jointly build a community of common destiny for mankind.

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Historical Ties Across the Ocean Should Not Be Forgotten (International Forum: Learning from History, Jointly Safeguarding Peace)

By: 麦克·道森

The New Zealand China Friendship Society participates with great respect in activities commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. Eighty years have passed since the smoke of war dissipated, but the alarm bells of history still ring loudly. In this war concerning the survival of human civilization, although China and New Zealand are separated by vast oceans, they joined hands in the just cause of anti-fascism. During this period, the story of Rewi Alley is engraved on the monument of Sino-New Zealand friendship, moving the world.

Alley is one of New Zealand's most famous Chinese friends and the founder of the New Zealand China Friendship Society. In 1927, at the age of only 20, he came to Shanghai (上海) with a dream. The workers toiling shirtless on the banks of the Huangpu River (黄浦江) and the ragged children deeply touched this young man from a farm in the South Island of New Zealand.

He wrote in his autobiography: "This suffering should not be borne by the innocent - I must stay." During the Battle of Shanghai (淞沪会战) in 1937, he traveled to the banks of the Suzhou River (苏州河) to deliver medical supplies from the International Red Cross to the defending soldiers in the Sihang Warehouse (四行仓库). When the Japanese army threatened to bomb the headquarters of the Chinese Red Cross, he resolutely stood in front of the ruins, guarding the flag of the Red Cross with his own body.

In 1942, Alley founded the Shaanxi (陕西) Shuangshipu (双石铺) Peili Industrial School, a work-study school, meaning "training for the dawn," adhering to the educational philosophy of "using both hands and brains, creating and analyzing." This mobile school conveyed the hope of peace. After the school building was bombed by enemy planes, teachers and students pushed carts to transport books and machines; when food was scarce, New Zealand teachers led students to reclaim land and sow "friendship wheat fields."

In 1944, as the Japanese army approached, teachers and students drove camels and spent two months moving the school from Shuangshipu (双石铺), Shaanxi (陕西) to Shandan (山丹), Gansu (甘肃), realizing a "thousand-mile relocation." In Alley's words, "What was being transported was not just equipment, but the torch of human civilization."

During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Peili Industrial School led by Alley became an important hub for the transportation of medical supplies, sending urgently needed supplies such as penicillin and surgical instruments donated by New Zealand to the front lines of the war against Japan. Many touching stories emerged from the school. Once, during a sudden air raid by Japanese planes, a New Zealand teacher rushed into a burning classroom at the risk of his life to rescue teaching instruments. Thick smoke poured out of the window, and people thought he had been killed, but they saw him rush out covered in ashes, holding several microscopes tightly in his arms. "This is the hope of technical education for the children, not one can be lost!"

A group of far-sighted New Zealanders also wrote a legend. In 1939, Margaret Garland (玛格丽特·加兰德) from Wellington (惠灵顿) braved heavy blockades to secretly transport first aid kits to China. As she wrote in her memoirs: When I saw Chinese nurses bandaging wounds with gauze donated by us, I suddenly realized that friendship has nothing to do with race, and kindness will eventually overcome everything.

In the winter of 1939, the Japanese army launched a "mopping-up" operation against the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region (晋察冀边区). In the cliff village of Wutai Mountain (五台山) in Shanxi (山西), New Zealand nurse Kathleen Hall (凯瑟琳·霍尔) risked her life to break through the Japanese blockade and send medicines and radio parts to the Eighth Route Army (八路军) base. She wrote in her diary: Every drop of blood here makes me more determined - we must win, for peace and freedom.

Today, President Xi Jinping (习近平) has put forward the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, which not only inherits and develops the wisdom of the excellent Chinese traditional culture of "the world is one family, the world is the same," but also provides a civilization consensus and inexhaustible power for all mankind to work together with a concept that transcends race and national boundaries. The world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, unilateralism is on the rise, regional conflicts are frequent, the ecological crisis is intensifying, and mankind is once again standing at a crossroads in history. At this critical moment, we must revisit Alley's spiritual legacy, promote his spirit of internationalism, and jointly address global challenges.

From the war-torn years to today's cooperation, the friendship between the people of New Zealand and China vividly interprets the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind. Let us inherit the legacy of our predecessors, push the ship of friendship to a wider distance, and let the light of the community with a shared future for mankind illuminate the sky of civilization.

(The author is the President of the New Zealand China Friendship Society)

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Dong Jun Holds Talks with Cuban Minister of Revolutionary Armed Forces

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 16th (Reporter Mei Changwei (梅常伟)) - Minister of National Defense Dong Jun (董军) held talks in Beijing on the 16th with Chief of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba López (洛佩斯), who was in China to attend the 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum (北京香山论坛).

Dong Jun (董军) said that China and Cuba are a model of socialist countries uniting and cooperating, and developing countries sincerely helping each other. China is willing to work with Cuba to implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two parties and two countries, further strengthen high-level strategic communication, close personnel exchanges, deepen pragmatic cooperation, promote the relations between the two militaries to a new level, and work together to build a China-Cuba community with a shared future.

López (洛佩斯) said that Cuba highly appreciates and fully supports the four major global initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平), and will, as always, consolidate and strengthen the special friendly relations between Cuba and China, and continuously improve the level of cooperation between the two countries and two militaries.

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"Experience China" Inner Mongolia Cultural Week Opens in Mongolia

The 13th "Experience China" Inner Mongolia Cultural Week opening ceremony and the "Continuing China-Mongolia Friendship and Promoting Mutually Beneficial Cooperation and Win-Win Results" comprehensive exhibition was held in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, on September 16, according to a report in this newspaper from Ulaanbaatar on September 16 (Reporters Li Feng (李锋) and Zhang Penghui (张朋辉)). This comprehensive exhibition focuses on friendship and cooperation, and is divided into 7 sections including "Witness to Friendship," "Window to Good Neighborliness," and "The Spirit of the Mongolian Horse". During the Cultural Week, activities such as Chinese film screenings and exchanges and broadcasts of excellent audio-visual works will also be held. Shen Minjuan (沈敏娟), Chinese Ambassador to Mongolia, and others attended the opening ceremony.

The "Experience China" Inner Mongolia Cultural Week series of events is co-sponsored by the Chinese Embassy in Mongolia, the Mongolian Ministry of Culture, Sports, Tourism and Youth, and the Information Office of the People's Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区人民政府新闻办公室). The Cultural Week activities will last until September 19.

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Photo Report

The 2025 Qingdao International Optimist Dinghy Camp and Regatta, the 2025 Qingdao-ASEAN Optimist Dinghy Invitational Tournament, and the 2025 Qingdao International Youth Sailing Competition recently kicked off at the Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center (青岛奥帆中心). The picture shows on September 13, youth athletes from more than 10 countries and regions, including China, Australia, Thailand, and Russia, 乘风破浪 (chéng fēng pò làng - "ride the wind, break the waves," to have great ambition; to forge ahead despite difficulties), engaging in fierce competition.

Photo by Yang Xuemei (杨雪梅) (Image China).

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Experience magnificent landscapes, explore cultural roots

By: 本报记者 马 晨 朱金宜

In September, the main venue activities of the 9th Hebei Province Tourism Industry Development Conference kicked off in Xingtai (邢台), Hebei (河北). Sub-venues in Shijiazhuang (石家庄), Zhangjiakou (张家口), Baoding (保定), and Handan (邯郸) simultaneously linked up, taking the construction of the Taihang Mountain (太行山) cultural tourism belt as a traction to launch a number of activities.

The majestic Taihang Mountains (太行山), spanning Beijing (北京), Hebei (河北), Shanxi (山西), and Henan (河南) provinces (municipalities), stretch for more than 400 kilometers. The Hebei (河北) section of the Taihang Mountains (太行山脉) involves five prefecture-level cities: Zhangjiakou (张家口), Baoding (保定), Shijiazhuang (石家庄), Xingtai (邢台), and Handan (邯郸). It not only possesses unique natural resources, but also records thousands of years of brilliant Chinese civilization. In recent years, Hebei (河北) has integrated the cultural tourism resources along the Taihang Mountains (太行山), enriched its product system, and brought more experiences to tourists. The "business card" of the Taihang Mountain (太行山) cultural tourism belt is becoming increasingly bright.

Appreciating Natural Scenery

Experiencing Beautiful Wonders

In September, walking into the Zhangshiyan (嶂石岩) Scenic Area in Zanhuang County (赞皇县), Shijiazhuang City (石家庄市), tourists can be seen taking photos everywhere. Standing in the mountains and looking into the distance, the three-layered Danxia cliffs stretch for dozens of miles. This is the Zhangshiyan (嶂石岩) landform, known as one of the three major sandstone landforms in China, along with the Danxia (丹霞) landform and the Zhangjiajie (张家界) landform.

"The magic of nature is fully reflected, I can't get enough of it no matter how I look at it!" Tourist Ma Yufeng (马宇峰) exclaimed while pressing the shutter.

Dramatic geological changes have created diverse landforms such as mountains, peaks, forests, and canyons in the Taihang Mountains (太行山脉).

In Xingtai City (邢台市), the peaks, cliffs, gorges, and flowing waterfalls of the Taihang Mountains (太行山) outline a landscape scroll of "majesty, danger, wonder, seclusion, and beauty."

"These rock layers are like a huge 'multi-layered cake,' clearly showing the geological evolution of the Taihang Mountains (太行山) over hundreds of millions of years," a tour guide explained the unique geological structure of the Taihang Mountains (太行山) in the Xingtai Grand Canyon (邢台大峡谷) Scenic Area.

In Laiyuan County (涞源县), Baoding City (保定市), the grayish-white peak forests of Baishi Mountain (白石山) in the Taihang Mountains (太行山脉) rise from the ground, and the marble peak forest landform is unique. In Handan City (邯郸市), Jingniang Lake (京娘湖) at the foot of the Taihang Mountains (太行山) is clear and green, with mountains and rivers depending on each other, and the scenery is beautiful. In Yuxian County (蔚县), Zhangjiakou City (张家口市), the Feihuyu (飞狐峪) · Aerial Grassland (空中草原) Scenic Area, which is more than 2,000 meters above sea level, is covered with green grass. Every summer, wildflowers are everywhere, which is breathtaking... The magnificent scenery of the Taihang Mountains (太行山) is attracting more and more tourists.

Understanding Cultural Imprints

Inheriting Red Genes

Traveling through the Taihang Mountain (太行山) cultural tourism belt, cultural imprints can be seen everywhere. Walking into Yuxian County (蔚县), ancient castles and buildings, national intangible cultural heritage paper-cutting art and other unique charms attract many tourists. In Handan City (邯郸市), strolling through the streets and alleys, it is like being in an ocean of idioms.

The Taihang Mountains (太行山) are also a place with a glorious revolutionary tradition. Hebei (河北) continues to deeply explore red culture and inherit red genes.

In Langya Mountain (狼牙山), Yixian County (易县), Baoding City (保定市), the statue of the Five Heroes of Langya Mountain (狼牙山五壮士) stands tall. "The five heroes stood on the top of Langya Mountain (狼牙山), looking at the direction in which the masses and the main force of the troops were moving away. They looked back at the enemies who were still climbing up, with joy of victory on their faces..." Li Fang (李芳), curator of the Langya Mountain (狼牙山) Five Heroes Memorial Hall, told the familiar story in the Chinese textbook. Visitors stopped to listen, with solemn expressions.

In the former site of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央) in Xibaipo (西柏坡), Shijiazhuang (石家庄), commentator Yan Wenyan (闫文彦) performed the allegro "Red Feelings Xibaipo (红色情怀西柏坡)" for visitors. "The Party Central Committee (党中央) entered Beijing (北京) from here and started the 'exam'!" Visitor Li Shaojun (李少军) listened carefully.

In the green mountains and forests of Qian Nanyu (前南峪), Xingtai City (邢台市), the former site of the Chinese People's Anti-Japanese Military and Political University (中国人民抗日军事政治大学) attracts many tourists. The main school of Kangda (抗大) persisted in running schools behind enemy lines here for two years and three months, and trained a large number of outstanding military and political cadres.

In Chikan Village (赤岸村), Shexian County (涉县), Handan City (邯郸市), a "immersive ideological and political education" is being staged in the Red Memory Town (红色记忆小镇) of the 129th Division Memorial Hall of the Eighth Route Army (八路军一二九师纪念馆) - soldiers of the Eighth Route Army (八路军) are lined up on the training ground, holding guns, aiming, and throwing grenades... "This kind of 'immersive ideological and political education' can allow the audience to have a dialogue with history and empathize with the times, and more deeply understand the connotation of the red spirit," said Wang Xiangzhu (王翔翥), deputy curator of the 129th Division Memorial Hall of the Eighth Route Army (八路军一二九师纪念馆).

Enriching Cultural Tourism Formats

Promoting Industrial Integration

The Taihang Mountains (太行山脉) are not only a magnificent natural barrier, but also a golden corridor to promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.

"Now picking and packaging is just in time to supply the market before the Mid-Autumn Festival." Walking into Gangdi Village (岗底村), Houjiazhuang Township (侯家庄乡), Neiqiu County (内丘县), Xingtai City (邢台市), villager Liu Haiyan (刘海燕) is busy picking apples in the orchard.

Neiqiu County (内丘县) has built a "Taihang Mountain (太行山) Apple Town (苹果小镇)," creating two rural tourism routes with the apple industry as the theme, and setting up 18 apple-themed sightseeing gardens, picking experience points and other rural tourism attractions to promote the integration of agriculture, culture and tourism. In 2024, it has received more than 200,000 tourists.

Hebei (河北) has explored the development potential of rural specialties along the Taihang Mountains (太行山) in accordance with local conditions, extended the industrial chain, and increased added value. A number of characteristic industries such as Huailai (怀来) wine, Baoding (保定) frozen persimmons, and Fuping (阜平) edible fungi have continued to grow.

Driving along the Jingxing (井陉) Taihang Tianlu (太行天路) in Shijiazhuang City (石家庄市), you will enter Yujia Stone Village (于家石头村), a famous Chinese historical and cultural village, where ancient dwellings are built of mountain stones.

"There are more than 4,000 stone houses, more than 3,700 meters of stone streets, and more than 2,000 stone utensils in the village. It is a veritable stone village," said Yu Cuitian (于翠田), a tour guide in the village. In the past, the mountain roads were difficult to travel, and there were few tourists in Stone Village (石头村).

In 2019, the Jingxing (井陉) Taihang Tianlu (太行天路) was fully opened, and this tourist road connects 27 traditional ancient villages along the way, injecting new impetus into the county's economic development. "The village has introduced professional tourism companies, and has also cultivated research and study tours, traditional handicraft experiences, and intangible cultural heritage performances." Yu Cuitian (于翠田) said.

The Taihang Mountain (太行山) Expressway traverses Zhangjiakou (张家口), Baoding (保定), Shijiazhuang (石家庄), Xingtai (邢台), and Handan (邯郸) in Hebei (河北), connecting the Taihang Mountain (太行山) tourism belt. The Jingwei (京蔚) Expressway, which opened at the end of last year, allows tourists along the route to travel from "over the mountains" to "through the mountains."

Laiyuan County (涞源县) is one of the first national-level ski tourism resorts. Every snow season, many ski enthusiasts from Beijing (京), Tianjin (津) and Hebei (冀) gather here. "We have launched a winter tourism project of 'climbing Baishi Mountain (白石山) + soaking in hot springs + skiing' to continue to attract tourists to the Taihang Mountains (太行山) in winter," said Shang Liyong (尚立勇), director of the Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau of Laiyuan County (涞源县文化广电和旅游局).

"Hebei (河北) integrates cultural and tourism resources, expands the integration of tourism with agriculture, commerce, trade, education, sports and other industries, and promotes the upgrading of Taihang Mountain (太行山) tourism from 'sightseeing and check-in' to 'deep experience + industrial integration + brand value-added' full value chain," said Wang Rongli (王荣丽), deputy director of the Hebei Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism (河北省文化和旅游厅).

The ancient Taihang Mountains (太行山脉) are radiating more brilliant brilliance.

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2025 "Belt and Road" Media Cooperation Forum Held

This newspaper Kunming (昆明) September 16th (Reporters Cao Shulin (曹树林) and Wang Yulin (王玉琳)) The 2025 "Belt and Road" Media Cooperation Forum was held on September 16th in Kunming City (昆明市), Yunnan Province (云南省). Zheng Jianbang (郑建邦), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech.

The participating guests stated that since President Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed the major initiative of jointly building the "Belt and Road" in 2013, the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" has yielded fruitful results. Not long ago, President Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed a global governance initiative at the "Shanghai Cooperation Organization +" meeting, opening up new and greater development space for the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road".

The participating guests believe that media from various countries should further deepen cooperation, act as practitioners and promoters of the Silk Road spirit, and actively disseminate a view of civilization based on equality, mutual learning, dialogue, and inclusiveness; act as recorders and narrators of development achievements, continue to report in depth on the vivid practice of jointly building the "Belt and Road", and widely gather positive energy for cooperation and mutual benefit; act as participants and promoters of mutual learning among civilizations, use high-quality news works to enhance understanding, break down barriers, and build consensus, so that the foundation for building a community with a shared future for mankind will be more solid.

The forum was co-sponsored by the People's Daily (人民日报社), the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共云南省委), and the People's Government of Yunnan Province (云南省人民政府), with the theme of "Sharing Media Responsibility and Promoting Mutual Learning Among Civilizations." More than 200 foreign representatives from 87 countries, international and regional organizations, and 165 media outlets and institutions attended the meeting.

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Another vivid practice of Macao's high-quality democracy

By: 富子梅

On September 15th, the results of the 8th Legislative Assembly election of the Macao Special Administrative Region (澳门特别行政区) were announced, successfully electing 14 directly elected members and 12 indirectly elected members. This election was the first practice after the Macao Special Administrative Region (澳门特区) revised the Legislative Assembly Election Law last year, and it is another vivid practice of the Macao Special Administrative Region (澳门特区) fully implementing the principle of "patriots governing Macao" and promoting high-quality democracy in line with Macao's reality.

The Macao Special Administrative Region (澳门特区) comprehensively and accurately implements the "One Country, Two Systems" policy, firmly believes in the institutional confidence of the successful practice of "One Country, Two Systems" with Macao characteristics, and resolutely safeguards the constitutional order of the Macao Special Administrative Region (澳门特区) jointly established by the Constitution and the Macao Basic Law. In 2024, the Macao Special Administrative Region (澳门特区) amended the Legislative Assembly Election Law, improved and perfected the qualification standards and review mechanism for candidates for the Legislative Assembly, further implemented the principle of "patriots governing Macao" in the legal system, and optimized the procedures of each link of the election to ensure that the election is fair, just, open, and honest.

Under the solid institutional guarantee, this election fully demonstrates the healthy, positive, lively atmosphere and spirit of unity and harmony of high-quality democracy in line with Macao's reality. The majority of voters actively participated in the voting, and their democratic rights were fully exercised. Public officials took the lead in fulfilling their civic obligations and generally voted; major community organizations and enterprises earnestly assumed social responsibilities and supported their personnel to actively vote; the majority of voters seriously and conscientiously participated in the election with the spirit of being masters of their own affairs and cast their sacred votes... The society has a wide range of participation, voters have high enthusiasm for voting, and the democratic atmosphere is strong. This is the most authentic portrayal of Macao residents being masters of their own affairs, and it is a vivid reflection of Macao embarking on a new journey of governing according to law and democratic development on a new starting point.

From an overall perspective, the newly elected members of the Legislative Assembly are both virtuous and talented, have their own expertise, come from diverse backgrounds, and have a reasonable structure. Their comprehensive quality is very high and they are widely recognized by Macao society. In the election, the participating groups and candidates fully invested themselves, actively campaigned, deeply contacted voters, and widely listened to public opinion, comparing political programs, abilities, and images, carrying out healthy competition, and showing a new look of loving the country and Macao, and competing for talent and ability. People are pleased to see that many outstanding talents, especially young talents, with firm positions, strong abilities, and good images have emerged in this election. The elected members are all firm patriots, determined to serve the society, and have the ability to take on responsibilities; the overall structure of the members has been optimized, realizing the succession of the old and the new.

In the more than 25 years since Macao's return to the motherland, with the strong support of the central government and the mainland, the SAR government and all sectors of society have continued to work hard, and the practice of "One Country, Two Systems" with Macao characteristics has achieved world-renowned achievements, and all undertakings in Macao have made comprehensive progress. At present, the Chinese nation is moving towards the great rejuvenation with an unstoppable pace, and Macao has ushered in the best period of development. Standing at a new starting point, facing new situations, new opportunities, and new challenges, the new members of the Legislative Assembly have a glorious mission and heavy responsibilities.

We believe that the new members of the Legislative Assembly will be able to uphold their original aspiration of loving the country and Macao, consciously and firmly safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests, safeguard the constitutional order and executive-led system of the SAR, fully support the Chief Executive and the SAR government in administering according to law, and make due contributions to the successful and stable practice of "One Country, Two Systems" with Macao characteristics, and to comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization!

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Photo Report

On September 16, 2025, the first Lugu Lake Mountain and Lake Pilgrimage Festival of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture (凉山彝族自治州), Sichuan Province (四川省), opened. The mountain and lake pilgrimage is an important folk custom of the Mosuo people (摩梭人) living near Lugu Lake (泸沽湖). Starting this year, Liangshan Prefecture (凉山州) will officially designate the 25th day of the seventh lunar month each year as the "Lugu Lake Mountain and Lake Pilgrimage Festival" and include it in the local statutory holidays.

The picture shows local people boating from Luowa North Wharf (洛洼北码头) on Lugu Lake (泸沽湖) to begin the lake pilgrimage.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Jiang Hongjing (江宏景) photographed.

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"Always a heroic force that the Party and the people can fully trust."

By: 本报记者 金正波 李龙伊

On September 3rd, a grand gathering commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War was solemnly held in Beijing (北京), the capital. The glorious People's Army honorably accepted the review of 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, and accepted the review of the Party and the people.

"The Chinese People's Liberation Army is always a heroic force that the Party and the people can completely trust." On the Tiananmen Rostrum (天安门城楼), President Xi's voice was firm and powerful, penetrating time and space. On Chang'an Avenue (长安街), the steel Great Wall formations of the Republic stood like mountains, with a momentum like a rainbow.

As the parade began, bugles urged the advance. The majestic "March of the Chinese People's Liberation Army" resounded through the sky, with the Party flag, national flag, and military flag reflecting each other. "Salute!" At the command, the officers and soldiers under review paid their highest respects to President Xi with military salutes.

This was the first military parade since comprehensively advancing Chinese-style modernization into a new journey, and a brand-new appearance of the People's Army striving to build a century-strong army.

Crossing thousands of mountains and rivers, and traversing long and arduous passes, from the first shot fired at Nanchang (南昌), to striding forward on the new journey of strengthening the army, the spirit tempered by the People's Army in the flames of war has never dimmed, and the bugle call to defend the country has never ceased.

With a journey of thousands of miles, the original aspiration remains as firm as a rock. The People's Army led by the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) will always be the defender of the country, the defender of socialism, and the defender of the interests of the people.

A strong country must have a strong military, and a strong military can ensure national security.

This was a touching scene from the commemorative gala for the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War:

"Do we have our own planes now? Do they still dare to come?"

"They dare not anymore, no one dares! Now, the Chinese sky, the Chinese land, and the Chinese sea are all decided by us Chinese!"

A dialogue spanning time and space stirred up historical confidence in the inevitable victory of justice and imprinted the People's Army's efforts to strengthen itself.

This is the People's Army's firm safeguarding of national sovereignty, security, and development interests:

"I am the Air Force of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. You have entered the control zone of the Chinese Air Force. Please leave immediately!" "I am Chinese Navy Ship 101. Please maintain a safe distance from me."

Entering the new era, whether in the vast depths of the ocean or in the boundless expanse of the sky, the People's Army is advancing bravely towards victory with stronger capabilities and more reliable means.

History moves forward through trials, and the era is written in struggle.

In December 2012, during his first inspection trip away from Beijing (北京) after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, President Xi pointed out clearly: "Realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the greatest dream of the Chinese nation since modern times. It can be said that this dream is a dream of a strong country, and for the military, it is also a dream of a strong army."

This significant judgment contains profound historical and realistic logic.

Looking back at modern China, the country was humiliated, the people suffered, and civilization was tarnished. Starting with the Opium War, Western powers used their strong ships and powerful guns to blast open China's door. From that time on, the great powers forced the old China to sign more than 750 unequal treaties. Ceding land and paying indemnities—each stroke was a scar on the nation's dignity.

President Xi repeatedly mentioned the "heart-wrenching pain" of modern Chinese history: "Once military backwardness is formed, the impact on national security will be fatal. I often look at some historical materials from modern China, and I feel heartbroken whenever I see the tragic scenes of being backward and vulnerable to attack!"

The wheels of history roll forward, and one truth runs through it all:

A strong country must have a strong military, and a strong military can ensure national security.

Currently, the new military revolution in the world is unprecedented in its speed, scope, and depth. Great opportunities and great changes are rare. Failure to seize them may mean missing an entire era.

Faced with the risks and challenges on the road ahead, without a strong People's Army, it would be impossible to realize the Party's will and propositions, and there would be no support for rise or guarantee for rejuvenation.

"The entire army must fully recognize the new situation and new challenges facing our country's security and development, fully recognize the important position and role of national defense and military construction, and consciously shoulder the major responsibility of safeguarding national sovereignty, security, and development interests."

These earnest exhortations reflect a far-sighted strategic vision that grasps the overall trend and focuses on the overall situation.

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, focusing on realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, has led the entire army to deeply promote political building of the military, strengthening the military through reform, strengthening the military through science and technology, strengthening the military through talent, and governing the military according to law, comprehensively strengthening military training and preparedness. The People's Army has maintained its roots and soul, embarked on a path of rapid development, and won the initiative to move towards becoming a world-class military.

Navigating the strengthening of the army, serving as a mainstay. Grasping the era's requirements for a strong country and a strong military, innovating the Party's military guidance theory in keeping with the times, forming Xi Jinping's thought on strengthening the military and continuously enriching and developing it, leading the People's Army to continue writing new chapters on the path of strengthening the military with Chinese characteristics. The most fundamental reason for the historic achievements and historic changes in the cause of strengthening the military in the new era is President Xi Jinping's leadership and the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping's thought on strengthening the military.

Sweeping reforms, eliminating malpractices and promoting innovation. Comprehensively implementing the strategy of strengthening the military through reform, continuously deepening the reform of national defense and the military, achieving historic changes in the leadership and command system, profoundly reshaping the size, structure, and composition of the military, comprehensively promoting the reform of military policies and institutions, the People's Army has achieved an overall revolutionary reshaping, with a new system, a new structure, a new pattern, and a new outlook.

Daring to struggle, daring to win. The entire army has firmly and flexibly carried out military struggles, resolutely fulfilled its missions and tasks in the new era, and resolutely safeguarded national sovereignty, security, and development interests with firm will, flexible strategies and tactics, and powerful military actions, actively and proactively opening up a new pattern of military struggle.

Stepping forward to the future, the People's Army has a more determined ideological guidance, a more vigorous spiritual outlook, and a stronger foundation for struggle.

The military soul will never change, and the military flag will always follow the Party.

"Hello, comrades!" "Hello, Chairman!"

"Comrades, you've worked hard!" "Serve the people!"

On the parade ground, the commander's cordial greetings were full of care, and the soldiers' loud responses were engraved with loyalty.

On Chang'an Avenue (长安街), flags fluttered in the wind. The August 1st Army Flag, the flags of the military services, the flags of the arms of service, and the flag of the People's Armed Police Force made their first collective appearance on the parade ground.

The military soul will never change, and the military flag will always follow the Party. The red background of the flag, with a golden five-pointed star and the characters "八一" ("August 1st"), fully demonstrates the Party's absolute leadership over the People's Army and vividly reflects the People's Army's consistent high degree of centralization and unity, advancing in unison.

Faith forges the military soul, and the flag guides the journey.

Coming from the smoke of war, thousands upon thousands of revolutionary soldiers have unswervingly listened to the Party and followed the Party, rising up more vigorously in setbacks and advancing bravely in difficulties. Riding on the great trend of history, the People's Army has always strived to strengthen the army under the guidance of the Party flag, striding forward to a new journey.

Looking back at the magnificent and arduous journey, President Xi said earnestly: "Adhering to the Party's command of the gun and building our own people's army is an **颠扑不破** (diān pū bù pò - "unbreakable," refers to a truth that cannot be overturned) truth that the Party has drawn from the struggle of blood and fire."

"The Party branch is an iron fist, and the Party members are all sharp knives." Faced with the complete replacement of main battle equipment, the Party branch of the "Red First Company" of a certain brigade of the 83rd Group Army of the Army proposed "Mastering new equipment, the Party committee members should be vanguards."

During the "Sanwan Reorganization" in 1927, the "Red First Company" established a Party branch, pioneering the precedent of "building Party branches at the company level" in our army. "Building Party branches at the company level" ensures that the Party's absolute leadership over the People's Army takes root at the grassroots level. After more than ninety years of accumulation, the political gene of listening to the Party and following the Party has been deeply integrated into the blood of revolutionary soldiers.

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 insisted on placing the strengthening of the Party's leadership and Party building in our army in the context of advancing the Party's new great project of Party building, and planning it in the historical process of advancing the construction of a strong country and the rejuvenation of the nation.

The People's Army implements the new era's strategy of building the military politically, promotes the spirit of thorough self-revolution, continuously deepens political rectification, forges strong Party organizations with political firmness and outstanding capabilities, and forges a high-quality cadre team that is loyal, clean, responsible, and capable of shouldering the heavy responsibility of strengthening the army, providing a strong political guarantee for the cause of strengthening the army.

Gutian (古田), Fujian (福建), the site of the Gutian Conference (古田会议) with its white walls and blue tiles is solemn and simple, and the eight large characters "The Gutian Conference will shine forever" are dazzling.

Looking back at the source, drawing wisdom and nourishment; facing the future, thinking about mission and responsibility. In 2014, the All-Army Political Work Conference was held in Gutian (古田). Here, it witnessed the profound reflection of the People's Army on "where it comes from and where it is going."

"Revolutionary political work is the lifeline of a revolutionary army." President Xi's important instructions provide guidance for strengthening and improving the political work of the People's Army in the new era.

At the foot of Baota Mountain (宝塔山), on the banks of the Yan River (延河), Yan'an (延安), the revolutionary holy land, is full of vitality. On June 17, 2024, President Xi led the members of the Central Military Commission and the main responsible comrades of various departments and units to visit the Wangjiaping Revolutionary Site (王家坪革命旧址).

President Xi pointed out: "Senior cadres of the entire army must keep in mind their original aspirations and missions, take the lead in promoting the Yan'an Spirit, take the lead in strengthening revolutionary forging, shoulder the historical responsibility entrusted by the Party and the people, unite and lead the vast number of officers and soldiers to fight well in the tough battle to achieve the centennial goal of army building, and continuously advance the cause of strengthening the army."

"History often becomes clearer after the passage of time." From holding the All-Army Political Work Conference in Gutian (古田) to holding the Central Military Commission Political Work Conference in Yan'an (延安), the People's Army more consciously and strictly rectifies its ideology, rectifies its personnel, rectifies its organization, rectifies its work style, and rectifies its discipline, **挽住云河洗天青** (wǎn zhù yún hé xǐ tiān qīng - "hold back the Milky Way to wash the sky blue," to turn the tide and rectify the situation).

The great waves wash away the sand, and the true gold does not perish; the wind and rain wash away the dust, and the red flag is even more vibrant.

In the new era, the People's Army engraves its red loyalty in its bones and writes it in its actions: in disaster relief, the soldiers of the people bravely step forward, protecting lives with their lives; in international peacekeeping, the soldiers of the people go to foreign lands, conveying peace with their responsibility; in all-domain operations, the soldiers of the people break through traditional battlefields, winning in the electromagnetic sky and the digital battlefield...

Where the Party flag points, the military's heart follows. Taking the Party's flag as its flag, the Party's direction as its direction, and the Party's will as its will, the officers and soldiers effectively fulfill their missions and tasks, and hand in a new era's answer sheet for strengthening the army.

Always a fighting force, its vitality lies in its combat effectiveness.

Invited to watch the ceremony on the Tiananmen Rostrum (天安门城楼), Liu Shiyue (刘世钺), a veteran of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in his nineties, was filled with emotion. Every formation (梯) team that passed by, he solemnly saluted. The steel division marching in high spirits, and his comrades who fought the strong enemy with unyielding spirit in those years, converged in his mind.

"In those days, we fought against the Japanese invaders for the survival of the nation. How many comrades fell one after another, shedding their blood on the battlefield." Liu Shiyue's (刘世钺) voice was firm and powerful, "Now, the country's military strength is even stronger, and I believe that the enemy will not dare to invade!"

The People's Army is always a fighting force, and the People's Army's vitality lies in its combat effectiveness. "Being able to fight can stop war, preparing to fight may make it unnecessary to fight, and the more unable to fight, the more likely to be beaten." The dialectic of war and peace is never out of date.

At the beginning of his tenure as Chairman of the Central Military Commission, President Xi's words were deafening: "What I think about most is, when the Party and the people need us, can our army always adhere to the Party's absolute leadership, can it be pulled up and win battles, and can commanders at all levels lead troops to fight and command battles."

These three "cans" are the questions of victory that the People's Army's combat effectiveness building must answer.

The core of strengthening the army is being able to fight and win battles; the "strength" of strengthening the army is ultimately the strength of combat effectiveness. "Focus all thoughts on fighting, use all efforts for fighting, and ensure that when the Party and the people need us, we can be pulled out, go up, and win." This is a profound warning from history, and it is also a call to improve the ability to win.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, President Xi has led the convening of the Central Military Commission's military work conference, the Central Military Commission's military training conference, etc., to promote the establishment of the new era's military strategic thought, the establishment of the new era's military strategic policy, the establishment of the command baton for preparing for war and fighting, and the establishment of the responsibility for grasping war preparedness and fighting.

Focusing on war preparedness and fighting, the orientation of actual combat is more distinct:

The sky is high and the clouds are wide, and the waves are vast. The Shandong Ship (山东舰) is like a unsheathed sharp sword, cutting through the boundless blue sea.

"Foreign aircraft approaching!" Suddenly, a burst of urgent alarms sounded. In just a few minutes, the carrier-based aircraft accurately completed taxiing, stopping, afterburner, and other actions, and one warplane after another roared into the air, piercing the sky. In far-sea actual combat training, officers and soldiers actively explored the actual combat application of formation combat elements and forces, effectively improving the carrier formation's system combat capabilities.

This is a microcosm of the People's Army closely following the changes in technology, the changes in war, and the changes in opponents, and vigorously promoting the coupling of war and training, system training, and technology training.

In the new era, all levels of the entire army resolutely implement President Xi's important decisions and instructions on war preparedness and fighting, insist on taking war preparedness and fighting as the primary task, resolutely return the focus of work to war preparedness and fighting, and clearly establish the public opinion orientation, work orientation, personnel orientation, and policy orientation of everything for improving combat effectiveness.

The equipment of major national weapons makes the confidence in winning even more abundant:

Looking back at the 1950s and 1960s, in order to break the nuclear monopoly of the great powers, we overcame all difficulties and resolutely promoted the "Two Bombs, One Satellite" project; looking at today, the east wind is mighty and shakes the world, and the "Dongfeng-5C" liquid intercontinental strategic nuclear missile makes a shocking appearance, using force to stop war and stabilize the world.

"The bleak autumn wind is here again, but the world has changed." Decades of light and shadow overlap, illuminating the path of strengthening the army with Chinese characteristics.

From "no guns, no cannons, the enemy made them for us" during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, to "not enough planes, so fly them twice" at the founding ceremony, to today's "long tassel in hand, dare to bind the blue dragon," the People's Army closely follows the development pace of the Party and the people's cause, and its level of revolutionization, modernization, and regularization is constantly improving, and its deterrence and actual combat capabilities are constantly enhanced.

From weak to strong, we once used "more spirit with less steel" to overcome "more steel with less spirit." Today, looking at the training grounds of the entire army, the People's Army has more steel and more spirit, and its bones are harder!

"Stepping on the land of the motherland, bearing the hope of the nation, we are an invincible force..." The loud military song was once a tragic cry of a suffering nation, and now it has become a heroic declaration of daring to fight and win.

The People's Army loves the people, and the people love the People's Army.

"Don't deceive China for lacking courage, millions of soldiers under the mother's knees!"

On September 3rd, in the Great Hall of the People (人民大会堂), in the situational drama "The Eternal Designation," the villagers of Liulaozhuang (刘老庄) sent their children to the battlefield with tears, replenishing the "Liulaozhuang Company" with all its members. The sonorous oath was soul-stirring.

This is the inheritance of faith, a symphony of history and reality—the People's Army loves the people, and the people love the People's Army.

82 years ago, in order to protect the people, 82 officers and soldiers of the "Liulaozhuang Company" fought to the death with the Japanese army. The warriors fought to the last breath with bayonets, rifle butts, shovels, and even their teeth. No one surrendered, and no one survived.

Yang Jingyu (杨靖宇), Zhao Shangzhi (赵尚志), Zuo Quan (左权), Peng Xuefeng (彭雪枫), the "Five Heroes of Langya Mountain (狼牙山五壮士)", the eight female soldiers of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army... They are the epitome of thousands upon thousands of revolutionary soldiers fighting the strong enemy with unyielding spirit and building a great wall with their flesh and blood. In order to protect the country, in order to defend justice, in order to protect the people, they were willing to shed their blood to nourish China.

Without a people's army, there would be nothing for the people.

President Xi pointed out profoundly: "The Chinese nation's escape from suffering and the Chinese people's realization of liberation depend on a heroic people's army; the Chinese nation's realization of great rejuvenation and the Chinese people's realization of a better life must accelerate the building of the People's Army into a world-class army."
From suffering to glory, the People's Army always keeps its mission and responsibility in mind, deeply understanding "who I am," "for whom," and "who I rely on."

From the Land Revolution War "arousing millions of workers and peasants to work together," to the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression "trapping the enemy in the overwhelming ocean of destruction"; from the Liberation War "a tide of small carts and stretcher teams," to the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea "the whole country is willing to devote its material and financial resources"... History tells us that the people are the foundation of victory, and the roots of the People's Army are deeply rooted in the vast land of the people.

The two characters "人民" (rén mín - people) carry immense weight. In the new era, the People's Army maintains its true colors and adheres to its original aspiration of serving the people.

The original aspiration is written on the battlefield of defending the country—

That year, Chen Xiangrong (陈祥榕), less than 19 years old, heroically sacrificed himself to defend the territory. When the troops came to express their condolences, Chen Xiangrong's (陈祥榕) mother said, "I just want to know, was my son brave when he was fighting?" Hotan (和田), Xinjiang (新疆), the "Road of Asking About Courage" was named after this.

"Pure love, only for China," was the battle slogan left by Chen Xiangrong (陈祥榕) before his death. 疾风知劲草 (jí fēng zhī jìng cǎo - "strong wind knows strong grass," only the strong survive severe tests). No matter when or where, for the sake of the Party and the people, the choice of Chinese soldiers is always firm, and the courage of Chinese soldiers is always beyond doubt.

The original aspiration is written in the actions of protecting the people—

This summer, Beijing (北京) continued to experience heavy rainfall, causing floods and geological disasters. The soldiers marched towards the danger and devoted themselves to rescue.

Soldier Wan Cong (万聪) just turned 18 this year. Before joining the army, he only felt moved when he saw the soldiers charging in reverse. Now, when he rushes to the front line of disaster relief, he truly understands the responsibility of a soldier, "Protecting the lives and property of the people is our unshirkable responsibility!"

When an earthquake strikes, when floods come, when mountain fires spread... the soldiers stand together with the people through thick and thin, united as one. They prove with their actions that the purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly is a vow engraved in their hearts, a practice of risking life and death.

"The military and local authorities should cooperate closely, consolidate and develop the rock-solid unity between the government, the military, and the people, and jointly continue to write a new chapter of the era of loving our people and loving our army." The earnest exhortation reflects the army commander's sincere expectations for the people's soldiers and contains the people's leader's sincere feelings for the people.

"Love our people and love our army"—this is an enlightenment from the depths of history, and it is also the People's Army's forever unchanging original aspiration.

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This is a long march full of glory and dreams—

In 2027, the goal of the centenary of the founding of the army will be achieved; in 2035, socialist modernization will be basically realized, and the modernization of national defense and the army will be basically realized; by the middle of this century, a strong socialist modern country will be fully built, and a world-class army will be fully built. Strengthening the army and revitalizing the military, the blueprint has been drawn.

The journey is long, enduring wind and rain; striving to strengthen the army, seizing every minute and second.

Always be a heroic force that the Party and the people can completely trust, all officers and soldiers are firm in their beliefs and their vows are sonorous—

We have the confidence and ability to safeguard national sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity, we have the confidence and ability to provide strategic support for the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and we have the confidence and ability to make greater contributions to world peace and development!

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Page One Editors: Yang Xu, Zhang Shuaizhen, Zhao Zheng; Page Two Editors: Yin Xinyu, Qi Jiarun, Guo Xueyan; Page Three Editors: Han Xiaoming, Zhou Zhou, Li Anqi; Page Four Editors: Hu Anqi, Yang Shuobi, Chen Zhen

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Weaving a Dense Innovation Ecosystem with Innovation Clusters (Commentary)

Interviewees:

Li Zheng (李拯), *People's Daily* commentator

Wang Sen (王森), *Shenzhen Special Zone Daily* commentator

Li Zheng (李拯): General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has given the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area the strategic positioning of "building an international science and technology innovation center." Recently, the World Intellectual Property Organization released the "Global Innovation Index 2025" in Hong Kong, with the "Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou" innovation cluster ranking first for the first time. Why is the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area able to stand out?

Wang Sen (王森): A robot's "hand" can grab balloons without popping them and potato chips without breaking them. This research and development achievement from Hong Kong crossed the Shenzhen River (深圳河) and achieved industrialization in Shenzhen (深圳). The world's first new drug against influenza A (H1N1), PB2, was approved for marketing, originating from the joint efforts of national laboratories, research institutions, and enterprises in Guangzhou (广州). On this hotbed of innovation, market-oriented approaches connect laboratories with production lines, large enterprises with small enterprises, regions with regions, and domestic with international... An efficient and collaborative full-chain innovation ecosystem is the core competitiveness of the Greater Bay Area.

Li Zheng (李拯): "Discussing cooperation in Hong Kong in the morning, handling business in Hengqin (横琴) in the afternoon, and returning to Macao (澳门) in the evening" is a common depiction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao one-day living circle in many reports, and also a vivid embodiment of collaborative innovation.

Wang Sen (王森): Indeed, cross-regional, cross-market, and cross-industry efficient collaboration has sparked the innovation advantages of the Greater Bay Area. "Central-local collaboration" sees two national laboratories and a group of national key laboratories playing a leading role; "regional collaboration" sees major cooperation platforms such as Hengqin (横琴), Qianhai (前海), Nansha (南沙), and Hetao (河套) "using points to drive the whole area," making the best use of domestic and foreign talents, capital, and technology, and ensuring their smooth flow; "four-chain collaboration" sees industry alliances breaking down the boundaries between enterprises, institutions, and disciplines, making collaboration more efficient.

Li Zheng (李拯): In this year's ranking, the "Tokyo-Yokohama" cluster and the American "San Jose-San Francisco" cluster ranked second and third respectively. Compared with other innovation clusters in the world, how can the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area maintain its unique advantages in the face of reverse globalization and technological containment?

Wang Sen (王森): "One country, two systems, three customs territories," the "difference in systems" is transformed into "system advantages," which is a unique advantage of the Greater Bay Area. Looking at financial empowerment, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (港交所) and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (深交所) work hand in hand with industrial chain enterprises, and the "technology + capital" closed loop encourages countless fantastic ideas. Looking at the innovation ecosystem, many parks in the Greater Bay Area have realized "the floors above and below are the upstream and downstream, the neighbors on the left and right are the industrial chain, and the industrial park is the ecosystem," and creative ideas can be turned into real products at the fastest speed. The humanoid robot "Sino-Sci Pangu (南科盘古)" took only 10 months from laboratory drawings to the landing of the whole machine. In addition, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Application Scenario Innovation Center (Qianhai) (粤港澳大湾区应用场景创新中心（前海）) was officially launched this year, which can provide rich scenarios for innovation landing and promote faster landing, promotion, and iteration of technological innovation.

Li Zheng (李拯): China has a total of 24 innovation clusters in the top 100, ranking first in the world in terms of quantity. With the increasing formation of a unified national market, every innovation cluster should jump out of itself and focus on the whole country to release innovation potential. How can the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area play its own characteristics in the "national chessboard"?

Wang Sen (王森): The Yangtze River Delta and the Greater Bay Area have strong complementarity in industrial structure. Wuxi (无锡), Jiangsu (江苏) promotes the transformation of original scientific research results from the Greater Bay Area in Wuxi Taihu Bay (无锡太湖湾) by setting up a "science and technology innovation fly zone" in the Greater Bay Area. For another example, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has the strongest basic scientific research capabilities in the country. In recent years, many universities and scientific research institutes have moved south to set up research institutions in the Greater Bay Area, injecting talent into the Greater Bay Area's technological innovation. Adapting to local conditions and developing in a differentiated manner, each innovation cluster is supporting a more active innovative China in collaborative cooperation.

Li Zheng (李拯): Shenzhen (深圳) is a pilot demonstration zone of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Last year, Shenzhen's total social R&D investment was 223.661 billion yuan, an increase of 18.9%, maintaining double-digit growth for nine consecutive years. As a world-renowned "city of innovation," how can Shenzhen (深圳) continue to play a leading role in scientific and technological innovation?

Wang Sen (王森): Shenzhen (深圳) shoulders the important responsibility of being the core engine of the Greater Bay Area's international science and technology innovation center and the main battlefield of the comprehensive national science center. There are three key words. The first is "reform." Shenzhen (深圳) was born and prospered because of reform, and will continue to take the lead in reforming scientific research achievement transformation, the combination of science and technology finance, and talent policies, so that enterprises can grow into forests and innovation can surge like a tide. The second is "platform." Taking Guangming Science City (光明科学城), Hetao (河套) and other platforms as carriers, we will improve the entire process innovation ecosystem of "basic research + technology tackling + achievement industrialization + technology finance + talent support." The last is "opening up." Actively integrate into the global innovation network, attract world-class scientific research talents and capital, and accelerate the creation of a science and technology innovation center with global influence.

Li Zheng (李拯): Paying attention to the synergy and integration between regions and industries, paying attention to the construction of an innovation ecosystem, paying attention to the leverage of science and technology finance, and paying attention to mobilizing resources and elements based on the whole country and looking at the world, the methodology of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in promoting scientific and technological innovation has universal enlightening significance. From the national level, the active innovation clusters such as Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao, the Yangtze River Delta, and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei are forming innovation highlands while jointly weaving a larger-scale national innovation ecology. When a strong power engine drives more power engines, and when a strong innovation center continues to expand its radiation range, it will inject a continuous stream of innovative vitality into the entire China's development of new quality productive forces and the realization of high-quality development.

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Effective communication is true wisdom, skillful communication is true ability (People's Daily Commentary)

By: 刘少华

Communication is for solving problems. Good communication finds solutions in a tangled mess, finds breakthrough opportunities in disputes, and builds consensus among all parties after conflicts arise.

These two paragraphs have been widely discussed on social media platforms.

A netizen in Haining City (海宁市), Zhejiang (浙江) Province, shared a text message from the traffic police, saying "Thumbs up for you," because she slowed down in advance when driving to a zebra crossing. The text message said, "Thank you for consciously abiding by traffic regulations and driving safely and civilly."

There is also a video in Jinhua City (金华市), Zhejiang (浙江) Province, where a truck driver was stopped for inspection. The traffic police's words convinced and moved the driver: "I only focus on the key points, which is everyone's safety, one is the safety of driving, and the other is the safety of other vehicles and people on the road." After pointing out the violations, the traffic police conducted safety education and handled the driver in accordance with laws and regulations. Although the incident happened last year, it has continued to be forwarded on the platform.

These two things have a common feature, that is, law enforcers are good at communication.

Understanding communication is true wisdom. In social governance, communication acts as a lubricant and adhesive. At present, with the support of technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence, governance is more intelligent, but no matter how far technology develops, the role of communication cannot be ignored. Faced with complex governance issues, algorithms cannot replace explanation, and software cannot replace listening. Taking public transportation as an example, with the increase in the number of cameras in cities and the improvement of intelligence levels, traffic violations are easier to detect and remote law enforcement can be achieved, but safety education, traffic guidance, etc., still cannot be separated from the participation of law enforcement personnel. Establishing mutual trust through good communication can effectively build consensus, avoid conflicts and disputes, and thus better solve problems.

Being good at communication is a true skill. Communication has warmth, and cold and heat are reflected in the details. When communicating with the masses, a simple "Is it okay?" "Thank you" is much better than harsh words. There is no shortcut in social governance work. Only by treating each other with sincerity can we get sincere support. The reason why these two paragraphs can resonate with netizens is that law enforcers are good at putting themselves in others' shoes and considering problems from the perspective of the masses. "Sitting firmly on the side of the people" speaks to reason and uses emotion, making such communication more effective and easier to understand and support.

A good attitude is the foundation, and speaking professionally is the method. Today's social governance is complex and refined, which puts higher demands on the professional qualities of governors. In Dalu Village (大鲁村), Shuzhuang Town (舒庄镇), Jieshou City (界首市), Anhui (安徽) Province, two villagers quarreled over the missing boundary markers of contracted land. "Each said they were right," and mediation was unsuccessful several times. The local village working team visited and checked the archives, and contacted legal professionals to participate in the mediation. Finally, they found the old boundary records and explained the legal provisions in detail, which convinced both parties, and the dispute was resolved. This also inspires us to continuously absorb professional knowledge and cultivate a professional attitude in order to better handle professional matters.

Communication is for solving problems. Good communication finds solutions in a tangled mess, finds breakthrough opportunities in disputes, and builds consensus among all parties after conflicts arise. For example, optimizing the business environment and having a "breakfast meeting" with entrepreneurs can help identify problems and find bottlenecks; promoting garbage classification and experiencing it in the streets can reveal areas that need improvement; solving the "difficulty in seeing a doctor" and understanding the situation of patients on the ground can reveal what the masses expect... Going to the problem and revolving around the problem can make communication the starting point for solving the problem, and make the process of solving the problem a process of improving the people's sense of gain.

Social governance is often complex and multifaceted, and the key is to understand and be good at communication, so as to build the largest common denominator. Standing firm on the people's position, improving professional qualities, adhering to problem orientation, and doing a good job in pre- and post-event communication are inevitable requirements for improving the level and effectiveness of social governance, and also inevitable requirements for doing work to the hearts of the people.

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Work hard, but more importantly, work scientifically (On-the-spot Commentary: A New Look for the Snowy Plateau)

By: 徐驭尧

In the southeastern corner of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Motuo County (墨脱县), Tibet (西藏), is known as the "Plateau Isolated Island" due to the long-term lack of road access. Two time points mark the tremendous changes here.

In 2013, the Zhamo Highway (扎墨公路) opened, and Motuo (墨脱) shed its label as "the only county in the country without road access." This meant that local logistics and transportation became more convenient and smooth. In the past, when people placed orders online, it would take half a month or even longer for the goods to arrive home, but now it has been shortened to a few days. E-commerce is gradually integrating into life, changing the consumption patterns of more and more farmers and herdsmen, and also improving their sense of happiness.

In 2025, relevant enterprises joined hands with logistics companies to carry out multi-scenario flight tests and tests of low-altitude applications such as agricultural and sideline product transportation and automatic forest patrol in Motuo (墨脱). This means that the "Plateau Isolated Island" is more open, new technologies such as drones and new business forms such as the low-altitude economy are booming, and the development space is widened.

The snowy plateau has harsh conditions, but it can continue to be renewed thanks to "working hard and working more scientifically."

Not afraid of harsh conditions, but afraid of spiritual slackness. People often say that Tibet (西藏) is a place where there is a lack of oxygen but not faith. As a road maintenance worker, Laba Ciren (拉巴次仁) fought at Puma Jiangtang (普玛江塘) at an altitude of 5,373 meters. In this place where ordinary people pant with a slight movement, he needs to operate various equipment and repair roads. As one of the earliest people in Shannan City (山南市) to carry out afforestation, Bian Jiu (边久) used decades of time to let the small saplings he guarded grow into lush trees. Hard work and 久久为功 (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng - "achieve success through persistent efforts," persistent effort leads to success) The harsh conditions of the plateau have not overwhelmed these strivers and builders, and the magnificent snow-capped mountains and lakes have become their stage for hard work. With a spiritual coordinate higher than the plateau, there is a continuous source of motivation for everything you do.

Working hard does not mean working blindly, but requires adhering to scientific concepts. In villages with an average altitude of nearly 4,800 meters, harsh natural conditions such as severe cold and permafrost affect the laying of water pipes. How to ensure the safe water use of the masses? Relying on technological applications, solar energy maintenance systems, big data management systems, and new water pump water intake systems reduce the difficulty of water intake; relying on scientific planning, adjusting the drinking water management mechanism, hiring professional maintenance companies, and adopting a multi-party co-governance management concept reduce management costs. When herdsman Sangjie Zhaxi (桑杰扎西) turned on the tap and watched the clear water gurgling out, "peace of mind" and "happiness" were overflowing.

On the plateau, this is not an isolated case. With concept innovation, the peach blossom economy of Gala Village (嘎拉村) in Nyingchi (林芝) has become the pillar industry of local collective income; with construction innovation, engineers use special technology to treat permafrost, which solves the problem of airport construction in alpine regions. Respecting natural conditions and development laws, under the guidance of scientific concepts, a series of measures can be transformed into tangible results to better benefit people's livelihoods.

Working hard is an attitude; working scientifically is a method. This also reflects the work style of party members and cadres, and should also run through all aspects of the work. Protecting an ecosystem requires continuous hard work, but also requires scientific research and rational planning; to develop an industrial system, it is necessary to work hard to produce, but also to pay attention to analyzing market demand and accurately positioning the market; to do practical things for people's livelihood, it is necessary to grasp one thing and make it a success, but also to focus on problems, conduct comprehensive research and judgment, and carry out work creatively. With the enthusiasm for starting a business and the thinking of scientific planning, we can do things smoothly, practically, and well.

"Rushing enthusiasm is hot, and scientific analysis is cold." Starting a business is inseparable from the combination of "cold" and "hot." This also tests the performance of party members and cadres. At the Lhasa (拉萨) North-South Mountain Greening site, many people mentioned a sentence - "This green should be left to the folks in Lhasa (拉萨), and to our children and grandchildren." The simple words are full of responsibility and demonstrate the original intention. This inspires us even more that to strive to build a united, prosperous, civilized, harmonious and beautiful new socialist modern Tibet (西藏), we must have the feelings of always keeping the happiness of the masses in mind, and have the tenacity to look to the long term and make persistent efforts.

Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "We must combine the enthusiasm for doing things with the scientific spirit, so that the various reform measures introduced are in line with objective laws, in line with the needs of the work, and in line with the interests of the masses." Coordinating the relationship between working hard and working scientifically, encouraging and driving more people who want to do things and are capable of doing things, truly achieving success and doing good things, doing all work in a practical way and achieving practical results, the snowy plateau will surely show a more beautiful and magnificent style.

(The author is a reporter from this newspaper's Tibet Branch (西藏分社))

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Photo Report

Recently, the 2025 China International Fair for Trade in Services concluded at Shougang Park (首钢园) in Beijing (北京). This year's CIFTIS focused on the annual theme of "Digital Intelligence Leading, Service Trade Innovation," and held activities such as the Global Trade in Services Summit, exhibitions, and negotiation promotions. 85 countries and international organizations set up exhibitions and held conferences, nearly 2,000 companies participated in offline exhibitions, and 113 companies released 198 new products and new achievements.

This is precisely:

Another golden autumn event opens,
Fine products gather to create new designs.
Friends together hold the finishing touch pen,
Painting a good win-win future.

Cheng Senwen (成森文)

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Building Warm Connections in a Corner of the City (Across the Land)

By: 唐 姝

If you see crowds of people, hear moving melodies and singing in unison while strolling through the park on the weekend, don't be surprised. You may be unexpectedly encountering a concert. According to media reports, a cultural phenomenon is quietly emerging, with more and more young people leaving their weekends for free outdoor "wild concerts."

Park lawns, riverside trails, community squares... these outdoor music venues are blooming in many cities. Unlike concerts or music festivals where tickets are increasingly difficult to get and prices are getting more expensive, "wild concerts" have no threshold and are free and casual. When the atmosphere is right, audience members can even go on stage and sing a song.

What is unforgettable is the interaction and connection between people. When notes dance and melodies flow, everyone gains recognition and resonance in the music. This brief connection established between strangers is so real and sincere. Social labels and life pressures are temporarily put aside, enjoying the purity and joy brought by music, which is warm and full of power.

Not just "wild concerts," from city walks to park camping, more and more young people are willing to go out and look for new experiences in urban public spaces, trying to gain more communication and emotional resonance, and unlock surprising encounters hidden in the corners of the city. Behind this is the emotional need of young people to find a spiritual home in modern cities. In a fast-paced, fragmented life, people don't have to be isolated islands, but can communicate sincerely and interact warmly with each other.

How should we connect with the city? And how should the city connect with us? Public spaces and public services are important mediums. How to reshape the new ecology of public space, meet the emotional and social needs of young people, and make the city's public space full of vitality tests the wisdom of urban management.

It is gratifying that as urban renewal enters the "second half," many new measures are turning to humanistic care—no longer simply pursuing the creation of landmark buildings, but completing the upgrading of public facilities between a table and a chair, a grass and a tree, to provide citizens with more high-quality public activity venues. Some time ago, the newly set "loungers" in the Tingtao Scenic Area (听涛景区) of Wuhan East Lake (武汉东湖) became popular. You can lie flat or sit cross-legged, blowing the lake breeze and listening to the birdsong, feeling completely relaxed. Community art museums such as the "shed art museum" and "stairwell art museum" jointly built by the Shanghai (上海) Culture and Tourism Department, art colleges, and street communities break down traditional art exhibitions into small units and display them in community public spaces, making art accessible. In Tianhe District (天河区) of Guangzhou (广州), 24 new public cultural spaces are scattered in the corners of the city, integrating art galleries, libraries, cafes, and tea rooms.

Urban public spaces do not necessarily have to be "tall and grand" architectural forms, but can also be the activation of urban "scraps." What really makes it "live" is being close to the life trajectory and needs of young people—not just "for people to stay," but also "to promote connection," so that everyone can easily touch, participate, and enjoy, and ultimately integrate into the daily urban scene.

"The starry sky is my home," we need to go into the crowd and reconstruct the poetic narrative of the urban ecology, just like the lyrics of a chorus song in the "wild concert": "There are always surprising encounters, like when I meet you."

(Excerpted and compiled from *Workers' Daily*, originally titled *Touching Warm and Real Breath in a Corner of the City*)

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Unlocking New Development Advantages in Border Regions

By: 张秋月

On the vast land surrounding the Tarim Basin, two projects are attracting attention. One is the 3,046-kilometer "ecological barrier" around the Taklamakan Desert (塔克拉玛干沙漠), dubbed the "green scarf" by netizens; the other is the 4,197-kilometer 750-kilovolt power transmission project around the Tarim Basin, called the "silver necklace" by netizens. These two projects lay a solid ecological and electrical foundation for local development and inject new impetus and vitality into the development of China's (中国) northwestern border regions.

Governing the country must involve governing the borders. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "In advancing Chinese-style modernization, no border region can be left behind." Today, with more complete infrastructure and a more substantial ecological foundation in border areas, how can we make good use of these basic conditions and achieve high-quality development by combining them with our own characteristics and advantages?

Developing industries is the key to enriching the border and benefiting the people. With roads open, sufficient electricity, and internet access, and with improved basic conditions, it is even more important to transform resource advantages into development advantages. Kuandian Manchu Autonomous County (宽甸满族自治县) in Dandong (丹东), Liaoning (辽宁), leverages its location in the Changbai Mountain (长白山) range, where plants converge, to develop an under-forest economy, and integrates scattered specialty products through enterprise-farmer linkages to refine deep processing. In Kashgar (喀什), Xinjiang (新疆), located on the northwestern border, pitted red dates and shelled walnuts are transformed into popular jujube kernel pies; local wheat is converted into flour and placed on the shelves of supermarkets inside and outside Xinjiang... From "ensuring food supply" to "creating brands," from "initial processing" to "full chain," industrial revitalization has consolidated the foundation for development. Expanding characteristic industries in accordance with local conditions provides a handle for the development of border areas and a basis for the prosperity of the people.

Border areas connect the inside and outside, reaching all directions, and possess huge advantages in today's world of developed transportation and complete logistics. At the China-Kazakhstan Horgos International Border Cooperation Center (中哈霍尔果斯国际边境合作中心) located in Xinjiang (新疆), Chinese consumers can buy honey from Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦), blankets from Kyrgyzstan (吉尔吉斯斯坦), and dried fruits from Uzbekistan (乌兹别克斯坦), while Chinese-made appliances, furniture, clothing, and other products are sold from here to Central Asia, West Asia, and Europe. Guangxi (广西) is leveraging its geographical advantage of being backed by the motherland and facing ASEAN (东盟) to actively build an artificial intelligence industrial ecosystem of "R&D in North, Shanghai, and Guangzhou + integration in Guangxi + application in ASEAN." By actively integrating into the new development pattern and the unified domestic market, and adhering to expanding high-level opening up to the outside world, border areas have much to offer and much to achieve.

The development of border areas cannot be separated from talent support. Border areas have always faced difficulties in attracting and retaining talent due to their remote location, weak infrastructure, and insufficient public service guarantees. How can this be solved? On the one hand, we must give full play to the role of talent support from other regions to border areas. For example, this year's college student volunteer service to the west plan has established a "defending the country and guarding the border" special project for the first time, and a large number of volunteers have injected surging youth power into the beautiful border areas. On the other hand, border areas must also continue to improve the environment for doing business and starting businesses, increase policy support, and provide better conditions for talent. Building border areas into a stage for displaying ambitions and a front line for cultivating talent can create a good situation for attracting and using talent, and inject a continuous stream of new impetus into development.

Power grids span the desert, industries connect the borderlands, and talents take root in the countryside... Border areas are nurturing new vitality for high-quality development and becoming a new frontier for development. The beautiful picture of enriching the border and benefiting the people is slowly unfolding and inspiring us to forge ahead. We can only strive and only dedicate ourselves.

(The author is an associate professor at the School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Technology (北京工业大学)).

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How Kites Soar Higher and Higher (First-hand Observations)

By: 本报记者 李 波 侯琳良

Core Reading

From "a stone" to "a pill," from "a seed" to "a delicious dish," from "a forest" to "an ecological coastal zone," from exporting products to "chain-style going global," from seeing a doctor at your doorstep to a "15-minute health service circle"... In recent years, Weifang (潍坊), Shandong (山东) has adhered to the new development concepts of innovation, coordination, green development, openness, and sharing, and has continuously achieved new accomplishments in high-quality development. Recently, reporters visited Weifang (潍坊), Shandong (山东), and explored the secrets of local high-quality development through five stories.

Weifang (潍坊), Shandong (山东) is known as the "World Kite Capital." Stepping into this city with a romantic atmosphere, one discovers another side of its hard-core strength:

Looking back, the first Chinese character laser typesetting system and the first 15-horsepower diesel engine in northern China were born here. Looking at the present, 25 national-level manufacturing single champion enterprises and 178 provincial-level manufacturing single champion enterprises are growing here. 32 enterprises are shortlisted in the "2025 Shandong Private Enterprise Top 200," and 8 enterprises are selected in the "2025 China Manufacturing Private Enterprise Top 500," both ranking second in Shandong Province (山东省).

A set of data comparisons marks Weifang's (潍坊) strategic positioning in the overall national situation: using 1‰ of the nation's freshwater and 1.7‰ of the land to contribute 6.4‰ of the nation's grain, 16.8‰ of the vegetables, and 10.9‰ of the meat, eggs, and milk, becoming an important "grain bag" and "vegetable basket" for the country.

In June 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized during his inspection in Shandong (山东) that it is necessary to earnestly implement the new development concept and continuously achieve new accomplishments in high-quality development. In May 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized during his inspection in Shandong (山东) that Shandong (山东) should position itself well and take the lead in the overall national development, and fully and accurately implement the new development concept.

How to fully and accurately implement the new development concept? At the critical period of winning the "14th Five-Year Plan" and planning the "15th Five-Year Plan," reporters visited Weifang (潍坊), Shandong (山东), collected five stories, and explored the secret of the "kite" flying higher and higher.

Innovation—

From "a stone" to "a pill"

How to achieve "turning stone into gold"?

In Fukang Group (富康集团), located in Shouguang City (寿光市), Weifang (潍坊), the limestone from Helan Mountain (贺兰山), thousands of miles away, costs 70 yuan per ton. After layers of processing, the produced metformin hydrochloride tablets cost 600,000 yuan per ton.

In the metformin hydrochloride tablet production line workshop, through modern equipment, the raw materials go through multiple processes such as mixing, tableting, and coating, and finally become tablets. Li Jian (李健), Vice President of Fukang Group (富康集团), introduced: "Currently, the metformin hydrochloride tablets we produce, including ordinary tablets and sustained-release tablets, have an annual production capacity of about 6 billion tablets, with an average daily output of nearly 20 million tablets. The production line is operating at full capacity, not only meeting the needs of national centralized procurement but also being sold to foreign countries."

From "a stone" to "a pill," the key lies in innovation. In recent years, Fukang Group (富康集团) has built an innovation system that deeply integrates "production, learning, research, and application," and continues to overcome key industry problems. For example, in the field of sustained-release and controlled-release drug research and development, Fukang Group (富康集团) and China Pharmaceutical University (中国药科大学) have established a joint laboratory, focusing on metformin, nifedipine, and other advantageous raw materials, and using advanced osmotic pump drug delivery technology to develop sustained-release and controlled-release preparations, making the drug efficacy more stable and more convenient for patients to take.

"Currently, the group has built a complete industrial chain 'from a stone to a pill.' The price of one ton of metformin hydrochloride tablets has reached 600,000 yuan, and the product profit has increased significantly," said Li Jian (李健).

In Fukang Group (富康集团), there is more than one "star product"—the production and sales volume of trimethoprim and omeprazole rank first in the world, the production and sales volume of clozapine and sulfamethoxazole and other 5 products rank first in the country, and 20 preparation varieties such as pioglitazone metformin tablets, phloroglucinol injection, and pantoprazole sodium enteric-coated tablets have been launched on the market... Fukang Group (富康集团) uses chain innovation to open up unlimited possibilities for industrial leap.

In Weifang (潍坊), there are many "top students" like Fukang Group (富康集团) who focus on technological breakthroughs: in the first half of this year, the total number of high-tech enterprises in Weifang City (潍坊市) reached 2,241, and 2,239 technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises were included in the database.

Coordination—

From "a seed" to "a delicious dish"

In the greenhouse of Qiantuan Village (前疃村), Gucheng Street (古城街道), Shouguang City (寿光市), among the green shadows, small green tomatoes peek out. "This is the tomato 'Dream Green Sweet No. 2' which is selling very well now. One catty can sell for 16 yuan, thanks to Manager Li (李经理)!" said Yin Fenghai (殷凤海), Secretary of the Party Branch of Qiantuan Village (前疃村).

"Manager Li (李经理)" refers to Li Jiqiang (李继强), General Manager of Hongwei Seed Industry (宏伟种业). When he devoted himself to the seed industry in 2004, the team's goal was to select and breed a tomato variety suitable for mass planting and with wide adaptability. At that time, the foreign varieties introduced by Shouguang (寿光) farmers cost 10 yuan per seed. After the "Dream Obsession" bred by Hongwei Seed Industry (宏伟种业) came out, the cost of a seedling was reduced to 1.2 yuan, which can also help farmers save nearly a month of seedling time.

"Every household is a research institute, and everyone is a technician." Liu Chunxiang (刘春香), a senior agronomist at the Shouguang Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (寿光市农业农村局), said that in 10 years, the market share of domestic vegetable seeds in Shouguang (寿光) has increased from 54% to more than 70%, and 290 independently developed vegetable varieties have been achieved.

In the kidney bean experimental field of Weifang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (潍坊市农科院), the new kidney bean strain bred by hybridizing "Weifang Green Dragon" (潍坊绿龙) with the Northeast "Yidianhong General Bean" (一点红将军豆) is growing gratifyingly, with thick flesh and no silk. "We plan to declare 8 new varieties in one go this year." Song Yinhang (宋银行), Director of the Institute of Agricultural Product Processing Technology of Weifang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (潍坊市农科院农产品加工技术研究所), is full of confidence.

The seed industry research and development teams of the Shouguang Vegetable Research and Development Center of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (中国农业科学院寿光蔬菜研发中心) and the Peking University Modern Agriculture Research Institute (北京大学现代农业研究院) have also become the main force of seed industry innovation in Weifang (潍坊). More and more good seeds are moving from the laboratories of Weifang (潍坊) to the vast fields, realizing the transformation from "a seed" to "a delicious dish." In 2024, the total agricultural output value of Weifang City (潍坊市) reached 135.87 billion yuan, ranking first in the province; grain has achieved "three increases" in area, yield per unit area, and total output for four consecutive years; the total vegetable output exceeded 14 million tons, with the highest production and sales volume in the country. The city has 1,277 agricultural product processing enterprises above designated size, with a revenue of nearly 300 billion yuan.

In recent years, the Party Branch of Qiantuan Village (前疃村) has integrated the original 7 vegetable markets and led the establishment of the Wangmin Vegetable Professional Cooperative Federation (旺民蔬菜专业合作社联社). Through the integrated production and sales model of "Party Branch + Cooperative + Farmers," it has achieved "six unified" management of agricultural material supply, technical services, production standards, quality testing, brand building, and packaging and sales. "Our annual sales of tomatoes reach 5 million catties, with an annual transaction volume of over 150 million yuan. The annual income of villagers has increased from less than 50,000 yuan in the past to more than 200,000 yuan now," said Yin Fenghai (殷凤海).

According to statistics, in 2024, the per capita disposable income of rural residents in Weifang (潍坊) reached 29,212 yuan, and the income ratio between urban and rural residents narrowed to 1.84:1. Farmers getting rich, collective income increasing, and enterprises developing, a more resilient and dynamic modern agricultural system is flourishing in Weifang (潍坊).

Green—

From "a forest" to "an ecological coastal zone"

On one side is the vast blue sea, and on the other side is lush greenery. In the Weifang Binhai Economic and Technological Development Zone (潍坊滨海经济技术开发区), the sea breeze blows through the tamarisk forest, rustling, as if playing a green development symphony.

Before 2017, sparse reeds and alkali grass grew here. The entire coastal area had a strong salinization area of 381 square kilometers, accounting for 2.35% of the city's area. The high cost of greening and the difficulty in comprehensive utilization of saline-alkali land were superimposed, and the ecological situation of the coastline was severe.

In 2017, the national "South Red North Willow" ecological project Binhai Demonstration Forest project was launched. "This is 'Lu Tamarisk No. 1' (鲁柽1号), also known as salt pine, a salt-tolerant and alkali-resistant arborescent tree species jointly cultivated by Weifang (潍坊) and the Shandong Academy of Forestry (山东省林科院). It has a significant effect on improving the soil. Currently, the degree of soil salinization has been reduced from the original 7‰ to 3‰," said the person in charge of Shandong Chenglin Ecological Technology Co., Ltd. (山东柽霖生态科技股份有限公司).

Walking into the planting base of Shandong Ledao Technology Agriculture Co., Ltd. (山东乐道科技农业有限公司), under the tamarisk forest, Cistanche deserticola is growing well. Zhao Chuansheng (赵传胜), Director of the company's office, introduced that the company's scientific research team has overcome technical difficulties and "grafted" Cistanche deserticola, which is accustomed to the arid desert environment, onto the root system of Binhai tamarisk to improve the survival rate and increase the content of medicinal ingredients. Zhao Chuansheng (赵传胜) said: "The annual output of Cistanche deserticola here reaches 30 tons, with an output value of nearly 12 million yuan."

In recent years, Weifang (潍坊) has coordinated and arranged various restoration funds of more than 1 billion yuan, and has built more than 80,000 mu of marine special protection zones, salt pine shelter forests, and green belts. The former saline-alkali wasteland has built a green barrier. At the same time, through the implementation of marine ecological restoration projects such as Bohai Comprehensive Management, Xiaoqing River Estuary, and Laohe Estuary, Weifang (潍坊) has cumulatively restored more than 3,400 hectares of coastal wetlands and 33.23 kilometers of coastline, creating a "coastal ecological corridor"—characteristic agricultural product brands such as Cistanche deserticola, Nanchen peach, and Fangqing rose have gradually been polished, egrets have settled down, and wild chickens and wild rabbits appear from time to time...

"We coordinate the ecological, production, and living spaces on both sides of the coastline to create a green ecological coastal zone suitable for leisure and sightseeing and full of vitality," said Han Wenhong (韩文宏), Secretary of the Party Working Committee and Director of the Management Committee of Weifang Binhai Economic and Technological Development Zone (潍坊滨海经济技术开发区).

From "a forest" to "an ecological coastal zone," a new picture of green mountains and clear waters is unfolding in Weifang (潍坊). In the first half of this year, the comprehensive air quality index of Weifang (潍坊) was 4.12, an improvement of 8.2% year-on-year; the number of days with excellent air quality was 128, an increase of 14 days year-on-year; the water quality of key rivers and lakes in the city remained stable and improving, and the total nitrogen concentration of 3 national-controlled rivers entering the sea improved by 25.2% compared with the same period in 2020...

Openness—

From exporting products to "chain-style going global"

Not long ago, 1,500 sets of "golden power assembly" systems independently developed by Weichai Power Co., Ltd. (潍柴动力股份有限公司) were successfully delivered to a leading truck manufacturing enterprise in Southeast Asia. "Previously, the power system of this truck manufacturing enterprise mainly relied on Japan and South Korea. Weichai (潍柴) successfully broke this situation with technological innovation," said the person in charge of Weichai (潍柴) in Southeast Asia.

In Côte d'Ivoire in West Africa, from busy shopping malls and roaring factories to hospitals that protect life, reliable power supply is indispensable. As the "power heart" behind these places, Weichai (潍柴) generator sets have won a market share of about 30% in the local market with stable power output.

Since the beginning of this year, Weichai's (潍柴) engine export revenue has achieved a substantial increase, and the overseas ownership has exceeded one million units. The company uses large-cylinder-diameter engines as the development engine to drive the application and promotion of the entire series and all fields of engines, and has achieved breakthroughs in overseas export business.

Weifang (潍坊) is striving to realize the transformation from single product output to the layout of the entire industrial chain. Since November last year, it has successively established organizations such as the Enterprise Going Global Federation and the Entrepreneur International Alliance to promote Weifang (潍坊) enterprise resource sharing, information sharing, and business opportunity sharing, and help enterprises "go global in groups." Sairuili (赛马力), Huafeng Power (华丰动力) and other enterprises have taken advantage of the situation to sign new overseas orders and have formed a new situation of large enterprises leading small enterprises.

"We have established close cooperation with Weichai (潍柴) in engine research and development, key component manufacturing, and other fields to accelerate the pace of product going global," said Tian Min (田敏), Deputy General Manager of Shandong Sairuili Power Equipment Co., Ltd. (山东赛马力发电设备有限公司). The enterprise is exploring the establishment of warehouses and sales systems in countries such as the Philippines and the United Arab Emirates to reduce regional market costs. In the first quarter alone, overseas orders increased by more than 10%.

In the fields of high-end equipment manufacturing, high-end chemicals, and food processing, Weifang (潍坊) is comprehensively forming a "chain-style going global" pattern, and the foreign trade report card is becoming more and more eye-catching: in the first quarter of this year, Weifang City's (潍坊市) foreign trade import and export reached 91.74 billion yuan, a record high, an increase of 7.6% compared with the same period last year.

Sharing—

From seeing a doctor at your doorstep to a "15-minute health service circle"

"Aunt Wang (王婶), I just received a call from your child saying that you are feeling uncomfortable in your chest. He told me to have you come to the health center now for an electrocardiogram." Recently, Zhou Shidong (周世栋), a village doctor at the Zhoujiazhuang Health Center (周家庄卫生室) in Jiushan Town (九山镇), Linqu County (临朐县), Weifang City (潍坊市), notified villager Wang Chengfen (王成芬) to seek medical treatment and examination in time.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Wang Chengfen (王成芬) came to the village health center for an electrocardiogram. Zhou Shidong (周世栋) quickly informed Wang Chengfen (王成芬) of the electrocardiogram diagnosis results sent back from Linqu County People's Hospital (临朐县人民医院) and promptly contacted her to transfer her to the county people's hospital for treatment.

"In the past, it was very troublesome to see a doctor for heart disease. Now the village health center can connect with the county hospital to do electrocardiograms without leaving the village. It's really too convenient," Wang Chengfen (王成芬) said with emotion. If it were in the past, she would not be able to go to the county hospital for treatment if she felt uncomfortable and her children were not at home.

Since March this year, Linqu County (临朐县) has created an "electrocardiogram network," with the county people's hospital providing 24-hour remote electrocardiogram diagnosis services to the first batch of 100 township health centers and village-level health centers, improving the county's treatment level and prevention capabilities for cardiovascular diseases, and expanding service coverage. As of now, this network has cumulatively transmitted nearly 6,000 electrocardiogram information, guiding and rescuing dozens of patients with acute myocardial infarction.

Striving to enable the masses to see a doctor and get good medical treatment at their doorstep, Weifang (潍坊) has successfully strived to create a national comprehensive pilot zone for primary health and health, and has taken the lead in achieving full coverage of national-level major medical reform pilots in urban and rural areas in Shandong Province (山东省). The city has built 100 first-class township health centers and 27 secondary centers for county medical services, basically forming a "15-minute health service circle" for urban and rural residents. Using digital empowerment to solve the problem of uneven distribution of medical resources, through the four-level remote medical network of the city, county, town, and village, the proportion of primary diagnosis and treatment reached 67.29%.

At the same time, Weifang (潍坊) has created 5 national-level key clinical specialties and 5 national traditional Chinese medicine advantageous specialties. As a provincial-level regional medical center, it serves 12 million people, and the county-level consultation rate in the city reaches 94.3%.

Family doctor teams regularly follow up and conduct health education, and key populations are accurately identified and included in management; chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes can be standardized and treated and tracked for a long time in the community; personalized health service packages are delivered to the hands of the elderly, pregnant women, and children... Health services have shifted from "passive diagnosis and treatment" to "active protection" and from "disease treatment" to "health management." According to statistics, Weifang's (潍坊) public satisfaction with medical treatment has ranked among the top three in Shandong Province (山东省) for seven consecutive years. Weifang (潍坊) is gradually building a health security system for the entire life cycle.

The transformation of a stone reflects the "innovation" development concept leading the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries;

A delicious dish served on the table reflects the "coordination" development concept promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside and the synchronous development of cities;

The construction of an ecological coastal zone reflects the "green" development concept guiding green mountains and clear waters to become golden mountains and silver mountains;

The road of chain-style going global is becoming wider and wider, reflecting the "open" development concept promoting the opening of the door wider and wider;

The formation of a 15-minute health service circle reflects the "sharing" development concept helping to practice the people-centered development thought.

"We always keep in mind the entrustment of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), plan the economic and social development during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, continue to thoroughly implement the new development concept, and let Weifang's (潍坊) 'kite' fly higher and higher," said Liu Yun (刘运), Secretary of the Weifang Municipal Party Committee (潍坊市委书记).

(Gao Wen (高文), Meng Xiangfeng (孟祥风), Fang Wenting (方文婷), and Liu Jie (刘杰), reporters from the Weifang Municipal Rong Media Center (潍坊市融媒体中心), participated in the writing)

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Gathering More Strength for Upward Progress and Goodness (Echoes of the Spirit Across Time and Space)

By: 本报记者 胡婧怡

"It was so shocking. The marching formations were vast and powerful, and I felt a surge of strength within me." On September 3rd, Guo Mingyi (郭明义), business supervisor of the Quarry Highway Management Department of the Production Technology Office of Qidashan Iron Mine (齐大山铁矿) of Angang Group Mining Company (鞍钢集团矿业公司), and "Contemporary Lei Feng," was invited to participate in the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War.

From joining the army to becoming an industrial worker, Guo Mingyi (郭明义) has always taken Lei Feng (雷锋) as his role model, taking dedication to his job, contributing to society, and serving the people as his life's pursuit. In the army, he was the "All-Army Lei Feng Model"; in 1982, after his demobilization, he went to work at Angang (鞍钢), successively experiencing seven different positions. In quarry highway management, he directly created more than 30 million yuan in benefits for the enterprise, and won the National May 1st Labor Medal. He has donated more than 500,000 yuan cumulatively, and the total amount of blood and platelets he has donated free of charge has reached more than 60,000 milliliters. The Guo Mingyi (郭明义) Love Team he initiated has more than 1,400 branches across the country, with more than 2.4 million volunteers joining it.

When attending this commemorative meeting, Guo Mingyi (郭明义) specially put on a new set of work clothes. "As a veteran and an industrial worker, I am very proud to be able to feel the strength of the motherland at such close range!" Recalling the scene at that time, Guo Mingyi (郭明义) was still full of passion.

At the special report meeting of Qidashan Iron Mine (齐大山铁矿) of Angang Group Mining Company (鞍钢集团矿业公司), Guo Mingyi (郭明义) shared his feelings with his fellow workers, "Our safe and stable production is contributing to the manufacturing of 'major national instruments'"; at Ningxia Institute of Science and Technology (宁夏理工学院), Guo Mingyi (郭明义) affectionately recalled the scene on Tiananmen Square (天安门广场) that day, encouraging the students to "do their best to help others, and society will gather more upward and benevolent forces. The future belongs to you, so study science and technology well and strive to serve the country."

"We must all contribute our strength to the country, society, and the people in our respective positions!" said Guo Mingyi (郭明义).

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The Standard of the Parade Will Stay With Us Forever (The Youthful Strength on Display at the Parade)

By: 本报记者 金正波

"On September 3rd, before participating in the military parade, I specially placed a small piece of Qiang embroidery in my chest pocket—this was given to me by my mother when I left home, and it is embroidered with auspicious cloud patterns." Tang Lei (唐磊), a member of the Airborne Assault Formation, said that he wanted to receive the review with the blessings of the people of his hometown.

During the parade formation, fully armed officers and soldiers of the Airborne Assault Formation made a majestic appearance aboard new tracked airborne combat vehicles. Speaking of the scene that day, Tang Lei (唐磊) said excitedly: "When the combat vehicle drove through Tiananmen (天安门), I straightened my back and clenched my steel gun. At that moment, I felt my heartbeat in sync with the motherland, and my eyes couldn't help but get a little wet."

Tang Lei (唐磊) was born in Kaiping Township (开坪乡), Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County (北川羌族自治县), Mianyang (绵阳), Sichuan (四川). On May 12, 2008, a major earthquake almost razed the village where Tang Lei (唐磊) was located to the ground. "I will always remember that scene—a military helicopter hovered overhead, the red five-pointed star was particularly eye-catching, and batches of life-saving supplies were dropped. Afterwards, a team of soldiers covered in mud walked into the village and quickly launched a life-and-death rescue." Tang Lei (唐磊) said that from that time on, the seed of "wearing a military uniform" took root in his heart.

In 2019, Tang Lei (唐磊) was admitted to military academy. He was very diligent in knowledge learning and military training, and his scores in various subjects were among the best. After graduating from military academy in 2023, he came to the airborne troops, drilled in dense forests, entered deep mountains, and entered the Gobi Desert, successfully completing one live combat exercise after another.

"It is precisely because I have seen the bravery and fearlessness of the People's Liberation Army that I understand even more that to become a qualified soldier, one must undergo **千锤百炼** (qiān chuí bǎi liàn - "thousand hammer hundred refine," to undergo numerous trials and tribulations; to temper oneself)." Tang Lei (唐磊) said, "Parachuting is a basic skill of airborne troops, and I like the feeling of leaping from a thousand meters high."

"The military parade has ended, but the standards of the parade will always remain with me." Tang Lei (唐磊) said, "I will work hard to improve my skills, continue the heroic bloodline, temper my ability to win, and better protect the lights of thousands of homes."

(Cheng Chuangang (成传港) participated in the writing)

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Opening Up Creates a Highland, Inland Transforms into a Frontier (Embracing the Market, Observing Resilience, Strengthening Confidence)

By: 本报记者 张 铁 高 炳

Starting from Xi'an (西安), Shaanxi (陕西), traversing mountains and seas for 15 days, Chinese-made kitchen and bathroom products arrive in Europe; in about 7 days, flour from Kazakhstan is delivered to the kitchens of Xi'an citizens, "transforming" into oil-splashed noodles... One "steel camel caravan" after another makes such scenes no longer novel.

To date, the China-Europe Railway Express (Xi'an) has operated more than 30,000 trains, exceeding 1/4 of the national total; on average, a China-Europe Railway Express departs from or arrives in Xi'an every 80 minutes.

Setting up points, routes, networks, and layouts... The construction of the China-Europe Railway Express Xi'an assembly center is steadily advancing. As a logistics hub serving the westward opening of the country, it has become an important tool for Xi'an to deeply integrate into the grand pattern of jointly building the "Belt and Road" initiative. The Asia-Europe land-sea trade corridor and the western land-sea new corridor have converged in Xi'an, basically forming a modern logistics system facing Asia and Europe and reaching the globe.

With the China-Europe Railway Express as a link and an open platform as support, Xi'an, which is not coastal, not near a river, and not bordering, is opening up new development prospects in expanding opening-up. Recently, reporters visited the China-Europe Railway Express Xi'an assembly center to experience the great changes from Silk Road camel bells to train whistles, and from the inland hinterland to an open highland.

Expanding the Network

Working together to jointly build and connect Asia and Europe for smooth flow of goods

Early in the morning, at Xi'an International Port Station (西安国际港站), the sound of a train whistle pierces the silence.

"This train will arrive in Azerbaijan in 12 days." Watching the train depart, Lu Ming (路铭), the duty stationmaster of Xi'an International Port Station, recalled November 28, 2013—the day the first China-Europe Railway Express from Shaanxi departed.

"In the early days of operation, the China-Europe Railway Express (Xi'an) only had two or three trains per month," Lu Ming said. "Now, the trains operate 18 times a day on average, and Xi'an International Port has become a logistics hub connecting Asia and Europe."

Chen Xiangnan (陈向南), Deputy General Manager of Xi'an Kemike Industrial Development Co., Ltd. (西安克米克实业发展有限公司), felt deeply: "In the past, our goods started from Zhejiang (浙江), using sea and then road transport, taking dozens of days to reach Baku (巴库), Azerbaijan. The goods were transported to Baku Port, separated by the Caspian Sea, and we never thought there would be a possibility of rail transport."

In 2023, Xi'an Chanba International Port (西安浐灞国际港) and Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (哈萨克斯坦国有铁路公司) (hereinafter referred to as "KTZ") joined hands to promote the construction of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route. In November 2023, the first China-Europe Railway Express from Xi'an to Baku departed, heading west to Baku Port, taking only 12 days for the entire journey.

High efficiency and strong stability have led to a surge in demand. As of the end of June this year, the Trans-Caspian train has operated a total of 390 trains. "Since boarding the Trans-Caspian train, the number of cooperative customers of the company has increased from 15 to more than 40," Chen Xiangnan said.

At present, the China-Europe Railway Express Xi'an assembly center has opened 18 international trunk lines, covering the entire Eurasian continent, and assembled 26 domestic lines, radiating major domestic sources of goods.

"Wherever the line goes, the opportunities extend there," Chen Xiangnan said, full of expectations for the future. "We are closely following the Trans-Black Sea train and plan to expand into the Romanian market."

Increasing Efficiency

Digital Intelligence Empowers, Significantly Improving Operational Efficiency

Recently, Li Xiang (李想), Deputy General Manager of Xi'an Pofit International Logistics Co., Ltd. (西安普菲特国际物流有限公司), has been busy "grabbing train tickets"—a customer called and asked him to help book a China-Europe Railway Express cabin to Almaty (阿拉木图), Kazakhstan within 15 days.

Opening the China-Europe Railway Express (Xi'an) comprehensive service platform, Li Xiang found that only 2 trains had remaining cabins within half a month. After confirming information such as container type and quantity, Li Xiang successfully "grabbed a ticket" for the customer's goods.

"By entering packing lists and other documents into the comprehensive service platform, materials such as international railway combined transport documents can be generated," Li Xiang told reporters. This information will be simultaneously transmitted to KTZ for pre-examination, "significantly reducing waiting time when the goods arrive at the port for transshipment."

At the beginning of 2024, Xi'an Chanba International Port and KTZ jointly built a digital platform, realizing instant cloud sharing of key documents. "Pre-event 'click of the mouse' replaces on-site 'manual delivery of documents'," Yuan Xiaojun (袁小军), General Manager of Xi'an International Port Group Co., Ltd. (西安国际港集团有限公司), told reporters. With digital intelligence empowerment, the operational efficiency of the China-Europe Railway Express (Xi'an) has increased by more than 30%, and the comprehensive cost has decreased by more than 15%.

"In the past, we didn't dare to take urgent orders. Now, customers can place an order today and pack it tomorrow," Li Xiang said. Last year, the company only sent 1,200 containers to Central Asia, but in the first half of this year, it has already sent 4,500 containers.

Digitalization helps improve the operational efficiency of trains, and is also changing the operation mode of stations.

At Xi'an International Port Station, the intelligent station system built by China Railway Xi'an Bureau Group Co., Ltd. (中国铁路西安局集团有限公司) can monitor and intelligently schedule vehicles entering and exiting, and cargo loading and unloading in real time.

"Container trucks can not only enter the station through the intelligent gate in 10 seconds, but also directly navigate to the designated cargo area and cargo location," said Gao Bin (高斌), customer manager of Shaanxi Haorong Yunda International Freight Forwarding Co., Ltd. (陕西浩荣运达国际货运代理有限公司). "The process that used to take 1 hour has now been compressed to 5 minutes."

"Since the beginning of this year, Xi'an International Port Station has broken the record for the number of vehicles loaded in a single day 8 times, with a maximum of 1,530 vehicles," said Liu Shunli (刘顺利), duty director of the business department of Xi'an International Port. In the first half of this year, the China-Europe Railway Express (Xi'an) operated 3,055 trains, a year-on-year increase of 28.8%.

Win-Win

Optimizing Services, Enterprises and Trains Grow Together

In the production workshop of Shaanxi Konka Smart Appliance Co., Ltd. (陕西康佳智能家电有限公司), a washing machine rolls off the production line every 20 seconds.

"The newly produced home appliances can be transported to the port for shipment on the same day," said Chen Zhao (陈钊), General Manager of the company. "Demand exceeds supply, and orders have been scheduled until October this year."

Konka Group's (康佳集团) largest production base in Northwest China was built and put into operation in 2022, only 1.5 kilometers away from Xi'an International Port Station. In the past, it took more than 40 days for goods to reach Europe by sea; now, it only takes 12 to 15 days by China-Europe Railway Express. "Air conditioners and other home appliances produced by the company in other provinces will also be assembled in Xi'an and sold overseas by train," Chen Zhao said.

"The 'old three items' of clothing, furniture, and home appliances are hot in the market, and the 'new three items' of new energy vehicles, lithium batteries, and photovoltaic products are also very popular," Liu Shunli introduced. As of the end of June this year, 17,000 companies have taken the China-Europe Railway Express (Xi'an).

Optimizing transportation services and deepening international cooperation, foreign trade enterprises and China-Europe Railway Express are growing together.

"Door-to-door" transportation. At the beginning of this year, the China-Europe Railway Express, loaded with 1,300 tons of finished flour from Kazakhstan, directly entered the park of Xi'an Aiju Grain and Oil Industry Group (西安爱菊粮油工业集团), significantly reducing transportation costs.

"Hub-to-hub" connectivity. In February last year, the Kazakhstan Xi'an Terminal located at Xi'an International Port Station was put into operation; in June this year, the China-Xi'an Kazakhstan Terminal in Almaty was officially put into operation... Echoing each other, improving the ability of China and Kazakhstan to gather and distribute goods.

Train operation "passenger car". In October 2022, the country's first China-Europe Railway Express (Xi'an-Duisburg) domestic and foreign full-schedule train was launched, and freight trains operate on time like passenger cars. As of the end of June this year, the China-Europe Railway Express (Xi'an) full-schedule train has operated a total of 534 trains.

As night falls, another train departs from Xi'an International Port Station, and Lu Ming watches it go away, "Over the past ten years, the hub has become busier and busier, and our road has become wider and wider."

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Pooling Wisdom, Gathering Strength, Promoting Openness (Reporter's Notes)

By: 高 炳

How many people are safeguarding the "steel camel caravan" across mountains and seas?

I still remember that late night: The Xi'an International Port (西安国际港) cargo yard was brightly lit, and staff member Jiang Hanxue (姜寒雪) finally got up and left the office, taking a breath. Four hours earlier, a platform company had temporarily added export goods, urgently needing to catch the China-Europe freight train that day. Upon receiving the news, Jiang Hanxue (姜寒雪) and her colleagues immediately activated the "emergency plan," coordinating customs, the cargo yard, and scheduling to ensure the goods were dispatched in a timely manner.

The "Silk Road Youth Vanguard" train crew that Jiang Hanxue (姜寒雪) belongs to was officially established at the beginning of this year. It consists of eight young people from different departments and professional backgrounds, solving emergencies and providing services to ensure the stable operation of the China-Europe freight train.

Intelligent booking, smart customs clearance, and "single bill of lading" for intermodal rail-sea transportation... Gathering wisdom and pooling strength, innovations are made time and again only to allow the China-Europe freight train to transport more and run faster, helping foreign trade companies expand markets and stabilize orders.

The door of opening up is opening wider and wider, the bridge of trade is being built more and more steadily, and the road of cooperation is becoming wider and wider. The China-Europe freight train is full of goods, conveying opportunities, and filled with anticipation for the future.

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China's First AI Large Model Crowdsourced Testing Results Announced

This newspaper Kunming (昆明) September 16th (Reporters Zhang Chi (张驰) and Jin Xin (金歆)) On the 16th, at the 22nd China Cyber Security Annual Conference and the Cyber Security Collaborative Defense Sub-forum of the National Cyber Security Publicity Week held in Kunming (昆明), the results of the first domestic real-network crowdsourced testing of AI large models were revealed.

A total of 15 domestic large models and application products were tested for vulnerabilities in this event. The tested products include both basic large model products, vertical domain large model products, and related application products such as intelligent agents and model development platforms. They include both single-modal large models and multi-modal large models, and are widely representative. This event has discovered a total of 281 security vulnerabilities, including 177 unique vulnerabilities in large models.

It is reported that this event was guided by the Cyber Security Coordination Bureau of the Central Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办), hosted by the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China (国家计算机网络应急技术处理协调中心), and supported by the Cyber Security Crowdsourcing Platform and the National Cyber Security Talent and Innovation Base (国家网络安全人才与创新基地), aiming to promote the better coordination of high-quality development and high-level security in the development of AI large models.

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This edition's editors: Zhang Yanchun, Song Yu, Liu Juanxi

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New Impetus for Foreign Trade Seen Through China-Laos Railway (Big Data Observation: "14th Five-Year Plan" Highlights)

By: 本报记者 杨文明

This year is the final year of the "14th Five-Year Plan." During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, all regions and departments have firmly grasped their strategic positioning in the overall national development situation, taking action and striving for the lead, to ensure the high-quality completion of the "14th Five-Year Plan" goals and tasks, and to create a new situation in economic and social development.

Starting today, this edition will launch a series of reports titled "Big Data Observation: Reading the '14th Five-Year Plan'," focusing on the stories of struggle at the grassroots level, exploring the driving force of development from data growth at different levels, and showcasing the vivid practices of promoting high-quality development from specific points to the overall picture.

-- Editor

Starting from Kunming (昆明), Yunnan (云南) in China and ending in Vientiane (万象), Laos (老挝), the China-Laos Railway (中老铁路), with a total length of 1,035 kilometers, has trains speeding along, becoming a "golden channel" for China and ASEAN to move towards each other, radiating and driving the surrounding economic development.

Since its opening in December 2021, the freight volume has achieved double-digit growth for three consecutive years, and the number of inbound and outbound passengers has increased from 300 per day to a maximum of 1,300 per day—the China-Laos Railway, which was once questioned for "having no goods to transport" and worried about "having no passengers," is now particularly busy. As of the end of August this year, the cumulative freight volume of the China-Laos Railway has exceeded 66.5 million tons, and the types of cross-border transportation commodities have exceeded 3,000.

How did the cross-border freight of the China-Laos Railway become so popular? Perhaps a glimpse can be seen from the story of a cross-border freight merchant.

In order to open up the market, I bought a container of durians.

The durian transportation season every year is the busiest few months for Zhang Dehuan (张德欢). He, who is engaged in the China-Laos Railway cross-border freight industry in Yunnan (云南), did not expect this route to be so popular—at the beginning of 2023, there was often no cargo to transport, but now it has become a sought-after "sweet pastry" that is hard to find.

At the end of 2022, an opportunity to go to Laos (老挝) with a business delegation made Zhang Dehuan (张德欢) optimistic about the China-Laos Railway freight market. He leased 100 new refrigerated containers from the railway department in one go and entered the China-Laos Railway cross-border freight industry.

It didn't go smoothly at first. Zhang Dehuan (张德欢) distributed business cards at the Kunming Jinma Zhengchang Fruit Wholesale Market (昆明金马正昌水果批发市场), and approached fruit wholesalers to introduce the company's business, but after working hard for many days, he didn't sign a single order.

"This is not a matter of how much the freight is." A durian importer's words made Zhang Dehuan (张德欢) suddenly realize: the value of a container of durians is 1 million yuan, and the freight is 40,000 yuan. If the transportation quality cannot be guaranteed, no one will risk losing millions of yuan of goods in order to save some freight.

Zhang Dehuan (张德欢) heard that at the beginning of the opening of freight transport on the China-Laos Railway, some people used old-fashioned refrigerated containers to transport durians several times, but the temperature control was not accurate, resulting in the loss of the entire container of durians. Therefore, there was a saying that "railway transportation of durians is unreliable." However, road transportation is not so smooth. Not only does it take a long time, but the durian season is during the rainy season, which can easily lead to road interruptions due to landslides and rockfalls; even if they arrive smoothly at the border ports of China and Laos, they may still encounter road congestion caused by concentrated freight, and many cargo owners can only watch the durians ripen on the road, with a high risk of cargo loss.

Since no cargo owner was willing to take the risk, Zhang Dehuan (张德欢) decided to buy a batch of durians himself to let the cargo owners see for themselves.

When the durians were on the road, Zhang Dehuan (张德欢) had to confirm the location and temperature of the container every three or four hours. After 26 hours, the durians transported through the new refrigerated containers of the China-Laos Railway smoothly arrived in Kunming (昆明) and were immediately snapped up by merchants who came to hear the news. Two companies immediately discussed with Zhang Dehuan (张德欢), and one cargo owner immediately decided to have six containers of durians transported by Zhang Dehuan's (张德欢) company.

"China-Laos Railway cold chain transportation of durians is more reliable" quickly spread throughout the Yunnan (云南) durian trading circle. Zhang Dehuan's (张德欢) company became busy. At the same time, in 2023, the import and export freight volume of the China-Laos Railway was 4.2177 million tons, an increase of nearly 95% year-on-year.

In order to improve transportation capacity, there are more shifts and faster customs clearance.

Pan Lining (潘礼宁), general manager of Guangxi Xianong International Trade Co., Ltd. (广西暹农国际贸易有限公司), has been engaged in cross-border durian trade for 10 years. Before the opening of the China-Laos Railway, cross-border transportation mainly relied on land transportation. Because old-fashioned road containers were used, the ripeness of the durians at the front and back of the containers was significantly different, and the back often had openings. "It's easy to be pressured on price when you get to the store." Pan Lining (潘礼宁) said that after the opening of the China-Laos Railway, the new railway refrigerated containers can be positioned and monitored, and the temperature can be adjusted remotely. With little difference in freight, the transportation time is greatly shortened, and the cargo loss rate is also greatly reduced. "There are significantly more repeat customers."

"The guarantee of the timeliness and quality of fresh goods transportation by the China-Laos Railway cold chain patent is our company's biggest advantage." Zhang Dehuan (张德欢) said that with a good reputation, there is no need to worry about customers. Now, the company's containers can run 3 round trips per month on average. The 3-month durian transportation peak season brings the company the main income.

2024 is Zhang Dehuan's (张德欢) company's "harvest year." In the summer of that year, Thailand (泰国) suffered a drought, and the durians were already cracked on the trees, so they could only be harvested in advance, and the 3-month durian peak season was compressed into 1 month. "At that time, as long as you pulled the goods in, you could make money." Zhang Dehuan (张德欢) said that during that time, whether it was road or railway, durian transportation was "hard to find a container." He and his staff were almost working day and night.

Seeing that it was entering the off-season, Typhoon "Mojie" hit Southeast Asia (东南亚) last November, and sea and road transportation were almost paralyzed. All kinds of fresh goods poured into the China-Laos Railway. The cold chain train departed and arrived on time, and the China-Laos Railway became the only stable cross-border transportation channel. New customers' calls came one after another, and there was another half a month of peak season.

The concentrated listing of fresh goods not only posed a challenge to cross-border transportation merchants like Zhang Dehuan (张德欢), but also tested the customs clearance capacity of the customs. During the peak period, nearly 300 containers poured into the Vientiane South Station (万象南站) in Laos (老挝), but the inspection capacity was only more than 100 containers. What to do? Smooth customs clearance is the only way to ensure prosperous freight.

"In order to serve the improvement of transportation capacity, the customs innovated the railway advance declaration model, compressing the cargo customs clearance time to 2 to 5 hours." Su Ming (苏明), chief of the Railway Port Supervision Section of Mengla Customs (勐腊海关铁路口岸监管科), introduced that enterprises declare in advance, and the customs receives the customs declaration data before the goods enter the country. If there are no inspection requirements after entry, they can pass through customs without stopping. At the same time, the railway department formulated the "Lancang-Mekong Express" international freight train operation plan, increasing the frequency of train operation to a maximum of 6 trains per day. At present, there are 18 cross-border trucks speeding on the China-Laos Railway every day, greatly improving the transportation capacity.

Statistics from Kunming Customs (昆明海关) show that in the first half of this year, Yunnan's (云南) import and export of agricultural products to ASEAN reached 18.62 billion yuan, an increase of 23.5% year-on-year. Among them, more than half of the railway goods are transported through the China-Laos Railway.

"Hot fruits go north" and "Yunnan vegetables go south," and there is still a lot of potential to be tapped.

The booming freight of the China-Laos Railway has spawned many jobs. As soon as the container arrives, durian quality inspector Miao Chennan (苗辰南) is responsible for inspecting the quality of the durians that are about to be sent to all parts of the country—smelling the aroma, knocking on the sound, opening the cabinet to taste, and identifying the ripeness according to the color of the pulp and peel. "During the peak season, one person can inspect nearly 10 containers a day." In order to facilitate work, he simply moved his home near the freight station.

"The freight is booming because domestic demand is booming." Zhu Jiang (朱江), head of freight at China Railway Kunming Bureau Group Co., Ltd. (中国铁路昆明局集团有限公司货运负责人), said that Southeast Asian fruits such as durian and mangosteen are popular among the public, and with the improvement of the transportation capacity of the China-Laos Railway, the related industries of overseas planting and transportation have developed rapidly. In recent years, Thailand (泰国) and other places have greatly expanded durian production, of which more than 90% of exported durians are sold to the Chinese market. As of the end of August this year, the transportation volume of durians on the China-Laos Railway exceeded 155,000 tons, an increase of more than 90% compared with the same period last year.

At the same time, Yunnan (云南) vegetables are also placed on the shelves of supermarkets in Vientiane (万象), Laos (老挝) through the China-Laos Railway. Zhu Jiang (朱江) introduced that Yunnan (云南) vegetables can reach Vientiane (万象) in 26 hours, and can be transferred to Thailand (泰国) the next day, saving nearly half the time compared with automobile transportation. Yunnan Lehui Agricultural Products Co., Ltd. (云南乐汇农产品有限公司) has taken advantage of the "fast train" of the China-Laos Railway. In recent years, the export volume of vegetables has continued to climb. It not only purchases vegetables in various parts of Yunnan (云南), but also has a total of 6,000 mu of planting bases in Qujing (曲靖), Wenshan (文山), and Chuxiong (楚雄). "The company sends more than 10 containers full of broccoli and cauliflower to Southeast Asia (东南亚) every day." Said Zhong Hualin (钟华林), general manager of the company.

At present, the "Luliang Vegetable" China-Laos Railway cold chain train has been opened, building a two-way transportation channel for fruits and vegetables. Qu Wei (曲伟), chief of the Second Supervision Section of Dianzhong Customs (滇中海关监管二科科长), introduced that Kunming Customs (昆明海关) continues to deepen the application of the "centralized inspection + railway rapid customs clearance" model to help enterprises reduce waiting time for inspection and logistics costs, and actively support the construction of a "warm to hot return" cross-border corridor for fruits and vegetables.

In addition to fruits and vegetables, clothing, new energy vehicles, and photovoltaic products produced in China are also selling well in Southeast Asia (东南亚). Nowadays, the types of cross-border transportation commodities on the China-Laos Railway have expanded from more than 500 at the beginning of its opening to more than 3,000 now. The customs clearance efficiency of the Mohan Railway Port (磨憨铁路口岸) ranks among the top in the country's railway ports, and it has become the largest railway port connecting ASEAN. In the first half of this year, the total import and export of goods trade in Yunnan Province (云南省) reached 127.39 billion yuan.

"From channel economy, port economy to industrial economy, changes are taking place along the China-Laos Railway." Xiong Bin (熊彬), deputy dean of the China-Laos Engineering Technology College of Kunming University of Science and Technology (昆明理工大学中老工程技术学院副院长) and director of the ASEAN Research Center (东盟研究中心主任), introduced that Mohan (磨憨) in China, Boten (磨丁) and Vientiane (万象) in Laos (老挝) are transforming from traditional agricultural towns to hub cities. The China-Laos Mohan-Boten Economic Cooperation Zone (中国老挝磨憨—磨丁经济合作区) has attracted more than 300 enterprises, and upstream and downstream industries such as cold chain warehousing, sorting and processing, and cross-border e-commerce are gathering. From connecting the two countries to interconnecting the Indochinese Peninsula, the potential of the China-Laos Railway is still being released.

In Zhang Dehuan's (张德欢) view, "Yunnan vegetables going south" has great potential. After a short rest, he plans to take advantage of the freight off-season to explore new markets.

Layout design: Zhang Fangman (张芳曼)

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China's foreign trade defies headwinds, surges forward (expert commentary)

By: 王雪坤

The freight trains shuttling day and night on the China-Laos Railway are a vivid microcosm of China's booming foreign trade. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's foreign trade grew against the trend despite the 风高浪急 (fēng gāo làng jí - "high winds and choppy waves," turbulent and challenging circumstances), and the construction of a strong trading nation has achieved positive results, demonstrating strong development resilience and competitiveness.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the difficulties faced by China's foreign trade development far exceeded expectations, and the achievements made also far exceeded expectations. In terms of total scale, the scale of goods trade in 2024 reached US$6.16 trillion, far exceeding the US$5.1 trillion target proposed in the business development plan. China's import and export of goods completed the target task ahead of schedule and exceeded the target, making an important contribution to the successful conclusion of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and laying a solid foundation for achieving a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan."

The momentum of foreign trade innovation is accelerating. China's trading partners are more diversified, with imports and exports to countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" accounting for more than 50%. Trade products are becoming newer and better, and the proportion of exports of independent brands has increased to 21.8%. The vitality of trade entities has been enhanced, and the proportion of exports of private enterprises has increased from 56% at the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan" to 64.8% in 2024. The potential of new business forms is being released at an accelerated pace, with cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones covering more than 90% of provincial-level administrative regions, and more than 2,500 overseas warehouses with an area of more than 30 million square meters, becoming important infrastructure nodes supporting the development of cross-border e-commerce.

The level of trade liberalization has steadily improved. In 2024, China's overall import tariff level dropped to 7.3%, a decrease of 0.2 percentage points compared with the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan," maintaining a low level globally for many consecutive years. At present, China has signed 23 free trade agreements with 30 countries and regions, and the content of the agreements is becoming increasingly rich and the level is constantly improving. In 2024, the proportion of imports and exports of goods with free trade partners reached 43%, far exceeding the target value of about 36% in 2025.

The contribution of foreign trade development is more significant. In 2024, China's total imports exceeded 18 trillion yuan, and the import scale reached a record high, ranking second in the world for 16 consecutive years, providing broad market space and cooperation opportunities for various countries. At the same time, the Chinese market is also welcoming more and more imported products into ordinary people's homes, better meeting the people's yearning for a better life.

(The author is the president of the Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce (商务部国际贸易经济合作研究院), and the article was compiled by Luo Shanshan (罗珊珊), a reporter from this newspaper.)

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Millennial Ancient City "Comes Alive" (Striving Forward for 70 Years: Chapters of Splendor Woven Across Tianshan Mountains)

By: 本报记者 韩立群 胡仁巴

"The task of cultural relic restoration is heavy, there are few people, and working overtime is common." In the Silk Road Beiting Ancient City Site Museum in Jimusar County (吉木萨尔县), Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture (昌吉回族自治州), Xinjiang (新疆), cultural relic restorer Liu Xiao (刘潇) is concentrating on restoring a pottery pot. On the long table are pottery urns and pottery cups that have been restored recently. Next to the glass are three sentences: restore the original appearance, minimize intervention, and restore the old as before.

Liu Xiao (刘潇), 35 years old this year, used to be a docent at this museum. As the Beiting Ancient City Site (北庭故城遗址) continues to be excavated and more cultural relics are unearthed, there is a shortage of restoration personnel, so he decided to learn cultural relic restoration. "I started to get in touch with it three or four years ago, and at first I relied entirely on finding videos online to learn," Liu Xiao (刘潇) said. Later, Wang Yun (王云), a cultural relic restorer from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology (新疆维吾尔自治区文物考古研究所), came to support him. Liu Xiao (刘潇) had a teacher, and his learning progress also accelerated. At present, he has grown into a cultural relic restorer and has independently restored more than 100 cultural relics.

The Beiting Ancient City Site (北庭故城遗址) is located 12 kilometers north of Jimusar County (吉木萨尔县). The core area covers an area of 1.5 square kilometers. Historically, it was the seat of the Tingzhou (庭州) and Beiting Duhufu (北庭都护府) in the Tang Dynasty (唐代), and the Beshbali Pacification Commissioner's Office (别失八里宣慰司) in the Yuan Dynasty (元代). After thousands of years of wind and frost, the Beiting Ancient City (北庭故城) has witnessed the effective management of the Western Regions by the central governments of past dynasties, as well as the continuous exchanges and integration of all ethnic groups in the great Chinese nation. Its site is known as the "living fossil of the Northern Silk Road." In 2014, the Beiting Ancient City Site (北庭故城遗址) was included in the "World Heritage List" as a Silk Road heritage site.

"The existence of the Beiting Ancient City Site (北庭故城遗址) powerfully proves that Xinjiang (新疆) has been an inseparable part of the great motherland since ancient times. The Xinjiang region has always been a region where many ethnic groups live together, diverse cultures are integrated, and all ethnic groups live and multiply together and develop and build together," said Guo Wu (郭物), a researcher at the Institute of Archeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院考古研究所) and the person in charge of the archeological project of the Beiting Ancient City Site (北庭故城遗址).

Since 2016, with the strong support of the National Cultural Heritage Administration (国家文物局) and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Cultural Heritage Bureau (新疆维吾尔自治区文物局), Jimusar County (吉木萨尔县) has jointly completed the archeological excavation of 21,000 square meters of the Beiting Ancient City Site (北庭故城遗址) with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院), and unearthed more than 3,500 important cultural relics such as the "Betian Temple" (悲田寺) inscribed pottery fragments. At present, 224 unearthed cultural relics have been restored, and 147 folk cultural relics and more than 370 documents and historical materials have been systematically collected.

Xie Yongxia (谢永霞), member of the Standing Committee of the Jimusar County (吉木萨尔县) Party Committee and Minister of the Propaganda Department, introduced that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Jimusar County (吉木萨尔县) integrated various funds of 250 million yuan and successively implemented 24 projects such as the Silk Road Beiting Ancient City Site Museum (丝绸之路北庭故城遗址博物馆) and the protective facility construction of the Beiting Ancient City Site (北庭故城遗址), promoting the protection, development and display and utilization of the site. These projects demonstrate the history of all ethnic groups jointly guarding and building the border, allowing people of all ethnic groups to deeply understand the rich connotation of the unity of Chinese culture.

In the Silk Road Beiting Ancient City Site Museum (丝绸之路北庭故城遗址博物馆), a heavy snow is falling, covering the Beiting Ancient City (北庭故城) model in an instant - the physical model and virtual images are cleverly integrated, giving visitors a sense of time and space travel. "We hope to use modern technology to present the historical features of the Beiting Ancient City (北庭故城) to the audience, so that the Beiting Ancient City Site (北庭故城遗址) will shine brightly," said Ma Jiao (马娇), Director of the Jimusar County (吉木萨尔县) Cultural Relics Bureau and Dean of the Beiting Academy (北庭学研究院).

Students from the Third Middle School of Jimusar County (吉木萨尔县第三中学) are conducting a research course on "Restoring Cultural Relics" in the museum. They are in groups of two, restoring damaged pottery pots. "We feel a great sense of accomplishment when we see the 'cultural relics' restored. The research activities have made us realize the difficulty of cultural relic protection work, and have also deepened our understanding of the history and culture of our motherland," said Hularalai Olarbek (胡拉腊依·欧拉尔别克), a student in Class 7 of the seventh grade of the school.

In order to better protect and utilize the Beiting Ancient City Site (北庭故城遗址), the Standing Committee of the Changji Prefecture People's Congress (昌吉州人大常委会) has formulated the "Regulations on the Protection of the Beiting Ancient City Site in the Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture (昌吉回族自治州北庭故城遗址保护条例)", which has been implemented since May 1 this year. On the basis of clarifying the strengthening of protection, the work requirement of "bringing cultural relics to life" is written into the regulations, and it is clearly proposed to support the development of various forms of cultural and artistic creation based on the Beiting Ancient City Site (北庭故城遗址), so that the achievements of cultural relic protection can benefit the public.

In recent years, Xinjiang (新疆) has increased its efforts in cultural relic protection, a batch of precious cultural relics have been properly preserved, a series of archeological research results have been published, the cultural relic safety situation has continued to improve, and the museum service system has been continuously improved. "We adhere to the principle of protection first, strengthen the protection, utilization and display of cultural relics, sing the main theme of forging a strong sense of community of the Chinese nation, and let the achievements of cultural relic protection and utilization benefit people of all ethnic groups more," said Xu Ruijun (徐锐军), Secretary of the Party Group of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Department of Culture and Tourism (新疆维吾尔自治区文化和旅游厅) and Secretary of the Party Group of the Autonomous Region Museum (自治区文博院).

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Plan for 2025 National Day Flower Arrangement on Tiananmen Square and Chang'an Avenue Released

Beijing, September 16th (Reported by Pan Junqiang (潘俊强) of this newspaper) On the 16th, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Landscape and Greening (北京市园林绿化局) announced the flower arrangement plan for Tiananmen Square (天安门广场) and Chang'an Avenue (长安街) for the 76th anniversary celebration of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Tiananmen Square (天安门广场) and Chang'an Avenue (长安街) will be decorated with flowers under the theme of "Striving on a New Journey and Making Contributions to a New Era" to create a grand, warm, festive, and peaceful atmosphere.

According to reports, a giant flower basket with the theme "Blessing the Motherland" will be placed in the center of Tiananmen Square (天安门广场). The green spaces on both sides will continue the auspicious and wishful flower belt arrangement, covering a total area of 9,600 square meters, with a total of 18 flower balls on both sides. Ten three-dimensional flower beds embodying the beautiful vision of "national prosperity, national rejuvenation, and people's happiness" will make a stunning appearance along Chang'an Avenue (长安街), showcasing the great achievements of the "14th Five-Year Plan" period and looking forward to a better tomorrow. At the same time, more than 7,000 square meters of ground-planted flowers will be arranged along the route, continuing the arrangement form of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, creating five normalized rose landscape bridge areas in Jianguomen (建国门), Dongzhimen North Bridge (东直门北桥), Muxidi (木樨地), Guomao (国贸), and Xinxing (新兴). This year, 67 new and high-quality varieties and native plants will make their debut in the flower beds of Chang'an Avenue (长安街), becoming a beautiful landscape of garden city construction.

According to the person in charge of the Urban Greening Department of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Landscape and Greening (北京市园林绿化局城镇绿化处), the central flower bed's large flower basket continuously innovates large-scale floral art shapes and techniques, using the city flower, the rose, as the focal flower for the first time, and increasing the application of new flower (leaf) plants.

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Global People Annual Awards Ceremony Held in Sichuan

This newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on September 16th (Wang Mingfeng (王明峰), Tian Liang (田亮)) The 2025 Global People Annual Ceremony was held on the 16th in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture (凉山彝族自治州), Sichuan Province (四川省). Relevant leaders from People's Daily (人民日报社), the Publicity Department of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee (四川省委宣传部), the Liangshan Prefecture Party Committee and Government (凉山州委州政府), and people from all walks of life attended. Participating guests engaged in exchanges and discussions focusing on implementing Xi Jinping's (习近平) cultural thought and practicing the global civilization initiative, undertaking new cultural missions in the new era, and continuing to write new chapters in Chinese civilization.

Participating guests believe that with regard to outstanding traditional Chinese culture, on the basis of protection and inheritance, the wisdom and creativity of this generation should be fully demonstrated to generate new content, explore new forms, meet new needs, reflect the atmosphere of contemporary China, and showcase the current image of China. At the same time, it is necessary to enhance the cultural confidence of the entire society, promote the international dissemination of Chinese culture, and allow the world to deeply feel the historical heritage, open mind, and infinite charm of Chinese civilization. In the "Lugu Lake Dialogue" (泸沽湖对话) session, Chinese and foreign guests held discussions on topics such as "Dialogue between Cultures and New Paths for Global Cooperation," "Global Expression of Ethnic Cultural Inheritance and Innovation," and "The Power of Youth in Cross-cultural Communication in the New Era." The Global People Annual Ceremony is hosted by the Global People (《环球人物》) magazine of the People's Daily (人民日报社) and has been held for six sessions since 2019.

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Photo Report

On September 16, the rehearsal for the 2025 Air Force Aviation Open Day and Changchun Air Show was held in Changchun (长春), Jilin (吉林). People photographed the flight performance at the rehearsal site. The 2025 Air Force Aviation Open Day and Changchun Air Show will open on September 19.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Tang Chengzhu (唐成卓) photographed it.

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This edition's editors: Ji Yalin, Zhang Weihao, Guo Yue

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The 5th China Quality Award and Nomination Award Winners List

Quality is the foundation of an enterprise, and management is the basis for its survival. The China Quality Award is the highest honor awarded by the Chinese government in the field of quality management to relevant organizations and individuals. It aims to promote scientific quality management systems, models, and methods, disseminate advanced quality concepts, encourage and guide the whole society to establish a quality-first awareness, strengthen comprehensive quality management, promote quality management innovation, and support the development of new quality productive forces with quality, so as to accelerate the construction of a quality-strong country.

I. List of Winners of the 5th China Quality Award (9 Organizations)

(I) Product Category

Serial Number Organization Name Quality Management Model

1 Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd. (杭州海康威视数字技术股份有限公司) "Digital Intelligence Quality" Quality Management Model

2 Jiangsu Hengtong Optic-Electric Co., Ltd. (江苏亨通光电股份有限公司) "Four-Comprehensive and Two-Sided" Quality Management Model Based on Marine Communication Interconnection

3 TCL Technology Group Corporation (TCL科技集团股份有限公司) "Ultimate, Leading, Collaborative" Quality Management Model

4 Wanhua Chemical Group Co., Ltd. (万华化学集团股份有限公司) "Customer-Oriented, Independent Innovation + Digital Intelligence Empowerment Dual-Drive" Quality Management Model

(II) Engineering Category

Serial Number Organization Name Quality Management Model

1 China Three Gorges Construction Engineering (Group) Co., Ltd. (中国三峡建工（集团）有限公司) "Three Leading, Three Guarantee" High-Quality Project Quality Management Model

(III) Service Category

Serial Number Organization Name Quality Management Model

1 Yuan Longping High-Tech Agriculture Co., Ltd. (袁隆平农业高科技股份有限公司) Modern Seed Industry with Chinese Characteristics "Double-Comprehensive and Double-Zero" Quality Management Model

2 Shijia Hutong Primary School, Dongcheng District, Beijing (北京市东城区史家胡同小学) "Open Learning Space, Empower Student Growth" Comprehensive Quality Management Model of Collaborative Education by School, Family, and Community

(IV) Frontline Teams

Serial Number Organization Name Quality Management Model

1 Flip Chip Packaging Team, Beijing Institute of Microelectronics Technology (北京微电子技术研究所倒装焊封装组) Aerospace Chip Quality Management Model of "Extreme Quality Innovation, Precise Chip Intelligent Manufacturing"

2 China Tianyan (FAST) Team, Guizhou Radio Astronomical Observatory (贵州射电天文台中国天眼（FAST）团队) "Early Results, More Results, Good Results, Great Results" Full-Chain Excellent Quality Management Model

II. List of Nomination Award Winners of the 5th China Quality Award (78 Organizations + 6 Individuals)

(I) Product Category

Serial Number Organization Name Quality Management Model

1 Aptiv Central Electrical (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (安波福中央电气（上海）有限公司) Intelligent Manufacturing "Quality Leads the Future" Quality Management Model

2 ANTA Sports Products Group Co., Ltd. (安踏体育用品集团有限公司) "Zero-Distance Customer Perception, Full Value Chain Collaboration, High-Potential Brand Shaping" Quality Management Model

3 Bairuijyuan Goji Co., Ltd. (百瑞源枸杞股份有限公司) Customer-Centric Goji Berry Full Value Chain Quality Management Model

4 Chengdu Aircraft Industrial (Group) Co., Ltd. (成都飞机工业（集团）有限责任公司) "Achieve Users, Leap Self" CAC Quality Management Model

5 Dalian Huarui Heavy Industry Group Co., Ltd. (大连华锐重工集团股份有限公司) "3C+PDCA" Quality Management Model

6 Dongfang Electric Group Dongfang Turbine Co., Ltd. (东方电气集团东方汽轮机有限公司) Technology and Management Dual-Engine High-End Equipment Manufacturing Quality Management Model with "Dongqi Spirit" as the Core

7 Do-Fluoride Chemicals Co., Ltd. (多氟多新材料股份有限公司) High-Quality Management Model Driven by Process Industry Data Based on Technological Innovation

8 Guangdong Liansu Technology Industrial Co., Ltd. (广东联塑科技实业有限公司) Collaborative and Efficient Digital Intelligence Quality Management Model

9 Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd. (广州汽车集团股份有限公司) Quality Management Model Centered on "Integrated Innovation"

10 Guizhou Aerospace Electrical Appliance Co., Ltd. (贵州航天电器股份有限公司) "One Core and Three Drivers" Quality Management Model Based on Innovation Leadership

11 Harbin Electric Machinery Co., Ltd. (哈尔滨电机厂有限责任公司) "One Core, Four Refinements, Dual Empowerment" Harbin Electric Boutique Quality Management Model

12 Harbin Aircraft Industry Group Co., Ltd. (哈尔滨飞机工业集团有限责任公司) 6C Quality Management Model

13 Hangyang Group Co., Ltd. (杭氧集团股份有限公司) "Atmospheric Travels the World" Quality Management Model

14 Heilongjiang Feihe Dairy Co., Ltd. (黑龙江飞鹤乳业有限公司) Dual-Chain Integration of Value Chain and Innovation Chain Intelligent Manufacturing Quality Management Model

15 Hubei Xingfa Chemicals Group Co., Ltd. (湖北兴发化工集团股份有限公司) "High-Quality 'Phosphorus' Selection, One Foundation, Dual-Drive, Three Integrations" Quality Management Model

16 Jilin Carbon Valley Carbon Fiber Co., Ltd. (吉林碳谷碳纤维股份有限公司) "2345—Three-Dimensional Drive" Quality Management Model

17 Johnson Controls (China) Investment Co., Ltd. (江森自控（中国）投资有限公司) Quality Management Model Promoting Sustainable Business Development with the Management Concept of High Performance and One Team

18 Jiangsu Shangshang Cable Group Co., Ltd. (江苏上上电缆集团有限公司) Employee Excellence Performance Quality Management Model with "Four Everyones" as the Core

19 Jinko Solar Co., Ltd. (晶科能源股份有限公司) "Four-Dimensional and Three-Green" Low-Carbon Quality Management Model

20 Magna Drive Co., Ltd. (迈格钠磁动力股份有限公司) "Two-End One-Chain" Frictionless Flexible Innovation Quality Management Model

21 Ninestar Corporation (纳思达股份有限公司) Safe, Reliable, Innovative, and Transcendent "Three-in-One" High-Quality Management Model

22 Nanjing High Speed Gear Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (南京高速齿轮制造有限公司) "Red Star Transmission 1253" Quality Management Model

23 Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd. (内蒙古伊利实业集团股份有限公司) "Autonomous Prevention, Three Lines Promote Zero" Quality Management Model

24 Ningbo Fotile Kitchen Ware Co., Ltd. (宁波方太厨具有限公司) Fotile Happiness Quality Management Model

25 Ningbo Yongxin Optics Co., Ltd. (宁波永新光学股份有限公司) "Three-Line Focus, Expand, Achieve" Yongxin Quality Management Model

26 Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (宁德时代新能源科技股份有限公司) "Trustworthy and Sustainable, Create the Era" Quality Management Model

27 Chery Automobile Co., Ltd. (奇瑞汽车股份有限公司) "Two Hearts, Three Comprehensive, Four-Wheel Drive" Quality Management Model

28 Qinghai Minze Longyangxia Ecological Aquaculture Co., Ltd. (青海民泽龙羊峡生态水殖有限公司) "Five-G + Smart Fishery" Based "Five-ization and Three-Same" Quality Management Model

29 Shaanxi Automobile Group Co., Ltd. (陕西汽车集团股份有限公司) "Four New" Leading, Intelligent Dual-Cycle Quality Management Model

30 Shaanxi SIRUI New Materials Co., Ltd. (陕西斯瑞新材料股份有限公司) "Melting the Past and Casting the Present, Specialized and Intelligent New" Product Tree Quality Management Model

31 Shanghai Electric Automation Group Co., Ltd. (上海电气自动化集团有限公司) Digital Quality Management Model Based on Quality Immune System

32 Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd. (深圳迈瑞生物医疗电子股份有限公司) "Innovation Leads Globalization" Medical Device Quality Management Model

33 Shenyang Blower Works Group Co., Ltd. (沈鼓集团股份有限公司) "Intelligent Manufacturing Strong Core I—PDMS" Quality Management Model Aiming at Breaking Through the Localization of High-End Equipment

34 Shougang Zhixin Qian'an Electrical Materials Co., Ltd. (首钢智新迁安电磁材料有限公司) Integrated and Consistent Quality Management Model Driven by "All-Round Service + Intelligent Control"

35 Suzhou Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (苏州三星电子有限公司) 3S Digital Quality Management Model Pursuing Win-Win

36 Wanxiang Qianchao Co., Ltd. (万向钱潮股份公司) Wanxiang Quality Management Model with "Seven-Step Value Core Method" as the Core

37 Weihua Group Co., Ltd. (卫华集团有限公司) "Three-Element Method" Quality Management Model Based on "WEIHUA Quality Cloud"

38 Xizi Clean Energy Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (西子清洁能源装备制造股份有限公司) Dual-Wheel Drive Full Value Chain Quality Management Model with "Zero Carbon" as the Core

39 Yibin Wuliangye Co., Ltd. (宜宾五粮液股份有限公司) "From a Seed to a Drop of Fine Wine" Full Value Chain Integrated Quality Management Model

40 FAW Jiefang Automotive Co., Ltd. (一汽解放汽车有限公司) "12347—E2E" Excellent Operation Quality Management Model

41 Yizumi Precision Machinery Co., Ltd. (伊之密股份有限公司) "Digital Intelligence Operation" Industrial Ecosystem Quality Management Model

42 China First Heavy Industries (Dalian) Nuclear Power & Petrochemical Co., Ltd. (一重集团大连核电石化有限公司) "Three Barriers" Quality Management Model Based on the National Strategy of New Industrialization

43 Zhengzhou Research Institute for Abrasives Grinding Co., Ltd. (郑州磨料磨具磨削研究所有限公司) "Internal and External Dual-Drive, Three-Dimensional Grinding Core" Quality Management Model

44 CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd. (中车长春轨道客车股份有限公司) "One Traction, Dual-Drive, Three Guarantees" Quality Management Model

45 CRRC Qingdao Sifang Locomotive & Rolling Stock Co., Ltd. (中车青岛四方机车车辆股份有限公司) Three-Layer Four-Wheel Drive Dual-Cycle Quality Management Model

46 Zhongfu Shenying Carbon Fiber Co., Ltd. (中复神鹰碳纤维股份有限公司) Full Life Cycle Intelligent Quality Management Model of "One 'Carbon' Under Heaven, Building the Foundation with Quality"

47 China Northern Rare Earth (Group) High-Tech Co., Ltd. (中国北方稀土（集团）高科技股份有限公司) "Three-Line + Three-Comprehensive + Three-Process" Quality Management Model

48 China Shipbuilding Group Corporation 711 Research Institute (中国船舶集团有限公司第七一一研究所) Independent and Controllable "Seven Refinements and Double First-Class" Quality Management Model

49 The 5720th Factory of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (中国人民解放军第五七二〇工厂) Aviation Equipment "Two Wings Fly Together to Ensure Victory" Quality Management Model

50 AVIC Fujikura Technology Co., Ltd. (中航富士达科技股份有限公司) Three-Cycle Four-Path Quality Management Model Based on "Combination of Tao and Technique"

51 AVIC Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group Co., Ltd. (中航西安飞机工业集团股份有限公司) Large Aircraft Industry "Takeoff" Quality Management Model

52 COFCO Corporation (中粮集团有限公司) Full Value Chain Quality Management Model of "Loyalty and Goodness" Quality as the Core

53 Zhuzhou Cemented Carbide Group Co., Ltd. (株洲硬质合金集团有限公司) Incremental Quality Management Model Driven by Market Technology

(II) Engineering Category

Serial Number Organization Name Quality Management Model

1 Zhejiang Southeast Space Frame Group Co., Ltd. (浙江东南网架集团有限公司) Steel Structure Prefabricated Green Construction Quality Management Model with "Digitalization" as the Core

2 China Energy Engineering Group Guangdong Electric Power Design Institute Co., Ltd. (中国能源建设集团广东省电力设计研究院有限公司) "Dual Precision" Energy Gathering Quality Management Model

3 China Building Materials Academy for Glass Science and Research (中国建材玻璃新材料研究院集团有限公司) Innovation-Driven "Three-Chain Integration" Three-Precision Quality Management Model

(III) Service Category

Serial Number Organization Name Quality Management Model

1 Roche Diagnostics Products (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (罗氏诊断产品（上海）有限公司) Global Modular Quality Management Model

2 Mengcao Eco-Environment (Group) Co., Ltd. (蒙草生态环境（集团）股份有限公司) Full Value Chain Quality Management Model of "Conservation, Cultivation, Promotion" Based on Learning from Nature

3 Taiji Computer Corporation Limited (太极计算机股份有限公司) "1234" Taiji Quality Management Model Based on Customer-Customized Digital Services

4 Yunzhanghu Technology (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. (云账户技术（天津）有限公司) "Five-in-One" Digital Economy New Business Flexible Employment Service Quality Management Model

5 China Automotive Engineering Research Institute Co., Ltd. (中国汽车工程研究院股份有限公司) Automotive "Zero" Vision High-Quality Development Quality Management Model

6 China Nuclear Power Operation Management Co., Ltd. (中核核电运行管理有限公司) Autonomous, Digital, and Industrialized Quality Management Model with Safety as the "Core"

7 Guangxi Mechanical and Electrical Technician College (广西机电技师学院) Integration of Education Organization Management System and Teaching Diagnosis and Improvement - Empowering Intrinsic Construction Quality Management Model

8 Shenyang Wenyi Road No.2 Primary School, Shenhe District, Shenyang (沈阳市沈河区文艺路第二小学) Group-Based School Management "Internal Refinement and External Excellence, Dual-Line and Two-Comprehensive" Quality Management Model

(IV) Frontline Teams

Serial Number Organization Name Quality Management Model

1 Tang Jianping Team, Shanghai Aerospace Precision Machinery Institute (上海航天精密机械研究所唐建平班组) "Dual Improvement, Dual Integration" Quality Management Model

2 No. 2 Factory, Shanghai Huali Microelectronics Corporation (上海华虹宏力半导体制造有限公司二厂) Problem-Oriented "One Find, Two Solve, Three New, Three-ization" Quality Management Model

3 Night Vision Special Production Team, the 11th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (中国电子科技集团公司第十一研究所夜视专项生产班) "1+1+1" Quality Management Model Based on "IE+IT"

4 Explosives Machining Group, Institute of Chemical Materials, China Academy of Engineering Physics (中国工程物理研究院化工材料研究所炸药机械加工组) Explosives Machining "Two-Two-One" Quality Management Model

5 "Li Zhiqiang Class", Engine Assembly Plant, AVIC Liming (中国航发黎明发动机装配厂“李志强班”) Advanced Power Assembly "Dual-Engine Multi-Objective Upright Innovation" Quality Management Model

6 High-Precision Manufacturing Team of Large-Aperture Silicon Carbide Reflective Mirror, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院长春光学精密机械与物理研究所大口径碳化硅反射镜高精度制造团队) Building the Spirit of Excellence to Create Three-Precision Zero-Defect Quality Management Model

7 New Era Saihanba Foresters, Saihanba Mechanical Forest Farm, Hebei Province (河北省塞罕坝机械林场新时代塞罕坝务林人) "Remembering the Mission, Hard Work, Green Development" Saihanba Spirit Quality Management Model

8 Advanced Nuclear Power Technology Independent Research and Development Design Team, Shenzhen CGN Engineering Design Co., Ltd. (深圳中广核工程设计有限公司先进核电技术自主研发设计团队) "One Core and Dual Engine, Safety First" Complex Engineering Research and Development Design Quality Management Model

9 Baihetan Grouting and Anchoring Intelligent Tackling Team, Chengdu Hydropower Construction Engineering Co., Ltd., China Water Resources and Hydropower Seventh Engineering Bureau (中国水电七局成都水电建设工程有限公司白鹤滩灌浆与锚固智能化攻坚班组) Hidden Project "Four Zero and Three-ization" Intelligent Craftsmanship Quality Management Model

10 Plateau Project QC Group, China Railway Fifth Bureau Group Co., Ltd. (中铁五局集团有限公司高原项目QC小组) Quality Management Model Based on the Application of Advanced Tooling and Supporting the Improvement of Process Level

11 Water-Saving Irrigation and Drainage Laboratory ("Zhu Shuangsi Laboratory"), Anhui Institute of Product Quality Supervision and Inspection (安徽省产品质量监督检验研究院节水排灌实验室（“朱双四实验室”)) "One Axis, Two Wings, Four-Wheel Drive" Quality Management Model Oriented to Achieving Customers

12 "Lian Gang Innovation Team", Qingdao Port, Shandong Port Group, Qingdao Qianwan Container Terminal Co., Ltd. (青岛新前湾集装箱码头有限责任公司山东港口集团青岛港“连钢创新团队”) SMART Smart Green Quality Management Model

13 "Yuanwang" R&D Innovation Team of Aerospace Survey Vessel, the 708th Research Institute of China Shipbuilding Group Corporation (中国船舶集团有限公司第七〇八研究所航天测量船“远望”研发创新团队) "Bridge, Rudder, Anchor, Cable, Paddle" Five-Position Support Equipment Design Quality Management Model

14 Submarine Cable Operation and Maintenance Class, Haikou Branch, Guangzhou Bureau, Ultra High Voltage Transmission Company, China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd. (中国南方电网有限责任公司超高压输电公司广州局海口分局海缆运维班) "1+2+5" Quality Embankment Management Model Based on Safety and Controllability

(V) Individuals

Serial Number Name Affiliation Position

1 Fan Zhiqin (樊志勤) Taiyuan Heavy Machinery Group Co., Ltd. (太原重型机械集团有限公司) Welder

2 Li Debin (李德斌) Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group Holdings Co., Ltd. (安徽江淮汽车集团控股有限公司) Chief Quality Officer (Chief Quality Officer)

3 Ma Xiaoguang (马小光) Beijing North Vehicle Group Co., Ltd. (北京北方车辆集团有限公司) Senior Technician

4 Meng Xiangfei (孟祥飞) National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin (国家超级计算天津中心) Chief Application R&D Scientist

5 Qin Shijun (秦世俊) Harbin Aircraft Industry Group Co., Ltd. (哈尔滨飞机工业集团有限责任公司) Senior Technician

6 Zhong Balian (钟八莲) National Navel Orange Engineering Technology Research Center (国家脐橙工程技术研究中心) Chief Expert

The 5th China Quality Award Selection and Commendation Committee

September 2025

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Deeply Understand the World Significance of Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization

By: 龚维斌

The Earth is the shared home of all humanity, and building a green home is the common dream of mankind. Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization is not only committed to building a beautiful China, but also to building a clean and beautiful world; it is not only the fundamental guideline and action guide for China's ecological civilization construction, but also contributes Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to jointly promote the construction of global ecological civilization. The first volume of "Xi Jinping's (习近平) Excerpts on Ecological Civilization," published in July this year, systematically reflects the rich content, scientific system, and original contributions of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization, providing authoritative teaching materials for in-depth study and implementation of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in "Working Together for a Green Life and Building a Beautiful Home": "Faced with ecological and environmental challenges, mankind is a community of shared destiny where all prosper together and all suffer together, and no country can be immune." We must deeply study the first volume of "Xi Jinping's (习近平) Excerpts on Ecological Civilization," profoundly grasp the original contributions of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization to the construction of global ecological civilization, deeply understand the world significance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization, and further enhance the political consciousness, ideological consciousness, and action consciousness of implementing Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization.

Guiding the Creation of a New Form of Human Civilization

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in "To Achieve Sustainable Development, We Must Focus on Ecological Civilization Construction": "It is impossible for us to build a modern country by following the old path of the United States and Europe, and even if there were several more Earths, it would not be enough for the Chinese people to consume." Since the 18th century, the path of modernization originating in the United States and Europe has created unprecedented material wealth, but it has also produced irreparable ecological wounds. The industrial civilization dominated by the West relies excessively on resource consumption, leading to the risk of resource depletion. The discharge of large amounts of pollutants has led to rapid environmental destruction and serious damage to human health. The rapid expansion of economic activities has severely encroached on ecological space and damaged ecosystems, causing great harm to mankind. Without solving these problems existing in the "old path of the United States and Europe," it is impossible to move out of traditional industrial civilization and into a new form of civilization.

In the process of solving ecological and environmental problems, developed Western countries have demonstrated a strong technical rationality and instrumental rationality, relying more on technical means and market tools to control environmental pollution and restore the ecological environment. To a certain extent, this has alleviated the tense relationship between man and nature, but the unlimited expansion of capital and the limited natural resources have formed contradictions that are difficult for capitalist countries to reconcile on their own. In order to ease domestic environmental protection pressure, developed Western countries have transferred enterprises and industries with high resource consumption and serious environmental pollution to developing countries, and have carried out development and utilization in a manner of **竭泽而渔** (jié zé ér yú - "drain the pond to catch all the fish," to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs), shifting the cost of sacrificing the ecological environment to other countries, and have not found a new path of civilization development.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in "Building a Community of Life on Earth Together": "Ecological civilization is the historical trend of human civilization development." Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization breaks away from the technical constraints and instrumental rationality of ecological and environmental protection, organically combines ecology and civilization, creatively proposes the important concept of ecological civilization, and guides human society towards a more advanced stage of civilization development. Ecological civilization is a value and a form of social civilization, which includes not only material civilization content such as ecological economy, ecological products, and green technology, but also institutional civilization content such as laws, regulations, and policy norms related to ecological civilization, as well as spiritual civilization content such as ecological environmental protection concepts, environmental justice, and ecological justice. Ecological civilization is a major achievement of human social progress, a product of the development of industrial civilization to a certain stage, and an important part of the new form of human civilization. It not only indicates that we must bid farewell to the old industrial civilization, but also means a comprehensive transcendence of the old industrial civilization. Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization enriches and develops the Marxist thought on the relationship between man and nature, promotes and sublimates the ecological wisdom of excellent traditional Chinese culture, fundamentally solves the inherent unsustainability of industrial civilization, and embodies the historical laws and historical trends of human civilization development.

In terms of value appeal, Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization embodies the transcendence of human-centered logic over capital logic. In the process of development, capitalism takes the appreciation of capital and the maximization of profits as its starting point, and the conquest and transformation of nature as its premise, one-sidedly pursuing the rapid growth of material civilization, resulting in the alienation of the relationship between man and nature. Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization always adheres to the people-centered approach, making it clear that a good ecological environment is the most inclusive people's livelihood and well-being, making the common needs of the people an important value orientation of social production under the new form of human civilization, and truly embodying the ecological benefits for the people, ecological benefits for the people, and ecological benefits for the people.

In terms of thinking mode, Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization embodies the transcendence of the holistic and systematic thinking of Chinese civilization over the dualistic and confrontational thinking of Western civilization. Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization creatively transforms and innovatively develops the traditional Chinese ecological wisdom such as "**道法自然**" (dào fǎ zì rán - "man follows the earth, the earth follows heaven, heaven follows the Tao, and the Tao follows what is natural," act in accordance with nature) and "**天人合一**" (tiān rén hé yī - "unity of man and nature," harmony between man and nature), proposes that man and nature are a community of life, and constantly endows the excellent traditional Chinese ecological culture with new contemporary connotations. Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization focuses on the overall systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, and grasslands, transcends the atomized and discrete thinking mode of Western civilization, and uses systematic thinking to seek new ways of ecological governance from a global perspective. Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization opposes extravagance, waste, and unreasonable consumption, and does not advocate anti-consumerism, but advocates a simple, moderate, green, and low-carbon lifestyle. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization, China has embarked on a new path of harmonious coexistence between man and nature that is different from both ecocentrism and anthropocentrism, providing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions for the progress of human civilization.

Breaking the Dilemma of Global Sustainable Development

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized in "Promoting Ecological Civilization Construction Requires Handling Several Major Relationships Well": "Handling the relationship between development and protection is a global problem and an eternal topic facing the development of human society." Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization breaks the paradox of the mutual opposition between development and protection, and provides theoretical guidance for breaking the dilemma of global sustainable development.

Promoting the harmonious coexistence of man and nature has become a global consensus. Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization creatively proposes the concept that green waters and green mountains are invaluable assets, making it clear that green waters and green mountains are not only natural wealth and ecological wealth, but also social wealth and economic wealth; protecting the ecological environment is to protect natural value and increase natural capital, and to protect the potential and stamina of economic and social development, so that green waters and green mountains can continue to play ecological, economic, and social benefits. This important concept means that we should not only regard mineral resources, forest resources, land resources, and water resources in the ecological environment as important factors of production, but also see the economic value, cultural value, social value, and other aspects of the ecological environment as a whole; regard the ecological environment as a whole, adhere to the concept of system, make it clear that ecological environmental protection and economic development are not contradictory, but dialectically unified, so that ecological environmental protection is internalized into the development of productivity, and innovate and develop the Marxist theory of productivity. Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization summarizes and refines the experience of China's ecological civilization construction from the height of methodology, forming the concept that green waters and green mountains are invaluable assets, which not only effectively guides the comprehensive green transformation of the country's economic and social development, but also promotes the harmonious coexistence of man and nature to become a global consensus.

Providing Chinese solutions for global sustainable development. Under the guidance of the concept that green waters and green mountains are invaluable assets, China is accelerating the development of new quality productive forces, promoting the comprehensive green transformation of the economy and society, and leading the direction of global sustainable development. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized in "New Quality Productive Forces Are Themselves Green Productive Forces": "Green development is the underlying color of high-quality development, and new quality productive forces are themselves green productive forces." China is constantly accelerating revolutionary breakthroughs in technology, innovative allocation of production factors, and in-depth transformation and upgrading of industries, improving total factor productivity, accelerating green technological innovation and the promotion and application of advanced green technologies, actively promoting the high-end, intelligent, and green development of industries, and building green industrial chains, supply chains, and value chains. At present, more than half of the world's new energy vehicles are running on Chinese soil, China has built the world's largest electric vehicle charging network, and the number of new energy patents accounts for more than 40% of the world's total. China is helping and supporting countries and regions with fragile ecological environments and weak green development capabilities with greater efforts, and has carried out green energy project cooperation with more than 100 countries and regions. As the world's largest exporter of clean technology, it has created 46% of the world's jobs in the renewable energy sector. The vivid practice of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization provides developing countries with feasible solutions that can be implemented for green transformation, and contributes Chinese strength to developing countries to achieve sustainable development.

Providing a new choice for developing countries to achieve modernization. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大) , under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization, we have promoted green development with unprecedented efforts, accelerated the construction of ecological civilization, and carried out a series of fundamental, pioneering, and long-term work. In the process of continuing to write new chapters in the two major miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability, we have achieved remarkable green development miracles. We adhere to protecting in development and developing in protection, plan the development of territorial space as a whole, strictly implement the control of territorial space use, scientifically arrange production space, living space, and ecological space, realize the coordination of economic and social development with population, resources, and environment, and continuously improve the level of resource utilization. China's air quality and water environment have improved at a rate that is remarkable in the world, becoming one of the countries with the fastest reduction in global energy consumption intensity, and has built the world's largest carbon market and clean power generation system. China is also the fastest and largest country in the world to "increase green," contributing 1/4 of the world's new green area. These great achievements have laid a good ecological and environmental foundation for high-quality development, which not only fully demonstrates the power of truth and the power of practice of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization, but also powerfully proves that the old road of "polluting first and then treating" can be avoided in achieving modernization, and ecological environmental protection and economic and social development can complement and promote each other, and the "ecological crisis" in the process of modernization can be avoided. The successful practice of China's ecological civilization construction provides a new choice for developing countries to achieve modernization.

Promoting the Building of a Community of Life on Earth

Human society is facing the dilemma of the increasingly tense relationship between man and nature. The global flow of capital has broken the spatial and temporal boundaries of the development and utilization of natural resources, and ecological and environmental issues have become a common issue for all mankind that transcends national boundaries and concerns the survival of mankind. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in "Jointly Promoting the Construction of Global Ecological Civilization and Striving to Build a Clean and Beautiful World": "There is only one Earth for mankind, and protecting the ecological environment and promoting sustainable development are the common responsibilities of all countries." In "Building a Community of Life on Earth Together," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The international community should strengthen cooperation, think in the same direction, work together, and build a community of life on Earth together." This points out the direction for realizing the harmonious coexistence of man and nature and jointly building a clean and beautiful world.

Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization's proposition on "building a community of life on Earth together" transcends the geographical boundaries of nation-states, contains the concept that all countries in the world should follow the harmonious coexistence of man and nature, should respect nature, conform to nature, and protect nature, jointly protect the irreplaceable Earth home, jointly heal the scars of the ecological environment, jointly create a harmonious and livable human home, and jointly build the foundation of ecological civilization, etc., injecting strong ideological impetus into promoting the construction of global ecological civilization.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) focuses on the sustainable development of mankind and the future destiny of the world and proposes to build a community of life on Earth, which is closely related to the concept of building a community of shared future for mankind, and has been widely praised and warmly responded to by the international community. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Human beings live in the same global village, live in the same time and space where history and reality converge, and are increasingly becoming a community of shared destiny in which you have me and I have you." The community of shared future for mankind is first and foremost a community of life. Building a community of life on Earth is an important aspect of building a community of shared future for mankind, and building a community of shared future for mankind provides a value foundation for building a community of life on Earth together. Building a community of shared future for mankind can take jointly promoting the construction of global ecological civilization and building a community of life on Earth as an important entry point, promote human society from competition to cooperation, strengthen civilization exchanges and mutual learning in the common actions of global environmental governance and promoting green and low-carbon transformation, and continuously expand the convergence points and common points of the interests of all mankind. Promoting the building of a community of life on Earth is not only a great cause that benefits the Chinese nation, but also an international responsibility and a world contribution that China fulfills for the development and progress of mankind, vividly demonstrating the global vision and world feelings of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization.

Faced with a series of global ecological and environmental problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and desertification, countries can better solve the global environmental governance problems such as the weakening of consensus, the lack of cooperation, and the soft constraints of governance only by adhering to the concept of building a community of life on Earth and building a community of shared future for mankind. Focusing on promoting the building of a community of life on Earth, Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization organically combines global ecological environmental governance with common prosperity and development, and draws a realistic path for countries around the world to work together to build an ecologically sound Earth home. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization, China adheres to coordinating the two major situations at home and abroad, actively participates in global environmental governance, strengthens international cooperation in biodiversity protection, climate change response, carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, and promotes green development, becoming a firm actionist and an important contributor to the world's green development, and also making important contributions to promoting the building of a community of life on Earth and building a community of shared future for mankind. China provides more than 80% of the world's photovoltaic modules and 70% of wind power equipment, and the wind power and photovoltaic products exported during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period have cumulatively reduced carbon emissions for other countries by about 4.1 billion tons, allowing countries, especially developing countries, to use, afford, and use clean energy well, which is of great significance to the global low-carbon transition. At the 2024 China-Africa Cooperation Forum, President Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed that China is willing to help Africa build a "green growth engine"; the "Belt and Road" initiative is increasingly rooted in green; China's Juncao technology has become a model of "small and beautiful" cooperation projects... As a participant, contributor, and leader in global ecological civilization construction, China promotes the convergence of consensus among countries, consolidates the foundation of cooperation, broadens the scope of cooperation, and innovates cooperation models, and continuously promotes the coordinated construction of a beautiful China and a clean and beautiful world, so that the power of truth and the power of practice of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization are widely demonstrated in the world.

Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization contains deep concern for the survival and development of all mankind, and embodies the lofty realm of adhering to seeking happiness for the people, seeking rejuvenation for the nation, seeking progress for mankind, and seeking harmony for the world. Thinking about the ecological problems encountered in the process of human civilization development with a broad vision that embraces the world and looks to the future, and promoting the construction of a fair, reasonable, and win-win global environmental governance system, the far-reaching world significance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization will be continuously enriched, deepened, and expanded in the process of building global ecological civilization.

(The author is the Deputy Director of the Xi Jinping (习近平) Research Center on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era of the Central Party School (National Academy of Governance))

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Driving Development with Concrete Action

By: 张 鹏

Grasping implementation is an important working method and a winning weapon for communists. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must put grasping implementation in a prominent position, formulate specific plans, clarify the division of responsibilities, prevent tasks from failing, and resolutely overcome the phenomena of 'planning and planning, hanging on the wall' and 'one set of plans, another set of actions.'" At present, the tasks of reform, development, and stability are heavy, the contradictions, risks, and challenges are numerous, and the tests of governing the country are unprecedented. We especially need to closely focus on the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, use the "hammer of implementation" to nail down the "nail of development," and turn the grand blueprint of building a strong country and national rejuvenation into a beautiful reality step by step.

Our Party has always attached importance to grasping implementation and is good at grasping implementation. From "awakening millions of workers and peasants to work together with one heart" in the revolutionary period, to "crossing the river by feeling the stones" in the reform and opening up, to "rolling up our sleeves and working hard" in the new era, seeking truth from facts and grasping implementation has always been an important experience and reliable guarantee for our Party to unite and lead the people from victory to victory. During his time as an educated youth in Liangjiahe (梁家河), Shaanxi (陕西), Xi Jinping (习近平) led the villagers to build dams and cultivate fields, and build biogas digesters, turning ideas into methods and visions into reality. He said: "My primary requirement for myself is to 'seek hardship.'" This vividly interprets the most pragmatic character of communists. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, from the "not a single person can be left behind" in poverty alleviation to the budding growth of the "future city" of Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), to the "Belt and Road" connecting the world, all are fruitful results of grasping implementation with the spirit of nailing nails. History and practice fully prove that all problems can only be solved in implementation; all opportunities can only be grasped in implementation; and all visions can only be realized in implementation.

Implementation is not reckless action, but requires a global perspective and precise efforts. For example, in promoting ecological civilization construction, Tangshan (唐山), Hebei (河北) focused on air pollution and launched a "governance of air" battle, realizing the "butterfly transformation and rebirth" of a heavy industrial city; Zunyi (遵义), Guizhou (贵州), based on its rich red resources, explored the "ecology +" red cultural tourism and health industry, turning the "good looks" of green waters and green mountains into the "good value" of Jinshan Yinshan (金山银山); Huangshan (黄山), Anhui (安徽) took the pilot of ecological protection compensation in the Xin'an River (新安江) basin as an opportunity to establish a diversified ecological comprehensive compensation system, forming a virtuous interaction between ecological protectors and ecological beneficiaries. This fully shows that party members and cadres must thoroughly understand the spirit of the Central Committee, accurately grasp the intention of the policies, closely integrate with the actual situation of their regions, fields, and units, scientifically draw "construction drawings," and clarify "task books." They must never copy mechanically or be "uniformly thick from top to bottom." They must be good at grasping the "ox nose" of task implementation, find the key links that affect the whole body, and concentrate their efforts to overcome difficulties. They must have a clear understanding of the "major issues of the country," have effective ways to address the concerns of the people, combine the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee with specific practices, and carry out work creatively.

Grasping implementation is valuable in perseverance, and the most taboo is 雨过地皮湿 (yǔ guò dì pí shī - "rain passes, ground skin wet," superficial work; ineffective implementation). We must carry forward the spirit of nailing nails, hammering one after another until it is firmly nailed. For example, for more than 20 years, Zhejiang (浙江) has been closely following the goal of the "Thousand Villages Demonstration, Ten Thousand Villages Renovation" project without wavering or tossing, maintaining the continuity and stability of its work, issuing action plans every 5 years, issuing implementation opinions at each important stage, determining the focus of rectification according to different stages of development, persevering and constantly grasping without slackening, and constantly accumulating small victories into big victories in rural construction. Once you see it, you should grasp it to the end. Party members and cadres should have such a style and responsibility. For those major reforms that are related to the overall situation, key projects that are related to the long-term, and livelihood issues that affect the people's hearts, we must 咬定青山不放松 (yǎo dìng qīng shān bù fàng sōng - "bite the green hills and not relax," to be steadfast and determined), and never give up until the goal is achieved. At the same time, we must establish and improve a normalized and long-term working mechanism, eliminate "one-size-fits-all" implementation, prevent "half-finished projects," and ensure that various decisions and deployments take root, blossom, and bear fruit.

Grasping implementation ultimately depends on whether it solves practical problems, increases people's well-being, and promotes the development of the cause. We must resolutely avoid the false implementation of "treating what has been said as done, and treating what has been done as done well," and correct the utilitarian style of "stacking bonsai," "creating highlights," and "brushing data." We must make good use of tools such as supervision and inspection, assessment and evaluation, and accountability to form a closed loop of "deployment-implementation-inspection-feedback." Let those "empty talkers" who "thunder loudly but rain little" and "have high voices but little action" have no market, and let those "doers" who "are willing to act, able to act, and good at acting" stand out. Practical results are the most solid image, and practical effects are the most valuable responsibility. Only by taking out the real effort of grasping, the courage to grasp, the skill to grasp, and the tenacity to grasp, can party members and cadres truly implement all tasks and achieve results.

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Strive to build a vibrant and innovative city

By: 张进财

As the center of economic development, cities are the main battleground for technological innovation and industrial development. The Central Urban Work Conference held in July this year proposed the "one optimization, six constructions" key tasks for urban work, and made specific deployments for "focusing on building vibrant and innovative cities." This highlights the important value and contemporary significance of using innovation-driven empowerment to promote the connotative development of cities. Currently, the global landscape of technological competition is undergoing profound restructuring, and new quality productive forces characterized by digitalization and greening are accelerating their formation. To promote high-quality and sustainable development of cities, innovation must be placed in an important position, carefully creating an open, inclusive, and efficient allocation of innovation resources, and continuously stimulating the surging momentum and internal vitality of urban development.

Building vibrant and innovative cities is an important strategic pillar for shaping new drivers of development and leading the Chinese-style modernization. As the spatial carrier of advanced productive forces and the core hub of innovative elements, cities gather talent, technology, capital, and data resources to build an innovative ecosystem that deeply integrates government, industry, academia, and research, providing strong support for the incubation and development of new quality productive forces. This process not only drives revolutionary technological breakthroughs and in-depth industrial transformation and upgrading, but also promotes the transformation of urban development from incremental expansion to connotative development from a developmental logic, thereby further shaping the nation's competitive advantage.

The important strategic pillar role of innovative cities is mainly reflected in its engine function for the transformation of development momentum. The Central Urban Work Conference emphasized that cities should "continuously make breakthroughs in developing new quality productive forces." Through the "dual-wheel drive" of technological innovation and industrial innovation, the construction of innovative cities can promote the upgrading of traditional industries, the expansion of emerging industries, and the cultivation of future industries in a "three-pronged approach." This transformation of momentum not only relies on single technological breakthroughs, but also requires the systematic support of the city as an "organic living body." By breaking down institutional and mechanism barriers through institutional innovation, stimulating the creativity of the entire society through cultural innovation, and improving resource allocation efficiency through governance innovation, cities can truly become the source of new knowledge, new technologies, and new industries. To focus on building vibrant and innovative cities, it is necessary to use technological innovation to lead the qualitative leap in productive forces, use institutional innovation to stimulate the systemic restructuring of production relations, and use cultural innovation to build social consensus, ultimately achieving the coordinated improvement of development momentum, governance effectiveness, and people's well-being through cities, and building a solid foundation for Chinese-style modernization.

The deep integration of the innovation chain and the industrial chain is the source of power for building vibrant and innovative cities. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out that "technological innovation and industrial innovation are the basic paths for developing new quality productive forces," and emphasized "making the innovation chain and the industrial chain seamlessly connected." The innovation chain provides the original momentum for revolutionary technological breakthroughs, while the industrial chain carries its transformation and application scenarios. The "seamless connection" between the two not only spawns strategic emerging industries, but also promotes the "intelligent transformation and digital upgrading" of traditional industries, achieving a significant increase in total factor productivity. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) once used the metaphor of dismantling "fences" and clearing "express lanes" to emphasize removing the obstacles to the transformation of scientific research results from samples to products and then to commodities. By accelerating technology iteration through joint innovation platforms between universities and enterprises, using market demand to feed back into research and development directions, and precisely irrigating key nodes with capital, cities can form a complete chain of "scientific research—transformation—incubation—industrialization."

Talent gathering and element collaboration are important foundations for building vibrant and innovative cities. Talent is the core resource for innovation, and the gathering of talent is also the key to making cities vibrant. On the one hand, the prosperity and vitality of cities rely on the continuous influx of people and the continuous development of new enterprises, which are inseparable from all kinds of talents who have dreams and desire to realize their own value. On the other hand, cities also attract talent by building high-quality ecosystems, such as creating livable environments to ensure quality of life, improving service efficiency through smart governance, and building an open culture to cultivate inclusive soil, thereby creating a magnetic field that attracts diverse talents to innovate and pursue their dreams. This helps to form an innovative community with scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and skilled workers in a coordinated manner. For example, since the beginning of this year, Guangdong (广东) has implemented the "Million Talents Gathering in Southern Guangdong (百万英才汇南粤)" action plan, implementing support policies such as "one person applies, the whole family settles down" for key talents in high-precision, cutting-edge, and frontier fields, providing more powerful talent support for urban innovation and development.

Institutional and mechanism innovation is a key support for building vibrant and innovative cities. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "It is necessary to deepen the reform of the science and technology system, the education system, and the talent system, and focus on removing the blockages that hinder the development of new quality productive forces." To empower the construction of innovative cities, it is necessary to break down institutional barriers and release market vitality through institutional innovation. This requires cities to not only dismantle unreasonable administrative barriers, innovate governance paradigms, and establish market-oriented science and technology project establishment and evaluation mechanisms, but also break through element constraints, promote the reform of the ownership of scientific researchers' job achievements, and optimize risk-tolerant mechanisms, and improve the innovation fault tolerance and legal guarantee system. Only through institutional and mechanism innovation can cities become open hubs with connected rules, mutual recognition of standards, and interconnected elements, so as to fully absorb global innovation resources and radiate industrial influence outward, forming a virtuous circle of "promoting the outside with the inside and strengthening the inside with the outside."

(The author is a professor at the School of Marxism, Qinghai University (青海大学).)

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Introduction to the Works of the 2nd International Communication "Silk Road Award" (Part 1)

The "Silk Road Award" for International Communication is sponsored by the Belt and Road News Cooperation Alliance and is the only international news award selection activity under the multilateral cooperation framework of jointly building the "Belt and Road" initiative. The second "Silk Road Award" for International Communication has been included in the list of multilateral cooperation outcome documents of the 3rd Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, making positive contributions to telling the Silk Road story, promoting the Silk Road spirit, and promoting media exchanges and cooperation among countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" initiative.

The second "Silk Road Award" for International Communication officially launched its call for entries in April 2024, with four major categories of awards: Best Report Award, Best Photography Award, Best Video Award, and Best Innovation Award. It received nearly 5,000 entries from 110 countries and regions. According to the selection rules and implementation plan of the second "Silk Road Award" for International Communication, the selection work is led by the People's Daily (人民日报社), the chairman unit of the alliance, and is divided into two stages: preliminary evaluation by the Academic Committee and final evaluation by the Review Committee. Among them, the Academic Committees for each award are led by the China Photographers Association (中国摄影家协会), Tsinghua University (清华大学), and the Communication University of China (中国传媒大学). The members of the Review Committee are composed of representatives of the alliance's governing units and some Chinese and foreign experts from the Academic Committee. In the end, 58 winning works from 37 countries were selected, including 4 Grand Prizes, 16 Nomination Awards, and 38 Finalist Awards.

On September 16, the 2025 "Belt and Road" Media Cooperation Forum was held in Kunming (昆明市), Yunnan Province (云南省), where the award ceremony for the second "Silk Road Award" for International Communication was held. This newspaper publishes a brief introduction to the winning works for the enjoyment of our readers.

Best Report Award

Grand Prize

Work Title: China's "Belt and Road": Building Bridges, Not Walls

Author: Colin Stevens (科林·史蒂文斯) (United Kingdom)

Work Introduction: This report is an in-depth review article published on the EU Reporter website on May 18, 2024. The article begins by dispelling the misinterpretation of "comparing China-Europe relations to a wall," pointing out that the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative is "one of the most representative 'bridge-building' actions." By deeply elaborating on the action connotation of this initiative "building bridges" between China and Europe, and combining examples such as China-Europe Rotterdam Port cooperation and China-Europe freight trains, it details the international cooperation achievements and high-quality development results of jointly building the "Belt and Road" initiative. The article also presents a large amount of information on how the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative effectively promotes cooperation in areas such as green energy, e-commerce, and tourism, demonstrating the practical value of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative in enhancing mutual trust and promoting mutual benefit and win-win results among countries, and responding to the current international situation's call for promoting global connectivity.

Review Comments: The article systematically reviews the global influence of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative from a macro perspective, focusing on the cooperation achievements of China and Europe in infrastructure, green energy, digital economy, and cultural exchanges, presenting the vigorous vitality of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative in multiple dimensions. The article is informative, clearly structured, interviews multiple voices, and has high authority and dissemination breadth. The article cleverly uses the metaphor of "building bridges, not walls" to effectively build a narrative connection between the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative and the current international situation, strengthening China's international image of expanding opening up and promoting connectivity. The article uses a discourse system and logic that is easy for the local audience to understand and accept, using facts to dispel misunderstandings and inject positive energy into building cooperation consensus.

Best Photography Award

Grand Prize

Work Title: "CRRC New Energy Trains Enter Jujuy" Photo Series

Authors: Renato Valentini (雷纳托·瓦伦蒂尼) (Argentina), Rocío Beall (罗茜奥·贝永) (Argentina), et al., published on the website of the Government of Jujuy Province (胡胡伊省) , Argentina

Work Introduction: On December 7, 2023, the inaugural ceremony of the Jujuy New Energy Light Rail Train in Argentina was held at the Volcán Railway Station (火山火车站) in Jujuy Province, attracting national attention in Argentina. This is the first time that China has exported new energy light rail trains overseas. The train is put into operation on the Belgrano C line branch intercity passenger meter-gauge railway in Jujuy Province, with a line of about 35 kilometers, mainly serving the famous World Cultural Heritage site - Quebrada de Humahuaca (乌马瓦卡山谷) scenic area. This group of pictures clearly presents a large number of Quebrada de Humahuaca elements used in the train's exterior design, focusing on the white-based body with orange mountain lines, and details such as patterned ceilings, red seats, and ultra-wide-angle viewing windows, vividly presenting the green and environmentally friendly design concept of integrating the train with the local natural landscape.

Review Comments: This group of works takes the "inaugural of the new energy light rail train" as the narrative focus, capturing the historic moment of China-Argentina cooperation. The collision of the white body and orange mountain lines, the canyon scenery framed by the ultra-wide-angle viewing window, and the mutual reflection of the red seats and the local characteristic patterned ceiling in the carriage, not only show the hard-core strength of "China Intelligent Manufacturing," but also convey the common pursuit of mankind for green development. The work transcends simple engineering records and provides a multi-dimensional interpretation of the theme of China-Argentina new energy cooperation, becoming a witness to the extension of China-Argentina friendship on the railway tracks.

Best Video Award

Grand Prize

Work Title: My Book of Dreams

Author: Armenian News Agency

Work Introduction: This documentary short film unfolds from the perspective of an 11-year-old Armenian boy. In the short film, the boy discovers and visits traces of China in Armenia through ancient manuscripts. He visited the caravan station on the Silk Road, met Chinese tourists at famous Armenian attractions, and finally decided to enter the China-Armenia Friendship School to learn Chinese. The short film ends with a scene of the North-South Highway Corridor project built by Chinese enterprises in the region. The film targets the younger generation in Armenia, telling the long history of thousands of years of exchanges between China and Armenia, aiming to further stimulate the strong interest of Armenian young people in Chinese culture.

Review Comments: This work takes the Silk Road as a grand background, cleverly integrating the two creative techniques of documentary and fiction, with a unique and original perspective. In the protagonist boy's exploration process, the work leads the audience to naturally trace the historical context of the Silk Road, delicately searching for the cultural imprints left by China in Armenia, and history and reality are organically intertwined in the picture switching. The work vividly shows the deep friendship between Armenia and China, and the creative form is novel and unique, breaking the expression limitations of traditional documentary works. The image texture of the work is particularly strong, and the lens language with both historical weight and humanistic temperature effectively enhances the appeal and dissemination of the work.

Best Innovation Award

Grand Prize

Work Title: When the Pharaoh Meets Sanxingdui (三星堆)

Authors: Egyptian National Television, China Media Group (中央广播电视总台)

Work Introduction: This documentary is co-produced by Egyptian National Television and China Media Group. Taking the international recognition of Sanxingdui culture as the entry point, it focuses on the "same, similar, and interconnected" aspects of ancient Egyptian civilization and Chinese Sanxingdui culture. Through imagination across time and space, it shows the dialogue and mutual learning between the two major civilizations of China and ancient Egypt. The documentary is divided into 4 episodes: "The Sun and the Rivers," "Faces of Civilization," "Tree of Civilization," and "Incredible Imagination," which respectively explore the influence of the Yangtze River (长江) and the Nile River on civilization, the stories behind the Sanxingdui and ancient Egyptian masks, the ancient people's understanding of life and the universe, and the enlightenment of ancient civilization to modern society and the future. The film was broadcast simultaneously on mainstream media in China and Egypt in October 2023, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the proposal of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative.

Review Comments: The documentary uses comparative narrative as the core technique, allowing audiences in China and Egypt to directly feel the unique charm of each other's culture, building a bridge for the people of the two countries to understand each other and deepen cultural identity. The film focuses on the common love, creation, and belief of mankind in the context of the two major civilizations of China and Egypt, which is in line with the spiritual connotation of "civilization exchanges and mutual learning, and common development," and contributes to promoting civilization exchanges and mutual learning among countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" initiative.

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Acceptance Speech by Award Recipient

Narin Hovhannisyan (纳林·霍夫汉尼斯扬) (Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Armenian News Agency): We are thrilled and honored that the documentary short film "My Book of Dreams" won the Best Video Award at the 2nd International Communication "Silk Road Award."

For us, this award not only affirms the artistic value of the work but also highlights the profound significance of cross-civilizational exchange. In our creation, we used the discovery of Chinese characters in the Matenadaran Ancient Manuscript Repository by an 11-year-old Armenian boy as a starting point, connecting the dialogue between the two civilizations through the child's perspective. We hope to use vivid stories to allow more people to perceive the deep ties between different civilizations, especially to allow the younger generation to understand the historical and cultural connections between the two countries that transcend time and space.

Participating in this award ceremony, we deeply felt that the "Belt and Road" initiative not only promotes economic and trade cooperation between co-building countries but also continuously deepens exchanges and mutual learning between different cultural backgrounds. This is not only a continuation of the Silk Road spirit of peaceful cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning and mutual benefit, but also injects new vitality into people-to-people exchanges in the new era.

In the future, we will continue to move forward with this encouragement, explore more new forms of telling stories of mutual learning between civilizations, and use art and media as a bridge to continuously deepen the friendship between Armenia and China (中国).

Dina Gamil (迪娜·贾米勒) (Head of Channel 2, Egyptian National Television): I am very happy to participate in the 2025 "Belt and Road" Media Cooperation Forum, which provides an excellent platform for enhancing dialogue and understanding among the people of all countries.

The Silk Road has never been just a road for commodity exchange and trade, but also a road for the dissemination of ideas, knowledge, and art, building a lasting bond between different nations. Today, we are revitalizing this road in a modern form, continuing the belief of open cooperation, and using new tools and new perspectives that meet the needs of the times.

Egypt (埃及) is committed to building cultural bridges through cultural and tourism exchanges. Media, including Egyptian National Television, contributes to promoting this vision by producing programs that highlight cultural diversity and promote tourism development. We deeply understand that cooperation is not an optional choice, but an inevitable response to the challenges of the times, and this honor has strengthened our belief even more.

The beautiful vision of the future can only be realized through cooperation between countries. We look forward to seeing more initiatives and projects that carry the Silk Road spirit, appearing in modern forms that meet the needs of the times and serve future generations, so that this civilizational bond that spans thousands of years can continue to be passed on.

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Photo Report

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This edition's editors: Zhang Mengxu, Yue Linwei, Liu Gang, Zhang Kaifeng

Layout design: Cai Huawei (蔡华伟), Zhang Fangman (张芳曼)

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Brief Introduction to the Winning Works of the 2nd International Communication "Silk Road Award" (II)

Best Reporting Award

Nomination Award

Title: Changes in Tibet: Differences Unite Us

Author: Isaura Miyares (古巴) (Cuba)

Work Introduction:

The report describes in detail the traditional culture, economic development, and modernization process of the Tibet region, with a special focus on the impact of the rural revitalization strategy on local communities. Through extensive interviews and storytelling, the report showcases the economic development of the Tibet region, the improvement of people's living standards, and the inheritance of culture. It has important news value and social impact, and a large number of pictures and videos and other multimedia presentation methods enrich the content of the report.

Title: How "Black Myth: Wukong" is Restructuring the Game Industry Landscape

Author: Rao Abdul Rahim (巴基斯坦) (Pakistan)

Work Introduction:

This report takes "Black Myth: Wukong" as a starting point, deeply analyzes this phenomenal game, vividly demonstrates the breakthrough leap of China's cultural and creative industries, and explores how it reshapes industry benchmarks in the dimensions of narrative innovation and technological innovation. It presents a three-dimensional evolution trajectory of China's "Guochao" from superficial symbols to in-depth narratives, providing an innovative example of oriental aesthetics for the global game industry.

Title: The Initiative Reshaping the Global Landscape Has Traveled a Decade-Long Journey

Author: Sebastián Juan Schulz (阿根廷) (Argentina)

Work Introduction:

The report explores the far-reaching impact of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative over the past 10 years, globally and especially in Latin America. Based on the historical context and combined with the current situation, the content deeply analyzes its global impact, especially the strategic significance in Latin America, and points out that the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" is profoundly changing the direction of international relations, reflecting professionalism and depth.

Title: The Secret of China-Kazakhstan Friendship

Author: Serik Korzhumbayev (哈萨克斯坦) (Kazakhstan)

Work Introduction:

The report tells the real stories of high-level interactions, strategic mutual trust, and youth exchanges between China and Kazakhstan with vivid and delicate brushstrokes. Through the stories of two young people, Ruslan and Ismail, it shows the depth of people-to-people connectivity and the broad prospects of bilateral friendship.

Best Innovation Award

Nomination Award

Title: The First Red Road Adventure Experience Documentary "Journey of the Brave"

Author: Discovery Channel (美国探索频道), China Intercontinental Communication Center (五洲传播中心), Tencent Video (腾讯视频) (United States, China)

Work Introduction:

As the first original red road adventure experience documentary, the film creates a new model of international communication of audio-visual content of "star + adventure + documentary + red culture." Through the immersive experience of Chinese and foreign adventurers, it three-dimensionally restores the century-long struggle of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) and launches a series of international dialogues spanning time and space. The work refines and interprets the spiritual quality of "bravery," which can resonate with international audiences, connecting the present and the past, and connecting the domestic and the foreign.

Title: Four Stations and One Base (China·Khorgos—Central Asian Media Joint Workstation (中国·霍尔果斯—中亚媒体联合工作站), China-Kazakhstan Media Joint Workstation (中哈媒体联合工作站), "Today's Silk Road" Khorgos Workstation ("今日丝路报"霍尔果斯工作站), "Silk Road New Observation" All-Media Khorgos Workstation ("丝路新观察"全媒体霍尔果斯工作站), Khorgos All-Media Exchange Base (霍尔果斯全媒体交流基地))

Author: Khorgos City Rong Media Center (霍尔果斯市融媒体中心), Kazakhstan Today News Agency (今日哈萨克斯坦通讯社), "Industry Newspaper" ("实业报"), "Today's Silk Road" ("今日丝路报"), "Komsomolskaya Pravda" ("共青团真理报"), Turan TV (图兰电视台), etc. (China, Kazakhstan, etc.)

Work Introduction:

Relying on the location, opening up, and policy advantages of Khorgos, the Khorgos City Rong Media Center and foreign media such as Kazakhstan Today News Agency, "Industry Newspaper," and "Today's Silk Road" jointly established "Four Stations and One Base" in the China-Kazakhstan Khorgos International Border Cooperation Center (中哈霍尔果斯国际边境合作中心), namely China·Khorgos—Central Asian Media Joint Workstation, China-Kazakhstan Media Joint Workstation, "Today's Silk Road" Khorgos Workstation, "Silk Road New Observation" All-Media Khorgos Workstation, and Khorgos All-Media Exchange Base, jointly carrying out international media exchange activities such as China-foreign media salons and Central Asian communication forums, Through jointly telling the story of China and the story of China-Central Asia friendship, further enhance understanding and deepen friendship.

Title: Special Issue on the Tenth Anniversary of the Joint Construction of the "Belt and Road" Initiative

Author: "Ekonomim" ("经济报") (Turkey)

Work Introduction:

The Turkish "Ekonomim" launched a special issue in January 2024 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey and the tenth anniversary of the proposal of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative, comprehensively expounding the vivid practices in various fields of China-Turkey economic and trade cooperation, and providing a reference for deepening China-Turkey economic and trade cooperation.

Title: "Kingdom of Plants on the Third Pole": Innovative Communication of Chinese Ecological Images from the Perspective of International Communication Capacity Building

Author: Arclight Films, Shanghai Film Industry Co., Ltd. (上电影业（上海）有限公司), Shanghai University (上海大学) (United States, China)

Work Introduction:

The three-episode science exploration documentary "Kingdom of Plants on the Third Pole" and the theatrical film "Seeds of the Himalayas" are the first domestic recording images in China to comprehensively introduce the unique and rare wild plant resources of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (青藏高原), focusing on the ecology of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, building a dual content system of film and television through exquisite audio-visual language, and linking multilingual books, short videos, and film and television to create an international communication matrix in the new media era.

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This edition's editors: Han Bingchen, Han Shuo

Layout design: Cai Huawei (蔡华伟)

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The List Witnesses the Positive Development Trend of Large Chinese Enterprises (Economic Focus)

By: 本报记者 刘志强

Core Reading

Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," China's Top 500 Enterprises have made new progress while maintaining stability and seeking progress, with continuously enhanced development momentum, playing an important role in promoting industrial upgrading, enhancing innovation capabilities, and participating in international competition. Facing challenges, China's large enterprises must see opportunities and advantages, actively take responsibility, and accelerate the construction of world-class enterprises.

On September 15th, the China Enterprise Confederation (中国企业联合会) and the China Enterprise Directors Association (中国企业家协会) released the "2025 China Top 500 Enterprises" (hereinafter referred to as "Top 500 Enterprises") list. According to this list, the entry threshold has achieved 23 consecutive increases, reaching 47.96 billion yuan, an increase of 579 million yuan compared to the previous year. China's large enterprises generally show a trend of maintaining growth in overall scale, continuing to improve economic benefits, and having more abundant innovation vitality.

New Progress in Development, New Enhancement in Momentum

"China's large enterprises actively respond to the challenges brought by the complex environment, make new progress while maintaining stability and seeking progress, and have new enhancements in development momentum, playing a key and leading role in promoting industrial upgrading, enhancing innovation capabilities, and participating in international competition," said Zhu Hongren (朱宏任), Party Secretary, Executive Vice President, and Secretary-General of the China Enterprise Confederation.

The development trend is improving. The Top 500 Enterprises achieved operating income of 110.15 trillion yuan, an increase compared to the previous year; achieved a net profit attributable to the parent company's owners of 4.71 trillion yuan, an increase of 4.39% compared to the previous year; the number of enterprises with a scale of 100 billion yuan increased from 222 in 2020 to 267 in 2024, an increase of 45; and the operating income of 15 enterprises exceeded the 1 trillion yuan threshold.

Accelerating the pace of opening up. The entry threshold for the "2025 China Top 100 Multinational Companies" is 22.173 billion yuan, an increase of 2.333 billion yuan compared to the previous year, an increase of 11.76%; with a total of 11.96 trillion yuan in overseas assets; and an average transnational index of 15.56%, an increase of 0.21 percentage points compared to the previous year.

Leading momentum is stronger. The entry threshold for the "2025 China Top 100 Leading Enterprises in Strategic Emerging Industries" is 45.921 billion yuan, an increase of 6.407 billion yuan compared to the previous year; achieved strategic emerging business income of 14.31 trillion yuan, an increase of 11.88% compared to the previous year; and total assets reached 22.41 trillion yuan, an increase of 20.29% compared to the previous year. The proportion of strategic emerging business income and profit accounted for 40.23% and 40.58% respectively, an increase of 2.99 percentage points and 0.43 percentage points respectively.

Seeking new improvements and moving forward steadily. The Top 500 Enterprises invested a total of 1.73 trillion yuan in research and development expenses; the research and development intensity hit a new high of 1.95%, increasing for eight consecutive years. The average research and development intensity of the "2025 China Top 100 Innovative Large Enterprises" increased from 5.27% to 5.61%, an increase of 0.34 percentage points.

Continuous Optimization of Structure, Research and Development Intensity Reaches a Historic High

Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," China's large enterprises, represented by the Top 500 Enterprises, have actively served and deeply integrated into the new development pattern, actively responded to challenges, and worked hard to overcome difficulties, taking new and solid steps.

——The overall scale has reached a new level, and the number of enterprises with a scale of 100 billion yuan has increased.

The operating income of the Top 500 Enterprises increased from 89.83 trillion yuan in 2020 to 110.15 trillion yuan in 2024, an increase of 22.62%, reaching a new level. Total assets increased from 343.58 trillion yuan to 460.85 trillion yuan, an increase of 34.13%.

——Net profit grows steadily, and per capita output continues to improve.

Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," the net profit attributable to the parent company's owners of the Top 500 Enterprises has increased by 15.62%. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the income profit rate of the Top 500 Enterprises has generally remained above 4%. Per capita output continues to improve. In 2024, the per capita operating income of the Top 500 Enterprises was 3.4938 million yuan, an increase of 29.89% compared to 2020; the per capita net profit in 2024 was 149,300 yuan, an increase of 22.48% compared to 2020. In addition, the capital labor ratio continues to increase. The per capita capital investment (assets/number of employees) of the Top 500 Enterprises is 14.6173 million yuan, an increase of 42.08% compared to 2020.

——The structure is continuously optimized, and the coordination of development is enhanced.

The development of the three major categories of enterprises in the Top 500 Enterprises, namely manufacturing, service industry, and other industries, is advancing simultaneously, and their contributions to the growth of total revenue are 40.48%, 40.29%, and 19.23% respectively. The regional distribution of shortlisted companies is more balanced, the number of shortlisted companies in the central region continues to increase, and the number of shortlisted companies in the eastern region has decreased.

——Greater investment in research and development, and remarkable achievements in major scientific and technological innovation.

Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," the research and development investment of the Top 500 Enterprises has increased by 32.30% compared to 2020, the average research and development intensity has increased by 0.18 percentage points, and the research and development intensity has reached a record high. Innovation performance in fields such as robots, electric vehicles, solar energy, drones, high-speed rail, and artificial intelligence demonstrates the innovation strength of Chinese enterprises.

Seeing Opportunities and Advantages in Challenges, Accelerating the Construction of World-Class Enterprises

"Although China's enterprise development has made significant achievements, and the scale of a number of large Chinese enterprises has entered the forefront of the world, measured by comprehensive standards, Chinese enterprises are still in the process of following, running in parallel, and partially leading," Zhu Hongren (朱宏任) believes that the gap is mainly reflected in the intensity of research and development investment and the imperfect market-oriented operating mechanisms of some enterprises.

What should China's large enterprises do to accelerate the construction of world-class enterprises?

We must play a better role in the construction of a modern industrial system. Zhu Hongren (朱宏任) believes that large Chinese enterprises should increase long-term and stable investment in basic research and key common technologies, rely on China's rich application scenarios, and accelerate the breakthrough of a number of key core technologies. We must take the lead in building a new type of collaborative innovation system that is market-oriented and deeply integrates industry, academia, and research, and truly transform our own scale, capital, and talent advantages into a strong driving force for leading the industry to climb to the high end of the value chain. At the same time, we will continue to promote international operations by actively participating in the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" and other methods, and enhance the resilience and influence of China's industrial system in the domestic and international dual cycles.

We must see opportunities and advantages in challenges. "The world is undergoing major changes unseen in a century at an accelerated pace, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is rising, and the global industrial chain and supply chain are accelerating restructuring. The uncertainty and instability faced by enterprise development have increased significantly," said Hao Yufeng (郝玉峰), Deputy Secretary-General of the China Enterprise Confederation. At the same time, we must see that China has the advantage of a super-large-scale market, a complete industrial system, continuous and stable macro policies, and a continuously optimized business environment. The increasing maturity of digital technology also provides strong support for enterprise development. "Concentrating our efforts on managing our own affairs well will surely enable us to continuously achieve new results on the road of high-quality development and write more new chapters for Chinese enterprises to move towards world-class."

(Zhang Ling (张玲) participated in writing)

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Renting a car to travel in Xinjiang is becoming increasingly convenient.

By: 本报记者 李亚楠

Xinjiang (新疆) is one of the top tourist destinations for many travelers. Travel distances that often span hundreds of kilometers make renting a car an important option for touring Xinjiang (新疆). According to Ctrip data, from January to July this year, the inventory of rental vehicles in Xinjiang (新疆) increased by 40% year-on-year. What is the operational status of car rentals in Xinjiang (新疆)? What are the shortcomings in the industry's development? A reporter conducted interviews.

During the peak tourist season, the demand for car rentals is strong.

At Urumqi Tianshan International Airport (乌鲁木齐天山国际机场), as flights land, many passengers head directly to the parking lot to pick up their rental vehicles. Since May this year, as Xinjiang (新疆) has entered its peak tourist season, vehicle rental rates have increased. "Currently, the company operates more than 7,000 vehicles throughout Xinjiang (新疆), and the upcoming National Day holiday will be another peak," said Zhang Jiawang (张佳旺), Xinjiang (新疆) Regional Director of CAR Inc. (神州租车).

CAR Inc. (神州租车) is one of the largest car rental companies operating in Xinjiang (新疆), currently with 34 outlets in Xinjiang (新疆), covering 11 cities. During the peak summer season of 2024, the vehicle rental rate exceeded 90%.

"Family travel and parent-child travel are the main forms of tourism recently. Targeting the characteristics of these groups and the road conditions in Xinjiang (新疆), the company has prepared a large number of seven-seater vehicles and SUVs," said Zhang Jiawang (张佳旺). Tourism in Xinjiang (新疆) generally shows a trend of extended summer seasons and strong off-seasons. After the Duku Highway (独库公路) opened on May 31, tourism demand showed a significant upward trend. Since September, off-peak tourism demand has grown rapidly. In addition, winter ice and snow tourism is also showing rapid growth, with users mainly renting cars to destinations such as Altay Prefecture (阿勒泰地区), Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture (伊犁哈萨克自治州), and Kashgar Prefecture (喀什地区).

In the parking lot of Xinjiang Yuntong International Travel Service Co., Ltd. (新疆运通国际旅游服务有限公司) in Urumqi's (乌鲁木齐市) Chouma No. 1 Cultural and Creative Park (丑马一号文创园), newly repaired RVs are neatly parked, waiting for customers who have made reservations to pick them up. "We specialize in RV rentals and have 50 of our own RVs. During the peak season, we cooperate with rental companies in other provinces to dispatch some vehicles. We currently have 200 vehicles in operation," said Dong Nannan (董南南), the company's business manager.

The continued warming of the Xinjiang (新疆) tourism market and the new construction and expansion of Xinjiang's (新疆) major transportation infrastructure have promoted the development of the car rental industry. The increasing number of branch airports and the increasingly dense network of air routes have continuously improved Xinjiang's (新疆) accessibility. This has been followed by an increase in the demand for small transportation, with landing and self-driving and returning cars in different locations becoming the preferred choice for many tourists.

According to Zhang Jiawang's (张佳旺) observation, the Xinjiang (新疆) car rental market experienced rapid growth in 2023, with vehicle scale increasing by more than 30% in 2024. "When we first entered the Xinjiang (新疆) market in 2014, the company only had more than 30 vehicles in Xinjiang (新疆). In 2024, there are tens of thousands of rental cars registered on various platforms."

Offsite Transfer, Increasing Market Supply

Mr. Liao (廖先生) from Fujian (福建) previously traveled to Xinjiang (新疆) with his family and wanted to rent an RV to drive to Kashgar (喀什) and then fly home from Kashgar (喀什), but after inquiring, the cost of returning the car in a different location was too high, and he gave up.

From a market perspective, tourists have a relatively large demand for returning cars in different locations. The Xinjiang (新疆) offsite car return market takes Urumqi (乌鲁木齐市) as its core hub, with Altay City (阿勒泰市), Kashgar City (喀什市), Korla City (库尔勒市), and Yining City (伊宁市) as transportation distribution centers. Some companies have launched offsite car return services, and some RVs can be returned in Urumqi (乌鲁木齐市), Kashgar (喀什市), and Yining (伊宁市).

However, the difference in the number of customers between distribution centers and destinations is too large, and the cost of transferring vehicles to different locations is not low. Most car rental companies charge a certain fee. "We charge offsite car return fees according to a standard of 3 to 5 yuan per kilometer," said Dong Nannan (董南南). It is also costly to send someone to the city where the car is to be returned to drive it back.

Currently, only a few larger rental companies offer free offsite car return services. These companies mainly transfer vehicles in batches through logistics companies or attract tourists to rent cars in the opposite direction at low prices to reduce vehicle scheduling costs.

For small rental companies, the conditions for free offsite car returns are not yet mature. In response to this situation, Li Jianhua (李建华), president of the Xinjiang Self-Driving Tourism Association (新疆自驾旅游协会), suggested that: first, companies should break down barriers to achieve a more balanced allocation of vehicle resources and reduce offsite car return costs; second, companies should attract traffic through preferential rental products, such as attracting tourists to rent cars from Yining (伊宁) to Urumqi (乌鲁木齐) at relatively low prices; and third, design more self-driving tour route products to reduce the difference in the number of people between distribution centers and destinations.

Dong Nannan (董南南) introduced that in order to reduce costs, the company closely cooperates with rental companies in other provinces, transferring vehicles to other companies for operation during the off-season, and then transferring vehicles from other companies to Xinjiang (新疆) when the demand for vehicles is high during the peak season, increasing market supply.

Standardize the Market, Enhance the Consumer Experience

In the Xinjiang (新疆) rental market, there are also some personal vehicles and social vehicles that are listed for rent on platforms, but most of these vehicles have not been filed. Li Jianhua (李建华) said that in addition to formally registered companies, there are also some vehicles that are outside of supervision, and this part is difficult to count.

"Many private vehicles are rented to customers under the guise of 'borrowing'. Once an accident occurs, there may be shirking of responsibility and disputes," said Li Jianhua (李建华).

Consumers have certain hidden dangers when renting these types of vehicles: chaotic charges, which may involve hidden consumption; vehicles have not undergone systematic inspection, which can easily lead to safety problems, etc. In the face of this situation, Li Jianhua (李建华) suggested that it can be solved from two aspects: punishment and policy guidance: "On the one hand, we must increase the intensity of punishment. Once illegal operations are discovered, they will be blacklisted; on the other hand, the scrapping period for operating vehicles is lower than that for personal vehicles. Some actual operating vehicles exist in the form of personal vehicles. We can consider re-formulating scrapping standards based on mileage."

In addition, as the proportion of new energy vehicles gradually increases, it is necessary to further accelerate the construction of infrastructure. Xinjiang (新疆) continues to increase the construction of self-driving infrastructure, and the number of charging stations has increased significantly, but it still cannot keep up with the growth rate of new energy vehicles.

Li Jianhua (李建华) suggested that car rental companies should further improve their service levels, such as adopting more rigorous contracting methods, standardizing contract content, and purchasing insurance that can cover customer needs for vehicles, including liability for breach of contract and "agreed delivery address clauses" in the contract, to provide customers with a better consumer experience.

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Nine departments issue measures to expand service consumption

This newspaper reported from Beijing on September 16th (Reporter Wang Ke (王珂)) The Ministry of Commerce (商务部) and other 8 departments recently jointly issued the "Several Policy Measures on Expanding Service Consumption." The policy measures fully implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee (党中央) and the State Council (国务院), vigorously boosting consumption, expanding domestic demand, promoting people's livelihood improvement and consumption transformation and upgrading, actively cultivating new growth points in service consumption, and providing strong support for promoting high-quality economic development.

The policy measures propose 19 specific tasks and measures in 5 aspects.

In terms of cultivating service consumption promotion platforms, the policy measures propose to continue to deepen the creation of the "Buy in China (购在中国)" brand, carry out a series of "Service Consumption Season (服务消费季)" promotion activities, and carry out service consumption promotion activities focusing on key areas that are close to people's lives, have great potential for demand, and have a strong driving role, cultivate service consumption brands, and create service consumption hotspots. Carry out the construction of pilot cities for new service consumption formats, new models, and new scenarios. Actively develop the first-release economy, promote innovation and enrichment of service consumption scenarios, support cross-border cooperation between high-quality consumption resources and well-known IPs, and create a number of new consumption scenarios integrating business, tourism, culture, sports, and health.

In terms of enriching the supply of high-quality services, the policy measures propose to expand the high-level opening up of the service industry. Promote the orderly opening up of the Internet, culture and other fields, and expand the pilot opening up of telecommunications, medical care, education and other fields. Relax market access in the fields of mid-to-high-end medical care, leisure and vacation, reduce restrictive measures, attract more foreign investment and private capital to enter, and increase the supply of high-quality services.

In terms of stimulating new service consumption, the policy measures propose to attract more foreign personnel to enter the country for consumption. Orderly expand the scope of unilateral visa-free countries, optimize and improve regional visa-free entry policies, continue to optimize visa policies for foreigners coming to China and facilitation measures for communication, accommodation, payment, etc., and issue 5-year multiple-entry visas to more eligible personnel.

In terms of strengthening fiscal and financial support, the policy measures propose to increase consumer credit support. Support local governments to share consumer credit risks by establishing new or incorporating existing special risk compensation funds, carry out interest subsidies for consumer loans in key areas, and guide financial institutions and merchants to cooperate in developing products and services suitable for the characteristics of service consumption, forming a combination of "government subsidies + financial support + merchant discounts."

In terms of improving the statistical monitoring system, the policy measures propose to optimize service consumption statistical methods. Accelerate the advancement of service retail sales measurement in different regions to objectively reflect the development of service consumption in different regions. Innovate statistical monitoring methods and encourage qualified localities to use big data and other information technology means to carry out service consumption monitoring and analysis.

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Total passenger traffic on Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge exceeds 90 million since opening.

Since its official opening on October 23, 2018, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has increasingly become a bond for the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. According to statistics from the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Border Inspection Station (港珠澳大桥边检站) of the Zhuhai Border Inspection General Station (珠海边检总站), as of September 15 this year, the number of passengers traveling between Guangdong (粤), Hong Kong (港), and Macao (澳) via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Zhuhai Port (港珠澳大桥珠海公路口岸) has exceeded 90 million, and the number of vehicles has exceeded 18.68 million. The picture shows the traffic flow at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Zhuhai Port (港珠澳大桥珠海公路口岸).

He Linping (贺林平), Li Zhaode (黎钊德) Photography Report

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Optimize credit services and boost the development of private enterprises

By: 本报记者 吴 君

The private sector is a vital force in advancing Chinese-style modernization and an important foundation for high-quality development. Financial institutions in Hubei Province are optimizing services and actively supporting the high-quality development of the private sector.

"This loan is a timely rain, allowing us to invest more funds in research and development." Deng Yanfei, chief financial officer of Fengruicheng (Hubei) Semiconductor Materials Co., Ltd. (丰睿成（湖北）半导体材料有限公司) in Hongshan Industrial Park, Xishui County (浠水县), Huanggang City (黄冈市), Hubei Province (湖北省), said that the company recently obtained credit support from the Agricultural Bank of China (农行) Huanggang Branch (黄冈分行) based on its technological achievements and good operating record.

Fengruicheng Company (丰睿成公司) is mainly engaged in the manufacture of electronic components and other products. "In order to improve product performance, we previously planned to increase investment in equipment upgrades and research and development, but the company lacked traditional collateral, and financing once fell into a predicament," said Deng Yanfei (邓雁飞). At that time, the Agricultural Bank of China (农行) Huanggang Branch (黄冈分行) was carrying out the "Thousands of Enterprises and Ten Thousands of Households Visit" activity, and after collecting the company's operating data, it incorporated the company's high-tech enterprise qualification, patent achievements, etc. into the credit granting basis, and issued the "Technology e-Loan" to the company.

"We are committed to building an online and offline integrated inclusive financial product and service system, actively participating in the construction of a local policy-based credit enhancement system, allowing data to run more and customers to run less, ensuring that credit resources are accurately dripped, and supporting the healthy development of small and micro enterprises," said Li Xiuhua (李秀华), general manager of the Inclusive Finance Department of the Agricultural Bank of China (农行) Hubei Provincial Branch (湖北省分行).

Obtaining financing through scientific and technological achievements has also benefited Hubei Timu Tea Co., Ltd. (湖北蒂坶茶业有限公司). "Last year, we signed a long-term order, and the payment required half a year, but the purchase of raw materials required timely cash payment, and we suddenly faced a 10 million yuan working capital gap," said Du Qiong (杜琼), head of the company.

The turning point came at a government-bank-enterprise docking meeting organized by the Yiling District (夷陵区) Government of Yichang City (宜昌市). "We accurately identified the needs of enterprises and used the intellectual property pledge financing policy to tailor a financing plan for them," said Ma Xuhong (马旭红), president of the Yiling District (夷陵区) Branch of Postal Savings Bank (邮储银行). The company finally successfully obtained a loan of 5 million yuan through patent pledge financing.

"We evaluate the value of the company's patent rights and computer software copyrights, superimpose the credit line, and use a combination of guarantees to meet the financing needs of private enterprises," said Xu Ling (徐玲), president of the Yichang City (宜昌市) Branch of Postal Savings Bank (邮储银行). At present, the bank has cumulatively handled patent pledge financing business for 120 technology-based enterprises, with a total credit line of 948 million yuan.

Due to the lack of effective collateral, many private enterprises encounter difficulties in financing, high financing costs, and slow financing. In order to solve this problem, in April this year, the "Implementation Measures for Commercial Value Credit Loans for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Hubei Province (Trial)" was released.

"After the policy was introduced, we accurately assessed the commercial value of enterprises based on four types of data: the operating foundation, operating capacity, social value, and innovation ability of private enterprises, as well as 13 specific indicators such as tax rating and fluctuations in water, electricity, and gas consumption, and deeply integrated it with the existing financing service system," said relevant personnel of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (工商银行) Hubei Provincial Branch (湖北省分行). From the release of the measures to June, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (工商银行) Hubei Provincial Branch (湖北省分行) has approved credit lines for more than 1,000 small and micro enterprises, with a credit line of more than 3.2 billion yuan and provided credit loans of more than 2.8 billion yuan.

In Hubei (湖北), the commercial value of enterprises is gradually becoming the "golden key" to opening up financing channels. "We have launched a knowledge value credit loan exclusive product 'Kechu Chuyi Loan (Credit Edition)' ('科创楚易贷（信用版）')," said Zeng Weihong (曾伟宏), president of the Bank of Communications (交通银行) Hubei Provincial Branch (湖北省分行). As of the end of June this year, the product has given 1,450 technology-attributed enterprises a pre-approved credit line of 5.039 billion yuan, with a loan balance of 2.34 billion yuan.

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Construction Begins on ±800 kV Ultra-High Voltage DC Power Transmission Project from Southeastern Tibet to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area

Guangzhou, September 16th (Reported by Luo Aihua (罗艾桦) and Cheng Yuanzhou (程远州)) On the 16th, China's "14th Five-Year Plan" key inter-provincial power transmission project - the Southeast Tibet to Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area ±800 kV UHV DC power transmission project commenced construction. The project has a total investment of approximately 53.2 billion yuan, with a transmission line length of approximately 2,681 kilometers, spanning four provinces from west to east: Tibet (西藏), Yunnan (云南), Guangxi (广西), and Guangdong (广东). It has a rated transmission capacity of 10 million kilowatts. After the project is fully operational, the Southeast Tibet clean energy base can transmit more than 43 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area load center annually, which is about half of the annual power generation of the Three Gorges Dam (三峡电站), and all of which is clean energy. It can replace approximately 12 million tons of standard coal consumption and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 33 million tons.

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This edition's editors: Lü Zhongzheng, Han Chunyao, Wu Kai

Cartography: Zhang Danfeng (张丹峰)

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Idle Land Turns into Construction Waste Dump (Addressing Unhealthy Tendencies and Corruption Issues Around the People)

By: 本报记者 王明峰

Stepping into the construction site of the greening project on Shudu Avenue (蜀都大道) in Chengdu (成都市), Sichuan Province (四川省), the mountains of slag that once piled up are nowhere to be seen. "Now, the source, destination, and weight of each truckload of slag are uploaded to the intelligent supervision platform in real time," said a comprehensive law enforcement officer from the Damian Subdistrict (大面街道) in Longquanyi District (龙泉驿区), introducing the real-time data while operating a mobile phone APP.

This change started with an inspection. Discipline inspection cadres from Longquanyi District (龙泉驿区) in Chengdu (成都市) came to Damian Subdistrict (大面街道) to conduct a routine inspection. After turning a village road intersection, a patch of more than 10 acres of farmland revealed black-brown slag, contrasting sharply with the surrounding golden rapeseed fields. The discipline inspection cadre squatted down, picked up a handful of soil, and frowned.

"This is a 'land improvement' project that the subdistrict is focusing on promoting," the accompanying subdistrict staff member quickly stepped forward and pointed to the brand-new "Soil Improvement Field" sign on the edge of the field, explaining, "We plan to improve the land's fertility through soil improvement, and these are all high-quality soils that have been tested..."

The discipline inspection cadre slowly stood up, his eyes sweeping over the continuous piles of soil, recalling what he had seen along the way: from the Rao City Expressway (绕城高速) exit to the village, a short distance of a few kilometers, he had already passed three similar bare soil areas, each with the same sign.

"Today we have seen three land improvement projects. Does a subdistrict need to carry out so many land improvement projects at the same time?" the discipline inspection cadre asked, puzzled. The subdistrict staff member was speechless in the face of the inquiry.

According to the "Chengdu Municipal Construction Waste Disposal Management Regulations" (《成都市建筑垃圾处置管理条例》), engineering slag must be transported to a regular disposal site for treatment, and it is strictly forbidden to illegally occupy cultivated land or forest land for dumping. However, the subdistrict did not have a legal disposal site, and all the accumulation was illegal dumping.

The Longquanyi District Discipline Inspection Commission (龙泉驿区纪委监委) immediately established a special task force to investigate. By comparing recent satellite remote sensing images and aerial photography enforcement images, the investigators clearly saw that many plots of land had gradually turned from flat land into slag accumulation sites.

As dusk fell, the investigation team entered the villages involved in the subdistrict's "land improvement" project to conduct in-depth investigations and understand the relevant situation.

Old Wang (王大爷) pointed to the direction behind the village and said, "The slag trucks come in the second half of the night, and the rumbling sound can wake people up from their dreams. One truck after another dumps into the low-lying areas behind the village. When you look at it in the morning, the pile of soil is half a section higher!" Aunt Li (李婶) next to him took over the conversation, her tone filled with helplessness: "We have made more than a dozen complaints. The subdistrict law enforcement officers have come to take a look, but the dumping continues at night!" The investigators recorded the key information and explained to the masses: "We will follow up and supervise, and we will give feedback to everyone on the verification results and handling progress."

Construction waste management is the main responsibility of the subdistrict's Comprehensive Law Enforcement Coordination Office, including daily inspections, reporting clues, and on-site disposal. Faced with such large-scale illegal dumping and multiple public complaints, is the subdistrict's Comprehensive Law Enforcement Coordination Office derelict of duty, or is there another hidden story?

"During the visits, some law enforcement officers were evasive and avoided eye contact, which deepened our suspicions," the investigators said. After interviews, verifications, and data comparisons, it was found that Li (李某某), the former director of the Damian Subdistrict (大面街道) Comprehensive Law Enforcement Coordination Office, had unusually frequent interactions with several slag practitioners, and there were multiple large and suspicious financial transactions.

Based on the solid peripheral investigation, the special task force initially identified a network of interests with Li (李某某) as the main body, involving multiple subdistrict staff members, slag merchants, and village and community cadres.

The investigation found that Li (李某某) used his position of influence to learn about the subdistrict's unused corner plots, areas to be developed, and temporarily idle land information through internal channels, and privately disclosed it to slag merchants, coordinating these idle plots to slag merchants as illegal dumping sites. Most of these plots were in hidden locations and weakly regulated, and Li's (李某某) violations were not included in the scope of daily supervision for a long time.

In the interview room, the discipline inspection cadres laid out satellite images of the jurisdiction, slag transportation records, and land improvement project approvals in order. Faced with the irrefutable evidence, Li (李某某)'s fingers unconsciously clenched the corners of his clothes. After a moment of silence, he lowered his head and confessed: "Those slag merchants gave money in the name of 'thank you fees,' and I provided them with some idle and remote plots of land in the subdistrict, packaged them under the names of 'land improvement' and 'project backfilling,' and paved the way for their illegal dumping."

Li (李某某) also repeatedly instructed his subordinates to 睁一只眼闭一只眼 (zhēng yī zhī yǎn bì yī zhī yǎn - "open one eye, close one eye," to turn a blind eye) to the passing slag transport vehicles, tacitly allowing their illegal operations; before the subdistrict organized inspections, he repeatedly disclosed the detailed inspection routes and times to the slag merchants in advance to help them evade inspection.

From 2015 to 2023, Li (李某某) used his position to provide assistance to others in construction waste disposal and other aspects, and accepted more than 3 million yuan in bribes. In the end, Li (李某某) was expelled from public office and sentenced to nine years and four months in prison for the crime of bribery, and fined 500,000 yuan.

The investigators introduced that the key to Li (李某某)'s long-term success was the use of three regulatory loopholes: first, the filing and supervision of small-scale land consolidation projects was loose at that time, and the approval authority was delegated to the subdistrict, but subsequent supervision was weak; second, the link of transporting slag to designated disposal sites and issuing formal receipts was actually avoided, resulting in the total amount of slag being out of control; and third, through the binding of interests, the subdistrict and some village and community cadres were forced to remain silent.

Taking this case as a breakthrough, Chengdu (成都市) incorporated construction waste management into the centralized rectification and promoted it in an integrated manner, focusing on key targets, key links, and industry systems. "We have reviewed and cleared more than 600 clues and letters and visits related to slag problems since 2017, focusing on problems that the masses have reflected for a long time and have not been resolved, to ensure that they are investigated and resolved quickly, thoroughly, and properly," said the relevant person in charge of the Chengdu Municipal Discipline Inspection Commission (成都市纪委监委). As of now, a total of 75 clues to problems in the field of construction waste have been investigated and 75 cases involving 119 people have been filed in the city.

The Chengdu Municipal Party Committee (成都市委) organized 11 relevant units to jointly study and formulate the "Chengdu Municipal In-depth Promotion of Construction Waste System Governance Work Two-Year Tackling Action Plan" (《成都市深入推进建筑垃圾系统治理工作两年攻坚行动方案》). This document clarifies eight key tackling tasks, refines the division of responsibilities and completion deadlines, and the 49 supporting industry standard management documents issued simultaneously make construction waste management "have rules to follow and have evidence to rely on." At present, 12 construction waste recycling facilities have been built in the city, with an annual processing capacity of more than 17 million tons. Through advanced technology, construction waste is transformed into various green building materials, which have been widely used in various scenarios, allowing the "Park City, Happy Chengdu" (公园城市、幸福成都) to radiate new green vitality.

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Delegating Approval Authority is Not Abandoning Oversight (Disciplinary Observer Says)

By: 胡成明

Dealing with construction waste is a difficult and painful point in urban law enforcement and supervision. Due to overlapping powers and large discretionary space, it is prone to corruption problems such as power-for-rent seeking. The gradual decentralization of approval authority, while effectively releasing grassroots vitality, also places higher demands on supervision.

　　Discipline inspection and supervision organs must intervene simultaneously and embed themselves precisely to ensure that the grassroots can "receive, use, and manage strictly," and achieve delegation without abandonment and power under supervision. We must focus on key links such as project approval, transportation permits, and disposal, strengthen re-supervision of front-line law enforcement behaviors, and prevent "invisible mutations" and "favoritism" in supervision. We must seriously investigate and deal with outstanding problems such as irregular approvals, selective law enforcement, and excessively light or heavy penalties, and promote the establishment of standardized law enforcement procedures and discretionary benchmarks to effectively compress the elastic space of power.

　　Decentralization of approval authority does not mean letting go and ignoring it; supervision and follow-up cannot be absent. Only by running precise supervision through the entire process of power operation and promoting the operation of construction waste supervision under the sunlight can we truly allow "construction waste to return to its place."

　　(The author is Wang Mingfeng (王明峰), member of the Standing Committee of the Longquanyi District Committee (龙泉驿区委), Secretary of the District Commission for Discipline Inspection (区纪委书记), and Director of the District Supervisory Commission (区监委) in Chengdu (成都市), Sichuan Province (四川省). This article was compiled from interviews by Wang Mingfeng (王明峰), a reporter from this newspaper.)

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Promoting the rule of law: for the people, by the people, serving the people.

By: 张 璁

Recently, the 17th session of the 14th National People's Congress Standing Committee voted to adopt the "Law of the People's Republic of China on Publicity and Education on the Rule of Law," which will take effect on November 1, 2025. The formulation of the Law on Publicity and Education on the Rule of Law is a major measure to thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law. As a basic law, the Law on Publicity and Education on the Rule of Law summarizes the 40 years of practical experience in universal legal education for all citizens, and promotes and guarantees the adherence to correct principles and innovation, quality improvement and efficiency enhancement, and comprehensive development of publicity and education on the rule of law in the new era in a legal way. It is of great significance for promoting the construction of a socialist rule of law country with a higher level.

The authority of the law stems from the people's inner support and sincere belief. Since 1985, the state has carried out publicity and education on the rule of law among all citizens in a planned and step-by-step manner with a five-year cycle, and has successively issued eight five-year plans for universal legal education. Continuously carrying out universal legal education for all citizens in a large country with a population of more than 1.4 billion and handing over the law to the people is a major initiative in the history of the rule of law.

A country is strong if its laws are upheld. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that "we must adhere to taking universal legal education and law-abiding as the long-term and fundamental work of governing the country according to law." This argument profoundly reveals the internal logic between publicity and education on the rule of law and comprehensively governing the country according to law. A society ruled by law is the foundation for building a country ruled by law, and the formulation of the Law on Publicity and Education on the Rule of Law is an urgent requirement for consolidating the social foundation for comprehensively governing the country according to law. Today, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered an irreversible historical process, and the tasks of reform, development, and stability are arduous and heavy. The promulgation of this law summarizes practical experience and responds to practical needs, and will surely better play the role of the rule of law in consolidating the foundation, stabilizing expectations, and benefiting the long term.

Universal legal education must take root in the fertile soil of practice in order to draw vigorous vitality. Each legal practice is also a vivid "public class" of universal legal education. Efforts should be made to integrate the spirit of the rule of law into every consultation on legislative opinions, every formulation of public policies, every administrative law enforcement process, and every trial of judicial cases, so that the people can personally feel the temperature and pulse of the rule of law. The law has never been aloof, and the rule of law is around the masses. To bring universal legal education into the lives of the masses, we must find legal answers in the concerns of people's livelihoods, promote legal practice in the lives of the people, and truly make universal legal education come alive, move, and be practical, so that the law can move from paper to the ground and from text to life.

The work of universal legal education must not only be "heartfelt" but also "innovative." Today, various regions are innovating the methods and methods of universal legal education. From the "May Fourth Constitution" Historical Materials Exhibition Hall on the shore of West Lake (西子湖畔), to the rule of law parks, squares, and corridors all over the country, cities and villages, from the "Rule of Law Ulan牧骑" on the vast grasslands of Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), to the volunteer force of "Dandelion Universal Legal Education" in Fujian (福建), trickles have converged into rivers and seas. Keeping up with the pace of the times and using new media and new technologies to carry out universal legal education, we must actively explore "artificial intelligence + universal legal education" and "big data + universal legal education," build a multi-level, three-dimensional, and all-round publicity and education network on the rule of law, and strive to make the supply of universal legal education continuously meet the legal needs of the masses, so as to consolidate the social foundation for comprehensively governing the country according to law.

Universal legal education is for the people, relies on the people, and serves the people. The Law on Publicity and Education on the Rule of Law builds the "four beams and eight pillars" of publicity and education on the rule of law in the new era. The key is to ensure that the provisions of the law are implemented and achieve practical results. We must adhere to the people-centered approach, focus on building a large-scale universal legal education pattern for the whole society, protect the people's rights and interests in accordance with the law, promote the people's high-quality life, and make the people both participants and beneficiaries in universal legal education. Only by allowing the belief in the rule of law to take root in the hearts of the people can all the people become loyal advocates, conscious observers, and firm defenders of the socialist rule of law, and build a more solid legal foundation for building a strong socialist modern country in an all-round way and realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!

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Good Products from Mountain Villages Reach the Outside World

Sanyuan Village (三元村), Dongbao District (东宝区), Jingmen City (荆门市), Hubei Province (湖北省) is rich in honey, bamboo shoots, and shiitake mushrooms. To solve the problem of "difficulty in getting good products out of the mountains," the village explored a "Party member helping farmers + live streaming e-commerce" model, organizing Party member volunteers to promote featured agricultural products through short videos and live streaming, broadening sales channels and driving income growth for villagers.

The picture shows Party member volunteers (right) from Sanyuan Village (三元村) promoting honey via live streaming on September 15.

Photo by Zhao Ping (赵平) (Image China)

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Promoting Aircraft Carrier Development Based on National Security and Equipment Technology Needs

This newspaper reported from Beijing on September 16th (Reporter Jin Zhengbo (金正波)). On the afternoon of September 16th, Deputy Director of the Information Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense and Spokesperson of the Ministry of National Defense, Senior Colonel Jiang Bin (蒋斌), released information on recent military-related issues.

A reporter asked, according to reports, the aircraft carrier Fujian (福建舰) recently conducted maritime trials and traveled through the Taiwan Strait to the South China Sea. What are your comments on this? Does this sea trial mean that the Fujian (福建舰) is about to be commissioned?

Jiang Bin (蒋斌) introduced that recently, China's third aircraft carrier, the Fujian (福建舰), passed through the Taiwan Strait to conduct experimental training missions in relevant waters of the South China Sea. This is a normal arrangement in the aircraft carrier construction process, complies with relevant international law and international practices, and is not targeted at any specific country or target. China adheres to the path of peaceful development and pursues a defensive national defense policy. We always promote aircraft carrier construction according to national security and equipment technology development needs. As a major instrument of a great power, the Fujian (福建舰) will surely play its due role in safeguarding national sovereignty, security, and development interests.

When responding to relevant questions from reporters, Jiang Bin (蒋斌) introduced that as of now, official delegations from more than 100 countries, regions, and international organizations will participate in the 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum (北京香山论坛), including more than 40 ministerial-level and military chief-level representatives, as well as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General, the ASEAN Secretary-General, and the Vice President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, with a total of more than 1,800 registered participants. The participants are more extensive, representative, and balanced.

Jiang Bin (蒋斌) said that the handshake of soldiers is more likely to achieve peace than the clash of guns; the chorus of voices is more likely to build harmony than the monologue of strong voices. In the upcoming "Xiangshan Moment," the participating representatives will conduct equal dialogue around the theme of "Jointly Safeguarding the International Order and Jointly Promoting Peace and Development," jointly discuss major plans for peace and security, jointly seek solutions to resolve conflicts, tighten the bonds of cooperation and exchange, practice the Global Security Initiative and the Global Governance Initiative, and jointly move towards a brighter future.

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Academic Symposium on "Chinese-style Modernization and Human Rights Protection" Held

This newspaper Jinan (济南) September 16th dispatch (Reporter Xiao Jiaxin (肖家鑫)) On September 16th, the "Chinese-style Modernization and Human Rights Protection" academic seminar was held in Jinan (济南), Shandong (山东). Nearly a hundred domestic experts and scholars in the field of human rights conducted exchanges and discussions focusing on the theoretical innovation and practical experience of human rights in the process of Chinese-style modernization.

Chang Jian (常健), Director of the Human Rights Research Center of Nankai University (南开大学), said that China's whole-process people's democracy realizes the combination of the people's will and the leadership of the Party, the combination of direct democracy and indirect democracy, covering all aspects of democratic elections, consultation, decision-making, management, and supervision.

Ma Changshan (马长山), Professor of the Law School of East China University of Political Science and Law (华东政法大学), believes that China promotes "people-oriented" digital human rights protection, actively participates in global digital governance, and proposes Chinese discourse and Chinese solutions for digital human rights.

Lu Guangjin (鲁广锦), Vice President of the China Society for Human Rights Studies (中国人权研究会) and Professor of the Law School of Jilin University (吉林大学), proposed that Chinese-style modernization has created a new realm and new form of human rights civilization, enriching and developing the diversity of human rights civilization.

Luo Yanhua (罗艳华), Professor of the School of International Relations of Peking University (北京大学), said that Chinese-style modernization adheres to a people-centered approach, takes the modernization and free and comprehensive development of people as its core goal, and advocates concepts such as "promoting human rights through development," "cooperation and win-win," and "building a community with a shared future for mankind," contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to global human rights governance. Li Pei (李珮), Professor of the School of Journalism and Communication of Southwest University of Political Science and Law (西南政法大学), said that China has achieved a transformation from a participant in international dialogue, a deconstructor of public opinion struggles, to a provider of global governance solutions.

This conference was hosted by the China Society for Human Rights Studies (中国人权研究会) and organized by the Human Rights Research Center of Shandong University (山东大学) and the Law School of Shandong University (山东大学法学院).

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Guide More Forces to Participate in Rural Industry Development

By: 本报记者 杨颜菲

In Qinshan Village (琴山村), Shibei Town (水北镇), Yushui District (渝水区), Xinyu City (新余市), Jiangxi Province, an endless expanse of camellia oleifera bases is covered with heavy camellia oleifera fruits among the dark green and shiny branches and leaves.

"These 500 mu (亩) [~82 acres] near the roadside are the high-yield demonstration base for camellia oleifera that our chamber of commerce has transferred. We can harvest the first batch of fruits in October this year. After a bumper harvest, it is estimated that each mu (亩) will yield at least 1,500 yuan." Ao Zhiliang (敖志良), president of the Xinyu Shibei Chamber of Commerce (新余水北商会), tapped the fruit shell with his fingertip, his eyes full of anticipation.

Camellia oleifera is the leading industry in Yushui District (渝水区). Qinshan Village (琴山村) cultivates more than 5,000 mu (亩) of camellia oleifera forests. However, due to long-term poor management and improper variety selection, the yield of camellia oleifera forests is low. In 2023, the Party Committee of the Shibei Chamber of Commerce (水北商会党委) took the lead in establishing the Camellia Oleifera Industry Guidance Center to promote the solution of element guarantee problems such as funds, land use, and technology encountered in the development of the camellia oleifera industry, and the planting situation has improved.

Founded in 2012, the Shibei Chamber of Commerce (水北商会) is the first township chamber of commerce in Jiangxi Province to be listed and established as a Party Committee. "In the past, the Shibei Chamber of Commerce (水北商会) mainly helped Qinshan Village (琴山村) by donating tea seedlings, fertilizers, and condolences," introduced Zou Xibao (邹细保), secretary of the Party Committee of the Shibei Chamber of Commerce (水北商会党委). The Party Committee of the Chamber of Commerce decided to take the camellia oleifera industry as a breakthrough point and change from 输血 (shū xuè - "blood transfusion," providing temporary or short-term assistance) to 造血 (zào xuè - "blood generation," creating sustainable development capabilities).

How to "generate blood"? Inject 1 million yuan into the camellia oleifera industry, transfer 500 mu (亩) from the original old camellia oleifera forest base in Qinshan Village (琴山村) for low-yield transformation demonstration, and the income from the tea fruits will still belong to the farmers; select high-yield and high-quality seedlings to replace low-yield camellia oleifera within 5 years; provide technical guidance and services throughout the entire process from planting and management to picking and initial processing. Since then, the growth of camellia oleifera has improved significantly, and the fruit setting rate has been greatly improved. The Camellia Oleifera Industry Guidance Center invested more than 500,000 yuan to add oil pressing equipment and hire technicians to revitalize the old camellia oleifera processing plant in the village. Deng Dongsheng (邓冬生), secretary of the Qinshan Village (琴山村) Party Branch, is full of confidence: "With the support of the Chamber of Commerce and expert guidance, we are optimizing varieties and improving cultivation, and we have confidence in the development of rural industries!"

Xinyu City (新余市) is promoting the "Party Building + Township Chamber of Commerce" work model throughout the city, guiding private entrepreneurs to participate in the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, social governance, and helping the elderly and students. At present, 26 township chambers of commerce in Xinyu (新余) have established Party organizations, achieving full coverage of established towns, and have established 563 assistance projects and cultivated 63 industrial project demonstration bases through various forms of assistance mechanisms.

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Two active-duty naval warships recently opened to the public in Qingdao

This newspaper reported from Beijing on September 16th (Reporter Ren Tongtong (任彤彤)) 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. In order to inherit and promote the great spirit of the War of Resistance and to carry out the National Defense Education Month activities in a solid manner, the Northern Theater Command Navy will organize a ship open day activity at the Olympic Sailing Center Pier in Qingdao (青岛), Shandong Province (山东省) from September 24th to 28th, opening the Xining (西宁) guided-missile destroyer and the Wuhu (芜湖) guided-missile frigate to the public for visits.

The ship open day activity will implement a real-name online free reservation system. The public can register for reservations through the "North Sea Fleet (北海舰队)" WeChat official account. After a successful reservation, visitors can enter the pier for a visit with their valid second-generation resident ID card.

The Xining (西宁) guided-missile destroyer is a Type 052D guided-missile destroyer independently developed by China, with hull number 117, and was commissioned in January 2017. The Wuhu (芜湖) guided-missile frigate is a Type 054A guided-missile frigate independently developed by China, with hull number 539, and was commissioned in June 2017. Both the Xining (西宁) and Wuhu (芜湖) ships belong to the Northern Theater Command Navy (北部战区海军).

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This edition's editors: Ji Jianming, Xu Leipeng, Li Peiyang

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The Dazzling Constellation of Science in Textbooks (Cultural China Tour)

This autumn semester, the new lesson "Nan Rendong Star (南仁东星)" in the eighth-grade Chinese textbook published by People's Education Press (人民教育出版社) has sparked heated discussions. Nan Rendong's (南仁东) lifelong "star chasing," Yuan Longping's (袁隆平) dream of rice fields, Deng Jiaxian's (邓稼先) perseverance in the Gobi Desert... The stories of scientists in textbooks, in vivid forms, have planted the "seeds" of respecting science in the hearts of young people, making the spirit of scientists a profound memory for a generation. What are the considerations behind bringing scientists' stories into textbooks? What other activities have teachers and students carried out besides reading the texts? Let's take a look at the vivid practices of several schools.

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Let's Chase the "Nan Rendong Star" Together

People's Daily Reporter Su Bin (苏滨)

As soon as the new textbooks were distributed, Zou Yuhao (邹宇昊) flipped through them. Soon, his eyes fell on a new lesson—"Nan Rendong Star (南仁东星)."

Zou Yuhao (邹宇昊) is a student in the second grade of junior high school at Guiyang No. 18 Middle School (贵阳市第十八中学) in Guizhou Province (贵州省). Like many of his classmates, this is not the first time he has heard the story of Nan Rendong (南仁东), but it is the first time he has learned about it in a textbook. "It feels very familiar and close, and the figure of Grandpa Nan Rendong (南仁东爷爷) appears in my mind," Zou Yuhao (邹宇昊) said. He didn't expect to be chasing "stars" in the textbook.

"Nan Rendong (南仁东) spent 22 years turning the 'China Sky Eye' (中国天眼) from an idea into reality. He dedicated his life to the country and to science, and the spirit of the scientist in him must be passed on." Chen Xi (陈曦), the leader of the Chinese language teaching and research group for the second grade of junior high school at the school, said that the teaching and research group carefully prepared a teaching plan to teach this lesson well.

Before class, students are asked to collect information to learn about the scientist's life; in class, combined with excerpts from the text, they experience the spirit of the scientist through the deeds of the characters; after class, they are guided to write letters to the scientist, talking about their feelings and ideals in a dialogue that transcends time and space.

"'Nan Rendong Star (南仁东星),' we want to make an article with the word 'star,' which not only reflects Nan Rendong's (南仁东) contribution to exploring the universe, but also introduces the asteroid named 'Nan Rendong Star (南仁东星)," Chen Xi (陈曦) said. "This is the 'star' that students should be chasing." Although only the second grade of junior high school is studying this lesson, the school plans to organize a stage play in the third grade of junior high school to allow more students to feel the spirit of scientists and sow the seeds of serving the country through science in different forms of learning.

Zhou Yicheng (周奕呈), a student in the first grade of junior high school, visited the Nan Rendong Memorial Hall (南仁东纪念馆) and overlooked the "China Sky Eye" (中国天眼) in Pingtang County (平塘县), Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (黔南布依族苗族自治州) with his parents when he was in elementary school. The radio telescope that captures space information is so spectacular that it shocked her.

"Scientists are amazing! Success is not achieved overnight. It often involves many setbacks. We must have the spirit of adhering to ideals and never giving up. We must show this kind of enthusiasm and learn this kind of quality." This summer vacation, Zhou Yicheng (周奕呈) signed up to participate in a speech contest to promote the spirit of scientists. "I also want to become a scientist like Grandpa Nan Rendong (南仁东爷爷), explore the universe, dedicate myself to the motherland, and never give up!"

In recent years, relying on rich research resources, Guizhou (贵州) has seen the emergence of a number of research bases. Guiyang No. 18 Middle School (贵阳市第十八中学) encourages students to experience the charm of science up close during the holidays with their parents.

"The value shaping of young people is crucial. We hope that students will love science and love the motherland, enhance their national self-confidence and pride, and draw nourishment and gain strength from the spirit of scientists on the road to pursuing their dreams," Chen Xi (陈曦) said.

Walking into the Rice Fields to Understand the "Dream of Cooling off under the Rice"

People's Daily Reporter You Yi (游仪)

The wind rises in the fields, and the rice seedlings sway gently. At the Yuan Longping Hybrid Rice Science Park (袁隆平杂交水稻科学园) in Chengdu (成都市), Sichuan Province (四川省), 30 students from a middle school in Chengdu (成都市) walked along the field ridges, asking questions as they went.

"Starting from a seed, how long does it take for rice to grow?"

"What variety is this? Does the rice we eat come from this kind of rice?"...

Xu Yu (许玉), the research instructor and director of the Cultural and Educational Center of the Yuan Longping Hybrid Rice Science Park (袁隆平杂交水稻科学园), patiently answered. She also guided from time to time: "Close your eyes and listen to what sounds are in the field?"

The research in the rice fields allows students to understand the "earthiness" in the textbooks. Just like the text "Seeing the Waves of Rice and Beans—Remembering Yuan Longping (袁隆平), the First Winner of the National Top Science and Technology Award" wrote: "He (Yuan Longping (袁隆平)) once dreamed that the rice grew as tall as sorghum, and the ears of rice were as big as brooms." Walking in the fields, the children better understood the "dream of cooling off under the rice," which is the spirit of the scientist taking root and growing.

In 2020, the Yuan Longping Hybrid Rice Science Park (袁隆平杂交水稻科学园) opened. The park has built the Yuan Longping Hybrid Rice Science and Technology Museum (袁隆平杂交水稻科技馆), the院士工坊 (Academician Workshop) and the Youth Agricultural Innovation Center, with more than 2,000 acres of high-standard farmland.

"In order to realize the 'Youth Agricultural Knowledge Wish,' we have also built the 'Yuan Longping Youth Academy' research camp and labor education base." Xu Yu (许玉) introduced that a variety of research courses, such as mud classrooms and rice-fish symbiosis, not only allow young people to personally experience the struggle of the "dream of cooling off under the rice," but also allow them to better understand the importance of modern agricultural technology to food security.

Walking into the Yuan Longping Hybrid Rice Science and Technology Museum (袁隆平杂交水稻科技馆), the "Journey of a Grain of Rice" begins. In the Yuan Longping Scientist Spirit Exhibition Area, Grandpa Yuan's (袁爷爷) photo of wearing a straw hat and standing barefoot in the rice field impressed the students; in the physical exhibition area, from wild rice ears to hybrid rice seeds, from yellowed manuscripts to images, the story of the scientist came out of the textbook, the spirit of the scientist was deeply rooted in the heart, and the children were moved by Grandpa Yuan's (袁爷爷) lifelong adherence.

Since this year, the Yuan Longping Hybrid Rice Science and Technology Museum (袁隆平杂交水稻科技馆) has carried out more than 60 research activities, covering 15,000 young people. By opening up classrooms and fields, the park carries out a variety of popular science education methods. "Immersive research courses help stimulate young people's love for agriculture and cultivate their interest in agricultural science." Xu Yu (许玉) said that when children plant seedlings by hand and touch the heavy ears of rice, "'Who knows that every grain on the plate is hard-earned' is no longer just a poem in the textbook, but a touch engraved in the heart."

Recalling the Earth-shattering Roar in Atomic City

People's Daily Reporter Cao Jiwei (曹继炜)

Autumn in Qinghai (青海) comes early and goes quickly. In September, the grass on the Jin Yintan Grassland (金银滩草原) is nearly half yellow.

In 1958, Deng Jiaxian (邓稼先) said goodbye to his wife and came here.

Liu Rong (刘蓉) is a student at the Third Junior High School of Menyuan Hui Autonomous County (门源回族自治县第三初级中学) in Qinghai Province (青海省). At the beginning of this semester, she and more than 100 classmates came to the Qinghai Atomic City Memorial Hall (青海原子城纪念馆) on Jin Yintan (金银滩) to "attend class."

Having read the article "Deng Jiaxian (邓稼先)" in the Chinese textbook, Liu Rong (刘蓉) is no stranger to Deng Jiaxian's (邓稼先) deeds: "Deng Jiaxian (邓稼先) has always stood on the front line of China's atomic weapon design, manufacturing, and research, and together with many scholars and technicians, he successfully designed China's atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb."

A tall building rises from the ground. The "two bombs" were not achieved in a day, nor were they smooth sailing. In the Atomic City Memorial Hall (原子城纪念馆), students had a real feeling.

Walking through the restored Deng Jiaxian (邓稼先) office in the memorial hall, students learned about the story of "9 calculations."

In those days, Deng Jiaxian (邓稼先) and other young researchers re-calculated the basic data left by Soviet experts. They worked in three shifts a day, day and night, and performed 9 calculations on the data in nearly a year. The final result was still inconsistent with the data left by the Soviet experts. Later, Zhou Guangzhao (周光召), a theoretical physicist, returned from the Soviet Union and determined that the Soviet experts' data was wrong.

Not far from the Atomic City Memorial Hall (原子城纪念馆), at the former site of the State-owned 221 Factory (国营二二一厂), a nuclear weapons research and development base, students saw the abacus and computer used by Deng Jiaxian (邓稼先) at that time. Workshop 104 here restores the environment in which Deng Jiaxian (邓稼先) and other scientists worked as much as possible. The students also understood more details of the text, and many people were in tears.

Most of the students in the class are native Qinghai (青海) people. How could they not know what the Jin Yintan Grassland (金银滩草原) in winter is like? The wind howls, the sand and rocks fly, and the temperature can drop to minus 30 degrees Celsius.

Later, Deng Jiaxian (邓稼先) was diagnosed with rectal cancer, and the pain tormented him. Student Mai Jixia (买继霞) remembered what was written in the text. In the middle of two operations, Deng Jiaxian (邓稼先) also participated in writing a proposal on the development of China's nuclear weapons.

Walking out of the memorial hall, in addition to reading the text, the students had a deeper understanding of Deng Jiaxian's (邓稼先) story of "doing earth-shattering things and being an anonymous person." "The text says that Deng Jiaxian (邓稼先) is an 'ideal member of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党),' and I want to learn from him and become an 'ideal member' in the future!" Student Ma Yu (马煜) said.

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Infusing Scientific Spirit into Words

By: 尤 炜

Currently, the entire society is vigorously promoting the spirit of scientists, and primary and secondary schools in various regions are exploring the "addition" of science education in the "double reduction" of education, constantly stimulating young people's curiosity, imagination, and desire for exploration. In order to systematically present and reflect China's scientific and technological achievements and the deeds of scientists, the nationally unified textbooks compiled and published by the People's Education Press (人民教育出版社) integrate elements such as patriotism, innovation, truth-seeking, dedication, collaboration, and education between the lines. Taking Chinese language as an example, the thin textbooks contain a brilliant scientific starry sky.

Opening the textbooks newly put into use this autumn semester, this starry sky becomes even more brilliant.

We can revisit many "old texts": "The Child Who Counts Stars" tells the story of Zhang Heng's (张衡) inquisitiveness, "Must Strive for Success" embodies the ambition of biologist Tong Dizhou (童第周), and "Movable Type Printing" and "Deng Jiaxian (邓稼先)" have influenced generations. We can read new stories: "Chinese People Enter Their Own Space Station for the First Time," "'Jiaolong' Explores the Sea," and "There is a 'Nan Rendong Star (南仁东星)' in the Sky" are texts that enter middle school textbooks for the first time, showcasing the innovative power of China in the global scientific field in the new era. In particular, the names of scientific and technological workers since the founding of New China written in the texts jointly interpret the spirit of scientists, becoming the "stars" that children chase in the textbooks.

The rigorous and pragmatic attitude of scientists in academic research also runs through every text and every detail of the textbook. To ensure that the texts are both literary and beautiful, and facilitate teaching and learning, careful polishing is indispensable. Wang Hongjia (王宏甲), the author of "There is a 'Nan Rendong Star (南仁东星)' in the Sky," condensed the 220,000-word "China's Tianyan: The Biography of Nan Rendong (中国天眼：南仁东传)" into a 3,000-word text in five drafts according to the needs of the textbook. He also entered the classroom for trial teaching and use of the textbook, listening to and absorbing the opinions of teachers and students.

In addition to Chinese language textbooks, scientific and technological achievements and stories of scientists also frequently appear in unified moral and rule of law and history textbooks. These include stories of outstanding figures in ancient times such as Zhang Zhongjing (张仲景), Zu Chongzhi (祖冲之), and Shen Kuo (沈括), as well as the deeds of Cheng Kaijia (程开甲), Qian Xuesen (钱学森), Guo Yonghuai (郭永怀), Yuan Longping (袁隆平), Tu Youyou (屠呦呦), Huang Xuhua (黄旭华), Yu Min (于敏), and Huang Danian (黄大年). In units and columns such as "Love Science and Learn Science," "Establish Life Goals," "Safeguard National Interests," and "Learn History and Promote Virtue," scientists in the long river of history, like stars, reflect each other, engaging in cross-temporal dialogues with teachers and students.

The sky in the textbooks is so full of stars, illuminating the path of children's pursuit of knowledge and innovation. We look forward to more young readers opening the textbooks together, looking up at this vast scientific starry sky with reverence, and feeling the progress and glory of China's scientific undertaking.

(The author is the director of the Middle School Chinese Language Editorial Office of the People's Education Press (人民教育出版社中学语文编辑室主任))

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Following the Chinese Literary Tradition, Seeking New Horizons in Calligraphy (New Discourse)

By: 张胜伟

In China's many artistic categories, calligraphy can be described as the simplest and the most difficult.

A towering ancient tree needs to be rooted in thick soil; calligraphy innovation cannot be separated from a deep reflection on tradition.

From bustling cities to remote villages, the figure of those who practice calligraphy can be seen everywhere in China. As an important part of outstanding Chinese traditional culture, the cultural charm contained in calligraphy has always been hidden in the hearts of Chinese people, decorating life, inspiring wisdom, and nourishing the soul.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that calligraphy is a treasure of Chinese culture, containing a lot of spirit, and must be inherited and promoted well.

Every Chinese person cannot be separated from the influence of outstanding traditional culture and needs the support of "spirit." Calligraphy provides us with a very effective way and method to obtain these nourishments. People who have experienced calligraphy know that once they fall in love with calligraphy, it is difficult to give it up, and it often becomes a lifelong spiritual companion.

In China's many artistic categories, calligraphy can be described as the simplest and the most difficult. It is "simple" because it is "freehand" writing of Chinese characters—Chinese people have started this practice since they first held a pen in their lives, as natural as eating and speaking. It is "difficult" because of its inherent "philosophical" character, because of the extremely rich cultural heritage accumulated over thousands of years, and even more because it is closely connected with "Chinese characters" and "Chinese language," conveying and interpreting the Chinese nation's civilizational steps, spiritual beliefs, value identity, and moral integrity, carrying and telling the growth trajectory and spiritual map of the national soul.

From oracle bone inscriptions, we can clearly see the initial psychology and methodological path of the ancestors in understanding nature. Those vivid "original characters" that are ready to emerge carry the wisdom code of the Chinese nation. In calligraphy, dialectics and the idea of ​​"harmony" are perfectly integrated. Through calligraphy, one can help people understand the Tao, debate the Tao, and clarify the Tao—this is precisely the enlightening function of calligraphy.

After the art of calligraphy entered the "conscious" period, many aesthetic tendencies such as "Jin emphasizes charm, Tang emphasizes law, and Song emphasizes intention" appeared. The writing subject—"man"—was continuously "enlarged" in the writing process, and the art of calligraphy thus formed schools and different styles. Calligraphy criticism also often incorporates a large number of "personality appraisals." Calligraphers of past dynasties, with their classic calligraphy works that are upright, magnanimous, stalwart, and vigorous, stand tall like "thousands of peaks towering." Obviously, calligraphy aesthetics always advocates "upright atmosphere." Wang Xizhi's (王羲之) calligraphy is full of purity, Yan Zhenqing's (颜真卿) calligraphy is full of righteousness, Su Shi's (苏轼) calligraphy is magnanimous and unrestrained... all showing the foundation and tension of life, becoming classic paradigms and spiritual benchmarks admired by scholars of past dynasties.

Calligraphy is a skill, but it also contains the "great way" of dealing with the world and establishing oneself. As a calligraphy practitioner, one especially needs to have great ambition and great courage. Throughout history, there are countless stories of calligraphy inspiring ambition, and calligraphy is also regarded as a way to cultivate ambition and cultivate spirit. People use calligraphy to display their inner thoughts, express their noble spirit, and entrust their moral integrity, melting personal spiritual temperament, academic cultivation, and life experience into the tip of the pen, pursuing the supreme realm of "the unity of man and calligraphy."

Brush and ink are like clouds and smoke, and literary heart transcends thousands of years. In the new era, we should expand the new realm of brush and ink through creative transformation and innovative development, so that this ancient art can radiate new brilliance. A towering ancient tree needs to be rooted in thick soil; calligraphy innovation cannot be separated from a deep reflection on tradition. Only by engaging in in-depth dialogue with the sages can we truly gain the confidence of culture. Let personal artistic pursuits resonate with the spirit of the times, national development, and people's lives, and write the passion and dreams of the new era. The "form" of calligraphy is a universal language, and the "meaning" carries Chinese wisdom. Through innovative expression and in-depth cooperation, calligraphy can fully become an excellent messenger for telling Chinese stories, transmitting Chinese voices, and promoting mutual learning among civilizations.

The inheritance and innovation of calligraphy is a warm journey from tradition to the future. We need to be both loyal guardians and bold creators, so that this art on the tip of the pen can shine with a kind and moving oriental light under the starry sky of world culture.

(The author is the vice chairman of the Chinese Calligraphers Association (中国书法家协会) and a professor in the Calligraphy Department of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts (西安美术学院).)

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2025 Kunshan Opera Festival to be Held

(People's Daily, Nanjing, September 16) (Reporter Wang Weijian (王伟健)) The 2025 Opera Festival (Kunshan) Grand Ceremony, hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部) and the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government (江苏省人民政府), was recently held in Kunshan (昆山), Jiangsu (江苏). With the theme of "Gathering Chinese Operas, Displaying New Faces of Opera," the grand ceremony brought together 107 plays from 31 opera genres and 53 theaters, totaling 39 performances. The event will last until September 20.

This grand ceremony will hold activities such as the National Opera Actors' Performance (Martial Arts), an invitation exhibition of excellent plays, opera symposiums, and special activities for the protection and inheritance of endangered opera genres. The event locations have been expanded to Zhouzhuang Ancient Town (周庄古镇), Zhengyi Ancient Town (正仪古镇), the Opera Museum (戏曲百戏博物馆), Duke Kunshan University (昆山杜克大学), and Tinglin Park Ancient Opera Stage (亭林园古戏台), creating new immersive experience scenarios.

In order to promote the protection, inheritance, and development of opera art, this grand ceremony also held opera promotion and exchange activities, the "Watch Hundred Operas, Tour Jiangsu (江苏)" opera tour, and opera-themed exhibitions. Around hundred opera movies, hundred opera shows, hundred opera coffee, and hundred opera cultural creations, the "Hundred Opera National Trend Life Fair" was launched, and a "Hundred Opera Grand Ceremony Cloud Theater" was established to carry out online live broadcasts and promote the digital promotion of opera.

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Beijing Dongcheng Culture Month Kicks Off

The tenth Beijing Confucius Temple and Guozijian National Academy Cultural Festival opening ceremony and the launching ceremony of the 2025 Dongcheng Culture Month, hosted by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Cultural Heritage (北京市文物局), the Dongcheng District Committee of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee (北京市东城区委), and the People's Government of Dongcheng District (东城区人民政府), were held recently, according to a report in this newspaper on September 16 from Beijing (北京) (reporter Pan Junqiang (潘俊强)). The 2025 Dongcheng Culture Month will integrate cultural resources across the region, deeply integrate diverse cultural, commercial, tourism, and sports scenarios, and launch five major theme sections and more than 50 distinctive activities.

The Dongcheng Culture Month activities will connect the most representative cultural landmarks in the district, such as Yongdingmen (永定门), Longfusi (隆福寺), and the Bell and Drum Towers (钟鼓楼), and launch four cultural exploration routes to allow citizens and tourists to experience the profound cultural heritage of Dongcheng District (东城区) while walking. The event will also simultaneously carry out cultural benefit-the-people consumption activities, uniting more than 70 cultural institutions to launch millions of cultural benefit-the-people subsidies covering five major categories of consumption: watching movies, seeing operas, enjoying exhibitions, buying books, and experiencing culture, sharing the dividends of cultural development.

Dongcheng District (东城区) will rely on its high-quality cultural resource endowment to continuously expand the new "culture +" model, promote the deep integration of culture with commerce, tourism, and technology, and create a number of new cultural scenes and new business forms with visibility, experience, and driving force.

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Livestreaming rooms gain a lively, bustling atmosphere.

By: 本报记者 窦 皓

As dusk approached, a cultural and tourism block in Qiandaohu Town (千岛湖镇), Chun'an County (淳安县), Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), was bustling with activity.

In the middle of the block, under a temporarily erected stage, the audience seats were filled. The night market stalls lined up in a row, and the stall owners were 忙得不亦乐乎 (máng dé bù yì lè hū - "so busy as to be very happy," extremely busy and overjoyed). "Knowing there's a live broadcast stage today, I specially prepared more ingredients," said stall owner Ms. Wang (王女士).

A loud song rang out, and the live broadcast stage started on time—on stage, the hosts showed off their singing and dancing; off stage, the audience waved glow sticks, swaying to the dynamic music.

On the LED screen of the stage, the Kuaishou (快手) live broadcast screen was displayed in real time, interspersed with the beautiful scenery of Qiandao Lake (千岛湖) from time to time. In the rapidly scrolling comment section, netizens left messages: "Be sure to come once to enjoy the beautiful scenery and taste the delicious food."

"On the one hand, it is to bring performances to the countryside. On the other hand, the combination of cultural tourism and live broadcast stage can also drive the development of the night economy." Tang Wei (唐薇), the person in charge of this live broadcast stage, has loved performing since she was a child. From singing on small stages in surrounding villages and towns to entering the "Avenue of Stars" (《星光大道》) program, she has always wanted to bring performances to more people.

"Traditional live broadcast rooms are always indoors. Why can't they be extended outdoors and invite more guests to perform?" Tang Wei (唐薇) said that she had previously held large-scale live broadcasts in Bengbu (蚌埠), Anhui (安徽), Suzhou (苏州), Jiangsu (江苏), Harbin (哈尔滨), Heilongjiang (黑龙江), and other places, and the response was very good.

At 9 p.m., after finishing a song and saying goodbye to the audience, Tang Wei (唐薇) walked off the stage, and the number of viewers in the upper right corner of the LED screen was fixed at 4.821 million. After the performance, an open-air movie was played on the stage, attracting many viewers to stay. At the stall, Ms. Wang (王女士) had beads of sweat on her forehead, "I usually only earn a hundred yuan or so a night, but today it has multiplied several times."

"We are exploring a new path of 'live broadcast + cultural tourism', using the live broadcast stage to transmit the everyday atmosphere of a city, a county, and a village to more regions, helping to create an image business card, and driving the联动 growth of cultural tourism, consumption, and other industries." said the person in charge of the Chun'an County Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau (淳安县文化和广电旅游体育局).

Regarding this new business format, Professor Yu Ze (于泽) of Renmin University of China (中国人民大学) said that the "New Popular Literature and Art" theme seminar of the 3rd Beijing Internet Audio-Visual Art Convention (北京网络视听艺术大会) recently discussed using Internet audio-visual literature and art as an "opening method" to better present the everyday atmosphere around ordinary people, and the live broadcast stage is also an attempt.

"What happens after the performance?" Tang Wei (唐薇) is still thinking. She feels that the charm of the live broadcast stage lies in the rising everyday atmosphere. "I hope to let more people with talent and love of performance participate and keep the big stage lively," said Tang Wei (唐薇).

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This edition's editors: Zhi Chunli, Chen Yuanyuan, Dong Yingxue

Layout Design: Zhang Danfeng (张丹峰)

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Refined Management Ensures Property Service Quality Despite Price Reduction (Frontlines of People's Livelihood)

By: 本报记者 焦思雨 王 者 李 刚

Core Reading

For a long time, the issues of opaque property management fees and unequal services have been a painful point in people's lives, troubling homeowners. Many places are actively exploring: introducing property management guidance price policies, allowing homeowners' committees to manage property management fees and community public income... More policy measures give homeowners more say in pricing and also urge property management companies to provide quality services.

Many places have introduced property management guidance price policies, aiming to solve the long-standing problems of opaque property management fees and unequal services, providing institutional guarantees for homeowners' rights and drawing a service benchmark for property management companies.

How to ensure service quality while adjusting property management fees? What new measures have been taken in various places to achieve more reasonable use of property management fees?

Yinchuan, Ningxia—

Using idle resources to provide diverse services for residents

"After the property management fee and parking fee were reduced last July, I can save more than 500 yuan a year." Cao Zhilin, who lives in the Qingshuiwan Community (清水湾社区) in Jinfeng District (金凤区), Yinchuan City (银川市), Ningxia (宁夏), said, "The money paid is less, but the property management service has not shrunk."

Speaking of the property management service in his community, Cao Zhilin is very satisfied: "Sometimes the power suddenly goes out at home in the middle of the night, and a maintenance worker will come to the door soon after a phone call; if a kitten climbs to a high place and can't get down, the property management staff will immediately move a ladder to help..."

On July 1, 2024, the "Yinchuan City Government Guidance Price Standard Scheme for Pre-Property Management Services and Parking Fees for Ordinary Residences" (《银川市普通住宅前期物业服务和停车收费政府指导价标准方案》) was officially implemented. The scheme clarifies that the pre-property management service fees for ordinary residences before the establishment of the homeowners' association will be subject to government guidance prices, and a "one-fee system" will be implemented, that is, the operating costs of public facilities such as lighting, greening, and fire protection will be included in the property management service costs, and no additional fees will be charged. Property management fees are divided into 4 levels with maximum price limits according to the type of community and whether it has elevators, etc. Parking fees in residential communities are subject to government guidance prices, stipulating the highest charging standards for parking space service fees and rental (use) fees.

"We implemented the policy as soon as it was released. The part of the property management fee that exceeded the limit was immediately reduced, and the parking fee was also reduced from the original 80 yuan per month to 60 yuan per month. In this way, the annual income was reduced by more than 300,000 yuan." Shao Yanan, project manager of Ningxia Residential Construction Development (Group) Co., Ltd. (宁夏住宅建设发展（集团）有限公司) Qingshuiwan Project (清水湾项目), said.

With reduced property management income, how can service quality be guaranteed?

Shao Yanan said: "Although the income is less, the service quality cannot be reduced. We need to achieve cost reduction and efficiency increase through more refined management." She cited an example: For example, for greening watering, it used to be extensive flooding, but now it has been changed to sprinkler irrigation, which can save about 50,000 yuan in water costs a year, saving water and improving efficiency; the switching time of street lights is also flexibly adjusted according to the season and weather to reduce unnecessary power consumption; the pruned branches are no longer discarded at will, but are processed into small flower pots and decorations, which not only saves garbage disposal fees but also turns waste into treasure, decorating the community environment...

Shao Yanan introduced that since the price reduction in July last year, while maintaining basic services such as security, cleaning, greening, maintenance, and customer service, the property management company has continued to expand the content of "property management service +", building a community life service network covering all ages and all scenarios.

"In summer, the property management company will hold a 'Starry Sky Cinema', as well as free handicraft classes and fun sports meets... Everyone likes them very much." Community resident Feng Aizhi (冯爱芝) said, "The property management company also makes full use of idle resources to create spaces such as badminton courts and children's reading rooms; it is equipped with 2 'Happiness Buses' that shuttle back and forth between buildings and community entrances every day."

"Although we have lost a lot of income at once, we strive to overcome difficulties and improve service levels. If the homeowners are satisfied, they will pay the property management fees faster and more promptly." Shao Yanan introduced, "Recently, we have also integrated the resources of the community, property management company, and surrounding merchants to provide free services such as purchasing daily necessities for everyone."

Qingdao, Shandong—

Optimizing service processes and strengthening the connection between property management and homeowners

At more than 7:00 in the morning, in the underground garage of the Qingte Town (青特小镇) community in Chengyang District (城阳区), Qingdao City (青岛市), Shandong Province (山东省), the sound of flushing and the hum of the sweeping machine are intertwined. Cleaners from Qingdao Huihao Property Service Co., Ltd. (青岛汇豪物业服务有限公司) have already put on their work clothes and started working.

Not far away, in the community square, resident Sun Dianfeng (孙典峰) is playing with her grandson. "Look, the public seats in the community are so clean." She reached out and wiped the chair, "There is no dust on the seats. Looking at it, there is no garbage in the green belt or the square."

The comfortable living environment benefits from the high-quality service of the property management company. Every morning, cleaners push trolleys full of cleaning tools to clean the community. In the evening, cleaners inspect the public areas again, and they will clean up small advertisements and litter in time.

"The property management service is heart-warming, and the fees are fair." Sun Dianfeng said. She picked up her mobile phone and showed the reporter the interface of the online payment system: "We started to reduce fees last year. The property management fee paid this year is more than 800 yuan less than the previous two years, which is equivalent to saving more than a year's underground parking space service fee." She lives in a foreign-style house in the community. Before the price reduction, she paid a fixed property management fee of more than 6,000 yuan per year.

In May 2024, Chengyang District (城阳区) issued the "Notice on Self-Inspection and Rectification of Pre-Property Management Service Fees for Ordinary Residences Exceeding Government Guidance Prices" (《关于对普通住宅前期物业服务收费超出政府指导价进行自查整改的通知》), which determines the upper limit of the floating range of the benchmark price of property management fees based on the scale of the charging area of the property management service area.

According to the requirements of the document, Huihao Property (汇豪物业) lowered the property management fee and, taking February 1, 2024 as the starting point, refunded the property management fee charged exceeding the floating standard to the homeowners or extended it to the later property management fee. After the fee reduction, the property management fee for stacked villas and foreign-style houses in Zone D of Qingte Town (青特小镇D区) was reduced from 3.2 yuan/square meter per month to 2.77 yuan/square meter per month.

With the reduction of property management fees, will the service quality also decline? The property management company dispels residents' concerns by optimizing services and innovating processes.

Last year, Huihao Property (汇豪物业) took the lead in establishing a centralized cleaning center for cleaners in Chengyang District (城阳区), purchasing large-scale washing and disinfection equipment to mechanically clean the mops and rags in the corridors, which not only improved the cleaning quality but also saved the cleaners the on-site cleaning process, leaving more time and energy to clean the community's public spaces, realizing the improvement of work efficiency and service quality. Based on the needs of homeowners, the property management company has also developed businesses such as "community group buying" and "silver-haired tour groups", which not only broaden revenue channels but also strengthen the connection between property management and homeowners.

"Last year, I participated in the 'silver-haired tour group' organized by the property management company and went to Yunnan to play. It didn't cost much, and the trip was very happy." Sun Dianfeng (孙典峰) said.

As of now, 60 communities in Chengyang District (城阳区) have completed fee reductions. "Chengyang District (城阳区) will conduct strict rectification and strengthen on-site supervision of each property management service enterprise in accordance with relevant documents, so as to continuously promote the improvement of the district's property management service level and further improve residents' satisfaction." Liu Lihua (刘丽华), director of the Chengyang District Urban Management Development Center (城阳区城市管理发展中心), introduced.

Foshan, Guangdong—

"Remuneration System" reform, allowing property management to return to the role of "housekeeper"

From July 1 this year, homeowners in the Longwan Huafu (龙湾华府) community in Chancheng District (禅城区), Foshan City (佛山市), Guangdong Province (广东省) will no longer pay property management fees to the property management company; all property management fees and community public income will be kept in a public account opened by the community homeowners' committee, promoting the return of the property management company to the role of "housekeeper".

The Longwan Huafu (龙湾华府) community is located in Cunyuanwei Community (存院围社区), Zhangcha Street (张槎街道), Chancheng District (禅城区). The community has 18 residential buildings with a total of 1,971 households, including more than 1,400 permanent households, with about 5,000 people.

Liu Xianguo (刘宪国), director of the Longwan Huafu (龙湾华府) community homeowners' committee, introduced that homeowners have always paid property management fees to the property management company, and the property management company has the final say on the distribution and use of the fees. For the demands of homeowners, the property management company often considers from the perspective of profit and chooses whether to solve them. And the majority of homeowners and the homeowners' committee do not have enough means to restrain the property management company and urge it to improve its services.

From the end of 2024 to the beginning of 2025, the Longwan Huafu (龙湾华府) community property management company failed to meet the agreed requirements in the homeowner satisfaction assessment, triggering the contract termination conditions. The community party organization and the community party branch and homeowners' committee held a meeting to discuss and decided to design a new management system to reshape the homeowner's position as Party A and improve the quality of property management services.

The core of the "remuneration system" is based on the operating costs submitted by the property management company. The homeowners' meeting determines the annual budget plan, promises to extract a certain percentage of the property management fees collected from the community as remuneration, and rewards the property management company's services in accordance with the property management service contract.

In order to ensure that community affairs are open, transparent, and traceable, the community homeowners have built a "transparent community" digital platform. Through this platform, the homeowners' committee's financial information, approval process, work records, meeting minutes, etc. are open to homeowners, and homeowners can supervise every income, approval, and expenditure of shared funds at any time and understand community public affairs.

At the same time, the community homeowners' committee has also established an assessment mechanism and a reward mechanism to assess the property management company and calculate the property management remuneration.

"The changes are obvious. The problem of rectification of fire protection facilities that had been delayed for a long time has now been solved for the most part." Community resident Yang Weidong (杨卫东) introduced that the cracked walls of the community have been repaired, large lights have been installed in the West Gate Square, and the property management company's response to problems reflected by homeowners in the WeChat group has been much more timely.

"Now the property management fee has been reduced, but the quality of property management services has been significantly improved. We are very satisfied with the work of the homeowners' committee." Longwan Huafu (龙湾华府) homeowner Luo Shijun (罗诗君) said. However, the work of the homeowners' committee has not been recognized by all homeowners, and voices of opposition sometimes exist. The "remuneration system" reform still needs the test of time.

"'The 'remuneration system' can be successfully promoted as a result of the joint efforts of all parties." Zheng Hongshen (郑洪深), director of the Chancheng District Committee Organization Office (禅城区委编办) and deputy director of the District Committee Organization Department (区委组织部副部长), said, "But the current reform relies on the leadership of capable people. Large-scale replication and promotion requires the introduction of relevant rules and regulations to form a complete set of 'remuneration system' property management work guidelines."

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How to Use Your Medical Insurance Wallet (Service Window)

By: 本报记者 孙秀艳

Liu (刘) Deye (刘大爷), a 71-year-old man in Deyang (德阳), Sichuan (四川), was deeply troubled by eye disease. After seeing a doctor, he found that the prescribed medicine cost nearly 2,000 yuan, and the old man was reluctant to pay for it. Liu Deye's son works in Handan (邯郸), Hebei (河北). Upon learning of this situation, he immediately activated the medical insurance wallet through the National Medical Security Service Platform APP and transferred 2,000 yuan from his medical insurance personal account to his father's medical insurance wallet. At the settlement window, with a soft "beep," 1912.7 yuan in medical expenses was successfully transferred and paid through the medical insurance wallet.

The medical insurance wallet is not a physical wallet in the traditional sense, but a new type of medical insurance payment carrier closely linked to the individual medical insurance code, and is another important extension of medical insurance digital services.

In the past, the funds in the medical insurance personal account could only be used by the employee. Later, intra-provincial mutual assistance was realized by registering co-insured persons (originally immediate family members, later extended to close relatives). However, if the insured person and their family members are not insured in the same province, the money in the employee's medical insurance personal account still cannot be shared with family members. In fact, this part of the funds is very large. In 2024, the accumulated balance of employee medical insurance personal accounts in China exceeded 1.44 trillion yuan.

In order to solve the predicament of "sleeping funds" in employee personal accounts and promote better benefits for the people from the medical insurance fund, on December 2, 2024, the National Medical Security Administration officially launched the national cross-provincial mutual assistance of medical insurance personal accounts in Suzhou (苏州), Jiangsu (江苏), and launched the medical insurance wallet function: breaking provincial restrictions, as long as family members participate in basic medical insurance locally, the insured person can use the medical insurance wallet to transfer money to family members, realizing the mutual use of medical insurance personal accounts among close relatives. The money in the medical insurance wallet can be used for family members to see a doctor, purchase medicine, and pay for individual resident medical insurance fees. The latest information from the National Medical Security Administration shows that from January to July this year, a total of 170,600 intra-provincial and cross-provincial mutual assistance transactions of employee medical insurance personal accounts were conducted through medical insurance wallet transfers nationwide, with a transfer amount of 116 million yuan.

So, how do you activate and use the medical insurance wallet?

First, open the National Medical Security Service Platform APP and log in. Then, click on the medical insurance wallet on the homepage of the National Medical Security Service Platform. After entering, the information to be activated for the medical insurance wallet will be displayed. Confirm to use the wallet. The new interface displays the place of use and mobile phone number information. After confirming, click "Confirm Use Immediately," and the medical insurance wallet function will be activated. Currently, only some coordinated areas in a few provinces have opened the medical insurance wallet function. It is believed that as the business coverage continues to expand, all coordinated areas will achieve full coverage in the future.

After the medical insurance wallet interface returns successfully, click "Complete," and the interface displays that you can check the medical insurance wallet balance. There will also be a "button" for the medical insurance wallet transfer application. Click here to use this function. Fill in the basic information of the transferee and click "Submit." Of course, to realize the transfer, the party receiving the mutual assistance transfer must also activate the medical insurance wallet. After the authorizing party successfully transfers the money, the transferee can check the wallet balance and transfer records on their own medical insurance wallet interface. It should be noted that each medical insurance wallet account is limited to 3 transfers per day, and the amount of each transfer cannot exceed 2,000 yuan. Transfers cannot be made from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. the next day. If the transferee has not activated the medical insurance wallet and cannot receive the wallet transfer in time, the amount will be returned to the transferor's account before 6:00 a.m. the next day.

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Ministry of Education Conducts Special Fund Inspection

This newspaper's Beijing (北京) September 16th dispatch (by reporter Wu Yue (吴月)) - The reporter learned from the Ministry of Education (教育部): The Ministry of Education (教育部) organized a special inspection of campus food safety and the special funds for the Nutrition Improvement Program for Students in Rural Compulsory Education, comprehensively strengthening campus food safety management and standardizing the use of special funds for the Nutrition Improvement Program for Students in Rural Compulsory Education, and consolidating and deepening the achievements of the special rectification of "campus meals."

Inspection teams went to relevant provinces to conduct strict inspections through means such as symposiums and interviews, reviewing materials, on-site inspections, and accompanying students for meals at schools.

First, the implementation of responsibilities. The focus is on inspecting the implementation of food safety supervision responsibilities by education administrative departments and the main responsibilities of schools, including the establishment and implementation of internal control and food safety management systems in school canteens, the implementation of the school principal's meal accompaniment system, and the education administrative departments' supervision and inspection, business training, and other activities.

Second, canteen management. The focus is on inspecting the entire process management of food production, including the control of key links in food production such as food procurement, distribution, acceptance, storage, processing, and sample retention.

Third, financial management. The focus is on inspecting relevant aspects of dietary funding financial management, including the establishment of financial systems, accounting, and financial supervision.

Fourth, the management of dietary subsidy funds. The focus is on inspecting relevant aspects of the income and expenditure of dietary subsidy funds for students in rural compulsory education, including the arrangement, use, and supervision of subsidy funds.

For problems discovered during the inspection, the inspection team will provide feedback to the relevant provincial authorities as soon as possible, propose rectification requirements, and urge the implementation of closed-loop rectification to ensure that the problems are rectified in place.

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Anhui doctor travels to Tibet to conduct congenital heart disease screening

The central hospital of Comai County (措美县), Shannan City (山南市), Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区), doctors from the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University (安徽医科大学第一附属医院) are screening children for congenital heart disease.

On the same day, a congenital heart disease screening team composed of departments such as cardiac and great vessel surgery, cardiovascular medicine, and cardiac ultrasound imaging center of the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University (安徽医科大学第一附属医院) screened 24 children in Comai County (措美县) for congenital heart disease to accurately identify potentially ill children and prepare for the next step of treatment. As a medical institution in Anhui Province (安徽省) providing counterpart assistance to Shannan City (山南市), Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) for congenital heart disease screening and treatment, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University (安徽医科大学第一附属医院) has completed screening of more than 1,750 children with congenital heart disease and effectively treated more than 40 children since 2012.

Photo by Cheng Zhao (程兆) (Image China)

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Gansu Women's Federation Promotes the Construction of "She Power" Domestic Service Stations

This newspaper Lanzhou (兰州) September 16th (Reporter Yin Yan (银燕)) Since the end of 2024, the Gansu Provincial Women's Federation (甘肃省妇联) has promoted the construction of 50 "Heroines" Domestic Service Stations, integrating functions such as service, training, and employment. It has constructed a working model of "Women's Federation leading, community cooperation, enterprise operation, social participation, and serving people's livelihood," relying on communities to form a "15-minute domestic service circle." Through the "four-list working method" and the "three-item list system," it precisely matches needs, implements "one person, one certificate, one code" traceable service, and relies on online mini-programs to improve service efficiency. Currently, it has served 13,000 households with a satisfaction rate exceeding 95%.

The stations conduct free skills training, implement a "graduation is employment" training model, strengthen employment guidance and job matching. This year, they have trained more than 5,500 women and helped 2,116 women achieve stable employment. At the same time, they have organized 14,000 people to participate in public welfare services, and strengthened the rights and interests protection of employed women and enhanced their sense of belonging and professional identity through legal lectures, psychological counseling, and exchange activities.

The Gansu Provincial Women's Federation (甘肃省妇联) will continue to promote the "quality improvement, expansion, integration, and care" construction of the stations, expand service coverage, and strengthen rights protection.

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Taking the initiative to address the "minor concerns" of the people

By: 本报记者 蒋云龙

Every Friday after work, Li Hongxia (李红霞), a doctor at the Shengli Road Subdistrict Community Health Service Center in the Karamay District (克拉玛依区) of Karamay City (克拉玛依市), Xinjiang (新疆), carries her medical kit to conduct check-ups for elderly people living alone in her residential community.

"Auntie, your blood pressure is a bit high; you need to take your medication on time," she said while recording the data and offering reminders. Like Li Hongxia (李红霞), there are 38,000 party members in Karamay City (克拉玛依市) who participate in community service during their spare time.

Karamay City (克拉玛依市) is exploring refined community governance, guiding a large number of employed party members to reveal their identities, take on tasks, and provide services in the communities (villages) where they reside.

"Not enough cooling chairs," "hallway lights not working," "elderly people with mobility issues want haircuts"... These trivial "micro-demands" can all be quickly responded to through refined community governance in Karamay City (克拉玛依市).

The Athena Community (雅典娜社区) in Karamay District (克拉玛依区) once had a vacant lot. Community party members took the initiative to survey and measure this vacant land. At the same time, they actively visited residents to widely collect opinions and suggestions on the renovation and construction of the vacant land. During construction, community party members participated in the entire process of coordinating and resolving various problems, ultimately transforming the vacant land into a standardized parking lot, alleviating the parking shortage.

"We don't have to worry about finding parking spaces anymore; this practical thing has been done to our satisfaction," said resident Zhang Jianguo (张建国).

Why not reflect through traditional administrative channels? "The urgent needs and anxieties of the masses are often problems in the 'capillaries' and require a 'zero-distance' response," said Yu Ruixing (俞瑞星), Secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Zhongxing Road Subdistrict (中兴路街道) in the Baijiantan District (白碱滩区) of Karamay City (克拉玛依市). The subdistrict has sorted out more than 30 "I Serve You" menu items for party members to claim. Since the beginning of this year, community party members have provided services such as paying utility bills, repairing electrical appliances, providing free haircuts, and tutoring children of migrant workers more than 110 times.

In response to the problem of unattended children of migrant workers during holidays, the Beisheng Community (北盛社区) of Zhongxing Road Subdistrict (中兴路街道) formed a Silver Hair Volunteer Service Team composed of veteran party members, retired teachers, and artisans. Every week, the service team uses carefully planned activities to build a growth paradise full of fun and knowledge for the children of migrant workers in the jurisdiction. Retired art teachers patiently guide the children in making clay sculptures and paintings, and veteran party members teach the children paper-cutting and tell them stories.

Li (李), a resident of Beisheng Garden (北盛花园), said: "In the past, my child could only play on the phone at home during holidays. Coming here, he not only learns new knowledge but also makes new friends, and his personality has become more cheerful."

Will party members and cadres participating in community work during their spare time increase their burden? "We mobilize the enthusiasm of party members through mechanism design and will not excessively increase the burden on party members," introduced Lu Jinwei (鲁金伟), Deputy Minister of the Organization Department of the Karamay Municipal Party Committee (克拉玛依市委组织部).

The deeper motivation stems from the inherent sense of mission of party members. "Putting on the red vest and hearing residents call out 'Comrade Party Member' makes us more aware of the responsibility on our shoulders," said Han Lijun (韩丽君), a party member of Chagan Cao Village (查干草村) in the Urho District (乌尔禾区) of Karamay City (克拉玛依市).

Since the beginning of this year, party members in Karamay City (克拉玛依市) have claimed 6,185 "micro-wishes" from the masses, solved 2,759 "micro-demands," provided more than 5,200 "micro-services," and participated in more than 800 "micro-governance" initiatives, effectively opening up the "last mile" of serving the masses.

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Editors of this page: Cheng Chen, Xu Yang, Ma Ruishan

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Songjiang District, Shanghai: Fully Promoting the Construction of "Four Zones," Vigorously Developing New Momentum

Songjiang (松江), the root of Shanghai (上海) and the head of the Huangpu River (浦江). The former "granary" has transformed into the source of the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角G60科创走廊策源地). Today, it is drumming up a battle to break through the transformation and development with the construction of "four districts": advanced manufacturing clusters, new quality productive forces accelerating, modern new cities growing vigorously, and rural revitalization demonstrating pioneering efforts. The Yangtze River Delta (长三角) G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor strings together the industrial chain, innovation chain, and talent chain. The element aggregation ignites the scientific and technological innovation transformation. Songjiang District (松江区) in Shanghai (上海) is striving to write a new chapter of high-quality development with a "start is a decisive battle" attitude.

Adhere to the policy of establishing the district through industry and strengthening the district through industry

Strive to build a cluster area for the development of advanced manufacturing

Industry is the foundation of Songjiang's (松江) establishment and the basis for strengthening the district. Since Songjiang (松江) became the first municipal-level industrial zone in the suburbs of the city in 1992, its industrial output value once accounted for 1/7 of the city's total. Of all 41 industrial categories, Shanghai (上海) has 35, and Songjiang (松江) covers 31 of them. Facing the new economic situation, Songjiang (松江) is accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system adapted to new quality productive forces and striving to build a cluster area for the development of advanced manufacturing.

The concept guides and clarifies the direction of transformation. Songjiang (松江) regards "winning the battle of transformation and development" as a strategic task, promotes the unification of thinking throughout the district, eliminates path dependence, and proactively reshapes its core competitiveness. In 2024, there were 1,718 industrial enterprises above designated size in the district, ranking first in the city for three consecutive years; the total industrial output value above designated size and the output value of the three leading industries (manufacturing part) both ranked second in the city.

System reshaping to form a "2+4" industrial layout. Songjiang (松江) closely follows Shanghai's (上海) industrial development strategy and builds a "2+4" modern industrial system: two leading industries with a value of 100 billion yuan each—a new generation of information technology industries represented by intelligent terminals, intelligent computing services, and satellite internet, and high-end equipment industries represented by new energy facilities and instruments; four characteristic industries with a value of 10 billion yuan each—advanced materials, life and health, fashion consumer goods, and cultural tourism and film industries.

Ecological optimization to cultivate fertile ground for development. Songjiang (松江) continues to promote the reform of the administrative approval system, promote innovative mechanisms such as "start construction upon land acquisition" and "one-day completion," which significantly improves the efficiency of enterprise settlement. At the same time, through the project circulation and financial resource sharing mechanism, the allocation of industrial resources is optimized, the coordinated development of the industrial chain and supply chain is promoted, and the overall competitiveness is improved.

Element integration to enhance development momentum. Songjiang (松江) continues to optimize the guarantee of elements such as energy, finance, and logistics through the "Cost Reduction and Efficiency Enhancement, Benefit Enterprises Together" series of policies to help enterprises reduce costs and increase profit margins. Through financial instruments such as the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor Science and Technology Achievement Transformation Fund, the connection between industry and capital is accelerated, the construction of cross-border logistics hubs is promoted, a virtuous cycle is formed, and industrial upgrading is assisted.

Deepen the integrated development of education, science, technology, and talent

Strive to build a pioneer area for the development of new quality productive forces

Walking into Songjiang (松江), a three-dimensional and resilient new industrial landscape is slowly unfolding: old factories are being renovated and upgraded, manufacturing services are running in both directions, cutting-edge tracks are accelerating, and the pulse of new quality productive forces is clear and powerful.

As an important carrier area of the Shanghai (上海) International Science and Technology Innovation Center and the main position of high-end manufacturing, Songjiang (松江) is building a pioneer area for the development of new quality productive forces with a higher level of integration of education, science, technology, and talent, and with more powerful institutional innovation and element aggregation.

Integration of education and technology. Songjiang University Town (松江大学城) gathers 8 universities and more than 120,000 teachers and students, with abundant scientific research resources. In recent years, original achievements have continued to emerge, and transformation channels have become increasingly smooth. Songjiang (松江) is accelerating the construction of the "Songjiang University Town Science and Technology Innovation Source (松江大学城科创源)," and through industry-university-research collaboration and key track layout, it is promoting the accelerated landing of source innovation and injecting source power into the development of new quality productive forces.

Co-creation of institutional platforms. As the source of the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor, Songjiang (松江) actively promotes the linkage of nine cities and builds a cross-regional cooperation system of "alliance + base + fund + platform." The cumulative transaction volume of achievement auctions has exceeded 30 billion yuan, and mechanisms such as competitions, incubators, and accelerators continue to amplify the innovation effect, helping to accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements.

Talent and capital driven. Songjiang (松江) has more than 100 academician expert workstations, improves the three-level talent service network, forms a dynamic "talent map," and accurately matches industrial needs. At the same time, the science and technology financial system is constantly improving. The total scale of the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor Science and Technology Innovation Achievement Transformation Fund has reached 10 billion yuan, focusing on strategic industries such as hard technology, new energy, and new materials, providing strong support for innovative development.

Innovation source leads. Songjiang (松江) ranks fourth in the city in terms of the number of national-level specialized, refined, and new "little giant" enterprises, and the total number of municipal-level specialized, refined, and new small and medium-sized enterprises and high-tech enterprises both rank third in the city. In 2024, the growth rate of the science and technology service industry was 23.8%, ranking second in the city. Songjiang (松江) focuses on the cultivation of the 6G industry, builds a full-chain incubation and cultivation system around the "Liujixingtong (六极星通)" incubator, promotes the aggregation of innovation elements and the transformation of achievements, and provides precise solutions for cutting-edge technology enterprises to solve the problems of technology transformation and market expansion. At the same time, Songjiang (松江) vigorously develops the biomedicine industry, focuses on Shanghai's (上海) "4 100s" list, vigorously cultivates innovative products, actively supports high-end innovative drug and device products that are developed and produced in Songjiang District (松江区), and promotes the "going overseas" of innovative products and the internationalization of enterprises.

Build a city suitable for living, working, and traveling

Strive to build a model area for the construction of modern new cities

From the detailed layout of industrial tracks to the integration of industry and city led by planning; from transportation taking the lead in connecting lines into networks to the comprehensive improvement of education and medical care; from coordinating the protection of old cities and the development of new cities to building a "retention" Songjiang (松江) suitable for living, working, traveling, and enjoying... Under the strategic guidance of the Shanghai (上海) Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government's overall plan to build "five new cities" at a high level, Songjiang District (松江区) is forging ahead and has set off a wave of construction of "Songjiang New City (松江新城)."

Build a new paradigm of integrated industry and city. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Songjiang (松江) focused on the goal of a comprehensive node city, promoted the planning and construction of key areas such as Guangfulin (广富林), Cangcheng (仓城) and Fucheng (府城) historical and cultural districts, Zhongshan (中山) Ecological Business District, Songjiang Hub (松江枢纽), and Huayang Lake (华阳湖) under the spatial pattern defined in the district's overall plan, and continuously improved urban functions. In 2024, the district introduced 4 municipal-level major functional projects, promoted 3 district-to-district pairing projects, and coordinated the accelerated landing and effectiveness of 82 projects within the scope of the new city.

The accelerated construction of transportation hubs stimulates vitality. Songjiang (松江) is anchored to the "one city, one hub" strategy and has initially formed a comprehensive transportation system of "four-network integration" of the national high-speed rail network, rail transit network, medium-capacity bus network, and ground bus network. In addition, Songjiang (松江) relies on Shanghai Songjiang Station (上海松江站) to create the "Recruitment Comes to the Hub" brand, and holds recruitment fairs, investment roadshows, and other activities, forming a one-stop service function of the Songjiang Hub (松江枢纽) city "first station" covering planning display, investment and entrepreneurship, enterprise employment, and government services, realizing the leap from "traffic portal" to "value hub."

Equal emphasis on protection and development becomes the texture. Songjiang (松江) continues to update its concepts, shifting from "demolishing the old and building the new" to "endogenous development." Whether it is the construction of people's livelihood projects such as the renovation of "two old areas and one village" and the renovation of old housing, or the development and protection of historical districts, it adheres to the principle of "protecting the texture of old blocks, strengthening the excavation of humanistic connotations, and creating characteristics."

Create an atmosphere suitable for living, working, and traveling. Songjiang (松江) aims at what citizens "desire, need, and expect," focuses on improving high-quality public service functions, continues to promote the landing of high-quality public service projects such as education, medical care, housing, and commercial facilities, and continues to work hard to improve the people's sense of happiness and gain.

Deeply promote agricultural and rural modernization

Strive to build a demonstration area for comprehensive rural revitalization

Songjiang (松江) has always been known as the "land of fish and rice in Jiangnan (江南)." Since the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, Songjiang (松江), based on the positioning of a modern suburb of a megacity in Shanghai (上海), has actively promoted the transformation of agricultural modernization, promoted the integrated development of urban and rural areas, embarked on a distinctive development path, and strived to build a demonstration area for comprehensive rural revitalization. A beautiful rural picture of fertile fields suitable for cultivation, clear water suitable for washing, paths accessible, forests secluded, villages beautiful, and people rich is gradually unfolding on the banks of the Huangpu River (浦江).

Brand empowerment activates agricultural momentum. Songjiang (松江) focuses on leading industries such as rice and hairy crabs, and takes into account characteristic industries such as flowers, small tomatoes, and black goats, continues to carry out brand building, and the brand development index of local agricultural products has ranked first in the city for three consecutive years. Make every effort to promote the brand cultivation of "Songjiang Rice (松江大米)," which has become the first national geographical indication protection product for rice in Shanghai (上海). Relying on the family farm model, promote large-scale grain production, and the yield per mu of rice has ranked first in the city for six consecutive years. Innovatively form a joint venture for the industrialization of high-quality rice, and build a full industrial chain development system for Songjiang Rice (松江大米).

Internal and external cultivation achieves harmonious and beautiful villages. Starting from actual needs, Songjiang (松江) promotes the upgrading of infrastructure such as rural roads, environment, natural gas, and information networks. Gigabit fiber and Oriental Cable cover 7 towns and 84 villages, and more than 300 elderly care neighborhood points and 25 elderly care institutions have been built successively, gradually forming a mutual assistance elderly care model with unique Songjiang (松江) characteristics. Continuously explore the multiple functions of agriculture and the multiple values of rural areas, string together beautiful villages, pastoral ecology, boutique homestays, and intangible cultural heritage into a chain, and promote the integrated development of commerce, tourism, culture, sports, exhibitions, and agriculture. In the past 5 years, Songjiang (松江) has successfully created 11 municipal-level rural revitalization demonstration villages and 26 beautiful rural demonstration villages, and the creation ratio has ranked second in the city.

Reform and innovation stimulate rural vitality. Songjiang (松江) deepens the reform of rural collective assets and the reform of the rural land system. By building the Songjiang District (松江区) rural collective asset management platform, "collective economy + state-owned enterprise" joint venture to establish enterprises to build industrial parks, and establishing district-level platform companies, multiple measures are taken to empower the transformation and upgrading of the collective economy. Promote the pilot of rural collective commercial construction land into the market, deepen the reform of the rural homestead system, promote the orderly transfer of land contract management rights, and help the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.

Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Shanghai Songjiang District Committee (中共上海市松江区委宣传部)

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How to cope with autumn pollen allergies?

By: 本报记者 李红梅 施 芳 赵景锋

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Autumn pollen mainly comes from various herbaceous plants, and the main allergens include allergenic pollen from plants such as Artemisia, Humulus, and Ambrosia. Pollen monitoring and forecasting will provide pollen allergy sufferers with targeted pollen concentration information, prevention, and treatment recommendations. People with pollen allergies can take preventive measures in advance, and drug treatment can be performed when necessary.

During this period, some areas in northern China are in the autumn pollen season, which can easily cause allergies in some people. What types of autumn pollen are prone to cause allergies? What impact do meteorological conditions have on pollen transmission? What measures should be taken to prevent it in advance? The reporter interviewed relevant experts.

What types of autumn pollen are prone to cause allergies?

As autumn deepens, pollen concentrations in some areas of northern China continue to remain high. Autumn pollen mainly comes from various herbaceous plants, and the main allergens include allergenic pollen from plants such as Artemisia, Humulus, Ambrosia, Chenopodiaceae, Amaranthaceae, and Gramineae.

Zhao Shiwei (赵世伟), a senior engineer at the Beijing Institute of Landscape Architecture Science (北京市园林绿化科学研究院), introduced that the flowers of these plants are generally not conspicuous, but the amount of pollen is huge. According to statistics, a mature ragweed plant can produce more than 100 million pollen grains, and the amount of pollen produced by a Humulus or Artemisia plant is also very alarming. Moreover, because the pollen is very light, it can fly far away under the disturbance of air and the drive of strong winds.

Artemisia plants have strong vitality and are distributed in some areas of northern China. It is understood that this year, northern China has generally had abundant rainfall, and good water vapor conditions have accelerated the growth of plants such as Artemisia, and the concentration of various allergenic pollens is high.

"In addition to pollen, fungal spores are also a cause of autumn allergies. The air humidity in northern China is high during the rainy season, and many fungi grow rapidly and emit spores. People who are prone to allergies are also prone to allergies when they come into contact with these spores," said Zhao Shiwei (赵世伟).

What impact do meteorological conditions have on pollen transmission?

Meteorological conditions affect pollen production and pollen transmission.

"When the pollen sacs of allergenic plants rupture is related to temperature, and whether pollen can be suspended in the air and how far it can float is related to wind speed and precipitation," said Zhu Dingzhen (朱定真), a special expert at the China Meteorological Administration's Meteorological Publicity and Science Popularization Center (中国气象局气象宣传与科普中心). Clear, dry, and breezy meteorological conditions are conducive to pollen transmission and help prolong the suspension time of pollen in the air.

"To judge the relationship between autumn pollen allergy and meteorology, we mainly look at the meteorological conditions such as temperature, humidity, and wind speed required for the rupture of pollen sacs of allergenic plants. Once it approaches the threshold, it is the initial stage of pollen transmission," said Zhu Dingzhen (朱定真). The rupture period of pollen sacs of different plants is different, and it is also necessary to judge whether the meteorological conditions before and after the rupture period are conducive to pollen transmission. In addition, if the static and stable weather lasts for a long time, particulate matter is more likely to remain in the air, and the probability of being inhaled by people and causing allergies is higher.

Why is autumn pollen allergy more common in northern China?

Zhu Dingzhen (朱定真) introduced that in fact, there is pollen in both the south and the north, but the south has more rain and higher humidity, and there are fewer strong winds that can form long-distance pollen transmission. Rain has a washing effect, which can remove particulate matter in the air. In addition, the types of plants in the south are different from those in the north, and some allergenic plants only grow in the north.

A few days ago, thunderstorms occurred in northern China, and some allergy sufferers reacted significantly, and even developed thunderstorm asthma. Zhu Dingzhen (朱定真) introduced that before the arrival of thunderstorm weather, strong updrafts will carry allergens such as pollen and mold spores into the clouds. There, they will break into smaller particles due to humidity and strong lightning, which will affect people with allergies.

How can people with pollen allergies take preventive measures?

Some local meteorological departments are carrying out pollen monitoring and forecasting. The Beijing Meteorological Service Center (北京市气象服务中心) has cooperated with Beijing Tongren Hospital (首都医科大学附属北京同仁医院) affiliated to Capital Medical University to release pollen observation and grading forecast results every day, which are released through the "Meteorological Beijing (气象北京)" and "Pollen Monitoring and Forecast (花粉监测预报)" WeChat official accounts and the "Pollen Health Treasure (花粉健康宝)" mini program; Tianjin (天津) is one of the regions that started research and forecasting of pollen allergic diseases earlier. Since the end of the last century, the Tianjin Meteorological Bureau (天津市气象局) has cooperated with the health department to carry out daily pollen observation. According to Fan Wenyan (樊文雁), a senior engineer at the Tianjin Municipal Environmental Meteorology Center (天津市环境气象中心), in recent years, the Tianjin Meteorological Bureau (天津市气象局) has combined Tianjin's (天津市) disease data to develop a meteorological risk forecast model for asthma and allergic rhinitis. At present, the asthma meteorological risk forecast has begun business operation, and the forecast products are released through the Tianji Meteorology APP (天机气象APP).

An Xingqin (安兴琴), a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (中国气象科学研究院), introduced that pollen concentration forecasting is mainly based on knowledge in meteorology, botany, and other fields, as well as multi-faceted data analysis, to evaluate and predict the concentration of pollen in the air, and provide timely warnings and suggestions for people with pollen allergies.

Not only that, the health meteorology team of the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (中国气象科学研究院) has also cooperated with experts in related fields from Beijing Children's Hospital (首都医科大学附属北京儿童医院) affiliated to Capital Medical University and Beijing Chaoyang Hospital (首都医科大学附属北京朝阳医院) affiliated to Capital Medical University to carry out research on the impact of pollen exposure in Beijing (北京) urban areas on outpatient visits for allergic rhinitis and asthma among residents, providing scientific support for pollen allergy prevention and treatment.

According to An Xingqin (安兴琴), pollen monitoring and forecasting will provide pollen allergy sufferers with targeted pollen concentration information, prevention, and treatment recommendations, which are generally carried out jointly by meteorological and medical departments.

Experts introduced that pollen concentration is higher from 10 am to 5 pm on sunny days, especially in breezy weather, it is easier to float in the air. It is recommended that people who are prone to allergies pay attention to pollen concentration forecasts in a timely manner, try to go out in the early morning or after rain, avoid high-risk periods and areas, and take preventive measures in advance.

Li Lun (李论), attending physician of the Department of Allergy (变态反应科) at Peking Union Medical College Hospital (北京协和医院), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (中国医学科学院), introduced that people with allergies should take protective measures when going out. Wearing medical masks or pollen protective masks can block most pollen particles, and wearing protective glasses can reduce the occurrence of conjunctivitis; long-sleeved clothing and hats can also reduce direct contact between pollen and skin. After returning home, you should immediately change your clothes and rinse your nasal cavity with physiological saline, which can wash out allergens and inflammatory secretions in the nose and reduce nasal mucosal edema. Air purifiers or fresh air systems can be used at home to reduce indoor pollen concentration.

If preventive measures alone cannot effectively control symptoms, medication is needed. Yin Jia (尹佳), chief physician of the Department of Allergy (变态反应科) at Peking Union Medical College Hospital (北京协和医院), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (中国医学科学院), suggested that people with allergies can take preventive medication to reduce the intensity of allergic reactions. The cycle of preventive medication should cover the entire pollen season, and it is generally necessary to wait for a period of time after the end of the pollen season before stopping the medication. For asthma patients, inhaled corticosteroids and bronchodilators should be used in a standardized manner to effectively reduce the risk of acute asthma attacks. Carrying them with you and inhaling them temporarily can also relieve sudden wheezing and difficulty breathing.

"For some patients whose allergies are progressively worsening, desensitization treatment can be considered. Generally, after half a year to a year of treatment, the symptoms will be significantly improved, and the entire course of treatment usually needs to be maintained for 3 to 5 years," Li Lun (李论) introduced. Most patients continue to experience relief from allergy symptoms for several years after stopping desensitization treatment.

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China continues to strengthen the management of ozone-depleting substances

According to reports from Beijing on September 16th in this newspaper (Kou Jiangze (寇江泽) and Luo Cheng (罗程)), reporters have learned from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部) that China actively participates in global environmental governance and has cumulatively eliminated approximately 628,000 tons of ozone-depleting substance production and use, accounting for more than half of the elimination amount in developing countries. By the end of this year, China is expected to achieve an additional elimination of more than 90,000 tons.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer. Over the past 40 years, the international community, adhering to the spirit of science and the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, has concluded and effectively implemented the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, uniting and cooperating to eliminate ozone-depleting substances, and promoting ozone layer restoration and green, low-carbon development in various industries. According to assessments, with global joint efforts, the ozone layer is expected to recover to pre-1980 levels by the middle of this century. At the same time, the implementation of the Protocol has also made important contributions to mitigating climate change.

The comprehensive elimination of current ozone-depleting substances has entered the sprint stage. Relevant officials from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部) stated that China will continue to promote compliance actions, improve the policy system, enhance governance effectiveness, promote green alternatives, and work with all parties and international implementing agencies to promote ozone layer protection, climate change response, and global sustainable development.

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Overall Marine Ecological Condition in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Generally Stable and Improving

The People's Daily, Beijing, September 16th (Reporter Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶)) The South China Sea Bureau of the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部南海局), in conjunction with the Department of Natural Resources of Guangdong Province (广东省自然资源厅), the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特别行政区渔农自然护理署), the Environmental Protection Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特别行政区环境保护署), the Environmental Protection Bureau of the Macao Special Administrative Region (澳门特别行政区环境保护局), the Marine and Water Bureau of the Macao Special Administrative Region (澳门特别行政区海事及水务局), and the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Ocean Development (深圳市海洋发展局), recently jointly released the "2024 Marine Ecological Status Report of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (2024年粤港澳大湾区海洋生态状况报告)". The report shows that the overall marine ecological status of the Greater Bay Area is generally stable and improving. The condition of coral reef and mangrove ecosystems is mainly good or excellent, the condition of estuarine and bay ecosystems is basically stable, and rare marine organisms such as Chinese white dolphins and sea turtles are effectively protected.

The report comprehensively demonstrates the interim achievements of Guangdong (广东), Hong Kong (香港), and Macao (澳门) working together to protect the marine ecology of the Greater Bay Area, and showcases the series of practical explorations by the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部) in promoting regional coordination and actively serving major national strategies.

In recent years, Guangdong (广东), Hong Kong (香港), and Macao (澳门) have strengthened land-sea coordination, river-sea linkage, and collaborative efforts, continuously carried out basic marine ecological surveys and research, improved management policies and systems, promoted the implementation of restoration engineering projects, and strived to create a new pattern of marine ecological governance in the Greater Bay Area. The report shows that through institutional innovation, technological empowerment, and cross-border cooperation, the Greater Bay Area has initially built a marine ecological collaborative protection system covering the three regions.

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The West Liao River's main stream flows through its entire length again this year.

Beijing, September 16th (Reported by Wang Hao (王浩)) - This reporter learned from the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) that significant progress has recently been made in the full-line flow regulation of the Xiliao River (西辽河) during the flood season. The water head for replenishment of the main stream has reached the Anletun section (安乐屯断面) (Ke'erqin Left Wing Middle Banner, Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区通辽市科尔沁左翼中旗)), connecting with the existing water surface downstream. The main stream of the Xiliao River has once again achieved full-line flow within the year, and the ecological environment of the basin has been effectively improved.

Since 2020, the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) has continuously strengthened the unified management of water resources in the Xiliao River (西辽河) basin, seizing favorable opportunities such as the melting of ice and snow in spring and the abundance of rain and flood resources during the flood season, and successively implemented ecological water replenishment during the spring and summer key periods. The length of the water-bearing section of the main stream of the Xiliao River (西辽河) has been extended year by year, and the regulation effect has been remarkable. In particular, this spring, the main stream of the Xiliao River (西辽河), which had been cut off for 27 years, achieved full-line flow for the first time.

In order to further consolidate the results of ecological water replenishment, the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) organized the Songliao Water Resources Commission (松辽水利委员会) and the Water Resources Department of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区水利厅) to prepare the "2025 Flood Season Xiliao River Main Stream Full-Line Flow Regulation Plan" (《2025年汛期西辽河干流全线过流调度预案》). This flood season regulation officially started on August 15. By strengthening the monitoring and forecasting of rainfall and water conditions, accurately calculating the water accounts of the basin's rainfall, river inflow, and reservoir storage, and optimizing the regulation of reservoir storage, rainwater and floodwater, diverted water, and reclaimed water, the water replenishment head merged with the existing water body downstream after 29 days, successfully achieving the goal of full-line flow of the main stream of the Xiliao River (西辽河) again. Next, the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) will continue to do a good job in the unified management of water resources in the Xiliao River (西辽河), finely regulate and control key reservoir hubs, and extend the full-line flow duration of the main stream of the Xiliao River (西辽河) as much as possible.

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Zhangjiakou, Hebei: Striving to Create a Business Environment That Attracts Both Local and Distant Investors

Since 2025, Zhangjiakou City (张家口市), Hebei Province (河北省), has been aiming at the reform goal of "more precise service for enterprises, more efficient process reengineering, and more powerful legal guarantee." It has fully implemented the "2025 Zhangjiakou City Business Environment Optimization and Improvement Action Plan," launching 152 reform measures and proposing a guarantee mechanism of "eight in place," promoting the leap-forward development of the business environment and becoming a "strong magnet" for investment and a "new highland" for industrial agglomeration.

　　Institutional Innovation: Building a "Reform Matrix"

　　In 2025, Zhangjiakou City (张家口市) focused on the World Bank's business environment assessment system, benchmarked against advanced regions across the country and the province, and systematically sorted out benchmarking items in 8 major areas and 26 aspects, covering government services, market access, factor guarantees, and regulatory innovation.

　　In terms of land factor guarantee, the city has fully implemented the "standard land + commitment system + agency service" reform, promoting measures such as "delivery of land is delivery of certificate" and "obtaining land is starting construction" to take effect in development zones above the provincial level. Through pre-approval, parallel processing, and data sharing, the efficiency of land supply has increased by more than 40%, winning the first opportunity for the landing of enterprise projects.

　　In terms of serving enterprises, focusing on the construction needs of key projects, the city innovatively constructed a "3+4" joint enterprise assistance mechanism. Through a three-level responsibility system of "leadership contracting, city-county linkage, and chief assistance," combined with four service measures of "early intervention, dedicated tracking, key supervision, and ledger consolidation," a work pattern of smooth vertical communication and efficient promotion has been formed. For the first batch of 260 key projects at the provincial and municipal levels in 2025, "three ones" assistance teams were accurately equipped one by one, ensuring that each key project has a dedicated person to connect and follow up throughout the process. The "Enterprise Code Complaint" mini-program was launched to widely solicit and timely solve enterprise demands, and fully guarantee the orderly progress of project construction.

　　Service Upgrade: Promoting "Enterprise Going Overseas"

　　In 2025, Zhangjiakou City (张家口市) focused on market expansion, brand cultivation, and scenario creation to promote enterprises to "ride the wind and go overseas."

　　In terms of cross-border e-commerce, the city guided all counties and districts to create a "cross-border e-commerce + industrial belt" model, promoting the "sailing overseas" of characteristic products such as equipment manufacturing, corn, and fur. Zhangjiakou Tea Horse Road Long Factory (张家口茶马古道龙工场) successfully applied for a provincial-level cross-border e-commerce park, and Hebei Five-Dimensional Aviation Electronics (河北五维航电) obtained AEO senior certification, becoming a typical example of high-quality development of foreign trade enterprises in the city.

　　In the industrial field, the city accelerated the cultivation of emerging industries. The Geely Lynk & Co. factory (吉利领克工厂) has driven the agglomeration of the city's auto parts industry, and the output of complete vehicles has increased significantly year-on-year. The world's first 8 MW intelligent scraper conveyor equipment of China Coal Zhangmeiji (中煤张煤机) was successfully rolled off the production line, marking the advancement of "Zhangjiakou Manufacturing" to the high end.

　　Cultural and Sports Diversion: Developing "Four-Type Economy"

　　To reshape a new business environment ecology, Zhangjiakou City (张家口市) vigorously develops the "four-type economy" of sports events, exhibitions, tourism, and study tours, accelerates the construction of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Sports Culture and Tourism Belt (京张体育文化旅游带), and injects new vitality into economic development.

　　In 2025, the city plans to introduce and hold 700 promotional activities of various types, an increase of 20% year-on-year. Large-scale live performances such as "Beacon Fire 1948" (《烽火1948》) drove the city's cultural tourism boom, with total tourism spending increasing by 9.8% year-on-year, and the integration of business, tourism, and culture further deepened. The city cultivated 53 characteristic study tour bases with 12 major themes, and received a cumulative total of 829,000 study tour tourists from outside the region in the first half of the year, striving to create a first-class study tour destination in the country.

　　The city improved and perfected the system of "professional events + city leagues + brand events + mass small-scale events." In the first half of the year, the city held 945 sports events and activities of various types open to the public, with 296,300 participants. During the events, cultural tourism theme routes and preferential activities such as "eating, living, traveling, shopping, and entertainment" were launched, attracting 2,838,400 viewers and tourists.

　　Legal Guarantee: Helping "Worry-Free Business"

　　In 2025, Zhangjiakou City (张家口市) established and promoted the "scan code to enter the enterprise" system to achieve full-process coverage of administrative inspections involving enterprises. The city constructed a new model of "credit + supervision" and continued to promote the construction of a legalized business environment.

　　In terms of intellectual property protection, the "Happy Zhangjiakou" (幸福张家口) mobile client added "data intellectual property registration" and "overseas early warning" modules to promote the extension of intellectual property services to the mobile terminal. The city has cumulatively obtained 43 data intellectual property certificates and released 74 issues of overseas early warning information.

　　The Zhangjiakou City Court (张家口市法院) unblocked the green channel for enterprises, handled enterprise-related cases with priority and speed, optimized litigation procedures and time limit systems, and promoted the construction of a city-level litigation execution affairs center. The city's judicial departments simultaneously carried out actions such as bankruptcy case clearance and the construction of a government contract performance supervision platform to strengthen the construction of the credit system and enhance corporate investment confidence.

　　Digital Empowerment: Achieving "Service Speed Up"

　　Through process reengineering and system integration, the city's enterprise establishment in 2025 has achieved "one-form application, one-window acceptance, and one-day completion." As of now, except for the items in the "Hebei Province Temporarily Does Not Support Full-Process Online Government Service Items List" (《河北省暂不支持全流程网办政务服务事项清单》), 100% of the city-level government service items that enterprises and the public need to handle have achieved full-process online handling, truly realizing "data running more, enterprises running less."

　　In addition, Zhangjiakou City (张家口市) has comprehensively deepened the reform of the administrative approval system. Strengthening early intervention, as of the end of July, all 33 social investment industrial projects using the "virtual approval" model were included in the city's project approval system management, forming a virtuous cycle of business environment construction.

　　Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Zhangjiakou Municipal Committee (中共张家口市委宣传部), Zhangjiakou Municipal Development and Reform Commission (张家口市发展和改革委员会)

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Editor in Charge for This Section: Zhang Ye, Yang Xiaoyu, He Yuche

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Building More Vibrant Cities of Innovation (Modern People's Cities: Innovation)

Cities are important carriers of modernization and important spaces for people's happy lives.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) delivered an important speech at the Central Urban Work Conference held in July this year, proposing the goal of building a modern people's city and clarifying the connotations of "innovation, livable, beautiful, resilient, civilized, and intelligent" in six aspects. The "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Promoting High-Quality Urban Development" issued recently further clarified the overall requirements, main goals, and key tasks for accelerating the transformation of urban development methods and promoting high-quality urban development.

Currently, China's urbanization is shifting from a period of rapid growth to a period of stable development, and urban development is shifting from a stage of large-scale incremental expansion to a stage dominated by stock quality improvement and efficiency enhancement. How to deeply grasp and actively adapt to changes in the situation, adhere to the connotative development of cities, more targetedly improve the quality of urban development, and embark on a new path of urban modernization with Chinese characteristics?

Recently, reporters from this newspaper walked into multiple cities to explore the vivid practices of various places in earnestly practicing the concept of people's cities and vigorously promoting urban structure optimization, kinetic energy conversion, quality improvement, green transformation, cultural context continuation, and governance efficiency enhancement. Starting today, we will launch six full-page special reports on "How to Build a Modern People's City" to let you feel the new progress and new achievements made in high-quality urban development.

——Editor

Wuhan City Strengthens the Coordination of Scientific and Technological Innovation and Industrial Innovation

Transforming "Burden" into "Wealth"

By Fan Haotian (范昊天), reporter of this newspaper

In the general assembly workshop of Voyah Automobile Technology Co., Ltd. in Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone (武汉经济技术开发区), Hubei Province (湖北省), the reporter saw car bodies gliding smoothly on the overhead conveyor belt, and flexible robotic arms assembling tires, seats, center consoles, and other parts in place one by one. In just 118 seconds, a new energy vehicle is steadily off the assembly line.

"935 industrial robots work together to produce four models simultaneously, and each car can achieve 'customization'," said Lu Fang (卢放), CEO of Voyah Automobile. This was originally a fuel vehicle factory. The company innovatively adopted new technologies such as AI visual inspection systems and 5G fully connected factories, and spent 14 months to transform it into a smart factory for new energy vehicles. In the past five years, it has produced more than 200,000 new energy vehicles, creating an output value of more than 50 billion yuan.

Wuhan (武汉) is an important old industrial base, with traditional industries such as automobiles, steel, and petrochemicals accounting for a large proportion. In recent years, Wuhan has adhered to starting from its local reality, enhancing the driving force of urban development by implementing policies according to the city's characteristics, using new technologies to transform and upgrade traditional industries, focusing on promoting "old trees sprouting new buds," and turning the transformation "burden" into "wealth." In the first half of this year, Wuhan's output of new energy vehicles exceeded 168,000 units, a substantial year-on-year increase of 152%.

On September 10, Ms. Huang (黄女士), 35 years old, was successfully discharged from Tongji Hospital (同济医院) affiliated to Tongji Medical College (同济医学院) of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (华中科技大学). Two weeks ago, the neurosurgery team of the hospital successfully performed the first domestic subdural flexible high-throughput electrode (256 channels) implantation for Ms. Huang, exploring the treatment of diseases through brain-computer interface technology.

In the field of brain-computer interfaces, Wuhan has innovation platforms such as the Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology (精密测量科学与技术创新研究院) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) and the Brain Research Institute (脑研究所) of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and has built the China Optics Valley Brain Science Industrial Base (中国光谷脑科学产业基地). With deep integration of industry, academia, and research, the Hubei Brain-Computer Interface Industry Innovation and Development Alliance (湖北脑机接口产业创新发展联盟) was established in Wuhan Optics Valley (武汉光谷) last month. The alliance takes "collaborative innovation of industry, academia, research, and medicine" as its core concept, and strives to build a full-chain ecosystem covering "basic research-clinical transformation-industrial application" to accelerate the implementation of innovative achievements in the field of brain-computer interfaces. Recently, many tertiary hospitals in the city have opened brain-computer interface clinics.

Wuhan has 92 universities and 1.41 million college students, and is a famous "city of universities." In recent years, Wuhan City has strengthened the coordination of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, focusing on key industrial tracks such as "artificial intelligence large model +", high-end chips, and space-ground integrated communication, as well as emerging future industrial tracks such as humanoid robots, quantum technology, and brain-computer interfaces, systematically deploying applied basic research, innovation platform construction, key technology breakthroughs, scientific and technological achievement transformation, and key enterprise cultivation, accelerating the construction of a full-chain innovation ecosystem. At present, the city has built 2 national-level and 7 provincial-level manufacturing innovation centers, and cultivated 11 industrial innovation joint laboratories. In the first half of the year, the added value of the city's high-tech manufacturing industry above designated size increased by 15.7%, accounting for 24.6% of the added value of the city's industrial enterprises above designated size.

Nanjing City Revitalizes and Utilizes Existing Inefficient Land

Old Factories "Grow" New Business Forms

By Wang Weijian (王伟健), reporter of this newspaper

In the laboratory, researchers are focused on tackling key problems, and various "hard technologies" are dazzling; in the office building, "upstairs and downstairs" are "upstream and downstream," and industrial collaboration and linkage are smooth and unimpeded... Walking into the Sinoma International Building Industrial Park (中材国际大厦产业园区) in Baijiahu Silicon Alley (百家湖硅巷), Jiangning District (江宁区), Nanjing City (南京市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省), a vivid picture of innovation-driven development jumps into view.

A few years ago, this was still an old industrial factory building, mainly engaged in the production and processing of cement equipment with low added value. The entire factory area covers an area of 50 acres, but the annual output value is less than 20 million yuan. Not only is the output value low, but it also affects urban development, and it is a typical inefficient land use.

In Baijiahu Silicon Alley, which is only a few minutes' drive from Nanjing South Railway Station (南京南站) and where land is at a premium, this is not an isolated case. Zhao Hongjun (赵红俊), deputy director of the Land Planning and Construction Bureau of Jiangning Development Zone (江宁开发区), introduced that the Baijiahu area where Silicon Alley is located covers an area of about 2.3 square kilometers. It was once the starting area for the early development and construction of Jiangning Development Zone, but with nearly 30 years of urbanization and industrial iteration, it has become a concentration of inefficient land use.

How to revitalize these existing inefficient land uses? Wang Ping (王平), chief of the Urban Renewal Section of the Jiangning Branch of the Nanjing Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau (南京市规划和自然资源局江宁分局), said that since 2016, Jiangning District has adhered to the integrated development of urban and rural areas, with "unified planning and market-led" as the guiding principle, strengthened planning leadership, drawn a "single map" for renovation and upgrading, and launched a series of "policy packages" such as spatial coordination and streamlined approval to attract market forces to participate in the overall transformation and upgrading of urban functional areas such as Baijiahu and industrial areas such as Lukou Street (禄口街道).

Pang Zhidong (庞之栋), head of the Sinoma International Building Industrial Park, said that under the guidance of the government's planning, in 2019, the company began the transformation of "industry to research," demolishing old factory buildings, moving old production lines, and investing more than 500 million yuan to build four high-standard research and development buildings on the original site. In just a few years, an innovative park has risen on the site of the former dilapidated old factory area, and even well-known foreign companies have come here to build a research and development center with about 500 employees.

Old factories are gradually withdrawing, and new business forms are constantly "growing." Today, in Baijiahu Silicon Alley, a group of headquarters and functional institutions such as CARIAD (中汽创智), Diantuo Information Technology (叠拓信息技术), and Guochang Center (国昌中心), as well as more than 2,000 enterprises related to the digital economy and information services such as CNKI (同方知网) and Zhong'an Intelligence (中安智能) are gathered here. The local government is promoting the integrated development of Nanjing South Railway Station and Silicon Alley. The transformation and development case of small and medium-sized industrial concentration areas in Jiangning District was selected as a typical case of the "Hero Based on Mu" reform in 2024 by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (中国信息通信研究院).

"The biggest beneficiaries of the changes are the local people." Liu Jinping (刘金萍), a resident living nearby, said that not only is the industry in Baijiahu Silicon Alley transforming and upgrading, but the lifestyles of the surrounding people are also quietly changing. "In the past, there were few supporting facilities in this area except for factories. Large trucks came and went on the road, and the sound of machines in the factory buildings was rumbling."

Today, walking on the streets of Baijiahu Silicon Alley is like being in a modern block. "You see, there are not only smart buses and luminous zebra crossings here, but also various leisure and entertainment facilities. It has the same prosperity as the city center and the convenience of a new urban area." After tea and dinner, Liu Jinping likes to take a walk nearby, drink a cup of coffee, listen to music, and feel that life is getting more and more comfortable.

Shenyang City Coordinates Multi-Party Funds to Work Together

Financial Support Solves Urgent and Difficult Problems

By Hu Jingyi (胡婧怡), reporter of this newspaper

As the summer heat dissipates, the progress of the rainwater outlet project in the Hushitai Street (虎石台大街) area of Shenyang City (沈阳市), Liaoning Province (辽宁省) has exceeded half. "The project uses central financial subsidies for urban renewal to renovate and utilize 2 existing rainwater pipelines, and at the same time build 2 new rainwater trunk lines, which can realize the self-flowing discharge of rainwater from the surrounding areas into the Xiaonan River (小南河) tributary." Throughout the summer, Zheng Dong (郑东), deputy director of the Engineering Management Center of Shenyang Water Affairs Group (沈阳水务集团), was tanned.

The rainwater outlet of Hushitai Street is the final outlet for rainwater in the surrounding areas and the upstream Puyulu (蒲裕路) area. Due to problems such as the low construction standards of the rainwater pipe network in the past and the small number of rainwater discharge outlets, the area was seriously flooded during the rainy season, causing difficulties for residents to travel.

Shenyang Yihong Wood Industry Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (沈阳亿泓木业制造有限公司) is located on the street side of Hushitai Street. Zheng Jukai (郑巨开), the general manager, has a deep impression of the heavy rain last summer: "It rained continuously for a week, and the deepest water accumulation in the factory area reached half a person's height. We had to stop work and wait for the rainwater to recede. As a result, we waited for two or three days."

Solving the problem of water accumulation in the area has become an urgent and difficult problem for the masses. But who will pay for the large amount of engineering construction funds, and how to raise them?

"The renovation of drainage pipe networks is a public welfare project. The initial investment is large, and there is no operating income in the later stage. The participation of social capital is not high, and direct investment from local finance is required." Peng Shuai (彭帅), deputy director of the Shenyang Urban and Rural Construction Affairs Service Center (沈阳市城乡建设事务服务中心), said, "The injection of central financial subsidies for urban renewal and ultra-long-term special national debt funds has alleviated the financial pressure in the early stage of the project and ensured the smooth progress of the project."

Since May this year, 2 drainage pipe network renovation projects have started construction in the area one after another: the water accumulation point treatment project in the upstream Puyulu area is organized and constructed by the local Dadong District (大东区), with an investment of 70 million yuan from the 2025 "two major" ultra-long-term special national debt urban underground pipe network special funds; the downstream Hushitai Street area rainwater outlet project is shared by Dadong District and Shenbei New District (沈北新区), and is organized and constructed by Shenyang Water Affairs Group, with an investment of 28 million yuan from the central financial subsidies for urban renewal. All projects are planned to be completed by the end of October.

The renovation effect is immediate. "In several heavy rains this year, the rainwater went down quickly, and there was no more water accumulation in the factory area." Zheng Jukai gave a thumbs up.

In the past two years, Shenyang City's urban construction and urban management fields have cumulatively strived for more than 200 national-level fund projects such as ultra-long-term national debt, central budget funds, and central special subsidies, totaling about 15 billion yuan, and have completed the preparation of multiple implementation plans such as the construction and renovation of urban underground pipe networks and corridors and facilities, involving a total of 918 projects with a total investment of 180.2 billion yuan.

"We will continue to make good use of the dual role of the central financial funds as 'seed funds' and 'baton', while alleviating the pressure of early investment in projects, leveraging multi-party funds to work together to promote high-quality urban development." Peng Shuai said.

Shanghai City Optimizes the City's Open Environment and Services

One-Stop Handling of 36 Government Services

By Cao Lingjuan (曹玲娟), reporter of this newspaper

"Good afternoon! What can I help you with today?" "I want to apply for a work permit for foreigners in China..."

Anna (安娜), a 29-year-old Russian girl, has been working in a catering company on the Bund (外滩) in Shanghai (上海) for a year. In September 2025, she came to the Bund International Talent Service Center (外滩国际人才服务中心) located on the Huangpu River (黄浦江) to apply for a work permit for foreigners in China. After submitting the materials, Anna communicated with the window staff in English throughout the process, and completed the relevant matters in a few minutes. She curiously looked at the other windows around her, "It's really convenient here, I feel like everything can be handled."

The Bund International Talent Service Center, which was launched in April 2025, is a one-stop hub-type overseas talent service center built by Huangpu District (黄浦区) in Shanghai along the Bund. From work permits to visa processing and permanent residence acceptance... Foreigners in it can handle 36 government services covering customs clearance convenience, enterprise services, people's livelihood security, and employment and entrepreneurship in one stop.

"In the past, foreigners who came to Shanghai to work, start businesses, and live may have had to run to 4 places: the Entry-Exit Center, the District Administrative Service Center, the District Employment Service Center, and the Community Affairs Acceptance Center. Now, you don't have to. Just go to the Bund International Talent Service Center and get it done in one stop." The head of the Bund International Talent Service Center introduced. Shao Shuai (劭帅), the human resources manager of Shanghai Bund No. 3 Catering Culture Co., Ltd. (上海外滩三号饮食文化有限公司), where Anna works, deeply agrees. She recalled that she used to have to run back and forth between various points every month, "Now, Shanghai has introduced many convenient measures, and some businesses can be applied for online."

In order to continuously optimize the international talent development environment, Huangpu District provides overseas talents with "one-stop solutions" by integrating government services, life guides, and entrepreneurial support resources. Open the Chinese and English booklet "Welcome to Huangpu" Overseas Talent One-Stop Guide, "The first step to working in Shanghai, these may be the businesses you need to handle", "Find a favorite residence in the heart of the city", "How to easily handle tax matters"... Even the question of "Are pan-fried buns and steamed buns also buns?" can be found in it.

Huangpu District, named after the Huangpu River, is the "heart, window, and business card" of Shanghai, and its regional economic density ranks first in Shanghai. Taking out the section adjacent to the Huangpu River to build this international talent service center aims to further optimize the full-chain and full-dimensional talent service system covering career development, housing and living, and cultural integration, and make Huangpu the first stop and preferred destination for international talents to come to Shanghai for employment, entrepreneurship, study, and life.

Openness, innovation, and inclusiveness are the most distinctive urban qualities of Shanghai. Not only Huangpu, but also in the Shanghai Hongqiao Overseas Talent One-Stop Service Center (上海虹桥海外人才一站式服务中心), one window, one-time submission of materials, the Foreigner's Work Permit in China and the Work-Type Residence Permit are jointly processed, and it can be completed in just a few minutes. Shanghai Jing'an District (静安区) released the "Several Measures (Trial Implementation) on Supporting Overseas Talents to Work and Innovate and Start Businesses in Jing'an", sending out an invitation for innovation and entrepreneurship to global talents...

In the east of the world, Shanghai is extending a sincere invitation to global talents with an open attitude and solid actions.

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People's City: Moving Towards "New" (Reporter's Notes)

By: 杨远帆

China's urbanization is shifting from a period of rapid growth to a period of stable development, and urban development is shifting from a stage of large-scale incremental expansion to a stage dominated by stock quality improvement and efficiency enhancement. The Central Urban Work Conference emphasized "taking a new path of urban modernization with Chinese characteristics."

The blueprint for building a modern people's city begins with "innovation"; "transforming the driving force of urban development and paying more attention to characteristic development" has become an important part of the "five transformations and five more emphases"; the "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Promoting High-Quality Urban Development" was issued, making special arrangements for "cultivating and strengthening new drivers of urban development"... From concept to practice, from top-level design to grassroots exploration, innovation has become an inevitable choice for accelerating the transformation of urban development methods and leading urban high-quality development to go steady and far.

To stimulate urban innovation vitality, the first priority is to adapt to local conditions and implement policies according to the city. In Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东), relying on the technology transformation and industrial synergy system of "universities + research institutes + enterprises," it is becoming a global robot industry highland where many enterprises gather. Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川), has turned "comfort" into productivity—digital cultural creation, smart medical care, and immersive cultural tourism, with new consumption scenarios blooming everywhere, making young people reluctant to leave. To promote the connotative development of cities, adapting to local conditions is not just a slogan, but based on the city's resource endowments and basic conditions, carefully cultivating an innovation ecosystem. Finding the right track and continuously iterating, new quality productivity can thrive in one place.

To deeply tap the potential of urban development, the focus is on revitalizing the stock and optimizing the increment. In the past, some cities easily formed "pancake" expansion with high-intensity development in a short period of time, resulting in problems such as imbalance between people and land, and the efficiency of resource utilization decreased accordingly. It is necessary to deeply realize that revitalizing the stock is not about large-scale demolition and construction, but about achieving spatial reconstruction, functional improvement, and vitality regeneration through precise policies; optimizing the increment aims to be people-centered, so that every reform policy serves the needs of people and the sustainable development of the city. It is necessary to fully understand the base of assets and resources such as houses, facilities, and land, transform and utilize old factories, inefficient buildings, and idle traditional commercial facilities, strengthen standardized management, improve utilization efficiency, and realize the value enhancement of stock resources. At the same time, coordinate financial fund guidance, financial instrument innovation, and social capital activation, and actively explore incremental policies, including the establishment of a healthy and sustainable investment and financing system, so that urban construction and operation can truly benefit people's livelihoods.

To accumulate the driving force of urban development, the key lies in exchange, cooperation, and opening up. On May 13 this year, the third Global Sustainable Development City Award (Shanghai Award) City Presentation Conference was held. As an important international public product to promote the implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the New Urban Agenda, the Shanghai Award has attracted more than 100 cities around the world to participate in the application since its establishment in 2022, becoming a vivid footnote to Chinese cities' deep participation in international exchanges and cooperation in the field of human settlements. Coincidentally, Hangzhou (杭州) upgraded its international services by using the "City Brain," and the China-Europe train departing from Xi'an (西安) sped away with Chinese manufacturing... Improving the level of opening up and cooperation, Chinese cities have never stopped. This is not only an expansion of space, but also a connection of concepts, rules, and standards. Promoting reform through opening up and promoting innovation through cooperation, cities can win the initiative and accumulate momentum in interconnection.

Innovation leads development, and hard work achieves the future. Building a modern people's city is ultimately to enable the people to have a better life. From strengthening the synergy between technological innovation and industrial innovation, to activating the potential of urban stock resources, and then to optimizing the urban open environment and services, progress in every field is enriching the connotation of high-quality urban development. On the new journey, continue to move towards "new" and achieve "quality" to go far, respect the law, adapt to local conditions, and 久久为功 (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng - "achieve success through persistent effort," persistent effort will lead to success), we will definitely be able to build a beautiful city that is full of vitality, intelligent and inclusive, and harmonious coexistence between people and nature, and write a new chapter in the Chinese-style modernization of urban practice.

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Editor in Charge for This Section: Qu Xinming

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Building More Livable and Workable Happy Cities (Building a Modern People's City: Livability)

In Xiamen (厦门), Fujian Province, Supportive Housing is Developed According to Local Conditions

"Good Housing" Supports a Good Life

By Liu Xiaoyu, this reporter

After working in Xiamen (厦门), Fujian Province for seven years, Yan Ting (鄢婷), born in the 90s, is celebrating a happy event: moving into a "good house" that she is very satisfied with.

In the early morning, sunlight shines on the neat paths of the Gudi Stone Community (古地石社区) in Huli District (湖里区). Yan Ting (鄢婷) leaves with her bag and can reach Xiamen Software Park Phase II (厦门软件园二期), where her company is located, in a 15-minute walk.

New residential area, prime location, garden landscape, good ventilation and lighting... Counting the advantages of the community, Yan Ting (鄢婷) is 100% satisfied. "The monthly rent for this apartment is 1,500 yuan, which is a preferential price under the supportive rental housing policy," Yan Ting (鄢婷) said. There are nearly a thousand tenants like her in this community.

"There are three shopping malls nearby, and the subway and buses are convenient. Supportive rental housing built in such a good location is to allow more people to live in 'good houses'," said Hu Chunqiang (胡春强), deputy manager of the Xiamen Housing Rental Development Co., Ltd. (厦门住房租赁发展有限公司) project, who participated in the construction process. He introduced that the project team fully utilized intelligent construction technology to create green, low-carbon, intelligent, and safe modern residences. The average heat island intensity, outdoor noise, ventilation, and lighting coefficients are all higher than the two-star green building standards.

In recent years, Xiamen (厦门) has developed supportive housing according to local conditions and continuously improved the "Zhusha Lai (住厦来)" housing security system, which includes "one free bed for job seekers for one year, 50% discount on renting a room within five years of employment, no more than 40-50% discount on purchasing a house for settling down, and four levels of rental security housing for families in double difficulty," to fully realize the goal of ensuring housing for all.

Putting in meticulous effort, the service is refined to each household. According to the actual situation and affordability of housing-difficult families in the city, Xiamen's (厦门) supportive housing is based on the principles of small units, unified decoration, economy, and practicality, and is equipped with cabinets and other household items to meet the basic living needs of the people. Currently, the number of people guaranteed by supportive housing in Xiamen (厦门) has reached 300,000.

Not far away in the Renhe Apartment (仁和公寓) in Jinshan Street (金山街道), Huli District (湖里区), this municipal public rental housing project has adhered to the "good house" concept from the beginning of planning. The light yellow exterior walls are simple and modern, and the apartment design is exquisite and practical. Walking into the home of tenant Lin Yanting (林艳婷), the layout is square, about 40 square meters, and you can enjoy a distant view of the night scene from the balcony. Lin Yanting (林艳婷) introduced, "The unit applies for centralized housing and enjoys a 30% discount on rent." Supporting facilities such as kindergartens, fresh food supermarkets, and community medical stations have been built simultaneously around the community, forming a "15-minute living circle." As night falls, Lin Yanting (林艳婷) gently strums her guitar at home, and the notes jump with infinite longing for a new life.

"The house must not only be built well, but the service must also keep up," said Hong Yun (洪耘), head of the Party and Mass Work Department of Xiamen Anju Group (厦门安居集团). In Renhe Apartment (仁和公寓), the property service center has introduced an intelligent management system, and big data helps everyone solve problems. The community also regularly organizes neighborhood festivals, book clubs, and other activities to enhance residents' sense of belonging and happiness.

"Guaranteeing and improving people's livelihood is a long-term task, and we must have the perseverance to persevere. Next, we will do our best and act according to our capabilities, do one thing after another, and take housing security as an important part of improving people's well-being and promoting high-quality urban development, so that more people can come in, stay, live in peace, and be able to start a business," said Wu Xuelin (吴雪琳), director of the Housing Security Department of the Xiamen Municipal Housing and Construction Bureau (厦门市住房和建设局).

Yinchuan (银川), Ningxia (宁夏), Adheres to "One Policy for Each Circle"

The "Living Circle" Becomes a "Happiness Circle"

By Jiao Siyu, this reporter

Just after breakfast, 69-year-old Lin Qihe (蔺启贺) and his wife went out for a walk. "In the past, most people went to the nearby park for exercise, which was a bit far away. Now, the community has built a walkway, which is much more convenient," Lin Qihe (蔺启贺) praised repeatedly.

Lin Qihe (蔺启贺) lives in the Minsheng Garden Community (民生花园社区) in Beijing Middle Road Street (北京中路街道), Jinfeng District (金凤区), Yinchuan City (银川市), Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (宁夏回族自治区). Speaking of the surrounding environment, he opened up the conversation. There is an early market downstairs, and you can buy medicine and get a haircut without leaving the community. You can pay water, electricity, and heating bills across the road. Supermarkets, hospitals, schools, and community canteens are all available. There are bus stops around the community, making it easy to go out. In Minsheng Garden Community (民生花园社区), "clothing, food, housing, transportation, medical care, and education" are fully covered, building a 15-minute convenient living circle in the city.

Minsheng Garden Community (民生花园社区) includes two residential communities, Minsheng City Garden (民生城市花园) and Yuanguang Garden (元光花园), with a total of 2,425 households and 5,200 people, of which the elderly account for 25%. "We are getting older and are afraid of walking long distances. Now, small things like needles, threads, firewood, rice, oil, and salt can be solved at our doorstep. Our children don't have to worry, and we live comfortably," Lin Qihe (蔺启贺) said with emotion.

Sun Ya (孙亚) is the mother of two children. She admitted that when she moved to Minsheng Garden Community (民生花园社区), she was attracted by the convenient living conditions. "It takes a few minutes to get to the kindergarten, and the vegetable market is just around the corner. It only takes a few steps to repair things and pick up express delivery," Sun Ya (孙亚) said with a smile, "Mothers like me who have two children value saving time and effort the most. It's really reassuring to get everything you need on a daily basis without leaving the community."

What's in the "living circle" is up to the residents. Wang Hui (王惠), secretary of the Party Committee of Minsheng Garden Community (民生花园社区), said: "When we went door-to-door to listen to needs, everyone almost suggested laying a fitness trail." The community seized the time to handle it, renovated and upgraded the original sidewalks, and built a "happy and healthy walkway."

"We encourage residents to offer suggestions and participate in community construction," Wang Hui (王惠) said. The community focuses on residents' needs, refines service measures, and improves service effectiveness, so that the "15 minutes" measures not only the time scale, but also the radius of a happy life.

Since 2021, Yinchuan (银川) has built 31 urban 15-minute convenient living circles, covering 97 communities, serving more than 350,000 people, and the completion rate of the pilot living circle construction has reached a high level. Next, Yinchuan (银川) will adapt to local conditions, implement "one policy for each circle," and incorporate the construction of urban 15-minute convenient living circles into the urban public service infrastructure system, and promote the construction of convenient living circles in conjunction with improving the urban commercial system and cultivating new business forms.

Zhao Weinan (赵伟男), deputy director of the Yinchuan Municipal Bureau of Commerce (银川市商务局), introduced: "We adhere to precise policies and comprehensive policies, and strive to transform residents' 'demand list' into a 'service list' for a 15-minute convenient living circle, and 'draw' the convenient business circle more perfectly."

(Zhang Jiayi (张嘉仪) participated in the writing)

Wuhu (芜湖), Anhui (安徽), Promotes the Renovation of Old Communities

"Changing the Face" is More Important than "Repairing the Inside"

By Li Junjie, this reporter

"Adjust your breathing, get ready - run!" With an order, the children waved their arms and ran on the fitness trail.

At 7 o'clock in the morning, Li Shaojun (李少俊), a 68-year-old resident of the Ruidong Garden Community (瑞东园小区) in Nanrui Street (南瑞街道), Yijiang District (弋江区), Wuhu City (芜湖市), Anhui Province (安徽省), led more than 10 children to exercise. "The community conditions are so good, I wouldn't have dared to think about it before," Li Shaojun's (李少俊) mouth turned up unconsciously.

Ruidong Garden Community (瑞东园小区) was built in 2004 and has experienced wind and frost, revealing its "old age": the exterior walls of the buildings are mottled and peeling off, the overhead floors accumulate water that can cover the ankles every time it rains, and there is a shortage of more than 300 parking spaces. There are no street lights in the community, and residents "walk in the dark" at night...

The turning point occurred in early 2024. Ruidong Garden Community (瑞东园小区) was included in Wuhu's (芜湖) old community renovation plan. Li Shaojun (李少俊) said that at first everyone was very excited, but soon fell into worry - can the renovation be done to everyone's heart?

"Where to change and how to change must listen to the residents," said Liu Yu (刘宇), secretary of the Party General Branch of Ruidong Community (瑞东社区). In the early stage, the unit chiefs composed of old party members and enthusiastic residents solicited opinions from door to door. Li Shaojun (李少俊) is one of the unit chiefs. During that time, he went to knock on doors after work every day to listen to the needs of the neighbors. "Some hope to solve the problem of rain and sewage pipe networks, some want to increase parking spaces, and some are looking forward to having a square where they can take a walk." In the end, a total of 134 opinions were collected in the first phase of the renovation.

During the renovation process, Ruidong Community (瑞东社区) formed a "Tongxin Ruidong Discussion Hall" with the Yijiang District (弋江区) Housing and Construction Department, the Street Urban Construction Department, the property company, the construction party, and representatives of the unit chiefs to specifically solve the urgent needs of the masses. Some residents reported that the construction dust was large, and the "Discussion Hall" immediately coordinated, and the construction party used disposable plastic film to cover the residents' windows. "Everyone thinks in the same direction and works hard in the same direction, and solved more than 80 problems before and after," Liu Yu (刘宇) said. The resident satisfaction rate was as high as 98% throughout the renovation process.

Now walking into Ruidong Garden Community (瑞东园小区), the leisure and entertainment square at the entrance has become the "face value": the fitness trail is paved with colored plastic, pavilions, fitness areas, and children's playgrounds are scattered, the parking spaces are neat and spacious, and the community is much brighter at night.

"The community environment is better, and the residents are more energetic," Li Shaojun (李少俊) said. Some spontaneously formed a "green protection team" to regularly repair the lawn, and some voluntarily reminded to standardize parking. Everyone is willing to guard this "home."

From "having a place to live" to "living well," Wuhu (芜湖) adheres to demand-oriented and promotes the renovation of old communities. This year, the renovation of 75 urban old communities will be completed in October, benefiting 27,000 households. "Next, we must not only 'change the face,' but also 'repair the inside' and 'strengthen the foundation'," said Ma Hongtao (马红涛), chief engineer of the Wuhu Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau (芜湖市住房和城乡建设局). Improve the infrastructure and public service facilities of old communities, adopt the "renovation + long-term management" model, promote standardized property services, so that the renovation results will benefit residents for a long time, and allow residents to reap a steady happiness at their doorstep.

Zibo (淄博), Shandong (山东), Promotes the Construction of Complete Communities

Enjoy New Services at Your Doorstep

By Li Rui, this reporter

In the early morning, the convenient breakfast service area of ​​Shengli Community (胜利社区) in Silk Road Street (丝绸路街道), Zhoucun District (周村区), Zibo City (淄博市), Shandong Province (山东省), is filled with the atmosphere of life. Resident Fan Suzhen (樊素贞) carries a cloth bag and selects meals at the breakfast stall.

"It wasn't like this before," she said with emotion while taking the breakfast, "At that time, the stalls were messy, and some were almost placed in the middle of the road. The surrounding area is full of residential buildings and three schools. Every morning, it was so crowded that it was impassable."

The change occurred last year. After receiving repeated reports from residents, Shengli Community (胜利社区) re-planned a vacant lot on the east side and built a convenient breakfast service area, where mobile vendors were concentrated and managed uniformly.

"Now, the road is clear, there is no traffic jam to school, adults and children are not afraid of being late, and we can buy breakfast in a 'one-stop' shop," Fan Suzhen (樊素贞) said with a smile.

Living in peace and security is the true feeling of many residents of Shengli Community (胜利社区). In October 2022, Shengli Community (胜利社区) was selected as a pilot for the construction of complete communities. What is a complete community? It is not only necessary to have complete supporting facilities and sufficient activity space, but also to have intelligent convenient services and sound governance mechanisms.

Walking into the psychological service center of Shengli Community (胜利社区), the VR (virtual reality) relaxation room, music therapy corner, and psychological sand table area are all available. This not-so-large space is decorated warmly and professionally, and professional psychological counselors are on duty here every week. Shengli Community (胜利社区) has nearly 10,000 people, and the population structure is complex. At one time, there were many contradictions and disputes. Since its establishment in 2017, the psychological service center has provided "one-on-one" consultations to hundreds of residents, and the incidence of community disputes has decreased by nearly 30%.

Innovate the governance mechanism, and the masses build and share together. Zhoucun District (周村区) optimized the community team structure, established a two-level linkage deliberation mechanism between streets and communities, and allowed residents to truly participate in the decision-making and supervision of community affairs through carriers such as "Party-Mass Deliberation Meetings" and "Bench Classrooms" to realize civil affairs proposed by the people, civil affairs discussed by the people, and civil affairs decided by the people.

Digital intelligent property platform, "Red Building Chief" team, a volunteer service team of more than 300 people... A series of innovative mechanisms have gradually built a new pattern of community governance of "Party committee leadership, government organization, owner participation, and property services." "When you enter the house, it is a small family, and when you leave the house, it is a big family," Fan Suzhen (樊素贞) said, "Now everything can be solved in the community."

Residents have needs, the community has services, complete community, upgrade happiness.

A red envelope contains the old-age subsidy for the first half of 2025. Li Ronghua (李荣华), a 71-year-old community resident, said happily, "This money is enough to buy vegetables for the first half of the year." In order to allow the elderly to enjoy their old age, the community has built a medical and nursing combination center and a day care center. At present, the community has more than 30 square meters of comprehensive service facilities per 100 households, and more than 60% of the area is used for resident activities.

"Next, we will take the pilot construction of a complete community as an opportunity to expand service content and improve the level of governance from point to surface, so that more people can feel a sense of belonging, gain, and happiness in urban life," said Wang Wenxiao (王文晓), secretary of the Party Working Committee of Silk Road Street (丝绸路街道), Zhoucun District (周村区).

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Urban Construction Should "See People" as Well as "See Things" (Reporter's Notes)

By: 王 浩

The city is where people thrive. Creating an excellent living environment is the central goal of urban work.

In the bustling city, old residential areas take on a new look, complete communities provide one-stop services, gardens and green spaces are carved out between buildings, and warm homes merge into a city of lights... These scenes of harmony between people and the city vividly embody a modern people's city.

The city is a stage for striving and also carries the beautiful expectation of living and working in peace and contentment. Since the new era, all regions and departments have deeply practiced the people-centered urban development concept, focusing on solving the most concerning, most direct, and most realistic issues of interest to the people, continuously improving urban functions, and creating comfortable and convenient living spaces and green ecological spaces. From 2019 to 2024, a total of 280,000 old residential areas across the country have been renovated, with a total of 3.87 million parking spaces added and 78,000 community service facilities such as elderly care and childcare built. These solid measures have made urban life more convenient, comfortable, and better for the people.

The core of the city is people. From the Central Urban Work Conference 10 years ago, which proposed "coordinating the three layouts of production, life, and ecology to improve the livability of urban development," to the recent Central Urban Work Conference, which deployed "focusing on building comfortable and convenient livable cities," the emphasis on building livable cities is consistent. The "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Promoting High-Quality Urban Development" recently issued, made arrangements for creating high-quality urban living spaces, and formulated a timetable and task list. All regions and departments should adhere to a people-centered approach, maintain focus, implement precise policies, provide the people with more complete infrastructure, higher-quality public services, and more refined urban governance, and continuously meet the people's pursuit of a high-quality life.

To make cities livable and workable, it is necessary to grasp the relationship between establishing the new and breaking the old. For example, public services such as education, elderly care, and medical care are what the people expect. Turning the people's livelihood list into a development list, addressing shortcomings and strengthening weaknesses one by one, and solving problems from scratch and from good to excellent. For another example, the construction of new infrastructure is timely, and areas with the conditions should explore the construction of smart pipe networks, intelligent transportation, etc., to make urban operations smarter and more efficient. At the same time, urban development is shifting from a stage of large-scale incremental expansion to a stage dominated by stock quality improvement and efficiency enhancement. It is necessary to organically combine people's livelihood improvement and urban renewal, improve appearance, introduce new business formats, and promote old blocks and old factory areas to become new consumption scenarios and new urban landmarks. The renovation of old blocks and urban villages is being steadily promoted, creating a safe and comfortable living environment while effectively driving investment and expanding domestic demand.

To make cities livable and workable, it is necessary to grasp the relationship between breadth and precision. Building a livable city is a systematic project with many points and a wide area. Some projects inevitably involve more investment and longer cycles, but we must never take the old road of 摊大饼 (tān dà bǐng - "spreading out like a pancake," sprawling urban expansion). Identifying needs and accurately grasping pain points, small fulcrums can also leverage great livelihoods. Adding elevators to old residential areas, opening love stations in public spaces, and "inserting" pocket parks... When efforts are put into the details, the people's feelings will be more real.

Home is where the heart is. Urban construction should "see people" more than "see things," embodying urban construction in every detail, and taking the people's satisfaction and convenience as an important standard for judging whether urban work is done well. By unswervingly promoting high-quality urban development, cities can truly become beautiful homes where the people can live and work in peace and contentment and live a happy life.

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Editor in Charge of This Edition: Li Xiaoqing

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The Seeds of Xinzhuang (Reportage)

By: 周晓枫

If you start from Beijing (北京) and drive north, entering Changping (昌平) and reaching Xingshou Town (兴寿镇), you'll see clear road signs for Xinzhuang (辛庄) from afar.

The strawberries here are famous, with colorful greenhouses lining the road like a rainbow. Farmers smile and wave, with fresh strawberries at their side. But the delicious things here aren't just strawberries, and the interesting things aren't just picking them. Xinzhuang (辛庄) has become a popular internet-famous spot in the suburbs of Beijing (北京). People especially enjoy browsing the artistic markets here on weekends, with clothing, shoes, hats, tie-dye embroidery, wood carvings, straw weaving, flowers, plants, fish, and insects. There are also various games: from ring toss and shooting to costume photography, to pottery and woodworking. There's also plenty of delicious food: fermented glutinous rice, rice noodles, local dishes... If you can't get enough, you can buy hawthorn cakes, buns, and local fruits and vegetables as specialties to take home. In Xinzhuang (辛庄), you can also hear a wide variety of knowledge lectures, see children's theatrical performances, explore secret realms in the streets and alleys, or immerse yourself in the melodies and rhythms of sunset concerts, stretching your joints and body that are usually locked up.

In just a few years, Xinzhuang (辛庄) has gone from being unknown to "very" famous. It is said that Xinzhuang (辛庄) seized the opportunity, but when the opportunity first appears, it is often not recognized as such.

In 2012, there was a vacant lot next to the village. Should it be rented to a small enterprise at a high price to bring immediate benefits to the village, or should it welcome a private school with only twenty-some students? After consultation and discussion, the village committee abandoned the short-term benefits of renting the land at a high price and made a choice that seemed like a commercial misstep. However, this seemingly ordinary starting point nurtured a future of vigorous vitality. The children came, the parents came, and more new faces poured in. In the early morning, the children raised their outstretched arms and tiptoed on their toes, and the future of a village began to leap and grow lightly like a child. The original Nanshan Art School (南山艺术学园) has now been renamed Changping Xiangshang School (昌平向上学校), with more than 300 students from elementary to middle school.

In September 2023, parents wanted to hold an event to exchange idle goods, and told the village party secretary, so they moved office desks from the village committee—this was the earliest starting point of the Xinzhuang (辛庄) market. Little by little, the beauty accumulated silently, and the swirling future suddenly became clear. Gradually, more than 90 shops and more than 80 makers have accumulated, and new and old residents and tourists alike have become fascinated by the beautiful slow life here.

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Cindy Coffee's (心迪咖啡) owner got her name from her early work in a foreign company; her English name is Cindy. Amidst the light music and the rapid grinding of the coffee machine, Cindy enjoys her work.

Several years ago, when the coffee machine was delivered to the village entrance, the salesman was worried: "Are you sure you don't want to reconsider? Are you sure you need to buy this double-headed machine?" The coffee machine was not small, and the Xinzhuang (辛庄) in front of him, although clean after governance, was so quiet that it was almost deserted... Opening a coffee shop here? Open every day? Where would the customers come from? The prospects were not optimistic. What's more, Cindy had just hurriedly found a place to learn how to make coffee under the guidance of the internet, and her skills were very raw—the only thing she had was her dauntless courage.

Even Cindy herself never foresaw the future changes in Xinzhuang (辛庄). Cindy in the workplace didn't like answers that could be seen to the end at a glance, and wanted to explore her potential. After resigning to start her own business, she didn't expect to make a fortune; she wanted to know if she could keep her dreams alive under the grinding of reality. She originally wanted to rely on her savings to survive for two years to see what happened, but she didn't expect Xinzhuang (辛庄) to become more and more lively.

In the few years since it opened, Cindy Coffee (心迪咖啡) has held 30 concerts: from shakuhachi to guzheng, from violin to opera; the second-floor space has hosted many book clubs and knowledge-sharing events. Cindy usually maintains close communication with dozens of mothers across the country. One child was addicted to exotic pets, and the mother was worried that the child had psychological problems. Cindy contacted an artist in Xinzhuang (辛庄) who raised snakes and lizards to become the child's tutor during the holidays, and they went hiking and camping together. The child is considering becoming a veterinarian as their ideal career. Cindy is very happy that she can help others.

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If the coffee machine salesman who once worried about Cindy revisited, he would be dumbfounded—Xinzhuang (辛庄), which has only a short main street, now has 5 coffee shops. The courtyard of Fu San Coffee (福叁咖啡) is like a small Shangri-La, with leaves bathed in light as if they have their own magic. There is also one where visitors feel a different kind of tranquility from the signs at the door and the atmosphere inside—Rainbow Angel Coffee (彩虹天使咖啡屋), where the baristas, bakers, and servers are hearing impaired.

For a hearing-impaired child, understanding 300 grams of flour and 100 grams of sugar, and adjusting the right ratio of eggs and milk to make a batter, is by no means easy. These cookies, nut tarts, nougat biscuits, and peach cakes baked in silence come from the extraordinary efforts of the children.

Silent and orderly. Either pressing the dough, or squeezing cream frosting, or stirring the thick custard with a small spatula, or taking the cakes out of the oven with cotton gloves. The air balloon bread that has just come out of the oven has a more fluffy interior, and the outer skin has a thin layer of sugar that is vaguely visible... They are used to immersing themselves in labor, occasionally communicating with gestures. Hands are not only their tools of labor, but also their tools of speech.

It wasn't all smooth sailing at first. The current store manager also resigned and went to work in the south—these children didn't believe in the prospects of the coffee shop, and in fact, they didn't believe in themselves. Even the principal, Li Shaohua (李绍嬅), didn't have much confidence. Although they were competitors, Cindy was completely unguarded and enthusiastically helped Rainbow Angel Coffee (彩虹天使咖啡屋) settle in. Within a few months, these hearing-impaired people who had been frustrated sincerely felt the friendliness of the people here. The coffee shop took root in Xinzhuang (辛庄) in this way, growing brilliantly in silence and blooming in tranquility.

Finally, Rainbow Angel Coffee (彩虹天使咖啡屋) became profitable. These children overcame their own difficulties, became self-reliant and self-strengthening, and gave back to the community by volunteering to sell the snacks they made and donating the money to children with heart disease or leukemia. What is hope? It is to believe in the rainbow in the future even in a rainstorm, and to believe that the neighbors or passers-by you meet also have the gentleness of an angel.

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At Cindy Coffee (心迪咖啡) and Rainbow Angel Coffee (彩虹天使咖啡屋), you can often see children coming to intern. Sometimes they also come to post posters for school activities, or participate in various studies and lectures. In addition to basic knowledge learning, Xiangshang School (向上学校) also has a large number of humanities and art courses, various types of practical modules, and extremely challenging personal projects.

In the farming module, the children stayed in tea gardens in the south for several weeks, picking and making tea, and also branding and packaging the products and formulating sales plans. In the social service module, the children help disabled children. This help, in addition to cultivating love and patience, also requires distinguishing which of the help these children need is something they can do but insist on ordering others to do, which can be completed after hard study, and which cannot be reached due to physical conditions—this is a more in-depth insight and experience of human nature.

In personal projects, the presentation methods are diverse, some publish poetry collections or picture books, and some create installation art. Wu Yueyang (吴岳阳), a student in the Xunzhi class, completed his own drama. He wrote, directed, and starred in this drama himself, composed and arranged the music himself, and bought materials to tailor the costumes himself. The actors, stage design, and band included students, parents, and teachers.

In terms of academics, their courses include architecture, biology, oral history, and art crafts, hoping to cultivate a complete and rich personality, growing towards the light with their own branches. Many parents are teachers, logistics staff, and volunteers at the school.

The little guy sitting in the corner reading a book is Zhang Shenghuan's (张盛环) 12-year-old son, the principal of Yunduoduo Bread (云朵朵面包). Don't look at his young age, but he has already read the Four Books and Five Classics, and even studied Xun Gu (训诂) for 3 years—which is by no means easy even for students majoring in Chinese language and literature. Zhang Shenghuan (张盛环) is her own child's teacher. She likes the shop name she chose, "Yunduoduo (云朵朵)": like clouds, floating and rising. And she also found a free and comfortable, leisurely life in Xinzhuang (辛庄).

Five

The middle position of Xinzhuang (辛庄)'s main street is a small shop called "Liwu (礼物)"—"Li (禮)" is the traditional character, perhaps intentionally emphasizing cultural traditions and customs.

The principal, Xia Yishi (夏宜室), like other principals, has a common identity: a student's parent. She used to be an early childhood educator, and now, in addition to taking care of the shop, she often practices yoga, Zhan Zhuang (站桩), sings, and organizes study tours. When she first came to Beijing (北京) from Shenzhen (深圳), she suddenly saw that the water pipes were frozen in the cold winter in the north. She and her son entered Xinzhuang (辛庄), and before they had time to pack their luggage, they ran to play in the snow... This kind of relaxation is the reason why they transferred schools here.

Once, her son, who was learning piano, suddenly resisted touching the keys every day. Xia Yishi (夏宜室) tried to solve the problem by changing teachers, but to no avail. After coming to Xinzhuang (辛庄), she once found that her underage son had gone to a casual bar in the village to exchange musical experiences with people. She imagined all kinds of scenarios that might be unfavorable to her child, even hidden dangers... She instinctively wanted to pull her son back, worried that her son would go bad. But she quickly stopped herself with reason, warning herself that she must stay outside the door. When her son came out, he saw his waiting mother... Because of his mother's trust, respect, and understanding, the child felt warm in his heart, and the secret rebellion was also melting. From this, Xia Yishi (夏宜室) also felt her own growth.

Time flies. The boy of that year has grown into a tall young man and is about to go to college to focus on music studies. Because of his love, he has also formed his own band. Xia Yishi (夏宜室), who has been studying hard with her son, has not wasted her time. In the past few years, she has self-studied several majors and successfully started the "Liwu (礼物)" shop.

Push open the dark wooden door with subtle cracks, climb the steps... Every object is pleasing to the eye. Woodwork, beautiful colors and textures, wood blanks emerge from shavings and powder. Pottery jars, either used as teacups or as flower arrangement utensils. Homespun cloth, you can see the small cotton seeds between the warp and weft. Guqin, a faint light shines on the silk strings. There are many uniquely designed crafts and clothing here. It is not achieved overnight, but a immersion of the mind, a superposition of fingerprints, and a waiting in silence, that makes such a "gift". The so-called connection of objects and respect for life—such a gift contains kindness, respect, and blessings.

The increasingly popular Xinzhuang (辛庄) initially started with the villagers' acceptance of children, their yearning for art, and their respect for education... After that, it is the climate, soil, and water of Xinzhuang (辛庄) that allow it to bear fruits that are both reasonable and unexpected. Here, there is the convenience of urban life and the leisure of rural life, the harmonious coexistence and mutual integration of new and old villagers. It is not a simple internet celebrity in the simple sense, but has an internal spiritual support. Returning here, we are like swallows returning to their nests, like spring returning to warmth.

The gifts of fate are often not parachuted in, they come from a pair of hands working specifically. Every moment of patient polishing has left a secret fingerprint for the future. Today's Xinzhuang (辛庄) is a beautiful gift from the years.

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Li Bai and Poems Praising Tea (Literary Thoughts)

By: 刘 墨

In the sixth year of the Tianbao era (747 AD), Li Bai (李白) unexpectedly met his cousin and monk Zhongfu (中孚) in Nanjing (南京). Zhongfu gave him dozens of tea leaves, which Li Bai (李白) imaginatively named "Immortal's Palm Tea." Through Zhongfu's (中孚) description, Li Bai (李白) learned that this tea was produced in Yuquan Mountain (玉泉山), Jingzhou (荆州). Zhongfu (中孚) also gifted him a poem and requested Li Bai (李白) to reciprocate with one. Thus, Li Bai (李白) wrote this poem, "Answering My Cousin, the Monk Zhongfu, on Being Gifted Yuquan Immortal's Palm Tea": I have often heard of Yuquan Mountain (玉泉山), whose mountain caves have many stalactites. Immortal rats are like white crows, hanging upside down in the clear stream's moon. Tea grows among these stones, and the jade spring flows without ceasing. Roots and branches sprinkle fragrant dew, and drinking it moistens muscles and bones. Old clusters roll green leaves, branches connecting to branches. Dried in the sun, it becomes Immortal's Palm, like patting Hongya's (洪崖) shoulder. The world has not seen it, who will spread its name? My kinsman is a Chan master, gifting me with a fine poem. A clear mirror reflects Wu Yan (无盐), ashamed of Xishi's (西施) beauty. Sitting in the morning with lingering pleasure, I chant it far and wide.

Li Bai's (李白) poem can be considered one of the earliest poems about tea. At this time, Lu Yu (陆羽) was only a little over 10 years old, more than ten years away from writing the *Classic of Tea*. After Li Bai (李白), more poets joined in the creation of tea poems.

The poem has a preface. In the preface, Li Bai (李白) first emphasized that there are stalactites in the caves on Yuquan Temple (玉泉寺) Mountain in Jingzhou (荆州), with springs flowing in the caves, and large white bats like crows in the caves. Many tea trees grow beside these caves, with leaves as green as jade. Li Bai (李白) also mentioned Zhen Gong (真公), the abbot of Yuquan Temple (玉泉寺), whose complexion remained rosy even in his 80s because he often drank the tea and water from Yuquan Temple (玉泉寺) Mountain. The tea produced on Yuquan Temple (玉泉寺) Mountain is fragrant, smooth, and mellow, with the function of rejuvenating and moistening dryness.

In the preface, Li Bai (李白) said, "Seeing my kinsman, the monk Zhongfu (中孚), show me dozens of tea leaves, curled and overlapping, shaped like a hand, called 'Immortal's Palm Tea'," indicating that the Immortal's Palm Tea he saw was counted in "leaves." Later generations called cake tea "leaf tea." In the Tang Dynasty, the finished cake tea had holes in the middle, and after drying, they were strung together with bamboo threads or palm fibers, with a string of cake tea ranging from several to dozens of leaves. The Immortal's Palm Tea that Li Bai (李白) saw was precisely those leaves stacked on top of each other after being strung together, the so-called "curled and overlapping."

Lu Yu (陆羽) mentioned the manufacturing process of cake tea in the *Classic of Tea*, using charcoal fire for drying. However, Immortal's Palm Tea may have adopted the natural sun-drying method, thus belonging to the early cake tea. After the cake tea process was improved and Lu Yu (陆羽) publicized these methods in the *Classic of Tea*, Immortal's Palm Tea inevitably faced elimination.

Because the cake tea looked like a palm when stacked together, the imaginative Li Bai (李白) also believed that it could be used to pat the shoulder of the immortal Hongya (洪崖). The "Hongya (洪崖)" mentioned in Li Bai's (李白) poem comes from Guo Pu's (郭璞), a poet of the Jin Dynasty, "Poem of Wandering Immortals": "On the left, I hold the sleeve of Fuqiu (浮丘); on the right, I pat Hongya's (洪崖) shoulder." It is recorded that Hongya (洪崖) was Ling Lun (伶伦), a minister of the Yellow Emperor, who created musical scales and made panpipes. Legend has it that he dug five wells at the southern foot of Hongya Mountain (洪崖山) in the western suburbs of Nanchang (南昌) to facilitate drawing spring water for alchemy at any time. Taoists call him "Immortal Hongya (洪崖)." When poets discuss tea, they often introduce legends of immortals. Hongya (洪崖) is one, and another frequently mentioned is Danqiu Zi (丹丘子).

Li Bai (李白) used his immortal poetic brush to vividly and detailedly describe the origin, quality, and efficacy of Immortal's Palm Tea. Moreover, to emphasize the extraordinary efficacy of the tea, he inserted the legend of the thousand-year-old white bat and the story of Zhen Gong (真公) of Yuquan Temple (玉泉寺), who had a rosy complexion due to drinking this tea for many years, even in his 80s.

Li Bai's (李白) writing this poem related to tea may have been a sudden inspiration, but at that time, monks in temples had indeed begun to popularize tea drinking. For example, the *Feng Shi Wen Jian Ji* specifically recorded Jiangmo Zangshi (降魔藏师) of Lingyan Temple (灵岩寺) on Mount Tai (泰山), who advocated tea drinking during the Kaiyuan era, and then attributed the nationwide popularity of tea drinking to him. Jiangmo Zangshi (降魔藏师) promoted tea culture decades earlier than Lu Yu (陆羽), and his era was close to the time when Li Bai (李白) wrote the poem "Answering My Cousin, the Monk Zhongfu, on Being Gifted Yuquan Immortal's Palm Tea."

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Eating Lotus Leaf Noodles at Tigou (Duoweizhai Restaurant)

By: 王成伟

Tiger Gully isn't a gully, it's just an ordinary alley in my hometown of Shiyan (十堰), Hubei (湖北). I don't know why it's called Tiger Gully, but what does it matter? What's important is that the lotus leaf noodles in Tiger Gully are really delicious. I've been away from home for 20 years, and I still think about them.

Lotus leaf noodles are originally a popular home-style noodle dish in the Sichuan (四川) and Chongqing (重庆) areas. The Tiger Gully Pearl Lotus Leaf Noodle shop has the words "Famous Chongqing Snack" hanging on its door. Although it's not a local snack, it's delicious, and this shop has been rooted in Tiger Gully for nearly 30 years, and has long been integrated into the daily life of Shiyan people.

I remember when I first started working, the Pearl Lotus Leaf Noodle shop was just diagonally opposite my workplace, and we young people often patronized it. There was a big pot propped up at the entrance of the shop, and beef bones were boiling in the soup all year round. The aroma could attract passers-by 10 meters away. The owners of the lotus leaf noodle shop were a couple from Sichuan. The proprietress would pinch off a small ball from the pile of proofed dough, stretch, pinch, and flip it, and in three to five seconds it would become a piece of dough the size of a lotus leaf. The dough piece was thrown into the pot, and the boiling water quickly cooked it through. A whole piece of soft, smooth dough leaf was put into a bowl. A large spoonful of beef bone soup was poured on it, topped with tempting red oil mixed sauce, and then a spoonful of golden sweet corn kernels and emerald green glutinous pea kernels - this is the so-called "pearl," sprinkled with finely chopped shallots and coriander, and a fragrant, colorful world was piled up in the bowl. If the red oil mixed sauce is not enough, you can also add a portion of pickled cabbage and fatty intestines topping. After a hearty sweat, the hardships of the world seem to be negligible.

In the late 1960s, Shiyan welcomed builders from all over the country because of the birth of the Second Automobile Works of China (中国第二汽车制造厂) (locally known as "Erqi (二汽)"). My cousin-in-law is from Sichuan. He came to Shiyan to build "Erqi," met my cousin, and became an automobile worker for the rest of his life. They often went to Tiger Gully to eat lotus leaf noodles from their hometown, and they would definitely call me, who worked across the road.

Later, I left my hometown to work in another place. One year when I went back, I met my cousin-in-law again. At that time, I learned that he was fighting against the disease, but he was extremely open-minded and could not see a trace of sad illness. At the end of the following year, he passed away.

More than 10 years have passed, and whenever I think of my cousin-in-law, I recall the scene of often going to eat lotus leaf noodles with him and his wife.

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Hometown Sentiments, Hometown Charm (Me and a City)

By: 陆令寿

In my eighteenth year, I walked out of my hometown, Jintan (金坛), Jiangsu (江苏), that piece of Jiangnan (江南) land steeped in the fragrance of rice flowers. At that time, little did I know that this land had gathered so many celebrities like stars: Chu Guangxi (储光羲), Dai Shulun (戴叔伦), Wang Kentang (王肯堂), Yu Minzhong (于敏中)... Duan Yucai (段玉裁), the great philologist of the Qing Dynasty, was one of the brightest stars among them.

Wandering into the Duan Yucai Memorial Hall in the southern scenic area of the city, a couplet on the side of the door reads, "Millennial achievements in philology and phonology, a generation of great scholars, teachers, and mentors." In just 16 characters, it thoroughly explains the longitude and latitude of Mr. Duan's life. Inside the hall, the four walls are adorned with illustrated biographies of Duan Yucai's life. Mr. Duan began his education at the age of 6 under the guidance of his grandfather, and later studied with his uncle and father. When he passed the xiucai (秀才) examination at the age of 13, his eyes already revealed a scholarly air. Later, he failed the imperial examinations in Beijing three times. It wasn't until he met Dai Zhen (戴震), a representative figure of the Qian-Jia School (乾嘉学派), in Beijing at the age of 29, that he submitted a note of greeting and insisted on calling himself a disciple. At the age of 36, Duan Yucai embarked on his official career, serving as a county magistrate in Guizhou (贵州) and Sichuan (四川) for 10 years. In addition to official duties, he never forgot to proofread books under the lamp. The older generation in Jintan often tells a story: when Duan Yucai resigned due to illness at the age of 46 and returned to his hometown, his official boat was docked at Laoya Pond (老鸦塘). Seventy-two boxes were unloaded from the boat. Two thieves sneaked in at night and stole two boxes, but they were dumbfounded when they pried them open—there was no gold or silver treasure inside, but boxes full of neatly arranged books and manuscripts.

In the courtyard of the memorial hall stands a statue of Duan Yucai: his right hand twirling his goatee, his left hand clutching a volume, a pair of eyes on his thin face as if quenched with fire, seemingly trying to penetrate the mystery of a certain character. Looking at this statue, the Jintan dialect phrase "滴滴刮刮 (dī dī guā guā - "authentic," genuine, pure)" suddenly popped into my mind!

He began writing "Annotations to Shuowen Jiezi (说文解字注)" at the age of 42, and finally completed this monumental work at the age of 73. It wasn't until he was 80 years old that it was published. From writing to printing, nearly forty years were spent with the green lamp and yellow scrolls. In the year the book was published, Duan Yucai passed away at Xiajin Bridge (下津桥) outside Suzhou (苏州) Changmen (阊门). It seems he had fulfilled his lifelong wish.

The explanations in the exhibition hall not only contain Mr. Duan's groundbreaking contributions to philology, but also explain the origin and evolution of Chinese characters clearly. What warmed my heart the most was the "Annotations to Shuowen Jiezi and Jintan Dialect" section. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, with the migration of people from Jiangbei (江北) to this small city, the dialects of Yangzhou (扬州) and Taizhou (泰州) mixed with the local Wu dialect (吴语) of Jintan, slowly brewing two kinds of accents. Those reclaimers from northern Jiangsu rebuilt houses on the scorched earth, their accents wrapped in the moisture of the Huai River (淮河); while the locals who guarded the old foundations still recited nursery rhymes passed down by their ancestors in the Wu dialect, the tail sounds carrying the ripples of Jintan's lakes. As a master of his generation, Duan Yucai also cultivated his grandson, Gong Zizhen (龚自珍). According to Gong Zizhen's "A Brief Record of Jintan Dialect (金坛方言小记)," Duan Yucai's family spoke the authentic old Jintan dialect. When he annotated "Shuowen Jiezi," he often used the dialect for explanation. It seems that the old people of Jintan would feel as familiar as if they had met an old acquaintance.

For example, 吞 (tūn, swallow), the "Annotations to Shuowen Jiezi" Volume 2 states: "吞, 咽也. 从口，天声 (tūn, yè yě. cóng kǒu, tiān shēng - swallow, to gulp. From mouth, sound of heaven)." Duan's annotation: "Today people use '吞' (tūn, swallow) and '吐' (tù, spit), commonly saying '喉吞' (hóu tūn, throat swallow)." In the Jintan dialect, the throat is called "喉吞 (hóu tūn)," and when someone is very hateful, they will say, "I wish I could bite his '喉吞 (hóu tūn)'." What made me even more reluctant to leave was "坺头 (fá tóu)." "Annotations to Shuowen Jiezi" Volume 14, 厽 (lěi) section: "厽, 絫坺土为墙壁. 象形 (lěi, lěi fá tǔ wèi qiáng bì. xiàng xíng - 厽, piling up clods of earth to make walls. Pictographic)." Duan's annotation: "絫 (lěi) is the modern character '累' (lěi, accumulate). The 土 (tǔ, earth) section says: '一臿土谓之坺 (yī chā tǔ wèi zhī fá - one spade of earth is called 坺 (fá, clod)).' 臿 (chā) is the modern 锹 (qiāo, spade). Taking clods of earth from the fields with a spade, making them square and intact, is what the local people today call '坺头 (fá tóu)'." Memories suddenly flowed out along the seams of the characters: in the rice fields after the autumn harvest, my father would first pull a stone roller to compact the rice stubble and soil, then use a tool with a blade to cut seams, and after they cracked in the sun, use a spade to dig out square blocks of soil—these were 坺头 (fá tóu). Besides building walls, they could also be broken up to pad pigsties and compost fertilizer. When I was 13 years old, I carried 8 坺头 (fá tóu) along the ridge of the field, the weight of more than 100 jin pressing painfully on my shoulders, carrying them from the field to the back of the house to stack them up. Breaking 坺头 (fá tóu) was even more of a common chore. The dried 坺头 (fá tóu) were as hard as iron. I swung the hoe with all my strength, smashing them into flying debris, and then shoveled them into the pigsty.

"喉吞 (hóu tūn)," "坺头 (fá tóu)," at this moment, standing in front of the memorial hall, I shouted loudly in the Jintan dialect. I think this giant of philology must be able to hear the warmth in the local accent. After all, his pen once dipped into the water and soil of Jintan, writing down the most vivid Chinese characters.

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Photo Report

Watercolor Painting "Morning at Riverside Homes," by Liao Kaiming (廖开明).

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The Truth Finally Clear (In Search Of)

By: 梁朝波

In the summer of 1979, Zuoquan County (左权县), Shanxi Province. Wang Zhanyou (王战友), an officer from the Jinzhong Military Sub-district (晋中军分区) of the Shanxi Provincial Military Region (山西省军区), unexpectedly discovered a yellowed old account book in a farmer's home. Pasted on the rough hemp paper were many old photos from the Anti-Japanese War period: the graduation memorial of the first medical training team of the Eighth Route Army's 129th Division Health Department, a group photo of some cadres of the Taihang Military Region Political Department, a group photo of all senators of the Jin-Ji-Lu-Yu Border Region Provisional Senate... The smoke of history rushed towards him. The ink marks on the last page of the account book, "Anti-Japanese Allied Army Mess Hall, Year 28 of the Republic of China," shocked him even more.

As he carefully flipped through it, a folded, yellowed, and brittle old newspaper slipped out. Wang Zhanyou (王战友) held his breath and unfolded it with tweezers, revealing a simple envelope. Written in brush-pen small regular script was "To Village Chief Lü (吕村长) of Tongyu Village (桐峪村)," with a vermilion red seal in the lower left corner reading "Taihang United CCP Second Office (太行联合中共二办)." It had neither a stamp nor a postmark, like a secret sealed by time.

This envelope instantly captivated Wang Zhanyou's (王战友) heart, initiating his journey of pursuit for more than 40 years thereafter.

The envelope itself was the first clue. On the old newspaper used to make it, the words "Yan'an (延安) All Circles May Day Commemoration Conference," "The Glory of the Eighth Route Army (八路军)," "Magnificent, Eighteen Warriors" clearly pointed to the war-torn years of the Anti-Japanese War. From 1980 to 1986, Wang Zhanyou (王战友) repeatedly returned to Zuoquan (左权), visiting villages such as Matian (麻田), Tongyu (桐峪), and Wujun Temple (武军寺), seeking out more than 40 elderly people, hoping someone could recognize these old paper relics. However, the answer remained hidden in the mists of history.

The clue turned to that mysterious vermilion red seal. Wang Zhanyou (王战友) traveled to relevant departments of the military, local chronicles institutions, and provincial and municipal archives, searching for clues about the "Taihang United CCP Second Office (太行联合中共二办)" in the vast sea of files. The archives recorded the "Ji-Tai United Office (冀太联办)" established in 1940 and its massive structure, but the document traces of the "Taihang United CCP Second Office (太行联合中共二办)" were nowhere to be found.

Later, a military history expert keenly pointed out that this was most likely a confidential military letter. This expert encouraged Wang Zhanyou (王战友) to conduct an in-depth investigation to find out the origin and development of this envelope—it might be a precious cultural relic of significant historical importance during the Anti-Japanese War.

A turning point came in 1987. Several veteran soldiers from the Zuoquan (左权) Red Army Sanatorium recognized that the old newspaper used to paste the envelope was the "Xinhua Daily (新华日报)" from the Anti-Japanese War period, and pointed out a key clue: find Wang Renhe (王仁和), the armed traffic officer of Liaoxian County (辽县) (now Zuoquan County (左权县)) at that time. After many twists and turns, Wang Zhanyou (王战友) finally found Wang Renhe (王仁和), then the Minister of the Armed Forces Department of Lingshi County (灵石县), Shanxi Province.

When the yellowed envelope was handed to Wang Renhe (王仁和), the old man stared at it for a long time, his hands trembling slightly: "Where did you get this? This is a letter we delivered during the Anti-Japanese War!" The floodgates of memory suddenly opened, and the past surged out. In the summer of 1941, as one of the three armed traffic officers of the Taihang Transportation Bureau (太行交通局), he secretly escorted a confidential letter with a vermilion official seal from Wujun Temple Village (武军寺村), Matian Town (麻田镇), Liaoxian County (辽县) to Tongyu Village (桐峪村). The letter was carefully sewn into the lining of his shoe, and two others disguised as civilians accompanied him. "Soon after, Tongyu (桐峪) convened the Jin-Ji-Lu-Yu Border Region Provisional Senate (晋冀鲁豫边区临时参议会)," Wang Renhe (王仁和) said. "We escorted many letters with armed escorts back then, but very few were stamped with a vermilion official seal, so I have a particularly deep impression!"

Wang Renhe's (王仁和) account and the gradual opening of Anti-Japanese War historical materials after the 1990s corroborated each other, prompting Wang Zhanyou (王战友) to launch a more systematic investigation. He traveled to Beijing (北京), Wuxiang (武乡), Matian (麻田) and Tongyu (桐峪) old sites in Zuoquan (左权), and visited 62 veteran Eighth Route Army (八路军) soldiers in 6 of the 7 military sanatoriums, and also searched for clues in the vast historical materials. The relevant content published in the North China edition of the "Xinhua Daily (新华日报)" on May 19, 1941, accurately pinpointed the newspaper's publication time. The "Chronicle of Major Events in the Taihang Mountain Revolutionary Base Area (太行山革命根据地大事记)" detailed the grand occasion of Liaoxian County (辽县) as the central hub of North China in 1940 and the context of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters (八路军总部) moving to Wujun Temple (武军寺). The "Jin-Ji-Lu-Yu Archives (晋冀鲁豫档案)" revealed that the "Taihang Second Office (太行第二办事处)" under the jurisdiction of the "Ji-Tai United Office (冀太联办)" was the historical full name of the "Taihang United CCP Second Office (太行联合中共二办)" on the envelope, and its residence was precisely in Wujun Temple Village (武军寺村).

Peeling back the layers, the truth finally became clear. This envelope was a confidential military letter issued by the "Taihang Second Office (太行第二办事处)" from Wujun Temple Village (武军寺村), Liaoxian County (辽县) in late June 1941. It was made from the North China edition of the "Xinhua Daily (新华日报)" on May 19, 1941, and its report on the "Eighteen Heroes of Qingkou (青口十八勇士)"—the famous battle of fighting against overwhelming odds and desperately resisting, was a heroic testament to the bloody resistance of the Eighth Route Army (八路军). At that time, the border region had not yet issued stamps, and this letter was delivered on foot by Wang Renhe (王仁和) and two other armed traffic officers. It was a veritable "hand-delivered official seal" (指战争时期由专人徒步传递、不通过常规邮政系统的官方机密信件) (zhǐ zhànzhēng shíqí yóu zhuānrén túbù chuándì, bù tōngguò chángguī yóuzhèng xìtǒng de guānfāng mìmì xìnjiàn - "hand-delivered official seal," refers to official confidential letters delivered on foot by special personnel during wartime, without going through the regular postal system), bearing the life-and-death mission of transmitting important instructions. What is particularly crucial is that the time the letter was delivered highly coincided with the preparation period for the Jin-Ji-Lu-Yu Border Region Provisional Senate (晋冀鲁豫边区临时参议会) convened in Tongyu (桐峪), Liaoxian County (辽县) on July 7, 1941.

When this Anti-Japanese War secret letter, which condensed the smoke of war and the painstaking efforts of later researchers, reappeared, auction houses and collectors came admiringly, wanting to buy it at a high price, but Wang Zhanyou (王战友) politely declined them all. In his heart, this cultural relic is a vivid testimony to the bloody battle of the Eighth Route Army (八路军) in the Taihang Mountains (太行山), and its significance and value cannot be measured by any amount of money. More than 40 years have passed, and Wang Zhanyou (王战友), a military retiree in his seventies, solemnly decided to donate it to the country free of charge, so that this memory of the Anti-Japanese War will forever be recorded in the national history.

This envelope and the old account book recording millet and homespun cloth together tell a truth: in the darkest moment of national crisis, it was the perseverance and faith of thousands upon thousands of unsung heroes that pierced the long night and illuminated the future. The pursuit and research of these past events is a solemn gaze at history and a deep and affectionate protection of the national roots.

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