Summary: Xi Jinping sent a letter to all faculty, staff, and alumni of China Agricultural University (CAU) on the occasion of its 120th anniversary, extending his congratulations. Xi expressed his hope that CAU would carry forward its fine traditions, be determined to strengthen agriculture and serve the country, deepen education and teaching reforms, and strengthen agricultural technological innovation. He also hoped that it would cultivate more professionals who understand and love agriculture to contribute to building a strong agricultural country and advancing Chinese-style modernization. The letter was in response to a letter from the faculty and students of CAU to Xi. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations on its 80th anniversary. Xi emphasized China's commitment to its own food security and its contributions to global food security through assistance to other nations. He stated China will continue to support the FAO's role in international agriculture and food security. Xi also mentioned China's willingness to work with the international community to implement the Global Development Initiative and the UN's 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. The FAO, of which China is a founding member, was established on October 16, 1945.
Summary: The article emphasizes China's pursuit of "modernized people's cities" characterized by innovation, livability, and resilience, highlighting achievements made since the "14th Five-Year Plan." It cites examples like Hangzhou's renovated industrial parks focusing on green technology and Shenzhen's open approach to technological innovation. The article also points to improvements in affordable housing, community services, and the preservation of historical and cultural sites. Beijing and Xiong'an are presented as examples of coordinated regional development efforts. The article concludes by stressing the need for continued transformation and high-quality development in Chinese cities.
Summary: Xi Jinping sent a letter to faculty and students at China Agricultural University (CAU) encouraging them to carry forward the university's traditions, commit to strengthening agriculture, deepen educational reforms, and strengthen agricultural technology innovation to contribute to building a strong agricultural nation and advancing Chinese-style modernization. CAU has established over 200 "science and technology backyards" (科技小院) and promoted them to other countries. CAU aims to strengthen agricultural technology innovation, serve the construction of a strong technology nation, support the construction of a strong agricultural nation, and shoulder the mission of high-level self-reliance in science and technology.
Summary: The article discusses Xichuan County's efforts to protect the Danjiangkou Reservoir, a crucial water source for the South-to-North Water Diversion Project. It highlights the county's "three green" approach: expanding green spaces through reforestation, leveraging ecological advantages for economic development, and ensuring the sustainability of environmental protection through community involvement, with the support of volunteers, and technological advancements. The article quotes Xi Jinping as emphasizing the strategic importance of the project and the need to safeguard the water quality. Xichuan County has been able to improve its forest coverage and biodiversity, while also increasing tourism and income for local residents.
Summary: Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang, speaking at the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) annual meeting, affirmed China's commitment to ecological civilization under Xi Jinping's leadership. He stated that China has taken on greater responsibility in global environmental governance. Ding emphasized China's willingness to strengthen cooperation with all parties to promote global green development, calling for adherence to multilateralism and the *Paris Agreement*. He urged for strengthened dialogue on biodiversity protection and plastic pollution, while advocating for a just transition balancing environmental protection, economic development, job creation, and poverty eradication. The meeting, focused on green transition and harmony between humanity and nature, was attended by approximately 400 Chinese and foreign experts and partners.
Summary: China successfully launched the Satellite Internet Low Orbit 12 group of satellites using a Long March 8A rocket from the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site. The satellites successfully entered their predetermined orbit. This launch marked the 600th successful launch for China's Long March rocket series. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Chinese Vice President Han Zheng met with French Presidential Advisor Emmanuel Bonne in Beijing on October 16th. Han stated that the international system faces challenges and emphasized the consensus between Xi Jinping and Macron on strengthening cooperation. He expressed China's willingness to work with France to uphold independence, enhance mutual trust, promote practical cooperation, and strengthen multilateral collaboration. Bonne affirmed France's emphasis on China's role, support for multilateralism, and willingness to deepen bilateral and multilateral cooperation. He also stated that France is willing to actively promote EU-China dialogue and cooperation.
Summary: China's revised anti-unfair competition law, effective October 15th, aims to foster a fair market and advance the unified national market. The legal revisions intend to translate China's systemic advantages into development achievements and governance effectiveness. Strengthening the rule of law is viewed as essential for promoting high-quality development and modernizing the country. By using the rule of law, China can build a modern socialist country.
Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of the centralized leadership of the CCP, particularly Xi Jinping, in navigating China's economic development, highlighting key decisions made in recent years. It references Xi Jinping's economic thought as a guiding force, and the strategic importance of balancing domestic and international factors, including the concept of "dual circulation." The article notes the need to address issues related to US-China trade and the importance of focusing on high-quality development, technological innovation, and improving people's livelihoods. It also mentions meetings between Chinese and American officials to implement agreements reached between the heads of state.
Summary: China marked the 45th World Food Day with a national campaign emphasizing "Food Conservation: Everyone's Responsibility." During the event, the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration (NFSRA) highlighted advancements in grain storage, technology, and reducing losses post-harvest, citing a decrease in machine harvesting losses for major grains. NFSRA Director Liu Huanxin stressed the importance of technological innovation in reducing food waste. Efforts are also being made to utilize grain by-products and promote public awareness to reduce waste in consumption, from schools to restaurants. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization representative to China, Carlos Alderco, stated that the campaign will help to promote a good social atmosphere of food saving.
Summary: The article discusses Xichuan County's efforts in Henan Province to protect the water quality of the Danjiangkou Reservoir, a crucial water source for the South-to-North Water Diversion Project. It highlights the county's "three green" approach: expanding green spaces through reforestation, leveraging ecological advantages for economic development (like fruit cultivation and tourism), and strengthening environmental protection through technological upgrades and community involvement. The piece quotes Xi Jinping's emphasis on the strategic importance of the project and the need to safeguard the water source, noting his praise for local environmental volunteers. The article references the idea that green mountains are golden mountains. The article does not mention the United States.
Summary: The HICOOL 2025 Global Entrepreneur Summit opened in Beijing on October 16th, awarding prizes for its global entrepreneurship competition. The three-day summit, themed "Building a Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Capital," focuses on technological innovation, industrial integration, international cooperation, and youth engagement through a "1+8+11+X" framework of activities. HICOOL aims to cultivate Beijing's innovation and entrepreneurship environment, attracting global talent and projects, and claims to have fostered numerous successful companies. There was no mention of any U.S. or U.S. officials attending the event.
Summary: According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, as of October 14th, over 60% of the autumn grain harvest has been completed nationwide. Rice harvesting is nearly 70% complete, corn at 55%, and soybeans almost 80%. Regional progress varies, with the Huang-Huai-Hai region at 65%, the Northeast nearly 60%, the Southwest almost 80%, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River over 50%, and the Northwest over 60%. The report does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A recent joint survey by People's Daily and the Global Times found that people in the Asia-Pacific region generally believe in a shared future and support APEC's role in regional economic development. A majority of respondents believe China's development experience is worth learning from and nearly sixty percent of respondents acknowledged China's important role in promoting sustainable growth and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region. Respondents expressed hope for further cooperation in trade, digital economy, innovation, and sustainable development within the APEC framework. Respondents also expressed anticipation for China hosting the APEC meeting in 2026, focusing on inclusive growth, digital connectivity, green transition, and cultural exchange. The survey suggests widespread support for building an Asia-Pacific community with a shared future, as well as expectations regarding China's role in regional integration.
Summary: According to this article, China is playing a constructive role in global governance by promoting its "Four Global Initiatives"– the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative—as platforms for international cooperation. These initiatives aim to reshape the international order toward a more inclusive and equitable system. The article claims these initiatives address global challenges and reflect China's increasing economic strength and international influence, while promoting multilateralism and challenging the perceived privileges of a few countries in development, security, civilization, and governance. China's engagement in multilateral mechanisms like BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and cooperation with ASEAN are highlighted as practical support for these initiatives. The article does not mention the United States.
Summary: Politburo Member and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström, stating China is willing to implement a visa-free policy for Sweden and hopes Sweden will play a constructive role in promoting healthy China-Europe relations. Separately, Wang met with Blackstone Group Chairman and CEO Stephen Schwarzman, emphasizing that peaceful coexistence is the fundamental bottom line for China and the United States, and "decoupling" is not a rational choice. Schwarzman stated U.S.-China relations are crucial and expressed his desire to promote communication and eliminate misunderstandings.
Summary: Politburo member and Vice Premier He Lifeng met with representatives of the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management Advisory Board, stating China is pushing forward with a unified national market and expanding high-level opening up. He expressed China's desire to deepen mutually beneficial cooperation with all countries and share development opportunities. Tim Cook, chairman of the advisory board, affirmed confidence in China's development prospects and a commitment to expanding investment in the Chinese market. He Lifeng also expressed the hope that the committee members will serve as a bridge and support the development of China's economy and China's external exchange and cooperation.
Summary: Politburo member and Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission Chen Wenqing met with Singapore's Minister for Social and Family Development Masagos Zulkifli in Beijing on October 15. Chen emphasized the 35th anniversary of China-Singapore relations and the strategic blueprint laid out by both countries' leaders. He expressed hope for deepened high-quality and forward-looking cooperation in law enforcement, security, and social governance, leveraging the China-Singapore Social Governance High-Level Forum. Masagos stated his willingness to strengthen practical exchanges with China to better serve the relationship and development interests of both countries. The meeting suggests a continued focus on strengthening bilateral ties and practical cooperation between China and Singapore.
Summary: At a Ministry of Commerce press conference, spokesperson He Yongqian addressed concerns about China's rare earth export controls, stating they are not aimed at specific countries and compliant applications for civilian use will be approved, with ongoing efforts to optimize the process. He criticized the U.S. for imposing 20 suppressive measures against China following trade talks, including the expansion of the "Entity List" and implementation of Section 301 tariffs on shipbuilding. He reiterated China's opposition to these measures and called on the U.S. to correct its actions and engage in respectful dialogue. He also refuted U.S. claims that China's export controls would broadly impact various sectors, emphasizing they target specific materials and that the U.S. is exaggerating the measures. Li Chenggang, China's Deputy International Trade Representative, engaged in communication with the U.S. in August.
Summary: Wang Dongming, Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, met with a delegation of senior cadres from Sri Lanka's People's Liberation Front, led by Minister of Transportation, Highways, and Urban Development, Bandula Gunawardhana, in Beijing on October 16. The two sides exchanged views on implementing the important consensus reached by the leaders of China and Sri Lanka. Their discussions focused on deepening China-Sri Lanka relations and cooperation between the two ruling parties.
Summary: The 2025 "Belt and Road" Customs Food Safety Cooperation Conference adopted the "Shanghai Declaration on Jointly Promoting Trade Facilitation and Sharing Food Safety." The conference also launched the "Silk Road Food Safety" information platform. Representatives from 11 countries signed the "Charter of the 'Belt and Road' Customs Food Safety Cooperation Mechanism." The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Chinese Communist Party's Central Propaganda Department (CPD) has bestowed the title of "Role Model of the Times" on the "Liu Laozhuang Company," an honored infantry company of a People's Liberation Army (PLA) combined arms brigade, for their historical heroism and contemporary military achievements. The CPD emphasized the company's loyalty to the Party and Xi Jinping's military thought, urging continued dedication to national rejuvenation and building a world-class military. Representatives from the Central Military Commission Political Work Department, the PLA, and the provincial committees of Hebei and Jiangsu participated in the award ceremony. The decision also calls for enhanced understanding of the "Two Establishes" and the "Four Consciousnesses."
Summary: State Councilor Chen Yiqin attended the opening ceremony of the 14th China Arts Festival in Chengdu, Sichuan province, and announced its commencement. The festival, described as China's highest-level comprehensive art event, aims to showcase the country's recent artistic achievements and promote cultural development. The festival includes stage performances, art exhibitions, and awards, and is jointly hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the governments of Chongqing and Sichuan. The event seeks to integrate art with tourism and encourage artistic creation at the grassroots level.
Summary: A press conference held by the State Council Information Office on October 16th focused on promoting ethical and cultural progress in rural areas. Hu Kaihong, Deputy Director of the Central Guidance Commission for Building Spiritual Civilization, emphasized the importance of such efforts for rural revitalization and meeting the cultural needs of farmers, highlighting activities like "Village BA" and "Village Gala." Jiang Wensheng, Vice Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, noted the role of these activities in promoting Party ideology and positive social values. The officials outlined plans for further efforts, including improving services, promoting role models, and leveraging the resources of both state-owned and private enterprises, as well as managing the markets for weddings and funerals. The conference also addressed the protection of rural cultural heritage.
Summary: A media symposium was held in Riyadh on October 15 to promote the joint China-Saudi "Belt and Road" initiative and mark the establishment of the People's Daily Saudi Arabia bureau. Attendees, including People's Daily President Yu Shaoliang, Saudi Vice Minister of Media Isra Al-Asiri, Chinese Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Chang Hua, and Riyadh Newspaper Editor-in-Chief Hani Wafa, discussed deepening media exchanges and promoting mutual understanding. Participants expressed their intention to collaboratively narrate the story of China-Saudi friendship and cooperation, furthering bilateral collaboration across sectors. The consensus was that enhanced news exchanges would strengthen the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two nations.
Summary: Since the implementation of the Yellow River Protection Law, the Yellow River Conservancy Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources has comprehensively promoted full management of water withdrawal permits in the Yellow River's main stream. It has cumulatively reduced unreasonable water usage by 285 million cubic meters, significantly improving water conservation and intensive utilization. The commission has focused on stricter management and monitoring of water intakes, including online monitoring of 386 large-scale intakes and utilization of a national platform to investigate and rectify irregular water withdrawals. They've also inspected over 27,000 potential issues and implemented a credit rating system for non-agricultural water users, shifting towards collaborative governance.
Summary: During this autumn harvest season, farmers across China are actively engaged in harvesting crops. The provided photograph, taken on October 14th, shows villagers in Guizhou Province's Rongjiang County transporting harvested luo han guo (monk fruit) from a planting base. The article focuses on agricultural activities and does not mention any political figures, international relations, or the United States.
Summary: The 8th Legislative Assembly of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) was sworn in on October 16th. The 33 members took their oaths of office in the presence of Chief Executive Chui Sai On. Zhang Yongchun was elected as the President of the Legislative Assembly in an internal vote, also being sworn in by Chui Sai On. Ho Run Sheng was elected Vice-President, with Shi Jialun and Li Jingyi elected as first and second secretaries. The election for the 8th Legislative Assembly was held on September 14th and produced 14 directly elected and 12 indirectly elected members, with 7 more appointed by the Chief Executive, with members to serve a 4-year term.
Summary: Xi Jinping sent a letter to faculty and students at China Agricultural University (CAU) emphasizing the importance of agricultural modernization for Chinese-style modernization, and encouraging them to contribute to building a strong agricultural nation. The letter urged CAU to uphold its traditions, strengthen agricultural technology innovation, and cultivate talent. CAU has been focused on modernizing curriculum, improving teacher training, and establishing programs to encourage graduates to work in rural areas. CAU has established over 200 "Science and Technology Backyards" and has been expanding the program to other countries.
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Summary: The article discusses Yunnan province's strategy of leveraging its unique regional advantages, such as wind power, tourism, and agriculture, for high-quality development. It emphasizes proactive innovation, ecological protection, and ethnic unity as key drivers. The piece also highlights the importance of the China-Laos Railway in promoting international cooperation and shared benefits through the Belt and Road Initiative. No mention of the United States is made.
Summary: This article discusses the rise of "small and beautiful" cultural events in China, such as local outdoor concerts and community art spaces, as a way to stimulate both cultural enrichment and economic activity. These events are characterized by their accessibility, affordability, and focus on community engagement, providing personalized cultural experiences. The piece highlights examples like roadside concerts in Guizhou and community-based initiatives in Shanghai, emphasizing their potential to boost local tourism and consumption by connecting culture with economic opportunities. By catering to individual needs and providing additional cultural products, the author argues, it is possible to unlock further incremental opportunities.
Summary: According to a report by the China Electricity Council, China's electrification rate reached approximately 28.8% in 2024, a 0.9 percentage point increase year-on-year. This figure already surpasses levels in European and American countries. The report projects China's electrification rate to reach around 35% by 2030. This predicted rate would exceed the average of OECD countries by 8-10 percentage points. This increased electrification is intended to promote prosperity, benefit businesses and people, and stimulate the real economy.
Summary: The article discusses how Qinghai, despite its high altitude and cold climate, has developed a "hot industry" by leveraging its "cold resources," specifically cold-weather agriculture like vegetables and cold-water fish. This transformation relies on identifying unique advantages like strong sunlight and reduced pests, alongside technological innovation in breeding and branding. The author highlights the importance of ecological protection in ensuring the success of these industries. Examples from other regions in China are provided to illustrate this transformation. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Here's a summary of the provided articles: The first article discusses the challenges of managing commercial photography and street performances in tourist destinations, advocating for a shift from simply restricting these activities to actively integrating them into urban life. It highlights examples from Shanghai and Nanjing where authorities are implementing licensing and regulations to manage these activities while supporting the livelihoods of performers and photographers. The second article focuses on a case where community workers removed residents from a WeChat group after a dispute and emphasizes the importance of listening to residents' concerns and incorporating them into governance. Both articles emphasize the importance of prioritizing the needs and voices of the people when addressing urban governance challenges. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in either article.
Summary: This article discusses Hainan's efforts to combat plastic pollution through biodegradable plastics and waste reduction initiatives, aiming for a "waste-free island." The author, Chairman of Zhongke Xinhui (Hainan) New Material Technology Co., highlights the importance of developing practical, biodegradable solutions like fast-degrading bags and moisture-resistant materials, specifically addressing Hainan's environmental challenges. He emphasizes the complementary nature of degradation and recycling, advocating for a comprehensive approach to waste management. The author also touches on the economic benefits of environmental protection and how innovation can contribute to both environmental and economic progress. There is no discussion or allusions to the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
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Summary: The China International College Students Innovation Competition (2025) concluded in Zhengzhou, with a Tsinghua University team winning for its brain-inspired AI architecture. The competition, co-organized by the Ministry of Education and other departments, involved 6.19 million projects from 5,673 schools across 161 countries and regions. The event emphasized connecting education and industry, with companies posing problems for students to solve, resulting in approximately 9 billion yuan in investment intentions. The competition also facilitated international exchange, with students from Tajikistan and Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University collaborating on a digital agriculture project. The competition included regional events in Europe, Africa and Central Asia to increase its international influence.
Summary: A think tank report titled "Orchestrating a Splendid Chapter Where Tradition and Modernity Converge: Rural Development and Cultural Inheritance in China's Tibet" was jointly released by the China Human Rights Development Foundation and Xinhua News Agency. The report highlights Tibet's socio-economic achievements since 1965, particularly under the leadership of Xi Jinping since the 18th Party Congress, emphasizing rural development, cultural preservation, and improved livelihoods. The report argues that modernization does not equal Westernization, but rather creative transformation and innovative development rooted in excellent traditional culture. It offers lessons for other regions seeking to modernize while preserving their cultural heritage. There is no mention of U.S. involvement or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: The sixth Overseas Chinese Media Forum was held in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, focusing on promoting the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and Chinese narratives. Over 100 representatives from global Chinese media outlets, academia, businesses, and foreign organizations attended. The forum launched the "Overseas Chinese Media Forum Alliance (Zhuhai Station)" to provide resources and support for overseas Chinese media. Furthermore, the "Zhuhai Story·Film and Short Drama Going Overseas Agreement" was signed to help Chinese culture go overseas in innovative forms. The forum, hosted by People's Daily Overseas Edition, serves as a platform for collaboration and development among global Chinese media.
Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of the CPC's centralized leadership, particularly Xi Jinping's economic thought, in guiding China's economic development through critical junctures. It highlights key decisions made by the Party Central Committee, such as supply-side structural reform, the "six stabilities," and the "dual circulation" strategy, to address economic challenges and promote high-quality growth. The article also mentions China's stance on economic globalization despite trade frictions, referencing the mutually beneficial nature of U.S.-China trade relations. It concludes by stating China will focus on high-quality development, reform, and improving people's livelihoods.
Summary: The 10th China International Copyright Expo and the 2025 International Copyright Forum, co-sponsored by the National Copyright Administration and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), opened in Qingdao. Officials from the Central Propaganda Department, Shandong Provincial Party Committee, and WIPO attended. The 2025 International Copyright Forum, themed "Creative Industries in the Digital Age: Reimagining Copyright for Development," featured over 400 domestic and foreign copyright experts. The National Copyright Administration and WIPO jointly presented the 2025 China Copyright Gold Award, and the National Copyright Administration showcased key copyright work.
Summary: Yunnan Province recently launched an initiative to promote itself as a prime destination for travel weddings, capitalizing on its diverse landscapes and cultural heritage. The province plans to integrate wedding photography into its "15th Five-Year Plan" for cultural tourism. Seven specific locations, including Kunming, Dali, and Lijiang, will be developed as wedding destinations, each offering unique attractions. Dali aims to establish itself as a top "love confession destination," leveraging its natural beauty and cultural associations. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: On October 16, 2025, China's Long March-8A carrier rocket successfully launched a group of satellite internet low-orbit satellites, marking the 600th launch for the Long March series. The article highlights the Long March rocket family's advancements in reliability, safety, and launch precision, as well as its increasing capacity for space exploration. It details specific Long March rockets and their contributions to projects like BeiDou, deep space probes, and cargo missions. Future developments include reusable, high-capacity, and intelligent rockets. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping has emphasized a people-centered approach to development, focusing on improving livelihoods. Xi's ideas address why and how to guarantee and improve people's well-being, resulting in breakthroughs and innovations in this area. High-quality development and a high quality of life, both point to the people's growing need for a better life. The article emphasizes that China's modernization prioritizes people's well-being and common prosperity, integrating it into national development.
Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of Party cadres using language accessible to the masses to strengthen ties and effectively implement policies. It argues cadres should avoid official jargon and instead use "down-to-earth" language to explain policies in relatable terms and communicate honestly with the people. It also highlights the value of incorporating local dialects and expressions to foster emotional connection and trust. Effectively communicating with the masses is presented as a crucial skill for cadres to build strong relationships and mobilize support. There is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this article.
Summary: A vlogger discovered large "Serve the People" slogans in the Gobi Desert near Hami, Xinjiang, remnants of a former People's Liberation Army Air Force flight school. The vlogger, along with volunteers, repaired damage caused by vehicle drifting within the characters using stones matched to the original color, with satellite imagery provided by Chang Guang Satellite Company to verify the repair. Local authorities in Hami are now planning long-term protective measures for the site, consulting with geological experts and considering ecological restoration techniques. The regulations in place for this region will be reinforced to prevent this damage from reoccuring. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Central Party School has published a new curriculum and syllabus for the study of Xi Jinping Thought, which will be used for the education and training of party members and cadres. The syllabus includes 26 courses centered around the "Ten Clarifications," "Fourteen Persistences," and "Thirteen Aspects of Achievements" of Xi Jinping Thought. It aims to strengthen the study and implementation of Xi Jinping Thought among cadres, ensuring they are ideologically aligned with the party leadership. The new syllabus is expected to enhance the effectiveness of training by integrating theory with practical application, helping officials apply Xi Jinping Thought to their work. This initiative is designed to bolster the party's ideological foundation and ensure cadres are equipped to advance the party's goals. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: In anticipation of China's 34th National Fire Prevention Day on November 9th, the State Council Safety Committee Office and the National Fire and Rescue Administration will launch a nationwide fire safety awareness campaign throughout November under the theme "Fire Safety for All, Life First – Safe Use of Fire and Electricity." Activities will focus on public education regarding fire and electricity safety, including risk identification, hazard investigation, and practical training, targeting specific issues like construction fires, residential fires, electrical safety, e-bike charging, and smoking-related fires. Fire safety management training will be promoted in key industries, with the National Fire and Rescue Administration organizing training for catering chain enterprises and grassroots townships/street communities.
Summary: Qingzhou, Shandong Province, has implemented a system of "micro-grids" to improve local governance and service delivery. The city has appointed 2,260 micro-grid leaders who are trained in policy interpretation, conflict resolution, and service delivery. These leaders respond to citizen requests submitted through WeChat groups, which are then assigned and evaluated by the community. The initiative also incorporates resident feedback to optimize community resource management by engaging local businesses and institutions.
Summary: The 14th Qinatai Music Festival in Wuhan, sponsored by the Wuhan Municipal Party Committee and Wuhan Municipal Government, will feature over 50 performances from musicians and groups from 14 countries and regions. The festival aims to promote Wuhan's cultural image and features collaborations with international institutions, including musicians from the Moscow Conservatory. This year's festival introduces a "music + tourism" model, inviting visitors to explore Wuhan and enjoy discounts at local attractions with their concert tickets. The festival also seeks to strengthen cultural exchange within the Yangtze River region, featuring choirs from various cities. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi emphasized the need for mutual trust and cooperation in a multipolar world amidst deglobalization, as the U.S. is no longer the cornerstone of free trade. He highlighted China's unique role in strengthening political and economic ties, particularly with Europe, advocating for a "good cousin" relationship based on strategic necessity and joint efforts to overcome global challenges. Martin Jacques noted China's increasing importance in global affairs, including its challenge to Western modernity, and argued that Western scholars should avoid using a "Western lens" to understand China. Hadiir al-Sayyid argued China does not seek to become a world police, and emphasized that it does not wish to impose its own model on other countries. Ayup stated that the Sinology world must build its own "Orientalism."
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Summary: This article interviews retired Olympic diver Guo Jingjing, now the Vice President of the Nansha Culture Association in Guangzhou, about her career transition from athlete to international judge and her current work promoting sports in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Guo emphasizes the importance of perseverance, self-discipline, and a focus on the process rather than solely the outcome for athletes. She also discusses the impact of internet exposure on athletes and advises young athletes to cherish their training and plan for their future beyond their athletic careers. Guo noted that she served as a referee at the 2024 Paris Olympics, witnessing Chinese divers win gold medals. She also serves as an international judge.
Summary: The 15th National Games of China saw several world records broken in shooting events, including the Shanghai team's performance in the women's 10m air pistol qualification round and the Zhejiang team in the women's 10m air rifle team event. Olympic champion Sheng Lihao secured his first National Games gold in the men's 10m air rifle. The competition has attracted significant attention, with tickets selling out quickly, highlighting the increasing popularity of shooting sports in China. Younger athletes are emerging, indicating a deep talent pool within Chinese shooting. Veteran Li Yuehong emphasized the high level of competition and hoped for more youth participation in the sport.
Summary: The "Guangwei Fishing King Cup" international fishing tournament was recently held in Weihai, Shandong. Participants praised the high quality of locally produced carbon fiber fishing rods, highlighting the advanced carbon fiber technology that makes them strong and durable. Weihai Guangwei Group invested approximately 4 billion yuan to achieve domestic production of key carbon fiber materials, applying aerospace-grade materials to civilian use. Weihai has become a hub for the carbon fiber industry, attracting numerous companies and research platforms, and is responsible for over 60% of global fishing gear production. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: The 40th PAn'an County Middle and Primary School Track and Field Games commenced on October 16th in Jinhua, Zhejiang province. 540 students from 27 teams are participating in the event. The photograph shows athletes competing in the men's 100-meter race. There is no information in this article on Chinese political figures, the United States, or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 10th World Traditional Wushu Championship opened in Emeishan City, Sichuan Province, attracting 5,092 athletes and coaches from 54 countries and regions. Organized by the International Wushu Federation, the Chinese Wushu Association, and others, the competition includes individual, paired, and group events for domestic and international participants. Alongside the competition, cultural events and interactive experiences will be held. No individuals are named in connection with the event. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: This article discusses China's "Youth驿站" (Youth驿站) program, which provides low-cost or free accommodation and services to college graduates seeking employment in cities away from their hometowns. The program aims to reduce costs for job seekers, promote employment, and help graduates find work as soon as possible. These驿站 offer a range of services including accommodation, career guidance, and job information. Cities like Hangzhou, Weifang, and Chengdu are highlighted for their efforts in implementing and expanding these programs. The Communist Youth League is playing a vital role in coordinating these initiatives. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses "youth hostels" (青年驿站) in China, which provide temporary lodging and support services for young job seekers from other cities. These hostels aim to help graduates navigate unfamiliar urban environments and secure employment by offering resources like policy information, career guidance, and job postings. The author emphasizes the need for coordinated efforts from relevant departments and careful operation of these facilities to address the specific needs of young job seekers, such as providing information and assistance with job applications, interview skills and integration into the city. The article stresses the importance of these services to attract and retain young talent, contributing to the vitality of cities.
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Summary: The 43rd Kaifeng Chrysanthemum Culture Festival will be held in Kaifeng, Henan in mid-October, showcasing 2.8 million chrysanthemums and attracting millions of tourists. Kaifeng leverages the festival to promote economic development, cultural tourism, and international exchange, taking advantage of opportunities such as the China (Henan) Free Trade Zone. The city is focused on high-quality development, promoting Song Dynasty culture, and building a more livable environment. Kaifeng's foreign trade is growing quickly, although the article makes no mention of any connection with the United States. The city aims to contribute to China's modernization by focusing on innovation and openness.
Summary: Since initiating the creation of a zero-carbon park, the Shanghai Minhang Economic and Technological Development Zone has been exploring a carbon emission accounting system to guide enterprises to continuously improve energy and carbon efficiency, and gradually realize the transformation from a traditional manufacturing park to a green intelligent manufacturing and R&D innovation park. According to Yu Zhonghua, Deputy Director of the Park Service Department of Minhang Development Zone, the park's total carbon emissions have steadily decreased since 2009 while industrial output value has continued to rise, which is thanks to the continuous optimization of the industrial structure, continuous promotion of energy conservation and consumption reduction, and the increasingly clean energy structure. In 2022, the "Minhang Development Zone Zero-Carbon Demonstration Park Creation Action Plan" was released, determining a three-step strategy and detailing action tasks. The park encourages enterprises to continuously explore ways to improve energy efficiency and carbon efficiency. Shanghai Mitsubishi Elevator is cooperating with the urban construction management affairs center to improve the stability and energy feedback efficiency of intelligent green elevator system.
Summary: Guangxi University of Finance and Economics President Fan Zuojun stated in a video caption on his personal Douyin account that the university plans to subsidize students who have lost their food deliveries, aiming to prevent "seeds of hatred" from taking root. The university is using a special fund and installing "takeout lockers" to solve the delivery loss problem, reflecting a student-centered approach. Fan also uses Douyin to address student concerns, such as installing curtains in classrooms, transforming the platform into a communication bridge. The article emphasizes the importance of educational institutions addressing student needs in detail and using innovative methods, but does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Guangdong Province's rural revitalization is being supported by investments in rural electrification by the Guangdong branch of China Southern Power Grid. The company has invested 8.528 billion yuan in upgrading rural power grids, including constructing new substations and upgrading power lines in hundreds of towns. These upgrades support agricultural industries, such as the processing of guava in Maoming and the cultivation of selenium-rich rice in Huizhou. In Jieyang, electrification aids the processing of Chinese olives into tea, creating local employment opportunities. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The third "Liangzhu Forum" will be held from October 18th to 20th in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, with the theme "Civilization Reloaded: Cultural Heritage and Human Cultural Diversity," aiming to promote cultural exchange and mutual learning. Approximately 100 foreign guests from over 50 countries are expected to participate. The forum will feature four sub-forums focusing on archaeological research, ancient civilizations, site preservation, museum development, and world heritage. Previous forums have attracted participants from over 100 countries, establishing Liangzhu as a platform for international cultural dialogue. The forum does not discuss or allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Four gorillas from the Netherlands' Burgers Zoo have been relocated to the Hongshan Forest Zoo in Nanjing, China. The transfer was the culmination of a 10-year collaborative conservation effort between the Chinese zoo and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). The project highlights the importance of protecting the gorillas' habitat, the African rainforest, and emphasizes the interconnectedness of ecosystems globally, suggesting consumers reduce their demand for conflict minerals. The arrival of the gorillas aims to raise awareness of global wildlife conservation issues and promote more sustainable practices.
Summary: Brittany, France's "Carnac and Morbihan Coast Megaliths" of over 550 Neolithic stone structures, including the Carnac alignments of thousands of stones, have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. The exact purpose and meaning of these megaliths remain debated, with theories ranging from symbols of life stages to ancestral monuments. Initial lack of regard turned into scientific curiosity in the 18th century and conservation efforts in the 19th century, with protection now in place. Local authorities plan to revitalize the site through digital modeling, community education, and artistic collaborations. The stones date back 6,000 years, and researchers hope to use underwater archaeology to discover more information about the site.
Summary: The "From the Humble Administrator's Garden to Monet's Garden" exhibition at the Suzhou Museum showcases 160 items from 14 institutions, exploring the connection between Eastern and Western garden art. The exhibition highlights the shared human desire for a poetic coexistence with nature, exemplified by the water features in Monet's paintings and Yan Wenliang's depictions of the Humble Administrator's Garden. It also examines the integration of pagodas within garden landscapes, referencing British adaptations of Chinese garden design, reflecting varying approaches to capturing scenery and the relationship between structures and nature. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: The Belgian immersive theater production "Not Like a Painting!" from the "International Children's Drama Festival" features a single actor who uses his body to create a dynamic painting on stage, inspired by Jackson Pollock's action painting. The performance emphasizes audience participation, with children becoming part of the artwork as they are splattered with paint and encouraged to contribute their own marks to the canvas. Artist Bernardo Vella Vargas expressed his excitement about performing in China, praising the quality of the theaters and the enthusiasm of the Chinese children. The play encourages children to embrace mistakes and explore the unknown, promoting a more open-minded approach to art and life.
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Summary: The article discusses new trends in Chinese food consumption, including a focus on health and nutrition, convenience, and experiential tourism. It highlights the rise of functional foods, such as low-GI oats and medicinal herbs like *Gastrodia elata* (天麻), and the growth of processed agricultural products catering to fast-paced lifestyles. The piece also notes the integration of agriculture with tourism, citing examples such as konjac-themed parks and apple-based agritourism in Shaanxi. The United States is mentioned as one of the destination countries for Chinese agricultural exports. Finally, the article mentions the government policies that are seeking to advance these trends in agriculture.
Summary: Ding Jianhua, the Party Secretary of Hantianling Village, led a transformation of the impoverished area through cattle farming and infrastructure improvements after relocation in 2011. Villagers initially struggled with water scarcity and poor infrastructure, but the government later implemented water projects and road construction. With support from the China National Nuclear Corporation (中核集团), the village developed a standardized cattle-raising industry and implemented a "geothermal + PVT" zero-carbon heating project. Villagers' incomes have significantly increased through labor, cattle raising, and planting in newly constructed greenhouses. The village plans to rename itself "Hantianling" to reflect its transformed destiny.
Summary: This article emphasizes the importance of leveraging rural ecological advantages for economic development in China, particularly in the Yellow River basin. It highlights successful examples of transforming environmental improvements into economic benefits, such as carbon sink trading and eco-tourism, and discusses the need for systemic reforms in market mechanisms, ecological protection, and green finance to facilitate this transformation. The piece advocates for rural green development to increase rural incomes and foster new industries like "starry sky economy", camping, and bed-and-breakfast. It concludes that protecting the ecological environment will lead to prosperity for both the people and the land.
Summary: The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs held an international exchange and promotion event in Beijing for rural artisans in preparation for the 2025 Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival. The event, themed "Crafting Beautiful Villages, Sharing Beauty Together," showcased the skills of over 100 artisans from 27 provinces, emphasizing their role in rural development and poverty reduction. The Ministry has been supporting the development of rural craftsmanship, which has led to over 130,000 artisans nationwide and created over 5 million jobs in the countryside. The event advocated for protecting traditional crafts, integrating them with modern technology, and promoting international cooperation for rural artisans through training, exhibitions, and cultural exchanges. It further called for leveraging the role of rural artisans in global poverty reduction through international exchange and cooperation projects.
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Summary: A recent directive from the National Health Commission outlines ten measures to improve the experience of those using contracted family doctor services, focusing on accessibility, convenience, and personalized care, especially for key populations. A recent survey of multiple regions in China indicates that while many elderly and chronically ill patients value family doctor services, other residents are not as familiar with them. Common problems include low service quality and a lack of public awareness. To address "contract without appointment" difficulties, analysts suggest establishing long-term mechanisms to improve grassroots healthcare, including better training for doctors, stronger financial incentives, and streamlining referral processes to upper-level facilities. Streamlining referral processes and addressing information barriers are key to establishing a smooth two-way referral mechanism.
Summary: Chinese retail pharmacies are undergoing a transformation from traditional drug dispensaries to community "health living rooms" amid declining profits for some companies. This shift is driven by factors like centralized drug procurement policies impacting profit margins and evolving consumer preferences for online services. To survive, pharmacies are expanding services to include health consultations, chronic disease management, and offering diverse products beyond medication. Local governments are also supporting this transition, encouraging pharmacies to offer a wider array of health services. The transformation has the potential to significantly reduce medical costs.
Summary: This article from a Chinese medical expert discusses ways to alleviate autumn fatigue, a condition characterized by tiredness due to the transition into the drier autumn season. Dietary recommendations are provided based on whether the fatigue is due to *qi* deficiency or dampness. The article also suggests napping between 11:00 and 13:00, acupressure on specific points, and methods for relieving fatigue in children. The article advises against children consuming caffeinated energy drinks.
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Summary: The author returned to their hometown in Fujian's Jinjiang, Dongshi to stay at the library they created from their old family house, coinciding with the release of the film adaptation of their novel, *Pinnacle*. The library, named "Mother's House," serves as a public space for reading and community gatherings, revitalizing the area and creating new stories for the townspeople, including the author's mother. The author was inspired to construct the library in order to help his mother move past the trauma of his father's death in the house. Neighbors are now considering converting the village's old stage into a library as well. The author notes that the noise and activity would be a fine place to write a future article.
Summary: The article summarizes Chen Xianda's book on deeply understanding Marxism, emphasizing that studying Marxism goes beyond mere knowledge and requires belief and action. It argues that true understanding lies in applying Marxist theory to practical issues, ensuring it guides action and solves real-world problems, especially amid a changing international environment. The author stresses the importance of connecting theory with the people, embodying the principle of "serving the people." The piece concludes that to advance Chinese-style modernization, one must apply Marxism to address challenges and serve the people. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article is a preface to a book aiming to explain brain science to a broader audience, correcting common misconceptions about the brain. It highlights the increased attention brain science is receiving globally, including in countries like the United States. The book explores the brain's functions as a computational machine, a container for emotions, the seat of human intelligence, and a core biological organ. It seeks to provide a framework for understanding the brain's mechanisms and its impact on our understanding of the world, consciousness, and existence.
Summary: Ye Mei's novel *Goddess* uses the backdrop of the Three Gorges region of the Yangtze River to tell a family saga during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The novel focuses on the覃 family and their individual contributions to the war effort, highlighting major battles and events such as the Battle of Wuhan and the bombing of Badong. The characters' actions demonstrate the united spirit and resilience of the Chinese people from different backgrounds during the war. The novel also integrates local culture and folklore. The story aims 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.
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Summary: The author reflects on their childhood spent in a Jiangnan ancient town surrounded by pottery, which sparked an interest in the connection between objects, history, and culture. This led to the writing of "A Chronicle of Jiangnan Objects," aiming to capture the essence of Jiangnan culture through a diverse array of artifacts and the stories of the people who used them. The author emphasizes how everyday objects can embody cultural values and memories, using the example of an old farmer's funeral and the significance of the humble bowls used during the ceremony. The work aims to paint a vivid portrait of daily life in a fictional Jiangnan town through its objects, representing aspects of culture such as medicine, literature, and agriculture. This work does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This short article provides contact information for the People's Daily book review section, including an email address for submissions. It also includes a layout design credit to Zhang Danfeng. There is no information regarding Chinese politics, official statements, or U.S.-China relations.
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To all faculty, staff, and students of China Agricultural University (中国农业大学):
Greetings! Your letter has been received. On the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the founding of China Agricultural University (中国农业大学), I would like to extend my congratulations to all faculty, staff, students, and alumni!
On the new journey, I hope you will carry forward the fine traditions of running the university, be determined to strengthen agriculture and serve the country, deepen the reform of education and teaching, strengthen agricultural science and technology innovation and the application of成果转化, and strive to cultivate more professional talents who know and love agriculture, so as to make new contributions to building a strong agricultural country and promoting Chinese-style modernization.
Xi Jinping (习近平)
October 15, 2025
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), October 16)
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), October 16. Recently, 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), replied to all faculty, staff, and students of China Agricultural University (中国农业大学), extending congratulations to all faculty, staff, students, and alumni on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the founding of China Agricultural University (中国农业大学).
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that on the new journey, he hopes that you will carry forward the fine traditions of running the university, be determined to strengthen agriculture and serve the country, deepen the reform of education and teaching, strengthen agricultural science and technology innovation and the application of成果转化, and strive to cultivate more professional talents who know and love agriculture, so as to make new contributions to building a strong agricultural country and promoting Chinese-style modernization. (The full text of the reply will be issued separately.)
The predecessor of China Agricultural University (中国农业大学) was the Agricultural College of Imperial University of Peking (京师大学堂农科大学), founded in 1905. It was formed in 1995 by the merger of Beijing Agricultural University (北京农业大学) and Beijing Agricultural Engineering University (北京农业工程大学). Recently, all faculty, staff, and students of China Agricultural University (中国农业大学) wrote a letter to General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记), reporting on the school's 120-year development history and achievements, and expressing their determination to accelerate the construction of a world-class university and strive unremittingly for the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.
Return to TopOctober 16, Beijing (北京), Xinhua News Agency (新华社) -- On October 16, President Xi Jinping (习近平) sent a congratulatory letter to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (联合国粮食及农业组织) on its 80th anniversary.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (联合国粮食及农业组织) has played an important role in ensuring world food security, promoting rural development and food system transformation, and improving the living standards of people in all countries.
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that the Chinese government (中国政府) attaches great importance to food security, adheres to relying on itself to solve the problem of feeding more than 1.4 billion people, and provides assistance to countries in need within its capacity, contributing Chinese strength to ensuring world food security. China (中国) will, as always, support the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (联合国粮食及农业组织) in playing an important role in the international food and agriculture field, and is willing to work with the international community to implement the Global Development Initiative (全球发展倡议), advance the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (联合国2030年可持续发展议程), promote the building of a human community with a shared future (推动构建人类命运共同体), and make new and greater contributions to enhancing the well-being of people in all countries.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (联合国粮食及农业组织) was established on October 16, 1945, and China (中国) is a founding member of the organization.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 丁怡婷 刘军国
Cities are important carriers of modernization and important spaces for people's happy lives.
"Innovation, livability, beauty, resilience, civilization, and intelligence" were the goals for building a modern people's city, clearly put forward by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) at the Central Urban Work Conference held in July this year, emphasizing "blazing a new path of urban modernization with Chinese characteristics."
The renewal of an old industrial park reflects the meaning of a modern people's city.
Gaoqiao Yungang Park (高桥云港园区) in Yuhang District (余杭区), Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江), has transformed from idle factory buildings into entrepreneurial communities, gathering industries such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and live-streaming e-commerce. "We can flexibly choose shared, whole-floor, or independent buildings as office space to meet the needs of different stages of enterprise development," said Sun Yijiu (孙一玖), who is engaged in the e-commerce industry.
Green and low-carbon are the keywords for the park's renovation. Buildings are wrapped in greenery and technology. The "zero-carbon building" has light pipes and insulation systems on the roof, energy-saving lighting and high-efficiency air conditioners inside, supplemented by photovoltaic energy storage technology, basically achieving a balance between electricity supply and demand.
Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," all regions and departments have adhered to the principle of "people build the city, and the city is for the people," profoundly grasped the strategic orientation of the city's connotative development, and promoted historical achievements in urban development.
People-oriented, with both height and warmth, the city's suitability for business and residence has been greatly improved—
At noon, the community canteen of Hongcheng Lane Community (洪城巷社区) in Zhanggong District (章贡区), Ganzhou (赣州), Jiangxi (江西), is filled with the aroma of food. Su Lanqing (苏兰清), a 67-year-old resident, is selecting dishes: "Two meat dishes, one vegetable dish, and one soup are not expensive and very convenient."
Two years ago, Hongcheng Lane Community (洪城巷社区) was listed as a national pilot for complete community construction, which not only made it more convenient for elderly people in the community to eat, but also built facilities such as basketball courts and children's playgrounds to make residents' lives more comfortable.
Today, China has built the world's largest urban housing security system, constructing more than 68 million sets of various types of affordable housing and shantytown resettlement housing, benefiting 170 million people. A total of 300,000 old residential communities have been renovated, during which 79,600 community service facilities such as elderly care and childcare have been added, and 4 million parking spaces have been added.
Adapting to local conditions, the new driving force for urban development has been cultivated and grown, and the level of historical and cultural protection and inheritance has been greatly improved—
China's cities are in a critical period of transformation between old and new driving forces. More than 690 cities have different resource endowments and basic conditions. Each city should give full play to its strengths and let a hundred flowers bloom, which is the due meaning of building a modern people's city.
In Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东), the entire city has become a testing ground for new technologies and new products, promoting two-way efforts in technological innovation and industrial innovation through open scenario resources.
In Fuzhou (福州), Fujian (福建), relying on resources such as mountains, bays, and rivers, greenways connecting mountains and rivers meander, and the Sanfang Qixiang (三坊七巷) historical and cultural district reflects the integration of ancient and modern times.
Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," China's comprehensive urban strength has continued to increase. 19 urban agglomerations carry about 75% of the country's population and contribute about 85% of the country's GDP; the level of historical and cultural protection and inheritance has been greatly improved, and there are already 143 national historical and cultural cities and about 1,300 historical and cultural blocks in the country.
Overall coordination, the level of urban planning, construction and governance has been greatly improved—
Beijing (北京) Urban Sub-Center (城市副中心) has maintained an investment intensity of 100 billion yuan for five consecutive years. The former Oriental Chemical Plant (东方化工厂) has been transformed into the City Green Heart Forest Park (城市绿心森林公园); Asia's largest underground integrated transportation hub is expected to be basically completed by the end of the year.
Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) is growing vigorously. In more than 8 years, the construction area has expanded to more than 200 square kilometers. More than 300 branches of central enterprises have been established in Xiong'an (雄安).
Planning for a region from the overall situation, the "two wings" fly together, effectively solving the problem of "big city disease" in Beijing (北京) and promoting the coordinated development of Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北) to a new level.
Governing the city like "embroidering," Beijing (北京) uses autonomous forms such as community council halls and residents' "micro-proposals" to widely solicit public opinion and demand, and promote the governance of back streets and alleys; Shanghai (上海) implements a closed-loop management and operation mechanism of "collection-research-transformation" of people's suggestions, and transforms the "golden ideas" of the masses into the "golden keys" of urban governance... Promoting the construction of a modern people's city is a systematic project that requires combining top-level design with grassroots exploration.
Winning the "14th Five-Year Plan" and planning the "15th Five-Year Plan." Standing at an important turning point in urban development, accelerating the transformation of urban development methods and promoting high-quality urban development will surely continue to create a new situation in the construction of modern people's cities.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴 丹 丁雅诵
The vast land of China regards agriculture as the foundation of the nation; the century-old university has a long-lasting educational influence.
In 1905, the Agricultural College of the Imperial University of Peking (京师大学堂) was established, marking the beginning of China Agricultural University (中国农业大学) and the commencement of modern agricultural higher education in China. Over the past 120 years, especially since the founding of the People's Republic of China, generations of China Agricultural University people have had soil on their feet and stars in their hearts, sparing no effort to fulfill the Chinese people's centuries-old dream of adequate food and prosperity, becoming an important force in the modernization of China's agriculture and rural areas.
On October 15, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) replied to all faculty and students of China Agricultural University, emphasizing: "On the new journey, I hope you will carry forward the fine traditions of running the university, be determined to strengthen agriculture and serve the country, deepen educational and teaching reforms, strengthen agricultural science and technology innovation and the application of成果转化, and strive to cultivate more professional talents who know and love agriculture, so as to make new contributions to building a strong agricultural country and promoting Chinese-style modernization."
With earnest expectations and sincere entrustment, General Secretary Xi Jinping's reply greatly encouraged the faculty, students, and alumni of China Agricultural University. Everyone unanimously expressed that they should take立德树人 as the fundamental task, take strengthening agriculture and revitalizing agriculture as their own responsibility, stride forward towards the goal of building a world-class university with Chinese characteristics and agricultural characteristics, synchronize with the construction of a strong country, and go hand in hand with the rejuvenation of the nation.
Cultivating Talents
Nurturing Feelings and Developing Skills
At the opening ceremony in 2025, the students of China Agricultural University who participated in the合唱团 of the September 3rd military parade made the passionate songs of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression resonate again on campus. They expressed their feelings through songs and their aspirations through voices, "continuing to make good use of the commemorative activities as a vivid textbook of patriotism."
From the song of youth to培根铸魂, striving to cultivate more professional talents who know and love agriculture relies on a solid curriculum system and profound educational practices.
Promoting the construction of a curriculum group with Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the core content, establishing a leading group for ideological and political course construction led by the Party Committee Secretary and President; moving the ideological and political classroom to communities, streets, fields, and rural homes, and improving the social practice teaching system; building a growth echelon of "senior teachers mentoring and guiding + young teachers promoting mutual learning"... In recent years, China Agricultural University has insisted on placing the construction of ideological and political courses in an important position, promoting Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to enter the mind and take root.
In May 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) replied to the students of the Science and Technology Backyard of China Agricultural University, affirming the spirit of the students going deep into the countryside of China to "seek hardship on their own," and encouraging the students to aim high and be down-to-earth, and closely integrate classroom learning with rural practice.
Establishing a talent training model for Science and Technology Backyards and guiding young students to go deep into the countryside of China has become an innovative answer to China Agricultural University's deepening of higher agricultural and forestry education reform.
Crisscrossing fields, quaint folk houses with green tiles and white walls, Gusheng Village (古生村) in Dali (大理), Yunnan (云南), a rural picture unfolds slowly.
Walking into the fields, the square fields are eye-catching. Conventional organic方案, green product方案, organic optimization方案... Each field is marked with a sign, which records in detail the types of vegetables planted, the fertilization methods, and the planting goals. This is the experimental field of the Science and Technology Backyard.
"Living in farmers' homes, cooking our own meals, busy with experiments, and also busy with village affairs, we are running around every day," said Sui Xianxin (隋宪鑫), a graduate student from the College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, "but after a long time, seeing that Erhai Lake (洱海) is clearer and the villagers' income has increased, that feeling is so sweet!"
The Science and Technology Backyard, deeply rooted in the rural land, shows vigorous vitality. At present, China Agricultural University has established more than 200 Science and Technology Backyards and promoted them to many countries and regions overseas.
More and more agricultural students are choosing to take root in the grassroots and the western regions, using practical actions to interpret the responsibility and担当 of contemporary youth.
Ye Songlin (叶松林), a graduate of the College of Engineering, chose to stay in the rural areas of Quzhou (曲周), Hebei (河北), contracting thousands of acres of farmland and engaging in research related to agricultural green development; Shen Qianxi (沈倩西), a graduate of the College of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering, came to Mesa Village (么洒村), Xisa Town (西洒镇), Xichou County (西畴县), Yunnan (云南), serving as the first secretary of the village, using her expertise and enthusiasm to compose a song of revitalization for the Zhuang (壮) and Miao (苗) mountains... Striving to become a new generation capable of shouldering great responsibilities, students of China Agricultural University keep it in mind and act on it.
Solving People's Livelihood
Carrying Forward Tradition and Serving the Country through Agriculture
On the campus of China Agricultural University, two gray-white stone walls stand solemnly, with the four powerful characters "教民稼穑" witnessing the original intention of this institution of higher learning.
Agriculture is a major issue for the country, the foundation of people's livelihood, and closely connected with hundreds of millions of people. Carrying forward the fine traditions of running the university and being determined to strengthen agriculture and serve the country is the unswerving pursuit and担当 of generations of teachers and students of China Agricultural University.
In 1973, a group of young teachers, including Shi Yuanchun (石元春) and Xin Dehui (辛德惠), plunged into Quzhou (曲周), Hebei (河北), vowing "not to go home until the saline-alkali land is cured." They rolled up their trousers, carried their luggage, and waded through the mud to enter the village; they ate from the same pot as the common people, and rolled and crawled on the saline-alkali滩 with mud and sweat... The former saline-alkali灘 has been transformed into today's rice and grain land.
"The teachers of China Agricultural University helped us change the land and also changed the lives of the villagers." The simple words of the people of Quzhou (曲周) express the tireless pursuit of the people of China Agricultural University, which is to write papers on the land, grow the fullest grain, and benefit thousands of households.
How many people from China Agricultural University are willing to dedicate themselves to the vast countryside? Since its establishment, the university has trained more than 300,000 talents who know and love agriculture.
Another answer is even more touching. Hao Jinmin (郝晋珉), the sixth director of the Quzhou (曲周) Experimental Station of China Agricultural University, said: "I don't know exactly how many people from China Agricultural University have taken root in the countryside. I only know that my teachers, my teachers' teachers are here, and my students, my students' students are also here."
Engaging in farming in the countryside and serving the countryside, more forces to promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside are gathering.
In Minqin (民勤), Gansu (甘肃), reeds sway and hundreds of birds fly by Qingtu Lake (青土湖). Behind the picturesque scenery is the 30-year persistence of Kang Shaozhong (康绍忠), Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Professor of the College of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering. Facing the increasingly severe ecological crisis in the Shiyang River (石羊河) Basin, Kang Shaozhong (康绍忠) led his students to reveal the water consumption patterns of 13 major crops and 4 windbreak and sand-fixing plants, using efficient irrigation models to make every drop of water play a greater value.
In Mengla (勐腊), Yunnan (云南), Li Xiaoyun (李小云), a senior professor of liberal arts, moved into Hebian Village (河边村) as an ordinary farmer. In his interactions with the villagers, a vision of a composite industry gradually emerged: while retaining traditional industries such as rubber, he created "Yao (瑶) ethnic Mom's Rooms" that combine modern comfort and ethnic characteristics to develop leisure tourism. The former poor village has become a well-known tourist destination.
From the black soil of Northeast China to the hot soil of Hainan (海南), from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (青藏高原) to the Huanghuaihai Plain (黄淮海平原), field experimental stations, professor workstations, industrial research institutes, rural revitalization research institutes, practice bases, etc., are scattered like stars on the land of the motherland, outlining a vivid picture of the people of China Agricultural University starting businesses and making achievements.
Pursuing Knowledge
Where the Country Needs, Where Research is Directed
In two甲子, China Agricultural University has written many "firsts" in the history of agricultural science and technology innovation:
In 1988, a new genus "Sinorhizobium" was discovered, which is the first rhizobium genus discovered and named by Chinese scholars; in 1992, the world's first large-scale practical fruit and vegetable preservation warehouse using natural cold sources was built; in 2005, the first somatic cell cloned pig was bred, making China the seventh country to master pig somatic cell cloning technology...
Aiming at the forefront and daring to be the first. Since the National Science Conference was held in 1978, the university has won more than 180 national-level scientific research awards and more than 1,200 provincial and ministerial-level scientific research awards. Sun Qixin (孙其信), President of China Agricultural University, said that it is necessary to strengthen agricultural science and technology innovation and the application of成果转化, serve the construction of a strong country in science and technology and support the construction of a strong agricultural country in all aspects, and shoulder the mission and responsibility of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance.
Where is the research direction of the people of China Agricultural University? Where the country needs, where research is directed.
"Using Chinese seeds to ensure China's food security," Professor Chen Shaojiang (陈绍江) of the College of Agronomy has been working tirelessly for this goal.
Corn is the most widely planted and highest-yielding grain crop in China, and it is also the crop with the largest seed market value in the world. The key to breaking through corn yield lies in cultivating new hybrid varieties, and the long cycle of parental purification was once the biggest obstacle.
In order to overcome the problem of "slow," Chen Shaojiang (陈绍江) led his team to explore and verify countless times, and their footprints have spread throughout the main corn-producing areas of the country.
**功夫不负有心人** (gōng fū bù fù yǒu xīn rén - "efforts will not fail those who put their heart into it," perseverance leads to success), they finally successfully developed an efficient technology system for corn haploid breeding, shortening the parental breeding cycle from 8 generations to 2 generations, increasing the breeding speed by more than 4 times, and installing a strong "Chinese engine" for corn breeding.
Since proposing the Ten Action Plans for Seed Industry Science and Technology Innovation in 2021, China Agricultural University has focused on the major needs of crop, livestock, horticulture, and grass industries, and promoted seed industry science and technology innovation with the strength of the entire university.
——Based on basic research, consolidate the foundation of innovation. The identification of dense plant types and broad-spectrum disease-resistant genes in corn and wheat has laid a solid foundation for increasing crop yields; the theory of green yield increase and efficiency improvement has broken through the international problem of difficult coordination between high yield and high efficiency; the first discovery of transferable polymyxin and other new drug-resistant genes and their mechanisms has promoted the adjustment of global antimicrobial drug management policies.
——Anchoring national needs and tackling "卡脖子" (kǎ bó zi - "strangle neck," chokehold) technologies. Independent gene editor key technologies break the monopoly of foreign seed industry core technologies; "Fengdeng (丰登)," "Shennong (神农)," "Fan Li (范蠡)" and other artificial intelligence large models, high-speed precision planters, farmland dust monitoring systems and other smart agriculture systems and equipment, help agricultural high-quality development.
Thinking about what the country thinks, urgently needing what the country urgently needs, and responding to what the country needs, the teachers and students of China Agricultural University are helping modern agriculture take off with the fruitful results of scientific and technological innovation.
"Using Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to arm our minds, guide our practice, and promote our work, the university will carry forward the fine traditions of running the university, be determined to strengthen agriculture and serve the country, resolutely shoulder the mission and responsibility of the 'national brand,' practice 'strengthening the country first strengthens agriculture, and China Agricultural University takes the lead,' and make new contributions to building a strong agricultural country and promoting Chinese-style modernization," said Zhong Denghua (钟登华), Secretary of the Party Committee of China Agricultural University.
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A clear stream of water originates from Danjiangkou (丹江口) and flows north in a mighty surge.
This stream is tied to the drinking water "lifeline" of the people of Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), Hebei (河北), and Henan (河南). Behind this lies the tens of thousands of people of Xichuan County (淅川县), Henan Province (河南省), the "water guardians."
This is the location of the headworks of the central route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The South-to-North Water Diversion Project concerns the strategic overall situation, long-term development, and the well-being of the people." "We must unswervingly do all our work well and safeguard this reservoir of clear water."
These earnest instructions are both a trust and a test: Karst landforms are widely distributed, and the area of rocky desertification reaches 1.25 million mu. "A rich water town, an ecologically poor county" is Xichuan's contradictory past. How can the ecological protection red line be firmly guarded to ensure that a clear stream of water continues to flow north? How can the people's desire to become rich and the "bottom line" of development be supported?
The examination question of the times has been set. Where should the answer begin?
Driving through the Xiaocaoyu (小草峪) watershed in Xichuan County (淅川县), a landscape painting unfolds before your eyes—verdant mountains rise one after another, and the Danjiangkou Reservoir (丹江口水库) is as clear as jade. Xichuan County (淅川县) adheres to the "three greens" approach of expanding green, revitalizing green, and protecting green, practices the concept that green mountains and clear waters are golden mountains and silver mountains, and achieves a development leap from "worrying about the mountains" to "getting rich from the mountains."
"Expanding Green" to Build a Foundation
From Soil Erosion to Mountains Covered in Green
"Expanding green" is the tenacity of "embroidering" forests on stones, and it is also a profound change in ideology.
"In the past, the mountains were bare, and when it rained, the mountain skin would shed a layer of mud." Ma Huiqun (马会群), secretary of the Party branch of Xiaocaoyu Village (小草峪村), Madeng Town (马蹬镇), Xichuan County (淅川县), stroked the bark of a Chinese pine tree. This forest was something he "never dared to think about."
The Xiaocaoyu (小草峪) watershed covers villages such as Xiaocaoyu (小草峪) and Suzhuang (苏庄). Soil erosion used to be severe here, and villagers had to "eke out a living from the cracks in the rocks."
During his time working in Fujian (福建), Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) promoted the treatment of soil erosion in Changting (长汀). 滴水穿石 (dī shuǐ chuān shí - "dripping water pierces stone," perseverance will prevail), the same spirit, echoes in the mountains and rivers of Xichuan (淅川).
The key soil and water conservation project in the Xiaocaoyu (小草峪) watershed was launched, and the "pioneering team" entered the deep mountains. Li Guofeng (李国峰), a member of the afforestation team, recalled: "If the machinery couldn't go up, we carried it on our backs; if there was no soil, we carried it from the bottom of the mountain; if there was no water, we used stone weirs to raise water for irrigation level by level."
"We must be able to work hard and also be good at it, and we must also make good plans for planting trees." Xia Dan (夏丹), secretary of the Party Committee of Madeng Town (马蹬镇), introduced, "Near the water, plant maple and Chinese cypress to conserve water sources; near the village, plant pomegranates and walnuts to make the people's pockets bulge."
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Promote the 'four reservoirs' linkage of forest reservoirs, money reservoirs, grain reservoirs, and carbon reservoirs." The 8,800 mu of water conservation forest in the Xiaocaoyu (小草峪) watershed is a "reservoir" for conserving water sources, retaining 32,000 tons of sediment annually, firmly protecting the "big water tank" of the Danjiangkou Reservoir (丹江口水库); it is a "carbon reservoir" for carbon sequestration and oxygen release, contributing to addressing climate change...
"People who live up to the green mountains will surely be rewarded by the green mountains." The mountains are covered in green, and nature responds vividly—the forest coverage rate in Xichuan County (淅川县) has jumped from 45.7% at the end of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" to 61.7%; the number of birds in the Danjiang Wetland National Nature Reserve (丹江湿地国家级自然保护区) has increased from more than 100 to more than 510.
"Revitalizing Green" to Enrich the People
From Protecting Ecology to Turning Green into Gold
"Revitalizing green" is a brilliant leap from "protecting ecology" to "generating gold and silver," and behind it is the scientific guidance of the "Two Mountains" concept.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Green mountains and clear waters are golden mountains and silver mountains. A good ecological environment is both natural wealth and economic wealth, and it is related to the potential and stamina of economic and social development."
"Expanding green" is laying the foundation, and "revitalizing green" is writing an article, a big article that continuously transforms ecological advantages into development advantages.
Walking into the "Guoran Chuse" pomegranate base in Suzhuang Village (苏庄村), the person in charge, Gao Chen (高辰), led the villagers to pick pomegranates. "Pomegranates that 'drink Danjiang water and breathe good air' are very sweet!"
"The pomegranate trees we planted have become a new way for the villagers to get rich!" Gao Chen (高辰) said, "There are hundreds of people working here during the peak season."
Turning green into gold, scenery becomes "money scene." A 10-kilometer-long "rainbow road" connects the Danjiang Grand View Garden Scenic Area (丹江大观苑景区) with beautiful villages such as Xiaocaoyu (小草峪) and Suzhuang (苏庄). Li Qin (李琴), a villager who returned to her hometown to open a farm stay, has an annual income of over 100,000 yuan. 108 villagers in Madeng Town (马蹬镇) are making a living from tourism, and poor mountain valleys have become health and wellness valleys.
On December 25, 2024, the story wrote a new page: Henan Province's (河南省) first soil and water conservation carbon sink and ecological product value transformation transaction was signed in Xiaocaoyu (小草峪), with a transaction value of 2.16 million yuan! Invisible ecological benefits are transformed into tangible gold and silver that feed back into ecological construction, broadening the path for transforming green mountains and clear waters into golden mountains and silver mountains.
Green mountains and clear waters can continuously bring golden mountains and silver mountains. 230,000 mu of characteristic forest fruits drive 100,000 people to increase their income, and 9.16 million tourists and over 7.2 billion yuan in comprehensive tourism income, the story of Xichuan (淅川) proves: The key to turning green mountains and clear waters into golden mountains and silver mountains lies in people and in ideas. Protecting the ecological environment is protecting productivity, and improving the ecological environment is developing productivity.
"Protecting Green" to Strengthen the Foundation
From "One Person" to "A Group of People"
"Protecting green" is to safeguard the results, and it is also to internalize the concept of ecological civilization into a conscious action of common action. Among them, the stories of countless individuals have converged into the story of the times of guarding a common home.
Forest ranger Zhang Tao (张涛) is one of the protagonists of the story. In the past, he was a lonely mountain patrolman, with a kettle, a few dry steamed buns, and a pair of liberation shoes that wore out in a few days.
Now, he is no longer alone. Mobile phone APPs, drones, and forest fire video monitoring systems have given wings to mountain patrols. Behind him stands a "green protection army" composed of 730 grassroots forest rangers, 4 regional fire fighting teams, and countless volunteers.
This protection has received special attention. In August 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) replied to environmental protection volunteers in the Danjiangkou Reservoir (丹江口水库) area of Shiyan (十堰), Hubei (湖北), pointing out: "I am very pleased to learn that more and more people in the reservoir area have joined the volunteer service team over the past ten years, guarding a reservoir of clear water with their hearts and souls, and the water in the reservoir area is clearer, the mountains are greener, and the environment is more beautiful."
The General Secretary's encouragement made Zhang Tao (张涛) feel greatly encouraged, "I feel that my efforts are very meaningful!"
"Ensuring that 'a clear stream of water flows north forever' requires everyone to be responsible and work for a long time." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) encouragement inspires every guardian. Xichuan County (淅川县) has built a diversified management model of "human defense + technical defense + system defense" from professional teams to volunteers, allowing protection to shift from passive response to active prevention.
From stone mountains to green barriers, and then to golden mountains and silver mountains. "Expanding green reflects responsibility, revitalizing green demonstrates wisdom, and protecting green considers the long-term." Zhang Zhiqiang (张志强), member of the Standing Committee of the Nanyang Municipal Party Committee (南阳市委) and Secretary of the Xichuan County Party Committee (淅川县委书记), said. The story of Xiaocaoyu (小草峪) is like the roots of trees growing in the cracks of rocks—growing downwards, firmly consolidating the foundation of green mountains and clear waters; growing upwards, steadily supporting the beautiful life of the villagers.
A clear stream of water starts from here and flows north all the way. What it carries is the scientific concept that green mountains and clear waters are golden mountains and silver mountains, which shines with the light of truth. On the land of China (神州大地), such vivid stories are converging into a magnificent picture of the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, which is endless.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 16th. Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥), Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Vice Premier of the State Council, and Chairman of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (国合会), attended and addressed the CCICED 2025 Annual General Meeting in Beijing (北京) on the 16th.
Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥) stated that since the "14th Five-Year Plan," under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, China (中国) has taken promoting harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature as an essential requirement of Chinese-style modernization, consistently maintained its strategic focus on ecological civilization construction, continuously improved the quality of the ecological environment, and taken significant steps in building a Beautiful China (美丽中国). At the same time, China (中国) has proactively undertaken its responsibility as a major country, demonstrated its commitment, and further enhanced its leading role in global environmental governance.
Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥) emphasized that China (中国) will further accelerate the green transformation of its development model and is willing to strengthen solidarity and cooperation with all parties to jointly promote global green development and build a clean and beautiful world. First, we must earnestly enhance confidence, unswervingly follow the path of green and low-carbon development, and develop green productivity in accordance with local conditions. Second, we must adhere to multilateralism, fully and effectively implement the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Paris Agreement, and work together to address environmental challenges and the climate crisis. Third, we must strengthen exchanges and dialogue, deepen cooperation in biodiversity conservation, plastic pollution control, and other areas, and ensure the free flow of high-quality green products. Fourth, we must promote a just transition, coordinate the goals of protecting the environment, developing the economy, creating jobs, and eliminating poverty, and enhance the common and long-term well-being of people in all countries. The Chinese (中国) government will continue to strongly support the development and growth of the CCICED, and contribute more wisdom and strength to strengthening China's (中国) ecological civilization construction and promoting global sustainable development.
The theme of this year's CCICED Annual General Meeting is "Firmly Promoting Comprehensive Green Transition and Promoting Harmonious Coexistence between Humanity and Nature." Approximately 400 people, including Chinese (中国) and foreign members of the CCICED, Chinese (中国) and foreign experts, and partners, attended the meeting.
Return to TopThis report Hainan Wenchang (海南文昌), October 16 (Reporters Dong Zeyang (董泽扬) and Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶)) At 9:33 AM Beijing (北京) time on October 16, China (中国) used the Long March-8A carrier rocket at the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site (海南商业航天发射场) to successfully launch the Satellite Internet Low-Orbit 12 Group satellites into space. The satellites successfully entered their predetermined orbit. This marks the 600th successful launch of China's (中国) Long March series of carrier rockets.
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Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 16th (October 16th) - On the afternoon of October 16th, Vice President Han Zheng (韩正) met with French President's Diplomatic Advisor Emmanuel Bonne in Beijing (北京).
Han Zheng (韩正) stated that the current global changes unseen in a century are accelerating, and the international system with the United Nations at its core, formed after World War II, is facing severe challenges. During their phone call in May, President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Macron unanimously agreed that the more complex the situation, the more China and France should strengthen cooperation. China is willing to work with France to implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, uphold the tradition of independence and self-reliance, enhance exchanges and mutual trust, promote pragmatic cooperation in the spirit of openness, and strengthen multilateral collaboration, so that the China-France comprehensive strategic partnership will always maintain a positive and upward momentum. It is hoped that France will play a constructive role in promoting the healthy development of China-Europe relations.
Bonne stated that France attaches great importance to China's position and role. Both France and China support multilateralism. France is willing to work closely with China to deepen high-level exchanges, deepen bilateral cooperation and multilateral coordination, and jointly address global challenges. France is willing to actively promote dialogue and cooperation between Europe and China.
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The newly revised Anti-Unfair Competition Law will come into effect on October 15. Keeping pace with the times to improve the legal system aims to create a fair competitive market environment, promote the construction of a unified national market in depth, and continuously transform China's institutional advantages into development achievements and governance effectiveness.
The rule of law is an important basis for governance and an important guarantee for modernization. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, creating a law-based business environment and polishing the "oasis of certainty"; carrying out centralized rectification of problems such as illegal extraterritorial law enforcement and profit-seeking law enforcement to eliminate corporate concerns... Advancing Chinese-style modernization on the track of the rule of law, we are moving forward with sonorous steps and full confidence.
As the practice of economic and social development moves forward, the construction of the rule of law must keep pace. Taking the rule of law as an important way to fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept can consolidate the foundation for high-quality development.
"A modern country must be a country ruled by law." Being good at using the thinking and methods of the rule of law to advance work, and promoting the spirit, concept, and culture of the rule of law to take root in the hearts of the people, will surely create a new realm of "China's governance" and stimulate new momentum for "China's progress."
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Entering a new era, China's (中国) economic ship has braved turbulent currents and dangerous shoals, overcoming difficulties and obstacles, and moving steadily towards one victory after another.
"The centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee is the fundamental guarantee for doing a good job in economic work. At critical moments and important junctures, the Party Central Committee promptly analyzes the situation and makes decisions and deployments to ensure that China's (中国) economic ship can ride the wind and waves and move steadily and far."
Critical moments require critical choices.
The years since the new era have been extremely unusual and extraordinary, and the tasks of reform, development, and stability have been unprecedentedly arduous. Through wind and rain, and through waves, our confidence is stronger and our beliefs are firmer: developing and sublimating in important junctures and major challenges, demonstrating the power of truth, Xi Jinping's (习近平) economic thought guides the Chinese (中国) economy to always forge ahead in the right direction, and continuously strengthens the material foundation of Chinese-style modernization.
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In the golden autumn season, in the factory area of Luoyang Bearing Group Co., Ltd. (河南洛阳轴承集团股份有限公司) in Henan (河南), the golden characters "Supporting the Backbone of the National Bearing Industry" are particularly eye-catching.
This old enterprise, over 70 years old, has overcome difficulties through reform and innovation, and has transformed to high-end manufacturing through repeated technological breakthroughs.
"We insist on taking the road of independent development of industry, relying on our own strength to develop industry and manufacturing. This road is the right one!" When General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to this enterprise for inspection in May of this year, his remarks included a review of the past and a vision for the future.
In May 2014, also on an inspection tour to Henan (河南), there was also deep consideration of the path of development—
At that time, China's (中国) economic growth rate had fallen from double digits to below 8%. At the same time, extensive development and environmental pollution problems gradually emerged, and "speed anxiety" and "transformation confusion" were intertwined. Where will the Chinese (中国) economy go? How should the future development path be taken? For a time, opinions varied.
"Our country's development is still in an important period of strategic opportunity. We must enhance our confidence, proceed from the stage characteristics of our country's economic development, adapt to the new normal, and maintain a normal state of mind strategically."
During that trip to Henan (河南), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) publicly proposed the concept of the "new normal" for the first time, profoundly pointing out the grand logic of economic development in our country for the current and future periods.
"It's not that we can't go faster, but that we don't want to," "We can't simply judge heroes by the growth rate of GDP," "The driving force of economic development is shifting from traditional growth points to new growth points"...
A series of important expositions by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) directly pointed to the long-standing one-sided view of political achievements, guiding the Chinese (中国) economy, which was at a critical stage, to calibrate its course and firmly grasp the historical initiative of development in the new era.
Thought is like a lighthouse, and the more critical the moment, the more it shows the light of scientific guidance.
In the face of the complex situation of "three-period superposition," we have assessed the situation and proposed supply-side structural reform, creatively proposed the new development concepts of innovation, coordination, green development, openness, and sharing, and started a profound transformation related to the overall situation of our country's development;
In the face of escalating Sino-US trade frictions and obvious changes in the external environment, we have made preparations in advance to do a good job in "six stabilities" work such as stabilizing employment, stabilizing finance, stabilizing foreign trade, stabilizing foreign investment, stabilizing investment, and stabilizing expectations to ensure the stable and healthy development of the economy;
In the face of the unprecedented impact of the century-long epidemic, we have coordinated epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, and deployed "six guarantees" work such as ensuring residents' employment, ensuring basic livelihoods, and ensuring market entities with a bottom-line thinking. China (中国) became the only major economy in the world to achieve positive economic growth in 2020;
In the face of the trend of rising domestic concerns in various countries after the global epidemic and the more obvious characteristics of China's (中国) domestic demand-led economy, we have assessed the situation and proposed to build a new development pattern in which domestic circulation is the mainstay and domestic and international dual circulations promote each other, and made a preemptive move to grasp the initiative in future development;
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Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大), the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has scientifically judged the general trend of development and made critical choices at critical moments, which centrally demonstrates the power of truth of Xi Jinping's (习近平) economic thought, bringing about changes in thinking, structure, and dynamics in China's (中国) economic development.
The economic operation trend in the second half of 2024 is still deeply remembered.
The complex and volatile situation and environment have increased the downward pressure on the Chinese (中国) economy. From a good start in the first quarter to a gradual increase in downward pressure in the second and third quarters, the stock market and real estate market were under pressure, market expectations weakened, and worries at home and abroad spread.
At a critical moment, the Party Central Committee decisively took action—
September 26, 2024, Zhongnanhai (中南海), Beijing (北京). General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) presided over a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局会议). The Party Central Committee's important guidance on economic work demonstrated the role of the backbone and stabilizing force.
Facing difficulties and strengthening confidence, "effectively enhancing the sense of responsibility and urgency in doing a good job in economic work";
Grasping the key points and taking the initiative, "striving to complete the annual economic and social development goals and tasks";
Taking action and uniting as one, "fully stimulating the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the entire society to promote high-quality development"...
Scientific and meticulous deployments have been transformed into solid and effective measures: cutting reserve requirements and interest rates, boosting the real estate and stock markets, helping companies overcome difficulties, implementing large-scale equipment upgrades and consumer goods trade-ins, promoting stable growth in foreign trade, and stimulating the vitality of the ice and snow economy... A package of incremental policies has been effectively implemented, and the annual development goals have been achieved as scheduled. The outside world has commented that this is a "milestone move in China's (中国) macroeconomic regulation."
Taking proactive strategic actions to consolidate the foundation for long-term development.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大), China's (中国) economy has grown at an average annual rate of 6%, and its average annual contribution to world economic growth has remained at around 30%. In particular, during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the economic increment is expected to exceed 35 trillion yuan, and the GDP in 2025 is expected to reach around 140 trillion yuan. The intensity of R&D investment exceeds the average level of EU countries, and the role of consumption as the main engine of economic growth has been further consolidated...
Hard-won achievements and invaluable inspirations. The critical choices at critical moments fully demonstrate that the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee is the fundamental guarantee for China's (中国) economic ship to ride the waves and move steadily and far.
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Since the beginning of this year, in the face of the US government's abuse of tariffs against the trend of the world, our country has firmly stood on the right side of history, and has earnestly sought development through openness and win-win results through cooperation.
"The essence of Sino-US economic and trade relations is mutual benefit and win-win," "To correct the course of the Sino-US relationship, we need to steer the ship well and set the direction," "China (中国) and the United States can completely achieve each other and prosper together, benefiting the two countries and benefiting the world"...
To implement the consensus reached in the three phone calls between the heads of state of China (中国) and the United States, the Chinese (中国) side and the US side have held economic and trade talks in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Spain. Strengthening bottom-line thinking and fully preparing contingency plans, and stepping up the implementation of more proactive and effective macroeconomic policies, the calm and composure in response fully demonstrates the strength and confidence of our major economy.
Amidst the flying clouds, we are always confident and calm.
The critical choices at critical moments are a profound insight into the national conditions and the world situation, and a profound practice of "advancing in the logic of historical progress and developing in the trend of the times."
Since the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has coordinated the overall strategic situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese (中华) nation and the major changes unseen in a century in the world, grasped the general trend of development, summarized the laws of development, proposed corresponding strategies and tactics, and firmly grasped the destiny of China's (中国) development and progress in his own hands.
On September 24 this year, when General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) delivered a video address at the United Nations Climate Ambition Summit, he solemnly announced China's (中国) new round of nationally determined contributions—
By 2035, China's (中国) total greenhouse gas emissions across the economy will be reduced by 7%-10% compared to the peak, and efforts will be made to do better; the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption in total energy consumption will reach more than 30%...
When some countries are hesitant to address climate change, China's (中国) commitment highlights its strategic determination to unswervingly follow the path of green development, winning widespread praise from the international community.
Standing on the peak and looking out, one can have a panoramic view of the infinite scenery; standing at the forefront of the times, one can grasp the initiative of development.
"Strategic issues are fundamental issues for a political party and a country." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out that if the judgment on strategy is accurate, the planning on strategy is scientific, and the initiative on strategy is won, the cause of the Party and the people will be promising.
Coordinating the overall layout of "five-in-one," coordinating the strategic layout of "four comprehensives," implementing the innovation-driven development strategy, the rural revitalization strategy, the regional coordinated development strategy, and the national food security strategy...
Those who are good at planning win, and those who plan far prosper. Every strategic decision that is made with ease, and every journey that is made through wind and rain, demonstrates the importance of leadership and the correctness of choice.
The critical choices at critical moments contain a scientific methodology.
Adhering to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, this important principle of our Party's governance of the economy has been consistent since the new era.
At the Central Economic Work Conference (中央经济工作会议) in 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly clarified the macro policy orientation for 2025—"seeking progress while maintaining stability, promoting stability through progress, upholding righteousness and innovation, establishing before breaking, systematic integration, and coordinated cooperation."
These 24 characters further enrich the connotation of the "general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability," and are a vivid reflection of our Party's adherence to and application of Marxist dialectical materialism in accordance with the laws of economic development.
Stability is the main theme; progress is the general direction. The successive Central Economic Work Conferences (中央经济工作会议) in the new era have made targeted adjustments to the relationship between "stability" and "progress" under the unchanged general tone, demonstrating economic governance wisdom in dynamic balance.
Grasping the relationship between supply and demand is an important proposition of economics.
This is a vivid footnote to the virtuous interaction between supply and demand: the movie *Ne Zha 2* (哪吒2) has continuously broken box office records, activating the "pool of spring water" of derivative products and trendy toy industries; Haier's (海尔) all-in-one three-drum washing machine has quickly become popular after its launch, accurately responding to the new needs of young consumers; China's (中国) trendy toy LABUBU is popular around the world, and creative design ignites a new wave of consumption...
New demand leads to new supply, and new supply creates new demand.
"We must do a good job in coordinating the expansion of domestic demand and deepening supply-side structural reform to form a higher-level dynamic balance in which demand drives supply and supply creates demand," "We must coordinate the relationship between total supply and total demand and smooth the national economic cycle"...
The interpretation full of dialectical wisdom demonstrates Xi Jinping's (习近平) economic thought's profound grasp of the relationship between supply and demand, pointing out the direction for China's (中国) economic development in complex situations.
Insight into the times and trends, coordinating establishment and destruction, connecting inside and outside, and analyzing crises and opportunities... In the face of new situations and new problems, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has creatively proposed a series of scientific ideological methods and working methods in profound thinking and practice, leading the pace of China's (中国) high-quality economic development to become more solid.
To implement key decisions, precise and effective strategies are especially needed.
Scale of 500 billion yuan! Recently, China's (中国) policy-based financial instruments have been updated again—
The National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) announced at the end of September that in order to promote finance to better serve the real economy, it is stepping up the investment of new policy-based financial instrument funds into specific projects, urging local governments to speed up construction and form more physical workload as soon as possible, and promote the expansion of effective investment.
Stabilizing the economy and promoting reform, the constantly enriched macroeconomic policy toolbox provides "real money" for expanding domestic demand and boosting consumption, becoming a strong support for the strong resilience and vitality of the Chinese (中国) economy.
Economic work is complex and multifaceted, and "achieving breadth and depth" is the way to success. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) earnestly warned, "We must control the details, organically combine political economy, macro and micro, and strategy and tactics, so as to have a panoramic view when planning and be meticulous and appropriate in operation."
The more critical the moment, the more precise the orientation, meticulous deployment, and solid implementation are needed. Moving forward in unison, drawing a blueprint to the end, and constantly gathering strong confidence and strength to promote high-quality development.
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At present, China's (中国) economic ship is sailing to a new critical journey—
The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for laying the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically realize socialist modernization.
"We must closely focus on the central tasks of the Party in the new era and on the new journey, plan and implement the goals, tasks, and strategic measures of the '15th Five-Year Plan,' and ensure that decisive progress is made in basically realizing socialist modernization," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out.
On the long march full of glory and dreams, our Party's critical choices have led China's (中国) economy to grow and strengthen in the baptism of wind and rain, and will also lead China's (中国) economy to a broader world.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) explained China's (中国) choices for the future in this way: "No matter how the external environment changes, China (中国) will strengthen its confidence, maintain its determination, and concentrate on doing its own thing well."
To concentrate on doing our own thing well, we must always maintain the determination to promote high-quality development.
"Technological innovation and industrial innovation are the basic paths for developing new quality productive forces." During the National People's Congress (全国两会) this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized when participating in the deliberation of the Jiangsu (江苏) delegation.
To promote Chinese-style modernization, science and technology must take the lead.
Emphasizing "adhering to the main business, strengthening the real economy, and strengthening independent innovation" at the symposium for private enterprises, presiding over the collective study of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中央政治局) focusing on "strengthening the development and supervision of artificial intelligence," and guiding the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing through field research... A series of far-reaching plans by the General Secretary have released a clear signal to accelerate the development of new quality productive forces.
Not confused by temporary events, not disturbed by high winds and waves. General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) guidance is firm and clear: "Responding to various uncertainties with the certainty of high-quality development."
On the road ahead, fully and accurately implementing the new development concept, giving full play to the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese (中国) characteristics, the advantages of the super-large-scale market, the advantages of the complete industrial system, and the advantages of abundant talent resources, the basic trend of China's (中国) long-term economic improvement will not change.
To concentrate on doing our own thing well, we must constantly enhance our determination to deepen reform and expand opening up.
How can the Chinese (中国) economy solve the various problems facing development and resolve the risks and challenges from all sides? General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has profound thoughts: "There is no other way but to deepen reform and opening up."
On October 13, 1.8 million kilowatts of clean electricity from the Southern Power Grid (南方电网) were sent to the Yangtze River Delta (长三角地区) through the Yunxiao DC channel, realizing cross-regional power allocation.
Using the power of reform to break through the walls of regional boundaries, this cross-network transaction between the State Grid (国家电网) and the Southern Power Grid (南方电网) has pressed the "acceleration key" for the efficient flow of China's (中国) power resources across regions, taking an important step in the construction of a unified national power market.
Having traveled thousands of mountains and rivers, the pace of reform has never stopped: the Law on Promoting the Development of the Private Economy is implemented; the new version of the negative list for market access has reduced the number of list items to 106; 10 regions have been approved to carry out comprehensive reform pilots for market-based allocation of factors... One key area reform "falls," driving the comprehensive deepening of reform "to revitalize the whole game."
In December this year, the full island closure of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自贸港) will be officially launched. All parties believe that this will have a leading role in China's (中国) economic growth and open development.
Promoting the expansion of pilot programs for opening up in telecommunications, medical care, education, and other fields; optimizing the comprehensive pilot demonstration for expanding opening up in the national service industry; implementing the requirements for fully lifting foreign investment access restrictions in the manufacturing sector; expanding the scope of visa-free countries and optimizing entry policies...
"To walk with China is to walk with opportunities, to believe in China is to believe in tomorrow, and to invest in China is to invest in the future." In March of this year, President Xi Jinping's (习近平) sincere invitation during his meeting with representatives from the international business community declared China's unwavering determination to deepen reform and expand opening up.
To concentrate on managing our own affairs well, we must always adhere to the original aspiration of enhancing people's well-being and realizing people's happiness.
"I have always been concerned, and I have been learning about the situation here every day during that period." During his first domestic inspection in 2025, President Xi Jinping (习近平) visited Huludao (葫芦岛), Liaoning (辽宁) as his first stop to see the disaster-stricken people. Looking at housing, asking about difficulties, the small matters of thousands of households are the major affairs of the Communist Party's governance.
Chinese-style modernization prioritizes people's livelihood.
Shifting the focus of macroeconomic policies more towards benefiting people's livelihoods and promoting consumption, emphasizing increasing the intensity of "investment in people," continuing to increase the basic pension for retirees and the per capita financial subsidy standard for urban and rural residents' medical insurance, and introducing and implementing childcare subsidy systems...
"Relying closely on the people to create a great historical undertaking," the "grand blueprint" of national development resonates with the "small goals" of the people, and the 1.4 billion people are forever the most solid support and the strongest foundation.
Comrade Mao Zedong (毛泽东) said, "Once the destiny of China is in the hands of the people themselves, China will rise like the sun in the East, illuminating the earth with its own brilliant light."
Today, this scene is inspiring—
During this year's September 3rd parade, the "众" (zhòng - crowd/masses) character-shaped viewing platform on Tiananmen Square (天安门广场) was a spectacular sight, symbolizing the Chinese people under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) being of one heart and mind, 众志成城 (zhòng zhì chéng chéng - "many wills build a city," unity is strength), and advancing vigorously towards the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Our modernization is not only the most difficult, but also the greatest." Hundreds of millions of people concentrating their efforts and working together are the key to overcoming its "most difficult" aspects and achieving its "greatest" potential.
With our hearts set on the distant future, what fear is there of long and arduous roads; with firm choices, why dread the stormy waves?
On a new journey, guided by Xi Jinping's (习近平) economic thought, hundreds of millions of people are forging ahead with determination and without fear of storms. The Chinese economic ship will not change its mighty forward momentum, and the progress of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation is unstoppable!
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), October 16th, reporters Han Jie (韩洁), Yu Jiaxin (于佳欣), Wang Xi (王希), Zhou Yuan (周圆), Tang Shining (唐诗凝))
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October 16th is the 45th World Food Day, and the week it falls in is the National Food Security Publicity Week, with the theme "Food Conservation, Everyone's Responsibility." On that day, the main event of World Food Day and National Food Security Publicity Week was held at Renmin University of China (中国人民大学). The National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration (国家粮食和物资储备局), the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部), and other departments jointly released a batch of typical cases of "Food Conservation, Everyone's Responsibility" and issued a food security-themed initiative to the whole society.
The relevant person in charge of the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration (国家粮食和物资储备局) introduced that since the "14th Five-Year Plan," China's (我国) food storage loss reduction has become more effective, and it is moving from safe grain storage and loss reduction to high-quality development of green and high-quality storage and preservation. The utilization of food resources is more sufficient, and the atmosphere of food conservation and loss reduction is stronger.
Strengthening Scientific and Technological Innovation to Ensure Food Conservation and Loss Reduction
The grain harvesting and storage links are key nodes in the post-production chain of grain. The effectiveness of their conservation and loss reduction largely determines the final actual yield of grain from the field to the warehouse.
Liu Huanxin (刘焕鑫), member of the Party Leadership Group of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展和改革委员会) and Director of the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration (国家粮食和物资储备局), said that it is necessary to accelerate the technological innovation, product application, and equipment upgrading of food conservation and loss reduction, and give full play to the role of science and technology empowerment.
In Luoyang (洛阳), Henan (河南), a majestic "big guy" is rushing to harvest corn in the field. This is a new type of low-loss and high-efficiency combined harvester developed and produced by Luoyang Intelligent Agricultural Equipment Research Institute Co., Ltd. (洛阳智能农业装备研究院有限公司). Equipped with a self-developed grain loss mechanical testing and verification platform, it can effectively reduce the machine harvesting loss rate.
In the past, grain loss detection by machine harvesting was done manually. "The research and development and implementation of the grain loss mechanical testing and verification platform has realized the transformation of grain loss detection from manual to automated." Guo Zhiqiang (郭志强), Assistant General Manager of Luoyang Intelligent Agricultural Equipment Research Institute Co., Ltd. (洛阳智能农业装备研究院有限公司), said that the platform can realize full mechanization and automation, re-threshing, screening, and weighing the harvester's discharge, and complete the grain loss test calculation within 30 minutes, accurately quantifying the "invisible losses" in each link.
Data shows that in 2024, the machine harvesting loss rates of China's (我国) three major staple grains, wheat, rice, and corn, were 0.93%, 1.76%, and 2.06% respectively, a decrease of 1 to 2 percentage points compared to 2021.
In Tieling (铁岭), Liaoning (辽宁), more and more farmers are using grain storage "magic weapons" to bid farewell to "ground-lying grain" and let new grain live in "new houses." Xiong Fangfang (熊芳芳), Director of Tieling Grain Science Research Institute (铁岭市粮食科学研究所), said: "We have combined the application of grain air-drying warehouses and three-dimensional grain storage warehouses, which has increased farmers' confidence in storing grain well and selling it at a good price."
In recent years, China (我国) has solidly carried out the technological research and development and application of grain conservation and loss reduction, such as establishing the national-level scientific research platform "National Engineering Research Center for Grain Storage and Transportation" (粮食储运国家工程研究中心) and carrying out green grain storage standardization pilots in the first batch of 59 grain storage enterprises. Relying on scientific and technological innovation platform bases, significant results have been achieved in grain conservation and loss reduction. The loss rate of farmers' grain storage has dropped to about 3%, a decrease of 5 percentage points compared to 10 years ago; in the grain depot storage link, the comprehensive loss rate within the grain depot storage cycle is controlled within 1%.
Exploring the Potential of By-products to Improve the Efficiency of Grain Utilization
How can all the nutrients of a grain of wheat be not wasted? In the production workshop of Anhui Jinshahe Flour Industry Co., Ltd. (安徽金沙河面业有限责任公司), the "incarnation" journey of a grain of wheat is carried out under digital monitoring.
Here, through the bran milling, slag milling, flour purification, and core milling systems, wheat will be turned into 7 original flours with different characteristics, two brans with different thicknesses, one second flour, and one wheat germ.
Wu Guiling (吴桂玲), Deputy General Manager of Anhui Jinshahe Flour Industry Co., Ltd. (安徽金沙河面业有限责任公司), showed the 11 "incarnations" of wheat, "There are more than 300 flour pipes in the flour milling workshop, so that every part of a grain of wheat can play a greater value."
The by-products of wheat after processing, such as bran, second flour, and wheat germ, will be transported to downstream enterprises and converted into functional foods, industrial raw materials, livestock feed, etc., to achieve circular reuse.
As a grain machinery equipment enterprise, Myande Group Co., Ltd. (迈安德集团有限公司) relies on self-developed intelligent equipment to deeply cultivate more oil and good oil production. "Our E-type extractor can reduce the residual oil content in soybean meal to below 0.5%. If the daily production capacity of a production line is 5,000 tons, it can produce 8 tons more vegetable oil per day." said Liang Chun Song (梁椿松), an engineer at the company.
Improving the comprehensive utilization efficiency of grain resources will make the "firewall" of food security more solid. Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration (国家粮食和物资储备局) has organized the formulation and revision of a series of quality standards to guide enterprises to reasonably grasp processing accuracy, actively explore the potential of comprehensive utilization of by-products, and vigorously promote nutritional and healthy consumption while efficiently using grain, improving quality, and reducing losses.
Promoting the Participation of the Whole Society to Resist the Phenomenon of Food Waste
Food conservation and loss reduction have great potential in the consumption link. The "Opinions on Practicing Thrift and Opposing Food Waste" (关于厉行节约反对食品浪费的意见), the "Food Conservation Action Plan" (粮食节约行动方案), and the "Food Conservation and Anti-Food Waste Action Plan" (粮食节约和反食品浪费行动方案) have been successively introduced to systematically deploy food conservation work in the whole society.
From school restaurants to government canteens, from family tables to store catering, practicing thrift and opposing waste has become a trend.
In Yaoguan Central Primary School (遥观中心小学) in Changzhou (常州), Jiangsu (江苏), stories of teachers and students conserving and cherishing grain are constantly being updated on campus. "Teachers and students have transformed the value identity of cherishing grain into practical actions of 'saving a grain of grain'." said Ding Xiongying (丁雄鹰), the headmaster of Yaoguan Central Primary School Education Group (遥观中心小学教育集团).
In the meal taking link, the school promotes taking meals on demand and pricing by gram; using smart programs to analyze teachers' and students' dining preferences to provide data support for standardized menus and accurate matching of raw material procurement quantities... Renmin University of China (中国人民大学) has clever tricks for conservation and loss reduction. "The whole-chain digital governance system we built covers all links of food raw material procurement, acceptance, processing, production, and feedback." said Geng Xiaochen (耿晓琛), Director of the Catering Service Center of Renmin University of China (中国人民大学餐饮服务中心).
In the catering consumption market, reasonable ordering and leftover packaging are becoming more common, small portions and anti-waste have become the norm for catering takeaways, and thrifty banquets have become a new trend... The national awareness of conservation has been significantly improved.
Carlos Alderco, the FAO Representative in China (联合国粮农组织驻华代表卡洛斯·阿尔德科), said that the National Food Security Publicity Week is conducive to promoting the formation of a good atmosphere in the whole society for conserving food.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 常 钦
A stream of clear water originates from Danjiangkou (丹江口) and flows northward in a mighty surge.
This stream is tied to the drinking water "lifeline" of the people in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) and Henan (河南) regions. Behind this are the "water guardians" – the tens of thousands of people in Xichuan County (淅川县), Henan Province (河南省).
This is the location of the headworks of the central route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The South-to-North Water Diversion Project concerns the overall strategic situation, long-term development, and the well-being of the people." "We must unswervingly do all the work well and protect this reservoir of clear water."
These earnest instructions are both a trust and a test: Karst landforms are widely distributed, and the area of rocky desertification reaches 1.25 million mu. "A rich water town, an ecologically poor county" is Xichuan's contradictory past. How can the ecological protection red line be firmly guarded to ensure that a stream of clear water continues to flow northward forever? How can the people's desire to become rich and the "bottom line" of development be supported?
The question of the times has been posed, where should the answer begin?
Driving through the Xiaocaoyu (小草峪) watershed in Xichuan County (淅川县), a landscape painting unfolds before your eyes – the green mountains are layered and verdant, and the Danjiangkou Reservoir (丹江口水库) is as clear as jade. Xichuan County (淅川县) adheres to the "three greens" approach of expanding green, revitalizing green, and protecting green, practices the concept that green mountains and clear water are golden mountains and silver mountains, and achieves a development leap from "worrying about the mountains" to "getting rich from the mountains."
"Expanding Green" to Build a Foundation
From Soil Erosion to Green Mountains
"Expanding green" is the tenacity of "embroidering" forests on stones, and it is also a profound change in ideological concepts.
"In the past, the mountains were bare, and when it rained, the mountain skin would shed a layer of mud." Ma Huiqun (马会群), secretary of the Party branch of Xiaocaoyu Village (小草峪村), Madeng Town (马蹬镇), Xichuan County (淅川县), stroked the bark of a Chinese pine tree. This forest was something he "never dared to think about."
The Xiaocaoyu (小草峪) watershed covers villages such as Xiaocaoyu (小草峪) and Suzhuang (苏庄). Soil erosion used to be relatively serious here, and villagers had to "make a living in the cracks of the rocks."
During his work in Fujian (福建), Xi Jinping (习近平) promoted the treatment of soil erosion in Changting (长汀). 滴水穿石 (dī shuǐ chuān shí - "dripping water pierces stone," perseverance will prevail), the same spirit, echoes in the mountains and rivers of Xichuan (淅川).
The key soil and water conservation project in the Xiaocaoyu (小草峪) watershed was launched, and the "pioneering team" entered the deep mountains. Li Guofeng (李国峰), a member of the afforestation team, recalled: "If the machinery couldn't get up, we carried it on our backs; if there was no soil, we picked it from the foot of the mountain; if there was no water, we used stone weirs to raise water for irrigation level by level."
"We must be able to work hard and also be good at planning when planting trees." Xia Dan (夏丹), secretary of the Party Committee of Madeng Town (马蹬镇), introduced, "Near the water, plant maple and cypress to conserve water sources; near the village, plant pomegranates and walnuts to make the people's pockets bulge."
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Promote the 'four reservoirs' linkage of forest reservoirs, money reservoirs, grain reservoirs, and carbon reservoirs." The 8,800 mu of water conservation forest in the Xiaocaoyu (小草峪) watershed is a "reservoir" for conserving water sources, retaining 32,000 tons of sediment annually, firmly protecting the "big water tank" of the Danjiangkou Reservoir (丹江口水库); it is a "carbon reservoir" for carbon sequestration and oxygen release, contributing to addressing climate change...
"People who live up to the green mountains will surely be rewarded by the green mountains." The mountains are covered in green, and nature responds vividly – the forest coverage rate in Xichuan County (淅川县) has jumped from 45.7% at the end of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" to 61.7%; the number of bird species in the Danjiang Wetland National Nature Reserve (丹江湿地国家级自然保护区) has increased from more than 100 to more than 510.
"Revitalizing Green" to Enrich the People
From Protecting Ecology to Turning Green into Gold
"Revitalizing green" is a wonderful leap from "protecting ecology" to "generating gold and silver," and behind it is the scientific guidance of the "Two Mountains" concept.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Green mountains and clear water are golden mountains and silver mountains. A good ecological environment is both natural wealth and economic wealth, and it is related to the potential and stamina of economic and social development."
"Expanding green" is laying the foundation, and "revitalizing green" is writing an article, a big article that continuously transforms ecological advantages into development advantages.
Walking into the "Guoran Chuse" pomegranate base in Suzhuang Village (苏庄村), the person in charge, Gao Chen (高辰), led the villagers to pick pomegranates. "Pomegranates that 'drink Danjiang water and breathe good air' are very sweet!"
"The pomegranate trees we planted have become a new way for the villagers to get rich!" Gao Chen (高辰) said, "There are hundreds of people working here during the peak season."
Turning green into gold, scenery becomes "money view." A 10-kilometer-long "rainbow road" connects the Danjiang Grand View Garden Scenic Area (丹江大观苑景区) with beautiful villages such as Xiaocaoyu (小草峪) and Suzhuang (苏庄). Li Qin (李琴), a villager who returned to her hometown to open a farmhouse, has an annual income of over 100,000 yuan. 108 villagers in Madeng Town (马蹬镇) are making a living from tourism, and the poor mountain valley has become a health and wellness valley.
On December 25, 2024, a new page was written in the story: Henan Province's (河南省) first soil and water conservation carbon sink and ecological product value transformation transaction was signed in Xiaocaoyu (小草峪), with a transaction value of 2.16 million yuan! Invisible ecological benefits are transformed into tangible gold and silver that feed back into ecological construction, broadening the path for transforming green mountains and clear water into golden mountains and silver mountains.
Green mountains and clear water can continuously bring golden mountains and silver mountains. 230,000 mu of characteristic forest fruits drive 100,000 people to increase their income, and 9.16 million tourists and over 7.2 billion yuan in comprehensive tourism income, the story of Xichuan (淅川) proves: the key to turning green mountains and clear water into golden mountains and silver mountains lies in people and ideas. Protecting the ecological environment is protecting productivity, and improving the ecological environment is developing productivity.
"Protecting Green" to Strengthen the Foundation
From "One Person" to "A Group of People"
"Protecting green" is guarding the results, and it is also internalizing the concept of ecological civilization into a conscious action of common action. Among them, countless individual stories have converged into the story of the times of guarding the common homeland.
Forest ranger Zhang Tao (张涛) is one of the protagonists of the story. In the past, he was a lonely mountain patrolman, a water bottle, a few dry steamed buns, and a pair of liberation shoes that were worn out in a few days.
Now, he is no longer alone. Mobile phone APPs, drones, and forest fire video monitoring systems have given wings to mountain patrols. Behind him stands a "green protection army" composed of 730 grassroots forest rangers, 4 regional fire fighting teams, and countless volunteers.
This protection has received special attention. In August 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) replied to environmental protection volunteers in the Danjiangkou Reservoir (丹江口水库) area of Shiyan (十堰), Hubei (湖北), pointing out: "I am very pleased to learn that more and more people in the reservoir area have joined the volunteer service team over the past ten years, and they have been guarding a reservoir of clear water with their hearts and souls. The water in the reservoir area is clearer, the mountains are greener, and the environment is more beautiful."
The General Secretary's encouragement made Zhang Tao (张涛) feel greatly encouraged, "I feel that my efforts are very meaningful!"
"Ensuring that 'a stream of clear water flows north forever' requires everyone to be responsible and work persistently." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) encouragement inspires every guardian. Xichuan County (淅川县) has built a diversified management model of "human defense + technical defense + system defense" from professional teams to volunteers, allowing protection to shift from passive response to active prevention.
From stone mountains to green barriers, and then to golden mountains and silver mountains. "Expanding green reflects responsibility, revitalizing green demonstrates wisdom, and protecting green tests the long-term." Zhang Zhiqiang (张志强), member of the Standing Committee of the Nanyang Municipal Party Committee (南阳市委) and Secretary of the Xichuan County Party Committee (淅川县委), said. The story of Xiaocaoyu (小草峪) is like the roots of trees growing in the cracks of rocks – they扎 (zhā - "thrust into," to take root) downwards, firmly consolidating the foundation of green mountains and clear water; they grow upwards, steadily supporting the beautiful lives of the villagers.
A stream of clear water starts here and flows all the way north. What it carries is the scientific concept that green mountains and clear water are golden mountains and silver mountains, which shines with the light of truth. On the land of China (神州大地), such vivid stories are converging into a magnificent picture of the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, which is endless.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing (北京) on October 16th (Reporter Wang Haonan (王昊男) and Wang Zhou (王洲)) The HICOOL 2025 Global Entrepreneur Summit opened in Beijing (北京) on the 16th. At the opening ceremony, the first, second, and third prizes, the Excellence Award of the HICOOL 2025 Global Entrepreneur Competition, as well as the "Dream Supernova" and "Dream Star" awards of the HICOOL Youth Entrepreneur Dream Program were awarded, and related project activities were held simultaneously.
The summit will last for 3 days, with the theme of "Building a Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Capital", focusing on four elements: technological innovation, industrial integration, international cooperation, and youth power, and constructing a "1+8+11+X" innovation section. The "1 Main Stage" will host award ceremonies, major project launch ceremonies, summit forums and other activities; the "8 Ecological Exhibition Areas" will focus on presenting the latest achievements in cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence, biomedicine, integrated circuits, and new energy; the "11 Sub-Stages" will create special sections such as the HICOOL Living Room, the International Talent Recruitment Market, the Youth Entrepreneur Dream Program Sub-Stage, and the Venture Capital Docking Sub-Stage; the "X Featured Interactive Spaces" will focus on the diversified needs of innovative and entrepreneurial people, carry out various forms of small exchange activities, and set up exclusive interactive spaces such as investor negotiation areas and media live broadcast rooms. Outside the venue, a series of supporting activities such as the "HICOOL Science and Technology Culture Consumption Festival", the "HICOOL Global Entrepreneur Night" and the "Beijing (北京) Science and Technology Tour" will be launched simultaneously.
As an important exploration for Beijing (北京市) to create a talent entrepreneurship brand with global influence, HICOOL has cultivated the fertile ground for innovation and entrepreneurship in the capital, attracting a cumulative total of 45,000 entrepreneurial talents and 34,000 entrepreneurial projects from 167 countries and regions, and cultivating 1 listed company, 16 unicorn companies, and 197 specialized and innovative enterprises, with new post-competition financing exceeding 50 billion yuan.
Return to TopPeople's Daily, Beijing, October 16th (Reporter Yu Jingxian (郁静娴)) According to the agricultural situation dispatch from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部), as of October 14th, the national autumn grain harvest has exceeded 60%. By crop, intermediate rice is nearly 70%, corn is 55%, and soybeans are nearly 80%; by region, the Huanghuaihai region is 65%, the Northeast is nearly 60%, the Southwest is nearly 80%, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River exceed 50%, and the Northwest exceeds 60%.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 杜一菲 莽九晨 白 阳
In recent days, the International Department of the People's Daily and the Global Times Research Institute jointly released the "Vitality Asia-Pacific - Public Opinion Survey Report on 16 Countries in the Asia-Pacific Region." The report shows that people in the Asia-Pacific region generally agree that Asia-Pacific economies are a community of shared interests and a community of common destiny where all prosper and all suffer, and affirm the positive role of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in promoting regional economic development and other fields. Most respondents believe that China's development experience is worth learning from their own countries, and they look forward to working together to build a vibrant, harmonious, and prosperous Asia-Pacific family.
Among the 21 APEC member economies, this survey comprehensively considered the total economic output, population size, and feasibility of public opinion sampling, selecting 16 representative Asia-Pacific countries, and collected 9,077 valid questionnaires. The report fully presents the clear demands of the people in the Asia-Pacific region for opening up cooperation and multilateralism, and provides solid public opinion support for promoting the construction of an Asia-Pacific community with a shared future.
Cooperation and Win-Win Results Inject Vitality into Regional Development
The Asia-Pacific region accounts for 1/3 of the world's population, more than 60% of the world's total economic output, and nearly half of the total trade volume. It is the most dynamic growth belt in the global economy. As a pioneer in building an open world economy, APEC has gradually developed into the highest-level, broadest-field, and most influential economic cooperation mechanism in the Asia-Pacific region over the past 30 years, playing an important role in enhancing the level of regional economic integration and leading economic globalization. The report shows that 85% of respondents recognize the positive role of APEC in promoting regional economic development, social progress, and improvement of people's livelihoods, and more than 80% of respondents believe that their countries have benefited from development cooperation under the APEC framework, including obtaining "more international cooperation" (44%), "more development opportunities" (37%), and "more advanced technology" (35%).
Currently, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and change, unilateralism and protectionism are spreading, and Asia-Pacific cooperation faces the severe challenge of either advancing or regressing. Whether to open up or close off is directly related to whether the Asia-Pacific region can achieve sustainable growth. The public opinion poll shows that building an open and integrated Asia-Pacific cooperation pattern meets the expectations of the majority of people in the region - more than half of the respondents believe that their country's economic development is moving towards "more open cooperation," and 75% of the respondents support their country to participate more actively and deeply in various cooperation projects under the APEC framework.
Hwang Jae-ho (黄载皓), Director of the Institute for Global Strategic Cooperation in South Korea, believes that APEC has made important contributions to promoting trade and investment liberalization and facilitation in the region, promoting mutually beneficial economic benefits among members, and enhancing the well-being of the people in the region. Through high-level policy communication and mechanism coordination, members have reached consensus on a series of major issues, strengthened mutual trust, effectively resolved major risks and challenges of common concern in the region, and improved the effectiveness of cooperation.
"From the early Bogor Goals to the Putrajaya Vision, APEC's cooperation fields have rapidly expanded from traditional trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, and economic and technical cooperation to digital economy, innovation, green and low-carbon, and other issues centered on high-quality growth, which is in line with the interests and demands of the vast majority of members," said Liu Chenyang (刘晨阳), Director of the APEC Research Center at Nankai University and Vice Chairman of the China National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation. Currently, small and medium-sized economies and developing economies urgently need to obtain development momentum through regional cooperation and find opportunities to narrow the development gap and bridge the digital divide, and APEC's advantages in this regard are particularly significant.
The poll results show that more than 80% of respondents are willing or would consider participating in vocational and educational training and exchange programs established by APEC. Kim Jin-ho (金珍镐), a professor in the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy at Dankook University in South Korea, believes this is a positive signal, "In the current international situation, increasing personnel exchanges and communication among countries, especially in the fields of media and youth, plays an important role in building trust, dispelling doubts, and promoting people-to-people connectivity."
"A major advantage and characteristic of APEC is that it has embarked on a path of respecting differences and seeking mutually beneficial cooperation," pointed out Wei Jianguo (魏建国), a senior expert consultant at the China Center for International Economic Exchanges. Compared with other regional cooperation organizations, APEC members have significant differences in economic size, development level, and development capabilities. This differentiation also makes APEC more inclusive and diverse. The poll results show that about 70% of respondents believe that the principles of voluntary, consensus-based, and non-binding cooperation are applicable to the current economic cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region. Wei Jianguo believes that this flexible and pragmatic principle is conducive to each economy finding common ground under full communication and consultation, and working together towards a consistent goal through mutually beneficial cooperation.
Co-creation and Co-construction: China's Role is Widely Recognized
As an important economy in the Asia-Pacific region, China has always adhered to rooting itself in the Asia-Pacific, building the Asia-Pacific, and benefiting the Asia-Pacific. Since joining APEC, China has unswervingly promoted high-level opening up to the outside world, deepened pragmatic cooperation with other members in areas such as trade and investment, innovation and development, and green transformation, maintained the stability and smooth flow of regional industrial and supply chains with practical actions, and shared development concepts and governance solutions with an open attitude, making important contributions to the long-term stability and economic growth of the Asia-Pacific region. The poll shows that nearly 60% of respondents affirmed China's important role in promoting sustainable economic growth and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region; nearly 50% of respondents believe that China "is an important engine of economic growth in Asia."
Carlos Aquino (卡洛斯·阿基诺), Director of the Center for Asian Studies at the National University of San Marcos in Peru, said that China has actively promoted the construction of regional economic cooperation mechanisms, and the concepts of mutual benefit, win-win results, and open cooperation advocated by China are increasingly deeply rooted in people's hearts. The "Belt and Road" initiative proposed by China is highly compatible with APEC's connectivity blueprint, providing new opportunities for countries in the region in areas such as infrastructure construction, green transformation, and the digital economy. "Especially in the context of rising uncertainty in the current world economy, China's stable growth and commitment to opening up provide important confidence support for Asia-Pacific economic development."
China adheres to promoting high-quality development, and Chinese-style modernization provides broad opportunities for the common development of all parties in the region. The poll results show that 83% of respondents believe that China's development experience in various fields such as economy, society, culture, ecology, and technology is worth learning from their own countries. "Against the backdrop of multiple challenges, the economic development of the Asia-Pacific region is relatively stable, and the supporting role played by China's stable development is particularly critical," said Chen Fengying (陈凤英), a researcher at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations. China is sharing more opportunities brought about by high-quality development with Asia-Pacific economies through high-level opening up. Whether it is the destination choice of Chinese citizens traveling abroad or the visa-free policies gradually promoted by China and neighboring countries, they have directly driven the economic vitality of relevant countries. China's development experience is based on its own practice and has strong adaptability to countries in the Asia-Pacific region, and has practical reference significance for regional development.
"The deepening of cooperation between Thailand and China will provide development opportunities for Thailand," said Chibu (奇布), Vice Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Thai National Assembly. China is one of the most important participants in Asia-Pacific cooperation. As the world's second largest economy, China provides cooperation and development opportunities for the Asia-Pacific region with its own development, and promotes common prosperity through mutual benefit and win-win results. "Thailand hopes to continuously strengthen pragmatic cooperation between the two countries in areas such as digital technology, technological innovation, clean energy, and connectivity under bilateral and multilateral frameworks."
Building Consensus: The Asia-Pacific Community Has a Bright Future
The APEC Putrajaya Vision clearly proposes to build an open, dynamic, resilient, and peaceful Asia-Pacific community by 2040 to achieve the common prosperity of the people of the Asia-Pacific and their future generations. The report shows that 70% of respondents expressed their expectations for this.
People in the Asia-Pacific region have broad consensus on building an open Asia-Pacific, an inclusive Asia-Pacific, a green Asia-Pacific, and a digital Asia-Pacific, and generally expect members to further deepen various cooperation projects under the APEC framework. In the field of trade and investment, respondents are most looking forward to reducing tariffs and promoting trade and investment facilitation; in terms of the digital economy, cooperation in the fields of network security and 5G/communication technology is more popular; in the field of innovation cooperation, new energy technology and medical health are of most concern; in terms of sustainable development, there is a strong demand for cooperation in clean energy and low-carbon technology, addressing climate change, and biodiversity protection.
Chibu said that as an important economic growth engine in the Asia-Pacific and even the world, APEC is highly anticipated to further promote regional development and cooperation. "It is hoped that members will reach more consensus under the APEC framework, jointly safeguard multilateralism, promote the construction of an open world economy, and contribute to building a more prosperous and vibrant Asia-Pacific economy."
The 32nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting will be held in South Korea soon. Woo Soo-geun (禹守根), President of the East Asia Institute of South Korea and President of the Korea-China Global Association, said that APEC is a model of regional economic cooperation. He hopes that in the future, the organization will not only continue to help the economic growth of the Asia-Pacific region, but also become an inclusive platform for promoting social progress and sustainable development in the region. South Korea and China are close neighbors with intertwined interests and partners in jointly maintaining stability and development in Asia. He hopes that the two countries will expand the depth and breadth of cooperation through the APEC platform and jointly depict the future of sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region.
In 2026, China will host APEC for the third time. The respondents expect all parties to discuss issues such as poverty reduction, green development and addressing climate change, promoting the stability and smooth flow of global industrial and supply chains, digital economy and artificial intelligence governance, and innovative development, and jointly plan for the future.
Liu Chenyang said that the current international situation is intertwined with chaos and change, and unilateralism and protectionism have clearly risen. There is a need for "grouping together for warmth" among members. Over the years, China has always played a leading role in Asia-Pacific cooperation. China has a huge market size, which can not only rely on market advantages to provide resource support for regional cooperation, but also deepen the synergy of industrial and supply chains with its strong industrial capabilities. Therefore, all parties have expectations for China's role in promoting the Asia-Pacific regional integration process.
"China will host the APEC meeting in 2026, and we are full of expectations for this," said Aquino. He hopes that APEC will focus on issues such as inclusive growth, digital interconnection, green transformation, and cultural exchanges at that time, further consolidate the consensus on cooperation in the Asia-Pacific family, and promote the construction of an Asia-Pacific community with a shared future. This not only conforms to the common interests of all parties in the Asia-Pacific region, but will also inject new impetus and confidence into the world economy.
(Reporters Chen Yiming (陈一鸣) and Sun Guangyong (孙广勇) from this newspaper, and reporters Yi Jia (易佳) and Liu Siyin (刘斯尹) from the Global Times participated in the writing)
Return to TopBy: 阿卜杜勒卡德尔·贝里切
In the historical process of reshaping the international order, China has always participated in global governance with a constructive attitude, using the four major global initiatives as an important cooperation platform to promote the evolution of the international order in a direction that better serves the common interests of all mankind.
In today's world, the decline of the unipolar order has become an irreversible trend of the times, and building a more just and inclusive international order has become the common expectation of the international community. Against this backdrop, China, with its responsible great-power responsibility and proactive actions, continues to consolidate its own development foundation, and with systematic concept initiatives and pragmatic cooperation practices, is committed to becoming an important force in shaping the future international system, injecting strong momentum into promoting the international order to develop in a more just, reasonable, balanced, and universally beneficial direction.
The Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平) are an organic whole that highly resonates with the world's development needs, and collectively embodies China's systematic thinking on global development and governance. From an international perspective, China has firmly established itself as the world's second-largest economy and the world's largest trading nation, and has continued to achieve breakthroughs in technological research and development and industrial manufacturing in areas such as high-speed rail, 5G, and new energy. The accumulation of these development achievements not only continuously increases China's influence in the global economic landscape and political map, but also provides it with a solid foundation for providing more public goods to the international community and promoting the transformation of the global governance system.
From the perspective of the connotations of the four major global initiatives, each initiative precisely responds to global challenges in specific areas, and together they constitute a complete vision for promoting the world towards balanced development. The Global Development Initiative focuses on development as a core issue, calling on the international community to build consensus on development, increase investment in development, focus on narrowing the North-South gap, and inject impetus into achieving the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. The Global Security Initiative directly addresses the global security dilemma, adheres to the principle of indivisible security and the concept of common security, and provides a Chinese solution for resolving the security dilemma and maintaining world peace and stability. The Global Civilization Initiative advocates respecting the diversity of world civilizations and promoting exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, laying a solid ideological foundation for promoting human civilization progress and building a community with a shared future for mankind. The Global Governance Initiative is based on the urgent need for the transformation of the global governance system, calling for expanding the international voice and representation of developing countries concentrated in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, providing a practical and feasible path for resolving imbalances in the traditional global governance system and building a more just and reasonable international order, and has special significance in this era.
China's important role in various multilateral cooperation mechanisms provides solid practical support for the implementation of the four major global initiatives. In the BRICS cooperation mechanism, China joins hands with all parties to jointly promote the BRICS countries to expand from economic cooperation to political security, cultural exchanges and other fields, becoming an important platform for emerging market countries and developing countries to unite and strengthen themselves. Within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, China actively promotes the organization's expansion and cooperation upgrade, playing a leading role in maintaining security and stability in the Eurasian continent and promoting regional economic integration. In cooperation with ASEAN, China, as ASEAN's largest trading partner, continues to deepen cooperation with ASEAN in economic and trade, cultural, security and other fields, promote the upgrading of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area, and help the regional integration process to advance steadily in a complex international environment. In Africa and the Middle East, China actively builds dialogue and cooperation platforms, while promoting the construction of large-scale infrastructure projects, contributing Chinese strength to local development.
The four major global initiatives are a clear roadmap towards a multipolar world, which fully reflects China's increasing economic strength and international influence, and is also deeply dependent on multilateralism, forming a good pattern of mutual support and coordinated efforts between conceptual leadership and practical promotion. In the era of accelerated transformation of the global governance system, these initiatives outline a new blueprint for the future development of international relations. It breaks the previous monopoly of a few countries in the fields of development, security, civilization and governance, and clearly defines related rights as rights shared by all mankind, which is in line with the common aspirations of people from all countries for peace, development, cooperation and win-win results.
In the historical process of reshaping the international order, China has always participated in global governance with a constructive attitude, using the four major global initiatives as an important cooperation platform to promote the evolution of the international order in a direction that better serves the common interests of all mankind. In the future, as China and all parties in the world continue to deepen cooperation within the framework of the initiatives, China will surely play a more important role in promoting world multipolarity and building a community with a shared future for mankind, and make greater contributions to world peace and development.
(The author is a member of the Algerian National People's Assembly and an economist)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 16th (Reporter) - Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, met with Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström in Beijing (北京) on the 16th.
Wang Yi (王毅) pointed out that this year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Sweden. President Xi Jinping (习近平) and King Carl XVI Gustaf (卡尔十六世·古斯塔夫国王) exchanged congratulatory messages, agreeing to deepen practical cooperation between the two countries and promote the continuous development of China-Sweden relations. China is willing to work with Sweden to earnestly implement the consensus reached by the two heads of state. China is willing to implement a visa-free policy for Sweden. It is hoped that Sweden will play a constructive role in promoting the healthy development of China-Europe relations.
Tobias Billström stated that Sweden is willing to strengthen dialogue with China in the spirit of mutual respect, enhance understanding and mutual trust, and properly handle differences. Sweden firmly supports an open and free trade system.
On the same day, Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, met with Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman and CEO of Blackstone Group, in Beijing (北京).
Wang Yi (王毅) stated that China-US relations are the most important bilateral relationship in the world today. For China and the United States, two major countries, peaceful coexistence is a fundamental bottom line that must be maintained, and equality, respect, and mutual benefit are the correct ways to interact. **“脱钩断链”** (tuō gōu duàn liàn - "decoupling and severing chains," refers to the act of separating economic ties) is not a realistic or rational choice, and confrontation will only lead to **两败俱伤** (liǎng bài jù shāng - "both sides suffer," mutual loss). The two sides should carry out effective communication, properly resolve differences, and promote the stable, healthy, and sustainable development of China-US relations.
Schwarzman said that US-China relations are crucial to the world. He hopes that the two sides will strengthen communication, eliminate misunderstandings, and promote their respective development and prosperity. I am willing to continue to make positive efforts in this regard.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 16th. He Lifeng (何立峰), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, stated during a meeting with representatives of the Advisory Board of the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University (清华大学) at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse (钓鱼台国宾馆) on the 16th that China is comprehensively promoting the construction of a unified national market, unswervingly expanding high-level opening up to the outside world, and striving to achieve stable economic growth. China is willing to deepen mutually beneficial cooperation with all countries in the world, share high-quality development opportunities, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results. He expressed hope that the members of the Advisory Board will continue to play a bridging role and actively support China's economic development and Sino-foreign exchanges and cooperation.
Tim Cook (蒂姆·库克), Chairman of the Advisory Board, and others spoke, expressing their firm optimism about China's development prospects and their willingness to continue to cultivate the Chinese market and continuously expand investment and cooperation with China.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 16th (Reporter Wang Bin (王宾)) - Chen Wenqing (陈文清), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission (中央政法委), met with Masagos Zulkifli (马善高), Singapore's Minister for Social and Family Development, in Beijing (北京) on the 15th.
Chen Wenqing (陈文清) pointed out that this year marks the 35th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Singapore, and the leaders of the two countries have drawn a strategic blueprint for bilateral relations and practical cooperation in various fields. It is hoped that both sides will follow the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, give full play to the role of the China-Singapore High-Level Social Governance Forum platform, and deepen high-quality and forward-looking cooperation in the fields of law enforcement security and social governance, so as to make new and greater contributions to the well-being and prosperity of the two peoples.
Masagos Zulkifli (马善高) said that he is willing to strengthen practical exchanges with the Chinese side to better serve the relationship between Singapore and China and the development interests of the two countries.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 16 (Reporter Xie Xiyao) On October 16, the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) held a regular press conference. Ministry of Commerce (商务部) spokesperson He Yongqian (何咏前) responded to external concerns regarding international economic and trade issues such as the approval of rare earth exports.
A reporter asked: Some European companies are waiting for the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) to approve their rare earth export applications and are worried about having to suspend production. Does the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) consider arranging a green channel to alleviate the pressure on relevant companies?
He Yongqian (何咏前) stated that the rare earth export control measures introduced this time are a normal action by the Chinese government to improve its own export control system in accordance with laws and regulations. They are not targeted at specific countries and regions. As long as the export applications are for civilian use and compliant, they can be approved. China will continuously optimize the licensing process, shorten the review time, and actively consider applying general licenses, license exemptions, and other facilitation measures to effectively promote compliant trade during the implementation of the measures.
Another reporter asked: United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer (贾米森·格里尔) said that whether the United States avoids imposing 100% new tariffs on Chinese products depends on China. He also said that he believes there is still an opportunity to resolve the dispute over critical mineral restrictions. What is China's comment on this? Have other countries sought clarification on the new rare earth export control measures?
He Yongqian (何咏前) stated that after the Sino-US Madrid economic and trade talks, the US side, disregarding repeated dissuasion from the Chinese side, intensively introduced 20 measures to suppress China in just over 20 days, which seriously damaged China's interests and undermined the atmosphere of the economic and trade talks between the two sides. In particular, at the end of September, the US side introduced a penetrating rule for the export control entity list, which effectively extended the inclusion of thousands of Chinese companies into the "Entity List." At the same time, disregarding China's sincerity in consultation, it insisted on implementing the port fee measures for the 301 investigation of Chinese shipbuilding on October 14, which caused serious damage to China's interests and had an extremely negative impact.
He Yongqian (何咏前) pointed out that China is strongly dissatisfied with and firmly opposes the series of practices by the US side. It is hoped that the US side will cherish the achievements of the economic and trade talks and immediately correct its wrong practices. China is willing to properly resolve their respective concerns with the US side through equal dialogue on the basis of mutual respect.
He Yongqian (何咏前) said that before the measures were introduced, China had notified relevant countries and regions, including the United States, through the bilateral export control dialogue mechanism to clarify policy objectives and reduce misunderstandings and misjudgments. Some countries and regions expressed understanding and are willing to actively carry out communication and cooperation with China.
Talking about the special port service fees charged to US-related ships, He Yongqian (何咏前) said that from August 27 to 29 local time, Li Chenggang (李成钢), Deputy Minister of Commerce and Deputy China International Trade Representative, went to the United States to exchange and communicate with the US side on issues such as Sino-US economic and trade relations and the implementation of the consensus reached in the phone call between the heads of state of China and the United States, and made representations to the US side on the US 301 investigation and restrictive measures on China's shipbuilding and other industries. Recently, in accordance with the consensus reached in the phone call between the heads of state of the two countries and the consensus reached in the Sino-US economic and trade talks, China has been actively consulting and communicating with the US side on the 301 investigation restrictive measures, adhering to a constructive attitude, and putting forward relevant cooperation suggestions. However, the US side has taken a negative attitude and insisted on implementing restrictive measures, and China has had to take countermeasures, including charging special port service fees for US-related ships in accordance with laws and regulations.
He Yongqian (何咏前) stated that the US 301 investigation and restrictive measures on China's shipbuilding and other industries are typical unilateralism and protectionism practices, which seriously damage the interests of relevant Chinese industries, will also push up domestic inflation in the United States, and damage the competitiveness and employment of US ports. The implementation of US measures has indeed affected the stability of the global supply chain and caused chaos in the global shipping industry. China's relevant countermeasures are passive defensive actions and are necessary to safeguard the fair competition environment in the international shipping and shipbuilding market. China hopes that the US side can realize its own wrong behavior, meet China halfway, and return to the correct track of dialogue and consultation.
Another reporter asked: Some media reported that United States Trade Representative Greer (格里尔) recently claimed that China's measures will have a wide-ranging impact on many industries such as global semiconductors, artificial intelligence, and smartphones. What is China's comment on this?
He Yongqian (何咏前) stated that China's recent introduction of rare earth export control measures is a legitimate practice to improve its own export control system in accordance with laws and regulations. The purpose is to prevent rare earths from illegally flowing to inappropriate uses such as weapons of mass destruction and to better safeguard China's national security and global common security. The overseas rare earth products included in the control this time only include rare earth magnetic materials and related parts, rare earth sputtering targets, and other products that have already been listed in China's export control list. Before the measures were released, China notified the United States, Europe, Japan, and other countries and regions, and China is continuing to conduct friendly communication with relevant countries and regions on facilitation regarding export control measures.
"The US interpretation seriously distorts and exaggerates China's measures, deliberately causing unnecessary misunderstandings and panic," He Yongqian (何咏前) said. In fact, the United States' extraterritorial jurisdiction measures have a long history and have been implemented since decades ago. Since 2022, the United States has repeatedly introduced semiconductor export control measures targeting China, abused the US minimum content of 0%, the foreign direct product rule, and other extraterritorial jurisdiction measures applicable globally, and coerced various countries to jointly suppress and contain China. The US statement is judging others by oneself, which just proves that the US itself is constantly generalizing national security. The security and stability of the global supply chain requires the joint maintenance of all countries in the world, including the United States.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 16th (October 16th) - Wang Dongming (王东明), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, met with a delegation of senior cadres from the People's Liberation Front of Sri Lanka, led by its Politburo member and Minister of Transport, Highways, and Urban Development of the Government, Ratnayake, in Beijing (北京) on October 16th. The two sides exchanged views on implementing the important consensus reached by the heads of state of the two countries, deepening China-Sri Lanka (中斯) relations, and exchanges and cooperation between the ruling parties of the two countries.
Return to TopShanghai, October 16th (People's Daily reporter Ouyang Jie (欧阳洁)) On October 15th, the 2025 "Belt and Road" Customs Food Safety Cooperation Conference adopted the "Shanghai Declaration on Jointly Promoting Trade Facilitation and Sharing Food Safety," launched the "Silk Road Food Safety" information platform, and representatives from 11 countries signed the "Charter of the 'Belt and Road' Customs Food Safety Cooperation Mechanism" on site.
Return to TopThis newspaper reports from Beijing on October 16th (Li Longyi (李龙伊), Sang Yinghao (桑英豪)) that recently, the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部) publicized and released to the whole society the advanced deeds of the 2nd Combined Arms Battalion, Armored Infantry Company 1 ("Liu Laozhuang Company" (刘老庄连)) of a combined arms brigade of the Army, and awarded them the title of "Role Model of the Times."
The "Liu Laozhuang Company" (刘老庄连) is a heroic company born in the flames of the Anti-Japanese War. In March 1943, in order to cover the safe transfer of the Party and government organs and people of the Huaihai District, the company fought to the death with more than a thousand enemies in Liu Laozhuang (刘老庄), Huaiyin (淮阴), Jiangsu (江苏). All 82 warriors of the company heroically sacrificed themselves, and were praised by Comrade Zhu De (朱德) as "the highest manifestation of heroism of our army's commanders and fighters." After the war, the local people selected 82 outstanding young people to join the army. The New Fourth Army (新四军) reorganized the company and named it "Liu Laozhuang Company" (刘老庄连). They participated in more than 100 battles and campaigns in the Anti-Japanese War and the Liberation War, and were repeatedly commended for their meritorious service. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the company has deeply studied and implemented Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, adhered to building and educating people with Xi Jinping's (习近平) thinking on strengthening the military, inherited and carried forward the fervent loyalty of "dedicating life to the Party and the people," and strived to be a pioneer in strengthening the military with the spirit of "life without end, fighting without stop." They have successfully completed major tasks such as cross-regional exercises, international peacekeeping, and flood control and rescue, and have been commended by the Army as an advanced unit with "four haves." In the military parades of 2015, 2019 and 2025, the honorary flag of the "Liu Laozhuang Company" (刘老庄连) was reviewed by the Party and the people. In 2021, with the approval of the Party Central Committee, the "Liu Laozhuang Company" (刘老庄连) was selected as one of the "100 Important Heroic Models" since the founding of the Communist Party of China.
At the "Role Model of the Times" awarding ceremony, the "Decision of the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部) of the Communist Party of China on Awarding the Title of 'Role Model of the Times' to the 2nd Combined Arms Battalion, Armored Infantry Company 1 of a Combined Arms Brigade of the Army" was read out, a short film reflecting the advanced deeds of the company was played, and the responsible comrade of the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部) presented the "Role Model of the Times" medal and certificate to the representatives of the company's officers and soldiers.
In the decision to award the title of "Role Model of the Times," the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部) pointed out that the "Liu Laozhuang Company" (刘老庄连) is an outstanding representative of new era revolutionary soldiers who are soulful, capable, bloody, and moral. Their advanced deeds fully demonstrate the political nature and bloodline inheritance of the People's Army in firmly safeguarding the core and resolutely listening to the Party's command, vividly interpreting the spiritual qualities of all officers and soldiers of the army who are not afraid of strong enemies and dare to fight and win, and centrally demonstrating the good appearance of the People's Army and the good appearance of revolutionary soldiers in the new era. It is hoped that the broad masses of Party members and cadres, especially the officers and soldiers of the troops, will take the "Role Model of the Times" as an example, deeply study and implement Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) thinking on strengthening the military, profoundly understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments," enhance the "four consciousnesses," strengthen the "four confidences," achieve the "two safeguards," implement the chairman responsibility system of the Central Military Commission, inherit and carry forward the great spirit of the War of Resistance Against Japan, strengthen ideals and beliefs, cultivate a deep sense of national identity, and strive to achieve the centennial goal of army building on schedule, accelerate the building of the People's Army into a world-class army, and unite and struggle to comprehensively promote the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.
Responsible comrades from the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission (中央军委), the Party Committee of the Army, and the Party Committees of Hebei (河北) and Jiangsu Provinces (江苏), as well as officers and soldiers of the troops and representatives of teachers and students from universities and colleges in the capital, attended the launching ceremony.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Chengdu, October 16th (Xinhua) - On October 16th, State Councilor Chen Yiqin (谌贻琴) attended the opening ceremony of the 14th China Arts Festival in Chengdu (成都市), Sichuan Province (四川省) and announced its opening.
The China Arts Festival is the highest-level and most influential national comprehensive cultural and artistic event in China. This year's China Arts Festival thoroughly implements Xi Jinping's (习近平) cultural thought, implements the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter in 2013, and strives to create an "artistic event, people's festival," focusing on presenting the new heights and new atmosphere of Chinese literature and art in recent years, and the new achievements and new style of literary and art workers. During the festival, with the theme of "Art in Bashan and Shu Rivers, Drawing a New Chapter of the Times," more than 100 excellent stage art works and more than 170 mass art works will be performed, about 1,000 outstanding national fine arts, calligraphy seal carvings, and photography works will be exhibited, and the Wenhua Award and Qunxing Award selections, acrobatics and magic performances, intangible cultural heritage exhibitions, digital art exhibitions, "Drama Twin Cities," and "Youth Art Creation and Performance Week" and other activities will be held. At the same time, the Qunxing Award participating teams will be organized to perform in scenic spots, blocks, and communities to stimulate the vitality of literary and artistic creation, promote art to take root at the grassroots level, and plan and launch high-quality routes such as "Traveling with Performances" and "Night at the Museum" to promote the deep integration of culture and tourism.
This year's China Arts Festival is co-sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部), the Chongqing Municipal People's Government (重庆市人民政府), and the Sichuan Provincial People's Government (四川省人民政府).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李卓尔
On October 16, the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办公室) held a press conference to introduce the construction of civilized rural customs and the relevant situation of holding the China Civilized Rural Customs Conference.
The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core attaches great importance to the construction of civilized rural customs. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has repeatedly emphasized cultivating civilized rural customs, good family traditions, and simple folk customs to create a new look of rural civilization.
Hu Kaihong (胡凯红), full-time deputy director of the Central Spiritual Civilization Construction Office (中央精神文明建设办公室), said that in recent years, all localities and departments have focused on promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, adhered to the people-centered development thought, vigorously promoted the core socialist values, deepened the transformation of customs, and the ideals and beliefs of the broad masses of farmers have become firmer, their spiritual and cultural lives have become richer, and great changes have taken place in the form and spirit, appearance and essence of the vast rural areas.
"Village-level" cultural and sports activities are widely carried out.
The China Civilized Rural Customs Conference will be held in Yan'an (延安), Shaanxi Province (陕西省) from October 29th to 30th, co-sponsored by the Central Spiritual Civilization Construction Office (中央精神文明建设办公室), the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部), the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共陕西省委), and the People's Government of Shaanxi Province (陕西省人民政府).
"Cultivating civilized rural customs is an inherent requirement for promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside and an urgent need to meet the new spiritual and cultural needs of farmers." Hu Kaihong (胡凯红) introduced that the China Civilized Rural Customs Conference, with the theme of "Civilization makes the countryside better," will carry out a centralized performance of excellent literary and artistic programs to transform customs, and will focus on displaying the achievements of "village-level" mass cultural and sports activities.
In recent years, activities such as "Village BA," "Village Gala," and "Village Dance" have been welcomed and loved by the masses. "These activities, with their unique affinity and appeal, promote civilized rural customs, good family traditions, and simple folk customs in a subtle way," said Jiang Wensheng (江文胜), Vice Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
Jiang Wensheng (江文胜) said that "village-level" cultural and sports activities have become an important front for disseminating the Party's innovative theories and promoting positive energy. Healthy and positive cultural and sports activities have led the masses to the stage and stands, cultivating a good atmosphere of striving for progress and goodness, honesty and trustworthiness. At the same time, the activities mobilize farmers to participate widely, self-direct, self-manage, and self-improve, enhancing the cohesion of the village in the process of the activities and demonstrating the positive, united, and striving spirit of farmers in the new era.
The effectiveness of rural customs construction depends on whether the masses actively and widely participate. Hu Kaihong (胡凯红) said that further efforts should be made in three aspects: first, to carry out heart-warming services, give full play to the role of the New Era Civilization Practice Center (所、站), and implement the requirements of civilized rural customs construction in all aspects of serving the masses; second, to give play to the role of role models, let role models go to the masses and into the hearts of the masses, and encourage people to admire virtue and goodness, and learn from the wise; and third, to gather work synergy, especially to give full play to the role of grassroots party organizations and the role of enterprises, and mobilize state-owned enterprises and private enterprises.
Promoting the Transformation of Rural Customs
Transforming customs is related to the vital interests of millions of farmers, is a project that benefits the people, and is an urgent task to promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside. Since 2019, the No. 1 Central Document has made arrangements for the work of transforming rural customs for seven consecutive years.
Jiang Wensheng (江文胜) introduced that to promote the transformation of rural customs, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has improved the inter-departmental coordination mechanism, focused on addressing outstanding problems such as high bride prices, extravagant banquets, lavish funerals and meager support for the elderly, and rural gambling, and issued special documents to provide specific and operable policy toolboxes for local practices.
In recent years, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) and other eight departments have deployed special governance for the transformation of rural customs nationwide. All provinces have also released implementation plans in light of their actual conditions, forming a good situation in which counties are primarily responsible, townships and villages are responsible for implementation, and social forces widely participate. At the same time, activities such as the "Rural Customs Transformation Theme Promotion Month" and the National Rural Customs Transformation Quyi Performance are widely carried out to focus on presenting new practices and new styles of rural customs transformation, and guide farmers to consciously resist outdated customs.
The transformation of customs makes rural weddings and funerals more civilized and frugal, and greatly reduces the psychological and economic burden on the masses.
"In the next step, we will guide all localities to continue to increase their efforts and effectively enhance the people's sense of gain and happiness," Jiang Wensheng (江文胜) introduced. First, refine the advocacy standards so that farmers have a basis to follow when handling weddings and funerals; second, provide convenient services for the benefit of the people, relying on existing comprehensive service facilities in rural areas such as auditoriums and canteens to provide services for the benefit of the people in handling weddings and funerals; third, regulate the management of the wedding and funeral market, and encourage all localities to clarify the guiding price list for wedding and funeral supplies and services in light of local conditions; and fourth, give full play to the role of mass organizations, such as villagers' councils, wedding and funeral councils, and moral evaluation councils, to guide the masses to self-serve and self-manage.
Strengthening the Protection of Rural Cultural Heritage
"Cultural construction is a deeper and more lasting construction. Continuing the farming civilization and protecting the excellent local culture of rural areas is a task that needs to be vigorously grasped at present," said Hu Kaihong (胡凯红). "We must protect cultural heritage such as cultural relics and historic sites, local buildings, famous towns and villages, historical blocks, traditional villages, and intangible folk customs in rural areas."
All localities have deeply explored the ideological concepts, ethical norms, and traditional etiquette contained in rural cultural heritage, promoted the value pursuits of farming and reading as family traditions, courtesy and harmony in the family, diligence and thrift in managing the family, and integrity in establishing the family, and cultivated a new style of rural civilization in the new era.
"Rural cultural heritage contains broad farming wisdom, simple family and folk customs, and unique ecological landscapes, presenting multiple characteristics such as regional diversity, rooted in the local soil, historical inheritance, and ethnic integration, which has multiple values for inheriting excellent traditional Chinese culture, promoting rural industrial development, and cultivating civilized rural customs," Jiang Wensheng (江文胜) introduced. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) places the protection and inheritance of rural cultural heritage in an important position and deeply implements the farming culture inheritance and protection project.
First, carry out a comprehensive survey of farming cultural resources and rescue protection, collection, and collation of ancient agricultural books and ancient agricultural books, and organize academic and systematic research and interpretation. China's important agricultural cultural heritage has identified 188 items in 7 batches, of which 25 have been selected as globally important agricultural cultural heritage.
Second, organize large-scale training for local cultural talents, select and recommend outstanding rural craftsmen, and strengthen the inheritance of farming skills, traditional handicrafts, and folk festivals. Promote the new style of the times based on traditional etiquette and customs, and promote traditional virtues and excellent family traditions and family precepts.
Third, organically combine protection, inheritance, and development and utilization, promote "agricultural heritage good products" and "farming good things," and transform agricultural landscapes and folk customs into new rural industries and new business forms. Promote the "literary and artistic empowerment of beautiful villages" work, guide literary and art workers to go deep into the countryside, absorb traditional crafts and unique techniques to design and develop creative products, and cultivate rural cultural and art villages.
Return to TopRiyadh, October 16th (Reported by Zhang Zhiwen (张志文) and Ren Haoyu (任皓宇)) On October 15th, the China-Saudi Arabia Jointly Building "Belt and Road" Media Symposium and the Inauguration Ceremony of the People's Daily Saudi Arabia Branch were held in Riyadh (利雅得), the capital of Saudi Arabia (沙特阿拉伯). Yu Shaoliang (于绍良), President of the People's Daily, Isra Al-Asiri, Deputy Minister for Sector Development Affairs of the Saudi Ministry of Media, Chang Hua (常华), Chinese Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, and Hani Wafa, Editor-in-Chief of the Riyadh Newspaper, attended the event and unveiled the People's Daily Saudi Arabia Branch.
At the symposium, representatives from governments, media, think tanks, and enterprises of the two countries conducted extensive exchanges on topics such as deepening media exchanges and promoting people-to-people connectivity, expressing their willingness to jointly tell the story of friendly cooperation between China and Saudi Arabia and promote cooperation between the two countries in various fields to a new level. All parties believe that strengthening news exchanges and cooperation between China and Saudi Arabia will contribute media strength to promoting the development of the China-Saudi Arabia comprehensive strategic partnership.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on October 16th (Reporter Wang Hao (王浩)): Since the implementation of the Yellow River Protection Law, the Yellow River Conservancy Commission (黄河水利委员会) of the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) has comprehensively promoted full management of water withdrawal permits for the Yellow River's main stream, cumulatively reducing unreasonable water consumption by 285 million cubic meters, significantly improving the level of water resource conservation and intensive utilization.
Water intakes are the source of water resource development and utilization. Tightening and managing the "tap" of water intakes along the Yellow River's main stream is an important means of strengthening the rigid constraints on water resources. With the implementation of the Yellow River Protection Law, any project that directly withdraws water from the Yellow River's main stream must apply to the Yellow River Conservancy Commission (黄河水利委员会) for a water withdrawal permit in accordance with the law. The Yellow River Conservancy Commission (黄河水利委员会) has been orderly promoting the mutual transfer of water withdrawal projects with local authorities, organizing a strict verification of water consumption for each of the 1,829 projects transferred from local authorities, and reissuing water withdrawal permits to ensure that the permitted water volume of the Yellow River's main stream is strictly controlled within the water allocation targets.
The Yellow River Conservancy Commission (黄河水利委员会) promotes the improvement of the quality and efficiency of water withdrawal supervision in the Yellow River's main stream, accelerates the construction of a water resource monitoring system, and achieves full coverage of online monitoring and metering of 386 large-scale water intakes in the main stream. Relying on the National Water Withdrawal Management Platform, it has established a closed-loop supervision mechanism of "investigation of clues to illegal water withdrawal problems - problem verification - rectification and cancellation," cumulatively investigating 1,639 suspected problem clues online, and verifying more than 27,000 suspected problems in local areas. Credit evaluations have been carried out for 310 non-agricultural water users, realizing the transformation of water withdrawal supervision from "single administrative inspection" to "credit-based collaborative governance," and the order of water withdrawal in the Yellow River's main stream continues to improve.
Return to TopIn this golden autumn season, farmers in various regions are seizing the agricultural season to carry out autumn harvesting operations in an orderly manner. The picture shows villagers carrying monk fruit at the monk fruit planting base in Bidu Village, Zhongcheng Town, Rongjiang County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province (贵州省黔东南苗族侗族自治州榕江县忠诚镇俾堵村) on October 14.
Photo by Li Changhua (李长华) (Xinhua News Agency (新华社) issued).
Return to TopThis newspaper Macao October 16th (Reported by Fu Zimei (富子梅)) The 8th Legislative Assembly of the Macao Special Administrative Region (澳门特区) held the inauguration ceremony for all members on the 16th, and Zhang Yongchun (张永春) was elected as the President of the Legislative Assembly.
On the same day, under the supervision of Chui Sai On (岑浩辉), the Chief Executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region (澳门特区), all 33 members of the 8th Legislative Assembly of the Special Administrative Region (特区) read the oath prescribed by the Legislative Oath Law and were sworn into office in the presence of the guests.
The 8th Legislative Assembly of the Macao Special Administrative Region (澳门特区) held its first plenary meeting on the afternoon of the same day. After a secret ballot by all members, Zhang Yongchun (张永春) was elected as the President of the Legislative Assembly and was sworn into office under the supervision of Chui Sai On (岑浩辉). Ho Run-seng (何润生) was elected as the Vice President, and Sio Ka-len (施家伦) and Lei Cheng-i (李静仪) were elected as the First and Second Secretaries of the Executive Committee, respectively.
The election for the 8th Legislative Assembly of the Macao Special Administrative Region (澳门特区) was held on September 14th, resulting in 14 directly elected members and 12 indirectly elected members. The other 7 members were appointed by the Chief Executive of the Special Administrative Region (特区). The term of office for the members of the 8th Legislative Assembly is 4 years.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴 丹 丁雅诵
The magnificent China, agriculture is the foundation of the nation; the century-old university, its educational influence is far-reaching.
In 1905, the Agricultural College of Peking Imperial University (京师大学堂) was planned and built, marking the beginning of China Agricultural University (中国农业大学) and the start of modern agricultural higher education in China. Over the past 120 years, especially since the founding of New China, generations of China Agricultural University people have had soil under their feet and the stars in their hearts, sparing no effort to fulfill the Chinese people's centuries-old dream of adequate food and clothing and prosperity, becoming an important force in the modernization of China's agriculture and rural areas.
On October 15, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) replied to all faculty and students of China Agricultural University, emphasizing: "On the new journey, I hope you will carry forward the fine tradition of running the university, be determined to strengthen agriculture and serve the country, deepen the reform of education and teaching, strengthen agricultural science and technology innovation and the transformation and application of achievements, and strive to cultivate more professional talents who know and love agriculture, so as to make new contributions to building a strong agricultural country and promoting Chinese-style modernization."
With earnest expectations and earnest entrustment, General Secretary Xi Jinping's reply greatly encouraged the faculty, students, and alumni of China Agricultural University. Everyone unanimously expressed that they would take moral education as the fundamental task, take strengthening agriculture and revitalizing agriculture as their own responsibility, stride forward towards the goal of building a world-class university with Chinese characteristics and agricultural characteristics, be in sync with the construction of a strong country, and go hand in hand with the rejuvenation of the nation.
Cultivating Talents
Nurturing Feelings, Developing Skills
At the opening ceremony in 2025, the students of China Agricultural University who participated in the chorus of the September 3rd military parade once again echoed the passionate anti-Japanese war songs on campus. They expressed their feelings through songs and their aspirations through voices, "continuing to make good use of this vivid textbook of patriotism in commemorative activities."
From the song of youth to cultivating morality, striving to cultivate more professional talents who know and love agriculture relies on a solid curriculum system and profound educational practice.
Promoting the construction of a curriculum group with Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the core content, establishing a leading group for ideological and political course construction led by the Party Committee Secretary and President; moving the ideological and political classroom to community streets, fields, and rural homes, and improving the social practice teaching system; building a growth echelon of "senior teachers passing on experience and young teachers promoting mutual learning"... In recent years, China Agricultural University has insisted on placing the construction of ideological and political courses in an important position, promoting Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to be deeply rooted in the minds and hearts of people and take root.
In May 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) replied to the students of the Science and Technology Backyard of China Agricultural University, affirming the spirit of the students who went deep into the countryside of China to "seek hardship," and encouraging the students to aim high and be down-to-earth, and closely integrate classroom learning with rural practice.
Establishing a talent training model for Science and Technology Backyards and guiding young students to go deep into the countryside of China has become an innovative answer to China Agricultural University's deepening of higher agricultural and forestry education reform.
Crisscrossing fields, simple folk houses with green tiles and white walls, Gusheng Village (古生村) in Dali (大理), Yunnan (云南), a rural picture unfolds slowly.
Walking into the fields, the square fields are eye-catching. Conventional organic schemes, green product schemes, organic optimization schemes... A sign stands in front of each field, detailing the types of vegetables planted, the fertilization methods, and the planting goals. This is the experimental field of the Science and Technology Backyard.
"Living in farmers' homes, cooking our own meals, busy with experiments, and also busy with village affairs, we are running around every day," said Sui Xianxin (隋宪鑫), a graduate student at the College of Resources and Environmental Sciences. "But after a long time, seeing that Erhai Lake (洱海) is clearer and the villagers' income has increased, that feeling is sweet!"
The Science and Technology Backyard, deeply rooted in the countryside, shows vigorous vitality. At present, China Agricultural University has established more than 200 Science and Technology Backyards and promoted them to many countries and regions overseas.
More and more agricultural students are choosing to take root in the grassroots and in the west, using practical actions to interpret the responsibility and responsibility of contemporary youth.
Ye Songlin (叶松林), a graduate of the College of Engineering, chose to stay in the rural areas of Quzhou (曲周), Hebei (河北), contracting thousands of acres of farmland and engaging in research related to agricultural green development; Shen Qianxi (沈倩西), a graduate of the College of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering, came to Mesa Village (么洒村), Xisa Town (西洒镇), Xichou County (西畴县), Yunnan (云南), as the first secretary stationed in the village, using her expertise and enthusiasm to write a song of revitalization for the Zhuang (壮) and Miao (苗) mountains... Striving to become a new person of the era who can shoulder great responsibilities, students of China Agricultural University keep it in mind and act promptly.
Solving People's Livelihood
Carrying Forward Tradition, Strengthening Agriculture and Serving the Country
On the campus of China Agricultural University, two gray-white stone walls stand solemnly, with the four powerful characters "教民稼穑" ("teach the people to cultivate the land") witnessing the original intention of this institution of higher learning.
Agriculture, a major issue for the country and the foundation of people's livelihood, is closely linked to hundreds of millions of people. Carrying forward the fine tradition of running the university and being determined to strengthen agriculture and serve the country is precisely the unswerving pursuit and responsibility of generations of teachers and students of China Agricultural University.
In 1973, a group of young teachers, including Shi Yuanchun (石元春) and Xin Dehui (辛德惠), plunged into Quzhou (曲周), Hebei (河北), and made a vow to "not go home until the saline-alkali land is cured." They rolled up their trousers, carried their luggage, and waded through the mud to enter the village; they ate in the same pot with the common people, and rolled and crawled on the saline-alkali beach with mud and sweat... The former saline-alkali beach has been transformed into today's rice and grain field.
"The teachers of China Agricultural University helped us change the land and also changed the lives of the villagers." The simple words of the people of Quzhou (曲周) express the tireless pursuit of the people of China Agricultural University, that is, to write papers on the land, grow the fullest grain, and benefit thousands of households.
How many people from China Agricultural University are willing to dedicate themselves to the vast rural areas? Since its establishment, the school has trained more than 300,000 talents who know and love agriculture.
There is another answer that is even more touching. Hao Jinmin (郝晋珉), the sixth director of the Quzhou (曲周) Experimental Station of China Agricultural University, said: "I don't know exactly how many people from China Agricultural University have taken root in the countryside. I only know that my teachers, my teachers' teachers are here, and my students and my students' students are also here."
Engaging in farming in the countryside and serving the countryside, more forces to promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside are gathering.
In Minqin (民勤), Gansu (甘肃), reeds sway and birds fly on the shore of Qingtu Lake (青土湖). Behind the picturesque scenery is the 30-year persistence of Kang Shaozhong (康绍忠), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a professor at the College of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering. Facing the increasingly severe ecological crisis in the Shiyang River (石羊河) basin, Kang Shaozhong (康绍忠) led his students to reveal the water consumption patterns of 13 main crops and 4 windbreak and sand-fixing plants, using efficient irrigation models to make every drop of water play a greater value.
In Mengla (勐腊), Yunnan (云南), Li Xiaoyun (李小云), a senior professor of arts, lived in Hebian Village (河边村) as an ordinary farmer. In the exchanges with the villagers, a concept of a composite industry gradually emerged: while retaining traditional industries such as rubber, creating "Yao (瑶) ethnic mom's rooms" that combine modern comfort and ethnic characteristics to develop leisure tourism. The former poor village has become a well-known check-in destination.
From the black soil of Northeast China to the hot soil of Hainan, from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the Huanghuaihai Plain, field experimental stations, professor workstations, industrial research institutes, rural revitalization research institutes, practice bases, etc., are scattered like stars on the land of the motherland, outlining a vivid picture of the people of China Agricultural University starting businesses.
Pursuing Learning
What the Country Needs, Where Scientific Research is Directed
In two centuries, China Agricultural University has written many "firsts" in the history of agricultural science and technology innovation:
In 1988, a new genus "Sinorhizobium" was discovered, which is the first rhizobium genus discovered and named by Chinese scholars; in 1992, the world's first large-scale practical fruit and vegetable preservation warehouse using natural cold sources was built; in 2005, the first somatic cell cloned pig was cultivated, and China became the seventh country to master pig somatic cell cloning technology...
Aiming at the forefront and daring to be the first. Since the National Science Conference was held in 1978, the school has won more than 180 national-level scientific research awards and more than 1,200 provincial and ministerial-level scientific research awards. Sun Qixin (孙其信), President of China Agricultural University, said that it is necessary to strengthen agricultural science and technology innovation and the transformation and application of achievements, comprehensively serve the construction of a strong science and technology country, support the construction of a strong agricultural country, and shoulder the mission and responsibility of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance.
Where is the research direction of the people of China Agricultural University? What the country needs, where scientific research is directed.
"Use Chinese seeds to ensure China's food security." For this goal, Professor Chen Shaojiang (陈绍江) of the College of Agronomy has been working tirelessly.
Corn is the most widely planted and highest-yielding food crop in China, and it is also the crop with the largest seed market value in the world. The key to breaking through corn yield lies in cultivating new hybrid varieties, and the long cycle of parental purification was once the biggest obstacle.
In order to overcome the problem of "slow," Chen Shaojiang (陈绍江) led the team to explore and verify countless times, and their footprints have spread throughout the main corn producing areas in the country.
As the saying goes, **功夫不负有心人** (gōng fū bù fù yǒu xīn rén - "efforts will not fail those who put their heart into it," perseverance leads to success). They finally successfully developed an efficient technology system for corn haploid breeding, shortening the parental breeding cycle from 8 generations to 2 generations, increasing the breeding speed by more than 4 times, and installing a strong "Chinese engine" for corn breeding.
Since proposing the Ten Action Plans for Seed Industry Science and Technology Innovation in 2021, China Agricultural University has used the strength of the entire school to focus on the major needs of crop, livestock, horticulture, and grass seed industries to promote seed industry science and technology innovation.
——Based on basic research, consolidate the foundation of innovation. The identification of dense plant types and broad-spectrum disease-resistant genes in corn and wheat has laid a solid foundation for improving crop yields; the theory of green yield increase and efficiency improvement has broken through the international problem of difficult coordination between high yield and high efficiency; the first discovery of transferable polymyxin and other new drug-resistant genes and their mechanisms has promoted the adjustment of global antimicrobial drug management policies.
——Anchoring national needs and tackling "bottleneck" technologies. Independent gene editor key technologies break the monopoly of foreign seed industry core technologies; "Fengdeng (丰登)," "Shennong (神农)," "Fan Li (范蠡)" and other artificial intelligence large models, high-speed precision planters, farmland dust monitoring systems and other smart agriculture systems and equipment help the high-quality development of agriculture.
Thinking about what the country thinks, urgently needing what the country urgently needs, and responding to what the country needs, the teachers and students of China Agricultural University have used the fruitful results of scientific and technological innovation to help modern agriculture take off.
"Using Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to arm our minds, guide practice, and promote work, the school will carry forward the fine tradition of running the university, be determined to strengthen agriculture and serve the country, resolutely shoulder the mission and responsibility of the 'national team,' practice 'strengthening the country first strengthens agriculture, and China Agricultural University takes the lead,' and make new contributions to building a strong agricultural country and promoting Chinese-style modernization," said Zhong Denghua (钟登华), Secretary of the Party Committee of China Agricultural University.
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Taking the Development of Unique Strengths as the Main Direction – Based on such a methodology, forging strengths and reinforcing advantages, the road ahead for development will be clearer.
To tap into new driving forces, one cannot wait idly but must take proactive measures. Innovate ideas, remove obstacles, prioritize action, make preemptive moves, and fight proactive battles. Create conditions where none exist, and the momentum of development will be even stronger.
Yunnan (云南), located on a plateau, has abundant wind power. At dusk, strolling along the Dianchi Lake (滇池), the gentle breeze caresses the lake surface, creating layers of ripples. The setting sun reflects upon it, presenting myriad changes with the water patterns, just as the wind blowing across this plateau achieves a myriad of phenomena.
"Wind" is the natural wind. Qiubei County (丘北县) in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (文山壮族苗族自治州), with an average altitude of 2210 meters, utilizes the strong winds blowing through the mountains. 310 wind turbines stand tall, providing green electricity for 1.08 million households annually.
"Wind" is also the wind of opportunity. Jinning District (晋宁区) in Kunming (昆明), leverages the wind of connecting farmers and benefiting agriculture. Village collectives establish companies, and villagers invest with land. A 400-mu flower demonstration park can provide 135 jobs annually, driving income growth of 5.4 million yuan. Puzhehei Scenic Area (普者黑景区) in Qiubei County (丘北县), utilizes the wind of cultural and tourism integration. The idyllic paradise of "seeing mountains and water" becomes a filming location, boosting the tourism market... Yunnan (云南) is good at seizing opportunities, riding the "wind" to leverage its natural endowments into development advantages.
Taking the development of unique strengths as the main direction – based on such a methodology, forging strengths and reinforcing advantages, the road ahead for development will be clearer.
Developing wind power requires road construction first. When planning the wind power base in Qiubei (丘北), the needs of the villagers were fully considered. 320 kilometers of new industrial roads and 17 kilometers of rural roads were built, opening up the "capillaries" of agricultural product circulation. Developing cultural tourism requires improving facilities. Many old houses in the Puzhehei Scenic Area (普者黑景区) could not accommodate the flow of tourists. The leader of Xianrendong Village (仙人洞村) in the scenic area took the lead in demolishing and rebuilding his own house, driving the overall renovation of the entire village. Some farmers rely on newly built homestays to earn more than 2 million yuan annually. Growing coffee requires innovative products. Pu'er (普洱) and other places are creating "tea and coffee tracing" tourist destinations. Local tea and Western beans are developing synergistically, and the taste of Yunnan (云南) is "enough to soothe the dust of travel." To tap into new driving forces, one cannot wait idly but must take proactive measures. Innovate ideas, remove obstacles, prioritize action, make preemptive moves, and fight proactive battles. Create conditions where none exist, and the momentum of development will be even stronger.
Above the plateau, high-quality development is becoming a prevailing trend.
After the wind turbines are erected, the ecology is quickly restored. Fertile soil returns, and the wilderness remains the same. Marigolds stand side by side with wind cylinders, orange-yellow and white blending together, "all things grow together without harming each other." Tourist boats pass through the lake, without disturbing the lush lotus flowers. Protecting wild lotus flowers is incorporated into village regulations, and the rare variety "Da Sa Jin (大洒锦)" appears every year, making people marvel at "protecting the ecology, and the ecology will also reciprocate." High-precision digital and intelligent carbon dioxide online monitoring systems provide accurate data for carbon trading, demonstrating "the whole country as one chessboard"... With green development as the guide, Yunnan's (云南) high-quality development strides are sonorous, reflecting a development view that respects nature and follows nature.
Where does the "wind" of high-quality development originate?
"Coordinating the integrated protection and systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, and grasslands." Closing surrounding mines, restoring the ecological environment around the lake, and implementing rainwater and sewage diversion, without taking the old path of polluting first and then treating, the 500-li Dianchi Lake (五百里滇池) is regaining its glory through comprehensive governance, systematic governance, and source governance. Clean water, more birds, and fresh air are transformed into a sense of happiness in life.
"Continuously broadening the practical path of all-round embedding of various ethnic groups." Miao (苗族) people go to Yi (彝族) villages to "step on the flower mountain," and multiple ethnic groups celebrate the Water Splashing Festival together, continuously forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation. Promoting joint entrepreneurship and cross-regional flow among various ethnic groups gives them a sense of belonging in common struggle.
"Building a community with a shared future for mankind and achieving win-win sharing." In the four years since the opening of the China-Laos Railway (中老铁路), freight transport has covered 19 countries, transporting more than 3,300 kinds of goods. "Yunnan Rice (云南稻)" is planted in Indonesia, increasing production, income, and friendship. The open story of hard connectivity, soft connectivity, and heart connectivity tells the people's sense of gain.
The "wind" originates from the guidance of thought and the blueprint of strategy.
Where does the "wind" of high-quality development return?
Ecological benefits for the people, ecological benefits for the people, and ecology for the people. A good ecological environment is "the most inclusive people's livelihood and well-being." Uniting, developing, and prospering all ethnic groups, the Chinese nation's big family "must all live a good life." Implementing the four major global initiatives, jointly building the "Belt and Road" with high quality, and "enhancing the common interests of the people of all countries"...
The "wind" returns to "taking the people's heart as one's own and taking the world's benefit as one's own."
Where the "wind" rises, the winning momentum accumulates. The symphony of "ecological mega-protection and mega-coordination" is played on the banks of the Yellow River (黄河), and the tide of "pioneering exploration, leading demonstration, and radiating driving" is stirred up in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角)... The "wind" of high-quality development accumulates and becomes a trend, and the land of China is full of vitality and infinite vitality.
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Sunset, park, small band, everyone sitting on the ground, waving their hands, singing along softly... Have you ever encountered such a concert? No dazzling stage, no star lineup, but right at your doorstep, fun and worry-free. Not long ago, Beijing's "Music Map" was released, allowing citizens to unexpectedly encounter concerts at 20 outdoor locations - with diverse styles including popular songs, film and television golden hits, and classic folk music.
This beauty is not exclusive to big cities. In the cultural square of Zhangpu County (漳浦县), Fujian, a few beams of light, an open stage, and a group of local opera actors and music lovers constitute a unique performance. Traditional bamboo horse opera actors and modern bands perform on the same stage, and the audience comes from all over to enjoy the show.
From big cities to small counties, two concerts are entering the daily lives of more ordinary people in a "small and beautiful" manner, in an accessible way. This contains the key to writing a great article on humanistic economics.
To empower the economy with culture and revitalize culture with the economy, the key is to find the entry point and carrier. To allow culture and economy to interact and develop in an integrated manner, we cannot only focus on the "tall and grand"; "small and beautiful" can also produce great results.
What is small? "Lightweight" operation, controllable costs, and low barriers to audience participation make regular holding possible. Some places regard open-air concerts and local music concerts as "light cavalry" for laying out a cultural matrix, holding them regularly in parks, squares, communities, and other places. "Good to listen to, fun, and close to home," some people fall in love with a city because of such a cultural corner, finding a sense of belonging and identity.
Where is the beauty? The beauty lies in interaction - the audience requests songs on the spot, sings together collectively, transforming from appreciators to participants, emotions are released, and connections are established between people. The beauty lies in the scene - on the lawn, by the river, in the forest, music and nature complement each other. The beauty lies in integration - some concerts integrate elements such as markets, food, and camping, allowing people to embrace "poetry and the distance" without having to travel far. Cultural activities do not necessarily require large investment or large scenes; "small and beautiful" is also an effective carrier.
The "small and beautiful" music experience can be highly sought after in big cities and take root in small counties because it meets people's current needs for a richer, more delicate, and more personalized spiritual and cultural life.
Small is a strategy, but also a wisdom. It not only breaks away from the limitations of large investment and long cycles, but also cultivates the artistic literacy of the masses and subtly enriches the cultural soil of society by accurately connecting with cultural needs.
Looking at the whole country, "small and beautiful" cultural practices are blooming in more fields. The "Gatekeeper Art Museum" in Liangcheng New Village Street (凉城新村街道), Hongkou (虹口), Shanghai (上海), is transformed from idle gatekeeper space, holding regular exhibitions to integrate art exhibitions into the daily life of the community. Community coffee bookstores in some cities, integrating grocery stores, reading, salons, and neighborhood exchanges, have become a good place for community residents.
Cultural needs contain unlimited potential. New demands drive new supply. "Small and beautiful" inspires us that to better empower economic and social development with culture, we must capture personalized needs and provide more cultural products, thereby opening up greater incremental space.
Writing a great article on humanistic economics requires finding the connection point between culture and economy.
The roadside concerts in Guiyang (贵阳), Guizhou (贵州), have been held more than 400 times in the past two years, injecting vitality into the city's cultural tourism. Tonghua (通化), Jilin (吉林), invites tourists to enjoy distinctive folk songs in the Wunvfeng National Forest Park (五女峰国家森林公园), and also designs local specialties such as wild blueberry dried fruit, pine nut oil, and mountain walnuts into "music gift boxes" attached to the tickets, allowing local specialties to leave the mountains smoothly. New supply creates new demand. "Small and beautiful" also inspires us that finding the right combination point and focus point, and creating new consumption scenarios, can better achieve the unity of cultural and economic benefits.
It not only adds color to life, but also empowers the economy. We look forward to more lively "small and beautiful" cultural practices in various places to write a great article on humanistic economics.
Return to TopElectrification rate refers to the proportion of electric energy in final energy consumption and is an important indicator of a country's level of modernization. A recent report released by the China Electricity Council (中国电力企业联合会) shows that in 2024, China's electrification rate increased by 0.9 percentage points year-on-year, reaching approximately 28.8%, which is already higher than that of European and American countries. It is estimated that by 2030, the national electrification rate will reach about 35%, exceeding the average level of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries by 8-10 percentage points.
This is precisely:
Silver wings whirl, riding the long wind,
Pursuing green and embracing the new to promote prosperity.
Benefiting businesses and people, boosting the real economy,
Leading the trend, vitality surges.
Wang Jingwen (王静文)
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Inside the smart greenhouses of the vegetable base in Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County (大通回族土族自治县), Qinghai (青海), the red and plump cherry tomatoes are being harvested and packed; in the thousand-acre fresh broad bean fields of Shenzhong Township (申中乡), Huangyuan County (湟源县), fresh broad beans are being packaged and sent to all parts of the country; in 2024, Qinghai's cold-water fish exports exceeded 300 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of nearly 12 times... Qinghai, a place once regarded as a weak agricultural area due to its high altitude and low temperatures, is now relying on its cold resources to create a "hot industry" to promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
Cold-season vegetables generally refer to vegetables suitable for growing in summer in cold-climate regions, characterized by their preference for cold and tolerance to low temperatures. Common varieties include cabbage, broccoli, and others. China's advantageous cold-season vegetable production areas are mainly distributed in northern latitudes or higher altitude regions. In these areas, the economic model of developing agriculture, tourism, and energy industries by making full use of the climatic characteristics such as low average annual temperature, short frost-free period, and significant diurnal temperature difference is called the cold-season economy.
Take Qinghai as an example. The average annual temperature is only 3.4 degrees Celsius, and its cold-season vegetable industry is concentrated in the "golden altitude" zone of 2,000 to 2,800 meters in Xining (西宁) and Haidong (海东). It is worth considering why the relevant industries have only begun to take shape and grow in recent years, given that the cold climate has long been established.
Adapting to local conditions to "find the longest plank" is a prerequisite. The low temperature and scarce rainfall on the plateau, and the lack of water and heat, are unfavorable conditions for crop growth. However, on the other hand, sufficient sunlight and large diurnal temperature differences are conducive to the accumulation of sugar and nutrients in crops. The cold climate lengthens the crop growth cycle, and the frequency of pests and diseases is also reduced, resulting in less pesticide use during the production process and significantly improved vegetable quality. Not only in agriculture, but the lower temperatures in some parts of Qinghai allow data centers to operate for more than 300 days a year without air conditioning for cooling, providing unique conditions for the local development of the green computing industry. It can be seen that the original "shortcomings" and "disadvantages" can be transformed into unique advantages and favorable conditions for promoting regional economic development in some new scenarios and contexts.
Changing the mindset to "promote advantages" is key. Natural resources do not automatically translate into market resources; it is necessary to leverage human agency. Among them, technological innovation is the foundation. The Qinghai Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences (青海省农林科学院) has carried out breeding technology research on characteristic cold-season vegetables, cultivated new vegetable varieties that are more adapted to the cold plateau conditions and have high-yield and disease-resistant traits, laying a solid foundation for the industry to take root, sprout, and grow. Industrial upgrading is the key. Xining Huangzhong District (西宁湟中区) has built the "Huangzhong Cold-Season Vegetables" brand in accordance with local conditions, constructed a cold-season vegetable industry system, and benefited more than 20,000 farmers. It can be said that the development of cold-season vegetables and the cold-season economy is a clever use of natural resources, vividly demonstrating the huge potential and broad space for adapting to local conditions and differentiated development.
The inspiration from a region's practice of developing a characteristic economy is not limited to one time or place. It is precisely because ecological protection is well done that clean, less polluted environments can grow green and organic vegetables that are recognized by consumers; it is precisely because air visibility is high that some places can plan "dark night protection areas," gather a group of star-chasers, and develop ecological tourism, astrophotography, and other activities. The more solid the foundation of ecological protection is laid, the greater the potential and stamina for the development of related industries, vividly demonstrating the truth and power of 绿水青山就是金山银山 (lǜ shuǐ qīng shān jiù shì jīn shān yín shān - "green waters and green mountains are gold and silver mountains," the idea that environmental protection and economic development are mutually reinforcing). In the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (青藏高原), where the ecosystem is very fragile, adhering to ecological priority and green development reflects strategic vision and overall thinking.
From cold-season vegetables from Guyuan (固原), Ningxia (宁夏) being sold to Singapore, to colored peppers from Chongli (崇礼), Hebei (河北) becoming an important pillar for increasing the income of local farmers, to Puyuan Town (濮院镇), Tongxiang (桐乡), Zhejiang (浙江) developing the wool sweater industry "out of nothing," transforming disadvantages into advantages, and forging "resource shortcomings" into "development strengths," the key lies in people and in action. With green mountains and forests generating wealth, the path to developing new quality productive forces lies in the most simple methodology of hard work.
Return to TopFocusing on People is Key to Good Management
Liu Dashan (刘大山)
Currently, in many tourist destinations, commercial photography and street performances are ubiquitous. While meeting the needs of tourists and boosting the cultural and tourism economy, they also bring inconvenience to the public and disturb residents' rest. To this end, some places have set up civilized slogans, and some have explicitly issued bans, but the governance effect is not ideal. Urban governance should not be a binary choice. How to balance the vibrancy of life with good order, and the happiness of tourists with the comfort of residents, tests the wisdom and temperature of governance.
Commercial photography and street performances carry the livelihoods and dreams of many practitioners. Instead of persuading them to leave, it is better to think about how to help them integrate into the city and add color to the city. Shanghai (上海) has explored a licensed street performer system, requiring performers to hold licenses, be on duty at fixed times and locations, and accept regular assessments. Ninghai Road Street (宁海路街道) in Nanjing (南京), Jiangsu (江苏) convened dozens of commercial photography teams to hold a symposium, drafted a civilized convention, and equipped them with unified work badges. The relevant explorations do not treat commercial photography and street performances as troubles, but as part of the development of culture and tourism, regulating the practitioners through licensing, clarifying responsibilities and obligations through training, and reducing disturbance to residents by fixing locations and times, which helps to solve governance problems.
For the constantly popular new business forms, merely focusing on "controlling things" often only treats the symptoms but not the root cause. The city is a city of people, and urban governance must ultimately return to serving people. Changing the mindset, from "controlling things" to "serving people," and treating new business practitioners as participants in urban development, many problems will be solved easily.
(Excerpted from *Nanjing Daily* (《南京日报》), originally titled "Governing Commercial Photography and Street Performances, From 'Controlling Things' to 'Serving People'")
Good Listening is Key to Excellent Governance
Guo Yuanpeng (郭元鹏)
Recently, community workers in a certain place removed two residents from a WeChat group chat due to poor communication when the residents inquired about the free installation of alarms. At present, the local street has required the personnel involved to apologize to the residents and invited the residents to rejoin the group.
Residents consulting policies and providing feedback on problems are legitimate actions to participate in community affairs and safeguard their own rights and interests. Removing residents from the group chat not only prevents their demands from being responded to and their problems from being solved, but also may accumulate dissatisfaction, turning small problems into big contradictions, and turning gaps that could have been resolved into trust cracks that are difficult to repair.
"Looking for the community when there are problems" reflects the people's trust in grassroots organizations. It must be seen that the people's demands are not "troubles," but the direction for improving work; the people's supervision is not "nitpicking," but the driving force for improving governance. Being good at listening to the people's demands can better understand and solve problems, continuously optimize grassroots governance, and enhance people's well-being.
(Excerpted from *Guangxi Daily* (《广西日报》), originally titled "Kicking the Masses Out of the Group, Will the Problem Disappear?")
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Disposable lunch boxes, foam plastics, plastic bags... Such low-value plastic packaging generates more than 50 million tons annually nationwide. Due to the difficulty in recycling and the high cost of recycling, they have become a persistent source of white pollution. As an island province and a major maritime province, Hainan's (海南) ecological environment is more fragile, and the governance of plastic pollution is more urgent. How to put an end to white pollution is a question that the industry has been pondering.
At that time, under the background of a comprehensive "plastic ban," full biodegradation was a problem-solving idea and a new path with unclear standards, waiting for pioneers to explore. To assist the research team in formulating standards, we turned the factory into a "sample workshop" and "pilot test base." As soon as there were new technical parameters, we immediately started producing samples and sent them to the laboratory for testing. Exploration is often not successful at once, and the courage to explore and the tenacity to trek are essential. Through repeated experiments and continuous tempering, we put the finished products in front of everyone, proving that the technology is feasible and the products are reliable, and promoting the industry standards to move forward with individual efforts. Everyone does their best and unites their efforts. Everyone 摸着石头过河 (mō zhe shí tou guò hé - "feeling the stones to cross the river," to feel one's way; to proceed with caution), and they will explore new paths in unity and struggle.
Solving problems is the destination of technology, and the gold content of innovation lies in its practical relevance. For example, kitchen waste is often put in bags, and manual "bag breaking" is required when entering the fermentation tank for treatment, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive. In response, we developed a "7-day rapid degradation bag," which can degrade itself within 7 days, eliminating the bag breaking process and improving overall efficiency. Another example is that Hainan's (海南) air humidity is high, and raw materials are prone to moisture, resulting in unstable product performance. We improved the process and added a raw material dehumidification step to provide effective guarantee for product quality with innovation in small steps. Technology should not be a superficial show of skills. Giving solutions in combination with reality, even minor improvements and updates, can play a big value and role.
In July of this year, the "Hainan Province (海南省) Deepening the Promotion of 'Waste-Free Island' Construction Work Plan (2025-2030)" was released. "Waste-Free Island" sounds incredible, but it is not a castle in the air. Hainan (海南) will continue to promote the reduction of solid waste at the source and the utilization of resources, minimize the amount of landfill, and minimize the environmental impact of solid waste. This made me realize that degradation and recycling are not mutually exclusive, but complementary: air conditioner housings, mineral water bottles, etc. that can be recycled can be reborn in the final stage; while take-out lunch boxes stained with oil and broken agricultural mulch films are difficult to recycle and are more suitable for degradation at the source. Degradation and recycling are integrated in a two-pronged approach, and the whole chain is meticulously and completely covered – the goal of "waste-free" is thus broken down into achievable steps. This inspires us not to be afraid of difficulties, to work hard bit by bit, and we can release more energy than expected.
From the comprehensive "plastic ban" in 2018 to the current gradual promotion of "Waste-Free Island" construction, as a resident and builder of Hainan (海南), I have benefited a lot from the opportunities of the times and the changes in the industry. The idea that economic development and environmental protection are incompatible is one-sided. Only by developing the economy on the premise of protecting the environment can we obtain long-term returns. In addition, the tide of reform is often the forefront of exploration, which can give birth to innovative results. By being 天马行空 (tiān mǎ xíng kōng - "heavenly steed soaring across the skies," unconstrained, imaginative) in creativity and 脚踏实地 (jiǎo tà shí dì - "feet planted on solid ground," to be down-to-earth) in entrepreneurship, we can nourish ourselves with the times and contribute to the times with ourselves.
Through the glass window of the office, you can see the blue sea and sky of Hainan (海南). Devoting myself to the cause of green development and protecting this blue sea and sky is my responsibility. With the belief of 虽远必至 (suī yuǎn bì zhì - "though far, we will reach it," no matter how difficult the task, we will accomplish it), we can create more incredible miracles.
(The author is the chairman of Sino-Science Xinhui (Hainan) New Material Technology Co., Ltd. (中科信晖（海南）新材料科技有限公司), interviewed and compiled by Sun Haitian (孙海天), a reporter from this newspaper)
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴 月
On October 15th, in Zhengzhou (郑州), Henan (河南), at the Zhengzhou University (郑州大学) Central Gymnasium, the innovation project from Tsinghua University (清华大学) won the championship at the final competition of the China International College Students' Innovation Competition (2025). The team independently developed an artificial intelligence architecture that references the brain's "layering-looping" mechanism, demonstrating outstanding performance in reasoning depth and data pattern capture capabilities.
"Each round of the competition is an opportunity for the team to improve and progress. The competition also helped us connect with investors, entrepreneurial organizations, and more," said Chen William (陈威廉), a member of the project team.
The China International College Students' Innovation Competition (2025) was launched in April this year, co-sponsored by 11 departments including the Ministry of Education (教育部) and the People's Government of Henan Province (河南省人民政府). It attracted 6.19 million projects and 24.43 million participants from 5,673 schools in 161 countries and regions. The final competition was held at Zhengzhou University (郑州大学) from October 13th to 15th.
"I dare to venture, I can create!" The slogan shouted by the students at the championship competition was the theme of this year's competition.
"We want to develop a cell-like modular satellite composed of multiple modules..." Yao Zunhao (姚尊皓), a senior student from the "Small Satellite Class" of the Future Technology College of Harbin Institute of Technology (哈尔滨工业大学未来技术学院), confidently and calmly introduced the team's "Magnetic Fusion Star Hub" project. This innovative team, with an average age of 21, hopes to solve the problems of high operation and maintenance costs of low-orbit giant constellations. Currently, some technologies have been verified on satellites, and the project has entered the incubation phase at the HIT Science Park (哈工大科技园).
Exploring over a hundred soil heritage sites and conducting thousands of field experiments, the "Yituo Huaxia" project of Lanzhou University of Technology (兰州理工大学) is dedicated to the protection of cultural heritage, focusing on solving problems such as the instability of soil heritage sites with professional knowledge. Developing barrier-free intelligent assistive devices for the visually impaired and using "edge-cloud fusion" technology to achieve a balance between performance and battery life, Chen Yihao (陈奕好), an undergraduate student at Zhejiang University (浙江大学), and his partners transformed a flash of inspiration into a technological product with social value. Taking the competition as a platform, increasing skills and growing talents in innovative practice is a common gain for the students.
In the practice of industry-education integration and science-education integration, many innovative projects help solve industrial problems and achieve落地转化 (luò dì zhuǎn huà - "landing transformation," practical application and commercialization). Xu Jun (徐浚), a doctoral student at Fuzhou University (福州大学), and his classmates participated in the industry track competition, answering the question from Xiamen King Long United Automotive Industry Co., Ltd. (厦门金龙联合汽车工业有限公司): the research and application of key technologies for collaborative driving of super-heavy-duty expandable intelligent axle modules. The 6-axis test vehicle developed by the team has been successfully delivered, and the overall vehicle transfer efficiency has increased by 66.7%, which has been well received by the company.
The competition focuses on "industry proposing questions, universities answering, and students solving," building a bridge of communication and transformation between the education and industry sectors. This year, 3,104 companies submitted 6,976 topics, and the industry track attracted 2355 universities, 248,000 projects, and 963,000 participants. During the competition, 17 online national resource docking activities and 3 offline docking activities were also carried out, with a cumulative investment intention of approximately 9 billion yuan.
At the same time, the competition has also become a platform for youth innovation exchange, and Chinese and foreign youth have enhanced their friendship through mutual learning.
"The new equipment such as the manure fertilizer returning machine developed by the Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University (西北农林科技大学) mentor team is convenient for returning fertilizer and has good fertilizer efficiency, which has helped us improve the mechanization level of agricultural production," said Fakhriddin, a student from Tajik State University of Commerce (塔吉克斯坦国立商业大学), who led his team to conduct in-depth exchanges with teachers and students from Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University (西北农林科技大学). The China-Tajikistan Digital Agriculture Science and Technology Demonstration New Ecology project won the gold medal in the Central Asian regional competition.
This year's China International College Students' Innovation Competition held seven regional competitions in Europe, Africa, and other places, further expanding its international influence. During the final competition, the World University Innovation Conference was also held, and the "World University Innovation Index Report (2025)" and the "Innovation Code in the Era of Smart Education: World University Innovation Development Report (2025)" were released.
Stepping out of the competition venue is a new starting point. "Next, we will continue to promote more projects and strive to achieve more results," Chen William (陈威廉) said, expressing the common aspiration of the contestants: to grow in innovation, shine in struggle, and continue to contribute youth to promoting scientific and technological progress and promoting Sino-foreign scientific and technological exchanges.
(Our reporter Zhang Wenhao (张文豪) participated in the writing)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 16th (北京) -- The China Human Rights Development Foundation (中国人权发展基金会) and the Xinhua News Agency National High-end Think Tank (新华社国家高端智库) jointly released a Chinese-English think tank report in Beijing (北京) on the 16th, titled "Writing a Magnificent Chapter of Integration of Tradition and Modernity - Rural Development and Cultural Inheritance in Tibet, China (中国西藏的乡村发展与文化传承)."
In September 1965, the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) was officially established. As a major event of epoch-making significance in the history of Tibet's (西藏) development, it consolidated the great achievements of the peaceful liberation and democratic reform of Tibet (西藏), and realized the historic leap of Tibet's (西藏) social system. The report pointed out that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大), the CPC Central Committee (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has attached great importance to and comprehensively strengthened the work in Tibet (西藏), established the Party's strategy for governing Tibet (治藏方略) in the new era, systematically planned and promoted the long-term stability and high-quality development of Tibet (西藏) from the overall situation of the Party and the country, and Tibet (西藏) has joined the rest of the country in winning the battle against poverty, building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, and embarking on a new journey of building a modern socialist country in all respects, achieving historic achievements in economic and social development.
The main body of the report is divided into three parts: the main achievements of rural development and cultural inheritance in Tibet (西藏), the path of integration, and the enlightenment of experience. Taking the iconic villages of Tibet (西藏) as the observation cut, it deeply analyzes the practical path of the Party's strategy for governing Tibet (治藏方略) in the new era at the grassroots level, and provides fresh experiences with reference significance for countries and regions that hope to protect and develop their own cultural characteristics and achieve modern transformation.
The report believes that the main achievements of rural development and cultural inheritance in Tibet (西藏) include: rapid economic development, strong cultural protection, improved people's livelihood security, strengthened ecological protection, and enhanced national unity. The integration path of rural development and cultural inheritance in Tibet (西藏) is: policy support, quality improvement and efficiency enhancement; living inheritance, innovative development; resource development, cultural tourism integration; team leadership, common benefit. The main experiences and inspirations of rural development and cultural inheritance in Tibet (西藏) include: a value form based on respect for tradition, a development concept based on the protection of human rights, and a goal orientation based on comprehensive and coordinated development.
The report pointed out that the prosperity of the countryside in Tibet (西藏) is an epic of the integration of tradition and modernity. The changes in the villages of Tibet (西藏) give us rich enlightenment: development centered on the people can span thousands of years; modernization with culture as its soul can be 生生不息 (shēng shēng bù xī - "ceaseless growth," continuous and never-ending); a community with unity as its guiding principle can share glory. It shows the world that modernization is by no means Westernization, but the creative transformation and innovative development of excellent traditional culture rooted in its own soil and facing the future.
The full text of the report is about 12,000 words, and it is released to the world in Chinese and English through news media websites, periodicals, social media and other platforms.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Zhuhai (珠海) October 16th dispatch (Reporter Wang Huiqiong (王慧琼)) The 6th Overseas Chinese New Media Forum was held on the 16th in Zhuhai City (珠海市), Guangdong Province (广东省). More than 100 representatives from Chinese media, scholars, entrepreneurs, and representatives of institutions in China from five continents around the world attended the conference.
The forum, themed "Drawing a 'Circle of Unity' Together: Innovative Practices and Global Narratives in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区)," set up a main forum and sub-forums such as "Cultural Going Overseas in Diverse Forms" and "Overseas Chinese See Zhuhai (珠海) - The International Expression of Chinese-style Modernization Urban Model." The participating guests focused on giving play to the local advantages of overseas Chinese media, and carried out exchanges and discussions on how to tell the stories of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) and China's stories more wonderfully.
The "Overseas Chinese New Media Forum Alliance (Zhuhai Station (珠海站))" was launched at the forum, which will be committed to integrating high-quality communication resources in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) and the whole country to provide content supply and landing support for overseas Chinese media. The "Zhuhai Story (珠海故事) · Film and Television Short Drama Going Overseas Agreement" was also signed at the forum site. Chinese media and cultural enterprises cooperated to help Chinese culture go to overseas markets in innovative forms.
This forum was hosted by People's Daily Overseas Edition (人民日报海外版) and undertaken by People's Daily Overseas Network (人民日报海外网).
The Overseas Chinese New Media Forum is a platform for global Chinese new media to jointly discuss, exchange, cooperate and develop. Since its inception in 2015, the forum has played a positive role in promoting overseas Chinese media to share communication resources and innovate communication methods.
Return to TopBy: 新华社记者
Entering a new era, China's (中国) economic ship has braved turbulent currents and overcome numerous obstacles, advancing steadily towards one victory after another.
"The centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee is the fundamental guarantee for doing a good job in economic work. At critical moments and important junctures, the Party Central Committee promptly analyzes the situation and makes decisions and deployments, ensuring that China's (中国) economic ship can brave the wind and waves and move forward steadily and far."
Critical moments require critical choices.
The years since the new era have been extremely unusual and extraordinary, with reforms, development, and stability tasks of unprecedented difficulty. Through wind and rain, and breaking through waves, our confidence is stronger and our beliefs are firmer: developing and sublimating in important nodes and major challenges, demonstrating the power of truth, Xi Jinping's (习近平) economic thought guides the Chinese (中国) economy to always move forward in the right direction, and continuously thickens the material foundation of Chinese-style modernization.
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In the golden autumn season, in the factory area of Luoyang Bearing Group Co., Ltd. (河南洛阳轴承集团股份有限公司) in Henan (河南), the golden characters "Hold up the backbone of the national bearing industry" are particularly eye-catching.
This old enterprise, more than 70 years old, has overcome difficulties through reform and innovation, and has transformed to high-end manufacturing through repeated technological breakthroughs.
"We insist on taking the road of independent development of industry, relying on our own strength to develop industry and manufacturing. This road is the right one!" Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary, made this remark when he visited this enterprise in May of this year, with a review of the past and a vision for the future.
In May 2014, also on a visit to Henan (河南), there was also deep consideration of the path of development—
At that time, China's (中国) economic growth rate had fallen from double digits to below 8%. At the same time, extensive development and environmental pollution problems gradually emerged, and "speed anxiety" and "transformation confusion" were intertwined. Where will the Chinese (中国) economy go? How should the future development path be taken? For a time, opinions varied.
"Our country's development is still in an important period of strategic opportunity. We must enhance our confidence, proceed from the stage characteristics of our country's economic development, adapt to the new normal, and maintain a normal mindset strategically."
During that trip to Henan (河南), Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary, first publicly proposed the concept of the "new normal," profoundly pointing out the great logic of economic development in our country at present and for a period of time to come.
"It is not that we cannot increase the speed, but that we choose not to," "We cannot simply judge heroes based on GDP growth rates," "The driving force of economic development is shifting from traditional growth points to new growth points"...
A series of important expositions by Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary, directly pointed to the long-standing one-sided view of political achievements, guiding the Chinese (中国) economy, which had reached a critical stage, to calibrate its course and firmly grasp the historical initiative of development in the new era.
Thought is like a lighthouse, and the more critical the moment, the more it shows the light of scientific guidance.
In the face of the complex situation of "three-period superposition," the supply-side structural reform was proposed after assessing the situation, and the new development concepts of innovation, coordination, green, openness, and sharing were creatively proposed, opening a profound change related to the overall situation of our country's development;
In the face of the intensification of Sino-US trade frictions and significant changes in the external environment, we made preparations in advance to do a good job in the "six stabilities" work of stabilizing employment, stabilizing finance, stabilizing foreign trade, stabilizing foreign investment, stabilizing investment, and stabilizing expectations, to ensure the stable and healthy development of the economy;
In the face of the unprecedented impact of the century-long epidemic, we coordinated epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, and deployed the "six guarantees" work of ensuring residents' employment, ensuring basic livelihoods, and ensuring market entities based on the bottom-line thinking. China (中国) became the only major economy in the world to achieve positive economic growth in 2020;
In the face of the trend of rising domestic concerns in various countries after the global epidemic and the more obvious characteristics of China's (中国) domestic demand-led economy, we proposed the construction of a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the main body and the domestic and international dual cycles mutually promoting each other, and made the first move to grasp the initiative in future development;
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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) as the core, has scientifically judged the general trend of development and made critical choices at critical moments, which centrally demonstrates the power of truth of Xi Jinping's (习近平) economic thought, bringing about changes in thinking, structure, and driving force in China's (中国) economic development.
The economic operation trend in the second half of 2024 is still deeply remembered.
The complex and volatile situation and environment increased the downward pressure on the Chinese (中国) economy. From a good start in the first quarter to a gradual increase in downward pressure in the second and third quarters, the stock market and real estate market were under pressure, market expectations weakened, and worries spread at home and abroad.
At a critical moment, the Party Central Committee (党中央) decisively took action—
September 26, 2024, Zhongnanhai (中南海), Beijing (北京). Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary, presided over a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局会议). The Party Central Committee's (党中央) important guidance on economic work demonstrated the role of the backbone and stabilizing force.
Facing difficulties squarely and strengthening confidence, "earnestly enhance the sense of responsibility and urgency in doing a good job in economic work";
Grasping the key points and taking the initiative, "strive to complete the annual economic and social development goals and tasks";
Taking action and uniting as one, "fully stimulate the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the entire society in promoting high-quality development"...
Scientific and meticulous deployments have been transformed into solid and powerful measures: cutting reserve requirements and interest rates, boosting the real estate and stock markets, helping enterprises overcome difficulties, implementing large-scale equipment upgrades and trade-ins of consumer goods, promoting stable growth in foreign trade, and stimulating the vitality of the ice and snow economy... A package of incremental policies has been effectively implemented, and the annual development goals have been achieved as scheduled. The outside world has commented that this is a "milestone move in China's (中国) macroeconomic regulation."
Taking proactive strategic actions to consolidate the foundation for long-term development.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大), China's (中国) economy has grown at an average annual rate of 6%, and its average annual contribution to world economic growth has remained at around 30%. In particular, during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the economic increment is expected to exceed 35 trillion yuan, and the GDP in 2025 is expected to reach around 140 trillion yuan. The intensity of R&D expenditure exceeds the average level of EU countries, and the role of consumption as the main engine of economic growth has been further consolidated...
Hard-won achievements and invaluable inspirations. The critical choices at critical moments fully demonstrate that the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央) is the fundamental guarantee for China's (中国) economic ship to brave the wind and waves and move forward steadily and far.
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Since the beginning of this year, in the face of the US government's abuse of tariffs against the trend of the world, our country has firmly stood on the right side of history and earnestly sought development through openness and win-win results through cooperation.
"The essence of Sino-US economic and trade relations is mutual benefit and win-win," "To correct the course of the Sino-US relationship, we need to steer the ship well and set the direction," "China (中国) and the United States can completely achieve each other, prosper together, benefit the two countries, and benefit the world"...
To implement the consensus reached in the three calls between the heads of state of China (中国) and the United States, the Chinese (中国) side and the US side have held economic and trade talks in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Spain. Strengthening bottom-line thinking and fully preparing contingency plans, and stepping up the implementation of more proactive and effective macro policies, the calm and composure in response fully demonstrates the strength and confidence of our major economy.
Amidst the flying clouds, always be confident and calm.
The critical choices at critical moments are a profound insight into the national and world situation, and a profound practice of "advancing in the logic of historical progress and developing in the trend of the times."
Since the new era, Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary, has coordinated the overall strategic situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation (中华民族伟大复兴) and the major changes unseen in a century in the world, grasped the general trend of development, summarized the laws of development, proposed corresponding strategies and tactics, and firmly grasped the destiny of China's (中国) development and progress in its own hands.
On September 24 this year, when Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary, delivered a video address at the United Nations Climate Ambition Summit, he solemnly announced China's (中国) new round of nationally determined contributions—
By 2035, China's (中国) total greenhouse gas emissions across the economy will be reduced by 7%-10% compared with the peak, and efforts will be made to do better; the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption in total energy consumption will reach more than 30%...
When some countries are hesitant to address climate change, China's (中国) commitment highlights its strategic determination to unswervingly follow the path of green development, winning widespread praise from the international community.
Standing on the peak and looking out, you can have a panoramic view of the infinite scenery; standing at the forefront of the times, you can grasp the initiative of development.
"Strategic issues are fundamental issues for a political party and a country." Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary, profoundly pointed out that if the judgment on strategy is accurate, the planning on strategy is scientific, and the initiative on strategy is won, the cause of the Party and the people will be promising.
Coordinating the overall layout of the "five-sphere integrated plan," coordinating the strategic layout of the "four comprehensives," implementing the innovation-driven development strategy, the rural revitalization strategy, the regional coordinated development strategy, and the national food security strategy...
Those who are good at planning will win, and those who plan far ahead will prosper. Every strategic decision that is made with ease and every journey that is made through wind and rain demonstrates the importance of leadership and the correctness of the choice.
The critical choices at critical moments contain a scientific methodology.
Adhering to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, this important principle of our Party's governance of the economy has been consistent since the new era.
At the Central Economic Work Conference (中央经济工作会议) in 2024, Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary, profoundly clarified the macro policy orientation for 2025—"seeking progress while maintaining stability, promoting stability through progress, upholding righteousness and innovation, establishing before breaking, systematic integration, and coordinated cooperation."
These 24 characters further enrich the connotation of the "general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability" and are a vivid embodiment of our Party's adherence to and application of Marxist dialectical materialism in accordance with the laws of economic development.
Stability is the main theme; progress is the general direction. The successive Central Economic Work Conferences (中央经济工作会议) in the new era have made targeted adjustments to the relationship between "stability" and "progress" under the unchanged general tone, demonstrating economic governance wisdom in dynamic balance.
Grasping the relationship between supply and demand is an important proposition in economics.
This is a vivid footnote to the virtuous interaction between supply and demand: the movie "Ne Zha 2" has repeatedly broken box office records, activating the "pool of spring water" of derivative products and trendy toy industries; Haier's integrated three-drum washing machine quickly became popular after its launch, accurately responding to the new needs of young consumers; China's (中国) trendy toy LABUBU is popular around the world, and creative design ignites a new wave of consumption...
New demand leads to new supply, and new supply creates new demand.
"We must do a good job in coordinating the expansion of domestic demand and deepening supply-side structural reform to form a higher-level dynamic balance in which demand drives supply and supply creates demand," "We must coordinate the relationship between total supply and total demand and smooth the national economic cycle"...
Explanations full of dialectical wisdom demonstrate Xi Jinping's (习近平) economic thought's profound grasp of the relationship between supply and demand, pointing out the direction for China's (中国) economic development in complex situations.
Insight into the times and trends, coordinating establishment and destruction, connecting internal and external, and analyzing crises and opportunities... In the face of new situations and new problems, Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary, has creatively proposed a series of scientific ideological methods and working methods in profound thinking and practice, leading the pace of China's (中国) high-quality economic development to become more solid.
To implement key decisions, precise and effective strategies are particularly needed.
Scale of 500 billion yuan! Recently, China's (中国) policy-based financial instruments have been updated again—
The National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) announced at the end of September that, in order to promote finance to better serve the real economy, it is stepping up the investment of new policy-based financial instrument funds into specific projects, urging local governments to speed up construction and form more physical workloads as soon as possible, and promote the expansion of effective investment.
Stabilizing the economy and promoting reform, the constantly enriched macro policy toolbox provides "real money" for expanding domestic demand and boosting consumption, becoming a strong support for the strong resilience and vitality of the Chinese (中国) economy.
Economic work is complex and multifaceted, and "achieving breadth and depth" is the way to success. Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary, earnestly warned, "We must control the details, organically combine political economy, macro and micro, and strategy and tactics, so as to have a panoramic view when planning and be meticulous and appropriate in operation."
The more critical the moment, the more precise the orientation, meticulous deployment, and solid implementation are required. Moving forward in unison, drawing a blueprint to the end, and constantly gathering strong confidence and strength to promote high-quality development.
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At present, China's (中国) economic ship is sailing to a new critical journey—
The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for laying the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically realize socialist modernization.
"We must closely focus on the central tasks of the Party in the new era and on the new journey, plan and implement the goals, tasks, and strategic measures of the '15th Five-Year Plan,' and ensure that decisive progress is made in basically realizing socialist modernization." Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary, pointed out.
On the long journey full of glory and dreams, our Party's critical choices have led China's (中国) economy to grow and strengthen in the baptism of wind and rain, and will also lead China's (中国) economy to a broader world.
Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary, explained China's (中国) choices for the future in this way: "No matter how the external environment changes, China (中国) will strengthen its confidence, maintain its determination, and concentrate on doing its own things well."
To concentrate on doing our own things well, we must always maintain the determination to promote high-quality development.
"Technological innovation and industrial innovation are the basic paths for developing new quality productive forces." During the National People's Congress (全国两会) this year, Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary, emphasized when participating in the deliberation of the Jiangsu (江苏) delegation.
To promote Chinese-style modernization, science and technology must take the lead.
Emphasizing "adhering to the main business, strengthening the real economy, and strengthening independent innovation" at the symposium for private enterprises, presiding over the collective study of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中央政治局) focusing on "strengthening the development and supervision of artificial intelligence," and conducting field research to guide the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing... A series of far-reaching plans by the General Secretary have released a clear signal to accelerate the development of new quality productive forces.
Not confused by temporary events, not disturbed by high winds and waves. Xi Jinping's (习近平), General Secretary's guidance is firm and clear: "Respond to various uncertainties with the certainty of high-quality development."
On the road ahead, fully and accurately implementing the new development concept, giving full play to the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, the advantages of the super-large-scale market, the advantages of the complete industrial system, and the advantages of abundant human resources, the basic trend of China's (中国) long-term economic improvement will not change.
To concentrate on doing our own things well, we must constantly enhance our determination to deepen reform and expand opening up.
How can the Chinese (中国) economy solve the various problems facing development and resolve the risks and challenges from all sides? Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary, thought deeply: "There is no other way but to deepen reform and opening up."
On October 13, 1.8 million kilowatts of clean electricity from the Southern Power Grid (南方电网) was sent to the Yangtze River Delta (长三角地区) through the Yunxiao DC channel, realizing cross-regional power allocation.
Breaking through the walls of regional boundaries with the power of reform, this cross-grid transaction between the State Grid (国家电网) and the Southern Power Grid (南方电网) has pressed the "acceleration key" for the efficient flow of China's (中国) power resources across regions, taking an important step in the construction of a unified national power market.
Having traveled thousands of mountains and rivers, the pace of reform has never stopped: the implementation of the Private Economy Promotion Law; the new version of the market access negative list has reduced the number of list items to 106; 10 regions have been approved to carry out comprehensive reform pilots for the market-based allocation of factors... One key area reform "falls" drives the comprehensive deepening of reform "to fully activate."
This December, the full island closure of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自贸港) will be officially launched. All parties believe that this has a leading role in China's (中国) economic growth and open development.
Promoting the expansion of pilot programs for opening up in telecommunications, medical care, education, and other fields; optimizing the comprehensive pilot demonstration for expanding opening up in the national service industry; implementing the requirements for fully abolishing foreign investment access restrictions in the manufacturing sector; expanding the scope of visa-free countries and optimizing entry policies...
"To walk with China is to walk with opportunity, to believe in China is to believe in tomorrow, and to invest in China is to invest in the future." In March of this year, President Xi Jinping's (习近平) sincere invitation during his meeting with representatives from the international business community demonstrated China's unwavering determination to deepen reform and expand opening up.
Concentrating our efforts on managing our own affairs well requires always adhering to the original aspiration of enhancing the people's well-being and realizing their happiness.
"I have been constantly concerned, and I have been learning about the situation here every day during that period." During his first domestic inspection in 2025, President Xi Jinping (习近平) visited Huludao (葫芦岛), Liaoning (辽宁) as his first stop to visit the disaster-stricken people. Looking at housing, asking about difficulties, the small matters of thousands of households are the major affairs of the Communist Party's governance.
Chinese-style modernization prioritizes the people's livelihood.
Shifting the focus of macroeconomic policies more towards benefiting the people's livelihood and promoting consumption, emphasizing increasing the effort of "investing in people," continuing to increase the basic pension for retirees and the per capita financial subsidy standard for urban and rural residents' medical insurance, and introducing and implementing childcare subsidy systems...
"Relying closely on the people to create great historical achievements," the "grand picture" of national development resonates with the "small goals" of the people, and the 1.4 billion people are always the most solid backing and the strongest confidence.
Comrade Mao Zedong (毛泽东) said, "Once the fate of China is in the hands of the people themselves, China will, like the sun rising in the East, illuminate the earth with its own brilliant light."
Today, this scene is inspiring—
During this year's September 3rd military parade, the "众" (zhòng - crowd/multitude) character-shaped viewing platform on Tiananmen Square (天安门广场) was a spectacular sight, symbolizing the Chinese people under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) being of **万众一心、众志成城** (wàn zhòng yī xīn, zhòng zhì chéng chéng - "ten thousand people one heart, all wills become a city," united as one) and advancing vigorously towards the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Our modernization is not only the most difficult, but also the greatest." Hundreds of millions of people working together with one heart and one mind is the key to overcoming its "most difficult" aspects and achieving its "greatest" potential.
With hearts set on the distant future, what is there to fear from long and arduous roads; with firm choices, why dread the stormy waves?
On a new journey, guided by Xi Jinping's (习近平) economic thought, hundreds of millions of people are forging ahead with determination, unafraid of winds and waves. The Chinese economic ship will not change its mighty forward momentum, and the progress of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation is unstoppable!
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), October 16, reporters Han Jie (韩洁), Yu Jiaxin (于佳欣), Wang Xi (王希), Zhou Yuan (周圆), Tang Shining (唐诗凝))
Return to TopQingdao, October 16 (Reporter Hou Linliang (侯琳良)) The 10th China International Copyright Expo and the 2025 International Copyright Forum, hosted by the National Copyright Administration (国家版权局) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (世界知识产权组织), and organized by the Shandong Provincial Copyright Bureau (山东省版权局) and the Qingdao Municipal People's Government of Shandong Province (山东省青岛市人民政府), opened in Qingdao (青岛) on October 16. Relevant leaders from the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部), the Shandong Provincial Party Committee (山东省委), and the World Intellectual Property Organization (世界知识产权组织) attended related activities.
The 2025 International Copyright Forum, themed "Creative Industries in the Digital Age: Reimagining Copyright for Development," brought together more than 400 domestic and foreign guests from the copyright field. During the forum, the China National Copyright Administration (中国国家版权局) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (世界知识产权组织) jointly presented the 2025 China Copyright Gold Award, and the China National Copyright Administration (中国国家版权局) showcased key copyright work.
The current Copyright Expo, themed "Digital Intelligence Leads the Future, Copyright Innovation and Development," is divided into five sections, with a planned venue area of nearly 50,000 square meters. It has attracted 57 exhibition groups and over 1,100 companies to participate, focusing on showcasing digital and intelligent innovation achievements in the global copyright field, systematically summarizing the historic achievements of copyright work during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, building a high-level international platform for the exhibition and trade of copyright products and services, and deeply promoting exchanges and dialogues in the international copyright field, to provide copyright support for accelerating the construction of a strong cultural nation.
At this Copyright Expo, the National Copyright Administration (国家版权局) is holding an exhibition on "Copyright Promoting the Construction of a Strong Cultural Nation." The exhibition is mainly divided into six parts: legal protection, rights protection, industrial development, international cooperation, publicity and training, and good Chinese copyright stories, focusing on showcasing the positive contributions of China's copyright work in promoting the construction of a strong socialist cultural nation during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
Return to TopIn the golden autumn season, the wind carries tenderness, and the scenery paints beautiful dreams. Recently, the launch ceremony of "Preferred Destination for Travel Weddings: Love in Yunnan" was held in Dali City (大理市), Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture (大理白族自治州), Yunnan Province (云南省). More than 200 guests from all over the country gathered to witness the opening of a new chapter in the construction of Yunnan (云南) as a travel wedding destination. Next, the event will continue to be exciting in Kunming City (昆明市), Baoshan City (保山市), Lijiang City (丽江市), Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture (红河哈尼族彝族自治州), Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (迪庆藏族自治州), Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture (西双版纳傣族自治州) and other cities and prefectures.
Deepening Industrial Integration, Cultivating New Romantic Residence Business Forms
Yunnan's (云南) unique location has created a rich topography from snow-capped mountains and glaciers to tropical rainforests, from alpine canyons to flower meadows, making it a "natural studio." Many classic film and television works, song works and other cultural treasures have made Yunnan (云南) a popular destination for love confessions and weddings.
The Yunnan Provincial Party Committee (云南省委) and the Yunnan Provincial Government (云南省政府) attach great importance to the development of the cultural tourism industry and are making every effort to promote the deep integration of cultural tourism. Relying on rich natural and cultural resources and an increasingly perfect wedding service system, we will deepen industrial integration and cultivate new romantic residence business forms. We will thoroughly implement the "Three-Year Action Plan for Accelerating the Construction of Travel and Residence in Yunnan (加快推进旅居云南建设三年行动)", and introduce incremental policies such as relevant measures to create an upgraded version of tourism consumption and incentive measures for inbound tourism to "attract tourists to Yunnan (引客入滇)", injecting strong impetus into the development of the wedding industry.
In the next step, Yunnan (云南) will also incorporate wedding photography into the key development plan of the cultural tourism industry during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, so as to accurately implement policies and empower in multiple dimensions to create a global travel wedding destination.
Weaving Fragrant Artistic Conception, Creating Seven Major Wedding Destinations in Yunnan
From the flower sea of Spring City to the secret realm of snow-capped mountains, the seven major wedding destinations in Yunnan (云南) have their own unique styles.
Kunming (昆明) has an average annual temperature of 16.3 degrees Celsius, which makes it a romantic background for the "Spring City Flower Capital." Gulls dance by Dianchi Lake (滇池), and flowers in Dounan Flower Market (斗南花市) are as bright as brocade, weaving a fragrant artistic conception for weddings. Dali (大理) writes love legends in the "wind, flowers, snow, and moon (风花雪月)," and the Erhai Ecological Corridor (洱海生态廊道) welcomes hundreds of newlywed couples every day, and Longkan Wharf (龙龛码头) has become a popular place for confessions. In 2024, more than 5,000 destination weddings were held, serving more than 200,000 couples. Lijiang (丽江) takes the snow-capped mountains as proof and the ancient city as a medium. Yulong Snow Mountain (玉龙雪山) witnesses vows and conveys thousands of years of romance. Wedding photography is unconventional, free and enthusiastic. Honghe (红河) uses terraces to write "love letters from heaven and earth." The sunset of the Millennium Hani Terraces (哈尼梯田) is molten gold, which, together with Jianshui Ancient City (建水古城) and Mile Dongfengyun Art Town (弥勒东风韵艺术小镇), constitutes a secret wedding picture in southern Yunnan. Baoshan (保山) contains gentleness in hot springs and ancient towns. Make a century-old agreement in Heshun Ancient Town (和顺古镇). Tengchong Rehai (腾冲热海) is warm and hot, and coffee plantations and ginkgo villages add ritual fun. Xishuangbanna (西双版纳) takes the rainforest as the background and the Dai charm as the core to create a dream wedding. The sunset on the Lancang River (澜沧江) is brilliant, creating a romantic atmosphere for the wedding. In Diqing (迪庆), Meili Snow Mountain (梅里雪山) welcomes the morning sun, and the Three Parallel Rivers (三江并流) are magnificent. Tibetan costumes and intangible cultural heritage give the wedding a unique ethnic flavor.
Cangshan (苍山) is the alliance, Erhai (洱海) is the oath, shaping the "Love Confession Place" IP
Dali (大理) has become a popular destination for travel weddings because of its green mountains, clear waters and poetic scenery. It has poetic landscapes of "wind, flowers, snow and moon (风花雪月)," and Cangshan Erhai (苍山洱海) constitutes a natural wedding backdrop. With the continuous advancement of ecological protection, Dali's (大理) green mountains and clear waters are even more charming, making it a "love confession place" in the hearts of countless young people.
As a traditional tourist destination, Dali (大理) has mature industrial facilities. The perfect tourism facilities make wedding preparations easier. You can choose from star-rated hotels and characteristic homestays, and professional teams can customize exclusive weddings. The profound historical and cultural heritage empowers Dali's (大理) wedding industry. Legends such as Wangfu Cloud (望夫云) and Butterfly Love Follow (蝶爱相随) have been passed down for thousands of years, and many film and television works on the theme of love have made Dali (大理) famous as a romantic capital. The Bai (白族) Three-Course Tea (三道茶) implies "bitterness first, then sweetness, and then aftertaste," which is exactly the true meaning of married life.
The Dali State Party Committee (大理州委) and the Dali State Government (大理州政府) have successively issued the "Dali Prefecture's 14th Five-Year Plan for Cultural and Tourism Development (大理州“十四五”文化和旅游发展规划)" and the "Three-Year Action Plan for the Development of Cultural Tourism and Health Industry in Dali Prefecture (2023-2025) (大理州文旅康养产业发展三年行动计划（2023—2025）)", clearly proposing to create the IP of "China's Best Love Confession Place (中国最佳爱情表白地)" and form a multi-business consumption industry chain of "wedding + tourism". At the end of 2023, the Haishi Peninsula (海舌半岛) registration point of the Marriage Registration Office of the Dali Civil Affairs Bureau (大理市民政局婚姻登记处) was officially unveiled, becoming the first park-style marriage registration point in Yunnan Province (云南省). By obtaining a marriage certificate here, newlyweds can start a romantic marriage journey under the witness of mountains and rivers.
Currently, Yunnan (云南), a land favored by nature, is accelerating the release of its unique charm and striving to become a dream place for newlyweds to tie the knot.
Data source: Yunnan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism (云南省文化和旅游厅)
Return to TopAt 9:33 AM on October 16, 2025, the Long March-8A carrier rocket successfully launched the Satellite Internet Low-Orbit 12 Group satellites into space. This was the 600th launch of the Long March series of carrier rockets.
Shenzhou soaring into the sky, Chang'e embracing the moon, Xihe chasing the sun, Tianwen exploring Mars... Every new exploration of China's aerospace industry is inseparable from the basic transportation tool for entering space—the carrier rocket. As China's independently developed spacecraft launch vehicle, the Long March series of carrier rockets has reached the world's leading level in terms of reliability, safety, and orbital accuracy.
The "Beidou Special Train" Long March 3A series carrier rocket sends Beidou (北斗) networking satellites into space; the "Fat Five" Long March 5 (长征五号) carrier rocket helps probes fly to deep space; the "Cargo Special Train" Long March 7 (长征七号) carrier rocket lifts the Tianzhou (天舟) cargo spacecraft to transport "space express"... The Long March series of carrier rockets has further improved its spectrum, and its ability to enter space has been increasing day by day, contributing to exploring the vast universe and building a strong aerospace nation.
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At 9:33 AM on October 16, 2025, at the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site (海南商业航天发射场), with the successful launch of the Long March-8A carrier rocket, the number of launches of the Long March series of carrier rockets was refreshed to "600," becoming another milestone in the development of China's aerospace industry.
On April 24, 1970, the Long March-1 (长征一号) carrier rocket was successfully launched, and the Chinese people opened the door to the vast universe. Over the past 55 years, the Long March series of carrier rockets has sent nearly 1,400 spacecraft into space, and its launch reliability and orbital accuracy have reached the world's leading level.
The Long March series of carrier rockets has completed "hundred launches" six times, taking 37 years, more than 7 years, more than 4 years, 2 years and 9 months, 2 years, and 1 year and 10 months, respectively. The shortening of the time not only shows that the high-density launch of the Long March series of carrier rockets has become normalized, but also reflects the rapid development of China's aerospace industry and the rapid improvement of its scientific and technological level and comprehensive national strength.
Since its establishment in 1956, China's aerospace industry has gradually grown from scratch and from small to large, building a complete aerospace science and technology industrial system with complete specialties, supporting functions, and complete facilities. The Long March series of carrier rockets has realized the development and progress from normal-temperature propellants to low-temperature green and environmentally friendly propellants, from series to bundling, from one rocket for one satellite to one rocket for multiple satellites, from launching satellites to launching spacecraft, and from domestic application to international cooperation, forming a carrier rocket family that can meet the launch needs of different payloads in high, medium, and low orbits.
Looking to the future, the development of a new generation of manned carrier rockets and heavy-lift carrier rockets is steadily advancing, developing in the direction of reusable, large carrying capacity, and intelligence. The stronger, safer, and smarter Long March series of carrier rockets will fly farther, more stably, and more accurately, injecting new impetus and writing new chapters for the construction of a strong aerospace nation.
(Our reporter Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶))
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Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has consistently adhered to the people-centered development philosophy. Starting from the overall situation of the development of the Party and the country, he has made a series of important expositions on safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods. He has systematically answered major questions such as why and how to safeguard and improve people's livelihoods, creatively proposed a series of new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies, and promoted historical breakthroughs, strategic innovations, and pioneering progress in the field of people's livelihoods in China. This has elevated our Party's understanding of the laws governing the construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics to a new height and opened up a new realm of the Sinicization and modernization of Marxist thought on people's livelihoods.
General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods focus both on top-level design and practical problems, are based on China's reality and look at world development, and include both strategic planning and policy guidance. The value concepts are consistent, the goal orientation is clear, and the ideas and measures are constantly expanding, reflecting distinct themes of the times, a rigorous content system, and original theoretical achievements, demonstrating the powerful force of truth and the great power of practice.
Initiated by the times and argued for the times, scientifically analyzing and answering major issues of safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods in the new era.
General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods were formed in the historical context of socialism with Chinese characteristics entering a new era and profound changes taking place in the principal contradiction in Chinese society, in order to deeply answer the major issue of safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods in the new era, and have distinct characteristics of the times.
The changes in the principal contradiction in Chinese society in the new era have put forward new practical requirements for safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, and the principal contradiction in our society has been transformed into the contradiction between the people's growing needs for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development." This major judgment profoundly reflects the objective reality of China's social development, clarifies the fundamental focus for solving the main problems of contemporary Chinese development, and provides important guidance for safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods in the new era.
From the perspective of demand, with the rapid economic and social development of China, the people's needs for a better life are showing new characteristics. On the basis of solving the "whether or not" problem, people's needs for a better life are more reflected in "how good." People's expectations for a better life are broader and more diverse, and shortcomings and inadequacies in one aspect may affect the overall experience and actual feelings. People not only pursue the quality of individual life, but also put forward higher requirements for the quality of social life such as democracy, the rule of law, fairness, justice, security, and the environment. Different regions and different groups have different perceptions of economic development, different experiences of policy implementation, and diverse evaluations of a better life.
From the perspective of supply, China has a vast territory, and there are differences in the level of development between urban and rural areas, differences in the support for safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods between the eastern and central and western regions, and between cities and rural areas, and different occupational groups face different practical needs, especially pain points and bottlenecks in people's livelihoods. To better meet the people's needs for a better life, it is necessary to solve the problem of insufficient supply. This not only requires further promoting high-quality development to better meet the people's material needs, but also requires continuously promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities to make up for institutional shortcomings in democracy and the rule of law, ecological governance, and public services.
The changes in the principal contradiction in Chinese society have provided new coordinates for safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods in the new era, and further highlighted the special importance of safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods for economic and social development. This requires placing safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods in a more important position in modernization construction, and paying more attention to thinking, planning, deploying, and promoting from the overall situation of the development of the Party and the country.
The practice of promoting high-quality development in the new era has put forward new development propositions for safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "High-quality development is development that can well meet the people's growing needs for a better life." The ultimate goal of promoting high-quality development is the people's happiness and well-being. Only by continuously transforming the fruits of reform and development into the quality of people's lives can development be meaningful and sustainable.
Promoting high-quality development not only means economic indicators growth and income levels increase, but also means providing material and cultural products with better quality, higher levels, and more types through innovation-driven, industrial upgrading, and green transformation, providing material guarantees for comprehensively improving and enhancing the quality of life. High-quality development provides support for the supply of products and services needed for a high-quality life, and builds a stable, fair, and predictable institutional environment for a high-quality life, allowing different groups to share the fruits of development. The improvement of the quality of people's lives means the upgrading of demand levels, the enrichment of demand types, and the optimization of demand structure, which further stimulates consumption vitality, is conducive to expanding domestic demand, and provides consumption support for high-quality development. A high-quality life also provides assistance for promoting the transformation of economic development methods, promoting the quality and upgrading of related industries, and providing new impetus for high-quality development.
High-quality development and a high-quality life, one related to the national economy and the other related to people's livelihoods, both point to the people's growing needs for a better life. The practice of high-quality development in the new era and the people's needs for a high-quality life reveal the goal orientation and dynamic support of development, and highlight the status and role of people's livelihood work in the overall economic and social development. It is necessary to organically combine promoting high-quality development with creating a high-quality life, and safeguard and improve people's livelihoods in development.
The new journey of comprehensively promoting Chinese-style modernization has drawn a new blueprint for safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods. In April 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed during his inspection in Chongqing (重庆): "Chinese-style modernization is people's livelihood-oriented." This important conclusion clarifies the value orientation and goals of Chinese-style modernization, places safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods in a prominent position in promoting Chinese-style modernization, and profoundly reveals the significance of people's livelihood construction in the new era.
Common prosperity is an important feature of Chinese-style modernization. The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed "continuously moving towards the realization of common prosperity for all the people," the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed "Chinese-style modernization is the modernization of common prosperity for all the people," and the Decision of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed "safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods in development is a major task of Chinese-style modernization." To achieve the goal of common prosperity, first of all, it is necessary to make the "cake" bigger and better through the joint efforts of the people of the whole country, and then correctly handle the relationship between growth and distribution through reasonable institutional arrangements, and cut and distribute the "cake" well. It is necessary to adhere to the principle of people's livelihood first, and integrate safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods into the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.
With a broad vision, profound thinking, and lofty aspirations, a rich, logically rigorous, and systematically complete theoretical system has been formed.
The systematization of theory is an important sign of theoretical maturity. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has taken a broad and long-term view and made overall plans, systematically discussing the fundamental guarantee, fundamental goals, basic principles, important methods, key tasks, and important guarantees for safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods from the combination of theory and practice, history and reality, and has put forward a series of theoretical viewpoints that are extremely strategic, forward-looking, and original, forming a rich, logically rigorous, and systematically complete theoretical system, profoundly answering the major issue of safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods in the new era.
Adhering to the Party's overall leadership is the fundamental guarantee for safeguarding and improving people's livelihood work. The leadership of the Communist Party of China is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the greatest advantage of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Letting the people live a good life is the starting point and foothold of all our work." To test the effectiveness of all our Party's work, we must ultimately see whether the people have truly benefited, whether the people's lives have truly improved, and whether the people's rights and interests have truly been guaranteed. People's livelihood is connected to people's hearts, and people's hearts are related to the Party's life. By seeking benefits for the people and solving their problems, and continuously safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods, our Party can gain the support of the people.
Safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods involves many fields of the economy and society, and is both complex and long-term. The Party's leadership is comprehensive, systematic, and holistic, and can mobilize and integrate all aspects of strength, coordinate social interest relations between regions, departments, and groups, and provide a fundamental guarantee for safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The Communist Party of China has unparalleled strong leadership, organization, and execution." Our Party has a strict organizational system, the ability to mobilize all aspects of society, and a scientific deployment that combines top-level design and 摸着石头过河 (mō zhe shí tou guò hé - "crossing the river by feeling the stones," a metaphor for proceeding cautiously and learning from experience), and is the most reliable leading force for uniting and leading the people to overcome difficulties and forge ahead. To safeguard and improve people's livelihoods, it is necessary to adhere to the Party's leadership throughout all fields and the entire process of people's livelihood work.
Adhering to the continuous realization of the people's aspirations for a better life is the fundamental goal of safeguarding and improving people's livelihood work. Chinese-style modernization is socialist modernization led by the Communist Party of China, and always adheres to the people-centered development philosophy, taking safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods as the fundamental purpose of development. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The people's aspirations for a better life are our goals." Family affairs, national affairs, and world affairs, making people live a happy life is the top priority. All work in modernization construction must ultimately be implemented in enhancing people's well-being and improving the quality of people's lives.
Adhering to the principle of people's livelihood first is both a value orientation and a practical requirement. To promote Chinese-style modernization, it is not only necessary to focus on liberating and developing productive forces and continuously consolidate the material foundation, but also to better respond to the people's various demands and multi-level needs, and to grasp the practical things that the people can see, touch, and benefit from. It is necessary to focus on maintaining and promoting social fairness and justice, promoting common prosperity for all the people, resolutely preventing polarization, making the people's sense of gain more substantial, their sense of happiness more sustainable, and their sense of security more guaranteed, and promoting the all-round development of people and the all-round progress of society.
Adhering to the organic unity of promoting economic development and improving people's livelihoods is the basic principle of safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods. Achieving a virtuous cycle of economic development and livelihood improvement is not only a basic prerequisite for healthy economic development, but also an inevitable requirement for the continuous strengthening of livelihood security. Economic development provides a material basis for safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods. Without economic development, safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods would become water without a source and a tree without roots. At the same time, grasping people's livelihoods is also grasping development. On the basis of ensuring the effective supply of basic public services, actively guiding the people's social needs for home services, elderly care services, health services, cultural and sports services, and leisure services can not only stimulate social consumption vitality and expand domestic demand, but also support the high-quality development of related service industries and cultivate new economic growth points, so that livelihood improvement and economic development complement each other.
Development and people's livelihoods are mutually conditional and mutually reinforcing. Maintaining economic growth and promoting economic development ultimately requires continuously solving the practical interest problems that the people are generally concerned about; the process of continuously improving people's livelihoods is the process of increasing employment, expanding domestic demand, and creating new economic growth points, which can inject strong impetus into economic development and transformation and upgrading. It is necessary to fully grasp the dialectical relationship between the two, both through developing the economy to lay a solid material foundation, and through safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods to create more effective demand, and continuously promote the coordinated progress of livelihood security and economic development.
Adhering to doing our best and acting according to our ability, adhering to everyone's participation, everyone's efforts, and everyone's enjoyment is an important method for safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "People's livelihood work directly meets and checks accounts with the people, and there can be no falsehood. We must be both proactive and act according to our ability, and we must fulfill our promises." Adhering to doing our best and acting according to our ability reflects the ideological method of seeking truth from facts. We must do a good job in people's livelihood work in accordance with the idea of guarding the bottom line, highlighting key points, improving the system, and guiding expectations.
Adhering to doing our best is both an attitude and a responsibility, requiring taking measures that are more targeted, have greater coverage, have more direct effects, and have more obvious results, doing one thing after another, year after year, and helping the people solve problems, increase their well-being, and enjoy fairness in a down-to-earth manner. Adhering to acting according to our ability is both wisdom and method, requiring always proceeding from reality, doing as much as we can, not shouting sensational slogans, not setting unrealistic goals, and not making promises that cannot be fulfilled. China is still in and will be in the primary stage of socialism for a long time. Improving people's livelihoods must always be based on this greatest reality, and we must not only persevere in promoting it, but also consider the stage of development and affordability. Things that should be done must be done, and must be done well, but we cannot raise expectations too high and make empty promises.
Improving people's livelihoods is not only the direction of the work of the Party and the government, but also the goal of the people's own struggle. It is necessary to fully mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the broad masses of the people, maximize the consensus and gather strength, maximize the wisdom and release potential, advocate and encourage hard work, honest work, and creative work, further stimulate the people's enthusiasm for labor and innovation, and create a better life with labor.
Concentrating efforts on grasping the construction of inclusive, basic, and bottom-line people's livelihoods, and solving the most concerned, most direct, and most realistic interest problems of the people is the key task of safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods. Safeguarding and improving people's livelihood work should ensure the basics and guarantee the bottom line, but also grasp the key points and key points, not only concentrate efforts on grasping the construction of inclusive, basic, and bottom-line people's livelihoods, but also grasp the most concerned, most direct, and most realistic interest problems of the people, and continuously enhance the pertinence, effectiveness, and sustainability of people's livelihood work.
Ensuring basic people's livelihoods is the bottom line that must be firmly guarded. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "We should pay special attention, special care, and special concern to all kinds of people in difficulty, always keep their safety and warmth in mind, care about their suffering, and do everything possible to help them solve their problems." The most basic livelihood needs should be placed in the highest priority, assistance should be strengthened for specific groups with special difficulties, priority should be given to covering urban and rural communities with weak basic conditions, priority should be given to implementing the most urgent livelihood projects, the multi-level social security system should be accelerated, and the bottom line of basic people's livelihoods should be secured.
To safeguard and improve people's livelihoods, we must start with the problems that the people reflect most strongly, most prominently, and most urgently, and enhance the pertinence, effectiveness, and sustainability of people's livelihood work. We should coordinate and do a good job in people's livelihood work in various fields such as employment, education, housing, income distribution, social security, and medical and health care, and focus on solving the people's worries and concerns such as difficulty in seeing a doctor, difficulty in going to school, difficulty in finding employment, and difficulty in finding housing, so that the people have more, more direct, and more substantial sense of gain, happiness, and security.
Adhering to promoting people's livelihood construction in the form of a system is an important guarantee for safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods. Solving outstanding contradictions and problems in the field of people's livelihoods cannot be effective for a long time by relying solely on piecemeal adjustments and fragmented repairs. Only when any reform is transformed into a long-term system can the people's sense of gain be more sustainable. The Decision of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made strategic deployments for improving the system for safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods. To improve the system for safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods, it is necessary to promote the formation of a development environment for everyone's participation through system construction, improve the institutional mechanisms for promoting equal opportunities and safeguarding social fairness and justice, and also promote the improvement of the capacity and level of basic public service security through system construction, guide the government, the market, society, and other parties to jointly participate in the supply of public services, and enhance the balance and accessibility of basic public services.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The Communist Party of China (中国共产党) regards serving the people and creating benefits for the people as its most important political achievement, and takes the amount of good and practical things done for the people as an important criterion for testing political achievements." To establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, we must incorporate whether the people's lives are good and whether people's livelihood is improved into the cadre performance appraisal system, and use the system to guide the vast number of party members and cadres to think about what the masses think, be anxious about what the masses are anxious about, and solve the difficulties of the masses, do more things that lay the foundation, benefit the long term, benefit the people's livelihood, and win the people's hearts, do good and practical things to the hearts of the masses, and constantly turn the people's yearning for a better life into reality.
Developing in inheritance and creating in combination, opening up a new realm of the Sinicization and modernization of Marxist thought on people's livelihood
General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on safeguarding and improving people's livelihood adhere to combining the basic principles of Marxism with the specific realities of China and with China's outstanding traditional culture, and have made major original contributions to the Sinicization and modernization of Marxist thought on people's livelihood.
From the perspective of theoretical contribution, it has inherited and developed Marxist thought on people's livelihood, and realized the creative transformation and innovative development of China's outstanding traditional people-oriented thought. Marxism emphasizes that the people are the subject of history, and the future society "production will be aimed at the prosperity of all people." The people-centered development thought is precisely the inheritance and innovation of Marxist thought on people's livelihood. The people-oriented thought is the background color of China's traditional governance thought. Confucius advocated "enriching the people" and "teaching the people," Mozi proposed "universal love," Mencius proposed "love relatives and be benevolent to the people, be benevolent to the people and love things," and Xunzi proposed "frugality to enrich the people," and so on. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The governance thought of the people being the foundation of the country and governing with virtue is integrated with the political concept of people first." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on safeguarding and improving people's livelihood have inherited and developed Marxist thought on people's livelihood, profoundly answered many major theoretical and practical problems that Marxist classical writers have not talked about and have not encountered in the past, and at the same time are deeply rooted in China's outstanding traditional people-oriented thought, and combined with new practical requirements to inherit it, giving it new contemporary connotations. For example, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) made a new judgment on the main social contradictions in our country, accurately grasped the basic principles of Marxism on the movement of social contradictions, and deepened it based on China's new historical position, which greatly enriched the theoretical connotation of Marxism on socialist social contradictions. For another example, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized "improving a multi-level social security system that covers the whole people, integrates urban and rural areas, is fair and unified, and sustainable" and "improving a social governance system of co-construction, co-governance and sharing," raising the safeguarding and improvement of people's livelihood to the height of the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. For another example, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) clearly put forward "continuously promoting the all-round development of people," deepening the understanding and understanding of the all-round development of people.
From the perspective of practical contribution, it has enriched and expanded the path of building people's livelihood with Chinese characteristics, and provided a scientific methodology for safeguarding and improving people's livelihood in the new era. General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on safeguarding and improving people's livelihood have clarified the concept, principles, strategic deployment, reform tasks, and key measures of building people's livelihood, and clarified the construction plan and methodology of building people's livelihood with Chinese characteristics. For example, the construction of people's livelihood is systematically promoted in the overall situation of national development. In the new development concept, the people-centered development thought is its "root" and "soul." For another example, it emphasizes giving full play to the role of the government, the market, and society, not only giving play to the government's leading role in macro-control and fair security, but also mobilizing the huge power of the market and society, stimulating the people's endogenous power, and forming a sustainable and resilient people's livelihood security system.
From the perspective of world contribution, it provides effective reference for global social governance. General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions and vivid practices on safeguarding and improving people's livelihood have not only profoundly changed China's social landscape, but also provided new theoretical perspectives and practical paradigms for global, especially developing countries, to achieve sustainable development and poverty governance. For example, Chinese-style modernization has broken the myth of "modernization = Westernization," realized the transcendence of Western modernization, and opened up a new path of modernization centered on the people and pursuing common prosperity, expanding the path choices for developing countries to move towards modernization. For another example, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed targeted poverty alleviation, and through accurate identification, accurate assistance, and accurate management, realized a major innovation in the traditional theory of poverty reduction, and provided a Chinese solution for global poverty reduction.
Rooted in practice, guiding practice, and leading practice, demonstrating a clear practical character and a powerful practical force
The scientificity and effectiveness of any theory need to be verified in practice, and all great practices need the guidance of scientific theory. General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on safeguarding and improving people's livelihood have been formed in the great practice of building people's livelihood in the new era, guiding my country's people's livelihood cause to achieve great achievements and realize leapfrog development.
The foundation of people's livelihood is more solid, and the bottom line of people's livelihood is more secure. My country's employment situation is generally stable, the quality of employment is steadily improving, and the urban survey unemployment rate remains at a low level. The income of urban and rural residents has continued to grow. In 2024, the national per capita disposable income of residents reached 41,314 yuan, and the living standards of residents have gradually improved. The battle against poverty has achieved a comprehensive victory, and nearly 100 million rural poor people have been lifted out of poverty, historically solving the problem of absolute poverty. The world's largest social security system has been built. As of the end of 2024, the number of people participating in basic old-age insurance, basic medical insurance, unemployment insurance, and work-related injury insurance reached 1.073 billion, 1.326 billion, 246 million, and 304 million respectively. The coverage of social security has been broadened, and the level of treatment has been significantly improved. The protection of key groups is more powerful, and the care service system for the elderly, minors, and disabled people is gradually improved, and the people's livelihood security network is becoming more and more dense.
In line with new needs and new expectations, the quality of life has been comprehensively improved. The construction of a strong education country has achieved remarkable results. In 2024, the popularization of education at all levels in my country reached or exceeded the average level of middle- and high-income countries, and the average number of years of education for new labor force exceeded 14 years. The construction of a healthy China is steadily advancing, the health service system is gradually improving, the supply of medical and health resources and services is continuously increasing, and the health level of the people is continuously improving. In 2024, the average life expectancy of residents in my country reached 79 years. New steps have been taken in the construction of a beautiful China, the sky is bluer, the water is clearer, and the land is cleaner, and the urban and rural living environment continues to improve. The level of construction of a safe China is higher, continuing the miracle of long-term social stability, and maintaining good public order.
The great achievements made in my country's people's livelihood cause in the new era are all-round and historical. Practice has proved that General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on safeguarding and improving people's livelihood are the scientific theory guiding the construction of people's livelihood in our country, and are the action guide for the remarkable achievements made in the construction of people's livelihood in the new era. On the new journey, we must thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on safeguarding and improving people's livelihood, continuously enhance people's well-being, and promote the all-round development of people and the all-round progress of society.
Pay more attention to dynamic adjustment, continuously promote and continuously optimize the construction of people's livelihood. There is no end to safeguarding and improving people's livelihood, only continuous new starting points. The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for laying a solid foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically realize socialist modernization. During this period, the problem of unbalanced and insufficient development in our country is still prominent, there are still many shortcomings and weaknesses in the field of people's livelihood, and the people's growing needs for a better life in employment, education, medical care, and elderly care continue to grow, and the work of people's livelihood faces new situations and new challenges. We must fully implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on safeguarding and improving people's livelihood, deeply grasp the new situations, new characteristics, and new requirements of the construction of people's livelihood, concentrate our efforts on solving the most concerned, most direct, and most realistic interests of the people, and continue to write a new answer sheet for the work of people's livelihood.
Pay more attention to highlighting key points, and take making more obvious substantive progress in promoting common prosperity as an important goal. Common prosperity is a distinctive feature of Chinese-style modernization. We must adapt to the profound changes in the international and domestic situation and the economic and social structure, take safeguarding and improving people's livelihood as the starting point and foothold of economic development, and form a virtuous circle of economic development and improvement of people's livelihood. Adhere to taking making more obvious substantive progress in promoting common prosperity as an important goal, adhere to employment first, and steadily increase the income of urban and rural residents; promote the reform of the income distribution system, increase the proportion of labor remuneration, and expand the scale of the middle-income group; consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation, promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside and the integrated development of urban and rural areas, promote coordinated regional development; optimize the layout of education, medical care, and elderly care resources, improve the social security system, promote the equalization of basic public services, and continuously narrow the gap between regions, the gap between urban and rural areas, and the income gap, so that the fruits of development can benefit all the people more and more fairly.
Pay more attention to the effectiveness of policies and ensure that measures to improve people's livelihood are implemented. The key to things involving the common people lies in reality, and various policies and measures must be practical and effective. We must adhere to starting from reality in everything, based on the basic national conditions that our country is still in and will be in the primary stage of socialism for a long time, neither lagging behind the times, nor deviating from reality, nor transcending the stage. Strengthen inclusive, basic, and bottom-line people's livelihood construction, continuously improve the basic public service system, broaden service areas, enrich service content, and improve service levels. Formulate and introduce realistic, pragmatic, and effective systems and measures to further enhance the fairness of social security, improve the balance of basic public services, expand the inclusiveness of basic people's livelihood services, and enhance the accessibility of diversified social services, put the practical achievements of people's livelihood work in front of the masses, and let the broad masses reap tangible and touchable benefits.
(The author is the Director of the Social Construction Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大社会建设委员会主任委员))
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Language, as a carrier of thought, is not only a tool for communication but also a crucial link for uniting the strength of the masses and strengthening the relationship between cadres and the people. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "We must do a solid job of serving the people face-to-face, heart-to-heart, and earnestly, and keep the safety and well-being of the people at heart." For Party members and cadres, whether they can sit on the same bench with the masses to talk about their well-being, chat casually, and share their innermost thoughts directly affects the effectiveness of grassroots work and the shaping of the Party's image. Being good at speaking the language of the masses is a "basic skill" for rooting oneself in the masses and serving the people, and a "golden key" for opening the hearts of the masses and uniting their hearts and strength.
Language can resonate with the people's hearts, and "plain language" is an effective "adhesive" between Party members and cadres and the masses. Party members and cadres bear the important responsibility of publicizing and implementing the Party's policies. Comrade Mao Zedong (毛泽东) pointed out, "We are a revolutionary party, we are doing things for the masses, if we do not learn the language of the masses, then we will not do a good job." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out, "Leading cadres should be doers, but also propagandists." A few Party members and cadres, when publicizing the Party's policies, are accustomed to sitting on the rostrum, in the meeting room, speaking stiff official language, empty platitudes, and obscure clichés. Over time, they will build an invisible "wall" between the masses and the policies. To break down this "wall," Party members and cadres must abandon official jargon, put down their airs, and go to the grassroots and into the masses with sincerity, chatting with farmers in the fields, talking with workers in the factory workshops about production, and talking with residents in the community courtyards about life, finding the entry point from the firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and tea that the masses care about, transforming abstract policies and theories into examples around the masses, explaining the "big theme" with a "small incision," and interpreting the "great truth" with "everyday language." For example, when explaining the policy of comprehensive rural revitalization, instead of talking emptily about "deepening the integrated development of the primary, secondary, and tertiary industries in rural areas," they should combine it with local characteristics and tell the masses "how to turn their own orchards into picking gardens, not only selling agricultural products, but also selling experience services," so that the masses can understand, listen, and do as they are told, so that the policy dividends can be implemented in practice, and the effectiveness of the discourse can be effectively improved.
The most simple wish of the masses is to hear the truth and see practical results. Telling the truth is the fundamental prerequisite for winning the trust of the masses. To tell the truth to the masses, the most valuable thing is to speak with sincerity and genuine feelings, to speak in accordance with the actual situation, and to speak to the hearts of the masses. In the face of the doubts of the masses, do not evade or cover up; when encountering problems in work, do not shirk or deceive. For example, when facing livelihood problems, instead of perfunctorily saying "we are studying the solution," it is better to frankly inform "what difficulties we are currently encountering, what measures we plan to take, and how long we expect to make progress." This kind of heartfelt truth, without gorgeous embellishments, can let the masses feel the sincerity and responsibility of Party members and cadres. 以诚感人者，人亦诚而应 (yǐ chéng gǎn rén zhě, rén yì chéng ér yìng - "Those who move others with sincerity will be responded to with sincerity," sincerity begets sincerity). Only by exchanging sincerity for sincerity and winning trust with truth can we consolidate the flesh-and-blood ties between the Party and the masses, and let the masses regard Party members and cadres as their own family.
Being good at using "earthy language" is an "accelerator" for Party members and cadres to get close to the masses and evoke emotional resonance. Every piece of land has a unique language and culture, and the masses in every place have their own ways of communication that they like to hear and see. Language with the flavor of the soil, seemingly straightforward and simple, contains the wisdom and emotions of the masses, and can effectively narrow the distance between Party members and cadres and the masses. Party members and cadres should "when in Rome, do as the Romans do" (入乡随俗), take the initiative to learn the language of the masses, and in this process, learn more about the local customs and conditions and grasp the ideological dynamics of the masses. Through more listening, more learning, and more practice, integrate the "practical chats" and "heartfelt words" in the mouths of the masses into policy publicity and work exchanges, and "translate" the professional terms in the policies into the familiar local language of the masses. For example, when explaining medical insurance policies, using vivid expressions such as "seeing a doctor can be reimbursed, and spending less money on hospitalization, this is our people's 'health umbrella'," which is both vivid and catchy, making it easy for the masses to listen to and remember.
Being good at speaking the language of the masses is not a "soft task," but a "hard skill" that Party members and cadres must master. Only when Party members and cadres use language that the masses can understand to convey the warmth of policies, use language that the masses can trust to demonstrate their responsibility, and use language that the masses like to hear to narrow the emotional distance, can they truly enter the hearts of the masses, enhance the fish-and-water relationship with the masses, and unite the mighty force of unity and struggle.
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In recent days, self-media blogger Lu Yao discovered on satellite maps that there was a huge slogan "Serve the People" (为人民服务) in the Gobi Desert area of Yizhou District (伊州区), Hami City (哈密市), Xinjiang (新疆). To find out, Lu Yao drove more than 2,000 kilometers from Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川) to Hami (哈密) and discovered that there were some deep "circles" between the characters, which were actually traces left by people "drifting" in cars.
These slogans were navigation marks used by the former Eighth Aviation School of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (中国人民解放军第八航空学校) for flight training in the 20th century. In 1967, the Eighth Aviation School of the Chinese People's Liberation Army was established in Hami (哈密). Because it was located in the Gobi Desert and there were no obvious ground markers, it was very easy for aircraft to lose their way during flight training. For flight safety, the teachers and students of the school used wooden sticks and iron shovels to create five slogans, including "Serve the People" (为人民服务) and "Seize the Day" (只争朝夕 (zhǐ zhēng zhāo xī - "only strive morning evening," seize every minute)), as navigation marks, which have been preserved to this day.
"I am a party member and also a military family member. These slogans are the historical imprint of the People's Air Force. I want to repair them." Seeing the damaged navigation marks, Lu Yao had the idea of repairing these "scars." Starting on September 14, with the help of friends and enthusiastic people, Lu Yao bought tools, looked for stone samples, and laid stones, starting the navigation mark restoration work.
"In order to avoid destructive restoration, we looked for five kinds of stones as samples, but none were suitable." The stones on the Gobi Desert where the navigation marks are located are mostly black, but the colors of the stone samples Lu Yao found could not be matched. After continuous searching at local mining companies and sand plants, Lu Yao finally found the most suitable color stones. To prevent large trucks from crushing and causing secondary damage to the navigation marks, Lu Yao had the large trucks unload the stones a few kilometers away from the navigation marks, then manually shoveled them onto small trucks and transported them to the navigation marks to be laid on the "circles" between the navigation marks.
In 9 days, they used small trucks to haul 27 loads, a total of 20 tons of stones, to complete the restoration of the navigation marks. "In order to confirm the restoration effect, we contacted Changguang Satellite Company (长光卫星公司) again. After understanding the needs, they helped me plan a 23-second shooting opportunity." Lu Yao said that after the company understood the reason, it decided to provide free support. On September 28, a satellite of "Jilin-1" (吉林一号) passed over the navigation marks and took a picture of the restored scene, showing that the "scars" of the navigation marks had been repaired.
On October 12, Hami City (哈密市) and Yizhou District (伊州区) organized a special meeting of public security, culture and tourism, ecological environment, and forestry and grassland departments to discuss the normalized protection measures for the giant navigation marks. On October 14, relevant departments in Hami City (哈密市) carried out on-site investigation and survey work on the giant navigation marks, invited experts in the field of geological environment to take samples for testing on the spot, and took corresponding protection measures. Through scientific analysis of soil conditions, the local area will formulate a targeted restoration plan and adopt appropriate ecological restoration technologies to ensure that the affected area is restored to its original ecological function state. Dai Rong (戴蓉), Deputy Director of the Hami City (哈密市) Ecology and Environment Bureau, said that according to the "Hami City Gobi Ecological Environment Protection Regulations" (《哈密市戈壁生态环境保护条例》) all self-driving tours, tourism and competition activities must be strictly carried out within the designated areas stipulated in the regulations.
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After the political line is determined, cadres are the decisive factor. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has attached great importance to building a high-quality cadre team capable of shouldering the great task of national rejuvenation. "The historical experience of the Party and the reality of development both tell us that without extensive study by the whole Party and extensive training of cadres, there will be no great development of the cause." Good cadres are selected, but also cultivated and managed. Cadre education and training is a pioneering, foundational, and strategic project for building a high-quality cadre team, and plays an irreplaceable and important role in advancing the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the new great project of Party building. Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is the theme and main line of education and training for Party members and cadres, and is a compulsory course for Party schools (administrative colleges), cadre colleges, and socialist academies at all levels. To do a good job in the extensive study by the whole Party and the extensive training of cadres, there must be good teaching materials. Organized and compiled by the Organization Department of the Central Committee (中央组织部), the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee (中央宣传部), and the Party School of the Central Committee (National Academy of Governance) (中央党校（国家行政学院）), the "Curriculum System and Teaching Outline of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (for Education and Training of Party Members and Cadres)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Outline"), officially published by the Party School of the Central Committee Press recently, can be described as a major measure to continuously deepen and solidify the education and training of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
The "Outline" focuses on the main content of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, such as the "ten explicit requirements," the "fourteen upholds," and the "thirteen aspects of achievements," and sets up 26 courses, clarifying the teaching objectives, teaching focus, teaching content, teaching forms, and key reading materials for each course, providing an important basis for Party members and cadre education and training institutions to carry out the teaching of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and has important value and significance.
First, the "Outline" helps Party members and cadre education and training institutions to deepen the implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on cadre education and training. 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 put forward a series of new concepts, new ideas, and new requirements for strengthening and improving cadre education and training, pointing out the direction and providing fundamental guidance for doing a good job in cadre education and training in the new era. The "Outline" presents the direction and path pointed out by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) for cadre education and training in the form of courses, providing a basis for Party members and cadre education and training institutions to effectively implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest entrustment.
Second, the "Outline" helps to better complete the primary task of cadre education and training. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, in order to complete the primary task of unremittingly doing a good job in the education and training of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, cadre education and training has focused on cultivating a high-quality and professional cadre team that is loyal, clean, and responsible, paying attention to systematic advancement, and ensuring key deployment when formulating plans, key arrangements when designing projects, and key guarantees when allocating resources, creating a set of "combined punches." For example, the Party School of the Central Committee (National Academy of Governance) (中央党校（国家行政学院）) promptly updated teaching topics following the pace of the Party's theoretical innovation, and organized the compilation of learning and training materials such as "Basic Issues of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era." The "Outline" is an important move in this set of "combined punches."
Third, the "Outline" helps to continuously promote the Party's innovative theories into textbooks, classrooms, and minds simultaneously. If cadre education and training is to "enable the majority of cadres to keep up with the pace of the times in terms of political literacy, theoretical level, professional ability, and practical skills," it must unremittingly use the Party's innovative theories to strengthen the soul and consolidate the foundation. The "Outline" strengthens the design of education and training content, showing the scientific system and internal logic of the Party's innovative theories from the dimension of connecting theory and practice, history and reality, clarifies the curriculum system and teaching outline of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and forms a basic framework of "general theory-specific theory-characteristics" curriculum system, providing a powerful grasp for continuously promoting the education and training of the Party's innovative theories, guiding the majority of cadres to deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments," and continuously enhance the "four consciousnesses," strengthen the "four confidences," and achieve the "two safeguards."
Fourth, the "Outline" helps to enhance the effectiveness of education and training that is comprehensive, accurate, in-depth, and thorough. On the one hand, the 26 courses set up in the "Outline" are formed on the basis of the teaching practice of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era carried out by the Party School of the Central Committee (National Academy of Governance) (中央党校（国家行政学院）) for many years. The many courses created by the Party School of the Central Committee (National Academy of Governance) (中央党校（国家行政学院）) around telling the Party's innovative theories have provided a solid practical foundation for the "Outline." On the other hand, the "Outline" clarifies the teaching form of "mainly classroom teaching, supplemented by case-based and experiential teaching." This teaching form is a vivid embodiment of adhering to the principle of linking theory with practice, and helps to closely combine the deep-seated ideological understanding problems, major practical problems, and social hot and difficult problems of Party members and cadres, and enhance the effectiveness of the Party's innovative theory training.
When the foundation is strong, the flowers and fruits will surely be luxuriant; when the source is deep, the light will surely be brilliant. For Party members and cadres, studying the Party's innovative theories must make great efforts to study deeply and thoroughly, and must unremittingly use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to strengthen the soul, and take learning and using this innovative theory well as a basic skill, a compulsory course, and a housekeeping skill. For cadre education and training institutions, the political training of Party members and cadres cannot be accomplished in one battle, and it is not a matter of holding a few training sessions and everything will be fine. It is necessary to continue to exert efforts and make persistent efforts. The education and training of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is a continuous deepening and constantly learning new process. It is necessary to continue to deeply implement the education and training plan of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. In accordance with the requirements of the "Outline," strengthen theoretical research and interpretation, deepen the reform of theoretical teaching, build a theoretical teaching system, and promote Party members and cadres to take learning the Party's innovative theories as a kind of learning consciousness and a kind of spiritual pursuit, so as to cultivate integrity, temper thoughts, sublimate the realm, and guide practice, take the lead and set an example in connecting learning and thinking, and unifying knowledge and action, and consciously be firm believers, active disseminators, and loyal practitioners of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and effectively transform the effectiveness of learning into vivid practices for doing a good job in their own work and promoting the high-quality development of the cause.
(The author is the Vice President of the Institute of Party History and Literature of the Central Committee) (中央党史和文献研究院)
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on October 16th (Reporter Qi Yukun (亓玉昆)) This year, November 9th is the 34th National Fire Protection Day. A reporter learned from the National Fire and Rescue Administration (国家消防救援局): The State Council Safety Committee Office (国务院安委会办公室) and the National Fire and Rescue Administration (国家消防救援局) are scheduled to launch a national fire safety awareness month in November, with the theme of "Fire Safety for All, Life First - Safe Use of Fire and Electricity".
To ensure the success of various activities during the fire safety awareness month, various regions will organize a series of activities on "Safe Use of Fire and Electricity," including popular science education on "Recognizing Risks and Understanding Prevention," hidden danger investigation on "Early Detection and Early Rectification," and practical training on "Real Fire Extinguishing and Real Action." Focusing on the safety risks and hidden dangers of using fire and electricity, the emphasis will be on outstanding issues such as construction hot work operations, residential fire use, electrical safety, electric bicycle charging and parking, and fires caused by smoking. Differentiated fire safety popular science education will be organized to enhance public safety awareness. Outdoor screens, promotional posters, and rural "loudspeakers" will be fully utilized to disseminate fire and electricity knowledge that the public can understand and remember.
In addition, we will continue to promote fire safety manager training in key industries and systems. The National Fire and Rescue Administration (国家消防救援局) will organize fire safety training for catering industry chain enterprises and grassroots townships (街道) and subdistricts. Fire and rescue departments and industry authorities at all levels will implement training tasks according to plan.
Return to TopThis newspaper Jinan (济南) October 16th (Reporter Xiao Jiaxin (肖家鑫)) In order to solve problems such as the inadequate service of grid management, Qingzhou City (青州市), Shandong Province (山东省) has precisely divided micro-grids and openly selected and hired 2,260 micro-grid leaders. Through pre-job training and regular rotation training, the city has improved their ability to interpret policies, mediate disputes, and handle business. Five institutional documents, including the "Micro-grid and Real Grid" Work Manual and the Practical Guide to Mediation Work in Urban Communities (Grids), have been formulated to clarify the list of responsibilities and service processes of micro-grid leaders.
Residents place orders through the grid WeChat group channel. The micro-grid leader accepts the order and verifies the needs as soon as possible. The community dispatches the order in a unified manner according to the service type. After the service is completed, the public evaluates the order and scores it. Yidu Street (益都街道) combines residents' order requests for help with the collection of opinions. Residents can scan the code at any time to provide feedback and suggestions, reaching the relevant personnel with one click for quick disposal. A relevant person in charge of the Organization Department of the Qingzhou Municipal Party Committee (青州市委组织部) said: "Combining the demands reflected by residents, we take the community party organization as the lead, absorb units, enterprises, and businesses stationed in the area to participate in grassroots governance, transform and revitalize idle venues and other resources, and cooperate in operating 28 projects that benefit the people, such as elderly canteens and youth night schools, so that the community and residents benefit."
Return to TopThe sound of Qintai resonates and moves the heart. From October 17th to November 15th, the 14th Qintai Music Festival, hosted by the Wuhan Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共武汉市委) and the Wuhan Municipal People's Government (武汉市人民政府), and organized by the Publicity Department of the Wuhan Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共武汉市委宣传部), the Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism (武汉市文化和旅游局), and the Wuhan Conservatory of Music (武汉音乐学院), will arrive as scheduled to meet music fans and citizens.
After 13 years of accumulation and precipitation, the Qintai Music Festival has become a bright cultural calling card of Wuhan (武汉). This year's music festival continues to adhere to the purpose of "Music Festival, People's Festival," highlighting the people-oriented, professional, and local characteristics, and striving to create a high-quality art festival with "international standards, national influence, and Wuhan characteristics," showcasing Wuhan's vivid practice of building a "City of Performing Arts."
A Gathering of Famous Groups and Artists
Maintaining High Standards as Always
This year's music festival maintains first-class artistic standards as always. During the music festival, musicians and performance groups from 14 countries and regions will bring more than 50 high-quality performances. The opening ceremony invites world-renowned classical music conductor Valery Gergiev to perform with the Russian Mariinsky Orchestra, which has a history of nearly 300 years. The closing ceremony invites renowned conductor Huang Jiajun (黄佳俊) to hold a concert with the Manchester Hallé Orchestra, a long-standing British orchestra ranked among the world's top ten symphony orchestras. In addition, the French original musical "Molière," Wu Tiao Ren's (五条人) 2025 "Earth Love Song" concert, the musical "Harbin under the Night," which is popular among young audiences, and famous artists such as pianist Mikhail Pletnev, cellist Qin Liwei (秦立巍), and singer Wang Lida (王丽达) will meet with citizens through the music festival.
Promoting the Yangtze River Culture and Zhiyin Culture
Highlighting Local Characteristics as Always
This year's music festival highlights Wuhan's (武汉) local cultural heritage as always. As a central city of the Yangtze River culture and the hometown of Zhiyin, Wuhan (武汉) has always taken it as its responsibility to promote the Yangtze River culture and Zhiyin culture. The Guqin has always been a reserved program of the music festival. This year's music festival will continue to invite Guqin masters and teams such as Zhao Jiazhen (赵家珍), Zeng Chengwei (曾成伟), and Huang Mei (黄梅) to play the millennium-inherited music with the intangible cultural heritage Guqin at the place where Boya (伯牙) and Ziqi (子期) met as Zhiyin. The Hubei Symphony Orchestra (湖北交响乐团) will passionately perform the symphonic concert "Yangtze River" full of rich national musical elements. Three original musical works with different styles will lead the audience on a cultural root-seeking journey through time and space.
Many Salon Flash Mob Interactions
"Music Moves the Whole City" as Always
This year's music festival practices the cultural benefit of the people as always. Since its inception, the Qintai Music Festival has taken promoting the dissemination of music and art and meeting the high-quality spiritual and cultural needs of citizens as an important mission. This year's music festival will continue to implement preferential ticket prices and set up 10 online free live broadcasts. At the same time, citizen music salons will be held in the Wuhan Qintai Concert Hall (武汉琴台音乐厅), Huazhong University of Science and Technology (华中科技大学) and other places, inviting artists and citizens to communicate face-to-face and share their artistic lives. Chinese and foreign artists will also go out of the theater and into Wuhan's (武汉) urban cultural landmarks such as the Yellow Crane Tower (黄鹤楼), Guqin Tai (古琴台), Jianghan Customs House (江汉关大楼), and Hanyangmen Garden (汉阳门花园) to carry out a series of themed flash mob activities, effectively enhancing the cultural participation and sense of gain of the people.
New Section Debut
World-Renowned Art School Artists Gather in Wuhan
The development of the Qintai Music Festival cannot be separated from inheritance, and even more from innovation. This year's music festival innovatively introduced a new section of school-local cooperation. In-depth cooperation with the Wuhan Conservatory of Music (武汉音乐学院), the "Rhyme of the Yangtze River: Exchange and Performance Season of World-Renowned Music Art Colleges" will be a key project of this year's music festival, and 32 activities such as themed concerts, master public classes, academic lectures, and workshops will be carried out simultaneously. Artists from 8 well-known foreign music art colleges such as the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory (俄罗斯莫斯科柴可夫斯基音乐学院), the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (英国皇家伯明翰音乐学院), and the Milan Conservatory (意大利米兰音乐学院), and 13 well-known domestic music art colleges such as the Central Conservatory of Music (中央音乐学院), the Shanghai Conservatory of Music (上海音乐学院), the China Conservatory of Music (中国音乐学院), and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (香港演艺学院) will interact deeply with citizens and music fans.
New Team Resonance
10 Mass Choirs "Sing the Yangtze River Love Together"
This year's music festival also innovatively introduced a new team in the Yangtze River Basin to promote cultural integration and exchange in the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The mass choir activity of this year's music festival is themed "Drinking the Same River Water and Singing the Yangtze River Love Together," and widely solicits outstanding choirs from cities in the Yangtze River Basin to participate in the exhibition and performance. Ten choir teams from Shanghai (上海), Jiangxi (江西), Anhui (安徽) and other places will gather in the Wuhan Qintai Concert Hall (武汉琴台音乐厅) to show the magnificent atmosphere of the Yangtze River with passionate and majestic chorus, and sing a deep tribute to the mother river - the Yangtze River.
New Model Enjoys Discounts
Sincerely Invite Music Fans to "Follow the Qintai Music Festival to Tour Wuhan"
In addition, this year's music festival also actively explores the new model of "Music + Culture and Tourism," and warmly invites music fans from home and abroad to "Follow the Qintai Music Festival to Tour Wuhan (武汉)," to enjoy music, appreciate the beautiful scenery, and taste the delicious food in Wuhan (武汉), and feel the happiness and beauty of "Poetry and the Distance." During the music festival, a "Enjoy Discounts with Tickets" all-domain linkage plan will be organized and implemented. Citizens and tourists can enjoy multiple discounts on scenic spot tickets and accommodation at the Yellow Crane Tower (黄鹤楼), Wuhan Polar Ocean World Resort (武汉极地海洋度假区), Wuhan East Lake Ocean Park (武汉东湖海洋乐园), Mulan Flower Village (木兰花乡), Mulan Grassland (木兰草原), Flower Expo Park (花博汇), Wuhan Wild Animal Kingdom (武汉野生动物王国), Wuhan Jin Dun Hotel Management Group (武汉金盾酒店管理集团), Hanyang Westin Hotel (汉阳威斯汀酒店), etc. with performance ticket stubs, to promote the deep integration of culture, tourism, business and performance.
Music transcends borders, and culture builds bridges. The Qintai Music Festival, which has gone through 13 years, has always shared joy with the people and prosperity with the city. It has not only become a distinctive "Zhiyin Living Room" in Wuhan (武汉), but is also becoming a new window for the world to understand China and listen to Wuhan (武汉).
Data Source: Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism (武汉市文化和旅游局)
Organizers: Wuhan Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共武汉市委), Wuhan Municipal People's Government (武汉市人民政府)
Undertakers: Publicity Department of the Wuhan Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共武汉市委宣传部), Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism (武汉市文化和旅游局), Wuhan Conservatory of Music (武汉音乐学院)
Return to TopCreating a Framework of Mutual Trust Between Countries
Romano Prodi (罗马诺·普罗迪), Former Prime Minister of Italy and Former President of the European Commission
The theme of this conference, "Historical China and Contemporary China from a Global Perspective," is very well chosen. It is essential to study China from a global perspective. It is necessary for China and other countries to have dialogues on issues such as economic globalization. In particular, the current world pattern presents a trend of de-globalization. Under these circumstances, the importance of cooperation is self-evident. The United States is no longer the cornerstone of free trade, and the role played by many international organizations and institutions is gradually being weakened. We need to create mechanisms to promote world cooperation.
In a multipolar world, cooperation is our compass, and diplomacy plays a fundamental and important role. Given the unpredictability of many things in the future and the risk of economic recession, we have the obligation and responsibility to solve these problems and create a framework of mutual trust between countries. Within this framework, China's role is unique and can play an important role in strengthening political and economic ties. Undoubtedly, cooperation between countries around the world, especially between Europe and China, is crucial. The two sides have similar economic volumes, and we have not been "enemies" in history. Of course, we have not developed a "brotherly" friendship, but at least we should become "cousins" with a good relationship.
This is a very necessary strategic choice, and both sides need to make greater efforts to overcome various difficulties and crises. We need wisdom and, more importantly, cooperation. As long as we work together, we will surely find practical solutions to continuously improve the current world situation.
Chinese Civilization Nurtures a Unique and Profound Scientific Spirit
Joseph Needham Research Institute Researcher, Cambridge University Wolfson College Emeritus Fellow, Sisi Cheng (程思丽)
Joseph Needham, initially a biochemist, published the landmark three-volume work *Chemical Embryology* at the age of 31. However, his academic path and life trajectory took a decisive turn at the age of 37 due to three Chinese students (Shen Shizhang (沈诗章), Wang Yinglai (王应睐), and Lu Guizhen (鲁桂珍)). At that time, the Western discipline system was regarded as the ultimate model of knowledge and learning, and Western scientific and technological achievements were the mainstream pursued by the world. These three Chinese scholars constantly brought new inspiration to Needham, introducing him to the ideas and methods of ancient Chinese science, including the famous Four Great Inventions and the long-standing scientific thought and practice system. As a result, Needham discovered that China's scientific achievements far exceeded his imagination and knowledge, and Chinese civilization nurtured a unique and profound scientific spirit and worldview. Since then, he has blazed a new trail, extensively searched for classics, systematically sorted out documents, continuously promoted the compilation of *Science and Civilisation in China*, and traveled around the world to promote research projects, eventually establishing the Needham Research Institute at Cambridge. From Needham's sense of mission and lasting enthusiasm, I deeply realize that lasting passion is the key force to achieving excellence. May we also inspire contemporary students to find the stars that guide the future and achieve great undertakings.
Confucian Classics Promote Social Justice and Governance
Li Jiaya (李集雅), President of the University of Venice
If we want to discuss innovation, we must return to history and culture itself. As Confucius said: 温故而知新 (wēn gù ér zhī xīn - "review the old to know the new," gaining new insights through reviewing the past). As early as the Ming Dynasty, missionaries in China translated the Four Books because they also recognized the profound wisdom contained therein. Matteo Ricci (利玛窦) believed that without understanding Chinese classics, it would be impossible to truly dialogue with the Chinese. Therefore, he began to translate *The Analects*, *The Doctrine of the Mean*, and *The Great Learning*, and found ideas in them that were connected to his own beliefs, such as the unity of man and nature. After Matteo Ricci, many scholars continued to spread Confucian ideas, believing that Confucianism could awaken human nature and promote social justice and governance. These translations of Chinese classics have become important witnesses to early modern intercultural dialogue. Confucian classics not only lead us into the real world of Chinese culture and philosophy, but also have a profound significance for the spiritual growth of individuals and future generations.
Further Deepen Understanding and Perception of China
Martin Whyte (高棣民), Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
In 1979, as one of the first American government-sponsored students to China, I studied modern literature in the Chinese Department of Fudan University (复旦大学) for a year. At that time, there were no high-rise buildings in Pudong (浦东), nor were there subways, highways, or international airports. Today, everything has undergone earth-shaking changes. When I came from Pudong Airport (浦东机场), I felt like "Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden." Now the whole world knows that Pudong is one of the most modern places and is constantly developing and progressing. Since the reform and opening up, China has actively learned from the experience of other countries. Today, many countries have sent economists, engineers, and scholars to China to learn valuable experience. Researchers of Chinese studies shoulder an important mission—to deeply understand how China uses its own historical and cultural resources to promote national sustainable development and social progress. In this context, many "China hands" at home and abroad are conducting many meaningful and valuable research topics around China. As a foreign scholar, I hope to have more opportunities to conduct field investigations in Chinese society and widely contact people from different social strata in the future, so as to further deepen my understanding and perception of China.
Chinese Studies is Ushering in a New Period of Vigorous Development
Martin Jacques, British Writer and Commentator
As China becomes a key player in world economic growth, climate change, global governance, technological innovation, and affairs of the Global South, Chinese studies has become increasingly important and is increasingly characterized by interdisciplinary integration. We are witnessing the globalization of Chinese studies and the gradual decentralization of Western influence in the field of Chinese studies.
A major core problem facing Chinese studies is the paradigm gap between China and the West—that is, most Western scholars and experts believe that China should be understood through the lens of the West. The problem facing the West is that, despite their repeated denials, China continues to rise, surpassing the West in one field after another, and is becoming a new shaper of modernity. As the world continues to deepen its understanding of China, strengthen cooperation with China, and actively learn from China, Chinese studies around the world is ushering in a new period of vigorous development, and we are only at the beginning of this process. Even today, China's long history, profound culture, efficient governance system, and the inherent logic of its foreign policy are still not fully understood by the world to a considerable extent. The huge thirst for understanding China already exists and will be even stronger in the future, which is the major task facing Chinese studies in the coming decades.
Demonstrate a More Open, Balanced, and Win-Win Development Vision
Hadir Said (哈迪尔·赛义德), Scholar at the League of Arab States' Arab Research Institute in Egypt
Throughout history, whenever China is mentioned, people always associate it with a brilliant civilization and a great country. This is a country known for peace and integrity. It has no intention of undermining the international environment that has contributed to its rise, nor will it use military force to threaten other countries, because it has neither expansionist ambitions nor believes in military alliances. On the contrary, China is committed to leading the world with wisdom and becoming a model for promoting human progress. China does not want to be the "world police." It will not try to impose its own model on other countries, because China believes that every society has its own uniqueness, and the model that applies to China may not apply elsewhere.
From the mid-20th century to the 21st century, China has transformed from suffering from colonial aggression and internal strife to playing an important role in the international order. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国) in 1949, especially since the reform and opening up, China's economy has achieved unprecedented growth, hundreds of millions of people have been lifted out of poverty, innovation has become the cornerstone of national development, and China has become the world's second largest economy and a leader in technological innovation. Since the new era, China has advocated building a community with a shared future for mankind, promoted the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative, and pursued a new concept of economic globalization that is different from the Western-led one, demonstrating a more open, balanced, and win-win development vision.
Three Dimensions to Understand the Success of Contemporary China
Lin Shangli (林尚立), President of Renmin University of China (中国人民大学)
China's progress and development has become a world-class phenomenon. People are paying more and more attention to how China has come to be today, what its secrets are, and what its path to success is. Today's China can be understood from three objective dimensions: the first is the dimension of time, which is what we often call more than 5,000 years of civilization history; the second is the dimension of space, that is, the super-large-scale social structure, which contains unique advantages and also faces a series of complex challenges that small and medium-sized countries rarely encounter; and the third is the dimension of the system, that is, socialism with Chinese characteristics is the result of combining Marxism with China's specific reality and with China's excellent traditional culture. As a scholar of Chinese politics, I believe that understanding contemporary China must delve into its unique historical, spatial, and institutional scenes, starting from these three dimensions, and understand China as a new civilizational life form, so as to grasp it with a broader vision, a more open mind, and a more professional attitude. I believe that the prosperity of world Chinese studies will surely make new contributions to the world's understanding of China and to China's development.
See the World from China, See China from the World
Li Bozhong (李伯重), Humanities Chair Professor at Peking University (北京大学)
China has two old sayings. One is "hearing is not as good as seeing, and seeing is not as good as practicing," which emphasizes the importance of field investigation and research; the other is "I don't know the true face of Mount Lu, only because I am in this mountain," which emphasizes that if you are deeply involved in something, you may not be able to see its full picture, but only see the partial and fragmented. The study of an object must start from both internal and external aspects, and combine the two aspects. Since Chinese studies is a world science, it must see the world from China and see China from the world. For Chinese scholars, "opening their eyes to see the world" is essential. For overseas scholars, it is necessary to go deep into Chinese society for investigation in order to truly understand China's past and present. The China seen through this two-way perspective has both rich connotations and a full appearance. This is a China with distinctive characteristics in the human family.
To Study Contemporary China, One Must Understand the Communist Party of China
Wang Shaoguang (王绍光), Emeritus Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (香港中文大学)
To study contemporary China, one must understand the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), and a very important attribute of the Communist Party of China is that it is a political party that represents all the Chinese people and has broad political representation. The members of the main political parties in many Western countries mostly come from the upper and middle classes. No matter how loudly they shout "democracy" verbally, the political system they represent can only represent the interests of the upper and middle classes. Conversely, if a political system is to represent the interests of the broadest masses of the people, it must have a political party that comes from the broadest masses of the people. The Communist Party of China is such a political party. As of the end of 2024, the total number of Communist Party members in China has exceeded 100 million, making it the largest political party in the world, accounting for 7.1% of China's total population, and is the political party with the highest proportion of the population in the world. The Communist Party of China not only has a large number of members and a high proportion, but also the actual composition of its members is a microcosm of all the people. As the leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the Communist Party of China comes from the people, lives and works among the people, shares the same breath and destiny with the people, and the people's thoughts and expectations are their thoughts and expectations.
Deeply Understand China's Past and Present
Shi Hanwei (施寒微), Director of the Nuremberg Institute for Eurasian Culture, Vice President of the International Confucian Association
If you do not understand China's long history, it is difficult to truly understand today's Chinese culture, including its political culture. Chinese history has continuity, and it has also experienced many profound changes. China's modernity has a long historical origin. Today's China pays more and more attention to historical experience and can learn from history to serve the modernization process. Over the past few decades, China has been one of the most open countries in the world. We must continue to think about our role in the world and constantly reposition ourselves. Today's China has well-educated people, and Confucianism still has a profound influence.
The study of China must be based on a deep understanding of the past and the present. Chinese studies is now receiving increasing attention around the world, and related academic activities are frequently held around the world. Our scientific and historical views certainly help to understand China's past and present, but we should not use our own perspectives in isolation, but should combine reflection and objective research. In the new technological era, the development of artificial intelligence and big data provides new opportunities for communication. We need more listening and communication, face the world with a more open mind, and advocate a European thinking that transcends existing frameworks and has a global perspective.
Global Governance Initiatives are Very Pragmatic and Constructive
Grzegorz Kołodko (科勒德克), Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Poland, Professor at Kozminski University in Warsaw
China has made great achievements in its economic development. When I went to Shanghai (上海) in 1989, Shanghai was not yet developed. Looking at it now, it has been completely renewed and is full of charm. I have been to nearly 200 countries and regions in the world, and many people think that China is very successful. For me, China is a very unique system. Against the background of China's great economic achievements, simple words cannot be used to summarize such a complex system. This system integrates two forces—both the "invisible hand" of the market and the "visible hand" of the government.
China not only has influence in the East, but also has a growing influence in the Global South, and plays an important role in many fields. Looking to the future, the global governance initiatives proposed by China are very pragmatic and constructive. If Western politicians can abandon their suspicion and hostility towards China, they can view the world with a more positive and pragmatic attitude. At that time, geopolitical interactions will be smoother, and the relationship between the EU and China will move towards a better future with the development of business and technology.
Provide Direction for Building a More Balanced and Beautiful World
B. R. Deepak (狄伯杰), Professor at the Center for Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
From a historical and realistic perspective, the seamless exchange and communication of ideas, technologies, and commodities has brought many benefits, which is the so-called circular cultural exchange. There may be conflicts in communication, but there are also dialogues between conflicts.
India and China have huge markets and significant complementarities. China's experience in technological innovation, capital, and development, especially in the green and technology fields, brings many opportunities to the South Asian region and achieves a win-win situation. The two countries can give full play to their respective characteristics and promote the development of bilateral relations and enhance mutual understanding by increasing direct flights and other means. China's industrial structure and rapid transformation experience are worth learning from India. Although the two countries have different social systems and worldviews, they should regard the world as one big family. The new era of Chinese diplomacy advocates building a community with a shared future for mankind and proposes global governance initiatives, which reflect new paradigms and provide direction for building a more balanced and beautiful world.
Accelerate Knowledge Accumulation and Promote Technological Innovation
Horacio Cao (何广思), Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
I wrote the book "How Did the Chinese Do It?" in 2017, hoping to find some reasons for China's rapid development. Why has China undergone such tremendous changes? At first glance, the answer seems to be related to a country's constantly improving and growing potential and capabilities, but this does not fully explain the phenomenon. Since the reform and opening up, China has continued to promote technological development, and has significantly accelerated in the 21st century. China is very clear that to get rid of dependence, it must acquire relevant knowledge. By opening up the domestic market, China has continuously accelerated the accumulation of knowledge, manufactured more goods, and gained access to international markets. "Independent innovation" is the core of leading China's self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology. China's implementation of this policy has promoted technological innovation and given birth to Huawei (华为), ZTE (中兴), Tencent (腾讯), and recently emerging technology companies such as DeepSeek (深度求索).
Mutual understanding is the "universal key" to promoting cooperation.
Gu Aile (顾爱乐), CEO of the European Institute for Asian Affairs
European society, especially the academic community, should maintain an independent academic stance when discussing Sinology, Chinese studies, and even the Asia-Pacific knowledge system, possess the ability to analyze and understand complex realities, and based on this, consider how Europe defines its relationship with China. For Europe today, academic independence is crucial and a key link in the construction of soft power.
The European Union consists of 27 member states. Although it is difficult to speak with one voice, it can provide multiple perspectives. In recent years, the phenomenon of knowledge privatization has become increasingly prominent, and the discourse power of some media has been dominated by large Western companies, especially American companies, which control the narrative system of knowledge dissemination globally. Some Western public opinion attempts to portray China as "anti-European and anti-Western," which is a preconceived misunderstanding. In fact, China's concept of economic globalization belongs neither to the West nor to Europe, but this does not mean opposition to the West or to Europe.
For the European academic community, China's political decisions and foreign policies must be placed in a non-Western context to be reasonably understood. We should promote sincere exchanges of ideas and culture, and strive to get rid of dependence on Western self-judgment. Mutual understanding between Europe and China is the "universal key" to promoting cooperation, and both sides should explore mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation models in practice.
Researching Chinese Studies Must Open Up New Horizons
Ayub (阿尤布), Director of the Chinese Department of Istanbul University (伊斯坦布尔大学) in Turkey
When we judge the study of Chinese studies, we must consider how the world of Sinology should be defined. For a long time, the Western academic community has dominated Sinology research, which is obviously unfair. Sinology does not belong to any organization or country, nor is it just a study of China by Westerners. The Sinology community must build its own "Orientalism."
As a more holistic discipline, Sinology must first establish its own research methods. Whether it is traditional Sinology, contemporary Chinese studies, or future Sinology, the Chinese and Western Sinology communities should engage in dialogue on an equal footing. Sinology research should also pay more attention to perspectives from India, Japan, Vietnam, South Korea and other places. In today's era, to study Sinology and Chinese studies, we must open up new horizons, find new methods, establish our own position in the world of Sinology, and create our own future.
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Opening Remarks
President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "A nation's fortune prospers when sports prosper, and a nation is strong when sports are strong." Building a strong sporting nation requires the participation of all people. Competitive sports and mass sports complement each other. China's competitive sports have yielded fruitful results, with some shining figures striving and surpassing themselves, writing unforgettable and moving stories, and inspiring the full enthusiasm of national fitness.
Starting today, this newspaper launches the "Dialogue with Famous Athletes" column, engaging in in-depth conversations with these renowned athletes to share their clarity and choices at peak moments, their perseverance and breakthroughs in times of adversity, and to feel their authentic and vibrant vitality beyond the champion label, with the aim of bringing readers gains and strength that transcend the arena and sports.
Brief Biography of a Famous Athlete
Guo Jingjing (郭晶晶) was born in Baoding, Hebei (河北保定). She started learning diving at the age of 7 and retired in 2011. During her 23-year sports career, she won a total of 77 gold medals, 14 silver medals, and 4 bronze medals. After retiring, she obtained international referee qualifications and served as a member and referee of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) Diving Technical Committee.
The 15th National Games will be held in Guangdong (广东), Hong Kong (香港), and Macau (澳门). As the Vice President of the Nansha Cultural Association (南沙文化会) in Guangzhou (广州市), Guo Jingjing (郭晶晶) has recently been busy promoting a series of activities for the Bay Area to welcome the National Games.
From world champion to international referee, from sports to public welfare, what has Guo Jingjing's (郭晶晶) journey been like through different identity changes? How can she promote the spirit of sports between winning gold in the arena and self-improvement? Recently, a reporter from this newspaper interviewed Guo Jingjing (郭晶晶) to explore the multi-dimensional life of a famous athlete.
"If you do every process well, the result will naturally be there."
Question: You were only 7 years old when you first started learning to dive. How did you persevere at such a young age?
Answer: I remember that the coach went to the kindergarten to select athletes. I only knew that I was going to learn to swim and was very scared because I had choked on water when I was young. But I wanted to overcome it, so I chose this sport. After trying it, I found that I loved diving more and more.
Question: Which coaches had a significant impact on you?
Answer: In my sports career, there were three coaches and team leader Zhou Jihong (周继红) who guided me to success.
The first was my enlightenment coach, Coach Li Fang (李芳). She chose me to learn diving, and that was the first time I knew about the sport of diving. In the early stages of learning, I laid a very good foundation, which allowed me to go further.
The second was Coach Yu Fen (于芬), who selected me to join the national team. At that time, I was still a child in an amateur sports school. I was selected by Coach Yu (于) when I participated in national team training. She took me into the first team of the national team and trained with Olympic champion Fu Mingxia (伏明霞). That was the stage where I improved the fastest.
The third was Coach Zhong Shaozhen (钟少珍), who pulled me up again during the low point of my life. We experienced many moments in my sports career together. From being questioned to gradually moving towards success, without her support and encouragement along the way, I could not have stood on the highest podium.
And then there's my team leader, Zhou Jihong (周继红). She not only led me to success in my sports career, but also encouraged me to take the international referee qualification exam and enter FINA after I retired, all the way to where I am now. She helped me establish a life plan so that I could continue to shine in my field.
Each coach gave me great help at different times. Looking back, the help of each coach gradually made me who I am today.
Question: At the 2004 Athens Olympics, you won two gold medals in the women's 3-meter springboard singles and doubles, and were crowned Olympic champion for the first time. What were your feelings and thoughts at that time?
Answer: The Athens Olympics, for me, who was participating in the Olympics for the third time, may have been the last chance. Actually, at that moment, I didn't think so much. I just thought about how to bring out my best state and how to perform each movement well.
After winning the championship, I originally thought that I would be particularly excited and cry a lot. But when I stood on the champion podium, my mood was actually relatively calm. It seemed to be a natural result. If you do every process well, the result will naturally be there. This is not accidental.
Question: Recalling your 23-year diving career, which other competition experience is unforgettable for you?
Answer: The most unforgettable should be the 2008 Beijing Olympics (北京奥运会). At that time, the pressure was very high. Everyone thought that I should be there to win the championship. I had no retreat and could only move forward. For a long time before the competition, I was repeatedly simulating the final scene - how to solve problems when they arise, so that I would not be affected by anything from the outside world and perform at my due level. At the critical moment, it was no longer about defeating others, the main opponent was myself.
"Life shouldn't only have one possibility, I want to give myself more room for growth."
Question: Why did you choose to retire and study abroad at the peak of your career?
Answer: Life shouldn't only have one possibility, I want to give myself more room for growth. I have been focusing on diving, and there is a lot of knowledge to supplement and horizons to broaden. I hesitated when I left the diving platform, after all, there were my most cherished honors and the marks of my struggle, but an athlete's career is limited, and there is a long way to go in life, so I chose to observe the world from a new perspective and contact different fields, so that my life has more dimensions.
Question: At the 2024 Paris Olympics, as a referee, you witnessed Chinese divers winning gold. What was your mood at that time?
Answer: My mood was very complicated at that time. Seeing our athletes standing on the field, I especially understood their dedication. At the same time, as a referee, I had to focus on the core dimensions of scoring throughout the process, not bring personal feelings, and ensure the fairness and impartiality of the competition. In short, this feeling was very special. I was proud of our Chinese divers and felt at ease that I could continue to devote myself to diving in another way.
Question: From athlete to referee, what changes has the change in identity brought to your work content?
Answer: As an athlete, I only need to focus on doing my own movements well; as a referee, I have to study the details of the rules and pay attention to the technical characteristics of each athlete. The focus of work has changed from breaking through myself to serving the project. In the past, I thought about how to increase the difficulty and reduce mistakes every day. Now I spend time studying rule updates and thinking about how to make diving more fair and attractive from a global perspective. This change made me understand that the sports industry needs the support of different roles.
Question: Diving is a sport that uses countless repetitions to pursue perfect moments. What impact does this extreme experience have on you?
Answer: Countless repetitions of training have taught me that there is no shortcut to success, and perfection must be achieved through hard work. Just like many things in life, you need to persevere and not rush for results. And the pursuit of perfection is not to achieve flawlessness, but to have the attitude of "doing everything to the best of your ability," even if mistakes are made in the process, as long as you don't give up, you can always get closer to the goal little by little. I have always continued this attitude in my life, whether it is for family or public welfare, I calm down and promote it step by step.
Question: If you were to rank sports, public welfare, family, and self-exploration, how would you rank them? How do you allocate time and energy?
Answer: There is no absolute ranking, because the focus will definitely change in different stages of life, and balance is the core. I don't treat them as a priority order, but like arranging a training plan, planning in advance and adjusting flexibly. For example, when I am with my children, I put down my work and focus on my family; when I am doing sports or public welfare work, I also arrange my time and plan everything well. For me, every identity is very important, and I have to devote myself to it wholeheartedly.
"Athletes can treat external support as motivation and learn to filter out unnecessary voices."
Question: This year is the National Games year. Is what you have been busy with recently related to the National Games?
Answer: Yes, as the Vice President of the Nansha Cultural Association (南沙文化会) in Guangzhou (广州市), I have been working hard to promote the integrated development of culture and sports. This year, we are creating a series of activities for the Bay Area to welcome the National Games in Nansha District (南沙区), and at the same time, we are launching the China Sports Glory Impression Exhibition. I hope to do my part to let more people feel the charm of sports and the warmth of culture.
Question: What impact do you think the high exposure of the Internet has on the growth of athletes? How should athletes face this popularity?
Answer: It is a double-edged sword. High exposure can allow athletes to be noticed faster, gain more support, and even bring more resources to sports projects. However, excessive exposure may also put athletes under additional pressure, such as some small mistakes being magnified and personal lives being over-concerned.
I think athletes can treat external support as motivation, learn to filter out unnecessary voices, and focus on training and competition. The focus of athletes is always on their performance in the arena, so that they can better reflect their own value.
Question: What qualities do you think athletes need to have in addition to talent to achieve excellent results?
Answer: Perseverance, I think this is very important. I started training at the age of 7 and encountered various difficulties, but I never gave up and worked hard for many years to truly realize my dream. Another point is self-discipline. Athletes need a high degree of self-discipline and persistent practice. This is the basis of all good results. Of course, it is also inseparable from the efforts of the entire team. Our achievements are not just our own.
Question: Compared with the past, what changes do you think there have been in people's attitudes towards gold medals and athletes?
Answer: Now everyone is more rational. Even if athletes don't win gold medals, as long as they do their best, they will be recognized. This is especially good, indicating that everyone pays more attention to the spirit of sports. Now many athletes are also learning more knowledge in a wider range of fields, so that their lives have more possibilities.
Question: As someone who has been there, what kind of life advice would you like to give to young athletes today?
Answer: Cherish every day of training. An athlete's career is very short, and every repeated practice is paving the way for the future. Don't be afraid of hardship. The hardship now will become the foundation for the future. Even if you don't achieve ideal results, you should enjoy the process. The perseverance and focus gained in training will become a wealth in life.
Another point is to plan your life in advance. An athlete's career is only a part of life. Everyone should learn and accumulate more while they are young, and lay the foundation in advance no matter what they do in the future.
(Guo Mingxuan (郭明暄) also contributed to this article)
This issue is coordinated by: Wang Bo (王博)
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On October 16th, another world record-breaking achievement caused the entire Guangdong Shooting Range to erupt in cheers—the Shanghai team, composed of Jiang Ranxin (姜冉馨), Shen Yiyao (沈奕瑶), and Zhang Qi (张绮), achieved a total score of 1745 rings in the women's 10-meter air pistol qualification round at the 15th National Games, surpassing the previous world record of 1740 rings set by the Chinese team at the 2025 Asian Shooting Championships. The intense competition and the outstanding performances of both veteran and emerging athletes have continuously increased the popularity of the National Games shooting events, attracting even more fans.
The men's 10-meter air rifle final held on October 14th was a highly anticipated final since the start of the National Games shooting program. Olympic champion Sheng Lihao (盛李豪) was the first to step onto the field, instantly attracting the attention and lenses of the entire venue.
Sheng Lihao (盛李豪) lived up to expectations in the final, winning the championship with a score of 254.6 rings, and ascending the highest podium of the National Games for the first time. Four years ago, at the age of 16, Sheng Lihao (盛李豪) won a silver medal in his first Olympic appearance. At the 2024 Paris Olympics, he became a double champion in the mixed team air rifle and the men's 10-meter air rifle. Now, at less than 21 years old, Sheng Lihao (盛李豪) has achieved a Grand Slam in the Olympics, World Cup, Asian Games, and National Games. His nickname "Fan Bro" has also made him known to more people.
Like Sheng Lihao (盛李豪), Zhejiang team athlete Huang Yuting (黄雨婷) also won her first National Games gold medal. On October 14th, she and her teammates Han Jiayu (韩佳予) and Wang Zifei (王子菲) successfully won the gold medal in the women's 10-meter air rifle team event. They also achieved a world record-breaking score of 1903.6 rings in the qualification round.
Since the start of the National Games shooting program, a wave of enthusiasm for watching the games has been constantly rising inside and outside the venue. When the athletes achieve high scores, cheers always erupt from the audience; when the competition reaches a critical moment, the audience also holds their breath, fearing to affect the performance of the athletes... Following Yang Qian's (杨倩) gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics, more and more Olympic champions and world champions have emerged, bringing this sport into the view of more people. It is reported that the National Games shooting competition has attracted much attention since before the start of the games, and the event tickets were quickly sold out, with many people lamenting on social media platforms that "there are too few tickets and they are difficult to buy."
In the arena, the "battle of the gods"-like competitive level makes the audience exclaim that it is a feast for the eyes. Du Yuchen (杜雨宸), a 15-year-old from the Liaoning team, and her partner Liu Baichen (刘柏辰) surpassed a group of experts to win the first gold medal in the shooting program; in the women's 50-meter rifle three-position elimination round, Shanxi team athlete Miao Wanru (苗婉茹) achieved a score exceeding the world record for the qualification round of the event; in the men's 10-meter air pistol final, Hebei team athlete Niu Qisong (牛琪松) upset Xie Yu (谢瑜), the champion of the event at the Paris Olympics, to win the championship... Post-00s and even post-10s athletes are emerging, making the competition full of suspense and demonstrating the depth of talent in Chinese shooting.
"The National Games is very difficult to play. Each team has many 'dark horses'," said veteran Li Yuehong (李越宏). He once said that the fierce competition in domestic competitions shows that the project has high-quality development. This time, Li Yuehong (李越宏) led the Shandong team to win the gold medal in the men's 25-meter rapid fire pistol team event. He said: "The 25-meter rapid fire pistol is very special. You need good technique and decisive action. I hope more people participate, and the more young people there are, the more dynamic this project will be."
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Not long ago, the 11th "Guangwei Fishing King Cup" International Fishing Tournament Finals were held in Weihai City (威海市), Shandong Province (山东省). On the field, the contestants baited, cast their rods, lifted their rods, scooped fish, and removed hooks, competing fiercely with each cast.
"Weihai's climate conditions are excellent, creating a good competitive environment for anglers," said Lou Jianguo (娄建国), a participating angler. "The carbon fiber fishing rods produced here are also very useful, making our results more secure."
What is the origin of these carbon fiber fishing rods?
The reporter visited Weihai Guangwei Outdoor Equipment Co., Ltd. (威海光威户外装备有限公司) to find out. Inside the production workshop, robotic arms operated at high speed. On the automated production line, a carbon fiber fishing rod could be precisely wound every 23 seconds. "Carbon fiber is resistant to high temperatures and 10 times stronger than steel, with excellent fatigue resistance," said Li Junsan (李俊三), Director of the Technology Development Department of the company's domestic sales center.
In earlier years, China's carbon fiber technology had long failed to achieve breakthroughs, and the country was often constrained by foreign suppliers. "We focused on breaking through the upstream material field of the fishing rod industry, making great efforts to develop carbon fiber materials, and striving to solve the problem from the source," said Li Junsan. Since 2002, Weihai Guangwei Group (威海光威集团), to which the company belongs, has invested a total of approximately 4 billion yuan, finally achieving the localization of key carbon fiber materials and introducing aerospace-grade materials into the civilian field.
Now, the group is focusing on the downstream application fields of carbon fiber, launching the "Zhushan" series of fishing rods, using honeycomb gradient cloth layer technology to precisely superimpose 72 layers of carbon cloth with different moduli, so that the rod body maintains ultra-light weight while achieving a tensile strength of 60 tons.
A fishing rod "fishes" out an industry. Weihai is building a carbon fiber industrial park around carbon fiber and composite materials, which has so far attracted more than 40 enterprises and more than 20 high-end scientific research platforms.
According to statistics, more than 60% of the world's fishing tackle is produced in Weihai, and the products are sold to more than 60 countries and regions. With the development of the fishing tackle industry, the sports event economy is also heating up. Relying on its rich sea fishing resources and solid industrial base, Weihai holds more than 50 various fishing competitions every year, including brand events such as the National Sea Fishing Championship and the "Fish Swimming Around the World Cup" International Lure Elite Tournament, continuously enhancing the city's attractiveness.
Return to TopThe 40th Primary and Secondary School Student Track and Field Games of Pan'an County (磐安县), Jinhua City (金华市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省) opened on October 16th. 540 young athletes from 27 representative teams across the county gathered at the stadium to fully enjoy the fun of sports. The picture shows athletes competing in the men's 100-meter event.
Chen Qiang (陈强) photographed (People's Vision (人民视觉)).
Return to TopBeijing, October 16th (Reported by Li Yanfei (厉衍飞)) The 10th World Traditional Wushu Championships opened on the 16th in Emeishan City (峨眉山市), Sichuan Province (四川省). This competition is hosted by the International Wushu Federation (国际武术联合会), the Wushu Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport (国家体育总局武术运动管理中心), and the Chinese Wushu Association (中国武术协会), and organized by the Sichuan Provincial Sports Bureau (四川省体育局), the Sichuan Provincial Wushu Association (四川省武术协会), and the People's Government of Leshan City (乐山市人民政府). This is the fourth consecutive World Traditional Wushu Championships held in Emeishan City (峨眉山市), attracting 5,092 athletes, coaches, and others from 54 countries and regions to participate.
The competition is divided into two major groups, domestic and international, including individual, duet, and group events. During the event, a series of cultural displays and interactive experience activities such as the Golden Summit Sword Discussion (金顶论剑) and Wushu Masters Forum (武术名家讲坛) will be launched simultaneously, releasing the unique charm of the integration of culture, sports, and tourism.
Return to TopLayout design: Cai Huawei (蔡华伟) Zhang Fangman (张芳曼)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王永战 窦瀚洋 王 沛
An Introduction
On his first job hunt in Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江) Province, Wang Xuguang (王绪广), an upcoming graduate from Zhangjiakou Vocational and Technical College (张家口职业技术学院) in Hebei (河北), settled down at the Qinghe Inn (青荷驿站) and quickly found a job he liked.
Hangzhou Qinghe Inn, a "Youth Inn" specially built for college students seeking jobs in other places, provides one-stop services such as accommodation, catering, career guidance, and recruitment information. At present, Hangzhou (杭州) has 90 Qinghe Inns in operation, with more than 3,900 sets (rooms) of housing, serving more than 200,000 young people seeking employment and starting businesses.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "We must adhere to giving top priority to the employment of young people, including college graduates." In April of this year, the Ministry of Education (教育部) and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团中央) jointly issued the "Notice on Further发挥‘青年驿站’作用 为跨地区求职高校毕业生提供住宿优惠便利服务的通知" (Guānyú jìnyībù fāhuī 'qīngnián yìzhàn' zuòyòng wèi kuà dìqū qiúzhí gāoxiào bìyè shēng tígōng zhùsù yōuhuì biànlì fúwù de tōngzhī - "Notice on Further发挥‘青年驿站’作用 为跨地区求职高校毕业生提供住宿优惠便利服务的通知") (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"), which proposed to effectively发挥 the positive role of "Youth Inns" in reducing costs, promoting employment, and benefiting students, and helping college graduates to find employment as soon as possible.
Treat promising young people with a friendly city. According to preliminary statistics from the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团中央), "Youth Inns" have covered approximately 200 cities, with a scale of more than 2,600.
How does the "Youth Inn" fuel dreams? Recently, reporters visited Hangzhou (杭州) in Zhejiang (浙江), Weifang (潍坊) in Shandong (山东), Chengdu (成都) in Sichuan (四川), and other places to explore.
Serving Job Seekers from Other Places
Convenient booking, free accommodation, creating a warm "first stop" for young people seeking jobs in other places.
Wang Xuguang (王绪广) came to Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江) to find a job. He did not expect to live in a free apartment single room with an independent bathroom.
Not long ago, Wang Xuguang (王绪广) received an interview notice from a company in Hangzhou (杭州), which made him a little hesitant: this job is in line with his major, and the salary is competitive, but the journey is long, and the transportation and accommodation expenses are not small. Because it was a differential interview, he was not fully confident that he would be hired, and worried that the money would be wasted.
While hesitating, Wang Xuguang (王绪广) swiped a post on a social media platform about the Hangzhou Qinghe Inn (杭州青荷驿站) check-in guide - the title "7 days and 6 nights free accommodation" caught his eye.
Wang Xuguang (王绪广) then applied through the "Talent Hangzhou (人才杭州)" WeChat mini-program. He only needed to upload his ID card, student ID, application materials, etc., and meet the conditions such as "college degree (including) or above students in their graduation year when applying" and "non-Hangzhou (杭州) household registration and no own housing in Hangzhou (杭州) City" to be eligible for accommodation.
After passing the qualification review and making an online reservation conveniently, Wang Xuguang (王绪广) chose the Yuexiang Apartment Qinghe Inn (悦享公寓青荷驿站) in Gudang Street (古荡街道), Xihu District (西湖区), Hangzhou (杭州), which is closest to the interviewing company. The inn manager added his WeChat and sent him traffic guidance and weather forecast information for Hangzhou (杭州). Wang Xuguang (王绪广) had not yet entered the city, but he already felt very warm.
Upon arriving at the Qinghe Inn (青荷驿站), Wang Xuguang (王绪广) completed the offline check-in with an electronic voucher and checked in smoothly. The spacious room was bright and clean, with air conditioning, refrigerator, washing machine and other facilities. After putting down his luggage, he made a WeChat video call to his mother to tell his parents that he was safe.
"I go out to interview and find a job during the day, and I have a place to stay when I come back at night. It's very warm and reassuring," Wang Xuguang (王绪广) said, the Qinghe Inn (青荷驿站) manager provides 24-hour consultation services, "Where are there more software companies?" "How to replace disposable items?"... He asked if he didn't understand.
Live with peace of mind and eat with confidence. Yuexiang Apartment Qinghe Inn (悦享公寓青荷驿站) is adjacent to the community canteen, and young people staying at the inn can enjoy "resident prices" for meals. "There are more than a dozen dishes to choose from for each meal, with meat and vegetables. You can eat your fill for less than 20 yuan, which is a good deal!" Wang Xuguang (王绪广) did not have to worry about food and accommodation, and devoted himself to interview preparation, and finally successfully passed the assessment and joined a technology company in Hangzhou (杭州).
According to incomplete statistics, about 1/4 of the young people staying at Yuexiang Apartment Qinghe Inn (悦享公寓青荷驿站) have signed employment contracts with employers in Hangzhou (杭州). Since the beginning of this year, Hangzhou (杭州) has added 530 Qinghe Inn (青荷驿站) rooms, completing the annual target of people's livelihood in advance.
The "Youth Inn" service is good, how to let more young people know? The "Notice" proposes to "guide colleges and universities to include the inn policy in the graduate employment service package and send the latest developments of the 'Youth Inn' in a targeted manner."
Li Yuxin (李宇欣), an upcoming graduate from Hebei Normal University (河北师范大学), learned about the "Youth Inn" from a school employment counseling class. After receiving an interview invitation from a company in Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川) in August this year, she submitted an application for accommodation through the "Qingju Jingguancheng (青聚锦官城)" official account operated by the Chengdu Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团成都市委). "The application was approved in five or six hours." Li Yuxin (李宇欣) received a text message with the check-in voucher for the "Youth Inn" she applied for - the Jinjiang District Youth Talent Inn (锦江区青年人才驿站) in Chengdu (成都).
Smooth experience and efficient service stem from the "Youth Inn" one-stop service mechanism launched by the Chengdu Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团成都市委). Liu Jun (刘俊), Deputy Secretary of the Chengdu Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团成都市委), introduced that comprehensively considering the Internet usage habits of young people, the Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League (团市委) embedded the "Youth Inn" platform into social media such as WeChat, and launched online application, VR viewing and other functions to facilitate one-click application.
When she first arrived at the Jinjiang District Youth Talent Inn (锦江区青年人才驿站), Li Yuxin (李宇欣) was very satisfied with the room layout: an area of nearly 20 square meters, an independent bathroom, and disposable items were prepared. The public area on the first floor of the inn has a reading space, a shared kitchen and fitness facilities.
"Being alone in a foreign land is not a stranger. I found a sense of home in this city." Li Yuxin (李宇欣) submitted an application for renewal after staying at the Jinjiang District Youth Talent Inn (锦江区青年人才驿站) for 3 days. "The inn happened to be holding a city perception activity, and I wanted to learn more about Chengdu (成都), so I applied for a 3-day extension."
Aiming at the rigid demand of young people seeking jobs in other places, the Chengdu Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团成都市委) has introduced measures in accordance with the times and local conditions. On the basis of the original maximum of 7 days of free accommodation, the free renewal time for some "Youth Inns" has been extended to 14 days to 1 month.
To date, Chengdu (成都) has built 37 "Youth Inns", serving more than 130,000 young people seeking jobs in other places. Through telephone follow-up visits to young people staying in the inn and other methods, the Chengdu Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团成都市委) comprehensively evaluates the management and service level of the city's youth talent inns, and has built 8 five-star "Youth Inns" and 12 four-star "Youth Inns".
Explore Long-term Operation
Coordinate resources, flexibly supply, and promote the effective connection between short-term and long-term rentals.
Walking out of the Jinshilu (金石路) subway station in Chengdu (成都市), you can reach the Jinjiang District Youth Talent Inn (锦江区青年人才驿站) in about 200 meters.
"The inn is close to the subway station, which is convenient for travel." Guo Yuanyuan (郭圆圆), Deputy Secretary of the Jinjiang District Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团锦江区委), introduced that the Chengdu Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团成都市委) requires optimizing the site setting, following the principle of "where young people gather, sites will be built", and combining the accommodation needs of young job seekers, priority is given to planning the construction of inns near industrial parks and other places.
Taking the Jinjiang District Youth Talent Inn (锦江区青年人才驿站) as an example, the location factor was fully considered in the bidding stage - the New Hope New Home Hotel (新希望新家酒店), which undertakes the inn project, is adjacent to the Jinjiang Digital Media Industrial Park (锦江数字传媒产业园区), where a large number of enterprises gather, and it is not far from the Jinjiang District Human Resources Service Center (锦江区人力资源服务中心), which is convenient for young people to find jobs and handle affairs.
"This is a hotel-style inn, which adopts a joint construction and joint operation model, which saves construction costs and integrates the superior resources of the central city." Guo Yuanyuan (郭圆圆) told reporters that in December 2023, the Jinjiang District Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团锦江区委) publicly tendered to the society, and the New Hope New Home Hotel (新希望新家酒店) won the bid. The hotel routinely reserves 10 beds for the inn, and dynamically adjusts according to the actual occupancy situation, providing more than 20 beds during the peak season for job hunting.
The Chengdu (成都市) and district-level Communist Youth League organizations arrange special funds every year to subsidize hotels, apartments, etc. that undertake the operation of the "Youth Inn" project, so as to promote long-term operation.
In Weifang (潍坊), Shandong (山东), at the beginning of the construction of the "Youth Inn", the Weifang Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团潍坊市委) actively contacted the culture and tourism, commerce, market supervision and other departments to learn more about the location distribution, functional positioning, etc. of more than 300 hotels in the city, and conducted a refined screening. In the end, more than 40 hotels with convenient transportation and complete supporting facilities were selected to undertake the inn, and more than 70 other hotels were used as backups.
"The construction process of the 'Youth Inn' is also a process of continuous integration of resources and optimization of allocation by the Communist Youth League organization. We have established a city partner mechanism to attract social forces to jointly build the inn." Hu Honglei (扈红蕾), Minister of the Rights and Interests Department of the Weifang Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团潍坊市委), said that the Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League (团市委) makes full use of the resources of the Youth Federation, the Young Entrepreneurs Association, etc., and coordinates 11 chain hotels self-operated by members of the Youth Federation and the Young Entrepreneurs Association to undertake the "Youth Inn", all of which can achieve move-in with luggage. At present, Weifang (潍坊) City has built 52 "Youth Inns", attracting more than 4,000 people to stay.
Spring recruitment and autumn recruitment are the peak seasons for college students to find jobs, and winter vacation is usually the off-season for recruitment. How can the "Youth Inn" not only ensure the accommodation needs of young people during the peak season, but also improve the efficiency of the use of housing during the off-season?
"Hotel-style inns do not have fixed rooms, and only need to provide the corresponding number of beds according to the agreement, which is relatively convenient to allocate, so the contradiction between peak and off-season is not very prominent." Song Jianhui (宋建慧), Deputy Director of the Hangzhou Housing Security Service Center (杭州市住房保障服务中心), introduced that the apartment-style inn has fixed housing, and if the housing is insufficient, the inn will communicate with the applicant as soon as possible and ask them to adjust the check-in time or arrange to stay in other inns. But he admitted that during the peak season for job hunting such as summer vacation, rooms are often in short supply, while some may be idle during the off-season.
At present, Hangzhou (杭州) is exploring the implementation of a flexible supply mechanism for "Youth Inn" housing, so as to promote the dynamic balance of "Youth Inn" housing.
"During the peak season for graduates to find jobs, we increase the supply of inn housing through multiple channels; during the off-season for job hunting, we extend the length of stay that can be applied for in some inns, and appropriately relax the application conditions to expand the scope of service objects." Song Jianhui (宋建慧) said that Hangzhou (杭州) has formed a construction pattern of "hotel-style inns as the main and apartment-style inns as the auxiliary".
It not only solves the short-term accommodation needs of young people seeking jobs in other places, but also effectively connects their long-term rental needs after they find a job. Yuexiang Apartment Qinghe Inn (悦享公寓青荷驿站) makes full use of commercial apartment resources to launch a short-term to long-term rental discount activity for young people seeking jobs in other places, and Qi Lingling (戚铃玲), an upcoming graduate, has enjoyed this benefit.
In July this year, Qi Lingling (戚铃玲) found a job while staying at Yuexiang Apartment Qinghe Inn (悦享公寓青荷驿站). "The inn has good service and is close to the company. Switching from short-term stay at the inn to long-term rental of the apartment saves the trouble of going back and forth, and there are also rent reduction discounts." She signed a one-year lease with Yuexiang Apartment (悦享公寓), with one bedroom, one living room and one bathroom, an area of 40 square meters, and a monthly rent of only 2,800 yuan, which is nearly 2,000 yuan cheaper than similar housing in the surrounding area. Yuexiang Apartment (悦享公寓) also gives a 10% discount for long-term rentals of more than one year.
Synchronously build a tiered housing system from "one bed" to "one apartment". Communist Youth League organizations in various places have built "Youth Inns" as the first stop for young people to settle down in the city, and continue to introduce various measures to strengthen the coordinated linkage with other youth housing security measures such as guaranteed rental housing.
On the one hand, the Jinjiang District Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团锦江区委) will set up a batch of "Youth Inn" rooms by using the guaranteed rental housing project in Jinjiang District (锦江区); on the other hand, for young people who meet the talent classification standards of the district and have applied for talent identification, a maximum of 6,000 yuan rent reduction will be given when applying for guaranteed rental housing.
The Weifang Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团潍坊市委) has jointly built the public welfare housing rental project "Youlai Youth Community (优徕青年社区)" with multiple departments, and has built 6 locations with a total of 414 housing units. The Communist Youth League organization gives play to its resource and channel advantages to assist young people in applying for guaranteed rental housing and rental subsidies. Young people staying in "Youlai Youth Community (优徕青年社区)" can receive a 5% to 10% rental subsidy.
Expand Employment Channels
Share information, provide job search guidance, and build a "bridge of hearts" from campus to workplace.
The workshop was filled with the roar of machines. Shen Qi (沈麒) tapped a button and skillfully operated a CNC machine tool. Shen Qi (沈麒) has been quite satisfied with this job for a few months since joining a machinery company in Weifang (潍坊). "The monthly salary is more than 9,000 yuan, and the company also provides meal and housing subsidies."
Shen Qi (沈麒), 23 years old, graduated from Liaoning University of Technology (辽宁工业大学) with a major in electrical engineering and automation. Hearing that there are many mechanical companies in Weifang (潍坊), he came to find a job with his college classmates and stayed for free at a hotel-style "Youth Inn" located in Kuiwen District (奎文区), Weifang (潍坊) City.
At that time, Kuiwen District (奎文区) was holding a job fair. Shen Qi (沈麒) saw the information on the employment information column of the inn and went to participate with a try-it-out mentality. There were many companies at the job fair. He learned about the company's situation in detail, compared the job requirements, selected the target company, and submitted his resume. After several interviews, he successfully found a satisfactory job.
Walking into this "Youth Inn", the "Youth Inn" sign at the front desk of the lobby is very eye-catching. Each guest room provides a brochure containing information about the city, policy interpretation, and employment information.
To help young people find employment and start businesses, how does the "Youth Inn" build a service circle?
Sharing employment information is an important part. While setting up employment information columns in "Youth Inns", various places are exploring and promoting intelligent employment information equipment. At the entrance of Hangzhou Yuexiang Apartment Qinghe Inn (杭州悦享公寓青荷驿站), a "Digital Intelligence Employment All-in-One Machine (数智就业一体机)" came into view, and young people stopped to check it out from time to time.
This "Digital Intelligence Employment All-in-One Machine (数智就业一体机)" has three functions: "Enjoy Policies (享政策)", "Find a Job (找工作)", and "Find Skills (淘技能)". It only takes 15 seconds to complete the entire process of face-swiping to create a file, intelligent matching, and one-click submission. The "Digital Intelligence Employment All-in-One Machine (数智就业一体机)" updates Hangzhou's (杭州市) employment policies and regulations in real time, and also integrates the AI policy answering function, which can instantly generate a personal employment profile and accurately match job positions.
"The AI employment profile is very targeted." Wang Xuguang (王绪广) praised the suggestions given by the "Digital Intelligence Employment All-in-One Machine (数智就业一体机)", and his final signed position was roughly in line with the AI recommendation direction.
The "Notice" proposes to actively explore providing job recommendation, supply and demand docking, policy interpretation, resume AI consultation, interview skills training, online career planning, and job search experience exchange and sharing and other employment services for college graduates seeking jobs who stay in the "Youth Inn".
"Seeking jobs in other places, the Youth Night School (青年夜校) gave me a lot of guidance." During his stay at Yuexiang Apartment Qinghe Inn (悦享公寓青荷驿站), Wang Xuguang (王绪广) immediately signed up when he saw the brief introduction of the college student job search training class of the Youth Night School (青年夜校) organized by the Xihu District Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团西湖区委).
In the night school classroom, there were frequent interactions. "The training teacher explained in detail the dressing skills for interviews and answered students' questions at any time." Wang Xuguang (王绪广) said that the teacher also answered other questions that might be encountered during the interview on the spot. "My shortcoming is that I am not confident enough. The teacher gave a solution of 'combining professional skills and answering interview questions in a reasonable and well-founded manner'."
Relying on the "Youth Inn" to hold the Youth Night School (青年夜校), the Xihu District Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团西湖区委) has opened courses such as short video production, online entrepreneurship, and AI tool practical application for young people with skills improvement needs, and has held more than 1,500 sessions, serving 35,000 young people. Thanks to the methods and skills learned in the night school training, Wang Xuguang (王绪广) successfully passed the company interview.
However, the reporter learned in the interview that the employment assistance effects of "Youth Inns" vary from place to place. Some young people reported that the information in some employment information columns is not updated in a timely manner; some believe that some skills training is not targeted enough; and some said that the positions provided by some employment promotion meetings do not match the majors of young job seekers...
In this regard, Hu Honglei (扈红蕾) believes that the inn service should be more refined, strengthen docking with enterprises, and improve the accuracy of job recommendation; Liu Jun (刘俊) suggested to further enrich the talent pool of entrepreneurship and employment mentors to provide young people with more practical guidance.
Walking into a city and feeling a warmth. For job seekers from other places, the first impression of the city often determines the choice of employment.
During her stay at the Jinjiang District Youth Talent驿站 (锦江区青年人才驿站), Li Yuxin (李宇欣) signed up for the Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Employment Environment Perception Activity organized by the Jinjiang District Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团锦江区委). That day, Li Yuxin (李宇欣), along with more than 30 other young people seeking jobs from other places, visited the Chengdu December Market Museum (成都十二月市博物馆) to learn about the history of commercial development in Chengdu (成都), and then visited the Chengdu Talent Service Center (成都市人才服务中心) to listen to entrepreneurship and employment mentors introduce various policies. "There was both on-site experience and policy interpretation, I gained a lot," Li Yuxin (李宇欣) said with emotion.
Building a "bridge of hearts" from campus to workplace for young people seeking jobs from other places. Relying on service positions such as "Youth驿站," the Chengdu Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团成都市委) has launched more than 30 youth innovation, entrepreneurship, and employment environment perception routes, organized more than 150 visits, attracting more than 10,000 young people to participate.
"Guiding young people to deeply integrate their personal career development with the needs of urban development, so that more out-of-town young people who are temporarily settling down can take root and settle down," Liu Jun (刘俊) said.
Return to TopBy: 王永战
A lamp, a bed, a room—the "Youth驿站" (Qīngnián yìzhàn, Youth Station) seems insignificant, but it provides a warm foothold for young people seeking jobs in other places, attracting young talents from all over the world to settle down from temporary stays.
The livability index of a city lies not only in how many high-rise buildings it has, but also in whether it can accommodate the dreams of youth. Imagine, a recent graduate, dragging a suitcase to a strange city, unfamiliar with the place; at that time, a "Youth驿站" (Qīngnián yìzhàn, Youth Station) with open doors is not only a temporary dormitory, but also demonstrates the warmth of a city.
In April of this year, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源和社会保障部), the Ministry of Education (教育部), and the Ministry of Finance (财政部) jointly issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Employment of College Graduates and Other Young People in 2025," proposing the construction of a number of Youth Employment驿站 (Qīngnián jiùyè yìzhàn, Youth Employment Stations) to provide college graduates and other young people seeking jobs in other places with "one-stop" services such as policy interpretation, career guidance, and recruitment information.
For many college graduates and other young people, seeking jobs in other places, being able to enter, stay, live, and succeed in a city, the "Youth驿站" (Qīngnián yìzhàn, Youth Station) is often the first stop. How to run this first stop of the "Youth驿站" (Qīngnián yìzhàn, Youth Station) well, with more comprehensive consideration of "doing good things well," and solve the urgent needs of young people seeking jobs in other places?
To "do good things well," relevant departments need to coordinate and cooperate. How to let more young people know about the驿站 (yìzhàn, station), how to make it convenient for young people to apply for the驿站 (yìzhàn, station), and how should the驿站 (yìzhàn, station) be laid out to accurately reach young people seeking jobs? This all depends on relevant departments conducting research and planning, building a good publicity platform, arranging application channels, and setting up驿站 (yìzhàn, station) locations to bring the驿站 (yìzhàn, station) to the hearts of young people.
To "do good things well," operating institutions also need to consider carefully. Young people seeking jobs go to other places with dreams and need care. Whether it is an apartment-style or hotel-style驿站 (yìzhàn, station), service is the top priority. From the most basic cleaning and security, to using public spaces to set up reading corners and gyms, equipping professional service personnel, and helping young people connect with long-term rentals and providing discounts, details are revealed everywhere.
To "do good things well," there should also be more awareness of problems. The驿站 (yìzhàn, station) aims to help young people seeking jobs in other places solve problems such as accommodation and employment. Only by constantly digging deeper into the problems that job seekers care about, such as insufficient job information, lack of interview skills, and limited urban awareness, can we provide more targeted assistance and provide young people with better services.
Young people gather because of the city, and the city thrives because of young people. A city that knows how to warm young people, a city that "runs in both directions" with young people, will be full of vitality and more vibrant.
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Return to Top"It's not that I particularly love chrysanthemums among all flowers; it's just that after this flower blooms, there are no more flowers."
After experiencing the gestation of winter, the budding of spring, and the accumulation of summer, chrysanthemums finally bloom brilliantly in the golden autumn season, and Kaifeng (开封), Henan (河南) is also dressed up to welcome the annual chrysanthemum appreciation season.
The 43rd China Kaifeng Chrysanthemum Culture Festival and the 15th China Chrysanthemum Exhibition will open on October 18 and last until mid-to-late November. In October, Kaifeng (开封) will be adorned with 2.8 million pots of chrysanthemums of various colors, turning the ancient capital into a sea of flowers. More than 800 chrysanthemum art works from 62 cities and units will compete with local chrysanthemum exhibitions, reproducing the autumn prosperity of "A City of Song Charm, a Dream of Tokyo" (一城宋韵 东京梦华). During the National Day holiday, it has already attracted more than 7.8 million tourists to appreciate the chrysanthemums.
The Cultural Heritage of the Chrysanthemum City is Long-Standing
The city and the flower share the same breath; the city flower and the city coexist harmoniously. Chrysanthemums and Kaifeng (开封) City coexist and integrate. As one of the first batch of National Historical and Cultural Cities, Kaifeng (开封) has a long history and outstanding characteristics and advantages in chrysanthemum cultivation and chrysanthemum art display. It is the birthplace of China's first monograph on chrysanthemums, "Chrysanthemum Spectrum" (《菊谱》) (written by Liu Meng (刘蒙)). The chrysanthemum is the city flower of Kaifeng (开封). From ancient times to the present, the people of Kaifeng (开封) have loved, cultivated, and appreciated chrysanthemums. Kaifeng's (开封) chrysanthemum culture has a profound heritage and is a well-deserved "China's Famous Chrysanthemum City" (中国菊花名城). Chrysanthemums bloom in the cold and stand proudly against the frost, which highly coincides with Kaifeng's (开封) resilient urban character. The process of chrysanthemums striving tenaciously for gorgeous blooming is also a vivid reflection of the Kaifeng (开封) people's perseverance and enterprising spirit.
Kaifeng (开封) was built along the river and prospered because of the Yellow River (黄河). The city's rise and fall are closely linked to the changes of the Yellow River (黄河). Ancient sages governed the Yellow River (黄河) in Kaifeng (开封), leaving behind wisdom in river management. For more than a thousand years, the urban pattern and central axis of Kaifeng (开封) have remained unchanged, forming the spectacle of "cities stacked upon cities" (城摞城) and the unique landscape of the "suspended river above ground" (地上悬河).
In recent years, Kaifeng (开封) has coordinated development and security, and its economy and society have maintained a good situation of steady progress, quality improvement, and efficiency enhancement. Since the beginning of this year, the city's economy has continued its steady and positive development trend. In the first half of the year, 15 economic indicators ranked in the first echelon of Henan Province (河南省), which is the best performance in the same period in the past five years.
Festival Empowers Kaifeng City (开封城)
Since Kaifeng (开封) held the Chrysanthemum Flower Fair in 1983, after 42 years of development, the Chrysanthemum Culture Festival has become a well-known festival brand in Kaifeng (开封), driving the rise of industries such as chrysanthemum planting, chrysanthemum art exhibitions, chrysanthemum food, and cultural and creative products, profoundly affecting the city's development pattern and shaping a brand-new Kaifeng (开封).
"Chrysanthemums build the stage, and economy and trade perform the show" (菊花搭台，经贸唱戏). As another door opened by Kaifeng (开封) to the world, the Chrysanthemum Culture Festival uses flowers as a medium to transform the "traffic" of the festival into the "retention" of talents, funds, information, and technology, beautifying the city, nurturing industries, becoming a platform for opening up and attracting investment, and injecting a continuous stream of power into Kaifeng's (开封) high-quality development.
In recent years, Kaifeng (开封) has seized major opportunities such as ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin (黄河流域), the construction of the China (Henan) Free Trade Pilot Zone (中国（河南）自由贸易试验区), and the integrated development of Zhengzhou (郑州) and Kaifeng (开封), and insisted on promoting high-quality development by revitalizing the city through openness, allowing Kaifeng (开封), which is not near the sea or the border, to stand at the forefront of opening up.
A new Kaifeng (开封) that is open to the outside world, economically developed, culturally prosperous, livable and workable, and civilized and harmonious, has opened its warm arms to the world. Every year during the Chrysanthemum Culture Festival, leading domestic and foreign industry enterprises, listed companies, well-known brands, and merchants flock to Kaifeng (开封) to actively participate in industrial docking, project negotiations, and other investment and cooperation exchange activities, and jointly discuss economic and trade development and cooperation and win-win results in the chrysanthemum fragrance of "Bian" (汴) land.
Cultural and Tourism Integration Adds New Charm
Illuminated by lights and dappled with shadows, an endless stream of citizens and tourists linger in the overflowing fragrance of chrysanthemums, feeling the autumn romance of the ancient capital of eight dynasties and the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty (北宋).
Because of a festival, people rush to a city. Kaifeng's (开封) profound cultural heritage and the agglomeration effect of festival brands have made the Chrysanthemum Culture Festival a powerful engine for "gathering popularity, attracting traffic, and promoting consumption" (聚人气、引流量、促消费).
Kaifeng (开封) insists on shaping tourism with culture and highlighting culture with tourism, deeply exploring the unique value of Song culture (宋文化), Canal culture (运河文化), and other cultures, promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of excellent traditional Chinese culture, doing a great job in the integration of culture and tourism, and accelerating the transformation of the cultural and tourism industry into a pillar industry. It is making every effort to promote the organic combination of chrysanthemum culture and Song culture (宋文化), Canal culture (运河文化), red culture (红色文化), etc., fully integrating into the "Walking Henan, Understanding China" (行走河南·读懂中国) brand system, realizing the integration of culture into the scenery and becoming the scenery, and making every effort to shape the festival brand of "Song Charm Kaifeng, Chrysanthemum Fragrance China" (宋韵开封，菊香中国).
Kaifeng (开封) is deeply promoting the integrated development of cultural tourism and cultural creation, actively promoting the integration of culture and technology, and making every effort to create the characteristic brand of "A City of Song Charm, a Dream of Tokyo" (一城宋韵 东京梦华), fully integrating tourism with non-heritage, traditional Chinese medicine, folk customs, night markets, food, and other formats, transforming "one-day tours" into "multi-day tours" and "sightseeing tours" into "immersive experiences." Tourists can compose poems with "Su Shi" (苏轼), judge cases with "Bao Zheng" (包拯), and take photos with "knights"... NPCs (non-player characters) use a combination of historical culture and game interaction to take tourists "back" to the Song Dynasty (宋朝) to personally experience the urban prosperity of "Tokyo Dream Hualu" (《东京梦华录》) and taste the urban fireworks of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" (《清明上河图》).
From the large-scale water real-life performance "Da Song · Tokyo Dream Hualu" (《大宋·东京梦华》) and the large-scale real-life drama "Three Attacks on Zhujiazhuang" (《三打祝家庄》) to the dome theater "Flying Over the Qingming Shanghe Tu" (《飞越清明上河图》), the naked-eye 3D film "Wei Meng Daliangmen" (《微梦大梁门》), the holographic theater "Zhakou Panche Case" (《闸口盘车案》), the immersive night real-life horse war program "Yue Fei · Yancheng Victory" (《岳飞·郾城大捷》), and the Song culture immersive dining show "Qingming Shanghe · Song Banquet" (《清明上河·宋宴》)... Qingming Shanghe Garden (清明上河园), Wansui Mountain Wuxia City (万岁山武侠城), Kaifeng Prefecture (开封府) and other scenic spots use technology to innovate and create new Song-style cultural tourism scenes, bringing tourists a more novel and immersive tour experience.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Kaifeng (开封) innovatively implemented the "Culture+" concept, constructed a policy system for the integrated development of culture, commerce, and tourism, strengthened creative driving and technological empowerment, created diversified consumption scenarios, and the effectiveness of building a strong cultural tourism city has accelerated. From January to August this year, Kaifeng City (开封市) received 88.6097 million tourists, an increase of 8.47% year-on-year, and achieved a comprehensive cultural tourism income of 65.738 billion yuan, an increase of 14.44% year-on-year.
The Ancient Capital is Surging with Youth
Over the years, Kaifeng's (开封) chrysanthemums have bloomed more and more luxuriantly and beautifully, and Kaifeng's (开封) urban image has become more and more grand and charming. In the new journey of Kaifeng (开封) building a world-class historical and cultural city at a high level and building an international cultural tourism city at a high standard, the millennium Song charm blooms with the brilliance of the times, and the ancient capital of eight dynasties bursts with youthful vitality.
The great river is surging, and the ancient city is renewed; culture runs through thousands of years, and the tide surges in the Central Plains.
The manufacturing industry is booming. Kaifeng (开封) is focusing on building 100 billion-level industrial chain clusters such as automobile manufacturing, chemical new materials, and modern food. Chery Automobile's (奇瑞汽车) Kaifeng production base achieved an output value of over 10 billion yuan in the first half of the year, and its product exports exceeded 1.1 billion US dollars; Kaifeng Fine Chemical Industry Development Zone (开封精细化工开发区) has the largest production capacity of phthalic anhydride and isooctanoic acid in the country; Tongxu County (通许县) is making every effort to build the "China Spicy Vermicelli Capital" (中国酸辣粉之都), and leading enterprises such as Yihai Kerry (益海嘉里), Muyuan (牧原), and Chia Tai (正大) have settled down.
The foundation for the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside is solid. Kaifeng (开封) has had bumper harvests of grain production for years, and has a number of agricultural product geographical indication products such as Bianliang Watermelon (汴梁西瓜), Xiangfu Peanut (祥符花生), and Lankao's "New Three Treasures" (兰考“新三宝”), and Qi County (大蒜) (garlic) and Lankao (红薯) (sweet potato) have been selected as China's characteristic agricultural product advantage areas, and Lankao County (兰考县) has been selected as a national rural revitalization demonstration county.
Open exchanges have achieved remarkable results. Open platforms such as the China (Henan) Free Trade Pilot Zone Kaifeng Area (中国（河南）自由贸易试验区开封片区), the Kaifeng Comprehensive Bonded Zone (开封综合保税区), and the National Cultural Export Base (Kaifeng) (国家文化出口基地（开封）) have empowered Kaifeng (开封), and Kaifeng's (开封) foreign trade growth rate has continued to lead the province. In 2024, the city's total import and export volume increased by 80.4% year-on-year, and the growth rates of both imports and exports ranked first in the province.
Today's Kaifeng (开封) is a city of vitality. National and provincial strategic advantages are superimposed, and various development policies and measures are converging to exert their strength. The entire city wall is connected, the "six rivers and five lakes" water system is connected, the city and the scenery are integrated, the ancient and the modern are blended, the guests and hosts get along well, and the Song charm is highlighted, making it more and more livable, workable, and travelable.
Today's Kaifeng (开封) is also a warm city. Kaifeng (开封) is building a full-area tourism service system with "smooth transportation, warm service, and strong guarantee" (交通畅、服务暖、保障强) to enhance the "cultural tourism heat" with "service temperature".
At the critical period of the conclusion of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and the planning and layout of the "15th Five-Year Plan", Kaifeng City (开封市) will keep its mission in mind, adhere to culture as paper, innovation as pen, and openness as ink, comprehensively depict a new picture of high-quality development, high-efficiency governance, and high-quality life, and contribute Kaifeng's (开封) strength to striving to write a new chapter in promoting Chinese-style modernization in the Central Plains.
Data source: Publicity Department of the Kaifeng Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共开封市委宣传部)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 田 泓
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Since initiating the creation of a zero-carbon park, the Shanghai Minhang Economic and Technological Development Zone (上海闵行经济技术开发区) has explored a carbon emission accounting system, guiding enterprises to continuously improve energy efficiency and carbon efficiency, and gradually realizing the transformation from a traditional manufacturing park to a green intelligent manufacturing and R&D innovation park.
Walking into the lobby of the park service center of the Shanghai Minhang Economic and Technological Development Zone (hereinafter referred to as "Minhang Development Zone" (闵行开发区)), the smart energy platform display screen shows the main indicators such as power generation of various grid-connected enterprises in real time and clearly.
"Thanks to the continuous optimization of the industrial structure, the continuous promotion of energy conservation and consumption reduction, and the increasingly clean energy structure, since 2009, the park has steadily reduced its total carbon emissions while achieving a continuous increase in industrial output value," said Yu Zhonghua (余仲华), deputy director of the Park Service Department of Minhang Development Zone (闵行开发区).
Park—
Exploring a Carbon Emission Accounting System
"Minhang Development Zone (闵行开发区) is one of the first 14 national-level economic and technological development zones in the country. The park area of 3.5 square kilometers is not large, but its gold content is high," Yu Zhonghua (余仲华) introduced. After decades of development, Minhang Development Zone (闵行开发区) has gradually realized the transformation from a traditional manufacturing park to a green intelligent manufacturing and R&D innovation park, forming an industrial pattern dominated by equipment manufacturing, new materials, and other industries.
How can an industrial park dominated by high-end manufacturing embark on a zero-carbon park creation path with higher efficiency and lower costs? In 2021, Minhang Development Zone (闵行开发区) launched a zero-carbon park creation study.
"To create a zero-carbon park, we must first understand the carbon emission situation. The carbon emission statistics and accounting standards at that time were mainly aimed at enterprises, and lacked accounting guidance at the park level." Hu Jing (胡静), director of the Institute of Environmental Policy and Low-Carbon Development of the Shanghai Academy of Environmental Sciences (上海市环境科学研究院), and her team encountered difficulties as soon as they received the project. Fortunately, Minhang Development Zone (闵行开发区) had previously established an energy consumption statistics platform, which provided support for energy conservation and carbon reduction trend analysis and measure formulation.
The research team spent nearly a year visiting major enterprises in the park one by one, collecting data, conducting on-site surveys, and tracking and evaluating, to explore feasible and credible carbon emission accounting methods for industrial parks. In June 2022, the "Minhang Development Zone Zero-Carbon Demonstration Park Creation Action Plan" (《闵行开发区零碳示范园区创建行动方案》) was released, which determined a three-step strategy and refined the action tasks.
"The construction of a zero-carbon park is not a simple summation of the carbon reduction efforts of various enterprises. The park must promote coordinated carbon reduction among industrial clusters and upstream and downstream enterprises through top-level design and a combination of policies, management, and technology," said Hu Jing (胡静).
For example, in response to the fact that the vast majority of carbon emissions come from energy consumption, Minhang Development Zone (闵行开发区) took advantage of its geographical proximity to thermal power plants to promote enterprises to adopt centralized heating instead of individual boilers to achieve efficient energy utilization and pollution control. In October 2022, the main line of the centralized heating project with a total length of about 5.8 kilometers was fully connected, becoming the "green artery" of the park.
There is both centralization and decentralization. Distributed photovoltaic power generation has become a "zero-carbon power source" strongly promoted by the park. The park management center took the lead in building photovoltaic projects on the roofs of office buildings and carports, and some enterprises followed suit, building distributed photovoltaic projects on the roofs of their own factory buildings and completing grid connection.
Enterprises—
Continuously Improving Energy Efficiency and Carbon Efficiency
"Only with the dual-wheel drive of 'park + enterprise' can the creation path of a zero-carbon park go further," said Yu Zhonghua (余仲华). Minhang Development Zone (闵行开发区) has nurtured many enterprise clusters, and the park guides enterprises to continuously explore the improvement of energy efficiency and carbon efficiency.
Walking into the factory building of Shanghai Siemens Switch Co., Ltd. (上海西门子开关有限公司), rows of blue photovoltaic panels shine brightly in the sunlight on the roof; in the office area, reminders such as "Please close doors and windows when using air conditioning" and "No lights in unoccupied rooms, turning off lights when leaving becomes a habit" are very eye-catching...
"With the implementation of a series of green and low-carbon transformations, the automation and digitalization level of enterprise production and logistics has been continuously improved, and the output has also shown an upward trend," said Wang Bin (王彬), Director of Operations of Shanghai Siemens Switch Co., Ltd. (上海西门子开关有限公司). In recent years, Siemens Switch (西门子开关) has built a new distributed photovoltaic power station on the roof of the factory building; renovated the central refrigeration air-conditioning station, replacing fuel boilers with steam heating, and carried out efficient energy-saving renovation of major energy-consuming equipment; and used recyclable packaging materials, with a recycling rate of 94%. After the renovation, the company achieved an energy self-sufficiency rate of more than 30%, reducing carbon emissions by about 1,200 tons per year.
In recent years, Siemens Switch (西门子开关) has been selected as a national-level green factory and a Shanghai zero-carbon benchmark factory. In 2024, the total number of enterprises in Minhang Development Zone (闵行开发区) listed in the green manufacturing demonstration list increased to 9.
Community—
Working Together to Build a Green and Low-Carbon Ecosystem
"The operation is stable, the noise is low, and the energy consumption is also reduced." Last November, at the acceptance site of an old elevator renovation project in a residential community in Shanghai (上海), residents praised the 10 brand-new elevators.
Xie Yiliang (谢轶俍), environmental energy supervisor of the Enterprise Management Department of Shanghai Mitsubishi Elevator Co., Ltd. (上海三菱电梯有限公司), demonstrated the "secret" of the renovation of old elevators—a low-cost and efficient energy feedback device. During the braking or deceleration process of the elevator car, the regenerative electric energy generated by the motor can be converted by the energy feedback system and fed back to the community power grid for use by other electrical equipment.
Ruan Weimin (阮为民), Vice President of Shanghai Mitsubishi Elevator (上海三菱电梯), introduced that in the entire life cycle of an elevator from "production to use to scrapping," the carbon emissions generated in the manufacturing process are actually not large, and subsequent use and maintenance are the main energy-consuming links. "How to build a sustainable development community with users is a topic that elevator manufacturers must face," said Ruan Weimin (阮为民).
In terms of elevator operation time adjustment, Shanghai Mitsubishi Elevator (上海三菱电梯) sets peak, normal, and low operating modes. During low-use periods, the elevator automatically enters energy-saving sleep mode. When the elevator is not in use, the ventilation device and lighting in the car are automatically turned off, and the floor display dims. The car lighting is upgraded to LED light sources, which not only prolongs the service life but also greatly reduces energy consumption.
"Energy-saving renovation cannot be separated from the participation of community residents." Shanghai Mitsubishi Elevator (上海三菱电梯) cooperated with the Urban Construction Management Affairs Center of Jiangchuan Road Street (江川路街道) in Minhang District (闵行区) to widely solicit opinions and suggestions from residents, understand the actual needs of elevator modification, continuously adjust parameters and algorithms, improve the operational stability and energy feedback efficiency of intelligent green elevator systems in various environments, and work with the community to build a green and low-carbon ecosystem.
The construction of a zero-carbon demonstration park is a long-term systematic project. Since the release of the "Minhang Development Zone Zero-Carbon Demonstration Park Creation Action Plan" (《闵行开发区零碳示范园区创建行动方案》), more than 95% of the tasks have been implemented by the park and enterprises, and the green content of the industry has continued to increase. "In the future, we will actively deploy in the fields of renewable energy, green certificate green electricity trading, carbon finance, and carbon inclusiveness, and continue to promote carbon reduction," said Yu Zhonghua (余仲华).
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Guangxi University of Finance and Economics President Fan Zuojun (范祚军) stated in the video caption posted on his personal Douyin account that the school is preparing to subsidize students who have lost their takeout orders, and replied, "I don't want to leave seeds of hatred in your hearts."
A heartwarming news story has attracted the attention of many netizens. Guangxi University of Finance and Economics President Fan Zuojun (范祚军) stated in the video caption posted on his personal Douyin account that the school is preparing to subsidize students who have lost their takeout orders, and the sentence "I don't want to leave seeds of hatred in your hearts" allows the warmth to penetrate the screen.
The loss of takeout orders may seem like a trivial matter in campus life, but it directly affects students' living experiences and may even cause them to be suspicious and estranged. The school's approach is full of humanistic care. Instead of simply attributing it to improper storage, it takes a combination of measures to solve the problem, using special funds from the school's education development foundation to subsidize and install "takeout lockers." Judging from netizens' comments and traffic, the president's move not only reduces losses for students with practical actions and effectively resolves potential negative emotions, but also achieves the practical effect of "love education" in a subtle way. Avoiding the germination of "seeds of hatred" demonstrates the temperature and pattern that education should have.
Serving students means seeing the truth in the details. Educational care is reflected in the response to students' daily needs and implemented in actions to solve specific problems. Some school cafeterias have set up "special windows" to customize meals for students with allergies; some schools have placed "emotional tree hole" mailboxes, where teachers regularly reply to resolve small troubles in life and help students establish correct values. A thoughtful lunch and emotional counseling have warmth in the details. The emphasis on small details is a concrete manifestation of the original intention of education.
Serving students also requires more innovative measures. President Fan (范) won praise not only for his efforts to solve the specific problem of lost takeout orders, but also for his sincere attitude towards students. The president goes on Douyin, and the comment section instantly becomes the "President's Mailbox," responding to issues such as installing curtains in classrooms and dust accumulation in electric fans, and paying attention to student feedback on course quality, making the new media platform a bridge for communication between the school and students. There are many such practices, such as regularly publishing clips of students in and out of the classroom on short video platforms, and answering questions about enrollment policies and academic planning through live broadcasts. By embracing new technologies and new channels, school administrators stand by the students as listeners and servers, which helps to better achieve heart-to-heart communication.
The temperature of education is hidden in the attention to subtle demands and in the transformation from management to service. We expect more college administrators to better step into the lives of students, understand their thoughts, needs, and expectations, and use thoughtful services and innovative methods to protect students' healthy growth.
Return to TopIn recent years, new forms of agricultural, cultural, and tourism integration in Guangdong Province have been flourishing in both urban and rural areas. A stable and reliable power supply injects a continuous stream of energy into them. According to statistics, since the beginning of this year, China Southern Power Grid Guangdong Power Grid Co., Ltd. has actively served Guangdong Province's "High-Quality Development Project for Hundreds of Counties, Thousands of Towns, and Ten Thousand Villages," helping rural economic and industrial development. It has invested 8.528 billion yuan to renovate rural power grids, put 32 new substations into operation, and added more than 3 million kVA of substation capacity, equivalent to adding power supply capacity for 1 million households, further strengthening the guarantee for rural industrial development. It has completed the renovation of power lines in 290 towns such as Genzi Town in Gaozhou City (高州市) and Maoming City (茂名市), painting a new picture of clean, safe, standardized, civilized, and beautiful power lines. It has carried out the construction of 1,000 new era electrified villages to a high standard, realizing electrification in all scenarios such as agricultural planting and breeding, agricultural product processing, and residential life.
Serving "Small Fruits" to Create "Big Industries"
In autumn, the 10,000-mu guava orchard in Xintang Village (新塘村), Xin'an Town (新安镇), Huazhou City (化州市), Maoming City (茂名市), welcomes the harvest season. The heavy fruits bend the branches, and farmers shuttle among them, skillfully picking the fruits one by one, filled with the joy of harvest everywhere.
In the Xin'an Town (新安镇) Agricultural Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Incubation Park, fresh guava fruits are made into high value-added products such as guava tea and cold brew tea through washing, slicing, low-temperature drying, and other processes on the fruit freeze-drying processing line. This production line not only enhances the added value of the fruit, but also significantly drives up farmers' income. Fresh fruit purchases alone can bring more than 300,000 yuan in annual income to the local area and provide nearly 100 jobs.
In recent years, Xin'an Town (新安镇) has taken the guava industry as a breakthrough point and embarked on a path of rural industrial revitalization that achieves a win-win situation for both ecological and economic benefits. Whether it is the guava planting and irrigation process, or the deep processing and cold chain links, stable power support is indispensable. A stable and efficient power supply has become the "invisible engine" connecting all links. In order to serve industrial development, the local power supply department regularly conducts on-site power consumption inspections, provides professional power consumption guidance, and has also installed a photovoltaic energy storage system to ensure power supply reliability. With sufficient power support, the incubation park can process 3,000 jin of fresh fruit every day, and the supporting 3,500 cubic meter shared cold chain storage capacity allows Xin'an Town (新安镇) fruits to achieve staggered sales, quality assurance, and stable prices.
As of now, the guava planting area in Xin'an Town (新安镇) has reached 23,000 mu, with an annual output of approximately 63,000 tons, and daily sales peaks exceeding 400,000 jin, truly becoming a "golden industry" for enriching the people and revitalizing the village.
Weaving a "Safety Net" for Agricultural Transformation and Upgrading
The selenium-rich planting base in Lantian Yao Ethnic Township (蓝田瑶族乡), Huizhou City (惠州市), welcomes a bumper harvest of rice this autumn. This golden rice field is not only high in selenium content, but also high in technology - in recent years, with the technical and intellectual support of the Huizhou City (惠州市) Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the town-based village assistance work team, the local area has innovated the "company + farmer + base" model, and the yield of selenium-rich rice has stabilized at more than 600 jin per mu, increasing farmers' income by more than 3,000 yuan per mu, making rice planting a "golden industry" for the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
With the support of electrified equipment, the environmental protection content of rice processing is also getting higher and higher. Traditional rice processing methods include sun-drying and coal-fired drying, but now there is also electric drying, which puts higher demands on reliable power supply.
Serving agricultural transformation and upgrading, the power grid weaves a "safety net." In response to the characteristics of the Lantian Yao Ethnic Township (蓝田瑶族乡) selenium-rich planting base being located in the deep mountains and prone to frequent convective weather, China Southern Power Grid Guangdong Huizhou Longmen Power Supply Bureau upgraded the local power grid. Combining the "whole line (area)" standardized management work of China Southern Power Grid Guangdong Power Grid Co., Ltd., Longmen Power Supply Bureau replaced 1.6 kilometers of overhead bare wires in Xiaodong Village (小洞村), Lantian (蓝田), with insulated wires, and installed lightning protection devices and lightning protection lines for the lines, effectively improving the lightning protection capability and self-healing capability of the area's lines. On this basis, Longmen Power Supply Bureau also built a new power supply line in the area to form a ring network with the original power supply line, effectively improving the reliability of power supply to farmers and bases.
Helping Villagers Achieve Stable Employment "at Their Doorstep"
In the mountains and fields of Yushi Village (玉石村), Mianhu Town (棉湖镇), Jiexi County (揭西县), Jieyang City (揭阳市), 300 mu of Phyllanthus emblica forests are full of fruits. In the production workshop of Datong Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., fresh Phyllanthus emblica is transformed into ecological and healthy Phyllanthus emblica tea after being pitted, cut, dried, and stirred by an electrified production line, and then goes to a broader market through live streaming and modern logistics channels.
In order to support the upgrading of rural industries, Mianhu Power Supply Station of China Southern Power Grid Guangdong Jieyang Jiexi Power Supply Bureau focuses on promoting the electrification of agricultural product processing. Through electric power, the whole process of Phyllanthus emblica processing is more environmentally friendly and efficient, which not only brings income to the village collective, but also provides hundreds of jobs for the surrounding villagers, allowing villagers to achieve stable employment "at their doorstep."
In the season when a large number of Phyllanthus emblica matured and went on the market this autumn, the Phyllanthus emblica tea, Phyllanthus emblica juice and other products exclusively developed by Datong Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. have multiplied the economic value of Phyllanthus emblica. In order to ensure the safe and stable power consumption of the workshop, the staff of Mianhu Power Supply Station conducted special inspections and maintenance of the 10 kV power supply line supplying power to the enterprise, eliminated potential safety hazards in the operation of line equipment in a timely manner, took the initiative to visit the enterprise to understand the production steps, grasped the power consumption characteristics and needs of the production workshop, inspected the power lines and equipment for it, actively publicized safety power consumption knowledge and power supply service hotline, and did a good job in power supply guarantee for the subsequent development of the enterprise.
Data source: China Southern Power Grid Guangdong Power Grid Co., Ltd.
Return to TopLiangzhu in Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江) will once again welcome global attention. The third "Liangzhu Forum" is scheduled to be held from October 18th to 20th, aiming to embody "international vision, Chinese style, Zhejiang charm, and civilization theme," build a high-level international cultural exchange platform, promote civilization exchange and mutual learning to a deeper level and broader field, allow the five-thousand-year-old Liangzhu culture to continue to radiate vitality, and add color to the diverse development of human civilization.
In the Name of Liangzhu
Promoting Cultural Integration and Civilization Mutual Learning
Holding the "Liangzhu Forum" in Liangzhu (良渚), this unique and inclusive land, is an important measure for China to deepen its civilization dialogue with countries jointly building the "Belt and Road," and it is also an important platform to promote mutual learning among different cultures and promote the beauty of diverse civilizations in the name of Liangzhu.
The first forum laid the foundation for civilization dialogue. On December 3, 2023, the first "Liangzhu Forum" with the theme of "Practicing the Global Civilization Initiative and Promoting Civilization Exchange and Mutual Learning" was successfully held, with 84 artists from 83 countries and 45 young sinologists from 34 countries participating. During the forum, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部) and the Secretariat of the League of Arab States signed a joint statement on practicing the Global Civilization Initiative, providing a new reference paradigm for civilization dialogue. Sub-forums with the themes of "Civilization Exchange and Mutual Learning in the Eyes of Young Sinologists in the New Era" and "Civilization Exchange and Mutual Learning in the Eyes of Chinese and Foreign Artists" were held simultaneously, and well-known scholars delivered speeches on topics such as "Civilization Exchange and Mutual Learning in the Context of the 'Belt and Road'." Foreign artists also went to Hangzhou (杭州), Huzhou (湖州), Shaoxing (绍兴) and other places to gather inspiration, creating 225 sets (pieces) of works, permanently preserving their understanding of China in Liangzhu.
The second forum expanded the dimension of cultural integration. From November 25th to 27th, 2024, the second "Liangzhu Forum" with the theme of "Exchange, Mutual Learning and New Forms of Human Civilization" attracted more than 300 Chinese and foreign guests from more than 60 countries and regions. Chinese and foreign experts and scholars conducted 14 dialogues on topics such as "Environmental Adaptability and Civilization" and "Silk Road Civilization and Literary Exchange and Mutual Learning in the Eyes of Chinese and Foreign Writers," and released a series of industry consensuses such as the "Consensus of Dialogue between Chinese and Foreign Musicians" and the "Consensus of Dialogue between Chinese and Foreign Writers," and more than 120 writers from more than 30 countries and regions jointly created a collection of poems and essays on the theme of "Liangzhu." The themes of the three parallel forums also formed forum reports, and a number of international cooperative research results such as the "Report on the Results of Sino-Japanese Joint Archaeological Research" were signed and published. At the same time, the Liangzhu International Archaeological Center (良渚国际考古中心) and the first "National Key Area Archaeological Specimen Repository" (国家重点地区考古标本库房) in the country were unveiled and put into use, the Chinese Painting Collection Hall (中国历代绘画大系典藏馆) was opened, and the first batch of achievements of the "Chinese Silk Art Collection" (中国丝绸艺术大系) were released, further enriching the carriers of civilization exchange.
The two "Liangzhu Forums" have comprehensively enhanced Liangzhu's international recognition and world influence. At present, Liangzhu's "international circle of friends" has covered 123 countries and regions. With the comprehensive effect of the forum, the Liangzhu culture with a history of five thousand years continues to radiate new vitality and bloom with new brilliance, becoming an important window for cultural integration and civilization mutual learning.
With Resonant Sounds
Creating a World-Class Cultural Exchange Event
On October 18, the world civilization dialogue will once again enter "Liangzhu Time." Relying on the major platform of the "Liangzhu Forum," people will have the opportunity to deeply contact and understand the charm of Liangzhu culture and realize the dialogue and exchange of human civilization.
This forum has built a diversified activity system with the theme of "Civilization Reglow: Cultural Heritage and Human Cultural Diversity," with nearly 100 foreign guests from more than 50 countries participating. The four sub-forums will focus on the field of archeology to discuss the latest research results of cultural heritage and its important value: At the sub-forum "Civilization Root: Historical Wisdom and Contemporary Value of Ancient Civilizations," Chinese and foreign scholars will discuss the evolutionary paths of Egyptian civilization, Mediterranean civilization, Mayan civilization, and civilizations in the Yellow River Basin (黄河流域) and Yangtze River Basin (长江流域) of China; At the sub-forum "Practice Innovation: Urban Site Archeology, Large Site Protection and Urban-Rural Collaborative Development," experts from many countries will exchange experiences in the construction of archaeological site parks and digital protection in the protection of large sites; The sub-forum "Inheritance: Museum Function Expansion and Cultural Relics Activation and Utilization" focuses on the joint construction of museums in countries along the "Belt and Road" to explore innovative paths for museums to promote people-to-people connectivity; The sub-forum "Civilization Future: World Cultural Heritage and New Forms of Human Civilization" will focus on the protection and management of world cultural heritage and the construction of global heritage management standards. In addition to academic discussions, international cultural exchange activities will also be held during this "Liangzhu Forum."
The previous two "Liangzhu Forums" have attracted more than 800 guests from 109 countries and regions, opening up imagination space for the road of civilization mutual learning. The third "Liangzhu Forum" will once again welcome guests from all countries to launch free-speaking ideological collisions, and build a high-quality, diversified, and systematic Liangzhu cultural value transformation system through more in-depth exchanges, so that Liangzhu culture will be known to more people in the world, and inject new strength into enriching the garden of world civilization.
Data source: Publicity Department of the YuHang District Committee of the CPC Hangzhou Municipal Committee (中共杭州市余杭区委宣传部), Management Committee of the Liangzhu Site Management Area of Hangzhou (杭州良渚遗址管理区管理委员会)
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Deep in the African equatorial rainforests live the largest primates on Earth – gorillas. In February of this year, four gorillas from Burgers' Zoo in the Netherlands traveled across the ocean to settle in a new home at the Hongshan Forest Zoo (红山森林动物园) in Nanjing (南京), Jiangsu Province (江苏省). The news of the arrival of the "four gorilla brothers" quickly ignited the enthusiasm of animal lovers, who affectionately call them "F4".
On October 18, the F4, who have already adapted to life at the Hongshan Zoo, will meet the public. Their arrival is not only a migration of species, but also an epitome of a 10-year animal conservation relay between the African rainforest and the ancient eastern capital, carrying profound reflections on the relationship between humans and nature.
Ten Years Sharpening a Sword: A Cross-Continental Collaboration from Blueprint to Home
Gorillas are mainly distributed in areas near the equator in Africa, covering parts of western and eastern Africa. Western gorillas and eastern gorillas each have their own subspecies, and the existing numbers in the wild vary. They are endangered or critically endangered and face survival threats.
In the autumn of 2015, during a population management seminar held by the Species Management Committee of the Chinese Association of Zoological Gardens in Nanjing, a sentence from an expert from the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) remains unforgettable: "The African rainforests guarded by gorillas are the second breathing barrier of the Earth, and our destinies are tightly bound by invisible ecological ties." This training on global population management was like a seed, planting in our hearts the idea of introducing gorillas and establishing an African rainforest exhibition area.
Turning the idea into reality was far more difficult than imagined. In 2016, we formally submitted an application to EAZA to establish a conservation population. The first response we received was a thick "Gorilla Husbandry Manual" – this is not only a technical standard, but also a strict requirement for animal welfare. In the following 3 years, Niels Beemster, the overall coordinator of the EAZA Gorilla Endangered Species Conservation Project, came to the Hongshan Zoo twice for on-site inspections. From the enrichment design of the Asian Primate Hall to the renovation potential of the old Tiger and Leopard Hall, his every frown and smile touched everyone to think: what else can we do for wild animals?
From 2020 to 2023, the construction of the gorilla enclosure was fully underway, and strict control of details was the top priority. Burgers' Zoo is a member of the EAZA Gorilla Population Management Committee. A consulting team composed of Arjan Ederveen, Deputy Director of the Zoo, and Martijn de Geus, a Dutch associate professor of architecture at Tsinghua University (清华大学), worked closely online and offline with Niels Beemster to guide us in repeatedly refining every key detail: the height of the gate must meet the grasping habits of gorillas, and they must be guaranteed indoor viewing on rainy and snowy days. Even the thickness of the soil must take into account the impact of root growth on gorilla behavior... Windows, gates, latches, locks, distribution channels, etc., we often connected live at the construction site, using cameras to carefully observe and discuss key nodes, everything starting from the animals, simulating various possibilities when gorillas actually use them, and forming appropriate solutions.
In the winter of 2024, two keepers and a veterinarian from the Hongshan Zoo went to Burgers' Zoo for training, spending time with the four western lowland gorillas who were about to come to the zoo – the eldest N'akouh (纳库), the second Nukta (纳克塔), the third N'kato (纳卡投), and the youngest "brother" Madiba (玛帝巴), familiarizing themselves with their personality traits and behavioral patterns. N'akouh is wary of unfamiliar sounds, N'kato responds quickly to target sticks... These detailed observations were ultimately transformed into the zoo's "personalized care" plan.
In February of this year, the "four gorilla brothers" arrived safely in Nanjing with the keepers and veterinarians from Burgers' Zoo. Accompanied by the Dutch keepers, they gradually put down their guard, familiarized themselves with every corner of their new home, and established basic trust with the keepers at the Hongshan Zoo. To ensure the health of the new members, the gorilla keeping team tailored a "localized" nutritional recipe for them: 22 kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables every week, supplemented with sufficient fresh leaves and primate pellets. Now, the "four brothers" have gradually come to like Nanjing's diet.
In-depth Understanding: A Deep Connection of Wisdom and Emotion
In the days of living together day and night, the keepers are constantly deeply shocked by the wisdom and emotion of the gorillas. The eldest, N'akouh, is 16 years old this year and is the leader of the group, shouldering the responsibility of "parent". He will take the lead in checking the safety of the site, actively explore the new environment, study new things, eliminate potential risks for the group, and always confirm the safety of group members. Even when to sleep and where to sleep are dictated by him. From the Netherlands to Nanjing, the "four brothers" spent nearly two months in quarantine. Due to drastic environmental changes and overwork, N'akouh's weight once dropped from 180 kg to 140 kg.
In fact, the wisdom of gorillas is not limited to this. In the behavior training class, the third, N'kato, learned the "open your mouth" command and learned it after being taught once. N'akouh is the most shrewd. Not only will he "perfunctorily" perform, but he will also "negotiate conditions": if he finds that there are fewer raisins today than yesterday, he simply turns his head and ignores people, but he is willing to "actively" cooperate with rewards that he is satisfied with.
What's even more interesting is their complex "social interaction". The second, Nukta, is slow and methodical, and hides in the corner every time he eats. The smallest, N'kato, is picky about food, and the fourth, Madiba, silently follows behind him, picking up the vegetables that he has picked out the tender leaves from to eat. The majestic N'akouh takes special care of N'kato: when Nukta snatches N'kato's food, N'akouh gently pats Nukta to "uphold justice".
These discoveries make us rethink how we should get along with this species with high emotional intelligence and high IQ. Faced with a species of such large size and strength, if they are unwilling, we have no way to make them "obey". Giving them more respect and choices, and understanding from their perspective and thinking, can lead to a virtuous circle when "cooperating". The equal relationship between humans and animals is particularly prominent here.
Symbiotic Inspiration: The Rhythm of Life Shared by Humans and Animals
Ten years of preparation and four years of construction – behind this is the Hongshan Zoo's redefinition of "zoo value": the zoo is not only a window for species protection and display, but also an incubator of ecological awareness.
The World Wide Fund for Nature's "Living Planet Report 2024" points out that from 1970 to 2020, global wildlife populations have plummeted by an average of 73%. Protecting 1 square kilometer of African rainforest can sequester about 1,500 tons of carbon per year, providing habitat for dozens of endemic species. The survival status of gorillas is closely related to the health of the African rainforest – this ecosystem, which accounts for about 30% of the global rainforest area, not only regulates the Earth's climate, but also maintains the survival of tens of thousands of species. But the reality is that human activities such as mining, deforestation for reclamation, and palm tree planting are causing gorilla habitats to disappear at a rate of 3% per year.
We may not have known before that the survival crisis of gorillas is also related to the mobile phones we use every day. Rare metals such as cobalt and tantalum are hidden underground in the African rainforest, which are essential for producing mobile phone chips and batteries. In order to mine cobalt in the Congo Basin, large areas of rainforest have been cut down, and gorilla habitats have been turned into mines. Ecotourism can also conflict with the survival of wild animals. In 2009, there was a case in Rwanda where mountain gorillas died from human respiratory diseases. Today, local formal protected areas require tourists to maintain a distance of 7 meters from gorillas, and tourists must also wear masks and even turn away when coughing.
By introducing the "four gorilla brothers" from Africa, we are gradually building a window in Nanjing to allow more people to understand the connection between the ecology of the African continent and us on this end of the Earth, so as to transform the grand ecological significance into perceptible life choices, such as reducing the frequency of mobile phone replacement, rejecting wild wood furniture, and choosing sustainably certified palm oil.
In June of this year, the Hongshan Zoo also successfully completed a special "African migration": 7 giraffes safely migrated to the newly built venue in the park – the African Zone – through a transfer channel of more than 400 meters. We innovatively adopted the method of "keeper behavior guidance, giraffe autonomous walking migration" to create a low-pressure, more autonomous transfer experience for giraffes. The successful migration of giraffes encourages us to fully understand and respect the natural habits of animals in management, so as to achieve the ideal effect of efficient cooperation between humans and animals.
A few days ago, keeper Peng Peila (彭培拉) said that N'akouh's weight had recovered to 171 kg. Watching him and his "brothers" slowly peel off the skin of banana leaves in the indoor hall and eat the tender stalks inside comfortably, I suddenly felt that 10 years of preparation was worth it. The meaning of the zoo may not be to move Africa to Nanjing, but to let people who come here know that across thousands of mountains and rivers, we and those big guys in the rainforest are always sharing the same blue planet's rhythm of life.
(The author is the director of Hongshan Forest Zoo)
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On the western coast of the Quiberon Peninsula in Brittany, France, a weathered standing stone facing the sea breeze, with a heart-like silhouette, attracts couples to take photos. This is a megalithic remnant from the Neolithic era. This summer, along with more than 550 other megalithic sites in Brittany, it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List under the name "Carnac and Morbihan Megaliths."
These massive stone relics, known as "megalithic alignments," "standing stones," and "mounds," demonstrate the astonishing ability of ancient humans to organize space and express beliefs through stone structures. The Carnac megalithic alignments (see photo, Shang Kaiyuan (尚凯元) photo) are among the most representative sites: over 3,000 stones are neatly arranged along the terrain, stretching for several kilometers. Such a grand, regular, and symbolically rich structure sparks many imaginations about the prehistoric world.
Modern archaeology uses radiocarbon dating and geographic information systems to conduct systematic research on megalithic relics, clarifying the construction dates and material sources of some megaliths. However, due to the lack of written records, the exact function and symbolic meaning of the megalithic alignments remain undetermined. Some scholars believe they symbolize the crossing and transformation of life stages, while others argue they are commemorative buildings related to ancestors, and still others speculate they are symbolic expressions of life and death, this shore and the other shore. The mysteries of the arrangement and combination of these stones, their orientation, and their relationship to the terrain call for continuous exploration of the organizational forms and spiritual maps of prehistoric societies.
For a long time, the megalithic relics in Brittany have been regarded as natural rock formations or mythical artifacts, rather than products of human civilization. In the Monteneuf Nature Reserve in northeastern Morbihan, a group of standing stones hidden in the woodland was not discovered until the mid-20th century. It is said that initially only three tall standing stones attracted attention, often regarded by villagers as a place for secret meetings. A forest fire in 1976 burned the surrounding vegetation, revealing a large number of stones. Archaeologists believe they have a clear arrangement logic. Today, 39 of these megaliths have been re-erected, opening a window for the public to look back at prehistoric civilization.
In the 12th century, Stonehenge in England had already entered historical records, but the megalithic alignments in France lacked systematic attention for a long time. It was not until the mid-18th century that Enlightenment-era French scholars conducted investigations of domestic megalithic alignments, drawing plan views for the first time, opening the path for French megalithic research to move from "legend" to "science." In the mid-19th century, a "mound fever" swept France, and Morbihan became an important center for archaeological excavations. The large number of polished stone axes excavated in Locmariaquer inspired British scholar John Lubbock to propose the term "Neolithic Age," laying the foundation for prehistoric periodization.
At that time, these megaliths also attracted the attention of literary giants. Maupassant exclaimed, "They seem to be alive." Flaubert sarcastically said, "More stupid things have been written about these solemn ancient stones than the stones themselves." Hugo angrily cried out, "In Carnac I almost fell into despair; you can imagine, those amazing megaliths... almost all of them have been pushed down by those stupid farmers, who take them to build walls and sheds."
At that time, it was the height of the Industrial Revolution, and rural expansion and road construction were advancing step by step, and many sites suffered man-made damage. Therefore, scholars and cultural figures launched protection initiatives, calling for these relics to be included in the national protection system. Today, the Carnac megalithic alignments are protected by fences, and tourists can only enter for visits under the guidance of professional guides.
After the successful application for World Heritage status, local governments and communities actively responded, planning to promote heritage revitalization through measures such as digital modeling and online archive opening, expand public accessibility, and through community education and cross-border artistic cooperation—such as live performances combining sound and light projections, and immersive interpretations using augmented reality technology—to inject new vitality into this silent prehistoric megalithic alignment, making it a public cultural space that integrates science, art, and memory.
Successful application for World Heritage status also means a new starting point for scientific research. The construction date of the Carnac and Morbihan Megaliths can be traced back to about 6,000 years ago, which is a critical stage in the transition of human society from hunting and gathering to agricultural settlement. At that time, the ocean was still 30 kilometers away from today's coastline. With the slow rise of sea levels, a large number of Neolithic relics along the coast may have already sunk into the sea. If we can use new technologies such as geophysical exploration and underwater archaeological robots in the future to identify extended stone alignments, altars, or channel structures underwater, we may be able to more completely restore the full picture of this "stone civilization monument" and better review the **沧海桑田** (cāng hǎi sāng tián - "blue sea mulberry fields," great changes in the world) of human civilization's evolution.
Return to TopFrom the Humble Administrator's Garden (拙政园) in Suzhou (苏州), China, to Monet's Garden (莫奈花园) in Giverny (吉维尼), France, from the Wu School (吴门) landscape paintings to Impressionist oil paintings, garden art, both ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, is a concrete expression of the relationship between humans and nature: poetic dwelling has always been a common aspiration for humanity.
The special exhibition "From the Humble Administrator's Garden to Monet's Garden" currently held at the Suzhou Museum (苏州博物馆) starts from Suzhou's (苏州) most famous garden culture, and unites 14 domestic and foreign public institutions, exhibiting more than 160 exhibits, covering poetry, calligraphy and painting, ancient artifacts, Western art and other categories. The exhibition presents the development context and spiritual resonance of Eastern and Western garden art in a dialogue manner, and also invites the audience to step into the space intertwined with lake stones and water lilies, to appreciate the beauty of garden art, and feel the harmony between man and nature across time and space.
Monet's water lilies and Yan Wenliang's (颜文樑) Humble Administrator's Garden (拙政园) paintings both take garden waterscapes as the core theme, pursuing natural artistic conception and poetic expression. The former uses a cropped composition method, with the full-frame water surface omitting the shore scenery, and captures the instantaneous changes of light and shadow with abstract brushstrokes. The latter uses a sparse and natural panoramic layout technique to vividly reproduce the natural scenery and natural wildness of the Jiangnan (江南) gardens. The former focuses on close-up exploration, and the latter expresses emotions with a panoramic view, both achieving a natural poetic realm.
In Jiangnan (江南) culture, pagodas are often integrated into the surrounding environment as part of temple gardens. "Tiger Hill Pagoda Shadow (虎丘塔影图)" has a sparse and elegant artistic conception, "Kew Gardens: Pagoda and Bridge (邱园：宝塔和桥)" reproduces the British absorption and transformation of Chinese gardening concepts, and "Suzhou Twin Pagodas (苏州双塔)" focuses on the objective restoration of the landscape. The three are one traditional freehand, one East-West integration, and one local realism. Although the contexts are different, they all reflect the pursuit of the pagoda and scenery complementing each other in the Chinese gardening concept.
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Audiences wearing white raincoats entered the theater to watch the actors somersault and paint. At the end, everyone's raincoats were covered with colorful paint spots—this was the immersive dynamic painting studio theater "Not Like a Painting!" from Belgium, brought to the "International Children's Drama Joint Performance" in late September.
Compared with traditional children's dramas, "Not Like a Painting!" exudes an "outrageous" temperament in its arrangement—there is no dialogue throughout, and there is only one actor. The original intention of the play was to pay tribute to Jackson Pollock, the founder of action painting, and tells the story of a young painter who admires Pollock, and how he goes from being constrained to breaking free and enjoying art.
In 1947, Pollock created the "drip painting" method: the painter laid a huge canvas flat on the ground, and used boxes, sticks, or brushes with small holes to forcefully drip, splash, fling, and sprinkle paint, repeatedly "painting" into a complex and difficult-to-distinguish, chaotic network of lines. Inspired by this creative method, Belgian young artist Bernardo Vella Vargs used dance movements such as splits, handstands, and somersaults to use his body as a painting tool, constructing a dynamic artwork on a pure white stage.
Since there is no fixed plot, from the beginning of the performance, the children enter an exploration mode, and through step-by-step observation, they discover that this performance "seems to be painting a picture." Vargs carefully conceived each movement, and each stroke was made after careful consideration. The change in painting style came from an "accidental" slip—he was holding a bucket of paint preparing to color, but "accidentally" fell, and the paint not only splashed on his face and body, but also a large area of white was splashed on the painting. Subsequently, he used a whole bottle of white paint to modify the painting, wiping it with a rag and smearing it with a roller. After discovering that the "mistake" could not be undone, the creation became more arbitrary—Vargs used his body as a palette and his hair as a brush, sometimes standing upside down and using his toes to hold the brush and shake it; sometimes stepping directly on the paint bottle, allowing the paint to splash.
This chaotic and free creation maximizes interactivity, and the audience even becomes a "canvas" from a bystander, not only being hit by "color shrapnel" that splashes at any time, but also interacting closely with the actor—being gently stroked on the cheeks by hands dipped in various colors of paint. In one contact after another, the children went from being restrained at the beginning, and exclaiming and dodging when splashed with paint, to being eager to try and become creators. When Vargs picked up the paint bottle and handed it to the audience, the children scrambled to throw the bottle with all their strength, leaving their own color imprints on the stage, happily integrating into this impromptu performance about painting art.
"Not Like a Painting!" emphasizes participation and immersion, broadening children's understanding of art and theater. Children are not only audiences, but also become part of artistic creation. "The theaters in China are the best stages I have ever seen! The children in China are the most enthusiastic audiences I have ever seen!" Vargs said excitedly when talking about his experience performing in China (中国).
"Parents always hope to tell their children some truths in advance, so that they stumble less and walk more steadily. But perhaps it is precisely because of that fall that the child finds his own way." "Little Big Vision" (小不点大视界) parent-child micro-theater, the organizer of this "International Children's Drama Joint Performance" (国际儿童戏剧联演), said in a letter to the audience.
Just like at the end of the performance, when the "wrong" canvas was brushed into a chaotic mess, a can of bright yellow paint was accidentally knocked over in the center of the picture, and in an instant, a "ray of sunshine" spread out. "This is also very good!" Vargs said to all the audience with a smile. Sometimes, jumping out of the box, breaking the expectation of a perfect life, daring to explore the unknown, and being more tolerant of mistakes will lead to a broader world.
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Low-fat meals, food and medicine homology, one-stop eating, accommodation, and travel... New trends in food consumption among urban and rural residents reflect changes in industry, products, and production structures. Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," the country has newly certified 36,000 green, organic, famous, special, excellent, and new agricultural products and geographical indications, providing more than 200 million tons of green and high-quality agricultural products to society every year.
In recent years, diverse agricultural products have seen the emergence of new niche tracks in the industry. How should the supply side of agricultural products adapt to various trendy "new ways of eating"? The reporter conducted interviews.
Grasping the Main Theme of Nutrition and Health Consumption, Various Functional Foods Are Integrated into Three Meals a Day
In the morning, pour in instant oatmeal, drizzle with ice milk, and sprinkle with blueberries and chia seeds. "Eating this light meal combination reduces calorie intake by 200 kcal compared to eating steamed buns and fried dough sticks, and dietary fiber is increased by 5 grams..." On social platforms, such light meal pairings attract many netizens. In the popular trend, the previously unremarkable coarse grains and beans are quietly joining the ranks of staple foods.
In the workshop of Inner Mongolia Yinshan Youmai Food Co., Ltd. (内蒙古阴山优麦食品有限公司), after processes such as awn removal, screening, and grain cutting, a newly developed low glycemic index (GI) oat product is about to be loaded and transported to various places. The company is located in Ulanqab (乌兰察布市), Inner Mongolia, at the northern foot of the Yinshan Mountains (阴山), which is the golden production area for high-quality naked oats.
Resistant to drought, salinity, and wind and sand, oats used to be the staple food for raising local people. "In recent years, we have developed more than 70 single products around different functional scenarios such as staple food, low GI, and instant mixes," said Ji Fushan (冀福善), head of the company. Riding on the new trend of coarse grain diets, the company's oat products have opened up sales in more than 200 cities in China and are also exported to North America, Southeast Asia, Japan, and South Korea, with sales reaching more than 300 million yuan, driving income growth for more than 10,000 farmers and herdsmen.
Under the framework of the grand food concept, the food supply structure continues to be optimized and upgraded, resonating with new demands on the tip of the tongue. Dietary management aimed at reducing fat, controlling sugar, anti-aging, and aiding sleep has become a keyword for the booming production and sales of some agricultural products.
"Gastrodia elata is a relatively special plant, belonging to the orchid family like the orchids we know. It spends 95% of its life cycle underground. The core extract, gastrodin, has the effects of dispelling wind, unblocking collaterals, calming the nerves, and relieving pain..." At the China Gastrodia Elata Museum (中国天麻博物馆) located in Xiaocaoba Township (小草坝乡), Yiliang County (彝良县), Zhaotong City (昭通市), Yunnan Province (云南省), tourists observe the unique dotted ring patterns on the gastrodia elata tubers while curiously tasting products such as gastrodia elata honey slices and gastrodia elata fermented drinks.
In November 2023, Gastrodia elata was officially added to the "food and medicine homology" catalog. As one of the six major producing areas of Gastrodia elata in China, Zhaotong (昭通) has accelerated the processing and utilization of authentic black Gastrodia elata in recent years. The city's organic certified planting area has developed to 100,000 mu, with a comprehensive output value of 9.391 billion yuan. "We have built the largest international Gastrodia elata trading center in the country and developed more than 30 deep-processed products such as honey slices, wine, and masks." In the eyes of Pi Wanyuan (皮万源), director of the County Gastrodia Elata Industry Center, this small herb has very broad market prospects.
In February of this year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部), the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委), and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) jointly issued the "China Food and Nutrition Development Outline (2025-2030)," which for the first time proposed "promoting nutritional agriculture production" and made specific deployments in promoting the nutritional and high-value processing of agricultural products and promoting the development and utilization of food and drug substances.
"Nutrition-oriented agriculture is a major development direction for future agriculture." Zhu Dazhou (朱大洲), deputy director of the Science and Technology Department of the Institute of Food and Nutrition Development of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, team leader, and researcher, introduced that current functional foods are increasingly becoming diversified, precise, and convenient. In terms of form, they are integrated into daily food forms from traditional capsules, tablets, and oral liquids. Nutrient-fortified agricultural products such as selenium-rich rice, DHA eggs, and high-oleic peanuts are also gaining more consumer favor.
Zhu Dazhou (朱大洲) reminded that when selecting products related to food and medicine homology, it is necessary to understand one's own physical condition, recognize the product attributes, clarify whether it is ordinary food, health food, or medicine, and pay attention to the amount consumed.
Seizing New Selling Points of Fast-Paced Consumption, Deep Processing of Agricultural Products Achieves "Double Sweetness"
At 7 a.m., Xinji Town (辛集镇), Yinan County (沂南县), Shandong Province (山东省), the production workshop of Quanrun Food Co., Ltd. (泉润食品有限公司) is filled with steam. On the automated production line, plump duck paws are processed by intelligent deboning equipment, the edible parts are completely separated, automatically coated with seasonings, and then marinated with a vacuum tumbling process.
"We have established long-term and stable strategic cooperation with many local large-scale slaughtering enterprises, and we centrally purchase fresh raw materials such as duck paws, chicken feet, duck necks, and duck gizzards every year. The bagged snack foods made from them are very popular in the market." Lin Qingyu (林青雨), general manager of Quanrun Food (泉润食品), introduced that last year the company processed and consumed more than 5,000 tons of various livestock and poultry products, with a total industrial output value of over 140 million yuan.
From "raw materials" to finished products, the continuous operation of the agricultural product processing end is indispensable. Lin Qingyu (林青雨) said that in order to continuously adapt to the upgrading of consumer tastes, the company deeply integrates traditional craftsmanship with secret recipes, relies on modern food technology, forms a professional R&D team, launches more than 2 new products every year, and gradually forms a unique food production process system; at the front end of production, it introduces irradiation sterilization technology and establishes a full traceability system to comprehensively ensure consumers' "safety on the tip of the tongue."
Grain turns into flour, meat turns into sausage, fruit turns into juice... Various processed foods enrich residents' tables and embellish a better life. According to estimates, by the end of 2023, the processing conversion rate of major agricultural products in China reached 73%, an increase of 4.5 percentage points compared to 2019.
The agricultural product processing industry is a key link connecting the upstream and downstream of agricultural production. Wang Fengzhong (王凤忠), director of the Institute of Food and Nutrition Development of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and chief of the innovation team of the Institute of Agricultural Product Processing of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (中国农业科学院), said that deep processing of agricultural products makes eating more convenient, which to a certain extent matches the needs of modern fast-paced life. In some traditional major agricultural counties, with the development of the agricultural product processing industry, links such as planting bases, cold chain logistics, and packaging materials tend to be concentrated, and the production end also pays more attention to market segmentation needs, which is conducive to promoting structural reform on the supply side of agriculture, promoting agricultural value-added efficiency, and helping farmers broaden their income channels.
In Lushi County (卢氏县), Henan Province (河南省), traditional edible fungi are moving towards intensive processing, releasing a cluster effect of talent, technology, and projects, and promoting the high-quality development of agriculture in the county. "We are accelerating collaborative innovation in the industrial chain and building a complete 'production, processing, sales, and service' ecosystem." Hu Mingjun (胡明君), director of the Lushi County Edible Fungi Industry Technology Research Center, introduced that around the development of products such as shiitake polysaccharide polypeptide lozenges and mushroom seasonings, the county has cooperated with the Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences (上海农科院) and the Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences (河南农科院) to establish the Henan Jinhai Edible Fungi Research Institute, cumulatively cultivating 21 intensive processing enterprises, deepening "joint construction between the academy and the county" and "school-enterprise cooperation," and building a bridge for the integration of production, education, and research for industrial development.
Not long ago, the first phase of the rare edible fungi project invested 138 million yuan in the county was officially put into production. "We send mushroom sticks to mushroom farmers and build mobile smart mushroom houses, providing both technical guidance and guaranteeing recycling and expanding sales channels," said Wang Weipeng (王卫鹏), the project leader.
Looking at the whole country, more than 80% of agricultural product processing enterprises and cooperatives have established interest linkage mechanisms such as order procurement, guaranteed minimum income, and profit sharing with small farmers, driving income growth for 125 million farmers, with income growth rates more than 30% higher than other farmers.
Focusing on making up for processing shortcomings, China continues to strengthen technical support and accelerate the cultivation of a batch of processing industry entities. Since 2018, the country has cumulatively built 42 key laboratories of ministerial-level agricultural product processing discipline groups and 43 ministerial-level agricultural product processing technology research and experimental bases, and has approved more than 200 agricultural product processing standards. About 80% of the more than 90,000 leading agricultural industrialization enterprises above the county level in the country are involved in agricultural product processing business.
Wang Fengzhong (王凤忠) introduced that in response to key links such as processing technology and preservation, researchers have continued to develop and innovate in recent years. For example, robot stir-frying reduces human intervention, cell freeze-fresh technology better locks in food moisture and restores fresh taste during thawing, and the use of plasma sterilization equipment reduces the use of preservatives. These are of great significance for promoting the upgrading of the entire modern agricultural chain.
Exploring New Scenarios of "Eating, Appreciating, and Playing," the Development Space of Rural Industries Continues to Expand
Vegetarian tripe, konjac cold skin noodles, konjac jelly... Opening various shopping platforms, snack foods made from konjac (also known as konnyaku) are becoming popular in the domestic snack industry. The "2024 China Leisure Snack Industry White Paper" shows that online sales of konjac snacks increased by 128% year-on-year last year, and the growth rate of offline channels also exceeded 60%.
Sichuan (四川) is one of the main producing areas of konjac cultivation in China. In Yanbian County (盐边县), Panzhihua City (攀枝花市), this black "clod of earth" has grown into a characteristic industry that enriches the people with an output value of nearly 200 million yuan. Where does the "magic" of konjac's sales come from?
"The lower reaches of the Jinsha River (金沙江) have a dry and hot valley climate, which is very suitable for konjac growth. This plant itself does have some 'magical' characteristics." At the Panzhihua City Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences (攀枝花市农林科学研究院), Teng Zhi (滕志), the head of the konjac team, demonstrated on-site that after processes such as peeling, grinding, boiling, and solidifying, the konjac after cooking becomes soft, glutinous, and chewy. She introduced that the main component of konjac is glucomannan, which is a high-quality soluble dietary fiber with thickening, water retention, and film-forming properties, and is widely used in food, medicine, and other fields. In addition, konjac plants can grow to more than 1 meter in height, and the leaves are wide and have a certain ornamental value.
The unique characteristics that others do not have have become the exclusive "secret" for agricultural products to break through. In August of this year, with the support of local relevant departments, the Jinyujian Konjac Third Industry Integration Demonstration Park (金芋健魔芋三产融合示范园) located in Xinmin Village (新民村), Hongge Town (红格镇), Yanbian County (盐边县) officially opened. Here, konjac is not only a natural delicacy grown in the ground, but also a charming cultural and tourism IP.
Strolling in the park, the konjac food research room, Yujian Zhangyi Garden Restaurant, tropical rainforest experience area, and various new business formats emerge one after another. "We are characterized by konjac diet and ecological landscape. During the summer vacation, many families come to play with their children." Chen Keyu (陈柯宇), a villager and operator of the Jinyu Bieyuan Homestay, said that with one-stop eating, accommodation, and travel, tourists also take away products such as konjac rice, dietary fiber powder, craft beer, and jelly soap when they leave.
"In the past, we sold raw materials, but now we sell brands. The integration of agriculture, culture, and tourism has further opened up konjac sales channels." Wang Ke (王可), head of Yanbian Jinyujian Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (盐边金芋健生物科技有限公司), introduced that a dietary fiber particle production line was newly put into operation this year, and green ecological degradable materials such as plastic wrap and medical capsules will also be produced using konjac in the future. Calculated on the basis of 1 ton of refined powder produced from 30 tons of konjac, it is estimated that the annual purchase volume of fresh konjac will exceed 36,000 tons, which will strongly drive income growth for growers.
Teng Zhi (滕志) introduced that in order to promote the high-quality development of the konjac industry, the City Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences (市农林科学研究院) has formulated 22 local planting standards, increased the research and development efforts of disease-resistant, high-quality, and high-efficiency varieties, and screened out different altitude-adapted varieties such as Zhuyajin Konjac and Gaohan Flower Konjac to achieve full coverage of konjac varieties and planting technology, and promote a 40% increase in yield per mu. Yanbian County (盐边县) also plans to introduce an insurance support mechanism to include konjac in the county-level characteristic agricultural insurance.
The small konjac is an epitome of the development and growth of characteristic agricultural products. All localities are accelerating the exploration of the multiple functions of agriculture and the multiple values of rural areas, continuously exploring new scenarios for agricultural product consumption inside and outside the dining table, and playing more green cards, quality cards, and innovation cards.
In Luochuan (洛川), Shaanxi (陕西), apples have been turned into vinegar, wine, and crisps. The city has created 5 apple sightseeing boutique routes and 46 sightseeing parks, and the "life cycle" of the fruit is constantly extended. In Anji (安吉), Zhejiang (浙江), "bamboo is a fresh mountain delicacy, and bamboo becomes the utensils of thousands of families." Bamboo hotels, bamboo homestays, bamboo camping, bamboo coffee, bamboo adventures... The county receives more than 5 million tourists annually, generating economic benefits of more than 1.5 billion yuan.
"Eating, appreciating, and playing." By opening up "new ways of eating," characteristic industries are constantly expanding new tracks and embarking on paths of smiling curves. In 2024, the harvest festival activities held in various places cumulatively drove agricultural product consumption of more than 30 billion yuan, and the national leisure agriculture operating income was nearly 900 billion yuan. Relevant officials from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) stated that the next step will be to work with relevant departments to guide various localities to explore characteristic resources, continue to promote the construction of national modern agricultural industrial parks, advantageous characteristic industrial clusters, and agricultural industrial strong towns, deepen the creation of agricultural brands, continue to promote the in-depth integration project of rural culture and tourism, and promote the high-quality development of the agricultural industry.
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Hearing the name "Hantianling" (旱天岭)? Does the image of cracked earth and eyes longing for rain come to mind? In autumn, we drove along the winding road towards Hexi Town (河西镇), Tongxin County (同心县), Wuzhong City (吴忠市), Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (宁夏回族自治区). The sky was azure, the cornfields gleamed golden, and the red-roofed houses in the distance flashed by. The harmonious village surrounded by green trees came into view—we had arrived at Hantianling Village (旱天岭村).
I had long heard that Hantianling Village had a "Cow Secretary," not only because he was a cattle-raising expert, but also because what he did was very "cow-like." He has successively won three "national-level" honors, leading the villagers to achieve the goal of "being able to move out, stabilize, and gradually become rich." This Party Branch Secretary is named Ding Jianhua (丁建华), pragmatic and talkative. We chatted with him for most of the day, learning from him how Hantianling Village has gradually achieved tremendous changes in the mountain village.
In 2011, ecological relocation and resettlement took place in Tongxin County (同心县), and more than 2,000 people moved from townships such as Yuwang (预旺) and Hexi (河西) to Hantianling (旱天岭). It is not difficult to imagine that Hantianling (旱天岭) got its name because of its high terrain and extreme water shortage. So why move here?
"It's close to the county seat, the terrain is relatively flat, and you can live in a 54-square-meter resettlement house, which is much better than living in the mountains before," said Ding Jianhua (丁建华).
However, at the beginning of the relocation, many people felt that life in Hantianling (旱天岭) was hard. "The water is bitter and salty, and your stomach will swell half an hour after drinking it; the road is a narrow path, and the road is so muddy that even motorcycles can't ride in," said Ding Jianhua (丁建华). At that time, the whole village had only 6 cattle and more than 1,000 sheep, with an average annual income of more than 1,000 yuan per capita, and the poverty incidence rate was as high as 80.8%, making it the area with the highest poverty rate in the county.
In 2011, the government built a pumping project, and the villagers were able to drink water from the Yellow River. In 2012, tap water was connected, and with various capital investments, the roads were hardened, and schools and health centers were built. The infrastructure of Hantianling Village (旱天岭村) was greatly improved.
In order to lead the villagers to find a way to increase their income, in 2013, Ding Jianhua (丁建华) resolutely gave up his business with an annual income of hundreds of thousands of yuan and took over as the Party Branch Secretary of the village. In order to find a suitable industry, he took the lead in raising chickens, sheep, and cattle, and finally determined that beef cattle breeding was a poverty alleviation industry that suited the actual situation of the village.
"Households registered as impoverished can receive a subsidy of 2,000 yuan for buying a cow, and everyone has the motivation to buy cows with loans," said Ding Jianhua (丁建华). He studied veterinary technology himself and provided free medical treatment, injections, and deliveries for the villagers' beef cattle. He used his own property to guarantee villagers' loans for raising cattle; when some villagers encountered accidents and were unable to repay their loans, he took the initiative to help repay the principal and interest. Over the past 10 years, Ding Jianhua (丁建华) has provided a total of more than 60 million yuan in loan guarantees for the entire village and repaid more than 2 million yuan in principal and interest for villagers in difficulty, incurring hundreds of thousands of yuan in debt himself.
Ding Jianhua (丁建华) has a stubborn streak: "No matter how difficult it is, we must eradicate poverty and let the people live a good life!"
In 2017, China National Nuclear Corporation (中核集团) provided counterpart assistance to Tongxin County (同心县), bringing funds, technology and other support to Hantianling Village (旱天岭村). The village integrated funds from various sources to build the Hantianling Village Beef Cattle Breeding Park (旱天岭村肉牛养殖园区), realizing the standardization, scale, and industrialization of beef cattle breeding. At present, the park has more than 900 beef cattle, and last year's sales of cattle manure alone generated an income of 160,000 yuan.
In recent years, the number of self-built houses and cars in the village has gradually increased. Following Lao Ding (老丁) at random into a villager's home, we saw two devices that looked like air conditioners installed on the wall, which blew out cool air after being turned on for a few seconds. We learned that this is the "Sky Light and Geothermal" technology brought by China National Nuclear Corporation (中核集团). Last autumn, China National Nuclear Corporation (中核集团) promoted the "Geothermal + PVT" zero-carbon heating demonstration project here, which can realize winter heating, summer cooling, and combined power supply.
"We started using it last winter, and it was on day and night, and it only cost 1,500 yuan in electricity for the whole winter," said villager Ma Hamai (马哈麦).
"After the people installed this equipment, it is warm in winter and cool in summer. Geothermal energy is cheaper than traditional coal burning and safer. It is basically fully covered in the village," said Wang Houdong (王厚东), the resident cadre of China National Nuclear Corporation (中核集团).
In the newly built facility cold shed in the village, the Ma Zhiping (马智平) family, a monitoring household, is harvesting peppers. "It was listed in July this year, and now it is the third crop. After harvesting in November, it can have an income of about 20,000 yuan," said Ma Zhiping (马智平).
Last year, the Tongxin County (同心县) government built 54 new warm sheds and 18 cold sheds in the village, all of which were distributed to poverty-stricken households and monitoring households for planting, in addition to peppers, they also planted grapes, dried apricots, etc.
"Most villagers' incomes are increasing year by year through odd jobs, raising cattle, and planting," said Ding Jianhua (丁建华). "As long as you are willing to work hard, life will get better and better!" In 2024, the per capita net income of poverty-stricken households in Hantianling Village (旱天岭村) was 16,295 yuan, which is four times higher than in 2011.
Villagers can develop industries and earn money at their doorsteps, children do not need to cross mountains to go to school, and the elderly can see doctors and get medicine in the village health center. The former worries on the villagers' faces have been replaced by confidence, and their mental outlook is high-spirited.
In the village history museum, Ding Jianhua (丁建华) said that they are preparing to rename Hantianling (旱天岭) to "Hantianling" (撼天岭). This change of one word tells the story of the change in the fate of the entire village, and also witnesses the consistent struggle and hard work of the people of Hantianling (旱天岭).
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A good ecological environment is the biggest advantage and valuable asset of rural areas, containing huge space for cultivating new industries and new business forms. We must protect the rural ecological environment, promote the accelerated appreciation of rural natural capital, and make a good ecology a support point for the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
Not long ago, reporters went to some villages in the Yellow River Basin for interviews, and the stories of ecological advantages transforming into development advantages were impressive. In Huaniu Town, Maiji District, Tianshui (天水), Gansu (甘肃) Province, apple trees are not only the main channel for farmers to become rich, but also a good helper for maintaining soil and water. In Gaoxigou Village (高西沟村), Mizhi County (米脂县), Yulin (榆林), Shaanxi (陕西) Province, barren hills are covered with green, the environment is improving, and cave dwellings have become homestays. In Xindiangou (辛店沟) small watershed in Suide (绥德), Shaanxi (陕西) Province, the comprehensive management of soil and water loss exceeds 80%, and carbon sinks are listed for trading.
The story of the Loess Plateau turning from yellow to green and from green to gold is constantly being staged. Data from the Ministry of Water Resources show that, to date, the area of soil erosion on the Loess Plateau has been reduced by more than half, and silt dams have intercepted a total of 7.4 billion tons of sediment, forming a "sand interception-land creation-enriching the people" model. Soil and water conservation carbon sink trading is advancing in depth, and green waters and green mountains are releasing huge benefits.
"'Green waters and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains,' this is actually value-added." From the appearance of mountains and rivers to the value of industry to the appreciation of development, the transformation path of realizing the value of ecological products is constantly widening. Especially for the vast countryside, with babbling streams, continuous fields, and shady green trees, a good ecological environment is the biggest advantage and valuable asset of rural areas, containing huge space for cultivating new industries and new business forms. In recent years, many regions have actively explored, while strengthening ecological protection and governance, promoting the accelerated appreciation of rural natural capital, and making a good ecology a support point for the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
To broaden the transformation path, we must seek impetus from reform and activate vitality through reform. Transforming natural resources into ecological products, and then transforming ecological products into economic benefits, requires the joint efforts of an effective market and a promising government, and bold exploration in ecological protection compensation, market operation and development, green finance and other systems and mechanisms. Anji (安吉), Zhejiang (浙江) Province, has built a county-level bamboo forest carbon sink storage and trading platform, turning bamboo into "carbon assets," realizing "bamboo turning into tickets, and resources turning into capital." Changting (长汀), Fujian (福建) Province, has carried out soil and water conservation carbon sink trading, protecting soil, fixing carbon, and trading. The project revenue continues to be used for soil and water conservation, forming a long-term operating mechanism. These practices enlighten us that we must adhere to systematic efforts and concerted efforts, base ourselves on the resource endowments of various regions, identify the breakthrough points of the system, optimize supporting policies, activate the "sleeping" value of the ecological environment with the power of reform, and realize the co-frequency resonance of rural industrial revitalization and ecological revitalization.
Taking the road of green rural development, while adding green to the countryside, we must also fill the pockets of the villagers. This year's National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holidays saw continued popularity of rural tourism. Behind the emergence of treasure villages is the vigorous development of the starry sky economy, the camping economy, the homestay economy, and the night economy. These new industries and new business forms have become a new stage for farmers to start businesses and a new channel for increasing income and becoming rich. All localities should continue to explore and improve the benefit linkage mechanism, and in various forms such as employment-driven, guaranteed dividends, and share cooperation, allow farmers to reasonably share the benefits brought by industrial value-added, and allow more villagers to embark on the road to prosperity.
People who live up to the green mountains, the green mountains will surely live up to the people. Protect the rural ecological environment, let the appearance of mountains and rivers add value to development, and the pastoral scenery, lake and mountain scenery, and beautiful countryside can become a "treasure pot," and the road to development with industrial prosperity, people's wealth, and ecological beauty will become wider and wider.
Return to Top(Luo Cheng (罗程)) This newspaper reports: The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) recently held the 2025 Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival Rural Craftsmen International Exchange and Promotion Event in Beijing (北京). The theme of this event was "Crafting Beautiful Villages, Sharing Beauty Together." More than 100 rural craftsmen from 27 provinces demonstrated their skills and techniques on-site.
Rural craftsmen are an important force in promoting rural development and a vivid group telling the story of China's poverty reduction. The superb skills, profound cultural heritage, and dedication to benefiting their hometowns of rural craftsmen demonstrate the spirit of new-era farmers. In recent years, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) and other seven departments have jointly implemented a rural craftsman training project, focusing on exploring traditional rural handicrafts and supporting the development of rural characteristic handicraft industries. At present, there are more than 130,000 rural craftsmen nationwide, driving more than 5 million people in rural areas to find employment and increase their income.
The event advocated vigorously protecting and inheriting excellent traditional rural handicrafts, and promoting the deep integration of traditional techniques with modern technology and fashion culture; actively supporting international exchanges and cooperation among rural craftsmen, and guiding rural craftsmen to carry out skills training, work exhibitions, and cultural exchanges across borders; fully leveraging the role of rural craftsmen in global poverty reduction, and promoting the implementation of international exchange and cooperation projects for rural craftsmen.
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In July of this year, the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委), together with five other departments including the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发改委), issued the "Several Measures to Enhance the Experience of Family Doctor Contracted Services" (《提升家庭医生签约服务感受度若干措施》), proposing 10 measures in 3 aspects to enhance the service experience of contracted populations, including establishing and improving a long-term mechanism for doctors to participate in contracted services, regularly sending health information, and providing convenient medication services.
Family doctor contracted services are the "first line of defense" in safeguarding residents' health. In recent years, family doctor contracting in China has shifted from "increasing the contracting rate" to "promoting high-quality development of contracted services," emphasizing that family doctors should actively contact and serve contracted residents to enhance the people's personal experience. What can the family doctor contracting system bring to the people? How satisfied are residents? How can it better play its role? The reporter conducted research in various places to find answers.
Question 1:
What services can family doctors provide? Can they meet the basic health service needs of residents?
In front of the house are paddy fields with golden rice ears. In Xinchang Village (新场村), Liugeng Town (留耕镇), Jiang'an County (江安县), Yibin City (宜宾市), Sichuan Province (四川), early in the morning, family doctor Cheng Shangbao (成尚豹) and his team members came to the home of villager Li Jinguo (李金国). Opening the medical bag and taking out the sphygmomanometer, Cheng Shangbao measured Li Jinguo's blood pressure while asking about his condition.
At the beginning of this year, 63-year-old Li Jinguo returned to his hometown after working outside for many years. In March, during a general physical examination, he was found to have chronic renal failure. Soon, he went to the local hospital for diagnosis and treatment. "After discovering his condition, we encouraged him to sign up with a family doctor to receive daily medical services." Cheng Shangbao, a physician in the medical department of Liugeng Town Health Center, became Li Jinguo's family doctor.
For more than half a year, Cheng Shangbao has been visiting Li Jinguo's home every month to provide services. "Uncle Li has chronic renal failure and is a key service recipient." Cheng Shangbao said that Li Jinguo developed hypertension after becoming ill. Each time he visits, he first checks his blood pressure. While speaking, Cheng Shangbao asked Li Jinguo if he had any symptoms such as dizziness and also told him about relevant knowledge of healthy lifestyles.
Since the promulgation of the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting Family Doctor Contracted Services" (《关于推进家庭医生签约服务的指导意见》) in 2016, China has established teams through primary medical and health institutions to carry out family doctor contracted services, providing residents with basic medical care, public health, and health management services. By the end of 2024, more than 480,000 family doctor teams will serve contracted residents, with a contracting rate of over 80% for key populations.
"Family doctors are mainly responsible for two major aspects of work: basic medical care and basic public health." Cui Xiangli (崔向丽), deputy director of Shigezhuang Community Health Service Center (史各庄社区卫生服务中心) in Changping District (昌平区), Beijing (北京), told reporters that for key populations such as elderly people over 80 years old and children aged 0-6, family doctors take the lead in providing basic medical care and basic public health services such as health checkups on a regular basis to understand the health status and medical history of contracted residents; they provide home services for the elderly who are disabled, have cognitive impairment, have difficulty moving, and have service needs. For the general population, they regularly send health information and relevant knowledge of seasonal diseases for consultation or referral.
From the perspective of hierarchical diagnosis and treatment, the improvement of primary diagnosis and treatment service capabilities is the soft power for family doctors to attract residents to seek medical treatment and sign contracts. Cui Xiangli said that over the years, the Shigezhuang Community Health Service Center has continuously improved family doctor contracted services, and residents' medical habits have gradually shifted from "running to large hospitals when sick" to "first diagnosis at the primary level, two-way referral," and their trust in family doctors has continued to increase.
"This change is also due to two aspects: first, the adjustment of medical insurance policies, with the reimbursement ratio of community health service centers gradually increasing; second, the diagnosis and treatment services are more complete, being able to carry out extended working day and holiday diagnosis and treatment services, and provide blood and urine routine tests, blood biochemistry, hormone monitoring, and B-ultrasound and other imaging examinations. Beijing has promoted the allocation of half of the outpatient appointment slots of tertiary public hospitals to primary medical institutions, making it more convenient for residents to transfer for treatment nearby," said Cui Xiangli.
Many places have also launched personalized service packages for family doctors for different residents. In Lanyuan Community (兰园社区), Xuanwu District (玄武区), Nanjing City (南京市), resident Mr. Chen (陈先生) recently called the health service center to find his family doctor, Chen Luying (陈璐滢), the center's assistant director. "My 92-year-old mother has been experiencing nausea and vomiting frequently for the past 10 days, and her mental state has also deteriorated." Mr. Chen said that he had signed up for a basic service package for many years. Based on his mother's current physical condition, he wanted to sign up for a new personalized service package for home health management for the elderly.
In order to meet the personalized service needs of the people, Jiangsu (江苏) has developed the "Jiangsu Province Family Doctor Contracted Service Project Library" (《江苏省家庭医生签约服务项目库》), which sorts out and forms 16 categories of 1,200 Western medicine service projects and 13 categories of 60 traditional Chinese medicine service projects, and implements "on-demand" contracting. Experts have also formulated four types of "family version" service packages for general health needs of different family combinations, and carry out services by classifying and stratifying service needs.
Question 2:
How do current contracted residents feel? What room is there for improvement in services?
At present, the contracting rate of family doctors in various places has steadily increased, and service capabilities have been further improved. How do residents feel? The reporter's interviews and investigations found that many key contracted residents such as the elderly and those with chronic diseases have a very high evaluation of family doctor contracted services, but many ordinary contracted residents do not feel deeply.
"I learned about this service when I was vaccinated in the community a few years ago and signed up with a family doctor, but I haven't contacted the family doctor since then." Mr. Yu (于先生), who lives in Changping District, Beijing, is 30 years old this year. He told reporters that he has forgotten who his family doctor is and still prefers to go to large hospitals for medical treatment.
More community residents said they value the basic health guidance and referral services provided by family doctors. Ms. Li (李女士) from Guangzhou City (广州市), Guangdong Province (广东), said: "I don't have any chronic diseases, and I don't have much contact with my family doctor on weekdays. In the past two years, I have found that it is indeed more convenient to seek medical treatment in the community. I hope the community can make a diagnosis in a timely manner and provide referral services when necessary."
Poor service quality and residents' awareness need to be improved are difficulties in promoting family doctor contracted services. Wang Weicheng (王伟成), director of general practice and deputy chief physician of Yongqing Road Community Health Service Center (永清路社区卫生服务中心) in Licang District (李沧区), Qingdao City (青岛市), Shandong Province (山东), has been a family doctor for more than 10 years. She believes that good diagnosis and treatment capabilities and service attitude are the keys to improving patient satisfaction.
Not long ago, a patient had abdominal pain and numbness in the lower limbs. Wang Wei diagnosed that he had an iliac artery aneurysm. "Aneurysms are very dangerous. We directly transported the patient to a higher-level hospital through a green channel and performed surgery on him in a timely manner. Accurate and timely diagnosis and the ability to identify critically ill patients are essential capabilities for family doctors so that residents can trust us more," Wang Wei said.
In response to the problem that contracted residents do not feel deeply, the Yongqing Road Community Health Service Center has further strengthened health education. In the past three years, through the family doctor team's door-to-door visits, family doctors have completed more than 40 door-to-door visits, helping community residents correctly understand common diseases. The family doctor team has also established a patient follow-up system and plan to provide online follow-up and continuous services.
Many other places have strengthened contact with contracted residents through informatization. "Since 2020, we have been using the family doctor service system and introduced handheld devices." Hao Yongxian (郝永贤), a nursing staff member and family doctor team member at Liugeng Town Health Center, said that the system has recorded the health information of each contracted resident, making it easier for doctors to understand the residents' physical condition. "Every time we go to the countryside, we have to record information and update it in real time."
Since the family doctor service systems in various places have not yet been connected, health tracking services for residents who move across regions have become a problem. "We have a large number of migrant workers here, and the daily services for these contracted residents are therefore restricted." Zhang Yu (张羽), a relevant person in charge of the Jiang'an County Health and Health Bureau (江安县卫生健康局), suggested that the family doctor service systems in various places should be connected as soon as possible to promote the transfer of family doctor services to other places so that migrant workers can enjoy family doctor contracted services locally.
In Chen Luying's view, family doctors are like residents' "own people who understand medical skills." Diagnosis and treatment technology is the foundation, and what is more important than the foundation is providing services: treating headaches and brain fever nearby quickly and being the guardian of the people's health; managing basic chronic diseases for a long time and being the educator of residents' health; transferring difficult and critical illnesses up and down and being the coordinator of health resources.
Chen Luying believes that more personalized service packages can be developed for different groups of people: medical and nursing combination services for the elderly, comprehensive management packages for patients with chronic diseases, growth and health care projects for infants and young children, etc. In addition, we should innovate and explore a health points system - residents can earn "health points" for participating in physical examinations, chronic disease follow-ups, and contracted follow-ups. Points can be exchanged for free checkups, health checkups, or traditional Chinese medicine techniques, etc., to stimulate residents' enthusiasm for actively managing their health and enhance the effect of chronic disease management.
Question 3:
How can the problem of "signing without contracting and contracting is difficult" be solved, and how can the mechanism be improved?
"The starting point of the family doctor system is to enable community residents to enjoy better public health and medical and health services, but in reality, 'signing without contracting and contracting is difficult' is more common. In many places, the family doctor system is hindering the 'last mile' of the community medical service system and has become a pain point and difficulty in the healthy community service link." Wang Jun (王俊), vice president and professor of the Health China Research Institute of Renmin University of China (中国人民大学健康中国研究院), believes that there is still room for improvement in the current residents' satisfaction with family doctor contracted services. To enable the contracting mechanism to play its original purpose and solve the problem of "signing without contracting and contracting is difficult," we must start with the establishment of a long-term mechanism and improve primary medical service capabilities from the aspects of primary doctor team building, treatment guarantees, and referral mechanisms.
The lack of primary medical talent is one of the common difficulties. The reporter's investigation found that a family doctor team often contracts to serve between 1,000 and 2,000 residents. To supplement personnel, many places have formed a model of doctors from higher-level hospitals sinking to the primary level and selecting primary doctors to study and train in higher-level hospitals. For example, in the Shigezhuang Health Service Center, there are currently 12 doctors participating in standardized residency training in higher-level hospitals to improve diagnosis and treatment technology and provide residents with more accurate specialist services.
However, some problems such as the lack of specialist doctors and the small number of times that doctors from county-level hospitals directly serve in rural areas exist to varying degrees in various places. "Our town health center lacks specialist dentists and auxiliary inspection and testing personnel, and rural residents have a more urgent need for these personnel." Liu Chunyou (刘纯友), president of Liugeng Town Health Center, said that although 105 family doctor teams have been formed throughout the county, the lack of some specialist doctors has affected the effectiveness of family doctor services to a certain extent.
In addition, family doctor contracted service subsidies are mainly paid from basic public health service funds. "The national per capita basic public health service fund is 90 yuan. According to regulations, we allocate 5 yuan per capita from it for family doctor contracted service subsidies." Zhang Yu introduced that the level of funding guarantee is still low.
According to statistics, in 2024, more than 30 contracted family doctors in Liugeng Town Health Center received less than 200 yuan in relevant subsidies per month. "After deducting meal expenses and fuel expenses when going to the countryside, there is basically nothing left." Cheng Shangbao said. In this regard, Zhang Yu suggested that the central and provincial finance departments could consider separately listing family doctor funding expenditures and providing subsidies based on the number of contracted service populations to encourage family doctors to better provide daily services.
"Working at the primary level, salary and benefits have a great impact on the enthusiasm of family doctors - many performance services are outside of working hours, and family doctors' phones may ring at any time." Wu Haixia (吴海霞), a member of the Party Committee of the Lianyungang City (连云港市) Lianyun District (连云区) Health and Health Commission and director of the Xugou Community Health Service Center (墟沟社区卫生服务中心), introduced that in the past, the performance salary mechanism was relatively simple, and the differences in the quality of family doctors' work could not be reflected in income, resulting in insufficient work motivation and insufficient satisfaction of residents' health needs.
"From the national to the local level, favorable policies have brought about positive changes." Wu Haixia introduced that in Lianyungang, not only does the full amount of basic performance salary allow family doctors to invest in their work with peace of mind, but breakthroughs have also been made in performance salary reform: the regulations on the salary system reform of public health institutions issued by Jiangsu and Lianyungang in 2021 stipulate that for community health service centers with excellent annual assessments, the total amount of performance salaries for staff can be up to 170% of the approved total salary, which is conducive to enhancing service motivation.
"The purpose of carrying out the family doctor contracting mechanism is to better carry out the hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system and guide residents to seek first diagnosis at the primary level. Therefore, it is very necessary to establish smooth two-way referral channels." Wang Jun said. In 2024, his team conducted research at the Jinfang Community Health Service Center (金方社区卫生服务中心) in Anning City (安宁市), Yunnan (云南). The community health service center gradually improved the family doctor contracting system by establishing a medical consortium, strengthening medical and prevention integration, and improving quality control and performance appraisal mechanisms, achieving good results.
"But we also found that differences between different systems cause patients to encounter obstacles during two-way referrals. When transferring from the community health service center, doctors in higher-level hospitals cannot obtain previous electronic medical record information and test data; when transferring down, doctors in the community health service center cannot see the application in the system." The relevant person in charge of the Jinfang Community Health Service Center said that how to further break down information barriers and establish a smooth two-way referral mechanism is a direction for continuous efforts.
"Ideally, family doctors should establish a two-way, long-term, and stable communication mechanism for health consultation and health management with contracted residents. After community residents seek medical treatment at the family doctor team, minor illnesses are resolved in the community, major illnesses are referred to higher-level hospitals, and rehabilitation is transferred down to the community." Wang Jun said that this requires all localities to strengthen the institutionalization of two-way referrals, improve the homogenization level of medical services, and promote the optimization of medical resource allocation and the improvement of primary medical service capabilities within the region. In this way, residents' trust and awareness can be further improved.
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Ten Measures to Enhance the Experience of Family Doctor Contracted Services
The "Several Measures to Enhance the Experience of Family Doctor Contracted Services" proposes 10 measures in 3 aspects to enhance the service experience of contracted populations:
I. Improve the service experience of the entire contracted population. Five measures are proposed: improve the accessibility and convenience of contracted services, establish and improve a long-term mechanism for doctors to participate in contracted services, regularly send health information, implement appointment referral services, and promote community contracting.
II. Implement contracted services for key populations. Three measures are proposed: provide convenient medication services, optimize health management services, and support personalized contracted services.
III. Strengthen residents' health management and publicity. Two measures are proposed: encourage contracted residents to strengthen health management and strengthen publicity on family doctor contracted services.
Return to TopBy: 孙秀艳
Not long ago, related listed companies of retail pharmacies successively announced their interim results, and some enterprises experienced a double decline in revenue and profit. At the same time, some chain pharmacies have transformed into community "health living rooms," ushering in a gorgeous turnaround in their operations. A market survey in the first half of this year showed that consumer satisfaction with pharmacy services reached 82%, an increase of 27 percentage points compared with three years ago.
The different temperatures of retail pharmacies reflect the era changes in China's retail pharmacies.
In the past 15 years, China's chain pharmacies have achieved leapfrog development. Public data shows that at the end of 2009, the number of pharmacies nationwide was 381,400, and the pharmacy market size exceeded 153.1 billion yuan. As of the end of 2024, the total number of pharmacies nationwide has exceeded 680,000, with an average of 4.6 pharmacies per 10,000 people.
Objectively speaking, retail pharmacies have encountered operational pressure in recent years, and the reasons come from many aspects. From a policy perspective, factors such as the reduction in drug company profit margins brought about by drug centralized procurement, zero markup for negotiated drugs in dual channels, and pharmacy price comparisons have compressed the profit margins of retail pharmacies. From a market perspective, with the increasing coverage of outpatient chronic and special diseases and outpatient overall planning populations, the consumer base of retail pharmacies is constantly decreasing. From the perspective of consumption patterns, young people are accustomed to placing orders on their mobile phones and having medicines delivered by express delivery, and middle-aged and elderly people are also attracted by the convenience of "online consultation + online medical insurance payment," and the convenience advantages of traditional pharmacies are being eroded.
The emergence of new situations has made traditional retail pharmacies realize that they must transform in order to survive. However, transformation requires not only the courage of self-innovation, but also the upgrading of professional capabilities, the expansion of service boundaries, and the innovation of business models.
A 2024 survey by a well-known market research company showed that 63% of respondents go to pharmacies not only to buy medicine, but also to obtain health consultation; 78% of people with chronic diseases need full-cycle services of "medication reminders + dietary guidance + regular follow-up"; young mothers are concerned about "how to choose children's nutritional supplements," middle-aged groups are keen on "how to match liver-protecting tea for staying up late," and elderly customers want to know "the correct posture for measuring blood pressure." This fully illustrates that people's needs have changed from "treating diseases" to "preventing diseases," and from "buying medicine" to "buying services," and consumers' new expectations are evolving into a new wave of the big health industry.
As a part of the big health industry, retail pharmacies play an important role in health promotion and nutritional health care. They are not only an important line of defense for safeguarding public health, but also shoulder the important responsibility of helping the public manage common minor illnesses and improve the level of social health. At a time when basic-level health services are difficult to fully meet the needs of health science popularization, creating a community "health living room" is becoming a new opportunity for the development of retail pharmacies. Retail pharmacies have begun to redefine their "community role" - no longer a single drug "porter," but a "partner" in the health of community residents.
In recent years, the Chongqing (重庆), Guangdong (广东) and other local drug administrations have issued relevant policies to guide retail pharmacies to provide services such as ensuring medication, health monitoring, rehabilitation consultation, and chronic disease management, so as to create "pharmaceutical service" specialty stores. Some large chain retail pharmacies have also begun to explore diversified business models. Some have introduced categories such as beauty, personal care, maternal and infant products, functional foods, and trendy toys to please themselves and maintain health, transforming into pharmacies + life service products stores; some have built "minor illness" management zones to provide patients with "one-stop" health management services such as disease science popularization and medication guidance. In Wuhan (武汉), a pharmacy transformed the pharmacist's counter into a "small theater," where pharmacists broadcast live, talked about seasonal health care, and listed related drug and health product lists. The pharmacist's "knowledge assets" have been amplified, driving the store's sales to increase.
In the long run, facing challenges such as the aging population and the high incidence of chronic diseases, retail pharmacies, as the front line of defense for safeguarding community health, will play a more important role. Promoting the scientific management of common minor illnesses, effectively improving the health management capabilities of individuals, families, and communities, helping to reduce medical costs and social burdens, and promoting health consumption and economic growth, retail pharmacies have the ability to shoulder their responsibilities, transform into "health living rooms," and support a vast sky for residents' health and industry development.
Return to TopBy: 许 云
After the beginning of autumn, the human body is prone to autumn fatigue. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that autumn is dominated by dryness, and dryness and heat consume qi and injure yin. Qi deficiency leads to weakness of the limbs and fatigue, while yin deficiency leads to dry mouth and throat. Because the yin essence consumed by the human body in summer has not recovered, and both yin essence and yang qi are insufficient, fatigue is likely to occur. How to relieve autumn fatigue?
Dietary conditioning. Qi-deficient autumn fatigue is manifested as fatigue, shortness of breath, night sweats, and the more tired you are, the more difficult it is to fall asleep. It is recommended to eat qi-tonifying foods such as Astragalus (黄芪), Huangjing (黄精), American ginseng (西洋参), and yam (山药). Phlegm-dampness type autumn fatigue is manifested as oily skin, abdominal obesity, unrefreshed bowel movements, and drowsiness in the afternoon. It is recommended to eat loquat (枇杷), radish (萝卜), tangerine peel (陈皮), Poria (茯苓) and other spleen-invigorating and dampness-resolving ingredients or medicinal materials.
Sleep a "Zi-Wu Sleep." Between 11:00 and 13:00, taking a nap for 15-20 minutes can relieve brain fatigue and improve autumn fatigue.
Adults can massage the Taiyuan acupoint (太渊穴) and Shenmen acupoint (神门穴). The Taiyuan acupoint is located in the anterior region of the wrist, between the radial styloid process and the scaphoid bone, in the ulnar depression of the abductor pollicis longus tendon; the Shenmen acupoint is located in the wrist, at the ulnar end of the palmar transverse crease of the wrist, in the radial depression of the flexor carpi ulnaris tendon. Gently knead these two acupoints with the index finger and thumb of one hand until you feel soreness, numbness, and distending pain in the wrist. After massaging for 3-5 minutes, switch to the opposite hand.
Three small methods can relieve autumn fatigue in children: the ear is the gathering place of the Zongmai (宗脉), gently rub the child's ear roots with your fingers; use your index finger to press and hold the triangular fossa position below the tip of the ear, more than 10 times is sufficient; first rub the earlobe with your thumb and index finger more than 10 times, and then pull the earlobe downwards until the earlobe becomes hot. It is not recommended for children to drink more functional energy drinks, because most of these drinks contain caffeine. Taking a large amount of caffeine may lead to sleep disorders and inattention in children, and it can also easily affect the development of children's nerves and bones.
(The author is the Chief Physician of Xiyuan Hospital (西苑医院) of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (中国中医科学院))
Return to TopBy: 蔡崇达
During the National Day holiday, the movie "Lang Lang Life," adapted from my novel "Skin," was released. I simply settled down in the town where the story takes place, my hometown of Dongshi Town (东石镇), Jinjiang (晋江), Fujian (福建).
The reason I say "simply" is because it was indeed a decision that needed consideration—for me, returning to live in my hometown now is very different from before. Six years ago, I transformed the old house where I had lived and grown up since childhood into a library open to the public.
I later seriously traced back my memory about turning my home into a public library, and I think the idea probably came to me in junior high school. My family was poor when I was young, and buying books was a luxury. Dongshi Town (东石镇) didn't have a state-owned Xinhua Bookstore (新华书店), only a small bookstore that was also struggling to calculate its revenue. There was really no way to hide in such a bookstore and browse books without being discovered. I could only muster up courage and shamelessly pretend to be buying a book, "too seriously" and carefully "previewing" each book, page by page. After reading ten or so pages of each book, I would pretend to hesitate again and again, pick up another book, giving the impression that I was really choosing a book.
After a few days, the shopkeeper discovered me. At first, he just coughed politely a few times, then he started sticking close to me. After enduring it for a few days, he pretended to chase flies, waving a fly swatter around me. At that time, I thought that if I had money in the future, I would definitely build a library. This library would be open to the public for free, and everyone would be welcome to sit, lie down, or sprawl out, and read books however they wanted.
The reason I was anxious to transform the old house into a library seven or eight years ago was because I was worried about my mother. When I was in my second year of high school, my father suffered a stroke and became hemiplegic. In order to make the family look healthy and recover, my mother stubbornly insisted on renovating the old bungalow at that time. The money was only enough to rebuild half of it, and even the exterior walls were not tiled. The house stood there stubbornly, with its mottled torso exposed. My father didn't live in the renovated house for long before he left us one winter. The house suddenly became empty, and that emptiness was heart-wrenching. My mother often sat alone in the room where my father had lived, on the threshold where he had sat, and in the hall where he had fallen, lost in thought.
How could I help my mother get out of the sad memories preserved in this house? Perhaps only by allowing the old house where my mother was rooted to generate new stories could she settle down and live a new life following the new stories. So, that day I went home specifically and announced to my mother that I wanted to turn the old house into a library. My mother asked, "Where will we live then?" I said, "In the library." My mother said, "Wouldn't that be strange?" I said, "No, it's so romantic."
I also said, "Perhaps my father would be very happy, because we finally have the ability to help the people in the town."
Thanks to the help of the "Dream Home" program team of Dragon TV (东方卫视) and the designer Ju Bin (琚宾), I finally used the royalties from "Skin" to transform the original old house into a space that was both public and private. The first floor of the house is an enclosed space where reading activities can be held, the second floor is a library that can accommodate more than 10,000 books, and above the second floor is our family's living space. The library is named "Mother's House" (母亲的房子) because it once witnessed everything a mother could give for a family, and it is also a place where a son hopes to create a new life story for his mother.
From all angles, this is a strange library: built in a narrow alley that can only accommodate two motorcycles passing each other, the first floor is always curiously peeked into by various people in the town, dogs wandering around, and cats running along the eaves, while the second floor faces the neighbor's kitchen and roof. The neighbors can cook while watching the people in the library, and the people in the library can read while smelling the aroma of the neighbors' food. The last time teacher A Lai (阿来) came to give a lecture, an old man from the town passed by, hunched over and curiously poked his head in to ask: "Who is this person? What are you talking about?" Teacher A Lai (阿来) happily replied: "We are talking about literature." "Talking about literature, literature is good," the old man put down the load he was carrying and sat down. After a while, the neighbor's dog suddenly started fighting at the entrance of the library, and the sound once drowned out teacher A Lai (阿来). After that, it was the neighbor's hen who excitedly crowed...
My mother, who only went to the second grade of elementary school, was a little restrained at first when her home suddenly became the literary center of the town. When there were lectures, she huddled in an inconspicuous corner, listening silently. When someone came to the library to read, she hesitated about how to greet them, and finally stammered: "Come to read? Take a look around, these books are very new and good."
However, my mother's restraint only lasted a short time. Three months later, I went back again and saw my mother and many neighbors chatting enthusiastically on the first floor, while on the second floor, the children brought by the neighbors were quietly doing homework and reading books. That night, my mother praised me for doing a good job with this library, "Every day these neighbors bring their children to read, and the adults can gather on the first floor and talk about their feelings." From this, I knew that this library was becoming a cultural container for my hometown.
It wasn't just my mother who became more comfortable, but also the people in this town. Not long after the library opened, people from various villages came to inspect it. The village secretary of Putou Village (埔头村) said to my mother that their village used to have a stage, but now there are fewer operas, so why not simply turn it into a library? An overseas Chinese from Xiaoxia Village (肖下村) happened to return to his hometown to worship his ancestors. When he heard that someone had turned their home into a library, he led a large group of family members to inspect it and happily said that he finally knew how to make the ancestral hall in the family, which had been vacant, popular again—by creating an ancestral hall library.
The library is constantly unfolding and generating new stories: there are writing enthusiasts who come from thousands of miles away, determined to start writing their first novel here; some people write dense notes on the books they have read and put them back in the library, hoping that this book can accompany more people through lonely days; a seven- or eight-year-old girl applied to hold her first poetry recital here...
Because of the release of the movie, and because there are usually more readers during the National Day holiday, the library has been full of people these past few days since I returned to my hometown, full of reading sounds and laughter. The sounds float upwards, and I live in the room upstairs, as if living in a crowd. My wife worriedly asked me: "How can you write in such a lively place?" I replied: "Perhaps this article has to be written here."
(The author is a writer)
Return to TopBy: 周文莲
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Marxism is the 'true scripture' of us communists." Recently, after reading Chen Xianda's book "Reciting the 'True Scripture' of Marxism," many feelings arose in my heart. This book proposes that reading the "true scripture" should not stop at knowing, but should move towards believing and acting; reciting the "true scripture" should not only remember the "golden sentences," but also lead Marxism from the classroom and paper to life and action, and embark on a real path in reality. Only when theory moves from paper to underfoot can it truly become a force for transforming the world.
Faith is not in the distance, but in the direction of action. The book opens with a thought-provoking proposition: it is not difficult to "be surnamed Ma," but it is most difficult to "believe in Ma." Faith is not an empty appeal, but a way of life rooted in practice, and a spiritual pillar for communists to unite their strength. The author emphasizes that the value of theory lies not in how profound and unpredictable it is written, but in whether it can illuminate thought and guide direction. Reading is for understanding; understanding is for correct action; and only correct action can make it possible to walk the "path underfoot" impartially. In this sense, the "true scripture" is not a displayed specimen, but a path to reality; it is not a solidified text, but a method of generation.
Truth is not elsewhere, but in the depths of practice. "Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth." This classic proposition is consistently emphasized in the book. By tracing the Party's century-long struggle, combined with current cases such as comprehensive rural revitalization, the digital economy, and cultural construction, the author deeply analyzes how theory can truly be transformed into a real force for promoting social progress. As the author said, "The footprints of truth are often printed in the soil," from the language of textbooks to the actions of the people, this is the inevitable path for the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism. To recite the "true scripture" well, one must constantly ask oneself: What practical problems have I solved today? Is what I do in the same direction as what the people think?
The people are not a slogan, but a deep soil. The mass line is the Party's lifeline. The author said that "people first" is a value orientation and also a theoretical logic, and the key lies in whether one can practice the people's position and respond to the concerns of the masses. The author uses a series of simple, concrete, and vivid examples to remind us that truth lies in people's everyday lives. Young party members running around in community governance are doing the concrete things of "serving the people"; paving the way for popular culture and art, allowing the people to show their talents and play the leading role, reflects the warmth of "literature and art for the people." These vivid examples vividly illustrate that only by having the people at heart can the true essence of Marxism be reflected; without the masses, there is no "path underfoot" for communists.
As the author said, the "true scripture" must be recited loudly and, more importantly, implemented practically. In the great practice of promoting Chinese-style modernization, facing new issues such as changes in the international situation, technological changes, and unbalanced development, we must use the methodology of the "true scripture" to create new situations amidst changes. Whether it is conducting extensive research and investigation, promoting cultural empowerment of economic development, or deeply promoting the integration of ideological and political education, theory must respond to reality, serve practice, and achieve practical results. "Walking the path underfoot" is the greatest respect for theory and the best explanation to the people.
To recite the "true scripture" of Marxism well, every communist should learn and believe, learn and use, and learn and act, so as to better arm their minds and guide practice with Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and jointly promote the steady and long-term voyage of the Chinese giant ship.
(Author's unit: School of Marxism, Renmin University of China (中国人民大学))
Return to TopBy: 王立铭
In life, we often have feelings that are hard to explain or understand: meeting someone for the first time but inexplicably feeling like we've known them for a long time; yesterday's events already fading, while childhood memories remain vivid; sometimes suddenly becoming obsessed with something, unable to control ourselves... These seemingly accidental experiences all stem from the brain's unique operating mechanisms.
At work, we also encounter various uncontrollable states: Why is it so difficult to think calmly when we are anxious and stressed? Are those methods that claim to get rid of forgetfulness really reliable? Can intelligence still be improved in middle age? These questions seem to be related to emotions, memory, and even intelligence, but in fact, the working principle of the brain is the key.
Thinking deeper: Who am I? Are my thoughts controlled by myself? With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, what irreplaceable abilities do we still have? These questions about self, consciousness, and the future all point to the same exit – the brain.
The brain is the carrier of all our mental activities. Because of this, among all human scientific explorations, brain science is the one that is most directly and closely related to us, and also the one with the most problems and confusions. Many people call brain science "the last frontier of human science." Over the past decade, the United States, Europe, Japan, and of course China (中国), have all launched brain research programs, attempting to uncover the mysteries of this mere 1.5 kilograms of "mysterious universe" between our ears and inside our skull.
However, the more attention brain science receives, the more misunderstandings there are about it: humans only use 10% of their brains; a child's brain is like a blank sheet of paper, the earlier the training, the more advantageous; the left and right brains control rationality and sensibility respectively, and everyone has a habitually used half...
Seeing these vague and even absurd ideas widely spread, I had an idea: to write a book to help more people understand the basic aspects of this discipline. This lecture responds to many questions about the brain, but what I hope to bring you is a whole set of cognitive frameworks to help you understand the overall structure of brain science. After all, to truly understand this complex, profound, and rapidly evolving discipline, it is not enough to just stay on the surface. We must delve into its operating mechanisms and influencing factors, and establish a systematic understanding. In this way, when faced with all kinds of fragmented information, we will know how to judge and place them.
At the same time, this lecture also attempts to respond to questions rooted deep in our hearts, questions that shake us every time they "peek out": In our brains, what is the essence of the world? How do humans understand the world, and how do they view themselves? Brain science may not be able to provide answers, but it will bring a new perspective, allowing us to rethink the meaning of life, consciousness, and existence.
To achieve this goal, I start with "the four roles of the brain," gradually unfolding the exploration of it: The first role is an intelligent computing machine in the human body, controlling body movements and completing learning and memory. The second role is a container for instincts and emotions. From sleep to social interaction, from fear to happiness, emotions invade our minds at any time and affect our thoughts and actions. The third role is the carrier of human wisdom. We possess many abilities that animals do not have, such as organizing complex language, engaging in rational and logical thinking, and even self-awareness. The fourth role is the core organ of the human body. We will return to the most essential biological aspect of the brain, seeing how it gradually develops in the embryo, and how it matures, ages, and eventually dies.
In the process of exploring the brain, we are destined to encounter many unprecedented problems, and we will certainly reap many unexpected surprises.
(This article is the preface to the book "Brain Science Lectures" (《脑科学讲义》), this version has been abridged, and the title was added by the editor.)
Return to TopBy: 刘虹利 孟繁华
"An inch of territory, an inch of blood," the 14-year War of Resistance of the Chinese people is composed of countless moving deeds and chapters, which is the emotional torrent that has always surged in Chinese War of Resistance literature. On the occasion of commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, Ye Mei's novel "Goddess" was published, bringing the story of the War of Resistance in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River to the attention of more readers.
The Three Gorges of the Yangtze River are majestic, steep, and magnificent. They are not only the geographical space in which the local people live, but also endowed with spiritual meaning by the writer with anthropomorphic brushstrokes. As one of the landmark landscapes along the Three Gorges, the Goddess Peak, with its graceful and immortal posture, brings motherly warmth to people, and its tall and beautiful appearance also attracts the viewer's thoughts to rise from the deep valley to the clouds. "Goddess" takes readers to discover this unique "place" of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River on the Chinese map through a magical and beautiful phoenix, and approaches the male and female protagonists Qin Yijiao (覃义蛟) and Feng Niang (凤娘) to understand the perseverance and contribution of the people of the Three Gorges in the years of war.
"Goddess" adopts the framework of family narrative, taking the Guan Dukou (官渡口) Qin Jiuhe Gang (覃九河帮) family as a microcosm of Chinese society during the war. The Qin family's brothers and sisters have different paths in life: the eldest brother Qin Youjiao (覃佑蛟) holds on to the family business and is the guardian of traditional culture; the second brother Qin Yuanjiao (覃远蛟) has the dual identities of an underground revolutionary worker and a staff officer of the Sichuan Army Headquarters (川军司令部), and his "wife" Qiu Fang (秋芳) is also an underground member of the Communist Party of China (中共地下党员); the third brother Qin Yijiao (覃义蛟), as a member of the Three Gorges people, travels back and forth on the Yangtze River waterway to support the War of Resistance; the youngest sister Qin Yujiao (覃玉蛟) devotes herself to the war zone hospital, and her beloved battalion commander Zhou Jie (周捷) bravely kills the enemy on the anti-Japanese battlefield and is seriously injured. The actions of these characters connect major battles and important events such as the Battle of Wuhan (武汉会战), the Battle of Changde (常德保卫战), the Great Yangtze River Transportation (长江大抢运), and the Bombing of Badong (巴东大轰炸), showing the spirit of Chinese people of different identities, positions, and classes uniting as one and being unyielding in the War of Resistance and national salvation. The novel not only writes about the weight of historical events, but also about the love between father and son, and the love between children. Through the resilient life attitudes of characters such as Feng Niang (凤娘), Doufu Shop Xiu'er (豆腐店绣儿), and Mr. Du (杜先生), it expresses the joys and sorrows of the people in the rear during the war.
The plot of the novel highlights the elements of local culture and folk legends, and the character shaping also shows the influence of folk literature and classical novels. For example, the core character Qin Yijiao (覃义蛟), whose name has a homonym for "qingyi" (情义), and his most prominent character trait is also related to loyalty and morality. He is a "蛟龙" (jiao dragon) in the water, with the innate ability to tread the waves of the Yangtze River, reminiscent of Zhang Shun (张顺), the White Stripe in the Waves in "Water Margin" (《水浒传》), the guerrillas in "Railway Guerrilla" (《铁道游击队》) who "derail trains and blow up bridges," and Yang Zirong (杨子荣), the Flying Snow and Skiing Hero in "Tracks in the Snowy Forest" (《林海雪原》). What is different from them is that Qin Yijiao's (覃义蛟) personality and demeanor are shaped by the unique geographical space and way of life of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River. As a boatman, in the dangerous shoals of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, he both respects nature and is not afraid of wind and waves. He must work together to survive in danger, thus creating the impressive brotherhood and chivalry in the novel. It was also in the tempering of the war that Qin Yijiao (覃义蛟) understood that personal actions are closely related to the righteousness of the family and the country, and closely related to defending the Three Gorges, defending the Yangtze River, and not being a subjugated slave. His spiritual growth is convincing.
In "Goddess," whether it is the narrative perspective, the scenery and customs, or the folk legends and people's emotions in the story, all show the characteristics of the Three Gorges, broadening the geographical space and cultural dimension of the War of Resistance writing. The river flows into the sea, and then turns into wind, rain, thunder and lightning, returning to the high mountains and valleys, just as the phoenix in the story flies away and then flies back - as long as we remember history and learn from it, base ourselves on the land and move forward bravely, the phoenix will be reborn from despair time and time again with tenacious vitality. The bloody battles in the War of Resistance are like this, and so is the profound and long-lasting Chinese civilization of more than 5,000 years, with its constant renewal of culture and music.
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When I was young, I lived in an ancient town in Jiangnan. My maternal grandfather was an old employee of a pottery shop. He often had to stay overnight at the shop. On cold winter nights, I often went to keep him company and warm his feet. It was in the attic of the pottery shop, around a simple bed, piled high with various pottery items—large ones like vats and basins, and small ones like bowls, plates, pots, and jars. My earliest enlightenment about objects began in this attic.
My grandfather's shop was connected to the everyday lives of the common people. Every morning, farmers heading to the market with morning dew on their shoulders crowded the counter. From pig troughs and duck basins to bowls, plates, ladles, and even incense burners for ancestral worship, cooking stoves for boatmen, pottery urns for pickling vegetables, earthenware pots for simmering soup, and pottery jars for decocting medicine... a riot of colors and resounding clangs, weaving together a warm tapestry of ordinary people's lives.
My writing about objects began with the Zisha teapot. Behind a teapot is connected the history of Jiangnan's craftsmanship, life, and aesthetics. Therefore, I focus on the spiritual interdependence between the pot and the person, conveying the warmth of the world and the temperament of Jiangnan culture through writing about the universe within the pot. Later, I realized that the Zisha teapot was far from enough to carry the Jiangnan culture, and I further hoped to present the "group of objects" such as pottery, woodware, jade, lacquerware, wine vessels, farm tools, literati playthings, and miscellaneous items in a vivid and fragrant form in life through a century of writing about the daily life of a region. A small ambition, starting with building and restoring an ancient Jiangnan town filled with the smoke of daily life with words, to present its myriad daily textures, thus the writing of "Jiangnan Chronicles of Objects" came into being.
Objects, as silent companions to people, store the past and experience the present, and in the flow of time, they also have their own aura. Whether it is the thought of seeing an object and thinking of a person, or a token witnessing the world, because of the stories, many sleeping objects come out of the wrinkles of time.
The people of Cheshui Lane (车水巷) cannot live without Zheng Longda (郑龙大). Every summer, when it doesn't rain for days on end, the rice fields begin to crack. How to draw water from the river to the fields? Zheng Longda's dragon-bone waterwheel comes into play with great pomp. This old farmer, a master of farming and proficient in making farm tools, lived to be 99 years old. His death became a major event in the town, because of his longevity and because of his outstanding craftsmanship. When an elderly person dies, their family invites people who come to say goodbye to eat tofu rice. The bowl used to serve the rice is called a "fa wan (发碗)," but the Zheng (郑) family, like other farming households, uses a very cheap Fanchang (繁昌) bowl—large, coarsely made of pottery, with a purple eggplant glaze, and resistant to dirt. It cannot compare to the Zhuge (诸葛) bowls used by the retired and elderly elders in Daren Lane (大人巷), nor can it compare to the Dun (敦) style bowls used by the few well-to-do households in Cheshui Lane who are both farmers and merchants, but on that day, the people of Qiyin Town (器隐镇), rich or poor, all wanted to get a Zheng Longda's "fa wan"—people cared about its stability and honesty, and about the "longevity" character on the bottom of the bowl.
Zheng Longda is in Qiyin Town, and even deeper in my memory. He is those elders and villagers who come to the pottery shop every day to pick out daily necessities, the imprint of life left on a certain object, or the cultural genes hidden in the way of life... The tangible objects and the intangible energy blend together, such as the "宁折不屈" (nìng zhé bù qū - "would rather break than bend," unyielding) integrity of bamboo ware and the "Yin-Yang balance" aesthetics of medical instruments. Recognizing Jiangnan in objects is not only about form, but also about spirit. The mundane daily life of imperial examinations, farming, customs, boats, recipes, prescriptions, calligraphy, and paintings are presented alternately in the book. From this are derived various characters such as officials, scholars, secretaries, farmers, merchants, doctors, artists, women, craftsmen, and lawyers, each seeking their place and their own good, and on the "Qiyin Town" stage, they tell their past lives with their respective experiences.
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