Summary: Xi Jinping chaired a symposium with non-CPC figures on August 27th to gather suggestions for the 15th Five-Year Plan, emphasizing the need to focus on socialist modernization and adapt to international and domestic situations. He stressed self-reliance in science and technology and common prosperity, calling for national unity to build a strong nation. Xi highlighted the importance of grasping strategic initiative amidst global uncertainties and focusing on domestic affairs while strengthening the domestic and international economic cycles. The need to accurately assess the international situation was mentioned in the context of navigating increasing global uncertainties. Li Qiang, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, and Ding Xuexiang attended the symposium.
Summary: Xi Jinping congratulated Luis Arce on his election as President of Bolivia, emphasizing the positive trajectory of China-Bolivia relations over the past 40 years, including mutual support on core interests and fruitful cooperation. Xi affirmed China's appreciation for Bolivia's adherence to the One China principle. He expressed his desire to work with Arce to elevate the China-Bolivia strategic partnership. Simultaneously, Han Zheng sent a congratulatory message to Bolivia's Vice President-elect, David Choquehuanca Céspedes.
Summary: According to Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiajun, Xi Jinping will attend the 32nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, from October 30th to November 1st, at the invitation of South Korean President Lee Jae-myung. Xi's attendance reflects China's emphasis on regional economic cooperation, and he will deliver an important speech and hold bilateral meetings with leaders. The visit, Xi's first state visit to South Korea in 11 years and the first meeting between Xi and Lee since the latter's inauguration, underscores China's emphasis on stable relations with South Korea. China hopes to work with South Korea to uphold the spirit of the establishment of diplomatic relations and adhere to good-neighborliness, friendship, mutual benefit and win-win results, and push the China-South Korea strategic cooperative partnership forward.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang chaired a State Council Party Group meeting to study the spirit of the 20th CPC Central Committee's Fourth Plenary Session, emphasizing the importance of aligning thought and action with Xi Jinping's directives and the session's decisions for the 15th Five-Year Plan. The meeting stressed translating the blueprint of the 15th Five-Year Plan into concrete implementation plans. The meeting also called for timely measures to address changing circumstances and consolidate the positive economic trend, ensuring a successful conclusion to the 14th Five-Year Plan and preparing policy measures for the coming year. Ding Xuexiang, He Lifeng, Zhang Guoqing, Liu Guozhong, Wang Xiaohong, Wu Zhenglong, and Chen Yiqin were reported to have attended.
Summary: Zhao Leji chaired a meeting of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee Party Group to study Xi Jinping's speech and the spirit of the 20th Fourth Plenary Session of the CCP Central Committee, emphasizing its importance for the "15th Five-Year Plan." The meeting stressed the need for the NPC to align with the Party Central Committee's decisions, particularly in legislation, supervision, and foreign affairs, including improving laws related to market economy, technological innovation, and foreign-related fields. The meeting affirmed the Party's determination to fight corruption. Li Hongzhong and other members of the NPC Standing Committee Party Group were in attendance. There was no explicit discussion of the United States.
Summary: Wang Huning, as head of the CPPCC and its Party Group, presided over a meeting to study the spirit of the 20th Fourth Plenum, emphasizing its importance for China's modernization. The meeting highlighted the achievements made under Xi Jinping's leadership during the 14th Five-Year Plan and the importance of the upcoming 15th Five-Year Plan. Participants stressed the need for the CPPCC to align its work with the Plenum's spirit and contribute to the formulation and implementation of the 15th Five-Year Plan. Shi Taifeng and Hu Chunhua, among others, attended and spoke at the meeting. The report did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses the recently concluded 20th Fourth Plenum of the CCP, which focused on strategic planning for the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) and its importance in the context of achieving socialist modernization by 2035. The Plenum emphasized the need to recognize both strategic opportunities and challenges, leveraging China's inherent strengths, and proactively adapting to change in an increasingly complex international environment. It calls for maintaining strategic focus and confidence while concentrating efforts on domestic affairs to ensure decisive progress towards socialist modernization. The article argues that the 15th Five-Year Plan is crucial for consolidating progress and addressing weaknesses in order to gain strategic advantages in international competition. The article asserts the Party’s unified leadership is key to withstanding risks and advancing Chinese-style modernization.
Summary: Li Xi, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee and Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), chaired a CCDI Standing Committee meeting on October 24th to study the spirit of the 20th Central Committee's Fourth Plenary Session. He emphasized that discipline inspection and supervision organs must resolutely implement the Party Central Committee's decisions to promote full and strict Party self-governance. Li stressed the importance of understanding the "Two Establishments" and safeguarding the "Two Upholds," while also underscoring the importance of the "15th Five-Year Plan" and its implications for economic and social development. Liu Jinguo, Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and Deputy Secretary of the CCDI, was present at the meeting.
Summary: The 14th National People's Congress Standing Committee has officially designated October 25th as "Taiwan Restoration Day" (台灣光復紀念日) through legal decision, marking the anniversary of Taiwan's return to Chinese sovereignty after World War II. The decision frames Taiwan's "restoration" as a victory in the War of Resistance against Japan and an integral part of China. The NPC Standing Committee's Legislative Affairs Commission Director Shen Chunyao noted the decision reinforces the historical fact of Taiwan being an inalienable part of China, and that it will consolidate international adherence to the one-China policy. It is intended to strengthen cross-strait historical memory and promote national reunification. The decision aims to safeguard the post-WWII international order.
Summary: The 20th CPC Central Committee convened its fourth plenary session in Beijing, reviewing Xi Jinping's work report and adopting proposals for the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030). Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of high-quality development and achieving progress towards common prosperity for all people, and also mentioned the need to maintain an appropriate economic growth rate to reach the level of moderately developed countries by 2035. The meeting underscored the need to balance development and security amid complex international relations, and the importance of strengthening the Party's leadership to ensure the success of China's modernization. The plenary session also reviewed and approved reports on disciplinary violations by several leading cadres, demonstrating a firm stance against corruption. The article references external commentary noting China's steady development vision amidst global uncertainties.
Summary: The CCP's 20th Central Committee convened its fourth plenary session in Beijing, focusing on the upcoming 15th Five-Year Plan. Jiang Jinquan, Director of the Central Policy Research Office, highlighted that Xi Jinping personally led the drafting of the plan. Han Wenxiu, Deputy Director of the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission, noted the plan acknowledges a complex international environment where "major power relations affect the international situation" and that this situation profoundly influences domestic development in China. Wang Wentao, Minister of Commerce, conveyed that the plenary session sent a strong message supporting open cooperation and mutual benefit, emphasizing China's commitment to expanding high-level opening to the outside world. The plan includes promoting trade innovation, expanding two-way investment cooperation, and advancing the Belt and Road Initiative.
Summary: The 4th Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee convened in Beijing and reviewed the proposals for the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030), which participants described as critical for laying the foundation for socialist modernization. Officials like Xin Changxing, Hu Changsheng, Huang Qiang, Lan Fo'an, and Yin Hejun expressed commitment to implementing the plenum's directives in their respective regions and sectors, focusing on high-quality development and technological self-reliance. Navy Deputy Commander Cui Yuzhong pledged to enhance naval capabilities. Hao Chunxia, a village Party Secretary, highlighted rural revitalization efforts.
Summary: President Xi Jinping will attend the 32nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, from October 30th to November 1st, and conduct a state visit. The article emphasizes China's commitment to multilateralism and its role in shaping the future of the Asia-Pacific region, particularly in promoting economic cooperation and a shared future. Xi Jinping's past proposals regarding the Asia-Pacific community are mentioned, as well as China's interest in regional trade agreements. The article highlights the importance of stable China-South Korea relations for regional peace and prosperity. The piece does not directly discuss the United States.
Summary: Xi Jinping will attend the 32nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea and conduct a state visit from October 30 to November 1. The visit aims to promote APEC cooperation and inject new momentum into the China-South Korea strategic cooperative partnership. China hopes to work with regional partners to advance regional cooperation and promote economic growth within APEC. The article notes China has been Korea's largest trading partner for 21 years, and South Korea has recently again become China's second-largest. The visit is intended to demonstrate China's commitment to opening up, promoting win-win cooperation, and contributing stability to a turbulent world.
Summary: Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced that the "Perfecting Global Governance and Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind" Blue Hall Forum will be held on October 27th at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Politburo member and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will attend the opening ceremony and deliver a speech. The forum will host high-level representatives, experts, scholars, foreign envoys, and representatives from international organizations to discuss the Global Governance Initiative. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: According to the Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Xi Jinping's special envoy, Gao Yunlong, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the CPPCC, will attend the inauguration ceremony of President Wavel Ramkalawan in Victoria, Seychelles, on October 26th, at the invitation of the Seychellois government. The announcement specified Gao's role as a special envoy. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Ahead of the 75th anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army's entry into the Korean War, China and North Korea held a commencement ceremony on October 22nd for the renovation project of the Xinping Chinese People's Volunteer Army Martyrs' Cemetery in North Hwanghae Province. Chinese Ambassador to North Korea Wang Yajun and North Korean Deputy Minister of Urban Management Kang Chol-ho attended the ceremony. According to an agreement between the two countries, six Chinese People's Volunteer Army Martyrs' Cemeteries in North Korea will be renovated, starting in October 2025. The Xinping cemetery, holding 343 martyrs, is expected to be completed by the end of the year. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang chaired a State Council Party Group meeting to study the spirit of the 20th CPC Central Committee's Fourth Plenum, emphasizing its importance for the upcoming 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030). The meeting stressed the need to translate the Plenum's blueprint into concrete plans and policies, ensuring their implementation across various sectors. Focus was placed on coordinating economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. Ding Xuexiang, He Lifeng, Zhang Guoqing, Liu Guozhong, Wang Xiaohong, Wu Zhenglong, and Chen Yiqin were present. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article, authored by a former Panamanian Foreign Minister and Supreme Court Justice, discusses China's global role and its commitment to multilateralism and peaceful development. It highlights China's economic integration into the world, its support for globalization through initiatives like the Belt and Road, and its advocacy for a more just global governance system. The article also emphasizes Panama's adherence to the One China principle and rejects external interference, particularly regarding concerns about China's influence over the Panama Canal. No mention of the United States in the article. The piece concludes by stating that Panama's policy towards China is rooted in the will of the Panamanian people.
Summary: The fifth China-Singapore International Commercial Dispute Resolution Forum was held in Singapore with over 500 attendees. Ren Hongbin, Chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), emphasized the deepening friendship between China and Singapore over the past 35 years. He stated that the forum exemplifies the proactive and high-quality partnership between the two countries and promotes steady and long-term economic and trade cooperation. The CCPIT is willing to work with Singapore to deepen collaboration, focus on digital empowerment, and strengthen the rule of law.
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Summary: Premier Li Qiang chaired a meeting on drafting the 15th Five-Year Plan, emphasizing the need to adhere to Xi Jinping's directives, focus on high-quality development, and address domestic and international dynamics. Li called for breakthroughs in new productive forces and modernizing the industrial system, along with expanding domestic demand and proactively adjusting foreign trade strategies with more independent and unilateral opening-up measures. He also underscored the importance of public consultation and risk management. Vice Premiers Ding Xuexiang, Zhang Guoqing, Liu Guozhong, Wu Zhenglong, and Chen Yiqin attended the meeting.
Summary: Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced that Premier Li Qiang will conduct an official visit to Singapore from October 25th to 26th at the invitation of Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Following this, Li will attend the 28th China-ASEAN Leaders' Meeting, the 28th ASEAN Plus Three Leaders' Meeting, the 20th East Asia Summit, and the 5th RCEP Leaders' Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from October 27th to 28th, at the invitation of Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, whose country currently holds the ASEAN rotating chair. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 14th NPC Standing Committee's 18th session convened on October 24th, chaired by Zhao Leji. A decision was passed to establish "Taiwan Restoration Day" on October 25th to commemorate Taiwan's return to Chinese sovereignty in 1945, aiming to strengthen cross-strait ties and national unity. The session also reviewed draft revisions to various laws, including maritime law, village and resident committee organization laws, and cybersecurity law. Foreign Vice Minister Hua Chunying presented proposals for the ratification of agreements with the UN, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia. The session signals a focus on internal legal frameworks and reaffirmation of sovereignty claims concerning Taiwan.
Summary: He Lifeng, Director of the Central Financial Committee Office, addressed a meeting on studying the spirit of the 20th Fourth Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee. He emphasized that the financial system should prioritize studying and implementing the spirit of the session and plan for key financial work during the 15th Five-Year Plan. He also stressed adhering to the political and people-centered nature of financial work, focusing on risk prevention, strengthening regulation, and promoting high-quality development to build a strong financial nation. He Lifeng urged solidifying the regulatory environment and increasing support for economic development in the fourth quarter. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The PRC has officially designated October 25th as "Taiwan Retrocession Day" to commemorate Taiwan's return to China after World War II. This decision, based on the PRC constitution, aims to reinforce the historical narrative of Taiwan as an integral part of China and to solidify national unity. The commemoration serves to uphold the post-WWII international order, and demonstrate the commitment to the One China Principle. The move emphasizes national sovereignty and territorial integrity while strengthening shared national identity across the Taiwan Strait. The PRC will hold commemorative activities in various forms to promote patriotism.
Summary: The National People's Congress Standing Committee has designated October 25th as Taiwan Retrocession Day to commemorate Taiwan's return to China, reflecting the shared aspirations of compatriots on both sides of the Strait. The move aims to solidify the historical and legal basis of Taiwan as an inseparable part of China, countering attempts by the DPP, and Lai Ching-te in particular, to deny this history and promote Taiwan independence, which are perceived as attempts to sever historical ties and national spirit. It references the Cairo Declaration, which was signed by the U.S., and the Potsdam Proclamation as evidence of a global consensus on Taiwan's status. Establishing the memorial day underscores the determination to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity, serving as a warning against separatist forces. It is framed as part of the inevitable process of national rejuvenation, ultimately culminating in reunification.
Summary: At the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) 18th Sixth Presidium (Enlarged) Meeting, ACFTU Chairman Wang Dongming called for in-depth study and implementation of the spirit of the 20th Fourth Plenary Session of the CPC, emphasizing the need for trade unions to adhere to the Party's leadership and unite workers to follow the Party. He stressed safeguarding workers' rights and promoting common prosperity, while mobilizing them to contribute to the "15th Five-Year Plan" and Chinese-style modernization. Xu Liuping, Secretary of the ACFTU Party Group, conveyed the spirit of the 20th Fourth Plenary Session at the meeting. The article does not explicitly discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The State Council has announced personnel changes, removing Han Zhanwu from his position as Deputy Director of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration. The announcement did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Zhao Leji chaired a meeting of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee Party Group to study and implement the spirit of the 20th Fourth Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee. The meeting emphasized the importance of the 15th Five-Year Plan and the need for the NPC to align its legislative, supervisory, and diplomatic work accordingly. Focus was placed on strengthening legislation in areas like the market economy, technological innovation, and foreign affairs. The meeting also highlighted the Party's resolve in combating corruption, noting the review and confirmation of disciplinary actions against officials for serious violations. Li Hongzhong and other members of the NPC Standing Committee Party Group were reported to be in attendance.
Summary: Wang Huning, as head of the CPPCC, chaired a meeting to study and implement the spirit of the 20th CPC Central Committee's Fourth Plenary Session, emphasizing its importance for advancing Chinese-style modernization. The meeting underscored the achievements made under Xi Jinping's leadership during the 14th Five-Year Plan period. Participants stressed the need to understand the Party Central Committee's judgment on the domestic and international situation and to implement the spirit of the plenary session in the CPPCC's work. Shitaifeng and Hu Chunhua, among other members of the CPPCC, attended the meeting and spoke. The meeting alluded to the international situation, but there was no specific mention of the United States.
Summary: The article discusses the recently concluded Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee which focused on the "15th Five-Year Plan" (2026-2030). It emphasizes the plan's crucial role in the "two-step" strategy for achieving socialist modernization by 2035 and highlights China's strategic opportunities amidst global uncertainties. The piece stresses the importance of maintaining strategic focus and leveraging China's inherent strengths to overcome challenges and secure a strategic advantage in international competition. It argued that China possesses the ability to overcome its risk factors, and to use its economic base, socialist system, and large market to its advantage. The report does not mention the United States, or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Li Xi, Standing Committee member of the Politburo and Secretary of the CCDI, chaired a CCDI Standing Committee meeting on October 24th to study and implement the spirit of the 20th CPC Central Committee's Fourth Plenum. Li stressed the importance of upholding the "Two Establishes" and resolutely achieving the "Two Safeguards" to ensure the implementation of the Party Central Committee's decisions. He emphasized that disciplinary inspection and supervision organs should thoroughly study the spirit of the proposals for the 15th Five-Year Plan, identify entry points for service guarantees, and promote high-quality development through strict discipline and anti-corruption efforts. Liu Jinguo, Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and Deputy Secretary of the CCDI, attended the meeting. The meeting did not discuss U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article describes how Suzhou China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. has implemented an AI-driven "digital brain" to manage and optimize its 8.5-generation LCD panel production line. This system uses real-time data analysis and machine learning to identify defects, automate repairs, and predict equipment failures, significantly improving efficiency and reducing costs. The company's defect detection accuracy has improved and labor productivity has increased by 123.91%. The company has reduced the production cycle for a single liquid crystal panel from seven or eight to four days.
Summary: The Director of Intelligent Manufacturing at Suzhou China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. stated that digital transformation is essential for manufacturing enterprises. They noted that despite initial uncertainties, the company's profits have significantly increased through "intelligent transformation and digital network connection" of production lines. Innovation and venturing into uncharted territories are crucial for companies to thrive in market competition. The company aims to accelerate digital construction and become a globally leading intelligent display enterprise, in line with the goal of building a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as its backbone, as proposed by the 20th Fourth Plenary Session of the Party. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses the importance of maintaining a reasonable proportion of manufacturing in China, particularly traditional manufacturing, as the foundation of a modern industrial system. It highlights achievements during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, including advancements in high-end manufacturing, intelligent factories, and green energy consumption. The article emphasizes the need for a shift from scale-based development to value creation during the "15th Five-Year Plan," leveraging technological upgrades and policy tools to improve the quality and efficiency of traditional manufacturing. The author emphasizes that this will stabilize the "basic plate" of the manufacturing sector.
Summary: World-renowned physicist and Nobel laureate Yang Zhenning passed away on October 18, 2025, at the age of 103. Yang's theoretical work laid the foundation for the Standard Model of particle physics. He returned to China to teach at Tsinghua University and helped establish its Institute for Advanced Study. Yang renounced his U.S. citizenship and became an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He promoted U.S.-China academic exchanges and was described as a bridge between the two countries.
Summary: The 14th National People's Congress Standing Committee has formally designated October 25th as Taiwan Retrocession Day (台湾光复纪念日) through a legal decision. This designation, framed as a means to commemorate Taiwan's return to China following Japan's defeat in 1945, will be marked by national commemorative activities. According to Shen Chunyao, director of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee, the decision aims to demonstrate that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China, consolidate the international community's adherence to the one-China principle, and promote national unity toward reunification and rejuvenation. The decision emphasizes the victory against fascism and the post-war international order. The decision also serves to reinforce China's sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity.
Summary: The 20th CPC Central Committee convened its fourth plenary session in Beijing, reviewing the work report delivered by Xi Jinping and adopting the "Suggestions on the 15th Five-Year Plan." The session emphasized the importance of high-quality development and identified this period as crucial for consolidating progress towards socialist modernization by 2035. Xi Jinping stressed the need to maintain a balance between development and security, and to coordinate efforts across various sectors. The meeting also highlighted the need to strengthen the party's leadership and combat corruption. The meeting acknowledged that "Great power relations are affecting the international situation, and changes in the international situation are profoundly affecting domestic development."
Summary: The CCP held the 20th Central Committee's Fourth Plenum in October, focusing on the upcoming "15th Five-Year Plan." Jiang Jinquan stated that Xi Jinping personally led the drafting of the "Suggestions" for the plan. Han Wenxiu noted the assessment of the international environment includes the impact of great power relations on China's development. Wang Wentao stated that the Plenum signals China's commitment to open cooperation and mutual benefit, with planned expansions in trade and investment.
Summary: The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee convened in Beijing and adopted proposals for the 15th Five-Year Plan. Attendees emphasized the critical importance of the period for solidifying the foundation for socialist modernization. Several officials, including Central Committee members and provincial secretaries such as Xin Changxing (Jiangsu) and Hu Changsheng (Gansu), pledged to align their work with the spirit of the session and Xi Jinping's directives, focusing on high-quality development and innovation. Minister of Science and Technology Yin Hejun highlighted efforts to achieve self-reliance in science and technology, while Navy Deputy Commander Cui Yuzhong affirmed commitment to modernizing the navy. Attendees made no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The National People's Congress Standing Committee passed a decision on October 24th to establish Taiwan Retrocession Day on October 25th. This legal designation emphasizes Taiwan's historical status as an inseparable part of China and aims to consolidate the one-China principle internationally. The decision seeks to encourage compatriots on both sides of the strait to carry forward the spirit of the war against Japanese aggression and unite for national reunification. The article references the Cairo Declaration and Potsdam Proclamation as international legal documents confirming China's sovereignty over Taiwan, and denounces any attempts at "Taiwan independence" and foreign interference. It suggests that reunification is essential for national rejuvenation and that Taiwanese people will have a better life after the reunification.
Summary: Several Taiwanese youth, including Chen Wencheng, Xu Chenpin, Lin Yanchen and Wang Yuting, emphasized the importance of remembering Taiwan's return to China on October 25, 1945, after 50 years of Japanese colonial rule. They called for cross-strait youth exchange to promote a correct understanding of history and to oppose Taiwan independence. The youth stated Taiwan's return was a hard-won victory in the War of Resistance against Japan, achieved through the sacrifices of many. They stressed the need to safeguard national unity and contribute to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, implying a reliance on the mainland for a better future. The comments did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article recounts stories of Taiwanese resistance against Japanese rule during the colonial period through three family narratives. Lin Guanghui details his grandfather Lin Zumi's support for armed resistance and his uncle Lin Zhengheng's participation in the war effort on the mainland. Li Liqun commemorates his father Li Youbang's establishment of an anti-Japanese political party and the Taiwan Volunteer Corps. Qiu Xiuzhi shares the experience of her brother, conscripted by the Japanese army, and his eventual return after years of hardship. These stories highlight the sacrifices and struggles of Taiwanese individuals and families in their fight for liberation and reunification with China.
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Summary: This article commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army's participation in the Korean War, emphasizing the importance of inheriting the "spirit" of that era. It highlights stories of heroism and sacrifice from the war, linking them to modern military advancements and achievements, such as the J-20 fighter escorting the remains of fallen soldiers. The reports also emphasize the importance of the "spirit" of "air combat bayonet fighting" and maintaining a fighting will. Modernization of equipment has occurred, but the spirit remains. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article features reflections from two veterans of the Korean War on the occasion of the anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army's entry into the conflict. Li Shiying, a former fighter pilot, recalls the courage and determination of his squadron in fighting against more experienced U.S. pilots, emphasizing the importance of a fighting spirit for the People's Liberation Army Air Force. He Lin'di, a former member of a cultural troupe, recounts the sacrifices made by young soldiers and their dedication to protecting China. He Lin'di also refers to the return of remains of Chinese soldiers from South Korea. Both veterans express pride in China's current strength and urge the younger generation to continue striving for national rejuvenation and a world-class military.
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Summary: This article reflects on the author's changing perception of Linshui Village, a place initially associated with poverty that has transformed into a prosperous agricultural tourism zone specializing in "snow rice." The author highlights the integration of modern amenities with rural charm and the unique cultivation process of snow rice, emphasizing its high quality and value. The success of the village is attributed to individuals like Ai Qifeng, who reinvested in her hometown out of gratitude and a deep connection to the land. The author emphasizes a sense of local pride and the idea that true wealth lies within the land.
Summary: This article commemorates the 70th anniversary of Qian Xuesen's return to China, highlighting his deep patriotism and contributions to China's aerospace program, particularly his role as a founder. It recounts his decision to return despite a promising career in the United States and attributes his commitment to serving China to the influence of his family's traditions and values. The article quotes Qian Xuesen's statement about his happiness to return to China and contribute to building a prosperous nation for his compatriots. It also emphasizes the importance of family education in shaping individuals who contribute to the nation's strength and prosperity.
Summary: The article describes the traditional process of making "Sanbao Zheyu" (三抱鳓鱼), a preserved fish dish. The process involves salting the fish three times over a period of at least three months, using specific techniques and tools passed down through generations. This method results in a unique flavor profile that is salty, savory, and slightly sweet, making it a popular dish, especially during the summer. The article also notes that the traditional method is becoming rare, with modern versions often simplifying the process.
Summary: The article identifies the painting "Wanru Huaping" (宛如画屏) as a gouache work by Zhou Lingzhao, held in the collection of the National Art Museum of China. This information suggests a focus on Chinese art and its representation within national institutions.
Summary: This poem reflects on the speaker's visit to their hometown in the autumn. The speaker observes the lives of local people who live in self-built homes, enjoying simple pleasures like feasts and agriculture. They are portrayed as reliable individuals navigating life's challenges with integrity and planning. The speaker contrasts their own pursuit of distant ideals with the grounded existence of their hometown companions. There is no mention of United States or U.S.-China relations in the poem.
Summary: This article is a nostalgic reflection on the author's return to their hometown in the North China Plain and their rediscovery of three common plants from their childhood: *xiao ji* (小蓟), *qing ma* (苘麻), and *di shao gua* (地梢瓜). The author reminisces about how these plants, once a source of meager sustenance during difficult times, now evoke a sense of lost connection and appreciation for nature's resilience. The author reflects on the local names and uses of these plants, highlighting their intimate connection to the land and its history. The author does not mention any political figures or the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: An elderly man from Jiangxi Province went to Dongguan to stay with his daughter and attempt to quit drinking. Initially listless without alcohol, he was allowed a limited amount of wine, after which he would recite classical Chinese poetry. Eventually, with the support of his daughter and inspired by books, he successfully quit drinking, replacing his dependence on alcohol with reading. His family home has a sign that reads "Farming and reading are passed down in the family."
Summary: This is not an article, but rather contact information for submissions to the "Dadi" section of People's Daily. It states submissions should be original and not submitted elsewhere simultaneously. There is no mention of specific political figures, events, U.S.-China relations, or any other relevant topics for analysis.
To plan economic and social development for the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, it is necessary to aim at the goal of basically realizing socialist modernization, deeply grasp the international and domestic situation, solidly promote high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, steadily advance common prosperity, and mobilize the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to unite and strive for the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a crucial period for laying the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically achieve socialist modernization. It is necessary to scientifically determine the strategic tasks and ideas and measures in various fields and aspects of economic and social development in accordance with the goal requirements of basically achieving socialist modernization. It is necessary to focus on key areas and crucial links that affect and restrict high-quality development, consolidate and expand advantages, break through bottlenecks and constraints, and strengthen weaknesses. It is necessary to coordinate the overall planning of the "five-sphere integrated plan" and the tasks of the "four-pronged comprehensive strategy," form a joint force for development, and enhance comprehensive effects.
At present, China's development is in a period where strategic opportunities and risks and challenges coexist, and uncertain and unpredictable factors are increasing. It is necessary to closely track and accurately analyze the international situation, actively recognize changes, respond to changes, and seek changes, and firmly grasp the strategic initiative. No matter how the external environment changes, we must concentrate our efforts on managing our own affairs well. It is necessary to fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept, strengthen the domestic circulation, smooth the domestic and international dual circulation, properly prevent and resolve risks, and continuously improve the quality and resilience of development.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 24th. The CPC Central Committee held a symposium with non-CPC personages in Zhongnanhai (中南海) on August 27th to listen to the opinions and suggestions of the heads of various central committees of democratic parties, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, and representatives of non-party personages on the CPC Central Committee's proposal for formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development. Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the symposium and delivered an important speech, emphasizing that in planning economic and social development for the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, it is necessary to aim at the goal of basically realizing socialist modernization, deeply grasp the international and domestic situation, solidly promote high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, steadily advance common prosperity, and mobilize the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to unite and strive for the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.
Li Qiang (李强), Wang Huning (王沪宁), Cai Qi (蔡奇), and Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥), members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, attended the symposium.
At the symposium, Zheng Jianbang (郑建邦), Chairman of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, Ding Zhongli (丁仲礼), Chairman of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League, Hao Mingjin (郝明金), Chairman of the Central Committee of the China National Democratic Construction Association, Cai Dafeng (蔡达峰), Chairman of the Central Committee of the China Association for Promoting Democracy, He Wei (何维), Chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party, Jiang Zuojun (蒋作君), Chairman of the Central Committee of the China Zhi Gong Party, Wu Weihua (武维华), Chairman of the Central Committee of the Jiusan Society, Su Hui (苏辉), Chairman of the Central Committee of the Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League, Gao Yunlong (高云龙), Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, and Guo Lei (郭雷), representative of non-party personages, spoke successively. They highly praised the achievements made in China's economic and social development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, agreed with the CPC Central Committee's considerations on formulating the proposal for the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development, and put forward opinions and suggestions on expanding domestic demand, building a modern industrial system, cultivating and developing new quality productive forces, promoting the integrated construction of education, science and technology, and talent, strengthening the synergy of innovation chains, industrial chains, and consumption chains, promoting common prosperity, promoting coordinated regional development, building a maritime power, building a higher-level Peaceful China, ensuring energy and food security, promoting the high-quality development of the private economy, and deepening the integrated development of both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
After listening carefully to everyone's speeches, Xi Jinping (习近平) delivered an important speech. He pointed out that promoting democracy, pooling wisdom, and widely listening to opinions from all sides are the consistent practice and fine tradition of the CPC Central Committee in studying major issues and formulating important documents. In order to do a good job in drafting the proposal, the CPC Central Committee organized in-depth investigations and research and launched an online solicitation of opinions from the entire society.
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that the "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a crucial period for laying the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically achieve socialist modernization. It is necessary to scientifically determine the strategic tasks and ideas and measures in various fields and aspects of economic and social development in accordance with the goal requirements of basically achieving socialist modernization. It is necessary to focus on key areas and crucial links that affect and restrict high-quality development, consolidate and expand advantages, break through bottlenecks and constraints, and strengthen weaknesses. It is necessary to coordinate the overall planning of the "five-sphere integrated plan" and the tasks of the "four-pronged comprehensive strategy," form a joint force for development, and enhance comprehensive effects.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that at present, China's development is in a period where strategic opportunities and risks and challenges coexist, and uncertain and unpredictable factors are increasing. It is necessary to closely track and accurately analyze the international situation, actively recognize changes, respond to changes, and seek changes, and firmly grasp the strategic initiative. No matter how the external environment changes, we must concentrate our efforts on managing our own affairs well. It is necessary to fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept, strengthen the domestic circulation, smooth the domestic and international dual circulation, properly prevent and resolve risks, and continuously improve the quality and resilience of development.
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening is the strategic support for high-quality development. It is necessary to give play to the advantages of the new type of national system, aim at the forefront of world science and technology, coordinate the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, continue to work hard on strengthening basic research and improving independent innovation, especially original innovation capabilities, and strive to make breakthroughs in key core technologies. It is necessary to develop new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, adhere to the simultaneous advancement of the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, actively develop emerging industries, and proactively plan for future industries, and accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that Chinese-style modernization is socialist modernization with common prosperity for all the people. It is necessary to take benefiting the people as the fundamental value orientation and adhere to guaranteeing and improving people's livelihoods in development. It is necessary to further optimize the regional economic layout, promote coordinated regional development, consolidate and expand the achievements in poverty alleviation, and promote the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. It is necessary to take more concrete and accessible measures to focus on meeting the needs of the people in employment, education, social security, housing, medical care, elderly care, and childcare.
Xi Jinping (习近平) expressed the hope that the democratic parties, the Federation of Industry and Commerce, and non-party personages will give play to their advantages of close ties with all sectors of society, continue to conduct in-depth thinking and research on issues related to economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and promptly put forward targeted opinions and suggestions to the CPC Central Committee, so as to contribute wisdom and strength to promoting high-quality economic and social development and basically realizing socialist modernization.
Wang Yi (王毅), Liu Guozhong (刘国中), Li Ganjie (李干杰), Li Shulei (李书磊), Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠), He Lifeng (何立峰), Zhang Youxia (张又侠), Zhang Guoqing (张国清), Chen Wenqing (陈文清), Wu Zhenglong (吴政隆), Chen Yiqin (谌贻琴), Mu Hong (穆虹), and Jiang Xinzhi (姜信治), heads of relevant departments of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, attended the symposium.
Non-CPC personages who attended the symposium also included Shao Hong (邵鸿), He Baoxiang (何报翔), Wang Guangqian (王光谦), Qin Boyong (秦博勇), Zhu Yongxin (朱永新), Yang Zhen (杨震), Zhang Endi (张恩迪), An Lijia (安立佳), and Zhang Weihong (张卫红).
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 24th. On October 24th, President Xi Jinping (习近平) sent a congratulatory message to Luis Arce (帕斯), congratulating him on his election as President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that China and Bolivia are good friends and good partners. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations 40 years ago, China-Bolivia relations have maintained a good momentum of development. The two sides have shown mutual understanding and support on issues involving each other's core interests and major concerns. Fruitful results have been achieved in practical cooperation in various fields, and the friendship between the two peoples is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people (深入人心) (shēn rù rén xīn - "enter deeply people's hearts," deeply cherished or popular). The Chinese side highly appreciates Bolivia's adherence to the one-China principle. I attach great importance to the development of China-Bolivia relations and am willing to work with President-elect Luis Arce (帕斯) to lead the China-Bolivia strategic partnership to a new level and better benefit the two peoples.
On the same day, Vice President Han Zheng (韩正) sent a congratulatory message to Bolivia's Vice President-elect David Choquehuanca Céspedes (拉腊).
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 24th. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson announced on October 24th: At the invitation of President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) of the Republic of Korea, President Xi Jinping (习近平) will travel to Gyeongju (庆州), South Korea from October 30th to November 1st to attend the 32nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting and pay a state visit to South Korea.
People's Daily, Beijing, October 24th (Reporter Han Xiaoming (韩晓明)). At the invitation of President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) of the Republic of Korea, President Xi Jinping (习近平) will travel to Gyeongju (庆州), South Korea from October 30th to November 1st to attend the 32nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting and pay a state visit to South Korea. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jia Kun (郭嘉昆) introduced the relevant arrangements and China's expectations at a regular press conference on the 24th.
Guo Jia Kun (郭嘉昆) said that APEC is the most important economic cooperation mechanism in the Asia-Pacific region. President Xi Jinping's (习近平) attendance at this year's APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting reflects China's high regard for Asia-Pacific regional economic cooperation. President Xi Jinping (习近平) will deliver an important speech at the meeting and hold bilateral meetings with leaders of relevant countries. China is willing to work with all parties to make contributions to promoting Asia-Pacific regional cooperation and promoting Asia-Pacific economic growth, and work together to build an Asia-Pacific community with a shared future.
Guo Jia Kun (郭嘉昆) said that China and South Korea are close neighbors and partners. China attaches importance to China-South Korea relations and maintains stability and continuity in its policy towards South Korea. This visit is President Xi Jinping's (习近平) first state visit to South Korea in 11 years, and it is also the first meeting between the heads of state of China and South Korea since President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) took office. China is willing to work with South Korea to adhere to the original aspiration of establishing diplomatic relations, adhere to good-neighborliness, friendship, mutual benefit and win-win cooperation, and promote the continuous development of the China-South Korea strategic cooperative partnership.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 24th (北京) -- On October 24th, Premier of the State Council and Secretary of the Leading Party Members Group Li Qiang (李强) presided over a meeting of the Leading Party Members Group of the State Council, studying and implementing the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
The meeting pointed out that the work report and important speech made by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) at the plenary session summarized the new progress and achievements made in various undertakings of the Party and the country since the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee, and put forward clear requirements for implementing the spirit of the plenary session and doing a good job in all aspects. The "Suggestions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" deliberated and approved by the plenary session, guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, takes into overall consideration the strategic overall situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the major changes unseen in a century in the world, accurately grasps the historical orientation of the development of the cause of the Party and the country during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, systematically summarizes the major achievements made in China's development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, deeply analyzes the new situation and new requirements faced during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and makes top-level design and strategic planning for the next five years of development, providing a scientific guide for doing a good job in various tasks during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period and creating a new situation in the construction of Chinese-style modernization. The Leading Party Members Group of the State Council and all departments of the State Council must take studying and implementing the spirit of the plenary session as a major political task for the present and for a period of time to come, and earnestly unify their thinking and actions with the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech and the arrangements of the plenary session, and do a solid job in economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
The meeting emphasized that it is necessary to fully implement the strategic deployment made by the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party, and refine the grand blueprint of the "15th Five-Year Plan" drawn up by the plenary session into a construction plan and a roadmap to ensure its implementation. It is necessary to prepare the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline in accordance with the planning proposals, scientifically set up an indicator system, propose specific goals in various fields, and plan a number of major policies, major reforms, and major projects with strong driving force. We should coordinate the formulation of various special plans, regional plans, and local plans, strengthen the organic connection with the national overall development plan, and form a high-quality "15th Five-Year Plan" system. We must make every effort to promote the implementation of the major strategic tasks deployed in the planning proposals, accelerate the formulation of implementation plans, pay close attention to the division of tasks and responsibilities, deeply and systematically design policies and measures, and carefully organize implementation.
The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to study and respond to changes in the situation in a timely manner, earnestly grasp the current work, consolidate and expand the positive economic trend, ensure the successful conclusion of the "14th Five-Year Plan," and at the same time seize the opportunity to plan policy measures for next year to ensure a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan."
Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥), He Lifeng (何立峰), Zhang Guoqing (张国清), Liu Guozhong (刘国中), Wang Xiaohong (王小洪), Wu Zhenglong (吴政隆), and Chen Yiqin (谌贻琴) attended the meeting.
Return to TopThe Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) (全国人民代表大会) of the Communist Party of China (CPC) (中共) held a meeting on October 24th in Beijing (北京). The meeting conveyed and studied the important speech and spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, and studied and implemented measures in light of the actual work of the NPC. Zhao Leji (赵乐际), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, and Secretary of the Leading Party Members Group, presided over the meeting and delivered a speech.
The meeting held that the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was a very important meeting held at a crucial period when China (中国) is comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization. The plenary session highly evaluated the major achievements made in China's (中国) development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, which is the result of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core uniting and leading the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to overcome difficulties and work hard. The plenary session deliberated and approved the "Proposals of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development," made top-level design and strategic planning for development in the next five years, and is another general mobilization and general deployment to take advantage of the momentum and continue to promote Chinese-style modernization, reflecting the spirit of historical initiative and gathering confidence and strength, which is of great significance for promoting high-quality development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period and laying a more solid foundation for basically realizing socialist modernization.
The meeting emphasized that studying and implementing the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee is a major political task for the present and future. The Leading Party Members Group of the NPC Standing Committee, the Party Group of the General Office, the Party Groups of special committees, and party organizations at all levels of the General Office should study the important speeches, reports, explanations made by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), and the proposals and communiqués adopted by the plenary session in their original form and conscientiously, comprehensively and accurately understand and grasp the spirit of the plenary session, resolutely support the various decisions made by the plenary session, and consciously unify their thoughts and actions with the decision-making and deployment of the CPC Central Committee. It is necessary to deeply understand the important position of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, accurately grasp the goals of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, base ourselves on the functions of the NPC, adhere to working in the same direction, and coordinate and promote legislation, supervision, representation, foreign affairs and other work. It is necessary to improve the legal system for the market economy, scientific and technological innovation, strengthen legislation in key areas, emerging areas, and foreign-related areas, and provide legal guarantees for accelerating the construction of a new development pattern and promoting high-quality development. It is necessary to coordinate and arrange the work of the NPC in the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan" in accordance with the strategic tasks and major measures determined in the proposals, and make good preparations for the fourth session of the 14th NPC.
The meeting pointed out that the plenary session deliberated and approved the review report on serious violations of discipline and law by relevant personnel, and confirmed the decision made by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to expel them from the party, which is a major achievement in our party's anti-corruption struggle, and once again demonstrates the firm determination of the CPC Central Committee to carry out the anti-corruption struggle to the end. The NPC should consciously adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee, support the "Two Establishments" (两个确立) and achieve the "Two Safeguards" (两个维护) with practical actions, ensure that the decision-making and deployment of the CPC Central Committee are fully implemented in the work of the NPC, earnestly implement the various deployment requirements for rectifying conduct, enforcing discipline, and fighting corruption, and create a good atmosphere of integrity and entrepreneurship in the NPC.
Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Deputy Secretary of the Leading Party Members Group of the NPC Standing Committee, and Wang Dongming (王东明), Xiao Jie (肖捷), Tie Ning (铁凝), Peng Qinghua (彭清华), Zhang Qingwei (张庆伟), Losang Jamcan (洛桑江村), Shohrat Zakir (雪克来提·扎克尔), and Liu Qi (刘奇), members of the Leading Party Members Group of the NPC Standing Committee, attended the meeting.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 24th. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) held a Party Group meeting on the 24th to convey, study, and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Wang Huning (王沪宁), a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, and Secretary of the Party Group, presided over the meeting and delivered a speech.
The meeting held that the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was a very important meeting held on the new journey toward the second centenary goal, and it was another general mobilization and general deployment to take advantage of the situation and continue to promote the construction of Chinese-style modernization. It is of great significance to further unite the 磅礴力量 (páng bó lì liàng - "immense strength," describes a powerful and energetic force) of the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country, and to unite and strive to comprehensively promote the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization. Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech at the plenary session and the "Suggestions of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" adopted by the plenary session accurately grasp the historical position of the Party and the country's development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, deeply analyze the profound and complex changes facing China's development environment, and make top-level designs and strategic plans for the next five years of development. It fully embodies the historical initiative of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core to unite and lead the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to continue writing new chapters in the two major miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability, and to strive to create a new situation in the construction of Chinese-style modernization. It will inevitably have a major and far-reaching impact on the development of the Party and the country.
The meeting held that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, China effectively responded to a series of major risks and challenges, and its economic strength, scientific and technological strength, and comprehensive national strength have reached new levels. Chinese-style modernization has taken new and solid steps, and a good start has been made in the new journey toward the second centenary goal. The fundamental reason for achieving these major achievements lies in the leadership and direction of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, and in the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
The meeting emphasized that the CPPCC National Committee should take the in-depth study, publicity, and implementation of the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee as a major political task, profoundly understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments," strengthen the "four consciousnesses," strengthen the "four self-confidences," and achieve the "two safeguards." It should profoundly understand and grasp the Party Central Committee's correct judgment on the domestic and international situation, profoundly understand and grasp the major significance, guiding ideology, major principles, major strategies, and fundamental guarantees of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and effectively unify thoughts and actions with the spirit of the plenary session. Based on the actual situation of the CPPCC, the spirit of the plenary session should be implemented in all aspects of the CPPCC's work. It is necessary to adhere to the Party's overall leadership, adhere to serving the central task and the overall situation, and fully mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of all parties, groups, and people of all ethnic groups and from all walks of life participating in the CPPCC to devote themselves to the construction of Chinese-style modernization, and to build consensus, gather wisdom, and gather strength for the formulation and implementation of the "15th Five-Year Plan."
The meeting reviewed and approved the "Work Plan of the Party Group of the CPPCC National Committee on In-depth Study, Publicity, and Implementation of the Spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee."
Shi Taifeng (石泰峰) and Hu Chunhua (胡春华), Deputy Secretaries of the Party Group of the CPPCC National Committee, and Party Group members Shen Yueyue (沈跃跃), Wang Yong (王勇), Zhou Qiang (周强), Bater (巴特尔), Chen Wu (陈武), Mu Hong (穆虹), Xian Hui (咸辉), Wang Dongfeng (王东峰), and Jiang Xinzhi (姜信治) attended the meeting and delivered speeches. Party members of the CPPCC National Committee's offices and responsible comrades of the Party Groups of the special committees participated in the meeting.
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"Realizing socialist modernization is a step-by-step, progressive, and continuously developing historical process." The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) considered both the overall strategic situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the major changes unseen in a century worldwide. It deeply analyzed the profound and complex changes facing China's development environment, made top-level designs and strategic plans for economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, clarified the direction and path for the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to continuously advance the grand cause of Chinese-style modernization, inspiring and motivating people.
Continuing the struggle is another general mobilization and deployment on the new journey.
Since its establishment, all the struggles our Party has led the people in have been aimed at building China into a strong modern country and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Since the new era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has promoted the great historical initiative and led the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to write a new chapter of "two miracles." The new journey toward the second centenary goal has achieved a good start, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is unstoppable! The successful holding of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), which made systematic plans and strategic deployments for development in the next five years, is a powerful mobilization for the entire country to ride the irresistible trend of rejuvenation and unswervingly strive towards the grand goal.
Scientifically formulating and continuously implementing five-year plans is an important political advantage of socialism with Chinese characteristics. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "A foreign leader once said to me that China has a great advantage: you always formulate various plans, and these plans are always realized." During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee, we overcame difficulties and forged ahead. Our economic strength, scientific and technological strength, and comprehensive national strength have reached new levels. The total economic volume is expected to reach approximately 140 trillion yuan this year. The main goals and tasks of the "14th Five-Year Plan" are about to be successfully completed, and Chinese-style modernization has taken new and solid steps. Starting a new journey at a new starting point is timely and the trend is established. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) studied the issue of the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal precisely to accumulate momentum and better leverage the strategic guiding role of national development plans, and to promote major breakthroughs in strategic tasks concerning the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization.
Practice has fully proven that the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee is the fundamental guarantee for the Party to maintain unity and strong combat effectiveness and to continuously achieve victories. The "Two Establishments" are of decisive significance for us to cope with various risks and challenges and promote Chinese-style modernization. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) reviewed and approved the "Proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development," calling for a joint effort to basically realize socialist modernization, reflecting the historical initiative to continue writing a new chapter of "two miracles" and strive to create a new situation in the construction of Chinese-style modernization, demonstrating the strategic confidence of the Chinese people in unswervingly promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the nation with Chinese-style modernization in an all-round way.
In the "two-step" strategic arrangement made at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), the "15th Five-Year Plan" period holds an important position. The plenary session made a major judgment: the "15th Five-Year Plan" period has an important position of linking the past and opening up the future in the process of basically realizing socialist modernization. By 2035, socialist modernization will be basically realized. The "14th Five-Year Plan" period is the first five years, and a solid foundation has been laid and a good start has been achieved. The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for consolidating the foundation and fully exerting efforts. Starting from this basic positioning to plan and deploy the development of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the plenary session proposed overall ideas, major principles, main goals, and strategic tasks, which not only maintain continuity with the concepts and ideas put forward in the "14th Five-Year Plan," but also accurately grasp the overall trend of China's development in the next five years, which is realistic and forward-looking. Seizing this important window of opportunity, consolidating and expanding advantages, breaking through bottlenecks and constraints, and strengthening weaknesses and shortcomings, and winning strategic initiative in fierce international competition will lay a more solid foundation for the basic realization of socialist modernization as scheduled.
Chinese-style modernization is a great cause unprecedented in history. The plenary session pointed out that China's development is in a period where strategic opportunities and risks and challenges coexist, and uncertain and unpredictable factors are increasing. The more complex the situation and the more arduous the tasks, the more important it is to be good at grasping the overall trend and actively recognizing, responding to, and seeking changes. It is necessary to deeply recognize that China's economic foundation is stable, has many advantages, is resilient, and has great potential. The supporting conditions and basic trends for long-term improvement have not changed. The advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, the advantages of a super-large-scale market, the advantages of a complete industrial system, and the advantages of abundant human resources are even more prominent. It is necessary to keep in mind the "two overall situations," make good use of development opportunities, potential, and advantages, overcome difficulties, fight risks, and meet challenges with a historical initiative, and turn the grand blueprint into a beautiful reality.
At present and for a period of time to come, studying and implementing the spirit of the plenary session is a major political task for the entire Party and the entire country. We must unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想), unify our thoughts and actions with the major judgments and decisions made by the Party Central Committee, maintain strategic focus, enhance our confidence in victory, concentrate our efforts on managing our own affairs well, ensure that decisive progress is made in basically realizing socialist modernization, and continuously create a new situation in comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the nation with Chinese-style modernization.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 24th. The Standing Committee of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (中央纪委) convened a meeting on October 24th to convey, study, and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党). Li Xi (李希), a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局常委) and Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (中央纪委书记), presided over the meeting. He emphasized that discipline inspection and supervision organs must deeply study and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session, more firmly support the "Two Establishments" and resolutely achieve the "Two Safeguards," practically unify thought and action with the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee (党中央), unswervingly promote comprehensive and strict Party governance, resolutely implement the Party's self-revolution requirements, and provide a strong guarantee for achieving the economic and social development goals of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
Li Xi (李希) pointed out that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, especially since the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee (党的二十届三中全会), facing the complex and volatile international situation and the arduous and heavy domestic reform, development, and stability tasks, the CPC Central Committee (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core united and led the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to meet challenges head-on, forge ahead with determination, promote new major achievements in the cause of the Party and the country, take new solid steps in Chinese-style modernization, and achieve a good start to the new journey toward the second centenary goal. Discipline inspection and supervision organs must deeply understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," always firmly maintain confidence and determination to closely follow the General Secretary and forge ahead on the new journey, adhere to and strengthen the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央), consciously shoulder the major political responsibility of the "Two Safeguards," and unswervingly advance bravely along the direction guided by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平).
Li Xi (李希) emphasized that the "Proposal of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" adopted by the plenary session is a programmatic document guiding economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and is another general mobilization and general deployment for building on the momentum and continuing to advance Chinese-style modernization. Discipline inspection and supervision organs must completely, accurately, and comprehensively study and understand the spirit of the "Proposal," deeply grasp the guiding ideology, major principles, main goals, strategic tasks, and fundamental guarantees of economic and social development in the next five years, accurately identify the entry points and focus points for service and guarantee, consolidate the responsibilities of all parties by strengthening political supervision, clear obstacles and escort high-quality development by rectifying conduct, enforcing discipline, and fighting corruption, and combine strict management with love and care to encourage responsibility and action, contributing to achieving decisive progress in basically realizing socialist modernization.
Li Xi (李希) emphasized that the plenary session made new deployments and new requirements for adhering to the Party's self-revolution to lead social revolution and unswervingly promoting comprehensive and strict Party governance. Discipline inspection and supervision organs must learn and understand in a connected way, earnestly grasp implementation, and promote the high-quality development of discipline inspection and supervision work on the new journey in a deep-going manner. It is necessary to adhere to using Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想) to strengthen the soul and cast the spirit, deeply study and understand General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important thought on the Party's self-revolution, and practically use it to lead all discipline inspection and supervision work; to unremittingly implement the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation (中央八项规定), use the spirit of nailing nails to correct the "Four Forms of Decadence" and establish new conduct, and promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of conduct construction; to increase the efforts to advance the "Three No's" in an integrated manner, continue to deepen the rectification of unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems around the masses, and focus on eradicating the soil and conditions for breeding corruption; to promote the improvement of the Party and state supervision system, strengthen the standardization and supervision of power allocation and operation, and promote the better transformation of the advantages of the supervision system into national governance effectiveness.
Liu Jinguo (刘金国), Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央书记处书记) and Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (中央纪委副书记), attended the meeting.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) October 24th dispatch (Reporter Peng Bo (彭波)) The 18th session of the 14th National People's Congress Standing Committee passed the decision on establishing Taiwan Retrocession Day on the 24th through voting, establishing October 25th as Taiwan Retrocession Day in legal form, and stipulating that the state will hold commemorative activities in various forms.
The decision pointed out that in 1945, all Chinese sons and daughters, including Taiwan compatriots, 前仆后继 (qián pū hòu jì - "fall in front, follow behind," advance dauntlessly despite sacrifices) and fought bravely, achieving the great victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. Taiwan was subsequently retroceded and returned to the embrace of the motherland. The retrocession of Taiwan is an important achievement of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, an important ironclad proof of the Chinese government's restoration of the exercise of sovereignty over Taiwan, an important link in the historical fact and legal chain of Taiwan as a part of China, and the common glory of compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and the national memory of all Chinese sons and daughters. In order to safeguard the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War and the post-war international order, demonstrate the firm will to adhere to the one-China principle and defend national sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity, strengthen the common national historical memory of compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, promote the spirit of patriotism, and encourage compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to make new contributions to national reunification and national rejuvenation in the new era and new journey, according to the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, the 18th session of the 14th National People's Congress Standing Committee made the decision to establish Taiwan Retrocession Day.
Shen Chunyao (沈春耀), Director of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, introduced the draft decision to the Standing Committee, stating that the surrender ceremony of Taiwan Province (台湾省) of the China (中国) war zone was held in Taipei (台北) on October 25, 1945, and since then, Taiwan (台湾) and the Penghu Islands (澎湖列岛) have returned to the jurisdiction of Chinese sovereignty. In recent years, deputies to the National People's Congress, members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and Taiwan compatriots have repeatedly put forward suggestions requesting the establishment of Taiwan Retrocession Day and the holding of commemorative activities. The establishment of Taiwan Retrocession Day and the holding of commemorative activities at the national level are conducive to reflecting the indisputable historical fact that Taiwan is an inseparable part of China, consolidating the international community's adherence to the one-China pattern, guiding compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to inherit and promote the great spirit of the War of Resistance, and inspiring all Chinese sons and daughters to unite and struggle for the reunification of the motherland and the rejuvenation of the nation.
(Related reports on pages 4 and 6)
Return to TopBy: 新华社记者 张晓松 朱基钗 本报记者 杜尚泽 陈世涵
The era moves forward step by step, and history writes new chapters in continuous struggle. In 2025, a rich and colorful stroke will be left in the magnificent process of Chinese-style modernization.
From October 20th to 23rd, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) was successfully held in Beijing (北京). The plenary session listened to and discussed the work report delivered by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) entrusted by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, and deliberated and approved the "Suggestions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) explained the "Suggestions (Draft for Discussion)" to the plenary session.
This is the third Five-Year Plan proposal formulated by the Party Central Committee since the new era, and also the first Five-Year Plan proposal on the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country.
Standing at the historical intersection of inheriting the past and ushering in the future, the Chinese Communists (中国共产党人) in the new era carry forward the great historical initiative, and with firm strategic clarity, broad strategic vision, and systematic strategic deployment, they have issued a bold declaration to take advantage of the momentum to continue to promote the construction of Chinese-style modernization and continue to write new chapters in the two miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability.
Inheriting the past and ushering in the future, continuing to struggle—
"Achieving socialist modernization is a historical process of step-by-step progress and continuous development"
The modernization dreams of several generations are more tangible and accessible than ever before in today's China (中国). From the "First Five-Year Plan" to the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan," we have moved forward through wind and rain, and struggled one after another. Now, we are only 10 years away from basically realizing socialist modernization.
Formulating medium- and long-term plans to guide economic and social development is an important way for the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) to govern the country, and it is also an important political advantage of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
In the East of the world, the largest modernization practice in human history continues to unfold a magnificent blueprint. The convening of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee (中共二十届四中全会) has attracted global attention.
Foreign media have commented: "This meeting is crucial for determining the long-term policies of the world's second largest economy." "China (中国) will reaffirm a sound and pragmatic development vision, which is precisely what supports it in resisting the impact of global uncertainties and maintaining its development momentum." "This reflects China's (中国) firm confidence in its own governance model. China's (中国) long-term development orientation enables it to look beyond short-term turmoil."
On the morning of the 20th, the conference room on the first floor of the Jingxi Hotel (京西宾馆) conference building. Amid warm applause, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and other leading comrades of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee entered the venue.
Entrusted by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) delivered a work report to the plenary session, reviewing the development process since last year: "Faced with the multiple difficulties and challenges encountered in economic development, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee took the initiative to act and implement comprehensive policies, resolutely deployed and implemented a package of incremental policies, and focused on stabilizing employment, stabilizing enterprises, stabilizing the market, and stabilizing expectations, and promoted new achievements in high-quality development. The growth rate of domestic production value reached 5% and 5.2% respectively for the whole year of last year and the first three quarters of this year."
On the opening day of the plenary session, China's (中国) economic "three-quarter report" was released to the public: In the first three quarters, China's (中国) domestic production value exceeded 100 trillion yuan, an increase of 5.2% year-on-year, reflecting the super resilience of a super-large economy against the background of various risks and challenges.
From the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee on September 26 last year to the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee on April 25 this year, the "出手 at key moments" of the two macro-controls fully demonstrated the courage and wisdom of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core to lead the giant ship of China (中国) through the turbulent waves.
Looking back on the past five years, how many high winds and rough waves, how many difficulties and challenges, have grown in the baptism of wind and rain, and grown stronger in the face of tests.
China's (中国) total economic volume has successively crossed the thresholds of 110 trillion yuan, 120 trillion yuan, and 130 trillion yuan, and is expected to reach about 140 trillion yuan by the end of 2025; the ranking of the global innovation index has jumped to tenth, becoming one of the economies with the fastest improvement in innovation capacity; the per capita domestic production value has exceeded 13,000 US dollars for two consecutive years...
**事非经过不知难** (shì fēi jīng guò bù zhī nán - "one does not know the difficulty until one has experienced it," you don't know how hard something is until you try it). These achievements were achieved under the severe impact of the century's epidemic, won under the accelerated evolution of the century's changes and the more severe and complex international situation, and achieved under the pressure of domestic development.
"'The Fourteenth Five-Year Plan' period was extremely unusual and extraordinary in China's (中国) development process." "China's (中国) economic strength, scientific and technological strength, and comprehensive national strength have reached a new level, Chinese-style modernization has taken new and solid steps, and the new journey towards the second centenary goal has achieved a good start." The summary and judgment of the major achievements made in China's (中国) development during the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" period in the draft proposal resonated widely with the comrades attending the meeting.
A member of the Central Committee said that the achievements of the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" are not only reflected in the data, but also in the direct feelings of the general public about the strong strength, vigorous vitality, huge potential, and surging power of China's (中国) development.
"Extremely unusual and extraordinary"—from these eight words, we can deeply feel the danger of wading through shoals, the difficulty of climbing slopes, and the difficulty of tackling key problems.
The comrades attending the meeting unanimously agreed that the reason why China (中国) has always had a unique landscape in a world of change and chaos lies in the leadership and helm of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), and in the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The "Two Establishments" are the fundamental political guarantee for promoting Chinese-style modernization and continuing to write new chapters in the two miracles in the new era and on the new journey.
Historical development is the unity of continuity and stages. On the basis of completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects, the basic realization of socialist modernization by 2035 needs to be completed through the implementation of the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan," "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan," and "Sixteenth Five-Year Plan."
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out: "Determining the goals of struggle in accordance with the laws of economic and social development, and uniting and striving towards the goals in a consistent manner, is a distinct characteristic and unique advantage of our Party. Achieving socialist modernization is a historical process of step-by-step progress and continuous development, which requires unremitting efforts and continuous struggle."
Being in the midst of a magnificent historical process, major coordinates give people a strong sense of pride, mission, direction, and responsibility: During the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" period, we won the battle against poverty, completed the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects, and achieved the first centenary goal; during the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" period, we must achieve the centenary goal of the army as scheduled, and complete the reform tasks proposed by the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee (党的二十届三中全会) by the 80th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
In the latitude and longitude of time and space, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out the great significance of continuing the struggle: "'The Fourteenth Five-Year Plan' period is the first five years, and a solid foundation has been laid and a good start has been achieved. 'The Fifteenth Five-Year Plan' period is a key period for consolidating the foundation and fully exerting efforts. The formulation and implementation of the 'Fifteenth Five-Year Plan' will lay a more solid foundation for the basic realization of socialist modernization in 2035."
"Consolidating the foundation and fully exerting efforts"—from these eight words, we can deeply understand the historical position and important mission of the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" in inheriting the past and ushering in the future.
The comrades attending the meeting unanimously stated that the draft proposal grasps the general trend of the world, is based on China's (中国) national conditions, and makes top-level designs and strategic plans for the next five years, drawing a magnificent and magnificent development blueprint. It is another general mobilization and general deployment to take advantage of the momentum to continue to promote the construction of Chinese-style modernization, and will surely have a major and far-reaching impact on the development of the Party and the country.
Focusing on the overall situation and planning systematically—
"Ensuring decisive progress in the basic realization of socialist modernization"
When a "Suggestion (Draft for Discussion) of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央) on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" of about 20,000 words is placed in front of them, every comrade attending the meeting feels a heavy weight.
A member of the drafting team of the document said that General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) personally served as the leader of the drafting team of the Fourth Plenary Session document, and played a decisive role in guiding and controlling the drafting of the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" proposal, and Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is the "outline" and "soul" that runs through the draft proposal.
Delivering an important speech at the first plenary meeting of the drafting team of the document, putting forward clear directions and requirements; presiding over a symposium on economic and social development during the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" period in some provinces and cities in Shanghai (上海), listening to opinions and suggestions; conducting research on economic and social development in conjunction with inspections or attendance at activities in Northeast China, Guizhou (贵州), Yunnan (云南), Henan (河南), Shanxi (山西), Tibet (西藏), Xinjiang (新疆) and other places; requiring the launch of online solicitation of opinions on the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" proposal, and making important instructions; presiding over meetings of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and meetings of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee for many times to deliberate and revise the draft proposal...
Adhering to the principle of seeking truth from facts, conducting in-depth investigations and research, and fully absorbing the wisdom of all parties is another vivid practice of promoting intra-Party democracy and whole-process people's democracy.
"Comrades, deliberating and adopting the 'Suggestions' of the 'Fifteenth Five-Year Plan' is the main task of this plenary session. Everyone should think carefully, discuss in depth, put forward constructive opinions and suggestions, and jointly hold this plenary session well and revise the draft 'Suggestions'," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) instructed at the first plenary meeting of the plenary session.
In the spirit of being highly responsible for the cause of the Party and the country, the comrades attending the meeting carefully studied the documents, earnestly studied and thought, and conducted in-depth discussions and exchanges.
From the afternoon of the 20th to the morning of the 23rd, the members and alternate members of the Central Committee attending the meeting were divided into 10 groups, and the personnel attending the meeting were incorporated into each group to conduct group discussions on the conference documents. The central leaders went deep into each group to listen to opinions and suggestions, and exchanged and discussed with everyone.
Correctly judging the situation is an important prerequisite for scientific decision-making. Thinking in the historical process of Chinese-style modernization, and planning in the broad context of the intertwined and turbulent situation of the two major situations.
The draft proposal analyzes the profound and complex changes in China's (中国) development environment during the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" period—
"The relations between major powers affect the international situation, and the evolution of the international situation profoundly affects domestic development. China's (中国) development is in a period in which strategic opportunities and risks and challenges coexist, and there are more uncertain and unpredictable factors."
Changes contain opportunities, and challenges inspire fighting spirit. It is crucial to strengthen confidence, and it is crucial to have a historical initiative.
Insight into the times and the situation, grasping the crisis and the opportunity, coordinating the establishment and the destruction, and connecting the inside and the outside, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has a long-term vision: "We must seize this window of time, consolidate and expand advantages, break bottlenecks and constraints, make up for shortcomings and weaknesses, win strategic initiative in fierce international competition, promote major breakthroughs in strategic tasks related to the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization, and ensure decisive progress in the basic realization of socialist modernization."
Opening the draft proposal, the entire 15 parts list 61 articles, divided into three major sections, adhering to the goal orientation and problem orientation, adhering to systematic thinking, adhering to further comprehensively deepening reform, and adhering to expanding opening up to the outside world, comprehensively deploying economic and social development and all aspects of Party building.
The theme is particularly clear—in the same vein as the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan," the draft proposal continues to determine the promotion of high-quality development as the theme of economic and social development during the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" period, and requires "adhering to economic construction as the center."
Development is the **硬道理** (yìng dào lǐ - "the absolute principle," the unshakeable truth), and high-quality development is the primary task of comprehensively building a modern socialist country. In the report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的二十大), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) clearly emphasized: "Without a solid material and technological foundation, it is impossible to comprehensively build a strong socialist modern country."
The goal is very clear—high-quality development has achieved remarkable results, the level of scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement has been greatly improved, new breakthroughs have been made in further comprehensively deepening reform, the level of social civilization has been significantly improved, the quality of people's lives has been continuously improved, new major progress has been made in the construction of a beautiful China (中国), and the national security barrier has been further consolidated.
A statement in the draft proposal is inspiring, "the per capita domestic production value will reach the level of moderately developed countries" by 2035. In this regard, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The basic realization of socialist modernization in 2035, an important symbolic indicator is that the per capita domestic production value reaches the level of moderately developed countries, which requires economic and social development to maintain an appropriate speed during the 'Fifteenth Five-Year Plan' period."
The weight of economic development is very heavy—it involves the ideas and key tasks in key areas such as industrial development, technological innovation, domestic market, economic system, opening up to the outside world, rural revitalization, and regional development, and at the same time deploys work in various fields such as cultural construction, people's livelihood security, green development, safe development, and national defense construction.
"Building a modern industrial system and consolidating and strengthening the foundation of the real economy" is placed in the first part of the sub-argument, requiring maintaining a reasonable proportion of manufacturing and building a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone.
Since the beginning of this year, from inspecting bearing manufacturing enterprises in Luoyang (洛阳), Henan (河南), to inspecting valve manufacturing enterprises in Yangquan (阳泉), Shanxi (山西), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has repeatedly emphasized that "to promote Chinese-style modernization, we must continue to do a good job in manufacturing" and "**实业兴国，实干兴邦**" (shí yè xīng guó, shí gàn xīng bāng - "industry revitalizes the country, hard work builds the country," developing the real economy is essential for national rejuvenation). A large country must have a large country's weight, and it cannot be separated from the real economy and turned to the virtual economy. It must put development on the basis of its own strength.
The color of reform and innovation is very sufficient—there are not only new deployments such as comprehensively enhancing independent innovation capabilities, comprehensively implementing the "Artificial Intelligence +" action, and comprehensively empowering thousands of industries, but also new requirements such as accelerating the construction of a new development pattern and adhering to the close combination of benefiting people's livelihood and promoting consumption, investing in things and investing in people. It is a development blueprint and a new chapter in reform.
At that symposium in Shanghai (上海), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that during the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" period, we must put the development of new quality productive forces in a more prominent strategic position in accordance with local conditions. At this plenary session, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) once again reminded: "The development of new quality productive forces needs to have certain endowments and conditions, and we must fully consider the realistic feasibility. The 'Suggestions' draft emphasizes the development of new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, which is to guide everyone to carry out work scientifically, rationally, and realistically, and prevent a **一哄而上** (yī hōng ér shàng - "swarm up," to act in a disorderly fashion).
Chinese-style modernization, people's livelihood is the most important. When planning the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan," the Central Committee of the Party for the first time put forward the goal of achieving more obvious and substantial progress in the common prosperity of all people as a long-term goal in the documents of the plenary session.
At this plenary session, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) said: "The 'Suggestions' draft highlights the solid steps towards the common prosperity of all people in the guiding ideology, which is an overall requirement for guiding economic and social development during the 'Fifteenth Five-Year Plan' period."
A grass-roots comrade who attended this meeting was very emotional: Being able to attend the plenary session of the Central Committee of the Party, I deeply felt that General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and the Party Central Committee always care about the people and listen to the people's feelings and pragmatic style at the grass-roots level. The draft proposal is full of people's livelihood temperature, talking about "top-level affairs" and worrying about "grass-roots hearts." It is not only a grand blueprint for national development, but also depicts a picture of a happy life for everyone.
Unite as one and work together—
"Gathering mighty forces for promoting Chinese-style modernization"
On the afternoon of the 23rd, the banquet hall on the second floor of the Great Hall of the People (人民大会堂) was brightly lit, and the second plenary meeting of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee (党的二十届四中全会) was held here.
In the center of the curtain on the rostrum, the golden emblem of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) shines brightly, witnessing another historic moment.
The meeting adopted the "Suggestions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央) on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" by a show of hands.
"Passed!" General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) voice resounded throughout the venue, and the applause was thunderous.
The blueprint has been drawn, and the horn has been sounded.
"Studying and implementing the spirit of the plenary session is a major political task for the entire Party and the entire country in the current and future periods." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) put forward clear requirements for the next step of work, "We must quickly set off a wave of studying and implementing the spirit of the plenary session, and organize the study, publicity, and propaganda of the spirit of the plenary session in various ways, so that the entire Party and the entire society can understand the spirit of the plenary session."
Chinese-style modernization is a great and arduous undertaking. The comprehensive and systematic grand blueprint requires grasping the essentials, detailing the specifics, achieving breadth, and pursuing precision.
"The 'Recommendations' deploy strategic tasks with significant traction, driving force, and support for advancing Chinese-style modernization." "These strategic tasks have strong foresight, pertinence, and guidance. The entire Party must deeply understand and grasp them, and earnestly implement the decision-making intentions, target requirements, major measures, and work priorities of these strategic tasks."
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that in the process of implementing the spirit of the Plenary Session, the following points should be focused on: unswervingly promoting high-quality development, accelerating the construction of a new development pattern, making solid strides in promoting common prosperity for all the people, better coordinating development and security, and coordinating the advancement of work in various fields.
In accordance with the requirements of coordinating the overall layout of the "Five-Sphere Integrated Plan" and coordinating the strategic layout of the "Four Comprehensives," the "Recommendations" adhere to economic construction as the center and make arrangements for political construction, cultural construction, social construction, ecological civilization construction, and Party construction.
"Basically realizing socialist modernization requires the coordinated development and overall advancement of various undertakings." "It requires us to fully grasp and implement it in our actual work, and we cannot focus on one thing and lose sight of the other."
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) provided strategic guidance on the comprehensive, scientific, and precise implementation of the spirit of the Plenary Session: "All regions and departments must adhere to the concept of systems, consciously act under the overall situation, and play a good game of 'national chess.' We must be good at 'playing the piano,' planning for one area cannot forget the whole, basing ourselves on the present cannot ignore the long-term, and highlighting key points cannot ignore the general. Pay attention to the coordination of various policies, maintain the consistency of macroeconomic policy orientation, and prevent and overcome departmentalism and local protectionism."
Realizing the people's yearning for a better life is the starting point and foothold of Chinese-style modernization.
"We must adhere to our original aspiration, consider issues from the people's standpoint, adhere to guaranteeing and improving people's livelihoods in development, and steadily promote common prosperity." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) said earnestly, "Strengthen inclusive, basic, and guaranteed livelihood construction, steadily promote the equalization of basic public services, better meet the needs of the masses in employment, education, social security, housing, medical care, elderly care, marriage, childbirth, and childcare, and continuously enhance the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security."
Adhering to and strengthening the Party's overall leadership is the fundamental guarantee for advancing Chinese-style modernization. "The more complex and volatile the situation and the more arduous and heavy the tasks, the more necessary it is to adhere to, utilize, and develop the Party's leadership, which is the greatest advantage."
To govern a country, one must first govern the Party; only when the Party prospers can the country be strong. Guiding social revolution with the Party's self-revolution, and creating a new realm of Chinese governance with the governance of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), this is the core secret of the Chinese miracle, and the fundamental reason why the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has gone from "irreversible" to "unstoppable."
"The more effective the Party's governance, the more powerful the guarantee for economic and social development." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out the dialectical unity between them, "The Party's self-revolution and economic and social development are closely linked, mutually reinforcing, and complementing each other. Through the Party's self-revolution, promoting new trends and uprightness, correcting stubborn maladies, creating a good political ecology, encouraging cadres to take responsibility, and uniting the hearts and minds of the people, we can continuously inject positive energy into economic and social development."
The Plenary Session reviewed and approved the review reports on the serious violations of discipline and law by a number of leading cadres, demonstrating the firm determination to carry out the building of Party conduct, integrity, and the anti-corruption struggle to the end.
"Endless troubles will arise if we do not fight corruption with iron fists. 沉舟侧畔千帆过，病树前头万木春 (chén zhōu cè pàn qiān fān guò, bìng shù qián tou wàn mù chūn - "a thousand sails pass by the sunken boat, ten thousand trees flourish in front of the diseased tree," new things replace the old; progress continues despite setbacks)." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) said firmly, "We must always maintain a high-pressure posture against corruption, investigate and deal with corruption cases in accordance with the law and regulations, severely punish corrupt elements, and do so without stopping for a moment or retreating half a step. We must never allow corrupt elements to have any hiding place, and no one should harbor any illusions or wishful thinking."
After successfully completing all the agenda items, the Plenary Session successfully closed. Everyone stood up, and the majestic "Internationale" resounded through the people's hall, connecting history, reality, and the future.
More than 130 years ago, Engels said: A party that knows its purpose and also knows how to achieve this purpose, a party that truly wants to achieve this purpose and has the indomitable spirit necessary to achieve this purpose—such a party will be invincible.
Today, the Communists of China (中国共产党) in the new era have such firm confidence: "Chinese-style modernization has goals, plans, and strategies, and it will definitely be achieved."
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From October 20th to 23rd, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) was held in Beijing (北京). This plenary session was an important meeting convened at a crucial time when China is about to successfully complete the main goals and tasks of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and is entering a critical period of laying a solid foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically realize socialist modernization. The plenary session deliberated and approved the "Suggestions of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" (《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十五个五年规划的建议》) (hereinafter referred to as the "Suggestions") and successfully completed all agenda items.
On October 24th, the CPC Central Committee held a press conference to introduce and interpret the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee.
The most important achievement of the plenary session was the deliberation and approval of the "Suggestions."
Scientifically formulating and successively implementing Five-Year Plans is an important experience in the Party's governance and administration of the country, and it is also an important political advantage of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
"The most important achievement of the plenary session was the deliberation and approval of the 'Suggestions'," introduced Jiang Jinquan (江金权), Director of the Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee. The drafting of the "Suggestions" was carried out under the leadership of the Party Central Committee. "General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) personally served as the leader of the drafting group, personally planned, guided the entire process, and set the direction, playing a decisive role. The drafting group conscientiously implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions, adhered to the correct direction, stood firm on the people's position, paid attention to grasping the overall situation, strengthened strategic planning, and especially made great efforts in promoting democracy, pooling wisdom, and building consensus."
"The 'Suggestions' have 15 parts and 61 articles, divided into three major sections. The first section is the general outline, including the first and second parts, mainly expounding the major achievements of China's development during the '14th Five-Year Plan' period and the great significance and overall requirements of grasping the economic and social development during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period. The second section, from the third part to the fourteenth part, deploys the strategic tasks and major measures of the '15th Five-Year Plan' period in various fields. The third section consists of the fifteenth part and the concluding remarks, mainly deploying tasks such as adhering to and strengthening the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee and promoting socialist democracy and the rule of law," said Jiang Jinquan. During the plenary session, the participating comrades had heated discussions and generally believed that the "Suggestions" are another important programmatic document in the history of our Party, with scientific and accurate guiding principles, clear development goals, and realistic and pragmatic tasks and measures. It is another general mobilization and general deployment to take advantage of the momentum and continue to advance Chinese-style modernization, which will inevitably have a significant and far-reaching impact on the development of the Party and the country.
The "Suggestions" outline a grand blueprint for development in the next five years, pointing out the direction for deepening Chinese-style modernization.
"The 'Suggestions' accurately grasp the historical orientation of China's development, deeply analyze the international and domestic situation, outline a grand blueprint for development in the next five years, and point out the direction for deepening Chinese-style modernization." Han Wenxiu (韩文秀), Deputy Director of the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission Office in charge of daily work and Director of the Central Agricultural Work Leading Group Office, introduced the analysis of the situation and the guiding principles and main goals of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
Regarding the overall judgment of China's development environment during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, "The 'Suggestions' propose that major-country relations affect the international situation, and the evolution of the international situation profoundly affects domestic development. China's development is in a period where strategic opportunities and risks and challenges coexist, and uncertain and unpredictable factors are increasing." Han Wenxiu said that from an international perspective, the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, and the international balance of power is undergoing profound adjustments. From a domestic perspective, China's economic foundation is stable, its advantages are numerous, its resilience is strong, and its potential is great. The supporting conditions and basic trends for long-term improvement have not changed. "During the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, we must both take advantage of the momentum and rise to the challenges, and transform the advantages in all aspects into the actual effectiveness of high-quality development."
The plenary session put forward the main goals of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period: significant achievements have been made in high-quality development, the level of scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement has been greatly improved, new breakthroughs have been made in further comprehensively deepening reform, the level of social civilization has been significantly improved, the quality of people's lives has been continuously improved, new major progress has been made in building a beautiful China, and the national security barrier has been further consolidated. "These goals are both inspiring and practical," said Han Wenxiu. He believes that in the next five years, China's comprehensive national strength will continue to increase, its international status will continue to improve, and people's lives will be happier and better, laying a more solid foundation for basically realizing socialist modernization by 2035.
"From now to 2035, there are only 10 years. Only by developing well in the first 5 years can we strive for greater initiative," said Han Wenxiu. We must scientifically plan the economic and social development for the next 5 years with a sense of urgency of the times and a sense of historical mission, seize the window of time, consolidate and expand advantages, break through bottlenecks and constraints, strengthen weaknesses, and promote major breakthroughs in strategic tasks related to the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization.
We will conscientiously align with the "Suggestions" to draft the "15th Five-Year Plan" Outline (《十五五规划纲要》) draft.
The "Suggestions" made a comprehensive deployment for the "15th Five-Year Plan" economic and social development. Zheng Shanjie (郑栅洁), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), introduced it from three aspects: industry, market, and region.
In terms of industry, build a modern industrial system. "China's economy started with the real economy and will also rely on the real economy to move towards the future," said Zheng Shanjie. The "Suggestions" focus on "building a modern industrial system and consolidating and strengthening the foundation of the real economy," and propose four key tasks: optimizing and upgrading traditional industries, cultivating and strengthening emerging industries and future industries, promoting high-quality and efficient development of the service industry, and building a modern infrastructure system. Among them, accelerating the effective improvement of the quality and the reasonable growth of the quantity of traditional industries is initially estimated to add about 10 trillion yuan of market space in the next 5 years; emerging industries and future industries are accumulating momentum, and the new scale in the next 10 years is equivalent to recreating a Chinese high-tech industry.
In terms of market, build a strong domestic market. "A strong domestic market is the strategic support for Chinese-style modernization," said Zheng Shanjie. The "Suggestions" propose adhering to expanding domestic demand as a strategic base point and deploy three key tasks. "To grasp the implementation, we must grasp the three keys of expanding increments, improving efficiency, and unblocking circulation."
In terms of region, promote coordinated regional development. "The 'Suggestions' deploy five key tasks, which can be summarized as 'three focuses'," introduced Zheng Shanjie. The first is to focus on optimizing the layout, including optimizing the regional layout and the spatial pattern of the national territory; the second is to focus on new urbanization, scientifically and orderly promote the urbanization of agricultural transfer population, and vigorously implement urban renewal and other measures; the third is to focus on land-sea coordination, further promote the high-quality development of the marine economy, and accelerate the construction of a maritime power.
"Next, the National Development and Reform Commission will, in accordance with the deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, conscientiously align with the 'Suggestions', seize the time to draft the '15th Five-Year Plan' Outline draft, and strive to compile a high-quality plan that is in line with reality and meets expectations," said Zheng Shanjie.
After five years of hard work in the future, China's scientific and technological strength will reach a new level.
Chinese-style modernization needs the support of scientific and technological modernization.
"'During the '14th Five-Year Plan' period, China's scientific and technological strength has reached a new level, scientific and technological innovation has achieved fruitful results, and new quality productive forces have developed steadily, laying a solid foundation for the '15th Five-Year Plan' economic and social development." Yin Hejun (阴和俊), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology (科技部), listed a set of data: In 2024, the total social R&D investment exceeded 3.6 trillion yuan, an increase of 48% compared with 2020; the number of high-level international journal papers and international patent applications ranked first in the world for five consecutive years; and the ranking of national comprehensive innovation capabilities increased from 14th in 2020 to 10th in 2024.
"'During the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, we must seize the historical opportunity of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, coordinate the construction of a strong country in education, a strong country in science and technology, and a strong country in talent, improve the overall effectiveness of the national innovation system, comprehensively enhance independent innovation capabilities, accelerate high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement, and lead the development of new quality productive forces." Yin Hejun told reporters that the "Suggestions" made deployments from four aspects: First, strengthen original innovation and tackle key core technologies; second, promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation; third, promote the development of education, science and technology, and talent in an integrated manner; and fourth, deepen the construction of digital China.
"After five years of hard work in the future, China's scientific and technological strength will reach a new level, and scientific and technological innovation will lead to new quality productive forces and promote high-quality development will achieve greater results, providing stronger support for Chinese-style modernization," said Yin Hejun.
The plenary session released a strong signal that China adheres to opening up and cooperation and mutual benefit and win-win results.
The volume of trade in goods has ranked first in the world for eight consecutive years, the volume of trade in services has exceeded 1 trillion US dollars, foreign investment has completed the "14th Five-Year Plan" target six months ahead of schedule, and foreign investment has remained in the top three in the world... During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, high-level opening up has become a strong driving force for China's economic development.
"The plenary session made a special chapter deployment on expanding high-level opening up, releasing a strong signal that China adheres to opening up and cooperation and mutual benefit and win-win results," introduced Wang Wentao (王文涛), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Commerce (商务部). Regarding the opening up work during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the "Suggestions" made important deployments from four aspects.
The first is to actively expand autonomous opening up. Actively connect with international high-standard economic and trade rules, and expand market access and opening up fields with the service industry as the focus. Accelerate the process of regional and bilateral trade and investment agreements, and expand the high-standard free trade zone network. Focus on building an open highland and do a good job in various open pilot tests.
The second is to promote innovative trade development. The "Suggestions" have deployments for the three pillars of trade in goods, trade in services, and digital trade.
The third is to expand the space for two-way investment cooperation. We must polish the "Invest in China" brand and create new advantages in attracting foreign investment. Effectively implement foreign investment management, improve the overseas comprehensive service system, and guide the rational and orderly cross-border layout of production and supply chains.
The fourth is to jointly build the "Belt and Road" with high quality. Strengthen the strategic alignment with co-construction countries, and coordinate the promotion of major landmark projects and "small but beautiful" livelihood projects.
"We will promote the implementation of various decisions and deployments of the 'Suggestions' and continuously improve the level of opening up to the outside world, and expand the development space for Chinese-style modernization," said Wang Wentao.
Provide a good health foundation and population foundation for Chinese-style modernization.
Since the "14th Five-Year Plan", China has built the world's largest medical service system, disease prevention and control system, and medical security system, and has made significant progress in health and population development.
"By the end of 2024, the average life expectancy of Chinese residents has reached 79 years, which is a remarkable achievement," introduced Lei Haichao (雷海潮), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委). The "Suggestions" are based on promoting the all-round development of people and taking solid steps towards common prosperity for all people, and have made further plans and deployments for health and population aspects.
Accelerate the construction of a healthy China. The first is to implement a health-first development strategy. The second is to coordinate development and security, and provide strong guarantees and support for economic and social development. The third is to provide the masses with fair, accessible, systematic, continuous, high-quality, and efficient health services.
Promote high-quality population development. The first is to build a fertility-friendly society. The "Suggestions" clearly advocate a positive view of marriage and childbearing, optimize fertility support policies and incentive policies, and effectively reduce the cost of family fertility, parenting, and education. The second is to promote old-age care. Measures include improving the policy mechanism for the coordinated development of the old-age care cause and industry, and optimizing the supply of basic old-age care services. The third is to promote old-age participation. Steadily implement the gradual postponement of the statutory retirement age, optimize age restriction policies in employment, social security, and other aspects, actively develop elderly human resources, and develop the silver economy.
"Health work and population service work should not only highlight key groups such as the elderly, children, and women, but also provide comprehensive services for the entire population in the entire chain of prevention, health care, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation, providing a good health foundation and population foundation for Chinese-style modernization," said Lei Haichao.
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The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) was held in Beijing (北京) from October 20 to 23. The plenary session deliberated and approved the "Suggestions of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" (中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十五个五年规划的建议) (hereinafter referred to as the "Suggestions").
During the plenary session, some of the participants were interviewed by reporters. They stated that the "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a crucial period for consolidating the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically achieve socialist modernization, and it holds an important position of linking the past and opening up the future in the process of basically achieving socialist modernization. It is necessary to unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, deeply study and comprehend the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speeches and the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, maintain strategic focus, enhance confidence in victory, work hard and pragmatically, and take responsibility to ensure that decisive progress is made in basically achieving socialist modernization.
"The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee focuses on comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, adheres to the integration of domestic and global perspectives, adheres to the connection between medium- and long-term goals and short-term goals, and adheres to the coordination between overall planning and highlighting key points. It makes top-level design and strategic planning for development in the next five years, outlining a new blueprint with clear goals, clear paths, and inspiring progress." said Xin Changxing (信长星), member of the Central Committee and Secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee (江苏省委书记).
"General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has always been very concerned about the development of Jiangsu (江苏), and has drawn a grand blueprint for us to build a 'strong, rich, beautiful, and high' new Jiangsu (江苏)." Xin Changxing (信长星) said, "We must take Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as our guide, compare it with the deployment requirements of the plenary session, carefully plan the development of Jiangsu (江苏) during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, solidly promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, focus on building a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone, develop new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, strive to continue to be at the forefront of high-quality development, resolutely shoulder the responsibility of a major economic province, and firmly take the lead and set an example in promoting Chinese-style modernization."
"The 'Suggestions' passed by the plenary session and General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) explanation on the 'Suggestions (Draft for Discussion)' concentrated the wisdom of the entire party, gathered the strength of the people, conformed to the trend of development, and realized the unity of theoretical innovation and practical innovation, the unity of top-level design and grassroots exploration, and the unity of the requirements of the times and the expectations of the people. The 'Suggestions' have drawn a grand blueprint for the next five years and are a programmatic document guiding the high-quality economic and social development of our country and promoting Chinese-style modernization, which will surely have a significant and far-reaching impact on the development of the party and the country." said Hu Changsheng (胡昌升), member of the Central Committee and Secretary of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee (甘肃省委书记).
Hu Changsheng (胡昌升) stated that he will deeply study, publicize, and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speeches and the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, comprehensively implement the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee on promoting the large-scale development of the western region and promoting ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin (黄河流域), deeply understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," resolutely achieve the "Two Safeguards," align with the standards, combine with reality, and scientifically plan the development of Gansu (甘肃) during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, accelerate the high-quality economic and social development of the entire province, and strive to write a new chapter of Chinese-style modernization in Gansu (甘肃).
"Using medium- and long-term plans to guide economic and social development is an important political advantage and important experience of socialism with Chinese characteristics. This benefits from the centralized and unified leadership of the Party, benefits from always adhering to the people-centered value pursuit, and benefits from the continuous struggle of generations." said Huang Qiang (黄强), member of the Central Committee and Secretary of the Jilin Provincial Party Committee (吉林省委书记).
"The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core accurately grasps the situation and tasks of my country's development in the next five years, and continues to determine that promoting high-quality development is the theme of economic and social development during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period." Huang Qiang (黄强) said, "Jilin Province (吉林省) will conscientiously study and implement the spirit of the plenary session, accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system that reflects Jilin's (吉林) characteristics, expand effective demand in all directions, further comprehensively deepen reform, solidly promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, strengthen the protection, inheritance, and utilization of historical and cultural heritage, focus on guaranteeing and improving people's livelihoods, coordinate development and security, and strive to promote new breakthroughs in Jilin's (吉林) high-quality development."
"'During the '14th Five-Year Plan' period, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) led us to overcome difficulties and achieve remarkable achievements that have attracted worldwide attention, and Chinese-style modernization has taken new and solid steps." said Lan Fo'an (蓝佛安), member of the Central Committee and Minister of the Ministry of Finance (财政部). "During the '14th Five-Year Plan' period, the country's financial strength has continued to increase, the tools for fiscal macro-control have become more abundant, and the basic public services obtained by the people have become more and better."
Lan Fo'an (蓝佛安) stated that, in the next step, the financial departments will comprehensively implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, closely focus on the main goals of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, work hard and take responsibility, forge ahead courageously, and go all out to do a good job in the work deployed by the Party Central Committee one by one, and demonstrate new achievements and new responsibilities in promoting the construction of Chinese-style modernization.
"General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech fully demonstrates the foresight and deep thinking of directing and leading the new era and new journey, and provides a powerful ideological weapon and scientific action guide for continuing to write new chapters of the two major miracles and creating a new situation in the construction of Chinese-style modernization." said Yin Hejun (阴和俊), member of the Central Committee and Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology (科技部).
Yin Hejun (阴和俊) said, "During the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, we will anchor the goal of building a strong country in science and technology, firmly seize the historical opportunity of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, fully promote high-level self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology, and comprehensively enhance independent innovation capabilities through major measures such as strengthening original innovation and tackling key core technologies, promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and promoting the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, seize the commanding heights of scientific and technological development, continuously generate new quality productive forces, and provide strong scientific and technological support for comprehensively building a strong socialist modern country and comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation."
"In recent years, the Party Central Committee and Chairman Xi (习近平) have sized up the situation, responded calmly to changes, and united and led the entire party, the entire army, and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to overcome difficulties and forge ahead. The construction of the army has been revolutionarily forged in rectification and reform, and the high-quality development of national defense and army building has taken new steps." said Cui Yuzhong (崔玉忠), alternate member of the Central Committee and Deputy Commander of the Navy (海军副司令员).
Cui Yuzhong (崔玉忠) said: "The Navy, as a strategic service, is closely related to a strong country and a strong army. We must resolutely implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and Chairman Xi (习近平), firmly grasp the centennial goal, aim at the world-class level, continuously deepen political rectification, continuously deepen strategic transformation, continuously deepen military training and preparation, complete the '14th Five-Year Plan' tasks with high quality, comprehensively enhance maritime deterrence and actual combat capabilities, and continuously create a new situation in the modernization of the Navy, and hand in a satisfactory answer to the Party Central Committee and Chairman Xi (习近平)."
"In recent years, under the leadership of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), the Party and the country have made great achievements in various undertakings. Xiguzhuang Village (西古庄村), where I am located, used to be a poor mountain village. Thanks to the Party's good policies and the hard work of the villagers, today the roads are accessible in all directions, new houses are clustered together, and everyone is living a good life. Now, when you go to see it, the hillsides are covered with red apples." said Hao Chunxia (郝春侠), delegate attending the meeting and Secretary of the Party Branch of Xiguzhuang Village (西古庄村), Shizhu Town (石柱镇), Yaozhou District (耀州区), Tongchuan City (铜川市), Shaanxi Province (陕西省).
"The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee made a general mobilization for development in the next five years and deployed the work of comprehensively revitalizing the countryside, which is full of deep feelings for the people and makes us feel hopeful and motivated." Hao Chunxia (郝春侠) said, "I will publicize and implement the spirit of the plenary session well, continue to work hard with the villagers, and make our lives more and more prosperous."
(Reporters Liu Zhiqiang (刘志强), Wang Hao (王浩), Yang Qiaochu (杨翘楚), and Gong Han (巩晗) of this newspaper participated in the writing)
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The vast Pacific Ocean connects all rivers and seas. The surging waves, like the pulse of economic globalization, have stirred up the glorious history of the "Asia-Pacific Miracle" and carry the common dream of the next "golden thirty years" of Asia-Pacific development.
At the invitation of South Korean President Lee Jae-myung (李在明), President Xi Jinping (习近平) will travel to Gyeongju, South Korea, from October 30 to November 1 to attend the 32nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting and pay a state visit to South Korea.
As China's head-of-state diplomacy focuses on the international stage of Asia-Pacific cooperation, the world is paying close attention to the reunion of Chinese leaders with all parties, looking forward to hearing China's plan that demonstrates historical initiative and responsibility, and hoping that the waves of the Pacific Ocean will inject new impetus into the economic growth of the Asia-Pacific region and the world.
Heads of State Lead, Setting the Direction for Asia-Pacific and World Development
A nautical chart is the navigator's "second pair of eyes." Only by objectively summarizing the laws and expressing the direction concisely and profoundly can it guide the voyage.
In recent years, the APEC Economic Leaders' Meetings have focused on two core issues: Where did the "Asia-Pacific Miracle" come from? Where are the world and the Asia-Pacific region heading in the future?
"The success of the Asia-Pacific region stems from our consistent commitment to maintaining regional peace and stability, from our consistent adherence to true multilateralism and open regionalism, and from our consistent adaptation to the trend of economic globalization, adherence to mutual benefit and win-win results, and mutual achievement."
President Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly summarized the root of the "Asia-Pacific Miracle," calling on Asia-Pacific economies to always adhere to true multilateralism, build an open and integrated Asia-Pacific cooperation pattern, cultivate green and innovative Asia-Pacific growth momentum, and establish a universally beneficial and inclusive Asia-Pacific development concept, drawing a clear "nautical chart" for the next "golden thirty years" of Asia-Pacific development.
Experience is invaluable, and the original aspiration needs to be upheld. As a member of the Asia-Pacific family, China has always been an active participant and contributor to Asia-Pacific cooperation, and through head-of-state diplomacy, it has continuously pointed the direction for the Asia-Pacific community with a shared future to sail far.
China has hosted the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting twice and will host it for the third time in 2026. President Xi Jinping (习近平) has attended every Economic Leaders' Meeting since 2013, playing an active and constructive role in the success of the meetings.
In Bali, President Xi Jinping (习近平) first proposed the "Asia-Pacific Community with a Shared Future" roadmap, advocating that the Asia-Pacific region should seek common development, adhere to open development, promote innovative development, and seek linked development.
At Yanqi Lake (雁栖湖畔), President Xi Jinping (习近平) advocated "jointly building an Asia-Pacific partnership of mutual trust, inclusiveness, cooperation, and win-win," describing a new vision for the "Asia-Pacific Dream."
In the year the Bogor Goals (茂物目标) expired, President Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed adhering to openness and inclusiveness, innovative growth, interconnectedness, and cooperative win-win, opening a new stage of Asia-Pacific cooperation.
On the 30th anniversary of China's accession to APEC, President Xi Jinping (习近平) further proposed four key tasks for building an Asia-Pacific community with a shared future, proposing a series of policy proposals for deepening regional cooperation.
As Asia-Pacific cooperation moves towards the next 30 years, President Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly summarized the beneficial enlightenment of the Asia-Pacific cooperation process, proposing to adhere to innovation-driven, open-oriented, green development, and inclusive sharing to promote Asia-Pacific cooperation to set off again...
Since the new era, President Xi Jinping (习近平) has put forward a series of major initiatives and proposals that conform to the general trend and the will of the people, leading China to become an active advocate and firm practitioner of Asia-Pacific cooperation, which has important guiding significance for Asia-Pacific cooperation and global development, and has been highly recognized by all parties. The world marvels, "The world needs leaders like President Xi (习近平)."
From a firm Chinese position to pragmatic Chinese solutions, China has always held high the banner of building an Asia-Pacific community with a shared future, promoting an open economy and Asia-Pacific economic integration, and is committed to realizing the Asia-Pacific dream of common development, prosperity, and progress.
The world has reason to expect that the attendance of Chinese leaders will continue to lead the Asia-Pacific ship to brave the wind and waves and sail towards an open, dynamic, resilient, and peaceful Asia-Pacific community future.
Responding to Concerns, Opening a New Journey of Asia-Pacific Cooperation
Gyeongju (庆州) and the Hwabaek International Convention Center (白国际会议中心) are the main venues for this year's APEC meetings. In the local culture, Hwabaek (和白) is a deliberative meeting institution based on the principle of unanimous voting, demonstrating a meeting culture of gathering, sharing, and communication.
Under Hwabaek (和白), cooperation is key. Cooperation is the only way to do big things, do good things, and plan for the long term. From politicians to entrepreneurs, from heads of state to ordinary people, cooperation is a common concern. As President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The future path of Asia-Pacific cooperation concerns regional development, the well-being of the people, and the future of the world."
During each attendance at the APEC meetings, President Xi Jinping (习近平) combines the latest situation of the Asia-Pacific economy and the world economy to respond to concerns and promote cooperation.
Unforgettable scenes:
In 2017, Da Nang, Vietnam. President Xi Jinping's (习近平) speech was closely linked to the hearts of the people, winning 17 rounds of applause in 35 minutes.
In 2022, Bangkok, Thailand. President Xi Jinping's (习近平) speech drafts in Chinese, English, and Thai were eagerly taken and read by the representatives at the meeting.
In 2023, San Francisco, USA. Local media published the full text of President Xi Jinping's (习近平) speech, saying that the speech "contains information highly anticipated by the American business community, policymakers, and the world, and will be widely and deeply studied"...
At present, the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, and the world economy is facing multiple risks and challenges. The Asia-Pacific region accounts for one-third 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 an important front for the world economy, pregnant with unlimited hope and bearing major responsibilities.
Openness is the lifeline of Asia-Pacific cooperation. The establishment of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) is called the "APEC Dream" by the business community. "We have decided to launch and promote the FTAAP process and approve the 'APEC Roadmap for Promoting the Realization of the FTAAP'." In 2014, President Xi Jinping (习近平) announced to the world in Beijing a grand vision for promoting regional economic integration.
From the high-quality implementation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) to the active promotion of accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), and then to the comprehensive completion of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area 3.0 negotiations... China has always practiced open regionalism, leading the steady advancement of the FTAAP construction, further improving the level of regional trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, and helping Asia-Pacific economic cooperation to be at the forefront of the world.
Green transformation and technological innovation are shaping new momentum and new advantages for Asia-Pacific development. "Only reformers advance, only innovators are strong, and only reformers and innovators win." "Reform and innovation are the only way to long-term prosperity." "A good ecological environment is the most basic public product and the most universal livelihood and well-being." "We must seek productivity from scientific and technological innovation." "We must adhere to ecological priority, conservation and intensive use, and green and low-carbon development"... President Xi Jinping (习近平) has repeatedly gathered consensus for green and innovative development at APEC meetings.
In the Santa Rosa Wetland (圣罗莎湿地) adjacent to the Port of Chancay (钱凯港) in Peru, a group of boobies spread their wings and fly. Nearly one year after its opening, the Port of Chancay (钱凯港), which has opened six shipping routes, has not only become a "two-way channel" facing the Asia-Pacific and Latin America, but also a smart and green deep-water port. Alvarez (阿尔瓦雷斯), the mayor of Chancay (钱凯市), said with emotion: "The Port of Chancay (钱凯港) is both 'golden' and 'green'."
In the Thai-Chinese Rayong Industrial Park (泰中罗勇工业园), Changan Automobile's (长安汽车) first overseas new energy vehicle factory has officially started production. Relying on AI and automation technology, the digital intelligence platform is promoting the local automobile manufacturing industry to move towards intelligence. Julha (朱拉), Secretary-General of the Thailand "Eastern Economic Corridor" (泰国“东部经济走廊”) Office, said that automation technology has become an indispensable part of the region, and China's achievements in technological innovation are profoundly changing the future of Thailand's manufacturing industry.
Asia-Pacific cooperation converges into one stream, and the focus is on the people of all countries' yearning for a better life. President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must make good use of the APEC platform, strengthen economic and technical cooperation, increase support for developing economies and vulnerable groups, jointly make the economic development 'cake' bigger and share it well, so that more economies and more people can share the fruits of development."
Taking the implementation of the "APEC Internet and Digital Economy Roadmap" as a priority, assisting developing economies to strengthen their capabilities in networks, data, and computing power, and narrowing the digital divide; establishing the APEC SME Service Alliance, holding the APEC Women's Leadership Forum and the Young Entrepreneurs Summit, and promoting the common development of SMEs, women, youth, and other groups... To bridge the development gap, China is taking on its responsibilities.
Focusing on the theme of this year's APEC meeting, "Building a Sustainable Tomorrow," China will work with all countries to gather wisdom, pool strength, and seek win-win results, jointly participate in the regional cooperation event, and jointly create a better life for the people of the region.
Rooted in the Asia-Pacific, Chinese-style Modernization Cultivates New Opportunities
"The vines of the sweet potato extend in all directions, but its tubers always grow at the base." President Xi Jinping (习近平) used the "sweet potato" as a metaphor to express the relationship between China and the Asia-Pacific region.
The Asia-Pacific region is where China is based and where its development and prosperity lie. For a long time, China's economic development has been integrated with the Asia-Pacific regional cooperation process.
"China will concentrate on doing its own things well, and also strive to make its own development better benefit the Asia-Pacific region and the world." "No matter how developed it becomes, China will take root in the Asia-Pacific region, build the Asia-Pacific region, and benefit the Asia-Pacific region." "China's development cannot be separated from the Asia-Pacific region, and it will further benefit the Asia-Pacific region"... China's position is firm and unwavering.
International observers pointed out that "the world looks at the Asia-Pacific, and the Asia-Pacific looks at China." In the grand movement of the "Asia-Pacific Miracle," the "China Miracle" is the most exciting chapter.
On the eve of President Xi Jinping's (习近平) departure, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was held in Beijing, deliberating and approving the "Recommendations of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development." To date, China has formulated and implemented 14 five-year plans (plans) one after another, with sesame flowers blooming higher and higher.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, after China's GDP exceeded 100 trillion yuan in 2020, it successively crossed 110 trillion yuan, 120 trillion yuan, and 130 trillion yuan, and is expected to reach 140 trillion yuan this year. The huge economic volume and long-term stable development have made China a major contributor and anchor of stability to Asia-Pacific and world economic growth.
The main goals of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period and the long-term goals for basically realizing socialist modernization by 2035 are gradually unfolding in a magnificent picture. The British "Economist" website described China's "15th Five-Year Plan" as follows: Its scale is as vast as the identity of the world's second largest economy, covering everything from advanced manufacturing to green development.
Every time he stands on the APEC stage, President Xi Jinping (习近平) tells the world about China's rapid changes. From the new normal bringing new development opportunities to China, to the comprehensive deepening of reforms liberating social productive forces and social vitality, from the people-centered development thought to adhering to high-quality development and promoting high-level opening up, the keywords of China's development are closely aligned with the vigorous pulse of Asia-Pacific cooperation. China has proposed the "Belt and Road" initiative, the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, actively contributing international public goods to the world, and the Asia-Pacific region is a direct beneficiary.
Unlike Western systems that ignore the interests of future generations, "China's governance" achieves success through long-term historical patience. The certainty of development strategies and macroeconomic policies brings certainty to market space, investment environment, and development resilience.
In the face of escalating geopolitical conflicts, weak world economic growth, and rising protectionism, China's high-quality economic development demonstrates strong resilience and vitality, and continuously promotes the modernization of all countries in the world with Chinese-style modernization, continuously releasing spillover effects that benefit the Asia-Pacific region—
Using high-level opening up to drive regional economic integration: China's bilateral trade volume with Vietnam, Malaysia, and other countries has exceeded US$200 billion, and its bilateral trade volume with Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, and other countries has exceeded US$100 billion. This year, the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area 3.0 negotiations were successfully completed.
Using green innovation to cultivate growth momentum for the future: The Mengsong 600 MW wind power project in Laos lights up millions of homes; Chinese new energy vehicles "drive into" thousands of households in the Asia-Pacific region; South-South cooperation training on "Climate Change Response and Green and Low-Carbon Development" is carried out for Pacific island countries... China is working with Asia-Pacific countries to promote digitalization, greening, and intelligentization, accumulating strong momentum for regional development.
Today, China is the main trading partner of many Asia-Pacific economies and an important node in the regional industrial chain and supply chain, contributing more than 60% to Asia-Pacific economic growth, vigorously driving the growth of regional trade in goods and trade in services, and acting as a power source and propeller in Asia-Pacific economic cooperation.
Peruvian APEC Senior Official Renato Reyes (雷纳托·雷耶斯) said that as an important member of APEC, China has played an active role in promoting regional economic cooperation and leading Asia-Pacific economic growth, and to some extent, it is a decisive role.
Gathering in Gyeongju (庆州), South Korea, Chinese leaders will work with leaders from all parties to deepen Asia-Pacific cooperation and benefit the people of the Asia-Pacific region as their mission, promote the building of an Asia-Pacific community with a shared future, and strive to create a new era of Asia-Pacific development.
Neighboring Partners, Anchoring the Direction of China-South Korea Relations Development
The Tao is not far from people, and people have no different countries.
This well-known Korean saying comes from "Stele Inscription for Zen Master Jingjian of Ssanggye Temple" (《双磎寺真鉴禅师碑铭》) by the Silla (新罗) scholar Choi Chiwon (崔致远) who traveled to the Tang Dynasty (唐朝), meaning that moral principles are interconnected and will not be distanced due to different countries.
Gyeongju (庆州), the venue for the 2025 APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, is the hometown of Choi Chiwon (崔致远). All sectors of South Korea are full of expectations for President Xi Jinping's (习近平) state visit to South Korea again after 11 years.
China and South Korea are close neighbors that cannot be moved away. In 2014, the two sides announced that China and South Korea would strive to become partners in achieving common development, partners in promoting regional peace, partners in jointly revitalizing Asia, and partners in promoting world prosperity. The proposal of the "four partnerships" greatly enriched the connotation of the China-South Korea strategic cooperative partnership.
In June of this year, President Xi Jinping (习近平) sent a congratulatory message to South Korean President-elect Lee Jae-myung (李在明) within a week and spoke with President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) by telephone, both emphasizing "adhering to the original aspiration of establishing diplomatic relations, firmly adhering to the direction of good-neighborly friendship, and adhering to the goal of mutual benefit and win-win results," and profoundly pointed out that "a healthy, stable, and continuously deepening China-South Korea relationship conforms to the trend of the times, conforms to the fundamental interests of the two peoples, and is also conducive to regional and even world peace, stability, development, and prosperity," anchoring the direction of China-South Korea relations development.
In recent years, every time he meets with South Korean leaders, the Chinese side has conveyed a clear and stable signal—China regards South Korea as an important neighbor and partner, and the two countries should ensure that China-South Korea relations always develop in the right direction.
China and South Korea are inseparable partners. China has proposed and actively practiced the concept of amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness in its neighborhood diplomacy, and advocated promoting the building of a community with a shared future in its neighborhood. In the 10 years since the signing of the China-South Korea Free Trade Agreement, China has become South Korea's largest trading partner, largest export market, and largest source of imports, and the trend of market integration between China and South Korea, with free trade as the main line, has not changed.
The cultures of China and South Korea are integrated into the lives of people in each other's countries. During his visit to South Korea in 2014, President Xi Jinping (习近平) delivered an important speech at Seoul National University, quoting classics, reviewing the friendship between China and South Korea, and looking forward to a common future. He specially brought 10,000 books and film and television materials introducing China to promote mutual understanding and affinity between Chinese and South Korean youth. Not long ago, South Korea's temporary visa-free entry policy for Chinese group tourists officially came into effect, promoting the "two-way rush" of Chinese and South Korean tourists; the 2025 China-South Korea Media Cooperation Forum was held in Seoul (首尔), and cultural exchanges continued to heat up.
China and South Korea are both important countries in Asia and major economies in the world. The two countries adhere to the original aspiration of establishing diplomatic relations, firmly maintain the direction of good-neighborly friendship, adhere to the goal of mutual benefit and win-win results, and promote the China-South Korea strategic cooperative partnership to a higher level, which will not only bring more benefits to the people of the two countries, but also inject more certainty into the turbulent regional and international situation.
Return to TopAgainst the backdrop of a turbulent and intertwined international landscape, China's major head-of-state diplomatic actions will undoubtedly play a leading role in promoting Asia-Pacific cooperation, inject new impetus into the development of the China-South Korea strategic cooperative partnership, and demonstrate to the world the certainty of China's development and progress, as well as its strong commitment to promoting open cooperation.
From October 30th to November 1st, President Xi Jinping (习近平) will travel to Gyeongju, South Korea, to attend the 32nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting and pay a state visit to South Korea. Against the backdrop of a turbulent and intertwined international landscape, China's major head-of-state diplomatic actions will undoubtedly play a leading role in promoting Asia-Pacific cooperation, inject new impetus into the development of the China-South Korea strategic cooperative partnership, and demonstrate to the world the certainty of China's development and progress, as well as its strong commitment to promoting open cooperation.
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is the highest-level, broadest-ranging, and most influential economic cooperation platform in the Asia-Pacific region. Since 2013, President Xi Jinping (习近平) has attended or chaired successive APEC Economic Leaders' Meetings and delivered important speeches, pointing out the direction and charting the path for stable and long-term Asia-Pacific cooperation. From proposing the concept of building an Asia-Pacific community with a shared future to advocating the joint construction of an Asia-Pacific partnership based on mutual trust, inclusiveness, cooperation, and mutual benefit, from outlining the Asia-Pacific dream to advancing the Asia-Pacific Free Trade Area process, the Chinese approach has guided all parties in the Asia-Pacific to jointly adhere to the original aspiration of cooperation, adapt to the trends of the times, and improve people's well-being. Currently, unilateralism and protectionism are intensifying, and Asia-Pacific cooperation is standing at another crossroads. China is willing to work with all parties in the region to take this meeting as an opportunity to contribute to promoting Asia-Pacific regional cooperation and promoting Asia-Pacific economic growth, and to jointly build an Asia-Pacific community with a shared future.
China and South Korea are close neighbors and partners, with a long history of friendly exchanges and a deep integration of practical interests. China has remained South Korea's largest trading partner for 21 consecutive years, and last year South Korea once again became China's second-largest trading partner. China-South Korea people-to-people exchanges are close, and the continuous optimization of visa-free entry policies has promoted the continuous heating up of cross-border tourism between the two countries. Currently, China-South Korea relations are ushering in opportunities for improvement and development. This visit marks President Xi Jinping's (习近平) first state visit to South Korea in 11 years, fully demonstrating China's emphasis on China-South Korea relations. The two sides should adhere to the original aspiration of establishing diplomatic relations, adhere to good-neighborliness, friendship, mutual benefit, and win-win cooperation, and promote the continuous development of the China-South Korea strategic cooperative partnership. China and South Korea will host the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in succession in the coming two years. Strengthening mutual support between the two sides is conducive to further consolidating consensus among all parties, safeguarding the multilateral trading system, and injecting new impetus into Asia-Pacific and world economic growth.
President Xi Jinping's (习近平) visit to South Korea will undoubtedly allow the international community to have a deeper understanding of China's determination and confidence in adhering to open development and leading win-win cooperation, and contribute more certainty and positive energy to a turbulent world. This visit comes at a time when the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee has successfully concluded. The plenary session reviewed and approved the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal, conveying to the outside world the stability of China's policies, the stability of economic growth, and the stability of development expectations. From a long-term perspective, China's realization of socialist modernization is a historical process of step-by-step progress and continuous development. By adhering to the principle of **稳中求进** (wěn zhōng qiú jìn - "seek progress while maintaining stability," to make steady progress), China will not only be able to cope with any external challenges with the certainty of its own development, but also continue to contribute opportunities to the development of all parties.
No matter how the international situation changes, the trend of Asia-Pacific development is always clear and definite, and open cooperation has always been the common choice of the vast majority of members in the region. As a participant and promoter of Asia-Pacific cooperation, China is willing to work with all parties to meet challenges and seek common development, and jointly build an open, inclusive, innovative, interconnected, and mutually beneficial Asia-Pacific community with a shared future, and make greater contributions to world peace and development.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 24th. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson announced on the 24th: The "Improving Global Governance and Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind" Lanting Forum will be held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on October 27th. Wang Yi (王毅), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, will attend the opening ceremony and deliver a speech.
High-level representatives from various sectors in China and abroad, well-known experts and scholars, as well as foreign envoys to China and representatives of international organizations in China will attend the forum to conduct in-depth exchanges on the rich connotations and practical paths of the global governance initiative.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 24th. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson announced on the 24th: At the invitation of the Seychelles government, Xi Jinping (习近平), Special Envoy of the President of the People's Republic of China, and Gao Yunlong (高云龙), Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, will travel to Victoria (维多利亚), the capital of Seychelles, to attend the inauguration ceremony of President Wavel Ramkalawan (赫米尼耶) to be held on October 26th.
Return to TopThis newspaper reports from Pyongyang on October 24th (Reporter Liu Rong (刘融)) On the occasion of the upcoming 75th anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army's participation in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, China and North Korea held a groundbreaking ceremony on the 22nd in Sinpyong County, North Hwanghae Province, North Korea, for the renovation project of the Sinpyong Chinese People's Volunteer Army Martyrs' Cemetery. Chinese Ambassador to North Korea Wang Yajun (王亚军), Vice Minister Kang Chol-ho (姜哲浩) of the North Korean Ministry of Urban Management, and others attended the groundbreaking ceremony.
Representatives from all sectors of the Chinese community in North Korea, veterans of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea currently visiting North Korea, relatives of martyrs, a delegation of cadres from central state organs for memorial activities, as well as North Korean officials and representatives of the people of Sinpyong County, participated in the event.
Following consultations between China and North Korea, starting in October 2025, six Chinese People's Volunteer Army Martyrs' Cemeteries in North Korea, including those in Sinpyong, Wonsan, Chonnae, Munchon, Sepo, and Brothers' Hill, will be renovated successively. The Sinpyong Chinese People's Volunteer Army Martyrs' Cemetery, where 343 martyrs are buried, is expected to be completed before the end of this year.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 24th (北京) -- On October 24th, Premier of the State Council and Secretary of the Leading Party Members Group, Li Qiang (李强), presided over a meeting of the Leading Party Members Group of the State Council to study and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
The meeting pointed out that the work report and important speech made by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) at the plenary session summarized the new progress and achievements made by the Party and the country in various undertakings since the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee, and put forward clear requirements for implementing the spirit of the plenary session and doing a good job in all aspects. The "Suggestions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" deliberated and approved by the plenary session, guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, takes into overall consideration the strategic overall situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the major changes unseen in a century in the world, accurately grasps the historical orientation of the development of the Party and the country during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, systematically summarizes the major achievements made in China's development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, deeply analyzes the new situation and new requirements faced during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and makes top-level design and strategic planning for the next five years of development, providing a scientific guide for doing a good job in various tasks during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period and creating a new situation in the construction of Chinese-style modernization. The Leading Party Members Group of the State Council and all departments of the State Council must take studying and implementing the spirit of the plenary session as a major political task for the present and future, and effectively unify their thinking and actions with the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech and the arrangements of the plenary session, and do a solid job in economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
The meeting emphasized that it is necessary to fully implement the strategic deployment made by the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party, and refine the grand blueprint of the "15th Five-Year Plan" drawn up by the plenary session into a construction plan and a roadmap to ensure its implementation. It is necessary to prepare the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline based on the planning proposals, scientifically set up an indicator system, propose specific goals in various fields, and plan a number of major policies, major reforms, and major projects with strong driving forces. Coordinate the formulation of various special plans, regional plans, and local plans, strengthen the organic connection with the national overall development plan, and form a high-quality "15th Five-Year Plan" system. We must make every effort to promote the implementation of the major strategic tasks deployed in the planning proposals, accelerate the formulation of implementation plans, pay close attention to the division of tasks and responsibilities, deeply and systematically design policies and measures, and carefully organize implementation.
The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to study and respond to changes in the situation in a timely manner, conscientiously grasp the current work, consolidate and expand the positive economic trend, ensure the successful conclusion of the "14th Five-Year Plan," and at the same time seize the planning of next year's policies and measures to ensure a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan."
Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥), He Lifeng (何立峰), Zhang Guoqing (张国清), Liu Guozhong (刘国中), Wang Xiaohong (王小洪), Wu Zhenglong (吴政隆), and Chen Yiqin (谌贻琴) attended.
Return to TopBy: 奥伊登·奥尔特加·杜兰
China's development has deeply integrated into the global landscape, playing a pivotal role in the global economy. China has always pursued an independent foreign policy of peace, adhering to the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence in developing friendly cooperation with all countries.
Since its founding, the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国) has consistently adhered to the path of peaceful development, actively practiced multilateralism, and deeply participated in global governance.
To understand China today, one must understand China's history. From 1931 to 1945, Japanese militarist forces launched a war of aggression against China. In times of crisis, the Chinese military and civilians rose up to resist, defending their motherland with their flesh and blood, composing magnificent and moving chapters, and achieving a great victory. On October 1, 1949, the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国) was proclaimed. Since then, China has been developing towards modernization. This year, China solemnly commemorates the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. This ancient civilization, tempered by trials, is forging ahead in the new era with a new attitude.
Currently, China's development has deeply integrated into the global landscape, playing a pivotal role in the global economy. China has become the main trading partner of more than 150 countries and regions. China has always supported economic globalization, firmly implemented the basic national policy of opening up to the outside world, and continuously provided cooperation opportunities in the fields of market, investment, and trade for countries around the world. President Xi Jinping (习近平), with extraordinary strategic vision, proposed the "Belt and Road" Initiative, recreating the grand scene of the ancient Silk Road connecting Chinese and Western civilizations, with a wider scope, richer connotation, and more magnificent blueprint, demonstrating China's profound understanding and powerful practice of multilateralism.
China has always pursued an independent foreign policy of peace, adhering to the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence in developing friendly cooperation with all countries. Within the framework of advocating for world multipolarity and multilateralism that transcends a unipolar pattern, China participated in the establishment of multilateral platforms such as the BRICS cooperation mechanism, actively promoted the expansion of BRICS, and gathered global resources and strength. During the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Tianjin Summit held not long ago, President Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed a global governance initiative aimed at working with all countries to promote the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system, advance the democratization of international relations, and jointly move towards a community with a shared future for mankind. The initiative adheres to peaceful coexistence and mutually beneficial cooperation, advocates multilateralism, firmly safeguards the international system with the United Nations as its core and the international order based on international law, insists that all countries are equal regardless of size, respects the sovereignty of all countries, and injects wisdom into improving global governance.
Panama and China officially established diplomatic relations in 2017. This was a major decision we made after gathering mainstream opinions from all sectors of society, and it has a deep foundation in public opinion. Panama adheres to the One China principle and relevant UN resolutions, and severed so-called "diplomatic relations" with the Taiwan authorities. Regarding the unfounded arguments fabricated and hyped by individual countries, such as the so-called "Chinese control of the Panama Canal," neither the Panamanian government nor the people should be misled. Panama's policy towards China is based on the fundamental of national identity—it is rooted in the common will of the Panamanian people, demonstrating the firm belief of not being subject to foreign interference and defending national sovereignty, and this should also become the cornerstone of Panama's foreign policy.
(The author is the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Panama and former Justice of the Supreme Court)
Return to TopThis newspaper's Singapore, October 24th (Reporter Bai Yuanqi (白元琪)) The 5th China-Singapore International Commercial Dispute Resolution Forum was held in Singapore (新加坡) on the 24th. More than 500 people, including government departments, business associations, trade promotion agencies, business people, and legal experts from both countries, participated in the forum.
Ren Hongbin (任鸿斌), Chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (中国贸促会), attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech, pointing out that since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Singapore 35 years ago, under the strategic guidance of the leaders of the two countries, the traditional friendship between China and Singapore has continued to deepen. The China-Singapore International Commercial Dispute Resolution Forum is not only a concrete action to practice the all-round high-quality and forward-looking partnership between the two countries, but also a pragmatic measure to promote the steady and long-term development of economic and trade cooperation between the two countries. The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade is willing to work with Singapore (新加坡) to deepen collaborative cooperation, focus on digital empowerment, and strengthen the rule of law, so as to promote the high-quality development of international commercial dispute resolution.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 24th (北京) -- On October 24th, Li Qiang (李强), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, presided over a meeting of the Leading Group for the Compilation of the "15th Five-Year Plan" Outline (《纲要草案》) of the State Council and delivered a speech.
Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended the meeting.
At the meeting, the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) reported on the compilation of the draft outline, and the participants discussed it. Li Qiang (李强) said that General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee provided fundamental guidance for the compilation of the draft outline. The "Proposals of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" (《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十五个五年规划的建议》) clearly put forward the guiding ideology, basic principles, main goals, and strategic tasks for economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and is a programmatic document guiding economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. We must thoroughly study and understand the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech and the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, and comprehensively and deeply implement them in the compilation of the draft outline.
Li Qiang (李强) pointed out that the compilation of the draft outline should closely focus on the central tasks of the Party in the new era and on the new journey, strengthen the awareness of development, adhere to promoting high-quality development as the theme, and achieve greater breakthroughs in expanding new quality productive forces and building a modern industrial system, so as to promote the effective improvement of economic quality and the reasonable growth of quantity. We must strengthen overall thinking, accurately grasp the historical position of the "15th Five-Year Plan" development, accurately grasp the overall domestic and international situation, maintain strategic focus, fully estimate possible external shocks, make preparations for response, and firmly grasp the initiative of development. We must strengthen the people-oriented approach, adhere to putting the people first, focus on the concerns of all parties to plan policies and measures, put ourselves in the position of others, think from their perspective, aim at solving practical problems, and make them tangible and accessible to the masses and enterprises.
Li Qiang (李强) pointed out that it is necessary to innovate ideas, seek practical results, compile the planning outline with high quality, further clarify the construction map and roadmap for the "15th Five-Year Plan" development, and plan and propose pragmatic and effective development carriers and working methods. It is necessary to cultivate and expand new driving forces for high-quality development, and create a number of new industries and new tracks around areas with strong growth and traction. We must adhere to expanding domestic demand as a strategic base point and fully tap the potential of the strong domestic market. It is necessary to release the driving force and vitality of development through comprehensively deepening reforms, and conduct in-depth research on reform measures around key areas and key links. We must actively carry out strategic adjustments to the external economic and trade pattern and introduce more autonomous opening-up and unilateral opening-up measures. We must coordinate development and security, prevent risks in key areas, and ensure overall social stability.
Li Qiang (李强) emphasized that the compilation of the draft outline is time-constrained and task-heavy, and all parties must cooperate closely and form synergy. It is necessary to publicly solicit opinions and suggestions from the public, widely understand social expectations, expert opinions, and grassroots experience, and carefully study and incorporate them into the draft outline. It is necessary to strengthen overall coordination, do a good job in connecting the compilation of special plans with the national development plan, guide local areas to compile plans based on comparative advantages, and form a scientific and organic planning system.
Zhang Guoqing (张国清), Liu Guozhong (刘国中), Wu Zhenglong (吴政隆), and Chen Yiqin (谌贻琴) attended the meeting.
Return to TopThis newspaper Beijing (北京) October 24th (Reporter Han Xiaoming (韩晓明)) The Foreign Ministry Spokesperson announced on the 24th:
At the invitation of Prime Minister Lawrence Wong (黄循财) of the Republic of Singapore, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) will pay an official visit to Singapore from October 25th to 26th.
At the invitation of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim (安瓦尔) of Malaysia, the ASEAN (东盟) rotating chair country, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) will attend the 28th China-ASEAN Leaders' Meeting, the 28th ASEAN Plus Three Leaders' Meeting, the 20th East Asia Summit, and the 5th Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Leaders' Meeting in Kuala Lumpur (吉隆坡), Malaysia from October 27th to 28th.
Return to TopPeople's Daily, Beijing, October 24th (Reporter Peng Bo) The 18th session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee held its first and second plenary meetings on the 24th at the Great Hall of the People (人民大会堂) in Beijing (北京). The meeting voted and approved the NPC Standing Committee's decision to establish Taiwan Retrocession Day. Chairman Zhao Leji (赵乐际) presided over the meeting.
On the morning of the 24th, the first plenary meeting was held. 154 members of the Standing Committee attended the meeting, and the number of attendees met the quorum.
On October 25, 1945, Taiwan (台湾) and the Penghu Islands (澎湖列岛) returned to China's (中国) sovereign jurisdiction. To commemorate the retrocession of Taiwan, defend the achievements of the victory in World War II, strengthen the common national historical memory of compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and solidly advance the process of national reunification, the Chairman's Council of the NPC Standing Committee proposed a motion to submit the "Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Establishing Taiwan Retrocession Day (Draft)" for deliberation. Entrusted by the Chairman's Council, Shen Chunyao (沈春耀), Director of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee, gave an explanation. Afterwards, the Standing Committee held group discussions on the draft decision.
On the afternoon of the 24th, the second plenary meeting was held. 154 members of the Standing Committee attended the meeting, and the number of attendees met the quorum.
The meeting heard a report by Xin Chunying (信春鹰), Chairperson of the Constitution and Law Committee of the NPC, on the results of the deliberation of the draft revision of the Maritime Law. The third draft of the bill adds provisions for querying the registration status of ship ownership; improves the rules for the order of priority for the payment of ship mortgages; and adds provisions that the shipper should be notified in a timely manner when no one picks up the goods at the port of discharge.
The meeting heard reports by Wang Hongxiang (王洪祥), Deputy Chairperson of the Constitution and Law Committee, on the results of the deliberation of the draft amendment to the Villagers Committee Organization Law and the draft revision of the Urban Residents Committee Organization Law. The second draft of the bill adds provisions on the work of village committees and residents committees to "adhere to and develop whole-process people's democracy, and adhere to the combination of autonomy, rule of law, and rule of virtue"; further enriches the responsibilities of village committees and residents committees, improves the establishment of "committees for the work of the elderly, women, and children," and adds provisions for caring for the elderly and (left-behind) children; and clarifies the forms and time limits for the disclosure of village affairs and residents' affairs, and the term of office of village affairs and residents' affairs supervision institutions.
The meeting heard a report by Huang Ming (黄明), Deputy Chairperson of the Constitution and Law Committee, on the results of the deliberation of the draft amendment to the Cybersecurity Law. The second draft of the bill enriches the guiding principles for cybersecurity work; adds content to promote the healthy development of artificial intelligence; further improves the connection with laws such as the Civil Code and the Personal Information Protection Law in terms of personal information protection; and improves relevant penalty provisions.
The meeting heard a report by Luo Yuan (骆源), Deputy Chairperson of the Constitution and Law Committee, on the results of the deliberation of the draft amendment to the Environmental Protection Tax Law. The second draft of the bill adds provisions to reasonably set the scope of taxation based on the characteristics of volatile organic compounds, improve monitoring technology and emission calculation methods, strengthen work coordination, and accelerate the advancement of pilot work.
The meeting heard reports by Shen Chunyao (沈春耀), Deputy Chairperson of the Constitution and Law Committee, on the revisions to the draft of the Pollution Prevention and Control Chapter of the Environmental and Ecological Code and the draft of the Chapter on Legal Liability and Supplementary Provisions. The second draft of the Pollution Prevention and Control Chapter enriches the overall requirements for pollution prevention and control work, and adds content on improving the quality of the ecological environment and protecting public health; increases financial support for agricultural and rural pollution prevention and control, and strengthens the prevention and control of agricultural non-point source pollution; further strengthens the prevention and control of heavy metal pollution; and improves standards for the prevention and control of volatile organic compound pollution. The second draft of the Chapter on Legal Liability and Supplementary Provisions further implements the principle of proportionality between offenses and penalties, optimizes and adjusts relevant provisions on fines; enriches the legal liability provisions for ecological protection and green and low-carbon development; and improves relevant legal liabilities for outstanding problems such as groundwater pollution, oil fume pollution, and light pollution.
In order to protect national interests and social public interests, improve the public interest litigation system, ensure and regulate the lawful conduct of procuratorial public interest litigation, and continuously promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities, the Supervisory and Judicial Affairs Committee of the NPC proposed a motion to submit the draft Procuratorial Public Interest Litigation Law for deliberation. Yang Xiaochao (杨晓超), Chairperson of the Supervisory and Judicial Affairs Committee, gave an explanation.
In order to further comprehensively and systematically regulate activities to protect and improve the quality of cultivated land, strengthen the "three-in-one" protection of the quantity, quality, and ecology of cultivated land, and ensure national food security and the supply of important agricultural products, the State Council proposed a motion to submit the draft Cultivated Land Protection and Quality Improvement Law for deliberation. Entrusted by the State Council, Minister of Justice He Rong (贺荣) gave an explanation.
Entrusted by the State Council, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Hua Chunying (华春莹) gave explanations on the motion to submit for deliberation and approval the "Agreement on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea," the motion to submit for deliberation and approval the "Treaty between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of Zimbabwe on Criminal Justice Assistance," and the motion to submit for deliberation and approval the "Treaty between the People's Republic of China and the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia on Criminal Justice Assistance."
Entrusted by the State Council, Minister of Ecology and Environment Huang Runqiu (黄润秋) gave an explanation on the motion to submit for deliberation and approval the "Amendment to Annex A and Annex B of the Minamata Convention on Mercury by Decision 5/4 of the Fifth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury."
The meeting heard reports by Yang Xiaochao (杨晓超), Chairperson of the Supervisory and Judicial Affairs Committee of the NPC, Zhong Shan (钟山), Chairperson of the Financial and Economic Affairs Committee, Yu Weiguo (于伟国), Chairperson of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee, Lu Xinshe (鹿心社), Chairperson of the Environment and Resources Protection Committee, and Yang Zhenwu (杨振武), Chairperson of the Social Construction Committee, on the results of the deliberation of the motions submitted by the delegations to the Presidium of the Third Session of the 14th NPC.
The meeting heard a report by Yang Xiaochao (杨晓超), Chairperson of the Credentials Committee of the NPC Standing Committee, on the qualifications of individual deputies.
The meeting also deliberated on relevant appointment and removal proposals.
After voting, the meeting adopted the NPC Standing Committee's decision to establish Taiwan Retrocession Day. According to the decision, October 25 will be established as Taiwan Retrocession Day, and the state will hold commemorative activities in various forms.
Vice Chairpersons of the NPC Standing Committee Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠), Wang Dongming (王东明), Xiao Jie (肖捷), Zheng Jianbang (郑建邦), Ding Zhongli (丁仲礼), Cai Dafeng (蔡达峰), He Wei (何维), Wu Weihua (武维华), Tie Ning (铁凝), Peng Qinghua (彭清华), Zhang Qingwei (张庆伟), Losang Jamcan (洛桑江村), and Shohrat Zakir (雪克来提·扎克尔), and Secretary-General Liu Qi (刘奇) attended the meeting.
Vice Premier of the State Council Zhang Guoqing (张国清), State Councilor Wang Xiaohong (王小洪), President of the Supreme People's Court Zhang Jun (张军), Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate Ying Yong (应勇), responsible comrades of the National Supervisory Commission, members of the special committees of the NPC, responsible comrades of the standing committees of the people's congresses of various provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities, principal responsible comrades of the standing committees of some sub-provincial cities' people's congresses, some NPC deputies, and responsible comrades of relevant departments attended the meeting as observers.
On the afternoon of the 24th, Chairman Zhao Leji (赵乐际) presided over the 52nd and 53rd Chairman's Meetings of the 14th NPC Standing Committee, respectively, to deliberate on the Constitution and Law Committee's report on the results of the deliberation of the relevant draft decisions and the draft revisions and voting drafts. The responsible persons of the relevant special committees of the NPC gave reports.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 24th. A meeting for the financial system to study and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was held in Beijing (北京) on October 24th. He Lifeng (何立峰), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Central Financial Commission, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. He emphasized that the financial system should take studying, publicizing, and implementing the spirit of the Plenary Session as a major political task for the present and future, quickly launch a wave of learning, organize full-coverage training in layers, levels, phases, and batches, and promote the spirit of the Plenary Session to be deeply rooted in the minds of the entire system. It is necessary to seize the time to study and plan the key financial work during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, accurately grasp the main goals and the situation and tasks facing financial work during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, continue to thoroughly implement the spirit of the Central Financial Work Conference, especially the series of important speeches by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) on doing a good job in financial work, always keep in mind the political and people-oriented nature of financial work, always firmly grasp the main line of preventing risks, strengthening supervision, and promoting high-quality development, unswervingly follow the path of financial development with Chinese characteristics, accelerate the construction of a modern financial system with Chinese characteristics, and promote new and major progress in building a strong financial nation.
He Lifeng (何立峰) emphasized that it is necessary to do solid financial work in the fourth quarter, closely monitor risks, strictly prevent "thunderstorms" (爆雷), consolidate the atmosphere of strict supervision, increase support for economic development, and fully promote the achievement of the main goals and tasks of economic and social development for the whole year, help the "14th Five-Year Plan" to have a successful conclusion, and provide strong support for the smooth start of the "15th Five-Year Plan".
Return to TopIn 1945, all Chinese sons and daughters, including Taiwan compatriots, advanced wave upon wave, fought bloody battles, and achieved the great victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. Taiwan was subsequently restored and returned to the embrace of the motherland. The restoration of Taiwan is an important achievement of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, an important ironclad proof of the Chinese government's restoration of the exercise of sovereignty over Taiwan, an important link in the historical fact and legal chain of Taiwan as a part of China, and the common glory of compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and the national memory of all Chinese sons and daughters. In order to safeguard the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War and the post-war international order, demonstrate the firm will to adhere to the one-China principle and defend national sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity, strengthen the common national historical memory of compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, promote patriotism, and inspire compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to make new contributions to national reunification and national rejuvenation in the new era and new journey, according to the "Constitution of the People's Republic of China," the 18th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress decided:
October 25 shall be established as Taiwan Restoration Day. The state will hold commemorative activities in various forms.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), October 24)
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The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of Taiwan's Retrocession. On October 24th, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) passed a resolution to establish October 25th as Taiwan Retrocession Day in the form of law and in the name of the state, which reflects the common aspirations and voices of compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Fixing major historical facts and their commemorative activities in the form of law permanently demonstrates the solemnity and majesty of commemorating history, and also ensures the stability and continuity of relevant commemorative activities. Taiwan's Retrocession is a great day that will be forever recorded in the history of the nation. It is a glorious victory day for all Chinese people, including the people of Taiwan, who fought bloody battles to resist Japanese colonization and aggression and achieved complete victory, and it is worthy of joint commemoration by compatriots on both sides of the Strait. The legal establishment of Taiwan Retrocession Day is a reaffirmation of this important historical fact, a powerful measure to defend Taiwan's Retrocession and its return to the motherland, and provides a solid institutional guarantee for the continuous development of various commemorative activities.
History cannot be forgotten, and historical events need to be revisited. On December 1, 1943, the governments of China, the United States, and the United Kingdom issued the Cairo Declaration, announcing that the purpose of the three countries was to return to China the territories Japan had stolen from China, such as Northeast China, Taiwan (台湾), and the Penghu Islands (澎湖列岛). On July 26, 1945, the Potsdam Proclamation, jointly signed by China, the United States, and the United Kingdom and later joined by the Soviet Union, reaffirmed that "the terms of the Cairo Declaration shall be implemented." In September of the same year, Japan signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, promising to "faithfully fulfill the obligations of the Potsdam Proclamation." On October 25 of the same year, the Chinese government announced that it would recover Taiwan and the Penghu Islands from that day on, "restoring the exercise of sovereignty over Taiwan." Taiwan's return to China is not only an important symbolic event for the Chinese nation to wash away a century of humiliation, but also an important part of the post-war international order. Elevating the commemoration of Taiwan's Retrocession to the national and legal level is conducive to deepening the collective memory of compatriots on both sides of the Strait of sharing a common hatred and resisting foreign aggression,凝聚团结一心、自强不息 (níng jù tuán jié yī xīn, zì qiáng bù xī - "cohesion, unity, self-improvement," to unite as one and strive for self-improvement), further strengthening the historical and legal fact that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory, and is of great significance for promoting the peaceful development of cross-strait relations and advancing the great cause of national reunification.
In the face of ironclad facts, lies are particularly pale. In recent years, Lai Ching-te (赖清德) and the Democratic Progressive Party (民进党) authorities have continued to carry out "independence" provocations, peddling "Taiwan independence" separatist fallacies, deliberately downplaying and denying the historical facts of Taiwan's Retrocession, and even embellishing and beautifying Japanese colonial rule, replacing "War of Resistance" with "end of war," in an attempt to sever the historical connection and spiritual ties between the two sides of the Strait. Betraying national righteousness and losing national standpoints to engage in 数典忘祖 (shǔ diǎn wàng zǔ - "enumerate classics forget ancestors," to forget one's origins or heritage) is doomed to failure; challenging national sovereignty and territorial integrity to engage in "Taiwan independence" separatism is a dead end and will inevitably be liquidated by history. Compatriots on both sides of the Strait are one family, and no one can sever our blood ties, and no one can stop the historical trend of national reunification. Any forces and acts that split the motherland will be met with a head-on blow from all Chinese people. The establishment of Taiwan Retrocession Day demonstrates our firm determination to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity, to protect the spiritual ties of compatriots on both sides of the Strait, and is also a solemn warning to the "Taiwan independence" separatist forces.
The Taiwan issue arose from national weakness and chaos, and will inevitably end with national rejuvenation. A strong and unified country is always the destiny of all Chinese sons and daughters, including Taiwan compatriots. Taking the establishment of Taiwan Retrocession Day as an opportunity, compatriots on both sides of the Strait will continue to enhance their ambition, backbone, and confidence in being Chinese, deepen exchanges and cooperation, promote common development, advance national reunification, firmly safeguard the common home of the Chinese nation, and safeguard the fundamental interests of compatriots on both sides of the Strait, and we will surely be able to join hands to create a better future for national reunification and national rejuvenation.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 24th (October 24th) - The Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th Presidium (Enlarged) of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions was held in Beijing (北京). Wang Dongming (王东明), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and Chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (中华全国总工会), presided over the meeting and delivered a speech.
Wang Dongming (王东明) pointed out that the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (全总) and trade unions at all levels should thoroughly study, publicize, and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and earnestly unify their thoughts and actions with the important speech of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and the spirit of the Plenary Session. It is necessary to adhere to the Party's comprehensive leadership over trade union work, unswervingly use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to build the soul, and unite and guide the vast number of workers to unswervingly listen to the Party and follow the Party. We must do a good job in safeguarding rights and providing services with heart and soul, and promote common prosperity for all workers. It is necessary to firmly grasp the theme of the times of China's workers' movement, organize and mobilize workers to make contributions and innovations based on their positions, and contribute to the realization of the "15th Five-Year Plan" goals and tasks and the advancement of Chinese-style modernization.
Xu Liuping (徐留平), Secretary of the Party Group, Vice Chairman, and First Secretary of the Secretariat of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (全总), conveyed the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 24th (Xinhua) -- The State Council has appointed and removed national personnel.
Han Zhanwu (韩占武) was removed from the position of Deputy Director of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (国家烟草专卖局).
Return to TopThe Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) (全国人民代表大会) of the Communist Party of China (CPC) held a meeting on October 24th to convey and study the important speech and spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, and to study and implement measures in light of the actual work of the NPC. Zhao Leji (赵乐际), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, and Secretary of the Leading Party Members Group, presided over the meeting and delivered a speech.
The meeting held that the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was a very important meeting held at a crucial period when China was comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization. The plenary session highly evaluated the major achievements made in China's development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, which is the result of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core uniting and leading the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to overcome difficulties and work hard. The plenary session deliberated and approved the "Suggestions of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development," making top-level design and strategic planning for the next five years of development. It is another general mobilization and general deployment to take advantage of the situation and continue to promote Chinese-style modernization, reflecting the spirit of historical initiative and gathering confidence and strength, which is of great significance for promoting high-quality development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period and laying a more solid foundation for basically realizing socialist modernization.
The meeting emphasized that studying and implementing the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee is a major political task for the present and the coming period. The Leading Party Members Group of the NPC Standing Committee, the Party Group of the General Office, the Party Groups of the special committees, and the Party organizations at all levels of the General Office should study the important speeches, reports, explanations made by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), and the suggestions and communiqués adopted by the plenary session in their original form, comprehensively and accurately understand and grasp the spirit of the plenary session, resolutely support the decisions made by the plenary session, and consciously unify their thoughts and actions with the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee. It is necessary to deeply understand the important position of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, accurately grasp the goals of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, base ourselves on the functions of the NPC, adhere to the same direction, and coordinate the promotion of legislation, supervision, representation, foreign affairs and other work. It is necessary to improve the legal system for market economy, scientific and technological innovation, strengthen legislation in key areas, emerging areas, and foreign-related areas, and provide legal guarantees for accelerating the construction of a new development pattern and promoting high-quality development. It is necessary to coordinate the work of the NPC in the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan" in accordance with the strategic tasks and major measures determined in the proposal, and prepare for the fourth session of the 14th National People's Congress (全国人民代表大会).
The meeting pointed out that the plenary session deliberated and approved the review report on serious violations of discipline and law by relevant personnel, and confirmed the decision made by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee to expel them from the Party, which is a major achievement in our Party's anti-corruption struggle and once again demonstrates the firm determination of the Party Central Committee to carry out the anti-corruption struggle to the end. The NPC must consciously adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, support the "two establishments" and achieve the "two safeguards" with practical actions, ensure that the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee are fully implemented in the work of the NPC, earnestly implement the deployment requirements for rectifying conduct, enforcing discipline, and fighting corruption, and create a good atmosphere of integrity and entrepreneurship in the NPC.
Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Deputy Secretary of the Leading Party Members Group of the NPC Standing Committee, and Wang Dongming (王东明), Xiao Jie (肖捷), Tie Ning (铁凝), Peng Qinghua (彭清华), Zhang Qingwei (张庆伟), Losang Jamcan (洛桑江村), Shohrat Zakir (雪克来提·扎克尔), and Liu Qi (刘奇), members of the Leading Party Members Group of the NPC Standing Committee, attended the meeting.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 24th. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Party Group convened a meeting on the 24th to convey, study, and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Wang Huning (王沪宁), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, and Secretary of the Party Group, presided over the meeting and delivered a speech.
The meeting held that the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was a very important meeting held on the new journey toward the second centenary goal, and it was another general mobilization and general deployment to take advantage of the situation and continue to advance the construction of Chinese-style modernization. It is of great significance for further uniting the immense strength of the entire party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country, and for uniting and striving to comprehensively promote the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization. The important speech delivered by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) at the plenary session and the "Suggestions of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" adopted by the plenary session accurately grasp the historical position of the development of the Party and the country during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, deeply analyze the profound and complex changes facing China's development environment, and make top-level designs and strategic plans for the next five years of development. This fully embodies the historical initiative of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core to unite and lead the entire party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to continue writing new chapters in the two major miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability, and to strive to create a new situation in the construction of Chinese-style modernization. It will inevitably have a significant and far-reaching impact on the development of the Party and the country.
The meeting held that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, China effectively responded to a series of major risks and challenges, and its economic strength, scientific and technological strength, and comprehensive national strength reached new levels. Chinese-style modernization has taken new and solid steps, and a good start has been made in the new journey toward the second centenary goal. The fundamental reason for achieving these major achievements lies in the leadership and direction of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, and in the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
The meeting emphasized that the CPPCC National Committee should take the in-depth study, publicity, and implementation of the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee as a major political task, profoundly understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," strengthen the "Four Consciousnesses," strengthen the "Four Confidences," and achieve the "Two Safeguards." It should profoundly understand and grasp the Party Central Committee's correct judgment on the domestic and international situation, profoundly understand and grasp the great significance, guiding ideology, major principles, major strategies, and fundamental guarantees of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and effectively unify thoughts and actions with the spirit of the plenary session. Based on the actual situation of the CPPCC, it should implement the spirit of the plenary session into all aspects of the CPPCC's work. It is necessary to adhere to the Party's comprehensive leadership, adhere to serving the central task and the overall situation, fully mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of all parties, groups, and people from all ethnic groups and all sectors of society participating in the CPPCC to devote themselves to the construction of Chinese-style modernization, and gather people's hearts, build consensus, gather wisdom, and gather strength for the formulation and implementation of the "15th Five-Year Plan."
The meeting reviewed and approved the "Work Plan of the CCP National Committee of the CPPCC on In-Depth Study, Publicity, and Implementation of the Spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee."
Shi Taifeng (石泰峰) and Hu Chunhua (胡春华), Deputy Secretaries of the Party Group of the CPPCC National Committee, and Party Group members Shen Yueyue (沈跃跃), Wang Yong (王勇), Zhou Qiang (周强), Batel (巴特尔), Chen Wu (陈武), Mu Hong (穆虹), Xian Hui (咸辉), Wang Dongfeng (王东峰), and Jiang Xinzhi (姜信治) attended the meeting and delivered speeches. Party members of the CPPCC National Committee's General Office and responsible comrades of the Party Groups of various special committees participated.
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"Realizing socialist modernization is a step-by-step, progressive, and continuously developing historical process." The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (党的二十届四中全会) coordinated the overall strategic situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the great changes unseen in a century in the world, deeply analyzed the profound and complex changes facing China's development environment, and made top-level designs and strategic plans for economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. It clarified the direction and path for the whole Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to continuously advance the great cause of Chinese-style modernization, which is inspiring and motivating.
Continuing the struggle is another general mobilization and deployment on the new journey.
Since its establishment, all the struggles our Party has led the people in have been to build our country into a modern and powerful socialist country and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Since the new era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平同志) at its core has carried forward the great historical initiative and led the whole Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to write a new chapter of "two miracles" (两大奇迹), and the new journey towards the second centenary goal has achieved a good start. The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is unstoppable! The successful convening of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (党的二十届四中全会) made systematic plans and strategic deployments for the next five years of development, which is a powerful mobilization for the whole country to take advantage of the unstoppable trend of rejuvenation and strive unswervingly towards the grand goal.
Scientifically formulating and continuously implementing five-year plans is an important political advantage of socialism with Chinese characteristics. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) pointed out: "A foreign leader once said to me that China has a great advantage, you always formulate various plans, and these plans can always be realized." During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央), we overcame difficulties and forged ahead, and our economic strength, scientific and technological strength, and comprehensive national strength reached new levels. The total economic volume is expected to reach about 140 trillion yuan this year, and the main goals and tasks of the "14th Five-Year Plan" are about to be successfully completed, and Chinese-style modernization has taken new and solid steps. Starting a new advance from a new starting point, the time has come and the momentum has been formed. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (党的二十届四中全会) studied the issue of the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal, precisely to accumulate momentum and better exert the strategic guiding role of the national development plan, and promote major breakthroughs in strategic tasks concerning the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization.
Practice has fully proved that the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央集中统一领导) is the fundamental guarantee for the Party to maintain unity and strong combat effectiveness and to continuously achieve victory. The "Two Establishments" ("两个确立") are of decisive significance for us to cope with various risks and challenges and promote Chinese-style modernization. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (党的二十届四中全会) deliberated and approved the "Proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" (《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十五个五年规划的建议》), calling for joint efforts to basically realize socialist modernization, which embodies the historical initiative to continue writing a new chapter of "two miracles" (两大奇迹) and strive to create a new situation in the construction of Chinese-style modernization, and demonstrates the strategic confidence of the Chinese people in unswervingly promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the nation with Chinese-style modernization.
In the "two-step" strategic arrangement made at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的二十大), the "15th Five-Year Plan" period is of great importance. This plenary session made a major judgment: the "15th Five-Year Plan" period has an important position of linking the past and opening up the future in the process of basically realizing socialist modernization. By 2035, socialist modernization will be basically realized. The "14th Five-Year Plan" period is the first five years, which has laid a solid foundation and achieved a good start. The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for consolidating the foundation and fully exerting efforts. Starting from this basic positioning to plan and deploy the development of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the plenary session put forward overall ideas, major principles, main goals, and strategic tasks, which not only maintain continuity with the concepts and ideas put forward in the "14th Five-Year Plan", but also accurately grasp the overall trend of China's development in the next five years, which is realistic and forward-looking. Seizing this important window of opportunity, consolidating and expanding advantages, breaking through bottlenecks and constraints, and strengthening weaknesses and shortcomings, and winning strategic initiative in fierce international competition will lay a more solid foundation for the basic realization of socialist modernization as scheduled.
Chinese-style modernization is a great cause unprecedented in history. The plenary session pointed out that China's development is in a period where strategic opportunities and risks and challenges coexist, and uncertain and unpredictable factors are increasing. The more complex the situation and the more arduous the tasks, the more important it is to be good at grasping the overall trend and actively recognizing, responding to, and seeking changes. It is necessary to deeply recognize that China's economic foundation is stable, its advantages are numerous, its resilience is strong, and its potential is great. The supporting conditions and basic trends for long-term improvement have not changed. The advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, the advantages of a super-large-scale market, the advantages of a complete industrial system, and the advantages of abundant human resources are even more prominent. It is necessary to keep in mind the "two overall situations" ("两个大局"), make good use of development opportunities, potential, and advantages, overcome difficulties, fight risks, and meet challenges with a historical initiative, and turn the grand blueprint into a beautiful reality.
At present and for a period of time to come, studying and implementing the spirit of the plenary session is a major political task for the whole Party and the whole country. We must unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平同志) at its core, fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想), unify our thoughts and actions with the major judgments and decisions made by the Party Central Committee (党中央), maintain strategic focus, enhance our confidence in victory, concentrate our efforts on doing our own things well, ensure that decisive progress is made in basically realizing socialist modernization, and continuously create a new situation in comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the nation with Chinese-style modernization.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 24th. The Standing Committee of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (中央纪委) convened a meeting on October 24th to convey, study, and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党). Li Xi (李希), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局常委) and Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (中央纪委书记), presided over the meeting. He emphasized that discipline inspection and supervision organs should deeply study and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session, more firmly support the "Two Establishments" and resolutely achieve the "Two Safeguards," practically unify thought and action with the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee (党中央), unremittingly promote comprehensive and strict Party governance, resolutely implement the Party's self-revolution requirements, and provide a strong guarantee for achieving the economic and social development goals of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
Li Xi (李希) pointed out that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, especially since the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee (二十届三中全会), facing the complex and volatile international situation and the arduous and heavy domestic reform, development, and stability tasks, the CPC Central Committee (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core united and led the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country, overcame difficulties and forged ahead, promoted new major achievements in the cause of the Party and the country, and took new solid steps in Chinese-style modernization, achieving a good start to the new journey toward the second centenary goal. Discipline inspection and supervision organs must deeply understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," always firmly maintain the confidence and determination to closely follow the General Secretary and forge ahead on the new journey, adhere to and strengthen the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央), consciously shoulder the major political responsibility of the "Two Safeguards," and unswervingly advance courageously along the direction guided by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平).
Li Xi (李希) emphasized that the "Suggestions of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" adopted by the plenary session is a programmatic document guiding economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and is another general mobilization and deployment to take advantage of the momentum and continue to advance the construction of Chinese-style modernization. Discipline inspection and supervision organs must completely, accurately, and comprehensively study and understand the spirit of the "Suggestions," deeply grasp the guiding ideology, major principles, main goals, strategic tasks, and fundamental guarantees for economic and social development in the next five years, accurately identify the entry points and focus points for service and guarantee, consolidate the responsibilities of all parties by strengthening political supervision, clear obstacles and escort high-quality development by rectifying conduct, enforcing discipline, and fighting corruption, and combine strict management with love and care to encourage responsibility and action, contributing to achieving decisive progress in basically realizing socialist modernization.
Li Xi (李希) emphasized that the plenary session made new deployments and new requirements for adhering to the Party's self-revolution to lead social revolution and unremittingly promoting comprehensive and strict Party governance. Discipline inspection and supervision organs must learn and understand in a connected way, earnestly grasp implementation, and promote the high-quality development of discipline inspection and supervision work on the new journey in a deep-going manner. It is necessary to adhere to using Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想) to strengthen the soul and build the foundation, deeply study and understand General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important thought on the Party's self-revolution, and practically use it to lead all discipline inspection and supervision work; to unremittingly implement the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation (中央八项规定), correct the "Four Forms of Decadence" and establish new conduct with a nail-driving spirit, and promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of conduct construction; to increase the efforts to simultaneously advance the "Three No's" (不敢腐、不能腐、不想腐), continuously deepen the rectification of unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems around the masses, and focus on eradicating the soil and conditions for breeding corruption; to promote the improvement of the Party and state supervision system, strengthen the standardization and supervision of power allocation and operation, and promote the better transformation of the advantages of the supervision system into national governance effectiveness.
Liu Jinguo (刘金国), Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央书记处书记) and Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (中央纪委副书记), attended the meeting.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王伟健
Adhere to the focus of developing the economy on the real economy, and adhere to the direction of intelligentization, greening, and integration.
——Excerpt from the "Communique of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China"
At 3 p.m. on October 22, on the electronic screen of the central control room of the China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. (华星光电技术有限公司) 8.5-generation LCD panel factory in Suzhou (苏州), Jiangsu (江苏) Province, the defect images of a coating repair equipment kept jumping. "This means that defective products have appeared on the production line. In the past, when this happened, technicians had to repeatedly identify and confirm. Now, there is no need for manual intervention. Our 'digital employees' will handle it," said Zhang Dongliang (章栋梁), public affairs manager of Suzhou (苏州) China Star (华星).
As he spoke, the "digital employee" had already taken action. First, it compared the real-time image of the product with the defect sample library, quickly found a breakpoint on the panel circuit, and then issued an operation command. The equipment in the workshop then carried out a "laser surgery" on the product. In a matter of seconds, the circuit breakpoint was repaired.
Today, Suzhou (苏州) China Star (华星) has "cloned" thousands of devices and every pipeline in the workshop into the electronic screen of the central control room, and the "digital brain" manages them intelligently.
"Producing an LCD panel requires more than 200 processes. It is not easy to tailor a 'digital brain' for such a complex production line," said You Wei (尤伟), director of intelligent manufacturing at the company.
In 2021, in order to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and enhance competitiveness, the company decided to carry out digital transformation of this large production line, and formed an artificial intelligence project team composed of dozens of senior engineers, with You Wei (尤伟) as the leader. "We encountered problems from the beginning," said You Wei (尤伟). Although he has rich experience in production management, he knows very little about digital algorithms; the talents introduced by the project team are proficient in algorithms, but they are laymen in panel production technology.
In order to solve this problem, You Wei (尤伟) studied digital algorithms. Gradually, the intelligent solution requirements he put forward became more and more professional, and everyone understood them as soon as they heard them, and the cooperation became more tacit.
The process of transformation has been a constant uphill climb. You Wei (尤伟) recalled that when the "digital employee" was first launched for testing, its performance was not satisfactory. For example, when black spots appeared on defective panels, the "digital employee" often could not distinguish whether they were foreign objects or broken lines.
In order to make the "digital employee" "smarter", the project team fed a large amount of scene data while continuing to optimize the algorithm. After trying thousands of solutions, the system was finally adjusted to its best state, and it could accurately determine the causes of various microscopic defects in the panel and make repair decisions. "Sometimes it is more reliable than the master," said You Hao (尤昊), the company's production supervisor. "Some time ago, the system analyzed the real-time data of an important equipment's torque, vibration, pressure and other dimensions, found that the equipment had a risk of failure and issued a warning, allowing us to intervene in advance and avoid losses."
At Suzhou (苏州) China Star (华星), artificial intelligence is applied to the entire process of research and development design, production and manufacturing, and equipment operation and maintenance, just like the company has a smart brain, sharp eyes, and dexterous hands. Compared with before the transformation, the company's yield rate has increased from 95% to 98%, operating costs have been reduced by 7.74%, and the total labor productivity has increased by 123.91%. "Before the production line was transformed, it took at least seven or eight days from a piece of glass substrate to an LCD panel. With the 'digital brain', it can be completed in 4 days," said Zhang Dongliang (章栋梁).
Return to TopBy: 尤 伟
For manufacturing enterprises, digital transformation is not an option, but a required answer. In 2021, we began a large-scale "intelligent transformation, digital upgrade, and network connection" of our production lines. At the beginning, we were unsure, thinking that such a large production line, to achieve true intelligence, we didn't know how long it would take.
There were no precedents in the industry, so we could only 摸着石头过河 (mō zhe shí tou guò hé - "feeling for stones to cross the river," to feel one's way; to proceed with caution). Over the years of R&D, we have taken detours and paid a lot, but fortunately the results are encouraging—although the scale of the production line has not expanded, the company's profits have increased significantly in recent years.
Along the way, I have increasingly realized that only by unswervingly adhering to innovation and daring to venture into one "uncharted territory" after another can enterprises forge ahead in the fierce market competition.
The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed to build a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone. Next, we will also accelerate the advancement of digital construction, anchor the vision of "a globally leading intelligent display enterprise," and stride forward on the road of high-quality development.
(The author is the Intelligent Manufacturing Director of Suzhou China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. (苏州华星光电技术有限公司), interviewed and compiled by Wang Weijian (王伟健), reporter of this newspaper.)
This issue is coordinated by Qi Jiarun (祁嘉润).
Return to TopBy: 李 杨
The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed maintaining a reasonable proportion of manufacturing and building a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone.
Traditional manufacturing is the main body of China's manufacturing industry, the foundation of the modern industrial system, and an important basis for supporting national economic development and meeting the needs of people's lives. After years of development, China's traditional manufacturing industry has the advantages of large scale, low cost, good supporting facilities, and strong resources.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, through the implementation of the manufacturing technology transformation and upgrading project, accelerating equipment renewal, process upgrading, digital empowerment, and management innovation, we will promote the transformation of traditional manufacturing to high-end, intelligent, green, and integrated directions. In terms of high-end development, the brand reputation of traditional manufacturing has been greatly improved, and high-quality products sell well all over the world. In terms of intelligence, more than 230 excellent-level smart factories and 1,260 5G factories have been built, and the newly installed industrial robots account for more than 50% of the world. In terms of green development, the comprehensive energy consumption of unit products such as steel and cement clinker has generally reached the world's advanced level. In terms of integration, new technologies such as big data and cloud computing are widely used in traditional manufacturing industries such as textiles, clothing, chemicals, and building materials, promoting the transformation of traditional manufacturing from single manufacturing to "manufacturing + service."
The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a crucial stage for completing the goal of basically realizing new industrialization by 2035, and it is necessary to vigorously promote the transformation of traditional manufacturing from scale development to value creation. It is necessary to strengthen technology empowerment and standard leadership, make good use of policy tools such as new technology transformation and large-scale equipment renewal, accelerate the improvement of industrial development quality and efficiency, and stabilize the "basic plate" of manufacturing development.
(The author is Liu Wenxin (刘温馨), Deputy Director of the Planning Institute of the CCID Research Institute (赛迪研究院), interviewed and compiled by a reporter from this newspaper.)
Return to TopBy: 清华大学党委书记 邱 勇 清华大学校长 李路明
The world-renowned physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor of Tsinghua University, and Honorary Dean of the Institute for Advanced Study at Tsinghua University, Mr. Yang Zhenning (杨振宁), passed away due to illness in Beijing (北京) on October 18, 2025, at the age of 103. His death means that Tsinghua has lost a great teacher, and China and the world have lost a scientific giant.
Mr. Yang Zhenning (杨振宁) was one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, making outstanding contributions to the development of modern physics. The "Yang-Mills gauge field theory" he proposed with Mills laid the foundation for the standard model of particle physics and is considered one of the cornerstones of modern physics, comparable to Maxwell's equations and Einstein's general theory of relativity as one of the most important basic physical theories. His collaboration with Li Zhengdao (李政道) to propose the revolutionary idea of parity non-conservation in weak interactions won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly becoming the first Chinese people to win the Nobel Prize. He discovered the key equation for one-dimensional quantum many-body problems, the "Yang-Baxter equation," opening up new directions in physics and mathematics research such as statistical physics and quantum groups. His many achievements in particle physics, field theory, statistical physics, and condensed matter physics have had a profound impact on the development of physics.
Mr. Yang Zhenning (杨振宁) compared his life to "a circle," starting from Tsinghua Garden (清华园) in his youth and eventually returning to his homeland, 落叶归根 (luò yè guī gēn - "fallen leaves return to their roots," returning to one's origin). In 1929, Yang Zhenning's (杨振宁) father, Mr. Yang Wuzhi (杨武之), was hired as a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Tsinghua. At that time, the 7-year-old Yang Zhenning (杨振宁) came to Tsinghua Garden (清华园) with his parents and spent eight years in an environment filled with famous teachers and a pure and enthusiastic academic atmosphere. In 1938, he was admitted to the National Southwestern Associated University (西南联合大学), where he was "the best student." In 1942, he entered the Tsinghua University (清华大学) Graduate School to study for a master's degree, and in 1944, he obtained a Master of Science degree. In 1945, he went to the United States as a Tsinghua (清华) publicly funded student, obtained a doctorate in 1948, and joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1949, thus beginning his brilliant academic career.
Mr. Yang Zhenning (杨振宁) once said emotionally: "I grew up in Tsinghua Garden (清华园) and have deep feelings for every plant and tree in the garden. I am willing to do my best to help Tsinghua University (清华大学) develop during my lifetime." In 1997, he founded the Advanced Research Center at Tsinghua (清华) (renamed the Institute for Advanced Study in 2009) and served as its honorary director. He became a professor at Tsinghua University (清华大学) in 1999. He personally raised funds to establish the Tsinghua University (清华大学) Advanced Research Center Foundation to promote talent introduction and discipline construction. In 2001, the famous mathematician Lin Jiaqiao (林家翘) taught at Tsinghua (清华) at the strong invitation of Mr. Yang Zhenning (杨振宁), and later a group of outstanding scholars were hired as Tsinghua (清华) professors. In 2003, Mr. Yang Zhenning (杨振宁) returned to Tsinghua Garden (清华园) to settle down. He regarded revitalizing the glory of Tsinghua's (清华) science department as "the last worthwhile thing to do in this life," personally practicing and working tirelessly, making irreplaceable contributions to the school's basic discipline development and talent cultivation, and having an important impact on the reform and development of China's higher education.
From studying at Tsinghua Garden (清华园) to understanding the mysteries of the universe, from cultivating the three-foot platform to adhering to patriotism, Mr. Yang Zhenning (杨振宁) walked in the light throughout his life, as he wished, dedicating his ideals, unyielding and unbending, writing a magnificent and immortal life. Mr. Yang Zhenning (杨振宁) has left us, but his spirit shines like a bright star for thousands of years.
Mr. Yang Zhenning's (杨振宁) life shines with the scientific spirit of exploring truth and pursuing excellence. Mr. Yang Zhenning (杨振宁) had a keen academic taste for observing the forefront of science. During his studies at the National Southwestern Associated University (西南联合大学), he was influenced by two famous physicists, Wu Dayou (吴大猷) and Wang Zhuxi (王竹溪), and entered the fields of symmetry principles and statistical mechanics, which he regarded as his lifelong research directions. He said that "finding a field with future development" is the most important thing for a scholar's life, "be clear about the direction, choose the right direction." As early as the 1980s and 1990s, he paid attention to fields such as quantum entanglement, macroscopic quantum phenomena, and cold atoms, which were still in their infancy. Today, these fields have become the mainstream directions of physics. He always maintained an infinite love for science and a persistent pursuit of truth, diligently seeking on the road of exploring the unknown. As early as when he was studying at the University of Chicago, Yang Zhenning (杨振宁) began to think about expanding the concept of gauge invariance in electromagnetism. He maintained a strong interest in this issue, and when inspiration suddenly struck, he even wrote down the derivation details of calculating gauge field theory on the back of his boarding pass. He tried to study it several times but gave up because "the more he calculated, the more complex the formula became, the 'uglier' it became," until he found a new calculation method to solve the problem and proposed the "Yang-Mills gauge field theory." Later, several related research results won the Nobel Prize. In his youth, he dared to question and not follow the rules, extracting information from a large amount of experimental data, boldly proposing the revolutionary concept of parity non-conservation in weak interactions, and withstanding the pressure of "challenging the entire physics community," he proposed possible experimental verification schemes. This concept was quickly confirmed by experiments and ultimately completely rewrote human understanding of symmetry.
Mr. Yang Zhenning (杨振宁) was committed to exploring the truth of science and the beauty of nature, forming a unique academic style, and with his profound thinking and extraordinary intuition, he made a series of far-reaching scientific discoveries.
Mr. Yang Zhenning's (杨振宁) life is full of the patriotic feelings of being grateful for the country's kindness and caring for the country. Mr. Yang Zhenning (杨振宁) kept in mind his father's teaching that "one should always be grateful for the country's kindness," and no matter where he was, he always cared about his motherland. He used his world-renowned academic achievements to prove to the world that Chinese people can also inscribe their names in the glorious history of modern science. He said, "I am proud of my Chinese ancestry and background," "My most important contribution in my life is to help change the psychological effect that Chinese people feel inferior to others." In 1971, when there were just signs of thawing in Sino-US relations, Mr. Yang Zhenning (杨振宁) immediately returned to China for a visit. Seeing the independent and self-reliant image of the Chinese people after standing up and the great progress in science and technology, he was excited and excited. When he learned from Deng Jiaxian's (邓稼先) letter that China's first atomic bomb was made by the Chinese themselves, he was greatly emotionally shocked and his eyes were filled with tears. After returning to the United States, he introduced the achievements of the new China to many universities, which had a wide impact on overseas Chinese scholars and was known as the first person to build a bridge for Sino-US academic exchanges. In 1977, he organized the establishment of the National Association of Chinese Americans and served as its president, actively promoting the normalization of Sino-US diplomatic relations.
In the decades since then, Mr. Yang Zhenning (杨振宁) has done a lot of work to promote China's scientific and technological exchanges and progress. Starting from the overall situation of national development, he provided key opinions for the formulation of China's major scientific projects and science and education policies. He has successively helped domestic universities such as Sun Yat-sen University (中山大学) and Nankai University (南开大学) establish basic science research institutions such as theoretical physics. In 1982, he wrote to central leaders, putting forward opinions and suggestions on the strategic issues and development direction of China's scientific research undertakings. From 1997 to 2005, he wrote to central leaders many times, strongly advocating that China should immediately develop free electron lasers, making a historic contribution to China's construction of free electron laser devices. In 2015, Mr. Yang Zhenning (杨振宁) gave up his American citizenship and then changed from a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He said: "What circulates in my body is my father's blood, the blood of Chinese culture." On the occasion of his 100th birthday, Mr. Yang Zhenning (杨振宁) responded affectionately to his close friend Deng Jiaxian's (邓稼先) 50-year-old gift of "I hope we all live long and share the same path even thousands of miles apart," he said emotionally: "Jiaxian (稼先), I understand the meaning of your 'common path', I can confidently tell you that my next 50 years are in line with your expectations of the 'common path'."
Mr. Yang Zhenning's (杨振宁) life demonstrates the master demeanor of cultivating talents and benefiting future generations. In the 1980s, Mr. Yang Zhenning (杨振宁) initiated the establishment of the "Committee on Educational Exchange with China" abroad, raising funds from overseas entrepreneurs to actively support Chinese scholars to visit and study in the United States. In the past 10 years, nearly 100 scholars have received this funding to study in the United States. Later, a large number of outstanding talents emerged from these people, playing an important role in their respective fields and becoming the backbone of scientific and technological development. Mr. Yang Zhenning (杨振宁) is very concerned about education and has put forward insightful views on the positioning and structure of talent cultivation in China. He said that the accumulation of knowledge is not the purpose, the purpose of university education is to train young people with independent thinking ability. He believes that students should not be allowed to "become more timid as they study," and students should be encouraged to dare to ask questions and question authority. He used his profound academic wisdom to guide future generations to "pay attention to osmotic learning," guiding students not to stick to step-by-step learning methods, to widely dabble in the forefront and constantly broaden their knowledge, and to unknowingly master knowledge in practice and failure.
During his tenure as Honorary Dean of the Institute for Advanced Study at Tsinghua University (清华大学), Mr. Yang Zhenning (杨振宁) carefully studied the academic background and existing academic achievements of each candidate he recruited. He personally supervised doctoral students, held high-level international seminars, and created a platform for students to directly face and talk with scientific masters. With his profound vision, he observed the development of disciplines, led young scholars into new fields, and devoted a lot of effort to the development of basic disciplines such as cold atom physics, condensed matter physics, and cryptography at Tsinghua University (清华大学). At the age of 80, he taught the "University Physics" course to freshmen, walked onto the podium in a shirt, and explained basic physical concepts in detail. In one in-depth and simple report after another, in one face-to-face exchange after another, Mr. Yang Zhenning (杨振宁) imparted the way of learning, and the students wholeheartedly felt the beauty of physics. He often discussed problems face-to-face with undergraduate students majoring in physics, and was willing to be a "guide pine" for young students.
Mr. Yang Zhenning's (杨振宁) life shows the ideological realm of preferring clumsiness to cleverness and preferring simplicity to extravagance. "Clumsiness" is the down-to-earth adherence, and "simplicity" is the true nature of washing away the lead. Mr. Yang Zhenning (杨振宁) upholds the gentleman's style in the Chinese cultural tradition, is rigorous and solid in his studies, and is sincere and pure in his behavior. He often said, "Don't be clever when you first start doing things. Only when you are familiar with it honestly can you talk about cleverness. You need simple things, not superficial things." He firmly believes that "articles are eternal, and gains and losses are known in the heart," research must stand the test of time, and writing should be concise and to the point. In his twilight years, he still published academic papers as an independent author, and at the age of 95, he still personally deduced formulas on manuscript paper. Even at the age of 97, in order to understand the latest progress in the construction of the National Major Science and Technology Infrastructure, he personally went to the underground laboratory of the Spallation Neutron Source for inspection. Based on scientific judgment, he put forward clear propositions and suggested that limited resources be invested in research directions urgently needed by the country.
Mr. Yang Zhenning (杨振宁) treats people equally, humbly and gently, and seeks simplicity in his food, clothing, and use. Even on formal visits, he does not pay attention to reception specifications. When the Chinese Physical Society held a meeting in 1995, he was "left behind" by the pick-up staff because he was sitting in economy class and queuing to get off the plane. After returning to China, he donated to Tsinghua (清华) many times and continued to contribute to the development of the school.
In a life journey spanning more than a century, Mr. Yang Zhenning (杨振宁) has achieved academic achievements that stand as tall as mountains and are as broad as the sea, and has written an eternal chapter of contributing to the world and caring for the country. After his death, batches of Tsinghua (清华) teachers and students and people from all walks of life spontaneously came to queue up outside the Tsinghua University (清华大学) Science Museum where he worked. Everyone was dressed in plain clothes, with solemn faces, slowly walked into the memorial room, and stared at Mr. Yang Zhenning's (杨振宁) portrait for a long time and bowed deeply. The majority of teachers and students came to the Yang Zhenning (杨振宁) Bookstore in the school library, either to browse the collection of books, or to stop and feel, or to write down their endless condolences in the guestbook, expressing their determination to inherit Mr. Yang Zhenning's (杨振宁) academic spirit and patriotic feelings.
In more than a century, Mr. Yang Zhenning (杨振宁) personally experienced the history of the Chinese nation walking through the long night, ushering in the dawn, and heading towards the light. Realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is Mr. Yang Zhenning's (杨振宁) long-cherished wish, and it is also the long-cherished wish of every Chinese person. Mr. Yang Zhenning's (杨振宁) personality and scientific contributions have been forged into a precious and hot spiritual fire, illuminating countless followers to move forward firmly on the road of serving the country with sincerity and seeking up and down. We must turn grief into strength, learn from Mr. Yang Zhenning's (杨振宁) noble character and lofty spirit, keep in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest entrustment, adhere to the original mission of cultivating people for the Party and cultivating talents for the country, inherit and carry forward the glorious tradition of patriotism, dedication, and pursuit of excellence, bravely climb the peak of science, and be determined to innovate and create, and make Tsinghua (清华) contributions worthy of the motherland, the people, and the times on the new journey of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), October 24)
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on October 24th (Reporter Peng Bo (彭波)) The 18th session of the 14th National People's Congress Standing Committee passed the decision on establishing Taiwan Retrocession Day on the 24th through voting, establishing October 25th as Taiwan Retrocession Day in legal form, and stipulating that the state will hold commemorative activities in various forms.
The decision pointed out that in 1945, all Chinese sons and daughters, including Taiwan compatriots, 前仆后继 (qián pū hòu jì - "fall in front, followed by others," advance dauntlessly in wave upon wave) and fought bravely, achieving the great victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. Taiwan was subsequently retroceded, returning to the embrace of the motherland. The retrocession of Taiwan is an important achievement of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, an important ironclad proof of the Chinese government's restoration of the exercise of sovereignty over Taiwan, an important link in the historical fact and legal chain of Taiwan as a part of China, and the common glory of compatriots on both sides of the strait and the national memory of all Chinese sons and daughters. In order to safeguard the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War and the post-war international order, demonstrate the firm will to adhere to the One China principle and defend national sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity, strengthen the common national historical memory of compatriots on both sides of the strait, promote the spirit of patriotism, and encourage compatriots on both sides of the strait to make new contributions to national reunification and national rejuvenation in the new era and new journey, according to the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, the 18th session of the 14th National People's Congress Standing Committee made the decision to establish Taiwan Retrocession Day.
Shen Chunyao (沈春耀), Director of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, introduced the draft decision to the Standing Committee, stating that on October 25, 1945, the surrender ceremony of Taiwan Province of the China War Zone was held in Taipei (台北), and from then on, Taiwan and the Penghu Islands (澎湖列岛) returned to the jurisdiction of Chinese sovereignty. In recent years, deputies to the National People's Congress, members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and Taiwan compatriots have repeatedly put forward suggestions requesting the establishment of Taiwan Retrocession Day and the holding of commemorative activities. The establishment of Taiwan Retrocession Day and the holding of commemorative activities at the national level are conducive to embodying the indisputable historical fact that Taiwan is an inseparable part of China, consolidating the international community's adherence to the One China pattern, leading compatriots on both sides of the strait to inherit and promote the great spirit of the War of Resistance, and encouraging all Chinese sons and daughters to unite and fight for the reunification of the motherland and the rejuvenation of the nation.
(Related reports on pages 4 and 6)
Return to TopBy: 新华社记者 张晓松 朱基钗 本报记者 杜尚泽 陈世涵
The era moves forward step by step, and history writes new chapters in continuous struggle. In 2025, a rich and colorful stroke will be left in the magnificent process of Chinese-style modernization.
From October 20th to 23rd, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) was successfully held in Beijing (北京). The plenary session listened to and discussed the work report delivered by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) entrusted by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, and deliberated and approved the "Proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" (《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十五个五年规划的建议》). General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) explained the "Proposal (Draft for Discussion)" to the plenary session.
This is the third Five-Year Plan proposal formulated by the Party Central Committee since the new era, and also the first Five-Year Plan proposal on the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country.
Standing at the historical intersection of inheriting the past and opening up the future, the Chinese Communists (中国共产党人) in the new era carry forward the great historical initiative, and with firm strategic clarity, broad strategic vision, and systematic strategic deployment, they have issued a bold declaration to take advantage of the situation and continue to promote the construction of Chinese-style modernization, and continue to write new chapters of the two major miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability.
Inheriting the past and opening up the future, continuing the struggle—
"Realizing socialist modernization is a historical process of step-by-step progress and continuous development"
The modernization dreams of several generations are more tangible and within reach than ever before in today's China (中国). From the "First Five-Year Plan" to the "14th Five-Year Plan," we have been moving forward through wind and rain, and fighting one after another. Now, we are only 10 years away from basically realizing socialist modernization.
Formulating medium- and long-term plans to guide economic and social development is an important way for the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) to govern the country, and also an important political advantage of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
In the East of the world, the largest modernization practice in human history continues to unfold a magnificent blueprint. The convening of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee has attracted global attention.
Foreign media have commented: "This meeting is crucial to determining the long-term policies of the world's second-largest economy." "China (中国) will reaffirm a sound and pragmatic development vision, which is supporting it to resist the impact of global uncertainties and maintain its development momentum." "This reflects China's (中国) firm confidence in its own governance model. China's (中国) long-term development orientation enables it to look beyond short-term turbulence."
On the morning of the 20th, the conference room on the first floor of the Jingxi Hotel (京西宾馆) conference building. Amid warm applause, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and other leading comrades of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee entered the venue.
Entrusted by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) delivered a work report to the plenary session, reviewing the development process since last year: "Faced with the multiple difficulties and challenges encountered in economic development, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee took the initiative to act and implement comprehensive policies, resolutely deployed and implemented a package of incremental policies, focusing on stabilizing employment, stabilizing enterprises, stabilizing the market, and stabilizing expectations, and promoting new achievements in high-quality development. The growth rate of domestic production value reached 5% and 5.2% respectively for the whole year of last year and the first three quarters of this year."
On the opening day of the plenary session, China's (中国) economic "three-quarter report" was released to the public: In the first three quarters, China's (中国) domestic production value exceeded 100 trillion yuan, an increase of 5.2% year-on-year, reflecting the super resilience of the super-large economy against the background of various risks and challenges intertwined.
From the Political Bureau of the Central Committee meeting on September 26 last year to the Political Bureau of the Central Committee meeting on April 25 this year, the two "key moments of intervention" in macro-control fully demonstrated the courage and wisdom of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core in leading the giant ship of China (中国) through stormy waves.
Looking back at the past five years, how many high winds and rapid waves, how many difficulties and challenges, have grown in the baptism of wind and rain, and grown stronger in the face of tests.
China's (中国) total economic volume has successively crossed the 110 trillion yuan, 120 trillion yuan, and 130 trillion yuan mark, and is expected to reach about 140 trillion yuan by the end of 2025; the global innovation index ranking has jumped to tenth, becoming one of the fastest-growing economies in terms of innovation; the per capita domestic production value has exceeded 13,000 US dollars for two consecutive years...
**事非经过不知难** (shì fēi jīng guò bù zhī nán - "you don't know how difficult things are until you've experienced them," one only understands the difficulty of something by going through it). These achievements were achieved under the severe impact of the century-old epidemic, won under the accelerated evolution of the century-old changes and the more severe and complex international situation, and achieved in the face of domestic development under pressure.
"'The 14th Five-Year Plan' period was extremely unusual and extraordinary in China's (中国) development process." "China's (中国) economic strength, scientific and technological strength, and comprehensive national strength have reached a new level, Chinese-style modernization has taken new and solid steps, and the new journey towards the second centenary goal has achieved a good start." The summary and judgment of the major achievements made in China's (中国) development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period in the draft proposal resonated widely among the comrades present.
A member of the Central Committee said that the achievements of the "14th Five-Year Plan" are not only reflected in the data, but also in the direct feelings of the general public about the strong strength, vigorous vitality, great potential, and surging power of China's (中国) development.
"Extremely unusual, extremely extraordinary" - from these eight characters, we can deeply feel the danger of wading through shoals, the difficulty of climbing slopes, and the difficulty of tackling tough problems.
The comrades present unanimously agreed that China (中国) has always had a unique landscape in the world of change and chaos, which is fundamentally due to General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) leadership and the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The "Two Establishments" are the fundamental political guarantee for promoting Chinese-style modernization and continuing to write new chapters of the two major miracles in the new era and on the new journey.
Historical development is the unity of continuity and stages. On the basis of comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society, basically realizing socialist modernization by 2035 requires the implementation of three five-year plans: the "14th Five-Year Plan," the "15th Five-Year Plan," and the "16th Five-Year Plan."
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out: "Determining the goals of struggle in accordance with the laws of economic and social development, and uniting and striving towards the goals consistently, is a distinct characteristic and unique advantage of our Party. Realizing socialist modernization is a historical process of step-by-step progress and continuous development, which requires unremitting efforts and continuous struggle."
Being in the midst of a magnificent historical process, major coordinates give people a strong sense of pride, mission, direction, and responsibility: During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, we won the battle against poverty, comprehensively built a moderately prosperous society, and achieved the first centenary goal; during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, we must achieve the centenary goal of the army as scheduled, and complete the reform tasks proposed by the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee by the 80th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (新中国).
In the latitude and longitude of time and space, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out the great significance of continuing the struggle: "'The 14th Five-Year Plan' period is the first five years, and a solid foundation has been laid and a good start has been achieved. 'The 15th Five-Year Plan' period is a key period for consolidating the foundation and fully exerting efforts. The formulation and implementation of the '15th Five-Year Plan' will lay a more solid foundation for basically realizing socialist modernization in 2035."
"Consolidating the foundation and fully exerting efforts" - from these eight characters, we can deeply understand the historical position and important mission of the "15th Five-Year Plan" in inheriting the past and opening up the future.
The comrades present unanimously stated that the draft proposal grasps the general trend of the world and is based on China's (中国) national conditions, and has made top-level designs and strategic blueprints for the next five years, drawing a magnificent and magnificent development blueprint. It is another general mobilization and general deployment to take advantage of the situation and continue to promote the construction of Chinese-style modernization, which will surely have a major and far-reaching impact on the development of the Party and the country.
Focusing on the overall situation and planning systematically—
"Ensure that decisive progress is made in basically realizing socialist modernization"
When a "Proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development (Draft for Discussion)" (《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十五个五年规划的建议（讨论稿）》) of about 20,000 words was placed in front of them, every comrade present felt a heavy weight.
A member of the drafting group of the document said that General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) personally served as the leader of the drafting group of the Fourth Plenary Session document, and played a decisive role in guiding and directing the drafting of the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal, and Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is the "outline" and "soul" that runs through the draft proposal.
Delivered an important speech at the first plenary meeting of the drafting group of the document, putting forward clear directions and requirements; presided over a symposium on economic and social development in some provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period in Shanghai (上海) to listen to opinions and suggestions; combined with inspections or attendance at activities in Northeast China, Guizhou (贵州), Yunnan (云南), Henan (河南), Shanxi (山西), Tibet (西藏), Xinjiang (新疆) and other places, conducted research on economic and social development; requested to carry out online solicitation of opinions on the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal, and made important instructions; presided over meetings of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and meetings of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee for many times to deliberate and revise the draft proposal...
Adhering to the principle of seeking truth from facts, carrying out in-depth investigations and research, and fully absorbing the wisdom of all parties is another vivid practice of promoting intra-party democracy and whole-process people's democracy.
"Comrades, deliberating and approving the '15th Five-Year Plan' 'Proposal' is the main task of this plenary session. Everyone should think carefully, discuss in depth, put forward constructive opinions and suggestions, and jointly make this plenary session a success and revise the 'Proposal' draft well." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) instructed at the first plenary meeting of the plenary session.
In the spirit of being highly responsible for the cause of the Party and the country, the comrades present carefully studied the documents, conscientiously studied and thought, and conducted in-depth discussions and exchanges.
From the afternoon of the 20th to the morning of the 23rd, the members and alternate members of the Central Committee attending the meeting were divided into 10 groups, and the personnel attending the meeting were incorporated into each group to conduct group discussions on the conference documents. Central leaders went deep into each group to listen to opinions and suggestions, and exchanged and discussed with everyone.
Correctly judging the situation is an important prerequisite for scientific decision-making. Thinking in the historical process of Chinese-style modernization, and planning in the broad background of the intertwined and turbulent two major situations.
The draft proposal analyzes the profound and complex changes in China's (中国) development environment during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period—
"The relations between major powers affect the international situation, and the evolution of the international situation profoundly affects domestic development. China's (中国) development is in a period where strategic opportunities and risks and challenges coexist, and uncertain and unpredictable factors are increasing."
Changes contain opportunities, and challenges inspire fighting spirit. Firm confidence is crucial, and the spirit of historical initiative is crucial.
Insight into the times and the situation, grasping the crisis and the opportunity, coordinating the establishment and the destruction, and connecting the inside and the outside, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) looked far ahead: "We must seize this window of time, consolidate and expand advantages, break through bottlenecks and constraints, strengthen weaknesses and shortcomings, win strategic initiative in fierce international competition, promote major breakthroughs in strategic tasks related to the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization, and ensure that decisive progress is made in basically realizing socialist modernization."
Opening the draft proposal, the entire 15 parts list 61 articles, divided into three major sections, adhering to the goal orientation and problem orientation, adhering to systematic thinking, adhering to further comprehensively deepening reform, and adhering to expanding opening up to the outside world, comprehensively deploying economic and social development and all aspects of Party building.
The theme is particularly clear - in the same vein as the "14th Five-Year Plan," the draft proposal continues to determine promoting high-quality development as the theme of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, requiring "adhering to economic construction as the center."
Development is the **硬道理** (yìng dào lǐ - "the hard truth," the absolute principle), and high-quality development is the primary task of comprehensively building a modern socialist country. In the report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) clearly emphasized: "Without a solid material and technological foundation, it is impossible to comprehensively build a strong modern socialist country."
The goal is very clear - high-quality development has achieved remarkable results, the level of scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement has been greatly improved, new breakthroughs have been made in further comprehensively deepening reform, the level of social civilization has been significantly improved, the quality of people's lives has been continuously improved, new major progress has been made in the construction of a beautiful China (中国), and the national security barrier has been further consolidated.
An expression in the draft proposal is inspiring, "the per capita domestic production value will reach the level of moderately developed countries" by 2035. In this regard, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Basically realizing socialist modernization in 2035, an important symbolic indicator is that the per capita domestic production value reaches the level of moderately developed countries, which requires economic and social development to maintain an appropriate speed during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period."
The weight of economic development is very heavy - involving ideas and key tasks in key areas such as industrial development, technological innovation, domestic market, economic system, opening up to the outside world, rural revitalization, and regional development, while deploying work in various fields such as cultural construction, people's livelihood security, green development, safe development, and national defense construction.
"Building a modern industrial system and consolidating and strengthening the foundation of the real economy" is placed in the first part of the sub-argument, requiring maintaining a reasonable proportion of manufacturing and building a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone.
Since the beginning of this year, from inspecting bearing manufacturing enterprises in Luoyang (洛阳), Henan (河南), to inspecting valve manufacturing enterprises in Yangquan (阳泉), Shanxi (山西), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has repeatedly emphasized that "promoting Chinese-style modernization requires continuing to do a good job in manufacturing" and "**实业兴国，实干兴邦**" (shí yè xīng guó, shí gàn xīng bāng - "industry revitalizes the country, hard work builds the country," developing the real economy is crucial for national prosperity). A large country must have a large country's weight, and it cannot be detached from the real economy. We must put development on the basis of our own strength.
The color of reform and innovation is very sufficient - there are both new deployments such as comprehensively enhancing independent innovation capabilities, comprehensively implementing the "artificial intelligence +" action, and empowering thousands of industries in an all-round way, and new requirements such as accelerating the construction of a new development pattern, adhering to the close combination of benefiting the people's livelihood and promoting consumption, and investing in things and investing in people. It is a development blueprint and also a new chapter of reform.
At that symposium in Shanghai (上海), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, we must put the development of new quality productive forces in a more prominent strategic position in accordance with local conditions. At this plenary session, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) once again reminded: "Developing new quality productive forces requires certain endowments and conditions. We must fully consider the feasibility of reality. The 'Proposal' draft emphasizes developing new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, which is to guide everyone to carry out work scientifically, rationally, and realistically, and prevent rushing into action."
Chinese-style modernization puts the people's livelihood first. When planning the "14th Five-Year Plan," the Party Central Committee document for the first time proposed making more obvious and substantial progress in the common prosperity of all people as a long-term goal.
At this plenary session, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) said: "The 'Proposal' draft highlights the solid progress in the common prosperity of all people in the guiding ideology, which is an overall requirement for guiding economic and social development during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period."
A grassroots comrade who attended this meeting was very emotional: Being able to attend the Party Central Committee plenary session deeply felt General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and the Party Central Committee's consistent concern for the people, listening to the grassroots people's feelings and pragmatic style, the proposal draft has a full temperature of people's livelihood, saying "top-level things," operating "grassroots hearts," is not only a grand blueprint for national development, but also depicts a picture of everyone's happy life.
Uniting as one, working together—
"Gathering mighty forces for promoting Chinese-style modernization"
On the afternoon of the 23rd, the banquet hall on the second floor of the Great Hall of the People (人民大会堂), the lights were shining brightly, and the Second Plenary Session of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was held here.
In the center of the curtain on the rostrum, the golden emblem of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) shines brightly, witnessing another historic moment.
The meeting adopted the "Proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" (《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十五个五年规划的建议》) by a show of hands.
"Passed!" General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) voice resounded throughout the venue, and the applause was thunderous.
The blueprint has been drawn, and the horn has been sounded.
"Studying and implementing the spirit of the plenary session is a major political task for the entire Party and the entire country in the current and future periods." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) put forward clear requirements for the next step of work, "We must quickly set off a wave of studying and implementing the spirit of the plenary session, and organize the study, publicity, and promotion of the spirit of the plenary session in various ways, so that the entire Party and the entire society can understand the spirit of the plenary session well."
Chinese-style modernization is a great and arduous undertaking. The comprehensive and systematic grand blueprint requires grasping the essentials, detailing the specifics, extending broadly, and refining meticulously.
"The 'Recommendations' deploy strategic tasks that have significant traction, driving force, and support for advancing Chinese-style modernization." "These strategic tasks have strong foresight, pertinence, and guidance. The entire Party must deeply understand and grasp them, and earnestly implement the decision-making intentions, objectives, requirements, major measures, and work priorities of these strategic tasks."
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that in the process of implementing the spirit of the Plenary Session, the following points should be emphasized—unswervingly promoting high-quality development, accelerating the construction of a new development pattern, making solid progress in promoting common prosperity for all the people, better coordinating development and security, and coordinating the advancement of work in various fields.
In accordance with the requirements of coordinating the overall layout of the "Five-Sphere Integrated Plan" and coordinating the strategic layout of the "Four Comprehensives," the "Recommendations" adhere to economic construction as the center and make arrangements for political construction, cultural construction, social construction, ecological civilization construction, and Party construction.
"Basically realizing socialist modernization requires the coordinated development and overall advancement of various undertakings." "This requires us to fully grasp and implement it in our actual work, and we cannot focus on one thing and lose sight of the other."
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) provided strategic guidance for the comprehensive, scientific, and precise implementation of the spirit of the Plenary Session: "All regions and departments must adhere to the concept of systems, consciously act under the overall situation, and play a good game of 'national chess.' We must be good at 'playing the piano,' planning for one area without forgetting the whole, basing ourselves on the present without ignoring the long term, and highlighting key points without neglecting the general. We should pay attention to the coordination of various policies, maintain the consistency of macroeconomic policy orientation, and prevent and overcome departmentalism and local protectionism."
Realizing the people's aspiration for a better life is the starting point and foothold of Chinese-style modernization.
"We must adhere to our original aspiration, consider issues from the people's standpoint, adhere to guaranteeing and improving people's livelihood in development, and steadily promote common prosperity." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) said earnestly, "We must strengthen inclusive, basic, and guaranteed people's livelihood construction, steadily promote the equalization of basic public services, better meet the needs of the masses in employment, education, social security, housing, medical care, elderly care, marriage, childbirth, childcare, etc., and continuously enhance the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security."
Adhering to and strengthening the Party's overall leadership is the fundamental guarantee for advancing Chinese-style modernization. "The more complex and volatile the situation and the more arduous and heavy the tasks, the more important it is to adhere to, utilize, and develop the Party's leadership, which is the greatest advantage."
To govern a country, one must first govern the Party; only when the Party prospers can the country be strong. Leading social revolution with the Party's self-revolution, and creating a new realm of Chinese governance with the governance of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), this is the core code of the Chinese miracle, and the fundamental reason why the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has gone from "irreversible" to "unstoppable."
"The more effective the Party's governance, the stronger the guarantee for economic and social development." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out the dialectical unity between them, "The Party's self-revolution and economic and social development are closely linked, mutually promoting, and mutually reinforcing. Through the Party's self-revolution, promoting new trends and righteousness, correcting stubborn maladies, creating a good political ecology, encouraging cadres to take responsibility, and uniting the people's hearts and strength, we can continuously inject positive energy into economic and social development."
The Plenary Session reviewed and approved the review reports on the serious violations of discipline and law by a number of leading cadres, demonstrating the firm determination to carry out the building of Party conduct and integrity and the anti-corruption struggle to the end.
"Endless troubles will arise if we do not fight corruption with an iron fist. 沉舟侧畔千帆过，病树前头万木春 (chén zhōu cè pàn qiān fān guò, bìng shù qián tóu wàn mù chūn - "a thousand sails pass by the sunken boat, ten thousand trees flourish in front of the diseased tree," new things replace the old; a metaphor for the inevitable replacement of the old by the new)." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) said firmly, "We must always maintain a high-pressure posture against corruption, investigate and deal with corruption cases in accordance with the law and regulations, severely punish corrupt elements, and do so without stopping for a moment or retreating half a step. We must never allow corrupt elements to have any hiding place, and no one should harbor any illusions or wishful thinking."
After successfully completing all the agenda items, the Plenary Session successfully closed. Everyone stood up, and the majestic "Internationale" resounded through the people's hall, connecting history, reality, and the future.
More than 130 years ago, Engels said: A party that knows its purpose and also knows how to achieve that purpose, a party that truly wants to achieve that purpose and has the tenacious spirit indispensable for achieving that purpose—such a party will be invincible.
Today, the Chinese Communists (中国共产党人) of the new era have such firm confidence: "Chinese-style modernization has goals, plans, and strategies, and it will definitely be realized."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘志强
From October 20th to 23rd, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) was held in Beijing (北京). This plenary session was an important meeting held at a crucial time when China is about to successfully complete the main goals and tasks of the "14th Five-Year Plan," and is entering a key period of consolidating the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically realize socialist modernization. The plenary session deliberated and approved the "Suggestions of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" (《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十五个五年规划的建议》) (hereinafter referred to as the "Suggestions") and successfully completed all agenda items.
On October 24th, the CPC Central Committee held a press conference to introduce and interpret the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee.
The most important achievement of the plenary session was the deliberation and approval of the "Suggestions."
Scientifically formulating and successively implementing five-year plans is an important experience in our party's governance and administration of the country, and also an important political advantage of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
"The most important achievement of the plenary session was the deliberation and approval of the 'Suggestions'," introduced Jiang Jinquan (江金权), Director of the Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee (中央政策研究室). The drafting of the "Suggestions" was carried out under the leadership of the Party Central Committee. "General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) personally served as the leader of the drafting group, personally planned, guided the entire process, and set the direction, playing a decisive role. The drafting group conscientiously implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions, adhered to the correct direction, stood firm on the people's position, paid attention to grasping the general trend, strengthened strategic planning, and especially made great efforts in promoting democracy, pooling wisdom, and building consensus."
"'The Suggestions' has 15 parts and 61 articles, divided into three major sections. The first section is the general outline, including the first and second parts, mainly expounding the major achievements of China's development during the '14th Five-Year Plan' period, the great significance and overall requirements of grasping the economic and social development during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period. The second section, from the third to the fourteenth parts, deploys the strategic tasks and major measures of the '15th Five-Year Plan' period in various fields. The third section consists of the fifteenth part and the concluding remarks, mainly deploying tasks such as adhering to and strengthening the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, and promoting the construction of socialist democracy and the rule of law," said Jiang Jinquan. During the plenary session, the participating comrades had heated discussions and generally believed that the "Suggestions" is another important programmatic document in the history of our party, with scientific and accurate guiding principles, clear development goals, and realistic and pragmatic tasks and measures. It is another general mobilization and general deployment to take advantage of the situation and continuously promote Chinese-style modernization, which will surely have a significant and far-reaching impact on the development of the party and the country.
The "Suggestions" outlines a grand blueprint for development in the next 5 years, pointing out the direction for deepening Chinese-style modernization.
"The 'Suggestions' accurately grasps the historical orientation of China's development, deeply analyzes the international and domestic situation, outlines a grand blueprint for development in the next 5 years, and points out the direction for deepening Chinese-style modernization." Han Wenxiu (韩文秀), Deputy Director of the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission Office (中央财办) in charge of daily work and Director of the Central Agricultural Work Leading Group Office (中央农办), gave an introduction focusing on the analysis of the situation and the guiding principles and main goals of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
Regarding the overall judgment of China's development environment during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, "'The Suggestions' proposes that major-country relations affect the international situation, the evolution of the international situation profoundly affects domestic development, and China's development is in a period where strategic opportunities and risks and challenges coexist, and uncertain and unpredictable factors are increasing." Han Wenxiu said that from an international perspective, the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, the international balance of power is undergoing profound adjustments, and from a domestic perspective, China's economic foundation is stable, its advantages are numerous, its resilience is strong, and its potential is great, and the supporting conditions and basic trends for long-term improvement have not changed. "During the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, we must not only take advantage of the situation, but also face difficulties head-on, and transform the advantages in all aspects into the actual effectiveness of high-quality development."
The plenary session put forward the main goals of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period: significant achievements in high-quality development, a substantial increase in the level of scientific and technological self-reliance, new breakthroughs in further comprehensively deepening reform, a significant improvement in the level of social civilization, a continuous improvement in the quality of people's lives, new and major progress in the construction of a beautiful China, and a more consolidated national security barrier. "These goals are both inspiring and practical," said Han Wenxiu. He believes that in the next 5 years, China's comprehensive national strength will continue to increase, its international status will continue to improve, and people's lives will be happier and better, laying a more solid foundation for basically realizing socialist modernization by 2035.
"From now to 2035, there are only 10 years. Good development in the first 5 years can strive for greater initiative," said Han Wenxiu. We must scientifically plan economic and social development for the next 5 years with a sense of urgency of the times and a sense of historical mission that leaves no time to waste, seize the window of opportunity, consolidate and expand advantages, break through bottlenecks and constraints, strengthen weaknesses and shortcomings, and promote major breakthroughs in strategic tasks related to the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization.
Will conscientiously benchmark against the "Suggestions" to draft the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline.
The "Suggestions" made a comprehensive deployment for the "15th Five-Year Plan" economic and social development. Zheng Shanjie (郑栅洁), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), gave an introduction from three aspects: industry, market, and region.
In terms of industry, build a modern industrial system. "China's economy started with the real economy, and it must also rely on the real economy to move towards the future," said Zheng Shanjie. The "Suggestions" focuses on "building a modern industrial system and consolidating and strengthening the foundation of the real economy," and proposes four key tasks: optimizing and upgrading traditional industries, cultivating and strengthening emerging industries and future industries, promoting the high-quality and efficient development of the service industry, and building a modern infrastructure system. Among them, accelerating the effective improvement of the quality and reasonable growth of the quantity of traditional industries is initially estimated to add about 10 trillion yuan of market space in the next 5 years; emerging industries and future industries are accumulating momentum, and the added scale in the next 10 years is equivalent to recreating a Chinese high-tech industry.
In terms of the market, build a strong domestic market. "A strong domestic market is the strategic support for Chinese-style modernization," said Zheng Shanjie. The "Suggestions" proposes adhering to expanding domestic demand as a strategic base point and deploys three key tasks. "To grasp the implementation, we must grasp the three keys of expanding increment, improving efficiency, and unblocking circulation."
In terms of region, promote coordinated regional development. "'The Suggestions' deploys five key tasks, which can be summarized as 'three focuses'," introduced Zheng Shanjie. The first is to focus on optimizing the layout, including optimizing the regional layout and the spatial pattern of the national territory; the second is to focus on new urbanization, scientifically and orderly promoting the urbanization of agricultural transfer population, and vigorously implementing urban renewal and other measures; the third is to focus on land-sea coordination, further promoting the high-quality development of the marine economy, and accelerating the construction of a maritime power.
"Next, the National Development and Reform Commission will, in accordance with the deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, conscientiously benchmark against the 'Suggestions', and seize the time to draft the '15th Five-Year Plan' outline, and strive to compile a high-quality plan that is in line with reality and meets expectations," said Zheng Shanjie.
After 5 years of hard work in the future, China's scientific and technological strength will reach a new level.
Chinese-style modernization needs the support of scientific and technological modernization.
"'During the '14th Five-Year Plan' period, China's scientific and technological strength has reached a new level, scientific and technological innovation has achieved fruitful results, and new quality productive forces have developed steadily, laying a solid foundation for the '15th Five-Year Plan' economic and social development." Yin Hejun (阴和俊), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology (科技部), listed a set of data: In 2024, the total social R&D investment exceeded 3.6 trillion yuan, an increase of 48% compared with 2020; the number of high-level international journal papers and international patent applications ranked first in the world for five consecutive years; and the ranking of national comprehensive innovation capacity increased from 14th in 2020 to 10th in 2024.
"'During the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, we must seize the historical opportunity of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, coordinate the construction of a strong country in education, a strong country in science and technology, and a strong country in talent, improve the overall effectiveness of the national innovation system, comprehensively enhance independent innovation capabilities, accelerate high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, and lead the development of new quality productive forces." Yin Hejun told reporters that the "Suggestions" made deployments from four aspects: First, strengthen original innovation and key core technology research; second, promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation; third, promote the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent; and fourth, deepen the construction of digital China.
"After 5 years of hard work in the future, China's scientific and technological strength will reach a new level, and scientific and technological innovation will lead new quality productive forces and promote high-quality development will achieve greater results, providing stronger support for Chinese-style modernization," said Yin Hejun.
The plenary session released a strong signal that China adheres to opening up and cooperation and mutual benefit and win-win results.
The world's largest in goods trade for eight consecutive years, service trade exceeding 1 trillion US dollars, foreign investment completing the "14th Five-Year Plan" target half a year ahead of schedule, and outbound investment ranking among the top three in the world... During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, high-level opening up has become a strong driving force for China's economic development.
"The plenary session made a special chapter deployment on expanding high-level opening up, releasing a strong signal that China adheres to opening up and cooperation and mutual benefit and win-win results." Wang Wentao (王文涛), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Commerce (商务部), introduced that regarding the opening up work during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the "Suggestions" made important deployments from four aspects.
The first is to actively expand autonomous opening up. Proactively connect with international high-standard economic and trade rules, focusing on the service industry, expand market access and opening up fields. Accelerate the process of regional and bilateral trade and investment agreements, and expand the high-standard free trade zone network. Focus on building an open highland and do a good job in various open pilot tests.
The second is to promote trade innovation and development. The "Suggestions" has deployments for the three pillars of goods trade, service trade, and digital trade.
The third is to expand the space for two-way investment cooperation. We must polish the "Invest in China" brand and create new advantages in attracting foreign investment. Effectively implement outbound investment management, improve the overseas comprehensive service system, and guide the rational and orderly cross-border layout of production and supply chains.
The fourth is to jointly build the "Belt and Road" with high quality. Strengthen strategic alignment with co-construction countries, and coordinate the promotion of major landmark projects and "small but beautiful" livelihood projects.
"We will promote the implementation of various decisions and deployments of the 'Suggestions' and continuously improve the level of opening up, and expand the development space for Chinese-style modernization," said Wang Wentao.
Provide a good health foundation and population foundation for Chinese-style modernization.
Since the "14th Five-Year Plan", China has built the world's largest medical service system, disease prevention and control system, and medical security system, and has made significant progress in health and population development.
"By the end of 2024, the average life expectancy of Chinese residents has reached 79 years, which is a remarkable achievement." Lei Haichao (雷海潮), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委), introduced that the "Suggestions" is based on promoting the all-round development of people and taking solid steps towards common prosperity for all the people, and has made further plans and deployments in terms of health and population.
Accelerate the construction of a healthy China. The first is to implement a health-first development strategy. The second is to coordinate development and security, and provide strong guarantees and support for economic and social development. The third is to provide the masses with fair, accessible, systematic, continuous, high-quality and efficient health services.
Promote high-quality population development. The first is to build a fertility-friendly society. The "Suggestions" clearly advocates a positive view of marriage and childbearing, optimizes fertility support policies and incentive policies, and effectively reduces the cost of family fertility, parenting and education. The second is to promote old-age care. Measures include improving the policy mechanism for coordinated development of the old-age care cause and industry, and optimizing the supply of basic old-age care services. The third is to promote the elderly to be active. Steadily implement the gradual postponement of the statutory retirement age, optimize age restriction policies in employment, social security, etc., actively develop elderly human resources, and develop the silver economy.
"Health work and population service work should not only highlight key groups such as the elderly, children, and women, but also provide comprehensive services for the entire population covering the entire chain of prevention, health care, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation, providing a good health foundation and population foundation for Chinese-style modernization," said Lei Haichao.
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The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) was held in Beijing (北京) from October 20 to 23. The plenary session deliberated and adopted the "Suggestions of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" (中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十五个五年规划的建议) (hereinafter referred to as the "Suggestions").
During the plenary session, some of the participating comrades were interviewed by reporters. Everyone said that the "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a crucial period for laying the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically achieve socialist modernization, and it has an important position of linking the past and the future in the process of basically achieving socialist modernization. It is necessary to unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, deeply study and comprehend the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech and the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, maintain strategic focus, enhance confidence in victory, work hard and be responsible, and ensure that decisive progress is made in basically achieving socialist modernization.
"The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee focused on comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation, adhered to the integration of domestic and global perspectives, adhered to the connection between medium- and long-term goals and short-term goals, adhered to the coordination of overall planning and highlighting key points, made top-level design and strategic planning for the development of the next five years, and outlined a new blueprint with clear goals, clear paths, and inspiring progress." Xin Changxing (信长星), member of the Central Committee and Secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee (江苏省委书记), said.
"General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has always been very concerned about the development of Jiangsu (江苏) and has drawn a grand blueprint for us to build a 'strong, rich, beautiful, and high' new Jiangsu (江苏)." Xin Changxing (信长星) said, "We must take Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as our guide, compare it with the deployment requirements of the plenary session, carefully plan the development of Jiangsu (江苏) during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, solidly promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, focus on building a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone, develop new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, strive to continue to be at the forefront of high-quality development, resolutely shoulder the responsibility of a major economic province to take the lead, and firmly take the lead and set an example in promoting Chinese-style modernization."
"The 'Suggestions' passed by the plenary session and General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) explanation on the 'Suggestions (Draft for Discussion)' concentrated the wisdom of the entire party, gathered the strength of the people, conformed to the trend of development, and realized the unity of theoretical innovation and practical innovation, the unity of top-level design and grassroots exploration, and the unity of the requirements of the times and the expectations of the people. The 'Suggestions' have drawn a grand blueprint for the next five years and are a programmatic document guiding the high-quality economic and social development of our country and promoting Chinese-style modernization, which will surely have a major and far-reaching impact on the development of the party and the country." Hu Changsheng (胡昌升), member of the Central Committee and Secretary of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee (甘肃省委书记), said.
Hu Changsheng (胡昌升) said that he will deeply study, publicize, and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech and the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, comprehensively implement the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee on promoting the large-scale development of the western region and promoting ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin (黄河流域), deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments," resolutely achieve the "two safeguards," benchmark and align with reality, scientifically plan the development of Gansu (甘肃) during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, accelerate the high-quality economic and social development of the province, and strive to write a new chapter in Chinese-style modernization in Gansu (甘肃).
"Using medium- and long-term plans to guide economic and social development is an important political advantage and important experience of socialism with Chinese characteristics. This benefits from the centralized and unified leadership of the Party, benefits from always adhering to the value pursuit of putting the people first, and benefits from the continuous struggle of generations." Huang Qiang (黄强), member of the Central Committee and Secretary of the Jilin Provincial Party Committee (吉林省委书记), said.
"The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core accurately grasps the situation and tasks of our country's development in the next five years and continues to determine that promoting high-quality development is the theme of economic and social development during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period." Huang Qiang (黄强) said, "Jilin Province (吉林省) will conscientiously study and implement the spirit of the plenary session, accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system that reflects Jilin's (吉林) characteristics, comprehensively expand effective demand, further comprehensively deepen reform, solidly promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, strengthen the protection, inheritance, and utilization of historical and cultural heritage, focus on guaranteeing and improving people's livelihoods, coordinate development and security, and strive to promote new breakthroughs in Jilin's (吉林) high-quality development."
"'During the '14th Five-Year Plan' period, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) led us to overcome difficulties and achieve remarkable achievements that have attracted worldwide attention, and Chinese-style modernization has taken new and solid steps." Lan Fo'an (蓝佛安), member of the Central Committee and Minister of Finance (财政部部长), said, "During the '14th Five-Year Plan' period, the country's financial strength continued to increase, the tools for fiscal macro-control became more abundant, and the basic public services obtained by the people became more and better."
Lan Fo'an (蓝佛安) said that in the next step, the financial departments will comprehensively implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, closely focus on the main goals of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, work hard and forge ahead, and go all out to do a good job of the work deployed by the Party Central Committee one by one, and demonstrate new achievements and new responsibilities in promoting the construction of Chinese-style modernization.
"General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech fully demonstrates the foresight and deep thinking of directing and leading the new era and new journey, and provides a powerful ideological weapon and scientific action guide for continuing to write new chapters in the two major miracles and creating a new situation in the construction of Chinese-style modernization." Yin Hejun (阴和俊), member of the Central Committee and Minister of Science and Technology (科技部部长), said.
Yin Hejun (阴和俊) said that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, we will anchor the goal of building a strong country in science and technology, firmly seize the historical opportunities of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, fully promote high-level self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology, and comprehensively enhance independent innovation capabilities by strengthening original innovation and tackling key core technologies, promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and promoting the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, seize the commanding heights of scientific and technological development, and constantly generate new quality productive forces, so as to provide strong scientific and technological support for building a strong socialist modern country in an all-round way and comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
"In recent years, the Party Central Committee and Chairman Xi (习近平) have sized up the situation, responded calmly, united and led the whole party, the whole army, and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to overcome difficulties and forge ahead, and the construction of the army has been revolutionarily forged in rectification and reform, and the high-quality development of national defense and army building has taken new steps." Cui Yuzhong (崔玉忠), alternate member of the Central Committee and Deputy Commander of the Navy (海军副司令员), said.
Cui Yuzhong (崔玉忠) said: "The Navy, as a strategic service, is closely related to a strong country and a strong army. We must resolutely implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and Chairman Xi (习近平), focus on the centenary goal, aim at the world-class level, continue to deepen political rectification, continue to deepen strategic transformation, continue to deepen military training and preparation, complete the '14th Five-Year Plan' tasks with high quality, comprehensively enhance maritime deterrence and combat capabilities, and constantly create a new situation in the modernization of the Navy, and hand in a qualified answer sheet to the Party Central Committee and Chairman Xi (习近平)."
"In recent years, under the leadership of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), the Party and the country have made great achievements in various undertakings. Xiguzhuang Village (西古庄村), where I am located, used to be a poor mountain village. Thanks to the Party's good policies and the hard work of the villagers, today the roads are accessible in all directions, new houses are clustered together, and everyone is living a good life. Now, if you go to see it, the hillsides are covered with red apples." Hao Chunxia (郝春侠), a delegate attending the meeting and Secretary of the Party Branch of Xiguzhuang Village (西古庄村), Shizhu Town (石柱镇), Yaozhou District (耀州区), Tongchuan City (铜川市), Shaanxi Province (陕西省), said.
"The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee made a general mobilization for development in the next five years and deployed the work of comprehensively revitalizing the countryside, which is full of deep feelings for the people and makes us feel hopeful and motivated." Hao Chunxia (郝春侠) said, "I will publicize and implement the spirit of the plenary session well, continue to work hard with the villagers, and make our lives more and more prosperous."
(Reporters Liu Zhiqiang (刘志强), Wang Hao (王浩), Yang Qiaochu (杨翘楚), and Gong Hanhan (巩晗) of this newspaper participated in the writing)
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On October 24th, the 18th session of the 14th National People's Congress Standing Committee (十四届全国人大常委会) passed a resolution on establishing Taiwan Retrocession Day, legally designating October 25th as Taiwan Retrocession Day.
Establishing Taiwan Retrocession Day and holding commemorative activities at the national level are conducive to embodying the undeniable historical fact that Taiwan is an inseparable part of China, consolidating the international community's adherence to the One China principle, guiding compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to inherit and promote the great spirit of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and inspiring all Chinese sons and daughters to unite and strive for national reunification and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
History will forever remember this moment: On October 25, 1945, the representative of the Chinese government at the Taiwan Province Surrender Ceremony in the China Theater of the Allied Forces declared to the world: From this day forward, Taiwan and the Penghu Islands (澎湖列岛) have officially rejoined the territory of China, and all land, people, and political affairs have been placed under Chinese sovereignty.
Taiwan was liberated! Taiwan, which had been occupied and enslaved by foreign powers for half a century, finally returned to the embrace of the motherland! The cheers that resounded through the sky and the joy of holding one's head high spread like a tide across the entire island of Taiwan.
"Throughout the island, people sang and danced, and every household worshiped their ancestors and thanked the gods, comforting the spirits of the deceased..." At the Keelung Port (基隆港) docks, there were crowds of people everywhere, and laughter everywhere. Young mothers came with their children, and 80-year-old men came with canes. People excitedly waved flags sewn overnight, warmly welcoming officers and soldiers from the mainland, and cheering for the retrocession and rebirth of Taiwan.
In the history of the development of the Chinese nation, compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait have always been linked by fate, sharing honor and disgrace.
President Xi Jinping (习近平), reflecting on the past and looking to the present, profoundly pointed out: "Although compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are separated by a strait, their destinies have always been closely linked. National strength and prosperity are a common blessing for compatriots; national weakness and chaos are a common disaster for compatriots. Having experienced so many ups and downs since modern times, we have a very deep understanding of this."
130 years ago, Taiwan was brutally occupied by foreign powers, which was the epitome of the modern humiliation of the Chinese nation, leaving a heart-wrenching pain for the entire nation. When the news of the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki (马关条约) reached Taiwan, the people "ran around telling each other, gathered to cry in the city, day and night, the sound of crying reached the four fields, the wind and clouds changed color, as if there were no heaven and earth."
"I would rather everyone die in battle and lose Taiwan than surrender it with folded hands." In the long night of 50 years, Taiwanese compatriots have always held a strong sense of the Chinese nation and a firm emotional attachment to Chinese culture—
"Rather than live as a subjugated people, it is better to die as righteous people." Taiwanese compatriots, unafraid of violence, advanced wave upon wave, launching a vigorous armed struggle against Japan, with more than 650,000 people sacrificing their lives; after the outbreak of the full-scale War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Taiwan Volunteer Corps (台湾义勇队) and the Taiwan Youth Corps (台湾少年团) shouted the slogan "To save Taiwan, we must first save the motherland," and bravely threw themselves into the national movement to resist Japan and save the nation.
Faced with Japan's so-called "Kōminka" movement, Lin Hsien-tang (林獻堂), a Taiwanese gentry who "refused to be a subject of Japan," proudly insisted on not reading Japanese, speaking Japanese, or wearing Japanese clothes throughout his life; patriotic personage General Lin Tsu-mi (林祖密) gave up his vast family property and declared with emotion, "How can the people of the great Han be humiliated by Japanese slaves because of wealth," becoming the first Taiwanese compatriot to restore Chinese nationality after 1911.
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These vivid faces and these sonorous voices vividly demonstrate the admirable national integrity and sincere and profound patriotism of Taiwanese compatriots in their bones. This integrity and patriotism are innate, natural, and indelible, because the blood flowing in the veins of compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait is the blood of the Chinese nation, and what they spiritually uphold is the soul of the Chinese nation.
The great victory 80 years ago completely shattered the Japanese militarists' attempt to colonize and enslave China, opened a new journey for the ancient Chinese phoenix to be reborn from the ashes, and undeniably proved that Taiwan is an inseparable part of Chinese territory.
On December 1, 1943, the governments of China, the United States, and the United Kingdom issued the Cairo Declaration (开罗宣言), announcing that the purpose of the three countries was to return to China the territories that Japan had stolen from China, such as Northeast China, Taiwan, and the Penghu Islands. On July 26, 1945, the Potsdam Declaration (波茨坦公告), jointly signed by China, the United States, and the United Kingdom and later joined by the Soviet Union, reaffirmed that "the terms of the Cairo Declaration shall be implemented." In September of the same year, Japan signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender (日本投降条款), promising to "faithfully fulfill the obligations of the Potsdam Declaration." On October 25, the Chinese government announced the "restoration of the exercise of sovereignty over Taiwan" and held the Taiwan Province Surrender Ceremony in the China Theater in Taipei (台北). Thus, through a series of documents with international legal effect, China recovered Taiwan legally and factually. United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758, adopted in 1971, solemnly confirmed and fully embodied the One China principle. The resolution clarified that there is only one China in the world, and the government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal representative of the whole of China, including Taiwan, and there is no such thing as "two Chinas" or "one China, one Taiwan." Since 1949, although the two sides of the Taiwan Strait have not yet been reunified, China's sovereignty and territorial integrity have never been divided, and the fact that China owns sovereignty over Taiwan and that the mainland and Taiwan belong to one China has never changed.
The retrocession of Taiwan is an important part of the victory of World War II and the post-war international order. A series of documents with international legal effect have confirmed China's sovereignty over Taiwan, and its historical and legal facts are beyond doubt. The authority of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 cannot be challenged.
Since modern times, the tragic history of national humiliation, people's suffering, and the tarnishing of civilization has been engraved in the hearts of all Chinese sons and daughters. Resolutely curbing any form of "Taiwan independence" separatist acts, safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and never allowing the historical tragedy of national division to be repeated are the common aspirations and firm will of all Chinese sons and daughters.
"Taiwan independence" separatism is the biggest obstacle to national reunification and a serious hidden danger to national rejuvenation. We have the firm will, full confidence, and sufficient ability to thwart any form of "Taiwan independence" separatist attempts and external interference, and we will never allow anyone, any organization, any political party, at any time, in any form, to separate any piece of Chinese territory from China!
The path of righteousness is unstoppable, and the will of the people is irresistible.
President Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out: "The Taiwan issue arose from national weakness and chaos and will inevitably be resolved with national rejuvenation."
The complete reunification of the motherland is determined by the history and culture of the Chinese nation, and it is also determined by the timing and trend of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Since the new era, the motherland has further comprehensively deepened reforms, steadily promoted high-quality development, and continuously enhanced its economic strength, scientific and technological strength, comprehensive national strength, and international influence. Chinese-style modernization has taken solid steps, and the foundation for resolving the Taiwan issue is more solid and the ability is stronger, powerfully shaping the general trend of the motherland's inevitable reunification.
The motherland must be reunified, and it will inevitably be reunified. This is the historical conclusion of the development of cross-Strait relations, the inevitable requirement of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in the new era, and the historical trend that no one or any force can stop. We are closer, more confident, and more capable than at any time in history to achieve the goal of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and we are also closer, more confident, and more capable to achieve the goal of complete reunification of the motherland.
History carries the past and also inspires the future.
"Those who are willing to seize the momentum can be the first to act, and those who can plan the momentum will surely achieve something." The future of Taiwan lies in national reunification, and the well-being of Taiwanese compatriots is tied to national rejuvenation. After reunification, Taiwan will forever maintain peace, and the people will live and work in peace and contentment. With a strong motherland as a backing, the livelihood and well-being of Taiwanese compatriots will be better, the space for development will be greater, and they will have a stronger backbone and more confidence internationally. Taiwanese compatriots will share the dignity and glory of a great country with mainland compatriots and be proud and proud to be upright Chinese people.
"Taiwan independence" is a dead end, outsiders cannot be relied upon, and reunification cannot be stopped. I believe that the vast number of Taiwanese compatriots will be able to see the situation clearly, resolutely oppose "Taiwan independence" separatist activities and external interference, firmly safeguard the common home of the Chinese nation, work together with mainland compatriots, complete the great cause of national reunification at an early date, and jointly create lasting well-being for the Chinese nation.
Realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the common dream of all Chinese people. We firmly believe that as long as compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait grasp the general trend of history, shoulder the great responsibility of the nation together, and firmly grasp the destiny of the nation in their own hands, we will surely be able to jointly create a bright future for national reunification and national rejuvenation!
Return to TopOn October 25, 1945, Taiwan returned to China's map, shaking off 50 years of Japanese colonial rule. As young people in Taiwan in the new era, we must serve as a bridge and link for cross-strait youth exchanges, so that more young people in Taiwan remember the true history of Taiwan. The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will certainly not be without the participation of Taiwan compatriots. With a strong motherland to rely on, the lives of people on both sides of the strait will only get better and better, and there will be a future of peaceful development across the strait.
-- Chen Wencheng (陈文成), a young teacher from Taiwan
Looking back at history is for remembrance and for solace. Eighty years ago, Taiwan compatriots who had suffered bullying ushered in the glory of restoration! Since the Yiwei (乙未) cession of Taiwan, countless people with lofty ideals have advanced wave upon wave, launching unyielding resistance through armed uprisings, cultural enlightenment, and other means. Living in an era of peace, we must not forget the sacrifices and contributions of the martyrs.
-- Xu Chenpin (许陈品), a young media professional from Taiwan
The restoration of Taiwan is a glorious page in the modern history of the Chinese nation, and an important achievement of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression won by all Chinese sons and daughters, including Taiwan compatriots. This great historical moment embodies the blood and sacrifice of countless Chinese sons and daughters. Let us learn from history, jointly safeguard national unity, and work together to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
-- Lin Yanchen (林彦辰), a young student from Taiwan
The restoration of Taiwan is a reunion that our ancestors exchanged for sacrifice and dedication, which we need to always remember. We must resolutely oppose "Taiwan independence" separatism, inherit and promote the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and actively participate in cross-strait exchanges.
-- Wang Yuting (王玉婷), a young student from Taiwan
Return to TopThe Anti-Japanese Story of the Wufeng Lin Family
Lin Guanghui (林光辉), Grandson of Lin Zumi (林祖密)
"The recovery of Taiwan can be considered the fulfillment of my father's lifelong ambition. If he knew, he would surely laugh heartily in the afterlife. My disability is nothing. It is worth it even if I am utterly destroyed, as long as the country can achieve victory and strength, and my hometown compatriots can gain light and freedom..."
This is an excerpt from a letter my fifth uncle, Lin Zhengheng (林正亨), wrote to his mother in Taiwan from a war hospital in Yunnan. Lin Zhengheng (林正亨) was the eighth generation of the Wufeng Lin family (雾峰林家), and the fifth son of Lin Zumi (林祖密). He participated in the Battle of Kunlun Pass (昆仑关战役) in Guangxi and the Chinese Expeditionary Force's campaign in Burma. In March 1945, during the final pursuit battle of the Northern Burma counteroffensive, he served as the commander of the command company of the 1st Independent Infantry Regiment. He fought hand-to-hand with eight Japanese soldiers, sustaining 16 severe injuries, including severed tendons and a long scar on his face, leaving him partially disabled.
He joined the anti-Japanese war because he knew that his father, Lin Zumi's (林祖密) lifelong goal was to expel the Japanese invaders and restore Taiwan. Although he was severely injured and disabled, he was most gratified that his father's wish had been fulfilled.
Lin Zumi (林祖密), the seventh generation of the Wufeng Lin family (雾峰林家), was my grandfather. In 1895, after the Treaty of Shimonoseki (马关条约) ceded Taiwan, Lin Zumi (林祖密) followed his father in leaving Taiwan. In 1898, he returned to Taiwan under his father's orders to manage the family property. During this time, he contacted tens of thousands of "Dong Army" subordinates who had served under his father in Taiwan, and also planned and supported armed anti-Japanese activities in various regions, such as the "Luo Fuxing Incident (罗福星事件)" and the "Jiaoba Nian Incident (噍吧哖事件)." The Japanese once said: "Every armed anti-Japanese activity in Taiwan is related to Lin Jishang (林季商) (Lin Zumi (林祖密))." At the same time, Lin Zumi (林祖密) also traveled back and forth to Fujian to engage in anti-Japanese activities.
From armed resistance to non-violent resistance, from resisting the Japanese in Taiwan to resisting them on the mainland, our family resisted for the entire 50 years of Japanese colonial rule. The anti-Japanese story of the Wufeng Lin family (雾峰林家), written with life and faith by several generations, was written by our ancestors with their lives and needs to be passed on by future generations.
We have always firmly believed that the country comes before the family, and that loving the country comes before loving the family. In 2007, I initiated the establishment of the Taiwan Anti-Japanese Patriots Relatives Association (台湾抗日志士亲属协进会), whose members include more than 30 anti-Japanese families, to tell the stories of Taiwanese compatriots resisting Japan and strive to restore the truth of history. Only by deeply understanding history can people love this land more.
My Father, Who Prioritized the Restoration of Taiwan
Li Liqun (李力群), Son of Li Youbang (李友邦)
My father, Li Youbang (李友邦), dedicated his life to the national democratic revolution of Taiwan and the motherland, and sacrificed himself for it. He was a sincere patriotic person, and he has a historical position and contribution in the history of Taiwan's restoration and even in modern Chinese history.
My father was simple and honest, and stubbornly adhered to what he believed was right. From a young age, he was dissatisfied with the rule of the Japanese, and therefore had a strong national consciousness, and devoted his life to the national movement of resisting Japan and protecting Taiwan.
In 1921, when my father was studying at Taipei Normal School (台北师范学校), he joined the Taiwan Cultural Association (台湾文化协会) led by Jiang Weishui (蒋渭水) and instigated anti-Japanese activities such as student movements. In 1924, he and about 10 classmates attacked the Japanese police station on Xinqi Street (新起街派出所) in Taipei, and was expelled and the authorities wanted to arrest him. He fled Taiwan overnight and eventually arrived in Guangzhou. In September of that year, he entered the second class of the Whampoa Military Academy (黄埔军校) and, encouraged and inspired by Sun Yat-sen (孙中山), established an anti-Japanese political party. The first article of the party's program clearly stated: "Unite the anti-Japanese patriots of Taiwan to expel Japanese imperialism."
In 1937, when the all-out War of Resistance against Japan broke out, my father put forward the slogan "Defend the Motherland, Recover Taiwan" and actively organized Taiwanese youth to participate in the war. Later, he formed the Taiwan Volunteer Corps (台湾义勇队) and the Taiwan Youth Corps (台湾少年团) in Jinhua (金华), Zhejiang, and established hospitals in Jinhua (金华), Quzhou (衢州) and other places to provide support and services to the front-line soldiers and civilians.
When Japan surrendered, the Taiwanese compatriots were overjoyed. The government sent military and political personnel to Taiwan, and the surrender ceremony was held at the Taipei Public Hall (台北公会堂) on October 25, 1945. This is the origin of Taiwan Retrocession Day.
My father spent his life fighting against Japan, pursuing the liberation of the Taiwanese people from Japanese colonial rule, and prioritizing the restoration of Taiwan. Unfortunately, my father was executed without trial under the White Terror in Taiwan, and died with injustice. He was a sincere patriotic person, how can history be allowed to turn to ashes. My mother often said, "Your father's blood should have been shed on the battlefield, he should have died in battle, but your father died on the land of Taiwan that he loved most and dedicated his life to."
The people of Taiwan also fought bravely against Japan, fighting for the nation and for the motherland. This history should not be forgotten, and this belief should not be erased.
My Eldest Brother, Who Was Conscripted by the Japanese, Has Returned Home
Qiu Xiuzhi (丘秀芷), Grand-Niece of Qiu Fengjia (丘逢甲)
I was born in Zhongli (中坜), Taiwan during the Japanese occupation. Although I was young, I have deep memories of some things, such as warplanes often flying over in the middle of the night, and we had to run outside to the edge of the fields to hide from the bombing. As a descendant of the patriotic person Qiu Fengjia (丘逢甲), my eldest brother, Yingyan (英彦), could not escape the fate of being conscripted by the Japanese. In 1942, he was conscripted to Hainan Island. Before he left, the whole family took a group photo, and afterwards my mother often looked at the large photo and shed tears.
My eldest brother had sent letters earlier, but after that there was no news. In August 1945, suddenly one day, we heard on the radio that the Japanese Emperor had announced unconditional surrender. The people of the whole of Zhongli (中坜) were very happy, and my father, who had been arrested and imprisoned by the Japanese for teaching Chinese for a year, was the happiest. My mother said, "Yingyan (英彦) can come back!"
But year after year passed, and there was still no news from my eldest brother. Whenever we heard that Taiwanese soldiers were returning by ship, my mother would take the train to Keelung (基隆), looking at each person disembarking, recognizing them one by one, but she couldn't recognize him. Someone knew that my mother was waiting for her son, so they came to tell her: "I saw your son in Guangdong, he didn't have money to come back." My mother tried to raise money and entrusted that person to take it to him, but the hope of my eldest brother returning was dashed again and again.
In the summer of 1947, my siblings and I were in the house when suddenly there was a knock on the door. My mother ran out, and I followed her out. A dark, thin, and disheveled person stood outside the porch and cried loudly. My mother also cried and shouted "Yingyan (英彦)." I couldn't connect this person with the fair-skinned eldest brother in the photo.
After returning, my eldest brother's temperament was strange. It wasn't until many years later that he recalled that he was injured not long after landing on Hainan Island and was abandoned by the Japanese army. He had been wandering and working as a beggar all over Hainan Island. He didn't know that Japan had surrendered until the spring of 1947 when he learned that Taiwan had been restored. Hearing that there were ships in Guangzhou sending Taiwanese soldiers back to Taiwan, he begged while trying to cross the sea from Hainan Island, and finally found a ship back to Taiwan. By this time, he had been wandering in Hainan Island for a full 5 years.
Return to TopSensing That Heroic Spirit
Jin Zhengbo (金正波)
In the "Song Bone Peak Special Merit Company" (松骨峰特功连) company history museum of a brigade of the 81st Group Army (第81集团军) of the Army, there is a yellowed newspaper on display – April 11, 1951, the front page of the People's Daily (人民日报) published writer Wei Wei's (魏巍) "Who Are the Most Lovable People."
"The flames of gasoline bombs burned the position red," "The warriors shouted slogans on this hill of smoke and fire"... The article records the heroic feats of the predecessors who fought bloody battles and vowed to defend the Song Bone Peak (松骨峰) highland.
The words that record history have a power to penetrate time and space. These great moments condensed in the flames of war condense the spirit and reflect the original intention. Every time I revisit them, they always bring tears to my eyes and fill me with awe.
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteers (中国人民志愿军) fighting in Korea to Resist US Aggression. Seventy-five years ago, the Chinese People's Volunteers, **雄赳赳、气昂昂** (xióng jiū jiū, qì áng áng - "valiant and spirited," full of vigor and high morale), crossed the Yalu River (鸭绿江), and after two years and nine months of arduous and bloody battles, won the great victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The great victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea will be forever engraved in the history of the Chinese nation! It will be forever engraved in the history of human peace, development, and progress!" "The great spirit of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea transcends time and space and remains fresh forever. It must be inherited and carried forward from generation to generation."
In those days, under the conditions of absolute inferiority in equipment, the Volunteers firmly believed in victory, carried forward their heroic spirit, and used "less steel and more spirit" to overcome "more steel and less spirit," and fought for the safety of the country.
The battle flag is as beautiful as a painting, and a strong army casts glory. The heroic character of the people's army remains unchanged.
War is not only a contest of materials but also a competition of spirits. On the battlefield of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, this "spirit" is the resilience of "a handful of fried noodles and a handful of snow," the courage to "fight bayonets in the air," and the fearlessness of blocking gun muzzles with one's chest. It is this "spirit" that enables the people's army to win more with less, crossing thousands of mountains and rivers and overcoming strategic passes and dangerous obstacles. Stepping into the new era, domestically produced aircraft carriers are forging ahead through the waves, stealth fighters are soaring in the blue sky, and strategic missiles are shaking the world... The "steel" in the hands of the people's army has been completely renewed. "The triumphant four aircraft are lined up in the sky, ordered to escort you" "I am the Chinese Navy ship 101, please keep a safe distance from me"... With great power instruments, this "spirit" has a more solid material support; the full "spirit" injects soul into the forging of "steel."
From the battlefield of "defending the country" to the scene of economic and social development, the patriotism and revolutionary heroism embodied in the great spirit of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea always shine, inspiring the future.
Today, from flood control and disaster relief to defending the country and guarding the borders, from the main battlefield of comprehensive rural revitalization to the forefront of scientific and technological research... No matter how great the difficulties or how many challenges are encountered, the Chinese people continue to write magnificent chapters with their tenacious will and persistent perseverance.
From suffering to glory, from the arduous struggle of "less steel and more spirit" to the confident and calm of "more steel and full spirit," heroic stories are never forgotten, and the heroic spirit never fades.
Standing at a special time and space node to look back at history and feel that heroic spirit, the sentence rings in my mind again: "Please love our soldiers more deeply, they are indeed our most lovable people!"
A Heroic Declaration, Integrated into the Company's Bloodline
Li Longyi (李龙伊), reporter of this newspaper
"Old Company Commander, we report to you – all 11 officers and soldiers of the company, as members of the Army phalanx, walked through Tiananmen (天安门) Square and accepted the review of the Party and the people!"
In early autumn, at the Yang Gensi (杨根思) Square of a brigade of the 83rd Group Army (第83集团军) of the Army, the officers and soldiers of the "Yang Gensi Company" (杨根思连), who had just completed their military parade mission, returned to the barracks and lined up neatly before the dust had settled. In front of the formation, Li Haoyuan (李昊原), the thirty-second company commander, solemnly reported to the statue of the old company commander Yang Gensi.
Under the sunlight, the statue of the special-class hero Yang Gensi stands tall, maintaining a charging posture. Looking back 75 years ago, on the shore of Changjin Lake (长津湖), Yang Gensi, then the company commander, shouted the heroic declaration of "three disbeliefs": "I don't believe there are tasks that cannot be completed, I don't believe there are difficulties that cannot be overcome, and I don't believe there are enemies that cannot be defeated!" He led his officers and soldiers to repel eight frantic enemy attacks in a row. When only he was left on the position, he picked up a package of explosives, resolutely rushed into the enemy group, and died together with the enemy.
Time flies, but the spirit lives on forever. Walking into the "Yang Gensi Company," the first bed in the dormitory still has the name "Yang Gensi" on it; in the corridor, the "three disbeliefs" declaration is particularly eye-catching; during evening roll call, a shout of "Yang Gensi" is answered by the entire company with a resounding "Here," shaking the night sky.
"The old company commander has been accompanying the officers and soldiers to grow up, and the heroic declaration of 'three disbeliefs' has long been engraved in their blood," said Ma Zhe (马喆), the company's political instructor.
In July 2016, conflict broke out in Juba (朱巴), South Sudan (南苏丹). Stray bullets pierced the walls of the peacekeeping camp, and shells exploded not far from the sentry post. At a critical moment, the company's officers and soldiers participating in peacekeeping operations stood firm in their positions. Li Lei (李磊), who had been on duty for a day, volunteered to fight. During the mission, a rocket-propelled grenade hit an infantry fighting vehicle, and Li Lei died heroically. At the last moment of his life, he said: "I will give my life to the Party."
Why is the battle flag so beautiful? It is dyed red with the blood of heroes. Generations of "Yang Gensi Company" officers and soldiers regard fine traditions as life, and will not take a step back no matter how great the difficulties.
"Reporting to the old company commander, I am the 6986th soldier of the company." In December 2022, Xiao Rongji (肖荣基), the younger brother of Xiao Siyuan (肖思远), a martyr who defended the country and guarded the border, joined the "Yang Gensi Company." At the first evening roll call, hearing the entire company answer "Here" in unison, his eyes were blurred with tears, and he secretly made up his mind: "I want to make contributions to the military camp like the old company commander!"
Over the past three years, Xiao Rongji has continued to "assault" on the training ground: he does not complain of pain when blisters are worn on his palms, and he does not stop training even when his clothes are soaked with sweat. Participating in the brigade's pre-promotion command sergeant training, he received an excellent overall rating; in the spot check of model companies, he served as a sniper and achieved excellent results.
Entering the new era, the officers and soldiers of the "Yang Gensi Company" have transformed the "three disbeliefs" heroic declaration into a belief of daring to fight and win. The company has successively won the collective first-class merit twice, the second-class merit four times, and the third-class merit three times. Heroic spirit is stirring in the hearts of generations of officers and soldiers.
(Hu Ruizhi (胡瑞智) participated in the writing)
An Aviation Compass, Engraved with Fighting Spirit
Jin Zhengbo (金正波), reporter of this newspaper
In the golden autumn, a high-intensity day-and-night confrontation training session of a certain unit of the Air Force (空军) in the Northern Theater Command (北部战区) came to an end. Zhang Jinlong (张金龙), a pilot of the "Pioneer Flying Brigade for Strengthening the Army" (强军先锋飞行大队) who stepped off the fighter jet, took off his anti-G suit, and his flight suit was soaked with sweat. He took off the electronic splint fixed to his leg, and the screen displayed information such as flight path.
This scene is in stark contrast to the old-fashioned aviation compass displayed in the unit's honor hall. The compass with mottled scales was once a weapon for heroic pilots on the battlefield of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea to kill the enemy and serve the country. In those days, with simple equipment, they used the spirit of "fighting bayonets in the air," "rather shed blood in the blue sky, even if we crash, we must crash the enemy plane," and created the "MiG Alley" that made the enemy tremble.
From compasses to smart splints, from manual operation to information-based control, the leapfrog development of equipment has triggered deep thinking: In the face of modern beyond-visual-range air combat, is the spirit of "fighting bayonets in the air" still applicable?
Faced with the question, Zhang Jinlong's eyes were firm: "The 'fighting bayonets in the air' embodies the fighting will of pilots to dare to show their swords in critical moments. This spirit will never be outdated."
"In future air combat, we need not only sophisticated equipment but also courage and boldness." The leader of the unit introduced that the "Pioneer Flying Brigade for Strengthening the Army" regularly carries out activities such as "remembering the history of the team, forging the soul of the team, and being a successor," inviting veterans of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea to tell the history of the war, and forging the ideological foundation of "fighting in the sky with our hearts toward the Party and flying thousands of miles without getting lost."
The predecessor of the unit was the first aviation unit of the People's Air Force (人民空军) to be formed, the first to participate in the war, and the first to win victories. On the battlefield of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, young pilots engaged in aerial combat with strong enemies, shooting down and damaging 88 enemy aircraft.
Entering the new era, the unit has flown to the far seas, up to the plateau, and fought in the Gobi Desert, successfully completing more than 30 major tasks, winning the first place in the Air Force's confrontation air combat assessment group five times, and many people have won the "Golden Helmet."
In the name of the country, escorting the remains of the martyrs home. On September 12 this year, the brigade's pilots drove four J-20 (歼—20) fighter jets to escort the remains of the Volunteer martyrs back to China.
During the escort mission, the transport plane used the call sign "Crossing the River 50" to pay tribute to the heroic predecessors who **雄赳赳、气昂昂** (xióng jiū jiū, qì áng áng - "valiant and spirited," full of vigor and high morale) crossed the Yalu River (鸭绿江) in 1950; the fighter jet's call sign "Triumph" implied escorting the martyrs back and indicated remembering the great victory.
"The predecessors shed blood on the battlefield in exchange for the safety of the country today." Chen Deqiao (陈德翘), the brigade's pilot and tower commander who performed the escort mission, said emotionally, "Honor is worth remembering, and the spirit will be passed on forever. We must work hard to refine our skills and forge the ability to win battles to better protect the motherland's airspace."
With the development of the times, what has changed is the equipment, and what remains unchanged is the loyalty, courage, and responsibility forged in the blood of generations of blue sky pride.
(Wang Xuefeng (王学峰) and Ma Yunlong (马云龙) participated in the writing)
An Old-fashioned Machine Gun, Inspiring Courage and Boldness
Ren Tongtong (任彤彤), reporter of this newspaper
Iron armor roared, and smoke filled the air. A live-fire tactical exercise was in full swing in the field somewhere. Faced with complex "enemy situations," the officers and soldiers of the "Sun Zhanyuan (孙占元) Company," a certain airborne brigade, closely coordinated and cooperated to seize the established target in one fell swoop and finally planted the victory flag on the "enemy" position.
At the end of the exercise, the officers and soldiers of the "Sun Zhanyuan Company" passed through the company's cultural corridor on their way back to the camp. They stopped for a long time, staring at a light machine gun on the exhibition board. This is the machine gun used by Sun Zhanyuan, a first-class hero and special-class meritorious person, during his lifetime. The actual object is now displayed in the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution (中国人民革命军事博物馆).
This machine gun witnessed the heroic feat 73 years ago. During the Battle of Shangganling (上甘岭战役), Sun Zhanyuan led a commando platoon to launch a counterattack against the enemy, and his legs were unfortunately blown off by shells. Faced with the enemy's fierce attack, he endured the severe pain and stubbornly crawled to direct the battle.
Sun Zhanyuan used the captured bunker to set up a captured machine gun and fired in turns, repelling two enemy assaults in a row and killing or wounding more than 80 enemies. When the ammunition was exhausted and the enemy troops surged onto the position, he pulled the last grenade and died together with the enemy, sacrificing heroically at the age of only 27.
Blood is inherited, and the torch is passed on. Whenever new recruits are assigned to the company and new cadres enter the camp, the first song they sing is "We Are All Sun Zhanyuan," the first education class they take is to learn the story of Sun Zhanyuan's battle, the first movie they watch is "Shangganling," and the first name they call at evening roll call is "Sun Zhanyuan"...
On the journey of strengthening the army and revitalizing the military, they always inherit and carry forward the company's soul of "attacking bravely and defending stubbornly," calling out the slogan "Fight like Sun Zhanyuan" with practical actions, and handing over a qualified answer sheet to the old platoon leader.
The company has not only successfully completed many major tasks such as exercises, training, and military competitions, but has also won honors such as "First-Class Military Training Company" and "Advanced Unit of 'Four Irons'," and has repeatedly won collective third-class merit.
During a certain exercise mission, the officers and soldiers of the "Sun Zhanyuan Company" maneuvered thousands of kilometers across regions and came to an unfamiliar area. Faced with the "three no's" conditions of no meteorological data, no ground signs, and no command guidance, as well as unknown risks, the officers and soldiers shouted the company's soul and bravely jumped out of the aircraft door.
During landing, some officers and soldiers had their skin scratched by camel thorns, some had their hands and feet worn out, and some even suffered injuries and fractures, but no one retreated. Everyone was unstoppable, successfully completing the task and demonstrating excellent combat skills. "We are the successors of Sun Zhanyuan, and we cannot embarrass the old platoon leader!" the officers and soldiers said firmly.
During the September 3rd military parade this year, a pair of brand-new leather shoes was placed in the combat vehicle compartment and passed through Tiananmen Square with the parading officers and soldiers of the airborne assault phalanx. The parading officers and soldiers from the "Sun Zhanyuan Company" fulfilled a dream for the old platoon leader - "When the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea is won, I will buy a pair of leather shoes and take a photo in Tiananmen Square."
(Cheng Chuangang (成传港) participated in the writing)
A Medical Backpack, Witnessing the Benevolence of Doctors
Li Longyi (李龙伊), reporter of this newspaper
In the hospital history museum of the 966th Hospital of the Joint Logistics Support Force (联勤保障部队), an old backpack is quietly displayed, silently telling the medical staff a history that cannot be forgotten. This medical backpack, stained with blood and with worn corners, once traveled through the flames of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
The predecessor of the hospital was the Volunteer Army General Hospital (志愿军总医院), which produced a group of "battlefield angels" such as Zhu Yong (朱勇). And that backpack was Zhu Yong's "medical weapon" for rescuing the wounded in the hail of bullets.
In the winter of 1950, the second campaign of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea began. Zhu Yong, a 16-year-old nurse, wrote a letter of request to fight and rushed to the front line. She and her comrades carried medicine bags and shuttled through the battlefield, braving the artillery fire. After an enemy plane bombing, she was fainted by the heavy smell of explosives. After waking up, she immediately climbed into the mountain cave in the dark and dragged the unconscious comrades out of the cave one by one. Others advised her to take a break, but she replied: "As long as I am still alive, I will do my best to treat the wounded!"
The war was tense, and it was difficult to send the wounded back. Zhu Yong carried medicines and equipment on her back, carried stretchers, and transported the wounded on foot for several miles. She braved the bombing during the day and traveled in the dark at night. She rolled down the hillside many times, covered in bruises; when enemy planes bombed, she protected the medical backpack with her body. "On the battlefield, a backpack that can save people is more important than my life," she said.
The heroic history has never gone far, and the heroic story continues.
In recent years, the hospital has carried forward the war rescue tradition of "everything for the front line, everything for the wounded and sick, and everything for victory," built a hospital history museum to display wartime objects, and used methods such as scene reproduction to bring that history into the hearts of medical staff.
"Every time I carry a new type of medical backpack to participate in training, I always think of the old backpack of Senior Zhu Yong," said Sergeant Gao Shuqi (高舒琪). "It reminds us that as white-clothed soldiers, we must be ready to go to the front line and rescue the wounded at all times."
Recently, a live-fire health support exercise was in full swing. After receiving a distress signal from "wounded" at the front, the field medical team where Gao Shuqi was located quickly moved forward. The road was destroyed, and vehicles could not pass. The medical staff decisively carried dozens of kilograms of medical backpacks on their backs and ran on foot, continuously transferring multiple "seriously wounded." With his physical strength almost exhausted, Gao Shuqi still gritted his teeth and persevered. "As long as I have a little strength left, I will not give up any wounded!" Gao Shuqi said.
Today, this medical backpack that has traveled through the flames of war is still treasured in the hospital history museum, and the spirit it carries is being firmly inherited on the road to strengthening the army in the new era with the figures of batches of white-clothed soldiers.
(Wang Xuechao (汪学潮) and Dai Pengfei (戴鹏飞) participated in the writing)
Return to TopMore than 70 years have passed, and I still often think of the days when I flew fighter planes over the Yalu River (鸭绿江). At that time, we were all young, with an average of only twenty or thirty hours of flight time on fighter jets, while the enemy on the other side were "veterans" with hundreds of hours of flight time. But in our hearts, we all had a courage and determination to engage in "aerial bayonet fighting."
My comrade Jiang Daoping (蒋道平), had the shortest solo flight time in the entire team when he went to Korea to fight, but he shot down a plane piloted by an American ace pilot; comrade Song Yichun (宋义春) was bitten on the tail by an enemy plane, but he calmly used his climbing advantage to counter-kill, sending his opponent tumbling down in smoke; liaison pilot Yan Qingshui (闫清水), continued to fight even after his warplane was damaged, and ultimately heroically shot down an enemy plane... From the end of 1952 until the final victory, our squadron shot down or damaged 14 enemy planes.
At that time, we were not flying advanced aircraft, but we flew out a firm trajectory. During this year's September 3rd military parade, I watched formations of new fighter jets roaring past in the aerial echelon, and my heart was filled with mixed feelings. That blue sky that we once protected with our lives now has truly powerful wings to soar. New era pilots, may you always remember—the courage to fight and dare to battle is the most precious wealth of the People's Air Force.
—Li Shiying (李世英), former squadron leader of the "Li Shiying Squadron" (李世英中队) of a certain aviation division of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army Air Force (中国人民志愿军空军), (as told to Jin Zhengbo (金正波), reporter for this newspaper)
As the anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army (中国人民志愿军) entering Korea to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea (抗美援朝) approaches, my thoughts are racing. So many years have passed, and the image of me and my comrades going to war often appears in my mind. When I entered Korea to participate in the war, I was only 13 years old and a member of the cultural troupe. Once, when I went to perform at the front line, I suddenly developed a high fever and felt very uncomfortable. My comrades felt sorry for me, and a soldier of eighteen or nineteen carried me to the company to rest. After the performance, we agreed to meet again at the next performance. However, he "broke his promise." Later, when I inquired about his situation, I learned that he had already sacrificed himself. Unfortunately, I still don't know his name.
On September 12th of this year, at the ceremony to welcome back the remains of the twelfth group of Chinese People's Volunteer Army martyrs in South Korea, tears welled up in my eyes when I saw the coffins being carried out of the Y-20 transport aircraft one by one. I wonder if that soldier who carried me and gave me a warm promise has returned to the motherland?
The volunteer soldiers used their most precious years to protect the motherland and people behind them. Now, the country is prosperous, the people are happy, and the army is strong. This prosperous age is enough to comfort the heroic spirits of the martyrs.
Young soldiers, please steadily shoulder the guns of your predecessors, and strive unremittingly to realize the Chinese dream (中国梦) and the dream of a strong military (强军梦), and dedicate your youthful sweat on the journey towards building a world-class army.
—He Lindi (何临弟), member of the Cultural Troupe of the Political Department of the Ninth Army Group of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army (中国人民志愿军第九兵团政治部文工团), (as told to Wang Dong (王栋))
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I have been to this place, or rather, I passed by it long ago.
Fifty years ago, I studied at Yaoli Middle School (姚李中学) in my hometown. Often in the afternoon, I would sit on the hillside east of the school, looking east. I could vaguely see a towering building, the South Gate Tower (南门塔) of Lu'an City (六安城), Anhui (安徽). Gazing at that tower, my heart surged with imagination and longing for the city. At that time, I didn't know that this village, called Linshui Village (林水寨), was within my sight, below my line of sight, in the depression between me and the South Gate Tower (南门塔), quietly exuding poverty. Years later, I joined the army and left my hometown. Every time I returned home to visit relatives, I had to transfer from Hefei (合肥) and pass through here. What I can remember about it is the desolate sunset outside the train window and the thatched houses crawling under the sunset, the fleeting smoke from the chimneys and the sparse vegetation, and the melancholy undertones permeating the fields.
Later, I became a military writer. When conceiving works such as "Historical Sky" 《历史的天空》 and "Riding the World" 《马上天下》, my eyes often fell on large-scale maps, wandering over rivers, mountains, roads, and open spaces. Passing through here again and again, what I saw was the displaced refugees and the twisted smoke in the flames of war.
From beginning to end, Linshui Village (林水寨) was always the part of my memory that was often overlooked, leaving me with a vague impression, always mixed with negative concepts such as poverty, backwardness, ignorance, and desolation, and unrelated to concepts such as civilization, city, wealth, and happiness.
Until many years later, all this changed, even changing my perception of my hometown.
In early October this year, I returned to my hometown for a short stay and came to Linshui Village (林水寨). For the first time, I was there in person, as if in another world. This village, less than 5 kilometers from my birthplace, suddenly became unfamiliar. A rainbow rose in my heart—on the undulating fields, trees were lush, paths crisscrossed, and the sunlight caressed the rice ears like lake water, with golden agate flowing everywhere. On the hilly land at the edge of the rice fields, several exquisite small buildings were interspersed, scattered in a well-organized manner, yellow, red, and blue, with colors matched just right, low-key but eye-catching, like manors and castles growing out of the fields. Suddenly, I realized that the reduction of the gap between urban and rural areas that we longed for decades ago has been realized here unconsciously. If I were to return to that hillside of Yaoli Middle School (姚李中学) today and look east, I should not be able to see the South Gate Tower (南门塔) that symbolizes the city anymore; it is obscured by the garden city.
In recent years, I have been to many places and have seen many rising characteristic villages. Some are known for their antiquity, some are known for their foreign style, and some are known for their novelty, such as Chaji Village (查济村) and Zhangdu Old Street (章渡老街) in southern Anhui (皖南), Guling (鼓岭) and Caomugu (草木谷) in Fuzhou (福州), and Faguan Town (法官镇) and Mancheng Pass (漫川关) in southern Shaanxi (陕南), all of which have left me with beautiful impressions. But what Linshui Village (林水寨) brings to me is a different kind of intimacy and emotion.
On the hilly land at the northern foot of the Dabie Mountains (大别山), it seems to be a miniature city growing out of the land, with multiple functions such as workshops, farms, commerce, and entertainment. Entering from the gate of the park, one can see the Rural Art Museum (乡村艺术馆), the Agricultural Culture Museum (农耕文化馆), the Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition Hall (非遗展馆), the Tea Museum (茶博物馆), the French Cafe (法式咖啡馆), the Rural Post Office (乡村邮局), the Pastoral Bookstore (田园书屋), the Circular Cinema (循环影院), and the Smart Restaurant (智能餐厅) scattered like stars. The small space is used to the fullest extent, and every inch of land seems to be doing its best to display its artistic endowment. All this has both the modernity of urban life and fills the rare poetic and picturesque charm of urban life.
This provincial-level "Leisure Agriculture and Rural Tourism Demonstration Park" (休闲农业和乡村旅游示范园区) is surrounded by thousands of acres of rice fields and lakes. In spring, it is embraced by boundless greenery; in summer, it is accompanied by pink lotus flowers; in autumn, it is filled with the fragrance of golden rice; and in winter, it is a novel landscape painting. The branches of green cypresses and green bamboos are hung with white snow, the shoulders of red walls and black tiles are covered with white snow, and the rice ears lurk under the cover of white snow, sending a deep invitation from the depths of the fields to the owners of the land: come and harvest me, harvest your hard work, harvest the dedication of the land, harvest the products of love, and send me to faraway places, to Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海), to Hong Kong (香港), Macau (澳门), to New York, Paris. Let the whole world see that in China (中国), in western Anhui (皖西), in Linshui Village (林水寨), there is such a work of art, Snow Rice.
Speaking of Snow Rice, one cannot fail to mention Ai Qifeng (艾启凤). In my opinion, this village girl, who graduated from the University of Geosciences, knows the land very well, is very good at using the land, and also pays special attention to protecting the land. In a conversation with Xiao Ai (小艾), I learned that she had suffered from illness in her childhood and was in critical condition. Her parents believed in folk remedies and gave her food from a hundred families. In that era of scarcity, farmers were not wealthy, but when it came to cooking for Xiao Ai (小艾), the villagers still took out the best ingredients from their homes, even if it was the last egg... When talking to me about the past, Xiao Ai's (小艾) eyes sparkled with tears.
At that moment, I understood why this girl, who had been successful in starting a business in other places, would invest so much energy and capital to return to her hometown to build this agricultural ecological park. She turned that originally barren land into a beautiful pastoral landscape. At that moment, I remembered a famous poem: Why are my eyes always full of tears? Because I love this land so deeply...
A friend said that the main reason why Linshui Village (林水寨) has been able to develop to this scale is Snow Rice. During my short stay in Linshui Village (林水寨), almost every night I would look up at the starry sky, listen to the chirping of insects and the singing of fishermen, and enjoy the tranquility of the mountain village. The stars and moon of my childhood returned to my eyes. Every time dawn broke, I would get up early to see the newly awakened rice fields, walk back and forth on the ridges, bend down to look at the heavy rice ears, and have a silent exchange with them, listening to them murmuring to themselves—I will grow in this world for 210 days, experiencing the four seasons, bathing in snow and frost. I absorb more sunlight than other rice grains, I drink high-quality air, and the sounds of nature always flow in my ears.
I developed a strong interest in this pastoral land, so I stayed a few days longer than originally planned. I further learned that the life of Snow Rice is indeed a lucky one. In addition to the introduction and cultivation of varieties, the mountains and rivers, wind and rain, and the醇厚的民风 (chún hòu de mín fēng - "simple folk customs," honest and kind local customs) of my hometown, the spirit of love transmission and return, have given this pearl among grains unique growing conditions. The rice fields are fallow for 3 years, and the application of chemical fertilizers and pesticides is prohibited. The rice harvested after the winter snow is as white as jade, with a soft, glutinous, and smooth taste, and a clear, fragrant, and sweet flavor. That is the taste of childhood, the taste of home, and also the taste of the times.
It is said that every bag of rice put on the market is equipped with a traceability QR code, and the production process is clearly visible, confirming that it is natural and correct. Because it is carefully cared for, the production cost is very high, and of course, the value is also very high. Fallow for 3 years, compared to one season per year, the yield is reduced by at most half, but the quality has improved, and the value can be increased by at least 10 times.
One side of the water and soil nourishes one side of the people, and one side of the people also nourishes one side of the water and soil.
On the afternoon of the day I left Linshui Village (林水寨), the sky, which had been gloomy for several days, suddenly opened a gap, and a beam of sunlight rushed in. I repeatedly called to stop the car, walked to the middle of the rice field, picked a few grains of rice, peeled out the pearl-like rice grains, and stared at them in the divinely bestowed sunlight, looking at their translucent bodies like mutton fat jade, looking at their dreamlike halo, and suddenly had a whimsical idea—there is land everywhere, and everything grows out of the land, including love and poetry. If the rice grains that have grown on this land for thousands of years are piled together, it will be much more majestic than the pyramids. We don't need to build so many pyramids on the earth, because the pyramids are in our hometown, in the land under our feet.
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Not long ago, the grand gathering commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War was solemnly held in Tiananmen Square (天安门广场) in Beijing (北京). When a batch of major national weapons passed proudly through Tiananmen (天安门), the people of the whole country were filled with excitement and passion. At such moments, people always think of the scientists who devoted themselves to the prosperity and strength of the motherland. Among them, Qian Xuesen (钱学森), the founder of China's aerospace industry and winner of the "Two Bombs, One Satellite" Achievement Medal, is particularly representative.
Counting on our fingers, this year marks the 70th anniversary of Mr. Qian's return to China.
On October 8, 1955, after more than 20 days at sea, Qian Xuesen (钱学森) and his family finally arrived in Guangzhou (广州) and returned to the embrace of the motherland. That year, on the deck of the "President Cleveland" cruise ship, Mr. Qian (钱先生) was interviewed by a reporter from the American *Los Angeles Times*. He said: "I am very happy to return to my country... In the future, I will actively work hard to build my country together with the Chinese people, so that my compatriots can live a dignified and happy life."
Before preparing to return to China, Mr. Qian (钱先生) had been recognized as one of the most insightful scholars in the field of aeronautics. His concept of the prototype of a modern space shuttle caused a sensation in the American academic community. His career was at its peak, his academic reputation was rising steadily, and his scientific research conditions were world-class. Everything was ready to achieve greater achievements... What kind of power ultimately made him decide to give up his comfortable life and development prospects, break through numerous obstacles, and go through all kinds of hardships to return to build a poor and backward motherland waiting to be rebuilt?
Tracing the roots, it is the deep patriotic feelings in Qian Xuesen's (钱学森) heart. And this patriotic feeling is inseparable from his profound family background and family traditions.
Qian Xuesen (钱学森) is a descendant of Qian Liu (钱镠), the founder of the Wuyue Kingdom (吴越国). This ancestor left the Qian (钱) family with family precepts such as "Do not seek profit for oneself, but seek profit for the world" and "A strong country employs the virtuous and the capable, and a prosperous country promotes education and cultivates talents." It is precisely under the influence of this spirit of embracing the world and strengthening the country through education that the Qian (钱) family has produced talents in various fields in modern times: Qian Mu (钱穆), a master of Chinese studies, Qian Zhongshu (钱钟书), a learned scholar, Qian Sanqiang (钱三强), a meritorious figure of "Two Bombs, One Satellite", and Qian Weichang (钱伟长), a famous scientist...
Qian Xuesen's (钱学森) father, Qian Jiazhi (钱家治), was in his youth when the late Qing Dynasty (晚清) was declining and enlightened people were seeking the truth to save the country and the people. Under such a historical background, Qian Jiazhi (钱家治) went to Japan to study at Tokyo Higher Normal School (东京高等师范学校). After graduating and returning to China in 1910, he established "Quanxuetang (劝学堂)" in Shanghai (上海), and later served as the principal of Zhejiang Provincial First Middle School (浙江省立第一中学), and then went to the Ministry of Education (教育部) in Beijing (北京). After several years, he served as the Director of the Education Department of Zhejiang Province (浙江省教育厅). In 1956, he served as a librarian at the Central Research Institute of Culture and History (中央文史馆). Qian Jiazhi (钱家治) was an enlightened and responsible father, and also an educator with new ideas. His family education profoundly influenced Qian Xuesen's (钱学森) growth. He compiled reading lists for Qian Xuesen (钱学森) and corrected his reading notes, sowing the seeds of striving for self-improvement and revitalizing China in the heart of the young Qian Xuesen (钱学森). Qian Xuesen (钱学森) later often said: "My first teacher was my father."
Looking back at Mr. Qian's (钱先生) stage of life enlightenment, one cannot help but feel a lot of emotions. "The family is the first classroom in life, and parents are the child's first teachers. Children begin to receive family education from the time they babble. What kind of family education there is, what kind of person there is."
In August 1935, before Qian Xuesen (钱学森) went to the United States to study, Qian Jiazhi (钱家治) warned his son to read more books about traditional Chinese culture in addition to studying his major abroad. He said: "By reading these books carefully, you can get some clues about the traditional philosophical thoughts of the motherland." "The characteristics and outlook on life of any nation are specifically reflected in its history. Therefore, people who study history carefully are often the most deeply emotional and loyal to their motherland." When Qian Xuesen (钱学森) boarded the ship to leave, Qian Jiazhi (钱家治) said to him: "My son's trip to the West this time is not his long-cherished wish. He should return green and return brilliantly."
"Family traditions and family education are the most valuable wealth of a family and the best legacy left to future generations." What Qian's (钱) father hoped for was not that his children would go abroad to study and live a so-called superior life, but that they would have the motherland in their hearts, return after completing their studies, and loyally serve the country. Before going to the West, he was already looking forward to his son's return, not to be happy under his knees, but to be concerned about the prosperity of the country, to be inspired by serving the country with loyalty, and to show his son the bright road. The family traditions and family education under this kind of mind and pattern will naturally cultivate unparalleled national scholars and influence a generation of outstanding people!
On the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Qian Jiazhi (钱家治) wrote a special letter to his son in the United States: Life depends on roots, just like trees, and cannot be separated from the soil that nurtures it. Only by taking root in it can it flourish without declining. The root of your son's life should be the motherland that nurtured you. Returning to the roots is a classic example of repaying the kindness of nurturing. I hope my son will think twice.
After learning that Qian Xuesen (钱学森) had been placed under house arrest and detained by the US authorities, this strong father specially wrote a letter to encourage Qian Xuesen (钱学森) in his predicament: Life is inevitably full of twists and turns, and time is wasted. It all depends on a strong will. Once the goal is set, pursue it unremittingly; even if there are many detours, always hold on to your lofty ideals. I believe in my son's loyalty to the cause of science and his loyalty to his motherland; I also believe that my son's Chinese soul will always be awakened...
The patriotic feelings, the ardent love for his son's return to China, and the firm support and encouragement reflected in these two letters from Qian's (钱) father also made Qian Xuesen's (钱学森) will of "My career is in China, my achievements are in China, and my home is in China" even firmer.
Five years on the road back to China, ten years to build "Two Bombs". After returning to China, Mr. Qian (钱先生) always put the people in the highest position in his heart, and always regarded the needs of the country as the fundamental direction for the development of his career, using science and technology to serve the country, serve the people, and benefit the nation. All of this is closely related to Mr. Qian's (钱先生) family traditions and family education.
70 years have passed. What can be told to Mr. Qian (钱先生) is that this prosperous age is as he wished! After the unremitting efforts of generations of Chinese Communists and the people of the whole country, his compatriots have lived a dignified and happy life. Today, our country's comprehensive strength is universally recognized, and we are closer to the goal of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation than at any time in history. The Party and the country are firmly promoting the strategy of revitalizing the country through science and education, the strategy of strengthening the country through talent, and the strategy of innovation-driven development. The era we are in is a new era in which the vast number of science and technology workers can achieve great things and make great achievements.
Looking at family traditions and family education from the 70th anniversary of Qian Xuesen's (钱学森) return to China gives us another important inspiration: "As parents and guardians, we should pass on good moral concepts to our children from an early age, guide them to have integrity and backbone, help them form a beautiful mind, promote their healthy growth, and become useful people to the country and the people when they grow up."
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The Reeves shad has thin flesh and fine bones, tender meat, and rich fat. Such fish are salted and marinated, and after time and fermentation, they eventually become a supreme delicacy with a bright yellow color—Sanbao Reeves Shad.
The birth of Sanbao Reeves Shad originated from the backward storage and preservation equipment for aquatic products in the past. When Reeves shad flourished, there were tens of thousands of them. The processing methods were nothing more than drying them into dried fish or pickling them into salted fish. Through years of practice and summarization, people gradually completed the technological upgrade from salted Reeves shad to Sanbao Reeves Shad.
The "bao" of Sanbao Reeves Shad is a local slang term, meaning pickling. The authentic method is to use salt to wrap the fresh Reeves shad three times, which takes at least 3 months to complete. The production process is complex, the technical difficulty is high, and it takes a long time. It cannot be completed without experienced veterans. Even the buckets, jars, fish-protecting bamboo pieces, and fish-pressing stones used are very particular—the buckets and jars are generally passed down from ancestors, and the fish-pressing stones must be stones that have been soaked in seawater for a long time.
To make Sanbao Reeves Shad, the fresher the raw materials, the better. Use a bamboo stick to slowly insert it into the gill hole of the Reeves shad, one for ventilation and the other for pouring salt. Then grab a handful of salt, use four fingers to rub from the tail scales to the head to the gills, and the thumb to stuff salt into the abdominal cavity. Before the fish enters the bucket, salt must be evenly sprinkled in the bucket. Then place the fish head inward, with the fish bodies overlapping each other sideways, leaving no gaps. One layer of fish, one layer of salt, after placing, sprinkle sealing salt and press on the stones.
At this point, the "first bao" is completed. During the "second bao", first pour out the "blood brine" squeezed out of the "first bao", add salt according to the previous method, cover with bamboo curtain pieces, and continue to compact with stones. The "third bao" mainly consolidates the color, taste, and shape of the Reeves shad, waiting at least one month.
After 3 months of pickling and heavy stone pressing, the moisture in the Reeves shad is almost exhausted. The finished product is dry, flat, and stiff, with a golden yellow surface and a light pink inside. It is not salty when it comes out of the salt pile, and it is not dry under heavy pressure. Without preservatives and non-freezing conditions, it can be stored in a natural environment for a long time without deterioration or loss of flavor.
In the summer, the heat is steaming, and people on the island often suffer from summer sickness, with a listless spirit. Sanbao Reeves Shad comes on the scene at the right time. Take one out and steam it in a pot, without any seasonings. Just the deep, tempting aroma can make people's mouths water. When you pick it up with chopsticks, the fish becomes shredded. The meat is fine and tough, loose but not scattered, and melts in your mouth. At first, it tastes mellow, salty, and glutinous, and then it turns from salty to sweet. Because of the sweetness, it becomes fresh. As you eat, you actually produce a strange, slightly drunk feeling. After swallowing for a long time, there is still a trace of sweetness lingering between your teeth and cheeks.
Slightly wash off the surface salt grains of the Sanbao Reeves Shad, cut it into pieces, add water and boil it with wax gourd, and simmer it until cooked. This is a summer soup that relieves heat and stimulates the appetite. The wax gourd slices are half-submerged and half-floating, crystal clear, like white jade soaked in water. The edges of the Reeves shad pieces are slightly upturned, revealing the light red fish inside. When touched, they ripple in strands. The wax gourd is fresh and refreshing, which just neutralizes the salty and heavy taste of the Reeves shad. After a bowl, the whole person feels much more comfortable.
In the past, Sanbao Reeves Shad stewed with eggs was an indispensable dish for the New Year and festivals. When a plate is served, the first thing that attracts people is its appearance. Two eggs lie quietly next to a golden, shimmering Reeves shad. Yellow fish oil floats on the eggs, and milky white egg liquid seeps out from under the fish. Salted fish and fresh eggs, seafood and home flavor, the two work together in this small plate to form a famous dish, which is really wonderful. Diners often taste the eggs first and then the fish. The eggs contain the salty freshness of the fish, and the fish is mixed with a faint egg fragrance. It is best to dip it in the soup before eating. The mixed taste is like waves, layered on top of each other, with a suitable concentration.
Sanbao Reeves Shad has brought the technique of salting fish to the extreme, and the ingenuity is rare. Nowadays, this technique is almost lost. The Sanbao Reeves Shad sold on the market can only be regarded as a simplified version, with reduced procedures, shortened time, and arbitrary equipment. In order to meet modern people's health concepts, the amount of salt used is also cautious. The simplified version generally takes seven days for "one bao", and the finished product is produced within one month, and the quality is inevitably inferior.
Sanbao Reeves Shad, like some old traditions, is gradually moving away from us, but the old taste pickled with coarse salt and time has long been integrated into the blood, how can it really dissipate?
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We sit in the house, talking about this autumn.
Outside the window, the scent of artemisia visits the living room again and again.
During which, someone keeps speaking in dialect.
I suddenly realize
That my hometown still has partners I particularly trust.
They live in self-built houses, loving
The fireworks and feasts, planting grains and watermelons.
They deal with, year after year,
The weddings and funerals of neighbors and relatives.
The artemisia grows wantonly among the mountains and fields.
In this world, there are harvests that arrive as scheduled.
Life has meaning within plans.
They rely on keeping their word, advancing in the era's
Torrent, while I
Have never extinguished the distant ideal in my heart.
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Having left my hometown for many years, the things on the North China Plain (华北平原) have gradually faded away. This year, returning home, I bent down to examine several plants that were common in my childhood, and a few feelings arose.
First, the Qingqing vegetable. I found several in the courtyard of my old home. No more than a hand's span tall, the edges of the leaves have thorns, as long or short as fingers, often growing beside field ridges and roadsides. In the 1970s and 1980s, Qingqing vegetables were a good side dish, picked home in the spring while they were tender, and eaten dipped in pickled vegetable soup. But this only lasted for about twenty days; once they grew larger, the thorns were hard and pricked the mouth, so they could no longer be eaten. In my memory, Qingqing vegetables bloom with round, spherical, small purple flowers. Life was difficult, and I only cared about its function of filling my stomach, with no heart to appreciate the flowers. Looking back now, how boring.
As they grew larger, the seeds of the Qingqing vegetable scattered in the wind like small white umbrellas. At that time, I had just learned about dandelions and naturally thought that Qingqing vegetables were dandelions. Today, after detailed study, I learned that its scientific name is *Cirsium setosum*, which is different from dandelions. In some places, such as Shandong (山东), it is called Qiqi bud or Qiqi vegetable. My hometown, Fucheng (阜城) in Hebei (河北), is very close to Shandong, and Qingqing and Qiqi should be variations in pronunciation, both meaning lush.
Second, the Qingma. It blooms with apricot-yellow flowers, the size of a beer bottle cap. I once saw a bee busy on it for a long time, seemingly without gain, and then it flew away. Today, I saw it behind the house, and the flowers of the Qingma stood out, brightening my eyes. At noon, the sun was hot, and the yellow flowers were also hot, reflecting each other.
Whether it is the fruit or the palm-sized triangular leaves, they all have fine hairs on them. The fruit of the Qingma is hemispherical, about 2 centimeters in diameter, and inside are individual grains of fruit, which can be broken open and eaten when tender. We call its fruit "mantou," not salty, not bland, not sweet, not bitter, not fragrant, not smelly, not delicious, but barely able to fill the stomach. Like Qingqing vegetables, Qingma can be found everywhere, taking root in any crack, with strong vitality.
Third, the Dishao melon. It grows like bamboo grass, clinging tightly to the hardened ground, with thin leaves that are long and hard, quite like willow leaves. The flowers of the Dishao melon are white, so small that the specific shape cannot be seen clearly with the naked eye.
The Dishao melon is wrapped and oppressed by tall and short weeds, walking with ease, stopping leisurely. Not obtrusive, not eye-catching. When I confirmed its name, it was as if I had suddenly met an old friend who had been separated for many years. In my hometown, it is called "Digu La," and we often ate its fruit in our childhood. Its fruit is the length of a little finger, with pointed ends and a round, bulging middle, and is greenish-blue. Take a bite, and it is slightly sweet. The young fruit is the most delicious, with smooth, tender skin. When it gets old, the juice under the skin turns into a white flocculent substance, waiting for the day it bursts open, and those flocculent substances will carry the seeds to all directions. When I was in my teens, I saw a burst fruit in the autumn fields while carrying a basket. It was like a decaying old man, a little sad, but then I thought that those seeds were a new life after death, and I felt relieved again.
I am still used to calling it by its local name "Digu La," which, although not as elegant as Dishao melon, is more intimate.
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The old man, in his 70s, came from his hometown of Wanzai (万载) in Jiangxi (江西) to Dongguan (东莞), Guangdong (广东), to stay with his daughter and quit drinking. I initially thought that daughters everywhere are not the best place to quit drinking.
The old man is small and wiry, but his body is very sturdy. I heard that in his hometown, his face was always flushed. He drank homemade grain liquor with every meal, three times a day. After drinking, no one dared to approach the old man; everyone avoided him. In the end, his 96-year-old mother personally stepped in, waving her cane and driving him out of the house.
That's how he came to Dongguan (东莞). His daughter runs a stone factory. He usually stays in the factory, and when he's bored, he picks up a feather duster and voluntarily sweeps the dust off the large stone slabs in the warehouse. When the employees saw him, they jokingly asked if he wanted to drink. He smiled and said he would if there was any.
The employees liked him; he was a man with stories. Although he only went to elementary school for three years, he liked to read and secretly read every piece of paper with writing on it in the house. In addition to farming, he also did business, selling tea and piglets, and his business reached the neighboring province. He taught himself traditional Chinese medicine, went up the mountain to dig herbs, and treated villagers. He had a good memory and could retell the books he had read. During the slack season, he was always surrounded by a group of people listening to him tell stories from *Romance of the Three Kingdoms* and *Water Margin*. The villagers called him a scholar, a cultured man. Unfortunately, he later became addicted to alcohol, and his refinement was **一扫而空** (yī sǎo ér kōng - "swept away," completely ruined).
Coming to Dongguan (东莞), he quickly reverted to his old ways. Without alcohol, he was listless all day. Seeing that her father was in good health and had no other problems, his daughter relaxed her guard: no restrictions on alcohol, only limitations, two liang of baijiu (白酒) with each meal.
As soon as he drank, the old man perked up. After drinking, he waved the feather duster and strode into the reception room. Inside was a marble table and a large wall cabinet, with the top two layers used as a wine cellar and the bottom two layers used as a book collection. The old man held a book, and as he read, the book fell, and he collapsed on the stone surface, apparently unable to handle the alcohol. From then on, everyone jokingly called this stone table the "drunken stone."
The first time I saw the old man, he was lying on the "drunken stone." Someone told me that he drank more than two liang and secretly emptied the wine bottles displayed in the cabinet. Because he was the boss's father, everyone was embarrassed to interfere and let him sleep until he woke up naturally.
One day I went to the company, and everyone was sitting around drinking tea. Someone introduced me as a writer, and the old man was very excited. With a flushed face, he raised his right hand, pinched his thumb and index finger into a circle, a hand gesture that looked like OK, but also like an orchid finger, to greet me. I asked him if he had had a drink.
"Yes!" he said with a smile. I offered him a cigarette, which he accepted, but he resolutely refused to take the lighter I offered, insisting on fumbling for his own lighter in his pocket.
I invited him to sit over and asked him how many cups he had drunk. He once again made a circle with his index finger and thumb, cupped the three fingers below into a cup shape, and waved it at me. I thought it was three cups, but he said to me, "When will the moon be clear?" Everyone realized that he wanted to recite poetry, and they encouraged me to recite poetry with him. I immediately replied, "With a cup of wine in my hand, I ask the blue sky." "I do not know what celestial palaces." "What year is this evening?"
We used Su Dongpo's (苏东坡) *Prelude to Water Melody* as a code. I also cupped my fingers into a cup shape and clinked them with his, drinking the imaginary poetic wine.
Later, I learned that the old man liked ancient poetry. Once he drank, he could recite Tang (唐) and Song (宋) poems related to wine at will, backwards and forwards, with cadence and rhythm, shaking his head and swaying, enjoying it immensely.
The next time I saw the old man, he was sitting next to the "drunken stone," reading a traditional Chinese medicine book in traditional characters. He raised his fingers again to greet me: "A pot of wine among the flowers." "I drink alone without a companion." We matched up again. However, what surprised me was that after only a short time, he had actually quit drinking. This transition felt very sudden, and the "drunken stone" became the "sober stone."
He said sheepishly that he had to thank his mother, daughter, and books. With them, alcohol was no longer important. His daughter bought him many books and put them in the wall cabinet in the reception room, replacing the previous wine cellar. These books gradually relieved his dependence on alcohol. Alcohol is not the main character in life, but poetry and books can add to the fun of life.
He talked about his mother, who is already in her nineties and still insists on reading books and newspapers every day. I was shocked; what a reader she is, hidden in the countryside of Wanzai (万载).
He said that on the lintel of his family's century-old house are written the four characters "**耕读传家**" (gēng dú chuán jiā - "farming and reading as a family tradition," to value both agricultural work and scholarly pursuits as a way to maintain the family's prosperity and heritage).
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