Summary: Xi Jinping attended the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, where he delivered a speech emphasizing the importance of open regional development and addressing global uncertainties. Xi proposed five recommendations including upholding the multilateral trading system, fostering an open regional economy, stabilizing supply chains, promoting digital and green trade, and fostering inclusive development. He stressed China's commitment to opening up and contributing to the Asia-Pacific region and the world through its modernization efforts. Xi's remarks also implicitly addressed U.S. policies by calling for maintaining supply chains and rejecting protectionist measures. Wang Yi also participated in the event, which was hosted by South Korean President Lee Jae-myung.
Summary: In a written address to the APEC CEO Summit in South Korea, Xi Jinping emphasized that the world stands at a crossroads and called for cooperation and multilateralism, rejecting hegemony and unilateralism, framing them as detrimental to global peace and development. He positioned China as a champion of the current international order and a practitioner of true multilateralism, referencing the Belt and Road Initiative and other global initiatives. Xi highlighted China's economic contributions and continued openness to foreign investment, presenting it as an ideal investment destination. He also stressed the importance of maintaining the WTO-centered multilateral trading system. Xi expressed that China will host APEC for the third time next year.
Summary: During the APEC meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, Xi Jinping met with Canadian Prime Minister Kani, marking the 55th anniversary of China-Canada diplomatic relations and the 20th anniversary of their strategic partnership. Xi emphasized the need for objective understanding and mutual benefit, urging the advancement of trade, energy cooperation, and people-to-people exchanges to improve bilateral relations. Kani affirmed Canada's commitment to improving relations, focusing on agriculture, energy, and climate change collaboration for mutual benefit, and highlighted the potential for cooperation on multilateralism, free trade, and international economic order reform. Both sides agreed to resume exchanges and cooperation in various fields. Cai Qi and Wang Yi were reported to be in attendance.
Summary: During the APEC meeting in South Korea, Xi Jinping met with Thai Prime Minister Anutin, conveying condolences for the passing of Queen Sirikit. Xi emphasized the strong relationship between China and Thailand, highlighting the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations and the deepening of their comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership. He called for strengthened cooperation in areas like railway construction, trade, green economy, and digital innovation, as well as increased efforts to combat cross-border cybercrimes. Anutin expressed Thailand's commitment to deepening cooperation with China and lauded China's global initiatives. Cai Qi and Wang Yi were reported as accompanying Xi.
Summary: During the APEC meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, Xi Jinping met with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, emphasizing the importance of a healthy and stable Sino-Japanese relationship based on the four political documents. Xi urged Japan to maintain a correct understanding of China, adhere to previous political consensus, and handle historical and Taiwan issues carefully. He proposed cooperation in high-end manufacturing, digital economy, green development, and multilateral collaboration. Takaichi affirmed Japan's commitment to a strategic and mutually beneficial relationship, stating that Japan will adhere to the 1972 Joint Communique on Taiwan. Cai Qi and Wang Yi were reported to be in attendance.
Summary: In an upcoming issue of *Qiushi*, Xi Jinping's article on the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) emphasizes its importance in building a foundation for socialist modernization by 2035. Xi outlines key considerations during the plan's drafting, including adhering to both goal and problem orientations, promoting comprehensive and in-depth reform, and expanding opening up to the outside world. The plan prioritizes high-quality development, strengthening the domestic economy while also facilitating international circulation, and advancing common prosperity. The article also stresses the importance of national security and the need to strengthen Party leadership in economic and social development.
Summary: Speaking in Gyeongju, South Korea, the unnamed Chinese representative addressed President Lee Jae-myung and colleagues, highlighting the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)'s role in regional economic growth and proposing five recommendations for building an Asia-Pacific community. These recommendations include upholding the multilateral trade system, fostering an open regional economy, maintaining stable supply chains, promoting digital and green trade, and fostering inclusive development. The representative emphasized China's commitment to openness, citing its trade volume and foreign investment statistics, and its ongoing efforts to align with high international trade standards. The representative also mentioned China's Belt and Road Initiative and its zero-tariff policies for developing nations.
Summary: Speaking at the APEC CEO Summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, the Chinese representative called for unity and cooperation amidst global challenges, advocating for multilateralism and denouncing hegemonism and protectionism. China positions itself as a defender of the current international order and promoter of win-win cooperation. The representative emphasized China's economic contributions, highlighting its role as a major consumer market and its commitment to providing a favorable business environment and opportunities for global businesses, including in green growth. China will host APEC next year and seeks to build an Asia-Pacific community. The representative mentioned that China opposes protectionism, and supports the WTO.
Summary: At the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in South Korea, Xi Jinping called for building an open Asia-Pacific economy through multilateralism and cooperation, promoting trade, and maintaining stable supply chains. Xi proposed five suggestions including, "jointly promoting inclusive development," and he emphasized sharing opportunities in open development for mutual benefit. International figures interviewed by People's Daily highlighted Xi's commitment to multilateralism and open regional economies as providing stability to global economic governance. They also noted China's role in promoting cooperation and sharing development opportunities, especially through the Belt and Road Initiative and green development. The remarks were framed as an alternative to zero-sum approaches in the context of rising global economic uncertainty.
Summary: In a written speech to the APEC CEO Summit in South Korea, Xi Jinping called on APEC to lead in maintaining peace, openness, cooperation, and inclusiveness, highlighting the need to revisit the organization's original mission. Interviewees emphasized that China promotes reform and high-quality development through high-level opening up, thus bringing more stability to the Asia-Pacific and world economy. Xu Peng noted that China's message to the Asia-Pacific region and the world has been consistent, representing China's commitment to promoting APEC cooperation, which he believes provides stability. The article also mentions that China will host the APEC meeting in 2026, which is expected to further boost regional growth and prosperity.
Summary: A reception was held in Beijing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Fiji. The event was co-hosted by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and the Fijian Embassy in China. National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Vice Chairperson Xian Hui attended the reception. Over 100 representatives from both China and Fiji, along with some foreign envoys, were also present.
Summary: A China-France political party dialogue was held in Beijing on October 30th, focusing on mutual trust, cooperation, and win-win outcomes for the future of Sino-French relations. Liu Haixing, Minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, promoted the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. Liu stated that the CPC is willing to work with major French political parties to implement the consensus reached by the two heads of state and strengthen mutual learning of governance experience. The French side expressed their appreciation for the message of continued high-level opening-up from the CPC, and their willingness to work with China to support increased mutual investment, ensure strategic autonomy, and achieve win-win development. The dialogue included representatives from Chinese ministries and think tanks, as well as French parliamentarians and business leaders.
Summary: During the 12th ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting Plus in Malaysia, Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun met with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. Dong emphasized that the meeting between Presidents Xi Jinping and Trump in South Korea set a strategic direction for stable U.S.-China relations. He urged the U.S. to translate its stated intentions of not containing China and not seeking conflict into concrete actions, and to unequivocally oppose "Taiwan independence." Dong expressed hope that both countries could work together to promote regional and global peace and security.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang chaired a State Council executive meeting focusing on deepening reforms in key areas and expanding institutional opening-up. The meeting emphasized leveraging China's large market and application scenarios to promote technological breakthroughs and industrial applications by focusing on new fields and cross-regional integration. The council also passed a draft regulation on forest and grassland fire prevention and control. The meeting called for proactively aligning with international high-standard economic and trade rules to expand opening up.
Summary: Li Qiang addressed the opening of the 14th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC, focusing on the spirit of the 20th Fourth Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee, emphasizing the importance of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period for socialist modernization. He urged adherence to Xi Jinping Thought, promotion of new productive forces, and comprehensive reform and opening up. Wang Huning, who presided over the meeting, stressed the importance of studying and implementing the spirit of the Plenary Session. Several CPPCC special committees reported on topics ranging from biomedicine to religious Sinicization.
Summary: Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced that Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang will visit Uruguay and Brazil from November 3rd to 5th at the invitation of both governments. Following the visits, Ding, as Xi Jinping's special representative, will attend the Belém Climate Summit on November 6th at the invitation of Brazilian President Lula. The announcement did not mention any meetings with U.S. officials or discussions regarding U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Chen Wenqing, a member of the Politburo and Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, chaired a meeting to study Xi Jinping's important speech and the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee. The meeting emphasized the importance of the "Two Establishes" in advancing Chinese-style modernization and national security. It stressed that political and legal organs should focus on the goals and strategic tasks outlined in the plenary session, balancing development and security to serve high-quality development. Wang Xiaohong, Zhang Jun, and Ying Yong attended the meeting. The meeting did not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Chen Min'er, a member of the Central Guidance Group and Party Secretary of Tianjin, delivered a report in Tianjin on the spirit of the 20th Fourth Plenary Session of the CPC, focusing on Xi Jinping's important speech and the spirit of the "15th Five-Year Plan." Chen emphasized aligning the study of the session's spirit with Xi Jinping Thought and applying it to Tianjin's modernization. Separately, Huang Kunming, also a member of the Central Guidance Group and Party Secretary of Guangdong, delivered a similar report in Guangzhou, underscoring the significance of the session and outlining the "15th Five-Year Plan's" objectives, tasks, and measures for Guangdong. Huang stressed aligning thoughts and actions with Xi's speech and the session's spirit to advance modernization. Neither report mentioned the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Intellectuals and students are studying the spirit of the 20th CPC Central Committee's Fourth Plenary Session and the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposals, expressing their commitment to national goals. They emphasized unity around the Party Central Committee led by Xi Jinping, aiming to advance socialist modernization. Figures from various sectors, including science, culture, agriculture, and education, highlighted achievements during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period and pledged to contribute to China's development. The article also mentions the importance of high-level opening up, but there is no mention of the United States.
Summary: The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) is drafting the 15th Five-Year Plan, aligning it with the 15th Five-Year Plan recommendations. The draft will include measurable targets, actionable tasks, key projects, and will be submitted to the National People's Congress in 2025. The NDRC is actively soliciting public input through online platforms and consultations with various groups, including private and foreign enterprises, and experts. The aim is to incorporate societal expectations and diverse perspectives into the plan. No individuals accompanied any figures in the article, nor was there any mention of the United States.
Summary: On October 31, 2025, Beijing time, China successfully launched the Shenzhou-21 manned spacecraft via the Long March-2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The Shenzhou-21 crew will conduct in-orbit rotation with the Shenzhou-20 crew and conduct multiple experiments in areas such as space life and human body research. They will also conduct multiple extravehicular activities to install space station debris protection devices, and install, debug, maintain, and repair equipment inside and outside the cabin. This mission marks the completion of China's 2025 manned space launch missions.
Summary: On October 31, China successfully launched the Shenzhou-21 manned spacecraft carrying astronauts Zhang Lu, Wu Fei, and Zhang Hongzhang. A key focus of the mission is the attempt to achieve a 3.5-hour rapid autonomous rendezvous and docking, a significant reduction from the previous 6.5-hour approach. This advancement aims to enhance the flexibility and responsiveness of China's space station operations. The mission also includes the first on-orbit experiment involving the raising and study of rodents. The launch did not mention any cooperation with the U.S. or U.S. relationships.
Summary: China's Ministry of Commerce issued an opinion on expanding green trade to promote trade upgrades and achieve carbon reduction goals. At a press conference, Vice Minister Li Chenggang highlighted China's leading exports in wind power, photovoltaics, and new energy vehicles, stating they have contributed significantly to global climate change mitigation. Other officials present, including Wang Peng, Gu Huanxin, and Wang Xin, discussed efforts to promote green manufacturing, international standardization, and financial support for green trade, respectively. The statements did not allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 2025 Yangtze River Culture and Art Season was held in Hubei, featuring art exhibitions, film weeks, and academic exchanges, showcasing the modern vitality of Yangtze River culture. Archaeological achievements from the Yangtze River basin were gathered to showcase Yangtze civilization, with artifacts from various cultures displayed in Wuhan. The event also incorporated technological innovation to preserve and transmit Yangtze River culture, such as the 4K restoration of the film "Honghu Red Guards." The art season also held the 2025 Great Rivers Dialogue Forum, co-organized by UNESCO and the Wuhan government, attracting representatives from various countries and regions to discuss cultural exchange and development. The event aimed to promote Yangtze River culture to the world and enhance the influence of Chinese civilization.
Summary: During the APEC summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, Xi Jinping met with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. Xi emphasized that China is willing to work with Japan to build a constructive and stable relationship and adhere to the principles established in the four Sino-Japanese political documents. He stressed the importance of adhering to established consensus, pursuing mutually beneficial cooperation in various sectors, promoting people-to-people connectivity, strengthening multilateral collaboration, and managing differences appropriately. Takaichi stated Japan's commitment to maintaining high-level engagement and adhering to the 1972 Japan-China Joint Communique regarding Taiwan. Cai Qi and Wang Yi were reported to be in attendance.
Summary: Xi Jinping's upcoming article in *Qiushi* magazine outlines the key considerations for the 15th Five-Year Plan, emphasizing its importance in laying the foundation for socialist modernization by 2035. He highlights the need for high-quality development, strengthening the domestic economy while expanding international cooperation, and promoting common prosperity. The plan will focus on deepening reform, expanding opening up, and ensuring national security. The article stresses the importance of the Chinese Communist Party's leadership in achieving these goals. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Intellectuals and students have been studying the spirit of the 20th CPC Central Committee's Fourth Plenary Session and the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposals, expressing determination to contribute to socialist modernization. They emphasized the importance of unity around the Party Central Committee led by Xi Jinping and implementing the Party's decisions. The article highlights achievements in science and technology, including the Chang'e lunar exploration program, and the importance of technological self-reliance. It also mentions the need for high-quality economic development, innovation, and expanding cultural influence globally, with no mention of the United States.
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Summary: Xi Jinping, in a written speech to the APEC CEO Summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, invited participants to China for the upcoming APEC meeting in 2026, when China will host APEC for the third time. He emphasized China's commitment to regional cooperation and building an Asia-Pacific community. The article highlights China's past contributions to APEC, including the 2014 Beijing meeting which launched the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) process. Participants expressed optimism that China's hosting of APEC will further promote cooperation in areas like digital economy and sustainable development. The article notes expectations that China will continue to promote high-level opening up and contribute to a more inclusive global economy, while highlighting China's development experience as a reference for other countries. The article anticipates closer cooperation among APEC members.
Summary: President Xi Jinping delivered a written speech to the APEC CEO Summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, outlining China's proposals for promoting development and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region and the world. Xi emphasized the need for APEC economies to uphold peace and stability, promote open integration, adhere to mutually beneficial cooperation, and foster inclusive development. He stated that China is committed to high-quality development and opening up, which will bring new impetus and opportunities to the world. China will host APEC in 2026 and contribute to global governance.
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Summary: According to Gao Shiwang, Deputy Chief Engineer of China Huaneng Group Clean Energy Technology Research Institute, China is making strides in Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) technology to mitigate climate change. New developments include AI-driven material breakthroughs, equipment upgrades for carbon capture, and advanced monitoring for safe storage. China has built several world-first demonstration plants, including the world's largest coal-fired power plant carbon capture demonstration project. The article also mentions the need for policy support, infrastructure development, and international cooperation to promote the widespread adoption of CCUS technologies.
Summary: Scientists have precisely dated dinosaur egg fossils discovered in China's Qinling Mountains to 87.65 to 84.17 million years old, using a non-destructive uranium-lead dating method. Analysis of these fossils, particularly abnormal eggshells found in Guangdong, suggests heavy metal poisoning due to volcanic activity may have contributed to reproductive system pathologies in dinosaurs. These pathologies led to hatching failures, which potentially contributed to their extinction. The dinosaur egg fossils contain a wealth of information about the dinosaurs' life, habits and environment that can further improve scientist's understanding of the species.
Summary: A Chinese research team presented clinical data at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics 2025 conference in San Francisco showcasing the innovation, efficacy, and safety of a domestically developed medical device for treating aortic valve regurgitation. Academician Wang Jian'an presented two-year follow-up data on the "J-VALVE TF transcatheter aortic valve system," highlighting its minimally invasive approach, shorter surgical time, and faster patient recovery. The "movable positioning component" design addresses challenges related to valve anchoring and other complications. The report focuses on the capabilities of medical devices developed in China. There is no mention of U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China's Academy of Sciences has launched a new round of experiments using Asia's first electromagnetic ejection microgravity experiment device, which simulates near-weightless conditions on Earth by catapulting experiment capsules to provide a platform for various microgravity experiments. Senior Engineer Wang Zhe explained the device can simulate lunar and Martian gravity in addition to microgravity, offering advantages over traditional methods in terms of experimental efficiency and cost, performing experiments within minutes. Since its trial operation in July 2023, the device has completed over 300 micro/low-gravity experiments in fields like fluid physics and combustion science. The device is expected to perform over 1,000 microgravity, lunar, and Martian gravity experiments, supporting major projects in manned spaceflight and deep space exploration. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: At the 2025 China Computer Congress, Sugon (中科曙光) released OneScience, a one-stop development platform for scientific large models. The platform is designed to improve R&D efficiency by integrating multiple "AI-driven scientific research" models and datasets, supporting fields like Earth science and bioinformatics. OneScience aims to address the challenge of rapidly increasing model parameters by providing a unified platform covering the entire workflow from training to application. The platform is now available for download through various community platforms.
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Summary: To adapt to the popularity of micro-dramas, Hengdian World Studios is upgrading its scenery and infrastructure to accommodate vertical video production. They are also improving copyright protection through the Hengdian Film and Television Legal Service Center. Furthermore, Hengdian is incorporating more technology into its filming process, including virtual reality and underwater special effects. These efforts support a "localized production + global distribution" model, with translation teams and AI systems aiding in international distribution and IP licensing. The goal is to allow more cultural products to reach overseas markets.
Summary: A research team has made significant progress in studying the "Dingxian Jian," a collection of carbonized bamboo slips discovered in 1973, which had been severely damaged due to tomb raiding and fire. The team overcame difficulties in deciphering the text by utilizing multispectral imaging technology, revealing characters previously illegible even to those who had worked on the slips decades ago. A selection of their findings was published recently, including enhanced images and transcriptions, marking a significant advancement in the study of these historically important texts. This project is a collaborative effort involving multiple institutions and disciplines, demonstrating the importance of multidisciplinary approaches to preserving and understanding ancient texts. The article does not mention the United States.
Summary: During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Guilin became a cultural hub as people fled to the city. Despite frequent bombings by the Japanese, cultural activities flourished, including "cave education" programs for children in the city's many karst caves. The Southwest Drama Exhibition in 1944 brought together theater workers to promote resistance through drama. The former site of this exhibition, the Guangxi Provincial Art Museum, continues to be a site of cultural significance and remembrance. The article makes no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article argues that the Huai River region was a cradle of Chinese civilization, highlighting its innovations and cultural influence. Specifically, the article points to the region's early adoption of pottery tripods, sophisticated bone flutes, turquoise ornaments, mixed millet and rice agriculture, domestication of pigs, and divination practices using turtle shells. The adoption of red-burned earth construction techniques also had a significant impact on later architecture. The author concludes that the Huai River area was a crucial bridge between northern and southern cultures, contributing to the development of a unified Chinese civilization. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses several Chinese cultural relics that depict autumn scenes and customs in the Yangtze River basin. These artifacts include a Han Dynasty brick carving of a harvest scene, a Ming Dynasty jade ornament portraying an autumn hunt, a Qing Dynasty snuff bottle illustrating a mid-autumn festival custom, a Qing Dynasty cloisonné vase with jade and chrysanthemums, and a landscape album by Dong Qichang. The relics illustrate themes of harvest, hunting, festivals, and appreciation of nature during the autumn season. None of the cultural relics discussed or the article itself, references the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses the history and revitalization of Shengzhou bamboo weaving, a traditional craft from Zhejiang province. It highlights the intricate process and artistic value of the craft, noting its historical significance dating back to the Neolithic era and its recognition as a national intangible cultural heritage. The author notes the craft's display internationally, including a piece displayed at the White House in 1979. Contemporary efforts to integrate modern aesthetics and involve younger generations in the craft are also noted as a means to revitalize the villages.
Summary: Chinese archaeologists have analyzed ancient textiles, including a well-preserved warp-dyed fabric from Qinghai dating back to the Tang Dynasty, identifying its origin as Sichuan and its distribution via the Silk Road. The analysis pinpointed the fabric's composition and dyes, revealing trade routes and technological exchange. Furthermore, Chinese teams have used digital technologies to reconstruct ancient garments from various tombs, including those in Uzbekistan, to better understand cultural heritage and inform conservation efforts. China's role as the origin of silk and its dissemination through the Silk Road is highlighted.
Summary: This short announcement from the *People's Daily* provides contact information for submissions to the "Voice of the Times" (时代版) section, specifying the email address ysbjs@peopledaily.cn. The announcement also credits Shen Yiling with the page layout design. There is no mention of specific political figures, events, U.S.-China relations, or any policy discussions. The piece functions primarily as a technical note for contributors.
For more than 30 years since its establishment, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) has led the Asia-Pacific region to the forefront of global opening-up and development, and helped the Asia-Pacific region become the most dynamic region in the global economy. At present, the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century at an accelerated pace, and the Asia-Pacific region is facing increasing instability and uncertainty in its development. The rougher the wind and waves, the more important it is to work together in the same boat. All parties should adhere to the original aspiration of APEC to promote economic growth and improve people's well-being, adhere to sharing opportunities and achieving win-win results in open development, promote inclusive economic globalization, and build an Asia-Pacific community.
Five suggestions were put forward. First, jointly safeguard the multilateral trading system. Second, jointly create an open regional economic environment. Third, jointly maintain the stability and smooth flow of industrial and supply chains. Fourth, jointly promote the digital and green transformation of trade. Fifth, jointly promote inclusive development.
China has always adhered to the basic national policy of opening to the outside world and promoted the construction of an open world economy with practical actions. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) adopted the proposal on formulating the "15th Five-Year Plan." Taking this as an opportunity, China will further comprehensively deepen reform, unswervingly expand high-level opening up, and continuously provide new opportunities for the Asia-Pacific region and the world with new achievements in Chinese-style modernization.
Gyeongju, South Korea, October 31 (Reporter Du Shangze (杜尚泽) and Cao Pengcheng (曹鹏程)) The first phase of the 32nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting was held at the Hwabaek International Convention Center in Gyeongju (庆州), South Korea on the morning of October 31 local time. President Xi Jinping (习近平) attended the meeting and delivered an important speech entitled "Building an Open Asia-Pacific Economy for Common Prosperity and Inclusiveness."
When Xi Jinping (习近平) arrived at the venue, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) warmly greeted him.
In his speech, Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that for more than 30 years since its establishment, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) has led the Asia-Pacific region to the forefront of global opening-up and development, and helped the Asia-Pacific region become the most dynamic region in the global economy. At present, the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century at an accelerated pace, and the Asia-Pacific region is facing increasing instability and uncertainty in its development. The rougher the wind and waves, the more important it is to 同舟共济 (tóng zhōu gòng jì - "crossing a river in the same boat," to cooperate and work together to overcome difficulties). All parties should adhere to the original aspiration of APEC to promote economic growth and improve people's well-being, adhere to sharing opportunities and achieving win-win results in open development, promote inclusive economic globalization, and build an Asia-Pacific community.
Xi Jinping (习近平) put forward five suggestions.
First, jointly safeguard the multilateral trading system. Practice true multilateralism, enhance the authority and effectiveness of the multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization (WTO) as the core, promote the evolution of international economic and trade rules in line with the times, and better safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of developing countries.
Second, jointly create an open regional economic environment. Continue to promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, deepen cooperation in the financial field, steadily advance the process of regional economic integration, promote mutual connection, integration and common progress, and gather momentum for the construction of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP).
Third, jointly maintain the stability and smooth flow of industrial and supply chains. Adhere to "holding hands" instead of "letting go" and "extending the chain" instead of "breaking the chain," actively seek more convergence of interests, and support the open development of supply chains. Continuously consolidate and refine hard connectivity, soft connectivity, and heart connectivity, and further consolidate the foundation for open development in the Asia-Pacific region.
Fourth, jointly promote the digital and green transformation of trade. Give full play to the role of digital technology in promoting cross-border trade, remove various green barriers, and expand cooperation in green industries, clean energy, and green minerals.
Fifth, jointly promote inclusive development. Adhere to the people-centered development concept, focus on solving the problem of unbalanced development, promote more inclusive and sustainable economic globalization, and better benefit all people in the region. China is working with all parties to promote the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative, and is committed to common development and shared prosperity with all countries.
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that China has always adhered to the basic national policy of opening to the outside world and promoted the construction of an open world economy with practical actions. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) adopted the proposal on formulating the "15th Five-Year Plan." Taking this as an opportunity, China will further comprehensively deepen reform, unswervingly expand high-level opening up, and continuously provide new opportunities for the Asia-Pacific region and the world with new achievements in Chinese-style modernization. (The full text of the speech is on the second edition)
The meeting was chaired by South Korean President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) with the theme of "Building a Sustainable Tomorrow."
Wang Yi (王毅) participated in the above activities.
Return to TopThis is a report from our newspaper in Gyeongju, South Korea, October 31st (Reporter Wang Yuan (王远), Li Jianguang (李建广)) On the afternoon of October 31st, local time, President Xi Jinping (习近平) delivered a written speech at the APEC CEO Summit held in Gyeongju, South Korea, titled "Leveraging APEC's Leading Role to Jointly Promote World Development and Prosperity." (The full text of the speech can be found on the second page.)
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that the current international situation is intertwined with changes and chaos, and the world is standing at a new crossroads. Where it goes will profoundly affect the future of the world. All parties should show foresight and responsibility and make choices that meet the expectations of the Asia-Pacific people and stand the test of history. History tells us that the destiny of mankind is closely linked. Hegemonism will only bring war and disaster. Fairness and justice are important guarantees for promoting world peace and development. Confrontation and opposition will only bring estrangement and turbulence. Cooperation and win-win are the right path for the world to become wider and wider. Unilateralism will only bring division and regression, and multilateralism is the inevitable choice to deal with global challenges.
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that China has always been a maintainer of the current international order and a practitioner of true multilateralism. China has successively proposed the "Belt and Road" initiative and the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to solving outstanding problems in the world today. Next year, China will host the APEC for the third time and looks forward to working with all parties to build an Asia-Pacific community and inject new impetus into peace and development in the Asia-Pacific region and the world.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that APEC was founded in response to the wave of economic globalization, with the goal of promoting trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, and supporting economic growth and prosperity. All parties should revisit their original aspirations and make outstanding contributions to the world with a more dynamic and resilient Asia-Pacific cooperation.
First, take the lead in maintaining peace and stability. Adhere to the principle that all countries, regardless of size, strength, or wealth, have the right to participate in international affairs on an equal footing. Adhere to a common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security concept, and resolve differences and disputes through dialogue and consultation.
Second, take the lead in implementing openness and integration. Firmly safeguard the multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization (WTO) as its core and rules as its foundation, strengthen unity and cooperation, maintain the stability and smooth flow of global industrial and supply chains, promote regional economic integration and the construction of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific, and contribute Asia-Pacific strength to global economic growth.
Third, take the lead in adhering to cooperation and win-win results. Adhere to the concept of harmony in diversity, give full play to the prominent characteristics of the diversity of Asia-Pacific economies, promote complementary advantages, jointly enlarge the pie of Asia-Pacific cooperation, and form a cooperative pattern in which countries achieve each other and develop together.
Fourth, take the lead in promoting universal benefit and inclusiveness. Adhere to a people-centered approach, fully implement the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, increase support for developing economies, better bridge the development gap, continuously improve people's well-being, and promote common prosperity for all people in the Asia-Pacific region.
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that for many years, China has been a major contributor to world economic growth. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's economy achieved an average growth rate of about 5.5%, and its contribution rate to global economic growth remained stable at about 30%. China is the only developing country that holds a national-level international import expo and continues to open its market to the world. It has a large market space and good growth expectations, which can provide more development opportunities for the global business community. China promotes fair competition and development among various ownership enterprises. The negative list for foreign investment access has been reduced to 29 items, and the manufacturing sector has achieved "zeroing." The service industry will continue to expand its opening up. It is one of the safest countries recognized globally and can provide a good business environment for the global business community. China is actively developing future industries, strengthening emerging industries, and upgrading traditional industries. Green, digital, and intelligent development is accelerating, and innovation potential is continuously being transformed into economic momentum, which can provide a broad innovation stage for the global business community. China is coordinating the promotion of carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth, and has built the world's largest renewable energy system and the largest and most complete new energy industry chain, which can provide green growth conditions for the global business community. China is an ideal, safe, and promising investment destination for the global business community. To go with China is to go with opportunities. Believing in China is believing in tomorrow, and investing in China is investing in the future.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that the Asia-Pacific business community is the pioneer of the times, the pioneer of change, and the leader of the trend. I hope that everyone will continue to carry forward the entrepreneurial spirit of pioneering and enterprising, openness and innovation, and perseverance, jointly promote Asia-Pacific growth and prosperity, and gather strong synergy to create a better future for the Asia-Pacific region and the world.
Return to TopThis newspaper reports from Gyeongju, South Korea, October 31st (Reporters Qu Pei (屈佩) and Gong Han (巩晗)) On the afternoon of October 31st, local time, President Xi Jinping (习近平) met with Canadian Prime Minister Kani during the 32nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that this year marks the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Canada and the 20th anniversary of the establishment of a strategic partnership. With the joint efforts of both sides, China-Canada relations have shown a positive trend of recovery and development, which is in line with the common interests of both countries. China attaches importance to Canada's statement that it is willing to promote the improvement and development of bilateral relations in a pragmatic and constructive manner, and is willing to work with Canada to take this meeting as an opportunity to promote China-Canada relations back to the correct track of healthy, stable, and sustainable development as soon as possible, so as to better benefit the people of both countries.
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that China and Canada should establish an objective and rational understanding, view each other correctly, proceed from the common and long-term interests of the two countries, and promote the development of China-Canada relations. Adhere to mutual benefit and win-win results, and expand pragmatic cooperation in areas such as economy, trade, and energy. Strengthen people-to-people and cultural exchanges, support all sectors of the two countries to enhance mutual understanding, and consolidate the public opinion foundation of bilateral relations. Strengthen coordination and cooperation within multilateral frameworks such as the United Nations, promote the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system, and safeguard international fairness and justice.
Kani said that Canada and China have maintained good relations for a long time since the establishment of diplomatic relations 55 years ago. The new Canadian government attaches great importance to its relations with China and looks forward to seizing the opportunity to improve and develop bilateral relations, regaining its original intention of establishing diplomatic relations, making up for lost time, restarting bilateral cooperation, and promoting greater achievements in Canada-China relations in a pragmatic and constructive manner. Canada is willing to maintain close high-level exchanges with China, promote cooperation in agriculture, energy, climate change and other fields, achieve mutual benefit and win-win results, and bring more benefits to the people of both countries. In international affairs, Canada and China share similar ideas and can strengthen collaboration to jointly practice multilateralism, safeguard free trade, and promote the reform of the international economic order.
The two sides agreed to resume and restart exchanges and cooperation in various fields, promote the resolution of specific economic and trade issues of mutual concern, consolidate the momentum of turnaround, and jointly promote the development of the China-Canada strategic partnership.
Cai Qi (蔡奇), Wang Yi (王毅) and others attended.
Return to TopThis newspaper reports from Gyeongju, South Korea, October 31st (Reporters Yang Yi (杨一) and Yu Yichun (俞懿春)) On the afternoon of October 31st, local time, President Xi Jinping (习近平) met with Thai Prime Minister Anutin (阿努廷) in Gyeongju, South Korea, during the 32nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting.
Xi Jinping (习近平) expressed his deep condolences on the passing of Queen Mother Sirikit (诗丽吉王太后) and asked to convey his sincere condolences to King Vajiralongkorn (哇集拉隆功国王).
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that China and Thailand are good neighbors, good friends, good relatives, and good partners, who visit each other frequently and are as close as family. During my visit to Thailand in November 2022, China-Thailand relations entered a new stage of building a community with a shared future, making the foundation of friendship between the two countries stronger and the momentum of cooperation stronger. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Thailand, also known as the "Golden 50 Years of China-Thailand Friendship." Standing at a new starting point, both sides should build on past achievements and open up new avenues, jointly promote the deepening and solidifying of the China-Thailand community with a shared future, help their respective modernization processes, and make greater contributions to regional peace, stability, and development and prosperity.
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that not long ago, the 20th Fourth Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee was successfully held and deliberated and approved the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal. China is willing to strengthen the alignment of development strategies with Thailand and share China's development experience in the new era. The two sides should accelerate the construction of the China-Thailand Railway, strengthen cooperation in agricultural product trade, green economy, digital innovation, etc., so that the people of both countries can have a greater sense of gain. We should deepen cultural exchanges in tourism, youth, local areas, etc., hold celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations, and promote people-to-people connectivity. We must increase efforts to combat cross-border crimes such as online gambling and telecom fraud, and create a safe environment for exchanges and cooperation between the two countries. Facing the intertwined international situation of change and chaos, China is willing to work with Thailand to promote the implementation of global governance initiatives, safeguard international fairness and justice, and safeguard the common interests of the Global South.
Anutin (阿努廷) said that President Xi Jinping's (习近平) condolences on the passing of Queen Mother Sirikit (诗丽吉王太后) are of great significance to the Thai people, and Thailand is deeply grateful for this. The successful convening of the 20th Fourth Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee and the adoption of the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal are admirable achievements of China's development. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Thailand and China, which is an important milestone in the development of bilateral relations. Thailand is willing to take this opportunity to strengthen high-level exchanges with China, strengthen cooperation in economy and trade, science and technology, interconnection, tourism, and other fields, and elevate Thailand-China relations to a new height. Thailand will continue to severely crack down on online gambling and telecom fraud crimes. President Xi Jinping's (习近平) proposed four major global initiatives reflect China's role as a responsible major country in international affairs, and Thailand highly appreciates and actively supports this. Thailand is willing to strengthen multilateral cooperation with China and work together to promote regional peace, stability, and prosperity.
Cai Qi (蔡奇), Wang Yi (王毅), and others attended.
Return to TopThis report from Qingzhou, South Korea, October 31 (Reporters Zhang Zhiwen (张志文) and Li Jie (李婕)) On the afternoon of October 31, local time, President Xi Jinping (习近平) met with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) at her request while attending the 32nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that China and Japan are neighbors separated only by a strip of water, and are important neighbors to each other. Promoting the long-term, healthy, and stable development of China-Japan relations is in line with the common expectations of the people of both countries and the international community. China is willing to work with Japan to uphold the principles and direction established in the four political documents between China and Japan, safeguard the political foundation of bilateral relations, promote a mutually beneficial strategic relationship, and strive to build a constructive and stable China-Japan relationship that meets the requirements of the new era.
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that the current China-Japan relationship has both opportunities and challenges. He hoped that the new Japanese cabinet would establish a correct understanding of China, cherish the efforts and hard work of the older generation of politicians and people from all walks of life in both countries to develop China-Japan relations, and adhere to the general direction of peace, friendship, and cooperation between China and Japan. First, adhere to important consensus. Put into practice the political consensus of "comprehensively promoting a mutually beneficial strategic relationship," "being partners to each other and not posing a threat to each other," and "**以史为鉴、面向未来**" (yǐ shǐ wéi jiàn, miàn xiàng wèi lái - "take history as a mirror and look to the future," learn from history to guide the future). Abide by and fulfill the clear provisions made in the four political documents between China and Japan on major principled issues such as history and Taiwan, so as to ensure that the foundation of China-Japan relations is not damaged or shaken. The "Murayama Statement" profoundly reflects on Japan's history of aggression and apologizes to the victimized countries. This spirit is worth promoting. Second, adhere to win-win cooperation. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee outlined the "15th Five-Year Plan" for China's development, and China-Japan cooperation has broad prospects. China and Japan can strengthen cooperation in high-end manufacturing, the digital economy, green development, finance, medical care and elderly care, third-party markets, etc., and jointly maintain the multilateral trading system and the stability and smooth flow of industrial and supply chains. Third, promote people-to-people connectivity. Continue to carry out communication between governments, political parties, legislative bodies, etc., deepen and expand cultural and local exchanges, and improve national sentiment. Fourth, strengthen multilateral cooperation. Uphold the principles of good-neighborliness, friendship, equality, mutual benefit, and non-interference in internal affairs, practice true multilateralism, and promote the building of an Asia-Pacific community. Fifth, properly manage differences. Focus on the overall situation, seek common ground while reserving differences, and transform differences, and avoid letting contradictions and differences define the relationship between the two countries.
Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) said that China is an important neighbor of Japan, and Japan and China have important responsibilities for regional and world peace and prosperity. Japan is willing to maintain high-level exchanges with China, strengthen communication at all levels, strengthen communication, enhance understanding, promote cooperation, steadily promote the mutually beneficial strategic relationship between the two countries, and build a constructive and stable Japan-China relationship. On the Taiwan issue, Japan will adhere to the position in the 1972 Japan-China Joint Statement.
Cai Qi (蔡奇), Wang Yi (王毅), and others participated.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing (新华社北京) October 31st. The 21st issue of the "Seeking Truth" (《求是》) magazine, to be published on November 1st, will feature an important article by Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, entitled "Explanation on the 'Proposal of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development'" (《关于〈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〉的说明》).
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that formulating medium- and long-term plans to guide economic and social development is an important way for our Party to govern the country. Studying and formulating the "15th Five-Year Plan" well is of great significance for promoting the sustained and healthy development of China's economy and society, and for laying a more solid foundation for achieving socialist modernization as scheduled. The draft "Proposal" accurately grasps the historical position of the Party and the country's development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, deeply analyzes the profound and complex changes facing China's development environment, and makes 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 momentum and continue to advance the construction of Chinese-style modernization. It embodies the historical initiative to continue writing new chapters of the two major miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability, and 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.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that in the process of drafting the "Proposal," we paid attention to grasping the following points: First, adhere to goal orientation and problem orientation; second, adhere to systematic thinking; third, adhere to further comprehensively deepening reform; and fourth, adhere to expanding opening up to the outside world.
Xi Jinping (习近平) made explanations on several key issues. First, regarding the important position of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a crucial period for consolidating the foundation and fully exerting efforts. Formulating and implementing the "15th Five-Year Plan" well will lay a more solid foundation for basically realizing socialist modernization by 2035. Second, regarding the goals of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. The draft "Proposal" grasps the basic positioning and phased requirements of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, clarifies the main goals of economic and social development, and proposes important goals such as maintaining economic growth within a reasonable range, steadily improving total factor productivity, fully releasing economic growth potential, synchronizing residents' income growth with economic growth, synchronizing labor compensation improvement with labor productivity improvement, and continuously expanding the middle-income group. Third, regarding taking the promotion of high-quality development as the theme. The "Proposal" is consistent with the "14th Five-Year Plan" and continues to define the promotion of high-quality development as the theme of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, requiring adherence to taking economic construction as the center, fully and accurately implementing the new development concept, accelerating high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement, and developing new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions. Fourth, regarding strengthening the domestic major cycle and unblocking the domestic and international dual cycles. The draft "Proposal" highlights strengthening the domestic major cycle, makes arrangements for building a strong domestic market and accelerating the construction of a high-level socialist market economic system, and at the same time proposes expanding the international cycle and steadily expanding institutional opening up. Fifth, regarding taking solid steps towards common prosperity for all people. The draft "Proposal" firmly grasps the goal requirements of common prosperity, and deploys a number of policies and measures with strong balance and accessibility around guaranteeing and improving people's livelihoods, and promoting high-quality and full employment, and improving the income distribution system. Sixth, regarding coordinating development and security. The draft "Proposal" proposes improving the national security system, strengthening the construction of national security capabilities in key areas, and improving the social governance system, focusing on promoting the modernization of the national security system and capabilities. Seventh, regarding adhering to the Party's overall leadership. The draft "Proposal" focuses on improving the Party's ability and level to lead economic and social development, emphasizing adherence to and strengthening the Party Central Committee's centralized and unified leadership, and improving the implementation mechanism of the Party Central Committee's major decisions and deployments.
Return to TopBy: 中华人民共和国主席 习近平
Respected President Lee Jae-myung (李在明),
Colleagues,
I am very pleased to come to Gyeongju (庆州), a famous historical and cultural city in South Korea, to discuss the grand plan for Asia-Pacific development with you. Thank you to President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) and the South Korean government for their thoughtful arrangements.
Since its establishment more than 30 years ago, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) has led the Asia-Pacific region to the forefront of global opening up and development, from outlining the blueprint for the Asia-Pacific Free Trade Area to promoting the construction of an Asia-Pacific community, helping the Asia-Pacific region become the most dynamic region in the global economy.
At present, the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century at an accelerated pace, the international situation is intertwined with turbulence and changes, and the Asia-Pacific region is facing increasing unstable and uncertain factors in its development. The more turbulent the times, the more we need to work together in the same boat. We must adhere to the original intention of APEC to promote economic growth and improve people's well-being, adhere to sharing opportunities and achieving win-win results in open development, promote inclusive and mutually beneficial economic globalization, and build an Asia-Pacific community. To this end, I would like to offer five suggestions.
First, jointly safeguard the multilateral trading system. Practice true multilateralism and enhance the authority and effectiveness of the multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization (WTO) at its core. Adhere to the correct direction of WTO reform, safeguard the basic principles of most-favored-nation treatment and non-discrimination, promote the advancement of international economic and trade rules with the times, and better protect the legitimate rights and interests of developing countries.
Second, jointly create an open regional economic environment. Continue to promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, deepen cooperation in the financial field, and steadily advance the process of regional economic integration. Seize the opportunity of the high-quality implementation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement and the expansion of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), promote mutual connection and integrated progress, and gather momentum for the construction of the Asia-Pacific Free Trade Area.
Third, jointly maintain the stability and smooth flow of industrial and supply chains. Adhere to "holding hands" instead of "letting go" and "extending the chain" instead of "breaking the chain," actively seek more convergence of interests, and support the open development of supply chains. Taking the 10th anniversary of the implementation of the APEC Connectivity Blueprint as an opportunity, continuously consolidate hard connectivity, soft connectivity, and people-to-people connectivity, and further consolidate the foundation for open development in the Asia-Pacific region.
Fourth, jointly promote the digital and green transformation of trade. Give full play to the role of digital technology in promoting cross-border trade, and promote practical cooperation such as paperless trade and smart customs. Eliminate various green barriers and expand cooperation in green industries, clean energy, and green minerals. The APEC Demonstration Electronic Port Network and Green Supply Chain Network, which were first initiated by China in APEC, have become important platforms for regional trade digitalization and green transformation cooperation.
Fifth, jointly promote inclusive and mutually beneficial development. Adhere to the people-centered development concept, focus on solving the problem of unbalanced development, promote more inclusive and sustainable economic globalization, and better benefit all people in the region. China is cooperating with all parties to promote the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative, support more developing countries to achieve modernization, and open up new space for global development. China has granted zero-tariff treatment to 100% of tariff items for the least developed countries that have diplomatic relations with China, and is willing to implement zero-tariff measures on 100% of tariff items for African countries that have diplomatic relations with China through the negotiation and signing of agreements on economic partnership for common development, and is committed to developing together with all countries and sharing prosperity.
Colleagues!
China has always adhered to the basic national policy of opening up to the outside world and promoted the construction of an open world economy with practical actions. In the past five years, China's trade in goods and services has ranked first and second in the world, with a cumulative attraction of more than 700 billion US dollars in foreign investment, and an average annual growth rate of more than 5% in foreign investment. China's negative list for foreign investment access has been continuously reduced, the unilateral visa-free policy has been continuously expanded, and autonomous opening up and unilateral opening up have been expanded in an orderly manner. The 22 free trade pilot zones have taken the initiative to connect with international high-standard economic and trade rules. China's door to the outside world will not be closed, it will only open wider and wider.
Not long ago, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) adopted the proposal on formulating the "15th Five-Year Plan." China will take this as an opportunity to further comprehensively deepen reform, unswervingly expand high-level opening up to the outside world, and continuously provide new opportunities for the Asia-Pacific region and the world with new achievements in Chinese-style modernization.
Thank you all!
(Xinhua News Agency, Gyeongju (庆州), South Korea, October 31)
Return to TopBy: 中华人民共和国主席 习近平
Distinguished representatives of the business community,
Ladies and gentlemen, friends,
It is a great pleasure to visit Gyeongju (庆州), an ancient historical city, once again and attend the APEC CEO Summit.
Currently, the world is undergoing accelerated changes unseen in a century, the international situation is intertwined with turmoil, and global economic growth is weak. The world is standing at a new crossroads: is it unity and cooperation, mutual benefit and win-win, or a return to hegemonism and the law of the jungle? Is it adherence to multilateralism, openness and inclusiveness, or a move towards unilateralism and protectionism? The choices made will profoundly affect the future of the world. We must demonstrate vision and responsibility and make choices that meet the expectations of the Asia-Pacific people and stand the test of history.
"By studying the past, we can understand the present." Eighty years ago, the world achieved a great victory in the anti-fascist war, gradually establishing an international system with the United Nations as its core, forming a multilateral system in the fields of economy, trade, and finance, and opening a new chapter in human peace and development.
History tells us that the future of mankind is closely intertwined, hegemonism will only bring war and disaster, and fairness and justice are important guarantees for promoting world peace and development; confrontation and opposition will only bring estrangement and turmoil, and cooperation and win-win is the right path for the world to become wider and wider; unilateralism will only bring division and regression, and multilateralism is the inevitable choice to deal with global challenges.
China has always been a maintainer of the current international order and a practitioner of true multilateralism. China advocates peaceful development and opposes the notion that a strong country is bound to seek hegemony; advocates cooperation and win-win, and opposes the winner-takes-all mentality; advocates mutual learning among civilizations and opposes the clash of civilizations; advocates fairness and justice and opposes power politics. China has successively proposed the "Belt and Road" Initiative and the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to solving the prominent problems in the world today. China looks forward to working with all parties to jointly promote prosperity and win the future, and work together to build a community with a shared future for mankind.
Ladies and gentlemen, friends!
APEC was founded in response to the wave of economic globalization, with the goal of promoting trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, and supporting economic growth and prosperity. In 1991, the APEC Korea meeting issued a declaration emphasizing that all parties should be interdependent and mutually beneficial. Today, as we gather again in South Korea, we should revisit the original intention of establishing APEC and make outstanding contributions to the world with more dynamic and resilient Asia-Pacific cooperation.
First, we must take the lead in maintaining peace and stability. We must adhere to the principle that all countries, regardless of size, strength, or wealth, have the right to participate in international affairs on an equal footing. We must adhere to a common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security concept, and resolve differences and disputes through dialogue and consultation.
Second, we must take the lead in implementing openness and integration. We must firmly safeguard the multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization (WTO) as its core and rules as its foundation, strengthen unity and cooperation, oppose protectionism, resist unilateral bullying, and prevent the world from returning to the law of the jungle. We must be brave in "dismantling walls," maintain the stability and smooth flow of global industrial and supply chains, promote regional economic integration and the construction of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific, and contribute Asia-Pacific strength to global economic growth.
Third, we must take the lead in adhering to cooperation and win-win. We must uphold the concept of harmony in diversity, give full play to the prominent characteristics of the diversity of Asia-Pacific economies, promote complementary advantages, jointly enlarge the pie of Asia-Pacific cooperation, take into account our own interests and the interests of other parties, and form a cooperative pattern in which countries achieve each other and develop together.
Fourth, we must take the lead in promoting inclusive benefits. We must adhere to a people-centered approach, fully implement the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, deepen the alignment of development strategies, increase support for developing economies, better bridge the development gap, continuously improve people's well-being, and promote common prosperity for all people in the Asia-Pacific region.
Next year, China will serve as the host of APEC for the third time, which reflects China's high attention and responsibility for Asia-Pacific cooperation. China will follow the general trend of the development of the times, listen to the voices of all members, work with all parties to build an Asia-Pacific community, and inject new impetus into peace and development in the Asia-Pacific region and the world.
Ladies and gentlemen, friends!
For many years, China has been a major contributor to world economic growth. This year is the closing year of China's "14th Five-Year Plan." In the past five years, against the backdrop of significantly increased external shocks, China's economy has achieved an average growth rate of about 5.5%, and its contribution to global economic growth has remained stable at about 30%.
Not long ago, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) passed the proposal on formulating the "15th Five-Year Plan." China will continue to promote in-depth reform and promote high-quality development with high-level opening up, bringing more stability and certainty to the Asia-Pacific and world economies, and is a fertile ground for global business investment and development.
--China can provide more development opportunities for the global business community. China has become the world's second largest consumer market and import market, and is the only developing country that holds a national-level international import expo and continues to open its market to the world, with large market space and good growth expectations. China continues to promote high-level opening up to the outside world and achieves mutual success with all parties in open connectivity.
--China can provide a good business environment for the global business community. China continues to build a first-class business environment that is market-oriented, rule-of-law-based, and internationalized, and promotes fair competition and common development among various types of ownership enterprises. China's negative list for foreign investment access has been reduced to 29 items, the manufacturing sector has achieved "zeroing," and the service industry will continue to expand its opening up. China is recognized as one of the safest countries in the world and has implemented unilateral visa-free or comprehensive mutual visa-free treatment for 76 countries around the world. "China tours" and "China shopping" continue to be popular, making it more convenient for foreign friends to invest, work, and live in China.
--China can provide a broad innovation stage for the global business community. China is actively developing future industries, expanding emerging industries, and upgrading traditional industries, and innovation momentum is continuously transforming into economic momentum. China's greening, digitalization, and intelligentization are accelerating, and new breakthroughs are constantly being made in artificial intelligence, quantum technology, humanoid robots, new energy vehicles, and biomedicine, becoming a "promotion field" and "application field" for global new technologies. Facts have proved that whoever gains a firm foothold in the Chinese market can gain the upper hand in the increasingly fierce international competition.
--China can provide green growth conditions for the global business community. China is coordinating to promote carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth, and has built the world's largest renewable energy system and the largest and most complete new energy industry chain, with new green areas accounting for a quarter of the world's total. China is committed to achieving the goal of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, actively carrying out green energy project cooperation, supporting the free flow of high-quality green technologies and products, providing assistance to developing countries within its capacity, and its contribution to promoting the green and low-carbon transformation of the global economy is obvious to all.
In short, China is an ideal, safe, and promising investment destination for the global business community. To go with China is to go with opportunities, to believe in China is to believe in tomorrow, and to invest in China is to invest in the future.
Ladies and gentlemen, friends!
The Asia-Pacific business community is the pioneer of the times, the pioneer of change, and the leader of the trend. I hope that everyone will continue to carry forward the entrepreneurial spirit of pioneering and enterprising, opening up and innovation, and perseverance, jointly promote Asia-Pacific growth and prosperity, and gather strong synergy for creating a better future for the Asia-Pacific region and the world. We sincerely invite you to go to China next year to join us in this grand event!
Thank you all!
(Xinhua News Agency, Gyeongju (庆州), South Korea, October 31)
Return to Top"The rougher the wind and the higher the waves, the more we must stand together in the same boat. We must adhere to the original aspiration of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) to promote economic growth and improve the well-being of the people, adhere to sharing opportunities and achieving win-win results in open development, promote inclusive economic globalization, and build an Asia-Pacific community." On the morning of October 31, local time, the first phase of the 32nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting was held at the Gyeongju Hwabaek Convention Center in Gyeongju, South Korea. President Xi Jinping (习近平) attended the meeting and delivered an important speech entitled "Jointly Building an Open Asia-Pacific Economy for Common Prosperity and Inclusiveness."
International figures interviewed by this newspaper said that President Xi Jinping (习近平) put forward five suggestions in his speech: "Jointly safeguarding the multilateral trading system," "Jointly creating an open regional economic environment," "Jointly maintaining the stability and smooth flow of industrial and supply chains," "Jointly promoting the digital and green transformation of trade," and "Jointly promoting inclusive development," which charted a blueprint for the future development of APEC and will help the Asia-Pacific region continue to be the most dynamic region in the global economy and continue to benefit the people of the Asia-Pacific region.
"Injecting stability and positive energy into improving global economic governance"
"In his speech, President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized practicing true multilateralism and called for continuous promotion of trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, which are of great significance for maintaining regional peace and promoting common development." Carlos Aquino, director of the Asian Studies Center at the National University of San Marcos in Peru, said that strengthening regional economic cooperation and maintaining the stability and smooth flow of industrial and supply chains will help reduce the risk of conflict, and deepening multilateral cooperation will help each member economy expand trade partners and enhance its ability to cope with economic fluctuations.
Yosuke Deguchi, a professor at Teikyo University in Japan, said that the formulation of the Bogor Goals and the Putrajaya Vision, as well as the construction of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific, are concrete manifestations of APEC's long-term commitment to maintaining the multilateral trading system. The five suggestions put forward by President Xi Jinping (习近平) will help each member economy bridge differences, build consensus, meet challenges together, and promote the sustained and stable economic development of the Asia-Pacific region.
Zhang Li, director of the Global Innovation Center at Siam University in Thailand, said that President Xi Jinping (习近平) put forward specific suggestions on building an Asia-Pacific community, which is highly consistent with APEC's goal of promoting regional economic integration. Strengthening economic and trade cooperation, reducing tariff barriers, and maintaining the stability and smooth flow of industrial and supply chains on the APEC platform will further release the potential for regional economic development and improve the well-being of the people in the region.
"President Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech fully reflects China's emphasis on Asia-Pacific cooperation." Patricio Giusto, director of the Argentine-Chinese Studies Center, said, "For a long time, China has insisted on responding to global challenges with cooperation and resolving differences through dialogue, and opposes unilateralism and protectionism. Under the current international situation, President Xi Jinping (习近平) once again clarified China's position of practicing true multilateralism, injecting stability and positive energy into improving global economic governance."
"Provides a development idea that transcends zero-sum games"
John Milller-White, executive chairman of the US-China Cooperation Foundation, said that openness is an important driver of economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region. Against the backdrop of rising global economic uncertainty, President Xi Jinping (习近平) once again emphasized adhering to sharing opportunities and achieving win-win results in open development, sending a clear signal to the world: jointly building an open Asia-Pacific economy for common prosperity and inclusiveness is a reliable path for APEC member economies to move towards common prosperity.
"Adhering to 'holding hands' instead of 'letting go,' 'extending the chain' instead of 'breaking the chain,' actively seeking more convergence of interests, and supporting the open development of the supply chain." President Xi Jinping's (习近平) remarks left a deep impression on Jeon Byung-seo, director of the Korea China Economic and Financial Research Institute. He said: "This proposition demonstrates China's firm position of always adhering to open cooperation and practicing multilateralism, and demonstrates China's determination to enhance the stability and resilience of the world economy, adding confidence to the Asia-Pacific region and even the world to achieve inclusive and sustainable growth."
"The five suggestions put forward by President Xi Jinping (习近平) provide a development idea that transcends zero-sum games for the Asia-Pacific region and even the world." Veronica Saraswati, director of the Indonesian-Chinese Partnership Research Center, said that as an important member of the Asia-Pacific family, China is unswervingly promoting high-level opening up to the outside world, promoting high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road," and sharing development opportunities with all parties.
"A vivid practice of jointly promoting inclusive development"
"The Chinese plan put forward by President Xi Jinping (习近平) provides a practical path for promoting Asia-Pacific cooperation." Nur Nirwandi, a researcher at the Media and Information Warfare Research Center at Mara University of Technology in Malaysia, said that in the Asia-Pacific region, China is promoting cooperation in fields such as artificial intelligence and strengthening the coordination and alignment of economic policies, "which helps to narrow the digital divide and allow the fruits of technological development to benefit more countries. This is a vivid practice of jointly promoting inclusive development."
Félix Paz, president of the Peruvian newspaper El Peruano, said that China has vigorously promoted the development of clean energy and green technologies in recent years, and the solar energy, wind energy and other clean energy and electric vehicle industries have grown rapidly, setting a model for the global green transition. By promoting the construction of a green "Belt and Road," China provides important support for Asia-Pacific countries to deepen cooperation and accelerate energy transition.
"President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized in his speech 'removing various green barriers and expanding cooperation in green industries, clean energy and green minerals,' which reflects China's responsibility as a major country to share opportunities with other countries." Brett O'Riley, New Zealand representative of the APEC Business Advisory Council, said that many Chinese companies are actively laying out green industries and constantly innovating and making breakthroughs in the field of sustainable development. Strengthening cooperation with China will help promote the green transition in the Asia-Pacific region.
(Reporters Yang Yi (杨一), Qu Pei (屈佩), Zhang Zhiwen (张志文), Chen Shangwen (陈尚文), Xu Fang (许放), Zhu Yueying (朱玥颖), Song Yiran (宋亦然), Zhang Niansheng (章念生), Sun Guangyong (孙广勇), Li Zhiwei (李志伟), Cao Shiyun (曹师韵))
Return to TopOn the afternoon of October 31, local time, President Xi Jinping (习近平) delivered a written speech at the APEC CEO Summit held in Gyeongju, South Korea, titled "Leveraging APEC's Leading Role to Jointly Promote World Development and Prosperity." He advocated that APEC take the lead in maintaining peace and stability, take the lead in implementing openness and integration, take the lead in adhering to cooperation and mutual benefit, and take the lead in promoting inclusive development. He emphasized that all parties should revisit the original intention of establishing APEC and make outstanding contributions to the world with more dynamic and resilient APEC cooperation.
People from all walks of life who were interviewed by reporters from this newspaper stated that President Xi Jinping's (习近平) written speech demonstrated vision and responsibility. China promotes in-depth reform and high-quality development through high-level opening up to the outside world, bringing more stability and certainty to the Asia-Pacific and world economies. In the future, all parties should work together to promote Asia-Pacific growth and prosperity, and gather strong synergy to create a better future for the Asia-Pacific and the world.
"This stability and certainty is where the world's confidence in China lies."
"History tells us that the fate of mankind is closely linked. Hegemonism will only bring war and disaster, and fairness and justice are important guarantees for promoting world peace and development. Confrontation and opposition will only bring division and turmoil, and cooperation and mutual benefit are the right path for the world to become wider and wider. Unilateralism will only bring division and regression, and multilateralism is the inevitable choice to deal with global challenges." Facing the accelerated evolution of the world's century-old changes, the intertwined international situation, and the weak global economic growth, President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "We must demonstrate vision and responsibility and make choices that meet the expectations of the Asia-Pacific people and stand the test of history."
"President Xi Jinping (习近平) has repeatedly emphasized the importance of multilateralism and win-win cooperation at the CEO Summit in recent years." Xu Peng, Co-Chairman of the 2023 APEC Organizing Committee and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mebo Group, said, "The message that China conveys to the Asia-Pacific region and the world is consistent, representing China's commitment to promoting the original intention of Asia-Pacific cooperation, and this stability and certainty is where the world's confidence in China lies."
Lee Ju-kwan, Director of the Korea National APEC Research Center Affairs Bureau of the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, said that the benefits of economic globalization far outweigh protectionism. The current complex and volatile international situation has impacted regional economic integration, and APEC economies need to jointly promote the construction of the Asia-Pacific Free Trade Area and explore more new cooperation paths to ensure that the dividends of fairness, openness, and cooperation are shared by the majority of countries.
Chen Bo, a senior researcher at the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore, said that APEC has laid the foundation for the prosperity and development of the Asia-Pacific region. At present, APEC economies should adhere to the main theme of opening up and cooperation, and achieve win-win results through learning from each other's strengths and complementing each other's needs.
Zeng Congqin, Director of the APEC China Business Council and Chairman of Wuliangye Group (股份) Co., Ltd., said that President Xi Jinping's (习近平) written speech aroused widespread resonance among business representatives, promoted unity and cooperation, mutual benefit and win-win results among all parties, adhered to multilateralism, openness and inclusiveness, and injected confidence into boosting economic globalization.
"Promote all parties to strengthen cooperation and achieve each other."
"We must adhere to the principle that all countries, regardless of size, strength, wealth, or poverty, have the right to participate in international affairs equally." "We must firmly safeguard the multilateral trading system with the WTO as the core and rules as the basis." "We must uphold the concept of harmony in diversity and give full play to the prominent characteristics of the diversity of APEC economies." "We must adhere to a people-centered approach and fully implement the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development"... President Xi Jinping (习近平) put forward a series of important propositions to make APEC cooperation more dynamic and resilient.
Yoon Jung-in, head of the APEC Finance and Structural Reform Ministerial Meeting Promotion Team of the Korean Ministry of Strategy and Finance, said that the important propositions put forward by President Xi Jinping (习近平) will promote the consolidation of APEC synergy and jointly enlarge the pie of APEC cooperation. "We are full of expectations for China's assumption of the APEC host country next year. We believe that China will promote all parties to strengthen cooperation and achieve each other."
"China is actively developing future industries, strengthening emerging industries, and upgrading traditional industries. The momentum of innovation is continuously transforming into economic momentum." Liu Qiangdong, founder of JD.com and Chairman of the Board of Directors of JD.com, said that President Xi Jinping's (习近平) written speech inspired entrepreneurs to continue to carry forward the spirit of pioneering and enterprising, opening up and innovation, and perseverance.
Ming Shuang, President of the China Division of Malaysia's Sunsuria Group, said: "President Xi Jinping (习近平) once again conveyed a clear signal to the business community that we will continue to promote cooperation between Malaysian and Chinese companies and jointly contribute to promoting common prosperity for all people in the Asia-Pacific region."
"Cooperating with China is a wise choice."
China can provide the global business community with more development opportunities, a good business environment, a broad innovation stage, and green growth conditions. It is an ideal, safe, and promising investment destination for the global business community. President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "China will continue to promote in-depth reform and high-quality development through high-level opening up to the outside world, bringing more stability and certainty to the Asia-Pacific and world economies. It is a fertile ground for the global business community to invest and start businesses."
Salvador Aumada, Chairman of Thailand's high-tech company ACEIS, said, "China is opening its doors, which will bring many cooperation opportunities to the business community. Next year's APEC meeting will be an important opportunity to further share China's market opportunities and deepen cooperation among all parties. Cooperating with China is a wise choice."
Moniz, Managing Director of Export Development Canada, said that from President Xi Jinping's (习近平) written speech, one can feel that China has both the sincere willingness to promote cooperation and the strong strength to lead cooperation. China actively gathers APEC synergy and promotes member economies to deepen cooperation and jointly promote regional prosperity.
Li Fanrong, Chairman of China Sinochem Holdings Co., Ltd., said that China is steadily expanding institutional opening up and sharing opportunities and common development with countries around the world. "China's assumption of the APEC host country in 2026 will further promote growth and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region."
(Reporters Yang Yi (杨一), Wang Yuan (王远), Qu Pei (屈佩), Zhang Zhiwen (张志文), Yu Yichun (俞懿春), Chen Shangwen (陈尚文), Ma Fei (马菲), Chen Yiming (陈一鸣), Zhang Niansheng (章念生), Sun Guangyong (孙广勇) from this newspaper)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 31st. On October 31st, the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and the Embassy of the Republic of Fiji in China jointly held a reception in Beijing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Fiji. Xian Hui (咸辉), Vice Chairperson of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, as well as representatives from all sectors of China and Fiji and diplomatic envoys from some countries to China, totaling more than 100 people, attended the event.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 31st (北京) - On October 30th, the China-France Political Parties Dialogue was held in Beijing (北京). The dialogue was themed "Mutual Trust, Cooperation and Win-Win: China-France Relations Facing a New Sexagenary Cycle." Representatives from relevant Chinese ministries and think tanks, as well as members of the French Renaissance party, The Republicans, Socialist Party, Horizons party, the Union of Democrats and Independents, the head of the France Prospective and Innovation Foundation, officials from the French Embassy in China, and business representatives in China, totaling more than 40 people, attended.
Liu Haixing (刘海星), Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央对外联络部), introduced the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and stated that since the new era, President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Emmanuel Macron (马克龙) have led the development of China-France relations onto a fast track. The Communist Party of China (中国共产党) is willing to work with major French political parties to implement the consensus reached by the two heads of state, strengthen mutual learning of governance experience, and promote the healthy and stable development of China-France relations.
The French side stated that they were very pleased to see that the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee issued a clear message of continuing to promote high-level opening up to the outside world, and they are willing to work with the Chinese side to support strengthening mutual investment, ensure strategic autonomy, and achieve win-win development.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Kuala Lumpur, October 31st (Reporter Wang Jiawei (王嘉伟)) On the morning of October 31st, State Councilor and Minister of National Defense Dong Jun (董军), who is in Malaysia attending the 12th ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting Plus, held talks with United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
Dong Jun (董军) said that President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Trump had a successful meeting in South Korea, providing strategic guidance for the stable development of China-U.S. relations in the next stage. The defense departments of the two countries should take practical actions to implement the consensus reached by the heads of state and build a relationship between the two militaries based on equality, respect, peaceful coexistence, stability, and positive interaction. We hope that the U.S. side will put into action its commitment not to contain China and not to seek conflict, 旗帜鲜明 (qí zhì xiān míng - "clear-cut banner," to take a clear and firm stand) against "Taiwan independence," and work with China to inject positive energy into regional and world peace and security.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 31st (北京) -- Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) presided over an executive meeting of the State Council on October 31st (国务院), to study deepening reforms in key areas and expanding institutional opening-up, to deploy measures to accelerate the cultivation and opening-up of scenarios to promote the large-scale application of new scenarios, and to review and approve the "Regulations on Forest and Grassland Fire Prevention and Extinguishment (Draft)".
The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to focus on deepening reforms in key areas, driving high-level opening-up to the outside world, improving the level of opening-up of commodity markets, optimizing market access rules for service industries, and improving the regulatory system for opening-up of factor markets. It is necessary to actively connect with international high-standard economic and trade rules, actively expand autonomous opening-up, and steadily expand institutional opening-up in rules, regulations, management, standards, and other aspects. It is necessary to pay attention to leveraging the advantages of high-level opening-up platforms such as free trade pilot zones and free trade ports, explore and form more replicable and scalable reform results, and continuously improve the effectiveness of institutional opening-up.
The meeting pointed out that application scenarios are a bridge connecting technology and industry, and connecting research and development with the market, and play an important driving role in promoting the large-scale commercial application of new technologies and products. It is necessary to give full play to China's (中国) super-large-scale market and rich application scenario advantages, pay attention to supply and demand docking, and focus on the forefront of industrial development and the needs of major technological breakthroughs. Prioritize the layout of a number of new field and new track scenarios, high-value small-cut scenarios, and cross-regional and cross-field comprehensive scenarios. Do a good job in scenario resource opening, pilot verification innovation, business model exploration, and other work to promote the formation of a complete closed loop from technological breakthroughs to industrial applications. It is necessary to cultivate more new scenarios with reform and innovation methods, promote "hardware construction" such as infrastructure and platforms, do a good job in "software support" such as laws, regulations, and policies, strengthen departmental coordination, improve the regulatory mechanism, and create a good innovation ecosystem.
The meeting pointed out that forest and grassland fires are sudden, destructive, and highly dangerous. It is necessary to adhere to the bottom-line thinking and the **极限思维** (jí xiàn sī wéi - "extreme thinking," thinking about the worst-case scenario), further consolidate responsibilities, refine measures, and ensure that all fire prevention and extinguishing measures are implemented. It is necessary to focus on improving the comprehensive prevention and control capabilities of forest and grassland fires, adhere to early detection and early disposal, strengthen inspection, patrol, and protection in key periods and key areas, improve emergency plans, and improve the coverage and accuracy of monitoring and early warning. It is necessary to carry out publicity and education on a regular basis, raise public awareness of fire safety, and effectively build a people's defense line.
The meeting also studied other matters.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on October 31st (Reporter Jiang Jie (姜洁)) The 14th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) opened in Beijing (北京) on the morning of the 31st, focusing on conveying, studying, and implementing the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Li Qiang (李强), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, was invited to attend the opening meeting and deliver a report. Wang Huning (王沪宁), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, presided over the opening meeting.
Li Qiang (李强) said in his report that the "14th Five-Year Plan" period was extremely unusual and extraordinary. The CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core united and led the people of all ethnic groups across the country to effectively respond to various risks and challenges, and promoted new major achievements in the cause of the Party and the country. The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a crucial period for laying the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically realize socialist modernization. It is necessary to adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, firmly grasp the guiding principles and main goals of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and deeply promote the implementation of various major strategic tasks. Develop new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, comprehensively deepen reform and expand opening up, safeguard and improve people's livelihoods in development, accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, and better coordinate development and security. It is necessary to prepare the planning outline in accordance with the deployment requirements of the "CPC Central Committee's Proposal on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development," and plan and refine policy measures and work initiatives. The National Committee of the CPPCC is full of talent, and it is hoped that everyone will offer valuable opinions and contribute wisdom and strength to the scientific preparation of the planning outline.
Wang Huning (王沪宁) said in his concluding remarks 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 was another general mobilization and general deployment to take advantage of the momentum and continue to advance the construction of Chinese-style modernization. Studying and implementing the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee is a major political task for the entire Party and the entire country for the current and future period. The CPPCC must conscientiously implement the CPC Central Committee's deployment, study the important speeches, reports, explanations of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), and the "Proposal" and communique adopted by the plenary session in their original form, carefully study and think, conduct in-depth consultation and exchange, and consciously unify thoughts and actions with the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, and unify them with the CPC Central Committee's analysis and judgment of the situation and its deployment requirements for work, so as to contribute wisdom and strength to promoting Chinese-style modernization.
The opening meeting heard reports from the relevant special committees of the National Committee of the CPPCC on the research conducted on "Promoting the Healthy Development of the Biomedical Industry," "Promoting the Construction of a Unified National Market," "Using the Rule of Law to Support and Regulate the Development of New Employment Forms," "Deepening the Chinese Cultural Foundation of the Sinicization of Religion in China," and "Improving the Management and Service System for Foreign Investment."
Wang Dongfeng (王东峰), Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the National Committee of the CPPCC, and others made reports and explanations on relevant topics.
Shi Taifeng (石泰峰), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the CPPCC, and Hu Chunhua (胡春华), Shen Yueyue (沈跃跃), Wang Yong (王勇), Zhou Qiang (周强), Ho Hau Wah (何厚铧), Leung Chun-ying (梁振英), Bater (巴特尔), Su Hui (苏辉), Shao Hong (邵鸿), Gao Yunlong (高云龙), Chen Wu (陈武), Mu Hong (穆虹), Xian Hui (咸辉), Jiang Xinzhi (姜信治), Jiang Zuojun (蒋作君), He Baoxiang (何报翔), Wang Guangqian (王光谦), Zhu Yongxin (朱永xin), and Yang Zhen (杨震) attended the meeting.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 31st. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (外交部) announced on October 31st:
At the invitation of the governments of Uruguay (乌拉圭) and Brazil (巴西), Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥), Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局常委) and Vice Premier of the State Council (国务院副总理), will visit Uruguay (乌拉圭) and Brazil (巴西) from November 3rd to 5th.
At the invitation of Brazilian President Lula (卢拉), Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥) will attend the Belém Climate Summit (贝伦气候峰会) on November 6th as the Special Representative of President Xi Jinping (习近平).
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 31st. Chen Wenqing (陈文清), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission (中央政法委), presided over a plenary meeting of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission (中央政法委) on October 30th. 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 measures for implementation.
The meeting considered 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. The important speech of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) at the plenary session expounded a series of directional and fundamental major issues, pointed out the direction for us to do our work well, and provided fundamental guidelines. The "Proposal of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" deliberated and approved by the plenary session made top-level design and strategic planning for future five-year development, and is another general mobilization and general deployment to take advantage of the situation and continue to promote Chinese-style modernization.
The meeting emphasized that the "Two Establishments" are the fundamental political guarantee for advancing Chinese-style modernization and realizing long-term national stability in the new era and on the new journey. Political and legal organs should take studying, publicizing, and implementing the spirit of the plenary session as a major political task for the present and future periods, profoundly understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," and resolutely achieve the "Two Safeguards." We must firmly grasp the main goals and strategic tasks proposed by the plenary session, coordinate development and security, focus on serving high-quality development, focus on strengthening the distinct people-oriented nature of political and legal work, focus on building a higher level of safe China and rule-of-law China, and focus on promoting comprehensive and strict Party governance in the political and legal field, so as to provide strong guarantees for economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
Wang Xiaohong (王小洪), Zhang Jun (张军), and Ying Yong (应勇) attended the meeting.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Tianjin, October 31st (Reporter Yin Siyuan) The Central Delegation for Lectures on Studying and Implementing the Spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee gave a lecture in Tianjin (天津) on October 31st. Chen Min'er (陈敏尔), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee, and a member of the Central Delegation for Lectures, delivered the lecture.
At the lecture, Chen Min'er (陈敏尔) focused closely on thoroughly studying and understanding the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the spirit of the "Recommendations." Closely centering on the theme of the lecture, he deeply elaborated and expounded on the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session from the aspects of deeply understanding the great significance of the plenary session, accurately grasping the important position of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period in the process of basically realizing socialist modernization, deeply understanding the guiding principles and main goals of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, comprehensively understanding the strategic tasks and major measures of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, adhering to and strengthening the Party's overall leadership, and gathering the mighty force to promote Chinese-style modernization.
Chen Min'er (陈敏尔) stated that it is necessary to integrate the study and implementation of the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session with the study and understanding of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and to integrate it with the implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech during his inspection of Tianjin (天津), comprehensively build a modern socialist metropolis, and strive to write a Tianjin (天津) chapter of Chinese-style modernization.
Chen Min'er (陈敏尔) also recently went to the Binhai New Area (滨海新区) to conduct in-depth research in enterprises in the Nangang Industrial Zone (南港工业区), gave lectures on the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee to grassroots frontline workers, and interacted and exchanged views with everyone.
This newspaper, Guangzhou (广州), October 31st (Reporter Li Zong) The Central Delegation for Lectures on Studying and Implementing the Spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee report meeting was held in Guangzhou City (广州市), Guangdong Province (广东省) on October 31st. Huang Kunming (黄坤明), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, and a member of the Central Delegation for Lectures, delivered the keynote report. Approximately 20,000 people participated in the main venue and various branch venues.
At the report meeting, Huang Kunming (黄坤明) profoundly expounded on the great significance and far-reaching impact of the plenary session, elaborated on the important position of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period in the process of basically realizing socialist modernization from different dimensions, and conducted an in-depth interpretation of the guiding principles, main goals, strategic tasks, major measures, and fundamental guarantees for economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. He emphasized that the entire province must effectively unify its thoughts and actions with General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech and the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, firmly support the "Two Establishes" and resolutely achieve the "Two Safeguards," and grasp the study, publicity, and implementation work with a high sense of responsibility and mission. It is necessary to conscientiously plan the development of Guangdong (广东) during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period in accordance with the deployment requirements of the plenary session, unswervingly shoulder the heavy responsibilities, comprehensively promote the construction of a strong province, continuously enhance new advantages, achieve new leaps, strive to be at the forefront in promoting Chinese-style modernization, and strive to make greater contributions to the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.
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In recent days, the vast number of intellectuals and young students have deeply studied and implemented the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), felt the significant achievements of China's development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, conscientiously studied and understood the systematic planning and strategic deployment of the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposals for China's economic and social development, and freely discussed the goals and directions of efforts for the next period.
Everyone unanimously expressed that, standing at a new historical starting point, they must unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, fully implement the spirit of the plenary session and the decision-making arrangements of the Party Central Committee, forge ahead with stronger confidence and greater motivation, and ensure decisive progress in basically realizing socialist modernization, and jointly promote the grand blueprint into reality.
Leading an Extraordinary Journey, Accumulating Confidence and Strength
The plenary session highly praised the significant achievements of China's development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. The development process of China during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period was extremely unusual and extraordinary.
Not long ago, the research team led by Academician Xu Yigang (徐义刚) of the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院广州地球化学研究所), discovered key clues to the source of water on the moon from the lunar soil brought back by the Chang'e-6 (嫦娥六号) probe, expanding human understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the evolution of the solar system. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, every step of China's lunar exploration project was solid and steady, writing a vivid footnote for the construction of a strong country in science and technology.
"From 'Chang'e Lanyue' (嫦娥揽月) to 'Tianwen Tanhuo' (天问探火), the '14th Five-Year Plan' period was a milestone five years in the development of China's science and technology undertakings," said Xu Yigang (徐义刚). "Building China into a strong country in science and technology is the dream that the Chinese nation has been pursuing since modern times. Over the past five years, China's science and technology undertakings have achieved historic achievements and undergone historic changes, laying a solid foundation for accelerating the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement and building a world-class scientific and technological power, and further enhancing national self-confidence and pride."
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, facing the complex and volatile international situation and the arduous and heavy domestic reform, development, and stability tasks, the Party Central Committee 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 overcome difficulties and forge ahead, and China's economic strength, scientific and technological strength, and comprehensive national strength have reached new levels, Chinese-style modernization has taken new and solid steps, and the new journey towards the second centenary goal has achieved a good start.
"The fundamental reason for the achievement of a series of major achievements lies in the leadership of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era." After carefully studying the "Suggestions" and other documents adopted by the plenary session, Lian Junhua (连俊华), associate researcher at the Institute of Marxism, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院马克思主义研究院), said with great emotion, "Practice has fully proved that the 'Two Establishments' are the decisive factors for promoting the Party and the country's cause to achieve historic achievements and undergo historic changes, and are the greatest certainty, greatest confidence, and greatest guarantee for overcoming all difficulties and risks and responding to all uncertainties."
The original musical "Chasing Dreams" created by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (中华全国总工会) Art Troupe toured many places across the country, telling the story of railway builders overcoming difficulties in the context of China's high-speed rail research and development, which resonated with the audience.
Chen Sisi (陈思思), executive deputy head of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (中华全国总工会) Art Troupe, said: "The new era has provided unprecedentedly broad stage for the vast number of literary and art workers. For some time, all fields of culture have adhered to the guidance of Xi Jinping's Thought on Culture, and have continuously drawn inspiration from great practice and passionate life, creating and producing excellent works that are loved by the people. I deeply feel that it is the power of culture that has given us the determination to adhere to the right path, the motivation to forge ahead, and the vitality to reform and innovate."
In the vast fields of Tongyu County (通榆县), Jilin Province (吉林省), there is a scene of harvest. In the experimental field, Gao Qiang (高强), Dean of the Graduate School of Jilin Agricultural University (吉林农业大学), and his students are carefully checking the fullness of the corn kernels.
"To build a strong country, we must first strengthen agriculture, and only when agriculture is strong can the country be strong. After years of efforts, China's comprehensive agricultural production capacity has been significantly enhanced, and the level of agricultural modernization has steadily improved," said Gao Qiang (高强). "The plenary session made new deployments for 'accelerating the modernization of agriculture and rural areas and solidly promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.' I will continue to find topics in the fields and strive to let agricultural development take off with the wings of science and technology."
Drawing a Blueprint for Development, Clarifying the Direction of Progress
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that scientifically setting development goals is crucial to formulating and implementing the Five-Year Plan well. The draft "Suggestions" grasps the basic positioning and stage requirements of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period and clarifies the main goals of economic and social development.
Liu Xiaoguang (刘晓光), Vice President of the National Academy of Development and Strategy, Renmin University of China (中国人民大学国家发展与战略研究院), said with deep feeling: "The 'Suggestions' highlight economic construction as the center, and continue to define promoting high-quality development as the theme of economic and social development during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, and take benefiting the people as the fundamental value orientation. We must more deeply understand the decision-making arrangements of the Party Central Committee, strengthen research around the content of the 'Suggestions', and provide strong academic support for the implementation of major strategic deployments."
In the land of Zhejiang (浙江), vitality is surging. In the exhibition hall of Zhejiang Qiangnao Technology Co., Ltd. (浙江强脑科技有限公司), employees wearing intelligent bionic hands flexibly play the piano. The non-invasive brain-computer interface technology developed by the company is expected to help people with disabilities regain their motor abilities.
"The plenary session proposed to accelerate high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement and lead the development of new quality productive forces. As an emerging science and technology innovation enterprise, we are very excited," said Han Bicheng (韩璧丞), founder of Qiangnao Technology Co., Ltd. (强脑科技有限公司). "We will deeply study the spirit of the plenary session, continue to work hard to improve original innovation capabilities, seize the key core technologies and cutting-edge technologies, promote the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, and let scientific and technological achievements better benefit society."
From emergency rescue to surgical intervention, from intensive care to rehabilitation treatment, various departments cooperate closely to build a solid line of defense for life... In the Haidian North Campus of Peking University Third Hospital (北京大学第三医院海淀北部院区), the "multidisciplinary joint rapid diagnosis and treatment" model operates efficiently.
"Implement the health-first development strategy" "Promote hierarchical diagnosis and treatment"... Dean Jiang Yu (姜宇) of the hospital carefully studied the relevant deployments of the "Suggestions" on accelerating the construction of a healthy China. "This clarifies the path for the high-quality development of the health and health cause in the next five years. As a medical worker who has supported Yan'an (延安) for two years, I deeply realize the expectations of the grassroots people for high-level medical care. We will deepen regional linkage, improve the integration of medical prevention, and provide the masses with higher-quality and more efficient health services," said Jiang Yu (姜宇).
New production lines, constant temperature workshops, intelligent manufacturing training centers... The hot production scene has become the norm in the "school-in-factory" of Hunan Industry Polytechnic College (湖南工业职业技术学院). Liao Jingyi (廖静怡), a junior student of the School of Electrical Engineering, and her teammates are debugging the "intelligent inspection robot" they developed. This robot is like the "intelligent doctor" of the factory, which can accurately identify complex information and realize data visualization.
"General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system. My classmates and I are determined to take root in the real economy, apply more of what we have learned to practice, become a highly skilled talent who can solve practical problems, and contribute our youth to accelerating the construction of a manufacturing power," said Liao Jingyi (廖静怡).
Gathering the Strength to Forge Ahead and Create a Better Future
A wave of learning is surging on the campus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学). Teachers and students across the school are deeply studying and understanding the spirit of the plenary session through special studies, seminars, and other forms.
"The plenary session made specific deployments around 'running education that the people are satisfied with,' which anchors the coordinates for education work in the new era," said Liu Wei (刘伟), associate professor at the School of Marxism, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学马克思主义学院). "I will firmly implement the fundamental task of establishing morality and cultivating people, integrate the spirit of the plenary session into teaching and educating people, fully utilize the main classroom of ideological and political courses, the micro-classroom of theoretical publicity, and the new classroom of digital interpretation, organically combine the cultivation of moral character with the improvement of innovation ability, and help students grow into new people of the era who dare to shoulder the great task of national rejuvenation."
The "Double 11" e-commerce promotion has started, and in order to ensure the smooth customs clearance of cross-border goods and help cross-border enterprises expand overseas markets, Qingdao Customs (青岛海关) uses a smart supervision model to ensure that goods "clear customs in seconds" and go to the world.
The plenary session made systematic deployments for "expanding high-level opening to the outside world," which made Che Lidong (车礼东), a senior engineer who is fighting on the front line of port supervision and the director of the Qingdao Customs (青岛海关) Technology Center, more motivated: "General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has repeatedly emphasized that 'China's door to opening up will not be closed, but will only open wider and wider.' During the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, we must further focus on the needs of foreign trade development, comprehensively research, develop and apply artificial intelligence, data mining, and intelligent equipment technology, upgrade the level of customs supervision and service with technological innovation, continuously expand international cooperation space, and inject new impetus into high-level opening up."
As one of China's "new three items" for cultural exports, online literature has become a global trendsetter of popular culture. China Literature Group (阅文集团) has launched tens of thousands of Chinese online novels overseas, covering readers in more than 200 countries and regions, and is constantly expanding its overseas path.
"'The Suggestions' clearly put forward 'prospering new mass literature and art under the conditions of the Internet' and 'encouraging more cultural enterprises and excellent cultural products to go to the world,' which allows us to see broad development prospects," said Hou Xiaonan (侯晓楠), CEO and President of China Literature Group (阅文集团), with excitement. "We will implement the deployments of the plenary session, adhere to the strategy of high-quality content, strengthen the systematic development of IP, help creators tell Chinese stories and spread Chinese voices well, promote content to 'go out' and 'go in,' and continuously enhance the communication power and influence of Chinese civilization."
In the relay race of building a strong country and national rejuvenation, contemporary youth bear a crucial baton.
"The grand blueprint of the '15th Five-Year Plan' drawn by the plenary session is slowly unfolding. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that realizing socialist modernization is a historical process of step-by-step progress and continuous development, which requires unremitting efforts and continuous struggle," said Zeng Xinyi (曾昕毅), an undergraduate student at the School of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University (兰州大学大气科学学院), feeling a heavy responsibility on her shoulders. "I will take the spirit of the plenary session as a guide, integrate my personal ideals into the great cause of national development, aim at problems such as climate change prediction and environmental pollution prevention, concentrate on research and hone my skills, write my thesis on the land of the motherland, and strive to write a youthful chapter of courage and responsibility."
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 31)
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on October 31st (Reporter Liu Zhiqiang (刘志强)): The reporter learned from the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) that the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) is working with various regions and departments to expedite the preparation of the "15th Five-Year Plan" Outline (《纲要草案》).
Research and draft the "15th Five-Year Plan" Outline (《纲要草案》). Strictly align with the "15th Five-Year Plan" recommendations, scientifically calculate key indicators, and propose a series of operable and implementable major tasks, measures, and major engineering projects. Transform the directional requirements proposed in the planning recommendations into pragmatic measures to promote economic and social development, and submit them to the Party Central Committee (党中央) and the State Council (国务院) for deliberation in accordance with procedures, before submitting them to the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress (全国人大) for review next year.
Extensively solicit opinions and suggestions from all parties. On October 31st, the website of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) and other online platforms opened special columns or set up link windows in prominent positions to widely solicit development suggestions on more than 20 key areas related to the national economy and people's livelihood. The deadline is 8:00 PM on November 14, 2025. In addition, relevant mass organizations, chambers of commerce, and associations are invited to specifically solicit opinions and suggestions from key groups such as private enterprises, foreign-funded enterprises, flexible employment personnel, migrant workers, scientific research personnel, youth, farmers, and people with disabilities to deeply understand the needs and expectations of the masses; hold symposiums and visit homes to listen to the opinions and suggestions of experts, entrepreneurs, and high-end think tanks face-to-face; organize experts to conduct consultation and argumentation on the Outline (《纲要草案》); and conscientiously study and reflect the opinions and suggestions of deputies to the National People's Congress (全国人大) and members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (政协委员), and effectively absorb social expectations, public wisdom, expert opinions, and grassroots experience into the plan.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on October 31st (Reporter Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶), Li Junqiang (李君强)) According to the China Manned Space Engineering Office (中国载人航天工程办公室), at 23:44 Beijing Time on October 31, 2025, the Long March-2F Y21 carrier rocket (长征二号F遥二十一运载火箭) carrying the Shenzhou-21 manned spacecraft (神舟二十一号载人飞船) was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (酒泉卫星发射中心). About 10 minutes later, the spacecraft successfully separated from the rocket and entered its predetermined orbit. The astronaut crew is in good condition, and the launch was a complete success.
After entering orbit, the spacecraft will conduct an autonomous rapid rendezvous and docking with the space station complex according to the predetermined procedure. The Shenzhou-21 astronaut crew will conduct an on-orbit handover with the Shenzhou-20 astronaut crew. During their stay in the space station, the Shenzhou-21 astronaut crew will carry out a number of experiments and applications in the fields of space life and human body research, microgravity physics science, and space new technologies, conduct multiple extravehicular activities, complete the installation of space station debris protection devices, and complete tasks such as installation, commissioning, maintenance and repair of equipment inside and outside the cabin.
So far, China's 2025 manned space launch mission has come to a successful conclusion. This mission is the sixth manned flight mission since the project entered the space station application and development stage, and it is also the 604th flight of the Long March series carrier rockets (长征系列运载火箭) and the twenty-first flight of the Shenzhou spacecraft (神舟飞船). To date, China has had 28 astronauts and 44 person-times enter space to perform flight missions.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘诗瑶 李君强
Flames soared, piercing the sky above the Gobi Desert. At 23:44 on October 31st, the Long March-2F rocket (长二F火箭) carried the Shenzhou-21 manned spacecraft (神舟二十一号载人飞船), precisely sending astronauts Zhang Lu (张陆), Wu Fei (武飞), and Zhang Hongzhang (张洪章) into the designated orbit, marking the complete success of the launch mission.
Challenging the 3.5-Hour Rapid Rendezvous and Docking
The most eye-catching aspect of this mission is undoubtedly the Shenzhou spacecraft's first challenge of implementing a 3.5-hour autonomous rapid rendezvous and docking in a manned state.
Previously, Shenzhou-8 (神舟八号) took two days to rendezvous and dock with the Tiangong-1 space laboratory (天宫一号空间实验站); Shenzhou-12 (神舟十二号) to Shenzhou-20 (神舟二十号) adopted a 6.5-hour rendezvous and docking mode. Now, Shenzhou-21 (神舟二十一号) is challenging the 3.5-hour rendezvous and docking, striving to achieve another major leap in aerospace technology innovation.
Rendezvous and docking are usually divided into two stages: remote guidance and close-range guidance. The key system responsible for guidance is called GNC (Guidance, Navigation, and Control), known as the "smart brain" of the spacecraft.
From 6.5 hours to 3.5 hours, the key technology optimization behind it mainly involves three levels: First, in the remote guidance phase, the spacecraft's orbit around the Earth is reduced from 3 circles to 2 circles; second, the initial distance of the close-range guidance phase is shortened, allowing the spacecraft to start its final precise maneuver from a closer "starting line," compressing the time spent on the final leg; third, the end of the remote guidance and the beginning of the close-range guidance are unified and optimized, so that the correct trajectory can be guided even if there may be excessive target orbit errors, avoiding trajectory safety issues.
To ensure the success of rendezvous and docking, the GNC system can switch between the 3.5-hour rendezvous and docking mode and the 6.5-hour rendezvous and docking mode. Experts from the China Academy of Space Technology (中国航天科技集团五院) stated that during the mission, the spacecraft will evaluate the spacecraft's status at multiple key points.
Experts said that the 3.5-hour rendezvous and docking can greatly enhance the flexibility and emergency response capabilities of China's space station mission planning. Specifically, this mode can reduce the number of orbital control maneuvers and flight circles in the remote guidance phase, and shorten the flight time in the close-range guidance phase; at the same time, it can reduce the flight pressure on astronauts, shorten the waiting time for astronauts in the cabin, and reduce the demand for battery fuel, thereby improving the overall ability of the mission to respond to failures.
Subsystems Interlock, Each Performing Its Own Function
Shenzhou's journey to the space station is backed by a security network composed of numerous subsystems.
From the perspective of the rocket system, the Shenzhou-21 manned spacecraft (神舟二十一号载人飞船) needs to challenge the 3.5-hour rapid rendezvous and docking, which places almost harsh requirements on the accuracy of entering orbit. To ensure the accuracy of entering orbit and allow the spacecraft to be placed on a "fast lane" that is highly consistent with the orbital altitude of the space station, the Long March-2F rocket (长二F火箭) that performed this mission implemented nearly 20 technical status improvements to further improve reliability and safety.
When the spacecraft relies on stable energy to maneuver in space, the powerful measurement, control, and communication system ensures that it "does not get lost or lose contact." This system is composed of ground stations all over the world, the "Tianlian" data relay satellite (天链) hanging high in space, and numerous communication devices installed on the spacecraft and space station. Zhang Qingyuan (张清源), chief project engineer of China Electronics Technology Group (中国电子科技集团), said that the laser radar can realize functions such as multi-target switching and multi-target recognition, ensuring accurate completion of rendezvous and docking.
When the spacecraft and space station dance gracefully to the "last centimeter," the docking mechanism developed by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (中国航天科技集团八院) will come into play. Its core technology lies in its ability to absorb and consume the collision energy generated at the moment of docking between the two spacecraft, and achieve smooth and precise capture and locking.
Subsystems interlock and each performs its own function, forming a highly integrated and responsive space-ground integrated security system, jointly supporting the successful flight of the Shenjian and Shenzhou time after time.
Sending Mice to the Chinese Space Station
This mission is the first time that China's space station has carried out on-orbit breeding and experimental research on rodents.
Experts from the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院空间应用工程与技术中心) introduced that the experimental samples are 4 mice, 2 male and 2 female, which have undergone strict ground screening and training to adapt to the microgravity environment in space. The mice will be raised in orbit for 5 to 7 days before returning to the ground to continue further scientific research.
Experts said that mice have the advantages of high homology with human genes, small size, and short breeding cycle, and are important animal models for carrying out space physiology, pathology, growth and development, and reproduction research.
The main goal of studying mice is to establish a complete experimental system for mammalian space research, verify the core key technologies for mouse space breeding, and explore the stress response of various organ systems of mice to the space microgravity environment, laying an important foundation for systematically carrying out mammalian space science research.
This mission also fully considers leveraging the professional advantages of payload experts to carry out "in-situ electrochemical optical research on lithium-ion batteries for space applications" in orbit. Experts said that studying the performance evolution law of lithium-ion batteries in the space environment can provide important theoretical support for the development and highly reliable application of lithium-ion batteries in subsequent missions.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 罗珊珊
Recently, with the approval of the State Council, the Ministry of Commerce issued the Implementation Opinions on Expanding Green Trade. On October 31, the State Council Information Office held a routine policy briefing to introduce the relevant situation.
"Against the backdrop of the current global response to climate change and the promotion of green and low-carbon transformation, our active expansion of green trade aims to promote trade optimization and upgrading, help achieve the 'dual carbon' goals, and better serve global climate governance." Li Chenggang (李成钢), Deputy Minister of Commerce and Deputy Representative for International Trade Negotiations, said that the Implementation Opinions, as the first special policy document in the field of green trade, accurately focuses on the weak links in China's green trade development and formulates targeted measures:
In terms of enhancing the green and low-carbon development capabilities of foreign trade enterprises, it proposes to enhance enterprises' awareness of green and low-carbon development, promote green design and production, reduce the carbon emissions of foreign trade products, and build a green trade public service platform; in terms of expanding the import and export of green and low-carbon related products and technologies, it proposes to develop trade in sustainable fuels such as green hydrogen, study and improve import standards and management measures for recycled resources, and promote the green and low-carbon development of overseas economic and trade cooperation zones; in terms of creating a good international environment for green trade development, it proposes to promote the establishment of more inclusive and fair international green trade rules, and actively participate in the negotiation of green issues in high-standard economic and trade agreements; in terms of establishing and improving a green trade support and guarantee system, it proposes to strengthen financial policy support, accelerate the construction of a carbon footprint database for foreign trade products, and improve the carbon pricing mechanism.
Li Chenggang (李成钢) said that in recent years, China's exports of green and low-carbon related products have performed brightly. China's wind power, photovoltaics, new energy vehicles and other products have been exported to more than 200 countries and regions, promoting the global cost of wind power and photovoltaic power generation to drop by more than 60% and 80% respectively, making a huge contribution to the global response to climate change and green transformation.
The greening of industry and the low-carbonization of products are the foundation and support of green trade. Wang Peng (王鹏), Director of the Energy Conservation and Comprehensive Utilization Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, introduced that in recent years, a total of 451 green design companies have been created, more than 40,000 green products have been developed and promoted, and 6,430 national green factories and 491 green industrial parks have been cultivated, with the output value of national green factories accounting for more than 20%. In the next step, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will accelerate the green transformation and upgrading of the entire chain of product design, manufacturing, use, recycling, and circular utilization. It plans to increase the output value of green factories at the national, provincial, and municipal levels to 40% by 2030.
Guo Huanxin (国焕新), Director of the Metrology Department of the State Administration for Market Regulation, introduced that the State Administration for Market Regulation revised and issued the "Administrative Measures for the Adoption of International Standards" in accordance with the relevant rules of the World Trade Organization and the International Organization for Standardization, highlighting the guidance of "accurate adoption of standards" and "efficient transformation" to accelerate the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade. The measures officially came into effect on June 1 this year, shortening the international standard conversion time by nearly 6 months. In the fields of carbon emissions, carbon accounting, carbon footprint, and carbon capture, China has transformed and adopted 410 relevant international standards through organizing international standard comparison and analysis. As of the end of September, China's overall international standard conversion rate has reached 86%, completing the 2025 work goal proposed in the "National Standardization Development Outline".
Wang Xin (王信), Director of the Research Bureau of the People's Bank of China, said that in February 2024, the People's Bank of China cooperated with the National Development and Reform Commission to issue the "Green and Low-Carbon Transformation Industry Guidance Catalogue (2024 Edition)", which is conducive to clarifying the identification of green trade and promoting the reduction of tariff and non-tariff barriers to green trade. In June this year, the People's Bank of China, together with the Financial Regulatory Administration and the China Securities Regulatory Commission, issued the "Green Finance Support Project Catalogue (2025 Edition)", which included green trade in the scope of green finance support for the first time. The People's Bank of China will continue to strengthen policy incentives, support financial institutions to develop more financial products that meet the needs of green trade, and contribute to the development of green trade and the realization of sustainable development goals.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 田豆豆 吴 君
The Yangtze River, the mother river of the Chinese nation, stretches for thousands of miles and has nurtured a millennium of cultural heritage. A history of Yangtze River culture carries the common memory of the Chinese nation and constructs the shared spiritual home of the Chinese nation.
In October 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), when chairing a symposium on further promoting high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, emphasized: "Deeply explore the contemporary value of Yangtze River culture and launch more literary and artistic masterpieces that reflect the new era of Yangtze River culture."
From September 12 to October 30, the 2025 Yangtze River Culture and Arts Season, with the participation of 13 provinces (autonomous regions, and municipalities), was held in Hubei Province. Art exhibitions, film weeks, academic exchanges, and other activities were splendid, fully demonstrating the modern vitality of Yangtze River culture.
Gathering Archaeological Achievements to Showcase Yangtze River Civilization
A Liangzhu Culture (良渚文化) beast-faced trident-shaped object, a jade pendant in the shape of a person riding a dragon, a gold crown inlaid with rubies... On September 23, in Wuhan (武汉), Hubei Province, in the temporary exhibition hall of the Panlongcheng Site Museum (盘龙城遗址博物院), 160 pieces (sets) of cultural relics in the "Eternal River Flow - Treasures of Ancient Civilization in the Yangtze River Basin Exhibition" were arranged in chronological order, visually displaying the development context and exchange and integration of Yangtze River culture. "I came all the way from Anhui (安徽) to see many treasures. It's truly an eye-opener," said visitor Ye Xinqiong (叶新琼).
For more than half a century, the Yangtze River Basin has continuously achieved important archaeological results, important sites have been successively excavated, and the process of formation, evolution, and development of Yangtze River civilization has gradually become clear. "We use five major artifact systems, including jade, lacquerware, bronzes, gold and silver wares, and ceramics, to connect the civilization context of the Yangtze River Basin from the Neolithic Age to the Ming and Qing Dynasties," said Wang Ying (王颖), Deputy Director of the Panlongcheng Site Museum (盘龙城遗址博物院). In this Yangtze River Culture and Arts Season, archaeological achievements of Yangtze River cultures such as Bashu Culture (巴蜀文化), Chu Culture (楚文化), and Liangzhu Culture (良渚文化) gathered together to jointly outline the magnificent picture of the unity in diversity of Chinese civilization.
On the shore of East Lake (东湖), the "Reading China Simply - Exhibition of Unearthed Bamboo Slips in China" in the Hubei Provincial Museum (湖北省博物馆) attracted many tourists. "We carefully selected nearly 230 pieces (sets) of bamboo slip cultural relics, such as the Qin Dynasty bamboo slips from Liye (里耶秦简) in Hunan (湖南) and the Han Dynasty bamboo slips from Jianshui Jin Guan (肩水金关汉简) in Gansu (甘肃), and restored the historical scenes of different historical figures through supporting pictures, texts, and multimedia interactions to interpret Yangtze River culture well," said Luo Qia (罗恰), Deputy Director of the Academic Research Center of the Hubei Provincial Museum (湖北省博物馆).
In addition to cultural relic exhibitions, the 2025 Yangtze River Culture and Arts Season also held a series of lectures and academic seminars. "Through this Culture and Arts Season, the archaeological excavation and research results of the Yangtze River Basin have been systematically displayed, and important physical exhibits vividly demonstrate the origin, development context, and brilliant achievements of Yangtze River civilization," said Yu Ping (余萍), member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Hubei Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism (湖北省文化和旅游厅).
Relying on Technological Innovation to Inherit Yangtze River Culture
On September 29, the launching ceremony of the "Image Yangtze River" Film Week of the 2025 Yangtze River Culture and Arts Season was fully seated in the Hongshan Auditorium (洪山礼堂) in Wuhan (武汉). As the melody of "Waves of Honghu Lake" (洪湖水浪打浪) sounded, the 4K restored version of the film "Red Guards on Honghu Lake" (洪湖赤卫队) was presented to the audience.
The old film of "Red Guards on Honghu Lake" (洪湖赤卫队), released in 1961, was obviously damaged. "We visited many old photographers and directors, consulted old film materials from the same period, and established the restoration idea of 'overall restoration as old as possible, partial restoration as new as possible'. We used the 'AI initial repair + manual fine repair' model to make the picture clearer while retaining the historical texture of the film," said Fang Yang (方阳), head of the film restoration team and visual supervisor of the post-production department of Hubei Film Studio Co., Ltd. (湖北电影制片有限责任公司).
Digital rebirth of Bianzhong (编钟), technological restoration of bamboo slips, digital regeneration of red films... Innovation allows culture to be better protected and inherited.
In the 2025 Yangtze River Culture and Arts Season, the achievements of the creative transformation and innovative development of Yangtze River culture are emerging one after another—
In the "Listening to the Yangtze River · Second Yangtze River Music Week" event, 17 works in the three chapters of "Dreaming on the Plateau," "Heart on the Road," and "Love in the Ocean" integrated the ethnic folk music elements of the Yangtze River Basin, modern composition techniques, and classical choral art.
In the "Audiovisual Yangtze River" online communication week, many IPs such as the digital human "Chuyin" (楚音) based on the Tiger-seated Drum-frame (虎座鸟架鼓), the "Little Sword" (小剑剑) inspired by the Sword of Goujian (勾践剑), and the online animation "Incarnation" (灵笼) integrated ecology, technology, humanities, and history, presenting the prosperity of Yangtze River civilization in a digital and intelligent way.
The "Fragrant Yangtze River" Reading Week event distributed millions of yuan in coupons to stimulate the public's "reading fever"; the "Meet the Yangtze River · Yangtze River Literature Week" event launched a theme essay contest nationwide, welcoming free submissions. Through this grand event, Yangtze River culture has better reached the people.
Promoting Exchange and Mutual Learning to Share the Beauty of the Yangtze River
"This is a love letter from Yangtze River culture to the world!" Some netizens commented.
When brilliant fireworks bloomed over the Yangtze River, when the dialogue of river civilizations attracted the attention of various countries, the popularity of the 2025 Yangtze River Culture and Arts Season further promoted Yangtze River culture to the world.
The opening ceremony of the 2025 Yangtze River Culture and Arts Season held on the evening of September 12 attracted the attention of netizens at home and abroad.
The beautiful scenery of the Yangtze River and the rich literary and artistic activities have also attracted more and more tourists from home and abroad to visit the Yangtze River in person and feel the charm of Yangtze River culture. During the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holidays in 2025, A-level tourist attractions in Hubei Province received a total of 20,363,400 tourists, an increase of 12.9% year-on-year; the number of inbound and outbound passengers at Hubei ports increased by 36.4% year-on-year.
Overlooking the Yangtze River from the Yellow Crane Tower (黄鹤楼), experiencing the beauty of poetry and the charm of Han Opera (汉剧); taking a boat trip on the Yangtze River at night, enjoying the light show and watching the situational drama... Art is a language that transcends national borders. Chinese and foreign tourists walk side by side, appreciating and sharing the beauty of the Yangtze River and Yangtze River civilization.
Civilization is colorful because of exchanges, and civilization is enriched by mutual learning.
During the Yangtze River Culture and Arts Season, UNESCO and the Wuhan Municipal Government also jointly hosted the 2025 Great Rivers Dialogue Forum. Representatives of international organizations from 22 countries and regions, experts from world river basin organizations, scholars from well-known Chinese universities and research institutions, and other parties gathered for a civilization appointment and jointly planned development strategies.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) proposal puts forward the need to vigorously promote cultural undertakings, accelerate the development of cultural industries, and enhance the communication and influence of Chinese civilization. The 2025 Yangtze River Culture and Arts Season, rooted in the profound Chinese civilization and in line with the development trend of information technology, has injected vitality into promoting the continuous and prosperous development of Yangtze River culture.
Return to TopThis report from Qingzhou, South Korea, October 31st (Reporters Zhang Zhiwen (张志文) and Li Jie (李婕)) On the afternoon of October 31st, local time, President Xi Jinping (习近平) met with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) at her request while attending the 32nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that China and Japan are neighbors separated only by a strip of water, and are important neighbors to each other. Promoting the long-term healthy and stable development of China-Japan relations is in line with the common expectations of the people of both countries and the international community. China is willing to work with Japan to maintain the political foundation of bilateral relations, promote strategic and mutually beneficial relations, and strive to build a constructive and stable China-Japan relationship that meets the requirements of the new era, in accordance with the principles and directions established in the four China-Japan political documents.
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that the current China-Japan relationship has both opportunities and challenges. He hoped that the new Japanese cabinet would establish a correct understanding of China, cherish the efforts and hard work of the older generation of politicians and people from all walks of life in both countries to develop China-Japan relations, and adhere to the general direction of China-Japan peace, friendship, and cooperation. First, adhere to important consensus. Put into practice the political consensus of "comprehensively promoting strategic and mutually beneficial relations," "being partners to each other and not posing a threat to each other," and "**以史为鉴、面向未来**" (yǐ shǐ wéi jiàn, miàn xiàng wèi lái - "take history as a mirror and look to the future," learn from history to guide the future). Abide by and fulfill the clear provisions made in the four China-Japan political documents on major principled issues such as history and Taiwan, so as to ensure that the foundation of China-Japan relations is not damaged or shaken. The "Murayama Statement" profoundly reflects on Japan's history of aggression and apologizes to the victimized countries. This spirit is worth promoting. Second, adhere to win-win cooperation. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee outlined the "15th Five-Year Plan" for China's development, and China-Japan cooperation has broad prospects. China and Japan can strengthen cooperation in high-end manufacturing, the digital economy, green development, finance, medical care and elderly care, third-party markets, etc., and jointly maintain the stability and smooth flow of the multilateral trading system and industrial chain supply chain. Third, promote people-to-people connectivity. Continue to carry out communication between governments, political parties, legislative bodies, etc., deepen and expand cultural and local exchanges, and improve national sentiment. Fourth, strengthen multilateral cooperation. Adhere to the principles of good-neighborliness, equality, mutual benefit, and non-interference in internal affairs, practice true multilateralism, and promote the building of an Asia-Pacific community. Fifth, properly manage differences. Focus on the overall situation, seek common ground while reserving differences, and "**聚同化异**" (jù tóng huà yì - "gather the same and transform the different," to seek common ground and resolve differences), and avoid letting contradictions and differences define the relationship between the two countries.
Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) said that China is an important neighbor of Japan, and Japan and China have important responsibilities for regional and world peace and prosperity. Japan is willing to maintain high-level exchanges with China, strengthen exchanges at all levels, strengthen communication, enhance understanding, promote cooperation, steadily promote the strategic and mutually beneficial relationship between the two countries, and build a constructive and stable Japan-China relationship. On the Taiwan issue, Japan will adhere to the position in the 1972 Japan-China Joint Statement.
Cai Qi (蔡奇), Wang Yi (王毅), and others participated.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing (新华社北京) October 31st: The 21st issue of the "Seeking Truth" (《求是》) magazine, to be published on November 1st, will feature an important article by Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, entitled "Explanation on the 'CPC Central Committee's Proposal on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development'" (《关于〈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〉的说明》).
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that formulating medium- and long-term plans to guide economic and social development is an important way for our Party to govern the country. Studying and formulating the "15th Five-Year Plan" well is of great significance for promoting the sustained and healthy development of China's economy and society, and for laying a more solid foundation for achieving socialist modernization as scheduled. The draft "Proposal" accurately grasps the historical orientation of the Party and the country's development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, deeply analyzes the profound and complex changes facing China's development environment, and makes 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 the construction of Chinese-style modernization. It embodies the historical initiative 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.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that in the process of drafting the "Proposal", we paid attention to grasping the following points: First, adhere to the goal orientation and problem orientation; second, adhere to systematic thinking; third, adhere to further comprehensively deepening reform; and fourth, adhere to expanding opening up to the outside world.
Xi Jinping (习近平) made explanations on several key issues. First, regarding the important position of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for consolidating the foundation and fully exerting efforts. Formulating and implementing the "15th Five-Year Plan" well will lay a more solid foundation for basically realizing socialist modernization by 2035. Second, regarding the goals of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. The draft "Proposal" grasps the basic positioning and stage requirements of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, clarifies the main goals of economic and social development, and proposes important goals such as maintaining economic growth within a reasonable range, steadily improving total factor productivity, fully releasing economic growth potential, synchronizing residents' income growth with economic growth, synchronizing labor remuneration improvement with labor productivity improvement, and continuously expanding the middle-income group. Third, regarding taking promoting high-quality development as the theme. The "Proposal" is consistent with the "14th Five-Year Plan" and continues to define promoting high-quality development as the theme of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, requiring adherence to taking economic construction as the center, fully and accurately implementing the new development concept, accelerating high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement, and developing new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions. Fourth, regarding strengthening the domestic major cycle and unblocking the domestic and international dual cycles. The draft "Proposal" highlights strengthening the domestic major cycle, makes deployments for building a strong domestic market and accelerating the construction of a high-level socialist market economic system, and at the same time proposes expanding the international cycle and steadily expanding institutional opening up. Fifth, regarding taking solid steps towards common prosperity for all the people. The draft "Proposal" firmly grasps the goal requirements of common prosperity, and focuses on guaranteeing and improving people's livelihoods, deploying a number of policies and measures with strong balance and accessibility in promoting high-quality and sufficient employment and improving the income distribution system. Sixth, regarding coordinating development and security. The draft "Proposal" focuses on promoting the modernization of the national security system and capabilities, proposes improving the national security system, strengthening the construction of national security capabilities in key areas, and improving the social governance system. Seventh, regarding adhering to the Party's overall leadership. The draft "Proposal" focuses on improving the Party's ability and level to lead economic and social development, emphasizing adhering to and strengthening the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, and improving the implementation mechanism of major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee.
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In recent days, the vast number of intellectuals and young students have deeply studied and implemented the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), felt the significant achievements of China's development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, conscientiously studied and understood the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposals for the systematic planning and strategic deployment of China's economic and social development, and freely discussed the goals and directions of efforts for the next period.
Everyone unanimously expressed that, standing at a new historical starting point, it is necessary to unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, fully implement the spirit of the Plenary Session and the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, with stronger confidence and greater motivation, to strive forward and persevere, to ensure that decisive progress is made in basically realizing socialist modernization, and to jointly promote the grand blueprint into reality.
Leading an Extraordinary Journey, Accumulating Confidence and Strength
The Plenary Session highly evaluated the significant achievements of China's development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. The development process of China during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period was extremely unusual and extraordinary.
Not long ago, the research team led by Academician Xu Yigang (徐义刚) of the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院广州地球化学研究所), discovered key clues to the source of water on the moon from the lunar soil brought back by the Chang'e-6 (嫦娥六号) probe, expanding human understanding of the evolution of the Earth-Moon system and the solar system. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, every step of China's lunar exploration project was solid and steady, writing a vivid footnote for the construction of a strong country in science and technology.
"From 'Chang'e Lanyue' to 'Tianwen Tanhuo'," the lunar exploration program to the Mars exploration program, "'the 14th Five-Year Plan' period was a milestone five years in the development of China's science and technology undertakings," said Xu Yigang (徐义刚). "Building China into a strong country in science and technology is the dream that the Chinese nation has been pursuing since modern times. Over the past five years, China's science and technology undertakings have achieved historic achievements and undergone historic changes, laying a solid foundation for accelerating the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement and building a world-class scientific and technological power, and further enhancing national self-confidence and pride."
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, facing the complex and volatile international situation and the arduous and heavy domestic reform, development, and stability tasks, the Party Central Committee 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 overcome difficulties and forge ahead. China's economic strength, scientific and technological strength, and comprehensive national strength have reached new heights, Chinese-style modernization has taken new solid steps, and the new journey towards the second centenary goal has achieved a good start.
"The fundamental reason for the achievement of a series of major achievements lies in General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) steering and leadership, and in the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era." After carefully studying the "Suggestions" and other documents adopted by the Plenary Session, Lian Junhua (连俊华), associate researcher at the Institute of Marxism, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院马克思主义研究院), said with great emotion, "Practice has fully proved that the 'Two Establishments' are the decisive factors in promoting the Party and the country's cause to achieve historic achievements and undergo historic changes, and are the greatest certainty, greatest confidence, and greatest guarantee for overcoming all difficulties and risks and responding to all uncertainties."
The original musical "Chasing Dreams" created by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (中华全国总工会) Art Troupe toured many places across the country, telling the story of railway builders overcoming difficulties in the context of China's high-speed rail research and development, which resonated with the audience.
Chen Sisi (陈思思), executive deputy head of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (中华全国总工会) Art Troupe, said: "The new era has provided unprecedentedly broad stage for the vast number of literary and art workers. For some time, all fields of culture have adhered to the guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on culture, and have continuously drawn inspiration from great practice and passionate life, creating and producing excellent works that are loved by the people. I deeply feel that it is the power of culture that has given us the determination to adhere to the right path, the motivation to forge ahead, and the vitality to reform and innovate."
In the vast fields of Tongyu County (通榆县), Jilin Province (吉林省), there is a scene of harvest. In the experimental fields, Gao Qiang (高强), Dean of the Graduate School of Jilin Agricultural University (吉林农业大学), is carefully checking the fullness of corn kernels with his students.
"To strengthen the country, we must first strengthen agriculture, and only when agriculture is strong can the country be strong. After years of efforts, China's comprehensive agricultural production capacity has been significantly enhanced, and the level of agricultural modernization has steadily improved," said Gao Qiang (高强). "The Plenary Session made new deployments for 'accelerating the modernization of agriculture and rural areas and solidly promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.' I will continue to find topics in the fields and strive to let agricultural development take off with the wings of science and technology."
Drawing a Blueprint for Development, Clarifying the Direction of Progress
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that scientifically setting development goals is crucial to formulating and implementing the Five-Year Plan well. The draft "Suggestions" grasps the basic positioning and stage requirements of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period and clarifies the main goals of economic and social development.
Liu Xiaoguang (刘晓光), Vice President of the National Academy of Development and Strategy, Renmin University of China (中国人民大学国家发展与战略研究院), said with deep feeling: "The 'Suggestions' highlight economic construction as the center, continue to determine promoting high-quality development as the theme of economic and social development during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, and take benefiting the people as the fundamental value orientation. We must more deeply understand the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, strengthen research around the content of the 'Suggestions,' and provide strong academic support for the implementation of major strategic deployments."
In the land of Zhejiang (浙江), vitality is surging. In the exhibition hall of Zhejiang Qiangnao Technology Co., Ltd. (浙江强脑科技有限公司), employees wearing intelligent bionic hands flexibly play the piano. The non-invasive brain-computer interface technology developed by the company is expected to help people with disabilities regain their motor abilities.
"The Plenary Session proposed to accelerate high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement to lead the development of new quality productive forces. As an emerging science and technology innovation enterprise, we are very excited," said Han Bicheng (韩璧丞), founder of Qiangnao Technology Co., Ltd. (强脑科技有限公司). "We will deeply study the spirit of the Plenary Session, continue to work hard on improving original innovation capabilities, seize the key core technologies and cutting-edge technologies, promote the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, and let scientific and technological achievements better benefit society."
From emergency rescue to surgical intervention, from intensive care to rehabilitation treatment, various departments closely cooperate to build a solid line of defense for life... In the Haidian North Campus of Peking University Third Hospital (北京大学第三医院海淀北部院区), the "multi-disciplinary joint rapid diagnosis and treatment" model operates efficiently.
"Implement the health-first development strategy" "Promote hierarchical diagnosis and treatment"... Jiang Yu (姜宇), Dean of the hospital, carefully studied the "Suggestions" on accelerating the construction of a healthy China. "This clarifies the path for the high-quality development of the health cause in the next five years. As a medical worker who supported Yan'an (延安) for two years, I deeply realize the grassroots people's expectations for high-level medical care. We will deepen regional linkage, improve the integration of medical prevention, and provide the masses with higher-quality and more efficient health services," said Jiang Yu (姜宇).
New production lines, constant temperature workshops, intelligent manufacturing training centers... The hot production scene has become the norm in the "school-in-factory" of Hunan Industry Polytechnic College (湖南工业职业技术学院). Liao Jingyi (廖静怡), a junior student of the School of Electrical Engineering, and her teammates are debugging the "intelligent inspection robot" they developed. This robot is like the "intelligent doctor" of the factory, which can accurately identify complex information and realize data visualization.
"General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system. My classmates and I are determined to take root in the real economy, apply more of what we have learned to practice, become a highly skilled talent who can solve practical problems, and contribute our youth to accelerating the construction of a manufacturing power," said Liao Jingyi (廖静怡).
Gathering the Strength to Forge Ahead and Create a Better Future
A wave of learning is surging on the campus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学). Teachers and students across the school are deeply studying and understanding the spirit of the Plenary Session through special studies, seminars, and other forms.
"The Plenary Session made specific deployments around 'running education that satisfies the people,' which anchors the coordinates for education work in the new era," said Liu Wei (刘伟), Associate Professor of the School of Marxism, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学马克思主义学院). "I will firmly implement the fundamental task of establishing morality and cultivating people, integrate the spirit of the Plenary Session into teaching and educating people, fully utilize diverse carrier forms such as the main classroom of ideological and political courses, the micro-classroom of theoretical publicity, and the new classroom of digital interpretation, organically combine the cultivation of moral character with the improvement of innovation ability, and help students grow into new people of the era who dare to shoulder the great task of national rejuvenation."
At present, the "Double 11" e-commerce promotion has started. In order to ensure the smooth customs clearance of cross-border goods and help cross-border enterprises expand overseas markets, Qingdao Customs (青岛海关) ensures that goods "clear customs in seconds" and go to the world through a smart supervision model.
The Plenary Session made systematic deployments for "expanding high-level opening to the outside world," which made Che Lidong (车礼东), a senior engineer who is fighting on the front line of port supervision and Director of the Technology Center of Qingdao Customs (青岛海关技术中心), more motivated: "General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has repeatedly emphasized that 'China's door to opening up will not be closed, but will only open wider and wider.' During the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, we must further focus on the needs of foreign trade development, comprehensively research and apply artificial intelligence, data mining, and intelligent equipment technology, upgrade the level of customs supervision and service with technological innovation, continuously expand international cooperation space, and inject new impetus into high-level opening up."
As one of China's "new three items" for cultural exports, online literature has become a global trendsetter in popular culture. China Literature Group (阅文集团) has launched tens of thousands of Chinese online novels overseas, covering readers in more than 200 countries and regions, and is constantly expanding its path to overseas markets.
"'The Suggestions' clearly put forward 'prospering new mass literature under the conditions of the Internet' and 'encouraging more cultural enterprises and excellent cultural products to go to the world,' which allows us to see broad development prospects," said Hou Xiaonan (侯晓楠), CEO and President of China Literature Group (阅文集团), with excitement. "We will implement the deployments of the Plenary Session, adhere to the strategy of high-quality content, strengthen the systematic development of IP, help creators tell Chinese stories well and spread Chinese voices well, promote content to 'go out' and 'go in,' and continuously enhance the communication power and influence of Chinese civilization."
In the relay race of building a strong country and national rejuvenation, contemporary youth shoulder a crucial role.
"The grand blueprint of the '15th Five-Year Plan' drawn by the Plenary Session is slowly unfolding. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that realizing socialist modernization is a historical process of step-by-step progress and continuous development, which requires unremitting efforts and continuous struggle," said Zeng Xinyi (曾昕毅), an undergraduate student of the School of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University (兰州大学), with a deep sense of responsibility. "I will take the spirit of the Plenary Session as a guide, integrate personal ideals into the great cause of national development, aim at problems such as climate change prediction and environmental pollution prevention, concentrate on research and hone my skills, write papers on the land of the motherland, and strive to write a youthful chapter of courage and responsibility."
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), October 31)
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Next year, China will host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) for the third time, which reflects China's high regard for and sense of responsibility towards Asia-Pacific cooperation. China will follow the trend of the times, listen to the voices of all members, work with all parties to build an Asia-Pacific community, and inject new impetus into peace and development in the Asia-Pacific and the world. On the afternoon of October 31 local time, President Xi Jinping (习近平) delivered a written speech at the APEC CEO Summit held in Gyeongju, South Korea, sincerely inviting all parties to gather in China next year to jointly celebrate the grand event.
After 12 years, China will host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) for the third time. All parties expect China to further promote Asia-Pacific cooperation, create practical cooperation results in various fields, advance the building of an Asia-Pacific community and a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP), and make new contributions to economic growth in the Asia-Pacific and the world.
China's Solid Actions Rooted in the Asia-Pacific, Building the Asia-Pacific, and Benefiting the Asia-Pacific
"APEC was founded in response to the wave of economic globalization, with the goal of promoting trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, and supporting economic growth and prosperity," President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized in his written speech at the APEC CEO Summit, regarding the original aspiration of establishing APEC.
Since joining APEC more than 30 years ago, China has not only been an important participant and contributor, but also an active advocate and leader.
On Yanqi Island (雁栖岛) in Beijing (北京), a pine forest called "APEC Partnership Forest" is lush and green, among which the most eye-catching are the 21 lacebark pines representing APEC members. These lacebark pines were planted by President Xi Jinping (习近平) together with leaders or representatives of APEC economies during the 22nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in 2014, with the hope that APEC members will develop together, grow together, and progress together.
"Promoting regional economic integration," "promoting economic innovation, development, reform and growth," and "strengthening comprehensive infrastructure and connectivity construction" - the three major topics proposed by China at the APEC Beijing (北京) meeting accurately responded to the concerns of all parties in the Asia-Pacific regarding the present and the future. During the meeting, a "Strengthening Connectivity Partnership" host partner dialogue was also held. At the meeting, President Xi Jinping (习近平) used the story of "The Foolish Old Man Who Removed the Mountains" (愚公移山) to elaborate on the importance of connectivity and firmly promote confidence in promoting connectivity. The meeting approved the "APEC Connectivity Blueprint (2015-2025)," outlining the vision for all members to deepen cooperation and take off together before 2025.
Today, members are taking the 10th anniversary of the implementation of the "APEC Connectivity Blueprint (2015-2025)" as an opportunity to continuously solidify and refine hard connectivity, soft connectivity, and heart connectivity, and further consolidate the foundation for open development in the Asia-Pacific region. Carlos Calvo, Chairman of the Mexico-China Chamber of Commerce, believes that connectivity can greatly consolidate the foundation for long-term economic prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region, and various initiatives to strengthen connectivity demonstrate the ambition of regional members to break down barriers to cooperation and promote economic integration.
Julia Torreblanca, the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) representative from Peru, was deeply impressed by her trip to China in 2014. She said that the APEC Beijing (北京) meeting made a major decision to launch the FTAAP process, and China, as the host, promoted the approval of the "APEC Roadmap for Promoting the Realization of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific," laying the foundation for deepening the regional economic integration process. Then-Chilean President Michelle Bachelet (巴切莱特) said that the FTAAP will promote economic integration, and the construction of a multilateral trading system will bring more open and free trade, and achieve sustainable and inclusive development.
Taking Yanqi Lake (雁栖湖) as a new starting point, from promoting the realization of the FTAAP roadmap to strengthening comprehensive infrastructure and connectivity construction, all parties worked together to write a new vision for Asia-Pacific development, leaving a strong mark on the APEC development process. The APEC Beijing (北京) meeting led the world economy to "fly in formation like wild geese," witnessing China's solid actions rooted in the Asia-Pacific, building the Asia-Pacific, and benefiting the Asia-Pacific.
Providing New Opportunities for the Asia-Pacific and the World with New Achievements in Chinese-style Modernization
Not long ago, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) adopted the proposal on formulating the "15th Five-Year Plan." On the morning of October 31, President Xi Jinping (习近平) stated at the first phase meeting of the 32nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting: "China will take this as an opportunity to further comprehensively deepen reforms, unswervingly expand high-level opening up, and continuously provide new opportunities for the Asia-Pacific and the world with new achievements in Chinese-style modernization."
The APEC stage conveys the development story of China's reform and opening up. In January of this year, Malaysia and Singapore officially signed the "Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone Agreement." Government officials from both countries have visited Shenzhen (深圳) many times, hoping to "replicate" the success of Shenzhen (深圳) in Southeast Asia. Looking at the Asia-Pacific, China's development experience is providing useful references for the construction of various countries. Batch after batch of visiting Asia-Pacific partners come to China to "learn from experience" and seek the secret to the success of Chinese-style modernization. The success of China's reform and opening up is not only China's, but also the Asia-Pacific's and the world's.
The APEC stage records China's efforts to adhere to green development. "I hope and believe that through unremitting efforts, APEC Blue can be maintained," President Xi Jinping (习近平) mentioned the popular term "APEC Blue" created by netizens in 2014. Eleven years later, blue skies have become the norm in China. China has not only built the world's largest and fastest-growing renewable energy system and the world's largest and most complete new energy industry chain, but has also become the fastest and largest country in "increasing green" by contributing 1/4 of the world's new green area. At the same time, from leading the implementation of the "Bangkok Goals on Bio-Circular-Green Economy" to promoting the East Coast Rail Link project in Malaysia to become the "green spine" of the Malay Peninsula, and to the construction of the Cirata Floating Photovoltaic Power Plant project in Indonesia to provide clean electricity to approximately 50,000 local households... China's green development has injected strong "green power" into the development of the Asia-Pacific region.
The APEC stage witnesses the deep concern for people's livelihood of the Chinese government. "**一切改革归根结底都是为了人民，是为了让老百姓过上好日子。**" (yī qiē gǎi gé guī gēn jié dǐ dōu shì wèi le rén mín, shì wèi le ràng lǎo bǎi xìng guò shàng hǎo rì zi - "All reforms ultimately serve the people, to enable the people to live a good life," meaning that the fundamental purpose of all reforms is to improve the lives of the people.) This original aspiration has never changed. China advocates taking the path of people-oriented economic globalization with more balanced development and more equal opportunities, so that different countries, different classes, and different groups can share the fruits of development. From creating a poverty reduction miracle of "leaving no household or person behind" to continuously optimizing the regional coordinated development strategy; from adhering to education first and employment first to building the world's largest education system, social security system, and healthcare system; from the completion of the permanent demonstration base of the Juncao and upland rice project in Papua New Guinea to the greenhouse planting technology enabling Jinhua Village (金花村) in Vientiane Province (万象省), Laos (老挝) to find a new way to get rich... The Chinese government takes realizing the people's yearning for a better life as the starting point and end result of Chinese-style modernization, and actively promotes the joint construction of an inclusive and open Asia-Pacific economy, so that more countries and more people can share the fruits of development.
Adhering to APEC's original intention of promoting economic growth and enhancing people's well-being, and adhering to sharing opportunities and achieving win-win results in open development. Looking forward to the future, China will continue to promote APEC to lead the Asia-Pacific region to the forefront of global open development, and help the Asia-Pacific become the most dynamic region in the global economy.
Gathering Strong Synergy to Create a Better Future for the Asia-Pacific and the World
"2026 is a crucial year for APEC and Asia-Pacific regional cooperation, and we look forward to China successfully hosting the APEC meeting." "APEC is entering 'China Time,' which will attract more international people to visit China, witness the rapid changes in China with their own eyes, and witness China's development opportunities up close." Inside and outside this year's APEC venue, many participants, like Brett O'Riley, the New Zealand representative of the APEC Business Advisory Council, are full of expectations for the relevant arrangements for China to host APEC in 2026.
In the past 10 years, Chile's exports of fresh fruit to China have continued to grow. Iván Marambio, Chairman of the Chilean Fruit Exporters Association, said that APEC members should strengthen cooperation, eliminate trade barriers, create a diversified trade pattern, and promote investment and technology flow. "We believe that next year, as the host, China will continue to adhere to high-level opening up, promote sustainable development, and make greater contributions to promoting inclusive economic globalization and building an Asia-Pacific community."
"APEC should become a bridge to improve global governance and promote the coordinated development of the economies of its members. We also hope to strengthen cooperation with China to promote and deepen Mexico-China economic and trade exchanges," said Ricardo, President of Mexico's Ampro Import and Export Co., Ltd., believing that China as the host will inject new impetus into Asia-Pacific regional cooperation. Jeon Byeong-seo, Director of the Korea-China Economic and Financial Research Institute, said that China's hosting of APEC in 2026 will create a new era for Asia-Pacific development, "We look forward to China promoting APEC members to strengthen high-level cooperation with digital, green, and innovation as keywords, and helping Asia-Pacific cooperation reach a new level."
Looking forward to next year's APEC meeting, Xu Peng, co-chairman of the 2023 APEC Organizing Committee and chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mei Bao Group, is full of confidence, "China is a major world economy with a super-large market and development potential. We look forward to China, as the host next year, further driving the development of the Asia-Pacific region in fields such as artificial intelligence and the digital economy, and contributing more wisdom and solutions to the world's economic development." Li Renliang, Associate Professor at the National Institute of Development Administration of Thailand, said that he believes that next year's meeting will further strengthen APEC member cooperation and stimulate new impetus for economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region, "We look forward to China hosting the 2026 APEC meeting, working with all parties to implement the 2040 Putrajaya Vision, promoting Asia-Pacific prosperity, and benefiting the people of the Asia-Pacific."
Looking forward to China, gathering in China again. China, as the host of APEC in 2026, will surely further gather the wisdom of all parties, jointly promote Asia-Pacific growth and prosperity, and gather strong synergy to create a better future for the Asia-Pacific and the world.
(Reporters Chen Yiming (陈一鸣), Zhang Zhiwen (张志文), Xie Jianing (谢佳宁), Chen Shangwen (陈尚文), and Cao Shiyun (曹师韵) of this newspaper participated in the writing)
Return to TopA China that is steadfast in promoting high-quality development and expanding high-level opening up will surely write a new chapter of mutual integration and mutual achievement with the Asia-Pacific and the world.
On October 31st, local time, President Xi Jinping (习近平) delivered a written speech at the APEC CEO Summit held in Gyeongju, South Korea. He put forward China's proposals on how to better leverage the leading role of the Asia-Pacific and promote world development and prosperity under the current situation, conveyed to the international community China's firm confidence in promoting high-quality economic development and bringing new impetus and new opportunities to the world with China's new development, and drew a blueprint for jointly promoting Asia-Pacific growth and prosperity and creating a better future for the Asia-Pacific and the world.
APEC was founded in response to the wave of economic globalization, with the goal of promoting trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, and supporting economic growth and prosperity. Over the past 30 years, APEC has led the Asia-Pacific region to the forefront of global opening up, helped the Asia-Pacific region maintain strong economic growth, and become the most dynamic and dynamic engine of the global economy. This fully proves that open cooperation and integrated development are the only way for the Asia-Pacific region to jointly meet challenges and create a future together. At present, the international situation is intertwined with changes and chaos, and the world is standing at a new crossroads. All parties should show foresight and responsibility, adhere to multilateralism, openness and inclusiveness, gather the joint force of unity and cooperation, mutual benefit and win-win results, and make choices that meet the expectations of the Asia-Pacific people and stand the test of history.
President Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly understands the general trend of regional development and the trend of the times, emphasizing that all parties in APEC should revisit their original aspirations and make outstanding contributions to the world through more dynamic and resilient Asia-Pacific cooperation. In this regard, President Xi Jinping (习近平) put forward four proposals: taking the lead in maintaining peace and stability, taking the lead in implementing open integration, taking the lead in adhering to cooperation and win-win results, and taking the lead in promoting inclusive benefits, which pointed out the direction for better leveraging the leading role of the Asia-Pacific and jointly promoting world development and prosperity. Maintaining peace and stability is the only way to consolidate the foundation for common development and create a good environment for Asia-Pacific development; implementing open integration is the only way to maintain the stability and smooth flow of the global industrial chain and supply chain, and continuously inject Asia-Pacific impetus into global economic growth; adhering to cooperation and win-win results is the only way to promote complementary advantages and jointly expand the Asia-Pacific cooperation cake; promoting inclusive benefits is the only way to better bridge the development gap and promote common prosperity for all people in the Asia-Pacific. The four proposals clearly outline the practical path for building an Asia-Pacific community with a shared future that is open, inclusive, innovative, interconnected, and mutually beneficial.
China is a responsible member of the Asia-Pacific family, and continues to bring more stability and certainty to the Asia-Pacific and the world economy with its own new development. Over the years, China has been a major contributor to world economic growth. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's economy achieved an average growth rate of about 5.5%, and its contribution rate to global economic growth remained stable at about 30%. China's economy has a solid foundation for sound operation, a large market space, and good growth expectations, which can provide more development opportunities for the global business community. China's green, digital, and intelligent industries are accelerating their development, providing a broad innovation stage for the global business community. Facts have proved that China is an ideal, safe, and promising investment destination for the global business community. "Walking with China is walking with opportunities" has long become a universal consensus in the international community. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee reviewed and approved the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal, making strategic plans for China's development in the next five years. China will resolutely promote high-level opening up, further relax market access, and continuously optimize the business environment. A China that is steadfast in promoting high-quality development and expanding high-level opening up will surely write a new chapter of mutual integration and mutual achievement with the Asia-Pacific and the world.
Next year, China will host APEC for the third time, which reflects China's high attention and responsibility to Asia-Pacific cooperation. From proposing the "Belt and Road" initiative to proposing and actively practicing the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, China has always been a maintainer of the current international order and a practitioner of true multilateralism, contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to solving outstanding problems in the world today. China will take the opportunity of hosting APEC in 2026 to gather wisdom and strength, and build an Asia-Pacific community with all parties, injecting new impetus into peace and development in the Asia-Pacific and even the world.
Where the heart is, the road must not be far away. China will work with all parties to deepen cooperation in openness, achieve development in inclusiveness, jointly promote prosperity and win-win future, and work together to build a community with a shared future for mankind.
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Netizen: The World Meteorological Organization's recent "Greenhouse Gas Bulletin" shows that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations reached a record high in 2024. What technological means can be used to address this issue and slow down global warming?
Editor: The Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed "taking carbon peaking and carbon neutrality as the lead, and synergistically promoting carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth, building a solid ecological security barrier, and enhancing the driving force for green development." The China Association for Science and Technology's top ten engineering and technical challenges include "a new generation of low-energy and low-cost carbon capture and storage technology." In this issue, we invited Gao Shiwang (郜时旺), Deputy Chief Engineer of China Huaneng Group Clean Energy Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd. (中国华能集团清洁能源技术研究院有限公司), to introduce the development status of this technology and look forward to its application prospects.
"Capturing" carbon dioxide for utilization or storage helps the Earth effectively "cool down."
CCUS (Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage) refers to the process of separating carbon dioxide from industrial production, energy utilization processes, or the atmosphere and utilizing it, or injecting it underground to achieve permanent emission reduction.
Fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas are the material basis for the rapid economic and social development. However, the greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide released during their utilization are the main cause of global climate change. Since this summer, temperatures in many parts of the world have broken records, and extreme weather events have occurred frequently. Stopping the Earth's "warming button" is imminent.
How can we effectively "cool down" the Earth while ensuring energy security and economic development?
CCUS technology is taking on the important task of "carbon catcher." This technology can "capture" carbon dioxide from industrial chimneys and power plant exhaust, or convert it into green products for reuse, or "package and store" it underground.
Developing this technology can solve immediate problems: significantly reducing large point source emissions in the short to medium term and ensuring the stable transition of the energy system; it can also alleviate long-term concerns: the derived negative carbon emission technology provides technical support for achieving the carbon neutrality goal.
Why is the seemingly magical "carbon catcher" not easy to promote and apply?
To apply CCUS technology, the first step is to capture the emitted carbon dioxide. The focus of this step is the carbon dioxide absorbent. In the flue gas emitted during the production processes of electricity, cement, steel, etc., carbon dioxide only accounts for 10%-20%, which requires an absorbent with high absorption capacity. It is like a magical "sponge," quickly absorbing and "locking" the carbon dioxide in the flue gas. When the absorption reaches a certain level, external force is applied to "squeeze" out the carbon dioxide for subsequent utilization or storage.
There will be many challenges on the road of technological development. The current mainstream "chemical absorption method" consumes a lot of energy and the cost is also high. The current carbon capture cost of low-concentration flue gas in China is 250-450 yuan/ton, and the total cost can reach 350-600 yuan/ton including transportation and storage. In addition, most storage projects in the world have been applied for a short time, and the safety of long-term storage needs further verification.
Under the global carbon neutrality wave, CCUS technology is receiving increasing attention. To unleash the potential of CCUS technology, we must equip the "carbon catcher" with a stronger and more efficient "green engine" - a new generation of low-energy and low-cost carbon capture and storage technology, which greatly reduces energy consumption in the capture stage and deeply explores value in the utilization stage, so that CCUS technology can truly become a powerful tool for energy conservation and carbon reduction.
China's new generation of CCUS technology is constantly maturing and moving towards the world stage.
In the past nearly 20 years, China has embarked on a breakthrough path from follower to leader, creating a number of world firsts and providing Chinese experience for the new generation of CCUS technology.
Artificial intelligence empowers and breaks through core materials. With the help of the "high computing power + robot" automation platform, the development speed and hit rate of absorbents have been greatly improved through machine high-speed screening and algorithm rapid iteration. The new two-phase carbon dioxide absorbent breaks through the bottleneck that liquid materials need to be heated as a whole. The solution after absorbing carbon dioxide will automatically separate like oil and water, and the volume of the concentrated "sponge" is reduced by half, saving about 30% of energy compared with traditional methods.
Equipment upgrades to create a "capture weapon." The absorption tower is a "super purifier" for carbon dioxide capture. The Chinese team has developed the world's largest carbon capture scale (1.5 million tons/year) high-throughput, low-pressure drop composite absorption tower and regeneration tower. The capture volume is equivalent to the annual carbon emissions of a 300 MW thermal power unit. In addition, China has also designed the "heart" of carbon dioxide transportation - an eight-stage integral gear multi-shaft centrifugal carbon dioxide compressor that meets the needs of supercritical pipeline transportation. These breakthroughs can not only reduce carbon capture costs, but also fill the gap in China's million-ton-level CCUS technology equipment for thermal power plants.
"Transparent" monitoring to achieve safe storage. By constructing a "transparent carbon storage body" with more than 500,000 grid cells, China has achieved quantitative evaluation and visual presentation of suitable storage areas. Implementing the deepest saline aquifer storage project with the largest single-well scale in China, forming a large-scale safe storage drilling technology system, and developing an "air-space-ground-well" integrated carbon storage monitoring technology.
China has built a number of world's first demonstration devices to promote the development of the CCUS industry through engineering demonstrations and promote the technology to scale and industrialization. In September 2025, the world's largest coal-fired power carbon capture demonstration project was successfully completed 72 hours of trial operation at Huaneng Gansu Zhengning Power Plant (华能甘肃正宁电厂) and officially put into operation, and China's million-ton-level industrial demonstration application of CCUS has reached a new level.
From "first set" to "million-ton level," China's "new generation of low-energy and low-cost carbon capture and storage technology" is constantly maturing. In September 2025, China's first international standard in the field of carbon capture, ISO 27927, was officially released, realizing the leap from technology follower to rule maker.
Policies, markets, technology and other collaborative efforts help new technologies accelerate their implementation.
How can new technologies be accelerated to better play the role of "carbon catcher"?
Policy leadership brings development driving force. The "Opinions on Promoting Green and Low-Carbon Transition and Strengthening the Construction of the National Carbon Market" issued this year proposes to build a more effective, more dynamic, and more internationally influential national carbon market, injecting impetus into the further promotion and application of new technologies.
Infrastructure layout lays a good "first move." For example, priority should be given to building pipeline networks and hub-type storage facilities in industrial agglomeration areas and "source-sink" close-range areas to give play to economies of scale; for cross-regional long-distance transportation, multi-modal transportation solutions such as pipelines and sea transportation should be used.
Technological breakthroughs and innovative cooperation are also indispensable. Multi-party collaborative efforts can open up the entire chain of tackling key problems "from materials to systems, from pilot tests to million-ton-level demonstrations." At the same time, encouraging open international cooperation, strengthening communication and publicity, and popularizing relevant knowledge of new technologies can also provide assistance for the "accelerated running" of new technologies.
In the promotion path, "easy first and then difficult." Priority should be given to the research and large-scale application of low-cost carbon capture technology in industries with high carbon dioxide concentrations and stable and continuous emissions. After the technology matures, it will be promoted to the power and industrial fields with low emission concentrations. Encourage "industrial cluster-style" layout, build a carbon dioxide transportation and storage application platform shared by enterprises in the region, and simplify the complex in the integration of zero into the whole. At the same time, accelerate the localization of key materials and equipment, open up the "bottleneck" links, especially in high-performance membrane materials, adsorption materials, deep formation monitoring sensors, high-pressure carbon dioxide compressor bearings and other aspects to achieve domestic substitution, effectively reducing risks.
Looking back on history, the major leaps in energy technology are the result of the synergistic evolution of materials, processes, engineering and systems. We must not only face the challenges squarely, but also see the hope brought by technological progress. When the new generation of low-cost CCUS technology moves from the experimental field to the main battlefield, from a cost burden to a green asset, technological innovation will safeguard a cleaner and better Earth home for us.
(The author is the Deputy Chief Engineer of China Huaneng Group Clean Energy Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd., interviewed and compiled by Yu Sinan (喻思南), a reporter from this newspaper)
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When dinosaurs are mentioned, everyone is certainly familiar with them. Many people have watched dinosaur-related movies such as "Jurassic Park," many natural history museums have dinosaur fossil exhibits, and many dinosaur toys can be seen in life. How can we further understand dinosaurs?
Dinosaurs are oviparous animals, and to understand dinosaurs, it is necessary to study dinosaur eggs. A large number of dinosaur egg fossils are buried in Qinglong Mountain (青龙山) in the southern Qinling Mountains (秦岭山脉) in China. According to experts, these dinosaur egg fossils number at least 300,000, making them the most concentrated, numerous, and largest fossil group of dinosaur egg fossils discovered in situ in the world to date, and are known as the "Terracotta Army of the Cretaceous." Recently, scientists have detected that these dinosaur egg fossils were formed between 87.65 million and 84.17 million years ago. This is the first time that scientists have accurately determined the age of dinosaur egg fossils.
How to crack the "time code" spanning tens of millions of years? In the past, the "age" of dinosaur egg fossils was mainly determined by "guessing the strata" - looking at which layer of rock it was buried in, and then comparing the strata with known ages in other places, the estimated error could be millions of years. This time, accurate measurement is mainly based on the "carbonate in-situ laser ablation uranium-lead isotope dating method." Simply put, it is to use a laser to ablate the surface of dinosaur egg fossils little by little, and collect the uranium and lead atoms inside. Scientists use lasers to destroy the minerals that make up the fossils, gasifying them into aerosols, and then importing them into a mass spectrometer. Subsequently, the uranium-lead isotope ratio is accurately measured by the instrument, and then the mineral formation time is calculated in reverse according to the isotope decay formula. This technology does not require breaking the dinosaur egg fossils, only taking a little calcite inside, which will not destroy the integrity of the fossils, and can calculate accurate age data.
Under normal circumstances, dinosaur egg fossils only preserve the calcareous eggshell. In special cases, dinosaur egg fossils can also preserve dinosaur embryos, or retain a small amount of eggshell membrane and egg contents. Dinosaur egg fossils contain many secrets, telling the story of life evolution and earth changes. They are scientific materials for studying the prosperity, migration, and extinction of dinosaurs, recording important information such as dinosaur reproductive behavior and physiological characteristics, and also recording relevant information such as the ancient environment and paleoecology during the dinosaur's life, which has advantages that other paleontological fossils do not have.
With the improvement of research methods, scientists have further understanding of the origin and evolution of dinosaur eggshell tissue structure, dinosaur reproduction, and the related issues of the final extinction. For example, in Nanxiong (南雄), Guangdong (广东), scientists have found a large number of dinosaur eggshells with abnormal structure and thickness in the strata of the late Mesozoic (dinosaur era). In these dinosaur eggshells, some have multiple cone layers, some have disordered crystal arrangements, and many are much thinner than normal eggshells. These findings indicate that the reproductive system of dinosaurs has become diseased. In these abnormal eggshells, the content of various heavy metal elements is much higher than normal levels, which may be the culprit for the change in eggshell structure. Some scientists speculate that as the dinosaur era approached its end, some large volcanoes continued to erupt, and various heavy metal elements from the volcanoes polluted the water and the dinosaurs' food. After the dinosaurs ate the contaminated food, they experienced heavy metal poisoning, and could not produce eggs with normal structures, resulting in hatching failure. This is likely to be one of the reasons why dinosaurs gradually went extinct.
(The author is a senior engineer at the Hubei Geological Science Research Institute (湖北省地质科学研究院). This article was compiled by Wu Jun (吴君), a reporter from this newspaper.)
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency, Los Angeles (Reporter Tan Jingjing (谭晶晶)) - Recently, at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics 2025 Annual Meeting held in San Francisco, USA, a Chinese research team released the latest clinical data on a medical device for treating aortic valve regurgitation, demonstrating the innovation, effectiveness, and safety of China's original device.
Wang Jian'an (王建安), Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) and Professor at the Second Affiliated Hospital of the School of Medicine, Zhejiang University (浙江大学医学院附属第二医院), introduced the two-year clinical follow-up data of the "J-VALVE TF Transcatheter Aortic Valve System" for the treatment of aortic valve regurgitation. This valve uses a transvascular approach, and through the collaborative innovation of device design and surgical techniques, it achieves a more minimally invasive treatment of aortic valve regurgitation, with shorter operation times and faster patient recovery.
According to the research team, the "movable positioning component" design in the "J-VALVE TF Valve" effectively solves challenges such as difficult valve anchoring, high incidence of paravalvular leakage, and high incidence of pacemaker implantation in regurgitation lesions.
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Recently, Asia's first electromagnetic ejection microgravity experimental device, developed and constructed by the Space Application Engineering and Technology Center (中国科学院空间应用工程与技术中心) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), has launched a new round of scientific experiments, providing a new path for unraveling some scientific phenomena in a microgravity environment.
Microgravity refers to a state in which the effective gravity in an object's environment is much smaller than the gravity on the Earth's surface, resulting in a near-weightless state. "Many phenomena under microgravity conditions are different from those under normal gravity. For example, under microgravity conditions, we can clearly see that the shape of the flame is ring-shaped, with a circle of light blue around the top periphery," said Wang Zhe (王喆), a senior engineer at the Space Application Engineering and Technology Center (中国科学院空间应用工程与技术中心) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院). The electromagnetic ejection microgravity experimental device simulates a microgravity environment on the ground through electromagnetic ejection, providing a platform for microgravity experiments in different disciplines.
"The working process of the electromagnetic ejection device is like a particularly exciting 'drop tower,' which can eject the experimental module at high speed," said Wang Zhe (王喆). "During this process, the experimental payload will experience a brief microgravity environment, providing an experimental window for researchers."
The tower carrying the electromagnetic ejection microgravity experimental device has an outer tower height of approximately 44 meters and a steel body height of approximately 40 meters. The triangular structure of the steel body extends upward with guide rails, and two rows of red linear motors are clearly visible. In the middle is the experimental module loaded with the experimental payload. "The linear motors in the device provide electromagnetic driving force to vertically eject the experimental module. There are 2 seconds of microgravity time each during the free ascent and descent, and the effective microgravity time can reach 4 seconds. In addition, the device can also simulate low-gravity environments such as the Moon and Mars," said Wang Zhe (王喆). In this way, the gravity environment in space is "moved" to Earth.
"This process is fully controllable. When the experimental module descends, we will reduce the overload of the experimental payload to ensure that the experimental payload is intact," Wang Zhe (王喆) played a recent video of a biological science microgravity experiment, in which six mice injected with drugs in the experimental module were still alive and kicking after 22 microgravity experiments in 2 hours.
Compared with traditional microgravity experimental devices, the electromagnetic ejection microgravity experimental device has greater advantages in terms of micro/low gravity environment simulation accuracy, experimental efficiency, experimental payload strength requirements, and experimental costs. Wang Zhe (王喆) gave an example: "Traditional drop tower devices can only conduct two or three experiments a day, but the electromagnetic ejection microgravity experimental device can start a second experiment within 10 minutes."
A high level of microgravity environment requires extremely high precision of the device. During the construction of the device, the research team focused on overcoming difficulties such as synchronous control of two rows of motors. "If the two rows of motors are not synchronized, the experimental payload will be in a fluctuating state during the experiment, and the microgravity level will be greatly reduced," said Wang Zhe (王喆).
Since the electromagnetic ejection microgravity experimental device started trial operation in July 2023, it has completed more than 300 micro/low gravity experiments in 6 categories, including fluid physics and combustion science.
"Currently, we have connected and plan to carry out more than 1,000 microgravity, lunar gravity, and Martian gravity experiments, providing experimental services for important scientific research projects and technical support for major projects such as manned spaceflight and deep space exploration," Wang Zhe (王喆) is full of confidence in the future application of the device.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch (Reporter Gu Yekai (谷业凯)): At the recent 2025 China National Computer Congress, Sugon (中科曙光) released the OneScience scientific large model one-stop development platform. The platform is designed following the open architecture concept of artificial intelligence computing and relies on Sugon's (曙光) artificial intelligence supercluster domestic computing power. It deeply replicates and integrates dozens of "AI-driven scientific research" hot models and datasets, supporting users in fields such as earth science, bioinformatics, fluid simulation, and materials chemistry to further develop new models, significantly improving model research and optimization efficiency.
As artificial intelligence scientific large models shift from "task-oriented" to "general-purpose," the resulting rapid growth in model parameters leads to a doubling of the "super-intelligence fusion" system performance for training scientific large models every nine months. To meet this challenge, the OneScience platform provides a one-stop development environment for scientific large models, which can integrate scattered models and scientific research scenarios into a unified scientific research intelligent platform, covering the entire process from model training to inference applications in multiple disciplines. The platform also integrates mainstream models, datasets, and toolchains, helping to achieve 开箱即用 (kāi xiāng jí yòng - "out of the box ready to use," ready to use immediately; plug and play).
Currently, the OneScience platform can be downloaded by the industry through multiple community platforms such as the Supercomputing Internet. Scientific large model development-related services have supported several domestic research institutions in achieving efficient full-process development in research such as biomolecular design and meteorology.
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Return to TopFrom September 27th to November 16th, as the spotlight of the 2025 Hengdian Film and Television Festival illuminated the central Zhejiang region, Hengdian Town (横店镇), located in Dongyang City (东阳市), Jinhua City (金华市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), attracted global attention. Starting in 1996 with the construction of the first real-scene base for the film "The Opium War (鸦片战争)," in nearly 30 years, this town, born for film and television, has successively built more than 50 large-scale real-scene shooting bases and more than 130 professional studios, attracting 126,000 film and television practitioners to pursue their dreams here, resulting in a rich and colorful collection of film and television works. Today, Hengdian is breaking through with "vertical screen" transformation, improving quality with technology empowerment, and expanding its boundaries with cultural exports, completing its transformation from a Chinese film and television shooting base to a global cultural innovation hub.
From "Horizontal Screen" to "Vertical Screen": Two-way Empowerment of Scene Innovation and Copyright Protection
Hengdian's transformation began with a keen capture of market demand – as micro-dramas become a new trend in the film and television industry, Hengdian's scenes are extending from the "pavilions and towers" of costume dramas to the "daily life" of modern micro-dramas, opening up an adaptation and upgrade from "horizontal screen" to "vertical screen."
Scene iteration turns "cold resources" into "hot IPs." As early as the start-up stage of the micro-drama industry, Hengdian Huaxia Cultural Park (横店华夏文化园) took the step of scene transformation, re-planning some areas of the ancient costume building complex to create dozens of compact and adapted vertical screen shooting scenes.
Song Street Film and Television Base (宋街影视基地) took out half of its area and specifically planned 9 exclusive spaces that fit the set design characteristics of micro-dramas. Yuanming New Garden Winter Garden (圆明新园冬苑), on the other hand, transformed idle costume scenes into 21 diverse shooting spaces by adding modern props and optimizing lighting. As of the first three quarters of 2025, Hengdian has landed nearly a thousand micro-drama exclusive scenes, receiving more than 2,700 vertical screen crews. The transformation of "Hengdian (横店)" into "Verticaldian" is changing from a joke among netizens to an industry consensus.
At the same time, the rule of law escorts the industrial development and builds a solid foundation. Relying on the country's first exclusive rule of law service hub for the film and television industry – Hengdian Film and Television Industry Rule of Law Center (横店影视业法治中心), it not only realizes the whole process service of social management for practitioners, but also builds a systematic guarantee framework for copyright protection. More than 30,000 film and television practitioners have mastered rights protection knowledge through the actor certificate examination. In response to the "fast-paced, low-cost" characteristics of micro-drama crews, a fast channel for batch cases has been opened to protect the development of the "vertical screen economy."
Deep Integration of "Technology + Film and Television": Reconstructing the Creation Process and Ecology
Inside the underwater special effects shed of Hengdian Film and Television Industrial Park (横店影视产业园), an underwater escape scene is being filmed efficiently – the wave-making pool accurately simulates 0.8-meter waves through 3 fans, more than 500 metal loops on the pool wall fix the wire, and waterproof speakers ensure that the director's instructions are transmitted to the underwater in real time. Compared with the traditional natural water shooting that is easily restricted by weather and water flow, more than 100 kinds of wave effects can be switched with one click here, which not only ensures shooting safety, but also greatly improves shooting efficiency.
Technological innovation reduces costs, increases efficiency, and improves quality in shooting. In 2021, Dongyang (东阳) developed the "Film and Television Cultural Industry Brain (影视文化产业大脑)," and launched application scenarios such as "Hengyingtong (横影通)," "Yunkanjing (云勘景)," and "Zhengqitong (政企通)." "Yunkanjing (云勘景)" uses VR technology to make more than 50 real-scene bases and more than 130 studios into 720-degree panoramic materials, allowing crews to pre-screen more than 60% of the scenes without leaving their homes, greatly improving efficiency. A total of 3 billion yuan was invested to build 29 high-tech studios, among which the 12,000-square-meter single studio relies on virtual shooting technology to realize "post-production pre-positioning" – the special effects scenes that need to be synthesized in post-production by traditional green screen shooting can now be presented in real time through LED screens, and the finished film effect can be previewed on the shooting site.
The full-scene system covers the entire creation process. Hengdian's cooperation with the China Film Science and Technology Research Institute (中国电影科学技术研究所) in the field of digital audio rendering has achieved new breakthroughs. Two new virtual shooting studios are about to be put into use, and together with the existing 29 high-tech studios and underwater studios, they will build a full-scene shooting network of "air + land + underwater." Technology empowerment reduces the cost of film and television production by 10%, and the quality of works has achieved a qualitative leap. The deep integration of "technology + film and television" has changed the traditional shooting mode and injected infinite possibilities into film and television creation.
"Local Production + Global Distribution": Expanding the Overseas Channels for Micro-dramas and Other Cultural Products
In a Western restaurant in Hengdian, a micro-drama aimed at the overseas market is being filmed – two foreign actors are performing a scene, and the crew and shooting scenes are all from Hengdian. With rich scene resources and convenient actor recruitment channels, Hengdian reduces the cost of micro-drama shooting by 60% compared with overseas location shooting. This "local production + global distribution" model is becoming a new path for Chinese film and television to "go global."
Diversified business formats open up new channels for going overseas. In order to break the language and cultural barriers of micro-dramas going overseas, the Hengdian International Short Drama Alliance (横店国际短剧联盟) has formed a translation team covering 12 languages including English and Russian, established a resource library of 10,000 foreign actors, and the developed AI digital management system can realize the entire process of script translation and copyright transaction online. The "Ten Countries Market, Hundred Cities Revitalization, Thousand People Co-creation" plan launched this year has promoted more than 50 micro-dramas to land in overseas mainstream markets.
Full-length dramas also perform well in overseas markets: "The Story of Yanxi Palace (墨雨云间)" has been translated into 7 languages and landed on more than 10 overseas mainstream platforms with its delicate oriental aesthetics, and related topics on TikTok have been played 1.365 billion times; "Joy of Life 2 (庆余年2)" entered the US market through the international promotion channel of the Hengdian Film and Television Festival Wenrong Award (横店影视节文荣奖) and topped the Chinese drama popularity list on the "Disney+" platform.
IP linkage realizes global cultural resonance. Hengdian's cultural export is not only about content output, but also builds an IP linkage ecosystem of online games and film and television, forming a complete ecosystem chain from IP incubation, cross-media production to global distribution, allowing oriental stories to form cultural resonance in the global market. The live-action interactive game "Prosperous World (盛世天下)" deeply combines film and television-level narrative with game interactive experience. The clothing patterns and etiquette rules of the Prosperous Tang Dynasty court in the play are highly restored with the support of the Hengdian Film and Television Costume Library (横店影视服饰库), and virtual shooting technology allows grand scenes to be presented without large-scale set construction. Overseas players spontaneously interpret elements such as tea culture in the play on social platforms, and learn about excellent Chinese traditional culture.
In 30 years of light and shadow, Hengdian, this "film and television dream factory," has continued to grow, starting from a real-scene base built on barren hills, growing into one of the world's largest film and television shooting bases, and then transforming into a film and television industry ecosystem integrating creation, production, and distribution. In the future, more light and shadow stories containing traditional cultural connotations and carrying oriental aesthetics will start from here, cross mountains and seas, and go to the world.
Data source: Dongyang City Rong Media Center (东阳市融媒体中心)
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"’There is the jiumu in the south, with the kudzu vine trailing over it,’ this is from the *Classic of Poetry*. There's actually *Classic of Poetry* among the Dingzhou (定县) bamboo slips!" The Dingzhou (定县) bamboo slips research team was thrilled when interpreting a set of bamboo slip images.
In recent years, the excavation and discovery of bamboo slips have shown a trend of 井喷 (jǐng pēn - "well eruption," a sudden surge or explosive increase), promoting the rapid development of bamboo slip collation and research. The accumulated results are abundant, providing a large amount of reliable data and key evidence for the study of early Chinese civilization and national credible history.
In fact, the condition of bamboo slips when unearthed varies greatly. In addition to the waterlogged bamboo slips unearthed mainly in the Lianghu (两湖) area and the naturally dried bamboo slips unearthed in the Northwest region, which are relatively well-known, there are also some bamboo slips with special circumstances and extremely poor conditions when unearthed, which seriously affect the development of collation and research work. For example, a batch of bamboo slips unearthed in 1973 from the tomb of Liu Xiu (刘修), Prince Huai of Zhongshan (中山怀王), of the Western Han Dynasty in Bajiaolang (八角廊), Dingzhou (定县), Hebei Province (河北省), which the academic community calls "Dingzhou Slips (定县简)," were disturbed and carbonized because the tomb was stolen and burned in its early years. This kind of bamboo slip is called "fire pit slip" or "charred slip," with a black surface that blends with the ink, making the text difficult to identify under visible light. In addition, the bamboo slips are severely damaged, and more than half a century has passed since they were unearthed, and they have not yet been fully collated and published.
As early as June 1974, Liu Laicheng (刘来成), the host of the archaeological excavation of the tomb, sent the Dingzhou Slips (定县简) to the State Administration of Cultural Heritage (国家文物局) for protection and collation. In June 1976, Zhang Zhenglang (张政烺), Li Xueqin (李学勤), Gu Tiefu (顾铁符), Yu Haoliang (于豪亮) and other gentlemen who had participated in the collation of the Mawangdui Silk Texts (马王堆帛书) were invited to participate in the collation of the Dingzhou Slips (定县简). According to the introduction of Mr. Li Xueqin (李学勤) before his death, at that time, under the desk lamp, by adjusting the side view angle of the bamboo slips, it was found that the reflection of the carbonized bamboo material was slightly different from the ink on it, and the text could be barely identified.
The collation work carried out so arduously was forced to stop due to the Tangshan Earthquake (唐山大地震) in July of that year. During the earthquake, the Dingzhou Slips (定县简) were carefully taken care of, but because the wooden boxes containing the slips were placed upside down by unknowing maintenance workers after the transfer and sealing, the bamboo slips were scattered again and suffered secondary damage.
In 1979, the original collators began to re-sort and number the bamboo slips. Zhang Shouzhong (张守中) of the Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics (河北省文物研究所) participated in it and made copies of some of the better-preserved bamboo slips, which was the most effective way to record this batch of bamboo slips at that time. In April of the following year, the Dingzhou Han Tomb Bamboo Slips Collation Team (定县汉墓竹简整理小组) was established under the auspices of the Ancient Literature Research Office of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage (国家文物局古文献研究室), and collated eight kinds of rare and unprecedented documents, including the *Analects* (《论语》), which was regarded as a Confucian classic, the *Wenzi* (《文子》), which was once regarded as a pseudo-book, the *Taigong* (《太公》) (or *Six Secret Teachings* (《六韬》)), and the full record of the Six'an King (六安王) attending the court meeting in the first month of the second year of Wufeng (五凤) (56 BC). The main participants in the collation work during this period were Liu Laicheng (刘来成), Hu Shaoheng (胡绍衡), Liu Shishu (刘世枢), He Zhigang (何直刚) and other gentlemen.
In August 1995, Liu Laicheng (刘来成), Han Lisen (韩立森) and other gentlemen established a collation team again, and successively published the interpretations of *Wenzi* (《文子》), *Six Secret Teachings* (《六韬》), and *Analects* (《论语》). During this period, the Dingzhou Slips (定县简) were transferred back to Shijiazhuang (石家庄) and housed in the Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics (河北省文物研究所).
The content of the Dingzhou Slips (定县简) is mostly important ancient classics, which have great academic value. Since their excavation, they have always attracted the attention of academic circles at home and abroad. The bamboo slips are continuously aging and decomposing, and the rescue protection and collation work is becoming increasingly urgent.
In 2019, Zhang Wenrui (张文瑞) and Mao Baozhong (毛保中), researchers of the Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology (河北省文物考古研究院) (formerly the Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics (河北省文物研究所)), jointly with the Center for Research and Conservation of Excavated Texts of Tsinghua University (清华大学出土文献研究与保护中心), the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage (中国文化遗产研究院), and the Jingzhou Cultural Relics Protection Center of Hubei Province (湖北省荆州文物保护中心), carried out a new round of protection and restoration, image information collection, and collation research of the Dingzhou Slips (定县简).
This collation involved multi-disciplinary joint research. The bamboo slip protection team led by Fang Beisong (方北松), a researcher at the Jingzhou Cultural Relics Protection Center (荆州文物保护中心), took classified samples according to the material morphological characteristics of the carbonized bamboo slips, and conducted microscopic observation, mechanical experiments, crystallinity calculation, and spectral analysis on them. At the same time, experiments were carried out on flat bamboo slips and deformed bamboo slips respectively, and a reinforcement and restoration technology for carbonized bamboo slips was developed.
The biggest difficulty in the past collation of Dingzhou Slips (定县简) was the inability to collect images that could identify the text. The team of Tsinghua University (清华大学) undertook this task. In the early stage of the work, the author and researchers Liu Shaogang (刘少刚), Zheng Ziliang (郑子良), and Yang Xiaoliang (杨小亮) went to Shijiazhuang (石家庄) many times to investigate the current situation of the bamboo slips, and visited Mr. Zhang Shouzhong (张守中), who made copies of the Dingzhou Slips (定县简) in those years, to learn more about the characteristics of the bamboo slips and the collation situation in those years. According to the spectral characteristics of the ink on the carbonized bamboo slips, we finally selected the technical route of multi-spectral information acquisition. After more than half a year of experiments, we designed a set of equipment specifically for the characteristics of the Dingzhou Slips (定县简) and capable of batch image information acquisition, successfully overcoming the key difficulties in the collation of the Dingzhou Slips (定县简). When the collected image photos were presented to Mr. Zhang Shouzhong (张守中), who was 90 years old, he said excitedly: "The words that I couldn't see clearly when I made the copies are now all out!"
More than 50 years have passed since the Dingzhou Slips (定县简) were unearthed, and the collation work has experienced "three ups and three downs." The collators in each stage have devoted a lot of effort to it. In addition, the current situation of the bamboo slips has changed greatly compared with when they were unearthed, so the collation results in each stage have irreplaceable value. This re-collation, the research team attaches great importance to collecting and collating first-hand materials such as copies and interpretation cards made by the original collators, and thoroughly combing the relevant academic history, which can not only comprehensively reflect the process of the Dingzhou Slips (定县简) collation work, but also inherit and scientifically utilize the existing research results.
After more than 5 years of unremitting efforts, the research has achieved a series of breakthrough results. On November 1, 2024, the achievement release and academic symposium of *Selected Bamboo Slips from the Han Tomb at Bajiaolang, Dingzhou* (《定县八角廊汉墓竹简选粹》) was held and broadcast live to the world. The selection includes wide-area images of the Dingzhou Slips (定县简), 2.5x magnified images, and interpretation cards from the initial collation, revealing the "black veil" of the Dingzhou Slips (定县简) to the academic community for the first time. Professor Huang Dekuan (黄德宽) of Tsinghua University (清华大学) and other experts present unanimously believed that the wide-area image acquisition technology revealed the true appearance of this batch of carbonized bamboo slips, and the included interpretation cards made the hard work of several generations of scholars not be buried. This is the inheritance and innovation of this collation work, and it is also a successful example of multi-disciplinary joint research and organized scientific research.
Currently, the straightening of deformed carbonized bamboo slips, the deep processing of wide-area images, and the interpretation, joining, and restoration of bamboo slips using new images are still in progress.
(Author's affiliation: Center for Research and Conservation of Excavated Texts of Tsinghua University (清华大学出土文献研究与保护中心))
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"The enemy is bombing, but we are still in class!" This slogan, carved on the wall of Qixing (Seven Star) Cave in Guilin (桂林市), Guangxi (广西), transcends time and still shocks people today.
"Mountains within the cave, caves within the mountains," Guilin (桂林), renowned for its unparalleled beauty, boasts over 3,000 karst caves, providing natural shelter for people during wartime. Qixing (Seven Star) Cave, located on the mountainside west of East Putuo Mountain (东普陀山), is now a famous tourist attraction. During past Guilin Art Festivals, it also served as a lively and unique "cave theater."
After the fall of Wuhan (武汉) and Guangzhou (广州) in October 1938, refugees from all directions flocked to Guilin (桂林) along the Xiang-Gui Railway (湘桂铁路). By the time of the Great Evacuation of Guilin (桂林) in 1944, the population of Guilin (桂林) had soared from 70,000 before the war to over 500,000. In those few years, Guilin (桂林) became a hub for intellectuals, with an unprecedented boom in the publishing and printing industries, and an unprecedented surge in cultural groups and activities, making it one of the cultural centers of the Great Rear Area, and earning it the reputation of "City of Culture."
"Save, save, save China, let's move forward together..." At that time, Guilin (桂林) was one of the key targets for enemy bombing. Before and after air raids, a group of children would sing with their heads held high, and the adults watching could not help but burst into tears. The sound of singing in the caves shook the sky, which was a common scene at the time.
In the face of the bloody invasion by Japanese imperialists, children grew up quickly. Famous children's groups such as the New Life Traveling Troupe (新安旅行团) (hereinafter referred to as "Xinlv (新旅)"), the Children's Theater Troupe, the Xiamen Children's Theater Troupe, and the Guangzhou Children's Theater Troupe all came to Guilin (桂林) one after another. Among them, Xinlv (新旅), organized and led by our Party to promote the anti-Japanese cause, was a leader in the children's movement in Guilin (桂林). In addition to going deep into theaters, churches and other places to promote progressive ideas through 快板 (kuàibǎn - clapper talk) and folk songs, the children of Xinlv (新旅) also followed the advice of educator Tao Xingzhi (陶行知) and took advantage of the opportunity for ordinary people to enter the caves to avoid enemy air raids to carry out "cave education." The content of cave education was rich and diverse, including telling about the anti-Japanese situation and stories, teaching anti-Japanese songs, performing living newspapers and telling 快板 (kuàibǎn - clapper talk), explaining air raid common sense, running cave libraries, acting as "little teachers" to teach literacy, and writing letters for the people... In less than three years in Guilin (桂林), Xinlv (新旅) organized and united many children's groups from all over the country.
Today, on Jiefang West Road (解放西路) in Xiufeng District (秀峰区), there is a red-walled and gray-tiled Western-style building – the Guangxi Provincial Art Museum (广西省立艺术馆). This is an important place for Guilin's (桂林) cultural resistance and has been listed as the eighth batch of national key cultural relics protection units. In 2024, the 80th anniversary of the Southwest Drama Exhibition and the 8th National Excellent Drama Performance will be held, and the art museum is one of the important performance venues. Many practitioners spontaneously came to the art museum to offer flowers to pioneers such as Ouyang Yuqian (欧阳予倩) and to pay tribute to the magnificent history.
During the entire Anti-Japanese War, according to incomplete statistics, nearly 200 bookstores and publishing houses and more than 100 various literary and artistic institutions emerged in Guilin (桂林), as well as more than 10 theaters and cinemas. These cultural groups and literary and artistic teams frequently carried out various cultural activities, such as report meetings (lectures), seminars, research conferences, exhibitions, concerts, drama performances, and street publicity, which were very active. Before the Southern Anhui Incident (皖南事变), there were almost weekly current affairs or academic report meetings, as well as concerts and literary and art evenings, new plays were staged every month, and new exhibitions could be seen every season. This grand occasion reached its climax during the first Southwest Drama Exhibition in the spring of 1944.
Watching plays was the mainstream form of entertainment at that time. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the Gui Clique warlords, in order to amass wealth from the people, established so-called "fund-raising companies" and opened opium dens and casinos, using plays to attract opium addicts and gamblers, and "gambling plays" were very popular. "We must never allow the old plays, which have the majority of the audience, to have nothing to do with the War of Resistance." Invited to preside over the reform of Guiju Opera (桂剧), Ouyang Yuqian's (欧阳予倩) three most influential plays, "Liang Hongyu (梁红玉)," "Mulan Joins the Army (木兰从军)," and "The Peach Blossom Fan (桃花扇)," were successively released. Thanks to the efforts of Ouyang Yuqian (欧阳予倩) and countless other art workers, drama was continuously tempered in the flames of war, playing a role in shaping people's character and inspiring the people to rise up in resistance.
In February 1944, early spring in Guilin (桂林) was gloomy and humid. Many drama people from all directions pulled carts, props, and costumes, and walked all the way to Guilin (桂林) with a pilgrimage mentality, just to go to an appointment called the "Southwest Drama Exhibition."
At 3 pm on February 15, the first Southwest Drama Exhibition grandly opened in the new theater of the art museum. At the opening ceremony, Tian Han (田汉), a member of the preparatory committee, sadly took out a list to mourn the drama workers who had sacrificed in the War of Resistance. The drama people in the audience could not help but shed tears. "Strive for victory in the War of Resistance against Japan, and oppose all divisive acts and actions that cancel drama's service to the War of Resistance." This was one of the requirements of the conference's "Declaration" for drama work.
"The drama soldiers are magnificent and unique in China, and they ask for long tassels in the song." "The crowing of chickens is as bitter as the cry of cuckoos, only because the East is not easy to understand." Tian Han (田汉) wrote this in "Celebrating the Southwest Drama Exhibition and Mourning the Martyrs of Drama." Under extremely difficult conditions, more than a thousand drama workers from eight provinces in the southwest summarized the achievements of the drama movement since the War of Resistance and the experience of literary and artistic resistance over a period of more than three months, and made full preparations for welcoming the victory of the War of Resistance and new struggles.
This year's Guilin Art Festival, Qixing (Seven Star) Cave once again welcomes many drama enthusiasts. The relics of cultural resistance still nourish the cultural heritage of this city.
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China's *ding* (鼎), or ancient cooking vessel, first appeared in the upper reaches of the Huai River. The pottery *ding* from the Jiahu Site (贾湖遗址) in Wuyang, Henan (河南舞阳) more than 8,000 years ago not only pioneered a new style, but also gradually became popular in the Shuangdun (双墩) and Beixin Cultures (北辛文化) in the middle and lower reaches of the Huai River six to seven thousand years ago, following the large-scale expansion of the Peiligang Culture (裴李岗文化). It then swept across the entire Huai River basin, spreading to North China and Southeast China, forming a *ding* cultural circle covering half of eastern China.
The Jiahu bone flute (贾湖骨笛), dating back more than 8,000 years, has accurately calculated sound hole positions. From the early two-hole, five-hole, and six-hole flutes to the later seven-hole and eight-hole flutes, the scales also developed from four-tone and five-tone scales to seven-tone scales. The development sequence is complete, making it China's earliest wind instrument.
Many other cultural elements pioneered in the Huai River basin also had a wide and profound impact. Turquoise was widely used as an ornament more than 8,000 years ago, and has been passed down from the Jiahu (贾湖) and XinZheng Peiligang (新郑裴李岗) sites in the upper reaches to the Sihong Shunshanji Site (泗洪顺山集遗址) in the lower reaches. Until the Dawenkou Culture (大汶口文化) period around 5,000 years ago, the Huai River basin became a key area for the use of turquoise in ancient times. During the Erlitou Culture (二里头文化) period, turquoise became an important ritual item for the early kingdoms.
Agriculture in the Huai River basin has the characteristics of both the north and the south. Rice farming developed earlier than 8,000 years ago. More rice remains have been found in the Jiahu (贾湖) in the upper reaches and the Shunshanji (顺山集) sites in the lower reaches. Traces possibly related to rice paddies have also been found at the Sihong Han Jing Site (泗洪韩井遗址). Dryland (millet) agriculture also appeared almost simultaneously. The Zhengzhou Tanghu Site (郑州唐户遗址) belongs to the millet and rice mixed farming model. Due to its geographical location, the Huai River basin became the core area in China to widely adopt millet and rice mixed farming, and it was also an important link in the southward spread of dryland agriculture in the north. The Jiahu people also domesticated China's earliest domestic pigs. Since then, domestic pigs have become one of the main sources of meat in various places.
Around 5,000 years ago, the red-burned soil connected row houses from the middle reaches of the Han River profoundly influenced the Huai River basin and were quickly absorbed. Ground red-burned soil connected row houses, along with the semi-subterranean single row houses that have long been popular in the north, and the unique stilt-style connected row houses in the south, became the three most important row house forms in prehistoric China. The Huai River basin was not the origin of ground connected row houses, but its widespread use and promotion more than 4,000 years ago profoundly influenced the pattern of large-scale buildings in the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties.
The custom of using turtles also originated in the Huai River basin and has been circulating here for a long time. As early as the Jiahu Site (贾湖遗址), people discovered a large number of phenomena of burying real turtles as funerary objects. Some pebbles were also attached to the inside of the turtle shells. By the Dawenkou Culture (大汶口文化) period, this custom became popular again. Bone needles, awls, etc. were often attached to the inside of the turtle shells, forming a relatively stable turtle divination ritual, which influenced the north and south. By the Shang and Zhou dynasties, turtle divination and bone divination together became an important way for ancient ancestors to observe omens and divine good and bad luck, and the custom has been passed down for thousands of years.
The ancient culture of the Huai River basin is a unique cultural system in eastern China. It is a bridge for cultural exchanges between the north and the south and the main body of east-west interaction, and it has played a very important role in promoting the formation of a larger regional cultural community. Re-examining the once brilliant cultural innovations and magnificent cultural interactions here will help to better understand the formation process of Chinese civilization from diversity to unity.
(The author is a professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China)
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As maple leaves dye the riversides and mountains in fiery hues, the Yangtze River (长江) basin quietly dons its autumnal attire. This land is not only imbued with the magnificent poetic imagery of "a lone sail's distant shadow vanishes into the blue, all that's seen is the Yangtze flowing to the sky's end," but also, over the long river of time, has accumulated countless cultural relics that carry the memories of autumn. They are like glittering stars, scattered in every corner of the Yangtze River (长江) basin, quietly telling the stories of autumn, waiting for us to listen and appreciate them.
The autumn fields are a symbol of harvest. The Eastern Han Harvest and Arrow-Shooting Portrait Brick, housed in the Sichuan Museum (四川博物院), vividly recreates the busy scene of the autumn harvest in the Shu region. The portrait brick is divided into upper and lower parts: the upper part is an arrow-shooting scene, with two people drawing their bows and shooting upwards on the bank of a lotus pond, and wild geese and ducks flying in alarm in the sky, vividly depicting the tension and vitality of autumn hunting; the lower part is a harvest scene, with farmers holding sickles to cut rice, their movements coordinated, and the ears of rice drooping low, fully displaying the joy of harvest. The entire picture has no color rendering, but through the density of the lines and the echo of the composition, it allows people today to glimpse the agricultural life of the Yangtze River (长江) basin 2,000 years ago.
Autumn hunting was an important seasonal activity for the ancients. The Openwork Autumn Mountain Ornament in Qingbai Jade (excavated from the tomb of Prince Liangzhuang of the Ming Dynasty) in the Hubei Provincial Museum (湖北省博物馆) uses a 6.6 cm jade carving space to construct a vivid autumn hunting scene. The patterns on this artifact are very characteristic of the Jin Dynasty and should be a relic of the Jin Dynasty, reflecting the custom of the northern nomadic people shooting deer in autumn – historical records state that the falcon catching geese pattern is an "ornament of spring waters," and the tiger-deer mountain forest pattern is an "ornament of autumn mountains." The middle part of the jade ornament is carved with two deer looking back at each other, the antlers are decorated with pearl pan patterns, the maple leaves beside them are fiery red, and lingzhi mushrooms and oak trees are interspersed among them, forming a peaceful artistic conception of "deer鸣秋山." The openwork carving technique allows the jade material, which is only 1.1 cm thick, to present multiple layers of depth of field, showing the pinnacle of Jin Dynasty jade carving techniques. The Autumn Mountain Jade excavated from the tomb of Prince Liangzhuang is very different in style from the Chu jade artifacts of the same period, but they coexist in the same tomb, witnessing the integration of diverse cultures in the Ming Dynasty.
In the clear and crisp autumn, everyone goes out to enjoy the autumn scenery. The Qing Dynasty Famille Rose Osmanthus-Picking Snuff Bottle in the Wuhan Museum (武汉博物馆) contains the "petty romance" of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the Chu region. This small snuff bottle has several children with pigtails painted on the body: they are holding osmanthus branches and running past osmanthus trees with mooncakes in their arms, and petals are falling on their shoulders. "Osmanthus-picking" is a traditional custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the Chu region. The ancients believed that the osmanthus tree was a "fairy tree in the moon," and picking osmanthus during the Mid-Autumn Festival could "gain the blessing of the moon god"; and the implication of "picking osmanthus and ascending to the ranks" made parents hope that their children could be like the children, "蟾宫折桂," (chán gōng zhé guì - "pluck osmanthus in the Toad Palace," to pass the imperial examination with flying colors) and pass the imperial examination. The owner of this snuff bottle painted the "osmanthus-picking" of the Mid-Autumn Festival on the snuff bottle he used every day, which not only satisfied the elegant interest of "appreciating osmanthus," but also quietly planted the prayer of "descendants becoming talented."
Chrysanthemums are the messengers of autumn, symbolizing nobility and perseverance. The Qing Dynasty Bronze胎掐丝珐琅Cong-Shaped Vase with Jade and Stone Chrysanthemum Scene in the Nanjing Museum (南京博物院) has chrysanthemum patterns on the body of the vase, and red, white, and blue chrysanthemums are planted in the vase, staggered and orderly, like a microcosm of an autumn flower show. In ancient times, there was a custom of autumn outings to appreciate chrysanthemums, and literati and elegant scholars regarded chrysanthemums as confidants, entrusting their lonely ambitions to them. This vase integrates enamel craftsmanship and floral art, and is both imperial and rich in literati interest.
Late autumn also carries sorrow and philosophical thoughts. The Album of Eight Autumn Views by Dong Qichang (董其昌), housed in the Shanghai Museum (上海博物馆), has a total of eight leaves, each depicting different landscape scenes of autumn, covering various scenes such as the autumn scenery of the Jiangnan water towns, the mountains with forests dyed in layers, and the autumn river sunset. The painter uses delicate brushstrokes and rich ink color changes to show the colorful and tranquil nature of autumn. Dong Qichang (董其昌) was a famous calligrapher and painter of the Ming Dynasty. The "Album of Eight Autumn Views" has both the elegant temperament of literati painting and the vivid charm of natural landscapes, containing the painter's perception of life and love for nature.
These cultural relics have witnessed countless autumn cycles, prompting us to slow down and calm down to feel the autumn colors that permeate from the historical time and space.
(Author's unit: Hubei Provincial Museum (湖北省博物馆))
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"Bamboo forests roll with green waves, the Shanxi River weaves emerald patterns, skillful hands weave sun and moon, fine bamboo strips weave the seasons..." This folk song, popular in my hometown of Shengzhou (嵊州), Zhejiang (浙江), sings of the deep connection between bamboo weaving and this land. Stepping into the cultural and creative theme hall, those quietly displayed bamboo woven products always remind me of the bamboo strips flying between the fingers of Yu Zhanggen (俞樟根), the neighboring Chinese arts and crafts master, and the bamboo fragrance permeating the air when I was a child.
I often hear the old people say, "Bamboo is understanding of human nature." Master Yu said: "Bamboo weaving is like being a person, every process cannot be rushed, and every bamboo silk must adhere to its nature." From selecting bamboo and splitting bamboo to weaving and edging, bamboo woven works have to go through dozens of processes. I have seen a master craftsman weave a bamboo eagle. The eagle's wings alone require thousands of bamboo silks as thin as hair, each of which must be uniform in thickness and arranged in an orderly manner. It is this kind of persistence that has allowed Shengzhou (嵊州) bamboo weaving to move from daily necessities to the palace of art and from its hometown to the world—in 1979, "White-tailed Sea Eagle" flew into the White House; in 1984, "Six Steeds of Zhaoling (昭陵六骏)" caused a sensation at an overseas exhibition and was praised as "Oriental Bamboo Art Treasures"; related documentaries made this skill even more famous.
The origin of Shengzhou (嵊州) bamboo weaving can be traced back to the Neolithic Age. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the poet Xu Xun (许询) saw the exquisite local bamboo woven fan and left the praise "The bamboo strips resemble autumn cicada wings, and the round shape captures the beauty of the moon." In the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, bamboo weaving techniques developed considerably. In the Shengzhou City God Temple (嵊州城隍庙), which was built in the Southern Song Dynasty and rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty, two bamboo woven treasure fans, with their meticulous weaving and exquisite craftsmanship, are truly amazing. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Shengzhou (嵊州) bamboo weaving techniques have advanced by leaps and bounds, pioneering new techniques such as flower tendons, bleaching, blue lacquer, and simulated animals. In 2006, this technique was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
Today, ancient bamboo weaving is焕发新颜 焕发新颜 (huàn fā xīn yán - "regain youthful vigor," to take on a completely new appearance). In the common prosperity workshops, young people sit side by side with master craftsmen, weaving traditional techniques into fashionable lighting and cultural and creative elegant objects. Teachers and students from Tsinghua University (清华大学) and the China Academy of Art (中国美院) often come to collect inspiration, injecting modern aesthetics into bamboo weaving. The old craft is no longer just a scene in memory, but has become a bright spot in the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
(The author is a member of the Chinese Writers Association (中国作家协会会员))
Return to TopBy: 刘大玮 谷雨珊
A fragment of old silk, a strand of thread, all are "wordless books" left to us by the ancients. To understand these "wordless books" and decipher the details of ancient life from them is the charm of textile archaeology.
As one of the earliest materials used by mankind, textiles are widely used in clothing, sacrifices, decoration, and political symbols, carrying the structural system, identity order, aesthetic concepts, and technical capabilities of human society. The famous "Plain Gauze Gown" unearthed from the Mawangdui Han Tomb (马王堆汉墓) in Changsha, Hunan (湖南长沙), and the "Five Stars Rise in the East Benefit China" brocade arm guard unearthed from the Niya Ruins (民丰尼雅遗址) in Minfeng, Xinjiang (新疆民丰), provide important corroborating materials for our understanding of ancient Chinese material civilization.
Researchers use optical microscopes, infrared spectrometers, liquid chromatographs, and mass spectrometers to conduct multi-dimensional analysis of unearthed fabrics. Through component identification, we can determine the genus and category of silk, cotton, kudzu, hemp, and animal hair; through structural analysis, we can restore the spinning technology and weaving techniques of the time; and the study of dye components helps to trace the source of colors and their cultural transmission paths.
At the end of 2020, a piece of warp-tied and dyed fabric was found in the silt of the tomb chamber of Tomb No. 1 of the 2018 XueWei Tomb Complex (2018血渭一号墓) in Dulan Hot Water Tomb Group (都兰热水墓群), Qinghai (青海都兰). Our team immediately carried out on-site emergency and laboratory protection work, protecting it through multiple processes such as boxing, cleaning, shaping, and reinforcement, so that it could be preserved.
Carbon-14 dating shows that this textile is more than 1,200 years old, making it the earliest and most complete warp-tied and dyed fabric unearthed in China. This discovery advances the exact historical evidence of warp-tied dyeing technology in China to the盛唐时期 (shèng táng shí qī - Flourishing Tang Dynasty). Tests have found that the main component of the fabric fiber is mulberry silk, and the dyes contain ingredients such as *Phellodendron amurense*. Combined with archaeobotanical research, it is known that the climate and environment of Dulan (都兰) in Qinghai (青海) are not suitable for raising silkworms and reeling silk, nor do they meet the planting conditions for *Phellodendron amurense*.
Where did the fabric come from? Combined with historical records, we judge that this is "Banbu (斑布)," which is recorded in detail in many documents such as *Tongdian (通典)*, *Daye Zaji Jijiao (大业杂记辑校)*, and *Yuanhe Junxian Tuzhi (元和郡县图志)*. It is mainly produced in the Sichuan Basin (四川盆地) and its surrounding areas, and has long been transported to Chang'an (长安), the capital of the Tang Dynasty (唐朝), in the form of "local tribute." As a transportation hub on the ancient Silk Road, the Dulan (都兰) area provided a convenient transmission path for the circulation of warp-tied and dyed products.
As the birthplace of silk, China spread high-quality textiles and advanced technology to the Eurasian continent through the Silk Road in ancient times, leaving behind a rich material cultural heritage. In early 2025, our team went to the Monzhatepa site (蒙扎铁佩遗址) in Uzbekistan (乌兹别克斯坦) to carry out a project to protect and restore unearthed textiles. A total of 21 pieces/sets of textiles were unearthed from the site. The main fiber type is silk, and the fabric types include silk, *jian*, and brocade. In particular, the brocade provides important physical evidence for the study of material and cultural exchanges on the Silk Road and the historical evolution of textile technology.
Today, with the help of digital means such as three-dimensional modeling, dynamic capture, and virtual simulation, researchers can not only restore the unearthed costumes themselves, but also restore their wearing state, helping the display, education, and research of cultural relics. At the end of 2022, our team began to try this work, gradually establishing a mature data acquisition model for ancient clothing objects. We use physical anthropology and ancient DNA technology to collect the physical data of the tomb owners, use thickness gauges, microscopes, colorimeters, Martin rulers and other instruments to collect clothing data, and use various digital software to restore human physical characteristics and clothing structure. At present, we have completed the restoration of textile clothing unearthed from several tombs, including the joint burial tomb of Zhao Yong (赵用) and his wife in Xingtai, Hebei (河北邢台), and the tomb of Princess Wu (吴氏), the concubine of the Ningjing Prince (宁靖王妃) in Nanchang, Jiangxi (江西南昌). The change from two-dimensional to three-dimensional provides a more intuitive display method, deepens the public's understanding of ancient textiles and clothing, and also provides more detailed data support for the formulation of cultural relic restoration and protection plans.
Textiles are the texture of civilization; archaeology is the echo of history. When we gaze at those silk threads preserved for thousands of years, we are not just seeing a material, but also seeing how time is woven into objects, and how the memory of a nation is preserved in fibers and colors.
(Author's affiliation: Key Laboratory of Scientific Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Protection, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院科技考古与文化遗产保护重点实验室))
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