People's Daily - November 3, 2025

Navigating Asia-Pacific Open Cooperation, Demonstrating Great Power Responsibility

The People's Daily, Beijing, November 2nd (Reporter) From October 30th to November 1st, 2025, President Xi Jinping (习近平) was invited to attend the 32nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, and paid a state visit to South Korea. At the end of the trip, Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, briefed the accompanying reporters on the visit.

Wang Yi (王毅) said that this visit was a major head-of-state diplomatic action taken by President Xi Jinping (习近平) after the successful conclusion of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. In three days, President Xi Jinping (习近平) attended more than 10 bilateral and multilateral events, leading Asia-Pacific cooperation, demonstrating the responsibility of a major country, consolidating good-neighborly friendship, and decoding China's governance. The trip was compact, pragmatic, and efficient, achieving complete success. International public opinion highly praised it, generally believing that China has injected rare stability into a world full of uncertainties. In the face of the逆流保护主义, China promotes common prosperity with inclusive benefits and maintains fairness and justice with a sense of responsibility. China's influence and shaping power on the international order and Asia-Pacific regional cooperation are growing day by day. The trend of "the world looks at the Asia-Pacific, and the Asia-Pacific looks at China" has already taken shape.

I. Focusing on Open Cooperation and Promoting a Shared Future for the Asia-Pacific

Wang Yi (王毅) said that APEC is the highest-level, broadest-field, and most influential economic cooperation mechanism in the Asia-Pacific region. For more than 30 years since its birth, APEC has led the Asia-Pacific region to the forefront of global open development, helping the Asia-Pacific region become a major engine of world economic growth. At present, the multilateral trading system is facing severe shocks. The Asia-Pacific region is facing a choice of where to go, and Asia-Pacific cooperation is facing the test of either advancing or retreating.

President Xi Jinping (习近平) delivered two important speeches at the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting. Starting from the grand historical logic and the general trend of the times, he profoundly revealed the law of human society moving towards peace and development in the 80 years since the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War, calling on all parties to adhere to the original intention of APEC, share opportunities and achieve win-win results in open development, advocate inclusive economic globalization, and commit to building an Asia-Pacific community. President Xi Jinping (习近平) put forward the "five commons" from a commanding height, namely, 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. Focusing on the theme of the meeting, "Building a Sustainable Tomorrow," President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that all parties should seize the new opportunities of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, strengthen digital empowerment, adhere to green and low-carbon development, implement inclusive sharing, and jointly address challenges such as insufficient momentum for world economic growth and the expansion of the global development deficit. The major propositions put forward by President Xi Jinping (习近平) are forward-looking and 掷地有声 (zhì dì yǒu shēng - "every word carries weight," forceful and authoritative), powerfully countering the rhetoric of anti-globalization, pointing out the path for the Asia-Pacific region to work together and develop in harmony, and encouraging all parties to adhere to multilateralism and free trade and maintain confidence in an open economy. The meeting adopted the Gyeongju Declaration and issued statements on artificial intelligence and addressing demographic changes, reflecting the common aspirations of the vast majority of members to seek cooperation and development.

The highlight of this APEC meeting was the handover by the host country. Amid warm applause from the audience, President Xi Jinping (习近平) solemnly announced that China will host the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Shenzhen (深圳) in November next year, emphasizing that China is willing to take the opportunity of serving as the host country to work with all parties to build an Asia-Pacific community, focus on promoting the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific, and expand practical cooperation in connectivity, the digital economy, artificial intelligence, and other fields, so as to inject greater vitality and impetus into Asia-Pacific development and better benefit the people of the Asia-Pacific. Leaders of participating economies actively supported China's assumption of the host country, highly appreciated China's concept of hosting the meeting, believed that the APEC "China Year" will achieve complete success, and looked forward to going to Shenzhen (深圳) next year to contribute to promoting regional cooperation and promoting common prosperity.

Wang Yi (王毅) said that this will be the third time China has served as the APEC host country, and the first time in 12 years. In APEC history, the Shanghai Accord and the Beijing Program have left a strong Chinese imprint, reflecting China's leadership in Asia-Pacific cooperation, its practice of multilateralism, and its adherence to free trade. Shenzhen (深圳) was once an unknown small fishing village, but it has grown into a modern international metropolis along with China's reform and opening up, which is a vivid embodiment of China's pursuit of a mutually beneficial and win-win opening strategy. Shenzhen (深圳), which is about to become the "third city" of APEC in China, is preparing to present a wonderful event to the world.

International media generally believe that China, as the main trading partner of many Asia-Pacific economies and an important pillar of regional industrial and supply chains, has always promoted regional integration with a spirit of openness and cooperation, enhanced development momentum with technological innovation, and worked with all parties to build an open Asia-Pacific economy, becoming an important pillar of APEC cooperation. Shenzhen (深圳) is known as China's "Silicon Valley" and "Southern Science and Technology Center," and is one of the major cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. It concentrates many of the key advanced industries in China's "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal and is a symbol of Chinese-style modernization achievements. As APEC enters "China Time," people have reason to expect that a China that continues to move towards modernization will bring greater cooperation opportunities, add new impetus to this most dynamic sector of the global economy, and jointly write a new chapter in Asia-Pacific development.

II. Navigating Sino-US Relations and Demonstrating the Responsibility of a Major Country

Wang Yi (王毅) said that the Busan summit between the Chinese and US heads of state attracted worldwide attention. This was the first meeting between President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Trump in six years, and the first face-to-face interaction between the two heads of state since the new US government took office. Head-of-state diplomacy has always been the cornerstone of Sino-US relations. Since the beginning of this year, President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Trump have had three phone calls and reached a series of important consensus, which has pointed out the direction and set the tone for stabilizing and improving Sino-US relations.

In Busan, President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Trump had in-depth communication on major issues concerning Sino-US relations and world peace and development. President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that China and the United States can completely achieve each other and prosper together. The two countries being partners and friends is a historical enlightenment and a realistic need. In the face of storms and challenges, the two heads of state, as helmsmen, should grasp the direction and control the overall situation, so that the big ship of Sino-US relations can move forward smoothly. President Trump said that China is a great country, and President Xi Jinping (习近平) is a respected great leader. US-China relations have always been good and will be better in the future. He hopes that the future of China and the United States will be even better. The two heads of state agreed to maintain regular exchanges. President Trump looks forward to visiting China earlier next year and invited President Xi Jinping (习近平) to visit the United States.

The two heads of state agreed to strengthen cooperation in areas such as economy, trade, and energy, and instructed the economic and trade teams of both sides to continue their efforts to maintain and implement the consensus reached, so as to give China, the United States, and the world economy a "reassurance pill" with tangible results. President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that economy and trade should continue to be the ballast stone and propeller of Sino-US relations, rather than stumbling blocks and points of conflict. The two sides should calculate the big picture and focus more on the long-term benefits of cooperation, rather than falling into a vicious cycle of mutual retaliation. We must continue to talk on the basis of equality, respect, and mutual benefit, and constantly compress the list of problems and lengthen the list of cooperation.

President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that China and the United States should also have benign interactions on the international and regional stage. There are still many problems in the world today, and China and the United States can jointly demonstrate the responsibility of major countries and work together to do more major, practical, and good things that are beneficial to both countries and the world. Next year, China will serve as the APEC host country, and the United States will host the G20 summit. The two sides should support each other and strive for positive results from both summits. President Trump said that China is the United States' largest partner, and the two countries can accomplish many great things in the world by working together. In the future, US-China cooperation will achieve greater success.

The news of the meeting between the two heads of state occupied the front pages of global media at the first time. All parties generally welcomed and congratulated the successful meeting between the Chinese and US heads of state, believing that the meeting was of great significance, conveyed positive signals, eased tensions, and Sino-US relations are expected to usher in a period of stability and controllability. The return of Sino-US economic and trade issues to the dialogue track has boosted global market confidence. The head-of-state meeting is irreplaceable for China and the United States to reduce misunderstandings and misjudgments and avoid major ups and downs in relations.

Wang Yi (王毅) said that the Busan summit between the Chinese and US heads of state was a historic moment in Sino-US relations and a landmark event in international relations. Since the beginning of this year, Sino-US relations have experienced ups and downs, but China's policy towards the United States has maintained continuity and stability, and has always followed the three principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平). At the Busan meeting, President Xi Jinping (习近平) sized up the situation, took personal charge, and once again led the giant ship of Sino-US relations through dangerous shoals, demonstrating the confidence, composure, and responsibility of a leader of a major country. Facts have proved that dialogue is better than confrontation, zero-sum games have no way out, and win-win cooperation is the right path. Implementing the consensus reached by the two heads of state, promoting the stable, healthy, and sustainable development of Sino-US relations, and finding a correct way for China and the United States to get along is the wish of the two peoples and the expectation of all countries in the world.

III. Deepening Mutual Understanding and Writing a New Chapter in Sino-South Korean Relations

Wang Yi (王毅) said that China and South Korea are close neighbors that cannot be moved away and partners that cannot be separated. In the 33 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, the two countries have transcended differences in ideology and social systems, worked together and achieved each other, and friendly cooperation has always been the main theme of Sino-South Korean relations. China has been South Korea's largest trading partner for many consecutive years, and South Korea is also one of China's most important economic and trade partners. The two countries have close economic ties, and their production and supply chains are deeply intertwined, having become a de facto community of interests.

President Xi Jinping (习近平) visited South Korea again after 11 years. The South Korean side looked forward to it eagerly and attached great importance to it, treating President Xi Jinping (习近平) as the most important and most distinguished guest and giving him a warm reception with the highest courtesy. President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) held a grand state event for President Xi Jinping (习近平) in Gyeongju (庆州). The welcoming ceremony was held at the Gyeongju (庆州) Museum, which is very characteristic of the local area. A guard of honor wearing traditional costumes lined up to escort the welcome. The two heads of state had in-depth communication and exchanges in a friendly atmosphere and reached a series of cooperation consensus.

An important achievement of this visit was the reaffirmation of the Sino-South Korean strategic cooperative partnership. Sino-South Korean relations were upgraded to a strategic cooperative partnership in 2008, and exchanges and cooperation in various fields have been significantly enhanced. Although there have been difficulties and challenges in the past few years, the reality of intertwined interests and shared destinies has not changed, and the common vision of promoting peace and seeking common prosperity has not changed. Facts have proved that China and South Korea should develop together in mutual respect and cooperate for win-win results while seeking common ground while reserving differences. A healthy, stable, and continuously deepening Sino-South Korean relationship is in the fundamental interests of the two peoples and is conducive to regional peace, stability, and development and prosperity. President Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out that after 33 years of baptism, Sino-South Korean relations should be more mature and stable, show a new atmosphere, and open up a new situation. President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) said that he attaches great importance to relations with China and is willing to strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation, maintain the stability of production and supply chains, improve national sentiment, and bring more benefits to the two peoples.

This visit vigorously promoted Sino-South Korean pragmatic cooperation. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Sino-South Korean Free Trade Agreement. The two sides agreed to accelerate the second phase of negotiations on the Sino-South Korean Free Trade Agreement and agreed to deeply explore the potential of emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, biopharmaceuticals, green industries, and the silver economy, and promote the upgrading of economic and trade cooperation. The two sides agreed to promote healthy and beneficial cultural exchanges, continue to implement measures to facilitate personnel exchanges, and carry out exchanges in areas such as youth, media, think tanks, and local areas to promote mutual understanding between the two peoples. China and South Korea are both beneficiaries of economic globalization. The two sides agreed to further strengthen multilateral cooperation, support multilateralism, maintain free trade, and jointly address regional and even global challenges. During the visit, the two sides signed more than 10 cooperation documents in the fields of economy and trade, finance, law enforcement, agriculture, science and technology, and media, fully demonstrating that Sino-South Korean cooperation has rich connotations, abundant vitality, and broad prospects.

Wang Yi (王毅) said that President Xi Jinping's (习近平) state visit to South Korea vividly interpreted the neighboring, secure, prosperous, sincere, inclusive, and shared-destiny neighborhood diplomacy concept and policy, actively advocated the Asian values of peace, cooperation, openness, and inclusiveness, and fully demonstrated China's sincere willingness to promote the building of a community with a shared future in the neighborhood. China and South Korea have broad consensus on strengthening friendly cooperation and achieving common development, and have common pursuits in maintaining regional peace and promoting Asian prosperity. The current momentum of improvement in Sino-South Korean relations is hard-won and deserves to be cherished. The two sides should adhere to the original intention of establishing diplomatic relations, consolidate the foundation of mutual trust, expand the space for cooperation, and promote the steady and long-term development of Sino-South Korean relations.

IV. Decoding China's Governance and Creating Prospects for Win-Win Cooperation

Wang Yi (王毅) said that the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, which had just concluded successfully, adopted the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal, outlining a grand blueprint for economic and social development in the next five years. Looking back at the "14th Five-Year Plan," in the face of weak global economic recovery and severe external challenges, China has adhered to high-level opening up to the outside world, providing new opportunities for the world with China's new development, and becoming the main engine of world economic growth. Looking forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," China will take advantage of the situation and continue to promote Chinese-style modernization, adhere to open cooperation, and jointly create a new situation of win-win cooperation with countries around the world. All parties paid close attention to China's future five-year development plans and policies and measures, and looked forward to strengthening strategic alignment with China and expanding cooperation opportunities.

During the visit, President Xi Jinping (习近平) authoritatively explained the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee through various forms such as talks, meetings, public speeches, and written speeches. President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China will further comprehensively deepen reform, expand opening up to the outside world, focus on promoting the effective improvement of the quality and the rational growth of the quantity of the economy, promote the all-round development of people and the common prosperity of all the people, and open up a broader space for China to cooperate with the world. The important secret of China's success is to adhere to drawing a blueprint to the end, doing one thing after another, concentrating on doing its own thing well, and being a better version of itself. President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that the Chinese economy is a sea that will provide more development opportunities, a good business environment, a broad innovation stage, and green growth conditions for the global business community. It is an ideal, safe, and promising investment destination. 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.

President Xi Jinping's (习近平) insightful expositions and policy announcements were forward-looking and conveyed a strong signal that China is unswervingly expanding high-level opening up to the outside world and sharing development opportunities with the world. All parties highly praised China's important contribution to Asia-Pacific and world economic growth, admired China's brilliant achievements, and believed that China's new five-year plan will not only guide its own progress, but also create a new win-win prospect for the world. It is a "chorus of China and the world." International media commented that an important reason for China's economic development miracle lies in the scientific formulation and successive implementation of five-year plans, which is a unique political advantage of China and provides useful lessons for countries around the world. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal makes the international community more convinced that in the next five years, China will better develop itself and continue to benefit the world.
During this visit, President Xi Jinping (习近平) also met separately with the leaders of Canada, Thailand, and Japan, and engaged in friendly exchanges with representatives of other economies, enhancing mutual trust, building consensus, and promoting cooperation. President Xi Jinping's (习近平) meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (卡尼) marked a comprehensive turnaround in China-Canada relations after seven years of twists and turns. President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized the need to establish an objective and rational understanding, proceed from the common and long-term interests of both countries, and promote the improvement of China-Canada relations. The two sides agreed to restart exchanges in various fields, properly handle economic and trade frictions, and jointly promote the development of the China-Canada strategic partnership. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Thailand and the "Golden 50 Years of China-Thailand Friendship." President Xi Jinping (习近平) and Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin (阿努廷) agreed to strengthen the alignment of development strategies, accelerate the construction of the China-Thailand Railway, deepen cultural exchanges in tourism, youth, and local areas, and jointly promote the construction of a China-Thailand community with a shared future to a deeper and more solid level. When President Xi Jinping (习近平) met with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (高市早苗) at the latter's request, he emphasized that the four political documents between China and Japan have made clear provisions on major principled issues such as history and Taiwan, and the Japanese side should abide by and fulfill them 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, and this spirit is worth promoting. Prime Minister Kishida (高市首相) reiterated that on the Taiwan issue, Japan will adhere to the position in the 1972 Japan-China Joint Statement. The two sides agreed to promote a China-Japan strategic and mutually beneficial relationship and build a constructive and stable China-Japan relationship that meets the requirements of the new era.

Wang Yi (王毅) concluded by saying that President Xi Jinping's (习近平) visit was based on the surrounding areas, planned for the overall situation, yielded fruitful results, and had far-reaching significance. It was another successful practice of Xi Jinping's (习近平) diplomatic thought and marked a successful conclusion to this year's wonderful and climaxing head-of-state diplomacy. President Xi Jinping's (习近平) four visits this year, from Southeast Asia to Russia, from Central Asia to Northeast Asia, have engraved the vision of **穿云破雾** (chuān yún pò wù - "piercing through the clouds and breaking through the fog," overcoming obstacles and difficulties), the pattern of win-win cooperation, and the **计利天下** (jì lì tiān xià - "planning for the benefit of the world," having a global perspective and considering the interests of all) sentiment, leading China's diplomacy to forge ahead and make progress. No matter how the international situation changes, China always firmly stands on the right side of history, on the side of common development of the world, and on the side of progress of human civilization, and always firmly defends international fairness and justice and promotes the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. As the tide rises, the sea and sky are vast, and it is time to set sail. We must unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, deeply study and earnestly practice Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping's (习近平) diplomatic thought, continue to create a new situation in major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics, create a favorable external environment for building a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and make greater contributions to the cause of world peace and development.

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Xi Jinping Sends Congratulatory Message to Egyptian President Sisi on the Opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum

November 2nd, Beijing, Xinhua News Agency. On November 1st, President Xi Jinping (习近平) sent a congratulatory letter to Egyptian President Sisi (塞西), congratulating him on the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum.

Xi Jinping (习近平) stated that on the occasion of the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum, he would like to extend his sincere congratulations to President Sisi (塞西) and the Egyptian people. He believes that the Grand Egyptian Museum will leave a rich and colorful mark in the cultural history of Egypt and play an important role in protecting and inheriting ancient Egyptian civilization.

Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that the friendship between China and Egypt has a long history. In recent years, the China-Egypt comprehensive strategic partnership has been developing vigorously, and cultural exchanges between the two countries have been colorful. The "Grand Exhibition of Ancient Egyptian Civilization" at the Shanghai Museum (上海博物馆) was successfully held, and the China-Egypt joint archaeological team is jointly exploring the mysterious ancient Egyptian civilization under the Saqqara (萨卡拉) pyramid. We are pleased to see that the two great ancient civilizations are moving towards each other, and the people of the two countries are becoming increasingly understanding and close. At present, the world is undergoing major changes unseen in a century at an accelerated pace. China and Egypt, as two great ancient civilizations, should continue to deepen mutual learning between civilizations, continuously inject new impetus into the development of the China-Egypt comprehensive strategic partnership, and gather the strength of civilization to build a community with a shared future for mankind.

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A Choice That Can Stand the Test of History

By: 本报记者 杜尚泽 胡泽曦 新华社记者 郝薇薇 杨依军

For a global power, domestic and foreign affairs are never isolated movements, but intertwined and resonating in harmony.

From October 30th to November 1st, President Xi Jinping (习近平) attended the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Informal Meeting in Gyeongju and paid a state visit to South Korea.

In three days, there were momentous events in major-country diplomacy, strategic maneuvers on the multilateral stage, and a neighborhood diplomacy characterized by amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness. Looking deeper into the dense schedule, different dimensions are also demonstrating the profound changes of "China to the world, and the world to China."

A week before the visit, Beijing (北京), China. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) outlined the grand blueprint for the next five years. Chinese-style modernization, a new form of human civilization that is very different from the West, continues to unfold a new chapter.

Standing tall and looking far ahead, strategizing and planning; embracing the world, establishing oneself to benefit others.

Each shot freezes history and opens a new one:

October 30th, Busan. The heads of state of China and the United States ended their 100-minute meeting and walked out of the venue with relaxed expressions. U.S. President Trump sent President Xi Jinping (习近平) to the Hongqi car and said goodbye again.

October 31st, Gyeongju APEC meeting, China's proposition won wide resonance: "The more stormy the situation, the more important it is to work together in the same boat" "Promote inclusive economic globalization and build an Asia-Pacific community."

November 1st, Gyeongju. Arriving at the Hwabaek International Convention Center again, China took over the APEC host role for the third time during the APEC host handover ceremony. See you next autumn, see you in Shenzhen (深圳), China.

On this afternoon, the state visit schedule to South Korea was intensive. The strategic guidance of head-of-state diplomacy opened a new chapter in China-South Korea relations.

The ancient city of Gyeongju was sunny and breezy, but the world situation it reflected was not calm. On one side is "small yard high walls," on the other is openness and inclusiveness; one is holding a zero-sum mentality, the other is strengthening unity and cooperation. As the world's largest developing country and the world's second largest economy, China's choices are crucial.

During this trip, President Xi Jinping (习近平) described China's appearance, "Concentrate on doing our own things well, be a better version of ourselves, and share development opportunities with countries around the world"; he also showed China's vision and responsibility, "Make choices that meet the expectations of the Asia-Pacific people and stand the test of history."

Is it a zero-sum game, or mutual achievement?

The handshake of two major powers

Busan, the sea breeze brought messages from the depths of the ocean. For thousands of years, it has watched the ebb and flow of the Pacific Ocean, and on October 30, it witnessed a historic moment across the Pacific Ocean.

At about 10:00 on this day, President Trump arrived at the Blue House VIP Room in the corner of the airport first. Soon after, the special plane carrying President Xi Jinping (习近平) landed.

The meeting between the Chinese and American heads of state was the first event of President Xi Jinping's (习近平) visit to South Korea and the last event of President Trump's visit to Asia. The two heads of state connected their schedules and met again after 6 years, opening up a rich space of expectation for the world.

Just after 11:00, the not-so-spacious VIP room lobby was crowded with reporters. In front of the national flags, the heads of state of the two major powers shook hands, and the atmosphere was harmonious.

President Xi Jinping (习近平) first greeted: "It's a pleasure to see you again."

President Trump immediately responded: "It's great to see you again. I'm sure we'll have a very successful meeting today." Speaking of this, he smiled and looked at President Xi Jinping (习近平): "But he is a very tough negotiator, which is not good. We know each other very well."

Fight, we will accompany to the end; talk, the door is open. The world has long seen the confidence and belief behind China's attitude. The two sides have been dealing with each other for more than a day, and China has long declared the principles it adheres to when handling Sino-U.S. relations.

Problems are like branches and leaves, and the root is strategic understanding. Focusing on the fundamentals, President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "It is a historical inspiration and a realistic need for the two countries to be partners and friends."

Referring to the Kuala Lumpur economic and trade consultations held a few days ago, he first paused and lengthened his vision: "China's development and revitalization are not mutually exclusive with President Trump's desire to 'make America great again'. China and the United States can completely achieve each other and prosper together."

Mutual achievement and common prosperity, China has such a broad mind and pattern, and also has such opportunities and potential. During the meeting, President Xi Jinping (习近平) gave a set of figures, "The growth rate in the first three quarters of this year reached 5.2%, and the growth of import and export of goods trade to the world was 4%," which shows the scale, resilience, and potential of the Chinese economy.

"We have the confidence and ability to deal with various risks and challenges." President Xi Jinping's (习近平) description was calm and firm. Facing the twists and turns encountered in Sino-U.S. economic and trade, he pointed out: "Economic and trade should continue to be the ballast stone and propeller of Sino-U.S. relations, not stumbling blocks and conflict points. The two sides should calculate the big picture and look more at the long-term benefits brought by cooperation, and should not fall into a vicious circle of mutual retaliation."

As the world's two largest economies, the Chinese and U.S. economies are deeply integrated. Artificially pulling down the tariff gate is impacting the development of the two countries and the world.

Steering and leading, the most important thing is in the area of ​​reefs. President Xi Jinping (习近平) used the "big ship" as a metaphor, and his words were earnest: "Faced with winds, waves and challenges, the two heads of state, as helmsmen, should grasp the direction, control the overall situation, and let the big ship of Sino-U.S. relations move forward smoothly."

Solving the problems facing the world is inseparable from Sino-U.S. cooperation.

President Xi Jinping (习近平) issued a proposal: "China and the United States can jointly show the responsibility of major countries and work together to do more major, practical, and good things that are beneficial to the two countries and the world."

President Trump responded positively: "China is the United States' largest partner, and the two countries can accomplish many major things in the world by working together. In the future, U.S.-China cooperation will achieve greater success."

Looking forward to next year, China will serve as the host of APEC, and the United States will host the G20 summit. Another key piece of information also came from Busan: President Trump looks forward to visiting China earlier next year and invited President Xi Jinping (习近平) to visit the United States.

At nearly 13:00, the meeting, which lasted more than 100 minutes, ended. The two heads of state walked out of the Blue House VIP Room with relaxed expressions. In the sound of shutters, President Trump said happily: "We talked very well and very successfully." He whispered a few words to President Xi Jinping (习近平) and sent President Xi Jinping (习近平) to the Hongqi car and said goodbye again.

International media, which closely observed the Busan meeting, commented for the first time: "Is this a breakthrough? Yes. The two sides finally succeeded in coming together and avoided the outbreak of a global trade war."

On the way back to the United States, President Trump faced reporters and praised the results of the meeting: If the meeting was scored, 10 points would be the highest, "I would say this meeting was 12 points." On social media, he described the meeting in great detail: "There is tremendous mutual respect between our two countries, and the meeting that just took place will further enhance that respect."

Whether China and the United States can handle their relationship well, this "question of the century" has been answered with a new and vigorous stroke in Busan. "China and the United States can completely achieve each other and prosper together." The realization of this vision is not smooth, but it is the general trend and the aspiration of the people.

Is it "small yard high walls" or openness and inclusiveness?

Choices at the crossroads of history

Rooted in the Asia-Pacific, deeply cultivating the Asia-Pacific. International public opinion predicts that this region may be "the main stage for a greater future in the world."

In the grand blueprint of major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics in the new era, APEC is undoubtedly a magnificent chapter. Since 2013, President Xi Jinping (习近平) has come to this platform every time to share China's initiatives and propositions.

At about 10:00 on the 31st, the Gyeongju APEC meeting kicked off. At the Hwabaek International Convention Center, President Xi Jinping (习近平) arrived last.

President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) warmly welcomed: "Welcome!" "I've always wanted to see you. Was everything smooth on the way here?" President Xi Jinping (习近平) responded with a smile.

The heads of state of China and South Korea walked into the venue together.

Looking back on the past. The more than 30 years that APEC has gone through are like a fleeting moment. It is precisely when the old thinking of group confrontation and zero-sum games is broken that regional economic cooperation and integration are booming.

President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) described the meaning of "Hwabaek" in the venue:

"In ancient times, whenever the country had major affairs, the Hwabaek meeting would be held. The 'Hwabaek spirit' pursues the harmonious integration of different voices and seeks a win-win path."

Inside the venue, before taking a seat, Vietnamese President Liang Qiang (梁强), who had visited Beijing (北京) not long ago, stepped forward, followed by Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar (安瓦尔), and many representatives of participating economies came forward to talk.

The official commentator of the APEC News Center lamented: "President Xi Jinping (习近平) has a lot of greetings today." Foreign media reported in real time: "Chinese President Xi Jinping (习近平) is the focus at the Trans-Pacific Conference" "China is the well-deserved leader."

Standing at the forefront and leading the way, because China has always stood on the right side of history. The theme of the first phase of the meeting was "Building a Sustainable Tomorrow." At a time when the international situation is turbulent, this discussion is timely. People are eager to hear China's voice.

The two words emphasized by President Xi Jinping (习近平) in his speech provide an entry point for exploring the future of the Asia-Pacific.

One word is the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP).

When it was established in 1989, APEC set the general direction of regional economic integration. Easier said than done, it was the Beijing (北京) APEC meeting that "made the historic decision to launch the process of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific." Since then, we have been working hard to support it. Last year's Lima APEC meeting adopted the "Statement on New Prospects for the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific Agenda," reaffirming its commitment to promoting regional economic integration.

At the Gyeongju APEC meeting, President Xi Jinping (习近平) called for "gathering momentum for the construction of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific" and emphasized "adhering to 'holding hands' instead of 'letting go', and 'extending chains' instead of 'breaking chains'." The Gyeongju Declaration finally issued locked in the three priority areas of "connectivity, innovation, and prosperity" and clarified "promoting the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific agenda and promoting Asia-Pacific regional economic integration in a market-oriented manner."

The other word is the Asia-Pacific community.

At the Gyeongju APEC meeting, President Xi Jinping's (习近平) speech contained philosophical thinking: "The more stormy the situation, the more important it is to work together in the same boat."

Working together in the same boat, because we share a common destiny. The concept of a community with a shared future for mankind put forward by President Xi Jinping (习近平) is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The Putrajaya Vision, which guides the APEC family, clearly proposes to build an Asia-Pacific community by 2040.

In his speech, President Xi Jinping's (习近平) five suggestions all emphasized the word "common": "jointly safeguard the multilateral trading system," "jointly create an open regional economic environment," "jointly maintain the stability and smooth flow of industrial and supply chains," "jointly promote the digitalization and greening of trade," and "jointly promote inclusive development."

Compared with other multilateral platforms, close ties with the business community are a major advantage of APEC. A written speech delivered by President Xi Jinping (习近平) at the APEC CEO Summit on the afternoon of the 31st received widespread resonance.

Peace and stability, openness and integration, cooperation and win-win, inclusiveness and inclusiveness, China's propositions have been consistent, leading all parties to respond to the changes of the times and continue to write the "Asia-Pacific miracle."

On the morning of the 1st, the meeting moved to the second phase.

This stage focuses on topics such as artificial intelligence, aging, and sustainable development. President Xi Jinping (习近平) eloquently stated China's propositions: "Strengthen digital empowerment and shape new advantages in Asia-Pacific innovation and development," "Adhere to green and low-carbon development and create a new paradigm for Asia-Pacific sustainable development," and "Implement universal sharing and demonstrate a new atmosphere of Asia-Pacific inclusive development."

These three suggestions echo China's development concepts such as innovation-driven, green development, and people-centered, and the oriental wisdom of establishing oneself to benefit others has once again been vividly interpreted.

Just after noon on the 1st, the second phase of the meeting was coming to an end, and it came to the "handover moment."

Many eyes looked at President Xi Jinping (习近平).

The 2026 APEC host was announced by China during last year's Lima meeting. At this moment, President Xi Jinping (习近平) solemnly announced: "China will host the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong Province (广东省) in November next year."

As soon as the voice fell, applause broke out. Some foreign leaders got up and walked towards President Xi Jinping (习近平) to shake hands and congratulate him. President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) also said with emotion: "Under the leadership of President Xi, APEC is about to embark on a new journey."

Shenzhen (深圳) was immediately trending globally. From a small fishing village in the past to a shining pearl in the Greater Bay Area, this city can be called a development miracle. The lotus mountain is evergreen, and the Qianhai Bay is surging. Its wonderful transformation also shows the world: openness is such a powerful force.

In this year's meeting logo, there is a fluttering butterfly, which means that APEC members are flapping their wings together. At the dinner the night before, a virtual butterfly flew vividly. When President Xi Jinping (习近平) finished his speech, he remembered that scene:

"The butterfly that flew out of the literary and artistic performance last night was very beautiful." "I hope this beautiful butterfly will fly to Shenzhen (深圳) and fly better."

Is it taking care of oneself, or going far together?

The demeanor of neighborhood diplomacy

How to get along with the surrounding areas is an important proposition of international relations, reflecting a country's worldview, view of order, and view of responsibility.

This year, the Central Conference on Work Relating to Neighboring Countries was held in Beijing (北京), and "building a community with a shared future in the neighborhood" was launched again; President Xi Jinping's (习近平) footprints have also spread to all directions around the neighborhood:

The trip to Southeast Asia in April, the visit to the northern neighbor in May, the trip to Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦) in the west in June, and this trip to South Korea in the east, continue to write the story of good-neighborliness.

This is President Xi Jinping's (习近平) first visit to South Korea in 11 years. The South Korean side eagerly looked forward to it and attached great importance to it, giving the "most distinguished guest" the highest courtesy. After the APEC meeting, in Gyeongju, which is immersed in the poetic sentiment of "a long wind travels thousands of miles," the curtain of the state visit was opened.

On the afternoon of the 1st, Gyeongju National Museum (庆州博物馆). Ceremonial music was played, flags were fluttering, and a ceremonial team in traditional costumes escorted the Hongqi car slowly into the museum. President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) was waiting at the parking place.

After the welcoming ceremony, the two heads of state moved to the special exhibition hall and started their first meeting.

President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) said sincerely: "After we spoke on the phone in June this year, I have been very much looking forward to meeting you. Gyeongju is also a place you visited in 2009. I am very happy that our first meeting is still here."

President Xi Jinping (习近平) is no stranger to this ancient city. He recalled the past on many occasions: "I still remember the warm reception during my last visit" "Gyeongju is a city with a long history."

This time, President Xi Jinping (习近平) started from a basic fact: "China and South Korea are important close neighbors that cannot be moved away, and they are also inseparable partners." President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) deeply agreed with this, "South Korea and China are neighbors, and even more inseparable partners."

Considering the long-term, we can know where the general trend lies. President Xi Jinping (习近平) looked back on the past and put forward four suggestions: "Strengthen strategic communication and consolidate the foundation of mutual trust," "Deepen mutually beneficial cooperation and tighten the bonds of interest," "Enhance national sentiment and promote people-to-people connectivity," and "Strengthen multilateral cooperation and jointly promote peace and development." The words are either focused on consolidating the foundation and cultivating vitality, or intended to stimulate potential, hitting the nail on the head and aiming for the long term.

In the nearly two-hour meeting, the China-South Korea strategic cooperative partnership was reaffirmed. The heads of state of the two countries communicated in depth in a friendly atmosphere and achieved broad consensus.
In 2014, during his visit to South Korea, President Xi Jinping's (习近平) speech, "Only with heart-to-heart exchanges can friendship last," resonated deeply. In this meeting, he further elaborated on his thoughts and suggestions regarding "people-to-people connectivity." President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) responded positively, saying, "South Korea is willing to strengthen cultural and people-to-people exchanges with China to improve national sentiment."

Economic and trade cooperation affects the vision of both countries, regional nerves, and global attention. In recent years, as the competitive landscape of some industries on both sides has risen, China-South Korea economic and trade relations have become a new topic.

"Helping neighbors is helping ourselves." President Xi Jinping (习近平) advocates calculating the big picture and looking at the long term. From a broader perspective, one conclusion is very clear: China's development and progress bring new upgrades in cooperation opportunities, and the mutual benefit of China-South Korea economic and trade cooperation has not changed.

President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) also believes that "the current economic cooperation between South Korea and China has shifted from a vertical division of labor structure to a horizontal cooperation structure, and the mutually beneficial cooperative relationship between the two countries also needs to keep pace with the times."

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the signing of the China-South Korea Free Trade Agreement. "Accelerating the second phase of negotiations on the China-South Korea Free Trade Agreement" and "deeply exploring cooperation potential in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, biopharmaceuticals, green industries, and the silver economy"... These specific plans outline a clear path for the transformation and innovation of cooperation between the two sides.

At the end of the meeting, the heads of state of the two countries jointly witnessed the exchange ceremony of cooperation documents. Economy and trade, finance, agriculture, law enforcement, science and technology... The weighty achievements serve as vivid proof of "mutual achievement and common prosperity."

In his dinner speech, President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) said with emotion: "The respected President Xi (习近平) emphasizes the development concept of people-centeredness, which coincides with the national vision of the people as masters of the country that I mentioned. Both place the people at the center of governance."

President Xi Jinping (习近平) once quoted the ancient saying "The movement of a large roc is not due to the lightness of a single feather; the speed of a fine steed is not due to the strength of a single hoof." President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) was deeply impressed by this sentence and used it in his speech to express his hope that South Korea-China relations will "continue to walk hand in hand through the long years."

In the 33 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, the two countries have transcended differences in ideology and social systems, worked together, and achieved mutual success. Friendly cooperation has always been the underlying tone of China-South Korea relations. Although the past few years have experienced difficulties and challenges, the reality of intertwined interests and shared destinies has not changed, and the common vision of promoting peace and seeking common prosperity has not changed.

President Xi Jinping (习近平) looked to the future and mentioned the recent letter from students of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, "Youth is the future of China-South Korea relations. I hope that the two countries will carry out more youth exchange activities so that the cause of China-South Korea friendship can be passed down from generation to generation."

This is an expectation to continue history, and this is a request for the future.

Is it focusing on oneself, or establishing oneself to benefit others?

Responsibility on the Road to Rejuvenation

On the long scroll of time, China is a diligent and tireless striver.

Many people have vivid memories of the Beijing APEC meeting at Yanqi Lake in 2014. Time flies, and China, taking over as the APEC host for the third time, is striding forward on the road to Chinese-style modernization.

"APEC Blue," a term President Xi Jinping (习近平) quoted that year, expressed the beautiful expectation for environmental improvement. In just a few years, "Beijing Blue" has become a permanent fixture. In 2024, the average concentration of PM2.5 in Beijing decreased by 65.9% compared to 2013. The green endeavor of a major country resonates with the spirit of the times: 言必信，行必果 (yán bì xìn, xíng bì guǒ - "words must be trusted, actions must be resolute," one must be true to their word and resolute in their actions).

In the past 10 years, the world is no longer the world it once was, and China has also entered a new journey, standing at a new position of development.

The visit to South Korea was President Xi Jinping's (习近平) first visit abroad after the closing of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. On the new coordinate, global attention has been focused on exploring this visit. Two questions are of particular concern.

One, how to grasp China's new opportunities?

The "15th Five-Year Plan" is undoubtedly a key word to understand the future of China.

"China's development achievements are admirable" and "I hope to share China's development opportunities." Foreign dignitaries mentioned the "15th Five-Year Plan" when they met with President Xi Jinping (习近平).

"To walk with China is to walk with opportunities, to believe in China is to believe in tomorrow, and to invest in China is to invest in the future" has become a consensus in the international community.

The business community is very impressed. "More development opportunities," "good business environment," "broad innovation stage," and "green growth conditions." President Xi Jinping's (习近平) written speech at the APEC CEO Summit profoundly explained the advantages and potential of China's development. Entrepreneurs exclaimed, "New opportunities are in this speech" and "It can be called an investment guide."

Each explanation in the speech can be found in the upcoming "14th Five-Year Plan" and in the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal that has been reviewed and approved. China, as a "fertile ground for global business investment," has a solid foundation and accumulated step-by-step actions.

The second question, will China, sailing to a broader sea, change its course?

This international observation focuses on certainty. The winds and waves of the times are endless, and the changing policies and broken promises of individual countries are exacerbating the uncertainty facing the world. In the turbulent situation, the stability and certainty of China's development are becoming more precious.

Seeing President Xi Jinping's (习近平) speech at the Gyeongju APEC meeting, some international media concluded: "The shaping of the trade system is not a tactical move, but a long-term strategy of China. The new five-year plan to be introduced includes 'maintaining the multilateral trading system and expanding international circulation'."

At the Gyeongju meeting, China repeatedly conveyed its determination to open up, and also injected confidence into the world. The world's second largest economy, second largest consumer market, and import market are willing to open their doors, adding more confidence and certainty to the world in the storm.

This certainty is also projected into the negotiations in the meeting hall.

On the multilateral stage, President Xi Jinping (习近平) interspersed bilateral activities. Canada, Thailand, and Japan on the afternoon of the 31st, and South Korea on the afternoon of the 1st, were all new leaders facing China at the negotiating table for the first time.

Canadian Prime Minister Carney expressed a positive attitude, hoping to "regain the original intention of establishing diplomatic relations, find the lost time, and restart bilateral cooperation." President Xi Jinping (习近平) responded: I am willing to work with Canada to restore and restart exchanges and cooperation in various fields, consolidate the momentum of the turnaround in China-Canada relations, and promote the development of China-Canada strategic partnership.

When meeting with Thai Prime Minister Anutin, President Xi Jinping (习近平) used "frequent visits and close as a family" to describe the relations between the two countries, and looked forward to "jointly promoting the construction of a China-Thailand community with a shared future to go deeper and more solid."

When meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, President Xi Jinping (习近平) said that 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."

The meeting with President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) also mentioned the word "stability": "China attaches importance to China-South Korea relations, and its policy towards South Korea maintains continuity and stability."

The international situation is changing rapidly, but China's position remains the same. There are unshakable principles and bottom lines, as well as an open and inclusive mind, and the sincerity of win-win cooperation. This composure is based on the strategic determination to stand on the right side of history, and it is also inseparable from the deep confidence accumulated along the way of development.

There is also a deeper question that concerns China and the world: Will a developed China focus on itself, or will it have the world in mind and establish itself to benefit others?

In fact, the two are not contradictory, but complement each other. As President Xi Jinping (习近平) judged, "If China does its own thing well, it is a contribution to the world."

大道之行，天下为公 (dà dào zhī xíng, tiān xià wéi gōng - "When the Great Way prevails, the world is for all," a just cause enjoys abundant support). The worldview contained in Chinese culture shines with new brilliance in the new era. From the grand blueprint and meticulous painting of the "Belt and Road" initiative to the widespread support for the four major global initiatives, "China has always been a maintainer of the current international order and a practitioner of true multilateralism."

In the meeting between the Chinese and American heads of state, the secret of China's success explained by President Xi Jinping (习近平) is even more profound:

"We adhere to drawing a blueprint to the end, and we do it one after another. We have never wanted to challenge or replace anyone, but focus on doing our own thing well, being a better version of ourselves, and sharing development opportunities with countries around the world."

From joining APEC more than 30 years ago to promote its own reform and opening up, to becoming a leader in global opening up today, the change in China's international role once again confirms that scientific conclusion: "As long as we actively adapt to the trend of world development, we can not only develop and strengthen ourselves, but also lead the trend of world development."

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Han Zheng Visits Kuwait

This newspaper reported from Kuwait City on November 2nd (Reporter Guan Kejiang (管克江)) From November 1st to 2nd local time, at the invitation of Kuwaiti Crown Prince Sabah (萨巴赫), State Vice President Han Zheng (韩正) visited Kuwait. In Kuwait City, he met with Kuwaiti Emir Mishal (米沙勒), Crown Prince Sabah (萨巴赫), and Prime Minister Ahmad (艾哈迈德) respectively.

During the meeting with Mishal (米沙勒), Han Zheng (韩正) conveyed President Xi Jinping's (习近平) cordial greetings and best wishes to Emir Mishal (米沙勒). Han Zheng (韩正) stated that China always cherishes the friendship between China and Kuwait and attaches great importance to developing relations with Kuwait. Since 2022, President Xi Jinping (习近平) has met with His Highness twice, reaching a series of important consensus, providing strategic guidance for the development of China-Kuwait relations to a higher level. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) released a clear signal that China will further comprehensively deepen reform and expand high-level opening up, which will create good opportunities for the development of China-Kuwait relations. China is willing to deepen political mutual trust with Kuwait, implement the bilateral cooperation documents witnessed and signed by the two heads of state, strive to achieve substantial progress as soon as possible, and promote the in-depth and solid development of the two countries' strategic partnership. President Xi Jinping (习近平) put forward global governance initiatives, pointing out the direction for reforming and improving the global governance system. It is believed that Kuwait will actively support this initiative, and Kuwait is also welcome to join the "Global Development Initiative Friends Group". China appreciates Kuwait's long-term support for promoting cooperation between China and the Gulf Cooperation Council (海合会) countries, and hopes that Kuwait, as the rotating presidency of the Gulf Cooperation Council (海合会), will further play a positive role in this regard.

Mishal (米沙勒) asked Han Zheng (韩正) to convey his high respect to President Xi Jinping (习近平). Mishal (米沙勒) said that Kuwait was the first Gulf Arab country to establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, reflecting the strategic and forward-looking nature of bilateral relations. Kuwait highly appreciates and supports the four major global initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平), especially the recently proposed global governance initiative, and firmly adheres to the one-China policy. Kuwait is willing to jointly build the "Belt and Road" with China, implement relevant bilateral cooperation documents, and promote Kuwait-China relations to a higher level. Kuwait is willing to actively promote cooperation between the Gulf Cooperation Council (海合会) countries, Arab countries, and China to a new level.

During the talks with Sabah (萨巴赫), Han Zheng (韩正) said that Kuwait is a country with a unique and important influence in the Middle East, and China always places Kuwait in an important position in China's Middle East diplomacy. In recent years, under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping (习近平) and Emir Mishal (米沙勒), the strategic partnership between the two countries has continued to develop. Next year marks the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Kuwait. China is willing to take this as an opportunity to work with Kuwait to implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, further deepen political mutual trust, strengthen practical cooperation in various fields, and promote bilateral relations to a new level. China is willing to strengthen cooperation with Kuwait to promote greater progress in collective cooperation between China and Arab countries and Gulf Cooperation Council (海合会) countries, jointly promote multilateralism, and promote global governance in a more just and reasonable direction.

Sabah (萨巴赫) said that the friendly relations between Kuwait and China are close and solid. Kuwait supports China in safeguarding its core interests and is willing to expand cooperation fields with China, implement bilateral cooperation projects, and promote greater development of Kuwait-China relations. At present, the global order is facing profound adjustments. Kuwait firmly supports multilateralism, highly appreciates China's upholding of justice in international affairs, and adheres to a fair position on the Palestinian issue. It is willing to strengthen multilateral coordination with China and jointly commit to maintaining peace and stability in the Middle East.

During the meeting with Ahmad (艾哈迈德), Han Zheng (韩正) said that China and Kuwait are good friends and good partners. In recent years, positive progress has been made in China-Kuwait relations. China-Kuwait cooperation is highly complementary and has great development potential. China is willing to work with Kuwait to promote the upgrading of bilateral practical cooperation on the basis of mutual benefit and win-win results, effectively promote the implementation of cooperation projects, and help the China-Kuwait strategic partnership move to a higher level.

Ahmad (艾哈迈德) said that Kuwait cherishes the friendship and mutual trust between Kuwait and China and is willing to work with China to actively implement the important consensus of the two heads of state, accelerate the advancement of bilateral cooperation projects, transform the high level of Kuwait-China relations into more practical cooperation results, and open up new prospects for bilateral relations.

During his visit to Kuwait, Han Zheng (韩正) attended the welcoming ceremony held by Crown Prince Sabah (萨巴赫).

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Improving per-mu yield and efficiency: Focusing on the present and looking to the future (First-hand observations on implementing the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session)

By: 本报记者 姚雪青

Opening Remarks

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) clarified the guiding principles and main goals of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and drew a grand blueprint for development in the next five years. Studying and implementing the spirit of the Plenary Session is a major political task for the entire party and the whole country in the current and future periods.

Starting today, this newspaper will launch the column "On-the-Spot Reports on Implementing the Spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session." Reporters will go deep into the grassroots level, feel the pulse of the times, focus on the measures and actions taken by various regions and departments to study and implement the spirit of the Plenary Session, and showcase the vivid practices of the vast number of cadres and the masses in moving towards the "15th Five-Year Plan" and devoting themselves to the construction of Chinese-style modernization.

In an office of Danyang Huichuang Medical Equipment Co., Ltd. (丹阳慧创医疗设备有限公司) in Zhenjiang (镇江), Jiangsu (江苏), Chairman Wang Daifa (汪待发) was somewhat surprised and asked on the phone, "Which aspect did not meet the standard?"

Led by a national-level talent team, and focusing on the industry-leading brain-computer interface technology, Danyang Huichuang's main project did not receive an "excellent" rating in the Zhenjiang (镇江) Municipal Major Industrial Project Assessment.

Xu Ting (许婷), the leader of the Zhenjiang (镇江) Municipal Development and Reform Commission (镇江市发展改革委) project evaluation team, analyzed over the phone: "The 'future economic and social benefits' item is not proportional to the more than 100 patents held by the company, which is the biggest reason for the score deduction."

"General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that 'we should improve the assessment and evaluation system for promoting high-quality development'," Xu Ting (许婷) introduced. Zhenjiang (镇江) innovates the "pre-assessment" mechanism for major industrial projects to allocate resources to outstanding projects and guide enterprises to "**跳一跳、向上够**" (tiào yī tiào, xiàng shàng gòu - "jump up and reach," to strive for higher goals by stretching oneself), moving towards high-quality development.

"Significant results have been achieved in high-quality development" is the first of the main goals of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period proposed by the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党).

Danyang Huichuang (丹阳慧创) has also been working hard to achieve high-quality development. Its first-generation product, the near-infrared brain function imaging equipment, has been recognized by the market, and the company's tax revenue per mu exceeds 500,000 yuan.

"The improvement of benefits per mu not only looks at the present, but also at the future," Xu Ting (许婷) said bluntly, "The company's first-generation product has a high market share, but with so many patents in hand, why not speed up the research and development of new products?"

Under the "baton," Wang Daifa (汪待发) decided to step out of his "comfort zone" and bravely venture into the "no man's land": Not long ago, a near-infrared optical brain-computer interface diagnosis and treatment equipment project with an investment of 500 million yuan, aimed at filling domestic gaps, was rated "excellent" in the "pre-assessment." Recalling the previous phone call, Wang Daifa (汪待发) deeply felt that the company's efforts to strengthen research and development were worthwhile.

The project has received support from the provincial, municipal, and county levels: Danyang (丹阳) has broadened the application scenarios of the product, Zhenjiang (镇江) is actively promoting the approval process for new product launches, and the Jiangsu Provincial Development and Reform Commission (江苏省发展改革委) provides policy guidance... "The future is promising!" Wang Daifa (汪待发) is quite confident.

To guide enterprises towards high-quality development, Zhenjiang (镇江) has also added a "post-evaluation" mechanism on the basis of the "pre-assessment."

At Zhenjiang BAIC Blue Valley Magna Automobile Co., Ltd. (镇江北汽蓝谷麦格纳汽车有限公司), an average of one new energy vehicle rolls off the production line every two minutes, and the order volume for the range-extended new model exceeded 10,000 units in November.

This is a new energy vehicle enterprise that has responded to the "baton" and transformed from a fuel vehicle manufacturer. As a major project in Zhenjiang (镇江) after its completion, the enterprise has not been able to fully reach its production capacity.

What is the reason? Zhenjiang (镇江) conducted a "post-evaluation" review of this major project: insufficient innovation and product diversification. The Municipal Development and Reform Commission (市发展改革委) proposed the development of range-extended models, helped the enterprise jointly build an innovation consortium with universities, and coordinated the production and sales docking platform to help open up the market.

"The new model was filed in August, the production line was改造 in October, and the first range-extended new model rolled off the production line at the end of October," said Wang Peng (王鹏), Minister of the Comprehensive Management Department of the company. "The current orders are considerable."

"Pre-assessment ensures quality, and post-evaluation ensures effectiveness. This equips industrial projects with 'navigation' and 'accelerators,' making the momentum for high-quality development stronger," said Tan Qinlei (谈沁磊), Director of the Zhenjiang (镇江) Municipal Development and Reform Commission (镇江市发展改革委). "Since the beginning of this year, the matching rate between major projects in the manufacturing sector and Zhenjiang's (镇江) leading industries has exceeded 80%."

"To thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), we will further leverage the 'baton' role of assessment to help improve the gold content and new content of industrial projects, so that more entrepreneurs can benefit from innovation and jointly move towards high-quality development," said Ma Minglong (马明龙), Secretary of the Zhenjiang (镇江) Municipal Party Committee.

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Introduction

Learning from Experts' Discussions on Volume I of "Xi Jinping's Anthology on Ecological Civilization"

Deeply Understand the Scientific Worldview and Methodology of Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization

Ninth Edition

After more than 1,000 days of construction, China's space station is operating safely and smoothly.

A Thousand Days in Space, A Full Harvest

Nineteenth Edition

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Jointly Build an Open Asia-Pacific Economy and Promote the Steady and Long-Term Development of China-South Korea Relations

From October 30 to November 1, 2025, President Xi Jinping (习近平) was invited to attend the 32nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, and pay a state visit to South Korea. International figures interviewed by this newspaper stated that President Xi Jinping's (习近平) major proposals at the APEC meeting conformed to the general trend of world development and the common expectations of APEC members. The meeting's fruitful results will lead the Asia-Pacific region to work together for common progress and integrated development. People from all walks of life in South Korea believe that President Xi Jinping's (习近平) state visit to South Korea has consolidated consensus on cooperation between the two sides, enhanced mutual understanding, and promoted the steady and long-term development of the South Korea-China strategic cooperative partnership.

"Leading the Asia-Pacific Region Towards a More Inclusive and Mutually Beneficial Future"

President Xi Jinping (习近平) delivered two important speeches at this APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting. Starting from the grand logic of history and the grand trend of the times, he profoundly revealed the law of human society moving towards peace and development in the 80 years since the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War. He called on all parties to adhere to the original intention of APEC, share opportunities and achieve win-win results in open development, advocate inclusive economic globalization, and commit to building an Asia-Pacific community. The meeting adopted the Gyeongju Declaration and issued statements on artificial intelligence and addressing demographic changes, reflecting the common aspirations of the majority of members to seek cooperation and development.

Park Han-jin (朴汉真), a distinguished professor of international regional strategy at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, said that President Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech expressed firm support for the multilateral trading system and responded to the expectations of the international community, especially the Asia-Pacific region, for inclusive development. In the current context of profound changes in the global landscape, China's role is becoming increasingly important. Promoting trade and investment liberalization and facilitation in the Asia-Pacific region will open up broader avenues for development for all parties, benefiting not only all parties in the Asia-Pacific region, but also injecting valuable "Asia-Pacific confidence" into the world economy.

Ng Weng Thye (吴林泰), a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics and Applied Statistics at the University of Malaya, said that President Xi Jinping (习近平) advocated jointly building an open Asia-Pacific economy that is inclusive and mutually beneficial, and put forward specific suggestions, which are of great significance for promoting economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region and maintaining global economic stability. "An open Asia-Pacific region meets the common expectations of all parties. China shares development opportunities with an open attitude and will lead the Asia-Pacific region towards a more inclusive and mutually beneficial future."

Asornsri (阿颂西), an associate professor at the Faculty of Economics at Thammasat University in Thailand, said: "President Xi Jinping's (习近平) attendance at the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting reflects the great importance attached to Asia-Pacific cooperation. China has clearly expressed its support for building an Asia-Pacific community, demonstrating the responsibility of a major country. It is believed that within the APEC framework, China will continue to play a leading role and contribute to regional economic stability and prosperity."

Hugo Guzmán (乌戈·古斯曼), president of the Chilean newspaper El Siglo, said that in the face of challenges such as weak global economic recovery and rising protectionism, China has always adhered to high-level opening up to the outside world, setting a model for regional cooperation. China has actively participated in and promoted the development of APEC, and has played a leading role in promoting regional connectivity, promoting innovation-driven growth, and improving global governance.

"Gathering Momentum for the Long-Term Development of the Asia-Pacific Region"

The highlight of this APEC meeting was the handover of the host. China will host the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东) Province, in November next year. It will work with all parties to build an Asia-Pacific community, focus on promoting the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific, and expand practical cooperation in connectivity, the digital economy, and artificial intelligence, injecting more vitality and momentum into Asia-Pacific development and better benefiting the people of the Asia-Pacific region.

Nguyen Thi Luu (阮氏璐), a partner at the Vietnam Generative Artificial Intelligence Foundation, said that President Xi Jinping's (习近平) series of proposals on Asia-Pacific cooperation will help the region achieve leapfrog development. Nguyen Thi Luu (阮氏璐) said that during the meeting, she had in-depth exchanges with representatives of many Chinese technology companies. "I feel that an open China means that all parties in the Asia-Pacific region can share the vast Chinese market and create more cooperation opportunities. I am very much looking forward to going to China next year to participate in the APEC meeting."

Veronika Saraswati (维罗妮卡·萨拉斯瓦蒂), director of the Indonesian-China Partnership Research Center, said that China insists on creating an open and shared development environment and promoting technological exchanges and cooperation. "As the 'anchor of stability' of the world economy, China is taking practical measures to gather momentum for the long-term development of the Asia-Pacific region and enhance the international community's confidence in economic globalization."

Andrés Vásquez (安德烈斯·巴斯克斯), coordinator of the Asian Studies Program at the Institute of International Studies at the University of Chile, said: "The four major global initiatives proposed by China are highly attractive. APEC member economies are actively translating the initiatives into concrete actions in areas such as digitalization, intelligence, and greening. These measures are becoming an important force in promoting common prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region."

Luis Adrianzen (路易斯·阿德里安森), CEO of the Peruvian company "Pacific Gate," said that he looks forward to the complete success of the APEC "China Year." "We maintain in-depth cooperation with Chinese technology companies. China has always insisted on sharing opportunities and achieving win-win results in open development. With the continuous advancement of the construction of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific, we look forward to strengthening cooperation with China."

"Developing Together in Mutual Respect, Cooperating for Win-Win Results While Seeking Common Ground While Reserving Differences"

China and South Korea are close neighbors that cannot be moved away and inseparable partners. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations 33 years ago, the two countries have transcended differences in ideology and social systems, worked together and achieved mutual success. Friendly cooperation has always been the main theme of China-South Korea relations. During his state visit to South Korea, President Xi Jinping (习近平) put forward four suggestions: "Strengthening strategic communication and consolidating the foundation of mutual trust," "Deepening mutually beneficial cooperation and tightening the bonds of interest," "Enhancing national sentiment and promoting people-to-people connectivity," and "Strengthening multilateral cooperation and jointly promoting peace and development." These suggestions charted a blueprint and pointed out the direction for opening up a new situation in China-South Korea relations. During the visit, China and South Korea signed more than 10 cooperation documents in the fields of economy and trade, finance, law enforcement, agriculture, science and technology, and media, fully demonstrating that China-South Korea cooperation is rich in content, full of vitality, and has broad prospects.

"President Xi Jinping's (习近平) state visit to South Korea after 11 years and his summit with President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) promoted strategic communication between South Korea and China and consolidated the foundation of mutual trust between the two countries." Woo Soo-geun (禹守根), director of the East Asia Institute of South Korea and president of the Korea-China Global Association, said that from establishing a South Korea-China cooperative partnership oriented towards the 21st century, to establishing a South Korea-China comprehensive cooperative partnership, and then to establishing a South Korea-China strategic cooperative partnership, "South Korea and China have developed together in mutual respect and cooperated for win-win results while seeking common ground while reserving differences. President Xi Jinping's (习近平) visit played an important role in promoting the steady and long-term development of the South Korea-China strategic cooperative partnership."

"South Korea and China have followed the general trend of the times and reached a number of pragmatic cooperation results with a future-oriented strategic vision, which is of great significance for promoting the development of bilateral relations." Park Seung-chan (朴胜赞), dean of the International Exchange Institute of Yongin University in South Korea and president of the Korea-China Federation, said that the two sides agreed to speed up the second phase of negotiations on the South Korea-China Free Trade Agreement, jointly maintain the stability of the production and supply chain, and deeply explore the potential for cooperation in emerging fields, which will bring more benefits to the people of the two countries.

Lee Kyu-ho (李圭镐), Vice Chairman of Kolon Group of South Korea and Chairman of the APEC Business Advisory Council in 2025, said that South Korean and Chinese companies can work together for mutually beneficial cooperation, promote the upgrading of bilateral economic and trade cooperation, and contribute new impetus to world economic growth.

"President Xi Jinping's (习近平) visit has injected new impetus into promoting people-to-people connectivity between South Korea and China." Lee Jeong-eun (李祯恩), representative of the "Chinese Bridge" Club Seoul Center, said that South Korea and China can carry out a variety of exchange projects through think tank exchanges, youth entrepreneurship cooperation, and local exchanges to further consolidate the foundation of public opinion, establish emotional resonance among the younger generation, enhance mutual understanding, and narrow the distance between each other.

In the view of Choi Heon-kyu (崔宪圭), head of the China headquarters of South Korea's NewsPim News Agency, President Xi Jinping's (习近平) visit not only strongly promoted the improvement and development of South Korea-China relations, but also had important significance for maintaining the multilateral trading system and promoting world peace and development.

Hwang Jae-ho (黄载皓), director of the Korea Institute for Global Strategic Cooperation, said that South Korea and China are both beneficiaries of economic globalization and practitioners of multilateralism, and have successively served as APEC hosts. The two countries working together will inject more impetus into the development of the Asia-Pacific region and make important contributions to promoting the development of international governance in a more just and reasonable direction.

(Reporters Qu Pei (屈佩), Chen Shangwen (陈尚文), Mang Jiuchen (莽九晨), Zhang Zhiwen (张志文), Chen Yiming (陈一鸣), Ma Fei (马菲), Zhao Yipu (赵益普), Shi Yuanhao (时元皓), Cao Shiyun (曹师韵) of this newspaper)

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Opening up China provides a "stable anchor" for the world economy (harmony voice)

China, adapting to the trend of economic globalization and a new round of technological revolution, has always adhered to high-level opening up, taking into account its own needs and the world's expectations, and accelerating the formation of a wider range, broader field, and deeper level of opening up to the outside world, which will bring greater development opportunities to all countries in the world.

During the 32nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, President Xi Jinping (习近平) introduced to the international community the proposals adopted by the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee on formulating the "15th Five-Year Plan," reaffirming China's firm willingness to continue promoting in-depth reform through high-level opening up, promoting high-quality development, and continuously providing new opportunities for all countries in the world with new achievements in Chinese-style modernization.

Adhering to open cooperation and mutual benefit is a necessary requirement of Chinese-style modernization. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposals make important deployments from four aspects: actively expanding autonomous opening up, promoting trade innovation and development, expanding two-way investment cooperation space, and jointly building the "Belt and Road" with high quality. Each dimension demonstrates China's determination to share opportunities and develop together with all parties.

China coordinates the use of global factors and market resources, and unswervingly pursues a mutually beneficial and win-win opening strategy. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, from continuously reducing the negative list for foreign investment access and "clearing" all access restrictions in the manufacturing sector, to the 22 pilot free trade zones building a "goose formation" covering the east, west, north, and south of China, and then to the imminent sealing and operation of the Hainan Free Trade Port... China's breadth, intensity, and depth of opening up have continued to increase. Steadily expanding institutional opening up in terms of rules, regulations, management, and standards, and continuously optimizing the business environment, making China's large market increasingly grow into a world opportunity. In the past five years, China has cumulatively established 229,000 new foreign-invested enterprises, and the regional headquarters and R&D centers of multinational companies have significantly increased. Foreign companies have cast a vote of confidence in the Chinese market with their actions. The super-large market composed of more than 1.4 billion people and a middle-income group of over 400 million people makes "walking with China is walking with opportunity" a common international consensus. According to Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director of the World Economic Forum, China's vast market space, open and inclusive investment environment, and stable policy expectations are highly attractive to global companies.

High-level opening up is a great cause that is good for China and good for the world. More than 150 countries and regions are major trading partners, and 23 free trade agreements have been signed with 30 countries and regions. The scale of trade in goods and services ranks first and second in the world... Behind each data point is the surging development momentum stimulated by China's promotion of high-level opening up. The China-Laos Railway's cross-border cargo transportation has exceeded 15 million tons, and the China-Europe Railway Express has cumulatively operated more than 110,000 trains. Jointly building the "Belt and Road" continues to expand new spaces for win-win development. A China that shares opportunities with the world is committed to making the cake of cooperation bigger and bigger, and making the power of development stronger and stronger. Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, believes that China's advocacy of open trade and its firm belief in the contribution of trade and investment to development is a very important paradigm for development in the 20th and 21st centuries.

In recent years, economic globalization has encountered headwinds, and unilateralism and protectionism have risen, causing widespread concern. Where is the driving force for world economic growth? Economic globalization is an objective requirement of the development of social productive forces, an inevitable result of technological progress, and an irresistible historical trend. Facing the major changes unseen in a century, China, adapting to the trend of economic globalization and a new round of technological revolution, has always adhered to high-level opening up, taking into account its own needs and the world's expectations, and accelerating the formation of a wider range, broader field, and deeper level of opening up to the outside world, which will bring greater development opportunities to all countries in the world. "In the tense global trade situation, China is playing the role of a 'stabilizing anchor'," "Open and cooperative China is an important force in promoting world economic development"... In the eyes of the international community, China's firm and unwavering promotion of high-level opening up to the outside world and its firm maintenance of an open and cooperative multilateral trading system bring valuable stability and certainty to world development.

China's door to opening up will not be closed, it will only open wider and wider. Solidly promoting the implementation of the decisions and deployments of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, a China that continues to advance modernization will surely create broad opportunities for the common development of all countries and create more well-being for the people of all countries.

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Guiding Open Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific, Demonstrating the Responsibility of a Major Country

The People's Daily, Beijing, November 2nd (Reporter) From October 30th to November 1st, 2025, President Xi Jinping (习近平) was invited to attend the 32nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, and paid a state visit to South Korea. At the end of the trip, Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, briefed the accompanying reporters on the visit.

Wang Yi (王毅) said that this visit was a major head-of-state diplomatic action taken by President Xi Jinping (习近平) after the successful conclusion of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. In three days, President Xi Jinping (习近平) attended more than 10 bilateral and multilateral events, leading Asia-Pacific cooperation, demonstrating the responsibility of a major country, consolidating good-neighborly friendship, and decoding China's governance. The trip was compact, pragmatic, and efficient, achieving complete success. International public opinion highly praised it, generally believing that China has injected rare stability into a world full of uncertainties. In the face of the逆流保护主义, China promotes common prosperity with inclusive inclusiveness and maintains fairness and justice with a sense of responsibility. China's influence and shaping power on the international order and Asia-Pacific regional cooperation are growing day by day. The trend of "the world looks at the Asia-Pacific, and the Asia-Pacific looks at China" has already taken shape.

I. Focusing on Open Cooperation and Promoting a Shared Future for the Asia-Pacific

Wang Yi (王毅) said that APEC is the highest-level, broadest-ranging, and most influential economic cooperation mechanism in the Asia-Pacific region. Since its birth more than 30 years ago, APEC has led the Asia-Pacific region to the forefront of global open development, helping the Asia-Pacific become a major engine of world economic growth. At present, the multilateral trading system is facing severe shocks. The Asia-Pacific region is facing a choice of where to go, and Asia-Pacific cooperation is facing the test of either advancing or retreating.

President Xi Jinping (习近平) delivered two important speeches at the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting. Starting from the grand historical logic and the general trend of the times, he profoundly revealed the law of human society moving towards peace and development in the 80 years since the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War, calling on all parties to adhere to the original intention of APEC, share opportunities and achieve win-win results in open development, advocate inclusive economic globalization, and commit to building an Asia-Pacific community. President Xi Jinping (习近平) put forward the "five commons" from a strategic and overarching perspective, namely, jointly maintaining 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. Focusing on the theme of the meeting, "Building a Sustainable Tomorrow," President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that all parties should seize the new opportunities of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, strengthen digital empowerment, adhere to green and low-carbon development, implement inclusive sharing, and jointly address challenges such as insufficient momentum for world economic growth and the expansion of the global development deficit. The major propositions put forward by President Xi Jinping (习近平) are forward-looking and 掷地有声 (zhì dì yǒu shēng - "words hit the ground with a sound," forceful and authoritative), powerfully countering the rhetoric of anti-globalization, pointing out the path for the Asia-Pacific region to work together and develop in harmony, and encouraging all parties to adhere to multilateralism and free trade and maintain confidence in an open economy. The meeting adopted the Gyeongju Declaration and issued statements on artificial intelligence and addressing demographic changes, reflecting the common aspirations of the vast majority of members to seek cooperation and development.

The highlight of this APEC meeting was the handover by the host. Amid warm applause from the audience, President Xi Jinping (习近平) solemnly announced that China will host the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Shenzhen (深圳) in November next year, emphasizing that China is willing to take the opportunity of serving as the host to work with all parties to build an Asia-Pacific community, focus on promoting the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific, and expand practical cooperation in connectivity, digital economy, artificial intelligence, and other fields, injecting greater vitality and impetus into Asia-Pacific development and better benefiting the people of the Asia-Pacific. The leaders of the participating economies actively supported China's assumption of the host country, highly appreciated China's concept of hosting the meeting, believed that the APEC "China Year" will achieve complete success, and looked forward to meeting in Shenzhen (深圳) next year to contribute to promoting regional cooperation and promoting common prosperity.

Wang Yi (王毅) said that this will be the third time for China to serve as the APEC host, and the first time in 12 years. In APEC history, the Shanghai Accord and the Beijing Program have left a strong Chinese imprint, reflecting China's leadership in Asia-Pacific cooperation, its practice of multilateralism, and its adherence to free trade. Shenzhen (深圳) was once an unknown small fishing village, but has grown into a modern international metropolis along with China's reform and opening up, which is a vivid embodiment of China's pursuit of a mutually beneficial and win-win opening strategy. Shenzhen (深圳), which is about to become the "third city" of APEC in China, is preparing to present a wonderful event to the world.

International media generally believe that as a major trading partner of many Asia-Pacific economies and an important pillar of the regional industrial and supply chains, China has always promoted regional integration with a spirit of openness and cooperation, enhanced development momentum with technological innovation, and worked with all parties to build an open Asia-Pacific economy, becoming an important pillar of APEC cooperation. Shenzhen (深圳) is known as China's "Silicon Valley" and "Southern Science and Technology Center," and is one of the major cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, concentrating many of the key advanced industries in China's "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal, and is a symbol of the achievements of Chinese-style modernization. As APEC enters "China Time," people have reason to expect that a China that continues to move towards modernization will bring greater cooperation opportunities, add new impetus to this most dynamic sector of the global economy, and jointly write a new chapter in Asia-Pacific development.

II. Navigating Sino-US Relations and Demonstrating the Responsibility of a Major Country

Wang Yi (王毅) said that the Busan (釜山) summit between the Chinese and American heads of state attracted worldwide attention. This was the first meeting between President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Trump (特朗普) in six years, and also the first face-to-face interaction between the two heads of state since the new US government took office. Head-of-state diplomacy has always been the ballast stone of Sino-US relations. Since the beginning of this year, President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Trump (特朗普) have had three phone calls, reaching a series of important consensus, pointing out the direction and setting the tone for stabilizing and improving Sino-US relations.

In Busan (釜山), President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Trump (特朗普) had in-depth communication on major issues concerning Sino-US relations and world peace and development. President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that China and the United States can completely achieve each other and prosper together. It is a historical enlightenment and a realistic need for the two countries to be partners and friends. In the face of storms and challenges, the two heads of state, as helmsmen, should grasp the direction and control the overall situation, so that the Sino-US relationship can move forward steadily. President Trump (特朗普) said that China is a great country, and President Xi Jinping (习近平) is a respected great leader. The US-China relationship has always been good and will be better in the future. He hopes that the future of China and the United States will be even better. The two heads of state agreed to maintain regular exchanges. President Trump (特朗普) looks forward to visiting China earlier next year and invited President Xi Jinping (习近平) to visit the United States.

The two heads of state agreed to strengthen cooperation in areas such as economy, trade, and energy, and instructed the economic and trade teams of both sides to continue their efforts to maintain and implement the consensus reached, so as to give the Chinese and American economies and the world economy a "reassurance pill" with tangible results. President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that economy and trade should continue to be the ballast stone and propeller of Sino-US relations, not stumbling blocks and conflict points. The two sides should calculate the big picture and focus more on the long-term benefits of cooperation, rather than falling into a vicious cycle of mutual retaliation. We should continue to talk on the basis of equality, respect, and mutual benefit, and constantly compress the list of problems and lengthen the list of cooperation.

President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that China and the United States should also have benign interactions on the international and regional stage. There are still many problems in the world today. China and the United States can jointly demonstrate the responsibility of major countries and work together to do more major, practical, and good things that are beneficial to both countries and the world. Next year, China will serve as the APEC host, and the United States will host the G20 summit. The two sides should support each other and strive for positive results in both summits. President Trump (特朗普) said that China is the United States' largest partner, and the two countries can accomplish many great things in the world by working together. In the future, US-China cooperation will achieve greater success.

The news of the meeting between the two heads of state occupied the front pages of global media at the first time. All parties generally welcomed and congratulated the successful meeting between the Chinese and American heads of state, believing that the meeting was of great significance, conveyed positive signals, eased tensions, and that Sino-US relations are expected to usher in a period of stability and controllability. The return of Sino-US economic and trade issues to the track of dialogue has boosted global market confidence. The head-of-state meeting is irreplaceable for China and the United States to reduce misunderstandings and misjudgments and avoid major ups and downs in relations.

Wang Yi (王毅) said that the Busan (釜山) summit between the Chinese and American heads of state was a historic moment in Sino-US relations and a landmark event in international relations. Since the beginning of this year, Sino-US relations have experienced ups and downs, but China's policy towards the United States has maintained continuity and stability, and has always followed the three principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation put forward by President Xi Jinping (习近平). At this Busan (釜山) meeting, President Xi Jinping (习近平) sized up the situation, took personal responsibility, and once again led the giant ship of Sino-US relations through rapids and shoals, demonstrating the confidence, composure, and responsibility of a leader of a major country. Facts have proved that dialogue is better than confrontation, zero-sum games have no way out, and win-win cooperation is the right path. Implementing the consensus reached by the two heads of state, promoting the stable, healthy, and sustainable development of Sino-US relations, and finding a correct way for China and the United States to get along is the wish of the two peoples and the expectation of all countries in the world.

III. Deepening Mutual Understanding and Writing a New Chapter in Sino-South Korean Relations

Wang Yi (王毅) said that China and South Korea are close neighbors that cannot be moved away, and also partners that cannot be separated. In the 33 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, the two countries have transcended differences in ideology and social systems, worked together and achieved each other, and friendly cooperation has always been the main theme of Sino-South Korean relations. China has been South Korea's largest trading partner for many years, and South Korea is also one of China's most important economic and trade partners. The economic ties between the two countries are close, and the production and supply chains are deeply intertwined, becoming a de facto community of interests.

President Xi Jinping (习近平) visited South Korea again after 11 years. The South Korean side looked forward to it eagerly and attached great importance to it, treating President Xi Jinping (习近平) as the most important and most distinguished guest, and warmly received him with the highest courtesy. President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) held grand state events for President Xi Jinping (习近平) in Gyeongju (庆州). The welcoming ceremony was held at the Gyeongju (庆州) Museum, which is very characteristic of the local area. The honor guard in traditional costumes lined up to escort the welcome. The two heads of state had in-depth communication and exchanges in a friendly atmosphere and reached a series of cooperation consensus.

An important achievement of this visit was the reaffirmation of the Sino-South Korean strategic cooperative partnership. Sino-South Korean relations were upgraded to a strategic cooperative partnership in 2008, and exchanges and cooperation in various fields have been significantly enhanced. Although there have been difficulties and challenges in the past few years, the reality of intertwined interests and shared destiny has not changed, and the common vision of promoting peace and seeking common prosperity has not changed. Facts have proved that China and South Korea should develop together in mutual respect and cooperate for win-win results while seeking common ground while reserving differences. A healthy, stable, and continuously deepening Sino-South Korean relationship is in the fundamental interests of the two peoples and is conducive to regional peace, stability, development, and prosperity. President Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out that after 33 years of baptism, Sino-South Korean relations should be more mature and stable, show a new atmosphere, and open up a new situation. President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) said that he attaches great importance to relations with China, and is willing to strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation, maintain the stability of the production and supply chains, improve national sentiment, and bring more benefits to the two peoples.

This visit vigorously promoted Sino-South Korean pragmatic cooperation. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Sino-South Korean Free Trade Agreement. The two sides agreed to accelerate the second phase of negotiations on the Sino-South Korean Free Trade Agreement, and agreed to deeply explore the potential of emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, biopharmaceuticals, green industries, and the silver economy, and promote the upgrading of economic and trade cooperation. The two sides agreed to promote healthy and beneficial cultural exchanges, continue to implement measures to facilitate personnel exchanges, carry out exchanges in areas such as youth, media, think tanks, and localities, and promote mutual understanding between the two peoples. Both China and South Korea are beneficiaries of economic globalization. The two sides agreed to further strengthen multilateral cooperation, support multilateralism, maintain free trade, and jointly address regional and even global challenges. During the visit, the two sides signed more than 10 cooperation documents in areas such as economy and trade, finance, law enforcement, agriculture, science and technology, and media, fully demonstrating that Sino-South Korean cooperation has rich connotations, abundant vitality, and broad prospects.

Wang Yi (王毅) said that President Xi Jinping's (习近平) state visit to South Korea vividly interpreted the neighboring, secure, prosperous, sincere, inclusive, and shared destiny of the surrounding diplomatic concepts and policies, actively advocated the Asian values of peace, cooperation, openness, and inclusiveness, and fully demonstrated China's sincere willingness to promote the building of a community with a shared future in the surrounding areas. China and South Korea have broad consensus on strengthening friendly cooperation and achieving common development, and have common pursuits in maintaining regional peace and promoting Asian prosperity. The current momentum of improvement in Sino-South Korean relations is hard-won and deserves to be cherished. The two sides should adhere to the original intention of establishing diplomatic relations, consolidate the foundation of mutual trust, expand the space for cooperation, and promote the steady and long-term development of Sino-South Korean relations.

IV. Decoding China's Governance and Creating Prospects for Win-Win Cooperation

Wang Yi (王毅) said that the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, which had just concluded successfully, adopted the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal, outlining a grand blueprint for economic and social development in the next five years. Looking back at the "14th Five-Year Plan," in the face of weak global economic recovery and severe external challenges, China has adhered to high-level opening up, providing new opportunities for the world with China's new development, and has become the main engine of world economic growth. Looking forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," China will take advantage of the momentum and continue to promote Chinese-style modernization, adhere to open cooperation, and jointly create a new situation of win-win cooperation with countries around the world. All parties paid close attention to China's future five-year development plans and policies, and looked forward to strengthening strategic alignment with China and expanding cooperation opportunities.

During the visit, President Xi Jinping (习近平) authoritatively explained the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee through various forms such as talks, meetings, public speeches, and written speeches. President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China will further comprehensively deepen reform and expand opening up, focus on promoting the effective improvement of the quality and the rational growth of the quantity of the economy, promote the all-round development of people and the common prosperity of all people, and open up broader space for China's cooperation with the world. The important secret of China's success is to adhere to drawing a blueprint to the end, doing one thing after another, concentrating on doing its own thing well, and being a better version of itself. President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that the Chinese economy is a sea, which will provide more development opportunities, a good business environment, a broad innovation stage, and green growth conditions for the global business community. It is an ideal, safe, and promising investment destination. 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.

President Xi Jinping's (习近平) incisive exposition and policy announcements were forward-looking and conveyed a strong signal that China will unswervingly expand high-level opening up and share development opportunities with the world. All parties highly praised China's important contribution to the economic growth of the Asia-Pacific and the world, admired the brilliant achievements China has made, and believed that China's new five-year plan will not only guide its own progress, but also create a new win-win prospect for the world, which is a "chorus of China and the world." International media commented that an important reason for China's economic development miracle lies in the scientific formulation and successive implementation of five-year plans, which is a unique political advantage of China and also provides useful lessons for countries around the world. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal makes the international community more convinced that in the next five years, China will better develop itself and continue to benefit the world.
During this visit, President Xi Jinping (习近平) also met with the leaders of Canada, Thailand, and Japan respectively, and had friendly exchanges with representatives of other economies to enhance mutual trust, build consensus, and promote cooperation. President Xi Jinping's (习近平) meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (卡尼) marked a comprehensive turnaround in China-Canada relations after seven years of twists and turns. President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized the need to establish an objective and rational understanding, proceed from the common and long-term interests of both countries, and promote the improvement of China-Canada relations. The two sides agreed to restart exchanges in various fields, properly handle economic and trade frictions, and jointly promote the development of the China-Canada strategic partnership. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Thailand and the "Golden 50 Years of China-Thailand Friendship." President Xi Jinping (习近平) and Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin (阿努廷) agreed to strengthen the alignment of development strategies, accelerate the construction of the China-Thailand Railway, deepen cultural exchanges in tourism, youth, and local areas, and jointly promote the building of a China-Thailand community with a shared future to a deeper and more practical level. When President Xi Jinping (习近平) met with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) at her request, he emphasized that the four political documents between China and Japan have made clear provisions on major principled issues such as history and Taiwan, and the Japanese side should abide by and fulfill them 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, and this spirit is worth promoting. Prime Minister Takaichi (高市) reiterated that on the Taiwan issue, Japan will adhere to the position in the 1972 Japan-China Joint Statement. The two sides agreed to promote China-Japan strategic reciprocal relations and build a constructive and stable China-Japan relationship that meets the requirements of the new era.

Wang Yi (王毅) concluded by saying that President Xi Jinping's (习近平) visit was based on the surrounding areas, planned the overall situation, achieved fruitful results, and had far-reaching significance. It was another successful practice of Xi Jinping's (习近平) diplomatic thought, and drew a successful conclusion to this year's wonderful and climaxing head-of-state diplomacy. President Xi Jinping's (习近平) four visits this year, from Southeast Asia to Russia, from Central Asia to Northeast Asia, have engraved the vision of 穿云破雾 (chuān yún pò wù - "piercing through clouds and fog," overcoming obstacles and seeing clearly), the pattern of win-win cooperation, and the sentiment of benefiting the world, leading China's diplomacy to forge ahead courageously. No matter how the international situation changes, China always firmly stands on the right side of history, on the side of the common development of the world, and on the side of the progress of human civilization, and always firmly defends international fairness and justice and promotes the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. 潮起海天阔 (cháo qǐ hǎi tiān kuò - "when the tide rises, the sea and sky broaden," a metaphor for seizing opportunities and making great progress), it is time to set sail. We must unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, deeply study and practice Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping's (习近平) diplomatic thought, continue to create a new situation in major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics, create a favorable external environment for building a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and make greater contributions to the cause of world peace and development.

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Xi Jinping's Special Envoy, Minister of Culture and Tourism Sun Yeli, Attends the Grand Egyptian Museum Opening Ceremony

Cairo, November 2nd (Reporter Shen Xiaoxiao (沈小晓)) At the invitation of the government of the Arab Republic of Egypt, on November 1st, Xi Jinping (习近平)'s special envoy, Minister of Culture and Tourism Sun Yeli (孙业礼), attended the opening ceremony of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo (开罗), the capital of Egypt. Egyptian President Sisi (塞西) met with Sun Yeli (孙业礼) before the opening ceremony and had a brief conversation.

Sun Yeli (孙业礼) conveyed President Xi Jinping (习近平)'s cordial greetings to President Sisi (塞西) and presented President Xi Jinping (习近平)'s congratulatory letter. Sun Yeli (孙业礼) said that China attaches great importance to the development of Sino-Egyptian relations and is willing to work with Egypt to implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, promote pragmatic cooperation, expand cultural exchanges, and continuously enrich the connotation of the China-Egypt comprehensive strategic partnership.

President Sisi (塞西) asked Sun Yeli (孙业礼) to convey his sincere greetings to President Xi Jinping (习近平), and sincerely thanked President Xi Jinping (习近平) for sending a letter of congratulations on the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum and sending a special envoy to attend the opening ceremony, saying that Egypt is willing to deepen exchanges and cooperation with China in various fields and promote greater development of relations between the two countries.

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12th ADMM-Plus Convenes in Malaysia, Dong Jun Attends and Delivers Remarks

The 12th ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting Plus (ADMM-Plus) was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on the morning of November 1st, with Minister of National Defense Dong Jun (董军) attending and delivering a speech.

Dong Jun (董军) said that this year marks the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the ADMM-Plus mechanism. The destinies of countries in the region are more closely linked, and the call for peace and development is growing. Regional cooperation is ushering in broader opportunities, but new threats and challenges are also continuing to accumulate. President Xi Jinping (习近平) put forward global governance initiatives, providing Chinese solutions for responding to global changes and solving global problems, which are highly consistent with the core concepts of the ASEAN Charter and the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia. All countries should adhere to the original aspiration of peace and cooperation, seek common ground while reserving differences, work together, seek common development, and share peace.

Dong Jun (董军) stated that China and ASEAN are neighbors, and most hope to see peace and tranquility in the region, and play an important role in this regard. We firmly support ASEAN's central role in the regional architecture, and are willing to work with countries in the region to actively take on the responsibility of maintaining regional peace, bridge differences through dialogue and consultation, improve the level of opening-up and cooperation, firmly be a predictable and stable force, add bricks and tiles to the ADMM-Plus security cooperation, build a closer China-ASEAN community with a shared future, and jointly maintain international and regional peace and stability.

On the same day, Dong Jun (董军) held talks with the leaders of the defense departments of South Korea, Japan, and Australia.

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"An Important Guarantee for Long-Term Prosperity in the Asia-Pacific Region"

By: 本报记者 陈一鸣

"Openness and cooperation are the fundamental driving forces for the prosperity and development of the Asia-Pacific region." Carlos Aquino, Director of the Center for Asian Studies at the National University of San Marcos (秘鲁国立圣马科斯大学) in Peru, said in a recent interview with this reporter that the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) adheres to open regionalism and has made irreplaceable contributions to regional economic growth, social progress, and inclusive development.

Aquino believes that as a high-level dialogue and cooperation platform, APEC continuously promotes trade liberalization, investment facilitation, regional connectivity, and innovation cooperation. The "Vibrant Asia-Pacific - Public Opinion Survey Report on 16 Countries in the Asia-Pacific Region" released by the People's Daily (人民日报社) shows that 85% of respondents recognize the positive role of APEC in promoting regional economic development, social progress, and improvement of people's livelihoods. "This result shows that openness, inclusiveness, and mutual benefit and win-win remain the main theme of the Asia-Pacific region," he said. "APEC has enhanced the ability of all parties to cope with global economic uncertainties and geopolitical risks."

"Faced with global challenges such as climate change, all parties in the Asia-Pacific region have formed close cooperation networks in clean energy, ecological agriculture, and low-carbon technologies to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results." Aquino believes that the Asia-Pacific region needs to adhere to openness and cooperation more than ever and oppose division and confrontation. "Cooperation under the APEC framework enables member economies to form consensus and action plans in areas such as industrial chain and supply chain resilience, green transformation, and digital economic development, which is an important guarantee for the long-term prosperity of the Asia-Pacific region."

Aquino highly appreciates China's role in Asia-Pacific cooperation. "China advocates openness, inclusiveness, and mutual benefit and win-win, which is highly consistent with APEC's cooperation concept." He said that China not only expands high-level opening up to the outside world, providing more development opportunities for all parties, but also injects lasting impetus into regional cooperation through the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative. "China's stable economic growth and open commitment provide important support for the development of the Asia-Pacific region." Aquino believes that China's experience in green transformation, digital economy, and infrastructure construction provides important lessons for Latin American countries such as Peru. "Cooperation with China in clean energy, renewable technologies, and intelligent manufacturing will help Latin American countries such as Peru accelerate development and transformation."

Aquino believes that the close cooperation between Peru and China in various fields has become a model of South-South cooperation under the APEC framework. "Peru and China have strong complementarity in trade and investment. China's support for Peru's infrastructure and connectivity projects, especially the construction of ports, transportation, and logistics systems, helps Peru expand exports and integrate into the global industrial chain and supply chain." He said that the two countries share experience and technology and work together to promote energy transition and innovative development, which will achieve a higher level of mutual benefit and win-win results.

China will take over as the host of APEC in 2026, and Aquino is full of expectations for this. "China is expected to lead the entire Asia-Pacific region to continue to achieve higher-quality and more sustainable development." Aquino said, "We look forward to China actively leading all parties to take pragmatic actions, so that the Asia-Pacific region maintains its openness and vitality, and adds confidence and impetus to global economic development."

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Persevere in comprehensively and strictly governing the Party (Studying and implementing the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee)

By: 蔡 奇

Governing a country requires first governing the Party, and a strong Party leads to a strong country. The "Suggestions of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" (《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十五个五年规划的建议》), adopted by the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, emphasizes the need to "unswervingly promote comprehensive and strict Party governance," highlighting the extreme importance of comprehensive and strict Party governance for achieving the economic and social development goals of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. We must deeply understand and earnestly implement this, adhere to managing and governing the Party with the spirit of reform and strict standards, lead social revolution with the Party's self-revolution, and gather tremendous strength for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.

I. Comprehensive and Strict Party Governance Provides a Fundamental Guarantee for the Historic Achievements and Historic Changes in the Cause of the Party and the Country in the New Era

The "Suggestions" point out when summarizing the major achievements of China's development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period: "Comprehensive and strict Party governance has achieved remarkable results, the anti-corruption struggle has been advanced in depth, and the Party's creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness have been significantly improved." Practice has shown that comprehensive and strict Party governance is the fundamental guarantee for the major achievements in the cause of the Party and the country in the new era.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has incorporated comprehensive and strict Party governance into the "Four Comprehensives" strategic layout, unswervingly promoted comprehensive and strict Party governance, opened up a new realm of self-revolution for the century-old Party, and provided a strong guarantee for opening a new situation and writing a new chapter in the new era. In terms of political guarantee, we adhere to taking the Party's political construction as the overall leader of the Party's construction work, firmly safeguard the authority of the CPC Central Committee and its centralized and unified leadership, strictly enforce the Party's political discipline and political rules, effectively improve the Party's political judgment, political understanding, and political execution, and effectively reverse the tendency of weakening, hollowing out, and marginalizing the Party's leadership, and have played the leading core role of the Party in overall planning and coordination in the cause of the Party and the country. In terms of ideological guarantee, we adhere to arming the entire Party with Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, guiding practice, and promoting work, continuously carrying out centralized education within the Party, and using the Party's innovative theories to lead the deepening of reform and opening up, solve development problems, expand development space, and promote high-quality development. In terms of organizational guarantee, we have proposed and adhered to the Party's organizational line in the new era, implemented and implemented the standards for good cadres in the new era, focused on cultivating and building a high-quality and professional cadre team that is loyal, clean, and responsible, focused on building an excellent talent team that is determined to love the country and dedicate itself, and is brave in innovation and creation, and focused on building a strict organizational system that is connected from top to bottom and has effective execution, and fully exerted the fighting fortress role of grassroots Party organizations and the vanguard and exemplary role of Party members in promoting reform, development, and stability. In terms of style guarantee, we started by formulating and implementing the eight-point regulations of the Central Committee, closely focusing on maintaining the Party's flesh-and-blood ties with the people and continuously deepening the correction of the "four forms of formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism, and extravagance" (四风), stopped some unhealthy trends that had not been stopped for a long time, corrected some stubborn diseases that had not been eliminated for many years, and promoted a new atmosphere in the Party's work style, government work style, and social atmosphere. In terms of disciplinary guarantee, we adhere to governing the Party with institutions and according to regulations, incorporate strengthening discipline construction into the overall layout of Party building in the new era, as a fundamental strategy for comprehensively and strictly governing the Party, comprehensively exert the disciplinary education, restraint, guarantee, and incentive functions of the Party, and guide Party members and cadres to correctly exercise power and actively assume responsibility in compliance with rules and discipline. In particular, we have carried out an unprecedented anti-corruption struggle, eliminated a group of corrupt elements, purified the cadre team, and safeguarded the Party's image and prestige.

The reason why the cause of the Party and the country has been able to achieve historic achievements and undergo historic changes, and continue to write a new chapter in the "two major miracles," is key to the Party and key to comprehensive and strict Party governance.

II. The Development and Changes in the Situation and Tasks Put Forward New Requirements for Comprehensive and Strict Party Governance

The economic and social development tasks during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period are arduous, and the situation is severe and complex, which puts forward new and higher requirements for the Party's great self-revolution of comprehensive and strict Party governance.

Effectively responding to the development and changes in the international and domestic situation requires the entire Party to maintain strategic focus and firm confidence in victory. The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a period in which China's development is facing both strategic opportunities and risks and challenges, and there are more uncertain and unpredictable factors. From an international perspective, the world's century-old changes are accelerating, the international balance of power is undergoing profound adjustments, and a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating breakthroughs. China has many favorable factors to actively plan international space and shape the external environment. At the same time, the world is intertwined with chaos and turbulence, unilateralism and protectionism are on the rise, hegemonism and power politics threats are rising, and major-country games are becoming more complex and fierce. From a domestic perspective, China's economic foundation is stable, its advantages are many, its resilience is strong, and its potential is great. The supporting conditions and basic trends for long-term improvement have not changed. The institutional advantages of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the advantages of a super-large-scale market, the advantages of a complete industrial system, and the advantages of abundant human resources are even more prominent. At the same time, the problem of unbalanced and insufficient development is still prominent, and reform, development, and stability face many deep-seated contradictions and problems that cannot be avoided or bypassed. To seize opportunities and respond to challenges in a profoundly complex and changing situation, we must unify the thoughts and actions of the entire Party to the decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee, consciously observe the times, grasp the times, and lead the times with Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, actively recognize changes, respond to changes, and seek changes, dare to struggle, be good at struggling, and cultivate new opportunities in crises and open new situations in changes.

Successfully achieving the economic and social development goals during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period requires continuously improving the Party's ability and level to lead economic and social development. The "Suggestions" depict the grand blueprint for China's economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and clearly propose "to promote major breakthroughs in strategic tasks related to the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization, and lay a more solid foundation for basically realizing socialist modernization." Achieving such a goal puts forward new and higher requirements for the ideological concepts, ability qualities, mental state, and work style image of the vast number of Party members and cadres, and for the creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness of Party organizations at all levels. It is urgently necessary to further improve the quality of Party building, further enhance the ability of Party members and cadres, especially leading cadres, to promote high-quality development, serve the masses, and prevent and resolve risks, and further enhance the political functions and organizational functions of Party organizations, and effectively implement the Party's leadership throughout all aspects and the entire process of economic and social development.

Solving the outstanding problems existing within the Party requires further increasing the efforts to strictly manage the Party and govern the Party. After more than ten years of unremitting efforts, comprehensive and strict Party governance has achieved remarkable results and accumulated rich experience. At the same time, we must soberly see that some Party members and cadres still have wrong ideas about the Party's self-revolution, and there are emotions such as relaxation, hesitation, difficulty, retreat, negative response, and even deliberate resistance; some Party members and cadres protect themselves wisely and are unwilling to take responsibility; the "four forms of formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism, and extravagance" (四风) still exist, and the stock of unhealthy trends and corruption has not been exhausted, and the increment is still prone to occur; some places and units have not implemented the responsibility for managing the Party and governing the Party in place, and so on. In this regard, we must always maintain the courage and determination to face problems and carry out self-revolution, thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important thoughts on Party building and his important thoughts on the Party's self-revolution, earnestly implement the important requirements for promoting the Party's self-revolution "five further in place," adhere to the strict tone, strict atmosphere, and strict measures, resolutely eliminate all negative factors that affect the Party's progressiveness and purity and affect economic and social development, and build the Party stronger and more powerful.

III. Deeply Promote Comprehensive and Strict Party Governance with the Perseverance and Determination of Always Being on the Road

The "Suggestions" write "taking comprehensive and strict Party governance as the fundamental guarantee" into the guiding ideology for economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and make a series of deployments for strengthening and improving Party building. We must grasp the implementation, continuously improve the comprehensive and strict Party governance system, adhere to leading and promoting high-quality development with high-quality Party building, and effectively promote the implementation of the economic and social development goals and tasks during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.

We must adhere to and strengthen the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee. This is the fundamental guarantee for promoting the steady and long-term development of the cause of the Party and the country. We must put the Party's political construction in the first place, promote the entire Party to deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments," enhance the "four consciousnesses," strengthen the "four confidences," and achieve the "two safeguards," and always maintain a high degree of consistency with the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core in terms of political stance, political direction, political principles, and political path. Further improve the Party's leadership system that takes overall control and coordinates all parties, improve the implementation mechanism of the CPC Central Committee's major decisions and deployments, strictly implement the system of requesting instructions and reporting to the CPC Central Committee, strengthen political supervision, deepen political inspections, and promote the entire Party to further improve its political judgment, political understanding, and political execution. Strictly organize the Party's organizational system, promote central and state organs, local Party committees, and grassroots Party organizations to earnestly fulfill their responsibilities for implementing the CPC Central Committee's major decisions and deployments, and ensure that they are connected from top to bottom and have effective execution. Develop intra-Party democracy, improve and implement democratic centralism, adhere to scientific decision-making, democratic decision-making, and legal decision-making, and base major decisions on in-depth investigation and research, extensive listening to opinions, and carrying out scientific argumentation and risk assessment.

We must continue to use the Party's innovative theories to unify thoughts, unify will, and unify actions. This is the successful way to strengthen faith and belief, maintain the correct direction, and continuously achieve new victories in the cause. We must unremittingly carry out the study, publicity, and education of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, improve the long-term mechanism of casting the soul with learning, increasing wisdom with learning, correcting the style with learning, and promoting work with learning, and promote the deepening and solid implementation of theoretical arming. Highlight the leading and main course status of the Party's innovative theories in the education and training of Party members and cadres, improve the "first topic," the study of the theoretical learning center group of the Party committee (Party group), and the theoretical learning system of grassroots Party organizations, use the Party branch's "three meetings and one lesson" and theme Party day and other carriers, guide Party members and cadres to comprehensively and systematically learn, learn from the original text, and learn in a timely manner, systematically grasp the scientific system, core essence, and practical requirements of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and deeply grasp the world view, methodology, and the position, viewpoint, and method that run through this important thought, and draw on the rich political wisdom and Party spirit nourishment contained therein. Adhere to the study style of linking theory with practice, be good at finding directions, ideas, and methods from the Party's innovative theories, and transform the effectiveness of learning into a strong force for strengthening ideals, tempering Party spirit, guiding practice, and promoting work. Leading cadres must take the lead in strengthening theoretical study, and promote the improvement of leadership level with the enhancement of theoretical literacy. Grasp the theoretical study of young cadres, and guide them to lay a solid theoretical foundation and improve their ability to use the Party's innovative theories to solve practical problems.

We must adhere to the correct employment orientation and stimulate the internal motivation and overall vitality of the cadre team. This is a powerful measure to build a high-quality cadre team that can shoulder the heavy responsibility of national rejuvenation. We must adhere to putting political standards first, deepen and solidify the assessment of cadres' political qualities, strictly control the political, moral, ability, work style, and integrity aspects, and effectively prevent cadres from being "promoted with illness." Guide cadres to establish and practice the correct view of performance, improve the effective mechanism for preventing and correcting deviations in the view of performance, improve and implement the tenure system for leading cadres, improve the handover system for changes in the main leaders of leading bodies, and prevent some cadres from being eager for quick success and instant benefits, blindly and recklessly engaging in "image projects" and "performance projects." Improve the cadre assessment and evaluation mechanism, adhere to emphasizing responsibility, emphasizing practical work, and emphasizing practical results, promote the normalization of leading cadres being able to be promoted and demoted, adjust cadres who are incompetent for their current positions, and form a correct orientation of those who are capable are promoted, those who are excellent are rewarded, those who are mediocre are demoted, and those who are inferior are eliminated. Strengthen cadre education, training, and practical training, guide cadres to fill knowledge gaps, make up for quality shortcomings, and strengthen ability weaknesses in a timely manner, and strive to become experts in various fields. Adhere to combining strict management with deep love, combining incentives with constraints, strengthen all-round management and regular supervision of cadres, clearly support and encourage those who dare to take responsibility and act, and create a good environment conducive to starting a business.

We must enhance the political functions and organizational functions of Party organizations. This is a long-term plan and a fundamental strategy for consolidating the Party's organizational foundation for governance. We must adhere to the clear orientation of grasping the grassroots level, coordinate and promote the construction of grassroots Party organizations in various fields, and give full play to the role of grassroots Party organizations as fighting fortresses in promoting reform, development, and stability. Strengthen Party building to lead grassroots governance and grassroots regime construction, continuously rectify weak and lax grassroots Party organizations, improve the urban and rural grassroots governance system that combines Party organization leadership, autonomy, rule of law, and rule of virtue, and comprehensively improve the ability and level of urban and rural grassroots Party organizations to lead grassroots governance. Improve the quality of Party building in organs, strengthen Party building in institutions such as schools, hospitals, and scientific research institutes, and promote state-owned enterprises and financial enterprises to strengthen Party leadership in improving corporate governance. Strictly and practically grasp the construction of the Party member team, strengthen and improve the management of floating Party members, earnestly do a good job in developing Party members and organizing the disposal of unqualified Party members, improve the Party member education and management mechanism, improve the mechanism for Party members to play their role online and offline, in peacetime and in emergencies, and give full play to the vanguard and exemplary role of the vast number of Party members.

With the rapid development of emerging fields, a large number of new economic organizations and new social organizations have emerged, and the scale of new employment groups has continued to expand. Party building in emerging fields has become a new broad space and an important position for Party building work. We must focus on grasping Party building in new economic organizations, new social organizations, and new employment groups, further clarify the problems of where the "new" is, where the "difficulty" is, and where the "implementation" is, focus on improving the Party's organizational system, focus on strengthening political leadership and service management, focus on improving the Party building work system and mechanism, and continuously enhance the Party's appeal, cohesion, and influence in emerging fields, and guide various organizations and groups in emerging fields to actively play a role in strengthening social governance, maintaining social stability, and promoting high-quality development.

We must unremittingly implement the spirit of the eight-point regulations of the Central Committee and promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style construction. This is an inevitable requirement for promoting economic and social development with a good work style. We must consolidate and expand the achievements of work style construction since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, consolidate the achievements of in-depth implementation of the spirit of the eight-point regulations of the Central Committee, fully use the important experience of promoting comprehensive and strict Party governance by starting with grasping work style construction, adhere to grasping Party spirit, Party conduct, and Party discipline together, and connecting the correction of work style and discipline with anti-corruption, and effectively create a strict atmosphere and establish a correct atmosphere. Carry out work style education on a regular basis, guide Party members and cadres to strengthen Party spirit cultivation, deeply find out the gaps and shortcomings in Party spirit, Party conduct, and Party discipline, consciously correct and overcome various ideological deviations, and cultivate a good work style with a strong Party spirit. Improve the mechanism for regularly discovering and solving work style problems, regularly analyze the regional, industry, and stage characteristics of work style construction, grasp the problems that occur universally and repeatedly to deepen rectification and remediation, promptly investigate and severely punish phenomena that violate discipline against the wind, eradicate the soil of "four forms of formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism, and extravagance" (四风) problems, and resolutely prevent rebound. Strictly supervise and enforce discipline, strengthen the daily supervision of Party organizations, adhere to grasping the current situation, grasping typical cases, and grasping reporting, increase the efforts to investigate and treat both work style and corruption, and form a strong deterrent effect. Implement the political responsibility for work style construction, strengthen strict management and strict governance, transmit pressure at all levels, and promote the thorough implementation of the spirit of the eight-point regulations of the Central Committee. Deeply carry out the work of rectifying formalism and reducing burdens for the grassroots, maintain a work attitude of not relaxing and grasping together, and continuously improve the long-term mechanism.
It is imperative to resolutely fight a tough, sustained, and comprehensive battle against corruption. This is an urgent need to create a favorable development environment by fostering a sound political ecosystem. We must adhere to the integrated approach of "not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt," exerting simultaneous efforts in punishment and deterrence, institutional constraints, and raising awareness, thereby deepening the comprehensive management of both symptoms and root causes. We must always maintain a high-pressure stance against corruption, investigating and punishing every corruption case that is discovered, strictly investigating and punishing corruption involving the intertwining of political and economic issues, deepening the rectification of corruption in areas with concentrated power, intensive capital, and abundant resources, and severely investigating and punishing leading cadres' spouses, children and their spouses, and other relatives and staff members around them who use their influence to seek personal gain and engage in corruption. We must resolutely punish new forms of corruption, hidden corruption, and "fly-like and ant-like corruption" around the masses. We must strengthen the standardization and supervision of power allocation and operation, focusing on identifying loopholes in power operation, filling institutional shortcomings, and improving the institutional mechanisms that unify authorization, power use, and power restriction, and are clear, transparent, and traceable. We must combine internal Party supervision with people's supervision, attach importance to giving play to the "outpost" role of mass supervision and public opinion supervision, promote the coordination and convergence of various types of supervision, and make privilege and corruption problems have nowhere to hide. We must strengthen the building of a clean culture in the new era, pay attention to giving play to the warning and educational role of typical cases and cases around us, guide Party members and cadres to build a solid ideological defense line against corruption and never be contaminated, and always maintain the integrity and incorruptibility of Communists.

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He Lifeng and Chernyshenko Co-chair the 29th Meeting of the China-Russia Prime Ministers' Regular Meeting Committee

Xinhua News Agency, Ningbo, November 2nd (Reporter Duan Jingjing (段菁菁)) On November 2nd, Vice Premier of the State Council and Chinese Chairman of the China-Russia Prime Ministers' Regular Meeting Committee, He Lifeng (何立峰), and Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Russian Chairman of the Committee, Chernyshenko, co-chaired the 29th meeting of the China-Russia Prime Ministers' Regular Meeting Committee in Ningbo (宁波市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省).

He Lifeng (何立峰) pointed out that since the beginning of this year, President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Putin (普京) have held multiple meetings, reaching new and important consensus on deepening China-Russia strategic coordination and practical cooperation in various fields, leading China-Russia relations to move forward steadily and far. Under the personal attention and promotion of the two heads of state, the cooperation mechanism in practical fields between China and Russia has been continuously improved, exchanges have become closer, bilateral economic and trade cooperation has maintained steady development, key projects have been steadily advanced, and cooperation in related fields has been carried out in an orderly and effective manner.

He Lifeng (何立峰) stated that China is willing to work with Russia to take the important consensus of the two heads of state as the fundamental guideline, continue to leverage the role of the Prime Ministers' Regular Meeting Committee mechanism, deeply promote mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields, oppose unilateralism and trade protectionism, and jointly safeguard the multilateral trading system.

Chernyshenko said that Russia-China relations are at their best level in history, and practical cooperation in various fields has yielded fruitful results. The Russian side is willing to work with the Chinese side to raise the level of cooperation, expand cooperation fields, tap cooperation potential, and inject new impetus into the Russia-China comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era.

The relevant departments of both sides conducted in-depth communication and exchanges on cooperation in related fields, reaching a series of cooperation results and consensus.

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How Traditional Ports Can Smartly "Transform" (Development Blueprint for the "15th Five-Year Plan")

By: 本报记者 李 蕊

Promote the upgrading of traditional infrastructure and its digital and intelligent transformation.

——Excerpt from the "15th Five-Year Plan" Recommendations

As dawn breaks, the fully automated container terminal at Rizhao Port (日照港) of Shandong Port (山东港口) has already begun operations, but human figures are rarely seen. Automated rail-mounted gantry cranes precisely lift and transfer containers, and intelligent guided vehicles shuttle in an orderly manner.

How much investment is needed to build such a smart port?

"Traditional solutions would cost tens of billions of yuan," said Xu Guannan (徐冠男), deputy director of the Technology Innovation Center of Shandong Port Rizhao Port. In his memory, this place looked very different in 2019: "Workers operated on shore machinery, and the lifting and lowering of a single container required the cooperation of multiple people, which was time-consuming and labor-intensive." Transformation was imminent, but at that time, almost all fully automated container terminals at home and abroad were newly built as a whole, and the investment of tens of billions of yuan and the long construction cycle stumped many ports.

Achieving a low-cost "transformation" of traditional ports—Rizhao Port (日照港) is determined to blaze a new path of intelligence.

Achieving automated horizontal transportation is the key to port transformation, and unmanned truck technology is a tough nut to crack in transportation. "At that time, I couldn't wait to split one day into two, and I almost lived in the port," Xu Guannan (徐冠男) recalled.

During this period, some people suggested, "It would save time and effort to directly introduce foreign solutions."

Xu Guannan (徐冠男) insisted: "The core technology is most reliable when it is in our own hands!" After more than 200 days and nights of exposure to the sun and wind, the team overcame technical difficulties such as 5G remote driving and the Internet of Vehicles, and solved the problem that unmanned trucks needed "safety officers" to supervise operations.

In October 2021, the world's first shore-parallel open fully automated container terminal was built in Rizhao Port (日照港), with a comprehensive renovation cost of about 1/10 of the traditional solution. The new terminal, with a basic layout of "remote-controlled automated quay crane + unmanned truck + automated rail-mounted gantry crane," reduces the comprehensive cost by 70%, exploring a replicable and scalable Chinese "intelligent" manufacturing path for the construction of fully automated terminals.

With the expansion of the scale of automated container terminal transformation and the launch of software and hardware systems such as intelligent container terminal management and control, the terminal operation efficiency has increased by 23%, the single-machine efficiency has increased by 11%, and the gate passage efficiency has increased by 30%.

There is no end to smart transformation. Not long ago, a new generation of double-cantilever lightweight rail-mounted gantry crane developed by Xu Guannan (徐冠男) and his team was put into trial operation. With a weight reduction of 70 tons and an energy efficiency improvement of 15%, this is the result of more than a hundred simulation analyses and structural optimizations.

"It's like the bones and tendons working together," Xu Guannan (徐冠男) said, "It guarantees strength and greatly reduces its own weight." The manufacturing cost of a single rail-mounted gantry crane is reduced by more than one million yuan, and 2 million yuan can be saved throughout its life cycle. All key supporting parts of the equipment have been localized, getting rid of the dependence on imported spare parts.

In the past 5 years, Rizhao Port's (日照港) smart and green transformation has steadily advanced: the operating efficiency of the smart and green demonstration port system for bulk dry bulk cargo has increased by more than 30%; the maximum unloading efficiency of the domestically produced automated grain continuous unloader reaches 1,500 tons/hour, reaching the international leading level.

"After climbing over one mountain, you see another peak. Building a smart port is like climbing, always on the road," Xu Guannan (徐冠男) said, "Looking forward to the '15th Five-Year Plan,' we will continue to tackle technologies such as ship-side automation and intelligent unlocking, making the port more and more 'smart'."

This issue coordinated by: Zhang Anyu (张安宇)

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Breaking with convention is the key to breakthroughs (First-hand account)

By: 王衍棣

The transformation of traditional ports into smart ports is an inevitable trend, but achieving intelligence and the localization of key technologies is not easy.

There are no shortcuts to innovation. The newly implemented new generation of double-cantilever lightweight rail-mounted gantry crane saves approximately 60,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. During the research and development process, we worked together in a production-study-research cooperation model, received support from many technicians, and underwent more than a hundred simulation analyses and structural optimizations, finally succeeding in the exploration.

Breaking with convention is the only way to achieve breakthroughs. There is no upper limit to intelligence. Single-point intelligence is only a partial breakthrough; global intelligence is the goal. We will strengthen technological breakthroughs, expand the scale of automation, intelligence, and process optimization, and build smart ports with lower costs, higher efficiency, and better services.

(The author is the director of the Rizhao Port (日照港) Technology Innovation Center of Shandong Port (山东港口). This article was compiled and edited from an interview with Li Rui (李蕊), a reporter from this newspaper.)

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Moving from Single-Point Acceleration to Full-Chain Collaboration (Expert Commentary)

By: 陈 康

In recent years, the construction of smart ports in China has been steadily advancing, with approximately 60 automated terminals already built. The number of automated terminals already built and under construction ranks first in the world.

The intelligent transformation of ports helps to reduce costs, improve quality, and increase efficiency in transportation and logistics. Taking Shanghai Port (上海港), the world's largest container port, as an example, it used to take 4 hours to allocate a ship, but with the development and application of information technology, it now takes about 5 minutes to complete the allocation of a ship.

Moving towards a higher level of intelligence, ports still have great potential. It should be noted that it is not only the speed of single-point loading and unloading that constrains the efficiency of port operations, but also the information coordination before and after ship berthing, the level of connection between sea-rail intermodal transportation, and the smoothness of document circulation. Moving towards the "15th Five-Year Plan," to build modern infrastructure, ports should accelerate the transition from intelligent port areas to intelligent sea-rail hubs. In terms of hardware, the efficiency of sea-rail intermodal transport channels should be improved through the design of integrated railway-port stations and dedicated loading, unloading, and marshalling equipment. In terms of software, we should accelerate the promotion of "single bill system" and "single container system" for multimodal transport, break down barriers to cross-departmental data interconnection and collaborative scheduling, and build a hub network with lower costs, higher reliability, and stronger resilience by moving from single-point operation speed-up to full-chain system collaboration.

(The author is a professor at the School of Shipping Economics and Management, Dalian Maritime University (大连海事大学), interviewed and compiled by Han Xin (韩鑫), a reporter from this newspaper)

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Han Zheng Visits Kuwait

This newspaper reported from Kuwait City on November 2nd (Reporter Guan Kejiang (管克江)) From November 1st to 2nd local time, at the invitation of Kuwaiti Crown Prince Sabah (萨巴赫), Chinese Vice President Han Zheng (韩正) visited Kuwait. In Kuwait City, he met with Kuwaiti Emir Mishal (米沙勒), Crown Prince Sabah (萨巴赫), and Prime Minister Ahmad (艾哈迈德) respectively.

During the meeting with Mishal (米沙勒), Han Zheng (韩正) conveyed President Xi Jinping's (习近平) cordial greetings and best wishes to Emir Mishal (米沙勒). Han Zheng (韩正) stated that China always cherishes the friendship between China and Kuwait and attaches great importance to developing relations with Kuwait. Since 2022, President Xi Jinping (习近平) has met with His Highness twice, reaching a series of important consensus, providing strategic guidance for the development of China-Kuwait relations to a higher level. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) released a clear signal that China will further comprehensively deepen reform and expand high-level opening up to the outside world, which will create good opportunities for the development of China-Kuwait relations. China is willing to deepen political mutual trust with Kuwait, implement the bilateral cooperation documents witnessed and signed by the heads of state of the two countries, strive to achieve substantial progress as soon as possible, and promote the strategic partnership between the two countries to be more profound and solid. President Xi Jinping (习近平) put forward global governance initiatives, pointing out the direction for reforming and improving the global governance system. It is believed that Kuwait will actively support this initiative, and Kuwait is also welcome to join the "Global Development Initiative Friends Group". China appreciates Kuwait's long-term support for promoting cooperation between China and the Gulf Cooperation Council (海合会) countries, and hopes that Kuwait, as the rotating presidency of the Gulf Cooperation Council (海合会), will further play a positive role in this regard.

Mishal (米沙勒) asked Han Zheng (韩正) to convey his high respect to President Xi Jinping (习近平). Mishal (米沙勒) said that Kuwait was the first Gulf Arab country to establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, reflecting the strategic and forward-looking nature of bilateral relations. Kuwait highly appreciates and supports the four major global initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平), especially the global governance initiative proposed not long ago, and firmly adheres to the one-China policy. Kuwait is willing to jointly build the "Belt and Road" with China, implement relevant bilateral cooperation documents, and promote Kuwait-China relations to a higher level. Kuwait is willing to actively promote the cooperation between the Gulf Cooperation Council (海合会) countries, Arab countries and China to a new level.

During the talks with Sabah (萨巴赫), Han Zheng (韩正) said that Kuwait is a country with a unique and important influence in the Middle East, and China always places Kuwait in an important position in China's Middle East diplomacy. In recent years, under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping (习近平) and Emir Mishal (米沙勒), the strategic partnership between the two countries has continued to develop. Next year marks the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Kuwait. China is willing to take this as an opportunity to work with Kuwait to implement the important consensus reached by the heads of state of the two countries, further deepen political mutual trust, strengthen practical cooperation in various fields, and promote bilateral relations to a new level. China is willing to strengthen cooperation with Kuwait to promote greater progress in collective cooperation between China and Arab countries and the Gulf Cooperation Council (海合会) countries, jointly promote multilateralism, and promote global governance in a more just and reasonable direction.

Sabah (萨巴赫) said that the friendly relations between Kuwait and China are close and solid. Kuwait supports China in safeguarding its core interests and is willing to expand cooperation fields with China, implement bilateral cooperation projects, and promote greater development of Kuwait-China relations. At present, the global order is facing profound adjustments. Kuwait firmly supports multilateralism, highly appreciates China's upholding of justice in international affairs, and adheres to a fair position on the Palestinian issue. It is willing to strengthen multilateral coordination with China and jointly commit to maintaining peace and stability in the Middle East.

During the meeting with Ahmad (艾哈迈德), Han Zheng (韩正) said that China and Kuwait are good friends and good partners. In recent years, China-Kuwait relations have made positive progress. China-Kuwait cooperation is highly complementary and has great development potential. China is willing to work with Kuwait to promote the upgrading of bilateral practical cooperation on the basis of mutual benefit and win-win results, effectively promote the implementation of cooperation projects, and help the China-Kuwait strategic partnership move to a higher level.

Ahmad (艾哈迈德) said that Kuwait cherishes the friendship and mutual trust between Kuwait and China, and is willing to work with China to actively implement the important consensus of the heads of state of the two countries, accelerate the advancement of bilateral cooperation projects, transform the high level of Kuwait-China relations into more practical cooperation results, and open up new prospects for bilateral relations.

During his visit to Kuwait, Han Zheng (韩正) attended the welcoming ceremony held by Crown Prince Sabah (萨巴赫).

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New foreign-invested enterprises established in the first three quarters increased by 16.2% year-on-year

This newspaper reported from Beijing on November 2nd (Reporter Luo Shanshan (罗珊珊)): Reporters learned from the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) that in the first three quarters, 48,921 new foreign-invested enterprises were established nationwide, a year-on-year increase of 16.2%; the actual use of foreign capital amounted to 573.75 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 10.4%. In September alone, the actual use of foreign capital increased by 11.2% year-on-year.

In terms of industry, the actual use of foreign capital in manufacturing was 150.09 billion yuan, and the actual use of foreign capital in the service industry was 410.93 billion yuan. The actual use of foreign capital in high-tech industries was 170.84 billion yuan, of which the actual use of foreign capital in e-commerce services, aerospace vehicle and equipment manufacturing, and medical instrument and equipment manufacturing increased by 155.2%, 38.7%, and 17% respectively. In terms of source, actual investment in China from Japan, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland increased by 55.5%, 48.7%, 21.1%, and 19.7% respectively (including investment data through free ports).

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China's civil aviation transport turnover up 10.3% YoY in first three quarters

This newspaper reported from Beijing on November 2nd (Reporter Qiu Chaoyi (邱超奕)): The reporter learned from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (中国民航局) that in the first three quarters, civil aviation transportation production maintained steady growth. The entire industry completed a total transport turnover, passenger traffic, and cargo and mail traffic of 122.03 billion tonne-kilometers, 580 million passengers, and 7.395 million tons, respectively, representing year-on-year increases of 10.3%, 5.2%, and 14.0%. A total of 4.88 million flights of various types were handled, with an average of 18,000 flights per day, a year-on-year increase of 5% on average per day; the flight regularity rate was 89.7%, a year-on-year increase of 5.2 percentage points.

In the third quarter, civil aviation transportation production generally maintained rapid growth. The entire industry completed a total transport turnover of 43.68 billion tonne-kilometers, a year-on-year increase of 12.4%. During the summer transportation period, the monthly total transport turnover of civil aviation reached a new historical high. The scale of civil aviation passenger transport maintained steady growth. In the third quarter, the entire industry completed a passenger traffic volume of 210 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 3.9%.

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Central Delegation to Lecture in Jiangxi on Studying and Implementing the Spirit of the 20th CPC Central Committee's Fourth Plenary Session (Studying and Implementing the Spirit of the 20th CPC Central Committee's Fourth Plenary Session)

This newspaper's Nanchang November 2nd report (Reporter Zhou Huan (周欢)) The Central Propaganda Group report meeting to study and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was held in Nanchang (南昌) City, Jiangxi (江西) Province on November 2nd. Meng Xiangfeng (孟祥锋), member of the Central Propaganda Group and Deputy Director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee in charge of daily work, delivered the report.

At the report meeting, Meng Xiangfeng (孟祥锋) profoundly expounded the great significance of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, elaborated on the major achievements of China's development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, expounded the important position of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period in the process of basically realizing socialist modernization, deeply analyzed the domestic and international situation, and focused on the guiding principles, main goals, strategic tasks, major measures, and fundamental guarantees for economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.

Meng Xiangfeng (孟祥锋) stated that it is necessary to integrate the study and implementation of the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee with the study and comprehension of Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, profoundly understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," resolutely achieve the "Two Safeguards," and always maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core in terms of ideology, politics, and action, and fully implement the spirit of the Plenary Session with a 钉钉子精神 (dīng dīng zi jīng shén - "nailing nails spirit," perseverance; the spirit of doing something meticulously and thoroughly).

On the afternoon of the 2nd, Meng Xiangfeng (孟祥锋) also went to Jiujiang Amber New Materials Co., Ltd. (九江琥珀新材料有限公司) to publicize the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee to grassroots workers and interact with everyone.

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Teahouse "Village Talks" Connect with the People's Hearts (On the Scene: Observing "Village-Branded" Cultural and Sports Activities)

By: 本报记者 申智林

In late October, a hint of coolness permeated Qujiangyuan Village (渠江源村), Fengjia Town (奉家镇), Xinhua County (新化县), Hunan Province (湖南省). In the afternoon, veteran Party member Feng Helin (奉和林) took the steps two at a time, entering a bamboo house. The words "People's Heart Teahouse" (民心茶室) were written on the wall.

"Old Feng (老奉) is here?" "Quick, sit down, the 'Village Talk' is about to begin!" Inside the house were local cadres, as well as Party members and village representatives, entrepreneurial talents, and various teahouse heads.

Accepting a cup of hot Qujiang black tea, Feng Helin (奉和林) took a sip. Teahouse head Zou Guilin (邹桂林) greeted everyone: "Welcome everyone to come and talk if you have something to say, or just sit and chat if you have nothing to do!"

Zou Guilin (邹桂林) runs a homestay, and this bamboo house built by the village is in front of his homestay. At the beginning of last year, after extensive research, the Fengjia Town (奉家镇) leadership realized that the grassroots level needed a platform to gather wisdom, unite the people, seek development, and resolve conflicts. The local area has a long history of tea cultivation, and teahouses became a suitable place. Subsequently, the first teahouse was inaugurated, and the "People's Heart Teahouse" (民心茶室) gradually covered the town and villages. Teahouse heads are held by veteran Party members, enthusiastic people, and others.

The "Village Talk" officially began. Mao Yi (毛译), a cadre of the Fengjia Town (奉家镇) government and a selected transfer student, started: "Welcome everyone to participate in the 'Village Talk'. Recently, the '15th Five-Year Plan' proposal put forward the ideas of 'promoting the construction of livable, workable, and beautiful villages' and 'improving the effectiveness of policies to strengthen agriculture, benefit farmers, and enrich farmers'. Today, let's talk about how to study and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the Party Central Committee and develop Qujiangyuan Village (渠江源村) even better."

"In my opinion, to strengthen agriculture, benefit farmers, and enrich farmers, we must continue to expand and strengthen the tourism industry," Zhou Yong (周勇), who runs a homestay, interjected.

Qujiangyuan Village (渠江源村) is located next to a scenic area with beautiful scenery. In recent years, many villagers have started agritainment businesses and homestays, embarking on the road to prosperity.

"With so many homestays, everyone is competing with each other, what should we do?" someone said.

"Don't compete on price, compete on service quality." "Create more experience projects and check-in spots that young people like." "We not only have good tea, but also cured products, we must build our reputation and attract everyone to come." Everyone spoke their mind, and the discussion was lively.

"Many of our homestay guests are attracted by videos," Wu Qianjiu (伍仟玖), a young entrepreneur who returned to his hometown, took out his mobile phone and opened his social media account, some videos of which have reached hundreds of thousands of views.

Zou Guilin (邹桂林) remembers that the town invited experts from universities, e-commerce experts, media people, and others to the teahouse to impart experience in new media and other aspects. Wu Qianjiu (伍仟玖) came frequently and studied hard.

"The internet is a new farming tool for farmers in the new era!" Yang Wen (杨文), the 27-year-old Party branch secretary of the neighboring Shuanglin Village (双林村), took over the conversation. He led the villagers to shoot videos and do live broadcasts, promoting many agricultural products from the village to the outside world.

After discussing the development prospects, the topic turned to daily life. Feng Helin (奉和林) spoke more often: "There are many elderly people left behind in the village. A few days ago, during the Double Ninth Festival, the village organized more than 170 elderly people to eat a long table banquet, watch performances, and also helped them connect with their children. Many elderly people said that they had a wonderful festival."

"Let's continue to do it next year!" "We must do it better every year!" Everyone said.

Relying on the "People's Heart Teahouse" (民心茶室) platform, Fengjia Town (奉家镇) has promoted the development of characteristic industrial projects such as tea and Polygonatum sibiricum, benefiting more than 5,000 people and driving an average increase of 3,000 yuan in household income for villagers; the success rate of grassroots conflict mediation in the town has increased by 34.3%; and hundreds of "golden ideas" such as opinions and suggestions on rural governance have been implemented one by one.

As dusk fell, cups of hot tea were served one after another in the "People's Heart Teahouse" (民心茶室), and everyone chatted with great interest. "As the head of the teahouse, I will seize the time to sort out and digest the content of today's discussion, and then tell it to more villagers," Zou Guilin (邹桂林) said to everyone. In the aroma of tea, the "Village Talk" is bringing a continuous stream of development vitality to Qujiangyuan Village (渠江源村).

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Closer, Warmer, More Immersive (Editor's Notes)

By: 刘静文

How to deliver the Party's innovative theories and pro-agricultural policies to villages and households? The tea rooms in Fenjia Town (奉家镇), Xinhua County (新化县), Hunan (湖南) Province, make "village lectures" closer, warmer, and more immersive.

"Village lectures" are closer, covering towns and villages, and delivered to courtyards, so that villagers can listen to new policies and learn about wealth-building experiences at their doorsteps. People are willing to "talk about things when they happen, and sit and chat when they don't"; "Village lectures" are warmer, with grassroots cadres explaining principles in everyday language, starting from common concerns and daily necessities, so that those who come will learn seriously and be inspired; "Village lectures" are more immersive, integrating the governance of seeking development and resolving conflicts into the life scene of drinking tea around the stove, so everyone naturally chats enthusiastically, with one cup of hot tea after another, and one speech after another.

"The key to publicity is to connect with reality, analyze principles, and resolve doubts." From the "People's Heart Tea Room" (民心茶室) in Fenjia Town (奉家镇) to the small bench lectures and courtyard meetings carried out by many villages and towns in accordance with local conditions, the Party's innovative theories "fly into the homes of ordinary people" in vivid and easy-to-understand lectures, farmers and the masses are not only relieved of their doubts but also 解渴 (jiě kě - "quench thirst," metaphorically satisfying a need or desire), and rural development also has a more powerful endogenous driving force.

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Cognitive Ability, Judgment, Decision-Making (People's Tribune)

By: 李浩燃

During a lecture at the Party School, I heard a sobering case. A deputy chief physician misdiagnosed his father's sudden aortic dissection as a myocardial infarction and administered anticoagulant therapy, which had the opposite effect. By the time the correct diagnosis was made, it was too late for surgery.

After hearing this, a leading cadre couldn't help but reflect on his own work, exclaiming, "If we make wrong judgments and decisions at critical moments, the consequences would be terrible!"

Cognition affects judgment, and judgment influences decision-making. It is crucial to improve cognitive ability, judgment, and decision-making skills.

Let's examine cognitive ability from the perspective of "learning."

The foundation of cognition is knowledge and experience. Some people find themselves in predicaments of knowing too little and being confused, not knowing and being blind, or being ignorant and chaotic, because their knowledge updates slowly, their knowledge structure is singular, and their experience is shallow.

Diligent and skillful learning, seeking novelty and knowledge, are effective ways to enhance cognitive ability. Liao Junbo (廖俊波) said, "Thinking one step ahead, acting one step faster." Despite his busy investment promotion schedule, he always made time to read and study. In today's world, a new round of global technological revolution and industrial transformation is historically converging with China's accelerated transformation of its economic development mode. New things and new changes are emerging endlessly, and the prerequisite for accurate cognition is sufficient learning.

Learning in connection with reality makes cognition targeted and penetrating. The pragmatic style of study, integrating theory with practice, leads our Party to continuously open up new horizons of Marxism and continuously write new chapters of forging ahead. Today, from "the Yangtze River is sick" to the restoration of "a river of clear water," from the "sweet potato economy" theory to the Private Economy Promotion Law... the Party's innovative theories are broad and profound. Only by combining specific practices to understand the power of thought can we learn true knowledge and broaden our horizons.

Let's examine judgment from the perspective of "thinking."

Making judgments is not easy, especially when facing complex situations or being at critical moments. The stronger the thinking ability, the higher the accuracy of judgment.

Scientific and rational thinking often begins with investigation and research and sublimates into grasping the laws. When the global industrial chain and supply chain experienced partial disruptions under the impact of the epidemic, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) keenly realized during his inspection of Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) in Zhejiang (浙江) that "we must propose new ideas to lead development based on the new situation," thereby proposing the "dual circulation" new development pattern.

Learning to "upgrade" thinking can allow one to see what others have not seen and open up new horizons for career development. Lasting 13 months, attracting over 2.77 million visitors, and generating revenue of 760 million yuan... Why was the "Top of the Pyramid: Ancient Egyptian Civilization Exhibition" at the Shanghai Museum (上海博物馆) so successful? Because Shanghai (上海) "is not just holding an exhibition, but creating a super IP," expanding the boundaries of cultural and museum exhibitions to a one-stop cultural tourism experience.

Let's examine decision-making from the perspective of "methods."

"It is empty talk to cross the river without solving the problem of bridges or boats." We must firmly grasp the "key" of scientific methodology, make scientific decisions, democratic decisions, and legal decisions to empower the transformation of the objective world.

Get the ideological methods right. "Walking, doing, and speaking during the day, reading, writing, and thinking at night"; being good at "lifting the collar" and "turning the plate," making good use of "magnifying glasses," "microscopes," and "telescopes"... These working methods in practice are enlightening. When the method is right, the decision is not easy to deviate and fail.

There are thousands of things to solve in myriad ways. Following the old ways is a wrong path, and innovation and change cultivate opportunities. How to continue the "Harbin craze" by using snow as a medium? Adhering to adapting to local conditions, Heilongjiang (黑龙江) activates "cold resources" and creates the Heihe (黑河) cold region vehicle testing industry. How to change the situation of guarding the "Shangri-La" but cutting down peach trees for firewood? Coordinating protection and development, Gala Village (嘎拉村) in Nyingchi City (林芝市), Tibet (西藏) develops rural ecological tourism. In 2025, the Peach Blossom Festival's tourism revenue reached 3.7 million yuan, and the masses are eating "ecological meals."

A lecturing teacher gave a message: "Be a leader with philosophical depth." Drawing nourishment from the Party's innovative theories and continuously improving cognitive ability, judgment, and decision-making skills is a journey that never ends.

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A Choice That Can Stand the Test of History

By: 本报记者 杜尚泽 胡泽曦 新华社记者 郝薇薇 杨依军

For a global power, domestic and foreign affairs are never isolated movements, but intertwined and resonating in harmony.

From October 30th to November 1st, President Xi Jinping (习近平) attended the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Informal Meeting in Gyeongju and paid a state visit to South Korea.

In three days, there were momentous events in major-country diplomacy, strategic maneuvers on the multilateral stage, and sincere, friendly, and mutually beneficial neighborhood diplomacy. Looking deeper through the dense schedule, different dimensions are also playing out the profound changes of "China to the world, and the world to China."

A week before the visit, Beijing (北京), China. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) outlined the grand blueprint for the next five years. Chinese-style modernization, a new form of human civilization that is completely different from the West, continues to unfold a new chapter.

Standing tall and looking far ahead, strategizing and planning; embracing the world, establishing oneself to benefit others.

Each shot freezes history and opens a new one:

October 30th, Busan. The heads of state of China and the United States ended their meeting of more than 100 minutes and walked out of the venue with relaxed expressions. U.S. President Donald Trump escorted President Xi Jinping (习近平) to the Hongqi car and said goodbye again.

October 31st, Gyeongju APEC meeting, China's proposition won wide resonance: "The rougher the wind and waves, the more we must **同舟共济** (tóng zhōu gòng jì - "cross river in same boat," to share weal and woe; to stick together in difficulties)" "Promote inclusive and inclusive economic globalization and build an Asia-Pacific community."

November 1st, Gyeongju. Arriving at the Hwabaek International Convention Center again, at the APEC host handover session, China took over for the third time. See you next autumn, see you in Shenzhen (深圳), China.

On this afternoon, the state visit schedule to South Korea was intensive. The strategic guidance of head-of-state diplomacy has opened a new chapter in China-South Korea relations.

The ancient city of Gyeongju is sunny and breezy, but the world situation it reflects is not calm. On one side is "small yard high walls," on the other is openness and inclusiveness; one is holding a zero-sum mentality, the other is strengthening unity and cooperation. As the world's largest developing country and the world's second largest economy, China's choices are crucial.

During this trip, President Xi Jinping (习近平) described China's appearance, "Concentrate on doing our own things well, be a better version of ourselves, and share development opportunities with countries around the world"; he also showed China's vision and responsibility, "Make choices that meet the expectations of the Asia-Pacific people and stand the test of history."

Is it a zero-sum game, or mutual achievement?

The handshake of two major countries

Busan, the sea breeze brings messages from the depths of the ocean. For thousands of years, it has watched the ebb and flow of the Pacific Ocean, and on October 30th, it also witnessed a historical moment across the Pacific Ocean.

At about 10:00 on this day, President Trump arrived at the Blue House VIP Room in the corner of the airport first. Soon after, the special plane carrying President Xi Jinping (习近平) landed.

The meeting between the Chinese and American heads of state was the first event of President Xi Jinping's (习近平) visit to South Korea and the last event of President Trump's visit to Asia. The connection between the two heads of state's itineraries and their meeting again after six years opened up a rich space for expectations for the world.

Just after 11:00, the not-so-spacious lobby of the VIP room was crowded with reporters. In front of the national flags, the heads of state of the two major countries shook hands in a harmonious atmosphere.

President Xi Jinping (习近平) first greeted: "It's a pleasure to see you again."

President Trump immediately responded: "It's great to see you again. I'm sure we'll have a very successful meeting today." Speaking of this, he looked at President Xi Jinping (习近平) with a smile: "But he is a very tough negotiator, which is not good. We know each other very well."

Fight, we will accompany to the end; talk, the door is open. The world has long seen the confidence and conviction behind China's attitude. The two sides have been dealing with each other for more than a day, and China has long declared the principles it adheres to when handling Sino-US relations.

Problems are like branches and leaves, and the root is strategic understanding. Focusing on the fundamentals, President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "It is a historical inspiration and a realistic need for the two countries to be partners and friends."

Referring to the Kuala Lumpur economic and trade consultations held a few days ago, he first digressed and lengthened his vision: "China's development and revitalization are not mutually exclusive with President Trump's desire to 'make America great again'. China and the United States can completely achieve each other and prosper together."

Mutual achievement and common prosperity, China has such a broad mind and pattern, and also has such opportunities and potential. During the meeting, President Xi Jinping (习近平) gave a set of figures, "The growth rate in the first three quarters of this year reached 5.2%, and the growth of China's import and export of goods trade to the world was 4%", which shows the scale, resilience, and potential of the Chinese economy.

"We have the confidence and ability to cope with various risks and challenges." President Xi Jinping's (习近平) narration was calm and firm. Facing the twists and turns and difficulties encountered in Sino-US economic and trade, he pointed out: "Economic and trade should continue to be the ballast stone and propeller of Sino-US relations, not stumbling blocks and points of conflict. The two sides should calculate the big picture and look more at the long-term benefits brought by cooperation, and should not fall into a vicious circle of mutual retaliation."

As the world's top two economies, the Chinese and American economies are deeply integrated, and the artificial imposition of tariff barriers is impacting the development of the two countries and the world.

Steering and leading the way, the most important thing is to be in a place full of hidden reefs. President Xi Jinping (习近平) used the "big ship" as a metaphor, and his words were earnest and sincere: "Faced with winds, waves and challenges, the two heads of state, as helmsmen, should grasp the direction and control the overall situation, so that the big ship of Sino-US relations can move forward smoothly."

Solving the problems facing the world requires Sino-US cooperation.

President Xi Jinping (习近平) issued an initiative: "China and the United States can jointly demonstrate the responsibility of major countries and work together to do more major, practical, and good things that are beneficial to both countries and the world."

President Trump responded positively: "China is the United States' largest partner, and the two countries can accomplish many major things in the world by working together. In the future, US-China cooperation will achieve greater success."

Looking forward to next year, China will serve as the host of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, and the United States will host the G20 summit. Another key piece of information also came from Busan: President Trump looks forward to visiting China earlier next year and invited President Xi Jinping (习近平) to visit the United States.

At nearly 13:00, the meeting lasting more than 100 minutes ended. The heads of state of the two countries walked out of the Blue House VIP Room with relaxed expressions. In the sound of shutters, President Trump said happily: "We talked very well and it was very successful." He whispered a few words to President Xi Jinping (习近平) and escorted President Xi Jinping (习近平) to the Hongqi car and said goodbye again.

International media, which closely observed the Busan meeting, commented at the first time: "Is this a breakthrough? Yes. The two sides finally succeeded in coming together and avoided the outbreak of a global trade war."

On the way back to the United States, President Trump praised the results of the meeting to reporters: If the meeting was scored, 10 points would be the highest, "I would say this meeting was 12 points." On social media, he described the meeting in great detail: "There is tremendous mutual respect between our two countries, and the meeting that has just taken place will further enhance this respect."

Whether China and the United States can handle their relationship well, this "question of the century" has been answered with a new and vigorous stroke in Busan. "China and the United States can completely achieve each other and prosper together." The realization of this vision is not smooth, but it is the general trend and the desire of the people.

Is it "small yard high walls" or openness and inclusiveness?

The choice at the crossroads of history

Rooted in the Asia-Pacific, deeply cultivating the Asia-Pacific. International public opinion predicts that this region may be "the main stage for a greater future for the world."

In the grand masterpiece of major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics in the new era, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation is undoubtedly a magnificent chapter. Since 2013, President Xi Jinping (习近平) has come to this platform every time to share China's initiatives and propositions.

At about 10:00 on the 31st, the Gyeongju APEC meeting kicked off. At the Hwabaek International Convention Center, President Xi Jinping (习近平) arrived at the end.

President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) warmly welcomed: "Welcome!" "I have always wanted to see you. Was everything smooth on the way here?" President Xi Jinping (习近平) responded with a smile.

The heads of state of China and South Korea walked into the venue together.

Looking back on the past. The more than 30 years that the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation has gone through are like a fleeting moment. It is precisely when the old thinking of group confrontation and zero-sum games is broken that regional economic cooperation and integration are booming.

President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) described the meaning of "Hwabaek" in the venue:

"In ancient times, whenever there were major national affairs, the Hwabaek meeting would be held. The 'Hwabaek spirit' pursues the harmonious integration of different voices and seeks a win-win path."

Inside the venue, before taking a seat, Vietnamese President Liang Qiang (梁强), who had visited Beijing (北京) not long ago, stepped forward, followed by Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar (安瓦尔), and many representatives of participating economies came forward to talk.

The official commentator of the APEC News Center sighed: "President Xi Jinping (习近平) has a lot of greetings today." Foreign media reported in real time: "Chinese President Xi Jinping (习近平) becomes the focus at the Trans-Pacific Conference" "China is the well-deserved leader."

Standing at the forefront and leading the way, because China has always stood on the right side of history. The theme of the first stage of the meeting was "Building a Sustainable Tomorrow," which was timely as the international situation was turbulent. People are eager to hear China's voice.

The two words emphasized by President Xi Jinping (习近平) in his speech provide a starting point for exploring the future of the Asia-Pacific.

One word is the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific.

When it was established in 1989, APEC set the general direction of regional economic integration. It is easier said than done. It was the Beijing (北京) APEC meeting that "made the historic decision to launch the process of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific." Since then, we have been rowing hard. Last year's Lima APEC meeting adopted the "Statement on New Prospects for the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific Agenda," reaffirming its commitment to promoting regional economic integration.

At the Gyeongju APEC meeting, President Xi Jinping (习近平) called for "gathering momentum for the construction of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific" and emphasized "adhering to 'holding hands' instead of 'letting go', and 'extending chains' instead of 'breaking chains'." The Gyeongju Declaration finally issued locked in the three priority areas of "connectivity, innovation, and prosperity" and clarified "promoting the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific agenda and promoting Asia-Pacific regional economic integration in a market-oriented manner."

The other word is the Asia-Pacific community.

At the Gyeongju APEC meeting, President Xi Jinping's (习近平) speech contained philosophical thinking: "The rougher the wind and waves, the more we must **同舟共济** (tóng zhōu gòng jì - "cross river in same boat," to share weal and woe; to stick together in difficulties)."

**同舟共济** (tóng zhōu gòng jì - "cross river in same boat," to share weal and woe; to stick together in difficulties), because destiny is closely linked. The concept of a community with a shared future for mankind proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平) is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The Putrajaya Vision, which guides the APEC family, clearly proposes to build an Asia-Pacific community by 2040.

In his speech, President Xi Jinping's (习近平) five suggestions all emphasized the word "common": "jointly safeguard the multilateral trading system," "jointly create an open regional economic environment," "jointly maintain the stability and smooth flow of the industrial chain and supply chain," "jointly promote the digital and green transformation of trade," and "jointly promote inclusive and inclusive development."

Compared with other multilateral platforms, close ties with the business community are a major advantage of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. A written speech delivered by President Xi Jinping (习近平) at the APEC CEO Summit on the afternoon of the 31st received widespread resonance.

Peace and stability, openness and integration, cooperation and win-win, inclusiveness and inclusiveness, China's propositions have been consistent, leading all parties to respond to the changes of the times and continue to write the "Asia-Pacific miracle."

On the morning of the 1st, the meeting moved to the second stage.

This stage focuses on topics such as artificial intelligence, aging, and sustainable development. President Xi Jinping (习近平) eloquently stated China's propositions: "Strengthen digital empowerment and shape new advantages for innovative development in the Asia-Pacific," "Adhere to green and low-carbon development and create a new paradigm for sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific," and "Implement inclusive sharing and demonstrate a new atmosphere of inclusive development in the Asia-Pacific."

These three suggestions echo China's development concepts such as innovation-driven, green development, and people-centered, and the Eastern wisdom of establishing oneself to benefit others is once again vividly interpreted.

Just after noon on the 1st, the second stage of the meeting was coming to an end, and it came to the "handover moment."

Many eyes looked at President Xi Jinping (习近平).

The 2026 APEC host was announced by China during last year's Lima meeting. At this moment, President Xi Jinping (习近平) solemnly announced: "China will host the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Shenzhen (深圳市), Guangdong (广东省) Province in November next year."

As soon as the words fell, applause rang out, and some foreign leaders immediately got up and walked towards President Xi Jinping (习近平) to shake hands and congratulate him. President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) also said with emotion: "Under the leadership of President Xi (习近平), the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation is about to embark on a new journey."

Shenzhen (深圳) was immediately on the global screen. From a small fishing village in the past to a shining pearl in the Greater Bay Area, this city can be called a development miracle. The Lotus Hill is evergreen, and the Qianhai Bay is surging. Its wonderful transformation also shows the world: openness is such a powerful force.

In this year's conference logo, there is a fluttering butterfly, symbolizing the common wings of APEC members. At the dinner the night before, a virtual butterfly flew vividly. President Xi Jinping (习近平) remembered that scene when he finished his speech:

"The butterfly that flew out of the literary and artistic performance last night was very beautiful." "I hope this beautiful butterfly will fly to Shenzhen (深圳) and fly better."

Is it taking care of oneself, or going hand in hand to achieve far-reaching goals?

The demeanor of neighborhood diplomacy

How to get along with the surrounding areas is an important proposition of international relations, reflecting a country's worldview, order view, and responsibility view.

This year, the Central Conference on Work Relating to Neighboring Countries was held in Beijing (北京), and "building a community with a shared future for neighboring countries" was launched again; President Xi Jinping's (习近平) footprints have also spread to all directions around the country:

The trip to Southeast Asia in April, the visit to the northern neighbor in May, the trip to Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦) in the west in June, and the trip to South Korea in the east this time, continue to write the story of good neighborliness.

This is President Xi Jinping's (习近平) first visit to South Korea in 11 years. The South Korean side is eagerly looking forward to it and attaches great importance to it, giving the "most distinguished guest" the highest courtesy. After the APEC meeting, in Gyeongju, which is immersed in the poetic sentiment of "the long wind travels thousands of miles," the curtain of the state visit was raised.

On the afternoon of the 1st, Gyeongju National Museum (庆州博物馆). Ritual music and harmony, flags fluttering, a ceremonial team dressed in traditional costumes escorted the Hongqi car slowly into the museum, and President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) waited quietly at the parking place.

After the welcome ceremony, the two heads of state moved to the special exhibition hall and started their first meeting.

President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) said sincerely: "After we spoke on the phone in June this year, I have been very much looking forward to meeting you. Gyeongju is also a place you visited in 2009, and I am very happy that our first meeting is still here."

President Xi Jinping (习近平) is no stranger to this ancient city. He recalled the past on many occasions: "I still remember the warm reception during my last visit" "Gyeongju is a city with a long history."

This time, President Xi Jinping (习近平) started from a basic fact: "China and South Korea are important close neighbors that cannot be moved away, and they are also inseparable partners." President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) deeply agreed with this, "South Korea and China are neighbors, and even more inseparable partners."

Considering the long-term perspective, we can know where the general trend lies. President Xi Jinping (习近平) looked back on the past and put forward four suggestions: "Strengthen strategic communication and consolidate the foundation of mutual trust," "Deepen mutually beneficial cooperation and tighten the bonds of interests," "Enhance national sentiment and promote people-to-people connectivity," and "Strengthen multilateral cooperation and jointly promote peace and development." Between the lines, it either focuses on consolidating the foundation and cultivating the vitality, or intends to stimulate potential, hitting the nail on the head and aiming for the long term.

In the nearly two-hour meeting, the China-South Korea strategic cooperative partnership was reaffirmed. The heads of state of the two countries communicated in depth in a friendly atmosphere and achieved broad consensus.
In 2014, during his visit to South Korea, President Xi Jinping's (习近平) speech, "Only with heart-to-heart exchanges can friendship last long," resonated deeply. In this meeting, he further elaborated on his thoughts and suggestions regarding "people-to-people connectivity." President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) responded positively, stating, "The South Korean side is willing to work closely with China on cultural exchanges to improve national sentiment."

Economic and trade cooperation affects the vision of both countries, regional nerves, and global attention. In recent years, as the competitive landscape of some industries on both sides has risen, China-South Korea economic and trade relations have become a new topic.

"Helping neighbors is helping ourselves." President Xi Jinping (习近平) advocates for calculating the big picture and looking at the long term. From a broader perspective, one conclusion is very clear: China's development and progress bring new upgrades to cooperation opportunities, and the mutual benefit of China-South Korea economic and trade cooperation has not changed.

President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) also believes that "the current economic cooperation between South Korea and China has transformed from a vertical division of labor structure to a horizontal cooperation structure, and the mutually beneficial cooperative relationship between the two countries also needs to keep pace with the times."

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the signing of the China-South Korea Free Trade Agreement. "Accelerate the promotion of the second phase of negotiations on the China-South Korea Free Trade Agreement," "Explore the cooperation potential in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, biopharmaceuticals, green industries, and the silver economy"... These specific blueprints outline a clear path for the transformation and innovation of cooperation between the two sides.

At the end of the meeting, the heads of state of the two countries jointly witnessed the exchange ceremony of cooperation documents. Economy and trade, finance, agriculture, law enforcement, science and technology... The weighty achievements have become vivid evidence of "mutual achievement and common prosperity."

In his dinner speech, President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) said with emotion: "The respected President Xi (习近平) emphasizes the development concept of people-centeredness, which is consistent with my mentioned national vision of the people being the masters of the country. Both place the people at the center of governance."

President Xi Jinping (习近平) once quoted the ancient saying "The movement of a large roc does not depend on the lightness of a single feather; the speed of a fine steed does not depend on the strength of a single hoof." President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) was deeply impressed by this sentence and used it in his speech to express his hope that South Korea-China relations will "continue to walk hand in hand through the long years."

In the 33 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, the two countries have transcended differences in ideology and social systems, worked together, and achieved mutual success. Friendly cooperation has always been the underlying tone of China-South Korea relations. Although the past few years have experienced difficulties and challenges, the reality of intertwined interests and shared destinies has not changed, and the common vision of promoting peace and seeking common prosperity has not changed.

President Xi Jinping (习近平) looked to the future and spoke of the recent letter from students at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, "Youth is the future of China-South Korea relations. I hope that the two countries will carry out more youth exchange activities so that the cause of China-South Korea friendship can be passed down from generation to generation."

This is an expectation to continue history, and this is an entrustment to the future.

Is it focusing on oneself, or establishing oneself to benefit others?

Responsibility on the Road to Rejuvenation

On the long scroll of time, China is a persistent and tireless striver.

Many people still have vivid memories of the Beijing APEC meeting at Yanqi Lake in 2014. Time flies, and China, taking over the APEC host for the third time, is striding forward on the road of Chinese-style modernization.

"APEC Blue," a term President Xi Jinping (习近平) quoted that year, pinned beautiful expectations on environmental improvement. In just a few years, "Beijing Blue" has become a regular sight. In 2024, the average concentration of PM2.5 in Beijing decreased by 65.9% compared to 2013. The green endeavor of a major country is stirring up the echoes of the era of "**言必信，行必果**" (yán bì xìn, xíng bì guǒ - "words must be trusted, actions must be resolute," one must be true to their word and resolute in their actions).

In the past 10 years, the world is no longer the world it once was, and China has also entered a new journey, standing at a new position of development.

The visit to South Korea was President Xi Jinping's (习近平) first visit abroad after the closing of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. At the new coordinate, global attention is focused on exploring this visit. Two questions are of particular concern.

One, how to grasp China's new opportunities?

The "15th Five-Year Plan" is undoubtedly a key word to understand the future of China.

"China's development achievements are admirable" and "I hope to share China's development opportunities." Foreign dignitaries mentioned the "15th Five-Year Plan" when they met with President Xi Jinping (习近平).

"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" has become a consensus in the international community.

The business community is very touched. "More development opportunities," "good business environment," "broad innovation stage," and "green growth conditions." President Xi Jinping's (习近平) written speech at the APEC CEO Summit profoundly explained the advantages and potential of China's development. Entrepreneurs exclaimed, "New opportunities are in this speech" and "It can be called an investment guide."

Every interpretation in the speech can be found in the soon-to-be-completed "14th Five-Year Plan" and in the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal that has been reviewed and approved. China, as "fertile ground for global business investment," has a solid foundation and accumulated step-by-step actions.

The second question is, will China, sailing to a broader sea, change its course?

This international observation focuses on certainty. The winds and waves of the times are endless, and the inconsistency and **出尔反尔** (chū ěr fǎn ěr - "go back on one's word," to be inconsistent in word and deed) of individual countries are exacerbating the uncertainty facing the world. In the turbulent situation, the stability and certainty of China's development are becoming more precious.

Seeing President Xi Jinping's (习近平) speech at the Gyeongju APEC meeting, some international media concluded: "The shaping of the trade system is not a tactical move, but a long-term strategy of China. The new five-year plan to be introduced includes 'maintaining the multilateral trading system and expanding international circulation'."

At the Gyeongju venue, China repeatedly conveyed its determination to open up, and also injected confidence into the world. The world's second largest economy, second largest consumer market, and import market are willing to open their doors, adding a sense of security and determination to the world in the midst of wind and rain.

This certainty is also projected in the negotiations in the meeting hall.

On the multilateral stage, President Xi Jinping (习近平) interspersed bilateral activities. Canada, Thailand, and Japan on the afternoon of the 31st, and South Korea on the afternoon of the 1st, were all new leaders facing China at the negotiating table for the first time.

Canadian Prime Minister Carney expressed a positive attitude, hoping to "regain the original intention of establishing diplomatic relations, find the lost time, and restart bilateral cooperation." President Xi Jinping (习近平) responded: I am willing to work with Canada to restore and restart exchanges and cooperation in various fields, consolidate the momentum of the turnaround in China-Canada relations, and promote the development of the China-Canada strategic partnership.

When meeting with Thai Prime Minister Anutin, President Xi Jinping (习近平) used "frequent visits and close as family" to describe the relationship between the two countries, and looked forward to "jointly promoting the construction of the China-Thailand community with a shared future to go deeper and more solid."

When meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, President Xi Jinping (习近平) said that 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."

The talks with President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) also mentioned the word "stability": "China attaches importance to China-South Korea relations, and its policy towards South Korea maintains continuity and stability."

The international situation is changing rapidly, but China's position remains the same. There are unshakable principles and bottom lines, as well as an open and inclusive mind, and the sincerity of win-win cooperation. This composure is based on the strategic determination to stand on the right side of history, and it is also inseparable from the deep confidence accumulated along the way of development.

There is also a deeper question, which concerns China and also affects the world: Is China, which has developed, focusing on itself, or embracing the world and establishing itself to benefit others?

In fact, the two are not contradictory, but complement each other. As President Xi Jinping (习近平) judged, "China doing its own thing well is a contribution to the world."

When the great way is followed, the world is for all. The worldview contained in Chinese culture shines with brilliance in the new era. From the bold outlines and meticulous brushstrokes of the "Belt and Road" initiative to the widespread response to the four major global initiatives, "China has always been a maintainer of the current international order and a practitioner of true multilateralism."

At the meeting between the heads of state of China and the United States, President Xi Jinping's (习近平) interpretation of the secret to China's success revealed its deeper meaning:

"We adhere to drawing a blueprint to the end, and we work one after another. We have never wanted to challenge or replace anyone, but have focused on doing our own thing well, being a better version of ourselves, and sharing development opportunities with countries around the world."

From joining APEC more than 30 years ago to promote its own reform and opening up, to becoming a leader in global opening up today, China's changing international role once again confirms that scientific conclusion: "As long as we actively adapt to the trend of world development, we can not only develop and strengthen ourselves, but also lead the trend of world development."

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China's 42nd Antarctic expedition team sets sail

This newspaper reported from Beijing on November 2nd (Reporter Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶)) On November 1st, the 42nd Chinese Antarctic Research Expedition, organized by the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部), set off for Antarctica. This expedition is jointly supported by the "Xuelong" (雪龙) and "Xuelong 2" (雪龙2) icebreakers, with more than 500 members from over 80 domestic institutions participating. Researchers from more than 10 countries and regions, including Thailand, Chile, Portugal, Hong Kong (中国香港), and Macau (中国澳门), have also been invited to participate. The expedition is expected to return to China after completing its mission in May 2026.

The expedition team will focus on three key tasks. First, it will advance the construction and system optimization of supporting facilities at Qinling Station (秦岭站), further enhancing the station's operational support and scientific research capabilities. Second, it will continue to conduct comprehensive multi-disciplinary surveys and observations in Antarctica, further enhancing the understanding of Antarctica's role in global climate change. Third, it will carry out major research and development projects and new applications of domestically produced equipment and technologies. China will conduct its first scientific drilling experiment in a subglacial lake deep within the Antarctic ice sheet, using domestically produced hot water drills and hot-melt drilling systems to carry out clean drilling and sampling operations on ice layers exceeding 3,000 meters, exploring the isolated subglacial lake environment and geological characteristics, and providing support for future research on extreme environmental life forms and global climate evolution.

China will also conduct on-site verification of the independently developed and manufactured "Snow Leopard" (雪豹) 6×6 wheeled vehicle and the THT550 fully hydraulic high-power traction equipment in Antarctica, as well as new applications of advanced technologies such as automatic observation and satellite remote sensing, ecological submarine and krill multi-network systems in Antarctic research.

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First Edition Editors: Xu Nuo, Zhao Zheng, Zhang Yujie; Second Edition Editors: Han Xiaoming, Jiang Bo, Li Anqi; Third Edition Editors: Jiang Xuejie, Qi Jiarun, Han Wenrong; Fourth Edition Editors: Yuan Zhenxi, Chen Zhen, Yu Xuan

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Electricity Consumption Reflects China's Development Towards Novelty, Stability, and Inclusiveness (People's Viewpoint)

By: 本报评论部

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (党的二十届四中全会) proposed: "China's economic foundation is solid, its advantages are numerous, its resilience is strong, and its potential is vast. The supporting conditions and basic trends for long-term improvement have not changed. The advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, the advantages of a super-large-scale market, the advantages of a complete industrial system, and the advantages of abundant human resources are even more prominent."

Judging the trend of the macro economy and grasping favorable conditions and advantages, actual data is an important basis. The total electricity consumption of the whole society is known as the economic "barometer," providing a unique perspective for observing the Chinese economy.

Not long ago, the National Energy Administration (国家能源局) released the latest data showing that in the first three quarters of this year, China's total social electricity consumption reached 7.77 trillion kilowatt-hours, a record high. Among them, July and August exceeded one trillion for two consecutive months, equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of ASEAN countries, and also the first time in the world that a country's monthly electricity consumption exceeded one trillion.

Based on the closing year of the "14th Five-Year Plan," through the "over one trillion," we more truly feel the strong pulse of the Chinese economy, and are more determined to make good use of development opportunities, potential, and advantages, and comprehensively promote Chinese-style modernization with high-quality development.

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Innovation is a prominent feature of the Chinese economy in the new era. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (党的二十届四中全会) proposed: "Accelerate high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement to lead the development of new quality productive forces."

The level of electrification directly reflects the level of modernization of a country. The new track for developing new quality productive forces can be found in electricity consumption.

In the first three quarters, which field had the most rapid growth in electricity consumption in China's nearly 8 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity consumption?

First, look at a scene.

Yangling (杨凌), Shaanxi (陕西), China's agricultural "Silicon Valley," aerial drones, field cameras, and shed sensors, the Internet of Things supports smart greenhouses, and "air-space-ground integration" empowers high-yield fields. From "relying on the sky for food" to "knowing the sky and working," from traditional farming to smart agriculture, electricity is the "power base" driving agricultural modernization.

In the first three quarters of this year, electricity consumption in the primary industry increased by 10.2% year-on-year, leading the three major industries.

To promote Chinese-style modernization, the most arduous and onerous task is still in rural areas, and the most extensive and profound foundation is still in rural areas. Vigorously promoting agricultural mechanization and intelligence has given agricultural modernization the wings of science and technology. To improve the color of Chinese-style modernization, we are giving priority to making up for this shortcoming.

Let's look at another set of numbers.

In the first three quarters of this year, mobile Internet, big data, cloud computing, and other technologies developed rapidly. The electricity consumption of Internet data services in the five southern provinces and regions of Guangdong (广东), Guangxi (广西), etc., increased by 46.05% year-on-year. Among them, Guizhou (贵州) ranked first with an increase of 72.92%, benefiting from 49 key data centers under construction and in operation.

Computing power is a new quality productive force, and the digital economy has become one of the main tracks of international competition, and computing power competition relies on electricity support, which largely depends on whether the energy supply can be both green and stable.

After the World Artificial Intelligence Conference this year, professionals returning to the United States pointed out that in the United States, the development of artificial intelligence is increasingly linked to debates about data center power consumption and grid constraints. In China, providing sufficient power for data centers is self-evident.

Judging from the growth trend of electricity consumption, we can not only find active economic factors, but also see new growth engines. The transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, the growth and expansion of emerging industries, and the accelerated incubation of future industries, electricity consumption data is like a "physical examination form," comprehensively and clearly presenting the healthy characteristics of China's economic structure towards optimization and dynamic energy towards new.

Let's lengthen the observation timeline a bit.

From "more than 80% of the population without electricity" to more than 1.4 billion people with "freedom of electricity use" and power generation accounting for about 1/3 of the world, to Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东) becoming the first city in the world with more supercharging stations than gas stations... This is not only the development process of a country's industrialization, electrification, and informatization, but also an era witness of a nation moving towards innovation and taking off with green energy.

Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Chinese-style modernization should be supported by scientific and technological modernization, and achieving high-quality development should rely on scientific and technological innovation to cultivate new driving forces." Making good use of the "key variable" of scientific and technological innovation can stimulate the "maximum increment" of new quality productive forces.

Seizing historical opportunities, comprehensively enhancing independent innovation capabilities, seizing the commanding heights of scientific and technological development, and constantly spawning new quality productive forces, we will surely win the initiative and win the future.

(II)

Stability is a common feeling that China's development brings to the world. "Promoting the virtuous interaction between high-efficiency governance and high-quality development and high-level security," China's development is steady and pragmatic, providing stability and certainty to the world.

Behind the "unfeeling" is often a high level of supply and demand balance. Once upon a time, "power curtailment" was also a major problem for China's economic and social development. The "unfeeling" of ordinary families about electricity supply this summer makes people inadvertently realize the "stability" of China's economic progress, and it is even more thought-provoking. In today's global imbalance of energy supply and demand, why is China "sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai (钓鱼台)"?

"If we judge accurately strategically, plan scientifically strategically, and win the initiative strategically, the cause of the Party and the people will be full of hope."

"Stability" stems from "making the first move." Strengthen strategic thinking when facing risks and challenges, and turn passivity into initiative.

A number of key technologies such as high-temperature gas-cooled reactors and controlled nuclear fusion have achieved breakthroughs, enhancing energy "hard power"; a number of major projects such as the Baihetan Hydropower Station (白鹤滩水电站) and the Ulanqab Energy Storage Power Station (乌兰察布储能电站) have been completed and put into operation, forming a "major pillar" of energy supply. The "lifeline" of the energy supply chain is firmly in our own hands, and the "modern economic blood" will not be "anemic."

Starting from the country's urgent needs and long-term needs, focusing on key core technologies in the fields of energy, basic raw materials, and high-end chips to fully tackle key problems, and constantly improving self-sufficiency; in the basic core fields that are related to the overall development and national security, aiming at cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum information, advanced manufacturing, and biological breeding, applying a generation, researching a generation, and storing a generation...

Coordinating urgency and slowness, grasping the near and the far, striving to firmly grasp the lifeline of science and technology in our own hands, doing a good job in strategic reserves in various fields, building a "ballast stone," and forging new advantages, we can continuously improve the independence, autonomy, and security of our country's development.

"Stability" stems from "the whole country as one chessboard." Enhance the awareness of the overall situation when dealing with complex situations, and turn crises into opportunities.

The wind in the northwest "lights up" the lights in the Greater Bay Area (大湾区), and the water in the southwest "illuminates" the factories in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角). Electricity resources break through regional restrictions to achieve "national purchase." A constantly improving high-standard national unified electricity market system continues to release reform dividends.

Breaking down "barriers" and eliminating "blockages," accelerating the construction of a unified national market is opening up new space for high-quality development. Chongqing (重庆) has become the number one consumer city; Anhui (安徽) has become the number one province in automobile production; among the major economic provinces, Hubei's (湖北) economic growth rate in the first three quarters ranked first with 6%... Giving full play to the superimposed effects of regional coordinated development strategies, major regional strategies, major function zone strategies, and new urbanization strategies, late-developing regions have achieved overtaking on curves, and China's economy is "resilient, has great potential, and has broad room for maneuver" has been vividly presented.

Standing in the overall situation and serving the overall situation, giving full play to our country's super-large-scale market advantages, forming more growth poles, and enhancing our confidence in calmly responding to risks and challenges.

From a broader perspective, with a new security pattern to ensure a new development pattern, China's economic and social development has a more stable foundation and stronger resilience.

The "Suggestions of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" (《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十五个五年规划的建议》) reviewed and approved by the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee (党的二十届四中全会) deployed strategic tasks that have major traction, driving, and supporting roles in promoting Chinese-style modernization, and have strong foresight, pertinence, and guidance. Implementing the strategic tasks well, the giant ship of China will move forward fearlessly through wind and rain.

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Universality is a distinct feature of the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics. Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that "allowing the broad masses of the people to share the fruits of reform and development is the essential requirement of socialism and the concentrated embodiment of the superiority of the socialist system."

While the demand for electricity has increased significantly, the price of electricity for basic living for residents has remained relatively stable for a long time, vividly and profoundly answering what China's advantages are.

Opening China's electricity books, a sense of "superiority" comes to the fore.

Dulongjiang Township (独龙江乡), Gongshan Dulong and Nu Autonomous County (贡山独龙族怒族自治县), Yunnan (云南), the household electrification project with an investment of 30.25 million yuan and the networking project with 280 million yuan have made the villages hidden in the folds of the mountains brightly lit and the industry prosperous.

Looking at the world, China is the first and only country with a huge population of more than 1.4 billion that can still achieve universal electrification. The cost of electricity construction and maintenance is so high that it is difficult to recover in the short term. Why do we still do it?

Adhering to the people-centered approach and always taking the well-being of the people as the fundamental value orientation, China's view of modernization reflects the people-centered development thought and demonstrates the original aspiration and perseverance of Chinese Communists.

Spanning more than 1,400 kilometers, more than 5 million people in the Heilonggang River Basin (黑龙港流域) of Hebei (河北) bid farewell to high-fluoride water and brackish water in the central route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project; after more than 40 years of hard work, a 3,046-kilometer "green Great Wall" was built on the edge of the Taklimakan Desert (塔克拉玛干沙漠); standing at an altitude of 5,200 meters, the 5G-A base station has opened up a digital expressway for the snowy plateau...

Major projects are also people's livelihood projects, highlighting the institutional advantages of concentrating efforts to do big things, difficult things, and urgent things, writing a vivid footnote for the "major affairs of the country," and laying a solid foundation for coordinated development. Investing in people and serving people is the value purpose of Chinese-style modernization.

Taking the people's heart as the heart and taking the interests of the world as the interests, China's road to modernization is "a road to modernization that not only develops itself but also benefits the world."

In Brazil, with the help of China's ultra-high voltage technology, clean hydropower spans 5 states, meeting the electricity needs of about 22 million people; in Saudi Arabia, 5 million Chinese smart meters support smart grids in 9 regions in the west and south; in Kenya, the Garissa 50 MW photovoltaic power station built by Chinese companies not only meets the electricity needs of more than 380,000 people, but also reduces carbon dioxide emissions by about 64,000 tons per year...

"True development is when everyone develops together, and good development is sustainable development." The greatness of a great power is reflected in its great pattern, great mind, and great responsibility. Mutual benefit and win-win results, harmony and co-existence are the right path in the world and the great way of the world.

The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for laying the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically realize socialist modernization. It is also a period when China's development faces both strategic opportunities and risks and challenges, and there are more uncertain and unpredictable factors. Continuously enhancing innovation, stability, and universality, we will surely turn one "impossible" into "certainly possible" and inject more security, positive energy, and new opportunities into a world intertwined with changes and chaos.

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China, a Place to Fulfill Dreams (The Chinese Path, the Chinese Dream: Youth Shouldering Responsibility for Chinese-style Modernization XXIV)

By: 马玉霞

The China International Import Expo (进博会), the world's first national-level exhibition themed on imports; alpacas, the "fluffy elves" of the Andes Mountains... I never imagined that these things, which I thought were unrelated to me, would intertwine into an economic link spanning thousands of miles due to China's (中国) continuous expansion of opening up. This link has changed my destiny and illuminated the lives of thousands of Peruvian artisans.

The story began with an unintentional act nine years ago. In 2016, before returning to China (中国) from Peru (秘鲁), I bought a few handmade alpaca wool dolls to give to clients. Unexpectedly, someone placed an order overnight, "The little guys are so cute, order another 1,000!" Good products always shine, and the Chinese (中国) market is the broad stage for this brilliance to bloom. I contacted Peruvian (秘鲁) artisan Mamani (马马尼) for cooperation, who was both surprised and worried—his usual daily output was only a few pieces, how could he complete such a large order? In the end, his whole family pitched in and took four months to deliver. Although the client was satisfied, sales stagnated for the next two years due to long-standing issues such as slow production and poor distribution channels. Even a spark needs a gust of east wind to start a prairie fire.

The turning point came in 2018. In June of that year, I accidentally saw the recruitment information for the first China International Import Expo (进博会) and immediately decided to sign up. Some people advised me, "What does such a high-end national-level exhibition have to do with us?" But the door of opportunity always opens for those who actively knock. After two months of self-recommendation, we were fortunate enough to be assigned a 9-square-meter booth. During the exhibition, the booth was packed, and all the samples were sold out before the end of the event. The overwhelming enthusiasm deeply shocked everyone. This is the China International Import Expo (进博会), this is the Chinese (中国) market! It is inclusive enough that product value is not solely measured by the size of the enterprise; it is also full of opportunities, as long as the quality is good, even the smallest seed can take root and sprout in this soil.

The China International Import Expo (进博会) connects not only the large domestic market but also the large international stage. After participating in the exhibition, there were more visible and tangible orders, and the intangible influence and dissemination power were also broader. A Russian (俄罗斯) company found us through exhibition reports and signed a contract; merchants from the United States (美国), Canada (加拿大), Iceland (冰岛) and other countries also expressed their intention to cooperate and hoped to introduce our products. In order to build the brand, I invited artisans to the China International Import Expo (进博会) to understand consumers' pursuit of quality. They consciously improved their craftsmanship and expanded the single alpaca wool doll into a "big family" of more than 10 categories. Today, "Warm Alpaca" (温暖驼) has opened 5 specialty stores, signed contracts with more than 200 Peruvian (秘鲁) artisan families, and exports an average of nearly 10,000 pieces per month. Looking back, the "industrial innovation" forced by the China International Import Expo (进博会) was not easy, but the rugged road is also a moving landscape.

The China International Import Expo (进博会) brings significant business opportunities to enterprises and tangible benefits to the lives of people in many developing countries. Take Mamani (马马尼) as an example. When we first met, his family was still living in a simple bungalow, selling goods at a makeshift wooden table; in 2019, with the income from the China International Import Expo (进博会) orders, they built a new house and hired relatives to set up a family workshop; in 2023, the business grew bigger and bigger, and they built a three-story villa, with more than 20 people from the whole family gathering nearby to form a simple "industrial chain"; this year, Mamani (马马尼) added two more off-road vehicles, and relatives nearby also moved into new houses. He often lamented, "All this is like a dream, and the lucky thing is that I don't have to worry about waking up." For many people like Mamani (马马尼), China (中国) is such a place to realize dreams, allowing dreams to shine into reality and making life full of hope.

In November last year, the Peru Chancay Port (秘鲁钱凯港), jointly built by China (中国) and Peru (秘鲁), opened, reducing the transportation time of "little alpacas" from 60 days to 24 days, significantly reducing costs. As the country develops and cooperation deepens, we are the most direct beneficiaries and the most glorious participants. I remember when we first sought cooperation in Peru (秘鲁), the locals were skeptical of us and even unwilling to talk much; now, as long as they see Chinese (中国) faces, they know that it means opportunities and friendship, and we are warmly welcomed in every village we go to. The increase in trust stems from many specific and micro-level win-win stories, and foreign friends truly feel that "to walk with China (中国) is to walk with opportunity, and to believe in China (中国) is to believe in tomorrow."

President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized at the opening ceremony of the first China International Import Expo (进博会): "China's (中国) door of opening up will not be closed, it will only open wider and wider." As a "full attendance student" of the China International Import Expo (进博会), "Warm Alpaca" (温暖驼) is growing and expanding in this mighty and continuous east wind of opening up. In recent years, I have noticed that more and more African (非洲) and Latin American (拉丁美洲) small and micro enterprises, like us back then, are entering the Chinese (中国) market through the China International Import Expo (进博会). I believe that on this broad and inclusive stage, there will be more enterprises creating their own miracles and supporting the happy hopes of thousands of families with good products.

(The author is the founder of the "Warm Alpaca" (温暖驼) brand, interviewed and compiled by Chang Jin (常晋), a reporter from this newspaper)

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Population aging is a basic national condition in China for a relatively long period to come. Not long ago, the Ministry of Civil Affairs (民政部) and other departments jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Deeply Carrying out National Conditions Education on Population Aging," clarifying the main tasks and promotion measures of national conditions education on population aging, and guiding the whole society to correctly understand the opportunities and challenges brought about by population aging, and to enhance the initiative, pertinence, and effectiveness of responding to population aging.

This is precisely:

Perceiving the situation with insight, all hearts are united,
Making moves and responding to changes with composure.
Don't say there are many storms ahead,
**桑榆未晚** (sāng yú wèi wǎn - "sun in mulberry branches not late," the late years are still full of vigor and potential) and joyfully harmonious.

Shen Qiuwen (沈丘文)

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Why the "Bird's Nest" is Constantly "Busy" (Perspective)

By: 谈 牧

Among the dazzling landmarks on Beijing's (北京) central axis, the National Stadium "Bird's Nest" (国家体育场“鸟巢”) attracts the attention of many. From the lighting of the Olympic flame in 2008 to the falling of "snowflakes" at the 2022 Winter Olympics, this world's first dual-Olympic opening and closing ceremony venue has witnessed China's (中国) sporting glory. When the spotlight of the Games went out, the "Bird's Nest" did not fall into silence, but was "**忙个不停**" (máng gè bù tíng - "busy non-stop," constantly busy), contributing valuable Chinese experience to the post-Games utilization of large Olympic venues worldwide.

How busy is the "Bird's Nest"? A glimpse can be seen from the "schedule": it will welcome the Global Mobile E-sports Finals in November, the 2026 calendar is already "full," and the World Athletics Championships will also be held in 2027. The "busyness" of the "Bird's Nest" has become the norm—the Italian Super Cup, the "Air + Style" snowboarding competition, the International Equestrian Masters Competition, and other events take place in turn, and star concerts are frequently updated. The "Bird's Nest" has no "post-game window," but a series of bustling events.

"Busy" is the appearance; behind it is the proactive change of functional iteration. The "Bird's Nest" puts events, performances, exhibitions, e-sports, public welfare, etc., all into the "steel bowl." Through the three-dimensional layout of "large-scale events + cultural performances + tourism and leisure," the "Bird's Nest" gradually breaks through functional boundaries and becomes a multi-functional venue that "welcomes 5 million visitors a year, covers depreciation and is still profitable."

"Busy" is also due to innovative concepts. Today, when green and low-carbon have become a global consensus, China's (中国) understanding of the value of resources has long surpassed simple conservation, rising to a systematic thinking of "full life cycle utilization and major heritage transformation." After the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, about 50,000 temporary seats in the Tiananmen Square (天安门广场) viewing area were distributed in batches to parks, green spaces, stadiums, school auditoriums, and other venues for citizens to sit and rest, realizing recycling.

Whether it is the precise transfer of the military parade viewing seats or the diversified operation of the "Bird's Nest," it reflects the governance concept of systematic planning and forward-looking layout. This full-chain thinking of pre-planning, mid-term guarantee, and post-event transformation allows resources to find a "second life."

Looking to the future, there is even greater room for imagination in the "busyness" of the Bird's Nest. When a venue can not only present Chinese standards in the field of construction, can host top global events, but also provide public activity space for the people, it is no longer cold steel and concrete, but a "city engine" that is in sync with the times. In the midst of bustling crowds and bright lights, the "Bird's Nest" has written an enlightening answer—Olympic heritage is not just a memory, but also leads to the future.

(Excerpted from *Hubei Daily* (《湖北日报》), originally titled "The 'Busyness' of the Bird's Nest: Daily Perseverance After the High Point")

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"Giving Profits" vs. "Gaining Profits" (Jin Tai Essay)

By: 陈炳旭

"Originally, I thought climbing a mountain in the rain would be regrettable, but unexpectedly, I received an invitation from the scenic area for a free revisit." In the Guimeng Scenic Area (龟蒙景区) of the Yimeng Mountain Tourist Area (沂蒙山旅游区) in Linyi City (临沂市), Shandong Province (山东), tourists who visit on rainy days can exchange their tickets for a "Sunny Day Appointment Card" and revisit for free. The regret of "not fully enjoying" is transformed into the anticipation of "seeing each other again." This "Sunny Day Reunion" agreement, which "benefits" tourists, warms hearts and wins praise.

"Giving up profits" may seem like a "loss" for businesses, but in reality, it is a win-win situation. The ticket stub for the "Top of the Pyramid" special exhibition at the Shanghai Museum (上海博物馆) has become a city-wide redemption coupon, allowing visitors to enjoy discounts on shopping, dining, parking, and other services, driving a comprehensive urban consumption ratio as high as 1:30. Pang Donglai (胖东来) Supermarket offers 84 thoughtful services such as free pants hemming and free pet storage, and is known as a "5A-level scenic spot without a sign," becoming a popular check-in destination. Theaters open their doors to welcome guests through the "one-yuan model," attracting more people to come in and watch. High-quality service has become a unique and lasting competitive advantage, consumers gain a good experience, and businesses also gain revenue. Exchanging sincerity for heartfelt interaction opens a virtuous circle of mutual benefit and win-win.

How does "giving up profits" lead to "gaining profits"? The secret lies in grasping consumer characteristics and accurately connecting with needs. Observing the consumer market in recent years, new trends such as "pleasing oneself consumption" and "emotional consumption" have emerged one after another, and consumption potential is accelerating its release, requiring related supporting services to improve quality and expand capacity. In a sense, finding ways to optimize services has become an inevitable measure. For example, many people favor in-depth museum tours, but the inconvenience of eating limits the length of the tour. Some museums open employee cafeterias to provide tourists with high-quality and affordable meals, which not only receive praise, but also become a "hidden copy" of tourist check-ins in word-of-mouth, and tourists stay longer, bringing more opportunities for additional consumption such as cultural and creative products. Giving up short-term profits can gain long-term returns. From this perspective, there is "gain" only with "sacrifice."

"Giving up profits" seems like a retreat, but it is actually an advance. Taking a step back on "one account" to activate the radiating effect of leading by example may lead to breakthroughs in "multiple accounts." In Nanjing (南京), "Su Chao" vividly interprets the way of advancing by retreating: super-large screens are erected in blocks and business districts, and fans watch the games for free in the "second scene," making the night economy booming; in addition to watching the games, tourists from other places enjoy discounts on consumption within the city with their tickets, driving the tourism popularity of museums, scenic spots, etc.; the government invites some foreign-funded enterprise personnel to watch the games, and the smooth service shows the city's affinity, turning "hosting the games" into an "invitation card." To go from "internet sensation" to "long-term popularity," one must not be obsessed with making quick money with "hit products," but rather introduce water into the canal to nourish more scenes and industries. Allowing more "potential stocks" and "hidden models" to enter the public eye will help transform temporary traffic into lasting development momentum.

From "giving up profits," we can see the dialectical relationship between losing and winning, sacrificing and gaining, retreating and advancing. From "以迂为直，以患为利 (yǐ yū wéi zhí, yǐ huàn wéi lì - "to take a roundabout route to reach a goal, to turn disaster into advantage," to achieve one's aim by indirect means; to profit from misfortune)" to "常后而不先 (cháng hòu ér bù xiān - "always behind and not first," to be modest and not push oneself forward)," this dialectical philosophical view is engraved in the genes of the Chinese people, transforming into a kind and honest spiritual temperament. The profit and loss on the books is certainly important, but the way to win is to see the essential problems behind the books: the direction of people's hearts is the continuous power of development - this not only anchors the people-centered development concept, but also calls for a long-term strategic vision. The transformation between losing and winning, sacrificing and gaining, retreating and advancing is never automatically realized, but requires creating conditions and being actively enterprising. Taking people's needs for a better life as the direction, boldly innovating, forging ahead, being down-to-earth, and taking practical responsibility, there will be more "solutions" to achieve high-quality development.

From an economic point of view, the various practices of "giving up profits" are strategic investments with a long-term perspective. Whether it is ticket stub economics or "one-yuan theaters," the forms are different, but the essence remains the same - they are all sincere expressions of "people-centeredness." We look forward to the emergence of more sincere actions, bringing joy to people, vitality to the market, and potential to development.

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Specialty Vegetable Industry Paves a Road to Prosperity (First Scene)

By: 本报记者 杨 一

Driving northeast from Vientiane (万象), the capital of Laos, you enter Kinhua Village (金花村) in Xaythany District (塞塔尼县). This small village of 128 households in the northern mountains is undergoing a "butterfly transformation" by developing a distinctive vegetable growing industry.

When reporters arrived at the Kinhua Village (金花村) Village Activity Center, dozens of farmers involved in greenhouse and open-field vegetable cultivation were receiving agricultural technology training on the theme of pest and disease control. "In the past, Chinese agricultural technology experts provided training for them. After several years of learning and exchange, the Rural Development and Poverty Reduction Department of the Lao Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has taken over, and Lao personnel are now giving classes to the villagers," Feng Min (冯敏), an expert from the Guangxi (广西) Aid Laos Technical Cooperation Poverty Reduction Demonstration Project stationed in Kinhua Village (金花村), told reporters.

In recent years, the Chinese and Lao governments have cooperated to build more than 20 vegetable greenhouses in Kinhua Village (金花村), three of which are high-standard intelligent greenhouses that were just completed this year. Since 2024, agricultural technology experts from Guangxi (广西) have introduced modern greenhouse technologies such as intelligent temperature and light control to Kinhua Village (金花村). The new vegetable planting methods have helped many farmers escape poverty and become rich, and Kinhua Village (金花村) has become a model of "targeted poverty alleviation" in Xaythany District (塞塔尼县) and even throughout Laos.

Starting from the Village Activity Center, passing through a 100-meter-long dirt road and several farmhouses, two connected greenhouses equipped with intelligent temperature, light, and humidity control systems, as well as integrated water and fertilizer equipment, come into view. Inside the greenhouses, vegetables such as romaine lettuce, bok choy, and lettuce are growing well, and some vegetable seedlings have just sprouted, showing a vibrant scene. According to Feng Min (冯敏), each three ridges in the greenhouse are contracted to one household, and a batch of vegetables can be harvested and sold to nearby farmers' markets in about three weeks, with each batch of vegetables earning between 1.8 million and 2.5 million Lao Kip (approximately 22,000 Lao Kip to 1 US dollar). "We impart vegetable planting and management technologies such as modern intelligent greenhouses, water and fertilizer regulation, matching improved crop varieties with good farming practices, scientific crop rotation, and order-based planting to local villagers to help them increase crop yields and income," said Feng Min (冯敏).

Located in the tropics, Laos has abundant rainfall and heat, giving it a natural advantage in developing agriculture. In Kinhua Village (金花村), rice can be harvested three times a year. However, due to long-term constraints from relatively backward planting techniques, in the past, there were fewer than 10 vegetable-growing households in Kinhua Village (金花村), with an area of less than 5 mu. Village Chief Soulithong (苏立功) of Kinhua Village (金花村) told reporters that before the arrival of Chinese experts, local villagers had always 靠天吃饭 (kào tiān chī fàn - "rely on the heavens for food," depend on weather conditions for a living), mainly planting rice and dryland crops, with low and unstable economic income. On the day of the interview, reporters encountered a rainstorm. Soulithong (苏立功) said, "In the past, on a rainy day like today, the newly sprouted green vegetables would be washed away overnight. Now, with the intelligent greenhouses built under the guidance of Chinese experts, we are no longer afraid of natural disasters such as floods and droughts." Modern agricultural technologies such as intelligent greenhouses have improved the quality of vegetables in Kinhua Village (金花村), and nearby farmers' markets have begun to compete to purchase local vegetables. Kinhua Village (金花村) vegetables have even slowly become "internet-famous vegetables" on Lao social media, and villagers' incomes have steadily increased.

According to Soulithong (苏立功), nearly 60% of the farmers in Kinhua Village (金花村) now grow vegetables, with 52 greenhouse vegetable-growing households covering nearly 30 mu; and 45 open-field vegetable-growing households covering nearly 53 mu. It is estimated that the per capita annual income of Kinhua Village (金花村) will increase to 10.27 million Lao Kip this year. Kang Vanndy (康婉迪), a villager in Kinhua Village (金花村), participated in the high-standard intelligent greenhouse vegetable-growing project, contracting three ridges in the greenhouse, mainly planting bok choy, a common vegetable on the Lao people's tables. "With the greenhouses, we can now continuously plant and sell vegetables throughout the year, and our family can have a stable income of 6 million Lao Kip every month," said Kang Vanndy (康婉迪). The villagers are very grateful to the Chinese technical experts who came to Laos to build greenhouses and impart agricultural technology, helping Kinhua Village (金花村) "pave a road to prosperity with a distinctive vegetable industry."

In addition to the completed vegetable greenhouse construction, the Guangxi (广西) Aid Laos Technical Cooperation Poverty Reduction Demonstration Project also includes the construction of roads in vegetable-growing areas, the construction of vegetable collection points in the village and three-sided light drainage ditches, the promotion of GAP certification and trademark registration for vegetable products, and the signing of vegetable purchase agreements. The project is expected to be fully completed in June 2026.

Kinhua Village (金花村) is a microcosm of the achievements of poverty reduction work in Laos. According to the Lao Vientiane Times (万象时报), by the end of 2024, only 899 out of 156,000 households in Vientiane (万象) were below the poverty line, meaning that 99.43% of households had escaped poverty. Anothai (阿诺萨), Deputy Director of the Rural Development and Poverty Reduction Department of the Lao Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, said that Laos' poverty reduction work is inseparable from Lao-Chinese cooperation, and Laos needs to learn from China's successful experience in targeted poverty alleviation. "Soon, two new Lao-Chinese cooperation poverty reduction projects will be implemented in two villages in Laos. We look forward to continuing to strengthen cooperation with China and working hard to achieve Laos' goal of graduating from the list of least developed countries in 2026."

(Reported from Vientiane (万象) by Supun (苏朋) of the Asia-Pacific Center Branch)

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Providing Valuable Opportunities for Foreign Enterprises to Deeply Root and Develop in China (Witnessing China's Opportunities)

By: 本报记者 陈尚文

"China is one of Samsung's largest overseas markets in the world. China continues to promote high-level opening up, and the market has huge development potential, providing valuable opportunities for foreign companies to take root and develop in China." Zhang Daijun (张代君), Chief Vice President of Samsung China, said in an exclusive interview with this reporter recently.

The establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea in 1992 pressed the "start button" for Samsung's investment in China and its deep cultivation of the Chinese market. In the 33 years since entering the Chinese market, Samsung has witnessed China's rapid development. The Chinese market is vast, with a solid industrial base and abundant innovation resources, and its economy demonstrates vigorous vitality and strong resilience. Against this backdrop, Samsung has continuously expanded its business footprint in China, deeply integrated into China's industrial chain and supply chain system, and achieved a transformation and upgrade from labor-intensive industries to technology-intensive industries such as semiconductors, multi-layer ceramic capacitors, and new energy vehicle power batteries, becoming an important driving force for economic and trade cooperation and industrial win-win between China and South Korea.

In recent years, China has continued to promote high-level opening up to the outside world, and through policy innovation, resource introduction, and high-quality supply, it has strived to build an open world economy while promoting higher-quality development of the domestic economy. In Zhang Daijun's view, the China International Import Expo (CIIE) is a vivid practice of China's unswerving expansion of high-level opening up to the outside world, and an important window for companies from all countries to share China's huge market potential and consumption upgrade opportunities.

The world's first foldable screen mobile phone was launched in 2019; the industry-leading 200-megapixel camera sensor was first exhibited in 2021; Micro LED, which represents future display technology... "At each CIIE, we actively showcase Samsung's diversified innovation achievements and globally leading technologies in the field of science and technology, deepen exchanges and cooperation with local partners, and allow more innovative achievements to quickly enter the daily lives of Chinese consumers from the exhibition stand and exhibition, and share the development dividends of China's super-large market." Zhang Daijun introduced that Samsung has participated in the CIIE for eight consecutive years and will focus on showcasing globally leading technological achievements and applications in artificial intelligence, semiconductors, displays, medical devices, etc., so that Chinese consumers can more intuitively experience the deep integration of technology and life.

The concentrated appearance of cutting-edge technologies is rooted in Samsung's long-term strategic layout for research and development innovation in China. At present, Samsung has 13 research and development centers in China, focusing on research and development of emerging industries and future industries such as artificial intelligence, 6G, and power batteries. "The research and development center in China is continuously providing core technical support for Samsung's global products." Zhang Daijun emphasized that the high-level research and development achievements of the Chinese team are constantly emerging, realizing the value transmission of "research and development in China, innovation for the world." Today, these technologies are widely used in daily scenarios such as family life and audio-visual entertainment, providing Chinese consumers with a more intelligent and convenient service experience.

In recent years, Samsung has continued to deepen its efforts in rural revitalization, science and education innovation, and green operations, and has achieved a series of results - the "Sharing Villages" industrial assistance project has provided practical experience for the modernization of China's agriculture and rural areas through the coordinated efforts of technology empowerment and industrial integration; the youth science and technology talent training project has trained nearly 800,000 Chinese youths; under the guidance of the "green operation" concept, Samsung has promoted green sustainable development from green technology innovation to green product development and then to green supply chain construction. "Actively participating in China's comprehensive rural revitalization, science and education innovation, and other processes, taking root in China, we always firmly believe that the development of enterprises cannot be separated from the support of society, and we also hope to use the power of enterprises to invest in one place and benefit one party," Zhang Daijun said.

Zhang Daijun believes that the Chinese market is showing multi-field and deep-level growth potential: under the promotion of new quality productive forces, traditional industries have achieved 老树发新枝 (lǎo shù fā xīn zhī - "old trees sprout new branches," old things take on a new look) through digital and intelligent transformation; in the green economy field, the "transformation demand + technology iteration" dual-wheel drive has formed a strong magnetic field that attracts high-quality global resources; new demands such as health consumption, intelligent consumption, and cultural consumption continue to be released, injecting strong and stable endogenous power into the Chinese economy. Zhang Daijun said: "In the future, Samsung will continue to focus on innovation cooperation localization, industrial chain symbiosis, market service precision, and green development synergy, hoping to resonate with China's development, work hand in hand with Chinese partners, and jointly create a more prosperous future."

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The 2nd China-Europe Scientists Forum Held in Germany

Xinhua News Agency, Heidelberg, Germany, November 2 (Reporter Ma Yueran) The second China-Europe Scientists Forum was held in Heidelberg (海德堡), Germany from November 1st to 2nd. Hundreds of Chinese and European scientists, scholars, and business representatives conducted in-depth discussions on scientific and technological cooperation in cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence.

Zhou Zhiqiang (周志强), Counselor of the Education Section of the Chinese Embassy in Germany, pointed out in his opening speech at the forum that scientific and technological exchanges have always been an important bridge connecting China and Europe. In areas such as artificial intelligence, biomedicine, and climate change, there is enormous potential for cooperation between the two sides. Faced with global challenges, Chinese and European scientists need to cooperate to promote scientific and technological progress and serve the development of human society.

Zhou Jie (周捷), rotating chairman of the Federation of Chinese Professional Associations in Europe, said that he hopes this forum can become a "connector" connecting the scientific research minds of China and Europe, an "accelerator" for accelerating the transformation of knowledge and technology, and an "incubator" for incubating the ideas of young talents.

In the keynote speech session, many scientists from Hungary, Germany and other countries shared the innovative applications of artificial intelligence in agriculture, medicine, and intelligent maintenance of industrial equipment.

It is reported that the activities of this forum include a series of online and offline parallel forums such as artificial intelligence and advanced manufacturing, translational and clinical medicine, and carbon neutrality and new energy. These activities are closely related to the hot spots of global science, technology and economic development. Chinese and European scientists 集思广益 (jí sī guǎng yì - "collect thoughts, broaden benefits," to pool wisdom for mutual benefit), injecting new impetus into promoting collaborative innovation and application of cutting-edge technologies.

The China-Europe Scientists Forum aims to strengthen Sino-European academic exchanges and cooperation, and promote the gathering and integration of high-end talents and innovative enterprises. The first China-Europe Scientists Forum was held in Frankfurt (法兰克福), Germany in October 2024.

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The 2025 World Cities Day China Theme Event was recently held in Chongqing (重庆). With the theme of "People-oriented Cities, Intelligent Future," the event attracted approximately 1,200 domestic and foreign experts, scholars, and people from all walks of life. World Cities Day is the first international day with a city theme established by the United Nations, and it is also the first international day promoted and established by the Chinese government at the United Nations, which falls on October 31st each year. The photo shows visitors viewing intelligent security robots at the theme exhibition area of the 2025 World Cities Day China Theme Event at the Chongqing (重庆) Yuelai International Expo Center (悦来国际博览中心) recently.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Cheng (陈诚) photo

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China's 6 Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems Receive FAO Recognition

This newspaper Rome November 2nd (Reporters Xie Yanhong (谢亚宏) and Zheng Bin (郑彬)) The Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) designation ceremony, hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), was recently held in Rome (罗马), the capital of Italy (意大利). This event is one of the series of activities celebrating the 80th anniversary of the founding of the FAO, and it was held to grant designations and facilitate exchanges for the newly recognized GIAHS since 2023.

A total of government, enterprise, and farmer representatives from 14 countries and 28 agricultural cultural heritage sites participated in this event. Six Chinese heritage sites were designated by the FAO, namely the Hebei Kuancheng Traditional Chestnut Cultivation System (河北宽城传统板栗栽培系统), the Anhui Tongling White Ginger Planting System (安徽铜陵白姜种植系统), the Zhejiang Xianju Ancient Chinese Bayberry Complex Planting and Breeding System (浙江仙居古杨梅群复合种养系统), the Gansu Gaolan Shichuan Ancient Pear Garden System (甘肃皋兰什川古梨园系统), the Zhejiang Deqing Freshwater Pearl Complex Farming System (浙江德清淡水珍珠复合养殖系统), and the Fujian Fuding White Tea Culture System (福建福鼎白茶文化系统). To date, the total number of GIAHS is 102, of which China (中国) has 25, ranking first in the world.

Qu Dongyu (屈冬玉), Director-General of the FAO, said in a video address that the traditional knowledge contained in the GIAHS is enduring and its value is indispensable today. Local farmers have created sustainable ecological agricultural systems tailored to local conditions, providing practical experience for enhancing resilience to climate crises, ensuring food security, and improving farmers' livelihoods.

On the day of the event, the FAO also held exhibitions of GIAHS characteristic products, cultural displays, and food tasting activities.

The GIAHS protection project was initiated by the FAO in 2002, aiming to protect the unique land-use systems and their agricultural landscapes, biodiversity, and knowledge systems formed under the long-term synergistic evolution and dynamic adaptation of rural areas and their environments, making them a model for sustainable agricultural development.

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The export path of matcha from Tongren, China, is becoming increasingly broad.

By: 本报记者 黄 娴 朱玥颖

At the foot of Mount Fanjing (梵净山), in Jiangkou County (江口县), Tongren City (铜仁市), Guizhou Province (贵州省), the matcha cold storage of Guicha Group's (贵茶集团) Guicha Industrial Park is operating in an orderly manner. Workers are classifying and stacking goods in batches, preparing for the next foreign trade order. Not long ago, 4 tons of matcha departed from here and arrived in Japan via Shenzhen Shekou Port (深圳蛇口港). Lan Fangqiang (兰方强), Deputy General Manager of Guicha Tea Industry Co., Ltd. (贵茶茶业股份有限公司), a subsidiary of Guicha Group (贵茶集团), introduced that this is the first time Japan has purchased matcha on such a large scale. Since the beginning of this year, Guicha Group (贵茶集团) has exported matcha to Japan three times, totaling 16 tons. In recent years, Guicha Group (贵茶集团) has invited experts from Japan to teach new technologies and built a large factory for the production of matcha, which has now been successfully mass-produced.

The popularity of Guicha Group's (贵茶集团) matcha production line is one of the achievements of Tongren's vigorous development of the matcha industry. Tongren City (铜仁市) is known as the "Matcha Capital of China" (中国抹茶之都), and with its unique climate and soil advantages, it produces and sells a wide variety of matcha products on a large scale. In recent years, Tongren matcha's path to overseas markets has become wider and wider. In 2024, Tongren (铜仁) exported 180 tons of matcha; in the first half of this year, matcha exports reached 230 tons, an increase of 42% year-on-year. Currently, global matcha supply and demand are strong, the international market's recognition of Tongren matcha continues to increase, and orders are growing. In the first half of this year, Tongren (铜仁) added 23,400 mu of matcha base, with a yield of 820 tons. By 2025, Tongren matcha's consumer market will cover more than 50 countries and regions such as Japan, the United States, and France, and foreign sales are showing a steady and rapid growth trend.

In order to better open up the international market, Tongren (铜仁) is focusing on producing high-quality matcha as its main product and is actively expanding its market share in Japan, Germany, the United States, and other markets. It is understood that the Tongren Municipal Government (铜仁市政府) has set a goal to strive to produce more than 1,750 tons of tencha, the raw material for matcha, this year, and more than 2,200 tons in 2026. The 2025 Tongren City Matcha Industry High-Quality Development Promotion Conference held in July set a goal: to cultivate and strengthen one or more world-class matcha leading enterprises, cultivate 10 matcha-related enterprises above a certain scale, build 100 tencha production lines, cultivate 1,000 matcha family farms, integrate 10,000 matcha consumption scenarios, and build 100,000 mu of matcha raw material base. Guicha Group (贵茶集团) also took the lead in forming the "Guicha Alliance" (贵茶联盟), implementing the "leading enterprise + alliance enterprise + professional cooperative + base + farmer" model, and implementing unified standards throughout all aspects of planting management, production and processing, and sales packaging to form a stable supply chain.

"Selling raw materials can certainly generate revenue, but Tongren's (铜仁) matcha industry is not limited to being a raw material supplier," said Wang Shuai (王帅), head of the Rural Reform and Cooperative Economic Guidance Section of the Tongren Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (铜仁市农业农村局). In order to maintain its advantage in the global matcha market competition, Tongren (铜仁) is breaking out of the single "raw material" role and trying to integrate into consumption fields such as beverages and pastries. As of now, Tongren (铜仁) has developed 58 series of matcha products, which have been placed on supermarket shelves in 43 countries and regions. At the same time, Tongren (铜仁) plans to establish branches in the United States, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Europe and recruit local marketing teams.

Matcha is said to have been introduced from China to Japan during the Kamakura period (1185 to 1333), and has since developed rapidly in Japan. In recent years, China has improved matcha manufacturing technology and increased its exports of matcha products to Japan. Kyodo News (共同社) reported that the influence of Tongren (铜仁), Guizhou (贵州), China as a matcha production area is gradually increasing. China's matcha production this year is expected to exceed 5,000 tons, ranking among the top in the world. "Tongren City (铜仁市) has turned matcha into a regional specialty product and established a mass production system. It has occupied a place in the Japanese market, which has a traditional matcha culture, and is actively expanding its sales to Europe and the United States."

Since last year, affected by extreme weather such as high temperatures, the output of tencha in major production areas such as Kyoto (京都), Japan has decreased by 25%. Data from the Global Japanese Tea Association shows that as the supply pressure in the Japanese matcha market increases, especially the "Uji Matcha" (宇治抹茶) favored by international tourists is in short supply, the price of Japanese tencha continues to rise. In May of this year, the auction price of tencha in Kyoto (京都), Japan reached 8,235 yen per kilogram (approximately 154 yen per US dollar), an increase of 170% year-on-year. Industry analysts believe that in the face of market supply and demand contradictions, with the stable expansion of Tongren (铜仁) and Japan's matcha trade, Tongren's (铜仁) tencha and matcha products will occupy a larger share of the Japanese market in the future.

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Chinese-built Fourth Bridge Over Canal a Source of Pride for Panamanians

Panama City, November 1st (Xinhua) -- (Reporter Xu Yongzheng (许咏政)) The first layer of concrete for the east main tower foundation of the Fourth Panama Canal Bridge, constructed by a consortium of China Communications Construction Company (中国交建) and China Harbour Engineering Company (中国港湾), officially began pouring on November 1st, marking a major progress in the construction of this "most important project" in Panama.

Several Panamanian ministerial-level officials attended the pouring ceremony. Minister of Public Works, José Luis Andrade (何塞·路易斯·安德拉德), said in his speech that this is a historic milestone in the construction of the Fourth Bridge. "Today, we are more determined than ever to be proud of being Panamanian."

Andrade (安德拉德) introduced that the Fourth Bridge is scheduled to be completed in October 2028, and the overall progress of the project has exceeded 27%, meeting the expected goals. He emphasized that the Fourth Bridge "is the most important project in the country" because it connects North America and South America, runs through the east and west coasts, and will greatly improve the lives of residents.

The main bridge of the Fourth Bridge is a double-tower, double-cable-stayed bridge structure with a total length of 965 meters. The main tower is "H" shaped and 186 meters high. It is reported that the Fourth Bridge project is currently the largest single bridge project undertaken by Chinese-funded enterprises in Latin America, and it is also the largest economic and trade cooperation project between China and Panama. It is expected that the project construction process will create 3,000 direct jobs and more indirect jobs. After the project is completed, it will greatly improve the travel conditions for approximately 2 million people on both sides of the canal and effectively promote local economic development.

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Editor in charge of this edition: Zou Zhipeng, Zhang Huizhong, Chu Jun

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Commercial Health Checkups: Don't Let Chaos Damage Trust (Jin Tai Perspective)

By: 本报记者 史一棋 申少铁

With the increasing health awareness of residents, the demand for health checkups in China continues to grow, and commercial health checkup institutions have emerged and grown. However, with the exposure of individual negative events, some problems related to commercial health checkups have surfaced: inducement of consumption, over-examination, missed diagnoses and misdiagnoses, and lack of after-sales service... How to regulate industry order and build a health checkup defense line has become an urgent issue to be solved.

Creating health anxiety, inducing consumers to increase unnecessary or even harmful examination items.

Some consumers have reported that some commercial health checkup institutions create health anxiety and blur package content to guide consumers to increase examination items.

Some time ago, Mr. Liu, a reader from Huizhou (惠州), Guangdong (广东) Province, took his elderly family members for a checkup. In the early telephone appointment stage, he chose the 1268 yuan elderly checkup package. The customer service introduced that the package was "a comprehensive screening, cost-effective, and suitable for the health management of elderly people living at home."

"When I arrived at the scene, I found that the situation was not right. The salesperson kept introducing other checkup items to the elderly. The elderly didn't know much about relevant knowledge. When they heard the other party introduce the annual mortality rate of liver cancer and lung cancer, they decided to add items temporarily." Mr. Liu told reporters that in the end, they added liver cancer and lung cancer risk assessment, Alzheimer's disease detection and other items, and the total cost exceeded 3,000 yuan.

"It seems that the checkup institution did not force sales, and adding items was the customer's voluntary choice, and they were all clearly marked, but the way they increased the elderly's anxiety through one-sided information was uncomfortable. Children who accompany the elderly for checkups are generally filial, and few will refuse on the spot," Mr. Liu said.

Similarly, on the Black Cat Complaint platform, a netizen left a message: "I bought a 593 yuan checkup package for my mother-in-law. When she went for a blood draw, my mother-in-law was misled by the nurse and added a 562.8 yuan checkup item." What the netizen could not accept was that the added items were not needed by them. For example, the screening of Helicobacter pylori, the mother-in-law had already tested for it in the routine checkup organized by the unit half a year ago, "but the nurse said that the checkup is about being comprehensive, and the doctor needs to judge according to the comprehensive indicators of the body. Only testing individual items will not achieve the checkup effect. The mother-in-law nodded repeatedly after hearing this."

In addition to doing unnecessary examinations in order to pursue so-called comprehensiveness, some items are expensive, and the screening value also varies from person to person. Zhang Anming (章谙鸣), director of the Department of Internal Medicine of Putuo District Chinese Medicine Hospital (普陀区中医医院) in Shanghai (上海), has treated a patient who neglected the basic colonoscopy examination due to superstition of the so-called "high-end gene screening," which led to the failure to detect early intestinal cancer lesions in the body in time. And this kind of "high-end gene screening" costs tens of thousands of yuan at every turn.

"Some checkup institutions use the public's fear of difficult and complicated diseases to vigorously promote gene detection, tumor marker detection, PET-CT and other high-priced tests. These items have limited screening value for the general population." Zhang Anming introduced that in 2024, the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委) clearly pointed out in relevant documents that it is not recommended to use tumor marker detection as a routine cancer screening method. "Core Popular Science Knowledge of Cancer Prevention and Control in China (2025)" also emphasizes that healthy people without special risk factors do not need to undergo such examinations frequently. Comprehensive and useless high-priced checkup additions not only increase the economic burden of checkup takers, but also high-frequency or radiation-bearing examinations may also bring physical and mental harm.

Commercial health checkups have missed diagnoses and misdiagnoses, and the accuracy has been questioned, consuming consumer trust.

"I had a checkup at a checkup institution in Shanghai (上海), and the B-ultrasound did not find a kidney cyst. More than a month later, I went to Zhongshan Hospital (中山医院) in Shanghai due to back pain and found a 1.2 cm right kidney cyst. If I hadn't gone to the hospital for a second examination, the consequences would have been unimaginable." A netizen complained on the "Leadership Message Board" of People's Daily Online, "This makes me extremely distrustful of the inspection results of this institution. When I asked for a refund, the other party's attitude was extremely bad and they did not admit their inspection error."

Searching for relevant information, similar complaints are not uncommon, and the complainants even include well-known checkup institutions. In the judicial cases that have been announced in various places, there are many cases involving the problem of missed diagnoses by checkup institutions. The People's Court of Tianhe District (天河区人民法院) in Guangzhou (广州), Guangdong (广东) Province, disclosed a dispute case caused by missed diagnoses in a checkup: Chen (陈), an employee of a company, participated in a checkup organized by the unit, and a clinic company provided chest CT examination services. The result showed that there was "no abnormality" in both lungs. Two years later, when Chen (陈) went to the institution for a checkup again, the CT examination suggested that there was a solid nodule in the upper left lung, and it was recommended to follow up for re-examination. Subsequently, it was diagnosed as stage ⅢA (late stage) low-differentiation adenocarcinoma of the upper left lung. Chen (陈) therefore sued in court. Finally, the court held that the clinic company had missed the diagnosis when performing the imaging examination on Chen (陈) and should bear the liability for compensation.

Coincidentally, Ms. Sun (孙), a reader from Xi'an (西安), Shaanxi (陕西) Province, went to a checkup center for a checkup. The rheumatoid factor positive that was originally checked out at Xijing Hospital (西京医院) in Xi'an (西安) turned out to be negative. "Later it was proved that it was a misdiagnosis by a commercial institution, and they apologized and re-tested," Ms. Sun (孙) said.

Article 1221 of the Civil Code stipulates that if a medical worker fails to fulfill the obligation of diagnosis and treatment corresponding to the medical level at the time in the diagnosis and treatment activities, causing damage to the patient, the medical institution shall bear the liability for compensation. Accordingly, if the checkup institution misdiagnoses or misses the diagnosis, so that the checkup taker fails to detect the condition in time and delays the best treatment time, it may also face accountability.

Some checkups also give consumers a false alarm. "I took my mother to a checkup center in Harbin (哈尔滨), Heilongjiang (黑龙江) Province, and found a 0.7 cm ground glass nodule. The doctor at the center said that if it is larger than 0.8 cm, it will become cancer, and it is recommended to re-examine after 3 months. My mother and I were scared. We went to the hospital and paid for an enhanced CT scan. The expert at the hospital said that this is just an ordinary solid nodule, and it may also be an inflammatory reaction caused by being positive for COVID-19."

On "People's Complaint," a netizen said that even if it does not cause serious consequences, similar misdiagnoses also consume consumers' trust in commercial checkups.

Some commercial health checkup institutions lack medical qualifications, and the interpretation of checkup reports is perfunctory.

Inventorying consumers' concerns about checkup institutions, in addition to the credibility of examination items and results, it also involves the lack of some commercial checkup institutions in terms of personnel qualifications, equipment maintenance, and after-sales service. The "Interim Provisions on the Administration of Health Checkups" requires that checkup institutions have at least 2 licensed physicians with associate senior or higher qualifications in internal medicine or surgery, and at least 10 registered nurses, but in practice, many checkup institutions do not meet this standard.

In recent years, news reports have exposed some commercial checkup institutions using unqualified doctors, and even nurses pretending to be doctors. In 2024, the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委) found in a spot check that some checkup institutions had technicians reading films on behalf of doctors, and the average time for CT film reading was far lower than the average value of public hospitals.

Equipment aging is also worth vigilance. In August 2023, the Ningbo (宁波) Market Supervision Department (市场监管部门) in Zhejiang (浙江) found that a checkup center was using a blood sedimentation instrument that should have been scrapped. The equipment had been in service for more than 5,200 tests during the overdue period.

Some checkup institutions also have perfunctory interpretations of checkup reports. Mr. Cui (崔), a reader from Zhengzhou (郑州), Henan (河南) Province, went to a local commercial checkup center. "After the checkup, the thick checkup report was marked with arrows up and down. How can ordinary people understand it? The doctor in charge of the interpretation said that some indicators were not good and that regular re-examination was required. When I asked how to maintain it normally, he only answered that I should develop good living habits, and also promoted health products by the way," Mr. Cui (崔) said.

The "Interim Provisions on the Administration of Health Checkups" clearly pointed out that health checkups are aimed at accurately assessing individual health status, early identifying disease risk factors and potential health hazards. However, many current checkup services still remain at the "one-time transaction" level, that is, only providing a test result report in the end, ignoring individualized health risk assessment and intervention guidance, and it is also difficult to provide targeted health management plans.

"Report interpretation should be an important part of the checkup process. Such perfunctory treatment cannot help us truly understand our own health status, which greatly reduces the effect of the checkup," Mr. Cui (崔) said, hoping that relevant regulations can be introduced in the future to regulate the checkup report interpretation process.

Experts suggest strengthening qualifications and professional forces, improving operational standardization, and strengthening practice supervision.

Compared with the checkup departments of public hospitals, commercial checkup institutions usually adopt an appointment system, which is efficient, comfortable, and provides one-on-one guidance services and strong privacy, which attracts many consumers. Experts believe that the essence of checkups is health risk screening. Although current technology cannot detect all diseases, checkup institutions can maximize the accuracy of checkups and reduce the risk of missed diagnoses and misdiagnoses through standardized management and improved business capabilities.

"In order to increase turnover, marketing is very normal for commercial institutions, but it must be within the scope allowed by law." Deng Yong (邓勇), a professor in the Department of Law at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine (北京中医药大学), believes that commercial checkup institutions must strictly abide by relevant laws such as the Consumer Rights Protection Law, provide customers with true, accurate and complete checkup information, and must not make false propaganda or mislead customers; in terms of publicity content, highlight the professionalism and accuracy of checkup services, and avoid using exaggerated and misleading language; truthfully inform customers of the risks and limitations of checkup items, so that customers can make independent choices on the premise of full knowledge.

In response to the problem that the current relevant laws and regulations on health checkup management need to be improved, Deng Yong (邓勇) suggested that the industry articles should be revised and refined as soon as possible to clarify the responsibilities, obligations and violation punishment standards of checkup institutions, provide a clear basis for the supervision of competent departments and the protection of consumer rights, so as to better solve the problems of induced consumption and over-examination that consumers complain about more.

At present, some places have made beneficial explorations. In July this year, Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津) and Hebei (河北) jointly released the regional collaborative local standard "Health Checkup Quality Control Specification," focusing on the whole process management of health checkups, and making clear provisions on checkup indicators from three dimensions: structural quality, process quality, and result quality. This is conducive to improving the health checkup quality control system and will provide higher-quality and more reliable health checkup services for the general public in the region.

In addition, the current enforcement of laws and regulations is insufficient, and the punishment for violations is too light, which is difficult to form an effective deterrent. "Relevant departments still have regulatory gaps in the qualification review and daily operation supervision of checkup institutions, which leads to the failure of some commercial checkup institutions to meet the standards and operate in a non-standard manner. It is very necessary to strengthen the supervision and management of practice." Deng Yong (邓勇) suggested that the health and market supervision departments should conduct spot checks on checkup institutions from time to time, and seriously deal with violations such as forging the qualifications of practitioners and exaggerating publicity; they should also establish and improve a complaint handling platform to simplify the process of consumer rights protection.

For the problem of missed diagnoses and misdiagnoses generally reflected by consumers, Ma Xuehua (马学华), director and chief physician of the Checkup Center of the Fourth Medical Center of the General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army (解放军总医院第四医学中心), believes that the core of checkup institutions to reduce missed diagnoses and misdiagnoses and improve the accuracy of reports lies in building a "technology-personnel-process-management" four-in-one quality assurance system, and realizing the whole chain risk control through refined management and technological innovation.

"Commercial checkup institutions may wish to learn from the business model of public hospital checkup departments. For example, the Checkup Center of the Fourth Medical Center of the General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army (解放军总医院第四医学中心) has strengthened its talent team, requiring chief examiners to have more than 5 years of clinical experience and associate senior titles or above, and inspection personnel to pass the clinical inspection professional technical qualification certification; at the same time, a three-level review mechanism is adopted to ensure the accuracy of the report," Ma Xuehua (马学华) said.

While building institutional guarantees, the quality of after-sales service must also keep up. Ma Xuehua (马学华) said that the interpretation of checkup reports needs to be centered on the examinee, and accurate communication should be achieved through content standardization, form visualization, and service personalization. When there is a problem with the examinee's checkup indicators, according to the risk level of the indicators, the examinee can be promptly reminded to conduct further examination and treatment through the text on the checkup report, as well as sending text messages, making phone calls, and other methods, combined with professional interpretation and other services.

(Min Jinghan (闵靖涵) participated in the writing)

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Helping to Solve the Difficulties in Insuring Trucks and Ride-Hailing Vehicles

By: 本报记者 向子丰

On August 11 and September 22 of this year, the "Letters to the Editor" section published articles titled "Why is it difficult for large trucks to renew insurance?" and "How to solve the problem of 'vehicle owners complaining about high costs, insurance companies complaining about losses'?", reflecting the difficulties and high premiums for insurance for large trucks and online ride-hailing vehicles, which bring employment pressure to large truck and online ride-hailing vehicle owners and restrict the development of the industry. The reporter recently learned from the National Financial Regulatory Administration (国家金融监督管理总局) that relevant measures will help solve this problem.

According to information released on the official website of the National Financial Regulatory Administration (国家金融监督管理总局) on October 28, the specific objects added to the "Easy Car Insurance" platform this time include fuel vehicles with the nature of use as taxis (including online ride-hailing) operating passenger cars, rental operating passenger cars, operating trucks, and non-operating trucks. Vehicle owners who meet the above service object scope can link to insurance companies through the platform for insurance, and relevant insurance companies shall not refuse insurance. Among them, individual customers can self-insure through the "Easy Car Insurance" WeChat service account and Alipay life account. After registering insurance needs and independently selecting an insurance company, they will be redirected to the insurance page of the selected insurance company to complete the insurance operation; corporate customers can visit the website (https://nevis.shie.com.cn), register insurance needs and independently select an insurance company, and the relevant insurance company will actively contact the corporate customer to provide offline underwriting services.

Affected by factors such as high usage intensity and high claim rates, some fuel-powered operating vehicles face the problem of difficulty in obtaining insurance. Fuel-powered operating vehicles such as trucks and rental cars are closely related to national economic operation and people's livelihood security. The National Financial Regulatory Administration (国家金融监督管理总局) has included high-claim risk fuel-powered operating vehicles into the "Easy Car Insurance" platform, providing vehicle owners with new options other than conventional insurance channels of insurance companies, realizing "**愿保尽保、凡投必保**" (yuàn bǎo jìn bǎo, fán tóu bì bǎo - "willing to insure all, all investments must be insured," ensuring comprehensive insurance coverage for all who seek it), which will surely improve the sense of gain for truck drivers and other vehicle owners.

In January 2025, the National Financial Regulatory Administration (国家金融监督管理总局) guided the China Banking and Insurance Association (中国保险行业协会) and the Shanghai Insurance Exchange (上海保险交易所) to build the "Easy Car Insurance" platform. As of now, more than 1.1 million new energy vehicles have been successfully insured through the platform, providing risk protection of more than 1.1 trillion yuan, effectively alleviating the difficulty of insuring new energy vehicles with high claim risks.

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Promoting "No Burning" on a Rainy Day: Village Work Too Rigid (Local News)

Recently, I passed through several villages in Cuiqiao Town (崔桥镇), Fugou County (扶沟县), Zhoukou City (周口市), Henan (河南) Province. It was the critical season for rushing to harvest and plant after the autumn floods. I saw that the accumulated water in the fields had not completely receded, and the villagers were wading through the mud, racing against time to drain water and harvest corn, or level the land and prepare to sow wheat. However, the village's loudspeaker was repeatedly broadcasting: "It is strictly forbidden to burn straw, and violators will be punished according to law" and "It is forbidden to set off fireworks and firecrackers, and serious action will be taken upon discovery," and there were also banners hanging that read "Be a law-abiding citizen and be a model for straw burning ban." In addition, there were "Straw Burning Ban Headquarters" duty points at the entrance of the village. According to the villagers, the cadres clocked in, took photos, and then stayed on duty in the shed.

The villagers told me that the continuous overcast and rainy weather made the straw so soaked that water could be wrung out of it, making it impossible to burn at all; and it was still a long time before the end of the year, so they had no energy to consider setting off fireworks and firecrackers. What everyone really needs is assistance with drainage and rushing to harvest.

We hope that relevant departments can adjust their work arrangements in a timely manner according to the actual situation at the grassroots level, so that the village loudspeakers can broadcast more assistance information needed by farmers, and that cadres can put their energy into the areas where villagers need it most.

Li (李) from Fugou County (扶沟县), Henan (河南).

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Beware of scams under the guise of rescheduling airline tickets (Advice)

Recently, my wife and I went on a trip and booked our plane tickets online. Before departure, I suddenly received a phone call. The person on the other end said that my ticket needed to be changed or refunded due to a flight malfunction. They accurately stated my flight number and asked me to provide my identity information and download a mobile application. Subsequently, the person asked me to log in to a website to process the change and also asked for my bank card number, saying that they needed to open a claims channel. The person asked me to transfer 980 yuan to a designated account. After the money was transferred, I realized that I might have been scammed and quickly called the police. Thankfully, the public security authorities quickly froze the suspect's account and helped me recover the defrauded money within two hours. Although it was a close call, I am still 心有余悸 (xīn yǒu yú jì - "heart has remaining fear," to still feel lingering fear). After we purchased our return train tickets, my wife and I simultaneously received text messages saying that the "train needed to be changed or refunded due to unforeseen circumstances." Learning from my previous experience, I immediately went to the train station to inquire and only proceeded with the change after confirming that the situation was genuine.

I want to use my personal experience to remind everyone: when you receive a phone call or text message about changes to flights or train numbers, be sure to verify it through the official website or official customer service; do not click on unknown links casually, and do not easily download unfamiliar mobile applications; if you are scammed, remember to keep the evidence and quickly call the police. In addition, I hope that the public security departments, while investigating fraud, can also crack down and deeply investigate to block the source of personal information leaks and establish a normalized anti-fraud mechanism, helping the public, especially the elderly, avoid fraud traps in a targeted manner.

Wang Yuchun (王玉春), JianShui County (建水县), Yunnan (云南)

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"Silk" Only, No "Down": It Can't Be Called a Down Jacket (Public Focus)

By: 本报记者 胡笑源

The weather is turning cold, and the down jacket market is ushering in its peak sales season. On major e-commerce platforms, the prices of down jackets range from as low as tens of yuan to as high as thousands of yuan, but the quality of the filling inside is uneven and hides traps. Many readers have reported encountering problems such as inferior quality, false advertising, and difficulty in returning or exchanging goods and claiming compensation when purchasing down jackets online.

"It doesn't feel fluffy, it's not warm to wear, and it often sheds feathers." Mr. Chen (陈先生), a reader from Changning District (长宁区), Shanghai (上海), spent 206 yuan on an e-commerce platform last winter to buy a down jacket filled with "90% duck down," but after cutting it open, he found that it was filled with inferior single down fibers and floss.

Similar situations are not isolated cases. Ms. Dong (董女士), a reader from Harbin (哈尔滨市), Heilongjiang (黑龙江), bought a down jacket in an e-commerce platform's live broadcast room that claimed to be filled with "90% white goose down." She recalled, "The host deliberately showed the filling in front of the camera at the time, and it did look like full down clusters." However, after receiving the clothes, the feathers shed severely, and the fabric tore during a cleaning process. Only then did she see clearly that the internal filling was not the down as advertised, but a large amount of thin, filamentous material.

"Replacing down with silk" is one of the most common fraudulent methods for filling materials in the current down jacket market. So, what is the difference between "silk" and "down"?

Luo Shengli (罗胜利), Technical Director of Guangfang Institute of Guangjian Group (广检集团广纺院), introduced to reporters: "Down is the down feathers close to the skin of the chest and abdomen of waterfowl such as geese and ducks. In an ideal state, it is in the shape of a three-dimensional cluster, which is the down cluster. Because the thermal conductivity of air is low, the fluffy down clusters can fix more static air, so the higher the down content of the down jacket, the stronger the fluffiness and warmth. Down fibers and feather fibers are single fibers that fall off the down clusters during processing. As filling materials, they do not have the warmth effect of down clusters, and they are easy to drill out of the fabric gaps, which may bring respiratory health risks."

In 2022, China implemented the new national standard "Down Garments" (《羽绒服装》), which no longer uses "down content" including down fibers and feather fibers as the core indicator of down garments, but requires down jackets to clearly mark "down cluster content" and not be less than 50%. Despite this, some merchants still use consumers' information gap regarding the old and new standards to pass off low-priced "silk" as high-priced "down," harming consumers' rights and interests.

Some consumers have also bought "fake down jackets" that do not contain down. Mr. Yang (杨先生), a reader from Haidian District (海淀区), Beijing (北京), reflected on the "Leadership Message Board" (领导留言板) of People's Daily Online (人民网) that he spent 1315 yuan on an e-commerce platform to purchase a jacket whose product name was marked as "down jacket." However, during the wearing process, Mr. Yang (杨先生) found that this dress was not only not warm but also shed hair, "What came out was not down, but filamentous material. When I checked the water wash label, I found that the filling was 100% polyamide fiber and did not contain down at all."

Yao Xiaoman (姚小蔓), Honorary Chairman of the China Feather and Down Industrial Association (中国羽绒工业协会) and Vice Chairman of the International Down and Feather Bureau (国际羽绒羽毛局), introduced that the newly revised testing rules of the International Down and Feather Bureau (国际羽绒羽毛局) in June 2025 stipulate that "down" only refers to down clusters, and only products with a down cluster content greater than or equal to 10% can use the word "down" in their product information such as packaging, advertising, labels, and online page details.

During the investigation, reporters found that many merchants still confuse the public by using ambiguous names such as "down cotton" and "ecological down," making consumers mistakenly believe that their products are down products.

On an e-commerce platform, the product details page of a product written as "2025 New Women's Down Jacket" did not clearly mark the filling. The reporter consulted the customer service whether the product was filled with down. The other party said that the product was a "down cotton jacket" and the filling was hollow cotton and silk floss, not "down."

In addition to "replacing down with silk," some merchants also 鱼目混珠 (yú mù hùn zhū - "fish eyes mix pearls," to pass off fish eyes as pearls; to palm off the spurious as genuine), using duck down, which is relatively low in price, to impersonate goose down. Ms. Luo (罗女士), a reader from Luzhou (泸州市), Sichuan (四川), reported to reporters that she bought a goose down jacket from a self-operated store on an e-commerce platform, but found that the water wash label marked that the filling was duck down after receiving the goods. "I spent five or six hundred yuan to buy it because it was filled with goose down. The customer service shirked responsibility and said that the wrong goods were sent. However, there is no same duck down jacket in the store at all, and the trademark number of the clothes I received is exactly the same as the goose down jacket displayed on the platform."

Duck down and goose down are difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, and because down is an internal filling of the product, its quality is difficult to directly judge by appearance. Consumers often only notice the problem after wearing it for a period of time. When it comes to safeguarding their rights, they face multiple obstacles such as high testing costs, difficulty in providing evidence, and difficulty in claiming compensation. This dilemma is particularly prominent in e-commerce channels, where merchants lose contact, platforms shirk responsibility, and consumers often fall into a predicament where complaints are fruitless.

Mr. Chen (陈先生) told reporters that after he complained to the platform about the merchant, the platform closed the flagship store involved on the same day, but only processed the refund and did not fulfill the original promise of "compensating ten times the price for fake products." He then claimed compensation many times, and the platform only compensated him with a 100 yuan coupon. Ms. Dong's (董女士) experience is even more typical, "Contacting the platform's after-sales service, the other party replied that the store has been closed and cannot be returned or compensated, so it can only be left unresolved." Ms. Luo (罗女士) asked the platform for a refund, but the merchant was only willing to compensate 50 yuan in shopping coupons and said "otherwise it cannot be resolved," and the product is still being sold in the store.

In response to this dilemma of consumer rights protection, Wang Lan (王岚), a lawyer at Guangdong Huashang (Suzhou) Law Firm (广东华商（苏州）律师事务所), believes that the key to safeguarding rights is the preservation of evidence and the choice of path. "Consumers should keep evidence such as shopping orders, screenshots of product details pages, and customer service chat records. Once infringement is encountered, they can give priority to complaining through the e-commerce platform, requiring the platform to fulfill the obligation of 'prior compensation,' and then pursue compensation from the merchant."

In addition, if the merchant has fraudulent behavior, consumers can report to the market supervision department or the consumer association and claim "refund one and compensate three" in accordance with the law. "If the amount is small, you can choose a small claims procedure, which is low in cost and short in cycle, and is suitable for individual consumer rights protection. When complaining or suing, you should especially emphasize that 'the merchant has false advertising and the constituent elements of fraud have been established.'" Wang Lan (王岚) said.

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Kweichow Moutai: Innovation and Openness to Promote High-Quality Development of the Global Liquor Industry

October 28, 2025, in Maotai Town (茅台镇), Zunyi City (遵义市), Guizhou Province (贵州省), the inaugural Chishui River Forum officially opened on the banks of the Chishui River (赤水河). Hosted by Kweichow Moutai (贵州茅台), the inaugural Chishui River Forum, themed "Heaven and Earth Nurturing," brought together over 400 representatives from global wine companies, cultural scholars, and international organizations to engage in multi-dimensional dialogues and release practical achievements, providing new ideas for the high-quality development of the global wine industry.

Brand Innovation:

Cross-border Integration Adds Vitality, Cultural Tourism Empowers Development

Brand innovation is an important driving force for enterprise development. The inaugural Chishui River Forum featured three cross-border dialogue sessions: "Famous Wine + Culture," "Famous Wine + Food," and "Famous Wine + Fashion," fully demonstrating Moutai's active exploration in the field of brand innovation. In the "Famous Wine + Culture" dialogue, Moutai discussed with the French Cognac brand Camus (卡慕) how to combine intangible cultural heritage craftsmanship with modern aesthetics. The "Famous Wine + Food" session invited Michelin-starred chefs to demonstrate the pairing logic of sauce-flavored Baijiu with French cuisine. The "Famous Wine + Fashion" dialogue focused on youthful expression, with Moutai collaborating with designer brands to launch a "Twenty-Four Solar Terms" themed wine set, integrating Eastern aesthetics into daily life.

These cross-border practices are consistent with Moutai's long-term commitment to innovation. In recent years, Moutai has continued to enhance brand vitality through diversified layouts and digital transformation. In the digital field, Moutai has created the "iMoutai" digital marketing platform, serving over 78 million users through innovative functions such as "zodiac wine date self-selection" and "instant delivery," combining traditional brewing with modern consumption scenarios. In daily practice, Moutai continues to promote product innovation and scenario expansion, building a new consumption ecosystem, such as holding singer-branded concerts and short video creation competitions, constantly breaking traditional business boundaries. Moutai's cultural and creative product "Huang Xiaoxi Eats Dinner" takes inspiration from Guizhou's natural and cultural landscapes, integrating wine culture into the tourism experience, becoming a benchmark case of "wine-tourism integration." At this forum, Moutai also reached a cooperation with the French National Association of Experts in Wine Appreciation, exploring the cross-border integration of Baijiu craftsmanship and wine brewing, providing diverse choices for global consumers.

Responsibility and Commitment:

Based on Ecological Protection, Rooted in Shared Development

As an enterprise nurtured by the Chishui River (赤水河), Moutai has always regarded ecological responsibility as the foundation of sustainable development, integrating the concept of green development throughout the entire process of production and operation, and practicing corporate social responsibility with practical actions.

At this forum, Moutai, together with more than 20 world-renowned wine companies, jointly released the "International Famous Wine Chishui River Declaration," proposing initiatives in eight aspects: ecology, quality, consumption, social responsibility, technological innovation, and cultural exchange. Starting from the core production area of world sauce-flavored Baijiu along the Chishui River (赤水河), it outlines an action framework for the high-quality development of the global wine industry and wine culture exchange.

The declaration's advocacy is highly consistent with Moutai's long-term commitment to responsibility. In recent years, Moutai has implemented comprehensive environmental protection measures, including investing in the construction of advanced sewage treatment facilities, promoting the use of clean energy, and carrying out energy-saving and emission reduction technological transformations, which not only protect the ecological environment of the Chishui River basin, but also provide a replicable practical path for the green transformation and development of China's wine industry. In July of this year, in the latest Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) rating results announced by MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International) (明晟), Kweichow Moutai's (贵州茅台) ESG rating was upgraded from BBB to A. Moutai has also become the first Baijiu company to be rated A. In addition, Moutai continues to call on wine companies in the Chishui River basin to jointly protect the ecological environment, regularly organize environmental protection technology exchange activities, continuously promote the establishment of the "Chishui River Ecological Public Welfare Fund," and jointly sign a memorandum of cooperation on ecological environmental protection in the Chishui River basin with relevant parties in the three provinces of Yunnan (云), Guizhou (贵), and Sichuan (川), promoting the industry consensus of "**共抓大保护、不搞大开发**" (gòng zhuā dà bǎo hù, bù gǎo dà kāi fā - "jointly grasp major protection, not engage in major development," emphasizing environmental protection over extensive development) and demonstrating the responsibility and commitment of leading wine companies.

Cultural Integration:

Building a Platform for Industry Exchange, Bridging Cultural Dialogue

Cultural inheritance and innovation are the spiritual core of Moutai's sustainable development. By promoting dialogue between Chinese and foreign wine cultures, Moutai continuously enriches the brand's cultural connotation and helps enhance the international influence of Chinese Baijiu.

Moutai's creation of the Chishui River Forum not only provides an important platform for industry exchange, but also bridges cultural dialogue. Moutai promotes the search for resonance between Chinese and foreign wine cultures in collision with the concept of harmony in diversity. The forum set up a sub-forum on "Cross-Civilization Dialogue between Chinese and Western Wine Aromas," showcasing the unique charm of Eastern and Western wine cultures through tasting sessions and art performances; a Moutai cocktail special modulation session was set up, combining sauce-flavored Baijiu with European fruit-flavored spirits to create a new type of drink that combines Eastern charm and international aesthetics.

Moutai's cultural IP matrix shone brightly at this forum. Traditional activities such as the "Moutai Wine Festival" and the "Red Tassel Sorghum Harvest Season" transform brewing techniques into cultural symbols through the exhibition of intangible cultural heritage skills and the experience of agricultural civilization. The "Global Status and Trends of World Wine Culture Communication" report released during the forum pointed out that Moutai has reached more than 200 million people worldwide through overseas social media, international exhibitions and other channels.

In recent years, Moutai has taken "cultural going overseas" as a starting point to actively enhance its global influence: appearing at the Davos Forum (达沃斯论坛) and the APEC Summit (APEC峰会), holding the Sino-French Food Festival in Paris (巴黎), and combining traditional Chinese culture with contemporary art through activities such as the "Silk Road Love, Flying Dream" Dunhuang Mural Exhibition and overseas lion dance competitions. In 2024, Moutai's overseas social media fans exceeded 4 million, and the brand value has topped the list of Chinese wine companies for many years. Its released "Moutai Chapters" enterprise culture manual systematically sorted out the brand's cultural core, established the enterprise values of "**顺天敬人、明理厚德**" (shùn tiān jìng rén, míng lǐ hòu dé - "follow nature respect people, understand reason value virtue," emphasizing harmony with nature and ethical conduct), and provided a solid theoretical support for international communication.

This grand event on the banks of the Chishui River (赤水河) is not only a comprehensive summary of Moutai's own practices, but also an innovative exploration to promote global wine industry collaboration. Through the forum, Moutai demonstrated the determination of traditional wine companies to embrace change, and showcased innovative actions to consolidate the foundation with ecological protection, broaden boundaries with cultural integration, and activate potential with open collaboration. Moutai believes that only by deeply integrating innovative genes, cultural confidence, and a sense of responsibility can it win lasting vitality in the global market. In the future, Moutai will continue to explore a development path that is rooted in one place and faces the global market, and strive to make Chinese Moutai continue to spread its fragrance to the world.

Data source: Kweichow Moutai (贵州茅台)

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Deeply Understand the Scientific Worldview and Methodology of Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization (In-depth Study and Implementation of Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era: Experts Discuss Studying Volume I of "Xi Jinping's Anthology on Ecological Civilization")

By: 赵建军

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has attached great importance to ecological civilization construction. It has strengthened ecological civilization construction from many aspects such as theoretical innovation, practical exploration, and institutional construction. It has scientifically summarized the theoretical achievements, practical effects, and advanced experiences of ecological civilization construction, forming and enriching the Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Ecological Civilization. The Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Ecological Civilization scientifically answers a series of fundamental questions such as why to build ecological civilization, what kind of ecological civilization to build, and how to build ecological civilization. It profoundly expounds the background, fundamental principles, core essence, and methods of ecological civilization construction in the new era. It is an important component of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and a major achievement of combining the basic principles of Marxism with the specific realities of China and with China's outstanding traditional culture. Profoundly grasping the worldview significance and methodological value of this important thought is of great theoretical and practical significance for deeply promoting the construction of a beautiful China and promoting the realization of modernization in which humans and nature coexist in harmony.

The first volume of "Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Anthology on Ecological Civilization" includes the most important and basic works of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) on ecological civilization construction from December 2012 to April 2025. From these important works, we can deeply understand the scientific worldview and methodology of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Ecological Civilization, and continuously deepen our understanding and grasp of a series of major theoretical and practical issues such as the relationship between humans and nature and between production and ecology in the construction of ecological civilization in the new era.

Deepening and sublimating the understanding of nature and the understanding of the relationship between humans and nature from the perspective of worldview.

Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Ecological Civilization enriches and develops Marxism's theory on the relationship between humans and nature, innovatively inherits the ecological wisdom in China's outstanding traditional culture, and critically transforms the theories and doctrines on the relationship between humans and nature in Western ecological thought. It deepens and sublimates the understanding of nature from the perspective of worldview, completely transforming the image of mankind as conquerors, destroyers, and controllers in the face of nature. It provides a worldview foundation for deepening the cognitive understanding of nature, forming a "harmonious coexistence between humans and nature" discourse system and theoretical system with Chinese characteristics that leads the world, and contributing wisdom and strength to the sustainable development of human civilization.

Reinterpreting the important significance of nature to the sustainable development of human civilization with a global vision and pattern. The history of human civilization development shows that nature is the foundation of human survival and the foundation of civilization development. The state of the natural environment directly affects the survival and prosperity of human civilization. Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Ecological Civilization systematically summarizes the experiences and lessons in the history of human civilization development, scientifically reveals the important significance of a good natural ecology for the development of human civilization, and profoundly expounds the natural determinants of human civilization development based on a scientific grasp of natural laws. Starting from the historical perspective of the rise and fall of human civilization and the global perspective, it expands and deepens the cognitive understanding of the natural world and the relationship between humans and nature.

Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Ecological Civilization interprets the decisive role of nature in the survival of human civilization from the height of the sustainable development of human civilization. Marxism believes that people rely on the natural world for survival, and the natural world provides mankind with indispensable sources of livelihood and means of production. As a "latecomer" and an important part of the natural world, human production and life must take the natural environment as a carrier, and human practical activities are always difficult to get rid of the constraints of natural laws. The gifts of nature support the continuation and evolution of human civilization. Even the most advanced civilization and culture cannot be separated from a natural environment suitable for it. It can be said that the ecological environment is directly related to the survival and reproduction of mankind. Historically, most of the human civilizations that created brilliant achievements originated in areas with a good natural ecological environment. However, with the unrestrained exploitation and utilization of nature by mankind, many civilizations have been submerged in the long river of history due to the deterioration of the natural ecological environment. In "Promoting China's Ecological Civilization Construction to a New Level," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) scientifically summarized the dialectical relationship between changes in the ecological environment and the evolution of civilization, and made the scientific conclusion that "ecological prosperity leads to civilization prosperity, and ecological decline leads to civilization decline," profoundly interpreting the important role of nature in the survival of human civilization. The natural world is the basis and prerequisite for human existence and social development. Under the new era background, emphasizing the need to handle the relationship between humans and nature well and promote the realization of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature fully demonstrates the worldview significance of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Ecological Civilization.

Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Ecological Civilization demonstrates the world ideal of working together to build a community with a shared future for mankind with a broad vision. Under the complex historical background of major changes unseen in a century in the world, ecological and environmental issues have increasingly become an important factor threatening the survival of human civilization and an important issue of common concern to all countries in the world. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has repeatedly emphasized the importance of ecological civilization construction for world development and human civilization on international occasions. For example, "Working Together to Build a Path of Global Ecological Civilization and Striving to Build a Clean and Beautiful World" pointed out that "we should adhere to the concept of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature, treat the ecological environment like we treat life, have reverence for nature, respect nature, follow nature, protect nature, and jointly protect the irreplaceable Earth home," emphasizing that "we must solve the contradictions brought about by industrial civilization, aim at harmonious coexistence between humans and nature, and achieve the sustainable development of the world and the all-round development of people." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) attaches great importance to and promotes international cooperation in ecological environment governance, and has made a series of important expositions on promoting global ecological environment governance and sustainable development. In "Working Together for Green Living and Building a Beautiful Home," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Building a beautiful home is the common dream of mankind. Facing ecological and environmental challenges, mankind is a community with a shared future in which we prosper together and suffer together. No country can be immune. Only through cooperation can we effectively address global environmental issues such as climate change, marine pollution, and biological protection, and achieve the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals."

Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Ecological Civilization adheres to the concept of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature, emphasizing the important significance of the natural world for the survival of human civilization. This important thought stands at the height of being responsible for future generations and the destiny of mankind, based on the broad vision of the sustainable development of human civilization, and draws a grand blueprint and practical path for jointly building a community of life on Earth and building a clean and beautiful world, reflecting profound thinking about the future and destiny of mankind. The scientific worldview of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Ecological Civilization provides value guidance and fundamental guidelines for us to deeply understand the laws of development of the natural world and the relationship between humans and nature, scientifically understand the important significance of nature for the survival of human civilization, and promote the realization of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.

Reshaping the overall understanding of the relationship between humans and nature from the perspective of worldview, forming a theoretical foundation and ideological paradigm for explaining and understanding the harmonious coexistence between humans and nature. Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Ecological Civilization's systematic exposition on the relationship between humans and nature not only reshapes the overall understanding of the complex system of "nature-human" from the perspective of worldview, but also provides a solid theoretical foundation and ideological paradigm for promoting the realization of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.

The worldview significance of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Ecological Civilization is centrally embodied in the inheritance and innovation of the Marxist view of nature, and the realization of a historical reconciliation between humans and nature in the new era from a theoretical dimension. In "Promoting China's Ecological Civilization Construction to a New Level," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "To learn from Marx, we must learn and practice Marxism's thought on the relationship between humans and nature." The Marxist view of nature scientifically demonstrates that man is a product of nature and a component of nature. The Marxist view of nature is based on practice. On the one hand, it emphasizes the pre-existence and objectivity of the natural world for mankind. Mankind must act in accordance with the laws of nature. Violating the laws of nature will be subject to the ruthless revenge of nature. On the other hand, the Marxist view of nature also emphasizes the subjective initiative of man, believing that man is not completely passive in the face of nature, and should give full play to subjective initiative, grasp and utilize the laws of nature, and realize the harmonious coexistence between humans and nature. The National Ecological and Environmental Protection Conference in 2018 put forward the principles for promoting ecological civilization construction in the new era, which emphasized "adhering to the harmonious coexistence between humans and nature." Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Ecological Civilization adheres to and develops the Marxist view of nature, closely combining it with the practice of ecological civilization construction in China in the new era, and creatively proposes a series of iconic and original concepts on the relationship between humans and nature, such as "building a community of life between humans and nature" and "building a community of life on Earth," giving the Marxist view of nature new theoretical meaning and contemporary connotations.

The worldview significance of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Ecological Civilization is centrally manifested in promoting the ecological wisdom in China's outstanding traditional culture and giving it a vivid theoretical life. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The Chinese nation has always respected nature and loved nature, and the Chinese civilization that has lasted for more than 5,000 years has nurtured a rich ecological culture." Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Ecological Civilization inherits and develops the ecological concept of harmony between man and nature and the nurturing of all things, emphasizing: "Chinese civilization has always advocated harmony between man and nature and following the laws of nature, and pursuing the harmonious coexistence between humans and nature." This important thought seeks wisdom from China's ancient view of nature, scientifically draws on the development concept of "taking with moderation and using with thrift," emphasizing: "Restricting economic activities and human behavior within the limits that natural resources and the ecological environment can bear, and leaving time and space for nature to recuperate," providing scientific epistemological guidance for correctly understanding and handling the relationship between production and ecology, development and protection, etc., leading and promoting the realization of coordination between economic and social development and population, resources, and the environment; this important thought scientifically absorbs the institutional view of "following the heavens and responding to the times, and establishing rules and regulations," drawing on experience from ancient Chinese systems for protecting the ecological environment and natural resources, and clearly using the strictest system and the strictest rule of law to protect the ecological environment; and so on. Through the creative transformation and innovative development of China's outstanding traditional ecological culture, Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Ecological Civilization demonstrates far-reaching historical vision and profound cultural accumulation.

The worldview significance of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Ecological Civilization is centrally manifested in critically drawing on the worldview theories in Western ecological thought and constructing a new paradigm of the relationship between humans and nature with Chinese characteristics. Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Ecological Civilization transcends the dualistic thinking mode of "human-centered" and "eco-centered" in Western traditional ecological theories, and clearly states that respecting nature, following nature, protecting nature, and promoting the harmonious coexistence between humans and nature are the distinct characteristics of Chinese-style modernization. At the same time, based on a profound summary of the development paths and painful lessons of Western modernization, it profoundly summarizes the Chinese way of ecological civilization construction, emphasizing "building a community of life on Earth," "working together to build a community with a shared future for mankind," and "jointly planning global ecological civilization construction," providing scientific worldview guidance for effectively addressing global ecological and environmental issues, and leading and promoting the transformation of the human ecological civilization paradigm in the combination of theory and practice, deepening and sublimating the understanding of the harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.

Providing scientific methodological guidance for promoting ecological civilization construction in the new era.

Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Ecological Civilization not only clarifies the theoretical guidance and fundamental guidelines for promoting ecological civilization construction and realizing modernization in which humans and nature coexist in harmony, but also provides scientific methodological guidance for promoting ecological civilization construction in the new era, and has important practical significance and contemporary value.

Adhering to the dialectical thinking of coordinating the multiple elements of ecological civilization construction. In "People Will Not Let Down the Green Mountains, and the Green Mountains Will Surely Not Let Down People," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Ecological environmental protection and economic development are not contradictory and opposing relationships, but dialectically unified relationships." Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Ecological Civilization uses the dialectical universal connection methodology to promote ecological civilization construction, integrating ecological civilization construction into the overall development of economy, politics, culture, society, etc. It fully recognizes that ecological and environmental issues are not isolated, and that ecological civilization construction and economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, and social construction are dialectically unified, interact, and are inseparable as a whole. On this basis, it makes top-level designs, scientific plans, and systematic considerations for major issues concerning the fundamental, strategic, and overall nature of ecological civilization construction.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "In ecological environmental protection, we must establish a holistic view, a long-term view, and an overall view, and we must not lose the big picture for the sake of small gains, lose sight of the other, overdraw our future, or seek quick success and instant benefits." The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China incorporated ecological civilization construction into the "five-in-one" overall layout of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, highlighting the strategic position of ecological civilization construction, and clearly proposing to vigorously promote ecological civilization construction. The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China incorporated "adhering to the harmonious coexistence between humans and nature" into the basic strategy for upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and incorporated "Beautiful China" into the goal of building a strong socialist modern country. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China further proposed that Chinese-style modernization is a modernization in which humans and nature coexist in harmony. Ecological civilization construction is a complex project concerning the fundamental, overall, and long-term, and only by basing ourselves on the fundamental, focusing on the overall situation, planning for the long term, adhering to and using dialectical thinking, and adhering to the unity of the two-point theory and the key-point theory, can we handle the relationship between multiple elements well, and deeply promote ecological civilization construction, which is a fundamental plan related to the sustainable development of the Chinese nation, with historical patience and perseverance.

Maintaining the bottom-line thinking of the strategic determination of ecological civilization construction. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must be good at using the method of 'bottom-line thinking,' prepare for the worst in everything, and strive for the best results, so that we can be prepared for contingencies, not panic in the event of trouble, and firmly grasp the initiative." Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Ecological Civilization demonstrates maintaining the strategic determination to promote ecological civilization construction with bottom-line thinking. Bottom-line thinking is mainly manifested in preparing for the worst, being proactive in action, and striving to achieve the best results. In the process of promoting ecological civilization construction in the new era, adhering to bottom-line thinking requires a clear understanding of the arduousness, long-term nature, and complexity of ecological civilization construction, so as to be prepared for contingencies, prevent problems before they occur, and face various difficulties and challenges with composure, courage, and confidence.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has always regarded bottom-line thinking as an important way of thinking to enhance the strategic determination of ecological civilization construction, emphasizing: "The ecological environment has no substitutes, and it is not felt when used, but it is difficult to preserve when lost," requiring that "we must protect the ecological environment like we protect our eyes, and treat the ecological environment like we treat life," all of which fully illustrates the extreme importance of adhering to bottom-line thinking and maintaining strategic determination in promoting ecological civilization construction. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in "Maintaining the Strategic Determination to Strengthen Ecological Civilization Construction": "We must maintain the determination to strengthen ecological environmental protection and construction, without wavering, without slackening, and without opening gaps." Ecological civilization construction concerns the rise and fall of civilization and the survival of mankind, and is closely related to national interests and the well-being of the people. We must firmly guard this bottom line and red line concerning rise and fall and survival without overstepping or breaking through.

Currently, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and change, and China's economic and social development is facing a profoundly changing external environment. When economic and social development encounters difficulties, some people may have the idea of slowing down or relaxing ecological environmental protection, or even thinking about setting up stalls and launching projects in exchange for temporary and local economic growth at the expense of the environment, touching the red line, stepping on the bottom line, and reversing the car in ecological environmental protection. All such ideas and practices are wrong and unworkable. In "Promoting Ecological Civilization Construction and Reforming China's Environmental Protection Management System," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "To promote ecological civilization construction and solve the problems of tightening resource constraints, serious environmental pollution, and ecosystem degradation, we must take some tough measures." This profoundly indicates that promoting ecological civilization construction must adhere to bottom-line thinking, resolutely ensure that we do not overstep the red line on ecological environmental protection issues, promote economic and social development within the scope of ecological carrying capacity, and adhere to using bottom-line thinking to build a solid foundation for ecological civilization construction.
The ecological governance system thinking of adhering to integrated protection and restoration of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in "Adhering to the Systematic Thought that Mountains, Rivers, Forests, Fields, and Lakes are a Community of Life": "We must look at problems with the ideological method of systems theory. The ecosystem is an organic life body, and we should coordinate water and mountain management, water and forest management, water and field management, and mountain and forest management." This profoundly reveals that ecological civilization construction is a systematic project, and only by coordinating various elements of the ecosystem and strengthening collaborative governance can we achieve practical results. Adhering to the systematic thinking of systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts is one of the methodological characteristics of Xi Jinping's (习近平) ecological civilization thought, highlighting the use of holistic, interconnected, dynamic, and developmental perspectives to think about and solve ecological and environmental problems, grasp the organic connections of the natural ecosystem as a whole, understand and grasp the essential characteristics, basic functions, and evolutionary laws of various natural elements and different ecosystems from the perspective of connection and development, and achieve overall consideration and systematic governance in practice, providing scientific methodological guidance for promoting ecological civilization construction and innovating ecological and environmental governance methods.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Land use control and ecological restoration must follow the laws of nature. If those who plant trees only care about planting trees, those who manage water only care about managing water, and those who protect fields only care about protecting fields, it is easy to 顾此失彼 (gù cǐ shī bǐ - "attend to one thing and lose sight of another," to focus on one aspect while neglecting others), ultimately causing systemic damage to the ecology." Adhering to systematic thinking to promote ecological civilization construction focuses on solving the problems of fragmented governance, each managing its own area, unclear responsibilities, and mutual constraints that once existed in natural resource management and ecological governance, resolving the contradiction between the integrity of the ecosystem and the segmentation of administrative units, so as to promote ecological civilization construction more powerfully and effectively.

Xi Jinping's (习近平) ecological civilization thought profoundly points out the direction, goals, paths, and principles of ecological civilization construction. It is a major theoretical achievement of the Sinicization of Marxism in the new era, and the scientific worldview and methodology contained therein have significant theoretical innovation and practical guidance, guiding and promoting us to continuously deepen our understanding and grasp of the laws of nature, the laws of economic and social development, and the laws of human civilization development. In the context of the era in which ecological and environmental problems are increasingly becoming a severe challenge faced by all countries in the world, the characteristic path, the Chinese wisdom, the Chinese solutions, and the Chinese strength contributed by China's ecological civilization construction provide a reference for countries around the world to work together to cope with ecological risks and challenges, strengthen collaborative governance, and jointly build a beautiful home. We must take the publication and distribution of the first volume of "Xi Jinping's (习近平) Ecological Civilization Anthology" as an opportunity to deeply study, understand, and grasp the scientific worldview and methodology contained in Xi Jinping's (习近平) ecological civilization thought, and continuously promote theoretical innovation, practical innovation, and institutional innovation in ecological civilization, promote the construction of a beautiful China with a broad vision and global perspective of building a community with a shared future for mankind, jointly build a clean and beautiful world, and gather a powerful joint force for the sustainable development of human civilization.

(The author is a professor at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (National Academy of Governance))

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Promoting the All-Round Empowerment of Artificial Intelligence Across Various Industries (In-Depth Thinking)

By: 李 烨

Artificial intelligence, as a strategic technology leading a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, is reshaping human production and lifestyles with unprecedented depth and breadth. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "China attaches great importance to the development and governance of artificial intelligence, actively promotes the deep integration of artificial intelligence technology innovation and industrial innovation, empowers high-quality economic and social development, and helps improve the quality of life of the people." "It is necessary to give full play to the advantages of the new national system, adhere to self-reliance and self-improvement, highlight application orientation, and promote the healthy and orderly development of artificial intelligence in China in a beneficial, safe, and fair direction." At present, accelerating the development of a new generation of artificial intelligence has become China's strategic choice to seize the commanding heights of technological competition and promote industrial transformation and upgrading. The "Suggestions of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" adopted by the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee proposed to fully implement the "Artificial Intelligence +" action to comprehensively empower all walks of life. Not long ago, the State Council issued the "Opinions on Deeply Implementing the 'Artificial Intelligence +' Action," clarifying the overall requirements, development goals, and key directions for implementing the "Artificial Intelligence +" action. To implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech and the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, it is necessary to seize the opportunities of the scientific and technological revolution and promote artificial intelligence to comprehensively empower all walks of life.

Artificial intelligence is a general-purpose technology with a wide range of applications. It can often be used as an input in other industries and spawn new innovations in application fields. Artificial intelligence is mainly driven by the composite of data, algorithms, and computing power. Among them, data, as a new type of production factor, has the characteristics of non-competitive use and increasing returns to scale. It widely exists in all walks of life. The larger the user base and the richer the data accumulation, the better the model training effect, and the more likely it is to form a data-driven positive feedback loop. The breakthrough development of algorithms such as deep learning enables machines to have learning and reasoning abilities, discover complex patterns hidden in data, adapt to the specific needs of different industries, and provide customized intelligent decision support and business optimization solutions. As a key driving force for activating the potential of data elements, computing power can support the training and iteration of general-purpose large models. With the construction and improvement of computing power infrastructure and the rapid development of cloud computing technology, it can amplify, superimpose, and multiply the effectiveness of economic and social development.

The synergistic resonance of data, algorithms, and computing power has built a solid foundation for the widespread application of artificial intelligence. With the in-depth development of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, artificial intelligence has demonstrated its core ability to solve complex problems in many real-world scenarios. For example, for scientific research, artificial intelligence has shown great potential in promoting interdisciplinary integration, spawning new scientific fields, and assisting humans in deducing and verifying major theoretical innovations. It can spawn new scientific paradigms and solve major scientific problems that could not be solved in the past, and is brewing an unprecedented technological revolution. For economic development, artificial intelligence can not only reshape the production function and significantly improve total factor productivity by optimizing resource allocation and innovating the combination of production factors, achieving a substantial increase in output without increasing factor input, but also spawn new models such as personalized and customized production and services, opening up new blue oceans for economic growth. For social construction, artificial intelligence has been integrated into people's daily work, study, and life, and has significant advantages in further improving efficiency, optimizing processes, and facilitating services, and is becoming a new engine for improving people's quality of life and promoting social intelligent leap. For ecological and environmental protection, artificial intelligence can integrate different forms of renewable energy such as solar energy and wind energy, better match the power supply and demand with the intermittent fluctuation characteristics of light energy and wind energy, continuously improve the overall efficiency of global energy utilization, and can also deeply participate in the modeling of climate change impacts through the analysis and deduction of massive climate data, enhancing the early warning accuracy and comprehensive governance capabilities of human response to climate change; and so on. In general, supporting the implementation of scenario applications with new scientific research results, driving technological innovation breakthroughs with new application demands, and promoting the two-way empowerment of artificial intelligence technology innovation and application development will help reshape human production and lifestyle paradigms and promote high-quality economic development with the certainty of artificial intelligence development.

The Party Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to the development of artificial intelligence. In recent years, they have improved top-level design, strengthened work deployment, and issued a series of policies and measures to promote the overall and systematic leap of China's comprehensive strength in artificial intelligence and promote the in-depth integration of artificial intelligence technology with various industries, the "Artificial Intelligence +" to develop in depth. For example, enterprises use artificial intelligence for industrial visual inspection, which greatly improves the accuracy of defect identification and production efficiency; artificial intelligence-assisted diagnosis systems effectively improve the level of primary medical care, allowing high-quality medical resources to benefit more patients; the "City Brain" realizes intelligent regulation of urban operation, significantly improving citizens' travel experience; intelligent monitoring, health management, emotional companionship, and other functions provide considerate services for the elderly. These practices show that China's economic and social development and people's yearning for a better life provide broad space and strong impetus for artificial intelligence to comprehensively empower all walks of life. Facing the future, adhering to technology for good, adhering to a people-centered approach, comprehensively implementing the "Artificial Intelligence +" action, and comprehensively empowering all walks of life with artificial intelligence will promote a revolutionary leap in productivity and a deep transformation of production relations, and accelerate the formation of a new form of intelligent economy and intelligent society with human-machine collaboration, cross-border integration, and co-creation and sharing.

At the same time, it is necessary to see that there are still some risks and challenges in promoting the comprehensive empowerment of artificial intelligence in all walks of life with the "Artificial Intelligence +" action. For example, China's artificial intelligence development still has shortcomings and weaknesses in basic theory and key core technologies, there are prominent problems such as the "last mile" obstacle in the implementation of artificial intelligence applications, and the large-scale popularization of artificial intelligence technology may produce application risks such as misuse and abuse. At present, artificial intelligence technology is accelerating its iteration and evolution, and is moving from the stage of experimental exploration to value creation, triggering profound changes in various fields and industries of the economy and society. To implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, it is necessary to give full play to China's advantages of a complete industrial system, large market size, and rich application scenarios, deeply grasp the laws of artificial intelligence technology and industrial evolution, comprehensively implement the "Artificial Intelligence +" action, strengthen forward-looking planning, systematic layout, industry-specific policies, open sharing, and safety and controllability, and promote the accelerated popularization and deep integration of artificial intelligence in various fields of economic and social development with the coordinated promotion of industry application needs and basic capability supply. Specifically, efforts can be made in the following aspects.

At the technical level, continuously strengthen basic research, strengthen the tackling of key core technologies, and vigorously tackle core technologies such as high-end chips, basic software, and large model training algorithms through the implementation of major science and technology projects and giving full play to the advantages of the new national system, ensure that the key core technologies of artificial intelligence are firmly in our own hands, and build an independent and controllable, coordinated operation of the artificial intelligence basic software and hardware system. At the infrastructure level, coordinate the construction of computing power infrastructure, build a national integrated computing power network, coordinate the layout of new infrastructure such as intelligent computing centers, help strengthen the construction of high-quality data sets, and at the same time deepen the development, utilization, opening, and sharing of data resources, improve the market-oriented allocation mechanism of data elements, and promote the transformation of data resources into data assets, providing sufficient support for artificial intelligence training and applications. At the collaborative level, build a collaborative innovation system of government, industry, academia, research, and application, which not only better gives play to the government's role in forward-looking planning and guidance and scientific policy support, but also fully gives play to the regulatory role of the market mechanism, encourages micro-subjects such as enterprises to continuously innovate, and guides and supports universities and research institutes to strengthen basic research and talent cultivation; at the same time, focus on researchers, enterprises, consumers, and other different subjects to propose corresponding encouragement directions and support measures, promote the integrated development of large, medium, and small enterprises, encourage large enterprises to open up platform capabilities, support the specialized and new development of small and medium-sized enterprises, build an open, inclusive, and mutually beneficial industrial ecosystem, and widely mobilize the enthusiasm of the whole society to participate in the development of artificial intelligence, helping to transform and upgrade traditional industries and open up new tracks for the development of strategic emerging industries and future industries. At the security level, it is necessary to improve the legal and regulatory system, establish and improve institutional norms such as algorithm governance, data protection, and ethical review, strengthen artificial intelligence security assessment and risk prevention and control, adhere to the equal emphasis on development and security, and adhere to the bottom line of security while promoting innovation.

(Author's unit: School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (北京邮电大学))

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Promoting Filial Piety and Respect for the Elderly, Building an Age-Friendly Society Together

By: 全国老龄工作委员会办公室

Revering and caring for the elderly is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation. In October of this year, the National Working Commission on Aging, under the theme of "Promoting Filial Piety and Respect for the Elderly, Jointly Building an Age-Friendly Society," launched the 16th "Respect for the Elderly Month" campaign. This initiative aims to further strengthen moral education, cultural inheritance, and social practices related to filial piety and respect for the elderly, promote the creative transformation and innovative development of the culture of filial piety and respect for the elderly, consolidate the spiritual strength for implementing the national strategy to actively address population aging, build an age-friendly society, and enable the vast number of elderly people to share the fruits of development, enjoy a better life, and enjoy a happy old age.

I. Vigorously Promote the Traditional Chinese Virtue of Filial Piety and Respect for the Elderly

Promoting the virtue of filial piety and respect for the elderly is an inherent requirement for inheriting and developing China's outstanding traditional culture. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Since ancient times, the Chinese people have advocated filial piety and love for family, advocating 'respecting the elderly as we respect our own elders, and loving the young as we love our own children.'" Filial piety and respect for the elderly are important components of China's outstanding traditional culture, and have become a distinct feature of China's outstanding traditional culture through years of accumulation. To strengthen historical confidence and cultural confidence, we must adhere to using the past for the present and bringing forth new ideas, inherit and promote the virtue of filial piety and respect for the elderly, develop a modern form of the culture of filial piety and respect for the elderly, and continuously inject new contemporary connotations into China's outstanding traditional culture.

Promoting the virtue of filial piety and respect for the elderly is a practical need for promoting family harmony, intergenerational harmony, and social harmony. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "It is necessary to promote the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation of filial piety and respect for the elderly, guide people to consciously assume family responsibilities, establish good family traditions, strengthen family members' awareness of the responsibility to support and care for the elderly, and promote harmony between the old and the young in the family." "Being filial at home and loyal to the country is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation." Family harmony brings prosperity to all undertakings is the simple pursuit of the Chinese people, and filial piety and respect for the elderly are the emotional foundation for loving the country and serving the country. Promoting the virtue of filial piety and respect for the elderly, guiding children to consciously assume family support responsibilities, and encouraging the elderly to set an example for young people will help promote the unity of loving the family and loving the country throughout society, so that thousands of families become important cornerstones for national development, national progress, and social harmony.

Promoting the virtue of filial piety and respect for the elderly is the cultural support for taking a path with Chinese characteristics to actively address population aging. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) requested, "It is necessary to incorporate the promotion of filial piety and respect for the elderly into the publicity and education of socialist core values, build a culture of filial piety and respect for the elderly with national characteristics and contemporary features," and "It is necessary to vigorously advocate respecting the elderly, caring for the elderly, and supporting the elderly throughout society, vigorously develop the cause of aging, and enable all elderly people to have a happy and fulfilling old age." Looking at the world, China has the largest elderly population, the fastest aging rate, and the heaviest task of addressing population aging. To take a path with Chinese characteristics to actively address population aging, we must develop a new era of filial piety and respect for the elderly culture that adapts to economic and social changes. We must pay attention to combining inheritance and abandonment, continuously enrich the connotation and practical forms of the culture of filial piety and respect for the elderly, make the traditional culture of filial piety and respect for the elderly adapt to contemporary culture and coordinate with modern society, and strengthen the cultural support for the governance of an aging society.

II. Promote the Construction of a Culture of Filial Piety and Respect for the Elderly with National Characteristics and Contemporary Features

Inherit the virtue of filial piety and promote family harmony. Focus on promoting the transformation and development of traditional filial piety into new era family traditions, refine the emotional education essence in the traditional culture of filial piety and respect for the elderly, both retain the ethical norms of respecting elders and order, and respect the personal dignity of family members, and on the basis of ensuring material life, more emphasis is placed on spiritual comfort, emotional care, and value respect for the elderly. Educate and guide family members, especially the younger generation, to internalize respect for parents and elders into conscious moral norms, externalize them into daily behavioral habits, form a lively situation of old and young integration within the family, and make the family a spiritual harbor for passing on the torch of civilization and cultivating moral character.

Promote the fashion of respecting the elderly and help intergenerational harmony. Focus on promoting the transformation and development of family filial piety to social respect for the elderly, and promote the concepts of benevolence and gratitude contained in the practice of filial piety into moral standards and value pursuits that are jointly practiced by the whole society. Promote respect for the elderly from a moral concept to a national action, build an inclusive and friendly cultural environment, and embody respect, convenience, and care for the elderly in all aspects of social life. Integrate the moral practice of filial piety and respect for the elderly into the construction of spiritual civilization, school ideological and political education, and professional ethics norms in all walks of life, and drive the whole society to advocate morality and goodness, and learn from the virtuous. Give play to the exemplary role of the elderly's good conduct in teaching social members by words and deeds, and guide the elderly to care for and understand young people, and care for the healthy growth of the next generation.

Create an atmosphere of helping the elderly and promote social harmony. Focus on promoting the transformation and development of the traditional concept of filial governance to modern governance, and transform the cultural core of valuing people's livelihood and caring for the people contained in it into the value orientation of promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities. Establish the concept of joint construction, joint governance, and shared benefits, promote the governance of an aging society, and promote the formation of a situation in which multiple entities share responsibilities, aging risks are responded to in stages, and everyone participates in the cause of aging. Incorporate filial piety and respect for the elderly into the entire process of responding to population aging, so that public policies contain the warmth of respecting and caring for the elderly, and provide solid institutional support for the happy old age of the elderly.

III. Guided by the Culture of Filial Piety and Respect for the Elderly, Accelerate the Construction of an Age-Friendly Society

Build an age-friendly institutional system. Improve the top-level design of aging work, study and formulate policy documents for in-depth implementation of the national strategy to actively address population aging, and do a good job in connecting relevant special plans for the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. Study and revise the Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly, and deploy and promote old-age care, medical care, participation, learning, and entertainment in an integrated manner, leading the aging laws and policies system to be optimized for the elderly. Promote the improvement of a multi-level old-age security system, promote legislation on old-age services, and make institutional arrangements for strengthening the health service management of the elderly. Establish an implementation mechanism for elderly people's intended guardianship services, improve the system of estate administrators, and properly handle the "post-mortem affairs" of the elderly. Clean up unreasonable regulations that hinder the elderly from continuing to play a role, and create a policy environment for the elderly to contribute.

Expand the supply of age-friendly services. Focusing on high-frequency matters and scenarios in the daily life of the elderly, actively explore the establishment of a national comprehensive service list system for the elderly, and continue to publish a promotion catalog of products for the elderly. Promote various industries to strengthen the concept of age-friendliness, adhere to the parallel traditional service methods and intelligent service methods, and focus on promoting the convenience of services for high-frequency matters such as travel, medical treatment, and consumption for the elderly. Promote medical, elderly care, cultural, sports, tourism, financial and other industries to provide priority, preferential and convenient services for the elderly. Study and promote the market-oriented operation and standardized management of elderly education, and expand the supply of elderly education services. Carry out digital technology aging adaptation actions, promote the aging adaptation transformation of Internet applications and commonly used intelligent terminal equipment. Continue to implement the smart elderly assistance action, improve the digital literacy of the elderly, and enable the elderly to better integrate into the information society.

Strengthen the construction of age-friendly facilities. Combining urban renewal, renovation of old urban communities, and improvement of rural living environment, promote the construction of a safe, convenient, and comfortable elderly-friendly living environment. Strengthen the aging adaptation transformation of elderly people's homes, and promote the application of Internet of Things intelligent facilities and equipment such as home health monitoring, safety protection, and emergency calls for the elderly. Strengthen the aging adaptation construction or transformation of public service facilities in urban and rural communities, and reasonably allocate auxiliary equipment for the elderly and first-aid equipment in public places such as government service halls, large transportation facilities, leisure and entertainment venues, and tourist attractions. Further increase the free or preferential opening of public cultural and sports comprehensive service facilities to the elderly, and encourage qualified elderly care service institutions to build supporting cultural and sports entertainment facilities and equipment. Promote the construction of elderly activity centers in accordance with local conditions, and expand the public space for elderly activities.

Cultivate an age-friendly social environment. Implement the Chinese filial piety and respect for the elderly culture inheritance and innovation project, organize and carry out "Respect for the Elderly Month" activities, and gather broad consensus on promoting the construction of an age-friendly society. Carry out national conditions education on population aging in the whole society, incorporate the promotion of the traditional virtue of filial piety and respect for the elderly into the publicity and education of socialist core values and the key points of socialist spiritual civilization innovation practice, and implement it into various social norms such as citizen conventions and village rules and regulations. Improve and implement the working mechanism for protecting the rights and interests of the elderly, accelerate the formation of a closed loop of work for early warning, prevention, discovery, reporting, and resolution of elderly-related conflicts and disputes, and focus on solving outstanding problems that infringe on the rights and interests of the elderly. Give play to the exemplary leading role of "Respect for the Elderly Civilization Number" and model figures of respecting, loving, and helping the elderly, encourage the creation of a batch of literary and artistic works such as radio, film, television, and short videos with the theme of filial piety and respect for the elderly, and promote the formation of a strong atmosphere of respecting, loving, and helping the elderly in the whole society.

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The 13th Fan Jingyi Journalism Education Awards Presented

This newspaper reported from Beijing on November 2nd (Reporter Wu Dan (吴丹)). On the 2nd, the 13th Fan Jingyi Journalism Education Award Ceremony was held at Tsinghua University (清华大学). Liu Binjie (柳斌杰), Chairman of the 12th National People's Congress Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee and former Director of the General Administration of Press and Publication, Chen Zhi (陈贽), member of the Editorial Board of People's Daily and Editor-in-Chief of the Overseas Edition Editorial Department, Xiang Botao (向波涛), Executive Deputy Secretary of the Tsinghua University Party Committee, Yin Lujun (殷陆君), member of the Party Group and Secretary of the Secretariat of the All-China Journalists Association, and Yu Yunquan (于运全), Deputy Director of the China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration, attended the award ceremony.

Ni Ning (倪宁), professor at Renmin University of China, and Zhu Yujun (朱羽君), professor at the Communication University of China, won the Excellent Journalism Education Teacher Award; Yang Yudong (杨宇东), senior editor at Shanghai Media Group, won the Good Friend of Journalism Education Award; Lu Xiaoyi (卢肖依) from the Communication University of China, Ma Shiwen (马世雯) from Wuhan University (武汉大学), Ma Xuan (马萱) from Peking University (北京大学), and Zhang Wenya (张文雅) from Sun Yat-sen University (中山大学), among 10 others, won the Journalism Student Award.

Prior to the award ceremony, the 11th Journalism and Communication Discipline Summit Forum was held, where participating experts and scholars conducted in-depth exchanges on topics such as the "'15th Five-Year Plan' Period Journalism and Communication Discipline Direction Planning."

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International Symposium on "China's War of Resistance in a Global Perspective" Opens in Beijing

The "China's War of Resistance Against Japan in a Global Perspective" International Academic Symposium, hosted by Peking University (北京大学), opened in Beijing (北京) on November 2nd, according to a report in this newspaper (reporter Zhang Shuo (张烁)). Nearly one hundred experts and scholars from both sides of the Taiwan Strait, Hong Kong, Macao, the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and other countries participated in the conference.

The academic symposium includes 20 panel sessions and one roundtable forum, aiming to examine the history of China's War of Resistance Against Japan and Taiwan's Retrocession from a global perspective. It strives to re-understand the world significance and contemporary value of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japan in a broader research perspective and a more in-depth academic dialogue.

He Guangcai (何光彩), Party Secretary of Peking University (北京大学) and Chairman of the University Council, stated in his opening speech that this academic symposium will help compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to **以史为鉴** (yǐ shǐ wéi jiàn - "take history as a mirror," learn from history) and **以史为桥** (yǐ shǐ wéi qiáo - "take history as a bridge," use history as a bridge), remember the history of the joint resistance against Japan, deeply study the profound enlightenment contained therein, grasp the historical trend that reveals the future, gather the forward strength of unity and struggle, and make unremitting efforts to jointly promote the great cause of national reunification. Peking University (北京大学) will also continue to support research in related fields, strengthen the collation and digital construction of historical materials, deeply promote international academic exchanges and cooperation, and provide a more solid academic guarantee and ideological support for promoting the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.

Zhang Baijia (章百家), a researcher at the Party History and Literature Research Institute of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央党史和文献研究院), stated in his keynote speech that China's War of Resistance Against Japan was a tortuous and arduous history with far-reaching influence. China's War of Resistance Against Japan was a just war against aggression from the very beginning. As historians, we should not only study the ways in which the Party and the people achieved victory, and not only praise the great victories achieved by our nation, but also record and tell of the suffering our nation has endured.

Lü Fangshang (吕芳上), a researcher at the Institute of Modern History of the "Academia Sinica" (中研院) in Taiwan, stated that in the World Anti-Fascist War, the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japan started the earliest and lasted the longest. The torrent of the War of Resistance reached everywhere and changed the face of Chinese society. Compared with the European theater, the Chinese theater of World War II has long been neglected and underestimated in the international academic community. Studying the history of China's War of Resistance Against Japan from a global perspective is a good trend, and both sides of the Taiwan Strait should strengthen the sharing of historical materials and exchanges and cooperation in this regard.

"Taiwan's Retrocession was the result of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan." Liu Weikai (刘维开), a professor in the Department of History at National Chengchi University (台湾政治大学) in Taiwan, reviewed the history of Taiwan's Retrocession and stated that during the War of Resistance Against Japan, the bloody battles of the soldiers and civilians across the country, the support of the Allied countries for China's War of Resistance Against Japan, etc., made Taiwan's Retrocession a reality after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan.

Fang Dewan (方德万), Visiting Professor at Peking University (北京大学), Fellow of the British Academy, and Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, and Ye Weili (叶维丽), Professor in the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Boston, respectively delivered keynote speeches on topics such as "The Global Context of the Outbreak of the Pacific War in December 1941" and "Re-reading the December 9th Movement: From Yenching University to the 'World'".

The academic symposium will last until the 3rd. During this period, participating experts and scholars will conduct panel discussions on topics such as the world significance of China's War of Resistance Against Japan, wartime international cooperation, the War of Resistance Against Japan and Taiwan's Retrocession, and the anti-Japanese movement in Taiwan.

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The 4th Confucian Entrepreneur Conference Held in Jinan, Shandong

This newspaper Jinan November 2nd (Reporter Xiao Jiaxin (肖家鑫)) From October 29th to 31st, the 4th Confucian Merchant Conference was held in Jinan (济南), Shandong (山东). More than 400 guests from home and abroad gathered in Shandong (山东) to discuss the spirit of Confucian merchants and seek common development through cooperation.

The conference, themed "Honest Confucian Merchants, Moving Towards the New," was hosted by the Shandong Provincial Party Committee (山东省委) and the Provincial Government (省政府). Currently, the international economic and investment environment is becoming increasingly complex. Under the new situation, the new Confucian Merchant Conference focuses more on new quality productive forces, new types of investment promotion methods, and new groups of Confucian merchants. At the opening ceremony, participating guest representatives delivered keynote speeches on emerging industries such as new energy, new materials, artificial intelligence, and advanced manufacturing, sharing cutting-edge viewpoints and discussing mutually beneficial cooperation. The Shandong Province (山东省) iconic industrial chain investment promotion map and investment promotion logo were released on-site, and the "Dialogue Across Time and Space" event was held, with a number of cooperation projects signed centrally.

During the conference, 11 "dual recruitment and introduction" activities were also organized, and 16 cities held city promotion and "Confucian Merchants' Shandong (齐鲁) Trip" homecoming inspection activities, showcasing Confucian style and Shandong (鲁) charm, and promoting cooperation and development. Since its establishment in 2018, the Confucian Merchant Conference has become an important platform for Shandong Province (山东省) to promote Confucian culture to the world and deepen economic and trade cooperation.

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Photo Report

In recent years, Qiantang District (钱塘区), Hangzhou (杭州) City, Zhejiang Province (浙江省) has actively built "zero-carbon" green industrial parks to create new advantages in green development. The Qiantang District (钱塘区) "Zero-Carbon" Hydrogen-Electricity Coupling Industrial Park has built an interconnected and multi-directional new source-grid-load supply system, constructing a park-level energy internet model.

The picture shows staff members inspecting the "Zero-Carbon" Hydrogen-Electricity Coupling Industrial Park in Qiantang District (钱塘区).

Photo by Jia Peng (贾鹏) (China Photo)

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Harmony between the past and present, appreciating each other's beauty.

By: 本报记者 朱佩娴 刘乐艺

Recently, the "World Mayor Dialogue·Zhengzhou" event was held in Zhengzhou (郑州市), Henan Province (河南省). Mayors and city representatives from countries such as Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, and New Zealand, as well as nearly 300 guests including domestic and foreign experts, scholars, and international travel agents, gathered in Zhengzhou to discuss the balance between cultural heritage protection and urban modernization.

In recent years, Zhengzhou has guided the integrated development of culture, commerce, and tourism, continuously polishing the city's brand of "Center of Heaven and Earth, Hometown of the Yellow Emperor, Kung Fu Zhengzhou" (天地之中、黄帝故里、功夫郑州), and promoting the coordinated development of heritage protection and urban renewal.

During the conference, the guests focused on the theme of "Inheriting the Cultural Heritage of the Ancient Capital and Empowering Urban Renewal," and conducted in-depth exchanges and experience sharing on topics such as the integrated development of culture and tourism, urban governance, and urban renewal. Chinese and foreign guests unanimously agreed that urban renewal is not a simple "demolition and reconstruction," but an organic regeneration guided by the continuation of cultural context, retaining the soul of the city in the balance between protection and development, stimulating cultural power in the balance between inheritance and innovation, and cultivating the charm of the city in the balance between adherence and mutual learning.

The memories of the old city do not fade, and the atmosphere of the new life is even stronger.

"Protecting history is not about letting the city stand still, but about writing new chapters," said Juan de Dios Pérez García (胡安·德迪奥斯·佩雷斯·加西亚), Mayor of Palomeque (帕洛梅克市), Spain. "Palomeque and Zhengzhou both actively protect the traditional appearance of streets and buildings, while injecting new vitality into the interior spaces."

"We pick grapes and make fine wine, and the people of Zhengzhou wear Hanfu (汉服) and stroll through the ancient capital. Everyone has not forgotten history, but has made the ancient city an important part of contemporary life. Italy can apply the new technologies learned from China to the development of traditional culture," said Maurizio Rasero (毛里齐奥·拉塞罗), Governor of the Province of Asti (阿斯蒂省), Italy.

Civilization is colorful because of exchanges and rich because of mutual learning.

In addition to the main dialogue, this event also specially set up scenario-based dialogue sessions at locations such as Zhengzhou Ruyi Lake (郑州如意湖), and invited participating guests to visit the Henan Museum (河南博物院), the Shang Dynasty Ruins Museum (商都遗址博物院), the Dengfeng Shaolin Temple (登封少林寺), "Only Henan·Drama Fantasy City" (只有河南·戏剧幻城), Mixue Bingcheng Global Headquarters (蜜雪冰城全球总部), Yutong Bus Co., Ltd. (宇通客车股份有限公司), and other places to immerse themselves in the profound heritage of Central Plains civilization and the vigorous vitality of Zhengzhou's development.

"It's amazing that the Shang Dynasty people were able to create their own civilization in that environment, especially those pottery pieces, with exquisite details and elaborate craftsmanship," said Tania Ayesha Tapsell (塔妮娅·阿丽希亚·塔普塞尔), Mayor of Rotorua (罗托鲁瓦市), New Zealand. "Cultural exchange not only allows us to better understand others and generate more resonance, but also makes us more confident in inheriting and promoting our own culture. I look forward to further strengthening the connection between the two cities in the future and realizing exchanges and cooperation in more fields such as humanities and economy and trade."

"Zhengzhou and Shumen (舒门市) are sister cities, and I have long understood Zhengzhou's history and culture," said Nikolai Kolev (尼古拉·科列夫), Deputy Mayor of Shumen (舒门市), Bulgaria. He said that Zhengzhou's development speed is very fast, and he was deeply impressed by the use of digital technology and light and shadow technology to help protect urban heritage sites and urban renewal. "I hope to further enhance the commercial exchanges and economic interaction between the two cities, and look forward to more Chinese investors coming to our city to seek common development."

Those with common aspirations do not regard mountains and seas as distant.

"Zhengzhou is willing to share experiences, exchange mutual learning, and coexist harmoniously with cities around the world," said Zhuang Jianqiu (庄建球), Mayor of Zhengzhou (郑州市). "Whether it is continuing the cultural context or urban renewal, our ultimate goal is to enable people to live a better life. Zhengzhou will continue to promote the coordinated symbiosis of urban functions, ecology, and humanities through urban renewal, improve governance capabilities, and achieve high-quality development."

During the forum, Zhengzhou signed letters of intent to establish friendly relations with Jaén Province (哈恩省), Spain, Kumasi (库马西市), Ghana, Bandar Lampung (班达楠榜市), Indonesia, and Rotorua (罗托鲁瓦市), New Zealand, further expanding its international "circle of friends."

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More comfortable to use, easier to operate, and smarter experience

By: 本报记者 曹树林

The State Council issued the "Opinions on Deeply Implementing the 'Artificial Intelligence+' Action," proposing to promote the "Internet of Everything" for smart terminals, cultivate a smart product ecosystem, vigorously develop next-generation smart terminals such as smart connected cars, artificial intelligence mobile phones and computers, smart robots, smart homes, and smart wearables, and create an integrated, full-scene smart interactive environment.

Recently, the Honor Magic8 series and MagicOS10 launch event was held in Beijing (北京). Relying on its technological accumulation and practical experience in the field of artificial intelligence, Honor is actively promoting the innovation and upgrading of artificial intelligence mobile phones, coordinating smart services in diverse scenarios and the smart interconnection of brand terminals, making user experience more comfortable, operation more convenient, and experience more intelligent.

"Calculate the calories in this meal," "Help me cancel the automatic renewal service," "Check the coupons for this product"... As a smart life assistant, the YOYO intelligent agent equipped with the Honor Magic8 series can understand and flexibly respond to instructions from differentiated scenarios such as clothing, food, housing, transportation, and shopping by understanding user intentions. Today, Honor mobile phones have connected to more than 4,000 intelligent agent "helpers" from leading Internet platforms, covering daily scenarios such as navigation, payment, travel, office work, and learning. Through open cooperation between different entities, the corresponding intelligent agent can respond promptly when users make requests, generate one-stop solutions, and achieve a one-step intelligent experience.

In response to personalized needs, Honor launched the "Personal Knowledge Base Cross-End Memory" function, which uses an end-side artificial intelligence model running locally on the user's mobile phone to securely analyze various local personal data, deeply understand the meaning of content through semantic reasoning, and build a structured personal knowledge base for users. The artificial intelligence assistant can not only accurately retrieve and answer questions from the personal knowledge base, but also actively recommend and remind based on user habits.

Since July of this year, the coverage scenarios of the YOYO intelligent agent have increased from more than 200 to more than 3000. "We hope that the YOYO intelligent agent can have the ability to think, perceive, and evolve through a reinforcement learning mechanism, and grow together with users," said Sun Jianfa (孙建发), President of Honor MagicOS.

Currently, Honor has officially launched the "YOYO Wish Pool" plan and the "MagicOS Monthly Refresh" plan. Users can directly submit improvement suggestions to the YOYO intelligent agent in the "YOYO Wish Pool," effectively conveying new needs and new inspirations to the product core team. The adopted suggestions will then enter the monthly iterative version of MagicOS.

"We hope that every idea, every suggestion, and even every complaint from users can become an important basis for YOYO's continuous evolution," said Sun Jianfa (孙建发). "The direct participation of users adds warmth to the seemingly cold code."

The new Magic8 series also optimizes many scenario performances. In terms of communication, the Honor Magic8 Pro series supports the N79 frequency band, which improves the communication effect and product power consumption in dense places. In terms of display, it supports real-time enhancement of SDR (Standard Dynamic Range) video to HDR (High Dynamic Range) 1000 level, directly experiencing real images. At the same time, through self-developed chips, hardware-level low-power eye protection is achieved.

As one of the earliest terminal manufacturers to deploy in the artificial intelligence track, Honor promotes development through technological innovation and is committed to breaking data silos, service silos, and equipment silos, and getting rid of the limitations of traditional intelligent connections limited to the same wireless local area network and the same brand. Currently, Honor's R&D personnel account for more than 70%, the monthly patent application volume exceeds 300, and the R&D investment accounts for 11.5% of revenue.

In the future, Honor plans to invest 72 billion yuan in funding support within 5 years, and the R&D expenditure will account for more than 15% of revenue. It will increase its efforts to build R&D centers globally and jointly build an open, co-creative, and shared artificial intelligence terminal ecosystem with global partners, providing solid conditions for artificial intelligence technology iteration and ecosystem construction.

"We look forward to Honor gradually realizing the transformation and development from a smart phone company to an artificial intelligence terminal ecosystem company, creating an open platform, experience platform, and co-creation platform for users, creators, and industry partners," said Li Jian (李健), CEO of Honor.

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Editors of this page: Cheng Chen, Bai Zhenzhi, Qin Ruijie

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"Gan Chao" Grows Its Style This Way (I Exercise, I'm Happy: Observations on Mass Sports Events)

By: 本报记者 杨颜菲

On the evening of November 2nd, the final match of the 2025 Jiangxi Provincial City Football Super League (hereinafter referred to as "Gan Chao (赣超)") kicked off. After 90 minutes of intense competition, Ganzhou (赣州) team finally defeated Yichun (宜春) team, winning the first "Gan Chao (赣超)" championship.

Since its opening on July 12th, the "Gan Chao (赣超)" has attracted more than 1.2 million spectators to watch the 66 matches, with an average of over 18,000 people per game. The single game with the most spectators had 50,168 people, setting a record for the most spectators at a sports event held in Jiangxi (江西).

With "City Super Leagues" blooming in many places, how can "Gan Chao (赣超)" create its own characteristics? Recently, reporters from this newspaper conducted on-the-ground explorations.

Innovating While Learning

In the Gan Chao (赣超) final on the evening of November 2nd, Ganzhou (赣州) team player Lu Xin (卢欣) scored a header in the sixty-fourth minute, bringing his total number of goals to 12, and winning the title of "Best Scorer." "Fighting for my hometown, I must do my best, and I must not disappoint the students!" Lu Xin (卢欣) is a physical education teacher at the Fourth Primary School in Huichang County (会昌县), Ganzhou (赣州). When he participated in the first game, he was so nervous that his legs were weak. When more than 30 children from the school appeared in front of him, the familiar cheers ignited his fighting spirit.

Grassroots nature is a distinct characteristic of "Gan Chao (赣超)": the average age of more than 550 registered players is 23 years old, all of whom are non-professional players, covering different groups such as students, teachers, chefs, and taxi drivers. "The audience cheers for relatives and friends, and the players fight for their own cities. The games bring people a lot of emotional value," said Wang Xianmin (王贤敏), Executive Vice President and Secretary-General of the Jiangxi Provincial Football Association.

Jiangxi (江西) did not start hosting "Gan Chao (赣超)" on a whim. In 2021, the Jiangxi Provincial Football Super League, in which football clubs from the province participated, had already kicked off. At the end of 2024, the Jiangxi Provincial Sports Bureau planned to upgrade the Jiangxi Provincial Football Super League to a football event with city football teams as participating units, adding the word "City" to the event name, and issued a notice in April this year, officially launching the new "Gan Chao (赣超)" in July.

"'Su Chao (苏超)'s (referring to the football league in Jiangsu province) popularity shocked us and inspired us," said Wang Xianmin (王贤敏). In order to make the event more exciting, Jiangxi (江西) optimized and upgraded the original event plan, and also sent people to Jiangsu (江苏) to "learn from experience."

In late June, Liu Xiaojiang (刘效江), a member of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of Ganzhou Culture Media Group (赣州文化传媒集团), the main operator of the Ganzhou (赣州) competition area of "Gan Chao (赣超)", led a team to Changzhou (常州), Jiangsu (江苏) for research. "It was raining heavily that day. Changzhou (常州) team played against Nanjing (南京) team at home, and there were more than 36,000 spectators at the scene. The enthusiasm of the fans was really infectious." Liu Xiaojiang (刘效江) and his team wrote an inspection report, summarizing the aspects of "Su Chao (苏超)" that were worth learning from. In addition, they also hired 3 operations personnel from the "Su Chao (苏超)" execution team, hoping to let the successful experience take root in Ganzhou (赣州).

Changes happened little by little, and "Gan Chao (赣超)" gradually "grew" its style. Starting from the second game, "Gan Chao (赣超)" brought Jiangxi's (江西) red culture, Hakka culture, and Song Dynasty city culture and other characteristic elements to the stage during halftime. On August 31, the video of more than 40,000 fans singing "Ten Send-Offs to the Red Army" at the home stadium of Ganzhou (赣州) team was played more than 20 million times across the Internet. The competition areas quickly followed suit. During the intermission of the game between Xinyu (新余) team and Pingxiang (萍乡) team at the home stadium, the theme dance drama "Tiangong Kaiwu" (《天工开物》) enriched the viewing experience; at the home stadium of Fuzhou (抚州) team, "Waiting for You at the Peony Pavilion" (《我在牡丹亭等你》) sang a romantic melody, which was applauded by everyone.

Focusing on "Listening to Advice"

"To be honest, at the beginning, we were worried that no one would come to watch, and we even planned to distribute the tickets to various counties and districts." Liao Fengling (廖凤灵), head of the Mass Sports Section of the Ganzhou Municipal Sports Bureau (赣州市体育局), was worried when the "Gan Chao (赣超)" ticketing system was tested. However, the 8,000 tickets released for the first round of the competition were snapped up in just 20 minutes; the 20,000 tickets for the second round of the competition were even "sold out in seconds." Liao Fengling (廖凤灵) realized that he had underestimated people's enthusiasm for football.

Jiangxi (江西) faces considerable challenges in making "Gan Chao (赣超)" a success.

"The first thing to solve is the venue problem. Ganzhou (赣州) originally planned to hold the game in a stadium in Nankang District (南康区) that can accommodate 8,000 people, but they were afraid that the venue would be too cramped, so they finally decided to change it to the Ganzhou Municipal National Fitness Center (赣州市全民健身中心), and repeatedly coordinated with the venue operator for this purpose," said Liu Xiaojiang (刘效江). This is the first event with tens of thousands of people held at the Ganzhou Municipal National Fitness Center (赣州市全民健身中心) since it officially opened this year. In order to ensure the smooth running of the competition, all parties cooperated closely and explored step by step. "There is no subway nearby. If more than 40,000 people leave at the same time, it will bring great hidden dangers to traffic order and public safety," Liu Xiaojiang (刘效江) introduced. Finally, through negotiation, the Ganzhou Municipal Bus Company (赣州市公交公司) dispatched more than 100 buses to provide free shuttle service at the entrance of the venue, successfully solving the problem of diverting the audience.

"Since we have no experience ourselves, we will focus on 'listening to advice' - whatever the audience suggests, we will change it," said Wang Xianmin (王贤敏). Although the level of competition organization varies from place to place in Jiangxi (江西), each place will conduct a review after each round of the competition, and make timely adjustments based on the problems and suggestions from the audience.

Some netizens posted after watching the "Gan Chao (赣超)" live broadcast, "The venue is not very good, and the live broadcast quality is not good." Jiujiang (九江) quickly replaced the turf and equipment of the stadium. Some netizens left a message, "The lights on the scene are too dark." Ji'an (吉安) used a crane to lift up large lights to supplement the lighting of the stadium, and at the same time accelerated the renovation of the Ji'an Municipal Gymnasium (吉安市体育馆). Some viewers complained, "The pinyin behind the players' jerseys is difficult to identify." The players' names on the jerseys were quickly changed to Chinese characters...

"The fans have a high degree of participation, and we cannot let down this enthusiasm. We must constantly adjust our thinking in practice, optimize the experience, and do our best to improve the level of competition organization," said Wang Xianmin (王贤敏). Over the past few months, the event has become more and more exciting, and the audience's "complaints" have become less and less. Wang Xianmin (王贤敏) and his colleagues have gradually put their minds at ease.

Enhancing "Blood-Generating" Ability

"The tickets are very cheap. In terms of event operation, it is indeed not enough to make ends meet." Although the popularity of "Gan Chao (赣超)" is gradually increasing, the costs of the event, such as venue fees, security fees, and staff salaries, are still a headache. Liu Xiaojiang (刘效江) calculated the accounts. Even with commercial sponsorship, the financial investment still needs to be more than 4 million yuan after 10 rounds of regular season.

"Gan Chao (赣超)" has finally been established. How can we avoid falling into the situation of losing money and making noise?

"It is not just about making the event successful, but also about exploring the integrated development mechanism of 'events as a platform, economy as the main stage, culture and tourism adding color, and cities benefiting'," introduced Zhong Jinhua (钟进华), head of the Publicity, Education and Regulations Division of the Jiangxi Provincial Sports Bureau. "Gan Chao (赣超)" adopts the "government-led + local collaboration + association operation" model, jointly organized by the Jiangxi Provincial Sports Bureau (江西省体育局) and the municipal governments of various districts. Faced with the situation that ticket revenue and commercial sponsorship are insufficient to support it, various places have come up with ideas and practical measures.

Tickets are transformed into city "culture and tourism all-in-one cards," and fans can enjoy discounts on scenic spots and hotels with their tickets; in order to boost consumption, various places actively create second viewing venues, carry out "Gan Chao (赣超)" night markets, allowing fans to watch game broadcasts while experiencing local specialties and purchasing special products around the stadium, in large commercial complexes, and in public open-air squares. During the event, the total nighttime consumption in Jiangxi Province (江西省) increased by more than 30% year-on-year, and the revenue of merchants around sports venues generally doubled. Among them, the number of hotel reservations around the main competition areas such as Nanchang (南昌), Ganzhou (赣州), and Ji'an (吉安) increased by 220%, and the overall turnover of the catering industry increased by 55% year-on-year.

"Taking Ganzhou (赣州) as an example, it is estimated that the comprehensive consumption driven by the event has exceeded 100 million yuan," said Liu Xiaojiang (刘效江). Although the overall operation idea of "Gan Chao (赣超)" is still relatively traditional and the degree of commercial development is not enough, and there is still a gap between the consumption-driven level of "Su Chao (苏超)", Jiangxi (江西) has accumulated a lot of experience that is in line with its own situation through hard work, and has created a breakthrough path for sustainable development.

Jiang Guangjin (江广金), Dean of the School of Sports of Nanchang University (南昌大学), said that in order to polish the "Gan Chao (赣超)" brand, Jiangxi (江西) still needs to continuously improve the level of competition organization, and improve the level of competition by improving the youth training mechanism, while introducing more social forces to participate. He believes that it is necessary to gradually transition from government-led to government-guided and market-led, enhance the "blood-generating" ability of "Gan Chao (赣超)", and transform event traffic into development increments by promoting the integrated development of culture, sports and tourism.

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First Cross-Border Torch Relay Held in National Games History

On November 2nd, the 15th National Games torch relay was held simultaneously in four cities: Hong Kong (香港), Macao (澳门), Guangzhou (广州), and Shenzhen (深圳). This marks the first cross-border torch relay in the history of the National Games, and the first time the National Games torch has been relayed in Hong Kong and Macao.

At approximately 9:00 AM, the torch relay launch ceremony was held in Lianhuashan Park (莲花山公园), Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong Province (广东省). Xue Qikun (薛其坤), Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and President of Southern University of Science and Technology (南方科技大学), held the torch and ran the first leg. From Lianhuashan Park in Shenzhen to the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone (前海深港现代服务业合作区), from Zhenhai Tower (镇海楼) in Guangzhou to Haixinsha (海心沙), from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government Headquarters (香港特区政府总部) to the Kai Tak Sports Park (启德体育园), from the Macao Special Administrative Region Government Headquarters (澳门特区政府总部) to the Ruins of St. Paul's (大三巴牌坊), 200 torchbearers from all walks of life held the "Blooming" torch high, passing through landmarks in the three regions and four cities, connecting Lingnan culture, mountain and sea scenery, and urban charm into a flowing scroll.

In Hong Kong (香港), the cross-sea relay was particularly distinctive. The torch was escorted to the Star Ferry (天星小轮), completing a ceremonial crossing of Victoria Harbour (维多利亚港). On deck, Li Jing (李静), the twenty-third torchbearer and silver medalist in men's doubles table tennis at the 2004 Athens Olympics, steadily held the torch, as crowds cheered from the shore.

In Macao (澳门), Li Yi (李祎), the first torchbearer and champion in women's Changquan at the Hangzhou Asian Games (杭州亚运会), was extremely excited: "This is the first time the National Games have been jointly hosted by Guangdong (广东), Hong Kong (香港), and Macao (澳门). I wish all athletes good results and welcome everyone to experience the charm of the Greater Bay Area."

In Guangzhou (广州), the cultural activities along the torch relay route were quite noteworthy. There were Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera performances familiar to Guangzhou residents, as well as skateboarding and street dance performances popular among young people, showcasing the rich tapestry of Lingnan culture.

In Shenzhen (深圳), the humanoid robot "Kua Fu" (夸父) participated in the relay as the "No. 0" torchbearer. "Kua Fu" held the torch and completed a 100-meter relay task with a human-like running posture.

After the torch relay, the flames from the four cities converged in Guangzhou (广州) that afternoon, and a flame merging ceremony was held at the Guangdong Olympic Sports Centre (广东奥林匹克体育中心) (see photo, Xinhua News Agency reporter Deng Hua (邓华) photo), in preparation for the lighting of the main torch at the opening ceremony on the evening of November 9th.

The "source flame" of the 15th National Games torch was collected from the seabed more than 1,500 meters deep in the South China Sea (南海), and obtained by igniting combustible ice using solar energy. This torch relay was full of technology, with intelligent robots, unmanned vehicles, and low-altitude aircraft appearing in the relay activities, highlighting the industrial advantages of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) as an international science and technology innovation center, and demonstrating the deep integration of technology and sports.

Relevant officials from the organizing committee of the 15th National Games and the Special Olympics for Persons with Disabilities stated that from the light of the source flame deep in the South China Sea to the flame of unity jointly ignited by the three regions, the torch relay not only carries the unremitting pursuit of "Faster, Higher, Stronger - Together," but also vividly demonstrates the integrated development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, highlighting the glory and dream of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao working together to build the future.

(Comprehensive reports from our reporters Wang Yao (王尧), Fu Zimei (富子梅), He Linping (贺林平), Cheng Yuanzhou (程远州), Wang Yunna (王云娜), and Chen Ran (陈然))

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Shapingba District, Chongqing: Building a Strong Platform for Opening-up and Striving to be a Leader in Inland Opening-up

Loaded international trains and container trucks shuttle back and forth, with goods from all over the world being distributed and allocated here, achieving a "two-way rush" with the world. This is Shapingba District (沙坪坝区) of Chongqing (重庆), the source and starting station of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (西部陆海新通道), China-Europe Railway Express (中欧班列) and other international transportation channels.

Since 2025, Shapingba District (沙坪坝区) has actively integrated into the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" (一带一路), taking the construction of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (西部陆海新通道) as a strategic traction, and continuously amplifying the comprehensive effect of "channel + port + comprehensive bonded zone."

Optimizing and Strengthening High-Level Opening Platforms

Shapingba District (沙坪坝区) has the largest railway marshalling station and railway container center station in Southwest China, as well as national-level opening platforms such as the Chongqing International Railway Port Comprehensive Bonded Zone (重庆国际铁路港综合保税区) and the China (Chongqing) Free Trade Pilot Zone (中国（重庆）自由贸易试验区). In recent years, Shapingba District (沙坪坝区) has continuously improved the level of opening platforms, consolidated the foundation for opening up, and provided high-quality services to the overall situation of national and municipal foreign opening up.

The wind rises in the west, and the tide surges on land and sea. Since the first regular sea-rail intermodal train was launched in 2017, the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (西部陆海新通道) has cumulatively sent 4.7 million TEUs of container goods, of which 1.037 million TEUs of container goods were shipped this year, and the annual shipment volume exceeded 1 million TEUs for the first time, an increase of 72.7% year-on-year, maintaining a high-speed growth trend. At the same time, the types of goods transported by sea-rail intermodal trains have also increased to 1,316, radiating 163 stations in 75 cities in 18 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government), reaching 577 ports in 127 countries and regions.

The Chongqing International Railway Port Comprehensive Bonded Zone (重庆国际铁路港综合保税区) is adjacent to important hub nodes such as the Chongqing Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier (NVOCC) Port (重庆无水港) of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (西部陆海新通道), seamlessly connecting the China-Europe Railway Express (中欧班列) and the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (西部陆海新通道), with significant geographical and policy advantages. The bonded zone is an important starting point for undertaking the construction of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (西部陆海新通道) and the construction of the Chongqing Hub Port Industrial Park (重庆枢纽港产业园), and will focus on building export-oriented industrial clusters facing countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" (一带一路), such as complete vehicles, medicine, cold chain, and rail-side equipment manufacturing, to help promote the mutual promotion and integration of international markets such as ASEAN and the European Union with the domestic market.

After the application of the new standards jointly created by Shapingba District (沙坪坝区) for the export of a new energy vehicle priced at 200,000 yuan, the proportion of logistics and transportation costs in the vehicle price will be reduced from 10% to 6%. Since the beginning of this year, Shapingba District (沙坪坝区) has focused on deepening reforms in key areas, promoting continuous cost reduction and efficiency improvement in the logistics field through exploring multimodal transport "single bill system," exploring railway bill of lading letter of credit financing and settlement, innovative establishment of "overseas warehouses," innovative barter trade platforms, and "medicine and food homology" import pilots.

Expanding the Global "Circle of Friends" for Win-Win Cooperation

Cooperation can lead to win-win results, and working together can lead to progress.

Shapingba District (沙坪坝区) leverages its advantages as the starting point of the China-Europe Railway Express (中欧班列) and the source of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (西部陆海新通道) to strengthen cooperation with Europe, Africa, ASEAN, Central Asia, the Middle East, and other regions, continuously expanding the global "circle of friends" for win-win cooperation, and working with partners to create globally competitive industrial clusters.

Since the beginning of this year, Shapingba District (沙坪坝区) has fully strengthened its foreign economic and trade activities, adding 17 new countries and regions for economic and trade exchanges and 70 foreign trade enterprises. From January to September, the total value of foreign trade import and export in the district reached 232.7 billion yuan.

Since the first ASEAN-Chongqing Shapingba Investment and Trade Fair (东盟·重庆沙坪坝投资贸易洽谈会) in November 2024, Shapingba's (沙坪坝) trade volume with ASEAN has increased significantly, with new overseas distribution centers in ASEAN countries such as Vietnam and Cambodia, 14 new ASEAN companies have been established, and the district's trade volume with ASEAN has increased significantly by 52.5%; cooperation projects have taken root, with the establishment of the Cambodian Chongqing Business Representative Office and the ASEAN Tapioca Flour Distribution Center, and the Chongqing International Logistics Hub Park (重庆国际物流枢纽园区) has become a friendly park with the Port of Phnom Penh in Cambodia; government and business interactions are frequent, with the establishment of a normalized exchange and mutual visit mechanism with the Consulates General of ASEAN countries in Chongqing and Chengdu, and 23 government and business institutions from ASEAN countries have visited the district; people-to-people exchanges are closely linked, with the number of visitors increasing by 116% year-on-year. The recent second ASEAN-Chongqing Shapingba Investment and Trade Fair (东盟·重庆沙坪坝第二届投资贸易洽谈会) centrally signed 50 major projects, including 23 foreign trade projects, with a contracted amount of 10.66 billion yuan for international trade, bulk trade and other trade contracts.

The African market has great potential, and Shapingba District (沙坪坝区) has a solid industrial base, and the industrial structures between the two are highly complementary. Since Shapingba District (沙坪坝区) signed a cooperation agreement with the China-Africa Friendship Economic and Trade Development Foundation (中非友好经贸发展基金会) in July this year, a number of Chongqing-Africa cooperation projects have been pragmatically promoted, and positive results have been achieved in jointly exploring the African economic and trade market. On October 31, the China-Egypt Business Cooperation Center (中国埃及商务合作中心) and the Chongqing Representative Office of the China-Africa Friendship Economic and Trade Development Foundation (中非友好经贸发展基金会重庆代表处) were unveiled, and the China (Chongqing Shapingba) - Africa Economic and Trade Cooperation Opportunity List was released to accelerate the creation of a comprehensive service system for enterprises to "go global" and "bring in."

Not long ago, Shapingba District (沙坪坝区) also newly established the Shapingba District Foreign Opening-up Cooperation Center of Chongqing (重庆市沙坪坝区对外开放合作中心) and the Shapingba District Foreign Economic and Trade Enterprise Association of Chongqing (重庆市沙坪坝区外经贸企业协会), which will fully cover visits to district-owned foreign trade enterprises and national industry associations and chambers of commerce, integrate high-quality domestic and foreign factor resources, actively cultivate new foreign trade formats and models, accelerate the construction of a new integrated service ecosystem for domestic and foreign trade, optimize the layout in a broader market space, and strive to show greater responsibility and action in Chongqing's (重庆市) overall promotion of integrated domestic and foreign trade development.

Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Shapingba District Committee of Chongqing (中共重庆市沙坪坝区委宣传部)

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Editor in charge of this edition: Gong Yuhua, Wang Bo, Cheng Huan

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From Great Wall Motors to Great Wall Station: Great Wall Motor's Tank 300 Diesel Version Heads to Antarctica

Great Wall Motors' Tank 300 diesel version has been awarded the title of "China's North and South Pole Expedition Selected Product." The mass-produced Tank 300 diesel version, without special modifications, will undertake transportation and support work in the Antarctic Great Wall Station (南极长城站) scientific expedition mission.

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Chinese Brands Embrace Innovation and Stride Towards High-Quality Development

By: 本报记者 韩 鑫

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out, "Promote the transformation of 'Made in China' to 'Created in China', the transformation of 'China Speed' to 'China Quality', and the transformation of 'Chinese Products' to 'Chinese Brands'," and "Develop new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions and create more well-known brands."

On October 29, the 2025 China Brand Forum, hosted by the People's Daily, was held in Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), Hebei (河北). Xuekelaiti Zakir (雪克来提·扎克尔), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, attended and delivered a speech. Xuekelaiti Zakir (雪克来提·扎克尔) said that brands are an important symbol of high-quality development and a concentrated embodiment of national competitiveness. Since entering the new era, the number of Chinese brands has increased rapidly, the quality has improved significantly, and the global awareness, reputation, and influence have increased day by day. Remarkable achievements have been made in the high-quality development of brands, and solid steps have been taken in building a strong brand country. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, we must fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee, focus on implementing the strategy of strengthening the country through quality, carry out the action of creating Chinese brands in a solid manner, vigorously create a good environment for brand development, and continuously promote the construction of a strong brand country to achieve greater results.

Yu Shaoliang (于绍良), President of the People's Daily, delivered a speech on behalf of the organizers. He said that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's brand construction has made gratifying progress. Holding the China Brand Forum is to focus on the forefront of development, create an important window for observing the effectiveness of China's brand construction, and build an important platform for gathering wisdom, building consensus, and promoting Chinese brands to a new stage of high-quality development. We must thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions on brand construction and the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and continue to publicize the progress, effectiveness, methods, measures, and innovative cases of brand construction, and help Chinese brands steadily move towards stronger strength, better structure, and greater vitality.

Responsible comrades from relevant ministries and commissions of the Central and State organs, representatives from local government departments, business leaders, and experts and scholars gathered together to conduct in-depth exchanges around the theme of "Moving Towards the New: New Brands, New Scenarios, New Practices, New Heights" and jointly discuss the future of brand development.

The participating guests stated that it is necessary to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech and the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, strengthen brand construction, consolidate the strategic pillar for promoting high-quality development, ignite the key engine for cultivating and expanding new quality productive forces, and contribute brand strength to advancing Chinese-style modernization.

Working Together

Chinese Brands Demonstrate Strong Strength

Since 2015, the China Brand Forum initiated by the People's Daily has been successfully held for 11 sessions. This forum includes a main forum and two parallel sub-forums: "2025 Financial High-Quality Development Report Conference" and "Thematic Seminar on Promoting High-Quality Development of Education."

Fang Jiangshan (方江山), Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the People's Daily, presided over the opening ceremony of the forum and said that under the guidance of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions on the "three transformations," more and more Chinese brands continue to move towards the new and grow into high-quality and high-grade "national product lights." At present, Chinese brands are showing extraordinary resilience and vitality, and are increasingly demonstrating the extraordinary charm and beautiful prospects of Chinese-style modernization from one aspect.

Strengthening brand construction is an inherent requirement for developing new quality productive forces and promoting high-quality development. The participating guests stated that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, all localities and departments have taken brand construction as a starting point, thoroughly implemented the new development concept, and continuously achieved new results in promoting high-quality development.

Striving to Improve Quality and Efficiency, More Well-Known Brands.

"We have implemented the Manufacturing Excellence Quality Project, the Special Action for Quality Standard Brand Value Assignment to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, and the Manufacturing 'Increase Variety, Improve Quality, Create Brand' Action to help enterprises embark on the development track of seeking benefits from excellent quality and seeking competitiveness from excellent brands." Ke Jixin (柯吉欣), member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that with the joint efforts of all parties, the overall scale of China's manufacturing industry has ranked first in the world for 15 consecutive years, the qualified rate of product quality has reached 93.93%, and a number of well-known enterprises and excellent brands at home and abroad have emerged.

"In recent years, we have promoted the implementation of the Central Enterprise Brand Leading Action, researched and constructed an artificial intelligence large model for brand value evaluation, incorporated brand work into the performance evaluation of central enterprise leaders, and promoted the continuous enhancement of the internal driving force for central enterprises to create brands, establish brands, and strengthen brands." Li Zhen (李镇), member of the Party Committee and Deputy Director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, said that the next step will be to continue to consolidate and expand the achievements of brand creation and strive to cultivate more excellent central enterprise brands.

Working Together to Optimize the Environment, a Stronger Atmosphere for Brand Development.

"Brands move towards the new, and quality is the cornerstone." Deng Zhiyong (邓志勇), member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the State Administration for Market Regulation, and Director of the State Standardization Administration, introduced that in recent years, the State Administration for Market Regulation has effectively maintained market order, comprehensively strengthened quality governance, promoted the steady improvement of product quality, and helped the emergence of national trendy brands. Next, it will fully implement the strategy of strengthening the country through quality, promote quality strengthening of enterprises, quality strengthening of chains, and quality strengthening of counties, build a high-level quality infrastructure, and cultivate more famous brands and high-quality products.

"We insist on holding the China Top 500 Private Enterprises Release Conference, the Private Enterprise Green Development Conference, and the Private Enterprise Quality and Standardization Lecture Hall to build a platform for private enterprises to forge excellent brands and empower them to improve." Li Bing (李冰), member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, said that in the future, it will continue to support and guide private enterprises to strengthen brand construction and promote the transformation of "Made in China" to "Created in China," the transformation of "China Speed" to "China Quality," and the transformation of "Chinese Products" to "Chinese Brands."

Going All Out to Promote Development, Higher Value of National Brands.

In the Fortune Global 500 ranking, China Power Construction has risen to 100th place, ranking first among the world's largest power engineering contractors for 11 consecutive years; Yili Group has remained at the top of the "Top 10 Most Valuable Dairy Brands in the World" for 6 consecutive years, continuing to lead the global dairy industry... In recent years, China's brand construction has made gratifying progress, and the brand tree has borne fruitful results.

"One of the signs of a strong quality country is a strong brand country. To build a strong socialist modern country, we should build a strong brand country. In recent years, China's brands have made great progress in the world's top 500 brands, which fully demonstrates the growth of national brands." Xie Jingrong (谢经荣), member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and Vice Chairman of the China Democratic League Central Committee, said that grasping new trends, creating new technologies, and exploring new management, embracing changes with an open mind, and continuously innovating with firm belief will create more Chinese brands that win global recognition.

Shouldering Heavy Responsibilities

Chinese Brands Better Serve the Overall Situation

Brand construction is moving towards the new, not only to improve technology, quality, and performance, but also to integrate into the overall situation, responsibility, and commitment. In recent years, more and more Chinese brands have become more well-known, established, and spread in serving the overall national situation.

Using Brand Construction to Help Green Development.

"Entering a new stage of development, brand competition is more reflected in concepts, responsibilities, and ecology." Li Rui (李锐), member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy General Manager of China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd., said that Southern Power Grid is committed to moving towards green and forging brand advantages. "At present, a power supply pattern mainly based on clean energy has basically formed, and one out of every two kilowatt-hours of electricity in the entire network is zero-carbon electricity."

"The key to the steady and long-term development of a brand lies in sustainable development." Li Li (李笠), President of Runze Zhisuan Technology Group Co., Ltd., introduced that the company actively practices the concept of green and low-carbon development, independently developed a new generation of liquid cooling technology, and combined it with a smart operation and maintenance system to achieve comprehensive optimization of energy efficiency.

Using Brand Construction to Serve a Better Life.

Provide high-quality information services. "Only by winning user trust with high-quality digital and intelligent services can we build the cornerstone of a brand." He Biao (何飚), Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and General Manager of China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd., said that China Mobile has built the world's largest 5G and broadband "dual gigabit" network to better meet the growing digital and intelligent service needs of the people.

Build housing that satisfies the people. Wen Bing (文兵), Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and General Manager of China Construction Group Co., Ltd., introduced that China Construction has identified the direction of building "good houses," widely solicited residents' opinions, summarized pain points, and integrated hundreds of implementation plans to ensure the creation of "good houses" that can withstand practical tests.

Protect the people's healthy life. "As an enterprise that has been deeply involved in the pharmaceutical and health field for many years, we have always regarded brand construction as a life project." Xu Haoyu (徐浩宇), Secretary of the Party Committee, Chairman, and President of Yangzijiang Pharmaceutical Group, said that in order to meet the upgrading trend of health needs, the company is accelerating its transformation to full life cycle health management services, so that the concept of "preventing diseases" can enter thousands of households.

Using Brand Construction to Practice Social Responsibility.

"The foundation of a brand lies in the practice of fulfilling responsibilities." Liu Jianping (刘建平), Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of China National Nuclear Corporation, said that in the front line of promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, CNNC has created brands such as the "Nuclear Seed Program," "Nuclear Seed Strengthening Teachers," and "Nuclear Seed Strengthening Medicine." Over the past 10 years, it has invested more than 80 million yuan, benefiting more than 100,000 students.

Zhang Zheng (张正), Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Shaanxi Xifeng Liquor Factory Group Co., Ltd., introduced that in recent years, the company has not only carried out public welfare activities such as ecological protection and water source protection on a regular basis, but also cooperated deeply with universities to jointly develop new technologies such as clean production, and strived to be a promoter and leader of the industry's sustainable development.

Achieving Success Over Time

The Development Prospects of Chinese Brands are Bright

Brand construction is a systematic project that requires perseverance and sustained efforts. The participating guests generally believe that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, there are valuable opportunities to cultivate and strengthen Chinese manufacturing and make Chinese brands better and stronger. We must take the initiative, strive forward, and continuously promote the construction of a strong brand country to achieve new and greater results.

Innovation-Driven, Enhancing the Vitality of Brand Development.

"Technological innovation is the only way for brands to move towards the new and upward." Zhao Fei (赵非), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of China Changan Automobile Group Co., Ltd., introduced that the group has built a global research and development layout of "six countries and ten regions" and built more than 200 laboratories covering multiple fields. Product sales have increased year by year. "In the future, we will unswervingly transform into a smart and low-carbon travel technology company and promote the national automobile brand."

Ye Yuanwei (叶元伟), Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation, said that innovation is the source of vitality for brand development. State Nuclear Power regards the tackling of core technologies as the fundamental support for the brand strength of "Guohe No. 1." Through the empowerment of central enterprise technology, platforms, and brands, it drives nearly 3,000 units to build a complete industrial chain and supply chain system.

Releasing customized digital and intelligent supply chain solutions for segmented industries and launching a trillion-level cost reduction campaign... In the view of Ding Deming (丁德明), Vice President of JD Industrial, digital and intelligent innovation will effectively help companies reduce costs and increase efficiency. "We will build a digital 'highway' to accurately connect the supply and demand sides and drive the continuous improvement of the profitability of China's industrial industry."

Winning with Quality, Consolidating the Foundation of Brand Reputation.

"Quality is the lifeline of an enterprise." Wei Jianjun (魏建军), Chairman of Great Wall Motor Co., Ltd., said that Great Wall Motor always adheres to building reliable cars, runs the concept of integrity through all aspects of enterprise management, and contributes to building a modern industrial system while promoting the creation of a benign competitive order.

In June of this year, two ISO refrigeration compressor international standards led by Gree Electric were officially released globally. "Today's 'Made in China' is creating more 'Chinese standards.' Gree will continue to work hard to make global users see, remember, and feel the innovative power of Chinese brands." Zhu Lei (朱磊), Executive Vice President of Gree Electric, said.

Stepping Out to Sea, Creating International Brand Name Cards.

"Brand internationalization is the only way to build a first-class enterprise." Ni Zhen (倪真), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of China Energy Construction Group Co., Ltd., introduced that adhering to the international priority development strategy, China Energy Construction has newly signed contracts worth more than 600 billion yuan in countries and regions jointly building the "Belt and Road" in the past 5 years, ranking firmly in the first echelon of Chinese enterprises "going out."

China Railway has created a number of bright name cards for Chinese construction such as the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (雅万高铁) and the China-Laos Railway (中老铁路), with business covering more than 100 countries and regions; China Huaneng's technical service exports exceed 40 countries and regions, and the international standards it leads have reached 19; Anta (安踏) has deeply expanded international markets such as Southeast Asia and the Middle East, and plans to open thousands of brand stores in Southeast Asia in the next 3 years... More Chinese brands are setting sail and becoming shining name cards showing China's image.

Cultural Empowerment, Releasing Brand Value Effects.

"In recent years, we have built industry-leading theater operation, cinema management, and other platforms, and continue to enrich the supply of public cultural products, becoming a pioneer in solidly promoting the construction of a strong cultural country." Liu Hualong (刘化龙), Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China Poly Group Co., Ltd., said that moving towards the "15th Five-Year Plan," Poly Group will continue to deepen brand leadership and better realize the vision of being a leader in creating a better life.

"Empowering brands with cultural confidence can demonstrate the brand's value connotation." Lin Yuting (林雨汀), President and Co-founder of Guyu Biotechnology Group Co., Ltd., introduced that the company named its skin care brand after the traditional Chinese twenty-four solar terms and fully integrated Song Dynasty (宋朝) porcelain aesthetics into the product design, which also precipitated a unique brand connotation. In the future, it will interpret the cultural attributes of national brands with more active actions.

Brands witness history and record the times. Looking forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," the participating guests are full of confidence: maintaining focus, uniting efforts, there will be more Chinese manufacturing enjoying a global reputation and more Chinese brands shining in the world, and promoting Chinese-style modernization with stronger brand power.

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China Brand Development Index (2025) Released

This newspaper's Xiong'an (雄安) November 2nd (Reporter Qu Xinming (屈信明)) On October 29th, at the opening ceremony of the 2025 China Brand Forum, the China Brand Development Index (2025) was released. This achievement was academically supported by the Chinese Academy of Macroeconomic Research (中国宏观经济研究院) and compiled by the People's Daily China Brand Development Research Institute (人民日报中国品牌发展研究院). Research shows that as further comprehensive and deepened reforms are vigorously advanced, enterprises' innovation vitality has been significantly enhanced, new quality productive forces are accelerating, the conversion of old and new driving forces is further accelerating, and the China Brand Development Index continues to be in the prosperity range and maintains a warming trend.

According to reports, the China Brand Development Index uses technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence to dynamically monitor 100 representative, leading, and diverse sample enterprises. It is a scientific and quantitative evaluation of the degree of prosperity of the Chinese economy in the brand dimension. Among them, the number of brands entering the real economy reached 50% of all brands.

From the perspective of development characteristics, technology companies represented by Huawei (华为) and DeepQuest (深度求索) are reshaping the global industrial chain through high-intensity research and development; ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance) concepts are deeply integrated into corporate development strategies, promoting green transformation and carbon neutrality; State Grid (国家电网), Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (工商银行) and other central enterprises, as well as Alibaba (阿里巴巴), Tencent (腾讯) and other private enterprises have long been ranked among the world's top 500, demonstrating strong revenue capabilities and risk resistance capabilities; in the process of internationalization, Chinese enterprises represented by central enterprises are deeply deployed globally.

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"Xiongan New Area Smart City Development Report" Released

This newspaper's Xiong'an (雄安) dispatch, November 2nd (Reporter Zhang Tengyang (张腾扬)) On October 29th, at the opening ceremony of the 2025 China Brand Forum, the "Xiong'an New Area Smart City Development Report," compiled by the People's Daily (人民日报) China Brand Development Research Institute, was officially released.

The report starts from six dimensions to construct a smart city development evaluation system and maturity assessment model, dynamically reflecting the construction effectiveness and improvement direction of Xiong'an New Area's (雄安新区) smart city, and providing replicable and scalable solutions for the construction of smart cities nationwide.

Among them, in the digital infrastructure dimension, 5G full-coverage and urban computing centers support the construction of a digital twin city; in the smart governance dimension, "one-network-for-all-services" and other measures achieve precise and efficient operation; in the smart economy dimension, Xiong'an Science and Innovation Center (雄安科创中心), Artificial Intelligence Industrial Park (人工智能产业园) and other carriers effectively cultivate innovation clusters; in the smart life dimension, "one-card-for-all-services" and other measures make people's livelihood services more convenient; in the green and sustainable dimension, Baiyangdian (白洋淀) governance has achieved remarkable results; in the innovation and resilience dimension, the construction of a full-domain monitoring risk prevention and control system has achieved initial results. The report shows that Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) smart city has fully entered a new stage of high-quality operation.

The National Smart City High-Quality Development Research Project was also launched simultaneously at the site. Starting with Xiong'an (雄安), the project will rely on smart city evaluation methods to dynamically monitor the intelligent construction of cities across the country, extract experience and results, and provide smart support for improving urban governance.

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Themed Communication Project on Xiong'an's Practice in Modern Urban Governance Launched

This newspaper's Xiong'an (雄安) dispatch on November 2nd (Reporter Zhang Yikai (张艺开)) On October 29th, at the opening ceremony of the 2025 China Brand Forum, the thematic communication project "Xiong'an (雄安) Practice of Modern Urban Governance" was officially released. The project aims to showcase the vivid practice of Xiong'an's (雄安) modern urban governance and empower the construction of Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) from multiple perspectives.

Since its establishment, Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) has adhered to the concept of "global vision, international standards, Chinese characteristics, and high-point positioning," persisted in high-starting-point planning, high-standard construction, and high-quality development, adapted to local conditions, and worked with sustained effort, striving to build an innovative development demonstration zone that implements the new development concept.

According to reports, the project will give full play to the advantages of integrated media communication, gather diverse resources such as media, high-quality channels, and high-end think tanks, and through the coordinated linkage of "newspapers, periodicals, websites, terminals, microblogs, screens, and accounts," actively showcase Xiong'an's (雄安) innovative practices and fruitful achievements in modern urban governance through in-depth research, creative works, subject research, and multi-field academic exchanges.

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Research on AI Enterprise Evaluation System Launched

This newspaper's Xiong'an (雄安) report on November 2nd (Reporter Huang Fute (黄福特)) On October 29th, at the main forum of the 2025 China Brand Forum, the research on the artificial intelligence enterprise evaluation system was launched. The research project was jointly initiated by the People's Daily China Brand Development Research Institute (人民日报中国品牌发展研究院) and the China Internet Network Information Center (中国互联网络信息中心), aiming to help the high-quality development of China's artificial intelligence enterprises through systematic research and standardized construction.

In recent years, artificial intelligence is changing production and lifestyles with unprecedented speed, breadth, and depth, and is gradually becoming an important driving force for the continuous development of the economy and society. Chinese enterprises have achieved remarkable results in the field of artificial intelligence. From technology research and development to application scenarios, they have demonstrated strong innovation capabilities and industrial potential. The People's Daily China Brand Development Research Institute (人民日报中国品牌发展研究院) and the China Internet Network Information Center (中国互联网络信息中心) initiated this research project to adapt to the changes of the times and meet the needs of enterprises.

According to reports, the research project will be based on a multi-dimensional comprehensive perspective. By constructing an evaluation system for the development level of artificial intelligence enterprises that conforms to China's national conditions, and building a related database, it will systematically identify and present the overall development trend, industrial competitive advantages and capability shortcomings of China's artificial intelligence enterprises, explore the key factors restricting the high-quality development of enterprises, provide scientific basis for relevant policy formulation and enterprise strategic decision-making, and help improve the development quality and level of the artificial intelligence industry, so as to better serve the national innovation-driven development strategy and the construction of a modern economic system. The research project will be carried out through on-the-spot investigations, case studies, expert consultations and other methods, and special research reports, practical cases and other results will be released in due course.

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Developing new quality productive forces to promote high-quality development

Focusing on the Needs of the People, Contributing Energy Strength

Zhang Wenfeng (张文峰), Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and General Manager of China Huaneng Group Co., Ltd. (中国华能集团有限公司)

As a major state-owned backbone comprehensive energy group, China Huaneng (中国华能) has formulated a "Three-Color Blooming" brand strategic plan to forge a world-class power brand. In 2025, the group's brand value exceeded 133.3 billion yuan, setting a new historical record.

Moving steadily forward. China Huaneng's (中国华能) total installed capacity reached 294 million kilowatts, and its annual power generation accounts for about 1/11 of the country's total. The civil heating area is 1.06 billion square meters, and the coal production capacity exceeds 130 million tons. The group refines and strengthens supply security, operational safety, emergency safety, supply chain security, and technological security to achieve a safe and stable supply of electricity, coal, and heat.

Moving greenly forward. Vigorously developing new energy, hydropower, and nuclear power, China's first ten-million-kilowatt multi-energy complementary comprehensive energy base, Huaneng Longdong (华能陇东), was fully connected to the grid. Wind power installed capacity has steadily ranked among the top in the industry, and the world's first fourth-generation nuclear power plant was officially put into operation, completing the "14th Five-Year Plan" target for new energy installed capacity ahead of schedule.

Making new breakthroughs. Taking the lead in forming 5 innovation consortia to tackle key core technologies such as the 1.5 million-ton coal-fired power carbon capture demonstration project, the 18-megawatt offshore wind turbine unit, and deep-sea floating offshore photovoltaic power generation.

Seeking deeper exploration. Accelerating the construction of the digital and intelligent Huaneng (华能) system, building the largest new energy intelligent operation and maintenance platform in China, and empowering the construction of a new energy system and a new power system with digital and intelligent brands such as "Huaneng Ruiwo (华能睿渥)" and "Huaneng Ruichi (华能睿驰)".

Expanding outward. The group's overseas assets are distributed in 6 countries, and overseas technical service exports cover more than 40 countries and regions, leading the formulation of 19 international standards.

In October of this year, China Huaneng (中国华能) officially moved into its headquarters office in Xiong'an (雄安). The group will comprehensively enhance the "new content," "green content," and "gold content" of the brand's high-quality development, and strive to be a "global leader in green energy."

(Reported by Zhang Yikai (张艺开), this newspaper)

Providing High-Quality Services and Strengthening International Cooperation

He Biao (何飚), Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and General Manager of China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. (中国移动通信集团有限公司)

China Mobile (中国移动) closely focuses on the goal of "running a service enterprise that satisfies the people and creating a world-class service benchmark," promoting the construction of corporate brands, customer brands, and product brands, and building a world-class information service technology innovation company.

Optimizing quality service supply. Upgrading digital and intelligent infrastructure, building the world's largest 5G and broadband "dual gigabit" network, realizing large-scale deployment of 5G-A networks, and building projects such as the 10,000-card intelligent computing center and the "Jiuzhou (九州)" computing power optical network. Upgrading "Artificial Intelligence +" product applications, upgrading the Global Connect and M-zone brands, and creating new brands such as Mobile Aijia (移动爱家) and Mobile Zhiqi (移动智企). Upgrading customer service experience and releasing "three ones" service measures.

Enhancing scientific and technological innovation strength. Releasing the 6G integrated sensing, computing, and intelligence technology system and the world's first 6G architecture verification satellite, and building the "Jiutian (九天)" base large model and the "Pofeng (破风)" chip. Accelerating the development of strategic emerging industries and future industries, building a high-level mobile information industry chain, and laying out new tracks such as the low-altitude economy, embodied intelligence, and quantum information. Deepening the collaborative innovation of industry, academia, and research, building scientific research carriers such as the "Lingji (灵畿)" scientific research platform and innovation consortia, implementing the "Joint Innovation +" plan, and opening up the transformation path from scientific and technological innovation to products, markets, and brands.

Building a world-class brand. Strengthening international business layout, accelerating the export of high-quality products and services such as cloud networks, and helping the digital and intelligent transformation of thousands of industries around the world. Strengthening international standard contributions, leading the formation of globally unified 5G international standards, serving as the chief reporter for the world's first 6G scenario and demand standards, and helping to enhance China's international voice and influence in the field of information and communication. Strengthening international industrial cooperation, jointly building the "Hand-in-Hand Program" cooperation mechanism with international partners, and working together to build a global digital and intelligent industrial ecosystem of symbiosis, co-prosperity, and common progress.

(Reported by Zhang Yikai (张艺开), this newspaper)

Steadfastly Moving Towards Innovation and Contributing to Urban Development

Wen Bing (文兵), Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and General Manager of China State Construction Group Co., Ltd. (中国建筑集团有限公司)

Currently, China's urbanization is shifting from a period of rapid growth to a period of stable development, and urban development is shifting from a stage of large-scale incremental expansion to a stage dominated by stock improvement and efficiency enhancement. China State Construction Group (中国建筑集团) resolutely implements the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, guided by the new development concept, accelerates the transformation of development methods, and unswervingly follows the path of high-quality development.

Adhering to the brand concept of moving towards innovation and continuously consolidating the foundation for high-quality enterprise development. The group deeply integrates into and serves national strategies, creating a number of key infrastructure, industrial projects, and livelihood projects, actively participating in the construction of the Hebei Xiong'an New Area (河北雄安新区), and completing and delivering a number of central enterprise headquarters buildings. Vigorously promoting technological innovation, launching 11 major categories of market-oriented promotion products such as modular buildings and photovoltaic storage direct flexibility, and striving to transform towards industrialization, digitization, and greening.

Adhering to the brand connotation of moving towards innovation and resolutely investing in the new stage and new needs of urban development. The group always takes the actual needs of the people as the starting point and helps solve the difficult problems of urban management. Integrating the integrated advantages of "consulting, investment, construction, and operation," accurately grasping the management needs of urban governments, and tailoring urban renewal plans for multiple provincial capital cities. Actively participating in the construction of smart cities, taking "intelligent construction" as the traction, and focusing on promoting the intelligent development of the entire life cycle of buildings.

Adhering to the brand value of moving towards innovation and ingeniously creating a "good house" construction system. The group accurately identifies the direction of "good house" construction and proposes targeted construction standards of "six no's, six defenses, three savings, and three essentials." Opening up the realization path of "good houses," integrating more than 170 technical processes, and forming a full-process implementation plan integrating "good standards, good design, good materials, good construction, and good services." Increasing the promotion of "good houses" and determining 88 application projects of the "good house" construction system in more than 20 cities.

(Reported by Zhang Tengyang (张腾扬), this newspaper)

Anchoring Brand Power and Polishing a Century-Old Brand

Shi Dai (石岱), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of China Merchants Group Co., Ltd. (招商局集团有限公司)

Brand is the core asset of enterprise operation and the comprehensive embodiment of enterprise competitiveness. China Merchants Group (招商局集团) is a "time-honored brand" founded in 1872. In recent years, the group has vigorously implemented the brand-strengthening enterprise strategy, making the century-old golden signboard of "China Merchants Bureau (招商局)" even more shining.

Culture casts the soul, making the brand more profound. We have established the brand slogan of "promoting the progress of the times with commercial success," the brand values of "sharing the destiny with the motherland and developing with the times," the brand spirit of "family and country, business ethics, innovation and change, struggle, and kindness," and the brand background of "**吐故纳新** (tǔ gù nà xīn - "expel the old and accept the new," get rid of the stale and take in the fresh; to innovate)," "**包容并蓄** (bāo róng bìng xù - "inclusive and accommodating," to accept everything)," "**乘风破浪** (chéng fēng pò làng - "ride the wind and break the waves," to be ambitious and unafraid of difficulties)," and "**商通天下** (shāng tōng tiān xià - "trade connects the world," business reaches everywhere)," making the brand more distinctive, richer in connotation, and deeper in heritage.

Innovation strengthens the core, making the brand more sharp. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China Merchants Group (招商局) invested nearly 90 billion yuan in research and development, established a group chief scientist committee, set up research and development platforms such as the Advanced Technology Research Institute, and laid out cutting-edge technology fields such as embodied intelligence and new materials, using hardcore innovation to make the brand "through a hundred years, is still young."

Quality consolidates the foundation, making the brand more profound. We adhere to the concept of "quality first, excellence," and create high-quality product and service brands in the business fields of transportation and logistics, comprehensive finance, real estate parks, and scientific and technological innovation industries.

Responsibility empowers, making the brand warmer. We won the "National Advanced Collective for Poverty Alleviation," and have been awarded the "China Charity Award" for many consecutive years. The "C to the power of m" global social responsibility brand system has invested a total of about 1.5 billion yuan.

Looking to the future, China Merchants Group (招商局集团) will vigorously promote the brand-strengthening enterprise strategy, anchor strategic direction, strengthen innovation-driven development, adhere to openness and win-win cooperation, enhance brand value in serving the construction of Chinese-style modernization, and maintain the youthful vitality of the century-old brand with innovation, creating a brand that is renowned throughout the world.

(Reported by Zhang Tengyang (张腾扬), this newspaper)

Strengthening R&D and Cultivating Industrial Clusters

Chang Zhangli (常张利), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of China National Building Material Group Co., Ltd. (中国建材集团有限公司)

China National Building Material (中国建材) upholds the mission and responsibility of "Xiong'an Construction, Building Materials First," taking root and struggling in the Hebei Xiong'an New Area (河北雄安新区), providing this "city of the future" with a full industrial chain of products and services from basic building materials to high-end new materials, from intelligent manufacturing to green certification.

As a leading enterprise in the field of non-metallic materials, China National Building Material (中国建材) is moving towards innovation and climbing towards higher goals.

Based on innovation, creating new advantages in the brand of the material industry. The group focuses on its main responsibilities and main business, successfully breaking through technical bottlenecks in key areas such as high-performance carbon fiber and glass fiber, and a large number of new materials developed, such as aviation composite materials, advanced ceramics, and flexible glass, are applied to "national heavy equipment" and "domestic brands," enriching the brand connotation. Focusing on the layout of strategic emerging industries, using investment and new construction, mergers and acquisitions, industrial funds, strategic cooperation, and other methods to promote the revenue of strategic emerging industries to exceed 100 billion yuan for three consecutive years, and cultivate a gradient industrial cluster of 1 billion to 5 billion to 10 billion yuan, extending the brand value chain.

Practicing and planning for new developments, exploring new practices in the brand of the material industry. The group upgrades its internationalization strategy, implements the "overseas re-creation" action, and its business covers more than 70 countries and regions, continuously enhancing brand influence. China National Building Material (中国建材) actively practices the ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance) concept, and its sustainable development report has received the highest rating of "Five-Star Excellent" for six consecutive years.

Adhering to innovation, writing a new chapter in the brand of the material industry. The group deeply practices the "three transformations" and fully accelerates the pace of brand construction. Adhering to innovation-driven development, strengthening R&D, and continuously enhancing the "added value" of the brand. Adhering to quality first, establishing a full industrial chain quality control system, and continuously improving the "gold content" of the brand. Adhering to the three principles of win-win cooperation of "contributing to local development, cooperating with local enterprises, and serving local residents," and continuously enhancing brand reputation.

(Reported by Shao Yuzi (邵玉姿), this newspaper)

Empowering Transformation with Technology and Promoting Product Export

Zhao Fei (赵非), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of China Changan Automobile Group Co., Ltd. (中国长安汽车集团有限公司)

China Changan Automobile Group (中国长安汽车集团) is unswervingly transforming into an intelligent and low-carbon travel technology company, successfully building three digital and intelligent new energy brands: Avatr (阿维塔), Deepal (深蓝汽车), and Changan Qiyuan (长安启源), and actively creating a world-class automobile brand.

Changan Automobile's (长安汽车) passenger car product "Eado (逸动)" once achieved the first five-star score in the domestic independent brand C-NCAP test, and the product's safety is industry-leading. This year, the group released the "New Changan · New Safety - Tian Shu Intelligence (天枢智能)" digital and intelligent technology brand, applying the "pan-safety" concept to promote the industry's transformation from "passive safety" to "active intelligent safety."

Behind this is the group's consistent adherence to technology empowerment, building the industry's "National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Vehicle Safety Technology," relying on a global R&D layout, and independently mastering more than 2,200 key core technologies such as "three electrics" and the Tian Shu (天枢) large model. Not long ago, the "Key Technology and Application of High-Integration and High-Efficiency Passenger Vehicle Plug-in Hybrid Electric Drive Assembly" won the "Special Prize of the Science and Technology Award of the China Society of Automotive Engineers," a Chinese automotive industry technology award.

Changan Automobile (长安汽车) is firmly promoting product export, industry export, and brand export, and has built a total of 21 global manufacturing bases in Thailand, Egypt, and other countries; the brand and products cover 103 countries and regions including Germany and Mexico, providing green digital and intelligent products for nearly 30 million users worldwide.

Actively investing in global public welfare, continuously strengthening ESG construction, jointly building overseas Luban Workshops (鲁班工坊), driving local employment and technology upgrades, reducing carbon emissions in the industrial chain by more than 110,000 tons per year, and being selected into the 2025 "China ESG Listed Company Pioneer 100" list.

China Changan Automobile Group (中国长安汽车集团) will adhere to integrity and innovation, adhere to technology empowerment, and use digital and intelligent "new safety" to help Chinese automobile brands move towards innovation and upward.

(Reported by Shao Yuzi (邵玉姿), this newspaper)

Practicing the "Three Transformations" and Tackling Key Technologies

Chen Wenjian (陈文健), Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China Railway Engineering Group Co., Ltd. (中国铁路工程集团有限公司)

On May 10, 2014, when General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) inspected China Railway Engineering Equipment Group Co., Ltd. (中铁工程装备集团有限公司), he emphasized: "Promote the transformation of 'Made in China' to 'Created in China,' the transformation of 'China Speed' to 'China Quality,' and the transformation of 'China Products' to 'China Brands.'" China Railway (中国中铁) has always kept its entrustment in mind and adhered to the "Creation Quality Brand" corporate values to lead brand construction.

China Railway (中国中铁) focuses on shouldering the new mission of the China Construction brand in serving national strategies, and has built a large number of landmark projects such as the Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway (京张高铁), the Lhasa-Nyingchi Railway (拉林铁路), and the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge (深中通道) to high standards. Creating a new model of the China Construction brand in jointly building the "city of the future," completing a total of 188 projects such as Xiong'an Station (雄安站), Millennium Forest (千年秀林), and Xiong'an Library (雄安图书馆), and forming a number of innovative achievements.

Adhering to technological innovation as a key link in brand construction, actively building an original technology source, and tackling a number of "high, large, difficult, and new" key technologies, high-speed railway, plateau and alpine railway, bridge, tunnel, and four-electricity engineering technologies have achieved international leadership. Equipment manufacturing technology continues to break through, and shield machines have been exported to more than 30 countries, with production and sales volume ranking first in China for 13 consecutive years and first in the world for 8 years. Actively laying out strategic emerging industries and future industries, accelerating the development of new quality productive forces, building China's largest shield data center, and promoting new breakthroughs in intelligent construction technology for shield tunnels.

Focusing on building a new highland for the China Construction brand in deepening global cooperation. The group's business covers more than 100 countries and regions, with 1,045 projects under construction, creating a large number of bright business cards for China Construction such as the China-Laos Railway (中老铁路), the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (雅万高铁), and the Hungary-Serbia Railway (匈塞铁路). Employing more than 56,000 local people every year, widely carrying out skills training, assisting in local livelihood project construction, and building bridges of friendship that connect people's hearts.

(Reported by Qu Xinming (屈信明), this newspaper)

Stimulating Enterprise Momentum and Driving Quality Improvement and Upgrading

Liu Hualong (刘化龙), Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China Poly Group Corporation Limited (中国保利集团有限公司)

Strengthening brand construction is an important support for enhancing the core competitiveness of enterprises. In the new era and new journey, Poly Group (保利集团) uses brand construction to stimulate the long-term momentum of enterprises to move towards innovation and focus on practical efforts. The group comprehensively enhances strategic support, deeply participates in major regional strategies such as the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀协同发展) and the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区建设). Comprehensively enhance innovation-driven power, create an original technology source for synthetic biology, expand new application scenarios for "Artificial Intelligence +," and participate in the joint construction of national-level R&D platforms. Comprehensively enhance value creation power, drive the quality improvement and upgrading of the real estate industry, and help accelerate the construction of a new model for high-quality real estate development.

Brand construction moves towards innovation to better meet the needs of the people for a high-quality life. Poly Group (保利集团) is committed to providing housing for all and building "good houses." A total of more than 1,100 Poly communities have been developed. Committed to providing a safe home and deeply cultivating good services. Launching a full-domain service model for property coordination and grassroots social governance to improve the supply level of life services such as childcare, elderly care, and shopping consumption. Committed to providing a pleasant experience and providing good experiences. Building industry-leading theater operation, cinema management, and art auction platforms, and continuously increasing the supply of public cultural products.

Brand construction moves towards innovation to reshape the systematic thinking of the enterprise's comprehensive and in-depth reform. The group improves the strategic leading group control model, promotes the group's transformation and innovation, and achieves its vision, realizing the resonance of brand value and governance effectiveness. Anchoring a new paradigm of scientific management, realizing the two-way rush between brand culture and management philosophy.
Strive for new development and build a brand based on reality. Poly Group will focus on enhancing "five values," playing "three roles," striving to be "three vanguards," and creating a brand that is rooted in the market, respected, and renowned globally.

(Reported and compiled by Qu Xinming (屈信明) of this newspaper)

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Driving Chinese Brands Towards a New Stage of High-Quality Development

Comprehensively Lay Out Strategic Emerging Industries

Ni Zhen (倪真), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of China Energy Construction Group Co., Ltd. (中国能源建设集团有限公司)

A brand is an important manifestation of the competitiveness of an enterprise and even a country, and also an important symbol of high-quality development. As one of the world's largest energy, power, water conservancy, and infrastructure construction companies, China Energy Construction integrates its corporate development into the overall national development strategy, and strives to create an outstanding brand that is advanced in management, excellent in contribution, leading in value, and renowned globally.

China Energy Construction focuses on its primary responsibilities and main business, completing more than 90% of the domestic power planning, consulting and review, survey and design, and industry standard setting, more than 90% of ultra-high voltage transmission and transformation projects and nuclear power conventional island design, 70% of thermal power engineering general contracting, and more than 50% of large-scale hydropower project construction. It strengthens scientific and technological innovation, comprehensively lays out strategic emerging industries and future industries, overcomes key technologies in new energy storage, green hydrogen-ammonia-methanol-oil, high-altitude wind energy, solar thermal power generation, and other fields, and accelerates the creation of new quality productive forces with China Energy Construction characteristics.

China Energy Construction accelerates green transformation, actively practices the new energy security strategy, helps achieve the "dual carbon" goals, and takes the lead in the construction of a new energy system and a new power system. It deeply implements comprehensive quality management, designs and constructs a large number of high-standard, sustainable, and people-benefiting landmark projects, and has won 74 China Construction Engineering Luban Awards (中国建设工程鲁班奖) and 370 National Excellent Project Awards (国家优质工程奖).

China Energy Construction is anchored in the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" (一带一路), establishing 6 regional headquarters, 27 sub-regional centers, and 256 branches globally, with business coverage spanning 147 countries and regions. It integrates concepts such as green and low-carbon development, social responsibility, and cultural respect into the entire development process, comprehensively shaping an international brand image that is responsible, accountable, and warm.

In the future, China Energy Construction will fully leverage its five major advantages: planning, design, and consulting advantages, full industry chain advantages, innovation and talent advantages, the integration of the energy industry and traditional industries to promote green and low-carbon transformation advantages, and internationalization and global resource integration advantages. It will continue to deeply cultivate the four main tracks of new energy, new infrastructure, new equipment, and new materials, and strive to create more high-quality projects, making greater contributions to comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization!

(Reported by Yan Yiqiao (闫伊乔))

Building a Solid Foundation for Film Brands with Excellent Works

Fu Ruoqing (傅若清), Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China Film Group Corporation (中国电影集团公司)

Film carries the cultural memory and spiritual pursuit of a nation and is an important symbol of a country's cultural soft power. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed "developing a new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics that has strong ideological leadership, spiritual cohesion, value appeal, and international influence," which points out the direction for us to do a good job in building China's film brand.

In recent years, China Film has focused on creation, building a solid foundation for film brands with excellent works. The "Volunteer Army" trilogy (《志愿军》三部曲) has stirred people's hearts again, more than 70 years after the magnificent War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea. "Only This Green" (《只此青绿》) has redefined "Chinese-style romance" with a visual feast. The "Wandering Earth" series (《流浪地球》系列) has shown the world the unique Chinese family and country feelings and the strong desire to build a community with a shared future for mankind. Continuously launching good works can accumulate into a tower, allowing the brand effect of Chinese films to penetrate deeply into people's hearts.

Technology is the core engine for promoting the upgrading of the film industry. China Film has independently developed and launched high-format film technology, building a complete application chain from the projection system and production process to front-end shooting. The newly launched 10-meter, 20-meter, and 23-meter CINITY LED screens have successfully obtained the latest certification from the Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI), marking that China's film projection technology and equipment have reached the world's leading level in the high-end projection field.

As a pioneer in the field of film import and export, China Film continues to "bring in" films from various countries and promote Chinese films to "go out." The "Wandering Earth" series has been released in 44 countries and regions, becoming a phenomenal film that breaks through circles and regions. "Nanjing Photography Studio" (《南京照相馆》) has been released in 11 countries and regions and will represent mainland China in the competition for the 98th Academy Award for Best International Film. The "China Film Joint Exhibition Booth" has been set up at international film festivals such as Cannes and Hong Kong for many consecutive years, presenting the vigorous vitality and open attitude of Chinese films in all directions.

China Film is willing to work hand in hand with partners from all walks of life to jointly enhance the value of Chinese brands, establish the image of Chinese brands, and make positive contributions to the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

(Reported by Yan Yiqiao (闫伊乔))

Original Innovation Activates New Momentum for Brands

Liu Jianping (刘建平), Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of China National Nuclear Corporation (中国核工业集团有限公司)

As the "national team" and "main force" of China's nuclear science and technology industrial system, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) always takes "strengthening nuclear power to strengthen the country and benefiting mankind" as its mission, adheres to "breaking the situation with 'new' and establishing standards with 'quality'," and promotes the high-quality development of corporate brand building.

Anchoring new quality productive forces, activating new momentum for brands with original innovation. CNNC actively promotes the "three-step" strategy of nuclear energy and forms an international competitive advantage in nuclear energy. The independently developed third-generation advanced nuclear power technology "Hualong One" (华龙一号) creates a "national business card," the high-temperature gas-cooled reactor "Chilong One" (炽龙一号) breaks through the technical barriers of fourth-generation nuclear power, the modular small reactor "Linglong One" (玲龙一号) starts technological innovation, and "Super Carbon One" (超碳一号) is the first in the world to realize the engineering application of supercritical carbon dioxide power generation... Independent technology is transformed into international standards, allowing China to become a participant and formulator of rules in the nuclear field from a "follower."

Cultivating new scenarios, expanding new boundaries of brands with cross-border integration. CNNC innovates the "nuclear+" thinking and reshapes new brand scenarios. To help achieve the "dual carbon" goals, it creates new scenarios such as nuclear energy for steam supply, heating, and hydrogen production. The first nuclear energy steam supply project, "Heqi One" (和气一号), can provide 4.8 million tons of industrial steam to petrochemical companies every year. It builds a "nuclear + big health" ecosystem. China Isotope & Radiation Corporation (中国同辐) provides overall nuclear medical solutions. "Hefu One" (和福一号) allows medical isotopes to shift from relying on imports to independent supply. The first domestic spiral tomotherapy system TOMO C helps make cancer treatment more precise.

Exploring new practices, enriching new values of brands with social responsibility. On the front line of promoting the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, CNNC creates brands such as "Nuclear Seed Program" (核苗计划), "Nuclear Seed Strong Teachers" (核苗强师), and "Nuclear Seed Strong Doctors" (核苗强医), with a cumulative investment of more than 80 million yuan over 10 years. The practice of developing labor-intensive enterprises "Tongxin Protection" (同心防护) to drive ethnic minority women in Tongxin County (同心县), Ningxia (宁夏), to find employment at their doorsteps has been rated as a global best practice in poverty reduction.

(Reported by Sun Longfei (孙龙飞))

Building a More Stable, Flexible, and Intelligent New Digital Power Grid

Li Rui (李锐), Member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy General Manager of China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd. (中国南方电网有限责任公司)

Under the new situation of accelerating the construction of a new energy system, China Southern Power Grid is carrying out brand building from many aspects, such as the construction capability of the new digital power grid, the definition capability of the new energy pattern, and the contribution capability to the new green future.

Taking the lead in building a new digital power grid to forge brand competitive advantages. Building a more stable power grid to ensure that the masses have access to electricity and use it well, with an overall power supply reliability of 99.924%. Building a more flexible power grid to achieve second-level matching of new energy power generation and load changes on a scale of one million square kilometers, so that new energy power generation does not completely "rely on the weather." Building a more intelligent power grid, independently developing the "Da Watt · Yu Dian" (大瓦特·驭电) intelligent simulation large model, completing the simulation calculation of at least 8,760 operating modes throughout the year within 1 hour, and maximizing the utilization rate of new energy.

Accelerating integration into the new energy pattern to grasp brand competition trends. China Southern Power Grid has realized energy allocation in a larger space, built 19 West-East power transmission mega-channels, and accumulated a transmission capacity of over 3 trillion kilowatt-hours. Realizing a wider range of energy connections, establishing a southern regional electricity market, and becoming the world's largest centralized unified clearing electricity spot market. Achieving a higher level of independent innovation in energy technology, and achieving a number of world-leading original achievements: China's first power master control chip "Nanwang Fuxi" (南网伏羲) has been successfully developed and mass-produced, and the world's first megawatt-level floating wave energy power generation device "Nankun" (南鲲) has been connected to the grid.

Working together to build a new green future and reshape the brand competition paradigm. China Southern Power Grid is building a green consumption ecology, and all venues for the 15th National Games will achieve 100% green electricity supply. Strengthening the supply of clean energy, basically forming a power supply pattern dominated by clean energy, with one out of every two kilowatt-hours of electricity on the entire grid being "zero-carbon electricity." Carrying out extensive energy cooperation, from deeply cultivating the Lancang-Mekong region to exploring Central Asia, and providing more than 80 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity to neighboring countries.

(Reported by Sun Longfei (孙龙飞))

"Digital and Intelligent Power Construction" Expands Application Scenarios for Brand Building

Yao Huan (姚焕), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of China Power Construction Group Co., Ltd. (中国电力建设集团有限公司)

China Power Construction Group (POWERCHINA) is anchored in the goal of "building a world-class enterprise," promoting brand building from the "external form and internal quality" founding stage to the new stage of development of "brand-industry integration" and "value creation."

Taking strategy as the anchor to build a solid foundation for brand building. POWERCHINA helps achieve the "dual carbon" goals, fully invests in hydropower renewable energy, wind and solar new energy, and the construction of new power systems, and enjoys the reputation of "the world's hydropower depends on China, and China's hydropower depends on POWERCHINA" and "90% of pumped storage, 90% of POWERCHINA" in the industry. At the same time, it is anchored in new industries such as new energy, energy conservation and environmental protection, a new generation of digital construction technology, and high-end equipment manufacturing, injecting new connotations into the brand.

Taking innovation as the core to activate brand value enhancement. The company always adheres to the positioning of "leading enterprise in high-tech infrastructure construction," regards scientific and technological innovation as the "number one project," and the independently developed smart water affairs, smart energy, smart mines, smart cities, and other achievements have been applied in hundreds of engineering projects around the world. "Digital and Intelligent POWERCHINA" expands application scenarios for brand building.

Taking the world as the boundary to expand the brand's international pattern. The company adheres to a global vision, integrates Chinese industries, standards, and technologies into the company's brand connotation, and has successively built landmark projects such as the largest hydropower station in Southeast Asia and Africa and the largest new energy base in the Americas, making the "POWERCHINA" brand a gold standard in the international power engineering field.

Taking people's livelihood as the foundation to demonstrate the value and warmth of the brand. The company always insists on integrating social responsibility into brand building and building "POWERCHINA's assistance" into a bright business card for promoting the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas.

Facing the future and facing the world, POWERCHINA will adhere to the concept of "POWERCHINA World · World POWERCHINA," continuously improve the level of brand building, help international cultural exchange and cooperation, and contribute to building a strong brand country and building a community with a shared future for mankind.

(Reported by Sun Boyang (孙博洋) from People's Daily Online)

Exploring the Overseas Expansion of the Entire Industry Chain of Research, Production, Supply, Sales, and Service

Wei Jianjun (魏建军), Chairman of Great Wall Motor Co., Ltd. (长城汽车股份有限公司)

Great Wall Motor has clarified the core path around the high-quality development of the brand. Through multi-dimensional measures such as technological innovation, global renewal, and integrity inheritance, it has injected strong momentum into the upgrading and internationalization of Chinese automobile brands.

Independent innovation in technology to build a solid foundation for the brand. Great Wall Motor seizes the strategic opportunity of new energy vehicles and empowers brand building with technology. In the past 5 years, it has invested nearly 50 billion yuan in research and development and formed an engineering team of 23,000 people, accounting for more than 1/4 of the total number of employees. It has innovatively developed the intelligent electric hybrid four-wheel drive system Hi4 and used power shunt technology to reconstruct the power system. Recently, Great Wall Motor won the "Special Prize for Science and Technology" from the China Society of Automotive Engineers, demonstrating the achievements of technological self-reliance.

Renewing the global system to help brands go overseas. Great Wall Motor aims at the key window period of the internationalization of Chinese automobiles, abandons the single commodity export model, promotes the "ecological overseas expansion" of the entire industry chain of research, production, supply, sales, and service, and builds global system capabilities. It independently develops the world's first native AI and full-power vehicle platform, covering full-power, multi-level, and multi-category models, which can be fully adapted to the regulations and market needs of various parts of the world, helping to achieve the goal of "one platform, global adaptation," and promoting the continuous improvement of the popularity and reputation of Chinese automobile brands.

Adhering to integrity as the foundation to promote brand inheritance. For 35 years, Great Wall Motor has always regarded quality as its lifeline, implemented the concept of integrity throughout all aspects of corporate operations, practiced the concept of "doing practical things and building reliable cars," actively built a benign competitive order, responded to the call to "accelerate the construction of a manufacturing power and a quality power," and contributed to the construction of a modern industrial system.

Great Wall Motor will accelerate the cultivation of new quality productive forces, adhere to long-termism, and strive to create a "global brand" and "user's first choice."

(Reported by Liu Qing (柳青) from "New Security" magazine)

Forging a Brand to Promote the Scale Application of Beidou

Zhang Nu (张弩), Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China Time-Space Information Group Co., Ltd. (中国时空信息集团有限公司)

As the only operation service provider of the Beidou system, China Time-Space integrates brand building with serving national strategies, leading scientific and technological innovation, driving industrial development, and building operation services to promote the company's competitiveness and influence.

Building a strategic guarantee brand to consolidate the foundation of high-quality enterprise development. Focusing on network aggregation and empowerment, building a space-earth integrated, communication-navigation integrated application network to enhance the international competitiveness of Beidou. Focusing on new quality application empowerment, providing Beidou short message services for key industries, and strongly supporting emergency rescue and disaster relief under extreme conditions such as "road cut, network cut, and power cut." Implementing the "Time-Space Sail" scenario co-creation plan to create benchmark applications of "Beidou+" and "+Beidou." Focusing on international promotion and empowerment, implementing intergovernmental cooperation agreements on Beidou applications, creating a high-level exchange, high-quality supply, and high-level cooperation platform, and serving the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road."

Building a scientific and technological innovation brand to add color to the high-quality development of the enterprise. Deepening independent innovation, strengthening collaborative innovation, strengthening open innovation, giving play to the overall role of Beidou civil applications; implementing the "Time-Space Base" technology innovation action, releasing the "Time-Space Star Wisdom" (时空星慧) large model; jointly building a time-space information industry security innovation center to enhance Beidou innovation synergy.

Building an agile service brand to highlight the true colors of high-quality enterprise development. Launching the "Time-Space Star Pulse" (时空星脉) telecom-level time-space information operation service platform; launching a series of time-space information products such as the "Time-Space Xinda" (时空信达) new generation Beidou short message, "Time-Space Precision Positioning" (时空精位) navigation and positioning, and "Time-Space Keeps Guard" (时空刻守) timing, helping more industries and wider fields improve efficiency and optimize services.

Building an organizational platform brand to highlight the bright colors of high-quality enterprise development. Unifying terminal service standards, opening up operation service standards, jointly building industry application standards, implementing the "Time-Space Core" (时空之芯) industrial cooperation action, driving the shipment of mobile phone short message chips to exceed 20 million this year and will exceed 50 million next year, promoting the scale application of Beidou in a larger range and deeper level.

(Reported by Han Xin (韩鑫))

Moving from Single Product Innovation to the Overall Capability Leap of the Industrial Chain

Ye Yuanwei (叶元伟), Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (国家核电技术有限公司)

State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (SNPTC) deeply cultivates the "Guohe One" (国和一号) industrial chain brand building, gives play to the leading role of the brand, promotes the leap from single product innovation to the overall capability of the industrial chain, realizes the chain brand effect, and creates a new industrial chain brand ecosystem with chain empowerment and value symbiosis.

Adhering to innovation-driven development to enhance the core competitiveness of the "chain" brand. SNPTC regards tackling core technologies as the fundamental support for the "Guohe One" brand strength, gathers industrial chain units to jointly tackle key problems, and forms more than 14,000 intellectual property achievements. Through the empowerment of central enterprise technology, platforms, and brands, it drives nearly 3,000 units to build a complete industrial chain supply chain system, and a number of small and medium-sized private enterprises have achieved their own technological breakthroughs and capability leaps.
Promote the integration of the "four chains" and build a community of shared brand value on the "chain." Establish the "Guohe One" (国和一号) industrial chain alliance, absorbing 154 member units, and holding the alliance conference for four consecutive years. Promote the deep integration of the innovation chain, industrial chain, talent chain, and financial chain, driving the unit cost to decrease by about 20% and forming a brand trust mechanism of "one certification, universal recognition." Promote the integration of the brand ecosystem and regional economy, build non-passive nuclear energy mega-bases in Shandong (山东), Guangdong (广东), Guangxi (广西) and other places, and promote the concentration and circulation of production factors such as technology, talent, and capital.

Innovate brand narrative and draw a "concentric circle" of brand communication on the "chain." Promote the upgrading of brand narrative from "technical presentation" to "ecological display," and from "single subject voice" to "multiple value resonance." "Using the chain as a medium," the construction achievements of the "Guohe One" (国和一号) industrial chain are centrally displayed through domestic and foreign exhibitions. "Using the chain as a bridge," mainstream media are invited to go deep into the chain enterprises, allowing the "behind-the-scenes champions" to come to the front.

State Nuclear Power will adhere to serving national strategies, and work with industrial chain partners to create a "Guohe One" (国和一号) modern industrial chain brand with global influence, contributing to cultivating new quality productive forces and building a strong brand country.

(Reported by Shao Yuzi (邵玉姿), reporter of this newspaper)

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Gathering Brand Strength, Creating a Better Future Together

Standing on the Tide of the Times, Showcasing Cultural Confidence

Xie Jingrong (谢经荣), Member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the China National Democratic League

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee proposed accelerating the construction of a quality-strong country. One of the hallmarks of a quality-strong country is a brand-strong country.

Currently, we are in an era of unprecedented change, with accelerated technological iteration, reshaping of values, and upgrading of consumer demand, which poses new propositions for brand building. For enterprises to achieve lasting success and enduring brands, they need to focus on three "new" aspects:

First, grasp new trends. Products must conform to changes in social trends, industrial trends, and people's needs in order to deeply root the brand image in the hearts of consumers. These trends and changes are profoundly reshaping the direction of brand building. For example, the rise of "Guochao" in recent years, showcasing cultural confidence and the trend of global-local cultural identity and integration, reminds us to create brands with more cultural uniqueness and value propositions.

Second, create new technologies. New technology is the driving force for brand growth. The application and realization of new materials, new processes, and new functions are inseparable from technological breakthroughs. Enterprises should actively choose the correct technological path, embrace new technologies to enhance brand competitiveness, and achieve technological breakthroughs and sustainable brand development through continuous increase in R&D investment.

Third, explore new management. Brand building is a systematic project that requires effective connection of value creation, transmission, and maintenance, which is inseparable from scientific management models. With changes in the market environment and technological progress, brand management should adopt more flexible networked and agile management models, make full use of big data and artificial intelligence to assist decision-making, and achieve refined operation and management.

Embracing change with an open mind and continuously innovating with firm belief can forge more Chinese brands that win global recognition.

(Reported by Han Xin (韩鑫), reporter of this newspaper)

Leveraging Proximity Advantages, Fully Realizing Beauty

Zhao Bing (赵兵), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Hebei Province

Today, "'So close, so beautiful, go to Hebei on weekends' has become a widely known cultural tourism brand of Hebei. How to shape this cultural tourism brand well?

It is necessary to extract the significant characteristics of regional cultural tourism from the perspective of the interaction between market demand and product supply. This brand slogan of Hebei not only created considerable online interaction, but also became an effective boost for Hebei tourism. In the first nine months of this year, the number of tourists and total tourism expenditure in Hebei Province increased by 11.5% and 11% year-on-year, respectively.

It is necessary to accurately identify the regional positioning, highlight the location advantages, and make the cultural tourism brand more communicative. Beijing and Tianjin are the two major sources of tourists for Hebei. "So close" highlights Hebei's geographical location advantages and finds an accurate positioning for tourism development in the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei. Hebei has issued guidelines for the construction of a weekend leisure province, implemented a plan to double the number of tourists from Beijing and Tianjin, focusing on short-distance travel and micro-vacations, leveraging the advantages of proximity, and fully realizing the beauty, which not only maintains the stable growth of the number of tourists from Beijing and Tianjin, but also drives the continuous growth of the total number of domestic tourists.

Brand building is a marathon that requires long-term effort and careful cultivation. In recent years, Hebei has continuously enriched product supply, cultivated new business formats, and introduced policies such as free highway access for tourist charter buses on weekends and holidays to drive market growth, strengthen comprehensive rectification, and optimize the tourism environment.

The effectiveness of the brand lies in every carefully improved scenery, every sincerely treated service, every carefully designed journey, and every satisfied smile of tourists. Next, Hebei will focus on the construction of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou sports, culture and tourism belt, as well as the Great Wall, the Grand Canal, the Taihang Mountains, and the Bohai coastal cultural tourism belts, continue to promote the deep integration of culture and tourism, concretize, contextualize, and productize "so beautiful," and continuously polish the Hebei cultural tourism brand.

(Reported by Han Xin (韩鑫), reporter of this newspaper)

Promoting Green Upgrading, Deepening Trade Exchanges

Zhang Zheng (张正), Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Shaanxi Xifeng Liquor Group Co., Ltd.

Xifeng Liquor aims to "build a world-class Chinese brand and convey Chinese power," deeply integrating the concepts of "green, digital intelligence, and diversification" into the entire life cycle of brand development, and striving to contribute to the construction of a brand-strong country.

Adhere to green, be a practitioner of sustainable development.

The Group actively practices social responsibility, and runs the concept of green development through the entire process of production and operation. The Group regularly carries out public welfare actions such as Qinling ecological protection and water source protection, and conducts in-depth cooperation with universities such as Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University to jointly develop technologies such as the circular utilization of brewing by-products. At the same time, it promotes the green upgrading of the entire industrial chain, explores the layout of new tracks for clean energy such as photovoltaic power generation and biomass energy, and builds a full-chain green system from the organizational structure and system process level.

Integrate technology, be a pioneer of innovation-driven.

The Group uses digital technology to break the "experience barriers" of traditional brewing, perceives and regulates the entire production process in real time through the Internet of Things, and precisely optimizes core process parameters with big data; at the same time, it is committed to building a digital industrial chain of "intelligent production + smart marketing" to create a vibrant technology-based brand.

Communicate with the world, be a communicator of the demeanor of a great power.

The Group has built the Xifeng Liquor Culture Museum to systematically sort out the cultural context and inherit and promote historical culture; it continues to hold the "Silk Road Brand Going Overseas" series of activities, and deepens trade exchanges and cultural exchanges with relevant countries and regions through brand display, cultural explanation, and interactive experience of brewing techniques, so that the world can perceive the power of Chinese brands.

In the future, the Group will continue to take root in the soil of Chinese culture, innovate in integrity, develop in integration, and strive to build a Chinese brand with a global reputation.

(Reported by Shao Yuzi (邵玉姿), reporter of this newspaper)

Adhering to Quality as the Foundation, Advocating a Healthy Life

Xu Haoyu (徐浩宇), Secretary of the Party Committee, Chairman and President of Yangzijiang Pharmaceutical Group

As an enterprise that has been deeply involved in the pharmaceutical and health field for more than 50 years, Yangzijiang Pharmaceutical Group has always regarded brand building as a key focus.

To build a quality management system, the Group implements a series of measures such as controlling raw materials at the source, finely managing production, and strictly inspecting finished products. It has laid out 80 standardized Chinese medicinal material planting bases in more than 20 regions across the country; more than 10 of its production plants have introduced a new generation of information technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and cloud computing to continuously improve the standardization, visualization, automation, lean production, and efficiency of production.

The Group has in-depth cooperation with masters of traditional Chinese medicine and other TCM experts, relying on modern technology to systematically develop famous prescriptions and proven prescriptions, and launch a variety of products. To build a brand matrix, with the three major brands of "Yangzijiang" Western medicine, "Longfengtang" Chinese medicine, and "Huyou" big health as the backbone, it promotes the transformation of the enterprise to full life cycle health management services.

The warmth of a brand is essentially a reflection of corporate responsibility. In recent years, the Group has taken "Health for Everyone, Everyone for Health" as its brand proposition, and while providing high-quality products and health management services to the society, it has disseminated health knowledge, advocated healthy lifestyles, and provided health services through multiple channels such as creating health science programs, carrying out health promotion public welfare activities, and supporting mass sports projects.

The Group always interprets responsibility with action. It has donated materials worth more than 1 billion yuan in the fields of medical science and technology progress, disaster relief, and poverty alleviation; it has helped the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, continuously promoted the construction of standardized Chinese medicinal material planting bases, and driven farmers to increase their income through industrial development; it has firmly followed the path of green development, and currently has 8 national-level green factories and 3 national-level green supply chain management enterprises.

(Reported by Shao Yuzi (邵玉姿), reporter of this newspaper)

Strengthening Industrial Innovation, Fulfilling Social Responsibility

Zhang Yipeng (张轶鹏), Vice President of Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd.

Looking back on the history of development, Yili has rooted brand building in strict quality management, continuous innovation-driven, and far-reaching value creation.

Quality is the lifeline of a brand and the starting point for winning consumer trust. The Group has always adhered to brand quality and has become the first enterprise in the global food industry to pass the "Golden Standard Certification." Solid quality assurance has laid a solid foundation for brand development.

Innovation is the key driving force for brands to maintain vitality and lead the market. Yili has established 15 innovation centers around the world, led the construction of national-level technology innovation centers, gathered global wisdom, and carried out innovation in the entire industrial chain. As of the end of December 2024, Yili's total number of global patent applications and total number of invention applications ranked second among the world's top ten dairy companies and first among Chinese dairy companies. It has continuously strengthened research and exploration in the field of deep processing of the dairy industry and has broken through a number of technical problems. In response to consumers' growing health needs, it has launched a series of functional products. For example, Shuhua lactose-free Hericium erinaceus milk achieved a substantial increase in sales within 3 months of its launch.

Creating value for society is the background color of a brand. Yili adheres to the development concept of "thickness is better than speed, industry prosperity is better than individual brilliance, and social value is greater than commercial wealth," actively fulfills social responsibility, and strives to achieve the integration of commercial value and social value. It cares about sustainable development issues, cares for the "elderly and young" groups, and actively practices brand responsibility.

For enterprises, brand building is a long-distance race without an end. Yili will continue to take quality as the foundation, innovation as the soul, and responsibility as the basis, and work with excellent enterprises to write a more exciting Chinese brand story on the global stage, so that the world can share health and share a better life!

(Reported by Yan Yiqiao (闫伊乔), reporter of this newspaper)

Seizing Development Opportunities, Comprehensively Optimizing Energy Efficiency

Li Li (李笠), President of Runze Zhisu Technology Group Co., Ltd.

Runze Zhisu Technology Group Co., Ltd. has always deeply integrated brand building into the overall development of the intelligent computing power industry, closely combining brand value shaping with the company's technological innovation and industrial empowerment practices, and is committed to achieving a comprehensive improvement from technological leadership to industrial leadership, from market recognition to value co-creation.

The "foundation" of the brand stems from quality. Since its establishment, the company has focused on the investment, construction and operation of large-scale, high-level intelligent computing center parks, and is committed to building a stable, safe, reliable and green digital infrastructure service brand. It has successfully laid out 7 AIDC intelligent computing industrial parks in 6 regions across the country to help the digital transformation and artificial intelligence industrialization process of other industries.

The "new" of the brand lies in innovation leadership. Seizing the development opportunities of artificial intelligence, it continues to carry out systematic innovation around intelligent computing power infrastructure and continuously strengthens computing power supply capabilities. The Runze Artificial Intelligence Application Center project under construction can realize the training and reasoning applications of large models with high complexity and high computing needs after completion.

The "far" of the brand focuses on sustainable development. The company actively practices the concept of green and low-carbon development, independently develops a new generation of cold plate liquid cooling technology, and combines it with a smart operation and maintenance system to achieve comprehensive optimization of energy efficiency.

The "way" of the brand is achieved through value co-creation. The company is fully committed to building a computing power infrastructure ecosystem to provide solid support for the digital transformation and intelligent upgrading of various industries. The company will take building a national brand as its responsibility and inject new impetus into the construction of a brand-strong country.

In the future, Runze Technology will continue to seize development opportunities and enhance brand value.

(Reported by Yan Yiqiao (闫伊乔), reporter of this newspaper)

Serving Central-Local Cooperation, Building Housing Projects

Sun Chuanyong (孙传永), General Manager of China Green Xiongan Investment Co., Ltd.

With the mission of "promoting green development and building a beautiful Xiongan," focusing on serving the relocation of Beijing's non-capital functions; promoting the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei at a high level, serving central-local cooperation, and laying out new energy and cultural tourism industries in Hebei, relocating housing projects... Since its establishment, China Green Development Xiongan Investment Co., Ltd. has integrated into regional coordinated development and created a relocation brand with distinctive characteristics.

Adhere to strategic leadership and help serve relocation. Accurately connect with the needs of relocating enterprises and innovate and implement a model of "combining comprehensive development of the area with precise undertaking."

Up to now, it has carried out nearly 300 policy briefings for relocating central enterprise units, innovatively customized the "Green Development Plan," and cooperated with relevant units to sign green and intelligent housing demonstration projects to serve the overall situation of relocation work.

Create a quality benchmark and build housing projects. The project innovatively optimizes the urban texture, promotes the slow-moving and landscaping of branch roads, and integrates 17 plots to form six complete community systems. It adopts various green technologies such as prefabricated construction and sponge city, and adheres to the concept of green development.

Deepen innovation-driven and activate development potential. Improve urban commercial functions and build a green commercial complex. Apply smart systems such as digital twins to achieve comprehensive monitoring of energy consumption and create "zero-carbon building" and "zero-energy building" dual-certified office buildings. In addition, it has established a non-heritage practice point at Beijing No. 4 High School Xiongan Campus, carried out the "Green Seed Warm Winter" volunteer service, and actively fulfilled its social responsibility.

With a new starting point and new goals, the company will continue to put "brand empowerment relocation and service escorting housing" into practice, and serve the overall situation of Xiongan New Area construction with a higher position and more practical measures.

(Reported by Wu Dan (吴丹), reporter of this newspaper)

Increase R&D Investment, Expand Consumption Scenarios

Li Ling (李玲), Vice President of Anta Group

Since its establishment in Jinjiang, Fujian in 1991, Anta Group has adhered to the real economy, focused on development, adhered to "single focus, multi-brand, globalization," and strived to enhance brand influence.

Facing changes in consumer demand, Anta actively responds, takes the initiative, and continuously improves its capabilities in multi-brand collaborative management, multi-brand retail operation, and global operation and resource integration, bringing the strength of Chinese brands to the world, and also giving back to the domestic market through global resource integration.

Looking forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," the Group takes "the world's leading multi-brand sporting goods group" as its vision and will focus on three directions: R&D, sales, and openness.

Continuously increase innovation investment. The company will continuously improve its "new content," aim at market demand, continue to increase R&D investment, deepen industry-university-research cooperation, and collaborate with universities, research institutes, and important partners in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain to promote China's sporting goods industry to the middle and high end of the global value chain.

Continue to cultivate the domestic market. On the one hand, expand market coverage, extend service scope, and enable more consumers to conveniently buy professional sports equipment; on the other hand, expand consumption scenarios, integrate product consumption into the daily life of the public, make sports consumption an important force to drive domestic demand, and strive to inject continuous vitality into the domestic and international dual circulation.

Firmly take the path of globalization. From striving to consolidate the brand foundation, reshape brand value, to achieving brand internationalization, the Group will deeply expand the international market, bring brand power and high-quality services to global consumers in a high-standard manner, and demonstrate the innovation strength and cultural confidence of Chinese brands.

(Reported by Wu Dan (吴丹), reporter of this newspaper)

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"Let More People See the Beauty of China's Ecology" (My Story and China)

By: 本报记者 刘军国 崔 寅 姜 峰

The concept of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" not only guides China's vivid practice of green innovation but also brings new inspiration to global sustainable development. From the ancient mulberry-dike fish ponds of Jiangnan, to the migratory birds gathering in Shanghai Lingang (上海临港), and then to the steel city of Chongqing's (重庆) revitalized green riverbanks, more and more foreign friends are seeing that the beauty of ecology is painting a moving picture of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.

A Ghanaian Youth's Understanding of the Ancient Ecological Wisdom of Huzhou

Two years ago, with curiosity and longing for China, Ghanaian student Louis Kwame Anani came to Huzhou Normal University (湖州师范学院) in Wuxing District (吴兴区), Huzhou City (湖州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), to study.

In his spare time, Louis's footprints gradually spread throughout Wuxing - walking into the Taihu Xinlou Port (太湖新溇港) to see the thousand-year-old water conservancy irrigation system nourishing the fertile land; on Xisai Mountain (西塞山), gazing at the distant mountains in the afterglow of the setting sun, experiencing the dynamic artistic conception of "poetic and picturesque Jiangnan"... This land, which combines historical and cultural heritage with modern development vitality, is becoming more and more fascinating to him.

"The charm of Wuxing lies not only in the lucid waters and lush mountains in front of us, but also in the Chinese wisdom between the lucid waters and lush mountains." Talking about his most impressive experience, Louis recalled the mulberry-dike fish pond ecosystem he once saw in an event organized by Huzhou Normal University: the fresh mulberry leaves are used to feed silkworms, and the silkworms' excrement and residual leaves are transformed into natural feed for fish, realizing the ingenious transformation of organic matter; the fish manure and other wastes in the fish pond are decomposed by microorganisms into nutrient-rich pond mud, and digging up the pond mud can provide sufficient fertilizer for mulberry trees, helping the mulberry leaves to grow luxuriantly. "Fish are raised in the water, mulberry trees are planted on the pond base, and silkworms are raised with mulberry leaves, the three are interlocked to form a virtuous cycle."

"I used to see silk fabrics from more than 4,000 years ago at the Lucun Qianshanyang Site (潞村钱山漾遗址), known as the 'Source of World Silk,' and I was only amazed by the beauty of the silk and the brilliance of the ancient civilization, but I didn't understand the sericulture culture behind it. This system has given me a great shock." In Louis's eyes, the mulberry-dike fish pond ecosystem is not only an agricultural production model, but also a vivid footnote to the ancient Chinese wisdom shining into modern sustainable development.

"When I first came to China, I learned about the concept of 'lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets' from a friend in Huzhou. Later, when I learned how Wuxing 'prospered through silk because of mulberry and fish' and helped the people embark on a prosperous road, I had a deeper understanding of the 'Two Mountains' concept. This endogenous cycle of agricultural model is a perfect combination of natural law and human wisdom. I sincerely feel that the words in the book are far less shocking than what I have seen with my own eyes. When I truly saw the ecological cycle formed by mulberry trees, silkworms, and fish, I truly understood the reverence for nature, the cherishing of resources, and the ecological wisdom passed down from generation to generation behind the 'Two Mountains' concept."

Two years in Wuxing have made it Louis's "second hometown." Those development concepts understood between the lucid waters and lush mountains, the historical temperature touched in the cultural inheritance, and the inclusive warmth felt in the sincere treatment between people have become the driving force for him to move forward. "I hope that in the future, I can bring more foreigners into this land, so that more people can see the ecological beauty and cultural charm of China, and see the happy picture painted by the 'Two Mountains' concept."

German "Bird Fan" Records the Improvement of Shanghai's Ecological Environment

At around 4 a.m., German Fu Kai (付恺) set off from his residence in Jiangqiao Town (江桥镇), Jiading District (嘉定区), Shanghai (上海), and drove through the silent urban area. More than an hour later, he arrived at Lingang - one of Fu Kai's favorite birdwatching spots.

"I always try to arrive around sunrise, because birds are most active in the morning and the light is best for photography." He took out his camera, found his binoculars, and walked slowly along the small woodland by the sea, looking for the figures of these "elves in the air."

In 2004, Fu Kai came to Shanghai for the first time from Germany for a chemical consulting project. At that time, he never thought that he would have an intersection with the birds here. After settling in Shanghai, Fu Kai fell in love with birdwatching, and soon this hobby became a professional pursuit - from watching with binoculars at the beginning, to switching to ordinary cameras for shooting, and then to equipping a complete set of professional photography equipment. Today, Fu Kai is a well-known senior "bird fan" in the local area. "Birdwatching is my favorite activity. I enjoy the comfort of being in nature, look forward to unexpected surprises, and love to capture these moments with my lens."

Shanghai is located on the East Asia-Australasia migratory bird migration route, and a large number of migratory birds pass through here every year. "Many birds look particularly beautiful, such as the red-throated pipit, whose throat is like a ruby. Another example is the fairy pitta, whose feathers are as colorful as a palette. It is both rare and beautiful, and is very attractive to birdwatchers. Its nickname 'fairy among birds' aptly describes its charm." When it comes to topics related to birds, Fu Kai knows them like the back of his hand. "Now my understanding of Chinese birds is much deeper than that of birds in my hometown."

Being in the chemical industry, Fu Kai is very sensitive to environmental issues. More than 10 years of birdwatching experience has made him deeply feel the improvement of Shanghai's ecological environment. "Seriously polluted factories have been closed down one after another, one of which is on the way I must go to birdwatching. Now the pungent chemical odor has long disappeared. There are more and more parks and green spaces in the city, and the public's attention to bird protection is also constantly increasing, which is gratifying."

When Fu Kai first started birdwatching in Shanghai, he often saw bird-trapping nets. Thanks to the efforts of local environmental protection departments and volunteers, bird-trapping nets are now rarely seen. "I follow several volunteers on WeChat and often see them share the progress of patrol and net removal. I admire their persistence and action. I can feel that the younger generation in China has a stronger environmental awareness!"

Protecting the ecology is by no means a matter for a few people, but a responsibility for everyone. In order to help the public improve their ecological awareness, Fu Kai tried to open a birdwatching blog and website, held bird lectures, and self-published a book "Shanghai Nanhui Bird Atlas", which was given to birdwatching enthusiasts and relevant departments. In Nanhui, Fu Kai has recorded about 380 species of birds and taken clear photos of about 350 of them. Fu Kai said: "Birdwatching records confirm that Nanhui is one of the regions with the richest bird resources in China. I hope that it can attract more birdwatchers from all over the world in the future, which can bring both ecological and economic benefits."

At 9 a.m., the sun began to become scorching, and Fu Kai also bent down to pack up his equipment and prepare to return. He photographed the red-backed shrike on this trip, and was even more surprised to see several reed parrots, the latter with round heads and unique calls, which are endangered species and one of Fu Kai's favorite birds.

"Birdwatching is addictive, especially during the migration season." Fu Kai believes that China's future natural and ecological environment will get better and better. "I will continue to use my lens to record those beautiful moments!"

Ukrainian Girl Touches Chongqing's "Green Pulse"

The magic of Hongyadong (洪崖洞), the spectacle of the monorail passing through buildings, the leisure of the mountain city trails... Not long ago, Ukrainian student Bu Ailin (卜爱琳) from Nankai University (南开大学) walked into the "internet celebrity" city of Chongqing (重庆) for fieldwork. Various charming scenery and novel experiences made her overwhelmed. And what impressed Bu Ailin the most was the "green pulse" that was beating here all the time.

Walking in Dadukou District (大渡口区), under the blue sky, there is a lush green scene. This used to be an old industrial base that had long served Chongqing Iron and Steel (重钢). In the era of roaring machines and splashing steel flowers, it was once called "Gray City" by people. In 2011, the main production line of Chongqing Iron and Steel in Dadukou District completed its environmental relocation. Without the economic pillar of the steel industry, Dadukou District actively explored the road of transformation and development. In recent years, Dadukou District has fully implemented the new development concept, focusing on cultivating emerging industries such as big data intelligence, big health biomedicine, ecological environmental protection, and new materials. In particular, after becoming a national demonstration zone for industrial transformation and upgrading, more and more green and low-carbon industries have been laid out here, and Dadukou District has also successfully achieved a gorgeous transformation from "industrial rust belt" to "living show belt."

Walking along Binjiang Road (滨江路), Bu Ailin came to Dadukou Jianqiao Industrial Park (大渡口建桥工业园). "China Green Low-Carbon Demonstration Park", "National Green Park"... The eye-catching signs in front of the park all reveal its pursuit of green. Jianqiao Industrial Park is a microcosm of the "green content" of Chongqing's industry. "According to local people, Chongqing has built many national-level green factories. One set of figures surprised me the most: the output value of these green factories has accounted for 29.5% of the total industrial output value above the designated size in Chongqing."

The steel plant area after the industrial relocation has also played a new value and burst out with vigorous vitality. Walking into the Chongqing Industrial Museum (重庆工业博物馆), which was rebuilt using the old site of the Chongqing Iron and Steel Plant, more than 35,000 collections outline the production scenes of Chongqing in different periods. "This is a very 'fashionable' museum, which makes full use of cutting-edge technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality to enhance the exhibition experience, making people feel like they are in a historical scene. This presentation of connecting history and modernity with technology is full of magic for me," said Bu Ailin.

Walking through the streets and alleys of Chongqing, Bu Ailin was surprised to find that many houses had lush greenery and beautiful flowers growing on their roofs. "This makes every building seem to be whispering intimately with nature. The whole city is full of greenery, which makes people feel refreshed." Thanks to a series of governance projects, Chongqing's "appearance" has been continuously improved. On both sides of the road, citizens are enjoying themselves in the hot pot restaurants on the street; in the sports park, the elderly, young people and children are "competing" together... You can see green when you open the window, enter the park when you go out, and come to relax nearby. The comfortable life of the people here makes Bu Ailin also yearn to join them.

"The unique natural beauty, the profound history and culture, and the hardworking and innovative people have made Chongqing an infinitely charming city, which is not only worth sightseeing, but also worth savoring again and again. I hope that more people can see its charm," said Bu Ailin.

(Luo Chao (罗超), a correspondent of this newspaper, participated in the writing)

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Green development benefits millions of households (China in my eyes)

By: 汉南·吉拉尼

On the ridges of Malong District (马龙区), Qujing City (曲靖市), Yunnan Province (云南省), silver-white wind turbines turn slowly, turning the wind of the plateau into clean electricity; not far away, at the Zhuge Nanshan Wind Power Viewing Platform (诸葛南山风电观景平台), tourists come and go in an endless stream, and the scattered wind turbine landscape makes this place a new "check-in point."

Not long ago, I went to Qujing City (曲靖市) for research, and I was deeply impressed by the vitality that green transformation has injected into local development. As one of the important clean and renewable energy projects in Yunnan Province (云南省), the Tongquan Wind Farm (通泉风电场) has generated approximately 1.7 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity since it was put into operation, saving more than 450,000 tons of standard coal and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by more than 1.26 million tons. The local area is also striving to explore a sustainable development model that combines new energy development and tourism, bringing tangible economic benefits to surrounding residents.

In my home country, Pakistan (巴基斯坦), changes in the energy sector are also quietly taking place. From open fields and farms to the roofs of urban factories and residences, photovoltaic solar panels have rapidly spread across Pakistan (巴基斯坦) in the past two years. Data shows that in 2024, Pakistan (巴基斯坦) imported more than 16 gigawatts of solar modules, about twice the total amount in 2023. In the first three quarters of this year, the import volume of solar modules has reached 12.7 gigawatts.

The development of clean and renewable energy in Pakistan (巴基斯坦) is inseparable from China's (中国) support. As the world's largest exporter of clean technology, China (中国) provides more than 80% of the world's photovoltaic modules and 70% of wind power equipment; in the past 10 years, China (中国) has helped reduce the average cost of electricity per kilowatt-hour for global wind power and photovoltaic power generation projects by more than 60% and 80% respectively, continuously empowering global green development.

Pakistan (巴基斯坦) has long faced the problems of high electricity prices, power shortages, and frequent power outages. As the price of Chinese (中国) photovoltaic solar panels becomes more and more affordable, many Pakistani (巴基斯坦) families and businesses have realized the economic advantages of this clean and renewable energy source. In Lahore (拉合尔), an industrial hub, many factories have built photovoltaic power stations, and schools, hospitals, and shopping malls have also "followed the light"; in rural areas of Punjab Province (旁遮普省) and Sindh Province (信德省), farmers have replaced diesel generators with solar-powered tube wells, achieving lower irrigation costs. These changes not only reduce the cost of living and improve the quality of life for residents, but also create more employment opportunities throughout Pakistan (巴基斯坦).

Not only in Pakistan (巴基斯坦), China (中国) has always actively carried out green international cooperation, promoting clean and renewable energy solutions such as photovoltaics and wind power, helping many developing countries obtain stable and affordable energy, and reducing their dependence on fossil fuels. This process is particularly significant in the sun-rich Middle East and Africa. It can be said that Chinese (中国) manufacturing and Chinese (中国) technology are helping more and more countries to fully utilize clean and renewable energy at an unprecedented speed. As a Pakistani (巴基斯坦) energy and environmental think tank report pointed out, China (中国) is the creator of the global South's energy paradigm—a paradigm that is fast, fair, and radically transformative.

Adapting to the global trend of green and low-carbon development is vividly reflected in a series of pragmatic Pakistan-China (巴中) cooperation: clean and renewable energy cooperation is vigorously promoting the improvement of people's livelihoods, energy conservation and carbon reduction, and laying the foundation for long-term sustainable growth in the future. China (中国) has a clear plan for green development and possesses advanced industrial systems and technological capabilities, while Pakistan (巴基斯坦) has a vast market and development potential. We look forward to the two countries deepening cooperation in related fields to achieve complementary advantages and mutual benefit.

From the rotating wind turbines in Qujing (曲靖) to the shining photovoltaic panels on the roofs of Lahore (拉合尔), green development has benefited thousands of Chinese (中国) households and is also changing the lives of countless Pakistanis (巴基斯坦).

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We still need the spirit of the "Six Old Men" (An outsider's perspective)

By: 阿萨梅尔丁·米托利

"Never bow to difficulties, dare to turn the desert into an oasis."

When encountering setbacks, I often recall this sentence I saw at the Babusha (八步沙) Six Old Men's Sand Control Memorial Hall, and that spirit of perseverance and hard work always inspires me.

Babusha (八步沙) is located in Gulang County (古浪县), Gansu Province (甘肃省), on the southern edge of the Tengger Desert (腾格里沙漠). It is named for its past wind and sandstorms, where "eight steps out the door is sand." In the spring of 2024, I came here with a school practice activity. On the bus to Gulang County (古浪县), watching the green outside the window gradually decrease, I knew I was getting closer and closer to the desert.

At the Babusha (八步沙) Six Old Men's Sand Control Memorial Hall, I learned about the development process of the Babusha (八步沙) Forest Farm for the first time. Six local old men, whose combined age was more than 300 years, pressed their fingerprints on a contract to contract the desert, vowing to exchange their white hair for an oasis. The three generations of employees of the Babusha (八步沙) Forest Farm, represented by the "Six Old Men," have continued to struggle, using unremitting efforts to erect a "green barrier" in the desert. I was deeply moved by this indomitable spirit. Over the past 40 years, three generations of sand control workers have adapted to local conditions and continuously explored, successively completing more than 300,000 mu of sand control afforestation and managing and protecting more than 400,000 mu of sand-sealed forest and grassland, planting more than 30 million sand-resistant plants of various types, and advancing the Babusha (八步沙) oasis as a whole to the desert transition zone by more than 30 kilometers. This is truly an amazing achievement!

In Babusha (八步沙), I also experienced sand pressing and personally felt the difficulty of planting trees in the desert. At the sand control site, the students rolled up their sleeves, picked up tools, dug trenches, laid straw, and pressed out square grids of grass. Unknowingly, three hours passed, and looking at the saplings of *Haloxylon ammodendron* symbolizing hope, my heart was full of pride. My motherland, northern Sudan, is also suffering from desert erosion, and I very much hope that it can also obtain more sand control experience.

Africa is the continent with the most serious desertification. According to data from the United Nations Environment Programme, about 45% of African land faces varying degrees of desertification, of which 55% is at risk of further desertification. In order to curb the expansion of the Sahara Desert (撒哈拉沙漠), African countries have in recent years carried out desertification control with the "Great Green Wall" project as the core, fully drawing on China's solutions and technologies for preventing and controlling desertification, and have achieved remarkable results.

What I saw and heard in Babusha (八步沙) made me truly understand China's unwavering commitment to green development. In the future, I will bring what I have learned and thought in China back to Sudan and invest it in the construction of my motherland. At the same time, we also need the spirit of the "Six Old Men" who "never bow to difficulties," which will continue to inspire me to move forward.

(The author is a Sudanese student at Northwest Normal University (西北师范大学))

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Editors of this section: Bai Yang, Du Yifei, Qiang Wei

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Elderly Care + Finance: Safeguarding the "Golden Years" (In-depth Observation: Doing a Good Job in the "Five Major Articles" of Finance)

By: 本报记者 屈信明

The medical care and elderly care of the elderly are both family matters and national affairs. Good elderly care services for the elderly depend on the important role of elderly care finance. The "Suggestions of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" proposes to "vigorously develop science and technology finance, green finance, inclusive finance, elderly care finance, and digital finance" and "accelerate the development of a multi-level and multi-pillar elderly insurance system."

In recent years, relevant departments and financial institutions have continuously improved the elderly care financial system, enriched product and service supply in a targeted manner, increased support for the health industry, elderly care industry, and silver economy, and better met the diversified and differentiated elderly care financial needs of different groups.

Optimize financial products——

"Take out the money for a few afternoon teas and hot pots every month to add a sense of security to your old age."

"Inhale, exhale, stretch, and feel the peace of mind..."

After a yoga class, 34-year-old coach Lü Le (吕乐) and her students were slightly sweaty and relaxed. In the eyes of this Chongqing (重庆) girl, teaching yoga is not only her interest, but also has broad development prospects. "The only drawback is that as a freelancer, my income fluctuates greatly, and my security in all aspects is not sufficient," said Lü Le (吕乐).

Lü Le (吕乐) said that her childhood experience made her more aware of the importance of old-age security. "One year, my grandfather was diagnosed with a serious illness, and the family faced greater medical expenses and care pressure. I felt it was necessary to add security to my future life," she said.

In her early 20s, Lü Le (吕乐) began to insure health insurance products, and later planned to buy some products with strong old-age attributes. At that time, it was not easy to buy satisfactory commercial old-age insurance.

"Traditional old-age insurance often has a certain premium 'threshold', and the payment cycle and amount are relatively fixed, which is not suitable for me," she said.

Exclusive commercial old-age insurance gave her a new choice. "In 2021, Chongqing (重庆) became one of the first pilot cities for exclusive commercial old-age insurance. The insurance agent introduced to me that the relevant products can be insured for a minimum of 100 yuan, and you can control how much you pay each month. You can also choose to receive insurance money for life. I think it is very flexible," said Lü Le (吕乐). In the year when the exclusive commercial old-age insurance was launched, she purchased a related product launched by PICC (中国人保). Currently, she has paid a total of about 100,000 yuan in premiums.

"Now there are more and more long-lived elderly people, and everyone may have a very long 'tomorrow'. From a young age, no matter how much you earn, take out the money for a few afternoon teas and hot pots every month to add a sense of security to your old age," said Lü Le (吕乐).

Lü Le's (吕乐) experience not only reflects the increasing awareness of security among young people and the early planning for old age, but also a vivid portrayal of the continuous innovation and optimization of elderly care financial products and the precise filling of shortcomings.

"In terms of policy design, exclusive commercial old-age insurance focuses on exploring the elderly care needs of employees in new industries and new business forms. In policy promotion, relevant departments and relevant industry associations cooperate to focus on popularizing relevant policies to online car-hailing drivers, couriers, and other groups," said Jin Yanfang (金艳芳), director of the Life Insurance Department of the Chongqing Regulatory Bureau (重庆监管局) of the Financial Regulatory Administration.

From pilot to normalized operation, the service coverage of exclusive commercial old-age insurance continues to expand. In October last year, the General Office of the Financial Regulatory Administration issued the "Notice on Vigorously Developing Commercial Insurance Annuities," proposing to leverage the characteristics of exclusive commercial old-age insurance, such as flexible payment, safe funds, and support for long-term annuity payments, to create an old-age fund management tool with basic security functions. At present, the accumulated old-age reserve scale of exclusive commercial old-age insurance exceeds 10 billion yuan.

Through the Internet, the tentacles of related products and services continue to extend. "The more flexible design of elderly care financial products highlights inclusiveness, which helps to increase the willingness of young people and new citizens to plan for their old age in advance and expand the coverage of elderly care financial services," said Liang Yong (梁泳), general manager of Ant Insurance Life Insurance Business Department (蚂蚁保寿险业务部). Since this year, the number of users searching for "pension" and "old-age insurance" on the Ant Insurance platform has increased by 22.3% year-on-year; as of the end of August, the number of people born in the 1990s who have insured old-age insurance this year has increased by 14.9% year-on-year.

The personal pension system has been implemented nationwide, and the number of accounts opened at the end of last year has exceeded 70 million; commercial old-age and health insurance has accumulated reserves of 11 trillion yuan... In recent years, various financial institutions have continuously achieved new results in serving the construction of my country's multi-level and multi-pillar old-age insurance system, and elderly care financial products have become increasingly rich, providing more choices for the people to enrich their old-age "money bags."

The silver economy is booming, and elderly care finance has great potential. "Adhere to integrity and innovation, and implement policies according to different categories, targeting population characteristics, business types, and industrial characteristics. Guide and promote banking and insurance institutions to rely on their own advantages to actively develop various elderly care financial businesses and actively explore ways to meet diversified elderly care needs," said the relevant person in charge of the relevant departments of the Financial Regulatory Administration.

Accelerate the improvement of the system——

Long-term care insurance "solves the actual difficulties of families with disabled patients"

Massage, scrubbing, applying medicine... In the early morning, in an elderly care institution in Changchun City (长春市), Jilin Province (吉林省), caregiver Du Jun (杜军) is carefully taking care of 73-year-old Sun (孙) , a severely disabled elderly man.

"Under the careful care of the caregivers, the old man has been in good spirits for the past two years," said Ms. Zhang (张), Sun's (孙) granddaughter, when visiting the old man. "We have to bear a considerable amount of economic expenditure for care in professional elderly care institutions. After learning about the long-term care insurance policy, we applied in a timely manner. The insurance payment of more than 2,000 yuan per month helped us reduce the pressure. We used lower expenses to allow our grandfather to receive professional care, which solved the actual difficulties of families with disabled patients."

In addition to institutional elderly care, many elderly people prefer to spend their old age at home. Grandpa Liu (刘), who is paraplegic and lives in Hangu Street (汉沽街道), Binhai New Area (滨海新区), Tianjin (天津), also enjoys the "benefits" brought by the innovative services of long-term care insurance.

"The elderly are attached to their homes, but their children are not professional in caring for them, and they are strenuous and cannot do it well. After learning that Tianjin (天津) is promoting long-term care insurance family care services, which can provide professional training and practical training for the family members of insured disabled elderly people, we went to the long-term care insurance service station near our home and applied to participate in 2 months of care training. Many family members have mastered professional care skills and can better care for the daily life of the elderly," said Liu Jie (刘杰), the son of Grandpa Liu (刘).

The fifth national sample survey on the living conditions of urban and rural elderly people in China shows that the number of disabled elderly people in my country is about 35 million. According to estimates, by 2035, the number of disabled elderly people in my country will reach 46 million. Improving the quality of life of disabled elderly people and alleviating the burden of family care is what the people expect. In 2016, my country launched a pilot long-term care insurance system. The "Decision" of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee proposed to improve services for elderly people with special difficulties such as the elderly living alone, the disabled, and the disabled, and accelerate the establishment of a long-term care insurance system. This is an important measure to actively respond to the aging of the population and a major institutional arrangement to make up for the shortcomings of the social insurance system.

How does long-term care insurance operate? Zheng Wei (郑伟), director of the China Insurance and Social Security Research Center of Peking University (北京大学), said that from the practice of pilot cities, local governments usually raise funds by relying on medical insurance funds and personal account allocations, and commercial insurance companies are responsible for handling them, and cooperate with professional elderly care institutions to provide care services. Long-term disabled people can enjoy financial or service security for basic living care and related medical care after assessment and identification.

What is the effect of policy implementation? Data from the National Medical Security Administration shows that long-term care insurance covers nearly 190 million people, with a cumulative fund raising of over 100 billion yuan and expenditures of over 85 billion yuan, and millions of people have enjoyed related benefits.

Industry insiders said that long-term care insurance has effectively reduced the burden of family care. It is understood that the long-term care insurance project in Nanning City (南宁市), Guangxi (广西) reduces nursing expenses by an average of more than 20,000 yuan per year for those being cared for; a sample survey of the Chengdu (成都) long-term care insurance project being handled by a large insurance institution shows that the economic burden of care for disabled people is reduced by about 44.3%.

While benefiting the disabled elderly, long-term care insurance also plays a role in promoting industry and stabilizing employment.

"Can you dress yourself now?" "Do you need help going to the toilet?"... Every time Wang Yihuan (王奕欢), a long-term care insurance assessor in Changchun City (长春市), conducts an on-site assessment of a disabled elderly person, she carefully observes and asks about the elderly person's living conditions, and promptly enters relevant information through the mobile terminal of her mobile phone to determine the degree of disability of the elderly person.

Scientific, fair, and efficient assessment is not only a strong guarantee for disabled people to enjoy benefits in a timely manner, but also an important gate to ensure the safe use of funds. To this end, the local long-term care insurance handling agency continues to optimize the whole-process management of long-term care insurance assessment, establish a service team mainly composed of medical and nursing professionals, and assess the insured in accordance with procedures such as on-site physical examination and video recording.

Data from the National Medical Security Administration shows that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, long-term care insurance in 49 pilot cities has driven social capital to invest more than 50 billion yuan in related industries, and the number of designated service institutions for long-term care insurance has exceeded 8,800, with 300,000 nursing service personnel, becoming a new growth point for the silver economy.

The long-term care insurance pilot is also playing a demonstration effect. Local governments are actively improving the inclusive insurance product system and incorporating long-term care responsibilities into the scope of protection. For example, "Yi Kang Bao (邑康保)", mainly underwritten by China Life Insurance Jiangmen Branch (中国人寿寿险江门分公司), covers 50 local care service institutions, and disabled elderly people living in the institutions can enjoy a subsidy of 500 yuan per month.

"The National Medical Security Administration will continue to work with relevant departments to accelerate the establishment of a long-term care insurance system that adapts to my country's basic national conditions, gradually covers the entire population, and has unified and standardized policies, and further weave a tight and solid safety net for people's livelihood security," said Li Tao (李滔), Deputy Director of the National Medical Security Administration.

Increase service supply——

"Community elderly care is close to my family and has a sense of life. I don't feel lonely."

In the early morning, when you come to the Guihuayuan Community (桂花苑社区) elderly care service institution in Fubao Street (福保街道), Futian District (福田区), Shenzhen City (深圳市), Guangdong Province (广东省), the 2,000-square-meter place is fully equipped with nursing rooms, activity rooms, libraries, and community canteens. It is clean, tidy, comfortable, and warm. More than 10 elderly people are doing morning exercises, moving their hands, raising their legs, and patting their backs.

"I do exercises in the morning, bask in the sun in the community courtyard in the afternoon, and flip through books in the small library in my spare time; I can enjoy government subsidies for three meals a day, and I pay more than 10 yuan for each lunch and dinner, which is not bad; when I feel uncomfortable, there are professional nurses to take care of me, and when I am in a bad mood, I chat with them and talk to them. Life here is quite comfortable," said Grandma Liu (刘), who lives nearby. "More importantly, community elderly care is close to my family and has a sense of life. I don't feel lonely."

Grandma Liu (刘) said that a few years ago, her ability to take care of herself declined. Her daughter first looked for a nursing home in the surrounding cities, but it was too far from home. Later, she heard that there was a community elderly care institution at her doorstep. After checking it out, she immediately decided to move in and enjoy professional care.

"The nurses here are professional and dedicated. They usually feed the elderly and clean them very carefully. One day, my mother dreamed of me, and the director immediately comforted my mother and made a WeChat video call to let my mother talk to me. As soon as I got off work the next day, I immediately cooked soup and brought it to see my mother. This makes me feel at ease and at ease," said Ms. Zheng (郑), Grandma Liu's (刘) daughter.

The institution where Grandma Liu (刘) lives is an inclusive embedded community elderly care service project jointly explored by China Life (中国人寿) and Fubao Street (福保街道) in Shenzhen (深圳). Relevant departments provide support in terms of policies, funds, and personnel allocation, and streets and communities assist in resource integration and service linkage to jointly create a warm and dignified elderly care environment for the elderly. The elderly care institution adopts an open operation model. The elderly can choose to live there for a long time, or they can receive short-term care and meals here to meet the needs of different elderly groups.

"Enriching the supply of community elderly care services meets the actual needs of the people and is also very compatible with the responsibilities of the insurance industry and the investment characteristics of insurance funds. In recent years, the practice of the insurance industry participating in the construction and operation of elderly care institutions has become increasingly rich, and it is expected to play a greater role in the future," said Li Dawei (李大为), head of China Life Community Health Elderly Care Management (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (国寿社区健康养老管理（深圳）有限公司).

In terms of home-based elderly care, financial institutions are also actively exploring service models. Ping An Group (平安集团) integrates Peking University Medical Rehabilitation Service Standards, unites more than 40 rehabilitation and nursing service providers and industry-university-research experts, and creates a home-based elderly care "nursing alliance" to establish a "standard-system-service-performance" closed loop to help solve the problems of uneven service levels of home-based elderly care service operators and lack of third-party evaluation; Taiping Life Zhejiang Branch (太平人寿浙江分公司) integrates high-quality market resources to provide local elderly customers with home-based elderly care services such as medical assistance, rehabilitation physiotherapy, on-site care, and age-appropriate transformation.

"Elderly care not only needs to enrich the 'money bag', but also needs to obtain high-quality services. This requires insurance institutions and others to expand the supply of high-quality elderly care services in various ways while innovating elderly care financial products, help home-based age-appropriate transformation, explore and optimize payment models, and bring more convenient and high-quality service experiences to the elderly," said Wang Xiangnan (王向楠), deputy director of the Insurance and Economic Development Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院).

Increase financial security——

"Low-cost credit funds have strongly supported the construction of nursing homes"

Realizing that the elderly are supported, can contribute, and can enjoy themselves cannot be achieved without high-quality elderly care services and industries. Finance plays an important role in promoting the construction of a basic elderly care service system and vigorously developing the silver economy.

In Shanqi Jiayuan Nursing Home (善耆家园养老院), Shunde District (顺德区), Foshan City (佛山市), Guangdong Province (广东省), functional facilities such as rehabilitation centers, day care, learning and entertainment venues, and medical rooms are well-equipped. The nursing home also has a green medical channel opened with nearby tertiary hospitals, providing convenient medical services such as expert home visits. Currently, hundreds of elderly people are living here.

"Shanqi Jiayuan Nursing Home (善耆家园养老院) is an innovative elderly care project with the participation of multiple entities. It operates in accordance with the model of 'government-led, social donation construction, market-oriented operation, and profitable circular development'. The construction land is allocated by the local government, and the construction funds are raised by the foundation from the society. The 'charity + commercial' method reduces the construction and operation costs of the nursing home," said Hu Xingmin (胡兴民), chairman of the Guangdong Deqi Charity Foundation (广东省德耆慈善基金会). Bank credit plays an important role in social capital support.

"The construction scale of Shanqi Jiayuan Nursing Home (善耆家园养老院) is relatively large, and it raises funds while building. There was a large funding gap in the early stage. Branches of the Agricultural Bank of China (中国农业银行) issued 70 million yuan of credit loans, priced lower than the 5-year or more LPR (loan market quotation interest rate). Low-cost credit funds have strongly supported the construction of the nursing home," said Hu Xingmin (胡兴民).

With the help of low-cost credit funds and social donations, the nursing home has achieved reasonable fee reductions, allowing more elderly people to enjoy high-quality and cost-effective elderly care services. "The participation of multiple entities and the support of financial institutions effectively realize the balance between the public welfare attributes and sustainable development of elderly care institutions. With the increase in elderly care needs, Shanqi Jiayuan (善耆家园) plans to build new projects," said Hu Xingmin (胡兴民).

Providing high-quality services for the implementation of the national strategy to actively respond to population aging is the inherent meaning of financial institutions deepening the structural reform of the financial supply side. "Financial institutions should actively explore all-round support for the elderly care industry, strengthen product supply and innovation, and improve the level of financial inter-bank cooperation," said Zeng Gang (曾刚), director of the Shanghai Finance and Development Laboratory (上海金融与发展实验室). Commercial banks have advantages in serving individual and corporate customers and industrial projects, insurance institutions have professional long-term investment capabilities, and funds and securities companies have advantages in equity investment. Different types of institutions should give full play to their respective strengths and deepen collaborative cooperation to better help the development of elderly care services and industries.
In addition, some bottlenecks and difficulties hindering the development of financial services for the elderly care industry need to be resolved urgently. For example, industry insiders point out that many elderly care service institutions adopt a leased property, light-asset operation model, lacking suitable collateral. For banks, the risk is difficult to grasp, and there are certain difficulties in providing credit support. In the future, relevant due diligence and exemption systems can be further improved, while introducing guarantee institutions to improve the risk-sharing mechanism, and better guide financial resources to support the elderly care service field.

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Finance Can Do a Lot to Help the Elderly Have Support in Their Later Years (Reporter's Notes)

By: 赵展慧

The "shelves" of personal pension products are constantly being updated, with the number exceeding 1,100; long-term care insurance covers nearly 190 million people, adding security for elderly care; 500 billion yuan of service consumption and pension re-lending is accelerating, leveraging financial resources to flow to the elderly care industry... Starting from the demand side, consolidate the three-pillar pension insurance system; starting from the supply side, support the expansion of elderly care facilities, products and services, the grand article of pension finance is being written at an accelerated pace.

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed that we should adhere to expanding domestic demand as a strategic base point, adhere to the close combination of benefiting people's livelihood and promoting consumption, investing in things and investing in people, lead new supply with new demand, create new demand with new supply, and promote the virtuous interaction between consumption and investment, supply and demand. Vigorously developing pension finance has accurately identified the combination of investing in things and investing in people, benefiting people's livelihood and promoting consumption, which is of great significance to promoting economic development and social equity.

Financial institutions are undoubtedly one of the "main creators" of the grand article of pension finance. How to seize opportunities in the trillion-level market spawned by more than 300 million elderly people has become a must-answer question for financial institutions to seek high-quality development. Financial institutions should take the current challenges and problems in the field of elderly care as a starting point, actively explore innovation, enhance service capabilities, and help turn the "sunset" cause that concerns every elderly person into a thriving "sunrise" industry.

Although elderly care products and services are becoming increasingly abundant, there is still a large gap in meeting the multi-level and differentiated elderly care needs, and efforts need to be made in terms of diversity. Diversity means "tailoring to individual needs." Financial institutions should design a product and service system that covers the multi-level needs of ensuring basic life, increasing wealth, and realizing self-worth, according to the elderly groups of different ages, health conditions, and income levels. Diversity also means "adapting to local conditions." There are significant differences in the degree of aging, economic level, industrial structure, and cultural traditions between regions in China. Some regions need to strengthen the coverage of basic pension insurance and financial services, while others can develop high-yield pension investment products and build mid-to-high-end elderly care communities.

Financial institutions should also focus on the accessibility of pension financial services, so that products and services can benefit a wider range of elderly groups. Rural areas are a weak link in financial services, and resources should be increased to rural elderly care. For example, designing pension financial products with convenient procedures and affordable fees for rural elderly groups, while increasing support for the construction of rural elderly care service facilities. The complex design and difficulty in understanding of some pension financial products also lead to a lower willingness of the elderly group to participate. While simplifying product descriptions and purchasing processes, financial institutions should also optimize product design and service experience, lower the participation threshold, and improve convenience.

In order to actively respond to the aging of the population, relevant policies in the field of elderly care have been intensively introduced in recent years. There are both national policy guidance and local policy support. Financial institutions should better grasp the relevance to policies, make good use of policy dividends, and help play a joint force in ensuring that the elderly are supported. For example, closely follow the policy direction and embed financial services into government-subsidized consumption scenarios such as age-appropriate renovation and replacement of old smart devices with new ones, and use policy advantages to reduce innovation costs and increase business scale. Financial institutions should also improve the safety and stability of products and services under the guidance of regulatory policies, highlighting the importance of "stability."

Elderly care is a major national plan, and finance is a major national tool. Helping the elderly to be supported has great potential for finance. Whether it is increasing supply or promoting demand, financial institutions must firmly adhere to the principle of putting people first, so that financial services and improving people's well-being go hand in hand.

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The "15th Five-Year Plan" Recommendations Mention "Science and Technology" 46 Times (Innovation Talk)

By: 吴月辉

Compared to the "14th Five-Year Plan," the "15th Five-Year Plan" not only requires technological "self-reliance and self-strengthening" but also emphasizes "high-level."

Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "High-level technological self-reliance and self-strengthening are the strategic support for high-quality development." "Chinese-style modernization relies on technological modernization for support, and achieving high-quality development relies on technological innovation to cultivate new drivers."

The "Recommendations of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" (《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十五个五年规划的建议》) (hereinafter referred to as the "Recommendations") clearly proposes "accelerating high-level technological self-reliance and self-strengthening" and includes "a significant increase in the level of technological self-reliance and self-strengthening" as one of the main goals of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, always placing technological innovation at the core of the national strategy.

In the "Recommendations," "technology" is mentioned 46 times, "innovation" is mentioned 61 times, and "new quality productive forces" is mentioned 6 times, highlighting China's emphasis on technological development and indicating that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China will continue to use technological innovation as an important driver of economic development and firmly adhere to the determination to "seize the commanding heights of science and technology."

The frequent appearance of the term "technology" in the "Recommendations" is a strategic choice made based on a profound judgment of the domestic and international situation.

With the accelerated breakthroughs in a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, global technological innovation has entered an unprecedented period of intensive activity, and technological innovation is becoming a key aid in improving production efficiency, enhancing supply capacity, and stimulating potential growth rates. High-quality development is the primary task of building a socialist modern country in all respects, with the focus on further liberating and developing social productive forces and achieving a shift from "having it or not" to "good or not." Relying on technological modernization and promoting technological innovation, developing new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, and improving total factor productivity can provide a driving engine for high-quality development and continuously consolidate the material and technological foundation of Chinese-style modernization. Facing a complex and severe domestic and international situation, supporting Chinese-style modernization with technological modernization and consolidating the foundation of high-quality development with high-level technological self-reliance and self-strengthening can actively respond to various uncertainties and instabilities and promote the steady and long-term development of Chinese-style modernization.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's scientific and technological strength reached a new level, scientific and technological innovation achievements were fruitful, and new quality productive forces developed steadily, laying a solid foundation for the "15th Five-Year Plan" economic and social development.

Data released by the Ministry of Science and Technology (科技部) in September showed that in 2024, total social R&D investment exceeded 3.6 trillion yuan, an increase of 48% compared to 2020; R&D investment intensity reached 2.68%, exceeding the average level of EU countries; and the total number of R&D personnel ranked first in the world. In 2024, basic research funding reached 249.7 billion yuan, an increase of more than 70% compared to 2020, and a number of major original achievements were made in the fields of quantum technology, life sciences, material sciences, and space sciences. The number of high-level international journal papers and international patent applications ranked first in the world for five consecutive years.

Facing the "15th Five-Year Plan," accelerating high-level technological self-reliance and self-strengthening remains an important task. The "Recommendations" devote a special chapter to "accelerating high-level technological self-reliance and self-strengthening and leading the development of new quality productive forces," proposing to seize the historical opportunities of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, coordinate the construction of a strong country in education, a strong country in science and technology, and a strong country in talent, enhance the overall effectiveness of the national innovation system, comprehensively enhance independent innovation capabilities, seize the commanding heights of technological development, and continuously generate new quality productive forces.

From the "14th Five-Year Plan" to the "15th Five-Year Plan," technological innovation will be given a more central mission. Compared to the "14th Five-Year Plan," the "15th Five-Year Plan" not only requires technological "self-reliance and self-strengthening" but also emphasizes "high-level." This means that future technological development will pay more attention to original innovation and disruptive technological innovation, with the goal of opening up the entire chain from basic research to industrial applications, so that technological innovation can truly become a source of power driving high-quality economic development.

Adhering to goal orientation and problem orientation, the "Recommendations" make systematic deployments for technological innovation during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period from four aspects: strengthening original innovation and tackling key core technologies, promoting the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, promoting the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, and deepening the construction of digital China.

One-part deployment, nine-part implementation. After five years of hard work in the future, China's scientific and technological strength will reach a new level, and technological innovation leading new quality productive forces and promoting high-quality development will achieve greater results, providing more powerful support for the construction of Chinese-style modernization.

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A Thousand Days in Space, A Bounty of Achievements (Science and Technology Perspective: Accelerating High-Level Scientific and Technological Self-Reliance)

By: 本报记者 刘诗瑶

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out, "Accelerating the realization of high-level self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology is the only way to promote high-quality development." The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China identified "accelerating high-level self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology, and leading the development of new quality productive forces" as one of the themes of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and systematically deployed strategic tasks based on an accurate grasp of the development trends in the next five years.

To implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session and accelerate high-level self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology, there is no time to lose. The vast number of science and technology workers are embarking on a new journey of struggle with full enthusiasm, infinite potential, and innovative vitality.

——Editor

The vast desert, the rustling poplars. On October 31, the Shenzhou-21 (神舟二十一号) astronaut crew set off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (酒泉卫星发射中心) and flew to the China Space Station. "Tiangong" (天宫) welcomed new visitors, writing a new chapter in space.

On December 31, 2022, President Xi Jinping (习近平) solemnly announced in his New Year's message for 2023 that "the China Space Station has been fully completed."

Since its completion more than 1,000 days ago, the China Space Station has been operating safely and smoothly, supporting a total of 7 astronaut crews to work and live in orbit, supporting more than 200 space science and application projects, demonstrating China's scientific and technological strength of self-reliance and independent innovation, and highlighting the innovative spirit of aerospace personnel in building a strong aerospace nation and climbing the peak of science and technology.

Artificial intelligence large models, intelligent robots, the latest wireless communication systems... the space station is full of technology.

In the space station, a scene can often be seen: astronauts "float" to the middle of the cabin, reach out, and use the cabin's吊环 (diào huán - "hanging rings") to do a handsome pull-up, then pedal a space bicycle for a while, and then run on a space treadmill. A dedicated exercise area is set up in the space station to help astronauts exercise their strength and reduce the effects of weightlessness.

The Tianzhou-9 (天舟九号) cargo spacecraft launched in July this year carried a new fitness equipment for the space station - a "core muscle exercise device." After arriving at the space station, it was installed on the wall of the Wentian (问天) module to strengthen and improve the core muscle function of astronauts, reduce paraspinal muscle atrophy, and reduce muscle pain after returning.

In more than 1,000 days, "new home furnishings" like fitness equipment have been continuously sent to "Tiangong" (天宫). The environment and facilities of the space station's "star view room" continue to be optimized, and it is getting better and better to live in.

"The space station has achieved wireless communication system upgrades." Tang Yi (汤溢), a researcher from the China Space Station ground support team and the Fifth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (中国航天科技集团五院), said that the current "space home" uses the latest generation of commercial wireless communication technology to ensure stable and smooth wireless communication inside and outside the astronaut cabin.

The space station has also carried out intelligent material management system upgrades. Due to the wide variety and large quantity of materials in the space station, astronauts have a huge workload in material management every day. To this end, during the Shenzhou-19 (神舟十九号) and Shenzhou-20 (神舟二十号) missions, intelligent access control systems were successively installed, which can independently record the location of each material transfer, greatly saving astronauts' energy and improving material management efficiency.

"In order to make astronauts sleep more soundly and peacefully, the space station has replaced the doors in the sleeping area." Tang Yi (汤溢) said, "The new doors use new materials, new structures, and locking designs to achieve better sound and light insulation."

Interestingly, in addition to the regular occupancy of astronaut crews, the space station also often welcomes many interesting "residents."

In the "space vegetable garden," the green lettuce is growing vigorously. In a microgravity environment, a round water droplet is adsorbed on the irrigation pipe. With a gentle poke, the water droplet is quickly absorbed by the soil in the petri dish. In addition to lettuce, plants such as rice and Arabidopsis, and animals such as fruit flies, zebrafish, planarians, and mice have also "moved in" one after another, growing vigorously and adding vitality to "Tiangong" (天宫).

In the China Space Station, there is also a special type of space electronic visitor. For example, the "Wukong" (悟空) artificial intelligence language large model, the pipeline inspection robot, and the "Xiaohang" (小航) robot and other artificial intelligence assistants provide astronauts with intelligent and professional help for their work in orbit.

In the future, the China Space Station will welcome more diverse visiting spacecraft, face more intensive rendezvous and docking and berthing missions, and will also carry out module expansion to build a "+" configuration, add new docking ports, and improve astronaut stay and payload support capabilities.

Tang Yi (汤溢) said that in the next 1,000 days, the team hopes to continue to introduce more advanced science and technology through their efforts, improve the intelligence and autonomy of the space station, and better support astronauts in their work and life in space.

Space experiment projects are progressing smoothly, exceeding the expectations of researchers in some basic science fields, bringing additional surprises.

Scientific experiments are conducted every day in the China Space Station.

In the "aquarium" of the Wentian (问天) experimental module, zebrafish shuttle between Elodea, like elves dancing in the water. This small binary aquatic ecosystem came to space with the Shenzhou-18 (神舟十八号) crew, achieving China's breakthrough in cultivating zebrafish and laying eggs in orbit in the space station.

During the Shenzhou-20 (神舟二十号) crew period, zebrafish were sent to the space station again. This time, zebrafish were used to study the effects of microgravity on protein homeostasis in higher vertebrates, and to explore protective methods against bone loss and cardiovascular dysfunction in future long-term space travel.

Through the images taken by the astronaut's handheld camera, it can be observed that Arabidopsis thaliana sprouts, which is used to study how to regulate plant cell structure and function in a microgravity environment. Astronauts carefully put on experimental gloves, carefully take out the experimental supplies related to brain organoid chips, and conduct experiments carefully to explore the impact of the space environment on human brain health...

Building ships to build stations, building stations for application.

Guo Xiaoxiao (郭晓晓), deputy director of the Application Office of the Space Application Engineering and Technology Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院空间应用工程与技术中心), introduced that in the past 1,000 days, the space application system team has focused on three aspects: whether the experimental facilities are safe, whether the experimental projects are going smoothly, and whether the target results are achieved.

At present, the core module, Wentian (问天) experimental module, and Mengtian (梦天) experimental module of the China Space Station have a total of 25 standard experimental spaces, of which 14 experimental cabinets were developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院). These experimental cabinets have overcome technical problems such as lightweight and large-bearing structural dynamics design. The bearing ratio is more than twice that of the International Space Station. More scientific payloads can be carried into space with a smaller bearing cost, which can meet the scientific research needs of scientists for the next 10 years.

Guo Xiaoxiao (郭晓晓) told reporters that space science and application projects are roughly divided into three aspects: scientific research projects focusing on space life science and biotechnology, space materials science, microgravity basic physics, microgravity fluid physics, microgravity combustion science, and space new technologies; emerging sciences with innovation and aiming at cutting-edge hot topics; and application-oriented carrying projects. "Overall, these experimental projects are progressing very smoothly, and even in some basic science fields, they have exceeded the expectations of researchers and brought many additional surprises," said Guo Xiaoxiao (郭晓晓).

From the perspective of output, in the past 1,000 days, the China Space Station has continued to produce high-level results. Scientific teams in various fields have conducted in-depth exploration focusing on major national needs, and have produced a series of original, cutting-edge, and innovative results. Some of the results have been transferred, transformed, and promoted for application. For example, indium selenide semiconductor crystal growth research was carried out for the first time under microgravity conditions, and high-quality indium selenide single crystals were successfully obtained. The electron mobility of the field-effect transistor prototype devices developed was increased by 3 to 4 times compared with ground devices. Key indicators such as turn-on current, switch ratio, and stability have been significantly improved, and it has great application potential in high-speed electronic devices, optoelectronic devices, photodetectors, and flexible electronics.

In the next 1,000 days, the China Space Station will also carry out more research projects to promote the comprehensive development of China's space science, space technology, and space applications.

The operating system of the "three space stations combined" of space, ground, and digital provides support for the long-term stable operation of the China Space Station.

In the past 1,000 days, the Shenzhou (神舟) family has been relaying in space, manned spaceflight has reported frequent successes, "Tiangong" (天宫) has been operating stably, and astronauts have "felt good." This is inseparable from the dedicated efforts of the China Space Station ground support team.

"At first, each of us had our own different imaginations about the China Space Station. When it is fully completed, we will look at it again, and we all feel that it is better than each of us imagined." A researcher from the China Space Station ground support team and the Fifth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (中国航天科技集团五院) said that the focus of the next work is to operate the "space home" well, live up to expectations, and make new contributions.

There is a China Space Station in space, but there are actually two "China Space Stations" on the ground.

One of them is the "electrical space station," which is exactly the same as the one in space. It was developed by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (中国航天科技集团) to allow the research, construction, and in-orbit operation of the China Space Station to be fully technically verified on the ground, providing support for the China Space Station in space.

There is also a "digital space station," which can provide simulation verification support such as pre-mission simulation prediction, in-mission digital accompaniment, and post-mission status assessment.

These three together constitute the operating system of the "three space stations combined" of space, ground, and digital, providing strong support for the long-term stable operation of the China Space Station in orbit.

Tang Yi (汤溢) introduced that the team continues the "365 days × 24 hours" all-year-round duty mode to carry out tasks such as data monitoring, health trend interpretation, major task support, and fault handling.

For example, when certain equipment in the space station needs to be replaced, astronauts will take out new products and then install them according to the operating manual. At the same time, they will initiate a space-ground video call with the ground support team to communicate installation details and confirm the update status. Especially when astronauts carry out space science experiments, space lectures, and extravehicular activities, both space and ground will fully communicate in real time to ensure the smooth execution of the mission.

Facing the next 1,000 days, giving full play to the role of the China Space Station as a "space mother port" is an important direction for the team's exploration.

Tang Yi (汤溢) said that the China Space Station has the unique advantages of abundant resources, manned duty, and high level of intelligence. By formulating standardized service models and interfaces, and carrying out in-orbit services for spacecraft in various fields, it is expected to bring broader development space. The "Xuntian Space Telescope" (巡天空间望远镜) development mission, which is carried out in accordance with the space station mission plan, is also being steadily promoted.

"We have persisted for 1,000 days, and we will persist for many more 1,000 days. We will definitely continue to take care of the space station." This is the voice of the space station ground support team.

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Symposium on Innovative Practices in Science and Engineering Education Held

This newspaper reports that in order to promote the construction of national science education experimental zones for primary and secondary schools, and to implement the integrated development requirements of education, science and technology, and talent, the "Implementing the Spirit of the National Education Conference and Promoting the Science Education Work Conference and the Innovation and Practice Symposium on Science and Engineering Education in the Digital Intelligence Era of the High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China" was held at the High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China (中国人民大学附属中学). Focusing on the improvement of scientific literacy and the cultivation of innovative capabilities, the conference invited kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, universities, research institutes, and high-tech enterprises to participate. Through achievement displays, classroom observations, and other forms, it showcased the exploration and practice of innovative paths in science and engineering education in the digital intelligence era, such as the 30-year scientific and technological innovation education cases of the High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China. At the meeting, Bai Chunli (白春礼), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), was appointed as the honorary consultant of the Youth Science and Technology Innovation Committee of the High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China; Haidian District (海淀区) initiated the "Joint Initiative to Strengthen Science Education for Young People" and released the plan for the first Primary and Secondary School Intelligent Future Invitational Tournament, building a platform for young people to display scientific and technological innovation.

(He Xu (何旭))

100% Self-Research Rate of Core Components of Domestic High-End Intelligent Agricultural Machinery

This newspaper reports that at the 2025 China International Agricultural Machinery Exhibition held recently, Sinoboding Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. (中农博鼎智能装备有限公司) launched a new generation of high-end intelligent tractors with full-domain self-research, and the self-research rate and localization rate of its core components have reached 100%. The new generation of high-end intelligent tractors launched this time includes a full range of power reversing/power shifting tractors, a full range of hybrid intelligent tractors, etc. The key core components such as the high thermal efficiency engine and power shifting chassis assembly are all independently developed by Sinoboding (中农博鼎), which has higher reliability, stronger power output, a more comfortable riding experience, and lower manufacturing costs, significantly improving fuel efficiency and operating efficiency.

Su Mingtao (苏明涛), Vice Chairman of Sinoboding, introduced that the company has established research and development bases in multiple cities, striving to promote China's agricultural machinery towards green, intelligent, and high-end development.

(Zhao Yongxin (赵永新))

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Food-grade printing, "color doesn't fade after boiling for 30 minutes" (Innovation Story)

By: 民生周刊记者 张 兵

Recently, at the 7th Global Energy Internet Conference, the world's first dye-sublimation identification photo printer DTP-330B was unveiled, attracting people's attention. This equipment, independently developed by Hunan Diyi Zhiyuan Technology Development Co., Ltd. (湖南鼎一致远科技发展股份有限公司), demonstrates China's latest breakthroughs in green printing technology.

Diyi Technology's innovation journey began eight years ago. Founded in 2017, the team set its sights on the niche field of thermal transfer technology, a green printing technology that transfers pigments from ribbons to material surfaces through thermal pressure, widely used in industrial identification, flexible packaging, electronic labels, and other fields. Previously, the core technology and process of nano-dye sublimation ribbons had long been monopolized by foreign companies.

How to overcome difficulties? Diyi Technology resolutely turned to domestic substitution, jointly with listed companies to crack the dye molecular formula code, and spent a year developing domestic dyes with a purity of 99.5%, reducing costs by 50% and completely eliminating dependence on foreign manufacturers.

"Core technology cannot be bought; only by 死磕到底 (sǐ kē dào dǐ - "fight to the death," to pursue something relentlessly until the end) can we achieve independence and transcendence." Tang Guochu (唐国初), chairman of the company, introduced that Diyi Technology has invested 320 million yuan in research and development, and finally broke through technical barriers, successfully achieving high-purity synthesis of dye-sublimation nano-dye molecules, and developed thermal transfer printing technology with independent intellectual property rights. This technology is more difficult, but relatively green and low-carbon, without nozzles, no risk of clogging, and significantly reduced equipment costs. It can even be extended to food-grade packaging printing, achieving food-grade printing that "does not fade after boiling for 30 minutes."

In the digital workshop of Hengyang County High-tech Zone (衡阳县高新区), Hunan Province, Diyi Technology's independently developed third-generation thermal transfer intelligent production line is operating in an orderly manner. As the robotic arms move flexibly, rolls of substrate are automatically loaded, and after precise thermal transfer processing, brightly colored and beautifully patterned industrial logos are slowly rolled off the production line.

"In the past, this type of high-end industrial logo relied on imports, which were not only expensive, but also had a delivery cycle of up to 3 months. Now, through our intelligent production line, we can deliver in 3 days, reducing costs by 60%." Pointing to the products being packaged, Jiang Yubin (蒋玉斌), the company's production technology director, introduced that this production line uses independently developed water-based thermal transfer ink, and the emission of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) during the production process is close to zero, saving 50% energy compared to traditional processes.

Cao Peng (曹鹏), a professor at Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication (北京印刷学院), believes that Diyi Technology has achieved independent control of the entire chain of research and development from multi-color carbon ribbons to complete sets of equipment, and has achieved innovative breakthroughs in three aspects of thermal transfer green digital printing technology: thermal transfer equipment control technology, thermal transfer color management technology, and thermal transfer high weather resistance material development.

"We will actively respond to the national 'dual carbon' goal requirements, increase investment in green printing technology research and development and environmentally friendly material applications, and cultivate new quality productive forces that lead industry change," said Xu Zhigang (徐志刚), general manager of the company.

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Distant Bronze

By: 陈应松

In the vast fields of the Chu (楚) region, about a century ago in spring, plants were growing wildly, remnants of rainwater glistened on the grass awns, insects burrowed underground, birds sang in the sky, and the sunlight was dazzling. Where the yellow earth was turned, farmers were sowing the seeds on which they depended for survival. In this mountainous area south of Dongting Lake (洞庭湖), wild artemisia grew luxuriantly, emitting a strong bitter smell, reeds and cattails swayed softly by the lake, and all the fresh leaves were unfurling. Waves of land were plowed, the blue sky was boundless, the Wei River (沩水) flowed slowly, and mountain breezes blew in gusts.

It was on this land that three Jiang (姜) family farmers accidentally unearthed a national treasure, a bronze artifact, in a ditch where they were planting sweet potatoes.

Some people did not believe that there had ever been a Bronze Age in this remote part of the Chu (楚) region. Another theory was that a Ningxiang (宁乡) native, who had once been an official in the north, transported the Si Yang Fang Zun (四羊方尊) from the Shang Dynasty back to his hometown, buried it in the farmland, and then forgot about it, eventually being unearthed by the Jiang (姜) brothers. However, why did he bury this heavy bronze artifact, and why couldn't he bury it deeper? Why was such a heavy treasure abandoned? No one seems to know.

In fact, the history of the Chu (楚) region includes a splendid Bronze Age, with vast copper mines. For example, the Zeng Hou Yi Zun Pan (曾侯乙尊盘), unearthed in Suizhou, Hubei (湖北随州), is hailed as "the pinnacle of Shang and Zhou bronzes," representing the ultimate level of ancient Chinese bronze casting technology. And the Chongyang Bronze Drum (崇阳铜鼓), an artifact from the late Shang Dynasty unearthed in Chongyang, Hubei (湖北崇阳), is one of the earliest bronze drums discovered in China to date. Was it also transported there from elsewhere?

The Panlongcheng Site (盘龙城遗址), which predates the Tanheli Site (炭河里遗址) and dates back to the Xia and Shang dynasties, also yielded numerous bronze artifacts of significant size, despite also being unrecorded in historical texts. From this, people speculate that during the Bronze Age, in the ancient country, the north and south had different styles and imposing manners, but both had pinnacle bronze works. The magnificence and uniqueness of the southern bronze artifacts exceeded people's imagination. The Si Yang Fang Zun (四羊方尊) demonstrates superb casting skills and is a "bronze model that reaches perfection." Therefore, it has become one of China's treasured national artifacts.

What kind of bronze is this? Isn't it just a square zun with four sheep? Isn't it just a bronze ritual vessel and sacrificial object from the late Shang Dynasty? Isn't it just heavy and large? But the four sheep have extremely exaggerated circular horns, smooth and lovely lines, and a bold and composed shape. The curled-horn sheep heads and necks extend out of the vessel, and the sheep bodies and legs are attached to the belly and ring foot of the square zun. Its shoulders are decorated with high-relief snake and dragon patterns, and in the center of the four sides of the zun, where the two sheep are adjacent, there is also a dragon head with the same strange and mysterious shape. The entire pattern is delicate and exquisite, unimaginably exquisite, seemingly not carved by hand. Scale patterns, long-crested phoenix patterns, kui dragon patterns, banana leaf patterns, band-shaped taotie patterns, and fine thunder patterns interweave and harmoniously compose the unparalleled ingenuity and mystery of this bronze. Who is the divine designer? And what are the skilled craftsmen who cast it?

Why would such an important artifact representing the specifications of royal sacrifices be buried alone in the fields, rather than in a deep underground tomb? What kind of country did this specification and level come from? How did the golden age of the Bronze Age, at the end of the Shang Dynasty and the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, quietly complete a glorious page in this remote wilderness? This leaves a huge space for imagination for future generations.

In this mountainous area, in addition to the Si Yang Fang Zun (四羊方尊), more than 300 other bronze artifacts of various types and strange styles have been discovered successively: the Human-Face Pattern Square Ding (人面纹方鼎), the Elephant-Pattern Large Bronze Nao (象纹大铜铙), the Beast-Face Pattern Bronze Huagu (兽面纹铜花觚), the Beast-Face Pattern Giant Bronze Bu (兽面纹巨型铜瓿), the Cloud-Pattern Bronze Nao (云纹铜铙)... At the Tanheli Site (炭河里遗址), archaeologists finally found the name of a state on the bronze inscriptions. This small country in the southern thickets gathered a group of superb craftsmen who left no names. In this ancient capital site, covering an area of 145,000 square meters, with a remaining area of 20,000 square meters, there are foundations and column holes for palace buildings, solid rammed earth walls, and neat moats.

This capital city, which has never entered historical records, has seen the discovery of several large bronze artifacts within a two-kilometer radius centered on it, in the basin called Yueshanpu (月山铺). In the late 1950s, a local villager was working in the fields and dug up a damaged bronze artifact, which he sold to a scrap recycling station. Fortunately, a craftsman from the Hunan Provincial Museum (湖南省博物馆) stationed at the scrap copper warehouse to select cultural relics found this bronze object, which was broken into more than 10 pieces. He pieced it together, and the unheard-of Human-Face Pattern Square Ding (人面纹方鼎) appeared, which is still the only square ding with human faces as the main decoration found in the country. Another villager washing vegetables by a stream glanced up and saw a bronze antique exposed in the riverbed. He pulled it out and found it was a Shang Dynasty bronze Tiliang You (提梁卣). One hot summer day in the early 21st century, several children were playing in the Wei River (沩水) and saw a piece of bronze exposed in the sand in the river. So, several people dug with their little hands, and it turned out to be getting bigger and bigger. A giant bronze artifact weighing 61.9 kilograms—the Beast-Face Pattern Bu (兽面纹瓿)—was unearthed. It is larger than any known bu-type bronze artifact in China. This bronze bu buried in the river has become the "King of Bu" in Chinese bronzes, a national first-class cultural relic. Another villager was collecting herbs on the top of Shiguzhai (师古寨) and encountered a snake. The villager chased the snake into a cave and dug out two Shang Dynasty bronze nao while digging the cave... Of course, some important bronze artifacts, in the long years before the founding of New China, were unsupervised and ended up abroad.

Of course, this is the Chu (楚) region, known for its beautiful imagination, and many legends about bronze artifacts circulate here. Some say that at Yueshanpu (月山铺), where the Tanheli Site (炭河里遗址) is located, the sound of bronze whirring and echoing in the air can be heard in the middle of the night. It is said that when the Jiang (姜) brothers dug out the Si Yang Fang Zun (四羊方尊), they saw dark red water seeping out of the soil. Others say that when cultural relic restoration experts were doing X-ray testing on the Si Yang Fang Zun (四羊方尊), a blurred human silhouette suddenly appeared on the screen... All the legends add a layer of mystery to the ancient patina of the bronze.

In any case, bronze is immortal, and the cold, rusty bronze is engraved with scorching history. The sound of bronze in rice paddies, fishing songs, and hibiscus flowers in the river forges the breadth and bloodiness of the Chu (楚) people. Wu spears and rhinoceros armor, long swords and Qin bows, "The body is dead, but the spirit is divine, the soul is brave and heroic." The mysterious and sacred sound knocked out by the bronze, traversing the smoke and dust of 3,000 years, flows and lingers for a long time in the empty and silent night sky of the Chu (楚) region, among the stars. This echo of history, slow, heavy, grand, and solemn, allows generations of people to look up and listen...

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A Creative "Base Area" (Literary Inspiration)

By: 申尊敬

Why could Lu Xun (鲁迅) write "The True Story of Ah Q (阿Q正传)?" Why could Liu Qing (柳青) write "Builders of a New Life (创业史)?"

A major reason is that they both had their own "base areas."

Lu Xun's base areas were his hometowns, "Luzhen (鲁镇)" and "Weizhuang (未庄)." Liu Qing's (柳青) base area was his second hometown, Huangfu Village (皇甫村) in Chang'an County (长安县).

For writers and artists, a base area is like the root of a tree, the foundation of a mountain, the source of a river—an inexhaustible resource and a breeding ground for creative inspiration.

Liu Qing (柳青) once said, "Life is the foundation of creation." In Huangfu Village (皇甫村), he practiced his "creative view" with a life and creation that lasted more than a decade, and Huangfu Village (皇甫村) also became Liu Qing's (柳青) literary base area.

Chen Zhongshi's (陈忠实) Bailuyuan (白鹿原), Chi Zijian's (迟子建) Banks of the Ergun River (额尔古纳河岸), Liu Liangcheng's (刘亮程) Shawan (沙湾) countryside, and Li Juan's (李娟) Altay (阿勒泰) prairie are all remote places far from prosperity. However, these writers have written dazzling works in inconspicuous places. One reason for their creative success is that they regard places that many people look down upon as treasures and persistently "dig small-caliber deep wells" there.

Some literary and art workers believe, "I am already in life, there is no need to delve into life." People who hold this view are probably confusing "being in life" with "delving into life." "Being in life" and "delving into life" differ not only in degree but also in subjective spirit. Everyone is "in life," but not everyone can "delve into life." Whether it is Huangfu Village (皇甫村), Qingxi Village (清溪村), or some other place, there are many people who live there for decades, but few people like Liu Qing (柳青) and Zhou Libo (周立波) who carefully observe, experience, excavate, organize, and sublimate, and even fewer who can create excellent works from this. Therefore, delving into life is a deeper requirement for creators, calling on them to sink from the superficial level of life, find an accurate creative base area, cultivate deeply and meticulously, and cultivate frequently, so that they can discover the myriad phenomena of life. A law that has been repeatedly proven in creation is: if literary and art workers distance themselves from the people, the people will distance themselves from their works; if literary and art workers become confidants of the people, the people will become their "fans."

There are also some literary and art workers who have not established their own base areas and are unwilling to go deep into life. Even if they are sometimes invited to the grassroots level for fieldwork, they are absent-minded, or superficial and 蜻蜓点水 (qīng tíng diǎn shuǐ - "dragonfly skimming the water," touching on something lightly without going into it deeply), seeing what they see, hearing what they hear, unwilling to dig deep into phenomena, unwilling to find vivid details, and unwilling to understand the stories behind the stories. They create only to "deliver" to the inviting party, and the works they create often have "more bones than meat," with pale images and uninspired language.

Without a base area, one does not know where the wonderful realm is. With a base area, one knows that this place is a treasure land. The base area of a literary artist can be large or small, near or far. It can be one's hometown or another place; it can be an enterprise or a county; it can be a village or a community, or even a family. As long as one is interested, no matter how big or small the place is, no matter how far or near the distance is, it can become one's own creative base area.

A base area is a small society, seemingly a small place, connected to the big world. Being in a base area, one can observe the faces of all beings, know the changes of the times, understand the happiness of the people, and also know the thoughts of the people. Being in a base area, one can look up at the stars and down to earth. With one eye on the stars and the other on the ground, literary and art workers will become more and more grounded and confident, and their vision will become more and more broad and grand.

A base area is also a big book. In this big book, there are many unknown worlds waiting for us to explore: the "trivial matters" of ordinary people may hide the trends of the times; the white hair of ordinary old people may have thousands of connections with the big world; the changes of a mountain village in the new era may be a new "Builders of a New Life (创业史)"... No one knows how many treasures are scattered in this big book. Reading this book, not only with the eyes, but also with the heart, reading it day by day, month by month, year by year, understanding and thoroughly understanding the people and things in the book, one will naturally "understand all worldly affairs and gain knowledge, and be well-versed in human relationships and write articles."

We often say "go deep into life and take root in the people," and the base area is a good entry point. Going deep into practice, understanding the Chinese people, understanding the Chinese spirit and Chinese strength, the base area is the window. Digging out the treasures in the "cloudy depths," the base area is a rich mine. Going to the base area often, going often and feeling fresh, works can be conceived from this.

Literary and art workers "sink down" in order to "swim up." Drill in to gather materials extensively, jump out to refine and sublimate, find the commonality of the times in individuality, carefully process raw materials from the depths of life, let good materials "flow with gold and silver," let good themes shine brightly, and let good themes penetrate people's hearts. In this way, our works can have both the beauty of the times, the beauty of thought, and the beauty of art, and be loved and welcomed by the public rather than a small group, becoming part of the spiritual food of the people.

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Reeds Grow by the Zhongting River

By: 王 英

In late autumn, the reed catkins on the banks of the Zhongting River (中亭河) bloom as scheduled. When the reed catkins bloom, the annual "reed harvesting" season arrives. This is the busiest and most lively time of year on the banks of the Zhongting River (中亭河). At this time, every household begins to prepare for reed weaving. The men take sickles to the river beach to harvest reeds, the women set up weaving frames at their doorsteps, and the children play in the reed beds. The whole village is immersed in a joyful atmosphere.

After the reeds are harvested, they must first be soaked and thoroughly moistened to enhance their flexibility, and then undergo processes such as rolling, straightening, throwing, and pressing. When weaving mats, the whole family needs to be mobilized: the elderly select the reeds, cleanly and efficiently; the men string the reeds together, with quick eyes and hands; the women weave the mats, with skillful hands moving back and forth. Such scenes constitute a moving picture of life on the banks of the Zhongting River (中亭河).

Since ancient times, the reeds by the Zhongting River (中亭河) have been known as "iron crops." The reeds here grow without water and also grow with water, without the need for planting or fertilization. The reeds of the Zhongting River (中亭河) are as resilient as the reeds of Baiyangdian (白洋淀) upstream. When folded by hand, they have to be bent several times before reluctantly breaking, and the broken ends are still connected by strands of fiber. This innate resilience allows it to be woven into various production tools and daily necessities. Almost every household on the banks of the Zhongting River (中亭河) can weave reeds. They not only weave mats, sieves, baskets, and cages, but also screens, cooking utensils, and fishing gear. The woven objects are both sturdy and durable, and beautiful and elegant.

My mother often said that weaving mats should follow the saying 挑二压三平抬四 (tiāo èr yā sān píng tái sì - "pick two press three level lift four," a weaving technique). The mats woven by the villagers have exquisite patterns, including cross patterns, square patterns, triangular patterns, herringbone patterns, and meander patterns. The patterns are beautiful, the thickness is uniform, the four corners are flat, and the joints and edges are seamless. The fishing gear woven by the villagers is even more ingenious, with shrimp baskets shaped like a general's belly, ingot-shaped jumping baskets, a pry resembling a Santa hat, a crab pot resembling a large lantern, a maze made of reed foil rolled up and added to the bottom, and a vase-like fish basket. The shapes are diverse and beautiful. The fish bag in the shape of a basket is even more exquisite, with double-layer weaving, no joints inside or outside, and is particularly strong and durable, with each load capable of carrying more than 100 kilograms of fish.

In the past, the three meals a day for families on the banks of the Zhongting River (中亭河) were inseparable from "gaitian'er." "Gaitian'er" is a Hebei dialect term for a lid, mostly circular in shape, mainly used to place various pasta dishes. Every time people prepare for the Spring Festival, every family has to buy a pair of new "gaitian'er." My father was a master at weaving "gaitian'er." The "gaitian'er" he wove were not only for his own use, but also given to relatives and friends, and sold at the market. To weave "gaitian'er," you have to choose tough, large reeds and use a bamboo knife to split the reeds into uniform strips. When weaving, the strips must be passed from the center to all sides in sequence.

In recent years, the people of my hometown have also developed new handicrafts such as "reed paintings." "Reed paintings" do not require painting with a brush or ink. Each painting is woven from the stems, leaves, and flowers of reeds. About 80% of the entire picture is the natural color of the reeds, and about 20% is made by ironing and carbonizing, which can be called "green art painting." These handicrafts, which carry rural memories, are being sold to the whole country, and even overseas, through various online and offline channels.

The late autumn wind is cool, and the reed catkins by the Zhongting River (中亭河) are blooming again.

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The Long March on the Palm

By: 熊 锋

In childhood,

Grandpa always liked to hold me

Spreading out those rough, large hands

Telling the story of the Long March.

At that time, he still had an exceptionally bright pair of eyes.

At that time, his life had not yet been written into a mottled

stone—

At that time, "The Red Army fears not the hardship of the Long March, crossing grasslands,

climbing snow mountains..."

At that time, from the palm

to the fingertip,

was twenty-five thousand *li*.

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Photo Story

The Chinese painting "Maple Leaves and Autumn Cicada," by Qi Baishi (齐白石), is in the collection of the National Art Museum of China (中国美术馆).

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Spicy and Refined: Me and a City

By: 陈明明

In Quzhou (衢州), no dish is without spice, among which the well-known "Three Heads and One Palm" is representative. "Three Heads and One Palm" refers to snacks made with fish head, rabbit head, duck head, and duck palm, which can be found everywhere in Quzhou (衢州). Fish head is mainly braised, with fresh green and red peppers added, both for flavoring and color enhancement. Rabbit head, duck head, and duck palm are seasoned with dried chili peppers and various Chinese herbal medicines, spicy but not dry. These seemingly ordinary ingredients, through the skillful hands of Quzhou (衢州) people, have become the protagonists of roadside stalls. Gradually, more and more people eat them, and "Three Heads and One Palm" has also entered restaurants of all sizes, becoming synonymous with Quzhou (衢州) snacks.

Whenever guests come to Quzhou (衢州), I always invite them to try "Three Heads and One Palm." In the midst of the spicy and delightful experience, people often ask, "How is the spiciness of Quzhou (衢州) different from other places?" "Yes, the spiciness of Quzhou (衢州) is fresh and spicy." Whenever this happens, I am happy to explain. Located in western Zhejiang (浙江), Quzhou (衢州) is mostly mountainous and hilly, and the people who live here objectively need chili peppers to dispel cold and dampness. At the same time, Quzhou (衢州) is located at the junction of Zhejiang (浙), Fujian (闽), Jiangxi (赣), and Anhui (皖) provinces. With the flow of people and trade, the intensity of Jiangxi (江西), the mellowness of Anhui (安徽), and the sweetness of Fujian (福建) converge and blend here, forming Quzhou's (衢州) unique fresh and spicy flavor.

Tracing the history of Quzhou's (衢州) dietary changes, an interesting phenomenon can be found: the famous "Three Heads and One Palm" is only a few decades old. For me, I prefer to eat baked cakes, steamed sponge cakes, mochi, meat balls, scallion steamed buns... that I had when I was a child. These traditional snacks are diverse, and after thousands of years of accumulation, the taste is long-lasting and ever new.

Generally speaking, the richness of food is often directly proportional to the affluence of life. Historically, Quzhou's (衢州) economic peak appeared in the Song Dynasty (宋朝). At that time, Quzhou's (衢州) city commercial tax revenue was second only to Hangzhou (杭州) in Zhejiang (浙江). This level of economic development provided fertile ground for the "Southern Confucian Temple" to take root.

After the Jingkang Incident (靖康之变), Emperor Gaozong of Song (宋高宗) moved the capital to Lin'an (临安) (now Hangzhou (杭州)), and Kong Duanyou (孔端友), the 48th-generation direct descendant of Confucius (孔子), led his clan to cross south. Emperor Gaozong of Song (宋高宗), grateful for the Kong (孔) family's following, granted them residence in Quzhou (衢州) and built the Southern Confucian Family Temple (孔氏南宗家庙). Although there are many Confucian temples (孔庙) in the country, they are all school temples. There are only two family temples, one in Qufu (曲阜), Shandong (山东), and one in Quzhou (衢州), Zhejiang (浙江). This influence is far-reaching. In the nearly 900 years since then, Quzhou (衢州) has become the "Southern Confucian Holy Land," and in the "300-kilometer cultural circle" centered on it, it has nurtured many Confucian schools. Quzhou (衢州) has become the Jiangnan (江南) dissemination center of Confucianism.

Every year, I go to the Southern Confucian Family Temple (孔氏南宗家庙) several times, both as a pilgrimage and for learning. Like the Confucian Temple (孔庙) in Qufu (曲阜), it has the Dacheng Hall (大成殿), ginkgo trees, and cypress trees. The difference is that it also has the Silu Pavilion (思鲁阁). Lu (鲁) is the abbreviation for the State of Lu (鲁国), the birthplace of Confucius (孔子). Silu Pavilion (思鲁阁), as the name suggests, is to miss the homeland. During festivals, the descendants of the Kong (孔) family in Quzhou (衢州) will climb the Silu Pavilion (思鲁阁), look north to their homeland, and express their sorrow of parting. Under the Silu Pavilion (思鲁阁) stands the "Portrait of the Former Sage" stele, the treasure of the temple, which was copied by Kong Duanyou (孔端友) from the famous painting "Confucius Teaching Image" by the Tang Dynasty (唐代) painter Wu Daozi (吴道子) on the stele.

In recent years, the Chinese Confucian Academy (中国儒学馆) has been built opposite the Southern Confucian Family Temple (孔氏南宗家庙). Here, you can explore Confucianism, understand the development context, important representatives, and schools of Confucianism, and also appreciate Confucius (孔子) statues in different artistic styles.

The Southern Confucian Family Temple (孔氏南宗家庙) is located in the core of Quzhou Ancient City (衢州古城), connected to the North Gate Street (北门街) and Shuitingmen (水亭门) two historical and cultural blocks. Underneath, the bluestone road extends, and you can see the staggered horse head walls when you look up. On both sides are quaint shops. Strolling in the street without walls, the memory of history rushes to your face: the ancient city wall that defends "Iron Quzhou (铁衢州)," the Tianwang Pagoda (天王塔) of Quzhou (衢州) people "crying for three days," the Zhao Bian Ancestral Hall (赵抃祠) that sacrifices the "Iron-Faced Censor," the Zhou Xuanling Wang Temple (周宣灵王庙) that enshrines Zhou Xiong (周雄), the great filial son of the Southern Song Dynasty (南宋), the Grand Secretary Archway (都御史牌坊) established for Wang Ji (王玑), the great Confucian of the Ming Dynasty (明代), the Xianxuetang (县学塘), Zhonglou (钟楼), and Jiaochitang (蛟池塘) related to the "Three Monsters of Quzhou (衢州)" written in *Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio*, and the Luohan Well (罗汉井) that witnessed the Japanese army's implementation of bacteriological warfare... In the crisscrossing streets and alleys, the cultural context that has been deposited for thousands of years rises in the hot and spicy atmosphere. The fresh and spicy flavor and the elegant heritage are integrated here.

Quzhou (衢州) has a passionate taste and a rich interior.

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"Naan Mouth" Golden Yellow Fried Cake (Duoweizhai)

By: 荆卓然

I saw a call for entries for an essay contest, and I happened to have a suitable manuscript on hand. My mother said, "Zhuoran (卓然), revise the manuscript carefully today. Don't rush to submit it. Wait until you've had a serving of fried oil cake tomorrow before submitting it, and I guarantee it will be at the top of the list!" The oil cake my mother was talking about is the yellow millet flour oil cake from my hometown, Yangquan (阳泉), Shanxi (山西). "Cake" (糕) is a homophone for "high" (高), and my mother is encouraging me!

"Delicious bianshi (扁食), heartwarming opera, and nangzui (馕嘴) oil cake make dogs jump over walls." The oil cake in this folk song also refers to the yellow millet flour oil cake from my hometown. "Nangzui" is a local dialect term meaning particularly delicious. How tempting is yellow millet flour oil cake? This gives you an idea.

Yellow millet flour oil cake is a delicacy for the people of Jin (晋) and Shaanxi (陕). I heard my father say that my great-grandmother's yellow millet flour oil cake was especially delicious. Every time my father went to his great-grandmother's house, she would make him a special meal of yellow millet flour oil cake. My great-grandmother would select the shelled yellow millet, soak it in water until it was soft, then place it on a sorghum stalk sieve to dry until it was semi-dry. Then, carrying the semi-finished product, she would totter on her small feet to a neighbor's house to borrow their tea mortar to pound the yellow millet into flour. Then, tottering on her small feet, she would return home, add boiling water to knead the flour into dough, then shape it into yellow millet flour wotou (窝窝头), and steam it in a steamer over high heat. When the yellow millet flour emitted a sweet fragrance, it meant it was cooked. My great-grandmother would place the dough in a porcelain basin and repeatedly knead it with her hands dipped in cold water. Families with better conditions would knead it with their hands dipped in cooked oil, so that the surface of the fried oil cake would have bubbles. This kind of bubble cake was both "fa" (发 - rising) and fragrant, and also had a high appearance, which was very beautiful.

When I was in school, my mother would make me yellow millet flour oil cake before every exam, hoping that I could get a "gao" (糕 - high) score. The freshly cooked cake dough must be processed while it is hot. If it cools down, the dough will harden and it will be difficult to knead. Because the cake dough was too hot, my mother would make a sound of "Hai!" every time she kneaded the dough, as if a martial arts practitioner was practicing their skills. At that moment, it seemed that my mother's hand was not touching a ball of dough, but a stinging scorpion. Every time she "teased" the "scorpion," she would quickly withdraw her hand, otherwise there would be a risk of being "stung." After pressing the dough with her palm, my mother began to pound it with her fist. When I was a child, I often wondered if she imagined the dough as a bad person, and concentrated all her sorrows and hatred on her fist, and beat it hard. Only when the dough was processed to the point where the basin was clean, the hands were clean, and the dough was clean, was the preliminary process completed.

My mother often chatted about related legends while making yellow millet flour oil cake. The legend that Emperor Taizong (唐太宗) and Emperor Zhongzong (唐中宗) of the Tang Dynasty (唐朝) more than 1,000 years ago named this delicacy "Jian Feng Xiao" (见风消 - disappears with the wind), and the legend that the oil cake with bubbles on the surface was introduced into the palace at the end of the Qing Dynasty (清朝), "added" a royal atmosphere to the yellow millet flour oil cake. Legends are legends after all, which shows the people's love for this delicacy.

In the era of material scarcity, yellow millet flour oil cake was a rare meal. In daily life, oil cake was only eaten when important relatives came, or on major occasions such as marrying a wife or celebrating the New Year. When the Red Army (红军) was in Yan'an (延安), the people welcomed the soldiers to the warm kang (炕 - heated brick bed) and gave them oil cake to eat, which reflected the strong bond between the army and the people. The folk song "Shan Dan Dan Blossoms Red and Bright" (《山丹丹开花红艳艳》) sings, "Hot oil cake, hey hey yo, put it on the table, hey hey yo, pour the rolling rice wine for the loved ones to drink, yi er ya er come on yo...", which also records such a grand occasion. Whenever friends come to my house, as long as my mother knows in advance, she will make yellow millet flour oil cake to entertain them. My mother joked that people who write articles are all literary stars who have descended to earth. Only by eating more cake can they write high-level articles.

After the oil cake dough is kneaded, my mother begins to wrap the filling like dumplings. The filling is mainly made of red beans that have been processed into a paste, with sugar added, which is very sweet. In Shanxi (山西), some families wrap brown sugar or white radish and tofu filling in the yellow millet cake, which also tastes good.

When it comes to actually frying oil cake, there are many particularities in our area. The pot must be an iron pot from Renjiayu (任家峪), and the oil must be flaxseed oil. My father said that in the past, people liked to use badger oil and toon tree seed oil to fry oil cake. The yellow millet flour oil cake fried with these two kinds of oil will make your mouth water at a glance.

When the oil temperature reaches 70% to 80% heat, my mother puts three to five yellow millet cakes into the oil pan in a group, and uses a small spatula to turn them back and forth, frying them until the surface is golden brown, preferably with small bubbles, and then they can be taken out of the pan. The freshly fried oil cake emits a fragrant aroma, and the fragrance rushes straight into the nose and into the heart. Pick up one with chopsticks, gently blow a few breaths of cool air, open your mouth and take a bite. The crispy on the outside and glutinous and sweet on the inside yellow millet flour oil cake makes me only regret that my stomach is too small. Eating such a delicacy, if you fall behind in the exam and don't get a "gao" (糕 - high) score, you will feel a little guilty and regretful.

People in eastern Jin (晋) are good at metaphors. During the Qing Dynasty (清朝), there was a Shanxi Bangzi (山西梆子) opera performer named Ge Xixian (葛熙贤) in Yangquan (阳泉). His "singing, reciting, acting, and fighting" skills were powerful, and because he made a living selling fried oil cake in his childhood, people gave him the stage name "Oil Cake Dan" (油糕旦). Ge Xixian (葛熙贤) was good at repertoires such as "Hundred Flowers Generals" (《百花点将》), and trained many "Little Oil Cake Dan" (小油糕旦) apprentices, who still have a good reputation in the eastern Jin (晋) opera circle.

When my mother makes yellow millet flour oil cake, she likes to hum a few lines of the folk song "Thirty li of oat noodles, forty li of cake, ten li of buckwheat noodles break the waist," meaning that yellow millet flour oil cake is particularly filling, and you can walk 40 li after eating it. I drive out every day, and I don't have this experience. Most of the time, after eating yellow millet flour oil cake, I will sleep comfortably. My father said, it's really "eating liuyou (馏油) cake and sleeping a soul-returning sleep" (吃的馏油糕，睡的还魂觉 (chī de liú yóu gāo, shuì de huán hún jué - "eat steamed oil cake, sleep a soul-returning sleep," describes the satisfaction and comfort of enjoying good food and a restful sleep)), you people of this generation have encountered such good days, it is really too comfortable.

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