People's Daily - November 5, 2025

Xi Jinping Meets with Russian Prime Minister Mishustin

This newspaper reported from Beijing on November 4th (Reporter Hu Zexi (胡泽曦)) On the morning of November 4th, President Xi Jinping (习近平) met with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin (米舒斯京) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing (北京人民大会堂).

Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that since the beginning of this year, China-Russia relations have been anchored to higher-level and higher-quality development goals, and have been moving forward steadily in a turbulent external environment. Maintaining, consolidating, and developing China-Russia relations is a strategic choice for both sides. My two meetings with President Putin (普京) in Moscow (莫斯科) and Beijing (北京) involved in-depth exchanges on the strategic and overall issues in China-Russia relations, and made new plans and deployments. The two sides should maintain close coordination, implement the important consensus reached between myself and President Putin (普京), focus on the fundamental interests of the two countries and their peoples, make the cake of China-Russia cooperation bigger, and make new and greater contributions to world peace and development.

Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that the two sides should steadily expand mutual investment, carry out cooperation in traditional fields such as energy, interconnectivity, agriculture, and aerospace; explore the potential for cooperation in new business forms such as artificial intelligence, the digital economy, and green development, and create new growth points for cooperation; strengthen cultural and people-to-people exchanges, and encourage more people from all sectors of society in both countries to participate in the cause of China-Russia friendship and cooperation. Not long ago, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee deliberated and approved the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal, making top-level designs and strategic plans for China's economic and social development in the next five years. China will comprehensively promote Chinese-style modernization, unswervingly promote high-quality economic and social development, and expand high-level opening up to the outside world. China is willing to work with Russia to better align China's "15th Five-Year Plan" with Russia's economic and social development strategy, and continuously benefit the people of both countries.

Mishustin (米舒斯京) conveyed President Putin's (普京) cordial greetings and best wishes to President Xi Jinping (习近平). Mishustin (米舒斯京) said that he congratulated the successful holding of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and believed that China would surely achieve the goals set in the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal and achieve greater economic and social development achievements. The two heads of state held two meetings this year, making strategic plans for the development of Russia-China relations and consolidating the Russia-China comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination. Russia is willing to work with China to implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, deepen cooperation in economy and trade, science and technology, energy, agriculture, digital economy and other fields, strengthen cultural and people-to-people exchanges, strengthen multilateral coordination and cooperation, and promote more achievements in bilateral cooperation.

Wang Yi (王毅) attended the meeting.

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Xi Jinping Sends Message of Condolence to Jamaican Governor-General Allen Regarding Hurricane Disaster in Jamaica

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 4th. On November 3rd, President Xi Jinping (习近平) sent a message of condolence to Jamaican Governor-General Allen regarding the hurricane disaster in Jamaica.

Xi Jinping (习近平) stated that he was shocked to learn of the severe hurricane disaster in Jamaica, which caused casualties and significant property losses. On behalf of the Chinese government and the Chinese people, I would like to express my deep condolences to the victims and extend my sincere sympathies to the families of the victims, the injured, and the people in the disaster area. Jamaica is China's strategic partner, and the people of the two countries have a profound friendship. China is willing to provide assistance to Jamaica to support the Jamaican people in overcoming the disaster and rebuilding their homes as soon as possible.

On the same day, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) sent a message of condolence to Jamaican Prime Minister Holness.

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Unswervingly follow the path of socialist social governance with Chinese characteristics.

By: 本报记者 张 洋 吴储岐 沈童睿

Social work is related to the Party's long-term governance and the country's long-term stability and security, as well as social harmony, stability, and the people's happiness and well-being. It is an important issue written into the Chinese-style modernization process.

Since the new era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has made a series of major decisions and deployments from the strategic height of the overall development of the Party and the country's cause, vigorously promoting social work practice innovation, theoretical innovation, and institutional innovation. Social work in the new era is moving towards high-quality development, and the advantages and effectiveness of socialist social governance with Chinese characteristics are constantly demonstrated.

"Social work must be strengthened"

In the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal, "taking the road of socialist social governance with Chinese characteristics" has attracted widespread social attention.

This is not just a goal and task, but also an inevitable path that carries the mission of the times and leads to a better future.

Development and security, vitality and order, have always been dialectically unified and indispensable. Promoting Chinese-style modernization requires a social environment that is both vibrant and orderly.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out: "Looking at the governance practices of various countries, if social governance cannot keep up with the pace of economic development, and various social contradictions and problems cannot be effectively resolved, not only will economic development be unsustainable, but the entire society may also fall into turmoil." This important conclusion is 振聋发聩 (zhèn lóng fā kuì - "deafening," a metaphor for words or actions that are shocking and enlightening) and thought-provoking.

Since the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) footprints have spread all over the country, always concerned about social security and stability, and always thinking about the people's peaceful and happy life. "The city should not only have height, but also warmth" "Let the community become the safest and most secure harbor for residents"... Earnest entrustment carries a strong sense of mission and responsibility.

The Second Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) deliberated and approved the "Plan for the Reform of Party and State Institutions," and decided to establish the Central Social Work Department (中央社会工作部), and establish social work departments in the Party committees at the provincial, municipal, and county levels. The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) made special arrangements for "improving the social work system and mechanism."

From November 5th to 6th last year, the Central Social Work Conference (中央社会工作会议) was held, which was the first time in the history of our Party. Social work has been raised to an unprecedented strategic height.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) made important instructions and emphasized that "social work is an important part of the work of the Party and the country" "Social work faces new situations and new tasks, and must show new responsibilities and new actions" "Doing social work well is the common responsibility of the entire Party."

New responsibilities and new actions, the key lies in "unswervingly taking the road of socialist social governance with Chinese characteristics." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) not only pointed out the direction, but also taught the methods:

"Be good at transforming the Party's leadership and the advantages of our country's socialist system into social governance advantages";

"Proceed from our country's reality, follow the laws of governance, grasp the characteristics of the times, and strengthen and innovate social governance";

"We must better unite and serve the masses, improve the coordination mechanism of the masses' interests, improve the level of public services, and solve the urgent, difficult, and worrying problems of the masses with heart and soul";

"We must improve the social governance system and improve the social work system and mechanism";

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"The people's hearts are the greatest politics." Social work is a work carried out in the broadest social field, the broadest grass-roots organizations, and the broadest masses of the people. It must be grasped tightly and implemented in detail.

On March 5th this year, the Jiangsu (江苏) delegation to the Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress (全国人民代表大会) deliberated, and a conversation warmed people's hearts -

"How many people are there in your community?"

"7,266 people, composed of 5 residential districts. When I first came, there were only more than 3,000 people, and now it has doubled."

"In the past, the neighborhood committees were relatively small in my impression. The community secretary is the 'prime minister of the alley,' who manages a lot of things and is very difficult."

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) also paid special attention to new employment groups: "Our social groups are being refined and differentiated. We must keep up with the management and services for the couriers, online car-hailing drivers, e-commerce practitioners, etc. that have emerged in recent years, and fill this gap. There must be both management and service."

"Social work must be strengthened." Concise and sonorous.

The Party building-led grass-roots governance coordination mechanism, the emerging field Party building work coordination mechanism, the petition work joint conference, the industry association chamber of commerce reform and development joint conference, the volunteer service work coordination group... The social work system and mechanism are constantly established and improved, and the overall effectiveness of social work is constantly improved.

The newly revised Villagers Committee Organization Law (村民委员会组织法) and the newly revised Urban Residents Committee Organization Law (城市居民委员会组织法) were officially promulgated. Strengthening the construction of the community workers team, improving the volunteer service system in the new era, promoting the rule of law in petition work, strengthening the spiritual civilization construction of national industry associations and chambers of commerce, and strengthening the service management of couriers and online delivery personnel... Social work laws, regulations and policies have been successively introduced.

In today's China, social work has reached a new level, and the goal is clear and firm - "Chinese-style modernization should and can achieve a dynamic balance of being lively but not chaotic, active and orderly."

The dream is ahead, and the road is under our feet.

"We must work together to continuously improve the level of social construction and governance, continue to create a harmonious and inclusive atmosphere, solve the major and minor issues around the people, and make everyone smile more and feel warmer." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) heartwarming words in the New Year's message in 2025 encourage us to work tirelessly and forge ahead.

"Continuously enhance the Party's appeal, cohesion and influence in emerging fields"

"I came to see you specifically."

Before the Spring Festival in 2019, in Shitou Hutong (石头胡同), Qianmen (前门), Beijing (北京), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to the courier service point. A kind greeting warmed the busy "little bees" in the cold winter.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The 'courier brothers' work very hard, starting early and working late, regardless of wind or rain. The busier they are during holidays, the more they are like hardworking little bees, the most hardworking workers, bringing convenience to everyone's life."

The wheels of the times are rolling forward, the socialist market economy is constantly developing, and a large number of new economic organizations and new social organizations are emerging. In particular, with the platform economy as the representative, new business forms are booming, and there are about 84 million new employment form workers in our country. They no longer stick to traditional offices or factories, but shuttle through buildings and alleys and "gallop" on the information highway.

Wherever there are masses, there is the Party's work, wherever there are Party members, there are Party organizations, and wherever there are Party organizations, there is the full play of the role of Party organizations. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "Focus on strengthening Party building in new economic organizations, new social organizations, and new employment groups, and continuously enhance the Party's appeal, cohesion, and influence in emerging fields."

The social work department conscientiously studied and understood the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions, and together with relevant departments, in accordance with the deployment of the symposium on Party building in emerging fields, deeply studied where the "new" of Party building in emerging fields is, where the "difficult" is, and where the "implementation" is.

From promoting the Party's organizational coverage and work coverage, to organically integrating the Party's work with production and operation, innovation and entrepreneurship, social services, and grass-roots governance, promoting "strong Party building, strong development"; from consolidating and improving the Party building of non-public enterprises, to deeply promoting the Party building of new social organizations; from strengthening the Party building of new business forms and new employment groups, to strengthening the service management of new employment groups... A series of solid measures have promoted the Party building work in emerging fields to go deeper and more solid, and see results.

Industry associations and chambers of commerce are important bridges for the Party and the government to connect with the market and society. In recent years, various localities have continuously strengthened the Party building of industry associations and chambers of commerce, improved the organizational system, and promoted the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party in depth. Adhering to the principle of "managing the industry also requires managing Party building," various departments give full play to their functional roles and jointly promote the healthy development of industry associations and chambers of commerce. Industry associations and chambers of commerce pay attention to standardizing internal management, strengthening industry conduct construction, actively taking the initiative, and the functional role of serving the industry, serving the society, and serving the masses is constantly highlighted.

In the final analysis, Party building work is people's work.

In February 2021, the 19th Central Political Bureau conducted a collective study on improving the social security system covering the whole people. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that "some groups such as migrant workers, flexible employment personnel, and new employment form personnel are not included in social security, and there are situations of 'missed insurance', 'uninsured', and 'discontinued insurance'." These problems "must be given high attention and effectively solved."

Various departments have taken active actions and successively introduced measures to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of new employment groups and build harmonious labor relations, and put forward clear requirements in terms of labor remuneration, reasonable rest, social insurance, and labor safety.

The warmth of the policy is constantly transformed into the people's tangible happiness. In recent years, various localities have vigorously promoted the construction of friendly scenes to solve the urgent, difficult, and worrying problems of new employment groups: building warm-hearted stations, where they can rest when they are tired and confide when they are upset, enhancing their sense of gain; rectifying illegal road height and width restriction facilities, building "driver homes," strengthening their sense of security; providing services such as career planning and education and training, enhancing their sense of integration; issuing "most beautiful" solicitation orders, selecting the most beautiful couriers, the most beautiful drivers, etc., establishing a sense of honor.

This warmth is inspiring. Today, in Xicheng District (西城区), Beijing (北京), Party member couriers have become familiar "red vests" among the neighborhoods; in Yangpu District (杨浦区), Shanghai (上海), Party member riders actively participate in civilization guidance, safety patrols, and emergency volunteer activities... More and more couriers, online delivery personnel, online car-hailing drivers, and truck drivers are approaching Party organizations and becoming valuable "increments" in urban governance.

"We must build grass-roots Party organizations into strong fighting fortresses"

Blue sky, blue sea, clean shore, white sand, Aojiao Village (澳角村) quietly stands in the southeast corner of Dongshan Island (东山岛), Zhangzhou City (漳州市), Fujian (福建) Province.

Last golden autumn, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) once again set foot on this land. After 23 years, the fishing village has been renewed. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) was very pleased: "The village-level Party organization should play the role of a locomotive, leading the villagers to do a good job in the 'sea' article, and move forward on the road of rural revitalization and common prosperity."

In the countryside, the village Party organization is the "locomotive" leading to prosperity and beauty; in the city, the community Party organization must also be the "backbone" for the people to live and work in peace and contentment.

In June 2021, walking into the comprehensive service center of Wenting Lane Community (文亭巷社区), Wenhui Road Street (文汇路街道), Xining City (西宁市), Qinghai (青海) Province, the singing was melodious and the calligraphy was fragrant. Calligraphy and painting room, dance room, reading room, rehabilitation room... The facilities are all available, and the residents are happy.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) said to everyone: "To do a good job in a community, there must be a grass-roots organization led by a very strong Party organization, to provide comprehensive services in all aspects of the community, and to organize the autonomous affairs of the masses well."

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) often goes to rural areas and urban communities when he goes to local inspections. Party building leading grass-roots governance is a work he has repeatedly emphasized -

"Take strengthening Party building at the grass-roots level and consolidating the Party's ruling foundation as a red line running through social governance and grass-roots construction";

"We must build grass-roots Party organizations into strong fighting fortresses, transform the major tasks proposed by the Party Central Committee into specific work at the grass-roots level, and grasp them firmly, solidly, and effectively";

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If the foundation is not solid, the earth will shake. The grass-roots level is the foundation of the Party's governance and the source of its strength.

All regions and departments have established a clear orientation of grasping the grass-roots level, continuously improving the system and mechanism, innovating the governance methods, and promoting the comprehensive progress and comprehensive excellence of grass-roots Party organizations.

Reducing burdens and empowering, moving forward lightly. The promulgation of the "Several Provisions on Rectifying Formalism and Reducing Burdens for the Grass-roots Level" is like a spring breeze. The meeting documents have been streamlined, the supervision, inspection and assessment have been standardized, and more and more resources and forces have been tilted towards the grass-roots level. The vast number of grass-roots cadres have more time and energy to implement and do practical things.

Clarifying powers and responsibilities, focusing on practical work. Putting forward 20 measures of "strong horses, light cars, smooth roads, and gathering strength," formulating and implementing a list of matters for townships (streets) to perform their duties, establishing and improving a system for the admission of work matters in villages (communities), a series of measures to promote the grass-roots level to focus on what should be done and can be done, plant the "responsibility field" well, and do a good job in their own affairs.

"Three Governance" integration, bursting with vitality. In Jinniu District (金牛区), Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川), the Party branch is built on the grid, the "red property" cooperates with the building Party group, and residents' problems can be "solved downstairs"; in Anqiu City (安丘市), Weifang (潍坊), Shandong (山东), the grass-roots Party organization innovatively carries out the "Maza (small stool) Council," Party members and cadres go deep into the front line, coordinate and solve people's livelihood problems, and turn the people's worries into peace of mind... The grass-roots governance system combining autonomy, rule of law, and rule of virtue under the leadership of the Party organization has been established and improved, and the socialization, legalization, intelligence, and specialization level of social governance has been continuously improved.

In March this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to Zhaoxing Dong Village (肇兴侗寨), Liping County (黎平县), Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture (黔东南苗族侗族自治州), Guizhou (贵州) Province, and sat down with village cadres and villager representatives to talk freely.

The first secretary stationed in the village is engaged in construction, retired veteran Party members participate in mediation, and college students who return to their hometown to start a business establish cooperatives... In the laughter, the vigorous vitality of the comprehensive revitalization of the Dong village is leaping, and it also vividly confirms a truth - "To do a good job in the people's affairs, the key lies in strengthening the construction of rural grass-roots Party organizations."

Fighting fortresses, strong and powerful. Grass-roots governance, a myriad of phenomena. The Party's political advantages and organizational advantages are constantly transformed into grass-roots governance effectiveness.

"Let the wisdom and talent of the masses become an inexhaustible source of social governance innovation"

The autumn wind is refreshing, the Torreya trees are fragrant, and the Fengxi River (枫溪江) flows through the ancient town of Fengqiao (枫桥镇), Zhuji City (诸暨市), Zhejiang (浙江) Province. The "Fengqiao Experience" that originated here is enduring.

In September 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) made a special trip here to visit the Fengqiao Experience Exhibition Hall, and profoundly pointed out: "This contains the policies and strategies of our Party to deal with problems and resolve contradictions, that is, to take the mass line, rely closely on the people, and solve problems at the grass-roots level and resolve them in the bud."

The times are changing, the situation is changing, and the content of social contradictions is also changing, but the method of relying on the people to correctly handle the contradictions among the people has never changed. Today, various localities adhere to and develop the "Fengqiao Experience" in the new era, make good use of the "Four Down to the Grass-roots Level" system, strengthen and improve the people's petition work, promote the source governance and resolution of accumulated petition problems, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the people, and promote social harmony and stability.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) took the lead in setting an example, deeply practiced the Party's mass line, and repeatedly put forward clear requirements: "We should pay attention to publicizing the masses and educating the masses, carry out work in a way that the masses like to see and are easy to accept, improve the ideological awareness of the masses, and make them enthusiastic and act" "Let the wisdom and talent of the masses become an inexhaustible source of social governance innovation"...

"Old Yangshu (Poplar) Propaganda Gathering" is a group organization composed of old cadres, old soldiers, old experts, old teachers, and old models in Yangpu District (杨浦区), Shanghai (上海). The group takes it as its responsibility to publicize the Party's innovative theories and the concept of people's city, and widely carries out propaganda activities through online and offline methods.

In November last year, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) replied to all comrades of the "Old Yangshu (Poplar) Propaganda Gathering," emphasizing that "the people build the people's city, and the people's city is for the people," and calling on "to jointly build a harmonious and beautiful city and create a happy and beautiful life."

Today, the whole-process people's democracy is deeply integrated into Shanghai's urban governance. Listening to the opinions of the masses, responding to the concerns of the masses, and solving practical problems... Here, the people are the protagonists.

Coincidentally. Beizhan Community (北站社区), Minzhi Street (民治街道), Longhua District (龙华区), Shenzhen (深圳) City (深圳市), Guangdong (广东省) Province, is a high-density community in a super-large city, with diverse structures and diverse demands, and the governance is not easy.

As early as October 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came here and clearly pointed out: "We must adhere to relying on residents, organize residents to participate in community governance in an orderly manner in accordance with the law, and achieve everyone's participation, everyone's efforts, and everyone's sharing."
Today, in the community, volunteers guide the orderly parking of electric vehicles; beside the small square table in the Party-Masses Service Center, community cadres and residents discuss the care of children of people from other places... Community cadres and the masses deeply realize: "Discussing matters with everyone and having everyone contribute is the key to solving problems."

Social work, to a large extent, is doing mass work. Better uniting and serving the masses is both the responsibility of the work and the basic method of carrying it out. By closely relying on the people and organizing and mobilizing the masses, social work can be more grounded, more vibrant, and more effective.

Listening to public opinion and gathering public wisdom, broadly accepting suggestions has become an important channel for promoting the modernization of social governance. Social work departments should do a good job in collecting people's suggestions, continuously improve the system and mechanism, and make good use of online and offline platforms to make the collection of public sentiment more smooth and efficient.

Excellent traditional culture continues to permeate people's hearts. The vast rural areas have formulated and improved village rules and regulations, and established organizations such as the Red and White Affairs Council and the Moral Evaluation Council to self-manage and self-supervise, consciously promote changing customs and habits, emphasize civility and not extravagance, and a new trend of promoting morality and thrift is blowing strongly.

Volunteer service is an important symbol of social progress and civilization. At present, the number of registered volunteers nationwide has reached 237 million, with 1.35 million volunteer teams of various types. "Volunteer when you have time, find a volunteer when you have difficulties" and "I dedicate, I am happy" have become a new social trend.

Everything for the people, everything relying on the people. The wisdom and strength of hundreds of millions of people are constantly consolidating the foundation of social work.

On the new journey, uniting more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, unswervingly following the path of socialist social governance with Chinese characteristics, and continuously promoting the high-quality development of social work in the new era will surely make our society both vibrant and orderly in the process of modernization.

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Li Qiang Meets with Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, Serbian Prime Minister Miloš Vučić, and Nigerian Speaker of the House of Representatives Tajudeen Abbas Respectively

On the afternoon of November 4th, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) met with Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, who was in Shanghai (上海) to attend the 8th China International Import Expo.

Li Qiang (李强) stated that in the 33 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Georgia, both sides have always respected and understood each other, and firmly supported each other's core interests and major concerns. Since the establishment of a strategic partnership between the two countries in 2023, cooperation in various fields has accelerated, achieving many new results and bringing tangible benefits to the people of both countries. China is willing to always be true friends and good partners with Georgia, carry forward the fine tradition of mutual support, strengthen strategic communication, expand pragmatic cooperation, jointly promote modernization, and better benefit the people of both countries.

Li Qiang (李强) pointed out that China and Georgia have strong economic complementarity. China is willing to further strengthen the alignment of development strategies with Georgia, take high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" cooperation as a guide, better leverage the role of the intergovernmental economic and trade cooperation committee, explore more areas of common interest, and promote the continuous improvement of China-Georgia cooperation in quality and efficiency. The two sides should take the substantive conclusion of the bilateral free trade agreement upgrade negotiations as an opportunity to deepen cooperation in trade, investment, and connectivity, expand cooperation in digital economy, new energy, artificial intelligence and other emerging industries, and hope that Georgia will continue to provide a good business environment for Chinese enterprises. China is also willing to strengthen exchanges with Georgia in tourism, education, science and technology, culture, youth and other fields, encourage more provinces and cities to establish friendly relations, and promote greater mutual understanding and affinity between the two peoples. China and Georgia are both countries of the Global South and should strengthen multilateral communication and coordination, implement the four global initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平), unite the vast number of developing countries, adhere to multilateralism and free trade, and defend the global economic and trade order and international fairness and justice.

Kobakhidze stated that China is Georgia's strategic partner, and Georgian-Chinese relations have continuously developed on the basis of mutual respect and mutual trust, and the friendship between the people has deepened. Georgia firmly adheres to the one-China principle and is willing to strengthen exchanges at all levels with China, leverage the role of the bilateral free trade agreement within the framework of the "Belt and Road" initiative, further expand cooperation in trade, investment, connectivity, education, tourism and other fields, and promote people-to-people exchanges. Under the current international situation, China has played the role of a responsible major country in maintaining world peace and defending fairness and justice, injecting valuable stability into a turbulent world. Georgia supports the four global initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平) and is willing to strengthen multilateral cooperation with China to jointly promote world peace, stability and development.

After the meeting, the two prime ministers jointly witnessed the signing of a number of bilateral cooperation documents in trade, artificial intelligence, agriculture, environmental protection, inspection and quarantine, culture, aviation and other fields.

Chen Jining (陈吉宁) and Wu Zhenglong (吴政隆) participated in the above activities.

On the afternoon of November 4th, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) met with Serbian Prime Minister Miloš Vučić, who was in Shanghai (上海) to attend the 8th China International Import Expo.

Li Qiang (李强) stated that under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, China-Serbia relations have maintained a steady momentum of development, and mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields has accelerated. Since the beginning of this year, President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Vučić have held two meetings, reaching broad consensus on a series of major issues, further pointing the direction for the construction of a China-Serbia community with a shared future in the new era. China is willing to work with Serbia to uphold the spirit of mutual respect and mutual trust, firmly support each other's core interests and major concerns, continuously enrich the connotation of bilateral relations, promote the deepening and solidifying of cooperation between the two countries, and bring more benefits to the people of China and Serbia.

Li Qiang (李强) pointed out that the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee reviewed and approved the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal, making strategic plans for China's development in the next five years and even longer. China is willing to strengthen the alignment with Serbia's "Serbia 2035" development plan, make full use of the bilateral free trade agreement with Serbia, better leverage the role of the intergovernmental economic and trade mixed committee mechanism, promote key projects such as the Hungary-Serbia Railway within the framework of high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road", deeply explore cooperation potential in fields such as technological innovation, green economy, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence, and promote the continuous expansion and efficiency improvement of economic and trade cooperation. The two sides should further strengthen cultural, tourism, education, sports and other people-to-people exchanges to promote deeper friendship between China and Serbia. China is willing to closely coordinate and cooperate with Serbia on platforms such as the United Nations to promote all parties to actively implement the four global initiatives, practice true multilateralism, strengthen and improve global governance, and better build a community with a shared future for mankind.

Vučić stated that Serbia and China have a profound traditional friendship, and relations between the two countries have made great progress in recent years. The successful mutual visits of President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Vučić have led Serbia-China relations to a new historical height. The Serbian government adheres to the one-China principle and firmly supports China's legitimate position in safeguarding its core interests. Serbia sincerely thanks China for its valuable support for Serbia's economic and social development, and looks forward to close high-level exchanges with China, deepening cooperation in economy and trade, investment, processing industry, science and technology, artificial intelligence, tourism and other fields, and enhancing the friendship between the two peoples. China's economic growth is injecting strong impetus into the world's sustainable development, and it is believed that China's "15th Five-Year Plan" will bring new opportunities for cooperation between Serbia and other countries with China. Serbia firmly supports President Xi Jinping's (习近平) concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind and the four global initiatives, and is willing to strengthen cooperation with China in multilateral occasions to promote common development and prosperity.

Chen Jining (陈吉宁) and Wu Zhenglong (吴政隆) attended the meeting.

On the afternoon of November 4th, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) met with Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nigeria Tajudeen Abbas, who was in Shanghai (上海) to attend the 8th China International Import Expo.

Li Qiang (李强) stated that China and Nigeria are good brothers and good partners with a deep traditional friendship. In recent years, with the joint efforts of both sides, the development of China-Nigeria relations has entered a "fast track." In September last year, President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu held a meeting in Beijing (北京), promoting the relationship between the two countries to a new stage of comprehensive strategic partnership. China is willing to continue to work hand in hand with Nigeria on the road to modernization, strengthen the alignment of development strategies, expand all-round cooperation, achieve more practical results, and better serve the economic and social construction of the two countries.

Li Qiang (李强) pointed out that China and Nigeria are both developing countries with large populations and huge development potential. The economic structures of the two countries are highly complementary. By further tightening the bonds of cooperation, greater development synergy can be gathered. China is willing to actively implement the "Ten Partnership Plans" of China and Africa with Nigeria, jointly build the "Belt and Road" with high quality, promote the early implementation of zero-tariff measures in Nigeria through the negotiation and signing of a common development economic partnership agreement, improve the level of cooperation between the two countries in trade, investment, agriculture, mining, infrastructure, people's livelihood and other fields, and expand cooperation in emerging industries such as clean energy, electric vehicles, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology. China supports Nigeria in playing a greater role in international and regional affairs, and is willing to strengthen coordination and cooperation with Nigeria in multilateral mechanisms such as BRICS, the United Nations, and the World Trade Organization to promote the joint self-improvement of the Global South, jointly promote world multipolarity and economic globalization, and build a more just and reasonable global governance system.

Abbas stated that against the backdrop of rising global instability and uncertainty, China's continuous holding of the Import Expo demonstrates China's commitment to sharing development opportunities with the world and promoting common development. Nigeria and China are both developing countries. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations, they have always respected and supported each other, and the development momentum of the relations between the two countries is strong. Nigeria firmly adheres to the one-China principle, firmly supports China's efforts to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and is willing to strengthen exchanges of experience in governance with China, expand mutually beneficial cooperation in economy and trade, infrastructure, energy and other fields, and strengthen people-to-people exchanges. The Nigerian Parliament is willing to provide strong support and guarantee for cooperation between Nigeria and China in various fields, and promote the continuous advancement of the Nigeria-China comprehensive strategic partnership to a higher level.

Chen Jining (陈吉宁) and Wu Zhenglong (吴政隆) attended the meeting.

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Zhao Leji Meets with Representatives of Pacific Island Countries Attending Seminar for Parliamentarians

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 4th. Zhao Leji (赵乐际), Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, met in Beijing (北京) on the 4th with representatives from various countries attending the Pacific Island Countries' Parliamentarians Seminar.

Zhao Leji (赵乐际) stated that under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping (习近平) and Pacific Island leaders, the relationship between China and Pacific Island countries has maintained a good momentum of development. China has always been a trustworthy good friend and reliable partner for island nations. China is willing to work with island nations to enhance political mutual trust, expand mutually beneficial cooperation, strengthen the alignment of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative and the "2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent," strengthen multilateral collaboration, and jointly implement the four major global initiatives. Strengthen multi-level and multi-field exchanges between legislative bodies, deepen exchanges of experience in governance and legislation and supervision, and provide legal guarantees for cooperation between the two sides.

Representatives from participating countries stated that Pacific Island countries adhere to the one-China principle, support the four major global initiatives, and are willing to work with China to jointly promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. The legislative bodies of island nations are willing to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with the National People's Congress of China (中国全国人大) to promote the development of relations between the two sides.

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Han Zheng Attends Second World Social Development Summit and Addresses General Debate

Doha, November 4 (Reporter Guan Kejiang) On November 4, local time, Vice President Han Zheng (韩正) attended the Second World Social Development Summit in Doha, Qatar (卡塔尔多哈) and delivered a speech in the general debate.

Han Zheng (韩正) said that in March 1995, the first World Summit for Social Development was successfully held, and countries reached the Copenhagen Declaration and the Programme of Action. Over the past 30 years, the Chinese government has adhered to the people-centered development philosophy, won the battle against poverty as scheduled, and achieved the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda poverty reduction target 10 years ahead of schedule; implemented an employment-first strategy, ensured and improved people's livelihoods in development, built the world's largest education, medical, and social security system, and promoted inclusive social development. China has also actively shared its poverty reduction and development experience with other countries, making due contributions to promoting the progress of human social development.

Han Zheng (韩正) emphasized that President Xi Jinping (习近平) has proposed the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind and the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, which have pointed out the direction for the global social development cause. Recently, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was successfully held. In the next five years, China will promote the results of high-quality development to benefit all the people more and more fairly, and will also inject more positive energy and certainty into the global development cause.

Han Zheng (韩正) put forward four suggestions. First, adhere to the people-oriented concept. The key to the implementation of various social development agendas is to be people-oriented, to substantially improve people's well-being, especially to meet the urgent needs of the vast number of developing countries to eliminate poverty, and to bring people a real sense of gain, happiness, and security.

Second, focus on the goal of common development. It is necessary to fully implement the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and promote the common development of all countries in the world. We must adhere to relying on development to promote high-quality and full employment, so that everyone has the opportunity to achieve their own development through hard work.

Third, adhere to the principle of universal benefit and inclusiveness. It is necessary to foster a universally beneficial and inclusive development environment and promote social fairness and justice. Developed countries should assume more responsibility and promote the balanced distribution of resources and equal development opportunities. It is necessary to improve the balance and accessibility of public services, so that the elderly, people with disabilities, women, children, youth and other groups can share the fruits of social development.

Fourth, promote the spirit of unity and cooperation. It is necessary to practice true multilateralism, support the United Nations in playing a central coordinating role in the global social development agenda, and achieve global governance through consultation, joint construction, and sharing. It is necessary to increase the representation and voice of developing countries in global social development governance and promote the development of the international order in a more just and reasonable direction.

Han Zheng (韩正) said that China looks forward to working with all parties to take the convening of this summit as an opportunity to accelerate the implementation of the Copenhagen Declaration and the Programme of Action, inject stronger impetus into the global social development cause, and make greater contributions to promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.

The Second World Social Development Summit will be held from November 4 to 6, aiming to summarize the progress since the Copenhagen Summit, formulate a roadmap for promoting social development, and accelerate the implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. More than 30 heads of state or government and more than 100 ministerial-level representatives attended.

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Achieving Mutual Success Through Openness and Connectivity (CIIE Observation)

By: 本报记者 罗珊珊 刘温馨 王东辉

On the bank of the Huangpu River, another rendezvous with the China International Import Expo (CIIE). From November 5th to 10th, the 8th CIIE will be held in Shanghai (上海), with its scale reaching a new high.

Holding the CIIE is an innovative and pragmatic move by China to expand high-level opening up.

On October 31st, local time, President Xi Jinping (习近平) delivered a written speech to the APEC CEO Summit held in Gyeongju, South Korea, emphasizing: "China has become the world's second-largest consumer market and import market. It is the only developing country that holds a national-level international import expo and continues to open its market to the world. It has a large market space and good growth expectations. China continues to promote high-level opening up and achieves mutual success with all parties through open connectivity."

The 20th Fourth Plenary Session of the Communist Party of China (CPC) outlined a grand blueprint for the next five years, and the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal made a special chapter deployment for expanding high-level opening up, proposing to "expand high-level opening up and create a new situation of win-win cooperation."

As the international economic and trade order faces severe challenges and the world economic growth lacks momentum, China's holding of the CIIE as scheduled demonstrates its determination, conveys confidence, and injects certainty in the face of complex changes, and is committed to common development and shared prosperity with all countries.

An innovative debut stage -

Innovative potential transformed into economic momentum

China's large market has become a global testing ground, profit field, and application field for innovation. The CIIE is a shining "debut stage" on this hot investment land.

"The CIIE is not just an exhibition, but more like a booster, promoting collaborative innovation and common growth between many multinational companies and the Chinese market." Many "old friends" who have participated in the exhibition continuously have expressed this sentiment. Elekta, a Swedish medical company, is a "full attendance student." Over the past seven CIIEs, it has witnessed and grown all the way.

At the first CIIE, Elekta brought the world's first high-field magnetic resonance-guided radiotherapy system for its "debut" in Asia. Gong Anming, Executive Vice President of Elekta Global, said: "Relying on the CIIE, we quickly launched clinical trials with five domestic medical institutions. In 2020, the radiotherapy system was certified by the China National Medical Products Administration and officially entered the Chinese market."

"Successfully participating in the CIIE is an important 'confidence catalyst' for us to increase investment in China and establish a regional headquarters in Shanghai (上海)," said Gong Anming.

From "first launch and debut" to "local innovation ecosystem co-builder," the CIIE has witnessed Elekta's identity transformation in China. In 2025, Elekta will achieve localized production of its entire product line. At this CIIE, Elekta will launch its entire line of localized tumor radiotherapy products, focusing on showcasing the fruitful results from "introducing to China" to "full localization."

There are many similar CIIE stories like this. Schneider Electric, which has participated in all CIIEs, has seen the proportion of original Chinese products among the innovative products and advanced technologies displayed at the CIIE increase year by year. For example, in 2023, Schneider Electric's new generation of air circuit breaker series products developed and manufactured in China were first exhibited at the 6th CIIE, and officially rolled off the production line at the Kangqiao factory in Shanghai (上海) in March of the following year. Currently, the products have been launched in markets such as East Asia and the Middle East.

"As an important engine of global economic growth, China is not only a huge open market and a key component of the global supply chain, but also a world-class innovation highland," said Yin Zheng, Executive Vice President of Schneider Electric. He added that Chinese industries are accelerating the creation of digital productivity and green productivity driven by technological innovation, and Schneider Electric will continue to leverage China's development advantages to achieve "benefiting the world in China."

The seeds of innovative cooperation are blossoming and bearing fruit. At this CIIE, the number of exhibitors has increased by more than 600 on the basis of 3,496 last year; 461 new products, new technologies, and new services will be launched.

An open practice field -

Providing new opportunities for world development

Adhering to open cooperation and mutual benefit is an inevitable requirement of Chinese-style modernization. Holding the CIIE is to expand opening up and make China's large market a great opportunity for the world.

How can an alpaca quilt from New Zealand become "popular" in the Chinese market after crossing the ocean?

Geng Cong, Executive Director of New Zealand Pacific Alpaca Home Textiles Group, answered: "Get on the fast track of the CIIE."

From a 9-square-meter booth in 2021 to receiving an order for 3.3 tons of alpaca fiber in the second year, and then expanding the booth area to 15 times this year, the growth trajectory of Pacific Alpaca is a vivid microcosm of the "CIIE effect." In fiscal years 2024-2025, Pacific Alpaca's sales in the Chinese market increased by nearly 300% year-on-year.

The CIIE is a stage for product display and a platform for China to declare its opening-up policy.

The CIIE "green channel" mechanism allows brands to complete sample inspection and filing in a short time; the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone policy allows products to successfully enter platforms such as Tmall International and Douyin e-commerce; the continuous improvement of the intellectual property protection system provides convenience for registering product patent designs in China... The customs clearance cycle has been significantly shortened, the market entry cost has been greatly reduced, and the continuously optimized business environment has provided unprecedented opportunities for international brands.

"In the future, Pacific Alpaca will continue to cultivate the Chinese market and plans to establish flagship experience stores in multiple cities," said Geng Cong.

Through the CIIE platform, China continues to promote trade and investment facilitation, intellectual property protection, and other open innovations, creating brands such as "Invest in China," "Buy in China," and "Export to China," providing a stable, transparent, and predictable business environment for exhibits to become commodities, exhibitors to become investors, and "first-time customers" to become "repeat customers." The cumulative intended transaction value of the previous 7 CIIEs exceeded $500 billion.

China has remained the world's second-largest import market for 16 consecutive years, and imports of goods and services will exceed $15 trillion during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.

The door to opening up is opening wider and wider, and the list of cooperation is getting longer and longer.

A win-win harvest field -

Promoting inclusive inclusion with a people-centered approach

The CIIE is not only a platform for economic and trade cooperation, but also an international public product shared globally.

Across the street from the CIIE exhibition hall, the Greenland Global Commodity Trading Hub, as a perennial trading service platform for the CIIE, has built a convenient channel for merchants from the least developed countries to enter the Chinese market.

Starting from the CIIE, many merchants have achieved the leap "from 0 to 1, from 1 to 100."

In 2020, Ali, a young man from Afghanistan, participated in the CIIE for the first time, bringing more than 20 handmade wool carpets. Unexpectedly, they were quickly sold out on site and received 2,000 orders, which meant that more than 2,000 Afghan families had the equivalent of a whole year's income. In 2021, Ali settled in the Greenland Trading Hub, expanding his business from handmade carpets to pine nuts, jewelry, and other categories. With the help of Greenland's supply chain and live broadcast resources, he once set a record of "nearly 10,000 cans of pine nuts sold out in seconds," with the highest monthly sales of pine nuts reaching 3 tons.

Frank, a Nepalese merchant, settled in the Trading Hub in 2020 and appeared at the CIIE. The handmade cashmere scarves he brought became popular online and offline with their delicate texture and unique ethnic patterns. As a result, Frank received orders for cashmere scarves worth millions of yuan and expanded his business to multiple provinces in central and western China.

Xue Yingjie, General Manager of Greenland Trading Hub Group, introduced that the Greenland Trading Hub has attracted 180 companies from 76 countries and regions to settle in, and has established 68 national pavilions, including 49 "Belt and Road" national pavilions, promoting more than 5,000 CIIE-branded products to enter 22 provinces in China, helping CIIE products enter thousands of households.

This CIIE provides some free booths and tax incentives for retaining exhibits for exhibitors from 37 least developed countries, expands the African product zone, supports African countries that have established diplomatic relations with China to make full use of the 100% tariff-free policy for tariff items, the number of companies from the least developed countries reached 163, an increase of 23.5% year-on-year, and the number of African companies participating in the exhibition increased by 80% year-on-year.

The "Global South" is no longer just a geographical concept, but an active increment at the CIIE. This year's Hongqiao Forum will for the first time focus on "enhancing the economic resilience of the Global South" and "sustainable agricultural development of the Global South," gathering global wisdom to discuss promoting inclusive inclusion with a people-centered approach.

China provides the stage, and the world sings in chorus. China will continue to promote deep-level reforms and promote high-quality development through high-level opening up, bring more stability and certainty to the world economy, and continuously provide new opportunities for the world with new achievements in Chinese-style modernization.

(See pages 9 and 10 for special reports on the CIIE)

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Introduction

Theory

Deeply Understand the Holistic Governance of Mountains, Rivers, Forests, Farmlands, Lakes, Grasslands, and Deserts

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People's Livelihood Frontline

Drug Centralized Procurement: New Rules Bring New Changes

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Joint Communiqué of the 30th Regular Meeting Between the Chinese and Russian Prime Ministers

At the invitation of Premier Li Qiang (李强) of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, Prime Minister Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin (Михаил Владимирович Мишустин) of the Government of the Russian Federation will pay an official visit to China from November 3 to 4, 2025. On November 4, President Xi Jinping (习近平) of the People's Republic of China met with Prime Minister Mishustin in Beijing (北京). On November 3, Premier Li Qiang (李强) and Prime Minister Mishustin jointly held the 30th Regular Meeting between Chinese and Russian Prime Ministers in Hangzhou (杭州).

I.

The two Prime Ministers (hereinafter referred to as "the two sides") pointed out that under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Putin (Путин), the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era has reached an all-time high and continues to move forward. In May and September 2025, the two heads of state made important strategic arrangements for the development of bilateral relations during their meetings in Moscow (Москва) and Beijing (北京). The two sides will take the consensus reached by the two heads of state as the fundamental guideline, abide by the basic principles established in the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation between the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation signed on July 16, 2001, as well as other bilateral documents and declarations, adhere to the principles of non-alliance, non-confrontation, and non-targeting of third parties, uphold the spirit of permanent good-neighborliness and friendship, comprehensive strategic coordination, and mutually beneficial cooperation, and reaffirm that China and Russia always regard each other as priority partners, will continue to consolidate cooperation in various fields, and properly respond to external challenges.

The two sides pointed out that this year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Great Patriotic War, and the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. As major victorious countries in World War II and permanent members of the UN Security Council, China and Russia will work together to resist attempts to tamper with the achievements of the victory of World War II and the history of World War II, fully and completely abide by the UN Charter, and promote the realization of an equal and orderly multipolar world on this basis of international law.

The two sides will always firmly support each other on issues involving each other's core interests and major concerns.

The Russian side reaffirms the authority of UN General Assembly Resolution 2758, will adhere to the one-China principle, recognize that there is only one China in the world, that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory, and that the Government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China. The Russian side firmly opposes any form of "Taiwan independence" and firmly supports the Chinese government in realizing national reunification.

The Chinese side supports the Russian side in safeguarding its national security and stability, national development and prosperity, sovereignty and territorial integrity, and opposes external forces interfering in Russia's internal affairs.

The two sides highly appreciate the leading role of the regular meeting mechanism between Chinese and Russian Prime Ministers in deepening exchanges and dialogue in key areas of practical cooperation between the two countries, and reaffirm their willingness to further improve the efficiency of the mechanism and promote the upgrading of practical cooperation between the two countries.

II.

The two sides pointed out that in 2024, China-Russia economic and trade cooperation overcame the impact of external adverse factors and continued to develop in a healthy manner, and the volume of bilateral trade reached a new high. The two sides are willing to jointly take active measures to promote the steady development of practical cooperation between the two countries. To this end, the two sides agreed to:

-- Continue to improve the trade structure and explore new growth points in bilateral trade such as e-commerce, agricultural products, and intermediate goods. Promote the development of cross-border e-commerce. Further optimize the business environment, improve the level of trade and investment facilitation, and jointly ensure the security and stability of the industrial chain and supply chain.

-- Continue to strengthen industry cooperation within the framework of professional international organizations, oppose politicizing their activities, and maintain the spirit of constructive international cooperation.

-- Strengthen cooperation in trade in services, including cooperation in tourism, transportation, information technology, creative and electronic games, and expand cooperation in trade in services in multilateral mechanisms such as BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Promote the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding on Deepening Cooperation in the Field of Trade in Services signed by the Ministry of Commerce of China and the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia in May 2023.

-- Continue to strengthen e-commerce cooperation between the two countries, carry out practical policy exchanges, industrial docking, capacity building, and local cooperation, and actively encourage e-commerce enterprises of the two countries to promote high-quality and characteristic products of their own countries to enter each other's markets through online promotion activities.

-- Support the holding of the 10th China-Russia Expo and the 6th China-Russia Local Cooperation Forum in China in 2026.

-- Carry out cooperation on Arctic issues, deepen cooperation within the framework of the Arctic Shipping Route Cooperation Sub-committee of the China-Russia Prime Ministers' Regular Meeting Committee, including improving Arctic navigation safety, polar ships and technologies, personnel training, increasing the volume of cargo transportation on the Arctic shipping route, and improving its competitiveness compared with other international shipping routes.

-- Maintain peace and stability in the Arctic and promote sustainable development in the Arctic. Carry out constructive cooperation on multilateral platforms such as the Arctic Council on the basis of international law and mutual respect.

-- Expand cooperation in the forestry field and jointly promote investment cooperation projects such as sustainable development of forest resources and deep processing of wood in Russia.

-- Deepen cooperation and exchanges in the agricultural field, and strengthen cooperation in all links of the industrial chain such as agricultural product production, processing, storage and sales through the implementation of joint investment projects.

-- Encourage research on key areas such as germplasm resources, animal husbandry and veterinary medicine, plant protection, soil improvement, and aquatic biological resource protection and propagation. Strengthen exchanges and cooperation in animal epidemic prevention and control, diagnostic technology, veterinary drug and vaccine research and development, and share results. Support and promote cooperation in the supply of soybean seeds and broiler breeding sources between the two countries.

-- Continue to create favorable conditions for expanding the scale and diversification of the types of agricultural products and grains exported to each other's markets.

-- Strengthen market access cooperation and supply more types of Russian animal and plant commodities to China.

-- Welcome the Russian side to continue to hold the "Made in Russia" exhibition and open the Russian National Pavilion in China to expand mutually beneficial cooperation between the business communities of the two countries.

-- Actively carry out smart customs cooperation, steadily promote customs clearance facilitation cooperation projects such as "single window" and "Authorized Economic Operator (AEO)" mutual recognition, continuously improve the level of customs clearance facilitation, and serve the high-quality development of bilateral economic and trade. Continue to carry out port cooperation, jointly take measures to strengthen port infrastructure construction, optimize port work systems, improve port passage efficiency, expand the types and quantities of international cargo transportation at ports, and ensure the smooth and smooth two-way flow of ports.

-- Continue to take joint measures to optimize the handover of port trains (including empty trains), increase the volume of foreign trade freight at China-Russia railway ports, coordinate and ensure the smooth and stable operation of container trains running through Russia, actively promote the resumption of cross-border passenger trains, support the development of railway dangerous goods transportation, and promote paperless conventional transportation.

-- Further develop China-Russia international road transportation, continuously improve the level of international road transportation facilitation, and expand the types of international road transportation of dangerous goods.

-- Steadily promote cooperation in cross-border cargo transportation with autonomous driving, strengthen information exchange, and promote the application of autonomous driving technology.

-- Further cooperate to expand new logistics product services such as delivery to warehouses and heavy-weight packages, further enrich service supply, improve logistics efficiency, better meet the diversified postal needs of enterprises and people in the two countries, and enhance the stability and resilience of the logistics supply chain between the two countries.

-- Strengthen exchanges in the fields of maritime transport, river transport and combined transport to improve their economy and convenience.

-- Encourage airlines of the two countries to expand the scale of passenger and cargo air transportation between China and Russia in accordance with market principles.

-- Jointly commit to the construction of the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor and accelerate the cooperation of key projects and matters within the framework of the corridor such as the upgrading and transformation of the China-Mongolia-Russia central railway.

-- Deepen marine economic cooperation, cooperate to improve global marine governance, and maintain the safety and smooth flow of international maritime routes and channels.

-- Strengthen policy coordination, promote greater consistency or compatibility of regulatory policies between the two countries, and, on the basis of equality and safeguarding national sovereignty, mutual respect, and mutually beneficial cooperation, adhere to the central position of the United Nations and ensure that the algorithms of artificial intelligence systems comply with national laws and regulations.

-- Deepen cooperation in the field of international information security and promote the early entry into force of the UN Convention on Combating Cybercrime.

-- Highly appreciate the cooperation between the two countries in the direction of water quality monitoring of transboundary water bodies, emergency contact for environmental disasters, transboundary protected areas and biodiversity. Continue to carry out regular cooperation within the framework of the Environmental Protection Sub-committee, including the existing cooperation of the Waste Management Cooperation Working Group. Deepen cooperation within the framework of the China-Russia Joint Committee on the Rational Use and Protection of Transboundary Waters, including the existing cooperation of the Flood Control Cooperation Working Group. Continue to deepen cooperation in the fields of hydrological reporting and flood control to ensure flood control safety in the border areas of the two countries.

-- Strengthen cooperation in the field of biodiversity protection, including the protection of species such as Siberian tigers, Amur leopards, Przewalski's horses, and snow leopards. Support China-Russia cooperation in the protection of giant pandas and golden monkeys.

-- Continue to deepen cooperation and exchanges related to nature reserves mainly based on national parks.

-- Continue to strengthen coordination on ecological issues within the framework of multilateral mechanisms such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS.

-- Continue to deepen cooperation in the field of housing and urban-rural construction, carry out joint research on "good houses" in cold regions, carry out mutual learning in professional fields such as urban planning and construction, prefabricated buildings, and "safety projects for the lifeline of urban infrastructure," build a platform for mayors and professional talents such as young architects and engineers to exchange experiences and carry out mutually beneficial cooperation, and support research enterprises, social organizations and universities in the field of construction and urban development in the two countries to establish contacts and carry out cooperation.

-- Strengthen cooperation between the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council of China and the Federal Agency for State Property Management of Russia, hold regular meetings, carry out exchanges on regulatory policies and experiences in the reform, development and supervision of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises, smooth information sharing channels, and create favorable conditions for Chinese and Russian enterprises to expand cooperation space and achieve more practical cooperation results.

-- Implement the Agreement between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Russian Federation on Cooperation in the Fields of Anti-monopoly Law Enforcement and Competition Policy, continuously deepen exchanges and cooperation in the field of competition, strengthen law enforcement cooperation on transnational monopoly behavior, safeguard the interests of consumers and the public interest, and create a fair and competitive international economic and trade environment.

-- Strengthen exchanges of legislative and law enforcement experience in the field of trade secret protection, and jointly combat cross-border trade secret infringement.

-- Strengthen exchanges and cooperation in the field of food safety supervision.

-- Support diplomatic and consular institutions of the two countries to maintain close communication and protect the safety and legitimate rights and interests of citizens, institutions and projects of the two countries in each other's countries. The two sides will strengthen information exchange on overseas and regional security, and provide support and assistance to each other's countries in carrying out emergency protection and evacuation of overseas citizens in the event of turmoil, armed conflict, natural disasters and other events that threaten life and health in third countries and regions.

-- Deepen cooperation in the field of consumer rights protection, and promote the establishment of unified standards in e-commerce and cross-border service procurement to ensure the level of rights protection.

-- Continue to strengthen practical exchanges and cooperation in the fields of energy measurement and infectious disease prevention and control measurement.

-- Deepen exchanges and cooperation in the field of standardization and promote trade facilitation between China and Russia. Regularly exchange standard information, promote the coordination and docking of more standards in the fields of energy, civil aviation, agricultural food, and automobiles, and carry out standardization cooperation in the fields of artificial intelligence, oil and natural gas. Hold bilateral cooperation meetings on standards to further strengthen coordination and mutual support in international and regional standards organizations.

-- Strengthen practical cooperation within the framework of the Agreement on Economic and Trade Cooperation between the People's Republic of China and the Eurasian Economic Union signed on May 17, 2018.

III.

The two sides positively evaluate the achievements of China-Russia cooperation in scientific and technological innovation and high-tech fields, and are willing to further deepen cooperation to provide a strong driving force for the high-quality economic and social development and industrial upgrading of the two countries. To this end, the two sides agreed to:

-- Continuously deepen scientific and technological cooperation, including basic research. Formulate the "China-Russia Scientific and Technological Innovation Cooperation Roadmap (2026-2030)". Promote the opening and sharing of large scientific facilities. Steadily promote key scientific research cooperation projects. Cultivate cooperation growth points. Support exchanges between scientists and scientific research institutions. Strengthen cooperation in multilateral frameworks, especially BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and other mechanisms.

-- Strengthen cooperation in the field of intellectual property protection, provide relevant support for innovation entities and rights holders of the two countries, actively promote exchanges between the intellectual property authorities of the two countries, and promote the renewal of the memorandum of understanding on cooperation between the China National Intellectual Property Administration and the Federal Service for Intellectual Property of Russia.

-- Establish an expert committee on artificial intelligence cooperation within the framework of the Artificial Intelligence Working Group of the China-Russia Prime Ministers' Regular Meeting Committee on Communication and Information Technology Cooperation Sub-committee as an analysis and consultation mechanism to provide specific suggestions, technical solutions and practical paths for ensuring cooperation in artificial intelligence ethics governance, standardization, and industrial application. Encourage high-level experts from enterprises, universities, research institutions, etc. to join the expert committee.

-- Strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation in artificial intelligence talent training, project investment, and infrastructure, develop a dialogue partner mechanism on the basis of respecting national sovereignty, strengthen the docking and coordination of development strategies, governance rules and technical standards, and develop safe and reliable artificial intelligence systems. The two sides are willing to jointly cooperate on China's initiative to establish the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization.

-- Strengthen exchanges between the Cyberspace Administration of China (中华人民共和国国家互联网信息办公室) and the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media of the Russian Federation (Роскомнадзор) in related fields.

-- Deepen information and communication technology cooperation, strengthen cooperation in cross-border land cables and submarine cable infrastructure, and carry out mutually beneficial cooperation in cutting-edge technology fields such as satellite Internet.

-- Continue to strengthen cooperation in the open source field, encourage enterprises, developers, etc. to actively embrace open source, jointly create high-quality open source projects and communities, and promote the industrialization of high-quality open source results in key industries to achieve common development in the open source field between the two countries.

-- Strengthen cooperation between China and Russia in the field of radio frequency coordination, and support each other on issues of similar positions in relevant international occasions.

-- Develop land road and railway postal transportation, shorten mail transportation time, and improve service quality.

-- Attach importance to bilateral cooperation in the aerospace field, and believe that long-term mutually beneficial cooperation on major projects in the aerospace field is in line with the common interests of both sides in innovation, technology, and social and economic development.

-- Support strengthening communication in the aerospace field that meets the common interests of both sides, and encourage the implementation of the projects in the "China National Space Administration and Russian State Space Corporation 2023-2027 Space Cooperation Outline".

-- Support the coordinated cooperation of the International Lunar Research Station and the planned China-Russia lunar exploration mission, and implement the "Memorandum of Understanding between the China National Space Administration and the Russian State Space Corporation on Cooperation in the Construction of a Lunar Power Station for the International Lunar Research Station".

-- Continuously strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation in the field of satellite navigation. Promote a higher degree of compatibility and interoperability between the BeiDou system (北斗系统) and the GLONASS system (ГЛОНАСС), their services and augmentation systems, strengthen joint monitoring and evaluation of service performance, user information support and application development when using both systems at the same time, so as to improve the quality and reliability of civil navigation services of the two systems, and apply them more widely in various economic sectors of the two countries.

IV.

The two sides emphasized that the current China-Russia investment cooperation maintains a good development trend and plays an important role in deepening China-Russia practical cooperation. The two sides are willing to steadily promote enterprises to increase investment cooperation, further stimulate the vitality of local investment cooperation, and continuously improve the quality and efficiency of investment cooperation. To this end, the two sides agreed to:

-- Coordinate and promote the implementation of the new version of the "China-Russia Investment Cooperation Plan Outline" to provide guidance for both sides to strengthen investment cooperation.

-- Create a more stable and transparent business and legal environment on the basis of the "Agreement between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Russian Federation on the Promotion and Mutual Protection of Investments".
——Actively create favorable conditions to deepen cooperation in fields such as machinery and equipment, automobiles and transportation infrastructure, forestry, construction and building materials production, chemicals, light industry, mining, energy, information technology, and communications, and promote the implementation of investment projects.

——Support the orderly expansion of investment cooperation in the agricultural sector, promote the improvement of the support system for agricultural investment cooperation, strengthen cooperation in important links of the agricultural production, storage, logistics, and processing industrial chain and supply chain, and support Chinese enterprises to carry out soybean, corn, and other agricultural product planting investments in Russia. Both sides welcome the signing of the "Memorandum of Understanding between the National Development and Reform Commission (中华人民共和国国家发展和改革委员会) of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Economic Development (俄罗斯联邦经济发展部) of the Russian Federation on Deepening Sino-Russian Agricultural Investment Cooperation."

——Strengthen investment cooperation in the construction of digital economy infrastructure, encourage enterprises to actively participate in the digital, networked, and intelligent upgrading and transformation of traditional infrastructure, and build communication networks, computing power, and smart infrastructure. Promote investment cooperation in the field of sustainable development.

——Establish direct communication channels between automobile industry authorities and industry organizations, promote the resolution of issues such as preferential policies for enterprise investment and product type approvals, and continuously deepen practical cooperation in technology, standards, and automobile and parts production investment.

——Support the work of the China-Russia Investment Cooperation Committee (中俄投资合作委员会), create necessary conditions for optimizing the business environment in China and Russia, and promote advanced experience.

V

Both sides positively evaluate the new progress made in China-Russia financial cooperation and are willing to continue to leverage the potential of the Financial Cooperation Sub-committee and the China-Russia Finance Ministers' Dialogue to further strengthen cooperation between the financial sectors of both countries. To this end, the two sides agreed to:

——Maintain progress made in settlement in local currencies.

——Steadily promote practical cooperation between China and Russia in the banking sector and capital markets to better serve the healthy and stable development of the two countries' economies and capital markets.

——Continue to support cooperation between credit rating agencies of the two countries.

——Support further cooperation between the two sides in the fields of insurance and reinsurance to promote trade and tourism development between the two sides.

——Continue to leverage the role of existing financial cooperation mechanisms between the two countries, strengthen communication and coordination of macroeconomic policies, deepen cooperation between China and Russia in the fields of customs, taxation, and finance, continue to promote multilateral and bilateral financial cooperation processes, and promote the reform of the global economic governance system to keep pace with the times.

——On the basis of mutual recognition of China-Russia accounting standards, auditing standards, and audit supervision, do a good job in relevant work for Chinese and Russian investors to enter each other's financial markets in accordance with market principles and laws and regulations.

——To ensure the development of cross-border retail payments and the tourism industry, further optimize retail payment services for Chinese and Russian citizens.

——Recognize the importance of cooperation between financial think tanks and continue to support the Chinese Academy of Fiscal Sciences (中国财政科学研究院) and the Financial Research Institute of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation (俄罗斯联邦财政部财政研究所), and the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation (俄罗斯联邦政府财政金融大学) to strengthen exchanges and mutual visits within the framework of cooperation agreements, carry out academic discussions on issues of common concern, and promote innovative development.

——Deepen cooperation within the framework of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank Group, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and the New Development Bank, and continue to promote cooperation in the financial channels of the G20, BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and APEC.

——Continue to maintain communication and cooperation in the field of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing, especially within the framework of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (EAG).

Both sides firmly believe that it is imperative to absolutely adhere to international obligations regarding the immunity enjoyed by relevant countries and their property. Confiscation, freezing, or any other use of sovereign assets without the consent of the owner is a serious violation of the fundamental principle of sovereign equality of states and undermines the stability of the global financial order.

VI

Both sides highly appreciate the fruitful results achieved in China-Russia energy cooperation and will further explore the potential of energy cooperation, continue to consolidate the comprehensive energy partnership, consolidate and deepen the all-round, wide-ranging, and deep-level energy cooperation pattern, jointly safeguard national, regional, and global energy security, promote access to affordable, reliable, and sustainable modern energy for all, and promote a just and balanced global energy transition. To this end, the two sides agreed to:

——Support enterprises of the two countries to deepen cooperation in energy fields such as oil, natural gas, coal, and electricity, continue to promote the interconnection of energy infrastructure, and jointly ensure the safe and stable operation of cross-border energy channels.

——Strengthen cooperation in emerging fields such as renewable energy, low-carbon energy, hydrogen energy, energy storage, and carbon capture, carbon utilization, and carbon sequestration systems.

——Continue to promote the Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant (田湾核电站) and Xudabao Nuclear Power Plant (徐大堡核电站) construction projects to ensure that construction is completed and put into operation on time. On this basis, deepen cooperation in the field of peaceful use of nuclear energy, gradually promote cooperation in the fields of thermonuclear fusion, fast reactors, and closed nuclear fuel cycle, and explore cooperation in the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle and new nuclear power project construction through a "package" approach based on the principles of mutual benefit and win-win results and balanced interests.

——Continuously consolidate the stability of the global energy market and expand the dialogue between energy producing and consuming countries. Support ensuring open, fair competition, non-discrimination, and free energy markets.

——Continuously strengthen cooperation between the National Nuclear Safety Administration (中国国家核安全局) and the Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service of Russia (俄罗斯联邦环境、工业与核监督局) in the field of nuclear safety supervision.

——Support the holding of the 7th China-Russia Energy Business Forum in 2025 to further expand practical cooperation between enterprises of the two countries.

VII

Both sides believe that cultural and people-to-people cooperation between the two countries is of great significance to promoting the development of bilateral relations, and express satisfaction with the fruitful cooperation results achieved by the two countries in counterpart cooperation in various fields, and will continue to deepen the above-mentioned cooperation. To this end, the two sides agreed to:

——Further expand two-way study abroad, provide good learning conditions for students from both countries, encourage high-quality inter-school cooperation, conduct high-level joint talent training and scientific research cooperation, support the construction of the China-Russia Basic Science Research Institute, continue to leverage the platform role of the China-Russia University Alliance and the Middle School Alliance, promote the establishment of the China-Russia Vocational Education Alliance, support Chinese teaching in Russia and Russian teaching in China, and enhance exchanges among young students.

——Highly appreciate the achievements of the 2024-2025 China-Russia Year of Culture and will continue to deepen exchanges and cooperation between the two countries in the fields of literary and artistic performances, museums, libraries, and cultural heritage protection. Actively implement the "2024-2027 Cooperation Plan between the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国文化和旅游部) and the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation (俄罗斯联邦文化部)", continue to hold national cultural festivals, library forums, and China-Russia cultural fairs, Moscow "Happy Chinese New Year", Beijing "Sending Winter Festival", and jointly support activities such as the "International Sight" International Music Competition.

——Deepen cooperation in the field of health, and encourage Chinese and Russian experts to carry out cooperation in the fields of prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and tumors, development of nuclear medicine, maternal and child health care, ophthalmology, psychiatry, and traditional medicine.

——Highly affirm the work carried out by the China-Russia Medical University Alliance and will promote medical education cooperation, including at the medical school level. Strengthen cooperation in innovative fields of medical science such as telemedicine and artificial intelligence technology applications. Implement the Memorandum of Understanding on Medical Digital Transformation Cooperation between the National Health Commission of China (中国国家卫生健康委员会) and the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (俄罗斯联邦卫生部).

——Promote regulatory cooperation on the circulation of medicines and medical products, including conducting exchanges on pharmacopoeia standards.

——Continue to regularly hold practical exercises and international conferences for disaster medicine professionals.

——Jointly strengthen dialogue and cooperation on health issues in multilateral platforms (including the World Health Organization, APEC, BRICS, G20, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization), and jointly oppose attempts to politicize health issues. Support each other's initiatives in the field of health as much as possible.

——Strengthen cooperation between the National Disease Prevention and Control Administration of China (中国国家疾病预防控制局), the General Administration of Customs (海关总署), and the Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (俄罗斯消费者保护和公益监督署) in ensuring health and epidemic prevention safety and preventing cross-border transmission.

——Strengthen communication and coordination on negotiations on the establishment of a "Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing System" on international platforms such as the World Health Organization, jointly enhance pandemic prevention and response capabilities, and strengthen cooperation in the field of biosafety.

——Continue the fruitful results of the 2022-2023 China-Russia Sports Exchange Year and continue to strengthen exchanges in the field of sports, including traditional sports. The two sides agreed to focus on the cultivation of reserve talents for competitive sports, continue to hold China-Russia Youth Games, joint training, and friendly matches, promote local active sports cooperation, and promote the common development of sports undertakings in China and Russia. Highly appreciate the successful holding of the 4th China-Russia Winter Youth Games by the Russian side in January 2025, and the successful convening of the 4th Meeting of Sports Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Member States by the Chinese side in May 2025.

——Appreciate China's decision to implement a unilateral visa-free policy for Russian citizens on a trial basis and Russia's decision to implement a temporary visa-free policy for Chinese citizens on a reciprocal basis. The two sides will work together to further improve the level of facilitation of personnel exchanges between the two countries.

——Affirm the positive trend of increasing mutual visits by tourists and will promote further improvement of tourism infrastructure, improve the quality of tourism services, optimize the tourism experience, and create more attractive tourism routes.

——Continue to promote comprehensive and in-depth cooperation in the media field, including strengthening news reporting cooperation, opposing the spread of false information, supporting traditional moral values, and supporting each other on issues involving each other's core interests and major concerns. Implement the "Agreement between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Russian Federation on Cooperation in the Production of Television Programs", strengthen exchanges and joint production of audio-visual content, copyright trade, and cooperative dissemination. Reciprocally ensure good working conditions for Chinese and Russian journalists, continue to jointly enhance the protection of them, and defend the professional rights and diversity of mass media, including in the international professional field. Promote China-Russia book translation and publishing work and participate in international book fairs held by each other. Hold more large-scale media events, strengthen professional dialogue, and carry out cooperation and mutual support within the framework of global and regional news alliances.

——Effectively implement the "Agreement between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Russian Federation on Cooperation in the Production of Films" and the "Action Plan for Cooperation in the Production of Films between the China National Film Administration and the Russian Ministry of Culture before 2030" by promoting joint film production projects. Encourage the mutual holding of film festivals and animation film week activities and support the joint production of films. Actively participate in international film festivals held by each other's countries. The Chinese side supports the Russian side in establishing the "Eurasian Film Open Award" and forming the Eurasian Film Academy.

——Expand cooperation in the field of archives, promote the implementation of joint projects, including publishing archive compilations, holding historical archive exhibitions, exchanging experience in archive work, exchanging archive copies of interest to both parties, and agreeing on the "2026-2030 Work Outline of the Archives Cooperation Sub-committee of the China-Russia Committee on Humanitarian Cooperation" and carrying out activities within its framework.

——Strengthen cooperation in the field of youth, including youth entrepreneurship, volunteer services, creative industries, and patriotic education. Promote local departments and non-profit organizations to expand practical exchanges. Jointly advocate youth priority development in multilateral platforms such as the United Nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and BRICS.

VIII

Both sides attach great importance to and welcome the positive development of cooperation between China and Russia at the local and border regions in the fields of economy, trade, investment, and culture, support exchanges and exchanges between cities, further expand the geographical scope, the fields involved, and the scale of cooperation, and further improve the legal and regulatory basis for cooperation between the two sides. To this end, the two sides agreed to:

——Implement the consensus reached at the meeting between the two chairmen of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Committee between Northeast China and the Russian Far East, and enrich and expand the geographical scope and content of the "Northeast China-Russian Far East+" cooperation.

——Promote the implementation of the consensus reached at the 5th Meeting of the Local Cooperation Council between the Upper and Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River in China and the Volga Federal District in Russia.

——Further explore the potential of two-way trade between local regions of the two countries, enrich and innovate cooperation forms, and promote the development of cross-border e-commerce, border trade, and service trade.

——Create stable and good policy conditions for enterprises of the two countries to invest and start businesses in each other's provinces and states, and deepen cooperation in the field of production.

——Support the docking of economic parks between the two countries, actively study mutually beneficial cooperation within the framework of preferential policies in the Russian Far East and the Arctic region, and promote investment and trade exchanges.

——Study feasible solutions for carrying out mutually beneficial cooperation within the framework of the Russian Far East International Advanced Development Zone.

——Use the preferential policies of the Russian International Advanced Development Zone to promote the construction of a China-Russia agricultural cooperation experimental demonstration zone in the Russian Far East.

——Strengthen joint protection and development cooperation in Heixiazi Island (大乌苏里岛) (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island), promote the implementation of the "Implementation Roadmap of the Heixiazi Island Joint Protection and Development Plan", accelerate the construction of ports, and strive to put them into use as soon as possible.

——Support the promotion of the Trans-Baikal Grain Storage and Transportation Station project, and the two sides will strive to enhance Russia's export potential of grain and beans to China.

——Accelerate the promotion of the standard-gauge double-track project in the Manchuria-Trans-Baikal cross-border section to enhance cross-border railway transportation capacity.

——Support the implementation of joint projects within the framework of the "Russian" Island Science and Technology Innovation Center in the Primorsky Territory, and explore the use of the center's preferential policies to carry out cooperation in innovation and high-tech fields such as marine, biotechnology, and communication technology.

——Support the establishment and development of friendship city relations between local regions of the two countries to release the development potential of China and Russia.

——Support both sides in establishing partnerships and friendship city relations in the cultural field through channels such as the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (中国人民对外友好协会) and the All-Russian Association for the Development of Local Self-Government.

IX

Both sides emphasized that the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind and a series of global initiatives such as the global governance initiative proposed by China have important and positive significance. The Chinese side positively evaluates the "Eurasian Security Architecture" initiative proposed by the Russian side.

Both sides will continue to promote the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" and the Greater Eurasian Partnership in parallel, coordinate development, and promote dialogue between regional international organizations such as the Eurasian Economic Union, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and ASEAN.

Both sides will continue to promote the deep docking of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" and the construction of the Eurasian Economic Union, fully implement the "Agreement on Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and the Eurasian Economic Union", continue to promote trade and investment facilitation, and consolidate cooperation results.

Both sides emphasized that unilateral mandatory measures taken by any country or group of countries bypassing the UN Security Council resolution are illegal, violate the UN Charter and other international law norms, and are unacceptable and cannot be recognized. The two sides will take all necessary efforts to carry out mutual assistance and cooperation in opposing unilateral mandatory measures. Both sides support the declaration of December 4 of each year starting from 2025 as the International Day against Unilateral Coercive Measures.

Both sides reiterated their willingness to jointly promote inclusive and inclusive economic globalization, strengthen partner dialogue on promoting the formation of a fair world trade and monetary and financial system, coordinate positions, expand the voice and influence of emerging markets and developing countries in global economic governance, and prevent individual countries from abusing monopoly and dominance in individual areas of the world economy.

The Russian side will continue to participate in the work of the "Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative". The two sides will strengthen cooperation within the framework of the Global Development Initiative, continue to promote the international community to focus on development issues, and accelerate the implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Both sides support consolidating the multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization (WTO) at its core, and support WTO reform, including fully restoring the operation of the WTO dispute settlement mechanism and improving the decision-making mechanism, so as to improve the operating efficiency and authority of the WTO under the current situation. Promote trade facilitation, advance the WTO rules with the times, and advocate compliance with WTO rules, especially the principles of non-discrimination and transparency. Oppose protectionism and unilateral coercive measures that violate WTO rules and principles, jointly safeguard the security and stability and sustainable development of global industrial and supply chains, and promote the construction of a more open, inclusive, transparent, and non-discriminatory international trade environment. Jointly promote the achievement of important consensus at the 14th WTO Ministerial Conference to be held in Cameroon (喀麦隆) in March 2026.

Both sides agreed to strengthen coordination of positions within the framework of the United Nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), BRICS, the Group of Twenty (G20) and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), safeguard the multilateral trading system, oppose unilateral bullying and protectionism, and oppose improper actions of taking unilateral coercive measures.

Both sides will continue to strengthen coordination on areas of mutual interest in the WTO agenda, including exploring relevant issues through the BRICS informal exchange mechanism.

Both sides emphasized that China (中国) and Russia (俄罗斯) will continue to strengthen cooperation within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), including taking measures with other member states to effectively implement the "Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Development Strategy for the Next 10 Years (2026-2035)" and deeply promote the improvement process of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's work.

Both sides believe that upgrading the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's mechanism for responding to security threats and challenges is of particular importance, and support the early entry into force of the relevant agreements of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's Comprehensive Center for Responding to Security Threats and Challenges and the Anti-Drug Center.

China (中国) and Russia (俄罗斯) will follow the declaration adopted by the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (September 1, 2025, Tianjin (天津)), and promote economic and trade cooperation within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in accordance with the consensus reached in the document on sustainable energy development, digital economy, green industry, artificial intelligence, science, technology and innovation cooperation, and other fields.

Both sides emphasized the importance of implementing the decision of the relevant member states on the establishment of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Development Bank in the "Tianjin Declaration of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation," agreed to closely coordinate, and take joint actions to accelerate consultations on a series of issues related to the operation of the financial institution.

The Chinese side supports the work of the Russian side as the host country of the meeting of the Council of Heads of Government (Prime Ministers) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation member states, and is willing to work with other Shanghai Cooperation Organisation member states to support the Russian side in successfully holding the meeting of the Council of Heads of Government (Prime Ministers) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation member states in Moscow (莫斯科) from November 17 to 18, 2025, to ensure rich results of the meeting, jointly promote the sustainable economic development of member states, and deepen cultural exchanges.

Both sides positively evaluated the results of the meeting of the Ministers of Economy and Trade of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation member states hosted by the Russian side (September 6, 2025, Vladivostok (符拉迪沃斯托克)), and reiterated their continued support for the series of consensus between the two sides in areas such as enhancing the stability of industrial and supply chains, consolidating the multilateral trading system, developing e-commerce, and promoting innovation and technological leadership. Both sides have common interests in the fields of innovative economy and sustainable development, and support carrying out practical cooperation around the above-mentioned fields within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

Both sides are willing to continue to strengthen communication and coordination within the BRICS framework, implement the consensus of previous leaders' meetings, expand BRICS outreach and "BRICS+" cooperation, and safeguard the common interests of emerging markets and developing countries.

Both sides are willing to deepen economic, trade and investment cooperation in accordance with the "BRICS Economic Partnership Strategy," focusing on opposing unilateral coercive measures, supporting the development of small and medium-sized enterprises and special economic zones, and promoting efficient cooperation in areas such as the digital economy, climate agenda, and tourism.

Both sides regard the G20 as a major economic forum, and are willing to continue to strengthen cooperation within the G20 framework, promote the establishment of a multipolar international pattern, formulate balanced and consensus-based solutions to address important economic and financial challenges, promote the fair reform of the global governance system, and enhance the voice and representation of the Global South in the international system. Both sides are willing to continue to consolidate the achievements made by the BRICS countries during their presidency of the G20 (2022-2025), and strongly support South Africa (南非) as the rotating presidency in successfully holding the G20 summit (November 22-23, 2025, Johannesburg (约翰内斯堡)).

Both sides will strengthen practical cooperation in the fields of trade and investment, transportation, energy, tourism and environment within the framework of the "Greater Tumen Initiative."

Both sides will strengthen cooperation with ASEAN, support ASEAN's central position in the regional architecture, and strengthen coordination and cooperation within regional frameworks such as the East Asia Summit and the ASEAN Regional Forum to maintain regional peace, stability and prosperity.

Both sides will strengthen cooperation within the framework of APEC, promote the implementation of the "APEC Putrajaya Vision 2040" and the "Aotearoa Plan of Action," and build an open, dynamic, resilient and peaceful Asia-Pacific community by 2040 to achieve common prosperity for the people and future generations of the Asia-Pacific region. Both sides will continue to assist each other in the discussion of economic and trade issues and the promotion of practical initiatives and cooperation. The Russian side congratulates the Chinese side on successfully taking over during the 2025 APEC Leaders' Meeting and reiterates its support for the Chinese side as the host of APEC in 2026. Both sides will work together to promote the complete success of the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting.

Both sides will firmly safeguard the inalienable right of all countries, especially developing countries, to peaceful use of technology, promote the comprehensive and effective implementation of the UN General Assembly resolution "Promoting International Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses in the Context of International Security," so as to ensure balanced security interests and development rights, and oppose the use of international non-proliferation mechanisms to promote illegal unilateral restrictions and technological containment.

Both sides will continue to strengthen communication and cooperation on addressing climate change within the framework of the China-Russia Climate Change Liaison Group and at various multilateral levels (BRICS, G20, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation), based on the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, taking into account different national conditions, and promote all parties to fully, completely and effectively implement the "United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change" and its "Paris Agreement," to achieve global energy transition and sustainable economic and social development, including adaptation to climate change, carbon market development, and the application of low-emission technologies without undermining national energy security and socio-economic development priorities.

Both sides emphasized that measures taken to address climate change, including unilateral measures, should not become arbitrary or unjustified means of discrimination or disguised restrictions in international trade. Both sides agreed to coordinate efforts to promote the improvement of people's well-being, coordinate multiple goals such as protecting the environment, addressing climate change, developing the economy, creating jobs, and eliminating poverty, and jointly promote a just global transition.

Both sides called for joint efforts to address traditional and new security challenges and threats such as terrorism, extremism, and drug trafficking.

X

The following documents were signed within the framework of the 30th Regular Meeting between the Prime Ministers of China and Russia:

—— Joint Communiqué of the 30th Regular Meeting between the Prime Ministers of China and Russia

—— Minutes of the 12th Meeting of the China-Russia Investment Cooperation Committee

—— Minutes of the 22nd Meeting of the China-Russia Energy Cooperation Committee

—— Minutes of the 29th Meeting of the China-Russia Prime Ministers' Regular Meeting Committee

—— Minutes of the 26th Meeting of the China-Russia Humanitarian Cooperation Committee

—— Protocol on Revising the Agreement on Cooperation in Risk Management signed on November 1, 2017 between the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China and the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation

—— Protocol on Adding Supplementary Provisions to the Protocol on Cooperation between the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China and the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision of the Russian Federation on Preventing Illegal Trafficking of Nuclear Materials and Radioactive Substances across the China-Russia Border (October 13, 2014)

—— Protocol between the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China and the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision of the Russian Federation on Phytosanitary Requirements for the Export of Russian Mung Beans to China

—— Protocol between the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China and the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision of the Russian Federation on Phytosanitary Requirements for the Export of Russian Wheat Bran to China

—— Joint Statement between the China Satellite Navigation System Committee and the Russian State Space Corporation on the Implementation Results of the Roadmap for Cooperation in the Field of China-Russia Satellite Navigation from 2021 to 2025

—— Roadmap for Cooperation in the Field of China-Russia Satellite Navigation from 2026 to 2030

—— Memorandum of Understanding between the National Development and Reform Commission of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation on Deepening China-Russia Agricultural Investment Cooperation

—— Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Transport of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation on the Training of Professional Personnel for Ships Operating in Polar Waters

—— Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation on Cooperation in the Prevention and Control of Pests such as Potato Beetles, Locusts, Meadow Moths, and Armyworms

—— Memorandum of Cooperation between China Media Group (中国中央广播电视总台) and Russian Mobile Telecommunications Media

Both sides agreed that the 31st Regular Meeting between the Prime Ministers of China and Russia will be held in 2026, and the specific time, location and form will be agreed upon separately through diplomatic channels.

This joint communiqué was jointly signed by Premier Li Qiang (李强) of the State Council of the People's Republic of China and Prime Minister Mishustin (米舒斯京) of the Government of the Russian Federation.

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), November 4)

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Gathering on an Open Platform, Sharing Cooperative Opportunities

By: 本报记者 姜 波 崔 琦

From November 5th to 10th, the 8th China International Import Expo (进博会) will be held in Shanghai (上海). As the world's first national-level expo themed on imports, the CIIE has become better and better, continuously expanding and upgrading, and has become a window for China to build a new development pattern, a platform for promoting high-level opening up, and an international public product shared globally. International figures interviewed by this newspaper said that the CIIE demonstrates China's determination and actions to work together with the world for win-win cooperation, and that a China that adheres to high-level opening up is constantly injecting new impetus into promoting the construction of an open world economy.

"Provides fertile ground for foreign-funded enterprises to take root and grow"

The scale of this CIIE has once again reached a record high, with 155 countries, regions, and international organizations participating, and six countries, including Thailand (泰国), the United Arab Emirates (阿联酋), Nigeria (尼日利亚), Georgia (格鲁吉亚), Sweden (瑞典), and Colombia (哥伦比亚), serving as guest countries of honor. There are 4,108 overseas exhibitors, including 290 of the world's top 500 and leading companies in their respective industries, and the exhibition area of American companies has remained the largest for seven consecutive years.

"Participating in the CIIE has become one of the important activities in our annual plan." Isabel Huang (黄映雪), President of Dow Greater China (陶氏公司大中华区总裁), said that since the first CIIE, Dow has cumulatively released more than 100 new products and technologies, signed more than 60 strategic cooperation agreements or memorandums of understanding, and many innovative achievements have been locally transformed and commercialized. "China's '15th Five-Year Plan' proposal clearly states that it will adhere to high-quality development, which provides a clear direction and greater certainty for our long-term investment and innovation development in China," said Isabel Huang (黄映雪).

Amorepacific (爱茉莉太平洋) has successfully introduced a number of star products into the Chinese market through the CIIE platform and accelerated its localization layout. James Xu (许达仁), Vice President of Amorepacific China (爱茉莉太平洋中国副总裁), said: "The CIIE brings the spillover effect of 'exhibits becoming commodities and commodities becoming explosive products,' which greatly enhances our ability to respond to market changes. China's business environment is efficient, convenient, and full of vitality, which strengthens our confidence in deeply cultivating the Chinese market."

Roche Pharmaceuticals (罗氏制药) is a "full attendance student" that has participated in the CIIE for eight consecutive sessions. Bian Xin (边欣), President of Roche Pharmaceuticals China (罗氏制药中国总裁), said: "The CIIE has built an irreplaceable stage for foreign-funded enterprises that are deeply involved in China. China's continuously optimized business environment and increasingly improved innovation ecosystem provide fertile ground for foreign-funded enterprises to take root and grow."

"The CIIE is not only a window to showcase global innovative technologies, but also a bridge to accurately connect with local needs and promote the implementation of cooperation." Xu Yang (徐阳), President of Danfoss China (丹佛斯中国区总裁), a Danish industrial group, said that the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal proposes to accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, which is highly consistent with the company's sustainable development strategy, and looks forward to deeply integrating into China's green and low-carbon process through the CIIE.

"Gathering global innovation elements"

This year's CIIE will showcase 461 new products, new technologies, and new services, and a series of "hardcore" technology products and innovative solutions will be launched and accelerated. China's large market is becoming a testing ground, profit field, and application field for global innovation.

"China is not only an important market, but also a hotbed of innovation and cooperation. Sanofi will continue to increase its investment and layout in China to share the opportunities of the Chinese market." Olivier Charmeil, Executive Vice President and Head of General Medicines at Sanofi (赛诺菲执行副总裁兼普药全球事业部负责人), a French biopharmaceutical company, said that thanks to the spillover effect of the CIIE, many of Sanofi's innovative achievements have achieved rapid transformation from exhibits to commodities. In the future, Sanofi will rely on production bases in Beijing (北京), Hangzhou (杭州), Shenzhen (深圳) and other places to focus on building a world-class supply network.

"The CIIE gathers global innovation elements and continues to inject growth momentum into the world economy." Xiao Song (肖松), Global Executive Vice President of Siemens (西门子全球执行副总裁), said that China is not only one of Siemens' most important markets in the world, but also a source of global innovation. Siemens will continue to increase its R&D efforts in China to promote more Chinese innovation achievements to serve the world.

"The CIIE demonstrates China's firm commitment to continuously promote technological innovation and deepen international cooperation." Leon Wang (尹思睿), Executive Vice President, International and China President at AstraZeneca (阿斯利康全球执行副总裁、国际业务负责人), said that China has become a global innovation hub. Not long ago, AstraZeneca's Global R&D Beijing Strategic Center (阿斯利康全球研发北京战略中心) was officially launched, which is an important action for the company to continue investing in the Chinese market and integrate into the Chinese innovation ecosystem.

"A pragmatic action to promote inclusive and inclusive economic globalization"

Relying on the large Chinese market, the cumulative intended transaction volume of the previous seven CIIEs exceeded US$500 billion, 170 companies and 27 institutions have become "full attendance students" for eight sessions, and more than 40 overseas companies have signed up more than a year in advance to become the first batch of exhibitors for the ninth CIIE... The CIIE has become a "big stage" for observing China's high-level opening up at close range and an "experience area" for immersive experience of China's super-large market advantages.

Vale (淡水河谷) of Brazil has set up an "Energy Transition Metals Zone" at this CIIE to focus on displaying five high-quality energy transition metal products. Xie Xue (谢雪), President of Vale China (淡水河谷中国区总裁), said: "The continuous holding of the CIIE has released a clear signal that China insists on expanding high-level opening up. We will continue to expand cooperation with Chinese companies in green mining, low-carbon technology and other fields to share sustainable development opportunities."

"As a global launch site for new products and a high-level opening platform, the CIIE brings long-term spillover effects and convenient policies to exhibitors. The foldable handheld cleaner we launched at the CIIE last year has sold more than 50,000 units in less than a year." Carsten Kress (柯瑞霖), Vice President of Kärcher Group (德国卡赫集团副总裁) and Chief Financial Officer of Kärcher China (卡赫中国首席财务官), said that this achievement is due to China's continuously optimized business environment, efficient approval mechanism, and strong protection of intellectual property rights. "These have strengthened our determination to continue investing in China. In the future, the Group will further increase its R&D efforts in China and deepen cooperation with local supply chains, universities and research institutions," said Carsten Kress (柯瑞霖).

Tetsuro Homma (本间哲朗), Global Vice President of Panasonic Holdings Corporation (松下控股株式会社全球副总裁), said that since entering the Chinese market more than 40 years ago, Panasonic has personally experienced China's reform and opening up process and witnessed the huge dividends brought about by the continuous opening up of the Chinese market. "Currently, China's artificial intelligence industry is developing rapidly, and we are actively deploying in areas such as generative artificial intelligence, smart homes, and green energy. I believe that through this CIIE, we will reach pragmatic cooperation with more Chinese partners and jointly draw a new blueprint for development."

This CIIE has set up a "Least Developed Countries Product Zone" for the first time, focusing on displaying distinctive and high-quality products from more than 30 least developed countries, helping to expand unilateral opening up to these countries and sharing the dividends of the large Chinese market with more developing countries. "This move reflects China's pragmatic action to promote inclusive and inclusive economic globalization." Marcos Pires, Professor of Political Economy at São Paulo State University (巴西圣保罗州立大学政治经济学教授), said that in the context of rising uncertainty in the current world economy, the significance of the CIIE is even more prominent. China not only provides support for developing countries to enhance the resilience of industrial and supply chains, but also plays a key role in promoting green transformation and digital economic development. "The CIIE is not only a product display platform, but also a bridge of trust and cooperation."

(Reporters Han Shuo (韩硕), Bai Ziwei (白紫微), Zhou Zhiran (周之然), Chen Yiming (陈一鸣), Qiang Wei (强薇), Li Yan (李琰), and Li Anqi (李安琪) participated in the writing of this report)

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Wang Yi Accepts Credentials from New African Union Representative to China and Holds Talks with Estonian Foreign Minister

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 4th. Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, met with the new African Union (非盟) representative to China, Mr. Bakh, in Beijing (北京) on the 4th and accepted his letter of credence.

Wang Yi (王毅) welcomed Mr. Bakh to assume his new post in China, stating that the 21st century should be an era of accelerated development and revitalization for China and Africa. He expressed gratitude to the African side for supporting the series of global initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平). China is willing to work with the African side to implement the outcomes of the Beijing (北京) Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation and the implementation of zero-tariff measures on 100% of tariff items for African countries that have diplomatic relations with China, jointly promote the modernization process, and build a new era of an all-weather China-Africa community with a shared future.

Mr. Bakh stated that the African Union (非盟) recognizes and supports the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind and a series of major initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平), and is willing to promote more fruitful results in bilateral cooperation.

On the same day, Wang Yi (王毅) held talks with Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna in Beijing (北京).

Wang Yi (王毅) stated that China is willing to take the 35th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations as an opportunity to continue the tradition of friendship, adhere to the positioning of partners, strengthen exchanges at all levels, enhance political mutual trust, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, strengthen cultural exchanges, and consolidate the momentum of bilateral relations towards forward and sound development with Estonia. China expects Estonia to play a constructive role in promoting the European side to calibrate its understanding of China.

Mr. Tsahkna stated that Estonia clearly adheres to and pursues the one-China policy, and is willing to strengthen exchanges at all levels with China and promote pragmatic cooperation in various fields. He appreciates China's support for multilateralism and is willing to cooperate in addressing global challenges such as climate change.

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Li Hongzhong Meets with Bui Quang Huy, Vice President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 4th (Reporter Wang Huihui (王慧慧)) Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, met with Bui Quang Huy (裴光辉), Vice President of the Central Committee of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front and First Secretary of the Secretariat of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, in Beijing (北京) on November 4th.

Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠) stated that he welcomes Vietnamese youth to China (中国) at the invitation to carry out a "Red Study Tour." It is necessary to follow the important requirements of the top leaders of the two parties and two countries on deepening exchanges between Chinese and Vietnamese youth, and to encourage the youth of the two countries to contribute their youthful strength to accelerating the building of a China-Vietnam community with a shared future that is of strategic significance. Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠) introduced the situation of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee.

Bui Quang Huy (裴光辉) expressed his willingness to deepen exchanges between Vietnamese and Chinese youth and contribute to the promotion of Vietnam-China relations.

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He Lifeng Meets with Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO David Solomon

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 4th (Reporter Cao Jiayue (曹嘉玥)) He Lifeng (何立峰), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission, met with David Solomon, Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs Group, in Beijing on the 4th.

He Lifeng (何立峰) stated that the recent successful meeting between the two heads of state, China and the United States, in Busan, South Korea, pointed the way forward for the development of bilateral economic and trade relations. Both sides should work together to earnestly implement the series of important consensuses reached by the two heads of state, which is conducive to stabilizing expectations for enterprises in both countries, promoting the stable, healthy, and sustainable development of Sino-US economic and trade relations, and is also conducive to the stable development of the global economy. We welcome Goldman Sachs Group to continue investing and developing its business in China.

David Solomon stated that Goldman Sachs Group is optimistic about the prospects for China's economic development and is willing to continue to contribute to the high-quality development of China's capital market.

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Liu Haixing Meets with Thai Cross-Party Parliamentary Delegation

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 4th (Xinhua) – On November 4th, Liu Haixing (刘海星), Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央对外联络部), met in Beijing with a cross-party delegation of parliamentarians led by Chaiseri (猜亚), leader of the Pheu Thai Party (为泰党) of Thailand and First Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, to exchange in-depth views on jointly implementing the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, deepening exchanges and cooperation between legislative bodies and parties, and promoting the building of a China-Thailand community with a shared future.

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Spanish King Felipe VI to Visit China

The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on November 3rd in Beijing (北京) (reported by Journalist Chu Jun (褚君)): At the invitation of President Xi Jinping (习近平), King Felipe VI of Spain will pay a state visit to China from November 10th to 13th.

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The 2nd China-Uzbekistan 100 Universities Cooperation Forum Held in Tashkent

This newspaper Tashkent November 4th dispatch (Reporter Li Qiang (李强)) From November 2nd to 3rd, the Second China-Uzbekistan Hundred University Cooperation Forum was held at the Uzbekistan State University of World Languages. Chinese Minister of Education Huai Jinpeng (怀进鹏), Uzbek Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation Kongratbay Sharipov (孔格拉特拜·沙里波夫), Charge d'Affaires ad interim of the Chinese Embassy in Uzbekistan Wang Jiwei (王继伟), and others attended the event and delivered speeches.

Sharipov pointed out that under the strategic guidance of the heads of state of Uzbekistan and China, the level of cooperation between the two countries has continued to rise, and cooperation in education, science, innovation, vocational training, and language teaching has steadily advanced, becoming an important foundation for the strategic partnership between the two countries. In the future, Uzbekistan will fully learn from China's experience to reduce poverty and promote employment, and further expand exchanges and cooperation between the two countries in higher education and science.

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Global Dialogue on Sustainable Urban Development Held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Our newspaper Rio de Janeiro, November 4th (Reporter Chen Yiming (陈一鸣)) The Global Sustainable Urban Development Dialogue was held on the 3rd in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Representatives from nearly 20 cities around the world exchanged ideas and shared experiences around the theme of "Gathering Southern Wisdom and Creating a Green Future." This dialogue was established under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, aiming to build a platform for exchange and dialogue between Chinese cities and cities in other countries, share global experience, focus on the global future, and address global challenges.

Selwin Hart, Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on Climate Action, said that in recent years, countries have made positive progress in addressing climate change, but there are still challenges such as a lack of fair and just solutions and insufficient financing for developing countries. At present, it is even more necessary to enhance unity and cooperation and transform the potential of Southern countries into reality as soon as possible.

Mark Watts, Executive Director of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, believes that solving climate change is 刻不容缓 (kè bù róng huǎn - "cannot be delayed," extremely urgent) and that cooperation between cities is the key to solving the financial and technological challenges faced by Southern countries.

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Chinese Company Starts Green Fertilizer Plant Project in Kenya

This newspaper Nairobi November 4th (Reporter Huang Weixin (黄炜鑫)) The 480,000-ton green fertilizer and supporting geothermal power station project invested, constructed, and operated by China's Kaishan Group (开山集团) held a groundbreaking ceremony in Nakuru County (纳库鲁郡), Kenya on the 3rd. The project has a total investment of approximately 800 million US dollars, and the final products include green ammonia, as well as urea and calcium ammonium nitrate produced using green ammonia as raw materials. It is the first green fertilizer production project in Kenya by a Chinese enterprise.

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The Central Delegation for Explaining and Implementing the Spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee Gave Lectures in Beijing, the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Financial System, Liaoning, Anhui, Hubei, and Shaanxi (Studying and Implementing the Spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee)

This newspaper reported from Beijing on November 4th (Reporter Wang Haonan (王昊男)) The Central Delegation for the Study and Implementation of the Spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee gave a presentation in Beijing (北京) on November 4th. Yin Li (尹力), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, a member of the Central Delegation, gave the presentation.

At the presentation, Yin Li (尹力), closely focused on studying and implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the "Recommendations" of the Plenary Session. Combining this with Beijing's (北京) reality, he gave a comprehensive and systematic explanation and presentation from the perspectives of fully understanding the great significance of the Plenary Session, deeply understanding the new ideas and judgments of the Plenary Session regarding the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, firmly grasping the theme of high-quality development, and uniting and striving to promote the implementation of various tasks during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.

Yin Li (尹力) emphasized that as the capital, Beijing (北京) should take the lead in the process of achieving the second centenary goal. It is necessary to firmly grasp the strategic positioning of the capital city, adhere to the highest standards, fulfill the responsibilities of the capital, transform the development blueprint into a beautiful reality step by step, continuously create a new situation in the modernization of the capital, and make due contributions to the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

After the presentation, Yin Li (尹力) went to the Citizen Center of Luzhen Town (潞城镇) in Tongzhou District (通州区), and interacted with town officials and representatives from enterprises, schools, communities, and rural grassroots. Everyone spoke freely about their experiences in studying the spirit of the Plenary Session in light of their own work. Yin Li (尹力) provided serious and in-depth answers to questions of concern to everyone regarding urban construction and development, and people's livelihood service guarantees.

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), November 4th. The Central Delegation for the Study and Implementation of the Spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee held a presentation at the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部) on November 4th. Li Shulei (李书磊), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部), a member of the Central Delegation, gave the presentation.

At the presentation, Li Shulei (李书磊), closely focused on General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech at the Plenary Session and the "Recommendations" of the Plenary Session, clarified the great significance of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, explained the major achievements of China's (中国) development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period and the economic and social development environment during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, interpreted the guiding principles, main goals, strategic tasks, major measures, and fundamental guarantees for economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and put forward requirements for continuously deepening the study, publicity, and implementation of the spirit of the Plenary Session. He pointed out that the "Recommendations," guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, make top-level designs and strategic plans for development in the next five years. It is another general mobilization and general deployment to take advantage of the momentum and continue to advance the construction of Chinese-style modernization, and it is a programmatic document for consolidating the foundation, making comprehensive efforts, and ensuring that decisive progress is made in basically realizing socialist modernization. It is necessary to deeply understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," enhance the "Four Consciousnesses," strengthen the "Four Confidences," and achieve the "Two Safeguards," unify thoughts to the spirit of the Plenary Session, and concentrate efforts on implementing the goals and tasks determined by the Plenary Session. The publicity and ideological culture front must, with a high sense of political responsibility and mission, and with a sense of urgency that time waits for no one, do practical work and be good at achieving success, prosper and develop socialist culture by stimulating innovation and creativity, and earnestly shoulder the cultural mission of the new era.

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), November 4th (Reporter Wu Yu (吴雨)) On November 4th, the Central Delegation for the Study and Implementation of the Spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee gave a presentation in the financial system. Wang Jiang (王江), Deputy Director of the Central Financial Office in charge of daily work and Deputy Secretary of the Central Financial Work Committee in charge of daily work, a member of the Central Delegation, gave the presentation.

At the presentation, Wang Jiang (王江) gave a comprehensive presentation and in-depth explanation of the spirit of the Plenary Session from the aspects of deeply understanding the great significance of the Plenary Session, especially the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, deeply understanding the important position of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period in the process of basically realizing socialist modernization, deeply grasping the guiding principles, main goals, strategic tasks, and major measures of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and adhering to and strengthening the Party's overall leadership.

In his presentation, Wang Jiang (王江) combined the reality of the financial system to interpret the relevant content of accelerating the construction of a strong financial country. He said that the "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for promoting the high-quality development of finance and accelerating the construction of a strong financial country. It is necessary to fully implement the deployment of the Plenary Session, deeply study and plan the key financial work during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, strengthen the Party's leadership and Party building in the financial system, adhere to the main line of preventing risks, strengthening supervision, and promoting high-quality development, grasp the implementation of specific work with a **钉钉子精神** (dīng dīng zi jīng shén - "nailing spirit," perseverance and meticulousness in completing tasks), resolutely implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, promote new and major progress in the construction of a strong financial country, and provide strong support for achieving the "15th Five-Year Plan" goals and tasks determined by the Party Central Committee.

That afternoon, Wang Jiang (王江) went to the business department of the Beijing (北京市) Branch of the Agricultural Bank of China (中国农业银行) to learn about the financial services of the business outlets, and held a discussion with frontline staff on studying and implementing the spirit of the Plenary Session and doing a good job in financial work during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.

Xinhua News Agency, Shenyang (沈阳), November 4th (Reporter Ding Feibai (丁非白)) The Central Delegation for the Study and Implementation of the Spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee held a presentation in Shenyang City (沈阳市), Liaoning Province (辽宁省), on November 4th. Xu Kunlin (许昆林), Secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee, a member of the Central Delegation, gave the presentation.

At the presentation, Xu Kunlin (许昆林) closely focused on studying and implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the "Recommendations" of the Plenary Session, deeply clarified the great significance of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, explained the important position of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period in the process of basically realizing socialist modernization, and focused on interpreting the guiding principles, main goals, strategic tasks, major measures, and fundamental guarantees for economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.

Xu Kunlin (许昆林) said that practice has fully proved that the "Two Establishments" are the most important political achievements, the most valuable historical experience, and the most objective practical conclusions in the new era, and are the greatest certainty, the greatest confidence, and the greatest guarantee for the Party and the people to cope with all uncertainties. Liaoning (辽宁) will unswervingly unite and strive in accordance with the direction guided by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) to achieve new breakthroughs in the comprehensive revitalization of Liaoning (辽宁).

On the afternoon of the 4th, Xu Kunlin (许昆林) also went to Northeastern University (东北大学) to present the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee to the teachers and students of the school, and conducted exchanges and interactions with representatives of teachers and students.

This newspaper reported from Hefei (合肥) on November 4th (Reporter Zhang Zhifeng (张志锋)) The Central Delegation for the Study and Implementation of the Spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee gave a presentation in Anhui Province (安徽省) from November 3rd to 4th. Lei Haichao (雷海潮), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the National Health Commission, a member of the Central Delegation, gave the presentation.

At the presentation, Lei Haichao (雷海潮) closely focused on studying and implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the "Recommendations" of the Plenary Session, from the aspects of deeply understanding the great significance of convening the Plenary Session, accurately grasping the important position and situation judgment of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, deeply understanding the guiding principles, main goals, strategic tasks, and major measures of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and adhering to and strengthening the Party's overall leadership. Combining this with the reality of Anhui (安徽), he gave an in-depth presentation, and further elaborated on the work requirements for deeply implementing the Plenary Session's decision and deployment on accelerating the construction of a healthy China (中国) and promoting high-quality population development.

Lei Haichao (雷海潮) said that it is necessary to integrate the study and implementation of the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session with the study and understanding of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and combine it with the implementation of the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech during his inspection in Anhui (安徽), to forge ahead with innovation and strive to be the first in the great practice of Chinese-style modernization.

On the morning of the 3rd and the morning of the 4th, Lei Haichao (雷海潮) went to iFlytek (科大讯飞) and Anhui Medical University (安徽医科大学) to give presentations, and interacted with young scientific and technological workers and young teachers and students, and the atmosphere was warm.

This newspaper reported from Wuhan (武汉) on November 4th (Reporter Tian Doudou (田豆豆)) The Central Delegation for the Study and Implementation of the Spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee held a presentation in Wuhan City (武汉市), Hubei Province (湖北省), on November 4th. Yin Hejun (阴和俊), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology, a member of the Central Delegation, gave the keynote report.

At the presentation, Yin Hejun (阴和俊) closely focused on the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the "Recommendations" of the Plenary Session, from the aspects of deeply understanding the great significance of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, accurately grasping the important position of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period in the process of basically realizing socialist modernization, deeply understanding the guiding principles, main goals, strategic tasks, major measures, and fundamental guarantees of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and gave a comprehensive presentation and systematic explanation of the spirit of the Plenary Session.

He emphasized that it is necessary to deeply understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," resolutely achieve the "Two Safeguards," effectively unify thoughts and actions to the spirit of the Plenary Session, adhere to and strengthen the Party's overall leadership, comprehensively implement the strategic tasks and major measures of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, gather the mighty force for promoting Chinese-style modernization, and strive to create a new situation in the construction of Chinese-style modernization.

On the afternoon of the 4th, Yin Hejun (阴和俊) also went to Hualu Technology's (华工科技) Intelligent Manufacturing Future Industry Park and the Wuhan Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics (武汉岩土力学研究所) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) to present the spirit of the Plenary Session to enterprise employees, scientific and technological workers, and grassroots party members and cadres, and interacted and exchanged with everyone.

This newspaper reported from Xi'an (西安) on November 4th (Reporter Gao Bing (高炳)) The Central Delegation for the Study and Implementation of the Spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee held a presentation in Xi'an City (西安市), Shaanxi Province (陕西省), on November 3rd. Liu Wei (刘伟), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Transport, a member of the Central Delegation, gave the presentation. More than 12,000 people participated in the presentation at the main and branch venues in Shaanxi Province (陕西省).

At the presentation, Liu Wei (刘伟) gave a comprehensive presentation and in-depth explanation of the spirit of the Plenary Session from the aspects of deeply understanding the great significance of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, accurately grasping the important position of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period in the process of basically realizing socialist modernization, deeply understanding and comprehensively understanding the guiding principles, main goals, strategic tasks, and major measures of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and gathering the mighty force for promoting Chinese-style modernization.

In his presentation, Liu Wei (刘伟) said that adhering to and strengthening the Party's overall leadership is the fundamental guarantee for promoting Chinese-style modernization. It is necessary to integrate the study and implementation of the spirit of the Plenary Session with the study and understanding of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply understand, grasp, and implement the spirit of the Plenary Session, conscientiously implement the deployment of the Plenary Session, and continuously create a new situation in comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.

On the afternoon of the 3rd and the morning of the 4th, Liu Wei (刘伟) went to the construction site of the Xi'an East Station (西安东站) (Comprehensive Transportation Hub) project and Chang'an University (长安大学) to give presentations, and interacted and exchanged with enterprise employees and teacher and student representatives.

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He Lifeng Delivers Video Address at Hong Kong International Financial Leaders Investment Summit

Xinhua News Agency, Hong Kong, November 4th. The Hong Kong International Financial Leaders Investment Summit was held in Hong Kong from the 3rd to the 5th. He Lifeng (何立峰), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, delivered a video speech.

He Lifeng (何立峰) pointed out that President Xi Jinping (习近平) is always concerned about the development of Hong Kong. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, with the support of the central government, Hong Kong has given full play to its advantages of relying on the motherland and connecting with the world, making unique and important contributions to the country's reform and development, and achieving and consolidating its own stable development in this process. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal deliberated and approved by the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee made special important arrangements for supporting Hong Kong's development, painting a better future for Hong Kong. Hong Kong will surely usher in new major development opportunities.

He Lifeng (何立峰) emphasized that the world is currently undergoing major changes unseen in a century. President Xi Jinping (习近平) put forward a global governance initiative, providing guidance and injecting impetus for promoting the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system. Financial governance is an important part of global governance. In-depth research and orderly advancement of global financial governance reform are important contents of practicing the global governance initiative. It is hoped that Hong Kong will better play its role as a "bridge," "link," and "window," actively participate in global financial governance research and practice, and promote new progress in global financial governance reform.

He Lifeng (何立峰) pointed out that China attaches great importance to promoting global economic and trade stability, will continue to expand high-level institutional opening up, and work with all parties to jointly address the difficulties and challenges facing global economic and trade, jointly maintain a healthy and stable international economic and trade order, inject more stability and positive energy into the uncertain global economic and financial system, and promote global economic prosperity and stability.

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"Village Reading" Builds a Spiritual Granary (On the Scene: Observing "Village-Branded" Cultural and Sports Activities)

By: 本报记者 胡婧怡

The autumn harvest is complete, and the grain is stored. In Panjin City (盘锦市), Liaoning (辽宁) Province, a refreshing scent of books has been added to the fragrant aroma of the abundant rice harvest.

In the afternoon, the "Village Reading" event at the Changjia Village (常家村) farm bookstore in Shuangtaizi District (双台子区), Panjin City (盘锦市), was packed. Chang Lin (常琳), the part-time manager of the bookstore, was busy adding stools for the villagers who arrived late. "Zhao Xiaolin (赵晓林), vice chairman of the Panjin City Writers Association and resident writer, is here today to share his thoughts on reading and writing. As soon as the news was released in the 'Agricultural Fragrance Book Club' WeChat group, everyone liked and signed up," Chang Lin (常琳) said.

The reading sharing session officially began. "I grew up in the countryside, and rural-themed literary works are the starting point of my reading," Zhao Xiaolin (赵晓林) said. "For example, in 'The Builders,' Liang Shengbao (梁生宝) stayed overnight at the train station ticket office to save money on buying rice seeds, which made me feel the hardship and simplicity of farmers; and in 'Ordinary World,' the story of the Sun ShaoPing (孙少平) and Sun Shaoan (孙少安) brothers made me feel the powerful spirit of struggle..."

Gu Chunming (谷春明), a 69-year-old villager, continued, "Teacher Zhao (赵老师)'s writing about rural affairs is something we have experienced, and it is particularly touching! I read your book 'Dear Stoker,' which describes the children in the village chopping firewood to light the stove for the classroom in order to save coal. That scene is exactly the same as when I was a child. My son also took the book to read..."

The unique "Village Reading" activity has become a trend in recent years.

In 2021, the Changjia Village (常家村) farm bookstore was moved from the village committee to the village activity square, and it was renovated and upgraded with an expansion of books. At the end of 2022, Zhao Xiaolin (赵晓林) entered the farm bookstore for the first time and was deeply moved by the enthusiasm of the villagers at the reading sharing session. Since then, he has often used his days off to come to Changjia Village (常家村) to experience life and has carried out more than 20 reading sharing activities here. He also used Changjia Village (常家村) as a prototype to create the situational drama "The Most Beautiful Youth Book," the short story "Houttuynia cordata" and "The Child with the Lantern."

"The experience in Changjia Village (常家村) has nourished my creation," Zhao Xiaolin (赵晓林) said. "'The Most Beautiful Youth Book' is about the upgrading and transformation of our farm bookstore. The two short stories are about the children in the village making friends in the bookstore and learning and progressing together."

Chang Lin (常琳) continued, "My son met a child who returned to the village for summer vacation in the bookstore, and the two became good friends. Seeing his own story written into a book, my son is very proud and has also developed a habit of reading."

At the scene, the villagers watched the video of the situational drama "The Most Beautiful Youth Book" together. In the play, the plot of Uncle Li (李叔), a villager in Huaxi Village (花溪村), asking the village cadre for books on freshwater shrimp farming technology evoked the memory of Chen Yan (陈岩), secretary of the general Party branch of Changjia Village (常家村): "In those years, the villagers' opinions were solicited for the renovation of the bookstore. Not only was the hardware improved, but the collection of books was also more in line with the needs of the villagers. Li Changjun (李长军), a mushroom grower in our village, proposed to equip some books on mushroom cultivation. Now, when the growers in the village encounter problems, they will come to the bookstore to check. These books have played a role in the development of the village's industry."

As the event drew to a close, villager Chang Zhenhe (常振和) asked Zhao Xiaolin (赵晓林), "I borrowed 'Journey to the West' from the bookstore and told it to my little grandson at night. He learned it faster than me. Now, I also want to make up for the lesson. What do you recommend me to read?"

"Now, the forms of reading are diversified, and many works have audio, so you can also try 'listening to books'," Zhao Xiaolin (赵晓林) suggested.

The villagers were curious about where they could "listen to books." Chang Lin (常琳) pointed to the promotional poster on the wall and introduced, "This year, the city has integrated the resources of the city library and the Liaoning (辽宁) Provincial Public Library network borrowing platform. By scanning the QR code, you can download reading software, 'listen to books' for free, and there are hundreds of thousands of books that can be borrowed online and delivered to your door."

Since the launch of the first "New Era Rural Reading Season" in 2019, Panjin City (盘锦市) has continuously carried out rural reading promotion activities, with farm bookstores as the main position. All administrative villages in the city have achieved full coverage of digital reading, building a spiritual granary for the countryside.

After the reading sharing session, the villagers gathered around the poster, downloaded the reading software, and registered and logged in. Chang Zhenhe (常振和) searched for "Ordinary World," listening to the reading sound in the software, and leisurely embarked on the way home...

Reported by Chang Qin (常钦), reporter of this newspaper.

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Fragrant Books Enrich Hearts, New Look for Villages (Editor's Note)

By: 陈 震

The "New Era Rural Reading Season" has been held for consecutive years, farmhouses and bookstores have been continuously renovated and upgraded, and writers share their reading experiences with farmers face-to-face... In rural areas, "village reading" activities are widely carried out and reading conditions are continuously improved. This is not only a "two-way rush" between literature and the countryside, but also a vivid picture of the coordinated development of material and spiritual civilization.

"Village reading" builds spiritual granaries in the vast countryside. Villagers gain production knowledge and cultural nourishment from reading, and children also fall in love with books and make friends with books in farmhouses and bookstores. Digital empowerment has further opened up the "last mile" of "village reading," better meeting the new needs of farmers for spiritual and cultural life, and civilized rural customs have brought a vigorous new atmosphere to the countryside.

The comprehensive revitalization of the countryside requires both shaping and soul-casting. Relying on "village reading" and other activities, we will continue to cultivate farmers' reading interests and habits, use spiritual food to provide nourishment for farmers and rural development, and constantly write new stories and chapters to promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside. Beautiful literature and reality will be more closely intertwined.

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Unswervingly follow the path of social governance with Chinese characteristics

By: 本报记者 张 洋 吴储岐 沈童睿

Social work is an important topic written into the Chinese-style modernization process, concerning the Party's long-term governance and the country's long-term stability and security, as well as social harmony, stability, people's happiness, and well-being.

Since the new era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has made a series of major decisions and deployments from the strategic height of the overall development of the Party and the country's cause, vigorously promoting the practical innovation, theoretical innovation, and institutional innovation of social work. Social work in the new era is moving towards high-quality development, and the advantages and effectiveness of socialist social governance with Chinese characteristics are constantly demonstrated.

"Social work must be strengthened"

In the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal, "taking the road of socialist social governance with Chinese characteristics" has attracted widespread social attention.

This is not only a goal and task, but also an inevitable path that carries the mission of the times and leads to a better future.

Development and security, vitality and order, have always been dialectically unified and indispensable. Promoting Chinese-style modernization requires a social environment that is both vibrant and well-ordered.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out: "Looking at the governance practices of various countries, if social governance cannot keep up with the pace of economic development, and various social contradictions and problems cannot be effectively resolved, not only will economic development be unsustainable, but the entire society may also fall into turmoil." This important conclusion is thought-provoking and **振聋发聩** (zhèn lóng fā kuì - "deafening," startling even the deaf; a wake-up call).

Since the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) footprints have spread all over the country, always concerned about social security and stability, and always thinking about the people's peaceful and happy life. "The city should not only have height, but also warmth," "Let the community become the safest and most secure harbor for residents"... Earnest entrustments carry a strong sense of mission and responsibility.

The Second Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) deliberated and approved the "Plan for Reforming Party and State Institutions," deciding to establish the Central Social Work Department (中央社会工作部) and establish social work departments in provincial, municipal, and county-level Party committees. The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) made special arrangements for "improving the social work system and mechanism."

From November 5th to 6th last year, the Central Social Work Conference (中央社会工作会议) was held, which was the first time in the history of our Party. Social work has been raised to an unprecedented strategic height.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) made important instructions and emphasized that "social work is an important part of the work of the Party and the country," "social work faces new situations and new tasks, and must show new responsibilities and new actions," and "doing social work well is the common responsibility of the whole Party."

The key to new responsibilities and new actions lies in "unswervingly taking the road of socialist social governance with Chinese characteristics." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) not only pointed out the direction, but also taught the method:

"Be good at transforming the Party's leadership and the advantages of our country's socialist system into social governance advantages";

"Proceed from our country's reality, follow the laws of governance, grasp the characteristics of the times, and strengthen and innovate social governance";

"We must better unite and serve the masses, improve the coordination mechanism of mass interests, improve the level of public services, and solve the urgent and difficult problems of the masses with heart and affection";

"We must improve the social governance system and improve the social work system and mechanism";

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"The people's hearts are the greatest politics." Social work is a work carried out in the broadest social field, the broadest grassroots organizations, and the broadest masses of the people, and must be grasped tightly, practically, and meticulously.

On March 5th this year, the Jiangsu (江苏) delegation to the Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress (全国人民代表大会) deliberated, and a conversation warmed people's hearts—

"How many people are there in your community?"

"7,266 people, consisting of 5 residential quarters. When I first came, there were only more than 3,000 people, and now it has doubled."

"In the past, the neighborhood committees were relatively small in my impression. The community secretary is the 'prime minister of the alley,' who manages a lot of things and is very difficult."

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) also paid special attention to new employment groups: "Our social groups are being refined and differentiated. We must keep up with the management and services for the couriers, online car-hailing drivers, e-commerce practitioners, etc. that have emerged in recent years, and fill this gap. There must be both management and service."

"Social work must be strengthened." Concise and powerful.

The Party building-led grassroots governance coordination mechanism, the emerging field Party building work coordination mechanism, the petition work joint meeting, the industry association chamber of commerce reform and development joint meeting, and the volunteer service work coordination group... The social work system and mechanism are constantly established and improved, and the overall effectiveness of social work is constantly improved.

The newly revised Villagers Committee Organization Law and the newly revised Urban Residents Committee Organization Law were officially promulgated. Strengthening the construction of the community workers team, improving the new era volunteer service system, promoting the rule of law in petition work, strengthening the spiritual civilization construction of national industry associations and chambers of commerce, and strengthening the service management of couriers and online delivery personnel... Social work laws, regulations, and policies have been successively introduced.

In today's China, social work has reached a new level, with clear and firm goals—"Chinese-style modernization should and can achieve a dynamic balance of vitality without chaos and activity in an orderly manner."

The dream is ahead, and the road is under our feet.

"We must work together to continuously improve the level of social construction and governance, continue to create a harmonious and inclusive atmosphere, solve the major and minor issues around the people, and make everyone smile more and feel warmer." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) warm words in the New Year's message in 2025 encourage us to work tirelessly and forge ahead.

"Continuously enhance the Party's appeal, cohesion, and influence in emerging fields"

"I came to see you specifically."

Before the Spring Festival in 2019, in the Shitou Hutong (石头胡同) in Qianmen (前门), Beijing (北京), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to the courier service point. A kind greeting warmed the busy "little bees" in the cold winter.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "'Courier brothers' work very hard, starting early and working late, regardless of wind or rain, and are busier during holidays. Like hardworking little bees, they are the most hardworking workers and bring convenience to everyone's life."

The wheels of the times are rolling forward, the socialist market economy is constantly developing, and a large number of new economic organizations and new social organizations are emerging. In particular, with the platform economy as the representative, new forms of business are booming, and there are about 84 million new employment forms workers in our country. They no longer stick to traditional offices or factories, but shuttle through buildings and alleys, "galloping" on the information highway.

Wherever there are masses, there is the Party's work; wherever there are Party members, there are Party organizations; wherever there are Party organizations, there is the full play of the role of Party organizations. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "Focus on strengthening Party building in new economic organizations, new social organizations, and new employment groups, and continuously enhance the Party's appeal, cohesion, and influence in emerging fields."

The social work department conscientiously studied and understood the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions, and together with relevant departments, in accordance with the deployment of the symposium on Party building in emerging fields, deeply studied where the "new," "difficult," and "implementation" of Party building in emerging fields lie.

From promoting the coverage of Party organizations and work, to organically integrating Party work with production and operation, innovation and entrepreneurship, social services, and grassroots governance, promoting "strong Party building and strong development"; from consolidating and improving Party building in non-public enterprises, to deepening Party building in new social organizations; from strengthening Party building in new forms of business and new employment groups, to strengthening service management of new employment groups... A series of solid measures have promoted Party building in emerging fields to go deeper, more solid, and more effective.

Industry associations and chambers of commerce are important bridges for the Party and the government to connect with the market and society. In recent years, various localities have continuously strengthened Party building in industry associations and chambers of commerce, improved the organizational system, and promoted comprehensive and strict Party governance in depth. Adhering to the principle of "managing the industry also requires managing Party building," various departments have given full play to their functional roles and jointly promoted the healthy development of industry associations and chambers of commerce. Industry associations and chambers of commerce pay attention to standardizing internal management, strengthening industry style construction, actively take the initiative, and the functional role of serving the industry, serving the society, and serving the masses is constantly demonstrated.

In the final analysis, Party building work is about doing people's work.

In February 2021, the 19th Central Political Bureau conducted a collective study on improving the social security system covering the entire population. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that "some migrant workers, flexible employment personnel, and new employment personnel are not included in social security, and there are situations of 'missed insurance,' 'disconnection of insurance,' and 'interruption of insurance.'" These problems "must be given high attention and effectively solved."

Various departments have taken active actions and successively introduced measures to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of new employment groups and build harmonious labor relations, and have put forward clear requirements in terms of labor remuneration, reasonable rest, social insurance, and labor safety.

The warmth of policies is constantly transformed into the people's tangible and accessible happiness. In recent years, various localities have vigorously promoted the construction of friendly scenarios to solve the urgent and difficult problems of new employment groups: creating warm and heart-warming stations, where they can rest when tired and confide when upset, enhancing their sense of gain; rectifying illegal road height and width restrictions, building "driver's homes," strengthening their sense of security; providing services such as career planning and education and training, enhancing their sense of integration; issuing "most beautiful" solicitation orders, selecting the most beautiful couriers, the most beautiful drivers, etc., establishing a sense of honor.

This warmth is inspiring. Today, in Xicheng District (西城区), Beijing (北京), Party member couriers have become familiar "red vests" among neighbors; in Yangpu District (杨浦区), Shanghai (上海), Party member riders actively participate in civilized guidance, safety patrols, and emergency volunteer activities... More and more couriers, online delivery personnel, online car-hailing drivers, and truck drivers are approaching Party organizations and becoming a valuable "increment" in urban governance.

"We must build grassroots Party organizations into strong fighting fortresses"

Blue sky, blue sea, clean shores, and white sand, Ao'jiao Village (澳角村) quietly stands in the southeast corner of Dongshan Island (东山岛), Zhangzhou City (漳州市), Fujian (福建) Province.

Last autumn, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) once again set foot on this land. After 23 years, the fishing village has been renewed. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) was very pleased: "The village-level Party organization should play the role of a locomotive, leading the villagers to do a good job in the 'sea' article, and move forward on the road of rural revitalization and common prosperity."

In rural areas, the village Party organization is the "locomotive" leading to prosperity and beauty; in cities, the community Party organization must also be the "backbone" for the people to live and work in peace and contentment.

In June 2021, walking into the comprehensive service center of Wenting Lane Community (文亭巷社区), Wenhui Road Street (文汇路街道), Xining City (西宁市), Qinghai (青海) Province, the singing was melodious and the calligraphy was fragrant. Calligraphy and painting rooms, dance rooms, reading rooms, rehabilitation rooms... The facilities are all available, and the residents are happy.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) said to everyone: "To run a community well, there must be a grassroots organization led by a very strong Party organization, provide comprehensive services in all aspects of the community, and organize the autonomous affairs of the masses well."

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) often goes to rural areas and urban communities when he inspects local areas. Party building leading grassroots governance is a task he has repeatedly emphasized—

"Take strengthening grassroots Party building and consolidating the Party's ruling foundation as a red line running through social governance and grassroots construction";

"We must build grassroots Party organizations into strong fighting fortresses, transform the major tasks proposed by the Party Central Committee into specific work at the grassroots level, and grasp them firmly, practically, and effectively";

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If the foundation is not solid, the ground will shake. The grassroots is the foundation of the Party's governance and the source of its strength.

All regions and departments have established a clear orientation of focusing on grasping the grassroots, continuously improving the system and mechanism, innovating governance methods, and promoting the comprehensive progress and comprehensive excellence of grassroots Party organizations.

Reduce burden and empower, move forward lightly. The promulgation of the "Several Provisions on Rectifying Formalism to Reduce the Burden on the Grassroots" is like a spring breeze. Meeting documents have been streamlined, supervision, inspection, and assessment have been standardized, and more and more resources and forces have been tilted towards the grassroots, so that the vast number of grassroots cadres have more time and energy to grasp implementation and do practical things.

Clarify powers and responsibilities, and focus on practical work. Proposing 20 measures of "strong horses, light vehicles, smooth roads, and gathering strength," formulating and implementing a list of matters for townships (streets) to perform their duties, establishing and improving a village (community) work matter access system, a series of measures to promote the grassroots to focus on what they should and can do, cultivate the "responsibility field" well, and do their job well.

"Three Governance" integration, bursting with vitality. In Jinniu District (金牛区), Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川), Party branches are built on grids, "red property management" cooperates with building Party groups, and residents' problems can be "solved downstairs"; in Anqiu City (安丘市), Weifang (潍坊), Shandong (山东), grassroots Party organizations innovatively carry out "Maza (small stool) Council," Party members and cadres go deep into the front line, coordinate and solve people's livelihood problems, and turn the people's worries into peace of mind... The grassroots governance system combining autonomy, rule of law, and rule of virtue under the leadership of the Party organization has been established and improved, and the socialization, rule of law, intelligence, and specialization of social governance have been continuously improved.

In March this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to Zhaoxing Dong Village (肇兴侗寨), Liping County (黎平县), Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture (黔东南苗族侗族自治州), Guizhou Province (贵州省), and sat down with village cadres and villager representatives to talk freely.

The first secretary stationed in the village is engaged in construction, retired veteran Party members participate in mediation, and college students who return to their hometown to start businesses establish cooperatives... In the laughter, the vigorous vitality of the comprehensive revitalization of the Dong village is leaping, and it also vividly confirms a truth—"The key to doing a good job for the people lies in strengthening the construction of rural grassroots Party organizations."

Fighting fortresses, strong and powerful. Grassroots governance, a myriad of phenomena. The Party's political advantages and organizational advantages are constantly transformed into grassroots governance effectiveness.

"Let the wisdom and talent of the masses become an inexhaustible source of social governance innovation"

The autumn wind is refreshing, the Torreya trees are fragrant, and the Fengxi River (枫溪江) flows through the ancient town of Fengqiao (枫桥镇), Zhuji City (诸暨市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省). The "Fengqiao Experience" that originated here is enduring.

In September 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) made a special trip here to visit the Fengqiao Experience Exhibition Hall, and profoundly pointed out: "This contains the Party's policies and strategies for handling problems and resolving contradictions, that is, to follow the mass line, closely rely on the people, and solve problems at the grassroots level and resolve them in the bud."

The times are changing, the situation is changing, and the content of social contradictions is also changing, but the method of relying on the people to correctly handle contradictions among the people has never changed. Today, various localities adhere to and develop the "Fengqiao Experience" in the new era, make good use of the "Four Down to the Grassroots" system, strengthen and improve the people's petition work, promote the source governance and resolution of accumulated petition problems, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the people, and promote social harmony and stability.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) took the lead in setting an example, deeply practiced the Party's mass line, and repeatedly put forward clear requirements: "We should pay attention to publicizing and educating the masses, carry out work in a way that the masses like to see and are easy to accept, improve the ideological awareness of the masses, and make them enthusiastic and act," "Let the wisdom and talent of the masses become an inexhaustible source of social governance innovation"...

"Lao Yangshu (老杨树) Propaganda Gathering" is a group organization composed of old cadres, old soldiers, old experts, old teachers, and old models in Yangpu District (杨浦区), Shanghai (上海). The group takes it as its responsibility to publicize the Party's innovative theories and the concept of people's city, and widely carries out propaganda activities through online and offline methods.

In November last year, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) replied to all comrades of the "Lao Yangshu (老杨树) Propaganda Gathering," emphasizing that "the people build the people's city, and the people's city is for the people," and calling on "building a harmonious and beautiful city together and creating a happy and beautiful life together."

Today, whole-process people's democracy is deeply integrated into Shanghai's urban governance. Listening to the opinions of the masses, responding to the concerns of the masses, and solving practical problems... Here, the people play the leading role.

Coincidentally. Beizhan Community (北站社区), Minzhi Street (民治街道), Longhua District (龙华区), Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong Province (广东省), is a high-density community in a super-large city, with diverse structures and diverse demands, and the governance is not easy.

As early as October 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came here and clearly pointed out: "We must adhere to relying on residents, organize residents to participate in community governance in an orderly manner in accordance with the law, and achieve everyone's participation, everyone's efforts, and everyone's sharing."
Today, in the community, volunteers guide the orderly parking of electric vehicles; beside the small square table in the Party-Masses Service Center, community workers and residents discuss the care of children of people from other places... Community workers and the masses deeply realize that: "Discussion by all and effort by all are the keys to solving problems."

Social work, to a large extent, is doing work among the masses. Better uniting and serving the masses is both the duty of the work and the basic method of carrying it out. By closely relying on the people and organizing and mobilizing the masses, social work can be more grounded, more vibrant, and more effective.

Listening to public opinion and gathering public wisdom, broadly accepting suggestions has become an important channel for promoting the modernization of social governance. Social work departments should do a good job in collecting people's suggestions, continuously improve the system and mechanism, and make good use of online and offline platforms to make the collection of public sentiment more smooth and efficient.

Excellent traditional culture continues to permeate people's hearts. The vast rural areas have formulated and improved village rules and folk agreements, and established organizations such as marriage and funeral management committees and ethics evaluation committees to self-manage and self-supervise, consciously promote changing customs and habits, emphasize civility rather than extravagance, and a new trend of promoting morality and thrift is blowing strongly.

Volunteer service is an important symbol of social progress. At present, the number of registered volunteers nationwide has reached 237 million, with 1.35 million volunteer teams of various types. "Volunteer when you have time, find a volunteer when you have difficulties" and "I dedicate, I am happy" have become a new social trend.

Everything for the people, everything relying on the people. The wisdom and strength of hundreds of millions of people continue to consolidate the foundation of social work.

On the new journey, uniting more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, unswervingly following the path of socialist social governance with Chinese characteristics, and continuously promoting the high-quality development of social work in the new era will surely make our society both vibrant and orderly in the process of modernization.

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First Edition Editors: Xu Nuo, Zhao Zheng, Zhang Yujie; Second Edition Editors: Han Xiaoming, Zhou Zhou, Li Anqi; Third Edition Editors: Yuan Zhenxi, Liu Nian, Chen Zhen; Fourth Edition Editors: Yin Xinyu, Lü Li, Qi Jiarun

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General Office of the State Council Notice on the Arrangement of Certain Holidays in 2026

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), November 4th. Notice from the General Office of the State Council (国务院办公厅) regarding the arrangement of some holidays in 2026, the full text is as follows:

To the People's Governments of all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, all ministries and commissions of the State Council (国务院), and all directly affiliated institutions:

With the approval of the State Council (国务院), the specific arrangements for the holiday and work adjustments for New Year's Day, Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and National Day in 2026 are hereby notified as follows.

I. New Year's Day: A holiday will be observed from January 1 (Thursday) to 3 (Saturday), for a total of 3 days. Work resumes on January 4 (Sunday).

II. Spring Festival: A holiday will be observed from February 15 (the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, Sunday) to 23 (the seventh day of the first lunar month, Monday), for a total of 9 days. Work resumes on February 14 (Saturday) and February 28 (Saturday).

III. Qingming Festival: A holiday will be observed from April 4 (Saturday) to 6 (Monday), for a total of 3 days.

IV. Labor Day: A holiday will be observed from May 1 (Friday) to 5 (Tuesday), for a total of 5 days. Work resumes on May 9 (Saturday).

V. Dragon Boat Festival: A holiday will be observed from June 19 (Friday) to 21 (Sunday), for a total of 3 days.

VI. Mid-Autumn Festival: A holiday will be observed from September 25 (Friday) to 27 (Sunday), for a total of 3 days.

VII. National Day: A holiday will be observed from October 1 (Thursday) to 7 (Wednesday), for a total of 7 days. Work resumes on September 20 (Sunday) and October 10 (Saturday).

Units and individuals are encouraged to combine the implementation of paid annual leave and other systems to actually form longer holidays and promote staggered travel. During the holidays, all regions and departments must properly arrange duty, safety, security, and epidemic prevention and control work. In the event of major emergencies, they must report them in a timely manner and properly handle them in accordance with regulations to ensure that the people can spend the holiday peacefully and safely.

General Office of the State Council (国务院办公厅)

November 4, 2025

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Talking about increasing income in modern agricultural industrial parks (Towards the Development Blueprint of the "15th Five-Year Plan")

By: ​本报记者 郭晓龙

Enhance the comprehensive agricultural production capacity and quality benefits. Adhere to simultaneously focusing on yield and capacity, production and ecology, and increased production and income, comprehensively develop technological agriculture, green agriculture, quality agriculture, and brand agriculture, and build agriculture into a modern major industry.

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

"It's much more accurate than the older generation's experience-based yield estimation." In the National Modern Agricultural Industrial Park of Fujin (富锦) City, Heilongjiang (黑龙江) Province, Liu Chun (刘春), a 60-year-old rice farmer, opened the "Funongtong" software on his mobile phone. The screen showed that his rice yield per mu was 1105 jin, more than 300 jin more than before the industrial park was built.

Having farmed for 30 years, Liu Chun (刘春) said that in the past, rice farming was like gambling with the weather. "In good years, one mu of land would yield 800 jin, but in the event of a disaster, even 600 jin was uncertain." Not only that, fertilization was entirely based on experience. Too much fertilizer would "burn" the seedlings, causing them to droop, and too little fertilizer would result in small and瘪 (biě - shriveled) rice ears. During the autumn harvest, the grain would be hauled to the purchasing point more than ten miles away early in the morning, and the queue would last until noon.

A few years ago, Fujin (富锦) City began to create a National Modern Agricultural Industrial Park. The first time Liu Chun (刘春) saw drones spraying pesticides in the industrial park, he muttered, "Can this iron lump spray more evenly than people?" But watching the drone spray more than 1,000 mu of land in one day, he was convinced.

Liu Chun (刘春) also started using new technology. "This summer, there was a drought. If it had been before, I would have panicked." He said that the industrial park's monitoring network detected changes in soil moisture early on. "The land was not affected by the drought, and the rice was still thriving."

The industrial park also helped connect with rice processing plants, using the "Fujin Rice" (富锦大米) logo, which can sell for up to 1 yuan more per jin than if farmers sold it individually. Liu Chun (刘春) calculated the figures: he transferred 500 mu of land, with a yield of 1105 jin per mu. At 1.8 yuan per jin this year, his net income could reach 150,000 yuan.

With a better life, Liu Chun (刘春) renovated his old house in the village, added a water heater and refrigerator, and bought a house in the city last year. "There is central heating, so there is no need to burn coal in winter, and my grandson is not afraid of his hands and feet freezing when doing homework."

The changes in Liu Chun's (刘春) family are a microcosm of the Fujin (富锦) National Modern Agricultural Industrial Park's efforts to help farmers increase their income. The industrial park has built a "sky-ground" monitoring network, equipped with intelligent irrigation, drones and other equipment, promoted high-quality rice varieties such as "Longjing 31" (龙粳31) and "Suijing 18" (绥粳18), introduced 48 large-scale rice processing enterprises, the comprehensive mechanization rate of crops has reached 99.94%, and the contribution rate of agricultural science and technology has increased to 71%. Fujin (富锦) City, where the industrial park is located, has a cultivated land area of 9.761 million mu and a grain output of 6.604 billion jin last year, and is a well-known major grain-producing county in China.

Looking forward to next year, Liu Chun (刘春) has new expectations: "Our 'Fujin Rice' (富锦大米) is a national geographical indication product, but some people outside still don't know much about it. I hope we can build its reputation so that it can be sold at a higher price next year. We don't know much about technologies such as satellite remote sensing and AI pest and disease identification, and I hope technicians can come and teach us more."

In a few days, the village will organize a visit to the industrial park's science and technology demonstration park. Liu Chun (刘春) signed up, "I want to see if we can use newer technologies next year. If the rice grows well, our wallets will be full."

This issue's coordination: Zhang Anyu (张安宇)

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Delivering the "Science and Technology Farming Sutra" to Farmers

By: 张明秀

Having engaged in agricultural technology extension for over 30 years, I feel a great sense of accomplishment seeing more and more farmers around me becoming prosperous through new technologies.

A few years ago, when promoting the technology of side-deep fertilization, a farmer said, "I can farm based on my experience, why bother learning new technologies?" Explaining the technology is not as effective as presenting the facts. During the heading stage, I took him to the demonstration field. The rice ears were larger than those in his field, the grains were fuller, and there was no lodging. When harvesting, it was calculated that the demonstration field used 20 fewer *jin* of fertilizer per *mu* and yielded 80 more *jin* of rice. After that, he actively requested technical materials and even became a "technology propagandist."

Farmers' concerns are understandable: they are afraid that new technologies will not work, and even more afraid of 花钱打水漂 (huā qián dǎ shuǐ piāo - "spend money to hit water drift," to waste money; to throw money down the drain). Therefore, in addition to explaining the technology, we must also demonstrate it to them.

This year, we have set up full-time agricultural technology instructors in each village and have also filmed many short videos to explain technologies such as soil testing and fertilizer formulation and pest and disease control in terms that everyone can understand. If farmers have problems, they can ask online. If they are not clear, we teach them hand-in-hand in the field.

Looking forward to the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan," we also have our own goals: to build a pest and disease epidemic monitoring network so that farmers can know what diseases their crops have and what medicines to use on their mobile phones; and to continue to promote straw returning to the field and organic fertilizer replacing chemical fertilizer to better protect this black soil.

I often say to my colleagues that we agricultural technicians are bridge builders, turning the technology in the laboratory into "technology-based grain farming experience" and delivering it to farmers. As long as farmers can farm more easily and make more money, we will have contributed to the construction of a strong agricultural country.

(The author is the director of the Fujin City Agricultural Technology Extension Center (富锦市农业技术推广中心). Interview and compilation by Guo Xiaolong (郭晓龙), reporter of this newspaper.)

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Promoting the Organic Integration of Small Farmers and Modern Agricultural Development

By: 何少平

Modern agricultural industrial parks are based on large-scale planting and breeding bases, driven by leading agricultural industrialization enterprises, and form a leading modern agricultural development platform through "production + processing + technology + green + brand." Similar to how industrial parks leverage industrial agglomeration advantages, modern agricultural industrial parks solve problems such as dispersed agricultural operations, short industrial chains, weak competitiveness, and low added value of agricultural products, build close-knit interest linkage mechanisms, and promote the organic connection of small farmers and modern agricultural development.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) and the Ministry of Finance (财政部) have cumulatively approved the construction of 400 modern agricultural industrial park projects. As of the end of 2024, the average output value of industrial parks is nearly 9 billion yuan, and the industrial agglomeration effect is evident. The ratio of agricultural product processing industry to total agricultural output value in the parks averages 3.2:1, higher than the national average; nearly 60 agricultural product brands with a value exceeding 10 billion yuan have been created, such as Wuchang Rice (五常大米) and Anhua Dark Tea (安化黑茶); a cumulative total of 1,830 expert academician workstations, science and technology courtyards, and other scientific research and innovation platform carriers have been gathered, and a number of innovative achievements such as the Beidahuang Qixing Farm (北大荒七星农场) self-driving high-horsepower agricultural machinery have been incubated; more than 10 million people have been absorbed to find employment nearby in the parks, more than 70% of farmers in the parks have established interest linkage relationships with new agricultural business entities, and the annual per capita disposable income of farmers in the parks reaches 33,000 yuan, higher than the national average.

At the same time, park construction still faces challenges such as insufficient industrial chain extension, insufficient aggregation of resource elements, and low professional management capabilities. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, to promote the high-quality development of modern agricultural industrial parks, it is necessary to coordinate the development of technological agriculture, green agriculture, quality agriculture, and brand agriculture, promote the integrated development of "industrial revitalization, county strengthening, and people enrichment," focus on advantageous industries to extend, supplement, and strengthen the chain, promote the aggregation and integration of elements, improve the linkage mechanism for benefiting farmers, and enhance the comprehensive production capacity and quality benefits of agriculture.

(The author is the Deputy Director of the Development Planning Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部发展规划司副司长), and the report was compiled from interviews by Chang Qin (常钦), a reporter from this newspaper.)

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Inter-regional personnel mobility exceeded 50 billion trips in the first three quarters.

By: 本报记者 韩 鑫

A large number of major transportation projects are being "fully loaded," constantly updating the progress bar.

On the highway front, the world's largest four-main-cable suspension bridge, the Yanqi Yangtze River Bridge (燕矶长江大桥), has entered the final sprint stage of closure and is expected to be closed in November; the Xinjiang Uwei Expressway (新疆乌尉高速公路), with a total length of 319.7 kilometers, has entered the final stage and is sprinting towards full operation by the end of this year.

In terms of waterway transportation, the Pinglu Canal (平陆运河), a backbone project of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor in western China, has completed more than 80% of its total investment and is expected to be completed and open to navigation by the end of next year; the first terminal project in the northern operation area of Shanghai Xiaoyushan (上海小洋山) has passed the completion acceptance.

Driven by a number of major transportation projects, the scale of fixed asset investment in transportation has maintained a high level of operation. In the first three quarters, 2.6 trillion yuan of fixed asset investment in transportation was completed. Railways, waterways, and civil aviation completed investments of 593.7 billion yuan, 160.5 billion yuan, and 82.9 billion yuan respectively; highways completed investments of 1.78 trillion yuan, of which expressways, ordinary national and provincial highways, and rural roads completed investments of 929.6 billion yuan, 434.3 billion yuan, and 275.3 billion yuan respectively.

Good investment and improved road networks support smoother transportation "arteries" and "microcirculation." "In the first three quarters, the economic operation of the transportation industry has consolidated and continued its steady trend, new momentum has been accelerated, and development resilience has continued to be demonstrated," said Li Ying (李颖), spokesperson for the Ministry of Transport (交通运输部).

The flow of people continues to increase. In the first three quarters, 50.6 billion passenger trips were completed across regions, an increase of 3.1% year-on-year. By mode of transport, railways and civil aviation completed 3.54 billion and 580 million passenger trips respectively, an increase of 6% and 5.2% year-on-year; highways completed 46.28 billion passenger trips, an increase of 2.9% year-on-year.

Freight volume grew steadily. In the first three quarters, 43.25 billion tons of commercial freight were completed, an increase of 3.89% year-on-year, of which the third quarter increased by 3.9%, an acceleration of 0.9 percentage points compared with the second quarter. By mode of transport, railways, highways, waterways, and civil aviation completed 3.91 billion tons, 31.91 billion tons, 7.42 billion tons, and 7.4 million tons of freight respectively in the first three quarters, an increase of 2.8%, 4.1%, 3.7%, and 14% year-on-year.

Port cargo throughput grew rapidly, and foreign trade containers showed strong resilience. In the first three quarters, 13.57 billion tons of port cargo throughput were completed, an increase of 4.6% year-on-year, of which the third quarter increased by 5.8%, an acceleration of 1.1 percentage points compared with the second quarter. By structure, domestic and foreign trade container throughput increased by 3.2% and 8.4% year-on-year respectively.

"In the past, shipping a cargo to Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) required filling out five or six documents, and the whole process had to be monitored for more than ten days. Once a link was dropped, the shipping schedule would not be met." Jia Quanwei (贾权威), general manager of Zhejiang Huaxun International Logistics Co., Ltd. (浙江华迅国际物流有限公司), who has been engaged in the export of small commodities in Yiwu (义乌), Zhejiang (浙江) for more than 10 years, has a deep understanding of the changes in freight transportation. Relying on the "single bill" model, bills of lading can be issued after the goods are loaded in Yiwu, and the goods can be directly transported to the port for loading, which not only reduces logistics costs but also greatly improves transportation efficiency.

Model innovation drives the steady increase in the volume of sea-rail intermodal transport. In the first three quarters, Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) opened 111 container sea-rail intermodal transport lines, and the cumulative volume of sea-rail intermodal transport exceeded 1.5 million TEUs.

Recently, the Ministry of Transport (交通运输部) and other departments issued the "Action Plan for Promoting the Deep Integration and Development of Container Sea-Rail Intermodal Transport with 'One Port, One Policy' (2025-2027)", which promotes the deep integration of sea-rail intermodal transport from the aspects of promoting the integrated interconnection of infrastructure, the integrated coordination of intermodal transport organizations, the integrated connection of standards and rules, the integrated sharing of intermodal transport data, and the integrated linkage of market cultivation, to further leverage the advantages of comprehensive transportation and promote the effective reduction of social logistics costs.

"The Ministry of Transport (交通运输部) will guide container sea-rail intermodal port enterprises to take the lead in further refining and improving the 'one port, one policy' promotion plan, establish a dynamic scheduling and supervision mechanism, and focus on implementation, so that the average annual growth of container sea-rail intermodal transport volume will be about 15% by 2027," said Zhu Zhenyu (祝振宇), Deputy Director of the Water Transport Bureau of the Ministry of Transport (交通运输部水运局).

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Overall balance between energy supply and demand this heating season

This newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on November 4th (Reporter Liu Zhiqiang (刘志强)) - The reporter learned from the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委): In order to do a good job in this year's peak winter season, the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), together with relevant parties, started with key links such as grasping energy supply, resource reserves, and emergency dispatch to lay a solid foundation for this year's heating season energy supply guarantee. According to comprehensive judgment, the overall energy supply and demand in this heating season is balanced, and there is a guarantee for the stable supply and price of energy for people's livelihoods and for the masses to spend the winter warmly.

Improve supply capacity. In the first three quarters, the output of raw coal and natural gas from industrial enterprises above the designated size increased by 2.0% and 6.4% year-on-year, respectively; as of the end of September, the cumulative installed power generation capacity nationwide was 3.72 billion kilowatts, an increase of 18% year-on-year; since October, the National Railway's loading of electric coal has remained at a relatively high level of 56,000 vehicles per day.

Consolidate the foundation of reserves. As of October 27, the national unified dispatch power plants had 220 million tons of coal in storage, which can be used for more than 35 days; underground gas storage facilities have completed their annual gas injection tasks, achieving full storage for the winter.

The National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) will strengthen overall coordination to fully ensure that the people have a warm winter. First, strengthen organization and coordination. During the heating season, we will adhere to daily scheduling and weekly consultations, consolidate the main responsibilities of local governments and enterprises for ensuring supply, and promptly coordinate and resolve supply and demand contradictions. Second, ensure energy production and supply, promote the safe and stable production and increase of energy resources, and ensure that all types of generating units generate as much electricity as possible. Third, strictly implement medium- and long-term energy contracts to ensure a sufficient and stable supply of energy for people's livelihoods. Fourth, do a good job in peak supply and emergency support, give full play to the role of reserve regulation, strengthen cross-provincial and cross-regional power dispatch, and prepare for coping with severe weather such as low-temperature rain, snow, and ice.

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Li Qiang Meets with Georgian Prime Minister Kobakhidze, Serbian Prime Minister Brnabić, and Nigerian House Speaker Tajudeen Respectively

On the afternoon of November 4th, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) met with Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, who was in Shanghai (上海) to attend the 8th China International Import Expo.

Li Qiang (李强) stated that since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Georgia 33 years ago, the two countries have always respected and understood each other, and firmly supported each other's core interests and major concerns. Since the establishment of a strategic partnership between the two countries in 2023, cooperation in various fields has accelerated, achieving many new results and bringing tangible benefits to the people of both countries. China is willing to always be true friends and good partners with Georgia, carry forward the fine tradition of mutual support, strengthen strategic communication, expand pragmatic cooperation, jointly promote modernization, and better benefit the people of both countries.

Li Qiang (李强) pointed out that China and Georgia have strong economic complementarity. China is willing to further strengthen the alignment of development strategies with Georgia, take high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" as a guide for cooperation, give better play to the role of the intergovernmental economic and trade cooperation committee between the two countries, explore more common interests, and promote the continuous improvement and efficiency of China-Georgia cooperation. The two sides should take the substantive conclusion of the upgrade negotiations of the bilateral free trade agreement as an opportunity to deepen cooperation in trade, investment, connectivity, and other areas, expand cooperation in digital economy, new energy, artificial intelligence, and other emerging industries, and hope that Georgia will continue to provide a good business environment for Chinese enterprises. China is also willing to strengthen exchanges with Georgia in tourism, education, science and technology, culture, youth, and other fields, encourage more provinces and cities of both sides to establish friendly relations, and promote greater mutual understanding and affinity between the people of the two countries. China and Georgia are both countries of the Global South and should strengthen multilateral communication and coordination, implement the four major global initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平), unite the vast number of developing countries, adhere to multilateralism and free trade, and safeguard the global economic and trade order and international fairness and justice.

Kobakhidze stated that China is Georgia's strategic partner, and Georgian-Chinese relations have continued to develop on the basis of mutual respect and mutual trust, and the friendship between the people has deepened. Georgia firmly adheres to the one-China principle and is willing to strengthen exchanges at all levels with China, give full play to the role of the bilateral free trade agreement within the framework of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative, further expand cooperation in trade, investment, connectivity, education, tourism, and other fields, and promote people-to-people exchanges. Under the current international situation, China has played the role of a responsible major country in maintaining world peace and safeguarding fairness and justice, injecting valuable stability into a turbulent world. Georgia supports the four major global initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平) and is willing to strengthen multilateral cooperation with China to jointly promote world peace, stability, and development.

After the meeting, the two prime ministers jointly witnessed the signing of a number of bilateral cooperation documents in trade, artificial intelligence, agriculture, environmental protection, inspection and quarantine, culture, aviation, and other fields.

Chen Jining (陈吉宁) and Wu Zhenglong (吴政隆) participated in the above activities.

On the afternoon of November 4th, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) met with Serbian Prime Minister Miloš Vučić, who was in Shanghai (上海) to attend the 8th China International Import Expo.

Li Qiang (李强) stated that under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, China-Serbia relations have maintained a steady development momentum, and mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields has accelerated. Since the beginning of this year, President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Aleksandar Vučić have met twice, reaching broad consensus on a series of major issues, further pointing the direction for the construction of a China-Serbia community with a shared future in the new era. China is willing to uphold the spirit of mutual respect and mutual trust with Serbia, firmly support each other's core interests and major concerns, continuously enrich the connotation of bilateral relations, promote the deepening and solidifying of cooperation between the two countries, and bring more benefits to the people of China and Serbia.

Li Qiang (李强) pointed out that the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee reviewed and approved the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal, making strategic plans for China's development in the next 5 years and even longer. China is willing to strengthen the alignment with Serbia's "Serbia 2035" development plan, give full play to the bilateral free trade agreement with Serbia, give better play to the role of the intergovernmental economic and trade mixed committee mechanism between the two countries, promote key projects such as the Hungary-Serbia Railway within the framework of high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road", deeply explore cooperation potential in technological innovation, green economy, biomedicine, artificial intelligence, and other fields, and promote the continuous expansion and efficiency of economic and trade cooperation. The two sides should further strengthen cultural, tourism, education, sports, and other people-to-people exchanges to promote deeper friendship between China and Serbia. China is willing to closely coordinate and cooperate with Serbia on platforms such as the United Nations to promote all parties to actively implement the four major global initiatives, practice true multilateralism, strengthen and improve global governance, and better build a community with a shared future for mankind.

Vučić stated that Serbia and China have a profound traditional friendship, and relations between the two countries have made great progress in recent years. The successful mutual visits of President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Aleksandar Vučić have led Serbia-China relations to a new historical height. The Serbian government adheres to the one-China principle and firmly supports China's legitimate position in safeguarding its core interests. Serbia sincerely thanks China for the valuable support it has given to Serbia's economic and social development, and looks forward to close high-level exchanges with China, deepening cooperation in economy and trade, investment, processing industry, science and technology, artificial intelligence, tourism, and other fields, and enhancing the friendship between the people of the two countries. China's economic growth has injected strong impetus into the world's sustainable development, and it is believed that China's "15th Five-Year Plan" will bring new opportunities for cooperation between Serbia and other countries with China. Serbia firmly supports President Xi Jinping's (习近平) concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind and the four major global initiatives, and is willing to strengthen cooperation with China in multilateral occasions to promote common development and prosperity.

Chen Jining (陈吉宁) and Wu Zhenglong (吴政隆) attended the meeting.

On the afternoon of November 4th, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) met with Tajudeen Abbas, Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nigeria, who was in Shanghai (上海) to attend the 8th China International Import Expo.

Li Qiang (李强) stated that China and Nigeria are good brothers and good partners with a profound traditional friendship. In recent years, with the joint efforts of both sides, the development of China-Nigeria relations has entered a "fast track." In September last year, President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu held a meeting in Beijing (北京), promoting the relations between the two countries to a new stage of comprehensive strategic partnership. China is willing to continue to work hand in hand with Nigeria on the road to modernization, strengthen the alignment of development strategies, expand all-round cooperation, achieve more practical results, and better serve the economic and social construction of the two countries.

Li Qiang (李强) pointed out that China and Nigeria are both developing countries with a large population and huge development potential. The economic structures of the two countries are highly complementary. By further tightening the bonds of cooperation, we can gather greater development synergy. China is willing to actively implement the "Ten Partnership Plans" of China and Africa with Nigeria, jointly build the "Belt and Road" with high quality, promote the early implementation of zero-tariff measures in Nigeria through the negotiation and signing of a common development economic partnership agreement, improve the level of cooperation between the two countries in trade, investment, agriculture, mining, infrastructure, people's livelihood, and other fields, and expand cooperation in clean energy, electric vehicles, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and other emerging industries. China supports Nigeria in playing a greater role in international and regional affairs, and is willing to strengthen coordination and cooperation with Nigeria in multilateral mechanisms such as BRICS, the United Nations, and the World Trade Organization to promote the joint self-improvement of the Global South, jointly promote world multipolarization and economic globalization, and build a more just and reasonable global governance system.

Tajudeen Abbas stated that against the background of rising global instability and uncertainty, China's continuous holding of the Import Expo demonstrates China's commitment to sharing development opportunities with the world and promoting common development. Nigeria and China are both developing countries, and have always respected and supported each other since the establishment of diplomatic relations. The development momentum of the relations between the two countries is strong. Nigeria firmly adheres to the one-China principle, firmly supports China's efforts to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and is willing to strengthen exchanges of experience in governance with China, expand mutually beneficial cooperation in economy and trade, infrastructure, energy, and other fields, and strengthen people-to-people exchanges. The Nigerian Parliament is willing to provide strong support and guarantee for cooperation between Nigeria and China in various fields, and promote the continuous development of the Nigeria-China comprehensive strategic partnership to a higher level.

Chen Jining (陈吉宁) and Wu Zhenglong (吴政隆) attended the meeting.

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Mutual Achievement Through Openness and Connectivity (CIIE Observation)

By: 本报记者 罗珊珊 刘温馨 王东辉

On the bank of the Huangpu River, another rendezvous with the CIIE. From November 5th to 10th, the 8th China International Import Expo will be held in Shanghai (上海), with the scale reaching a new high.

Holding the CIIE is an innovative and pragmatic move by China to expand high-level opening up.

On October 31st, local time, President Xi Jinping (习近平) delivered a written speech to the APEC CEO Summit held in Gyeongju, South Korea, emphasizing: "China has become the world's second-largest consumer market and import market. It is the only developing country that holds a national-level international import expo and continues to open its market to the world. It has a large market space and good growth expectations. China will continue to promote high-level opening up to the outside world and achieve mutual success with all parties through open connectivity."

The 20th Fourth Plenary Session of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) outlined a grand blueprint for the next five years, and the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal made a special chapter deployment for expanding high-level opening up to the outside world, proposing to "expand high-level opening up to the outside world and create a new situation of cooperation and win-win results."

As the international economic and trade order faces severe challenges and the momentum of world economic growth is insufficient, China's holding of the CIIE as scheduled demonstrates its determination, conveys confidence, and injects certainty amidst complex changes, and is committed to common development and shared prosperity with all countries.

The innovative debut stage -

Innovative potential transforms into economic momentum

China's large market has become a testing ground, profit center, and application field for global innovation. The CIIE is a shining "debut stage" on this hot investment land.

"The CIIE is not only an exhibition, but also a booster, promoting collaborative innovation and common growth between many multinational companies and the Chinese market." Many "old friends" who have participated in the exhibition continuously have expressed this sentiment. Elekta, a Swedish medical company, is one such "full attendance student." Over the past seven CIIEs, it has witnessed and grown along the way.

At the first CIIE, Elekta brought the world's first high field strength magnetic resonance guided radiotherapy system for its Asian "debut." Gong Anming, Executive Vice President of Elekta Global, said: "Relying on the CIIE, we quickly launched clinical trials with five domestic medical institutions. In 2020, the radiotherapy system was certified by the China National Medical Products Administration (中国国家药监局) and officially entered the Chinese market."

"Successfully participating in the CIIE is an important 'confidence catalyst' for us to increase investment in China and establish a regional headquarters in Shanghai (上海)," said Gong Anming.

From "first launch and debut" to "local innovation ecosystem co-builder," the CIIE has witnessed Elekta's identity transformation in China. In 2025, Elekta will achieve localized production of its entire product line. At this year's CIIE, Elekta will launch its entire line of localized tumor radiotherapy products for the first time, focusing on showcasing the fruitful results from "introducing to China" to "full localization."

There are many similar CIIE stories like this. Schneider Electric, which has participated in all CIIEs, has seen the proportion of original Chinese products among the innovative products and advanced technologies displayed at the CIIE increase year by year. For example, in 2023, Schneider Electric's new generation of air circuit breaker series products, developed and manufactured in China, made its debut at the 6th CIIE and was officially launched at the Kangqiao factory in Shanghai (上海康桥工厂) in March of the following year. Currently, the product has entered markets such as East Asia and the Middle East.

"As an important engine of global economic growth, China is not only a huge open market and a key component of the global supply chain, but also a world-class innovation highland," said Yin Zheng, Executive Vice President of Schneider Electric. He added that Chinese industries are accelerating the creation of digital productivity and green productivity driven by technological innovation, and Schneider Electric will continue to leverage China's development advantages to achieve "benefiting the world in China."

The seeds of innovative cooperation are blossoming and bearing fruit. At this year's CIIE, the number of exhibitors has increased by more than 600 compared to last year's 3,496; 461 new products, new technologies, and new services will be unveiled.

The open practice field -

Providing new opportunities for world development

Adhering to open cooperation and mutual benefit is an inevitable requirement of Chinese-style modernization. Holding the CIIE is to expand opening up and make China's large market a great opportunity for the world.

How can an alpaca quilt from New Zealand cross the ocean and become "popular" in the Chinese market?

Geng Cong, Executive Director of New Zealand Pacific Alpaca Home Textiles Group, answers: "Catch the fast train of the CIIE."

From a 9-square-meter booth in 2021 to receiving an order for 3.3 tons of alpaca fiber in the second year, and then expanding the booth area to 15 times this year, Pacific Alpaca's growth trajectory is a vivid microcosm of the "CIIE effect." In the 2024-2025 fiscal year, Pacific Alpaca's sales in the Chinese market increased by nearly 300% year-on-year.

The CIIE is a stage for product display and a platform for China to declare its opening-up policy.

The CIIE "green channel" mechanism allows brands to complete sample inspection and filing in a short period of time; the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone policy allows products to successfully enter platforms such as Tmall International and Douyin E-commerce; the intellectual property protection system is constantly improving, providing convenience for product patent designs to be registered in China... The customs clearance cycle has been significantly shortened, the market entry cost has been greatly reduced, and the continuously optimized business environment has provided unprecedented opportunities for international brands.

"In the future, Pacific Alpaca will continue to deeply cultivate the Chinese market and plans to establish flagship experience stores in multiple cities," said Geng Cong.

Through the CIIE platform, China continues to promote trade and investment facilitation, intellectual property protection, and other open innovations, creating brands such as "Invest in China," "Buy in China," and "Export to China," providing a stable, transparent, and predictable business environment for exhibits to become commodities, exhibitors to become investors, and "first-time customers" to become "repeat customers." The cumulative intended transaction volume of the previous 7 CIIEs exceeded $500 billion.

China has remained the world's second-largest import market for 16 consecutive years, and imports of goods and services will exceed $15 trillion during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.

The door to opening up is opening wider and wider, and the list of cooperation is getting longer and longer.

A win-win harvest field -

Promoting inclusive and shared benefits with a people-centered approach

The CIIE is not only a platform for economic and trade cooperation, but also an international public product shared globally.

Just across the street from the CIIE exhibition hall, the Greenland Global Commodity Trading Hub, as a year-round trading service platform for the CIIE, has built a convenient channel for merchants from the least developed countries to enter the Chinese market.

Starting from the CIIE, many merchants have achieved the leap "from 0 to 1, from 1 to 100."

In 2020, Ali, a young man from Afghanistan, participated in the CIIE for the first time, bringing more than 20 handmade wool carpets. Unexpectedly, they were quickly sold out on the spot, and he received 2,000 orders, which meant that more than 2,000 Afghan families had the equivalent of a full year's income. In 2021, Ali settled in the Greenland Trading Hub, and his business expanded from handmade carpets to multiple categories such as pine nuts and jewelry. With the help of Greenland's supply chain and live broadcast resources, he once set a record of "nearly 10,000 cans of pine nuts sold out in seconds," with the highest monthly sales of pine nuts reaching 3 tons.

Frank, a Nepalese merchant, settled in the Trading Hub and appeared at the CIIE in 2020. The handmade cashmere scarves he brought became popular online and offline with their delicate texture and unique ethnic patterns. As a result, Frank received orders for cashmere scarves worth millions of yuan and expanded his business to multiple provinces in central and western China.

Xue Yingjie, General Manager of Greenland Trading Hub Group, introduced that the Greenland Trading Hub has attracted 180 companies from 76 countries and regions to settle in, establishing 68 national pavilions, including 49 "Belt and Road" national pavilions, promoting more than 5,000 CIIE-branded products to enter 22 provinces in China, and helping CIIE products enter thousands of households.

This year's CIIE provides some free booths and tax incentives for retaining exhibits for exhibitors from 37 least developed countries, expands the African product zone, supports African countries that have diplomatic relations with China to make full use of the 100% tariff-free policy for tariff items, with 163 companies from the least developed countries, an increase of 23.5% year-on-year, and the number of African companies participating in the exhibition increased by 80% year-on-year.

The "Global South" is no longer just a geographical concept, but an active increment at the CIIE. This year's Hongqiao Forum (虹桥论坛) will for the first time focus on discussions around "Enhancing the Economic Resilience of the Global South" and "Sustainable Agricultural Development of the Global South," gathering global wisdom to explore promoting inclusive and shared benefits with a people-centered approach.

China provides the stage, and the world sings in chorus. China will continue to promote deep-level reforms and promote high-quality development through high-level opening up to the outside world, bring more stability and certainty to the world economy, and continuously provide new opportunities for the world with new achievements in Chinese-style modernization.

(See pages 9 and 10 for special reports on the CIIE)

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Han Zheng Attends Second World Social Development Summit and Addresses General Debate

(People's Daily, Doha, November 4) (Reporter Guan Kejiang) On November 4, local time, Vice President Han Zheng (韩正) of the People's Republic of China attended the Second World Social Development Summit in Doha, Qatar (卡塔尔多哈) and delivered a speech at the general debate.

Han Zheng (韩正) stated that in March 1995, the first World Social Development Summit was successfully held, and countries reached the Copenhagen Declaration and the Programme of Action. Over the past 30 years, the Chinese government has adhered to the people-centered development philosophy, won the battle against poverty as scheduled, achieved the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda poverty reduction target 10 years ahead of schedule, implemented an employment-first strategy, guaranteed and improved people's livelihoods in development, built the world's largest education, medical, and social security system, and promoted inclusive social development. China has also actively shared its poverty reduction and development experience with other countries, making due contributions to promoting the progress of human social development.

Han Zheng (韩正) emphasized that President Xi Jinping (习近平) has proposed the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind and the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, which have pointed the direction for the global social development cause. Recently, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was successfully held. In the next five years, China will promote the results of high-quality development to benefit all the people more and more fairly, and will also inject more positive energy and certainty into the global development cause.

Han Zheng (韩正) put forward four suggestions. First, adhere to the people-oriented concept. The key to the implementation of various social development agendas is to be people-oriented, to substantially improve people's well-being, especially to meet the urgent needs of the vast number of developing countries to eliminate poverty, and to bring people a real sense of gain, happiness, and security.

Second, focus on the goal of common development. It is necessary to fully implement the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and promote the common development of all countries in the world. We must adhere to relying on development to promote high-quality and full employment, so that everyone has the opportunity to achieve their own development through hard work.

Third, adhere to the principle of universal benefit and inclusiveness. It is necessary to cultivate a universally beneficial and inclusive development environment and promote social fairness and justice. Developed countries should assume more responsibility and promote the balanced distribution of resources and equal development opportunities. It is necessary to improve the balance and accessibility of public services, so that the elderly, people with disabilities, women, children, youth and other groups can share the fruits of social development.

Fourth, promote the spirit of unity and cooperation. It is necessary to practice true multilateralism, support the United Nations in playing a central coordinating role in the global social development agenda, and achieve global governance through consultation, joint construction, and shared benefits. It is necessary to increase the representation and voice of developing countries in global social development governance and promote the development of the international order in a more just and reasonable direction.

Han Zheng (韩正) stated that China looks forward to working with all parties to take the convening of this summit as an opportunity to accelerate the implementation of the Copenhagen Declaration and the Programme of Action, inject stronger impetus into the global social development cause, and make greater contributions to promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.

The Second World Social Development Summit will be held from November 4 to 6, aiming to summarize the progress since the Copenhagen Summit, formulate a roadmap for promoting social development, and accelerate the implementation of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. More than 30 heads of state or government and more than 100 ministerial representatives attended.

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Why the Five-Year Plan Attracts Global Attention (Commentary Observer)

By: 李洪兴

The Five-Year Plan has become the "metronome" of China's modernization. This "metronome" contains the continuity of China's own policies and, more importantly, a sense of synchronization with the development trends of the world.

Recently, Malaysia ushered in the durian harvest season. It takes only 36 hours for durians to go from Malaysian orchards to the shelves of Chinese supermarkets. From port quarantine to logistics customs clearance to mechanism innovation, the upgrading of China-Malaysia trade cooperation has driven the extension of product markets, which not only meets the needs of Chinese consumers, but also drives the export growth of related industries in Malaysia.

Looking at trade from durians, the cooperation between China and ASEAN countries is becoming increasingly close. Not long ago, China and ASEAN signed the upgraded Protocol of the 3.0 version of the Free Trade Area, creating more market opportunities for both parties and injecting strong confidence into regional development and the global economy. Paying attention to China today, and also caring about China's development in the next five years or even longer, and finding anchors of stability, sources of power, and opportunities for development from it, is precisely the significance of this.

Why is China's Five-Year Plan attracting worldwide attention? Some international figures say that China's "direction of action" can be observed from it; others say that it will "reshape the global economic landscape." A metaphor from foreign media is quite meaningful: the Five-Year Plan has become the "metronome" of China's modernization. This "metronome" contains the continuity of China's own policies and, more importantly, a sense of synchronization with the development trends of the world.

Influence stems from insight into the future. Without extraordinary leadership, it would be difficult to have strategic planning that insightfully grasps the general trend and precise and efficient strategic execution, let alone create heart-stirring "space-time magic." Historically, the Five-Year Plan unifies top-level design with seeking advice from the people, engraving the institutional advantages of China's governance on the timeline. In practice, from planning blueprints to development realities, one policy after another is implemented, demonstrating the immense power of "when people are of one mind, they can move Mount Tai." The Communist Party of China (中国共产党) has strong leadership, organization, and execution capabilities, and can take into account both short-term and long-term interests, and local and overall interests.

Influence comes from opportunity. Some say it well that China's "15th Five-Year Plan" provides the world with an "opportunity list." Some multinational corporations have also concluded that synchronizing with China is like signing a contract with the future. In the face of the intertwined international situation of change and disorder, China's own stability, development, and contribution play a crucial "anchoring effect." The "Suggestions of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" (中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十五个五年规划的建议) (hereinafter referred to as the "Suggestions") reviewed and approved by the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee proposed to "expand the space for two-way investment cooperation" and "shape new advantages in attracting foreign investment." These tasks and goals are all sending positive signals to the world. Apple (苹果公司) will continue to increase its investment in China, and Goldman Sachs Group (高盛集团) has stated that it will provide financing support for companies headquartered in China... "Continuing to invest in China" has become the consensus of foreign investors and businesses, because China has stable development expectations and huge mutually beneficial space.

Looking at the path to modernization from the Five-Year Plan, China conveys a clear message through its unique practice of "target governance": "There is neither a single modernization model nor a universally applicable modernization standard in the world." As Dilma Rousseff (罗塞芙), president of the New Development Bank (新开发银行), said, China is building its own development path in an autonomous and sustainable way, which is also what the Global South countries hope for.

From the operation of the China-Europe Railway Express (中欧班列) making the Port of Duisburg (杜伊斯堡港) in Germany full of vitality, to granting 100% tariff-free treatment to products from the least developed countries that have diplomatic relations with China, to signing 23 free trade agreements with 30 countries and regions... Countries eager for development and win-win cooperation are working together, and emerging markets and developing countries whose "development demands are often marginalized" have more choices. This is intrinsically linked to the "Suggestions" proposing to "create a new situation of cooperation and win-win results." Chinese-style modernization is China's and also the world's. In this sense, through the Five-Year Plan, people see not only "Chinese-style long-termism," but also a new form of human civilization created by Chinese-style modernization. This is the cohesion of development and, even more so, the centripetal force of civilization.

Recently, three statements about China are meaningful, namely "forward-looking country," "empowering country," and "civilizational country." This, to a certain extent, reflects the triple certainty that China's development brings to global development, namely strategic continuity, market stability, and civilizational inclusiveness. Clear insight into the future and persistent pursuit give us unlimited development potential.

President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "We adhere to drawing a blueprint to the end, and we work hard generation after generation. We have never thought of challenging or replacing 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." This is the enlightenment of Chinese wisdom for global governance.

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The more open, the more vibrant, the more developed (On-the-spot commentary)

By: 崔 寅

Adhering to openness and collaboration can promote innovative breakthroughs beyond geographical and disciplinary boundaries, fostering more creative and even disruptive outcomes.

Not long ago, at a science and technology innovation forum, a post-95s engineer shared insights on the evolution of artificial intelligence. "The open-source community is not just about getting free code, but also an open collaborative model." This resonated with practitioners.

What is open source? Initially, it referred to the open sharing of software source code. In the era of artificial intelligence, this concept is more understood as an innovation paradigm. Based on open source, outstanding engineers around the world can participate in the development of technologies such as artificial intelligence large models, thereby providing a strong impetus for rapid technology iteration.

Open source means openness. It is not only a popular term in the technical field, but also one of the key words for understanding economic and social development.

Looking at technology, open source reduces the threshold for technology use, promotes deep linkage between developers and industry, and accelerates the mature implementation of new technologies. At the same time, open source promotes resource and achievement sharing, avoids redundant investment and resource waste, and the collaborative innovation and rapid development on this basis further enhances the inclusiveness and accessibility of technology. With technological development advancing rapidly, closure will only lead to technological stagnation. Adhering to open collaboration can promote innovative breakthroughs beyond geographical and disciplinary boundaries, fostering more creative and even disruptive outcomes.

Looking at practice, shifting from open-source code to deeper levels of resource openness and development openness is an important trend. Building a more dynamic innovation system and creating a diverse and open innovation ecosystem are essential to attract global innovation talents and build global innovation highlands. For example, the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (上海人工智能实验室) has open-sourced and opened its entire toolchain system, attracting thousands of developers around the world to participate in co-construction. Another example is Zhangjiang Science City (张江科学城), which creates a "wall-less" research and development ecosystem, gathering multinational corporate research and development centers and local universities to create a source of business innovation for multinational companies, and also promote the innovative development of local enterprises. For another example, since the National Protein Science Research Facility (国家蛋白质科学研究设施) located in Shanghai (上海) was opened and operated, it has served more than 500 scientific research units, supported more than 2,500 research teams, and accumulated more than 100,000 user visits to carry out experimental research, providing important data support for relevant scientific research around the world.

The more open, the more active, and the more developed. Today, the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) is seeking space from open source and openness, and vitality from deepening reform, and is further breaking down the bottlenecks that hinder the construction of a unified national market. Not long ago, the "Decision on Promoting the Collaborative Development of Scientific and Technological Innovation in the Yangtze River Delta" (关于促进长三角科技创新协同发展的决定) was implemented simultaneously in Shanghai (沪), Jiangsu (苏), Zhejiang (浙), and Anhui (皖), aiming to promote the cross-regional integration of technology, talent, and capital, and accelerate the open sharing of innovation factors. On the Yangtze River Delta Science and Technology Resource Sharing Service Platform (长三角科技资源共享服务平台), 28 major scientific facilities and 51,000 sets of large-scale scientific instruments with a total value of more than 61 billion yuan are open to the public, forming a closely linked regional collaborative innovation ecosystem. Reform provides confidence for openness. Only when reform is in place can the level of openness be higher.

An executive of a Fortune 500 company investing in China (中国) told the author: "China's openness allows us to achieve greater development. Continuing to invest in China, cultivate local talent, and develop long-term strategies can better maintain competitiveness in the global market." Just as the "visa-free friends circle" continues to expand, international exhibitions continue to release development magnetism, and the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" (一带一路) creates a "happy road" that benefits the world... Openness brings progress, and a more open attitude and actions will surely open up a brighter future.

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (党的二十届四中全会) proposed: "Expand high-level opening to the outside world and create a new situation of win-win cooperation." At present, the 8th China International Import Expo (进博会) is welcoming guests from all directions. This window showcasing China's open integration with the world will bring more surprises. Open source sharing and open co-progress, a vibrant and embracing development posture, will surely allow people to more deeply understand that "walking with China is walking with opportunity."

(The author is a reporter from this newspaper's Shanghai branch (上海分社))

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Work diligently, work cleanly, and work boldly.

By: 张秦瑜

The grassroots level is the foundation of the Party's governance and the source of its strength. It is the "last mile" for policy implementation and the forefront for understanding public sentiment and serving the people. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "We must earnestly rectify formalism to reduce the burden on the grassroots, and support grassroots cadres to be bold in their work and establish prestige." Enabling grassroots cadres to do their jobs better is a necessary requirement for promoting policy implementation and optimizing grassroots governance.

To work and take responsibility is the duty and value of cadres. Daring to take responsibility and being good at doing things are the touchstones for testing the political character of party members and cadres. As a bridge connecting the Party and the masses, the strength of grassroots cadres' ability to perform their duties and the level of their sense of responsibility are directly related to the warmth of people's well-being, the progress of comprehensive rural revitalization, and the effectiveness of social governance. Therefore, how to better stimulate the enthusiasm of the vast number of party members and cadres is an important issue in grassroots governance.

Reducing burdens and loosening bonds allows grassroots cadres to work steadily. In the face of complex assessments and supervisions, and excessive burdens of grassroots official receptions, only by continuously rectifying formalism can grassroots cadres be able to go into battle with lighter packs and have more energy to grasp implementation and handle practical matters. The Baihe Community of Qiaolin Street in Pukou District, Nanjing (南京浦口区桥林街道百合社区), Jiangsu (江苏) has realized the centralized office of all community cadres, providing one-stop services for the masses. The Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission of Raohe County (饶河县), Heilongjiang (黑龙江) has set up "direct reporting points" for reducing burdens at the grassroots level throughout the county, constructing a rapid response mechanism of "front-line monitoring - direct reporting to the top." Reducing the burden of formalism and breaking the malpractices of bureaucracy, achieving burden reduction with greater efficiency and loosening bonds without slackening efforts, can encourage grassroots cadres to devote themselves to their work with more enthusiasm and a more pragmatic style.

Purifying the ecology allows grassroots cadres to work cleanly. Promoting the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party to extend to the grassroots can not only eliminate unhealthy tendencies around the masses, but also set up "protective fences" for cadres, allowing them to have broad space for entrepreneurship within the safety line. The Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission of Luoyang City (洛阳市), Henan (河南) promotes "code-scanning supervision," realizing that the masses can scan the code to "reach directly with one click" to reflect problems, and the people's demands and governance optimization interact positively. Xiaoxian County (萧县), Anhui (安徽) promotes the coordinated coordination of various types of supervision through the overall planning of regional cooperation, building a supervisory pattern of upward and downward linkage and efficient collaboration. Party discipline is a "golden hoop," but also a "protective talisman." Adhering to the combination of strict management and deep love, and the equal emphasis on encouragement and restraint, is precisely to correct the source and expand the space for grassroots cadres to work cleanly.

Accurate fault tolerance allows grassroots cadres to work boldly. Only by continuously improving the fault tolerance and correction mechanism can we establish a clear orientation of "taking responsibility for those who take responsibility and being responsible for those who are responsible." The Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission of Jinghong City (景洪市), Yunnan (云南) constructs a working mechanism covering links such as initiation, acceptance, verification, identification, feedback, and filing, and simultaneously studies and judges fault tolerance situations when initiating accountability, comprehensively considering the motivation and attitude, objective conditions, procedures and methods, and consequences and impacts to ensure accurate fault tolerance and effective correction. Doing a good job in fault tolerance and correction through refined system design not only supports and encourages reformers and innovators, but also clarifies the boundaries of power operation, which will effectively stimulate the execution and creativity of the cadre team.

Grassroots governance is a systematic project of 致广大而尽精微 (zhì guǎng dà ér jìn jīng wēi - "achieving breadth and depth," handling large and complex matters with meticulous attention to detail), in which the mental state and work ability of cadres play a key role. Continuously consolidating the clean and upright political ecology at the grassroots level, allowing the vast number of grassroots cadres to shake off their burdens and work steadily, clarify boundaries and work cleanly, and work boldly without worries, can form a strong synergy for entrepreneurship.

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Photo Report

E-commerce plays an important role in expanding domestic demand, promoting transformation, and strengthening cooperation. Since the beginning of this year, "Digital Commerce Revitalizing Agriculture" has entered Guangxi (广西), Sichuan (四川), Ningxia (宁夏), and Shandong (山东) provinces, promoting the connection between e-commerce platforms and agricultural product enterprises and farmers' cooperatives. Data shows that from January to September, online retail sales of agricultural products increased by 9.6%. Digital technology empowers and provides important support for the revitalization of rural industries, helping to promote the construction of a unified national market in depth.

This is precisely:

The digital spring breeze conveys the sounds of the countryside,
Special agricultural products from farmers' homes emerge from the mountains and forests.
The screen's light turns and invites guests to arrive,
Carriages and horses flow like water, and the village appearance is new.

Xu Zhiwen (徐之文)

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Vertical and Horizontal

Creative Cultural Tourism Should Excavate Characteristics

Yuan Baonian (袁宝年)

On the vast grasslands of Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), balers are constantly working, wrapping the pasture into tight, large round bales. These bales, like giant "Swiss rolls," are scattered across the yellow-green grasslands. Many places have come up with new tricks: each bale is decorated with graffiti, transforming into cartoon images, attracting many tourists to take photos and check in. In addition to creative makeovers, hay bale mazes are also a major highlight. Under the blue sky and white clouds, tourists shuttle and play in the maze. Various creative ways of playing have turned the "rations" for cattle and sheep to survive the winter into a new memory point for grassland tourism.

The core of cultural tourism innovation lies in awakening the vitality of resources. Hay bales were originally ordinary things on the autumn grasslands, but now creative design has given them new highlights, allowing them to leap from agricultural and pastoral production materials to cultural tourism IP. This transformation is not created out of thin air, but is based on regional characteristics, organically integrating traditional elements with modern life.

When traditional resources meet creative ideas, inspiring emotional resonance, ordinary things can also create different scenery. Moving cultural tourism innovation is often hidden in the cherishing of local characteristics and in the resonance with the temperature of life. This is the inspiration brought by the Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) hay bales becoming popular.

(Excerpted from Inner Mongolia Daily (《内蒙古日报》), originally titled "But Rely on Creativity to Shape Cultural Tourism")

Service Hotlines Should Clarify Responsibilities

Su Qunchao (苏群超)

Government service hotlines are an important channel for the public to report situations and solve problems. However, in some places, hotline services are "stuck" halfway, leading to public dissatisfaction.

Where are the bottlenecks? Some are fragmented service supply. In real life, many problems require cross-level connection and joint promotion by multiple departments, but some "hotlines" have limited handling capacity. Some service supplies are merely formalistic. The phone numbers of some handling departments cannot be reached, or they are useless when dialed, leading the public to "look for 12345 for everything." These problems reflect a weak sense of service and insufficient initiative.

To make hotlines more effective, responsibilities must be clarified. Many places in Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川) have updated the list of public service telephone numbers, implemented a "first-call responsibility system," and promised "one call through, full tracking"; Jiangsu (江苏) plans to introduce relevant regulations to clarify "what 12345 is, what it can do, and what it cannot do." Further innovative measures, optimize mechanisms, and ensure its responsive, smooth operation, and effective handling, can better play the "bridge" role of government service hotlines, so as to both reduce the pressure on the grassroots and satisfy the public.

(Excerpted from Xinhua Daily (《新华日报》), originally titled "Behind 'Making a Wish to 12345': How to Break Through Three Bottlenecks?")

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Good Governance Within the "One-Meter Outdoor Display Line" (Warm News & Hot Comments)

By: 周广立

[Event] Merchants submit promotional plans and site photos online, and they can operate outside the store after approval; if the plan is not suitable, the urban management department will also help adjust it and suggest outdoor locations that do not affect safety or block traffic... Suqian (宿迁), Jiangsu (江苏) has introduced a refined urban management work plan, which clarifies the rational planning of "tidal convenient stalls" and promotes inclusive "one-meter line for outdoor display" to protect the city's vitality with refined governance.

[Comment]

Inclusive "one-meter line for outdoor display" refers to allowing street merchants to display goods within an appropriate range outside the door line, provided that safety and smooth passage are ensured and the appearance of the city is not hindered. This heart-warming measure not only meets needs but also standardizes behavior, and is welcomed by businesses and praised by citizens. According to statistics, as of August this year, the number of temporary outdoor display approvals in the central urban area of ​​Suqian (宿迁) alone has reached more than 2,000.

A city with vitality must have both order and warmth. Suqian (宿迁) has found the "greatest common divisor" of urban governance, citizen life, and merchant livelihoods by proactively asking about needs, providing precise services, and rationally planning, shifting the focus of work from post-event punishment to pre-event guidance and in-event services, demonstrating the governance wisdom of turning "blocking" into "dredging." From strict management to inclusive "one-meter line for outdoor display," it reflects humanistic care and reflects the transformation of urban governance towards "service-oriented."

Convenient for the people, but not disturbing the people; opening up does not mean letting go. The difficulty of urban governance often lies in how to balance the interests of all parties. Randomly setting up stalls in night markets may meet the needs of some diners, but it will bring problems such as traffic congestion, safety hazards, and environmental pollution. To balance vitality and order, the key is to play the "first move" in system construction well. While promoting the inclusive "one-meter line for outdoor display," Suqian (宿迁) vigorously regulates the business behavior of merchants and establishes a "merchant self-governance + resident supervision + department inspection" mechanism to strengthen supervision and management; Zhengzhou (郑州), Henan (河南) issued night market management regulations, which not only clarified the responsibilities of all parties, but also made detailed provisions on operating hours, locations, hygiene standards, garbage disposal, gas use, and other aspects. Ensuring standardized operation with a sound system, so that industrial development has rules to follow, can effectively stimulate urban economic vitality and enrich citizens' lives.

The introduction of a good policy is a starting point. To move from "having laws to abide by" to "good laws and good governance," urban governors also need to think one step further and take a step forward. A media survey in Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江) found that the awareness rate of relevant support policies among local small shop owners was below 50%. In order to improve the policy dissemination effect, the Hangzhou West Lake (杭州西湖) Scenic Area Administrative Service Center built a "government affairs night market," moving the service window to the bustling West Lake (西湖), which not only strengthened publicity but also guided handling, attracting more than 10,000 participants. In the final analysis, urban governance is a work oriented towards people, co-construction and sharing rely on people, and the evaluation of results depends on public reputation. Changing from "passive response" to "proactive service," so that service recipients clearly know what can be done, what cannot be done, and how to do it specifically, good policies can fully release their dividends.

In recent years, many places have innovated their working methods to improve the level of refined urban governance. Doing these big and small things well requires collective wisdom and efforts, and requires stimulating the people's sense of ownership. Protruding manhole covers hide the risk of tripping people, and the ramps on overpasses are too narrow to push strollers through "sideways"... In Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东), "Ruler Brother" takes a ruler and shuttles through the streets and alleys, checking details with personal experience, and puts forward many problems that need to be improved. The local government responded and dealt with it as soon as possible, "pointing to where to change," demonstrating the strength, accuracy, and warmth of public services. When more citizens become "quality inspectors" of public facilities and "evaluators" of public services, urban governance will be more efficient and urban life will be more comfortable.

Urban work is complex and a systematic project. Drawing on experience from local explorations, taking responsibility in listening to public opinion, and improving quality and efficiency in two-way communication, modern people's cities will surely become happy homes for better living and working.

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Promoting the Building of a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind (Studying and Implementing the Spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee)

By: 王 毅

Promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind is the lofty goal pursued by China's major-country diplomacy in the new era. The "Suggestions of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" (hereinafter referred to as the "Suggestions"), adopted at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, made important strategic arrangements for "promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind," fully demonstrating the broad vision and global responsibility of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core. We must deeply understand and fully implement the spirit of the "Suggestions," guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping's thought on diplomacy, hold high the glorious banner of building a community with a shared future for mankind, constantly create a new situation in China's major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics, create a favorable external environment for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization, and make greater contributions to the cause of human peace and progress.

1. Deeply Understand the Great Significance of Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind

Building a community with a shared future for mankind is a major original thought proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), the core concept of Xi Jinping's thought on diplomacy, and the Chinese answer given by our Party to the question of the times, "What kind of world should we build and how should we build this world?" as we continue to deepen our understanding of the laws of human social development. It has valuable theoretical value, significant contemporary significance, and far-reaching world influence.

(1) Building a community with a shared future for mankind follows the laws of human social development. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Mankind is a whole, and the Earth is a homeland. Faced with common challenges, no one or any country can be immune, and the only way out for mankind is to work together in harmony and coexist in harmony." Marx and Engels scientifically predicted more than 170 years ago that human history would inevitably become world history. In today's era of deepening globalization, the globality of human interaction is more profound than ever before, and the interdependence between countries is closer than ever before. Building a community with a shared future for mankind scientifically reveals the objective reality that the destinies of all countries in the world are intertwined and interconnected, clearly advocates the spirit of "shared destiny," an open and inclusive mind, and a vision of win-win cooperation, promotes the relationship between countries from peaceful coexistence to a shared destiny, responds to the universal aspirations of the people of all countries, and points out the direction of progress of human civilization.

(2) Building a community with a shared future for mankind conforms to the trend of peace and development of the times. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "This concept conforms to the trend of peace, development, cooperation, and win-win results, and opens up a new realm of peace and progress." At present, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and change, with hegemonism and power politics rampant, and unilateralism and protectionism surging against the tide. How to inject more certainty and stability into a world intertwined with change and chaos is a major issue facing the international community. Building a community with a shared future for mankind cherishes the future of mankind and cares about the well-being of the people, advocating to transcend conflict and confrontation with peaceful development, replace absolute security with common security, abandon zero-sum games with mutual benefit and win-win results, prevent civilizational conflicts with exchanges and mutual learning, and protect the Earth's homeland with green development, anchoring a clearer goal and depicting a clearer picture for the future of mankind, and pointing out the only correct path for the world at a historical turning point.

(3) Building a community with a shared future for mankind demonstrates the original aspiration and mission of the Communist Party of China. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The Communist Party of China is a political party that seeks happiness for the Chinese people and strives for the cause of human progress." At present, socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era and embarked on a new journey, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered an irreversible historical process. Our country has become a more responsible major country with international influence, innovation leadership, and moral appeal. The concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind fully embodies the worldview, order view, and values of Chinese Communists, and fully demonstrates our Party's historical consciousness to make greater contributions to human development and progress. It has been written into the Constitution of the People's Republic of China and the Constitution of the Communist Party of China, and has risen to become the lofty mission of Chinese diplomacy.

(4) Building a community with a shared future for mankind has gathered broad consensus in the international community. Since the new era, building a community with a shared future for mankind has developed from a concept and proposition to a scientific system, from a beautiful vision to rich practice, and from a Chinese initiative to an international consensus, winning increasingly broad understanding and recognition from the international community, and increasingly becoming a public product with significant symbolic significance. At present, dozens of countries and regions have reached a consensus with China on building different forms of community with a shared future, and the construction of communities with a shared future in various fields such as cyberspace, nuclear security, health, human and nature, and the ocean is also steadily advancing. Building a community with a shared future for mankind has been written into the UN General Assembly resolutions for eight consecutive years and has been included in bilateral and multilateral declarations many times. Facts have proved that building a community with a shared future for mankind has become the largest common denominator for the people of all countries to build a better world together, and it will increasingly demonstrate its strong influence, vitality, and appeal, and become a glorious banner leading the progress of the times.

2. Accurately Understand the Main Tasks of Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind

The "Suggestions" put forward a series of important measures to promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, and made strategic arrangements for promoting China's major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. We must raise our political stance, accurately understand and grasp from the strategic height of coordinating the overall strategic situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the great changes in the world unseen in a century, and resolutely implement it.

(1) Advocate an equal and orderly multipolar world and an inclusive economic globalization that benefits all. This is the Chinese solution we have given to a series of major problems and challenges facing the world today, which enhances the practicality and guidance of building a community with a shared future for mankind. Advocating an equal and orderly multipolar world means adhering to the equality of all countries, regardless of size, effectively promoting the democratization of international relations, ensuring that the multipolarization process is generally constructive, and that all countries can find their own place in it and play their due role. Advocating an inclusive economic globalization that benefits all means conforming to the universal demands of all countries in the world, especially developing countries, solving the development imbalance between countries and within countries caused by the global allocation of resources, supporting all countries in taking development paths that suit their own national conditions, and promoting the global economy to maintain growth momentum and vitality.

(2) Deepen the integration of surrounding development. The surrounding area is the key to promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. Since the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has put forward the concept of neighborhood diplomacy featuring amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness, and advocated promoting the building of a community with a shared future in the surrounding area. Guided by head-of-state diplomacy, we have deepened all-round cooperation and strengthened exchanges in various fields with neighboring countries, and jointly maintained regional peace and stability. China's strategic mutual trust with neighboring countries has been continuously consolidated, the level of interconnection has been continuously improved, and the cooperation of industrial chain and supply chain has been deepening. We have established a common goal of building a community with a shared future with 17 neighboring countries, forming a full coverage of building a community with a shared future in the Indochina Peninsula and Central Asia. China's relations with its neighbors have entered the best period since modern times, but at the same time, it also faces the deep linkage between the surrounding pattern and the world situation. We must examine the surrounding area from a global perspective, enhance the sense of responsibility and mission to do a good job in the surrounding area, continuously deepen the integration of development with the surrounding area, and work together with neighboring countries to create a better future, so as to create a good-neighborly and friendly surrounding environment for China's reform, development, and stability.

(3) Maintain the overall stability of major-country relations. Major countries shoulder special responsibilities and should uphold the awareness of a community with a shared future, demonstrate historical initiative, and promote historical progress. Since the new era, Chinese diplomacy has actively promoted major-country coordination and benign interaction, and promoted the building of a pattern of major-country relations featuring peaceful coexistence, overall stability, and balanced development. We have deepened the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era, and embarked on a new path of mutual respect, harmonious coexistence, and win-win cooperation between major countries and neighboring countries; based on the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation, we have eliminated interference, overcome obstacles, and strived for the healthy, stable, and sustainable development of China-US relations; we have connected China and Europe, the two major forces, two major markets, and two major civilizations, and promoted the building of a China-EU comprehensive strategic partnership with global influence; we have actively promoted cooperation with emerging major countries, and jointly promoted the high-quality development of "Greater BRICS Cooperation." The benign interaction between major countries is conducive to maintaining global strategic stability and providing a solid guarantee for China to deepen all-round foreign cooperation and maintain a good external environment.

(4) Deepen solidarity and cooperation with developing countries. The vast number of developing countries are China's natural allies in international affairs and have always been at the forefront of promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. As the largest developing country in the world today and an important member of the Global South, China has always adhered to the concept of sincerity, real results, amity, and good faith and the correct approach to justice and interests advocated by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), strengthened solidarity and cooperation with developing countries, and firmly safeguarded the common interests of developing countries. In particular, in recent years, China and Africa have joined hands to promote "six modernizations" and jointly implement "ten partnership plans," launched "five major projects" with Latin American countries, promoted "eight major joint actions" and built "five major cooperation patterns" with Arab countries, built "seven cooperation platforms" with Pacific island countries, and the traditional friendship with the vast number of developing countries has been continuously consolidated, and the level of cooperation has been increasing.

(5) Implement the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative. The four global initiatives are important public goods contributed by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) to the world and are the strategic guidance for building a community with a shared future for mankind. The Global Development Initiative focuses on international development cooperation and provides assistance for promoting the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. The Global Security Initiative focuses on resolving international disputes through dialogue and consultation and provides new ideas for international security cooperation. The Global Civilization Initiative is committed to promoting exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations and clarifies a realistic path for building a diverse and inclusive civilization ecology. The Global Governance Initiative anchors the principles, methods, and paths for reforming the global governance system and injects strong impetus into building a more just and reasonable global governance system. The four global initiatives have their own focuses and run in parallel without conflict, providing important support for building a community with a shared future for mankind from the four dimensions of development, security, civilization, and governance.

(6) Promote the building of a world of lasting peace, universal security, common prosperity, openness and inclusiveness, and cleanliness and beauty. The "five worlds" are the overall goal of building a community with a shared future for mankind and an extension of the "five-in-one" overall layout of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics at the international level. Building a world of lasting peace means adhering to dialogue and consultation to better resolve disputes and contradictions and eliminate wars and conflicts; building a world of universal security means adhering to joint construction and sharing, and coordinating responses to traditional and non-traditional security threats; building a world of common prosperity means adhering to cooperation and win-win results, and promoting the building of an open, inclusive, universally beneficial, balanced, and win-win economic globalization; building a world of openness and inclusiveness means adhering to exchanges and mutual learning, promoting the common values of all mankind, and promoting different civilizations to learn from each other's strengths and make common progress; building a clean and beautiful world means adhering to green and low-carbon development and seeking a path of sustainable development. The "five worlds" are interconnected and mutually reinforcing, forming an organic whole, providing a worldview foundation and methodological guidance for building a better world, and pointing out the direction for the future of mankind.

3. Comprehensively Grasp the Practical Requirements for Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind

Building a community with a shared future for mankind is a major diplomatic mission and a complex system project. We must take Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping's thought on diplomacy, as our guide, adhere to and apply the positions, viewpoints, and methods that run through it, and implement the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments for foreign affairs without compromise.

(1) We must adhere to and strengthen the Party's leadership. The Party's leadership is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the most fundamental principle and greatest political advantage of Chinese diplomacy. We must unswervingly adhere to the Party Central Committee's control over foreign affairs, consciously obey the Party Central Committee's centralized and unified leadership, further strengthen the system and mechanism for the Party to lead foreign affairs, continuously improve our own political judgment, political understanding, and political execution, and ensure that the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments for foreign affairs are implemented without compromise. We must unswervingly use Xi Jinping's thought on diplomacy to arm our minds, guide our practice, and promote our work, deeply understand its spiritual essence, core meaning, and latest developments, focus on doing a good job in integrating and applying it, and promote foreign affairs to a new level and create a new situation. We must deeply promote the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, strengthen loyalty, integrity, and responsibility, improve the normalized and long-term mechanism for work style construction, and build a diplomatic iron army that is loyal to the Party, courageous in taking responsibility, daring to fight and good at fighting, and strictly disciplined.

(2) We must adhere to the people-centered approach. Building a community with a shared future for mankind demonstrates the people's position of the Communist Party of China and the people-oriented nature of China's foreign policy, enabling us to always gain more support and occupy the moral high ground. We must actively respond to the universal concerns of the people of all countries, uphold justice in the world's chaotic situation, and take responsibility at major and critical moments, and firmly be the maintainer of world peace and the promoter of global development. We must adhere to the people-centered development thought, place development at the center of the international agenda, better bridge the development gap between the North and the South, and promote the modernization of all countries in the world with peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation, and common prosperity. We must practice the governance concept of consultation, joint construction, and sharing, ensure that the people of all countries jointly participate in global governance and share the fruits of global governance, and jointly address the common challenges facing human society.

(3) We must adhere to upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground. Promoting diplomatic adherence to fundamental principles and innovation is a necessary requirement for building a community with a shared future for mankind and a necessary requirement for winning strategic initiative in fierce international competition. We must continue to promote diplomatic theoretical and practical innovation with a more proactive historical consciousness and a more vibrant creative spirit, and promote the continuous innovation and improvement of diplomatic work in terms of concepts, systems, and capabilities. We must maintain an open mind, draw on the experience and lessons of diplomatic changes in various countries, deepen our understanding of the laws of international relations development, and continuously enhance the scientific, proactive, and creative nature of foreign affairs. We must combine the focus of China's modernization construction and important international agendas in the coming period, explore new ideas and measures for foreign affairs, and actively shape a new pattern of China's relations with the world.

(4) We must adhere to the concept of systems. To promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind in the context of the accelerating evolution of the world's major changes, we must use the viewpoints and methods of universal connection, comprehensive system, development, and change. We must establish a global vision, further combine China's development with the world's development, further combine the interests of the Chinese people with the interests of the people of the world, and correctly guide the development trend of the world's major changes. We must adhere to the principles of self-confidence and self-reliance, openness and inclusiveness, fairness and justice, and cooperation and win-win results, deepen the diplomatic layout in line with the times, grasp the main contradictions, highlight the problem orientation, and implement the key tasks of diplomatic strategic deployment. We must stand at the height of the domestic and international overall situation, properly handle major relations such as development and security, opening up and independence, and cooperation and competition, and enhance the overall planning, system integration, coordination, and efficiency of foreign affairs.

(5) We must adhere to carrying forward the spirit of struggle. Our Party has never been afraid of ghosts, evil, or pressure. Only by daring to struggle and being good at struggling can we overcome all kinds of difficulties and obstacles. We must maintain strategic focus, enhance our confidence in victory, actively recognize, respond to, and seek change, bravely face the major tests of high winds, rough seas, and even stormy waves, and open up new horizons for the development of diplomatic work through tenacious struggle. We must enhance our awareness of potential dangers, firmly establish the bottom-line thinking, and resolutely safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests with a prepared attitude and a firm will that is not afraid of power. We must enhance our ability to struggle, strengthen strategic and tactical planning, use multilateral mechanisms and rules, clearly oppose hegemonism, domineering, and bullying acts, and maximize the gathering of forces for peace, development, and progress.
The flag leads the direction, and hard work creates the future. We must unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, profoundly understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," earnestly achieve the "Two Safeguards," deeply study and thoroughly implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy, and continuously create new prospects for major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics, and 不懈奋斗 (bù xiè fèn dòu - "unremittingly struggle," to strive tirelessly) to win new victories in building a modern socialist country in all respects and write a new chapter in building a community with a shared future for mankind!

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Forum on Building Demonstration Zones for Strengthening the Sense of Community of the Chinese Nation in Border Ethnic Regions Opens in Nanning, Guangxi

Xinhua News Agency, Nanning, November 4th (Reporter Zou Yuqin (邹雨沁)) The Forum on Building a Demonstration Zone of the Chinese National Community Consciousness in Border Ethnic Regions and the 90th Anniversary Commemorative Event of Fei Xiaotong's (费孝通) Field Investigation opened in Nanning (南宁), Guangxi (广西) on the 4th. Ding Zhongli (丁仲礼), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and Chairman of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League, attended the event.

Ding Zhongli (丁仲礼) said in his speech that forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation is the main theme of the Party's ethnic work in the new era, and also the main theme of various tasks in ethnic regions. It is hoped that the people of all ethnic groups in Guangxi (广西) will continue to strengthen the concept of a community with a shared future, sharing weal and woe, life and death, and destiny, and continue to consolidate the common ideological and political foundation for the unity and struggle of all ethnic groups, and promote the Chinese nation to become a community of destiny with a higher degree of identity and stronger cohesion.

The forum was jointly organized by the Theoretical Research Association of Participating Parties of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League, the United Front Work Department of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区), and the Ethnic and Religious Affairs Commission of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区民宗委).

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Let the Revolutionary Sites in Yan'an Shine with the Light of the Times (Towards the Cultural Landscape of the "15th Five-Year Plan")

By: 刘 妮

Autumn in Yan'an (延安), in front of the cave dwellings filled with stories, the dates are red, the millet is sweet, and everywhere tells of history. Looking out, the mountains and gullies are covered with colorful forests, painting a colorful and freehand scroll.

Yan'an (延安) is the sacred place of the Chinese revolution and the cradle of the new China. In October 1935, the Central Red Army (中央红军) victoriously arrived in northern Shaanxi (陕北) after the 25,000-li Long March, and this became the "foothold" of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央), as well as the "starting point" for establishing the anti-Japanese national united front, winning the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and then seizing the victory of the People's Liberation War. Thirteen years of extraordinary years gave birth to the eternally shining Yan'an Spirit. As a staff member of the Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Hall (延安革命纪念馆), I feel deeply proud.

From the revolutionary sites that witnessed the light of thought, to the office sites where the Party Central Committee (党中央) planned strategies, to the solemn places where major historical decisions were born, every brick and stone, every inch of land here, condenses the wisdom and struggle of the older generation of revolutionaries, and contains the original aspirations and mission of the Chinese Communists. We must excavate, tell, and inherit the stories of Yan'an (延安) well, so that generations can continue to draw strength from the Yan'an Spirit.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Hall (延安革命纪念馆) continued to strengthen communication and contact with the relatives of revolutionary predecessors. More than 3,000 precious cultural relics, such as the hand-painted picture book by overseas Chinese youth Wang Weizhen (王唯真), the baton of musician Xian Xinghai (冼星海), and the score of the Yellow River Cantata, were collected and treasured in the museum. At the same time, we formulated the "Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Hall Cultural Relics Digital Protection Plan" and added constant temperature, constant humidity, and monitoring systems to the cultural relics warehouse. Through digital and dynamic micro-environment transformation, each cultural relic is in a suitable environment.

Cultural relic protection cannot only rely on 埋头苦干 (mái tóu kǔ gàn - "bury head, work hard," to immerse oneself in hard work), but also needs to use the power of science and technology. We have successively repaired 37 prints, forming repair archives, disease assessment reports, and disease maps, which effectively improved the ability of cultural relic protection and restoration, and gradually strengthened the team of cultural relic restoration talents. Cultural relics can complete "physical examination and treatment" without leaving the warehouse, avoiding the previous "long journey" of paper cultural relics in transfer and restoration. By exploring digital protection paths and using advanced technologies such as 3D laser scanning, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR), we are accelerating the digital collection and archiving of revolutionary sites. These digital models not only provide accurate data support for cultural relic protection, but also lay the foundation for subsequent digital exhibitions.

Protecting revolutionary cultural relics is for better utilization. We deeply explore the historical stories and spiritual connotations behind the sites, innovate exhibition methods, revitalize "sleeping" cultural relics, and make revolutionary history tangible and perceptible. The memorial hall carefully plans exhibitions, adopting the method of "chronological + thematic," highlighting the commemorative nature of the character sequence, the relevance of the event sequence, the historical nature of the cultural relic sequence, and the logical nature of the spiritual enlightenment sequence, to reproduce the glorious years of the Party Central Committee (党中央) in Yan'an (延安). The precious revolutionary cultural relics displayed in the museum, combined with vivid multimedia displays and immersive scene restoration, allow the audience to feel the magnificent revolutionary years up close.

The rolling Yan River (延河) water witnesses the calls of "Go to Yan'an (延安)"; the majestic Pagoda Mountain (宝塔山) is engraved with a period of "returning to Yan'an (延安) in dreams several times." We guard the revolutionary cultural relics of Yan'an (延安) and draw nourishment from the Yan'an Spirit. Looking forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," we must improve the technical system and innovate communication methods with a stronger sense of responsibility and mission, guard the precious red resources, and let the Yan'an Spirit bloom with more dazzling light in the new era.

(The author is the Party Secretary and Curator of the Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Hall (延安革命纪念馆). This report was compiled by Jia Fengfeng (贾丰丰), a reporter from this newspaper.)

Extended Reading

Revolutionary Cultural Relic Protection and Utilization Presents a New Look

Revolutionary cultural relics witness the great course of revolution, construction, and reform, and carry the glorious history of the Party and the people's heroic struggle. They are the precious wealth of the Party and the country. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the national revolutionary cultural relic protection and utilization work has made considerable progress on the existing basis, presenting a new look.

The system guarantee is constantly improving, and the resource base has been basically clarified. The newly revised Law on the Protection of Cultural Relics strengthens the protection of revolutionary cultural relics, and 23 provinces and 43 cities have issued relevant local regulations on revolutionary cultural relics. The Fourth National Cultural Relics Census will focus on revolutionary cultural relics since the founding of New China, and a new batch of revolutionary sites and monuments have been discovered.

Systematic protection is constantly strengthened, and the museum system has been basically formed. The Revolutionary Cultural Relic Protection and Utilization Project has been successfully completed, the Centennial Party History Cultural Relic Protection and Display Project and the Anti-Japanese War Cultural Relic Protection Action have been deeply promoted, and the construction quality and exhibition level of revolutionary memorial halls have been significantly improved.

The educational function is fully demonstrated, and the inheritance and utilization are fruitful. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, 600 million visitors entered revolutionary sites and memorial venues, and the red stories of revolutionary cultural relics became popular online. More and more people deeply review history, feel the great spirit, and draw strength for progress through revolutionary cultural relics.

Revolutionary cultural relics carry rich revolutionary spirit and profound historical and cultural connotations, and should be protected, managed, and utilized with heart and affection. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, with the continuous strengthening of the overall protection of revolutionary cultural relics, the research and interpretation, display methods, and educational functions of revolutionary cultural relics will continue to be optimized.

(Compiled by Zhai Qinqi (翟钦奇), a reporter from this newspaper)

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The 138th Canton Fair Concludes Successfully

Guangzhou (广州), November 4th (Reporters Li Gang (李刚) and Hong Qiuting (洪秋婷)) The 138th Canton Fair (广交会) concluded on November 4th. This year's Canton Fair saw over 310,000 overseas buyers from 223 countries and regions, a 7.5% increase compared to the previous session (the same below), setting a new historical record. Among them, 214,000 buyers were from countries involved in the "Belt and Road" initiative, an increase of 9.4%, accounting for 69%; buyers from the European Union, the Middle East, the United States, and Brazil saw significant growth, with increases of 32.7%, 13.9%, 14%, and 33.2% respectively. 158 business and industrial organizations participated in groups, an increase of 12%. Among the 550 purchasing groups, 406 were organized by leading enterprises, an increase of 7.9%. The intended export turnover at this year's Canton Fair was US$25.65 billion, maintaining a growth momentum.

Among the 4.6 million exhibits at this year's Canton Fair, new products, green products, and products with independent intellectual property rights each accounted for more than 20%. At the same time, this year's Canton Fair set up a 3,000-square-meter special zone for connecting high-quality foreign trade products to domestic sales, attracting 143 domestic leading buyers and more than 500 exhibitors to participate in matchmaking activities; 9 "Bridge of Trade" supply and demand matchmaking events, 17 "Good Treasure, Good Ni Explore Canton Fair" activities, and 13 thematic forums helped enterprises accurately expand their markets. 240 trade service institutions such as finance, logistics, testing, and design provided a total of over 100,000 consultations; 26 trading groups piloted modular construction of specially decorated booths, saving 1/2 of the cost and 3/4 of the construction time, with a recycling rate of over 90%.

It is reported that the 139th Canton Fair (广交会) will be held in Guangzhou (广州) from April 15th to May 5th, 2026.

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Shenzhou-20 Astronaut Crew Returns to Earth on the 5th

This newspaper reported from Beijing on November 4th (Reporter Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶) and Zhu Yingqi (朱瑛琪)) On November 4th, the Shenzhou-20 (神舟二十号) and Shenzhou-21 (神舟二十一号) astronaut crews held a handover ceremony, with the two crews handing over the keys to the China Space Station (中国空间站).

As of now, the Shenzhou-20 (神舟二十号) astronaut crew has completed all scheduled tasks and will return to the Dongfeng Landing Site (东风着陆场) on November 5th aboard the Shenzhou-20 (神舟二十号) manned spacecraft. The landing site and all participating systems are 紧锣密鼓 (jǐn luó mì gǔ - "tight drums dense gongs," to prepare intensively and meticulously) making various preparations to welcome the astronauts home.

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National Fire Prevention Publicity Month Launch Ceremony Held

This newspaper's Beijing (北京) November 4th dispatch (Reporter Qi Yukun (亓玉昆)): The reporter learned from the National Fire and Rescue Administration (国家消防救援局) that on the morning of the 4th, the State Council Safety Committee Office (国务院安委会办公室), the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部), and the National Fire and Rescue Administration (国家消防救援局) held the launching ceremony of the 2025 National Fire Protection Publicity Month in Beijing (北京). November 9th this year is the thirty-fourth National Fire Protection Day, and November is the National Fire Protection Publicity Month, with the theme of "National Fire Protection, Life First - Safe Use of Fire and Electricity."

According to reports, during the event, safety issues such as construction fire operations, residential fire use, electrical fire safety, and electric bicycle charging and parking will be addressed. The vivid teaching materials of fire cases will be used to educate the public to 以案为鉴 (yǐ àn wéi jiàn - "take cases as a mirror," learn from past mistakes), and to keep the alarm bells ringing, consciously implementing fire safety precautions; fully utilize various carriers to widely publicize fire safety knowledge, increase the opening of fire science education bases and other places, and conduct routine practical training of basic fire fighting skills for front-line personnel; make good use of the "overt investigation and covert visits + media exposure" working mechanism, promptly expose major fire safety hazards and illegal acts, and unblock internal reporting channels for employees of units and social supervision channels.

At the launching ceremony, the main venue connected via video link to the event sites in four provinces and cities, including Tianjin (天津), Shanghai (上海), Guangdong (广东), and Hainan (海南), and watched public service advertisements on fire safety and thematic promotional videos for the National Fire Protection Publicity Month.

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The 8th Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Vegetable Industry Development Conference Held

This newspaper's Hengshui (衡水) November 4th dispatch (Reporter Shao Yuzi (邵玉姿)): From November 3rd to 4th, the 8th Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Vegetable Industry Development Conference and Investment Promotion Activity, themed "Developing High-Quality Vegetables, Sharing High-Quality Life," was held in Jizhou District (冀州区), Hengshui (衡水) City, Hebei Province (河北省). The conference focused on excellent varieties, leading technologies, advanced equipment, and other content. Through base visits, investment promotion, production and sales docking, and other activities, it comprehensively showcased the development achievements of the entire vegetable industry chain in Hebei (河北), and promoted the complementary advantages of agricultural resources and the deep integration of the industrial chain in Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北).

The conference centrally displayed more than 2,000 kinds of agricultural products and various innovative achievements in many fields, such as high-quality vegetables, seeds and seedlings, facility construction, agricultural materials, and agricultural machinery. It centrally released the "Top Ten Main Technologies for Improving Vegetable Quality," promoting new technologies, new models, and new equipment. The conference also released 10 characteristic fruit and vegetable high-quality index systems, such as "Raoyang Tomato (饶阳番茄)," to provide a scientific basis and technical support for standardized production.

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This edition's editors: Ji Yalin, Guan Xuanyue, Zhang Weihao

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The CIIE Makes "Ham Capital" Even More Prosperous (CIIE Stories)

By: 本报记者 颜 欢 许海林

Since participating in the first China International Import Expo (CIIE) in 2018, Spanish Iberian ham has been a continuous exhibitor. The fragrant ham has become one of the "star products," and the booth is always crowded. Through the CIIE platform, Iberian ham is being served on the tables of more and more Chinese consumers.

The Spanish town of Guijuelo (吉汇罗) produces about 60% of Spain's Iberian ham every year. Its ham is favored by food lovers around the world for its unique taste and aroma. From a century-old family workshop to the vast Chinese market, the "Ham Capital" Guijuelo (吉汇罗) is becoming more and more prosperous. Recently, a reporter from this newspaper visited the town of Guijuelo (吉汇罗) to explore the "CIIE story" of Iberian ham.

"The CIIE and the Chinese market give us confidence and a platform"

In late autumn, Guijuelo (吉汇罗) is filled with mature acorns hanging from the branches, and Iberian black pigs raised in the woods often arch and eat the fallen fruits. The terrain here is high and wide, with cold and dry winters and short, mild summers, which is suitable for natural air-drying of ham.

At 6 a.m., the Agrela Ham Company (阿吉拉火腿公司) in the town is already busy. It is a century-old enterprise founded in 1895. In the drying room, tens of thousands of hams are hanging from wooden beams, and the air is filled with salty aroma. Craftsmen use cow bone needles to gently pierce the skin of the ham and judge the degree of maturity by the aroma. In the workshop, workers are sorting, cutting, and packaging the ham. At 2 p.m., the distributor's truck arrives, loaded with packaged ham, and drives along the mountain road to cities such as Salamanca (萨拉曼卡) and Madrid (马德里), and then to all parts of the world.

"From marinating to natural air-drying and ripening, the ham has to 'rest' here for at least 3 years. This is our proud century-old tradition." Ramos (拉莫斯), an old craftsman who has worked at Agrela Ham Company (阿吉拉火腿公司) for 41 years, checks the drying condition of the ham, takes down the matured ham, appraises it, and packages it. Iberian ham is divided into four grades: black label, red label, green label, and white label. "Black label" ham is made from 100% purebred Iberian black pigs that feed entirely on acorns from October to the following spring. During the processing, the craftsmen carefully handle it day after day and year after year, so that the Iberian ham presents a unique texture and color, obtains a sweet and soft taste, and has a long-lasting aroma.

In recent years, Iberian ham is accelerating its entry into the vast Chinese market through the CIIE. At the first CIIE in 2018, La Encina (拉恩西纳公司), a Spanish ham producer and distributor, participated with a try-it-and-see attitude. As a result, the 500 kilograms of ham originally planned to be sold in half a year were sold out in just a few days. This achievement has attracted more Spanish ham companies to develop in the Chinese market. José María Agrela (何塞·玛利亚·阿吉拉), the fifth-generation head of Agrela Ham Company (阿吉拉火腿公司), brought his family's traditional craftsmanship and products to the eighth CIIE this year.

"The CIIE gives us more expectations for future development." José (何塞) said that China has the world's largest middle-income group, and the Chinese market contains huge investment and consumption potential. "The CIIE and the Chinese market give us confidence and a platform to move from a family business to a more international well-known brand."

"Drive the development of the entire industrial chain and town of Guijuelo (吉汇罗)"

According to Mayor Martín (马丁) of Guijuelo (吉汇罗), the town has a permanent population of 6,000 and more than 120 ham companies, so it is called the "Ham Capital." The development of ham companies not only solves the employment of more than 90% of the local population, but also provides a large number of jobs for the surrounding areas. Ramos's (拉莫斯) son, Mario (马里奥), is 21 years old this year. Two years ago, he entered Agrela Ham Company (阿吉拉火腿公司) and learned the craft of ham making from his father: trimming and shaping, salting and marinating, washing, drying, and ripening. "I heard that Chinese friends like to eat Spanish pork products, especially high-quality Iberian ham. I am very happy!" Mario (马里奥) said, "I believe that after entering the Chinese market, our orders will grow faster and our lives will get better and better."

"We participate in the CIIE because we hope that Chinese consumers will further understand this delicacy and understand the traditional Spanish lifestyle and culture," said José (何塞).

The ripening of Iberian ham depends on the mountain wind. The CIIE and the vast Chinese market behind it are the "east wind" that is constantly blowing to Spanish ham companies. In November 2018, shortly after the first CIIE was held, the Chinese and Spanish governments signed an agreement approving the export of Spanish bone-in ham to China, bringing new opportunities for the development of Iberian ham companies in the Chinese market. La Encina (拉恩西纳公司) has established a branch in Shanghai (上海) and opened a store on the Chinese e-commerce platform. Agrela Ham Company (阿吉拉火腿公司) has also invested in the construction of the first Iberian ham processing plant in Qingdao (青岛). According to the latest data from the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (西班牙对外贸易和投资局) and the Iberian Pork Industry Association (伊比利亚猪肉产业联合组织), in 2024, the total amount of ham and cured shoulder products exported from Spain to China exceeded 28 million euros, an increase of approximately 60% compared to 5 years ago. In the first half of this year, this growth trend continued, with exports increasing by 8.4% year-on-year.

"The opening of the Chinese market is of great significance to the internationalization of Iberian ham." Martín (马丁) told reporters, "We look forward to using platforms such as the CIIE to enable Iberian ham to obtain more and more development opportunities in China, which will not only drive the development of the entire industrial chain and town of Guijuelo (吉汇罗), provide assistance for local economic development, but also allow the younger generation to continue to cultivate this land and find their own future."

"Further promote cooperation between Spain and China in the economic and trade fields"

Since the first CIIE, many high-quality Spanish agricultural products represented by ham, wine, and olive oil have become "star products" of the CIIE, and the Chinese market has become one of the fastest-growing markets for Spanish agricultural exports. Ángel Prieto (安赫尔·普列托), Vice President of External Affairs of the Spanish National Innovation Center (西班牙国家创新中心), said that the CIIE provides valuable opportunities for Spanish companies to enter China and showcase innovative products.

"The Chinese market has an increasing demand for high-quality consumption and pays more attention to quality, cultural connotation, etc." Martín (马丁) told reporters that Guijuelo's (吉汇罗) ham companies are also working in this direction. José (何塞) is also very optimistic about the opportunities in the Chinese market. He said that China has become one of the markets with the greatest growth potential in the world. In the future, he will not only provide Chinese consumers with more high-quality products, but also plans to carry out cultural communication activities and train professional ham slicers in China.

"The Spanish government attaches great importance to the export industry and pays attention to the dynamic Chinese market. At present, meat ranks second in Spanish agricultural exports. The Chinese market is an important destination for Spanish pork exports, accounting for more than 30%." María Naranjo (玛丽亚·纳兰霍), Director of the Food Industry Department of the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (西班牙对外贸易和投资局), said that the CIIE is an important platform for consolidating trade relations between Spain and China. The active participation of Spanish companies in the CIIE fully demonstrates their strong willingness to deepen cooperative relations with Chinese partners. "For many years, the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (西班牙对外贸易和投资局) has also participated in the CIIE and set up booths, hoping to further promote cooperation between Spain and China in the economic and trade fields through the CIIE platform."

"The production of Iberian ham is a commitment to time and tradition, and the Chinese market and the CIIE platform have given this commitment a broader future," said Martín (马丁).

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China's market boasts both breadth and depth. (Witnessing · China Opportunities)

By: 本报记者 于超凡

"The China International Import Expo (进博会) is not only a grand trade event, but also a communication bridge connecting China and the world, and a broad platform for promoting win-win cooperation." François-Henri Pinault, CEO of Kering Group (开云集团), headquartered in France, said in a recent interview with this reporter that the CIIE has built a mutually beneficial and win-win platform for the world. Kering Group actively participates with the concept of innovation, dialogue and common development, and looks forward to showcasing craftsmanship and technological innovation through the CIIE platform, conducting in-depth exchanges with Chinese consumers and partners from various countries, and continuously improving product quality and customer experience.

Pinault said that Kering Group (开云集团) made its debut at the CIIE in 2019 and has participated continuously since then. "At each CIIE, the design of the Kering Pavilion incorporates creativity and passion." Pinault introduced that at the 8th CIIE, Kering Group (开云集团) will participate with all its brands, and will launch new products for the first time in the Asia-Pacific region and make their global debut. At the same time, the pavilion will introduce innovative digital interactive modules, integrating technology and scenarios to create a personalized and immersive viewing experience for the audience. "We look forward to experiencing the rapid development of the Chinese market at the CIIE site and engaging in more exchanges with consumers, industry partners and government departments."

"The Chinese market has both breadth and depth, maintains a strong development momentum, and is one of the most dynamic boutique markets in the world, and is also a strategic location for the development of Kering Group (开云集团)." Pinault said that the Chinese market is an important source of inspiration and incubation of creativity for Kering Group (开云集团), and the resulting creativity is often promoted globally. "Since opening its first boutique in China in 1974, Kering Group (开云集团) has witnessed the tremendous development of the Chinese market. More than 50 years later, Kering is still deeply involved in the development process of the Chinese market and firmly believes that China will make important contributions to building a more open and interconnected world."

Pinault believes that China is an important engine of global economic growth. China continues to promote high-level opening up to the outside world, expand investment promotion, and stimulate innovation vitality, injecting confidence into global economic growth. "The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee (中共二十届四中全会) adopted the proposal on formulating the '15th Five-Year Plan (十五五’规划)' (Shíwǔ Wǔ Nián Guīhuà), and I carefully studied the relevant content, which put forward a number of measures focusing on innovation and sustainable development, demonstrating China's firm determination to maintain long-term market prosperity. The development of the boutique market is closely related to the country's economic growth and social progress, so China's '15th Five-Year Plan (十五五’规划)' blueprint is also of great significance to the development of Kering Group (开云集团)."

"China always brings me surprises, and I have new discoveries every time I visit." Pinault said, "I sincerely admire the development achievements China has made, and I believe that the Chinese government's continued commitment to promoting innovation and sustainable development will help China lead global development in more fields."

(Reported from Paris (巴黎) on November 4 by this newspaper)

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Joint Communiqué of the 30th Regular Meeting Between the Chinese and Russian Prime Ministers

At the invitation of Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Li Qiang (李强), Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin (米·弗·米舒斯京) will pay an official visit to China from November 3 to 4, 2025. On November 4, President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping (习近平) met with Prime Minister Mishustin in Beijing (北京). On November 3, Premier Li Qiang (李强) and Prime Minister Mishustin jointly held the 30th Regular Meeting between the Chinese and Russian Prime Ministers in Hangzhou (杭州).

I.

The two Prime Ministers (hereinafter referred to as "the two sides") pointed out that under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Putin (普京), the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era has reached an all-time high and continues to move forward. In May and September 2025, the two heads of state made important strategic arrangements for the development of bilateral relations during their meetings in Moscow (莫斯科) and Beijing (北京). The two sides will take the consensus reached by the two heads of state as the fundamental guideline, abide by the basic principles established in the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation Between the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation signed on July 16, 2001, as well as other bilateral documents and declarations, adhere to the principles of non-alliance, non-confrontation, and non-targeting of third parties, uphold the spirit of permanent good-neighborliness and friendship, comprehensive strategic coordination, and mutually beneficial cooperation for win-win results, and reaffirm that China and Russia always regard each other as priority partners, will continue to consolidate cooperation in various fields, and properly respond to external challenges.

The two sides pointed out that this year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, and the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. As the main victorious countries of World War II and permanent members of the UN Security Council, China and Russia will work together to resist attempts to tamper with the achievements of the victory of World War II and the history of World War II, fully, adequately, and completely abide by the UN Charter, and promote the realization of an equal and orderly world multi-polarization on this basis of international law.

The two sides will always firmly support each other on issues involving each other's core interests and major concerns.

The Russian side reaffirms the authority of UN General Assembly Resolution 2758, and will adhere to the one-China principle, recognizing that there is only one China in the world, Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory, and the Government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China. The Russian side firmly opposes any form of "Taiwan independence" and firmly supports the Chinese government in realizing national reunification.

The Chinese side supports the Russian side in safeguarding its national security and stability, national development and prosperity, sovereignty and territorial integrity, and opposes external forces interfering in Russia's internal affairs.

The two sides highly appreciate the leading role of the regular meeting mechanism between the Chinese and Russian Prime Ministers in deepening exchanges and dialogue in key areas of practical cooperation between the two countries, and reaffirm their willingness to further improve the efficiency of the mechanism and promote the upgrading of practical cooperation between the two countries.

II.

The two sides pointed out that in 2024, China-Russia economic and trade cooperation overcame the impact of external adverse factors, continued to develop healthily, and the volume of bilateral trade reached a new high. The two sides are willing to jointly take active measures to promote the steady development of practical cooperation between the two countries. To this end, the two sides agreed to:

-- Continue to improve the trade structure, and explore growth points in bilateral trade such as e-commerce, agricultural products, and intermediate goods. Promote the development of cross-border e-commerce. Further optimize the business environment, improve the level of trade and investment facilitation, and jointly ensure the security and stability of the industrial chain and supply chain.

-- Continue to strengthen industry cooperation within the framework of professional international organizations, oppose politicizing their activities, and maintain the spirit of constructive international cooperation.

-- Strengthen cooperation in trade in services, including cooperation in tourism, transportation, information technology, creative and electronic games, and expand cooperation in trade in services in multilateral mechanisms such as BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Promote the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding on Deepening Cooperation in the Field of Trade in Services signed by the Ministry of Commerce of China and the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia in May 2023.

-- Continue to strengthen e-commerce cooperation between the two countries, carry out practical policy exchanges, industry docking, capacity building and local cooperation, and actively encourage e-commerce enterprises of the two countries to promote high-quality and characteristic products of their own countries to enter each other's markets through online promotion activities.

-- Support the holding of the 10th China-Russia Expo and the 6th China-Russia Local Cooperation Forum in China in 2026.

-- Carry out cooperation on Arctic issues, and deepen cooperation within the framework of the Arctic Shipping Route Cooperation Sub-committee of the China-Russia Prime Ministers' Regular Meeting Committee, including improving Arctic navigation safety, polar ships and technology, personnel training, increasing the volume of cargo transported through the Arctic shipping route, and improving its competitiveness compared with other international shipping routes.

-- Maintain peace and stability in the Arctic and promote sustainable development in the Arctic. Carry out constructive cooperation on multilateral platforms such as the Arctic Council on the basis of international law and mutual respect.

-- Expand cooperation in the forestry field, and jointly promote investment cooperation projects such as sustainable development of forest resources and deep processing of wood in Russia.

-- Deepen cooperation and exchanges in the agricultural field, and strengthen cooperation in all links of the industrial chain such as agricultural product production, processing, storage and sales through the implementation of joint investment projects.

-- Encourage research in key areas such as germplasm resources, animal husbandry and veterinary medicine, plant protection, soil improvement, and aquatic biological resource protection and proliferation. Strengthen exchanges and cooperation in animal epidemic prevention and control, diagnostic technology, veterinary drug and vaccine research and development, and share results. Support and promote cooperation in the supply of soybean seeds and broiler breeding resources between the two countries.

-- Continue to create favorable conditions for expanding the scale and diversification of the types of agricultural products and grains exported to each other's markets.

-- Strengthen market access cooperation and supply more types of Russian animal and plant commodities to China.

-- Welcome the Russian side to continue to hold the "Made in Russia" exhibition and open the Russian National Pavilion in China to expand mutually beneficial cooperation between the business communities of the two countries.

-- Actively carry out smart customs cooperation, steadily promote customs clearance facilitation cooperation projects such as "single window" and "Authorized Economic Operator (AEO)" mutual recognition, continuously improve the level of customs clearance facilitation, and serve the high-quality development of bilateral economic and trade. Continue to carry out port cooperation, jointly take measures to strengthen port infrastructure construction, optimize port work systems, improve port passage efficiency, expand the types and quantities of international cargo transportation at ports, and ensure the smooth and smooth two-way flow of ports.

-- Continue to take joint measures to optimize the handover of port trains (including empty trains), increase the volume of foreign trade freight at China-Russia railway ports, coordinate and ensure the smooth and stable operation of container trains running through Russia, actively promote the resumption of cross-border passenger trains, support the development of railway dangerous goods transportation, and promote paperless conventional transportation.

-- Further develop China-Russia international road transportation, continuously improve the level of international road transportation facilitation, and expand the types of international road transportation of dangerous goods.

-- Steadily promote cooperation in cross-border cargo transportation with autonomous driving, strengthen information exchange, and promote the application of autonomous driving technology.

-- Further cooperate to expand new logistics product services such as delivery to warehouses and heavy parcel delivery, further enrich service supply, improve logistics efficiency, better meet the diversified postal needs of enterprises and people in the two countries, and enhance the stability and resilience of the logistics supply chain of the two countries.

-- Strengthen exchanges in the fields of sea transportation, river transportation and multimodal transportation to improve their economy and convenience.

-- Encourage airlines of the two countries to expand the scale of passenger and cargo air transportation between China and Russia in accordance with market principles.

-- Jointly commit to the construction of the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor, and accelerate the cooperation on key projects and matters within the framework of the corridor, such as the upgrading and transformation of the central railway line of the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor.

-- Deepen marine economic cooperation, cooperate to improve global marine governance, and maintain the safety and smooth flow of international maritime routes and channels.

-- Strengthen policy coordination, promote greater consistency or compatibility of regulatory policies between the two countries, and, on the basis of equality and safeguarding national sovereignty, mutual respect, and mutually beneficial cooperation, adhere to the central position of the United Nations to ensure that the algorithms of artificial intelligence systems comply with national laws and regulations.

-- Deepen cooperation in the field of international information security and promote the early entry into force of the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime.

-- Highly appreciate the cooperation between the two countries in the direction of cross-border water quality monitoring, emergency contact for environmental disasters, cross-border protected areas and biodiversity. Continue to carry out regular cooperation within the framework of the Environmental Protection Sub-committee, including the existing cooperation of the Waste Management Cooperation Working Group. Deepen cooperation within the framework of the China-Russia Joint Committee on the Rational Utilization and Protection of Cross-border Waters, including the existing cooperation of the Flood Control Cooperation Working Group. Continue to deepen cooperation in the fields of hydrological reporting and flood control to ensure flood control safety in the border areas of the two countries.

-- Strengthen cooperation in the field of biodiversity protection, including the protection of species such as Siberian tigers, Amur leopards, Przewalski's horses, and snow leopards. Support China-Russia cooperation in the protection of giant pandas and golden monkeys.

-- Continue to deepen cooperation and exchanges related to nature reserves, mainly national parks.

-- Continue to strengthen coordination on ecological issues within the framework of multilateral mechanisms such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS.

-- Continue to deepen cooperation in the field of housing and urban-rural development, carry out joint research on "good houses" in cold regions, carry out mutual learning in professional fields such as urban planning and construction, prefabricated buildings, and "safety projects for the lifeline of urban infrastructure," build a platform for mayors and young architects, engineers and other professional talents to exchange experiences and carry out mutually beneficial cooperation, and support research enterprises, associations and universities in the field of construction and urban development in the two countries to establish contacts and carry out cooperation.

-- Strengthen cooperation between the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council of China and the Federal Agency for State Property Management of Russia, hold regular meetings, carry out exchanges on regulatory policies and experiences in the reform, development and supervision of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises, smooth information sharing channels, and create favorable conditions for Chinese and Russian enterprises to expand cooperation space and achieve more practical cooperation results.

-- Implement the Agreement between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Russian Federation on Cooperation in the Field of Anti-monopoly Law Enforcement and Competition Policy, continue to deepen exchanges and cooperation in the field of competition, strengthen law enforcement cooperation on transnational monopoly behavior, safeguard the interests of consumers and the public interest, and create a fair and competitive international economic and trade environment.

-- Strengthen exchanges of legislative and law enforcement experience in the field of trade secret protection, and jointly combat cross-border trade secret infringement.

-- Strengthen exchanges and cooperation in the field of food safety supervision.

-- Support diplomatic and consular institutions of the two countries to maintain close communication and protect the safety and legitimate rights and interests of citizens, institutions and projects of the two countries in each other's countries. The two sides will strengthen information exchange on overseas and regional security, and provide support and assistance to each other's countries in carrying out emergency protection and evacuation of overseas citizens when events such as turmoil, armed conflicts, and natural disasters that threaten life and health occur in third countries and regions.

-- Deepen cooperation in the field of consumer rights protection, and promote the establishment of unified standards in e-commerce and cross-border service procurement to ensure the level of rights protection.

-- Continue to strengthen practical exchanges and cooperation in the fields of energy measurement and measurement for the prevention and control of infectious diseases.

-- Deepen exchanges and cooperation in the field of standardization to promote trade facilitation between China and Russia. Regularly exchange standard information, promote the coordination and docking of more standards in the fields of energy, civil aviation, agricultural food, and automobiles, and carry out standardization cooperation in the fields of artificial intelligence, oil and natural gas. Hold bilateral cooperation meetings on standards to further strengthen coordination and mutual support in international and regional standards organizations.

-- Strengthen practical cooperation within the framework of the Agreement on Trade and Economic Cooperation between the People's Republic of China and the Eurasian Economic Union signed on May 17, 2018.

III.

The two sides positively evaluate the achievements of China-Russia cooperation in scientific and technological innovation and high-tech fields, and are willing to further deepen cooperation to provide a strong driving force for the high-quality economic and social development and industrial upgrading of the two countries. To this end, the two sides agreed to:

-- Continue to deepen scientific and technological cooperation, including basic research. Formulate the China-Russia Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Roadmap (2026-2030). Promote the opening and sharing of large scientific facilities. Steadily promote key scientific research cooperation projects. Cultivate cooperation growth points. Support exchanges between scientists and scientific research institutions. Strengthen cooperation in multilateral frameworks, especially BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and other mechanisms.

-- Strengthen cooperation in the field of intellectual property protection, provide relevant support for innovation entities and rights holders of the two countries, actively promote exchanges between the intellectual property authorities of the two countries, and promote the renewal of the memorandum of understanding on cooperation between the China National Intellectual Property Administration and the Federal Service for Intellectual Property of Russia.

-- Establish an expert committee on artificial intelligence cooperation within the framework of the Artificial Intelligence Working Group of the China-Russia Prime Ministers' Regular Meeting Committee on Communication and Information Technology Cooperation Sub-committee, as an analysis and consultation mechanism, to provide specific suggestions, technical solutions and practical paths for ensuring cooperation in artificial intelligence ethical governance, standardization, and industrial application. Encourage high-level experts from enterprises, universities, research institutions, etc. to join the expert committee.

-- Strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation in artificial intelligence talent training, project investment, and infrastructure, develop a dialogue partner mechanism on the basis of respecting national sovereignty, strengthen the docking and coordination of development strategies, governance rules and technical standards, and develop safe and reliable artificial intelligence systems. The two sides are willing to jointly cooperate on China's initiative to establish the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization.

-- Strengthen exchanges between the State Internet Information Office of the People's Republic of China and the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media of the Russian Federation in related fields.

-- Deepen information and communication technology cooperation, strengthen cooperation in cross-border land cable and submarine cable infrastructure, and carry out mutually beneficial cooperation in cutting-edge technology fields such as satellite Internet.

-- Continue to strengthen cooperation in the field of open source, encourage enterprises, developers, etc. to actively embrace open source, jointly create high-quality open source projects and communities, and promote the industrialization of high-quality open source results in key industries to achieve common development in the open source field of the two countries.

-- Strengthen cooperation between China and Russia in the field of radio frequency coordination, and support each other on issues with similar positions in relevant international occasions.

-- Develop land road and railway postal transportation, shorten mail transportation time, and improve service quality.

-- Attach importance to bilateral cooperation in the aerospace field, and believe that long-term mutually beneficial cooperation on major projects in the aerospace field is in line with the common interests of both sides in innovation, science and technology, and socio-economic development.

-- Agree to strengthen communication in the aerospace field that meets the common interests of both sides, and encourage the implementation of the projects in the 2023-2027 Aerospace Cooperation Outline of the China National Space Administration and the Russian State Space Corporation.

-- Support the coordinated cooperation of the International Lunar Research Station and the planned China-Russia lunar exploration mission, and implement the Memorandum of Understanding between the China National Space Administration and the Russian State Space Corporation on Cooperation in the Construction of a Lunar Power Station for the International Lunar Research Station.

-- Continue to strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation in the field of satellite navigation. Promote a higher degree of compatibility and interoperability between the Beidou system (北斗系统) and the GLONASS system and their services and augmentation systems, strengthen joint monitoring and evaluation of service performance, user information support and application development when using the two systems at the same time, so as to improve the quality and reliability of civil navigation services of the two systems, and apply them more widely in various economic sectors of the two countries.

IV.

The two sides emphasized that the current China-Russia investment cooperation maintains a good development momentum, which plays an important role in deepening China-Russia practical cooperation. The two sides are willing to steadily promote enterprises to increase investment cooperation, further stimulate the vitality of local investment cooperation, and continuously improve the quality and efficiency of investment cooperation. To this end, the two sides agreed to:

-- Coordinate and promote the implementation of the new version of the China-Russia Investment Cooperation Plan Outline to provide guidance for both sides to strengthen investment cooperation.

-- On the basis of the Agreement between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Russian Federation on the Promotion and Mutual Protection of Investments, create a more stable and transparent business and legal environment.
——Actively create favorable conditions to deepen cooperation in fields such as machinery and equipment, automobiles and transportation infrastructure, forestry, construction and building materials production, chemicals, light industry, mining, energy, information technology and communications, and promote the implementation of investment projects.

——Support the orderly expansion of investment cooperation in the agricultural sector, promote the improvement of the support system for agricultural investment cooperation, strengthen cooperation in important links of the agricultural production, storage, logistics, and processing industrial chain and supply chain, and support Chinese enterprises to carry out soybean, corn and other agricultural product planting investments in Russia. Both sides welcome the signing of the "Memorandum of Understanding between the National Development and Reform Commission (中华人民共和国国家发展和改革委员会) of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Economic Development (俄罗斯联邦经济发展部) of the Russian Federation on Deepening Sino-Russian Agricultural Investment Cooperation."

——Strengthen investment cooperation in the construction of digital economy infrastructure, encourage enterprises to actively participate in the digital, networked, and intelligent upgrading of traditional infrastructure, and build communication networks, computing power, and smart infrastructure. Promote investment cooperation in the field of sustainable development.

——Establish direct communication channels between automotive industry authorities and industry organizations, promote the resolution of issues such as preferential policies for corporate investment and product type approvals, and continuously deepen practical cooperation in technology, standards, and automotive and parts production investment.

——Support the work of the China-Russia Investment Cooperation Committee (中俄投资合作委员会), create necessary conditions for optimizing the business environment in China and Russia, and promote advanced experience.

Five

Both sides positively evaluate the new progress made in Sino-Russian financial cooperation and are willing to continue to leverage the potential of the Financial Cooperation Sub-Committee and the Sino-Russian Finance Ministers' Dialogue to further strengthen cooperation between the financial sectors of both countries. To this end, the two sides agreed to:

——Maintain progress made in local currency settlement.

——Steadily promote practical cooperation between China and Russia in the banking sector and capital markets to better serve the healthy and stable development of the two countries' economies and capital markets.

——Continue to support cooperation between credit rating agencies of the two countries.

——Support further cooperation between the two sides in the fields of insurance and reinsurance to promote trade and tourism development between the two sides.

——Continue to leverage the role of existing financial cooperation mechanisms between the two countries, strengthen communication and coordination of macroeconomic policies, deepen cooperation between China and Russia in the fields of customs, taxation, and finance, continue to promote multilateral and bilateral financial cooperation processes, and promote the reform of the global economic governance system to keep pace with the times.

——On the basis of mutual recognition of Sino-Russian accounting standards, auditing standards, and audit supervision equivalence, do a good job in relevant work for Chinese and Russian investors to enter each other's financial markets in accordance with market principles and laws and regulations.

——Further optimize retail payment services for Chinese and Russian citizens to ensure the development of cross-border retail payments and the tourism industry.

——Recognize the important significance of cooperation between financial think tanks and continue to support the Chinese Academy of Fiscal Sciences (中国财政科学研究院) and the Financial Research Institute of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation (俄罗斯联邦财政部财政研究所), and the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation (俄罗斯联邦政府财政金融大学) to strengthen exchanges and mutual visits within the framework of cooperation agreements, conduct academic discussions on issues of common concern, and promote innovative development.

——Deepen cooperation within the framework of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank Group, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and the New Development Bank, and continue to promote cooperation in the financial channels of the G20, BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and APEC.

——Continue to maintain communication and cooperation in the field of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing, especially within the framework of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (EAG).

Both sides firmly believe that it is absolutely necessary to adhere to international obligations regarding the immunity enjoyed by relevant countries and their property. Confiscation, freezing, or any other use of sovereign assets without the consent of the owner is a serious violation of the basic principle of sovereign equality of all countries and undermines the stability of the global financial order.

Six

Both sides highly appreciate the fruitful results achieved in Sino-Russian energy cooperation, will further tap the potential of energy cooperation, continue to consolidate the comprehensive energy partnership, consolidate and deepen the all-round, wide-ranging, and deep-level energy cooperation pattern, jointly maintain national, regional, and global energy security, promote access to affordable, reliable, and sustainable modern energy for all, and promote a just and balanced global energy transition. To this end, the two sides agreed to:

——Support enterprises of the two countries to deepen cooperation in energy fields such as oil, natural gas, coal, and electricity, continue to promote the interconnection of energy infrastructure, and jointly ensure the safe and stable operation of cross-border energy channels.

——Strengthen cooperation in emerging fields such as renewable energy, low-carbon energy, hydrogen energy, energy storage, and carbon capture, carbon utilization, and carbon sequestration systems.

——Continue to advance the Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant (田湾核电站) and Xudabao Nuclear Power Plant (徐大堡核电站) construction projects to ensure that construction is completed and put into operation on schedule. On this basis, deepen cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy, gradually promote cooperation in the fields of thermonuclear fusion, fast reactors, and closed nuclear fuel cycle, and explore cooperation in the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle and new nuclear power project construction through a "package" approach based on the principles of mutual benefit and win-win and balanced interests.

——Continuously consolidate the stability of the global energy market and expand the dialogue between energy producing and consuming countries. Support ensuring open, fair competition, non-discrimination, and free energy markets.

——Continuously strengthen cooperation between the China National Nuclear Safety Administration (中国国家核安全局) and the Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service of Russia (俄罗斯联邦环境、工业与核监督局) in the field of nuclear safety supervision.

——Support the holding of the 7th Sino-Russian Energy Business Forum in 2025 to further expand practical cooperation between enterprises of the two countries.

Seven

Both sides believe that cultural and people-to-people cooperation between the two countries is of great significance for promoting the development of bilateral relations, and express satisfaction with the fruitful cooperation results achieved by the two countries in counterpart cooperation in various fields, and will continue to deepen the above-mentioned cooperation. To this end, the two sides agreed to:

——Further expand two-way study abroad, provide good learning conditions for students from both countries, encourage high-quality inter-school cooperation, conduct high-level joint training of talents and scientific research cooperation, support the construction of the Sino-Russian Basic Science Research Institute, continue to leverage the platform role of the Sino-Russian University Alliance and the Middle School Alliance, promote the establishment of the Sino-Russian Vocational Education Alliance, support Chinese teaching in Russia and Russian teaching in China, and enhance exchanges between young students.

——Highly appreciate the achievements of the 2024-2025 Sino-Russian Year of Culture and will continue to deepen exchanges and cooperation between the two countries in the fields of literary and artistic performances, museums, libraries, and cultural heritage protection. Actively implement the "Cooperation Plan between the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国文化和旅游部) and the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation (俄罗斯联邦文化部) for 2024-2027," continue to hold national cultural festivals, library forums, and Sino-Russian cultural fairs, the Moscow "Happy Chinese New Year," the Beijing "Sending Winter Festival," and jointly support activities such as the "International Sight" International Music Competition.

——Deepen cooperation in the health field, and encourage Chinese and Russian experts to carry out cooperation in the fields of infectious disease and tumor prevention and treatment, nuclear medicine development, maternal and child health care, ophthalmology, psychiatry, and traditional medicine.

——Highly affirm the work carried out by the Sino-Russian Medical University Alliance and will promote medical education cooperation, including at the medical school level. Strengthen cooperation in innovative fields of medical science such as telemedicine and artificial intelligence technology applications. Implement the Memorandum of Understanding on Medical Digital Transformation Cooperation between the National Health Commission of China (中国国家卫生健康委员会) and the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (俄罗斯联邦卫生部).

——Promote regulatory cooperation on the circulation of medicines and medical products, including carrying out exchanges on pharmacopoeia standards.

——Continue to regularly hold practical exercises and international conferences for disaster medicine professionals.

——Jointly strengthen dialogue and cooperation on health issues in multilateral platforms (including the World Health Organization, APEC, BRICS, G20, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization), and jointly oppose attempts to politicize health issues. Support each other's initiatives in the health field as much as possible.

——Strengthen cooperation between the National Disease Prevention and Control Administration of China (中国国家疾病预防控制局), the General Administration of Customs (海关总署), and the Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (俄罗斯消费者保护和公益监督署) in ensuring health and epidemic prevention and safety and preventing cross-border transmission.

——Strengthen communication and coordination on negotiations on the establishment of a "Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing System" on international platforms such as the World Health Organization, jointly enhance pandemic prevention and response capabilities, and strengthen cooperation in the field of biosafety.

——Continue the fruitful results of the 2022-2023 Sino-Russian Sports Exchange Year and continue to strengthen exchanges in the sports field, including traditional projects. The two sides agreed to focus on the training of reserve talents in competitive sports, continue to hold Sino-Russian Youth Games, joint training and friendly matches, promote local active sports cooperation, and promote the common development of sports in China and Russia. Highly appreciate the successful holding of the 4th Sino-Russian Winter Youth Games by the Russian side in January 2025, and the successful convening of the 4th Meeting of Sports Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Member States by the Chinese side in May 2025.

——Appreciate China's decision to implement a unilateral visa-free policy for Russian citizens on a trial basis and Russia's temporary visa-free policy for Chinese citizens on a reciprocal basis. The two sides will work together to further improve the level of facilitation of personnel exchanges between the two countries.

——Affirm the positive trend of increasing mutual visits by tourists, will promote further improvement of tourism infrastructure, improve the quality of tourism services, optimize the tourism experience, and create more attractive tourism routes.

——Continue to promote comprehensive and in-depth cooperation in the media field, including strengthening news reporting cooperation, opposing the spread of false information, supporting traditional moral values, and supporting each other on issues involving each other's core interests and major concerns. Implement the "Agreement between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Russian Federation on Cooperation in the Production of Television Programs," strengthen the exchange and joint production of audio-visual content, copyright trade, and cooperative dissemination. Reciprocally ensure good working conditions for Chinese and Russian journalists, continue to jointly enhance the protection of them, and defend the professional rights and diversity of mass media, including in the international professional field. Promote the translation and publication of Chinese and Russian books and participate in international book fairs held by each other. Hold more large-scale media events, strengthen professional dialogue, and carry out cooperation and mutual support within the framework of global and regional news alliances.

——Effectively implement the "Agreement between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Russian Federation on Cooperation in the Production of Films" and the "Action Plan between the China National Film Administration (中国国家电影局) and the Ministry of Culture of Russia (俄罗斯文化部) on Cooperation in the Production of Films before 2030" by promoting joint film production projects. Encourage the mutual holding of film festivals and animation film week activities and support the joint production of films. Actively participate in international film festivals held by each other's countries. The Chinese side supports the Russian side in establishing the "Eurasian Film Open Award" and forming the Eurasian Film Academy.

——Expand cooperation in the field of archives, promote the implementation of joint projects, including publishing archive compilations, holding historical archive exhibitions, exchanging experience in archive work, exchanging archive copies of interest to both parties, agreeing on the "Work Outline of the Sino-Russian Humanities Cooperation Committee Archives Cooperation Sub-Committee for 2026-2030" and carrying out activities within its framework.

——Strengthen cooperation in the youth field, including youth entrepreneurship, volunteer services, creative industries, and patriotic education. Promote local departments and non-profit organizations to expand practical exchanges. Jointly advocate youth priority development in multilateral platforms such as the United Nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and BRICS.

Eight

Both sides attach great importance to and welcome the positive development of cooperation between Chinese and Russian regions and border areas in the fields of economy, trade, investment, and culture, support exchanges between cities, further expand the geographical scope, areas involved, and scale of cooperation, and further improve the legal and regulatory basis for cooperation between the two sides. To this end, the two sides agreed to:

——Implement the consensus reached at the meeting between the two chairmen of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Committee between Northeast China and the Far East Region of Russia, and enrich and expand the geographical scope and content of "Northeast China-Russian Far East + " cooperation.

——Promote the implementation of the consensus reached at the Fifth Meeting of the Local Cooperation Council between the Upper and Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River in China and the Volga Federal District in Russia.

——Further tap the potential of two-way trade between the two countries' regions, enrich and innovate cooperation forms, and promote the development of cross-border e-commerce, border trade, and service trade.

——Create stable and good policy conditions for enterprises of the two countries to invest and start businesses in each other's provinces and states, and deepen cooperation in the field of production.

——Support the docking of economic parks in the two countries, actively study mutually beneficial cooperation within the framework of preferential policies in the Russian Far East and Arctic regions, and promote investment and trade exchanges.

——Study feasible solutions for carrying out mutually beneficial cooperation within the framework of the Russian Far East International Advanced Development Zone.

——Use the preferential policies of the Russian International Advanced Development Zone to promote the construction of a Sino-Russian agricultural cooperation experimental demonstration zone in the Russian Far East.

——Strengthen joint protection and development cooperation on Heihe Island (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island) (黑瞎子岛(大乌苏里岛)), promote the implementation of the "Implementation Roadmap for the Joint Protection and Development Plan of Heihe Island," accelerate the construction of ports, and strive to put them into use as soon as possible.

——Support the advancement of the Zabaikalsk Grain Storage and Transportation Station project, and the two sides will work hard to enhance Russia's export potential of grain and beans to China.

——Accelerate the advancement of the Manchuria-Zabaikalsk cross-border section standard gauge double-track project to enhance cross-border railway transportation capacity.

——Support the implementation of joint projects within the framework of the "Russian" Island Science and Technology Innovation Center in Primorsky Krai, and explore the use of the center's preferential policies to carry out cooperation in innovation and high-tech fields such as marine, biotechnology, and communication technology.

——Support the establishment and development of friendship city relations between regions of the two countries to release the development potential of China and Russia.

——Support both sides in establishing partnerships and friendship city relations in the cultural field through channels such as the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (中国人民对外友好协会) and the All-Russian Association for the Development of Local Self-Government.

Nine

Both sides emphasized that the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind and a series of global initiatives such as global governance initiatives proposed by China have important and positive significance. The Chinese side positively evaluates the "Eurasian Security Architecture" initiative proposed by the Russian side.

The two sides will continue to promote the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" and the Greater Eurasian Partnership in parallel, coordinate development, and promote dialogue between regional international organizations such as the Eurasian Economic Union, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and ASEAN.

The two sides will continue to promote the in-depth docking of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" and the construction of the Eurasian Economic Union, comprehensively implement the "Agreement on Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and the Eurasian Economic Union," continue to promote trade and investment facilitation, and consolidate cooperation results.

Both sides emphasized that unilateral mandatory measures taken by any country or group of countries bypassing the UN Security Council resolutions are illegal, violate the UN Charter and other international law norms, and are unacceptable and cannot be recognized. The two sides will take all necessary efforts to carry out mutual assistance and cooperation in opposing unilateral mandatory measures. The two sides support the declaration of December 4 of each year from 2025 as the International Day against Unilateral Coercive Measures.

Both sides reiterated their willingness to jointly promote inclusive and inclusive economic globalization, strengthen partner dialogue on promoting the formation of a just world trade and monetary and financial system, coordinate positions, expand the voice and influence of emerging markets and developing countries in global economic governance, and prevent individual countries from abusing monopoly and dominant positions in individual areas of the world economy.

The Russian side will continue to participate in the work of the "Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative." The two sides will strengthen cooperation within the framework of the Global Development Initiative, continue to promote the international community to focus on development issues, and accelerate the implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Both sides support consolidating the multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization (WTO) at its core, and support WTO reform, including fully restoring the operation of the WTO dispute settlement mechanism and improving the decision-making mechanism, in order to improve the WTO's operational efficiency and authority under the current situation. Promote trade facilitation, advance the WTO rules with the times, and advocate compliance with WTO rules, especially the principles of non-discrimination and transparency. Oppose protectionism and unilateral coercive measures that violate WTO rules and principles, jointly safeguard the security and stability and sustainable development of global industrial and supply chains, and promote the construction of a more open, inclusive, transparent, and non-discriminatory international trade environment. Jointly promote the achievement of important consensus at the 14th WTO Ministerial Conference to be held in Cameroon (喀麦隆) in March 2026.

The two sides agreed to strengthen coordination within the framework of the United Nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织), BRICS, the G20, and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), maintain the multilateral trading system, oppose unilateral bullying and protectionism, and oppose inappropriate behavior of taking unilateral coercive measures.

The two sides will continue to strengthen coordination on areas of mutual interest in the WTO agenda, including exploring relevant issues through the BRICS informal exchange mechanism.

Both sides emphasized that China and Russia will continue to strengthen collaboration within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织), including taking measures with other member states to efficiently implement the "Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Development Strategy for the Next 10 Years (2026-2035)" and deeply promote the process of improving the work of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织).

The two sides believe that upgrading the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织) mechanism for responding to security threats and challenges is of particular importance, and support the early entry into force of the relevant agreements of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织) Comprehensive Center for Responding to Security Threats and Challenges and the Anti-Drug Center.

China and Russia will follow the declaration adopted by the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织) member states (September 1, 2025, Tianjin (天津)), and promote economic and trade cooperation within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织) in accordance with the consensus reached in the document on sustainable energy development, digital economy, green industry, artificial intelligence, science, and innovation cooperation, and other fields.

The two sides emphasized the importance of implementing the decision of the relevant member states on the establishment of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织) Development Bank in the Tianjin Declaration of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织) member states, and agreed to closely coordinate and take joint actions to accelerate consultations on a series of issues related to the operation of the financial institution.

The Chinese side supports the work of the Russian side as the host country of the meeting of the Council of Heads of Government (Prime Ministers) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织) member states, and is willing to work with other Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织) member states to support the Russian side in successfully holding the meeting of the Council of Heads of Government (Prime Ministers) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织) member states in Moscow (莫斯科) on November 17-18, 2025, to ensure that the meeting is fruitful, jointly promote the sustainable economic development of member states, and deepen cultural exchanges.

The two sides positively evaluated the results of the meeting of the Ministers of Economy and Trade of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织) member states hosted by the Russian side (September 6, 2025, Vladivostok (符拉迪沃斯托克)), and reiterated their continued support for the series of consensus between the two sides in enhancing the stability of industrial and supply chains, consolidating the multilateral trading system, developing e-commerce, and promoting innovation and technological leadership. The two sides have common interests in the fields of innovative economy and sustainable development, and support carrying out pragmatic cooperation within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织) around the above-mentioned fields.

The two sides are willing to continue to strengthen communication and coordination within the BRICS framework, implement the consensus of previous leaders' meetings, expand BRICS outreach dialogues and "BRICS+" cooperation, and safeguard the common interests of emerging markets and developing countries.

The two sides are willing to deepen economic, trade, and investment cooperation in accordance with the "BRICS Economic Partnership Strategy," focusing on opposing unilateral coercive measures, supporting the development of small and medium-sized enterprises and special economic zones, and promoting efficient collaboration in areas such as the digital economy, climate agenda, and tourism.

The two sides regard the G20 as a major economic forum and are willing to continue to strengthen collaboration within the G20 framework, promote the establishment of a multipolar international landscape, formulate balanced and consensual solutions to address important economic and financial challenges, promote the fair reform of the global governance system, and enhance the voice and representation of the Global South in the international system. The two sides are willing to continue to consolidate the achievements made by the BRICS countries during their G20 presidencies (2022-2025), and strongly support South Africa (南非) as the rotating presidency in successfully hosting the G20 summit (November 22-23, 2025, Johannesburg (约翰内斯堡)).

The two sides will strengthen pragmatic cooperation in the fields of trade and investment, transportation, energy, tourism, and environment within the framework of the Greater Tumen Initiative.

The two sides will strengthen cooperation with ASEAN, support ASEAN's central role in the regional architecture, and strengthen coordination and cooperation within regional frameworks such as the East Asia Summit and the ASEAN Regional Forum to maintain regional peace, stability, and prosperity.

The two sides will strengthen cooperation within the APEC framework, promote the implementation of the "APEC Putrajaya Vision 2040" and the "Aotearoa Plan of Action," and build an open, dynamic, resilient, and peaceful Asia-Pacific community by 2040 to achieve the common prosperity of the people and future generations of the Asia-Pacific region. The two sides will continue to assist each other in discussions on economic and trade issues and the promotion of pragmatic initiatives and cooperation. The Russian side congratulates the Chinese side on successfully taking over during the 2025 APEC Leaders' Meeting and reiterates its support for the Chinese side as the host of APEC in 2026. The two sides will work together to promote the complete success of the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting.

The two sides will firmly safeguard the inalienable right of all countries, especially developing countries, to peacefully use science and technology, promote the comprehensive and effective implementation of the UN General Assembly resolution "Promoting International Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in the Context of International Security," to ensure balanced security interests and development rights, and oppose the use of international non-proliferation mechanisms to promote illegal unilateral restrictions and technological containment.

The two sides will continue to strengthen communication and collaboration on addressing climate change within the framework of the China-Russia Climate Change Liaison Group and at various multilateral levels (BRICS, G20, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织)), based on the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, consider different national conditions, promote all parties to fully, completely, and effectively implement the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Paris Agreement, and achieve global energy transition and sustainable economic and social development, including adaptation to climate change, carbon market development, and the application of low-emission technologies without undermining national energy security and socio-economic development priorities.

The two sides emphasized that measures taken to address climate change, including unilateral measures, should not become arbitrary or unjustified means of discrimination or disguised restrictions in international trade. The two sides agreed to coordinate efforts to improve people's well-being, coordinate multiple goals such as protecting the environment, addressing climate change, developing the economy, creating jobs, and eliminating poverty, and jointly promote a just global transition.

The two sides called for joint efforts to address traditional and new security challenges and threats such as terrorism, extremism, and drug trafficking.

Ten

The following documents were signed within the framework of the 30th Regular Meeting between the Prime Ministers of China and Russia:

-- Joint Communiqué of the 30th Regular Meeting between the Prime Ministers of China and Russia

-- Minutes of the 12th Meeting of the China-Russia Investment Cooperation Committee

-- Minutes of the 22nd Meeting of the China-Russia Energy Cooperation Committee

-- Minutes of the 29th Meeting of the China-Russia Prime Ministers' Regular Meeting Committee

-- Minutes of the 26th Meeting of the China-Russia Committee on Humanitarian Cooperation

-- Protocol on Revising the Agreement on Cooperation in Risk Management Signed on November 1, 2017, between the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China and the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation

-- Protocol on Adding Supplementary Provisions to the Protocol on Cooperation between the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China and the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation on Preventing Illicit Trafficking of Nuclear Materials and Radioactive Substances across the China-Russia Border (October 13, 2014)

-- Protocol between the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China and the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision of the Russian Federation on Phytosanitary Requirements for the Export of Russian Mung Beans to China

-- Protocol between the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China and the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision of the Russian Federation on Phytosanitary Requirements for the Export of Russian Wheat Bran to China

-- Joint Statement between the China Satellite Navigation System Committee and the Russian State Space Corporation on the Implementation Results of the Roadmap for Cooperation between China and Russia in the Field of Satellite Navigation from 2021 to 2025

-- Roadmap for Cooperation between China and Russia in the Field of Satellite Navigation from 2026 to 2030

-- Memorandum of Understanding between the National Development and Reform Commission of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation on Deepening China-Russia Agricultural Investment Cooperation

-- Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Transport of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation on the Training of Professionals for Ships Operating in Polar Waters

-- Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation on Cooperation in the Prevention and Control of Pests such as Potato Beetles, Locusts, Meadow Moths, and Armyworms

-- Memorandum of Cooperation between China Media Group (中国中央广播电视总台) and Russian Mobile Telecommunications Media

The two sides agreed that the 31st Regular Meeting between the Prime Ministers of China and Russia will be held in 2026, and the specific time, location, and form will be agreed upon separately through diplomatic channels.

This joint communiqué was jointly signed by Premier Li Qiang (李强) of the State Council of the People's Republic of China and Prime Minister Mishustin (米舒斯京) of the Government of the Russian Federation.

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), November 4)

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Warmly Celebrate the Opening of the 8th China International Import Expo

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Counting the "Firsts" of the CIIE

By: 本报记者 吴 焰 黄晓慧 崔 寅

The 8th China International Import Expo (CIIE) opened at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) (国家会展中心（上海）) on November 5th. From the initial establishment of the world's first national-level exhibition platform themed on imports in 2018, to the first establishment of a "exhibitors become investors" zone and the innovative launch of a digital CIIE platform to help global companies accurately connect with the Chinese market, the CIIE has always adhered to the concept of openness and win-win cooperation, constantly breaking through innovation, and continuously bringing surprises to global exhibitors and visitors.

The exhibition scale of this year's CIIE has reached a new high, with richer and more diverse exhibition area settings and content presentations. New products, new technologies, and new services are intensively launched, helping the Chinese market become a testing ground, profit center, and application field for global innovation.

First Special Zone for Least Developed Countries, More and More New Faces

Let China's needs resonate with the world's expectations. The opening of the Chinese market has both strength and warmth.

In order to expand unilateral opening up to the least developed countries, China has shown real sincerity: this year's CIIE has created a special zone for products from the least developed countries for the first time. There are 163 companies from the least developed countries, an increase of 23.5% year-on-year. Not only has the African product zone been expanded to support African countries that have diplomatic relations with China to make full use of relevant tariff policies, but also provides some free booths and tax incentives for the retention of exhibits, providing comprehensive support for exhibitors from the least developed countries.

This year's CIIE will hold the Global South Forum on multiple topics for the first time. The Hongqiao Forum will also focus on "Enhancing the Economic Resilience of the Global South" and "Sustainable Agricultural Development of the Global South" for the first time, and release the "World Openness Report 2025" and the latest World Openness Index, focusing on the role of openness in promoting the industrialization process of the Global South.

On the afternoon of November 1st, a plush toy store named "Warm Alpaca" opened in the Galeries Lafayette in Lujiazui (陆家嘴), Pudong (浦东), Shanghai (上海). The brand founder, Isabela SzeA, came from Peru to cheer for the new store. She also has an important task on this trip - to attend the CIIE. As an old friend of the CIIE, Isabela SzeA has appeared at the CIIE almost every year. She and her Chinese partner, Ma Yuxia (马玉霞), have successfully helped more than 200 Peruvian artisan families get rid of poverty through alpaca toy orders at the CIIE. In June of this year, she brought this warm CIIE story to the United Nations Office at Geneva, sharing her personal feelings about China's assistance in implementing the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with the world.

Through the CIIE platform, companies from the least developed countries have gained unprecedented development opportunities. Shanghai Effe Import and Export Co., Ltd. witnessed the CIIE growth story of Ethiopian coffee: from importing one or two containers a year at the beginning, to now more than 100 containers and more than 2,000 tons a year, these "hope beans" from Africa have gained a firm foothold in the Chinese mid-to-high-end market.

The jute industry in Bangladesh has also been activated. As one of the pillars of the Bangladeshi economy, jute products have been upgraded from traditional sack processing to high value-added products such as carpets, handbags, and home decorations with the help of the CIIE. DADA Company, a Bangladeshi company, has developed from a small and micro enterprise with only 10 employees to a well-known enterprise with more than 2,000 employees through continuous participation in the exhibition, with an annual increase in orders of more than 20%.

Luambia, the Permanent Representative of Zambia to the United Nations Office at Geneva and other international organizations in Switzerland, said: "The CIIE helps promote the development of African countries. For the least developed countries, it is of great significance to enter the global market and participate in international trade." Nurul Sofia, the Permanent Representative of Indonesia to the United Nations Office at Geneva and other international organizations in Switzerland, said: "We look forward to working with China to achieve economic growth." These sincere voices are a high affirmation of the value of the CIIE as an international public good.

More and more CIIE stories show the world that the open Chinese market is full of equal, inclusive, and mutually beneficial development opportunities. Every participant, regardless of the size of the country's economy or the distance between them, can share the dividends of development.

First "Charming Friendship Cities" Special Zone, Expanding Circle of Friends

This year's CIIE innovatively created an international friendship city joint exhibition and added a "Charming Friendship Cities" special zone. Wu Zhengping (吴政平), Deputy Director of the China International Import Expo Bureau (中国国际进口博览局), introduced that a total of 67 countries and international organizations participated in the national exhibition of the 8th CIIE. The exhibitors will present industries and fields with high development levels and great cooperation potential in relevant countries through distinctive booth designs and rich and novel display forms, highlighting the unique charm of their respective cultures.

At the same time, this year's CIIE has expanded cooperation with foreign provinces and cities. Saskatchewan (萨斯喀彻温省), Canada, and Almaty (阿拉木图市), Kazakhstan, will be stationed for the first time. New domestic and foreign friendly city cooperation themes have been added to create special joint booths, build an all-round display platform for Chinese and foreign friendship cities, and further broaden the bridge for Sino-foreign cooperation and mutual learning of civilizations.

Pálinka fruit spirits exude fruity fragrance, chili powder and honey bring local kitchen flavors, and then paired with Liszt's piano music and Petőfi's poems, full of exotic customs... This is an immersive cultural experience space jointly created by Dezhou (德州), Shandong (山东), and its friendly city, Kisújszállás (皇宫堡市), Hungary, at the CIIE.

In addition to international city "reception rooms", the CIIE will also focus on showcasing "China Time-honored Brands" (中华老字号), intangible cultural heritage, as well as local humanities, economy and trade, industrial development, and local customs, making the CIIE a window for various provinces to display and promote themselves to the outside world and expand economic and trade cooperation.

In the CIIE Excellent Products Exhibition Area, exhibits such as the "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" (清明上河图) brick carving and the original model of the Yingxian Wooden Pagoda (应县木塔) in Shanxi (山西) fully demonstrate the beauty of traditional Chinese craftsmanship; the CIIE Food Fair allows visitors to travel around the world on the tip of their tongues, incorporating local delicacies such as Guizhou (贵州) crispy pork cracklings, Lanzhou (兰州) beef noodles, and Liuzhou (柳州) river snail rice noodles; in the CIIE Art Fair activities, featured programs from different countries appear on the same stage... Friendship cities are an important link to promote mutual learning among civilizations and promote mutually beneficial cooperation, and friendship city cooperation also lays a solid foundation for the continuous upgrading of the CIIE. At the CIIE, more friendship city stories will be heard and urban charm will be discovered.

First Launch and Debut Continue to Update, New Scenarios Echo New Consumption Concepts

The world's first family companion robot provides emotional companionship and safety monitoring for the elderly; the world's first small-diameter controllable expansion vascular stent, new pharmaceutical-specific X-ray machine, artificial intelligence hearing aid and other debut new products bring new choices for related fields... Wu Zhengping (吴政平) introduced that in the exhibition area planning of this year's CIIE, more attention is paid to cutting-edge leadership, setting up six major exhibition areas: medical equipment and healthcare, automobiles and smart travel, technical equipment, consumer goods, agricultural and food products, and service trade, as well as an innovation incubation zone; at the same time, actively responding to consumption concepts such as the ice and snow economy and the silver economy, and innovatively creating highlight sections such as the CIIE Sports Park and the International Automobile Culture Exhibition Area.

At the CIIE, Greenhealth first decorated its main booth with a New Zealand theme and set up a second booth in the CIIE Cultural and Creative Museum. This company mainly produces innovative oral care products such as toothpaste and toothbrushes made from green and environmentally friendly raw materials. It only entered the Chinese market in 2018 when the first CIIE was held, and has gained a firm foothold in the Chinese market with continuous innovation.

More and more companies like Greenhealth are capturing new trends in the Chinese consumer market at the CIIE, and by setting up relevant theme exhibition areas and holding promotion activities, they are focusing on showcasing new scenarios that fit new consumption concepts.

The first launch and debut increase the new supply of consumption. In Zhangyuan (张园), Jing'an District (静安区), Shanghai (上海), Sun Fei (孙菲), Deputy General Manager of Jingan Real Estate, introduced that relying on the operation service platform of the special bonded warehouse, some jewelry exhibits in the exhibition hall of the 8th CIIE can be "moved" to the Zhangyuan special bonded warehouse for extension, allowing more consumers to taste or purchase global fine products through the "second site" of the CIIE.

In addition to Shanghai (上海), the city where the CIIE is held, various places will also mobilize local domestic trendy products and time-honored enterprises to increase the launch of new products. Beijing (北京) will hold a global first launch festival to launch domestic trendy products and intelligent technology first launch stations; Chongqing (重庆) will hold an international fashion week to launch dozens of mulberry silk products, showcasing exquisite traditional skills and cutting-edge silk technology... One high-quality supply after another connects and stimulates domestic new demand, moving from the CIIE site to the national market, providing strong momentum for expanding new consumption growth points.

First "Cross-border E-commerce Preferred Platform", Exhibit Traffic Becomes "Retention"

The "Cross-border E-commerce Preferred Platform" and "Cross-border E-commerce Service Area" established for the first time this year have brightened the eyes of new and old friends of the CIIE. Solidify the selection meetings of important buyers in subdivided fields, create special events for e-commerce platforms, new retail channel providers, etc., rely on the digital CIIE platform to achieve intelligent matching, and help overseas exhibits accurately connect with the Chinese market.

Hunan Yufei Industrial Investment Co., Ltd. brought more than 140 African specialty commodities from 13 African small and medium-sized enterprises to the CIIE this time. Yang Yi (杨翼), Chairman of the company, introduced that in the past, some overseas small and medium-sized enterprise brands, although holding "hidden champion" products or unique "small and beautiful" commodities, often hesitated outside the Chinese market due to market information asymmetry, high channel construction costs, and complex compliance procedures.

Capturing this pain point, the CIIE innovatively created a cross-border e-commerce preferred platform. This platform is a joint service hub jointly built by domestic mainstream e-commerce platforms, large supply chain enterprises, and comprehensive service providers, providing one-stop solutions from market access consultation, digital marketing, cross-border logistics to channel landing.

Jams from Egypt, olive oil from Tunisia, handmade soaps from Syria... With the help of the CIIE, Tmall International platform has introduced many niche origin brands. Behind these distinctive commodities are small and medium-sized enterprises eager to share China's development opportunities.

Introducing new traffic, the key is to transform it into sustainable development "retention". The preferred platform not only promotes on-site orders, but also is committed to building a long-term cooperation mechanism. Many domestic buyers have brought a full set of localization plans covering product design, brand positioning, and marketing strategies to help overseas brands truly take root in China.

Huang Yixi (黄祎茜), the relevant person in charge of Tmall International, introduced that for small and medium-sized high-quality new brands, Tmall International has launched a shared deposit measure, reducing the deposit for these brand flagship stores by 50% to reduce the entry threshold and operating costs for overseas brands. Through institutional opening up and business model innovation, China is constantly breaking down the barriers of cross-border trade and creating a market-oriented, rule-of-law, and international business environment for global small and medium-sized enterprises.

"China has more than 400 million middle-income groups, and the trend of consumption upgrading is obvious. Global high-quality commodities and services can share the Chinese market." Lao Guoling (劳帼龄), a distinguished researcher at the Institute of Chinese-style Modernization of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Director of the E-commerce Research Center, said that through the cross-border e-commerce preferred platform and the cross-border e-commerce service area, more small and medium-sized enterprises have the opportunity to participate in the global value chain and share the dividends of China's super-large-scale market, which is the most direct interpretation of China's opportunities.

From coming in to selling out, from trying it out to taking root, the CIIE cross-border e-commerce preferred platform has opened up a new navigation route for global small and medium-sized enterprises to pour into the Chinese blue ocean. A more open China is sharing opportunities and developing together with enterprises from all over the world, especially dynamic small and medium-sized enterprises, with its huge market advantages and innovative practices.

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Answering the World's Questions with the "New" of the Expo (Editor's Observation)

By: 北 纬

Currently, the world is undergoing accelerated changes unseen in a century, and the international situation is intertwined with turmoil. The eighth China International Import Expo (中国国际进口博览会), which has arrived as scheduled, continues to convey a definite message of openness to the world with multiple "firsts" and "debuts." These "new aspects of the Expo" demonstrate China's determination to proactively expand opening up and inject valuable stability into global cooperation and development.

The "new" lies in greater inclusiveness, allowing more partners to share opportunities. This year's Expo has created a special zone for products from the least developed countries for the first time, providing them with a fast track to the Chinese market; it has expanded the exhibition area for African countries and regions, giving the African continent, which is rich in resources but relatively underdeveloped in industrialization, more opportunities for display. Handicrafts from the least developed countries, agricultural products from Africa, etc., enter the huge Chinese market through the Expo, reflecting China's determination to promote the construction of an inclusive economic globalization.

The "new" lies in more convenient connectivity, making trade channels smoother. In line with the development trend of the digital economy, this year's Expo has pioneered the "Cross-border E-commerce Preferred Platform" to help more overseas small and medium-sized businesses reach Chinese consumers at lower costs and higher efficiency, achieving seamless connection of "buying globally and selling globally." This innovation in trade models not only enhances the effectiveness of the Expo itself, but also explores a new paradigm for future global trade.

The "new" lies in a more comfortable experience, making cooperation and exchanges more in-depth. As the host, Shanghai (上海) is fully providing service guarantees for the Expo, closely focusing on the requirement of "making it better and better." A more intelligent online supply and procurement hall, a more efficient centralized signing hall, more precise docking services, and the accompanying holding of hundreds of "Shanghai Meetings" make the connection between exhibitors and buyers more precise and efficient, allowing exhibitors to become potential investors. Continuously optimized details reflect the Expo's profound transformation from "exhibition" to "transaction" and from "display" to "cooperation."

"Adhere to 'holding hands' instead of 'letting go', and 'extending the chain' instead of 'breaking the chain'." From the first to the eighth Expo, the Expo's "circle of friends" continues to expand, and the "spillover effect" continues to magnify, which is a vivid interpretation of "sharing China's opportunities." Through the "better and better" Expo, China is using actions to show the world that no matter how the external situation changes, China's determination to expand high-level opening up will not change, its determination to share development opportunities with the world will not change, and its determination to promote economic globalization towards a more open, inclusive, universally beneficial, balanced, and win-win direction will not change. This responsibility of providing certainty in uncertainty is the most valuable aspect of the Expo at present.

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China's Big Market, World's Big Opportunity

By: 本报记者 罗珊珊 田 泓

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Holding the China International Import Expo is a major decision made by China to promote a new round of high-level opening up to the outside world, and a major initiative for China to proactively open its market to the world." The Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed to expand high-level opening up to the outside world and create a new situation of win-win cooperation.

From November 5th to 10th, the 8th CIIE will be held in Shanghai (上海), with the participation of 155 countries, regions, and international organizations, and 4,108 overseas companies exhibiting, with an overall exhibition area of over 430,000 square meters, setting a new record in scale.

International Procurement –

Filling the "Shopping Cart" for Consumption Upgrading

Backed by the huge Chinese market, the first seven CIIEs have accumulated intended transactions exceeding $500 billion.

As the world's first national-level exhibition themed on imports, the CIIE not only fills the "shopping cart" for driving consumption upgrades but also allows many Chinese companies to stand at a higher position in the global supply chain.

"Through the CIIE procurement platform, the company not only incubated the New Zealand Shengbei imported goat milk powder brand but also cultivated sales channels that can directly reach end customers," Le Jiayi, general manager of Shanghai Kangjian Import and Export Co., Ltd. (上海康健进出口有限公司) (hereinafter referred to as "Kangjian Company"), told reporters.

Kangjian Company used to mainly engage in the wholesale of imported infant formula milk powder. At the second CIIE, Kangjian Company discovered a New Zealand goat milk powder, which quickly gained popularity after being promoted in the Jiangsu (江苏), Zhejiang (浙江), and Shanghai (上海) markets, with a repurchase rate ranking among the top in the industry. When the business expanded to broader third- and fourth-tier markets, Kangjian Company found that many consumers still had the old impression that goat milk had a "strong muttony smell."

Wu Kai, a young salesperson at Kangjian Company, discovered that "moms" and middle-aged and elderly people in third- and fourth-tier cities liked to "squat" in live broadcast rooms, so he used live broadcast formats to answer questions of concern to consumers online. During the seventh CIIE, a cooperative anchor took millions of fans on a "cloud tour of the exhibition," personally testing milk powder and answering questions in real-time at the booth. On the mobile phone screen, orders flew in from Sichuan (四川), Yunnan (云南), Gansu (甘肃), and other places... In two live broadcasts, nearly 60% of new customers came from regions outside of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai.

Previously, Kangjian Company sourced a New Zealand goat milk powder company with more than 40 years of operation, which has both pastures and processing plants and is a high-quality overseas direct sourcing source. Kangjian Company is stepping up the development of new products with New Zealand and will launch them at this CIIE.

Turning China's super-large market into a shared market for the world, the CIIE has been committed to providing market, investment, and growth opportunities for all parties over the years. The 8th CIIE has specially created a "Cross-border E-commerce Selection Platform" to help overseas small and medium-sized enterprises smoothly enter the Chinese market.

At the 8th CIIE, the "buyer group" composed of 43 trading groups, more than 700 trading subgroups, and 449,500 professional visitors once again demonstrated the magnetic force of China's super-large market.

Investment Promotion –

Deepening Local Cooperation and Accelerating Innovation Synergy

With the CIIE as a link, more and more multinational companies are deeply integrating into the Chinese market, deepening local cooperation as investors, accelerating innovation synergy, and growing together with the Chinese market.

Exhibiting for eight consecutive years, Medtronic's latest medical products have almost all made their debut at the CIIE. At the first CIIE, Medtronic launched its leadless pacemaker, whose small size is only equivalent to the size of a capsule, reducing the volume by 93% compared to traditional pacemakers. This innovative design made it stand out at the exhibition, becoming a star exhibit, quickly increasing its popularity, and then successfully completing approval for listing and clinical application in China.

From exhibits to commodities, the spillover effect of the CIIE has allowed multinational companies to see the huge opportunities in the Chinese market, embark on a bridge connecting the Chinese market, and strengthen their confidence in investing in China.

In October 2021, Medtronic and Shanghai Lingang New Area (上海临港新片区) signed an investment agreement to jointly promote the landing of the Medtronic Medical Technology Industrial Base project. In June 2022, Medtronic signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Changzhou National High-Tech District (常州国家高新技术产业开发区) in Jiangsu (江苏) to build the Medtronic Kanghui Changzhou Science and Technology Park and build a high ground for the orthopedic industry.

"The CIIE is an important bridge connecting global innovation and the Chinese market. Relying on this open platform, Medtronic has successfully achieved the transformation from 'exhibitor' to 'investor' and witnessed the leap from 'bringing in' to 'going out' of innovative achievements," said Gu Yushao, Senior Vice President of Medtronic Global.

In March of this year, the intraoperative nerve monitoring system locally manufactured by Medtronic Kanghui Changzhou Science and Technology Park, through the monitoring of electroencephalogram, electromyogram, and evoked potentials, helps doctors quickly assess the patient's nerve function in real-time and has been officially put into clinical use.

At the 8th CIIE, Medtronic looks forward to continuing to use the CIIE's powerful influence and spillover effect to deepen the "global wisdom localization, Chinese innovation globalization" strategy, so that more medical technology achievements originating from China can benefit more global patients.

The CIIE, held for many years, has witnessed the local evolution of multinational companies in the Chinese market, from trade cooperation to rooted investment to innovation synergy. The opportunities in the Chinese market are not limited to its large scale and sufficient potential but also lie in its surging innovation vitality. The Chinese market is gradually becoming a testing ground, profit field, and application field for global innovation.

The 8th CIIE pays more attention to innovation sharing and will showcase 461 new products, new technologies, and new services. Global leading companies gather at the CIIE, including not only the world's top ten industrial electrical companies and the four major grain merchants, but also global leading companies in the fields of low-altitude economy and humanoid robots.

Cultural Exchange –

Trading in Goods and Services, Exchanging Culture and Ideas

"The content of the CIIE's cultural exchange activities is becoming richer and richer, and the functions are becoming more and more powerful. The exhibition area has expanded from 7,000 square meters in the first session to 38,000 square meters in the eighth session," said Liu Lei, Senior Manager of the Operation Center of the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) (国家会展中心（上海）).

The CIIE trades in goods and services and exchanges culture and ideas.

During the exhibition, the CIIE sets up a cultural stage in the central square of the "Clover" to showcase the unique humanistic and artistic styles of China and the world. Outside the exhibition period, with the help of the CIIE platform's radiation effect, 13 provinces have built long-term display windows in the "Clover" to showcase local humanistic economy and trade, industrial development, and local customs.

At the second CIIE, Jinan Yefengsu Food Co., Ltd. (济南野风酥食品有限公司) set up a pancake stall at the Shandong (山东) "Intangible Cultural Heritage" exhibition stand and unexpectedly received a cooperation order of 5 million yuan from a company under the French Lagardère Group. After that, Yefengsu, a century-old brand, expanded its business to more than 20 countries and regions, including the United States, Canada, Japan, and South Korea, accelerating its pace towards the global market.

"We have been innovating and expanding the forms and content of cultural exchanges," Liu Lei introduced. The 8th CIIE's cultural exchange display activities will add a "Charming Sister City" special area on the basis of the themes of Chinese time-honored brands, intangible cultural heritage, and national demonstration pedestrian streets, and focus on creating three major activity brands: "CIIE Food Fair," "CIIE Boutique Fair," and "CIIE Literary and Art Fair" to promote the deep integration of cultural exchange and cultural, commercial, tourism, and exhibition. According to reports, the 8th CIIE's cultural exchange display activities have 57 booths and more than 100 performance activities, the highest number in history.

The 8th CIIE will showcase the fruitful results of local cooperation between China and foreign countries for the first time. Four pairs of friendly cities from China and other countries—Nanjing (南京), Jiangsu (江苏) and Stuttgart (斯图加特), Germany; Lhasa (拉萨), Tibet (西藏) and Kathmandu (加德满都), Nepal; Dezhou (德州), Shandong (山东) and Gödöllő (皇宫堡), Hungary; Chongqing (重庆) and Düsseldorf (杜塞尔多夫), Germany—will jointly participate in the exhibition in the form of a "Twin Cities Joint Exhibition" to jointly present the diverse styles of friendly city exchanges.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the establishment of friendly city relations between Nanjing and Stuttgart. The two cities have specially customized two jerseys for the CIIE "Twin Cities Joint Exhibition"—a joint jersey of the "Su Super" Nanjing team and the Bundesliga Stuttgart team, with "Yangtze River Blue" corresponding to "Burgundy Red." "We look forward to conducting multi-faceted exchanges and cooperation with Nanjing at the CIIE exhibition stand," said Song Hansi, President of China and Asia Pacific of Stuttgart Exhibition Group, Germany.

Open Cooperation –

Better Balancing China's Needs and the World's Expectations

"If I were to summarize the CIIE with keywords, I would choose 'platform' and 'openness'," said Owen Messick, President of doTERRA China, expressing the common aspirations of many "CIIE people."

In 2018, this company participated in the first CIIE with a "try it out" mentality, and the 9-square-meter booth yielded 380 million yuan in orders. Since then, doTERRA has expanded its booth area to 300 square meters, and the order amount has climbed to more than 1 billion yuan. This time, it signed up early to participate in the 8th CIIE.

This year, doTERRA was invited to participate in the Global Development Initiative Thematic Seminar on "Helping the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - CIIE in Action" held in Geneva, Switzerland. With the help of the CIIE platform, doTERRA has stepped onto a broader international stage.

As a global leading specialty chemicals company, Evonik joins the new materials zone of the 8th CIIE. According to reports, Evonik has a series of measures to expand local production scale and increase innovation investment in China this year.

Held for many consecutive years, the CIIE has seen a constant stream of product, service, and model innovations, but what remains unchanged is the open background. Holding the CIIE is to expand opening up and cooperate with countries around the world for common development.

To better balance China's needs and the world's expectations, the 8th CIIE actively connects with countries participating in the "Belt and Road" initiative, with companies from 123 co-building countries participating in the exhibition, an increase of 23.1% year-on-year. There are 163 companies from the least developed countries, an increase of 23.5% year-on-year. At the same time, the African product zone has been expanded, and the number of African companies participating in the exhibition has increased by 80% year-on-year.

The Hongqiao Forum (虹桥论坛) is becoming an important platform for gathering international consensus and discussing new ideas for the global economic governance system. According to reports, this year's Hongqiao Forum has set up hot topics such as "Revitalizing Multilateral Cooperation," "Digital Intelligence Empowerment," "Green and Sustainable Development," and "A More Open China," fully reflecting China's firm position in safeguarding multilateralism and promoting the construction of an open world economy.

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Attending the CIIE as scheduled, creating a better future together.

By: 罗珊珊

The 8th China International Import Expo (CIIE) opened on November 5th. Since the first expo in 2018, this world's first national-level exhibition themed on imports has grown from a "一鸣惊人 (yī míng jīng rén - "a single cry amazes people," to become famous overnight)" innovative move to an annual event where "万商云集 (wàn shāng yún jí - "ten thousand merchants gather like clouds," a large gathering of merchants)."

With rising uncertainties in the current international situation, the rise of trade protectionism, and amid a century of changes, the world needs a "certain" fulcrum. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) proposed expanding high-level opening-up to the outside world and creating a new situation of win-win cooperation. The CIIE is responding to the profound questions of the times with China's (中国) certainty commitment.

Using the "certainty" of China's (中国) large market to cope with the "uncertainty" of global demand. The CIIE, with its huge and stable Chinese (中国) market demand, provides a solid "safe harbor" and "source of power" for companies from various countries to cope with international market fluctuations.

Looking at history, China (中国) has been the world's second-largest import market for 16 consecutive years. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the import of goods and services will exceed 15 trillion U.S. dollars, and the cumulative intended transaction volume of the previous seven CIIEs exceeded 500 billion U.S. dollars. Through the CIIE, companies from various countries not only sell their products to China (中国), but also deeply integrate into China's (中国) industrial chain, supply chain, and innovation chain, sharing the dividends of China's (中国) development. This market-based and sustainable economic and trade exchange provides the most stable and reliable support for coping with the "uncertainty" of global demand.

Looking at the present, the exhibition area of ​​this CIIE exceeds 367,000 square meters, with 4,108 overseas companies participating, and the exhibition area of ​​American companies has remained the first for seven consecutive years. Behind the data is the international community's firm confidence in China's (中国) economic development. China (中国) tells the world through the CIIE: demand is here, orders are here, and growth is here.

Looking at the long term, with the advancement of Chinese-style modernization, China's (中国) middle-income group will exceed 800 million in the next 10 years or more, which will release incalculable potential for consumption upgrades. The CIIE is undoubtedly the best "experience zone" for immersive experience of China's (中国) super-large market advantages.

Offsetting the "uncertainty" of the international cooperation environment with the "certainty" of open cooperation. At present, unilateralism and protectionism are surging, and the noise of "decoupling and breaking the chain" is interfering with the main theme of international cooperation. Against this background, China (中国) is holding high the banner of opening up and cooperation, and is continuously sending a clear signal to the world through a series of practical measures such as the CIIE: China's (中国) door to opening up will not be closed, but will only open wider and wider.

A series of major opening-up measures announced by China (中国) at previous CIIEs are being translated into concrete actions. From actively expanding imports to continuously reducing the negative list for foreign investment access, from protecting the legitimate rights and interests of foreign-funded enterprises to accelerating the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港), China (中国) is accelerating the promotion of institutional opening-up. This CIIE focuses on creating brands such as "Invest in China (中国)", "Purchase in China (中国)", and "Export to China (中国)", providing a stable, transparent, and predictable business environment for "exhibits becoming commodities and exhibitors becoming investors", allowing global investors to feel at ease and confidently cultivate the Chinese (中国) market.

Not only trade exchanges, but also ideological exchanges. This year's Hongqiao International Economic Forum (虹桥国际经济论坛) closely focuses on international discussions on governance issues of great concern to the international community, such as the reconstruction of the global trade order, open trade and security development, and the resilience of production and supply chains. Many innovative arrangements fully reflect China's (中国) constructive role in promoting economic globalization and improving the global economic governance system.

Resolving the "uncertainty" of global development prospects with the "certainty" of mutual benefit and win-win results. The charm of the CIIE lies not only in the realization of commercial value, but also in its moral responsibility to promote global balanced, inclusive, and sustainable development. Let the fruits of development benefit the people of all countries more and more fairly, especially providing developing countries and least developed countries with valuable opportunities to bridge the digital divide and the development gap.

The breadth, depth, and effectiveness of international participation in this CIIE have been further improved. By providing some free booths and implementing precise measures such as preferential tax policies for the retention and purchase of exhibits, support is provided to exhibitors from 37 least developed countries to help local characteristic products open up channels to enter the Chinese (中国) market and transform local natural endowments and cultural characteristics into tangible economic benefits. An alpaca doll entered the Chinese (中国) market through the CIIE, driving the income growth of many families in Peru (秘鲁). Zambian (赞比亚) honey opened up global market access through the CIIE... Similar "CIIE stories" continue to be staged, becoming a vivid footnote to the CIIE's contribution to the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.

When the world is looking for direction in uncertainty, China (中国) uses the CIIE appointment to give the answer: opening up and cooperation is the only way, and mutual benefit and win-win is the eternal theme. China (中国) is willing to work with all parties to jointly enlarge the cake of the global market, consolidate the mechanism of shared development, and invigorate the way of cooperation and win-win, so as to inject more new impetus into world economic growth.

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Volume procurement of drugs: New rules bring new changes (Frontline of People's Livelihood)

By: 本报记者 孙秀艳

Core Reading

The winning results of the eleventh batch of national centralized drug procurement organized by the state are about to be officially announced. This centralized procurement highlights rule adjustments. The new rules focus on "stabilizing clinical practice, ensuring quality, anti-involution, and preventing bid rigging." Medical institutions can report quantities by manufacturer, set "anchor prices" and revival mechanisms, guide healthy market competition, and create a good environment for the healthy development of the pharmaceutical industry.

The proposed winning results of the eleventh batch of national centralized drug procurement, which has attracted widespread social attention, concluded its public announcement on October 31. The results are about to be officially announced, and it is expected that patients will be able to use a new batch of high-quality and affordable winning drugs in February 2026.

At the Drug Centralized Procurement Declaration Information Disclosure Conference held in Shanghai (上海) on October 27, 453 products of 55 types from 272 companies obtained the proposed winning qualification. This means that since the establishment of the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局), the number of drug varieties included in the national centralized drug procurement organized by the state has increased to 490.

Before the bidding for this centralized procurement, the information of "comprehensive optimization of rules" has made the industry look forward to it. A series of principles such as "stabilizing clinical practice, ensuring quality, anti-involution, and preventing bid rigging" have made a series of adjustments from the reporting volume of medical institutions, the bidding threshold of enterprises, and the bidding and selection. Have these principles and corresponding new rules played a role and achieved the expected results? The reporter interviewed relevant people at the Drug Centralized Procurement Declaration Information Disclosure Conference.

More than 70% of the manufacturer's reported quantities were successful, and most of the mainstream enterprises with strong supply capacity and guaranteed quality were selected.

The types of drugs in this centralized procurement cover commonly used drugs and life-saving drugs for chronic diseases and major diseases, involving anti-infection, anti-tumor, anti-allergy asthma, diabetes, and cardiovascular drugs. In the past centralized procurement, when the selected drugs were implemented in hospitals, the drug manufacturer brand used by the hospital may be different from the brand used by the patient, which reduced the burden on patients but also brought some troubles.

This centralized procurement optimizes the reporting method, and medical institutions can report the quantity by generic name or by specific manufacturer brand. According to the statistics before the bidding, 77% of the quantities of 46,000 medical institutions were reported to the manufacturer brand. This is conducive to allowing more medical institutions and patients to use lower-priced drugs without changing the manufacturer brand.

From the perspective of the winning results, 75% of the medical institutions' requirements for purchasing product reporting volume have been met. Most of the mainstream enterprises with strong supply capacity and guaranteed quality were selected, and there are multiple selected enterprises supplying each region, and the selected varieties are more abundant and diverse.

Compared with price, drug quality is also of great concern. The new rules of this centralized procurement pay more attention to the quality control level of enterprises, improve the quality threshold for enterprises to bid, put forward requirements for the actual production experience of enterprises, and clarify that the bidding drugs must not have unqualified spot checks within 2 years, and the production line where they are located must not have violations of GMP ("Good Manufacturing Practice for Pharmaceutical Products") within 2 years.

"Some companies did not obtain the qualification to participate because they did not meet the above conditions, which shows that the rules for raising the quality threshold have really played a role," said the relevant person in charge of the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局). In addition, the drug supervision and management department will include the selected drugs in the scope of key supervision and inspection, realize the "two full coverage" of the inspection of the selected enterprises and the spot check of the selected products, and try to ensure the quality and safety of the centralized procurement drugs.

The "anti-involution" rules have played a certain role, and if it is lower than the cost, the enterprise rationally does not accept it.

October 27 was a long day for many manufacturer representatives who participated in the centralized procurement.

"My colleague went to line up at more than 6 o'clock in the morning, and was lucky enough to line up in a relatively forward position. We have already submitted the materials." On the morning of October 27, outside the venue, the sales负责人 of a pharmaceutical company in East China (华东地区) in Zhejiang (浙江) told reporters, "I invested in 3 varieties. I heard that if everything goes well, the results will be available in the evening. I hope it will end sooner."

According to the statistics of the National Organization Drug Joint Procurement Office (国家组织药品联合采购办公室), due to the large number of enterprises participating in this centralized procurement, the intensity of competition is much higher than in the past.

No longer simply use the lowest quotation as the only reference for price difference control, set an "anchor price" (take the higher value of "the lowest quotation" and "50% of the average winning price" as the "anchor point") to prevent extreme low-price shocks, and introduce two types of revival mechanisms, "winning revival" and "non-winning revival," to guide healthy market competition. Moreover, all bidding companies must promise not to quote below cost. For enterprises whose quotation is lower than the "anchor price," they are required to make a statement on the rationality of the quotation and explain the specific cost composition (such as manufacturing cost, period expenses, sales profit, etc.) to respond to public concerns about the quality of low-priced winning drugs. Objectively speaking, the new "anti-involution" rule of this centralized procurement has been considered relatively comprehensively.

The reporter learned during the bidding process on October 27 that the lowest winning price of many varieties was indeed lower than 50% of the average quotation. Since this centralized procurement no longer uses this type of quotation as the "anchor price" to link and restrict the winning prices of other enterprises, it ensures that drugs with a certain range higher than the lowest quotation have the opportunity to win or "revive," and the original intention of "anti-involution" has been realized to a certain extent. At the same time, the early repeated publicity and guidance of enterprises to scientifically quote prices and other measures have also played a certain role. This centralized procurement has maintained a relatively high winning rate, and the average price difference of winning products has been significantly reduced compared with previous batches, indicating that the consistency of expectations or costs of different enterprises is increasing.

Not only that, the new rules also give enterprises a little more rationality. When faced with the "revival" opportunity, some enterprises considered that the reporting volume of medical institutions was small, and even if they "revived," it would be difficult to spread the cost with a large-scale purchase volume, and rationally chose to give up.

Guide enterprises to scientifically establish projects, and prevent "involution" from the source.

At the signing site where non-winning enterprises accepted the highest winning price "revival," a representative of a quite powerful enterprise in the pharmaceutical industry told reporters that although his company could accept the winning price, the profits of many varieties selected this time were very meager.

The goal of drug centralized procurement is, on the one hand, to reduce the cost of medication for insured people, improve the efficiency of the use of medical insurance funds, pay more for the value of drugs, and consume less by drug marketing water; on the other hand, it also hopes to promote the transformation of the business model of the generic drug industry, improve market concentration, and force enterprises that used to live well by producing generic drugs to get out of the path dependence of "marketing is king" and pay more attention to the cultivation of core competitiveness such as quality and innovation. However, under the industry reality of excessive "involution" in the generic drug track, the public is inevitably worried about quality problems caused by excessively low profits of centralized procurement drugs; the industry will also be anxious about the problem of low corporate profit margins being transmitted to the innovative drug track. These situations put a lot of pressure on the centralized procurement system.

According to the selection conditions of this centralized procurement, "the number of reference preparations and generic drug companies that have passed the consistency evaluation reaches 7 or more," but in fact, there are an average of 14 companies for each variety, of which 3 varieties have more than 30 companies competing, and the most competitive variety, diprophylline injection, has 48 bidding companies... Experts at the scene commented that such competition reflects that China's pharmaceutical industry has sufficient production and supply capacity, which is conducive to forming a fully competitive market environment; on the other hand, in the case of dozens of companies competing at every turn, it is difficult to avoid the situation that individual varieties have lower quotations.

It is worth noting that last year, diprophylline injection failed to carry out centralized procurement because it did not meet the condition of more than 7 companies that had passed the evaluation. A year later, the number of certified companies suddenly increased by more than 40, which also made this variety a "involution king."

"Not only are there many companies that hold certificates for production themselves, but some companies do not produce themselves and entrust other companies to produce. There are also some companies that obtain certificates through commissioned research and development, and then entrust production after obtaining the certificates, which destroys the original industrial ecology," said a representative of an enterprise participating in centralized procurement in Chongqing (重庆). And this view was mentioned many times in the reporter's interview.

"It takes several years from project establishment to obtaining a certificate, and the cost is also tens of millions of yuan. If you get the certificate and do not participate in centralized procurement, the investment becomes a sunk cost," said a representative of a manufacturer who has just entered the centralized procurement generic drug competition track. "Did you understand the competitive landscape when you established the project? There are still so many generic drugs that no one has set foot in, why not choose?" Faced with the reporter's question, the representative did not answer.

Many experts who observed and guided this centralized procurement said that in the future, the rules of centralized procurement will continue to be optimized, but the "anti-involution" of the generic drug track should not be limited to the downstream procurement link, and relevant departments have the responsibility to guide enterprises to scientifically establish projects, avoid concentrated production of the same drug, and aggravate homogeneous competition, and prevent "involution" from the source. Otherwise, it is unscientific and unrealistic to entrust the goal of "anti-involution" in the industry entirely to the new rules of centralized procurement.

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Vegetable Stalls in the Cold Weather: The Warmth of the City (Perspective on People's Livelihood)

By: 杨笑雨

"Letting go" is not disorderly indulgence, and "managing" is not simply driving away. The management approach of "combining dredging and blocking, with service prioritized" for vegetable stalls achieves a win-win situation for farmers to sell vegetables with peace of mind, citizens to buy vegetables conveniently, and the city appearance to be tidy and orderly.

As winter approaches and the weather turns colder, along the streets and alleys of some cities, farm vehicles loaded with cabbage, radishes, and scallions line up one after another. The bustling crowds and the fresh fragrance of vegetables intertwine, creating moving scenes full of everyday life.

In Heping Road Subdistrict, Xiangfang District, Harbin (哈尔滨) City, Heilongjiang (黑龙江) Province, the market is thriving, allowing residents to stock up on vegetables in one stop right at their doorstep. In Luyuan (绿园) District, Changchun (长春) City, Jilin (吉林) Province, 10 vegetable sales points with unified signage have appeared in back streets and alleys, and each point's service booth is also equipped with drinking water, charging banks, and trolleys.

The small vegetable stall is connected to the lives of citizens on one end and the livelihoods of farmers on the other. In some places, stocking up on vegetables is not only a winter preparation for many families, but also an emotional memory and seasonal ritual that is difficult to give up. The standardized sales points provide convenience for citizens to stock up on vegetables, and also preserve a sense of ease that keeps pace with the past in the fast-paced life.

For farmers, vegetable sales are an important channel for increasing income. In the past, farmers often had to "play guerrilla warfare" when selling vegetables in the city, which not only affected the city's appearance but also made it difficult to operate stably. Now, many places scientifically set up temporary sales points, delineate areas, and stipulate time periods, which helps to solve the problem of "difficulty in selling vegetables" and also reflects the city's respect and care for workers.

More innovative explorations are conveying the warmth of the city in the everyday atmosphere. The Hinggan League (兴安盟) in Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) held an autumn vegetable orienteering competition, cleverly combining agricultural experience with sports competition skills, injecting new vitality into traditional industries in the integrated development of culture, tourism, and sports. The "tidal stall area" in Nanchuan (南川) District, Chongqing (重庆) has built a three-in-one management system of "urban management, street chief, and stall chief." This model has spread to the whole country, and more than 100 cities have now set up more than 100,000 "tidal stalls."

"Letting go" is not disorderly indulgence, and "managing" is not simply driving away. The management approach of "combining dredging and blocking, with service prioritized" for vegetable stalls achieves a win-win situation for farmers to sell vegetables with peace of mind, citizens to buy vegetables conveniently, and the city appearance to be tidy and orderly, demonstrating the humanistic care and flexible wisdom in urban governance.

The cold-weather vegetable stall is the warmth of the city. A stall is also a window to observe people's well-being and perceive the temperature of policies, demonstrating the city management's original intention of serving the people in subtle ways, and is a simple and moving embodiment of the concept of a people's city.

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Anchoring the Goal of "Important Green Development Growth Pole of Wuhan Metropolitan Area," Xianning, Hubei Empowers High-Quality Development with "Five Major Actions"

In the golden autumn season, the city is filled with the fragrance of osmanthus, which is refreshing. The golden rice waves undulate, and the rivers and lakes are sparkling... The land of Xianning (咸宁) is filled with the joy of harvest everywhere.

Standing at a new starting point, Xianning City (咸宁市), Hubei Province (湖北省), closely focuses on the goal of accelerating the creation of an "important growth pole for green development in the Wuhan Metropolitan Area (武汉都市圈)," systematically plans, and concentrates on implementing the "Five Major Actions" of industrial multiplication, technological empowerment, power cultivation, energy level improvement, and happy Xianning, delivering a bright answer sheet of "steady and good, quality improvement in progress, and sufficient stamina": In the first three quarters of 2025, the growth rate of the city's main economic indicators all ranked among the top 10 in the province, creating the best results in nearly 4 years. The city presents a good situation of stable economic growth, social stability and harmony, people living and working in peace and contentment, and cadres working hard to start businesses.

Industrial Multiplication Builds the Foundation

Xianning (咸宁) focuses on the industrial multiplication action, clarifying the construction path of the "5+4" modern industrial system, the "3+7" agricultural industrial system, and the "3+3" high-quality and efficient service industry system, and promoting the in-depth and solid development of industries.

Around the industrial chain layout innovation chain, supply chain, and capital chain, benefiting 61,700 business entities, with a transaction volume of 28.876 billion yuan; established a 3 billion yuan high-tech industry mother fund, which is expected to leverage 15 billion yuan of social capital. At present, Xianning (咸宁) has 2 national-level characteristic industrial clusters and 4 county-level characteristic industrial clusters. The number of these two types of industrial clusters accounts for more than 10% of the province.

Xianning (咸宁) adheres to the principle of projects first. In the first three quarters of 2025, 402 new projects with an investment of over 100 million yuan were signed, and 608 major projects with an investment of over 100 million yuan were started. The number of projects and the investment scale were 1.98 times and 2.39 times that of 2024, respectively, injecting strong impetus into industrial development.

Technological Empowerment Breaks Bottlenecks

Xianning (咸宁) is accelerating the gathering of scientific and technological forces. The Xianning Science and Technology Innovation Center (咸宁科技创新中心) has been built and put into operation, becoming a "strong magnet" for innovation, attracting 5 academician teams, 23 high-quality science and technology innovation projects, 54 science and technology innovation enterprises, and 10 fund institutions to take root; the Wuhan University (武汉大学) · Xianning Low-Altitude Economy Innovation Research Institute has settled in with more than 70 experts and more than 30 high-tech enterprises, adding wisdom to industrial upgrading; the Xianning Pilot Valley (Chibi) Base (咸宁中试谷（赤壁）基地) fills the gap in the central and western regions for the "land-air-water-submarine" four-domain unmanned equipment verification platform, and is expected to form a 10 billion-level industrial cluster in the next 3 years.

The cultivation of innovative entities has yielded fruitful results. The total number of high-tech enterprises in the city has reached 750, an increase of 477 compared with 2020; 350 high-tech reserve enterprises have been cultivated, and 2,650 science and technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises have been reserved; 69 new innovative small and medium-sized enterprises and 32 Hubei Province (湖北省) science and technology innovation "new species" enterprises have been added; 98 new Hubei Province (湖北省) specialized, refined, and new small and medium-sized enterprises have been added, with a total number of 314.

The integration of industry and innovation continues to deepen. The Xianning (Wuhan) Offshore Science and Technology Innovation Park (咸宁（武汉）离岸科创园) has become a "bridgehead," with 222 enterprises settled in, and 91 enterprises have established bases in Xianning (咸宁); the Science and Technology Innovation Supply Chain Platform aggregates 6,412 science and technology innovation enterprises, and has completed 2,042 demand connections, both of which rank second in the province; in the first three quarters of 2025, the transaction volume of technology contracts completed 23.2 billion yuan, an increase of 22% over last year, ranking seventh in the province.

Power Cultivation Activates Vitality

Xianning (咸宁) is advancing the reform of key areas in depth: the reform of the large financial system has started and achieved results, and the first batch of E'lin carbon tickets (Xianning) (鄂林碳票（咸宁）) in the province has been issued, realizing a substantial leap of "from 0 to 1" in carbon ticket transactions. In the first three quarters of 2025, the reform of the investment and financing system promoted a year-on-year increase of 8.7% in fixed asset investment, and the reform of state-owned enterprises stimulated vitality, with total assets and total operating income increasing by 24.1% and 13.5% year-on-year, respectively.

The business environment continues to be optimized. Implement a three-year action to continuously improve the business environment, making handling procedures simpler, processes more transparent, and rules clearer. The city added 97 industrial enterprises above designated size, the best level in 5 years.

Xianning (咸宁) is accelerating "integration into the circle and joining the group." Signed 40 Wuhan (武汉) industrial transfer projects with an amount of 28.16 billion yuan; took the initiative to integrate into the coordinated development of Hunan (湘), Hubei (鄂), and Jiangxi (赣), and 9 key tasks such as the construction of the "Tongpingxiu" green development pilot zone were included in the work list of the three provinces and provincial capital cities in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The opening channel has been upgraded again, the first phase of the Xianning International Land Port Logistics Park (咸宁国际陆港物流园) has started construction, the Yangtze River Xianning Port (长江咸宁港) has made breakthrough progress, and the Xianning City Cargo Station (咸宁城市货站) of the Ezhou Huahu International Airport (鄂州花湖国际机场) is about to be listed; in the first three quarters of 2025, the total value of foreign trade import and export increased by 35.2% year-on-year.

Energy Level Improvement Expands Space

Xianning's (咸宁) urban renewal has pressed the "fast forward button." Taking the renovation of dilapidated houses as a breakthrough, promote a three-year campaign for urban renewal, benefiting 4,770 households; added 5,927 parking spaces and 9 pocket parks, the green space rate in the main urban area reached 40.53%, and Xianning City (咸宁市) and Jiayu County (嘉鱼县) successfully created a national civilized city.

The vitality of the county economy is bursting forth. The central urban area releases the "1+1>2" effect through the integration reform of urban and rural areas; the development zone implements the "management committee + company" model, and the city's off-site investment policy is implemented; supports 10 key townships to build important support for the county economy.

Rural revitalization has become more colorful. Grain production has achieved "three increases in area, yield per unit, and total output." In the first three quarters of 2025, the added value of agricultural and sideline food processing industry above designated size increased by 27.8% year-on-year. Among them, the vegetable industry in Jiayu County (嘉鱼县) has driven 75,000 farmers to increase their income, with an average annual income of 17,000 yuan per person.

Happy Xianning Warms People's Hearts

Xianning (咸宁) strives to improve people's well-being, and the proportion of people's livelihood expenditure in fiscal expenditure has always remained above 79%. Concentrated on carrying out various special rectification work. Compared with before the rectification, the average meal fee in primary and secondary school canteens in the city has decreased by 8%, the price of 62 kinds of high-value medical consumables has decreased by 60%, and the average cost per patient in public hospitals has decreased by 30%.

Cultural life is richer. Nearly 1,200 cultural benefit activities have been held, benefiting more than 2 million people; with the "Three Kingdoms Chibi, Heroic Xianning" (三国赤壁，英雄咸宁) cultural tourism brand as the traction, we will make every effort to build a nationally renowned cultural tourism and health destination. The ecological background is more beautiful. The water quality of the Xianning (咸宁) section of the main stream of the Yangtze River (长江) remains stable at Class II, and the air quality has reached the national Class II standard for four consecutive years. The blue sky, clear water, and pure land protect the people's sense of happiness.

High hopes are as heavy as mountains, urging people to forge ahead, and persevering and pragmatic work will start a new journey. Looking forward to the future, Xianning (咸宁) will continue to take the "Five Major Actions" as the starting point, accelerate the creation of an "important growth pole for green development in the Wuhan Metropolitan Area (武汉都市圈)," and contribute more Xianning (咸宁) strength to Hubei's (湖北) acceleration in building an important strategic fulcrum for the rise of the central region and striving to write a Hubei (湖北) chapter of Chinese-style modernization.

Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Xianning Municipal Committee (中共咸宁市委宣传部)

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This edition's editors: Cheng Chen, Bai Zhenzhi, Qin Ruijie

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Continuing the Literary Heritage and Enriching the City with Culture: Haikou, Hainan, Strives to Build a "Charming Island City of Culture"

City-wide linkage, shared by all, lasting 11 days, covering 150 activities—a far-reaching cultural event that transforms the entire Haikou (海口) into a "poetry and distant place at the doorstep" and a "happy home where the flowers of art bloom" in the eyes of citizens. The 2025 Haikou Art Week is a vivid practice of Haikou's efforts to build a "charming island city with a rich cultural heritage."

Since the beginning of this year, Haikou City (海口市), Hainan Province (海南省), focusing on the construction of the core leading area of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港), has been committed to building "six cities": a free and convenient open city, an industry-city integrated innovative city, a fashionable consumer vibrant city, a low-carbon green ecological city, an all-age livable happy city, and a charming island city with a rich cultural heritage. It adheres to taking the construction of a "charming island city with a rich cultural heritage" as its rudder, raising the sail of culture high, shaping the spirit, strengthening confidence, promoting innovation, and promoting integration. Humanistic Haikou is releasing a powerful effect that empowers high-quality development.

Ideological Guidance, Consolidating the Foundation of Urban Development

To build a "charming island city with a rich cultural heritage," Haikou insists on consolidating the foundation of faith, replenishing the calcium of the spirit, and holding steady the rudder of thought, making every effort to do a good job in uniting the hearts and souls of the people.

Strengthening theoretical arming. Give full play to the "leading goose role" of the theoretical learning center group of the Municipal Party Committee, jointly create a good atmosphere for entrepreneurship, and master the methodology for resolving difficult problems. The "publicity + practical work" activity closely combines theory and practice, establishes a clear orientation of "doing it after speaking, offering suggestions after speaking," and creates and enhances the characteristic theoretical publicity brands such as "Professor Tian (田教授)," "Building Xiaoer (楼小二)," and "Loudspeaker (传声筒)"; systematically promotes and constantly grasps, promotes the innovative theories of the Party to the mind and heart, and widely gathers the powerful synergy of gratitude and progress, and gathers spiritual strength for Haikou's high-quality development.

Strengthening value guidance. Innovate carriers, effectively improve citizens' civilization literacy through the "interactive answering + cultural output + benefit-the-people service" model; enrich the connotation, take traditional festivals as the starting point, widely carry out the theme activities of "Our Festival," promote the construction of "one district, one brand" characteristic projects, and promote the in-depth and solid development of civilization practice; strengthen the exemplary role of advanced models, deeply integrate "creating a civilized city" with "cultivating people," and continuously deepen and expand the achievements of civilization creation. In May 2025, Haikou continued to retain the honorary title of National Civilized City (全国文明城市), and 5 villages and towns, 6 units, 2 households, and 2 schools won the new National Civilized Village and Town, Unit, Family, and Campus titles.

Building a spiritual highland. Invigorate and utilize the Haikou Qilou Old Street (海口骑楼老街), the Temple of Five Lords (五公祠), the Hai Rui Culture Park (海瑞文化公园) and other relics and remains, as well as more than 200 revolutionary sites and red cultural resources such as the former site of the First Congress of the Qiongya Communist Party (中共琼崖第一次代表大会旧址), inherit the red spark, cultivate the city spirit, and stimulate the power of progress.

Today, a healthy and upward humanistic environment is constantly providing Haikou's high-quality development with a surging spiritual force.

Cultural Innovation, Demonstrating the City's Spiritual Charm

Cultural prosperity, urban brightness. Haikou adheres to historical confidence and cultural confidence, protects, utilizes, and inherits historical culture, revolutionary culture, marine culture, and folk culture resources, continuously enhances the vitality of cultural innovation and creation, explores breakthroughs in the creative transformation and innovative development of excellent traditional Chinese culture in protection and inheritance, and uses the innovative development of culture to connect with the people, increase the foundation, inject vitality, and continuously inject humanistic spirit and charm into urban development.

Safeguard the cultural roots of urban development. As a national historical and cultural city, Haikou currently has 152 various types of material cultural heritage projects and 51 intangible cultural heritage projects at all levels. It has promulgated a number of laws and regulations such as the "Haikou Historical and Cultural City Protection Regulations (海口市历史文化名城保护条例)" and the "Haikou Revolutionary Historical and Cultural Protection and Inheritance Regulations (海口市革命历史文化保护传承条例)" to provide a legal basis for protection and increase the "family property" and "capital" for development.

Inherit the excellent traditional Chinese culture. Strengthen the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage projects, and rely on the Dazhipo Qiong Opera Culture Festival (大致坡琼剧文化节) to brighten the cultural brand of Qiong Opera (琼剧), which has a history of more than 300 years. In addition, Haikou is also accelerating the digital protection and upgrading of key cultural relics protection units. At present, 6 key projects including the Temple of Five Lords (五公祠) are being accelerated.

Renovate and upgrade historical and cultural blocks. The Haikou Qilou Architectural Historical and Cultural Block (海口骑楼建筑历史文化街区) carries the city's development heritage and is known as Haikou's "living history." Haikou deeply explores cultural connotations, focuses on introducing various formats such as "time-honored brands," intangible cultural heritage displays, first stores, and boutique homestays, and injects modern trendy cultural elements such as flash mobs and street performances to create new consumption scenarios such as "intangible cultural heritage +" and "food +," allowing the old blocks to radiate unlimited vitality in revitalization and utilization. Today, Haikou Qilou Old Street (海口骑楼老街) and Fucheng (府城) have become popular tourist destinations and new cultural landmarks in the city. According to statistics, the maximum daily passenger flow of Haikou Qilou Old Street (海口骑楼老街) has exceeded 160,000 this year.

Serving the People and Benefiting the People, Brightening the Happy Background of the City

During the "May Day" holiday this year, Haikou's tourism, culture, and sports sectors worked together to launch more than 70 music, sports, food, and cultural special events, covering citizens and tourists of all ages, and continuously enriching the event experience. As one of the series of activities of the 2025 Haikou Art Week, the 2025 "Boasting in Haikou (夸下海口)" Lawn Concert invited the general public and tourists to actively participate. The concert was held for 8 consecutive days, attracting 250,000 people to "sing along"... Taking the people as the foundation and brightening the cultural background of the city, Haikou insists on taking the enhancement of citizens' sense of gain and happiness as the starting point, and strives to extend public cultural services to a wider and broader range, and expand to "all people, all regions, and all ages."

With the Haikou Bay Performing Arts Center (海口湾演艺中心) as the representative, a number of public cultural facilities full of "literary and artistic style" have been built and put into use, giving high-end and large-scale performing arts activities a "place to use." At the same time, Haikou also pays attention to extending public cultural services to the grassroots level, and strives to allow more grassroots people to enjoy the fruits of cultural development: blooming in many places, building public cultural service positions; holding diverse and rich mass cultural activities to "light up" the lives of the masses; exploring and promoting the establishment of a linkage mechanism between cultural centers, libraries, and town and street branches, and optimizing the service model of "venue sharing, platform co-construction, brand co-creation, and joint event organization." Through a series of pragmatic measures, the happy background of Haikou's humanistic city is becoming brighter and brighter.

Half books and half fireworks, creating a warm book-filled block. As of now, 4 book-filled cultural streets have been unveiled in Haikou; the city has built a public cultural facility network covering cities, districts, streets (towns), communities (villages), and the average building area of public libraries and mass cultural facilities per 10,000 people ranks among the top in Hainan Province.

Cultural Tourism Promotes Each Other, Stimulating Urban Economic Vitality

Haikou insists on the two-way empowerment of culture and tourism, and uses diversified and integrated cultural and tourism practices to accelerate the construction of a three-dimensional, international, and highly sticky cultural and tourism ecosystem, injecting strong momentum into high-quality economic development.

Cultural festivals ignite "consumption fever." The 2025 Fucheng Lantern Festival Flower Exchange Art Week (2025府城元宵换花艺术周), the 2025 (24th) Haikou Xian Furen Culture Festival (2025年（第二十四届）海口冼夫人文化节), the 2025 Haikou 17th Wanchun Fair (2025年海口市第十七届万春会), the 2025 (26th) Hainan International Tourism Island Carnival (2025年（第二十六届）海南国际旅游岛欢乐节), the 2025 "Haikou Cup" Dragon Boat International Invitational Tournament (2025“海口杯”端午国际龙舟邀请赛), and the 2025 Haikou Art Week (2025海口艺术周) and other brand cultural activities continue to be staged, and have become a new engine for driving Haikou's cultural and tourism consumption. As the main venue of the 2025 (26th) Hainan International Tourism Island Carnival (2025年（第二十六届）海南国际旅游岛欢乐节), during the event, the total passenger flow of Haikou's nine business districts reached 13 million, and the duty-free shopping consumption increased by 21.72% month-on-month.

Cultural performances drive "tourism fever." In May 2025, the "Several Measures to Promote the High-Quality Development of the Cultural and Sports Industry in Haikou City (海口市促进文体产业高质量发展若干措施)" was introduced. With the support of policies, Haikou's performing arts industry has shown rapid growth, and well-known domestic and international performing arts projects have chosen to land in Haikou: As of September, 22 large-scale concerts and music festivals have been successfully held, attracting 441,100 spectators, indirectly driving economic benefits of 2.158 billion yuan.

Rushing to a city for a performance—Haikou's "concert economy" is reshaping the cultural and tourism consumption layout with a unique "emotional gravity." Driven by the "performing arts economy," during the 2025 National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holidays, Haikou received a total of 1,134,500 tourists, an increase of 0.38% year-on-year, and achieved tourism revenue of 1.414 billion yuan, an increase of 3.25% year-on-year. At the same time, Haikou is also constantly deepening international communication, accelerating the construction of a more effective international communication system, and striving to let the world hear and see a more exciting "Haikou story."

To promote high-quality development, culture is an important driving force; to create a high-quality life, culture is an inexhaustible source. Facing the future, Haikou's vivid practice of building a "charming island city with a rich cultural heritage" will contribute more to writing the Hainan chapter of Chinese-style modernization.

Data source: Publicity Department of the Haikou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共海口市委宣传部)

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Deeply Understanding the Holistic Governance of Mountains, Rivers, Forests, Fields, Lakes, Grasslands, and Deserts (In-depth Study and Implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era: A Comprehensive Discussion on Original and Iconic Concepts)

By: 胡 军

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must coordinate the systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts, implement ecological protection and restoration projects effectively, increase the protection of ecosystems, and enhance the stability and sustainability of ecosystems." This important assertion contains the theoretical and practical logic of correctly handling the relationship between humans and nature, and demonstrates the objective requirements and scientific methods for continuing to advance ecological civilization construction. We must deeply understand and grasp the systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts from the dimensions of scientific connotation, original contribution, and internal relations, and more consciously use Xi Jinping's (习近平) ecological civilization thought to arm our minds, guide our practice, and promote our work, and continuously consolidate the ecological foundation for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Deeply Understand the Scientific Theoretical Connotation

Mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts are a community of life. The systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts focuses on taking into account the integrity of ecosystems, the continuity of natural geographical units, the sustainability of economic and social development, and the scientific nature of the ecological environment governance system. It demonstrates the scientific theoretical connotation from the dimensions of element coordination, goal coordination, regional coordination, and policy coordination, and provides scientific guidance for building a beautiful China.

Adhere to element coordination and regard natural elements as an organic whole. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Ecology is a unified natural system, a natural chain in which various natural elements depend on each other to achieve circulation." Dialectical materialism holds that things are universally connected, and things and their elements influence and restrict each other. The entire world is an interconnected and interacting whole. Mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts are not independent ecological units, but are interconnected through material cycles, energy flows, and biological chain networks, forming a community of life in which one move affects the whole body. The systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts uses the Marxist stance, viewpoints, and methods to grasp the holistic laws of ecosystems, breaks the isolated governance model targeting a single natural element, and restores and strengthens the structural integrity and functional stability of ecosystems through the coordinated governance of natural elements. Only by adhering to element coordination can we ensure the scientific and long-term nature of ecological environment governance and achieve the goal of enhancing the circulation capacity of ecosystems and maintaining ecological balance. This governance model, characterized by element coordination, is not only a compliance with natural laws, but also an important path to promote the transformation of ecological civilization construction from "passive response" to "active action."

Adhere to goal coordination and achieve mutual promotion of ecological environmental protection and economic and social development. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The development model of 杀鸡取卵 (shā jī qǔ luǎn - "kill the chicken to get the eggs," to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; short-sighted exploitation) and 竭泽而渔 (jié zé ér yú - "drain the pond to catch all the fish," to seek immediate gain at the expense of long-term interests) has come to an end, and green development that conforms to nature and protects ecology heralds the future." Economic and social development cannot 竭泽而渔 (jié zé ér yú - "drain the pond to catch all the fish," to seek immediate gain at the expense of long-term interests) on the ecological environment, and ecological environmental protection is not 缘木求鱼 (yuán mù qiú yú - "climb a tree to catch fish," a futile approach; to try the impossible) by abandoning economic and social development. While providing living space for mankind, ecosystems also provide various resources necessary for human production and life, which are the foundation of economic and social development. If we ignore ecological environmental protection and excessively pursue short-term economic growth, we will eventually trigger problems such as soil erosion, climate change, and resource depletion, which will in turn erode the foundation of economic and social development, and economic and social development will eventually become unsustainable. The systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts does not require economic and social development to "give way" to ecological environmental protection, nor does it allow ecological environmental protection to become a "shackle" on economic and social development. Instead, it allows ecological environmental protection and economic and social development to form a "1+1>2" synergistic effect through systematic governance. The systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts requires us to adhere to protection in development and development in protection, to coordinate economic and social development with population, resources, and environment, and to make green waters and green mountains generate huge ecological, economic, and social benefits.

Adhere to regional coordination and promote cross-regional ecological protection and coordinated governance. Dialectics of nature holds that the connections in nature are universal and objective, and no ecological unit can exist in isolation from the material and energy exchange with the surrounding environment. Core elements of ecosystems, such as water, atmosphere, and biological populations, have natural cross-regional flow characteristics. This cross-regional nature determines that the fragmented ecological environment governance model, divided by administrative units, cannot effectively cope with ecological environment problems with strong spillover effects. The systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts breaks down administrative barriers, focuses on promoting cross-regional ecological protection and coordinated governance, solves ecological environment problems spanning different regions through regional cooperation, and achieves local governance serving the overall situation and overall governance driving the local. Taking water pollution prevention and control as an example, river and lake ecosystems are complex wholes, and the upstream and downstream, left and right banks, and main streams and tributaries are interconnected and mutually influenced. To manage water pollution and protect the water environment, it is necessary to comprehensively coordinate the systematic governance of land and water, surface and underground. The "Suggestions" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed "adhering to environmental protection for the people, fully implementing precise, scientific, and law-based pollution control, paying more attention to source governance, strengthening the coordination of pollution reduction and carbon reduction, the coordination of multi-pollutant control, and the coordination of regional governance, and thoroughly fighting the battles to defend blue skies, clear waters, and pure land," paying more attention to the interaction and cooperation of various regions, departments, industries, and fields, reflecting the requirements for promoting cross-regional ecological protection and coordinated governance.

Adhere to policy coordination and rely on different governance entities to use a variety of governance tools. The ecological environment belongs to public goods, and this characteristic determines that it is difficult to achieve effective supply of public goods by relying solely on the government. In the development and utilization of natural resources and ecological environmental protection activities, enterprises, the public, and social organizations participate widely in different forms, and have become important suppliers of ecological environment public goods. Therefore, ecological environment governance has characteristics such as diversified governance entities and diversified governance tools. The systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts starts from this objective reality, plans ecological environment governance with a systematic concept, solves the problems of "fragmentation" of governance entities and "fragmented application" of policy tools, and promotes the formation of a strong governance synergy among the government, enterprises, the public, social organizations, and other governance entities by strengthening coordination and clarifying powers and responsibilities. It realizes the complementary advantages of different governance tools such as laws, policies, standards, plans, industry self-regulation norms, and market regulation mechanisms, and vigorously promotes the formation of a good pattern of the whole society participating in ecological environment governance.

Deeply Understand Rich Innovative Contributions

The systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts is not a simple technological innovation in governance, but a comprehensive innovation from thinking mode, theoretical understanding, institutional system to practical path. It is rooted in China's excellent traditional ecological culture and promotes the advancement of Marxist views on nature and ecology, demonstrating the truth power and practical power of Xi Jinping's (习近平) ecological civilization thought.

Realize concept leadership and profoundly change the thinking mode and working methods of ecological environment governance. The systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts contributes a brand-new governance concept, which breaks the "fragmented" and "single-handed" thinking mode in traditional ecological environment governance with its holistic view and systematic view, and promotes the transformation of governance concepts from "one-sided governance" to "systematic governance." In the past, ecological environment governance regarded mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts as independent governance objects, ignoring the internal connections between natural elements of ecosystems, often leading to a vicious cycle of governing one place and destroying another. The systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts means that we must start from the integrity of ecosystems, take into account the interaction of various natural elements, seek new governance methods from systems engineering and the overall situation, and achieve comprehensive consideration, overall implementation, and multiple measures. We must carry out ecological civilization construction in an all-round, all-regional, and all-process manner, instead of treating the head when it hurts, treating the foot when it hurts, and each managing its own affairs, which directly promotes the innovation of working methods. For example, in governance planning, implement systematic governance with river basins (regions) as units; in work promotion, strengthen coordination and linkage, and enhance the relevance and coupling of various measures; and so on.

Promote theoretical innovation and enrich and develop Marxist ideas on the relationship between man and nature. Marxism holds that the relationship between man and nature is the most basic relationship in human society. Natural objects constitute the natural conditions for human survival, and human beings produce, live, and develop in the interaction with nature. Since ancient times, China has formed a rich ecological wisdom and cultural tradition. The ancients regarded man as a part of nature, advocated that heaven, earth, and man are a whole, and formed the idea of "harmony between man and nature" (天人合一), which is in line with Marxist ideas on the relationship between man and nature. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) keenly observed the high degree of fit between Marxism and China's excellent traditional culture, and clearly proposed the systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts from the actual situation of China's ecological civilization construction. It not only inherited and innovated China's excellent traditional ecological culture, but also promoted the advancement of Marxist ideas on the relationship between man and nature, giving Marxist ideas on the relationship between man and nature a vivid national form. In theory, it has realized the criticism and transcendence of the Western modernization development path centered on capital, materialism expansion, and pollution first and treatment later, and has important theoretical innovation significance.

Promote institutional improvement and promote the modernization of ecological environment governance. Systematic governance cannot be separated from institutional support. To a certain extent, the process of systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts is also a process of promoting the continuous improvement of the ecological environment governance system. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) as the core has run institutional construction through the process of ecological civilization construction, and effectively embodied and implemented the requirements of systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts into the system, vigorously promoting the modernization of the ecological environment governance system and governance capacity. For example, at the legal level, when formulating laws and regulations such as the Yangtze River Protection Law, the Wetland Protection Law, the Yellow River Protection Law, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Ecological Protection Law, and the "Regulations on Ecological Protection Compensation," we adhere to ecological priority, pay attention to overall protection, and integrate the concepts of ecological environment system governance, comprehensive governance, and coordinated governance into them, making the ecological environment legal system more mature and more finalized. At the policy level, we have issued and implemented policy documents such as the "Overall Plan for Ecological Civilization System Reform" and the "Overall Plan for National Major Ecological System Protection and Restoration Projects (2021-2035)," improved the institutional arrangements and basic systems for the systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts, clarified the goals, tasks, and implementation paths of systematic governance, promoted the integration of resources and forces from all parties, and realized the refinement and precision of ecological environment governance, and the level of modernization of ecological environment governance in China has been continuously improved.

Expand practical exploration and make Chinese contributions to global ecological civilization construction. Since the new era, in order to strengthen the protection and restoration of ecosystems, China has taken a series of major measures and implemented a series of major projects, and has continuously enriched and expanded the practical exploration of systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts. For example, we have carried out 52 integrated protection and restoration projects for mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts, with a cumulative completed governance area of more than 100 million mu, scientifically carried out national land greening actions, and implemented protection and restoration of estuaries, bays, coastal wetlands, and typical marine ecosystems, achieving bluer skies, greener waters, and greener mountains. Many places have combined their local realities to carry out ecological environment governance work in a targeted manner, forming vivid local practices for the systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts. For example, in order to regulate the relationship between water and sand, Ordos City (鄂尔多斯市), Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), carried out comprehensive governance of the entire basin of the "Ten Kongdui" (十大孔兑), and summarized the governance model of "planting trees on the top of the mountain to wear hats, returning farmland to grassland on the hillside to wear robes, building terraces on the mountainside to tie belts, and building dams at the bottom of the ditch to silt up the land to wear boots," which effectively reduced the amount of sediment entering the Yellow River, and the local ecological environment has been significantly improved. China's practice of systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts has broken the dilemma of the opposition between ecological environmental protection and economic and social development, and has contributed Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to global sustainable development and the joint construction of a global ecological civilization.

Deeply Grasp Several Important Relationships

The systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts is the due meaning of comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China. We must grasp several important relationships in terms of governance concepts, governance goals, governance methods, and governance objects in order to better systematically restore the natural ecology, make the beautiful China present the beauty of diversity and the beauty of the system, and leave a beautiful home with blue skies, green land, and clear waters for future generations.

In terms of governance concepts, grasp the relationship between the present and the long-term. From the perspective of ecological theory, ecosystems have a significant "time lag effect." Taking biodiversity protection as an example, the ecological response of species to environmental changes will be affected by factors such as population age structure, seasonal changes, and biological metabolic processes, resulting in a clear time interval between the ecological response of species and environmental changes, and the restoration of population structure and function requires decades or even hundreds of years. The systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts must accurately grasp the relationship between the present and the long-term. We must not only base ourselves on the present, focus on solving outstanding problems such as soil erosion, desertification, and rocky desertification that are related to current ecological security and people's well-being, and take one step at a time, accumulating small victories into big victories; but also look to the long-term, fully recognize that ecosystem restoration and stability is a long-term process, overcome the ideas of quick success and instant benefit, and firmly establish the concept of "achieving success does not necessarily have to be me." Strengthen top-level design in governance planning, calculate big accounts, calculate long-term accounts, calculate overall accounts, and calculate comprehensive accounts, better combine the short-term goals and long-term strategies of ecological protection and restoration, innovate systems and mechanisms, improve policies and measures, grasp the rhythm and intensity, seek truth from facts, and proceed in an orderly manner, so as to achieve long-term success and continuous efforts.

In terms of governance goals, grasp the relationship between protection and development. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "High-level protection is an important support for high-quality development, and high-quality development with ecological priority and green and low-carbon can only be achieved by relying on high-level protection." Development and protection are not "single-choice questions" that are either one or the other, nor are they contradictory relationships, but dialectical unity relationships that can be taken into account and run in parallel. The systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts, on the one hand, must take the carrying capacity of resources and the environment as the premise and foundation of development, consciously restrict economic activities and human behavior within the limits that the ecosystem can bear, and promote the effective improvement of the quality and the reasonable growth of the quantity of the economy through green and low-carbon transformation and development; on the other hand, mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts also contain rich ecological value, economic value, and social value. We must actively broaden the path of transforming green waters and green mountains into golden mountains and silver mountains, promote ecological industrialization and industrial ecology, cultivate a large number of ecological products and put them on the market in the process of systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts, and continuously transform ecological advantages into development advantages.

In terms of governance methods, grasp the relationship between natural restoration and artificial restoration. Natural restoration generally refers to achieving the goal of ecological restoration without relying on artificial intervention, mainly through the self-regulation and self-purification of the ecosystem or with minimal artificial intervention measures. Artificial restoration refers to achieving ecological restoration mainly by relying on artificial intervention or induction. Both can improve, restore, or rebuild the damaged ecosystem, thereby enhancing the self-regulation ability of the ecosystem, maintaining the health of the ecosystem, and ensuring that the ecosystem continues to play its service functions. The systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts must correctly handle the relationship between natural restoration and artificial restoration. Fully respect and follow nature, give nature enough time and space to recuperate, and rely on the power of nature to restore ecological balance. At the same time, we must see that natural restoration also has its limitations and limits, which leaves broad space for artificial restoration. We must comprehensively use both natural restoration and artificial restoration methods, adapt measures to local conditions and times, implement policies according to different regions and categories, strive to find the best solution for ecological protection and restoration, and continuously improve the diversity, stability, and sustainability of ecosystems.
In terms of governance objects, grasp the relationship between the whole and the parts. 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 control water only care about controlling 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 ecological damage." Materialist dialectics believes that the whole and the parts of things are interdependent and mutually reinforcing. The whole is not a simple arrangement or linear superposition of various parts, but the generation and unity of complexity and diversity, with characteristics that the various parts do not have in isolation. To coordinate the systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, and grasslands, we must correctly handle the relationship between the whole and the parts. If we do not consider the content and objects of governance from the overall and holistic perspective of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts, it is easy to "只见树木不见森林" (zhǐ jiàn shù mù bù jiàn sēn lín - "see the trees but not the forest," to be shortsighted and unable to see the bigger picture), with distorted emphasis, isolated advances, 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), and even mutual constraints. We must, in accordance with the integrity and systematic nature of the ecosystem and its internal laws, comprehensively consider the natural elements of mountains above and below, ground above and below, shores and waters, urban and rural areas, land and sea, and upstream and downstream of river basins, grasp the main contradictions and the main aspects of contradictions, and drive the overall protection, systematic restoration, and comprehensive governance of the community of life of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts through local key governance, so as to better serve the overall situation with one region.

(The author is the director of the Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Ecological Civilization Research Center (习近平生态文明思想研究中心).)

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Responsibility Seen in the Ordinary (Ideological Perspective)

By: 袁鸿渝

Daring to take responsibility is an important standard for good cadres in the new era. When it comes to responsibility, people often think of scenes of stepping forward in the face of major difficulties and challenges, and bravely shouldering heavy burdens in urgent, difficult, and dangerous tasks. Taking responsibility at these critical moments is commendable, but silent dedication in ordinary positions and a serious attitude in daily affairs can also test the quality of party members and cadres. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out: "Greatness comes from the ordinary, and the ordinary creates greatness. As long as we have firm ideals and beliefs, unremitting fighting spirit, and do every ordinary thing well in a down-to-earth manner, all ordinary people can achieve extraordinary lives, and all ordinary work can create extraordinary achievements." General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition profoundly inspires us that the spirit of responsibility of party members and cadres should not only be tempered in great storms, but also cultivated in small matters and details.

Seeing the truth in the ordinary and revealing the spirit in the subtle. Any grand strategic deployment will eventually be implemented into specific work links; any arduous reform task needs to be broken down into daily execution steps. Without meticulous handling of ordinary small matters, it is difficult to achieve successful breakthroughs in major and difficult matters; without being serious and responsible for daily work, let alone bravely shouldering heavy responsibilities for major missions. Just like "embroidery" skills, every stitch and thread is subtle, but it can create a beautiful picture. The responsibility and action of party members and cadres must also adhere to "achieving greatness by focusing on the details," starting from ordinary things. Only by maintaining a sense of responsibility of "always being concerned" in ordinary matters can we burst out with the action of "taking responsibility in everything" at critical moments.

The responsibility of communists ultimately needs to be reflected in serving the people. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "'A branch and a leaf are always related to emotions.' When cadres do things with emotion, the masses feel differently." The urgent needs and concerns of the masses are the responsibilities of party members and cadres. Neighborhood disputes, certificate processing... These "small things and small feelings" seem trivial, but they are precisely the "major and difficult things" of the people, and the most direct source of the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security. Whether we can shoulder responsibility and take the initiative in these ordinary things directly tests the spirit of responsibility of party members and cadres. We must be good at seeing the needs and concerns of the masses from the subtle, empathize and think from their perspective, not shirk responsibility or avoid things, treat every "small thing" related to the interests of the masses as a "big thing," and earnestly help the masses solve practical difficulties, ensuring that the people see and feel the actual results. Only in this way can we truly do our work to the hearts of the masses, and turn every responsibility into the real happiness of the masses.

It is not easy to be vigorous, and it is even more difficult to persevere. The characteristics of daily work are specific, repetitive, and even tedious, which can easily lead to inertia and a perfunctory attitude. The more this is the case, the more we need the pragmatic and tenacious energy of continuous effort and long-term success. It is worth noting and being vigilant about the phenomenon that individual party members and cadres are keen on conspicuous performance projects in their work, while turning a blind eye to and procrastinating on implicit livelihood needs. Seeing responsibility in ordinary things, party members and cadres should not only respond promptly and act immediately when problems arise, but also carry forward the spirit of nailing nails, not seeking false fame or doing superficial work, hammering one after another, following one step closely after another, grasping the things that have been decided to the end, fulfilling the promised services, and striving to do concrete work solidly, standardize repetitive tasks, and clarify complicated things, truly shouldering ordinary responsibilities with extraordinary weight, showing their true colors in long-term adherence, and demonstrating responsibility in continuous struggle.

To make the spirit of responsibility shine in ordinary things, we also need to sharpen the "wise eyes" of recognizing people in cadre evaluation. Combining the positioning of job functions, establish a scientific evaluation mechanism that combines the outstanding performance of cadres at critical moments with their consistent performance in ordinary times, looking not only at the "obvious achievements" of overcoming difficulties, but also at the "potential achievements" of laying the foundation and benefiting the long term; looking not only at the "highlight moments" under the spotlight, but also at the dedication and waiting behind the scenes. Explore and implement multi-dimensional differentiated assessments, allowing cadres with ability and potential but limited work experience to be trained in multiple positions and take on more "heavy burdens," and allowing those "old scalper"-style cadres who take responsibility and act responsibly in ordinary positions to be recognized and reused, forming a clear orientation that values practical work, actual results, and responsibility, and encouraging more party members and cadres to be conscientious and proactive in ordinary things, and write a brilliant chapter of communists taking responsibility with heart and soul.

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Fully unleash the potential of popular science for innovation-driven development

By: 王志芳

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that scientific and technological innovation and science popularization are the two wings for achieving innovative development. We must place science popularization in a position of equal importance with scientific and technological innovation, popularize scientific knowledge, promote the scientific spirit, disseminate scientific thought, and advocate scientific methods. We should promote the formation of a good atmosphere throughout society of advocating science, loving science, learning science, and applying science, so that the innovative wisdom and strength hidden among hundreds of millions of people can be fully released and flow freely. This important exposition profoundly reveals the basic logic of innovative development and establishes the strategic position of science popularization in innovative development. The newly revised "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Popularization of Science and Technology" in December 2024 incorporates "the state places science popularization in a position of equal importance with scientific and technological innovation" and "promoting close coordination between science popularization and scientific and technological innovation" into legal provisions. We must thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on the development of science popularization in the new era, closely focus on the coordinated development of the two wings, fully release the science popularization momentum facing innovative development, and provide solid support for breaking through key core technologies and achieving high-level self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology.

Science popularization and scientific and technological innovation complement each other in two-way empowerment. As a foundational task for achieving innovative development, science popularization plays a positive role in accelerating the process of scientific and technological innovation by cultivating an innovation culture, consolidating the foundation of scientific and technological talent, and promoting the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. As a strategic support for improving social productivity, scientific and technological innovation leads the development of science popularization to a higher level and broader fields through the guidance of innovative concepts and the generation of innovative achievements and technical means. Strengthening the coordination of the two wings is to promote the deep penetration and dynamic balance of the two under the guidance of national strategy, build a virtuous ecology of scientific and technological innovation—popularization and dissemination—practical application—scientific and technological re-innovation, and provide strong support for improving the quality and efficiency of innovative development.

The top-level design of the two-wing coordination is continuously improving. Policy guidance is an important guarantee for the coordination of the two wings. In recent years, the state has successively issued a series of policies and laws such as the "Outline of the National Action Plan for Scientific Literacy (2021-2035)," the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of National Science and Technology Popularization," the "Opinions on Further Strengthening Science and Technology Popularization in the New Era," and the newly revised Science Popularization Law, systematically constructing and continuously strengthening the institutional system for the coordinated development of the two wings. At the same time, these policies are connected with the newly revised Law on Scientific and Technological Progress, the National Science and Technology Development Plan, and other science popularization-related requirements, realizing the coherence of the two-wing coordination in the top-level design. From the proposal of "combining scientific research and science popularization" to establishing the strategic positioning of "equal importance of the two wings," to the "close coordination of the two wings" under the guarantee of the rule of law, a transition has been achieved from the popularization of science and technology projects to the progressive coordination of multiple elements such as scientific and technological facilities, talents, and achievements, reflecting the gradual improvement of the top-level design for promoting the coordination of the two wings at the national level.

The main bodies of the two-wing coordination are becoming increasingly diverse. The government continuously optimizes the coordinated development pattern through policy guidance and mechanism design. In the past, the main bodies participating in the two-wing coordination were mainly science and technology museums, research institutions, universities, and science and technology workers, but now it has expanded into a new system in which science and technology enterprises, media, and the general public are jointly integrated. As the main body of scientific and technological innovation, science and technology enterprises have narrowed the distance between science and technology and the public by creating immersive science popularization venues for industry, academia, and research, and opening up scientific research facilities. New media platforms have become an important channel for disseminating cutting-edge technology, significantly improving the coverage and penetration of science popularization. This multi-subject, multi-level, and multi-form collaborative ecology continues to consolidate the practice of two-wing coordination and gathers broad social forces for building a world-class science and technology power.

The content of the two-wing coordination is constantly expanding. As the core element of science popularization work, the content of science popularization is directly related to the quality of science knowledge popularization and the improvement of public scientific literacy. Original and disruptive scientific and technological innovation achievements not only expand the boundaries of human cognition, but also inject new materials, new topics, and new perspectives into science popularization. The popularization of innovative achievements has become the "frontier" direction of science popularization work, and has also enhanced the social perception and influence of scientific and technological innovation. For example, in the frontier content changes of science popularization best-selling books, hot technologies such as the metaverse, chip technology, new quality productivity, ChatGPT, and DeepSeek are widely disseminated, reflecting the public's high attention to scientific and technological progress, and also highlighting the interaction and coordination between science popularization and scientific and technological innovation.

It should also be recognized that there are still some weak links in the two-wing coordination that need to be strengthened and improved. The implementation of the system is not perfect, science popularization work has not been fully integrated into the evaluation system of science and technology projects, talents, and achievements, and the popularization of science and technology resources is insufficient. The supply of cutting-edge science popularization is lagging behind, the update speed of science popularization content cannot keep up with the pace of technological iteration, and there is a cognitive gap between the public and cutting-edge technology. There is a shortage of compound science popularization talents, some scientific researchers lack the ability to transform science popularization, and some science popularization personnel have limited understanding of cutting-edge technology. It is difficult to effectively unify professionalism and popularization, which restricts the continuous output of high-quality science popularization content and the effectiveness of dissemination. At present, China is in a critical period of accelerating the construction of a science and technology power. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China advanced the strategic goal of building a science and technology power from 2050 to 2035, and put forward clear requirements for "strengthening the construction of national science popularization capabilities." This major strategic adjustment highlights the urgency of building a science and technology power, and also puts forward higher requirements for improving the effectiveness of two-wing coordination. To solve the problems existing in the two-wing coordination, efforts need to be made in three aspects.

Strengthen institutional coordination and improve the science popularization incentive mechanism. Implement the provisions of the Science Popularization Law for scientific research institutes, schools, and enterprises to "establish evaluation standards and institutional mechanisms conducive to promoting science popularization," improve the implementation rules, evaluation standards, and reward measures of relevant supporting policies, and effectively enhance the intrinsic motivation of relevant entities to participate in science popularization. Improve the dynamic evaluation and optimization mechanism of science popularization policies, and continuously improve the effectiveness of science popularization.

Innovate the content production mechanism and promote the formation of a large science popularization pattern. Focusing on national strategic needs and people's livelihood concerns, build a socialized science popularization development pattern jointly promoted by the government, society, and the market, actively explore the creation and dissemination model of "artificial intelligence + cutting-edge science popularization + expert team," and improve the timeliness of popularizing cutting-edge technology. At the same time, expand the market-oriented path of science popularization products and services, and encourage social forces to participate in the construction of science popularization facilities and resource development.

Improve the talent training system and strengthen the construction of the science popularization team. Science popularization has the characteristics of professionalism, popularization, and interdisciplinary integration. Therefore, in the education and training and scientific research practice stages, attention should be paid to the training of scientific thinking, scientific common sense, and scientific writing skills, and the internal coherence of science popularization capacity building should be strengthened. Strengthen the training of science popularization-related professionals with science and engineering backgrounds, and promote the integration of science and technology and humanistic knowledge. Give play to the science popularization demonstration and driving role of science and technology leading talents and teams, and increase the participation rate of science and technology workers in science popularization.

(Author's affiliation: China Research Institute for Science Popularization (中国科普研究所))

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Uphold Education as a National Priority and a Party Priority

Promoting the Integrated Development of Education, Science, Technology, and Talent

Zhang Donggang (张东刚), Party Secretary of Renmin University of China (中国人民大学)

To comprehensively build a modern socialist country, education is the foundation, science and technology are the key, and talent is the fundamental element.

The essence of education is to cultivate people. Through systematic knowledge transfer and innovative ability cultivation, we can cultivate fertile ground for talent in brand building and shape a brand cultural ecology that pursues excellence and values quality. Adhering to the principle that science and technology are the primary productive forces, we optimize product performance and enrich brand connotation through technological innovation, injecting strong impetus into new quality productive forces. Talent is the key intellectual resource for education and scientific and technological development, and its professional competence and creative vitality affect the quality and height of brand building. We should strive to achieve the coordinated development of education, science and technology, and talent, and continuously enhance the international competitiveness of Chinese brands.

Universities are the central meeting point of education, science, and technology, and talent. We must promote the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, promote the construction of an independent knowledge system, independent innovation in science and technology, and independent talent cultivation, and solidly promote the construction of a strong brand country, contributing more wisdom and strength to the construction of Chinese-style modernization.

Highlight cultural leadership. Promote socialist culture with Chinese characteristics in the new era, tell the story of Chinese brands well, help build a brand narrative system with cultural subjectivity, and promote the leap from economic value to civilizational value in brand building.

Strengthen innovation empowerment. Focus on cutting-edge fields and key bottlenecks, accelerate the transformation and application of original achievements, enhance original innovation capabilities, and provide solid scientific and technological support for Chinese brands to go global.

Create an integrated ecosystem. Break down barriers between disciplines, universities and enterprises, and universities and localities, optimize discipline structures, innovate organizational models, promote the aggregation and integration of factors, release higher economic efficiency, and provide systematic support for the development of new quality productive forces and the construction of a strong brand country.

Expand global influence. Strengthen communication and promotion, deepen exchanges and mutual learning, and accelerate the formation of new quality productive forces through shared research and development, joint talent cultivation, and co-creation of brands, creating new opportunities for Chinese brands to expand their influence.

(Reported by Wu Dan (吴丹), reporter of this newspaper)

Accelerate the Construction of a High-Quality Education System

Chao Guiming (晁桂明), Deputy Director of the Department of Development and Planning, Ministry of Education (教育部)

Education is an important cornerstone of national rejuvenation and social progress. We must adhere to high-quality development as the lifeline of education at all levels and types, accelerate the construction of a high-quality education system, and empower the sustainable development of the economy and society with high-quality education development.

The "Education Powerhouse Construction Plan Outline (2024-2035)" proposes the implementation of the China Education Brand Cultivation Program. To implement this important deployment, we should coordinate brand building with high-quality education development, stand at the height of the overall national development, strengthen top-level design, form policy synergy, and integrate the brand concept into education planning.

Establish an awareness of "education brand," improve the high-quality education system, accelerate the construction of world-class universities and advantageous disciplines with Chinese characteristics, cultivate high-quality vocational colleges and characteristic primary and secondary schools that meet the needs of regional economic and social development, and form a vibrant education ecosystem.

Encourage leading enterprises to cooperate deeply with high-level universities and vocational colleges to jointly build research and development platforms, industrial colleges, and practice bases, promote the organic connection of the talent chain, technology chain, industrial chain, and innovation chain, and jointly create "industry-education integration" brand name cards that highlight Chinese characteristics.

Expand high-level education opening to the outside world, enhance the ability to cultivate and gather global talent, deepen international education and scientific research cooperation, actively participate in global education governance, and build education brands with global influence.

Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), as a millennium plan and a national priority, unfolds a new picture of high-quality development, attracting and gathering a group of high-level primary and secondary schools and excellent vocational colleges. The work of relocating universities directly under the central government in Beijing (北京) to Xiong'an (雄安) is also steadily advancing.

Next, we must make good use of the policy advantages and brand potential of Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) to further attract high-quality educational resources and give play to the radiating and driving role of high-end education brands. We will plan and build the Xiong'an education system with high standards and high quality, encourage resident universities and educational institutions to explore new school-running models and governance structures in Xiong'an (雄安), provide useful lessons for promoting high-quality education development, and make new contributions to promoting the construction of a strong education country.

(Reported by Wu Dan (吴丹), reporter of this newspaper)

Deepen the Integration of Industry and Education, and Cooperation Between Schools and Enterprises

Yu Yuguo (余育国), Member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Department of Education of Hebei Province (河北省)

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Hebei Province (河北省) comprehensively strengthened the Party's leadership over education, thoroughly implemented the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, and the popularization level of education at all levels reached a new level. The gross enrollment rates of education at all levels have achieved the "14th Five-Year Plan" goals ahead of schedule. The ability to serve and support has achieved new breakthroughs. 2.6436 million college graduates have been trained, and the proportion of strategic emerging industries and modern service industry-related majors in colleges and universities has reached 44.9%. New achievements have been made in the coordinated development of education. The first batch of relocated universities has fully started construction, and the modern education system in Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) is accelerating its construction.

Next, Hebei Province (河北省) will thoroughly implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and accelerate the construction of a strong education province.

Focus on leading industries and enhance the ability to serve economic and social development. Give play to the role of the Xiong'an University Collaborative Innovation Alliance (雄安高校协同创新联盟) to promote the deep integration of the education chain, talent chain, industrial chain, and innovation chain. Connect with Hebei's (河北) eight major industries and the "six chains and five clusters" of Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北), and improve the supply-demand adaptation mechanism and discipline adjustment mechanism for university talent cultivation.

Serve local development and continue to deepen the integration of industry and education and cooperation between schools and enterprises. Explore the "1+N" school-running model of municipal vocational colleges and establish a number of county-level colleges to serve local industrial development. Cultivate and build a number of provincial-level municipal industry-education joint communities and provincial-level industry-education integration communities.

Respond to the people's expectations and accelerate the improvement of the level of public education services. Adapt to population change trends, classify and establish an evaluation index system for the optimal allocation of basic education resources, and optimize the layout of basic education resources. Implement the county high school revitalization action to promote the diversified development of ordinary high schools.

Promote deep integration and promote the reform of artificial intelligence-enabled education. Promote the integrated development of "artificial intelligence + education," open artificial intelligence general courses in primary and secondary schools, optimize the layout of artificial intelligence-related disciplines and majors in universities, enhance teachers' ability to teach in collaboration with humans and machines, and build a human-machine collaborative education ecosystem.

(Reported by Wu Dan (吴丹), reporter of this newspaper)

Actively Explore New Forms of "Future Education"

Yang Lei (杨磊), Member of the Party Working Committee and Deputy Director of the Management Committee of Hebei Xiong'an New Area (河北雄安新区)

Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), as a millennium plan and a national priority, its educational development is not only related to the well-being of the people in the New Area, but also carries the task of exploring new paths for education in future cities.

Focus on the gathering of high-quality resources and create a "new highland" for educational development. Relying on the ideological and political education resources of primary and secondary schools and universities in Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北), Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) carefully creates a brand of ideological and political courses and forms a new ecology of ideological and political education in primary and secondary schools and universities. Deepen the coordinated development of education in Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北), establish paired cooperation relationships with many schools in Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北), deepen cooperation with various universities, and jointly build collaborative innovation platforms and basic education schools.

Deepen reform and innovation-driven, and stimulate "new momentum" for educational development. Take the creation of national-level experimental zones such as smart education demonstration zones, compulsory education teaching reform experimental zones, and national primary and secondary school science education experimental zones as the starting point to systematically deepen education reform. Launch the "Xiong'an Good Classroom" innovation action plan and build a number of teaching and research base schools. Adhere to both introduction and cultivation, implement the famous teacher and principal training project, deepen the reform of teacher evaluation and incentive mechanisms, and strive to create a good environment for educators to stand out.

Serve national strategic needs and demonstrate "new responsibilities" for educational development. Adhere to building high-quality education into an important brand for the high-quality development of Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), fully serve the overall situation of relieving non-capital functions, rationally allocate educational resources, build a 15-minute living circle, and promote the matching of educational resources with urban spatial structure, population dynamic changes, and industrial development needs. By providing high-quality and balanced public education resources, we will serve and guarantee the enrollment of children of relocated personnel in the New Area. Efficiently promote the landing of relocated universities. The first phase of the Xiong'an (雄安) campuses of the first four universities has entered the stage of comprehensive construction, and the second and third batches are being steadily and orderly promoted.

Based on the development positioning of the "future city," Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) will actively explore new forms of "future education" with a higher position, a broader vision, and more practical measures, and contribute Xiong'an (雄安) strength to the construction of a strong education country.

(Reported by Wu Dan (吴丹), reporter of this newspaper)

Integrating Innovation Throughout the Entire Process of Running Schools and Cultivating People

Jiang Guohua (姜国华), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Peking University (北京大学)

As the combination point of education, science and technology, and talent, higher education shoulders important responsibilities and special missions. Peking University (北京大学) integrates innovation throughout the entire process of running schools and cultivating people, forms a high-level talent training system, and strives to continuously inject innovative impetus into the cultivation of socialist builders and successors.

Disciplines are the pillars of the higher education system. Peking University (北京大学) strengthens basic disciplines, innovatively promotes interdisciplinary studies, and extraordinarily lays out urgently needed disciplines, taking the lead in promoting the establishment of new first-level disciplines such as regional and national studies across the country. This year, Peking University (北京大学) compiled the "Peking University (北京大学) White Paper on High-Quality Discipline Development," which clearly proposes that basic disciplines should be top-notch and peak-building, philosophy and social sciences should be independently innovative, applied disciplines should be cutting-edge breakthroughs, and interdisciplinary disciplines should be integrated and innovative, building a future-oriented and coordinated development discipline system.

Peking University (北京大学) is constantly improving the talent training system covering double majors, minor majors, interdisciplinary majors, and interdisciplinary projects. In 2025, Peking University (北京大学) will increase the number of undergraduate admissions around national strategic needs, basic disciplines, and emerging frontier fields, and increase the training of urgently needed national talents; deepen the exploration of diversified academic evaluation, and no longer use GPA rankings in various work containing academic evaluation to encourage students to explore challenging courses and fields.

Peking University (北京大学) continues to build a world-class faculty with organic growth in scale, top-notch quality, and reasonable structure, focusing on the layout of important research fields such as artificial intelligence, new materials, and biomedical imaging, and promoting the transformation of research results into the ability to serve national strategies and improve people's living standards.

At present, the Xiong'an (雄安) Hospital of Peking University People's Hospital (北京大学人民医院) and the Xiong'an (雄安) Medical-Engineering Cross-Transformation Research Institute have started construction, which will create a full-chain ecosystem of biomedicine and help Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) become a biomedical research and development highland.

(Reported by Yan Yiqiao (闫伊乔), reporter of this newspaper)

Cultivate Multi-Dimensional and Multi-Level Engineering Talents

Lei Ming (雷鸣), Executive Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Tianjin University (天津大学)

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee put forward clear requirements for accelerating high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement. In the 130 years of running the school, Tianjin University (天津大学) has taken "revitalizing the country through education" as its mission, serving major national strategies, and actively responding to the propositions of the times. Tianjin University (天津大学) will continue to polish the brand color of revitalizing the country through education and contribute new impetus to the construction of Chinese-style modernization.

New engineering foundation, enhance the leading power of the education brand. Tianjin University (天津大学) implements the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education and takes patriotism as the primary goal of talent cultivation. Facing the demand for outstanding engineering talents in key fields in the future, establish the concept of "from the future to the future," iterate and upgrade the construction of new engineering, and insist on carrying out multi-dimensional and multi-level engineering talent cultivation practices. This year, Tianjin University (天津大学) will further enhance the leading power of the new engineering education brand.

Full-chain innovation, shaping the supporting power of scientific research brands. Tianjin University (天津大学) focuses on the "four orientations" and carries out leading and original research in the fields of synthetic biology, future energy and energy storage technology, and earth science. At the same time, it constantly improves the discipline layout of "strengthening engineering, enriching science, revitalizing literature, promoting medicine, and crossing (integration)," grasps the opportunities of "two weights" and "two new," focuses on strategically urgently needed fields, builds national-level scientific research platforms, and constantly promotes the industrialization of scientific research results.

Character casting, endowing cultural brands with vitality. The mission of revitalizing the country through education, the school motto of seeking truth from facts, the school spirit of rigorous scholarship, the tradition of patriotism and dedication, and the pursuit of innovation are the connotations of Tianjin University's (天津大学) character. Tianjin University (天津大学) deeply explores the school history and cultural resources, improves the three major systems of research, education, and communication, promotes red culture, invigorates the spirit of educators, and unites people's hearts and casts souls with culture.

At a new starting point, Tianjin University (天津大学) will strive to make new contributions to building a strong education country and a strong science and technology country and promoting Chinese-style modernization.

(Reported by Wu Yue (吴月), reporter of this newspaper)

Helping to Build an Education Center City with Global Influence

Huang Baoyin (黄宝印), Party Secretary of the University of International Business and Economics (对外经济贸易大学)

Accelerating the high-quality development of education and accelerating the construction of a strong education country are issues that higher education workers need to think about. Building an important education center with global influence is an important path to building a strong education country, which has far-reaching significance for continuously enhancing the international influence, competitiveness, and discourse power of China's education in the new era.

Cities play an important role in building a strong education country. Education center cities are not only a concentration of high-quality educational resources, but also help the coordinated development of education, science and technology, and talent. We must strengthen knowledge innovation, industry-university-research integration, and international influence construction to help build an education center city with global influence.

In order to explore new perspectives on the global landscape of education center cities and build an evaluation system with international comparability and leadership, the University of International Business and Economics (对外经济贸易大学) launched the "Global Education Center City Evaluation" project, building an evaluation system covering four first-level indicators of education development power, contribution power, support power, and service power, including 12 second-level indicators and 24 third-level indicators, forming and releasing the "Top 100 Global Education Center Cities (2025)" list, providing a reference for China to build an important education center with global influence, and telling the wonderful story of China's high-quality education development.

We hope that Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), with a "new-oriented" attitude, will contribute more to building a strong education country by building Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) with high standards and high quality.

(Reported by Yan Yiqiao (闫伊乔), reporter of this newspaper)

Writing the "Xiong'an Chapter" of a Strong Education Country with the "New" of Sports

Fan Zhanbei (樊战备), Party Secretary of Beijing Sport University (北京体育大学)

Establishing Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) is a millennium plan and a national priority. Beijing Sport University's (北京体育大学) Xiong'an (雄安) campus is about to start construction, and the school feels a great responsibility.

Sports is a vivid practice of moral education, complementing intellectual education, naturally connected with aesthetic education, and also a direct embodiment of labor education, playing an indispensable role in all-round education. To answer the "Xiong'an Answer Sheet" well, first of all, we must break the old and establish the new in our concepts, re-recognize the value of sports in the modern education system, break down disciplinary barriers, and promote sports from "a major" to "national literacy."

Secondly, we must break the boundaries of the campus, redefine the boundaries of the "campus," promote the opening of sports venues and curriculum resources to the city, introduce the national competitive sports training system, carry forward the tradition of international sports exchanges, and build the Xiong'an (雄安) campus into a new window for sports diplomacy.

Finally, we must break the functional boundaries, from "single education" to "multi-empowerment," and promote the deep integration of sports into key areas of economic and social development. Focus on the cross-integration of sports science and artificial intelligence and other disciplines, give play to the advantages of sports in health promotion and other aspects, cultivate new formats of cultural, sports, and tourism integration, and attract top global sports resources.

Based in Xiong'an (雄安), Beijing Sport University (北京体育大学) is committed to transforming concepts into actions, strengthening the innovation of higher sports education models, building a new school-running model integrating sports, education, industry, and city; creating a "sports park-style campus without walls," making sports a driving force for enhancing people's well-being and urban charm; building a fusion of competitive sports and technological innovation, empowering the full-factor guarantee system with technology, and solving the problem of integrated cultivation of reserve talents for competitive sports with innovation.
In the future, Beijing Sport University (北京体育大学) is willing to work with all parties to write the "Xiong'an Chapter" of a strong educational country with the "newness" of sports.

(Reported by Yan Yiqiao (闫伊乔))

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Integration of Industry and Education, Teaching Students According to Their Aptitude Allows Each to Develop Their Strengths

Yang Renshu (杨仁树), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of the University of Science and Technology Beijing

Education, science and technology, and talent are the fundamental and strategic pillars for building a modern socialist country in all respects. Science and technology are the primary productive forces, talent is the primary resource, and innovation is the primary driving force. As an important intersection of these "three primaries," higher education must take proactive steps to serve the construction of a strong nation. The University of Science and Technology Beijing (北京科技大学), through overall design and comprehensive reform, integrates the development of education, science and technology, and talent to provide talent security and technological impetus for serving national strategies.

Systematically planning talent cultivation reform. Breaking the inherent framework for cultivating high-quality talent, we are promoting the reform of progressive talent cultivation models in stages, coordinating curriculum, laboratories, and the front lines of industry to advance the integration of science and education, and the integration of industry and education. Teaching students in accordance with their aptitude allows each to find their place and develop their strengths, learning new knowledge and practicing real skills at the forefront of scientific research, industrial breakthroughs, and global competition.

Holistically reshaping the landscape of scientific and technological innovation. Improving the organized scientific research system, focusing on national strategic needs, refining a list of major scientific questions and technological challenges facing 2035, connecting upstream and downstream, covering all disciplines, forming large teams, building large platforms, shifting from single-point breakthroughs to chain-style reconstruction, enhancing contributions to original innovation and technological change, and improving the service capacity of innovative achievements for social development.

Continuously optimizing the ecology of teacher development. Focusing on key issues that restrict teachers from concentrating on creation and dedicated cultivation, we have introduced a series of policies, expanded the sequence of professional title evaluation, scientifically improved evaluation standards, rationally optimized performance incentive measures, smoothed the path for the growth of young talents, and cultivated more great teachers and "people's scientists."

Standing at a new starting point, the University of Science and Technology Beijing (北京科技大学) will continue the red bloodline of the "steel cradle," forging steel-like bones and muscles for serving the country, and continue to write new glories in the new era.

(Compiled by Luo Yan (罗燕), reporter of *Minsheng Weekly*)

Leveraging School Advantages to Serve the Construction of Xiong'an New Area

Liu Bing (刘兵), Secretary of the Party Committee of Hebei University (河北大学)

Hebei University (河北大学) regards "serving Xiong'an" as a major mission, integrates brand building into the school's development, and leverages its school advantages to serve the construction of Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区).

Planning a brand strategy from a high starting point. Establishing the Xiong'an New Area Research Institute of Hebei University (河北大学雄安新区研究院), formulating an implementation plan for serving the construction of Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), establishing a special fund for serving Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), and coordinating and mobilizing the resources of the entire school to do a good job in service guarantee.

Consolidating the connotation of the brand with high standards. In terms of talent introduction, focusing on the ecological governance and restoration of Baiyangdian (白洋淀), introducing a group of well-known expert teams to create a top scientific research cluster for ecological governance of shallow lakes in China; focusing on the cultural construction of Xiong'an (雄安), introducing a group of national-level talents to form a strong research synergy with relevant school teams. In terms of platform construction, one national key laboratory and two Ministry of Education engineering research centers have been built within the school, and three field scientific research bases have been built in Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), and an ecological joint laboratory has been jointly built with Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区).

Forging brand value with high quality. The school's water management team is undertaking the national science and technology major project of Baiyangdian-Daqing River Basin water management project, providing strong scientific and technological support for the improvement of Baiyangdian (白洋淀) water quality; the biodiversity team has surveyed nearly 900 species of animals and plants, establishing a biological resource bank of the Baiyangdian (白洋淀) River Basin; the bird monitoring and protection team has observed 28 species of birds such as Baer's pochard and white-tailed sea eagle, providing vivid examples for the reappearance of the "bird paradise" scenery in Baiyangdian (白洋淀); the philology team has edited and completed 18 types of 951 volumes of the "Xiong'an Historical Literature Series," publishing achievements such as *Charming Xiong'an* and *Xiong'an General History*; the linguistics team has investigated the language and cultural resources of Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), forming a detailed dialect database of the Xiong'an area; the intangible cultural heritage research team has carried out a general survey of intangible cultural heritage in Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), realizing the living inheritance and modern development of cultural heritage through professional means.

(Compiled by Luo Yan (罗燕), reporter of *Minsheng Weekly*)

"Combining Work and Study" to Promote Synergistic Development of Industry, Academia, and Research

Wang Limin (王利民), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Hebei University of Technology (河北工业大学)

The world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, and a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is profoundly reshaping the global innovation landscape. Higher education is increasingly becoming a key factor in enhancing national core competitiveness and winning strategic initiative, and its function in cultivating future laborers, supporting high-level self-reliance in science and technology, and serving local development needs is becoming increasingly prominent. Through in-depth exploration and practice, Hebei University of Technology (河北工业大学) has embarked on a path of serving regional high-quality development through systemic reform of higher education.

The school inherits and develops the characteristic school-running tradition of "combining work and study," synergistic development of industry, academia, and research, implements the action plan for the excellence process of talent cultivation, innovates the talent cultivation model, comprehensively improves the quality of talent cultivation, and provides intellectual support and talent guarantee for serving national strategies and regional economic and social development. At the same time, the school adheres to forming large teams, building large platforms, gathering large projects, and producing large achievements, implements the national major science and technology project cultivation plan, focuses on the urgent needs of national and regional development, breaks disciplinary boundaries, promotes cross-integration, builds a collaborative innovation system, and improves the quality and efficiency of scientific research activities.

The school promotes the deep integration of industry and education through various forms such as project cooperation, technology transfer sub-centers, and local research institutes, builds a comprehensive service network combining points, lines, and surfaces, opens up the "last mile" of the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and released the "Action Plan for Serving Hebei."

Looking to the future, Hebei University of Technology (河北工业大学) will continue to deepen comprehensive reforms, adhere to the integrated promotion of education, science and technology, and talent, innovate the talent cultivation model, enhance the level of scientific research and innovation, expand the field of social services, and make greater contributions to striving to create a new situation in the construction of Chinese-style modernization.

(Compiled by Luo Yan (罗燕), reporter of *Minsheng Weekly*)

Building a Future-Oriented Innovative Media Education System

Wang Hui (王晖), Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Vice President of the Communication University of China (中国传媒大学)

The Communication University of China (中国传媒大学) is anchoring its new position as a "major educational stronghold for the Party's propaganda, ideological, and cultural undertakings" and accelerating the construction of a future-oriented innovative media education system.

The school systematically reconstructs and optimizes the layout of disciplines and majors, proposes the concept of discipline construction "characterized by media, driven by intersection, oriented towards the future, and coordinated with the world," continuously carries out the construction of disciplines and majors, breaks traditional disciplinary barriers, and builds a "big communication" matrix integrating news communication, international communication, art communication, and information communication.

The school drives the transformation of the education model with the "Artificial Intelligence Action Plan," formulates the *Artificial Intelligence Usage Specification*, launches the overall improvement project of teacher ability, focuses on five aspects including value shaping, knowledge architecture, human-machine collaboration, global insight, and cross-border integration, and builds a "future teacher" ability system. Integrating AI literacy, data thinking, and computing capabilities into the training program, focusing on creating a batch of "AI + Media" integrated demonstration courses.

The school improves the quality of talent cultivation through integrated reform, builds a "school-wide general education + college-wide general education + professional education" education system, and establishes the "Communication University College" to solve the problem of "how to build a foundation"; each college combines disciplinary characteristics to design "small general education" modules to solve the problems of "how to innovate" and "how to become talented."

In recent years, the school has built more than 20 important scientific research platforms such as the National Key Laboratory of Media Convergence and Communication, the National Public Opinion Laboratory, and the Joint Research Institute of International Communication of the Ministry of Education, and has made comprehensive efforts in serving international communication, the construction of a full-media communication system, the construction of a Chinese independent knowledge system, and the promotion and popularization of national common language and writing, cultivating more high-quality news communication talents.

(Compiled by Luo Yan (罗燕), reporter of *Minsheng Weekly*)

Deepening the Integration of Scientific and Technological Innovation and Industrial Innovation

Zhang Hongliang (张宏亮), Executive Vice President of the Tangshan Research Institute of Beijing Institute of Technology (北京理工大学唐山研究院)

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee proposed to seize the historical opportunity of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, coordinate the construction of a strong country in education, a strong country in science and technology, and a strong country in talent, enhance the overall effectiveness of the national innovation system, comprehensively enhance independent innovation capabilities, seize the commanding heights of scientific and technological development, and continuously generate new quality productive forces.

As an important fulcrum for the Beijing Institute of Technology (北京理工大学) to serve the coordinated development strategy of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Tangshan Research Institute of Beijing Institute of Technology (北京理工大学唐山研究院) actively practices the "three-in-one" strategic deployment of education, science and technology, and talent, and promotes the combination of talent cultivation and serving major national strategies, exploring cutting-edge technologies, and helping economic and social development. Based on scientific and technological innovation and achievement transformation, the Research Institute focuses on building a scientific and technological achievement transformation service system covering the entire chain of "basic research-application development-achievement transformation-industrial incubation," establishes and improves the school-local collaborative working mechanism, and successfully promotes projects such as gel ice and snow technology from the laboratory to industrialization.

The Research Institute deepens the integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, takes technological innovation and industrial practice as the traction, guides students to hone their skills and abilities in the process of participating in major projects, updates their knowledge structure in serving industrial innovation, provides valuable practical scenarios for the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents, and promotes the benign interaction between talent cultivation and scientific and technological innovation. These practices show that opening up the channel from "strong in science and technology" and "strong in industry" to "strong in talent" can feed back and optimize the education process, forming a virtuous cycle of mutual promotion between scientific research, achievement transformation, and talent cultivation, which is more conducive to the construction of a strong country in education, a strong country in science and technology, and a strong country in talent.

(Compiled by Wu Yue (吴月), reporter of this newspaper)

Improving the Cultivation Model for Top-Notch Innovative Talents

Zhang Caiyun (张彩云), Researcher of the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences (中国教育科学研究院) and Editor-in-Chief of *Educational Research* Magazine

The *Construction Plan Outline for a Strong Country in Education (2024-2035)* proposes to "improve the discovery and cultivation mechanism for top-notch innovative talents." Cultivating innovative talents is an important proposition of the times. We must pay attention to the new requirements of the artificial intelligence era, focus on the qualities of top-notch innovative talents, and constantly innovate the cultivation model.

Understanding the connotation of high-quality education. At present, China has built the world's largest and highest-quality education system, and basic education has reached the average level of high-income countries in the world. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, higher education has cumulatively delivered 55 million talents to society. High-quality education should achieve a leap from quantity to quality, focus on cultivating innovative talents, and run education that is satisfactory to the people, better serves economic and social development, has Chinese characteristics, and reaches the world's advanced level.

Responding to new challenges in talent cultivation. The cultivation of innovative talents cannot be limited to academic studies, but also pay attention to the cultivation of students' social and emotional abilities and family education. Social and emotional abilities, including task performance, emotion regulation, collaboration ability, openness ability, and communication ability, are important qualities required by future talents. Schools, families, and society should work together to focus on cultivating top students' ideals and beliefs, academic interests, humanistic qualities, and mental health.

Innovating the talent cultivation model. We should base ourselves on the systematic innovation of talent cultivation, start from cultivating students' creative personality system, providing cognitive and knowledge reserves for creativity generation, designing tasks that stimulate creativity, and creating an ecology conducive to creativity generation, and strive to cultivate innovative talents, enhance independent innovation capabilities, and provide talent support for accelerating the realization of high-level self-reliance in science and technology.

(Compiled by Wu Yue (吴月), reporter of this newspaper)

Continuously Expanding the Coverage of High-Quality Educational Resources

Li Juan (李娟), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Principal of Shijia Hutong Primary School in Dongcheng District, Beijing (北京市东城区史家胡同小学)

Shijia Hutong Primary School in Dongcheng District, Beijing (北京市东城区史家胡同小学) focuses on the high-quality development of education, gathers synergy in consensus, innovates models in co-governance, and magnifies value in win-win cooperation, striving to answer the fundamental questions of education: "For whom to cultivate people, what kind of people to cultivate, and how to cultivate people."

Students are not "standard parts" on an assembly line, but growing seeds, and we must strive to let each child bloom with unique brilliance. In order to cultivate socialist builders and successors with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, aesthetics, and labor, Shijia Hutong Primary School (史家胡同小学) has designed the "Seed Plan" with the goal of cultivating "harmoniously developed people with national sentiments," and constructed a system of educational concepts and practices.

The high quality of education is not a solo performance of the school. Shijia Hutong Primary School (史家胡同小学) has explored and formed a quality management model for collaborative education between home, school, and society. Under the leadership of Party building, the school promotes quality management of collaborative education between home, school, and society in a global, full-line, full-directional, full-process, and full-member manner, and realizes comprehensive quality improvement in the cycle management of "curriculum design, teaching implementation, growth evaluation, and model transformation."

The high quality of education is the unity of fairness and quality. The school has formed the Shijia Education Group (史家教育集团), accelerated the reform and innovation of systems and mechanisms, and continuously expanded the coverage of high-quality educational resources. Actively participating in the construction of Xiong'an Shijia Hutong Primary School (雄安史家胡同小学), on the basis of improving hardware facilities, we have launched the integration of educational resources and carried out achievement sharing, co-research, and co-education. Today, Xiong'an Shijia Hutong Primary School (雄安史家胡同小学) is working with Xiong'an Shijia Hutong Primary School Shangpo Campus (雄安史家胡同小学上坡校区), Xiong'an Ronghe Lemin Primary School (雄安容和乐民小学), etc., to form a development community, and strive to contribute to the high-quality development of education in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.

(Compiled by Wu Yue (吴月), reporter of this newspaper)

Developing Multiple Learning Paths Centered on Classroom Teaching

Huang Chun (黄春), Principal of Beijing No. 4 High School Xiong'an Campus (北京四中雄安校区)

Beijing No. 4 High School Xiong'an Campus (北京四中雄安校区) was built and opened in 2023, fully serving the relocation of Beijing's non-capital functions.

The school inherits a century-old educational culture, formulates the development plan for students of Beijing No. 4 High School Xiong'an Campus (北京四中雄安校区) based on and with reference to the core literacy framework for Chinese and international student development, and formulates an educational curriculum outline with "cultivating oneself, managing the family, and traveling the world" as the main line; through the whole-member mentor system, home-school-community co-education, and other paths, it has built an environmental system for student growth from the class to the campus, from the campus to the community, and from the community to the world; it emphasizes the principle of classroom teaching with the cultivation of core literacy as the main axis, and develops multiple learning paths such as project research, practical learning, and cooperative inquiry centered on classroom teaching.

Schools should play an important role in the formation of students' values. Wang Daoyuan (王道元), the first principal of Beijing No. 4 High School (北京四中), once encouraged students to "support themselves, cooperate with righteousness, accumulate their savings, and make great contributions to the world." This message has become the core of the school's education. Beijing No. 4 High School (北京四中) advocates that students experience various forms of education such as reading, speech, and writing in middle school to enrich students' growth experience. In Xiong'an Campus (雄安校区), the educational ideal of "being an outstanding Chinese" is rooted in the school spirit of "diligence, rigor, democracy, and pioneering" and the educational philosophy of "educating people with people and developing together," accompanied by the school motto of "diligence, rigor, democracy, and pioneering" and the clean, upright, and fresh style.

Today, the extension of Beijing No. 4 High School's (北京四中) education is expanding, but the connotation of a century-old high-quality education has never changed. Beijing No. 4 High School (北京四中) will strive to build a new highland of education and complete the new educational practice in Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) with high quality.

(Compiled by Yan Yiqiao (闫伊乔), reporter of this newspaper)

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Bank of China Helps the China International Import Expo Get Better and Better

Since the first China International Import Expo (CIIE) was held in 2018, the Bank of China (中国银行), as a strategic partner of the CIIE, has always deeply participated in this global economic and trade event with a global vision and professional services. Over the past 8 years, relying on its service network covering 64 countries and regions overseas, the Bank of China (中国银行) has provided comprehensive financial services to tens of thousands of exhibitors and merchants from more than 100 countries and regions, promoting "exhibits into commodities, exhibitors into investors," and helping the CIIE become better and better. This year, the Bank of China (中国银行) has innovatively upgraded ten highlight services to inject new impetus into the CIIE.

"Full Attendance" Participation: Building a Financial Bridge for Economic and Trade Cooperation

For the past 8 years, the Bank of China (中国银行) has always been a "full attendance student" on the CIIE stage. In the previous 7 CIIEs, the Bank of China (中国银行) continuously upgraded its service plan, cumulatively supporting nearly 150 overseas exhibition promotion events and more than 120 domestic investment roadshows, facilitating more than 5,000 cooperation intentions, with intended amounts exceeding 50 billion US dollars.

Since the beginning of this year, the Bank of China (中国银行) has successfully provided support and guarantee for more than ten overseas exhibition routes for the 8th CIIE, covering more than 20 countries and regions including Germany (德国), Australia (澳大利亚), Malaysia (马来西亚), and Brazil (巴西), building a bridge for enterprises from various countries to enter the Chinese market.

At the trade and investment matchmaking conference, the Bank of China (中国银行) leveraged the advantages of the "BOC e-Enterprises" (中银e企赢) global cross-border matchmaking platform to enrich the channels for cross-border connection of enterprises and help enterprises explore new markets. Through the trade and investment matchmaking conferences of the previous 7 CIIEs, the Bank of China (中国银行) has cumulatively served more than 30,000 enterprises, and the trade and investment matchmaking conference has become an important platform for global enterprises and investors to share Chinese opportunities.

During the 8th CIIE, the Bank of China (中国银行) will host or undertake activities such as the trade and investment matchmaking conference and the Hongqiao International Economic Forum (虹桥国际经济论坛) "Financial Assistance to Global Economic and Trade Development" sub-forum, providing financial services and support for China's (中国) promotion of high-level opening-up and promotion of global economic and trade prosperity and development.

Innovation and Breakthrough: Upgrading Services to Light up the CIIE

On the stage of this CIIE, the Bank of China (中国银行) plans to launch ten highlight services such as "Hello, China" 3.0, Exhibition Alliance Entering BOC, and CIIE Promoting Consumption, to help the CIIE shine brightly.

In terms of forum hosting, the Bank of China (中国银行) will host the Hongqiao International Economic Forum (虹桥国际经济论坛) "Financial Assistance to Global Economic and Trade Development" sub-forum, inviting experts and scholars in the field of international economy and trade to participate in speeches and exchanges, spark ideas, and gather development consensus.

In terms of cross-border matchmaking services, the Bank of China (中国银行) will jointly host the trade and investment matchmaking conference for the eighth consecutive year, continuing to build an accurate matchmaking platform for enterprises, using the CIIE as a bridge to create negotiation opportunities for exhibitors and purchasers.

In terms of innovative display, the Bank of China (中国银行) will set up a cross-border e-commerce service zone for the first time, inviting leading cross-border e-commerce platforms, payment institutions, etc. to participate in the exhibition, jointly build a new foreign trade ecosystem, and inject financial impetus into the development of new foreign trade formats.

In order to optimize the experience of overseas people coming to China (中国), the Bank of China (中国银行) focuses on foreign card payment services in scenarios such as "clothing, food, housing, transportation, shopping, entertainment, medical care, and education," and continues to promote the construction of a foreign card payment environment. Breaking through technical barriers, a new American Express (美运) foreign card acceptance channel has been added for Sunrise merchants at Shanghai Pudong International Airport (上海浦东国际机场); continuously assisting the offline recharge machines (Pudong Airport (浦东机场) location) and online APP foreign card recharge of Shanghai Public Transportation Card (上海公交卡), facilitating foreigners to take public transportation such as ferries, taxis, subways, buses, and municipal airport lines throughout the city; improving the level of foreign currency cash services, realizing foreign currency cash exchange services in 33 currencies, and expanding the scope of acceptance to 258 Bank of China (中国银行) outlets in Shanghai (上海); improving the level of payment facilitation services at key ports, and providing pre-service points at the one-stop comprehensive service center for foreigners in Terminal 2 of Shanghai Pudong International Airport (上海浦东国际机场 T2 航站楼), popularizing information such as the 8th CIIE ticket purchase process, transportation routes, and check-in activities for inbound passengers, and providing foreign currency exchange and other financial services. As of the end of September this year, the Bank of China (中国银行) has achieved 4,753 merchants accepting foreign cards in Shanghai (上海), an increase of 133 from the beginning of the year; the number of terminals is 11,072, an increase of 941 from the beginning of the year.

Moving Towards the New: Continuously Empowering High-Level Opening-Up

Standing at a new starting point, the Bank of China (中国银行) will continue to leverage its globalization and comprehensiveness advantages, using the CIIE as a fulcrum to serve and integrate into the new development pattern.

The Bank of China (中国银行) is accelerating the pace of innovation, committed to building an open platform on a larger scale, and helping to further amplify the spillover effect of the CIIE. Since the beginning of this year, the Bank of China (中国银行) has once again renewed and upgraded the "Exhibition Alliance Entering BOC" brand, continuously expanding the influence and attractiveness of the event. The first "Exhibition Alliance Entering BOC" event of the 8th CIIE recently attracted nearly a hundred companies including L'Oréal (欧莱雅), Kering Group (开云集团), Estée Lauder (雅诗兰黛), AstraZeneca (阿斯利康), Roche Pharmaceuticals (罗氏制药), and Ernst & Young (安永), covering six major fields: medical care, automobiles, technical equipment, consumer goods, agricultural food products, and service trade. Through tripartite dialogues between government, banks, and enterprises, the event promoted the sharing of CIIE opportunities among members of the Exhibition Alliance.

During the last CIIE, the Sino-Italian Lingang Innovation Cooperation Industrial Park (中意临港创新合作产业园) was officially released to the public, and the Shanghai Branch of Bank of China (中国银行上海市分行) and the Milan Branch of Bank of China (中国银行米兰分行) signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Administrative Committee of Shanghai Lingang New Area (上海临港新片区管委会). In February this year, the Bank of China (中国银行) once again joined hands with the Administrative Committee of Shanghai Lingang New Area (上海临港新片区管委会) to jointly hold the "Sino-Italian Enterprises Entering Shanghai Lingang (中意企业走进上海临港)" event, inviting more than 50 Chinese (中国) and Italian (意大利) companies to participate in the conference, promoting financial service facilitation measures on-site, and committed to providing solid support for Chinese (中国) and Italian (意大利) companies to share Chinese (中国) opportunities and achieve global expansion.

Eight years of companionship, a new journey begins. The Bank of China (中国银行) will continue to rely on the CIIE platform, using the power of finance to promote more "Chinese (中国) solutions" to the world, help global enterprises share Chinese (中国) opportunities, and use practical actions to interpret the responsibility of a large state-owned bank, writing a new chapter in serving the CIIE and serving global economic and trade cooperation.

Data source: Bank of China (中国银行)

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jointly create a future of the rule of law, fairness, and justice (authoritative forum)

The United Nations, since its establishment 80 years ago, has built an international order framework based on international law, creating favorable conditions for Southern countries to strive for sovereign independence and collective rise. Southern countries have also made important contributions to maintaining and developing international law. Currently, the world has entered a period of turbulence and change. Southern countries firmly uphold the international order based on international law, actively participate in the formulation of international rules, promote the rule of law in international relations, and promote global governance towards a more just and reasonable direction. This issue specially invites five experts in the field of international law to discuss the contributions of Southern countries to the international rule of law and how to further promote and improve the international rule of law.

Zheng Ruohua (郑若骅) (Secretary-General of the International Organization for Mediation, Co-Chair of the Asian Academy of International Law)

Liu Huawen (柳华文) (Director of the Institute of International Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

Oliviero Diliberto (Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Rome, Italy)

Si Fulan (司芙兰) (Director of the Center for Chinese Studies, National University of La Plata, Argentina)

Andre Thomashausen (Honorary Professor of International Law, University of South Africa, South African international affairs expert)

After the establishment of the international system with the United Nations as its core, the international legal system has undergone profound changes from being dominated by a few countries to being governed by multiple parties.

Zheng Ruohua (郑若骅): After World War II, the international order with the United Nations as its core and international law as its foundation provided institutional guarantees for the world to maintain overall peace and achieve development. The international legal system has undergone profound changes from being dominated by a few countries to being governed by multiple parties. Developing countries have gradually transformed from passive recipients of rules to joint formulators of rules. Through collective action and innovative practices, developing countries have promoted the development of a series of international law principles and rules, making the international order more just and reasonable.

The Bandung Conference held in Indonesia in 1955 adopted the Ten Principles reflecting the common demands of developing countries. After the conference, the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization was established, actively participating in the construction of the international legal system and the formulation of international rules. This was an important step taken by developing countries in their collective rise. Since then, multilateral cooperation frameworks such as the Group of 77, the Non-Aligned Movement, and the BRICS cooperation mechanism have further enhanced the international legislative capabilities of developing countries.

Andre Thomashausen: The participation of developing countries as a collective force in international legislation stems from the decolonization movement after World War II. Countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America actively strived for national independence and national liberation, and participated in the establishment and improvement of the international legal system. In 1960, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the "Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples," emphasizing the right to self-determination of colonial countries and peoples, and demanding an immediate end to colonial rule. The "African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights," which came into effect in 1986, emphasizes the universality of human rights and the importance of the right to development, emphasizing that countries not only have human rights protection obligations, but should also promote collective development. This expands the scope of international human rights law and reflects the contribution of developing countries in enriching the concept of human rights. The 1992 "United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change" established the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, reflecting the demands of developing countries to participate in global climate governance, that is, to ensure the right to development of developing countries while addressing climate change, so that countries at different levels of development can share the responsibilities of climate change governance in a more just and reasonable manner.

Liu Huawen (柳华文): The rise of developing countries has promoted the quantitative and qualitative changes in international law after World War II. Under the premise of following the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter, collective actions have transformed demands such as sovereign equality, security, and development into the content of the international legal system. In 1974, the United Nations General Assembly successively adopted the "Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order" and the "Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States," proposing principles such as sovereign equality and permanent sovereignty over natural resources, advocating to bridge the economic development differences between developed and developing countries, indicating that developing countries have begun to take action to improve the international order. The "United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea," which took 9 years of negotiations to pass, is a model of developing countries' deep participation in international legislation and the realization of institutional innovation. The "200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone" and "the right of landlocked countries to access the sea and freedom of transit" that appear in the convention all reflect the innovation and increased voice of developing countries in the formulation of international law.

Oliviero Diliberto: The international order with the United Nations as its core and international law as its foundation reflects the balance of various forces in the world. However, most of the foundations of international law were built decades ago and are facing difficulties in the context of increasing global uncertainty. It is necessary to design new international legal frameworks and content, which requires people to reflect on the current difficulties and use concepts that conform to the current situation as guidance. Global issues such as geopolitics, public health, and climate change also make us realize that the only way out for the future of mankind is cooperative development. Only through cooperation can we overcome numerous difficulties, and law is a powerful weapon for maintaining peace and development. China has always been committed to maintaining its own development interests and the development interests of other developing countries through law, advocating that countries transcend institutional differences, abandon zero-sum game thinking, practice true multilateralism, and play a vital role in the innovation and development of international law.

China's participation in shaping "international law for developing countries" makes it more distinctive, attractive, and influential.

Zheng Ruohua (郑若骅): China, together with other developing countries, actively promotes and shapes "international law for developing countries," making it more distinctive, attractive, and influential. In the 1950s, China, India, and Myanmar formally proposed the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, which is an important development and contribution to the basic principles of international law. Currently, facing major changes unseen in a century, China advocates building a community with a shared future for mankind, which points the direction for the development of international law and international relations.

In recent years, China has successfully mediated the resumption of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and facilitated the joint signing of the "Beijing Declaration on Ending Division and Strengthening Palestinian National Unity" by 14 Palestinian factions, promoting the resolution of differences through dialogue and providing a demonstration for the international community to resolve conflicts. This year, China, together with more than 30 countries, established the International Organization for Mediation in Hong Kong. This dispute resolution system innovation led by developing countries makes up for the limitations of traditional international dispute resolution mechanisms and attracts the attention of more countries, including developed countries.

Si Fulan (司芙兰): Within the framework of the United Nations, China has proposed and promoted a series of initiatives and resolutions that unite the strength of developing countries, and actively assumes the responsibility of innovating the international legal system. China proposed and passed the resolution on "Promoting Cooperation and Win-Win Results in the Field of Human Rights" at the United Nations Human Rights Council, advocating to resolve human rights issues through constructive dialogue, which is in line with the expectations of the international community, especially developing countries, for fair and inclusive human rights governance. China's promotion of the adoption of such resolutions aims to enhance the voice of developing countries in the field of human rights and promote global human rights governance in a more just and reasonable direction. China also helps other developing countries strengthen capacity building and jointly safeguard international fairness and justice by providing legal assistance and training legal talents.

Oliviero Diliberto: At the global governance level, a series of new international organizations or cooperation mechanisms in which China participates and leads have emerged, such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the BRICS cooperation mechanism. They seek to achieve a rebalancing of global forces and promote international rules to better reflect the universal demands and common interests of developing countries. China provides international public goods such as the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative, promotes the construction of cross-border railways, highways, ports, energy pipelines and other infrastructure in relevant countries, solves the problem of uneven infrastructure development in developing countries, and responds to the "right to development" concept proposed by developing countries. China promotes the adoption of resolutions on promoting human rights through development by the United Nations Human Rights Council, calling on all countries to fully implement the United Nations "Declaration on the Right to Development," build global development partnerships, eliminate obstacles to development, and enable developing countries to achieve better development.

Andre Thomashausen: As the world's largest developing country, China actively participates in the formulation and interpretation of rules in the field of international law, demonstrating its efforts to unite the vast number of developing countries to jointly shape a fair, inclusive, and sustainable international rule system. A series of new concepts, new propositions, and new initiatives proposed by China are highly consistent with the principles of multilateralism advocated by the United Nations. Concepts such as "extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits" and "building a community with a shared future for mankind" have been written into United Nations documents many times and have been actively responded to by various countries, and are constantly being transformed into international consensus.

In the WTO dispute settlement mechanism, China not only adheres to the rules, but also emphasizes fair application. It not only uses WTO legal provisions to safeguard its own rights and interests, but also provides other developing countries with referential strategies and experiences, and promotes the capacity building of developing countries in the interpretation of international law. As an important party to the "United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change" and its "Paris Agreement," China adheres to the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, believing that developed countries should bear historical responsibilities and financial and technical obligations to ensure that the global climate law system takes into account the economic growth and poverty alleviation needs of developing countries. This not only makes "climate justice" an important part of international law discourse, but also safeguards the institutional rights and interests of the vast number of developing countries.

Southern countries strengthen unity to ensure that international law becomes a tool for maintaining fairness and justice.

Oliviero Diliberto: Despite the numerous innovations and contributions of developing countries, international law is still mainly established by developed countries, and the right to formulate and interpret international rules has long been monopolized by a few Western powers. The proportion of representatives from developing countries is too low, which leads to the diversity and fairness of judgments being affected. In specific international litigation and negotiations, developing countries often face problems such as information asymmetry and insufficient professional capabilities. They need to strengthen unity, enhance their influence on the formulation of international rules, and promote the formation of a more inclusive and fair international legal order through mechanism dialogue, platform construction, and collective action to ensure that international law truly becomes a tool for maintaining international fairness and justice.

Global technology companies are in a period of rapid expansion, and the vast number of developing countries are very concerned about their national data sovereignty and data security. In response to the latest technology fields such as generative artificial intelligence services, the Chinese government has introduced management measures, providing useful references for other countries. China has proposed the "Global Data Security Initiative" and the "Global Artificial Intelligence Governance Initiative," which are in line with the demands of many developing countries in data security governance. In 2024, the 78th United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the resolution on strengthening international cooperation in artificial intelligence capacity building proposed by China, and more than 140 countries participated in the joint signing of the resolution; in 2025, the 17th BRICS Leaders' Meeting adopted the "BRICS Leaders' Statement on Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence." These are the latest consensus reached by Southern countries in this field.

Si Fulan (司芙兰): Multiple multilateral cooperation mechanisms in which China participates provide an effective framework for Southern countries to promote the construction of a more just and reasonable international order. The "Tianjin Declaration of the Council of Heads of Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization" clearly proposes to support the reform of international financial institutions to enhance the representation and voice of developing countries in the management departments of international financial institutions. Multilateral cooperation mechanisms such as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, the China-Latin America Cooperation Forum, and the China-Africa Cooperation Forum all incorporate the demands of developing countries into the development process. While promoting the progress of international law and injecting strong impetus into the international rule of law, they also take sovereign equality and enhancing the voice of developing countries as the core, providing a demonstration for building a more just and reasonable international order.

Andre Thomashausen: China has formed a pragmatic and strategic path of the rule of law in its long-term participation in multilateral mechanisms: it not only abides by existing international rules, but also promotes the international system to be more inclusive and fair by actively participating in negotiations, proposing initiatives, and interpreting rules. In terms of legal capacity building, African countries hope that China will expand legal talent training to help African countries enhance their professional capabilities in international negotiations and dispute resolution. On emerging issues such as digital trade, climate governance, intellectual property rights, and global public health, African countries expect China to play a leading role in rule-making to ensure that new rules do not reproduce the phenomenon of "North-South inequality."

Liu Huawen (柳华文): China and Southern countries should actively promote the enrichment and development of international dispute resolution mechanisms and enrich existing dispute resolution channels. In cyberspace, outer space, artificial intelligence, deep-sea polar regions, etc., China and other Southern countries need to strengthen technical research, development, and practice, and actively participate in the formation of international rules in emerging fields. China can strengthen talent training and academic exchanges in the field of international law together with other Southern countries, break the long-term monopoly of the West in international law theory and discourse system, draw wisdom from the historical culture and development practices of Southern countries, build a set of international law discourse that can reflect their own positions and values, and further form and promote the concept and system of "international law for developing countries."

From sowing seeds at the Bandung Conference to growing vigorously on today's global governance stage, Southern countries have proven that they are a key force in promoting international law towards a more fair, just, and inclusive direction. The future international rule of law order will inevitably be deeply imprinted with the mark of Southern countries.

(Reporters Zhang Bolan (张博岚), Wang Xiaobo (王骁波), Xie Yahong (谢亚宏), and Dai Kairan (戴楷然) interviewed and compiled this report)

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L'Oréal Directly or Indirectly Creates Over 330,000 Jobs in China

China is an important strategic market for the L'Oréal Group.

L'Oréal is a globally renowned beauty group. L'Oréal China has more than 15,000 employees.

Currently, 64% of the products sold by L'Oréal in China are produced locally.

Thanks to the complete value chain established by L'Oréal in China, one L'Oréal China position can drive the increase of 20 positions in related fields. This enables L'Oréal to directly or indirectly create more than 330,000 jobs in China, continuously contributing to China's employment market and economic development.

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Zhengzhou Fully Promotes New Energy Vehicle Development Practices, Building a New Trillion-Yuan Industrial Highland in Central China

In autumn, walking into Zhongmu County (中牟县), Zhengzhou (郑州) City, Henan (河南省) Province, automobile component factories can be seen everywhere. Inside, the sound of machinery is constant. On the roads, trucks loaded with automobile components head towards the distance.

Zhongmu County (中牟县) is located in the eastern part of Zhengzhou (郑州) City. Previously, Zhongmu (中牟) was an agricultural county, lacking industry. Now, as Zhengzhou (郑州) is fully developing its automobile industry, hundreds of automobile component manufacturing enterprises, such as Zhengzhou Nissan (郑州日产), BAK Battery (比克电池), and Zhengzhou Feilong (郑州飞龙), have settled in Zhongmu (中牟).

The transformation of Zhongmu (中牟) is a vivid microcosm of Zhengzhou's (郑州) efforts to expand and strengthen its automobile industry.

Currently, Zhengzhou (郑州) has seven complete vehicle enterprises, including Yutong Bus (宇通客车) and Zhengzhou BYD (郑州比亚迪), as well as more than 150 supporting enterprises such as Fuyao Glass (福耀玻璃), with a supporting production capacity of over 2.6 million vehicles and an industrial scale of over 300 billion yuan. It has been approved as a fuel cell vehicle demonstration application Zhengzhou (郑州) city cluster and approved to carry out pilot projects for comprehensive electrification of vehicles in the public sector, and is striding forward towards building a nationally important new energy vehicle industry base.

Forward-looking Layout, Internal and External Linkage

In the early stages of the new energy vehicle industry, Zhengzhou (郑州) seized the opportunity. Since 2014, Zhengzhou (郑州) has been fully committed to building a trillion-yuan-level new energy vehicle industrial cluster, seizing the opportunity to build a fuel cell vehicle demonstration application Zhengzhou (郑州) city cluster, and listing the automobile manufacturing industrial chain as one of the 20 key industrial chains to be cultivated.

Attracting leading enterprises from the outside, seeking breakthroughs in introducing incremental capacity. Zhengzhou (郑州) vigorously attracts leading new energy vehicle complete vehicle enterprises such as BYD (比亚迪) and SAIC (上汽) to settle, invest, and expand their investments. In September 2021, Zhengzhou Airport Economic Comprehensive Experimental Zone (郑州航空港经济综合实验区) signed an agreement with BYD (比亚迪). The project started construction in 37 days and went into production in 17 months. In 2023, the output exceeded 200,000 vehicles in the year of production, with an output value of 33.47 billion yuan completed in the same year. In 2024, the output of Zhengzhou BYD (郑州比亚迪) complete vehicles reached 545,000 vehicles, an increase of 169.8% year-on-year. Its production base has an automation rate of 98%, with an average of "one power battery cell produced every 30 seconds" and "one vehicle produced in less than a minute."

Promoting internal transformation, focusing on revitalizing existing capacity. Zhengzhou (郑州) actively guides enterprises such as Yutong Bus (宇通客车), Zhengzhou Nissan (郑州日产), and Dongfeng Nissan (东风日产) to fully transform towards new energy, enrich the new energy vehicle product system, and improve capacity utilization; encourages enterprises such as Haima Automobile (海马汽车) to revitalize idle capacity through strategic cooperation and joint research and development.

Currently, the city's automobile industry is mainly located in four complete vehicle cluster areas: Zhengzhou Economic Development Zone (郑州经开区), Zhongmu County (中牟县), Guancheng Hui District (管城回族区), and Xingyang City (荥阳市). At the same time, the construction of the Zhengzhou Airport Economic Zone (郑州航空港产业集聚区) is being actively promoted.

Multiple Measures, Precise Policies

To build a nationally important new energy vehicle industry base, Zhengzhou (郑州) is taking multiple measures and implementing precise policies.

Establishing a special working group, organizing special promotion, and coordinating the development of the entire chain. Zhengzhou (郑州) has successively formulated and issued policy documents such as the "Zhengzhou City Action Plan for Cultivating and Strengthening the Automobile Manufacturing Industry Chain (2023-2025)" and the "Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Development of New Energy and Intelligent Connected Vehicle Industries," constructing a policy support system from the dimensions of industrial planning, element guarantee, and project implementation.

The key to planning affairs lies in people. Zhengzhou (郑州) has established a "one chain, one special team, one research and development institution, one map, and eight lists" working mechanism, clarifying eight major tasks including industrial chain investment promotion, project construction, enterprise cultivation, collaborative innovation, and industrial chain collaboration, forming a closed loop of full-cycle management and full-element guarantee.

At the same time, Zhengzhou (郑州) takes the initiative to actively implement land for new industrial investment projects and improve infrastructure support; supports enterprises in carrying out research and development of fuel cell vehicles, and accelerates the construction of the Zhengzhou (郑州) node of the Zhengzhou-Kaifeng-Luoyang-Puyang Hydrogen Corridor (郑汴洛濮氢走廊); deepens the construction of vehicle-road-cloud integration, promotes large-scale testing of intelligent connected vehicles, and has cumulatively opened 105.33 kilometers of test routes... Multiple measures are taken to continuously promote the high-quality development of the new energy vehicle industry.

Strengthening Weaknesses, Forging Strengths, Innovation-Driven

Currently, the new energy vehicle industry is entering a period of rapid development. Facing the opportunities of industrial change, Zhengzhou (郑州) focuses on strengthening weaknesses and forging strengths, using industrial agglomeration as the engine and innovation breakthrough as the gearshift, and stepping on the accelerator in the new energy track.

In response to the problem of "insufficient number of key supporting enterprises" reflected by enterprises, Zhengzhou (郑州) focuses on strengthening, focusing on Zhengzhou Airport Area (郑州航空港区), Zhengzhou Economic Development Zone (郑州经开区), Zhongmu County (中牟县), and Zhengzhou High-tech Zone (郑州高新区), and fully promotes the construction of "4+N" new energy vehicle component industrial parks to achieve "synchronized improvement" in the scale and quality of the automobile supporting industry and the automobile complete vehicle industry.

Now, there are more than 150 automobile core component enterprises in Zhengzhou (郑州) City, including Zhongchuang Zhiling (中创智领), Shenlan Power (深澜动力), and Zhengzhou BAK (郑州比克), involving a series of products such as power batteries, motor electronic controls, automobile chassis parts, automobile glass, and automobile seats.

Facing the demand of "the need to strengthen independent automobile research and development capabilities," Zhengzhou (郑州) immediately took action, aiming at the "three vertical and three horizontal" core technology fields of new energy (three vertical refers to pure electric, hybrid, and fuel cell vehicles; three horizontal refers to drive systems, electronic control systems, and battery management systems), and jointly carried out technical research with enterprises, attracting enterprises and universities to establish research and development centers and research institutes in Zhengzhou (郑州), carrying out talent recruitment activities, and promoting a virtuous cycle of technology flow, talent flow, and capital flow.

In recent years, Zhengzhou (郑州) has built 16 national-level technology platforms such as enterprise technology centers, complete vehicle test centers, and new energy complete vehicle engineering laboratories, and 39 provincial-level key research and development platforms, and a number of key technologies and products have achieved breakthroughs.

In response to the expectation of "the urgent need to accelerate the popularization of new energy vehicles," as one of the first pilot cities for comprehensive electrification of vehicles in the public sector, Zhengzhou (郑州) actively responded, carrying out the promotion of new energy vehicles in the fields of buses, taxis, and official vehicles, realizing the comprehensive new energy of buses and cruising taxis in the main urban area, and the electrification rate of sanitation vehicles and online car-hailing taxis in the main urban area reached more than 70%.

Taking advantage of the "trade-in" of consumer goods, Zhengzhou (郑州) has carried out consumer promotion activities such as new energy vehicle consumption festivals and activity weeks, increased automobile replacement subsidies, and new energy vehicle subsidies up to 20,000 yuan; accelerated the improvement of charging and swapping infrastructure construction, and strived to build a "Central Plains Supercharging City (中原超充之城)." Currently, the city's charging facility scale has exceeded 200,000, and 30 hydrogen refueling stations have been built, forming a public charging and swapping network with a radius of less than 1 kilometer in the core urban area.

Responding to the suggestion of "the need to optimize supporting support," Zhengzhou (郑州) continues to exert efforts, jointly with relevant departments, to issue the "Opinions on Financial Support for the High-Quality Development of the New Energy Vehicle Industry Chain," increase financial support for key links in the new energy vehicle industry chain, and accelerate the formation of a modern automobile financial service system; relying on logistics hubs such as Zhengzhou International Land Port (郑州国际陆港), build a modern automobile logistics base integrating "multimodal transport + warehousing services + international logistics"; successively held the 2023 China (Zhengzhou) International Intelligent Connected Vehicle Competition, Zhengzhou International Racing Carnival, and the 2023 China Supercar Championship Zhengzhou Station, and successfully held the Zhengzhou International Auto Show, the Dahe International Auto Show, and the China (Zhengzhou) International Auto Aftermarket Expo.

With multi-party collaboration, remarkable results have been achieved. In the new energy vehicle track, Zhengzhou (郑州) has entered the first echelon in the country. In 2024, the added value of the automobile manufacturing industry above designated size in Zhengzhou (郑州) City increased by 50.8% year-on-year, with 626,000 new energy vehicles rolling off the production line, doubling year-on-year, and the total automobile production exceeded 1.1 million vehicles.

Anchoring Goals, Striving for Excellence

Zhengzhou (郑州) has clarified and continues to promote the 2025 development goals of the automobile industry: striving to break through the production capacity of 3 million complete vehicles and accelerate the advancement of the industrial scale towards the trillion-yuan level.

Promote the expansion and quality improvement of complete vehicles. Accelerate the release of production capacity of projects such as BYD (比亚迪) and SAIC (上汽), promote the mass production of new models of Zhixing Box Automobile (智行盒子汽车), and further accelerate the production and implementation of projects of Yutong Bus (宇通客车), BYD (比亚迪), and Dongfeng Nissan (东风日产).

Enhance the supply capacity of core components. Increase the production capacity of BYD (比亚迪) and SAIC (上汽) power battery projects, accelerate the promotion of BAK (比克) large cylindrical battery projects, and accelerate the introduction of automobile electronics and automotive sensor enterprises.

Improve the industrial innovation system. Accelerate the construction of the National New Energy Vehicle Product Quality Inspection and Testing Center, support leading enterprises to establish new research and development centers, lead the construction of innovation consortia, and build a nationally important new energy technology center.

Carry out various demonstration pilot projects. Coordinate and promote the demonstration application of fuel cell vehicles and the pilot work of comprehensive electrification of vehicles in the public sector, taking the bus and sanitation fields as entry points, cautiously carry out large-scale testing and demonstration of intelligent assisted driving vehicles, and seize the future development opportunities of the industry.

In autumn, walking in Zhengzhou (郑州), you can see the rise of Zhengzhou's (郑州) automobile industry, and you can also observe the striving trajectory of China's automobile industry and manufacturing industry. The new era of Zhengzhou (郑州) carries the ardent hope of the new energy vehicle industry.

Data source: Zhengzhou Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology (郑州市工业和信息化局)

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Sunlight and Flags

By: 高洪波

When My Pen

Writes the phrase "sunshine,"

I feel a burning heat from the tip of my pen,

As if light is injected into my pen tube,

Streaming down in strands

Onto the plain-like manuscript paper.

Oh, sunshine, in the deep dark night,

You are the clothes to keep out the cold,

You are the warm hope.

Oh, sunshine, in the cold and desolate old China (旧中国),

In the cloudy old era,

Sunshine is like water, like sugar, like grain,

Able to give a nation's frail body

The richest nourishment,

Letting its anxious eyes

Emit the thirst for life and signs of survival.

Sunshine-like moments,

Sunshine-like political party,

Sunshine-like future,

Stored in that red boat a hundred years ago,

In the ordinary cabin.

When my pen

Writes the phrase "flag,"

I suddenly hear in my ears

The roaring shouts of the wind,

And the magnificent breath of

Mountains, rivers, and streams rising and falling on the flag,

And the unyielding gazes of

Martyrs adorning the flag.

I think of a flag,

A red bed sheet in Zhazidong (渣滓洞),

With five stars sewn on it,

Five stars cut from cardboard,

But with the quality of gold.

This flag is not gorgeous,

Not even up to standard,

But it is so dignified and solemn.

The makers sacrificed themselves on the eve of dawn,

But there is this flag,

The flag is their sustenance,

The flag is their faith.

They used the warp and weft of their lives

To weave this

Blood-colored flag, left to us,

Like history left to reality,

Like yesterday left to today,

Like a father left to his son.

This flag carries

The childish voice of Little Carrot Head (小萝卜头),

And the cry of Sister Jiang (江姐).

This flag flashes with

General Ye Ting's (叶挺) perseverance,

And Xu Yunfeng's (许云峰) decisiveness.

What a flag this is!

When I gaze at it,

It also gazes at me.

I read a heavy expectation.

Sunshine and flag, at this moment,

Flicker in Tiananmen Square (天安门广场),

In the parade of the National Day military review.

The sunshine is hot and bright,

The flag is bright and stretched.

Under the backdrop of the blue sky,

Silver-like sunshine is generous,

Covering every inch of the Republic's land.

The wind blows the flag,

The flag shows the shape of the wind

Happily.

So, at this moment, I write

This solemn title.

This is a nation's choice.

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Visiting Sun Li at Sanjiangtai (Visiting)

By: 陈 晔

Sun Li regarded Fuping (阜平) as his "second hometown," and Sanjiangtai (三将台) is perhaps one of the reasons.

In Sun Li's (孙犁) writings, Sanjiangtai (三将台) is written as Xianjiangtai (鲜姜台). Perhaps it was for wartime secrecy, to avoid exposing the places where the troops stayed, that he used a homophone. In 1939, following instructions from his superiors, he went to western Hebei (冀西) and worked successively at the Jin-Cha-Ji News Agency (晋察冀通讯社), the Border Region Literary Association (边区文协), the *Jin-Cha-Ji Daily* (《晋察冀日报》), and North China United University (华北联大), dedicating himself to the national resistance against Japan, using his pen as a weapon, and becoming a true cultural warrior.

In the spring of 1939, he came to Fuping (阜平), the capital of the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region (晋察冀边区), and was assigned to the Communications Guidance Section of the Jin-Cha-Ji News Agency (晋察冀通讯社), where his job was to guide correspondents in their writing. During the war, the method of guidance was writing letters. At Sanjiangtai (三将台), he wrote letters to correspondents, sometimes as many as seventy or eighty a day. In the 1930s, Fuping (阜平) was "barren and impoverished" (地瘠民贫 - dì jí mín pín - "land barren people poor," describes a place with poor soil and a poor population), and the news agency had only three qian of oil and three qian of salt per day. In the autumn, the news agency moved to Sanjiangtai (三将台), a small mountain village of a dozen households, built on a hillside. Sun Li (孙犁) and his colleagues lived in a few rooms on the west slope, with the Pingyang River (平阳河) to the east, where they washed and did laundry.

In August, I took a long-distance bus to Pingyang Town (平阳镇), Fuping County (阜平县), and then hired a car from Pingyang (平阳) to Sanjiangtai (三将台) in the rain.

"Have any Eighth Route Army (八路军) soldiers lived in the village?"

At the roadside in Sanjiangtai Village (三将台村), several women chatting shook their heads. "1939? We weren't even born then." They smiled friendly. "Ask the older people in the village."

In the courtyard in front of an old house stood a 90-year-old man named Cao Dejin (曹德金). "Eighth Route Army (八路军)? I've seen them. The village housed a newspaper office, and at night there was a 'di-di' sound in the house... You've asked the right person; the young people don't know."

The "di-di" sound was the radio. The newspaper office and news agency needed to receive news, and the quiet of the night was ideal for working. The silent mountain village had no electric lights at the time. The people at the newspaper office worked under kerosene lamps.

At that time, Cao Dejin (曹德金) was still a child, running around playing in the village. When he passed the newspaper office, he heard the "di-di" sound coming from the house. The place was very mysterious to him, and there were guards who wouldn't let him in. Sun Li (孙犁) lived in one of the rooms.

Cao Dejin (曹德金) took me to the old site where Sun Li (孙犁) had lived. The Japanese army's "Three Alls" policy (三光 - Sānguāng - "kill all, burn all, loot all"), burned down the house where Sun Li (孙犁) lived. The house I saw was later rebuilt on the original site, but it had collapsed because it had been uninhabited for many years.

At Sanjiangtai (三将台), Sun Li (孙犁) edited the mimeographed publication *Literary Communications* (《文艺通讯》). He also helped a female comrade run a literacy class in the village, teaching the villagers to read. Later, Sun Li (孙犁) wrote the essay "In Fuping" (《在阜平》), which mentioned Sanjiangtai (三将台): "The river beach at the foot of the mountain is not wide, and the surrounding reeds are not tall. The spring water is not deep, but it is very clear, and it never dries up in winter or summer. The fish swim happily, chasing each other. The top of the mountain is bare, with withered trees and white grass, but there are also many autumn insects chirping, and many rock partridges and francolins flying around, breeding, singing in harmony, enjoying themselves. Mountain rabbits and roe deer suddenly appear and then disappear."

The river flowing through Sanjiangtai Village (三将台村) is called the Pingyang River (平阳河), a tributary of the Dasha River (大沙河) in Fuping County (阜平县), which flows into the Wangkuai Reservoir (王快水库).

After seeing the old site, I made a special trip to the river to see the river described by Sun Li (孙犁). It had been raining continuously for several days, and the river was swollen. On both sides of the river, autumn vegetables such as cabbage and radishes were planted in the fields, and large patches of yellow Jerusalem artichoke flowers were blooming in some places. The people of Sanjiangtai (三将台) like to use Jerusalem artichokes to make pickles, which are crisp and delicious. Cao Dejin (曹德金) often saw Eighth Route Army (八路军) soldiers walking by the river, and when the walnuts, persimmons, and black dates in the nearby gullies ripened, they helped the villagers with the autumn harvest.

Where Sun Li (孙犁) lived, there was a stone mill, where the villagers ground grain. He often chatted with the villagers by the millstone. The millstone was by the roadside. Cao Dejin (曹德金) said, "It's the old mill from that time."

In 1940, the Northwest War Service Troupe (西北战地服务团) came to Fuping (阜平). One day, Sun Li (孙犁) was printing *Literary Communications* (《文艺通讯》) in his small house in Sanjiangtai (三将台) when the poet Tian Jian (田间) and Shao Zinan (邵子南) came to see him. Tian Jian (田间) was a famous anti-Japanese poet in the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region (晋察冀). The two shook hands warmly. Behind Tian Jian (田间), Shao Zinan (邵子南), dressed in a military uniform, with leggings and barefoot in straw sandals, shouted loudly, "I've admired you for a long time – truly admired you!"

The Northwest War Service Troupe (西北战地服务团) was not far from Sanjiangtai (三将台). When he had nothing to do, Sun Li (孙犁) would go to see them along the sandy road by the river beach. Shao Zinan (邵子南) edited *Poetry Construction* (《诗建设》), and Sun Li (孙犁) respected him very much. Sun Li (孙犁) did not write which village the Northwest War Service Troupe (西北战地服务团) lived in, only giving a passage. This time I came, I took the opportunity to "confirm" this village. According to Sun Li's (孙犁) description of "along the sandy road by the river beach, going upstream," this village should be Kangjiayu Village (康家峪村).

I repeatedly asked several villagers, and I felt that it was Kangjiayu Village (康家峪村). Zheng Xinjian (郑新建), an old man in Kangjiayu Village (康家峪村), agreed with my statement. He said that there was a reed field between the two villages, and Sun Li's (孙犁) "In Fuping" (《在阜平》) mentioned reeds, which coincided perfectly!

In July 1940, the Border Region Literary Association (边区文协) was established. Sun Li (孙犁) was transferred to the Border Region Literary Association (边区文协), leaving Sanjiangtai (三将台). He lived in Sanjiangtai (三将台) for less than a year. In the early spring of 1944, he went from Fuping (阜平) to Yan'an (延安). Later, he wrote the novella *Village Song* (《村歌》), the short story "Wu Zhao'er" (《吴召儿》), and "Memories of the Mountain Area" (《山地回忆》), among others. "Memories of the Mountain Area" (《山地回忆》) was selected for middle school textbooks. He lived in Fuping (阜平) for five years. Regarding Fuping (阜平), he wrote: "An organization lived in this village, lived very well, and you couldn't tell us apart. During the Gregorian New Year... the village bought a goat and sent it to the organization's kitchen. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the village sent a large basket of red dates for them to cook Laba porridge." In the "threshing floor, river beach, haystack, and rocks," he read Lu Xun (鲁迅), Tolstoy's *War and Peace*, Turgenev's novels, and Ehrenburg's dispatches. In his novel *The Initial Record of Storms* (《风云初记》), one can feel the life of the mountain area. Fuping (阜平) and the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region (晋察冀) were the cradle of his literary art.

Sun Li (孙犁) never forgot Fuping (阜平). He once said: "In those precious and difficult years, the feelings I established with the people were indeed like this. My duty is to truthfully and enthusiastically render these feelings." In his "Memories of the Mountain Area" (《山地回忆》), he wrote: "He was still wearing that kind of light blue homespun trousers and jacket dyed with indigo. I don't know what to call this blue color, but it reminds me of many things... it reminds me of many people. I will call this color 'Fuping Blue' or 'Mountain Area Blue'."

Cao Dejin (曹德金) always wanted to tell me more. In front of his house was a ditch, and in the ditch was a cave where the newspaper office's newspapers were hidden. He tremblingly sent me to the entrance of the village. On both sides of the village entrance were bright Jerusalem artichoke flowers. On the road from Pingyang (平阳) to Sanjiangtai (三将台), every village we passed had this yellow flower.

The rain never stopped, as if still reminiscing about those departed literary warriors. On rainy days, Sun Li (孙犁) could not leave the house, so he wrote letters to correspondents in his small house on the hillside. The villagers brought a basin of freshly pickled Jerusalem artichoke vegetables, cut into slices that were neither too thin nor too thick, white and sour, served with millet porridge and cornmeal dry food made by the kitchen, it was delicious! Outside the window, in front of and behind the village, bright Jerusalem artichoke flowers were also blooming. Perhaps it was at this time that Sun Li (孙犁) came up with the name in his article: Xianjiangtai (鲜姜台).

In the past, the mountain area was also a battlefield. The yellow flowers of the mountain area are especially fragrant, whether in wartime or in peacetime!

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From "Senior Citizen Card" to "Longevity Card" (Jin Tai Musings)

By: 周云龙

On the weekend, I went from Nanjing (南京), Jiangsu (江苏) to Nantong (南通), first taking the intercity high-speed rail, then transferring to a city bus. On the bus, a detail warmed my heart—an elderly person swiped their card, and an electronic voice said, "Longevity Card." I couldn't help but be filled with thoughts.

This sound, though small, is full of meaning. It's not just a functional identity verification, but more like a kind greeting, a warmth flowing in the urban space.

In the hustle and bustle of traffic, from this subtle, brief voice, we can hear three "degrees" of modern urban public governance.

First, the "attitude" of treating the elderly well. A few years ago, in many large and medium-sized cities, the voice prompt of "Senior Card" for elderly people taking the bus was like a rigid label, making many newly elderly passengers feel resistant. Who would want to be constantly prompted as "aging" in an unfamiliar space? Now, the change in voice stems from a shift in the attitude of city managers. When the formulation of public policy shifts from a management mindset to a service mindset, "Hello," "Longevity Card," and "Senior Star Card" warmly debut. Yangzhou's (扬州) arrangements are even more delicate: starting at age 55, the "Happiness Card" is used, and after age 70, it is upgraded to the "Longevity Card," tailoring "decency" for the elderly at different stages—a "Longevity Card," an ordinary identity recognition, is sublimated into respect and blessings for the elderly.

Second, the "temperature" of humanistic care. Some netizens went to Jiuquan (酒泉), Gansu (甘肃) for tourism and found that when local elderly people swiped their cards on the bus, the voice prompt was "Wishing you good health." These short four words are like a cup of hot tea in winter, warming the heart. Across the country, the prompt voices of different cities are like unique "sound business cards": Beijing's (北京) "Respect for the Elderly Card" reveals respect, Chongqing's (重庆) "Love Card" is full of warmth, and in my hometown of Dongtai (东台), Yancheng (盐城), Jiangsu (江苏), the unique "Senior Star Card" carries joy... From unified functional prompts to differentiated warm expressions, it reflects that public governance is increasingly close to individual emotional appeals. These distinctive "urban languages" give the system a perceptible and knowable human temperature.

Third, the "height" of urban civilization. In this regard, Shanghai's (上海) approach is unique: the local government issues comprehensive subsidies to registered elderly residents over 65 years old, and the elderly pay normally when taking the bus, and can use the subsidies to independently cover expenses. There is no special prompt voice when swiping the card, but the welfare is conveyed warmly in a more flexible and inclusive way. Such a design is 无声胜有声 (wú shēng shèng yǒu shēng - "silence is better than sound," silence speaks louder than words): it no longer relies on explicit expressions such as voice prompts, but adopts a more respectful implicit design of individual privacy and decency, while achieving the precise implementation of welfare. This is not only the maturity of public governance practice, but also marks the advancement of urban civilization: the best care is to make the cared-for feel no deliberate care.

With the development of technology, this prompt sound may also be synchronized with the seasons. In the future, why not make it more flexible and considerate: during the Double Ninth Festival, can we say "Step by step higher"? During the Spring Festival, can we send a "Happy New Year"? It may even be possible to consider changing to local dialects and slang prompts: a "侬好呀" (nóng hǎo ya - "Hello" in Shanghainese), comes with a sense of everyday life and is very friendly!

From rigid signs to warm greetings, those prompt voices record the progress of urban civilization. It lets people hear: the level of civilization of a city is often reflected in those seemingly insignificant but heart-reaching details. In the end, the "evolution" of the bus card prompt sound is essentially the evolution of the city's understanding of "people"—a profound shift from a "management perspective" to a "service perspective."

I look forward to more cities designing this "sound business card" with care, so that every card swipe becomes a warm greeting.

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Coincidence

By: 叶 辛

Coincidences often occur in life. When there are too many coincidences, listeners become skeptical. Therefore, in rigorous literary creation, writers consciously avoid coincidences, somewhat fearing that critics will say, "It has the appearance of deliberate carving."

In writing, I often study the relationship between coincidences and characters' events. Because there are coincidences in love relationships, coincidences in suspense novels, and even coincidences in epic war-themed works. If created reasonably, these highly accidental coincidences can indeed tightly grip the reader. But there is also a rare coincidence in life that cannot be explained by analysis, judgment, or reasoning, and that is a true coincidence.

That year, my son returned home from shooting on location at the China-Myanmar border. Among the box of unwashed dirty clothes he brought back was a very heavy mountain stone. Upon opening it, it was a common brownish-yellow stone often seen in the mountains of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau (云贵高原). The front of the stone was a naturally formed picture of lakeside reeds, an ordinary scene. I couldn't help but ask him: This stone is so heavy, you packed it in a box and brought it back from so far away, aren't you tired?

Unexpectedly, my son said: Take another look!

I stared intently again, almost exclaiming in surprise. In the gaps of the black reeds, two Chinese characters were clearly visible: Ye Xin (叶辛).

Hey, isn't that my name?

I thought my son had deliberately asked the art designer of the crew to smear it on to make me happy. I immediately reached out to touch it, but my son said: It's natural. That day on the street in China-Myanmar, a colleague saw it first and stopped me. When I saw it, I immediately bought it. Back at the crew, everyone said it was a real stone.

I know that a crew has fifty or sixty people, and if so many people believe it's real, then it can't be fake. I asked him: How much did it cost?

300 yuan.

I was happy in my heart and said: You carried it back from so far away, it's worth far more than 300 yuan. Tell me, how much should I reward you? I'll give you any amount.

My son shook his head and said no, only saying one sentence: I just think this is too much of a coincidence. You know I'm not interested in stones, I had already walked past that pile of stones. My colleague saw it and shouted loudly to stop me, isn't that a bit interesting?

Even more interesting things were yet to come. From then on, this stone was placed in my living room. When old classmates and old friends came to my house and saw this stone, they would all marvel at it, reach out and stroke it a few times, and take pictures of the stone with their mobile phones. They also raised questions, since "Nie Zhai" (孽债) was broadcast, your popularity in Xishuangbanna (西双版纳) is relatively high, could someone have deliberately crushed the stone and made it? I laughed and said, it's not worth the trouble to make a fake stone for 300 yuan, is it?

However, afterwards, I also asked my son, unexpectedly he said: Impossible, the person selling the stone was a Burmese farmer.

The stone was placed in the living room, it always led to topics related to the stone, so my wife moved the stone into my study.

Sitting at my desk, whenever I see this stone, I think about the relationship between coincidence and creation.

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Photo Story

Oil painting "Autumn Date," by Liu Manwen (刘曼文), collection of the National Art Museum of China (中国美术馆).

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New Legend of Lop Nur

By: 费伟伟

Perhaps the village roads in your hometown are now all concrete. Perhaps the county and township roads in your hometown, extending in all directions, have long been paved with asphalt. But can you imagine that even now, there are still provincial highways without paved surfaces?

The 235 Provincial Highway from Hami (哈密) in Xinjiang (新疆) to Lop Nur (罗布泊) Town in Ruoqiang County (若羌县) is over 400 kilometers long. The section near Lop Nur Town is made of saline clay. The salt content of the clay is over 30%, and it is constantly being crushed, becoming as hard as stone, with sharp edges that severely damage tires.

Lop Nur Town was built after the discovery and development of potash salt in Lop Nur in 1999. More than 20 years have passed, and this section of the road still maintains its original appearance, formed entirely by the pressure of tires.

Why not build a graded road? The reason is simple: this is Lop Nur!

Lop Nur is located in the northeastern part of the Taklamakan Desert (塔克拉玛干沙漠). The name of this second-largest shifting sand desert in the world means "enter but not exit" in Uyghur. Lop Nur was once the second-largest inland lake in China, the destination of rivers such as the Tarim River (塔里木河). Due to climate change and increased human activity, it has continuously dried up and shrunk over thousands of years. After the lake basin was exposed, the salt solidified into a hard salt crust, gleaming white. There is no sign of life on the ground, no birds in the sky, and it is known as the "Sea of Death." Famous scientist Peng Jiamu (彭加木) and explorer Yu Chunshun (余纯顺) disappeared and died here.

Lop Nur is called a "no-go zone for life." But in this "no-go zone for life," the State Development & Investment Corporation (国家开发投资集团) has spent more than 20 years building a potash plant—Lop Nur Potash Co., Ltd. (罗布泊钾盐有限责任公司)—and has created a miracle: winning the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award twice. This highest award in China's science and technology and industry circles is not only "top-notch"—technologically advanced—but also "grounded"—widely applied and highly effective. It is admirable enough for a company to win this award once, let alone twice.

The first award was in 2005 for the "Research on the Development and Utilization of Potash Salt Resources in the Lop Nur Area," which identified a super-large sulfate brine potash salt deposit in the Luobei Depression (罗北凹地), where it was believed impossible to find potash salt. It was like when Li Siguang (李四光) proposed a new geological theory and discovered China's large oil fields in strata where foreigners asserted there was no oil.

The second award was in 2014 for the "Development of Complete Technology for 1.2 Million Tons/Year of Potassium Sulfate from Lop Nur Salt Lake," which invented a new process of using brackish water instead of fresh water to produce potassium sulfate. In this place where fresh water has to be diverted from hundreds of kilometers away, the problem of large-scale production was overcome, and the world's largest potassium sulfate production facility was built in one fell swoop.

Nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium are the "three essential fertilizer elements" necessary for plant growth. The main raw material for potash fertilizer is potash salt. The emergence of "Lop Nur Potash" has increased China's potash fertilizer self-sufficiency rate from less than 30% to more than 50%, reversing the long-term dependence on imports and filling an indispensable cornerstone for national food security.

Just like the potash salt in Lop Nur, which has been washed countless times day and night, slowly crystallizing to achieve another kind of water's eternity, the two National Science and Technology Progress Awards won by Lop Nur Potash also embody their unimaginable sacrifices and perseverance. When the first developers and entrepreneurs arrived in Lop Nur, there was no water, no electricity, no housing, no roads, and no communication signals. One of the earliest developers who joined the SDIC Lop Nur project remembers his first feeling when he arrived in Lop Nur: looking around, the horizon was all curved, without a trace of life, as if he had arrived on the moon.

At that time, all supplies had to be transported from Hami, more than 400 kilometers away. Water was limited for everyone, and the water used for washing faces was used for other things, and the muddy water was settled and stored. The cafeteria never made soup because it was too wasteful of water. On "March 8" Women's Day in 2003, the female employees will never forget that they received a super benefit that made the male employees envious—they took a bath.

Lop Nur has a lot of wind and strong winds, with winds of magnitude 7 or higher for more than 200 days a year. Tents would fly into the sky, and the houses built with salt blocks would have swirling sand inside. Moreover, the temperature reaches 48 degrees Celsius in summer and minus 30 degrees Celsius in winter, with a large temperature difference between day and night. So, they dug "underground dwellings" to live in.

These "underground dwellings" are still preserved today. They are dug from the ground down into a passage, and then holes are dug on both sides, with 4-6 people living in one. The most annoying thing is that salt water often floods up at night. The office is also in the "underground dwelling," which is slightly more advanced than the living quarters, a few tens of centimeters above the ground, so that light can penetrate from both sides. Many entrepreneurs are top domestic potash salt development experts, and the "Research on the Development and Utilization of Potash Salt Resources in the Lop Nur Area" was born in such an "underground dwelling."

Behind an epic of national rejuvenation, there are countless entrepreneurs and builders like the people of Lop Nur Potash who are unswervingly self-reliant, sharing the country's worries and silently dedicating themselves. In the 1950s and 1960s, the story of the "Two Bombs, One Satellite" (两弹一星) that took place in Lop Nur gradually became known to the world decades later. Now, in the new era, what is happening here is still little known.

In the Lop Nur Potash factory area, the staff of the factory department proudly told us that Lop Nur Potash has provided more than 4,800 jobs for the society. An official who is currently a village-based work team member in Awat County (阿瓦提县) said: "In our Towankhoga Wastack Village (托万克霍加瓦斯喀克村), there are 30 employees of Lop Nur Potash."

Today, more than a dozen buildings have been built in Lop Nur Town, and Lop Nur Potash's new factory buildings are also being expanded. The prototype of a new industrial city is already visible. But as soon as you leave the town, it is still "like being on the moon." The people of Lop Nur Potash told such a story with a smile: Many years ago, a group of newly hired workers took the train to Lop Nur for the first time, worked for 20 days, and then returned to Hami for 10 days of shift rest. After getting off the train, a young man hugged a tree—a poplar tree with green leaves rustling in the wind—and burst into tears.

That scene often appears before my eyes now...

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Everlasting Lamp (Encounters)

By: 少 一

A wooden ladder leaned against a locust tree as thick as a water bucket. A girl stood at the top of the ladder, her back against the trunk, laboriously installing a light bulb. The tree surged up from the roadside, towering over the roof, with a small river flowing below the road. Such high-altitude work was a bit dangerous, and I couldn't help but worryingly suggest, "Wang Ting (王婷), you must be careful."

"Don't worry, Uncle," she sweetly replied.

This scene couldn't help but remind me of my interview with Wang Xinfa (王新法). Wang Xinfa (王新法) was her father.

In 2017, I kept hearing that there was a retired soldier in his sixties who had traveled thousands of miles from Shijiazhuang City (石家庄市), Hebei Province (河北) to Xuejia Village (薛家村), Nanbei Town (南北镇), Shimen County (石门县), Hunan Province (湖南) to provide voluntary poverty alleviation. He took out his personal savings, plus his retirement pension and raised funds, totaling more than 1 million yuan, to organize villagers to build 15 kilometers of simple roads, erect 6 small stone arch bridges, and also build a new tea cooperative invested in by villagers... Since ancient times, there have been many righteous people in Yanzhao (燕赵), but Wang Xinfa (王新法), who had no kinship with Xuejia Village (薛家村), why would he give everything to help Xuejia Village (薛家村)?

I had to go up the mountain to find out.

Unfortunately, Wang Xinfa (王新法) was not at "home" the day I arrived in the village. He went to a university in Changsha (长沙) to discuss a tea cooperation and development project and would not be able to return until very late. The village party secretary led me to visit his temporary "home" first. It was a wooden house standing by the side of the road. I followed the village party secretary up a dozen steps and saw a sign hanging at the entrance of the main room that read "Xuejia Village Common Prosperity Cooperative (薛家村共同富裕合作社)". The door was not locked. After entering, I turned into the bedroom on the west side. The floor creaked loudly when stepped on. A neatly folded military quilt and several sets of faded camouflage uniforms were on a wooden bed. Dumbbells, tensioners, and other fitness equipment were placed at the foot of the bed, while the table by the window was piled with various poverty alleviation materials. There was nothing else. The village party secretary introduced that Brother Wang (王大哥) never locked the door when he went out, and several thermoses were always filled with boiling water for the villagers passing by to use.

The village party secretary and I each moved a wooden chair and sat in the drying yard at the door to chat. The village party secretary sighed and said, "This is really a good person. He has no connection with our village at all. He has been going up the mountain to help the poor since 2013. He hasn't gone back to reunite with his family for three Spring Festivals. He specifically goes to the homes of the 'Five Guarantees' elderly and poor households. What do you think he's after?"

That night, I talked with Wang Xinfa (王新法), who had rushed back, until two o'clock in the morning, talking about his family and his life experiences. This retired veteran with 44 years of Party membership and 14 years of military service decided to stay and help the villagers get rid of poverty and become rich after visiting Xuejia Village (薛家村) with a friend and witnessing the living conditions of the villagers. The night was deep, and in the high-altitude mountains of northwestern Hunan (湘西北), even the calls of night birds had stopped. Seeing him yawn tiredly, I was worried that his body couldn't take it, so I ended the interview. Before going to bed, I planned to turn off the light hanging on the locust tree outside, but he stopped me: "This light is not turned off, it doesn't use much electricity." Seeing that I didn't understand, he pointed outside and said, "It's pitch black, leave it on to light the way for the villagers passing by, to prevent someone from falling into the river." I stood in the cool night, savoring Wang Xinfa's (王新法) words, and my heart seemed to tremble. Looking up, under the faint starlight in the distance, stood the dark mountains, and all I could hear was the sound of the stream flowing under the road.

Not long after that interview, bad news came that Brother Wang (王大哥) had fallen ill from overwork and collapsed at the scene where he was discussing bridge repair plans with technicians... Later, at the request of the villagers and with the consent of his family, his ashes were left in the mountains, forever with the people of Xuejia Village (薛家村).

What I didn't expect was that in these years, his daughter, Wang Ting (王婷), would give up her career in Beijing (北京), follow the path her father had taken, come to Xuejia Village (薛家村) to open a tea factory, help revitalize the countryside, and fulfill her father's unfinished wish.

"The light bulb is broken, it needs to be replaced," Wang Ting's (王婷) words pulled me back to reality from my memories, "The old light bulb had a small wattage, this time I'm replacing it with a 60-watt one, it will be brighter."

As dusk fell, Wang Ting (王婷) carefully climbed down the wooden ladder and pressed the power switch on the wooden pole with a "snap," and the newly replaced light came on. Looking up, the road under the tree was brightly lit. The locust tree stood quietly, the stream flowed, and everything bathed in the light was so beautiful and warm. I thought to myself, "Brother Wang (王大哥), don't worry, the ever-burning lamp you lit for the villagers will never go out."

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Editor in charge of this edition: Zhang Jian

This edition's email: dadi@peopledaily.cn

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