People's Daily - November 18, 2025

Qingdao to Build a Highland for Modern Marine Economic Development (General Secretary's Concern - Echoes on the Ground)

By: 本报记者 李 波 侯琳良 王 沛

"The development of the marine economy has unlimited prospects. To build a maritime power, we must further care for the ocean, understand the ocean, manage the ocean, and accelerate the pace of marine science and technology innovation."
——June 12, 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized during his inspection in Qingdao (青岛), Shandong (山东) Province.

"Promoting Chinese-style modernization must promote the high-quality development of the marine economy and embark on a path of strengthening the country through the sea with Chinese characteristics." Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has guided China's construction of a maritime power to continuously achieve new accomplishments.

In 2024, China's gross ocean product exceeded 10 trillion yuan for the first time, more than doubling compared to 2012; among the world's 18 major ship types, China ranked first in new orders for 14 types; and the output of marine products has ranked first in the world for many consecutive years... A series of data reflects the powerful steps in the construction of China's modern marine industrial system.

On the coast of the Yellow Sea, prosperity arises from the sea. In June 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized during his inspection in Qingdao (青岛), Shandong (山东) Province: "The development of the marine economy has unlimited prospects. To build a maritime power, we must further care for the ocean, understand the ocean, manage the ocean, and accelerate the pace of marine science and technology innovation."

Thoroughly implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions, Qingdao (青岛) fully leverages its unique advantages, continuously promotes the construction of a leading modern marine city, and accelerates the creation of a highland for modern marine economic development.

How to raise a fish well?

The large yellow croaker has boarded "Guoxin 1" (国信1号), the world's first 100,000-ton intelligent fishery large-scale aquaculture vessel, and the Atlantic salmon is growing well in "Shenlan 1" (深蓝1号), the world's first fully submersible deep-sea fishery aquaculture equipment.

How can a seaweed climb the value chain?

From industrial-grade, food-grade to pharmaceutical-grade, the market price ranges from 50,000 yuan, 100,000 yuan to one million yuan per ton. Qingdao (青岛) marine-related enterprises have enabled the value of seaweed to leapfrog.

How much productivity can a bay release?

Haixi Bay (海西湾) gathers more than 50 shipbuilding and marine engineering enterprises, and a batch of leading marine engineering equipment sails from here to the deep sea.

Innovation leads, and new marine productive forces are accelerating their cultivation.

"'BG136' is the first international immune anti-tumor marine polysaccharide drug to enter clinical trials and is currently undergoing Phase II clinical trials." At the Ocean University of China (中国海洋大学), Yu Guangli (于广利), chief scientist of the Qingdao Marine Biomedical Research Institute (青岛海洋生物医药研究院), and his team selected Antarctic brown algae sea otter and overcame key core technologies after 8 years of research.

Three marine innovative drugs are in the clinical trial stage, and dozens of marine drugs are in the concept verification stage... Qingdao's (青岛) ability to discover marine active substances to clinical transformation and industrialization is becoming stronger and stronger.

Deepening and strengthening, marine equipment manufacturing is accelerating its rise.

"Our 'Guoxin' (国信) aquaculture vessel family has added new members." said Dong Shaoguang (董韶光), Deputy General Manager of Qingdao Guoxin Development (Group) Co., Ltd. (青岛国信发展（集团）有限责任公司).

Three years ago, "Guoxin 1" (国信1号) was delivered and put into operation in Qingdao (青岛), pioneering a new model of deep-sea aquaculture in China with "ship-borne cabin farming + cruising aquaculture." In April and November of this year, two "upgraded versions" were put into operation one after another, which are more automated and intelligent, and the number of large yellow croakers farmed is greater.

An aquaculture vessel connects marine fisheries on one end and the marine equipment industry on the other, witnessing the improvement of the technological level of the marine equipment manufacturing industry.

At the Qingdao (青岛) site of Offshore Oil Engineering (Qingdao) Co., Ltd. (海洋石油工程（青岛）有限公司), 14 projects and more than 30 units are under construction in full swing; the orders of China Shipbuilding Group Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (中国船舶集团青岛北海造船有限公司) have been scheduled until 2028.

Improving quality and upgrading, the modern marine industrial system is accelerating its construction.

From fishing to "grazing fish," from selling raw materials to selling products, from manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing, the development logic of Qingdao's (青岛) modern marine economy is clear: strengthen industrial integration thinking, expand the primary industry, strengthen the secondary industry, optimize the tertiary industry, strive to extend the industrial chain, and continuously enhance the value chain.

The deeper the practice, the clearer the thinking, and the clearer the answer - Qingdao (青岛) proposed to accelerate the construction of a "4+4+2" modern marine industrial system, transform and upgrade the four advantageous industries of marine fisheries, port shipping, marine cultural tourism, and marine chemicals, cultivate and strengthen the four emerging industries of marine equipment, marine drugs and biological products, seawater desalination and comprehensive utilization, and marine new energy, and proactively deploy the two future industries of deep-sea development and marine electronic information to shape new momentum and new advantages for marine economic development.

The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal proposes to improve the ability to manage the ocean, promote the high-quality development of the marine economy, and accelerate the construction of a maritime power.

"Bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest entrustment, and thoroughly studying, publicizing, and implementing the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, we must put the promotion of high-quality marine economic development in a prominent position, adhere to leading the construction of a modern marine industrial system with marine science and technology innovation, and unswervingly do a good job in managing the ocean." said Zeng Zanrong (曾赞荣), member of the Standing Committee of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Qingdao Municipal Party Committee (青岛市委书记).

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Composing a Brand New Chapter in the Rule of Law in China

By: 本报记者 张 璁 魏哲哲

"A modern country must be a country ruled by law."

On October 23rd, amidst thunderous applause, the 20th Fourth Plenary Session of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) deliberated and approved the "Suggestions of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" (《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十五个五年规划的建议》), engraving another distinct mark of the times on Chinese-style modernization. The "Suggestions" explicitly proposed to "adhere to comprehensively governing the country according to law, and synergistically promote scientific legislation, strict law enforcement, impartial justice, and universal law-abiding," further consolidating the immense power to advance the construction of a rule-of-law China.

Ideas are like torches, and the great path is steadfastly practiced.

In November 2020, the CPC Central Committee convened the Central Conference on Overall Law-Based Governance for the first time, and Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law was formally proposed. In the magnificent practice of the rule of law with Chinese characteristics, Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law guides the comprehensive advancement of the rule of law, effectively implements it, and continuously creates a new situation in the construction of a rule-of-law China, laying a solid legal foundation for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.

Responding to the questions of the times, conforming to the people's expectations, and closely adhering to strict law enforcement, the pace towards sound laws and good governance is even more powerful.

For the first time, writing into law "unwaveringly consolidate and develop the public sector of the economy, and unwaveringly encourage, support, and guide the development of the non-public sector of the economy"; for the first time, clarifying the legal status of the private economy; for the first time, clearly stipulating that promoting the sustained, healthy, and high-quality development of the private economy is a major policy that the country adheres to for a long time... The Law on Promoting the Private Economy, which came into effect on May 20 this year, marks another milestone in China's rule of law construction with many "firsts."

Creating governance tools for the country and laying a good legal foundation for good governance.

Following the Civil Code, China's second law named "Code" – the legislative process of the Ecological Environment Code – has attracted much attention.

In April this year, the overall draft of the Ecological Environment Code was submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) for the first time for deliberation. Writing the protection of public health and ecological environment rights in the first article of the draft code; responding to the problems of concentrated public complaints in the field of ecological environment... A heavy code with detailed content and complete structure, escorting the construction of a beautiful China in the new era, is steadily coming.

Entering a new stage of development, it is necessary to ensure high-quality development with high-quality legislation, promote comprehensive and in-depth reform, and maintain social stability.

Responding to the questions of the times – formulating the Yangtze River Protection Law, establishing the National Ecology Day, and promoting the harmonious coexistence of man and nature; revising the National People's Congress Organization Law, the State Council Organization Law, the Legislation Law, etc., to improve the organizational system of state organs and relevant constitutional systems.

Conforming to the people's expectations – formulating and revising the Anti-Food Waste Law, the Food Safety Law, the Villagers Committee Organization Law, the Urban Residents Committee Organization Law, paying attention to social hot spots, and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of the people.

Closely adhering to strict law enforcement – revising the Supervision Law to promote the standardization, legalization, and regularization of supervision work; revising the Administrative Penalty Law and the Public Security Administration Punishments Law to ensure that strict, standardized, fair, and civilized law enforcement is implemented.

"Give play to the leading and promoting role of legislation."

Formulating the Hainan Free Trade Port Law and the Rural Collective Economic Organization Law, revising the Company Law, the Anti-Monopoly Law, and the Anti-Unfair Competition Law to achieve the connection between legislation and reform decisions, and ensure the advancement of reform on the track of the rule of law;

Actively adapting to the new changes brought about by the technological revolution and industrial transformation, the pace of legislation in emerging fields is accelerating, and the legal system in the fields of network security and biosecurity is enriched and improved, ensuring the healthy development of new technologies, new applications, and new business forms;

Simultaneously establishing, revising, abolishing, and interpreting laws, the judicial and administrative departments of the State Council have carried out the largest centralized cleanup of all 600 existing administrative regulations, and the service of high-quality development is more precise...

As of the end of October this year, China has 310 currently effective laws, more than 600 administrative regulations and supervisory regulations, and more than 14,000 local regulations. The legal system urgently needed for national governance, necessary to meet the people's needs for a better life, and urgently needed to maintain national security has been further improved, and the pace towards sound laws and good governance is even more powerful.

"The more emphasis is placed on the rule of law, the more important it is to improve the quality of legislation."

In September last year, the "Regulations of Hunan Province on the Management of Small Food Production and Processing Workshops, Small Catering Businesses, and Food Vendors (Revised Draft)" (《湖南省食品生产加工小作坊小餐饮和食品摊贩管理条例（修订草案）》) was publicly solicited for opinions. Chen Junqing (陈俊清), who was over 80 years old, was anxious when he learned that the deadline was approaching. He wrote his suggestions on the tin foil from a cigarette pack and reported them level by level through the grassroots legislative liaison point, and was finally adopted by the legislative body.

The "suggestion on tin foil" carries public opinion and is also a vivid annotation of the people's democracy throughout the process.

Up to now, the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会法工委) has established a total of 54 grassroots legislative liaison points, covering 31 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, driving the establishment of more than 7,800 grassroots legislative liaison points by the people's congresses at the provincial and municipal levels. The voices of hundreds of millions of people pass through this democratic network all over the country, cross thousands of mountains and rivers to the legislative body, and are highly valued, carefully studied, and absorbed.

If good laws are established in the world, the world will be governed. Promote scientific legislation, democratic legislation, and law-based legislation, so that every law and regulation is full of public opinion, and consolidate the foundation for "China's governance."

Comprehensively promote strict, standardized, fair, and civilized law enforcement, and use the rule of law to regulate the boundaries of the government and the market.

To comprehensively govern the country according to law, the construction of a government under the rule of law must take the lead in making breakthroughs.

Recently, the Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Governing the Country According to Law (中央依法治国办) issued the "Decision on Naming the Third Batch of National Demonstration Areas and Projects for the Construction of a Government under the Rule of Law" (《关于第三批全国法治政府建设示范地区和项目命名的决定》). In batches every two years, promoting in a tiered manner, radiating and driving, the national demonstration and creation activities for the construction of a government under the rule of law have established a batch of exemplary benchmarks for the construction of a government under the rule of law in the new era, and continuously promote the construction of a government under the rule of law in depth.

The vitality of the law lies in its implementation, and the authority of the law also lies in its implementation.

Improve the grassroots comprehensive law enforcement system and mechanism, so that law enforcement forces sink to the county and township levels; solidly promote the three-year action to improve the quality of administrative law enforcement, and realize the entire online supervision of administrative law enforcement; improve the benchmark system for administrative discretion, and solve the problems of inconsistent law enforcement standards and different penalties for similar cases... Comprehensively promote strict, standardized, fair, and civilized law enforcement, and strive to enable the people to see a clean and upright atmosphere in every law enforcement action and feel fairness and justice in every law enforcement decision.

"Use the rule of law to set rules and boundaries for administrative power."

In Guang'an (广安), Sichuan (四川), an administrative reconsideration of a community resident "suing an official" promoted the revision and improvement of a "red-headed document," allowing the people-benefiting policy of installing elevators in existing residential buildings to be successfully implemented.

The newly revised Administrative Reconsideration Law has systematically reshaped the administrative reconsideration system. Since its official implementation in 2024, administrative reconsideration has corrected 82,000 illegal and inappropriate administrative actions, and issued more than 11,000 administrative reconsideration opinions and suggestions for common law enforcement issues, effectively improving the level of law-based administration in areas such as market access for new business forms and social security for new employment groups.

Today, the concept of "statutory duties must be performed, and unauthorized actions are not allowed" is increasingly deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and is being implemented effectively –

The main leaders of the party and government are more vigorously fulfilling their responsibilities as the first person responsible for the construction of the rule of law, and all regions have achieved full coverage of the reporting of the performance of duties in the construction of the rule of law.

Standardize the setting and implementation of fines, clean up the fine items in administrative regulations and departmental rules, and successively cancel and adjust 86 fine items.

Promote the construction of a rule-of-law public security, and more than 3,200 law enforcement case handling management centers have been built across the country, allowing police officers to handle cases under the camera and enforce the law in the sun.

"The rule of law is the best business environment."

For a period of time, random inspections and the heavy burden of inspections on enterprises have become prominent problems. How to solve these problems?

In Zhejiang (浙江), the overall planning of "one comprehensive inspection" effectively eliminates "nine dragons governing the water"; in Shandong (山东), the precision of classified and graded supervision avoids "flooding"; in Guangdong (广东), the transparency of "bright code entry into enterprises" makes law enforcement traceable. From January to August this year, the number of administrative inspections involving enterprises in various regions generally decreased by more than 30% year-on-year, but the average problem detection rate increased by 16%.

Since the beginning of this year, various regions have continued to carry out special actions to standardize law enforcement involving enterprises, focusing on rectifying problems such as arbitrary charges, arbitrary fines, arbitrary inspections, and arbitrary seizures, and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises in accordance with the law: as of September this year, public security organs have investigated and corrected 49,000 outstanding problems in criminal law enforcement; since the launch of the special action for standardizing administrative law enforcement involving enterprises organized by the Ministry of Justice, various regions have investigated and corrected more than 50,000 cases related to outstanding law enforcement problems, and enterprises and the masses have continued to gain a sense of gain.

Taking a step forward, the warm heart of government services has further enhanced the confidence of enterprises in development.

The organic combination of an effective market and a promising government has achieved "efficiently handling one thing" in more fields and on a larger scale; government service matters such as "one network access" and "cross-provincial access" are becoming increasingly popular, and "immediate handling, online handling, nearby handling, one-time handling, and self-service handling" are within reach... Using the rule of law to regulate the boundaries of the government and the market can truly consolidate the foundation, stabilize expectations, and benefit the long term.

Improve the impartial judicial system and mechanism, so that the people feel fairness and justice around them.

"Strive to make the people feel fairness and justice in every judicial case," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has always kept in mind.

Fairness and justice are the value pursuit of the judiciary.

"I saw that the judgment wrote 'this precedent also has relevant similar cases in the People's Court Case Library' as evidence, and although I lost the case, I was convinced." Last June, after a sales contract dispute was resolved, the party Liu (刘) said while holding the judgment.

In February 2024, the People's Court Case Library was officially launched and opened to the public, providing authoritative and accurate reference and guidance for judges to handle cases, clarifying the rules of adjudication, and also providing a "ruler" for trial behavior to ensure that similar cases are judged the same and "a bowl of water is leveled."

In recent years, judicial organs have continued to enrich the reform toolbox to solve deep-seated problems that affect judicial fairness and restrict judicial capacity.

Through public hearings, the people's supervisor system, etc., the channels for the masses to participate in and supervise the judiciary in an orderly manner are constantly broadened; every link of the judiciary can be inquired through public channels, which is convenient for the masses and all sectors of society to understand and supervise... One reform measure standardizes judicial behavior, allows the masses to more clearly feel the operation of judicial power, and responds to the people's attention and expectations for judicial fairness and openness.

"The law should not be cold, and judicial work is also doing mass work."

At present, the people's yearning for a better life extends more to democracy, the rule of law, fairness, justice, security, and the environment, and the judicial work in the new era must also more actively respond to the new requirements and new expectations of the people.

If the people call, I will respond. In daily life, when the masses encounter disputes and go to court to file a lawsuit, what they need most is a clear and accurate statement of claim or defense. In order to facilitate mass litigation and better protect the parties' right to sue, courts across the country have fully promoted the demonstration text of pleadings, reducing the professional threshold for litigation.

The judiciary serves the people, and the branches and leaves are concerned.

All four levels of courts across the country have built one-stop litigation service centers, and the cost of dispute resolution has been significantly reduced; procuratorial organs across the country take serving the people as the goal, actively explore the normalized conduct of simple public hearings, highlight the on-the-spot nature, convenience, and effectiveness of the hearings, and resolve contradictions on the spot in a timely manner... Judicial organs adhere to the people-centered approach, implement judicial convenience, benefit the people, and benefit the people, and escort the people's peaceful life and work with tangible legal achievements.

"Impartial justice is the last line of defense for maintaining social fairness and justice."

Clear rules. "Justifiable defense" and "Article 20 of the Criminal Law" have become popular terms of concern to the masses, and the concept of "the law cannot give way to illegality" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Resolutely punish cyber violence that "injures people with buttons," curb high bride prices in accordance with the law, and promote the core socialist values... In recent years, judicial organs have demonstrated a clear stance through individual cases, realizing the mutual complementation and mutual promotion of the rule of law and morality, and effectively promoting the construction of a rule-of-law society.

Promote governance. Not long ago, summarizing the experience and practices and institutional innovation achievements of the past 10 years, the draft Procuratorial Public Interest Litigation Law was formally submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) for deliberation. Since the creation of the procuratorial public interest litigation system, it has made important contributions to supervising administrative organs to fully perform their duties in accordance with the law and gathering the joint efforts to protect public interests, and has become an important part of the "China's governance" of public interest judicial protection.

The judicial sword is shining, and fairness and justice are perceptible, touchable, and visible. Deepen the reform of the judicial power operation mechanism, improve and implement the judicial responsibility system, accelerate the construction of a fair, efficient, and authoritative socialist judicial system, continuously improve judicial quality, efficiency, and credibility, and make the legal guarantee of social fairness and justice more powerful.

Let the rule of law become the common belief of the whole society, and continuously consolidate the social foundation for comprehensively governing the country according to law.

A country is strong if its laws are obeyed.

The Law on Publicity and Education on the Rule of Law officially came into effect on November 1. Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the national legal popularization and the closing year of the "Eighth Five-Year Plan" for legal popularization, the formulation and promulgation of this law marks that the cause of publicity and education on the rule of law has fully entered a new era of institutionalization, standardization, and legalization.

Universal law-abiding is a long-term and fundamental task for comprehensively governing the country according to law.

For 11 consecutive years, every year around December 4th, the National Constitution Day, a "Constitution Morning Reading" activity has linked hundreds of thousands of schools and tens of millions of teachers and students across the country to participate simultaneously. The solemn sense of ceremony, the loud reading, and the spirit of the rule of law have taken root in the hearts of young people.

National legal popularization, handing the law over to hundreds of millions of people, is a major initiative in the history of China's rule of law construction: 24 consecutive years of carrying out the theme publicity activities of "The Spirit of the Constitution and the Power of the Rule of Law," building more than 2,800 constitution-themed parks (squares), 150,000 members of the legal popularization lecturer group, and 2.22 million legal popularization volunteers have gone deep into the grassroots to carry out legal popularization, bringing the rule of law to the people...

Since the implementation of the "Eighth Five-Year Plan" for legal popularization, the legal awareness of the whole society has been significantly enhanced, the legal literacy of the whole people has been significantly improved, and the social foundation for comprehensively governing the country according to law has been continuously consolidated.

Uphold integrity and innovate, and work hard on pertinence and timeliness.

Provide "menu-style" legal popularization for enterprise needs, carry out "order-style" publicity, and there is also "code-on legal popularization" online... During this year's "Civil Code Publicity Month," the whole country widely carried out "Civil Code Entering Enterprises" to help enterprises prevent and resolve risks and protect their legitimate rights and interests in accordance with the law.

Real-time legal popularization and precise legal popularization enable the supply of legal popularization to continuously meet the legal needs of the masses.

Close to the masses. Whether it is anti-fraud publicity to protect the masses' "money bags" or focusing on things around them to explain the law with cases, all localities and departments focus on the fields of transportation, medical care, labor, consumption, etc., where the masses have greater legal needs, to better respond to the people's needs for a better life.

Keep up with the times. Actively explore new models of legal popularization such as "artificial intelligence + legal popularization" and "intangible cultural heritage + legal popularization," and there are more than 30,000 new media accounts for legal popularization across the country, and the dissemination and coverage of legal popularization are constantly improving.

Culture educates people. From the "Rule of Law Ulanmuqi" on the Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) grassland to the "Rule of Law March 3rd" in Guangxi (广西), all localities have created new brands of rule-of-law culture, and socialist rule-of-law culture is subtly infiltrating people's hearts.

One legal practice after another is also a legal "public class."

"Whoever enforces the law popularizes the law," "whoever manages popularizes the law," and "whoever serves popularizes the law" integrate the spirit of the rule of law into every legislative opinion solicitation, every administrative law enforcement process, and every judicial case trial. The overall pattern of legal popularization promotes the continuous enhancement of the whole society's awareness and initiative in strictly enforcing the rule of law.

Carry out legal education in a hierarchical and classified manner, grasp the "key few," and all localities have generally established systems such as leading cadres reporting on the law on the spot and observing court trials, promoting state personnel to take the lead in respecting the law, learning the law, abiding by the law, and using the law; focusing on the "future majority," adhere to legal education from children, and the national primary and secondary schools have a legal vice-principal and a legal counselor with an allocation rate of 98.9%...

The rule of law brings peace to the world, and morality nourishes people's hearts. Today, 4.2 million "legal明白人" (fǎlǜ míngbairén - "law-understanding people," people who understand the law) are all over the country, in cities and villages, becoming information officers of social conditions and public opinions, propagandists of policies and laws, mediators of contradictions and disputes, and guides of legal practice, better serving the grassroots law-based governance, and letting the "Fengqiao Experience" (枫桥经验) of the new era take root.
Law brings stability to the country, while morality enriches people's hearts. Today, 4.2 million "legal experts" are spread all over the country, in both cities and villages, serving as informants of public opinion, promoters of policies and laws, mediators of disputes, and guides for the practice of the rule of law. They better serve the rule of law at the grassroots level, allowing the "Fengqiao Experience" of the new era to take root.

Promoting universal law-abidingness into the practice of the rule of law, into grassroots governance, and into daily life will make the rule of law a common belief of the whole society, so that all people become loyal advocates, conscious observers, and firm defenders of the socialist rule of law.

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"Comprehensively governing the country according to law is a profound revolution in national governance."

With a grand blueprint unfolding, the rule of law provides escort.

Standing at a new historical starting point, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, and under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law, by building the foundation of the rule of law, exercising the power of the rule of law, and accumulating the momentum of the rule of law, the construction of a rule-of-law China on the new journey will surely gather the magnificent power of the rule of law to continue writing new chapters of the two great miracles and create a new situation in the construction of Chinese-style modernization!

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Li Qiang Meets with Russian Prime Minister Mishustin

This newspaper Moscow, November 17th (Reporters Yu Hongjian (于宏建) and Chen Shangwen (陈尚文)) On the afternoon of November 17th, local time, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) met with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin (米舒斯京) in Moscow (莫斯科).

Li Qiang (李强) said that the 30th regular meeting between the Chinese and Russian Prime Ministers was held in Hangzhou (杭州) not long ago, focusing on implementing the important consensus reached by President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Putin (普京), comprehensively reviewing the progress of cooperation between China and Russia in various fields, and planning key cooperation for the next stage. China is willing to work with Russia to follow the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, further strengthen communication and alignment, continuously deepen mutually beneficial cooperation between the two sides, and create more benefits for the people of the two countries.

Li Qiang (李强) pointed out that China is willing to deepen cooperation with Russia in investment, energy, agriculture and other fields, welcome more high-quality Russian agricultural and food products to enter the Chinese market, and hope that Russia will provide more convenience for Chinese enterprises to invest and operate in Russia. The two sides should continue to expand cultural exchanges, strengthen cooperation in culture, education, film and other fields, and inject more cultural warmth into China-Russia relations. In September this year, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上合组织) Tianjin (天津) Summit achieved a series of milestone achievements. China is willing to closely coordinate and cooperate with Russia to promote all parties of the SCO to uphold the "Shanghai Spirit" and transform the development blueprint drawn by the leaders into a real picture as soon as possible. It is necessary to deepen pragmatic cooperation, strengthen the development momentum of all member states, and at the same time continuously improve the SCO mechanism and enhance its influence in international affairs, unite the vast number of Global South countries, and promote the realization of an equal and orderly world multi-polarization and an inclusive economic globalization.

Mikhail Mishustin (米舒斯京) said that the current Russia-China comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era is at an unprecedented high level. Russia is willing to further strengthen dialogue and exchanges with China at all levels, deepen cooperation in economy and trade, energy, agriculture, culture and other fields, create new growth points for cooperation, and continuously enhance good-neighborliness and friendship. Russia is willing to create a good business environment for Chinese companies to invest in Russia. He thanked China for its outstanding work during its rotating presidency of the SCO, especially the successful holding of the Tianjin (天津) Summit. Russia is willing to strengthen communication and coordination with China, strengthen the SCO mechanism, and make greater contributions to promoting regional and world peace, development and prosperity.

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Talking about consumption and waste from the "four accounts"

By: 仲 音

Consumption and waste, a difference of one word, a world apart.

Encouraging consumption and opposing waste have never been opposing or separate. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "We must enhance consumption capacity, improve consumption conditions, innovate consumption scenarios, and fully release consumption potential," and "We must advocate hard work and thrift, resolutely oppose extravagance and waste, and create a strong atmosphere throughout society where waste is shameful and thrift is glorious." The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal puts forward "adhering to expanding domestic demand as a strategic base point, adhering to the close combination of benefiting people's livelihoods and promoting consumption, investing in things and investing in people," and makes arrangements for vigorously boosting consumption. These important arguments and deployments reflect the inherent unity of encouraging consumption and opposing waste, and are the ideological methods for us to do our work well.

It may be helpful to understand the principles from the "four accounts."

The first account is the consumption account of a drone pilot. Mr. Liu, who loves photography, has many professional cameras and lenses. This year, taking advantage of the "trade-in" policy in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东), he spent about 10,000 yuan to add a drone kit and sign up for private lessons. Buying equipment, booking training, taking licenses, self-driving tours... Mr. Liu's consumption chain reflects the industrial chain.

China's civilian drone industry is a global leader, an important growth point for the low-altitude economy, and has also spawned new occupations such as drone pilots, promoting high-quality and full employment. Purchasing high-quality drones meets effective demand and is a footnote to the upgrading of consumption promoted by high-quality supply.

Practice tells us that encouraging consumption and opposing waste is for more effective growth, unified in healthy and sustainable economic development. Today's China has abandoned the extensive model of "mass production, mass consumption, and mass waste" and is leading the development of new quality productive forces with technological innovation, and promoting a virtuous cycle of effective demand and high-quality supply with strong policies.

Boosting consumption is an important starting point for grasping the strategic base point of expanding domestic demand. By deepening supply-side structural reforms, reducing ineffective and low-end supply, leading new demand and promoting new consumption with high-quality supply, and stimulating the advantages and potential of the super-large-scale market, consumption, the "main engine" of the Chinese economy, will continue to release strong momentum.

The second account is the car purchase account of a new energy vehicle owner. A friend in Wuxi (无锡), Jiangsu (江苏) wanted to change cars and had been struggling to decide whether to buy a gasoline car or an electric car. In August of this year, Jiangsu issued a document clarifying the price policy for vehicle-to-grid discharge. According to calculations, car owners participating in discharge are expected to earn nearly 3,000 yuan per year. My friend decisively chose to buy an electric car and looks forward to installing vehicle-to-grid charging piles in the company's underground parking lot as soon as possible.

Charging during off-peak hours and discharging during peak hours, thanks to vehicle-to-grid interaction, electric vehicles are transformed into mobile power banks, reducing the cost of use for car owners, alleviating the burden on the power grid, and reducing carbon emissions for the entire society. A green consumption benefits all parties.

Practice tells us that encouraging consumption and opposing waste is for a higher quality of life, unified in the general trend of green and low-carbon development. Today's China, green products have changed from "optional" to "must-have," and "circular youth" has become a new consumer group. Policies supporting green consumption have formed a synergy, and green and low-carbon have changed from "slogans" to "trends," and even become a new "social currency."

Opposing waste is not a disguised consumption downgrade. On the contrary, it is to better meet the people's growing needs for a better life, and promote the upward quality of consumption, the downward consumption of resources, and the new industrial track. This is the driving force for the continuous iteration of "Made in China" and the innovation power for global sustainable development.

The third account is the drama-chasing account of a dance enthusiast. During the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holidays this year, dance enthusiast Xiao Li went to Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川) to "re-brush" the dance poetry drama "Only This Green (只此青绿)." She saved a stack of ticket stubs of different prices and also bought a lot of cultural and creative products. "The elegant Song Dynasty (宋朝) aesthetics and the actors' devoted performances are always surprising and truly addictive."

Scanning the cultural performance market, the dance drama "Eternal Radio Wave (永不消逝的电波)" is sold out at every performance, the drama "The Stage (戏台)" is frequently added, and in the first half of the year, the number of performances in professional stand-up comedy theaters increased by 54.1% year-on-year, and the box office increased by 134.9%. Cross-city drama chasing and cultural "migration" reflect changes in consumption demand.

Practice tells us that encouraging consumption and opposing waste is for more valuable pursuits, unified in the upward and benevolent social civilization. Consumption upgrades are not about spending money lavishly. Mature consumers "are not unable to afford expensive things, but are pursuing more cost-effectiveness." The consumption concept of the new era abandons blind comparison and emphasizes rationality and individuality.

The integration of culture-nurturing people and culture-enriching cities has cultivated a new consumption landscape in the new era. The popularity of "Su Chao (苏超)" and "Village Chao (村超)" brings out long-tail effects with small tickets, lighting up new urban and rural landscapes; Chongqing (重庆) hot pot, Lanzhou (兰州) beef noodles and other special delicacies help create cultural tourism brands, beautifying new regional landscapes; young people hold simple weddings and generously do public welfare, reshaping new civilized customs.

"Both material affluence and spiritual enrichment are the lofty pursuits of Chinese-style modernization." A healthy consumption concept stems from a correct view of righteousness and benefit. It is the fruitful result of the immersion of outstanding traditional Chinese culture and the charm of humanistic economics in the new era.

The fourth account is the expenditure account of local governments. In Xiangshan County (象山县), Zhejiang (浙江), the government compound looks a bit "shabby" at first glance. It's not that they are too "poor" to build a building. Xiangshan County's total fiscal revenue in 2024 reached 11.64 billion yuan. It's just that there is not much "three public" expenditure, and people's livelihood expenditure reached 10.64 billion yuan, an increase of 21.1% year-on-year, accounting for 77.5% of general public budget expenditure. Living frugally, not changing the "facade" to win "popular support," is the answer.

Practice tells us that the Party and the government taking the lead in living a tight life is for the people to live a good life, unified in the value orientation of investing in people and benefiting the people. Thrift and simplicity, and striving to overcome extravagance, are our Party's family heirlooms. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "No matter what level our country develops to, no matter how much the people's lives improve, the idea of hard work and thrift can never be lost."

Party and government organs living a tight life is not about holding on to wallets and not spending money, but about spending what should be spent and saving what should be saved, and concentrating financial resources on doing big things. Since the beginning of this year, the "two new" policies have been expanded and improved, the scale of ultra-long-term special treasury bonds this year has increased by 30% compared with last year, and as of the first half of the year, "trade-in" has driven sales of more than 2.9 trillion yuan, and about 400 million people have enjoyed subsidies and discounts. More funds are used more directly on the people, interpreting the original aspiration and mission and thickening the happiness index.

National prosperity and national rejuvenation require the accumulation of material civilization, but also the sublimation of spiritual civilization. Combining active and reasonable consumption with opposing extravagance and waste, promoting more funds and resources to be "invested in people," and promoting high-quality development and high-quality life to resonate at the same frequency, will surely continue to turn the people's yearning for a better life into reality.

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City Fair Comes to Town, New Customs Enter Every Home (First-line Observations on Implementing the Spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session)

By: 本报记者 周 欢

"Let's go to the fair!"

On a Saturday morning in Yingjiaoshang Community (营角上社区), Zhanggong District (章贡区), Ganzhou (赣州), Jiangxi (江西) Province, resident Zeng Laixiang (曾来香) warmly greeted Zhong Yulian (钟玉莲), a neighbor who had just moved from the countryside.

"There are fairs in the city too?" Zhong Yulian (钟玉莲) was quite surprised.

This "fair" is precisely the "Civilized Fair" launched by Ganzhou (赣州). Zeng Laixiang (曾来香) said with a smile, "I guarantee you'll feel great!"

Civilization is a prominent symbol of a modern country. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must take improving the level of social civilization as a major task in building a strong socialist cultural country." "A significant improvement in the level of social civilization" is also one of the main goals of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period proposed by the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee.

In a short while, Zeng Laixiang (曾来香) and Zhong Yulian (钟玉莲) arrived at the fair.

"It really is different!" Without rice, flour, grain, or oil, and no hawking along the streets, Zhong Yulian (钟玉莲) saw waving water sleeves and beating gongs and drums. Residents were chatting and laughing, moving between stalls for medical consultations, haircuts, and shoe repairs...

"It's even more lively than the fairs in my old rural home!" Zhong Yulian (钟玉莲) watched with interest.

Every weekend and holiday, Ganzhou (赣州)'s streets and communities hold cultural performances and provide convenient services in squares, parks, and other places, advocating for a new fashion of civilization.

"Don't take on debt to marry a wife, true feelings are the most precious..." On the square stage, a Gannan (赣南) tea-picking opera called "High Bride Prices Are Undesirable" began with the sound of gongs. On the stage, the actors were expressive; below the stage, the audience was engrossed.

"The program is well-performed, and it's good because it talks about things in life," said Zeng Laixiang (曾来香).

By telling civilized stories through forms that the masses love to see and hear, such as tea-picking operas, the Ganzhou (赣州) "Civilized Fair" has held more than 1,300 cultural benefit activities since the beginning of this year.

"Yulian (玉莲), let's go take a look over here." Zeng Laixiang (曾来香) pulled Zhong Yulian (钟玉莲) to one side of the square. Social security annual review, anti-fraud prevention... At 12 stalls, more than 30 staff members patiently answered residents' questions.

Zeng Laixiang (曾来香) went to the agency service stall to inquire about how to handle the annual pension insurance inspection on her mobile phone. The process was completed in less than 3 minutes. "Last time, it was thanks to their help with the medical insurance reimbursement," said Zeng Laixiang (曾来香).

"This is good! We are old, and our children are not by our side. We can come and ask if we don't understand anything," said Zhong Yulian (钟玉莲).

The "Civilized Fair" organizes staff and volunteers from various departments to answer questions from the public on the spot and popularize policy knowledge, serving a total of 780,000 people since the beginning of this year.

"Sister Laixiang (来香), this fair is worth it!"

"There's another place I go to every time."

As they spoke, the two strolled to the edge of the square flower bed, where eight stalls for free medical consultations, sewing, and other services were lined up in order.

Folding the trouser hem inward by 2 centimeters, aligning the edge with the presser foot... Tailor Zeng Fanyun (曾繁芸) had been busy all morning: "Half a day of voluntary service every week, doing more good deeds makes me feel comfortable."

Near noon, the fair closed, and residents were still chatting about their experiences and gains.

"To thoroughly study, publicize, and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, Ganzhou (赣州) will continue to deepen the construction of a civilized city, build a good 'Civilized Fair,' and shape a civilized city with the atmosphere of civilization," said Li Shaogang (李少刚), Deputy Minister of the Ganzhou Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department (赣州市委宣传部).

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Li Qiang to Attend 24th Meeting of SCO Heads of Government Council in Moscow

This newspaper's Moscow (莫斯科) dispatch on November 17th (Reporters Chen Shangwen (陈尚文) and Xiao Xinxin (肖新新)) On the morning of November 17th, at the invitation of Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin (米舒斯京), Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) departed from Beijing (北京) by chartered plane to attend the twenty-fourth meeting of the Council of Heads of Government (Prime Ministers) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) member states in Russia (俄罗斯).

Local time, noon on November 17th, Li Qiang (李强) arrived at Vnukovo Airport (伏努科沃机场) in Moscow (莫斯科) by chartered plane. Representatives of the Russian government and Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui (张汉晖) welcomed him at the airport.

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Solidify the Foundation of Cooperation and Create a Shared Future of Development

By: 本报记者 刘晓宇

How China's carbon market operates, how international green industry subsidy policies are implemented, and "how can carbon sink transactions truly benefit ecological environment restoration"... At the 2025 BRICS Innovation Base Industrial Green Development and Digital Training Class, 30 BRICS country trainees enthusiastically interacted with staff from the Xiamen Golden Round Financial Management Research Institute. This scene is a microcosm of Xiamen's exploration to build a "BRICS City" as the host city of the Ninth BRICS Leaders Meeting.

In 2020, the BRICS Partnership on New Industrial Revolution Innovation Center (hereinafter referred to as the "BRICS Innovation Base") was launched in Xiamen (厦门). Over the past five years, the base has focused on three core tasks: policy coordination, talent cultivation, and project development, promoting cooperation in various fields and achieving fruitful results.

Policy Coordination, Clearing Obstacles in Systems and Mechanisms

On August 31, the first safe and smart trade pilot route (hereinafter referred to as "SST") between China and other BRICS countries—the China-South Africa SST route—was officially launched. The route adopts the "information sharing, regulatory mutual recognition" model, which greatly improves the customs clearance efficiency of the entire logistics chain. "After participating in the SST route pilot, customs clearance efficiency has increased by more than 60%, greatly enhancing our competitiveness in the South African market," said Chen Limei, customs supervisor of Yealink Network Technology Co., Ltd. (厦门亿联网络技术股份有限公司). Today, Xiamen Port has 24 "BRICS routes," and from January to October this year, the import and export throughput to other BRICS countries reached 368,100 TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 5.8%.

At the end of June this year, the BRICS "Smart Customs" Demonstration Center, undertaken by Xiamen Customs (厦门海关), was launched online. In the "Enterprise Service" section, products such as grain, aquatic products, fruits, vegetables, and meat exported to China are clearly classified, and all customs clearance requirements and precautions are linked; at the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference "Win-Win BRICS" forum held in July, the "Artificial Intelligence and Innovation" journal, organized by the BRICS Innovation Base Digital Economy Research Center, solicited contributions from around the world—the editorial board members of the journal are located in more than 20 countries around the world, with particular emphasis on absorbing scholars from emerging economies. The first issue, published on October 13, collected 15 papers from scholars from 6 countries.

To date, the BRICS Innovation Base Digital Economy Research Center has introduced 7 foreign academicians and experts, and carried out joint scientific and technological research with universities in Brazil, South Africa and other countries in emerging industries such as information technology, life health, and new materials, becoming an important platform for policy coordination and technical exchanges among BRICS countries; the BRICS Partnership on New Industrial Revolution Forum has been held for many sessions, with representatives from more than 30 countries participating in the forum, and the jointly launched "International Cooperation Initiative on New Industrialization" has been expanded to the industrial authorities of 19 countries, and has released a number of institutional cooperation results such as the "BRICS Industrial Cooperation Case Collection" and the "BRICS Artificial Intelligence Development and Cooperation Outlook".

Talent Cultivation, Helping to Enhance Innovation Capabilities

In July this year, the BRICS New Industrial "Golden Egret" Excellence Scholarship Program established by China was officially launched to help BRICS countries cultivate talents in the fields of industry, communications, and other fields. As the first project of the scholarship, the 2025 BRICS Innovation Base Industrial Green Development and Digital Training Class opened in Xiamen on August 28, with 30 trainees from 22 countries including Ethiopia, Brazil, South Africa, and Indonesia participating. Zhu Xufang, Director of the Education Department of Xiamen Customs (厦门海关) and Head of the Secretariat of the BRICS Customs Demonstration Center, said that this training class focuses on talent cultivation and is a practical measure for China to deepen "Greater BRICS Cooperation."

On the afternoon of September 25, a high-difficulty surgery was performed at the Xiamen University Affiliated Cardiovascular Hospital (厦门大学附属心血管病医院), with Egyptian doctor Ibrahim watching every detail of the surgery in the control room. Ibrahim said: "This is a rare learning opportunity, which is very meaningful for accumulating experience in high-difficulty surgery." According to Wang Yan (王焱), President of the Xiamen University Affiliated Cardiovascular Hospital (厦门大学附属心血管病医院), the hospital initiated the establishment of the BRICS Cardiovascular Health Innovation Center and launched the "Heart Seed" Visiting Scholar Program in November 2022, which has attracted 28 young doctors from 13 countries including Brazil, Russia, Egypt, and Indonesia to train in China. Fernando, Director of the Pernambuco Heart Institute in Brazil, said after visiting the BRICS Cardiovascular Health Innovation Center: "China's systematic construction and technological innovation in the field of cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment are impressive. We hope to bring these advanced concepts and technologies back to Brazil, and at the same time allow more young Brazilian doctors and scholars to come to China for exchanges and study."

Focusing on the talent training needs of BRICS countries, and focusing on the hot fields of the new industrial revolution and the eight key areas of the Global Development Initiative, the BRICS Innovation Base has launched a number of brand training programs, and has carried out 95 online and offline talent training activities, covering 130 countries, with more than 2,600 offline training participants and more than 4.04 million online course clicks.

Project Development, Bearing Mutually Beneficial and Win-Win Fruits

In order to help Bangkok, Thailand optimize the charging time allocation of new energy buses and dispatch vehicles in real time, Xiamen Lance Communication Co., Ltd. invested in the construction of an integrated comprehensive dispatch and command center in Bangkok. "The technological empowerment from China has realized the leapfrog development of public transportation services in Thailand," said Lin Huanzhen, Vice President of Thai Smile Bus Company.

The BRICS Innovation Base has built the China-BRICS New Era Science and Technology Innovation Incubation Park, established a cooperation network with 21 BRICS countries' universities, research institutes, and science and technology incubation parks, established a 2 billion RMB BRICS Science and Technology Innovation Fund, and facilitated the landing of 9 cooperation projects, exploring the experience of scientific and technological achievements transformation for BRICS cooperation. Since Lance Communication settled in the incubation park, it has developed rapidly and has built 7 international projects in other BRICS countries and BRICS partner countries. In April this year, it took the lead in establishing the Xiamen BRICS Transportation Innovation Research Institute to build a full-chain overseas model of "consulting-design-development-implementation-operation-maintenance" to help BRICS countries upgrade their transportation digitalization.

From Chinese products to Chinese services, from Chinese solutions to Chinese wisdom, the level of cooperation between China and BRICS countries is constantly upgrading: In April this year, Xiamen King Long Bus successfully delivered 100 pure electric buses in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, and the supporting technical training school has trained more than 200 new energy technology talents for the Ethiopian side; Luckin Coffee, headquartered in Xiamen (厦门), and Chinese and foreign partners jointly signed a letter of intent to purchase Brazilian coffee beans, and will purchase approximately 240,000 tons of coffee beans in Brazil in the next 5 years; the "BRICS Excellent Product Code," which started operation in April last year, has become a "digital ID card" for high-quality products from BRICS countries through "one item, one code" identification, attracting 182 companies to join, covering more than 4 million items, and the application scenarios are gradually expanding to cross-border e-commerce, green and low-carbon, digital culture and other fields...

Over the past five years, from the "BRICS Enterprises China Tour" to the "Chinese Enterprises BRICS Tour," the BRICS Innovation Base has branded industrial project docking conferences, and has held nearly 100 project docking activities in BRICS countries, with a cumulative signing of 138 BRICS cooperation projects and an investment of more than 62 billion RMB. "We will continue to deepen cooperation in the field of new industrial revolution, focus on the three core tasks, build more pragmatic cooperation platforms and carriers, form more cooperation results with demonstration and leading roles, and build the base into a cooperation portal, demonstration base, and element gathering window for BRICS countries in the field of new industrial revolution," said Jiang Qingsheng (江庆生), Deputy Director of the BRICS Innovation Center in charge of daily work.

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Any attempt to interfere in China's internal affairs by force will be met with a firm rebuff (International Forum)

By: 杨伯江 唐永亮

The political attempt to achieve military expansion by hyping up the Taiwan issue, and the military adventurism that ignores the trend of the times and China's determination to achieve reunification, will inevitably be met with a head-on blow from the Chinese people and will inevitably be jointly opposed by peace-loving Asian countries.

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 founding of the United Nations, and the 80th anniversary of Japan's defeat. At this historical juncture, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) made dangerous remarks about Taiwan and refused to withdraw them. This is a blatant provocation against the post-war international order, a serious undermining of Sino-Japanese relations, and a blatant challenge to China's core interests.

Taiwan's return to China is an important part of the victory of World War II and the post-war international order. In 1894, Japan launched the Sino-Japanese War (甲午战争), and the following year forced the Qing government (清政府) to sign the unequal Treaty of Shimonoseki (《马关条约》), occupying Taiwan for 50 years. In 1945, Japan signed the instrument of surrender, formally accepting international legal documents such as the Cairo Declaration (《开罗宣言》) and the Potsdam Proclamation (《波茨坦公告》), which stipulated that Taiwan should be returned to China. As Chinese territory seized by Japan, Taiwan has returned to China legally and factually.

Adhering to the one-China principle is a solemn political commitment that Japan must fulfill. The Sino-Japanese Joint Statement (《中日联合声明》), signed in 1972 when China and Japan normalized diplomatic relations, clearly stipulates that the Japanese government fully understands and respects the Chinese government's position that Taiwan is an inseparable part of Chinese territory and insists on following Article 8 of the Potsdam Proclamation. In 1978, the two countries concluded the Treaty of Peace and Friendship Between Japan and China (《中日和平友好条约》), which legally affirmed the principles of the Joint Statement. The third and fourth political documents between China and Japan in 1998 and 2008 reiterated their adherence to the Joint Statement's position on the Taiwan issue. The Joint Declaration Between China and Japan on Establishing a Friendly Partnership of Commitment to Peace and Development (《中日关于建立致力于和平与发展的友好合作伙伴关系的联合宣言》) reiterated that "there is only one China," and the Japanese side promised to maintain only non-governmental and regional exchanges with Taiwan, thereby excluding the legal space for Japan to develop official relations with Taiwan. In 2007, then-Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (福田康夫) visited China and further clarified that Japan would not engage in "two Chinas" or "one China, one Taiwan," would not support "Taiwan independence," would not support Taiwan's "joining" the United Nations, and would not support "referendums on joining the UN." In contrast to these solemn commitments, it is not difficult to see that Takaichi Sanae's remarks on Taiwan clearly violate the spirit of the four political documents between China and Japan and seriously damage the political foundation and political mutual trust of Sino-Japanese relations.

Any attempt to interfere in China's internal affairs by force will be met with a head-on blow. Japanese militarism launched a 14-year war of aggression against China, causing great harm to the Chinese people, and its crimes against humanity are too numerous to mention. The Chinese people, in extremely difficult and dangerous domestic and international environments and conditions, were unyielding, fought bravely, and finally won the great victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. The Japanese militarists' acts of aggression also caused a heavy price to be paid by their own people, and the pacifist constitution was born in the social trend of reflecting on the lessons of the war. Takaichi Sanae ignores the fact that Japan's post-war economic and social development was based on reflecting on the historical lessons of World War II and attempts to follow the old historical path of militarism taking advantage of populism. The political attempt to achieve military expansion by hyping up the Taiwan issue, and the military adventurism that ignores the trend of the times and China's determination to achieve reunification, will inevitably be met with a head-on blow from the Chinese people and will inevitably be jointly opposed by peace-loving Asian countries.

(The authors are all special researchers at the Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院).)

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Joint Statement of the Foreign Ministers of the People's Republic of China and the Syrian Arab Republic

On November 17, 2025, Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, met with Ayman Sussan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Syrian Arab Republic, who was visiting China (中国). The two sides held constructive talks and exchanged views on China-Syria relations and issues of common concern.

I. Both sides emphasized the importance of the traditional friendly relations between the two countries and their peoples, and stressed their willingness to work together to maintain and develop this relationship, serving the interests of the two friendly countries. They emphasized mutual respect, taking care of each other's interests, non-interference in internal affairs, and continued communication and consultation in international organizations and international occasions.

Both sides expressed their willingness to explore cooperation in areas of common concern such as economy, development, Syrian reconstruction, capacity building, and improving the livelihoods of the Syrian people.

Both sides emphasized the fight against terrorism in all its forms and agreed to strengthen coordination and cooperation in the fields of counter-terrorism and security.

Both sides recognized the importance of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum in promoting collective cooperation between China and Arab countries, and agreed to continue cooperation within the framework of this important mechanism.

II. The Syrian side reiterated its firm commitment to the one-China principle, recognizing that the government of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国) is the sole legal government representing the whole of China, that Taiwan (台湾) is an inalienable part of China, and supporting China's efforts to safeguard national sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity. It resolutely opposes any forces interfering in China's internal affairs and supports all efforts made by the Chinese government to achieve national reunification. The Syrian side appreciates the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, the Global Governance Initiative, and the "Belt and Road" Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平), and is willing to actively participate in the above initiatives. The Syrian side attaches importance to China's security concerns and promises that Syria will not become a source of threat to any country and will not allow any entity to use Syrian territory to engage in activities that harm China's security, sovereignty, and interests.

The Syrian side thanked China for all the assistance it has provided to the Syrian people and expressed its willingness to strengthen cooperation with China in various fields, appreciating China's advanced development experience that has brought security and prosperity to all its citizens.

III. The Chinese side emphasized its full respect for the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity, and national unity of the Syrian Arab Republic, emphasizing that the Syrian government is the sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people, supporting the domestic political process led by the Syrian government, and appreciating the Syrian government's continuous efforts to eliminate the harm of drugs, strengthen the rule of law, combat terrorism, and protect the rights of all Syrian people without discrimination. It supports Syria in taking a development path that suits its own national conditions, and emphasizes that the Golan Heights (戈兰高地) are internationally recognized Syrian occupied territory.

IV. At the end of the meeting, both sides reaffirmed their determination to continue constructive dialogue and work together to follow up on the issues discussed, implement joint actions and common initiatives, and promote the development and prosperity of the two peoples in a spirit of cooperation.

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), November 17)

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Wang Yi to Visit Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan and Hold Strategic Dialogues with the Foreign Ministers of the Three Countries Respectively

Beijing, November 17th (Reporter Chu Jun (褚君)) A spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (外交部) announced on the 17th: At the invitation of Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Kulubaev (库鲁巴耶夫), Uzbek Foreign Minister Saidov (赛义多夫), and Tajik Foreign Minister Muhriddin (穆赫里丁), Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局委员) and Minister of Foreign Affairs, will visit Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan from November 19th to 22nd and hold strategic dialogues with the foreign ministers of the three countries respectively.

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Wang Yi Meets with Syrian Interim Government Foreign Minister Shibani

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 17th. Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, held talks with Syrian Interim Government Foreign Minister Shibani in Beijing (北京) on the 17th.

Wang Yi (王毅) stated that China pursues a friendly policy towards all the Syrian people and respects the choices independently made by the Syrian people. Both sides should adhere to mutual respect for each other's core interests, adhere to non-interference in each other's internal affairs, carry forward the tradition of continued friendship, calibrate the course of China-Syria relations, and realize the return of bilateral relations to the right track. China is willing to work with the international community to contribute to promoting security and stability in Syria.

Shibani said that the Syrian side firmly adheres to the one-China principle and is willing to further strengthen multilateral communication and collaboration.

After the talks, the two sides issued a joint statement by the foreign ministers of China and Syria.

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He Lifeng and German Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister Lindner Co-chair the Fourth China-Germany High-Level Financial Dialogue

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 17th (Reporter Cao Jiayue (曹嘉玥)) The Chinese lead person of the China-Germany High-Level Financial Dialogue, Vice Premier of the State Council He Lifeng (何立峰), and the German lead person, German Vice Chancellor and Minister of Finance Christian Lindner (克林拜尔), co-chaired the fourth China-Germany High-Level Financial Dialogue in Beijing (北京) on the 17th.

He Lifeng (何立峰) stated that China is willing to work with Germany to implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, open a new chapter in the all-round strategic partnership, and make new contributions to the stable growth of the world economy.

Christian Lindner (克林拜尔) stated that Germany is willing to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with China in the financial field and promote greater development of bilateral relations.

During the dialogue, the two sides reached a series of mutually beneficial and 互利共赢 (hù lì gòng yíng - "mutual benefit win-win," describes a situation or outcome where all parties involved benefit) results and consensus. He Lifeng (何立峰) and Christian Lindner (克林拜尔) jointly attended the second China-Germany Financial Roundtable.

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The 11th China-Arab States Dialogue on Civilizations Held

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 17th (Reporters Yuan Rui (袁睿) and Yang Yuanyuan (杨媛媛)) On November 17th, the 11th China-Arab Civilization Dialogue, co-hosted by the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央对外联络部) and the Secretariat of the League of Arab States, was held in Beijing (北京). The theme was "Strengthening Civilization Dialogue and Building a China-Arab Community with a Shared Future in the New Era." Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Aboul Gheit (盖特), and other leaders of political parties and organizations, members of parliament, government officials, and representatives of think tanks and media from 22 Arab countries, as well as representatives from Chinese ministries, universities, and think tanks, totaling approximately 150 people, attended the meeting.

Liu Haixing (刘海星), Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中联部), stated that China and Arab countries are pioneers and fellow travelers in practicing the Global Civilization Initiative. Both sides should jointly build lasting peace, seek common development and revitalization, promote cultural and people-to-people exchanges, and advocate for fairness and justice, working together to build a China-Arab community with a shared future. Liu Haixing (刘海星) also introduced the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee.

The Arab side stated that China's "15th Five-Year Plan" will create new opportunities for Arab-China cooperation. The Arab side supports the series of major initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平) and is willing to strengthen civilization dialogue with China, promote the construction of the Arab-China community with a shared future, and make new contributions to the progress of human civilization.

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Across Mountains and Seas, China-Latin America Cooperation Reaches New Heights

By: 本报记者 方 敏

The 18th China-Latin America Business Summit, hosted by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (中国国际贸易促进委员会), the People's Government of Henan Province (河南省人民政府), and the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行), was held in Zhengzhou (郑州), Henan (河南) Province. More than 1,000 people, including government officials, business people, experts, scholars, and representatives of international organizations from China and Latin American and Caribbean countries, attended the summit. The on-site exchanges were enthusiastic, and 73 preliminary cooperation intentions were reached.

The year 2025 marks the 10th anniversary of the official operation of the China-CELAC Forum, and China-Latin America relations are entering a new stage of high-quality development. Ren Hongbin (任鸿斌), Chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (中国贸促会), said that over the past 10 years, China-Latin America strategic mutual trust has deepened, pragmatic cooperation has continued to expand, and friendly momentum has continued to strengthen. China-Latin America relations have entered a new stage of equality, mutual benefit, innovation, openness, and benefit to the people.

In shopping malls and supermarkets in major cities across China, agricultural products such as lobsters, avocados, and blueberries from Latin American countries such as Mexico (墨西哥), Chile (智利), and Peru (秘鲁) attract many consumers. "The Chinese market has an increasing acceptance of agricultural products from Latin American countries. We are very pleased that these high-quality products are welcomed in the Chinese market," said Victor Cadena, Vice Executive Chairman of the China Mexico Chamber of Commerce. Currently, Yutong (宇通) has sold nearly 30,000 new energy buses in the Latin American market, and has also built charging stations and provided after-sales service centers, winning praise from people in many Latin American countries. Maria Baravino Jobin, Advisor to the Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries of Uruguay (乌拉圭牧农渔业部), said: "Yutong electric buses are a beautiful sight on the streets of Montevideo (蒙得维的亚)."

Behind the frequent two-way exchanges is the continuous improvement of China-Latin America transportation network construction. At present, the Zhengzhou (郑州) to Mexico City (墨西哥城) freight route has operated nearly 700 flights, and is now increased to 5 flights per week, with its service scope extending to many Latin American countries such as Colombia (哥伦比亚), Peru (秘鲁), and Venezuela (委内瑞拉). Zhao Zhimin (赵志敏), Secretary-General of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院), said: "This reflects the deep integration of China-Latin America industries, a two-way rush to meet the market needs of both sides, and a vivid practice of the concept of consultation, joint construction, and shared benefits."

During the summit, a special dialogue on China-Latin America smart agriculture cooperation was held. Enterprise representatives, experts, and scholars from the agricultural fields of China and Latin American countries discussed new trends in smart agriculture. Henan Agricultural Development Investment Group (河南农投集团) signed memorandums of cooperation with the Rural Development Bureau of Canelones (卡内洛内斯省) Province, Uruguay (乌拉圭), agreeing to jointly build an "Agricultural Technology Demonstration Base" to carry out crop introduction experiments, unconventional feed research and development, technical training, and other businesses. "We hope to carry out in-depth cooperation with China in smart agriculture research and development and industrial investment to better promote the transformation of agriculture towards intensification," said Carlos Enciso, Governor of Florida (佛罗里达省) Province, Uruguay (乌拉圭).

Diana Morales, Minister of Trade, Industry and Tourism of Colombia (哥伦比亚贸易、工业和旅游部), said that there are not only commodity trade exchanges between Latin American countries and China, but also a bond of people-to-people connectivity and a future of common development. "Latin America-China economic and trade cooperation is not only mutually beneficial and win-win, but also benefits people's livelihoods."

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New Chapter of Development Seen Amidst Green Mountains and Clear Waters

By: 本报记者 刘军国

Twenty-two ambassadors, diplomats, and related representatives from 19 countries and international organizations, including Serbia and the United Kingdom, recently visited Hangzhou, Shaoxing, and Ningbo in Zhejiang Province at the invitation of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (中国外交部) to experience the new chapter of development in which "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets."

Art courtyards are built in tea mountains, and small mountain villages are transformed into "large canvases"—Waitongwu Village (外桐坞村), Zhuantang Subdistrict (转塘街道), Xihu District (西湖区), Hangzhou (杭州), has transformed from a dilapidated small mountain village into a beautiful new-era countryside. "This place retains the charm of traditional mountain villages and exudes a modern and artistic atmosphere," said Pindisai Mayela, Minister Counselor of the Embassy of Zimbabwe in China (津巴布韦驻华大使馆). At the Eastern Zhejiang Canal Museum (浙东运河博物馆), representatives from various countries listened to introductions while learning about ancient Chinese water management experiences. "I fully felt the intelligence and wisdom of the ancient Chinese people," said Koula Sophianou, Ambassador of Cyprus to China (塞浦路斯驻华大使).

After learning that Wandicun Village (湾底村), Xiaying Subdistrict (下应街道), Yinzhou District (鄞州区), Ningbo (宁波), combines village renovation with economic development, and that the village's collective economic income exceeded 50 million yuan last year, Rolu, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim of the Embassy of Côte d'Ivoire in China (科特迪瓦驻华大使馆), said that Wandicun Village (湾底村) not only fully revitalizes natural resources to increase villagers' income but also adheres to the bottom line of ecological protection in economic development. "We have seen the results of adhering to the coordinated advancement of ecological environmental protection and economic and social development." He said that this path of ecological and economic win-win provides valuable reference for rural construction in other countries.

Representatives from various countries also visited the Hangzhou City Brain Operation and Command Center (杭州城市大脑运营指挥中心), Alibaba Group (阿里巴巴集团), Geely Automobile Factory (吉利汽车工厂), China Textile City (中国轻纺城), Westlake University (西湖大学), and Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) to experience Zhejiang's surging momentum in the digital economy, technological innovation, advanced manufacturing, industrial renewal, and talent cultivation. Khalil Hashmi, Ambassador of Pakistan to China (巴基斯坦驻华大使), was deeply impressed by the integration and mutual reflection of traditional culture and modern innovation in Zhejiang, and hopes to take this visit as an opportunity to promote extensive cooperation between the two countries in science and technology, economy and trade, culture and tourism, and jointly create a better tomorrow. "I not only appreciated the beauty of Zhejiang, but also felt its vigorous development vitality," said Maja Stefanović, Ambassador of Serbia to China (塞尔维亚驻华大使). Zhejiang always takes into account cultural heritage and ecological protection in its rapid development, which is worth learning.

(Correspondents Chen Nan (陈楠) and Yu Zhufei (俞珠飞) participated in the writing)

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"U.S.-China People's Dialogue 2025" Media Briefing Held in Los Angeles

Los Angeles, November 17th (Reported by Li Zhiwei (李志伟) from this newspaper) – A media briefing for the "U.S.-China Peoples Dialogue 2025" was held in Los Angeles on local time, November 16th.

Since 2023, the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University (清华大学) and the National Committee on United States-China Relations have jointly organized the "U.S.-China Peoples Dialogue." It has been successfully held for two sessions and has become an important platform for U.S.-China people-to-people exchanges. The "U.S.-China Peoples Dialogue 2025," themed "Bridging Differences, Seeking Consensus," is being held at the Huntington Library in Los Angeles, USA, from November 16th to 19th.

Stephen Orlins, President of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, stated that people-to-people exchanges are the cornerstone of U.S.-China relations. The main goal of this event is to sort out the various obstacles facing U.S.-China people-to-people exchanges and to try to put forward practical and feasible suggestions to promote the development of U.S.-China people-to-people exchanges.

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Textiles Crafted with Skill, Rockets Designed with Intelligence (An Innovative Vision for the "15th Five-Year Plan")

By: 本报记者 邓建胜 姚雪青

Develop advanced manufacturing clusters. Promote technological upgrades and transformation, and facilitate the digital and intelligent transformation of manufacturing.
——Excerpt from the "15th Five-Year Plan" Recommendations

Extending a "foot" to stop the spindle, reaching out a "hand" to suck out the broken end, and then threading the broken end through the steel wire ring, yarn guide, and front top roller, the spinning machine restarts.

"Finding the broken ends accurately and joining them well, the apprentices have surpassed the master." At Wuxi No. 1 Cotton Textile Group Co., Ltd. (无锡一棉纺织集团有限公司), a company with a century of history in Jiangsu Province (江苏省), "Gold Medal Yarn Joiner" Wang Fan (王璠) recently had a group of special "apprentices" – several snow-white intelligent inspection and yarn joining robots with robotic arms.

"Promoting technological upgrades and transformation, and facilitating digital and intelligent transformation, is the inevitable path for the development of traditional industries." Cai Yun (蔡赟), Chairman of Wuxi No. 1 Cotton, said that the global textile market is highly competitive. In recent years, the company has been developing and producing high-count yarns, but to spin 300-count yarns with higher added value is equivalent to stretching 1 gram of cotton into a 500-meter-long yarn. Once the yarn breaks during spinning, it is difficult for humans to detect and quickly join it, affecting production efficiency and product quality.

To solve the problem, Wuxi No. 1 Cotton cooperated with Donghua University (东华大学) in industry-university-research collaboration. The intelligent inspection and yarn joining robot developed was officially "on duty" at the beginning of this year. It can automatically receive broken wire alarm signals sent by sensors, and independently patrol and complete the yarn joining.

The reporter saw in the automatic shift area of the fine yarn workshop that more than 70 fine yarn machines, which used to require 12 workers operating in 3 shifts, can now be easily managed by one master worker with 4 "apprentices." Labor intensity is reduced by 30%, production costs are reduced by 11%, and production efficiency is increased by 15%. "After the digital and intelligent transformation, the high-count yarn products produced can meet the needs of major brands at home and abroad, and also help us develop our own brands." Cai Yun (蔡赟) said that adhering to the direction of intelligence, green development, and integration, the scale of Wuxi's (无锡) high-end textile and apparel industry cluster exceeds 200 billion yuan.

Digital and intelligent empowerment is also a significant feature of emerging industries. Walking into the Deep Blue Aerospace (深蓝航天) rocket assembly base located in Wuxi High-tech Zone (无锡高新区), hundreds of parts from local and surrounding areas are being assembled into a 1.8-meter-high conical rocket engine. According to on-site workers, the engine is the "heart" of the rocket, and its main components are designed and manufactured using 3D printing technology, with integrated molding, low cost, high efficiency, more compact special-shaped structure, and the delivery time is greatly reduced from half a year to 10 days.

The manufacturing process is intelligent, and the manufactured products are more "smart." "Our self-developed rockets can not only go to the sky, but also be recovered. The secret lies in these engines." Zhang Chengcong (张成聪), Assistant General Manager of Deep Blue Aerospace (深蓝航天), introduced that the engine is controlled by algorithms and has two major advantages: it can be started multiple times and the thrust can be adjusted. It has completed recovery tests at the ten-meter, hundred-meter, and kilometer levels.

"At the beginning of next year, the rocket will attempt orbital recovery for the first time." Zhang Chengcong (张成聪) said that if successful, the cost of rocket launches can be reduced by more than 70%. In the future, the Deep Blue Aerospace (深蓝航天) Wuxi (无锡) base can produce 10 liquid carrier rockets and 100 rocket engines annually, with a single-arrow carrying capacity of 20 tons – not only can the company earn more than 3 billion yuan in annual revenue by "hauling goods in space," but it will also provide transportation infrastructure for satellite internet, deep space exploration, manned lunar landing, and other fields.

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Empowering with Digital Intelligence, Cultivating New Competitive Advantages (Expert Commentary)

By: 吴福象

Using robots for wiring, Wuxi No. 1 Cotton (无锡一棉), a century-old textile enterprise, has been revitalized; 3D printing the "heart" of rockets, the emerging industry Deep Blue Aerospace (深蓝航天) has mastered "unique skills." Insisting on focusing on the real economy as the focal point of economic development, and adhering to the direction of intelligence, greening, and integration, we can seize the historical opportunities of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and build a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone.

Revitalizing with wisdom, consolidating the foundation of traditional industries. Traditional industries are the "basic plate" of China's manufacturing development, and the way to break the situation lies in intelligent transformation and digital transformation: actively promoting equipment replacement, machine replacement, and production line replacement to achieve industrial quality improvement and upgrading. The key to breaking the situation lies in green development: achieving sustainable development by promoting energy-saving technologies, developing green products, and building green supply chains. The strategy to break the situation lies in integrated innovation: promoting the deep integration of advanced manufacturing and modern service industries, technological innovation and industrial innovation, encouraging enterprises to transform into comprehensive service providers of "products + services + solutions," and cultivating new competitive advantages.

Improving the ecosystem and building a highland for emerging industries. Emerging industries are the "growth pole" of China's manufacturing development, and the basis for their layout lies in strengthening innovation: increasing investment in emerging fields such as new energy, new materials, aerospace, and the low-altitude economy to cultivate new momentum for the development of new quality productive forces. The key to the layout lies in application scenario-driven: proactively opening up typical application scenarios, providing testing grounds and first-use opportunities for new technologies and new products, and exploring more feasible business models. The foundation of the layout lies in creating an innovative ecosystem: promoting the integrated construction of innovation facilities, technological research and development, and product iteration and upgrading to accelerate the large-scale development of emerging industries.

Looking forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," and continuing to promote the dual-wheel drive of optimizing and upgrading traditional industries and cultivating and strengthening emerging industries, it is necessary to give full play to the advantages of the new type of national system and strive to achieve breakthroughs in key core technologies; it is necessary to strengthen the deep integration of the "four chains" and cultivate more innovative and specialized and new small and medium-sized enterprises; it is necessary to coordinate development and security, and enhance the resilience and security level of the industrial chain and supply chain with a high level of opening to the outside world.

(The author is a professor in the Department of Industrial Economics at the School of Economics of Nanjing University (南京大学), and the interview was compiled by Yao Xueqing (姚雪青), a reporter from this newspaper.)

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Promoting High-Quality Development of Health and Population (Authoritative Interview: Studying and Implementing the Spirit of the 20th CPC Central Committee's Fourth Plenary Session)

By: 本报记者 白剑峰

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "People's health is an important symbol of socialist modernization." The "Suggestions of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" deliberated and approved by the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee made arrangements for accelerating the construction of a healthy China and promoting high-quality population development, fully demonstrating the great importance the Party Central Committee attaches to people's health and high-quality population development.

Accelerating the construction of a healthy China and promoting high-quality population development are related to the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization and the promotion of common prosperity for all people. How to implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and build a solid foundation of health and population for advancing Chinese-style modernization? A reporter interviewed Lei Haichao (雷海潮), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委).

Insist on Taking Enhancing People's Health and Well-being as the Fundamental Value Orientation, and Continuously Narrow the Service Gap Between Urban and Rural Areas, Regions, and Populations

Reporter: In the strategic overall situation of Chinese-style modernization, how can we accurately locate the position of health work?

Lei Haichao: In the historical process of achieving the "two centenary goals," developing the health cause has always been in a fundamental position and played an important supporting role. The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for consolidating the foundation and making comprehensive efforts. It is necessary to accurately grasp the current historical stage, combine it with its own positioning, anchor the strategic goal of building a healthy China in 2035, focus on the theme of high-quality development, consolidate the basic medical and health system with Chinese characteristics and the foundation for high-quality population development, continuously improve the medical and health services that maintain public welfare, improve the population development service system covering the entire population and the entire life cycle, improve the relevant operation guarantees and governance mechanisms, consolidate and expand advantages, break through bottlenecks and constraints, and strengthen weaknesses to ensure that various measures are in the same direction and consistent with the overall goal.

Scientifically understand the situation and actively serve the overall situation. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China's development is in a period where strategic opportunities and risks and challenges coexist, and uncertain and unpredictable factors are increasing. China's economic foundation is stable, has many advantages, is resilient, and has great potential. The supporting conditions and basic trends for long-term improvement have not changed. We must strengthen our confidence and determination, unswervingly do our own things well, and provide strong support for Chinese-style modernization with high-quality health services, security capabilities, and efficient governance levels to respond to the needs of the people and changes in the international environment.

Firmly grasp the essential requirements of common prosperity. Providing fair, accessible, systematic, continuous, high-quality, and efficient medical and health services to the people is an important manifestation of common prosperity. We must clearly recognize the political, social, and people-oriented nature of health work, adhere to taking enhancing people's health and well-being as the fundamental value orientation, grasp the main contradictions of unbalanced and insufficient development and the people's new expectations for health, highlight balance, accessibility, and continuity, continuously narrow the service gap between urban and rural areas, regions, and populations, make greater progress in promoting health equity and accessibility, accelerate the equalization of basic public health and population services, the homogenization of basic medical services, and the balanced level of professional capabilities, and continuously enhance the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security.

Promote the Construction of a Health Service Pattern for Chinese-style Modernization and Make a Landmark Contribution to Chinese-style Modernization

Reporter: How to promote key health tasks during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period and better maintain and promote people's health?

Lei Haichao: We must fully implement the deployment of the Plenary Session, focus on the people's health expectations, strive to write a new chapter in health for Chinese-style modernization, and strive to reach an average life expectancy of about 80 years in China by 2030, making a landmark contribution to promoting Chinese-style modernization.

First, highlight strategic leadership and promote the comprehensive shift of work to focus on people's health. In the process of Chinese-style modernization, health-first development is both a development goal and a development support. It is necessary to promote local party committees and governments to take health-first as a priority goal for economic and social development in the coming period, improve the policy and regulatory system for health-first development in planning, investment, governance, and performance, improve the health promotion policy system, and include health indicators such as average life expectancy and high-quality population development indicators as important content of the performance management of party committees and governments, comprehensively establish a risk assessment system for health risk factors, and accelerate the formation of a lifestyle, production method, and economic and social governance model that are conducive to health. The health system must fully shift to focus on people's health, from focusing on disease to focusing on health, and from serving patients to serving the entire population. At the individual level, it is necessary to manage health risk factors so that problems such as weight, blood pressure, blood lipids, and blood sugar that affect physical and mental health can be effectively intervened and controlled, so as to obtain a healthier and higher-quality life.

Second, highlight the balance of development and promote significant progress in hierarchical diagnosis and treatment with the focus on the grassroots level. It is necessary to pay attention to the balance of the development of the three-level medical and health service system, optimize the functional positioning and layout of medical institutions, stabilize the operation of secondary hospitals, implement the medical and health strengthening project, focusing on and guiding the sinking of personnel, technology, services, and management to the grassroots level, vigorously develop the mutual assistance and collaboration relationship between medical institutions at all levels, promote and implement mobile medical treatment, mobile medical treatment, and remote diagnosis and treatment, promote the vast number of people to obtain convenient, efficient, and high-quality medical and health services at their doorsteps, and achieve more significant results in hierarchical diagnosis and treatment. Accelerate the construction of county-level close-knit medical communities and urban close-knit medical alliances, and promote distributed inspections in townships or communities, centralized diagnosis in county and district hospitals, and mutual recognition of inspection and testing results. Strengthen the incentive and restraint of medical insurance payment for hierarchical diagnosis and treatment, guide and regulate off-site medical treatment behavior, and improve the efficiency of medical insurance fund use.

It is necessary to pay attention to the balance of the development of service structures in different disciplines. In response to weak disciplines and specialties where the masses need and the service supply is insufficient, comprehensively improve emergency and critical care, blood security, and emergency response capabilities, strengthen mental health and mental health services, and strengthen health services for women, children, and the elderly. Combining the ongoing "Pediatric and Mental Health Service Year" and practical services for the people, make plans during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period to comprehensively make up for shortcomings and strengthen weaknesses.

Third, highlight public welfare and comprehensively consolidate the development foundation of public hospitals. Comprehensively promote the Sanming medical reform experience unit by unit in accordance with local conditions, adhere to the reform concept of party leadership, public welfare, people's position, and health orientation; adhere to the reform style of not avoiding difficulties and forging ahead; adhere to the reform rhythm of promoting reform in accordance with local conditions and continuously iterating and upgrading; adhere to closely adapting to the local level of economic and social development, providing appropriate services and moderate guarantees for the masses, and ensuring sustainable reform methods. Taking public welfare as the orientation, implement the responsibility of running the hospital, adhere to the correct purpose and direction of running the hospital, and promote the dynamic adjustment of the establishment of public hospitals, and the charging reflects the value of medical services. Strengthen the comprehensive supervision of medical service quality and safety, institutional operation, and the behavior of practitioners across departments, and severely crack down on fraud, insurance fraud, and corruption in the pharmaceutical field. Focusing on promoting the solution of the operation and security problems of county and district-level medical institutions, conduct in-depth research on relevant policies and actively promote them. Provide financial subsidies to medical institutions and weak departments that are needed by the society, have low charging levels, and have difficulty balancing income and expenditure to promote their stable development, implement policy-based loss subsidy policies, strengthen the operation and security of county and district and grassroots medical institutions, and prevent the risk of wage arrears and service interruptions.

Fourth, highlight service continuity and open up the entire chain of health services for prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and management. With the continuous deepening of aging and the continuous extension of average life expectancy, the people will need more comprehensive and full-cycle health services. We must take chronic diseases such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, and diabetes as the entry point, improve the early screening, early diagnosis, early treatment, and early rehabilitation system, develop the entire chain of prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and management services, promote the effective connection of the entire process of precise intervention at the prevention end, multidisciplinary collaboration at the treatment end, continuous services at the rehabilitation end, and long-term follow-up at the management end, improve the first-visit responsibility system and the inter-hospital and inter-clinic referral mechanism, improve the pertinence and effectiveness of seeing a doctor, and solve the urgent and difficult problems of the people. Further strengthen the optimization and reshaping of service processes, build consultation and referral work platforms in hospitals and between hospitals, so that professional institutions and professional personnel can provide professional opinions to help patients seek medical treatment in a more scientific, standardized, and orderly manner. Further give play to the unique advantages of traditional Chinese medicine in prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and management, improve the service system of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, strengthen mutual learning between traditional Chinese and Western medicine, improve the setting of clinical departments of traditional Chinese medicine in general hospitals, carry out the construction of "flagship" hospitals and "flagship" departments of traditional Chinese and Western medicine collaboration, deepen the clinical collaboration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine in major and difficult diseases, carry out the "New Era Shennong Tasting Herbs" action, and enrich traditional Chinese medicine treatment methods.

Effectively Reduce the Cost of Family Childbearing, Raising, and Education, and Actively Promote Healthy Aging

Reporter: How to further improve the fertility support policy system and promote high-quality population development?

Lei Haichao: High-quality population development covers all aspects of fertility, raising, education, and health, and it is necessary to strengthen comprehensive policies. In recent years, China has successively introduced a series of policies and measures to promote fertility, such as extending maternity leave, strengthening pregnancy services, and gradually promoting free preschool education. Establish a childcare subsidy system and vigorously develop inclusive childcare services.

Next, it is necessary to guide young people to establish a positive view of marriage and childbearing, give play to the role of childcare subsidies and individual income tax deduction policies, improve the education resource allocation mechanism adapted to population changes, steadily expand the scope of free education, and effectively reduce the cost of family childbearing, raising, and education. Deeply implement the early pregnancy care action and the capacity building plan for pregnancy and birth defect prevention and control, and provide better health guidance in early pregnancy. Adhere to the integrated development of childcare and early childhood education, and expand the supply of inclusive childcare places. In the future, we will carry out demonstration pilots for childcare service subsidies, explore further subsidies for childcare service institutions, and simultaneously exert efforts from both the supply and demand sides to improve the inclusive childcare service system.

During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China's aging will continue to deepen, the demand for medical care for the disabled and dementia will increase, and the demand for hospice care for patients with terminal illnesses will increase. We will actively carry out scientific research on major health problems, comprehensively expand the supply of urban and rural rehabilitation nursing and hospice care services, and develop medical and nursing services. Continue to optimize basic public health service projects, enrich content, and improve quality and efficiency. Continue to improve the quality of family doctor contract services, and improve the linkage mechanism for drug connection between counties, townships, and villages.

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Governing the phenomenon of online shop operators being "untraceable."

This newspaper reported from Beijing on November 17th (Reporter Lin Lili): Market regulatory departments have found the problem of "ghost online stores" to be prominent in law enforcement. For example, the Enforcement and Inspection Bureau of the State Administration for Market Regulation organized investigations into 14 online stores on platforms such as Pinduoduo, Taobao, Kuaishou, and Jingdong, suspected of infringing on the exclusive right to use the registered trademark of "Pang Donglai (胖东来)". It was found that 10 of them were not operating at the registered address, and 8 of them could not be found. The phenomenon of online store operators being "untraceable" is relatively prominent, becoming a difficult point faced by market regulatory departments when investigating and handling online infringement cases. To this end, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) (市场监管总局) issued the "Regulations on E-commerce Platforms Assisting in the Investigation and Handling of Trademark Infringement Cases (Draft for Comment)" on November 14.

The regulations clarify the specific measures for e-commerce platform operators to assist market regulatory departments in investigating and handling trademark infringement cases, and focus on proposing four items:

For cases where there is already evidence that can initially prove the existence of trademark infringement, the market regulatory department may notify the e-commerce platform operator and inform the e-commerce platform operator to take intellectual property protection measures in accordance with the law.

For cases where the address information of the online store operator is untrue and contact cannot be made, the market regulatory department shall notify the e-commerce platform operator. The e-commerce platform operator shall prominently mark the relevant store and product information at the top and notify the online store operator to truthfully provide relevant information and cooperate with the market regulatory department's investigation.

For relevant illegal cases involving multiple regions, the regulations stipulate the jurisdiction and cooperation requirements of local market regulatory departments.

If an e-commerce platform operator violates relevant regulations, constituting the provision of convenient conditions for infringing upon the exclusive right to use another person's trademark and assisting others in implementing acts of infringing upon the exclusive right to use a trademark, the market regulatory department shall investigate and handle it in accordance with the law.

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China's highest-altitude wind power project connected to grid

This newspaper reported from Beijing on November 17th (Reporter Ding Yiting (丁怡婷) and Xian Gan (鲜敢)) The reporter learned from China Huadian Corporation (中国华电集团有限公司): On the 17th, the Huadian Qonggyai Wind Power Project (华电琼结风电项目) was connected to the grid for power generation in Shannan City (山南市), Tibet (西藏). The highest altitude of the turbine locations is 5370 meters, making it the wind power project with the highest altitude in China. The project has a total installed capacity of 60 megawatts, installing 12 wind turbine units, and synchronously supporting the construction of a grid-forming energy storage system. After being put into operation, it is estimated that the clean energy delivered annually can meet the annual electricity demand of approximately 120,000 households.

Why build wind power in high-altitude areas? The wind energy resources here are abundant. According to estimates, areas with wind energy resources above 7 meters per second in Tibet account for about 30% of the autonomous region's area, mainly distributed in areas above 4800 meters above sea level. In addition, Tibet's power structure is mainly based on hydropower and photovoltaics, and the power output fluctuates greatly. For example, hydropower is abundant in summer but scarce in winter, and photovoltaic power generation is abundant during the day but difficult to generate at night. At this time, wind power projects can serve as a supplement.

Building wind power at an altitude of 5370 meters requires facing challenges such as an oxygen content of only about 57% of that in plain areas and a day-night temperature difference of over 20 degrees Celsius. The project team optimized the concrete mix ratio, adopted a "film + cotton quilt + colored strip cloth" gradient insulation process, combined with an intelligent temperature control curing system, to ensure the strength and durability of the concrete in a low-temperature environment, and achieved one-time continuous pouring of large-volume concrete under high-altitude and oxygen-deficient conditions, providing replicable technical experience for global ultra-high-altitude wind power construction.

At the same time, innovative construction techniques were used. For the first time, a single-blade lifting process was applied in ultra-high-altitude areas above 5000 meters, saving about 66% of the operating site compared with the traditional overall impeller lifting, and effectively increasing the upper limit of operating wind speed to 10 meters per second. In terms of ecological protection, high-performance matrix ecological spraying technology is used to restore vegetation. Through land leasing, participation in construction, skills training, and other methods, the project directly increased the income of the masses by more than 3.6 million yuan, and drove the income of local industries by more than 11 million yuan.

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Inclusive small and micro enterprise loan balance up 12.1% year-on-year at the end of the third quarter

This newspaper Beijing (北京), November 17th (Reported by Qu Xinming (屈信明)) The National Financial Regulatory Administration announced the main regulatory indicator data for the banking and insurance industries in the third quarter. At the end of the third quarter, the outstanding balance of inclusive small and micro enterprise loans from banking financial institutions was 36.5 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12.1%. The outstanding balance of inclusive agricultural loans was 14.1 trillion yuan, an increase of 1.2 trillion yuan from the beginning of the year.

The total assets of the banking and insurance industries maintained growth. At the end of the third quarter, the total assets in local and foreign currencies of banking financial institutions in China were 474.3 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.9%.

The credit asset quality of commercial banks is generally stable, and the risk compensation ability is generally sufficient. In the first three quarters, commercial banks achieved a cumulative net profit of 1.9 trillion yuan.

In the first three quarters, the original insurance premium income of insurance companies was 5.2 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.5%; indemnity and payment expenditures were 1.9 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.6%; and the number of new insurance policies was 84.6 billion, a year-on-year increase of 7.9%. The solvency of the insurance industry is sufficient.

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Coffee Harvest Season Arrives

Baoshan City (保山市), Yunnan Province (云南省), recently ushered in the coffee harvest season. Local coffee farmers are taking advantage of the sunny weather to pick and process coffee cherries.

Baoshan City (保山市) has a unique hot and dry river valley climate, which is suitable for coffee cultivation. In recent years, relying on the Tropical and Subtropical Economic Crops Research Institute of the Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences (云南省农业科学院热带亚热带经济作物研究所), the area has selected and promoted a variety of high-quality coffee varieties to achieve diversified development.

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Long-term Care Insurance Provides a Safety Net, Adding Dignity to Life (Towards a People's Livelihood Landscape in the "15th Five-Year Plan")

By: 本报记者 窦瀚洋

Promote long-term care insurance, improve the care system for elderly people with disabilities and dementia, and expand the supply of rehabilitation care and hospice care services.
——Excerpt from the "15th Five-Year Plan" Proposal

Skillfully using his right foot to pick up a writing brush, dipping it in ink, and outlining the scenery on paper, a landscape ink painting is quickly completed. At his home in Ningbo (宁波), Zhejiang (浙江) Province, Wu Haoliang (邬浩良), a person with severe disabilities, is diligently creating. Not long ago, he held a solo art exhibition, with more than 200 works all completed with his right foot, which is both amazing and admirable.

Time rewinds to a few years ago, even Wu Haoliang (邬浩良) himself could not believe that he would one day hold an art exhibition. Behind the success, in addition to the meticulous care of his family, there is also the bottom-line guarantee brought by long-term care insurance (hereinafter referred to as "long-term care insurance").

What is long-term care insurance? This is an important deployment for China to cope with the aging of the population and improve the social security system. It is a social insurance system that provides care services for insured persons who are unable to take care of themselves due to old age, illness, or disability, and who are assessed as having severe disabilities. It is known as the "sixth insurance" after the five major social insurances of "pension, medical care, unemployment, work injury, and maternity." Eligible disabled persons can choose to receive care services at designated service institutions, or receive home care services provided by designated service institutions.

As one of the first pilot cities for the long-term care insurance system, Ningbo (宁波) began a steady and orderly pilot as early as 2017. In 2023, Ningbo (宁波) further deepened the pilot program, including all medical insurance participants of all ages in the city into the scope of long-term care insurance protection, and established the "five major systems" of long-term care insurance system: fund raising, demand assessment, benefit payment, service supply, and management.

In June 2023, with the guidance and assistance of the local medical insurance department, Wu Haoliang (邬浩良) was assessed and determined to be Grade I with severe disabilities. He only needs to pay 30 yuan a year to enjoy 20 hours of home care services per month.

"I once found hope for survival through painting, but two years ago, my condition suddenly worsened, my feet were numb and unresponsive, which once plunged me into despair," Wu Haoliang (邬浩良) recalled that as he entered the scope of long-term care insurance protection, new changes occurred in his life.

The following month, the local nursing institution arranged a caregiver for Wu Haoliang (邬浩良) - Dai Xingdi (戴兴娣). Different from nannies, caregivers must undergo professional training and obtain nationally recognized qualification certificates before they can provide services. "Professionalism" is their most prominent feature.

The first time she saw Wu Haoliang (邬浩良), Dai Xingdi (戴兴娣) felt a "thump" in her heart: "Xiao Wu (小邬) was thin and emaciated, with dull eyes, and slumped in a chair. Probably because he hadn't gone out or seen outsiders for many years, he was even a little resistant to me at first." Dai Xingdi (戴兴娣) has rich nursing experience. She did not rush to "break" into Wu Haoliang's (邬浩良) life, but started with daily care such as washing his hair, cutting his nails, and feeding him, and then communicating about the outside world, gradually opening Wu Haoliang's (邬浩良) heart.

Dai Xingdi (戴兴娣) decided to go a step further and try to massage Wu Haoliang (邬浩良) with rehabilitation equipment and encourage him to do rehabilitation training. Although activities are still difficult, Wu Haoliang (邬浩良) is willing to try.

Rehabilitation training gradually increased from 10 minutes each time to 30 minutes each time, and Wu Haoliang's (邬浩良) progress made his family overjoyed. In the eyes of his brother, Wu Haoqian (邬浩乾), the difference between the caregiver and family care lies in professionalism. "Sister Dai (戴大姐) not only has love and patience, taking care of her younger brother's mental health, but also has professional nursing knowledge and knows how to assist in rehabilitation training."

The person in charge of the Long-term Care Insurance Department of the Ningbo (宁波) Municipal Medical Insurance Bureau introduced that long-term care insurance covers a wide range and has the characteristics of universal benefit and bottom-line security. According to statistics, more than 47,000 people in Ningbo (宁波) have enjoyed long-term care insurance benefits, and severely disabled people under the age of 60 like Wu Haoliang (邬浩良) account for more than 6%. "Long-term care insurance allows disabled people like me to have professional security and more expectations for life," said Wu Haoliang (邬浩良).

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More protection, more hope (Editor's Note)

By: 徐 阳

"One person disabled, the whole family unbalanced" ("一人失能，全家失衡") used to be a realistic dilemma faced by some families. Taking elderly people with disabilities and dementia as an example, data from the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委) shows that there are more than 45 million elderly people with disabilities and dementia in China, with an average of 1 in 6 elderly people needing long-term care.

In recent years, as long-term care insurance (长护险) has moved from a pilot program to widespread practice, more and more severely disabled people have been able to conveniently enjoy various professional care services at their doorsteps. Catering care, vital sign monitoring, rehabilitation training... a "safety net" guarding hope is becoming increasingly dense. The high nursing costs that families used to bear are now supported by insurance funds, effectively reducing the dual pressure of family care and economic expenditure.

The construction of the long-term care insurance system concerns the interests of many disabled people and is a livelihood project and a project that wins the hearts of the people. It is believed that with the continuous improvement of the system design, more families will be able to reduce the burden of care, and more disabled people will be able to increase their expectations for the future in dignified and high-quality care.

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"Intentional Attention" and "Intentional Neglect" (People's Forum)

By: 刘根生

An entrepreneur set a rule for himself: never listen to reports in the hallway. No matter how urgent things are, they must be discussed in the office. When asked why, he said that this kind of "casual" format does not allow for focused thinking, and decisions become rash, violating the principle of "intentional attention."

"Intentional attention" is a psychological phenomenon, that is, attention with a predetermined purpose and requiring a certain amount of willpower. It is the foundation for us to complete complex tasks, like the reins of consciousness, allowing attention to always head towards high ground rather than wasteland, and making every effort a step towards the finish line. Its underlying logic can be summarized in three words.

Determination: anchor the goal, stabilize the mindset, and firm the pace.

Professor Du Lingjie (杜灵杰) and his team at Nanjing University (南京大学) were the first to "image" gravitons. Every day, they searched for signals of new quasi-particles from hundreds of excitation peaks, like finding a needle in a haystack. No one dared to guarantee whether they could find them in the end. But Du Lingjie's (杜灵杰) team "painted" for five years, finally discovering quasi-particles with graviton characteristics, opening up a new direction for experimental research on the geometry of correlated matter. All things in the world depend on dedication and are achieved through focus.

Perseverance: 持之以恒 (chí zhī yǐ héng - "persist, persevere," to persevere; to maintain consistently). If you are consistent from beginning to end, there will be no failures.

When You Benchang (游本昌) was interviewed and asked how he felt about becoming "popular again overnight," he responded calmly: "Long-term accumulation, occasional gain." This principle embodies the wisdom of the old artist and also applies to other fields. Some researchers combined rapeseed and Banlangen (板蓝根) (Isatis tinctoria), originally to overcome rapeseed diseases. After years of experiments without achieving the expected results, they unexpectedly obtained health benefits. "Banlangen (板蓝根) rapeseed" was subsequently launched and became popular. Upholding the original intention amidst uncertainty, even if "intentional planting does not yield flowers," it may be that "unintentional planting yields willows."

Concentration: 聚精会神 (jù jīng huì shén - "gather spirit concentrate attention," to concentrate one's attention; to be absorbed in). Completely integrate life with pursuit.

Yuan Longping (袁隆平), who regarded eliminating hunger as his mission, Nan Rendong (南仁东), who devoted himself to the "China Sky Eye" (中国天眼), and Zhang Guimei (张桂梅), who lit the lamp of dreams for girls in mountainous areas... From them, we see the legend of choosing one thing and pursuing it for a lifetime. "Doing only one thing in a lifetime" seems simple, but it is not easy to do "one thing" to the extreme. Without the illumination of ideals and patriotic enthusiasm, one may lose patience and give up halfway due to the mundane boredom or overwhelming difficulties.

To achieve "intentional attention," it is necessary to "intentionally ignore."

Academician Wang Zeshan (王泽山) adheres to the "three no principles" in scientific research: do not do things with incomprehensible principles, do not follow others and not solve "bottleneck" problems, and do not do things without engineering application value or for the sake of research. He focuses on overcoming world-class problems in the field of explosives, and the ancient Chinese explosives have been revitalized because of him. "Do not change the original intention for prosperity," actively eliminate interference, adhere to "less is more," actively abandon short-sightedness, and adhere to long-termism. "Intentional ignorance" can achieve "intentional attention."

Both "intentional attention" and "intentional ignorance" are correct choices for action. The former is to actively allow attention to enter the "tunnel" and resolutely do what should be done; the latter is to warn oneself with "Tao does not want to be mixed" and resolutely not do what should not be done. The key lies in the stability of the core. The "core" is ideals and beliefs, and the pursuit of values. Just like the Nobel laureate Tu Youyou's (屠呦呦) persistence: "Scientific research is not for fame and fortune. As long as the country needs it, I must persevere." The most taboo is to "intentionally ignore" but care very much, and to "intentionally pay attention" but not care much. The result is either worrying about gains and losses or being eager for quick success, and ultimately it is difficult to achieve great things.

Life requires "intentional attention" at all times, and so does national development. A history of the Five-Year Plan (五年规划) is a history of the construction and development of New China (新中国), witnessing the practical power of "drawing a blueprint to the end." The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (党的二十届四中全会) has drawn a blueprint for the development of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. Let us make unremitting efforts and continue to struggle to promote Chinese-style modernization (中国式现代化) steadily forward.

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Hand-drawn "Health Map" Safeguards Villagers' Health (Thumbs Up for the New Era)

By: 本报记者 范昊天

On the left are towering cliffs, and on the right are steep slopes. Mei Chunlei (梅春雷), 51 years old, carrying his medicine kit and riding his motorcycle, travels along the rugged mountain roads of Qianjiangping Village (千将坪村), Shazhenxi Town (沙镇溪镇), Zigui County (秭归县), Hubei Province (湖北省), starting his day of follow-up visits.

Inside the medicine kit are several hand-drawn maps, outlining the approximate locations of the 383 households in Qianjiangping Village (千将坪村) distributed along National Highway 348 (348国道). Mei Chunlei (梅春雷) numbers each household and marks their basic health conditions in red pen after their names – "Old" represents elderly people, "High" for hypertension, "Sugar" for diabetes...

Stopping his vehicle, Mei Chunlei (梅春雷) takes out the "health map" of the sixth group of villagers, his finger tracing the winding curves of the hand-drawn road, finally landing on the location marked with the number "11." This is the home of Mei Changqing (梅昌青), 64 years old, and his wife Zhou Cheng (周成), with "Old" and "High" noted beside it.

"Systolic pressure 160, diastolic pressure 100, a bit lower than last time, you still need to continue taking the two antihypertensive drugs together. In addition, try to eat less salt and oil, and less pickled vegetables, fatty meat, and animal organs," Mei Chunlei (梅春雷) reminds him after measuring Mei Changqing's (梅昌青) blood pressure and blood sugar.

After the first follow-up visit last August, Mei Chunlei (梅春雷) marked Mei Changqing's (梅昌青) problem on the "health map" – "High." Regular home visits, guidance on medication... After more than a year of health management, Mei Changqing's (梅昌青) physical condition has gradually improved.

Mei Chunlei (梅春雷) is from Meiping Village (梅坪村), Shazhenxi Town (沙镇溪镇), and has been a village doctor in the village for 25 years. Last June, he was transferred to Qianjiangping Village (千将坪村), separated from Meiping Village (梅坪村) by a river. This is a mountainous village with complex terrain, with more than 2,200 people scattered across 16 square kilometers.

"If you're not from this village, you can't even figure out the directions." When he first arrived, Mei Chunlei (梅春雷) took the wrong road several times. Once, he took a detour of half an hour to reach a patient's home.

"It would be great to have a map!" A casual remark from his wife inspired Mei Chunlei (梅春雷). The mobile phone navigation software only has information on major roads, rivers, etc., but not the specific locations of each household. Mei Chunlei (梅春雷) decided to visit each household to understand the health conditions of the entire village and create a hand-drawn map that completely records the villagers' addresses and health information.

Since then, whether the sun is scorching or the rain is pouring, Mei Chunlei (梅春雷) rides his old motorcycle, which has been with him for many years, going from village to village to diagnose and treat villagers. For each household he visits, he marks the geographical location and records the medical history. Two months later, the health information of 383 households is clearly displayed on 12 hand-drawn maps.

With the "health map," the health conditions of the villagers are like being set with "navigation," and can be accurately "located" at any time. Some time ago, the son of villager Song Xiujin (宋秀金) called, saying that his 70-year-old mother was very dizzy. Mei Chunlei (梅春雷) unfolded the map, locked the location, and, carrying his medicine kit, arrived at the old woman's home shortly after. After the consultation, he learned that Song Xiujin (宋秀金), who suffers from hypertension, had been dizzy the day before and had taken two extra doses of antihypertensive medication on top of her usual dose, leading to hypotension, which worsened the dizziness. Mei Chunlei (梅春雷) immediately treated the elderly woman until her blood pressure returned to normal.

Today, follow-up visits to patients with chronic diseases in Qianjiangping Village (千将坪村) have basically achieved full coverage. "Generally, we go for an examination once a quarter, and if there are problems with the body indicators, we have to go again within half a month," Mei Chunlei (梅春雷) said. The villagers have gradually changed their previous concept of 小病扛、大病挨 (xiǎo bìng káng, dà bìng ái - "endure minor illnesses, suffer major illnesses," to neglect minor health issues until they become serious), and have realized the importance of health management, which makes him even more motivated.

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Photo Story

On November 15th, a wonderful Qin腔 (Qínqiāng) opera performance benefiting the people was staged in front of the opera building in the Yisushe Cultural Block of Xincheng District, Xi'an (西安), Shaanxi Province (陕西省), attracting many citizens to watch. In recent years, Yisushe has regularly carried out performances benefiting the people, allowing Qin腔 (Qínqiāng), this intangible cultural heritage art, to integrate into the daily life of citizens and demonstrate the charm of traditional opera.

Photo by Zhang Cheng (张成) (People's Vision)

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Compose a Brand New Chapter in the Rule of Law for China

By: 本报记者 张 璁 魏哲哲

"A modern country must be a country ruled by law."

On October 23rd, amidst thunderous applause, the 20th Fourth Plenary Session of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) deliberated and approved the "Suggestions of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" (《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十五个五年规划的建议》), engraving another distinct mark of the times on Chinese-style modernization. The "Suggestions" explicitly proposed "adhering to the comprehensive rule of law, and synergistically promoting scientific legislation, strict law enforcement, impartial justice, and universal law-abiding," further consolidating the immense power to advance the construction of a rule-of-law China.

Ideas are like torches, and the great path is earnestly practiced.

In November 2020, the CPC Central Committee (党中央) convened the Central Conference on Overall Law-Based Governance for the first time, and Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law was formally proposed. In the magnificent practice of the rule of law with Chinese characteristics, Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law guides the comprehensive rule of law to advance in depth and effectively implement it, continuously creating a new situation in the construction of a rule-of-law China, and building a solid legal foundation for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.

Responding to the questions of the times, conforming to the people's expectations, and closely adhering to strict law enforcement, the pace towards sound laws and good governance is even more powerful.

For the first time, "unswervingly consolidate and develop the public sector of the economy, and unswervingly encourage, support, and guide the development of the non-public sector of the economy" was written into law; for the first time, the legal status of the private economy was clarified; for the first time, it was clearly stipulated that promoting the sustained, healthy, and high-quality development of the private economy is a major policy that the country adheres to for a long time... The Law on Promoting the Private Economy, which came into effect on May 20 this year, marked another milestone in China's rule of law construction with many "firsts."

To build governance tools for the country and lay a good legal foundation for good governance.

Following the Civil Code, China's second law named with "Code" – the legislative process of the Ecological Environment Code – has attracted much attention.

In April this year, the overall draft of the Ecological Environment Code was submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) for the first time for deliberation. Writing the protection of public health and ecological environment rights in the first article of the draft code; responding to the problems of concentrated public complaints in the field of ecological environment... A weighty code with detailed content and complete structure, escorting the construction of a beautiful China in the new era, is steadily coming.

Entering a new stage of development, it is necessary to ensure high-quality development, promote comprehensive and in-depth reform, and maintain social stability with high-quality legislation.

Responding to the questions of the times – formulating the Yangtze River Protection Law, establishing the National Ecology Day, and promoting the harmonious coexistence of man and nature; revising the National People's Congress Organization Law, the State Council Organization Law, and the Legislation Law, and improving the organizational system of state organs and relevant constitutional systems.

Conforming to the people's expectations – formulating and revising the Anti-Food Waste Law, the Food Safety Law, the Villagers Committee Organization Law, and the Urban Residents Committee Organization Law, paying attention to social hotspots, and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of the people.

Closely adhering to strict law enforcement – revising the Supervision Law to promote the standardization, legalization, and regularization of supervision work; revising the Administrative Penalty Law and the Public Security Administration Punishments Law to ensure that strict, standardized, fair, and civilized law enforcement is implemented.

"Give play to the leading and promoting role of legislation."

Formulating the Hainan Free Trade Port Law and the Rural Collective Economic Organization Law, revising the Company Law, the Anti-Monopoly Law, and the Anti-Unfair Competition Law to achieve the connection between legislation and reform decisions, and ensure that reforms are promoted on the track of the rule of law;

Actively adapting to the new changes brought about by the technological revolution and industrial transformation, the pace of legislation in emerging fields is accelerating, and the legal system in areas such as network security and biosecurity is enriched and improved, ensuring the healthy development of new technologies, new applications, and new business forms;

Combining legislation, revision, repeal, and interpretation, the judicial and administrative departments of the State Council (国务院) have carried out the largest centralized cleanup of all 600 existing administrative regulations, serving high-quality development more accurately...

As of the end of October this year, China has 310 existing effective laws, more than 600 administrative regulations and supervisory regulations, and more than 14,000 local regulations. The legal system urgently needed for national governance, necessary to meet the people's needs for a better life, and urgently needed to maintain national security has been further improved, and the pace towards sound laws and good governance is even more powerful.

"The more emphasis is placed on the rule of law, the more important it is to improve the quality of legislation."

In September last year, the "Regulations on the Management of Small Food Production and Processing Workshops, Small Catering Businesses, and Food Stalls in Hunan Province (Revised Draft)" (《湖南省食品生产加工小作坊小餐饮和食品摊贩管理条例（修订草案）》) was publicly solicited for comments. Chen Junqing (陈俊清), who was over 80 years old, was anxious when he learned that the deadline was approaching. He wrote his suggestions on the tin foil in a cigarette box and reported them level by level through the grassroots legislative liaison point, and was finally adopted by the legislative body.

The "suggestion on tin foil" carries public opinion and is also a vivid footnote to the people's democracy in the whole process.

Up to now, the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会法工委) has established a total of 54 grassroots legislative liaison points, covering 31 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, driving the people's congresses at the provincial and municipal levels to establish more than 7,800 grassroots legislative liaison points. The voices of hundreds of millions of people, through this democratic network spread across the country, cross thousands of mountains and rivers to the legislative body, and are highly valued, carefully studied, and absorbed.

If good laws are established in the world, the world will be governed. Promote scientific legislation, democratic legislation, and law-based legislation, so that every law and regulation is full of public opinion, and consolidate the foundation for "China's governance."

Comprehensively promote strict, standardized, fair, and civilized law enforcement, and use the rule of law to regulate the boundaries of government and the market.

To comprehensively promote the rule of law, the construction of a government under the rule of law must take the lead in making breakthroughs.

Recently, the Central Leading Group for Advancing Law-based Governance in All Areas (中央依法治国办) issued the "Decision on Naming the Third Batch of National Demonstration Areas and Projects for the Construction of a Government under the Rule of Law" (《关于第三批全国法治政府建设示范地区和项目命名的决定》). In batches every two years, promoting step by step and radiating and driving, the national demonstration and creation activities for the construction of a government under the rule of law have established a batch of exemplary benchmarks for the construction of a government under the rule of law in the new era, and continuously promote the construction of a government under the rule of law in depth.

The vitality of the law lies in its implementation, and the authority of the law also lies in its implementation.

Improving the grassroots comprehensive law enforcement system and mechanism, allowing law enforcement forces to sink to the county and township levels; solidly promoting the three-year action to improve the quality of administrative law enforcement, realizing the entire online supervision of administrative law enforcement; improving the benchmark system for administrative discretion, and solving problems such as inconsistent law enforcement standards and different penalties for similar cases... Comprehensively promote strict, standardized, fair, and civilized law enforcement, and strive to ensure that the people can see a clean and upright atmosphere in every law enforcement action and feel fairness and justice in every law enforcement decision.

"Use the rule of law to set rules and boundaries for administrative power."

In Guang'an (广安), Sichuan (四川), an administrative reconsideration by residents of a community "suing the government" promoted the revision and improvement of a "red-headed document," allowing the people-benefiting policy of installing elevators in existing residences to be successfully implemented.

The newly revised Administrative Reconsideration Law has systematically reshaped the administrative reconsideration system. Since its official implementation in 2024, administrative reconsideration has corrected 82,000 cases of illegal and inappropriate administrative actions, and issued more than 11,000 administrative reconsideration opinions and suggestions targeting common law enforcement issues, effectively improving the level of law-based administration in areas such as market access for new business forms and social security for new employment groups.

Today, the concept of "statutory duties must be fulfilled, and no authorization is allowed by law" is increasingly deeply rooted in people's hearts and minds and is being implemented effectively –

The main leaders of the party and government are more vigorously fulfilling their responsibilities as the first person responsible for the construction of the rule of law, and all localities have achieved full coverage of the reporting of the performance of duties in the construction of the rule of law.

Standardizing the setting and implementation of fines, cleaning up the fine items in administrative regulations and departmental rules, and successively canceling and adjusting 86 fine items.

Promoting the construction of a rule-of-law public security, more than 3,200 law enforcement case handling management centers have been built across the country, allowing police officers to handle cases under the lens and enforce the law in the sun.

"The rule of law is the best business environment."

For a period of time, random inspections and the heavy burden of inspections on enterprises have become prominent problems. How to solve these problems?

In Zhejiang (浙江), the unified "one-time comprehensive inspection" effectively eliminates "nine dragons governing the water"; in Shandong (山东), the precise hierarchical and classified supervision avoids "flooding"; in Guangdong (广东), the transparency of "entering enterprises with a code" makes law enforcement traceable. From January to August this year, the number of administrative inspections involving enterprises in various places generally decreased by more than 30% year-on-year, but the average problem detection rate increased by 16%.

Since the beginning of this year, various localities have continued to carry out special actions to standardize law enforcement involving enterprises, focusing on rectifying problems such as arbitrary charges, arbitrary fines, arbitrary inspections, and arbitrary seizures, and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises in accordance with the law: As of September this year, public security organs have investigated and corrected 49,000 outstanding problems in criminal law enforcement; since the special action to standardize administrative law enforcement involving enterprises in the government administrative system organized by the Ministry of Justice (司法部) was launched, various localities have investigated and corrected more than 50,000 cases related to outstanding law enforcement problems, and enterprises and the masses have continued to gain a sense of gain.

Taking a step forward, the warm heart of government services has further enhanced the confidence of enterprises in development.

The organic combination of an effective market and a promising government has realized "handling one thing efficiently" in more fields and on a larger scale; government service matters such as "one network for all" and "cross-provincial handling" are becoming increasingly popular, and "immediate handling, online handling, nearby handling, one-time handling, and self-service handling" are within reach... Only by using the rule of law to regulate the boundaries of government and the market can we truly consolidate the foundation, stabilize expectations, and benefit the long term.

Improve the impartial judicial system and mechanism, so that the people can feel fairness and justice around them.

"Strive to ensure that the people feel fairness and justice in every judicial case," President Xi Jinping (习近平) has always kept in mind.

Fairness and justice are the value pursuit of the judiciary.

"Seeing that the judgment wrote 'the case also has similar cases in the People's Court Case Library' to corroborate it, although I lost the case, I was convinced." Last June, after a sales contract dispute was resolved, the party Liu (刘) said while holding the judgment.

In February 2024, the People's Court Case Library (人民法院案例库) was officially launched and opened to the public, providing authoritative and accurate reference and guidance for judges to handle cases, clarifying the rules of adjudication, and also providing a "ruler" for trial behavior to ensure that similar cases are judged the same and "a bowl of water is leveled."

In recent years, judicial organs have continued to enrich the reform toolbox to solve deep-seated problems that affect judicial justice and restrict judicial capacity.

Through public hearings, people's supervisors system, etc., the channels for the masses to participate in and supervise the judiciary in an orderly manner are constantly broadened; every link of the judiciary can be queried in public channels, which is convenient for the masses and all sectors of society to understand and supervise... A series of reform measures standardize judicial behavior, allow the masses to more clearly feel the operation of judicial power, and respond to the people's attention and expectations for judicial fairness and openness.

"The law should not be cold, and judicial work is also doing mass work."

At present, the people's yearning for a better life extends more to democracy, the rule of law, fairness, justice, security, and the environment, and the judicial work in the new era must also more actively respond to the new requirements and new expectations of the people.

If the people call for something, I will respond. In daily life, when the masses encounter disputes and go to court to file a lawsuit, what they need most is a clear and accurate complaint or defense that expresses their demands. In order to facilitate mass litigation and better protect the parties' right to sue, courts across the country have fully promoted the demonstration text of complaints and defenses to lower the professional threshold for litigation.

The judiciary serves the people and cares about every detail.

All four levels of courts across the country have built one-stop litigation service centers, which significantly reduces the cost of dispute resolution; procuratorial organs across the country take serving the people as the goal, actively explore the normalization of simple public hearings, highlight the on-the-spot nature, simplicity, and effectiveness of the hearings, and resolve contradictions on the spot in a timely manner... Judicial organs adhere to the people-centered approach, implement judicial convenience, benefit the people, and benefit the people, and escort the people's peaceful life and work with tangible legal achievements.

"Impartial justice is the last line of defense for maintaining social fairness and justice."

Clear rules. "Justifiable defense" and "Article 20 of the Criminal Law" have become popular terms of concern to the masses, and the concept of "the law cannot give way to illegality" is deeply rooted in people's hearts. Resolutely punish cyber violence that "hurts people with buttons," curb high bride prices in accordance with the law, and promote socialist core values... In recent years, judicial organs have demonstrated a clear position in individual cases, realizing the mutual complementation and mutual promotion of the rule of law and morality, and effectively promoting the construction of a rule-of-law society.

Promote governance. Not long ago, summarizing the experience and practices and institutional innovation achievements of the past 10 years, the draft Procuratorial Public Interest Litigation Law was formally submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) for deliberation. Since the creation of the procuratorial public interest litigation system, it has made important contributions to urging administrative organs to fully perform their duties in accordance with the law and gathering the joint efforts to protect public interests, and has become an important part of the "China's governance" of public interest judicial protection.

The judiciary shows its sword, and fairness and justice are perceptible, tangible, and visible. Deepen the reform of the judicial power operation mechanism, improve and implement the judicial responsibility system, accelerate the construction of a fair, efficient, and authoritative socialist judicial system, continuously improve judicial quality, efficiency, and credibility, and make the legal guarantee of social fairness and justice more powerful.

Let the rule of law become a common belief of the whole society, and continuously consolidate the social foundation for comprehensively promoting the rule of law.

A country is strong if its people uphold the law.

The Law on Publicity and Education on the Rule of Law officially came into effect on November 1. Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the national popularization of law and the closing year of the "Eighth Five-Year Plan" for popularizing law, the formulation and promulgation of this law marks that the cause of publicity and education on the rule of law has comprehensively entered a new era of institutionalization, standardization, and legalization.

Universal law-abiding is a long-term and fundamental task for comprehensively promoting the rule of law.

For 11 consecutive years, every year around December 4th, the National Constitution Day, a "Constitution Morning Reading" activity has linked hundreds of thousands of schools and tens of millions of teachers and students across the country to participate simultaneously. The solemn sense of ceremony and the clear reading sound, the spirit of the rule of law has taken root in the hearts of young people.

Popularizing the law to the whole people and handing over the law to hundreds of millions of people is a major initiative in the history of China's rule of law construction: Carrying out the theme publicity activities of "The Spirit of the Constitution and the Power of the Rule of Law" for 24 consecutive years, building more than 2,800 constitution-themed parks (squares), 150,000 members of the popular law lecturer group, and 2.22 million popular law volunteers have gone deep into the grassroots to carry out popular law publicity, allowing the rule of law to reach the people...

Since the implementation of the "Eighth Five-Year Plan" for popularizing law, the legal awareness of the whole society has been significantly enhanced, the legal literacy of the whole people has been significantly improved, and the social foundation for comprehensively promoting the rule of law has been continuously consolidated.

Uphold integrity and innovate, and work hard on pertinence and timeliness.

Providing "menu-style" popularization of law for enterprise needs, carrying out "order-style" lectures, and there is also "popularization of law on the code" online... During this year's "Civil Code Publicity Month," the whole country widely carried out "the Civil Code entering enterprises" to help enterprises prevent and resolve risks and protect their legitimate rights and interests in accordance with the law.

Real-time popularization of law and precise popularization of law allow the supply of popularization of law to continuously meet the legal needs of the masses.

Close to the masses. Whether it is anti-fraud publicity to protect the people's "money bags" or focusing on things around them to explain the law with cases, all localities and departments revolve around the traffic, medical care, labor, consumption, and other fields where the people have greater legal needs to better respond to the people's needs for a better life.

Keep up with the times. Actively explore new models of popularizing law such as "artificial intelligence + popularizing law" and "intangible cultural heritage + popularizing law," and there are more than 30,000 new media accounts for popularizing law across the country, and the dissemination and coverage of popularizing law are continuously improved.

Culture cultivates people. From the "Rule of Law Ulanmuqi" on the Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) grassland to the "Rule of Law March 3rd" in Guangxi (广西), various localities have created new brands of rule of law culture, and socialist rule of law culture subtly permeates people's hearts.

Every legal practice is also a "public class" on the rule of law.

"Whoever enforces the law popularizes the law," "whoever manages popularizes the law," and "whoever serves popularizes the law" integrate the spirit of the rule of law into every solicitation of legislative opinions, every administrative law enforcement process, and every judicial case trial. The overall pattern of popularizing law promotes the continuous enhancement of the whole society's awareness and initiative in strictly enforcing the rule of law.

Carry out legal education in a hierarchical and classified manner, grasp the "key few," and various localities have generally established systems such as leading cadres reporting on the law on the spot and observing court trials to promote state personnel to take the lead in respecting, learning, abiding by, and using the law; focus on the "majority of the future," adhere to starting legal education from children, and the coverage rate of legal vice-principals and legal counselors in primary and secondary schools across the country has reached 98.9%...

The rule of law brings peace to the world, and morality nourishes people's hearts. Today, 4.2 million "legal明白人" (l egal明白人 - "legal understand people," people who understand the law) are spread all over the country, both in cities and villages, becoming information officers for social conditions and public opinion, propagandists for policies and laws, mediators for resolving contradictions and disputes, and guides for legal practice, better serving grassroots law-based governance and allowing the new era of "Fengqiao Experience" (枫桥经验) to take root.
Law brings stability to the country, while virtue enriches people's hearts. Today, 4.2 million "legal experts" are spread all over the country, in cities and villages, becoming informants of public opinion, propagandists of policies and laws, mediators of disputes, and guides of rule of law practice, better serving the rule of law at the grassroots level, and allowing the "Fengqiao Experience" of the new era to take root.

Promote the integration of universal law-abiding into the practice of the rule of law, into grassroots governance, and into daily life, so that the rule of law becomes a common belief of the whole society, and all the people become loyal advocates, conscious observers, and firm defenders of the socialist rule of law.

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"Comprehensively governing the country according to law is a profound revolution in national governance."

With a grand plan unfolding, the rule of law provides escort.

Standing at a new historical starting point, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, and under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law, building the foundation of the rule of law, exercising the power of the rule of law, and accumulating the momentum of the rule of law, the construction of a rule-of-law China on the new journey will surely gather a powerful force of the rule of law for continuing to write new chapters of the two great miracles and creating a new situation in the construction of Chinese-style modernization!

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First Edition Editors: Xu Nuo, Zhang Shuaizhen, Luan Xinyi; Second Edition Editors: Han Xiaoming, Jiang Bo, Li Anqi; Third Edition Editors: Lü Li, Jiang Xuejie, Zhang Anyu; Fourth Edition Editors: Yuan Zhenxi, Bai Zhiyu, Zhang Xueyan

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Grasping the Rich Connotation of "Investing in People" (Online Commentator)

Li Zheng (李拯), *People's Daily* commentator
Tian Xuan (田轩), Dean of the National Institute of Financial Research, Tsinghua University

Li Zheng (李拯): General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "Closely integrate high-quality population development with the people's high-quality life, and closely integrate 'investment in things' with 'investment in people'." The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal puts forward, "Adhere to the close integration of benefiting the people and promoting consumption, and investing in things and investing in people." From an investment perspective, what aspects does investing in people mainly include, and how does it differ from investing in things?

Tian Xuan (田轩): Investing in people is essentially implementing the development concept centered on the people, and investing more resources in the comprehensive development of people, mainly including education investment, health investment, social security and welfare investment, and employment and entrepreneurship support investment.

From "things" to "people," the main changes are reflected in several points: From the perspective of investment objects and value forms, investing in people takes laborers as the object, forming intangible human capital, and the value measurement is diverse and complex; from the perspective of return cycle, investing in people is a long-term process, and the return is relatively lagging but lasting and stable; from the perspective of social effects, human capital has self-appreciation and adaptability, and investing in people has broad social effects and positive externalities, which can effectively improve the quality and efficiency of economic and social development.

Li Zheng (李拯): Clearly proposing the close integration of investing in things and investing in people is a profound adjustment in development thinking and macroeconomic governance. In what aspects is this mainly reflected?

Tian Xuan (田轩): It is reflected in three profound adjustments. The growth driver has shifted from factor-driven to innovation-driven. Investing in things relies on the input of material factors, while investing in people focuses on improving the quality of human resources, pointing more to enhancing innovation capabilities and stimulating innovation momentum; economic development has shifted from "emphasizing total quantity" to "optimizing structure." Investing in people can better address shortcomings in people's livelihoods and optimize income distribution, thereby promoting economic structural upgrading and more suitable supply and demand; the macroeconomic governance goal pays more attention to long-term sustainable development, demonstrating the art of macroeconomic regulation that balances short-term growth and long-term development.

Li Zheng (李拯): Investing in things and investing in people have a deep connection. Investing in things can objectively promote the comprehensive development of people, and investing in people will also drive investment in the material foundation.

Tian Xuan (田轩): Investing in things can have immediate results, but as China's fixed asset scale expands significantly, the marginal rate of return on investment will decrease. Therefore, achieving mutual promotion between investing in things and investing in people can expand overall investment benefits.

On the one hand, it is necessary to improve the efficiency of investing in people, build a precise human capital investment system, focus on education, health, skills, people's livelihoods and other fields, increase inclusive human capital investment, create high-quality human resources, and promote high-quality population development. In this process, it is necessary to deepen reforms in the household registration, social security, professional title and other systems, break down the institutional barriers restricting the flow of human resources, and improve intellectual property incentives, equity dividend and other mechanisms, so that the value of human capital can be fully reflected in the distribution system and the benefits of investing in people can be continuously improved.

On the other hand, it is necessary to coordinate investment layout with systematic thinking, promote the coordinated implementation of investments in major science and technology infrastructure, industrial innovation platforms, etc., and the introduction and cultivation of high-level talents, and the construction of scientific research teams, and promote the organic connection of the education chain, talent chain, industrial chain, and innovation chain.

Li Zheng (李拯): The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal puts forward, "Lead new supply with new demand, and create new demand with new supply." How can the close integration of investing in things and investing in people promote a higher level of dynamic balance between new supply and new demand?

Tian Xuan (田轩): People are the most active factor in productivity, and also the consumer subject that realizes final demand. Therefore, investing in people can actually generate a pulling effect on both the supply and demand sides, and is a focus for unblocking the domestic cycle.

On the supply side, the close integration of investing in things and investing in people can not only greatly improve the quality and innovation ability of laborers, but also optimize the means of labor and objects of labor, so as to realize the leap of laborers, means of labor, objects of labor and their optimized combination. This will continuously stimulate new quality productive forces and inject strong new momentum into high-quality development.

On the demand side, investing in people means strengthening social security, improving people's well-being, and improving the overall level of human capital. This can not only enhance demand capacity and achieve a higher level of dynamic balance between supply creating demand and demand driving supply, but also promote solid progress in achieving common prosperity, and achieve a win-win situation between economic development and improving people's livelihoods.

Li Zheng (李拯): Investing in people is not only a means of promoting development, but also reflects the concept of development. From a broader perspective, in the historical process of transitioning from middle-income countries to high-income countries, and then to moderately developed countries, the role and value of people have been demonstrated to a greater extent. In scientific and technological innovation, more attention is paid to the cultivation of talents; in expanding domestic demand, a new track for the humanities economy is opened up; in the international cycle, both the "Chinese economy" and the "Chinese people's economy" are valued... With the comprehensive development of people as the goal, and maximizing the creativity of people, the Chinese economy will reach new heights with the support of more than 1.4 billion people.

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Strengthening the Green Development Engine (Commentary)

By: 李铁林

Improving the mechanism for realizing the value of ecological products and the ecological compensation mechanism, so that the government can effectively lead, enterprises actively participate, the market effectively regulates, and the masses widely benefit, will help stimulate the enthusiasm of the whole society to participate in green development.

The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划) proposal puts forward: "Develop the under-forest economy and strengthen the forestry and grassland industry." From being written into the No. 1 Central Document (中央一号文件) last year, to being written into the "Government Work Report" (《政府工作报告》) for the first time this year, and then to being included in the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal, why has the under-forest economy and the forestry and grassland industry received so much attention?

Look at the data. In 2024, the total output value of the national forestry and grassland industry reached 10.496 trillion yuan, forming four pillar industries with an output value of over one trillion yuan: timber processing, economic forests, forest tourism, and the under-forest economy. Promoting the transformation of the "Two Mountains" (两山) concept and promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, the under-forest economy and the forestry and grassland industry have become important starting points.

Analyze the mechanism. In the past, there were difficulties in the value transformation of ecological products, such as difficulty in measurement, difficulty in mortgage, difficulty in transaction, and difficulty in realization. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大), through strict protection, vigorous cultivation, and rational utilization of forestry and grassland resources, refining the primary industry, strengthening the secondary industry, and expanding the tertiary industry, China has achieved phased results in coordinating ecological beauty and people's wealth.

The development achievements of the under-forest economy and the forestry and grassland industry are remarkable, relying on promoting the innovation of development concepts and development methods, and making the green development engine bigger and stronger.

Promoting economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period with the theme of promoting high-quality development requires us to accelerate the green transformation of development methods, advocate green and healthy lifestyles, build a solid ecological security barrier, enhance green development momentum, and promote new major progress in the construction of a beautiful China.

The concept is the guide. In the past, when some places talked about green and low-carbon transformation, "pain" was an unavoidable word. This is partly due to the inertia of the extensive development model, and partly because the green development power mechanism is not yet mature. Today, green waters and green mountains are not only natural wealth and ecological wealth, but also social wealth and economic wealth, which not only reach the hearts of the people at the conceptual level, but also truly integrate into governance practices and development scenarios. Moving forward towards green and prospering because of green, a change in concept broadens the world.

Rights and interests are the foundation. Whether the green development mode can be sustained and stable depends on whether the realization of the value of ecological products is smooth. Beijing (北京) has issued technical specifications to scientifically quantify the value of ecological services; Shanxi (山西) has improved the mechanism to promote the value transformation and transaction of soil and water conservation ecological products; Xiamen (厦门), Fujian (福建) is exploring carbon trading for garbage classification, allowing residents to benefit from green living... Improving the mechanism for realizing the value of ecological products and the ecological compensation mechanism, so that the government can effectively lead, enterprises actively participate, the market effectively regulates, and the masses widely benefit, will help stimulate the enthusiasm of the whole society to participate in green development.

Policy is the guarantee. Continuously optimizing the economic policy toolbox that supports green and low-carbon development can provide strong support for green development methods and lifestyles. In Anji (安吉), Zhejiang (浙江), the bamboo forest carbon sink reform and innovative carbon sink storage mechanism have turned "bamboo forest air" into real money. In Zixi (资溪), Jiangxi (江西), the forestry management income right certificate not only stabilizes the expectations of operators, but also solves the financing problem. The positive cycle of the "Two Mountains" (两山) concept transformation is smoother under the escort of reform and policy, injecting source of living water into the industry's improvement.

At present, there are some deep-seated contradictions in green development in terms of systems, standards, and interest patterns. For example, there is still room for improvement in the transaction scale and activity of the carbon market, and some pilot explorations of ecological products are not yet mature. The process of solving problems is also the process of development and progress. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, we also need to continue to deepen reforms, consolidate and expand advantages, break through bottlenecks and constraints, and strengthen weaknesses.

Forest granaries protect food security, new energy vehicles optimize travel solutions, green consumption becomes a fashion trend, and the green, low-carbon, and circular economic system is growing stronger... Accelerating the formation of green production and lifestyles, the development momentum of the Chinese giant ship will be stronger.

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Showcase technology during the Games, retain industry after the Games (People's Daily Commentary)

By: 王云娜

Taking the National Games as an opportunity, the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) has opened up new horizons and gained broad space.

Torch relay, humanoid robots, unmanned vehicles, low-altitude aircraft and other high-tech products shine throughout the entire process; inside the venues, the "Smart Operation Management Cloud Platform" provides precise support for event scheduling; between the venues, multiple unmanned vehicle lines provide athletes and spectators with an intelligent driving experience... In recent days, a series of hardcore technologies have helped the 15th National Games (十五运会) achieve intelligent event operation, scientific competitive training, and immersive viewing experience.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "In today's world, science and technology play an increasingly prominent role in competitive sports. To build a strong sporting nation, we must achieve high-level self-reliance and self-improvement in sports science and technology." Strong scientific research strength, industrial foundation, and surging scientific and technological innovation momentum are a bright calling card of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区). The 15th National Games (十五运会) is jointly hosted by Guangdong (广东), Hong Kong (香港), and Macao (澳门). The science and technology style inside and outside the arena allows people to witness the infinite charm and potential of "sports + technology."

From intelligent data-driven scientific training to equipment innovation bringing about leaps in performance, and advanced technology ensuring the health of athletes, technology is becoming an important source of competitiveness, driving force, and transformative power for sports development. During the 15th National Games (十五运会), more than 130 high-tech products equipped with advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and cloud computing were showcased, making sports more dazzling with technology. Technological innovation also supports the green and low-carbon transformation and development of venues. More than 90% of the venues in the Guangdong (广东) competition area have been transformed and upgraded from old venues, during which energy-saving and environmentally friendly materials, intelligent lighting systems and other carbon reduction technologies have been introduced to achieve energy conservation and emission reduction.

Digital technology makes hardware more intelligent and services more optimized. For example, the "National Games Guangzhou (全运广州)" mini-program can help viewers accurately achieve seat-level navigation, effectively solving the "difficulty in finding seats" in large venues; the "National Games Village on the Cloud (云上的全运村)" provides functions such as watching the game from a self-selected angle, tracking and switching players, sports analysis, and streaming media live sharing, making the viewing experience enjoyable. Today's viewers crave higher-quality, more detailed, and more interactive viewing services. Advanced technology has improved the viewing experience and opened up new paths for the commercial development of sports.

If technology is the "booster" of sports, then sports is the "source of demand" and "showcase" for technological innovation. A new technology亮相 (liàngxiàng - "make an appearance," to be presented to the public for the first time) in a high-profile sports event can quickly gain attention, verify its value, and reduce the cost of popularization. Sports competitions also create rich application scenarios for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and generate new research and development needs. The men's individual race of the cycling (road) race crosses Guangdong (广东), Hong Kong (香港), and Macao (澳门), and the athletes pass through the three places' ports six times, achieving "seamless customs clearance" without stopping, checking, or security inspection. Behind this, a cross-border seamless customs clearance system that integrates Beidou (北斗) positioning, radio frequency identification, artificial intelligence algorithms and other technologies plays a key role. The advanced system has been effectively tested in the competition scenario, and also accumulates valuable experience for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) to improve customs clearance efficiency and achieve integrated development in the future.

Showcase technology during the Games, and leave the industry behind after the Games. Digital human volunteers who can speak multiple languages are on duty 24 hours a day, providing real-time intelligent interactive services for athletes, volunteers, and the public, greatly improving service response efficiency. The 15th National Games (十五运会) is not only a demonstration scenario, but also an industrial soil, promoting new technologies, new products, new ways of playing, and new experiences to better enter public life.

The light of science and technology and the fire of sports complement each other, helping the 15th National Games (十五运会) weave a magnificent picture of the implementation of major national development strategies. Taking the National Games as an opportunity, the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) has opened up new horizons and gained broad space. We are even more convinced that "this National Games will not only witness the new achievements of China's sports development in the new era, but also show the thousands of weather phenomena of Chinese-style modernization in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区)."

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Photo Report

Recently, the national 1% population sample survey officially started. This survey is usually conducted in the years ending in "5" between two population censuses. The main purpose is to keep abreast of the development and changes in the population in a timely manner. This is of great significance for improving the population development support and service system, improving the population development strategy in the new era, actively responding to the aging of the population, and promoting high-quality population development.

This is precisely:

Sampling enters thousands of households,
Investigating the base and observing differences.
Strategies rely on facts to plan for the long term,
A new chapter of development is written from this.

Chang Jinwen (常晋文)

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Development Leap Behind "Tiangong BBQ" (Horizontally and Vertically)

By: 鲍 南

Crispy-skinned and tender-fleshed grilled chicken wings, grilled steak... A space meal in China's "Tiangong" (天宫) space station has attracted the envious attention of netizens around the world.

The special space environment places stringent demands on astronauts' food. For example, food must not have flowing liquids or produce dust or debris, and it should be as easy to eat as possible with minimal residue. At the same time, because rocket carrying capacity is very precious, the space allocated to catering goods is minimal. For this reason, for a long time, space food has either been like toothpaste, squeezed into the mouth and swallowed, or like dehydrated vegetables, not very tasty. Looking at China's "space barbecue," it is complete in color, aroma, and taste, refreshing traditional perceptions.

The satisfaction of astronauts' taste buds is backed by the significant progress of China's technological development. Supported by the abundant carrying capacity brought by mature rocket technology, Chinese researchers have the courage to "imagine as much as they want" and have developed a hot air oven that can heat food to 190 degrees Celsius and collect residue, allowing the flavors of home cooking to arrive "with one click."

Looking back at this journey, in 2003, Shenzhou V (神舟五号) was launched, carrying more than 20 kinds of ready-to-eat "space dry rations"; in 2005, Shenzhou VI (神舟六号) brought a heater, and astronauts ate hot meals; in 2013, astronauts spent the Dragon Boat Festival in space and ate sweet bean paste zongzi; in 2016, the Shenzhou XI (神舟十一号) crew's menu had hundreds of foods, and astronauts even drank tea upside down... Chinese astronauts have achieved an upgrade from "eating enough" to "eating well" and then to "eating deliciously."

At the same time, China's "space vegetable garden" has also made continuous breakthroughs. Since Shenzhou XVI (神舟十六号), on-orbit plant substrate cultivation research and verification have been carried out, and various plants such as lettuce, cherry tomatoes, and sweet potatoes have been cultivated. All of this not only proves the rapid advancement of China's technological strength, but also demonstrates that China's technological development has always adhered to a people-centered value orientation.

Technological innovation and industrial upgrading will ultimately promote the improvement of people's livelihoods. For some time, Chinese and foreign netizens have been keen to "reconcile accounts" on social platforms, with the most concern being about clothing, food, housing, transportation, water, electricity, internet, gas, education, and medical care. This fragrant "space barbecue" in Tiangong (天宫) demonstrates the integration of technology and people's livelihoods in a way that is full of everyday life.

"Tiangong Barbecue" has become a reality, the lunar landing goal has been fully anchored, and there are already plans to "build houses" on the moon... China's aerospace is steadily advancing at an unprecedented speed. This is a vivid proof of China's development strength and will ultimately help each of us to have a better life.

(Excerpted and compiled from *Beijing Daily* (北京日报), originally titled "Tiangong Barbecue Witnesses the Acceleration of China's Aerospace")

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Cultivating a Relaxed Attitude of Confidence and Enterprise (Jin Tai Random Notes)

By: 彭 飞

In recent years, "relaxed feeling" has become a buzzword, partly because some figures who have come into the public eye, such as scientists who have built great national instruments, athletes who have won Olympic gold medals, directors who have created box office records, and entrepreneurs who lead innovation, often give people a sense of ease despite the heavy responsibilities. On the other hand, with the fast pace of work and life, the busier people are, the scarcer a sense of relaxation seems.

In fact, relaxing is easy, but what is difficult is to have composure when things happen, to be in control of everything, and to maintain a calm and far-reaching mindset in the midst of struggle. Where does this sense of relaxation come from?

It stems from self-tempering through countless trials.

Relaxation is not laxity or abandonment, but rather the ease of handling things with skill after reaching the stage of perfection. Many people were deeply impressed by Tan Hongmei (谭红梅), the female pilot who successfully completed the aerial refueling mission of the YU-20A during the September 3rd military parade. In front of the camera, she was calm and composed, but behind the scenes, she made very arduous efforts: participating in the training for the modification of the new model, flying on the flight simulator for at least 4 hours at a time, and being completely soaked after coming down; after training, she had to continue to complete a large amount of theoretical study...

True relaxation cannot be performed or faked. Only through thousands of trials and tribulations and the pursuit of excellence can one achieve ease and nonchalance. When sweating becomes a habit, and when hard work becomes muscle memory, relaxation often comes unbidden.

It stems from the proactive initiative from "accumulating power" to "exerting power."

Badminton enthusiasts have this experience: the more relaxed and stretched the body is before hitting the ball, the more powerful the moment of hitting the ball. Relaxation does not mean not exerting force, but rather accumulating power in relaxation, so that the power can be concentrated and burst at a critical moment. Director Jiaozi (饺子), who appears unkempt, experienced silence and devoted himself to polishing his skills, and finally created a record and became famous when the domestic animation film industry chain was more complete and the market was more mature. The development of China's mobile communication technology has gone from 1G blank, 2G follow-up, to 3G breakthrough, 4G synchronization, and then to 5G leading, step by step patiently tackling key problems, and finally achieving catching up and taking the lead.

Whether it is an individual or a company, when it is time to accumulate slowly and slowly, one must be able to sink down, and when it is time to exert intensive efforts and concentrate on breakthroughs, one must be able to tighten up. Having both tension and relaxation and moving forward steadily is the wisdom of growth and the way to develop and grow stronger.

It stems from an ordinary heart that is not confused or deluded.

If one is always eager for quick success and instant benefits and is worried about gains and losses, it is impossible to have a sense of relaxation. Yu Donglai (于东来), the founder of Pang Donglai (胖东来), often appears relaxed and open-minded. When asked why he took the initiative to close some stores that were still profitable, he frankly said, "It does not conform to the company's development philosophy, so we would rather close the store." Not being greedy for short-term interests, looking at the long-term, and calculating the big picture is one of the secrets for Pang Donglai to win market respect and user favor.

With an ordinary heart, correctly view gains and losses, wins and losses, be down-to-earth, and work for a long time, and when the mentality is calm, the actions will naturally be calm and prudent.

Stepping out of personal emotions and looking at the national mentality, one can also find a kind of "Chinese-style relaxation." Overseas students generously wear national costumes at graduation ceremonies, neighborhood aunts enthusiastically introduce their hometowns to foreign tourists, and audiences calmly face wins and losses in international arenas such as the Olympic Games... The Chinese people in the new era are not only able to "look at the world equally," but also are good at showing themselves with an open and enterprising attitude, and treating others with a friendly and inclusive attitude. Behind this is the national pride ignited by powerful Chinese manufacturing, the national self-improvement supported by frequent technological innovations, and the national confidence inspired by the increasingly influential Chinese civilization.

Relaxation is never just a "face" expression, but also an accumulation of "inner substance." Cultivating a confident and enterprising sense of relaxation, continuing to work hard and unremittingly, whether it is personal growth or national progress, will naturally improve day by day and be able to stride forward.

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Increase efforts to safeguard and improve people's livelihoods (Studying and implementing the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee)

By: 谌贻琴

Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, pointed out that Chinese-style modernization prioritizes the people's well-being. All the work of the Party and the government is to enable the people to live a happier life. 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 a series of new major deployments for guaranteeing and improving people's livelihoods. We must always keep guaranteeing and improving people's livelihoods firmly in our hands and continuously realize the people's aspirations for a better life.

I. Deeply Study and Implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's Important Exposition on Guaranteeing and Improving People's Livelihoods, and Resolutely Unify Thoughts and Actions with the Decision-Making and Deployment of the Party Central Committee

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has made a series of important expositions on increasing efforts to guarantee and improve people's livelihoods and enhancing the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security, scientifically answering major theoretical and practical questions in the field of social livelihood, pointing out the direction for our progress and providing fundamental guidelines.

First, adhere to and strengthen the Party's overall leadership. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that the leadership of the Communist Party of China is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the greatest advantage of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics. It is necessary to integrate respecting public opinion, gathering public wisdom, uniting public strength, and improving people's livelihoods into all the work of the Party in governing the country, consolidate the Party's class foundation for governance, and strengthen the Party's mass base for governance. Second, adhere to the people-centered development thought. Emphasizing that the country is the people, and the people are the country. People's livelihood work is closest to the people and most closely related to the people's lives. The people's yearning for a better life is our goal. We must adhere to the people-first concept and highlight the people-oriented nature of modernization. When planning economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, we must not forget our original intention and take benefiting the people as the fundamental value orientation. Third, adhere to comprehensively deepening reform. Emphasizing that we must plan and promote reform from the overall, fundamental, and long-term interests of the people, follow the Party's mass line in the new era, and focus on finding the entry points and breakthroughs for reform from the urgent needs and concerns of the people in employment, income increase, enrollment, medical treatment, housing, handling affairs, childcare and elderly care, and life and property safety. Fourth, steadily promote common prosperity for all the people. Emphasizing that guaranteeing people's livelihood concerns the immediate interests of the people and is a fundamental project for promoting common prosperity and creating a high-quality life. Achieving common prosperity for all the people is a long-term historical process, which cannot be achieved overnight. We must maintain historical patience and make unremitting efforts. Fifth, increase people's well-being in development. Emphasizing that people's livelihood is linked to domestic demand and development. We must comprehensively grasp the relationship between people's livelihood and development, which are mutually牵动 (qiān dòng - "intertwined," mutually influencing) and conditional, create more effective demand for economic development, and effectively connect, create a virtuous cycle, and complement each other between improving people's livelihoods and economic development. We must adhere to seeking truth from facts, do our best and act according to our capabilities, and base the improvement of social security levels on the sustainable growth of the economy and financial resources. Sixth, strengthen inclusive, basic, and guaranteed people's livelihood construction. Emphasizing that we must go deep into the masses and the grassroots, take more measures to benefit the people and warm their hearts, and focus on solving the urgent needs and concerns of the people. The focus is on improving the level of public services, accurately providing basic public services in the fields of education, medical care, elderly care, housing, etc., which are of most concern to the people, and ensuring the basic living standards of people in difficulty. We must pay special attention to, care for, and be concerned about people in difficulty, and always keep their safety and well-being in mind.

During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, we must further unify our thoughts and actions with General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions, deeply understand and accurately grasp the important significance, goals, tasks, principles, and practical requirements of increasing efforts to guarantee and improve people's livelihoods, seek more benefits for the people, solve more problems for the people, earnestly grasp the implementation of the relevant deployments of the "Suggestions," and wholeheartedly increase people's well-being.

II. Significant Achievements Have Been Made in Guaranteeing and Improving People's Livelihoods, and the Quality of People's Lives Has Continuously Improved

Realizing the people's yearning for a better life is the starting point and end result of Chinese-style modernization. At present, China has built the world's largest education system, social security system, medical and health system, and urban housing security system, and has formed the world's largest middle-income group. The CPC Central Committee (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has always adhered to improving the people's happiness index with practical actions, and has achieved historic and pioneering achievements in people's livelihood construction. First, the employment situation is generally stable. Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," the number of new urban jobs has exceeded 12 million for four consecutive years, the surveyed urban unemployment rate is lower than the expected control target, and the scale of employment of people lifted out of poverty has always remained above 30 million. Second, residents' income has grown steadily. The national per capita disposable income of residents has increased from 35,100 yuan in 2021 to 41,300 yuan in 2024, and the income ratio between urban and rural residents has narrowed to 2.34:1. Third, the level of education popularization has continued to improve, promoting the gradual exemption of childcare and education fees for preschool education. In 2024, the gross enrollment (kindergarten) rate of preschool education and senior high school education both reached 92%, and all 2,895 counties in the country have achieved basic balanced development of compulsory education. Fourth, the construction of the social security system has entered a new stage. The gradual postponement of the statutory retirement age reform has been steadily implemented, the personal pension system has been established and fully implemented. As of the end of 2024, more than 1 billion people have basic pension insurance, 1.327 billion people have basic medical insurance, and the basic living standards of approximately 45 million people on subsistence allowances and in extreme poverty have been effectively guaranteed. Fifth, new progress has been made in ensuring housing for all. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, more than 11 million sets (rooms) of various types of guaranteed housing and resettlement housing for urban villages and urban dilapidated housing renovation have been built and raised, benefiting more than 30 million people. Sixth, the level of health services has continued to improve. In 2024, the number of practicing (assistant) physicians and registered nurses per thousand people was 3.61 and 4.16 respectively. In 2025, the per capita subsidy standard for basic public health service funds will be increased to 99 yuan; the policy system for supporting fertility will be improved, and a childcare subsidy system will be established; the coverage of long-term care insurance has reached 190 million people; and significant results have been achieved in the prevention and control of key diseases. Seventh, the quality and structure of the population have been further improved. In 2024, the average life expectancy of Chinese residents reached 79 years, maintaining a rapid growth trend of 1 year every 5 years, exceeding 21 high-income countries in the world; the average number of years of education for the working-age population reached 11.21 years, and the accumulation level of high-quality human resources has steadily increased. Eighth, the equalization of basic public services has been accelerated. The national basic public service standards have been formulated and dynamically adjusted to ensure that the people fairly enjoy 81 basic public service projects in 9 fields, and the gap between urban and rural basic public services has continued to narrow.

At the same time, we must also soberly see that there are still some shortcomings and weaknesses in the field of social livelihood: structural employment contradictions are prominent, and the rights and interests of new employment form personnel still need to be strengthened; the coverage of social security needs to be further expanded, and the social security system still has shortcomings; the investment guarantee for the health system needs to be increased, and the long-term balance of medical insurance funds faces pressure; the phenomenon of "urban crowding and rural emptiness" in compulsory education still exists; the aging of the population is becoming increasingly serious, and the citizenship of the permanent population still faces many constraints. There is no end to guaranteeing and improving people's livelihoods. In the new era and new journey, we must do a good job in various people's livelihood undertakings and make up for the shortcomings in the field of people's livelihood in the process of promoting high-quality development, and strive to promote people's well-being to a higher level.

III. Comprehensively Implement Key Tasks Related to Guaranteeing and Improving People's Livelihoods, and Continuously Realize the People's Aspirations for a Better Life

The "Suggestions" have made specific deployments for guaranteeing and improving people's livelihoods. We must conscientiously implement them, firmly grasp the most concerning, most direct, and most realistic interests of the people, and let the achievements of Chinese-style modernization benefit all the people more and more fairly.

(I) Promote high-quality and full employment. Employment is the most basic livelihood, which concerns the immediate interests of the people, the healthy development of the economy and society, and the long-term stability of the country. The "Suggestions" propose to "deeply implement the employment-first strategy, improve the employment promotion mechanism, and build an employment-friendly development mode." We must strengthen the employment-first orientation, promote the coordinated efforts of fiscal, monetary, industrial, price, and employment policies, and continuously promote the effective improvement of employment quality and the reasonable growth of quantity. Improve the matching mechanism of human resources supply and demand, improve the lifelong vocational skills training system, carry out large-scale vocational skills improvement training, strengthen skills-oriented salary incentives, strengthen guidance on employment and employment concepts, and focus on solving structural employment contradictions. Improve the employment support and public service system, stabilize and expand the employment of key groups such as college graduates, migrant workers, and veterans, and promote the stable employment of people lifted out of poverty and people with disabilities. Increase support for entrepreneurship, play a good "combination punch" of policies such as guaranteed loans, entrepreneurship subsidies, site support, and tax and fee reductions, and enhance the employment-driving effect of entrepreneurship. Improve the rights and interests protection system for flexible employment and new employment form personnel, severely crack down on illegal acts that infringe on the rights and interests of workers, resolutely correct unreasonable restrictions and employment discrimination, and effectively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of workers.

(II) Improve the income distribution system. The income distribution system is the basic system for promoting common prosperity. The "Suggestions" propose to "improve the initial distribution mechanism in which various factors are evaluated by the market for their contributions and remuneration is determined according to contributions, and promote more pay for more work, more pay for higher skills, and more pay for innovators." We must improve the wage determination, reasonable growth, and payment guarantee mechanism for workers, promote the wage collective negotiation system, improve the minimum wage standard adjustment mechanism, and increase the remuneration of workers, especially front-line workers. Improve the redistribution system, strengthen the redistribution adjustment of taxation, social security, and transfer payments, reasonably adjust and narrow the income gap between industries, regions, urban and rural areas, and personnel, strengthen and improve the salary management of state-owned enterprises, and increase the regulation of unreasonable excessive income. Better play the role of the third distribution, promote and regulate the development of public welfare and charity, unblock the channels for social forces to participate in charity, and guide and support enterprises, social organizations, and individuals with willingness and ability to actively participate in public welfare and charity.

(III) Run education that satisfies the people. Education is a major plan for the country and the Party. The "Suggestions" propose to "improve the education resource allocation mechanism that adapts to population changes." We must deeply implement the new era's moral education project, strengthen and improve the ideological and political education of schools in the new era, improve the comprehensive training system of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor, and coordinate the promotion of "double reduction" and the improvement of education and teaching quality. Steadily expand the scope of free education and explore extending the length of compulsory education. Open up and use education resources in various academic stages according to local conditions, and explore new models of provincial modern vocational education systems. Strengthen the support and guarantee for high-quality development of education, carry out the action of casting souls and strengthening teachers with the spirit of educators, deeply implement the digital strategy of education, expand the opening up of high-level education to the outside world, and build an important education center with global influence.

(IV) Improve the social security system. Social security is the basic institutional guarantee for maintaining social fairness and enhancing people's well-being. The "Suggestions" propose to "improve and implement the national overall planning system for basic old-age insurance, and accelerate the development of a multi-level and multi-pillar old-age insurance system." We must improve the multi-level medical security system, promote provincial overall planning of basic medical insurance, improve the stable and sustainable financing and benefit adjustment mechanism, improve the triple system guarantee of basic medical insurance, serious illness insurance, and medical assistance, implement a list system of medical security benefits, and promote the coordinated development and governance of medical treatment, medical insurance, and medicine. Expand the coverage of unemployment and work-related injury insurance, and establish and improve the occupational injury protection system. Optimize the national unified social security public service platform and management service, improve the policy on the transfer and continuation of social security relations, and increase the participation rate of flexible employment personnel, migrant workers, and new employment form personnel. Improve the social insurance actuarial system, continue to transfer state-owned capital to enrich the social security fund, improve the long-term fundraising, overall adjustment, value preservation and appreciation, and safety supervision mechanism of the social security fund, and give play to the supplementary guarantee role of various commercial insurance. Improve the social assistance system, improve the service guarantee system for groups such as empty-nest elderly, children in difficulty, and people with disabilities, strengthen the dynamic monitoring and regular assistance of low-income people, strengthen multi-departmental collaborative classified assistance, and ensure the bottom line of basic people's livelihood. Establish and improve the basic funeral service system and strengthen comprehensive funeral supervision. Adhere to the basic national policy of equality between men and women and protect the legitimate rights and interests of women and children. Strengthen service guarantees for veterans.

(V) Promote the high-quality development of real estate. The housing problem is not only a livelihood problem but also a development problem, which is related to the immediate interests of thousands of households. The "Suggestions" propose to "accelerate the construction of a new model for real estate development and improve the basic systems for commercial housing development, financing, and sales." We must fully empower urban governments with the autonomy to regulate the real estate market, adjust and optimize real estate policies according to local conditions, and increase the supply of improved housing. Optimize the supply of guaranteed housing, increase the supply of guaranteed housing through new construction, acquisition of existing commercial housing, etc., to meet the basic housing needs of urban wage earners and various families in difficulty. Build safe, comfortable, green, and intelligent "good houses," implement housing quality improvement projects and property service quality improvement actions, steadily promote the renovation of urban villages and dilapidated houses, and make great efforts to solve problems such as elevator installation, parking, and charging, and create high-quality living spaces for the people. Accelerate the establishment of a housing safety physical examination system, a housing safety management fund system, and a housing quality safety insurance system to strengthen housing safety guarantees.

(VI) Accelerate the construction of a healthy China. People's health is an important symbol of national prosperity and national strength. The "Suggestions" propose to "implement a health-first development strategy and improve the policy and system system for health promotion." We must accelerate the equalization of basic public health services, the homogenization of basic medical services, and the balanced regional allocation of high-quality medical and health resources, improve the quality and effectiveness of the Healthy China Action and the Patriotic Health Campaign, implement healthy lifestyle actions, reasonable diet actions, and national nutrition plans, and strengthen healthy weight management. Focus on strengthening public health capabilities, continue to promote the construction of provincial, municipal, and county-level disease control institutions to meet standards and empower them, improve the joint prevention and control mechanism for major infectious diseases, and improve the ability to respond to major epidemics and public health emergencies. Promote the construction of a fair, accessible, systematic, and continuous medical and health service system, deepen the reform of public hospitals oriented towards public welfare, implement the basic medical and health strengthening project, continue to implement major projects for the revitalization and development of traditional Chinese medicine, and promote the combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine.

(VII) Promote the high-quality development of the population. Population is a basic, overall, and strategic issue affecting economic and social development. The "Suggestions" propose to "improve the population service system covering the entire population and the entire life cycle." We must accelerate the construction of a fertility-friendly society, advocate a positive view of marriage and childbearing, optimize fertility support policies and incentives, effectively reduce the cost of family fertility, raising, and education, improve the fertility insurance system, implement the fertility leave system, more fully boost the willingness to have children, and maintain a moderate fertility rate and population size. Build a medical and health service system that guarantees the health needs of the entire life cycle, strengthen the health management of major chronic diseases, and improve healthy life expectancy. Actively respond to the aging of the population, improve the policy mechanism for the coordinated development of the elderly care cause and industry, optimize the supply of basic elderly care services, improve the urban and rural elderly care service network, and strengthen the aging-friendly and barrier-free transformation of public facilities. Develop medical and childcare, medical and elderly care services, promote long-term care insurance, improve the care system for disabled and demented elderly people, and expand the supply of rehabilitation care and hospice care services. Steadily implement the gradual postponement of the statutory retirement age, optimize age restriction policies in employment, social security, and other aspects, actively develop elderly human resources, and develop the silver economy.
(VIII) Steadily promote the equalization of basic public services. Improving the public service system is an inevitable requirement for guaranteeing and improving people's livelihoods and promoting social harmony and stability. The "Recommendations" propose to "promote more public services to sink to the grassroots level, cover rural areas, tilt towards remote areas and people living in difficulties, and improve the public resource allocation mechanism that matches the permanent population." It is necessary to improve the equalization system of basic public services, further improve the national basic public service system, dynamically adjust the national basic public service standards, and promote the connection of service standards between regions. Implement a system of providing basic public services by registering household registration in the place of permanent residence, strengthen the overall planning of basic public service supply in the county, and improve the long-term mechanism for investment guarantee. Innovate the way public services are provided, optimize the structural layout of public service institutions, comprehensively deepen the reform of public institutions, give play to the role of social forces to expand the supply of inclusive public services, and meet multi-level and diversified social needs.

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An Artistic Creation that Brings Cultural Relics "to Life" (Towards the Cultural Landscape of the "15th Five-Year Plan")

By: 董 宁

Cultivate a healthy cultural ecosystem, enhance the ability to create original culture, and promote the creation of high-quality works in the fields of news and publishing, radio, film and television, literature and art.
——Excerpt from the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal

The 2025 Hotan October Culture Month—"Kunlun Rhyme, Affection Moistens Hotan" themed art performance recently kicked off at the Hotan Cinema (和田影剧院) in Xinjiang (新疆). The dance drama "Five Stars Emerge in the East" (《五星出东方》) (see photo, taken by He Yong (贺勇), reporter of this newspaper) once again won warm applause. This can't help but remind me of the scene when this dance drama first debuted in 2021. The hard work of two years of creation reaped the sweetest fruit in the endless applause. Now, with the joint efforts of the choreographers and actors dispatched by the Beijing Performing Arts Group (北京演艺集团) and the Hotan Xinyu Song and Dance Troupe (和田新玉歌舞团), the play has achieved a regular residency performance in Hotan (和田).

Looking back at the beginning of the creation, we established a high-level coordinated and efficient linkage mechanism, transcended and integrated the superior resources of Beijing (北京) and Xinjiang (新疆), and strived to create a high-quality masterpiece that strengthens the sense of community of the Chinese nation with wonderful multiculturalism and high-quality artistic expression.

The inspiration for the dance drama "Five Stars Emerge in the East" (《五星出东方》) comes from the Han Dynasty brocade arm guard "Five Stars Emerge in the East Benefit China" unearthed 30 years ago at the Niya Ruins (尼雅遗址) in Hotan (和田), Xinjiang (新疆). In order to "revive" this history that has been sleeping for 2,000 years on the stage, we went deep into Xinjiang (新疆) to collect folk customs, visited the Niya Ruins (尼雅遗址), museums, etc., extracted colors from clothing patterns, captured dance postures from the music and dance of Qiuci (龟兹), and drew inspiration from vast historical materials. We determined the creative direction of using cultural relics as a medium and strengthening the sense of community of the Chinese nation through artistic expression, thereby reflecting the magnificent picture of national integration.

How to transform the grand theme of national integration into a perceptible and tangible stage scene? The market dance and brocade dance in the play are two active explorations. The market dance is the most talked-about dance segment by the audience, creating a lively Silk Road market. Different styles of dance steps are naturally integrated in the interaction between the characters, presenting a dramatic scene full of vitality. The brocade dance is a contemporary translation of the beauty of cultural relics, replicating the shape from the clothing of Han Dynasty pottery figurines, and carving the charm between the fingertips and sleeves. In addition, vivid and humorous segments such as the "eating melon dance" jump onto the stage, making the characterization not only historically profound but also full of sincere emotional temperature.

Since its premiere, the dance drama "Five Stars Emerge in the East" (《五星出东方》) has received enthusiastic responses, and dance segments have repeatedly appeared on major festival platforms, with more than 100 national tour performances. What impressed me deeply was that during the performance in Xinjiang (新疆), I saw the folks in Hotan (和田) burst into tears when they saw the brocade on the stage, and I saw young audiences cheering for the innovative expression of national dance. This makes us even more convinced that literary and artistic creation rooted in the people can move the people.

As a participant, during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, we have witnessed the continuous optimization of the literary and artistic creation ecology and the continuous emergence of high-quality masterpieces. From the topic selection and incubation system to the efficient linkage mechanism, and then to the "bringing people with the play" talent training model, every step supports the better presentation of artistic ideas, allowing us to accurately grasp the pulse of the times—using artistic language to tell the story of national unity and create an original stage art IP based on Chinese history, showing the Chinese spirit, and using Chinese expressions.

Looking forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan", we will cultivate the resources of outstanding Chinese traditional culture with a more firm cultural consciousness, and continue to promote the deep integration of artistic expression and cutting-edge technology. By continuously improving artistic originality, market competitiveness, and industry influence, we will strive to create more original IPs with Chinese style and launch a batch of excellent works that can stand, spread, and remain.

(The author is the Party Secretary and Chairman of Beijing Performing Arts Group (北京演艺集团) and the producer of the dance drama "Five Stars Emerge in the East" (《五星出东方》). This article was compiled and edited by Ardaq (阿尔达克), reporter of this newspaper.)

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Ushering in a New Chapter of Tianshan Literature and Art (Extended Reading)

By: 张迎春

The dance drama "Five Stars Rise in the East" has remained popular for more than four years, reflecting the contemporary value and artistic charm of this dance drama, and also reflecting the mainstream trend of Xinjiang's literary and artistic creation from tradition to modernity, and from multi-faceted focus to unity.

Inspired by the Han Dynasty brocade armband unearthed in the Hotan (和田) section of the ancient Silk Road in Xinjiang (新疆), which reads "Five Stars Rise in the East Benefit China (五星出东方利中国)", this dance drama activates the symbols of Chinese culture with artistic imagination of cultural relics, constructs a legendary story, and interprets the profound friendship between the ancestors of the Western Regions and the Central Plains thousands of years ago, from being strangers to building a common home. This light comedy narrative, which breaks the traditional model and transcends time and space, expands the style and form of dance drama creation.

The success of this dance drama lies not only in its artistic achievements, but also in its profound social significance—promoting the exchange and integration of different regional and ethnic cultures. This is the trend of historical development and the urgent need of the times.

Cultural identity is the deepest level of identity, and it is the root of national unity and the soul of national harmony. In recent years, the literary and art circles in Xinjiang (新疆) have actively explored and produced many excellent literary and artistic works, such as the acrobatic drama "Tianshan Snow (天山雪)", the group dance "Makaiti (麦盖提) under the Sun", the novel "Benba (本巴)", and the film "Why Are the Flowers So Red (花儿为什么这样红)"... These works are rooted in Xinjiang (新疆), break through traditional limitations, and strive to tell stories full of great love and ethnic charm, bringing the audience high-quality audio-visual experiences and aesthetic enjoyment. Blockbusters like the dance drama "Five Stars Rise in the East" appear frequently, 春风化雨，润物无声 (chūn fēng huà yǔ, rùn wù wú shēng - "spring breeze turns to rain, moistening things silently," to influence or educate people subtly and favorably), enhancing cultural confidence and playing a new movement of Tianshan (天山) literature and art.

In today's Xinjiang (新疆), on the basis of inheriting tradition, breakthrough and innovation have become the consensus and pursuit of artists, which will inevitably promote literary and artistic creation to better adhere to creative transformation and innovative development, and continuously move from "plateau" to "peak".

(The author is the vice chairman of Xinjiang Literary and Art Critics Association (新疆文艺评论家协会))

This issue is coordinated by Zhai Qinqi (翟钦奇).

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"Golden Autumn Launch" Campus Recruitment Event Held in Sichuan

This newspaper reported from Beijing on November 17th (Reporter Ding Yasong (丁雅诵)) The Ministry of Education's "Golden Autumn Voyage" campus recruitment and the Sichuan Province 2026 college graduate autumn large-scale recruitment fair were held in Yibin (宜宾), Sichuan. This recruitment event brought together more than 550 high-quality enterprises and institutions to set up offline exhibitions, and 370 employers set up online recruitment event zones on the "National College Student Employment Service Platform" and the "Chuan e Jiu—Sichuan College Student Employment Service Platform" to simultaneously attract talents, with a cumulative release of more than 20,000 positions, attracting more than 12,000 college graduates to seek jobs on-site, and more than 80,000 people participating online.

According to reports, a science and technology innovation achievement display area and a university-enterprise docking area were set up at the recruitment fair, focusing on the needs of key industries and deepening the innovation of industry-education integration models. Relevant universities in Yibin University City (宜宾大学城) selected more than 20 science and technology innovation projects and college student innovation and entrepreneurship projects for centralized display. Universities and enterprises conducted negotiations on talent cultivation, industry-education integration, internship employment, and other aspects, and signed contracts on-site. In the next step, the Ministry of Education (教育部) will continue to hold a series of "Golden Autumn Voyage" campus recruitment activities in Beijing (北京), Guangdong (广东), Tianjin (天津), and other places to fully promote high-quality and full employment for the 2026 college graduates.

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"Anti-involution" efforts in the express delivery industry are showing initial results.

This newspaper reported from Beijing on November 17th (Reporter Han Xin (韩鑫)): This reporter learned from the 11th "Last Mile" Conference of Express Delivery held in Beijing (北京) that since the beginning of this year, the comprehensive rectification of the postal express delivery industry's "**内卷式**" (nèi juǎn shì - "involution," a situation where increased effort yields diminishing returns due to excessive competition) competition has achieved positive results. Currently, many regions have successively taken practical actions, and 22 provinces have raised express delivery prices. Specifically, East China (华东地区) and Central China (华中地区) have been adjusted, and many places in North China (华北), Northeast China (东北), and Southwest China (西南), such as Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), Hebei (河北), Liaoning (辽宁), Sichuan (四川), and Tibet (西藏), have also been adjusted.

Data from the State Post Bureau (国家邮政局) shows that as the express delivery industry's "anti-involution" accelerates, the average express delivery price in the third quarter has stabilized and rebounded, increasing by 0.5% compared to the second quarter. From the perspective of specific price levels, there is a monthly growth trend.

At the same time, service quality has steadily improved. Since the beginning of this year, major companies have implemented "anti-involution" requirements and paid more attention to last-mile service quality. In the third quarter, the 72-hour delivery rate in key areas was 86.47%, an increase of 2.08 percentage points compared to the same period last year. Public satisfaction with express delivery services was 85 points, an increase of 1.3 points compared to the same period last year.

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Heilongjiang has cumulatively built 117 million mu of high-standard farmland.

Harbin, November 17th (People's Daily reporter Fang Yuan (方圆)) - A press conference held by the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee (黑龙江省委) revealed that since the "14th Five-Year Plan," Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省) has focused on developing modern large-scale agriculture, vigorously implemented the agricultural revitalization plan, and coordinated the development of scientific and technological agriculture, green agriculture, quality agriculture, and brand agriculture. By the end of 2024, it had cumulatively built 117 million mu of high-standard farmland.

Heilongjiang (黑龙江) is an important commodity grain base in China. In the past 5 years, the annual grain output of Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省) has exceeded 160 billion jin at its peak, and its total output, commodity volume, transfer volume, and reserve volume all rank first in the country. In order to continuously strengthen the construction of farmland infrastructure, Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省) has successively introduced a number of policy documents to strengthen the construction of high-standard farmland, with the primary goal of "gradually building all permanent basic farmland into high-standard farmland," focusing on eight elements: field, soil, water, road, forest, electricity, technology, and management, to enhance the ability to guarantee food security.

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This edition's editors: Ji Yalin, Guan Xuanyue, Zhai Qinqi

Layout Design: Zhang Danfeng (张丹峰)

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How to "Double" Charging Service Capacity (Economic Focus)

By: 本报记者 丁怡婷 白光迪

The National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) and six other departments recently jointly issued the "Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Service Capacity 'Triple Increase in Three Years' Action Plan (2025-2027)," which clarifies that by the end of 2027, charging service capacity will be doubled. What adjustments will be made to the spatial layout of charging facilities? What new technological breakthroughs will there be? What new changes will there be in residential area charging? Our reporter conducted interviews.
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　　More than half of the world's new energy vehicles are driven in China. As of the end of June this year, the number of new energy vehicles in the country reached 36.89 million, with 5.622 million new registrations in the first half of this year alone. With the continued growth in the number of new energy vehicles, charging demand has increased significantly. Despite the rapid development of charging infrastructure, phenomena such as "queuing for charging stations" and "range anxiety" inevitably occur during peak travel periods such as holidays. Problems such as the uneven distribution of public charging networks, insufficient service supply in residential areas, and the need to improve the quality and efficiency of operation and management need to be solved urgently.
　　As a key support for the new energy vehicle industry, charging infrastructure's service capacity directly affects consumers' purchasing confidence. The National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) and other departments recently jointly issued the "Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Service Capacity 'Triple Increase in Three Years' Action Plan (2025-2027)," proposing that by the end of 2027, 28 million charging facilities will be built nationwide, providing more than 300 million kilowatts of public charging capacity, meeting the charging needs of more than 80 million electric vehicles, and doubling charging service capacity.
　　Fu Bian (付毕安), Associate Researcher at the Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), said that the action plan takes both scale and power as evaluation indicators for the development of a high-quality charging facility system, promoting the transformation of the charging network from expansion and encryption to vector-quality parity, which can better guide the high-quality development of the industry. Preliminary estimates indicate that the action plan will drive more than 200 billion yuan in manufacturing and construction investment for charging facility equipment.
　　More Emphasis on Balance, Optimizing Spatial Layout and Facility Function Structure
　　At present, China's urban charging service guarantee capacity is relatively sufficient, but the construction of charging facilities in rural areas is still uneven. Liu Yongdong (刘永东), Deputy Secretary-General of the China Electricity Council (中国电力企业联合会), believes that compared with cities, the construction of charging facilities in rural areas is more challenging. On the one hand, the proportion of new energy vehicles in rural areas is relatively small; on the other hand, rural charging facilities face challenges such as relatively weak rural power grids and the tidal phenomenon of charging demand during holidays.
　　The action plan proposes to make up for the shortcomings in the construction of rural charging facilities. Continuously increase the density of charging facility construction in key scenarios such as transportation hubs, passenger and freight stations, leisure tourism destinations, and industrial clusters, and combine with supporting power grid upgrades and renovations to increase the guarantee of charging demand for returning home during the Spring Festival. By the end of 2027, at least 14,000 new DC charging guns will be added to township administrative regions that have not yet built public charging stations, and other regions will further expand the construction scale according to needs, achieving full coverage of public charging facilities in rural areas.
　　Chengjiang City (澄江市), Yunnan (云南), is the first county-level city in Yunnan (云南) to achieve "village-to-village" charging facilities. As of October this year, 31 charging stations have been built. During the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holidays this year, the area received a total of approximately 810,000 tourists, and the charging volume of charging stations increased by 39% year-on-year. "After the charging piles were built, it is more convenient for tourists to charge, and there are significantly more new energy vehicles coming and going," said Ruan Wenjuan (阮文娟), the person in charge of a B&B in Mafang Village (马房村), Chengjiang City (澄江市).
　　Balance is not only reflected in the increasingly dense spatial layout of charging facilities, but also in the more optimized facility function structure.
　　At present, the average power of public charging facilities in China is only 45.5 kilowatts, which cannot effectively meet the charging needs of rapid energy replenishment scenarios such as highways and urban hot spots during holidays. In this regard, the action plan clarifies that the planning and construction of high-power charging facilities should be accelerated in key cities and highway service areas. By the end of 2027, 40,000 "ultra-fast combination" charging guns with 60 kilowatts or more will be newly built or renovated in highway service areas (including parking areas), and the construction of high-power charging facilities will be encouraged.
　　In the Baige Service Area (百葛服务区) of the Beijing-Tibet Expressway (京藏高速), the average number of vehicles served per day has increased by approximately 16% since the ultra-charging station upgrade was completed at the end of September this year. Yang Guang (杨光), Deputy General Manager of State Grid (Beijing) New Energy Vehicle Service Co., Ltd. (国网（北京）新能源汽车服务有限公司), said that since the beginning of this year, the company has upgraded 6 highway service area charging stations in Beijing (北京) to ultra-charging stations to meet the needs of rapid energy replenishment. Li Kang (李康), Director of the Industrial Research Department of the China Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Promotion Alliance (中国电动汽车充电基础设施促进联盟), believes that building a balanced and convenient charging facility network should not only ensure the coordinated development of the scale of new energy vehicles and charging infrastructure, but also moderately advance the layout and construction of charging infrastructure.
　　More Emphasis on Innovation, Continuously Expanding the Scope of Vehicle-Network Interaction Pilots
　　In Fangshan Service Area (方山服务区), Jiangning District (江宁区), Nanjing (南京), Jiangsu (江苏), Mr. Yang (杨先生), a citizen, drove a new energy vehicle into the NIO (蔚来) battery swap station, and the entire battery swap process took no more than 5 minutes. "Although the battery still has some power, I need to drive a long distance today, so I came to swap it." The battery that Mr. Yang (杨先生) swapped will not be immediately recharged and swapped to other vehicles, but the remaining power will be reversely transmitted to the power grid through the battery swap station.
　　This NIO (蔚来) battery swap station was jointly renovated by State Grid Nanjing Power Supply Company (国网南京供电公司) and Nanjing NIO Energy Co., Ltd. (南京蔚来能源有限公司) to achieve two-way charging and battery swapping. "Under the guidance of electricity price policies, the battery swap station charges during the low electricity consumption period at noon and discharges during the peak period in the evening. The average daily discharge can reach 600 to 700 kilowatt-hours, and the monthly discharge income is about 12,000 yuan," said Wang Jing (王晶), the person in charge of NIO Energy (蔚来能源) in the Nanjing (南京) region.
　　Vehicle-network interaction refers to connecting new energy vehicles to the power supply network through charging and battery swapping facilities, and effectively utilizing the regulation potential of new energy vehicles as flexible energy storage resources by organizing intelligent and orderly charging and two-way charging and discharging.
　　The action plan proposes to continuously expand the scope of vehicle-network interaction pilots and continuously explore innovation in price policies, market-oriented mechanisms, and application scenarios.
　　Dai Xianzong (代贤忠), Director of the Safety and Urban Power Grid Research Office of the Power Grid Institute of the State Grid Energy Research Institute (国网能源研究院), believes that from the current point of view, vehicle-network interaction is still some distance away from large-scale application, but it is still necessary to make reserves in technology, mechanisms, and policies to support possible routine applications in the future. For example, at the policy mechanism level, it is necessary to support the construction and operation of vehicle-network interaction projects through corresponding policies to alleviate the problem of excessive costs in the initial stage. Through discharge price incentive policies, guide users to actively participate in peak shaving and valley filling and new energy consumption. Gradually establish a market-oriented income mechanism and promote vehicle-network interaction to participate in demand response and power market transactions.
　　More Emphasis on Inclusiveness, Carrying Out Residential Area "Unified Construction and Unified Service" Model Pilots
　　"In the past, I had to go a long way to the public charging piles outside the community, and sometimes I had to queue. Now I can charge when I get home from work, and I can also enjoy the residents' off-peak electricity prices at night, which is convenient and affordable." Wang (王) from Fangchong Community (方冲小区), Zigong (自贡), Sichuan (四川), has 12 charging guns installed. Residents do not need to bear the installation and construction costs, they can use them by scanning the code, and the charging electricity price is implemented according to the residents' electricity standards.
　　The change in charging experience is due to the "unified construction and unified service" model jointly promoted by the community, property management, and power supply departments - solving the "difficulty in charging" problem in old communities through unified planning and construction and unified operation and service. "The construction and management of charging piles are the responsibility of the unit, which guarantees the service and reduces potential electrical hazards," said Zhong Yaling (钟亚玲), Deputy Director of the Fangchong Community Neighborhood Committee (方冲社区居委会). Under the guidance of the power supply department, the operator also monitors the charging load of the community in real time and adjusts the load according to the load of the power distribution facilities to ensure the safety of the power grid. As of the end of May this year, Zigong City (自贡市) has built more than 20 "unified construction and unified service" communities and more than 200 charging piles.
　　While public charging facilities in cities and rural areas are being upgraded in quality, charging conditions in residential areas will be further optimized. Relevant officials from the National Energy Administration (国家能源局) introduced that, in response to the difficulty of building piles in residential areas, the action plan clarifies that new residential areas should build charging facilities or reserve installation conditions in all fixed parking spaces, and supplement charging facilities in existing residential areas according to local conditions, and carry out residential area "unified construction and unified service" model pilots. In response to problems such as cumbersome application procedures for installation and connection, it is required to simplify the application materials for residents' charging piles and encourage the exploration of "one certificate per community" and other pilot applications.
　　According to the action plan, by the end of 2027, 1,000 "unified construction and unified service" pilot communities will be built nationwide, and the access volume and safety management level of private charging piles will be greatly improved. "'Unified construction and unified service' pilots will help systematically realize the 'someone builds, someone manages, and is sustainable' charging facilities in residential areas. According to preliminary estimates, 1,000 'unified construction and unified service' pilot communities can drive more than 1 billion yuan in investment," Fu Bian (付毕安) believes that, in the next step, the "'unified construction and unified service'" model can enhance the flexibility of the power distribution system in residential areas by strengthening the aggregation and scheduling of new energy vehicles and charging facilities and uniformly participating in services such as power grid peak shaving and valley filling and demand response, providing solid support for building a new power system.
　　(Zhang Ling (张玲) participated in the writing)

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Digitalization Makes Cargo Transportation More Efficient

By: 本报记者 田先进

"How can the platform service functions be further improved?"

"Can the application scope of artificial intelligence technology be further expanded?"

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In the conference room of Hefei Weitian Yuntong Information Technology Co., Ltd. in Hefei High-tech Zone (合肥高新区), Anhui (安徽), Chairman Feng Lei (冯雷) and his colleagues are discussing the company's technological innovation.

After graduating from university, Feng Lei (冯雷) first worked in Beijing (北京). Due to his work, he paid close attention to logistics companies and truck drivers. "For a long time, the logistics and transportation industry has had problems such as being 'small, scattered, and chaotic.' If information technology can be used to achieve full-process management, it would be a huge improvement for the entire industry," said Feng Lei (冯雷). "It just so happens that I majored in communication engineering, and I always wanted to give it a try."

Seizing the opportunity, Feng Lei (冯雷) came to Hefei (合肥) in 2010 and founded Weitian Yuntong (维天运通) Company. After unremitting efforts by the company team, the Luge (路歌) full-link digital freight platform was officially launched. The platform enables logistics companies to realize the onlineization of the entire process of transportation operations through digital capacity procurement, business operations, and financial settlement, promoting efficient collaboration between logistics companies and multiple parties in the industrial chain. "Simply put, relying on the platform, logistics companies can more quickly and conveniently match suitable truck drivers according to the different conditions of the goods. At the same time, they can also grasp the transportation trajectory of the goods, which not only improves operating efficiency and safety, but also reduces transaction costs," Feng Lei (冯雷) introduced. For truck drivers, they can obtain more order information through the platform, increase the number of orders they receive, and have more reliable income guarantees.

By the end of 2024, Weitian Yuntong (维天运通) Company's digital freight business had cumulatively served over 16,700 shipper companies, and the Luge (路歌) platform had cumulatively completed over 56 million shipping orders, becoming one of the largest digital freight platforms in China.

During work breaks, Feng Lei (冯雷) often opens the "Trucker Zone" (卡友地带) APP on his mobile phone. Truck drivers are an important foundation supporting the development of the logistics industry. In 2014, in order to better serve this group, Weitian Yuntong (维天运通) Company created the truck driver community "Trucker Zone" (卡友地带).

"At the beginning, it mainly provided a communication platform for truck drivers," said Feng Lei (冯雷). "Later, we also specifically opened up a mutual aid section. For example, if a driver encounters difficulties on the road, local drivers can go to help after seeing the post."

"Trucker Zone" (卡友地带) can now also provide rights protection services. "Some drivers may encounter situations where payment for goods is owed by companies. After our back-office staff sees it, they will follow up and contact them in a timely manner to provide assistance to the drivers," Feng Lei (冯雷) introduced. The company has a legal aid team established by the labor union organization, which can provide professional advice to drivers in need.

Currently, the "Trucker Zone" (卡友地带) APP has over 3.5 million registered users, and offline branches cover 298 cities. On the wall of Feng Lei's (冯雷) office, there is a huge photo, a group photo of hundreds of people. "This is a group photo from our 'Trucker Festival' (卡友节) held in 2018. The truck drivers come from all over the country," said Feng Lei (冯雷). "The purpose of creating the 'Trucker Festival' (卡友节) is to allow drivers to have the opportunity to meet and gather offline and relax. In addition, we can take this opportunity to understand their needs and ideas."

Looking to the future, Feng Lei (冯雷) said that the company will adhere to the guidance of national strategy, use digital means to improve the efficiency and service quality of the domestic freight industry, improve the working environment for truck drivers, and become a digital support platform for a healthy logistics ecosystem.

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China's foreign exchange market remained stable in October.

This newspaper reported from Beijing on November 17th (Reporter Ge Mengchao (葛孟超)) The State Administration of Foreign Exchange (国家外汇管理局) released data on bank foreign exchange settlement and sales, and bank foreign exchange receipts and payments on behalf of customers for October on the 17th. The data shows that in October, banks settled $214.2 billion in foreign exchange and sold $196.5 billion; bank foreign exchange receipts on behalf of customers were $623.1 billion, and foreign payments were $571.9 billion.

Li Bin (李斌), Deputy Director and Spokesperson of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (国家外汇管理局), said that since October, volatility in the international financial market has increased somewhat, and the U.S. dollar index has generally risen. China's foreign exchange market continues to maintain a stable operating trend. First, the supply and demand in the foreign exchange market are basically balanced. In October, the surplus of bank foreign exchange settlement and sales was $17.7 billion, a slight decrease compared to the previous month, and the settlement and sales of foreign exchange were more balanced. Enterprises and other entities carried out foreign exchange settlement and purchase transactions in an orderly manner according to actual needs, and the foreign exchange settlement rate and sales rate were basically the same as the average monthly level in the first nine months. Second, cross-border capital flows remained stable. Affected by factors such as the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holidays, non-bank sectors such as enterprises and individuals experienced a small net outflow of cross-border funds in September. In October, net inflows of cross-border funds increased. Looking at the two months as a whole, the average monthly surplus of cross-border receipts and payments was $24 billion. Among them, net inflows of funds for trade in goods remained high; seasonal declines in cross-border expenditures such as residents' outbound travel and profit distribution by foreign-funded enterprises, and net outflows of funds for trade in services and investment income narrowed month-on-month. Overall, expectations for China's foreign exchange market are stable, supply and demand are basically balanced, and it maintains strong resilience and vitality.

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C919 and C909 Make Middle East Debut

According to information obtained by reporter Gu Yekai (谷业凯) from the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (中国商飞公司): On November 17th, the Dubai Airshow opened at Al Maktoum International Airport in Dubai (迪拜) , United Arab Emirates (阿联酋). The C919 aircraft and C909 business jet are making their Middle East debut. This is the first time the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (中国商飞公司) has participated in the Dubai Airshow, and it will showcase the latest achievements in the development of Chinese commercial aircraft through flight demonstrations, exhibitions, and product presentations.

It is reported that the C909 aircraft has a capacity of 78-97 seats and a range of 2225-3700 kilometers. More than 170 aircraft have been delivered to domestic and foreign customers, with more than 790 routes opened, and have been put into route operation in Southeast Asia. The C919 aircraft has a capacity of 158-192 seats and a range of 4075-5555 kilometers. 26 aircraft have been delivered and more than 30 routes have been opened.

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Four Departments Strengthen Management of Used Car Exports

This newspaper reported from Beijing on November 17th (Reporter Luo Shanshan (罗珊珊)) The Ministry of Commerce (商务部), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部), the Ministry of Public Security (公安部), and the General Administration of Customs (海关总署) recently jointly issued a notice on further strengthening the management of used car exports. According to the requirements of the notice, starting from January 1, 2026, for vehicles applying for export that are less than 180 days (including 180 days) from the date of registration, the local commerce authorities should guide local enterprises to submit a "Confirmation Letter of After-Sales Maintenance Service" issued by the vehicle manufacturer, including the country of export, vehicle information, information on after-sales service outlets, etc., and affixed with the official seal of the manufacturer. Export licenses will not be issued for vehicles that cannot provide the above materials.

The notice proposes to establish a dynamic management and exit mechanism for enterprises. Local commerce authorities should strengthen the construction of a local used car export credit evaluation system, compare it with the "Negative List of Dishonest Behaviors in Used Car Exports," conduct daily supervision and dynamic management of enterprises, and standardize business operations and export competition order. In addition, the notice made further detailed requirements on standardizing the application and issuance of export licenses, the license application conditions for vehicles exported in the name of modified cars, and improving the export supporting system.

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Inheriting Intangible Cultural Heritage, Upholding Open Development

By: 本报记者 宋豪新 史一棋

In the faint light of dawn, in Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川), at the Shuijingfang (水井坊) Qionglai (邛崃) Full Industrial Chain Base brewing workshop, the brewers meticulously complete each process, separating layers of distiller's grains, maintaining the mud of the fermentation pit, sealing the pits...inheriting more than 600 years of intangible cultural heritage brewing techniques.

Next to the fermentation pits, automated brewing equipment and intelligent operation control systems operate efficiently. Steam is evenly injected through the coils at the bottom of the still. With the coordination of temperature sensors, the industrial robot arm draws precise trajectories in the still pot, evenly loading the distiller's grains layer by layer into the still pot, realizing the traditional manual steaming technique of "lightly scattering and evenly spreading, probing steam to the still" through flexible bionics. The brewers occasionally lean over to take a close look at the freshly flowing liquor, using the ancient technique of "watching the flowers to extract the liquor" to verify the precision of modern machinery. On one side is tradition, and on the other is modernity. In this production workshop of tens of thousands of square meters, the "concerto" of Shuijingfang's (水井坊) intangible cultural heritage brewing technique inheritance and renewal is staged every day.

"As early as 2006, Sichuan Shuijingfang Co., Ltd. (四川水井坊股份有限公司), a private Baijiu listed company, reached a cooperation intention with Diageo Group (帝亚吉欧集团), becoming an important pilot for foreign investment to expand into the Baijiu industry," Hong Zonghua (洪宗华), Chief Public Relations Officer of Sichuan Shuijingfang Co., Ltd. (四川水井坊股份有限公司), told reporters, "Technological innovation has always been the foundation of Shuijingfang's (水井坊) development." In Hong Zonghua's (洪宗华) view, brewing is the foundation of Baijiu flavor, and the role of microbial flora is crucial. Shuijingfang (水井坊) cooperated with the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院微生物研究所) to deeply study the "No. 1 flora" microbial treasure trove, and successively released a series of research results. Through unremitting efforts, the research team finally discovered more than 250,000 functional genes in the "No. 1 flora" and identified nearly 4,000 microorganisms, including many strains that play a key role in the quality and aroma of the liquor. "The research results of the 'No. 1 flora' reveal the secret of Shuijingfang (水井坊) Baijiu's unique flavor, providing a solid scientific foundation for the future improvement of liquor quality and high-end development," said Hong Zonghua (洪宗华).

Firmly believing in openness and stimulating enterprise vitality, Sichuan Shuijingfang Co., Ltd. (四川水井坊股份有限公司) quickly completed the construction of overseas channels, relying on Diageo's (帝亚吉欧) global sales network to promote its products to the international market. Through cooperation, Shuijingfang (水井坊) has achieved a combination of tradition and modernity, both retaining the essence of Chinese Baijiu culture and drawing on the marketing strategies of the international market, enhancing the brand's global visibility. "Focusing on the long-term healthy and sustainable development of Shuijingfang (水井坊), Diageo (帝亚吉欧) is investing in expanding and improving high-quality production capacity. We follow the concept of 'green symbiosis, intelligent brewing' and are building the Shuijingfang (水井坊) Qionglai (邛崃) Full Industrial Chain Base in Qionglai (邛崃), Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川), with a total investment of approximately 6.8 billion yuan. Currently, the first phase of the project has been successfully completed and put into operation, and the second phase of the project is steadily advancing," said Gu Chao (辜超), Director of Corporate Communications of Shuijingfang (水井坊).

Under the guidance of the China Alcoholic Drinks Association (中国酒业协会) and the Sichuan China Baijiu Golden Triangle Wine Association (四川中国白酒金三角酒业协会), Shuijingfang (水井坊) jointly released the *Shuijingfang Ancient Fermentation Pit Protective Production Specification* (《水井坊古窖池保护性生产规范》) with the two associations, which not only established a standard for the living protection of ancient fermentation pits, but also provided detailed enterprise standards for the protective production of ancient fermentation pits in the Chinese Baijiu industry. "The pit mud here is rich in microbial communities and is also our most valuable living heritage," said Gao Qiang (高强), Qujiu Production Manager of Shuijingfang (水井坊) Qionglai (邛崃) Full Industrial Chain Base. Shuijingfang's (水井坊) long-term and steady development has injected strong momentum into the high-quality development of the Baijiu production area in Chengdu (成都), and has also given foreign investors full confidence to take root in Sichuan (四川), invest in China (中国), and share the new opportunities of Chinese-style modernization.

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The asset scale of China's city commercial banks exceeds 60 trillion yuan.

This newspaper reported from Beijing on November 17th (Reporter Zhao Zhanhui (赵展慧)) The Urban Commercial Banks Working Committee of the China Banking Association released the "30-Year Development Report of Urban Commercial Banks" on the 17th. The report shows that by the end of 2024, the total assets of China's city commercial banks reached 60.15 trillion yuan, an increase of 134 times compared with 1995, accounting for 13.53% of banking financial institutions, an increase of 8.24 percentage points in market share; a total of 12 city commercial banks have assets exceeding one trillion yuan, and 5 city commercial banks have been selected as systemically important banks in China; the non-performing loan ratio of city commercial banks is 1.76%, the provision coverage ratio is 188.08%, and the capital adequacy ratio is 12.97%.

The report also shows that city commercial banks continue to improve service channels, providing diversified financial products and services for urban and rural residents to better meet the financial needs of the people. At the same time, city commercial banks vigorously support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises and continue to improve the coverage, availability, and satisfaction of financial services.

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Editors of this section: Wu Yan, Wu Kai, Lin Ziye

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Based in the Greater Bay Area, Coordinating with Hong Kong and Macao, Facing the World (New Era Picture Scroll: Decisive Victory in the "14th Five-Year Plan")

All images in this edition are provided by the Publicity Department of the Nansha District Committee (南沙区委宣传部), except where otherwise indicated.

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Tide surges in the Greater Bay Area, writing a new chapter.

By: 王云娜

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the "Overall Plan for Guangzhou Nansha to Deepen Comprehensive Cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Facing the World" was issued. Nansha District (南沙区) of Guangzhou City (广州市), Guangdong Province (广东省) shouldered the mission of "based in the Greater Bay Area, cooperating with Hong Kong and Macao, and facing the world," aiming at the goal of "becoming an important platform for comprehensive cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao," and moved forward vigorously.

The seeds of innovation are sprouting here. Guangzhou Nansha Science City (广州南沙科学城) jointly builds the Greater Bay Area Comprehensive National Science Center with Shenzhen Guangming Science City (深圳光明科学城) and Dongguan Songshan Lake Science City (东莞松山湖科学城). The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) (香港科技大学（广州）) Science and Technology Innovation Achievement Transfer and Transformation Base and Guangzhou Nansha Science City International Innovation and Entrepreneurship Community were unveiled, providing incubation venues for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao's joint scientific and technological innovation has pressed the acceleration button.

The flowers of industry are blooming here. Accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system. Cultivate and strengthen emerging industries, and support the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) (香港科技大学（广州）) and Huawei (华为) to jointly launch the Greater Bay Area Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation Alliance with well-known institutions in Hong Kong, Macao and internationally. Layout and construction of future industries, carry out cutting-edge technology innovation in cell and gene therapy, and the first national clinical application patient with thalassemia treated with cell and gene therapy was successfully discharged from the cabin in Nansha District (南沙区).

This place is becoming a fertile ground for the sons and daughters of the Greater Bay Area to start businesses. The first evaluation standard system for professional titles of Hong Kong and Macao engineering talents was created, and 27 Hong Kong and Macao engineering professional talents were awarded mainland professional titles. 19 youth innovation bases, including the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao (International) Youth Innovation Workshop, have been built, with a cumulative total of 2,670 enterprises (projects) settled in. The "Heart of the Bay Area" has a warm "Bay Area sentiment" and enthusiastic and thoughtful public services to help Hong Kong and Macao youth better integrate into the overall national development.

With the wind rising in Nansha (南沙), the tide is surging in the Greater Bay Area. Moving towards the "15th Five-Year Plan," Nansha (南沙), this pearl, will show the world the vivid practice of China's reform and opening up and write a new chapter.

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This edition's editors: Bai Zhenzhi, Xu Yang, Qin Ruijie

This edition coordinated by: Cheng Chen (程晨), Tang Tianyi (唐天奕)
Layout design: Shen Yiling (沈亦伶), Zhang Danfeng (张丹峰)

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Upholding the Unity of the National Rule of Law and Guaranteeing the Construction of a Unified National Market (In-depth Study and Implementation of Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era: A Comprehensive Discussion of Original and Iconic Concepts)

By: 徐剑锋

"Maintaining the unity of the national rule of law" is an original and iconic concept of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on the rule of law, and an important theoretical innovation achievement of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on the rule of law. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) put forward the concept of "national legal unity" at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, and pointed out some prominent problems facing the legislative field, including "some localities use regulations to implement local protectionism, which creates obstacles to the formation of a unified, open, competitive and orderly market order across the country and damages the unity of the national rule of law"; at the Central Comprehensive Law-based Governance Work Conference in 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) further emphasized: "Maintaining the unity of the national rule of law is a serious political issue. China is a unitary state, and maintaining the unity of the national rule of law is of paramount importance"; at the Central People's Congress Work Conference held in 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Local people's congresses and their standing committees at all levels should exercise their powers in accordance with the law, ensure that the Constitution and laws are observed and implemented within their respective administrative regions, and consciously maintain the unity of the national rule of law"; and so on. A market economy is an economy ruled by law, and the rule of law should be used to regulate the boundaries between the government and the market. Improving the system and mechanism for maintaining the unity of the national rule of law, maintaining the unity of the national rule of law, is of great significance for eliminating regional market segmentation and local protection, ensuring the construction of a unified national market, accelerating the construction of a high-level socialist market economic system, accelerating the construction of a new development pattern, and consolidating the institutional foundation for high-quality development.

The "Proposals of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" (hereinafter referred to as the "Proposals") adopted by the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee made strategic arrangements for maintaining the unity of the national rule of law, proposing to "strengthen the implementation and supervision of the Constitution and laws, and improve the system and mechanism for maintaining the unity of the national rule of law," which pointed out the way forward for ensuring the efficient operation of a high-level socialist market economy with a high-level socialist rule of law during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. We must thoroughly study and understand the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平)'s important speech, thoroughly implement the decision-making arrangements of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, and constantly improve the system and mechanism for maintaining the unity of the national rule of law, so as to provide a strong and powerful legal system guarantee for accelerating the construction of a unified national market and accelerating the construction of a high-level socialist market economic system.

Maintaining the unity of the national rule of law is the prerequisite and guarantee for building a unified national market.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The socialist market economy is essentially an economy ruled by law." The universality of the rule of law is naturally and intrinsically in line with the unified needs of the market. If there is regional segmentation and differences in market system rules, it will increase the institutional transaction costs of market operation, hinder the free flow and efficient allocation of commodities, resources, and factors, and lead to blockages or even disorders in cross-regional transactions. Maintaining the unity of the national rule of law is conducive to improving the basic institutional rules of a unified market, including improving unified property rights protection, market access, information disclosure, fair competition, social credit, market exit and other basic market systems, eliminating barriers in the fields of factor acquisition, qualification recognition, bidding and tendering, government procurement, etc., regulating the economic promotion behavior of local governments, and breaking down local protection and market segmentation. This determines that maintaining the unity of the national rule of law is an inherent requirement of the socialist market economy, and improving the system and mechanism for maintaining the unity of the national rule of law is an inevitable choice to ensure the construction of a unified national market and accelerate the construction of a high-level socialist market economic system.

Improving the system and mechanism for maintaining the unity of the national rule of law is to use the thinking and methods of the rule of law to break down the institutional and mechanism barriers that hinder the market-oriented allocation of production factors and the circulation of commodities and services, reduce market transaction costs, dredge the blockages in the domestic cycle, activate the momentum of the domestic cycle, accelerate the completion of a unified national market, highlight the characteristics of China's stable economic foundation, many advantages, strong resilience, and great potential, enhance the advantages of China's super-large market, complete industrial system, and abundant human resources, and ultimately make the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics more prominent. From the perspective of ensuring the construction of a unified national market, improving the system and mechanism for maintaining the unity of the national rule of law mainly includes the following goals:

Upholding the authority of the Constitution. The Constitution is the fundamental law of the country and the general charter for governing the country and ensuring its stability. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Whether the authority of the rule of law can be established depends first and foremost on whether the Constitution has authority" "The Constitution should be taken as the fundamental code of conduct, and a scientific, effective, systematic and complete system should be used to ensure the implementation of the Constitution, strengthen constitutional supervision, promote the spirit of the Constitution, and effectively safeguard the authority and dignity of the Constitution." It is necessary to strengthen the implementation and supervision of the Constitution, improve the system to ensure the comprehensive implementation of the Constitution, and constantly improve the system and mechanism for maintaining the authority of the Constitution.

Implementing the principle of equal treatment. "Private economic organizations enjoy equal legal status, market opportunities and development rights with other types of economic organizations" is a basic right granted to private economic organizations and other types of economic organizations by law. It is necessary to resolutely implement the Law on Promoting the Private Economy, unswervingly consolidate and develop the public sector of the economy, unswervingly encourage, support, and guide the development of the non-public sector of the economy, ensure that all types of ownership economies use production factors equally in accordance with the law, participate in market competition fairly, and receive equal legal protection, and constantly improve the legal rules and institutional mechanisms to ensure the equal status of all types of ownership economies.

Improving the fair competition mechanism. Fair competition is the basic principle of a market economy. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "It is necessary to improve the fair competition system, oppose local protection and administrative monopoly, and open up more space for private enterprises" "Ensure that foreign-funded enterprises in China enjoy the same national treatment and maintain fair market competition." It is necessary to strengthen anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition, break down local protection and administrative monopoly, strengthen the rigid constraints of fair competition review, strengthen anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition, clean up and abolish various regulations and practices that hinder the unified national market and fair competition, and constantly improve and guarantee the legal rules and institutional mechanisms for fair competition among business entities.

At present, some regions and some fields have varying degrees of problems that affect the unity of the national rule of law, which to a certain extent restricts the construction of a unified national market. From the legislative level, the legislation of individual regions or departments has places that do not conform to the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the major reform directions of the country, such as disguised implementation of market segmentation, designated transactions, discrimination against foreign-funded and foreign enterprises, narrowing the scope of prohibition of higher-level laws, relaxing supervision, violating the Administrative Licensing Law, adding or disguisedly adding administrative licenses, violating the Administrative Penalty Law, changing the penalty provisions of higher-level laws, violating the Administrative Compulsory Law, adding or disguisedly adding administrative compulsory measures, violating statutory authorization, illegally changing the level of administrative management matters, etc., thus forming various "glass doors," "revolving doors," and "spring doors," solidifying the market structure; from the perspective of law enforcement and justice, the phenomenon of "different penalties for the same case" in the field of administrative law enforcement and "different judgments for the same case" in the field of justice still exists to varying degrees, and phenomena such as illegal law enforcement and justice in different places, profit-seeking law enforcement and justice, and difficulty in enforcement still need to be eliminated from the source. Therefore, improving the system and mechanism for maintaining the unity of the national rule of law should cover the entire process of creation, implementation, supervision, and guarantee of the rule of law, coordinate domestic rule of law and foreign-related rule of law, especially from improving the unity of the legal norm system and the unity of the rule of law implementation system, continuously exert efforts and achieve long-term success, and accelerate the formation of a complete and unified legal norm system, rule of law implementation system, rule of law supervision system, and rule of law guarantee system, so as to provide a solid and powerful basic institutional guarantee for the construction of a unified national market.

Improve and strengthen the record review system to maintain the unity of the legal norm system.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "It is necessary to strengthen the Party's centralized and unified leadership over legislative work, improve the legislative work pattern of Party leadership, people's congress dominance, government reliance, and multi-party participation" "Legislative bodies and working departments at all levels should follow legislative procedures, strictly abide by legislative powers, effectively avoid ultra vires legislation, repetitive legislation, and blind legislation, and effectively prevent the influence of departmental interests and local protectionism" "Improve and strengthen the record review system." The unity of the legal norm system is the prerequisite and foundation for the unity of the rule of law implementation, supervision, and guarantee system, and it is also an inherent requirement for accelerating the construction of a unified national market and ensuring a high-level socialist market economy with a high-level socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics.

At present, with the continuous improvement and perfection of the socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics, the system and mechanism for maintaining the unity of the legal norm system are becoming increasingly sound and mature, including the legislative planning mechanism, the codification mechanism, etc. According to the needs of the construction of a unified national market, strengthen legislative planning and promote the unity of the rule of law in a step-by-step manner. The record review system, as an important element of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on the rule of law, is a constitutional implementation supervision system with distinctive Chinese characteristics and a "ballast stone" for maintaining the unity of the national rule of law. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) clearly proposed to "improve and strengthen the record review system," the "Decision" of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee proposed to "improve the constitutional review and record review system," and the "Proposals" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee further emphasized "comprehensively implement the record review of administrative normative documents" from the perspective of strengthening the construction of a rule of law government. At present, in terms of system, China has formed a normative document record review system in which the Party committee, the People's Congress, the government, the military, and other systems are responsible for their respective tasks and are interconnected; in practice, significant results have been achieved in correcting the impact of local and departmental protectionism legislation on the construction of a unified national market through record review. For example, in 2024, the record review agency of the State Council reviewed and corrected the relevant provisions of a city's salt industry management penalty regulations that did not meet the requirements of the "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Accelerating the Construction of a Unified National Market," and reviewed and handled a number of cases in a province's urban public transport management regulations that did not meet the requirements of the "Guiding Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Deepening the Reform and Promoting the Healthy Development of the Taxi Industry," which produced a positive demonstration effect. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the construction of the record review system should focus on improving and strengthening the following aspects:

Adhere to the unity of political and legal nature. Record review is not only a legal work with a strong political nature, but also a political work with a strong legal nature. It is necessary to strengthen the Party's leadership over the record review work, plan and promote the record review work from the political height of ensuring the smooth flow of the Party Central Committee's orders and the overall situation of the country, and effectively enhance the consistency of macroeconomic policy orientation and fit the expected management mechanism. It is necessary to adhere to the criteria of legality and rationality review, and strictly adhere to the two review standards of political nature (whether it conforms to the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the major reform directions of the country) and purposiveness (whether the prescribed measures conform to the legislative purpose and the actual situation), and timely discover and correct deviations or errors in local and departmental legislation that are inconsistent with the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee or inconsistent with the major reform directions of the country, so as to ensure that "whatever the Party Central Committee has decided must be resolutely implemented, and there must be no ambiguity, procrastination, or discount," and ensure that the implementation of the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments by departments and local legislation does not deviate, does not change, does not step on the "red line," and does not cross the "bottom line."

Strengthen the special review of the construction of a unified national market. Focus on problems that affect the construction of a unified national market and damage the business environment, strengthen the special record review of laws and regulations in key areas such as property rights protection, market access, and fair competition, move from correcting one area and one item to governing the entire area and the overall situation, and focus on breaking down local protection and market segmentation, and breaking down various closed small markets and self-small cycles. In particular, it is necessary to regulate local investment promotion system rules, strictly prohibit illegal and irregular policy preferential behaviors such as financial rewards, tax rebates, and land transfers, and prevent involutionary vicious competition.

Strengthen the rigid constraints of fair competition review. In response to the problem that individual regions and departments package regional barrier policies into legal norms in the process of formulating normative documents, the fair competition review mechanism should be highlighted when reviewing the record of normative documents involving business entities, accurately identify and clean up provisions containing market access restrictions, entity obligation additions, or differential treatment settings, in particular, it is necessary to strictly implement the "one national list" management model, and strictly prohibit various regions and departments from independently issuing negative lists with market access nature.

Explore and promote constitutional review in record review. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "It is necessary to improve the constitutional supervision system, promote the standardization and proceduralization of constitutional supervision, improve the ability and quality of constitutional review and record review, and promote constitutional review work" "The record review work of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, of course, includes reviewing whether the relevant normative documents contain content that does not conform to the Constitution or the spirit of the Constitution, and it is necessary to strengthen and improve this aspect of the work." For example, the basic guideline and policy of "two unswervingly" has been incorporated into the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and the Constitution and the Party Constitution have clear manifestations. It can be considered to take this as an exploration entry point, give full play to the pioneering role of record review work, steadily promote constitutional review work in record review, gradually improve the constitutional review mechanism, and actively respond to the concerns of all sectors of society, especially business entities, on issues such as equal protection of various ownership economies, so as to lay the foundation for building a high-level socialist market economic system and improving the system to ensure the comprehensive implementation of the Constitution.

Improve the law enforcement and judicial mechanism and maintain the unity of the rule of law implementation system.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The vitality of the law lies in its implementation, and the authority of the law also lies in its implementation." The unity of the rule of law implementation system is the core of the unity of the national rule of law. To improve the system and mechanism for maintaining the unity of the national rule of law implementation and ensure the construction of a unified national market, we must take "strict, standardized, fair and civilized law enforcement" and "strict and impartial justice" as the guidance, continue to improve the unified and efficient law enforcement and judicial system for market-related dispute cases, improve the unified and standardized law enforcement and judicial mechanism for business entities, protect the legitimate rights and interests of various business entities equally in accordance with the law, promote fair competition among various business entities, and let business entities feel fairness and justice in every law enforcement decision and every judicial case.

In the field of law enforcement, improve the administrative discretion benchmark system to solve the problem of "different punishments for the same case" in administrative law enforcement and promote the unity of administrative law enforcement order. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "It is necessary to accelerate the improvement of the administrative discretion benchmark system in the field of administrative penalties." In combination with the actual situation of administrative management, the principled provisions in laws, regulations, and rules or the content with certain flexible law enforcement powers and discretion ranges should be refined and quantified according to the different facts and circumstances involved in the discretion; the setting of administrative discretion benchmarks should be based on laws, regulations, and rules, in particular, it is necessary to strictly follow the legal principles that the government's power "cannot be exercised without authorization by law" and the business entity's "can be exercised unless prohibited by law," and without legal, regulatory, or rule basis, the obligations of administrative counterparts shall not be arbitrarily increased or the rights and interests of administrative counterparts shall not be reduced; establish and improve the administrative discretion benchmark system, clarify the boundaries and procedures of administrative discretion, and effectively unify and standardize administrative penalties, administrative licenses, administrative collection, administrative requisition, administrative confirmation, administrative payment, administrative enforcement, administrative inspection and other administrative law enforcement behaviors involving business entities, resolutely eliminate opportunistic law enforcement, selective law enforcement, and differentiated law enforcement, and promote strict, standardized, fair and civilized law enforcement.
In the field of law enforcement, improve the benchmark system for administrative discretion, solve the problem of "**同案不同处**" (tóng àn bù tóng chǔ - "same case, different treatment," inconsistent application of the law) in administrative law enforcement, and promote the unity of administrative law enforcement order. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "We must accelerate the improvement of the benchmark system for administrative discretion in areas such as administrative penalties." In conjunction with the reality of administrative management, the principled provisions in laws, regulations, and rules, or the enforcement authority and discretionary range with certain flexibility, should be refined and quantified according to the different facts and circumstances involved in the discretion; the setting of administrative discretion benchmarks should be based on laws and regulations, especially strictly following the legal principles that the government's power "cannot be exercised without legal authorization" and the business entity's "can be done unless prohibited by law." Without legal, regulatory, or rule basis, the obligations of administrative counterparts shall not be arbitrarily increased or the rights and interests of administrative counterparts reduced; establish and improve the benchmark system for administrative discretion, clarify the boundaries and procedures of administrative discretion, and effectively unify and standardize administrative law enforcement behaviors involving business entities such as administrative penalties, administrative licenses, administrative collection, administrative requisition, administrative confirmation, administrative payment, administrative enforcement, and administrative inspection, resolutely eliminate opportunistic law enforcement, selective law enforcement, and differentiated law enforcement, and promote strict, standardized, fair, and civilized law enforcement.

In the judicial field, improve the unified legal application mechanism to solve the problem of "**同案不同判**" (tóng àn bù tóng pàn - "same case, different judgment," inconsistent verdicts in similar cases) in the judiciary, and promote the unity of judicial order. At present, the phenomenon of "same case, different judgment" appearing to a certain extent and within a certain range has become a tough "**硬骨头**" (yìng gǔ tou - "hard bone," a difficult problem) in the reform of the judicial responsibility system. As early as 2014, the "Decision" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee regarded "unifying the standards for the application of law" as an important task for promoting strict justice. The Third Meeting of the Central Comprehensive Law-Based Governance Commission held in February 2020 adopted the "Opinions on Deepening the Comprehensive Supporting Reform of the Judicial Responsibility System," which further clarified "improving the unified legal application mechanism." Improving the unified legal application mechanism is a systematic project, and the construction of a unified legal application working mechanism should be integrated into the entire process of trial and prosecutorial work, and continuous efforts should be made in all aspects from improving the normative system, improving the divergence resolution mechanism, strengthening business management and supervision, strengthening team building, and exploring technological empowerment. In particular, it is necessary to improve the system of judicial interpretations, guiding cases, and guiding documents, promote the mandatory retrieval system for similar and related cases, improve the platform for guiding judgment rules, establish a legal application divergence resolution mechanism, improve the working mechanism of the adjudication committee and the procuratorial committee, promote the construction of a digital platform for political and legal work, promote the uniformity of judicial standards, standardize the operation of judicial power, improve the realization and evaluation mechanism of judicial justice, and improve the fairness, stability, and authority of the judiciary.

Building a unified national market and constructing a high-level socialist market economic system is both an "**攻坚战**" (gōng jiān zhàn - "battle of attrition," a difficult and protracted battle) and a "**持久战**" (chí jiǔ zhàn - "protracted war," a long-term struggle). It is necessary to carry forward the spirit of historical initiative, scientifically grasp the steps and progress of market size, structure, organization, space, environment, and mechanism construction, comprehensively improve the institutional mechanism for maintaining national legal unity, and enhance the ability to maintain market unity and economic security in a complex environment where strategic opportunities and risks and challenges coexist and uncertain and unpredictable factors increase, so as to shape and guarantee the unity of the national unified market with the unity of national rule of law. For example, in response to the problems of illegal law enforcement and judicial practices in different places and profit-seeking law enforcement and judicial practices, it is necessary to continue to carry out special rectification activities involving enterprises, and at the same time adapt to the changes in the economic and social life structure, promote the cross-regional connection of administrative law enforcement standards, encourage the joint issuance of unified regulatory policies, regulations, and standards by administrative regions in accordance with regulations, reform the judicial jurisdiction system, improve the regional jurisdiction conflict resolution mechanism, eliminate the local interests of law enforcement and judicial tools from the source, and continuously improve the uniformity of legal norms and the coordination of law enforcement, so as to guarantee the construction of a unified national market with a sound national legal unity system mechanism.

(The author is the President of the Hangzhou Intellectuals Friendship Association (杭州市知识分子联谊会).)

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Honing Basic Service Skills, Winning Genuine Affection from the People (Ideological Perspectives)

By: 汪 洋

The foundation and source of strength for the Party's governance lie at the grassroots level. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in the report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China that it is important to enhance the ability of cadres to "serve the people." For grassroots Party members and cadres, starting a career is often not about accomplishing earth-shattering "major projects," but more about improving the satisfaction and happiness of the people by doing seemingly ordinary "small projects." Grassroots Party members and cadres should care about the grassroots and the people, and develop "basic skills" such as keen insight and the ability to work with the masses, to win the "true feelings" of the people.

Serving the grassroots and benefiting the people is reflected in the "micro-governance" and "micro-services" of every stitch and thread, firewood, rice, oil, and salt. In the eyes of the common people, cadres with mud on their feet and dew on their heads are particularly kind. Huang Wenxiu (黄文秀), the "Role Model of the Times," visited registered impoverished households as soon as she arrived in Baini Village (百坭村), Leye County (乐业县), Guangxi (广西). At first, the impoverished households would not let her into their homes. If she failed once, she would go twice or three times. If the impoverished households were not at home, she would go to the fields, helping them with farm work while chatting. In about two months, Huang Wenxiu (黄文秀) drew a detailed "map of public sentiment." The villagers gradually accepted her and affectionately called her Secretary Wenxiu (文秀书记). For Party members and cadres to do a good job in grassroots affairs and the affairs of the people, the most important thing is to put down airs and roll up their sleeves. They should not sit on the stage "teaching people how to do things" or "reading from the book" in the conference room, but should sit on a bench with the masses to chat, and plunge into the fields to work with the masses, so as to narrow the distance with the masses, gain the recognition of the masses, and find a breakthrough in their work.

Finding out what the masses are worried about and what they need, and doing everything possible to solve the most concerning, most direct, and most realistic problems of interest to the masses, is the "golden key" to doing a good job at the grassroots level. The yield of large planters' greenhouses is not high, the survival rate of aquaculture is too low, and agricultural products cannot be sold and rot in the ground... These "key small things" of the common people are the "top priority things" of grassroots Party members and cadres. To solve the urgent needs and anxieties of the masses, it is necessary to understand the situation of each household, and never engage in "face-saving projects" or "image projects" that are divorced from the needs of the masses. Measures should be taken according to the circumstances of each household and each person, and practical measures should be taken. For problems that cannot be solved for a while, do not make "empty promises" to avoid them, or "deal with them in writing" to cover them up. The progress of promoting the work, the existing difficulties, and the next steps should be "revealed" in a realistic manner, so as to exchange sincerity for sincerity and win trust with practical work.

To engage in grassroots work, professional ability is needed to do practical things and good things. On the one hand, "professionalism" is reflected in knowledge reserves and thinking ability. Grassroots Party members and cadres often face various complex problems and emergencies. Only with rich knowledge reserves and scientific thinking ability can they quickly analyze and properly handle them. Rich knowledge reserves can also provide support for learning and applying new technologies and new models, and find more good ways to solve problems for the masses.

On the other hand, "professionalism" is reflected in the ability to work with the masses, and an important part of this is the ability to talk to the masses. It is necessary to be good at speaking "Mandarin." The publicity and interpretation of the Party's theories and policies should be accurate and in place to ensure that the direction of work is clear and the ideas are clear. It is necessary to speak "local dialects" well. There is a story in Zhao Nanxing's (赵南星) "Laughing Praises" of the Ming Dynasty (明朝) called "The Scholar Buying Firewood." The scholar asked, "What is the price?" The firewood seller told him the price. The scholar then said, "The outside is solid but the inside is empty, there is a lot of smoke but little flame, please reduce the price." The firewood seller did not understand the scholar's words and left with the firewood. This story is worth pondering. When dealing with the common people, the most taboo is to speak in an official tone, sing high-sounding tunes, or show off one's learning. This will not only fail to communicate effectively, but will also arouse the resentment of the masses. Grassroots cadres should say more down-to-earth, lively, and relatable words, and transform "written policies" into "local-flavored claptrap" so that the common people can understand them and understand them as soon as they hear them. It is also necessary to chat about "heart-to-heart words." Persist in going to villages and households to listen to the masses' "complaints" and "sincere words" about rural governance, industrial development, employment and income increase, etc., and do a good job in policy publicity and explanation in in-depth exchanges with the masses, become "one of their own" in the hearts of the masses, and always maintain the flesh-and-blood ties between the Party and the people.

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Deepen cross-strait cultural exchange and cooperation, jointly inherit and promote Chinese culture.

By: 王鸿铭

The towering tree must have its roots; the river embracing the mountain must have its source. Culture is the root of a nation, and the long-standing Chinese culture is the common "root" and "source" of compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in the report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China: "We will promote the joint promotion of Chinese culture by the two sides of the Strait and promote the spiritual harmony of compatriots on both sides of the Strait." The "Suggestions" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China emphasized: "Deepen cross-Strait exchanges and cooperation, and jointly inherit and promote Chinese culture." At present, cross-Strait relations are at a new historical window. Deepening cultural exchanges and cooperation and jointly inheriting and promoting Chinese culture are not only the common aspiration of compatriots on both sides of the Strait and the fundamental interests of the Chinese nation, but also the only way and deep-seated driving force for consolidating the foundation for peaceful development of cross-Strait relations and promoting the spiritual harmony of compatriots on both sides of the Strait.

The mainland and Taiwan are a community with the same Chinese civilization that has continued for more than 5,000 years without interruption. This is the deepest, most lasting, and most solid connection between the two sides of the Strait. The cultural genes on both sides of the Strait are the same. Archeology proves that the indigenous people of Taiwan migrated from the mainland. Since the Ming (明) and Qing (清) dynasties, a large number of mainland residents have crossed the sea to Taiwan, bringing not only advanced production technologies, but also mainland ideology, culture, customs, and habits to Taiwan. The Southern Fujian music and Hakka mountain songs that can be heard in Taiwan, the Mazu Temples (妈祖庙) and Guandi Temples (关帝庙) all over the island, and the Confucius (孔子) and Zhu Xi (朱熹) commonly respected by both sides of the Strait, all clearly show that the mother of Taiwanese culture is Chinese culture, and Taiwanese culture is a distinctive regional culture formed by Chinese culture on the island. The languages and characters on both sides of the Strait have commonality. Language and characters are the most basic carriers and the most important symbols of culture. Chinese characters are the great creation of the Chinese nation and a testament to the continuous inheritance of Chinese civilization. Taiwan generally uses Mandarin (Guoyu/国语), and the main dialects are Southern Fujian dialect and Hakka dialect, and their writing systems are all centered on Chinese characters. This status quo of "writing with the same characters" is a cultural fact that no force can sever, and provides the most convenient bridge for cross-Strait cultural exchanges. The values on both sides of the Strait are consistent. The ideological concepts of "benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trustworthiness," the national sentiment of "everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world," and the life ideals of "cultivating oneself, managing one's family, governing the country, and pacifying the world," have long been internalized into moral norms and codes of conduct commonly followed by both sides of the Strait. This deep-seated value identity is the most solid foundation for transcending differences in political systems and maintaining national sentiment.

In recent years, the "Taiwan independence" separatist forces on the island, with the "Taiwan independence historical view" as the core, have promoted the "de-Sinicization" policy, intending to sever the historical connection and spiritual ties between the two sides of the Strait. The most powerful countermeasure to this is to deepen cross-Strait cultural exchanges and cooperation, systematically and deeply present the inseparable historical origins and cultural connections between the two sides of the Strait, and shape the correct historical view, national view, and national view of Taiwanese society. Speaking with facts and moving people with emotions can promote Taiwanese compatriots, especially the younger generation, to recognize their own cultural roots and consciously resist the erosion of "cultural Taiwan independence." This is an effective way to enhance understanding and mutual trust. Due to special historical conditions, there are certain differences in ideology and culture between compatriots on both sides of the Strait. Cultural exchange, with its flexibility, persistence, and permeability, can cross political barriers and reach people's hearts directly. Compatriots on both sides of the Strait eliminate misunderstandings and build trust in the common cultural experience. This spiritual harmony based on cultural identity is the emotional cornerstone for building a cross-Strait community of common destiny. This also brings opportunities for creating cultural prosperity in the era. The mainland has a profound historical and cultural heritage, a huge cultural market, and a sound industrial system. Taiwan has accumulated rich experience in cultural and creative design, community building, and modern expression of traditional culture. The two sides complement each other's advantages and jointly explore the contemporary value of Chinese culture, which can promote the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese culture in the collision of world civilizations and better move towards the world.

To deepen cross-Strait cultural exchanges and cooperation, people with lofty ideals need to work together to open up new channels for exchanges, innovate new models of cooperation, and build a new pattern of multi-dimensional, multi-level, and multi-field cross-Strait cultural exchanges. First, deepen historical and cultural research and educational exchange and cooperation. We should encourage and support academic institutions, universities, and experts and scholars on both sides of the Strait to carry out joint research and cooperative writing activities on historical and cultural issues of common concern. We must pay special attention to the historical education of young people on both sides of the Strait, and use methods such as jointly compiling supplementary reading materials, holding summer schools, and carrying out historical research to enable the younger generation to form correct ideological concepts in common learning and discussion. Second, promote literary and artistic exchanges and collaborative innovation in the cultural industry. We should continue to vigorously promote exchanges and mutual learning in various art categories between the two sides of the Strait, and encourage artists from both sides to jointly collect folk songs, jointly create, and cooperate in performances. We should attach importance to the influence of film and television works and shoot more film and television masterpieces that reflect the true feelings of compatriots on both sides of the Strait and show the charm of Chinese culture. Promote in-depth cooperation between the two sides of the Strait in the development of cultural and creative products and the production of digital content, transform resource advantages into industrial competitiveness, and achieve the unity of social and economic benefits. Third, promote people-to-people exchanges and community exchanges. Give play to the role of Mazu (妈祖) and other folk beliefs as spiritual ties, carry out folk belief exchange activities, and connect local feelings. Encourage grassroots communities on both sides of the Strait to carry out diverse forms of exchange activities and share experiences in community governance, cultural inheritance, and ecological protection. Improve cross-Strait marriage and family services so that they can play a unique role in maintaining emotional ties and spreading culture. Fourth, strengthen youth exchanges and talent training. Innovate forms of exchange, hold summer camps, innovation and entrepreneurship competitions, and other activities to build a platform for exchanges between young people on both sides of the Strait. Provide Taiwanese compatriots with more opportunities to study, intern, and work on the mainland, so that young people on both sides of the Strait can build friendships and build consensus in common study and life. Focus on cultivating specialized talents dedicated to cross-Strait cultural exchanges, provide them with policy support and room for growth, and ensure that the cause of cross-Strait exchanges is passed on from generation to generation. Fifth, build a new pattern of cultural exchanges in the digital age. We should jointly promote the construction of a cross-Strait digital cultural resource database, and digitally preserve and share documents, cultural relics, and intangible cultural heritage projects. Use social media, online live broadcasts, virtual reality, augmented reality, and other technologies to break through the limitations of time and space, create online cultural spaces, and allow compatriots on both sides of the Strait to conveniently share excellent cultural achievements.

(Author's affiliation: School of Politics and Public Administration, China University of Political Science and Law (中国政法大学))

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Ensuring Every Law Enforcement Action is Supervised and Evaluated (Focus on the Rule of Law)

By: 本报记者 张天培

On November 17, the Ministry of Public Security (公安部) held a special press conference in Beijing (北京) to report on the measures and achievements of public security organs in continuously deepening the construction of law enforcement standardization.

Hao Yunhong (郝云宏), Director of the Legal Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security (公安部法制局), introduced that the Ministry of Public Security (公安部) has deployed public security organs across the country to unremittingly carry out the construction of law enforcement standardization. Since November 2020, following the changes in the situation and tasks, the Ministry of Public Security (公安部) has actively promoted the formulation and revision of 23 laws, including the Law on Penalties for Administration of Public Security, the Anti-Organized Crime Law, and the Anti-Telecommunications and Online Fraud Law, and 19 administrative regulations, such as the Regulations on the Management of Public Security Video Image Information Systems, providing strong legal support for public security law enforcement work. At the same time, public security organs across the country have continuously improved the law enforcement system, striving to ensure that every law enforcement activity has laws to abide by and rules to follow.

Strengthen Source Control

In 2024, the rates of non-arrest and non-prosecution by national procuratorial organs both decreased by approximately 6% year-on-year.

In recent years, in order to strengthen the source control of law enforcement, public security organs have continued to deepen the reform of the case acceptance and filing system to ensure that the people's reports are "accepted without fail, accepted if they should be, and filed when they should be."

According to reports, public security organs in various regions have standardized the case acceptance and reporting procedures. For cases reported by the public in person, they immediately register the case, accept evidence materials, issue a receipt for the case report, and inform them of the methods and channels for inquiring about the progress of the case, realizing the registration and management of all types of police situations online.

In addition, public security organs have strengthened the construction of case acceptance and reporting venues. Many places have built case acceptance and reporting centers to centrally accept case reports from the public and manage all cases under a unified system. Among them, all 120 county-level public security organs in Guangxi (广西) have established case acceptance and reporting centers, and the problem of overdue case filing for criminal cases in 2024 has decreased by 20.4% year-on-year. Some local public security organs use information technology to empower case acceptance and reporting work. Among them, public security organs in Liaoning (辽宁), Jilin (吉林), Zhejiang (浙江), and other places have explored and promoted "reporting cases via QR code." The public can quickly complete the entire reporting process by scanning an exclusive QR code on their mobile phones.

It is understood that in 2024, the national procuratorial organs' supervision of case filing decreased by 71% year-on-year; the rates of non-arrest and non-prosecution both decreased by approximately 6% year-on-year.

Promote One-Stop Case Handling

3,266 law enforcement and case handling management centers have been built nationwide, achieving full coverage at the city and county levels.

Currently, 3,266 law enforcement and case handling management centers have been built nationwide, achieving full coverage at the city and county levels, promoting the "integrated" operation mechanism of law enforcement and case handling, supervision and management, and service guarantee, which has greatly improved the level of law enforcement standardization and effectively improved the quality and efficiency of law enforcement and the level of human rights protection.

In the law enforcement and case handling management centers in various places, you can see scientifically set functional areas. Various police resources and forces converge here, realizing the standardized and efficient conduct of various links such as review and interrogation, case review, and property custody, which not only ensures law enforcement safety but also improves the quality and efficiency of case handling.

The centers strictly implement the requirements for full audio and video recording of interrogations of suspects, legal review of cases, and statutory case handling time limits. Since their construction and application, major law enforcement safety accidents have generally been "zero occurrence" in various places, and case handling efficiency in Jiangsu (江苏), Chongqing (重庆), and other places has increased by more than 30%.

Based on one-stop case handling, the centers also set up medical examination, postal express, injury assessment, and juvenile protection functions to provide various auxiliary services for case-handling police and case parties in a timely manner.

Full Traceability of Law Enforcement

More than 1.3 million law enforcement recorders make police officers accustomed to enforcing the law under the lens.

Currently, public security organs across the country have equipped front-line police officers with more than 1.3 million law enforcement recorders, recording the entire process on-site, making police officers accustomed to enforcing the law under the lens and consciously performing their duties in accordance with the law.

"Public security organs record all fields and links of law enforcement and case handling from case acceptance to case closure. All police situation and case information is entered into the law enforcement and case handling information system, forming a full-process traceability management of law enforcement activities, promoting problems from 'post-event rectification' to 'pre-event prevention'," introduced Chen Min (陈敏), Deputy Director of the Legal Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security (公安部法制局). When carrying out on-site law enforcement activities such as handling police situations, on-the-spot punishment, and on-site investigation, police officers must wear law enforcement recorders in a standardized manner and record the entire process with audio and video; when conducting interrogations, they must strictly implement the simultaneous audio and video recording system for interrogating criminal suspects to constrain police officers to interrogate and collect evidence in accordance with the law and protect the legitimate rights of criminal suspects.

The constantly lit law enforcement lens not only becomes a "black box" that accurately records and restores on-site law enforcement activities, but also places the handling of each law enforcement link and each police situation case under the "spotlight" of standardized law enforcement requirements, allowing each law enforcement behavior to be supervised and judged, effectively guaranteeing the public's right to know, participate, and supervise.

In addition, in recent years, public security organs have continuously strengthened the management of involved property, achieving separation of case handling and management, clear sources and destinations, timely disposal in accordance with the law, and comprehensive acceptance of supervision, effectively guaranteeing the case handling work of public security organs and also effectively safeguarding the legitimate property rights of the parties involved in the case.

(Wu Shuo (吴硕) participated in the writing)

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Standardize the Management of Involved Property -

Xiamen (厦门) Public Security Creates "Involved Property Safe Deposit Box"

How to preserve and dispose of involved property in order to ensure standardized operation and minimize the devaluation of property, reducing the impact on the rights and interests of victims? This issue once plagued case-handling agencies.

In order to solve this problem, the Xiamen (厦门) Public Security Bureau of Fujian Province (福建省) joined forces with the Municipal Finance Bureau, the Procuratorate, the Court, and other units to create a cross-departmental involved property management center that "combines online and offline, enterprise and government cooperation, system integration, and departmental interconnection and sharing," realizing "centralized management of items, online flow of information, and intensive disposal by the center."

From the moment the involved property is legally seized, it enters this "involved property safe deposit box," and every step of the operation is traceable and verifiable, and its value is preserved to the greatest extent possible.

Chen Zhongyi (陈仲怡), a police officer from the Legal Affairs Detachment of the Xiamen (厦门) Public Security Bureau, introduced that, taking involved vehicles as an example, in the past, due to objective limitations, involved vehicles might face problems such as open-air parking, lack of professional maintenance, and decentralized management, which easily led to vehicle damage, which not only affected judicial justice but also damaged the rights and interests of victims.

Now, in the involved property management center, the case-handling agency classifies the involved vehicles and standardizes the pre-trial prior disposal process. "The case-handling unit does not need to consider transportation, storage, management, evaluation, auction, destruction, and other issues. It only needs to click on the instructions through the online platform, and a third party will provide door-to-door pickup, logistics and transportation, intensive disposal, and other services," said Chen Zhongyi (陈仲怡).

In addition, the center sets up an "electronic ID card" for all stored involved property. Each involved property has a corresponding QR code, and scanning the code can track its whereabouts throughout the entire process.

Since the center's operation, the management and disposal of involved property in criminal and administrative cases have been "zero errors," achieving "two improvements" in case-handling efficiency and law enforcement standardization, and "two decreases" in law enforcement risks and administrative costs. As of now, the center has stored, transferred, and disposed of more than 1.7 million pieces of involved property, and has standardizedly disposed of 1.2 million pieces through auction, sale, return, destruction, etc., effectively saving 150,000 hours of case-handling time and 120 million yuan in administrative costs.

(Interview and compilation by Zhang Tianpei (张天培), reporter of this newspaper)

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Upholding the Vision of a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind and Jointly Promoting New Development in the Global Women's Cause

By: 陆海娜

In 1995, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing (北京), set a milestone for the development of women's causes worldwide. The lofty goal of "equality, development and peace through action" still resonates today. At present, changes in the world, changes of the times, and historical changes are unfolding in unprecedented ways. While the global women's cause is facing new opportunities, it is also facing severe challenges brought about by geopolitical conflicts, climate change, and the digital divide. Against this backdrop, China provides enlightening Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions for solving global gender equality problems and improving global governance of women's rights.

Global Picture: Achievements and Challenges Coexist, and the Global Governance System Faces a Gender Equality Deficit

Looking back over the past 30 years, the global women's cause has made undeniable progress amid difficulties and twists and turns, and has achieved many advances. However, we must face the reality that deep-rooted structural inequality remains a huge obstacle on the road to equality.

The "implementation gap" between law and practice remains wide globally. Although many countries have established the principle of equality in legal texts, the channels for judicial remedies are not smooth, resources for law enforcement are scarce, and traditional customs and prejudices are stubborn, making it difficult to transform legal rights into real rights. The problem of intersectional discrimination is becoming increasingly prominent, with poverty, race, immigration status, age, disability and other factors intertwined with gender discrimination.

At the same time, the global governance system has exposed obvious "deficits" in promoting gender equality. On the one hand, the old governance model often falls into the predicament of 承诺多于行动 (chéng nuò duō yú xíng dòng - "more promises than actions," making many promises but taking little action), and international consensus is difficult to translate into sustained and effective policy inputs and financial support in various countries. On the other hand, the existing global governance rules are seriously insufficient, slow to respond and fragmented to new challenges such as gender bias in artificial intelligence algorithms, online gender violence in the digital field, and the differentiated impact of climate change on women's survival and development. As the most representative multilateral global governance mechanism, the United Nations is currently facing a series of severe challenges, including the fragmentation of mechanisms caused by the frequent "withdrawal from groups" by individual major countries, a persistent budget shortage crisis, and a decline in the international community's trust in its effectiveness and representativeness. These challenges not only erode the foundation of multilateral cooperation, but also affect the effectiveness of the United Nations in promoting gender equality. These governance deficits call for new ideas and paths to promote the global women's cause towards a more fair, just and inclusive future.

Chinese Practice: A Three-Dimensional Guarantee System of Rule of Law, Policy-Driven, and Social Collaboration

As the host country of the Fourth World Conference on Women of the United Nations in 1995 and a signatory to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, China has established gender equality as a basic national policy and integrated it into the process of national governance modernization. After 30 years of exploration, China has provided practical experience with important reference significance for the global gender equality cause.

The legal guarantee system has achieved a historic leap. China's revised Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests in 2022 has completed a profound upgrade of concepts and institutional innovation. The law stipulates prohibited acts that employers must not implement in the recruitment process, significantly strengthens the main responsibility of employers in preventing and controlling sexual harassment, and clarifies the public interest litigation system for women's rights and interests. The personal safety protection order system established by the Anti-Domestic Violence Law passed in 2015 builds a solid "legal isolation wall" for victims of domestic violence through simple and rapid judicial procedures.

The national mechanism plays a strong top-level design role. The "China Women's Development Program (2021-2030)" sets 75 main goals and 93 strategic measures in eight fields: health, education, economy, participation in decision-making and management, social security, family building, environment, and law. The program clearly sets mandatory indicators such as "the proportion of women among members of village committees reaches more than 30%" and "the proportion of women among directors of village committees is gradually increased" as goals, and ensures implementation through a strict monitoring and evaluation mechanism.

Policies focus on precise empowerment and burden reduction. China has used a series of precise policy tools to help women, especially rural women, start businesses. The "Rural Revitalization Women's Action" has been implemented in depth, and a large number of "Women's Modern Agricultural Science and Technology Demonstration Bases" have been cultivated. In cities, women's federations at all levels, in conjunction with human resources and social security departments, provide incubators, mentor groups and resource docking platforms for female college students and entrepreneurial women. In terms of burden reduction, the special additional deduction standard for individual income tax for infant care under the age of 3 has been increased, and the parental shared parental leave promoted in many places encourages the sharing of childcare responsibilities within the family and supports them in balancing work and family.

Equal participation in whole-process people's democracy. The proportion of female representatives in the National People's Congress has been increasing. In 2023, female representatives to the 14th National People's Congress accounted for 26.5%. The proportion of female members in the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and local committees is on the rise. In 2023, female members of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC accounted for 22.4%. In the work of re-election of villagers' committees, vigorous measures are taken to increase the proportion of women in the members of the villagers' committees. Women enjoy equal political rights, actively participate in democratic practice, and actively contribute women's strength.

The social environment and public services build a support network. The state and industries promote the construction of standardized mother and baby rooms/lactation rooms in public places and employers such as transportation hubs, shopping malls, and hospitals to provide dignity and convenience for breastfeeding women. As of the end of 2024, 403,000 trade union enterprises and institutions that have been built nationwide have established female employee rest and lactation rooms. From 2012 to 2024, the central government invested 3.01 billion yuan to rescue women suffering from diseases. From 2009 to 2024, 342 million free cervical cancer screenings and 245 million breast cancer screenings were carried out, and the maternal and child health service system continued to improve. In addition, in all aspects of social life, including education, China vigorously cultivates a social atmosphere of respecting and caring for women, eliminates all forms of discrimination against women, and truly makes the concept of gender equality a common code of conduct and value standard followed by the entire society.

Looking to the Future: Opening up Broad Roads in Joint Consultation, Joint Construction and Sharing

China's practice shows that promoting gender equality requires systematic thinking and an overall plan. This is highly consistent with the global governance concept of joint consultation, joint construction and sharing, and provides a clear path for improving global women's rights governance.

Joint consultation lays the foundation for building consensus. We should launch more inclusive and representative global dialogues under multilateral frameworks such as the United Nations. Governments and international organizations should jointly discuss and formulate fair and reasonable international rules and standards to address new challenges such as the digital gender divide, artificial intelligence ethics, and climate justice, and ensure that technological progress and green transformation benefit all women.

Joint construction broadens the path for deepening cooperation. Share China's paths and practices in women's poverty reduction and empowerment, maternal and child health, and digital capacity building with all countries, especially developing countries, and actively carry out pragmatic cooperation projects. Support the role of UN Women and other institutions, strengthen their normative support, systematic coordination and resource mobilization functions, and jointly build a more resilient and responsive global women's development cooperation network.

Sharing is the ultimate goal. We should be committed to establishing a global knowledge sharing platform for women's development, systematically sorting out, summarizing and promoting good practices in various fields in various countries. Let successful experiences be transformed into global public goods, realize the universal sharing of results, and ultimately promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind that is free from fear, free from want, and where everyone enjoys dignity and comprehensive development.

We should uphold the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, take the global governance initiative as a guide, revisit the original intention of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, and transform surging consensus into solid action. Through unwavering legal guarantees, continuous innovative policy guidance, extensive and in-depth social mobilization, and mutually beneficial and win-win international cooperation, we will surely jointly create a better future that is more equal, inclusive, and prosperous for all women and girls.

(The author is a researcher at the Beijing (北京市) Research Center for Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and director of the Human Rights Research Center of Renmin University of China (中国人民大学))

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Shanghai High People's Court Releases 2024 White Paper on Administrative Adjudication

This newspaper reported from Shanghai on November 17th (Reporter Ju Yunpeng (巨云鹏)) The Shanghai High People's Court recently announced the status of administrative trials in Shanghai courts in 2024 and released the "2024 Shanghai Administrative Trial White Paper" (hereinafter referred to as the "White Paper"), as well as typical cases of administrative trials and typical cases of substantive resolution of administrative disputes.

The White Paper shows that in 2024, Shanghai courts accepted a total of 8,406 first-instance administrative cases, an increase of 32.07% year-on-year. From the perspective of the administrative law enforcement fields involved in the cases, there were more cases involving four categories: house expropriation, public security, human resources and social security, and market supervision, totaling 5,435 cases, accounting for 64.7%. From the perspective of the appearance of heads of administrative organs in court to respond to lawsuits, the rate of appearance of heads of administrative organs in court to respond to lawsuits was 84.9%, an increase of 9.2 percentage points year-on-year.

The White Paper pointed out that Shanghai courts' administrative trials truly implement "people-centered approach" and continue to deepen the substantive resolution of administrative disputes. In 2024, 22 administrative dispute resolution centers were established in 16 districts. The coordination and resolution rate of first-instance administrative cases in Shanghai courts reached 46.4%, an increase of 8.7 percentage points year-on-year.

Regarding further in-depth promotion of the construction of a government under the rule of law, the White Paper puts forward four suggestions: focus on promoting administration according to law and continue to strengthen the construction of a government under the rule of law; focus on the prevention and resolution of administrative disputes and continue to strengthen government-court linkage; focus on the appearance of heads of administrative organs in court to respond to lawsuits and continue to deepen the effectiveness of court appearances; focus on improving administrative law enforcement capabilities and continue to strengthen team building.

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Photo Report

Quanzhou Luojiang District (泉州市洛江区), Fujian Province, is deepening the river and lake chief system, exploring collaborative management and protection mechanisms, and organizing Party member volunteers, retired veterans, and others to take the lead in participating in river and lake management and protection, striving to transform ecological achievements into people's well-being. The picture shows retired veterans patrolling the river in Luoxi Town (罗溪镇) in the district.

Photo by Huang Xinmin (黄新民) (People's Vision)

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Inner Mongolia's Ice and Snow Season: The Colder, the More Passionate

As the rime ice in Genhe (根河) begins to condense, the ice and snow sculptures in Manzhouli (满洲里) take shape, and the grasslands of Hulunbuir (呼伦贝尔) are covered in silver, the 2025-2026 Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Ice and Snow Tourism Season, themed "Sing and Tour Inner Mongolia, Happy Ice and Snow Season," kicks off as scheduled. From November 2025 to March 2026, during the five-month ice and snow season, Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) will fully promote the accelerated transformation of "cold resources" into "hot industries" through a series of customer-friendly measures, attentive services, and exciting activities, allowing the vast northern border region to radiate new vitality and vigor in winter.

Offering warmth to customers and releasing consumption dividends. This ice and snow season, Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) will put customer benefits into practice, from real money discounts to innovative consumption linkages, so that tourists can travel with peace of mind and play comfortably. Various regions will issue cultural and tourism consumption coupons, covering scenic spot tours, skiing experiences, hotel accommodations, and dining consumption scenarios. At the same time, scenic spots, ski resorts, and hotel and catering companies will be guided to launch joint ticket packages such as "skiing + hot springs" and "accommodation + cuisine" to reduce travel costs with combined discounts. Local delicacies such as milk skin candied hawthorns, Buryat dumplings, Ewenki bread, and Ergun lungs buns can not only satisfy tourists' taste buds but also add "gastronomic surprises" to the journey.

Practical services, six services to support. In response to the characteristics of winter travel, Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) has launched six services to build a full-chain warm guarantee network: at key points such as transportation hubs and scenic spot entrances, "warm service" will set up sufficient heating places and facilities; "heart-warming service" will prepare hot drinks, ginger tea and other cold-dispelling drinks for tourists, dispelling the cold with just the right temperature; "convenient service" will add sales points for cold-proof clothing, electric warmers and other cold-proof products to solve tourists' emergency needs; "smiling service" will run through the entire journey, making heartfelt friendliness a moving landscape this winter; "comprehensive guarantee" focuses on infrastructure and communication signal upgrades to ensure a smooth and unimpeded play experience; and "flexible law enforcement" will not only maintain market order but also show more inclusiveness and warmth, and strive to create a harmonious and orderly consumption environment. In addition, ice and snow venues will extend their opening hours, and ice and snow-themed night markets and cultural and creative markets will add more vitality to the cold nights.

Activities set off a heat wave, and a hundred feasts are relayed. On November 7, the ice and snow season will kick off in Genhe City (根河市), the "coldest pole of China"; from December 20 to early January 2026, the 22nd China Manzhouli (满洲里) China-Russia-Mongolia International Ice and Snow Festival will stage transnational ice and snow customs; on December 21, the highly anticipated 21st Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区) Ice and Snow Nadam Fair will grandly open, pushing the ice and snow season to a climax. During this period, all leagues and cities in the region will successively launch more than 150 unique cultural tourism activities, from ice and snow competitions and tourism performances to food and music and ice and snow crossings, with diverse forms and exciting content. At the same time, it will systematically create seven integrated brands of "traveling with competitions, solar terms, intangible cultural heritage, food, trendy play, cultural expo, and performances," and launch 45 ice and snow tourism theme routes, focusing on meeting tourists' diverse, high-quality, and personalized needs.

From the warm protection of ice and snow to the all-domain linkage of ice and snow carnival, Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) is using sincere service and warm hospitality to turn the severe cold into an unforgettable warm experience. Welcome tourists to Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) to experience "the colder, the more enthusiastic"!

Data source: Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Department of Culture and Tourism (内蒙古自治区文化和旅游厅)

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Editor in charge of this edition: Su Xianlong, Xu Leipeng, Cao Wenxuan

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City Ablaze with Energy and Vitality (National Games in Focus)

By: 本报记者 王 尧 陈 然

In the afternoon, the Ho Man Tin Sports Centre (何文田体育馆) in Kowloon City (九龙城区), Hong Kong (香港), was bustling with activity, as citizens flocked to watch the live broadcast of the games; in the evening, the exciting events at the Kai Tak Sports Park (启德体育园) came to a close, with volunteers lining up to high-five the departing spectators...

"The 15th National Games, jointly hosted by Guangdong (粤), Hong Kong (港), and Macau (澳), is not only an innovative practice in the history of the National Games but also promotes the coordinated development of the Greater Bay Area," said John Lee (李家超), Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区行政长官).

Meticulous preparation ensures the success of the games.

In the early morning, the Shenzhen Bay (深圳湾) was filled with a slight chill from the sea breeze. On November 15th, the first cross-border marathon in the history of the National Games kicked off, with athletes crossing Shenzhen (深圳) and Hong Kong (香港) with "seamless customs clearance," feeling the pulse of the integrated development of the Greater Bay Area.

To ensure the smooth running of the games, Hong Kong (香港) made thorough preparations before the event: repeatedly optimizing routes to ensure the normal operation of the city, and using technology to make "zero delay, zero contact, and zero waiting" customs clearance a reality...

In this National Games, the Hong Kong (香港) region hosted a total of 8 competition events and 1 mass event. "From venue layout and system testing to athlete reception and volunteer training, we have accumulated a lot of valuable experience," said Kevin Yeung (罗淑佩), Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government (香港特区政府文化体育及旅游局局长).

In order to implement the requirements of "simple, safe, and wonderful" games, Hong Kong (香港) made good use of existing sports facilities, allowing the urban landscape on both sides of Victoria Harbour (维多利亚港) to become the "backdrop" for the games. "The feeling of running towards the Central Ferris wheel is very special!" On November 16th, the triathlon event was completed at the Central Harbourfront (中环海滨), and the athletes rushed to take photos with the beautiful city skyline after crossing the finish line.

Hong Kong (香港) strives to provide good event services. In the equestrian events, the Hong Kong Jockey Club (香港赛马会) formed a cross-border veterinary team and implemented a cross-border temporary practice system for the first time in the National Games. Peng Jieshi (彭洁诗), Executive Manager of Mainland Veterinary Liaison Affairs at the Hong Kong Jockey Club (香港赛马会内地兽医联系事务行政经理), said that she was very honored to participate in this grand event, and the National Games venues and facilities were very complete, providing excellent conditions for athletes and horses.

Through the experience of the 15th National Games, Hong Kong (香港) has improved its comprehensive event management capabilities covering competition organization, urban coordination, and technological support. "Hong Kong (香港) is more confident in hosting large-scale international sports events in the future," said Eric Chan (陈国基), Chief Secretary for Administration of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government (香港特区政府政务司司长).

A surge of enthusiasm opens up new possibilities.

Looking from Hong Kong Island (港岛) to Kowloon (九龙), the main stadium of Kai Tak Sports Park (启德体育园) resembles a dazzling pearl. Since its opening in March this year, the main stadium of Kai Tak Sports Park (启德体育园) has welcomed over one million visitors, demonstrating the "accelerated run" of Hong Kong's (香港) sports economy.

During the 15th National Games, Kai Tak Sports Park (启德体育园) hosted 3 competition events and 1 mass event, making it one of the key venues in the Hong Kong (香港) region. The venue facilities are advanced, and the lighting, sound, lawn, and stress structure are all benchmarked against the standards of top international events.

With the hosting of major events such as the 15th National Games, the development of Hong Kong's (香港) sports industry has ushered in new opportunities. Kevin Yeung (罗淑佩) introduced that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government (香港特区政府) has been committed to promoting sports development and continues to increase investment in resources. From 2024 to 2025, Hong Kong's (香港) budgeted expenditure for sports development is approximately HK$7.9 billion, double that of 10 years ago. The 15th National Games has driven the demand for talents in sports coaching, refereeing, sports medicine, and event operations, further enhancing the professionalization and industrialization of Hong Kong (香港) sports.

Looking to the future, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government (香港特区政府) plans to take financial incentive measures to attract more international sports organizations to settle in Hong Kong (香港); the Hong Kong Tourism Board (香港旅游发展局) is also actively contacting and striving to attract more international events to be held in Hong Kong (香港).

Urban vitality is heating up, and the economic engine is roaring. During the 15th National Games, it is common to see tourists wearing event commemorative shirts on the subway and buses; popular business districts are crowded with people, and restaurants are still hard to book even during extended business hours; cultural and creative product stores have launched "15th National Games Limited Edition" souvenirs, and the staff is busy. The driving effect of the competition is significant, and the integrated development of Hong Kong's (香港) sports, culture, and tourism industries has formed a virtuous circle.

Striving for excellence, uniting national sentiment.

On the evening of November 14th, the final of the men's rugby sevens of the 15th National Games was staged passionately in the main stadium of Kai Tak Sports Park (启德体育园). When the final whistle sounded, the scoreboard was fixed at 26:19, and the Hong Kong (香港) team won the gold medal for the first time, and the whole audience instantly boiled.

This is the fourth gold medal for the Hong Kong (香港) delegation in the 15th National Games, and also the first gold medal won on home soil, adding glory to the history of Hong Kong (香港) sports.

"Full of ups and downs, so wonderful!" In the stands, Hong Kong (香港) citizen Lin Yuxi (林予曦) kept applauding, and her two children also cheered loudly. Lin Yuxi (林予曦) said: "I hope this moment will become a beautiful memory for the children, and I hope they will learn from it to strive and persevere."

Hong Kong (香港) athlete Bei Junlong (贝俊龙) won the championship in the sailing event, Stephanie Au (何诗蓓) and Ian Ho (何甄陶) won gold medals in the freestyle competition one after another, and Sarah Lee (李思颖) won the championship in the road cycling race for the second time in a row... "In this National Games, Hong Kong (香港), as one of the hosts, not only allows citizens to have more opportunities to contact different sports, but also enhances our sense of identity and pride in the construction of the Greater Bay Area, and unites national sentiment," said Mr. Chen (陈先生), a Hong Kong (香港) citizen.

Whether it is the cross-Guangdong (粤), Hong Kong (港), and Macau (澳) road cycling men's individual race, or the marathon event across Shenzhen (深) and Hong Kong (港), athletes shuttle back and forth in the booming Greater Bay Area, making "working together with one heart" more concrete.

This year, Hong Kong's (香港) "Sport for All Day" is themed "Sport for All in the City, Support the National Games for All," and citizens experience the National Games and Paralympic Games projects in communities, parks, and sports venues, gaining a lot. Shen Jiyuan (沈杰源), a Hong Kong (香港) youth, said after experiencing fencing, table tennis, and other projects that through various measures, the atmosphere of the 15th National Games is stronger, and the enthusiasm for national fitness is greater.

Sharing the same dream and creating glory together. Sports is becoming a bridge and link, promoting unity and development, and helping Hong Kong (香港) create a better tomorrow.

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A Farewell Embrace: A Memory and a Hope (The National Games and Me)

By: 巩立姣

On November 16th, I achieved my fifth consecutive National Games title. This National Games was my final battle, and the 19.28-meter sixth throw was also my last throw on the field. Actually, before this throw, I had already secured the gold medal, but I still went all out, hoping to use a score of more than 20 meters to draw a beautiful conclusion to my athletic career. After the competition, I hugged each of the athletes competing on the same field and said to them, "I'm counting on you from now on."

The small shot put has accompanied me for more than 20 years. Despite all the reluctance, the moment of farewell will eventually come. My injuries are very serious, with a triple tear in my knee joint. In order to participate in the 15th National Games, I had three injections of cortisone before stepping onto the field. After the National Games, I plan to go to the hospital for surgery and then give myself a long vacation.

Because of love, I persevere. Over the past 20 years, I have participated in 5 National Games, 5 Olympic Games, and 10 World Championships, winning 3 Olympic and World Championship gold medals. Of course, there are also many regrets, especially at last year's Paris Olympics, where I was unable to perform at my best due to a back injury. But competition is like life, things cannot always be 事事如意 (shì shì rú yì - "everything as one wishes," everything goes smoothly). Being able to finish with a fifth consecutive National Games title is perfect enough for me.

Making women's shot put, a relatively unpopular sport, "hot" and letting everyone see Chinese women's shot put athletes on the world's highest podium has always been my goal. Even if I leave the field, I will definitely still be engaged in sports-related work, and I will definitely continue to strive for the cause of Chinese sports.

The farewell hug is both a commemoration and a hope, looking forward to more excellent Chinese women's shot put athletes appearing on the international arena.

(The author is an track and field athlete of the Hebei (河北) Delegation to the 15th National Games, interviewed and compiled by Liu Shuoyang (刘硕阳), a reporter from this newspaper)

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Post-2000s Generation Sweeps 100m Sprint Gold Medals

This newspaper's Guangzhou (广州) dispatch on November 17th (Reporters Liu Shuoyang (刘硕阳) and Tao Xiang'an (陶相安)) On the evening of the 17th, the Guangdong Olympic Sports Center Stadium (广东奥体中心体育场) witnessed a thrilling showdown in the 100-meter "flying man battle." Chen Yujie (陈妤颉), a Zhejiang (浙江) team athlete born in 2008, won the women's 100-meter championship, while Li Zeyang (李泽洋), a Hubei (湖北) team athlete born in 2000, took home the gold medal in the men's 100-meter event.

In the preliminary round held on the morning of November 16, Li Zeyang (李泽洋) ran a time of 10.08 seconds, qualifying first and becoming the eighth Chinese male 100-meter athlete to break the 10.10-second barrier. In the final on the evening of the 17th, Li Zeyang (李泽洋) overcame a disadvantage at the start, surging ahead in the second half of the race to win the championship with a time of 10.11 seconds. Li Zeyang (李泽洋) said, "Breaking the 10-second barrier is a common goal for our generation of athletes born in the 2000s and 2005s, and we must continue to work towards it."

In the women's 100-meter final, Chen Yujie (陈妤颉) was in the lead from the start and ultimately won the championship with a time of 11.10 seconds. This not only broke the Asian Youth (U20) record held by herself but also made her the youngest women's 100-meter champion in the history of the National Games. Wei Yongli (韦永丽), a 34-year-old famous athlete from the Guangxi (广西) team, won the silver medal with a time of 11.37 seconds, while Shi Linqi (史琳琪), an athlete from the Anhui (安徽) team, won the bronze medal by a margin of 0.01 seconds.

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The Chinese sporting spirit continues to deeply resonate with the people.

Guangzhou, November 17th (Reported by Li Yanfei (厉衍飞) and Wang Meihua (王美华)) On November 16th, the relevant person in charge of the Publicity Department of the General Administration of Sport of China (国家体育总局宣传司) introduced at the main media center of the 15th National Games: During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the cultural attributes of sports have become more distinct, the cultural functions have become richer, and the cultural values have become more prominent. The Chinese sportsmanship has continued to take root in people's hearts on a larger scale, and the positive energy of sports has injected a strong spiritual force into promoting Chinese-style modernization.

At the opening ceremony of the 15th National Games, the recitation program "Ode to Chinese Sportsmanship" resonated with the audience. It is reported that the program is one of the specific practices of the "Ode to Chinese Sportsmanship" sports culture brand carefully created by the General Administration of Sport of China (国家体育总局) in recent years, and has been presented at a number of large-scale events. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China has actively expanded the sports culture display platform. As of June 2025, the total number of sports museums, memorial halls, and exhibition halls across the country will exceed 200.

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Guangdong Olympic Sports Center "Transforms" in 30 Hours

By: 本报记者 洪秋婷

Following the closing ceremony of the 15th National Games at the Guangdong Olympic Sports Centre, the main venue immediately began its transformation "big test"—converting into a standard athletics field in a short period. Deng Xinyong (邓新勇), Deputy Director of the Venue Construction Department of the Guangzhou (广州) Organizing Committee, introduced that the team completed all the transformation tasks in nearly 30 hours, about 35 hours ahead of the original plan.

Behind the efficient transformation is advance planning and precise execution. The venue support and transformation team coordinated the efforts of various parties, including ceremony performance, security, fire protection, transportation, and medical care, and commissioned China Construction Eighth Engineering Division (中建八局) to be responsible for stage dismantling. China Sports Industry Group (华体集团), Shenzhen Sports Industry (深体实业) and other units worked together to promote the restoration of sound and light systems, turf laying, seat repositioning, and track testing to ensure seamless connection of all links.

The large "water stage" at the opening ceremony was amazing: covering an area of nearly 10,000 square meters, with a total load-bearing capacity of 4,800 tons, including 1,200 cubic meters of water, composed of 1,728 modules, and fixed with about 200,000 dovetail nails. It is extremely difficult to safely dismantle such a complex structure without damaging the sand and track below.

The staff held many coordination meetings in the early stage, repeatedly deduced the process, and formulated detailed task lists and operating specifications. Late at night after the closing ceremony, workers entered the venue in batches and carried out efficient collaborative operations: completing 1,200 cubic meters of drainage within 2 hours, dismantling 18,000 square meters of stage and 1,200 tons of steel structure, lighting and sound reinforcement equipment within 11 hours, and completing 8,000 square meters of lawn sand layer replacement and grass laying within 13 hours.

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Rookies Fight Hard, Veterans Show Their Style

By: 本报记者 陈晨曦 季 芳

On November 17th, as the Zhejiang team won the gold medal in the women's 4×100m medley relay, the swimming pool at the Shenzhen Universiade Center (深圳大运中心) Swimming Hall in Guangdong Province (广东省) returned to calm. After 8 days of competition, the 15th National Games indoor swimming competition produced a total of 41 gold medals. Shandong (山东) teenager Zhang Zhanshuo (张展硕) won the gold medal in the men's 1500m freestyle event on the last day of competition, increasing his personal gold medal count to 5.

Record after record was broken. 18-year-old Zhang Zhanshuo (张展硕) set one world youth record and two national records in three freestyle events. 13-year-old Yu Zidi (于子迪) from Hebei (河北) rewrote the 13-year-old Asian record in the women's 200m individual medley. 30-year-old Xu Jiayu (徐嘉余) broke the national record in the men's 50m backstroke.

Famous athletes are still the backbone of strength. Wang Shun (汪顺) won the gold medal in the men's 400m individual medley final, his fourth gold medal at this National Games. Xu Jiayu (徐嘉余) also won his fourth gold medal on the 17th, touching the wall first in the men's 50m backstroke final.

Relying on Zhang Zhanshuo's (张展硕) outstanding performance, the Shandong (山东) team won a total of 7 gold medals in the swimming competition. With the help of athletes such as Xu Jiayu (徐嘉余), Wang Shun (汪顺), Pan Zhanle (潘展乐), and Wu Qingfeng (吴卿风), the Zhejiang (浙江) team's total number of gold medals reached 10. The Hebei (河北) team won 6 gold medals, 4 of which were related to freestyle female athlete Li Bingjie (李冰洁). The Shanghai (上海) team won 5 gold medals, with Qin Haiyang (覃海洋) and Tang Qianting (唐钱婷) each contributing two gold medals. Two of the Jiangsu (江苏) team's 3 gold medals came from famous athlete Zhang Yufei (张雨霏).

The Hong Kong (香港) team performed well in this swimming competition. Siobhan Haughey (何诗蓓) won 2 gold and 2 bronze medals. Ian Ho Yentou (何甄陶) won the gold medal in the men's 50m freestyle final, and Adam Mak Sai-ting (麦世霆) won the bronze medal in the men's 200m breaststroke final. In addition, the Hubei (湖北) team won 3 gold medals, the Tianjin (天津) team won 2 gold medals, and the Fujian (福建) and Jiangxi (江西) teams each won 1 gold medal.

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"Always look up."

By: 本报记者 曾华锋

The men's difficulty final of the 15th National Games climbing event was held at the Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center Sports Center (广州大学城体育中心) in Guangzhou (广州), Guangdong (广东), bringing together many top athletes such as Pan Yufei (潘愚非) from the Hubei Team (湖北队), Hu Junzhe (胡隽喆) from the Guangdong Team (广东队), and Zhu Chengbin (朱成彬) from the Jiangsu Team (江苏队), resulting in fierce competition.

Due to ranking first in the preliminary round, Pan Yufei (潘愚非) was the last to appear in the final. The rule for the difficulty final is that athletes take turns climbing the same route, with each person having only one chance and a maximum climbing time of 6 minutes. Rankings are based on the height reached by the athletes, and if the heights are the same, the ranking in the preliminary round is used as a reference. Before Pan Yufei (潘愚非), seven male athletes repeatedly refreshed the climbing height, getting closer and closer to the top of the rock wall, but many fell due to physical exhaustion or technical errors, and no one reached the top.

Pan Yufei (潘愚非) calmly entered the arena, and the height of his climb continued to increase. The rock wall became steeper, and the distance between the holds gradually increased. He twisted and turned, exerting precise force, gradually surpassing the climbing heights of Mu Zerun (穆泽润) from the Shaanxi Team (陕西队) and Hu Junzhe (胡隽喆) from the Guangdong Team (广东队), and the championship was already within his grasp. The audience applauded thunderously, but he did not stop.

Facing the final high-difficulty holds, Pan Yufei (潘愚非), who was physically exhausted, continued to climb upward after a brief observation and adjustment. In the end, he steadily stepped on a hold and reached up with his right hand to touch the last hold at the top, becoming the only person among the 16 finalists to complete the route.

This is not the first time Pan Yufei (潘愚非) has won a championship at the National Games. In the 14th National Games in 2021, he won gold medals in both the difficulty and boulder combined events. He also experienced a low point, with poor performance due to injuries. This year, Pan Yufei (潘愚非) staged a "king's return" - on June 16, at the Bern station of the Climbing World Cup, he won the men's boulder championship despite his injury; on September 7, at the 32nd National Climbing Championships, he won the men's boulder championship. On November 15, in the men's boulder final of this National Games climbing event, he won another gold medal. "Climbing is a sport of dialogue with oneself, and one must always look up." said Pan Yufei (潘愚非).

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

Layout design: Cai Huawei (蔡华伟)

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Western Science City Chongqing High-tech Zone: Deeply Promoting Innovation in Talent Work Mechanisms to Help Chongqing Build a Western Talent Center and Innovation Highland

In Chongqing Tianyi Mei Life Science Co., Ltd. (重庆天怡美生命科学有限公司), located in Chongqing High-tech Zone of Western Science City (西部科学城重庆高新区) (referred to as "Chongqing High-tech Zone" (重庆高新区)), a certain doctor is leading a scientific research team to concentrate on research and promote the industrialization of the induced pluripotent stem cell differentiation cell-free therapy project. Attracted by the excellent talent ecosystem of Chongqing High-tech Zone (重庆高新区), the doctor officially joined Chongqing Tianyi Mei Life Science Co., Ltd. (重庆天怡美生命科学有限公司) at the end of 2024 and served as the head of the project. Such stories are countless in Chongqing High-tech Zone (重庆高新区). Many talents in Chongqing High-tech Zone (重庆高新区) have independent scientific research space, which also makes them see the infinite possibilities of achievement transformation.

Policy Guidance: Building an Open, Fluid, Shared, and Co-used Mechanism for Gathering and Using Talents

Success is achieved by talent, and careers are expanded by talent.

Walking into the Institute of Neutron Science (Chongqing) (中子科学（重庆）研究院), a team led by an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (中国工程院院士) is nervously debugging a large-scale scientific device, the ultra-high flux steady-state deuterium-tritium neutron source. This internationally leading large-scale scientific device is the fruitful result of Chongqing High-tech Zone (重庆高新区)'s implementation of the "talent-led, project-driven" policy.

Talent is an important support for industrial development. By integrating scientific and technological innovation, industry, talent, and financial policy resources, Chongqing High-tech Zone (重庆高新区) provides domestic and foreign strategic science and technology talents who lead the construction of major platforms, key technology research, and the transformation of hard-core achievements in the region with a policy system that shares the same rights. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, 33 academician teams from outside the city and 107 high-level talents gathered here through project ties, overcoming 87 key technologies and transforming 173 scientific and technological achievements, forming a fission effect of "introducing a team, overcoming a batch of key technologies, and driving an industry."

In the laboratory of Chongqing Zhongke Super Capacitor Technology Co., Ltd. (重庆中科超容科技有限公司), a certain doctor is improving the process technology of laser-welded super capacitor monomer devices. In order to support young talents to "take the lead" and "be the protagonist," Chongqing High-tech Zone (重庆高新区) pilots a continuous training mechanism for outstanding young doctors and post-doctors, providing one-stop policy support and services for young talents who are pursuing doctoral degrees and participating in the construction of the Science City part-time, entering the Science City postdoctoral research workstation after graduation, and staying in the Science City after leaving the station. It has accumulated more than 200 post-doctors, promoted the long-term joint training of 49 enterprise postdoctoral workstations and well-known university mobile stations, and jointly tackled more than 200 scientific research projects.

In addition, Chongqing High-tech Zone (重庆高新区) is accelerating the implementation of the Chongqing Advanced Research Institute of the Ministry of Education (教育部重庆高等研究院) to build a high ground for industry-education integration integrating education, science and technology, and talent, and realize the seamless connection of "cultivating talents in the laboratory and using talents online in the industry."

Mechanism Innovation: Improving the Talent Development Mechanism of Decentralization and Empowerment

In order to allow talents to break through the constraints of identity, space, and time, and contribute their talents wholeheartedly, Chongqing High-tech Zone (重庆高新区) boldly relaxes restrictions and fully empowers them to stimulate the endogenous power of talents.

Jin Feng Laboratory (金凤实验室) focuses on "next-generation diagnosis of major diseases" and forms a list of scientific research tasks with a focused mission and clear path, giving the project leader (PI) who reveals the list of cooperation the right to decide on the technical route, the right to allocate funds, and the right to allocate resources.

A certain professor from the Shenzhen Tsinghua University Research Institute (深圳清华大学研究院) joined Jin Feng Laboratory (金凤实验室) as a part-time PI and led the team to successfully develop a fluorescent bright-field multi-functional digital slice scanning system with independent intellectual property rights. This product not only achieved a technological breakthrough in the problem of fluorescent crosstalk, but also achieved a technological breakthrough in the field of optical imaging. At present, the sales of this product alone exceed 10 million yuan.

The implementation of the "dual employment system" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Talents can not only retain their original unit's establishment, but also independently form a team in Chongqing to achieve "dual positions and dual careers, and double the value." This institutional innovation that breaks through personnel, space, and time restrictions is a vivid footnote to the mechanism innovation of Chongqing High-tech Zone (重庆高新区). At present, Jin Feng Laboratory (金凤实验室) has accumulated 60 PI teams, gathered 691 scientific researchers, and centrally released 13 scientific research results.

In addition, Chongqing High-tech Zone (重庆高新区) also focuses on maximizing the main role of employers, focusing on industrial chain research institutions and advantageous enterprises, and in conjunction with municipal departments, grants employers the right to independently identify talents as needed, so as to achieve accurate matching of talent evaluation standards and enterprise development needs, and close coupling of talent incentive constraints and enterprise endogenous power, and the vitality of enterprises to gather and use talents is constantly stimulated.

Service Empowerment: Building a Party Building-led, Precise and Efficient Talent Service System

In the Western (Chongqing) Science City International Talent Innovation and Entrepreneurship Service Port (西部（重庆）科学城国际人才创新创业服务港), which has been completed and put into use, the deputy general manager of Chongqing Yucheng Development Co., Ltd. (重庆育成发展有限公司) is discussing market expansion plans with the person in charge of Chongqing Guanang Technology Co., Ltd. (重庆冠昂科技有限公司). As the first batch of innovation and entrepreneurship "escort" service talents in Chongqing High-tech Zone (重庆高新区), he led the team to help more than 10 technology companies out of trouble within two years.

The key to attracting talents is to retain them. Innovation and entrepreneurship "escort" service talents use their resources and advantages to participate in the establishment of the Chongqing High-tech Zone Innovation Ecosystem Co-governance Association (重庆高新区创新生态共治协会), establish an innovation and entrepreneurship "escort" team, bridge the gap between technology and the market, promote the integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, and help transform scientific and technological achievements into products, thereby attracting and retaining scientific and technological talents.

In recent years, Chongqing has focused on promoting the reform of the entire life cycle service of talent innovation and entrepreneurship, and has taken the lead in building a talent entrepreneurship "escort" support system in Chongqing High-tech Zone (重庆高新区), and systematically formed 4 professional "escort" teams of technology managers, incubator managers, investment managers, and professional managers.

Chongqing High-tech Zone (重庆高新区) focuses on the entire life cycle service needs of innovation and entrepreneurship such as talent introduction, research and development, achievement transformation, incubation acceleration, and enterprise growth. According to the "one thing" thinking, it continues to integrate multi-party service resources of "government, industry, academia, research, finance, and intermediary," and opens up the progressive innovation and entrepreneurship carrier service link of "out of school - to the port - into the incubator - into the park," providing intellectual property, technology transfer, investment docking and other services, driving and attracting more high-level talents and more scientific research results to stay in Chongqing High-tech Zone (重庆高新区).

Chongqing High-tech Zone (重庆高新区) adheres to the leadership of Party building, and with an open mind of "not seeking ownership, but seeking use," builds a full-cycle, precise service empowerment system, allowing the creative vitality of all kinds of talents to burst forth on this innovative fertile land, and writing an innovative practice chapter of "**聚天下英才而用之** (jù tiān xià yīng cái ér yòng zhī - "gather all the talents in the world and use them," to attract and make the best use of talents from all over the world)."

When the talent "engine" is running at full speed, the scientific and technological innovation "giant ship" will surely break through the waves. Standing at a new historical starting point, Chongqing High-tech Zone (重庆高新区) will adhere to the integrated promotion of education, science and technology, and talent work, deeply promote the innovation of the talent work mechanism, and provide key support for Chongqing to accelerate the construction of a western talent center and an innovation highland.

Data source: Western Science City Chongqing High-tech Zone Management Committee (西部科学城重庆高新区管理委员会)

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Traditional patterns bloom in life (Cultural China Tour: These beauties are very Chinese)

By: 本报记者 祝佳祺

饕餮纹 (tāo tiè wén), 云雷纹 (yún léi wén), 卷草纹 (juǎn cǎo wén), 缠枝纹 (chán zhī wén)... Patterns are not only decorations, but also carriers of culture and emotion, bearing national memories.

The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal puts forward the need to "stimulate the cultural innovation and creativity of the entire nation." Patterns are ancient, but also young. Rooted in the broad and profound Chinese civilization and in line with the development trend of information technology, traditional patterns are increasingly integrated into modern life: Guochao brand clothing, bags, coffee latte art, and cultural and creative products can all become carriers of patterns. What are the reasons why young people fall in love with patterns? How does the digital journey of patterns unfold? The beauty of patterns and the beauty of their meaning connect tradition and modernity, continuing inheritance and innovation.

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A short video, with various patterns "blooming" in sequence, has nearly 1 million views; a database containing more than 30,000 sets of patterns is spontaneously recommended by netizens; the design of arabesque patterns on jewelry, copper coin patterns embroidered on bags, and traditional patterns in coffee latte art... As an important symbol of Chinese culture, traditional patterns are being integrated into the lives of young people in diverse and three-dimensional forms.

How to "touch" the unique texture of Chinese aesthetics through patterns? How to inherit traditional patterns and make them glow with new vitality in the new era? The answer lies in the tireless pursuit of inheritance and in the creation that is constantly renewed in daily use.

Patterns Contain Civilizational Codes

"The Zhuang culture believes that frogs have spirits and can summon rain. The 'frog pattern' has the meaning of praying for good weather and prosperity, and it is very interesting to use it in design." In the Wenzang Studio (纹藏工作室) in Nanning (南宁市), Guangxi (广西), Huang Qingsui (黄清穗) is discussing design concepts with team members.

Huang Qingsui (黄清穗) is the founder of "Wenzang (纹藏)," a Chinese pattern online museum. Born in Du'an Yao Autonomous County (都安瑶族自治县), Guangxi (广西), the decorative patterns that can be seen everywhere in his hometown were his earliest aesthetic enlightenment. Later, Huang Qingsui (黄清穗) studied and taught at the Guangxi Arts University (广西艺术学院). In 2013, Huang Qingsui (黄清穗) discovered that folk patterns were facing the crisis of disappearing, and modern design education was also gradually "alienated" from the roots of traditional culture. So he "chased" Chinese traditional patterns, went deep into the southwestern countryside, recorded the patterns in textiles, handicrafts, and buildings, and sorted out the cultural history behind them.

What kind of civilizational codes are hidden in ancient patterns?

"Patterns have witnessed countless changes and blends." Huang Qingsui (黄清穗) introduced that during the Wei (魏), Jin (晋), Southern and Northern Dynasties (南北朝), the eastward transmission of Buddhist culture allowed lotus patterns to appear on various objects; during the Tang Dynasty (唐朝), the prosperity of the Silk Road (丝绸之路) brought sea beast and grape patterns full of exotic flavors across thousands of mountains and rivers; the mountain and river patterns on the pleated skirts of the Miao (苗族) people, the older generation said that it was the migration route map of their ancestors; the flame patterns on the lacquerware of the Yi (彝族) people, implied the Yi (彝族) people's love for fire...

"Patterns have life. Only by telling the stories behind them can we better inherit and spread them," said Huang Qingsui (黄清穗).

Leaping onto the "Cloud" and Integrating into Life

Traditional patterns have come from history, and after digitalization, they have leaped onto the "cloud" and integrated into the lives of young people through innovative applications.

For the sake of patterns, Huang Qingsui (黄清穗) has traveled almost all over the southwestern countryside. At first, he only wanted to collect and organize patterns from one area, but he gradually did more and more.

In 2018, Huang Qingsui (黄清穗) was invited to develop a pattern library on "Gongxi (宫囍)" culture. At the same time, he launched the "Wenzang (纹藏) - Chinese Pattern Online Museum" project, leading the team to cooperate with many universities and public cultural institutions to deeply excavate, sort out, and decipher patterns, and use artificial intelligence to establish digital calculation models.

What does a pattern database mean? By opening the Wenzang (纹藏) database, users can query more than 30,000 sets of patterns in 300 topics with one click, understand the historical culture behind different patterns, and can also disassemble and recombine patterns for redesign, and apply them to products, environmental design, etc., so that traditional patterns can be revitalized in modern design.

The star pattern in the database is the Baoxianghua (宝相花) pattern, which originated from the murals of the Mogao Grottoes (莫高窟) in Dunhuang (敦煌). "The Dunhuang (敦煌) murals have gone through thousands of years, and many patterns have become blurred. However, the Baoxianghua (宝相花) has a complex structure and overlapping lines. We used magnifying equipment to repeatedly outline and compare them. A local part often took several days, just to accurately capture its exquisite structure," said Zhou Yubin (周彧彬), founding partner of the Wenzang (纹藏) Chinese Pattern Database. "In order to restore the original splendor of the patterns, we consulted a large number of documents, compared the remaining color traces, spectral data, and color cards, and repeatedly discussed and tested with experts. This is not a simple restoration, but a pursuit of the aesthetics of the ancients."

Falling in Love with the "Straightforward" Beauty of Patterns

Arabesque patterns, geometric patterns, copper coin patterns... Many traditional patterns are not only recognized by young people, but have also become a kind of lifestyle aesthetics. The topic of "Chinese-owned old flowers" has become a hot search on online platforms, attracting attention, and more and more people are recognizing and falling in love with traditional patterns.

"An ordinary canvas bag looks beautiful and has cultural connotations when painted with Dunhuang (敦煌) patterns." In the comment area of ​​popular pattern products, some consumers expressed their love; peach blossom winding, Baoxianghua (宝相花) filigree, dragon pattern paper-cutting... Handicraft enthusiasts have posted works combining traditional patterns and intangible cultural heritage skills; home decoration and clothing transformation, many young people skillfully use traditional patterns to gain a beautiful experience.

"The design and application of patterns should be deeply integrated with the current needs of people." Huang Qingsui (黄清穗) said that the team participated in the design of the Nanning Citizen Card (南宁市民卡) pattern to promote Guangxi (广西) characteristics, "It can be used as an emotional sustenance, and it also integrates Guangxi (广西) elements, which has commemorative value."

Combined with the viewing habits of young people, the studio animated the static patterns in the database. The short videos released on the video platform, with the "straightforward" beauty of the patterns, have attracted the attention of many young netizens, and some videos have nearly one million views. "I have seen octagonal flowers in Yunnan (云南) embroidery!" Some netizens recognized the familiar patterns with surprise. "Such patterns are extremely beautiful!" "China's composition aesthetics is not inferior to any country in the world." In the comment area, netizens praised the beauty of the patterns and were full of cultural confidence.

Now, Huang Qingsui (黄清穗) has published more than 10 pattern monographs and albums such as "Meeting a Pattern Performance," "Illustrated Handbook of Chinese Classic Patterns," and "The Beauty of Chinese Patterns." He said that readers are not all professional designers, "**守株待兔** (shǒu zhū dài tù - "guard stump wait rabbit," to rely on luck or wait idly for opportunities) many young people like picture albums because they can directly feel the beauty of the patterns."

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Stories of Patterns Worn on the Body

By: 本报记者 董映雪

Gently shaking the Nanjing brocade, it resembles floating light and leaping gold, and also resembles the magnificent rosy clouds. In the video, Zhou Shuangxi (周双喜), a national representative inheritor of the Nanjing brocade wood loom tapestry weaving technique, is focusing on introducing the history of Nanjing brocade; in the comment section, netizens are captivated by the exquisite craftsmanship and intricate patterns of Nanjing brocade, praising it as "ancient haute couture" and "top aesthetic."

Walking into the Nanjing Brocade Museum (云锦博物馆), where the Nanjing Brocade Research Institute (江苏南京云锦研究所) is located, one is greeted by an atmosphere that intertwines ancient simplicity and youthful vigor – in front of the wooden looms, there are many young faces weaving the warp and weft; in the cultural and creative area, some young women are trying on Nanjing brocade scarves and inquiring about Chinese-style wedding dresses.

Between the warp and weft, time flows. The accumulation of exquisite craftsmanship through generations and the continuous inheritance of Chinese aesthetics are all woven into Nanjing brocade.

"An inch of Nanjing brocade is worth an inch of gold," Zhou Shuangxi (周双喜) introduces, the splendor of Nanjing brocade lies in its materials and the richness of its patterns, using gold threads and peacock feathers, weaving cloud patterns and double fish patterns, changing colors with each flower. "To make different parts of the pattern present different colors, this is tapestry." He said that unlike the "one shuttle to the end" of warp and weft weaving, Nanjing brocade weaving is warp-through weft-broken, requiring people to "dig" out the shimmering brilliance of the pattern bit by bit.

Today, the development of the times is allowing the patterns of Nanjing brocade to present new splendor.

On the one hand, Nanjing brocade is moving from niche to mass appeal. In the past, due to expensive materials and complex craftsmanship, Nanjing brocade was a luxury that ordinary people could not access. Now, the Nanjing Brocade Research Institute (江苏南京云锦研究所) team is trying to use machine jacquard, saving half the manpower. At the same time, some patterns on wedding dresses and hanging paintings are still woven by hand, which retains the charm of traditional intangible cultural heritage and reduces costs.

The gorgeous patterns attract the attention of young people and also spread aesthetic identity and cultural confidence.

The cultural and creative products and new-style wedding dresses launched by the Nanjing Brocade Museum (云锦博物馆) are very popular among young people. During Qixi Festival, the team released hundreds of Nanjing brocade wedding dresses, which were quickly booked out. "Nanjing brocade patterns pay attention to the meaning of the picture and the auspiciousness of the meaning, which young people love very much." He Guan-yi (何冠奕), a staff member of the Cultural Promotion Center of the Nanjing Brocade Museum (南京云锦博物馆文化推广中心), cited the traditional auspicious double fish pattern, in which the double fish hold musical instruments together, implying auspicious abundance. In addition, patterns such as twining lotus and mandarin ducks imply people's yearning for happiness from ancient times to the present.

On the other hand, Nanjing brocade is moving from offline to "cloud." On short video platforms, Nanjing brocade is no longer a "niche" intangible cultural heritage that was once on the verge of being lost, but a "Chinese aesthetic ceiling" that is highly concerned by netizens. The pursuit of excellence in weaving techniques, the beauty and auspiciousness of patterns, and the elegant and gorgeous costumes all touch the "aesthetic DNA" of contemporary young people. Some netizens said: "'Ingenuity + heritage' is the 'top luxury' of Chinese aesthetics and the Chinese people's own 'old flower' pattern!"

Many video bloggers walk into the Nanjing Brocade Museum (云锦博物馆) to learn about the historical inheritance and innovative changes of Nanjing brocade, and then spread the beauty of intangible cultural heritage in their own way. "I want more people to see the beauty of Nanjing brocade and feel the splendor of China," said Douyin blogger "Jiao Lver (焦绿儿)," digging out the unchanging aesthetic core can tell the story of Nanjing brocade that touches more people. The patterns on Nanjing brocade are a Chinese traditional aesthetic language that the public can understand.

Now, several post-00s have been added to the Nanjing Brocade Research Institute (云锦研究所) to learn Nanjing brocade weaving. There are many more fans online, telling and spreading the aesthetic accumulation and pattern meaning of Nanjing brocade. When tradition embraces modernity, the ancient Nanjing brocade is焕发出新的生机 焕发出新的生机 (huàn fā chū xīn de shēng jī - "radiate new vitality," to regain vigor and vitality).

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Experiencing the Charm of Patterns Between Origin and Evolution (New Words: Experts Talk About Building a Strong Cultural Nation)

By: 常沙娜

Dunhuang is the source of my artistic life and the root of my lifelong research and teaching. And patterns are the most structured and culturally spiritual carrier in Dunhuang art. The Mogao Grottoes have continued for thousands of years, creating an art palace integrating painting, sculpture, architecture, and decoration, with continuous and far-reaching cultural influence.

As an important part of Dunhuang art, patterns are found in caissons, canopies, halos, costumes, borders, floor tiles, and other structures and forms. They are not mere decorations but are integrated with statues, murals, and architectural space, forming an integral whole of Dunhuang art. Each group of patterns has both decorative and symbolic meaning, and carries the aesthetic spirit of the nation and the cultural atmosphere of the times. In the development process of the Mogao Grottoes murals, all kinds of patterns systematically and clearly confirm that the development and changes of social culture, religious folk customs, and local customs are all based on inheriting the past and 承前启后 (chéng qián qǐ hòu - "inherit the past and usher in the future," to carry on the traditions and open up new paths) to develop and progress. The evolution of patterns is the presentation of this historical law. From the three-lobed leaves and honeysuckle patterns in the Northern Wei Dynasty, to the volute patterns, precious flower patterns, and beaded patterns in the prosperous Sui and Tang Dynasties, to the rosette patterns dominated by emerald green in the Western Xia, Song, and Yuan Dynasties, the pattern forms and color systems of different eras together constitute the historical pedigree of Dunhuang decorative patterns, and also reflect the inheritance and creativity of Chinese art.

In decades of design teaching and practice, I have always emphasized the concept of "source and flow." The so-called "source" is tradition, the continuous artistic context of Dunhuang; the so-called "flow" is application, the innovation and development of artistic design that meets the needs of the times. I have personally realized that only by being rooted in the source of outstanding Chinese traditional culture can the "flow" of art have vitality and creativity. In 1952, the design work of the first national gift of New China was the starting point for me to truly enter the field of art design, using the concept of "source and flow" to practice my understanding of traditional art. Later, when I participated in the design tasks of the "Ten Great Buildings" (十大建筑) in the capital, I always adhered to this concept. The ceiling pattern of the banquet hall of the Great Hall of the People (人民大会堂) was inspired by the caisson patterns of the Tang Dynasty in Dunhuang. Taking the lotus flower as the center of the well, combined with the needs of architectural structure, lighting, ventilation, and other functions, the flower patterns of Dunhuang are combined with modern functions to form a space decoration with a unique national style. This design, which has been well preserved since its completion in 1959, is still regarded as a model of contemporary expression of traditional patterns.

The charm of Dunhuang patterns lies not only in the complex and beautiful forms, but also in the scientific nature of its structure and the laws of composition. Taking the halo pattern as an example, it adopts the compositional form of "radial from the center," dividing it into 4, 6, 8, and 12 even parts with the "+" and "米" characters; then surrounding it with volutes, precious flowers, grapes, pomegranates, and other patterns, the structure is well-organized and rhythmic. In terms of color, the three-dimensional and spatial sense is expressed by rendering, contrast, and layering. These laws are still applicable in today's pattern design, architectural decoration, and even digital vision. Pattern is a language, it has its own grammar, rhythm, and emotional expression. I also often remind the younger generation of designers that the contemporary expression of patterns should not be superficial. We must not treat Dunhuang patterns as a material library for arbitrary cut-and-paste, let alone carry out so-called "re-creation" that deviates from its historical and cultural context. I always emphasize the eight-character mantra - "learning, research, application, innovation" (学习、研究、应用、创新). We must start from understanding the "source," draw nutrition from structure, meaning, and craftsmanship, and then combine current materials, functions, and aesthetics to develop new forms of expression. This is a "living" tradition.

Today, inheriting and promoting outstanding Chinese traditional culture has become a topic of the times. And the research and innovation of patterns is precisely a very practical part of it. It is not only about vision and beauty, but also about cultural attitude and identity. Dunhuang patterns are no longer just the heritage on murals, they can enter our daily life and become a cultural symbol in fabrics, utensils, spaces, and even digital interfaces. "National, scientific, and popular" (民族的、科学的、大众的), this refers to the cultural context, something national, something in the blood. May every successor engaged in art and design be able to hold on to the "source" and walk the "flow" well. In the new era, let this vein of patterns continue to grow and bloom with new colors.

(The author is the former president of the Central Academy of Arts & Design (原中央工艺美术学院))

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Academic Symposium on "The Continuity of Chinese Characters and Chinese Civilization" Held

This newspaper reported from Jinan on November 17th (Reporter Yang Lixin (杨立新)) "The Continuity of Chinese Characters and Chinese Civilization" Academic Symposium and the 12th Academic Annual Meeting of the Chinese Characters Society were held at Shandong University (山东大学) on the 15th and 16th. More than 200 experts and scholars attended the meeting to exchange and discuss topics such as oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, texts from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, Qin and Han characters, and Chinese character theory.

Li Shoukui (李守奎), President of the Chinese Characters Society, said that we are in a great period of comprehensive prosperity in the academic research of Chinese characters. The AI era has arrived, and language workers must embrace opportunities, meet challenges, and create more outstanding achievements that are worthy of the times and can stand the test of history.

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Embrace the slow life, welcome new experiences.

By: 本报记者 李凯旋

Walking into the Poly Times Square (保利时光里) commercial district in Chengdu High-tech Zone (成都高新区), Sichuan (四川), you are greeted by greenery. Surrounded by high-rise buildings, this place is hidden like a "park." People relax on the lawn, stroll under the shade of trees, and children run happily in the square.

As urbanization accelerates, urban residents hope to embrace more greenery in their fast-paced lives. How can urban construction better empower the quality of life? Here, more possibilities are explored through the creation of public spaces and the dialogue between people and nature.

"We have set aside about 40% of the green space," said Li Ming (李明), the project leader. The design concept of the project is to embed gardens into various areas through terraced platforms and connecting corridors, breaking the boundary restrictions of traditional commercial complexes, and reflecting fluidity, integration, and openness.

Growing along with the greenery here is a unique commercial ecosystem. The commercial district focuses on the first-store economy and innovative consumption formats, attracting many city-characteristic first stores and original owner brands to settle in. From handmade workshops to small markets, from specialty catering to pet-friendly spaces, new types of business presentations are welcomed by young people.

In Inu Island Park (犬岛公园), young people bring their pets to play in the open-air area; in Youyun Sichuan Cuisine Restaurant (有云川菜馆), traditional Sichuan cuisine has a sense of fashion; in Bar Lotus, daytime臊子 noodles and nighttime cocktails together become the footnote of urban slow life. A staff member of Youyun Sichuan Cuisine Restaurant (有云川菜馆) introduced, "The style of Poly Times Square (保利时光里) is inclusive and modern. We are also exploring the combination of traditional Sichuan cuisine and modern atmosphere."

For entrepreneurs, this is also a platform to showcase creativity. The over 27,000-square-meter complex central square, as the "center" of the venue, is divided into different scene spaces, adjacent to the sunken square, the street, and the inner street landscape, making entrepreneur exchanges closer. Jiang Ruolin (蒋若琳), the brand design leader of Bar Lotus, said: "We also visit other shops and share ideas with each other. This is not only a commercial district, but also like a youth community."

At dusk, the lights come on, and the night market and public art exhibitions are crowded with people, and the commercial district turns into a cultural stage for young people. "It's very fashionable and fun here." Young citizen Sun Mengshi (孙梦诗) often comes here to stroll and shop. She prefers the small stalls in the market and the music performances on the lawn. From creating life scenes to building experiential social interaction, carrying slow life and embracing new experiences, this place has become a place that nearby residents love to come to and often visit.

It is both a green garden and a commercial district; it has both the convenience of life and the richness of culture. In Poly Times Square (保利时光里), greenery and light intertwine, outlining a picture of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and man and the city.

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Editors of this section: Zhi Chunli, Chen Yuanyuan, Dong Yingxue

Layout Design: Zhang Danfeng (张丹峰)

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Comprehensive Utilization Turns Saline-Alkali Land into Fertile Fields (Beautiful China)

By: 本报记者 郁静娴

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The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal suggests promoting high-quality construction of high-standard farmland, strengthening the protection of black soil and the comprehensive utilization of saline-alkali land, and improving the quality of cultivated land. In recent years, China has been promoting the comprehensive utilization of saline-alkali land in accordance with local conditions, fully exploring the potential for developing and utilizing saline-alkali land, and gradually exploring the construction of an innovative breeding system for saline-alkali land.

The 2025 Saline-Alkali Land Comprehensive Utilization Technology Innovation Conference was held recently, and the "Saline-Alkali Land Comprehensive Utilization Technology Development Report (2025)" was released at the conference. The report shows that China is gradually forming a pattern of regional governance models tailored to local conditions and the coordinated development of saline-alkali land characteristic agriculture.

Transform and upgrade existing saline-alkali land in accordance with local conditions, and strengthen the prevention and control of secondary salinization of cultivated land.

"The comprehensive utilization of saline-alkali land carries multiple goals such as ecological restoration, biodiversity protection, and the cultivation of characteristic industries. It is a complex system engineering," said Li Yuyi, Deputy Director of the National Saline-Alkali Land Comprehensive Utilization Technology Innovation Center and Researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (中国农业科学院).

The report focuses on sorting out more than 40 innovative achievements in China in the fields of saline-alkali land biological breeding, production capacity improvement, and ecological utilization. After multi-party efforts, in terms of regional saline-alkali land comprehensive utilization models, China has created technical models such as the "dry sowing and wet emergence" water, fertilizer, and salt integrated regulation of cotton in the Northwest Oasis area, and the grass-livestock integration in the Ningxia Hetao Plain (宁夏河套平原). Through systematic measures such as crop allocation, precise management of water and fertilizer agents, integration of machinery and technology, and integration of planting and breeding, it is gradually promoting the efficient utilization of light, heat, water, and soil resources and the continuous ecological improvement in saline-alkali areas.

In the coastal mild-to-moderate saline-alkali land in Dafeng (大丰), Yancheng (盐城), Rudong (如东), Nantong (南通), Jiangsu (江苏), the annual rainfall is relatively high. The local area develops a year-round planting model of crop rotation between paddy and dryland crops. The mild saline-alkali land adopts the rice-wheat model, and the moderate-to-severe saline-alkali land adopts the rice-rapeseed model, combined with straw deep plowing and returning to the field and soil cultivation and improvement, to achieve interlayer salt resistance and organic matter improvement. The relative content of soil organic matter is increased by 20%, the annual stable control of soil salt content in the cultivated layer is below 2‰, and the soil pH value is stable below 7.8.

Saline-alkali land management is a global problem. "Currently, the comprehensive utilization of saline-alkali land in China still faces problems such as 'heavy irrigation and light drainage' in irrigated land, shortage of freshwater resources, and mismatch between water-saving and salt-control technologies," said Li Yuyi.

The report points out that preventing and controlling secondary salinization of cultivated land should be a key task in the comprehensive utilization of saline-alkali land. Build an efficient drainage system to achieve a balance between irrigation and drainage. At the same time, it is necessary to establish and improve a dynamic monitoring network for water and salt in cultivated land, scientifically delineate high, medium, and low-risk areas, and implement differentiated irrigation quotas and drainage standards.

Select and breed drought-resistant and salt-alkali-tolerant crops to promote the development of characteristic agriculture in saline-alkali land.

Combining "adapting crops to land" and "adapting land to crops" will fully tap the potential for developing and utilizing saline-alkali land. The report proposes that by establishing differentiated control of saline-alkali land uses, "cultivate where suitable, plant grass where suitable, and fish where suitable," we will respectively promote the graded utilization of light, medium, and severe saline-alkali land to "produce more grain," "produce well," and "have characteristics."

"Many saline-alkali land agricultural products have high functional component content, prominent biological activity, and flavor," said Wang Fengzhong, Director of the Institute of Food and Nutrition Development, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部). It is necessary to accelerate the investigation of the background of saline plant characteristic resources, explore characteristic functional factors, and build a data sharing platform, focus on core technologies and equipment for the development of saline plant resource products, and promote the high-value utilization of saline-alkali land characteristic agricultural products.

The report shows that in terms of the development of characteristic agriculture in saline-alkali land, China has successfully cultivated varieties such as Huanghua drought-resistant wheat (黄骅旱碱麦), Zhanhua winter jujube (沾化冬枣), and saline-alkali land wolfberry (盐碱地枸杞), explored characteristic models such as inland saline-alkali land shrimp farming, and developed a series of deep-processed products based on variety innovation, quality improvement, and brand building, which has significantly increased the added value of the industry.

In Dongying City (东营市), Shandong (山东), the local area vigorously develops the Yellow River Estuary Tan sheep (黄河口滩羊) industry. At the 2025 Saline-Alkali Land Comprehensive Utilization Technology Innovation Conference, the "China Saline-Alkali Land Characteristic Industry Development Report (Yellow River Estuary Tan Sheep)" was also specially released. Zhu Dazhou, Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Department of the Institute of Food and Nutrition Development, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and Chief of the Food Resource Monitoring and Nutrition and Health Evaluation Team, introduced that the development of characteristic agriculture in saline-alkali land should also follow the path of standardization and branding, improve product quality and popularity, and continue to explore nutritional characteristics and quality formation mechanisms to make advantages bigger and stronger.

Discover salt-alkali-tolerant germplasm resources and build an innovative breeding system for saline-alkali land.

In September of this year, in a drought-alkali land in Beishangzhuang Village (北尚庄村), Nandagang Industrial Park (南大港产业园区), Cangzhou (沧州), Hebei (河北), the new salt-alkali-tolerant millet variety "Jiyan Gu No. 12" (冀研谷12号) achieved a yield of 317.9 kg per mu. Combined with high-yield and high-efficiency production technology, it achieved a bumper harvest under the unfavorable climatic conditions of frequent extreme heavy rainfall in the early stage. The salt-alkali-tolerant materials for breeding this variety come from the first batch of excellent salt-alkali-tolerant crop germplasm resources released by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

Jing Ruilian, a researcher at the Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (中国农业科学院), introduced that the National Mid-term Genebank for Drought-Resistant and Salt-Alkali-Tolerant Crops and the National Germplasm Nursery for Salt-Alkali-Tolerant Crops, located in Shandong (山东), have cumulatively collected and preserved 35,000 copies of excellent germplasm resources from home and abroad, screened out excellent salt-alkali-tolerant resources, and released them to the whole country, improving breeding efficiency and level.

At present, the National Saline-Alkali Land Comprehensive Utilization Technology Innovation Center relies on core research teams and related collaborative innovation networks to explore and build an innovative breeding system for saline-alkali land; it has cumulatively cultivated 68 new salt-alkali-tolerant crop varieties (lines) and promoted 26.32 million mu of various new varieties and technologies across the country.

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Multiple departments deploy efforts to accelerate the construction of modern state-owned forest farms.

This newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on November 17th (Reporter Liu Zhiqiang (刘志强)) (reporter Liu Zhiqiang (刘志强)) - Recently, in order to further consolidate the reform achievements of state-owned forest farms and accelerate the modernization of state-owned forest farms, clarify the development direction, main goals, and key tasks of modern state-owned forest farms, and promote state-owned forest farms to play a better role in practicing the concept of "Two Mountains" and building a beautiful China, the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) and other departments issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of Modern State-owned Forest Farms" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions").

The "Opinions" propose that by coordinating and promoting various tasks, efforts should be made to further improve the management system of state-owned forest farms by 2030, increase the forest stock volume per unit area by about 5%, and initially build a modern state-owned forest farm system with excellent resource quality, stable ecological functions, and full industrial development, becoming an important growth point for driving green development in forest and mountain areas; by 2035, the ecological quality of state-owned forest farms will continue to improve, the forest stock volume per unit area will increase by about 11%, and the modern state-owned forest farm system will be basically completed, becoming the main force in maintaining national ecological security, driving the development of the forestry and grassland industry, and providing high-quality ecological products.

Focusing on supporting the development of state-owned forest farms, the "Opinions" put forward policy measures from four aspects: strengthening the protection and management of forest resources, innovating industrial development models, cultivating and developing new quality productivity in the forestry and grassland industry, and improving the forest farm management system. The main contents include: establishing a forest management system with forest management plans as the core and oriented towards improving forest quality; supporting state-owned forest farms to be entrusted by local governments as the project construction entity and post-management entity of key ecological projects such as the "Three-North" (三北) Shelterbelt Project; promoting state-owned forest farms to strengthen the allocation of modern field operation equipment; comprehensively considering the geographical location, resource endowment, management requirements, and development foundation of state-owned forest farms, etc., and determining the main functional positioning and development direction of each forest farm through the preparation and implementation of medium and long-term development plans, and exploring incentive mechanisms to stimulate the development vitality of forest farms by category.

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The ecological environment of the Yangtze River's Qinghai section is approaching its best historical state.

This newspaper's Xining (西宁) November 17th dispatch (Reporter Jiang Meng (江萌)): The reporter learned from the Qinghai Province (青海省) Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs that the special monitoring of aquatic biological resources in 23 key water areas of the three sources of the Yangtze River (Changjiang) (长江) (Tuotuo River (沱沱河), Chuma'er River (楚玛尔河), and Dangqu River (当曲)) and the Tongtian River (通天河), Mako River (玛可河) and other main streams and tributaries has been completed this year. Monitoring shows that the aquatic ecology of the Qinghai (青海) section of the Yangtze River (Changjiang) (长江) is close to its historical best. The scientific monitoring, which aims to assess the ecological evolution of the Yangtze River (Changjiang) (长江) source area, has been continuously and completely promoted for 5 years. Continuous tracking data for 5 years shows that the ecological protection of the Qinghai (青海) section of the Yangtze River (Changjiang) (长江) is outstanding, and the aquatic ecological environment and aquatic biological resources show a stable and positive trend.

Monitoring data shows that the native fish resources in the Qinghai (青海) section of the Yangtze River (Changjiang) (长江) are stable and improving. All 20 species of native fish recorded in history are distributed. Wild populations of the Hucho bleekeri, a national first-class protected wild animal, were found in the native habitat of the Mako River (玛可河) basin. The ecological quality of fish continues to improve, and the fish integrity index has remained above "good" for a long time, and the resource ecological level is close to the historical best. The aquatic ecological environment continues to be excellent, the water quality meets the fishery water quality standards and the Class II standards for surface water, and the aquatic ecology basically maintains its original ecology.

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Steadfast Action for Long-Term Goals, Pragmatic Work for Accomplishments: OCT Writes a New Chapter of a Better Life

Striving for excellence and building dreams for the future. As an important participant in China's cultural tourism industry and urban development, OCT Group (华侨城集团) has always adhered to the principle of aligning corporate development with national strategies, focusing on high-quality development goals, and focusing on the people's yearning for a better life. It continues to cultivate in the fields of cultural tourism integration and quality living, demonstrating the responsibility and commitment of central enterprises in the new era with practical actions and achievements.

Deepening Cultural Tourism Integration
Empowering a Better Life with Innovative Supply

Entering a new stage of development, the deep integration of culture and tourism has become one of the important paths to meet people's livelihood needs. OCT Group (华侨城集团) adheres to the principle of "cultivating tourism with culture and highlighting culture with tourism," taking supply-side structural reform as the main line, and continuously promoting the iterative upgrading of cultural tourism products and the innovation of experience scenarios.

Cultural revitalization allows classics to焕发新生 (焕发新生 (huàn fā xīn shēng - "radiate new life," to regain vitality or be reborn)). OCT (华侨城) uses IP linkage and immersive expression to make culture feelable and touchable. The Group focuses on brand value creation and implements the "Galaxy Project (星河计划)," namely OCT's (华侨城) brand IP and digital development strategy. The "Galaxy Digital IP Family (星河数字IP家族)" has more than 30 million fans across the entire network. Through the organic integration of brand, IP, and marketing, it enhances the dissemination of culture. The Cultural Company (文化公司) released the "China Theatre (华剧院)" brand, introducing high-quality plays and well-known IPs to offer audiences a literary and artistic feast. Shenzhen Twenty-Four History Academy (深圳二十四史书院) connects the millennium context of tea culture with "Time and Space Tea Realm (时空茶境)." JianShui Zhu Family Garden (建水朱家花园) launched an immersive experience project, allowing tourists to deeply experience Yunnan (滇南) culture through the courtyard drama "Zhu Garden Spring and Autumn (朱园春秋)" and NPC interaction.

Tourism quality improvement allows the experience to突破想象 (突破想象 (tū pò xiǎng xiàng - "break through imagination," to exceed expectations or go beyond what is conceivable)). The theme park sector continues to iterate and upgrade. During the "Amazing Trendy Play Festival (惊奇潮玩节)," Happy Valley (欢乐谷) in various places used VR and AR technologies to create a virtual and real immersive interactive space, bringing tourists a rich and diverse immersive journey. The new Beijing Maya Beach Water Park (北京玛雅海滩水公园) and Chongqing Happy Valley "Super Wings (超级飞侠)" Energy Block and other projects have been unveiled successively. Shenzhen Splendid China Folk Village (深圳锦绣中华·民俗村) joined hands with "A Dream of Splendor (梦华录)" to create a national style immersive theme area, allowing traditional culture to "live" in interaction. The construction of natural and cultural scenic spots is also accelerating simultaneously. The first phase of Shenzhen Eastern OCT (深圳东部华侨城) Tea Stream Valley Cloud Sea (茶溪云海) landscape is open to the public, forming a unique "Mountain and Sea Secret Realm (山海秘境)" resort scene.

Commercial innovation makes consumption充满活力 (充满活力 (chōng mǎn huó lì - "full of vitality," brimming with energy and dynamism)). OCT (华侨城) transforms cultural tourism traffic into commercial vitality, creating a new space for the integration of culture, commerce, and tourism. Foshan Shunde Happy Coast PLUS (佛山顺德欢乐海岸PLUS) has won more than 70 industry honors in the past 6 years, becoming an important support for regional consumption upgrading. Shenzhen OCT-LOFT Creative Culture Park (深圳华侨城创意文化园) has become a model of cultural and commercial integration by creating creative markets and characteristic blocks. Dongguan Youlanli ULAND—Songshan Lake Cultural and Art Block (东莞悠兰里ULAND—松山湖文化艺术街区) officially opened, creating a courtyard-style natural and cultural commercial space, injecting continuous vitality into commerce.

Hotel renovation makes the journey盛满质感 (盛满质感 (shèng mǎn zhì gǎn - "full of texture," imbued with quality and refinement)). From parent-child leisure to cultural and creative social interaction and high-end business, OCT Hotels (华侨城酒店) puts the concept of "a living space with temperature" into practice. Shenzhen Eastern OCT Black Forest Hotel (深圳东部华侨城黑森林嘉途酒店) added a children's play center of over 900 square meters, creating a one-stop parent-child resort new landmark; Shenzhen OCT-LOFT Galtop Hotel (深圳华侨城创意文化园嘉途酒店) is equipped with flexible CO-WORK space, and joins hands with "SUPERMONKEY (超级猩猩)" to create a healthy living scene; Shenzhen Qianhai OCT St. Regis Hotel (深圳前海华侨城瑞吉酒店) cleverly integrates the classic of New York (纽约) and the vitality of Shenzhen (深圳), becoming a new gathering landmark.

Deeply Cultivating Quality Living
Painting a Livable Picture with High-Quality Services

Facing the new trend of real estate industry development, OCT (华侨城) adheres to the brand concept of "Quality Life Dream Maker (优质生活创想家)," and works together with product power and service power to continuously empower the upgrading of quality living and urban services.

After years of development, OCT (华侨城) has cumulatively invested in the construction of more than 200 high-quality real estate projects, and has ingeniously created a number of quality residences, city business cards and exclusive landmarks such as Pure Water Bank (纯水岸), Swan Castle (天鹅堡), Shenzhen Happy Coast (深圳欢乐海岸), and Shenzhen Happy Harbour (深圳欢乐港湾). OCT (华侨城) always carves product details with high standards, integrating ecological, artistic and cultural elements into the community, not only providing owners with high-quality living space, but also promoting regional value upgrading and urban style shaping, demonstrating the responsibility and commitment of central enterprises.

In 2025, focusing on the construction goal of "good houses," OCT (华侨城) launched the "Good House Dream Maker (好房子·创享家)" product system, providing practical samples for the industry through four characteristics of "quality, innovation, ecology, and artistic style," and "4 dimensions, 12 advantages, 42 items, and more than 200" technical measures. As the first project of OCT's (华侨城) "good house" new standard to be implemented in South China (华南) region, the third phase of Sanya Happy East Coast (三亚欢乐东岸) innovatively adopts the "double panoramic cabin" apartment design to achieve a balance between landscape vision and living comfort. Optimizing balcony and bay window space, applying new external wall insulation technology, and practicing the concept of green and low-carbon development, the product has gained market recognition. In October 2025, the subscription amount of South China Company (华南公司) increased by 59% month-on-month, and the sales volume of many projects ranked among the top in the local area.

"Good houses" are the foundation of livability, and high-quality services are the extension of human settlement value. In 2025, China Service Company (华服公司) launched the sub-brands "China City Service (华·城服)" and "China Enterprise Service (华·企服)," breaking the boundaries of traditional community services. "China City Service (华·城服)" focuses on the field of urban public services, and expands business scenarios through four service models: all-domain humanistic operation, all-domain intelligent deployment, all-domain ecological co-integration, and all-domain sustainability; "China Enterprise Service (华·企服)" focuses on intelligent property, enterprise empowerment, and asset ecology, providing dimensional services for commercial, office buildings and industrial parks, and building a full-scene service ecology.

Standing at a new starting point, OCT Group (华侨城集团) will thoroughly implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee (党的二十届四中全会精神), continue to deepen reform, innovate and work hard, forge ahead on the road of cultural tourism integration and urban development, and contribute to the construction of Chinese-style modernization with the strength of central enterprises.

Data source: OCT Group (华侨城集团)

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Editor(s) of this page: Chen Juan, He Yuche, Zhang Yifu

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ASEAN Nations Actively Explore the Development Potential of Artificial Intelligence (International Perspective)

By: 本报记者 白元琪

Artificial intelligence is becoming a new engine driving ASEAN's economic growth and industrial upgrading. A study by the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia predicts that by 2030, the artificial intelligence industry is expected to drive ASEAN's GDP growth by 10% to 18%, creating a potential added value of over $1 trillion. Kelly Forbes, head of the Asia-Pacific Institute of Artificial Intelligence (人工智能亚太研究所) based in Singapore (新加坡), said that ASEAN countries have the potential for digital development and a large young workforce. If they can jointly promote technological innovation and capacity building, they are expected to grow into an important growth pole for the global artificial intelligence industry.

The Public "Wisely" Enjoy the Technological Dividend

Southeast Asia (东南亚) has a long rainy season and frequent floods. How can timely monitoring and early warning be achieved? The Climate Change Data Center of Chiang Mai University (清迈大学) in Thailand (泰国) provides a "smart answer." Relying on artificial intelligence technology, the center has deployed monitoring equipment in many areas of northern Thailand (泰国北部) that are at high risk of flash floods and urban flooding, realizing real-time monitoring and early warning of water levels, making disaster prevention and emergency response faster and more accurate. As the monitoring network extends from the source to the downstream, relevant departments can make more scientific decisions when rainstorms strike, and the public can also obtain important reminders in real time.

As the demand for artificial intelligence applications in ASEAN countries continues to rise, a number of local innovative enterprises are accelerating their rise. In Yogyakarta (日惹), Indonesia (印度尼西亚), the local government has introduced an artificial intelligence monitoring system in corn planting planning to track key indicators such as nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium content, humidity, and temperature in the soil in real time, providing a basis for precise fertilization. Facing the rising risk of pest infestation in oil palm planting areas, the drone plant protection company "Terra Agriculture (泰腊农业)" uses artificial intelligence technology to predict and identify pests, scientifically determine the types of pesticides and spraying frequency, so that the prevention and control efficiency is increased by about 60%. In Malaysia (马来西亚), a technology company called "PolicyStreet (政策街)" uses artificial intelligence technology to reshape the insurance process, creating an intelligent platform that integrates risk assessment, fraud monitoring, and automatic claims settlement, and achieves personalized recommendations and accurate underwriting through data analysis, improving the efficiency of financial services and enhancing user experience.

Artificial intelligence applications have also extended to social service areas such as cultural education and urban transportation. Brunei (文莱)'s start-up private enterprise "Pikselate (皮克塞莱特)" optimizes the generation of game and comic content with artificial intelligence technology, launching a campus safety-themed mobile game and a "Teenage Webcomics" series that integrates traditional culture. Combining intelligent analysis and interactive design, it launches customized content by identifying user behavior, making education and cultural expression more attractive and influential. Since the beginning of this year, Singapore (新加坡) has launched an artificial intelligence traffic management system that integrates real-time data and dynamic scheduling to further alleviate traffic congestion.

Liya Suleiman, a scholar at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (李光耀公共政策学院) at the National University of Singapore (新加坡国立大学), said that the widespread application of artificial intelligence in many fields has significantly improved industrial efficiency, provided more resilient and people-friendly solutions for urban management, and brought more efficient and convenient services to the public.

Support Policies Continue to be Introduced

In recent years, ASEAN countries have actively formulated artificial intelligence development strategies, the number of related enterprises has continued to grow, and talent training and infrastructure investment have accelerated simultaneously. Manufacturing, finance, medical care, and transportation have become priority application areas.

Singapore (新加坡) released the upgraded "National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2.0 (国家人工智能战略2.0)" in 2023, proposing to build a trustworthy and sustainable artificial intelligence ecosystem. Indonesia (印尼) launched the "2020-2045 National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (2020—2045年人工智能战略)" in 2020, listing artificial intelligence as a national long-term development priority. Malaysia (马来西亚) promotes the accelerated upgrading of industries through the "Digital Economy Blueprint (数字经济蓝图)" and the "National Artificial Intelligence Roadmap (国家人工智能路线图)." Thailand (泰国) implemented the "National Artificial Intelligence Strategy and Action Plan (2022-2027) (国家人工智能战略和行动计划（2022—2027）)" in 2022, striving to drive innovation and public service optimization with artificial intelligence.

"In ASEAN, artificial intelligence financing is entering an acceleration channel. This year, more than 40% of the funds of investment institutions in ASEAN countries such as Singapore (新加坡) and Malaysia (马来西亚) have poured into the industry." Tong Meng David (通孟戴维), deputy director of the China-ASEAN Research Center of the Cambodia China Polytechnic University (柬华理工大学中国—东盟研究中心), told reporters that generative artificial intelligence is particularly favored and is fully integrated into content creation, education and corporate services.

In order to support the widespread application of artificial intelligence, ASEAN countries continue to improve digital infrastructure and expand interconnection networks. Among them, the data center capacity in the region has grown significantly, and is expected to increase from 1677 megawatts in 2024 to 7589 megawatts in 2028. The construction of 5G networks is also steadily advancing. According to data from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, ASEAN's annual investment in 5G basic networks has been approximately US$14 billion in the past five years. ASEAN countries have also continued to strengthen digital infrastructure cooperation, such as Singapore (新加坡) and Malaysia (马来西亚) connecting through submarine cables and fiber optic networks, and Indonesia (印尼), the Philippines (菲律宾), and Malaysia (马来西亚) jointly promoting the construction of submarine optical cable projects, realizing the "land-sea integration and digital network co-weaving" of regional resources.

In the "ASEAN Digital Master Plan 2025 (东盟数字总体计划2025)" released in 2021, ASEAN clearly proposed to promote the integrated development of artificial intelligence with regional cooperation as the engine, reduce policy fragmentation, and build an efficient and collaborative innovation system. Experts pointed out that from single-point breakthroughs to coordinated advancement, ASEAN is moving towards a "synchronized era" of regional artificial intelligence development. Relying on cooperation mechanisms such as the "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (区域全面经济伙伴关系协定)," ASEAN will deepen cooperation in areas such as data flow and cross-border e-commerce, and build a solid foundation for the development of artificial intelligence.

Cooperation with China is Increasingly Close

In recent years, ASEAN and China (中国) have continuously deepened cooperation in artificial intelligence technology research and development, industrial implementation, and talent training. The industrial chain has accelerated its integration, and the innovation ecosystem has gradually improved, further boosting the high-quality development of the regional digital economy.

In June of this year, the China-ASEAN Intelligent Innovation Cooperation Center (中国—东盟智能创新合作中心) was put into operation, focusing on multiple fields such as agriculture, medical care, and logistics, and jointly building vertical application solutions with relevant ASEAN institutions. At present, the center has signed more than 60 projects. Wen Yonggang (文勇刚), academician of the Singapore Academy of Engineering (新加坡工程院) and President's Chair Professor of Nanyang Technological University (南洋理工大学), said that ASEAN is at a critical period of digital transformation, and the demand for advanced artificial intelligence technology is diverse, which perfectly matches China's (中国) booming artificial intelligence technology.

In September of this year, the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (中国科技部) released the "Three-Year Work Plan for ASEAN-Oriented Artificial Intelligence Enabling Development and Technological Capacity Improvement Action (2025-2027) (面向东盟人工智能赋能发展科技能力提升行动三年工作方案（2025—2027）)," which aims to promote cooperation between China (中国) and ASEAN countries in artificial intelligence technology exchange, industrial empowerment, capacity building, and talent training, and jointly create an artificial intelligence innovation ecosystem. At the 2025 China (Guangxi)-ASEAN Vocational Education Cooperation and Development Conference (2025中国（广西）—东盟职业教育合作发展大会), Guangxi (广西) released the "ASEAN-Oriented 'Hundred, Thousand, Ten Thousand' Artificial Intelligence Talent Training Program (2025-2027) (面向东盟“百千万”人工智能人才培养计划（2025—2027年）)." The plan aims to cultivate 100 digital innovation talents, 1,000 digital gold-collar workers, and 10,000 digital blue-collar workers in the next three years through the integrated model of "artificial intelligence + ASEAN national language + major."

On October 28, China (中国) and ASEAN signed the upgraded Protocol 3.0 of the Free Trade Area, and promoting the development of emerging industries such as digital and green industries was listed as a key area of cooperation. Zhai Kun (翟崑), professor at the School of International Relations of Peking University (北京大学国际关系学院), believes that China-ASEAN Free Trade Area 3.0 will create favorable conditions for the smooth implementation of China's (中国) artificial intelligence solutions in the ASEAN market through rule docking, standard mutual recognition, and mechanism interconnection, and promote the release of multiplier effects in the digital field between the two sides. ASEAN Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn (高金洪) said that China (中国) has developed rapidly in the field of artificial intelligence technology applications, and ASEAN and China (中国) have broad cooperation space in new scenarios and new business formats of artificial intelligence applications, and should jointly seize the new opportunities of the digital age.

(Reported from Bangkok (曼谷) on November 17 by this newspaper)

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The four political documents between China and Japan clearly stipulate the Taiwan issue, leaving no room for ambiguity or misinterpretation.

This newspaper reported from Beijing on November 17th (Reporter Chu Jun (褚君)) Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning (毛宁) stated on the 17th that the clear stipulations made by the four Sino-Japanese political documents regarding the Taiwan issue, as well as the solemn commitments made by the Japanese government, have the force of international law and leave no room for ambiguity or distortion. China urges Japan to stop 越线玩火 (yuè xiàn wán huǒ - "crossing the line and playing with fire," to cross the line and stir up trouble), retract its erroneous words and deeds, and earnestly embody its commitments to China in practical actions.

At the regular press conference that day, a reporter asked: Recently, individual Japanese politicians have claimed that China's "overreacted" to Sanae Takaichi's (高市早苗) erroneous remarks regarding Taiwan. Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno (木原稔) also argued that the Japanese government's position on the Taiwan issue has not changed and is consistent with the 1972 Sino-Japanese Joint Statement. What is China's response to this?

"Regarding the erroneous remarks made by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) concerning Taiwan, China has repeatedly clarified its solemn position. The remarks seriously violate the spirit of the four Sino-Japanese political documents and fundamentally undermine the political foundation of Sino-Japanese relations," Mao Ning (毛宁) said.

Mao Ning (毛宁) stated that when China and Japan discussed the restoration of diplomatic relations, China clearly put forward the "Three Principles for the Restoration of Diplomatic Relations," namely that the government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the Chinese people; Taiwan Province is an inseparable part of the territory of the People's Republic of China; and the so-called "Japan-Chiang Treaty" is illegal and invalid and should be abolished.

Mao Ning (毛宁) said that in 1972, the Sino-Japanese Joint Statement was signed, and the two countries officially established diplomatic relations. The Joint Statement contains three references to the Taiwan issue. The first is in the preamble, which states that "The Japanese side reiterates its position on the understanding of the 'Three Principles for the Restoration of Diplomatic Relations' put forward by the government of the People's Republic of China, and seeks to realize the normalization of Japan-China relations"; the second is in Article 2 of the statement, which states that "The Government of Japan recognizes the Government of the People's Republic of China as the sole legal Government of China"; and the third is in Article 3 of the statement, which states that "The Government of the People's Republic of China reiterates that Taiwan is an inseparable part of the territory of the People's Republic of China. The Government of Japan fully understands and respects this position of the Chinese Government, and adheres to the position stipulated in Article 8 of the Potsdam Proclamation."

In 1978, China and Japan signed the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, which clearly pointed out that the Sino-Japanese Joint Statement "is the foundation of peaceful and friendly relations between the two countries, and the principles stated in the Joint Statement should be strictly observed," legally confirming the various principles and contents of the Joint Statement and establishing legal norms for Sino-Japanese relations.

In 1998, the two sides issued the "Sino-Japanese Joint Declaration on Establishing a Partnership of Friendship and Cooperation Dedicated to Peace and Development," in which the Japanese side promised to "continue to abide by Japan's position on the Taiwan issue as stated in the Sino-Japanese Joint Statement, and reiterate that there is only one China. Japan will continue to maintain only private and regional exchanges with Taiwan," thereby excluding the legal space for Japan to develop official relations with Taiwan.

In 2008, Article 5 of the "Sino-Japanese Joint Statement on Comprehensively Promoting Strategic and Mutually Beneficial Relations" clearly stipulated that the Japanese side "continues to adhere to the position on the Taiwan issue stated in the Japan-China Joint Statement."

"The above are the clear stipulations made by the four Sino-Japanese political documents regarding the Taiwan issue, as well as the solemn commitments made by the Japanese government, which have the force of international law and leave no room for ambiguity or distortion. No matter which party or individual is in power in Japan, they must adhere to and abide by the Japanese government's commitments on the Taiwan issue," Mao Ning (毛宁) said. China urges Japan to, with an attitude responsible to history and bilateral relations, stop 越线玩火 (yuè xiàn wán huǒ - "crossing the line and playing with fire," to cross the line and stir up trouble), retract its erroneous words and deeds, and earnestly embody its commitments to China in practical actions.

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Beijing, November 17th (Reporter Chu Jun (褚君)) Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning (毛宁) stated on the 17th that Japan's recent series of egregious words and actions have aroused vigilance, dissatisfaction, and protests from neighboring countries. China urges Japan to deeply reflect on its history of aggression and adhere to the path of peaceful development.

At the regular press conference that day, a reporter asked: On the 14th, the spokesperson of the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement strongly protesting the Japanese government's expansion of the "Territorial Sovereignty Exhibition Hall" in Tokyo, which promotes inappropriate claims to sovereignty over Dokdo (known as "Takeshima" in Japan). What is China's comment on this?

"We have noticed relevant reports on the above-mentioned issue. Japan's recent series of egregious words and actions have aroused vigilance, dissatisfaction, and protests from neighboring countries. We urge Japan to deeply reflect on its history of aggression, adhere to the path of peaceful development, and 以实际行动 (yǐ shí jì xíng dòng - "with practical actions," to demonstrate sincerity through concrete deeds) win the trust of its Asian neighbors and the international community," Mao Ning (毛宁) said.

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Ecuadorians Vote "No" to Foreign Military Bases in Referendum

Quito, November 16 (Xinhua) -- (Reporter Liao Siwei (廖思维)) Preliminary vote count results released by the National Electoral Council of Ecuador (厄瓜多尔全国选举委员会) on the evening of the 16th showed that Ecuadorian citizens opposed the establishment of foreign military bases in the constitutional referendum held on the same day.

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa (诺沃亚) stated that the referendum results reflect the will of the people, and the government will respect the people's choice and continue to steadfastly advance national security and governance commitments through existing means.

Ecuador held a referendum on four questions that day, including whether to allow the establishment of foreign military bases. More than 800 observers participated in supervising the voting in this referendum, and more than 100,000 military and police personnel were responsible for security.

Noboa had previously repeatedly claimed that the country faces a serious violence crisis and requires the intervention of foreign military forces to combat drug trafficking, arms trafficking, and transnational organized crime.

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Gaza Strip Hit by Heavy Rain, Residents Lack Winter Supplies

According to Xinhua News Agency, Gaza (加沙) electric (Reporters Huang Zemin (黄泽民) and Zhao Weihong (赵伟宏)) The Gaza Strip (加沙地带) in Palestine (巴勒斯坦) has been hit by heavy rainfall in recent days, and the rainfall is still continuing as of the 15th. Local people are suffering from water accumulation and cold, and there is a general lack of essential supplies to keep out the cold.
Philippe Lazzarini (菲利普·拉扎里尼), Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (联合国近东巴勒斯坦难民救济和工程处), said on social media on the 15th that the Gaza Strip (加沙地带) is currently cold and humid, and displaced people are facing severe winter conditions, but lack the necessary supplies to resist rain and cold, and people urgently need more shelter supplies.
Mahmoud Bassal (马哈茂德·巴萨勒), a spokesman for the Civil Defense Department (民防部门) in the Gaza Strip (加沙地带), told Xinhua News Agency (新华社) reporters on the 14th that "cracked and dilapidated houses may collapse at any time, and the tents of thousands of displaced people have been damaged," however, relief resources are extremely limited.
Since the night of the 13th, the Gaza Strip (加沙地带) has experienced its first rainfall since the beginning of winter, and the rainfall has intermittently increased many times, causing floods. Some refugee tent camps were flooded.

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IMF Raises Economic Growth Forecast for Middle East and North Africa

This newspaper reported from Dubai on November 17th (Reporter Guan Kejiang (管克江)) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently held a regional economic outlook conference in Dubai (迪拜), United Arab Emirates (阿联酋), raising the 2025 economic growth forecast for the Middle East and North Africa region to 3.3% and the economic growth forecast for next year to 3.7%.

Jihad Azour (吉哈德·阿祖尔), Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department of the IMF, said that regional oil exporters will benefit from favorable factors such as increased oil production, expanded public investment, and economic diversification, while regional oil importers will benefit from lower commodity prices, tourism recovery, and increased government support. Azour believes that the regional economy has shown resilience, but there are still many uncertainties. He called on countries in the region to further deepen structural reforms, including taking measures to expand infrastructure investment, reduce trade barriers, and improve the business environment.

Nasser Saidi (纳赛尔·赛义迪), IMF Middle East Regional Advisor and economist, emphasized that the economic diversification of the Gulf oil exporting countries is showing results, and the region's ability to cope with external shocks is also increasing. At the same time, affected by conflicts and other factors, the economic reconstruction of countries and regions such as Syria (叙利亚), Iraq (伊拉克), Gaza (加沙), Libya (利比亚), and Yemen (也门) urgently requires a large amount of funds, which may total as much as 5 trillion US dollars. He called for promoting the reintegration of these economies into the regional economy through infrastructure construction and trade integration.

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Strengthening Collaboration, Shaping the Future of Museums

By: 本报记者 张志文

The 27th General Conference of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) was recently held in Dubai (迪拜), United Arab Emirates (UAE). This was the first time the organization has held a conference in the Middle East since its founding in 1946. The conference, themed "The Future of Museums in a Rapidly Changing Society," attracted more than 4,500 professionals from over 100 countries and regions. Discussions focused on the leading role of museums in a changing era, the protection of intangible cultural heritage, the empowerment of youth, and the rise of new technologies, calling for strengthened collaboration, enhanced social functions of museums, and the co-creation of the future of museums.

Outgoing ICOM President Emma Nardi advocated at the opening ceremony for all parties to take the conference as an opportunity to uphold an open and inclusive attitude, deepen cooperation in various fields, promote cultural heritage and sustainable development, and make museums vibrant spaces that promote mutual learning among civilizations and serve the public. Latifa Al Maktoum, head of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority, said that hosting the conference in Dubai (迪拜) demonstrates the rich cultural heritage of the Middle East and its continued contribution to the global creative industries.

In recent years, Middle Eastern countries have continued to increase their efforts to protect cultural heritage, taking the museum sector as one of the important levers for cultural and economic development. A number of key cultural and museum venues have opened, including the Grand Egyptian Museum, the Museum of the Future in Dubai (迪拜), and the Saudi Museum of Contemporary Art. Salem, Minister of Culture of the United Arab Emirates (阿联酋文化部部长萨利姆), said that the UAE is committed to promoting the development of museums, and the Abu Dhabi Natural History Museum and the Zayed National Museum will both open to the public in the near future.

The conference focused on the integrated development of artificial intelligence and museums, discussing the profound changes that have taken place in museums' preservation of cultural heritage, interpretation of values, and methods of storytelling in the context of digital technology iteration. At the conference expo, museums, universities, cultural heritage institutions, and enterprises from around the world exhibited the latest achievements in cultural heritage protection, museum digitization, equipment and facility research and development, and cultural and museum IP transformation. Among them, Chinese enterprises' independently developed multi-functional digital cultural relic display cabinets and overall solutions for cultural relic storage were widely concerned.

"Chinese technology provides important assistance for the development of the global museum industry." Sofia Fonseca, Secretary-General of the International Cultural Tourism Committee under the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), told reporters that innovative technologies in the museum field are continuously iterating and upgrading. The 3D scanning, augmented reality, smart storage, and other technologies developed by Chinese cultural and museum enterprises are not only conducive to the all-round protection of cultural heritage, but will also support museums in better serving the public.

During the 40th ICOM General Assembly, a new ICOM Executive Committee was elected. Antonio Rodriguez, former Chairman of the ICOM Advisory Committee, was elected as the new ICOM President. The Chinese representative was re-elected as a member of the Executive Committee, and Rotterdam (鹿特丹), the Netherlands (荷兰), was selected to host the 2028 ICOM General Conference.

(Reported from Dubai (迪拜) on November 17)

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Clashes Erupt Near Libyan Capital

Xinhua News Agency, Tunis, November 17th (Reporter Wang Yisheng (王一盛)) Tripoli News: According to multiple Libyan media reports, from the evening of the 16th to the early morning of the 17th, gunshots continued in the town of Werchfana, about 35 kilometers southwest of the Libyan capital Tripoli (的黎波里), and fierce clashes broke out between two armed groups.

Local residents said that the crossfire occurred in residential areas, causing panic among civilians and disrupting traffic on nearby roads.

The Libyan authorities have not yet issued any statement on the cause of the conflict, nor have they announced the casualties caused by the conflict.

Some local sources said that the conflict began when a security checkpoint of a pro-government armed force was attacked.

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Editors of this page: Zou Zhipeng, Zhang Huizhong, Chu Jun

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Northern Liaoning Granary Draped in Gold: Tieling Celebrates Autumn Harvest

This autumn, the land of northern Liaoning is covered in golden hues. In the rice paddies of Tieling County (铁岭县), Tieling City (铁岭市), Liaoning Province (辽宁省), combine harvesters shuttle back and forth, threshing the rice ears into golden grains that pour into bags; in the cornfields of Changtu County (昌图县), direct grain harvesters work back and forth, the plump "golden cobs" reflecting the smiling faces of farmers; on the outskirts of the city, neatly stacked green and white cabbages line the autumn vegetable fields, and fresh fruits and vegetables are continuously transported to the urban markets... As an important "grain bag" of Liaoning (辽宁), Tieling City (铁岭市) has delivered an answer sheet of "stable yield, excellent quality, and smiling farmers" in this year's autumn harvest, comprehensively implementing the strategy of "storing grain in the land and storing grain in technology" with solid actions, and helping to build a solid national food security defense line.

Storing grain in the land: High-standard farmland weaves a "drought and flood protection" network.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Tieling City (铁岭市) promoted agricultural reclamation enterprises to tackle the transformation of low-lying land, cumulatively converting 5,400 mu of flood-prone dry land into paddy fields. By building irrigation and drainage ditches and leveling the land, the "water disaster area" was transformed into a "bumper harvest field," which not only solved the problem of water accumulation but also realized centralized and contiguous mechanized operations of cultivated land, reducing labor costs by more than 30%.

As a famous "Rice Fragrance Town" in northern Liaoning (辽北), Shuangjingzi Town (双井子镇) in Tieling County (铁岭县) has a rice planting area of 51,000 mu in 2025. This year, with favorable weather conditions, coupled with scientific planting and refined management, rice has ushered in a bumper harvest and increased income, with a yield of 1,300 jin per mu, an increase of 300 jin compared to 2024, and a total output of over 66 million jin for the entire town, setting a new high in recent years. At present, the autumn grain harvest in the town has been fully completed.

Such changes stem from Tieling City's (铁岭市) meticulous care for cultivated land. As a key city in a typical black soil area, Tieling City (铁岭市) is fully promoting the construction of high-standard farmland, from land leveling and irrigation system upgrades to hardening of field roads, each project is aimed at "building one mu and benefiting one mu." In Qingyunbao Town (庆云堡镇), Kaiyuan City (开原市), 16,700 mu of high-standard farmland are equipped with 4-meter-wide operation roads, seepage-proof canals, and intelligent sluice gates, which can be used to achieve drought and flood protection for rice by operating the sluice gates. As of now, Tieling City (铁岭市) has built more than 5 million mu of high-standard farmland, promoting stable and high yields in major grain-producing areas. In 2025, the machine harvesting rate of rice will reach more than 99%, and the yield per mu of major grains such as corn and rice will increase by 10%-15% compared to the average of the past five years.

Not only that, Tieling City (铁岭市) is also exploring the "one land, two harvests" model to improve the efficiency of cultivated land. Qingyunbao Town (庆云堡镇) in Kaiyuan City (开原市) has introduced fresh corn and broccoli to increase land utilization; Fanjia Village (范家村) in Shuangjingzi Town (双井子镇), Tieling County (铁岭县), has implemented "muskmelon intercropping with cabbage," first planting a crop of muskmelons to nourish the land, and then planting cabbage to increase income, with a profit of 2,000 yuan per mu higher than planting cabbage alone; Shengli Village (胜利村) in Laocheng Town (老城镇), Changtu County (昌图县), has implemented "winter wheat intercropping with soybeans," first planting a crop of winter wheat, and then planting soybeans, achieving a win-win situation of soil protection and income increase.

Storing grain in technology: Technology empowers to answer the question of "good planting and full harvest."

In October of this year, the Tieling City (铁岭市) Grain Science Research Institute (粮食科学研究所), under the guidance of the Tieling City (铁岭市) Development and Reform Commission (发展改革委), innovatively practiced the "air-drying warehouse + three-dimensional warehouse + 'subject empowerment' technical service" farmer grain storage technology model, which stood out from 110 cases across the country and was selected as a "National Typical Case of Post-Production Grain Saving and Loss Reduction," ranking second in the country in total score. This model addresses the problem of mold in "ground-stacked grain" in northern Liaoning (辽北). Through farmer-participatory research and development and practice, it allows scientific grain storage technology to enter ordinary farm households, effectively helping farmers increase income compared to the same period of "ground-stacked grain."

The power of technology is also reflected in the entire chain from planting to harvesting. At Jinli Family Farm (金利家庭农场) in Yongshou Village (永收村), Shuangjingzi Town (双井子镇), Tieling County (铁岭县), five large harvesters equipped with Beidou navigation help to return grains to the barn, and the yield per mu of 2,000 mu of "Daohuaxiang No. 2" (稻花香2号) rice increased by 300 jin compared to 2024. Behind the bumper harvest is Shuangjingzi Town's (双井子镇) intensive cultivation of the agricultural industry. Relying on the Tieling County (铁岭县) Rice Industry Joint Party Committee (水稻产业联合党委), Shuangjingzi Town (双井子镇) established a rice industry development joint cooperative, absorbing multiple cooperatives and large growers to develop together, and continuously introducing new rice planting technologies and models through field trips and studies. From promoting mechanized seedling raising "assembly lines" to improve seedling quality, to organizing agricultural technicians to go deep into the fields to provide technical guidance; from establishing a pest and disease monitoring and early warning mechanism to promoting organic fertilizers and biological control technologies, a series of scientific measures provide solid support for high rice yields.

In order to truly implement agricultural technology, the Tieling City (铁岭市) Grain Science Research Institute (粮食科学研究所) organized technicians to provide on-site guidance, sending the concept of "reducing losses is increasing production" to the fields, and cumulatively trained more than 200 farmers face-to-face, effectively promoting the continuous improvement of the coverage rate of scientific grain storage technology.

Benefiting the people and increasing income: Diversified measures give farmers a promising future in growing grain.

To give farmers a promising future in growing grain, Tieling City (铁岭市) is making efforts in the entire chain of "production, purchase, and sale." On the production side, the "company + farmer" order model is promoted. Kaiyuan City (开原市) relies on local rice deep-processing enterprises to connect growers with "farmers planting + companies purchasing," driving more than 200 farmers to increase income; on the sales side, family farms are supported to expand online channels. The crab paddy rice and duck paddy rice planted by Yuanju Family Farm (缘聚家庭农场) in Tieling County (铁岭县) are attracting much attention during the seedling stage by live streaming the planting process of "no pesticides and organic fertilizers," and online orders continue to climb during the harvest season.

Policy guarantees reassure farmers. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Tieling City (铁岭市) has continuously increased the guarantee standards for disadvantaged groups, and the urban and rural minimum living guarantee standards have been unified, with a cumulative distribution of 3.334 billion yuan in minimum living guarantee and special hardship support funds; for grain farmers, policies such as arable land fertility protection subsidies and agricultural machinery purchase subsidies are implemented. During the 2025 spring grain purchase period, the "standard on the list, price on the wall, and sample on the stage" were strictly implemented, allowing farmers to sell "clear grain" and "assured grain." Today, in the fields of Tieling City (铁岭市), "growing more grain and growing good grain" has become a consensus, and more and more farmers are actively learning new technologies and purchasing new equipment, using their hands to hold up "golden hope."

Looking forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," Tieling City (铁岭市) will continue to deepen the pro-agricultural policy system and explore the establishment of a dynamic subsidy mechanism to create a virtuous cycle of grain planting income and the market and policies. Relying on the digital agriculture platform, the entire process of subsidy distribution and acquisition will be traceable, further improving policy transparency and implementation efficiency. At the same time, it plans to build a regional modern agricultural service center to integrate agricultural machinery sharing, technical training, financial support, and other resources to provide farmers with "one-stop" services, and promote "growing more grain and growing good grain" from consensus to a powerful driving force for the development of modern agriculture, and continue to consolidate the "ballast stone" of national food security.

On both sides of the Liao River (辽河), the black soil is vast, and the roar of harvesters and the laughter of farmers interweave into a beautiful harvest movement. As the "Liaobei Granary" (辽北粮仓), Tieling City (铁岭市) is safeguarding the black soil, promoting new technologies, and benefiting grain growers with more solid actions, so that every inch of cultivated land can produce "golden fruits" and every farmer can share the "sweetness of harvest," and continue to contribute the solid strength of a major grain-producing city in northern Liaoning (辽北) on the journey of ensuring national food security.

Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Tieling Municipal Committee (中共铁岭市委宣传部).

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Promote International Poverty Reduction Through Fishery Cooperation

In recent years, China has held various forms of international fisheries education and international exchange activities. Through training, exchanges, and industry-university-research cooperation, China has shared its fisheries development experience with countries such as Indonesia, Ghana, and Laos, promoting technology empowerment and green aquaculture. These transnational cooperation projects have not only improved the local fisheries technology level and helped fishermen increase their income and become wealthy, but also contributed Chinese wisdom to the sustainable development of global fisheries.

Indonesia—
Jointly Cultivating Fisheries "New Quality Craftsmen"
By Cao Shiyun (曹师韵), this newspaper's reporter.
When I met Muhammad Romi Fazi (穆罕默德·罗米·法齐), CEO of Indonesia's Abata Group, he was wearing a blue and white Dalian Ocean University (大连海洋大学) cultural shirt, with the school emblem on his chest particularly eye-catching. "This is a souvenir I brought back from training in China. This training impressed me deeply, and I learned a lot of new technologies and knowledge!" Fazi told reporters.
On September 15 this year, the "New Quality Craftsmen" vocational skills training project 2025 autumn class, hosted by the International Cooperation Center of the National Development and Reform Commission of China (中国国家发展和改革委员会国际合作中心) and undertaken by Dalian Ocean University (大连海洋大学), opened in Dalian, Liaoning, with the theme of "Using Skills as a Bridge to Deepen Cooperation." The training course focuses on the sustainable development of marine fisheries and specifically offers two courses for Indonesian students: "Marine Aquaculture" and "Fisheries Catching and Refrigeration Management." The 4-week course aims to cultivate international marine talents with modern technology and innovation capabilities.
As the leader of the training students, Fazi introduced to reporters: "The 46 students participating in the training come from all over Indonesia, including university teachers, technicians, fisheries practitioners, and boat owners." The training takes the form of "theoretical teaching + practical exercises + case studies." In addition to classroom learning, students also go deep into laboratories and enterprises for field visits and practice. "This arrangement has benefited us a lot. It not only allows us to better understand China's fisheries system and policies, but also makes it easier for us to bring relevant experience back to Indonesia," Fazi said.
At Dalian Xinyulong National Marine Ranch (大连鑫玉龙国家级海洋牧场), rows of sea cucumber farming cages are neatly spread over 30,000 acres of blue waves, with fishing boats passing through from time to time, outlining a marine picture of modern fisheries and nature living in harmony. "This is the first time I have seen a real marine ranch, it's so cool!" Fazi said that by building such an ecosystem in a fixed sea area, the Chinese government and enterprises have achieved marine ecological restoration through scientific management, and also promoted the coordinated development of aquaculture and tourism. "This model can control the intensity of development, avoid overfishing, and rebuild the ecosystem, which is scientific and sustainable."
In the data center of the marine ranch, Fazi was attracted by the high-tech scene in front of him. On the huge blue screen, underwater artificial intelligence robots transmit seabed images in real time, and data such as water temperature, salinity, pH, and dissolved oxygen jump synchronously. "Through 5G Internet of Things technology, the marine ranch has achieved visual management and real-time monitoring, and can also remotely control aquaculture cages. Scientific aquaculture and smart fisheries have truly been realized here," Fazi said.
When visiting fisheries equipment companies, Fazi paid particular attention to China's aquatic product refrigeration technology. "The refrigeration temperature of Chinese fishing boats can reach minus 40 degrees Celsius, and the quick-freezing equipment can complete the freezing process in a few seconds. This is very advanced technology. The refrigerator temperature of Indonesian fishing boats can usually only reach minus 20 degrees Celsius, and the catches are prone to spoilage, and 30% to 40% cannot meet export standards." After returning to Indonesia, Fazi actively promoted exchanges and cooperation with Chinese companies, hoping to introduce relevant refrigeration technology and equipment and realize localized assembly and application in Indonesia, "so that the hard work of Indonesian fishermen can be kept fresh until they reach the port."
During his training in Dalian, Fazi was impressed by the modernization of China's fisheries and the wide application of high and new technologies. He opened a "Marine Monday" column on social platforms to discuss the future direction of Indonesia's fisheries modernization and industrial development. The cover image of the first article was a photo of him visiting the 2nd China (Dalian) International Marine Trade Expo. "The expo showcased many advanced technologies." Fazi was very interested in the unmanned boat of Dalian Ocean University (大连海洋大学). "It can dive into the seabed for scientific research and monitoring, which is not only more efficient but also safer." He said that he hopes to cooperate with Chinese companies to introduce advanced technologies and experience to help promote the innovation and upgrading of Indonesia's fisheries.
Looking back on his learning experience in China, Fazi said that the training has given him and many Indonesian students a deeper understanding of the development of China's fisheries. They saw that the Chinese government, universities, research institutions, and enterprises have formed a joint force to promote the high-quality development of fisheries through close cooperation. "This model of combining industry, academia, and research is very worthy of our learning." Fazi said that many Indonesian students are promoting cooperation with Chinese universities and institutions after returning to their country, and plan to carry out joint teaching and research in the fields of fisheries science and technology, education and training, and sustainable development. "In the future, Indonesia and China can carry out more practical cooperation in sustainable fisheries, technological innovation, and the entire industry chain to jointly promote sustainable marine development."

Ghana—
Transforming Marine Advantages into Poverty Reduction Momentum
By Shi Yu (施钰), this newspaper's reporter.
"China helps fishermen increase their income by developing marine ecological aquaculture and building fishing port economic zones. Ghana can learn from these development experiences and transform marine advantages into poverty reduction momentum to achieve a win-win situation for marine economy and people's livelihood improvement," said Grace Afumwaa Boamah (格雷斯·阿夫姆瓦·布马), a lecturer in the Department of Water Resources and Aquaculture Management at the University of Environment and Sustainable Development in Ghana. Last year, she successfully applied for the 2024 second batch of visiting scholar funds from the National Key Laboratory of Marine Biogeochemistry (Xiamen University) (中国海洋生物地球化学全国重点实验室（厦门大学）) and came to Xiamen University (厦门大学) to conduct shellfish research.
This is not the first time Grace has come to Xiamen, Fujian. In 2016 and 2017, as the then Regional Director of the Ghanaian Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (加纳渔业与水产养殖发展部), Grace participated twice in the training courses on value-added fishery product development and market system construction for developing countries and the training courses on Ghanaian fisheries policy management, which were sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (中国商务部) and undertaken by the Fujian Institute of Oceanography (福建海洋研究所). During the training, Grace went to Xiamen University (厦门大学) for exchanges. The knowledgeable and experienced teachers and the strong academic atmosphere made her yearn for it. She decided to continue her studies at Xiamen University (厦门大学) and pursue a doctoral degree. In 2018, Grace successfully applied for the "Chinese Government Marine Scholarship" and joined the Shellfish Genetic Breeding Research Group of the School of Ocean and Earth Sciences of Xiamen University (厦门大学海洋与地球学院).
In order to study how salinity affects the growth and survival of abalone and how to cultivate new varieties of abalone that are resistant to low salinity, Grace has been stationed for a long time in the industry-research cooperation enterprise of the research group—Quanzhou Jinjiang Fuda Abalone Aquatic Co., Ltd. (泉州晋江福大鲍鱼水产有限公司). She stayed in the aquaculture enterprise for 3 months for each round of experiments. At the aquaculture farm, she carefully took care of each abalone, accurately measured a series of environmental indicators such as water temperature, salinity, and dissolved oxygen, and often exchanged aquaculture technology with the workers at the aquaculture farm.
Grace found that there is a very close connection between Chinese scientific research institutions and industries. "After the scientific research team develops good products, they can be provided to the aquaculture farms in a timely manner. This industry-university-research cooperation model allows research results to no longer stay only on paper, but truly go out of the laboratory, which is very worthy of our learning."
In 2022, Grace completed her studies and returned to Ghana. "After returning to China, I found that the Ghanaian government is working hard to promote the sustainable development of fisheries, constantly revising relevant policy documents on fisheries management, and improving the working conditions and welfare security of fisheries practitioners." Grace introduced that fisheries are an important part of the Ghanaian economy, providing employment opportunities for more than 3 million Ghanaians. "The principles of aquaculture technology are the same. I will apply what I have learned in China to more seawater species to help more fishermen and aquaculture farmers."
Today, Grace still often shares the development of Ghana's fisheries with the teachers and students of the research group, and continues to ask for advice on knowledge in the fields of aquaculture, etc., and is also discussing with the School of Ocean and Earth Sciences of Xiamen University (厦门大学海洋与地球学院) to prepare for the establishment of a China-Ghana Marine Aquaculture Joint Laboratory. "We can learn from China the aquaculture technology of fish, shellfish, algae, etc., and process them into more diversified products to open up a broader market," Grace said.

Laos—
Riverside Fishermen Have More Income
By Ye Chuanzeng (叶传增), this newspaper's reporter.
In Jinghong City (景洪市), Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture (西双版纳傣族自治州), Yunnan Province, the outdoor temperature exceeds 35 degrees Celsius. In a tilapia farming base in Puwen Town (普文镇), the water temperature of the facility aquaculture pond is precisely controlled at 28 degrees Celsius. "Using scientific and technological means to create good water and environmental conditions suitable for the growth and reproduction of fish to achieve stable and high yields of fish is the advantage of facility fisheries." Panpachan Xiaoweilai (潘帕占·交维莱), Director of the Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Division of the Department of Agriculture and Forestry of Namtha Province, Laos, took notes carefully while visiting.
Panpachan participated in the Lancang-Mekong Fisheries Resources Conservation and Aquaculture Technology Improvement International Training Course, which was sponsored by the International Cooperation Department of the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (中国科技部国际合作司), undertaken by the Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences (中国水产科学研究院珠江水产研究所), and co-organized by the Xishuangbanna Prefecture Aquatic Technology Extension Station (西双版纳州水产技术推广站). More than 50 students from Lancang-Mekong countries such as Laos signed up for this training course. "The training focuses on the difficulties in the protection and development of fisheries in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin, focusing on resource conservation, aquaculture technology and model innovation, etc. It includes expert lectures and on-site observation, which is very practical," Panpachan said.
Panpachan is very familiar with China's aquaculture industry. As early as 1995, he studied related majors at Guangxi University (广西大学). After graduating, he returned to work in the Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Division of the Department of Agriculture and Forestry of Namtha Province.
Namtha Province borders Xishuangbanna Prefecture (西双版纳州), and the Lancang River flows into Namtha through Xishuangbanna (西双版纳). However, there is a gap in the level of fisheries development between the two places. "Laotian farmers lack both scientific management concepts and experience in the use of aquaculture equipment." Panpachan introduced that Laotian farmers usually use rice bran and fermented livestock manure to raise fish, which leads to slow growth and development of fish fry, low yields, and pollution of water quality. In addition, Laotian fish ponds generally lack oxygenation equipment, and fish often turn white due to lack of oxygen.
Once, a large number of fish died in a fish pond in Namtha Province, and the farmers suspected that someone had poisoned them. After going to the scene for investigation, Panpachan learned that it had been raining continuously at that time, and the pond did not have oxygenation equipment. He remembered the knowledge he learned during training in China: the air pressure is low in rainy weather, the solubility of oxygen in the water decreases, and the oxygen production of aquatic plant photosynthesis decreases, which can easily lead to fish death due to lack of oxygen. Therefore, he judged that the cause of the fish's death was not poisoning, but lack of oxygen. Immediately, he organized local farmers to learn how to use oxygenation equipment, and since then, such problems have been greatly reduced.
In addition to technical training, in recent years, under the Lancang-Mekong cooperation mechanism, a number of "small and beautiful" fisheries cooperation projects have blossomed in China and Laos. On October 15 last year, the "China-Laos Fisheries Law Enforcement Joint Enforcement and Stocking Activity" was held in Jinghong City (景洪市). This activity released 770,000 fish fry of species such as Hemibagrus filamentus, Poropuntius huai, and Mystus sinensis into the Lancang River waters. Since the first activity was carried out in November 2015, a total of 4.235 million native fish fry have been released into the Lancang-Mekong River, and 914,000 fish fry have been donated to Namtha, Laos for stocking.
"Stocking has made the aquatic biological resources of the Namtha River richer and the types have increased significantly, and riverside fishermen have more income." Panpachan said, "The rapid development of fisheries has made an important contribution to the economic development of Namtha Province."
This training gave Panpachan a new gain—the integrated rice-fish farming model. The mountainous area of Namtha Province accounts for a relatively high proportion. Promoting the production model of rice-fish farming can effectively utilize land resources and achieve the effect of "one water for multiple uses and double harvests from one field."
"We plan to promote the new model of rice-fish farming in Laos to help the Laotian people increase their income and become wealthy." Panpachan said, "China's fisheries training has helped us improve aquaculture technology, extend the industrial chain, and increase people's income. There is a Chinese proverb that says 授人以鱼不如授人以渔 (shòu rén yǐ yú bù rú shòu rén yǐ yú - "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime," it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish), and the fisheries poverty reduction cooperation between Laos and China is a vivid portrayal of this sentence."

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Teaching a man to fish: Sharing development (International Observation)

By: 敬小军

Eliminating poverty is a common ideal pursued by people of all countries. Facing the common challenges of global fisheries resource management, ecological protection, and livelihood improvement, China combines its own development experience with the actual needs of countries in the Global South. Through various forms such as technical exchanges, joint scientific research, and industry-academia-research cooperation, China carries out foreign aid training in fisheries, promotes international poverty reduction cooperation, and works with other countries to explore the path of blue growth, striving to achieve the organic unity of fisheries development, ecological protection, and livelihood improvement.

China's foreign aid training in fisheries is based on technological empowerment, and it is a complete industrial chain technology learning system covering aquaculture breeding, healthy aquaculture, disease prevention and control, aquatic product processing, and fisheries resource management. Trainees from African countries such as Uganda (乌干达) and Egypt (埃及) brought Chinese tilapia (罗非鱼) seedling breeding technology back to their countries, successfully increasing the survival rate of seedlings by 30%; trainees from ASEAN countries such as Cambodia (柬埔寨) and Laos (老挝) applied China's rice-fish farming technology locally, which not only increased the supply of aquatic products to the market without reducing rice production, but also helped demonstration farmers double their income... This technical cooperation with training as a bridge enables the cooperation results to truly benefit the people of the recipient countries, ensuring the inclusiveness and sustainability of fisheries cooperation.

In terms of talent cultivation, China promotes the establishment of all-English taught courses in fisheries-related universities through the establishment of a special foreign aid high-end academic degree education program, the "Fisheries Master Program," forming a systematic and long-term talent cultivation mechanism. This model not only exports knowledge, but also disseminates the concept that the key to achieving fisheries revitalization in developing countries lies in improving human capital and scientific research capabilities. Chilala Balde (齐劳拉·巴尔德), a Malawian (马拉维) student of the "Fisheries Master Program," returned to her country after graduation and improved seedling breeding technology, providing high-quality fish fry to nearly 400 fishermen. By enriching the fisheries industry chain, she created 150 job opportunities for local residents and helped increase local fisheries output value by 50%; Desmond Zinedu (德斯蒙德·齐内杜), Director of the Nigerian (尼日利亚) National Institute for Freshwater Fisheries Research, established research teams in breeding, aquaculture, disease, processing, resources, and economics according to the discipline development model he learned in China, and applied scientific research results to practical technology incubation, making important contributions to the development of the local fisheries economy and the improvement of fishermen's livelihoods.

Common development is true development, and sustainable development is good development. China's foreign aid training in fisheries adheres to the resource endowment of the recipient countries as the starting point and fully respects the cultural traditions and development needs of each country. From compiling the "Fisheries and Aquaculture Development Plan of the Kingdom of Cambodia (柬埔寨王国渔业和水产养殖发展规划)" to drawing the "Atlas of Primary Colors of Major Fishery Resources in the Waters of Sierra Leone (塞拉利昂海域主要渔业资源原色图集)," to joint law enforcement and stocking activities among Lancang-Mekong (澜湄) countries, the fisheries cooperation projects promoted by China are becoming "replicable and sustainable" international models. It not only exports technology, but also exports governance experience and cooperation mechanisms.

China is the world's largest fishing country, with a mature and complete industrial chain and technical solutions that are "less investment, quick results, easy to master, and highly applicable." As an important participant in global fisheries governance, China has the responsibility and ability to contribute wisdom and solutions to the sustainable development of global fisheries. In the future, China's foreign aid training in fisheries will continue to help countries improve their ability to independently develop fisheries, continuously enhance the well-being of people in all countries, and work with all countries to build a community with a shared future for mankind with no poverty and common development.

(The author is the Director of the International Cooperation and Education Department of the Freshwater Fisheries Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences (中国水产科学研究院淡水渔业研究中心国际合作与教育处处长).)

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How to Run County High Schools Well (In-Depth Focus)

By: 本报记者 黄 超 丁雅诵 吴 月

County-level ordinary high schools (hereinafter referred to as "county high schools") are a key focus for improving the equitable and high-quality basic education system. In the past, county high schools focused on improving the quality of education and achieved positive results. However, in recent years, some county high schools have faced challenges in terms of student and teacher resources, education quality, and school conditions. The "revitalization of county high schools" has become a hot topic of social discussion.

"What will happen to the future of children in the county if they cannot get into good schools?" Faced with the expectations of the people, various localities have placed the development of county high schools on the policy agenda, systematically responding to the development problems of county high schools through a series of combined measures, striving to shape a good educational ecology in the county, and allowing children to enjoy high-quality educational resources at their doorsteps.

How to improve the quality of education?

Deepen teaching reform and promote the all-round development of students

From the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development and Improvement of County Ordinary High Schools" issued in 2021 to the "Action Plan for the Revitalization of County Ordinary High Schools" issued this year, regulating enrollment order is an important content.

It is strictly forbidden for provincial and provincial capital city high schools to illegally poach students from counties, strictly forbidden to enroll students without a plan or beyond the plan, and strictly forbidden to create empty student status and poach students across regions. Many places have solidly promoted "sunshine enrollment," breaking the vicious circle of student competition and allowing county high schools to run schools with peace of mind.

"In terms of class allocation, the school strives to achieve a balanced allocation of resources," said Li Zheng, a second-year high school teacher at Jinshan Middle School in Kalaqin Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia. The school reasonably arranges students in each class according to students' entrance examination scores and gender ratio, through computer random allocation, and arranges experienced teachers to match young teachers in terms of teacher allocation.

"Many county high schools pay too much attention to top students and ignore some students with average grades." Li Ming, the principal of Jinshan Middle School, said that in response to this problem, the school where he is located pays more attention to the growth of each child and focuses on teaching students in accordance with their aptitude. Carry out extension courses for children with the ability to learn more, and provide one-on-one targeted guidance for those who cannot keep up. "We pay special attention to 'students with learning difficulties' and explore the establishment of student lecturer groups to provide tutoring for them under the guidance of teachers, forming a cooperative and mutually supportive atmosphere."

In terms of teaching, some county high schools mainly rely on time and the sea of ​​questions tactics to exchange for score advantages. On the desk, the test papers are stacked high enough to block the face. Some students dare not sleep even if they are sleepy, "for fear that others are doing questions, and sleeping means lagging behind."

In Li Zheng's view, the key to improving teaching quality is to improve learning efficiency, optimize time management, and avoid ineffective question-answering. "In addition to regular courses, we guide students to arrange the learning content for each week and each day, and leave time for self-study in the evening, so that students can independently sort out and summarize wrong questions." Li Zheng said, "We explore differentiated questions based on students' situations, such as basic, improvement, and expansion types, to accurately match the learning needs of each child."

"The school must be responsible for the students' three years, send them to their ideal universities, and be responsible for the students' 30 years, cultivating the character and ability to win a brilliant life." Li Ming believes that this is the profound embodiment of education quality.

However, the focus of people's discussion is often "high scores" and "famous school students," and the school's efforts in ideological and moral character, club activities, and other aspects are often overlooked.

How to scientifically evaluate the education quality of county high schools?

"We cannot blindly pursue enrollment rates. In addition to grades, we must also help students make progress in ideological and moral character, practical skills, innovative spirit, and social responsibility." The person in charge of the Changde Education Bureau (常德市教育局) in Hunan Province said that the development potential after entering university and entering society is more important.

According to reports, Changde (常德) has issued detailed rules for evaluating the quality of ordinary high school education and teaching, and established an evaluation system including 12 key points in three dimensions: school management, teacher development, and student development. "It not only assesses regional quality, but also classifies different types of schools for 'horse racing.' In terms of student development, it not only focuses on cultural achievements, but also guides schools to focus on comprehensive quality and establish an evaluation orientation for the all-round development of all students," the person in charge said.

"In our school, specifically, we must achieve five goods: good thinking, good eating, good sleeping, good physical exercise, and good classroom." Liu Hongqing (刘宏清), the party secretary of Taoyuan County No. 1 Middle School (桃源县第一中学) in Changde (常德), introduced that the school offers all the courses prescribed by the state, and will also hold sports meetings in the third year of high school. Physical education classes are offered twice a week. "Teaching does not involve working overtime, and reasonable arrangements are made for work and rest to effectively ensure students' exercise, rest, and sleep time."

"It is not realistic to compete with famous schools in the city for students. We must find our own advantages." Liu Hongqing (刘宏清) said that Taoyuan No. 1 Middle School (桃源县第一中学) does not take the path of "a thousand schools with one face," but takes the idea of ​​a characteristic high school and takes national defense education as a highlight of running the school. For example, in terms of recruiting pilots, 28 pilots have been trained in the past three years, and 9 have obtained dual degrees from top universities. In the future, Taoyuan No. 1 Middle School (桃源县第一中学) will continue to strengthen its school-running characteristics and allow more children to take off from county high schools and soar to a wider sky.

How to make teachers able to be recruited, teach well, and stay?

Strengthen teacher training and optimize teacher treatment and security

Only with high-quality teachers can there be high-quality education. Teachers are an important resource for the revitalization of county high schools.

"The teachers' extreme seriousness and exemplary behavior are engraved in my dream-chasing time." Ji Yuhao (季雨豪), who was admitted to Nanjing University (南京大学) from Rudong High School (如东高级中学) in Rudong County (如东县), Jiangsu Province, eight years ago, is full of gratitude.

After graduating from university, Ji Yuhao (季雨豪) chose to return to his alma mater and become a county high school teacher: "I want to support the dreams of children in my hometown like my predecessors."

Teaching requires more than just enthusiasm. Ji Yuhao (季雨豪) recalled that when he first took the stage, he felt a little uneasy: How to grasp the rhythm of a 45-minute class? Can students understand?

The school's systematic training allowed him to get started quickly: he formed a mentor-apprentice relationship with his former head teacher, first listened to the "master" give a lesson, and then gave a lesson himself; collective lesson preparation twice a week to discuss teaching difficulties; a teaching and research lesson once a week, where teachers took turns giving open classes... Ji Yuhao (季雨豪), who grew up in learning, won the first prize in the provincial high school chemistry excellent class exhibition and observation activities in the second year of teaching.

"In terms of professional development, there is still room for improvement in the ability and quality of county high school teachers." Wang Jibing (王继兵), the party secretary and principal of Rudong High School (如东高级中学), said that the school improves the professional level of young teachers by implementing a "Blue Project" mentoring system, establishing teacher professional growth files, and organizing regular thematic seminars, and strives to make county high school teachers surpass their predecessors.

Strengthening teacher training is conducive to improving teachers' abilities and qualities; expanding the teaching staff is inseparable from the addition of fresh blood. How can county high schools recruit good teachers?

"In the past, teacher recruitment in schools was more difficult, and some years even failed to complete the recruitment plan. Recruiting famous school students to be teachers was even unthinkable. This year, the school ushered in 13 'Excellent Teacher Program' graduates from Beijing Normal University (北京师范大学) at once," said Chen Shengquan (陈胜全), the principal of Dahua Yao Autonomous County High School (大化瑶族自治县高级中学) in Guangxi.

It is understood that the "Excellent Teacher Program" annually trains normal school students for 832 poverty-stricken counties and land border counties in the central and western regions. This year, the central and western regions welcomed nearly 10,000 graduates in the first class.

"On the one hand, county high schools have caught up with good policies. On the other hand, local governments and schools have also changed their thinking, from 'waiting for talents to come to the door' to actively connecting and inviting them." Chen Shengquan (陈胜全) said that the arrival of "Excellent Teacher Program" graduates has brought new opportunities for the development of county high schools.

When more teachers can be recruited and teach well, how to keep them is also a problem faced by county high schools. Some county high school principals interviewed said that the situation of outstanding teachers being "poached" occurs from time to time.

Liu Shanhai (刘善槐), a specially appointed professor at South China Normal University (华南师范大学), and his team found in a survey of county high schools in an eastern province that young outstanding teachers and teachers with higher education and professional titles have relatively stronger willingness to move; the higher the level of the school platform and the more superior the environment, the lower the teachers' willingness to move; salary and development prospects are key factors affecting teacher stability. Liu Shanhai (刘善槐) said that to attract and retain outstanding teachers, comprehensive reforms should be carried out from the dimensions of salary, career development, humanistic environment, and evaluation mechanism to create an educational ecology that is conducive to teachers teaching with peace of mind and concentrating on educating people.

"Include county high school teachers who meet the conditions in the local housing security scope" "Give greater support to county high school teachers in terms of professional title evaluation and treatment security"... The relevant person in charge of the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education introduced that the "Action Plan for the Revitalization of County Ordinary High Schools" has proposed the implementation of a teacher team improvement action, focusing on equipping and strengthening the team, strengthening training, and optimizing treatment security.

Where do high-quality resources come from?

Accurately diagnose school needs and continuously deepen trusteeship and assistance

Faced with interlocking challenges such as software and hardware, what county high school revitalization needs is a systematic empowerment.

Since 2022, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) has been providing trusteeship assistance to Ding'an Middle School (定安中学) in Ding'an County (定安县), Hainan (海南), and No. 1 Middle School (第一中学) in Eryuan County (洱源县), Yunnan (云南). "After preliminary research, we have sorted out the actual difficulties faced by the two county high schools and built a multi-level and three-dimensional assistance system based on this," said Wang Linyuan (王琳媛), director of the Basic Education Office of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) and party secretary of the School of Education.

Based on accurate diagnosis, a comprehensive, full-process, and full-coverage trusteeship and assistance mechanism has been gradually established: Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated High School (上海交大附中) selected 4 management backbones to go to the two county high schools to bring advanced management concepts; the school's Youth League Committee annually selects nearly 10 outstanding graduate students to carry out one-year teaching support, and has currently selected 97 people; nearly 40 experts from the School of Education and principals of affiliated schools have gone to guide and solve bottleneck problems in the curriculum system and management mechanism... A series of solid measures have enhanced the confidence and confidence of county high school education.

Paired assistance should inject "living water" of high-quality resources, and also sow the "seeds" of vision and literacy to awaken students' internal growth motivation. Last year, representatives of teachers and students from Ding'an Middle School (定安中学) were invited to Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) for a study tour.

In the school history museum, the students were immersed in the profound history of the century-old university and felt the continuous inheritance of academic spirit; in the classroom of the Jiading Branch of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated High School (上海交大附中嘉定分校), they audited chemistry and biology classes and developed a great interest in scientific research... An accompanying teacher sighed: "After returning, the children's learning attitude has changed significantly, and their goals have become clearer."

It is reported that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the Ministry of Education implemented the trusteeship and assistance project for county high schools of universities directly under the Ministry, organizing 48 universities directly under the Ministry and related professional institutions to provide trusteeship assistance to 115 county high schools in 23 provinces and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团) in the central and western regions and the northeast region.

At the same time, various localities have also actively organized local universities and high-quality ordinary high schools in urban areas to carry out trusteeship assistance to county high schools in light of their actual conditions. Currently, nearly 2,000 county high schools have been entrusted for assistance, accounting for about 25% of the total number of county high schools, and a trusteeship assistance system for county high schools with national demonstration and provincial and municipal leadership has been initially established.

In the autumn semester of this year, the teacher team of the Affiliated High School of Yunnan Normal University (云南师范大学附属中学) once again rushed to No. 1 Middle School (第一中学) in Lianghe County (梁河县), Yunnan (云南), to carry out teaching activities - this educational journey spanning 10 years has become a warm agreement between the two schools.

"In the past, Lianghe's (梁河) educational resources were relatively scarce, and many parents sent their children to study outside the county. Now it has changed a lot, and more children are willing to stay," said Cun Yongmeng (寸永勐), the principal of Lianghe No. 1 Middle School (梁河一中).

"In 2012, Yunnan Normal University (云南师范大学) established the Basic Education Group, focusing on exploring the road to revitalization of county high schools. Currently, there are 32 high schools in operation, including 24 county high schools, including 15 jointly run county high schools and 9 assisted county high schools," said Wang Yuguang (王玉光), director of the Basic Education Group of Yunnan Normal University (云南师范大学). Through the "dual education coordination" of higher education and basic education, Yunnan Normal University (云南师范大学) deeply participates in the entire process of county high school development.

What is even more gratifying is the return of talents. Cun Yongmeng (寸永勐) said, "There are already 12 students who have been admitted to universities from our school and have now returned to teach. These students have quickly grown into the backbone teachers of the school."

Xiao Siqi (肖思淇) is one of them. After being admitted to Yunnan Normal University (云南师范大学) from Lianghe No. 1 Middle School (梁河一中), she resolutely returned to her hometown to teach after 4 years of study: "I was once illuminated by the light in the distance, and now I want to become that light and illuminate the way for more children."

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Grasping the Key to County High School Revitalization (Educational Commentary)

By: 吴 丹

The revitalization of county high schools is not an optional question, but a mandatory one, concerning the bottom line and warmth of education.

About 50% of ordinary high schools nationwide are county-level ordinary high schools, and nearly 60% of ordinary high school students study in county high schools. From a micro perspective, each county high school is directly related to whether children can attend good schools near their parents and at their doorstep, affecting the education costs and future expectations of individual families. From a macro perspective, the revitalization of county high schools leads to the revitalization of county education, and the strength of county high schools brings stability to the people of the entire county. The revitalization of county high schools is of great significance to local economic and social development, and undertakes important responsibilities in the construction of a strong education country, rural revitalization, new urbanization, and high-quality population development.

In reality, the difficulty of revitalizing county high schools often manifests as a "tug-of-war" for high-quality resources: high-quality teachers are poached with high salaries, and top students are locked in advance. "Voting with one's feet" seems to be in pursuit of better development opportunities and educational resources, presenting a kind of market competition behavior. However, education is by no means a "survival of the fittest" screening model. When all eyes are focused on the "enrollment rate," many deep-seated problems will be covered up.

The way to break the situation must not be to treat the head when the head hurts and the foot when the foot hurts, but should start from the essence of education and promote the deep transformation of county high schools from "cultivating scores" to "cultivating people." A series of pragmatic measures are being implemented: the Ministry of Education (教育部) and other six departments issued the "Revitalization Action Plan for Ordinary High Schools in Counties," clearly proposing eight major actions, including education resource expansion action, school condition improvement action, and curriculum teaching quality improvement action, to define a clear path for the development of county high schools; Changde (常德), Hunan (湖南) has established an evaluation orientation for the all-round development of all students, paying attention not only to academic performance, but also to the cultivation of comprehensive qualities; Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) has brought advanced management concepts and educational models to the county high schools it is helping to manage, helping county high schools reshape their core competitiveness... These key practices enhance the confidence and confidence in the revitalization of county high schools.

It should also be noted that, from the perspective of school-age population, the scale of enrollment in junior high schools is expected to peak next year, and the scale of enrollment in senior high schools is expected to peak in 2029. The revitalization of county high schools should be combined with the "increase first and then decrease" population change trend, proactively predict, and take the initiative. On the one hand, scientifically plan the scale and capacity of county high schools to avoid waste of resources and imbalance of degrees; on the other hand, seize the opportunity of the future reduction of students in school, shift from the pursuit of scale expansion to connotative development, and further improve the quality of education.

The revitalization of county high schools revitalizes confidence and promotes the future. Answering this mandatory question together will allow the sunshine of education to illuminate the happiness of thousands of families and illuminate the future of a strong education country.

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Cultivating Patriotism, Enhancing Innovation (From the Front Lines)

By: 本报记者 闫伊乔

"What impressed me most was Professor Li Jianping's (李建平) team's 'China Heart' created over 30 years. The light alloy composite materials and engine core components developed by the teachers have broad application prospects in national defense, military industry, and major civilian equipment." Walking into the Ordnance Science and Technology Museum of Xi'an Technological University (西安工业大学), seeing various equipment, Zhang Chenghao (张成浩), a freshman of the class of 2025, felt a surge of emotion.

From retired tank engines to modern intelligent military equipment, every exhibit in the museum embodies the wisdom and hard work of teachers and students. This vivid "first lesson of the semester" is a microcosm of Xi'an Technological University's efforts to stimulate students' sense of mission and responsibility.

Xi'an Technological University has distinctive characteristics in the military industry. President Yao Yao (姚尧) introduced that the school closely focuses on the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, adhering to the school-running philosophy of "establishing the school with quality, revitalizing the school with characteristics, activating the school with innovation, and strengthening the school with talent," and strives to cultivate new talents of the era with patriotism and innovative capabilities.

In order to enable students to become outstanding talents who "recognize the military industry, understand the military industry, and integrate into the military industry," Xi'an Technological University has put efforts into promoting the ideological and political construction of military-characteristic courses.

Walking into the "Intelligent Manufacturing Innovation Workshop" of the Undergraduate School of Xi'an Technological University, advanced equipment such as intelligent manufacturing production lines, industrial robots, and additive manufacturing come into view. This is not only a base for students' practical innovation but also a vivid classroom for ideological and political education.

In the "Industrial Robot Welding Path Planning" course, Professor Cheng Wendong (程文冬) of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering guides students to think about the importance of tackling key technologies in intelligent manufacturing of major national equipment. "We integrate patriotism and the spirit of craftsmanship into teaching, allowing students to feel responsibility and mission in hands-on practice," said Cheng Wendong (程文冬).

At the same time, Xi'an Technological University focuses on improving students' innovation and practical abilities, guiding students to consolidate their professional foundation and exercise their hands-on skills in scientific research.

"The entire research team is like a big tree, and each person is a branch of the tree. Everyone has close academic cooperation and free development space." Not long ago, under the careful guidance of teachers, Xing Jiachang (邢家畅), an undergraduate student majoring in robotics engineering in the class of 2023, participated in the "Remote Diagnosis Pulse-Taking All-Around Home Robot" project and won the first prize in the final of the 8th China University Intelligent Robot Creative Competition. "Participating in scientific research projects has stimulated my academic interest and improved my comprehensive quality," said Xing Jiachang (邢家畅).

In recent years, Xi'an Technological University has continuously innovated talent training models and optimized the talent training system: relying on the characteristics and advantages of disciplines and majors, the School of Ordnance Science and Technology (兵器科学与技术学院) was established; the "School + Research Institute" model is adopted to carry out the training of top-notch talents in optoelectronic information technology, energy storage materials and metal materials, precision and ultra-precision processing and measurement, etc.; incorporating teachers' guidance of undergraduates to participate in scientific research activities into the training program as a teaching link... At present, the school has delivered a large number of professional and technical talents to China North Industries Group Corporation (中国兵器工业集团), China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (航天科技集团) and other units.

Hou Chengyi (侯成义), Secretary of the University Party Committee, said that facing the future, Xi'an Technological University will accelerate the formation of a higher-level talent training system, promote the development of education, science and technology, and talent in an integrated manner, and promote the construction of a high-level research university with distinctive military characteristics through comprehensive education reform, and contribute the strength of universities to the great cause of building a strong country and a strong army.

(Yang Fei (杨飞) participated in writing)

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In the Age of AI, What Skills Must We Retain? (Teacher's Perspective)

By: 吴 飞

Student Question: Nowadays, when encountering problems in learning, one can ask artificial intelligence, and one can also use artificial intelligence to assist in querying information when doing homework. In the age of artificial intelligence, is learning still important? What abilities and qualities should we focus on cultivating?

As this student said, generative artificial intelligence is changing the traditional teaching model centered on knowledge accumulation and transmission. In universities, generative artificial intelligence tools are readily available, and everyone's learning methods are also changing. However, education cannot lose the most basic things. In the age of artificial intelligence, some key abilities and qualities are worth emphasizing.

Systematic learning and inheritance of human knowledge are still important. Cognition is an important manifestation of human intelligence, and its cornerstone is standardized knowledge. Based on standardized knowledge, one can form a holistic understanding and systematic classification of learning objects, and establish a scientific cognitive framework. Solving complex problems in current basic science, engineering technology, humanities, and social sciences requires students to have broad and systematic knowledge, which is difficult to acquire solely through interactive question-and-answer with large language models: although large models can "write" beautiful poems, they cannot create completely new expressions beyond the corpus, let alone replace the thought precipitation and emotional resonance brought about by immersive reading; if used improperly, they may also fall into an "information cocoon." Students still need to focus on the accumulation and integration of basic knowledge, and actively broaden their horizons and master interdisciplinary knowledge and skills.

Being good at asking questions and evaluating content is an essential skill. The content synthesized by large language models sometimes has factual deviations, which is the phenomenon of artificial intelligence hallucinations. Understanding and evaluating the content synthesized by artificial intelligence is no longer a "cherry on top" skill, but a core competence that individuals must have to stand in the age of artificial intelligence. We must learn to ask valuable questions—if the questions are like plain water, the answers are often unremarkable. At the same time, we must also develop critical thinking skills, and not simply accept the content synthesized by large language models, but analyze its rationality in combination with knowledge reserves. This ability is not only a necessary verification of the "probabilistic combination content" of generative models, but also the foundation for future collaboration with artificial intelligence.

Cultivate human-machine collaboration ability and strive to break through cognitive boundaries. In traditional education, knowledge learning often ends with learning the "standard answer." How to generate innovation that breaks through the standard answer? Artificial intelligence empowers scientific research, making innovation a new possibility. We can use artificial intelligence to assist in generating hypotheses, designing experiments, calculating results, and explaining mechanisms in scientific research, and then filter, identify, integrate, and deepen them, breaking through the limitations of individual cognition in the interaction with artificial intelligence, and enhancing judgment, critical thinking, and deep thinking skills in exploration. Not long ago, the "Global University Artificial Intelligence Education and Teaching Innovation Collaboration Mechanism" participated in by Zhejiang University (浙江大学) and other universities was launched, and a batch of smart MOOCs, "AI+X" micro-majors, and practical training resources will be launched to help everyone continue to grow on the road of "knowledge accumulation + AI empowerment." Students may wish to make good use of the artificial intelligence education resources around them, explore the use of artificial intelligence to carry out innovative practices, and improve human-machine collaboration capabilities.

In education, the cultivation of independent thinking and judgment ability should be placed in an important position. The goal of education is by no means to cultivate people who think like machines, but to cultivate people who can make good use of machines to better think, create, and care for others. We expect students to better understand artificial intelligence, use artificial intelligence, innovate artificial intelligence, and abide by ethical norms, so as to better grow and develop in the age of artificial intelligence.

(The author is a professor at the College of Computer Science and Technology of Zhejiang University (浙江大学), Dean of the Undergraduate School of Zhejiang University (浙江大学), and was compiled by Wu Yue (吴月), a reporter from this newspaper)

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Living frugally and cultivating good conduct (Frontline Observation)

In May of this year, the newly revised "Regulations on Practicing Economy and Opposing Waste in Party and Government Organs" was issued, further tightening the institutional bolts for Party and government organs to take the lead in living frugally. More than half a year has passed, and the changes are tangible and perceptible. Recently, reporters went to various places to interview, explore changes, observe work styles, and listen to feelings.
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　　Public Goods are Circulating
　　By Wang Xinyue (王欣悦), reporter of this newspaper
　　Some time ago, the Development and Reform Commission of Shapingba District (沙坪坝区) in Chongqing (重庆市) established a special team for engineering budget estimates, which required a batch of computers. Tang Ning (唐宁), director of the office of the District Development and Reform Commission, did not rush to purchase new products, but opened the "Public Goods Warehouse Online" system to view idle item information.
　　The interface is clear and friendly, and the items are categorized. Tang Ning found that 4 computers "retired" from the District Rong Media Center (区融媒体中心) happened to meet the needs, so he submitted a transfer application.
　　On the other side, in the physical warehouse of the Shapingba District Public Goods Warehouse, materials such as computers, projectors, and desks and chairs are neatly arranged. Zhu Xuetao (朱学涛), a staff member, verified and approved the application submitted by Tang Ning and arranged for it to be shipped out of the warehouse.
　　In recent years, Shapingba District has piloted the development of the "Public Goods Warehouse Online" system to solve the problem of asset dormancy and allow public goods to circulate.
　　"In the past, the asset information of various units was not interconnected, like isolated islands. We had to find out the details by making phone calls and sending notices one by one, and then manually sorting and summarizing. By the time the data was collected, the situation may have changed again, often half a beat slow," said Zhu Xuetao. The system generates a unique asset code for all fixed assets in the district, and assets are inventoried in real time. The asset surplus and deficiency status of each unit is updated more promptly, and the supply and demand matching is more accurate.
　　Taking these 4 computers as an example, their flow after leaving the warehouse is clear at a glance in the system background. This not only provides convenience for future recirculation, but also helps prevent abnormal situations such as misappropriation, private use, and loss.
　　As of now, the "Public Goods Warehouse Online" system has been used by 91 units and related working groups to borrow and transfer materials in 242 batches, totaling 9,728 items, saving 20.07 million yuan.
　　Some time ago, a department submitted a purchase application for office desks and chairs, but it was returned: "Please follow the procedure and first conduct a pre-audit process for material transfer in the 'Public Goods Warehouse Online' system."
　　It turns out that Shapingba District has established a "transfer first, purchase later" mechanism, stipulating that purchasing units must give priority to using existing assets in the "Public Goods Warehouse Online", and carry out "smart inventory" for problems such as over-standard procurement and duplicate procurement. If the asset allocation exceeds 20%, a necessity review process is initiated; if it exceeds 50%, the unit's new asset allocation authority is closed.
　　Later, the department browsed the "Public Goods Warehouse Online" and found dozens of sets of idle desks and chairs left over after the District Housing and Construction Commission moved, with only slight scratches on the surface. 23 sets of idle desks and chairs were re-"employed", reducing the purchase volume by 70%.
　　In addition, in the asset disposal process, the Shapingba District Bureau of Government Affairs, the Finance Bureau, and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission jointly established an asset disposal warehousing mechanism, stipulating that an appraisal must be conducted before asset disposal, and if there is "residual value", it must be forcibly entered into the "Public Goods Warehouse Online" reuse process. "We hope to help various departments and units enhance their awareness of living frugally through rigid constraints. Now, purchasing first by transfer and disposal first by warehousing have become the working habits and fixed procedures of various departments and units," said Wang Ling (王玲), director of the Shapingba District Bureau of Government Affairs.

　　Official Receptions are More Refreshing
　　By Sun Chao (孙超), reporter of this newspaper
　　Opening the "Xiangbantong (湘办通)" application to see if there are any visitors that day is a habit that Luo Hongliang (罗宏亮), director of the Party and Government Office of Taiyuan Town (台源镇) in Hengyang County (衡阳县), Hunan (湖南), has developed.
　　Her "Xiangbantong" popped up a reminder: a group of four people from the Hengyang Municipal Party Committee Office (衡阳市委办) and the Hengyang County Party Committee Office (衡阳县委办) came to the town to carry out a research project, and the other party checked the "need assistance with meals" option when applying. Luo Hongliang then arranged for the township canteen to appropriately increase the amount of ingredients purchased.
　　Near noon, the visitors came to the canteen and opened "Xiangbantong" to bring up the QR code for this assisted meal. Luo Hongliang also opened "Xiangbantong" to scan the code for verification. After confirming that the number of people and the reason were correct, she entered the meal standard for the day - 20 yuan per person. The visitors confirmed the amount again, and a standard "code-enabled payment" process was completed.
　　Taiyuan Town is a medium-sized township in Hengyang County. Like many grassroots units, "reception" used to be a troublesome and time-consuming task. "I was afraid that if any detail was not done well, it would affect the image of the township in the minds of higher-level departments. It was even more difficult to ask people to pay," said Li Jun (李军), the mayor of Taiyuan Town, frankly.
　　Now, with the strict implementation of relevant systems and the widespread use of "Xiangbantong" throughout the province, changes have quietly taken place. "Work meals 'paid for' by the county and township levels basically no longer exist, and there is only 'assisted dining'. Visitors must pay through 'Xiangbantong' code-enabled payment, with the same meal and the same price," said Hong Siwei (洪思薇), director of the Hengyang County Bureau of Government Affairs and Reception Center. "We no longer have to worry about things like reciprocal accompaniment, seating arrangements, and choosing dishes."
　　Scanning the code for meals does not require issuing receipts or establishing ledgers, which does not increase the burden on the grassroots. In June of this year, the Hengyang Municipal Finance Bureau took the lead in launching a pilot project for public-to-public payment of assisted meal and vehicle expenses in the province. "After the business travelers click to confirm the meal amount, the expense information is pushed to the budget management integration system, and the unit's financial staff completes the public-to-public payment," said Huang Lifeng (黄丽峰), chief of the Administrative Section of the Hengyang Municipal Finance Bureau. "Using information technology, we can connect the business flow and the capital flow to achieve the goal of units not having to pay in advance and individuals not having to touch money on business trips."
　　Information technology also facilitates supervision. Open the Hunan Province "Internet + Supervision" system. In the "Reception Supervision" column, if the same electronic official letter appears in different reception units, or if there is over-standard or over-number reception, a warning will be triggered.
　　Yang Han (杨寒), deputy director of the Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Government Affairs Administration, introduced that as of November 5, the city's expenditure on official receptions by Party and government organs has decreased by 94.4% year-on-year. "Now it can be said that official receptions are more refreshing."

　　Official Vehicle Management is More Standardized
　　By Hong Qiuting (洪秋婷), reporter of this newspaper
　　At 9 a.m., Zhan Zhu (詹主), a staff member of the Shantou (汕头) Municipal Highway Affairs Center (公路事务中心) in Guangdong Province (广东省), is about to go out on official business. He logs into the "Guangdong Province Official Vehicle Management Platform (广东省公务用车管理平台)" and enters the travel time, destination, and reason. After submitting the application, the platform showed approval in less than 10 minutes and matched him with a new energy vehicle.
　　As the vehicle drives on the road, the on-board equipment collects driving trajectory in real time, and data such as fuel volume, maintenance, and insurance are automatically uploaded to the platform. "The platform leaves traces throughout the entire process, which not only standardizes vehicle use, but also eliminates the possibility of using official vehicles for private purposes," said Zhan Zhu.
　　In the Shantou Municipal Bureau of Government Affairs Administration (汕头市机关事务管理局), the real-time location, operating status, and expense data of official vehicles in the city are clear at a glance on the large screen of the official vehicle management platform.
　　"Through this network, we have achieved full coverage management of units, vehicles, and personnel. Management is more strict and efficient, and administrative costs have also been reduced," said Xing Weiguo (邢卫国), director of the Shantou Municipal Bureau of Government Affairs Administration. The network covers not only the unit's own vehicles, but also "extra-establishment" official car rentals, which are also included in unified management. Car rental, price comparison, approval, contracts, and reimbursement are all operated online.
　　While managing existing vehicles well, new vehicles must also be strictly controlled. The Shantou Municipal Bureau of Government Affairs Administration issued interim measures for the management of official vehicles, proposing to strengthen total volume control, clarify establishment verification standards, and curb the "fictitious increase" phenomenon at the source.
　　It is worth mentioning that in the procurement process, Guangdong implements the "unified procurement and distributed signing (统采分签)" model throughout the province.
　　Not long ago, a university in Shantou purchased two new energy vehicles through this model. "The province uniformly negotiated to lower the price, and we only need to complete the contract signing," said Li Jiang (李江), a staff member of the school's Logistics and General Affairs Section, who calculated the cost. "The total procurement cost is nearly 15% lower than self-procurement. After using new energy vehicles, the annual maintenance budget is expected to be reduced by another 32,000 yuan."
　　According to statistics, 1,081 vehicle-using units in the province have purchased 1,336 new energy official vehicles in accordance with the "unified procurement and distributed signing" model, saving a total of about 38 million yuan in procurement funds, with a savings rate of 14%. At present, new energy vehicles account for more than 90% of the newly added general official vehicles in the province, which can save about 150 million yuan in operation and maintenance costs every year.
　　"Since the Guangdong Province Official Vehicle Management Platform was put into use, it has curbed the unhealthy practices of 'using official vehicles for private purposes' and 'using public funds to maintain private vehicles'. In the next step, we will continue to adhere to the principles of strictness, simplicity, quality improvement, and efficiency enhancement, and continue to consolidate the effectiveness of official vehicle management, and contribute to building a conservation-oriented government," said Luo Zhanhuai (罗展怀), Deputy Secretary-General of the Guangdong Provincial Government and Director of the Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Government Affairs Administration.

　　Idle Houses are Put to Use
　　By Yin Xiaoyu (尹晓宇), reporter of this newspaper
　　Rows of iron cabinets are neatly arranged. Turn the handle, open the cabinet door, and boxes of archives are neatly stacked inside. In Changzhou (常州), Jiangsu Province (江苏省), more than 60 units in the city Party committee and government's central office area store their archives in a centralized warehouse, saving 2,400 square meters of office space.
　　In the past, each unit managed its archives separately, which required at least two offices, one for storage and one for sorting. Scanning and printing equipment also had to be equipped separately, but they were idle for only one or two months of concentrated use each year. The already tight office space was even more cramped.
　　The relocation of the Changzhou Archives from the central office area became a turning point. Through the government affairs big data management platform, the Municipal Bureau of Government Affairs Administration noticed that the archives left 800 square meters of office space and a large number of high-density shelves. "Can this area be used to centrally manage the archives of various units?" After on-site verification, the plan was feasible, and the renovation was immediately launched. The high-density shelves were simply modified to become closed archive cabinets. A shared sorting area was set up next door, and each department used it on a scheduled basis, greatly improving space utilization.
　　In recent years, Changzhou has formulated the "Changzhou Party and Government Organ Office Building Management 'One-Stop Guide (一本通)'", which sorts out the overview of real estate, inspection records, maintenance processes, laws and regulations, and other content to guide various departments and units to standardize management, and connects the usage status to the government affairs big data management platform to ensure the full life cycle management of office buildings.
　　In addition to tapping potential within the central office area, Changzhou also breaks down hierarchical boundaries and implements comprehensive allocation. The Municipal Veterans Affairs Bureau (市退役军人事务局) was originally located in the Municipal Administrative Center, but due to tight office space, it considered moving out. The Municipal Bureau of Government Affairs Administration compared information and found that a stock of office buildings in Xinbei District (新北区) basically met the needs. After communication and coordination, this idle district-level property was successfully transferred to the municipal-level department for use.
　　In practice, some idle properties have been revitalized, releasing social benefits. The old office area of the Municipal Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision (市质监局) covers an area of more than 10,000 square meters. After the Municipal Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision moved to the central office area, it became idle. Staff members of the Municipal Bureau of Government Affairs Administration conducted research and visits and learned that Yonghong Street (永红街道) in Zhonglou District (钟楼区), where the old office area is located, was carrying out idle asset screening and revitalization work. The two parties hit it off and signed an agreement, stipulating that the office area would be operated by Yonghong Street and transformed by a third party. Today, the idle courtyard has been transformed into a new kinetic energy innovation industrial park, gathering a group of start-up technology companies, which not only revitalizes it, but also brings rental income.
　　Ling Jie (凌洁), a member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Changzhou Municipal Bureau of Government Affairs Administration, said: "We will firmly establish the concept of asset revitalization and sharing, deeply explore the value of existing assets, and continue to explore various ways to promote the transformation of idle assets into in-use assets and high-quality assets."

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Calculate this cost, it's worth it! (Jin Tai Tide Voice)

By: 张 洋

The newly revised "Regulations on Practicing Thrift and Opposing Waste in Party and Government Organs" has been implemented for more than half a year, and the changes are obvious to all. Not long ago, when reporters went to the grassroots level for research, there were no special table meals during lunch, and no one mentioned alcohol. Two or three people ordered a few dishes at the unit cafeteria window and chatted while eating. This not only did not delay the afternoon's work, but also turned the meal time into an interview process. Everyone felt it was good, simple, efficient, and reassuring.

Some people may murmur, it's just a meal, what's wrong with being a little more particular?

What they say sounds right, but if you think about it carefully, many of the officials who have fallen from grace started with a meal, a glass of wine, or a reception that exceeded standards. This may seem like a desire for food and drink, but in reality, it is very likely to become a crack in the dam of work style. Many people remember that during the Yan'an (延安) period, Chen Jiageng (陈嘉庚) compared the extravagance of banquets in Chongqing (重庆) with the simplicity of home-cooked meals in Yan'an, and asserted that "China's hope lies in Yan'an." That spirit of "saving every copper plate for the war and the cause of revolution" was not poverty, but sobriety, and adherence to the original aspiration and mission. Now that conditions are better, the concept of "living a tight life" cannot be lost. We cannot lose sight of the big picture because of small gains, and we cannot forget our roots.

There is also a concern in society that if Party and government organs live a tight life, will things be done in a tight-fisted manner, affecting efficiency?

The "Regulations on Practicing Thrift and Opposing Waste in Party and Government Organs" states very clearly, "scientifically coordinate financial resources" and "ensure normal official activities"... Opposing waste is not about not spending money that should be spent, but about resolutely cutting off "flower stands" that do not emphasize practical results, such as extravagant receptions, excessive configurations, and image projects. The goal is to be meticulous and spend money where it counts.

Facts are the most persuasive. In 2025, the central government's "three public expenses" budget will be reduced by 5%. Where did the money saved go? Not long ago, the relevant负责人 of the Treasury Payment Center of the Ministry of Finance (财政部国库支付中心) introduced at a press conference that in the first three quarters of this year, national social security and employment expenditures and education expenditures both exceeded 3 trillion yuan, increasing by 10% and 5.4% respectively, and health expenditures also increased significantly. One decrease and one increase represent the optimization of resource allocation and the improvement of people's livelihoods, reflecting the overall pattern and high efficiency of modern governance.

How Party members and cadres act is seen by the masses. If you reduce extravagance and waste and do more things to help those in need, the masses will recognize and support you more. Nowadays, the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party never stops, the dam of the Central Eight-Point Regulation (中央八项规定) continues to be strengthened, and the concept of "living a tight life" is also written into the system, becoming a hard constraint. What we need to do is adhere to it, implement it well, and work persistently to make it a habit and a conscious action. In the final analysis, "living a tight life" is not a self-proclaimed asceticism, but a solemn commitment to the people. What it brings in return is the people "living a good life" and the trust and support of the people. This is a worthwhile calculation no matter how you look at it!

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Show off "family wealth" to gather popular support.

By: 本报记者 沈童睿

"This is good; clarifying the community's 'assets' puts our minds at ease." Recently, in the Jinse Shui'an Community (金色水岸社区), Zhonggongmiao Subdistrict (钟公庙街道), Yinzhou District (鄞州区), Ningbo City (宁波市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), several homeowners were carefully examining a brand-new "Shared Asset Identification Plate." It clearly marked the community's name, asset type, specific location, and unique identification code, making the shared asset information readily accessible.

Small property management matters, significant public well-being. The "assets" in the property management field have always been a focal point of public concern. Due to the lack of transparency and openness regarding shared asset information in some communities, homeowners lack understanding of the use and management of community public resources, leading to distrust in the operations of property management companies and even triggering conflicts and disputes.

Since 2025, the Ningbo Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision (宁波市纪委监委) has focused on addressing unhealthy tendencies and corruption issues affecting the public, including prominent issues in the management of public revenue in the property management sector as a key area for special rectification. Addressing the strong public concerns about unclear community public revenue assets and inadequate disclosure, the Ningbo Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, in conjunction with the Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau (市住建局), promoted the establishment of special accounts for all 2,531 residential communities in the city that meet the conditions for public revenue. They also established comprehensive public revenue management systems, public revenue income and expenditure disclosure systems, and explored the work of listing shared assets of homeowners in residential communities throughout the city. On this basis, discipline inspection and supervision agencies at all levels have streamlined supervision channels such as letters and visits, and the "People's Livelihood One-Stop Service," conducting multiple rounds of comprehensive follow-up supervision, and immediately rectifying issues such as untimely data collection, inadequate disclosure, and property management companies setting up "**账外账**" (zhàng wài zhàng - "off-the-books accounts," unofficial or hidden accounts).

"For communities like ours that have been delivered for more than 10 years, this listing is particularly meaningful," said Lu Ju (卢桔), Party Secretary of the Jinse Shui'an Community Party Committee (金色水岸社区党委书记). "Over time, many homeowners who moved in later are not clear about which assets are shared by everyone. Now that the sign is up, it's like giving the shared assets an 'ID card,' and everyone has a clear understanding."

During the special rectification, inadequate performance of property management services was also a major issue reflected by the public. The Ningbo Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision actively promoted relevant departments to revise and improve the comprehensive evaluation mechanism for property management companies, deducting credit points for property management companies that fail to meet contract performance standards, have poor property service quality, and have many homeowner complaints. The evaluation results are moderately linked to project contracting, urging companies to standardize services.

With problems and shortcomings being resolved one by one, grassroots governance is gaining more warmth. Discipline inspection and supervision agencies at all levels in Ningbo City further urged housing and urban-rural development departments to work with organization, social work, and other departments to strengthen the Party building-led "community-industry-property" collaborative governance, promoting the transformation of property services from passive rectification to proactive governance. Among them, Zhenhai District (镇海区) innovatively promoted key social workers to enter the homeowners' committee as public housing owner representatives, improving the quality of life for residents through joint construction and co-governance.

The Jinxu Shuguang Community (锦绣曙光小区) in Zhenhai District has old facilities, and the problem of electric bicycle charging cables hanging haphazardly is serious. The property management company is willing to solve the problem, but cannot get the residents to agree. Shen Jun (沈军), who serves as the deputy director of the community homeowners' committee as a key social worker, widely listened to residents' opinions and actively promoted the construction of centralized charging sheds for electric bicycles. Residents were concerned about the charging prices, so he organized residents' representatives, property management, and charging pile operating companies to negotiate and determine preferential prices. Now, the new charging shed has been put into use. "In the past, there was no way to avoid charging cables hanging haphazardly. Now the neighborhood committee has spent so much effort to build charging sheds, which makes us feel at ease and warm," said Aunt Wang (王阿姨), a resident of the community, with a smile on her face.

"Property services are not only a 'key small matter' concerning the public, but also a major livelihood issue related to social harmony and stability. We will continue to carry out the rectification of prominent problems in the property service field, help handle practical matters that the public can feel and reach, and promote the construction of a harmonious, safe, and clean beautiful home," said the relevant person in charge of the Ningbo Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision.

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Village doctor's follow-up records filled in by others (Supervision Post)

"This year, the village doctor only came once to measure my blood pressure. I haven't seen him since." Not long ago, the Discipline Inspection Commission of Jingjiang Town (井江镇), Changning County (长宁县), Yibin City (宜宾市), Sichuan Province (四川省) conducted household supervision and inspection in a certain village. Several patients with chronic diseases reported that the village doctor rarely followed up, failing to meet the local requirement of "at least 3 times per year."

Providing regular check-ups and medication guidance for patients with chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes is a major task for village doctors. "Follow-up visits should all be registered. If the number of visits does not meet the standard, relevant departments should discover and deal with it in a timely manner." The cadres of the Jingjiang Town (井江镇) Discipline Inspection Commission suspected that there was dereliction of duty and inadequate supervision behind this, and decided to continue to investigate further.

The investigation team came to the town health center and reviewed the electronic follow-up registration forms, but found no obvious loopholes. However, when they brought in village doctor Luo (罗某), they found that he did not understand the chronic disease situation of the villagers at all, could not explain why, and the paper follow-up records he kept were inconsistent with the electronic version.

"Did you actually follow up with chronic disease villagers as required?" the investigators asked Luo (罗某).

"Actually, my follow-up records were filled in by someone from the town health center."

It turned out that Luo (罗某) and some other village doctors found Liu (刘某某), a staff member of the Public Health Section of the town health center, and asked him to enter electronic data such as chronic disease follow-up and health management for the elderly on their behalf. Liu (刘某某) charged a fee of 15 yuan per entry. Liu (刘某某) was responsible for the daily supervision of village doctors, but not only did he fail to verify the service situation of the village doctors, but he even helped them to falsely report data. From 2019 to 2024, he collected a total of 61,338 yuan through this method.

Further investigation revealed that some other staff members of the Public Health Section of the health center also had similar violations of discipline and law. In the end, Liu (刘某某) and four others were held accountable in accordance with regulations and discipline.

[Disciplinary Officer's Statement] As a grassroots public health worker, Liu (刘某某) should have strictly fulfilled his supervisory duties and urged village doctors to improve the quality of service. However, Liu (刘某某) abused the power in his hands and profited by filling in and falsely reporting follow-up records on behalf of others, damaging the rights and interests of the masses in enjoying public health services. Discipline inspection and supervision organs should form a joint force with finance, health and other departments to strengthen downward supervision, check accounts, visit the masses, and verify ledgers, and strictly investigate violations of discipline and law such as squeezing public health funds, embezzling subsidies, and falsely reporting data.

(Reported by Li Kaixuan (李凯旋))

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Viewing the Innovation of Traditional Opera with an Open Mind (Upholding Creative Transformation and Innovative Development: Focusing on Literature and Art in the New Era)

By: 陶庆梅

The difficulty of opera innovation lies not in the competition among various traditional opera genres, but in the competition with stage performance forms such as spoken drama and musicals. It is especially important to note that for contemporary young audiences, opera, spoken drama, and musicals are all "plays," and they will watch whichever is better.

In recent years, the achievements of opera innovation have attracted special attention and sparked heated discussions.

At the recently held 14th China Art Festival (中国艺术节), the Wuju Opera "Three Battles with the White Bone Demon" (《三打白骨精》) performed by Yang Xiaoyun (杨霞云) and Lou Sheng (楼胜), and the Yue Opera "My Grand View Garden" (《我的大观园》) performed by Chen Lijun (陈丽君) and Li Yunxiao (李云霄), attracted huge audiences. "Three Battles with the White Bone Demon" has been performed more than 100 times since its premiere in 2023; "My Grand View Garden" has been performed more than 50 times since its premiere in January 2025; and "New Dragon Gate Inn" (《新龙门客栈》), also performed by Chen Lijun and Li Yunxiao, completed more than 200 resident performances in the past year. The three works have demonstrated market recognition with their impressive performance records. At the same time, they have also aroused widespread discussion, and even some controversy. In general, the opera community has mostly affirmed "Three Battles with the White Bone Demon," while the "out-of-circle" success of the latter two Yue Operas has brought different voices: Is this opera innovation, or a traffic effect? Does it promote the development of opera, or does it popularize opera into a "musical," weakening the artistic value of opera?

Regarding these debates, we must first answer from the works themselves.

Drama is a comprehensive art, including various elements such as text, performance, stage art, and music, and they must form a complete and harmonious aesthetic relationship. From an overall perspective, "Three Battles with the White Bone Demon" is derived from traditional texts, simplifying the complex, making the plot more compact, and the lyrics more personalized to the characters. Every scene setting is aimed at highlighting or even amplifying the actors' skills. The Yue Operas "New Dragon Gate Inn" and "My Grand View Garden" are newly written plays, which use more spoken drama writing methods, but the two are different: "New Dragon Gate Inn" uses traditional spoken drama writing methods, closely focusing on the emotional relationships of the four main characters, and the plot structure and character relationships are very detailed; the screenwriter of "My Grand View Garden" is more radical, subverting the traditional opera narrative method, and using emotional guidance and "I" perspective to extract relevant chapters of "Dream of the Red Chamber" (《红楼梦》) to restructure the plot.

Due to the fundamental differences in text structure, the innovation directions of the three works also differ. The plot of "Three Battles with the White Bone Demon" is not complicated. From Yang Xiaoyun's appearance changing faces and costumes to the later "three battles" and other scenes, almost all highlight the actors' wonderful skills, highlighting the essence of "performing literary plays with martial arts and singing literary plays with martial arts"—the cheers constantly erupting from the audience prove that the foundation of opera is indeed in the actors' performance. "New Dragon Gate Inn" pays great attention to promoting the characters' actions with the lyricism of the arias, and presenting the moving martial arts scenes with the actors' graceful figures, providing young audiences with another imagination of "wuxia." "My Grand View Garden" absorbs the stage art experience of dance dramas in recent years, highlighting the compositional beauty of group performances, but over-reliance on stage art and stage scheduling reduces the importance of actors' skills and singing, and lacks depth in emotional expression.

These explorations of Wuju Opera and Yue Opera, on the whole, have returned to the performance-oriented performance form of opera to varying degrees, and their "out-of-circle" success is a remarkable breakthrough in opera art. Opera innovation cannot be achieved overnight, and it is natural for problems of this kind to arise in the process. Moreover, the different directions of innovation in these three works are different responses to different challenges—Wuju Opera is rooted in the grassroots, and Yue Opera is active in big cities, which determines the differences in their innovation concepts. Yue Opera in big cities faces young audiences who watch spoken dramas, musicals, and dance dramas all year round, and the anxiety of subject matter innovation is naturally more prominent, and the impulse to absorb the characteristics of film, spoken drama, and musicals is stronger, which prompts it to innovate in subject matter and expand new performance elements. In the process of dissemination, Yue Opera is more influenced by the consumer culture of big cities and is inevitably intertwined with the "fan" phenomenon. In this regard, on the one hand, actors and troupes should carefully grasp and not excessively get involved in consumer culture; on the other hand, commentators should also carefully analyze and separate the "fan" effect from the innovation of the repertoire.

There can be various ways of opera innovation, but they should all return to the fundamental characteristics of opera as a comprehensive performing art, and find a new balance between various aesthetic elements based on actors' performance. We affirm the achievements of "Three Battles with the White Bone Demon," and we should not deny the stage breakthroughs of "New Dragon Gate Inn" and "My Grand View Garden." "New Dragon Gate Inn" has relatively successfully integrated various new and old elements, realizing the mutual stimulation between various elements. The scattered perspective writing method based on lyricism in the text of "My Grand View Garden" and the breakthrough in stage visual presentation, its successes and failures, are all worthy of reflection and discussion.

Currently, there is one point that we are not very aware of in the debate surrounding opera innovation: The difficulty of opera innovation lies not in the competition among various traditional opera genres, but in the competition with stage performance forms such as spoken drama and musicals. It is especially important to note that for contemporary young audiences, opera, spoken drama, and musicals are all "plays," and they will watch whichever is better. Therefore, we cannot just talk about opera when talking about opera—when we criticize opera for being "musicalized" and innovative repertoires for not being "authentic," can we change our perspective and regard it as a localized attempt of musicals or even a self-exploration of a new art form that extracts the strengths of various schools? Should we be more tolerant of such explorations?

Furthermore, in the new era context, opera is very likely to continuously change the overall appearance of modern theaters in the process of constantly advancing with different art forms such as spoken drama, musicals, and dance dramas. Few world dramas have such superb, rich, and complex performing elements as Chinese opera. In the process of its innovation, opera constantly draws on all the conveniences of modern drama performance to enrich its own form; and in this process, modern drama is also learning the performing characteristics of opera in modern theaters and constantly innovating its own form. In such hard work and innovation, Chinese drama is very likely to form a rich modern drama performance form, bringing a new picture to the development of world drama.

(The author is a researcher at the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院文学研究所))

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Don't Let "Group Buying Livestreaming" Go Sour (Insight)

By: 任飞帆

Group broadcasting needs the rigid constraints of regulatory authorities, the proactive role of platforms, the self-improvement of group broadcasting entities, as well as the joint supervision and support of all sectors of society.

Recently, the Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办) issued a notice to launch a two-month special action nationwide, named "Qinglang: Rectifying the Chaos of Online Live Streaming Tipping" ("清朗·整治网络直播打赏乱象"专项行动). The action focuses on key areas prone to breeding chaos in live streaming tipping, such as entertainment-oriented group broadcasts and private domain live streams. It strictly cracks down on four prominent issues: vulgar group broadcasts enticing tipping, fake personas deceiving tipping, inducing minors to tip, and stimulating users to tip irrationally.

With the rapid development of the Internet, cultural consumption methods are constantly innovating. Group broadcasting, where multiple people perform talents such as dancing and singing in the same live broadcast room, has become a very popular new form of mass art in the past two years. According to incomplete statistics, the average daily number of group broadcast rooms is about 8,000, and the annual revenue is expected to exceed 15 billion yuan. In the monthly competitions held by some leading group broadcasting companies, the single-game tipping amount for just one night exceeds 10 million yuan.

In terms of performance form, group broadcasting performances are concise and powerful, highly repetitive, and have distinct visual memory points, allowing people to quickly follow and imitate. The accompaniment is mostly high-recognition, fast-paced electronic dance music and popular rap, with straightforward lyrics. The formations are mostly horizontal rows and square formations, with extremely high requirements for synchronization, thereby creating impact through visual consistency.

Different from traditional one-way cultural consumption forms, the main logic of group broadcasting is to allow viewers to tip for performances through game settings and community operations, handing over the "on-demand rights" to the audience. A gift can request a program, the tipping ranking determines the anchor's screen time, the higher the tipping amount, the more gorgeous the screen effects, the more excited the off-site host, and the more uniform the thank-you messages in the bullet comments, giving the tipper a greater sense of presence and satisfaction. This emotional value also extends beyond the live broadcast room. The IDs of high-tipping users are recorded, and deeper emotional connections are created through private messages, exclusive fan groups, and other methods.

"Tipping" on demand increases interactivity, but it also easily "breaks" the bottom line and slides into a "gray area." Some group broadcasts use specific shooting techniques, scene construction, and clothing design to render and create a vulgar atmosphere. Some vulgarize adaptations of well-known classic literary and artistic works. When vulgar group broadcasts rely on "edge-ball" traffic to quickly profit, it will attract more teams to follow suit, squeezing the living space of high-quality content. From the perspective of industry reputation, the negative impression of the group broadcasting industry among viewers deepens, which is even more unfavorable to the long-term development of the entire industry.

For group broadcasting to develop healthily, it needs the rigid constraints of regulatory authorities, the proactive role of platforms, the self-improvement of group broadcasting entities, as well as the joint supervision and support of all sectors of society. As an emerging form of Internet development, group broadcasting, with its distinct interactivity, reconstructs the relationship between cultural supply and consumption. User preferences are more valued and can be used well to empower cultural construction. Relying on the characteristics of strong interactivity, timely feedback, and close emotional bonding, we might as well open our "minds" and develop more new group broadcasting scenarios, such as combining with literary and artistic troupes to expand audience coverage and improve the relevance of content; combining with intangible cultural heritage to allow more people to understand excellent traditional culture, and "tipping" can also improve the lives of inheritors; combining with public welfare dissemination to transform the enthusiasm of the audience into tangible good deeds; and so on.

Only through multi-party collaboration and persistent efforts can group broadcasting grow into a healthy industry that combines social value and commercial value, injecting more positive energy into new mass art.

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Giving People the Courage to Walk the Right Path (New Work Quick Review)

By: 谢云开

Suspense dramas captivate with their intricate cases and tense, hardcore reasoning, but the social issues and even philosophical propositions reflected in the crimes and mysteries are what make these works memorable. From this perspective, "The Maze of Shadows" not only delivers suspense and well-developed characters but also offers a profound philosophical reflection on "how to uphold justice."

In the drama, in 1994, Yanchuan City (燕川市), a small city in the north, is shrouded in a cold atmosphere. Rumors spread in the alleys with swaying tree shadows. A veteran and a young police officer, master and apprentice, from the Nanhuaishu Police Station (南槐树派出所), visit every household to investigate and search for the "Hutong (胡同) Killer." Every time they think they are close to the truth, they encounter obstacles everywhere; the only pitiful clue is that the murderer should be very familiar with these alleys... The case is finally solved 18 years later. During this period, the master and apprentice's black hair turns white, the old Hutong (胡同) has long become high-rise buildings in the city, some of those who experienced the case have passed away, and even the victim's family has given up hope.

Upholding justice requires a stubbornness, even at a heavy price. Zhao Gan'e (赵赶鹅), a young police officer, is accidentally involved in a series of murders. Because of his guilt towards the victim, Liu Ke (刘珂), solving this first major case he took over becomes his "obsession." His master and colleagues advise him not to be too "stubborn," but Zhao Gan'e (赵赶鹅) firmly shouts: "But I just want to solve this case!" In the drama, "Hutong (胡同)" has a double meaning, both the scene of the crime and the maze that Zhao Gan'e (赵赶鹅) cannot escape. To recreate the scene, he repeatedly climbs over the wall at the end of the Hutong (胡同), trying to prove that he can break through the dead end of the case, but repeatedly gets his head bloodied.

This stumble lasts for 18 years. The camera cuts to 2012, and Zhao Gan'e (赵赶鹅), with wrinkles around his eyes, is still a grassroots police officer, but he says: "I will never regret being a police officer!" Professional honor stems from his inner recognition of justice. The audience is moved by this, shouting "no regrets" in their hearts, following him as he is in the fog but with light in his eyes, and experiencing together that only perseverance can prevent justice from being lost in the noise.

Upholding justice is not Zhao Gan'e's (赵赶鹅) task alone, but a relay race from one generation to the next. Zhao Gan'e's (赵赶鹅) master, the old police officer Ran Xi (冉曦), is superficially a veteran, cynical, but to fulfill his master's last wish, he persists in a case for many years. On his deathbed from cancer, Ran Xi (冉曦) tells Zhao Gan'e (赵赶鹅): "My master's case has been settled, now it's your turn!" It is because of this inheritance that everyone has more confidence and strength in the process of upholding justice, just like the repeatedly appearing line—"There are no dead ends, we can all get out!"

Even though two generations of police officers in the play relay to solve the case, for the victims and their families, the truth still comes too late. This cannot help but make people wonder: Will delayed justice dissolve the meaning of perseverance? The drama does not directly touch on this issue, but instead tells the audience through the changes in the Hutong (胡同): Upholding justice is also protecting the world in which we live. One side of the Hutong (胡同) is the human world, and the stories of the times are staged here: there is Liu Beiping (刘北萍), who independently starts a business and runs a shop, there are children who study and grow up together, and there are literary youths who passionately recite poetry... This world carries everyone's joys, sorrows, and separations. Every kind soul in the Hutong (胡同) deserves to be protected. No matter how the times change, whether it is the maze-like old Hutong (胡同) or the bustling city streets, as long as someone is upholding justice, the hope for goodness and beauty will always flow.

At the end of the whole drama, the truth is revealed, and many netizens lament that the aftermath is strong. Looking back, isn't the main theme of "following the right path" an unchanging pursuit deeply rooted in our cultural roots? In the persistent adherence to justice, in protecting the peace of the world with flesh and blood, the short life will eventually precipitate eternal value. Even delayed justice is like a torch in the long night, illuminating oneself and others.

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A Resounding Answer to "What Does the Yangtze Mean?"

By: 高蒙河

"It turns out the Yangtze River is only called the Yangtze River when it reaches Yibin (宜宾)," "Before writing existed, ancient people actually carved and 'posted on social media' on giant rocks and cliffs"... Recently, after the documentary "Because of the Yangtze (因为长江)" was broadcast, many young people enthusiastically discussed the Yangtze River, and I also followed along to watch this documentary and revisit the culture of the Yangtze River.

The Yangtze River possesses incomparably rich connotations. Its history and culture complement its geographical environment. The upper reaches are plateau areas, the middle reaches are mainly hilly and mountainous areas, and the lower reaches are plains. In long-term human activities, different industries and lifestyles have formed in the Yangtze River basin, jointly constituting a magnificent history of the relationship between humans and the land in Chinese civilization. Fully presenting this great river that carries millions of years of human history, ten thousand years of cultural history, and five thousand years of civilizational secrets, integrating nature and humanities within a limited time, while also possessing historical depth and contemporary appeal, is a challenge that the documentary cannot avoid.

"Because of the Yangtze (因为长江)" first constructs a clear framework for the grand narrative. From a historical and geographical perspective, the film "deconstructs" the ten-thousand-mile Yangtze River into seven major cultural regions: Qiang-Tibetan, Yunnan-Guizhou, Bashu, Jingchu, Hunan, Gan-Wan, and Wu-Yue, explaining them in separate episodes. At the same time, combined with the geographical environment and regional culture, it extracts seven thematic words with double meanings for each region: Origin, Convergence, Water Management, Emerging Innovation, Nourishing Rice, Flowing Charm, and Guiding Navigation. "Convergence (合脉)," refers to both the confluence of rivers and the fusion of cultures; "Emerging Innovation (涌新)," refers to both the winding and turning of the river and the genes of innovation; "Guiding Navigation (引航)," refers to both the river flowing into the sea and the civilization going overseas.

After the framework is clear, the concrete historical relics and the diverse groups of people who specifically participate in the protection and inheritance of the Yangtze River civilization make this work full of flesh and blood. The film showcases major historical and cultural events and contemporary social issues, striving to see things through objects, see people through events, see history through people, and see the present through history. "Yunnan-Guizhou·Convergence (滇黔·合脉)" focuses on the "Dian Kingdom (滇国)," which is only recorded in just over 300 words in the "Records of the Grand Historian (史记)," and awakens an ancient kingdom that has been sleeping for more than 2,000 years from historical fragments through archaeological discoveries and scholars' narratives. The 夜郎自大 (yè láng zì dà - "Yelang arrogant," provincial arrogance; ignorant boastfulness) that has been misinterpreted for thousands of years is also restored in the evidence of cultural relics and expert interpretations, revealing Yelang's insistence on its own position as a vital hub for waterway transportation, thereby presenting the story of exchange, interaction, and integration among the ancestors. The episode "Qiang-Tibetan·Origin (羌藏·源启)" focuses on the present, with the camera following the surveyors of the Fourth National Cultural Relics Census, recording how they "issue ID cards" for rock paintings and ancient ruins. This work scene made many netizens exclaim, "I've only heard of population censuses, but it turns out cultural relics also need to be surveyed." This entry point is close to life and popularizes the systematic protection work behind cultural relics.

The most touching aspect of this documentary is that it brings the grand term "civilization" down to specific people, real events, and tangible emotions. A passionate young man who cycled more than 6,300 kilometers along the Yangtze River collected Yangtze River water in more than 70 bottles, seeking the answer to "What exactly is on both sides of the Yangtze River?"; scholars who have adhered to the front line of archaeological excavation for decades, just to crack the clues of civilization; and cultural and museum workers who use digital technology to restore the faces of ancestors millions of years ago, as well as herders, photographers, and volunteers who silently protect the environment of the Yangtze River... They are not only witnesses to the changes in the Yangtze River but also inheritors of Chinese civilization. The moving stories that happen to them allow us to see that the Yangtze River is not only a mother river that nourishes life but also a spiritual river that flows in the blood of the Chinese nation.

"Because of the Yangtze (因为长江)" is a cultural root-seeking journey in the sense of images, making a resounding answer to "What does the Yangtze River mean to the Chinese nation?". The answer lies in the ceaseless roaring waves, in the cultural relics that have been polished by time and witnessed the years, and even more in every Chinese person who has been nurtured and nourished by the Yangtze River civilization.

(The author is a professor in the Department of Cultural Relics and Museology at Fudan University (复旦大学) and vice president of the Chinese Cultural Relics Society (中国文物学会))

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The plot holds up, but the characters don't (Viewpoint from Taiwan)

Director Shao Zehui's (邵泽辉) original drama "Wanguan Fire" starts from the relationship between costumes and actors to explore what is a "star," which is very innovative. His new work "The Final Act" continues to focus on the situation of opera, focusing on a father and son from a Peking Opera family. The content is more concrete, but not as stunning as the previous work.

The father, Tang Hongming (唐宏鸣), is naturally intelligent and has gained the true essence of the Tang school of art, but he is cynical, rebellious, and failed in his overseas business ventures. The son, Tang Chi (唐驰), is wholeheartedly devoted to opera. Influenced by his grandfather, he is persistent in inheriting and carrying forward the Tang school of art, but he is terminally ill and will soon pass away. The conflict between father and son is not only at the level of ethics and family affection, but also in the dimension of artistic concepts, such as the inheritance of the Tang school of art and the current situation of the development of Peking Opera art, which they have different understandings of. The work uses the fragility and impending demise of human natural life to metaphorically suggest where the ancient artistic life will go.

The father-son relationship is wrapped in the depth of traditional culture, and the grand proposition of the inheritance and development of opera is based on genuine and simple emotions. However, this carefully designed father-son relationship does not have a full character image to match it. The work is too eager to explain the direction of events, ignoring the changes in the characters' psychology during the course of events, lacking reasonable stage action support, and the overall presentation is too hasty.

(Haidian District (海淀区), Beijing (北京市) Xiao You (小  有))

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Where pomegranate flowers bloom, the human world is illuminated by fireworks.

By: ​冷 凇

The delicate touch of urban emotional dramas, meeting the magnificent style of the Xinjiang land, what kind of artistic sparks will collide? The TV series "Red Pomegranate Restaurant," which recently concluded on CCTV-1's prime time slot, uses a restaurant called "Red Pomegranate" as a stage, cleverly weaving together individual dreams, emotional ties, and the atmosphere of the times, presenting a lively picture of people's livelihood in Xinjiang in the new era.

Small restaurant, big world, seeing the real Xinjiang in the atmosphere of daily life. For a long time, frontier narratives have excelled in poetic imagination or grand structures. "Red Pomegranate Restaurant" has found a more down-to-earth approach: rooting the story in the everyday life of Urumqi (乌鲁木齐). People come and go in the restaurant, gathering different stories. Characters such as the chef Murati, the waiter Bayar, and the assistant cook Ankar, each with different ethnic backgrounds and life experiences, become vivid windows for observing Xinjiang society.

In the drama, the main thread of "restaurant crisis" strings together stories of rural revitalization, intangible cultural heritage crafts, and family life, maintaining a light and fast pace of the plot, and like a drop of water reflecting the sea, reflecting the era's style of Xinjiang's unity, harmony, and peaceful and prosperous life. The transformation of the male protagonist, Mingliang, from a fine arts student to a restaurant operator is particularly thought-provoking. This is not only a repositioning of personal ideals, but also conveys a profound truth: true art is never aloof, but rooted in a passionate life. His love story with Gulinaer, a wildlife doctor, also transcends ordinary emotional entanglements, becoming a mutual illumination of two life trajectories—one returning to the community, one guarding nature, ultimately intersecting due to a shared love for this land.

"Red Pomegranate Restaurant" is unique in its visual expression, confidently using high-saturation colors to construct a bright, full, and rich Xinjiang on the screen. The camera truthfully captures and presents the beautiful scenery and passionate life of Xinjiang: the green of the grasslands, the white of the Tianshan Mountains (天山), the golden yellow of the deserts, the mountains of fruits and vegetables piled up in the markets, the bright costumes on the characters... one can't help but sigh that everything here is so warm and abundant. The crew built a two-story restaurant in the old city of Urumqi (乌鲁木齐), deliberately aging it to integrate it with the surrounding environment; the characters' clothing is also quite modern and everyday, seamlessly connecting with the aesthetics of contemporary young people. This is a kind of deliberate authenticity, returning the story of Xinjiang to the "people" themselves. Through empty shots, we seem to be able to smell the rich aroma of pilaf, the sweet fragrance of fruits, and the "fragrance of the heart" between people.

Stepping outside the work itself, the broadcast of "Red Pomegranate Restaurant" carries profound significance. It uses simple strokes to depict the real face of Xinjiang today, and touches people's hearts with knowable and sensible character destinies and warm life details. The grassroots wisdom of the village-based cadre Xu Lai, the modern transformation of "Atlas silk" (艾德莱斯绸), and the new quality productive forces represented by the molten salt tower solar thermal power station... grand era issues are woven into the daily lives of the characters. The "Red Pomegranate Family," composed of multi-ethnic members, has no blood relationship but is closer than relatives, with misunderstandings and frictions, but the underlying tone is always understanding and tolerance. Mother Ayisha's upbringing of Mingliang and her assistance to Mayila, the deep friendship between multi-ethnic employees, all of these prove that the Chinese nation's community is not an abstract concept, but a common life of brotherhood and kinship.

Deep power is often hidden in the ordinary human world, and grand themes must ultimately be written by specific individuals. In this fragrant Red Pomegranate Restaurant, we tasted the true taste of life, saw a real, three-dimensional, and comprehensive Xinjiang, and enhanced our personal understanding of the Chinese nation's community.

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Editor in charge of this edition: Zhang Mingse

This edition's email: wenyipl@peopledaily.cn
Layout design: Shen Yiling (沈亦伶)

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