People's Daily - November 20, 2025

Chongqing Promotes City-wide Digital Transformation

By: 本报记者 李增辉 任筱霞 刘新吾

"The upstream and downstream of the industrial chain are more closely connected." In Chongqing (重庆), an automobile company connects more than 300 cooperative manufacturers, reducing product development time by more than 20%.

"I spent more than 200 yuan less and saved myself an extra trip." Benefiting from "mutual recognition of medical tests," Yu Kunyi (余坤义), a resident of Changshou District (长寿区) in Chongqing (重庆), was able to have doctors directly access his CT scan results from a week earlier at Changshou District Hospital (长寿区医院) when seeking treatment in other urban areas, eliminating the need for repeated examinations.

"Timely detection of fires reduces safety hazards." In Fuling District (涪陵区), Chongqing (重庆), intelligent sensing equipment continuously guards the safety of the mountains and forests 24 hours a day.

In April 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out during his inspection in Chongqing (重庆): "It is necessary to deeply practice the people-centered urban development concept and actively explore new paths for the modernization of governance in megacities."

The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) proposal puts forward the need to "deeply promote the construction of Digital China" and "promote the modernization of governance in megacities and super-large cities."

To deeply implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and the decision-making arrangements of the Party Central Committee, Chongqing (重庆) is actively exploring the digital transformation of the city and steadily promoting the construction of Digital Chongqing (数字重庆), making urban governance more intelligent, efficient, and precise. Horizontally, it breaks down data barriers through an integrated and intelligent public data platform, realizing a unified account management of digital resources. Vertically, it constructs a three-level digital urban operation and governance center, where information can reach the grassroots level in seconds. Based on the combination of "horizontal connection" and "vertical penetration," Chongqing (重庆) continues to explore ways to enhance the development, service, and governance capabilities of megacities.

Digital intelligence integration empowers industries and promotes high-quality development in megacities.

"Di--" The test car's dashboard suddenly lit up with a yellow warning. The car recognized a broken-down vehicle ahead. Without driver intervention, the brake pedal sank, and the vehicle quickly decelerated from 60 kilometers per hour, coming to a steady stop behind the broken-down vehicle after 5 seconds.

At the Western China Science City Intelligent Connected Vehicle Innovation Center (西部科学城智能网联汽车创新中心) (hereinafter referred to as "Western Zhilian (西部智联)"), located in Chongqing (重庆), "smart cars" are running on "smart roads."

Thanks to the construction of Digital Chongqing (数字重庆), Western Zhilian (西部智联) has integrated intelligent infrastructure, cumulatively accessing data from approximately 400 traffic light intersections and nearly 6,000 connected vehicles, supporting car companies in developing vehicle-mounted applications with collaborative early warning functions. "Compared with single-vehicle intelligence, the vehicle-road-cloud integrated solution enables collaboration between vehicles, road infrastructure, and the cloud, making it safer and more efficient," said Chu Wenbo (褚文博), General Manager of Western Zhilian (西部智联).

To promote the improvement of the quality and efficiency of the software and information service industry, Chongqing (重庆) has laid out the construction of 18 software parks, including the Internet Industrial Park (互联网产业园) and the Jinfeng Software Park (金凤软件园). In 2024, Chongqing's (重庆) digital industry revenue reached 991.02 billion yuan, an increase of 6.1% year-on-year.

Focusing on both digital industrialization and industrial digitalization.

In the intelligent factory of Chongqing Qingshan Industrial Co., Ltd. (重庆青山工业有限责任公司), the sense of technology is strong: artificial intelligence visual inspection equipment identifies defects with an accuracy of 0.1 millimeters, with an inspection efficiency 5 times that of manual inspection; algorithms analyze equipment energy consumption curves to dynamically adjust production shifts, reducing the energy consumption of a single product by 8%... "We have combined 5G and big data technologies to transform the automatic transmission production line, increasing production efficiency by 30% and effectively reducing manufacturing and operating costs," said Liao Zhenggao (廖政高), Deputy Chief Engineer of the company.

Accelerating the implementation of the "Artificial Intelligence + Manufacturing" action, creating a new digital economy model of "Industrial Brain + Future Factory," and empowering the high-quality development of manufacturing. As of now, Chongqing (重庆) has cumulatively promoted the implementation of more than 6,900 intelligent transformation projects, built 211 advanced-level intelligent factories, and the numerical control rate of key processes in industrial enterprises above designated size has reached 63.9%.

Breaking down barriers and connecting horizontally to help megacities provide high-quality services.

"It's much faster to complete the procedures for the birth of my second child than before," said Liu Huanhuan (刘欢欢), a resident of Liangjiang New Area (两江新区) in Chongqing (重庆). Not long ago, an obstetrics nurse helped Liu Huanhuan (刘欢欢) handle the "one-stop service for newborn births" on her mobile phone. Through Chongqing's (重庆) government service application "Yu Kuai Ban (渝快办)," she could apply for birth certificates, household registration, and other matters in one operation, and Liu Huanhuan (刘欢欢) received her child's birth certificate the next day.

The people make fewer trips, and the data travels more. Chongqing (重庆) has uniformly built an integrated and intelligent public data platform, integrating self-built data platforms of municipal departments, enterprises, institutions, districts, counties (development zones), etc., forming a "supermarket" of data resources, which can be called upon by various units as needed.

"Focusing on the urgent needs and concerns of the people, we are promoting the transition from 'at most one trip' to 'no trips at all'," said Dai Xiaohong (代小红), Deputy Secretary-General of the Chongqing Municipal Government and Director of the Chongqing Municipal Big Data Application Development Administration. At present, Chongqing (重庆) has built a "Highly Efficient One-Stop Service" zone, integrating 85 "one-stop service" items and deepening the creation of more than 300 scenario applications.

Meeting the needs of the people while also serving business entities.

In Baqiao Town (八桥镇), Dadukou District (大渡口区), Chongqing (重庆), in the past, supervising enterprises involved "averaging efforts and conducting universal inspections," which was time-consuming and laborious, and occasionally resulted in omissions. Now, the town distinguishes enterprises into three levels—red, yellow, and green—based on a social universal credit rating system. It does not interfere with green entities and focuses on supervising yellow and red entities. "Honest enterprises can focus more on doing business, and our burden has also been reduced," said law enforcement officer Li Xianfeng (李先锋).

Chongqing (重庆) has created a one-stop platform for enterprise-related services, realizing intelligent matching and precise delivery of enterprise needs and service supply, cumulatively handling more than 10,000 enterprise demands, and can also proactively "deliver" preferential policies to enterprises.

Three-level linkage and vertical penetration promote efficient governance in megacities.

Stepping into the Chongqing Municipal Digital Urban Operation and Governance Center (重庆市数字化城市运行和治理中心), various data flicker in real time on the screen, and the operating status is clear at a glance.

The command hall screen flashes a red "prompt," information from the forest fire prevention sensing equipment in the Chashan Bamboo Sea Forest Farm (茶山竹海林场) in Yongchuan District (永川区). The Yongchuan District Digital Urban Operation and Governance Center (永川区数字化城市运行和治理中心) automatically and synchronously pushes the fire information to the grid members. After confirming that it was a flame, the system quickly dispatched a professional emergency team to the scene, extinguishing the fire in its initial stage.

"Under normal circumstances, the district-level center dispatches and commands. If the fire is more serious, the municipal governance center immediately intervenes, and relevant departments combine intelligent plans to coordinate more personnel to participate in firefighting, realizing efficient three-level linkage and significantly improving governance efficiency," said Wang Junjie (王骏杰), Deputy Director of the Chongqing Municipal Digital Urban Operation and Governance Center (重庆市数字化城市运行和治理中心).

In the past, responding to emergency events such as forest fires required linking multiple levels and units, such as the city, districts, and forest areas, resulting in high communication costs and low efficiency. In response, Chongqing (重庆) has horizontally created "one platform" and vertically constructed a three-level digital urban operation and governance center. Among them, the municipal governance center is positioned as the "urban brain," mainly solving cross-district and county governance problems; the district and county governance centers focus on "actual combat hubs," mainly solving cross-township and street governance problems; and the township and street governance centers serve as the "execution end," mainly solving cross-village and community governance problems, covering 1031 townships and streets.

In Hongyadong (洪崖洞), Yuzhong District (渝中区), once the equipment senses that the number of tourists exceeds the threshold, relevant units will receive information in real time and respond to the overload of tourists in the scenic spot in a timely manner; above the Laolin Reservoir (老林水库) in Shibao Town (石宝镇), Zhongxian County (忠县), various sensors monitor indicators such as water level, seepage pressure, and rainfall in real time, recording changes in water conditions... Chongqing (重庆) has established a closed-loop working mechanism for perceptual early warning, decision-making and disposal, supervision and evaluation, and retrospective improvement, creating a "resilient and safe urban governance map," incorporating 590,000 risk points in areas such as flood control and disaster relief, and gas pipeline networks, accessing 22 million sensing devices from the government, society, and enterprises, promptly prompting 270 types of risk hazards, and promoting a threefold increase in the city's emergency response speed.

"A megacity is an open and complex system. Chongqing (重庆) adheres to systems thinking to promote the construction of Digital Chongqing (数字重庆), reducing the dependence of decision-making on personal experience and forming a 'replicable but non-removable capability'," said Dai Xiaohong (代小红). In the next step, Chongqing (重庆) will continue to promote the digital transformation of the city, develop more practical and easy-to-use applications, and strive to explore new paths for the modernization of governance in megacities.

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"Excerpts of Xi Jinping's Discourses on Strengthening Party Conduct Published in Ethnic Minority Languages"

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 19th. "Excerpts from Xi Jinping's (习近平) Discourses on Strengthening Party Conduct," compiled by the Party History and Literature Research Institute of the CPC Central Committee, has been translated into Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur, Kazakh, and Korean by the China National Translation and Compilation Bureau (中国民族语文翻译局) and published by the Nationalities Publishing House (民族出版社). It will be distributed nationwide starting today.

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Building a socialist country under the rule of law to a higher standard

By: 本报记者

The central conference on comprehensively advancing law-based governance of the country was held in Beijing from November 17th to 18th. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) recently issued important instructions on comprehensively advancing law-based governance, emphasizing: "Comprehensively promoting the rule of law in all aspects of the country's work, providing a strong legal guarantee for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization."

General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions are inspiring and motivating, triggering enthusiastic responses among the vast number of cadres and the masses. Everyone expressed that they should deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law, deeply study and implement the spirit of the conference, and coordinate the promotion of scientific legislation, strict law enforcement, impartial justice, and universal law-abiding, to build a more complete socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics and a socialist rule of law country with a higher level.

The Socialist Rule of Law Road with Chinese Characteristics is Becoming Wider and Wider

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has incorporated the comprehensive rule of law into the 'Four Comprehensives' strategic layout for vigorous promotion. The overall pattern of comprehensively advancing the rule of law has basically taken shape, the socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics has been continuously improved, and the socialist rule of law road with Chinese characteristics is becoming wider and wider."

"The historic achievements in comprehensively advancing the rule of law fully demonstrate the power of truth and the great power of practice of Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law." Liu Bo (刘波), Director of the Administrative Law Enforcement Coordination and Supervision Bureau of the Ministry of Justice (司法部), said that it is necessary to deeply study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions, give full play to the coordinating, regulating, supervising, and coordinating role of administrative law enforcement supervision on administrative law enforcement, and continuously promote strict, standardized, fair, and civilized law enforcement, to provide legal support and a strong guarantee for Chinese-style modernization.

Promoting the rule of law in handling letters and visits is an important aspect of promoting the comprehensive rule of law. In recent years, the State Bureau of Letters and Visits (国家信访局) has conscientiously implemented the "Regulations on Letters and Visits," formulated a "roadmap" for the rule of law in handling letters and visits, strengthened supervision and inspection, and promoted functional departments to resolve the reasonable demands of the masses in accordance with the law. "We must deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law, comprehensively promote the rule of law in handling letters and visits, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the masses in accordance with the law; at the same time, further give play to the 'barometer' role of letters and visits, promptly discover policy issues, propose improvement suggestions, and promote the improvement of relevant laws and regulations," said Shi Songyu (史嵩宇), Director of the Research Office of the State Bureau of Letters and Visits (国家信访局).

"The people's courts give full play to the important functions of punishing crimes and protecting the people in accordance with the law, resolving disputes and maintaining justice, and vigorously safeguarding national security, social stability, and people's tranquility with strict and impartial justice. We adhere to the people-centered approach, focus on what the people are anxious about and expect, handle people's livelihood cases with the awareness of 'as if I were the litigant,' continuously enhance people's well-being, and continuously enhance the people's sense of gain in judicial justice." Si Yanli (司艳丽), Deputy Director of the Research Office of the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院), said that it is necessary to deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law, faithfully perform duties, administer justice impartially, and strive to provide strong judicial services and guarantees for achieving a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan" and comprehensively building a modern socialist country on the track of the rule of law.

"The compilation of the Civil Code, the amendment of the Legislation Law, the adoption of the Amendment to the Criminal Law (XII), and the formulation of the Personal Information Protection Law have further demonstrated the role of the rule of law in serving and guaranteeing. The legislation, law enforcement, and judicial work related to new quality productive forces have achieved good results and promoted the development of new quality productive forces." Yang Dong (杨东), Dean of the Law School of Renmin University of China (中国人民大学), said that it is necessary to deepen the construction of the rule of law work force and the cultivation of legal talents, comprehensively strengthen the collaborative education mechanism between legal practice departments and law schools, and lay a solid foundation for building a socialist rule of law country with a higher level.

Building a More Complete Socialist Rule of Law System with Chinese Characteristics

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Focusing on building a more complete socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics and a socialist rule of law country with a higher level, we should pay more attention to the coordination of the rule of law with reform, development, and stability, pay more attention to guaranteeing and promoting social fairness and justice, and comprehensively promote scientific legislation, strict law enforcement, impartial justice, and universal law-abiding."

"To improve the quality of legislation, we must always adhere to Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law as the guide, always adhere to the people-centered approach, continuously improve the legislative work pattern of Party leadership, people's congress dominance, government reliance, and participation of all parties, deeply promote scientific legislation, democratic legislation, and law-based legislation, and use laws and regulations to consolidate and demonstrate institutional advantages, serve and guarantee high-quality development, and effectively enhance people's well-being and social fairness and justice," said Huang Haihua (黄海华), Director of the Research Office of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (全国人大常委会法工委).

General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions further clarified the strategic, overall, and directional issues of comprehensively advancing the rule of law, and deepened the understanding of the regularity of socialist rule of law construction.

"It is necessary to fully implement Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law, deeply study and interpret the original contributions of Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law, construct a Chinese-independent legal knowledge system, improve the practice-oriented education and training mechanism of law schools, give play to the unique advantages of universities, and serve the practice of comprehensively advancing the rule of law through think tank construction," said Ma Huaide (马怀德), President of China University of Political Science and Law (中国政法大学).

Public security organs are an important national public security administrative force and criminal justice force, and are a vital force in the construction of the rule of law in China. "We will accelerate the inclusion of local public security legislative projects urgently needed in key areas and emerging areas into the province's legislative plan, focus on building a systematic and efficient law enforcement supervision and management system, strengthen law enforcement risk prevention and control, effectively address law enforcement problems of concern to the masses, comprehensively promote law enforcement capacity building, and strive to contribute to building a higher-level rule of law public security and realizing the modernization of public security work," said Shu Wen (舒文), Deputy Director and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the Sichuan Provincial Public Security Department (四川省公安厅).

"We will always adhere to Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law as the guide, and improve the quality and efficiency of legal supervision in 'daring to supervise, being good at supervising, and being brave in carrying out self-supervision,' and strive to promote the high-quality development of procuratorial work," said He Xiaohua (何小华), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Procurator-General of the Ningbo Municipal People's Procuratorate of Zhejiang Province (浙江省宁波市人民检察院).

Jointly Create a New Situation in the Construction of the Rule of Law in China

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The rule of law work departments should conscientiously perform their duties, take the initiative to assume responsibility, and all departments and fields should strictly handle affairs in accordance with the law, and jointly create a new situation in the construction of the rule of law in China."

The standardized construction of social security comprehensive management centers is a vivid practice to ensure the resolution of contradictions and disputes on the track of the rule of law. In the Jiang'an District Comprehensive Management Center in Wuhan (武汉) , Hubei (湖北), staff members in front of windows such as legal aid, administrative reconsideration, and public security letters and visits receive the masses in uniform. "General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions pointed out the direction and clarified the path for our work." Zhou Fei (周飞), Deputy Secretary of the Jiang'an District Party Committee and Political and Legal Committee in charge of daily work, said that it is necessary to make good use of the platform of the Comprehensive Management Center, promote all resident departments to perform their duties in accordance with the law, form synergy, effectively improve the level of legalization of resolving contradictions and disputes and the level of standardization of social security comprehensive management, and continuously consolidate the foundation for building a higher-level safe China.

"General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions pointed out the direction for advancing the comprehensive rule of law on the new journey, and further enhanced our confidence and determination to unswervingly follow the socialist rule of law road with Chinese characteristics." Yang Zhengguo (杨政国), Deputy Director of the Office of the Commission for Comprehensive Law-Based Governance of Shaanxi Province (陕西省) and Director of the Provincial Department of Justice, said that he will focus on the new situation, new tasks, and new requirements, scientifically compile the implementation plan for the construction of the rule of law in Shaanxi during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, comprehensively implement major deployments, important tasks, and key tasks in the field of the rule of law, and provide strong guarantees for high-quality economic and social development.

Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law is the guiding ideology that must be adhered to for a long time in comprehensively advancing the rule of law in the new era, and it is necessary to deepen the study, publicity, education and training, research and interpretation of Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law.

"Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law is constantly enriched, developed, deepened, innovated, and matured in the practice of the Party leading the comprehensive rule of law, and is a dynamically developing, open, and progressive ideological system." Feng Lixia (封丽霞), Director of the Department of Politics and Law of the Central Party School (National Academy of Governance) (中央党校（国家行政学院）), said that it is necessary to combine the specific reality of the work of publicizing and educating the rule of law, comprehensively and systematically understand the rich connotation and practical requirements of Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law, explain it fully, accurately, deeply, and thoroughly, and launch more high-quality research results.

(Our reporters Xu Jun (徐隽), Zhang Tianpei (张天培), Zhang Cong (张璁), Wei Zhezhe (魏哲哲), Ni Yi (倪弋), Qi Yukun (亓玉昆), Jin Xin (金歆))

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Xinjiang displays a new image of openness and confidence.

By swiping their passports, travelers can clear customs in seconds. At Xinjiang's Ürümqi Tianshan International Airport (新疆乌鲁木齐天山国际机场), British tourist Hilly Patrick exclaimed, "The speed is too fast!"

The construction of "smart travel inspection" at ports, the "7×24-hour reservation customs clearance model"... With technological upgrades, service optimization, and refreshed experiences, Xinjiang in the new era opens its arms to welcome visitors from all over the world. In the first 10 months of this year, Xinjiang's border inspection agencies inspected a total of 3.654 million inbound and outbound personnel, an increase of 36.4% year-on-year. Among them, 1.665 million were foreign nationals, an increase of 22.3% year-on-year.

In August 2023, when General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) listened to the work reports of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区) Party Committee and Government and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团), he emphasized: "We must increase the opening up of tourism in Xinjiang and encourage domestic and foreign tourists to travel to Xinjiang." In September this year, when General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) listened to the work reports of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区) Party Committee and Government, he urged: "Strengthen the integration of culture and tourism to promote the development of the cultural tourism industry."

Bearing in mind the entrustment and forging ahead, Xinjiang is working hard to create distinctive tourism products, promote infrastructure construction, improve the quality of tourism services, and actively demonstrate a new look and new atmosphere of openness and confidence.

Openness and confidence stem from magnificent scenery.

Xinjiang firmly establishes and practices the concept that **绿水青山就是金山银山** (lǜ shuǐ qīng shān jiù shì jīn shān yín shān - "green waters and mountains are gold and silver mountains," ecological environment is invaluable), adheres to the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, and grasslands, and the green and low-carbon development has a more solid foundation.

A green sand-fixing protective belt of 3,046 kilometers long surrounds the Taklamakan Desert (塔克拉玛干沙漠) of 337,600 square kilometers. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Xinjiang afforested 8.3489 million mu, improved grassland by planting 23.205 million mu, and treated 27.0888 million mu of desertified land.

There are big moves and small ingenuity. In the Tianshan Tomur Scenic Area (天山托木尔景区), the wooden plank road meanders. Austrian tourist Gottfried Rick said: "It is commendable to appreciate the beautiful scenery up close without destroying the ecology, and the concept of protecting the natural environment."

Openness and confidence stem from a splendid civilization.

Three-dimensional scanning allows the rammed earth walls of the ancient city of Jiaohe (交河故城) to reproduce the pattern of ancient streets and alleys; artificial intelligence repairs fill the cracks eroded by time in the murals of the Kizil Grottoes (克孜尔石窟)... Chinese culture converges thousands of rivers and streams, and has always been the emotional support, spiritual home, and spiritual home of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang, and it is also the source of power for the cultural development of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang.

Strengthening the protection and utilization of cultural relics and the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage, Xinjiang promotes the excellent traditional culture of all ethnic groups. "The people here are full of confidence and good at creating." Nasser Shamma, an oud artist from the UAE who visited Kuqa City (库车市), exclaimed.

Openness and confidence stem from the convenience of exchanges.

The land is paved with smooth roads. As of the end of 2024, the total mileage of Xinjiang's highways will exceed 230,000 kilometers, and hardened roads and passenger cars will reach all established villages with conditions; at the end of last year, the Tianshan Victory Tunnel (天山胜利隧道) was successfully completed. After it is opened to traffic, it will take only more than 20 minutes to cross the Tianshan Mountains (天山山脉).

The air weaves the Silk Road. Xinjiang has 28 civil airports, ranking first in the country. In the first 10 months of this year, Xinjiang has operated a total of 693 domestic and international routes, and its regional radiation capacity has continued to increase.

Come to Xinjiang to enjoy the beautiful scenery, make sincere friends, and feel the governance of China.

"I have been doing foreign trade business for 20 years and have witnessed the tremendous changes in Kashgar (喀什)." Dilitani Xia Tiba Bayev (迪力塔涅夏提·巴巴耶夫), a Pakistani businessman at the Khunjerab Port (红其拉甫口岸), said, "I want to bring my family to experience the atmosphere here."

Promote development through opening up and increase confidence through opening up. In the first nine months of this year, Xinjiang received more than 260 million domestic and foreign tourists, a year-on-year increase of 8.36%.

"We must deeply carry out cultural enrichment in Xinjiang, continue to promote tourism to revitalize Xinjiang, and sincerely invite global tourists to visit Xinjiang and feel the charm of the Chinese culture of unity in diversity." The relevant person in charge of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区) Government said.

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Innovative Sci-Tech Startups Attract Financial Support (New Development Philosophy Leads High-Quality Development: Stories from the Front Lines)

By: 本报记者 赵展慧

Since the new era, financial resources have been scaling "high" and chasing "new," injecting a continuous stream of power into high-quality development.

Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Guide financial institutions to improve incentive and restraint mechanisms, and make good use of equity, debt, insurance and other means to provide technology-based enterprises with full-chain, full-life-cycle financial services to support the strengthening of manufacturing."

The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal states: "Vigorously develop technology finance, green finance, inclusive finance, pension finance, and digital finance."

In Wuhan (武汉), Hubei (湖北) Province, the Wuhan East Lake High-tech Development Zone (武汉东湖新技术开发区), known as "China Optics Valley" (中国光谷), is home to more than 5,000 technology-based enterprises.

Investing early, investing in small businesses, investing for the long term, and investing in hard technology, in the thriving innovation ecosystem of Optics Valley, more than 1,000 financial institutions, including credit, insurance, venture capital, and financial leasing, tailor financial services to technology-based enterprises with different needs.

How does financial capital nourish technological innovation? The birth and development of a seedling of scientific and technological innovation provides an answer.

Cultivate a pair of discerning eyes—

Firmly support projects that are identified as promising.

Climbing stairs with ease, a bionic arm "lifting weight as if it were light," in the laboratory of Wuhan Grand Robot Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (武汉格蓝若智能技术股份有限公司), a humanoid robot "Laborer No. 1" (劳动者1号) is undergoing training.

"'Laborer No. 1' is becoming more and more stable in its gait and is working hard to train as a 'duty officer' for substations," said Gao Feng (高峰), Deputy General Manager of Grand Robot.

"Knowing that Grand Robot plans to cooperate with Huazhong University of Science and Technology (华中科技大学) to develop humanoid robots, we have increased the amount of working capital loans for the company to prepare for the transformation of achievements. Since we have identified it as promising, we will firmly provide support," said Zhao Yufei (赵宇飞), Marketing Section Chief of the Bank of Communications Wuhan East Lake Branch (交通银行武汉东湖支行). With the support of technology finance, the birth of "Laborer No. 1" took less than a year.

Since its establishment in 2018, Grand Robot has grown from a single intelligent power sensing business to intelligent robots, precision motion control and other fields, becoming a versatile player competing in multiple tracks.

In this process, financial support has kept pace with every stage of the company's growth.

"We started out making smart grid equipment that can test grid equipment such as current transformers without power outages," Gao Feng (高峰) said. In the early stage, Wuhan Optics Valley Fenhua Integrated Circuit Venture Capital Partnership (Limited Partnership) (武汉光谷烽火集成电路创业投资基金合伙企业（有限合伙）) and other institutions participated in multiple rounds of equity financing for the company, which strongly supported the project's transformation and implementation.

The money was quickly spent, but the income was slow to come. "Innovation is often high-risk, high-investment, and long-cycle, and we are no exception," Gao Feng (高峰) said. During the nearly two years of testing, credit loans provided by Bank of Communications (交通银行), China Everbright Bank (光大银行) and other institutions gave the company a lot of help. "In Optics Valley, many banks have established specialized technology branches, which have shifted from looking at financial statements to focusing more on the innovation prospects of enterprises, and can basically provide unsecured pure credit loans of 10 million yuan." Gao Feng (高峰) felt that financial institutions' tolerance for financing for technology innovation enterprises is constantly increasing.

"We look at patents instead of 'bricks.' We do not rely on the traditional credit model of fixed asset mortgage, but judge the gold content of enterprise innovation based on technical achievements, scientific research teams, potential market size and other factors, and accelerate the exploration of new logic of technology finance," Zhao Yufei (赵宇飞) said.

In 2020, Grand Robot's smart grid equipment passed the test and obtained large-scale purchase orders. The company's revenue drew an upward growth curve—more than 20 million yuan, more than 50 million yuan, more than 400 million yuan... It has increased several times in 3 years.

Aim at a "bullseye"—

Wherever the enterprise's pain points are, follow up with services.

When inspecting the Wuhan Institute for Industrial Innovation and Development (武汉产业创新发展研究院), Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Achieving high-level self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology and developing new quality productive forces puts forward more urgent demands for the integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation."

In this regard, Grand Robot, which has tasted the sweetness of cooperation between industry, academia and research, has a deep understanding. "The company is 'bolder'," Gao Feng (高峰) said. The success of the smart grid equipment business is the result of the company's cooperation with universities. Can it enter more high-tech tracks?

Hardware has become the first hurdle hindering enterprises from expanding innovation at this time. "The factory buildings are all rented and scattered in various parts of the park, which is not only inconvenient to manage, but also greatly reduces the attraction to talents," Gao Feng (高峰) said, and the purchase of office buildings is imminent.

Calculating the area, the new building needs to invest hundreds of millions of yuan. "The developer proposed to pay the full amount in advance before the transfer can be completed," Gao Feng (高峰) said, and there was still a considerable funding gap at that time.

The enterprise's difficulties are the "bullseye" that financial services aim at. Soon, the bank took the initiative to visit. "After coordination, the developer agreed that the enterprise could purchase the new building through loans. After full due diligence, we completed the approval of a 132 million yuan housing loan in just two weeks," Zhao Yufei (赵宇飞) said.

Grand Robot, which moved into a new building in 2023, has established joint innovation platforms with multiple colleges of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (华中科技大学), and fixed the cooperation as a long-term sustainable mechanism—enterprises purchase or fund the research and development of technical patents that meet the national strategic development direction and market demand, and scientific researchers can invest in enterprises with patent income and continue to participate in the subsequent transformation of achievements. "Scientific research and development can be 'tied' to market applications, and the income of scientific researchers can be 'tied' to the effect of achievement transformation, which mobilizes the enthusiasm of both enterprises and universities and research institutes," Gao Feng (高峰) said.

Build a system—

Provide full life cycle financial services for technology innovation enterprises.

The achievement transformation mechanism has been built, and the first step to operate it is to find funds.

"In 2024, we will increase the working capital loan quota for Grand Robot by 120 million yuan, and at the same time extend the loan term to support the company's unremitting research and development with longer-term funds," Zhao Yufei (赵宇飞) said.

With sufficient financial support, Grand Robot made a one-time investment of 80 million yuan to purchase nearly 100 invention patents and crossed over into fields such as intelligent robots.

The demand for achievement transformation funds is even greater. Obtaining a 50 million yuan intellectual property pledge loan from Industrial Bank (兴业银行), obtaining various loans of 70 million yuan from China Everbright Bank (光大银行)... Financial support has formed a joint force to promote the acceleration of achievement transformation. Today, Grand Robot's precision motion control system and precision vibration reduction system have been delivered in batches for application, and "Laborer" No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 have successively "hatched" and have been delivered for application in cultural tourism and other scenarios.

"In the next step, the company's subsidiaries will cooperate with securities companies and other institutions to move towards multi-level capital markets," Gao Feng (高峰) said.

"In Optics Valley, from basic research and achievement transformation to commercialization, the entire chain of technological innovation has financial services to match it, providing financial support for technology innovation enterprises of different sizes and at different stages of development," said the relevant person in charge of the Hubei Regulatory Bureau of the National Financial Regulatory Administration (国家金融监督管理总局湖北监管局).

Not only does the high-tech zone "dare to be the first," but with the goal of "providing full-chain, full-life-cycle financial services for technology-based enterprises," various regions and departments are accelerating reforms to build a technology finance system and mechanism that is compatible with the laws of technological innovation. The credit granting methods for technology innovation enterprises are constantly optimized. Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," banking financial institutions have cumulatively issued more than 650 billion yuan of intellectual property pledge loans; the innovation points system has been further expanded from the national high-tech zone to national trials, quantifying the evaluation of enterprise innovation capabilities... Under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping's (习近平) Economic Thought, a technology finance service system with reasonable division of labor, mutual supplementation, and complete functions is constantly improving, accelerating the realization of a virtuous cycle of technology-industry-finance, and continuously promoting the high-quality development of the real economy.

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Over 90% of winter wheat sown nationwide

According to agricultural situation monitoring, as of November 18, the national winter wheat sowing has exceeded 90%, with nearly 95% in the Huanghuaihai region. By province, Henan (河南), Shandong (山东), Shaanxi (陕西), and Shanxi (山西) have all exceeded 95%, Anhui (安徽) has exceeded 90%, and Jiangsu (江苏) has exceeded 80%.

The picture shows agricultural machinery sowing winter wheat in the fields of Jiangzhuang Village, Chenbao Town, Xinghua City, Jiangsu Province (江苏省兴化市陈堡镇蒋庄村) on November 19.

Photo by Zhou Shegen (周社根) (Xinhua News Agency (新华社) issued)

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Continuously Moving Towards the High End of Industry (Visiting Enterprises, Observing High-Quality Development)

By: 本报记者 赵永新 贺林平

Adhering to user orientation, focusing on potential needs, and continuously improving portrait photography functions based on research and analysis; adhering to technology-driven approaches, increasing investment in research and development, and accumulating more than 8,000 patent applications for 5G and 6G technologies as of October this year; adhering to creating value and undertaking social responsibility, and developing special functions for people with disabilities with the help of artificial intelligence technology... As a mobile phone brand manufacturer, vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. (维沃移动通信有限公司) is committed to technological innovation and continuously moving towards the high end of the industry.

Adhering to User Orientation

Stepping into the exhibition area on the second floor of vivo's global headquarters in Dongguan City (东莞市), Guangdong Province (广东省), a line of large characters comes into view: Create great products with user orientation. "Users are the 'destination' of our efforts," said Shen Wei (沈炜), founder, president, and CEO of vivo.

Image performance is a hot spot of competition among mobile phone manufacturers at home and abroad. "After we launched the XShot, which focused on photography, in 2014, we gradually strengthened the construction of image capabilities. Four years later, we faced another choice: should we focus on popular functions at the moment, or refine user needs and find another way?" recalled Li Zhuo (李卓), senior director of vivo's Imaging Product Planning and Cognitive Center.

"After user research and data analysis, we found that users value portrait photography functions very much," Li Zhuo (李卓) introduced that most of the portraits taken by users are relatives and friends, and these photos have rich emotional value and great potential demand. To this end, vivo has continuously improved its technology reserves and cognitive accumulation in the direction of portraits. In December 2019, the X30 series products with portrait functions as the main feature were launched; in December 2020, the X60 series products were launched.

In order to explore better technical solutions to meet user needs, vivo has made efforts in telephoto technology. Since 2022, it has successively launched models with telephoto functions such as X90 Pro+ and X100 Ultra. The X300 Pro, which debuted in October this year, is equipped with a periscope super telephoto. "We care about the user's real feelings, not just comparing parameters with experience," said Li Zhuo (李卓).

Adhering to Technology-Driven Approaches

How to bring a better experience to users? "We must carry out technical research persistently," Li Zhuo (李卓) introduced, taking the "200 million pixel sensor" as an example, "From the conception of the plan to the realization of mass production, we spent nearly 4 years developing and polishing it with our partners."

"Technological innovation is the key to enhancing the competitiveness of enterprises. Only by continuously investing in research and development can we have the vitality to develop," said Hu Baishan (胡柏山), executive vice president and chief operating officer of vivo.

Since 2015, vivo has decided to focus on technological innovation as the focus of the company's future development, attracting talents and increasing investment. Since 2019, it has focused on the four major technology tracks of design, imaging, system, and performance, and continued to tackle key problems.

The Communication Research Institute was established in 2016, the AI (Artificial Intelligence) Global Research Institute was established in 2018, and the Robotics Laboratory was established in 2025... vivo continues to make efforts in technological innovation: the average annual growth of R&D investment is 20%, the proportion of R&D personnel exceeds 75%, and the cumulative number of global patent applications exceeds 50,000.

"In terms of R&D strategy, we adopt a collaborative model of 'product technology R&D' and 'cutting-edge technology exploration'," said Zhang Chenlu (张晨璐), deputy director of vivo Communication Research Institute, which focuses on the current product technology improvement and explores the future development direction.

After years of cooperative innovation, vivo has made phased breakthroughs in the X300 series of mobile phones: through self-developed communication chipsets and algorithms, the interruption rate in subway scenarios has been significantly reduced, and the stuttering rate of short videos has been reduced by 59%; in concerts and other scenarios, the transmission time of 50 megabyte videos has been shortened by 80%.

vivo is constantly accumulating strength in cutting-edge technology exploration. Taking communication technology as an example, the company joined the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), a global mobile communication standard-setting organization, in 2016 to fully participate in the formulation of 5G international standards; it launched 6G research in 2019 and carried out cutting-edge layout. "As of October this year, we have submitted more than 18,000 technical proposals to 3GPP," said Zhang Chenlu (张晨璐).

"We can't save money that should be spent on technological innovation. We spend more than 10 billion yuan on R&D expenses every year in the four major technology tracks of design, imaging, system, and performance," said Hu Baishan (胡柏山). "If this money is not invested in R&D, although it will increase short-term profits, the company's future competitiveness will be out of the question."

Adhering to Creating Value

In a conference room in Futian District (福田区), Shenzhen City (深圳市), Guangdong Province (广东省), Chang Zhuo (常卓), senior director of vivo AI Product Strategy Center, is discussing with his colleagues how to further improve the "listening and speaking" functions of mobile phones with AI technology.

"vivo Listening and Speaking" is a function specially developed by Chang Zhuo's (常卓) team for hearing-impaired users. This function can convert the text output by hearing-impaired users into voice, and quickly convert the other party's voice into text, making communication smoother.

For visually impaired people, Chang Zhuo's (常卓) team developed the "vivo Seeing" function. This function can help visually impaired users identify information in daily life. Taking checking into a hotel as an example, this function can not only help visually impaired users find their room, but also help them identify the same-shaped shampoo and shower gel.

It is reported that vivo mobile phones serve more than 4 million disabled users. "It is indeed more difficult and takes more time to develop special functions," Chang Zhuo (常卓) admitted frankly, "But we have a responsibility to respond to users' needs. This has nothing to do with profit, it is the responsibility that we should have as a technology company. We must put ourselves in their shoes and think about problems from their perspective, test and improve relentlessly, and constantly improve technical accuracy."

It is understood that vivo has applied to become a public welfare partner of the 12th National Games for the Disabled and the 9th Special Olympic Games, and plans to provide award-winning visually and hearing-impaired athletes with mobile phones equipped with the latest barrier-free functions.

"Commercial value is the foundation of the survival of an enterprise, but it is not the ultimate goal," said Hu Baishan (胡柏山). Only by continuously creating value for users and society can an enterprise develop healthily and for a long time.

"'Benfen' (本分) is the focus of our corporate culture," said Shen Wei (沈炜). The so-called 'benfen' means maintaining a normal mind, returning to the essence of things, eliminating interference such as pressure, and doing the right thing. "In the future, we must still maintain a normal mind, continue to create value for users, and move forward steadily on the road of helping high-quality development."

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Continuously and deeply study and apply the "Thousands of Villages Demonstration, Ten Thousand Villages Renovation" experience, and promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside in a solid manner with a nail-biting spirit.

Xinhua News Agency, Hangzhou, November 19th (Reporter) The national on-site meeting on learning and applying the "Thousands of Villages Demonstration, Ten Thousands of Villages Renovation" ("Thousand Villages, Ten Thousand Villages" Program) experience and promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside was held in Jiaxing (嘉兴), Zhejiang (浙江) from the 18th to the 19th. Liu Guozhong (刘国中), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. He emphasized that it is necessary to thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions and instructions on "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" work, implement the deployment of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, and take learning and applying the "Thousand Villages, Ten Thousand Villages" Program experience as a guide to promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside to a new level.

Liu Guozhong (刘国中) stated that the "Thousand Villages, Ten Thousand Villages" Program embodies General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) theoretical and practical innovations in doing a good job in "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" work. To accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas and steadily promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, it is necessary to learn and use the "Thousand Villages, Ten Thousand Villages" Program experience well. It is necessary to respect the principal position of farmers and do more practical things that are in line with public opinion, benefit people's livelihoods, and warm people's hearts. It is necessary to adhere to adapting to local conditions and implementing precise policies, doing our best while acting within our capabilities, and never engaging in vanity projects or image projects. It is necessary to coordinate the improvement of rural industries, construction, and governance levels, and synergistically promote the "five revitalizations" of the countryside. It is necessary to adhere to the five-level Party secretaries grasping rural revitalization, maintain strategic focus, work persistently, and constantly 积小胜为大成 (jī xiǎo shèng wéi dà chéng - "accumulate small victories into a big success," to achieve great things by accumulating small achievements).

Liu Guozhong (刘国中) emphasized the need to improve the quality of village planning, improve the implementation mechanism of rural construction, strengthen and improve rural governance, promote stable income growth for farmers, and create high-quality living spaces in rural areas. It is necessary to improve grain production capacity and the quality and efficiency of characteristic industries, and consolidate the foundation for the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside. It is necessary to do a good job in normalized and precise assistance to ensure that there is no large-scale return to poverty.

During the meeting, Liu Guozhong (刘国中) conducted on-site research on the implementation of the "Thousand Villages, Ten Thousand Villages" Program in Jiaxing City (嘉兴市).

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Accelerating the Digital and Intelligent Transformation and Upgrading of Manufacturing, and Solidly Promoting the Innovative Development of State-Owned Enterprises

Xinhua News Agency, Chongqing, November 19th. Zhang Guoqing (张国清), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, conducted research in Guizhou and Chongqing from the 16th to the 19th on the digital and intelligent transformation and upgrading of manufacturing, and the innovative development of state-owned enterprises. He emphasized the need to conscientiously study and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speeches, accurately grasp the rich connotation of new quality productive forces, accelerate the digital and intelligent transformation and upgrading of manufacturing, solidly promote the innovative development of state-owned enterprises, adhere to optimizing and upgrading traditional industries, cultivating and strengthening emerging industries, and proactively planning for future industries, and develop new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions.

In Guizhou and Chongqing, Zhang Guoqing visited enterprises in industries such as data services, chemicals, food, metallurgy, automobiles, and communication equipment, going into production workshops and laboratories to learn in detail about research and development innovation, production and operation, and industry development. He emphasized that promoting the digital and intelligent transformation and upgrading of manufacturing is an urgent need to consolidate the foundation of the real economy. It is necessary to promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence large models with enterprise research and development design, production and manufacturing, accelerate the cultivation and application of industry vertical models, promote the transformation of industrial models and enterprise organizational forms, and comprehensively empower the high-quality development of manufacturing. It is necessary to intensify efforts to promote the research, development, and application iteration of domestic industrial software, adhere to positive breakthroughs, focus on data accumulation, improve the adaptability of industrial software to production equipment, and consolidate the foundation for digitalization and intelligence. It is necessary to encourage leading enterprises to build internationally leading "lighthouse factories" and intelligent production lines, guide small and medium-sized enterprises to accelerate the promotion of "intelligent transformation, digital transformation, and network connection," create more replicable and scalable digital and intelligent benchmark scenarios, and continuously expand the space for industrial upgrading and enterprise development.

Zhang Guoqing emphasized that state-owned enterprises should continue to improve their independent innovation capabilities, and cultivate new quality productive forces and create new competitive advantages through the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation. It is necessary to improve the institutional arrangements for state-owned enterprises to promote original innovation, increase the proportion of R&D investment in basic research, accelerate the layout and construction of original technology source areas, and achieve more breakthroughs in key core technologies, key common technologies, and cutting-edge technologies. It is necessary to promote state-owned enterprises to accelerate the layout and construction of a number of concept verification and pilot test verification platforms, strengthen the integrated promotion of software and hardware innovation and standard development, accelerate the cultivation and opening of application scenarios, and form a virtuous cycle of technological breakthroughs, scenario verification, industrial applications, and iterative upgrades. It is necessary to support state-owned enterprises in close cooperation with universities, research institutes, and private enterprises, to jointly condense scientific and technological problems oriented to industrial needs, carry out collaborative research, jointly build innovation platforms, jointly train talents, promote the smooth flow of innovation elements, continuously optimize the innovation ecosystem, and improve the overall effectiveness of collaborative innovation.

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Giant "Charging Station" Built in the Desert (Towards the Development Blueprint of the "15th Five-Year Plan")

By: 本报记者 李祉瑶

Optimize the layout of key energy channels and intensify the construction of new energy infrastructure.

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

With cranes operating and machinery roaring, more than 3,000 builders in Dalad Banner (达拉特旗), Ordos (鄂尔多斯) City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区), are racing against time in the Kubuqi Desert (库布其沙漠), and the Gushanliang (谷山梁) 3 GW/12.8 GWh energy storage power station project is taking shape.

How large is 3 GW? "Calculated at a power of 10 kilowatts per household during peak electricity consumption, it can supply power to 300,000 households simultaneously," said Wang Ning (王宁), head of the Planning and Development Department of the Ordos (鄂尔多斯) Power Supply Branch of Inner Mongolia Electric Power (Group) Co., Ltd. (内蒙古电力（集团）有限责任公司).

This giant "power bank" covers an area of approximately 1,100 mu and has a total investment of 11.2 billion yuan. Walking into two of the energy storage power stations, rows of energy storage battery compartments are neatly arranged, and staff are installing and debugging equipment. "The construction of these two power stations is the fastest, and they will be put into operation by the end of this year," said Chen Jiayi (陈嘉毅), head of the Gushanliang (谷山梁) project development at Inner Mongolia Zhongdian Energy Storage Technology Co., Ltd. (内蒙古中电储能技术有限公司).

Why build a giant "power bank" in the desert?

The Kubuqi Desert (库布其沙漠) is rich in wind and solar resources, with many large-scale new energy power generation bases such as wind power and photovoltaics distributed there. After all the projects under construction are put into operation, the average annual total power generation in Dalad Banner (达拉特旗) alone is expected to reach 40 billion kilowatt-hours.

However, even if the electricity is generated, it may face the problem of not being able to be transmitted or used effectively. Chen Jiayi (陈嘉毅) introduced that through intelligent dispatch, the energy storage power station can realize peak shaving and valley filling of new energy power, just like a "power bank," storing electrical energy during low electricity consumption or excess power, and releasing the stored electrical energy to the grid during peak electricity consumption. "The energy storage power station also plays a role in frequency regulation," Chen Jiayi (陈嘉毅) said, "When electricity consumption and power generation are unbalanced, the grid frequency will fluctuate, and the energy storage power station can accurately adjust to ensure the stability of power supply."

Building energy storage power stations near new energy power generation bases and grid hub nodes can reduce electricity transmission costs and losses. "The site selection also needs to comprehensively consider geological conditions, environmental impact assessment, and other factors," said Zhang Kai (张凯), project manager of Inner Mongolia Electric Power Survey and Design Institute (内蒙古电力勘测设计院).

After the completion of the Gushanliang (谷山梁) 3 GW/12.8 GWh energy storage power station project, it is expected to transmit 3.6 billion kilowatt-hours of clean energy power to the grid every year. Where will this electricity be sent?

Wang Ning (王宁) introduced that after the completion of the project, it will be connected to the Gushanliang (谷山梁) 500 kV substation and integrated into the grid, giving priority to ensuring electricity consumption for industry and residents in Ordos (鄂尔多斯) and western Inner Mongolia (内蒙古西部), and will also be sent to North China (华北) and other regions to help optimize the energy structure.

At present, Ordos (鄂尔多斯) City has completed 23 energy storage power station projects, 12 under construction, and 17 planned. Also in the Kubuqi Desert (库布其沙漠), the Hangjin Banner (杭锦旗) Gushanliang Mingyang Intelligent (谷山梁明阳智能) 100 MW/400 MWh grid-side energy storage power station demonstration project is expected to be put into operation at the end of November this year.

The construction of giant "power banks" in the desert is driven by the market and also inseparable from policy guidance. The Energy Bureau of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区能源局) issued the "Notice on Accelerating the Construction of New Energy Storage," which clearly states that the compensation standard for independent new energy storage power stations discharging to the public grid in 2025 is 0.35 yuan per kilowatt-hour, with a compensation period of 10 years.

"When independent new energy storage power stations discharge, they are power generation enterprises, and when they charge, they are regarded as electricity users. The peak-valley electricity price difference of the grid forms a profit margin, attracting enterprises to invest in it," said Li Kai (李凯), director of the Comprehensive Guarantee Center of the Energy Bureau of Dalad Banner (达拉特旗能源局).

Relevant负责人 of the Ordos (鄂尔多斯) City Energy Bureau said that facing the "15th Five-Year Plan," the local area will continue to optimize the new power system with new energy as the main body and promote energy transition and economic and social development.

This issue is coordinated by: Lü Li (吕莉)

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Promoting the Green and Intelligent Integration and Development of Energy Infrastructure (Further Reading)

By: 任育之

Traditional energy infrastructure is based on fossil energy, characterized by centralized energy production and unidirectional transmission to the user side, including large power plants, transmission and distribution networks, oil and gas pipelines, etc. With the transformation of energy production and consumption patterns and the rapid development of new technologies and models, energy infrastructure is undergoing new changes in system form and operation mode. A number of energy infrastructures with new characteristics such as green, intelligent, and integrated are accelerating their emergence, jointly constituting a new energy infrastructure system.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the National Energy Administration (国家能源局) promoted the transformation of energy infrastructure towards new, green, and intelligent directions in all links and chains, achieving positive results. For example, on the transmission side, technologies such as ultra-high voltage and flexible DC significantly improved the green and flexible level of "West-to-East Power Transmission" (西电东送), with clean electricity accounting for approximately 60% of the national inter-provincial and regional power transmission. Exploring the construction of new media transmission networks for green hydrogen, ammonia, and alcohol, the long-distance and large-scale green hydrogen pipeline demonstration project from Ulanqab (乌兰察布), Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) region is accelerating. On the storage side, high-head, large-capacity pumped hydro storage and small and medium-sized pumped hydro storage are developing in a diversified and coordinated manner; the installed capacity of new energy storage exceeds 100 million kilowatts, accounting for more than 40% of the global total. On the user side, the world's largest charging infrastructure system has been built, and the large-scale application of vehicle-to-grid interaction is being promoted in depth. Integrated energy stations integrating multiple energy sources such as electricity, gas, heat, and hydrogen are developing rapidly, and new models such as direct green electricity connection are accelerating.

During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the National Energy Administration (国家能源局) will increase its efforts to build new energy infrastructure, optimize the layout of energy backbone channels, and strive to initially build a clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient new energy system by the end of the "15th Five-Year Plan".

Promote green development, adhere to the simultaneous development of wind, solar, hydro, nuclear, and other energy sources, and improve the supply capacity of non-fossil energy. Promote the transformation of coal power from basic security power sources to supporting and regulating power sources, scientifically plan pumped hydro storage, vigorously develop new energy storage, and accelerate the construction of new power systems adapted to high proportions of new energy.

Promote intelligent development, expand and form a number of typical application scenarios of "Artificial Intelligence + Energy", accelerate the construction of smart grids, and build an intelligent dispatching system. Accelerate the digital and intelligent transformation of traditional energy infrastructure such as coal mines, power plants, and oil and gas fields. Vigorously develop new models and new business forms such as distributed energy, virtual power plants, and vehicle-to-grid interaction.

Promote integrated development, coordinate "West-to-West Power Consumption" (西电西用) and "West-to-East Power Transmission" (西电东送), strengthen the integrated development of new energy development and energy-consuming industries, and guide industries to rationally layout in areas rich in clean energy. Strengthen the integrated development of new energy and traditional energy, and promote the multi-energy complementation and flexible mutual assistance of electricity, heat, and hydrogen energy systems. Promote the integrated development of energy and industrial, construction, and transportation systems, and build a number of zero-carbon factories and parks.

(The author is the Director of the Development and Planning Department of the National Energy Administration (国家能源局). This article was compiled by Ding Yiting (丁怡婷), a reporter from this newspaper.)

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Building a Higher-Level Safe China (Authoritative Interview: Studying and Implementing the Spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee)

By: 本报记者 亓玉昆

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that building a Peaceful China (平安中国) at a higher level is related to the prosperity of the cause, the happy life of the people, and the long-term stability of the country. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) deliberated and approved the "Suggestions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development," and made arrangements for promoting the modernization of the national security system and capacity, and building a Peaceful China at a higher level. In order to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, our reporter interviewed Yin Bai (訚柏), Secretary-General of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission (中央政法委).

Historic Achievements in Building a Peaceful China in the New Era

Reporter: How should we understand the achievements made in building a Peaceful China in the new era?

Yin Bai (訚柏): Building a Peaceful China at a higher level is an important goal and an important guarantee of Chinese-style modernization. Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, political and legal organs have thoroughly implemented Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law and the overall national security concept, promoted the construction of a Peaceful China, and made historic achievements, making due contributions to continuing to write a new chapter in the two major miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability.

First, the foundation of national security has been further consolidated. We have focused on safeguarding the security of state power, the security of the system, and the security of ideology, strictly preventing and severely cracking down on the infiltration, sabotage, subversion, and separatist activities of hostile forces, promoting the legalization and normalization of counter-terrorism and stability maintenance, effectively ensuring the safety of key areas, key fields, major events, and important nodes. There have been no violent terrorist incidents in the country for more than eight consecutive years, and Tibet (西藏) and the Tibetan-inhabited prefectures and counties in the four provinces have been stable as a whole for 17 consecutive years, consolidating the cornerstone of long-term national stability.

Second, the foundation of social stability has been further strengthened. The total number of letters and visits has continued to decline, and a large number of conflicts and disputes have been resolved at the grassroots level. Since the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), we have promoted the standardized construction of comprehensive management centers. 99.9% of county-level administrative units across the country have built and operated comprehensive management centers, realizing the goal of "running to one place at most" to resolve conflicts and disputes. In the first three quarters of this year, comprehensive management centers across the country resolved 6.334 million conflicts and disputes, with a success rate of 96.6%, becoming a vivid practice of the people-centered development philosophy and an important carrier for adhering to and developing the "Fengqiao Experience" (枫桥经验) in the new era. We have done a good job in serving and managing special groups. In the first half of this year, the number of minors accepted for review and prosecution by procuratorial organs nationwide and the number of prosecutions for crimes against minors decreased by 11.9% and 4.9% year-on-year, respectively, the first "double decline" after years of rising.

Third, social security has continued to stabilize and improve. China (中国) is one of the countries with the lowest criminal crime rate. In 2024, the number of criminal cases filed decreased by 25.7% year-on-year, the lowest since the beginning of this century, and decreased by another 11.6% year-on-year in the first half of 2025. China (中国) is one of the countries with the lowest homicide rate and the highest detection rate. In 2024, the number of homicides per 100,000 people was 0.44, and the detection rate was 99.94%. China (中国) is one of the countries with the fewest gun and explosive cases. In 2024, the number of gun and explosive crime cases decreased by 37.5% year-on-year. The people's sense of security and satisfaction has remained above 98% for many years, and "Peaceful" has become a bright national brand of China (中国).

Fourth, the guarantee of fairness and justice has been further strengthened. We have deepened the reform of the political and legal field, promoted the continuous improvement of the quality and efficiency of law enforcement and justice, and the approval rate of the "two highs" reports at the National People's Congress (全国人民代表大会) and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (中国人民政治协商会议) has reached a record high. Since the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), we have adhered to the combination of leniency and severity, the combination of punishment and prevention, carried out normalized anti-criminal and anti-evil campaigns, cracked down on crimes such as telecommunications network fraud in accordance with the law, and deepened the governance of drunk driving in accordance with the law, winning praise and support from the people. Among them, in 2024, the number of criminal cases filed for drunk driving nationwide decreased by 54.2% year-on-year, and the number of deaths in alcohol-related traffic accidents decreased by 4.9% year-on-year in the same period, maintaining the unity of the rule of law while minimizing social antagonism.

Safeguarding the New Development Pattern with a New Security Pattern

Reporter: How can political and legal organs promote the construction of a Peaceful China at a higher level based on their functions?

Yin Bai (訚柏): The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) clarified the goals and key tasks of building a Peaceful China at a higher level. We must thoroughly implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law and the overall national security concept, and strive to safeguard the new development pattern with a new security pattern and serve high-quality development with a high-level rule of law through "four focuses."

Focusing on greater national security, we must put safeguarding political security first, strengthen the construction of national security capabilities in key areas, improve the working mechanism for maintaining political security and social stability, promote the implementation of the national security responsibility system and the social stability responsibility system, and improve the ability to prevent and respond to cases involving politics, Xinjiang (新疆) and Tibet (西藏), and violent terrorism. Based on the functions of political and legal affairs, we will strengthen the fight against sanctions, interference, and "long-arm jurisdiction," deepen international law enforcement and security cooperation, and serve high-level opening up to the outside world.

Focusing on a more orderly society, we must adhere to both short-term and long-term solutions and improve the public safety system. On the one hand, we will strengthen the deterrence of "punishment," comprehensively and accurately implement the criminal policy of combining leniency and severity, further improve the level of combating and governing crimes involving organized crime, telecommunications network fraud, and cross-border crimes, and improve the quality and efficiency of criminal execution. On the other hand, we will build a "defense" barrier, deepen the construction of the overall prevention and control system and capacity of social security, develop and strengthen the forces of mass prevention and mass governance, focus on key areas such as economy and finance, real estate property, and labor relations, and promote the forward shift of risk prevention and control.

Focusing on more effective governance, we will give play to the functions of political and legal affairs, promote scientific legislation, strict law enforcement, impartial justice, and universal law-abiding, and create a good environment in which the whole society advocates the rule of law, abides by rules, respects contracts, and maintains fairness. We will adhere to and develop the "Fengqiao Experience" (枫桥经验) in the new era, base ourselves on prevention, mediation, the rule of law, and the grassroots level, and improve the level of prevention and resolution of conflicts and disputes through the rule of law. The more difficult and complex the problems, the more urgent and emergency the situations, the more we must analyze and solve them with the thinking and methods of the rule of law, and maintain social stability by determining legal relationships.

Focusing on greater satisfaction of the people, we will severely crack down on illegal and criminal activities that endanger public safety, telecommunications network fraud, drug crimes, and trafficking in women and children in accordance with the law, resolutely punish crimes, and protect the people. We will promote the standardized construction of comprehensive management centers to ensure that every demand of the people is handled and handled in accordance with the law. We will promote the construction of a digital platform for political and legal work, strengthen cross-departmental law enforcement and judicial coordination and supervision, improve the national enforcement system, improve the realization and evaluation mechanism of judicial justice, and strive to make the people feel fairness and justice in every judicial case.

Forging a New Era Political and Legal Iron Army that is Loyal, Clean, and Responsible, Providing a Strong Guarantee for the Construction of a Peaceful China

Reporter: The political and legal team shoulders an important mission in the construction of a Peaceful China. How can we strengthen our own construction to ensure that the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee are implemented?

Yin Bai (訚柏): General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that the leadership of the Party is the fundamental guarantee for the construction of a Peaceful China. In order to fulfill the duties and missions entrusted to it by the Party and the people, the political and legal team must promote the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party to a greater depth, and guarantee the completion of the new journey and new mission with the new achievements of forging a new era political and legal iron army.

Consolidate political loyalty. We must abide by the "two safeguards" as a major political principle, fulfill it as a fundamental political responsibility, and abide by it as the most important political discipline, and implement the Party's absolute leadership over political and legal work. Ideologically, we must unremittingly use Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era to arm the minds of all political and legal cadres and police. In 2024, we achieved full coverage of political training in the political and legal system for the first time. The next step is to study and improve the normalized training system, especially the basic training system, and constantly consolidate the ideological foundation of loyalty to the Party. In action, we must improve the supervision and implementation mechanism of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and instructions to ensure that every item is implemented and every matter is responded to. In terms of system, we must strictly implement the "first topic" system, the reporting system, and the political supervision system, strictly enforce political discipline and political rules, and ensure that the political and legal system is consistent and prohibits orders.

Deepen the rectification of work style, strict discipline, and anti-corruption. We must thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important thought on the Party's self-revolution, thoroughly implement the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation and its implementation rules, deepen the rectification of formalism to reduce the burden on the grassroots, strictly implement the "three regulations" to prevent interference in justice, persevere in correcting the "four winds" and establishing new styles, and promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style construction. We must maintain the political determination to fight corruption forever, maintain the deterrence of "not daring" with strict supervision and discipline, firmly establish the cage of "not being able" by improving the mechanism for restricting and supervising law enforcement and judicial power, and cultivate the consciousness of "not wanting" with loud drums and heavy hammers and constant warnings, and comprehensively promote not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt. We must adhere to the strict tone, strict measures, and strict atmosphere for a long time, and resolutely fight the tough battle, the protracted battle, and the overall battle against corruption.

Strengthen capacity building. We must comprehensively improve the revolutionary, regularization, professionalization, and vocationalization level of the political and legal team, strengthen professional training and practical training, comprehensively enhance the ability to perform duties, and ensure that we can pull out, rush up, and win at critical moments. We must strengthen the construction of Party organizations in political and legal organs, give full play to the exemplary role of Party members, and build grassroots Party organizations into strong fighting fortresses. We must focus on improving the political ability and law-abiding ability of political and legal leading cadres and the vast number of cadres and police, be good at observing and analyzing problems from a political perspective, be good at planning and promoting work on the track of the rule of law, and better transform the firm will to perform duties into practical results in promoting the construction of a Peaceful China at a higher level.

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Chongqing Promotes City-wide Digital Transformation

By: 本报记者 李增辉 任筱霞 刘新吾

"The upstream and downstream of the industrial chain are more closely connected." In Chongqing (重庆), an automobile company connects more than 300 cooperative manufacturers, shortening product development time by more than 20%;

"I spent more than 200 yuan less and saved myself an extra trip." Benefiting from "mutual recognition of medical tests," Yu Kunyi (余坤义), a resident of Changshou District (长寿区) in Chongqing (重庆), was able to have doctors directly access his CT scan results from a week earlier at Changshou District Hospital (长寿区医院) when seeking treatment in other urban areas, eliminating the need for repeated examinations;

"Timely detection of fires reduces safety hazards." In Fuling District (涪陵区), Chongqing (重庆), intelligent sensing equipment continuously guards the safety of the mountains and forests 24 hours a day...

In April 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out during his inspection in Chongqing (重庆): "We must deeply practice the people-centered urban development concept and actively explore new paths for the modernization of governance in megacities."

The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal puts forward the need to "deeply advance the construction of Digital China" and "promote the modernization of governance in megacities and super-large cities."

To deeply implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and the decision-making arrangements of the Party Central Committee, Chongqing (重庆) is actively exploring the digital transformation of the city and steadily advancing the construction of Digital Chongqing (数字重庆), making urban governance more intelligent, efficient, and precise. Horizontally, it breaks down data barriers through an integrated and intelligent public data platform, realizing a unified account management of digital resources; vertically, it constructs a three-level digital urban operation and governance center, where information can reach the grassroots level in seconds. Based on the combination of "horizontal connection" and "vertical penetration," Chongqing (重庆) continues to explore ways to enhance the development, service, and governance capabilities of megacities.

Digital intelligence integration empowers industries and promotes high-quality development in megacities.

"Di--" The test vehicle's dashboard suddenly lit up with a yellow warning. The car recognized a broken-down vehicle ahead. Without driver intervention, the brake pedal sank, and the vehicle speed quickly dropped from 60 kilometers per hour, coming to a steady stop behind the broken-down vehicle after 5 seconds.

At the Western China Science City Intelligent Connected Vehicle Innovation Center (西部科学城智能网联汽车创新中心) (hereinafter referred to as "Western Zhilian (西部智联)"), located in Chongqing (重庆), "smart cars" are running on "smart roads."

Thanks to the construction of Digital Chongqing (数字重庆), Western Zhilian (西部智联) has integrated intelligent infrastructure, cumulatively accessing approximately 400 intersection traffic light data points and nearly 6,000 connected vehicle data points, supporting car companies in developing vehicle-mounted applications with collaborative early warning functions. "Compared with single-vehicle intelligence, the vehicle-road-cloud integrated solution realizes the collaboration of vehicles with the road and the cloud, making it safer and more efficient," said Chu Wenbo (褚文博), General Manager of Western Zhilian (西部智联).

To promote the improvement of the quality and efficiency of the software and information service industry, Chongqing (重庆) has laid out the construction of 18 software parks, including the Internet Industrial Park (互联网产业园) and the Jinfeng Software Park (金凤软件园). In 2024, Chongqing's (重庆) digital industry revenue reached 991.02 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.1%.

Focusing on both digital industrialization and industrial digitization.

In the intelligent factory of Chongqing Qingshan Industrial Co., Ltd. (重庆青山工业有限责任公司), the sense of technology is strong: artificial intelligence visual inspection equipment identifies defects with an accuracy of 0.1 millimeters, and the detection efficiency is 5 times that of manual inspection; algorithms analyze equipment energy consumption curves to dynamically adjust production shifts, reducing the energy consumption of a single product by 8%... "We have combined 5G and big data technologies to transform the automatic transmission production line, increasing production efficiency by 30% and effectively reducing manufacturing and operating costs," said Liao Zhenggao (廖政高), Deputy Chief Engineer of the company.

Accelerating the implementation of the "Artificial Intelligence + Manufacturing" action, creating a new digital economy model of "Industrial Brain + Future Factory" to empower the high-quality development of manufacturing. As of now, Chongqing (重庆) has cumulatively promoted the implementation of more than 6,900 intelligent transformation projects, built 211 advanced intelligent factories, and the numerical control rate of key processes in industrial enterprises above designated size has reached 63.9%.

Breaking down barriers and connecting horizontally to help megacities provide high-quality services.

"It's much faster to complete the procedures for the birth of my second child than before," said Liu Huanhuan (刘欢欢), a resident of Liangjiang New Area (两江新区) in Chongqing (重庆). Not long ago, an obstetrics nurse helped Liu Huanhuan (刘欢欢) handle the "one-stop service for newborn births" on her mobile phone. Through Chongqing's (重庆) municipal government service application "Yu Kuai Ban (渝快办)," one operation can apply for birth certificates, household registration, and other matters. Liu Huanhuan (刘欢欢) received her child's birth certificate the next day.

Let the people run less errands and let the data run more. Chongqing (重庆) has uniformly built an integrated and intelligent public data platform, integrating self-built data platforms from municipal departments, enterprises, institutions, districts, counties (development zones), etc., forming a "supermarket" of data resources, which can be called upon by various units as needed.

"Focusing on the urgent needs and concerns of the people, promoting the transition from 'at most one trip' to 'no trips at all'," said Dai Xiaohong (代小红), Deputy Secretary-General of the Chongqing (重庆) Municipal Government and Director of the Municipal Big Data Application Development Administration. At present, Chongqing (重庆) has built a "High-Efficiency One-Stop Service" zone, integrating 85 "one-stop services" and deepening the creation of more than 300 scenario applications.

Meeting the needs of the people while also serving business entities.

In Baqiao Town (八桥镇), Dadukou District (大渡口区), Chongqing (重庆), in the past, supervising enterprises involved "average effort and universal inspection," which was time-consuming and laborious, and occasionally there were omissions. Now, the town distinguishes between red, yellow, and green levels based on the social general credit rating system, leaving green entities undisturbed and focusing on supervising yellow and red entities. "Honest enterprises can focus more on doing business, and our burden has also been reduced," said law enforcement officer Li Xianfeng (李先锋).

Chongqing (重庆) has created a one-stop platform for enterprise-related services, realizing intelligent matching and precise delivery of enterprise needs and service supply, cumulatively handling more than 10,000 enterprise demands, and can also proactively "deliver" preferential policies to enterprises.

Three-level linkage and vertical penetration to promote efficient governance in megacities.

Stepping into the Chongqing Municipal Digital Urban Operation and Governance Center (重庆市数字化城市运行和治理中心), various data flash in real time on the screen, and the operating status is clear at a glance.

The command hall screen flashes a red "prompt," the information comes from the forest fire prevention sensing equipment in the Chashan Bamboo Sea Forest Farm (茶山竹海林场) in Yongchuan District (永川区). The Yongchuan District (永川区) Digital Urban Operation and Governance Center automatically and synchronously pushes the fire information to the grid staff. After confirming that it was a flame, the system quickly dispatched a professional emergency team to the scene, extinguishing the fire in its initial stage.

"Under normal circumstances, the district-level center dispatches and commands. If the fire is more serious, the municipal governance center immediately intervenes, and relevant departments combine intelligent plans to coordinate more personnel to participate in the fire fighting, realizing efficient three-level linkage and significantly improving governance efficiency," said Wang Junjie (王骏杰), Deputy Director of the Chongqing Municipal Digital Urban Operation and Governance Center (重庆市数字化城市运行和治理中心).

In the past, responding to emergency events such as forest fires required linking multiple levels and units such as the city, districts, and forest areas, resulting in high communication costs and low efficiency. In response, Chongqing (重庆) has horizontally created "one platform" and vertically constructed a three-level digital urban operation and governance center. Among them, the municipal governance center is positioned as the "urban brain," mainly solving cross-district and county governance problems; the district and county governance centers focus on the "actual combat hub," mainly solving cross-town and street governance problems; and the town and street governance centers serve as the "execution end," mainly solving cross-village and community governance problems, covering 1,031 towns and streets.

In Hongyadong (洪崖洞) in Yuzhong District (渝中区), once the equipment senses that the number of tourists exceeds the threshold, relevant units will receive information in real time and respond to the overload of tourists in the scenic spot in a timely manner; above the Laolin Reservoir (老林水库) in Shibao Town (石宝镇), Zhongxian County (忠县), various sensors monitor indicators such as water level, seepage pressure, and rainfall in real time, recording changes in water conditions... Chongqing (重庆) has established a closed-loop working mechanism for sensing and early warning, decision-making and disposal, supervision and evaluation, and retrospective improvement, creating a "resilient and safe urban governance map," incorporating 590,000 risk points in areas such as flood control and disaster relief, and gas pipeline networks, accessing 22 million sensing devices from the government, society, and enterprises, promptly prompting 270 types of risk hazards, and promoting a three-fold increase in the city's emergency response speed.

"A megacity is an open and complex system. Chongqing (重庆) adheres to the system theory to promote the construction of Digital Chongqing (数字重庆), reducing the dependence of decision-making on personal experience and forming a 'replicable but non-removable capability'," said Dai Xiaohong (代小红). In the next step, Chongqing (重庆) will continue to promote the digital transformation of the city, develop more practical and easy-to-use applications, and strive to explore new paths for the modernization of governance in megacities.

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China-Europe Railway Express has operated a cumulative total of 118,600 trains.

This newspaper Xi'an (西安) November 19th (Reporter Jia Fengfeng (贾丰丰)) The "China-Europe Railway Express Development Report (2025)" was released on the 18th. The report shows that as of October 2025, the China-Europe Railway Express has operated a total of 118,600 trains, transporting 11.7 million TEUs of goods, and the logistics service network basically covers the entire Eurasian region.

Since 2013, the average annual growth rate of the number of China-Europe Railway Express trains has reached 65%. As of the end of October 2025, the cumulative number of cities in China operating China-Europe Railway Express trains reached 128, reaching 232 cities in 26 European countries and more than 100 cities in 11 Asian countries. The categories of goods transported have expanded to 53 categories and more than 50,000 kinds of goods. High value-added goods such as automobile parts, machinery and equipment, and electronic appliances have become China's main export commodities through the China-Europe Railway Express, accounting for more than 60% in 2024. The categories of goods transported from Europe to China through the China-Europe Railway Express include mechanical and electrical products, precious metals, medical equipment, food, and alcohol, and more and more European specialty products are entering the Chinese market. By the end of 2024, the cumulative value of goods transported by the China-Europe Railway Express reached 426.4 billion US dollars.

Through continuous expansion of channel transportation capacity, optimization of transportation organization, and implementation of rapid customs clearance measures, the operating efficiency and economic benefits of the China-Europe Railway Express have been significantly improved. In terms of operating speed, it reaches 1,600 kilometers/day in China and 1,000-1,300 kilometers/day in foreign sections. The operating time of the full-time China-Europe Railway Express is reduced by an average of more than 30% compared with ordinary trains. In terms of transportation prices, it has decreased by more than 40% compared with the initial stage of operation. The round-trip freight volume is basically balanced, and the comprehensive heavy container rate has remained at 100% in recent years.

The report was released by the Office of the Leading Group for Promoting the Construction of the "Belt and Road" Initiative and the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. (中国国家铁路集团有限公司).

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Joint Communiqué of the Twenty-Fourth Meeting of the Council of Heads of Government (Prime Ministers) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Member States

From November 17 to 18, 2025, the twenty-fourth meeting of the Council of Heads of Government (Prime Ministers) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (hereinafter referred to as the "SCO" or "Organisation") was held in Moscow.

Prime Minister Turchin of the Republic of Belarus, Minister of External Affairs Jaishankar of the Republic of India, First Vice President Aref of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Prime Minister Bektenov of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) of the People's Republic of China, Prime Minister Kasymaliev of the Kyrgyz Republic, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Dar of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Prime Minister Mishustin of the Russian Federation, Prime Minister Rasulzoda of the Republic of Tajikistan, and Prime Minister Aripov of the Republic of Uzbekistan attended the meeting.

The meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Mishustin of the Russian Federation.

SCO Secretary-General Yermekbayev, Director of the Executive Committee of the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure Sharsheiev, Rotating Chairman of the SCO Business Council Ren Hongbin (任鸿斌), and Representative of the Council of the SCO Interbank Consortium Tan Jiong (谭炯) attended the meeting as observers.

Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed of Qatar, Prime Minister Zandanshatar of Mongolia, heads of permanent bodies of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Eurasian Economic Union, and the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia, as well as representatives of Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, and Turkmenistan attended the meeting as observers.

The heads of delegations highly appreciated the work done by the People's Republic of China during its term as the rotating chair of the SCO from 2024 to 2025, believing that China's term further enhanced the SCO's cohesion and the level of all-round cooperation within the SCO framework, and enhanced the organisation's international influence.

The heads of delegations expressed their support for the work of the Kyrgyz Republic as the rotating chair of the SCO from 2025 to 2026.

The heads of delegations pointed out that the meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO member states and the "SCO+" meeting held in Tianjin from August 31 to September 1, 2025, fully demonstrated the increasingly important role and contribution of the SCO in building a more just, equal, and representative multipolar world with the United Nations as its core. The heads of delegations reaffirmed that member states will abide by the universally recognised norms of international law enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and the Charter of the SCO.

The heads of delegations emphasised that member states believe it is necessary to carry out appropriate reforms to the United Nations, ensure the representation of developing countries in the UN's governing bodies, and adapt the UN to the needs of today's political and economic realities.

The heads of delegations believe that cooperation within the SCO framework will lay the foundation for the formation of an equal and indivisible security architecture in Eurasia. Member states oppose solving international and regional hotspot issues with group-based and confrontational thinking.

The heads of delegations reaffirmed the importance of promoting the building of a new type of international relations based on mutual respect, fairness, justice, and win-win cooperation, and a community with a shared future for mankind, as well as carrying out dialogue based on the concept of "One Earth, One Family, One Future," and called on the international community to jointly participate in the SCO Initiative on Solidarity for Fairness, Harmony and Development of the World.

The heads of delegations emphasised that it is necessary to effectively implement the documents adopted by the SCO summit, and the primary task is to carry out practical work based on the SCO Development Strategy for the Next 10 Years (2026-2035) and the Tianjin Declaration of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO Member States, in which the development strategy clarifies the main directions for the next stage of reform and development of the SCO.

The heads of delegations pointed out that it is of great significance to prioritise the improvement of the SCO's operating mechanisms, and emphasised that it is necessary to accelerate the implementation of the SCO Council of Foreign Ministers' Recommendations on Improving the SCO's Operating Mechanisms, approved by the Council of Heads of State in the form of a resolution on July 4, 2024, including simultaneously launching the work of the translation support departments of the SCO's permanent (executive) bodies and including English as a working language of the SCO, and making corresponding revisions and supplements to the SCO Charter and other SCO documents.

The heads of delegations advocated accelerating the implementation of relevant recommendations, including the formulation of relevant documents on the operation of the SCO Centre for Comprehensive Response to Security Threats and Challenges and the SCO Anti-Drug Centre on the basis of the signed agreements.

The heads of delegations noted the proposal to establish a Centre for Security Strategy Studies.

The heads of delegations emphasised that current international relations are undergoing profound historical changes. The status of countries in the Global South is constantly improving, and the role of new political and economic centres is becoming increasingly prominent, creating opportunities for countries to develop themselves and carry out international cooperation on an equal and mutually beneficial basis.

The heads of delegations expressed deep concern about the increasing fragmentation of the world economy, and reaffirmed that member states will adhere to improving the global economic governance system and consolidating the multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organisation as its core.

The heads of delegations emphasised that member states will firmly uphold an open, transparent, fair, inclusive, equitable, and non-discriminatory multilateral trading system, promote the improvement of the global financial governance system, and strengthen the role of developing countries in international financial institutions.

The Republic of Belarus, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, and the Republic of Uzbekistan reaffirmed their support for the "Belt and Road" initiative proposed by the People's Republic of China, and affirmed the work done by all parties to jointly implement the "Belt and Road" initiative, including promoting the alignment and cooperation between the "Belt and Road" and the construction of the Eurasian Economic Union.

The heads of delegations emphasised that in the context of global uncertainty and volatile global markets, economic and trade cooperation is of great significance to the stable economic and social development of all countries. The heads of delegations noted the results of the twenty-fourth meeting of the SCO Ministers of Economy and Trade (September 6, 2025, Vladivostok), and expressed their willingness to continue to take necessary measures to ensure the sustainable economic growth of the SCO region.

The heads of delegations emphasised that member states will be committed to building a broad and open economic space in the region, promoting equal and mutually beneficial cooperation, and ensuring the effective operation and flow of markets, supply chains, settlement and payment systems, transportation corridors, logistics routes, as well as investment, goods, services, and technologies, and noted that willing member states will cooperate on the establishment of the "Greater Eurasian Partnership" initiative.

The heads of delegations emphasised that member states oppose any unilateral coercive measures, including economic measures, that violate the Charter of the United Nations and other norms of international law, hinder international cooperation, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

The heads of delegations believe that mutual cooperation should be carried out on the basis of the Declaration of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO Member States on Supporting the Multilateral Trading System (September 1, 2025, Tianjin), and the Strategy for Economic Development of the SCO until 2030 and the Programme of Multilateral Trade and Economic Cooperation of the SCO Member States should be steadily and effectively implemented, and advocated strengthening the work of the meeting mechanism of the heads of relevant departments and other professional cooperation mechanisms.

The heads of delegations believe that the digital economy is the foundation for achieving sustainable development and improving well-being in the region, and that cooperation in the digital field is of great significance for bridging the digital divide and promoting economic growth and technological development. SCO member states have consistently advocated ensuring technological autonomy and accelerating the application of digital technologies in the economic, social, and national governance fields.

The competent authorities of all countries will ensure the implementation of the Declaration of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO Member States on Strengthening the Development of the Digital Economy (September 1, 2025, Tianjin) and the SCO Member States' Digital Transformation Action Plan (June 17, 2025, Karamay), including carrying out work relying on the SCO Member States' Special Working Group on E-commerce.

The heads of delegations pointed out that practical cooperation in the field of scientific and technological innovation should be promoted, economic competitiveness should be enhanced, and the exchange of experience in the application of innovative technologies and technology transfer should be encouraged, the comprehensive strength of science and technology park databases and innovation clusters should be enhanced, and corresponding scientific research projects should be developed, guided by the Declaration of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO Member States on Further Strengthening Cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation (September 1, 2025, Tianjin). To this end, the heads of delegations noted the results of the meeting of the Management Committee of the SCO Science and Technology Park Database held at the "Skolkovo" Innovation Centre, and welcomed the dialogue on creating a seamless ecosystem for SCO start-ups within the framework of the International Technology Conference (September 16-18, 2025, Moscow).

The heads of delegations emphasised that it is very important to effectively implement the Roadmap for the Implementation of the SCO Member States' Cooperation and Development Plan in the Field of Artificial Intelligence (June 12, 2025, Chengdu) and to carry out multilateral cooperation in accordance with the Declaration of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO Member States on Further Deepening International Cooperation in Artificial Intelligence (September 1, 2025, Tianjin).

The heads of delegations noted the proposals to hold the SCO Member States' Artificial Intelligence Experts Meeting in 2026, the High-Level Conference on "Artificial Intelligence Serving the SCO Economy" in Kazakhstan in 2027, and to formulate the SCO Future Technology Programme.

The heads of delegations welcomed the resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly on July 25, 2025, on "The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Creating New Opportunities for Sustainable Development in the Central Asian Region," and noted the initiative to establish a Central Asian Artificial Intelligence Centre in Dushanbe.

The heads of delegations supported strengthening cooperation on the application of outer space technologies to solve the economic, social, and ecological problems of member states, and exploring dialogue on the establishment of a future regional cooperation mechanism in the space field in accordance with the priorities of each country, and noted the results of the conference on "The Contribution of Outer Space Technologies to Achieving the SCO's Sustainable Development Goals" held within the SCO framework (September 16-18, 2025, Moscow).

The heads of delegations noted the proposal to establish a "New Frontiers and Transformative Technologies Committee."

The heads of delegations reaffirmed their willingness to create new opportunities by supporting innovative industries and developing the creative economy, enhance the sustainable development and competitiveness of the economies of all countries, and prioritise expanding the employment market in remote and rural areas. The heads of delegations believe that relevant work should be carried out on the basis of the Implementation Plan of the Framework for Cooperation in the Development of the Creative Economy of the SCO Member States (September 6, 2025, Vladivostok).

The heads of delegations noted the results of the dialogue activities of member state representatives held within the framework of the SCO Innovative Economy Conference (September 26, 2025, Moscow).

The heads of delegations emphasised that member states will strengthen cooperation in the industrial field, deepen exchanges in the business community, noted the results of the SCO Member States' Meeting of Ministers of Industry (July 7, 2025, Yekaterinburg), and shared the experience of holding activities on the platform of the Russian International Industrial Exhibition.

The competent authorities of all countries will continue to carry out the construction of the SCO Member States' Industrial Investment Project Database.

The heads of delegations emphasised that it is very important to further deepen cooperation in the investment field of member states, supported continuing to strengthen cooperation within the framework of the Special Working Group on Investment Promotion and the Investors' Alliance, and expanding the database of economic preferential policies. The heads of delegations noted the adoption of the Statement of Relevant Departments of the SCO Member States on Strengthening Investment Cooperation in the Field of Sustainable Development (September 1, 2025, Tianjin), and the competent authorities of all countries will continue to carry out the formulation of the draft Comprehensive Measures for Promoting Mutual Investment among SCO Member States.

The heads of delegations noted the proposals on the establishment of the SCO Export Credit and Investment Insurance Institutions Alliance, the establishment of a dedicated electronic portal website to promote business docking and investment, and the annual holding of the "SCO Investment" Forum.

The heads of delegations supported accelerating the establishment of a project financing guarantee mechanism within the SCO framework, and in order to implement the resolution on the establishment of the SCO Development Bank, the relevant member states will accelerate expert-level consultations on a series of issues such as the operation of the financial institution.

The heads of delegations noted the proposal to establish an SCO office responsible for promoting promising investment projects and strengthening the coordination and cooperation of legal, consulting, and financial companies.

The relevant member states will continue to carry out work on expanding the share of local currency settlement in accordance with the relevant roadmap. The heads of delegations noted the proposals on the establishment of a working group to improve financial infrastructure and the formulation of relevant comprehensive measures.

The heads of delegations supported further strengthening the role of the SCO Business Council as a dialogue platform for the business community of member states, in order to jointly promote the solution of the main problems facing the development of practical economic and trade cooperation in the SCO region, and noted the work done by all parties to establish industry working groups in priority cooperation areas within the framework of the SCO Business Council.

The heads of delegations emphasised that the SCO Interbank Consortium, as a preferred cooperation mechanism in the financial field, has played an important role, and believed that the issue of the authorised bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran joining the Interbank Consortium should be resolved as soon as possible.

The heads of delegations reaffirmed that they will promote the construction of efficient and competitive transportation and technological infrastructure within the SCO framework and improve the level of interconnectivity. The competent authorities should take more measures to tap the potential of transportation, logistics, and cross-border transportation in the SCO region, and develop international highways, railways, and multimodal transport.

The heads of delegations supported holding the meeting of the heads of ports and logistics centres of the SCO member states (December 18-19, 2025, Aktau).

The heads of delegations believe that it is very important to further develop regional multimodal transport and logistics corridors, and emphasised that the SCO member states have great potential in this field.

The heads of delegations noted the proposal to formulate the SCO Concept Paper on Creating a Unified Digital Platform for the Management of Multimodal Freight Transport by Land.

The heads of delegations noted that the construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway has begun.

The heads of delegations believe that it is very important to continue to implement the Agreement between the Governments of the SCO Member States on Facilitation of International Road Transport (September 12, 2014, Dushanbe) and the Concept of the SCO Member States on Developing Interconnectivity and Establishing Efficient Transport Corridors (September 16, 2022, Samarkand).

The heads of delegations noted the initiative to formulate the SCO Unified Transport Space Concept Paper.

The heads of delegations advocated further deepening cooperation in the field of civil aviation and air cargo, including increasing routes, reducing administrative barriers, and optimising the conditions for passenger and cargo air transport.

In view of this, the heads of delegations noted the initiative to establish the SCO Aviation Safety Agency.

The heads of delegations emphasised the importance of developing environmentally friendly transportation, including the application of green technologies, the gradual transition to environmentally friendly and clean fuels, and the development of electric vehicle infrastructure.

The heads of delegations noted the positive trend in customs cooperation, especially the progress made in simplifying customs procedures, strengthening and ensuring the security of logistics chains in Eurasia, improving customs supervision, and cutting off smuggling channels.

The competent authorities of member states will accelerate the formulation of the draft Agreement between the Governments of the SCO Member States on Trade Facilitation. The heads of delegations supported further strengthening cooperation within the framework of the SCO Member States' Working Group on Trade Facilitation.

The heads of delegations noted the role of standardisation tools in promoting trade facilitation, and emphasised the importance of carrying out mutually beneficial and equal cooperation among SCO member states in this field.

The heads of delegations believe that it is very important to continue to strengthen the coordination of anti-monopoly policies, including carrying out activities within the framework of the meeting of the heads of anti-monopoly departments of the SCO member states, and promoting the creation of a market environment with fair competition.

The heads of delegations emphasised that multilateral cooperation among the statistical departments of member states should continue to be strengthened, best practices and research methods should be promoted, and high-quality data support should be ensured in a timely manner for national economic entities to implement the priority tasks of economic and trade cooperation.

The heads of delegations noted the results of the seventh meeting of the heads of supreme audit institutions of the SCO member states (April 14, 2025, Dushanbe).
The heads of delegations noted the outcomes of the Seventh Meeting of Heads of Supreme Audit Institutions of the Member States (April 14, 2025, Dushanbe).

The heads of delegations reaffirmed their willingness to strengthen cooperation in agriculture, including ensuring food security, expanding trade in agricultural products, research and development and promotion of agricultural technologies, and developing educational and scientific partnerships, and noted the initiatives on establishing an expert working group on cooperation in breeding and seed production and an electronic platform for the "SCO Food Security Atlas."

The heads of delegations reaffirmed the commitment of the member states to promoting a common vision for maintaining global energy security in the future, forming a fair, balanced, and sustainable global energy development model, ensuring technological accessibility of all types of fuel and energy to all countries in combination with regional resource endowments, and achieving fair pricing and settlement.

The heads of delegations believe that it is necessary to continue to safeguard the technological sovereignty of the member states, ensure energy security and stability of energy markets, and utilize fossil fuels, renewable energy, hydropower, and hydrogen energy to build a diversified energy balance system to ensure sustainable energy supply and demand.

The heads noted the initiative to establish an SCO regional critical materials center.

The heads of delegations supported equal and sustainable international mutually beneficial cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

The heads of delegations emphasized that the SCO member states are willing to expand practical cooperation in the energy sector by implementing joint research projects, developing the potential of the hydropower sector in regional countries, constructing energy infrastructure, promoting investment and scientific and technological cooperation, introducing advanced energy technologies, cultivating professional talents, and exchanging experiences. The heads reaffirmed that the member states will further cooperate based on the "Statement of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO Member States on Sustainable Energy Development" (September 1, 2025, Tianjin) and the "Roadmap for the Implementation of the 'SCO Energy Cooperation Development Strategy until 2030'" (September 1, 2025, Tianjin).

The heads of delegations noted the outcomes of the SCO-LAS "Climate Change and Sustainable Energy" High-Level Conference (October 3, 2025, Astana).

The heads of delegations believe that it is of great significance for the SCO member states to strengthen sustainable development cooperation in areas such as industry, environmental protection, energy conservation, and the development of clean energy. The heads noted the outcomes of activities held within the framework of the "SCO Year of Sustainable Development," including the first SCO National Green Development Forum (July 8-9, 2024, Qingdao (青岛)), the SCO Sustainable Development Forum (April 17, 2025, Omsk; November 17, 2025, Moscow).

The heads of delegations approved the "Roadmap for Cooperation among SCO Member States in the Social Development and Security Field for 2026-2028" and noted the recommendation to establish a Sustainable Development Committee within the framework of the SCO Economic Think Tank Alliance.

The heads of delegations emphasized that it is of practical significance for the SCO member states to continue to jointly work in areas such as environmental protection, ecological security, rational utilization of natural resources, and addressing climate change, including the accelerated melting of glaciers.

The heads of delegations noted the United Nations' declaration of 2025 as the "International Year of Glacier Protection" and the "Dushanbe Declaration" adopted by the first International High-Level Conference on Glacier Protection (May 29-31, 2025, Dushanbe).

The heads of delegations supported the continued implementation of the "Joint Action Plan for the Implementation of the 'SCO Green Belt Framework' for 2024-2026" (May 22, 2024, Astana), the "Plan of Measures for the Implementation of the 'Concept of Environmental Cooperation among SCO Member States' for 2025-2027" (May 22, 2024, Astana), and the "Initiative of SCO Member States on Strengthening Sustainable Development Cooperation" (July 3, 2025, Tianjin).

The heads of delegations noted the recommendation to hold a special SCO meeting on ecological issues within the framework of the UN Regional Ecological Summit (2026, Astana).

The heads of delegations noted that the Fourth International High-Level Conference will be held (May 2026, Dushanbe) to commemorate the International Decade for Action "Water for Sustainable Development 2018-2028."

The heads of delegations emphasized the importance of expanding cooperation in addressing climate change challenges, including exchanging experiences and practices in formulating and implementing effective climate policies, researching and developing low-emission technologies, sustainable financing instruments, and developing carbon markets and carbon trading in an inclusive and equitable manner. In this regard, it is necessary to continue to actively implement the "Statement of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO Member States on Addressing Climate Change" (September 16, 2022, Samarkand).

The relevant authorities of the countries will continue to develop a draft "Intergovernmental Agreement on Climate Change among SCO Member States."

The heads of delegations noted the increasing risk of natural disasters and man-made accidents, and believe that it is very important to enhance the SCO's emergency response capabilities, and pointed out that cooperation among emergency management departments should be further strengthened, including cooperation in dynamic information exchange, application of space monitoring data, and joint emergency drills.

The heads of delegations noted the outcomes of the meeting of heads of emergency rescue departments in border areas of SCO member states (May 12, 2025, Shanghai (上海)).

The heads of delegations believe that health cooperation among SCO member states should be further deepened, including enhancing health emergency capabilities, improving primary health care, building digital medical infrastructure, strengthening prevention and treatment of infectious and non-communicable diseases, ensuring access to effective and high-quality medicines, cultivating medical professionals, and promoting medical tourism in the SCO region. The heads emphasized the importance of continuously implementing the "Plan of Main Measures for Cooperation among SCO Member States in the Health Field (2025-2027)" (March 14, 2024, Astana).

The heads of delegations reaffirmed that improving talent management in the health sector is of great significance for improving the quality of medical services for all, and supported the relevant member states to continue to carry out the construction of the SCO Medical Association and the SCO Medical Tourism Alliance.

The heads of delegations emphasized that the meeting mechanism of heads of health and epidemic prevention departments of SCO member states has played an important role in strengthening regional biosafety, and all parties are willing to carry out cooperation in the prevention and control of infectious diseases, support the signing of a cooperation agreement on the prevention and control of plague within the SCO framework, and further implement the "Statement of the Heads of State of SCO Member States on Jointly Responding to the Threat of Epidemics in the SCO Region" (June 10, 2018, Qingdao).

The heads of delegations emphasized that it is very important to further carry out poverty reduction cooperation and improve people's well-being within the framework of the SCO member states' special working group on poverty reduction, which will help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The heads of delegations noted the outcomes of the special working group meeting on the theme of "Building a Sustainable Social Security System to Address Climate Change: Protecting Vulnerable Groups in the SCO Region from the Impact of Climate Change" (October 22, 2025, via video conference).

The heads of delegations supported deepening cooperation among SCO member states in the fields of education and science and technology, including promoting the construction of the SCO University, continuing to carry out work to improve academic exchanges, implementing joint scientific research projects, and ensuring the universalization of high-quality modern education. All parties welcomed the Republic of Belarus and the Islamic Republic of Iran to join the "Intergovernmental Agreement among SCO Member States on the Establishment and Operation of the SCO University" (June 6, 2017, Astana).

The relevant authorities of the countries will continue to carry out various innovative activities for college students and young professionals, including organizing competitions, Olympic competitions, and exchange activities, and noted the initiative to establish a cooperative network of online campuses of the SCO University.

The heads of delegations noted the outcomes of the SCO Youth Committee meeting (July 29, 2025, Beijing (北京)) and the SCO Youth Forum (August 19-23, 2025, Omsk).

The heads of delegations noted the initiative to hold the SCO Member States Youth Forum and Ministerial Meeting (March 17-22, 2026, Dushanbe).

The heads of delegations emphasized that sports exchanges and cooperation among relevant institutions are of great significance for enhancing mutual understanding and friendship among the people of SCO countries, which will promote cooperation in the sports field among countries.

The heads of delegations reaffirmed that the SCO member states are committed to upholding the principles of equality, justice, and non-discrimination against athletes for any reason (including nationality, language, religion, ethnicity, or social origin), strengthening international sports exchanges, and emphasized that the annual SCO marathon competitions held in Kunming (昆明市), People's Republic of China and Issyk-Kul (伊塞克湖州) region, Kyrgyz Republic, make a positive contribution to deepening SCO sports cooperation.

The heads of delegations noted the outcomes of the meeting of heads of sports departments of SCO member states (May 21, 2025, Harbin (哈尔滨)).

The heads of delegations noted the initiative to hold international sports events in Russia in 2026 with the participation of relevant SCO member states and open to all countries, and the SCO Open.

The heads of delegations noted the resolution of the 43rd session of the UNESCO General Conference (November 6, 2025) on establishing September 22 as the International Day of Nomadic Heritage.

The heads of delegations noted the initiative to establish the SCO Civilization Forum and hold its opening ceremony in 2026.

The heads of delegations noted that the Sixth World Nomad Games will be held (2026, Bishkek and Cholpon-Ata).

The heads of delegations emphasized that deepening cultural cooperation is of great importance for strengthening the friendship of the people of SCO countries, and reaffirmed their commitment to maintaining and promoting cultural diversity.

The heads of delegations noted the outcomes of the meeting of ministers of culture of SCO member states, the SCO Arts Festival (July 7, 2025, Qingdao) and Film Festival (July 6, 2025, Chongqing (重庆)), and the participation of representatives of SCO member states in the "International Horizon" International Music Competition (September 20, 2025, Moscow).

The heads of delegations, in accordance with the principles established in the preamble of the "UNESCO Constitution" (adopted in 1945) and the "Intergovernmental Agreement on Cooperation in the Protection of Cultural Heritage among SCO Member States" (signed in 2021), noted that it is of great significance to ensure the cultural and historical rights of member states in the work of protecting and promoting tangible and intangible cultural heritage.

The heads of delegations highly appreciated the activities held within the framework of the SCO Tourism and Cultural Capital (Qingdao) from 2024 to 2025, and believed that Cholpon-Ata as the SCO Tourism and Cultural Capital from 2025 to 2026 will help cooperation in the field of cultural tourism.

The heads of delegations noted the initiative to hold the anniversary meeting of the Issyk-Kul Forum named after Chingiz Aitmatov within the SCO framework in 2026.

The heads of delegations noted that measures such as increasing the number of direct flights and implementing electronic visas have promoted the steady growth of the number of tourists from SCO member states, and supported the implementation of new mutually beneficial investment projects in the tourism field.

The heads of delegations emphasized that it is of great significance to carry out dialogue and cooperation among people-to-people diplomacy institutions, and affirmed the contributions made by the China SCO Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation Committee, the SCO Research Center of the Indian Council of World Affairs, the SCO Cultural Integration Center of Kyrgyzstan, the Islamabad Strategic Research Institute of Pakistan, the Russian SCO People-to-People Diplomacy National Center, the Tajikistan SCO Friendship and Cooperation Center, and the Uzbekistan SCO People-to-People Diplomacy Center to strengthen friendship and mutual understanding within the organization's framework.

The heads of delegations approved the "Report of the SCO Secretariat on Holding Activities and Meetings to Implement the 'Outline of Multilateral Economic and Trade Cooperation among SCO Member States'" and the SCO budget for 2026.

The meeting adopted resolutions on a series of issues related to the financial and organizational activities of the SCO permanent bodies.

The heads of delegations pointed out that the Russian Federation's achievements as the chair of the Council of Heads of Government (Prime Ministers) of SCO Member States have promoted all-round cooperation in the economic and trade fields and close people-to-people exchanges within the SCO framework, and gave high praise to this.

The next meeting of the Council of Heads of Government (Prime Ministers) of SCO Member States will be held in the Republic of Tajikistan in 2026.

Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus
Minister of External Affairs of the Republic of India
First Vice President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国国务院总理)
Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation
Prime Minister of the Republic of Tajikistan
Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan

(Xinhua News Agency, Moscow, November 18)

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Japan Must Not Slide into the Abyss of War Again (International Forum)

By: 藤田高景

Prime Minister Takaichi's remarks regarding Taiwan have seriously deviated from the cautious stance that the Japanese government has long adhered to, seriously violated international law and the basic norms of international relations, and will seriously undermine regional stability.

Recently, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) openly declared that a "Taiwan emergency" may constitute a "survival-threatening crisis situation" in which Japan can exercise its right to collective self-defense, implying possible military intervention in the Taiwan Strait issue. This reckless fallacy is extremely rare in Japan's post-war history and is absolutely unforgivable.

The Taiwan issue is purely China's internal affair. The 1972 Sino-Japanese Joint Communiqué clearly stated that the Japanese government "recognizes the Government of the People's Republic of China as the sole legal government of China"; the Japanese government "fully understands and respects" the Chinese government's position that "Taiwan is an inalienable part of the territory of the People's Republic of China," "and adheres to the position of Article 8 of the Potsdam Proclamation," that is, "the terms of the Cairo Declaration must be implemented." As for what the conditions stipulated in the Cairo Declaration are, it is well known that Japan must return all territories it stole from China, including Northeast China, Taiwan (台湾), the Penghu Islands (澎湖列岛), etc. In addition, after the normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and China, the Japanese government also made clear statements on the Taiwan issue. The Sino-Japanese Joint Communiqué clearly defined the issue of Taiwan's sovereignty and clearly regarded the Taiwan issue as China's internal affair, which is of great significance.

In summary, the Taiwan issue is entirely China's internal affair and no country is allowed to interfere in any form. Prime Minister Takaichi's remarks regarding Taiwan have seriously deviated from the cautious stance that the Japanese government has long adhered to, seriously violated international law and the basic norms of international relations, and will seriously undermine regional stability. Japan has not been attacked by China. If Japan takes military action against China first, China will of course retaliate. Once a military conflict occurs between the two countries, the consequences will undoubtedly be disastrous. Rashly making remarks that could drag the country into war is clearly not in line with the responsibility that a Japanese prime minister should have. Prime Minister Takaichi should retract the relevant remarks.

History tells us that Japan once embarked on the road of war due to erroneous national policies, causing enormous harm and suffering to the people of Asian countries through aggression and colonial rule. Are these not worthy of Japan's deep reflection? Prime Minister Takaichi's remarks are leading Japan back to the dangerous path of using force first. Therefore, there have been voices of criticism in Japan saying "don't rashly talk about participating in the war," which is only natural.

Japan cannot allow any political force to push the country into the abyss of war again. Japan must continue to firmly follow the path of peaceful development. Now, for the peace-loving Japanese people, ensuring that Japan adheres to this path is the most important mission and task.

(The author is the Chairman of the "Association for Inheriting and Developing the Murayama Statement" in Japan)

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Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov Meets with Wang Yi

Bishkek, November 19th (Reporter Li Qiang (李强)) Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov (扎帕罗夫) met with Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, in Bishkek on the 19th.

Japarov asked Wang Yi (王毅) to convey his cordial greetings to President Xi Jinping (习近平), congratulated China on its brilliant development achievements, and said, "A good neighbor is a priceless treasure (好邻居、无价宝 - hǎo línjū, wújiàbǎo - "good neighbor, priceless treasure," emphasizing the immense value of a good neighborly relationship)," which is a vivid description of Kyrgyz-Chinese relations. Kyrgyz-Chinese relations have entered their best period in history. Kyrgyzstan is willing to work closely with China to expand trade, promote the construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway, and create a new benchmark for the solid friendship between the two countries. Strengthen cooperation in key areas such as civil aviation, logistics, and ports, improve the level of connectivity, strengthen security cooperation, combat the "three evil forces," and comprehensively promote the comprehensive strategic partnership between Kyrgyzstan and China in the new era. Kyrgyzstan highly appreciates and supports the four global initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平), and is willing to strengthen coordination and cooperation with China in the United Nations and the China-Central Asia mechanism. It hopes that China will support Kyrgyzstan in its work as the rotating presidency of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and jointly promote regional security, stability, prosperity and development.

Wang Yi (王毅) conveyed President Xi Jinping's (习近平) sincere greetings to Japarov, saying that head-of-state diplomacy has an irreplaceable guiding role in the development of bilateral relations. President Japarov and President Xi Jinping (习近平) have met three times this year, providing top-level design and strategic guarantees for the development of bilateral relations. China will always be a trustworthy friend and reliable partner of Kyrgyzstan, and will, as always, support Kyrgyzstan in safeguarding its sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity, support Kyrgyzstan in following a development path that suits its own national conditions, and oppose any forces interfering in Kyrgyzstan's internal affairs. China is willing to work with Kyrgyzstan to follow the consensus of the two heads of state, transform the cooperation blueprint into concrete actions, achieve their respective modernizations by leaps and bounds (大踏步 - dà tà bù - "big strides," rapidly), and continuously enrich the connotation of the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Kyrgyzstan in the new era.

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First China-Kyrgyzstan Foreign Ministers' Strategic Dialogue Held Successfully

Bishkek, November 19th (Reported by Li Qiang (李强)) Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (王毅) held the first strategic dialogue with Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Kulubaev (库鲁巴耶夫) in Bishkek on November 19.

Wang Yi (王毅) stated that under the care and promotion of President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Zhaparov (扎帕罗夫), China-Kyrgyzstan political mutual trust has been continuously consolidated, and all-round cooperation has developed in depth. The establishment of a strategic dialogue mechanism is a concrete action to implement the consensus of the two heads of state, which is conducive to further enhancing strategic mutual trust, strengthening strategic coordination, and promoting strategic cooperation between the two sides. China supports Kyrgyzstan in accelerating the realization of national revitalization and is Kyrgyzstan's most trustworthy and reliable partner. Working together to build a China-Kyrgyzstan community with a shared future of good-neighborliness, friendship, and common prosperity is in line with the fundamental interests of the two countries and is what the people desire and the general trend dictates. China is willing to deepen communication and collaboration with Kyrgyzstan on international affairs and optimize and strengthen platforms such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the China-Central Asia mechanism. China fully supports Kyrgyzstan in its work as the rotating chair of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Kulubaev (库鲁巴耶夫) said that Kyrgyzstan adheres to the one-China principle and will continue to firmly support China on all issues concerning China's core interests, such as those related to Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong. Kyrgyzstan is willing to work with China to promote cooperation in jointly building the "Belt and Road," deepen cooperation in various fields such as trade and investment, agricultural mining, and interconnectivity, accelerate the construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway, strengthen cultural exchanges, and continuously explore areas where the interests of both sides converge. Kyrgyzstan welcomes and is willing to provide a good business environment for Chinese companies to develop in Kyrgyzstan. Kyrgyzstan is willing to work closely with China to actively implement the four major global initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平), strengthen coordination and cooperation in the United Nations, and promote greater development of the China-Central Asia mechanism. Kyrgyzstan will actively study joining the International Mediation Institute.

After the talks, the two sides issued the "Joint Statement on the First Strategic Dialogue between the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China and the Kyrgyz Republic" and signed the "Cooperation Program between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of China and Kyrgyzstan for 2026-2027."

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Li Hongzhong Meets with Arab Representatives to the China-Arab Civilizations Dialogue Conference

Beijing, November 19th (Xinhua) -- Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, met in Beijing on the 19th with representatives of the Arab side attending the 11th China-Arab Civilizations Dialogue Conference.

Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠) stated that under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping (习近平) and Arab state leaders, China-Arab relations have entered their best period in history. China is willing to work with the Arab side to implement the consensus reached by the leaders of both sides, deepen exchanges and mutual learning between civilizations, practice the four major global initiatives, and work together to build a China-Arab community with a shared future oriented towards the new era. Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠) also introduced the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee.

The Arab side expressed its willingness to deepen Arab-China dialogue and exchanges between civilizations, learn from China's development experience, and jointly build an Arab-China community with a shared future.

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Wang Xiaohong Meets with Uzbekistan's Minister of Internal Affairs, Tashpulatov

This newspaper reported from Beijing on November 19th (Reporter Zhang Tianpei (张天培)) State Councilor and Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong (王小洪) met with Uzbekistan's Minister of Internal Affairs, Tashpulatov, in Beijing on the 19th.

Wang Xiaohong (王小洪) stated that China is willing to work with Uzbekistan to implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, strengthen exchanges at all levels, and enhance practical cooperation in areas such as counter-terrorism, combating telecom fraud and cybercrime, security for large-scale events, and law enforcement capacity building. This will ensure the smooth progress of high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative, effectively safeguard the security and stability of both countries, and promote the building of a more substantial and dynamic China-Uzbekistan community with a shared future.

Tashpulatov expressed his willingness to maintain close communication and exchanges with China to promote deeper and more practical law enforcement and security cooperation between the two countries.

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Joint Statement of the First Strategic Dialogue Between the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China and the Kyrgyz Republic

At the invitation of Minister of Foreign Affairs Kulubaev (库鲁巴耶夫) of the Kyrgyz Republic, Wang Yi (王毅), a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, paid an official visit to the Kyrgyz Republic on November 19, 2025, and the two foreign ministers held the first strategic dialogue.

The two foreign ministers exchanged in-depth views on cooperation in the political, economic, trade, cultural, security fields, as well as international and regional issues of common concern, in a cordial and friendly atmosphere.

Both sides pointed out that the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Kyrgyzstan in the new era is developing actively in various fields, and declared that further deepening the above-mentioned relationship is in the fundamental interests of both countries and their peoples.

According to the content of the "Joint Statement between the People's Republic of China and the Kyrgyz Republic on Deepening the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in the New Era" signed on February 5, 2025:

Both sides emphasized that the establishment of a strategic dialogue mechanism between the two foreign ministers is of great significance for the development of the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Kyrgyzstan in the new era. The two sides agreed to further deepen the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Kyrgyzstan in the new era, promote the building of a China-Kyrgyzstan community with a shared future featuring good-neighborliness, friendship, and common prosperity, maintain regional stability and development, and benefit the two peoples. The two sides agreed to strengthen political dialogue and continue to maintain the good momentum of high-level exchanges.

Both sides reaffirmed their firm support for each other on issues involving their respective core interests.

Both sides reaffirmed their firm support for each other's sustainable development, safeguarding national independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, maintaining national stability, and promoting political, economic and social progress.

The Kyrgyz side reiterated its adherence to the one-China principle, recognizing that Taiwan is an inalienable part of Chinese territory and that the government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China. The Kyrgyz side firmly opposes any form of "Taiwan independence" and firmly supports the Chinese government in achieving national reunification and UN General Assembly Resolution 2758.

The two sides are willing to deepen cooperation in jointly combating the "three evil forces."

Both sides highly appreciated the fruitful results achieved in the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" between China and Kyrgyzstan, and will take the entry of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" into a new stage of high-quality development as an opportunity to promote the alignment of the "Belt and Road" initiative with Kyrgyzstan's "National Development Program until 2030," and jointly ensure the stable and smooth progress of cooperation projects.

Both sides particularly emphasized that the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway is a strategic and landmark project of the three countries' joint construction of the "Belt and Road" cooperation.

Both sides positively evaluated the opening of the Bedel Pass (别迭里口岸), and are willing to simultaneously accelerate the construction of port infrastructure and supporting facilities, and strive to achieve the full opening of the port as soon as possible. Both sides pointed out that the construction of the Barskoon-Bedel highway is an important step to accelerate the implementation of this project. The two sides agreed to actively promote the modernization and transformation of the Irkeshtam (伊尔克什坦) and Torugart (吐尔尕特) ports, improve the customs clearance capacity of the ports and the level of interconnection between the two countries, and promote the smooth operation of the above-mentioned ports.

The two sides will promote the establishment of a bilateral cooperation mechanism for China-Kyrgyzstan ports, and study matters such as the construction, management, and operation of China-Kyrgyzstan ports within this framework.

Both sides emphasized their willingness to promote the development of trade in agricultural products between China and Kyrgyzstan, and are willing to rely on agricultural and sideline product processing industrial parks to promote two-way investment and trade in agriculture.

Both sides are willing to support cooperation in the field of green minerals.

Both sides positively evaluated the opening of the second international air corridor in southern Kyrgyzstan, and are willing to promote the opening of direct flights between Kashgar (喀什) and Bishkek (比什凯克), and Kashgar and Osh (奥什).

Both sides are willing to deepen inter-bank cooperation, specifically including supporting eligible Kyrgyz banking institutions to join the China Interbank Payment System (CIPS).

Both sides are willing to promote and deepen close cooperation in the fields of culture, education, science and technology, health, sports, tourism and ecology.

The two sides will continue to carry out cooperation in providing Chinese and Kyrgyz university scholarships for citizens of the two countries, and encourage universities of the two countries to explore exchanges and cooperation such as jointly running schools in Kyrgyzstan in a stable manner.

Both sides emphasized their willingness to strengthen cooperation in consular and immigration affairs.

Both sides are willing to actively study creating necessary conditions for facilitating personnel exchanges. Both sides emphasized strengthening cooperation to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the citizens of the two countries in each other's countries; agreed to strengthen cooperation between the competent authorities of the two countries, especially the implementation of the "Treaty between the People's Republic of China and the Kyrgyz Republic on Civil and Criminal Judicial Assistance."

Both sides welcomed the "Resolution on Sustainable Mountain Development" adopted by the 77th United Nations General Assembly, which declared the implementation of the "Five-Year Framework for Mountain Development" from 2023 to 2027, aiming to strengthen international cooperation on the mountain agenda and its effective follow-up.

China supports Kyrgyzstan in hosting the World Nomad Games in 2026 and the "Bishkek+25" Second Global Mountain Summit in 2027.

The two sides will continue to strengthen cooperation within the framework of the United Nations and other international and regional organizations.

Both sides are willing to continue to support each other's international initiatives and candidates within the framework of international organizations and institutions. The Kyrgyz side highly appreciates and supports the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative proposed by China.

Both sides positively evaluated the meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization held in Tianjin (天津) on September 1, 2025. China is willing to provide necessary assistance to Kyrgyzstan during its term as the rotating presidency of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization from 2025 to 2026.

Both sides highly appreciated the development of the China-Central Asia mechanism and will work together to optimize and strengthen the China-Central Asia mechanism and further deepen cooperation within the framework of the mechanism.

Both sides believe that this fruitful dialogue will further enhance the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries in the new era.

(Xinhua News Agency, Bishkek (比什凯克), November 19)

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"World Mayors Dialogue · Nanjing" Opens

This newspaper's Nanjing (南京) dispatch on November 19th (Reporters: Yin Xiaoyu (尹晓宇) and Bao Han (包晗)) The "World Mayor's Dialogue·Nanjing (南京)" event opened in Nanjing (南京), Jiangsu (江苏) on November 19th. Mayors and representatives from 10 countries including Brunei (文莱), Egypt (埃及), Germany (德国), Italy (意大利), and China (中国) participated in the conference, sharing urban governance experiences from various countries, exploring future trends in urban development, and contributing wisdom to promote the sustainable development of global waterfront cities.

The theme of this event is "Yangtze Tide Surges, Civilization Co-Initiates". During the event, participating guests will focus on the four themes of "The Vitality of Waterfront Cities," "Waterfront Cultural Heritage Protection," "Waterfront Ecological Restoration and Green Transformation," and "Waterfront Cities and Literature," exploring China's (中国) urban modernization achievements and sharing advanced urban governance experiences in the fields of cultural heritage protection, green ecological development, and smart city construction.

The "World Mayor's Dialogue" event is guided by the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办公室) and is an important platform for global exchange and cooperation. Since September 2024, the "World Mayor's Dialogue" event has been successfully held in cities such as Hangzhou (杭州), Nanning (南宁), Shanghai (上海), Tianjin (天津), and Qingdao (青岛), aiming to enhance international mutual trust and friendship, deepen mutual learning and appreciation, and strengthen global cooperation.

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"Fresh Faces" Grow and Develop Skills Through Experience (In-depth Reading: Young Cadres at the Grassroots Level)

By: 本报记者 窦 皓 门杰伟 王欣悦

Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, emphasized: "Young cadres are a vital force in the development of the Party and the country, and successors to the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics."

For young cadres, the grassroots level is the "last mile" for policy implementation and a "living classroom" for understanding public sentiment and familiarizing themselves with public opinion. Only by treating the grassroots level as a "training ground," moving from "approaching the masses" to "entering the masses," can they continuously temper their beliefs, abilities, and mentality, and open up a broad world for growth.

Recently, our newspaper reporters went deep into the grassroots frontline in various places to explore the growth experiences of young cadres, and felt the continuous youthful power on the road of Chinese-style modernization construction from them.

——Editor

Cadre education and training is a pioneering, foundational, and strategic project for building a high-quality cadre team. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal puts forward: "Strengthen education and training and practical training to improve the ability of the cadre team to build a modern country."

Young rural cadres are "new faces" to be tempered for rural grassroots and cadre teams. How can we effectively carry out education and training to help them take root and grow, better master the skills to strengthen agriculture, and devote themselves to the practice of helping agriculture? The reporter conducted investigations in many places.

Lishui City (丽水市), Zhejiang (浙江) Province

Expert Guidance, Academy Lectures

Jianlong Village (建龙村), Longnan Township (龙南乡), Longquan City (龙泉市), Lishui City (丽水市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), is surrounded by mountains and terraced fields.

Zhang Huakang (张华康), a 29-year-old township-stationed village cadre, squatted in the ginger base and suggested to the villagers next to him: "Harvest when the stems and leaves are withered and yellow and the soil is half-dry and half-wet. The ginger pieces are not easy to stick to mud, and the quality and storage resistance can be guaranteed to the greatest extent." His words drew frequent nods from everyone.

In the past, the quality of ginger in the village was not high, and the planting standards of farmers were not uniform. Zhang Huakang (张华康), who had just arrived, was once anxious because he did not understand ginger planting, and he was not confident in his work.

At the beginning of this year, in order to allow young cadres to go deep into the rural grassroots and temper their ability to do practical work, Longquan City (龙泉市) established a "Going to the Village Day" system to ensure that each township cadre spends at least one day a week going to the village (community) to grasp common prosperity projects and handle practical matters for the people; integrate the strength of science and technology commissioners, industry leaders, etc., form expert service teams, guide township cadres, especially young cadres, to solve problems in practice, so that each township cadre can master at least one common prosperity skill and participate in planning and implementing a village (community)-level common prosperity project.

From ginger seed disinfection to three-dimensional cultivation, from biological pest control to integrated water and fertilizer... Under the careful guidance of science and technology commissioners, Zhang Huakang (张华康) consulted various ginger planting materials, observed and learned planting techniques on the spot, and gradually grew into a well-known ginger planting expert. He also compiled a planting manual specifically for alpine ginger.

Day after day of field work also allowed Zhang Huakang (张华康) to gradually understand the path to doing rural work well: "Serving the people is our compulsory course. Only by putting in enough effort can we have the confidence to provide technical guidance and development ideas in front of the villagers!"

Looking at Lishui City (丽水市), many rural work instructors, science and technology commissioners, cultural commissioners, and enterprise service personnel are increasingly becoming an important force in skill-based cadre training. Teams of cadres with increasingly solid professional skills are taking root in the fields, helping the masses solve technical problems in production and promoting the long-term development of industries.

In recent years, Lishui City (丽水市) has focused on "cultivating skilled cadres and building a skilled government," organized and carried out on-demand skills training; established a Rural Cadre Skills Academy, and opened 352 characteristic courses and practical projects. Since the beginning of this year, Lishui City (丽水市) has differentiated guidance to 173 townships to formulate characteristic skill service projects, further improving the skill level of young cadres.

Wangqing County (汪清县), Jilin (吉林) Province

Pre-job Training, Exchange and Mutual Learning

"Brother Wang (王大哥), the road conditions are complicated. Don't carry people on agricultural tricycles. You have to keep the safety string tight!" In Shanghe Village (上河村), Luozigou Town (罗子沟镇), Wangqing County (汪清县), Jilin Province (吉林省), Liu Jie (刘杰), 26, raised her leg and sat on the heated kang of villager Brother Wang's (王大哥) house, telling him about safety precautions.

More than two years ago, Liu Jie (刘杰) became a grassroots governance specialist. The feeling of being cramped when she first walked out of school and came to the village is still fresh in her memory. "At first, the village cadres took me to visit households, and my mind was blank. I was so awkward that I didn't know where to put my hands." Liu Jie (刘杰) said that she was not familiar with what the villagers were talking about, and the villagers were not interested in what she said, and the scene often became embarrassing.

In March 2023, in order to solve the problem of young cadres being "unaccustomed to the soil and water" in rural grassroots areas, Wangqing County (汪清县) conducted centralized pre-job training for grassroots governance specialists to make up for the knowledge weaknesses in performing their duties, make up for the shortcomings in the ability to implement work, and eliminate the blind spots in practical operation, so that young cadres who are new to the rural front line understand what to do and how to do it.

The stones of other mountains can be used to attack jade. In June 2023, Wangqing County (汪清县) also established a grassroots governance specialist Party branch and a growth promotion association, and regularly carried out a series of Party building salon activities of "Taking Root in the Grassroots and Experiencing Growth." Focusing on various key tasks in rural areas, it adopted special lectures, on-site teaching, group discussions, and other forms to empower young cadres and help them overcome the "adaptation barrier."

Liu Jie (刘杰) participated in pre-job training and exchanged ideas with other young cadres, drawing nourishment for growth from it. Her notebook is full of good experiences and practices shared by everyone: if you are not familiar with the villagers, you must put down your face and muster up the courage to "grind the threshold" from house to house; if you read from the book, the villagers don't like to listen, so find topics from the fields and the trivial matters of the family...

"In addition to the file bag, you also have to grab the public sentiment book to find out the major and minor events in the village and understand what the villagers are thinking." Liu Jie (刘杰) summarized her training experience in this way.

Now, Liu Jie (刘杰) has memorized the faces of every villager in the village: "I can talk to everyone." Liu Jie (刘杰) has narrowed the relationship with many villagers, from a "new face" to a "familiar face," and has also applied for dilapidated house renovation for the villagers. The effectiveness of her work has been seen by the people around her.

On the black soil, there are more and more young cadres running around. In recent years, Jilin Province (吉林省) has focused on the characteristics of young cadres, vigorously implemented rural revitalization-themed training, and created a growth platform for exchange and discussion, so that young cadres can see the world and increase their talents.

Fengdu County (丰都县), Chongqing (重庆)

Forming Pairs, Old Leading the New

"Pickled mustard tuber is afraid of squeezing. You have to keep the plant spacing accurate when planting seedlings on ridges." Tang Mao (唐茂), born in the 1990s, serves as the Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Xumingsi Town (许明寺镇), Fengdu County (丰都县), Chongqing (重庆). She squatted halfway in the field and chatted with farmers about the precautions for planting pickled mustard tuber.

Not far away, Qin Ting (秦挺), Secretary of the Party Committee of Xumingsi Town (许明寺镇), stretched out his finger and pointed out even shallow pits on the raised soil ridge, and then compared it with a ruler. "There must be enough space between the seedlings so that the leaves can be exposed to the sun and leave enough space for the rhizomes to expand." Qin Ting (秦挺) said his experience, and Tang Mao (唐茂) quickly wrote it down.

When she first came here last year, Tang Mao (唐茂) was still at a loss when facing the field ridges. "At that time, I felt that the sweet potato seedlings and weeds looked as tender as each other, and I couldn't tell them apart after digging for a long time." The first time she followed the farmers to the field, her mind was full of question marks, but she was too embarrassed to ask, and often swallowed the words when they came to her mouth.

"According to the results of the town's employee evaluation scores, the cadre performance evaluation index system prompts that Xiao Tang's (小唐) 'mass work ability' index is low." Yu Tao (余涛), Deputy Minister of the Organization Department of the Fengdu County (丰都县) Party Committee, introduced the situation at the beginning, "Qin Ting (秦挺) has rich experience in mediating disputes and helping farmers with harvesting. Letting them form a work pair is conducive to making up for Xiao Tang's (小唐) shortcomings."

In this way, Qin Ting (秦挺) became Tang Mao's (唐茂) "business mentor." Qin Ting (秦挺) always seized the opportunity to tell Tang Mao (唐茂) about the knowledge in the fields.

"You pinch this piece of soil." Qin Ting (秦挺) dug out a fist-sized clod of soil from the depths of the field ridge and handed it to Tang Mao (唐茂), "Clay is like glutinous rice cake, with high viscosity but poor air permeability; sandy soil is like coarse granulated sugar, which cannot be clenched and has strong water permeability." Tang Mao (唐茂) pinched it and immediately understood the feel of the sandy soil in her hand.

On this day, the two were going to visit farmers' homes to chat. "Remember, sit down if there is a bench. Don't stand and talk. It seems distant." Qin Ting (秦挺) instructed Tang Mao (唐茂).

When they arrived at the farmer's house, the host handed over an enamel cup, and Qin Ting (秦挺) took it and took a sip. After the work was over, Qin Ting (秦挺) passed on his experience on the way back: "If people hand over water, we have to take it. This drink will bring us closer. If you don't understand the dialect, don't force yourself. You can directly ask people to say it again. If you speak official language, people won't understand it and will think you are floating."

The "apprentice" Tang Mao (唐茂) followed the "master" Qin Ting (秦挺) to do work in villages and alleys, and gained growth imperceptibly. At present, relying on the cadre performance evaluation index, Fengdu County (丰都县) has built a "old leading the new" training system. "We analyze cadres' learning, execution, coordination, communication, and other indicators through the system, accurately identify problems, and provide timely care and help." Yu Tao (余涛) said that the data shows that after arranging Qin Ting (秦挺) and Tang Mao (唐茂) to form a pair, Tang Mao's (唐茂) "mass work ability" index has been significantly improved.

"Eat 'Lixia eggs' with Lixia, pound glutinous rice cakes together during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and help make sausages in the twelfth lunar month..." Qin Ting (秦挺) introduced the customs of the village, and Tang Mao (唐茂) carefully recorded them in her notebook, "Go to the fields more, chat with people more, accumulate experience, cultivate feelings, and many problems will be solved easily."

This issue is coordinated by: Chen Zhen (陈震)

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The Path to Development in Three Types of "Affairs" (People's Forum)

By: 盛玉雷

The 2025 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit saw the first "group photo" of the "Hangzhou Six Little Dragons." This dialogue, exploring the direction of cutting-edge technologies, wasn't about reliving "highlight moments," but rather, through sharing their respective "awkward moments," "fortunate events," and "important matters," to stimulate thinking about where they come from and where they are going.

"Awkward moments" reflect the laws of innovation. The road to growth often starts with some "embarrassment."

Yushu Technology (宇树科技) early robot training left the office building stairs scarred; employees of BrainCo (强脑科技) studied and worked simultaneously, leaving behind the legend of "Chinese students charging their brains in the middle of the night to improve their grades"; the Unitree Robotics (云深处科技) robot dog initially couldn't get up from the ground and had to be "suspended by two steel wires"... "That's not a dark history, but the road I came from." Even if muddy, distant, and exhausting, they still trudged forward.

Innovation has always been a 九死一生 (jiǔ sǐ yī shēng - "nine deaths one life," a narrow escape from death; a close call). There will be incomprehension, breaking through the edge of human cognition, doing things that no one has done before, how can it be smooth sailing? There is also confusion: when encountering obstacles in tackling key problems, should one grit one's teeth and persevere, or change course and switch to another track? Even more, there is suppression: key and core technologies cannot be obtained or bought, there are those who look on coldly, and many who sing pessimistic tunes, will one's resolve waver?

Because of this, some compare innovation to "black soil," which can not only nurture the flowers of success, but also transform thousands of innovative attempts into nutrients. Looking further, without daring to ask "heavenly questions," unwilling to undertake a "long march," without ever having a "dream ship," how can there be "rejuvenation"?

"Fortunate events" demonstrate the dividends of the times. For enterprises to grow vigorously, sunshine, air, and rain... none can be missing.

"We are just a small wave in China's game industry." When talking about the success of *Black Myth: Wukong* (黑神话：悟空), the founder of Game Science (游戏科学) is very clear-headed and also very fortunate.

A market size of more than 1.4 billion people, a comprehensive transportation network, a complete industrial chain and supply chain, world-leading scientific and technological strength and innovation capabilities, a long history and broad civilization... Today's China is "full of ever-changing creations," nurturing dreams, with a broad stage.

"The whole process of company registration and application for subsidies didn't involve a single meal, a single drink, or a single cigarette," "The government subsidies promised to you are automatically transferred according to the agreed time"... From multiple favorable policies, to a high-quality business environment, to a new type of government-business relationship, a proactive government creates a good ecosystem, and an effective market will naturally grow good seedlings.

"Important matters" concern the future. Moving towards the "15th Five-Year Plan," the development blueprint has already been drawn, waiting for pragmatic promotion and implementation.

"We now have the ability to start running at the same time as the world's most advanced... Going all out will definitely be no problem." The founder of Coohom (群核科技) is very determined in his goals and very hardcore in his expression.

"What is the strongest feeling in China now? It is a sense of the future." "The future is in China," the Chinese people have realistic confidence and practical self-confidence.

Looking at the leading force from technological trends. The number of artificial intelligence patents accounts for 60% of the global total, and the industrial scale has increased from 303.1 billion yuan in 2020 to over 700 billion yuan in 2024... Technological innovation and industrial innovation are seamlessly connected, and China's comprehensive strength in artificial intelligence has achieved an overall and systematic leap, knocking on the door to the future.

Looking at the certainty from the general trend of development. Holding the China International Import Expo (中国国际进口博览会), a national-level event, for eight consecutive years, building the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) to a high standard, and scientifically setting economic and social development goals for the "15th Five-Year Plan" period... The world sees an open China, a vibrant China, and a high-quality developing China.

From this, one can better understand that "to go with China is to go with opportunities, to believe in China is to believe in tomorrow, and to invest in China is to invest in the future."

From the three types of "matters," one can understand the road to growth, firm aspirations, and the way of development. Go with the trend, take advantage of the momentum, discover possibilities, work hard, and create the future.

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Building a socialist country under the rule of law to a higher standard

By: 本报记者

The central conference on comprehensively advancing the rule of law was held in Beijing from November 17th to 18th. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) recently issued important instructions on comprehensively advancing the rule of law, emphasizing: "Comprehensively promote the rule of law in all aspects of the country's work, and provide a strong legal guarantee for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization."

General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions are inspiring and encouraging, triggering enthusiastic responses among the vast number of cadres and the masses. Everyone expressed that they should deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law, deeply study and implement the spirit of the conference, coordinate and promote scientific legislation, strict law enforcement, impartial justice, and universal law-abiding behavior, and build a more complete socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics and a socialist country ruled by law at a higher level.

The Socialist Rule of Law Road with Chinese Characteristics is Becoming Wider and Wider

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has incorporated the comprehensive advancement of the rule of law into the 'Four Comprehensives' strategic layout and vigorously promoted it. The overall pattern of comprehensively advancing the rule of law has basically taken shape, the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics has been continuously improved, and the socialist rule of law road with Chinese characteristics is becoming wider and wider."

"The historic achievements in comprehensively advancing the rule of law fully demonstrate the power of truth and the great power of practice of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law." Liu Bo (刘波), Director of the Administrative Law Enforcement Coordination and Supervision Bureau of the Ministry of Justice (司法部), said that it is necessary to deeply study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions, give full play to the coordinating, regulating, supervising, and coordinating role of administrative law enforcement supervision on administrative law enforcement, and continuously promote strict, standardized, fair, and civilized law enforcement, so as to provide legal support and a strong guarantee for Chinese-style modernization.

Promoting the rule of law in petition work is an important aspect of promoting the comprehensive rule of law. In recent years, the State Bureau of Letters and Calls (国家信访局) has conscientiously implemented the "Regulations on Petition Work," formulated a "roadmap" for the rule of law in petition work, strengthened supervision and inspection, and promoted functional departments to resolve the reasonable demands of the masses in accordance with the law. "We must deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law, comprehensively promote the rule of law in petition work, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of the masses in accordance with the law; at the same time, we must further give play to the 'barometer' role of petition work, promptly discover policy issues, put forward improvement suggestions, and promote the improvement of relevant laws and regulations," said Shi Songyu (史嵩宇), Director of the Research Office of the State Bureau of Letters and Calls (国家信访局).

"The people's court gives full play to its important functions of punishing crimes and protecting the people in accordance with the law, resolving disputes and maintaining justice, and vigorously safeguarding national security, social stability, and people's peace and tranquility with strict and impartial justice. We adhere to the people-centered approach, focus on the urgent needs and expectations of the people, handle people's livelihood cases with the awareness of 'as if I were the litigant,' continuously enhance people's well-being, and continuously enhance the people's sense of gain in judicial justice." Si Yanli (司艳丽), Deputy Director of the Research Office of the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院), said that it is necessary to deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law, faithfully perform duties, administer justice impartially, and strive to provide strong judicial services and guarantees for achieving a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan" and comprehensively building a modern socialist country on the track of the rule of law.

"The enactment of the Civil Code, the amendment of the Legislation Law, the adoption of the Amendment to the Criminal Law (XII), and the formulation of the Personal Information Protection Law have further demonstrated the role of the rule of law in serving and guaranteeing. The legislation, law enforcement, and justice related to new quality productive forces have achieved good results and promoted the development of new quality productive forces." Yang Dong (杨东), Dean of the Law School of Renmin University of China (中国人民大学), said that it is necessary to deepen the construction of the rule of law work force and the cultivation of rule of law talents, comprehensively strengthen the collaborative education mechanism between rule of law practical departments and law schools, and lay a solid foundation for building a socialist country ruled by law at a higher level.

Building a More Complete Socialist Legal System with Chinese Characteristics

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Focusing on building a more complete socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics and building a socialist country ruled by law at a higher level, we should pay more attention to the coordination of the rule of law with reform, development, and stability, pay more attention to guaranteeing and promoting social fairness and justice, and comprehensively promote scientific legislation, strict law enforcement, impartial justice, and universal law-abiding behavior."

"To improve the quality of legislation, we must always adhere to Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law as a guide, always adhere to the people-centered approach, continuously improve the legislative work pattern of Party leadership, people's congress dominance, government reliance, and participation of all parties, deeply promote scientific legislation, democratic legislation, and law-based legislation, and use laws and regulations to consolidate and demonstrate institutional advantages, serve and guarantee high-quality development, and effectively enhance people's well-being and social fairness and justice," said Huang Haihua (黄海华), Director of the Research Office of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (全国人大常委会).

General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions further clarified the strategic, overall, and directional issues of comprehensively advancing the rule of law, and deepened the understanding of the regularity of socialist rule of law construction.

"It is necessary to fully implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law, deeply study and interpret the original contributions of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law, build a Chinese-independent legal knowledge system, improve the practice-oriented education and training mechanism of law schools, give play to the unique advantages of universities, and serve the practice of comprehensively advancing the rule of law through think tank construction," said Ma Huaide (马怀德), President of China University of Political Science and Law (中国政法大学).

Public security organs are an important national public security administrative force and criminal justice force, and are a vital force in the construction of the rule of law in China. "We will accelerate the inclusion of local public security legislative projects that are urgently needed in key areas and emerging areas into the province's legislative plan, focus on building a systematic and efficient law enforcement supervision and management system, strengthen law enforcement risk prevention and control, effectively address law enforcement problems of concern to the masses, comprehensively promote law enforcement capacity building, and strive to contribute to building a higher-level rule of law public security and realizing the modernization of public security work," said Shu Wen (舒文), Deputy Director and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the Sichuan Provincial Public Security Department (四川省公安厅).

"We will always adhere to Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law as a guide, and improve the quality and efficiency of legal supervision in 'daring to supervise, being good at supervising, and being brave in carrying out self-supervision,' and strive to promote the high-quality development of procuratorial work," said He Xiaohua (何小华), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Procurator-General of the Ningbo Municipal People's Procuratorate (浙江省宁波市人民检察院).

Jointly Create a New Situation in the Construction of the Rule of Law in China

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The rule of law work departments must conscientiously perform their duties, take the initiative to take responsibility, and all departments and fields must strictly handle affairs in accordance with the law, and jointly create a new situation in the construction of the rule of law in China."

The standardized construction of social security comprehensive management centers is a vivid practice to ensure the resolution of contradictions and disputes on the track of the rule of law. In the Jiang'an District Social Security Comprehensive Management Center (江岸区综治中心) in Wuhan (武汉), Hubei (湖北), staff members in front of windows such as legal aid, administrative reconsideration, and public security letters and visits uniformly dressed to receive the masses. "General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions pointed out the direction and clarified the path for our work." Zhou Fei (周飞), Deputy Secretary of the Jiang'an District Party Committee and Political and Legal Committee (江岸区委政法委) in charge of daily work, said that it is necessary to make good use of the platform of the Social Security Comprehensive Management Center (综治中心) to promote the various resident departments to perform their duties in accordance with the law and form a joint force, effectively improve the level of legalization of resolving contradictions and disputes and the level of standardization of social security comprehensive management, and continuously consolidate the foundation for building a higher-level safe China.

"General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions pointed out the direction for advancing the comprehensive rule of law on the new journey, and further enhanced our confidence and determination to unswervingly follow the socialist rule of law road with Chinese characteristics." Yang Zhengguo (杨政国), Deputy Director of the Office of the Commission for Comprehensive Rule of Law of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee (陕西省委) and Director of the Provincial Department of Justice (省司法厅), said that he will focus on the new situation, new tasks, and new requirements, scientifically compile the implementation plan for the construction of the rule of law in Shaanxi (陕西) during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and comprehensively implement major deployments, important tasks, and key tasks in the field of the rule of law, so as to provide a strong guarantee for high-quality economic and social development.

Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law is the guiding ideology that must be adhered to for a long time in comprehensively advancing the rule of law in the new era, and it is necessary to deepen the study, publicity, education, training, research, and interpretation of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law.

"Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law is constantly enriched, developed, deepened, innovated, and matured in the practice of the Party leading the comprehensive rule of law, and is a dynamically developing, open, and progressive ideological system." Feng Lixia (封丽霞), Director of the Department of Politics and Law of the Central Party School (National Academy of Governance) (中央党校（国家行政学院）), said that it is necessary to combine the specific reality of the work of publicity and education on the rule of law, fully and systematically understand the rich connotation and practical requirements of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law, explain it fully, accurately, deeply, and thoroughly, and launch more high-quality research results.

(Our reporters Xu Jun (徐隽), Zhang Tianpei (张天培), Zhang Cong (张璁), Wei Zhezhe (魏哲哲), Ni Yi (倪弋), Qi Yukun (亓玉昆), Jin Xin (金歆))

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Photo Story

Since the beginning of this year, Binzhou (滨州), Shandong Province (山东省) has actively supported leading agricultural enterprises in building a modern storage and transportation system. The city has vigorously promoted the "order-based storage and transportation" model for grain, enhancing farmers' ability to resist risks and their income expectations. The picture shows staff inspecting corn storage at a grain storage enterprise in Yangliuxue Town (杨柳雪镇), Bincheng District (滨城区), Binzhou (滨州).

Photo by Chu Baorui (初宝瑞) (People's Vision)

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Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region Takes Multiple Measures to Promote Coordinated Development of Elderly Care Services

This newspaper reported from Beijing on November 19th (Reporter Shi Fang (施芳)) The 2025 Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) Elderly Care Service Collaborative Development Project Promotion Conference was held in Beijing (北京) on the 18th. At the conference, the Tongzhou-Wuqing-Langfang (通武廊) Elderly Care Service Strategic Cooperation Agreement, the Elderly Care Worker Labor Input Docking Agreement, and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) Health and Wellness Tourism Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement were signed.

The promotion conference, themed "Project Convergence, Collaborative Empowerment, Jointly Drawing a New Blueprint for Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) Elderly Care Services," was jointly hosted by the Beijing Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau (北京市民政局), the Tianjin Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau (天津市民政局), and the Hebei Provincial Department of Civil Affairs (河北省民政厅), and organized by the elderly care associations of the three regions.

According to reports, Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北) jointly issued a series of documents, including the "Implementation Plan on Further Deepening the Collaborative Development of Elderly Care Services in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀)" and the "Collaborative Work Plan for Talent Training in Elderly Care Services in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀)," achieving mutual recognition of the grading and evaluation results of elderly care institutions and the ability assessment results of the elderly in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀), promoting the continuous deepening of talent training, cooperation, and exchange in elderly care services in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀), and simultaneously improving the quality of elderly care services.

Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北) are promoting the integration of medical care and elderly care, making it convenient for the elderly to seek medical treatment in different places. The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) Medical and Elderly Care Integration Alliance was established, covering 542 units in Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北). The Beijing (北京市) Medical and Elderly Care Integration Remote Collaboration Platform has been expanded to include 56 medical and elderly care integration institutions in Hebei Province (河北省), leveraging the role of "Internet + Healthcare" to carry out medical and elderly care integration remote collaboration services such as popular science lectures, personnel training, care guidance, and remote consultations.

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Comrade Gao Jianmin Passes Away

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 19th. Comrade Gao Jianmin (高建民), former Deputy Director and Party Member of the State Administration of Radio and Television (国家广播电视总局), passed away in Beijing (北京) on October 16, 2025, due to illness, at the age of 64.

After the passing of Comrade Gao Jianmin (高建民), relevant central leaders expressed their condolences in various ways and extended their sympathies to his family.

Gao Jianmin (高建民) was born in November 1960 in Yuxian County (盂县), Shanxi Province (山西省). He started working in December 1977 and joined the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) in December 1982. From December 1977 to March 1978, he worked at the Yuxian County Building Materials Factory (盂县建材厂) in Shanxi Province (山西省). From March 1982 to October 1984, he successively served as a staff member of the Yuci City (榆次市) Party Committee Office (市委办公室) and Deputy Secretary of the Yuci City (榆次市) Communist Youth League Committee (共青团榆次市委) in Shanxi Province (山西省). From October 1984 to January 2001, he successively served as Deputy Secretary of the Jinzhong Prefectural Committee (晋中地委) of the Communist Youth League (共青团) in Shanxi Province (山西省), Deputy Secretary and Deputy Party Group Secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Committee (山西省委) of the Communist Youth League (共青团), and Secretary and Party Group Secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Committee (山西省委) of the Communist Youth League (共青团). From January 2001 to October 2006, he successively served as Deputy Secretary of the Jinzhong Municipal Party Committee (晋中市委) and Secretary of the Shuozhou Municipal Party Committee (朔州市委) in Shanxi Province (山西省). From October 2006 to May 2018, he successively served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee (山西省委常委), Secretary of the Shuozhou Municipal Party Committee (朔州市委), Minister of the Propaganda Department (宣传部部长) of the Provincial Party Committee (省委), Secretary-General of the Provincial Party Committee (省委秘书长), and Vice Governor of Shanxi Province (山西省副省长). From May 2018 to August 2021, he served as Deputy Director and Party Member of the State Administration of Radio and Television (国家广播电视总局).

Gao Jianmin (高建民) was a representative of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党第十九次全国代表大会) and a representative of the 12th and 13th National People's Congress (全国人民代表大会).

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Innovative Sci-Tech Startups Attract Financial Support (New Development Philosophy Leads High-Quality Development: Stories from the Front Lines)

By: 本报记者 赵展慧

Since the new era, financial resources have been scaling "high" and chasing "new," injecting a continuous stream of power into high-quality development.

Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Guide financial institutions to improve incentive and restraint mechanisms, and make good use of equity, debt, insurance and other means to provide technology-based enterprises with full-chain, full-life-cycle financial services to support the strengthening of manufacturing."

The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal puts forward: "Vigorously develop technology finance, green finance, inclusive finance, pension finance, and digital finance."

In Wuhan (武汉), Hubei (湖北), the East Lake High-tech Development Zone (东湖新技术开发区), known as "Optics Valley of China" (中国光谷), is home to more than 5,000 technology-based enterprises.

Investing early, investing in small businesses, investing for the long term, and investing in hard technology, in the thriving innovation ecosystem of Optics Valley, more than 1,000 financial institutions, including credit, insurance, venture capital, and financial leasing, tailor financial services to technology-based enterprises with different needs.

How does financial capital nourish technological innovation? The birth and development of a seedling of scientific and technological innovation provides an answer.

Cultivate a pair of discerning eyes—

Firmly support projects that are identified as promising

Climbing stairs with ease, and lifting weights effortlessly with bionic arms, in the laboratory of Wuhan Grand Robot Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (武汉格蓝若智能技术股份有限公司), the humanoid robot "Laborer No. 1" (劳动者1号) is undergoing training.

"Laborer No. 1's gait is becoming more stable, and it is working hard to train to become a 'duty officer' at substations," said Gao Feng (高峰), Deputy General Manager of Grand Robot.

"Learning that Grand Robot planned to cooperate with Huazhong University of Science and Technology (华中科技大学) to develop humanoid robots, we increased the company's working capital loan quota to fully prepare for the transformation of results. Since we have identified it as promising, we will firmly provide support," said Zhao Yufei (赵宇飞), Marketing Section Chief of the Bank of Communications Wuhan East Lake Branch (交通银行武汉东湖支行). With the support of technology finance, the birth of "Laborer No. 1" took less than a year.

Since its establishment in 2018, Grand Robot has grown from a single power intelligent sensing business to enter the fields of intelligent robots, precision motion control, etc., and has grown into a versatile player competing in multiple tracks.

In this process, financial support has kept pace with every stage of the company's growth.

"We started by making intelligent power grid equipment, which can verify power grid equipment such as current transformers without power outages," Gao Feng introduced. In the early stage of entrepreneurship, Wuhan Optics Valley Torch Integrated Circuit Venture Capital Partnership (Limited Partnership) (武汉光谷烽火集成电路创业投资基金合伙企业（有限合伙）) and other institutions participated in multiple rounds of equity financing for the company, which strongly supported the transformation and implementation of the project.

The money was quickly spent, but the income was slow to come. "Innovation is often high-risk, high-investment, and long-cycle, and we are no exception," Gao Feng said. During the nearly two-year testing period, credit loans provided by Bank of Communications (交通银行), China Everbright Bank (光大银行) and other institutions gave the company a lot of help. "In Optics Valley, many banks have established specialized technology branches, which have shifted from looking at financial statements to focusing more on the innovation prospects of enterprises, and can basically provide unsecured pure credit loans with a quota of 10 million yuan." Gao Feng felt that financial institutions' tolerance for financing for technology innovation enterprises is constantly increasing.

"We look at patents instead of 'bricks.' We do not rely on the traditional credit model of fixed asset mortgage, but judge the gold content of enterprise innovation based on technical achievements, scientific research teams, potential market size and other factors, and accelerate the exploration of new logic of technology finance," Zhao Yufei said.

In 2020, Grand Robot's intelligent power grid equipment passed the test and obtained large-scale procurement orders, and the company's revenue drew an upward growth curve—more than 20 million yuan, more than 50 million yuan, more than 400 million yuan... It has increased several times in 3 years.

Aim at a "bullseye"—

Wherever the enterprise's pain points are, follow up with services

Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized during his visit to the Wuhan Institute for Industrial Innovation and Development (武汉产业创新发展研究院): "Achieving high-level self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology and developing new quality productive forces puts forward more urgent demands for the integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation."

In this regard, Grand Robot, which has tasted the sweetness of cooperation between industry, academia and research, has a deep understanding. "The company is 'bolder'," Gao Feng said. The success of the intelligent power grid equipment business is the result of the company's cooperation with universities. Can it enter more high-tech tracks?

Hardware has become the first hurdle hindering enterprises from expanding innovation at this time. "The factory buildings are all rented and scattered in various parts of the park, which is not only inconvenient to manage, but also greatly reduces the attractiveness to talents," Gao Feng said, and the purchase of office buildings is imminent.

Calculating the area, the new building requires an investment of hundreds of millions of yuan. "The developer proposed to pay the full amount in advance before the ownership can be transferred," Gao Feng said, and there was still a considerable funding gap at that time.

The enterprise's difficulties are the "bullseye" that financial services aim at. Soon, the bank took the initiative to visit. "After coordination, the developer agreed that the enterprise could purchase the new building through loans. After full due diligence, we completed the approval of a 132 million yuan housing loan in just two weeks," Zhao Yufei said.

Grand Robot, which moved into the new building in 2023, has established joint innovation platforms with multiple colleges of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (华中科技大学), and fixed the cooperation as a long-term sustainable mechanism—enterprises purchase or fund the research and development of technical patents that meet the national strategic development direction and market demand, and scientific researchers can invest in enterprises with the income from patents and continue to participate in the subsequent transformation of results. "Scientific research and development can be 'tied' to market applications, and the income of scientific researchers can be 'tied' to the effect of the transformation of results, which mobilizes the enthusiasm of both enterprises and universities and research institutes," Gao Feng said.

Build a system—

Provide full life cycle financial services for technology innovation enterprises

The mechanism for the transformation of results has been built, and the first step to operate it is to find funds.

"In 2024, we increased the working capital loan quota for Grand Robot by 120 million yuan, and at the same time extended the loan term to support the enterprise to engage in research and development wholeheartedly with longer-term funds," Zhao Yufei said.

With sufficient financial support, Grand Robot invested 80 million yuan in one-time to purchase nearly 100 invention patents and crossed over into the fields of intelligent robots and other fields.

The demand for funds for the transformation of results is even greater. Obtained a knowledge property pledge loan of 50 million yuan from Industrial Bank (兴业银行), and obtained various loans of 70 million yuan from China Everbright Bank (光大银行)... Financial support has formed a joint force to promote the acceleration of the transformation of results. Today, Grand Robot's precision motion control system and precision vibration reduction system have been delivered and applied in batches, and "Laborer" No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 have been "hatched" one after another and have been delivered to cultural tourism and other application scenarios.

"In the next step, the company's subsidiaries will cooperate with securities companies and other institutions to move towards multi-level capital markets," Gao Feng said.

"In Optics Valley (光谷), from basic research and the transformation of results to commercialization, the entire chain of technological innovation has financial services to match it, providing financial support for technology innovation enterprises of various sizes and at different stages of development," said the relevant person in charge of the Hubei Regulatory Bureau of the National Financial Regulatory Administration (国家金融监督管理总局湖北监管局).

Not only high-tech zones "dare to be the first," but with the goal of "providing full-chain, full-life-cycle financial services for technology-based enterprises," various regions and departments are accelerating reforms to build a technology finance system and mechanism that is compatible with the laws of technological innovation. The credit granting methods for technology innovation enterprises are constantly optimized. Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," banking financial institutions have cumulatively issued more than 650 billion yuan of knowledge property pledge loans; the innovation points system has been further expanded from national high-tech zones to national trials, quantifying the evaluation of enterprises' innovation capabilities... Under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping's Economic Thought (习近平经济思想), a technology finance service system with reasonable division of labor, mutual supplementation, and complete functions is constantly improving, accelerating the realization of a virtuous cycle of science and technology—industry—finance, and continuously promoting the high-quality development of the real economy.

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Page 1 Editors: Xu Nuo, Zhang Shuaizhen, Luan Xinyi; Page 2 Editors: Lü Li, Jiang Xuejie, Zhang Anyu; Page 3 Editors: Wu Gang, Cheng Shijie, Li Anqi; Page 4 Editors: Yuan Zhenxi, Bai Zhiyu, Zhang Xueyan

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Enrich talent resources and cultivate development advantages (Commentator's Observation)

By: 尹双红

Innovating talent work mechanisms to smooth the virtuous cycle of education, science and technology, and talent, helping all kinds of talents stand out, and forming a vivid situation of making the best use of their talents, uniting as one, and working hard to forge ahead.

Relying solely on photos, vivid 3D models can be generated in seconds; simply conversing with artificial intelligence can record symptoms and medical history, forming health records; the intelligent mobile command system for special vehicles integrates command, delivery, rescue, and support... At the "Light of the Internet" Expo of the 2025 World Internet Conference, new applications of artificial intelligence large models amazed visitors.

The way to innovate lies in obtaining talent. A foreign think tank report pointed out that Chinese universities have cultivated almost half of the world's top artificial intelligence talents. The rapid growth of the talent pool has helped domestic artificial intelligence large models and their applications amaze the world.

Currently, the population in China with higher education has reached 250 million; the total number of skilled workers exceeds 220 million, of which highly skilled talents exceed 72 million; and the total number of R&D personnel ranks first in the world. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee summarized the important advantages of China's development and included "abundant talent resource advantages." The obvious advantage of talent resources lies not only in China's large labor force, but also in the continuous leap of the talent pool towards a reasonable structure and excellent quality.

Talent is an important strategic resource, the foundation of a strong country, the basis of competition, and the key to transformation. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal repeatedly mentions the word "talent," not only making special arrangements for "promoting the development of education, science and technology, and talent in an integrated manner," but also reiterating "implementing the policy of respecting labor, knowledge, talent, and creation." By innovating the talent work mechanism, smoothing the virtuous cycle of education, science and technology, and talent, helping all kinds of talents stand out, and forming a vivid situation of making the best use of their talents, uniting as one, and working hard to forge ahead, we will surely continuously strengthen the talent support for Chinese-style modernization.

Education is in the "pioneer" position in talent cultivation and is the most basic way to cultivate talent. Focusing on solving the structural contradiction of mismatch between talent cultivation and scientific and technological innovation supply and demand, optimizing and adjusting the layout of university disciplines and majors; aiming at accelerating the construction of a knowledge-based, skilled, and innovative industrial worker army, accelerating the development of modern vocational education, and carrying out vocational skills improvement actions... Playing the "first move" of education can cultivate more urgently needed talents for developing new quality productive forces and promoting high-quality development. This relies on taking the needs of scientific and technological innovation as the traction, innovating talent cultivation models, and improving the foresight and practical relevance of talent cultivation; it also relies on strengthening vocational education and skills training, focusing on improving the quality of workers, and promoting China's transformation from a large human resource country to a strong human resource country.

The foundation of talent resource advantages is the ability and quality of talents, and accelerating the construction of a national strategic talent force is the key task of talent work mechanism innovation. From major country instruments such as "Chang'e (嫦娥)," "Beidou (北斗)," and "Tiangong (天宫)," to industrial frontiers such as artificial intelligence and humanoid robots, and then to major projects such as the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (港珠澳大桥) and the Huajiang Canyon Bridge (花江峡谷大桥), the national strategic talent force and high-level talent team play a pivotal role. Taking the road of independent talent cultivation, accelerating the construction of a national strategic talent force, and highlighting the strengthening of the cultivation of young scientific and technological talents, providing them with a broad stage to display their talents, will help more high-end talents, outstanding talents, and young talents emerge.

Talent evaluation is the "baton" that leads talent development. Improving the evaluation reform of university teachers, more and more universities are now canceling unreasonable assessment and evaluation requirements in the "non-tenure track" policy. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal proposes to "take innovation ability, quality, effectiveness, and contribution as the evaluation orientation, and deepen the reform of project review, institutional evaluation, talent evaluation, and income distribution." Talent work should have a grand pattern and vision, relax and reduce the burden on talents, let talents go into battle lightly, better reflect the market value of knowledge, technology, and talent, and the vitality and potential of talents will be fully released.

From the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside to the coordinated regional development, from improving the social governance system to accelerating the construction of advanced combat capabilities, the stage for displaying talents is infinitely broad on the land of China. Improving the working mechanism of talent cultivation, introduction, use, and reasonable flow, providing talents with more development opportunities and greater development space, the virtuous cycle of career inspiring talents and talents achieving career will surely provide an inexhaustible driving force for Chinese-style modernization.

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Let "China Chic" Surge into a "Global Trend" (People's Daily Commentary)

By: 李洪兴

Culture is like water, benefiting all things without contention. Cultural exports should also possess the wisdom and grace of "**润物细无声** (rùn wù xì wú shēng - "moistening things silently," to influence or educate subtly and imperceptibly)."

A piece of data has attracted attention. In the first three quarters of this year, China's exports of festive supplies, dolls, and animal-shaped toys exceeded 50 billion yuan, selling to more than 200 countries and regions around the world. The popularity of Chinese toys around the world, in the eyes of some foreign media, is "profoundly influencing modern global consumer culture."

Why do small trendy toys have such great energy?

There is the driving force of "interest-based consumption": releasing emotional value, allowing seemingly niche products to move towards the mass market, and promoting the rise of interest-based consumption.

There is the support of "Made in China": from design to production, from market feedback to dynamic supply, Chinese trendy toys gallop overseas, relying on manufacturing capabilities that are moving towards the mid-to-high end of the value chain.

There is also the "code" of cultural innovation: some domestic trendy toys, such as the "Dunhuang Flying Apsaras" themed products, retain the aesthetic connotation of the East and integrate into the global youth culture trend, realizing cross-cultural aesthetic innovation.

The consumer appeal of cultural products is rooted in cultural charm. From Chinese Kung Fu to Chinese festivals, from traditional arts and ethnic music to online literature, online dramas, and online games, cultural exports have moved from "single-point breakthroughs" to a "multi-dimensional matrix." The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed: "Enhance the communication and influence of Chinese civilization." To let the "national trend" surge into the "world trend," we must more actively promote China's propositions, spread Chinese culture, and showcase China's image, and promote culture to "go global" with excellent works, high-quality goods, and services.

The key to cultural exports lies in communicating with people's hearts. Cultural differences, language barriers, and modes of expression can all affect the overseas acceptance of cultural products. Finding common elements and telling empathetic stories is the only way to break through cultural barriers. For example, the animated film series *Ne Zha* (*哪吒*) shaped a character image that is not so perfect but very individual, which fits the aesthetic preferences of young consumer groups, and then carries the function of emotional healing. Another example is the original dance drama *Wing Chun* (*咏春*), which cross-border integrates the "world language" of dance with the Chinese cultural element of martial arts, and creatively arranges it, presenting the artistic effect of "martial arts in dance and dance in martial arts," achieving a double harvest of overseas reputation and box office.

Whether cultural exports are sustainable and convertible depends on whether they can truly integrate into local culture and life. Simply copying domestic product styles and models, going overseas is prone to encountering acclimatization; fitting local culture often achieves twice the result with half the effort. Taking micro-dramas as an example, a micro-drama platform under a Chinese company, through the content strategy of "translation adaptation + local originality," tailor-made original dramas for the North American market, making "users in English-speaking regions such as the United States more willing to subscribe."

Practice shows that expanding cultural influence requires both a global vision and a localized strategy. The advantage of localization lies in respecting local culture, maximizing closeness to the actual local audience, and effectively deepening their understanding and recognition of Chinese culture, thereby achieving exchange, mutual learning, and shared beauty.

Cultural charm needs concrete expression and cannot be separated from industrial drive. Improving the cultural industry system and market system, and creating more cultural masterpieces, will make cultural exports more innovative and communicative. When the lion dance steps in online games, the vivid lines in clothing patterns, and the pastoral poetry in online videos attract international friends to understand China and read China, the humanistic meaning also expands the market space in an invisible way.

Looking at the performance of individual enterprises, as an important enterprise for online literature to go overseas, China Literature Group (阅文集团) in 2024 saw an 80% year-on-year increase in the number of overseas publishing authorizations for its works, and a more than 200% year-on-year increase in the authorized amount, setting a new historical high. Looking at the momentum of industrial parks, as of June this year, more than 600 cultural enterprises have settled in the National Base for International Cultural Trade (Nanjing) (国家对外文化贸易基地（南京）), with the total revenue of enterprises above designated size exceeding 30 billion yuan in 2024. More and more companies are taking culture as their soul and creativity as their sail, focusing on polishing cultural masterpieces and paying attention to expanding overseas markets, providing a constant source of power for telling Chinese stories well and spreading them widely.

Culture is like water, benefiting all things without contention. Cultural exports should also possess the wisdom and grace of "**润物细无声** (rùn wù xì wú shēng - "moistening things silently," to influence or educate subtly and imperceptibly)." As China's door connecting to the world opens wider and wider, we look forward to Chinese culture blooming with unique and lasting fragrance in the garden of world cultures, and nourishing more and more international friends.

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Internalize AI capabilities and accelerate the formation of new quality productive forces.

By: 李彦宏

The theme of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period is to promote high-quality development. The most important aspect of promoting high-quality development is to accelerate high-level self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology and actively develop new quality productive forces. Artificial intelligence (AI), as an important force leading a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, plays a crucial role in accelerating the formation of new quality productive forces and achieving high-quality economic and social development.

In the past few years, China has made significant breakthroughs in key areas such as AI computing power infrastructure and large models, forming leading advantages. China's computing power scale ranks second in the world, and a number of well-received foundational large models have emerged, such as the DeepSeek reasoning large model and the Wenxin native full-mode large model. Baidu (百度) has also built the first self-developed P800 30,000-card cluster in China.

An important aspect of promoting artificial intelligence to better empower high-quality development is to enable thousands of industries to internalize AI capabilities and build AI-native capabilities, making it a native driving force for enterprise development. This will not only help the intelligent industry grow stronger but also help traditional industries accelerate transformation and upgrading.

Drive innovation with scenario innovation and enhance the application capabilities of artificial intelligence. Digital human technology, code intelligent agent technology, and unmanned driving technology have been applied and verified, producing good results. In e-commerce live broadcasts, sales customer service, and other scenarios, digital humans have become super-capable "digital employees." Code intelligent agents are also accelerating their spread in technology companies, and the code AI generation rate of some foreign technology companies even exceeds 90%. Baidu's (百度) Robotaxi, based on unmanned driving technology, has been launched in 22 cities around the world. Enterprises can accelerate their development by selecting appropriate AI technologies, accumulating certain exploration results, and accelerating development on the basis of summarizing experience and replicating promotion.

The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal proposes to "promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation" and "increase the construction and opening up of application scenarios." Aiming at scenarios with a lot of repetitive labor, labor shortages, high-risk positions, many process bottlenecks, and high decision-making complexity, using AI's advantages in low-cost content generation, unmanned operation, intelligent coding, and intelligent algorithm optimization can help enterprises reduce costs, increase profits, optimize decisions, and discover new growth points.

Stimulate momentum with industrial integration and strengthen the artificial intelligence growth engine. China is the only country in the world with all industrial categories. Promoting the deep integration of artificial intelligence and the real economy has broad space and huge potential. Internalizing AI capabilities in real economy enterprises and using artificial intelligence technology to empower key industries such as mining, chemical industry, light industry, and shipbuilding will help further consolidate the foundation of the real economy.

The current improvement in the level of independent control of the real economy industrial chain depends on providing better solutions in production scheduling, resource optimization, path planning, and transaction decision-making. "Famu" algorithm intelligent agents focus on finding the "global optimal solution" and have achieved significant efficiency improvements in complex systems such as transportation, energy, logistics, and ports. Thousands of industries, based on their own advantages and industry characteristics, internalize AI capabilities and build AI-native capabilities to better stimulate the "chemical reaction" generated by the organic integration of general-purpose models and industries, and the overall social production efficiency and innovation capabilities will achieve a leap.

Strengthen strategic planning and make "AI empowerment" a consensus for development. The significant feature of new quality productive forces is innovation, including innovation at the technical and business model levels, as well as innovation at the management and system levels. In the context of systemic and structural changes brought about by new technologies such as artificial intelligence, exploring new types of organizations and management models for human-machine collaboration has become more urgent.

Seizing the opportunities of digital economy transformation and artificial intelligence development, from decision-making to execution, from customers to the supply chain, allowing AI capabilities to penetrate every link and every cell of production, operation, and service is a topic that enterprises must do well. Enterprises in various fields seize "intelligence high points" one by one, accelerate integration into the general trend of comprehensively promoting artificial intelligence scientific and technological innovation, industrial development, and empowerment applications, social production factors will flow more efficiently due to intelligent reorganization, scientific and technological innovation achievements will be transformed into real productive forces faster, and the overall creative potential of society will be fully stimulated.

Baidu (百度), as one of the earliest and most comprehensive enterprises in China's artificial intelligence field, has the responsibility, ability, and confidence to be at the forefront of this transformation. We will continue to increase investment, build leading intelligent infrastructure, develop more cutting-edge large model technologies, and create a more open industrial ecosystem to help thousands of industries internalize AI capabilities, build AI-native capabilities, and accelerate intelligent transformation, making new contributions to China's high-quality economic development.

(The author is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Baidu (百度).)

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Photo Story

Not long ago, the "Law of the People's Republic of China on Publicity and Education on the Rule of Law" (《中华人民共和国法治宣传教育法》) officially came into effect. Distributing publicity brochures on the rule of law, providing detailed interpretations in conjunction with typical cases, and offering professional and precise legal guidance... Starting with issues such as neighborhood disputes, property rights protection, and fraud prevention that are close to the masses, various regions and departments have carried out diverse and vivid publicity activities on the rule of law, promoting a significant improvement in citizens' legal literacy, and fostering a social atmosphere where respecting the law, learning the law, abiding by the law, and using the law become a common practice.

This is precisely:

Carefully analyze the hot spots of disputes,
Distinguish rights and obligations in detail.
Respecting and promoting the rule of law promotes harmony,
The spring breeze and rain warm the heart.

Xu Zhi (徐 之)

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Do Not Let Willful Vehicle Modifications Endanger Public Safety

By: 胡欣红

Recently, equipment related to drone hunting has attracted attention. Many online stores sell similar products, and a complete set can be equipped for as little as one or two thousand yuan. After buyers place an order and receive the goods, merchants will provide equipment operation tutorial videos and "modification tutorials" to guide buyers to enhance the arrow's penetration and the drone's load-bearing capacity to meet "hunting" needs. This poses hidden dangers to ecological security and public safety, which is deeply disturbing.

In fact, drone hunting was originally a small-scale task for some local forestry departments. For example, it is used to control wild boar overpopulation, wild animal injuries, or in tracking, monitoring, and protecting wild animals. However, some online shopping platforms and merchants have generalized the application scope of such equipment and technologies, leading to the risk of excessive and uncontrolled modification.

Drones that have been arbitrarily modified can not only hunt wild animals with infrared locking functions, which may endanger the ecological balance, but can also become "low-altitude weapons" to attack others, or be used for tracking and peeping, infringing on the privacy of others, which must not be tolerated. Previously, a law professor at a university pointed out that arbitrary modification involves a triple risk of "black flight + dangerous flight" superposition, dual violations of tools and methods, and disregard for public safety. This is not alarmist – when the landing point of flying arrows is uncontrollable, and when offensive devices can be modified at will, once they are used by people with ulterior motives to deal with people, the consequences are unimaginable.

At present, China has laws and regulations such as the "Civil Aviation Law of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国民用航空法)" and the "Provisional Regulations on the Flight Management of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (无人驾驶航空器飞行管理暂行条例)," but the content focuses more on flight safety and data privacy protection, and lacks specific clauses for offensive modification. Professional lawyers mentioned that the current characterization of related behaviors is mostly based on the "Wildlife Protection Law of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国野生动物保护法)," and once injury incidents occur, the problems of difficulty in providing evidence and weak deterrence will become prominent. What is even more alarming is that e-commerce platforms have become a key channel for equipment circulation. Merchants not only sell equipment, but also provide modification tutorials and supporting arrow tools, while the supervision and investigation of such "gray transactions" still have weak links.

To regulate the use of drones, it is first necessary to clarify the scope of application and objects of offensive modification, and clarify responsibilities and penalties. Secondly, graded management should be implemented for drones and accessories with hunting and attack potential, and a linkage mechanism should be established between airspace approval and equipment use. In addition, e-commerce platforms must also be urged to establish a special review mechanism for special equipment to block circulation loopholes from the source as much as possible.

In today's rapid development of the low-altitude economy, the trend of arbitrary drone modification must be curbed, and new equipment and technologies must never be allowed to become tools that endanger public safety.

(Excerpted and compiled from "Workers' Daily (工人日报)," originally titled "Will Arbitrary Modification of Drones Endanger Public Safety?")

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Breaking the Dual Challenges of the Ticket Stub Economy (Micro View)

By: 陈亚楠

In recent times, "ticket stub economics" is becoming a new approach for many regions to boost consumption. Buying tickets for ball games gets you free access to scenic spots, buying movie tickets gets you shopping discounts... Ticket stubs are transforming into "passes" for freely traveling around cities, enhancing cultural tourism popularity and stimulating chain consumption.

In Shanghai (上海), ticket stub economics is further unlocking new ways to play. Starting in mid-October, Shanghai launched a pilot program for ticket stub-linked consumption, where consumers can receive a "ticket stub code" with their tickets for performances, games, and exhibitions, enjoying exclusive discounts in catering, entertainment, retail, and other business formats. The advantage of the "ticket stub code" lies in its dynamic adaptation—within the validity period, the list of discounts for performances and sports events is updated in real-time, and merchants can adjust the discount力度 (lì dù - "strength," level of discount), making it convenient for consumers to choose the best deals.

From corresponding to a single point, to linking multiple scenarios, and then to dynamically adjusting discounts, a small ticket stub has become a vivid carrier of cultural tourism innovation and an effective lever for leveraging urban consumption.

Taking the "Su Super League" as an example, tickets costing only the price of a cup of milk tea connect a large number of merchants in department store retail, catering, accommodation, and other fields, making sports events a consumption engine that aggregates traffic. According to statistics from the Jiangsu (江苏) Smart Cultural Tourism Platform, during the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holidays this year, the three knockout matches held drove the Class A tourist attractions in the three home cities of Nanjing (南京), Xuzhou (徐州), and Nantong (南通) to receive 2.4962 million tourists, an increase of 11.45% year-on-year, with foreign tourists increasing by 13.38% year-on-year.

Judging from the practices in various regions, the vitality of ticket stub economics currently often relies on high-traffic consumption ports. For example, sports events, concerts, and other activities with radiating effects, as well as high-speed rail, subways, and other scenarios that regularly gather people.

To a certain extent, the initial ticket purchase experience determines whether consumers have subsequent consumption intentions. How much consumption "fission" a ticket stub can bring depends on the level of coordination in the cultural tourism industry. To make ticket stubs a consumption link across business formats, it is first necessary to ensure ease of use. Ticket stubs can be promoted electronically to avoid complicated exchange processes and enhance the multi-scenario usage experience. At the same time, a long-term benefit distribution mechanism should be established to ensure that participating affiliated merchants receive reasonable returns, thereby enhancing the motivation to improve services.

The value of ticket stubs lies not only in stimulating secondary consumption through discounts and other incentives, but more importantly, in connecting originally isolated products or services to provide consumers with richer and higher-quality choices. To better tap the potential of ticket stub economics, it is necessary to seize the experience as a consumption catalyst, base on consumer needs, integrate different business formats, deepen scene connections with good experiences, and generate "stickiness" of related consumption from the "touch points" of initial consumption.

To promote the steady and long-term development of ticket stub economics, it is necessary to solve dual challenges. One is how to maintain the attractiveness of the ticket stub project itself. Whether it is an exciting game or an immersive performance, to continuously attract audiences, it is necessary to use innovative forms or continuous resonance to resolve aesthetic fatigue. Once the ticket stub project lacks sufficient endurance, it will not be able to form a point-to-surface effect, and forced promotion will only overdraw consumer trust.

The second is how to ensure that related projects have the same core. The design of related projects for ticket stubs should not be forced, but should be innovatively designed around consumer needs. When aggregating different projects, tendencies such as bundled sales should be avoided, giving consumers greater choice. Big data, artificial intelligence, and other means can be used to analyze consumer behavior preferences and potential needs to improve the targeting of business format integration. Accurately matching needs, organically integrating resources, and upgrading the consumption experience are the only ways to expand the consumption chain and optimize the consumption ecology with ticket stub economics.

Currently, the vigorous rise of experiential consumption and the in-depth promotion of cultural tourism integration have formed a virtuous cycle of mutual promotion. The emerging ticket stub economics is a product of the supply and demand of the cultural tourism industry moving towards a higher level of dynamic equilibrium. Using this approach well, continuously extending the scene chain, breaking down consumption barriers, and optimizing the service experience will allow consumers to feel the fireworks and customs of cities in pleasure, and will surely inject more vitality into the market in promoting the coordinated upgrading of industry and consumption.

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Give Full Play to the Role of the CPPCC as a Specialized Consultative Body (Studying and Implementing the Spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee)

By: 姜信治

The "Suggestions of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development," adopted by the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, proposes to "adhere to and improve the system of multi-party cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, give play to the role of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) as a specialized consultative body, strengthen the coordinated cooperation of various consultative channels, and promote the extensive, multi-layered, and institutionalized development of consultative democracy." This requirement fully implements Xi Jinping's (习近平) important thought on strengthening and improving the work of the CPPCC, embodies the clear stance of adhering to our country's basic political system, clarifies the functional responsibilities of the CPPCC as a specialized consultative body, and elaborates on the important tasks of the CPPCC in comprehensively developing consultative democracy. We must unify our thoughts and actions with the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, give full play to the role of specialized consultative bodies, and broadly unite our hearts and minds to comprehensively promote the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.

I. Deeply Understanding the Great Significance of Giving Play to the Role of the CPPCC as a Specialized Consultative Body

The CPPCC is an important channel for socialist consultative democracy and a specialized consultative body, characterized by the integration of consultation, supervision, participation, and cooperation. As a specialized consultative body, the CPPCC comprehensively carries the nature and positioning of the CPPCC, promotes broad unity, advances multi-party cooperation, and practices people's democracy through consultation. It has distinct Chinese characteristics and significant political advantages, and is a scientific, effective, and useful institutional arrangement.

(I) Giving play to the role of the CPPCC as a specialized consultative body is conducive to demonstrating the significant advantages of the socialist political system with Chinese characteristics. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The CPPCC is a great achievement of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in combining Marxist-Leninist united front theory, party theory, and democratic political theory with China's specific realities and with China's outstanding traditional culture. It is a great creation of the CPC in leading the democratic parties, personages without party affiliation, people's organizations, and people from all ethnic groups and all sectors of society in the political system." The system of multi-party cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the CPC is a basic political system in our country, and the CPPCC is an important political form and organizational form for implementing this basic political system. The CPPCC performs the functions of political consultation, democratic supervision, and participation in and deliberation of state affairs, which not only adheres to the overall leadership of the CPC, but also gives full play to the active role of the parties, groups, and people from all ethnic groups and all sectors of society participating in the CPPCC. It can better reflect and represent the interests and demands of different classes and groups, and safeguard the overall, fundamental, and long-term interests of the broadest masses of the people. It not only adheres to the people's principal position, but also implements the leadership system and organizational principles of democratic centralism, which can better promote the formation of a unified will and pace among the parties, groups, and people from all ethnic groups and all sectors of society in terms of roads, directions, and goals, and consolidate a lively, stable, and united political situation. Practice has proven that this institutional design realizes the organic combination of the Party's leadership, the united front, and consultative democracy, embodies the organic unity of governance and participation, leadership and cooperation, and consultation and supervision, and plays an important role in the whole-process people's democracy system, procedures, and participation practices.

(II) Giving play to the role of the CPPCC as a specialized consultative body is conducive to promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. The CPPCC adheres to the concept of "things should be discussed by everyone, and the affairs of the public should be discussed by the public," and has built an important platform for orderly political participation and interest expression for parties, groups, and people from all ethnic groups and all sectors of society. Through institutionalized, standardized, and procedural arrangements to concentrate opinions and suggestions from all parties, and unblock channels for various interests and demands to enter the decision-making process, it can broadly gather opinions, pool wisdom, and seek good strategies. The CPPCC gives play to the advantages of talent gathering and intellectual concentration, focuses on the "major affairs of the country" and the concerns of the people, conducts extensive consultations before and during the implementation of decisions, reflects public opinion on the basis of "asking the people about politics" and "asking the people for advice," and plays a decision-making advisory role with high-quality consultation and high-level suggestions. It makes the decisions and work of the Party and the government better conform to public opinion and reality, and is an important force for promoting scientific and democratic decision-making and improving national governance effectiveness.

(III) Giving play to the role of the CPPCC as a specialized consultative body is conducive to transforming the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee into broad consensus and conscious actions of all sectors of society. As the broadest patriotic united front organization, the CPPCC has the advantages of strong representativeness, wide contact, and great inclusiveness. By doing a good job in strengthening confidence, gathering people's hearts, warming people's hearts, and building common ground, it can better gather the wisdom and strength of all sons and daughters of the Chinese nation to form a lively situation where everyone thinks in the same direction and works together. For a long time, the CPPCC has adhered to great unity and great alliance, adhered to correctly handling the relationship between consistency and diversity, adhered to promoting democracy and enhancing unity, and made concerted efforts in offering advice and suggestions and building consensus in both directions, and has integrated consultative democracy into all aspects of political consultation, democratic supervision, and participation in and deliberation of state affairs. The process of CPPCC consultation is a process of uniting, educating, and guiding representatives from all ethnic groups and all sectors of society with the Party's innovative theories, consolidating the common ideological and political foundation, allowing people from all ethnic groups and all sectors of society to understand and accept the Party's political propositions and guidelines and policies, and unifying thoughts, enhancing consensus, and promoting the effective implementation of the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments.

II. Scientifically Grasping the Key Points of Giving Play to the Role of the CPPCC as a Specialized Consultative Body

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "At present, the changes in the world, the changes of the times, and the changes in history are constantly extending to breadth and depth. The tasks of reform, development, and stability in our country are more arduous and heavier than ever before. It is urgently needed to further unite and continuously consolidate the great unity of the people of all ethnic groups in the country, and strengthen the great unity of the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation at home and abroad." The CPPCC must deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments" and resolutely achieve the "two safeguards," carry forward its fine traditions, keep its political responsibilities in mind, adhere to the organic combination of the Party's leadership, the united front, and consultative democracy, give full play to the role of specialized consultative bodies, and broadly gather people's hearts, build consensus, gather wisdom, and gather strength for promoting Chinese-style modernization.

(I) Strengthening theoretical arming and consolidating the common ideological and political foundation for united struggle. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that "theoretical firmness and clarity are the prerequisites for ideological and political firmness and clarity," and "ideological unity is the foundation of political unity and action unity." CPPCC members come from all walks of life, with diverse and varied ideas, and their views and understandings of some issues are not entirely the same. We must adhere to taking Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the general program for the work of the CPPCC, and unswervingly use this important thought to lay the foundation and cast the soul, and promote the political unity and cooperation, common ideological progress, and consistent action of the parties, groups, and people from all ethnic groups and all sectors of society. Adhere to the "first topic" system, promptly convey, study, and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) latest important speeches, and achieve learning follow-up, understanding follow-up, and action follow-up. Closely link with the actual situation of performing duties to deeply understand the Party's innovative theories, and take sorting out and studying General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) relevant important expositions as a pre-requisite link for organizing important consultation meetings and carrying out inspections, studies, and investigations, so as to enhance the pertinence and effectiveness of consultation and suggestions. Carry out regular committee member reading, theoretical study, and political training, and establish and improve a mechanism that integrates the regular learning, systematic research, academic interpretation, and institutional implementation of the Party's innovative theories, so as to better transform the learning results into the ability and skills and work practice of performing duties at a high level.

(II) Deeply consulting and deliberating on state affairs, and offering advice and suggestions around promoting Chinese-style modernization and high-quality development. Adhering to focusing on the central tasks of the Party and the country to perform duties is an important requirement of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) for the work of the CPPCC. Wherever the central tasks of the Party and the country are advanced, the wisdom and strength of specialized consultative bodies must be gathered. The CPPCC must focus on the key, difficult, and hot issues in promoting Chinese-style modernization, further comprehensively deepening reform, promoting high-quality development, and maintaining social harmony and stability, conduct in-depth consultations and discussions, strengthen scientific argumentation, and strive to put forward policy recommendations that are professional, targeted, and operable. Around the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the major strategic needs of the country, and the major practical problems of reform, development, and stability, carry out cross-field and cross-disciplinary special studies, and form high-quality research reports with strategic, macro, and forward-looking perspectives. Adhere to conducting research before consultation, guide CPPCC members to go deep into the grassroots and the front line, truly perceive the actual operation of the economy and society and the urgent needs and expectations of the people, and reflect the situation and problems in a realistic manner.

(III) Carrying out democratic supervision to help the Party Central Committee's major decisions and deployments be implemented and take effect. The CPPCC's democratic supervision is a consultative supervision carried out by way of putting forward opinions, criticisms, and suggestions. The focus of supervision is the implementation of the Party and the country's major guidelines, policies, and important decisions and deployments. The purpose of supervision is to assist the Party and the government in solving problems, improving work, enhancing unity, and building consensus. The CPPCC must carry out democratic supervision focusing on major issues in the implementation of the "15th Five-Year Plan" in accordance with the supervision plan approved by the Party committee, and comprehensively use various forms of supervision such as meeting supervision, inspection supervision, proposal supervision, research supervision, and special supervision to enhance the effectiveness of democratic supervision. Improve the CPPCC's democratic supervision mechanism, and form a work pattern in which supervision is planned, work has a plan, implementation is organized, activities have results, and handling has feedback.

(IV) Broadly building consensus and drawing the largest concentric circle for building a strong country and national rejuvenation. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that the CPPCC should "adhere to strengthening ideological and political guidance and broadly building consensus as the central link," and "improve the working mechanism for giving play to the political role of the united front in gathering people's hearts and gathering strength." We must implement the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments on adhering to, developing, and improving our country's new type of party system, and support democratic parties and personages without party affiliation in better performing their duties and responsibilities in the CPPCC. Unblock channels for expressing opinions and demands from non-Party intellectuals, non-public economic figures, and people from new social strata. Adhere to forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, adhere to the direction of Sinicization of religion in our country, actively publicize the Party's ethnic and religious work guidelines and policies, do a good job in the study and investigation of CPPCC members from ethnic minorities and religious circles, reflect public opinion, and promote ethnic unity and religious harmony. Strengthen ties with patriotic and Hong Kong-loving and Macao-loving political groups and community organizations and representatives from all walks of life, and help Hong Kong and Macao better integrate into and serve the overall development of the country. Comprehensively implement the Party's overall strategy for resolving the Taiwan issue in the new era, expand exchanges and interactions with people from all walks of life on the island, promote cross-strait integrated development and compatriot spiritual harmony, and resolutely oppose "Taiwan independence" separatist activities. Broadly unite and connect with overseas Chinese, and better gather overseas Chinese hearts and strengths. Serve the overall situation of the Party and the country's foreign affairs work, coordinate public diplomacy, people-to-people diplomacy, and think tank diplomacy, and tell the world the story of China and the story of Chinese people's democracy.

(V) Establishing a systematic concept and strengthening the coordinated cooperation between CPPCC consultation and other consultation channels. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that "consultative democracy in our country includes party consultation, people's congress consultation, government consultation, CPPCC consultation, people's organization consultation, grassroots consultation, and social organization consultation, which is an organic whole," and "we must strengthen the coordinated cooperation of various consultation channels, achieve consistent goals, form synergy, and continuously improve overall effectiveness." As a specialized consultative body, the CPPCC must expand the content of consultation, enrich the forms of consultation, standardize the procedures of consultation, and improve the effectiveness of consultation. While highlighting its own work focus and giving play to its own unique role, it should actively explore ways to coordinate and cooperate with other consultation channels to help build a consultative democracy system with reasonable procedures and complete links. Inherit and carry forward the excellent political culture of the Chinese nation, such as inclusiveness, seeking common ground while reserving differences, and actively cultivate a consultative democracy culture that is adapted to the times and tasks, and vigorously create a good consultative atmosphere that is both free to speak and express opinions, and rational, moderate, legal, and compliant.

III. Continuously Improving the Performance Effectiveness of the CPPCC as a Specialized Consultative Body

The 20th National Congress of the Party made important deployments around giving play to the role of the CPPCC as a specialized consultative body and strengthening the construction of institutionalization, standardization, and proceduralization functions. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has repeatedly put forward important requirements on promoting the construction of the CPPCC's ability to perform its duties with the spirit of reform and innovation. The CPPCC must adapt to the new situation and new tasks, continuously deepen the construction of specialized consultative bodies, and strive to transform institutional advantages into work effectiveness.

(I) Unswervingly adhering to the Party's overall leadership. The Party's leadership is the fundamental guarantee for the development and progress of the CPPCC cause. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must adhere to the Party's leadership throughout all the work of the CPPCC, and earnestly implement the Party Central Committee's various requirements for the work of the CPPCC." The CPPCC Party Group must improve its political position, deeply understand the distinct political attributes of the CPPCC system and the CPPCC organization, firmly grasp the highest political principle of adhering to the Party's overall leadership, especially the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, and always maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party's basic theory, basic line, and basic strategy, and maintain a high degree of consistency in political stance, political direction, political principles, and political path. We must improve and implement the organizational system and institutional mechanism for the Party's leadership over the work of the CPPCC, strictly implement the reporting system for major matters, and improve the institutional mechanism for implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and directives, so as to ensure that the Party Central Committee's major policies and decisions are fully implemented and effectively implemented in the CPPCC.

(II) Firmly grasping the nature and positioning of the CPPCC. The nature and positioning of the CPPCC is related to the direction and mission of the CPPCC cause. We must deeply understand that the CPPCC is not a state power organ, and the main work of giving play to the role of a specialized consultative body is consultation and advice, participating in politics but not administering, offering advice but not making decisions, and supervising but not enforcing. We must deeply understand that the CPPCC is not a consultative subject, but an institutionalized consultative platform for promoting democracy, participating in state affairs, and uniting and cooperating. CPPCC consultation is not "and" CPPCC consultation, but "in" CPPCC consultation. We must deeply understand that the CPPCC organization accepting the leadership of the Party committee at the same level and accepting the guidance of the CPPCC at the higher level is a scientific institutional design, accurately grasp the relationship between CPPCC organizations at all levels, and always carry out work within the scope of the Constitution, laws, and the CPPCC Charter, so as to perform duties without overstepping or missing positions.

(III) Improving the working system and mechanism of specialized consultative bodies. A coordinated, unified, standardized, orderly, scientific, and efficient system and mechanism is an important guarantee for the effective operation of specialized consultative bodies. We must optimize the generation mechanism of key consultation programs, adhere to and improve the system in which the Party committee leads, the government and the CPPCC participate in formulating and organizing the implementation of the annual consultation plan, so as to ensure that all types of consultation activities have rules to follow and regulations to abide by. We must improve the mechanism for in-depth consultation and interaction, full expression of opinions, and broad consensus building, optimize the interactive links and program design of consultation meetings, and truly come up with methods, consensus, feelings, and unity through consultation. We must strengthen the construction of mechanisms for reflecting public opinion, contacting the masses, and serving the people, and carry out the work of CPPCC members contacting people from all walks of life and CPPCC members performing their duties to "serve the people" in a pragmatic manner. We must improve the mechanism for the adoption, implementation, and feedback of consultation results, standardize and expand the channels for the transformation and reporting of consultation results, and improve the multi-level transformation and regular reporting work system of comprehensive reflection of meeting reports and research reports, concentrated reflection of general assembly speeches, daily reflection of proposals and public opinion information, and responsive reflection of solicitation of opinions and replies.
(III) Improve the working system and mechanism of special consultative bodies. A coordinated, unified, standardized, orderly, scientific, and efficient system and mechanism is an important guarantee for the effective operation of special consultative bodies. It is necessary to optimize the generation mechanism of key consultation plans, adhere to and improve the system of the Party committee leading, the government and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) (政协) participating in the formulation and organization of the implementation of the annual consultation plan, to ensure that all types of consultation activities have rules to follow and regulations to abide by. It is necessary to improve the mechanism for in-depth consultation and interaction, full expression of opinions, and broad consensus-building, optimize the interactive links and program design of consultation meetings, and truly come up with solutions, consensus, feelings, and unity through consultation. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of mechanisms for reflecting public opinions, connecting with the masses, and serving the people, and carry out the work of CPPCC members contacting people from all walks of life and CPPCC members performing their duties to "serve the people" in a pragmatic manner. It is necessary to improve the adoption, implementation, and feedback mechanism of consultation results, standardize and expand the transformation and reporting channels of consultation results, and improve the multi-level transformation and regular reporting work system that comprehensively reflects meeting reports and research reports, focuses on reflecting speeches at the conference, reflects daily proposals and information on public opinions, and reflects inquiries and responses to solicit opinions.
(IV) Promote the construction of the "two teams" of CPPCC members and staff of the CPPCC organs. CPPCC members are the main body of the CPPCC's work, and the staff of the CPPCC organs are the working force that provides services and guarantees for the CPPCC to perform its duties. To give full play to the role of special consultative bodies, it is necessary to implement the main responsibility of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party, adhere to strict requirements, strict education, strict management, and strict supervision, consolidate and expand the results of Party discipline learning and education, and deeply implement the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation, and firmly establish and adhere to the strict tone, strict measures, and strict atmosphere in the CPPCC. In accordance with the requirements of "understanding the CPPCC, being able to consult, being good at deliberating on state affairs, abiding by discipline, observing rules, and emphasizing morality," it is necessary to educate and guide CPPCC members to cherish their political identity, temper their political character, and improve their political ability, so as to better devote themselves to the specific practice of uniting people's hearts, decision-making consultation, consultative democracy, and the front line of national governance, and become participants, practitioners, and promoters of special consultative bodies. It is necessary to respect and protect the democratic rights of CPPCC members, optimize the daily contact, performance of duties, service management, and supervision of CPPCC members, and build the CPPCC into a home for members, a home for democracy, and a home for unity. It is necessary to comprehensively promote the Party's various constructions in the CPPCC with the Party's political construction as the guide, deepen the construction of exemplary organs with the Party's construction as the guide, create a cadre team with strong politics, hard work style, good quality, and excellent business, create a good political ecology of integrity and entrepreneurship, and promote the high-quality development of the CPPCC cause in the new era.

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Sports events are popular, and there are many places to exercise (Towards the cultural landscape of the "15th Five-Year Plan")

By: 李 芳

Coordinate the development of mass sports and competitive sports to accelerate the construction of a strong sports nation.

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

In early November, at the "Su Chao" (苏超) finals this year, the audience's shouts almost drowned me out. Nearly 6 months, 85 games, and over 2.2 billion online and offline viewers – what a shock! As a practitioner in the sports system and as a resident of Jiangsu (江苏), I feel a sense of pride.

I have worked in the Jiangsu Provincial Sports Bureau (江苏省体育局) for 25 years, and in the mass sports division for nearly 10 years. I remember when I first started working, Jiangsu (江苏) launched the "Ten Thousand Villages Sports and Fitness Project," building one basketball court, two table tennis tables, and one fitness trail in each administrative village. At that time, many people did not have a fitness awareness. When we delivered these fitness equipment to the villages, some village officials were even unwilling to make room for installation.

In 2020, when our sports bureau participated in a TV program, we found that out of the eight issues raised by the audience, five were related to national fitness. These included specific needs such as "sports equipment should be repaired and replaced in a timely manner" and "it is difficult to book courts, and we hope to build more courts," as well as precise needs such as "the courts should have lights so that we can exercise at night" and "can the fitness trails be made of plastic to avoid knee injuries."

The economy has developed, and concepts have changed. In recent years, especially during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, I have deeply felt that the public's demand for national fitness venues and facilities has shifted from "whether or not there is" to "whether or not it is good." Currently, Jiangsu (江苏) has built more than 1,400 sports parks, 52,300 kilometers of fitness trails, and a total of 363,700 sports venues. We go into communities, factories, and schools to bring popular sports activities to the masses.

Before "Su Chao" (苏超), Jiangsu's (江苏) village-level football events had already developed. The farmers' football match, known as the "Village World Cup," originated in Peixian (沛县), Xuzhou (徐州). Before the 2023 Spring Festival, the Peixian (沛县) sports department contacted us, saying that some surrounding provinces and cities wanted to "make an appointment to fight," but they encountered difficulties such as insufficient village football fields and limited reception and security capabilities. The Provincial Sports Bureau (省体育局) immediately allocated funds, organized special forces, and linked up with cultural tourism, agriculture and rural affairs, public security and other departments to build new high-standard football fields, build stands that can accommodate thousands of people, and improve facilities such as night lighting, parking lots, and lounges.

Since 2023, the "Village World Cup" competition has expanded from the Spring Festival to the "May Day" and National Day holidays. The participating teams have also expanded from local villagers to more than 70 teams from Shanghai (上海), Anhui (安徽), Shandong (山东), Henan (河南) and other provinces, amplifying the brand influence. During the 7 days of the "Village World Cup" held during the Spring Festival holiday this year, Qibaocun (七堡村) and Bibaocun (八堡村) in Peixian (沛县) received more than 200,000 tourists, and held multiple activities simultaneously. The cumulative turnover of 11 key catering hotels was about 7.9 million yuan, and the occupancy rate of major hotels reached more than 89%.

Within the province, we actively promote this experience of "the government building the stage and the masses performing the opera." Localities develop in accordance with local conditions, developing "Village BA" in Jiangyin (江阴), Wuxi (无锡) and Danyang (丹阳), Zhenjiang (镇江), "Village Volleyball" in Jintan (金坛), Changzhou (常州) and Liyang (溧阳), and "Village Running" in Changshu (常熟), Suzhou (苏州), and other distinctive mass sports activities.

Responding to public concerns and paying attention to public needs, the popularity of these events is due to the continuous development of national fitness in Jiangsu (江苏). On weekends, go to the city sports park and see more and more elderly people, young people, and families walking, exercising, and camping – sports are integrating into and changing our lives, and many people around me are participants and beneficiaries of national fitness.

Facing the "15th Five-Year Plan," we are doing a lot of work: sorting out various "marginal lands," such as park green spaces and under elevated bridges, and building various sports venues in every possible way; planning and organizing more activities similar to the "Su Chao" (苏超) brand effect, so that more people like to watch and are willing to participate; and jointly promoting "sports and health integration" with the health department to help the public improve the quality of exercise and improve their physical fitness. Moving is the first step, and scientific exercise can truly reap health. Promoting national fitness from "wanting to" to "knowing how to" is our next goal.

(The author is the Director of the Mass Sports Division of the Jiangsu Provincial Sports Bureau (江苏省体育局), interviewed and compiled by Yao Xueqing (姚雪青), a reporter from this newspaper)

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National Fitness Achieves New Benefits for the People

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's (中国) national fitness has achieved new benefits for the people. The supply of venues and facilities has continued to increase, mass sports events have flourished, the concept of scientific fitness has taken root, and the national fitness public service system has been continuously improved, enhancing the people's sense of gain and happiness.

The problem of "where to go for fitness" for the masses has been effectively solved, and the number and types of grassroots venues and facilities have been continuously enriched and expanded. As of the end of 2024, the national sports venue area reached 4.23 billion square meters, with a per capita sports venue area of 3.0 square meters, achieving the "14th Five-Year Plan" goal ahead of schedule. Old communities have been transformed into vibrant communities, urban parks have been upgraded to sports parks, and the 15-minute fitness circle in national communities has basically achieved full coverage, giving the masses new places to exercise.

A series of sports events are rich in content, diverse in form, and easy to participate in. More and more people are actively going out of their homes and onto the sports field to enjoy the fun of sports, and sports exercise is deeply integrated into the daily lives of the public. As of the end of 2024, the proportion of people in China (中国) who regularly participate in sports exercise exceeded 38.5%.

"Following the competition to travel" has become a new trend. "Village Super League" ("村超"), "Su Chao" ("苏超"), and "Village BA" ("村BA") have become popular, and the integrated development of multiple formats has not only promoted the deep integration of national fitness and national health, but also served the local economic and social development, becoming a "golden combination" to drive consumption and expand domestic demand. According to statistics, "Su Chao" ("苏超") has a maximum attendance of over 60,000 people per game, driving 38 billion yuan of multi-scenario consumption in Jiangsu (江苏).

Looking forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," the basic public services for national fitness will continue to improve their balance and accessibility, strengthen top-level design, improve coordination mechanisms, stimulate social vitality, and create a good social atmosphere for active exercise and scientific fitness, so as to better meet the diverse fitness needs of the people.

(Compiled by Ji Fang (季芳), a reporter from this newspaper)

This issue is coordinated by: Zhang Weihao (张伟昊)

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Continuously Moving Towards the High End of Industry (Visiting Enterprises, Observing High-Quality Development)

By: 本报记者 赵永新 贺林平

Adhering to user orientation, focusing on potential needs, and continuously improving portrait photography functions based on research and analysis; adhering to technology-driven approaches, increasing R&D investment, and accumulating more than 8,000 invention patents for 5G and 6G technologies as of October this year; adhering to creating value and undertaking social responsibility, developing special functions for people with disabilities with the help of artificial intelligence technology... As a mobile phone brand manufacturer, vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. (维沃移动通信有限公司) is committed to technological innovation and constantly moving towards the high end of the industry.

Adhering to User Orientation

Stepping into the exhibition area on the second floor of vivo's global headquarters in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province (广东省东莞市), a line of large characters comes into view: Creating great products with user orientation. "Users are the 'destination' of our efforts," said Shen Wei (沈炜), founder, president and CEO of vivo.

Image performance is a hot spot of competition among mobile phone manufacturers at home and abroad. "After we launched the XShot focusing on photography in 2014, we gradually strengthened the construction of image capabilities. Four years later, we faced another choice: should we focus on popular functions at the moment, or refine user needs and find another way?" recalled Li Zhuo (李卓), senior director of vivo's Image Product Planning and Cognitive Center.

"Through user research and data analysis, we found that users value portrait photography functions very much," Li Zhuo (李卓) introduced that most of the portraits taken by users are relatives and friends, and these photos have rich emotional value and great potential demand. To this end, vivo has continuously improved its technology reserves and cognitive accumulation in the direction of portraits. In December 2019, the X30 series products focusing on portrait functions were launched; in December 2020, the X60 series products were launched.

In order to explore better technical solutions to meet user needs, vivo has made efforts in telephoto technology. Since 2022, it has successively launched models with telephoto functions such as X90 Pro+ and X100 Ultra. The X300 Pro, which debuted in October this year, is equipped with a periscope super telephoto. "We care about the real feelings of users, not parameters," Li Zhuo (李卓) said.

Adhering to Technology-Driven Approaches

How to bring a better experience to users? "We must carry out technological research persistently," Li Zhuo (李卓) introduced with the "200 million pixel sensor" as an example, "From the conception of the plan to the realization of mass production, we spent nearly 4 years developing and polishing with our partners."

"Technological innovation is the key to enhancing the competitiveness of enterprises, and only continuous investment in R&D can have the vitality of development," said Hu Baishan (胡柏山), executive vice president and chief operating officer of vivo.

Since 2015, vivo decided to take technological innovation as the focus of the company's future development, attracting talents and increasing investment. Since 2019, it has anchored the four major technology tracks of design, image, system, and performance, and continued to tackle key problems.

The Communication Research Institute was established in 2016, the AI (Artificial Intelligence) Global Research Institute was established in 2018, and the Robotics Laboratory was established in 2025... vivo continues to make efforts in technological innovation: R&D investment has increased by an average of 20% annually, the proportion of R&D personnel exceeds 75%, and more than 50,000 global patents have been applied for cumulatively.

"In terms of R&D strategy, we adopt a collaborative model of 'product technology R&D' and 'cutting-edge technology exploration'," said Zhang Chenlu (张晨璐), deputy director of vivo Communication Research Institute, which focuses on the improvement of current product technology and explores the future development direction.

After years of cooperative innovation, vivo has made phased breakthroughs in the X300 series mobile phones: through self-developed communication chipsets and algorithms, the interruption rate in subway scenarios has been significantly reduced, and the short video stuttering rate has been reduced by 59%; in concerts and other scenarios, the transmission time of 50 megabyte videos has been shortened by 80%.

In the exploration of cutting-edge technologies, vivo continues to accumulate strength. Taking communication technology as an example, the company joined the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), a global mobile communication standard-setting organization, in 2016 to fully participate in the formulation of 5G international standards; it launched 6G research in 2019 and carried out cutting-edge layout. "As of October this year, we have submitted more than 18,000 technical proposals to 3GPP," said Zhang Chenlu (张晨璐).

"In technological innovation, the money that should be spent cannot be saved. In the four major technology tracks of design, image, system, and performance, our annual R&D expenses exceed 10 billion yuan," Hu Baishan (胡柏山) said, "If this money is not invested in R&D, although it will increase short-term profits, the future competitiveness of the enterprise will be out of the question."

Adhering to Creating Value

In a conference room in Futian District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province (广东省深圳市福田区), Chang Zhuo (常卓), senior director of vivo AI Product Strategy Center, is discussing with his colleagues how to further improve the "listening and speaking" functions of mobile phones with AI technology.

"vivo Listening and Speaking" is a function specially developed by Chang Zhuo's (常卓) team for hearing-impaired users. This function can convert the text output by hearing-impaired users into voice, and quickly convert the other party's voice into text, making communication smoother.

For visually impaired people, Chang Zhuo's (常卓) team developed the "vivo See" function. This function can help visually impaired users identify information in daily life. Taking checking into a hotel as an example, this function can not only help visually impaired users find their room, but also help them identify the same-looking shampoo and shower gel.

It is reported that vivo mobile phones serve more than 4 million disabled users. "It is indeed more difficult and takes more time to develop special functions," Chang Zhuo (常卓) admitted frankly, "But we have a responsibility to respond to the needs of users. This has nothing to do with profit, it is the responsibility that we should have as a technology company. We must put ourselves in their shoes, think about problems from their perspective, test and improve persistently, and constantly improve technical accuracy."

It is understood that vivo has applied to become a public welfare partner of the 12th National Games for the Disabled and the 9th Special Olympics, and plans to provide visually and hearing-impaired athletes who win awards with mobile phones equipped with the latest barrier-free functions.

"Commercial value is the foundation of the survival of an enterprise, but it is not the ultimate goal," Hu Baishan (胡柏山) said that only by continuously creating value for users and society can the enterprise develop healthily and for a long time.

"Benfen (本分) is the focus of our corporate culture," said Shen Wei (沈炜). The so-called benfen means maintaining a normal mind, returning to the essence of things, eliminating interference such as pressure, and doing the right thing. "In the future, we must still maintain a normal mind, continue to create value for users, and move forward steadily on the road of helping high-quality development."

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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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Shanghai Strikes a "Triple Play" of Integration and Opening-up (Vibrant China Research Trip)

By: 本报记者

Stepping into the Xujiahui Library (徐家汇书院), the portraits of Ming Dynasty scientist Xu Guangqi (徐光启) and Italian missionary Matteo Ricci (利玛窦) silently face each other. In the cabinet is displayed the "Elements of Geometry" they jointly translated. More than 400 years ago, this "handshake" between Chinese and Western civilizations wrote a historical tale of openness and integration.

Today, the story of openness transcends time and space, radiating modern vitality.

In December 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized during his inspection in Shanghai: "Shanghai, as the forefront of China's reform and opening up and an international metropolis deeply connected to the world, must comprehensively deepen reform and opening up from a higher starting point to enhance development momentum and competitiveness."

How to comprehensively deepen reform and opening up from a higher starting point? Today, Shanghai nourishes the soil of innovation with cultural resonance, activates corporate dynamism with ecological co-cultivation, and guarantees the continuous advancement of openness with institutional innovation, playing a "trio" of integrated openness.

Open Culture Nurtures an Open Ecosystem

Shanghai is nourishing an inclusive and symbiotic "rainforest ecosystem" with an open culture. Here, enterprises, talents, and the city interact deeply, enacting wonderful stories of "mutual attraction."

Shanghai Legoland, which opened in July this year, features the world's largest Lego minifigure "Dada" at 26 meters tall, shining alongside the Fengjing Ancient Town (枫泾古镇)游船, a replica of a Jiangnan (江南) water town. In the Journey to the West-themed park, Lego-built classic characters from the Journey to the West blend Chinese and Western cultures, allowing both Chinese and foreign tourists to find resonance.

"Shanghai's urban spirit highly aligns with Lego's 'inspiring future builders' concept," said Chen Jie (陈洁), General Manager of Shanghai Legoland Resort. "The integration of the two is not simply stacking cultural symbols, but a deeply localized innovative expression." Nielsen, a tourist from Denmark, exclaimed, "Here, I see the fusion of cultures, which feels great!"

Not only large multinational corporations, but cultural openness is also reflected in the support for small and medium-sized cultural and creative enterprises. Dayin Bookstores (大隐书局), located in Yangpu District (杨浦区), Shanghai, has established cooperation with writers from 15 countries through the "Chinese and Foreign Writers in Residence Program," holding over a hundred international cultural exchange activities each year. "We not only sell books, but also build a bridge for dialogue between Chinese and foreign cultures," introduced Liu Jun (刘军), the founder of the bookstore. "The cultural fund support and cross-border copyright services provided by Shanghai allow small and micro enterprises like us to participate in international cultural dissemination."

Cultural resonance and integration endow openness with a more lasting humanistic appeal, attracting the gathering of talents and promoting the upgrading of openness.

In July last year, James, a British director of the Singapore WeLion Group, urgently came to Shanghai to attend a conference, and the Shanghai Public Security Bureau's Entry-Exit Administration Department issued an electronic port visa on the same day. After passing through Pudong Airport (浦东机场), he exclaimed, "Electronic visas make the process no longer cumbersome." In May this year, the scope of application for electronic port visas was expanded to the entire Shanghai area, and the issuance volume from May to August increased by 176.68% month-on-month. By the end of 2024, Shanghai has processed more than 6,000 new version of the foreigner's permanent residence ID card "Five-Star Card," an increase of 123% year-on-year, ranking first in the country, and has achieved barrier-free use in 64 livelihood fields.

An Open Ecosystem "Grows" an Open System

An excellent ecosystem can allow "seeds" to grow into "forests" and give back to the ecosystem.

In Zhangjiang Science City (张江科学城), the biomedical industry cluster demonstrates a strong ecological synergy effect. As a gene therapy CDMO (Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization) enterprise, Heyuan Bio relies on Zhangjiang's "incubation-research and development-production" full-chain ecosystem to achieve breakthrough development in technology within three years. "We not only enjoy Zhangjiang's laboratory sharing platform, but also shorten the customs clearance time for gene samples from 7 days to 1 day through the joint regulatory mechanism for the import and export of special biological materials," Cheng Haizi (程海子), the company's R&D director, told reporters. "This kind of ecological support allows us to conduct research and development simultaneously with the world's top institutions."

What attracts enterprises to Shanghai is no longer the traditional "package" of preferential policies, but the "rainforest ecosystem" that allows the core development concepts of enterprises to be practiced. What enterprises gain here is the innovation capabilities, application scenarios, and financial and talent support that match their global strategies, thereby achieving the common evolution of enterprises and the city.

A small screw, inserted into the human body through a catheter, comes to the tricuspid valve area inside the heart, and accurately "finds" its position under the "command" of the doctor. This is the top product for the treatment of tricuspid regurgitation, a high-difficulty heart surgery, developed and broken through by Shanghai Huihe Medical Technology Co., Ltd. (上海汇禾医疗科技有限公司). Established for less than 7 years, Huihe's medical products have gone global. Shen Jianwen (沈简文), the company's executive vice president, said with emotion: "Without the government's promotion, the pace would not be so fast."

In 2023, before Huihe Medical started preclinical trials, the financing problem was in front of them. Songjiang District (松江区) in Shanghai promoted Huihe Medical to participate in the National Science and Technology Innovation Competition and won first place in the medical device group, and then obtained 400 million yuan in key financing. Today, Huihe Medical's financing scale has reached 10 times its initial amount.

The open ecosystem is also promoting the construction of a domestic industrial collaboration system. The collaboration of the new energy vehicle industry chain is a model of ecological co-cultivation in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角). In the first half of 2025, Shanghai's export volume of new energy vehicles increased by 30% year-on-year, behind which is a collaborative network of "R&D in Shanghai, manufacturing in Jiangsu (苏), supporting facilities in Zhejiang (浙), and logistics in Hong Kong." At the Shanghai R&D Center of SAIC Group (上汽集团), engineers are debugging the intelligent driving system of a new model. This model, jointly developed with Huawei (华为), has its core algorithms iterated in Shanghai, precision parts are produced by a factory in Suzhou (苏州), and power batteries come from the CATL (宁德时代) base, and finally shipped to the world through Shanghai Port (上海港).

An Open System Releases Open Momentum

In May this year, a contract based on the settlement price of natural rubber futures on the Shanghai Futures Exchange (上海期货交易所) was listed abroad, which is the world's first overseas futures product that directly quotes RMB prices. "In the past, Southeast Asian rubber trade used Singapore prices. Now we use Shanghai rubber pricing, allowing Chinese prices to go global, and the proportion of RMB settlement has increased from 15% to 30%," introduced the head of Lianrun Rubber.

In the Lingang New Area (临港新片区), the country's first "cross-border data flow classified supervision pilot" is in operation. Through this mechanism, Tesla's Shanghai factory has achieved safe and efficient transmission of R&D data to its US headquarters. "This system has increased our data flow efficiency by 40% while meeting the data regulatory requirements of both China and the United States," said Tao Lin (陶琳), Tesla's Global Vice President. "This is the most innovative solution we have encountered globally."

The continuous release of open momentum allows Shanghai to effectively radiate the Yangtze River Delta, and makes the international-compatible rule system a standard configuration for regional coordinated development.

In the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor (G60科创走廊), the "cross-regional handling" mechanism is breaking down administrative barriers: the high-tech enterprise certification materials submitted by enterprises in Shanghai can be simultaneously reviewed by cities such as Suzhou and Hangzhou (杭州) through remote virtual windows, and 195 government services can be realized with "one-stop acceptance and nine-city handling." After Keda Intelligent (科大智能) submitted an application in Songjiang, it only took 3 days to simultaneously complete the qualification certification in Suzhou and Jiaxing (嘉兴). "In the past, we needed to submit materials repeatedly. Now, one application and mutual recognition in three places saves us two months," said the company's license officer.

From the creative integration of Chinese and Western cultures in Legoland, to the cross-regional collaboration of the new energy vehicle industry chain, to the global output of "Chinese prices" in the futures market... Shanghai's path of open advancement reveals a simple yet profound truth: the best openness is mutual achievement, and the strongest convergence is endless.

(Our reporters Wu Yan (吴焰), Zhu Lei (朱磊), Song Fei (宋飞), Ju Yunpeng (巨云鹏), and Xia Yuechao (夏悦超) participated in the writing)

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Exploring the Transformation of Low-Concentration Methane from Waste to Treasure (Innovation Landscape Towards the "15th Five-Year Plan")

By: 李晋平

Accelerate the construction of a new energy system.
——Excerpt from the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal

Coal mine gas, also known as "coalbed methane," is discharged during coal mining, and its main component is methane. Rational utilization of methane means clean energy. High-concentration gas with a methane volume fraction greater than or equal to 30% can be used for power generation and combustion, but due to technical limitations, a large amount of gas with a concentration below 8% can only be vented. Shanxi (山西) is a major coal mining province, and promoting the utilization of low-concentration coal mine gas is the duty and mission of Shanxi (山西) scientific researchers.

Over the past decade or so, my team members and I have been committed to tackling the technical challenges of low-concentration gas utilization, exploring a technical route of "low-concentration gas substitution, cascade upgrading and utilization," and have achieved a number of results. Among them, our developed "artificial zeolite molecular sieve technology" has solved the problem of utilizing gas with a concentration of 2%-8%.

A large amount of air mixed into low-concentration coal mine gas dilutes the methane concentration, which is an important factor hindering its efficient utilization. The main component of air is nitrogen. The technology we developed can efficiently separate methane from nitrogen, which not only lowers the lower limit of gas enrichment and concentration, making low-concentration gas that was originally unusable usable, but also lays a technical foundation for the full-concentration cascade upgrading and utilization of gas.

Zeolite molecular sieve is a kind of silicoaluminate material with a regular pore structure, which is widely used in the field of gas separation. However, the surface of traditional zeolite molecular sieves often carries a large number of equilibrium ions, which produce additional adsorption effects on nitrogen molecules, which is not conducive to "screening" methane from nitrogen.

Can the ratio of silicon to aluminum in the zeolite molecular sieve be adjusted to retain more adsorption force of the material on methane? In order to achieve this goal, we went through more than 20,000 experiments and finally developed a high-performance adsorption material to enrich methane. The enriched methane can be used for power generation or combustion depending on the concentration. This technology won the first prize of the Technology Invention Award of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation in 2021.

In 2023, through school-enterprise cooperation, a demonstration project based on this technology was launched in a coal mining enterprise in Shanxi (山西). On the day it was put into use, everyone was very excited to see the changes in methane concentration on the dashboard. At present, the project has been running safely and continuously for nearly two years. By the end of this year, it will also be launched in a second coal mining enterprise.

At the end of last year, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部) and the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) jointly released the newly revised coal mine gas emission standards, which significantly tightened China's (中国) coal mine gas methane volume concentration emission limit from 30% to 8%. The introduction of the new standard has opened up development space for our technology and is expected to bring more opportunities for large-scale application.

At the end of October this year, the National Energy Administration (国家能源局) issued guidance to promote the integrated development of coal and new energy. It mentioned, "Strengthen the utilization of coal mine gas at all concentrations, and actively develop utilization methods such as gas power generation, heating, and purification." This year, the two national-level projects applied for by my team members and I are both focused on the efficient and clean utilization of low-concentration coal mine gas. Looking forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," we will continue to optimize low-concentration gas purification technology, accelerate technology promotion, and provide scientific and technological support for ensuring national energy security and promoting the green and low-carbon transformation of coal mines.

(The author is Li Jinping (李晋平), Deputy Dean of the Huairou Laboratory Shanxi Research Institute (怀柔实验室山西研究院) and Professor of Taiyuan University of Technology (太原理工大学). This article was compiled and edited by Fu Mingli (付明丽), a reporter from this newspaper.)

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In 2024, Shanxi (山西) Cumulatively Extracted Over 13.4 Billion Cubic Meters of Coalbed Methane

Coalbed methane is a high-quality clean energy source and belongs to unconventional natural gas. China (中国) is rich in coalbed methane resources, with geological resources of over 30 trillion cubic meters at a shallow depth of 2,000 meters. Early coalbed methane development was to ensure safe coal mine production, but as development technology gradually matured, coalbed methane became an important supplementary gas source to enhance China's (中国) natural gas self-sufficiency capacity.

Shanxi (山西) began exploring coalbed methane development in the early 1990s. After more than 30 years of technological breakthroughs, it has formed a series of technical process systems from drilling, fracturing, drainage to gathering and transportation, and explored the coal mine gas management and utilization model of "gas extraction before coal mining, and integrated gas and coal mining," forming a pattern of multi-type, multi-layer, and differentiated development of high-rank coal, thin coal seams, medium-deep and even deep coalbed methane.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Shanxi (山西) accelerated the pace of increasing coalbed methane reserves and production, and initially built two major national coalbed methane industrial bases in the Qinshui Basin (沁水盆地) and the eastern edge of the Ordos Basin (鄂尔多斯盆地), and built six 1 billion cubic meter-level gas fields such as Panzhuang (潘庄) and Zhengzhuang (郑庄). In 2024, Shanxi (山西) cumulatively extracted 13.43 billion cubic meters of coalbed methane.

(Compiled by Fu Mingli (付明丽), a reporter from this newspaper)

Reporter's Notes

See Far to Walk Steadily

Entering the game when the industry was blank and solving problems before policies were implemented, the foresight of Li Jinping's (李晋平) team left a deep impression on the reporter during the interview.

The foresight of scientific research has never been boundless fantasy, but an accurate choice based on real pain points. Li Jinping (李晋平) is a native of Shanxi (山西), and his scientific research direction has always been closely integrated with the needs of Shanxi's (山西) energy revolution. He led the team to not only successfully solve the industry problem of low-concentration gas utilization, but also achieved innovative results in cutting-edge fields such as low-carbon olefin separation and green hydrogen production.

The foresight of scientific research also requires long-term commitment. In order to efficiently separate methane and nitrogen, the team went through more than 20,000 experiments and "screened" 200 kinds of molecular sieve structures for 7 years before locking in the appropriate material structure.

See far to walk steadily. On the road of innovation, it is hoped that the majority of scientific and technological workers will better combine academic pursuits with national strategic needs and the general trend of the times, and contribute more to promoting industrial development and building a strong country in science and technology.

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2025 "National Online Legal Education Campaign • Beijing Station" Launch Ceremony and "National Online Legal Education Campaign" Closing Summary Event Held

This newspaper reported from Beijing on November 19th (Reporter Jin Xin (金歆)) On the 19th, the launching ceremony of the 2025 "National Network Popularization of Law Campaign · Beijing Station" and the closing summary event of the "National Network Popularization of Law Campaign" were held at Renmin University of China (中国人民大学).

The event, themed "e-Governance for Good, Uniting Hearts Online," was structured into four chapters: "The Light of Thought," "The Path of Practice," "The Way of Communication," and "The Charm of the Brand." Through various forms such as scenario storytelling, video presentations, legal popularization performances, and initiative releases, the event comprehensively showcased the fruitful achievements of network rule of law construction and systematically summarized the three-year experience, effectiveness, and highlights of the brand activity.

It is understood that the "National Network Popularization of Law Campaign" series of activities is a legal publicity activity brand carefully created by the Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办) and the Ministry of Justice (司法部) to implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law and General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important thought on building a strong network country, and to promote the "Eighth Five-Year" plan for popularizing law in the cyberspace system. Since its launch in 2023, the campaign has carried out more than 3,000 popularization activities in various forms across the country, with related content receiving over 17 billion online clicks.

According to the relevant person in charge of the Bureau of Network Rule of Law of the Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办网络法治局), the "National Network Popularization of Law Campaign · Beijing Station" event will last for a week, during which three thematic routes of "Platform Governance," "Digital Intelligence Empowerment," and "Judicial Practice" will be organized for exploration, and nearly 50 series of popularization activities of the "Capital Network Popularization of Law Alliance" (首都网络普法联盟) will be carried out.

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Shaanxi-to-Anhui Electricity Transmission Project Fully Connected in Anhui Section

This report Hefei (合肥) November 19th (Reporter Li Junjie (李俊杰)) On November 18th, the Shaanxi-North Anhui ±800 kV UHV DC transmission project (hereinafter referred to as the "Shaanxi Electricity to Anhui" project) Anhui section was fully connected. It is understood that Anhui is the first province to achieve connection among the three provinces through which the "Shaanxi Electricity to Anhui" project passes, three months ahead of the original plan.

The "Shaanxi Electricity to Anhui" project is a key project in the National "14th Five-Year Plan" for power development, starting from the Baotashan Converter Station (宝塔山换流站) in Yan'an City (延安市), Shaanxi Province (陕西省), and ending at the Hezhou Converter Station (合州换流站) in Hefei City (合肥市), Anhui Province (安徽省), passing through the three provinces of Shaanxi, Henan (河南), and Anhui, with a total line length of 1055 kilometers.

The relevant person in charge of State Grid Anhui Electric Power Co., Ltd. (国网安徽省电力有限公司) introduced that the Anhui section is 323 kilometers long, with a total of 672 new iron towers. The overall project is planned to be energized in March 2026 and put into operation in June. After the project is put into operation, it can transmit more than 36 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity to Anhui every year, more than half of which is new energy electricity, which will effectively enhance Anhui's power supply guarantee capacity, promote energy structure transformation and the realization of the "dual carbon" goals.

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Joint Communiqué of the Twenty-Fourth Meeting of the Council of Heads of Government (Prime Ministers) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Member States

From November 17 to 18, 2025, the twenty-fourth meeting of the Council of Heads of Government (Prime Ministers) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (hereinafter referred to as the "SCO" or "Organisation") was held in Moscow.

Prime Minister Turchin of the Republic of Belarus, Minister of External Affairs Jaishankar of the Republic of India, First Vice President Aref of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Prime Minister Bektenov of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) of the People's Republic of China, Prime Minister Kasymaliev of the Kyrgyz Republic, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Dar of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Prime Minister Mishustin of the Russian Federation, Prime Minister Rasulzoda of the Republic of Tajikistan, and Prime Minister Aripov of the Republic of Uzbekistan attended the meeting.

The meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Mishustin of the Russian Federation.

SCO Secretary-General Yermekbayev, Director of the Executive Committee of the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure Sarsheyev, Rotating Chairman of the SCO Business Council Ren Hongbin (任鸿斌), and Representative of the Council of the SCO Interbank Consortium Tan Jiong (谭炯) attended the meeting as observers.

Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed of Qatar, Prime Minister Zandanshatar of Mongolia, heads of permanent bodies of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Eurasian Economic Union, and the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia, as well as representatives from Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, and Turkmenistan attended the meeting as observers.

The heads of delegations highly appreciated the work done by the People's Republic of China during its term as the rotating chair of the SCO from 2024 to 2025, believing that China's term further enhanced the SCO's cohesion and the level of all-round cooperation within the SCO framework, and enhanced the organisation's international influence.

The heads of delegations expressed their support for the work of the Kyrgyz Republic as the rotating chair of the SCO from 2025 to 2026.

The heads of delegations pointed out that the meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO member states and the "SCO+" meeting held in Tianjin (天津) from August 31 to September 1, 2025, fully demonstrated the increasingly important role and contribution of the SCO in building a more just, equal, and representative multipolar world with the United Nations as its core. The heads of delegations reaffirmed that member states will adhere to the generally recognised norms of international law enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and the Charter of the SCO.

The heads of delegations emphasised that member states believe it is necessary to carry out appropriate reforms to the United Nations, ensure the representation of developing countries in the UN's governing bodies, and adapt the UN to the needs of today's political and economic realities.

The heads of delegations believe that cooperation within the SCO framework will lay the foundation for the formation of an equal and indivisible security architecture in Eurasia. Member states oppose solving international and regional hotspot issues with group-based and confrontational thinking.

The heads of delegations reaffirmed the importance of promoting the building of a new type of international relations based on mutual respect, fairness and justice, and win-win cooperation, as well as a community with a shared future for mankind, and conducting dialogue based on the concept of "One Earth, One Family, One Future," and called on the international community to jointly participate in the "SCO Initiative on Solidarity for Fairness, Harmony and Development of the World".

The heads of delegations emphasised that it is necessary to effectively implement the various documents adopted by the SCO summit, and the primary task is to carry out practical work based on the "SCO Development Strategy for the Next 10 Years (2026-2035)" and the "Tianjin Declaration of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO Member States," in which the development strategy clarifies the main directions for the next stage of reform and development of the SCO.

The heads of delegations pointed out that it is of great significance to prioritise the improvement of the SCO's operating mechanisms, and emphasised that it is necessary to accelerate the implementation of the "Suggestions of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the SCO Member States on Improving the SCO's Operating Mechanisms" approved by the Council of Heads of State in the form of a resolution on July 4, 2024, including simultaneously launching the work of the translation support departments of the SCO's permanent (executive) bodies and including English as a working language of the SCO, and making corresponding revisions and supplements to the SCO Charter and other SCO documents.

The heads of delegations advocated accelerating the implementation of relevant recommendations, including the formulation of relevant documents on the operation of the SCO Member States' Centre for Comprehensive Response to Security Threats and Challenges and the SCO Anti-Drug Centre on the basis of the signed relevant agreements.

The heads of delegations noted the suggestion regarding the establishment of a Security Strategy Research Centre.

The heads of delegations emphasised that current international relations are undergoing profound historical changes. The status of countries in the Global South is constantly rising, and the role of new political and economic centres is becoming increasingly prominent, creating opportunities for countries to develop themselves and carry out international cooperation on an equal and mutually beneficial basis.

The heads of delegations expressed deep concern about the increasing fragmentation of the world economy, and reaffirmed that member states will adhere to improving the global economic governance system and consolidating the multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organisation as its core.

The heads of delegations emphasised that member states will firmly uphold an open, transparent, fair, inclusive, equitable, and non-discriminatory multilateral trading system, promote the improvement of the global financial governance system, and strengthen the role of developing countries in international financial institutions.

The Republic of Belarus, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, and the Republic of Uzbekistan reaffirmed their support for the "Belt and Road" initiative proposed by the People's Republic of China, and affirmed the work done by all parties to jointly implement the "Belt and Road" initiative, including promoting the alignment and cooperation between the "Belt and Road" and the construction of the Eurasian Economic Union.

The heads of delegations emphasised that in the context of global uncertainty and volatile global markets, economic and trade cooperation is of great significance to the stable economic and social development of all countries. The heads of delegations noted the results of the twenty-fourth meeting of the SCO Member States' Ministers of Economy and Trade (September 6, 2025, Vladivostok), and expressed their willingness to continue to take necessary measures to ensure the sustainable economic growth of the SCO region.

The heads of delegations emphasised that member states will be committed to building a broad and open economic space in the region, promoting equal and mutually beneficial cooperation, ensuring the effective operation and flow of markets, supply chains, settlement payments, transportation corridors, logistics routes, and investment, goods, services, and technologies, and noted that willing member states will cooperate on the establishment of the "Greater Eurasian Partnership" initiative.

The heads of delegations emphasised that member states oppose any unilateral coercive measures, including economic measures, that violate the Charter of the United Nations and other norms of international law, hinder international cooperation, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

The heads of delegations believe that mutual cooperation should be carried out on the basis of the "Statement of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO Member States on Supporting the Multilateral Trading System" (September 1, 2025, Tianjin), and the "SCO Economic Development Strategy until 2030" and the "SCO Member States' Multilateral Economic and Trade Cooperation Programme" should be steadily and effectively implemented, and advocated strengthening the work of the meeting mechanism of the heads of relevant departments and other professional cooperation mechanisms.

The heads of delegations believe that the digital economy is the foundation for achieving sustainable development and improving well-being in the region, and that cooperation in the digital field is of great significance for bridging the digital divide and promoting economic growth and technological development. SCO member states have consistently advocated ensuring technological autonomy and accelerating the application of digital technologies in the economic, social, and national governance fields.

The competent authorities of each country will ensure the implementation of the "Statement of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO Member States on Strengthening the Development of the Digital Economy" (September 1, 2025, Tianjin) and the "Action Plan for Digital Transformation of the SCO Member States" (June 17, 2025, Karamay), including relying on the work of the SCO Member States' Special Working Group on E-commerce.

The heads of delegations pointed out that practical cooperation in the field of scientific and technological innovation should be promoted, economic competitiveness should be enhanced, and the exchange of experience in the application of innovative technologies and technology transfer should be encouraged, the comprehensive strength of science and technology park libraries and innovation clusters should be enhanced, and corresponding scientific research projects should be developed, guided by the "Statement of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO Member States on Further Strengthening Scientific and Technological Innovation Cooperation" (September 1, 2025, Tianjin). To this end, the heads of delegations noted the results of the meeting of the Management Committee of the SCO Science and Technology Park Library held at the "Skolkovo" Innovation Centre, and welcomed the dialogue on creating a seamless ecosystem for SCO start-ups within the framework of the International Technology Conference (September 16-18, 2025, Moscow).

The heads of delegations emphasised that it is very important to effectively implement the "Implementation Roadmap for the SCO Member States' Cooperation and Development Plan in the Field of Artificial Intelligence" (June 12, 2025, Chengdu) and to carry out multilateral cooperation in accordance with the "Statement of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO Member States on Further Deepening International Cooperation in Artificial Intelligence" (September 1, 2025, Tianjin).

The heads of delegations noted the proposal to hold a meeting of experts on artificial intelligence of the SCO member states in 2026, a high-level conference on "Artificial Intelligence Serving the SCO Economy" in Kazakhstan in 2027, and to formulate the "SCO Future Technology Programme".

The heads of delegations welcomed the resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on July 25, 2025, on "The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Creating New Opportunities for Sustainable Development in the Central Asian Region," and noted the initiative to establish a Central Asian Artificial Intelligence Centre in Dushanbe.

The heads of delegations supported strengthening cooperation on the application of outer space technologies to solve the economic, social, and ecological problems of member states, and exploring dialogue on the establishment of a future regional cooperation mechanism in the space field in accordance with the priorities of each country, and noted the results of the "Contribution of Outer Space Technologies to Achieving the SCO Sustainable Development Goals" conference held within the SCO framework (September 16-18, 2025, Moscow).

The heads of delegations noted the suggestion regarding the establishment of a "New Frontiers and Transformative Technologies Committee".

The heads of delegations reaffirmed their willingness to create new opportunities by supporting innovative industries and developing the creative economy, enhance the sustainable development and competitiveness of each country's economy, and prioritise expanding the employment market in remote and rural areas. The heads of delegations believe that relevant work should be carried out on the basis of the "Implementation Plan of the Framework for Cooperation on the Development of the Creative Economy among the SCO Member States" (September 6, 2025, Vladivostok).

The heads of delegations noted the results of the dialogue activities of member state representatives held within the framework of the SCO Innovation Economy Conference (September 26, 2025, Moscow).

The heads of delegations emphasised that member states will strengthen cooperation in the industrial field, deepen exchanges in the business community, noted the results of the SCO Member States' Meeting of Ministers of Industry (July 7, 2025, Yekaterinburg), and shared the experience of holding activities on the platform of the Russian International Industrial Exhibition.

The competent authorities of each country will continue to carry out the construction of the database of investment projects in the industrial field of the SCO member states.

The heads of delegations emphasised that it is very important to further deepen cooperation in the investment field among member states, and supported continuing to strengthen cooperation within the framework of the Special Working Group on Investment Promotion and the Investors' Alliance, and expanding the database of economic preferential policies. The heads of delegations noted the adoption of the "Statement of the Relevant Departments of the SCO Member States on Strengthening Investment Cooperation in the Field of Sustainable Development" (September 1, 2025, Tianjin), and the competent authorities of each country will continue to carry out the drafting of the "Comprehensive Measures for Promoting Mutual Investment among the SCO Member States".

The heads of delegations noted the suggestions regarding the establishment of an SCO Export Credit and Investment Insurance Agency Alliance, the establishment of a dedicated electronic portal to promote business matchmaking and investment, and the annual holding of the "SCO Investment" Forum.

The heads of delegations supported accelerating the establishment of a project financing guarantee mechanism within the SCO framework, and in order to implement the resolution on the establishment of the SCO Development Bank, the relevant member states will accelerate expert-level consultations on a series of issues such as the operation of the financial institution.

The heads of delegations noted the suggestion to establish an SCO office responsible for promoting promising investment projects and strengthening the coordination and cooperation of legal, consulting, and financial companies.

The relevant member states will continue to work on the issue of expanding the share of local currency settlement in accordance with the relevant roadmap. The heads of delegations noted the suggestion regarding the establishment of a working group to improve financial infrastructure and the formulation of relevant comprehensive measures.

The heads of delegations supported further strengthening the role of the SCO Business Council as a dialogue platform for the business community of member states, in order to jointly promote the solution of the main problems facing the development of practical economic and trade cooperation in the SCO region, and noted the work done by all parties to establish industry working groups in the priority cooperation areas within the framework of the SCO Business Council.

The heads of delegations emphasised that the SCO Interbank Consortium, as a favoured cooperation mechanism in the financial field, has played an important role, and believed that the issue of authorising banks of the Islamic Republic of Iran to join the Interbank Consortium should be accelerated.

The heads of delegations reaffirmed that they will promote the construction of efficient and competitive transportation and technological infrastructure within the SCO framework and improve the level of interconnectivity. The competent authorities should take more measures to tap the potential of transportation, logistics, and cross-border transportation in the SCO region, and develop international highways, railways, and multimodal transport.

The heads of delegations supported holding a meeting of heads of ports and logistics centres of the SCO member states (December 18-19, 2025, Aktau).

The heads of delegations believe that it is very important to further develop regional multimodal transport and logistics corridors, and emphasised that the SCO member states have great potential in this field.

The heads of delegations noted the suggestion regarding the formulation of the SCO "Concept Paper on Creating a Unified Digital Platform for the Management of Multimodal Freight Transport by Land".

The heads of delegations noted that the construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway has commenced.

The heads of delegations believe that it is very important to continue to implement the "Agreement between the Governments of the SCO Member States on Facilitation of International Road Transport" (September 12, 2014, Dushanbe) and the "Concept for the Development of Interconnectivity and the Establishment of Efficient Transport Corridors of the SCO Member States" (September 16, 2022, Samarkand).

The heads of delegations noted the initiative to formulate the "SCO Unified Transport Space Concept Paper".

The heads of delegations advocated further deepening cooperation in the fields of civil aviation and air cargo, including increasing routes, reducing administrative barriers, and optimising conditions for passenger and cargo air transport.

In this regard, the heads of delegations noted the initiative to establish an SCO Aviation Safety Agency.

The heads of delegations emphasised the importance of developing environmentally friendly transportation, including the application of green technologies, the gradual transition to environmentally friendly and clean fuels, and the development of electric vehicle infrastructure.

The heads of delegations noted the positive trend in customs cooperation, especially the progress made in simplifying customs procedures, strengthening and ensuring the security of logistics chains in Eurasia, improving customs supervision, and cutting off smuggling channels.

The competent authorities of member states will accelerate the drafting of the "Agreement between the Governments of the SCO Member States on Trade Facilitation". The heads of delegations supported further strengthening cooperation within the framework of the SCO Member States' Working Group on Trade Facilitation.

The heads of delegations noted the role of standardisation tools in promoting trade facilitation, and emphasised the importance of carrying out mutually beneficial and equal cooperation among SCO member states in this field.

The heads of delegations believe that it is very important to continue to strengthen the coordination of anti-monopoly policies, including carrying out activities within the framework of the meeting of heads of anti-monopoly departments of the SCO member states, and promoting the creation of a market environment with fair competition.

The heads of delegations emphasised that multilateral cooperation among the statistical departments of member states should continue to be strengthened, best practices and research methods should be promoted, and it should be ensured that national economic entities can obtain timely and high-quality data support when implementing the priority tasks of economic and trade cooperation.

The heads of delegations noted the results of the seventh meeting of the heads of supreme audit institutions of the member states (April 14, 2025, Dushanbe).
The heads of delegations reaffirmed their willingness to strengthen cooperation in agriculture, including ensuring food security, expanding trade in agricultural products, agricultural technology research and development and promotion, and developing educational and scientific partnerships, and noted the initiatives on establishing an expert working group on breeding and seed industry cooperation and an electronic platform for the "SCO Food Security Atlas."

The heads of delegations reaffirmed the commitment of the member states to promoting a common vision for maintaining global energy security in the future, forming a fair, balanced, and sustainable global energy development model, ensuring technological accessibility of various types of fuel energy for all countries in combination with regional resource endowments, and achieving fair pricing and settlement.

The heads of delegations believe that it is necessary to continue to safeguard the technological sovereignty of the member states, ensure energy security and energy market stability, and utilize fossil fuels, renewable energy, hydropower, and hydrogen energy to build a diversified energy balance system to ensure sustainable energy supply and demand.

The heads noted the initiative on establishing an SCO regional critical materials center.

The heads of delegations supported equal and sustainable international mutually beneficial cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

The heads of delegations emphasized that the SCO member states are willing to expand pragmatic cooperation in the energy sector through the implementation of joint research projects, the development of the potential of hydropower in regional countries, the construction of energy infrastructure, the promotion of investment and scientific and technological cooperation, the introduction of advanced energy technologies, the training of professional talents, and the exchange of experience. The heads reaffirmed that the member states will further cooperate based on the "Declaration of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO Member States on Sustainable Energy Development" (September 1, 2025, Tianjin) and the "Roadmap for the Implementation of the 'SCO Energy Cooperation Development Strategy until 2030'" (September 1, 2025, Tianjin).

The heads of delegations noted the outcomes of the SCO-LAS "Climate Change and Sustainable Energy" High-Level Conference (October 3, 2025, Astana).

The heads of delegations believe that it is of great significance for the SCO member states to strengthen sustainable development cooperation in areas such as industry, environmental protection, energy conservation, and the development of clean energy. The heads noted the outcomes of the activities held within the framework of the "SCO Year of Sustainable Development," including the first SCO National Green Development Forum (July 8-9, 2024, Qingdao), the SCO Sustainable Development Forum (April 17, 2025, Omsk; November 17, 2025, Moscow).

The heads of delegations approved the "Roadmap for Cooperation in the Social Development and Security Field of the SCO Member States for 2026-2028" and noted the proposal to establish a Sustainable Development Committee within the framework of the SCO Economic Think Tank Alliance.

The heads of delegations emphasized that it is of practical significance for the SCO member states to continue to jointly carry out work in the fields of environmental protection, ecological security, rational utilization of natural resources, and addressing climate change, including the accelerated melting of glaciers.

The heads of delegations noted the United Nations' declaration of 2025 as the "International Year of Glacier Protection" and the "Dushanbe Declaration" adopted by the first International High-Level Conference on Glacier Protection (May 29-31, 2025, Dushanbe).

The heads of delegations supported the continued implementation of the "Joint Action Plan for the Implementation of the 'SCO Green Belt Framework' for 2024-2026" (May 22, 2024, Astana), the "Plan of Measures for the Implementation of the 'Concept of Environmental Cooperation among the SCO Member States' for 2025-2027" (May 22, 2024, Astana), and the "Initiative of the SCO Member States on Strengthening Sustainable Development Cooperation" (July 3, 2025, Tianjin).

The heads of delegations noted the proposal to hold a special meeting on SCO ecological issues within the framework of the United Nations Regional Ecological Summit (2026, Astana).

The heads of delegations noted that the Fourth International High-Level Conference will be held (May 2026, Dushanbe) to commemorate the International Decade for Action "Water for Sustainable Development 2018-2028."

The heads of delegations emphasized that expanding cooperation in addressing climate change challenges is of great significance, including exchanging experiences and practices in formulating and implementing effective climate policies, researching and developing low-emission technologies, sustainable financing instruments, and developing carbon markets and carbon trading in an inclusive and equitable manner. In this regard, it is necessary to continue to actively implement the "Declaration of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO Member States on Addressing Climate Change" (September 16, 2022, Samarkand).

The relevant authorities of the countries will continue to formulate a draft "Intergovernmental Agreement on Climate Change among the SCO Member States."

The heads of delegations noted the increasing risk of natural disasters and man-made accidents, and believe that it is very important to enhance the SCO's emergency response capabilities, pointing out that cooperation among emergency management departments should be further strengthened, including in dynamic information exchange, application of space monitoring data, and joint emergency drills.

The heads of delegations noted the outcomes of the meeting of heads of emergency rescue departments in the border regions of the SCO member states (May 12, 2025, Shanghai).

The heads of delegations believe that health cooperation among the SCO member states should be further deepened, including enhancing health emergency capabilities, improving primary health care, building digital medical infrastructure, strengthening the prevention and treatment of infectious and non-communicable diseases, ensuring access to effective and high-quality medicines, training medical professionals, and promoting medical tourism in the SCO region. The heads emphasized the importance of continuing to implement the "Plan of Main Measures for Health Cooperation among the SCO Member States (2025-2027)" (March 14, 2024, Astana).

The heads of delegations reaffirmed that improving talent management in the health sector is of great significance for improving the quality of medical services for all, and supported the relevant member states in continuing to carry out the construction of the SCO Medical Association and the SCO Medical Tourism Alliance.

The heads of delegations emphasized that the meeting mechanism of heads of health and epidemic prevention departments of the SCO member states has played an important role in strengthening regional biosafety. All parties are willing to carry out cooperation in the prevention and control of infectious diseases, support the signing of a cooperation agreement on the prevention and control of plague within the SCO framework, and further implement the "Statement of the Heads of State of the SCO Member States on Jointly Addressing the Threat of Epidemics in the SCO Region" (June 10, 2018, Qingdao).

The heads of delegations emphasized that further poverty reduction cooperation and improvement of people's well-being within the framework of the SCO member states' special working group on poverty reduction are very important and will help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The heads of delegations noted the outcomes of the special working group meeting on the theme of "Building a Sustainable Social Security System to Address Climate Change: Protecting Vulnerable Groups in the SCO Region from the Impact of Climate Change" (October 22, 2025, video conference).

The heads of delegations supported deepening cooperation in the fields of education, science, and technology among the SCO member states, including promoting the construction of the SCO University, continuing to carry out work to improve academic exchanges, implementing joint scientific research projects, and ensuring universal access to high-quality modern education. All parties welcomed the Republic of Belarus and the Islamic Republic of Iran to join the "Intergovernmental Agreement on the Establishment and Operation of the SCO University among the SCO Member States" (June 6, 2017, Astana).

The relevant authorities of the countries will continue to carry out various innovative activities for college students and young professionals, including organizing competitions, Olympic competitions, and exchange activities, and noted the initiative on establishing a cooperative network of online campuses of the SCO University.

The heads of delegations noted the outcomes of the SCO Youth Committee meeting (July 29, 2025, Beijing) and the SCO Youth Forum (August 19-23, 2025, Omsk).

The heads of delegations noted the initiative on holding the SCO member states' youth forum and ministerial meeting (March 17-22, 2026, Dushanbe).

The heads of delegations emphasized that sports exchanges and cooperation among relevant institutions are of great significance for enhancing mutual understanding and friendship among the people of the SCO countries, which will promote cooperation in the sports field among the countries.

The heads of delegations reaffirmed that the SCO member states are committed to upholding the principles of equality, justice, and non-discrimination against athletes for any reason (including nationality, language, religion, ethnicity, or social origin), strengthening international sports exchanges, and emphasized that holding the SCO marathon competition in Kunming (昆明市), People's Republic of China and Issyk-Kul (伊塞克湖州) Region, Kyrgyz Republic every year makes a positive contribution to deepening SCO sports cooperation.

The heads of delegations noted the outcomes of the meeting of heads of sports departments of the SCO member states (May 21, 2025, Harbin).

The heads of delegations noted the initiative on holding international sports events in Russia in 2026 with the participation of relevant SCO member states and open to all countries, as well as the SCO Open.

The heads of delegations noted the resolution of the 43rd session of the UNESCO General Conference (November 6, 2025) on establishing September 22 as the International Day of Nomadic Heritage.

The heads of delegations noted the initiative on establishing the SCO Civilization Forum and holding its opening ceremony in 2026.

The heads of delegations noted that the Sixth World Nomad Games will be held (2026, Bishkek and Cholpon-Ata).

The heads of delegations emphasized that deepening cultural cooperation plays an important role in strengthening the friendship of the people of the SCO countries and reaffirmed their commitment to maintaining and promoting cultural diversity.

The heads of delegations noted the outcomes of the meeting of ministers of culture of the SCO member states, the SCO Art Festival (July 7, 2025, Qingdao) and the Film Festival (July 6, 2025, Chongqing), as well as the "International Horizon" International Music Competition (September 20, 2025, Moscow) with the participation of representatives of the SCO member states.

The heads of delegations, in accordance with the principles established in the preamble of the UNESCO Constitution (adopted in 1945) and the "Intergovernmental Agreement on Cooperation in the Protection of Cultural Heritage among the SCO Member States" (signed in 2021), noted that ensuring the cultural and historical rights of the member states is of great significance in the work of protecting and promoting tangible and intangible cultural heritage.

The heads of delegations highly appreciated the activities held within the framework of the SCO Tourism and Cultural Capital (Qingdao) from 2024 to 2025 and believe that Cholpon-Ata as the SCO Tourism and Cultural Capital from 2025 to 2026 will help promote cooperation in the field of cultural tourism.

The heads of delegations noted the initiative on holding the anniversary meeting of the Issyk-Kul Forum named after Chingiz Aitmatov within the SCO framework in 2026.

The heads of delegations noted that the increase in the number of direct flights and the implementation of measures such as electronic visas have promoted a steady increase in the number of tourists from the SCO member states and supported the implementation of new mutually beneficial investment projects in the tourism field.

The heads of delegations emphasized that carrying out dialogue and cooperation among people-to-people diplomacy institutions is of great significance and affirmed the contributions made by the China SCO Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation Committee (中国上海合作组织睦邻友好合作委员会), the SCO Study Center of the Indian Council of World Affairs, the SCO Cultural Integration Center of Kyrgyzstan, the Islamabad Strategic Research Institute of Pakistan, the Russian SCO People-to-People Diplomacy National Center, the Tajikistan SCO Friendship and Cooperation Center, and the Uzbekistan SCO People-to-People Diplomacy Center to strengthening friendship and mutual understanding within the organization's framework.

The heads of delegations approved the "Report of the SCO Secretariat on Holding Activities and Meetings for the Implementation of the 'Outline of Multilateral Economic and Trade Cooperation among the SCO Member States'" and the SCO budget for 2026.

The meeting adopted resolutions on a series of issues related to the financial and organizational activities of the SCO permanent bodies.

The heads of delegations pointed out that the Russian Federation's achievements as the chair of the Council of Heads of Government (Prime Ministers) of the SCO member states have promoted all-round cooperation in the economic and trade fields and close people-to-people exchanges within the SCO framework, and gave high praise to this.

The next meeting of the Council of Heads of Government (Prime Ministers) of the SCO member states will be held in the Republic of Tajikistan (塔吉克斯坦共和国) in 2026.

Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus (白俄罗斯共和国)
Minister of External Affairs of the Republic of India (印度共和国)
First Vice President of the Islamic Republic of Iran (伊朗伊斯兰共和国)
Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦共和国)
Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国国务院总理)
Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic (吉尔吉斯共和国)
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (巴基斯坦伊斯兰共和国)
Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation (俄罗斯联邦政府总理)
Prime Minister of the Republic of Tajikistan (塔吉克斯坦共和国)
Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan (乌兹别克斯坦共和国)

(Xinhua News Agency, Moscow, November 18)

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A Scientific Guide to Building a More Just and Equitable Global Governance System (In-depth Study and Implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era)

By: 外交部党委

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The balance of international forces is undergoing profound changes, but the reform of the global governance system has been lagging behind for a long time. We must practice true multilateralism, adhere to the concept of global governance featuring extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits, and lead the reform of global governance with the principles of fairness, justice, openness and inclusiveness." In today's world, global challenges are increasing, and strengthening global governance and promoting the reform of the global governance system have become an irresistible trend. Standing at the height of the common interests of all mankind, General Secretary Xi Jinping solemnly proposed the Global Governance Initiative at the "Shanghai Cooperation Organization+" meeting, clearly answering the questions of the times: "What kind of global governance system should be built and how to reform and improve global governance?" It charts the course for the international community to cooperate in solving global problems and injects new and strong impetus into the cause of human progress.

The "Suggestions of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" adopted at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee proposed: "Implement the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative to guide the international order to develop in a more just and reasonable direction." We must thoroughly study the latest achievements in the rich development of Xi Jinping's (习近平) diplomatic thought, thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, fully understand the rich connotation, great significance, and far-reaching impact of the Global Governance Initiative, actively participate in leading the reform and construction of the global governance system, and work with all countries to promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.

The Global Governance Initiative Provides a Solution for Reforming and Improving Global Governance

Standing on the major changes unseen in a century in the world that are accelerating, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) accurately grasped the general direction and major logic of human development and progress, and proposed the Global Governance Initiative. Adhering to sovereign equality, abiding by international rule of law, practicing multilateralism, advocating people-centeredness, and emphasizing action-orientedness are the five core concepts of the Global Governance Initiative. This important initiative plans a solution for reforming and improving global governance, providing valuable ideological enlightenment and pointing out a clear path for practice to solve the peace deficit, development deficit, security deficit, and governance deficit facing our era.

Meeting the needs of the times and pointing out the right direction. At present, hegemony, unilateralism, and protectionism are lingering, and the United Nations and multilateralism are under attack. The number of armed conflicts around the world has reached a new high since World War II, the process of human development has slowed down significantly, and more than 600 million people are facing hunger. The North-South gap, ecological deterioration and other issues are becoming increasingly prominent, and the international community's governance capabilities in new fields such as data security and artificial intelligence are insufficient. The Global Governance Initiative directly addresses the challenges of the times and clarifies the direction of progress in reforming and improving the global governance system from five aspects: adhering to sovereign equality, advocating equal participation, equal decision-making, and equal benefits for all countries; abiding by international rule of law to ensure the equal and unified application of international law and international rules; practicing multilateralism to strengthen the role of the United Nations as a core platform; advocating people-centeredness to ensure that people of all countries jointly participate in global governance and share the fruits of global governance; and emphasizing action-orientedness to adhere to striving for practical results and seeking sustainable solutions. This major initiative provides a systematic solution to address global challenges and will surely enhance the authority, representativeness, and effectiveness of the global governance system.

Insight into development trends and grasp the historical initiative. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The collective rise of the Global South is a clear sign of the great changes in the world." Changes in the balance of international forces are an important reason for the transformation of the global governance system. A large number of emerging market countries and developing countries have embarked on the fast track of development, fundamentally changing the landscape of the balance of international forces. The international order and global governance system established after World War II are increasingly incompatible with it. The monopoly of international affairs by a few countries is unsustainable, the Global South's call for expanding international discourse power and international institutional power is more urgent, and correcting historical injustices has become an urgent issue facing the improvement of global governance. The Global Governance Initiative conforms to the trend of economic globalization, world multi-polarization, and democratization of international relations, reflects the interests and demands of the vast majority of countries, and advocates that the international system and international mechanisms better serve the interests of all countries, especially developing countries, which will surely help the Global South make historic contributions to the cause of human progress.

Breaking the cognitive dilemma and providing ideological leadership. Fairness and justice are the eternal pursuit of human society, and promoting the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system is the universal expectation of people of all countries. For a long time, developed Western countries have occupied a dominant position in the global governance system by virtue of their first-mover advantages, promoted Western-centric governance concepts, promoted arguments such as "hegemonic stability theory" and "civilization superiority theory," and often engaged in double standards and small-circle governance. The Global Governance Initiative opposes the law of the jungle of "might is right," advocates that global affairs should be discussed by everyone together; abandons the outdated logic of "winner takes all," advocates that governance results should be shared by everyone; transcends the narrow concept of group politics, advocates focusing on the future and destiny of mankind and safeguarding the common interests of all countries; and replaces the wrong practice of ideological demarcation, advocates that the international community should jointly address challenges. This major initiative deepens the understanding of the laws of global governance and is another important public product that China contributes to the world.

Triggering positive responses and showing a bright future. Since its proposal, the Global Governance Initiative has quickly received clear support from more than 140 countries and international organizations. All parties generally believe that this major initiative demonstrates General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) vision and mission as a world-class leader, and praises China for playing an important and constructive role as a stabilizing force in the international community; this major initiative fully reflects the demands of the Global South, provides a new framework for international governance that is different from the Western-led model, and helps to defend international fairness and justice, which fully embodies China's key role as an important force in the Global South; this major initiative contributes Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to solving real-world challenges, leads global governance to move forward with the times, and has pioneering significance for building a more just and multi-polar global order. United Nations Secretary-General Guterres pointed out that the Global Governance Initiative is based on multilateralism, and its core concept is highly consistent with the beliefs upheld by the United Nations.

The Global Governance Initiative Demonstrates the Broad Mindedness and Responsibility of China's Diplomacy in the New Era

China has always been a maintainer of the current international order and a practitioner of true multilateralism. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed the Global Governance Initiative in order to defend international fairness and justice, solve prominent problems in the world today, enhance the common well-being of all mankind, and better safeguard the international system with the United Nations as the core and the international order based on international law, fully demonstrating the broad mind of China's diplomacy in the new era, which is concerned with the future of mankind and the well-being of the people, and demonstrating Xi Jinping's (习近平) diplomatic thought's efforts to transform the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind into action and the vision into reality.

Upholding a world-oriented spirit and practicing the original aspiration and mission of the Communist Party of China. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The Communist Party of China is a party that seeks happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation, and it is also a party that seeks progress for mankind and great harmony for the world." This gives Chinese diplomacy a completely different background and characteristics from Western diplomacy. Since the new era, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) as the core, Chinese diplomacy has always been at the forefront in defending international fairness and justice and in promoting the cause of human progress. The Global Governance Initiative is in line with the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter, focuses on building a more just and reasonable global governance system and working together to move towards a community with a shared future for mankind, adheres to the concept of global governance featuring extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits, and advocates practicing multilateral concepts, improving multilateral mechanisms, and strengthening multilateral cooperation, giving new era connotations to the spirit of internationalism. The Global Governance Initiative will work together with the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, and the Global Civilization Initiative to inject more stability and positive energy into a world intertwined with chaos and provide a stronger impetus for human development and progress.

Pursuing fairness and justice and inheriting the fine traditions of New China's diplomacy. Over the past 70 years, New China's diplomacy has grown and forged ahead amidst the turbulent international situation, forming fine traditions with Chinese characteristics, leading the trend of the times, and demonstrating national style. As a member of the Global South, China has always shared weal and woe with the vast number of developing countries, firmly standing on the right side of history and on the side of human civilization and progress. At the beginning of its founding, New China advocated the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence internationally, played a unique role in the 1954 Geneva Conference and the 1955 Bandung Conference, supported the national independence and liberation movements in Asia, Africa and Latin America, overcame its own difficulties to assist the economic construction of fraternal developing countries, and inspired and strengthened the just forces in the world against imperialism, hegemonism, colonialism and power politics. After restoring its legitimate seat in the United Nations, China actively and proactively participated in the United Nations cause, spoke out for developing countries on the international stage, and promoted the development of the international order in a more just and reasonable direction. The Global Governance Initiative defends international fairness and justice, clearly safeguards the legitimate rights and interests of developing countries, and advocates closing the North-South development gap as soon as possible and enhancing the representation and voice of developing countries in global governance, which is the inheritance and promotion of the fine traditions of New China's diplomacy under the new situation.

Adhering to keeping pace with the times and leading the innovation of China's diplomatic concepts and practices in the new era. Since the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has scientifically examined the major challenges facing the world today, continuously answered the new questions raised by the development of the times, and creatively proposed a series of new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies such as building a community with a shared future for mankind, the concept of global governance featuring extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits, an equal and orderly multi-polar world, and inclusive economic globalization, guiding China's diplomacy to promote far-reaching major practical measures. China firmly safeguards the authority of the United Nations, practices the Chinese way of solving hotspot issues, and actively safeguards world peace and stability; it has issued a strong voice of the times for openness, cooperation, and common development on international platforms such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and the Group of Twenty, providing important guidance for improving global economic governance; it has promoted the high-quality development of BRICS countries and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and worked together with the Global South to unite and strengthen itself; it has promoted the establishment of new multilateral institutions such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the New Development Bank of BRICS countries, and the International Mediation Institute, adding bricks and tiles to the global governance mechanism; and it has promoted the improvement of governance rules in key areas such as ecological environment, public health, cyberspace, and artificial intelligence, building consensus for cooperative response to new challenges. The Global Governance Initiative is a practical summary and conceptual sublimation of China's long-term participation in leading the reform and construction of the global governance system, and will surely guide China's diplomacy to show greater achievements in the process of reforming and improving global governance.

Rooted in Chinese civilization and contributing Chinese wisdom to improving global governance. The outstanding traditional Chinese culture has a long history and contains rich ideas, humanistic spirit, and moral norms, which are not only deeply engraved in the cultural genes of the Chinese people, but also have important implications for solving the common problems facing all mankind. The five core concepts of the Global Governance Initiative are rooted in the deep historical soil of Chinese civilization and draw on the essence of outstanding traditional Chinese culture: adhering to sovereign equality reflects the lofty ideals of "Datong (大同)" ("great harmony") and "Xiehe Wanbang (协和万邦)" ("harmonious coexistence of all nations"); abiding by international rule of law inherits the governance wisdom of "Dazhi Zhizhi (大智治制)" ("great wisdom governs the system") and "Fa Yu Shi Yi (法与时移)" ("law changes with the times"); practicing multilateralism carries the spiritual pursuit of "Qiu Tong Cun Yi (求同存异)" ("seeking common ground while reserving differences") and "Hezhong Gongji (和衷共济)" ("working together in harmony"); advocating people-centeredness demonstrates the deep feelings of "Min Wei Bangben (民为邦本)" ("the people are the foundation of the country") and "Li Yuan Wei Xian (黎元为先)" ("the people are the priority"); and emphasizing action-orientedness embodies the practical spirit of "Zhi Xing He Yi (知行合一)" ("unity of knowledge and action") and "Kai Wu Cheng Wu (开物成务)" ("exploring things and achieving tasks"). The Global Governance Initiative provides a civilization enlightenment that transcends time and space for solving global problems by promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of outstanding traditional Chinese culture under new historical conditions.

The Global Governance Initiative Runs Through the Standpoint, Viewpoint and Method of Marxism

Marxism is a powerful ideological weapon for us to understand and transform the world, and it is the fundamental guiding ideology for the Communist Party of China to establish and govern the country and revitalize the Party and the country. Xi Jinping's (习近平) diplomatic thought adheres to Marxism as the soul and the outstanding traditional Chinese culture as the root, and further promotes the Sinicization of Marxism in the context of the times. As the latest achievement in the rich development of Xi Jinping's (习近平) diplomatic thought, the Global Governance Initiative adheres to the standpoint, viewpoint, and method of Marxism and has powerful truth and practical power.

Adhering to the people's standpoint. The people-oriented nature is the most distinctive characteristic of Marxism, and Marxism is a theory for seeking the liberation of all mankind. China's value orientation in participating in global governance is people-centered. The Global Governance Initiative insists on taking the people of all countries as the fundamental participants and beneficiaries of global governance. Only by taking the well-being of the people as the goal and bringing tangible benefits to the people of all countries can the global governance system have deep support and a solid foundation of public opinion. To practice the Global Governance Initiative is to strive to turn the people's yearning for a better life into reality. By reforming and improving global governance, we will gradually narrow the North-South gap, promote common development, promote the process of human modernization, and enhance the sense of gain of the people of all countries; safeguard world peace, ensure common security, better respond to the common challenges of all mankind, and enhance the sense of security of the people of all countries; eliminate ideological barriers between different countries and different groups, prosper the garden of world civilizations, and enhance the sense of happiness of the people of all countries.

Being good at upholding principles and innovating. Upholding principles and innovating is an important ideological method for our Party to govern the country in the new era. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "What we are engaged in is a great cause unprecedented in history. Upholding principles is the only way to avoid losing our direction and making subversive mistakes, and innovation is the only way to grasp the times and lead the times." The Global Governance Initiative scientifically applies the worldview and methodology of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, adheres to and develops the Marxist theory of world history and the concept of community, starts from the basic reality and fundamental trend of the shared destiny of human society and the shared responsibility of global governance, advocates unity and cooperation as the correct path to solve global problems, and constantly gathers the consensus and strength of wanting unity and not division, wanting cooperation and not confrontation, and wanting justice and not hegemony. On this basis, the Global Governance Initiative focuses on innovating and improving global governance, enhancing the execution and effectiveness of the current international system and international mechanisms, supporting the United Nations to revitalize its authority and vitality under the new situation, promoting reforms such as the International Monetary Fund quota and the World Bank voting rights, and promoting global governance to better adapt to the needs of the new situation.

Using systematic thinking. Systematic thinking is an important method and tool for Marxism to understand and transform the world. The Global Governance Initiative has a complete system and rigorous logic. The five core concepts complement each other and are organically unified, anchoring the principles, methods, and paths for the reform of the global governance system, and comprehensively answering the major propositions of "who governs, how to govern, and for whom to govern" global issues. In response to the current complex international situation and severe global challenges, the Global Governance Initiative advocates systematic planning and overall promotion of various global governance agendas, coordinating global actions, both promoting the solution of urgent problems at hand and effectively responding to long-term challenges in the future. The four global initiatives, the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, have their own focuses and run in parallel without conflict, forming an organic whole that promotes prosperity through development, ensures stability through security, increases mutual trust through civilization, and seeks justice through governance, and together become the strategic guidance for promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.
Adhering to the practical viewpoint. Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth. This is the core viewpoint of Marxist epistemology and the basic viewpoint of the Marxist view of truth. The Global Governance Initiative comes from China's practice of participating in and leading the reform and construction of the global governance system, and it must also return to the practice of promoting the improvement of global governance. The Global Governance Initiative focuses on the practical issues of greatest concern to all countries, especially developing countries, and pays attention to continuously enriching the methods and paths for reforming and improving global governance in policy communication and coordination with all parties. In areas where governance is urgently needed and the governance deficit is large, such as outer space, cyberspace, climate change, trade liberalization, investment facilitation, and biodiversity protection, as well as firmly safeguarding the authority and core position of the United Nations and supporting the United Nations in implementing the "Pact for the Future," the Global Governance Initiative advocates that all parties actively take actions, increase communication and cooperation, and promote consensus building and locking in results. The Global Governance Initiative stands at the forefront of the times, further expanding the areas of cooperation in global governance and promoting global governance to keep up with the pace of technological development. Many countries and international organizations have stated that they look forward to taking the implementation of this initiative as an opportunity to promote new achievements in the reform and construction of the global governance system.

Ideology leads the direction, and hard work creates brilliance. We must unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) diplomatic thought, fully implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party and the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, temper our political character, deepen theoretical arming, strengthen capacity building, promote the spirit of hard work, strengthen our sense of mission and responsibility, better promote the implementation of the Global Governance Initiative, help build a more just and reasonable global governance system, and strive unremittingly to write a new chapter in building a community with a shared future for mankind.

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The Improvement of Work Style Should Be Tangible and Accessible to the People (Ideological Review)

By: 何华云

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The Party's work style is the Party's image." To strengthen the Party's work style construction, we must consciously accept the supervision and evaluation of the people, and ensure that the construction results are tangible and accessible. Making it tangible and accessible to the people means allowing the people to feel the real changes in work style; it means taking work style construction as a practical action to closely connect with the people, and constantly winning the trust and support of the people with new achievements in work style construction.

For more than 100 years, our Party has continuously grown and achieved great success. An important experience is to always regard a good work style as its lifeblood. It is precisely in personally feeling the Party's good work style that the people have strengthened their belief and confidence in working together with the Party and striving with the Party. From the "Three Main Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention," the people saw that the revolutionary army led by the Communist Party was completely different from the old army, and "joining the Red Army" became the firm choice of the people. From the "Ten No's" in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region (陕甘宁边区), the people saw the new atmosphere of the "Yan'an Work Style," and "going to Yan'an (延安)" became the choice of tens of thousands of young people. The "Two Musts" are the Party's self-warning against being divorced from the people while in power, inspiring the people to devote themselves to socialist construction. Since the new era, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) as the core has taken the formulation and implementation of the Central Eight-Point Regulation as an entry point and mobilization order to improve work style, taking real action and addressing both symptoms and root causes, reshaping the Party's image in the hearts of the people. There is less public funds spent on eating and drinking, the use of official vehicles is more standardized, the trend of public funds for tourism has been curbed, doors are easier to enter, procedures are simplified, and things are more convenient to handle... The people have personally experienced that the unhealthy tendencies around them have been effectively rectified, and the sense of gain brought about by the change in atmosphere is becoming more and more substantial.

The people's understanding and evaluation of the Party's cause and Party members and cadres focuses mostly on work style, and the most profound impressions are all in the details. To make work style improvement tangible and accessible to the people, we must start with small things and small details, and exert efforts in subtle places. When Gu Wenchang (谷文昌) went to the countryside, he always carried a hoe with him. Wherever he went, he would work with the masses, inspiring them with his own practical actions, and finally turning Dongshan (东山) into a green island. We should be cautious about small things and restrain ourselves in small details, build a strong dam in small things and small details, and prevent small problems from evolving into big problems. Jiao Yulu (焦裕禄) was good at grasping some small things to enlighten and educate cadres and their families. Through small things such as his son watching a play without paying, he noticed the problem that cadres' families and children should not be given special treatment, and drafted and formulated the "Ten Prohibitions for Cadres." By establishing rules on one small thing after another, he established a good image of the Party.

The "Suggestions" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (党的二十届四中全会) proposed: "Persevere in implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation, resolutely curb all kinds of unhealthy tendencies, and promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style construction." Work style problems have stubbornness and repetitiveness. If you grasp it, there will be improvement, but if you relax, it will rebound. If we grasp and relax in improving work style, not only will we not receive substantial results, but it will also make the bad work style rebound more severely, and it will also leave the people with the impression of "**作秀**" (zuò xiù - "putting on a show," to engage in pretentious or superficial actions). Improving work style is not difficult for a while, but it is difficult to persist for a long time. We must make improving work style a "four-season wind" rather than a "**一阵风**" (yī zhèn fēng - "a gust of wind," a short-lived trend); let the people feel it every day, rather than occasionally. This requires Party members and cadres to insist on integrating correcting the "**四风**" (sì fēng - "four winds," formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance) and establishing a new style into daily life and turning it into a habit, so that every task and every link reflects the requirements of work style construction. We should combine the requirements of the Party Central Committee (党中央), the expectations of the masses, and the experience of the grassroots, improve a complete and systematic institutional system, and ensure the normalization and long-term effectiveness of improving work style with rigid institutional regulations and strict institutional implementation.

The people's view of work style construction is not about how many meetings have been held, how many words have been spoken, or how many documents have been issued, but about what problems have been solved. The people know best and have the most say in how well the work style has been improved. To make work style improvement tangible and accessible to the people, we must do more things that the people can see, touch, and benefit from, solve the worries of "**柴米油盐**" (chái mǐ yóu yán - "firewood, rice, oil, and salt," basic necessities of life), meet the needs of "**衣食住行**" (yī shí zhù xíng - "clothing, food, housing, and transportation," basic necessities of life), and respond to the complaints of "**酸甜苦辣**" (suān tián kǔ là - "sour, sweet, bitter, spicy," all aspects of life). At the same time, we must focus on the fundamental and long-term interests of the people, establish a correct view of political achievements that benefits the people and fulfills responsibilities for the Party, abandon selfish thoughts and distractions, get rid of utilitarian mentality, and not engage in "**面子工程**" (miàn zi gōng chéng - "face project," projects done for appearances), "**形象工程**" (xíng xiàng gōng chéng - "image project," projects done for appearances), or "**半拉子工程**" (bàn lā zi gōng chéng - "half-finished project," incomplete projects), promote the spirit of responsibility and struggle, and persistently do good and practical things that lay the foundation and benefit the long term.

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Let data empower governance to return to its original purpose.

By: 王洪树 韩晓梅

With the accelerated advancement of a new round of technological revolution, emerging technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence are profoundly influencing socio-economic development and national governance. Digital empowerment of governance is a modern governance model based on data, supported by technology, and guided by collaboration. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must fully implement the strategy of a strong cyber nation, widely apply digital technology to government management and services, promote the digital and intelligent operation of the government, and provide strong support for promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities." The "Suggestions" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) proposed to "comprehensively implement the 'Artificial Intelligence+' action" and "strengthen the integration of artificial intelligence with industrial development, cultural construction, people's livelihood security, and social governance." Digital empowerment of governance not only promotes the comprehensive acceleration of digital government construction, enhances governance effectiveness through data-driven approaches, but also accelerates the formation of a collaborative governance pattern involving multiple stakeholders, representing a systemic reshaping of the governance system and capabilities.

Digital empowerment of governance has a triple logic. First, the logic of institutional innovation: the intelligent governance system driven by data and optimized by algorithms breaks through the hierarchical limitations of the traditional bureaucracy and can promote positive interaction between government management, social adjustment, and mass autonomy. Second, the logic of capacity enhancement: using data as a resource and algorithms as productivity, it realizes the transformation from "people running errands" to "data running errands" and from "passive response" to "active perception," which helps make decisions more scientific, execution more precise, and services more efficient. Third, the logic of value orientation: the use of intelligent means is conducive to accurately identifying public opinion, realizing a closed-loop governance of public sentiment gathering, policy response, and service implementation, which is closer to people's livelihood and responds to public opinion.

Entering the new era, the construction of Digital China (数字中国) is steadily advancing. From one-stop online government services to the intelligent upgrading of urban governance, digital technology is comprehensively embedded in the government's operating mechanism, reshaping the political and administrative ecology. It should also be noted that in this digital transformation process, some localities have experienced a mismatch between technology application and governance logic. The stubborn maladies of formalism are "married" to digital technology, giving rise to new "digital formalism," which transforms technology empowerment into a formal burden. For example, platform operation is insufficient, and some digital government systems focus on construction but neglect application, failing to effectively support governance goals; the orientation towards leaving traces is too heavy, and process management and data retention become the focus of assessment, with governance entities emphasizing form rather than substance; indicator-based evaluation excessively relies on quantitative data, obscuring the real needs of society. From the perspective of social governance, the championship logic and utilitarian thinking in digital formalism lead some governance entities to cover up "governance hollowness" with "digital brilliance." The result is weakening governance effectiveness, with the prosperity of data appearances concealing real problems, making it difficult for grassroots governance to accurately respond to public needs; increasing governance costs, with repeated reporting and layer-by-layer retention consuming manpower and time, reducing the efficiency of public services; and damaging the credibility of governance entities, with digital embellishment and indicator-based coping weakening public trust in policy implementation.

In October of this year, the Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办) and the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) jointly issued the "Guidelines for the Deployment and Application of Artificial Intelligence Large Models in the Political and Administrative Field," which clearly stated that government departments should coordinate burden reduction and empowerment, avoid blindly pursuing technological leadership and conceptual innovation, and effectively prevent "digital formalism." Preventing "digital formalism" in governance is crucial to allowing digital empowerment of governance to return to its original position, promoting digitalization to better serve social governance, and truly making it an "enabler" for improving governance effectiveness and optimizing public services.

Use scientific concepts to guide the direction of digital empowerment development, and promote the unification of technological logic and governance logic. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed that we should "be good at using Internet technology and information technology to carry out work." In governance, digitalization is the means, and effectiveness is the goal. We must take people's needs as the guide, focus the starting point and foothold of digital governance on improving public services and improving people's livelihoods, abandon "technological determinism" and "data determinism," realize the organic integration of technological rationality and public rationality, and promote the transformation of digital transformation from "technology-driven" to "governance-driven."

Use institutional norms to ensure intensive and efficient digital governance, and improve institutional supply and mechanism coordination. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "We must strengthen Internet thinking, use the flat, interactive, and fast advantages of the Internet to promote the scientific nature of government decision-making, the precision of social governance, and the efficiency of public services." To this end, we should improve the full life cycle management mechanism of digital governance projects, strengthen project approval demonstration, process evaluation, and dynamic adjustment, prevent redundant construction and waste of resources; improve the cross-departmental, cross-level, and cross-regional data sharing system, break down "data silos," and realize the intensive allocation of governance information resources.

Use capacity building to consolidate the foundation of digital governance, and improve the digital literacy and collaborative capabilities of governance entities. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that party committees and governments at all levels should "be good at using the advantages of the Internet, and focus on integration, sharing, convenience, and security." The core of digital governance lies in people, and the key lies in capabilities. We need to strengthen institutionalized training and practical learning, enhance the ability of governance entities to analyze data, make intelligent decisions, and interact with the public; promote the integration of data thinking, system thinking, and collaborative thinking, build a professional team that understands data, can govern, and is good at collaboration, and make digitalization a powerful support for improving governance effectiveness.

Use technological innovation to drive the transformation of governance methods, and promote intelligent transformation and efficient collaboration. The innovation of digital governance stems from the deep integration of technology and governance. Using new technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and cloud computing as engines, build an intelligent closed-loop system for data collection, analysis, decision-making, and feedback. Strengthen algorithm governance and data security management, and improve privacy protection and ethical review mechanisms; drive governance method innovation through technological innovation, realize the transformation from experience-based decision-making to intelligent decision-making, and from decentralized management to collaborative governance, so that digital technology can better empower the improvement of social governance effectiveness.

(Author's affiliation: Marxist College, Sichuan University (四川大学))

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Zao粕 vinegar, from fisherman's sour soup to intangible cultural heritage card (China Highlights: A taste of the land)

By: 海口日报记者 高 潮

"Come, have a sip of soup first!" On November 13th, the dregs vinegar hot pot restaurants near Haikou Qilou Old Street (海口骑楼老街) were bustling with activity.

The soup base bubbled away, and diner Chen Lianqing (陈连清) scooped up a spoonful and sent it into his mouth. His taste buds instantly ignited a "mini-storm." The dregs vinegar, integrating "sour, spicy, fresh, and sweet," was appetizingly sour and spicy, with a rich, fresh, and sweet taste. "This is the taste! One sip and you're 'hooked.' This is Hainan's 'soul sour soup'!" He smacked his lips in satisfaction.

This sour soup that gets people "hooked" originates from Puqian Town (铺前镇), Wenchang City (文昌市), Hainan. Local residents use the dregs, a byproduct of winemaking, as a raw material, fermenting it a second time, diluting and boiling it to make a sour vinegar soup base. Paired with seafood, vegetables, and other ingredients, they create a mildly spicy and sweet "sour soup" flavor, embodying the fishing wisdom of northern Hainan's coastal areas.

This strand of sour, spicy, fresh, and fragrant flavor frequently "breaks the circle" with its unique taste: The Puqian Dregs Vinegar Cooking Technique has been included in the fifth batch of Wenchang City-level Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative Project List, and the Haikou Dregs Vinegar Making Technique has been selected into the sixth batch of Haikou City-level Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative Project List.

How can a pot of dregs vinegar be so popular? The key to making dregs vinegar lies in "fermentation"—using the distiller's grains after winemaking as a starter, fermenting it a second time to brew a vinegar juice that is sour and spicy, and then boiling it into a soup base.

How can this traditional sour soup go out of the island, to the whole country and even the world? With policy support and market driving, the ancient technique of dregs vinegar is completing the transformation from traditional handicraft to modern industry, moving towards scale and standardization.

Walking into the modern factory of a food technology company in Ding'an County (定安县), Hainan, the production line is well-organized with raw material screening, fermentation temperature control, sterilization and filling, and intelligent testing. Today, Ding'an County has formed a dregs vinegar industrial cluster.

Zhang Hanbing (张寒冰), the head of a distinctive dregs vinegar brand, adheres to the traditional fermentation flavor, combines modern biotechnology with standardized production, extends the shelf life of dregs vinegar, and precisely controls the acidity and yeast aroma through technical means. "Our team has participated in many promotion activities and promoted dregs vinegar products overseas," said Zhang Hanbing.

As a representative inheritor of the Haikou Dregs Vinegar Making Technique, Yang Yicheng (杨翊诚) is working hard to deeply integrate the century-old fishing family fermentation process with modern food technology to break through the bottleneck of preservation and transportation. Today, with the policy advantages of the Hainan Free Trade Port, dregs vinegar is rapidly going overseas as a cultural symbol, and more and more dregs vinegar brands are beginning to land in overseas markets, exporting to the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries and regions.

Yin Xiaojing (殷晓静), Deputy Director of the Food Production Supervision and Administration Department of the Hainan Provincial Market Supervision and Administration Bureau, introduced that in order to ensure the smooth export of Hainan dregs vinegar products, the bureau has formed a working group to deliver policies to enterprises, guide enterprises to standardize production processes, establish a sound quality and safety management control system, and enhance the export competitiveness of enterprises.

The "Implementation Plan for Promoting High-Quality Development of the Dregs Vinegar Industry in Hainan Province (2025-2030)" released this year clearly states that the "Dregs Vinegar Making Technique" will be promoted from the city level to the provincial and national intangible cultural heritage levels, and promote dregs vinegar to enter the fast lane of industrial development.

Industry data witnesses the popularity of dregs vinegar: In 2024, the output value of the Hainan dregs vinegar industry is about 100 million yuan. As of the first half of this year, there are more than 270 production and catering entities related to dregs vinegar in Hainan Province, more than half of which are newly established brands in the past 5 years.

"Dregs vinegar +" is bringing unlimited possibilities to this traditional delicacy, and "all ingredients can be dregs vinegar" is gradually becoming a reality.

In Haikou, many restaurants have launched "dregs vinegar themed banquets," deeply integrating traditional hot pot with local Hainan ingredients, and also derived cross-border fusion dishes of dregs vinegar, attracting young diners to check in and taste fresh. "We don't want it to stay only at the nostalgic level. Traditional dregs vinegar needs innovative research and development to meet new taste experiences," said Li Zi (李子), a young chef dedicated to Hainan cuisine innovation. "It can become a representative symbol of Hainan cuisine and move towards a broader stage."

Currently, Puqian Town is actively promoting the deep integration of "dregs vinegar + tourism." Mulang Bay (木兰湾) Cultural Experience Hall, Dregs Vinegar Industrial Park and other projects are also underway... Wenchang City plans to build a dregs vinegar cultural experience hall, so that tourists can experience the unique flavor of sour soup and also deeply understand the cultural connotation behind it.

Protect the old taste and find the right new path. Dregs vinegar is full of fresh ingredients, and also full of vivid stories that allow Hainan flavor to ride the east wind of Hainan Free Trade Port construction and forge ahead.

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Experiential research should not stop at "experiencing" (Listening to the World)

By: 赵晓曦

Recently, a video of a deputy district head of Changping District (昌平区) in Beijing (北京市) encountering a "triple rejection" while experiencing the morning rush hour parking of electric bicycles outside a subway station has sparked heated discussions. It turns out that he tried to find a standardized parking space within 5 minutes but was told that there was no place to park, parking was not allowed here, and the pedestrian passage was not for parking... Many netizens said, "It's like watching my daily commute."

The reason why this video has attracted attention is not only because it truly reflects the realistic pain points, but also because in this experiential research, some people feel that their demands have been respected.

In recent years, many places have organized party members and cadres to conduct experiential research. Some experience the urgency of delivery drivers from receiving orders to delivering meals, and some transform into online car-hailing drivers to feel the congestion of urban traffic during the morning and evening peak hours... These personal experiences are more intuitive than the cases in documents and the data from questionnaire statistics. Grassroots affairs are numerous and complicated. It is the significance of experiential research for party members and cadres to change roles, experience deeply, and understand public sentiment and opinions.

However, experiential research cannot stop at "personal experience" and "feeling." Grassroots cadres cannot only gain the feeling of "not easy" and "very hard." Whether the "experience" can become an important reference for decision-making and ultimately be transformed into governance effectiveness is the key to testing the success of the research.

On the one hand, through experiencing individual cases, it is possible to think about the universality of the problems behind them: The urgency of delivery drivers reflects what mismatches exist between the delivery system, traffic management, and platform algorithms? The congestion of service windows exposes what redundancies in processes, data barriers, and ambiguities in powers and responsibilities exist? On the other hand, the problem list found in the experiential research needs to be transformed into a task list for improving governance. Some places, after organizing grassroots cadres to experience the daily work of delivery drivers and couriers, not only formulate relevant policies for riders and establish rider-friendly communities and restaurants, but also negotiate and study with transportation departments to optimize delivery routes and promote platform reform of reward and punishment mechanisms, further improving the pertinence and humanistic care of policy formulation.

The value of experiential research should be tested by the sense of gain of the masses. Cadres must go deep into the grassroots, into the hearts of the grassroots, and ultimately to the grassroots, so that the "empathy" in the research can be transformed into the effectiveness of "**解决一个问题，理顺一类机制**" (jiě jué yī gè wèn tí, lǐ shùn yī lèi jī zhì - "solve a problem, streamline a type of mechanism," to address specific issues and improve systemic processes).

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Fifteen County Party Secretaries Relay to "Lift Up" a Single Fruit

By: 浙江日报记者 赵璐洁 唐逸涵

On November 11th, in Changshan County (常山县), Quzhou City (衢州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), the Changshan Huyou (常山胡柚) pomelo officially began its harvest season.

The mountains and fields are covered with Huyou trees laden with golden fruit. Pomelo farmers shuttle through the groves, picking and packing the Huyou into baskets. It is estimated that the total output value of the entire Changshan Huyou industrial chain will exceed 7 billion yuan this year.

"We can harvest as many Huyou as we can get, and we don't have to worry about sales." Wang Mingtu (汪明土), the head of a professional cooperative at the Huyou planting base in Qingshi Town (青石镇), said that this year he reached a sales agreement with a fruit and vegetable company. His own base's Huyou is not enough to sell, so he also needs to mobilize surrounding pomelo farmers to form a group to supply the goods.

The "highlight" of Changshan Huyou is due to the relay of 15 successive county party secretaries who have treated Huyou as a pillar industry of the agricultural economy.

Changshan Huyou was originally a wild fruit in the mountains, but now it has become a "fruit of prosperity" for local farmers. This is not the result of overnight success. In the 1980s, the then county party secretary began to study and develop Huyou. In the following 10 years, a planting boom swept across the county. Although it was awarded the title of national high-quality agricultural product, Changshan Huyou faced the dilemma of difficult sales for a long time due to market environment, taste quality, and other factors. During the low ebb of development, among the successive county party secretaries, some supported and encouraged leading enterprises to help pomelo farmers open up sales channels, while others led teams to other provinces to hold promotion conferences and continuously improve the popularity of Huyou...

Selling fresh fruit has made it difficult to achieve a significant breakthrough in prices for a long time. After years of practice and repeated research and judgment, in recent years, Changshan County (常山县) has positioned the transformation and upgrading of the Huyou industry in intensive processing, which can not only digest the surplus of fresh Huyou fruit, but also increase the added value of products. After the development track of the entire Huyou industrial chain, focusing on intensive processing, gradually became clear, the then county party secretary led intensive processing enterprises to learn from experience and introduced a number of enterprises focusing on intensive processing of special fruit and vegetable products. At present, Changshan (常山) has 21 Huyou intensive processing enterprises, developing 108 products in 8 major categories, including beverages, with an intensive processing conversion rate of 65%.

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Humanoid Robots' Human "Teachers" (New Things Around Us)

By: 张鸿伟

Not long ago, I saw the humanoid robot "Kuafu" 4Pro, which I had debugged, moving boxes and picking parts in a factory for the first time. A sense of pride arose spontaneously.

"Kuafu" 4Pro is about 1.66 meters tall and weighs about 55 kilograms, with a silver and black body. Depending on the application scenario, the end effector can be replaced with splints, "dexterous hands," etc., to replace humans in complex and heavy work.

In June of this year, after graduating from university, I became a humanoid robot application development engineer. How to better apply humanoid robots to industrial production has become the main content of my work. This process requires repeated modification of code and verification before the desired result can be obtained. I believe that as our technology matures and our experience grows, the debugging cycle will become shorter and shorter.

The industry we are engaged in is an emerging field. Although we will face certain difficulties and challenges, constantly discovering and solving problems is the joy of the work. In the future, I hope to develop more and more application scenarios so that humanoid robots can better serve economic and social development.

(The author is a humanoid robot application development engineer, interviewed and compiled by Tian Xianjin (田先进), a reporter from this newspaper)

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Express Delivery from All Directions

Yan'an Apple of Shaanxi Achieves Eleventh "Space Flight"
　　People's Daily, Yan'an (延安), November 19th (Correspondent Li Jiangfeng (李江峰)) Recently, Yan'an (延安) apples from Shaanxi (陕西) successfully achieved their eleventh "space flight" aboard the Shenzhou-21 (神舟二十一号) manned spacecraft.
　　In recent years, Huangling County (黄陵县) in Yan'an City (延安市) has taken "space flight" apples as a benchmark, introducing new and superior varieties, and precisely matching aerospace-grade preservation needs by building high-standard demonstration parks, intelligent fruit sorting lines, and mobile cold storage. In 2024, the total output value of the Huangling County (黄陵县) apple industry chain exceeded 2.4 billion yuan.

　　Forest Coverage Rate in Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) of Hebei (河北) Increases to 35.1%
　　People's Daily, Shijiazhuang (石家庄), November 19th (Reporter Shi Ziqiang (史自强)) The reporter learned from Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) in Hebei (河北) that as of now, the forest coverage rate in Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) has increased from 11% before its establishment to 35.1%, with a cumulative greening area of 741,000 mu.
　　It is reported that Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) is vigorously promoting the construction of a national under-forest economy demonstration base, making full use of under-forest space to develop various production models such as ecological breeding, and helping to broaden the channels for increasing farmers' income.

　　Hubei (湖北) New Employment Groups Have "Exclusive School"
　　People's Daily, Wuhan (武汉), November 19th (Reporter Fan Haotian (范昊天)) On the 15th, Hubei Emerging Academy (湖北新兴学院), the first training school in Hubei Province (湖北省) dedicated to serving new employment groups, welcomed its first batch of 305 new students. These new students come from groups such as food delivery riders, express delivery couriers, and online car-hailing drivers.
　　The academy's first batch of majors includes big data technology, e-commerce, and internet and new media, and provides skill certifications for more than 20 types of work, such as network marketers.

　　Digital Regional Collaborative Local Standard for Yellow River (黄河) Basin Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Released
　　People's Daily, Chengdu (成都), November 19th (Reporter Li Kaixuan (李凯旋)) The nine provinces (regions) along the Yellow River (黄河) recently jointly released the regional collaborative local standard "Digital Construction Specification for Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection in the Yellow River (黄河) Basin" in Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川).
　　This standard is the first regional collaborative digital construction specification in the field of intangible cultural heritage protection in the Yellow River (黄河) Basin, marking a key step taken by the nine provinces (regions) along the Yellow River (黄河) in promoting the joint construction and sharing of cultural resources and building a digital collaborative governance system.

　　Jiangsu (江苏) Launches Digital Science Popularization Map
　　Xinhua Daily, Nanjing (南京), November 19th (Reporter Cai Shuwen (蔡姝雯)) Recently, the Jiangsu Province (江苏省) Digital Science Popularization Map, which includes 561 science popularization venues, was officially launched, realizing "one-stop access" to science popularization venue resources in Jiangsu Province (江苏省).
　　The venues included in the digital science popularization map cover all prefecture-level cities and counties (cities, districts) in Jiangsu Province (江苏省), including comprehensive science and technology museums, scientist spirit education bases, etc.; the 130 science popularization research routes launched cover multiple fields such as natural science and engineering technology.

　　Dongying (东营), Shandong (山东), Delineates Drone Control Zone During Migratory Bird Migration Season
　　Dazhong Daily, Dongying (东营), November 19th (Reporter Yang Ke (杨珂)) Five departments in Dongying City (东营市), Shandong (山东) recently jointly issued a relevant announcement, establishing a unmanned aerial vehicle control zone in the Shandong Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve (山东黄河三角洲国家级自然保护区) and surrounding 3-kilometer range bird foraging and habitat areas, implementing seasonal temporary flight control.
　　According to the announcement, the local unmanned aerial vehicle flight control periods are the annual autumn migratory bird migration period (October 10 to December 31) and the spring migratory bird migration period (February 20 to April 30).

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Experienced farmers "go to school" to learn techniques

By: 本报通讯员 李中迪

"I've learned something! It turns out that changing the way we plant rapeseed can significantly increase the yield per mu." On November 16th, Wu Shuizhi (吴水芝), a 46-year-old villager from Fujing Village (富江村), Xuanwei Town (宣威镇), Majiang County (麻江县), Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture (黔东南苗族侗族自治州), Guizhou (贵州), chatted with fellow villagers about "learning to farm" after a week of "school," and this experienced farmer exclaimed.

The "farming classroom" Wu Shuizhi attends every day is the third phase of the 2025 High-Quality Farmer Training Program organized by Majiang County (麻江县), specifically the Grain and Oil Class. Speaking of the original intention of "learning to farm," Wu Shuizhi (吴水芝) said, "Although we have been working with the land for many years, we only know traditional methods. Now, to be a farmer, you must also understand technology."

During the field practice class, Wu Chenyan (吴臣艳), the head of the Majiang County Agricultural Technology Extension Station (麻江县农业技术推广站) and the training class teacher, said something that Wu Shuizhi (吴水芝) remembers vividly: "Reasonable close planting can lead to higher rapeseed yields."

Wu Shuizhi (吴水芝) calculated that half of his family's 20 mu of rapeseed had just been planted, and the other half could be planted using the scientific planting methods he had just learned.

The 2025 Majiang County (麻江县) High-Quality Farmer Training Program was launched at the end of October, focusing on farmers' needs, using fields as classrooms, and practical training as a starting point. It constructs a "theory + practice + expansion" training system, with 150 participating students divided into three classes: vegetable and fruit planting class, animal epidemic prevention class, and grain and oil class, each taught separately.

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How to Make Whole Grain Foods More Popular

By: 新华社记者 蒋 成 叶 婧

Do you often eat oats, buckwheat, or quinoa? Do you know which foods are whole grains? So-called whole-grain foods are made primarily from whole grains, with the whole-grain content reaching a certain proportion. At the end of 2024, seven departments issued the "National Whole Grain Action Plan (2024-2035)," which aims to increase the supply and consumption of whole grains, help reduce food waste and losses, and improve food security and people's health.

In order to promote a dynamic balance between the supply and consumption of whole-grain foods, enterprises in many regions are promoting the innovation of key common technologies for whole grains to create whole-grain foods that are more in line with public consumption characteristics and habits. The preparation technology of high-quality whole wheat flour and whole wheat flour products led by the Grain Storage and Loss Reduction Team of the Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences (山东省农业科学院) has now been promoted and applied. Enterprises in Yantai (烟台), Qingdao (青岛) and other places use this technology to realize the large-scale production of products such as quick-frozen whole wheat pancakes and whole wheat noodles, and the market response is good.

Wang Jingjing (王晶晶), an expert from the Global Food Economics and Policy Research Institute of China Agricultural University (中国农业大学), suggested increasing the analysis of the environmental effects, nutritional and health effects, and food security effects of whole grains in the entire chain of production, storage, transportation, processing, and consumption; accelerating the formulation and revision of national and industry standards for whole grain terminology, classification, labeling, and inspection and testing; and strengthening the formulation and revision of standards for whole grain raw materials, whole grain staple foods, and whole grain convenience foods.

(According to Xinhua News Agency (新华社))

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Autumn break "online," what are the gains?

By: 新华社记者

From November 12th to 14th, primary and secondary school students in many places ushered in a 3-day autumn break. What did the students gain? How should schools, families, and society coordinate?

In September of this year, nine departments issued relevant documents proposing to explore the establishment of spring and autumn breaks for primary and secondary schools. Recently, Guangdong (广东), Zhejiang (浙江), Sichuan (四川), Hubei (湖北), Shaanxi (陕西) and other places ushered in a wave of autumn breaks, and cultural tourism consumption has shown new changes.

Many scenic spots in Zhejiang (浙江) launched "Autumn Break Exclusive Free Tours," with discounts basically covering the entire November. In Sichuan (四川), the Qingcheng Mountain-Dujiangyan Scenic Area (青城山—都江堰景区) in Chengdu (成都市) offers free tickets to primary and secondary school students nationwide...

Foshan City (佛山市), Guangdong (广东) Province, is piloting a spring and autumn break system for primary and secondary schools throughout the city. From November 12th to 16th, air ticket bookings departing from Foshan (佛山) increased by 2.76 times year-on-year. On the first day of the autumn break at Sanshui South Station (三水南站) of Foshan High-speed Railway (佛山高铁), family travelers with children became the main force of travel.

Stepping out of the classroom, the children experienced labor and harvest. At the Gaopo Village Pastoral School (高坡村田园学堂) in Jianyang City (简阳市), Sichuan (四川), the children dug sweet potatoes, picked tangerines, and harvested sugar cane... Wang Jiao (王焦), the person in charge of the activity project, said: "The children learned about the solar terms and experienced farming, and gained a lot."

Museums, science and technology museums, and workshops and factories have become "special classrooms." During the autumn break, more than 300 first-year students from Guangzhou Experimental Middle School (广东广州实验中学) in Guangdong (广东) went to Jiangsu (江苏) for a fulfilling study tour. In the study tour manual, the students wrote their feelings: We touched the temperature of history in the Nanjing Museum (南京博物院), and savored Xin Qiji's (辛弃疾) feelings for his country and family at Beiguting (北固亭)...

What if parents don't have a vacation? Many places are exploring ways such as on-campus托管, community 托管, and school study tours, and all parties are also exploring coordination. For example, starting from the spring break this year, Hangzhou City (杭州市), Zhejiang (浙江) Province, has comprehensively promoted 托管 services. Kong Yongguo (孔永国), a member of the Party Group and Chief Supervisor of the Hangzhou Municipal Education Bureau (杭州市教育局), introduced that if parents do not have time to take care of their children, the school can provide free 托管, which is not simply letting students study and rest in the classroom, but carrying out sports, art, science and technology activities to allow students to get more practice.

(According to Xinhua News Agency, reporters Yang Yang (杨洋), Zhao Yining (赵怡宁), Zheng Tianhong (郑天虹), Zheng Keyi (郑可意))

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Two Maps to Deepen the Integration of Culture, Tourism, and Sports

By: 南方日报记者 唐子湉

Recently, Guangdong (广东) released shopping and food maps, extending an invitation to shop, eat, and buy. The "Guangdong Food Map (广东美食地图)" features nearly 300 landmark specialty foods, guiding consumers to experience "Eating in Guangdong (食在广东)." The "Guangdong Shopping Map (广东购物地图)" provides clear guidance, allowing one-click navigation to stores.

From November this year to the end of March 2026, the "Enjoy Warm Winter, Enjoy Touring Guangdong (粤享暖冬  乐游广东)" consumption season event will continue. Guangdong Province (广东省) has specifically added 3.5 billion yuan in fiscal funds to promote consumption, allowing people in and coming to Guangdong (广东) to experience a panoramic view of "Watching the National Games, Welcoming the Summit, Touring Guangdong (广东), Tasting Delicious Food, Enjoying Beautiful Scenery, and Purchasing Quality Products."

As an important part of the consumption season activities, the release of the two maps is also a positive exploration by Guangdong (广东) to activate the winter consumption market, promote continued warming of consumption, deepen the integration of culture, tourism, and sports, and optimize the consumer experience.

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Winter packages stimulate new consumption vitality.

By: 本报记者 尚嵘峥

Recently, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区) Department of Culture and Tourism launched a winter tourism discount "gift package," integrating key cultural and tourism consumption scenarios in Xinjiang (新疆), inviting tourists from all over to join the "Hot Snow Xinjiang (热雪新疆)" experience.

45,000 ice and snow tourism consumption coupons will be distributed in 6 rounds, covering 11 high-quality 4S-level or above ski resorts in Urumqi (乌鲁木齐), Changji (昌吉), and other places, which can meet the requirements of beginners, professional enthusiasts, parents and children, and other different consumer groups for geographical environment and skiing characteristics.

More than 150 A-level tourist attractions have launched benefits such as free tickets, half-price tickets, and discounts. Among them, more than 10 4A-level or above tourist attractions in Ili (伊犁), such as Kalajun (喀拉峻) and Narati (那拉提), and 32 A-level tourist attractions in Hotan (和田) are open for free.

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National Games Arena: A Surge of "New" Trends (Grand View of the National Games)

The 15th National Games of China is nearing its end, with the spirited performances of Chinese athletes resonating across Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau. The new forces, new events, and new changes on the National Games arena are painting a picture of boundless brilliance in Chinese sports.

New Forces

At this National Games, Zhang Zhanshuo (张展硕), a swimmer from the Shandong team, has attracted considerable attention. The 18-year-old won a total of 5 gold medals at the Universiade Center Swimming Pool in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东), setting one world youth record and three national youth records in three freestyle events.

The youthful energy in the pool is not limited to Zhang Zhanshuo (张展硕). Yu Zidi (于子迪), a 13-year-old from Hebei (河北), rewrote the 13-year-old Asian record in the women's 200m individual medley. Lu Qinyao (吕沁遥), 15, won the gold medal in the women's 200m breaststroke with a personal best. Chen Luying (陈露颖), 19, won the women's 200m butterfly title.

On the track and field, Chen Yujie (陈妤颉), a "little sister" from Zhejiang (浙江), outstripped a host of strong competitors to win her first National Games gold medal in the women's 100m in 11.10 seconds, setting an Asian youth record in the women's 100m. At the same time, she also became the youngest women's 100m champion in the history of the National Games. "Next goal?" The girl's answer was full of youthful exuberance: "I don't set limits for myself."

The shooting arena is full of masters, with Sheng Lihao (盛李豪), Liu Yukun (刘宇坤), Huang Yuting (黄雨婷) and other famous players participating. Many young athletes performed well, making the competition fierce and full of suspense. Du Yuchen (杜雨宸), a 15-year-old, and her teammates won the 10m air rifle mixed team event, breaking the Asian record and the Asian youth record. The Anhui (安徽) team won the men's 10m air pistol team title, and Liu Ziyang (刘子扬), a member of the team, was only 14 years old, becoming the youngest champion in the shooting arena.

The 15th National Games tennis program established a youth team competition for the first time, and the Beijing (北京) team won the men's and women's team titles, demonstrating the depth of tennis reserve talent. "I felt more responsibility and more strength in the team competition." Shang Juncheng (商竣程), a player from the Beijing team, then entered the men's singles final in the adult group. "Youth is the foundation and future of Chinese tennis, and team competitions can help them grow better," said Bai Xilin (白喜林), director of the Tennis Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport.

On November 18, in the badminton women's doubles semi-final held in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东), veteran Huang Dongping (黄东萍) and her teammate Tan Ning (谭宁) successfully passed the test. After the match, Huang Dongping (黄东萍) praised her partner, who is 8 years younger than her: "Tan Ning (谭宁) was very patient in the match, especially at key moments when my energy and physical strength declined, she was able to step up."

In the canoe sprint event, a group of young athletes showed good strength, and the competition among the teams was fierce. In the men's 500m double canoe final, the post-00s combination Yu Yuebin (于岳斌)/Yu Chenwei (于陈伟) led the whole race and finally won the championship. "This National Games can feel that the overall strength of the domestic canoe project is rising. Young people strive forward, will continue to make breakthroughs," said Liu Hao (刘浩), a 32-year-old veteran from the Yunnan (云南) team.

The perseverance of the veterans is equally touching. Gong Lijiao (巩立姣), 36, competed with a knee injury and achieved a five-peat in the women's shot put at the National Games. After the competition, she hugged each of the athletes competing in the same event and said to these young juniors: "I'm counting on you in the future."

The last swimming gold medal of this National Games was produced in the women's 4×100m medley relay event, and Ye Shiwen (叶诗文), an Olympic champion representing the Zhejiang (浙江) team, finally won a gold medal. She said that this was the last time she participated in the National Games. Previously, Ye Shiwen's (叶诗文) 13-year-old Asian record in the women's 200m individual medley was broken by Yu Zidi (于子迪). She admitted that she seemed to see herself in Yu Zidi (于子迪), and she hoped that the young player could continue to work hard and create new brilliance.

Ma Long (马龙), 37, is competing in the National Games for the sixth time, spanning 20 years from teenager to veteran. On November 20, he and his teammates will compete for the National Games table tennis men's team gold medal.

New Events

The Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved the program setting plan for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics in April this year - the Los Angeles Olympics will produce 351 gold medals, 22 more than the Paris Olympics.

The 15th National Games is aligned with the Olympic Games in terms of event settings, with a total of 34 major events and 419 minor events, including new minor events concentrated in swimming, coastal rowing, golf, modern pentathlon, track and field, archery, shooting and other events. Therefore, the National Games arena has become a training ground to adapt to the new changes in the Olympic Games.

The swimming arena added 6 new minor events: men's and women's 50m backstroke, 50m breaststroke, and 50m butterfly. Veterans Zhang Yufei (张雨霏) and Xu Jiayu (徐嘉余) performed well, winning the women's 50m butterfly and men's 50m backstroke gold medals respectively. Xu Jiayu (徐嘉余) also broke the national record in the semi-finals. Tang Qianting's (唐钱婷) final result in the women's 50m breaststroke could rank second in this year's World Swimming Championships, and Wan Letian's (万乐天) result in the women's 50m backstroke is also of world-class level. These results reflect that Chinese swimming has a strong competitive strength in some new events.

On the evening of November 15, the first track and field mixed 4×100m relay champion in the history of the National Games was born at the Guangdong Olympic Sports Center (广东奥体中心). The Fujian (福建) team, composed of Lin Yuwei (林雨薇), Ge Manqi (葛曼棋), Xiao Yuanpeng (肖远鹏) and He Jinxuan (何锦櫶), crossed the finish line first, and the result of 40.37 seconds even reached the second best in the world this season, second only to the Canadian team's winning result in this year's World Relay Championships. Ge Manqi (葛曼棋) said after the match that the new event means a new lineup, "At present, we mainly rely on the running-in in daily training in the mixed relay event, and we need to accumulate more competition experience in the future."

In Yangjiang (阳江) Hailing Island (海陵岛), Guangdong (广东), the 3 gold medals of the men's single sculls, women's single sculls, and mixed double sculls in the coastal rowing beach sprint race of the 15th National Games were produced here. The coastal rowing event has not been carried out in China for a long time, and the addition of this event to the National Games is more forward-looking. "Compared with traditional rowing, coastal rowing focuses on the grasp of tides and waves." Zhang Guiping (张桂萍), a player from the Guangdong (广东) team who won the first gold medal in the history of coastal rowing at the National Games in the mixed double sculls event, said: "Next, I want to hit higher goals and hope to have the opportunity to stand on the Olympic arena."

The climbing event will be set up separately according to speed, difficulty, and bouldering at the Los Angeles Olympics, and the total number of gold medals will increase to 6. After the training of this National Games, Chinese climbers have accumulated experience and broadened their horizons.

New Changes

This National Games has set up youth group competitions in the three major ball games, table tennis, badminton, tennis, and gymnastics, with the intention of consolidating the foundation of sports talents and opening up channels for reserve force training.

At the table tennis arena of the Galaxy Arena (银河综艺馆) in Macau (澳门), youth events and adult events are held alternately. This special "competition in the same arena" benefits young athletes a lot. Wen Ruibo (温瑞博), who won the table tennis U18 men's singles title, said: "Through on-site observation, I was touched by the high-level performance of the senior players and hope to learn more skills."

The changes in the National Games arena are also closely related to the rule adjustments of the new Olympic cycle. The length of the rowing track at the Los Angeles Olympics has been changed from the traditional 2000 meters to 1500 meters, which is aligned with this National Games. From the actual combat of this National Games, athletes are trying to adapt to the new changes. Chen Yunxia (陈云霞) and Zhang Ling (张灵), Olympic champions from the Shanghai (上海) team, admitted after winning the women's double sculls gold medal that they must do a good job of starting and fight an active battle after the track distance is shortened. Lu Yang (吕扬), a player from the Henan (河南) team, also said that 1500 meters requires maintaining a high paddle frequency throughout the whole process, which puts higher demands on physical distribution and explosive power.

Since the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) adjusted the weightlifting classes for the Los Angeles Olympics, many athletes will face the challenge of new classes after the National Games. Tu Yi (涂艺), a player from the Hubei (湖北) team who won the men's 89kg class, said that he may upgrade to the 95kg class in the future, "Gaining weight will be difficult, and the competitors in this class are also very strong internationally, but I believe I can do it."

In addition, new training models have also been shown. In the fencing competition of the 15th National Games held in Hong Kong (香港), many players who grew up in social clubs made a splash. Zou Tianyi (邹天一), who is only 15 years old and won the men's foil individual silver medal in his first National Games, is a middle school student. With the help of the dual training model of school courses and club special training, his competitive level has improved by leaps and bounds; Zeng Zhaoran (曾昭然), who entered the men's foil top four, also grew up in a social club. More and more sports talents trained by social forces are emerging in the arena, and diversified training models provide more paths for young people to realize their sports dreams.

(Reporters Chen Chenxi (陈晨曦), Zheng Yi (郑轶), Ji Fang (季芳), Liu Shuoyang (刘硕阳), Zeng Huafeng (曾华锋), Li Shuo (李硕), Wang Liang (王亮), Sun Longfei (孙龙飞) of this newspaper)

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Give it your all for the love (National Games and Me)

By: 朱雨玲

After experiencing the ups and downs of life, I never imagined that I could participate in the National Games for the fifth time, and represent the Macao (澳门) team in the first National Games jointly hosted by Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao (粤港澳). This is an unforgettable experience, and I cherish it very much.

Looking back at the matches in this National Games, the most unforgettable is still the bronze medal match with Chen Meng (陈梦). It transcended winning and losing, and froze time. Chen Meng (陈梦) and I have had many intersections in our table tennis careers. We were teammates, roommates, and even better friends. Reuniting with former teammates, in the back-and-forth exchanges, it felt like returning to the days of fighting for the country together.

My path to becoming a professional table tennis player was very accidental. When I was a child, I was physically weak, and my parents hoped that I could strengthen my body through sports. When I first heard the sound of a table tennis ball hitting a racket, I was fascinated and started my table tennis life.

The National Games is the highest-level comprehensive sports event in our country. The delegations are strong, especially the table tennis competition, which is a duel between top players. For me, after experiencing transformation and development such as illness, retirement, schooling, and teaching, and then returning to the arena, I have a new understanding of the spirit of sports and the value of life—to treat the game with a normal heart and go all out for what I love.

I still clearly remember my first match in the World Table Tennis (WTT) professional league last September after my comeback. I walked onto the court with a smile. When playing against the Polish team, every game and every ball was not easy. There were times when I was behind in the score, and there were times when we were deadlocked. In the end, I caught the opponent's powerful smash, and the table tennis ball jumped high and landed steadily on the table. I won the game. I smiled from the bottom of my heart again, not with ecstasy, but with a calm and natural smile, a sincere tribute to life.

Now, fighting in the National Games with the Macao (澳门) team athletes, I work hard and persevere with everyone, and pay more attention to the progress and team growth. I hope to contribute to the table tennis sport in the Macao Special Administrative Region (澳门特区).

(The author is a table tennis player of the Macao (澳门) delegation to the 15th National Games, interviewed and compiled by Fu Zimei (富子梅), a reporter of this newspaper)

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Frequent achievements, growing together.

By: 本报记者 刘硕阳 人民网记者 杨 磊

On the evening of November 19th, the finals of two straight track and field events attracted much attention. In the men's 110-meter hurdles, Xu Zhuoyi (徐卓一) of the Shanghai team won the championship with a time of 13.12 seconds. In the women's 100-meter hurdles, which has garnered significant attention in recent years, Liu Jingyang (刘景扬) of the Guangdong team won the championship with a time of 12.81 seconds, surpassing famous athletes such as Wu Yanni (吴艳妮) and Lin Yuwei (林雨薇).

"I hope to be on the podium at the Los Angeles Olympics," said Xu Zhuoyi (徐卓一) after winning the championship. His confidence stems from the collective growth of young male athletes in China in recent years. From Liu Junqian (刘俊茜) reaching the podium in the men's 60-meter hurdles at the World Indoor Championships at the beginning of this season, to Chen Yuan (陈圆) breaking the Asian youth record in June this year, and then to three Chinese athletes entering the semi-finals at the Tokyo World Championships in September, young Chinese hurdlers are constantly growing in competition and encouragement.

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Shandong Team Wins National Games Women's Table Tennis Team Title

The 15th National Games table tennis event held its women's team final at the Galaxy Arena in Macao (澳门) on the evening of November 19th, according to a report by People's Daily reporter Sun Longfei (孙龙飞). Ultimately, the Shandong team, consisting of Wang Xiaotong (王晓彤), Chen Meng (陈梦), and Fan Siqi (范思琦), defeated the Hebei team, consisting of He Zhuojia (何卓佳), Wang Tianyi (王添艺), and Sun Yingsha (孙颖莎), with a score of 3-2 to win the championship.

In the first four matches of the final, the Shandong team and the Hebei team tied at 2-2. Chen Meng (陈梦) partnered with Wang Xiaotong (王晓彤) to achieve a 开门红 (kāi mén hóng - "open door red," a good start) in the first doubles match. Chen Meng (陈梦) also won the third singles match, contributing two victories to the team. Sun Yingsha (孙颖莎) won the second and fourth singles matches, helping the team tie the score. The suspense of the match continued until the deciding game of the final match. Fan Siqi (范思琦) reversed the situation and defeated He Zhuojia (何卓佳), securing a crucial victory for the Shandong team. This is also the Shandong team's second National Games women's team title after the 12th National Games in 2013.

In the women's team bronze medal match that concluded at noon that day, the Shanghai team, consisting of Chen Yi (陈熠), Sun Mingyang (孙铭阳), and Yang Yiyun (杨屹韵), defeated the Heilongjiang team, consisting of Zhang Rui (张瑞), Fan Shuhan (范姝涵), and Che Xiaoxi (车晓曦), with a score of 3-0 to win the bronze medal.

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Guangxi Team's Muradel Wins Gold Medal

The Shenzhen (深圳) Economic Daily, November 19th (Reporter: Zeng Huafeng (曾华锋)) On the 19th, the 15th National Games Equestrian Jumping Individual Competition was held at the Guangming International Equestrian Center (光明国际马术中心) in Shenzhen (深圳市), Guangdong Province (广东省). After fierce competition, Mula Deli (木拉得力), representing the Guangxi (广西) team, won the gold medal. Wang Yunjing (王韫婧), representing the Hebei (河北) team, won the silver medal, and Zhang Yong (张勇), representing the Shandong (山东) team, won the bronze medal. This is the second National Games for 33-year-old Mula Deli (木拉得力). In the Equestrian Jumping Team Final held on the 17th, he and his teammates helped the Guangxi (广西) team win the team gold medal.

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How National Basketball Cities Grow (A Look Inside the National Games)

By: 本报记者 贺林平

The 15th National Games basketball tournament for men's adult teams has begun, and the Guangdong Dongguan Basketball Center (广东东莞篮球中心) is packed. Outside, several layers of spectators are gathered in front of the outdoor big screen watching the live broadcast. Several members of the Guangdong Men's Basketball Team (广东男篮), which won the championship that night, are from Dongguan (东莞). Why does Dongguan (东莞) produce so many basketball talents? The reporter found some clues in the basketball culture theme exhibition of the 15th National Games Dongguan (东莞) competition area.

The exhibition is located on the first floor of the Dongguan Exhibition Center (东莞展览中心) and is divided into three sections: "The Introduction of Basketball to Dongguan (篮球东渐)," "Cantonese Charm Blueprint (粤韵蓝图)," and "Basketball Shines in Dongguan (篮耀莞邑)," which tell the story of Dongguan's (东莞) relationship with basketball. Basketball was introduced to Dongguan (东莞) as early as the beginning of the 20th century. After the reform and opening up, the economic take-off laid a solid foundation for the popularization of basketball in Dongguan (东莞). From cement floors to outdoor lighted courts, and then to multi-functional gymnasiums; from local village basketball games to the "Factory BA" with migrant workers participating, and then to domestic and foreign competitions, basketball has gradually become a bright calling card of this city with a population of ten million.

A slightly faded trophy attracts attention. In 1984, the Dongguan Changping Town Men's Basketball Team (东莞常平镇男篮) represented Guangdong (广东) in the first National Farmers Basketball Tournament "Harvest Cup (丰收杯)" and won the championship. In 1993, Guangdong Hongyuan (广东宏远), the first private professional basketball club in the country, was established in Dongguan (东莞). Relying on reform, it blazed a new trail, and since then, it has created a glorious course that has lasted for many years, not only transporting batches of top athletes, but also boosting the sports economy such as event tickets, live broadcasts, and sports peripherals.

Strolling through the exhibition hall, old photos and old jerseys tell the story of the years. Tourists wander through it, occasionally discussing a few words in a low voice. "Watching the exhibition, you can feel that basketball has been integrated into the daily life of Dongguan (东莞) people," one tourist said with emotion.

According to statistics, Dongguan (东莞) has nearly 7,000 basketball courts, holds more than 5,000 events every year, and has built a multi-level event system and policy guarantee system of "professional-provincial-municipal-township." Ning Kang (宁康), Director of the Dongguan Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports (东莞市文化广电旅游体育局), introduced that as one of the "National Basketball Cities," Dongguan (东莞) is focusing on creating a new "sports + tourism" consumption scenario, allowing basketball to link more industries and further promote local economic and social development.

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Hong Kong Coliseum Showcases Professionalism (Glimpse Inside the National Games Venues)

By: 本报记者 李 霞

The Hong Kong Coliseum (香港体育馆) is located on Cheong Wan Road, Hung Hom (红磡), Kowloon (九龙). Because of its location in Hung Hom (红磡), it is affectionately known as "Hong Guan (红馆)" by the public. From November 10th to 20th, the Under-22 Men's Basketball competition of the 15th National Games will be held here.

Since its official opening in 1983, "Hong Guan (红馆)" has hosted many large-scale events such as cultural performances, sports events, and international conferences. It is one of Hong Kong's (香港) most recognizable city landmarks, and many tourists check in here.

To welcome the 15th National Games, "Hong Guan (红馆)" has specially updated its professional wooden floor and put it into use in test matches. Yang Deqiang (杨德强), Director of the Hong Kong (香港) Competition Zone Coordination Office of the National Games, introduced: "The functional layout and supporting facilities of the venue are very good. After the test match, we made further improvements based on the feedback from coaches and athletes. For example, deepening the color of the boundary line to make it easier for players to distinguish, etc."

When the reporter visited the venue, he met Hong Kong (香港) basketball player Yang Bowen (杨博文), who praised the venue: "The floor has a good bounce and good slip resistance, and the experience of playing basketball is very good." He said, "It is an honor for me and my teammates to be able to participate in the National Games and play on our home court, and we cherish this opportunity very much."

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The Success of the National Games Mascot: A Story of Dedication

By: 本报记者 姜晓丹

At the 15th National Games, the mascots "Xi Yangyang (喜洋洋)" and "Le Rongrong (乐融融)" became popular with their lively and adorable images and performances. This pair of mascots, designed based on the Chinese white dolphin, comes in white and pink colors and is very lovable.

Zhang Yingyan (张莹嫣), vice principal of Huang Feihong (黄飞鸿) Martial Arts School, introduced that many of the actors playing the mascots are students from the Huang Feihong (黄飞鸿) Martial Arts School. The children are between 13 and 16 years old and have a solid foundation in martial arts. From the sweltering heat to autumn and winter, they persisted in training while wearing performance costumes weighing up to 8 kilograms. Sometimes, when the temperature approached 40 degrees Celsius, the students' performance costumes were repeatedly soaked with sweat, and they could even wring out half a basin of water. In order to accurately present the agile posture of the Chinese white dolphin, they repeated actions such as spinning, jumping, and swinging their arms in front of the mirror more than 2,000 times a day until they developed muscle memory.

From martial arts teenagers to "national adorable pets," their efforts were not in vain. It is precisely because there are countless people like them who serve with dedication and stick to their posts that we have such a wonderful event.

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

Layout Design: Zhang Danfeng (张丹峰)

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Fujian: Writing a New Chapter Between Mountains and Sea

The tide surges in the southeast, let's row our boats and set sail.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Fujian (福建) closely focused on the main theme of "striving to be at the forefront in the construction of Chinese-style modernization," firmly adhered to the goal of building a new Fujian with a vibrant mechanism, superior industries, affluent people, and a beautiful ecology. It implemented a blueprint to the end, continuously worked hard on the "four greater" aspects, further comprehensively deepened reform, promoted high-quality development in all directions, and strived to write a Fujian chapter of Chinese-style modernization.

Fujian Province's (福建省) regional GDP increased from 4.37 trillion yuan in 2020 to 5.78 trillion yuan in 2024, crossing the 5 trillion yuan mark. It is estimated that it will exceed the 6 trillion yuan mark this year, reaching a new level! The per capita regional GDP increased from 105,300 yuan in 2020 to 137,900 yuan in 2024, ranking fourth in the country, and high-quality development has taken new and solid steps.

Technological innovation leads industrial transformation, and transformation and upgrading are steadily accelerating. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Fujian (福建) firmly maintained the real economy, consolidated the advantages of traditional industries, deeply implemented the innovation-driven development strategy, promoted new progress in the construction of a national innovation-oriented province, promoted the construction of the Fuzhou-Xiamen-Quanzhou (福厦泉) National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone, accelerated the establishment of a system and mechanism for developing new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, and strived to break new ground in promoting the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation.

In 2024, the revenue of industrial enterprises above designated size in Fujian Province (福建省) ranked fifth in the country. The output value of industrial strategic emerging industries accounted for 9.5 percentage points higher than the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan" in the total output value of industrial enterprises above designated size. The added value of the province's manufacturing industry accounted for 31.7% of the regional GDP, ranking second in the country. New tracks for future industries such as the low-altitude economy, future display, and intelligent robots are accelerating their layout. The regional technological innovation capabilities continue to increase. Enterprise R&D investment accounts for more than 88% of the total social R&D investment. The total social R&D investment exceeds 125 billion yuan, there are more than 15,000 national high-tech enterprises, and more than 1,000 projects have been awarded by the National Natural Science Foundation. The number of high-value invention patents per 10,000 people reached 9.6. The annual industrial output value of the province's seven national high-tech zones exceeded one trillion yuan. The scale of the digital economy jumped to 3.2 trillion yuan, ranking firmly in the first echelon in the country.

Reform and opening up break through key areas, and endogenous power and vitality burst forth. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Fujian (福建), as a pioneer province of reform and opening up, continuously deepened reforms with Fujian characteristics, made good use of major opening platforms, and strived to take the lead in comprehensively deepening reform and expanding high-level opening up.

Thirty-nine reform measures have been promoted to the whole country. The river and lake chief system has won national positive incentives for seven consecutive years. The strategy of strengthening the private economy in the new era has been implemented. The overall satisfaction rate of the business environment has exceeded 85% for four consecutive years, and the reform of the approval system for construction projects has won the first place in the country for two consecutive years. The benefits of opening platforms such as the Free Trade Pilot Zone, the core area of the "Maritime Silk Road" ("海丝"), the BRICS Innovation Base, and the "Two Countries, Two Parks" are prominent. The "Silk Road Maritime" alliance has 367 members. In 2024, the province's import and export scale accounted for 4.54% of the country's total, ranking among the top. The construction of a demonstration zone for integrated development across the Taiwan Strait has been steadily promoted. A total of 37 central and state ministries and commissions and financial institutions have been strived for to formulate and implement 35 supporting policy documents. Sixty-two policies and measures to promote Fujian-Taiwan (闽台) integration have been launched at the provincial level in four batches. The number of newly established Taiwan-funded enterprises and the actual amount of Taiwan investment used both rank among the top. The number and scale of Taiwan investment in agriculture remain the first. The cumulative trade volume between Fujian and Taiwan (闽台) exceeded 1.5 trillion yuan. The integrated service model for Taiwan compatriots' professional qualifications was first created. The construction of the "Co-City Living Circle" of Fuzhou-Mawei (福马) and Xiamen-Kinmen (厦金) is accelerating.

Mountain-sea cooperation optimizes the regional pattern, and balanced development has achieved remarkable results. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Fujian (福建) deeply practiced the people-centered development thought, invested more than 70% of its fiscal expenditure in the field of people's livelihood, improved and deepened the mountain-sea cooperation mechanism, strengthened the organic combination of comprehensive rural revitalization and new urbanization, and strived to set an example in promoting coordinated regional development and urban-rural integrated development.

The country's first cross-sea high-speed railway with a design speed of 350 kilometers per hour—the Fuzhou-Xiamen High-speed Railway (福厦高铁)—has been completed and opened to traffic. All counties and cities have achieved access to expressways within 15 minutes, and 100% of established villages have access to passenger buses and postal services. The regional GDP of the province's old revolutionary base areas increased from 3.16 trillion yuan in 2020 to 4.08 trillion yuan in 2024. The per capita regional GDP of Longyan City (龙岩市) and Sanming City (三明市) leads the key cities in the national old revolutionary base areas. The enrollment rate of school-age children remains at 100%. Multiple education indicators such as the enrollment rate of preschool education, the consolidation rate of compulsory education, and the gross enrollment rate of high schools are leading the country. Eight national regional medical centers have been put into operation, ranking among the top in the country. Close-knit education communities and medical communities have achieved full coverage. The basic pension insurance participation rate exceeds 95%. The forest coverage rate has ranked first in the country for 46 consecutive years. The proportion of days with excellent air quality in cities is 98.3%, and the proportion of excellent water quality in major river basins is 100%. The Minjiang River (闽江) mainstream is all excellent, and the water quality of the entire basin has become the best among the large rivers flowing into the sea in the country. "Fresh Fujian" has become a **金字招牌** (jīnzì zhāopái - "gold lettered signboard," a brand name or trademark that is highly reputable).

Cultural undertakings and industries are driven by "two wheels," and the construction of a culturally strong province is advancing steadily. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Fujian (福建) continuously strengthened its cultural "soft power" and empowered the "hard support" of development, striving to make long-term achievements in enhancing cultural influence and displaying a new image of Fujian.

Strengthen the inheritance and development of Mindu culture (闽都文化), Southern Fujian culture (闽南文化), Hakka culture (客家文化), Zhu Xi culture (朱子文化), Mazu culture (妈祖文化), and Maritime Silk Road culture (海丝文化). Build the Changting (长汀) section and Ninghua (宁化) section of the Long March National Cultural Park. Build the World Southern Fujian Cultural Exchange Center. The number of world heritage sites has increased to 5, ranking third in the country. The number of newly discovered cultural relics in the fourth national cultural relics census ranks among the top in the country. Nineteen works won the 16th and 17th "Five-One Project" awards. "Minpai" literary and artistic masterpieces won the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award "Four Plum Blossoms" and achieved twelve consecutive sessions. A number of excellent works such as *Shan Hai Qing* (《山海情》) and *The Silent Honor* (《沉默的荣耀》) have emerged. The China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival and the Silk Road International Film Festival were successfully held. Implement the new era civilization practice quality improvement project to improve the level of spiritual civilization construction. The Fujian Province (福建省) Cultural and Tourism Economic Development Conference has been held at a high standard for three consecutive years. More than 900 provincial-level key cultural and tourism construction projects have been implemented, focusing on cultivating the cultural tourism industry into a pillar industry. The *Regulations on the Guarantee of Public Cultural Services in Fujian Province* (《福建省公共文化服务保障条例》) has been issued to create mass cultural brands such as "Lighting Up Life with Villages" and "Weekend Opera Encounters," build "Eight Min Study Rooms," carry out the work of cultural and technological special service groups, and promote more high-quality resources to reach the grassroots level.

High-quality development is the hard truth of the new era. Looking forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," Fujian (福建) will keep its mission in mind, act diligently, go all out, and strive to make progress step by step, promote high-quality development in all directions, and strive to write a Fujian chapter of Chinese-style modernization.

Data source: Propaganda Department of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee (中共福建省委宣传部)

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The Future Industry: Present Tense (Economic Focus)

The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal puts forward that "we should proactively plan for future industries, explore diversified technological routes, typical application scenarios, feasible business models, and market regulatory rules, and promote quantum technology, biomanufacturing, hydrogen energy and nuclear fusion energy, brain-computer interfaces, embodied intelligence, and sixth-generation mobile communication to become new economic growth points." China is actively cultivating future industries to continuously inject new impetus into high-quality development. Recently, reporters interviewed researchers and business managers in related fields to discuss the current state of future industries.
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　　A Computer "Calculates" an Industrial Chain
　　Zhao Xuejiao (赵雪娇)
　　Yunfei Road (云飞路) is an east-west road in the High-tech Zone of Hefei (合肥), Anhui (安徽). Although not long, it has a resounding nickname—"Quantum Avenue." Around it are many technology companies, building an industrial ecosystem covering the entire chain of quantum computing, communication, and measurement.
　　In our company's laboratory, there is a large white device—China's third-generation independent superconducting quantum computer, "Origin Wukong" (本源悟空). In January 2024, "Origin Wukong" was officially launched. "Origin Wukong" consists of a superconducting quantum chip system, a quantum computing measurement and control system, and a quantum computer operating software system. The localization rate exceeds 80%, and the remaining components have also been independently developed for backup, marking the basic formation of China's independent superconducting quantum computer industrial chain.
　　Quantum computing is gradually being applied to daily life. For example, in the First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College (蚌埠医科大学第一附属医院), doctors use the "Breast Cancer Molybdenum Target Health Detection Real Machine Application" system to screen out early potential signs of breast cancer that were difficult to detect with traditional algorithms in a short time. Behind this is the powerful computing power support provided by "Origin Wukong."
　　In August of this year, Origin Quantum (本源量子) jointly with the University of Science and Technology of China (中国科学技术大学) and the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of the Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center (合肥综合性国家科学中心人工智能研究院), successfully realized the application of drug molecule property prediction based on quantum edge coding technology, and completed the real machine verification on "Origin Wukong." This technology can effectively improve the accuracy of key drug property prediction and promote the development of the biomedical field.
　　Moving from the laboratory to the market, "Origin Wukong" has been accessed by users in 163 countries and regions more than 37 million times, successfully completing 740,000 global quantum computing tasks, covering fluid dynamics, finance, biomedicine, and other fields.
　　Hefei (合肥) has now cultivated and gathered 93 related enterprises and is accelerating the construction of an industrial park with "Quantum Avenue" as the central axis, striving to have more than 170 quantum information gathering enterprises by 2028 and build the quantum industry into a 100 billion yuan-level industrial cluster.
　　(The author is the Vice President of Origin Quantum Computing Technology (Hefei) Co., Ltd. (本源量子计算科技（合肥）股份有限公司), and this article was compiled by Tian Xianjin (田先进), a reporter from this newspaper)

　　From "Carbon Consumption" to "Carbon Cycle"
　　Tan Tianwei (谭天伟)
　　With renewable raw materials, green processes, and designable products, biomanufacturing is a new type of industry that highly couples traditional fermentation industries and cutting-edge synthetic biology technologies. Looking to the future, biomanufacturing is opening up a brand-new industrial space.
　　In the field of medical health, precision medical products such as gene editing drugs can be customized and produced based on synthetic biology technology; in the agriculture and food industry, microbial protein synthesis technology builds "cell factories"; in the chemical materials industry, bio-based plastics and polymers replace traditional petrochemical products, and the treatment of white pollution is ushering in a dawn. Biomanufacturing can also directly convert carbon dioxide into fuels and high-end chemicals, forming a new industrial manufacturing route and technology system for the future, and promoting the leap from "carbon consumption" to "carbon cycle" in manufacturing.
　　In this industrial revolution, China has unique advantages: its bio-fermentation production capacity accounts for more than 70% of the world's total, and the output of products such as amino acids and organic acids ranks first in the world. The huge market size and complete industrial system have laid a solid foundation for transformation and upgrading.
　　There are also many challenges, such as the "bottleneck" risk in the underlying technology fields such as biological information databases and design tools required for the creation of core strains and key enzymes, and the fact that high-end bioreactors and key components have not yet achieved independent control.
　　To vigorously develop the biomanufacturing industry, it is necessary to make breakthroughs in the entire chain:
　　Strengthen weaknesses, promote the integrated innovation of biotechnology and artificial intelligence, make up for the weaknesses in underlying technologies such as data and software, build a database and hardware and software security system with independent intellectual property rights, and realize the creation of high-performance strains and key enzymes adapted to industrial environments and industrial raw materials.
　　Strengthen supply, reconstruct the raw material supply system, improve the utilization level of raw materials such as lignocellulose and carbon dioxide, support the large-scale development of future biomanufacturing; strengthen the construction of national-level pilot platforms, accelerate the commercialization of technology; innovate policy "toolboxes" and optimize the industrial ecology to form a batch of new products and new standards with international influence.
　　(The author is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (中国工程院院士) and President of Beijing University of Chemical Technology (北京化工大学), and this article was compiled by Gu Yekai (谷业凯), a reporter from this newspaper)

　　The Dream of "Artificial Sun" is Getting Closer
　　Liu Ye (刘叶)
　　Energy is the foundation and driving force of human civilization progress. Nuclear fusion energy has the advantages of abundant fuel, environmental friendliness, inherent safety, and no long-term radioactive waste.
　　Controllable nuclear fusion, also known as "artificial sun"—simulates the principle of the sun's light and heat, and releases energy through the nuclear fusion reaction of hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium. Currently, the global fusion energy field has entered a critical stage of development. Developed countries are increasing R&D investment and formulating fusion energy development strategies and roadmaps.
　　Through continuous efforts, China's research on controllable nuclear fusion has achieved a historic leap from following to running in parallel and leading in some fields. Breakthroughs in controllable fusion technology will also promote the development of cutting-edge technology fields such as artificial intelligence, high-temperature superconductivity, and materials science.
　　As the national team and main force in China's nuclear fusion energy development, the Southwestern Institute of Physics of China National Nuclear Corporation (中核集团核工业西南物理研究院) (hereinafter referred to as "SWIP") has built a number of internationally advanced experimental devices, including the "HL-2M Tokamak" (中国环流三号), and has made breakthroughs in a number of key core technologies. Recently, the "HL-2M Tokamak" successfully achieved "double 100 million degree" high-parameter operation with an ion temperature of 120 million degrees Celsius and an electron temperature of 160 million degrees Celsius, setting a new operating record for China's fusion devices.
　　In October of this year, the world's first International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Fusion Energy Research and Training Collaboration Center was officially established in SWIP, marking China's transition from an active participant to an important promoter and rule-maker in the global fusion field. China's fusion engineering practice has formed a solid foundation and is steadily moving towards the goal of building an engineering experimental reactor and a commercial demonstration reactor. It is expected that by 2027, the "HL-2M Tokamak" will carry out combustion plasma experiments and actively promote the construction of China's Fusion Engineering Experimental Reactor. It is expected that commercial fusion power generation will be achieved by the middle of this century.
　　We are going all out to accelerate the realization of the dream of "artificial sun."
　　(The author is the Party Secretary of the Southwestern Institute of Physics of China National Nuclear Corporation (中核集团核工业西南物理研究院党委书记), and this article was compiled by Wang Yongzhan (王永战), a reporter from this newspaper)

　　"What You Wish For" Connected to More Scenarios
　　Li Wenyu (李文宇)
　　Brain-computer interface (BCI) establishes an information channel between the brain and the machine to realize the collaborative interaction between biological intelligence and machine intelligence. It is a cutting-edge technology that integrates the development of life science and information science.
　　Currently, brain-computer interface technology is accelerating its penetration into various fields, and application scenarios are continuously expanding. The medical field has taken the lead in landing, which can help patients with neurological disorders recover, assist in the diagnosis and treatment of major diseases, and help paralyzed patients realize the mind control of prosthetics, etc.; in the consumer electronics field, relevant technology verification has been completed, and a number of brain-controlled smart terminals have been launched, such as mind-typing AR (augmented reality) glasses, emotion monitoring smart headbands, etc.; in the field of industrial safety, pilot applications such as state monitoring, remote control, and collaborative decision-making have been carried out in scenarios such as underground construction and truck driving.
　　China has initially built a virtuous development pattern of "technology leadership - industrial agglomeration - policy guarantee." At the technical level, emerging tracks such as interventional have entered the international forefront. The NEO system jointly developed by Tsinghua University (清华大学) and BrainCo (博睿康), and the brain-spinal interface technology of Fudan University (复旦大学) have achieved positive results in clinical applications; at the industrial level, regional collaborative layout has taken shape. Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) focuses on basic research breakthroughs and innovation ecosystem construction, the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) relies on medical resource advantages to promote clinical transformation and product landing, and the Pearl River Delta (珠三角) gives full play to the advantages of manufacturing clusters to focus on hardware research and development and commercial promotion; at the policy level, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) and other 7 departments jointly issued the "Implementation Opinions on Promoting the Innovative Development of the Brain-Computer Interface Industry," which clarified the strategic goal of building an internationally competitive industrial ecosystem by 2030.
　　To promote the high-quality development of the brain-computer interface industry, efforts need to be focused on three aspects: First, strengthen the tackling of core technologies, establish a "whoever can do it takes the lead" mechanism for core links such as high-density flexible electrodes and low-power processing chips, build an open and shared common technology platform, and lower the R&D threshold; second, improve the construction of the innovation ecosystem, promote the deep integration of government, industry, academia, research, and application, and accelerate the transformation of results; third, accelerate the construction of a brain-computer interface technology ethics review and regulatory framework to balance innovative development and security guarantees.
　　(The author is the Director of the Intellectual Property and Innovation Development Center of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (中国信通院知识产权与创新发展中心主任) and Secretary-General of the Brain-Computer Interface Industry Alliance (脑机接口产业联盟秘书长), and this article was compiled by Lü Zhongzheng (吕钟正), a reporter from this newspaper)

　　Humanoid Robots are Accelerating "Evolution"
　　Yu Chao (喻超)
　　In the laboratory of Luming Robotics (鹿明机器人) in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东), in just one second, a humanoid robot lying on the ground instantly exerts force with its "hip joint" and "knee joint," and a "carp jump" pops up from the ground and stands firmly.
　　This robot is 1.6 meters tall and weighs 57 kilograms. A higher center of gravity brings greater challenges. It needs both strong "muscles" and the precise cooperation of the "brain" and "cerebellum."
　　We have independently developed high-power, high-density joint modules to provide explosive power, combined with millisecond-level motion control planning, and optimized the trajectory and maintained stability through reinforcement learning in a simulation environment. These technologies have laid the foundation for robots to complete high-dynamic and high-explosive movements.
　　We independently develop hardware and data acquisition technology to continuously optimize hardware and reduce data costs. In terms of scenarios, the company is deepening cooperation with industrial partners such as Mitsubishi Electric (三菱电机) and COSCO SHIPPING (中远海运) to jointly develop embodied intelligence solutions in scenarios such as quality inspection and logistics, and actively expand the global market.
　　Bao'an District (宝安区) in Shenzhen (深圳), where we are located, is accelerating the formation of an "Embodied Intelligence Port," which brings together a complete industrial chain from technology research and development, production and manufacturing to scenario applications, forming a coordinated development industrial ecosystem. Here, we have a complete, cost-effective, and responsive supply chain system, which provides strong support for our product research and development and rapid iteration.
　　At the Shenzhen (深圳) station of the torch relay of the 15th National Games (第十五届全运会), a humanoid robot ran to complete the 100-meter relay; in residential communities, four-legged robot dogs patrol at night; on automobile production lines, robots complete tasks such as handling and autonomous battery replacement... Rich application scenarios and strong market demand have accelerated the entire process of products from the laboratory to commercial landing.
　　This year, Shenzhen (深圳) issued an action plan for embodied intelligent robot technology innovation and industrial development to promote technological innovation and industrial development. With the support of all parties, and with our deep accumulation in technology research and development and scenario applications, we will surely make great achievements in the field of embodied intelligence.
　　(The author is the Founder and CEO of Luming Robotics Technology Co., Ltd. (鹿明机器人科技有限公司), and this article was compiled by Lü Shaogang (吕绍刚), a reporter from this newspaper)

　　Building the "Nerve Center" of a Smart Society
　　Huang Yongming (黄永明)
　　Compared with 5G, 6G is not just a simple improvement in transmission speed, but a "mobile information network" that integrates communication with wireless sensing, advanced computing, and artificial intelligence technologies. Compared with 5G's emphasis on the "Internet of Everything," 6G emphasizes the cross-field integration of these technologies to achieve the "Internet of Intelligent Things."
　　In terms of communication rate, latency, and reliability, 6G will be 10 to 100 times higher than 5G, forming a connection capability covering the entire space, sky, ground, and sea, fully supporting the development of a future smart society, and is the "nerve center" supporting the digital transformation of society and industrial enterprises.
　　The characteristics of 6G are reflected in "one extreme and three integrations," that is, based on "ubiquitous networked extreme connection," developing three new directions: "cross-border integration of communication, sensing, computing, intelligence, and control (DOICT), integration of satellite and terrestrial communication, and integration of the digital and physical worlds."
　　In the industrial field, 6G can not only realize the real-time data transmission of massive terminals such as industrial equipment and sensors, but also support extremely high-precision industrial control and flexible production; in the field of the Internet of Vehicles, 6G will play the role of a smart transportation brain, supporting the realization of real-time and reliable vehicle-road collaboration, and greatly improving the safety and efficiency of autonomous driving; in the field of low-altitude economy, 6G will support the realization of continuous and reliable communication, high-precision sensing, and multi-scenario efficient operation of high-density low-altitude aircraft...
　　China has built a first-mover advantage in the field of 6G R&D and is accelerating its transition to scenario verification and standardization work. In 2025, the Purple Mountain Laboratories (紫金山实验室) built the first 6G communication-intelligence-sensing integrated field test network in the Zijinshan Science and Technology City (紫金山科技城) in Nanjing (南京), Jiangsu (江苏). The construction and application of the satellite Internet is accelerating, and the "mobile phone directly connected to satellite" technology is gradually moving towards mass commercial services.
　　This year is the first year of 6G standardization, and it is expected to be commercialized in China around 2030. We will accelerate the R&D and application of 6G technology, promote technology verification and ecosystem construction in a pragmatic manner, and inject surging digital momentum into Chinese-style modernization.
　　(The author is the Director of the Universal Communication Research Center of Purple Mountain Laboratories (紫金山实验室普适通信研究中心主任) and Professor of Southeast University (东南大学), and this article was compiled by Yao Xueqing (姚雪青), a reporter from this newspaper)

　　Source of Information: Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部), etc.
　　Layout Design: Cai Huawei (蔡华伟)

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Five Cross-Regional Power Flexibility Mutual Assistance Projects Approved

This newspaper Beijing (北京), November 19th (Reporter Ding Yiting (丁怡婷)) - Recently, five power flexible mutual assistance projects, namely Yu-Qian, Xiang-Yue, Xiang-Qian, Min-Gan, and Wan-E, have been approved by the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), marking an important step in the construction of China's inter-regional power mutual assistance system.

The total investment of the five projects is 24.4 billion yuan, of which the State Grid (国家电网) invests 18.4 billion yuan and the Southern Power Grid (南方电网) invests 6 billion yuan. A total of five flexible DC converter stations with a capacity of 3 million kilowatts will be newly built, with a line length of 1227 kilometers. Among the three projects involving the operating areas of the State Grid (国家电网) and the Southern Power Grid (南方电网), the Yu-Qian and Xiang-Yue projects are led by the State Grid (国家电网), and the Xiang-Qian project is led by the Southern Power Grid (南方电网). They are planned to be put into operation before the peak summer season in 2027.

After the completion of the five projects, they can respectively increase the two-way power transmission capacity between provinces by 3 million kilowatts, a total of 15 million kilowatts, enhance the emergency accident support capability and scheduling operation flexibility, reduce operational risks, and ensure the electricity demand for economic society and people's livelihood.

Taking Hunan (湖南) and Guizhou (贵州) as examples, summer is the peak period of power load in Hunan (湖南), while the power load in Guizhou (贵州) shows the characteristics of "high in winter and low in summer." The two have strong temporal and spatial complementary characteristics, which can realize staggered peak mutual assistance through the Xiang-Qian project, and enhance the power supply guarantee and new energy consumption capacity.

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China to Build Around 200 High-Standard Digital Parks by 2027

According to Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), November 19th (Reporter Zhou Yuan (周圆)) - The reporter learned on the 19th that the General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) recently issued the "Guidance on the Construction of High-Standard Digital Parks," proposing that by 2027, approximately 200 high-standard digital parks will be built, achieving full coverage of digital transformation for industrial enterprises above designated size in the parks.

The guidance clarifies the construction standards for high-standard digital parks, such as the application of the industrial internet covering all industries in the park; the proportion of digital productive service applications covering industrial enterprises above designated size in the park reaching 100%; the construction of a digital operation and management system covering the main aspects of park asset management, economic operation monitoring, green and low-carbon development, and safety emergency management; a dual-gigabit network coverage rate of 100%; and so on.

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2025 International Industrial Chain and Supply Chain Cooperation and Exchange Conference & Entrepreneurs Taihu Forum Held

This newspaper reported from Nanjing on November 19th (Reporter: Yin Xiaoyu (尹晓宇)) The 2025 International Cooperation and Exchange Conference on Industrial and Supply Chains and the Entrepreneurs Taihu Forum was held in Wuxi (无锡), Jiangsu (江苏) on the 18th. The theme of this year's forum is "Gathering New Quality Productive Forces, Open Cooperation Wins the Future." As one of the "Invest in China" series of activities of the Ministry of Commerce (商务部), the Entrepreneurs Taihu Forum aims to provide a platform for entrepreneurs from various countries to conduct in-depth exchanges and explore cooperation, and jointly explore effective ways to deal with global challenges.

At the forum, the Jiangsu (江苏) Province Biomedical Industry Chain Open Innovation Alliance was launched, the Jiangsu (江苏) Province New Energy Industry Chain Hub Platform was released, and a number of foreign-funded R&D center projects were signed. In the first three quarters of this year, Jiangsu (江苏) actually utilized foreign capital of US$14.52 billion, accounting for 18.1% of the country.

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Innovative service methods activate consumption momentum.

By: 本报记者 韩 鑫

Qufu, Shandong (山东曲阜), Nishan Holy Land Scenic Area (尼山圣境景区), with its distinctive research and study programs such as "Reading the Analects with Hands" and "Ancient Ritual Experience," attracts a large number of tourists. Thanks to the support of over 800 million yuan in loans from the Postal Savings Bank of China (邮储银行) Jining Branch (济宁市分行), high-quality projects are being "updated" to better inherit traditional culture.

In Bijie, Guizhou (贵州毕节), the Zhijin Cave Scenic Area (织金洞景区) has renovated its sightseeing vehicle lanes and added multilingual signage, resulting in a significant year-on-year increase in tourist reception. Relying on the 30 million yuan injected by the Postal Savings Bank of China (邮储银行) Bijie Branch (毕节市分行), the scenic area has been revitalized, and its service capabilities have been significantly improved.

Finance is an important force supporting the development of the cultural and tourism industry. The Postal Savings Bank of China (邮储银行), with its precise financial services, is powerfully promoting the transformation and upgrading of the cultural and tourism industry. The "Finance + Culture and Tourism" model is flourishing in many places, injecting vitality into the cultural and tourism industry. As of the end of October this year, the scale of wholesale loans from the Postal Savings Bank of China (邮储银行) invested in the cultural and tourism sector increased by 38% compared to the end of last year.

——Solving the funding problems of enterprises and enriching the supply of high-quality cultural and tourism products.

"The 1 million yuan credit 'homestay loan' was processed in just 3 days, it was truly a timely rain!" Gao Junfeng (高军峰), who runs a homestay in Lintong District (临潼区), Xi'an (西安), Shaanxi (陕西), has renovation and upgrade funds supported by the bank, and his summer revenue has increased significantly.

Using financial resources to "lend" momentum to the cultural and tourism industry to generate "gold." Since the beginning of this year, the Lintong District Branch (临潼区支行) of the Postal Savings Bank of China (邮储银行) Xi'an Branch (西安市分行) has issued nearly 10 million yuan in cultural and tourism loans to 20 homestay merchants, effectively solving the problem of capital shortage for merchants.

In Meizhou Island (湄洲岛), Putian (莆田), Fujian (福建莆田), the "Meizhou Homestay Loan" established by the Putian Branch (莆田市分行) of the Postal Savings Bank of China (邮储银行) has a maximum amount of 500,000 yuan, with a simple process and flexible terms; in Lijiang (丽江), Yunnan (云南丽江), the Lijiang Branch (丽江分行) of the Postal Savings Bank of China (邮储银行) has launched the "Ancient City Business District Loan" to help merchants optimize their operations... Taking characteristic credit products as a starting point, the Postal Savings Bank of China (邮储银行) continues to increase its financial support for the homestay industry, helping to deepen the integration of culture and tourism.

——Improving the quality of major projects and cultivating diversified cultural and tourism formats.

As the cultural and tourism industry moves towards high-quality development, cultural and tourism consumption is accelerating its iteration and upgrading, placing higher demands on financial support, not only requiring financial support but also further upgrading to comprehensive financial service needs.

In Shaoguan (韶关), Guangdong (广东韶关), the Shaoguan Branch (韶关市分行) of the Postal Savings Bank of China (邮储银行) issued a loan of 190 million yuan to Xiangyuan Danxia Mountain Tourism Co., Ltd. (祥源丹霞山旅游有限公司), assisting in the construction of a complete and mature cultural and tourism ecosystem by supporting the upgrading of cableways and the renewal of cruise ships, turning "first-time customers" into "repeat customers"; in Lhasa (拉萨), Tibet (西藏拉萨), the Tibet Branch (西藏分行) of the Postal Savings Bank of China (邮储银行) established a special service team and reached a strategic cooperation with Yushang Hemei Cultural Tourism Co., Ltd. (域上和美文化旅游股份有限公司), helping the large-scale live-action historical drama "Princess Wencheng" (《文成公主》) become a calling card for the integration and development of the cultural and tourism industry in Tibet.

From supporting the upgrading and transformation of small and micro enterprises to deeply participating in major cultural and tourism projects, the Postal Savings Bank of China's (邮储银行) financial support for cultural and tourism consumption is becoming more diversified, and support tools are constantly innovating, better improving the management effectiveness and consumption experience of cultural and tourism, extending financial services to the protection of intangible cultural heritage and the development of cultural and creative products, promoting the deep integration of culture and tourism, and tapping the potential of cultural consumption.

In Dali Ancient City (大理古城), Yunnan (云南), Duan Shukun (段树坤), an inheritor of tie-dyeing, expanded his workshop and developed cultural and creative products with the support of the Postal Savings Bank of China (邮储银行); in Quzhou (衢州), Zhejiang (浙江衢州), the Quzhou Branch (衢州市分行) of the Postal Savings Bank of China (邮储银行) provided a science and technology innovation credit loan to a local "time-honored brand" enterprise; in Chaozhou Ancient City (潮州古城), Guangdong (广东潮州), the Chaozhou Branch (潮州市分行) of the Postal Savings Bank of China (邮储银行) jointly launched the "Chaozhou Ancient City Tour" cultural and tourism comprehensive management platform with relevant departments, realizing the integration of online booking, ticket purchase, tour guide explanation and other tourism services... "In the vigorous development of the cultural and tourism industry, the Postal Savings Bank of China (邮储银行) actively plays its role and responsibility, promotes industrial development with financial resources, and releases consumption potential with innovative services." The relevant person in charge of the Postal Savings Bank of China (邮储银行) said that in the future, it will continue to deeply cultivate the high-quality development path of the deep integration of "Finance + Culture and Tourism" and inject more vitality into the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside and regional economic development.

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Editor in charge of this edition: Wu Yan, Wu Kai, Lin Ziye

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Helping Africa move towards a more inclusive digital future

By: 本报记者 戴楷然

"To ensure that Africa benefits from the new round of technological innovation, especially artificial intelligence, it is necessary to consolidate three important foundations: affordable network connectivity and equipment, reliable digital public infrastructure, and digital literacy that is close to the actual needs of the people. This will help Africa move towards a more inclusive digital future." This was stated by Solly Msimanga, Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies of South Africa (南非通信与数字技术部部长索利·马拉齐), at the 28th Africa Tech Festival held in Cape Town (开普敦), South Africa (南非) recently. As one of the largest and most influential technology exhibitions in Africa, the Africa Tech Festival aims to promote the digital transformation of the African continent and accelerate the development of the African technology industry.

The current Tech Festival mainly includes AfricaCom, AfricaTech, the AHUB startup event, and the AI Summit Cape Town, attracting more than 300 technology companies from around the world and over 10,000 global technology and communications industry decision-makers, entrepreneurs, and investors. "The development of digital technology has spawned new trends in automation and intelligence in industries such as industry, finance, and public health. From hard connectivity infrastructure such as network access and interconnection to cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence and digital clouds, more and more international partners are joining the African digital process to promote the inclusive growth of African digital technology," said James Williams, Project Director of this year's Tech Festival.

Currently, Africa's digital infrastructure is relatively lagging behind, with greater demand, and digital transformation has great potential. At this year's Tech Festival, dozens of Chinese technology companies showcased their latest products and technologies, hoping to fully leverage their advantages in resources, products, and other fields to provide assistance for the digital transformation process in Africa. As a global leading provider of dedicated communication solutions, Hytera Communications Corporation (海能达通信股份有限公司) exhibited a series of products such as digital walkie-talkies and cluster systems, and emergency communication equipment, attracting many people to stop and learn about the product situation. "These devices are suitable for public safety, emergency and other scenarios. We share digital experience and products with the local area to empower social governance with digital technology," said Zheng Tianbo (郑添渤), Deputy General Manager of Hytera's Overseas Sales Headquarters.

Jiangsu Hengtong Optic-Electric Co., Ltd. (江苏亨通光电股份有限公司) brought innovative cable and fiber optic solutions. "At present, Hengtong Optic-Electric has two cable factories and one fiber optic cable factory in South Africa, and has become one of the largest cable manufacturing enterprises in Southern Africa," said Liu Dehou (刘德厚), General Manager of Hengtong Optic-Electric South Africa Fiber Optic Cable Company. The company has achieved an annual production capacity of 2 million core kilometers in South Africa, and will be committed to expanding its product series in the future, bringing more capital technology, and creating more employment opportunities for the local area.

In early November, the 2Africa East segment of the ring-Africa submarine cable project built by China Mobile (中国移动) in conjunction with seven other international operators was officially launched. "This ring-Africa submarine cable construction project is about 45,000 kilometers long and connects more than 30 countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa. After completion, it will effectively enhance the bandwidth capacity of African countries and reduce Internet access costs," said Tao Ji (陶吉), General Manager of China Mobile International South Africa. In recent years, China Mobile has continuously strengthened cooperation with African local operators such as Vodacom and MTN to improve the local mobile Internet level with advanced data, information, and communication technology solutions.

Artificial intelligence is a hot topic at this year's Tech Festival, and the parties discussed topics such as the popularization and application of artificial intelligence technology in Africa, governance and supervision, and the creation of localized artificial intelligence solutions in Africa. Huawei (华为) showcased its commercial practices and product solutions in the fields of network, services, and software under the theme of "Accelerating towards an Intelligent World," and jointly issued the "Joint Communiqué on African AI Infrastructure Construction and Talent Training" with African countries. Relevant persons in charge of Huawei South Africa said that Huawei continues to promote the development of connection technology in the African region, and at the same time uses infrastructure such as cloud and data centers to help regional digital transformation.

Yao Siyang (腰斯洋), General Manager of the African Region of China Unicom International Co., Ltd. (中国联通国际有限公司), said that the African telecommunications industry and other fields have huge growth potential and contain a large number of development opportunities, attracting more and more companies to expand their business here. This is the fourth time that the company has participated in the Africa Tech Festival, bringing intelligent solutions from Chinese companies and continuously expanding its influence in the African market.

At the Honor (荣耀) booth, intelligent terminal products equipped with AI functions, such as smartphones, wireless intelligent guitars, and chess robots, attracted many visitors to experience them. "The digital transformation trend in Africa is particularly evident in intelligent terminal equipment. By the end of 2024, the market share of smartphones in Africa will exceed that of feature phones for the first time. We will equip the entire series of products with AI technologies such as image processing and real-time translation to promote the inclusive development of digital technology," said Zhou Lefeng (周乐峰), General Manager of Honor Terminal Co., Ltd. South Africa. The company is very optimistic about the prospects of the African market and is actively cooperating with Chinese intelligent manufacturing enterprises to bring more intelligent home equipment to the African market, allowing African consumers to enjoy the convenience brought by digital technology.

(Reported from Cape Town (开普敦), South Africa (南非) by this newspaper)

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The international community must be highly vigilant and resolutely thwart any attempt to revive militarism.

Beijing (北京), November 19th (Reporter Li Anqi (李安琪)) Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning (毛宁) stated on the 19th that launching foreign aggression in the name of so-called "existential crisis" and "self-defense" is a common trick of Japanese militarism. The international community must be highly vigilant and resolutely resist any attempt to revive militarism, jointly safeguard the post-war international order, and protect world peace.

At the regular press conference that day, a reporter asked: Recently, many analyses have pointed out that among the past Prime Ministers of Japan, Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) was the first to clearly state that "a Taiwan contingency" is linked to an "existential crisis." This means that once such a "contingency" occurs, Japan can exercise its so-called "collective self-defense right," and Japan's military intervention in the Taiwan Strait becomes possible, which violates China's (中国) bottom line. Does the spokesperson agree with this statement?

Mao Ning (毛宁) stated that the "collective self-defense right" stipulated in the "Charter of the United Nations" is a right created to maintain the collective security of the international community and prevent the revival of fascist forces. Japan (日本) was restricted from exercising this right after World War II. The "Potsdam Proclamation" clearly stipulates that Japan (日本) is prohibited from rearming, and Japan (日本) has pledged in its constitution to "forever renounce war, the threat of force, or the use of force as a means of settling international disputes," establishing the principle of "exclusively defense-oriented." These are all legalizations of Japan's (日本) obligations as a defeated country.

"Looking back at history, it is not difficult to find that launching foreign aggression in the name of so-called 'existential crisis' and 'self-defense' is a common trick of Japanese militarism," Mao Ning (毛宁) said. In 1931, "whether or not Manchuria (满洲) can be obtained" was once regarded as a "threat to Japan's (日本) survival." Japan (日本) used this as an excuse to launch the September 18th Incident and occupy Northeast China (中国东北). Subsequently, Japan (日本) declared that "'the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere' is a battle for Japan's (日本) survival," and spread the flames of aggression to the entire Asia (亚洲). "Whether or not to attack Pearl Harbor (珍珠港)" was also once regarded as a "threat to Japan's (日本) survival," thus igniting the fuse of the Pacific War.

"The alarm bell has already sounded, and the tragedy must not be repeated." Mao Ning (毛宁) said that on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, the international community must be highly vigilant and resolutely resist any attempt to revive militarism, jointly safeguard the post-war international order, and protect world peace.

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If Japan refuses to retract its erroneous remarks regarding Taiwan, it will bear all consequences.

This newspaper Beijing (北京), November 19th (Reporter Li Anqi (李安琪)) In response to recent remarks about China by Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara (木原稔), Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning (毛宁) stated on the 19th that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's (高市早苗) erroneous remarks regarding Taiwan have aroused public indignation and condemnation from the Chinese people. If the Japanese side refuses to retract these remarks and continues to err, China will have no choice but to take severe and resolute countermeasures, and the Japanese side will bear all consequences arising therefrom. "China solemnly urges the Japanese side to retract its erroneous remarks, stop creating disturbances on issues involving China, take practical actions to admit and correct its mistakes, and safeguard the political foundation of Sino-Japanese relations."

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Even if Japanese seafood is exported to China under the current circumstances, there will be no market.

People's Daily, Beijing, November 19th (Reporter Li Anqi (李安琪)) Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning (毛宁) stated at a regular press conference on the 19th that recently, the erroneous remarks of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) have aroused strong public indignation among the Chinese people. Under the current circumstances, even if Japanese aquatic products are exported to China, there will be no market.

At the regular press conference that day, a reporter asked: It is understood that China has notified Japan of the suspension of imports of Japanese aquatic products. Can the spokesperson introduce the relevant details and reasons?

Mao Ning (毛宁) said that the Japanese side had previously promised to fulfill its regulatory responsibilities for aquatic products exported to China and ensure product quality and safety. This is a prerequisite for Japanese aquatic products to be exported to China, but the Japanese side has not yet provided the promised technical materials.

Mao Ning (毛宁) said that recently, due to the Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's (高市早苗) 倒行逆施 (dào xíng nì shī - "act contrary to morality," to go against the tide of history; to act perversely), erroneous remarks on major principled issues such as Taiwan have aroused strong public indignation among the Chinese people. "Under the current circumstances, even if Japanese aquatic products are exported to China, there will be no market."

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This newspaper's United Nations dispatch on November 19th (Reporter Li Zhiwei (李志伟)) China's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Fu Cong (傅聪), stated on the 18th during the plenary session of the 80th United Nations General Assembly, while reviewing the reform of the Security Council, that the recent remarks made by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) in the Diet regarding Taiwan are extremely erroneous and dangerous, grossly interfering in China's internal affairs, and seriously violating the one-China principle and the spirit of the four political documents between China and Japan. This is a provocation against international justice, a destruction of the post-war international order, a trampling on the basic norms of international relations, and a blatant departure from Japan's fundamental commitment to peaceful development. Such a country is simply not qualified to demand to become a permanent member of the Security Council.

Fu Cong (傅聪) emphasized that, as is known to all, there is only one China in the world, the government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China, and Taiwan is an inseparable part of Chinese territory.

In response to the absurd remarks from the Japanese side, Fu Cong (傅聪) pointed out in the second round of his speech that it has been 80 years since the victory of World War II, the facts of World War II are as solid as iron and cannot be denied, and Japan's war and colonial crimes are 罄竹难书 (qìng zhú nán shū - "exhaust bamboo write book," too numerous to record) and cannot be overturned. Any justification from the Japanese side can only further prove that Japan is still unable to face up to and reflect on its history of aggression. Japanese militarism has historically launched foreign aggression multiple times under the pretext of a so-called "existential crisis," including the September 18th Incident in 1931 under the pretext of exercising "the right of self-defense," provoking the war of aggression against China, and bringing profound disasters to the people of the world, including China. Now, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) is again mentioning an "existential crisis situation." What exactly are her intentions? Is she trying to repeat the mistakes of militarism? Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) has also consistently advocated abolishing the "renunciation of war" clause in the pacifist constitution. Given Sanae Takaichi's (高市早苗) such egregious behavior, how can the international community believe that Japan can adhere to its commitment to peaceful development? How can they believe that it can uphold fairness and justice? How can they believe that it can shoulder the responsibility of maintaining international peace and security?

Fu Cong (傅聪) said that the Chinese side solemnly warns the Japanese side to immediately stop interfering in China's internal affairs, retract its provocative and transgressive erroneous words and deeds, and not to play with fire on the Taiwan issue, otherwise the Japanese side will bear all the consequences arising therefrom. If the Japanese side dares to intervene militarily in the Taiwan Strait situation, it will constitute an act of aggression, and the Chinese side will surely meet it with a head-on blow. The Chinese side will resolutely exercise the right of self-defense conferred by the Charter of the United Nations and international law, and firmly safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity.

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Sanae Takaichi Should Learn from Historical Lessons

Xinhua News Agency, Moscow, November 19th (Reporters Liu Kai (刘恺) and Xu Jiaqi (许佳麒)) Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova (扎哈罗娃) stated in an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency reporters in Moscow on the 18th that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's (高市早苗) recent remarks regarding Taiwan are very dangerous, and Japan should deeply reflect on its history and learn from the lessons of World War II.

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory in the World Anti-Fascist War. Zakharova pointed out that a series of commemorative events around the world are reminding people not to forget history and to learn from its lessons. Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) must remember the lessons of history, and especially face up to the inglorious parts of her own country's history.

Zakharova stated that the war of aggression launched by Japanese militarism brought profound disasters to Asia and the world, and also caused Japan to pay a heavy price. Japanese politicians such as Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) should deeply reflect on history and be wary of the serious consequences that erroneous words and deeds may cause.

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Heilongjiang Daqing: Scientific and technological innovation empowers the oil city, transformation and revitalization starts a new journey

In the tide of the times, Daqing City (大庆市), Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省), this heroic city is using technological innovation as its pen to depict a magnificent picture of transformation and revitalization.

Breaking Through "Depth": Innovation Continues to Write the Answer Sheet for Energy Security

Faced with the world-class problem of continental shale oil exploration and development, from conventional to unconventional, from reference to the "no man's land," Daqing Oilfield (大庆油田) takes high-level technological self-reliance as its guide, successfully breaking through the theoretical and technical bottlenecks of traditional oil and gas exploration and development, and the total energy equivalent continues to rise. In 2024, the shale oil production of Daqing Oilfield Gulong (大庆油田古龙) Continental Shale Oil National Demonstration Zone exceeded 400,000 tons, and this year, it added 158 million tons of proven shale oil reserves. Daqing (大庆) is promoting the new practice of "fueling the country" with technological innovation, and building a "ballast stone" for energy security.

Leaping to "Intelligence": Dual-Wheel Drive Broadens the Industrial Track

The new materials industry is booming. Daqing (大庆) has abundant raw material resources such as lubricating oil base oil, synthetic fiber, synthetic resin, synthetic rubber, C4, and C5, forming a characteristic industrial system dominated by chemical new materials, focusing on inorganic non-metallic materials, and supplemented by new building materials and ceramic materials.

The National Photovoltaic and Energy Storage Demonstration Experiment Platform (Daqing Base) (国家光伏、储能实证实验平台（大庆基地）) has arranged more than 640 kinds of demonstration experiment schemes. The MySE10.X-23X onshore wind turbine manufactured by Mingyang Smart Energy Group Daqing Base (明阳智慧能源集团大庆基地) has a rotor diameter of up to 230 meters, which broke the global record in 2023. The installed capacity of new energy and renewable energy in Daqing (大庆) has exceeded 5 million kilowatts.

The digital intelligence industry is accelerating its rise. Private enterprises such as Duowei Shikuo (多维时空), Site Media (思特传媒), and Hengchi Electric (恒驰电气) are releasing their vitality, launching a number of independent innovation products such as intelligent industrial robots. The scale of Daqing's (大庆) digital economy has exceeded 120 billion yuan. This year, Daqing (大庆) was selected into the third batch of pilot cities for digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises, which will strengthen the "digital muscles and bones" for 500 manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises.

Born for "Green": Technology Depicts the Landscape of Modern Agriculture

Technology empowers agricultural efficiency. Daqing (大庆) conducts research on saline-alkali land improvement by adapting to local conditions, carrying out "superior varieties suitable for soil, soil improvement and seed benefit," widely applying Beidou (北斗) navigation autopilot systems, intelligent seeders, plant protection drones and other intelligent agricultural machinery, screening and promoting a number of practical new technologies and new models that are "down-to-earth, can be implemented, and effective quickly," and steadily promoting grain production. In 2024, the planting area of grain crops in Daqing City (大庆市) was 10.685 million mu, an increase of 0.3% year-on-year, and the grain output was 9.314 billion jin, an increase of 1.03% year-on-year. In 2025, the planting area of grain crops in Daqing City (大庆市) will be stabilized at more than 10.6 million mu, and the grain production capacity will be maintained at more than 9.3 billion jin.

Moving Towards "Excellence": Building a Nest to Attract Phoenixes and Create an Innovation Magnet

Daqing (大庆) always adheres to the principle of "attracting the best talents with the best environment, and creating the best results with the best talents," and creates a "strong magnetic field" for the aggregation of innovation elements. The Daqing Area (大庆片区) of the Harbin-Daqing-Qiqihar National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone (哈大齐国家自主创新示范区) has explored a central-local integration and university-local collaborative innovation model. In 2024, the output value of high-tech industries accounted for 58% of the total industrial output value. The innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem around Northeast Petroleum University (东北石油大学) focuses on the integration of "production, learning, research and application," and has built achievement transformation carriers such as the Intelligent Drilling and Production Equipment Industrial Park, the New Quality Productivity Development Center, and the Government-Enterprise-University Characteristic Industry Incubation Base, exploring the "use first, then transfer" and "invest first, then share" mechanisms, and has cultivated 65 technology achievement transformation enterprises in universities and research institutes.

Daqing (大庆) has built a financing credit investigation service platform, created financial products such as the "New Quality Productivity Loan," and formed a science and technology financial alliance to introduce patient capital for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements through multiple channels. As of the end of June 2025, the balance of science and technology loans reached 23.4 billion yuan, an increase of 2.3% year-on-year.

Daqing (大庆) has issued policies such as the "20 Articles on Talent Revitalization in Daqing in the New Era" (《新时代大庆人才振兴20条》) and the Leading Talent Qingyan Support Program, giving top talents introduced up to 10 million yuan in scientific research funding support; establishing a "talent service specialist" system to solve the worries of talents. Today, Daqing (大庆) has 164 various science and technology innovation platforms above the provincial level, with 11,000 scientific researchers, and the "thickness" of the talent team is being transformed into the "strength" of innovation and development.

In 2024, Daqing City's (大庆市) investment in research and experimental development (R&D) for the whole society reached 4.872 billion yuan, and the average annual growth of R&D expenditure from 2021 to 2024 was nearly 22%, maintaining a relatively rapid growth trend; in 2024, the intensity of R&D investment steadily increased, reaching 1.73%, an increase of 0.24 percentage points year-on-year, ranking among the top in various cities and regions in Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省).

Data source: Heilongjiang Provincial Department of Science and Technology (黑龙江省科学技术厅)

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Editors of this page: Zou Zhipeng, Zhang Huizhong, Chu Jun

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openEuler Hypervisor Operating System Released, Aiming to Empower Intelligent Upgrades Across Industries

From November 14th to 15th, 2025, the Operating System Conference & openEuler Summit 2025, themed "Intelligence Leaps Without Boundaries, Open Source Leads to the Future," was successfully held at the Zhongguancun International Innovation Center (中关村国际创新中心) in Beijing (北京). The conference was jointly organized by the OpenAtom openEuler (开放原子开源欧拉) community (referred to as "openEuler") and dozens of industry partners. It aimed to gather the strength of the global industry to create innovative operating systems and accelerate the development of the global basic software open-source ecosystem.

In recent years, under the operation and incubation of the OpenAtom Foundation (开放原子开源基金会), the openEuler community has flourished, with over 2,100 member organizations, more than 23,000 global contributors, and over 5.5 million users. The cumulative installed base of openEuler series operating systems is expected to exceed 16 million units by the end of 2025, making it the preferred operating system for digital intelligence. Its market share continues to maintain a leading position, and it has been fully and widely applied in industries such as the Internet, communications, government affairs, finance, public utilities, and energy.

Releasing an Operating System for Supernodes, Embracing the AI Era

Basic software is a strategic industry, an ecological industry, and a long-cycle industry. It must adhere to independent innovation, co-creation, co-construction, and sharing, as well as long-term continuous investment. Over the past five years, with the joint efforts of all sectors of the industry, the openEuler community has become one of the most active open-source operating system technology communities in the world, continuously helping the operating system industry ecosystem to prosper and grow. In the future, supernodes will become the mainstream form of computing infrastructure construction and deployment. The operating system in the intelligent era will connect hardware and applications, becoming an important cornerstone for releasing computing power potential and helping the intelligent upgrade of thousands of industries.

At the conference, the openEuler community released openEuler 24.03 LTS SP3, an operating system for supernodes, marking the official start of a new five-year development path for openEuler. openEuler will firmly embrace cutting-edge technologies such as supernodes and AI, accelerate the globalization process, and provide new choices for the industry.

Currently, AI technology is changing all walks of life at an unprecedented speed. Traditional server clusters cannot effectively meet the ever-increasing demand for computing power. The evolution of computing infrastructure towards supernode forms has become a general consensus in the industry. An operating system for supernodes should have three key characteristics: global resource abstraction, unified memory addressing, and device pooling management; heterogeneous resource integration, high-bandwidth and low-latency communication, to achieve equal interconnection; and have global resource views, compatibility interfaces, and native interfaces, in order to fully release the computing power potential of supernodes and accelerate application innovation based on supernodes.

Members of the openEuler community actively contribute, and through technological innovation and open collaboration, they work together to meet the challenges of the times. As a strategic donor and important contributor to the openEuler community, Huawei (华为) has opened the Lingqu Interconnect Protocol 2.0 (灵衢互联协议2.0) to support industry partners in building supernodes based on Lingqu. It will also contribute operating system plug-in code that supports supernodes to the openEuler community, providing key capabilities such as "unified memory addressing," "low-latency communication for heterogeneous computing power," and "global resource pooling." Huawei will collaborate with the community to promote in-depth cooperation with global open-source organizations in the AI field such as Linux Foundation AI&Data and PyTorch, and deepen the implementation of technical topics such as AI runtime, vector databases, and cloud deployment. At the same time, Huawei will collaborate with dozens of OSV (operating system vendor) and ISV (independent software vendor) partners in the community to provide openEuler overall solutions to overseas customers and actively promote the globalization of openEuler.

Continuously Enhancing AI Capabilities, Helping Industry Partners' Digital Transformation

For data center scenarios, the openEuler community provides the Intelligence BooM full-stack open-source AI solution. Following the release of the first version "2507 Huimian (2507烩面)" in July 2025, the new version "2511 Qiaoyumian (2511敲鱼面)" was released at this conference. This version is characterized by "low cost, high efficiency, and easy implementation," supports fine-tuning of more than 50 models, improves heterogeneous collaborative inference efficiency by 10%-30%, and has rapid adaptation capabilities for the Agentic AI intelligent agent ecosystem. The solution has been commercialized by industry partners such as PowerLeader (宝德) and HuaKun ZhenYu (华鲲振宇).

For the emerging field of industrial automation, openEuler continues to evolve its embedded capabilities, incubating technologies such as MICA mixed criticality deployment, UniProton real-time kernel, and embedded virtualization, achieving microsecond-level response. The solution has been commercially implemented in many well-known domestic and foreign companies such as China Southern Power Grid (中国南方电网) and Phoenix Contact (菲尼克斯), effectively promoting the IT (information technology) transformation of the OT (operational technology) field.

Jointly Building an Industrial Ecosystem, Accelerating the Globalization of openEuler

At this conference, the OpenAtom Foundation (开放原子开源基金会), Huawei (华为), and China Telecom Tianyi Cloud (中国电信天翼云) released a joint development initiative. The three parties will give full play to their respective technical advantages, base their efforts on technical co-construction, and jointly build the competitiveness of the operating system in cutting-edge technology fields such as AI and supernodes; take ecological co-construction as the key, and work together to promote the prosperity and development of the Tianyi Cloud (天翼云) and openEuler ecosystem; take business win-win as the guideline, deepen scenario-based cooperation, and accelerate the comprehensive implementation of businesses such as Tianyi Cloud CtyunOS (天翼云CTyunOS). The three parties hope that more industry partners will join the openEuler community, and through open collaboration and resource sharing, create new benchmarks for digital infrastructure and jointly empower the intelligent upgrade of thousands of industries.

In addition, at this conference, the community also invited representatives from global companies and open-source organizations such as AMD, Arm, and Linaro to share their cooperation stories with openEuler. AMD has joined hands with the openEuler community to jointly build an AI industry ecosystem. In terms of server processors, it has completed all adaptations of related products and openEuler. In the future, it will continue to deepen cooperation with the openEuler community in areas such as cloud computing, confidential computing, and AI. Linaro has long supported the development of the Arm ecosystem. It joined the openEuler community in 2021. In the long-term cooperation, it has contributed its accumulated open-source experience to the openEuler Arm architecture and is a major contributor to the openEuler Arm CCA confidential computing solution. This year, AMD, Inspur Cloud (浪潮云), and Digital China (神州数码) have newly become donors to the openEuler community.

At the same time, Ningsi Software (凝思软件), Chinasoft International (中软国际), Wind River, UnionTech Software (统信软件), iSoftStone (软通动力), SuperFusion (超聚变), Runhe Software (润和软件), Kylin Software (麒麟软件), and Kylin Sec (麒麟信安) have become the first batch of global pioneer partners of the openEuler community, and will work together to promote the globalization of openEuler. At the global open-source organization collaboration level, the openEuler community has recently reached in-depth technical cooperation with the Zephyr Embedded Technology Foundation and the Linux Foundation AI&Data Foundation. At present, the openEuler community has established close cooperative relationships with a total of 15 global open-source organizations in fields such as AI, cloud, big data, high-performance computing, and embedded systems.

In order to strengthen the deep connection between the community and the academic and educational circles, and promote talent cultivation and ecological construction in the field of system software, the Academic and Education Committee of the openEuler community was officially established at the conference. The committee will coordinate and promote the construction of the academic ecosystem, the design of talent incentive systems, and the formulation of relevant standards, providing sustainable intellectual and talent support for the development of the community.

Under the leadership of the Academic and Education Committee of the openEuler community, the Heterogeneous Fusion System Software Industry-University-Research Alliance was established simultaneously. The evolution of computing infrastructure towards supernodes will drive technological innovation in operating systems. Facing the ecological fragmentation challenges brought about by the current diversification of heterogeneous hardware and the rapid evolution of high-speed interconnection technologies, the industry urgently needs to build a unified heterogeneous fusion computing architecture and software ecosystem. In this regard, the openEuler community will firmly grasp the development opportunities of the intelligent era, from deepening industry-university-research collaboration to breaking through core technologies, and steadily move forward, contributing to building an important cornerstone of computing infrastructure.

Data source: openEuler community

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Millennial Fen-flavor, Flourishing New Chapter

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Opening New Space for Health and Wellness Consumption (New Vision: Cultivating New Growth Points for Service Consumption)

By: 本报记者 杨颜菲 齐志明

In early winter, at the chestnut festival held at George Palm Manor (乔治棕榈山庄), tourists use poles to knock down chestnuts and stir-fry them on the spot, fully experiencing the fun. In Xianggu Town (香谷小镇), consumers from afar experience aromatherapy and relaxation. In Xinta Horticulture Sightseeing Garden (新塔园艺观光园), customers admire the forest landscape and taste healthy and safe forest food. In Jinxi County (金溪县), Jiangxi (江西), people enjoy the natural scenery and cultural landscape, and the heat of consumption continues to rise.

The General Office of the State Council's "Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Cultivation and Opening up of Scenarios to Promote the Large-scale Application of New Scenarios" proposes to "strengthen the cross-border integration of consumption in commerce, culture, tourism, sports, health, transportation, etc." and "create a number of new consumption scenarios with a wide range of influence and high visibility."

The health and wellness industry is an industrial form that provides health and wellness services, covering health tourism, health care, sports and leisure, catering and food, and other fields, in line with the modern trend of pursuing a healthy lifestyle. With the solid advancement of Healthy China construction, people's health and wellness consumption needs continue to increase, and various places cultivate health and wellness formats in accordance with local conditions, and high-quality health and wellness products and services continue to emerge.

Embracing "Poetry and the Distance" in Ancient Villages

As night falls, the lights in Youdian Ancient Village (游垫古村) in Heshi Town (合市镇), Jinxi County (金溪县), light up one after another. Eight ponds reflect the old houses on the shore, and the ancient brick carvings are intertwined with the flowing light and shadow, and a wonderful "light and shadow water show" is staged. Tourists stroll along the bluestone road, stopping to take pictures from time to time, and listening to the tour guide tell the 600-year history of the ancient village.

Ancient villages are Jinxi's "family heirloom." There are 128 ancient villages with complete preservation patterns, including 57 Chinese traditional villages and 7 Chinese historical and cultural towns and villages. In promoting ecological health and wellness, Jinxi County (金溪县) is making every effort to create a green health and wellness and ancient village health and wellness format cluster integrating "ancient villages + mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes and rice paddies," and has built a number of health and wellness experience destinations with "ecology as the foundation and culture as the vein."

Youdian Ancient Village (游垫古村) is an ancient village of the Ming Dynasty, surrounded by mountains on three sides, with a forest coverage rate of 90% and rich in negative oxygen ions. Based on its resource advantages, the village creates distinctive and high-quality health and wellness tourism products to meet the people's growing needs for a better life.

At dawn, with fresh air, a professional yoga instructor hired by the Youdian Ancient Village Scenic Area (游垫古村景区) leads tourists to practice yoga in the fields. "I have been to Youdian Village (游垫村) before, and the ancient buildings and various special delicacies left a deep impression on me. This time, I specially brought my family to visit," said Zhang Suhong (张素红), a retired teacher from Pudong New Area (浦东新区), Shanghai (上海).

"We have designed a new 'ancient village + ecology + medical treatment' health and wellness consumption model for the ancient village, renovated more than 10 idle old houses in the village, and opened ecological restaurants, handicraft workshops, ancient village homestays, and physiotherapy halls to form a complete health and wellness consumption chain," said Zhang Guifa (张桂发), head of the Youdian Ancient Village Scenic Area (游垫古村景区) in Jinxi County (金溪县).

"Health and wellness can also include visiting ancient villages, tasting delicacies, and learning knowledge. This kind of travel is so comfortable," said Li Xiaoqin (李小琴), who works in Zhejiang (浙江). Many tourists, like Li Xiaoqin (李小琴), choose the "health and wellness + vacation" model - taking care of their bodies in the physiotherapy hall during the day, experiencing farming in the fields, visiting the market and watching the light and shadow show in the evening, and staying in ancient village homestays at night.

More than 20 kilometers away from Youdian Ancient Village (游垫古村), the George Palm Manor (乔治棕榈山庄) in Huwan Town (浒湾镇) is full of green grass and rippling water. Not long ago, George Palm Manor (乔治棕榈山庄) launched a "family health plan" covering parent-child yoga, organic farm picking, and stargazing camping. Liu Yuncheng (刘云程), a family of three from Nanchang (南昌), Jiangxi (江西), participated in the manor's "24-hour health challenge": "The child learned Tai Chi with the coach, the wife experienced aromatherapy, and I completed a 5-kilometer hike on the forest trail. This kind of family-involved health and wellness experience is more meaningful than simple tourism and sightseeing."

By focusing on the "health and wellness + tourism" business, the villagers' pockets are getting richer. Huang Wuqing (黄武清), Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau of Jinxi County (金溪县文化广电旅游局), introduced that in the first half of this year, the number of tourists received and the comprehensive tourism income in Jinxi County (金溪县) increased by 10.3% and 7.98% respectively, and ancient villages have been rejuvenated in the inheritance.

New Products, New Formats, and New Scenarios are Constantly Emerging

The "Outline of the 'Healthy China 2030' Plan" clearly proposes to actively promote the integration of health with elderly care, tourism, the Internet, fitness and leisure, and food.

China has the advantage of a super-large market. In 2024, China's per capita disposable income reached 41,314 yuan, and the proportion of residents' health consumption continues to rise.

The characteristics of diversified health and wellness industry needs, professional services, and diverse structures promote the continuous emergence of new products, new formats, and new scenarios such as "health and wellness +" recuperation, homestays, and food, becoming a "new blue ocean" for boosting consumption.

"I found a unique fragrance!" Recently, Jiang Jingya (姜静雅) from Wenzhou (温州), Zhejiang (浙江), came to Jinxi Xianggu Town (金溪香谷小镇), and Zhao Changying (赵长缨), chairman of Jiangxi Huangyan Fragrance Co., Ltd. (江西黄岩香料有限公司), brought out Huangxiang, which brightened Jiang Jingya's (姜静雅) eyes.

Jinxi (金溪) is a national production base of under-forest biological spices, with more than 80 spice and fragrance companies, and the main business income of the industry has exceeded 10 billion yuan. Jinxi (金溪) integrates the traditional spice and fragrance industry with health and wellness development, bringing tourists a more comfortable health experience.

Walking in Jinxi Xianggu Town (金溪香谷小镇), various aromatic plants come into view, the scenery is pleasant, and the fragrance is overflowing. Relying on the essence and fragrance industry, Jinxi County (金溪县) jointly established the "Jinxi Aromatherapy Research Institute (金溪香疗研究院)" with Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (江西中医药大学) to create an aromatherapy experience center and develop new formats such as characteristic homestays and health and wellness physiotherapy, integrating natural spices into tea tasting, flower appreciation, moxibustion, and assisted deep sleep, opening up a new path for aromatic health and wellness.

"This lavender essential oil helps relieve anxiety and improve sleep." In the aromatherapy and health area of Xianggu Town (香谷小镇), health and wellness therapist Zheng Liming (郑丽明) opened a bottle of essential oil and asked Ms. Lin Xijuan (林喜娟) from Putian (莆田), Fujian (福建), to smell it.

Shu Jing (舒婧), the person in charge of Xianggu Town (香谷小镇), introduced: "We have four theme areas: tea fragrance area, fragrance identification area, fragrance tasting area, and food fragrance area. In the tea fragrance area, you can prepare different fragrant medicinal teas (such as gardenia tea), which have both health care effects and unique flavors. In the fragrance tasting area, tourists can personally make perfume, make personalized sachets, natural soaps, natural incense sticks and other fragrance products, and can also listen to aromatherapy and health courses."

Spices have always been an important part of delicious dishes. In the food fragrance area of Xianggu Town (香谷小镇), various unique aromatic delicacies allow tourists to enjoy the scenery while enjoying a feast. Many health and wellness homestays have opened up next to Xianggu Town (香谷小镇), and the characteristics are various fragrances.

"We have introduced a series of support policies to amplify the brand effect of 'Xianggu Town (香谷小镇)' and other brands, focusing on cultivating and creating aromatic health and wellness star-rated homestays, homestay clusters, and homestay complexes, and carefully built 13 characteristic star-rated homestays such as Nanyuan Xiaoyin (南园小隐), integrating health and wellness elements, and initially forming a three-industry integrated, characteristic positioning, and differentiated development of the aromatic health and wellness homestay economic development pattern," introduced Wang Fei (王飞), member of the Standing Committee of the Jinxi County (金溪县委) Party Committee and Deputy County Mayor. The county has opened aromatherapy experience areas in some tourist attractions and township health centers. In the past three years, the county's tourist reception and comprehensive income have shown a significant growth trend.

Transforming Health and Wellness Resource Advantages into Development Advantages

Fishing and sitting on the rock, the water is clear and the heart is idle. As an outdoor ecological health and wellness sport, fishing is favored by many people. In the Runhao Modern Comprehensive Agriculture and International Fishing Center (润浩现代综合农业暨国际垂钓中心) in Jinxi County (金溪县), a group of fishing enthusiasts are busy baiting, casting rods, and catching fish on the shore, enjoying the comfort and fun of fishing.

"The environment here is beautiful and the scenery is pleasant. It is a rare enjoyment to make an appointment with friends to experience the slow time of fishing during work," said Xu Wenjun (许文骏), who lives in Xueyuan Community (学苑社区), Xiugu Town (秀谷镇), Jinxi County (金溪县).

"Taking fishing as a medium, promoting tourism through competitions, and combining sports and tourism, we promote the coordinated development of the primary, secondary, and tertiary industries through 'ecology + competition + tourism', accelerate the expansion of health and wellness formats with fishing culture and fish industry as the theme, and transform health and wellness resource advantages into development advantages and brand advantages," said Hu Yang (胡阳), Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau of Jinxi County (金溪县农业农村局).

In recent years, with the rise of national fitness to a national strategy, the "National Fitness Regulations" and the "National Fitness Plan (2021-2025)" have been implemented in depth, and the concept and practice of everyone participating in sports and everyone loving fitness have continued to deepen, which has not only added new impetus to promoting the construction of a sports power and a healthy China, but also brought new space for the development of sports health and wellness.

In line with this trend, various places give full play to their comparative advantages such as ecological environment, resource endowments, and local culture, gather key projects with the functions of healing and living, leisure and entertainment, and health management, and orderly develop sports health and wellness products, injecting new vitality into people's healthy lives.

"We have joined hands with the national and provincial and municipal fishing associations to organize more than 30 municipal-level and above fishing competitions every year, including more than 5 international competitions," said Yu Tengsheng (余腾胜), the person in charge of the Runhao Modern Comprehensive Agriculture and International Fishing Center (润浩现代综合农业暨国际垂钓中心) project in Jinxi (金溪). Since the center was put into operation, it has received more than 30,000 people who come to consume health and wellness every year, driving the employment of more than 60 villagers in the surrounding area, and the business of catering, accommodation, retail, and tourism is getting more and more popular.

Jinxi County (金溪县) also uses sports events as an engine to promote the integrated development of ecological health and wellness diversified formats of "sports + aromatic health and wellness + ancient village nostalgia," and has created a number of "sports +" ecological health and wellness new landmarks integrating competition, leisure, entertainment, and fitness, such as Guyun Bamboo Bridge (古韵竹桥), Tea Culture Park (茶文化园), and Runhao International Fishing Center (润浩国际垂钓中心), allowing sports enthusiasts to enjoy the joy of sports while appreciating ecological beauty and feeling the characteristics of folk customs, driving the vigorous development of related industries.

"We will base ourselves on the advantages of our own leisure and health resources, adhere to the development ideas of the integration of the primary, secondary, and tertiary industries, continue to vigorously develop various ecological health and wellness formats such as cultural tourism health and wellness, aromatic health and wellness, and sports health and wellness, continue to improve service quality and facility level, promote the high-quality development of the health and wellness industry, and better meet people's consumption needs for health and wellness with high-quality supply," said Wang Fei (王飞).

Layout design Wang Zheping (汪哲平)

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Sports + Consumption Have Great Potential (Market Walk)

By: 柯 文

Do a good job on the article of "New Supply", deepen the integrated development of "Sports +", create high-quality sports event IPs, create an integrated consumption scenario of eating, living, traveling, shopping, and entertainment, and continuously stimulate people's willingness to consume.

On the evening of November 9th, the 15th National Games (全国运动会) kicked off at the Guangdong Olympic Sports Center (广东奥林匹克体育中心). During this National Games (全运会), Guangdong (广东), Hong Kong (香港), and Macau (澳门) have carefully designed "competition routes as cultural tourism routes," organically connecting the sports venues and cultural tourism resources of 19 host cities to create a batch of "natural scenarios" integrating culture, sports, and tourism. Guangzhou's (广州) "event + Pearl River Night Cruise (珠江夜游)," Zhuhai's (珠海) "watching games + island tour," and other initiatives promote sports events into scenic spots, neighborhoods, and business districts, cultivate new formats, new products, and new services for integrated development, drive revenue growth in accommodation, catering, tourism, and other industries, and realize the transformation from event traffic to economic increment.

Sports events entering scenic spots, neighborhoods, and business districts, and traveling with events becoming a new fashion, with events such as "Su Chao (苏超)" and "Zhe BA (浙BA)" setting off consumption booms... Nowadays, the heat of sports consumption has spread from urban business districts to counties and villages, and from traditional venues to natural landscapes, which not only becomes a vivid footnote to meeting people's yearning for a better life, but also an important engine for expanding domestic demand and stabilizing growth.

The booming trend of sports consumption stems from the resonance between supply and demand. In the past, sports consumption mostly focused on the purchase of physical goods such as clothing and equipment, but now it has evolved into a diversified picture of "physical goods + services": event viewing, fitness training, and outdoor experiences have become new growth points, and niche trendy sports such as frisbee, "New Third Board (新三板)," rock climbing, and trail running have entered the public eye. In the first half of the year, the sales of sports and entertainment products by units above the limit increased by 22.2% year-on-year, and more than 500 key sports events monitored in Fujian (福建), Sichuan (四川), Guangxi (广西), and other 7 regions drove an average consumption of over 30 million yuan per event. Last year, the total online consumption of outdoor sports exceeded 300 billion yuan, and the on-site consumption amount of ski resorts nationwide reached 78.613 billion yuan in the 2024-2025 ice and snow season. Behind this upgrade is the epitome of people's health needs, and also the inevitable result of continuous optimization of the supply side.

The deepening of the integrated development of "Sports +" makes consumption scenarios more three-dimensional and vivid. Sichuan (四川) combined the World Games (世运会) to carry out "traveling with events," with a sports consumption scale of 118 billion yuan from January to July, a year-on-year increase of 8.3%; Jiangxi (江西) promoted the "sports events entering scenic spots, neighborhoods, and business districts" activities, leveraging the traffic-driving effect of events to create consumption scenarios, with a total sports consumption scale of nearly 55 billion yuan in the province in the first half of the year, a year-on-year increase of 9.17%. When sports are deeply integrated with culture, tourism, ecology, and technology, it not only extends the industrial chain, but also transforms the temporary heat of events into sustainable development increments.

In September of this year, the General Office of the State Council (国务院办公厅) issued the "Opinions on Releasing the Potential of Sports Consumption and Further Promoting the High-Quality Development of the Sports Industry," proposing that by 2030, the total scale of the sports industry will exceed 7 trillion yuan; at the micro level, it proposes to cultivate a batch of sports enterprises and sports events with world influence, which points out the direction for the high-quality development of the sports industry in the next stage.

The space for sports consumption is broad, so we must do a good job on the article of "New Supply", increase high-quality supply, enrich consumption scenarios, deepen the integrated development of "Sports +", create high-quality sports event IPs, create an integrated consumption scenario of eating, living, traveling, shopping, and entertainment, and continuously stimulate people's willingness to consume. At the same time, we must continue to optimize the consumption environment, promote the opening of more venues to the public, continue to promote the construction of "small and beautiful" national fitness venues around the masses, and improve the convenience of participating in sports. In addition, we should encourage various regions to introduce preferential activities such as issuing sports consumption coupons and consumption discounts in accordance with local conditions, and give play to the effect of policies of **四两拨千斤** (sì liǎng bō qiān jīn - "four ounces deflect a thousand pounds," to use minimal force to achieve a great effect), and stimulate new vitality in sports consumption.

From gyms to competitive arenas, from county-level events to intelligent equipment, the rapid growth of sports consumption reflects people's yearning for a better life. By leading new supply with new demand and creating new demand with new supply, sports consumption will release greater potential and inject lasting vitality into expanding domestic demand and promoting consumption.

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Market News

"Requirements and Recommendations for Food Traceability in Cold Chain Logistics" Released

This newspaper reports that the Cold Chain Professional Committee of the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (中国物流与采购联合会冷链专业委员会) has announced that the "Requirements and Recommendations for Food Traceability in Cold Chain Logistics," led by China, has recently been released by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The release of this standard will provide a unified traceability system framework and implementation recommendations for global cold chain logistics services, which is of great significance for improving the safety guarantee level of food circulation and increasing the transparency of the supply chain.

"Requirements and Recommendations for Food Traceability in Cold Chain Logistics" specifies the relevant requirements and recommendations for establishing a food traceability system in cold chain logistics, aiming to integrate functions such as the collection, management, and application of traceability information. The scope of application of this standard covers the entire process management that supports food traceability, especially targeting key links involving cold chain logistics service providers, including transportation, warehousing, loading and unloading, etc., until the food is finally delivered to end consumers, forming a full-chain traceability technology support.

(Wang Donghui (王东辉))

"2025 China Import Development Report" Released

This newspaper reports that Beijing Normal University (北京师范大学) and the China Association for International Trade (中国国际贸易学会) recently jointly released the "2025 China Import Development Report." The report analyzes changes in the global import trade network, as well as changes in China's import regional network and China's import product structure. From a global perspective, import trade activities between different countries are increasing, the density of the import trade network is increasing, and China's position in the global trade network continues to rise. The report recommends optimizing and upgrading trade in goods to promote high-quality development of import trade. It is reported that the "China Import Development Report" is the first comprehensive report released on import trade and has been released for 8 consecutive years.

(Ouyang Jie (欧阳洁))

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Meeting the Tourism Needs of the Silver Generation with Segmented Products (Market Kaleidoscope)

By: 本报记者 黄晓慧

"Some tour groups do not accept elderly people over 70 years old, and some tour groups have schedules that are too tight for elderly people to keep up with." Che Weixun (车卫汛), a 70-year-old Shanghai (上海) resident, said with some feeling when talking about his recent travel experiences.

"Tourism consumption is service consumption, and there is huge potential for improving service levels." Lao Guoling (劳帼龄), a distinguished researcher at the Chinese-style Modernization Research Institute of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (上海财经大学) and director of the E-commerce Research Center, believes that "in the face of new silver-haired consumption demands, differentiated designs of tourism products should be made from the perspective of improving the quality of life, and service products should be developed with care."

Silver-haired tourism products involve details in all aspects, such as adding handrails to the toilets of tourist attractions for age-appropriate transformation; tourism mini-programs on mobile phones should also be transformed to be age-appropriate, with larger and more eye-catching fonts, and the addition of one-click customer service and other functions; elderly people should be equipped with smart wearable devices for health monitoring when traveling, so that children and family members can remotely see real-time feedback on the health status of the elderly.

In Lao Guoling's (劳帼龄) view, these are new growth points in the tourism industry chain. "Silver-haired tourism can only improve the quality of the entire silver-haired tourism product if it starts from the demand side and puts forward requirements for the transformation and upgrading of the supply side, and everyone cooperates with each other in the industry chain."

"There are 90 million people in China (中国) aged 60 to 64, whom we call new elderly or active elderly, who have strong consumption potential." Lao Guoling (劳帼龄) said that the market has very detailed age group distinctions for infant and child consumers, such as infant products for 0-3 years old, children's products for 3-6 years old, etc., but the elderly consumer group has not been carefully divided. The market should subdivide elderly consumers by age group, rather than broadly classifying them into one category.

Lao Guoling (劳帼龄) suggested that in addition to subdividing consumers by age group, silver-haired tourism can also add in-depth tours with specific themes. "For example, a nostalgia theme, where elderly people who used to be educated youth return to the places where they used to work in the countryside, revisiting old places, rather than simply looking at mountains and rivers; many elderly people in the past had limited economic conditions and did not have a good wedding or take wedding photos, so we can design a set of golden and silver wedding anniversary photos for elderly people to take while traveling."

In addition, elderly people generally pay attention to health management. Experts suggest that tourism products designed for elderly people can consider adding health, wellness, and physical examination programs, and tour groups should be equipped with professional nutritionists and health doctors. Health doctors should measure blood pressure and observe changes every day, and the catering should be low in sugar and salt to better meet the health needs of the elderly.

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Editor in charge of this edition: Wang Donghui

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Going through boiling water and stepping on fire, forging the mission.

From the isolated islands of the South China Sea to the forests of northern China, from the vast Gobi Desert to bustling metropolises, the national comprehensive fire and rescue teams forge ahead, overcoming obstacles and difficulties, and striving to ensure the safety of people's lives and property and the stability of the overall social situation. Using their shoulders as bridges and their hands as ladders, this team practices the solemn oath of being the main force and national team for emergency rescue with a charging attitude.
The National Fire Prevention Publicity Month is underway, and this edition launches a special report to pay tribute to the "Flame Blue" who go against the tide.
--Editor

Xinglong Fire and Rescue Station in Yuzhong County (榆中县), Lanzhou (兰州) City, Gansu Province (甘肃省) --
Arriving a Minute Earlier Means a Minute More of Life
Reporter Wei Zhezhe (魏哲哲) of this newspaper
"Words cannot express my gratitude! Without you, our family might not have been able to get out." Wang Jinbo (王锦波), a firefighter at the Xinglong Fire and Rescue Station in Yuzhong County (榆中县), Lanzhou (兰州) City, Gansu Province (甘肃省), has saved thank-you messages from rescued people on his phone.
On August 7 this year, Yuzhong County (榆中县) experienced a rare rainstorm: short-term heavy rainfall exceeding historical extreme values quickly formed mountain floods. Affected by the flood, roads in five towns at the lower elevations of the local mountains were destroyed, power was cut off, base stations were damaged, and some farmland was flooded and houses were damaged... From 21:31 on that day, the alarm bell at the Xinglong Fire Station rang continuously.
An alarm is an order. "I'm a good swimmer, let me go!" Wang Jinbo (王锦波) and his teammates volunteered and rushed to the disaster area.
On the way to Xiangkou Village (峡口村) in Xinglong Mountain (兴隆山), the rescue team found four cars trapped in the mud. The thick mud had submerged the car doors, and the people in the cars kept calling for help after seeing the rescuers.
Wang Jinbo (王锦波) and two teammates entered the waist-deep mud, approached with difficulty using ropes, cleared the mud around the vehicles with shovels and their hands, and then dragged the trapped vehicles out of danger, successfully rescuing 10 trapped people.
Hearing that many people were trapped in a cement factory in Yaopo Village (窑坡村), Xiaokangying Township (小康营乡), the rescue team immediately went there. Because the road was interrupted, the rescue team, guided by villagers, traveled with difficulty along mountain trails and farmland, and finally walked 3 kilometers to reach the rescue site.
The cement factory was isolated in the middle of the river, and the raging flood roared through the factory buildings. Several workers were trapped in the lower-lying work area, and the boiler room where one of them was located was right at the impact point of the flood peak. The walls were almost collapsing under the impact of the rapids and had to be moved immediately!
With the coordinated protection of his teammates, Wang Jinbo (王锦波) stepped forward again and resolutely stepped into the waist-deep rapids, approaching the trapped person step by step.
"We've finally waited for you!" The trapped person's voice trembled, and he tightly grasped the arm of the rescuer. Wang Jinbo (王锦波) quickly fixed the safety rope on the trapped person, and with the cooperation of his teammates, escorted the trapped person to a safe area. After an hour of intense rescue, all 83 trapped people were safely evacuated.
"Arriving a minute earlier means a minute more of life for the trapped people." After the mountain flood occurred, Wang Jinbo (王锦波) and his teammates continued to fight for nearly 24 hours. After the disaster situation eased slightly, the search mission continued, and the rescuers remained on the front line. Setting up rope bridges, building floating boats, carrying villagers on their shoulders and backs, transporting emergency supplies on foot, and conducting carpet searches of villages along the route, leaving no corner unsearched and not giving up on any person.
"Every forceful lift is to accumulate strength for life rescue." This is the belief that the firefighters of the Xinglong Fire and Rescue Station have always adhered to.

Forest Fire Brigade of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区) --
Thousands of Miles of Assistance, Collaborative Fighting
Reporter Zhang Tianpei (张天培) of this newspaper
The piercing siren cut through the night sky, and the red fire truck fleet sped along the highway. In April of this year, affected by strong winds and drought, forest fires occurred successively at the junction of Huguan County (壶关县) in Changzhi (长治) City and Lingchuan County (陵川县) in Jincheng (晋城) City, Shanxi Province (山西省), and at the junction of Wenxi County (闻喜县) and Jiang County (绛县) in Yuncheng (运城) City. The fire spread quickly and affected a large area, seriously threatening the lives and property of the local people.
At the order of the National Fire and Rescue Administration, the Forest Fire Brigade of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区) immediately dispatched, urgently dispatching the Shanxi (山西) mobile team, and more than 1,100 fire and rescue personnel from Chifeng (赤峰), Tongliao (通辽), Hinggan League (兴安盟) Detachments and the Special Service Brigade, divided into five routes, rushed to the aid.
The Taihang Mountains (太行山) have crisscrossing valleys and steep cliffs, and the mountain roads for rescuers to approach the fire are particularly difficult to walk. The rescue team did not hesitate, and quickly sent out a commando team to set up ropes in the mountains, transfer fire-fighting equipment, use drones to accurately airdrop water hoses, and eight-wheeled all-terrain vehicles to carry fire-fighting team members and equipment directly to the fire line, and quickly launched a battle.
Faced with raging fire and thick smoke, the firefighters bravely moved forward, not giving an inch, and quickly advanced along the fire line. Dead trees and rolling stones on the cliffs fell with fireballs, and the firefighters dodged while putting out the fire, facing sudden dangers at all times; hidden underground fires were hidden under the thick humus layer, and the firefighters carefully cleaned the emerging smoke spots with water guns.
"Emergency avoidance! Retreat! Retreat!" During the fire extinguishing process, due to a sudden increase in wind force, the fire suddenly encountered a mountain fire explosion risk, and a 10-meter-high wall of fire rushed towards them, and the rescue team faced a life-threatening situation. The firefighters urgently opened up an isolation zone and cleared the evacuation route. Five minutes later, the fire rolled in with heat waves and devoured all the vegetation on the mountain. The firefighters were safe and sound, and then threw themselves into battle again.
In the Lingchuan (陵川) fire, local people closely cooperated with firefighters. Firefighters fought the fire, and the people followed up to clear the remaining fire, working together to save the disaster. At the same time, the masses spontaneously formed a logistics support team, braving the raging fire and thick smoke to send love meals and various supplies to the firefighters, providing important support for the rescue.
Finally, after eight days and nights of continuous fighting, the mountain fire was completely extinguished. In this fire-fighting operation, a total of about 48.5 kilometers of fire lines were extinguished, more than 1,200 people were evacuated and rescued, more than 10 important targets and villages were protected, and more than 2,000 cadres and the masses worked together, charged in reverse, and built a safe Great Wall in the fight against the raging fire.

Sanming (三明) Fire and Rescue Detachment, Fujian Province (福建省) --
Safety "Check-up," Expert "Consultation"
Reporter Ni Yi (倪弋) of this newspaper
In early winter in northern Fujian (闽北), the mountains are surrounded by morning mist.
In the coal chemical industry zone of the Sangang Group (三钢集团) in Sanyuan District (三元区), Sanming (三明) City, Fujian Province (福建省), a special "diagnosis and treatment team" organized by the Sanming (三明) Fire and Rescue Detachment has already begun to work. Fire prevention experts bend down to check firewalls, construction experts measure wall load-bearing capacity, and electrical experts investigate line hazards - this is the "expert consultation" site organized by the detachment for key enterprises, and an in-depth "safety check-up" for the old industrial base is underway.
"For an old factory like ours with more than 60 years of history, safety management has many challenges. Every time I hear the alarm, my heart is in my throat." Xu Yinghua (许英华), deputy manager of the Plate Division of Fujian Sangang Minguang Co., Ltd. (福建三钢闽光股份有限公司), admitted frankly that historical process defects superimposed on dynamic risks had once put the company in a dilemma of "not being able to check, not being able to check in detail."
In May of this year, the Sanming (三明) Fire and Rescue Detachment directly faced the "long-standing and difficult" problems such as the interlacing of the enterprise production area and the living area, and the aging of electrical lines, and took the initiative to set up a 42-person expert team, which took 3 months to conduct a carpet search of 15 production areas and 26 non-production areas of the Sangang Group (三钢集团). The experts, with a high degree of responsibility, "consulted" as carefully as doctors checking wards, and finally formed a detailed "medical record" covering 461 hidden dangers.
"Experts not only point out problems, but also teach us how to solve them." Xu Yinghua (许英华) said that in response to high-risk hot work operations, the expert group proposed setting up a special work area, and in the face of electrical line hazards, it recommended installing an intelligent monitoring system. "18 precise suggestions provided the company with a clear roadmap for rectification."
What makes the company feel even warmer is the regular "follow-up visit" mechanism established by the fire brigade. Experts regularly revisit, review the progress of rectification, and provide continuous guidance. This full-process service from "checking hidden dangers" to "prescribing prescriptions" to "tracking curative effects" has enabled the company's safety management to achieve a shift from "passive rectification" to "active prevention."
"Now, Sanming (三明) City is deeply integrating fire safety into the industrial upgrading process." The relevant person in charge of the Sanming (三明) Fire and Rescue Detachment said, "Expert consultation" is not only a concrete measure to optimize the business environment, but also a vivid practice of the "Fengqiao Experience" (枫桥经验) in the new era, and builds a solid safety foundation for enterprise transformation and upgrading.
As the sun sets, the expert group ends a day of work. On the electronic screen in the factory area, the slogan "Implement fire safety responsibilities and prevent safety risks" is particularly eye-catching. As safety hazards are accurately managed, this old industrial base is revitalizing in the coordination of safety and development.

Jingyun Road (泾云路) Fire and Rescue Station Mountain Rescue Team, Jingyang County (泾阳县), Xianyang (咸阳) City, Shaanxi Province (陕西省) --
Racing Against Time, Fighting Against Danger
Reporter Qi Yukun (亓玉昆) of this newspaper
As night falls, in the continuous mountains in the north of Jingyang County (泾阳县), Xianyang (咸阳) City, Shaanxi Province (陕西省), beams of light flicker between the cliffs, and the members of the Jingyun Road (泾云路) Fire and Rescue Station Mountain Rescue Team are conducting training.
On the banks of the ancient Zheng Guo Canal (郑国渠), the majestic cliffs attract many adventure enthusiasts, but also frequently cause personnel rescue incidents. From the 8-person team when it was established in 2023 to the current 20-person professional rescue team, fire and rescue personnel have raced against time and fought against danger time and time again, achieving zero casualties in rescue, and building a life defense line in the mountains.
A few days ago, two tourists came to the Zheng Guo Canal Tourist Scenic Area (郑国渠旅游风景区) to play, and lost their way after breaking into the undeveloped mining area on the north side of the mountain. After the fire and rescue personnel arrived at the scene, they quickly used drones to locate the trapped tourists - the terrain here is complex, full of steep cliffs, gravel and deep pits, and there is almost no way to follow.
"Watch out for falling rocks!" In the dark, every step the team members take may cause gravel to fall. On the almost vertical cliff, they are suspended on ropes like "spidermen," both to ensure their own safety and to find the best climbing route, walking with difficulty on the edge of the mine road where only half a foot can stand...
After 3 hours of intense searching, the team members finally found the trapped tourists curled up in the rock crevice with symptoms of hypothermia. During the descent and transfer, the team members took turns carrying the wounded, moving slowly on the dangerous mine road. After more than 5 hours of search and rescue transfer, the two were finally rescued safely.
Fearless of the cold winter and hot summer, fearless of arduous challenges, the pace of rescue never stops.
In the hot summer, two paragliding enthusiasts crashed into the mountainside due to operational errors, and one person suffered a serious fracture of the thigh and was trapped between the cliffs. Eight team members of the rescue team formed a "human conveyor belt" and carried the stretcher steadily inch by inch on the narrow mountain ridge road. Two hours later, the injured were rescued safely, and the team members' sweat soaked their combat uniforms, and their hands trembled non-stop due to holding the ropes tightly for a long time.
In the early days of the team's establishment, the team members relied only on basic rope equipment to repeatedly hone their crossing, climbing, and rappelling skills on 100-meter cliffs. Now, drones hover between cliffs and ancient canals, and high-tech means such as thermal imaging and satellite positioning have become "weapons" for search and rescue. The rescue team has established a linkage mechanism with public security, medical and civil rescue forces.
"The best rescue is to prevent danger from happening again." Xue Qiaoyu (薛桥宇), instructor of the Jingyun Road (泾云路) Fire and Rescue Station, said their wish. Now, the Jingyun Road (泾云路) Fire and Rescue Station Mountain Rescue Team is moving its focus forward, exploring the innovative model of "human prevention + technical prevention," and also combining mountain rescue with forest fire prevention, and investigating fire hazards in daily patrols.

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How to Break the More Covert "New Tricks" of E-commerce (Jin Tai Sharp Commentary)

By: 金 歆

"A flurry of activity like a tiger, only to be rooted to the spot when seeing the price." Online shopping is closely related to people's lives. In recent years, with the maturity of new artificial intelligence technologies and the development of new business formats such as online live streaming, some new chaotic phenomena have gradually emerged.

"Double 11" has just passed, and many consumers are complaining: some merchants use AI technology to graft the faces of internet celebrities and experts onto ordinary anchors, slightly changing the faces to "avoid infringement" and conduct false efficacy propaganda; in response to the measures taken by relevant departments to govern the "difficulty in returning goods without reason," some merchants study rule loopholes and hide restrictions such as "more purchases, more savings, and non-detachable order returns"; some merchants use AI to build false scenarios and fabricate plots such as "selling miserably to help farmers" to induce consumption; and some companies use "crawlers" to crawl other people's product data... Some netizens even said, "There are too many tricks, I can't figure it out, I might as well go to the mall to buy."

From a legal perspective, although many laws and regulations such as the Consumer Rights Protection Law have regulated online shopping, and the newly revised Anti-Unfair Competition Law also prohibits behaviors such as "false evaluation," law enforcement still faces technical barriers, such as the difficulty in extracting evidence of "illegal background code." For counterfeiting and fraud caused by new technologies such as artificial intelligence, the high cost and difficulty of proof for consumers to protect their rights make it difficult to correct the chaos through market self-purification mechanisms. Innovating supervision in line with the times and urging platforms to implement their main responsibilities have become the key to solving the problem.

We should improve law enforcement standards, refine the identification standards for new types of illegal behaviors such as "AI fake anchors" and "scenario promotions," and solve problems such as difficulty in obtaining evidence and difficulty in punishment, so that supervision can grow "teeth." Not long ago, the State Administration for Market Regulation (国家市场监督管理总局) issued the "Compliance Tips for Centralized Online Promotion during 'Double 11'" to major e-commerce platforms, which made requirements for "improving the transparency of promotional activities" and "strictly regulating live streaming marketing behaviors" in response to many new situations. Relevant departments should strengthen targeted measures to address new problems, especially to strengthen technology empowerment, use big data, artificial intelligence and other means to build a non-on-site supervision system, and achieve real-time monitoring and precise strikes against price fluctuations, false transactions, and illegal advertisements.

Social co-governance should be synchronized with the guarantee of the rule of law. Relevant departments should simplify the process for consumers to protect their rights in response to new problems, promote online resolution mechanisms for consumer disputes, and reduce the cost of protecting rights by exploring methods such as re-allocating the burden of proof for the difficulty of proof caused by new technologies such as "AI scams," and encourage consumers to actively protect their rights.

As the carrier of market operation, platforms should have a broad vision of maintaining industry reputation and pursuing long-term development, abandon unfair competition, and form an industry consensus of "real price and high quality." We must abandon short-term traffic thinking, strictly implement regulatory requirements, especially strengthen algorithm compliance management, implement "algorithm transparency," and promote the legal and benevolent application of artificial intelligence tools.

The governance of chaotic phenomena on online shopping platforms is not something that can be achieved overnight (非朝夕之功) (fēi zhāo xī zhī gōng - "not a morning and evening's work," cannot be accomplished quickly). The vitality of online shopping lies in integrity, and the healthy development of the digital economy cannot be separated from the escort of rules. Only when platforms adhere to the bottom line, supervision is precise, laws are continuously improved, and consumers actively participate can we solve the new problems and chaotic phenomena in the field of online shopping, so that prices return to rationality, competition returns to fairness, and consumption returns to peace of mind.

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Injured in training, is bearing the risk the only option? (Legal case analysis)

By: 本报记者 张 璁

Since 2019, a minor, Sun (孙某), had been learning figure skating at a certain sports company. One evening, Sun (孙某) said that his leg hurt, and his mother communicated this to the coach. The next day, Sun (孙某) fell during figure skating training and was sent to the hospital for treatment that day, where he was initially diagnosed with a femoral shaft fracture.

Sun's (孙某) family believed that the coach's incorrect instruction led to Sun (孙某) falling and suffering serious injuries during training. However, the sports company and the coach, among others, countered that there was no incorrect instruction from the coach and that there were no fundamental technical errors in Sun's (孙某) training. Sun (孙某) voluntarily participated in a sporting activity with assumed risk, and should bear full responsibility himself.

Can the "assumption of risk" principle in the Civil Code be applied to the circumstances of this case?

After verification by the court, apart from the notice to entrants posted at the entrance of the ice rink, there was no evidence that the sports company took other necessary protective measures for the safety training of the trainees. The video at the time of the incident showed several minor trainees practicing on their own on the ice, with one coach patrolling the rink. After Sun (孙某) fell, the coach on the scene went forward to check and then skated away; when Sun (孙某) was still unable to stand independently, the coach skated back, helped Sun (孙某) to get up and stand; after trying for more than 20 seconds and Sun (孙某) still being unable to stand independently, the coach helped Sun (孙某) to skate off the ice.

The court held that, according to the relevant provisions of the Civil Code, the "assumption of risk" principle applies to situations where a natural person is harmed by the actions of other participants during cultural and sports activities. In this case, Sun (孙某) fell and was injured during figure skating training, not because of the actions of "other participants," and Article 1176 of the Civil Code, which concerns the legal provisions on the responsibility of "activity organizers," should be applied.

"Educational training institutions engaged in teaching involving minors cannot claim exemption from liability based on the 'assumption of risk' rule simply because the activities they teach have a certain degree of risk. Educational training institutions should still bear educational and management responsibilities," the case-handling judge said.

Article 1200 of the Civil Code stipulates: "If a person with limited civil capacity suffers personal injury during study or life at a school or other educational institution, and the school or other educational institution has failed to fulfill its educational and management responsibilities, it shall bear tort liability."

The court stated that as a for-profit educational training institution, the sports company should bear a higher educational and management responsibility for Sun (孙某), a person with limited capacity for civil conduct. The company failed to fully investigate and eliminate risks, and still arranged for Sun (孙某) to train, even after Sun's (孙某) mother had communicated that Sun's (孙某) leg hurt. After Sun (孙某) fell, it also failed to take proper measures to deal with the injury and failed to fully fulfill its educational and management responsibilities, and should bear tort liability for Sun's (孙某) personal injury.

In addition, Sun's (孙某) guardian knew about Sun's (孙某) leg pain, and although they had communicated about it, they still agreed to Sun's (孙某) training, which should be taken into account when determining the proportion of tort liability. In summary, the court found the sports company liable for 80% of Sun's (孙某) tort damages.

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Rongchang, Chongqing: Building Platforms for Sharing and Co-creation to Cultivate New Quality Productive Forces in the Agricultural Sector

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed to accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas and steadily promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.

Rongchang District (荣昌区), Chongqing (重庆) Municipality, regards improving the comprehensive agricultural production capacity and quality benefits as the focus of accelerating the modernization of agriculture and rural areas. From November 19th to 21st, 2025, the 11th China Animal Husbandry Science and Technology Forum will be held in Rongchang (荣昌). As the permanent venue of the China Animal Husbandry Science and Technology Forum approved by the former Ministry of Agriculture, Rongchang (荣昌) has China's first national-level technology innovation center in the agricultural field—the National Pig Technology Innovation Center (国家生猪技术创新中心), as well as national-level platforms featuring agriculture and animal husbandry, such as the National High-tech Zone and the National Pig Big Data Center (国家级生猪大数据中心). The China Animal Husbandry Science and Technology Forum is held in Rongchang (荣昌) to promote the high-quality development of local agriculture and provide support for the transformation of China's animal husbandry science and technology and industrial scenarios.

Small City, Big Achievements: Hosting a National-Level Forum to Empower the Development of Animal Husbandry

Since 2004, the China Animal Husbandry Science and Technology Forum has been held in Rongchang (荣昌) for 11 sessions. It has gradually grown from an initial industry academic exchange activity into a collaborative platform integrating academic discussions, technology promotion, industrial docking, and talent gathering. It has cumulatively promoted the completion of more than 2,000 provincial and ministerial-level scientific research projects, won more than 200 provincial and ministerial-level science and technology progress awards, and obtained more than 300 approved patents; it has promoted a large number of industry-university-research cooperation and scientific and technological achievements transformation, built the Chongqing Animal Husbandry Silicon Valley Science and Technology Enterprise Incubator, promoted a number of landmark achievements to emerge and accelerate the landing; and promoted the landing of national-level platforms in Rongchang (荣昌), building a coordinated animal husbandry industry network starting from Rongchang (荣昌), radiating to Sichuan (四川) and Chongqing (重庆), and driving the whole country.

Based on the achievements of previous sessions, this forum presents four main characteristics:

In terms of serving the overall situation, it is closer to the national strategy. The forum focuses on key tasks such as ensuring national food security and the independent control of agricultural and animal husbandry technology, gathers important forces in the animal husbandry field, discusses key issues in the animal husbandry field, provides important intellectual support for the development of animal husbandry during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and promotes the formation of more landmark achievements in the National Animal Husbandry Science and Technology City.

In terms of innovation leadership, it highlights the source function more. The forum focuses on the bottleneck problems facing the sustainable development and technological innovation of the animal husbandry industry, and conducts in-depth discussions on the innovation path of smart animal husbandry and green technology, fully stimulating innovation and creativity.

In terms of achievement transformation, it pays more attention to cross-border collaboration. During the forum, the National Animal Husbandry Industry Technology Trading Market will be officially released and launched to promote the efficient and accurate matching of innovative achievements and industrial needs. At the same time, a conference to promote the transformation of animal husbandry science and technology achievements will be held to build a bridge for efficient docking between scientific research teams and investment institutions and financial institutions.

In terms of forum empowerment, it is more in line with development needs. During the forum, the "Initiative for Promoting Green and Low-Carbon Development of China's Animal Husbandry (2025)" and the "Complete Collection of Practical Technologies for Animal Husbandry in Mountainous Areas of Southwest China" series will be released, showcasing the important achievements of previous forums and the phased achievements of the construction of the National Animal Husbandry Science and Technology City, and holding special activities such as the Sichuan-Chongqing Animal Husbandry Labor and Skills Competition to provide technical experts in the animal husbandry industry with opportunities to compete on the same stage and improve their skills.

Small Entry Point, Big Track: Improving the Industrial Chain and Expanding the Animal Husbandry Industry Ecology

Rongchang (荣昌) can continue to hold the national-level Animal Husbandry Science and Technology Forum because the local area has always attached importance to the exploration and application of animal husbandry science and technology.

Walking into Qijin (琪金)·Rongchang Pig (荣昌猪) Resource Conservation Farm, staff are using intelligent equipment to monitor environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity, and ventilation in real time, as well as data such as livestock body temperature and health status, and automatically allocate feed and push health warnings.

In Huangni Village (黄坭村), Zhicheng Town (直升镇), Rongchang District (荣昌区), the intelligent pig house greatly improves breeding efficiency by connecting to the intelligent breeding monitoring system of the National Pig Big Data Center (国家级生猪大数据中心) and applying the Internet of Things and big data technology. At the same time, it is equipped with more than 3,000 pepper trees and raises tens of thousands of freshwater fish to build an ecological cycle system and realize the resource utilization of breeding waste.

The "Shuangchang (双昌)" cooperation demonstration park of the Chengdu-Chongqing Modern Efficient Characteristic Agricultural Belt has built Chongqing's (重庆) first "Future Pig Farm" demonstration farm, realizing full coverage of "insurance + electronic chip" and opening up an integrated data chain from breeding, monitoring to traceability.

The National Pig Big Data Center (国家级生猪大数据中心) located in Rongchang (荣昌) innovatively launched a new paradigm of "Industrial Brain + Future Pig Farm," which effectively solves the problems of industrial operation monitoring, centralized data management and control, intensive service empowerment, and multi-departmental collaborative supervision.

From farms to tables to the biomedicine track, Rongchang (荣昌) has built an industrial ecosystem integrating scientific research, breeding, breeding, processing, feed, veterinary medicine, and biomedicine. In terms of scientific research, Rongchang (荣昌) relies on universities and research institutes such as Southwest University (西南大学) and Chongqing Academy of Animal Science (重庆市畜牧科学院), as well as R&D institutions and technology enterprises that have been recruited and incubated, to accelerate the research and development and landing of animal husbandry technology. In terms of breeding, Rongchang (荣昌) has built a three-level collaborative protection system of "gene bank + conservation farm + protection area" to build a "life bank" for local pig genetic resources. In terms of processing, Rongchang (荣昌) has developed more than 20 kinds of deep-processed products such as jerky and sausage to increase the added value of products. In terms of sales, with the help of the "Industrial Brain + E-commerce Platform" model, it has created a joint agricultural and benefit-sharing mechanism of cloud breeding and cloud sales, unified purchase and unified sales, and guaranteed minimum price purchase, and the products are directly supplied to the national market.

Today, Rongchang's (荣昌) animal husbandry industry is developing one after another, forming a "1+2+N" development pattern led by Rongchang Pig (荣昌猪), with Rongchang White Goose (荣昌白鹅) and bee industry as two wings, and laying hens and herbivorous livestock as examples. At present, Rongchang (荣昌) has built one Chongqing (重庆) National Key Regional Livestock and Poultry Gene Bank, one national-level, one municipal-level and one district-level Rongchang Pig (荣昌猪) protection area, 14 breeding livestock and poultry farms, and core germplasm resources are independently controllable. It has built 9 slaughtering and processing enterprises and 5 agricultural and animal husbandry intelligent equipment production enterprises. The feed and veterinary drug industries are clustered, with 45 feed enterprises such as Cargill Purina (嘉吉普瑞纳), Tieqi Lishi (铁骑力士), and Shuangbaotai (双胞胎), and 14 veterinary drug GMP ("Good Manufacturing Practice") enterprises such as Fangtong Pharmaceutical (方通制药), Aolong Biotechnology (澳龙生物), and Boer Pharmaceutical (布尔药业), and veterinary drug products are exported to more than 20 countries and regions in Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and Africa.

Small Breakthroughs, Big Momentum: From Elements to Ecology, Igniting a New Engine for Animal Husbandry Development

Rongchang's (荣昌) animal husbandry has a profound heritage. Rongchang Pig (荣昌猪), as one of the world's eight and China's three excellent breeds, has a breeding history of more than 1,800 years and a breed history of 456 years, and its brand value reached 5.595 billion yuan in 2025.

As the location of the National Animal Husbandry Science and Technology City and the permanent venue of the China Animal Husbandry Science and Technology Forum, Rongchang (荣昌) closely focuses on the goal of high-quality development of animal husbandry, systematically plans, and builds eight systems: breeding and manufacturing "cores," intelligent breeding, cultivating new types of entities, diversified collaboration, industrial chain expansion, scientific and technological research and development, animal disease prevention and control, and green and harmless development, providing new support for the high-quality development of animal husbandry.

Taking the green development of animal husbandry as an example, Rongchang (荣昌) runs the concept of ecological priority and green development through the entire process of the industry. Through full-area promotion, it has completed the construction of facilities in 309 large-scale breeding farms, built 1 regional treatment center and 3 distribution centers, and the comprehensive utilization rate of livestock and poultry manure in the whole region has reached 90.92%, and the facility supporting rate of large-scale farms has reached 100%. By exploring planting and breeding cycles, it promotes circular models such as "pig-marsh gas-bamboo" and "goose-marsh gas-plum" according to local conditions, develops planting and breeding cycle areas of 800,000 mu, and successfully creates the city's first "waste-free breeding farm." The Laixi River Basin (濑溪河流域) was named Chongqing's (重庆) "Green Water and Green Mountains are Golden Mountains and Silver Mountains" practice innovation base, and related cases were selected as typical cases of ecological product value realization in the city.

In terms of empowering domestic and foreign animal husbandry industries, Rongchang (荣昌) has built a professional and efficient kinetic energy conversion platform by holding the China Animal Husbandry Science and Technology Forum, the International Symposium on Animal Environment and Welfare Breeding, etc., and successfully hosted the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization International Symposium, contributing "Chinese wisdom" and "Rongchang (荣昌) solutions" to the global animal husbandry development.

In terms of scenario innovation, Rongchang (荣昌) has gathered 10 national-level platforms and 86 municipal-level science and technology innovation platforms, developed more than 100 scientific research achievements, and formed a "1+4+N" full-area animal husbandry spatial layout of 1 centralized development zone, 4 agricultural and animal husbandry demonstration parks, and N modern breeding farms, conservation farms, and breeding farms, and is making every effort to build an animal husbandry industrial ecology with complete elements and a complete chain.

From platform construction to scientific and technological research and development to model innovation, Rongchang (荣昌) has created a new animal husbandry industrial ecology with distinctiveness, and also provided replicable and scalable experience for the transformation of the national animal husbandry industry. Rongchang (荣昌), a small city located in western Chongqing (重庆), has also embarked on a sustainable development path of animal husbandry with local characteristics.

In the future, Rongchang (荣昌) will closely focus on the requirements of building a strong agricultural country, take animal husbandry technology as an important source of power, further promote the technological innovation of intelligent technology, gather more high-end resources, and promote the accelerated development and growth of new quality productivity in the agricultural field.

Data source: Publicity Department of the Rongchang District (荣昌区) Committee of the Communist Party of China, Chongqing (重庆) Municipality.

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Deeply Rooting the "Roots" of Art in the Fertile Soil of National Culture

By: 肖桂云

The 120-year development history of Chinese cinema is a grand narrative closely linked to the future of the country and the destiny of the nation. Generations of filmmakers have consciously integrated their creations into the torrent of national development, using images to "portray the era, chronicle the era, and illuminate virtue for the era." Consolidating script details, vividly portraying the fate of characters, and creating a realistic historical atmosphere... Only by deeply rooting the "roots" of art in the fertile soil of national culture and casting the "soul" of films in the needs of the times can our works possess vitality and impact.

Recalling the creative journey of Li Qiankuan (李前宽) and myself, from the rural-themed "The Fields are Green Again" (田野又是青纱帐) to the children's film "Xinghai" (星海), from the opera film "Bao Gong Apologizes" (包公赔情) to the industrial-themed "Century Dream" (世纪之梦), from "After the Decisive Battle" (决战之后), which reflects the transformation of Kuomintang (国民党) war criminals, to the major historical themes of "Chongqing Negotiations" (重庆谈判), "July 7th Incident" (七七事变), and "The Founding Ceremony" (开国大典)... Whether focusing on real life or recreating historical events, we have always adhered to a creative philosophy: the "root" of film is the rich soil of national culture and people's lives that nurtured us; the "soul" of film is the national spirit and era atmosphere displayed through the art of light and shadow.

Filming "The Founding Ceremony" (开国大典) was like climbing a high mountain. Upon seeing the script for "The Founding Ceremony" (开国大典), a strong creative impulse and the determination to make it well almost simultaneously surged into my heart. The film started shooting in the actual scene of Yinian Hall (颐年堂) in Zhongnanhai (中南海), fighting for 6 months, traveling to 12 provinces and cities across the country, using 150,000 extras, and inviting 138 actors. But we were always full of passion, met the challenges head-on, turned all the impossibilities into possibilities, and brought our potential to the extreme. This is the accumulation of sincere feelings, and the confidence that the magnificent history gave us. To make a good film, creators must have a strong creative impulse and abundant passion for the subject matter they are reflecting. When the creative subject you face is linked to the fate of your nation and country, how can your emotions and thoughts be divorced from your nation and country?

A masterpiece must be an organic unity of profound thought and sincere emotion. A director without thought can never become an artist. When filming "Chongqing Negotiations" (重庆谈判), we not only had to accurately grasp the context and essence of that period of history, which is its "reason"; but also had to devote our efforts to presenting the complex inner world and emotional waves of historical figures at specific historical junctures, which is its "emotion." Chongqing (重庆) is a mountain city, and the old buildings are black-tiled houses. We seized the characteristics and appropriately added white doves flying over the rooftops of the black-tiled houses to important nodes throughout the film, symbolizing people's expectations and calls for peace, making it poetic and picturesque. Drawing nourishment from the fiery reality and profound history, the work has both the bones and muscles of theory and is full of the warmth of life and humanistic care, highlighting the charm of art.

Having gone through 120 years of trials and tribulations, Chinese cinema has accumulated profound fine traditions and valuable creative experience. Tradition is the cornerstone and source of our innovation, and we are working on the shoulders of our predecessors. We are in awe and must adhere to the original intention of film for the people, maintain the pursuit of excellence in artistic quality, and preserve the aesthetic spirit in our national culture. The vitality of film art lies in innovation, and the premise of innovation is to 守正 (shǒu zhèng - "maintain uprightness," adhere to fundamental principles). The more important the historical subject matter of the film, the more artistic it must be. Respect the historical facts, achieve "major events are not false, minor events are not restricted," the characters are vivid, the details are touching, and the ingenuity, the historical story can shine with new brilliance on the screen, and can attract and infect the audience.

The characters in "After the Decisive Battle" (决战之后) can certainly be found in the reportage "General's Decisive Battle is More Than on the Battlefield" (将军决战岂止在战场), but we still went to check the archives and interview the director of the Beijing War Criminals Management Center (北京的战犯管理所所长), and finally decided to focus on presenting Du Yuming's (杜聿明) "sincere conviction" in the film. In the film, the director tells Du Yuming (杜聿明) that the materials he wrote are not comprehensive. Du Yuming (杜聿明) said stiffly: "I have confessed everything, I have said everything I should say, and there are no omissions." The director said: "You didn't mention the Battle of Kunlun Pass (昆仑关). History is incomplete without any aspect." The Battle of Kunlun Pass (昆仑关) was a very influential offensive battle of Du Yuming (杜聿明) in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Due to proper command, this battle achieved the first major victory of the Chinese army against the Japanese army. This sentence recognized Du Yuming's (杜聿明) achievements and hit his heart, and this kind of treatment reflected the mind and glory of the Chinese Communists. Every time I see this, I am moved.

Standing at the historical node of the 120th anniversary of Chinese cinema, we look back affectionately at the glorious footprints and look forward with confidence to the future journey. The road of film is never smooth, full of challenges and hardships, but also full of creative joy and the value of dedication. Our generation has witnessed and participated in the development of Chinese cinema, and the future of Chinese cinema is entrusted to young people. I hope that young people cherish the great era, boldly use their wisdom and talents, use light and shadow to write the Chinese story of the new era, and hold the torch of national spirit higher and pass it on to a more distant future.

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Why We Advocate for Minimalist Aesthetics (A Discussion on Creation)

By: 任冬生

The garden of art is full of flowers, blooming in competition. The 18th Wenhua Award (文华奖) individual awards have been announced, with relevant creators and performers of 23 plays winning awards, fully affirming the outstanding contributions of the five creative links of playwrighting, directing, music, stage art, and performance, highlighting the vane of stage art development. Starting today, this edition of the "Creation Talk" column invites the winners of the 18th Wenhua Award (文华奖) individual awards to talk about their creative insights and share their artistic lives.
——Editor

Stage visual design is simple but not simplistic, demonstrating the creator's deeper grasp of the essence of art. The minimalist aesthetic tendency presented in the award-winning works of this Wenhua Award (文华奖) reflects the rational return of Chinese stage visual design after years of exploration.

Chinese stage visual design is breaking away from the Western framework and returning to the Eastern aesthetic system. This return is not a simple retro, but a combination of the traditional aesthetic spirit and modern stage technology. Visual design has shifted from pursuing external effects to internal expression, and from simply stacking technology to accurately refining imagery, marking that Chinese stage art is moving towards maturity and confidence.

When conducting the stage design for the dance drama "Tianxia Dazu (天下大足)," we did not simply copy the shape of the Dazu Rock Carvings (大足石刻), but refined and processed it with contemporary aesthetics, and summarized and organized the colors. From tables and chairs to clothing, all presented the simplicity and refinement of Song Dynasty (宋代) aesthetics. The creative ideas of the dance poetic drama "Only Green (只此青绿)" are similar. The directors drew inspiration from Song Dynasty (宋代) aesthetics and extracted the turquoise color of "A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains (千里江山图)" as the main visual tone. Stage visual design respects tradition while boldly incorporating modern aesthetic elements. When creating the dance drama "Dream of the Red Chamber (红楼梦)," facing the difficulty of presenting the Chinese literary classic on stage, we boldly explored and broke through the limitations of traditional realistic expression techniques. These works transform literary connotations into perceptible stage images through the use of symbolic visual elements.

The visual creativity of stage art in the new era reflects the narrative shift from single to multiple. Works of different themes and styles have formed their own unique visual languages.

Works with revolutionary historical themes use visual language that conforms to the aesthetics of contemporary audiences to present the core of faith. In the dance drama "Eternal Radio Wave (永不消逝的电波)," we used the technique of film montage to realize the narrative of "time reversal" on the stage. Multiple multimedia scenery pieces on the stage move flexibly, transforming into various scenes, and the changes in light and dark switch different narrative fields. Realistic themes focus on the visual presentation of the sense of the times and the atmosphere of life. Through the careful design of stage elements and space, light position and light color, we created a strong atmosphere of life for the musical "In the Distance (在远方)." The children's drama "Cat God in the Forbidden City (猫神在故宫)" breaks the traditional theater form and creates a world full of fairy tale colors, and the interactivity brings a viewing experience that is "different every time."

Modern technology has become an important support for stage visual creation, and it always serves artistic expression. In the literary and artistic evening party "Justice Will Win (正义必胜)" commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, we used an 800-square-meter multi-form LED ice screen system and a high-precision push-pull stepped platform to realize the "virtual-real linkage" of historical images and live performances. When precious historical pictures overlap with the actors' situational interpretations, the boundaries of time and space quietly dissolve. In the program "Forever Designation (永远的番号)," we used projectors to project the image of "dried-up land" onto 600 actors; after a cannon sound, the image gradually turned into "bloody mouths and scars" as the actors rolled. This visual innovation with the body as a medium makes the cruelty of war and the heroic sacrifice of the martyrs concrete and strikes people's hearts directly. Lighting design is no longer a simple lighting, but a "performer" that resonates with actors, plot, and music. Through linear color temperature adjustment and multi-level light effect superposition, the lighting can delicately guide the audience's emotions, smoothly switching from the solemnity of war to the warmth of peace.

There is no doubt that Chinese stage visual art is entering a golden period of multi-faceted integration and innovative breakthroughs: from philosophical thinking to technological application, from traditional transformation to contemporary expression, from highlighting regional characteristics to pursuing broader resonance and empathy. The innovative trends shown by the Wenhua Award (文华奖)-winning works indicate that Chinese stage art is forming a unique development path, which is deeply rooted in the rich soil of Chinese culture and faces the vast world of modern technology.

Under the stage, the audience not only remembers the wonderful performances, but also remembers the shocking visual pictures—the interlacing of light and shadow in "Tianxia Dazu (天下大足)," the light and shadow story of "Eternal Radio Wave (永不消逝的电波)," and the light and shadow epic of "Justice Will Win (正义必胜)." These pictures form the "visual record" of Chinese stage art in the new era, and as witnesses and creators, we are honored.

(The author is the director of the Stage Art Department of Beijing Dance Academy (北京舞蹈学院) and a first-class stage art designer)

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Forging Oneself in the Life of a Character (Reflections on Creative Writing)

By: 虞文兵

Every dusk before a performance, I always love to sit alone by the window, watching the setting sun shine in obliquely, the micro-dust in the light beam dyed into golden stars.

The first time I read the script of "Mount Sun (太阳山上)," it was at this moment. I finished reading it in one breath, and then repeatedly savored the last scene, Li Anben's (李安本) 11-minute solo, tears falling unconsciously, landing on the paper. In that arc of sunlight, I seemed to see a winding mountain path, countless figures climbing upward in the torrent of the times. Li Anben (李安本) is one of them, and so am I.

My thoughts were pulled back to the front of the rural cottage when I was a child, "The orioles sing on the tree..." The sound of the old radio was slightly hoarse, and my mother hummed along while washing vegetables. As a child, I wore a paper "helmet" that I made myself, held two towel "sleeves," and danced to the sound of the opera. At that time, I felt that being able to learn opera was realizing my dream.

My mother was once a Huadan (花旦) in a rural opera troupe, and she loved to hum Huangmei Opera (黄梅戏) no matter what she did, and I hummed along with her. In the second year of junior high school, I left the mountain village and went to the city's Huangmei Opera (黄梅戏) school to learn opera. When I first arrived, I didn't even know what a key was. "I probably don't have any talent." It was from that moment that I set the belief of "working hard to practice basic skills" for myself. I am lucky. On the road to growth, many seniors and teachers have generously given advice, carefully taught methods and experience, and guided me to move forward and upward.

The encounter between an actor and a role should be a kind of fate. Li Anben (李安本) in "Mount Sun (太阳山上)" is not a stereotyped hero in traditional opera, but an ordinary person with obvious personality defects who struggles to survive in the torrent of the times - a Kuomintang (国民党) telegraph operator who is greedy for life and afraid of death and good at calculation. He went from being forced to go to Mount Sun (太阳山上) to finally completing his spiritual transformation and becoming a staunch revolutionary. In this process, it was the New Fourth Army (新四军) that used practical actions and firm beliefs to light up a beam of light in Li Anben's (李安本) life.

Initially, I relied more on skills to understand this character. The director team and I designed many actions and postures for Li Anben (李安本) together. In the early stage, his body was hunched, his eyes flickered, and his movements were small and fast, with the cunning and panic of a common citizen, and even incorporated some clown performance techniques to highlight his comical and unbearable nature. As the plot progressed, in the company of the New Fourth Army (新四军) soldiers, especially in the face of life-and-death tests, his body gradually stretched out, his eyes became firm, and his steps became steady. This external change is the basic skill of an actor, and it is the visible skeleton for shaping the character's arc.

However, I truly understood the character in performance last year. My father was hospitalized just before "Mount Sun (太阳山上)" was about to be performed. That deep fear of losing him was emotionally connected to Li Anben's (李安本) initial bewilderment when he first went to Mount Sun (太阳山上). I suddenly realized that Li Anben's (李安本) growth was under the call of a more noble belief, understanding what "fearlessness" is. His transformation was a process of being awakened little by little after witnessing true sacrifice and perseverance.

This has also given me a new understanding of my path as an artist. When I left home to learn opera at a young age, it was only out of full enthusiasm. The teachers' daily meticulous teaching and in-depth study at the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts (中国戏曲学院) made me begin to understand what "responsibility" is and what "inheritance" is. My growth is also a process from focusing on the "small self" to understanding the "big self": from wanting the spotlight to focus on myself to thinking about how to use this light to illuminate the path of cultural inheritance.

Therefore, when I performed Li Anben's (李安本) final transformation and decided to stay on Mount Sun (太阳山上) to help the New Fourth Army (新四军), sending out the "last telegram," the emotions I mobilized were not only admiration for the revolutionary martyrs, but also my personal confirmation of professional belief. Those characters are no longer just people in the play, they have weight - that is the family burden that my father carried on his back, the inheritance responsibility entrusted to us by the senior artists, and the responsibility that every ordinary person bears when climbing their respective "Mount Sun (太阳山上)."

Winning awards is an honor, but also an encouragement. It affirmed the success of the play "Mount Sun (太阳山上)" in artistic exploration, and also affirmed my interpretation of the role of Li Anben (李安本). But for me personally, the greatest gain lies in the journey I have taken together with Li Anben (李安本). The growth of an actor and the growth of a character intertwine and reflect each other on the stage, which may be the most fascinating thing about performing arts. We are not playing others, but constantly rediscovering and forging ourselves in the life trajectory of the characters.

The journey of climbing "Mount Sun (太阳山上)" has never stopped.

(The author is a young actor from the Huangmei Opera (黄梅戏) Art Theater of Anqing City (安庆市), Anhui Province (安徽省))

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The Light at Yuhuatai

By: 常小川

The story begins 10 years ago.

In the midsummer of 2015, the lights of the Nanjing Drama Troupe (南京话剧团) rehearsal hall lit up for the drama "Yuhuatai (雨花台)." Upon first reading the script, the story of Xu Baoye (许包野) and Ye Yanping (叶雁萍) captured my heart. This revolutionary couple only spent 10 days together in their lives, after which they were separated forever, leaving behind endless waiting. Ye Yanping waited bitterly in her hometown of Chaozhou (潮汕) for more than 50 years, only to learn of her husband's sacrifice when she was seriously ill.

Ye Yanping's half-century-long letters searching for her husband were filled with tears, concealing a woman's unwavering love for her husband and reflecting the resilience of revolutionary family members who understood the greater good.

To get closer to the character of Ye Yanping, I visited the Yuhuatai Martyrs Cemetery (雨花台烈士陵园) countless times, pausing before the yellowed letters in the historical archives, deeply shaken by the faith and dedication of the Communist Party members. In Xu Baoye's letter to his wife, there was such a passionate confession: "Although I have a pen, I cannot write. Although I have a piece of paper, I cannot think of what to say. Dear Yan'er, if you go to the south and see my lover, you can say to her: I wish you peace." This scholar, who returned from studying abroad, was subjected to torture by the enemy after being arrested but never compromised, until his sacrifice.

In the play, I also played an unnamed martyr. When I stood on the stage in tattered clothes and chains, even with the aluminum chains protected, my skin was still worn out after a rehearsal. This pain allowed me to travel through time and truly feel the pain and unyielding spirit of the heroes. Every time the martyrs faced the raging fire and generously went to their deaths, every time everyone passionately recited "The country cannot be saved if others do not save it, then I must rely on myself," the mountains echoed, the heavens and the earth lowered, and everyone on and off the stage was solemn.

"荆棘丛中落足易，月明帘下转身难 (jīng jí cóng zhōng luò zú yì, yuè míng lián xià zhuǎn shēn nán - "It is easy to set foot in thorns, but difficult to turn around under a bright curtain," it is easier to start something difficult than to change course in a comfortable situation)." They were so young, the youngest being only 16 years old; most of them came from privileged backgrounds and could have enjoyed a comfortable life, but they resolutely chose the most difficult revolutionary path!

"Yuhuatai (雨花台)" won the "Five-One Project" Award (五个一工程) from the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部) and toured nearly 200 times, with the audience applauding for a long time at the end of each performance. During the college tours, many students communicated with me after watching, saying directly that "'Keeping secrets is keeping faith' this line hits people's hearts," and "I will submit my application to join the Party when I go back." This made me truly realize the appeal of faith across time and space.

Over the past 10 years, each of my performances has not only presented history to the audience but also tempered myself with faith. Gradually, my identity has changed from an actor to the head of the troupe. How can we make history "live," make heroes "stand up," and pass on the red gene from generation to generation? This is not only an artistic issue but also a mission given by faith.

When adapting the classic IP "The Road to Awakening (人间正道是沧桑)" to the stage, we did not simply replicate the plot but used the fate of the Yang (杨) and Qu (瞿) families as a thread, transforming major historical events into relatable human emotions, allowing the grand history to fall into the everyday lives of people. The play toured the country, passing through 67 cities. A post-90s audience member left a message: "It turns out that there are so many hot lives hidden in revolutionary history."

The original drama "There is a Little West Lake in Nanjing (南京有个小西湖)," launched in 2024, focuses on the stories of people's livelihoods in urban renewal. In order to restore the authentic atmosphere of the city, I led the main creators to take root in the Xiaoxihu (小西湖) neighborhood for research, eating and living with the residents, and eventually became neighbors and relatives. This project, funded by the National Arts Fund (国家艺术基金), resonated strongly with the audience: "From the stories of the neighborhood, we understand the responsibility of the new era." This makes me even more convinced that creations with faith as the foundation can always move people's hearts. And this conviction began with the drama "Yuhuatai (雨花台)" 10 years ago.

Good mainstream works can allow the audience to dialogue with history in emotional resonance and draw strength for progress in spiritual baptism. As literary and art workers in the new era, we should use the stage as a scroll and faith as a pen to create works with backbone, thought, and warmth.

Ten years of wind and rain, ten years of growth. The spirit of the Yuhuatai (雨花台) martyrs is the light that has always illuminated my way forward.

(The author is the head of the Nanjing Drama Troupe (南京市话剧团) in Jiangsu Province (江苏省) and a first-class actor)

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How the National Games Opening Ceremony Theme Song Was Born

By: 赵雨暄

In 2008, Shu Nan's (舒楠) "Stand Up" (《站起来》), created for the Beijing Olympics, was very popular. As the chief music designer for the 15th National Games, Shu Nan (舒楠) set a new requirement for himself—to create a different kind of theme song. "All our Games songs are inseparable from striving, sweat, and rhythm. I have been thinking: Can I write a song with a warm and quiet style?" The opening ceremony theme song of the 15th National Games, "One Heart Between Heaven and Sea" (《天海一心》), came into being.

During the months of conceiving the work, Shu Nan (舒楠) created five songs of different styles and finally selected "One Heart Between Heaven and Sea" (《天海一心》). This song uses a gentle musical language to give the theme a tangible warmth. He summarized his planning ideas as follows: "The first 75 minutes of the opening ceremony are full of vibrant music. When the torch is lit at the end, the whole venue quiets down. I want people to feel like they are eating an ice cream when they hear this theme song." In the process of writing the lyrics, Shu Nan (舒楠) and Chi Jun (池浚) repeatedly deliberated and revised the draft many times. In many rehearsals with the audience, whenever "One Heart Between Heaven and Sea" (《天海一心》) sounded, tens of thousands of spectators at the scene would spontaneously light up their mobile phone flashlights, creating a "sea of stars" scene.

From "Life and Death Together" (《生死不离》) and "Never Forget Why You Started" (《不忘初心》) to "China in the Lights" (《灯火里的中国》), Shu Nan's (舒楠) musical creations have always been good at weaving delicate emotional clues and capturing the public's emotions and the pulse of the times.

"I have stayed in Guangzhou (广州) for 8 years and have a deep affection for this city," Shu Nan (舒楠) admitted frankly. "The pragmatism and pioneering spirit of the Cantonese (广东人) are impressive." This closeness to Lingnan (岭南) culture helped him find the artistic breakthrough for "One Heart Between Heaven and Sea" (《天海一心》)—cleverly integrating the surging passion of the sports arena into the imagery of "water." "Because innovation on this land has always been a combination of strength and gentleness, movement and stillness."

The "water" in Shu Nan's (舒楠) writing is the vast natural landscape of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区), and it also carries the profound cultural heritage of this land. The lyrics "Together into the sea, vast blue waves, embracing each other transparently, gathering one heart" are a true reflection of the Pearl River (珠江) rushing, the Haojiang River (濠江) winding, and the Xiangjiang River (香江) rippling, all eventually converging into the same blue sea. He cleverly constructed a progressive image with music: "A drop of water" is the sweat and tears of every striver, and also the highest goodness like water in Chinese culture; "A pool of water" symbolizes the Eastern philosophy of the individual and the collective blending and coexisting; and finally, "merging into the sea" and "knowing each other in harmony" not only reflects the concerted efforts of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) to integrate and develop, but also conveys China's (中国) open attitude to embrace the world as a major country.

The melody of the song "One Heart Between Heaven and Sea" (《天海一心》) is as pure and moving as flowing water. Shu Nan (舒楠) used extremely simple strokes to outline a profound artistic conception. The use of the疊詞 (dié cí) "drop by drop by drop by drop" is like morning dew falling on the water surface, rippling in layers. The three-beat chorus creates a sense of flow like a stream flowing into the sea.

Regarding the choice of singers, Shu Nan (舒楠) believes: "This song must be clean and refreshing. I immediately thought of Zhou Shen (周深)." Zhou Shen (周深) once performed Shu Nan's (舒楠) work "China in the Lights" (《灯火里的中国》), and their cooperation again was a natural fit. In "One Heart Between Heaven and Sea" (《天海一心》), Zhou Shen's (周深) clear voice expresses the crystal luster of a drop of water and the magnificent vastness of a sea with great layering. Shan Yichun (单依纯) used her personal characteristic air-mixed voice to vividly interpret the depth of "a pool of water" and the haziness of "a cloud."

In addition, at the invitation of Shu Nan (舒楠) and the opening ceremony's chief director Lau Wai-keung (刘伟强), Hong Kong (香港) singer Jacky Cheung (张学友) specially recorded the Cantonese version, with lyrics written by the famous lyricist Xiang Xuehuai (向雪怀), and the song title is "Water Connecting the Sky" (《水连天》). Three different textures of sound complement each other in one song, just like the harmonious coexistence of the cultures of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区).

When the melody of "One Heart Between Heaven and Sea" (《天海一心》) resounds in the night sky of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区), this song not only embodies Shu Nan's (舒楠) creative concept of "integrating the small self into the big self, gathering individuals into a collective, and linking China (中国) to the world," but also allows us to see every drop of water merging into the torrent of the times, and the spirit of sports reflected between the sea and the sky.

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This edition's editor: Wang Jin

This edition's email: ysbjs@peopledaily.cn

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