Summary: The article emphasizes Xi Jinping's directives on developing "new quality productive forces" (新质生产力), highlighting the importance of tailoring strategies to local conditions ("因地制宜"). Xi stressed avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach, preventing speculative bubbles, and not abandoning traditional industries in the pursuit of emerging sectors. He advocated for upgrading traditional industries while simultaneously fostering strategic emerging industries. The piece cites examples of regional adaptations, such as Shanghai's integration of AI in steel production and western regions leveraging resources for data and computing infrastructure, demonstrating the "East Data West Computing" project. The article also alludes to the need to avoid a "rush" to develop new industries.
Summary: This article emphasizes China's economic resilience and confidence in achieving its development goals, especially at the juncture of the 14th and 15th Five-Year Plans. It highlights the importance of maintaining strategic focus and seizing opportunities in areas like advanced manufacturing and domestic consumption, exemplified by examples such as high-end bearing manufacturing and the growth of the digital economy in Zhejiang. The article underscores the need for self-reliance and innovation to overcome challenges and contribute to global economic stability, even amidst external pressures like trade disputes and tariffs. It references Xi Jinping's remarks on maintaining confidence and strategic focus, and the importance of addressing domestic challenges to achieve modernization. The article suggests that despite global uncertainties, China's economic fundamentals remain strong.
Summary: Zhao Xingwei, a professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology and general manager of Hubei Jingchu Robot Co., is promoting humanoid robots developed by his team. Supported by the Wuhan Industrial Innovation and Development Research Institute (武创院), Zhao's company was established to commercialize research led by Academician Ding Han. 武创院 provided funding and assistance in connecting with market demands, leading to a commercial partnership with Hubei Culture and Tourism Group. Zhao envisions a future where humanoid robots are commonplace, serving various sectors including education, industry, commerce, and tourism. The article frames this development within the broader context of China's push for technological self-reliance and innovation, as emphasized by Xi Jinping.
Summary: According to National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) spokesperson Li Chao, China's energy supply is generally balanced and resources are guaranteed for the current heating season. Energy supply and power generation capacity have steadily increased, and coal reserves in power plants are sufficient. Anticipating a long heating season with high energy demand, the NDRC will enhance coordination to ensure a stable energy supply, particularly for residential heating, and focus on medium- to long-term contracts. They will also improve responses to extreme weather events and ensure stable operations of heat sources. The report does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The "Eastern Passage" of the China-Europe Railway Express has seen 5,166 trains pass through it as of December 10th, according to the China Railway Harbin Group. These trains transported over 530,000 TEUs of various goods. The report highlights the continued importance of rail transport between China and Europe.
Summary: The article from the *People's Daily* reports on the economic progress of formerly impoverished counties in China. In the first three quarters of the year, the per capita disposable income of rural residents in these counties grew by 6.5%, exceeding the national rural average. Over the transition period, these regions have maintained a higher average annual growth rate compared to the national rural average. China has prevented large-scale relapse into poverty by maintaining stable support policies and focusing on education, healthcare, housing, and water security for the population. The article notes that industries have been created and linked to the formerly impoverished to increase income.
Summary: In the first 11 months of this year, China's national railway fixed asset investment reached 753.8 billion yuan, a 5.9% year-on-year increase, according to China State Railway Group. The group is focused on serving national strategies and regional economic development by constructing a world-class modern railway network. Since November, progress has been made on key projects, including the opening of the Panzhou-Xingyi high-speed railway. The China State Railway Group will accelerate the construction of a modern railway infrastructure system and complete the annual railway construction investment task.
Summary: This article focuses on improvements in ensuring people's well-being ("民生保障") and the rule of law in China over the past year. It specifically highlights the role of "digital courts" in reflecting changes in governance. The article appears in a year-end special report. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A readership event in Nairobi, Kenya, drew hundreds of participants to discuss *Xi Jinping: On Governance*. Readers expressed eagerness to understand China's approach to modernization. The fifth volume is seen as an "ideological key" to understanding China and a crucial guide amid global changes. International figures highlighted China's innovative approach to Marxism and its commitment to global development initiatives. The article also noted the importance of China’s global initiatives and their contribution to a stable international environment, according to Robert Lawrence Kuhn of the Kuhn Foundation, an American organization. The book promotes the idea that nations should choose their own path, which is resonating in the Global South.
Summary: To commemorate World Human Rights Day, China has hosted multiple events to showcase its human rights achievements and foster international cooperation. These events included a training program on economic, social, and cultural rights for representatives from various countries, and a seminar on China-Africa human rights cooperation. Participants praised China's efforts in providing public services to vulnerable groups and promoting economic, social, and cultural rights. Additionally, a forum was held to discuss human rights in the digital age, emphasizing the need for a human-centered approach to technology governance and a path to human rights development distinct from the West. The events did not mention the United States.
Summary: Vice Premier He Lifeng met with WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in Beijing on December 9th. He Lifeng affirmed China's support for the WTO-centered multilateral trading system and opposed unilateralism and protectionism. He stated China would actively participate in WTO reform and promote trade and investment liberalization. Okonjo-Iweala praised China's commitment to multilateralism and the multilateral trading system, hoping for strengthened dialogue and cooperation within the WTO framework.
Summary: NPC Vice Chairman Peng Qinghua visited Brunei at the invitation of Brunei's Legislative Council, meeting with Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and Legislative Council Speaker Rahman. Peng emphasized the deep traditional friendship between China and Brunei, noting the recent upgrading of bilateral relations under the guidance of Presidents Xi Jinping and Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. He expressed China's willingness to work with Brunei to implement the consensus of the two heads of state, deepen practical cooperation, and jointly promote the building of a China-Brunei community with a shared future. Brunei affirmed its commitment to the One China policy and expressed its desire to deepen exchanges and cooperation with China in various fields.
Summary: At the invitation of Turkmenistan, Peng Qinghua, Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, will attend the "International Year of Peace and Trust Forum" in Turkmenistan on December 12th as a special envoy of President Xi Jinping.
Summary: Luxembourg's Chamber of Deputies Speaker Fernand Etgen will lead a delegation to China from December 12-16 at the invitation of Zhao Leji, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. The article focuses on the upcoming visit, highlighting the invitation extended by a high-ranking Chinese official.
Summary: China released its third policy paper on Latin America and the Caribbean, outlining a commitment to jointly advance "five major projects" (团结、发展、文明、和平、民心) to build a China-LAC community with a shared future. Assistant Foreign Minister Cai Wei stated the document comprehensively elaborates China's policies towards the region, aligning with Xi Jinping's global initiatives. The document reportedly outlines policy proposals for exchange and cooperation in over 40 fields, addressing LAC's concerns in areas like trade and technological innovation. According to the ambassador of Dominica, the document will be crucial to infrastucture, technology, education, and agriculture. The policy paper aims to provide a roadmap for China-LAC relations in the new era.
Summary: A symposium titled "China-Brazil, China-Latin America: A Shared Future" was recently held in Brasilia, co-sponsored by the Chinese Embassy in Brazil, the Brazilian Center for International Relations, and the Brazilian branch of the Latin American Social Sciences Institute. The meeting suggests an effort to strengthen diplomatic ties and promote a shared future narrative between China and Brazil, as well as Latin America more broadly.
Summary: Foreign Ministry Spokesperson announced that Brunei's Foreign Minister Erywan will visit China from December 11th to 12th at the invitation of Chinese Politburo Member and Foreign Minister Wang Yi. The announcement provides no specific agenda for the visit. The report does not mention any specific counterparts beyond Wang Yi. The announcement does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A training program's first phase, titled "Global South Youth Revitalizing Villages," has begun in Beijing with 42 participants from countries like Laos, Kenya, and Tanzania. Jointly initiated by China Agricultural University and Tencent's "We Village," the program focuses on imparting Chinese expertise in modern agriculture, technological innovation, and rural tourism development. Attendees will receive training in areas such as Moringa cultivation techniques, as demonstrated by agronomist Long Jiming.
Summary: This article discusses Geely Automobile's efforts to align its production with evolving consumer demands, particularly in the electric vehicle market. The company focuses on incorporating user feedback, gathered through post-purchase surveys and service channels, to improve vehicle design and functionality, addressing concerns like motion sickness in EVs. Geely's efforts have led to increased sales, including exports of the Galaxy E5 model to over 80 countries. The company's localized supply chain in Guiyang, with a 48% local component rate, enables faster response times to production needs. This strategy reflects a broader goal of fostering a positive feedback loop between supply and demand, strengthening domestic economic circulation.
Summary: Guizhou province has leveraged its mineral resources and favorable policies to establish a comprehensive new energy vehicle industry chain, encompassing battery production, vehicle manufacturing, clean energy, and charging infrastructure. This localized support aims to reduce costs and bolster supply chain resilience for car manufacturers. By effectively connecting supply and demand, automakers are stimulating the market and improving both incremental and existing assets. Continued focus on intelligent and green products and services will strengthen the domestic economic cycle, while innovation driven by consumer demand and high-quality standards will ensure a dynamic balance between supply and demand. The article advocates for a "demand-response, supply optimization, global adaptation" development model to further promote the dual circulation strategy.
Summary: During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China's agricultural machinery industry saw significant advancements in technological autonomy, product sophistication, industrial clustering, and service intelligence, achieving rapid development. Domestic agricultural machinery now meets over 90% of the market demand, with increased recognition. Key core technologies have been continuously broken through, with R&D investment reaching an average of 3.5% in agricultural machinery enterprises nationwide, promoting an average annual increase of 15% in the number of industry patents. The BeiDou satellite navigation system has been integrated into various aspects of agricultural machinery, with over 3.5 million sets of agricultural machinery equipped with BeiDou satellite navigation terminals. In 2024, China's agricultural machinery exports reached 50.963 billion yuan, a 46.5% increase compared to 2020.
Summary: The "Repair Lane" in Tianjin's Hebei district, Wangchuanchang subdistrict, officially opened in June 2024, consolidating various repair services to address the community's need for accessible "small repairs." The lane houses approximately 30 shops offering services such as weaving, key duplication, and watch repair. This initiative by the Wangchuanchang subdistrict utilizes previously vacant commercial space to provide convenient services to residents. The "Repair Lane" has become popular since its opening.
Summary: China's National Bureau of Statistics reported that November's CPI increased by 0.7% year-on-year, the highest since March 2024, driven primarily by rising food prices. Core CPI, excluding food and energy, rose 1.2%. The PPI saw a month-on-month increase of 0.1% but a year-on-year decrease of 2.2%, impacted by both domestic seasonal demand for coal and gas and international commodity prices. The year-on-year PPI decline was partly attributed to a high base from the previous year, though efforts to address "involution" competition have had some effects. The report made no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China has updated its mandatory national toy safety standards (GB 6675.1-4) to address consumer concerns about harmful materials and physical hazards. The updated standards, overseen by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the State Administration for Market Regulation, include stricter limits on substances like formaldehyde, volatile organic compounds, and boron, particularly in popular toys like "crystal mud." He Yaqiong, head of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's Consumer Goods Industry Department, stated that toys produced under the new standards would be safer for consumers. Miao Yuchen, Deputy Director of the Quality Supervision Department of the State Administration for Market Regulation, announced a three-year action plan to monitor emerging toy trends and enforce the new standards, focusing on high-risk areas and products like magnetic beads and "blind box" toys. The article did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The National Financial Regulatory Administration has released new regulations for financial leasing companies, the "Administrative Measures for Financial Leasing Business of Financial Leasing Companies," to guide them towards their core responsibilities and enhance their ability to serve the real economy. The measures focus on the unique functions of financial leasing, emphasizing leased assets and direct leasing, while also addressing sale-leaseback and operating leases. The regulations specify standardized business management processes, including due diligence, review and approval, contract execution, and post-lease management. They also strengthen risk control for credit, concentration, and operational risks, as well as asset management, overseas operations, and employee conduct.
Summary: Various regions and departments in China, including Beijing, Anhui, Sichuan, and central state organs, are actively promoting the spirit of the 20th Fourth Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee through diverse outreach programs. These initiatives employ a "theory + people + art" approach, integrating the spirit of the plenary session into relatable, everyday examples for the masses. For example, Anhui Province official Wang Xuejun held a special lecture on the spirit of the plenary session in Tongling City, and then went to Tongguan District, Xihu Town, Nonglin Village, Qingchuang Space and other places to visit and investigate, and sat down with grass-roots cadres, heads of new agricultural business entities and enterprise representatives to answer questions and solve problems on the spot. The central state organs are also mobilizing youth to study and implement the spirit of the session, focusing on topics such as modernizing the industrial system and achieving high-level technological self-reliance in the "15th Five-Year Plan". The activities aim to ensure the Party's policies take root and are well-received across the country.
Summary: The article reports on the establishment and function of "outdoor stations" (户外驿站) in Harbin, Heilongjiang, which serve as rest stops and provide amenities for sanitation workers, delivery drivers, and other outdoor laborers. These stations offer services such as hot drinks, food warming, phone charging, first aid, and access to information on union benefits. Wang Guicheng, Party Secretary and Vice Chairman of the Harbin Federation of Trade Unions, stated that the city plans to increase the number of these stations during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, focusing on new business districts and tourist areas. The goal is to provide practical support and a sense of warmth to laborers. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: Harbin, China has established over 600 outdoor "rest stops" for outdoor laborers, providing them with a place to warm up, eat, and rest during the harsh winter. These stations offer basic amenities like hot water, food warming facilities, first aid kits, and information on support policies and labor skills. The initiative aims to improve the lives of these workers and foster a stronger connection between the people and the city. The article highlights the importance of caring for those who contribute to the city's development. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations was made.
Summary: A water conservation initiative in Handan, Hebei province, has implemented a "contractual water conservation management" system, partnering the government with water service companies to modernize water usage for local businesses. Midea Refrigeration Equipment Co. partnered with China Water Investment Group to implement a system that recycles water within the factory, saving approximately 110,000 tons of water per year. The project included upgrades to water infrastructure, installation of water-saving equipment, and a real-time data platform for monitoring water usage. The city-wide initiative includes 39 water conservation services and 65 projects, and is expected to save 50 million tons of water per year. The initiative aims to support sustainable development in the water-scarce province.
Summary: This article reports on the integration of agriculture and tourism in Hongyan Village, Guangxi Province, specifically focusing on leveraging the local persimmon harvest to boost the rural economy. The village has organized tourism activities centered around the persimmon orchards, aiming to attract visitors and increase income for local residents. The effort contributes to the overall rural revitalization strategy of the region. There is no mention of U.S.-China relations or statements by any official in the article.
Summary: The article emphasizes China's economic resilience and the importance of maintaining confidence and strategic focus for continued growth, especially as the 14th Five-Year Plan concludes and the 15th begins. It highlights China's economic achievements, including GDP growth and technological advancements like embodied intelligence, citing examples from companies like Luoyang Bearing Group and cities like Shenzhen. The article underscores the significance of domestic demand and innovation as drivers of future development, even amid global challenges like trade wars. It references Xi Jinping's calls to seize opportunities, address challenges, and remain committed to high-quality development, as well as his focus on the importance of self-reliance and domestic strength.
Summary: China's Ministry of Education recently released "Excellence Engineer Education Certification Standards" for universities and enterprises establishing "Excellence Engineer Colleges" for master's and doctoral students. The standards emphasize Party leadership, serving national strategic needs, and establishing school-enterprise collaborative platforms. Key aspects include quality assurance, external cooperation, work-integrated learning that includes political education, joint faculty development, and career development support for engineers. The standards aim to build organized and large-scale school-enterprise joint training programs. This is part of the ongoing reform of excellence engineer training, which has already established 50 national-level colleges and 4 innovation research institutes.
Summary: The All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) is launching a nationwide volunteer program in 2025 focusing on elder care and childcare. The program will mobilize 24 million female volunteers to provide services like companionship, assistance with errands, and tutoring, with a focus on revitalizing rural areas and promoting socialist family values. Volunteers will provide support to elderly couples in rural areas and vulnerable children, including those who are orphaned or have limited parental care. The effort aims to promote positive views on marriage, childbirth, and family. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: This article emphasizes the importance of prioritizing the people in China's development strategy, particularly in the context of the "15th Five-Year Plan." It argues for a shift towards "investing in people" to unlock their potential and drive economic growth. The piece highlights initiatives like infrastructure projects in rural areas and urban renewal programs as examples of how focusing on people's needs can lead to broader societal benefits. It also underscores the need to cultivate a skilled workforce and foster innovation to achieve high-quality development and secure a talent dividend. Ultimately, the article frames people as the driving force behind China's modernization and its ability to seize historical opportunities.
Summary: The article discusses the rise of a new wave of "mass culture and art" (大众文艺) in China, emphasizing its grassroots nature and the active participation of ordinary people in artistic creation and appreciation. It highlights examples such as villagers staging their own plays, amateur singers attracting large audiences, and the use of digital technology to enhance art experiences. The author argues that this trend is distinct from both elitist and purely popular culture, and that it reflects a growing demand from the public for more engaging and relevant artistic expressions. The article emphasizes the importance of rooting artistic creation in the lives of the people and avoiding superficiality, while also leveraging technology to expand the reach and impact of art. It notes that this new wave of artistic expression should prioritize quality alongside innovation.
Summary: According to data from the China Building Materials Federation, China's building materials industry achieved breakthroughs in industrial structure optimization and green, low-carbon development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. Revenue from green building materials products exceeded 250 billion yuan. CO2 emissions from the building materials industry have decreased for four consecutive years, with a cumulative decrease of 20.4%. The entire Chinese building materials industry has achieved peak carbon emissions and is moving towards carbon neutrality.
Summary: This article from Yunnan Daily critiques the overuse of "to be done" ("待办") in official reports and rectification lists, arguing it masks inaction and erodes public trust. It attributes this trend to officials prioritizing rhetoric over action, lacking problem-solving skills, and a lack of accountability in problem rectification. The article advocates for concrete action through acquiring expertise, setting clear deadlines, and implementing robust oversight mechanisms to ensure tasks are completed. Overcoming this problem requires a sense of urgency to satisfy the people. There is no discussion on the United States or U.S.-China relations in this article.
Summary: The article discusses a new Chinese government policy, effective January 1st, concerning the definition and procurement of "domestic products" in government procurement. The policy aims to set clear, measurable standards for what qualifies as a domestic product, promoting transparency and equal treatment for all businesses, including foreign-invested enterprises. It explicitly prohibits discriminatory practices based on ownership, structure, or investor nationality. The policy aligns with international practices and anticipates future adherence to agreements like the WTO's Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) and the CPTPP, promoting fair competition in a high-standard open market. The article frames this as a move towards a more market-oriented, rules-based environment to foster high-quality development.
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Summary: The article discusses China's efforts to increase domestic production of overwintering cabbage varieties, reducing reliance on foreign imports. A research team successfully bred a new cabbage variety, "Zhonggan 1305," that surpasses foreign varieties in key traits and costs half as much, now accounting for 70% of the overwintering cabbage in Jiayu County, Hubei Province. The article highlights the use of molecular breeding techniques and future applications of AI to improve vegetable breeding. It emphasizes the importance of seed autonomy for stable vegetable supplies and increased farmer income. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: A national public security conference on ecological policing was held in Huzhou, Zhejiang on December 8th, according to a report by the Ministry of Public Security. The conference outlined plans to strengthen environmental protection through a specialized police force leveraging big data and improved mechanisms. Focus would be placed on proactively preventing environmental crimes and promoting comprehensive governance to foster green development. This initiative aims to contribute to the construction of a "Beautiful China" through strict law enforcement against environmental crimes. The report did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The "People's Daily Campus Tour" event was held at Beijing Language and Culture University, featuring four *People's Daily* journalists sharing their experiences in news editing, international communication, and innovative media. *People's Daily* representatives introduced job opportunities and recruitment processes. The event included a discussion on media diplomacy and youth development, as well as the unveiling of an electronic *People's Daily* reading board. Cui Shixin, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of *People's Daily*, attended the event, along with Ni Haidong, Secretary of the Party Committee of Beijing Language and Culture University, who held talks with the *People's Daily* delegation. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Jilin Province Central Cities Water Diversion Project, with a total investment of 14.932 billion yuan, has passed completion acceptance and is officially fully operational. The project draws water from the Songhua River's Fengman Reservoir and delivers it through a 704-kilometer underground pipeline to provide water supply for Changchun, Siping, Liaoyuan and 26 towns along the route. The project is designed to divert an average of 898 million cubic meters of water annually, which will contribute to local black soil protection and stable grain production. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: Zhang Feng, the Deputy Director of the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau of Cangxi County, Sichuan Province, was reported to be engaging with local residents to address their concerns regarding issues such as pension eligibility certification. Cangxi County has mobilized over 3,000 government party members to routinely engage with communities outside of work hours, resolving over 340 pressing issues and strengthening party-community relations. The county has also implemented measures to supervise and manage party members' behavior outside of work, including a negative list of prohibited actions. They aim to regulate party members' social circles through various supervisory channels, ideological education, and promoting healthy lifestyles. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Bank of China's Jiangsu branch (中行江苏省分行) is focusing on supporting Jiangsu's "manufacturing powerhouse" and "science and technology powerhouse" goals by providing financial services for technological innovation, industrial cluster upgrades, and further opening up. They have launched various financial products, including "Su Zhi Dai (苏知贷)" and "Zhongyin-Torch Innovation Points Loan (中银—火炬创新积分贷)," to support companies at different stages. The branch has also developed differentiated models for various industrial chains, offering tailored financial solutions to promote industrial upgrading. They are also supporting companies' global expansion through integrated cross-border financial services, leveraging the Bank of China's global network, including RMB clearing services. As of late October 2023, the branch had served over 39,000 tech companies, with technology finance loans exceeding 230 billion yuan. The article does not mention the United States.
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Summary: The Supreme People's Court (SPC) has released five model cases concerning property management disputes, addressing issues like overdue fees and handover difficulties. The SPC stated that property management companies cannot restrict access (e.g., door access or elevators) to pressure residents into paying fees; instead, they should pursue legal means. Furthermore, a property management company that refuses to leave after its contract expires cannot demand fees for continued service, and cannot sue over decisions made by the owners' committee to hire new property managers. These cases aim to guide lower courts in resolving property disputes and safeguarding residents' rights, but the article does not allude to or discuss U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China's revised national standards for electric bicycles (e-bikes) have fully taken effect, with older models banned from sale. The new standards maintain a maximum speed of 25 km/h, but address concerns about passenger capacity, storage, and seat materials. Officials from the China Bicycle Association and the China Electronics Standardization Institute addressed public concerns, clarifying that most new e-bikes will have rear seats suitable for children. The new standards do not require metal seats, but encourage the use of mirrors.
Summary: The article discusses the prevalence of electric bicycles (e-bikes) in China, estimating 380 million are in use. Despite their convenience, the article highlights safety concerns stemming from non-compliant e-bikes and increasing fire incidents. It argues that new national standards for e-bikes, while intended to improve safety, must also consider user needs and practical design, lest they fail to resonate with consumers. The article stresses that manufacturers must create e-bikes that are both compliant and user-friendly, balancing safety with convenience.
Summary: During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Guiyang's Yunyan District focused on high-quality development, aiming to build a demonstration zone for industry-city integration, a cultural highland, a regional consumption center, and a model area for a better life. The district's GDP increased significantly, reaching 109.2 billion yuan in 2024 and expected to reach 115 billion yuan by the end of the year. Yunyan District is promoting cultural and tourism development, including the restoration of historical sites and the creation of new cultural IPs. The district focuses on improving people's livelihoods through the construction of "15-minute living circles" and promoting employment. Yunyan District also emphasizes green development and has been recognized as a "National Green Development Top 100 District" for six consecutive years.
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Summary: The article highlights China's focus on improving people's livelihoods, emphasizing initiatives across several areas. Shanghai is reducing costs related to raising children by providing subsidies. Shanxi is improving schools in rural areas, while Zhengzhou is building stations to support delivery drivers. Additionally, medical services are being brought to rural Yunnan, and elderly activity spaces are being developed in Liaoning. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of advancing people-centered urbanization to drive China's modernization. It highlights achievements during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, including increased urbanization rates, agricultural migrant integration, and improved urban development. The article stresses the need to deepen reforms, improve public services for migrants, and optimize urban layouts with coordinated development among cities and towns. It calls for modernizing mega-cities, promoting integrated urban clusters, and developing county towns while focusing on industrial development and public service improvement. The article also advocates for urban renewal to create innovative, livable, green, resilient, civilized, and smart cities.
Summary: This article emphasizes Xi Jinping's call for a meritocratic system where cadres are promoted or demoted based on their performance, addressing the issue of stagnation and underperformance within the cadre ranks. The author argues that promoting capable individuals and removing underperforming ones is crucial for China's development, especially given the current complex environment and challenges. It stresses the importance of not only identifying and promoting talented cadres but also establishing clear and effective mechanisms for demoting those who are incompetent or unwilling to take responsibility. The article advocates for a comprehensive approach that combines strict management with care and support for cadres, ensuring that demotions are fair and provide opportunities for improvement. Ultimately, the goal is to create a dynamic and motivated cadre system that supports China's ongoing development.
Summary: This article emphasizes the strategic importance of facilitating the social mobility of labor and talent in China to support economic development, achieve common prosperity, and promote social fairness. It argues for breaking down institutional barriers hindering the movement of labor and talent across regions, industries, and social strata. The piece advocates for optimizing the institutional environment to facilitate horizontal mobility through reforms in the Hukou system and the elimination of employment discrimination. Additionally, it calls for improving growth channels to expand vertical mobility by enhancing talent evaluation systems and promoting education and skills training. The article also highlights the need to strengthen the social security system to provide a safety net for those in transition and encourages local governments to experiment with policies tailored to their specific conditions.
Summary: A historically significant village in Anhui province, Xiaotao Village, has revitalized its economy by attracting rural entrepreneurs and developing cultural and creative industries. Abandoned farmhouses were repurposed into studios and shops, attracting over 50 young people. A partnership between Anhui Engineering University and Wanxi District aims to replicate Xiaotao's success through a "University Town" model, connecting university departments with local villages to promote rural revitalization. The initiative focuses on industry development and talent cultivation.
Summary: A recent phenomenon of individuals live-streaming in parks has brought vibrancy but also noise, prompting some parks in Beijing (which has 1,100 parks) to issue regulations. These regulations aim to manage public spaces and address issues of public resource occupation and disturbance of the park environment caused by the proliferation of live streams. The aim is to balance self-expression with the rights of other visitors, reflecting a broader need for refined urban management. The article advocates for considerate behavior in parks, including the regulation of live-streaming, to maintain harmony and showcase the city's governance and civility. The United States is not discussed in this article.
Summary: Here's a brief summary of the provided articles: * The first fully scheduled China-Europe freight train from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region departed from Shijiazhuang International Land Port, which has handled over 1,100 trains in the first 11 months of the year. * Jiangxi Province held a Red-themed print exhibition in Zhangshu city, showcasing revolutionary spirit through over 100 works. * Shaanxi Province successfully completed a terraced field carbon sink transaction in Qinghai, trading 11,000 tons of carbon sequestration. * Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport officially put its third runway into operation, increasing its capacity for passengers and cargo. * Xiangshan Port in Zhejiang officially opened to foreign trade, bringing the total number of open ports in Ningbo to eight.
Summary: For 30 years, the practice of unattended vegetable stalls has been in place in Fujian's Longyan City. This practice has now been upgraded to "Jinsha Youli" (金砂有礼) integrity stores, which sell local agricultural products without staff. Customers self-select and pay for goods, with the store reporting average daily transactions exceeding 3,000 yuan in the past six months. There are plans to expand sales online.
Summary: Recent interest in exoskeletons has grown in China, with applications ranging from assisting tourists at scenic sites like Mount Tai and the Great Wall to aiding elderly individuals with mobility. Experts, including Wang Hongwu from the China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, recognize the potential of exoskeletons in reducing physical strain, but caution against using consumer-grade versions as replacements for medical devices. Currently, these devices are most suitable for individuals with existing mobility and offer exertion relief; those with physical limitations should exercise caution. Industry standards regarding safety, performance, and core components are being developed to standardize the supply chain and lower production costs, according to Wang.
Summary: The article focuses on the revitalization of traditional pottery in Aktau County, Xinjiang, through a "Party building + intangible cultural heritage + industry" model. The Sayibag Village Party branch collaborated with government departments and Xinjiang aid programs to modernize the production process. Traditional methods are being replaced by technology, greatly increasing production and improving the quality of the pottery. The Aktao County Miras Pottery Handicraft Cooperative has expanded into a modern factory, creating jobs for villagers and distributing products through multiple outlets.
Summary: In Chongqing's Chengkou County, the "Forget Me" lacquer art space employs artisans with disabilities to create lacquerware. Initiated in 2022, the project, part of the "Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Benefit-the-Disabled Action," aims to integrate intangible cultural heritage preservation with employment opportunities for people with disabilities. The workshop provides training by professionals from Fujian and Shandong, enabling trainees to independently create lacquer paintings after three months. The model has been replicated in multiple towns, creating 56 jobs for the disabled and their families.
Summary: The Inner Mongolia Museum introduced a themed course, "Jade Art Exploration: The Beauty of Jade Craftsmanship," to students at the Khorchin Campus of the Suhu Street Experimental Primary School in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, as part of its 2025 "Museum on the Move" program. Museum lecturers used visuals and videos to explain the historical context and techniques of ancient jade production, focusing on its aesthetic and cultural significance. The course aims to help students appreciate the beauty and spirit conveyed by cultural relics, moving beyond rote memorization. This fall, the museum will bring the course, encompassing 10 artifact types, to 7 schools.
Summary: The city of Zunyi in Guizhou Province has launched its first "mobile medical insurance station" in Yangyan Village, Yangdeng Town, Tongzi County. This initiative, led by the Zunyi Medical Insurance Bureau in conjunction with local health organizations, allows village doctors to bring medical insurance settlement terminals directly to residents' homes. The system enables on-site medical insurance reimbursement for villagers through ID or facial recognition, streamlining the healthcare process, especially for those with mobility issues. The data is uploaded in real time.
Summary: A "Blue Leopard Rescue" team in Nanjing's Jingxin Community conducted a first aid training session for residents, focusing on CPR techniques. The training, part of a series that began in April, aims to equip residents as "first responders" to emergencies like fires and sudden illnesses. The program has expanded beyond CPR to include other skills like the Heimlich maneuver and fire escape techniques. Resident participation and awareness of the importance of first aid has reportedly increased.
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Summary: Shi Guosheng, president of the Jiangsu Province Children's Art Theater, has dedicated 23 years to bringing children's theater, particularly realistic dramas, to schools, especially in rural areas. The theater has performed over 10,000 shows for over 9 million children across China, often facing hardships to perform in remote areas. The troupe was recently upgraded to the Jiangsu Province Children's Art Theater, signaling further support for children's theater. Performers express joy in connecting with young audiences, some of whom may have never seen a play.
Summary: This article discusses the integration of digital technologies into China's education system to foster innovation and promote equitable access. It highlights the use of AI for personalized learning, virtual simulations for immersive experiences, and digital platforms for resource sharing, particularly benefiting rural and remote areas. The piece emphasizes lifelong learning opportunities through online platforms catering to diverse demographics, including the elderly and young professionals. China aims to leverage these technologies to improve education quality and ensure broader access for all citizens.
Summary: The winners of the third annual "Golden Voice Award" for Chinese broadcasting and hosting were announced in Beijing. Ten radio and ten television broadcasters and hosts from CCTV and 16 provinces were selected, representing diverse regions and program types. The awardees span multiple generations, with an average of 20.9 years of experience. The "Golden Voice Award," a national-level government award in the field of broadcasting and hosting, was established in 2021. The award ceremony will be held in Changsha, Hunan Province on December 23rd, jointly hosted by the National Radio and Television Administration and the Hunan Provincial People's Government.
Summary: The 2026 Spring Festival Gala (马年春晚) announced its theme as "Qiji gallop, unstoppable momentum (骐骥驰骋 势不可挡)," symbolizing the spirit of progress. The Gala's logo features four horses running together, incorporating traditional Chinese design elements. It aims to create a festive and innovative cultural event for Chinese people worldwide on New Year's Eve. The design signifies a dynamic and unstoppable force. There was no discussion of the U.S. or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: According to this article, China Mobile's Yunnan branch (云南移动) is expanding digital infrastructure in Yunnan province, emphasizing its role as a digital hub connecting China with South and Southeast Asia. Yunnan Mobile has upgraded its international communication backbone (IBB) node in Kunming to reduce latency for internet traffic between China and the region, switching from sea cables to land cables. They are also developing a large-scale intelligent computing center, promoting data exchange, and fostering cooperation in AI research and development. The company aims to strengthen Yunnan's digital economy by improving data infrastructure and promoting AI applications. There is no mention of the United States or US-China relations in this article.
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Summary: Ganzhou, Jiangxi province, is undergoing a transformation into a high-quality development demonstration zone, spurred by national-level support and a focus on industrial innovation. The city is promoting industrial modernization, upgrading traditional sectors like furniture and rare earth materials while developing new industries such as electronics. Ganzhou has also improved its transportation infrastructure, connecting it to the Greater Bay Area, and is deepening its cooperation with Shenzhen, reforming its business environment to align with Shenzhen standards. Ganzhou aims to balance economic growth with environmental protection, as it focuses on high-quality development and ecological preservation.
Summary: According to a report featuring an interview with national-level climbing route setter Rao Xiong, rock climbing has become a popular sport, offering both indoor and outdoor challenges. Rao recommends beginners start with indoor gyms under professional guidance, focusing on basic techniques and safety. Indoor climbing requires attention to safety equipment and proper landing techniques to avoid injuries, while outdoor climbing demands more comprehensive preparation, including weather checks, experienced partners, and thorough equipment inspection. Choosing routes within one's ability and prioritizing safety are crucial for outdoor climbing. The report offers advice on selecting climbing gear, emphasizing comfortable shoes and appropriate clothing.
Summary: Guang Yuexiang, a boccia athlete from Guangdong province, expressed his desire to see a broader world through sports after winning awards in the past two Paralympics. He was inspired by other determined disabled athletes. Separately, 16-year-old swimmer Liu Mengyan from Henan province won two gold and one silver medal at the recent competition and broke the world record in the women's 200m butterfly S15. She hopes to break more records in the future.
Summary: Chinese freestyle skier Xu Mengtao won the gold medal in the women's aerials at the FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup in Ruka, Finland, marking her first gold of the new season and 39th World Cup gold overall. Four Chinese athletes advanced to the finals, with teammate Chen Meiting securing third place. Xu expressed gratitude to her team for their support in the challenging conditions. At 35, Xu is the oldest member of the Chinese team and is aiming for her fifth Winter Olympics after winning gold at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. The next World Cup event will be held in Zhangjiakou, China.
Summary: The second "Western Youth Training Cup" youth football exchange tournament was held in Bijie, Guizhou, from December 7th to 13th, organized by the Chinese Football Association and the China Football Development Foundation. The tournament featured U14 male and female teams from eight western pilot regions, totaling over 400 athletes and coaches, competing in 40 matches. Established in 2024 by the General Administration of Sport, the tournament aims to promote training and friendship among pilot regions. From this year forward, the event will be held annually in December, rotating among the youth training centers in the pilot regions.
Summary: Changsha's Tianxin district in Hunan province is actively promoting new consumption industries through policy support, platform construction, technological empowerment, and environmental optimization. Key initiatives include the establishment of a night economy service center, a new consumption research institute, and a new consumption industrial fund, as well as talent programs and a human resources service platform. The district has also built a smart platform and promoted smart businesses. These efforts have led to the emergence of new consumer brands and a healthy consumer environment in the area, which has led to the district attracting many well-known brands.
Summary: The Infrastructure Disaster Prevention and Mitigation faculty-student Party branch at Zhengzhou University's School of Water Conservancy and Transportation, led by Changjiang Scholar Professor Fang Hongyuan, is driving high-quality development through a "four-mechanism" system and a "four-group" working model that integrates Party building with talent cultivation, technological innovation, and social service. These initiatives include public outreach on major engineering projects, volunteer work inspecting urban infrastructure, AI-driven innovation, and professional consulting services. The branch has secured over 100 research projects, various awards, and multiple national and provincial-level talent recognitions. The university aims to strengthen Party leadership, promote innovation, and expand the impact of its initiatives to contribute to national infrastructure development and the university's "double first-class" construction goals. The article makes no mention of the United States.
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Summary: China released its third policy paper on Latin America and the Caribbean, outlining a vision for deepened cooperation and a shared future. The document emphasizes mutual support on core interests, including adherence to the One China principle, and advocates for a more just global governance system, opposing "hegemonism" and "decoupling." China proposes five "mega-projects" to advance this vision: unity, development, civilization, peace, and people-to-people exchanges. The paper calls for strengthened coordination in international forums like the G20 and WTO, while also promoting its Global Development Initiative and the Belt and Road Initiative in the region. It also supports Latin American and Caribbean countries playing a greater role in international affairs. The document also expressed opposition to using the internet to interfere in other countries' internal affairs.
Summary: Guizhou Power Grid Company (a subsidiary of China Southern Power Grid) is concluding its state-owned enterprise reform initiative, aiming to become a world-class enterprise through organizational changes, energy transition, and incentivized innovation. The company has focused on streamlining operations at the county and district levels and is promoting the integration of renewable energy sources like solar and wind power, particularly in Qianxinan Prefecture, with the development of "smart" grid technologies to manage these resources. They're improving grid reliability with schemes such as the "Three Adjustments and Three Optimizations" mode. Furthermore, management is being reformed with "contractualized management" and performance-based incentives tied to key metrics, with both positive and negative consequences for achieving targets.
Summary: In 2025, Kweichow Moutai focused on quality control, cultural promotion, market marketing, and social responsibility, adhering to its corporate values. Moutai promoted its brand through cultural events, including international showcases like the Davos Forum and an exhibition in San Francisco, solidifying its presence in 64 countries and regions. The company reported a revenue of 130.904 billion yuan and a net profit of 64.626 billion yuan in the first three quarters. Moutai also upgraded its "China Moutai: Pillars of the Nation" public welfare brand, focusing on ecology, education, and cultural inheritance. The company aims to continue its high-quality development and become a world-class enterprise.
Summary: According to the article, Shanghai courts are leveraging "digital courts" and big data to improve judicial efficiency, accuracy, and social governance. Shanghai courts have established over 1,100 intelligent auxiliary scene models covering various aspects of the judicial process. They are using data-driven insights to identify potential risks, such as fraudulent divorces to evade debt, and to assist judges in handling cases more effectively. The "digital court" initiative also seeks to improve public services by integrating judicial data with government platforms, such as enabling online access to divorce certificates. Shanghai courts are also sharing data with other government entities to address broader social issues, such as medical insurance fraud and pre-paid consumption disputes.
Summary: The article discusses the adoption of "flexible law enforcement" by urban management departments in cities like Xining and Ganzhou, which involves allowing designated areas and timeframes for street vendors to operate, aiming to balance urban order with the needs of small businesses and residents. These initiatives, such as "tidal stalls" and "limited-time outdoor vending," seek to resolve conflicts between law enforcement and vendors, promoting a more harmonious urban environment. The article emphasizes the importance of listening to public opinion, adopting innovative approaches, and fostering community participation in urban governance to achieve a balance between order and vitality. It argues that flexible enforcement requires a higher standard of law enforcement that combines the functions of education and punishment of law, and achieves the unity of law enforcement justice and effect.
Summary: Chengdu is focused on improving its business environment by streamlining government services, enhancing law enforcement supervision, and offering multiple channels for dispute resolution. Digitalization efforts such as online processing and integrated data systems have expedited procedures like company registration and construction permits. The city solicits business feedback through legislative contact points and a communication mechanism between the judicial bureau and the city's federation of industry and commerce, and it also gathers and corrects enforcement problems. Chengdu also employs mediation and flexible enforcement methods to resolve disputes, while also working to correct mistakes on its own initiative.
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Summary: In 2025, China Eastern Airlines (CEA) launched the world's longest single flight route from Shanghai to Buenos Aires, via Auckland, marking its full coverage of all continents and securing fifth freedom rights in Auckland. CEA has also increased international routes and traffic, with new routes to the Middle East and Europe, and is expanding domestic routes centered around major economic zones. CEA is expanding the commercial operation of the domestically produced C919 aircraft, increasing its fleet to 13 with over 100 orders, and operating on 15 routes to 13 cities. CEA is also promoting integrated development with tourism, culture, and other sectors to stimulate consumption.
Summary: Wuhan Zhongbang Bank is implementing a "Party Building Leadership Project" to integrate Party building with its business operations. By the end of October 2025, the bank's total assets reached 126 billion yuan, with online retail deposits exceeding 90 billion yuan. The bank has cumulatively issued over 150 billion yuan in industrial chain financial loans, serving more than 150 characteristic industrial chains and launching digital inclusive financial products. It has also established a "Digital Joint Innovation Laboratory" with "Zhongcang Deng" to provide inventory financing solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises. The bank launched a "Happy Life Zone" on its mobile app, providing elderly financial services and products. There is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: Composer Yang Ming, known as Yang Ming, was awarded the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Lifetime Achievement Award (Music) for his dedication to composing for the People's Liberation Army. His notable work includes the opera "Jiangjie," featuring the widely popular songs "Ode to the Red Plum" and "Embroidery Red Flag." Yang Ming also co-created "I Love the Blue Sky of the Motherland," a song that expresses the ardent love for the blue sky from the perspective of air force pilots and praises their firm belief in devoting themselves to national defense, guarding the territory, and defending sovereignty. Yang and lyricist Yan Su gained inspiration for the song while experiencing life with pilots in the Guangzhou Air Force. Yang's career was closely associated with the Air Force, including serving in the Northeast Air Force Political Department Cultural Troupe.
Summary: The author, a playwright, discusses their award-winning opera "Qiaopi," which tells the story of overseas Chinese workers and their remittances (Qiaopi) sent home. The opera focuses on a specific story of a worker who, while dying, sends his life savings and a plea for his daughter to be educated. The author emphasizes the integrity of the Qiaopi bureau, which often fronted the money before the actual remittance arrived. The opera aims to portray the deep emotions and sacrifices of these workers and their families, reflecting their love for their homeland.
Summary: This article discusses the creation and ten-year journey of the dance drama "Du Fu," focusing on the creative team's efforts to understand and portray the poet's spirit through dance. The creators aimed to bridge the gap between ancient poetry and contemporary audiences by using dance to depict key images and emotions from Du Fu's poems. They emphasize the importance of balancing traditional themes with modern aesthetics in dance, striving to convey Du Fu's enduring patriotism and literary integrity. The production team states that one of its goals was to allow contemporary audiences to "re-enter" or "re-experience" the Tang Dynasty through Du Fu's poetry.
Summary: The screenwriter and director of the TV series "The Great Businessman," adapted from a novel, discusses the protagonist Gu Pingyuan, a scholar-turned-businessman in late Qing Dynasty China. The author emphasizes Gu's pursuit of a higher "dao" (path) beyond mere wealth accumulation, including integrity, circulation, and sharing. Gu's exposure to Western commercial practices and technology through encounters with entities like HSBC and the East India Company leads him to a realization of "serving the country through commerce." The author also reflects on the lack of "proud Chinese" figures in modern works, highlighting the need for confidence rooted in understanding both traditional and contemporary culture. The article alludes to the historical context of the Opium Wars and China's subsequent realization that backwardness invites aggression.
Summary: The historical documentary "Millennial Cultural Relics: The Prosperous Tang Dynasty" utilizes 8K cinematography to showcase Tang Dynasty artifacts, revealing the era's mature institutions, economic strength, and cultural inclusiveness. The documentary highlights specific items like the "Huaiji Yongdiao Silver Cake" to illustrate economic reforms and Byzantine glassware to demonstrate East-West exchanges. It emphasizes the respect for individual value and innovation during the Tang Dynasty, portraying the lives of various people from nobles to merchants. The film aims to activate cultural genes and present Chinese civilization to the world, though there is no discussion on US-China relations.
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By: 本报记者 谷业凯 宋朝军 曹继炜
"Developing new quality productive forces does not mean neglecting or abandoning traditional industries. We must prevent a rush and bubble, and we must not engage in a single model. All localities must adhere to starting from reality, establishing before abolishing, adapting to local conditions, and providing classified guidance."
— March 5, 2024, emphasized by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) while participating in the deliberation of the Jiangsu (江苏) delegation at the Second Session of the 14th National People's Congress.
Sailing out of the central wharf of the Qarhan Salt Lake (察尔汗盐湖) in Qinghai (青海), the "Potash Fertilizer No. 10" salt harvesting ship arrived at the emerald green salt pond to operate.
In the production workshop of the Potash Fertilizer Branch of Qinghai Salt Lake Industry Co., Ltd. (青海盐湖工业股份有限公司), the slurry is separated through multiple processes to produce potash fertilizer with a particle size of 0.3 mm and a potassium content of 95%. The slag is "eaten dry and squeezed clean," becoming an important raw material for lithium extraction.
In June 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out during his inspection in Qinghai (青海): "Transform and upgrade traditional industries and develop strategic emerging industries in accordance with local conditions to cultivate new quality productive forces."
Inside the Guangming Science City (光明科学城) in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东), the "reservation list" for the major science and technology infrastructure for synthetic biology research is full. "Using this 'scientific research weapon' can not only save a lot of investment, but also enjoy 'customized services,' shorten the research and development cycle, and improve efficiency," said Li Yang (黎阳), director of the R&D center of Sunrees Biotechnology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (森瑞斯生物科技（深圳）有限公司).
In recent years, Shenzhen (深圳) has formed a complete synthetic biology industry ecosystem. About 40% of the newly established synthetic biology companies in China in the past three years have settled in Shenzhen (深圳).
In November 2025, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized during his inspection in Guangdong (广东), "Focus on developing new quality productive forces and strengthen the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation."
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly expounded the methodology for developing new quality productive forces—
"Developing new quality productive forces does not mean neglecting or abandoning traditional industries. We must prevent a rush and bubble, and we must not engage in a single model. All localities must adhere to starting from reality, establishing before abolishing, adapting to local conditions, and providing classified guidance" "According to the local resource endowments, industrial foundations, scientific research conditions, etc., selectively promote the development of new industries, new models, and new kinetic energy"...
The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal suggests "developing new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions."
The term "因地制宜" (yīn dì zhì yí - "adapt to local conditions," to take measures appropriate to local conditions) profoundly implies two important dialectical relationships that must be properly handled in the development of new quality productive forces.
On the one hand, there is no opposition between "traditional" and "emerging" and "future" industries, but rather they can promote each other. Coordinating the cultivation of new kinetic energy and the updating of old kinetic energy is an inherent requirement for developing new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions.
In Shanghai (上海), Baosteel Co., Ltd. (宝钢股份) cooperated with Huawei (华为) to use digital intelligence technology to "figure out" the complex process inside a 2000-degree Celsius iron-making blast furnace.
"We have collected more than 400,000 data points and developed a 'blast furnace large model'," said Xiao Su (肖苏), Minister of the Data AI Department of Baosteel Co., Ltd. (宝钢股份). The large model helps to significantly improve the accuracy of furnace heat control, and indicators such as silicon content continue to improve.
At present, the large model is deeply applied in 105 typical scenarios of Baosteel Co., Ltd. (宝钢股份), with a coverage rate of more than 85% of key processes. Digital intelligence empowerment has become a key to the continuous growth of enterprise benefits this year.
Traditional industries have deep historical accumulation and mature process systems, and are the basic support of the industrial system. "Not to be neglected or abandoned" conveys General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) concern and attention to traditional industries. "Coordinating the upgrading of traditional industries, the expansion of emerging industries, and the cultivation of future industries" reflects the dialectical development thinking of adhering to integrity and innovation between "traditional" and "emerging" and "future" industries.
On the other hand, the development of new quality productive forces must proceed from reality and adhere to **实事求是** (shí shì qiú shì - "seek truth from facts," be practical and realistic). Only by adhering to what to do and what not to do can we truly achieve something and achieve practical results.
The "Eastern Data and Western Computing" project has now deployed eight national computing power hub nodes and 10 national data center clusters across the country. Relying on their own resource endowments, various regions have shown differentiated advantages in undertaking computing power needs and promoting the development of the digital economy, and have achieved remarkable results.
Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) transforms "cold resources" into "hot power," driving high-intensity tasks such as large model training and weather forecasting; Guizhou (贵州) has become the first national big data comprehensive experimental zone; Gansu (甘肃) relies on green power aggregation, waste heat recovery and other projects to reduce electricity costs and consolidate the foundation for the construction of data center clusters; Ningxia (宁夏) makes good use of its location advantages to create a millisecond-level "latency circle"... Related provinces use energy, location and other advantages to accelerate the construction of computing power infrastructure.
"Data goes west, computing power goes east," the "Eastern Data and Western Computing" project has covered 14 provinces in the east, central and western regions, driving social investment of more than one trillion yuan, empowering thousands of industries, and creating development opportunities.
China (中国) is a vast country with abundant resources, and the resource endowments, industrial conditions and development levels of various regions are different. In the development process of new quality productive forces, we must decide what to take and what to discard according to "time" and "situation." Industries and projects that are suitable for local development should be handled immediately and seized; if the conditions are not yet mature and the timing is not suitable, we must not be eager for success and blindly promote them. Developing new quality productive forces requires establishing and practicing a correct view of performance.
Liaoning's (辽宁) robots, Shanghai's (上海) brain-computer interfaces, Jiangsu's (江苏) photovoltaics, Shaanxi's (陕西) coal chemical industry... Moving towards the "15th Five-Year Plan," various regions and departments are stepping up the drawing of a "roadmap" for developing new quality productive forces. By using the "因地制宜" (yīn dì zhì yí - "adapt to local conditions," to take measures appropriate to local conditions) methodology, China's (中国) new quality productive forces will be able to accelerate breakthroughs, and high-quality development will surely go steady and far.
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Time conceals the power of progress, witnessing the Chinese economy's great ship braving the wind and waves.
Standing at the intersection of the imminent successful conclusion of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and the successive opening of the "15th Five-Year Plan," looking back on the past, there have been many trials and tribulations; looking forward to the journey, the road is long and the task is arduous.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "In difficulties and challenges, we must see the future, see the light, see the future, maintain our development focus, enhance our development confidence, and maintain the spirit of daring to fight and being good at winning."
The market economy, to a large extent, is also an economy of expectations. Stabilizing expectations and strengthening confidence promote and support the stabilization of the economy.
Under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) economic thought, we have always maintained firm confidence, always maintained strategic focus, adhered to high-quality development unswervingly, and strived to build a new development pattern, achieving historical leaps and transformations in economic and social development. The Chinese economy has strong resilience and vitality, China's development has a bright future, we have the confidence and ability to cope with various risks and challenges, and we are even more determined and confident to overcome various risks and challenges, and constantly bring new impetus and new opportunities to the world with China's new development.
Firmly believing in inevitable victory, maintaining strategic focus, strategic confidence, and strategic patience, time will give the best answer.
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Confidence is more valuable than gold. The higher the wind and waves, the steeper the climb, the more precious confidence becomes.
Where does confidence come from? It comes from the certainty of the Chinese economy.
Above the blue waves, 100-meter-long blades spin, and the whistling sea breeze turns into gurgling green electricity. Many of the "core joints" of offshore wind turbines come from Luoyang Bearing Group Co., Ltd. (洛阳轴承集团股份有限公司) in Henan (河南).
"One axis weighs a thousand pounds." During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Luoyang Bearing Group (洛阳轴承集团) helped to continuously expand the scale of offshore wind power in China. Luoyang Bearing Group (洛阳轴承集团), which started from the "First Five-Year Plan," has experienced market confusion and reform pains, but has always focused on its main business and overcome core technologies. Today, the output value of high-end bearings of Luoyang Bearing Group (洛阳轴承集团) accounts for 70%.
"We insist on taking the road of independent development of industry, relying on our own strength to develop industry and manufacturing. This road is the right one!" Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out during his inspection of Luoyang Bearing Group (洛阳轴承集团) in May this year.
The more correct the path, the more confident we become. Amidst the changing international situation, maintaining strategic focus and concentrating on managing our own affairs, during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's (中国) gross domestic product successively exceeded 110 trillion yuan, 120 trillion yuan, and 130 trillion yuan, and is expected to reach about 140 trillion yuan this year. From 2012 to 2024, the average annual growth rate of the Chinese economy is close to twice the average annual growth rate of the world economy, which not only responds to various uncertainties with the certainty of high-quality development, but also injects valuable and scarce certainty into the world economic development.
Confidence originates from the certainty of development logic.
"Drawing a blueprint to the end" and "adhering to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability" - the combination of strategic planning guidance and effective macro-control is a unique advantage of China's (中国) long-term stable economic development, and also a source of confidence.
From the foundation laying of the "First Five-Year Plan" to the shaping of new advantages in high-quality development during the "14th Five-Year Plan," one five-year plan after another continues to take over, anchoring the course, making steady progress, and the Chinese-style modernization is advancing steadily and far. On the basis of maintaining the continuity and stability of macro policies, macro-control is more precise, flexible, and forward-looking, timely smoothing out possible fluctuations in economic operation, maintaining economic operation in a reasonable range, and greatly boosting social confidence.
Confidence is contained in the certainty of development trends.
"The Chinese economy is a vast sea," with broad development space, strong development momentum, and a bright development prospect - the mutual promotion and virtuous cycle of a super-large market and innovation-driven development are powerful engines and the basis of confidence.
This year, "Su Chao" became popular, with an average of 28,600 on-site viewers and 2.22 billion online live viewers, releasing the leverage effect of "1 yuan ticket driving 7.3 yuan of surrounding consumption." A competition reflects the vitality of China's (中国) super-large market. In the first three quarters, final consumption expenditure contributed 53.5% to China's (中国) economic growth.
A strong domestic market is the strategic support for Chinese-style modernization, shaping the scale, resilience, and potential of "embracing all rivers." Since this year, facing the impact of tariff wars and trade wars on the world economic order, and unilateral bullying impacting multilateral mechanisms, the Chinese (中国) giant ship has been fearless of wind and rain and has moved forward courageously. Technological innovation has injected strong impetus into the construction of a modern industrial system, the investment potential in future infrastructure and people's livelihood is huge, and the talent dividend, especially the "engineer dividend," is constantly strengthening... The certainty of future growth and development trends has become a solid footnote to "believing in China (中国) is believing in tomorrow."
Despite the turbulent clouds, we remain calm, and behind the calmness is determination. The "stable" pattern, the "progressive" momentum, and the "resilient" characteristics of the Chinese economy have not changed. There is both a grand logic and a grand trend, which is the source of confidence and strength for the steady and far-reaching voyage of the Chinese (中国) economic ship.
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During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's (中国) economic growth rate continued to lead major economies in the world. The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for laying the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically realize socialist modernization.
At present and for a period of time to come, facing the coexistence of strategic opportunities and risks and challenges, and the increasing number of uncertain and unpredictable factors, how can we better adapt to the new situation and create a new situation in high-quality development?
"When is there no difficulty? We overcome them one by one, year after year, and the Chinese (中华) nation has been doing this for more than 5,000 years. The key to climbing slopes and overcoming obstacles is to boost confidence."
"Opportunities are fleeting. Grasping them is an opportunity, and failing to grasp them is a challenge."
Chinese (中国) Communists are good at using dialectical thinking to analyze the intricate and ever-changing external environment, proactively recognizing changes, responding to changes, and seeking changes, so as to cultivate new opportunities in crises and open up new prospects in changing situations.
The development of embodied intelligence is a perspective to observe the Chinese economy seizing opportunities to strengthen confidence.
A pair of "skillful hands," with 17 active degrees of freedom, accurately simulates the grasping of human hands; a pair of "wise eyes," with lidar constructing high-precision three-dimensional maps... Shenzhen (深圳) has formed a mature industrial supporting circle for embodied intelligence, covering power batteries, motor electronic controls, lidar, and other fields. A Shenzhen (深圳) entrepreneur exclaimed, "From the birth of the world's first generation of humanoid robots more than 50 years ago to the present, there has never been a moment closer to the realization of the dream."
Building an innovation center for embodied intelligent robots, establishing a 10 billion yuan artificial intelligence and robotics industry fund, investing early, investing in small businesses, and investing in hard technology to form first-mover advantages... Shenzhen (深圳), which has seized opportunities and achieved great development in reform and opening up, deeply understands the importance of seizing the initiative and making early moves.
In the transformation of old and new driving forces on the supply side, there are major opportunities brought about by the development of new quality productive forces. The number of global top 100 innovation clusters in China (中国) has ranked first in the world for three consecutive years, and the added value of large-scale high-tech manufacturing in the first three quarters of this year increased by 9.6% year-on-year. In the shaping of high-quality life on the demand side, there are many opportunities brought about by urban renewal, the silver economy, and other fields. This year, Shenzhen (深圳) opened up 100 application scenarios for the artificial intelligence and robotics industry. In a local nursing home, robots play table tennis and robot dogs deliver medicine... Embodied intelligence is deeply integrated into "silver life."
Confidence is further gathered and further strengthened in seizing new opportunities and responding to new challenges.
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Confidence is the sail, and hard work is the oar. The key to strengthening confidence is to transform it into the spirit of daring to fight and being good at winning.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out, "Facing the complex external environment, we must strengthen our confidence and unswervingly manage our own affairs well."
Chinese-style modernization is a pioneering undertaking, and "if we want to develop, we must rely on our own hard work and solid work." Solving the main social contradictions in our country in the new era can only be achieved by ourselves.
"Withstanding pressure, practicing internal skills, and gaining a firm foothold, there is no hurdle that cannot be overcome." China's (中国) contribution to world economic growth has long remained at around 30%. From "engine" to "anchor of stability," it lies in taking the established goals as strategic guidance and managing our own affairs well by upholding integrity and innovating.
Based on one region, we plan for the overall situation, adapt to local conditions, and take advantage of the momentum.
In Tongxiang (桐乡), the Wuzhen (乌镇) Smart Elderly Care Center is equipped with smart beds, health monitors, and other equipment, and the "holographic digital road" reduces vehicle travel time by an average of 15%; "Black Myth: Wukong (黑神话：悟空)," developed by a Hangzhou (杭州) company, cleverly integrates Chinese (中华) culture and digital technology, with global sales exceeding 28 million copies... Since 2014, the added value of Zhejiang's (浙江) digital economy has maintained double-digit growth for 11 consecutive years.
"Finding the strategic positioning in the overall national situation," using what the overall situation needs to forge the strengths of one region, actively seizing opportunities, being good at dislocation, and superimposing them into the overall trend of China's (中国) economic development. Major economic provinces take the lead, and other regions each display their strengths, promoting more coordinated urban-rural and regional development, and injecting surging momentum into high-quality development.
Grasp the present and the long-term, do more "latent achievements," and work persistently.
The first place to propose "targeted poverty alleviation," Shibadong Village (十八洞村) in Huayuan County (花垣县), Hunan (湖南), has always been based on its characteristics, developing rural tourism, mountain spring water, Miao embroidery, and other industries. The poor village of "no daughter should marry Shibadong (十八洞)" has become the world's "best tourism village." After 8 years of hard work and 5 years of consolidation, nearly 100 million people have been lifted out of poverty, and China's (中国) great practice of poverty alleviation and the anti-poverty theory with Chinese (中国) characteristics have become a valuable asset for the world's poverty reduction cause.
This year is the last year of the 5-year transition period for consolidating and expanding the achievements in poverty alleviation and effectively linking them with rural revitalization. "No one can be left behind" on the road to a moderately prosperous society, and "no one can be left behind" on the road to common prosperity. There is no end to guaranteeing and improving people's livelihood, only continuous new starting points, and we must continue to struggle one journey after another.
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The ship of Chinese-style modernization has sailed to a new critical journey, "As long as we firmly believe in our beliefs and confidence, do not evade contradictions and problems, and do not retreat in the face of risks and challenges, we will surely be able to open up a new world for reform and development!"
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 范昊天 张宇杰
Dancing their waists and performing Yangge dance, delivering witty remarks while live-streaming sales... In the humanoid robot store in the "Optics Valley of China," East Lake High-tech Development Zone (东湖新技术开发区), Wuhan (武汉), Hubei (湖北), more than 10 robots are displaying their talents, attracting many customers.
"This humanoid robot is equipped with a linear drive module, which makes it walk more steadily and carry heavier loads. Carrying heavy objects is like 举重若轻 (jǔ zhòng ruò qīng - "lift heavy as if light," to make light work of a difficult task) for it," said Zhao Xingwei (赵兴炜), General Manager of Hubei Jingchu Humanoid Robot Co., Ltd. (湖北荆楚人形机器人有限公司) and professor at the School of Mechanical Science and Engineering of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (华中科技大学机械科学与工程学院), who is busy introducing robot products to customers.
Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, emphasized: "Strengthen the principal position of enterprises in technological innovation and promote the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements."
"A substantial increase in the level of self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology" is one of the main goals for economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period proposed by the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal suggests "promoting the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation."
It is hard to imagine that Zhao Xingwei (赵兴炜), who is now in high spirits, was worried about not finding a market a year ago.
At that time, Zhao Xingwei (赵兴炜), as a core member of Academician Ding Han's (丁汉) team at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (华中科技大学), and his colleagues keenly discovered the huge potential of the humanoid robot industry. "We must seize the opportunity for industrial development and promote the transformation and implementation of linear drive humanoid robot technology as soon as possible."
At the team meeting, everyone quickly reached a consensus that "we must seize the opportunity." However, as researchers, they lacked money, resources, and even experience in running a business. Turning the "high-precision" products in the laboratory into "hot commodities" on the market was easier said than done.
Just as they were at their 一筹莫展 (yī chóu mò zhǎn - "unable to do anything about it," at one's wit's end), help arrived. Wuhan (武汉) issued a series of policies and measures to promote innovation and entrepreneurship among teachers and students in universities, focusing on building new research and development institutions such as the Wuhan Institute of Industrial Innovation and Development (武汉产业创新发展研究院) (hereinafter referred to as "WIIID" 武创院) to help transform scientific and technological achievements.
After learning about Zhao Xingwei's (赵兴炜) predicament, WIIID (武创院) came to his door. In the team's laboratory, Wang Xinfeng (王新峰), head of the Industrial Cooperation Department of WIIID (武创院), watched the robot sample walk steadily with a load and couldn't help but praise: "The stability is too good. It can show its skills in logistics warehouses and factory workshops."
However, Zhao Xingwei (赵兴炜) didn't have much confidence: "If mass production cannot be achieved, no matter how well it is done, it is just 自娱自乐 (zì yú zì lè - "amuse oneself," to do something just for one's own enjoyment)."
"As long as the technology is excellent, leave the rest to us," Wang Xinfeng (王新峰) encouraged. "We will not only provide financial support, but also help you better connect with market demand."
In May of this year, Ding Han's (丁汉) team, WIIID (武创院), and several other units signed an agreement to jointly invest in the establishment of Jingchu Robot Company (荆楚机器人公司) in Wuchang District (武昌区), with Zhao Xingwei (赵兴炜) as the general manager.
Relying on the previous technical accumulation, coupled with the timely capital injection from WIIID (武创院) and other units, the company has recruited professional talents in various fields, making its research and development strength even stronger. Under the coordination of WIIID (武创院), the company signed a commercial cooperation agreement with Hubei Culture and Tourism Group (湖北文旅集团). "The two parties will cooperate on the application of cultural and tourism scenarios," said Zhao Xingwei (赵兴炜). "Our humanoid robot products are produced on demand, and sales are quite good at the moment. It is expected that the output will be further increased by the end of the year."
Currently, Jingchu Robot Company (荆楚机器人公司) has launched 4 distinctive "Jingchu Family" humanoid robots, suitable for different scenarios such as education, industry, commerce, and cultural tourism.
"Our dream is that one day humanoid robots will enter thousands of households like home appliances and serve the lives of the masses," said Zhao Xingwei (赵兴炜), taking a cup of latte art coffee freshly brewed by a robot, his words full of longing for the future.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘志强
Reader Concerns
My home is in Handan, Hebei (河北邯郸), and our community has full heating coverage. Seeing the cold wave blue warning and high wind blue warning issued by the China Meteorological Administration on December 10th, indicating that many places will experience temperature drops again, I would like to ask what measures relevant departments are taking to ensure energy supply during the heating season?
Ensuring that the people can spend the winter warmly is the top priority of energy supply security.
"Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), together with various regions, relevant departments, and enterprises, has conducted an in-depth analysis of the energy supply and demand situation for this heating season and has organized and prepared various tasks early," said Li Chao (李超), a spokesperson for the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委). "Based on comprehensive judgment, the overall energy supply and demand for this heating season is balanced, and resource supply is guaranteed."
From the supply side, the national energy supply is sufficient. Energy supply and power generation capacity are steadily increasing. As of the end of October, the national installed power generation capacity reached 3.75 billion kilowatts, an increase of 560 million kilowatts compared with the same period last year. Resource reserves are relatively abundant. As of November 26, the national coal storage of power plants under unified dispatch exceeded 230 million tons, which can be used for about 35 days.
"Since November, with the successive start of heating in the north, national energy demand has steadily increased," said Li Chao (李超). It is expected that this heating season will be characterized by a long duration and high peak energy demand. The National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) will strengthen organization and coordination, closely monitor and dynamically track changes in the situation, and, on the basis of previous work, make every effort to ensure that the people can spend the winter warmly.
Stabilize energy production and supply. Strengthen coal production organization and transportation security; ensure that all types of power sources are fully operational and generate power at full capacity, and give full play to the supporting role of wind power and photovoltaic power; and make arrangements for the production and supply of natural gas resources.
Grasp the performance of medium and long-term energy contracts. Further improve the performance level of medium and long-term coal contracts, focusing on ensuring the coal demand in northern centralized heating areas; adhere to high-proportion signing and high-quality performance of medium and long-term power contracts; and urge all types of enterprises to strictly implement the signed gas supply contracts.
Make every effort to ensure energy supply during peak periods. Ensure peak output of coal-fired power, give full play to the peak-shaving and supply-guarantee role of gas-fired power, hydropower, pumped storage, and electrochemical energy storage installations; give full play to the role of peak-shaving resources such as gas storage facilities and liquefied natural gas storage tanks; and strengthen energy demand-side management.
Focus on ensuring energy for people's livelihood and heating. Ensure that thermal power plants and heating enterprises have sufficient fuel reserves and that the operation of heating units and other heat sources is stable; do a good job in coal, electricity, and gas supply in areas affected by floods and other disasters to ensure that the affected people can spend the winter warmly.
Improve the ability to respond to disasters such as low-temperature rain, snow, and ice. Closely track weather changes, carry out early risk avoidance and disposal work, and improve the efficiency of emergency response and power restoration; do a good job in ensuring the transportation of key energy materials under adverse weather conditions.
Return to TopAccording to China Railway Harbin Bureau Group Co., Ltd., as of December 10, the number of China-Europe freight trains passing through the "Eastern Corridor" this year has reached 5,166, transporting more than 530,000 TEUs of various goods. This was reported on December 10 in Harbin (哈尔滨) by reporter Guo Xiaolong (郭晓龙) of this newspaper.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on December 10th (Reporter Yu Jingxian (郁静娴)): This year is the final year of the transition period for consolidating and expanding the achievements in poverty alleviation and effectively connecting them with rural revitalization. The reporter learned from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) that in the first three quarters, the per capita disposable income of rural residents in poverty-stricken counties was 13,158 yuan, an actual increase of 6.5%, which is 0.5 percentage points faster than the national rural average; since the transition period, the average annual actual increase has been 7.8%, which is 0.9 percentage points higher than the national rural average annual growth rate.
Since the transition period, China has maintained the overall stability of assistance policies, helping poverty-stricken areas and people out of poverty and giving them a further boost, firmly guarding the bottom line of preventing large-scale relapse into poverty. More than 7 million monitored individuals nationwide have been cumulatively identified and assisted to steadily eliminate the risk of returning to poverty, and the level of education, medical care, housing, and safe drinking water security for the lifted-out-of-poverty population has continued to be consolidated and improved. All 832 poverty-stricken counties have cultivated and formed 2 to 3 leading industries with prominent advantages and characteristics and strong driving forces, and nearly 3/4 of the lifted-out-of-poverty population has established a benefit linkage mechanism with new agricultural business entities. The scale of employment for the lifted-out-of-poverty population has remained stable at more than 30 million people, stabilizing more than 2/3 of the income of lifted-out-of-poverty families.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on December 10th (Reporter Li Xinping (李心萍)) - This reporter has learned from the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. (中国国家铁路集团有限公司) that in the first 11 months of this year, the national railway completed fixed asset investment of 753.8 billion yuan, an increase of 5.9% year-on-year.
The State Railway Group focuses on serving national strategies and regional economic and social development, promotes railway planning and construction in a scientific and orderly manner, and accelerates the construction of a world-class modern railway network. Since November, a number of key projects have made positive progress: the Panzhou (盘州) to Xingyi (兴义) high-speed railway has been opened for operation, and the Xi'an (西安) to Yan'an (延安) high-speed railway, the Guangzhou (广州) to Zhanjiang (湛江) high-speed railway, and the Hangzhou (杭州) to Quzhou (衢州) high-speed railway have entered the trial operation stage.
In the next step, the State Railway Group will accelerate the construction of a modern railway infrastructure system, scientifically coordinate construction resources, optimize construction organization, and ensure the high-quality completion of the annual railway construction investment tasks.
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This year, people's livelihood has been more effectively guaranteed.
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Digital Court Reflects Changes in Governance
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Return to TopBy: 新华社记者 韩 梁 张 远 赵 嫣
In early December, a reader conference for "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya (肯尼亚), attracted hundreds of participants. The enthusiastic atmosphere indoors contrasted with the bright sunshine outside. Gichunge Kithunga, a member of Kenya's (肯尼亚) United Democratic Alliance party, opened the English version of Volume V of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China": "I am eager to learn the latest concepts in the Chinese-style modernization process."
As a major developing country, how can China (中国) contribute solutions to world peace and development, and create opportunities and inject impetus for human prosperity and progress? With the publication and distribution of the Chinese and English versions of Volume V of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" to the world, the international community is eagerly looking forward to exploring answers and inspirations from this book.
Some people place this book on their desks for easy reference, some meticulously annotate it, and others write articles after reading it. These overseas readers share a common feeling: this is the "key to understanding" China (中国) in the new era, an "important link" connecting China (中国) and the outside world, and a "critical guide to cutting through the clouds and fog" in a century of change.
An Important Entry Point for Observing China
The Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's largest publishing industry exhibition. At the promotion event for the English version of Volume V of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" held during this year's book fair, German sinologist and historian Professor Dr. Heiko Roelke began with a detail: "I would like to first talk about the word '谈' (tán) in the title."
Roelke said that the word "谈" (tán) in the title itself contains the meaning of communicating and sharing with others. Reading this set of works "helps us to truly understand contemporary China (中国)" and deeply understand "President Xi Jinping's (习近平) philosophy and development process of governing the country."
The publication and distribution of Volume V of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" provides an important entry point for the global intellectual community and media to observe China (中国). From the 91 important expositions in 18 special topics, people can feel the vigorous pulse of a major Eastern country moving towards national rejuvenation: both the courage and innovation in response to the great changes of the times, and the adherence and determination to remember the original aspiration and mission.
"Opening the first topic of this book, you can see the main line of promoting Chinese-style modernization," "It is necessary to learn from China's (中国) innovative experience and development concepts," "Pay close attention to the content of building independent technological capabilities," "You can see many of China's (中国) measures to deal with major challenges"—overseas readers told Xinhua News Agency reporters about the new ideas, new viewpoints, and new conclusions that they are most concerned about in Volume V.
Luís Paulino, a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Sciences at São Paulo State University in Brazil (巴西), said: "Faced with changes in external conditions, China (中国) continues to expand domestic demand and strengthen solidarity and cooperation with developing countries." He called the Chinese Communists "the most creative practitioners of Marxist theory" and believes that this work once again demonstrates China's (中国) "development of Marxist theory."
Helga Zepp-LaRouche, chairman of the Schiller Institute in Germany (德国), said that the Chinese Communist Party (中国共产党) "insists on combining the basic principles of Marxism with China's (中国) specific realities and with China's (中国) excellent traditional culture," a conclusion that impressed her the most—the Chinese Communist Party's (中国共产党) understanding and application of Marxism is not dogmatic, but "open, reflecting the needs of the times, and pragmatic."
"A people-centered development thought runs through the whole process," "The will to deepen reform is firm," "Adhere to promoting development through opening up," "Have the resilience of self-revolution and adhere to anti-corruption," "Always show China's (中国) sense of responsibility as a major country"—many overseas readers understand China's (中国) long-term development concepts and ways of foreign exchanges.
Collin Khleewayo, a senior official in the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation in the South African (南非) President's Office, said that he saw the continuity, systematicness, and forward-looking nature of China's (中国) policies and concepts from President Xi Jinping's (习近平) works, "This is an important reason why China (中国) maintains its development momentum in a complex international environment."
Kawa Mahmoud, former Secretary-General of the Iraqi (伊拉克) Kurdistan Communist Party, believes that in President Xi Jinping's (习近平) works, what "changes" are the reform and innovation measures that keep pace with the times, and what "remains unchanged" is the purpose of development for the people and the belief in realizing the great rejuvenation of the nation.
"The times are the examiners, we are the answerers, and the people are the graders." Kenyan (肯尼亚) journalist Victor Konjongo was deeply touched by President Xi Jinping's (习近平) words, and truly felt "the Chinese Communist Party's (中国共产党) governing philosophy and sense of mission of listening to public opinion, adapting to changes, and responding to needs."
Taking Our Own Path of Modernization
Recently, Wilert Pichaivongphakdee, director of the Thai-Chinese "Belt and Road" Research Center, has kept the English version of Volume V of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" by his side so that he can read it at any time.
Wilert is most concerned about the research topic of China's (中国) development path, believing that "this contains valuable experience gained from the practice of more than 1.4 billion people." "I always remember a sentence that President Xi Jinping (习近平) often says, 'The great road is simple, and practical work is essential.'" He said that in today's world, which is encountering challenges of zero-sum games, unilateralism, and power politics, President Xi Jinping (习近平) focuses on the common interests of all mankind and seeks development and revitalization with the world, "The whole world has seen China's (中国) actions."
As the magnificent picture of Chinese-style modernization unfolds, the international community's demand for understanding China's (中国) governance strategies is increasing day by day. People hope to explore the ideological code behind China's (中国) vigorous development and draw valuable experience in overcoming difficulties on the road to modernization.
On December 3, at the promotion event for the English version of Volume V of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" held in Johannesburg, the participating guests had in-depth exchanges of experiences and insights. Khirtan Barna, director of the South African (南非) Institute of International Affairs, said: "The content of Volume V is systematic and profound, demonstrating the construction experience of Chinese-style modernization, and also providing important reference for other countries to explore development paths suitable for their own national conditions."
David Ferguson, Honorary English Editor of Foreign Languages Press, participated in the translation and editing of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" and has in-depth observations on China's (中国) governance. He said that China (中国) has successfully achieved its first centenary goal and is currently moving towards its second centenary goal. Being good at long-term planning and keeping pace with the times are the advantages of promoting Chinese-style modernization.
Gulinur Shaimergenova, director of the Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦) China (中国) Research Center, noted that the theory and practice of Chinese-style modernization is an important theme of Volume V, "For Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦), which is promoting reforms, China's (中国) experience is undoubtedly a valuable reference."
"Openness, innovation, and high-quality development." Abdulaziz Al-Shabani, a researcher at the Riyadh Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Saudi Arabia (沙特), summarized these keywords from Volume V. "This is not only of reference significance to other countries, but also helps to build a global development pattern that is inclusive, balanced, coordinated, inclusive, cooperative, win-win, and promotes common prosperity," he said.
"Chinese-style modernization has profoundly changed China's (中国) own development trajectory and has also profoundly affected the direction of global development in the 21st century." Lewis Ndishu, a researcher at the African Policy Research Institute, said that in Volume V, "Working Together to Promote Modernization and Achieve Common Prosperity" is listed as a separate topic, reflecting China's (中国) determination and mind to develop together with the world.
Chea Monyrith, president of the Cambodian (柬埔寨) Institute for Cooperation and Development, was responsible for the translation of the Cambodian version of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China." Over the years, he has visited many places in China (中国) and organized more than 300 lectures on Chinese experience in Cambodia (柬埔寨), "China (中国) has embarked on a unique path of modernization—not only making itself prosperous and strong, but also having the ability to support and help other countries in the Global South to make progress."
"The West always tells us that there is a fixed 'model' for development. And China (中国) makes us understand that each country has its own path to take due to its different history and culture." Fernando Huanacuni Mamani, former Foreign Minister of Bolivia (玻利维亚), said that the discussion in Volume V of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" on countries independently choosing their own development paths has aroused "very broad resonance" in countries of the Global South.
A Major Country's Responsibility to Create the Future Together
Many overseas readers pay particular attention to the topic "Implementing the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, and the Global Civilization Initiative to Promote the Building of a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind" in Volume V. Following the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, and the Global Civilization Initiative, President Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed the Global Governance Initiative in September this year while attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) Summit in Tianjin (天津). The four major global initiatives provide important public goods for mankind to cope with global challenges with their profound insights, systematic thinking, and pragmatic solutions.
Sheradil Baktygulov, director of the Kyrgyz (吉尔吉斯斯坦) World Politics Research Institute, described the four major global initiatives as "navigation charts in a sea storm," guiding the international community to get out of difficulties.
Robert Lawrence Kuhn, chairman of the Kuhn Foundation in the United States (美国), believes that in the face of an increasingly divided, turbulent, and disordered world, China (中国) is courageous in shouldering the banner of multilateralism, and the four major global initiatives "not only create a more stable external environment for its own development, but also a strong response to the call of the times."
After carefully studying Volume V and President Xi Jinping's (习近平) relevant important speeches, Elbrus Mammadov, director of the Georgian (格鲁吉亚) "Great Silk Road" Expert Analysis Center, talked about his understanding: the Global Development Initiative "focuses on solving the development deficit"; the Global Security Initiative "aims to build a more just and reasonable global security governance architecture"; the Global Civilization Initiative "advocates respect for the diversity of world civilizations"; and the Global Governance Initiative "forms a systematic vision for the global order."
"These initiatives are in line with the common interests and common needs of all countries," "China (中国) is not for dominance, but focuses on solving problems," "China (中国) not only puts forward ideas, but also puts them into action"... Overseas readers' thinking on the four major global initiatives expresses their appreciation and resonance for China's (中国) responsibility as a major country.
Juncao technology sows green hope around the world, Chinese (中国) blue helmets build peace defense lines in turbulent areas, the International Day for Dialogue among Civilizations has become a common festival for the world, and the International Mediation Institute has become a new platform for improving the rule of law in global governance... Behind every Chinese (中国) initiative are down-to-earth actions and achievements that benefit the world. Adhering to unity and cooperation, promoting peace and development, China (中国) continues to inject stability and certainty into a world intertwined with changes and chaos.
"The four major global initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平) and the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind are providing key guidance for world peace and development." said Mamo Muchie, a professor at the Tshwane University of Technology in South Africa (南非).
Vito Petrocelli, chairman of the Italian (意大利) BRICS Research Association, said that China (中国) adheres to the principles of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, and has embarked on a "Chinese (中国) path" to improve global governance, transcending the "logic of confrontation" with integration and symbiosis, and promoting the international community to contribute to solving global problems.
"Gathering the mighty strength of the 'Global South' to jointly promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind," "Transforming the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind into action and turning vision into reality"—the firm and powerful words in Volume V of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" are being transformed into broad consensus and the power to move forward.
Marta Montoro, vice president of the Spanish (西班牙) China (中国) Classroom Foundation, said that China (中国) has always advocated equal dialogue and open cooperation, "The concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平) depicts a new vision for the future of mankind," "China (中国) is leading a very promising cause."
Moving forward in the logic of historical progress and developing in the trend of the times. China (中国) in the new era will continue to promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization, increase the common well-being of all mankind, and will continue to work with countries around the world to jointly create a better tomorrow for human civilization.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), December 10)
Return to TopDecember 10th is World Human Rights Day. The United Nations adopted the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" 77 years ago and established World Human Rights Day 75 years ago, carrying the great dream of everyone fully enjoying human rights, and the concept of promoting and protecting human rights has become increasingly popular. In recent days, China has held a series of activities to showcase the comprehensive development achievements of China's human rights cause, gather consensus on human rights exchanges and cooperation, and inject more positive energy into the development of the international human rights cause.
"China's practice of providing high-level public services for vulnerable groups is admirable"
Recently, the second training course for talents in economic, social and cultural rights, hosted by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (中国外交部) and supported by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (联合国人权高专办), opened in Beijing (北京). More than 40 government representatives, diplomats to the United Nations, and officials from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania participated. On December 9, trainees from the training course visited public cultural institutions and social welfare facilities in Beijing (北京市) to observe China's social security system for people with disabilities and care service system at close range.
At the Palace Museum (故宫博物院) Cultural and Creative Integration Hall, foreign guests were attracted by exhibits designed specifically for people with disabilities that could be heard, smelled, and felt. The hall was jointly established by the Palace Museum (故宫博物院) and the China Disabled Persons' Federation (中国残疾人联合会). Since its official opening on December 1 last year, it has held many special public welfare visits and lectures for people with disabilities. "This not only reflects inclusiveness and respect for people with disabilities, but also an innovation in the way of cultural inheritance, where everyone can find a unique way to dialogue with history," said Elena Rodriguez, Third Secretary of the Human Rights Division of the Multilateral Affairs Department of the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "China's practice of providing high-level public services for vulnerable groups is admirable, and these practices also serve as a model for developing countries in the Global South to promote the development of human rights."
At the Beijing Children's Welfare Institute (北京市儿童福利院), more than 300 orphaned and disabled children receive meticulous care. "Every child enjoys equal care and development opportunities, and China has made great efforts in social welfare security," said Branislav Radovic, an expert from the Permanent Mission of Serbia to the United Nations. "Orphaned and disabled children are well taken care of here. Their smiling faces fill people with confidence in the country's development."
"This is the best gift I have received on this trip," said Cella Bonte, an official from the Legal Affairs Division of the Seychelles Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora Affairs, showing reporters a hand-woven bracelet given to her by a child. "I can truly feel their sense of belonging and self-confidence. We can draw experience from China in everything from medical security to the social welfare system." Sandhya Gounder, Senior Policy Analyst at the Fijian Ministry of Multi-Ethnic Affairs and Sugar Industry, said that China actively promotes and protects economic, social and cultural rights, and "the continuity of this policy support is worth learning from all countries."
"Promoting the progress of global development, global governance, and the global human rights cause"
On December 10, the seminar on "Practicing the Four Global Initiatives and Deepening China-Africa Human Rights Cooperation" and the inauguration ceremony of the China-Africa Human Rights Research Think Tank Cooperation Network, hosted by Zhejiang Normal University (浙江师范大学), was held in Jinhua City (金华市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省). Experts from China and African countries exchanged ideas and built consensus around the theme of "how to promote the development of China-Africa human rights and improve the global human rights governance system."
Shen Yongxiang, Vice President of the China Society for Human Rights Studies (中国人权研究会), said that China's proposed Global Development Initiative, Global Security Initiative, Global Civilization Initiative, and Global Governance Initiative provide Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions for addressing global challenges and promoting the well-being of people in all countries, inject new impetus into the development of the international human rights cause, and point the way and open up broad space for deepening international human rights cooperation, including China-Africa cooperation.
"China-Africa human rights cooperation helps to promote the progress of global development, global governance, and the global human rights cause," said Liu Hongwu, Dean of the Institute of African Studies at Zhejiang Normal University (浙江师范大学). He introduced that the "Addis Ababa Consensus on China-Africa Development Rights" released at the first China-Africa Human Rights Seminar in August this year fully considered the special circumstances of African countries regarding human rights issues and the African countries' own understanding, which has aroused widespread attention in African countries.
Cameroonian scholar Rodrigue said that from an African perspective, the four global initiatives proposed by China provide a rare platform. Africa can work with China and the vast number of developing countries in the Global South to promote a new vision of human rights based on development, guaranteed by security, supported by mutual learning among civilizations, and guided by the good of science and technology.
On December 10, the 2025 Li Buyun Legal Science Award Ceremony and the forum "Peace, Development, and Human Rights: Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Promulgation of the UN Charter," co-hosted by the Shanghai Institute for Finance and Law (上海金融与法律研究院) and Southwest University of Political Science & Law (西南政法大学), was held in Chongqing (重庆). Lu Guangjin, Vice President of the China Society for Human Rights Studies (中国人权研究会), said at the forum that over the past 10 years, China's human rights cause has continuously achieved new successes, and its influence and voice in the world have continued to increase, creating good conditions and a foundation for China to enhance its cultural soft power internationally. China starts from the concept of improving the people's happy life, improves people's livelihood in development, enables the people to enjoy more development results, and protects and promotes human rights in development. This is China's successful experience.
"Jointly promote the healthy development of the human rights cause"
On October 9, local time, the "First International Seminar of the China-Latin America Human Rights Research Cooperation Network and Activities Commemorating the 77th Anniversary of the Publication of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," co-hosted by the Metropolitan University for Education and Labor of Argentina and the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies of Renmin University of China (中国人民大学重阳金融研究院), was held with nearly 40 scholars from 16 countries participating. The Chinese, Spanish, and English versions of the "Scholars' Initiative of the First International Seminar of the China-Latin America Human Rights Research Cooperation Network" were released at the meeting. The "Initiative" proposed "digital inclusion" in response to challenges such as the digital divide and climate change, and called on China and Latin America to increase cooperation in addressing climate change.
Recently, the international seminar on "Human Rights Protection in the Digital Age," co-hosted by the China Society for Human Rights Studies (中国人权研究会) and relevant Malaysian institutions, was held in Malaysia. Fu Zitang, Vice President of the China Society for Human Rights Studies (中国人权研究会), said that China emphasizes taking meeting the people's aspirations for a better life as the starting point for technological innovation, and taking benefiting the people, enriching the people, and improving people's livelihood as the important direction of technological innovation. While embracing technological progress, it is necessary to implement the people's happy life as the greatest human right in digital technology governance, adhere to people-oriented, safe and controllable, transparent and credible, and rule-by-law in data, establish the value cornerstone of human rights protection in the digital age, build the bottom-line requirements for human rights protection in the digital age, consolidate the core procedures for human rights protection in the digital age, and build the mechanism support for human rights protection in the digital age.
"In the context of rising global uncertainty, human rights protection in the digital age has become an extremely important issue," said Zhu Shengxin, Executive Director of the Malaysian Institute of Social Economics, Environment, Development and Strategy. Due to differences in historical background, political and economic systems, and socio-cultural traditions among countries, Malaysia and even the entire region should have the autonomy to choose a path of human rights development that is different from the West and in line with their own national conditions. "In this process, all parties should adhere to mutual respect, inclusiveness and mutual learning, and jointly promote the healthy development of the human rights cause by strengthening communication and pragmatic cooperation," said Zhu Shengxin.
(This newspaper Beijing (北京), Jinhua (金华), Chongqing (重庆), Buenos Aires (布宜诺斯艾利斯), Bangkok (曼谷) December 10th report Reporters Wei He (魏贺), Jiang Nan (江南), Liu Junguo (刘军国), Shen Jingran (沈靖然), Xu Fang (许放), Zhang Niansheng (章念生))
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 10th. He Lifeng (何立峰), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, met with World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in Beijing on the evening of December 9th.
He Lifeng (何立峰) stated that China firmly supports the multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization as its core, and opposes unilateralism and protectionism. China will actively participate in the World Trade Organization reform, continue to promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, and work with all parties to maintain an open, stable, and predictable international trade environment.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala appreciated China's adherence to multilateralism and support for the multilateral trading system, and stated that the multilateral trading system provides stability and resilience for global trade, and hopes that all parties will strengthen dialogue and cooperation within the framework of the World Trade Organization.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Bandar Seri Begawan, December 10th (Reporter Li Meng) At the invitation of the Legislative Council of Brunei, Peng Qinghua (彭清华), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and President of the Chinese People's Association for Peace and Disarmament, led a delegation to Brunei from December 9th to 10th. He met with Sultan Hassanal (哈桑纳尔) of Brunei, Speaker of the Legislative Council Rahman (拉赫曼), and attended the China-Brunei civil dialogue event "Contributing Civil Forces to Building a China-Brunei Community of Common Destiny."
Peng Qinghua (彭清华) stated that the traditional friendship between China and Brunei has a long history. Under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping (习近平) and Sultan Hassanal (哈桑纳尔), bilateral relations have been continuously upgraded in recent years. China is willing to work with Brunei to implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, carry forward traditional friendship, consolidate political mutual trust, deepen pragmatic cooperation, join hands for common development, and promote the building of a China-Brunei community of common destiny.
Brunei stated that it attaches great importance to developing relations with China, firmly adheres to the one-China policy, and is willing to deepen exchanges and cooperation with China in various fields, enhance mutual understanding and friendship between the two peoples, and jointly promote the construction of a Brunei-China community of common destiny.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 10th. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson announced on the 10th: At the invitation of Turkmenistan, Xi Jinping (习近平), Special Envoy of the President of the People's Republic of China, Peng Qinghua (彭清华), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, will travel to Turkmenistan to attend the "International Year of Peace and Trust Forum" to be held on December 12th.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 10th. At the invitation of Zhao Leji (赵乐际), Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies Speaker Ms. Martine Hansen will lead a delegation to visit China from December 12th to 16th.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on December 10th (Reporter Chen Xirui (陈熙芮)) The third "China's Policy Paper on Latin America and the Caribbean" was released in Beijing (北京) on the 10th. The policy paper states that China is willing to work with Latin American countries to jointly promote the "Five Major Projects" of unity, development, civilization, peace, and people-to-people bonds, seek common development and revitalization, and jointly write a new chapter in building a China-Latin America community with a shared future.
As a developing country and a member of the Global South, China has always shared the same breath and destiny with the Global South, including Latin America and the Caribbean. In recent years, Chinese President Xi Jinping (习近平) has put forward a series of major initiatives and measures to strengthen China-Latin America relations and cooperation in various fields, giving new contemporary meaning to China-Latin America relations. The Chinese government released the third "China's Policy Paper on Latin America and the Caribbean" to summarize experience, look forward to the future, comprehensively elaborate on China's policy towards Latin America, and promote China-Latin America relations and cooperation in various fields to a new level.
The full text of the policy paper exceeds 10,000 words, and in addition to the preface, it includes three parts: "Latin America and the Caribbean - A Hot Land Full of Vitality and Hope," "Vigorously Developing China-Latin America Relations," and "Jointly Promoting the 'Five Major Projects' for Building a China-Latin America Community with a Shared Future."
Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Cai Wei (蔡伟) said at the press conference that the third policy paper holds high the banner of building a community with a shared future for mankind, closely integrates the concepts and propositions of the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平), and comprehensively elaborates on China's policy towards Latin America and the Caribbean. The document reviews the vigorous development history of China-Latin America relations, clarifies China's policy propositions for carrying out exchanges and cooperation in more than 40 fields in the next stage, and actively responds to Latin American countries' needs and concerns regarding cooperation in trade, investment, finance, technological innovation, and climate change, fully reflecting China's high regard for China-Latin America relations and its sincere willingness to promote common development between China and Latin America, and will be a roadmap and operating manual for the development of China-Latin America relations in the new era.
The head of the Latin American and Caribbean diplomatic mission in China, Dominican Ambassador Charles (查尔斯), said that the implementation of the policy paper is crucial for the continued advancement of the construction of the Latin America-China community with a shared future and will directly affect cooperation in infrastructure construction, science and technology, education, culture, agriculture, sustainable development, and other fields. Strengthening cooperation between Latin America and China is an important opportunity for Latin America and the Caribbean to diversify partnerships, broaden cooperation horizons, and enhance the autonomy of regional strategic decision-making.
In November 2008 and November 2016, the Chinese government successively released the first and second policy papers on Latin America, providing a policy basis for the development of China-Latin America relations.
(See page 14 for the full text of the document)
Return to TopThe "China-Brazil, China-Latin America Community of Shared Future" seminar, jointly organized by the Chinese Embassy in Brazil, the Brazilian Center for International Relations, and the Brazilian branch of the Latin American Social Science Council, was held recently in Brasilia (巴西利亚). Chen Yiming (陈一鸣) of this newspaper reported from Brasilia (巴西利亚) on December 10.
Return to TopAccording to a report from our newspaper in Beijing on December 10th (Reporter Li Anqi (李安琪)), a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on the 10th that, at the invitation of Wang Yi (王毅), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister at the Prime Minister's Office and Minister of Foreign Affairs II of Brunei, Dato Erywan Pehin Yusof, will visit China from December 11th to 12th.
Return to TopThe first phase of the "Global South Youth Revitalization Plan" training program recently commenced in Beijing (北京), with 42 participants from countries such as Laos (老挝), Kenya (肯尼亚), and Tanzania (坦桑尼亚). The program aims to facilitate learning about Chinese modern agricultural technology, technological innovation, and the development of rural agricultural, cultural, and tourism industries. This project is jointly initiated by China Agricultural University (中国农业大学) and Tencent's "We Village" (腾讯“为村”). The picture shows Long Jiming (龙继明) (first from right), a senior agronomist from the Yunnan Academy of Tropical Crops (云南省热带作物科学研究所), explaining Moringa planting techniques to the trainees.
Li Yan (李琰) and Yang Xing (杨兴) reported with photographs.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 陈隽逸
Use new demands to guide new supply, use new supply to create new demands, promote a virtuous cycle of consumption and investment, supply and demand, and enhance the endogenous动力 and reliability of the domestic grand cycle.
——Excerpt from the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal
A new car rolls off the assembly line every 70-plus seconds.
In the Guanshanhu District (观山湖区) of Guiyang (贵阳), Guizhou (贵州), the workshop of Guizhou Geely Automobile Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (贵州吉利汽车制造有限公司) is bustling with production. Robotic arms dance nimbly, applying glue automatically and installing windshields; more than 3,000 employees install tires, perform tests, and cooperate seamlessly with automated equipment.
"We've been working overtime recently, and there are still twenty to thirty thousand cars waiting to be produced," said Li Feiping (李飞平), Assistant General Manager of the company, pointing to the cars lining up to roll off the assembly line.
The busy production line carries the expectations of consumers. At the Geely Galaxy New Energy Experience Center (吉利银河新能源体验中心) in Baiyun District (白云区), Guiyang (贵阳), Zhang Tuying (张土英), impressed by the spacious interior of the Galaxy E5 model, took away her first car. "It will be very convenient to have a car after I get married and have children. The car's infotainment system is responsive, and the overall value for money is very high."
Zhang Tuying's (张土英) choice reflects the changing trends in new energy vehicle consumption—in the past, the focus was on price and configuration, including battery fast-charging time and power performance; now, attention is also paid to experience and details, including interior space, comfort, and intelligence level.
The upgrading of consumer demand is forcing changes on the supply side. "When designing this car, we comprehensively considered the chassis structure and component layout to release more spacious driving and riding space," said Li Feiping (李飞平). Since its launch in August last year, the Galaxy E5 has sold over 210,000 units.
The same car is being developed simultaneously for more than 80 countries and regions. Since the beginning of this year, nearly 50,000 Galaxy E5s have been sold overseas. "We have formed a global R&D team to make localized adaptations for different markets while maintaining consistent core performance," said Li Feiping (李飞平). For example, reinforced air conditioning is configured in hot climates, and tire friction is enhanced in mountainous areas.
From what car companies produce and what users buy, it has developed into what users need and what car companies produce. Geely (吉利) has established an evaluation system oriented towards user needs. After a vehicle is launched, a third party is commissioned to conduct return visits to users who have purchased the car within 3 months in the form of questionnaires. "We have established an after-sales service group, and users can provide feedback at any time after picking up the car," said Zhang Qianwen (张乾稳), a sales consultant at the Geely Galaxy New Energy Experience Center (吉利银河新能源体验中心).
Through return visits and other methods, Geely (吉利) collects user opinions and suggestions through multiple channels, and the evaluation team regularly sorts them out to provide a basis for product improvement. Some consumers have reported that they are more prone to motion sickness in electric vehicles. "When the problem was fed back to the factory, the cause was traced to the fast acceleration and sudden deceleration of electric vehicles. We optimized the algorithm to solve the consumer's pain points through linear acceleration and deceleration," said Sun Chang (孙昌), Minister of the Quality Department of Geely Automobile's Guiyang Manufacturing Base (吉利汽车贵阳制造基地). Ordinary optimizations can be completed in one or two months; if major adjustments and design optimizations are involved, they are usually planned uniformly and improved during model iterations or the launch of new models.
The supply side's ability to respond to consumer demand in a timely manner benefits from the increasingly complete local industrial chain. Over the 10 years since landing in Guiyang (贵阳), Geely (吉利) has driven the gathering of 47 supporting companies such as seats and sheet metal, increasing the local matching rate to 48%.
"For bulk parts such as seats, transportation costs are high, so locating nearby can reduce costs and achieve rapid response," said Zhang Feng (张峰), head of Guiyang Shuangying Automotive Seating Co., Ltd. (贵阳双英汽车座椅有限公司). The company is only 4 kilometers away from the Geely (吉利) manufacturing base. After receiving the seat serial number, it can be configured and delivered to the final assembly line within an average of 1 hour. "One production line of the company can produce a seat every 60 seconds, and an average of about 250 sets can be delivered per day."
Return to TopBy: 张念炳
Relying on mineral resource endowments and policy support, Guizhou has initially constructed a new energy vehicle industry chain of "power battery + new energy vehicle + clean energy + charging infrastructure," providing localized supporting facilities for car companies, effectively reducing costs and enhancing supply chain resilience.
Car companies have effectively connected the supply side and the consumption side, which not only solves the development bottleneck of insufficient effective demand, but also activates the market with active supply, achieving the goals of optimizing incremental growth and revitalizing existing assets.
Currently, the new energy vehicle industry is consolidating the industrial foundation and consumption resilience of the domestic major cycle by continuously providing intelligent and green high-quality consumer goods and services. In the future, it is necessary to continue to innovate closely around consumer demand, and ensure the quality of supply with a high-quality standard system, so as to achieve a dynamic balance between supply and demand at a higher level and the healthy development of the industry; adhere to a market-oriented innovation mechanism, as well as a "demand response - supply optimization - global adaptation" development model, continuously improve industrial supporting facilities, strengthen technological innovation, and further promote the domestic and international dual circulation.
(Author is a professor at the School of Materials and Architectural Engineering of Guizhou Normal University (贵州师范大学), interviewed and compiled by Chen Junyi (陈隽逸), a reporter from this newspaper)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李心萍
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's agricultural machinery industry has embarked on a distinctive development path characterized by "technological independence, product sophistication, industrial clustering, and service intelligence," achieving leapfrog development. On December 10th, a reporter learned from the China Machinery Industry Federation (中国机械工业联合会) that the market recognition of domestically produced agricultural machinery has significantly improved, meeting more than 90% of domestic market demand. The industry has cultivated 118 national-level specialized and innovative "little giant" enterprises and 23 national-level manufacturing single champion enterprises.
Continuous breakthroughs in key core technologies. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the average R&D investment intensity of agricultural machinery enterprises nationwide reached 3.5%, driving an average annual increase of 15% in the number of industry patents.
Driven by policy guidance and market forces, breakthroughs have been achieved in several "bottleneck" technologies. Core technologies such as intelligent condition monitoring and control, high-precision navigation and positioning, and variable application control are closely following international frontiers, and technologies such as biology, information, and artificial intelligence are deeply integrated with agricultural machinery. Agricultural equipment remote operation and maintenance platforms have achieved large-scale application, leveraging big data processing capabilities to achieve functions such as operation monitoring, fault prediction, and remote scheduling.
BeiDou (北斗) satellite navigation technology has deeply penetrated various fields of agricultural machinery, with more than 3.5 million sets of agricultural machinery equipped with BeiDou satellite navigation terminals, including 2.1 million positioning terminals, 900,000 operation terminals, and 500,000 assisted driving systems.
The application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in agricultural production is becoming increasingly widespread, with a current inventory of 250,000 units, operating 2.7 billion mu-times annually. In addition to pesticide spraying, they are also used for sowing, fertilization, pollination, agricultural condition monitoring, and transportation.
Significant achievements have been made in the localization of major equipment. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, several iconic products have achieved import substitution and market dominance. Intelligent and efficient rice-wheat combine harvesters with a feeding capacity of 15 kg/s and above have achieved batch sales, with various indicators reaching the target; unmanned CVT tractors above 240 horsepower have been successfully demonstrated and applied in Beidahuang (北大荒) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团); sugarcane harvesters have formed three major platforms of 130, 180, and 350 horsepower, covering the five major links of sugarcane production, with medium-sized chopping models becoming the market leader, breaking the foreign monopoly; six-row self-propelled cotton pickers have achieved independent research and development and rapid promotion.
Remarkable achievements have been made in the research and development of specialized equipment. Focusing on weak links in agricultural production, the industry has made precise efforts to promote the research and development of equipment in areas such as hilly and mountainous areas and cash crops.
In terms of equipment for hilly and mountainous areas, through special support, a batch of lightweight and multi-functional applicable machinery has been successfully implemented, effectively alleviating the difficulties of agricultural production in mountainous areas and promoting the continuous improvement of the comprehensive mechanization rate of crop cultivation, planting, and harvesting in typical hilly and mountainous areas.
In terms of equipment for specialty crops, the research and development of oil tea harvesting machines, chili pepper direct seeding machines, and tea-specific machinery has been implemented, with the mechanization rate of facility agriculture reaching 50%; specialized equipment for soybean-corn strip intercropping and under-forest planting has been accelerated, and the performance of products such as precision seeders and potato combine harvesters has been continuously optimized.
International cooperation is booming. In 2024, China's agricultural machinery export value reached 50.963 billion yuan, an increase of 46.5% compared to 2020, and exports of tractors above 100 horsepower increased by nearly 200%, with the export structure shifting towards high-end products. In the first eight months of this year, China's agricultural machinery products were exported to 219 countries and regions, with a cumulative export of 45.94 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 41.1%.
Relevant officials from the China Machinery Industry Federation (中国机械工业联合会) stated that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the agricultural machinery industry should also strengthen technological innovation, focus on key areas such as intelligent agricultural machinery equipment, green power, and core components, break through key technologies such as unmanned farm systems, agricultural robots, and hydrogen fuel power, and build an independent and controllable technological innovation system. At the same time, efforts should be made to cultivate 3 to 5 leading enterprises with global influence and tens of billions of yuan in revenue.
Return to TopOn a winter morning, "Repair Alley" in Hebei District (河北区), Tianjin (天津) is very lively, with dozens of "repair shops" in the alley constantly welcoming customers.
"Repair Alley" is located in the Xingfu Road (幸福道) commercial street in Wangchuanchang (王串场) subdistrict. In the past, the surrounding community residents had a strong demand for "minor repairs and patching," but were troubled by the decreasing number of "places to repair." Therefore, Wangchuanchang (王串场) subdistrict centrally introduced convenient business formats such as weaving and mending, key duplication, and watch repair into the idle shops in the commercial street. "Repair Alley" officially opened in June 2024 and has now attracted about 30 "minor repair and patching" shops to settle in, meeting the needs of the masses for convenient life.
Return to TopThis newspaper Beijing (北京) December 10th (Reporter Liu Zhiqiang (刘志强)) On the 10th, the National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局) released data on price operations for November. In November, residents' consumption continued to recover, and the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 0.7% year-on-year, an increase of 0.5 percentage points compared to the previous month, the highest since March 2024. The core CPI, excluding food and energy prices, rose by 1.2% year-on-year. Affected by factors such as the optimization of supply and demand structure in some domestic industries and the transmission of international commodity prices, the Producer Price Index (PPI) rose by 0.1% month-on-month, a continuous increase for two months, and decreased by 2.2% year-on-year.
The year-on-year increase in CPI expanded, mainly driven by the shift of food prices from decline to increase. Food prices changed from a decrease of 2.9% in the previous month to an increase of 0.2%, and the impact on the CPI year-on-year changed from a decrease of 0.54 percentage points in the previous month to an increase of 0.04 percentage points. Energy prices decreased by 3.4%, a larger decrease than the 1.0 percentage point in the previous month, with gasoline prices decreasing by as much as 7.5%. The core CPI, excluding food and energy prices, rose by 1.2% year-on-year, with the increase remaining above 1% for three consecutive months. Prices of services and industrial consumer goods excluding energy rose by 0.7% and 2.1% respectively, affecting the CPI year-on-year increase by approximately 0.29 percentage points and 0.53 percentage points respectively.
The main characteristics of the PPI month-on-month operation in November are: First, the seasonal increase in demand in some domestic industries drove up their prices. With the start of the "peak winter" season in various regions, the seasonal demand for coal and gas increased, with the price of coal mining and washing industry increasing by 4.1% month-on-month, coal processing prices increasing by 3.4%, and gas production and supply industry prices increasing by 0.7%. Second, imported factors affected the divergent price trends of domestic non-ferrous metals and petroleum-related industries.
In November, the PPI decreased by 2.2% year-on-year, a larger decrease than the 0.1 percentage point in the previous month, mainly affected by the high base of comparison in the same period last year. The comprehensive rectification of "involutionary" competition has shown results, and the year-on-year decline in prices in related industries has narrowed. 内卷式 (nèi juǎn shì - "involutionary," a state of excessive internal competition).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘温馨
Are the toys in children's hands safe? Many consumers have such concerns.
China is not only a major toy producer but also a major toy consumer and exporter. According to relevant institutions, the total retail sales of toys in China's domestic market will exceed 100 billion yuan in 2025. The scale of the toy industry continues to increase, and the types of products are becoming increasingly diverse. However, the emergence of some substandard and poor-quality toys with significant potential safety hazards has also brought negative impacts to consumers.
Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) led the revision and improvement of the four mandatory national standards GB 6675.1 to GB 6675.4 "Toy Safety" and released them with the approval of the State Administration for Market Regulation (国家市场监督管理总局) (National Standards Committee), further regulating the development of the toy industry.
What are the new changes in key technical indicators in the mandatory national standards?
In terms of preventing health damage, 10 types of harmful substances, such as formaldehyde, total volatile organic compounds, short-chain chlorinated paraffins, and boron, have been added to the limit requirements, greatly increasing the coverage of chemical harmful substances in toy products, solving problems such as children putting them in their mouths, contaminating their arms, and harming their bodies.
In terms of mechanical and physical safety, technical requirements for new products such as open flame device toys and food-shaped toys have been added, and the specific requirements for subdivided product categories such as yo-yos, inflatable toys, and suction cup projectiles in the original standard have been optimized, strengthening the applicability of standard technical requirements to the physical safety of toy products.
In terms of fire safety, new technical requirements for the flame retardant performance of head-worn toys such as masks have been added, and the flame retardant performance test methods for three types of products, such as toy costumes, toy tents for children to enter, and soft-filled toys, have been improved, effectively ensuring the fire safety of toy products.
"It's equivalent to the passing score being 60 points before, and now you have to get 90 points to pass." He Yaqiong (何亚琼), Director of the Consumer Goods Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部消费品工业司司长), said that toy products produced according to the new standards can allow consumers to play with more peace of mind, more reassurance, and more safety.
In response to the quality and safety issues of "internet celebrity" toys such as "pinched toys" and "crystal mud" that have received high social attention, the mandatory national standard revision has also optimized and improved the limit requirements for harmful substances in related products.
For example, in terms of formaldehyde limits, it is stipulated that the formaldehyde limit value of key materials for toy products for infants and children under 36 months should be less than or equal to 30 mg/kg; in terms of total volatile organic compound limits, the limit value index for the release of total volatile organic compounds in toy products is proposed for the first time internationally, and the limit value should be less than or equal to 0.5 mg/cubic meter, filling the gap in domestic and foreign toy standards in this regard; in terms of plasticizer limits, the number of phthalate plasticizer limits has been increased from the original 6 to 10 to strictly prevent the harm of plasticizers to young children; in terms of boron limits, it is stipulated that the boron limit value for "crystal mud" and similar toys should be less than or equal to 300 mg/kg.
Miao Yuchen (苗雨晨), Deputy Director of the Quality Supervision Department of the State Administration for Market Regulation (国家市场监督管理总局质量监督司副司长), said that they will continue to deepen the three-year action to protect the safety of children's and students' supplies, closely monitor emerging "internet celebrity" products such as magnetic beads, "blind box" toys, decompression toys, and children's smart watches, lock in production enterprise clusters, as well as stationery stores around campuses, urban-rural fringe areas, and trade markets and other circulation places, comprehensively strengthen supervision, and achieve effective governance of quality and safety hazards of children's and students' supplies and a significant improvement in safety levels.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on December 10th (Reporter Zhao Zhanhui (赵展慧)) The National Financial Regulatory Administration (国家金融监督管理总局) recently released the "Administrative Measures for Financial Leasing Business of Financial Leasing Companies," guiding financial leasing companies to focus on their primary responsibilities and businesses, leverage their unique financial functions, standardize the conduct of financial leasing business, and enhance their ability and level of serving the high-quality development of the real economy.
The measures focus on the characteristic functions of financial leasing companies' financial leasing business, emphasizing the leased object as the core, with the process and management requirements of direct leasing business as the main line, while taking into account the characteristics of other businesses such as sale-leaseback and operating leases, and making corresponding provisions respectively. The measures clarify and standardize business management processes, including detailing due diligence, review and approval, contract signing and execution, post-lease management, and other full-process operating specifications, to enhance the standardization of financial leasing companies' business activities.
In addition, the measures strengthen risk prevention and control, focusing on key risk areas such as credit risk, concentration risk, and operational risk in financial leasing business, as well as proposing corresponding risk management requirements for key aspects of operating lease asset management, overseas business management, and employee behavior management.
Return to TopBuilding a "theory + people + art" publicity system, integrating the spirit of the Plenary Session into cases around the masses... In recent days, publicity groups from various regions and departments such as Beijing (北京), Anhui (安徽), Sichuan (四川), and central and state organs, combined with their own realities, have gone deep into the front lines of organs, enterprises, communities, and villages, carrying out differentiated and multi-form publicity activities in ways that are popular with the publicity targets, promoting the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee to go deep and solid, and take root.
"The integration of agriculture and tourism is popular..." Recently, at the Science and Technology Small Courtyard Lecture Hall in the Beijing (北京) Municipal Administrative Center, literary propagandist Chen Jinbang (陈金榜) brought the Beijing (京) rhyme drum "Rural Revitalization Composes a New Chapter," using powerful drumbeats and catchy lyrics to tell the story of rural revitalization, people's livelihood security, and other content in the Plenary Session's deployment, winning rounds of applause from the audience.
This is a vivid microcosm of the grassroots publicity activities of the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee carried out in Beijing (北京市) in recent days.
From holding 31 lectures by the "Strong Country Rejuvenation Has Me" people's publicity group, which aroused strong resonance with the stories of the people, to organizing online big Vs to interpret the development blueprint in everyday language, guiding the majority of netizens, especially young people, to understand the spirit of the Plenary Session, the diverse forms of publicity have not only solved the doubts of cadres and the masses but also "quenched their thirst," and everyone was deeply encouraged and inspired after listening.
"The publicity made me more comprehensively understand the content related to new employment groups in the '15th Five-Year Plan' proposal." As a probationary party member, Meituan (美团) rider Liu Jian (刘建) said that he will transform the learning results into work motivation, give play to the exemplary role of party members, do a good job in service in every delivery, actively participate in community construction, and contribute "micro-light" power.
"'During the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, what practical measures does Anhui (安徽) have in cultivating and strengthening rural characteristic industries?'" "What measures are there regarding adapting to local conditions to improve the implementation mechanism of rural construction?'"...
Recently, Wang Xuejun (汪学军), a member of the Anhui (安徽) Provincial Party Committee's publicity group and director of the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, immediately went to Qingchuang Space in Nonglin Village (农林村), Xihu Town (西湖镇), Tongguan District (铜官区), Tongling City (铜陵市) for visits and investigations after completing a special publicity on the spirit of the Plenary Session, sitting around with grassroots cadres, heads of new agricultural business entities, and enterprise representatives to answer questions and dispel doubts on the spot.
"This publicity was very targeted, focusing on the difficulties and blockages in grassroots work, and accurately responding to what the masses think and expect, which gave us a clearer understanding of the direction of village development." Wang Lihong (王利宏), secretary of the Party General Branch and director of the Village Committee of Nonglin Village (农林村), said with deep feeling.
Anhui (安徽) is based on the actual needs of the grassroots, carrying out "hundreds of thousands" of grassroots publicity, promoting the spirit of the Plenary Session to "fly into the homes of ordinary people" through face-to-face publicity and heart-to-heart exchanges, with a publicity audience of 2.582 million people.
On December 2, at the Yinjia Hydropower Station (银江水电站) construction site in Panzhihua City (攀枝花市), Sichuan Province (四川省), an unusual publicity on the spirit of the Plenary Session was underway—
More than 150 workers sat together, listening carefully to the propagandist telling the story of the new era hydropower builders carrying forward the "Third Front Spirit" and building a common prosperity and beautiful Panzhihua (攀枝花).
"It's really well said! The content is concise and clear, telling grand themes with vivid stories." Bu Tianyun (卜天郧), deputy manager of the Engineering Management Department of Panzhihua (攀枝花) China Resources Hydropower Development Co., Ltd. of Sichuan (四川) Energy Development Group, said, "My colleagues and I will do our job well and sprint towards the goal of the full production and power generation of the Yinjia Hydropower Station (银江水电站)."
From provincial-level organs to enterprises and institutions... In recent days, Sichuan Province (四川省) has organized publicity groups to widely carry out grassroots theoretical publicity of "Li Xiang Ba Shu" (理响巴蜀), carrying out thousands of grassroots publicity activities, promoting the major policies and guidelines of the Party Central Committee to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in the land of Bashu (巴蜀).
Youth is the hope of the country and the future of the nation. How to show youthful responsibility in promoting the implementation of the economic and social development goals and tasks during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and be a pioneer in the first phalanx of practicing "two safeguards" with practical work and achievements?
Visiting the Constitution Wall and participating in volunteer explanations of the Constitution... On the occasion of the 12th National Constitution Day, on December 2, the League organizations of the National People's Congress and other departments jointly held the theme demonstration publicity report meeting of "Building Meritorious Service in the '15th Five-Year Plan' and Taking the First Phalanx Well" in Beijing (北京), encouraging the youth of central and state organs to contribute their youthful strength to promoting socialist democracy and the rule of law.
This is the first special demonstration publicity report meeting on the study and implementation of the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee by the youth of central and state organs, which was organized by the Work Committee of Central and State Organs.
"Closely focusing on the spirit of the Plenary Session, the Work Committee has widely mobilized the youth theoretical study groups of the League organizations at all levels of the central and state organs, and carried out a series of publicity activities around the construction of a modern industrial system and accelerating high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement in the '15th Five-Year Plan' proposal, so that the spirit of the Plenary Session can be deeply rooted in the hearts of the youth." The relevant comrade of the Work Committee in charge of this work introduced.
Through the publicity activities, the youth of the central and state organs said that they should further improve the "three courses" of theoretical study, party spirit training, and grassroots practice in the comprehensive implementation of the Plenary Session's decisions and deployments, base themselves on their work posts, shoulder the responsibilities of the times, and let the brilliance of youth bloom in the practice of promoting high-quality development of work.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), December 10)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘梦丹
Strengthening the protection of workers' rights and interests.
——Excerpt from the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal
Daoli District (道里区), Harbin (哈尔滨), Heilongjiang (黑龙江) Province, 5 a.m., the outdoor temperature is as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius.
On the streets along the Songhua River (松花江), the cold wind wraps snowflakes, covering the road with a thin layer of frost. Despite wearing gloves, sanitation worker Jiang Huaying's (蒋华英) hands, holding the broom, are still somewhat red from the cold. After finishing the late shift, she rubs her hands and quickly walks towards a house on the side of the street that emits warm light – an outdoor service station. This 40-square-meter outdoor service station is located between the Harbin Flood Control Monument (哈尔滨防洪纪念塔) and the Middle East Railway Bridge (中东铁路桥), serving as a heart-warming "supply station" for outdoor workers.
Pushing open the door, the warmth of the heating rushes in. A colleague who arrived earlier hands Jiang Huaying (蒋华英) a cup of hot ginger and jujube tea: "Hold it to warm your hands first, and once the hot tea is down, the cold will dissipate almost completely."
At the long table, Jiang Huaying (蒋华英) and her colleagues are applying hand cream, which the station has prepared specifically for sanitation workers. In the medicine box on the table, bandages, iodine, cold medicine, and other common medicines are neatly arranged. "In the past, it wasn't easy to find a warm place to rest when cleaning the streets in winter. Now, the station is our 'temporary home'," Jiang Huaying (蒋华英) says with a smile, taking a sip of the ginger and jujube tea.
The clock hand points to 12 noon, the snow has stopped on the street, and the station is bustling with activity.
Food delivery driver Xu Yongjie (徐永杰) skillfully puts his own lunchbox into the microwave and walks to the charging area in the corner to plug in his two mobile phones. At the next table, several taxi drivers are playing Chinese chess. "In the past, I often just ate a cold meal for lunch, but now I can heat up my food and charge my phone at the station, and chat with everyone," Xu Yongjie (徐永杰) says, taking out his heated lunch, the aroma of which wafts out.
"Every noon, the station can receive nearly 50 people. We also cooperate with the community to add new services. This year, volunteers have started coming regularly to give everyone free haircuts," Hu Rui (胡瑞), the administrator of this outdoor service station, tells reporters.
At 9 p.m., the traffic on the street gradually thins, and snowflakes begin to fall again.
Courier Xiao Yang (小杨) has completed all his deliveries for the day and rides his electric scooter to the station, leaning back on the soft sofa to rest for a while. On the message board behind the sofa, colorful "micro-wish" notes are posted: "Could you add some disposable raincoats?" "Please provide a few more pairs of reading glasses." "Thank you for the warm baby heat packs at the station"... Xiao Yang (小杨) turns his head and sees that the reading glasses that the station just added according to everyone's "micro-wishes" are already on the shelf.
"Every time I come to the station, it's not just to take a break, but also to let us couriers, who are out and about all day, know what welfare service policies the trade union has," Xiao Yang (小杨) says, looking at the free physical examination notice posted on the bulletin board, silently noting the location and date of the examination. "My wife also participated in the 'Live E-commerce Mom Post' skills training last year, which I learned about at the station."
Convenient, warm, and considerate, there are already 668 such outdoor service stations in Harbin (哈尔滨), including both fixed stations and mobile stations converted from buses. In the site selection process, Harbin (哈尔滨) organized relevant departments and units such as public security, commerce, and public transportation to discuss and identify key business districts, popular scenic spots, courier sorting points, and other areas with a high concentration of outdoor workers to set up outdoor service stations. During the Asian Winter Games, five mobile stations were set up around the venues to provide convenient services for volunteers and sanitation workers. Currently, 47 outdoor service stations in Harbin (哈尔滨) have been rated as the most beautiful stations in the country.
"'During the 15th Five-Year Plan' period, we want to make the services of the stations warmer and more considerate," Wang Guicheng (王贵成), Party Secretary and Vice Chairman of the Harbin (哈尔滨) Municipal Federation of Trade Unions, said. In the next 5 years, Harbin (哈尔滨) will further increase the layout of stations, focusing on adding stations in emerging business districts, suburban industrial parks, and tourist attractions. "People's livelihood is no small matter. Our task is to make workers feel the warmth."
The night is deep, the snow is still falling, and the lights of the station are still on. This small building seems particularly warm, guarding the hardworking workers.
Return to TopBy: 刘静文
Outdoor workers who brave wind and snow can find outdoor stations without going far, drink hot water, heat up meals, and "recharge" their bodies. In Harbin (哈尔滨), Heilongjiang (黑龙江), more than 600 outdoor stations bring warmth to the winter streets.
"Having a place to rest" and "being able to eat hot food" are the simple and ardent expectations of many outdoor workers. One station after another transforms people's livelihood aspirations into real-life scenarios. Here, workers can not only shelter from the wind and rain, rest and relax, but also learn about support policies and master labor skills. Medicine cabinets, hand creams, publicity columns... tiny details and heartwarming services convey humanistic care, allowing people to feel the city's sentiment and warmth.
A city thrives because of its people. When builders and guardians are treated with tenderness, the two-way rush between people and the city will inject stronger impetus into development.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 史自强
Stepping into Handan Midea Refrigeration Equipment Co., Ltd. (邯郸美的制冷设备有限公司) in Hebei Province (河北省), the blue screen of the water-saving service platform clearly presents the "origins and destinations" of every drop of water in the factory in real time. Yang Hao (杨浩), manager of the company's engineering department, introduced that in November 2025, the company's water consumption was approximately 15,000 tons.
Rewinding to a year ago, the company's average monthly water consumption was still hovering at a high of 30,000 tons. The single-month water consumption decreased by about 50%. Where did the change come from?
Hebei (河北) is a typical water-scarce province. Water conservation is a lifeline related to water security and regional development. "Although the whole society's awareness of water conservation is increasing, when faced with actual transformation, how to do it specifically is still a common problem," Zhang Yanhong (张彦宏), head of the Handan Water Conservation Promotion Center (邯郸市节约用水促进中心), admitted frankly.
How to solve the dilemma? In recent years, Handan (邯郸) has explored a new path—comprehensive contract water management. The key is to let "professional people do professional things": the government acts as a matchmaker, introducing water-saving service companies, signing contracts with water-using units, and clarifying water-saving goals and benefit-sharing plans. The water-saving service company invests technology and funds for transformation and management, while the water-using unit directly enjoys the water-saving results, and can even share the benefits from the saved water bills. A market mechanism-driven, deep water-saving transformation covering the entire field of industry, agriculture, and life has begun.
Handan Midea (邯郸美的) had previously put some effort into water conservation, and the water-saving efficiency of some production links has reached the leading level in China. However, when the water-saving transformation penetrated into the "capillaries" of the entire factory, the company felt overwhelmed—where is the space for further water saving?
A turning point appeared at the beginning of this year. Handan Midea (邯郸美的) signed a contract with China Water Investment Group Co., Ltd. (中国水务投资集团有限公司), introducing the contract water-saving model of "trusteeship operation + benefit sharing + full-process management." This is like hiring a "water steward" for the factory to conduct a comprehensive physical examination and system optimization.
"We found that the problem lies in 'system imbalance' through research," Zuo Hongjun (左红军), a technician from China Water Group (中国水务集团), analyzed, "On the one hand, the basic pipe network is aging; on the other hand, production, personnel, and greening are expanding. Water consumption is facing upward pressure, and we must 'operate' on the overall water use plan, not just focus on a certain link."
Contract water saving has brought tremendous changes to Handan Midea (邯郸美的). In the factory area, water supply pipe networks marked with reclaimed water are arranged vertically and horizontally. China Water Group (中国水务集团) helped build an integrated reclaimed water system of "treatment-reuse-circulation," which not only equipped with integrated water treatment equipment with a daily processing capacity of 80 tons, 110-ton water storage tanks, intelligent control pumping stations, etc., but also built 1,992 meters of new reclaimed water pipe network and 1,048 meters of greening pipe network.
From then on, the reclaimed water from the sewage station, the tail water from softened water, and even the rainwater from the roof are widely collected and centrally purified, turning waste into treasure.
"Now, flushing toilets, spraying roads, and irrigating green spaces basically use reclaimed water," said Zhang Jifeng (张继峰), a company staff member, pointing to the pipe network. "This system can 'save' 38,000 tons of water a year. Water is truly circulating."
The number of employees in the company is increasing year by year, and terminal water facilities are an indispensable part of water-saving transformation. At Handan Midea (邯郸美的), 280 sets of high-frequency water-using appliances, such as squatting toilets and faucets, have been upgraded and transformed to reduce toilet flushing water consumption by more than 20% and achieve a 100% replacement rate of tap water. Every detail is practicing "careful calculation to use water well, and strict and meticulous management of water."
How to manage more efficiently? Zhang Jifeng (张继峰) revealed the secret behind it: "We have newly installed more than 50 sets of metering instruments and valves, which are like installing 'stethoscopes' on the pipe network to achieve accurate monitoring of leakage. At the same time, a water-saving service platform integrating dynamic and static data such as water volume, facilities, and personnel is launched simultaneously, making the operating status of the entire water supply system clear at a glance, and the stability and operation and maintenance efficiency have been qualitatively improved."
Through this contract water-saving project, Handan Midea (邯郸美的) is expected to save about 110,000 tons of water annually, and the water-saving benefits will be shared by both parties according to the agreed proportion in the contract, forming a long-term internal driving force for water saving.
In recent years, by introducing 39 water-saving service companies, Handan's (邯郸市) contract water management has achieved full coverage of all 20 counties (cities, districts) in the city, with a cumulative implementation of 65 projects and an estimated annual water saving of 50 million tons.
"This is not only the saving of water resources, but also the transformation of development mode," Zhang Yanhong (张彦宏) said, Handan (邯郸) will continue to deepen this reform to provide solid practical support for solving the development and protection problems in water-scarce areas.
Return to TopOn December 8th, tourists strolled through the persimmon orchards in Hongyan Village (红岩村), Lianhua Town (莲花镇), Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County (恭城瑶族自治县), Guangxi (广西). The local area actively promotes the integrated development of agriculture and tourism, using persimmons as a medium, to drive income growth and prosperity for the masses, and help revitalize the countryside in an all-round way. Recently, the ten thousand mu persimmon forest in Hongyan Village (红岩村) has entered its best viewing period, and the village has held a variety of colorful persimmon viewing tourism activities, attracting tourists to come and play.
Photo by Li Haotu (黎豪图) (Image China)
Return to TopBy: 金社平
Time conceals the power of progress, witnessing the Chinese economy sailing forward against the wind and waves.
Standing at the intersection of the impending successful conclusion of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and the successive opening of the "15th Five-Year Plan," looking back on the past, there have been many trials and tribulations; looking forward to the journey, the task is arduous and the road is long.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "See the future, see the light, and see the future in difficulties and challenges, maintain the determination to develop, enhance the confidence in development, and maintain the spirit of daring to fight and being able to win."
The market economy, to a large extent, is also an economy of expectations. Stabilizing expectations and strengthening confidence promote and support each other with stabilizing the economy.
Under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) economic thought, we have always been firm in our confidence, maintained our strategic focus, adhered to high-quality development unswervingly, and strived to build a new development pattern, achieving historical leaps and transformations in economic and social development. The Chinese economy has strong resilience and vitality, China's development has a bright future, and we have the confidence and ability to cope with various risks and challenges, and even more determination and confidence to overcome various risks and challenges, and constantly bring new impetus and new opportunities to the world with China's new development.
Firmly believe in inevitable victory, maintain strategic focus, strategic confidence, and strategic patience, and time will give the best answer.
(I)
Confidence is more valuable than gold. The higher the wind and waves, the steeper the climb, the more precious confidence becomes.
Where does confidence come from? It comes from the certainty of the Chinese economy.
Above the blue waves, 100-meter-long blades spin, and the whistling sea breeze turns into gurgling green electricity. Many of the "core joints" of offshore wind turbine units come from Luoyang Bearing Group Co., Ltd. (洛阳轴承集团股份有限公司) in Henan (河南).
"One axis weighs a thousand pounds." During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Luoyang Bearing (洛阳轴承) helped to continuously expand the scale of offshore wind power in China. Luoyang Bearing (洛阳轴承), which started from the "First Five-Year Plan," has experienced market confusion and reform pains, but has always focused on its main business and overcome core technologies. Today, the output value of high-end bearings of Luoyang Bearing (洛阳轴承) accounts for 70%.
"We adhere to the road of independent development of industry, relying on our own strength to develop industry and manufacturing. This road is the right one!" Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out during his inspection of Luoyang Bearing (洛阳轴承) in May this year.
The more correct the road, the more confident you are, and the more confident you become. Amidst the changing international situation, maintaining strategic focus and concentrating on managing our own affairs, during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's (中国) gross domestic product successively crossed 110 trillion yuan, 120 trillion yuan, and 130 trillion yuan, and is expected to reach about 140 trillion yuan this year. From 2012 to 2024, China's (中国) average annual economic growth rate is close to twice the world's average annual economic growth rate, which not only responds to various uncertainties with the certainty of high-quality development, but also injects valuable and scarce certainty into the world's economic development.
Confidence originates from the certainty of the development logic.
"Drawing a blueprint to the end" and "adhering to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability" - the combination of strategic planning guidance and effective macro-control is China's (中国) unique advantage for long-term stable development and the source of confidence.
From the foundation laid by the "First Five-Year Plan" to the shaping of new advantages by the high-quality development of the "14th Five-Year Plan," one five-year plan after another continues to take over, anchoring the course and making steady progress, and Chinese-style modernization is advancing steadily and far. On the basis of maintaining the continuity and stability of macro policies, macro-control is more precise, flexible, and forward-looking, timely smoothing out possible fluctuations in economic operation, maintaining economic operation in a reasonable range, and greatly boosting social confidence.
Confidence is contained in the certainty of development trends.
"The Chinese economy is a vast sea," with broad development space, strong development momentum, and a bright development prospect - the mutual promotion and virtuous cycle of a super-large market and innovation-driven development are a powerful engine and the basis of confidence.
This year, "Su Chao" became popular, with an average of 28,600 on-site spectators and 2.22 billion online live viewers, releasing the leverage effect of "1 yuan ticket driving 7.3 yuan of surrounding consumption." A competition reflects the vitality of China's (中国) super-large market. In the first three quarters, final consumption expenditure contributed 53.5% to China's (中国) economic growth.
A strong domestic market is the strategic support for Chinese-style modernization, shaping the scale, resilience, and potential of "embracing all rivers." Since this year, facing the impact of tariff wars and trade wars on the world economic order, and unilateral bullying impacting multilateral mechanisms, the Chinese (中国) giant ship has been fearless of wind and rain and has moved forward courageously. Technological innovation injects strong impetus into the construction of a modern industrial system, the investment potential in future infrastructure and people's livelihood is huge, and the talent dividend, especially the "engineer dividend," is constantly strengthening... The certainty of future growth and development trends has become a solid footnote to "believing in China (中国) is believing in tomorrow."
Despite the chaotic clouds, we remain calm, and behind the calmness is determination. The "stable" pattern, the "progressive" momentum, and the "resilient" characteristics of the Chinese (中国) economy have not changed. There is both a grand logic and a grand trend, which is the source of confidence and strength for the steady and far-reaching voyage of the Chinese (中国) economic ship.
(II)
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's (中国) economic growth rate continued to lead major economies around the world. The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for laying the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically achieve socialist modernization.
At present and for a period of time to come, facing the coexistence of strategic opportunities and risks and challenges, and the increase in uncertain and unpredictable factors, how can we better adapt to the new situation and create a new situation for high-quality development?
"When is there no difficulty? We overcome them one by one, year after year, and the Chinese (中华) nation has been like this for more than 5,000 years. The key to climbing slopes and overcoming obstacles is to boost confidence."
"Opportunities are fleeting. Seizing them is an opportunity, and failing to seize them is a challenge."
Chinese (中国) Communists are good at using dialectical thinking to analyze the complex and ever-changing external environment, and actively recognize, respond to, and seek changes, so as to cultivate new opportunities in crises and open up new situations in changes.
The development of embodied intelligence is a perspective to observe the Chinese (中国) economy seizing opportunities to strengthen confidence.
A pair of "skillful hands" with 17 active degrees of freedom accurately simulate the grasping of human hands; a pair of "wise eyes" with lidar building high-precision three-dimensional maps... Shenzhen (深圳) has formed a mature industrial supporting circle for embodied intelligence, covering power batteries, motor electronic control, lidar, and other fields. A Shenzhen (深圳) entrepreneur sighed, "From the birth of the world's first generation of humanoid robots more than 50 years ago, there has never been a moment closer to realizing the dream than now."
Building an embodied intelligent robot innovation center, establishing a 10 billion yuan artificial intelligence and robot industry fund, investing early, investing in small businesses, and investing in hard technology to form first-mover advantages... Shenzhen (深圳), which has seized opportunities and achieved great development in reform and opening up, deeply understands the importance of seizing opportunities and making early moves.
In the transformation of new and old kinetic energy on the supply side, there are major opportunities brought about by the development of new quality productive forces. China (中国) ranks first in the world in the number of global top 100 innovation clusters for three consecutive years, and the added value of high-tech manufacturing above designated size increased by 9.6% year-on-year in the first three quarters of this year. In the shaping of high-quality life on the demand side, there are many opportunities brought about by urban renewal, the silver economy, and other fields. This year, Shenzhen (深圳) opened up 100 application scenarios for the artificial intelligence and robot industry. In a local nursing home, robots play table tennis and robot dogs deliver medicine... Embodied intelligence is deeply integrated into "silver life."
Confidence is further gathered and further strengthened in seizing new opportunities and responding to new challenges.
(III)
Confidence is the sail, and hard work is the oar. The key to strengthening confidence is to transform it into the spirit of daring to fight and being able to win.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out, "Facing the complex external environment, we must strengthen our confidence and unswervingly manage our own affairs well."
Chinese-style modernization is a pioneering undertaking, and "if we want to develop, we must rely on our own hard work and practical work." To solve the principal contradiction in Chinese (中国) society in the new era, we can only rely on ourselves.
"Withstanding pressure, practicing internal skills, and gaining a firm foothold, there is no hurdle that cannot be overcome." China's (中国) contribution to world economic growth has long remained at around 30%. From "engine" to "anchor of stability," it lies in taking the established goal as a strategic guide and managing our own affairs well by upholding integrity and innovating.
Based on one region, plan for the overall situation, adapt to local conditions, and take advantage of the situation.
In Tongxiang (桐乡), the Wuzhen (乌镇) Smart Elderly Care Center is equipped with smart beds, health monitors, and other equipment, and the "holographic digital road" reduces vehicle travel time by an average of 15%; "Black Myth: Wukong (黑神话：悟空)," developed by a Hangzhou (杭州) company, cleverly integrates Chinese (中华) culture and digital technology, with global sales exceeding 28 million copies... Since 2014, the added value of Zhejiang's (浙江) digital economy has maintained double-digit growth for 11 consecutive years.
"Finding the strategic positioning in the overall national situation," using what is needed by the overall situation to forge the strengths of one region, actively seizing positions, being good at dislocation, and superimposing them into the general trend of China's (中国) economic development. Major economic provinces take the lead, and other regions each display their strengths, promoting more coordinated urban and rural regional development and injecting surging momentum into high-quality development.
Grasp the present and the long-term, do more "latent achievements," and work persistently.
As the first place to advocate "targeted poverty alleviation," Shibadong Village (十八洞村) in Huayuan County (花垣县), Hunan (湖南) has always been based on its characteristics, developing industries such as rural tourism, mountain spring water, and Miao embroidery. The poor village of "no daughters should marry into Shibadong (十八洞)" has become the world's "best tourism village." After 8 years of hard work and 5 years of consolidation, nearly 100 million people have been lifted out of poverty, and China's (中国) great practice of poverty alleviation and the anti-poverty theory with Chinese (中国) characteristics have become a valuable asset for the world's poverty reduction cause.
This year is the last year of the 5-year transition period for consolidating and expanding the achievements in poverty alleviation and effectively linking them with rural revitalization. "No one should be left behind" on the road to a moderately prosperous society, and "no one should be left behind" on the road to common prosperity. There is no end to guaranteeing and improving people's livelihood, only continuous new starting points, and we must continue to struggle one journey after another.
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The ship of Chinese-style modernization has sailed to a new critical journey, "**只要我们坚定信念信心不动摇，直面矛盾问题不回避，应对风险挑战不退缩，就一定能够打开改革发展新天地！**" (zhǐyào wǒmen jiāndìng xìnniàn xìnxīn bù yáodòng, zhímiàn máodùn wèntí bù huíbì, yìngduì fēngxiǎn tiǎozhàn bù tuìsuō, jiù yīdìng nénggòu dǎkāi gǎigé fāzhǎn xīn tiāndì! - "as long as we firmly believe in our beliefs and confidence, face contradictions and problems head-on without evasion, and respond to risks and challenges without retreating, we will surely be able to open up a new world of reform and development!")
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on December 10th (Reporter Wu Yue (吴月)) - The Ministry of Education (教育部) recently released the "Accreditation Standard for Excellent Engineer Education." The standard applies to various universities' Excellent Engineer Colleges and enterprise-led Excellent Engineer Colleges that cultivate engineering master's and doctoral students, and its content mainly includes six aspects. First, "College Positioning and Organization" emphasizes adhering to the Party's leadership, proactively serving major national needs and regional development, and building a collaborative school-enterprise entity platform. Second, "Quality Assurance and Continuous Improvement" focuses on the joint construction of internal and external training quality assurance systems by universities and enterprises. Third, "Cooperation and Opening-up" focuses on expanding external resources, establishing cooperative and open mechanisms, and strengthening exchanges and cooperation in three dimensions: regional, school-enterprise, and international. Fourth, "Work-Integrated Learning" focuses on continuously strengthening the ideological and political education of outstanding engineers, mobilizing the enthusiasm of both universities and enterprises, and promoting joint enrollment, joint training, joint topic selection, and shared achievements between universities and enterprises. Fifth, "Construction of School-Enterprise Faculty Team" focuses on leveraging the advantages of both schools and enterprises, improving the structure of the faculty team, and establishing and improving faculty selection standards, review and admission and exit procedures, faculty training systems, school-enterprise mentor collaboration, and two-way exchange mechanisms. Sixth, "Engineer Career Development" focuses on strengthening graduate employment services and career development guidance, establishing and improving mechanisms for vocational qualification衔接, title evaluation, and graduate tracking feedback, and promoting continuous school-enterprise training.
In recent years, China's (中国) reform of cultivating outstanding engineers has made positive progress. It has built 50 National Excellent Engineer Colleges and 4 National Excellent Engineer Innovation Research Institutes, realizing the organized, systematic, and large-scale joint training of engineering master's and doctoral students by universities and enterprises.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on December 10th (Reporter Yang Hao (杨昊)) - The All-China Women's Federation (全国妇联) recently deployed the 2025 "Heroines' Voluntary Service for the Elderly and Young" care service activities. Women's federations at all levels, based in communities and serving families, are focusing on "the elderly and the young," leveraging the strengths of 24 million heroines' volunteers to widely carry out specialized and regular warm-hearted services such as thematic photography, warm companionship, purchasing and errands, life care, academic tutoring, and care and companionship.
During the activities, a vast number of heroines' volunteers rushed to various places, focusing on key areas of national rural revitalization assistance counties, bringing the "Warm Golden Wedding" - Heroines' Voluntary Respect for the Elderly and Care Action to more than 6,200 golden wedding elderly families, showcasing the new atmosphere of comprehensive rural revitalization with happy and fulfilling life scenes; advocating a new fashion of socialist family civilization with concrete practices that emphasize family, family education, and family style construction; and guiding the majority of young people to establish correct views on marriage and love, childbearing, and family with the love story of "holding hands and growing old together." The activities also adopted "one-on-one" and "many-on-one" paired assistance, organizing heroines' volunteers to join the "Loving Mother" team, providing life care, academic tutoring, care and companionship, family education guidance, and assistance for difficulties for left-behind children, scattered orphans, and de facto unattended children who have special difficulties in life, learning, and physical and mental health.
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The people are the creators of history and the most solid foundation and strongest source of confidence for our Party. We must consider issues, make decisions, and handle affairs from the people's standpoint.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has adhered to its original aspiration, considered issues from the people's standpoint, promoted coordinated regional development, taken effective measures to guarantee and improve people's livelihoods, won the battle against poverty, built a moderately prosperous society in all respects, and taken new and solid steps in Chinese-style modernization, achieving a good start to the new journey toward the second centenary goal.
The Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China outlined a blueprint for economic and social development in the next five years. In the "15th Five-Year Plan" recommendations, from including "promoting the all-round development of people and achieving common prosperity for all the people" in the guiding ideology, to listing "rich human resources advantages" as one of China's "four major advantages," and then to making the strategic deployment of "adhering to the combination of benefiting people's livelihoods and promoting consumption, investing in things and investing in people," the people are the foundation of the purpose and the direction of value.
The essence of modernization is the modernization of people. From focusing on "investing in people" to leveraging "rich human resources advantages," we look at both gross domestic product (GDP) and gross national income (GNI), and we value both the "Chinese economy" and the "economy of the Chinese people." By recognizing, grasping, and stimulating the value, role, vitality, and potential of people at a higher level, the endogenous driving force of the Chinese economy will be stronger, and the prospects for Chinese-style modernization will be limitless.
(I)
Clearly proposing "investing in people," emphasizing "the close combination of investing in things and investing in people," and rediscovering "the value of people" are all underpinned by the value orientation of development.
"Chinese-style modernization prioritizes people's livelihoods." The development we pursue is development that benefits the people, and the ultimate goal of development must be to serve the development of people.
The Huajiang Canyon Bridge (花江峡谷大桥) in Guizhou (贵州), which opened to traffic this year, is "the world's number one in every aspect." The builders frankly stated that building high bridges is never for the sake of "breaking records," but to allow the people in the mountains to walk further and to make their lives brighter.
Today, the travel time from Liuzhi (六枝) to Anlong (安龙) is only 2 minutes. Villagers exclaimed, "Business is better," "There are more tourists," and "The cured meat and tea from the mountains can be transported out." The industrial synergy of the Liupanshui (六盘水), Anshun (安顺), and Qianxinan (黔西南) city clusters is accelerating, the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor is becoming smoother, and the regional development pattern is being renewed.
Wherever the people's expectations lie, that is where development is directed.
"The western region has too much blank space, and we need to add a few strokes in the future." More than 30,000 bridges under construction and already built have turned Guizhou (贵州), where "there is no three feet of flat ground," into a "high-speed plain"; the 2,712-kilometer-long desert railway loop has made the Taklamakan Desert (塔克拉玛干沙漠) no longer "isolated from the world"... Each bridge and each road is clearing physical barriers and connecting avenues of dreams.
People's livelihoods are linked to needs. Continuously increasing investment in people, improving their knowledge, skills, health, and social adaptability will form a virtuous cycle of human capital enhancement, increased resident income, and consumption-driven economic growth, cultivating new economic growth points while enhancing people's well-being.
"Implementing urban renewal actions" drives upstream industries such as steel and building materials, and promotes consumption in fields such as furniture and home appliances; "allowing the elderly to have a happy old age" spawns a silver economy with a scale of 7 trillion yuan... Today, the marginal returns of simply investing in things are diminishing, but the multiplier effect of combining investment in things and investment in people is increasing.
One increase and one decrease highlight economic laws and contain development opportunities.
Taking "adhering to the people-first approach" as a principle that must be followed and "continuously improving the quality of people's lives" as the main goal of economic and social development... The people-centered development philosophy runs through the "15th Five-Year Plan" recommendations.
Valuing people's expectations, serving people's needs, and promoting people's development will open up new spaces for growth, development, and dreams.
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Transforming from spiritual passivity to spiritual initiative, re-stimulating "the vitality of people" is radiating the spirit of historical initiative.
Allowing more than 1.4 billion people to move towards modernization together is "both the most difficult and the most magnificent."
The concluding part of the "15th Five-Year Plan" recommendations emphasizes "fully mobilizing the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the entire society to devote themselves to the construction of Chinese-style modernization," and proposes "stimulating the vitality of the entire society for entrepreneurship, innovation, and creation, forming a vivid situation where everyone gives full play to their talents, everyone uses their talents to the fullest, everyone is of one mind, and everyone works together." The value of people is increasingly respected, the potential of people can be better released, and the wisdom of people can be fully emerged.
Investing in people, people's cities are important stages.
From large-scale, comprehensive old area renovations to sporadic old area renovation breakthroughs, Shanghai's (上海) "carrying chamber pots" has become history. Solving an "unremarkable small matter" stimulates the wisdom, exploration, and creation of people, these "remarkable big things," and harvests the sense of belonging, responsibility, and mission of people, this "immeasurable wealth."
Today, Shanghai (上海) has more than 6 million registered volunteers, with 1 million people regularly participating in volunteer services. In Shanghai's (上海) "15th Five-Year Plan" "Hundred Family Interviews, Ten Thousand Family Surveys" public participation activities, more than 34,000 opinions and suggestions were received from all sectors of society in a few months, and everyone's contribution and everyone's sharing jointly support the beautiful future of a city.
Investing in people, and then reaping from people and inspiring people.
"Village BA" (村BA), "Village Super League" (村超), and "Village Gala" (村晚), a batch of "village-branded" cultural and sports activities meet the people's spiritual needs, enrich the people's spiritual world, and enhance the people's spiritual strength; "Every county has access to gigabit networks, every township has access to 5G, and every village has access to broadband," ideas are broadened, sales channels are widened, wallets are bulging, and the enthusiasm is getting stronger and stronger.
"Whether a country can be rich and strong, and whether a nation can be revitalized, the most important thing is to see whether this country and this nation can conform to the trend of the times and grasp the initiative in historical progress."
Everyone contributes a share of strength, which can be gathered into an overwhelming force; everyone accomplishes one thing and does one job well, and the cause of the Party and the country can move forward one step.
Valuing people, believing in people, and then inspiring people and encouraging people. The Chinese people have never been so proud as they are today, and they are more determined, tougher, and more confident on the new journey.
Seizing historical opportunities, shouldering historical responsibilities, and stimulating the strong historical consciousness and historical initiative of hundreds of millions of people, Chinese-style modernization will have the most reliable, deepest, and most lasting source of power.
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From demographic dividend to talent dividend, re-excavating "the potential of people" demonstrates the significant advantages of high-quality development.
China's population development has entered a new period, showing obvious trend characteristics such as low birth rate, aging, and regional population increase and decrease differentiation. Promoting high-quality population development can win the talent dividend.
First, look at two sets of numbers - China's total talent resources reached 220 million, including more than 72 million highly skilled talents, and the overall scale of scientists and engineers is close to 20 million; more than 5 million graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors are trained every year, leading the world.
Then, look at two ratios - China's gross enrollment rate in preschool education increased from 64.5% in 2012 to 92% in 2024, and the gross enrollment rate in higher education increased from 30% in 2012 to 60.8% in 2024.
Talent is the primary resource, and innovation is the primary driving force. Today, the education chain and talent chain are organically connected, the industrial chain and innovation chain are deeply integrated, and the policy chain and service chain are constantly improved. A large number of innovative talents, strategic talents, and highly skilled talents who adapt to the development needs of new quality productive forces continue to emerge, promoting China to become a major innovation country.
In 2024, China's robot patent applications accounted for 2/3 of the total global robot patent applications, behind which is the hard work of a large number of Chinese engineers; in 2025, China's grain production will be abundant, and China's rice bowl will be firmly held with Chinese grain, which is inseparable from the more than 120,000 agricultural researchers who are rooted in the land. The accelerated burst of talent innovation vitality injects more source of living water into scientific and technological innovation.
From seizing the commanding heights of science and technology to developing new quality productive forces and then to promoting high-quality development, whoever can cultivate and attract more outstanding talents will be able to gain an advantage in the competition.
Invest in the present and win the future. With "rich human resources advantages," the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is unstoppable, and the destiny of China's development and progress is firmly in our own hands.
A country that values people, invests in people, and develops people will also "always maintain the role of a trendsetter" because of the value of people, the dedication of people, and the struggle of people.
Return to TopBy: 李浩燃
The new wave of mass culture and art is in full swing, neither a descent of elite culture nor a replica of popular culture, allowing everyone to appreciate their own unique beauty.
Recently, several artistic scenes have connected in my memory.
In Yangzhuang Village (杨庄村), Lingqiu County (灵丘县), Shanxi Province (山西), villagers staged a self-directed and self-performed situational drama, "Commemorating Norman Bethune (白求恩)," in the village square. The audience was amazed by the authentic costumes and props, and touched by the passionate performance of an octogenarian.
On an open lawn in Chaoyang Park (朝阳公园), Beijing (北京), a grassroots streamer was live-streaming a song performance. The melodious tune attracted hundreds of citizens and tourists to sit on the ground, and audience members could also "grab the mic" and sing along.
When talking about the TV series "The Silent Dedication," a friend took out their phone and opened various short videos created with "Ode to the Coral (珊瑚颂)" as background music, showing comments from netizens saying "it's addictive."
Art is constantly new, and artistic creation is increasingly moving towards co-creation and sharing. Looking deeper, as culture increasingly becomes an important part of a high-quality life, the people's demands for artistic works are rising, and they also yearn to participate in artistic creation.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划) proposal puts forward the idea of "prospering new mass culture and art under the conditions of the Internet." To deeply understand "letting the garden of art always bloom for the people," and to answer how artistic works should better reach the masses, we must adhere to the unity of meeting the people's cultural needs and promoting the people's cultural creation, and actively explore the rich mine of new mass culture and art.
Returning to the essence of art, facing the masses, and embracing the masses, artistic creation will be more vital.
Adhering to a people-centered approach to creation is the only way for the prosperity and development of art. For some time, phenomena such as extravagant content, impetuous mentality, and shoddy production in the field of art have been widely criticized. The reason lies in the detachment from the creative source of real life. Looking back at excellent works such as "Mountain and Sea Love (山海情)" and "A Lifelong Journey (人世间)," none of them are not deeply rooted in real life and present the perspective of the masses.
The potential for mass artistic creation is enormous. In recent years, documentary literature such as "Driving a Taxi in Shanghai (我在上海开出租)" and songs such as "If the Moon Doesn't Come (若月亮没来)" have achieved a "double harvest" of quality and traffic; grassroots artists such as "takeaway poet" Wang Jibing (王计兵), "pancake singer" Li Weijia (李维佳), and "cleaning painter" Wang Liuyun (王柳云) have achieved extraordinary things in the ordinary; the "Village Super League (村超)" is a gathering of "folk stars," the commentary of "Su Super League (苏超)" has become popular, and mass sports events have a strong "artistic flair"... With mass participation, mass co-creation, mass dissemination, and mass love, the development of art will have new imagination space and an inexhaustible source of living water.
Let elites and the masses move towards each other. Elegant art palaces and urban pocket parks are both spaces for artistic expression; professional artists and amateur enthusiasts can complement and nourish each other.
Artistic breakthroughs must be made among the masses. Actors from the China National Opera & Dance Drama Theater (中国歌剧舞剧院) go to the square to play classic melodies, graduates from the Beijing Dance Academy (北京舞蹈学院) "battle dance" with dance enthusiasts in the park, and actors from the China Acrobatic Troupe (中国杂技团) ask grandpas playing diabolo for creative ideas... Recently, close interactions between artists and citizens have attracted attention. The masses praise "the national team is the national team," while artists find a "secret realm of inspiration" from the hot life.
Mass art needs guidance. Some places invite painters and citizen representatives to decorate urban micro-spaces with artistic techniques. Only by rooting in the people, embracing the people, and expressing the people can all art forms shine with unique charm. At the same time, popular is not equal to vulgar, and traffic does not mean quality. With equal emphasis on seeking novelty and seeking quality, new mass culture and art can go steadily and far, and powerfully feed back into public cultural life.
Balance digital empowerment and spiritual growth. Digital embellishment and technological support expand the boundaries of artistic creation and appreciation, but the focus is still on serving the collective spiritual world.
At the "Prosperous Era Compilation - 'Chinese Painting Collection of Past Dynasties' Achievement Exhibition · Fuzhou Special Exhibition (盛世修典——‘中国历代绘画大系’成果展·福州特展)," viewers only need to wear VR glasses to immerse themselves in the magical artistic realm of ink and wash paintings. Today, the integrated application of 5G, artificial intelligence and other digital technologies has made the "resurrection" of famous paintings no longer a dream, and intangible cultural heritage skills have been revitalized. Making good use of new technologies and new carriers, and doing a good job in innovative transformation, can not only open up new horizons for creation, but also help the public better feel the vigorous vitality of Chinese artistic creation.
Aesthetics are pleasing, and spiritual growth is even more valuable. People are infected by excellent artistic works because they believe in truth, goodness, and beauty in their hearts, and have the need for emotional expression and emotional resonance. Behind the resonance, what is lit up is emotion and value. For example, co-creating micro-dramas and publishing interesting barrage comments silently strengthens the emotional connection between people. Achieving better "self-pleasing" in "pleasing others" is the realization of a higher level of spiritual satisfaction.
The new wave of mass culture and art is in full swing, neither a descent of elite culture nor a replica of popular culture, allowing everyone to appreciate their own unique beauty. In the context of widespread public participation and high media integration, this paradigm innovation of artistic creation and dissemination will continue to beautify our garden of art and further stimulate cultural innovation and creativity.
Return to TopData from the China Building Materials Federation shows that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's building materials industry has achieved a series of new breakthroughs in areas such as industrial structure optimization and green, low-carbon development. Revenue from green building materials products exceeded 250 billion yuan; carbon dioxide emissions from the building materials industry have decreased for four consecutive years, with a cumulative decrease of 20.4%. As of now, China's entire building materials industry has achieved carbon peaking and is fully moving towards carbon neutrality.
This is precisely:
Thousands of buildings, lush with green,
Reducing emissions and carbon, building solid achievements.
Peaking has surpassed heavy mountain obstacles,
A new journey begins with even grander ambitions.
Chang Jinwen (常晋文)
Return to TopBy: 冯 琴
In many places, the term "to-do" appears frequently in various summary reports and rectification lists—the depth of research needs to be strengthened, the work style needs to be improved, and the implementation efforts need to be enhanced. These expressions objectively present the shortcomings in the work. However, too many similar expressions may turn work tasks that should be clear into "flexible tasks." Using "to-do" as an excuse will further encourage the unhealthy tendencies of procrastination and prolonged indecision, invisibly eroding public trust and damaging the image of the Party and the government.
When "to-do" becomes a linguistic habit, it forms a kind of "shield," using linguistic routines to cover up inaction. The reason for this is that some cadres have a misplaced view of performance, emphasizing statements over implementation, believing that such statements can highlight problem awareness without having to bear specific responsibilities; some cadres have a sense of "ability panic," lacking the ideas and methods to solve problems, so they use "to-do" to cover up their lack of ability. Some units lack closed-loop management of problem rectification, neither specifying time limits nor tracking effectiveness, which fosters the erroneous perception of "to-do is done," allowing the "omnipotent to-do style" to continue to spread.
The key to breaking the drawbacks of "negligence" lies in practical work. Forge the true ability to handle things immediately, master the spirit of policies, be proficient in one's own business, and widely dabble in knowledge of related fields to ensure that things are handled quickly, accurately, and professionally; establish a hard yardstick for handling things within a limited time, implement list-based management of to-do items, clarify the task book, timetable, and responsible person, refine "research needs to be deepened" into "conduct special research this month and form a report," and concretize "work style needs to be improved" into "conduct work style supervision every month and report typical cases," so as to hand over hard accounts to the masses with time-limited handling; strengthen the strict mechanism of supervising the handling of things to ensure that responsibility is assigned to everyone in each link, forming a closed loop of responsibility at all levels and interlocking links... Only when Party members and cadres show a sense of urgency that “今天再晚也是早、明天再早也是晚” (jīntiān zài wǎn yěshì zǎo, míngtiān zài zǎo yěshì wǎn - "today, no matter how late, is still early; tomorrow, no matter how early, is still late," emphasizing the importance of acting promptly and not delaying), can they win the satisfaction of the masses by solving problems.
(Excerpted from *Yunnan Daily* (《云南日报》))
Return to TopBy: 曲哲涵
Government procurement uses fiscal funds to provide reasonable support for domestic products, which is in line with international practice. The key lies in whether the scope and standards can be scientifically defined to ensure equal treatment for all types of business entities.
The Chinese government procurement market, with a scale of over 3.3 trillion yuan, is ushering in a major transformation.
In September of this year, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Notice on Implementing Domestic Product Standards and Related Policies in Government Procurement" (《关于在政府采购中实施本国产品标准及相关政策的通知》) (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"). This document, scheduled to take effect on January 1 next year, clarifies the identification standards for "domestic products," sets quantifiable, verifiable, and traceable "hard targets," enhances the transparency of government procurement, and will provide more stable policy expectations for various business entities participating in government procurement bidding.
Government procurement uses fiscal funds to provide reasonable support for domestic products, which is in line with international practice. The key lies in whether the scope and standards can be scientifically defined to ensure equal treatment for all types of business entities. The "Notice" clarifies the standards for "domestic products" and explicitly prohibits differential or discriminatory treatment of suppliers based on ownership, organizational form, equity structure, investor nationality, or other unreasonable conditions, reflecting the reform direction of promoting fair competition and delivering policy benefits to various enterprises investing in China.
The rule of law is the best business environment, and openness and transparency are the lifeline of government procurement. Since the implementation of the Government Procurement Law, China has established a relatively complete legal system for government procurement, but there is a lack of clear definition of which products belong to "domestic goods, engineering, and services." Due to ambiguities in understanding, some implementation problems inevitably arise in practice. Fully listening to the opinions and suggestions of all parties, clarifying that "various business entities equally enjoy government procurement support policies for domestic products," setting a policy transition period... Promoting government procurement system reform on the track of the rule of law, eliminating rule ambiguity, and enhancing competition fairness are pragmatic actions to implement national treatment for foreign-funded enterprises, demonstrating the determination and magnanimity of an open market.
The openness of this policy is not only reflected in adhering to "equal treatment for domestic and foreign capital," but also in reserving space for docking with international high-standard economic and trade rules such as the World Trade Organization's Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). Advocating fair competition under internationally accepted rules and achieving greater development through mutual benefit and win-win cooperation is our consistent belief and commitment. As China's government procurement standards become clearer and policy transparency continues to improve, a competitive stage with high-level openness as its background is releasing a strong magnetic attraction. Regardless of whether it is domestic or foreign capital, as long as it takes root, cultivates deeply, invests in high-quality development, and serves a high-quality life, it can seize the opportunities of the times and the market, and continue to develop and grow in fair competition.
Openness is a distinct symbol of Chinese-style modernization. The "Suggestions" (《建议》) 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 to "steadily expand institutional opening-up." In the process of formulating and implementing various policies, further improving the awareness of promoting reform and development through opening-up, and continuously building a first-class market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized business environment will accumulate stronger momentum for high-quality development.
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Return to TopBy: 张扬勇
Deeply implement the seed industry revitalization action, promote the research and application of high-end intelligent agricultural machinery and equipment suitable for hilly and mountainous areas, and promote the integrated efficiency of good fields, good seeds, good machines, and good methods.
——Excerpt from the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal
Panjiawan Town (潘家湾镇), Jiayu County (嘉鱼县), Hubei Province (湖北省), is the core main production area of overwintering cabbage. The cabbages are connected in pieces, growing gratifyingly, and the harvesting farmers are full of smiles. The happy scene I saw here not long ago made me feel very excited. Before 2018, most of the varieties planted here came from abroad. Now, the varieties are independently cultivated by our team.
Cabbage is what ordinary people know as cabbage. Overwintering cabbage planted in the Yangtze River (长江) basin can be marketed in the early spring of the following year during the off-season of vegetable supply, which can not only enrich the people's table but also increase farmers' income. However, because domestic varieties were not cold-resistant in the past, more than 90% of overwintering cabbage varieties have been imported from abroad for a long time. Since 2008, the cabbage breeding team I belong to has joined forces with seed companies to carry out independent breeding of overwintering cabbage, taking Jiayu County (嘉鱼县), Hubei Province (湖北省) as a base, and started a "long-distance race" of more than 10 years.
To breed overwintering cabbage, we must first collect cold-resistant germplasm resources. Many cabbage varieties are prepared with male sterility, which means that we cannot use the cold-resistant sterile resources of foreign seed companies. Therefore, we put in "stupid effort" - using molecular marker methods, we screened more than 300,000 plants of distant hybrid offspring and pioneered the fertility restoration line, thereby breaking the foreign monopoly on overwintering cabbage specific resistance resources. On this basis, we used molecular breeding technology to guide the preparation of cold-resistant hybrid combinations of cabbage, which greatly improved breeding efficiency. In 2018, we successfully bred the new overwintering cabbage variety "Zhonggan 1305 (中甘1305)". After open-field planting verification, the variety surpasses similar foreign varieties in terms of cold resistance, Fusarium wilt resistance, cracking resistance, and premature bolting resistance, and the seed cost is only half the price of imported varieties. Today, in Jiayu County (嘉鱼县), about 70% of the overwintering cabbage is this variety.
This "long-distance race" is not easy. Excellent cabbage varieties must be "top students" with no shortcomings. They must not only be cold-resistant but also have high yields, good appearance, and good color. Initially, compared with foreign varieties, the varieties we selected had obvious gaps, which once frustrated the team members. The climate difference between the north and south of China is large, and the same combination performs very differently in Beijing (北京) and Hubei (湖北). Breeding in the field at the Beijing (北京) base in autumn and winter often brings many difficulties due to low temperatures. For example, in November 2015, a heavy snow covered the cabbage, and to investigate the traits, we had to sweep the snow off one by one.
The more difficult it is, the more we need to persevere. We constantly reviewed and continuously iterated and updated, and finally selected the ideal variety. We worked closely with enterprises, showed the vegetable farmers, and led the vegetable farmers to do it, and the vegetable farmers slowly accepted "Zhonggan 1305 (中甘1305)". In 2023, it was also selected into the National Crop Excellent Variety Promotion Catalog of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部).
There is no end to variety cultivation. Looking forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," meeting the market's demand for cabbages with different tastes and nutritional components, making cabbages more suitable for mechanized harvesting... Many of our tasks will continue to advance steadily. After more than 20 years of engaging in vegetable breeding, I have witnessed the leap-forward development of vegetable breeding. I believe that with the joint efforts of team members, the people will eat more and better overwintering cabbage varieties, and the localization rate of overwintering cabbage varieties will continue to increase.
(The author is a researcher at the Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (中国农业科学院蔬菜花卉研究所). This report was compiled and interviewed by Yu Sinan (喻思南), a reporter from this newspaper.)
Reporter's Notes
Make the "vegetable basket" more stable and fuller
From more than 90% imported to 70% being independent varieties, the transformation of the main cultivated varieties in the core main production area of overwintering cabbage in Jiayu (嘉鱼), Hubei (湖北), is a microcosm of the "breakthrough" of vegetable breeding in China.
To make the people's "vegetable basket" more stable and fuller, it is crucial to have independent control over the seed source.
After years of efforts, although China has basically achieved independence in the use of seeds for bulk vegetables, the dependence on foreign countries for vegetable seeds such as broccoli, carrots, and onions is still relatively high. Only by breeding domestic alternative varieties can we have the autonomy of excellent vegetable varieties, and can we more effectively increase the income of vegetable farmers and master the initiative to benefit the people and farmers. Whether it is to stabilize production, increase efficiency, optimize the structure, or meet the diverse and high-quality consumption needs of the people, it is necessary to continuously select and promote more good varieties.
We have the foundation and confidence to strengthen the cultivation of independent vegetable varieties. In recent years, China's agricultural scientific research team has grown stronger, the level of technology has continued to improve, and policy support has been strong, and significant results have been achieved in independent vegetable breeding. Key technical problems such as haploid breeding and molecular breeding have been overcome, and high-quality vegetable varieties such as fruit cabbage and carrot for juicing have been selected. Taking advantage of the momentum, aiming at the entire chain and making precise efforts, and working together in the links of germplasm resource protection, breeding, and promotion, we have the confidence to hold the initiative of vegetable seeds in our own hands.
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Vegetable breeding, how to be precise and efficient
Heterosis utilization refers to the technology of hybridizing different parents with genetic differences to obtain a hybrid generation with traits superior to both parents. At present, scientific researchers mainly rely on this technology to select vegetable varieties with higher yields, better quality, and better resistance. In recent years, combined with modern biotechnology, vegetable breeding is becoming more and more precise and efficient, and some of these technologies are used in cabbage breeding.
In terms of phenotype collection, using drones equipped with spectral cameras, scientists can analyze the growth status and health of cabbage on a large scale and automatically, replacing cumbersome manual field surveys. In genome selection, artificial intelligence models are used to analyze cabbage gene data and field performance to predict which hybrid offspring have excellent characteristics such as strong cold resistance and late bolting, and pre-screen the best combinations, greatly shortening the breeding cycle. Imagining the future, artificial intelligence is also expected to achieve "precision design breeding." For example, after setting the vegetable trait requirements, artificial intelligence deduces the optimal parental selection and gene combination scheme, improving the success rate and pertinence of breeding.
Improving quality and marketability is an important goal of vegetable breeding. With the application of cutting-edge technologies such as molecular breeding and artificial intelligence, there will be more delicious, nutritious, and functionally diverse vegetables on the table, further enriching the people's "vegetable basket".
(This report was compiled by Yu Sinan (喻思南), a reporter from this newspaper)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on December 10th (Reporter Zhang Tianpei (张天培)) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Public Security (公安部): The National Public Security Organs Ecological Police Affairs Work Conference was held in Huzhou (湖州), Zhejiang (浙江) on December 8th.
According to reports, the national public security organs will rely on the new "specialty + mechanism + big data" police operation model to specialize and strengthen the environmental, food, and drug investigation police force, further improve the working mechanism, increase the crackdown efforts, deepen the construction of the rule of law, and improve professional capabilities. They will improve the "four-pronged" working pattern of professional driving, police action, departmental linkage, and mass mobilization, powerfully stimulate the overall work efficiency of "attack, defense, governance, and service," and severely crack down on crimes that damage environmental resources in accordance with the law. They will use the strictest system and the most stringent rule of law to protect the ecological environment, and contribute greater public security strength to promote the construction of a beautiful China.
The public security organs will grasp the situation, laws, and characteristics of crimes in the field of environmental resources, give full play to their functional advantages, and always maintain a high-pressure and severe crackdown on all types of crimes that damage environmental resources. They will resolutely fight the tough battles, proactive battles, and overall battles, and use "long-toothed" hard measures to protect the ecological environment. In addition, the public security organs will take the strengthening of the construction of the ecological police affairs mechanism as an opportunity, and take the in-depth implementation of the public security organs' new quality combat effectiveness enhancement project as a traction, strengthen proactive prevention, promote comprehensive governance, help green development, and promote the formation of a new pattern of ecological police affairs work.
Return to TopPeople's Daily, Beijing, December 10th (Reporter Yan Yiqiao (闫伊乔)) On the afternoon of December 10th, the "People's Daily Campus Tour" event was held at Beijing Language and Culture University (北京语言大学).
Four People's Daily (人民日报) journalists shared their practical experiences and insights on Party newspaper news gathering and editing, international communication work, and innovative media communication styles. Comrades from relevant departments of the People's Daily (人民日报) introduced information such as the newspaper's post settings and talent recruitment process. During the Q&A session, front-line journalists had in-depth exchanges with teachers and students of Beijing Language and Culture University (北京语言大学) on issues raised by students such as media diplomacy and youth growth. The People's Daily (人民日报) electronic reading kiosk entry ceremony was held at the event, and Beijing Language and Culture University (北京语言大学) presented the "School-Media Cooperation and Co-construction Unit" certificate to the People's Daily Digital Communication Company (人民日报数字传播公司).
Since its launch in 2009, the "People's Daily Campus Tour" event has successively entered many universities. Through face-to-face interaction, it allows more young college students to understand and pay attention to the Party Central Committee's organ newspaper, which is important for the People's Daily (人民日报) to expand its geographical coverage, expand its population coverage, and expand its content coverage, improve quality, improve writing style, get closer to readers, and be more attractive, playing a positive role.
Ni Haidong (倪海东), Secretary of the Party Committee of Beijing Language and Culture University (北京语言大学), held a discussion with the delegation from the People's Daily (人民日报). Cui Shixin (崔士鑫), Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the People's Daily (人民日报) , attended the event.
Return to TopChangchun, December 10th (Reporter Liu Yiqing (刘以晴)) On December 8th, the Central Jilin Province Water Diversion Project, with a total investment of 14.932 billion yuan, passed completion acceptance and was officially put into full operation.
The Central Jilin Province Water Diversion Project takes "high-quality water source + closed transmission" as its core advantage, drawing water from the abundant and high-quality water of the Songhua River Fengman Reservoir (松花江丰满水库). It achieves full-pressure water transmission through a 704-kilometer underground pipeline network, providing water supply guarantee for 26 townships in 3 cities, Changchun (长春), Siping (四平), and Liaoyuan (辽源), and 11 counties (cities, districts) along the route. During the trial operation phase, the water source replacement work in the Siping area has been completed. Changchun, Liaoyuan and the areas along the route will successively connect to high-quality water sources, further improving the quality of regional domestic water and improving the ecological environment of surface water.
It is understood that the project is designed to divert an average of 898 million cubic meters of water annually, and its full operation will be conducive to local black soil protection and stable grain production and increased production.
Return to TopAccording to a report from our newspaper in Chengdu (成都) on December 10th (Reporter Wang Mingfeng (王明峰)), "Why does my pension eligibility certification always fail?" After dinner, Zhang Feng (张峰), Deputy Director of the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau of Cangxi County (苍溪县), Sichuan Province (四川省), appeared again in the residential activity area. He chatted with his neighbors, learned about their worries, and tried his best to help solve them.
Up to now, more than 3,000 party member cadres in Cangxi County (苍溪县) have used their "outside of eight working hours" to regularly go down to the community, and have cumulatively helped the masses solve more than 340 urgent, difficult, and worrying problems, further strengthening the relationship between the Party and the masses.
In recent years, Cangxi County (苍溪县) has continued to deepen the management and supervision of party member cadres "outside of eight working hours," and has formulated a negative list of behaviors for party member cadres "outside of eight working hours." At the same time, the local government has purified the social circles, life circles, and friend circles of party member cadres by unblocking supervision channels, carrying out special inspections, strengthening discipline and supervision, and combining ideological education and healthy living advocacy.
Return to TopFinance is the lifeblood of the national economy, and the development of new quality productive forces cannot be separated from all-round and full-cycle financial services. In recent years, the Jiangsu Branch of Bank of China (中国银行江苏省分行) (hereinafter referred to as "BOC Jiangsu Branch") has focused on Jiangsu's goals of building a "strong manufacturing province" and a "strong science and technology province," and has made precise efforts in three major areas: cultivating science and technology innovation enterprises, upgrading industrial clusters, and empowering opening up to the outside world, injecting strong financial impetus into Jiangsu's development of new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions.
Escorting Science and Technology Innovation to Activate the Kinetic Energy of Science and Technology Finance
Scientific and technological innovation is the core element for developing new quality productive forces. BOC Jiangsu Branch regards serving scientific and technological innovation as a key task, and has formulated the "Three-Year Development Plan for Science and Technology Finance (2023-2025)," implementing a dual-wheel drive of "Science and Technology Innovation Financial Center + Science and Technology Enterprise Service Center" to create a financial service matrix covering the entire life cycle of enterprises from "start-up to growth to maturity."
In response to the characteristics of technology-based enterprises with intensive intellectual property rights and long investment cycles, BOC Jiangsu Branch accurately grasps the "hard technology" and "soft power" of enterprises, and customizes solutions for various types of enterprises: For start-up technology-based enterprises, it breaks traditional credit granting thinking and innovatively launches special products such as "Su Zhi Loan" (苏知贷), "BOC High-tech Enterprise Loan" (中银高企贷), and "Specialized, Refined, and New Enterprise Loan" (专精特新贷), and solves the financing problems of enterprises through the linkage of intellectual property pledge, credit granting, and government risk compensation; In order to meet the capital needs of growing technology-based enterprises to expand production and accelerate research and development, it innovatively creates the "BOC-Torch Innovation Points Loan" (中银—火炬创新积分贷), which transforms innovation indicators such as enterprise R&D investment, number of patents, and science and technology innovation awards into financing credit; It provides mature technology-based enterprises with high-end comprehensive financial instruments such as cross-border mergers and acquisitions, privatization financing, export credit, and international project financing. The "one-point access, global response" mechanism links overseas institutions to help enterprises integrate global innovation resources and expand international markets.
As of the end of October 2025, BOC Jiangsu Branch served more than 39,000 technology-based enterprises, and the balance of science and technology financial loans exceeded 230 billion yuan, continuing to lead the market share.
Strengthening the Financial Chain to Consolidate the Foundation for Industrial Upgrading
To develop new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, it is necessary to base ourselves on the existing industrial base, adhere to the simultaneous advancement of traditional industrial transformation and upgrading, actively develop emerging industries, and proactively lay out future industries, and accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system. Focusing on the construction of Jiangsu's "1650" modern industrial system, BOC Jiangsu Branch has built a differentiated "one chain, one policy" model, and launched a "combined punch" of financial chain strengthening to promote the deep integration of the innovation chain, industrial chain, and capital chain, and consolidate the financial support for the high-quality construction of a modern industrial system.
In response to the characteristics of the biomedicine industry, such as "large R&D investment and long return cycle," BOC Jiangsu Branch uses the "Biomedicine Enterprise Scorecard" and the "Science and Technology Finance Pilot Credit Granting Model," combined with green approval channels and full life cycle financial services, to accurately solve the financing bottlenecks of the industry. Focusing on the characteristics of the new energy industry, such as "large project volume and wide cross-border layout," it takes the "BOC Green +" brand as the center to provide comprehensive solutions such as green credit, project financing, and cross-border capital centralized operation to help the industry's low-carbon transformation and global layout. In line with the demands of the high-end equipment manufacturing industry, such as "tight production expansion timeliness and strong industrial chain collaboration," it activates the collaborative development momentum of "chain owners + chain members" through "chain marketing + full life cycle support" and special support for equipment renewal.
In order to improve the service efficiency of industrial clusters, BOC Jiangsu Branch has formed an expert team, formulated more than 40 industry credit granting strategies, and achieved full coverage of key industrial chains with research results. At the same time, it has established a normalized expert training mechanism and created the Jiangsu BOC Industry Forum to gather knowledge, technology, talent and other elements, and empower high-quality development with finance. Focusing on the "three major tasks" of revitalizing traditional industries, expanding emerging industries, and cultivating future industries in Jiangsu Province, the financial chain strengthening "double thousand project" implementation plan has been included in the bank's "ten leading projects" for high-quality development, and a "panoramic view" of the industrial chain customer database has been built, realizing the data entry of 1.0781 million chain enterprises, providing credit financing of 780.2 billion yuan for 31,100 industrial chain enterprises, and helping the province's industrial chain transform to high-end, intelligent, and green.
Helping Openness to Serve the Construction of a New Development Pattern
Expanding high-level opening up to the outside world creates a good international environment for the development of new quality productive forces. Relying on the global service network of Bank of China, BOC Jiangsu Branch focuses on the full-process needs of enterprises "going global" and "bringing in," and provides integrated cross-border financial services to participate in the construction of a new development pattern with financial opening up. At present, relying on the advantages of Bank of China's global RMB clearing network, it has customized an integrated cross-border financial solution of "settlement + financing + hedging" for a leading new energy manufacturing enterprise in Changzhou (常州), effectively reducing the cost and risk of exchange rate fluctuations.
In order to further improve the efficiency of cross-border financial services, BOC Jiangsu Branch continues to optimize the facilitation policy of cross-border investment and financing around the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" (一带一路), and improve the efficiency of cross-border capital flow; It enriches the foreign exchange hedging product system and provides enterprises with diversified tools such as forward exchange settlement and sale and foreign exchange options.
In the future, BOC Jiangsu Branch will thoroughly implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, closely focus on the construction of Jiangsu's modern industrial system, and contribute more to Jiangsu's development of new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions and promote high-quality development with higher quality, more precise, and more efficient comprehensive financial services.
Data source: Jiangsu Branch of Bank of China
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 魏哲哲
In recent years, conflicts between property owners and property service providers have occurred from time to time, exhibiting characteristics such as being prone to recurrence and difficult to resolve. The Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院) recently released five typical cases of property service contract disputes, responding to issues of public concern in the property sector, such as methods of collecting property fees and the "difficult handover" after the termination of property service contracts. The aim is to fully leverage the demonstrative and guiding effect of typical cases, unify adjudication rules, and effectively prevent and resolve property dispute conflicts. The Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院) actively responds to public concerns, guiding people's courts at all levels to properly address new situations and problems in the property sector, substantially resolve civil disputes, including property service contract disputes, and strive to promote the resolution of urgent and difficult problems that people are concerned about.
Property service providers cannot use methods such as restricting the use of access control systems to collect property fees.
[Case Summary] A property owner, Zhang (张), in a certain residential complex discovered that he was prohibited from using the elevator and access control system of his unit by the property management company due to unpaid property fees. After unsuccessful negotiations with the property company, Zhang (张) sued the court, demanding the restoration of his access to the elevator and access control system.
The court held that although Zhang (张) owed property fees, the property company should not collect property fees by not activating the owner's access card, preventing him from entering the unit door normally, or preventing him from using the elevator access control system normally. The property company can separately protect its rights and interests in accordance with the law for Zhang's (张) breach of contract in failing to pay property fees. After the court's legal explanation, the property company restored Zhang's (张) access to the access control system.
[Legal Basis] The Civil Code stipulates that property service providers shall not adopt methods such as stopping the supply of electricity, water, heating, or gas to collect property fees. Property service providers collecting property fees by not activating the owner's access card or restricting the use of elevators essentially unduly restrict the owner's ownership of the building based on their creditor's rights under the property service contract, which lacks a legal basis and exceeds the limits of what is reasonably necessary.
The Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院) advises that property service providers should use reasonable and legal methods to collect property fees. If the owner still fails to pay property fees within a reasonable period after being urged, the property service provider can protect its legitimate rights and interests in accordance with the law through mediation, litigation, or arbitration, but should not collect fees in a way that affects the owner's normal life.
If a property company refuses to withdraw, it cannot demand that owners pay property fees after the termination of the contract.
[Case Summary] The owners' committee of a certain residential complex sent a letter to a property company, informing it that the original property service contract would be renewed after its expiration and inviting it to actively participate in the bidding. The property company replied that the original property service contract would terminate automatically after its expiration. Subsequently, the residential complex hired a new property service provider and signed a "Property Management Service Contract" with it. The owners' committee notified the property company to complete the handover in a timely manner, but it failed to withdraw within a reasonable period, causing the new property service provider to be unable to enter the site for a long time. The property company filed a lawsuit in court because it failed to collect property fees from owner He (何) after the termination of the original property service contract.
The court held that after the termination of the original property service contract, the property company failed to fulfill its handover obligations to the new property service provider as required by the owners' committee and refused to withdraw from the property service area after being clearly informed of the legal consequences. It may not request the owner to pay property fees after the termination of the property service contract. Final judgment: The property company's claim was rejected.
[Legal Basis] The Civil Code stipulates that when a property service contract is terminated, the original property service provider shall withdraw from the property service area within the agreed period or a reasonable period, return the property service rooms, related facilities, and related materials necessary for property services to the owners' committee, the owners who decide to manage themselves, or their designated persons, cooperate with the new property service provider to do a good job in the handover, and truthfully inform them of the use and management status of the property. If the original property service provider violates the provisions of the preceding paragraph, it shall not request the owner to pay property fees after the termination of the property service contract; if it causes losses to the owner, it shall compensate for the losses.
Due to conflicts of interest between new and old property service providers, some original property service providers disregard the common wishes of the residential complex owners, continue to occupy property service rooms, and refuse to return relevant materials, 以服务之名行强占之实 (yǐ fú wù zhī míng xíng qiáng zhàn zhī shí - "under the guise of service, engaging in forcible occupation," using the pretense of providing services to actually occupy something by force), making it difficult for the new property service provider to carry out its work smoothly. The judgment in this case rejecting the property company's claim is conducive to guiding property service providers to withdraw on time and fulfill their handover obligations in accordance with the law, and is of positive significance for regulating property service behavior and building a harmonious and livable residential environment.
The original property service provider has no right to sue the decision of the owners' meeting to hire a new property service provider.
[Case Summary] A property company was the preliminary property service provider selected by the construction unit of a certain residential complex. Later, the residential complex convened an owners' meeting to make a decision to dismiss the property company and hire a new property service provider. The residential complex owners' committee has separately signed a property service contract with the new property service provider. The property company believes that the decision made by the residential complex owners' meeting to hire a new property service provider does not comply with the legal provisions regarding the proportion of exclusive area and the number of owners for voting on matters jointly decided by the owners, and filed a lawsuit requesting confirmation that the decision was invalid.
The court held that the property company was not an owner of the residential complex, was not bound by the decision of the owners' meeting, and did not have a direct interest in the disputed decision of the owners' meeting. Therefore, it had no right to sue for the revocation of the owners' meeting decision or to confirm that the decision was invalid. Final ruling: The property company's lawsuit was rejected.
[Legal Basis] According to the Civil Code, the selection and dismissal of property service enterprises shall be jointly decided by the owners. The decisions of the owners' meeting or the owners' committee are legally binding on the owners. The owners' meeting decision is an important way for owners to exercise their joint management rights over major matters in the residential complex and implement owner autonomy. The decision made by the owners' meeting is legally binding on the owners and does not directly bind subjects other than the owners. Therefore, the property service provider does not have the necessity and effectiveness of requesting the people's court to make a judgment on the validity of the owners' meeting decision. If the original property service provider believes that the termination of the property service contract has caused it losses, it may assert its claims separately.
The Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院) stated that this case clarifies that property service providers cannot file lawsuits against the owners' meeting's decision to hire a new property service provider, which has a rule-guiding effect and is conducive to maintaining the validity of the owners' meeting decision and legally protecting the owners' exercise of their joint management rights.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘温馨 林丽鹂
The transitional period for the newly revised mandatory national standard "Safety Technical Specification for Electric Bicycles" officially ended on December 1st. The sale of "old standard" electric bicycles is completely prohibited, and electric bicycles that meet the new standard are being gradually introduced to the market. What changes will the implementation of the new national standard bring? Can the new models meet daily travel needs? The reporter conducted interviews on issues of general concern to consumers.
Do new national standard vehicles have rear seats? Can they carry children?
The conclusion first: Yes, there are rear seats, and they can carry children. The China Bicycle Association (中国自行车协会) stated that among the new standard products developed by companies, more than 70% of the models have rear seats, which can meet the needs of parent-child travel.
"The new standard fully considers the use scenario of carrying children. Consumers who need it can install child safety seats in the rear seats and other positions," said Wu Yiou (吴轶欧), director of the National Market Supervision and Administration Technology Innovation Center of Tianjin Municipal Institute of Product Quality Supervision and Inspection Technology. Some provinces have put forward relevant requirements for carrying people on non-motor vehicles through local legislation, and consumers should understand the specific local regulations.
Regarding the widely discussed issues on the Internet such as "no storage space" and "seats are empty underneath," relevant electric bicycle manufacturers issued statements stating that some new models are "lightweight" models designed for consumers who do not need to carry people, which are not standard regulations. In the future, companies will gradually launch diversified products according to consumer needs.
Will speeding cause a power outage and emergency braking? Why is the maximum design speed specified as 25 kilometers per hour?
"Power outage due to speeding is a misunderstanding of the new standard." The relevant person in charge of the Safety Technology Research Center of the China Electronics Technology Standardization Institute (中国电子技术标准化研究院) stated that regarding the limit on the maximum speed, the new national standard maintains the provision in the 2018 version of the standard that the maximum design speed of electric bicycles should not exceed 25 kilometers per hour, and adds the requirement that the motor should stop providing power output when the speed exceeds 25 kilometers per hour. In special scenarios such as continuous downhill slopes, the speed of the electric bicycle may briefly exceed 25 kilometers per hour. At this time, the motor will no longer continue to provide power to the vehicle, but it will not brake suddenly, and the vehicle can continue to coast.
The maximum speed limit has not changed, but it has still sparked heated discussions. Some electric bicycle owners believe that this speed is "too slow," while some motor vehicle owners and passers-by say it is "too fast."
What is a reasonable speed? Checking relevant legal provisions reveals that according to Article 58 of the Road Traffic Safety Law of China (道路交通安全法), when electric bicycles are driving in non-motor vehicle lanes, the maximum speed shall not exceed 15 kilometers per hour. The "General Technical Conditions for Electric Bicycles" issued in 1999 stipulated that the maximum speed should not be greater than 20 kilometers per hour. Until 2018, the previous version of the national standard increased the maximum speed to no more than 25 kilometers per hour and has continued to this day.
Should the speed limit be relaxed? Relevant officials from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) stated that initially, based on traffic safety and travel convenience considerations, the maximum design speed, vehicle quality, and other factors were appropriately increased. This clause was scientifically formulated based on a large amount of experimental data in the early stage, which can ensure the smoothness of driving and the safety of riders.
However, on the one hand, electric bicycles as non-motor vehicles have speed limits, and on the other hand, many cities "ban motorcycles." The actual needs of consumers drive electric bicycles to be privately "unrestricted" in the sales process. Similar contradictions should be addressed by multiple departments in the future to explore more reasonable management methods.
Is the seat made of sheet metal? Can rearview mirrors be installed?
"The new standard implemented this time does not require electric bicycles to be equipped with metal saddles." The relevant person in charge of the Safety Technology Research Center of the China Electronics Technology Standardization Institute (中国电子技术标准化研究院) stated that in order to reduce the fire hazard of seats and reduce the degree of harm during a fire, the new standard stipulates that "the elastic padding material (such as foam material filled in the seat) should meet the combustion characteristics requirements of the elastic padding material in Table 2 of GB 38262—2019." Foam seats that meet the relevant requirements meet the new standard. The China Bicycle Association (中国自行车协会) stated that the current mainstream models all use foam (sponge) seats, which not only meet safety standards but also ensure riding comfort. The online rumor of "sheet metal seats" is not a common phenomenon, let alone a requirement of the new standard.
Regarding the issue of rearview mirrors, the new standard not only does not "prohibit installation" but also clearly stipulates that "the installation of rearview mirrors is encouraged." Most vehicles are equipped with rearview mirrors when they leave the factory. Only a few models do not install rearview mirrors due to considerations such as a simple appearance. Consumers can purchase them as needed.
At present, more than 600 new standard models from more than 100 companies across the country have passed CCC certification, covering different grades of models. Currently, the prices of new electric vehicles of different brands on the market have increased by 300 yuan to thousands of yuan. Industry insiders said that the price increase of new models is a normal market phenomenon. In the future, companies will improve the cost performance of products and provide a richer selection of models after the new models are mass-produced and scaled up.
Return to TopBy: 刘温馨
"Small electric bikes," big livelihood. Currently, the social ownership of electric bicycles in China is about 380 million, which is equivalent to about one electric bicycle for every four people. Commuting, picking up children, delivering food... electric bicycles have become deeply integrated into the daily lives of ordinary people.
At present, illegal phenomena such as "excessive" electric bicycles on the road are common, which can easily induce traffic safety accidents. At the same time, the number of fires caused by electric bicycles increases by about 20% annually, threatening the safety of people's lives and property. The new national standard aims to promote production enterprises to improve product safety through technical indicators and reduce safety hazards.
Standard upgrades should not lead to a downgrade in experience. Recently, new models from some companies have been criticized for designs that lack storage space and the inability to carry people. Consumers naturally won't accept products that meet parameter safety requirements but ignore usage logic. Responding to needs with more user-friendly details and adapting to usage scenarios with more scientific designs can make electric bicycle safety a standard feature and convenience a normal occurrence.
Upgrading industry standards should better balance the safety and convenience of different road traffic participants, and production enterprises should also accelerate product design and iteration to create electric bicycle products that both meet standards and are more practical.
Return to TopDuring the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Yunyan District (云岩区), Guiyang City (贵阳市), Guizhou Province (贵州省), adhered to the overall situation of high-quality development, implemented Guiyang's "Four Majors and Four Markets" strategy, and strived to promote the "Four Zones Construction" of a demonstration zone for industry-city integration, a model zone for cultural highlands, a regional consumption center zone, and a practice zone for a better life. In its hard work, it has created a new situation of diversified and high-quality development.
Striving to Build a Demonstration Zone for Industry-City Integration
Leaping to a New Level of Comprehensive Strength of 100 Billion Yuan
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Yunyan District's comprehensive strength continued to leap to a new level. The regional GDP increased from 86 billion yuan at the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan" to 109.2 billion yuan in 2024, surpassing the 90 billion yuan and 100 billion yuan marks, becoming one of the three 100 billion yuan cities and districts in the province. It is expected to reach 115 billion yuan by the end of this year, and this "100 billion yuan district" will reach a new level.
In recent years, Yunyan District has continued to promote the optimization of its industrial structure and accelerate the conversion of old and new driving forces. Focusing on the development direction of "productive service industry + urban new manufacturing," it has designated 8% of the district's land area to plan and build the Guizhou Yunyan Economic Development Zone (贵州云岩经济开发区), which has been successfully approved as a provincial-level development zone, laying a solid foundation for the settlement of a number of advantageous industries, high-quality projects, and strong enterprises. Guided by the completion and operation of the "Guizhou Industrial Design City (贵州工业设计城)," a key project of Guangdong-Guizhou cooperation, service industries such as industrial design and industrial testing serving the province's industrial development have begun to emerge and take effect. It has made every effort to create the "Yunshang Reception Hall (云商会客厅)" enterprise assistance brand, solidly carried out the "Five Assistance" actions, continuously optimized the business environment, and significantly enhanced development vitality. The number of new business entities in the district has increased by 42,000, totaling 154,100, and the number of "Four Above" enterprises has exceeded 1,000, ranking among the top in the city.
Striving to Build a Model Zone for Cultural Highlands
Writing a New Chapter of "Zhucheng Living Room, Charming Main City"
As the city's origin and starting point for development, Yunyan District is fully implementing the "One River, One Road, One Area" project to drive the common development of Yangming culture, historical culture, mass culture, red culture, and ethnic culture.
In recent years, Yunyan District has achieved outstanding results in urban cultural tourism development. It has uncovered and restored the Taiping Road (太平路) section of the Guancheng River (贯城河), and the Guiyang "City Origin" historical and cultural protection and utilization project is about to debut. It has connected and restored the historical city wall walkway, allowing old city landmarks such as Daxi Gate (大西门), Xindong Gate (新东门), and Liuguang Gate (六广门) to return to view. It has renovated and revitalized the Wenchang Pavilion (文昌阁) area, focusing on presenting a life scene with a sense of fireworks and Guiyang flavor, and has been rated as a provincial-level historical and cultural block. It continues to explore and innovate new cultural IPs and new logos. The Wenchang Pavilion "Roadside Concert" has become a popular hit, becoming a model of grassroots cultural innovation. The "5·19 National Parade Carnival" during the summer resort season awakens urban memories with "walking intangible cultural heritage."
Striving to Build a Regional Consumption Center Zone
Creating a New Paradigm of Cultural Tourism Integration, "Cool in Yunyan"
Focusing on the new situation and new changes in the field of consumption, Yunyan District focuses on improving the quality of key business districts, creating distinctive blocks, and enriching business formats and gameplay, creating a number of non-standard businesses. Taiping Road and the "New India 1950 Cultural and Creative Block (新印1950文创街区)" have become new landmarks of urban cultural tourism and the night economy in the province. Yunyan District is making every effort to support the development of new consumption formats. Boutique coffee, craft beer, and exquisite catering brands such as Captain George, TripSmith, and Quchashan are constantly emerging, and Yuejie Cinema has created a new paradigm of film and tourism integration.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Yunyan District continued to deeply cultivate its cultural heritage, innovate cultural tourism experiences, and polish its cultural tourism brand. It innovatively launched the "Old Guiyang·Chengxiang Street Market (老贵阳·城厢街市)" brand, revitalizing old streets and alleys such as Minsheng Road (民生路), Humen Lane (虎门巷), and Youyi Road (友谊路), allowing more citizens and tourists to find the taste of old Guiyang while strolling through the streets and alleys. Driven by these new consumption scenarios and new lifestyles, the Zhonghua Road (中华路) business district centered on Penshuichi (喷水池) is full of vitality and ranks 35th in the top 100 national business districts in 2024. The district's cultural tourism economy is booming. From 2021 to 2024, the average annual growth of the number of tourists received, total tourism revenue, and the number of overnight tourists reached 4.65%, 11.17%, and 21.22% respectively.
Striving to Build a Practice Zone for a Better Life
Highlighting the Heavy Background of "People's Livelihood as the Foundation, Happy Yunyan"
As the old city center and urban functional hub of Guiyang, Yunyan District has always anchored its development vision of "Zhucheng Living Room, Charming Main City," allowing the old city to change its appearance in maintaining integrity and innovation, and benefiting people's livelihood in improving quality and efficiency.
Focusing on the urgent and difficult problems of citizens, Yunyan District has carried out the construction of 29 "15-minute living circles," jointly promoting the "One Circle, Two Fields, Three Reforms" and the "Five Governance" in rural areas, supplementing and improving the functional elements of "education, industry, culture, health, sports, old age, young age, food, housing, and transportation," making people's lives and work more convenient and comfortable. It has made every effort to promote employment and increase income. From 2021 to 2025, it has cumulatively added 188,900 new jobs, and the per capita disposable income of residents has exceeded the 50,000 yuan mark, ranking among the top in the province and city for four consecutive years. It insists on improving the living environment of citizens, improving the level of education and medical services, opening Qianlingshan Park (黔灵山公园) for free, and intensifying the implementation of the renovation of urban villages, shantytowns, and old residential areas, with a total renovation area of 4.7 million square meters, benefiting 170,000 people. Yunyan District has firmly guarded the ecological bottom line and has become the first district and county in the province to be selected into the United Nations "Natural City" platform, and has been on the list of "National Top 100 Green Development Districts" for six consecutive years. High-quality and convenient living facilities have attracted a large number of people to gather. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the district's net increase in permanent residents was 134,000.
Looking forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," Yunyan District will focus on the "Four Zones Construction" of a demonstration zone for industry-city integration, a model zone for cultural highlands, a regional consumption center zone, and a practice zone for a better life, taking industrial collaboration, innovation-driven, consumption quality improvement, cultural empowerment, and reform breakthroughs as paths, and striving to create a "Zhucheng Living Room, Charming Main City" with stronger development capabilities, more beautiful urban appearance, better people's lives, better ecological environment, and richer cultural heritage, to contribute greater strength to writing the Guizhou chapter of Chinese-style modernization.
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Guiyang Yunyan District Committee (中共贵阳市云岩区委宣传部)
Return to TopChina's path to modernization prioritizes the people's well-being.
The Political Bureau meeting of the Central Committee (中央政治局) held on December 8th summarized the various tasks in the field of people's livelihood over the past year with "people's livelihood security has become more powerful," and put forward clear requirements for next year's work on people's livelihood, "Adhere to the principle of putting the people's livelihood first, and strive to do more practical things for the people."
Having access to childcare, education, employment, medical care, elderly care, housing, and assistance for the vulnerable are matters of concern for hundreds of millions of families. More than 300 prefecture-level cities and large population counties are building comprehensive childcare service centers; the gross enrollment rate of preschool education has reached 92%, and the gross enrollment rate of higher education has reached 60.8%; direct settlement of cross-provincial medical expenses has benefited 560 million people; the average life expectancy of residents has reached 79 years; the scale of employment of the lifted-out-of-poverty population has remained stable at more than 30 million people for four consecutive years...
What the people desire is what the government strives for. The smiling faces around us reflect a vivid picture of people's livelihood. Our reporters went deep into the grassroots to record the happy changes in the lives of the masses, presenting a multi-faceted picture of people's livelihood in 2025.
——Editor
[Access to Childcare]
Shanghai Reduces the Cost of Childbirth, Raising, and Education for Families
"Childcare subsidies give us a heartwarming package"
By Huang Xiaohui (黄晓慧), reporter of this newspaper
In the afternoon, sunlight streamed into the bright and clean "Baby House" in the Jiangning Road Subdistrict (江宁路街道) of Jing'an District (静安区), Shanghai (上海). Community resident Lin Xiuhua (林秀华) came to pick up her grandson to go home. In the "Baby House," the children are patiently cared for by childcare workers.
"It's a great help to us that children can enter inclusive childcare centers at the age of one and a half," said Lin Xiuhua's son, Li Yangfan (李扬帆). He and his wife, Ms. Wu (吴女士), are both working parents. In the past, raising their first child left them exhausted from juggling family and work.
The change came after the birth of their second child. In 2022, the Jiangning Road Subdistrict in Jing'an District took the lead in piloting "Baby House" community childcare centers, providing free childcare services for 3 hours each in the morning and afternoon on weekdays. Subsequently, a number of "Baby Houses" spread across Shanghai, continuously expanding the supply of inclusive childcare services. The childcare center their second child attends is not only warm and professional, but also reasonably priced. What makes them even more at ease is that the "Baby House" is right at the entrance of their residential community.
Last year, Li Yangfan and his wife welcomed their third child. A few days ago, Ms. Wu received a text message on her mobile phone: "The childcare subsidy you applied for has been credited to your account."
"From the time my wife registered her pregnancy, staff members proactively informed us of the application procedures for childbirth-related subsidies," Li Yangfan said. "After our second child entered kindergarten in September this year, we enjoyed the policy of reducing and exempting childcare fees. Now the childcare subsidy gives us a heartwarming package, and these tangible support measures have really helped us."
In recent years, Shanghai has been committed to creating a high-quality and inclusive childcare service system, implementing precise and effective economic subsidies, reducing the cost of childbirth, raising, and education for families, and striving to make ordinary families willing to have children, dare to have children, and be able to raise them easily and happily, supporting a better childhood for more children.
[Access to Education]
Shanxi Continues to Improve the Operating Conditions of Primary and Secondary Schools
"Living in such a good school, with so many good friends"
By Zheng Yangyang (郑洋洋), reporter of this newspaper
Puming Hope Primary School (普明希望小学), located at the eastern foot of the Lüliang Mountains (吕梁山) in Lan County (岚县), Shanxi (山西), is situated in Puming Village (普明村), Puming Town (普明镇). The three-story teaching building has a brand-new facade and bright windows, and the sound of reading can be heard as soon as you enter the school gate.
Yang Junjie (杨俊杰), a student in the second class of the fifth grade, sits in the front row, holding a Rubik's Cube in his hand, taking a Rubik's Cube class. "This is one of the school's independently developed characteristic courses," said Zhang Yanhui (张艳慧), a teacher at the school. Zhang Yanhui introduced that in order to stimulate children's interest in learning, the school also offers courses such as classical recitation and mental arithmetic.
Just a year ago, Yang Junjie, who lives in Qijiazhuang Village (祁家庄村), Puming Town, had to walk 20 minutes every day to attend primary school in the neighboring Wayao Village (瓦窑村). The school had a total of only 6 students in different grades, and teaching resources were insufficient. "I was the only one in the class," Yang Junjie said.
After transferring to Puming Hope Primary School, Yang Junjie usually eats and lives at the school, and the school conditions are much better. "The new school has 4 physical education classes a week, as well as calligraphy and dance classes, and there are many interest groups! Living in such a good school, with so many good friends, and being able to take a free bus home at the school gate on weekends, my parents are also very relieved."
"In 2024, the school underwent a comprehensive renovation and became a joint school, integrating students from nearby village primary schools and equipping them with dedicated life teachers," said Han Houping (韩侯平), principal of Puming Hope Primary School. "We have also welcomed 14 special post teachers with bachelor's degrees or above."
In the past 5 years, Shanxi has newly built and expanded more than 1,700 compulsory education boarding schools in areas with concentrated school-age populations, and the operating conditions of primary and secondary schools have been significantly improved.
[Access to Employment]
Erqi District (二七区) in Zhengzhou (郑州市), Henan (河南) Provides Stations for New Employment Groups
"Walking through the streets every day, I have a sense of belonging here"
By Zhang Wenhao (张文豪), reporter of this newspaper
Scanning the QR code on his mobile phone, the battery cabinet door opened in response. In front of a battery replacement station for electric vehicles on Qinlao Street (勤劳街) in Erqi District, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, food delivery driver Wang Guanghui (王光辉) replaced the battery and walked into a station across the street that provides services for workers.
Outside the window, the cold wind was blowing, but the station was warm and welcoming. "The wind was strong this morning, but I still ran 18 orders, which is okay," Wang Guanghui said with a smile. Inside the station, there are water dispensers, microwave ovens, medicine cabinets, charging sockets, and a reading corner and TV.
"There are cold drinks in the summer, warm stickers in the winter, and you can also get free breakfast," Wang Guanghui said. "Walking through the streets every day, I have a sense of belonging here." He is from Pingyu County (平舆县), Zhumadian City (驻马店市), and has been working in Zhengzhou for 3 years. The station has made him feel the warmth of the city.
In Erqi District, 189 such stations have been built. In response to the problems that new employment groups such as couriers and food delivery drivers often encounter, such as difficulty entering buildings, difficulty parking, difficulty charging, and difficulty resting, the local government continues to promote stations into communities, business districts, and industrial parks. Some stations also provide low-cost haircuts, first aid skills training, legal aid, and other services. Once, while delivering food, Wang Guanghui encountered a colleague who accidentally fell and was injured, so he immediately used the first aid knowledge he learned at the station to help disinfect and bandage the wound.
In May of this year, Wang Guanghui gained a new identity - a "mobile grid member" of the Daxue Road Subdistrict (大学路街道) in Erqi District. He takes photos of problems he finds while delivering food and uploads them to the "Take a Photo" platform to promote the rapid resolution of problems.
In Erqi District, 168 food delivery drivers and couriers have joined the "mobile grid member" team, contributing to urban governance.
[Access to Medical Care]
National Mobile Medical Team Provides Medical Services in Dali (大理), Yunnan (云南)
"The mobile medical team is here, and we can get good medical treatment at our doorstep"
By Ye Chuanzeng (叶传增), reporter of this newspaper
Nie Heng (聂衡), a resident of Nanjian Yi Autonomous County (南涧彝族自治县) in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture (大理白族自治州), Yunnan Province, likes to play basketball. Two years ago, he found that his left foot often ached when he exercised or stood for a long time, and he was prone to spraining his ankle. He had been to the county hospital several times, but had not found a suitable treatment plan.
In October of this year, the National Mobile Medical Team, composed of 8 experts from Huashan Hospital (华山医院) affiliated to Fudan University (复旦大学), came to Dali Prefecture to provide medical services. Nie Heng learned about it and went to see a doctor.
"Your left foot has equinovarus. If you do not receive standardized treatment, it may cause difficulty walking and affect your quality of life." In the orthopedics clinic of Nanjian County People's Hospital (南涧县人民医院), Huang Jiazhang (黄加张), deputy chief physician of orthopedics at Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, diagnosed Nie Heng and explained the treatment plan and recovery effect in detail. Huang Jiazhang collaborated with the orthopedics team of Nanjian County People's Hospital to successfully perform osteotomy and muscle strength balance correction surgery for Nie Heng, which was also the first such surgery performed by Nanjian County People's Hospital. Six weeks after the operation, Nie Heng's foot shape returned to normal and he began rehabilitation training. "The mobile medical team is here, and we can get good medical treatment at our doorstep," he said, expressing the sentiments of many people in remote areas.
The medical team from Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University went deep into the three mountainous counties of Nanjian, Yangbi (漾濞), and Weishan (巍山) in Dali Prefecture for this mobile medical service, providing free medical services to thousands of people, completing multi-disciplinary high-difficulty surgeries and complex case diagnoses and treatments, and training more than 100 medical personnel, improving the ability of grassroots hospitals to diagnose and treat difficult diseases and standardize diagnosis and treatment. In 2025, there will be more than 80 national mobile medical teams across the country.
[Access to Elderly Care]
Chang'an Community (长安社区) in Shenyang (沈阳), Liaoning (辽宁) Renovates Elderly Activity Space
"We not only have access to elderly care, but also have access to happiness in our old age"
By Hu Jingyi (胡婧怡), reporter of this newspaper
At 9 a.m., melodious music came from the dance studio of the Chang'an Community Party-Masses Service Center (长安社区党群服务中心) in Chang'an Street (长安街道), Dadong District (大东区), Shenyang, Liaoning Province. Community resident Qian Weimin (钱为民) and more than a dozen neighbors played the Hulusi, harmonica, and other instruments together to perform "Crescent Moon at the Fifth Watch."
Qian Weimin, who is over eighty years old, could not stay idle at home after retiring. In 2014, he organized the establishment of an art troupe in Chang'an Community. Now, Qian Weimin serves as the head of the Chang'an Maple Leaf Art Troupe Choir and the Chang'an Hulusi Art Troupe, spending at least 6 days a week at the Chang'an Community Party-Masses Service Center.
In August 2024, the Chang'an Community Party-Masses Service Center, which was transformed from an abandoned boiler room, was put into use, setting up areas such as a health management cabin, a community bookstore, an entertainment activity room, a calligraphy and painting classroom, and a dining hall for the elderly to meet the diverse needs of residents.
"It's not cold in winter and not hot in summer, the activity space is large, and the 3-story building has an elevator, so everyone loves to come," Qian Weimin said. Since moving into the new venue, the number of Hulusi Art Troupe members has increased from a dozen to more than 40.
In order to enrich the performance forms, everyone also established a dance team. "The community installed handrails in the dance studio to ensure our safety. Everyone suggested that they wanted to find professional teachers to guide them, and the 'Happy Education Enters the Community' project of the Shenyang Municipal Education Bureau arranged teachers and opened other courses." Qian Weimin pointed to the timetable on the wall and said, "Mobile phone photography, traditional Chinese painting, calligraphy, I want to learn them all! The colorful community activities allow us to not only have access to elderly care, but also have access to happiness in our old age."
After the activity, Qian Weimin took the reporter around the newly renovated community. "The stairs in front of the unit doors have all been widened and handrails have been installed, and ramps have been made to facilitate wheelchair access. The building has been insulated and painted with new paint, making it warmer in winter," Qian Weimin said. "These renovations bring not only convenience to life, but also spiritual happiness."
[Access to Housing]
Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东) Helps Young People Rent Houses Through Various Measures
"This small home gives me the confidence to work hard"
By Wang Yunna (王云娜), reporter of this newspaper
A well-decorated, fully equipped 30-square-meter single room with a monthly rent of 2,000 yuan... Huafeng Apartments (华丰美寓) in Bao'an District (宝安区), Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, has become Xiao Qi's (肖琪) first home in Shenzhen.
In April of this year, Xiao Qi, who was about to graduate from university, participated in the "First Stop in Shenzhen" (来深第一栈) university student housing care activity in Bao'an District and quickly found this apartment, which is only 1 kilometer away from the company. 15 days of free rent, short-term rental discounts, and paying one month's rent as a deposit... Multiple measures saved her time, effort, and money. "It's not just the price优惠, but also the authenticity and reliability of the housing that impressed me," Xiao Qi said. The information on the official mini-program is transparent, "The pictures are consistent with the real objects, and the apartment also showed a qualified environmental pollutant detection report issued by a professional institution."
Under the joint guidance of the Bao'an District Housing and Construction Bureau (宝安区住房和建设局) and other departments, the Bao'an District Housing Rental Association (宝安区房屋租赁协会) has held university student housing care activities for three consecutive years. This year's "First Stop in Shenzhen" activity integrated thousands of dynamic housing resources from 69 apartment projects and extended the number of free rent days from 7 days to 15 days.
In September of this year, the "Housing Rental Regulations" (住房租赁条例) officially came into effect, requiring that housing used for rent should comply with the laws, regulations, rules, and mandatory standards in terms of construction, fire protection, gas, and interior decoration. Many housing rental companies in Shenzhen use environmentally friendly materials, standardized decoration processes, and strictly implement air quality testing and fire safety inspections for rental housing.
In July 2025, when the short-term rental expired, Xiao Qi chose to renew the lease. The clear terms and well-defined responsibilities of the rental contract gave her peace of mind. "There is a basis for handling affairs and avoiding future disputes," said Zhu Jinbiao (朱锦标), head of Huafeng Apartments.
"I don't have to worry about the air quality in the house, and I don't have to move frequently. I live in peace and stability. This small home gives me the confidence to work hard," Xiao Qi said.
[Assistance for the Vulnerable]
Guizhou (贵州) Uses Big Data to Prevent Rural Population from Returning to Poverty
"My heart feels like it's out of the mountain valley, and it's suddenly bright"
By Su Bin (苏滨), reporter of this newspaper
After more than a year of assistance, Ren Shen's (任申) family has eliminated the risk of returning to poverty and is moving towards a new life. "**心像走出山沟沟，一下子就敞亮了**" (xīn xiàng zǒu chū shān gōu gōu, yī xià zi jiù chǎng liàng le - "My heart feels like it's out of the mountain valley, and it's suddenly bright," describes a feeling of relief and hope after overcoming hardship)," Ren Shen said.
Ren Shen lives in Longshan Village (龙山村), Yong'an Town (永安镇), Fenggang County (凤冈县), Zunyi City (遵义市), Guizhou Province. There are 4 people in his family. As a family that has been lifted out of poverty, how is life going now? "We grow tea and peppers at home, which can earn 15,000 yuan in total; I work nearby, earning at least 3,000 yuan a month; my wife has a public welfare job, so the total family income is 61,000 yuan a year," Ren Shen said.
In 2024, his son's kidney disease worsened, and the family traveled to many places for medical treatment. After deducting the reimbursement portion of the treatment costs, they still had to pay more than 60,000 yuan out of pocket. "At that time, the village was conducting regular visits to families that had been lifted out of poverty, and coupled with the fact that Ren Shen's family had large medical expenses, the warning clues monitored by big data were transmitted back. A few days after they returned home from seeing a doctor, the village cadres came to verify," said Yang Guangcan (杨光灿), secretary of the general party branch of Longshan Village.
In 2021, Guizhou built a Rural Revitalization Cloud Platform (乡村振兴云平台). With the help of digital means, it dynamically monitors the data information of the entire rural population returning to poverty, so as to achieve early detection, early intervention, and early assistance. "When families lifted out of poverty have large expenses such as medical care and education, the village can receive warning information," Yang Guangcan said. After confirming that Ren Shen's family had a risk of returning to poverty, the village immediately applied to start the identification process. After review by the village, town, and county, Ren Shen's family was included in the monitoring households to prevent returning to poverty in less than 15 days. From the town to the village, precise assistance was provided to Ren Shen's family: applying for medical assistance to reimburse most of the medical expenses for the second time; including them in the low-income security program; introducing Ren Shen to work in a wind power generation project, and the village hired Ren Shen's wife as a forest ranger...
"Now the income is stable, and my child's condition has also begun to improve," Ren Shen said with a smile.
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Layout design: Zhang Fangman (张芳曼)
By: 沈晓明
Urbanization is the inevitable path to modernization. The "Suggestions of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development," adopted by the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, proposed "deeply promoting a new type of people-centered urbanization," clarifying the goals, tasks, ideas, and measures for advancing new urbanization. This is a major strategic deployment made by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core from a strategic and overall perspective, providing fundamental guidance and a roadmap for doing a good job in new urbanization during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period and beyond. It is necessary to earnestly study, comprehend, and implement this, deeply promote a new type of people-centered urbanization, steadily improve the quality and level of urbanization, fully unleash the huge domestic demand potential contained in new urbanization, and provide strong impetus and solid support for Chinese-style modernization.
I. Major Achievements in New Urbanization During the "14th Five-Year Plan" Period
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has attached great importance to new urbanization. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has made a series of important expositions on new urbanization, leading China to embark on a new path of urbanization with Chinese characteristics and promoting historical achievements in new urbanization. Since the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's urbanization rate of permanent residents has increased from 63.89% to 67%. The citizenization of agricultural transfer populations has achieved significant results. Historic breakthroughs have been made in the reform of the household registration system, with further relaxation and opening up of conditions for settling in cities, and more than 170 million agricultural transfer populations have settled in towns and cities. The supply of basic urban public services has been expanded and improved, and the coverage of basic national public services for non-registered permanent residents has been continuously expanded, with 96.8% of migrant children in compulsory education attending public schools and enjoying government-purchased places. Supporting policies for citizenization have been continuously improved, and the "linking people, land, and money" mechanism has been effectively implemented. The spatial layout of urbanization has been continuously optimized. The "two horizontal and three vertical" urbanization strategic pattern has basically taken shape, city clusters and metropolitan areas have grown stronger, the proportion of permanent residents in 19 city clusters has increased to about 75% of the country, the proportion of regional GDP has remained stable at more than 83% of the country, a number of modern metropolitan areas have been accelerated, and urbanization construction with county towns as important carriers has been steadily promoted. The number of cities has increased to 694, and the comprehensive strength of cities has continued to increase. The quality of urban development has been significantly improved. The "multi-plan integration" reform has been deepened, the effectiveness of urban governance has been continuously enhanced, the problem of blindly expanding the "spreading of pancakes" has been effectively curbed, and "urban diseases" have been significantly alleviated. Urban infrastructure has been upgraded iteratively, the popularization rate of urban water supply, gas popularization rate, and sewage treatment rate have all exceeded 99%, the world's largest urban housing security system has been built, and the overall level of urban safety and resilience has been improved. The protection and inheritance of urban historical and cultural heritage has been deepened, and the level of urban civilization has been continuously improved. The quality of the urban ecological environment has been continuously improved, the harmless treatment rate of urban domestic waste has exceeded 99%, and the city has become bluer, the water is clearer, and the environment is more beautiful. Positive results have been achieved in urban-rural integrated development. The two-way flow of factors has become smoother, a basic public service supply mechanism integrating urban and rural areas has been established in an orderly manner, positive results have been achieved in the integrated development of urban and rural infrastructure, and the income ratio between urban and rural residents has narrowed to 2.34:1 in 2024.
At the same time, it should also be clearly seen that China's urbanization development is also facing some new situations, new problems, and new challenges: urban aging, declining birthrates, and regional population growth and decline are significantly differentiated, and the population structure is changing rapidly; the quality of citizenization of agricultural transfer populations still needs to be improved, the radiation-driven role of megacities and megacities to the surrounding areas is not fully utilized, and the carrying capacity of some small and medium-sized cities and county towns is insufficient; some urban houses and infrastructure are aging, the demands of the masses are more diverse, safety and stability risks are increasing, and the difficulty of governance is increasing, and so on.
China's urbanization is shifting from a period of rapid growth to a period of stable development, and urban development is shifting from a stage of large-scale incremental expansion to a stage mainly focused on stock quality improvement and efficiency enhancement. There is still a lot of room and potential for urbanization development. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the urbanization rate of permanent residents nationwide is expected to increase to more than 70%. It is necessary to accurately grasp the historical position of China's urbanization development, actively adapt to changes in the situation, deeply promote a new type of people-centered urbanization, and continuously create a new situation in the development of new urbanization during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
II. Promoting the Citizenization of Agricultural Transfer Populations in a Scientific and Orderly Manner
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Solving the problem of people is the key to promoting new urbanization, and the most basic trend of urbanization is the transfer of surplus rural labor and rural population to towns and cities." During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period and beyond, promoting the citizenization of agricultural transfer populations should be taken as the primary task of new urbanization, and efforts should be made to promote the real integration of agricultural transfer populations into cities.
(1) Implement a system of providing basic public services by registering household registration in the place of permanent residence. Further deepen the reform of the household registration system, gradually relax and open up settlement restrictions, remove "hidden settlement thresholds," improve the convenience of household registration and migration, and smooth the channels for agricultural transfer populations to settle in cities. Promote the transfer of relevant public services with people, focusing on solving the problems of children's education, housing security, and social insurance that agricultural transfer populations are most concerned about, and steadily realize the supply of basic public services by the place of permanent residence.
(2) Improve supporting policies for the citizenization of agricultural transfer populations. Further promote the linking of transfer payments, factor allocation, etc. with the citizenization of agricultural transfer populations, establish a coordination mechanism for the allocation of new urban construction land indicators with the increase of permanent residents, and promote the tilting of central financial construction funds to cities that absorb a large number of agricultural transfer populations.
(3) Protect the legitimate land rights and interests of farmers who settle in cities. Protect the land contract rights, homestead use rights, and collective income distribution rights of farmers who settle in cities in accordance with the law, explore the establishment of a voluntary and compensated withdrawal method, so that agricultural transfer populations can enter and exit, and can have basic security whether they enter the city or return to their hometown.
III. Promoting Coordinated Development and Intensive and Compact Layout of Large, Medium, and Small Cities and Towns
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that it is necessary to promote the coordinated development of large, medium, and small cities and towns. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period and beyond, it is necessary to follow the trend of China's population flow and economic and social development, continuously improve the urbanization layout and form, and focus on building an urbanization spatial pattern with appropriate density, division of labor and cooperation, and complete functions.
(1) Promote the modernization of governance in megacities and megacities. Accelerate the transformation of the development mode of megacities and megacities, promote the "strengthening of the body" of megacities and megacities, strengthen and refine the core functions, rationally and orderly relieve non-core functions such as general manufacturing, regional logistics bases, and professional markets, enhance the ability to allocate global resources, source technological innovation, and lead high-end industries, and build a high-quality development main engine.
(2) Accelerate the integration of city clusters and the integration of metropolitan areas. Focusing on improving the comprehensive carrying capacity of cities for population and economic and social development, develop clustered and networked modern city clusters and metropolitan areas, and enhance the supporting role of city clusters and metropolitan areas in the central and western regions and the northeast for regional coordinated development. Strengthen the industrial chain collaboration within city clusters, optimize the industrial division of labor and spatial links between city clusters, and build a new mechanism for cross-administrative region cooperative development. Establish and improve the metropolitan area integration promotion mechanism to promote convenient and efficient commuting, tiered industrial support, and convenient and shared public services.
(3) Optimize the urban scale structure. Based on the characteristic resources and industrial foundation of large and medium-sized cities, promote the differentiated positioning and large-scale clustering development of manufacturing industries, build advanced manufacturing bases, commercial and logistics centers, and regional professional service centers in accordance with local conditions, cultivate and develop sub-provincial central cities in areas with conditions in the central and western regions, and enhance the functional quality of large and medium-sized cities. Promote the accelerated development of small cities with good factor conditions, solid industrial foundations, and great development potential, and orderly guide the population to transfer to adjacent economically developed areas. Adhere to moderate scale, highlight characteristics, and strengthen functions, and guide the development of small towns by category. Solidly promote the construction of border towns and enhance the ability to stabilize the border, gather population, and develop safely.
IV. Promoting Urbanization Construction with County Towns as Important Carriers by Category
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that it is necessary to solidly promote urbanization construction with county towns as important carriers and promote the integrated development of revitalizing industries, strengthening counties, and enriching the people. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period and beyond, it is necessary to coordinate the needs of county towns for production, life, ecology, and safety, promote county towns to make up for shortcomings and strengthen weaknesses, improve the quality of county town development, and promote the urbanization of agricultural transfer populations nearby.
(1) Grasp the functional positioning scientifically. China has a vast territory, and there are large differences in natural conditions, resource endowments, and development foundations among counties in different regions. It is necessary to adhere to adapting to local conditions, guide the development direction of county towns by category, accelerate the development of county towns around large cities, actively cultivate professional functional county towns, rationally develop county towns in major agricultural product producing areas, orderly develop county towns in key ecological function areas, and guide the transformation and development of county towns with population loss, forming development paths with their own characteristics.
(2) Enhance industrial support capabilities. Adhere to highlighting characteristics, differentiated development, coordinate the cultivation of local industries and undertake the transfer of foreign industries, enhance the functions of industrial platforms, improve the commercial and trade circulation network, focus on developing industries with obvious comparative advantages, strong ability to drive agriculture and rural areas, and large employment capacity, strengthen vocational skills training, stabilize and expand county town employment positions, and promote urban prosperity through industry, industry through cities, and people through industry. For areas with low urbanization rates, large population sizes, and certain industrial development foundations and conditions, accelerate breakthroughs in coordinating the promotion of new industrialization and urbanization, and improve the urbanization level of potential areas.
(3) Improve the level of public services. Invest more in people, improve public services around the needs of people's entire life cycle, implement key tasks such as improving the development of ordinary high schools in counties and improving the comprehensive capacity of county hospitals, promote the upgrading of municipal public facilities, public service facilities, and environmental infrastructure in county towns, achieve basic matching of public facility capacity and the scale of permanent residents, and better meet the needs of farmers to work and settle in county towns and the needs of county town residents for production and life.
(4) Promote urban-rural integrated development with counties as basic units. Promote the free flow of urban and rural factors and the rational allocation of public resources, coordinate the planning and construction of urban and rural infrastructure and public service systems, promote the extension of urban infrastructure to rural areas, the coverage of public services and social undertakings to rural areas, narrow the gap between urban and rural areas, and promote common prosperity and development in urban and rural areas.
V. Vigorously Implement Urban Renewal and Build Modern People's Cities
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Cities are places where people live in concentrated areas, and urban construction must put the people's livability and settlement in the first place, and leave the best resources to the people." During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period and beyond, it is necessary to earnestly practice the people's city concept, adhere to the important principles of "five transformations and five more," take promoting high-quality urban development as the theme, adhere to the connotation-oriented development of the city as the main line, take promoting urban renewal as an important starting point, and vigorously promote urban structure optimization, kinetic energy conversion, quality improvement, green transformation, cultural context continuation, and governance efficiency enhancement.
(1) Focus on building vibrant innovative cities. Based on urban resource endowments and basic conditions, carefully cultivate an innovation ecosystem, strengthen the synergy between technological innovation and industrial innovation, coordinate the promotion of traditional industrial transformation and upgrading, the cultivation and strengthening of emerging industries, and the layout and construction of future industries, and cultivate and develop new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions. Promote the mixed development and utilization of land and the rational conversion of uses, effectively promote the redevelopment of inefficient urban land, promote the transformation and upgrading of various industrial parks, establish a sustainable urban construction and operation investment and financing system, and stimulate urban innovation and entrepreneurship vitality.
(2) Focus on building comfortable and convenient livable cities. Adhere to the integrated planning of population, industry, towns, and transportation, and gradually break the traditional functional separation modes of industry, residence, and business. Accelerate the construction of a new model for real estate development. Promote the renewal and transformation of old residential areas, old factory areas, old blocks, and urban villages, and realize the orderly "metabolism" of cities. Adapt to changes in population and demand structure to develop life service industries, improve the elderly care service system, strengthen the forward-looking layout of educational resources, promote the construction of close-knit medical consortia, strengthen social security and tiered and classified social assistance, and firmly protect the bottom line of people's livelihood.
(3) Focus on building green and low-carbon beautiful cities. Strengthen urban environmental protection, promote key tasks such as urban air governance quality improvement projects and drinking water source protection, and continuously improve the quality of the urban ecological environment. Synergistically promote carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth, and vigorously develop green industries, green buildings, green transportation, green consumption, and green communities. Restore urban ecological space, protect urban rivers, lakes, wetlands, and water environment, and promote harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
(4) Focus on building safe and reliable resilient cities. Promote the construction of urban infrastructure lifeline safety projects, accelerate the transformation and upgrading of old pipelines, promote the construction and transformation of underground comprehensive pipe corridors, build a multi-water source guarantee and distributed energy system, strengthen urban natural disaster prevention and control, coordinate urban flood control systems and internal waterlogging management, enhance the fire protection capacity of high-rise buildings, strengthen the construction of "dual-use" public infrastructure, and build an all-weather, systematic, and modern urban safety guarantee system. Improve the "software" resilience of urban management, strengthen the construction of emergency command, disposal, and rescue systems, and effectively prevent and resolve risks in various fields.
(5) Focus on building civilized cities that advocate morality and goodness. Improve the historical and cultural protection and inheritance system, strengthen the operation and management of ancient cities and towns, and attach importance to protecting the city's unique historical context, human geography, and natural landscape. Attach importance to the construction of urban cultural soft power, vigorously promote socialist core values, actively develop cultural undertakings and cultural industries, and further highlight the city's cultural taste and heritage characteristics.
(6) Focus on building convenient and efficient smart cities. Adhere to Party building leadership, promote the sinking of urban governance focus and supporting resources, do a good job in urban governance "embroidery," and improve the effectiveness of urban governance. Strengthen the control and guidance role of urban planning, achieve functional complexity, moderate density, staggered heights, and blue-green interlacing. Adapt to the trend of digital intelligence, strengthen technological support, build new infrastructure, deepen urban data sharing, enrich smart city application scenarios, innovate urban governance concepts, models, and methods, and continuously improve the intelligent and refined level of urban governance.
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The key to governing a country lies first in employing the right people. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Promote the upward and downward mobility of cadres, forming a favorable situation where the capable are promoted, the excellent are rewarded, the mediocre are demoted, and the inferior are eliminated." The "Suggestions" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party proposed "promoting the normalization of upward and downward mobility of leading cadres." This is both a necessary requirement for deepening the reform of the cadre system and a key measure to encourage the vast number of cadres to demonstrate new responsibilities and make new contributions on the new journey.
In reality, some units have the problem of "doing or not doing the same, doing more or doing less the same, doing well or doing badly the same," leading to "**劣币驱逐良币**" (liè bì qū zhú liáng bì - "bad money drives out good," Gresham's Law, where bad practices or people drive out the good). In some places, more emphasis is placed on "up" than on "down," and they are "reluctant to take action" against leading cadres who are unsuitable for their current positions. These problems not only affect the overall vitality of the cadre team but also restrict the in-depth advancement of reform and development. The cadre team is not a static "reservoir" but a dynamic "living water system." Solidly promoting the normalization of upward and downward mobility of leading cadres, selecting talents and appointing the capable, and eliminating the mediocre and inferior based on the cause, will provide a solid guarantee for the development of the Party and the country.
Currently, China's development environment faces profound and complex changes, with strategic opportunities and risks and challenges coexisting, and increasing uncertain and unpredictable factors. There is an urgent need for a cadre team with excellent capabilities and qualities and a strong work style. If "**南郭先生**" (nán guō xiān shēng - "Mr. Nanguo," a person who pretends to have skills they don't possess) are allowed to muddle through, and "lying flat" individuals occupy positions, opportunities will be missed and development will be hindered. Only by promptly using those cadres who dare to take responsibility, are willing to work, and can accomplish things, and adjusting down those cadres who are muddling along, guarding their positions, and shirking responsibilities, can we gather the mighty strength to overcome difficulties. Moreover, the upward and downward mobility of cadres is a scientific path to promote cadre growth and achieve the right person for the right job. "Up" is trust and encouragement, and "down" is education and motivation. The number of positions in leading bodies is limited. For cadres whose abilities do not match and whose state is not adapted, timely adjustment of positions not only makes room for more suitable candidates but also provides opportunities for "down" cadres to relearn, exercise, and improve, which helps to achieve optimal allocation of cadre resources and the long-term development of individual cadres.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Good cadres are selected, but even more so, they are managed. Strict management is deep love, and it is truly being responsible for cadres." To promote the normalization of upward and downward mobility of leading cadres, it is necessary to systematically plan and implement precise policies to form a closely linked work loop. Employing one virtuous person will attract all virtuous people, and seeing virtue and thinking of equaling it will become a common practice. The selection and use of cadres is like a flag, guiding the direction of the entire team. We must focus on giving play to the driving role of "up," and make it a clear guidance that the capable are promoted and the excellent are rewarded. When those cadres who dare to take responsibility and are good at doing things on the front line of reform and development are discovered and used reasonably in a timely manner, their deeds will become the most vivid teaching materials, encouraging more cadres to see virtue and think of equaling it, thereby forming a virtuous cycle of "using one person well and motivating a large group."
Cadre management is like planting flowers, which requires watering and fertilizing, as well as weeding and pruning. At present and for a period of time to come, the focus and difficulty of promoting the normalization of upward and downward mobility of leading cadres is to solve the problem of "down." Timely adjustment of those cadres who are unsuitable for their current positions is not only a necessary measure to purify the political ecology but also an effective means to force the cadre team to maintain vitality. By refining the circumstances of "down," broadening the channels of "down," and optimizing the procedures of "down," we can ensure that "down" is accurate, "down" is possible, and "down" is good, so that the entire cadre team deeply recognizes that positions are not "iron armchairs," and that those who do not have the virtue or talent to match their positions, and who do not take responsibility or act, will be adjusted. Of course, "down" is not the ultimate goal, and it should not be "down" for the sake of "down," or a one-time "down." We must adhere to the combination of strict management and deep love, and the equal emphasis on incentives and constraints, and focus on doing a good job in the "second half of the article" of "down," so that the cadres who come down feel the pressure and see the way out, and achieve the effect of warning a large group by bringing down one, and guide the vast number of cadres to strive to be promoters and pragmatists of development.
Promoting the normalization of upward and downward mobility of leading cadres is not a simple personnel adjustment, but a profound change in the concept of cadre management, which requires us to break the mindset of "only up and no down" and establish a scientific concept of dynamic management. This requires courage, but also wisdom; it requires determination, but also methods. Only by being both serious and tough, and grasping the details, combining the rigid constraints of the system with the warm care of the organization, so that those who "up" are more promising and those who "down" are not depressed, can we maximize the protection of the enthusiasm of "doing" and stimulate the motivation of "doing," and encourage the vast number of cadres to go all out and strive for success.
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Facilitating the social mobility of labor and talent is an important support for sustained and healthy economic development, a significant indicator of a vibrant society, and a necessary requirement for achieving the comprehensive development of individuals and common prosperity. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Eliminate the systemic and policy shortcomings that hinder the flow of labor and talent" and "Ensure that everyone has the opportunity to achieve their own development through diligent work." The "Suggestions" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party proposed: "Smooth social mobility channels and improve the quality of people's lives." Currently, China is in a critical period of comprehensively building a modern socialist country. Creating mobility opportunities, smoothing mobility channels, and expanding mobility space for labor and talent are of great significance for optimizing human resource allocation, promoting social fairness and justice, and consolidating the talent foundation for Chinese-style modernization. We must deeply understand General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition on talent work, thoroughly implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party, eliminate the systemic and institutional shortcomings that hinder the social mobility of labor and talent, accelerate the smooth flow of labor and talent in society, unleash the vitality of labor and various talents, and gather the immense power of hundreds of millions of people to move towards common prosperity and achieve national rejuvenation.
Facilitating the social mobility of labor and talent has important strategic significance. From the perspective of promoting high-quality economic development, the overall layout of labor and talent in China is still uneven, and the flow of labor and talent is still restricted by various factors. Smoothing social mobility channels helps to improve the matching efficiency of human capital and material capital, break down factor barriers between regions and industries, and achieve dynamic equilibrium of production factors and continuous improvement of total factor productivity. From the perspective of accelerating the realization of common prosperity, promoting the social mobility of labor and talent helps workers increase their income through various channels such as skills improvement, job conversion, and entrepreneurial innovation, and promotes the formation of an olive-shaped distribution structure. From the perspective of maintaining social fairness and justice, the ultimate goal of Chinese-style modernization is to achieve the free and comprehensive development of people. According to the results of the Seventh National Population Census, the proportion of the mobile population in the national population exceeds 1/4. Smoothing social mobility channels helps to gradually break down unreasonable restrictions such as household registration and identity, so that everyone has the opportunity to achieve their own development through diligent work, and allows the fruits of modernization to benefit all people more and more fairly. To this end, we must actively explore effective ways to smooth the social mobility channels of labor and talent, do a good job in top-level design, encourage various regions to adapt to local conditions and actively innovate, promote the reform of the system and mechanism for the social mobility of labor and talent, remove obstacles to horizontal and vertical mobility, and build a reasonable, fair, smooth, and orderly social mobility pattern.
Strengthen strategic coordination and build a collaborative and efficient talent work system. Talent work is a strategic task and a systematic project, and it is necessary to plan and promote it with strategic thinking. Adhere to the concept of system, strengthen overall planning, coordination and cooperation, balance the relationship between all parties from a global perspective, and form an efficient and collaborative talent work synergy. Adhere to the principle of the Party managing talent, improve the regional coordination mechanism, and avoid the excessive loss of high-level talent in the central and western regions and the northeast region. Deepen the innovation of the talent work mechanism, and improve the working mechanism for talent training, introduction, use, and reasonable flow. Improve the unified and standardized human resources market system and increase the marketization level of human resources flow. Encourage various regions to be guided by actual development needs, adhere to the "introduction, cultivation, retention, and use" of the entire chain, improve relevant policies, and avoid fragmented and short-term behaviors.
Optimize the institutional environment and smooth horizontal mobility channels. As a strong constraint and incentive mechanism, the system has the most universal and direct impact on the horizontal mobility of individuals between different spaces, industries, and units. Only by systematically clearing the institutional obstacles that hinder horizontal mobility can we fundamentally guarantee the right of labor and talent to freely migrate to realize their personal value. It is necessary to deepen the reform of the household registration system and smooth the flow of personnel between urban and rural areas; break down industry monopolies and employment discrimination, strictly prohibit the setting of discriminatory and restrictive clauses, and create a fair employment environment; support public institutions to introduce urgently needed high-level specialized talents through specially set positions, and support and encourage scientific research personnel in public institutions to hold concurrent positions for innovation and start businesses off-the-job in accordance with regulations. Use big data, cloud computing and other digital technologies to build a unified and open online and offline integrated public employment service platform to improve the allocation efficiency of the labor market.
Improve the growth channel and expand the vertical mobility and upward space. Vertical mobility refers to the leap of individuals or groups in terms of income groups, skill levels, and social status, which is related to the release of the development potential of social members. Only by building a good vertical development ladder and forming a diversified, open, and smooth upward channel can we stimulate the innovation, entrepreneurship, and creativity of the whole society. It is necessary to improve the professional and market-oriented level of talent evaluation, improve the job promotion and salary distribution mechanism oriented by ability and performance, and improve the use and incentive system for skilled talents. Strengthen the integration of industry, academia, and research led by enterprises, support enterprises to take the lead in forming innovation consortia, and form a cultural atmosphere that promotes innovation and tolerates failure. Promote education equity and quality improvement, build a vocational education system that integrates vocational and general education and integrates industry and education, and build an education system that serves lifelong learning for all. For example, Shenzhen (深圳市), Guangdong Province (广东省) promotes the three projects of "Cantonese Cuisine Master" (粤菜师傅), "Guangdong Technician" (广东技工), and "Nanyue Housekeeping" (南粤家政), combining vocational skills training with rural revitalization, industrial upgrading, and counterpart assistance, which broadens the employment channels and income space for workers in the market and effectively promotes the vertical mobility of labor.
Improve the security system and weave a tight safety net. Labor and talent face uncertain factors such as unstable employment and income fluctuations in the process of mobility. Whether the basic security is sufficient and whether the expected rights are stable are related to the choice of mobility. Only by strengthening the construction of social security and weaving a tight "safety net" to protect the fairness and stability of mobility can we truly reduce the worries of mobile people. It is necessary to solidly promote the construction of a social security system with Chinese characteristics, and improve a multi-level social security system that covers the whole people, integrates urban and rural areas, is fair and unified, safe and standardized, and sustainable. Improve the overall planning level of various social insurances to ensure their safe and effective operation. Strengthen labor supervision and judicial assistance, build a strong legal service team, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of workers in accordance with the law. For example, Chongqing (重庆市) optimizes the transfer and continuation service of social security relations, deeply promotes the reform of the "inter-provincial fast transfer" mechanism for pension insurance relations, takes the lead in piloting the regular settlement of pension insurance relation transfer funds, greatly reduces the average processing time for pension insurance relation transfer, and cancels a number of paper application materials through data sharing and electronic processes, effectively reducing the burden of inter-provincial mobile personnel, enhancing the convenience of social security, and creating convenient conditions for the flow of labor and talent.
Adhere to adapting to local conditions and encourage grassroots exploration. The flow of labor and talent is greatly affected by environmental conditions. Different regions have differences in industrial structure, population size, and public service capabilities, and it is necessary to explore effective ways to promote the flow of labor and talent from the actual conditions of various places and adapt to local conditions. Conditional places can be supported to take the lead in piloting, carry out institutional innovation under the premise of strictly abiding by the bottom line of laws and policies, carry out differentiated exploration in the fields of household registration, education, and employment, and improve the pilot error tolerance and incentive mechanism. Cross-regional and cross-departmental collaborative pilots can be encouraged to explore the integrated reform of labor and talent flow, training, and use. Strengthen the extraction of experience and policy transformation, upgrade mature practices to institutional arrangements, and form replicable and scalable practical paradigms.
(The author is a special researcher at the Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
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Xiaotao Village (小陶村), Liulang Town (六郎镇), Wanzhi District (湾沚区), Wuhu City (芜湖市), Anhui Province (安徽省), is a historic riverside polder village in the Jiangnan (江南) region, which has now developed into a well-known "internet celebrity village."
A group of rural entrepreneurs has gathered here, building 18 cultural and artistic studios for pulp dyeing, embroidery, tea art, and other crafts. New business formats such as village cafes, cultural and creative markets, and rural music concerts have sprung up, revitalizing the small village and providing a vivid example for the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
An Idea to Revitalize Idle Farmhouses and Attract New Business Formats
The Xiaotao Village (小陶村) River meanders through the village, with dozens of residences built along the water, interspersed with various cultural and creative shops and studios converted from民房...
Stepping into Huang Qinru's (黄勤茹) studio, the room is filled with elegant fabric decorations. "These are all made by me and my students," said Huang Qinru (黄勤茹).
Huang Qinru (黄勤茹) is a teacher at the School of Textile and Garment of Anhui University of Technology (安徽工程大学), and also the inheritor of the municipal-level intangible cultural heritage "Wuhu Pulp Dyeing Technique" (芜湖浆染技艺). In 2023, she came to Xiaotao Village (小陶村) and had the idea of establishing a research and study base here.
Xiaotao Village (小陶村) is a natural village in Beitao Village (北陶村), Liulang Town (六郎镇), about 20 kilometers away from Wuhu City (芜湖市). The actual permanent resident population of Xiaotao Village (小陶村) is less than 100 people, and most of those remaining in the village are elderly. "Many villagers have moved to Wuhu City (芜湖市), and a large number of houses in the village are idle," said Tao Xu (陶旭), Secretary of the Party Committee of Beitao Village (北陶村). In order to revitalize the idle farmhouses, the village began to collect and store farmhouses for rent in 2021. In 2023, Xiaotao Village (小陶村) promoted the construction of a harmonious and beautiful countryside, and the village welcomed the first batch of tenants such as Huang Qinru (黄勤茹).
"Art students want to start businesses, but the cost of starting a business in the city is too high. Research and study entrepreneurship in rural areas is a good choice." Huang Qinru's (黄勤茹) idea coincided with the Liulang Town (六郎镇) government's idea of creating a characteristic harmonious and beautiful countryside. The two parties decided to jointly build the "Qingjiang Intangible Cultural Heritage Village" (青匠非遗村落). Liulang Town (六郎镇) provides entrepreneurs with preferential rent policies, as well as renovation subsidies for each household, giving young people who are willing to start businesses here a chance to "mess around."
As idle farmhouses were centrally collected, renovated, and transformed, intangible cultural heritage studios, cultural and creative shops, and youth social spaces were successively established, attracting more than 50 outstanding young people to settle in Xiaotao Village (小陶村). Today, 18 cultural and artistic studios have successively settled in Xiaotao Village (小陶村), while introducing business formats such as coffee and kiln-baked bread, and a harmonious and beautiful countryside with a literary and artistic atmosphere and a sense of everyday life has taken initial shape.
A Group of Passionate People Want to Be "Partners" in Village Development
Stepping into the "Laifu Cafe" (来福咖啡馆) in Xiaotao Village (小陶村), this cafe converted from a farmhouse has rice fields outside the window. Inside, the simple style of an old wooden house, a roaring fire in a transparent fireplace, two kittens curled up by the stove, and the aroma of coffee fills the air.
Driven by Huang Qinru (黄勤茹) and others, a group of rural entrepreneurs have successively settled in Xiaotao Village (小陶村). Han Cheng (韩程), the owner of "Laifu Cafe" (来福咖啡馆), is a "new villager" who was "recruited."
"When the village cafe opened, it coincided with the Xiaotao Village (小陶村) market, and it actually sold more than 800 cups of coffee in one day, recovering the cost in less than two months." Han Cheng (韩程) told reporters that as Xiaotao Village (小陶村) became "out of the circle," a steady stream of tourists came here to check in, and the coffee shop also formed a stable flow of customers. "Not only does it provide preferential rent here, but also a complete community ecology, allowing us to become 'partners' in village development and find more possibilities."
Seeing Xiaotao Village (小陶村) becoming increasingly lively, Tao Xiaojun (陶晓俊), who walked out of Xiaotao Village (小陶村), was also moved. Optimistic about the development opportunities in his hometown, Tao Xiaojun (陶晓俊) started a homestay. "Six rooms upstairs and downstairs, two for my own use, and four for homestays. It is expected to open for business during the 'May Day' holiday next year. At that time, tourists can see the rice fields when they open the windows here, and hear the croaking of frogs and the chirping of insects at night," said Tao Xiaojun (陶晓俊).
This transformation is inseparable from the local implementation of the "four-dimensional talent strategy" - introducing new villagers, empowering original villagers, activating returning villagers, and attracting traveling villagers, so that all kinds of talents can gather to help rural construction. In the "Qingjiang Intangible Cultural Heritage Village" (青匠非遗村落), the post-80s and post-90s account for 85%. New villagers bring innovative ideas, returning villagers build bridges between urban and rural areas, and original villagers provide local wisdom. The in-depth exchanges and mutual empowerment of different groups have nurtured a unique rural governance ecology.
An Alliance of "University Towns" Helps Change the Face of the Village
On weekends, the Xiaotao Village (小陶村) Creative Market unfolds in the mottled light and shadow: wood carvings, fabric ornaments, ceramic objects and other original works each have their own ingenuity... Young people starting businesses in rural areas have a clearer goal - this year they established an operating company to undertake the village's rural construction and operation projects, and deeply participate in the planning, construction and operation of Xiaotao Village (小陶村).
"This year, the village will plant more than 80 trees. We plan to encourage villagers to plant fruit trees such as persimmon trees and orange trees in their courtyards to further beautify the rural landscape. At the same time, we will operate the Xiaotao Village (小陶村) market, concerts, art exhibitions and various research and study activities," said Wu Jian (吴健), head of the operating company.
Since 2024, Xiaotao Village (小陶村) has held 7 creative handicraft and cultural markets, with the number of visitors increasing to more than 10,000, driving consumption of more than 20 million yuan, and more than 50 original villagers have spontaneously participated in the Xiaotao Village (小陶村) business format chain.
Today in Xiaotao Village (小陶村), villagers consciously maintain the renovated courtyard style, actively renovate idle houses to join the homestay business, and launch qingtuan (green glutinous rice dumplings) and preserved vegetable pancakes at the market during the event. "It's like a stone thrown into the river, always rippling." Wu Jian (吴健) described the changes in the village in this way.
The Xiaotao Village (小陶村) model is being scaled up. In 2024, Anhui University of Technology (安徽工程大学) and Wanzhi District (湾沚区) deepened cooperation, taking Liulang Town (六郎镇) as a pilot, and launched the "University Town" co-construction model. All 21 departments of the university and 21 villages (communities) in Liulang Town (六郎镇) are paired up "one-on-one" to jointly build, taking Xiaotao Village (小陶村) as a demonstration, focusing on industrial development, talent empowerment and other fields, attracting college and surrounding young talents to innovate and start businesses, and injecting strong impetus into the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
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Introduce, Cultivate, Retain and Use All Kinds of Talents in Accordance with Local Conditions
In the practice of comprehensive rural revitalization, various places in Anhui (安徽) have explored the paths of introducing, cultivating, retaining and using talents in accordance with local conditions, building a good ecology for talent development, and injecting a source of living water into the comprehensive rural revitalization.
Chuzhou City (滁州市) innovatively built 105 "Common Prosperity Workshops" (共富工坊), using the models of "village-enterprise linkage" and "Party organization + enterprise + workshop + farmer" to accurately allocate talents to the links of characteristic industrial chains such as processing with supplied materials and e-commerce live broadcasting. Huangshan City (黄山市) has built project docking and talent recruitment channels by holding brand competitions such as the "Rural Life Aesthetics Design Open Competition," and introduced and cultivated more than 1,000 "Rural Dream Builders" (乡村筑梦师) such as rural designers and operators; it has used idle assets to transform supporting entrepreneurship and living facilities such as salon forums and rural innovation cafes, guiding "new villagers" to participate in village planning and management, and creating a rural talent ecology with a sense of belonging. Wuhu City (芜湖市) comprehensively investigated the "three types of coordination" cultivation objects of production and operation type, professional skill type, and social service type, and carried out the selection of rural revitalization talents with "three-level connection" of primary, secondary, and high levels; it jointly established a Rural Revitalization Industry College with Wuhu Vocational and Technical College (芜湖职业技术大学).
In order to attract all kinds of talents, Anhui Province (安徽省) has uniformly deployed the selection of rural revitalization talents, and established a professional title evaluation system covering 11 majors including agricultural economics, agronomy, technology, and e-commerce marketing for groups who have long been rooted at the grassroots level, such as high-quality farmers, rural handicraftsmen, and innovative entrepreneurship leaders.
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In recent years, many people have picked up their mobile phones and set up tripods to point their cameras at parks, live-streaming singing and dancing, and sharing their experiences and life's moments. This liveliness makes the parks more vibrant and full of life, but when the sound of the loudspeakers drowns out the birdsong, and the camera blocks the scenery, the liveliness turns into noise.
By the end of 2024, Beijing (北京市) had 1,100 parks included in its directory. Among them, some parks have issued relevant announcements to regulate park order and enhance the visitor experience.
Regulating live-streaming activities in public areas of parks may seem like a restriction, but it is actually a form of refined management. Nowadays, the dense live-streaming in parks has, to some extent, brought about problems such as the occupation of public resources and the destruction of the park environment. Short videos, live broadcasts, and other forms allow people to express themselves and share beauty more conveniently, and record the quality of urban life, but the rights of surrounding tourists not to be disturbed or captured by the camera should not be ignored.
The preciousness of public space lies in its openness and balance: some people take pictures, some take walks, some take rests... A modern city is both inclusive and innovative, and orderly. Urban parks not only carry citizens' aspirations for a better life, but also test the level of urban governance.
Regulating park live-streaming, making expression more measured, and making liveliness not disturb tranquility, when we consciously give way to the elderly and children in the park, when live-streamers take the initiative to avoid disturbing others, 美美与共 (měi měi yǔ gòng - "beauty and beauty together," a harmonious and mutually appreciative coexistence), that is the beautiful picture of urban life, better demonstrating the city's governance capabilities and the warmth of urban civilization.
Return to TopThe First Full-Schedule China-Europe Freight Train in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region Begins Operation
Shijiazhuang, Hebei Daily, December 10th (Reporter Zhang Xiaochao (张晓超)) At 2:45 AM on December 5th, the X8422 China-Europe freight train, fully loaded with mechanical equipment, cashmere, furniture, and other goods, departed from Shijiazhuang International Land Port (石家庄国际陆港) in Hebei (河北). This marks the first full-schedule China-Europe freight train operating in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) region. In the first 11 months of this year, the Shijiazhuang International Land Port (石家庄国际陆港) China-Europe freight train has operated over 1,100 trains, sending over 115,000 TEUs, with a cargo weight of over 1.4 million tons.
2025 Jiangxi Province Red-Themed Printmaking Exhibition Held
Nanchang, this newspaper, December 10th (Reporter Zhou Huan (周欢)) The 2025 Jiangxi Province (江西省) Red-Themed Printmaking Exhibition recently opened at the Zhangshu City (樟树市) Museum in Jiangxi (江西). With the theme of "Red Soil Painting Charm," this exhibition collected over 100 red-themed printmaking works, vividly reproducing the revolutionary spirit and contemporary style of the people of Jiangxi (江西).
The exhibition will last until February 28, 2026, and will be open to the public free of charge during this period.
Shaanxi Organizes Completion of Terraced Field Carbon Sink Transaction
Xi'an, this newspaper, December 10th (Correspondent Wang Sanhe (王三合)) Recently, the terraced field carbon sink transaction organized by the Shaanxi Provincial Public Resources Trading Center (陕西省公共资源交易中心) was completed and signed in Xining City (西宁市), Qinghai (青海). The subject of this transaction is 70,100 tons of net carbon sink generated by 18,000 mu of terraced fields in Xunrang Township (逊让乡), Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County (大通回族土族自治县), Xining City (西宁市), Qinghai (青海), with 11,000 tons of transactions reached. The Shaanxi Provincial Public Resources Trading Center (陕西省公共资源交易中心) innovatively adopted a divisible transaction model to attract diverse entities to participate.
The successful completion of this transaction provides experience for China in the measurement and accounting, market transactions, and other aspects of terraced field carbon sinks.
Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport's Third Runway Officially Put into Use
Shenzhen, this newspaper, December 10th (Reporter Lü Shaogang (吕绍刚)) Recently, the third runway of Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport (深圳宝安国际机场) in Guangdong (广东) was officially put into operation.
After the third runway is put into use, it will comprehensively improve the passenger and cargo transportation capacity of Shenzhen Airport (深圳机场), and in the future, it can meet the usage needs of an annual passenger throughput of 80 million passengers and an annual cargo and mail throughput of 4.5 million tons.
Xiangshan Port in Zhejiang Officially Opens to the Outside World
Ningbo, Zhejiang Daily, December 10th (Reporter Li Hua (李华)) On the 9th, the expansion and opening of the Chuanshan (穿山), Xiangshan Port (象山港), and Shipu (石浦) three port areas in Ningbo City (宁波市), Zhejiang (浙江), passed the national acceptance. After the acceptance, Xiangshan Port (象山口岸) was officially opened. So far, all eight port areas of Ningbo Port (宁波港域) have been built and opened to the outside world.
After the opening of Xiangshan Port (象山口岸) to the outside world, Xiangshan County (象山县) will add 57.83 square kilometers of open area, 1564 meters of coastline, and 8 berths.
Tianjin's Second Batch of "Zhi Jin Academy" Night Schools Launched
Tianjin, this newspaper, December 10th (Reporter Gong Xiangjuan (龚相娟)) Recently, Tianjin (天津) launched the second batch of "Zhi Jin Academy" (智津学堂) night school work on the basis of the first batch of pilot projects, further broadening the learning channels for citizens.
This expansion includes the addition of 6 universities, including Tianjin University of Vocational Technical Teacher Education (天津职业技术师范大学), Tianjin Conservatory of Music (天津音乐学院), Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts (天津美术学院), Tianjin Open University (天津开放大学), Tianjin Vocational University (天津职业大学), and Tianjin City Vocational College (天津城市职业学院), which are more diverse and distinctive in terms of school-running positioning and curriculum setting.
Return to TopBy: 本报通讯员 刘玉荣
Setting up stalls themselves, selecting vegetables themselves, and consciously depositing coins, in Jinsha Town (金砂镇), Yongding District (永定区), Longyan City (龙岩市), Fujian (福建) Province, the unmanned vegetable stall has been in place for 30 years. Now, the practice of unmanned vegetable stalls has been upgraded to the "Jinsha Youli (金砂有礼)" Integrity Store.
In the Integrity Store, there is no one on duty in the store, and the shelves are filled with special agricultural products such as Jinsha dried vegetables, Hukeng rice wine, and Gaotou tea. After a customer selected two cans of Jinsha dried vegetables, they used self-service scanning to settle the bill, taking less than 1 minute in total. "Not only can I buy authentic local specialties, but I can also feel the atmosphere of integrity. This experience is very meaningful," the customer said.
According to statistics, the store has been operating for half a year, with an average daily transaction volume of more than 3,000 yuan. The local government is planning to expand the online sales platform to allow the "Jinsha Youli (金砂有礼)" integrity brand to go further.
Return to TopBy: 新华社记者 温竞华 袁 全
Scenic spots such as Mount Tai (泰山), Mount Huang (黄山), and the Great Wall (长城) have introduced exoskeleton devices to provide climbing assistance for tourists; at exhibitions, videos of exoskeletons replacing crutches to help the elderly walk have sparked heated discussions... Since the beginning of this year, exoskeleton robots have become unexpectedly popular. Are exoskeletons really useful and practical? How should one choose products?
As a wearable robotic system, exoskeletons are generally worn on the waist and legs, using technologies such as motors, sensors, and control systems to enhance, assist, or rebuild a person's motor abilities.
"Exoskeletons can reduce physical exertion and strain on the waist and legs, and have broad market prospects," said Wang Hongwu (王洪武), Director of the Robotics and Core Component R&D Center at the 21st Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (中国电子科技集团公司第二十一研究所).
However, several experts have cautioned that consumer-grade exoskeleton devices cannot replace medical rehabilitation equipment. Currently, consumer-grade exoskeletons are more suitable for helping people with complete motor abilities conserve physical energy, and it is recommended that elderly people and people with physiological limitations such as stroke or bone diseases use them with caution.
Currently, exoskeleton robots are still in the early stages of large-scale commercialization, facing problems such as difficulty in personalized adaptation, high costs, and imperfect standards and regulations. "We are promoting the formulation of industry standards for exoskeletons in terms of safety, performance, testing methods, and core components, to guide and strengthen the standardization and supervision of enterprises," said Wang Hongwu (王洪武). The formulation of standards can also promote supply chain standardization and modularization, further reduce production costs, and allow exoskeletons to benefit more people.
(According to Xinhua News Agency (新华社))
Return to TopBy: 新疆日报记者 陈疆林
Recently, in the Aktau County Miras Pottery Handicraft Professional Cooperative in Sayibag Village, Baren Township, Akto County, Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture (新疆克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州阿克陶县巴仁乡萨依巴格村), Oblitallip Aji (奥布力塔力普·阿吉), the seventh-generation inheritor of the pottery firing technique, used paint bottles fitted with needles to replace traditional brushes, outlining lively patterns on the pottery bowl blanks.
Pottery was once an indispensable household item for local families, but with the popularity of industrial products, this old craft once faced the dilemma of inheritance.
In order to revitalize the old pottery art, the Sayibag Village (萨依巴格村) Party Branch, based on the integrated development model of "Party building + intangible cultural heritage + industry," took the initiative to connect with relevant departments and aid-Xinjiang forces to seek support. Today, intelligent temperature-controlled furnaces have replaced firewood kilns, and stainless steel screens and electric mixers have become standard equipment for the cooperative. In the past, manual throwing could produce a maximum of 280 pottery bowls a day. Now, with two people working together to operate the throwing machine, the daily output can reach 1,000, and the shape of the pottery bowls is more regular and perfect.
Today, the Aktau County (阿克陶县) Miras Pottery Handicraft Professional Cooperative has developed from a small family workshop in the past into a modern factory building of more than 3,000 square meters, integrating production and product display, driving more than 30 villagers to stable employment. Seven stores in Kashgar Old City (喀什古城) and Yengisar County (英吉沙县) simultaneously sell products on consignment, and the sales channels are becoming wider and wider.
Return to TopBy: 新华社记者 李晓婷
Deep in the Dabashan Mountains, in the "Forget Me" Lacquer Art Space in Chengkou County (城口县), Chongqing (重庆), several lacquer artisans are gathered around, polishing, lacquering, and washing lacquer art pieces in their hands...
"They are 'special artisans' who protect lacquer art," said Yuan Qiu (袁秋), the head of the "Forget Me" Lacquer Art Space. The lacquer artists in the workshop are special people with hearing impairments, physical disabilities, or autism.
In 2022, Chengkou launched the "Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Benefit-the-Disabled and Assist-the-Disabled Action" (百千万惠残助残行动), planning to establish a base that integrates intangible cultural heritage inheritance and employment for people with disabilities. Yuan Qiu (袁秋) introduced that in order to help students improve their skills, the workshop invited professional lacquer art teachers from Fujian (福建), Shandong (山东) and other places to conduct targeted training. After three months of training, the students were able to create lacquer paintings independently.
Now, Chengkou has held lacquer art training for three consecutive years, training more than 40 special students, and 21 people have become "special artisans" and stayed to work in the workshop. This workshop model has been replicated in many towns in Chengkou, cumulatively helping 56 people with disabilities and their families achieve employment at their doorstep.
(According to Xinhua News Agency (新华社))
Return to TopBy: 内蒙古日报记者 王 磊
Not long ago, the Inner Mongolia Museum's 2025 "Museum on the Move - Chinese Aesthetics in Cultural Relics" theme course, "Exploring the Mystery of Jade Art - The Beauty of Jade Craftsmanship," entered the Horqin Campus of Suhujie Experimental Primary School in Hohhot (呼和浩特市), Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), allowing students to have an "in-depth dialogue" with "Jade Aesthetics."
In the classroom, the Inner Mongolia Museum (内蒙古博物院) docent restored the historical background of cultural relics through pictures, texts, and short videos, deconstructed the ancient jade-making techniques of "material selection, cutting, carving, and polishing," and also interpreted the cultural connotations by combining the uses of "ritual jade artifacts." "It's not about having children memorize by rote, but about helping them understand the aesthetics and spirit conveyed by cultural relics," said docent Xia Hui (夏慧).
This fall and winter semester, the Inner Mongolia Museum (内蒙古博物院) brought this series of courses to 7 schools, offering 12 different themed courses covering 10 types of cultural relics, including jade, bronzes, and costumes, to explore the beauty of cultural relics.
Return to TopBy: 贵州日报记者 唐正平
Recently, in Yangyan Village, Yangdeng Town, Tongzi County, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, village doctor Ren Xianglong (任祥龙) held a portable medical insurance settlement terminal and completed the medical insurance "face-scanning" settlement for 81-year-old villager Wang Shouhuai (王守槐), marking the official launch of the city's first "mobile medical insurance station."
The Zunyi (遵义) Municipal Medical Insurance Bureau (医保局), in conjunction with grassroots health institutions, innovatively launched the "mobile medical insurance station" door-to-door service model, bringing medical insurance settlement terminals directly to the homes of the people through regular visits by village doctors and responses to temporary needs.
"In the past, going to the town health center was time-consuming and laborious. Now, doctors come to our door for medical treatment and prescriptions, and can reimburse us on the spot. It really 想到我们心坎上了 (xiǎng dào wǒmen xīnkǎn shàng le - "think of our heart," to do something that is exactly what someone needs or wants; to understand someone's feelings and act accordingly)!" Wang Shouhuai (王守槐), who suffers from multiple chronic diseases, said with emotion. Ren Xianglong (任祥龙) introduced that the equipment can complete identity verification by reading the ID card or directly scanning the face. The settlement process is fast, and the data is uploaded in real time.
Return to TopBy: 新华日报记者 倪方方
"Keep your arms straight and use your upper body strength," "Press down five to six centimeters deep"... More than 20 residents took turns practicing chest compressions. Guo Wei (郭伟), captain of the Lanbao Rescue Team (蓝豹救援队), moved among them, correcting their movements one by one. On the evening of December 5th, the New Era Civilization Practice Station (新时代文明实践站) of Jingxin Community (京新社区), Yanjiang Street (沿江街道), Jiangbei New Area (江北新区), Nanjing (南京), Jiangsu (江苏) Province, was brightly lit, and a first aid salon was underway.
Community-level rescue teams are the "first responders" to emergencies such as fires and sudden illnesses. Since April of this year, the "Lanbao Rescue - Jingxin Community First Aid Salon" has been held in the community for more than 20 sessions.
The course content has gradually expanded from the initial cardiopulmonary resuscitation to the Heimlich maneuver, fire escape, drowning prevention, and more. As they learn more and more first aid skills, residents gradually realize the importance of mastering first aid knowledge, and their enthusiasm for participation is growing.
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By: 本报记者 申 琳
In Changzhou (常州), Jiangsu (江苏), a rural primary school welcomes a colorful mobile stage. Applause erupts in the auditorium, accompanied by the children's cheers, lasting for a long time.
A group of young actors carry boxes of equipment, setting up the backdrop, props, lighting, and sound... After a flurry of activity, the opening music begins, and the entire village, young and old, takes to the stage. Below, the children are completely engrossed.
This is a scene from the Jiangsu Provincial Children's Art Theatre's (江苏省儿童艺术剧院) performance of "Bronze Sunflower" in a school. The theater puts on more than 400 such performances a year.
A Light in Their Eyes
Below the stage, Shi Guosheng (史国生), the sexagenarian president of the Jiangsu Provincial Children's Art Theatre (江苏省儿童艺术剧院), watches intently. The wind ruffles his graying temples, but he remains motionless, his eyes following the actors like spotlights.
For 23 years, he has led the troupe's continuous development, always insisting on performing children's plays, especially those with realistic themes, and always insisting on going into schools, especially those in remote rural areas. The troupe has traveled to thousands of schools in more than 50 locations across the country, covering more than 300,000 kilometers, performing over 10,000 shows, and reaching more than 9 million audience members. "It's just love—love for children's theater, love for young people." Shi Guosheng (史国生) says that besides love, there is nothing to explain so many years of perseverance.
"Brother, aren't you cold barefoot? Sister feels sorry for you, brother." On stage, the male lead, Bronze, is barefoot, jumping and cheering on the cold stage, while the female lead, Sunflower, throws herself at Bronze's feet, holding them with tears in her eyes. Below, the children's eyes are filled with tears...
Tears glisten in Shi Guosheng's (史国生) eyes. He has seen it countless times, but he is still moved by the actors' heartfelt performance. "The most important thing in children's theater is sincerity. If the actors have genuine emotions, the audience will be moved. The most important thing in realistic themes is authenticity. If you act realistically, the children will feel that this is life, not a play," says Shi Guosheng (史国生).
As soon as the curtain falls, the children swarm the stage like a tide. "Brother Bronze, Brother Bronze!" They surround You Yangyang (尤洋洋), the actor playing the male lead, shaking his hand, touching his costume...
Yang Xiaomeng (杨晓蒙), the actress playing the female lead, clearly remembers one performance when a small, thin girl caught up with her and said, "Sister Sunflower, wait for me." The girl was holding a yogurt carton. "Could you write your name on it for me? I want Sister Sunflower to watch me study hard every day."
Shi Guosheng (史国生) will never forget how, at a rural primary school, the principal led the entire faculty and student body in bowing to the actors. "We understand the unspeakable emotion in their hearts," says Shi Guosheng (史国生).
Good children's plays can transcend time, transcend urban and rural areas. Many children write messages: "I want to donate my allowance to poor children to buy shoes," "Seeing that back, it's so much like my loving grandma"...
"Planting seeds of truth, goodness, and beauty in the hearts of children, waiting for them to take root, sprout, and blossom..." In Shi Guosheng's (史国生) view, this is the greatest happiness for a children's theater actor.
A Path Underfoot
In 2002, the Jintan Xiju Troupe (金坛锡剧团) was restructured, and Shi Guosheng (史国生) received a call to form a new troupe. Having already left the troupe, he chose the stage again.
There are so many local troupes, how can a county troupe survive without transforming? He knew where to turn: there are not many children's troupes, and as long as there are high-quality plays, there will be both economic and social benefits. For the first play, he decided to create the children's play "Young Hua Luogeng (华罗庚)." The Jintan Xiju Troupe (金坛锡剧团) was subsequently renamed the "Hua Luogeng Art Troupe (华罗庚艺术团)."
The difficulty of starting a business lies not only in rehearsing plays but also in the market. As a self-supporting county troupe, the first thing to face is the issue of survival. In those years, Shi Guosheng (史国生) traveled everywhere, from villages to cities, to find markets. After "Young Hua Luogeng (华罗庚)," they successively produced 12 more children's plays, all with realistic themes.
On the day the reporter interviewed them, the troupe was performing the children's play "Tian Meng'er (田梦儿)" at Qishuyan Senior High School (戚墅堰高级中学) in Changzhou (常州). The 700-seat auditorium was packed, with several rows of benches added in the aisles.
As the lights came up, a youthful story about growth, family, friendship, and urban-rural dialogue unfolded. A rag-picking grandfather gets lost in the city, and the students anxiously search the crowded streets... Below, the sixteen- and seventeen-year-old teenagers look serious, some gently reaching out to adjust their glasses, with tears clearly in their eyes.
Shi Guosheng (史国生) led the reporter backstage, where the actors were hurriedly eating boxed lunches. Night had fallen, and the weather was already cold. They still wore their thin costumes with their makeup on. In half an hour, the next performance would begin.
That night, the actors returned to the theater's dormitory after 10 o'clock.
A Dream in Their Hearts
Usually, when there is a performance in the morning, the actors generally have to get up at 4 a.m. "Everyone is used to combing their hair, putting on makeup, and changing into costumes in the dark on the bus," says Yang Xiaomeng (杨晓蒙).
"If you can't endure hardship, you can't get into this troupe, running to the countryside and grassroots all year round." Shi Guosheng (史国生) says that his dream is to produce more good plays and go to more schools. Realistic themes are closer to society and closer to young people. "Many of our plays are more popular in rural areas because they contain the lives that the children are familiar with." Shi Guosheng (史国生) says that no matter how remote the school is, as long as the children like to watch, the troupe is willing to perform. "In remote villages deep in the mountains, the children may not have seen a children's play before. Even if only a few dozen children watch a performance, we will still go!"
Over the years, the troupe has not lacked honors. The "Five-One Project" Award, the Wenhua Award, the Magnolia Award, the National Advanced Collective for Serving Farmers and Serving Grassroots Cultural Construction... Having won so many honors, Shi Guosheng (史国生) knows that this is "encouragement for children's theater."
Over the years, Shi Guosheng (史国生) and his troupe have been cared for. Spacious new buildings, brand-new dormitories, modern rehearsal halls, two mobile stage vehicles, two brand-new buses... In 2020, the troupe was officially upgraded to the Jiangsu Provincial Children's Art Theatre (江苏省儿童艺术剧院). A county troupe becoming a provincial-level art theater has too many profound meanings: it is affirmation and encouragement, it is perseverance and effort, and it is also responsibility and expectation.
Yang Xiaomeng's (杨晓蒙) dream is to be able to stand on the stage forever. She says that she often thinks of the little audience members' smiling, tearful, and frostbitten faces, and of them stuffing the fruit they saved from their lunch into her hands. "How happy it is to be an actor loved by children!"
Xiao Yao (肖瑶), a girl who has been in the troupe for just over a year, studied acting in college. "The moment the lights shine on my face is so good!" she says.
The performance location has arrived. Shi Guosheng (史国生) watched the actors carrying the props and running away, and thought of himself playing the Monkey King when he was young. "The Monkey King went through hardships, but he kept pursuing his dream, and so am I..."
Return to TopBy: 陈云龙
Artificial intelligence accelerates scientific research exploration, embodied intelligence appears on the sports stage, black-light factories continue to emerge... At present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating, and we are striding towards the era of digital intelligence.
Industrial upgrading relies on science and technology, technological development relies on innovation, and innovation supports sustained economic prosperity and modernization, and the most important foundation behind it is talent and education.
In the era of digital intelligence, what kind of education do we need?
In the complex and complicated cyberspace, young people are facing challenges such as diversified values, and education is even more needed to play a leading role in values. Education in the era of digital intelligence is by no means a simple iteration of technology on educational means and teaching models, but to use technology as its wings to better serve the all-round development of people.
The "Education Power Construction Planning Outline (2024-2035)" proposes to "promote artificial intelligence to help education reform." Education in the era of digital intelligence must not only guard the "gate" of educating people, but also make good use of the "key" of technology to release its advantages in resource allocation, personalized teaching, and efficiency improvement.
How to keep pace with the times and empower people's all-round development with technology? We might as well start with a "new" character.
Innovate education models and improve the cultivation of innovative capabilities. On the one hand, comprehensively collect students' learning data through artificial intelligence platforms and tools, analyze learning situations and individual differences based on data analysis, and generate personalized learning guidance. On the other hand, apply model analysis tools to achieve rapid response to discipline and professional settings, extraordinarily arrange urgently needed disciplines and professions, cultivate emerging disciplines and interdisciplinary subjects, and improve the quality of independent talent training.
Update teaching methods and enrich innovative interactive models. In Chinese class, digital virtual human Sima Qian (司马迁) starts a dialogue across time and space with students; in math class, dynamic number-shape conversion and other technologies transform abstract formulas into visual content... It is foreseeable that the "future classroom" will carry out more virtual-real integrated immersive learning through motion simulation, visual simulation, and human-computer interaction, and continuously enhance the effectiveness of educating people.
The answer also lies in a "broad" character. The quality of talent training is related to individual growth, and the breadth of education coverage is related to social equity.
Gather educational resources of a wider dimension. In the era of digital intelligence, one of the biggest changes in education lies in digital transformation. The implementation of the National Education Digitalization Strategy Action, the construction of a smart education platform, and the extensive collection of high-quality digital resources covering all academic stages provide convenient, efficient, and complete one-stop services for teachers and students, and use digital intelligence technology to build a more inclusive and equitable education ecology.
Let high-quality educational resources extend more widely. Students in rural areas of central and western China can obtain high-quality educational resources through the smart education platform; in remote pastoral areas, mobile learning terminals allow students to access the smart education platform anytime and anywhere... Use technology to optimize the allocation of educational resources, so that every child, no matter where they are, has the opportunity to enjoy a more equitable and high-quality education.
New technologies and new applications can also help more people "live and learn." The elderly can choose customized silver-age digital intelligence classrooms to cross the "digital divide"; young professionals can choose night school online courses to help their career development. The lifelong education system built by the intelligent network learning platform makes "everyone can learn, everywhere can learn, and anytime can learn" possible.
"Strive to give everyone the opportunity to shine in life." Digital intelligence technology continuously revitalizes the stock and creates increments, emphasizing both "quality improvement" and "expansion and optimization," and promotes the results of education development to benefit all people more and more equitably.
(The author is a supervisor and researcher of the Second Supervisory Board of the China Education Association for International Exchange)
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on December 10th (Reporter Ren Shanshan (任姗姗)) The list of winners for the 3rd China Broadcasting and Hosting "Golden Voice Award" was announced in Beijing (北京) on the 9th. After preliminary evaluation, re-evaluation, and final evaluation, this year's "Golden Voice Award" selected 10 outstanding radio announcers and hosts, and 10 outstanding television announcers and hosts.
The 20 winners come from China Media Group (中央广播电视总台) and radio and television stations in 16 provinces, covering the eastern, central, and western regions, and involving various program types such as news broadcasting, news commentary, interview programs, and variety shows. In terms of age, representatives range from those born in the 1960s to those born in the 1990s, with an average of 20.9 years of experience in broadcasting and hosting.
The China Broadcasting and Hosting "Golden Voice Award" was established in 2021 with the approval of the Central Government and is hosted by the National Radio and Television Administration (国家广播电视总局) and organized by the China Television Arts Committee (中国电视艺术委员会). It is a national-level government award established in China's broadcasting and hosting field. The award ceremony for the 3rd "Golden Voice Award" will be held on December 23rd in Changsha (长沙市), Hunan Province (湖南省), co-hosted by the National Radio and Television Administration (国家广播电视总局) and the People's Government of Hunan Province (湖南省人民政府).
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on December 10th (Reporter Liu Yang (刘阳)) On the 10th, China Media Group (中央广播电视总台)'s "2026 Spring Festival Gala" released its theme and main logo. The CMG (总台) Year of the Horse Spring Festival Gala takes "Qiji Galloping, Unstoppable Momentum" as its theme. In a joyful, auspicious, and festive atmosphere, it will meet with Chinese people around the world on New Year's Eve to embark on an uplifting, festive, warm, and innovative cultural feast.
"Qiji" is an elegant term used by the ancients for fine horses and steeds, embodying the Chinese nation's spirit of pioneering and enterprising. The main logo of the 2026 Spring Festival Gala extracts the creative inspiration of "Four Horses Galloping in Unison" from the gala's theme "Qiji Galloping," cleverly integrating the classic elements of traditional Chinese cloud patterns, thunder patterns, and meander patterns, outlining the visual image of four steeds advancing side by side, which not only demonstrates the charm of traditional aesthetics, but also conveys the spirit of surging forward in the era. The newly designed "Qiji Galloping Pattern" can also be infinitely extended, transformed, and circulated, unfolding a vivid scroll of ten thousand horses galloping with an 势不可挡 (shì bù kě dǎng - "momentum cannot be stopped," irresistible force) momentum.
Return to TopDuring the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Yunnan Province achieved new accomplishments in its "three positioning" construction: a demonstration zone for ethnic unity and progress, a vanguard in ecological civilization construction, and a radiation center oriented towards South Asia and Southeast Asia. China Mobile Yunnan Company (云南移动), referred to as "Yunnan Mobile," focusing on Yunnan Province's "radiation center oriented towards South Asia and Southeast Asia" positioning, strives to be a pioneer in the "Digital Two Asias," deeply cultivating the new quality productive forces in the field of information and communication, and actively contributing to Yunnan's construction of a digital information superhighway oriented towards South Asia and Southeast Asia.
Promoting technological applications to broaden the digital information superhighway:
Yunnan Mobile has built the largest information network in the province, with 335,000 base stations and nearly 566,800 10G PON (Passive Optical Network) ports, providing high-speed, stable, and ubiquitous information and communication experiences for over 42 million mobile customers across the province. In September of this year, the 4th Mobile Communication High-Quality Development Forum in 2025 released the 2024 National Hundred-City Key Area Mobile Network Quality Special Evaluation Results, with Yunnan Mobile ranking first in the nation in three network quality categories. Currently, Yunnan Mobile has achieved full 5G network coverage along high-speed rail lines within the province, with a cumulative investment of over 1.1 billion yuan, building 6,924 4G and 5G base stations, and covering over 3,104 kilometers of 4G and 5G networks.
At the same time, Yunnan Mobile is building a high-quality transport capacity base based on 400G OTN (Optical Transport Network), achieving an all-optical latency circle of 1 millisecond in Kunming (昆明), 3 milliseconds in Dianzhong (滇中), 9 milliseconds in South Asia and Southeast Asia, and 20 milliseconds nationwide.
China Mobile's South Asia and Southeast Asia International Digital Information Superhighway IBB (International Backbone) node has been upgraded and launched. This node is located in Kunming (昆明) and was built by Yunnan Mobile. After its launch, the business has been optimized and adjusted from the original submarine cable route to a land cable route, which can significantly reduce the latency of South Asia and Southeast Asia Internet services to China.
Advancing digital and intelligent transformation to create strong support for digital going-global:
Yunnan Mobile is strengthening its computing power scale. The largest single intelligent computing center in the province, the China Mobile Digital Two Asias (Kunming) Intelligent Computing Center (中国移动数字两亚（昆明）智算中心), has been fully put into production, and the thousand-card intelligent computing cluster is accelerating its landing, with a computing power supply capacity of 17,500 PFlops. Building B02 of the Intelligent Computing Center was selected into the "2025 National Green Data Center List" in November, becoming the only project in Yunnan Province to be selected into this list. Through the comprehensive application of various energy-saving technologies such as high-voltage chillers, plate heat exchange, liquid cooling, and full air cooling, the PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) of the Intelligent Computing Center reached 1.22 in 2024.
Building platform capabilities. Yunnan Mobile is building the Yunnan Digital Going-Global Public Service Platform, providing integrated support and guarantee services for going-global enterprises and regulatory departments, becoming a "smart brain" for scientific decision-making.
Activating data resources. Yunnan Mobile is building and operating the Kunming International Data Exchange (昆明国际数据交易所), creating an important node for national interconnected data infrastructure. In the eight months of operation, the exchange has achieved 398 business entities settled in, 447 product registrations, matched transaction amounts exceeding 99.52 million yuan, and completed the first data transaction signing in Yunnan's flower industry.
Strengthening open cooperation to weave a dense new artificial intelligence ecosystem:
Yunnan Mobile successfully hosted the 2025 Tengchong Scientists Forum (2025腾冲科学家论坛) · Artificial Intelligence Sub-Forum, and carried out industry-university-research cooperation with Tsinghua University (清华大学), Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (上海人工智能研究院), Wuwen Xinqiong (无问芯穹), etc., introducing over 55 AI ecosystem partners to the country, and the ecosystem circle continues to expand.
Yunnan Mobile released the "Yunyi Zhisu" (云移智算) brand, and jointly promoted the nationwide expansion of artificial intelligence industry applications with ecological partners, driving the growth of artificial intelligence industry output value, and fully demonstrating the role of "vanguard."
In the next step, Yunnan Mobile will continue to promote the construction of a digital information superhighway oriented towards South Asia and Southeast Asia, continue to consolidate the digital information superhighway, deeply implement the "Artificial Intelligence +" action, focus on expanding the data element market, unblock "digital arteries," strengthen "digital hearts," and provide "digital blood," gathering great development with great construction, and injecting strong momentum into the high-quality development of Yunnan's digital economy.
Data source: China Mobile Yunnan Company (中国移动云南公司)
Return to TopIn the winter, the land of southern Jiangxi is covered with forests in a riot of color. Ninety-one years ago, the Central Red Army set off from Yudu County (于都县) in Ganzhou City (赣州市), Jiangxi Province (江西省) today, embarking on the Long March. Today, this land, which once made tremendous contributions to the Chinese revolution, is surging with a high-quality development boom everywhere, ushering in a historic transformation in the new era.
In 2021, the "Opinions on Supporting the Revitalization and Development of Old Revolutionary Areas in the New Era" was issued, explicitly supporting Ganzhou (赣州) and other cities in building demonstration zones for high-quality development in old revolutionary areas. In 2022, the State Council approved the "Construction Plan for the Ganzhou Revolutionary Old Area High-Quality Development Demonstration Zone," and Ganzhou (赣州) ushered in new development opportunities.
With a mission on their shoulders, they strive to be the first. In recent years, Ganzhou City (赣州市) has focused on the fiery practice of Jiangxi Province (江西全省) "striving to set an example in accelerating the high-quality development of old revolutionary areas," focusing on the goal requirements of "walking in the front, daring to be the first, and being good at making achievements," and with the spirit of "daring," the energy of "creating," and the style of "doing," it has transformed the "demonstration zone" gold lettered signboard into development achievements.
Innovation-Driven: Building an Industrial Highland
Walking into the Ganzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone (赣州经开区), robotic arms frequently wave in the Fulian Precision (富联精密) production workshop. This Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) project, with an investment of over 10 billion yuan, took less than a year from signing to production. Gree Electric Appliances (格力电器), Geely Technology (吉利科技), and a large number of other leading enterprises have settled here, forming an industrial cluster development ecosystem.
Industry is the backbone of revitalization. Ganzhou (赣州) adheres to the "industrial strong city" strategy, implements the "7510" action plan for the modernization of key manufacturing industry chains, 35 industrial categories gather chains into groups, with 3,095 industrial enterprises above designated size, the number of which ranks first in the province. Four hundred-billion-yuan industrial clusters of modern furniture, non-ferrous metals and new materials, electronic information, and new energy have risen, achieving a breakthrough of zero in national-level industrial clusters. Ganzhou's (赣州) industry has been upgraded from traditional resource-based to modern manufacturing-based, ranking 58th in the list of top 100 advanced manufacturing cities in 2024.
Traditional industries are "old trees sprouting new buds," and emerging industries are "new branches bearing rich fruit." Nankang (南康) furniture industry relies on the China (Ganzhou) Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone (中国（赣州）跨境电子商务综合试验区) and the imported timber distribution center, transforming from "covering the sky and the earth" to "standing tall and reaching the sky," with a brand value of over 70 billion yuan. Xinfeng County (信丰县) focuses on the subdivided fields of electronic information, creating a "global PCB (printed circuit board) industry hub," with the industrial cluster revenue exceeding 20 billion yuan. Ganzhou's (赣州) industrial structure has undergone profound changes, and the transformation of old and new driving forces is surging with vitality.
In the Ganzhou High-tech Zone (赣州高新区), the laboratories of the Ganjiang Innovation Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院赣江创新研究院) are brightly lit, and researchers are focusing on tackling key problems in rare earth new materials. As the first research institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) in Jiangxi (江西), the research institute has gathered a large number of high-end talents, carrying out cutting-edge research, and striving to transform the key variables of scientific and technological innovation into the largest increment of high-quality development.
Innovation is the primary driving force for leading development. Ganzhou (赣州) takes the construction of a national innovative city as a starting point, and vigorously implements the scientific and technological innovation empowerment action. The Ganjiang Innovation Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院赣江创新研究院) and China Rare Earth Group (中国稀土集团) have successively settled down, and 24 national-level platforms such as the National Rare Earth Functional Materials Innovation Center (国家稀土功能材料创新中心) have built an innovation matrix. Today, the city has more than 1,200 high-tech enterprises.
Urban-Rural Coordination: Drawing a New Chapter of Development
In the morning light, trains shuttle endlessly at Ganzhou West Station (赣州西站). After the opening of the Changgan High-speed Railway (昌赣高铁) and the Ganshen High-speed Railway (赣深高铁), Ganzhou (赣州) was connected to the high-speed rail network and integrated into the "two-hour economic circle" of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区).
The transformation of transportation is an epitome of the coordinated urban-rural development of Ganzhou (赣州). In the past four years, the mileage of expressways opened to traffic in Ganzhou (赣州) has reached 1,842 kilometers, the Ganzhou Ruijin Airport (赣州瑞金机场) has been opened to traffic, forming a "dual airport" pattern with the Ganzhou Huangjin Airport (赣州黄金机场), and the four-level rural road network connects all administrative villages, making the dream of the old revolutionary area people "going out on the road, getting on the bus, and traveling thousands of miles a day" a reality.
Strolling along the banks of the Zhangjiang River (章江), the water is clear and the banks are green, and egrets are flying; located in the Rongjiang New Area (蓉江新区), modern buildings rise from the ground, and parks and green spaces are dotted everywhere. Ganzhou (赣州) adheres to "careful planning, exquisite construction, meticulous management, and exquisite presentation," the built-up area of the central urban area has expanded to 249 square kilometers, and the carrying capacity of the sub-provincial center city has been significantly enhanced.
The city is more beautiful, and the countryside has a new look. In Tantou Village (潭头村), Yudu County (于都县), white-walled and black-tiled houses are scattered in an orderly manner, selenium-rich vegetable greenhouses are arranged in an orderly manner, and tourists are in an endless stream. Tantou Village (潭头村) actively promotes the integrated development of agriculture, culture, and tourism, rural tourism is blooming in many places, and rural industries are becoming increasingly prosperous. In 2024, the village's collective income exceeded 3.55 million yuan, an increase of 44 times compared with 2018, and the annual per capita disposable income of villagers reached 36,000 yuan.
On the road to comprehensive rural revitalization, the aroma of oranges is overflowing. The brand value of "Gannan Navel Orange" (赣南脐橙) has ranked first in the national fruit category for 11 consecutive years, and "Gannan Camellia Oil" (赣南茶油) has been on the list of China's geographical indication product regional brands for 8 consecutive years. The selenium-rich industry has become a new calling card, grain production has achieved "twenty-one consecutive harvests," and the output value of modern agriculture is nearly 80 billion yuan.
Ganzhou (赣州) focuses on effectively linking the consolidation and expansion of poverty alleviation results with rural revitalization, vigorously developing characteristic industries such as selenium-rich agriculture, leisure agriculture, and rural tourism, and implementing a five-year action to improve the rural living environment. The city has newly built and renovated more than 4,500 kilometers of rural roads, the popularization rate of rural tap water has increased to 95.16%, the effectiveness of rural governance has been continuously improved, and more and more villages can see mountains, see water, and retain nostalgia.
Reform and Tackling Key Problems: Activating Openness and Driving Forces
At the Ganzhou International Land Port (赣州国际陆港), gantry cranes load containers carrying Nankang (南康) furniture onto freight trains. In the first 10 months of this year, the number of China-Europe freight trains operated by the Ganzhou International Land Port (赣州国际陆港) increased by 47% year-on-year, and the customs clearance time was reduced by 40% through the "cross-province, cross-customs area, and cross-land-sea port" model. As of now, the China-Europe (Asia) freight train routes operated by the Ganzhou International Land Port (赣州国际陆港) have covered more than 150 cities in five Central Asian countries and 22 European countries.
Ganzhou (赣州) dares to break through and dares to try. Deepen the reform of the administrative examination and approval system, and realize "zero cost" and "half-day completion" for enterprises to start businesses; explore the "one-chain handling of the whole industry" reform, and compress the examination and approval links by more than 40%. Carry out the market-oriented allocation reform of factors, and the "standard land" transfer of industrial projects and the "output per mu determines heroes" evaluation mechanism are fully implemented.
Ganzhou (赣州) comprehensively benchmarks Shenzhen's rules and regulations reform, and introduces 45 "establishment and revision lists"; carries out five rounds of business environment benchmarking and improvement, and 739 reform tasks have been implemented and achieved results. Commercial registration, project approval, financial services and other fields are fully in line with the standards of the Greater Bay Area (大湾区).
Shenzhen-Ganzhou (深赣) cooperation is advancing in depth. 10 districts in Shenzhen (深圳) and 10 counties (cities, districts) in Ganzhou (赣州) are paired to build together, and the Shenzhen-Ganzhou (深赣) co-built industrial park is rising from the ground. The Ganzhou International Land Port (赣州国际陆港) has realized "the same price to the port as the coastal area for entry and the same effective customs clearance," and the old revolutionary area has a "sea outlet."
In the first 10 months of this year, Ganzhou City (赣州市) achieved a total value of foreign trade import and export of 103.87 billion yuan, an increase of 14.3% year-on-year. Among them, the import and export to countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" (一带一路) was 50.7 billion yuan, an increase of 22.7%.
Climbing to the top of Sanbai Mountain (三百山), the source of the Dongjiang River (东江) is crystal clear, and the water quality monitoring data shows that it has maintained above Class II for many years. Anyuan County (安远县) implements comprehensive ecological management, the forest coverage rate remains at 84.3%, and it has been rated as an advanced county in China's ecological civilization. The Sanbai Mountain (三百山) scenic spot has become a national 5A-level tourist attraction.
In the past four years, Ganzhou (赣州) has resolutely protected the ecological barrier and innovatively established a coordinated mechanism of the "forest chief system" (林长制) and the "river and lake chief system" (河湖长制). The city's forest coverage rate reached 76.23%, and the soil and water conservation rate was 83.26%. The average concentration of PM2.5 in the central urban area has improved, the air quality is the best in the province, and the excellent rate of water quality in the national assessment sections and drinking water sources remains at 100%. Opening windows to see green and opening doors to see scenery has become the norm, and Ganzhou (赣州) has been rated as one of the first batch of national ecological civilization demonstration cities.
Serving the People with Practical Actions: Brightening the Background Color of Happiness
In 2022, the national regional medical center construction project was launched in Ganzhou (赣州), and more high-quality medical resources are extending to the old revolutionary area.
People's livelihood is no small matter, and branches and leaves are always concerned. Ganzhou (赣州) adheres to spending more than 80% of its fiscal expenditure on people's livelihood, implements actions to improve the quality of people's livelihood, and carries out the "I do practical things for the masses" activity on a regular basis. In the past three years, 203,500 new degrees and 8,600 medical beds have been added, the Citizen Comprehensive Service Center, the Workers' Cultural Palace, and the National Fitness Center have been completed successively, and 213 practical things for people's livelihood have been transformed from "task bills" into "happiness lists."
On the banks of the Yudu River (于都河), the Central Red Army Long March Departure Memorial Hall (中央红军长征出发纪念馆) is crowded with tourists, and the docent is telling the touching story of "300,000 people keeping a secret."
The red gene is integrated into the development bloodline. The Long March National Cultural Park (Ganzhou Section) (长征国家文化公园（赣州段）) has been built and operated, a number of red sites have been protected and repaired, and the large-scale red cultural tourism epic drama "The First Ferry of the Long March" (《长征第一渡》) has been staged with a shock, receiving more than one million red research tourists every year.
On the back mountain of Huawu Village (华屋村), Yeping Town (叶坪镇), Ruijin City (瑞金市), 17 "belief trees" are verdant and upright. More than 90 years ago, 17 young people from Huawu Village (华屋村) planted pine seedlings before joining the Red Army. Today, the people of Huawu Village (华屋村) have passed down the red stories from generation to generation, and built this red land better. Huawu Village (华屋村) actively develops greenhouse vegetables and red tourism, and the former "martyr village" has become a "well-off village."
Red is the distinctive background color of Ganzhou (赣州). In the process of building the demonstration zone, Ganzhou (赣州) pays attention to drawing wisdom and strength from the Soviet spirit and the Long March spirit, integrates the red gene into all aspects of party building and social governance, and gathers into a powerful force for building the demonstration zone.
The old revolutionary area is not old, but is in its prime. Standing at a new historical starting point, the people of Ganzhou (赣州) will keep in mind their entrustment, shoulder their mission, and continue to take the lead, dare to be the first, and set an example in innovation-driven development, coordinated integration, green transformation, open upgrading, shared benefits for the people, and red inheritance, and contribute "Ganzhou wisdom" to the high-quality development of the national old revolutionary area, so that the old revolutionary area will radiate new era brilliance.
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Ganzhou Municipal Committee (中共赣州市委宣传部)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 陈隽逸
At the 15th National Games, the rock climbing athletes moved nimbly between the holds, seemingly 飞檐走壁 (fēi yán zǒu bì - "flying eaves walking walls," to possess extraordinary skills; to be able to scale walls and buildings with ease), leaving a deep impression. In recent years, rock climbing has become a new sports choice for many. Whether experiencing the fun of climbing in an indoor climbing gym or challenging oneself on natural rock walls, each coordinated ascent is a breakthrough in strength and courage.
Recently, the reporter invited Rao Xiong (饶雄), a national first-level rock climbing route setter and the owner of Guizhou Babihu Rock Climbing Gym (贵州巴壁虎攀岩馆), to explain the essentials of this sport.
How to Get Started as a Beginner
When first encountering rock climbing, you should ask a professional coach for guidance. Teenagers who practice 2 to 3 times a week can climb independently after more than half a year; adults who practice at the same frequency can usually climb independently after 20 lessons.
Indoor climbing gyms are the first choice for beginners to safely get started. Indoor climbing gyms have artificial rock walls, and the material, size, angle, and routes of the holds are designed to be relatively safe and controllable. Climbing gyms have high wall areas and bouldering areas. The former is usually 15 meters high and can be used to practice speed climbing and difficulty climbing; the latter is between 4.5 meters and 5.5 meters and mainly tests completion. Overcoming obstacles during the climbing process helps to cultivate concentration and exercise willpower.
This sport requires coordinated exertion of the limbs and full body participation. People with fitness habits generally get started faster. Beginners can increase their limb strength during the climbing process and make progress gradually.
What to Pay Attention to in Indoor Rock Climbing
It is recommended that beginners start with the easiest routes and prioritize learning basic techniques such as three-point balance, footwork (using the toes to step on holds), and front and side body movements to avoid injuries caused by blindly challenging high-difficulty movements.
When climbing in the high wall area, first wear safety equipment correctly and practice under the guidance of professionals. In this area, you must first overcome the fear of heights, and then meet the challenges of speed and difficulty.
When climbing in the bouldering area, the correct landing posture is crucial: land with both feet at the same time, bend your knees to cushion the impact, and roll your back. Avoid using your wrists to support yourself directly, and do not try to stand firmly on the ground directly. People who are injured in the bouldering area are often injured due to using incorrect movements to climb or land, or falling after exhausting their physical strength after reaching the finish line, resulting in sprains and ligament strains.
Warm up for 10-15 minutes before climbing, such as jogging, jumping, etc., stretch your fingers, wrists, shoulder joints, and legs to activate muscle groups and prevent strains. After climbing, most people will have swollen arms and should pay attention to stretching and relaxation after exercise.
What Preparations are Needed for Outdoor Rock Climbing
For beginners, it is recommended to first learn basic techniques and safety regulations in an indoor climbing gym, train under the guidance of a professional coach, and then try outdoor rock climbing after improving your level.
When climbing outdoors, safety should be the top priority. Check the weather forecast in advance and avoid climbing during thunderstorms, strong winds, extreme heat, or when the rock wall is wet.
It is recommended to travel with experienced teammates. At least one person in the team should be proficient in route selection, equipment operation, and emergency rescue. Check your equipment before departure and be familiar with the use of all equipment. Before each use, carefully check whether the rope is worn, whether the safety belt is intact, whether the locking screw is tightened, and whether the helmet strap is secure.
Wear a helmet when climbing outdoors. Before climbing, observe whether there are loose rocks above the rock wall. When moving, try to avoid stepping on or kicking off gravel. If you encounter potential risks, remind the people below loudly. Conduct safety assessments of natural rock points such as rock flakes and rock crevices, and also check the rust and looseness of fixed hangers.
Choose routes within your personal ability range and do not blindly increase the difficulty. You should start outdoor attempts with routes that are far below your indoor climbing ability, leaving enough margin to cope with complex environments and psychological pressure.
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How to Choose Rock Climbing Equipment
When beginners choose rock climbing shoes, they can be larger than the size of their usual sports shoes. When they practice to a certain level, they can gradually reduce the size to allow the soles of their feet to curl up inside to provide more support.
In terms of clothing, you should wear loose-fitting long clothes and trousers, and do not wear shorts or tights. Wearing shorts can easily scratch the skin, while tights can hinder the flexibility of movements.
Indoor rock climbing equipment requirements are relatively simple, usually only requiring rock climbing shoes and a chalk bag. Safety equipment such as safety belts, belay devices, and ropes are usually provided for rental by most climbing gyms, and staff will conduct basic safety checks.
Outdoor rock climbing equipment is relatively more complex. In addition to basic equipment, you also need to equip yourself with helmets, a large number of quickdraws, mechanical cams, rock stoppers, and other equipment. All equipment requires users to carefully check and operate cautiously.
(Reported by Chen Junyi (陈隽逸), reporter of this newspaper)
Return to TopGuang Yuexiang (广越想), a boccia player from Guangdong (广东), says:
"Strive to see a broader world"
By Wang Liang (王亮), People's Daily reporter
With a swing of his arm, the blue ball rolls along the ground after leaving his hand, accurately approaching the target ball... Guang Yuexiang (广越想), a boccia player from Guangdong (广东), earned cheers for his wonderful throw.
The boccia competition of the National Games for Persons with Disabilities and the National Special Olympic Games recently kicked off at the Hong Kong (香港) Kai Tak Sports Park. This year's boccia event includes men's and women's individual, doubles, and team events, producing a total of 14 gold medals, attracting nearly 100 athletes from 13 teams to participate.
In 1984, boccia was first introduced to the Paralympic Games. During the competition, athletes must sit in wheelchairs to throw the balls. The closer to the target ball, the higher the score. The highest total score wins.
23-year-old Guang Yuexiang (广越想) is participating in the National Games for Persons with Disabilities and the National Special Olympic Games for the fourth time. In the past two editions, he has stood on the highest podium. In his opinion, good results come from hard work.
Speaking of his story with boccia, Guang Yuexiang (广越想) is very emotional. He never imagined he could practice sports, let alone participate in high-level competitions. However, after seeing the tenacious performances of many people with disabilities at the training base, he was deeply encouraged and joined the training team. Guang Yuexiang (广越想) showed great talent in boccia and won many honors, which made him confident and his personality became more cheerful. "Now, I strive to see a broader world," Guang Yuexiang (广越想) said. "Sports help me realize my dreams and make my life more colorful."
Liu Mengyan (刘梦妍), a swimmer from the Henan (河南) team, says:
At 16 years old, she hopes to break more records
By Chen Chenxi (陈晨曦), People's Daily reporter, and Ou Xingrong (欧兴荣), People's Daily Online reporter
On the evening of the 10th, at the Universiade Swimming Center in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东), 16-year-old Liu Mengyan (刘梦妍) from the Henan (河南) team won a silver medal in the women's 400-meter freestyle S15 (hearing impaired group) final at the National Games for Persons with Disabilities and the National Special Olympic Games. As of now, she has won 2 gold medals and 1 silver medal in the swimming events of this National Games for Persons with Disabilities and the National Special Olympic Games.
Liu Mengyan (刘梦妍) continues to surprise people. In the women's 200-meter butterfly S15 final of the National Games for Persons with Disabilities and the National Special Olympic Games held on the 9th, she won the championship with a time of 2 minutes 19.70 seconds, breaking the world record that had been untouched for 12 years. She also won the gold medal in the women's 800-meter freestyle S15. "I have been cheering for myself in my heart. I am very happy to be able to break the world record and win the gold medal," Liu Mengyan (刘梦妍) said, unable to hide her excitement.
Showing swimming talent since childhood, she entered the Henan (河南) Provincial Disabled Persons' Federation swimming team at the age of 6, majoring in backstroke, butterfly, and freestyle. She is currently a sophomore at Zhengzhou (郑州) School for the Blind and Deaf in Henan (河南) Province. In 2013, Liu Mengyan (刘梦妍) had a cochlear implant, which made her life more convenient.
In the previous National Games for Persons with Disabilities and the National Special Olympic Games, the 12-year-old won 1 silver and 6 bronze medals. In this year's competition, she signed up for 5 individual events and will also participate in several team events. "The training is very hard, but the belief of 'wanting to be number one' has always supported me to persevere," Liu Mengyan (刘梦妍) said, full of expectations for the future. "I hope to break more records."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 季 芳
In the recently held 2025-2026 season FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup Ruka, Finland, aerials women's final, Chinese star Xu Mengtao (徐梦桃) won the championship with a score of 89.29 points, taking the first title of the new season.
The Ruka station is the first competition of the new World Cup season. In the women's aerials event, the Chinese team showed a certain group advantage, with a total of 4 athletes advancing to the final. In the first round of the final, Xu Mengtao (徐梦桃) and teammate Chen Meiting (陈梅婷) both completed moves with a difficulty coefficient of 4.027, ranking first and second respectively with higher completion and advancing to the next round. In the second round of the competition, Xu Mengtao (徐梦桃) challenged the highest difficulty coefficient 1080-degree rotation move of the entire field. Although there were slight flaws in the landing, she eventually won the championship. Canadian athlete Marion Thénault and Chinese athlete Chen Meiting (陈梅婷) won the silver and bronze medals respectively.
"This competition was really difficult, but I did it! Standing in the wind, snow, and mist, the team gave me strength," Xu Mengtao (徐梦桃) said after the competition. This gold medal is the thirty-ninth World Cup gold medal of her career, and she has created a new milestone in the Chinese aerials project.
35-year-old Xu Mengtao (徐梦桃) is the oldest athlete in the Chinese freestyle skiing aerials team. At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics (北京冬奥会), Xu Mengtao (徐梦桃) successfully won the championship, winning the first Winter Olympic gold medal in the Chinese freestyle skiing aerials women's event. Her tearful cry of "Am I the first?" after landing became a famous scene. After that, she temporarily left the arena to experience diverse life scenery.
Now, Xu Mengtao (徐梦桃) is sprinting with all her strength towards her fifth Winter Olympics. She said, "Time may have changed my appearance, but it has never shaken my sincerity, love, and awe for this project." Last season, she won 4 World Cup gold medals and 1 World Championship silver medal, and also won 2 gold medals and 1 silver medal at this year's Harbin Asian Winter Games (哈尔滨亚冬会), maintaining a good competitiveness in the international arena.
The next stop of this season's Freestyle Ski World Cup aerials competition will be held in late December at the Genting Snow Park (云顶滑雪公园) in Chongli District (崇礼区), Zhangjiakou (张家口), Hebei (河北). Xu Mengtao (徐梦桃) will continue to move towards her goal.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Bijie on December 10th (Reporter: Su Bin (苏滨)) From December 7th to 13th, the second "Western Youth Training Cup" Youth Football Exchange Tournament was held in Bijie (毕节), Guizhou. This tournament was hosted by the Chinese Football Association (中国足球协会) and the China Football Development Foundation (中国足球发展基金会), and organized by the Guizhou Provincial Sports Bureau (贵州省体育局) and the Bijie Municipal People's Government (毕节市人民政府). Eight U14 men's and women's football teams from eight western pilot areas, totaling more than 400 athletes and coaches, participated in 40 matches over 7 days.
The State General Administration of Sport (国家体育总局) established the "Western Youth Training Cup" Youth Football Exchange Tournament in 2024 to build a platform for pilot areas to "**以赛促训、以球会友**" (yǐ sài cù xùn, yǐ qiú huì yǒu - "promote training through competition, make friends through football," using competition to improve training and build camaraderie). As youth training centers in various pilot areas are gradually completed and put into use, starting from this "Western Youth Training Cup," the tournament will be held in rotation at the youth training centers in the pilot areas every December.
Return to TopChangsha Wuyi Business District (长沙市五一商圈) was selected into the first batch of national-level night cultural and tourism consumption cluster areas; Wen Heyou (文和友), Tea颜悦色 (Cha Yan Yue Se), Black Classic (黑色经典) and a large number of new consumer brands continue to emerge... In recent years, Tianxin District (天心区), Changsha City (长沙市), Hunan Province (湖南省) has actively explored new paths for the development of the new consumption industry, helped to improve the quality and efficiency of consumption, and promoted the development of new consumption to achieve significant results.
To promote consumption to "run" with policy support. Tianxin District (天心区) has released the "Tianxin District Development Plan for Creating an International Consumption Center and an International Cultural and Creative Center" 《(天心区创建国际消费中心暨国际文化创意中心发展规划)》 and the "Three-Year Action Plan for High-Quality Development of New Consumption in Tianxin District, Changsha City (2023-2025)" 《(长沙市天心区新消费高质量发展三年行动计划（2023—2025年）)》, carried out the selection of "Four New Economy Demonstration Enterprises" and new consumption industry demonstrations, vigorously implemented the "Tianxin Red" talent project, and supported outstanding talents in the new consumption field. At present, 8 new consumption economic talents and 21 new consumption enterprise backbone talents have been selected.
To promote consumption to "live" with platform construction. In 2019, Hunan Province's (湖南省) first "Tianxin District Night Economy Service Center" (天心区夜间经济服务中心) was established, and in 2022, it led the establishment of the Changsha New Consumption Research Institute (长沙新消费研究院), giving full play to the effectiveness of the 800 million yuan new consumption industry fund to provide financing and credit, human resources and other services for new consumption enterprises. The Changsha New Consumption Zero-Work Market was established, and the "Xiaochi Technology" (小翅科技) new consumption human resources comprehensive service platform was launched. At present, more than 6,100 employers have settled in, providing more than 790,000 jobs and serving a total of 810,000 people.
To promote consumption to "become intelligent" with technology empowerment. Carefully build the Huangxing South Road (黄兴南路) Cultural Tourism Business District (文旅商务区) smart platform to achieve panoramic real-time monitoring of the block, collection of passenger flow data, and mastery of consumption dynamics. Create national demonstration smart business districts and smart stores. Wuyi Business District (五一商圈) and Changsha Hisense Plaza (长沙海信广场) were selected as the second batch of national demonstration smart business districts and national demonstration smart stores, respectively. Digital empowerment immersive experience, Du甫江阁 (Du Fu Jiangge) Zimei Dream Seeking Record (子美寻梦记) and Tianxin Pavilion (天心阁) Light and Shadow Park (光影公园) have become newly popular check-in destinations.
To promote consumption to "prosper" with environmental optimization. Create a benchmark area for the province's business environment, comprehensively upgrade the construction of the "May 1st Credit Demonstration Business District" ("五一信用示范商圈"), and launch the consumer complaint first payment work. As of the end of October this year, the "one household one code" coverage of 9,200 merchants has been completed in the whole district, 78 first payment cases have been processed, and the satisfaction rate of return visits is 100%. Since the beginning of this year, a healthy and harmonious consumption environment has enabled the Wuyi Business District (五一商圈) to attract 46 first stores and flagship stores of various well-known brands.
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Changsha Tianxin District Committee (中共长沙市天心区委宣传部)
Return to TopUnder the guidance of Party building, the School of Water Conservancy and Transportation of Zhengzhou University (郑州大学) broke down the "boundaries between teachers and students, professional barriers, and grade restrictions." Fang Hongyuan (方宏远), a distinguished professor of the "Changjiang Scholar Program (长江学者奖励计划)" of the Ministry of Education (教育部), formed the Infrastructure Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Teacher-Student Party Branch, anchored the goal of cultivating outstanding engineers, carefully constructed "four major mechanisms," and implemented the "four-group cohesion" working model. It has delivered outstanding answers in talent cultivation, scientific and technological innovation, and social services, becoming an important engine for the high-quality development of the college.
The "Four Major Mechanisms" Strengthen the Foundation, and Party Building and Business are Deeply Integrated
The Infrastructure Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Teacher-Student Party Branch builds a solid foundation for development with "four major mechanisms," realizing the same direction and same line between Party building and education. The normalized mechanism of theoretical learning runs through the entire process. By strictly implementing the "three meetings and one lesson (三会一课)" system and carrying out thematic practices such as "tracing the spirit of the Red Flag Canal (红旗渠精神)," it cultivates the feelings of home and country among teachers and students. The organizational vitality enhancement mechanism focuses on urgent, difficult, dangerous, and heavy tasks, and builds Party groups on the front line of engineering. The pioneer model incentive mechanism constructs a three-level ideological and political education system, integrates curriculum-based ideological and political education into the entire chain of education, and encourages Party branch teachers and students to be brave in taking responsibility and overcoming difficulties. The Party building and business integration mechanism breaks down disciplinary boundaries and promotes the joint planning, deployment, and implementation of Party building and ideological and political education, scientific research innovation, and social services.
"Four-Group Cohesion" Demonstrates Responsibility, Multi-Dimensional Empowerment Creates First-Class
The Infrastructure Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Teacher-Student Party Branch demonstrates its responsibility with the "four-group cohesion" working model, promoting the high-quality development of the college's work. The "Major Country Weapon (大国重器)" Propaganda Group relies on more than 30 cases to actively enter colleges, communities, and middle schools, promote the spirit of craftsmanship, and brighten the brand of engineering disciplines. The "City Physical Examination (城市体检)" Volunteer Group gives play to its professional advantages, completes more than 20 campus and surrounding facility hidden danger investigations, and interprets responsibility with dedication. The "Intelligent Creation and Integration (智创融合)" Pioneer Group embraces AI technology and won more than 20 national awards, including the gold medal in the Innovation Competition of the National Postdoctoral Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition and the special prize in the "Challenge Cup (挑战杯)" National Undergraduate Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition. The "Engineering Doctor (工程医生)" Service Group relies on the Dam and Road Engineering Hospital (坝道工程医院) to solve industry problems and form a virtuous circle of "Party building - talent - industry."
Fruitful Results Open a New Journey, Striving Forward to the Future
Members of the Infrastructure Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Teacher-Student Party Branch have undertaken more than 100 vertical and horizontal projects, such as the National Key R&D Program (国家重点研发计划) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (国家自然科学基金), won 1 second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award (国家教学成果奖) and 7 provincial and ministerial-level science and technology progress awards, and won national-level talent titles 6 times and provincial-level talent titles 14 times. Four students were named "Innovation and Practice Star (创新实践之星)" in the China Graduate Student Innovation and Practice Series Competition.
The new journey is inspiring, and the new mission is a heavy responsibility. The School of Water Conservancy and Transportation of Zhengzhou University (郑州大学水利与交通学院) will consolidate its foundation with Party building as the guide, empower and improve quality with innovation as its wings, and further implement the three major projects of organizational cohesion, brand demonstration, and collaborative education. It will continue to explore the "River Chief System (河长制)" branch coverage model, expand the radiation effect of the "four groups," and strive towards the goal of a national Party building model branch, injecting strong impetus into the school's "double first-class (双一流)" construction and the water conservancy discipline's efforts to create a national first-class discipline, and writing a new chapter in the journey of serving the country's infrastructure construction.
Data source: School of Water Conservancy and Transportation of Zhengzhou University (郑州大学水利与交通学院)
Return to TopForeword
The world is currently undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, the international balance of power is undergoing deep adjustments, the Global South is growing stronger, and is playing an increasingly important role in the cause of human progress. At the same time, the world economy lacks growth momentum, local conflicts and turbulence occur frequently, unilateral hegemonic actions damage international peace and security, and human society faces unprecedented challenges.
China has comprehensively built a moderately prosperous society in all respects, achieved its first centenary goal, and is comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization. China firmly pursues an independent foreign policy of peace, practices the common values of all mankind, implements the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, deeply promotes the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road," advocates an equal and orderly multipolar world and inclusive economic globalization that benefits all, and promotes the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.
As a developing country and a member of the Global South, China has always shared the same breath and destiny with the Global South, including Latin America and the Caribbean. In recent years, Chinese President Xi Jinping (习近平) has put forward a series of major initiatives and measures to strengthen China-Latin America relations and cooperation in various fields, giving new era connotations to China-Latin America relations. The Chinese government has issued its third "Policy Paper on China's Relations with Latin America and the Caribbean," which aims to summarize experience, look forward to the future, comprehensively elaborate on China's policy towards Latin America, and promote China-Latin America relations and cooperation in various fields to a new level.
Part I
Latin America and the Caribbean – A Land Full of Vitality and Hope
The Latin American and Caribbean region is an important part of the Global South and an important force in maintaining world peace and stability and promoting global development and prosperity. In recent years, Latin American and Caribbean countries have actively explored development paths that suit their own national conditions, promoted unity and self-reliance, and participated in global governance, and their international influence has continued to increase.
As a whole, Latin America and the Caribbean have a glorious tradition of independence, self-reliance, and joint efforts for strength, and have good development prospects. It is an indispensable force in the process of world multipolarization and economic globalization.
Part II
Vigorously Developing China-Latin America Relations
Although China and Latin America and the Caribbean are far apart, the friendly exchanges between the two peoples have a long history. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, China-Latin America relations have mainly been characterized by non-governmental exchanges. After the 1960s, with the establishment of diplomatic relations between the People's Republic of China and some Latin American and Caribbean countries, exchanges and cooperation between China and Latin America gradually became closer, supporting each other in safeguarding national sovereignty, independence, and defending national dignity. After generations of continuous struggle, China-Latin America friendship has become increasingly deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
In 2008, the Chinese government issued its first policy paper on Latin America, proposing to establish an equal, mutually beneficial, and common development-oriented comprehensive cooperative partnership between China and Latin America. In 2014, the leaders of China and Latin America held a meeting in Brasilia and jointly established the above-mentioned relationship positioning.
In 2016, the Chinese government issued its second policy paper on Latin America, proposing that China is committed to building a new "five-in-one" pattern of China-Latin America relations and promoting the comprehensive cooperative partnership between China and Latin America to a new level.
In recent years, under the strategic guidance of head-of-state diplomacy, China-Latin America relations have entered a new stage of equality, mutual benefit, innovation, openness, and benefit to the people, setting a model for South-South cooperation. China and Latin America have become a community with a shared future, with equality as its distinct background, mutual benefit and win-win results as its strong driving force, openness and inclusiveness as its broad-minded character, and benefiting the people as its fundamental pursuit, possessing vigorous vitality and broad development prospects.
Part III
Working Together to Promote the "Five Major Projects" for Building a China-Latin America Community with a Shared Future
China is willing to work with Latin America to promote the "five major projects" of unity, development, civilization, peace, and people-to-people bonds, seek common development and revitalization, and jointly write a new chapter in building a China-Latin America community with a shared future.
I. Unity Project
(1) High-Level Exchanges
Give full play to the political guiding role of head-of-state diplomacy, maintain mutual visits between Chinese and Latin American leaders and contacts on international multilateral occasions, strengthen exchanges and mutual learning on governance and modernization experience, and strengthen communication on bilateral relations and major issues of common concern.
(2) Mutual Support for Each Other's Core Interests and Major Concerns
The one-China principle is an important political foundation and prerequisite for China to develop relations with all countries in the world. The Chinese government appreciates that the vast majority of Latin American and Caribbean countries adhere to the one-China principle, recognize that there is only one China in the world, that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory, that the government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China, oppose any form of "Taiwan independence," and support the Chinese government in safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity and realizing national reunification. China is willing to establish and develop state relations with Latin American and Caribbean countries on the basis of the one-China principle.
China is willing to continuously deepen strategic mutual trust with Latin American and Caribbean countries that have established diplomatic relations with China, continue to understand and support each other on issues involving core interests and major concerns such as national sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity, continue to support each other in following development paths that suit their own national conditions, and oppose hegemonism and power politics.
(3) Intergovernmental Dialogue and Consultation Mechanisms
Give full play to the role of the high-level coordination and cooperation committee, the high-level joint committee, the intergovernmental standing committee, strategic dialogue, political consultation, the economic and trade joint committee, the high-level working group, the free trade committee, the science and technology joint committee and other mechanisms, further improve the intergovernmental dialogue and consultation mechanism between China and Latin America, and promote intergovernmental dialogue and cooperation.
(4) Exchanges between Legislative Bodies
The National People's Congress of China is willing to give full play to the role of high-level exchanges and exchanges between special committees, friendship groups, and offices on the basis of mutual respect, deepening understanding, and developing cooperation, and strengthen multi-level and multi-channel friendly exchanges with parliaments of Latin American and Caribbean countries and regional and sub-regional parliamentary organizations.
(5) Party-to-Party Exchanges
The Communist Party of China is willing to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with political parties and political organizations in Latin American and Caribbean countries on the basis of the principles of independence, complete equality, mutual respect, and non-interference in internal affairs, invite party cadres from member states of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (hereinafter referred to as CELAC) to visit China for inspection, and further enhance understanding and mutual trust.
(6) Implementation of the Global Governance Initiative
China is willing to work with Latin America to adhere to the global governance concept of consultation, joint construction, and sharing, implement the Global Governance Initiative, firmly safeguard the international system with the United Nations as the core, deepen exchanges and cooperation in the United Nations and other international organizations and other international occasions, enhance the representation and voice of the Global South, promote the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system, and jointly move towards a community with a shared future for mankind. China supports Latin American and Caribbean countries in playing a greater role in international affairs.
(7) Promoting the Reform of the Global Economic Governance System
Strengthen coordination and cooperation between China and Latin America in international economic and financial organizations and mechanisms such as the G20, APEC, BRICS, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Bank for International Settlements, the Financial Stability Board, and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, strengthen cooperation within the framework of the multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization as the core, actively implement the results of previous WTO ministerial conferences, promote the necessary reforms of the WTO, and better protect the development rights and development space of developing members. Promote Asia-Pacific regional economic integration. Call on the international community to continue to promote global economic governance reform, improve and improve global economic and financial rules, further promote the reform of the International Monetary Fund's quota and governance structure, and increase the representation of emerging market countries and developing countries. Firmly defend international fairness and justice, safeguard the multilateral trading system, oppose unilateral hegemonic actions, maintain the stability of the global industrial chain and supply chain, oppose "decoupling and breaking chains" and "starting anew," maintain an open and cooperative international environment, and promote economic globalization in the right direction.
(8) China-Latin America Overall Cooperation
China supports the integration process of the Latin American and Caribbean region, attaches great importance to developing relations with CELAC, and is willing to work with Latin America to adhere to the principles of respect, equality, diversity, mutual benefit, cooperation, openness, inclusiveness, and no preconditions, and actively promote cooperation in various fields under the framework of the China-CELAC Forum. Adhere to action-oriented, give full play to the role of the Forum Ministerial Meeting, the China-CELAC "Quad" Foreign Ministers' Dialogue, the National Coordinators' Meeting and other mechanisms, make good use of the Forum Network Secretariat, hold and continuously enrich sub-forum activities in various fields, encourage the active participation of all sectors of society, and continuously improve the mechanism construction of the China-CELAC Forum, and hold a summit jointly attended by leaders of China and CELAC member states when conditions are ripe.
China welcomes relevant regional organizations and multilateral institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean to actively participate in China-Latin America overall cooperation, and will provide necessary care in overall cooperation according to the needs of the least developed countries, landlocked developing countries, and small island developing countries in Latin America and the Caribbean region.
(9) Trilateral Cooperation
China-Latin America relations are not targeted at, exclusive of, or subject to any third party, which not only conforms to the fundamental interests of both China and Latin America, but also conforms to the trend of the times of world peace, development, cooperation, and win-win results.
China is willing to carry out trilateral development cooperation in Latin American and Caribbean countries with relevant countries outside the region and international organizations under the principles proposed, agreed to, and led by Latin American and Caribbean countries, and on the basis of mutual respect and complementary advantages.
China encourages Chinese enterprises to carry out trilateral cooperation in the economic, social, and cultural fields in Latin American and Caribbean countries with relevant parties based on commercial principles.
II. Development Project
(1) Implementing the Global Development Initiative
China is willing to deepen cooperation with Latin American and Caribbean countries under the framework of the Global Development Initiative, continue to share the development opportunities of Chinese-style modernization, accelerate the implementation of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, and promote the realization of common development.
(2) High-Quality Joint Construction of the "Belt and Road"
China welcomes more Latin American and Caribbean countries to join the international cooperation family of high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road," and is willing to work with countries in the region to jointly build the "Belt and Road" to uphold the principles of consultation, joint construction, and sharing, and the concepts of openness, greenness, and integrity, strengthen the alignment of development strategies, actively promote cooperation in various fields, jointly ensure the safe and smooth progress of cooperation projects, strive to achieve high standards, benefit the people's livelihood, and sustainable goals, and work together to achieve a world modernization of peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation, and common prosperity, and help promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.
(3) Trade and Investment Cooperation
Deeply tap the potential of bilateral trade, promote trade between China and Latin American and Caribbean countries in characteristic and advantageous commodities, high value-added products, and technology-intensive products, and strengthen cooperation in service trade and digital trade. In accordance with the principle of mutual benefit and win-win results, discuss with Latin American and Caribbean countries the establishment of long-term and stable trade relations, and discuss various trade facilitation arrangements, including free trade agreements. It is gratifying to see the expansion of bilateral trade, and Latin America is welcome to participate in activities such as the China International Import Expo, the China Import and Export Fair, the China International Fair for Trade in Services, the China International Consumer Products Expo, the China International Fair for Investment and Trade, the China International Supply Chain Expo, the China International Industry Fair, the China International Small and Medium Enterprises Fair, and the World Manufacturing Convention, and encourage and support Chinese enterprises to actively participate in relevant international and regional exhibitions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Properly handle trade frictions and promote the healthy and balanced development and structural diversification of China-Latin America trade.
China is willing to work with Latin American and Caribbean countries to make good use of economic and trade cooperation mechanisms, and continue to hold activities such as the China-Latin America Industrial Investment Cooperation Forum, the China-Latin America Entrepreneurs Summit, the China-Latin America High-Level Forum on Investment and Cooperation, the China-Caribbean Economic and Trade Cooperation Forum, and the China-Latin America Private Economic Cooperation Forum or Promotion Conference. Provide a fair, open, and non-discriminatory business environment for China-Latin America enterprises to invest and operate in each other's countries. Negotiate and sign more agreements with Latin America on investment protection and avoidance of double taxation to create a good environment and favorable conditions for investment cooperation between enterprises.
Adhere to the principles of enterprise-led, market-oriented operation, combining righteousness and benefit, and win-win cooperation, support Chinese enterprises to invest and start businesses in Latin American and Caribbean countries, and promote local employment. Promote the connection between China's high-quality production capacity and advantageous equipment and the needs of Latin American and Caribbean countries, and help Latin American and Caribbean countries in need to improve their independent and sustainable development capabilities.
(4) Financial Cooperation
Support Chinese financial institutions to strengthen business exchanges and cooperation with Latin American and Caribbean countries, regions, and international financial institutions, and further optimize the construction of outlets in Latin America. Strengthen dialogue and cooperation between central banks and financial regulatory authorities in China and Latin America, expand cross-border local currency settlement, discuss RMB clearing arrangements, and steadily promote currency cooperation such as local currency swaps. Explore "Panda Bond" cooperation in accordance with market-oriented and rule-of-law principles. On the basis of bilateral financial cooperation, give full play to the role of the China-Latin America Cooperation Fund, concessional loans, special loans for infrastructure, the China-Latin America Production Capacity Cooperation Investment Fund, and relevant financing arrangements between China and the Caribbean, actively explore cooperation forms such as insurance and financial leasing, and continuously expand cooperation with Latin American and Caribbean regional financial institutions to support cooperation in key areas and major projects between the two sides.
(5) Energy and Resource Cooperation
China is willing to expand and deepen the entire industrial chain cooperation in China-Latin America energy development and utilization in accordance with the principles of cooperation, win-win results, and sustainable development, further expand cooperation in traditional energy fields such as oil and natural gas, strengthen cooperation in clean energy such as hydropower, solar energy, wind energy, and hydrogen energy, deepen cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and strengthen green development and utilization of all links of mineral resources. China is willing to actively explore the establishment of long-term supply, local currency pricing, and settlement mechanisms for energy and resource products with Latin American and Caribbean countries to reduce the impact of external economic and financial risks.
(6) Infrastructure Cooperation
Strengthen technical consultation, construction, equipment manufacturing, and operation management cooperation in traditional fields such as transportation, trade and logistics, warehousing facilities, information and communication technology, energy and power, water conservancy projects, housing and urban construction, as well as emerging fields such as renewable energy, intelligent transportation, digital infrastructure, and smart cities. Encourage and support strong Chinese enterprises and financial institutions to actively participate in the planning and construction of infrastructure in Latin American and Caribbean countries, promote regional connectivity, and continuously empower regional economic growth and sustainable development. Continue to hold the China-Latin America Infrastructure Cooperation Forum.
(7) Manufacturing Cooperation
Strengthen the alignment of industrial development strategies and exchanges of industrial policies, deepen cooperation in raw materials, consumer goods, equipment manufacturing, green and low-carbon industries, industrial chains and supply chains, and industrial parks, promote the intelligent, digital, and green development of China-Latin America industries, promote the construction of a closer China-Latin America industrial chain and supply chain partnership, and actively negotiate and sign industrial chain and supply chain cooperation documents. Continue to hold the China-Latin America High-Level Seminar on Industrial Cooperation. Strengthen policy exchanges on the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, guide the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, and help Latin American and Caribbean countries upgrade their industries.
(8) Agricultural Cooperation
Improve the agricultural cooperation mechanism, encourage enterprises from both sides to actively carry out trade in agricultural products, promote China and Latin America to further strengthen exchanges and cooperation in agricultural science and technology, personnel training, and other fields, deepen cooperation in animal husbandry, forestry, fisheries, and aquaculture, strengthen exchanges on public policies and market information on food security between the two sides, encourage relevant institutions in Latin American and Caribbean countries to carry out targeted exchanges and cooperation in food nutritional quality and post-harvest loss reduction technologies, and jointly promote food security. Improve and continue to build agricultural technology demonstration projects, promote the development and demonstration of modern agricultural technologies, and improve the agricultural technology innovation, agricultural production and processing capabilities, and international competitiveness of both sides. Support scientific research cooperation in fields such as biological breeding, and support the construction of the China-Latin America Sustainable Food Innovation Center. Agricultural enterprises from Latin American and Caribbean countries are welcome to participate in exhibitions such as the China International Agricultural Products Fair and the China Grain Trade Conference. Continue to hold the China-Latin America Agricultural Ministers Forum.
(9) Science and Technology Innovation
(IX) Scientific and Technological Innovation
Strengthen the construction of inter-governmental scientific and technological innovation cooperation mechanisms, and continue to successfully hold the China-Latin America Science and Technology Innovation Forum. Actively explore expanding China-Latin America cooperation in high-tech fields such as information technology, artificial intelligence, aerospace, new energy, new materials, biomedicine, and integrated circuits, and deeply implement the "China-Latin America Science and Technology Partnership Program." Increase exchanges between researchers and promote the implementation of the Young Scientists Exchange Program. Encourage Latin American scientific and technological personnel to actively participate in the "International Excellent Youth Program" and "Technical Training Courses for Developing Countries." Support young scientists from Latin American and Caribbean countries to conduct short-term scientific research in China. Explore the joint construction of joint laboratories, R&D centers, or high-tech industrial parks, and support universities, innovative enterprises, and research institutions from both sides to carry out exchanges and cooperation to promote joint R&D. Support the China-Latin America Technology Transfer Center in playing a role in promoting scientific research capacity building and the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and welcome Latin American countries to rely on the center to carry out practical cooperation in the promotion of applicable technologies and demonstration of advanced technologies.
Support the China-Latin America Sustainable Food Innovation Center to build a high-level cooperation platform for agricultural science and technology between China and Latin America, promote agricultural science and technology progress between China and Latin America, and jointly address global challenges such as food security. Welcome Latin American countries to use the center as a platform to carry out practical cooperation in agricultural science and technology fields such as biological breeding.
China is willing to carry out dialogue and cooperation with Latin American countries in the field of artificial intelligence, jointly implement the *Global Artificial Intelligence Governance Initiative*, the *Inclusive Plan for Artificial Intelligence Capacity Building*, and the *Global Artificial Intelligence Governance Action Plan*, and work together to promote the development and governance of global artificial intelligence.
(X) Space Cooperation
Actively explore China-Latin America cooperation in areas such as communication and remote sensing satellites, satellite data applications, aerospace infrastructure, and aerospace education and training, jointly promote the application of space technology in areas such as disaster prevention and mitigation, agricultural and forestry monitoring, and climate change, and give full play to the driving role of space technology in the scientific and technological and industrial development of Latin American and Caribbean countries, and promote the continuous development of science and technology, economy and other fields.
Welcome Latin American and Caribbean countries to use the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (北斗卫星导航系统), support the joint holding of the China-Latin America BeiDou Cooperation Forum, explore the joint construction of the China-Latin America BeiDou Application Cooperation and Development Center, and deepen cooperation in the field of BeiDou applications.
Welcome Latin American and Caribbean countries to actively participate in China's manned space program and China's lunar and deep space exploration missions, carry out cooperation in space science and applications, and the International Lunar Research Station. Continue to hold the China-Latin America Space Cooperation Forum.
(XI) Marine Cooperation
Deepen practical cooperation between China and Latin America in the fields of marine science and technology, marine ecological protection and restoration, marine observation and forecasting and disaster prevention and mitigation, blue economy, polar scientific research and logistics support, and promote the development of marine affairs between China and Latin America. Deepen cooperation and exchanges between China and Latin America in international and regional fisheries governance, fishing port logistics services, fisheries science and technology, fisheries resource conservation, and combating illegal fishing, and jointly promote the sustainable development of fisheries on both sides.
Cooperate to establish a Chinese Antarctic scientific research logistics supply base, and invite Latin American scientific researchers to take Chinese scientific research vessels to carry out joint polar scientific research.
(XII) Customs Inspection and Quarantine
China is willing to strengthen exchanges and cooperation between the customs inspection and quarantine departments of China and Latin American and Caribbean countries, promote trade security and facilitation, and ensure product quality and food safety. China welcomes more Latin American and Caribbean countries to join the "Smart Customs" partnership program and the "Belt and Road" Customs Food Safety Cooperation Mechanism, and is willing to negotiate and sign with Latin American and Caribbean countries and jointly promote cooperation documents such as customs administrative assistance, quarantine access for animal and plant products, mutual recognition of "Authorized Economic Operators" (AEO), and interconnection of international trade "single windows." Strengthen the construction of "Smart Customs" and food safety cooperation, and actively carry out cooperation and inter-customs exchanges in customs law enforcement, trade facilitation, capacity building, cargo trade statistics, animal and plant inspection and quarantine, food safety, and standardization.
China welcomes safe and high-quality agricultural and food products from Latin American and Caribbean countries to enter the Chinese market, and is willing to establish and improve communication and cooperation mechanisms, continue to strengthen cooperation with Latin American and Caribbean countries in the field of agricultural and food product import and export, prevent cross-border transmission of animal and plant epidemics and alien species, and promote the development of agricultural product trade.
(XIII) Cooperation between Trade and Investment Promotion Agencies and Business Associations
China will deepen cooperation with trade and investment promotion agencies, business associations, and business communities in Latin American and Caribbean countries, use relevant bilateral, multilateral, and overall cooperation mechanism platforms to promote exchanges between Chinese and Latin American business communities, and achieve win-win cooperation.
(XIV) Environmental Protection, Climate Change and Disaster Reduction Cooperation
Adhere to the status of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (《联合国气候变化框架公约》) (hereinafter referred to as the *Framework Convention*) process as the main channel in global climate governance, and fully, in good faith, and effectively implement the goals, principles, and rules of the *Framework Convention* and its *Paris Agreement*, especially the principle of fairness and the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities. Further consolidate and strengthen China-Latin America cooperation under the *Framework Convention* process and other related mechanisms, actively promote both sides to carry out consultations, exchanges, and related project cooperation on addressing climate change, and support Latin American and Caribbean countries, especially small island countries, in addressing climate change. Carry out biodiversity conservation cooperation and jointly promote the construction of a community of life for humans and nature.
Deepen disaster management cooperation, actively give play to the role of the China-Latin America Disaster Management Cooperation Mechanism, and strengthen cooperation in comprehensive disaster reduction, disaster monitoring and early warning, risk assessment, disaster prevention, emergency preparedness, emergency rescue capacity building, and post-disaster recovery and reconstruction to jointly enhance disaster management capabilities.
Strengthen exchanges in the construction of digital cities, green cities, and sponge cities, and carry out exchanges and cooperation on addressing extreme climate and strengthening meteorological forecasting.
(XV) Development Assistance
On the basis of fully respecting the wishes of Latin American and Caribbean countries and based on China's own financial resources and economic and social development conditions, continue to provide development assistance to Latin American and Caribbean countries without attaching any political conditions, and gradually increase the scale of assistance within its capacity according to the needs of Latin American and Caribbean countries, innovate assistance models, and focus on human resource development, development planning, economic policy consulting and training, infrastructure construction, agriculture and food security, poverty reduction, climate change, and humanitarian assistance.
(XVI) Tax Cooperation
China is willing to carry out extensive and in-depth cooperation with Latin American and Caribbean countries under the framework of the "Belt and Road" Tax Administration Cooperation Mechanism, and looks forward to more Latin American and Caribbean countries joining the cooperation mechanism as members to strengthen communication and exchanges in tax administration cooperation and capacity building, and promote the construction of a growth-friendly tax environment.
(XVII) Market Supervision Cooperation
China is willing to sign standardization cooperation documents with Latin American and Caribbean countries, deepen standardization cooperation and exchanges in key areas, and jointly promote the formulation and application of international standards. Continuously carry out standard information exchange, comparison, and standardization capacity building.
III. Civilization Project
(I) Implementing the Global Civilization Initiative
China is willing to work with Latin American and Caribbean countries to implement the Global Civilization Initiative, establish a view of civilization based on equality, mutual learning, dialogue, and inclusiveness, and promote the common values of all mankind, including peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom. Strengthen exchanges and cooperation in the cultural field and consolidate the social foundation for China-Latin America friendship. Implement the United Nations General Assembly resolution and jointly promote global civilization dialogue on multilateral platforms such as the United Nations to promote world peace and development.
(II) Deepening China-Latin America Civilization Exchange and Mutual Learning
Hold the China-Latin America Civilization Dialogue Conference. Strengthen exchanges and cooperation in the field of cultural heritage, carry out research on ancient civilizations, cooperate in combating the illegal trafficking of cultural property, and promote the return of lost cultural relics to their countries of origin. Strengthen cultural and artistic exchanges, support the establishment of institutionalized cooperation between cultural and artistic institutions, and promote mutual visits and exchanges between high-level art troupes and artists. Support the mutual holding of bilateral and multilateral activities such as cultural festivals, carnivals, and cultural touring exhibitions.
Welcome Latin American and Caribbean countries to join the Asian Cultural Heritage Protection Alliance initiated by China as partner countries, and carry out practical cooperation in various fields of cultural heritage such as ancient civilization research, joint archaeology, monument restoration, and museum exchanges. Strengthen cooperation in areas such as the recovery and return of lost cultural relics.
(III) Education and Human Resource Training
Support educational institutions and enterprises from both sides to carry out cooperation in teacher-student exchanges, academic seminars, talent training, and joint scientific research. Strengthen human resource development, capacity building, and cooperation in various fields, and continue to provide government scholarships and training opportunities in China to Latin American and Caribbean countries. Actively carry out vocational education exchanges and cooperation such as the Luban Workshop (鲁班工坊).
Support Latin American and Caribbean countries in carrying out Chinese education, support institutions from both sides in jointly running Confucius Institutes (孔子学院) and Confucius Classrooms (孔子课堂), and establish new "Chinese Workshops," "Chinese + Vocational Skills" development centers, and local teacher training centers in due course. Continue to provide international Chinese teacher scholarships and "Chinese Bridge" summer (winter) camp groups to China to Latin American and Caribbean countries, and provide Chinese textbooks and teaching readers.
China attaches importance to cooperation with Latin American and Caribbean countries in the field of digital education, welcomes Latin American countries to join the World Digital Education Alliance, and is willing to share China's experience and achievements in digital transformation of education with Latin American countries through policy dialogue and practical cooperation, and work together to promote the construction of a more equitable, inclusive, and sustainable global digital education ecosystem.
(IV) Sports
Deepen sports exchanges and cooperation, encourage sports organizations from both sides to strengthen contacts, and support athletes, coaches, and sports management personnel to carry out friendly exchanges. Exchange experiences in advantageous projects on both sides and jointly improve sports levels.
(V) News Publication and Radio and Film and Television Exchange and Cooperation
Strengthen China-Latin America news publication and radio and film and television dialogue and cooperation, and encourage the negotiation and signing of bilateral radio and film and television agreements. Encourage program exchanges and joint production, mutual participation in news publication radio and film and television festivals (exhibitions), strengthen personnel exchanges, and carry out media technology and industrial cooperation. Support media from both sides to carry out content co-construction and strengthen news exchange and cooperation between news agencies on both sides. Provide convenience for the mutual dispatch of resident reporters, carry out joint interviews, exchange news and personnel training. Invite more Latin American and Caribbean journalists to visit China for short-term visits, and provide training opportunities in China for scholars, media, and self-media. Strengthen radio and television exchange and cooperation, and support the holding of the "China-Latin America Romance" Chinese film and television program exhibition. Support the mutual translation of excellent TV series or excellent audio-visual programs. Encourage online media with strength and influence on both sides to strengthen cooperation in portal website development and new media capacity building. Encourage the publishing circles on both sides to carry out cooperation and support the mutual translation of classic works.
(VI) Academic and Think Tank Exchanges
Actively support academic research institutions and think tanks in China and Latin America to carry out exchanges and cooperation in various forms such as topic research, academic exchanges, seminars, and book publishing. Encourage universities from both sides to carry out cooperative research. China is willing to continue to successfully hold the China-Latin America Think Tank Forum, the China-CELAC High-Level Academic Forum, the China-Latin America High-Level Academic Forum, and the China-Latin America Development Forum, and support the construction of the China-Latin America and Caribbean Development Knowledge Network.
IV. Peace Project
(I) Implementing the Global Security Initiative
China is willing to work with Latin American and Caribbean countries to uphold a common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security concept, coordinate development and security, jointly implement the Global Security Initiative, carry out exchanges and cooperation in the field of peace and security, and jointly promote regional and world peace and stability.
China supports the *Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace* and the *Declaration of the 33 Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on the Establishment of a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone*, advocates the peaceful settlement of international disputes and hotspot issues, and opposes the use or threat of force at every turn.
China is willing to work with Latin American and Caribbean countries to jointly safeguard the authority of international law such as the *Biological Weapons Convention* and the *Chemical Weapons Convention* and strengthen coordination and cooperation.
(II) Military Exchange and Cooperation
Actively carry out military exchanges and cooperation with Latin American and Caribbean countries, expand friendly exchanges between defense and military leaders on both sides, strengthen policy dialogue and establish working meeting mechanisms, carry out mutual visits by groups and ships, deepen professional exchanges in military training, personnel training, and UN peacekeeping, and expand practical cooperation in non-traditional security fields such as humanitarian assistance and counter-terrorism, and strengthen military trade and military industrial technology cooperation. Continue to hold the China-Latin America High-Level Defense Forum on the basis of voluntary participation. Welcome Latin American and Caribbean countries to attend the Beijing Xiangshan Forum (北京香山论坛) in China.
(III) Law Enforcement and Judicial Cooperation
Actively promote exchanges and cooperation between law enforcement and judicial authorities in China and Latin America. Accelerate the negotiation and signing of extradition treaties, criminal and civil and commercial judicial assistance treaties, and other law enforcement and judicial cooperation agreements. Strengthen and expand cooperation in areas such as extradition, repatriation of criminal suspects, transfer of sentenced persons, and seizure, freezing, confiscation, and return of criminal assets, coordinate the positions of both sides in the field of international multilateral law enforcement cooperation, and jointly combat transnational crime and non-traditional security threats such as terrorism. Deepen drug enforcement cooperation and jointly combat drug smuggling. Welcome Latin American and Caribbean countries to attend the Global Public Security Cooperation Forum (Lianyungang) (全球公共安全合作论坛（连云港）) in China.
(IV) Anti-Corruption Fugitive Repatriation and Asset Recovery Cooperation
In accordance with their respective domestic laws and the *United Nations Convention against Corruption*, expand cooperation in the fields of anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, and combating illegal financial flows, and vigorously carry out practical cooperation in fugitive repatriation and asset recovery. Strengthen experience exchange and practical cooperation in the construction of a clean "Belt and Road" and promote the *Beijing Initiative for a Clean Silk Road*. Continue to hold the "Belt and Road" Partner Anti-Corruption Training Course and provide training opportunities for Latin American and Caribbean countries. Explore the possibility of continuing to hold the China-Caribbean Anti-Corruption Law Enforcement Cooperation Conference in due course. Carry out anti-money laundering multilateral cooperation under the framework of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), and carry out anti-money laundering bilateral cooperation by signing cooperation memorandums.
(V) Network Security
The Chinese government is willing to work with Latin American and Caribbean countries to build a peaceful, open, secure, cooperative, and orderly cyberspace based on the *Global Data Security Initiative* in the spirit of peace, sovereignty, co-governance, and universal benefit, establish a multilateral, democratic, and transparent internet governance system, promote the formulation of universally accepted international norms of behavior in cyberspace under the framework of the United Nations, promote the early entry into force of the *United Nations Convention on Combating Cybercrime*, and actively build a community of common destiny in cyberspace. Oppose cyber hegemony and oppose the use of the internet to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries and endanger the political, economic, and social stability of other countries. Continue to hold the China-Latin America Internet Development and Cooperation Forum.
(VI) Non-Proliferation Export Control
The Chinese government is willing to work with Latin American and Caribbean countries to firmly safeguard the role of the United Nations as the main platform in the governance of preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and promote the construction of a just, reasonable, and non-discriminatory non-proliferation export control order. Strengthen exchanges and cooperation and promote the comprehensive, balanced, and sustainable implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540. Coordinate development and security and safeguard the legitimate rights of developing countries to peacefully use technology.
V. People's Hearts Project
(I) Social Governance and Social Development
China is willing to carry out exchanges and cooperation with Latin American and Caribbean countries on strengthening and innovating social governance, share and learn from governance experience, jointly promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities, and continuously improve the socialization, rule of law, intelligence, and specialization of social governance to maintain social stability and order and long-term national stability and security.
Further promote exchanges and cooperation between China and Latin America in social development fields such as social welfare and social assistance, strengthen policy sharing, and promote and achieve practical cooperation in providing services and assistance to special groups such as the elderly, the disabled, and children, and urban and rural disadvantaged groups.
(II) Poverty Reduction Cooperation
Promote China-Latin America dialogue and exchanges in areas such as rural revitalization, poverty reduction, elimination of hunger, and narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor, share information on poverty identification, and share experiences in targeted poverty alleviation. Carry out technical cooperation, strengthen poverty reduction capacity building, and promote both sides to formulate economic and social policies that are conducive to the poor and vulnerable groups. Encourage and support exchanges and cooperation between relevant departments on both sides, and continue to successfully hold the China-Latin America Poverty Reduction and Development Forum. Deepen development cooperation in the field of people's livelihood and continue to carry out "small and beautiful" people's livelihood projects for Latin American and Caribbean countries.
Promote dialogue and exchanges between China and Latin America in areas such as rural revitalization, poverty reduction, elimination of hunger, and narrowing the gap between rich and poor, share information on poverty identification, and share experiences in targeted poverty alleviation. Carry out technical cooperation, strengthen capacity building for poverty reduction, and promote the formulation of economic and social policies by both sides that are conducive to the poor and vulnerable groups. Encourage and support exchanges and cooperation between relevant departments of both sides, and continue to hold the China-Latin America Poverty Reduction and Development Forum. Deepen development cooperation in the field of people's livelihood, and continue to carry out "small but beautiful" projects that benefit people's livelihood for Latin American and Caribbean countries.
(III) Health Cooperation
China will continue to help Latin American and Caribbean countries train medical personnel, improve medical facilities, send medical teams to Latin American and Caribbean countries, and actively carry out free medical consultation projects. Strengthen cooperation between China and Latin America in traditional medicine and carry out exchanges on drug regulation. Strengthen public health policy dialogue, deepen cooperation in the health field, strengthen cooperation and exchanges in border health and quarantine, support cooperation between medical and health institutions at all levels, and support the sharing of best practices in disease prevention and control, and prevention and control of infectious diseases.
(IV) Consular Cooperation
Strengthen and expand exchanges and cooperation between Chinese and Latin American consular departments, make good use of the consular consultation mechanism, and effectively safeguard the safety and legitimate rights and interests of Chinese and Latin American citizens and institutions in each other's countries. China adheres to high-level opening up to the outside world and will continue to improve the level of facilitation of personnel exchanges between China and Latin America.
(V) Tourism Cooperation
Hold the "China-Latin America and Caribbean Countries Tourism Dialogue". Encourage Chinese and Latin American tourism institutions and enterprises to promote tourism resources and products to each other, expand tourism cooperation, and jointly support travel agents to conduct on-site inspections and participate in tourism exhibitions in each other's countries. Explore the introduction of more facilitation policies to promote two-way tourism, support and encourage airlines of both sides to carry out various forms of business cooperation such as code sharing, and open air routes and flights between China and Latin America according to market demand. Strengthen dialogue and cooperation between consumer protection departments of both sides, focusing on protecting the consumer rights of international travelers.
(VI) Non-governmental and Local Exchanges
Encourage non-governmental exchanges between China and Latin America, and support social organizations to carry out diverse forms of friendly exchanges and public welfare activities. Promote exchanges between government youth agencies and youth organizations of both sides, and continue to hold projects such as the "China-Latin America Youth Assembly," the China-Latin America Youth Leaders Study and Exchange Camp, the China-Latin America Youth Development Forum, and the Latin American and Caribbean Diplomats Visiting Group. Deepen friendly cooperation between women's organizations of both sides and jointly promote gender equality and women's empowerment. Encourage social forces from both sides to carry out cooperation in areas such as disaster prevention and mitigation in grassroots communities, health promotion, and livelihood development to enhance the ability of local communities to resist disasters and achieve comprehensive development.
Continue to hold the China-Latin America People's Friendship Forum and the China-Latin America Local Government Cooperation Forum, and encourage the establishment of more sister cities and provinces. Promote the establishment of a China-Latin America local government dialogue mechanism led and supported by the governments of China, Latin America and Caribbean countries, entrusted to the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (中国人民对外友好协会) and relevant government-backed institutions on the Latin American side to jointly host, and help China-Latin America local government exchanges and cooperation reach a new level.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), December 10)
Reform measures have been effectively implemented, and vitality has burst forth from grassroots units. China Southern Power Grid Guizhou Power Grid Co., Ltd. (Guizhou Power Grid Company (贵州电网公司) for short) takes the year-end conclusion of the state-owned enterprise reform deepening and upgrading action as an opportunity, anchors the goal of building a world-class enterprise, breaks the problem from organizational changes, exerts efforts in energy transformation, empowers with incentive innovation, continuously releases the driving force of reform, cultivates new quality productive forces, and steadily moves forward on the road of serving the high-quality development of Guizhou Province. As of the end of November 2025, the overall progress completion rate of 269 reform tasks of Guizhou Power Grid Company reached 100%, 145 measures have been implemented and achieved results, and 124 tasks are being promoted in a controllable manner, writing a "power grid answer sheet" for deepening state-owned enterprise reform with practical work.
Power Supply Station "Transformation": Frontline Change Promotes Improvement
Relying on digital means, Guizhou Power Grid Company has shifted the main responsibility of 573 businesses in 13 business areas to the provincial and regional levels, reduced the number of responsible items for county and district bureaus from 985 to 412, and promoted county and district power supply bureaus to focus more on distribution services and customer needs.
In 2025, the reform extended to the frontline grassroots level. Guizhou Power Grid Company innovatively constructed a "five-in-one" business terminal integration system of "one type of business, one type of skill, integrated management, unified evaluation, and one set of applications," promoting power supply stations to shift from "line management" to "grid integration."
Liupanshui Power Supply Bureau optimized 43 power supply stations into 30, breaking the four-level management chain of "regional bureau - county and district bureau - team - power supply station," and established a "first-class office" to coordinate professional needs "one-stop to the bottom," effectively solving the limitations of line management.
Tongren Shiqian Power Supply Bureau implemented a new three-level coordination model of "operation and distribution command + distribution operation and maintenance + power supply station," reducing the average annual power outage time for customers from 15.4 hours/household to 4.2 hours/household, a decrease of 72.7%.
Puchang Power Supply Station of Zunyi Suiyang Power Supply Bureau effectively stimulated employee motivation through performance reform. By establishing a multi-dimensional evaluation system of "result + process + ability," it formed a virtuous circle of "stronger ability leads to better performance, and better performance further promotes ability improvement."
Since this year, Guizhou Power Grid Company has organized the compilation of a "one type of business" list covering 419 business details and 1193 process steps of power supply stations, and established an "one type of skill" list for power supply station employees based on this.
At the same time, it has formulated "one person, one policy" for 474 technicians applying for the exam, and carried out 57 special training sessions of "one-point classroom" and "night school class" to promote the comprehensive ability improvement of employees. Bijie Power Supply Bureau clarified the actual situation at the grassroots level through on-site research, and arranged 555 full-time medium-voltage operation and maintenance personnel according to a ratio of not less than 25%; Zunyi Suiyang Power Supply Bureau implemented age-based training, focusing on practical skill improvement for employees over 50 years old, and focusing on strengthening new skill training for employees under 40 years old.
Currently, Guizhou Power Grid Company is tackling the difficulties of cross-level coordination, post-level setting, etc., and plans to pilot the implementation before the end of December 2025 to promote the orderly promotion of the "five-in-one" business terminal integration system.
Green Electricity "Accelerates": Energy Transformation Breaks Problems
On the continuous mountains of Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (黔西南布依族苗族自治州), photovoltaic panels stand neatly, and wind turbines slowly rotate on the top of the mountains, converting natural resources into clean electricity. Today, the proportion of new energy installed capacity in Qianxinan Prefecture has reached 61.76%, and the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption has exceeded 78.04%, becoming a vivid example of Guizhou's energy green transformation.
In the early stage of the "14th Five-Year Plan," Qianxinan Prefecture was still dominated by thermal power. Xingyi Power Supply Bureau broke the situation with innovation and launched a set of "combined punches" to promote the transformation of the local energy system. Facing the situation of rapid development of new energy, Xingyi Power Supply Bureau compiled the "Construction Plan of Qianxinan High-Proportion New Energy + Energy Storage Demonstration Zone" and promoted the construction of 10 key projects. Within the scope of Qianxinan Prefecture, it promoted the construction of a number of integrated energy bases such as Qingshuihe "fire-light-storage", Beipanjiang "water-wind-light-storage", and Puan "fire-wind-light-storage" to promote the energy supply from single to multiple.
Technological innovation has become the key to breaking the situation. The first "water-fire-wind-light" automatic generation control (AGC) collaborative control system of China Southern Power Grid covering provincial and regional dispatching agencies was put into use here. This system, known as the "smart brain," compresses the cross-section over-limit control time from 15 minutes to 1 minute, and can reduce dispatching instructions by more than 30 times per day, greatly improving the accuracy and efficiency of power grid regulation and control, and building a solid support for large-scale new energy access.
The transformation of the distribution network is also remarkable. The "three adjustments and three optimizations" model piloted in Wangmo County (望谟县), Qianxinan Prefecture, has achieved 100% self-healing coverage of distribution automation, and the reliability of power supply has been greatly improved. The workload of fault recovery has been reduced by 60%, further releasing talent momentum and allowing employees to focus more on refined operation and maintenance.
The linkage between government and enterprises continues to release strong momentum. In 2024, Qianxinan Prefecture efficiently completed the grid connection of 9 new energy projects, with a new installed capacity of 1.012 million kilowatts. As of now, the Qianxinan High-Proportion New Energy and Energy Storage Demonstration Zone has cumulatively sent out 9.218 billion kilowatt-hours of green electricity, equivalent to reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 7.33 million tons.
Xingyi Power Supply Bureau's "First-Class Green Energy Multi-Energy Complementary - Innovation and Practice of High-Proportion New Energy and Energy Storage Coordinated Development in Western China" was selected as the "Excellent Case of Enterprise New Quality Productivity Development" in 2025, and the innovation of technology and model has been recognized.
Looking at the whole province, the development momentum of new energy in Guizhou is strong.
Since 2025, Guizhou has added more than 9 million kilowatts of new energy installed capacity, and the amount of new energy power generation has exceeded 32 billion kilowatt-hours, an increase of 15.6% year-on-year. Guizhou Power Grid Company optimized the grid connection process, reducing 5 links to 3, and the time spent on the "grid connection intention agreement signing" link alone was reduced by more than 80%; the New Energy Service Center has changed from "passive waiting" to "active service," and contacts the owner to provide guidance after the indicators are issued.
In Yangchang Buyi, Bai and Miao Township (羊场布依族白族苗族乡), Panzhou City (盘州市), Liupanshui City (六盘水市), the flexible distribution network demonstration project has solved the technical problems of distributed photovoltaic, offsetting 40 tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually, becoming one of the first near-zero carbon demonstration zones of China Southern Power Grid.
As of now, Guizhou Power Grid Company has built 6 new power system demonstration zones, 2 of which have been selected as typical cases of China Southern Power Grid Company. Promoting the entry of clean energy from the northwest into Guizhou has laid a solid foundation for building a new comprehensive energy base.
Management "Contractualization": Performance Reform Adds Vitality
Guizhou Power Grid Company focuses on building a world-class enterprise and comprehensively deepens the responsibility system reform with "contractual management" as the center.
Guizhou Power Grid Company takes the "1+3" work system as the main line, and realizes full coverage of "strong incentives and hard constraints" through 3 characteristic measures: promoting the integration of full-member party building responsibility system and new management responsibility system, formulating a "double-linked" mechanism for the performance and position and salary of emerging business units, and building a first-class enterprise "assessment-incentive" linkage mechanism.
The organizational system is the first direction of reform. Guizhou Power Grid Company broke the traditional bureaucratic system, promoted "autonomous operation + grid management," reduced the accounting unit to the grassroots team station, and gave the line manager 100% of the assessment and distribution rights, making it the responsible entity, so that performance distribution directly reaches the grassroots level.
Digitalization injects momentum into the reform. Relying on the Yunjing Digital Operation and Management Control Platform, Guizhou Power Grid Company has created a data-driven "smart assessment" new paradigm, developed multi-dimensional digital analysis scenarios and intelligent evaluation tools, and realized the visualization of the entire process of target delivery, process monitoring, and result evaluation. At present, management and professional and technical personnel have realized the full-process online management of monthly (quarterly) performance, and the assessment of skilled personnel is accurate and efficient.
The deep integration of party building and operation is a highlight of the reform. Guizhou Power Grid Company combines the party building responsibility list with the requirements of post ability, and incorporates the effectiveness of party management and governance into performance evaluation. Guiyang Power Supply Bureau Chengbei Branch (贵阳供电局城北分局) constructed a penetrating responsibility closed loop of "goal-organization-post-contract-assessment"; Anshun Puding Power Supply Bureau (安顺普定供电局) formed a "bidding for leadership" tackling team of party members.
For emerging business enterprises, Guizhou Power Grid Company customized a "one enterprise, one policy" mechanism. Qianneng Company (黔能公司) implements a monthly rigid assessment: if all 5 indicators meet the standard, the performance coefficient of the leadership team is cashed out at 1.0; if one is not completed, it is reduced to 0.5, widening the performance gap and stimulating the endogenous motivation of employees.
Cadre assessment is also innovated simultaneously. Guizhou Songbian Electric Company (贵州送变电公司) established a "focus on profitability, evaluate the process" mechanism, and conducted reminder talks with middle-level cadres who are ranked behind in the annual assessment and have low public recognition, establishing a clear guidance of "the capable go up, the mediocre go down" 能者上、庸者下 (néng zhě shàng, yōng zhě xià - "the able go up, the mediocre go down," promote the capable and demote the incompetent).
Around "creating first-class, striving for the upstream" 创一流、争上游 (chuàng yī liú, zhēng shàng yóu - "create first-class, strive for the upstream," strive for excellence and be the best), Guizhou Power Grid Company issued a special incentive and assessment plan, decomposing key indicators to 10 regional power supply bureaus and 99 county and district bureaus, promoting implementation with assessment and promoting competition with incentives. According to the comprehensive evaluation ranking of each unit in China Southern Power Grid in 2025, those who progress will be rewarded with "one enterprise, one policy," and those who regress will deduct the annual performance of relevant personnel.
Data source: China Southern Power Grid Guizhou Power Grid Co., Ltd.
Return to TopIn 2025, Kweichow Moutai (贵州茅台), adhering to the corporate values of "obeying nature and respecting people, understanding principles and valuing morality," continued to deeply cultivate and diligently practice in the four dimensions of quality control, cultural communication, market marketing, and social responsibility. It promoted the high-quality development of the brand with solid and profound practice, and profoundly interpreted the era's responsibility and mission of national brands.
Quality Control
Adhering to "Quality First," Building a Solid Foundation for Quality
For Moutai, quality has never been a slogan, but a commitment and pursuit integrated into the development context.
The Moutai liquor brewing technique, as the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage, is an important component of Moutai's core competitiveness. Over the years, Moutai has always adhered to the principle that "quality is the soul of life," inherited the traditional craftsmanship of "brewing together with nature," promoted the corporate culture of "dedication, precision, and enjoyment," safeguarded the cultural roots that have stretched for thousands of years, and is committed to ensuring that Moutai liquor never changes its flavor.
While inheriting traditional craftsmanship, Moutai has never stopped exploring innovation. It enhances its technological competitiveness in the balance between inheritance and innovation, continuously upgrades production technology, optimizes environmental protection technology, insists on empowering industrial transformation with scientific and technological innovation, uses modern technology to analyze brewing principles and optimize brewing processes, and explores new paths for digital and green transformation, building a solid foundation for quality and shaping new advantages for Moutai.
Cultural Communication
Creating an IP Matrix, Telling the Story of Baijiu
Culture is the spiritual core of Moutai. In 2025, Moutai, through a series of distinctive cultural activities, deeply integrated Baijiu culture with modern expressions, and continued to build "Cultural Moutai."
Adhering to the corporate values of "obeying nature and respecting people, understanding principles and valuing morality," Moutai has built a cultural expression matrix with the Moutai Carnival, Moutai Red缨子 Sorghum Harvest Season, Moutai Liquor Festival, and "China Moutai · Pillars of the Nation (中国茅台·国之栋梁)" distinctive IP activities as the mainstays, supplemented by the "Silk Road 情 · Flying Dream" Dunhuang Mural Art Exhibition and the "Moutai Night" series of cultural activities, continuously enriching the Moutai practice of creative transformation and innovative development of outstanding Chinese traditional culture.
In 2025, Moutai's newly launched Kweichow Moutai (Huang Xiaoxi Eats Dinner) series of cultural and creative products, with Guizhou's high-quality tourism resources as the main line, followed the principle of "one scene, one product," deeply integrated Guizhou's landscape and culture with Moutai's brewing techniques, showcased the colorful Guizhou culture, and provided consumers with high-quality cultural products that can be touched and tasted, making positive attempts to promote the integration of wine and tourism and expand consumption scenarios.
In 2025, Moutai's "cultural going abroad" pace was even more solid and powerful. From appearing at international large-scale events such as the Davos Forum, holding the 2025 China Moutai Global Brand Culture Special Exhibition in San Francisco, to sponsoring the Cambodian Asian Film Festival and the London Youth Art Exchange, Moutai has always used the innovative model of "culture + scene" to allow Chinese Baijiu culture to cross the boundaries of language and region and move towards the world stage. The "Moutai Culture Festival" has been successfully launched in many countries and regions. The wonderful collision of Dunhuang art and contemporary design, and the deep integration of traditional festivals and international aesthetics, make Moutai not only a Baijiu brand, but also a "mobile business card" for spreading Chinese culture, telling vivid Chinese stories around the world. Currently, Moutai products have been sold to 64 countries and regions, and are more deeply integrated into the global market, allowing Moutai liquor to better spread its fragrance to the world.
Market Marketing
Enhancing Consumer Experience, Achieving Dual Improvement in Quality and Efficiency
In the first three quarters of 2025, Kweichow Moutai (贵州茅台) achieved a total operating income of 130.904 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.32%; a total profit of 89.403 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.37%; and a net profit attributable to the parent company of 64.626 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.25%. Stable growth data demonstrates the strong resilience of the company's high-quality development.
Facing the consumer-led market trend, Moutai has built a triple value matrix of "functional value, experience value, and emotional value," adheres to consumer-centricity, shapes the brand with long-termism, and enhances consumer experience in product innovation, channel transformation, and scene and experience optimization. In addition, Moutai responded to the "transformation from selling wine to selling lifestyle" and accelerated the integrated development of wine, culture, tourism.
In response to the consumption characteristics and needs of the younger generation of consumers, Moutai has built a marketing system covering the diverse needs of young people through multiple scene innovations, cultural trend crossovers, and gamified interactions, allowing traditional brands to rejuvenate.
Social Responsibility
Upgrading Public Welfare Brands, Demonstrating Corporate Responsibility
In 2025, Moutai iterated and upgraded the "China Moutai · Pillars of the Nation (中国茅台·国之栋梁)" public welfare brand, focusing on the four dimensions of "Heaven, Earth, People, and Culture," promoting the upgrading of public welfare undertakings to "professionalization, branding, and internationalization," demonstrating the responsibility of national brands.
In terms of ecological protection, Moutai continues to invest in the ecological environmental protection of the Chishui River (赤水河) Basin, established the "Chishui River Ecological Public Welfare Fund," and carried out public welfare projects such as forest ecological protection, domestic sewage treatment, and comprehensive utilization of straw, guarding Moutai's "source of life"; implemented comprehensive environmental protection measures, and became the first Baijiu company to receive an A-level MSCI (Ming Sheng) Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) rating.
In terms of education assistance, since the launch of the "China Moutai · Pillars of the Nation (中国茅台·国之栋梁)" project in 2012, Moutai has cumulatively donated more than 1.4 billion yuan to the China Youth Development Foundation, helping more than 260,000 students realize their university dreams. After 14 years of exploration, "China Moutai · Pillars of the Nation (中国茅台·国之栋梁)" has become the public welfare project in the history of Project Hope with the largest cumulative corporate donation, the widest coverage, and the largest number of beneficiaries.
In terms of cultural inheritance, Moutai promotes the creative transformation and innovative development of outstanding Chinese traditional culture through public welfare projects such as "Han Sauce · Craftsman Inheritance" and "Moutai 1935 · National Doctor."
In addition, Moutai continues to help the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, increase its support for local farmers in Guizhou, cumulatively promoted the planting of more than 30 million acres of red 缨子 sorghum, created a total agricultural output value of more than 75 billion yuan, and drove an increase in income for approximately 8.5 million farmers.
Facing the "15th Five-Year Plan," Moutai will adhere to the principle that "quality is the soul of life," deeply cultivate value management and value creation in the balance between inheritance and innovation, continue to build a complete modern market management system and modern enterprise system, continue to promote high-quality development, and continuously move towards the ranks of world-class enterprises.
Data source: Kweichow Moutai (贵州茅台)
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General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation achievements such as big data and artificial intelligence with judicial work." The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal proposes: "Promote the construction of digital platforms for political and legal work, and strengthen cross-departmental law enforcement, judicial collaboration, and supervision."
In the digital wave, how to proactively embrace change and use digital rule of law to help modernize national governance? Since 2023, the Shanghai courts have focused on scenario construction and digital modeling to vigorously promote the construction of digital courts: from the full-process supervision of "one case" to the specialized trial of "a type of case," extending to the collaborative governance of "a regional problem," the construction of digital courts promotes smarter and more precise governance.
The exploration of the Shanghai courts provides a reference for the digital reform of national courts. Recently, reporters walked into the Shanghai courts, from the front end to the back end, to observe and perceive the changes brought about by the construction of digital courts in helping judges handle cases well and promoting social governance.
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"The defendant in the case you are hearing is recently involved in divorce disputes, which may affect the division of the debtor's marital property. It is recommended that you promptly understand the defendant's marital status and properly handle the debt burden..." When hearing a private lending dispute case, Zhou Wei, a judge at the Hongkou District People's Court (虹口区人民法院) in Shanghai, received an early warning.
This reminder allowed Zhou Wei to grasp key background information in advance. "Judicial big data makes our pre-trial preparation more adequate, the fact review more targeted, and the judicial judgment has more reference. It is both an 'alarm' and a 'firewall'," Zhou Wei said.
Accurately identify, effectively block, and systematically punish situations such as "fake divorce, real debt evasion" or fabricated debts to transfer marital property, etc. This is an example of how the Shanghai courts use big data to achieve the transformation from "individual case identification" to "similar case early warning."
Let data integrate into trials and use data to give back to business. "The Shanghai courts actively respond to the needs of digital transformation. After more than two years of exploration and practice, they have formed five major sections: 'data-assisted case handling, data-assisted supervision, data-assisted convenience for the people, data-assisted governance, and data-assisted government affairs'," introduced Lu Weimin (陆卫民), Vice President of the Shanghai Higher People's Court (上海市高级人民法院). At present, more than 1,100 intelligent auxiliary scenario models covering areas such as case filing, trial, execution, and litigation services have been established, and the effectiveness in improving trial quality and efficiency, strengthening trial management, and assisting social governance has continued to manifest.
Handle Cases Well
From "Experience-Driven" to "Data-Driven"
"There are many people demanding payment, but I really can't fulfill it!" In an enforcement case, the company being enforced was "not worried about having too many debts and had no money to pay," and its attitude was negative.
Faced with the stalemate, Zhang Zheng (张正), a judge at the Chongming District People's Court (崇明区人民法院), tried many times to take control measures, but found no clues of property available for enforcement.
On the other hand, the applicant for enforcement was very anxious, believing that the other party had transferred the money: how could they not get the 4 million yuan in arrears, the employees' wages were not settled, and how could the company develop?
Is it "no money to pay" or "no ability to pay"? How to solve the tricky "judgment question"?
"Since the company being enforced is operating, it is impossible not to have any financial income and expenditure." In the following month, Zhang Zheng went to the site many times to verify the situation, such as commercial transactions, administrative tax payments, and even dispute litigation, but where is this data?
Soon there was a turning point. The Shanghai court case handling system embedded an intelligent auxiliary scenario model, which can use the identity of the person being enforced as the core data to capture the information of the concluded cases in which the person being enforced is the plaintiff or applicant for enforcement in other cases, so as to screen out the clues of the winning creditor's rights of the person being enforced in other cases.
With the help of this intelligent auxiliary scenario model, Zhang Zheng followed the clues and found the "trick": in the mediation case in which the person being enforced was the plaintiff in other courts, the account of the associated subsidiary was used to collect more than 2.8 million yuan, so the person being enforced was evading enforcement.
Seeing the materials verified by the court, the company being enforced completely dispelled its fluke mentality and paid all the 4.49 million yuan involved on the same day.
The construction of digital courts has given judges more methods. "In the past, the various information data of the person being enforced needed to be queried by police officers through different platforms in a decentralized manner. If all the data information was not grasped and analyzed in time, it may lead to situations such as evasion of enforcement," said Shi Weixing (施卫星), Director of the Enforcement Bureau of the Chongming District People's Court. Now, through the construction of digital courts, various data resources are integrated and deeply explored, and various data are gathered into an intelligent auxiliary scenario model, which can quickly complete in-depth screening and "panoramically present" the property information of the person being enforced that can be enforced at one time, greatly improving the efficiency of case handling.
From "experience-driven" to "data-driven," data helps judges handle cases better.
At present, the Shanghai Higher Court has launched front-line judges to develop a series of intelligent auxiliary scenario models according to the needs of judicial practice. One by one, "small cut" application scenarios are embedded in the entire process of case handling, extending from the time-consuming and laborious "individual case identification" to "similar case early warning," becoming a reference manual for judges to handle cases well.
"The core of the construction of digital courts is the sharing, analysis, and utilization of 'data,' which is also the difference between digital courts and the previous promotion of court informationization construction and smart court construction," said Lu Cheng (陆诚), Director of the Information Management Office of the Shanghai Higher Court. Since the 1990s, the Shanghai courts have formed massive judicial data in the process of online case handling throughout the entire process, recording a large amount of information such as parties, litigation procedures, and judgment rules, forming a rich "mineral deposit." How to activate and deeply explore the sleeping data wealth is the focus of Shanghai courts' exploration.
Data "drilling down" also brings a "multiplier effect."
"In the past, data analysis was more of a 'surface' analysis, such as the change in the number of overall cases or a type of case, and trial efficiency," said the relevant person in charge of the Shanghai Higher Court's Trial Management Office. The construction of digital courts, through deep data mining, combines points and surfaces, and can respond to the difficulties faced in judicial practice at a deeper level.
For example, upgrading "individual experience" to "collective wisdom" to prevent wrong cases. "Connecting and merging small application scenarios developed by different courts to solve specific problems, and integrating them into large application scenarios with more comprehensive functions, so that a type of problem can be better solved," introduced the relevant person in charge of the Shanghai Higher Court's Trial Management Office. In response to the "error-prone points" in the trial field, the Shanghai courts embedded application scenarios such as unified application of law and standardized documents into the case handling system to promptly remind judges not to make mistakes and intelligently guide judges on how to try cases; once the scenario model is triggered, the platform will also simultaneously push the relevant trial court负责人 (fù zé rén - "person in charge," head) to supervise, so as to achieve comprehensive digital empowerment, full-process early warning monitoring, ensure unified application of law, and improve judicial quality and efficiency.
As of now, the intelligent auxiliary scenario model has cumulatively pushed more than 1.52 million prompt messages, covering 92% of the judges in the city, helping judges handle cases better.
Behind the "hard results" is the Shanghai courts' vigorous exploration of firmly grasping the eternal theme of "justice and efficiency." "Digital courts are not only a technological change, but also a fundamental transformation of concepts, thinking, and mechanisms," said Jia Yu (贾宇), President of the Shanghai Higher People's Court. The purpose of judicial digitization is to "strive to make the people feel fairness and justice in every judicial case" and to deepen and solidify the assistance to judges in handling cases and facilitating people's litigation.
Safeguarding People's Hearts
Using "Digital Justice" to Ensure "Individual Case Justice"
In 2019, when General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) inspected Shanghai, he pointed out that it is necessary to grasp some "bull nose" work and grasp the "government service one-stop online service" and "urban operation one-stop management." Today, the "two networks" have consolidated the foundation of Shanghai's urban governance.
Can judicial big data be collected with government affairs big data? The Shanghai courts connect the city's "digital brain" through "data-assisted convenience for the people," allowing the courts' "digital footsteps" to step into the needs of the people.
"Among the civil affairs file inquiries, marriage file inquiries account for nearly 70%, and have been ranked first in the municipal government's 'one-stop online service' civil affairs inquiries for many years." Two years ago, the Shanghai Minhang District Archives (上海市闵行区档案馆) mentioned the public's data needs for divorce effective judgment documents when visiting the Minhang District People's Court (闵行区人民法院).
Let "intelligent judicial data" dialogue with "diverse litigation needs." Shanghai has deepened data sharing and unblocked information barriers, incorporating divorce effective judgment documents into the "one-stop online service" civil affairs file inquiry public service, which is the first attempt in the country.
Now, by opening the mobile phone and tapping the screen, the inquiry results of marriage litigation files can be delivered to the citizens. "By establishing an intelligent auxiliary scenario model, screening the legally effective divorce case legal documents, and extracting the names and identity information of the parties, a divorce certificate can be automatically generated and sent to the parties, eliminating the hard work of the people repeatedly running around," introduced Qiao Beihua (乔蓓华), Director of the Case Filing Tribunal of the Shanghai Higher People's Court.
The tangible convenience brought by "data-assisted convenience for the people" is increasingly being perceived. "Reducing the burden on parties and lawyers and optimizing the litigation experience, the construction of digital courts improves justice efficiency," said Quan Liangyu (权亮羽), a lawyer at Anjie Broad Law Firm, praising the exploration.
Making the litigation process knowable, the litigation service perceptible, and the litigation result predictable, the Shanghai courts have delivered a "digital answer sheet" in terms of benefiting the people and safeguarding people's hearts.
At the Litigation Service Center of the Shanghai Financial Court (上海金融法院), by uploading information and storing it through a computer... in less than 5 minutes, Zheng Feiyun (郑飞云), a lawyer representing financial batch cases, completed the filing of 135 securities false statement dispute cases.
Online case filing, electronic service, court hearing, document service, and electronic case files generated with the case, from case filing to closing, this batch of cases was archived in only 30 days.
"Through digital means, we can more effectively promote the standardization of litigation service projects and work procedures, so that online and offline litigation services have one standard and one process," said Ye Qi (叶琦), Deputy Director of the Case Filing Tribunal of the Shanghai Higher People's Court. Parties can obtain detailed information about the litigation process and case status online at any time.
Litigation services should not only be more convenient, but also respond to the more diverse needs of the people, making litigation services truly perceptible.
"The personal safety protection order system provides strong protection for anti-domestic violence, but previously, relevant departments such as the Women's Federation could not obtain relevant case information in the first time, and the effectiveness of the protection order was affected to a certain extent. Now, the Shanghai courts have established an application scenario of the 'domestic violence information communication and sharing mechanism,' which can simultaneously push relevant information to the Women's Federation and public security organs," introduced Huang Yong (黄勇), Vice President of the Qingpu District People's Court (青浦区人民法院). This breaks the information barriers of cases, improves the accuracy of litigation services, and extends a helping hand to groups in distress with the data "collision" inside and outside the court, ensuring that personal safety protection orders are implemented effectively.
When people go to court to file a lawsuit, they will have such questions: "How were cases similar to mine judged?" "Can I win my case?"...
How to better respond to the demands of the people?
"One of the positioning of digital courts for litigation services is to provide parties with standard of discretion, similar case references, etc. through system analysis and comparison, provide judicial judgment trend prediction and litigation risk assessment, so that the litigation results are more predictable," said Qiao Beihua.
Enter the "Suishenban (随申办)" platform on the mobile terminal of the Shanghai government service "one-stop online service," and enter information according to the relevant guidelines, and the platform can promptly feedback interactive litigation services such as risk assessment: "From the perspective of big data analysis, there are more wins in similar cases, but there are risks in litigation. Please pay attention to collecting and preserving favorable evidence."
In addition, the intelligent auxiliary scenario model can also automatically match "similar cases" for display. Parties can click to view and obtain the judgment results of other similar cases to verify the objectivity of the risk warning.
"Each case is a major event in the hearts of the parties. Through digital means, we can ensure that the people can feel the judicial temperature in the litigation process, and make the litigation results concrete and predictable, so as to better realize 'individual case justice'," said Qiao Beihua.
Promoting Governance
From "Judicial Case Handling" to "Collaborative Problem Solving"
"Data-assisted governance" is an important section in Shanghai's promotion of digital court construction. From massive judicial data, valuable problem clues are mined, and then relevant departments are coordinated to carry out source governance, so that "old problems" produce "new solutions."
If a taxi hits a pedestrian, how to recover the more than 40,000 yuan advanced by the medical insurance fund? On March 25 this year, the Lujiazui People's Court (陆家嘴人民法庭) of the Pudong New Area People's Court (浦东新区人民法院) heard and pronounced a judgment on a medical insurance fund subrogation dispute case, ruling that the more than 40,000 yuan advanced by the medical insurance fund should be paid by the insurance company within the limit of commercial third-party liability insurance, and the remaining part should be paid by the taxi company.
This is the first case in Shanghai that was judged by the Shanghai court as a medical insurance fund recovery case filed by the medical insurance center as the plaintiff after the implementation of the *Shanghai Medical Insurance Regulations*.
According to the *Social Insurance Law*, after the basic medical insurance fund pays in advance, it has the right to recover from the third party. However, in the past, due to insufficient understanding of the situation by medical institutions in advance and poor information communication between departments, the medical insurance department often could not grasp the infringement information of the third party, making it difficult to carry out accurate recovery, and the recovery ratio of the medical insurance fund was limited.
In response to the problems found in case handling, the Shanghai Higher Court relied on the construction of digital courts to promptly push information to the Medical Security Bureau through judicial data screening, effectively breaking down information barriers between departments and playing a significant role in helping to recover the medical insurance fund.
Big data responds to real needs and solves real problems. "The city's medical insurance departments effectively carry out verification and recovery work through the data shared by the court," said Shi Ying (施莹), Deputy Director of the Planning, Finance and Regulations Department of the Shanghai Medical Insurance Bureau. At the same time, strengthen pre-control, and the city promotes the commitment system of no third-party liability for external injuries, guiding insured persons who seek medical treatment for external injuries to make commitments, and strengthening the source governance of the use of medical insurance funds.
As of now, the Shanghai Medical Insurance Bureau has recovered nearly 8.7 million yuan of medical insurance funds in the city, effectively ensuring the sustainable operation of the medical insurance fund.
The governance of prepaid consumption has always been a "pain point" and "difficulty" in the field of people's livelihood. Individual operators may "run away" or close down after collecting prepaid fees, which will generate mass disputes and have an adverse impact on economic and social development.
Can these problems be "digitally governed"?
In order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers and maintain the order of the market economy, since 2023, the Putuo District People's Court (普陀区人民法院), the Yangpu District People's Court (杨浦区人民法院), and the Xuhui District People's Court (徐汇区人民法院) have jointly established a project team to build relevant intelligent auxiliary scenario models. Through the scenario model, a list of prepaid card issuing companies that have been sued multiple times, have high amounts involved, and have not been executed is screened out, and then compared with the data of relevant administrative organs to "collide" with companies that have not registered and filed and operators who may have "changed shells to escape debts."
Through big data analysis, the Shanghai courts pushed 16,242 relevant information clues to the Municipal Commission of Commerce. On this basis, the Shanghai Higher Court also analyzed the governance factors that affect consumer confidence and disrupt the market economic order from a judicial perspective based on the characteristics and changes in prepaid consumption disputes, and proposed relevant countermeasures to form a decision-making report. With the active connection between the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce and the Shanghai Higher Court, some suggestions have been reflected in the newly revised *Shanghai Single-Purpose Prepaid Consumption Card Management Implementation Measures*, helping to protect the people's "money bags."
Relevant industry management departments are also taking active actions. Taking the sports industry as an example, relevant departments pay close attention to institutions with more lawsuits and no filing screened out by the court, and urge these institutions to register and file as soon as possible. If it is found that the enterprise has abnormal operating conditions, they will intervene in time to supervise and rectify, and prevent the expansion and spread of risks.
Shanghai uses the construction of digital courts to screen data, "collide" data, and use data to promptly discover potential hazards and effectively move the prevention and resolution of contradictions and disputes forward. According to reports, the Shanghai courts will continue to deeply explore the common problems reflected behind cases in the fields of people's livelihood hotspots, social governance, and financial commerce, and provide useful references for the scientific decision-making of the Party committees and governments.
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In recent days, the urban management department of Xining (西宁市), Qinghai (青海) Province, has won praise from the public for its flexible management of mobile vendors. In response to problems such as occupying roads for business and disorderly arrangements, the local authorities have taken the initiative to provide services, setting up "tidal stalls" and "limited-time outdoor displays" in key road sections and commercial districts, turning the relationship between law enforcement officers and vendors from "you chase, I hide" to "harmonious coexistence." The combination of law enforcement innovation and convenient services for the people has dissolved confrontational emotions and conflicts, making the city more warm.
Urban management is a mirror reflecting urban civilization, concerning the lives of the masses, the image of the city, and social harmony. For a long time, there has been no shortage of online jokes about the "cat and mouse game" between law enforcement officers and mobile vendors. On the one hand, occupying roads for business brings traffic congestion and a messy cityscape. On the other hand, the convenient service stalls hidden in the city streets are a rigid demand for people's livelihood and the city's vitality, concerning the livelihoods of the people. How law enforcement departments properly handle the relationship between management and service, so that the city's "vitality" and "sense of order" are harmoniously integrated, tests governance wisdom.
The Central Urban Work Conference proposed, "Innovate the concept, model, and means of urban governance." Urban governance is a delicate job that requires sufficient "embroidery skills." The value of practices such as "tidal stalls" lies not only in resolving management problems but also in stimulating urban vitality. For law enforcement officers, it is far from enough to rely solely on cold rules and coercive measures. They may as well think more from the perspective of flexible law enforcement, emphasizing principles and methods, so that the effectiveness of urban governance that takes into account both order and warmth benefits more people.
To do a good job in flexible law enforcement, it is necessary to go deep into the grassroots and listen to the voices of the people. 治理之道，莫要于安民 (zhì lǐ zhī dào, mò yào yú ān mín - "The way to govern is none other than to pacify the people," good governance depends on ensuring the people's well-being). Only by starting from reality, widely soliciting public opinion, and formulating solutions that build consensus and are effective can we do good things well and make the city better. In Zhanggong District (章贡区), Ganzhou (赣州) City, Jiangxi (江西) Province, the Ganjiang Street (赣江街道) Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Brigade found during visits and investigations that a group of middle-aged and elderly people in the jurisdiction rely on selling self-produced vegetables and fruits for a living, and are struggling with the cost of market stalls, often "fighting guerrilla warfare" on the roadside. After thorough research and extensive solicitation of opinions from surrounding residents, the street implemented the "If I Set Up a Stall" flexible law enforcement model, helping self-produced and self-selling vendors to successfully "settle down," balancing business convenience and public needs.
To do a good job in flexible law enforcement, it is also necessary to draw on collective wisdom and pay attention to methods. The city is a common home, and management cannot rely solely on relevant departments to "fight alone." While ensuring law enforcement efforts, law enforcement officers scientifically set flexible operating hours for mobile vendors, with both collection and release, staggering peaks to benefit the people; community volunteers join the urban management team, participating in street persuasion, environmental cleaning, and other activities, forming a vivid situation of "co-management and co-governance"; the "Merchant Self-Discipline Alliance" allows operators to supervise each other and jointly maintain order... Under the joint force of law enforcement guidance and mass autonomy, combining rigidity and flexibility can better promote the integration of law, reason, and emotion, and better achieve the best effect of law enforcement.
Of course, emphasizing flexible law enforcement does not mean making compromises or discounts on strict law enforcement, but rather integrating consideration of specific circumstances into the entire process of law enforcement, so that law enforcement is both warm and powerful. In fact, flexible law enforcement, ensuring "convenience for the people without disturbing the people, and opening up without letting go," puts higher standards on law enforcement officers. To meet this standard, in addition to mastering laws, regulations, policies, and their spirit, it is more important to put oneself in the shoes of the people and consider issues from the perspective of the people, combining the educational function and punitive function of the law to achieve the unity of law enforcement justice and effectiveness.
The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China emphasized ensuring that society is vibrant and orderly. Cities carry people's aspirations for a better life, and urban governance is for the people and relies on the people. Whether it is setting up small stalls for mobile vendors or setting up outdoor display areas for restaurants, what it brings is a warmer market and more confidence. Adhering to the people-centered development thought, improving the level of civilization through refined law enforcement, and achieving a dynamic balance between vitality and order can enable the city to support a better life.
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Not long ago, Li Yixing (李易兴), head of the Safety Management Department of Sinopharm Group Southwest Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., received a prompt: "You have a routine special equipment supervision and inspection information from the Chengdu (成都市) Market Supervision Bureau (市场监管局) of Sichuan (四川) Province, please check the inspection details."
Li Yixing (李易兴) opened the system according to the prompt, and the inspection time, location, object, matters, and inspection department were clear at a glance. The next day, the inspectors arrived as scheduled and presented their law enforcement certificates and "inspection codes" to Li Yixing (李易兴). Li Yixing (李易兴) verified the inspection task and personnel information on the spot by scanning the "inspection code."
From "law enforcement inspections do not disturb enterprises" to "enterprise needs are responded to," and then to "multi-channel dispute resolution," in recent years, Chengdu (成都市) has closely focused on the core demands of business entities' development, focusing on key areas such as government services, law enforcement supervision, and administrative reconsideration, to build a more vibrant, fair, just, efficient, and convenient market environment.
"Too fast! In the past, engineering quality supervision filing and engineering construction permits needed to be handled separately. It took time, not to mention the headache for our company to prepare various materials, but now everything can be done in one day," said Mr. Li (李先生), the head of a construction company in Chengdu (成都).
In recent years, Chengdu (成都市) has continued to promote convenient and efficient enterprise services through data integration and information sharing, realizing "full online handling" of 181 items such as "company filing," and promising to complete 90% of the items in one day; aiming at "one thing" with multiple departments, cross-level, and strong relevance, promoting the parallel handling of administrative licenses and administrative filings, improving the efficiency of government services, and saving enterprises' time.
The people have needs, and we must respond. Government services must revolve around the needs of enterprises.
"When formulating the *Chengdu Administrative Filing Management Measures* (《成都市行政备案管理办法》), opinions and suggestions were collected through legislative liaison points and the Internet. Among them, the streamlined matters and convenient services that companies generally care about were incorporated into the legislation," said Tang Tao (唐涛), director of the First Legislative Division of the Chengdu (成都市) Bureau of Justice (司法局). At present, the city has established 25 legislative liaison points covering key industries, industry associations, chambers of commerce, universities, and grassroots organizations.
The Chengdu (成都市) Bureau of Justice (司法局) has also jointly established a political-enterprise communication and liaison mechanism with the Chengdu (成都市) Federation of Industry and Commerce (工商联) to optimize the legal business environment, and has established 105 administrative law enforcement supervision liaison points involving enterprises in 23 industry fields such as agriculture, commerce and trade, and catering, listening to companies' opinions and suggestions, collecting and correcting law enforcement problems, and effectively responding to companies' needs.
"Administrative reconsideration is very convenient, especially reconsideration mediation saves companies energy and time," Guo (郭) Ms., the head of a cultural media company in Chengdu (成都), exclaimed.
Building a diversified dispute resolution system, Chengdu (成都) promotes administrative organs to shift from resolving administrative disputes to preventing administrative disputes, and from passive correction to active correction. At the same time, regulatory departments in various industries actively use flexible law enforcement methods such as administrative guidance and persuasion education to achieve continuous optimization of the business environment driven by "service + law enforcement."
"On one hand, dispute resolution is easy and worry-free, and on the other hand, law enforcement supervision is serious and strict." The person in charge of the Chengdu (成都市) Bureau of Justice (司法局) said that since the deployment and implementation of the special action to standardize administrative law enforcement involving enterprises, Chengdu (成都) has not only publicly solicited clues to law enforcement problems involving enterprises from the society, but also actively connected with the 12345 Mayor's Hotline (12345市长热线), online petitions and other platforms to proactively extract law enforcement complaints involving enterprises. At the same time, it comprehensively utilizes methods such as law enforcement case review and spot checks of law enforcement personnel to fully identify law enforcement problems involving enterprises, and continuously enhance enterprises' sense of legal gain.
Return to TopDecember 4, 2025, as the China Eastern Airlines Co., Ltd. (东航) (referred to as "Eastern Airlines") painted aircraft "National Museum of China (国博号)" took off from Shanghai Pudong International Airport (上海浦东国际机场), the world's longest one-way route "Shanghai—Auckland—Buenos Aires" was opened. This route, which is about 20,000 kilometers long and connects antipodal cities, opened the first "Southbound Channel" from China via New Zealand to Latin America. So far, Eastern Airlines has achieved full coverage of routes across continents. In addition, the route successfully applied for the fifth freedom of the air, allowing the flight to pick up and drop off passengers and cargo during its stopover in Auckland, enabling multi-directional passenger and cargo traffic between the three major continental aviation hubs.
In recent years, from taking the lead in resuming international routes to becoming the domestic airline with the most overseas destinations and the largest international transportation turnover, Eastern Airlines' international revenue share and quality have steadily improved. This is due to Eastern Airlines' firm implementation of the "three flights" strategy of flying far, flying internationally, and flying to emerging markets, as well as its determination and action to proactively enhance its core competitiveness and broaden its market with a global perspective.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Eastern Airlines played the role of the "national team" and main force of civil aviation, from achieving the first commercial flight of domestically produced large aircraft to moving towards the large-scale operation of the C919, from deepening "four refinements" service to promoting service brand upgrades, from deepening reform to digital transformation, fully responding to industry risks and challenges, adhering to innovation-driven development, and exploring new paths for the deep transformation and upgrading of the civil aviation industry and the development of new quality productive forces.
From "Recovery" to "Leading"
Strengthening International Routes, Enhancing Core Competitiveness
Eastern Airlines actively serves high-level opening up to the outside world, takes the construction of international routes as an important starting point for building core competitiveness, and injects momentum into the high-quality development of the enterprise through the expansion, quality improvement, and optimization of the route network.
In 2025, Eastern Airlines opened 24 new international routes, and the volume of international and regional flight transportation reached 108.2% of that in 2019. As of the beginning of December 2025, Eastern Airlines' global route network has reached 245 cities and 255航点 in 40 countries and regions. Among them, there are 83 international航点 and 6 regional航点, making it the airline with the largest number of overseas destinations in China.
Facing the Middle East, new routes such as Shanghai to Cairo, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, and Beijing Daxing to Muscat have been opened one after another, building an "air bridge" for mutual learning between civilizations. Facing Europe, new routes such as Shanghai to Geneva, Milan, Barcelona, and Venice have been newly launched, arriving in the evening after departing in the morning, helping passenger and cargo traffic. As of now, Eastern Airlines' flight volume in the Middle East has reached 332.6% of that in 2019, and the flight volume in Europe has reached 177.3% of that in 2019.
In the past two years, Eastern Airlines has continued to increase the frequency of international flights in key markets such as Europe, Oceania, the Middle East, North Africa, East Asia, and Southeast Asia, and effectively filled the market gap between major domestic cities directly reaching the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, actively building an "Air Silk Road" connecting the world, and depicting an era picture of connecting China and foreign countries and building prosperity together.
While fully restoring and vigorously opening new international routes, as the largest main base airline in Shanghai, Eastern Airlines closely relies on Shanghai Pudong International Airport (上海浦东国际机场), and its hub transfer capacity has been significantly improved. It puts 70% of its wide-body passenger aircraft and 90% of its main cargo capacity into the Shanghai market to better serve Shanghai's "five centers" construction. At the same time, it has built transit channels such as Europe-Southeast Asia and Europe-Australia in Shanghai Pudong, attracting more overseas passengers to transit in Shanghai. In 2024, Eastern Airlines completed 8.358 million international transit passengers at Shanghai Pudong International Airport (上海浦东国际机场), an increase of 190.5% year-on-year, accounting for 80.9% of the airport's total, helping Shanghai become the largest aviation hub in China.
Serving national strategies is the direction, and empowering regional development is the mission. Eastern Airlines is vigorously developing international channel construction on one hand, and continuously optimizing the domestic route layout on the other hand, taking the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta region, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the Chengdu-Chongqing dual-city economic circle as the main fulcrums, further increasing the density of the backbone route network, and widening the domestic air corridor.
From serving as the official partner of the Harbin Asian Winter Games (哈尔滨亚冬会) to escort the ice and snow event, to the recent unveiling of the Northeast and Xinjiang branches, Eastern Airlines' route network has been expanded in depth, and the advantages of the fleet and hub have been fully released. It will closely link the practice of "flying far" with the important tasks of serving the high-quality development of border areas and helping the comprehensive revitalization of the Northeast, and strive to build a powerful "air bridge" to serve the construction of Chinese-style modernization.
From "Takeoff" to "Soaring"
Large-scale Commercial Operation, New Journey for Domestically Produced Large Aircraft
On December 1, 2025, Eastern Airlines' C919 domestically produced large aircraft opened a regular commercial flight from Shanghai to Lanzhou. This is the first time that the C919 commercial flight has safely landed at a plateau airport with an altitude of nearly 2,000 meters, writing a strong and colorful stroke for promoting the expansion of the domestically produced large aircraft operation network and the continuous improvement of performance.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the C919 flapped its wings in the blue sky, making the Chinese people's "large aircraft dream" a reality. As the global first user of the C919, Eastern Airlines actively participated in the domestic civil aircraft business, shouldered the mission of the first aircraft and the first launch, solved the operational problems of "starting from scratch," and promoted the integration of the "first half" of research and development and manufacturing with the "second half" of commercial operation. Every step is solid and powerful.
A good aircraft is made and flown. Since Eastern Airlines' first C919 completed its first commercial passenger flight on May 28, 2023, it has undergone more than two years of safe and stable operation, creating a number of "firsts": the first time serving the Spring Festival travel rush, the first time flying abroad to make a widely praised appearance at the Singapore Airshow, the first time adding sustainable aviation fuel, the first time operating regular commercial flights between Shanghai and Hong Kong, the first time operating movie-themed flights... Eastern Airlines, as a "pioneer," continues to explore the full process of C919 commercial operation and the guarantee experience of each link.
Eastern Airlines has specially formed a safe operation team for the C919, and has trained a large number of professional and technical personnel such as pilots, flight attendants, maintenance personnel, and dispatchers. The China Eastern Airlines C919 Flight Department has been awarded the title of "Model Central Enterprise." It has compiled an operation manual for the C919 and explored a set of industry-first operating specifications, processes, and standards. It has established a communication platform and continuous optimization mechanism with Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (中国商飞) to continuously carry out lean management projects to help the C919 fly better.
In the past two years, Eastern Airlines' C919 has achieved the upgrade from initial operation to large-scale operation. As of the beginning of December 2025, Eastern Airlines has a total of 13 C919s, with orders for 105 aircraft.
From operating only one commercial route "Shanghai Hongqiao—Chengdu Tianfu" in 2023 to operating 15 routes in December 2025, the Eastern Airlines C919 fleet reaches 13 cities including Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Chengdu, Xi'an, and Lanzhou, building an operating pattern of "east-west connection and north-south linkage." At present, the Eastern Airlines C919 fleet has accumulated nearly 43,000 hours of safe flight, operated more than 17,000 commercial flights, transported more than 2.45 million passengers, and the average load factor has reached more than 85%.
A series of brilliant scorecards have witnessed the soaring road of domestically produced large aircraft.
With the large-scale commercial operation of the C919 as the foundation and basis, the trajectory of the Eastern Airlines C909 continues to extend and expand. The C909 aircraft is the new commercial name of the ARJ21 series of domestically produced regional jetliners, and its market operation is currently good. On September 10, 2025, the Eastern Airlines C909 operated its first flight on the "Jiangxi Nanchang—Macau" route, marking the official opening of the first regional route of the C909. Relying on the refined optimization of the route network and the forward-looking planning of the strategic layout, the current 29 Eastern Airlines C909s are showing their skills and operating efficiently in the trunk and branch combined market with Shanghai Pudong, Guangdong Shantou, Anhui Hefei, and Jiangxi Nanchang as the main hubs. The key indicators such as daily utilization rate and load factor have increased significantly. As of the end of November 2025, the C909 fleet has accumulated more than 110,000 hours of safe operation.
From "Ticket Stub" to "Ecosystem"
"Aviation+" Integrated Development, Activating New Consumption Momentum
Flights are not only bridges connecting space, but also links integrating industries.
In July 2024, Eastern Airlines cooperated with the Shanghai Museum (上海博物馆) to hold the "Top of the Pyramid: Ancient Egyptian Civilization Exhibition." With a brilliant achievement of more than 2.77 million visitors and a total revenue of more than 760 million yuan, it became a phenomenal cultural event, and also drove the city's comprehensive consumption of more than 35 billion yuan. Behind this cultural and tourism event, the full-chain empowerment of Eastern Airlines linking "机票+门票" (jīpiào + ménpiào - "air tickets + tickets") and opening up "观展+出行" (guānzhǎn + chūxíng - "exhibition + travel") is indispensable.
The "Shanghai Museum (上博号)" and "National Museum of China (国博号)" painted aircraft soar in the blue sky, and the "DIMOO China-Thailand Diplomatic Relations 50th Anniversary" painted aircraft created in cooperation with POP MART attracts attention. Eastern Airlines uses a young and international service model and global route advantages to spread Chinese culture, enrich consumption experience, realize the two-way transformation of "traffic" and "consumption," and promote "aviation+" from "ticket stub" to "ecosystem."
Eastern Airlines promotes strategic cooperation with the Shanghai Museum (上海博物馆) and the National Museum of China (国家博物馆), and the "Museum Enjoy" product has sold more than 100,000 copies; it promotes cooperation with the Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum (秦始皇帝陵博物院) and the Anhui Museum (安徽博物院) to develop "机票+门票" (jīpiào + ménpiào - "air tickets + tickets") characteristic products and activate new consumption momentum.
A series of service innovations shape a new air consumption experience.
Since this year, Eastern Airlines' pet-friendly flights have been launched warmly, allowing passengers and cute pets to travel together without worry; the in-flight WiFi service has been fully upgraded, and domestic "air express" wide-body passenger aircraft provide free WiFi in all cabins, realizing high-altitude and high-speed interconnection, allowing seamless connection between office and entertainment, and turning the cabin into a mobile living space; it has joined hands with the first domestically produced large cruise ship "Adora Magic City (爱达·魔都号)" to launch the "aviation + cruise" connecting product, opening up the air-water travel link and providing passengers with a one-stop cross-border vacation solution.
The "Eastern Airlines Air-Rail Intermodal Transfer Service Center" located at Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station (上海虹桥火车站) realizes one-stop transfer of luggage from the high-speed rail station to the airport; city terminals such as Shanghai Airport Suzhou Terminal (上海机场苏州航站楼) and Kunshan Terminal (昆山航站楼) have been opened one after another, and Eastern Airlines' "aviation + bus" air-ground integrated intermodal transportation creates a new aviation travel model; the "Airport Pass" product uses the Shanghai Municipal Airport Line to compress the cross-airport transfer time to 40 minutes, realizing "freeing hands and efficient transfer"... A series of new explorations and practices in multimodal transportation have expanded the breadth of the transportation ecological network and gradually built a transportation connection system covering the Yangtze River Delta region and radiating across the country.
Building an "aviation ecosystem" with "aviation+" is a hot topic in the current civil aviation industry. Eastern Airlines has successfully hosted five North Bund International Aviation Forums (北外滩国际航空论坛), focusing on related keywords many times, and exploring new paths for industry development with global counterparts. From cultural and tourism linkage to business and sports integration, Eastern Airlines continues to expand the boundaries of "aviation+" and create a three-dimensional ecosystem of "aviation + culture, tourism, business, sports, and exhibition." While connecting the world, it allows aviation services to integrate into diverse life scenarios and transform the flowing scenery into the driving force for development.
Silver wings cut through the sea of clouds, and flight paths are engraved on mountains and rivers. Standing at a new historical starting point, Eastern Airlines will continue to move towards "new" and climb towards "high," and contribute greater strength to striving to write a magnificent chapter of Chinese-style modernization.
Data source: China Eastern Airlines Co., Ltd. (中国东方航空集团有限公司)
Return to TopIn recent years, Wuhan Zhongbang Bank Co., Ltd. (武汉众邦银行股份有限公司) (hereinafter referred to as "Zhongbang Bank (众邦银行)") has focused on implementing the "Party Building Leadership Project," constructing a "Party Committee Leading, Branch Attacking, and Party Member Leading" party building work mechanism. With the goals of "Party building learning in place, responsibility implementation in place, typical establishment in place, and role playing in place," it continuously promotes the deep integration of party building and business, constantly enhances development advantages and governance effectiveness, and leads high-quality development with high-quality party building.
As of the end of October 2025, Zhongbang Bank (众邦银行) had total assets of 126 billion yuan, the total scale of online retail deposits exceeded 90 billion yuan, and the cumulative amount of supply chain finance loans exceeded 150 billion yuan. It has innovatively created digital inclusive financial products such as "Zhonglian Loan (众链贷)," "Zhongshang Loan (众商贷)," and "Zhongyi Loan (众易贷)," serving more than 150 characteristic industrial chains, and achieving the same frequency resonance and integrated development of party building and business.
Party Building Leadership, Accurately Grasping the Direction of High-Quality Development
Zhongbang Bank (众邦银行) regards adhering to the Party's leadership and strengthening Party building as the "root" and "soul" of enterprise development. As the first private bank in Hubei Province (湖北省), Zhongbang Bank (众邦银行) unswervingly adheres to the Party's comprehensive leadership. Through the "two-way entry, cross-appointment" mechanism and the Party Committee's pre-research and "list-based management" model, it deeply integrates the Party's leadership into the entire process of corporate governance. It implements the Party Building Leadership Project, establishes a mechanism for leading team members to contact and guide the work of Party branches, ensures that the Party Committee grasps the direction in major decisions, strategic planning, and risk prevention and control, and stimulates the driving force of financial services with Party building leadership.
In terms of theoretical learning, Zhongbang Bank (众邦银行) has constructed a three-level linkage mechanism of "Party Committee Central Group leading learning, Party branch following learning, and Party member daily research and learning," created three major learning carriers of "fixed learning on the first topic, practical learning in red bases, and joint learning with co-construction units," and formed a closed-loop mechanism of "centralized learning + individual self-study + thematic discussion + practical transformation" to consolidate the theoretical foundation of Party members and cadres.
In terms of organizational construction, Zhongbang Bank (众邦银行) innovatively established a three-dimensional organizational system of "regular Party branches guaranteeing the foundation, Party member commando teams solving problems, and volunteer service teams making contributions," and set up functional Party groups in key areas such as supply chain finance, technological innovation, and comprehensive rural revitalization. By promoting the mechanism of leading team members contacting and guiding the work of Party branches, setting up Party member demonstration posts and Party member shock brigades, etc., it transforms organizational advantages into service advantages. It organizes Party members to visit the China Monetary and Financial History Museum (中国货币金融历史博物馆) to learn about the history of red finance, conduct Party history music classes, and carry out joint learning and co-construction with enterprises and customers, transforming the results of theoretical learning into service effectiveness.
Zhongbang Bank (众邦银行) also constructs an all-round supervision system, embedding integrity construction requirements into all aspects of business processes and risk control. By establishing a list of integrity risk prevention and control and other measures, it builds a solid line of defense against corruption and provides a strong disciplinary guarantee for high-quality development.
Innovation Empowerment, Practicing the Mission of Serving the Real Economy
It is the mission of financial institutions to accurately deliver financial resources to all walks of life and provide high-quality services for the development of the real economy. Zhongbang Bank (众邦银行) insists on deeply cultivating supply chain finance, building a digital industrial finance system covering the entire chain, and accurately irrigating small and micro enterprises upstream and downstream of the industrial chain.
Zhongbang Bank (众邦银行) has developed five product series of "Zhonglian Loan (众链贷)," including the sub-product matrix of "Bangxin (邦信), Bangcai (邦采), Bangshou (邦收)" and "Banglian (邦链), Bangpiao (邦票)"; innovatively launched scenario-based products such as "Nonglian Loan (农链贷)" and "Baogong E Loan (保供E贷)," providing credit of over 10 billion yuan for the Qianjiang crayfish industry (潜江小龙虾产业), customizing "cloud warehouse receipt pledge" services for the textile and garment industry, and cumulatively issuing over 150 billion yuan in supply chain finance loans, covering more than 150 characteristic industrial chains.
Based on the provincial conditions of Hubei Province (湖北省) as a large agricultural province, Zhongbang Bank (众邦银行) actively meets the financial needs of leading agricultural enterprises, rural cooperatives, and farmers, actively serves the poultry and egg industrial chain, forms a Party member service team, promotes cross-functional collaboration, and provides nearly 70 million yuan in financing to key enterprises such as Hubei Shendan Health Food Co., Ltd. (湖北神丹健康食品有限公司) and upstream and downstream enterprises. Zhongbang Bank (众邦银行) has also become the financial chain leader unit of the poultry and egg product industrial chain in Hubei Province (湖北省).
Around the small and medium-sized enterprises in the pan-supply chain circle, Zhongbang Bank (众邦银行) has created a "Zhongshang Loan (众商贷)" product system in the mass version, scenario version, and industrial version, introduced data from more than 700,000 enterprises, and constructed an industrial chain map to achieve accurate customer profiling and hierarchical credit granting. By opening up "transaction credit + data credit + physical credit," it promotes the upgrading of the service model from "point-line" supply chain finance to "surface-state" industrial service ecology.
Zhongbang Bank (众邦银行) has also cooperated with "Zhongcangdeng (中仓登)," a national inventory asset registration and confirmation platform, to jointly establish the "Inventory Asset Digital Joint Innovation Laboratory" to customize complete inventory financing solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises. It has created a corporate current wallet and innovatively launched the "Bangqi Card (邦企卡)" and "Bangdaojia (邦到家)" service system to provide enterprises with a package of fund settlement, payroll payment, merchant collection, and other services. In addition, for enterprises on the supply chain with relatively weak digital capabilities, it has created the "Tongzhou (同舟)" supply chain finance platform to enhance the transaction efficiency of the industrial chain and promote the healthy operation of the industrial chain.
Digital Intelligence Driven, Demonstrating the People-Oriented Nature of Finance
Zhongbang Bank (众邦银行) adheres to the purpose of serving the people with finance, and implements the development thought of "taking the people as the center" throughout all fields and the entire process of operation. It reshapes the service paradigm with technological driving and builds a sustainable digital inclusive financial service model.
Through the three paths of "digital intelligent cloud exhibition, digital intelligent big data risk control, and digital intelligent independent operation," it creates "four pillars" of model leadership, digital intelligence driving, technology empowerment, and intelligent operation, and develops five major risk control systems of "Sinan (司南)," "Tianyan (天衍)," "Yitian (倚天)," "Dongjian (洞见)," and "Zhongmu (众目)" to achieve full-process automated risk control and make financial services more accurate and efficient. It carries out DeepSeek localized deployment and deeply applies AI technology in marketing, consumer protection, anti-money laundering, operation and maintenance, recruitment, office and other fields to empower the entire chain of financial services.
In July of this year, Zhongbang Bank (众邦银行) focused on pension financial services in key areas of people's livelihood and launched the "Happy Life Zone (幸福人生专区)" on the mobile banking APP to provide silver-haired customers with exclusive products, rights and interests, and theme activities. It held offline activities such as chartered movie screenings, tea oil traceability, golden autumn singing parties, and *Baduanjin* health tours. Through age-appropriate upgrades, it makes smart pension financial services more convenient and continuously enhances the people's sense of gain.
In terms of consumer rights protection, Zhongbang Bank (众邦银行) incorporates the protection of financial consumer rights into its business development strategy and corporate culture construction. By placing consumer protection review ahead of product design, it establishes an intelligent complaint handling platform to achieve a 100% complaint resolution rate and mediation execution rate. It has established "financial propagandists" and "Party member anti-fraud rural propaganda teams" to bring financial knowledge to the people and build a solid financial security defense line.
Zhongbang Bank (众邦银行) actively fulfills its social responsibilities, normalizes public welfare undertakings, and allocates 2% of its profits each year specifically for assistance and donations. It has paired up to help Liangting Village (凉亭村) in Luotian County (罗田县), Huanggang City (黄冈市), investing more than 1.4 million yuan to build rural roads, clinics, etc., and putting the "hometown love" action into practice. It participates in the "Blue Envelope (蓝信封)" rural children's letter companionship public welfare project and carries out public welfare donation activities to support the healthy growth of left-behind children.
In the future, Zhongbang Bank (众邦银行) will continue to improve the quality and efficiency of financial services, actively fulfill its social responsibilities, and practice the concept of serving the people with finance with a more sound institutional system, more innovative financial products, and higher-quality financial services, so as to help the high-quality development of the real economy in a pragmatic, professional, and sustainable manner.
Data source: Wuhan Zhongbang Bank Co., Ltd. (武汉众邦银行股份有限公司)
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"He is a musical eagle soaring in the blue sky, an artistic spirit tempered by the flames of war." This year, composer Yang Ming (羊鸣) was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award (Music) by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and the award citation was written as such. This sentence vividly summarizes Yang Ming's (羊鸣) musical life.
Yang Ming's (羊鸣) artistic creations throughout his life have been dedicated to the people's army and the people.
Yang Ming's (羊鸣) original name was Yang Peilan (杨培兰). In 1941, at the age of 7, he followed his father and left his hometown of Changshan Island (长山岛) in Penglai (蓬莱), Shandong (山东) to make a living in the northeastern border city of Kuandian County (宽甸县), Andong (安东). In his childhood, he suffered bullying and keenly experienced the suffering of being a subjugated slave. In 1947, Kuandian (宽甸) was liberated. Filled with longing for the revolution, he joined the army. Because of his intelligence and agility, he was assigned to the Andong Military Region Cultural Troupe (安东军区文工团) and changed his name to Yang Ming (杨明).
In the cultural troupe, he felt the warmth of the people's army. His first drama, "The White Haired Girl (白毛女)," and his first song, "The Eighth Route Army March (八路军军歌)," opened his literary and artistic journey. The teaching of Zhang Xifeng (张西风), the leader of the band, "Where is the music? Music is among the people," took root in his heart. At the age of 15, Yang Ming (杨明) created his first song based on a folk Suona tune, which was published in the Northeast Military Region's "Troop Literature and Art (部队文艺)." Because someone joked that the melody sounded like a lamb bleating, he used "Yang Ming (羊鸣)" as his pen name. Since then, this name has accompanied him throughout his life.
Over the decades, he has created 9 large-scale operas, 6 small-scale operas, and nearly a thousand songs. In the early 1960s, Yang Ming (羊鸣) collaborated with Yan Su (阎肃), Jiang Chunyang (姜春阳), and Jin Sha (金砂) to create the opera "Sister Jiang (江姐)," which caused a national sensation as soon as it was staged and became a classic of national opera in New China. On the stage, generations of "Sister Jiang (江姐)" have sung "Ode to the Red Plum (红梅赞)" and "Embroidering the Red Flag (绣红旗)" with deep affection, and they continue to be sung to this day.
To create the opera "Sister Jiang (江姐)," he, Yan Su (阎肃), Jiang Chunyang (姜春阳), and Jin Sha (金砂) went to Chongqing (重庆) many times to collect folk songs, visited Sister Jiang's (江姐) old comrades and old guerrillas, and visited the old sites of Zhazidong (渣滓洞) and Bai Gongguan (白公馆). After the first draft was completed, Yang Ming (羊鸣) was not very satisfied. Therefore, the creative team went to Sichuan (四川) again to study Sichuan Opera, Sichuan Yangqin, and folk songs, and then went to Shanghai (上海) and Zhejiang (浙江) to absorb the musical nourishment of Shanghai Opera and Wuju Opera. After returning to Beijing (北京), the group worked day and night to create this opera masterpiece after two years of polishing. During the opera rehearsal stage, these songs spread among the cast, crew, and surrounding masses.
The opera "Sister Jiang (江姐)" was a success, but Yang Ming (羊鸣) fell ill. More than two years of high-intensity artistic creation exhausted this Shandong (山东) man, who had just turned thirty, physically and mentally. He couldn't stand the buzzing of the razor when he got a haircut, the "clanging" sound of the train, or even the sound of pots and pans colliding in the cafeteria. These were all unbearable auditory shocks to him. His superiors ordered him to be hospitalized for examination immediately - his blood pressure was too high, and he had severe symptoms of insomnia and memory loss. He was diagnosed with severe nervous disorder.
He couldn't imagine what meaning life would have if he could no longer create music. Fortunately, after careful treatment and the comfort of his family, Yang Ming (羊鸣) gradually recovered his health and regained his artistic inspiration and creative passion.
Yang Ming's (羊鸣) military career has been mostly associated with the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (中国人民解放军空军). Yang Ming (羊鸣) was transferred to the Northeast Air Force Political Department Cultural Troupe (东北空军政治部文工团) and went to the front line three times during the Korean War to offer condolences. After graduating from the Northeast Conservatory of Music (东北音乐专科学校), he worked in the Shenyang Military Region (沈阳军区), the Beijing Military Region (北京军区), and the Air Force Political Department Cultural Troupe (空军政治部文工团), creating operas and songs.
"If you ask a pilot what he loves, I love the blue sky of the motherland." "I Love the Blue Sky of the Motherland (我爱祖国的蓝天)," with lyrics by Yan Su (阎肃) and music by Yang Ming (羊鸣), was widely praised as soon as it was released. The song expresses the sincere love for the blue sky of the motherland from the perspective of an air force pilot, praising their firm belief in devoting themselves to national defense, guarding the airspace, and defending sovereignty. The melody is soothing and unrestrained, lyrical and beautiful, showing the confidence and pride of the blue sky guards. Over the decades, this song has been regarded as a representative song of the Chinese Air Force because of its distinctive features and high recognition.
The inspiration for this song came from Yan Su (阎肃) and Yang Ming's (羊鸣) experience in the Guangzhou Air Force (广州空军) unit. They went deep into the front line of the troops, lived and ate with the pilots, and personally experienced their daily life training, injecting true feelings into the creation. When Yang Ming (羊鸣) received the lyrics, the moving scenes of the troop life a year ago quickly flashed before his eyes, and emotions accompanied the melody like a spring. He completed the composition in one go in less than an hour. Years later, he still clearly remembered the throbbing at the time: "The magnificent scene of the plane igniting and taking off appeared in my mind, and the huge fuselage gradually became a light kite soaring in the sky. I wanted to convey the artistic conception of grandeur and delicate beauty through music."
"March of the Chinese Air Force (中国空军进行曲)," co-created by Su Renqian (苏任千), the old head of the Air Force Political Department Cultural Troupe (空军政治部文工团), and Yang Ming (羊鸣), was later promulgated as the military song of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (中国人民解放军空军). "Flying, flying, flying on the long wind, the Chinese Air Force grows in the flames of war," the majestic and solemn, unrestrained and agile style vividly demonstrates the spirit and integrity of the Chinese Air Force and is widely sung.
"I Love the Blue Sky of the Motherland (我爱祖国的蓝天)," "Repay (报答)," "Serve the People (为人民服务)," "Soldier Brother (兵哥哥)"... Those affectionate and surging melodies, like rivers rushing and tides rolling, express the infinite deep affection for the motherland and the people, and show the sincere journey of the older generation of literary and art workers. "If you want to create good music, you must go to the people." This is what Yang Ming's (羊鸣) music enlightenment teacher Zhang Xifeng (张西风) told him. Yang Ming (羊鸣) kept this in mind throughout his life, always practiced it, and composed a brilliant chapter of life on the staff.
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"Qiaopi (侨批), commonly known as "Fanpi (番批)" or "Yinxin (银信)," In Guangdong (广东) Chaozhou (潮汕), Southern Fujian (闽南) and Hainan (海南) and other places, the pronunciation of "letter (信)" is "Pi (批)," Qiaopi (侨批) are letters written by overseas Chinese, laborers, and compatriots to their relatives in their hometowns. They are special postal letters that "combine remittances and family letters," truthfully recording the history of blood and tears, the history of entrepreneurship, and the strong national sentiment of overseas Chinese.
The opera "Qiaopi (侨批)," which I wrote, won the 18th Wenhua Award "Wenhua Screenwriting Award," and tells the story of Qiaopi (侨批).
When I lingered in the Qiaopi Museum (侨批博物馆), carefully examining the various Qiaopi (侨批) through the glass display cases, the originally unclear handwriting became even more blurred because tears filled my eyes. The formats of those Qiaopi (侨批) were almost identical, probably written by "letter writers (书启先生)." The letter paper, which had been deposited over time, had turned yellow, making it even more historically vicissitudinous - "To my dear mother, respectfully informing you: Your son is safe and sound abroad, and has remitted silver dollars ××, please check and receive." This is a letter from a filial son far away to his mother, and the few words reveal his sincere heart; "My wife, I am remitting silver dollars ×× today for our children to go to school." This is a father's earnest love for his children, as high as a mountain and as deep as the sea; "Yesterday in the plantation, I saw the kapok flowers blooming, as red as blood, and suddenly I thought of the clothes you wore when you got married, and my heart aches!" This is a letter from a husband to his wife, whom he had to leave shortly after their marriage.
"My heart aches (心中甚痛)" is like a bullet, hitting me unexpectedly. In the dark, I seemed to see a dark-skinned man tanned by the scorching sun, seeing familiar flowers blooming in a foreign land, the trance and heartbreak of that moment, all the hard work, all the loneliness, are compressed into these 4 words. What he is aching for is not the flower, but the hometown he cannot return to, the relatives he cannot see, the burning love that is blocked by mountains and seas. From that moment on, the Qiaopi (侨批) in front of me became vivid life stories in my heart.
Artistic creation begins with "people" and starts with "emotion." Facing the massive amount of Qiaopi (侨批), I was attracted by a story of supporting children's education and tried to salvage the emotions of specific people that were submerged in the deep sea of time. The opera "Qiaopi (侨批)" tells the story of Liang Chengru (梁诚如), an overseas Chinese laborer, who learns that his family has to sell his daughter to survive in order to save his sick mother. He contracts a serious illness on the way back to his hometown and leaves a tearful wish on the Qiaopi (侨批) to "let his daughter go to school," along with 100 yuan he had saved for 10 years of work. When the Qiaopi (侨批), which combines the family letter and remittance, is sent from overseas to the Qiaopi Bureau (侨批局) in his hometown, in addition to the 100 yuan on the Qiaopi (侨批), there are also 900 yuan donated by overseas Chinese. When the person in charge of the Qiaopi Bureau (侨批局) raises enough money to stop his daughter from being sold, it is too late, and the daughter has already been buried in the sea. In the end, the donation from the overseas Chinese, along with his life-saving money, was donated by his wife to build a school, fulfilling the dream of her daughter and children like her who longed to study and go to school.
Overall, the narrative structure is regular, and the character lines and action lines are considered clear, but I feel that it is too general. When conceiving the idea, I was filled with emotion for the Qiaopi (侨批) that combined the letter and the remittance. It is not surprising that letters are exchanged, but what is surprising is that when the people at the Qiaopi Bureau (侨批局) see the amount of the remittance stated on the "Pi (批)," they can always deliver the remitted funds to the recipient of the "Pi (批)" in a timely manner. In fact, these funds are all advanced by the Qiaopi Bureau (侨批局), and the real remittance is still on its way across the ocean. Nevertheless, the Qiaopi Bureau (侨批局) is willing to pawn off its family property for the sake of integrity.
Therefore, when shaping the images of the wife, father, and daughter, my brushstrokes focused and emphasized the person in charge of the Qiaopi Bureau (侨批局), from borrowing money to raise money, to waiting for money and hoping for money, and then to the dramatic line of repaying money, I tried to create a righteous and loyal character. In addition, the overseas Chinese, far away overseas, always accompany the fate of the protagonist and the ups and downs of the Qiaopi Bureau (侨批局). This narrative creates a triple structure for the play: a family, a Qiaopi Bureau (侨批局), and a group portrait of overseas Chinese, just like the main melody and sub-melody in music, intertwined and complementing each other. From the joys and sorrows of a family, it reflects the enduring connotation of loving the hometown and the country.
"Qiaopi (侨批)" is a national opera, and it is wise to draw nourishment from classical poetry. For example, when the mother sends her daughter on the way to the dock, the daughter sings with infinite sadness, "Once I leave, my hometown will become a foreign land," which is inspired by the Tang Dynasty poet Li Qi's (李颀) "Untitled (失题)": "Parting is like flowing water year after year, who can tell the difference between a foreign land and a hometown"; the mother sings to her daughter, "When you miss home, listen to the sound of the waves on the sea, and think of it as the whispers of your hometown ringing in your ears; when you miss your mother, look at the moon in the sky, and think of your mother as the moonlight shining into your heart," which is inspired by the poet Li Bai's (李白) "Drinking Alone by Moonlight (把酒问月)": "The people of today do not see the moon of ancient times, but the moon of today has shone on the people of ancient times." I used a large number of reduplicated words and repeated sentence patterns in the play, precisely because the characteristics of Chinese poetry creation lie in fu (赋), bi (比), and xing (兴), which is also the tradition that contemporary national opera creation should inherit and carry forward.
I often wonder, when the music sounds, can the souls of those ancestors who are sleeping in foreign lands, those ancestors who are eagerly waiting, be slightly comforted by our words and songs? We write down their pain and love, as if we are completing a solemn "reply."
(The author is a first-class screenwriter and the president of the National Peking Opera Company (国家京剧院).)
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In the finale of the dance drama "Du Fu," the aged Du Fu and the young Du Fu break the boundaries of time and space, gazing at each other on the stage—a dialogue between souls, questioning ideals and reality, youth and twilight, destiny and impermanence, the fleeting moment and eternity... As creators, we also encounter and gaze upon Du Fu in the dance. Between the strokes of the verses and the unfolding of the dance, our dialogue with Du Fu (杜甫), and with the Chinese cultural heritage, has continued for 10 years.
Ten years ago, when we first faced the weighty name of "Du Fu" (杜甫) in our creation, we had just passed our thirtieth year. For us young people, Du Fu's profoundness was overwhelming, and we didn't know where to start. How to present the figure of this man, known as the "Poet Sage," on stage? How to use dance to bear those somber and impassioned historical poems? How to use a short one-and-a-half-hour dance drama to interpret that national sentiment of "caring for all the poor scholars in the world"? Countless unanswered questions lay before us. So, we "reverted" to student status, invited many experts to explain Du Fu to us, re-"translated" the playwright's literary script into a stage script, carefully brushed away the dust of time, and strived to find Du Fu between ancient books and poems, touching that warm and great soul.
Unknowingly, "Du Fu" (杜甫) has gone through 10 years.
These 10 years have been "10 years of sharpening the sword"—creating "Du Fu" (杜甫) took a full 15 months. The Chongqing Song and Dance Troupe (重庆歌舞团) turned down all commercial performances to ensure the creation, allowing us to "slow down" and truly immerse ourselves in Du Fu's world. Starting from receiving the first round of funding from the National Arts Fund (国家艺术基金) in 2015, the troupe has continued to exert efforts over the past 10 years, supporting the continuous polishing and modification of this drama. Our creative collective has also grown in each "version iteration"...
In order to achieve the ideal presentation effect, we made some efforts in the creation. For example, we broke the traditional linear narrative and used a bold freehand style to "construct the drama with dance," extracting key images from Du Fu's poems and transforming them into vivid dance scenes. "On the third day of the third month, the weather is new, many beautiful women are by the Chang'an (长安) water" from "A Song of Beautiful Women" (丽人行), "The carts rumble, the horses neigh, the travelers each carry bows and arrows at their waists" from "The Ballad of the Army Carts" (兵车行), and so on, are all our attempts. When we learned that these attempts were recognized by the audience, we felt sincerely gratified.
It can be said that it is precisely the "two-way rush" of consistent goals and mutual achievement between us, the troupe, and the actors that has made "Du Fu" (杜甫) what it is today.
These 10 years have also been "10 years of walking"—from the premiere in Chongqing (重庆) in 2016 to its debut in Beijing (北京), and then to round after round of national tours... Today, "Du Fu" (杜甫) has toured 248 times, with footprints all over the north and south of the Yangtze River (长江) and more than 80 cities. Each performance, each curtain call, and the audience's warm applause are the greatest praise for our team, and also allow us to truly feel that Du Fu's national sentiment and literati integrity, spanning thousands of years, can still move people's hearts today. I remember one audience member who followed our performances and watched many shows in a row. With tears in his eyes, he said to us: "In the past, I thought Du Fu (杜甫) lived in textbooks and in poems. Now I feel that Du Fu (杜甫) lives around us, he is still 'talking' to us." At that moment, we were particularly moved—as creators, isn't that what all the efforts are for? To let the poet from thousands of years ago walk out of the dusty old books and into the hearts of contemporary people.
In our eyes, dance is like "condensed poetry," using limbs, movements, rhythms, and strength to "write poetry and paint" in time and space. In this sense, our encounter with Du Fu (杜甫) is like a "meeting of dance and poetry," a new stage expression sparked by the mutual understanding and collision between two completely different art forms. Just like the subtitle of this dance drama—"The Tang Dynasty (唐朝) in One Person's Pen"—we hope to use dance language to allow today's audience to walk through the lines of poetry again, to re-encounter the Tang Dynasty (唐朝), and to meet the poet from thousands of years ago who independently experienced the warmth and coldness of the world and whose words were worth a thousand pounds.
The 10 years of searching for Du Fu (杜甫) and encountering Du Fu (杜甫) are also 10 years of Du Fu's spirit feeding back to us and allowing us to grow continuously.
Towards the end of rehearsals, the character of Du Fu (杜甫) seemed to be our "friend beyond years." We often wanted to put a cup of tea in front of Du Fu's desk to smooth the sorrow between his brows. And this precious creative journey has also given us further insights into outstanding traditional Chinese culture: when these cultural treasures stand ancient and fresh on the contemporary stage, they are like "ancient buildings," representing a belief that transcends time and space as long as they stand there. And the greatest affection and responsibility that literary and artistic creators of our era can give to ancient art is to inherit its form and extend its spirit.
Compared with some other traditional arts such as national opera, dance art has its particularity, and dance language is also easier to show the characteristics of the times. How to find the best balance between "ancient form" and "contemporary aesthetics" while extending the spiritual core of the Chinese nation that has been passed down in one continuous line? This is a topic we are constantly thinking about in our creation.
This time, we are fortunate to win the "Wenhua Directing Award" (文华导演奖), which is not only a recognition of the work "Du Fu" (杜甫), but also a collective recognition of the entire creative and performing team's "big family." This is not the end, but a brand new starting point. It gives us greater responsibility and mission.
(The author is a first-class choreographer of China Oriental Performing Arts Group (中国东方演艺集团).)
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The TV series "The Great Businessman" is adapted from the novel of the same name. The original story tells of Gu Pingyuan (古平原), a scholar who escaped from exile and returned to find the culprit who framed him and put him in prison. He steps into the commercial world of the late Qing Dynasty, experiences the ups and downs of life, and finally understands the essence of business.
Although the novel is named "The Great Businessman," it does not take business success and wealth as the protagonist's mark of success. In fact, the protagonist almost always voluntarily gives up after each great victory and heads for the next goal. For him, material wealth is temporary smoke, and only the legends he witnesses and his understanding of the world in the process of winning and losing these material wealth are the only wealth he possesses. In the chaotic and dark era in the novel, we also see the glimmer of human nature. These lights are what I appreciate most about this novel.
Gu Pingyuan (古平原) is the primary element that carries the theme and soul of the TV series "The Great Businessman." By interpreting him thoroughly, the underlying tone of the work will be completely clear.
Setting such a character mainly involves two issues.
First, Gu Pingyuan's (古平原) character theme is different from that of other merchant figures, so his motivation is also different. Gu Pingyuan's (古平原) character theme, which is also the theme of this drama, is "searching" emotionally and "seeking the Tao" rationally. In previous film and television dramas, merchant figures were basically born into commercial families, while Gu Pingyuan (古平原) is a scholar. Gu Pingyuan (古平原) has a noble side in his temperament, self-restraint, reflection on things, and observation of the times and the environment.
There is another side to his character, which is the underlying tone of this character. He does not have excessive bookishness or pedantry because he has lived in exile for many years and has endured intense and prolonged suffering. Generosity, sincerity, and simplicity are important parts of his personality.
Let's talk about "seeking the Tao rationally." Gu Pingyuan (古平原) is a scholar, and he embodies the ideals of a class, thinking about the country's future in a declining and corrupt end-of-dynasty era. From the very beginning of doing business, he seriously asked himself: What is the essence of the so-called way of business?
At first, he thought it was integrity. The ancients said, "A man cannot stand without trust," and the merchant's credit system is the merchant's life. Then he further believed it was circulation. He found that in business, the speed of goods turnover and the rapid transmission of information are the most important principles. Finally, he believed there was also sharing. He shared his secret tea-frying recipe with all tea merchants, without taking the traditional path of "exclusive secrets," because he understood that expanding and improving the scale of an industry is the supreme principle of business.
What elevates this character the most is that he came into contact with strong ships, sharp cannons, and firearms in Anhui (安徽), and encountered opponents such as HSBC (汇丰洋行) and the East India Company (东印度公司) in Shanghai (上海) and other places. This was also the era when Western modern commercial civilization, accompanied by warships, surged and swept in. Like all Chinese people in the late Qing Dynasty, he was forced to recognize and strive to adapt.
The country in Gu Pingyuan's (古平原) heart concerns the rise and fall of civilization, not his commercial empire. I believe that this pattern is neither achievable by Hu Xueyan (胡雪岩) and Qiao Zhiyong (乔致庸), nor can it be accomplished by ordinary intellectuals. This is indeed the highest "Tao" that can be sought in the profession of a merchant. That is, to serve the country through business. I think this theme is closer to Gu Pingyuan's (古平原) journey of seeking the Tao and can explain his attitude towards wealth and his life experience.
In the process of reading and creating, I vaguely felt that the shadow of modern history has not completely disappeared from us. This attitude is reflected in literary and artistic works, that is, we still lack the image of "proud Chinese people." This "pride" is not arrogance, but a kind of self-confidence, a deep understanding of the excellent traditional culture and contemporary culture of the Chinese nation, so that there is no sense of rupture between history and the future. A person knows where he comes from to know where he is going, and a nation can recognize mistakes to distinguish the direction.
At the beginning of this drama, the Chinese people had already experienced the First Opium War, shattering the ancient imperial dream, followed by the Second Opium War and the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895... fully proving the principle that backwardness invites aggression.
We should pay attention to the shaping of ancient drama characters. These characters can travel through the smoke of history and get along with us on an equal footing. We can still hear their heartbeats, sorrows, cries, and laughter. They have been inspiring us.
In a character like Gu Pingyuan (古平原), I have placed a lot of understanding of traditional literati. He is in a world of unprecedented change in three thousand years. He is in pain, confused, and seeking, but the confidence, determination, and pride in him are still the eternal themes in my works today.
As a drama creator, I hope to always complete it and perfect it.
(The author is the screenwriter and director of the TV series "The Great Businessman")
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Gilt Silver Pot with Dancing Horse and Cup in Mouth, Tang Dynasty Tricolor Camel Figurine Carrying Musicians, Gilt Iron Core Copper Dragon, Plate-Mouth Thin-Necked Light Yellow Glass Bottle... In the historical relic documentary "Millennial Cultural Relics: The Prosperous Tang Dynasty" produced by Xi Ying Media (西影传媒) and others, the details of a large number of cultural relics are vividly displayed under 8K lenses, becoming a carrier for pursuing "Why the Prosperous Tang Dynasty."
The strength of the Prosperous Tang Dynasty stemmed from the maturity of its institutions and the strength of its national power. The Three Departments and Six Ministries system (三省六部制), the Equal-field system (均田制), the Imperial Examination system (科举制), the Rent, Tax, and Corvée system (租庸调制)... These systems that supported the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty left imprints in cultural relics and are presented on the screen. The Hejia Village hoard (何家村窖藏), now housed in the Shaanxi History Museum (陕西历史博物馆), is world-renowned for its dazzling gold and silver. The fourth episode of the film, "Novelty," focuses on a less conspicuous item among them—the "Huaiji Yongdiao Silver Cake" (怀集庸调银饼). This silver cake is engraved with the place of origin, the contractor, the payment time, and even a piece of "silver scar" added when the weight was found to be insufficient. The institutional change of using gold and silver to replace "Yong" (纳绢代役, paying silk to be exempt from service) and "Diao" (纳土产, paying local products) is thus corroborated. Gilt copper rulers, copper scales, stone weights, coins... Each cultural relic becomes a code to interpret the economic society of the Tang Dynasty.
The charm of the Prosperous Tang Dynasty lies in the innovation of aesthetics and the integration of civilizations. In the context of Chinese civilization, the term "cultural relics" eventually evolved into the meaning of material remains that carry historical and cultural information. Gold and silverware, Tang Dynasty tricolor pottery (唐三彩), murals, steles... The elegance of the Tang Dynasty is presented in the ingenuity of each object, each thread, and each stroke. Appreciating exquisite objects and marveling at superb craftsmanship ultimately means receiving the myriad aspects of an era. In the third episode, "All Directions," a Byzantine glass bottle made using the "blown glass method" arrived in Chang'an (长安) after 6,000 kilometers, becoming a witness to the exchange of Eastern and Western crafts. The gold and silver patterns of Sogdian merchants collided and merged with the traditional Central Plains lotus petal patterns and phoenix patterns, giving birth to artistic treasures such as the Gilt Silver Cup with Musicians. The Huteng dance and the Huxuan dance entered the palace, and the Jie drum became the "leader of the eight tones." More than 300 kinds of musical instruments symphonized in the Tang Dynasty. This cultural scene of "Hu and Han people drunk together" originated from the inclusive mind of the Prosperous Tang Dynasty, which "has always valued China and despised the barbarians, but I love them all equally," and also created the world influence of "all nations worshiping the imperial crown."
The vitality of the Prosperous Tang Dynasty is reflected in the respect for individual value and the encouragement of innovation. Cultural relics, after all, are owned and used by people. From nobles, literati, monks to craftsmen, merchants, and musicians, the people behind the cultural relics are given historical warmth in the film. In the second episode, "Extraordinary," through cultural relics such as the Tricolor Camel Carrying Objects and the Female Standing Figurine in Male Attire, the prosperity of the West Market (西市) in Chang'an with "more than two hundred industries and tens of thousands of shops" and the laughter in the Hu Ji taverns are displayed, allowing people to see the strong atmosphere of life between the market districts. Xuanzang (玄奘) returned from his pilgrimage to the West and presided over the construction of the Great Wild Goose Pagoda (大雁塔). Monk Yi Xing (僧一行) revised the "Kaiyuan Dayan Calendar" (《开元大衍历》) to promote the progress of astronomical measurement technology, demonstrating the thirst for knowledge and the exploration of the world.
Telling the story of the Prosperous Tang Dynasty is not only looking back at history, but also facing the future. "Millennial Cultural Relics: The Prosperous Tang Dynasty" strives to use the power of images, technology, and archaeology to activate the cultural genes that have been sleeping for thousands of years, allowing us today to further understand the profound roots of Chinese culture. Cultural relics that embody the prominent characteristics of Chinese civilization have also become an important window for the world to understand Chinese civilization.
With the parallel advancement of macro and micro narratives and the integration of technology and artistic expression, through "Millennial Cultural Relics: The Prosperous Tang Dynasty," the audience hears the voice of civilization echoing for thousands of years from the cultural relics.
Making such a documentary is a journey of tracing the roots of civilization and an exploration of the living inheritance of cultural heritage. We believe that when cultural relics are retold and vividly narrated, our culture can also be innovative and radiant in the new era.
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