Summary: At the Central Economic Work Conference held on December 10th in Beijing, Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of "adapting to local conditions" (因地制宜) in economic work. He stressed that policies and their implementation must be tailored to specific local realities, cautioning against blindly following trends and imposing uniform standards, particularly in areas like technological development, environmental protection, and rural infrastructure. Xi Jinping cited his recent meeting with the French President Macron in Dujiangyan as an example of adapting to local conditions. He also highlighted the need to leverage the strengths of key regions like Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area as international innovation hubs.
Summary: At the Central Economic Work Conference, Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of establishing and practicing a correct view of performance (政绩观), stressing the need to avoid superficial projects and data manipulation. He called for officials to focus on serving the people and ensuring long-term, sustainable development, especially in rural areas, while avoiding vanity projects. Xi also highlighted the importance of technological innovation and environmental improvements, and the need to maintain strategic focus amid international challenges, including trade disputes that he says have highlighted China's resilience. He cautioned against ineffective investment and emphasized the vast potential for both infrastructure and human capital investment.
Summary: The Central Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing from December 10th to 11th, where Xi Jinping delivered an important speech summarizing economic work in 2025, analyzing the current economic situation, and deploying economic work for 2026. The conference emphasized the need to adhere to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability and improving quality and efficiency for the upcoming "15th Five-Year Plan." It underscored the importance of strengthening domestic demand, promoting innovation, deepening reform and opening up, and ensuring people's well-being. The meeting also highlighted the need to address external challenges by focusing on internal strengths, emphasizing the importance of self-reliance in technology. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations was provided in the article.
Summary: This article summarizes key takeaways from the Central Economic Work Conference, focusing on five essential principles for economic governance: fully tapping economic potential, combining policy support with reform and innovation, balancing market freedom with effective regulation, integrating investment in physical and human capital, and strengthening internal capabilities to address external challenges. It emphasizes the importance of both proactive policy adjustments and continued reform efforts to address cyclical, structural, and systemic economic challenges during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. The article argues for using these principles to navigate economic complexities and enhance China's resilience in the face of external challenges, ultimately promoting high-quality development. The piece does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China's first polar fixed-wing aircraft, "Snow Eagle 601," has officially been in service for 10 years. It has accumulated over 2,500 flight hours, covering a distance of approximately 800,000 kilometers. The aircraft has played a significant role in various aspects of Antarctic scientific research. Its missions have expanded beyond mere transportation to include scientific surveys, international cooperation, and emergency rescue, marking a significant transformation in China's polar aviation support capabilities.
Summary: As of December 13th, 2025, China's box office has reached 50.003 billion RMB, with 1.194 billion admissions. Domestic films account for 40.952 billion RMB, representing 81.90% of the total. Fifty films have exceeded 100 million RMB in revenue, with domestic productions comprising 33 of those films. The top five highest-grossing movies include "Ne Zha: Birth of the Demon Child," "Detective Chinatown 1900," "Zootopia 2," "Nanjing Photography Studio," and "731". The surge in domestic film attendance is attributed to diverse themes and genres, especially mainstream movies and animations.
Summary: In November, 54 cities across 31 provinces in China operated 334 urban rail transit lines totaling 11,389.7 kilometers, according to the Ministry of Transport. These lines ran 3.62 million train trips and carried 2.83 billion passengers, with 1.68 billion station entries. The month saw an increase of 59.2 km in operational track and a 4.4% year-on-year rise in passenger volume, equating to an average passenger volume of 8,320 people per kilometer per day across the whole system. Of these, 43 cities operated 275 subway and light rail lines covering 9,898.5 km and accounting for 2.73 billion passengers.
Summary: The Central Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing from December 10th to 11th, with Xi Jinping delivering an important speech. The conference reviewed economic achievements of the past year and the past five years, emphasizing China's economic resilience and potential for long-term growth. It outlined eight key tasks for the coming year, including boosting domestic demand, promoting innovation, and ensuring people's well-being. The conference stressed the importance of high-quality development and coordination between urban and rural areas. Participants expressed confidence in achieving a good start to the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" (2026-2030) and advancing Chinese-style modernization.
Summary: At the "2025-2026 China Economic Annual Meeting" in Beijing, Han Wenxiu of the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission stated that China's main economic goals for the year would be met and that the country's economic growth would likely reach approximately 5%, remaining a major engine for global growth. Han acknowledged challenges including rising unilateralism and protectionism that are impacting global supply chains, as well as weak domestic demand. He emphasized the need to address these challenges by focusing on internal strengths, promoting domestic demand and innovation, and improving the business environment. Xiao Weiming of the National Development and Reform Commission, discussed advancing education, technology and talent, while focusing on collaborative industrial research. Wang Yiming discussed the need to improve competition, and Han discussed supporting the platform economy.
Summary: The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) held a meeting on December 12-13, emphasizing the need to understand Xi Jinping's economic directives and implement the 14th Five-Year Plan. The meeting focused on stimulating investment and consumption through various measures, including government investment and promoting private investment. The NDRC also discussed curbing "involutionary" competition, fostering new growth drivers, deepening reforms for a unified national market, and expanding high-level opening up by attracting foreign investment and promoting the Belt and Road Initiative. The meeting also mentioned the importance of ensuring food security, energy security, and supply chain stability.
Summary: In the first 11 months of the year, Shanghai port's container throughput reached 50.56 million TEUs, a 6.7% year-on-year increase. Surpassing 50 million TEUs one month earlier than last year, the port is projected to handle 55 million TEUs for the full year, potentially setting a new record. Shanghai Port is expected to remain the world's busiest container port for the 16th consecutive year. The article does not discuss any statements or actions of an official, nor the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A "Friends of Global Governance" group, consisting of 43 founding members, was launched at the UN headquarters in New York, aimed at implementing China's Global Governance Initiative (GGI). Representatives from various countries expressed support for the GGI, praising China's leadership in global governance and anticipating the group would revitalize multilateralism and reform global governance. The initiative, proposed by Xi Jinping, emphasizes sovereign equality, international law, multilateralism, and a people-centered approach, and is positioned as China's contribution to addressing global challenges. The group emphasized the importance of UN reform that considers the concerns of developing countries.
Summary: China is hosting the APEC "China Year" in 2026, signaling its commitment to regional cooperation and offering new opportunities to the Asia-Pacific region and the world through Chinese-style modernization. The unofficial senior officials' meeting in Shenzhen outlined "openness, innovation, and cooperation" as priorities, aiming to address development challenges and strengthen regional unity. President Xi Jinping previously expressed China's willingness to build an Asia-Pacific community during the APEC meeting in South Korea. China will host about 300 events, including the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Shenzhen in November 2026. China aims to share its development dividends, promote trade and investment liberalization, and enhance regional economic integration.
Summary: During a meeting in Abu Dhabi, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told UAE Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah that China views the UAE as a crucial Middle Eastern nation with aligned development strategies. Wang emphasized the strong relationship between the two countries, citing the personal rapport between Xi Jinping and Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan as a key factor. Wang announced that China will host the second China-Arab Summit next year and welcomed UAE leadership to attend. Abdullah affirmed the UAE's commitment to the One China principle and opposition to external interference in China's internal affairs.
Summary: During a visit to the UAE, PRC Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Emirati Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah, where they discussed strengthening the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and the UAE, focusing on implementing agreements made during President Mohammed's visit to China. Both parties reaffirmed their commitment to deepening cooperation across various sectors, including economics, energy, security, and culture, aligning China's Belt and Road Initiative with the UAE's national development plans. The UAE reiterated its adherence to the One China principle and opposition to external interference in China's internal affairs, while China voiced support for the UAE's efforts to peacefully resolve the "three islands" issue through bilateral negotiation. Both sides discussed supporting efforts to establish an independent Palestinian state based on the two-state solution.
Summary: A German solar energy park, Dren Solar Park, utilizes 154 MW of photovoltaic components entirely supplied by Chinese company Chint New Energy. The park, invested in by German renewable energy company CEE Group, generates over 150 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually. CEE Group's CEO, Detlef Schreiber, praised Chint New Energy's technical capabilities and expressed confidence in future collaboration. Chint New Energy is also expanding into other European countries and has research centers in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and North Africa. The company is also focusing on small rooftop photovoltaic products, responding to the market's new growth points.
Summary: According to the Chinese Ambassador to Somalia, China and Somalia are celebrating 65 years of diplomatic relations, with Somalia being one of the first East African nations to recognize the PRC. The ambassador highlighted mutual support on core interests, including Somalia's support for the PRC's UN seat and China's support for Somalia's sovereignty. Bilateral cooperation extends to infrastructure projects, trade, and human resource training, with Somalia actively participating in the Belt and Road Initiative. Both countries coordinate on international issues, advocating for developing countries and opposing hegemony. The ambassador stated that China is ready to work with Somalia to enrich the connotation of the two countries' strategic partnership and jointly promote modernization, and jointly build a new era of China-Africa community with a shared future.
Summary: Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) President Yang Wanming led a delegation to Sri Lanka from December 11-13. Yang met with Sri Lankan officials, including Ratnayake, Herath, Gamage, and Balthazar, as well as leaders of Sri Lanka-China friendship organizations, to discuss deepening people-to-people exchanges. Yang offered assistance to Sri Lankan organizations for flood relief and reconstruction. Both sides expressed commitment to implementing the consensus reached by Xi Jinping and President Dissanayake. The discussions focused on promoting exchanges in civil society, localities, culture, and youth, to advance the strategic cooperative partnership.
Summary: The China-Brazil Science and Technology Innovation Center was launched at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Science Park. The center, co-built by CNOOC, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Petrobras, and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, will focus on energy technology R&D and translation. University President Robert stated that the center will serve as a bridge for technical exchange and achievement sharing for researchers from both countries. Petrobras VP Anjos noted the cooperation would drive comprehensive, high-quality development in the Brazil-China energy sector.
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Summary: A state memorial ceremony was held in Nanjing on December 13th to commemorate the victims of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre. Politburo member Shi Taifeng delivered a speech emphasizing remembering history, cherishing peace, and striving for national rejuvenation under Xi Jinping's leadership. Wang Xiaohong presided over the ceremony, which was also attended by Zhang Qingwei, Su Hui, and Liu Zhenli. The event included a youth declaration of peace and the ringing of a "peace bell" to commemorate the victims. The report did not mention the United States.
Summary: On the 12th National Memorial Day, December 13th, Nanjing and other locations across China held commemorative activities for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre. These events included candlelight vigils, memorial services at mass burial sites, and educational activities in schools and museums. A descendant of John Rabe donated historical materials to the Memorial Hall, emphasizing the importance of remembering history to build a better world. Participants voiced strong sentiments about remembering history to prevent the resurgence of Japanese revisionism. These events aimed to transform historical memory into actions to safeguard the collective memory of the nation.
Summary: Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions held official memorial ceremonies on December 13th to commemorate the victims of the Nanjing Massacre. In Hong Kong, Chief Executive John Lee and Liaison Office Director Zhou Ji attended the ceremony, which included a moment of silence and a wreath-laying. In Macau, Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng and Liaison Office Director Zheng Xincong were present at a similar ceremony with government officials and representatives from different sectors. Both ceremonies featured the PRC national anthem and a moment of silence. There is no mention of the United States in this article.
Summary: On the 88th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, the article commemorates the 300,000 Chinese who were killed by invading Japanese troops in 1937. It emphasizes that this historical tragedy is undeniable and must never be forgotten. The piece calls for safeguarding the hard-won victory achieved through sacrifice. It urges the Chinese people to strive for national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: On the 12th National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims, the Central Archives released declassified Soviet interrogation records of Japanese Unit 731, provided by Russia. These newly released records detail confessions from war criminals admitting to their crimes against international conventions, including preparing and implementing bacteriological warfare. The archive materials mainly contain interrogation records of the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials, showing a process involving more than 200 people related to Unit 731's crimes, and focusing on key war criminals. Experts state that these archives complement existing Chinese records of Unit 731, solidifying evidence of Japan's bacteriological warfare crimes in China. The files include conclusions from Soviet medical experts confirming the inhumane nature of Japan's biological weapons research.
Summary: The Central Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing from December 10th to 11th, where Xi Jinping delivered an important speech summarizing economic work in 2025 and deploying economic work for 2026, the first year of the 15th Five-Year Plan. Xi emphasized that China's economy has shown resilience despite international complexities and domestic challenges, with major goals expected to be successfully completed. The conference highlighted the need to fully tap economic potential, combine policy support with reform and innovation, and integrate investment in both material things and human capital. The meeting underscored the importance of focusing on domestic demand, technological innovation, and deepening reform and opening up, while also addressing risks in key areas. It also acknowledged the need to respond to external challenges by focusing on internal strengths.
Summary: The article reports on the 2025 China Undergraduate Aircraft Design Innovation Competition, highlighting the dedication and innovation of nearly 4,000 students from 150 universities. Student teams, mentored by faculty like Zhang Liang from Beihang University, face challenges in design, construction, and testing, fostering practical skills and teamwork. The competition attracts interest from industry, including private rocket and drone companies, and receives guidance from leading experts and academicians. Participants gain valuable experience and a sense of national pride, recognizing the importance of technological innovation and establishing standards in the global arena. The article does not discuss or allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of cultivating both patriotism and professional passion in university students to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in science and technology. It argues that instilling a sense of national responsibility alongside specialized knowledge is crucial for nurturing innovative talent. The piece advocates for extracurricular activities and project-based learning to ignite innovation, suggesting that practical experience complements traditional classroom education. Furthermore, the article highlights the need for a supportive ecosystem, including industry partnerships and interdisciplinary exchanges, to enable students to thrive in technological innovation.
Summary: This article discusses the varying quality of university courses in China, highlighting the divide between popular, engaging "treasure" courses and ineffective "watered-down" courses. It attributes the disparity to factors like outdated teaching methods, excessive workloads, and a lack of student engagement. The article emphasizes the need to reduce the prevalence of "watered-down" courses by reducing credits and cutting repetitive content. It also emphasizes the importance of improving the quality of courses by updating content, improving teaching methods, and incentivizing teachers to focus on teaching performance. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article, authored by the Party Secretary of Central China Normal University, discusses the importance of integrating generative AI into education to foster talent and drive the development of "new quality productive forces." It advocates for upgrading talent cultivation models, improving talent supply levels, and releasing talent creativity through AI-driven education. The piece argues that this integration is crucial for achieving breakthroughs in scientific research, industrial transformation, and social governance. Ultimately, the author believes that advancing AI in education will support China's modernization efforts.
Summary: Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) is actively supporting Xinjiang through educational and technological initiatives. HIT's efforts include sending faculty to teach in Xinjiang, establishing robotics labs in local schools, and promoting student internships in the region. HIT is also collaborating with Xinjiang companies on over 70 research and development projects, focusing on areas like equipment manufacturing and energy. The university has developed technology to improve the efficiency and safety of power grids in the region. These initiatives aim to boost Xinjiang's development and attract more talent to the area.
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Summary: The article discusses efforts to integrate the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) through aligning regulations and mechanisms. It highlights the implementation of "GBA standards" and certifications to facilitate trade and improve market integration, citing examples like cross-border cold chain logistics and food safety. The piece also emphasizes the creation of "interface conversions" to bridge legal and data differences, such as streamlined customs declarations. Ultimately, these efforts aim to create a more cohesive and livable GBA by addressing practical concerns of residents and businesses. There is no mention of the United States or U.S. - China relations.
Summary: The "Guangdong vehicles heading south" ("粤车南下") policy officially launched on November 15th, allowing eligible Guangdong private car owners to drive to Hong Kong via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. The Hong Kong Airport Authority held a welcoming ceremony for the first travelers, who can now directly access Hong Kong International Airport for flights without Hong Kong immigration procedures. According to Hong Kong Secretary for Transport and Logistics Lam Sai-hung, this arrangement complements land and air transport, strengthening Hong Kong International Airport's hub status. The policy allowing "Guangdong vehicles heading south" to enter Hong Kong's urban areas will be implemented on December 23rd.
Summary: Macau has expanded its remote service counters, first piloted in Hengqin, to include locations in both Macau and Hengqin. These counters utilize video conferencing, identity verification, and document processing to allow citizens to access government services from either location, facilitating cross-border transactions. Macau residents can now access 120 Hengqin services, while Hengqin residents can access 175 Macau services. The initiative aims to deepen integration between Macau and Hengqin. There is no discussion or allusion to the United States or U.S.-China relations in this article.
Summary: The article highlights the increasing trend of Taiwanese residents traveling to mainland China, exceeding 2 million visits this year, driven by shared cultural roots and familial ties. Mainland China is offering convenient policies like simplified visa procedures and free admission to tourist sites to facilitate these trips, with examples given in Fujian. Despite this growing enthusiasm, the DPP authorities in Taiwan are criticized for maintaining restrictions on group tours to mainland China and limiting direct flights. The article emphasizes the strong connection between the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, suggesting that political maneuvering cannot sever familial bonds.
Summary: The article focuses on Hong Kong's resilience in the face of adversity, highlighting the unity displayed after a recent fire and during the Legislative Council elections. It emphasizes the support from the mainland and the effective response of the Hong Kong government in disaster relief. Candidates reportedly stepped up to assist with disaster relief and the election was framed as reflecting the "patriots governing Hong Kong" principle. The election is also expected to support post-disaster reconstruction and advance Hong Kong. The article concludes by expressing confidence in Hong Kong's future under "one country, two systems."
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Summary: The 8th National Youth Art Exhibition in Chongqing showcases 482 works across nine categories, highlighting the achievements and characteristics of contemporary Chinese youth art. The exhibition emphasizes themes such as national development, technological progress, and rural revitalization, reflecting the responsibility and perspective of young artists in the new era. The artwork also demonstrates concerns about daily life and introspection, while integrating traditional techniques with modern aesthetics. Many pieces explore diverse media, showcasing innovative approaches to materials and expanding the expressive possibilities of contemporary art. The exhibition reflects the vibrant creativity and growing cultural consciousness of China's young artists.
Summary: The artist, former head of the Hubei Academy of Fine Arts, discusses his artistic journey, emphasizing the importance of immersing oneself in nature to create art that resonates with the times. He details his "Jiangshan Wanlixing" series, which aims to capture the spirit of China's landscape and culture, and his more recent "Guyuan Jiashan" series, focused on his hometown of Xianning, Hubei. The artist stresses the importance of integrating traditional Chinese culture and the national spirit into his landscape paintings. He emphasizes that Chinese painting is not merely landscape but an expression of the natural world and the artist's inner world, underscoring the significance of the artist's character. His goal is to tell Chinese stories through his unique artistic language and to continue exploring China, enriching the "Jiangshan Wanlixing" theme.
Summary: This article discusses the "Four Seasons Flowers and Birds" scroll painting by Ming Dynasty artist Zhou Zhizhen, highlighting its depiction of seasonal flora and fauna. The painting showcases representative flowers from each season—spring peach blossoms, summer pomegranates, autumn hibiscus, and winter plum blossoms—interspersed with birds to create a dynamic scene. It also traces the historical context of depicting all four seasons in one artwork, a practice that dates back to the Tang Dynasty and became popular during the Song Dynasty. The author posits that these paintings reflect a longing for permanence and timeless beauty. Ultimately, the article concludes by reflecting on the ability to find "four seasons of flowers" within one's own heart, regardless of the external environment.
Summary: An art exhibition by Yang Xiaoyang at the Xinjiang Art Museum, celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, showcases his 40 years of artwork inspired by the Silk Road and Xinjiang, highlighting the region's cultural significance. The exhibition aims to connect the ancient Silk Road with the Belt and Road Initiative, providing a unique perspective on history and the future. The museum is hosting a series of exhibitions, including works from Fan Dian and Wu Weishan, to promote cultural exchange and strengthen the sense of community. The museum aims to promote Xinjiang culture and connect tradition with modernity through high-quality exhibitions and international exchanges. These efforts contribute to a greater understanding and appreciation of Xinjiang's culture.
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Summary: Traditional Chinese landscape and bird-and-flower paintings embody rich ecological philosophies, reflecting a harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature. These art forms emphasize the beauty and vitality of nature, with artists seeking to capture the "qi yun" (spirit resonance) and interconnectedness of all living things. The paintings demonstrate the interconnectedness between humanity and nature, and how humans are part of nature. This artistic tradition aligns with the contemporary concept of building a global community of life. The author argues that studying and inheriting the ecological aesthetics of these paintings can contribute to global sustainable development and China's ecological civilization.
Summary: This article provides contact information for submissions to a People's Daily column. It lists the email address msfk@peopledaily.cn for submissions. The design credit for the featured image is attributed to Cai Huawei. The article does not contain any analysis of Chinese politics, nor does it mention any officials or U.S.-China relations.
By: 本报记者 杜尚泽 刘志强
Time: December 10th
Agenda: The Central Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing (北京)
"Over the years, I have repeatedly emphasized the issue of adapting to local conditions." At the Central Economic Work Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly analyzed this methodology for doing a good job in economic work.
"The Party Central Committee's ideas, tasks, and policies regarding next year's economic work have been proposed after full argumentation and repeated research. Once decided, they must be implemented." "Implementation requires combining with reality and adapting to local conditions."
The "14th Five-Year Plan" is about to conclude, and a good start has been achieved for the new journey towards the second centenary goal. As we move towards the "15th Five-Year Plan," strategic opportunities and risk challenges coexist, uncertain and unpredictable factors increase, and the development situation is complex and volatile.
"The more complex the situation, the more we must strengthen the Party's leadership and form a unified will and strong synergy." Regarding how to "strengthen the Party's comprehensive leadership over economic work," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), at the meeting, analyzed it meticulously and earnestly, emphasizing that one of the key points is "adapting to local conditions."
"Developing new quality productive forces requires adapting to local conditions."
"Some places, regardless of reality, blindly follow trends. Seeing others engage in chip manufacturing, they also engage in it. Seeing others engage in the 'new three items,' they are unwilling to lag behind." Addressing some phenomena, he used a vivid analogy, "There is biodiversity, regional differences, elderly people, young people, some are young and some are old, why do they all choose to do the same work?"
"Ecological and environmental protection requires adapting to local conditions."
To address prominent issues of ecological degradation, we must "plant trees where suitable for trees, plant grass where suitable for grass, manage sand where suitable for sand, and leave wilderness where suitable for wilderness"; to protect and utilize water resources, we must "determine the city based on water, determine the land based on water, determine the population based on water, and determine production based on water." Mentioning these specific methods, the General Secretary summarized, "Human development is a process of coexisting with nature, and reckless actions divorced from reality will not work."
"Rural toilet renovation also requires adapting to local conditions."
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has a deep insight into the small matters of people's livelihood: "The differences between the north and south are so great, how can toilet renovation be a single model? In the vast wilderness with few households, is it necessary to build standard toilets? We cannot turn people's livelihood projects into 'people's grievance projects.'"
Every word carries weight and is thought-provoking. From emphasizing "developing regional characteristic industries in accordance with local conditions" and "promoting the urbanization process in accordance with local conditions," to proposing that urban planning should "follow the grain of the wood" and retain unique "genes," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has repeatedly emphasized the importance of "adapting to local conditions" over the years, urging all regions to "'use a different key for each lock,' not to 刻舟求剑 (kè zhōu qiú jiàn - "carve boat seek sword," to take measures without regard to changing circumstances) and use one model to apply everywhere," "adapt to local conditions, promote strengths and overcome weaknesses, and embark on a path of high-quality development suitable for the actual conditions of the region."
The term "因地制宜" (yīn dì zhì yí - "adapt to local conditions") comes from the *Wu Yue Chunqiu: The Biography of Helu* (《吴越春秋·阖闾内传》) of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Not long ago, during his trip to Dujiangyan (都江堰) in Sichuan (四川) with French President Emmanuel Macron (马克龙), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) also mentioned this term when explaining the ancient wisdom of water management for the benefit of the people.
Governing a country is like managing water, requiring adapting to local conditions and guiding according to the situation. The Political Bureau meeting of the Central Committee held on December 8 emphasized "doing a good job in economic work in accordance with local conditions." "Adapting to local conditions is essentially seeking truth from facts." At this Central Economic Work Conference, the General Secretary hit the nail on the head.
Adhering to starting from reality in everything is the starting point and foothold for Chinese Communists to think about problems, make decisions, and handle affairs.
Adapting to local conditions is aimed at the particularity of contradictions, highlighting the flexibility of strategies, rather than opening the green light for "going one's own way and engaging in localism." At the meeting, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out, "All regions must accurately grasp their positioning in the overall national development situation, strengthen their main functions, and leverage their comparative advantages."
The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region (京津冀), the Yangtze River Delta (长三角), and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) are important sources of power leading the country's high-quality development. This conference deployed "building Beijing (北京) (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀)), Shanghai (上海) (Yangtze River Delta (长三角)), and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) international science and technology innovation centers," to better leverage their advantages of strong scientific research strength and agglomeration of innovation elements, and create benchmarks for innovation-led modernization. "This is a major task," the General Secretary said.
The way of economics is to measure all things with a ruler and also to follow the seasons. As the "15th Five-Year Plan" is about to begin, properly handling the overall situation and a region, grasping the division of labor and cooperation, and coordinating competition and differentiation, the earnest exhortation of "adapting to local conditions" all points to ensuring that the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments are implemented effectively.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 杜尚泽 许 诺
Time: December 10
Agenda: Central Economic Work Conference Held in Beijing (北京)
Standing at the historical threshold of moving from the "14th Five-Year Plan" to the "15th Five-Year Plan," the opening positioning and profound long-term planning put the concept of performance under test. At the Central Economic Work Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized "establishing and practicing a correct view of performance," with clear practical relevance.
"In recent years, we have made many achievements in correcting image projects and performance projects with unremitting efforts, but they have not been eradicated, and new variations have appeared in some places." Speaking of this, the General Secretary looked solemn, "Some development zones in some places are large but inappropriate, and some exhibition forum activities are developing in a disorderly manner," as well as "digital water injection," false start of construction, "invoice economy"...
Prevent problems before they arise, be cautious at the beginning. "Strengthen supervision and curb unhealthy trends. With the '15th Five-Year Plan' about to begin, it is necessary to sweep away the mud and purify the atmosphere."
Ideological unity is the foundation of political unity and action unity. Obvious achievements and potential achievements, real achievements and false achievements, one region and the overall situation, the present and the long-term, choices reveal the pattern of responsibility.
"To create achievements, we must solve the problems of for whom to create achievements, what kind of achievements to create, and how to create achievements, that is, to solve the problem of the view of performance." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) once used these "three questions" to describe the way of governance. At this meeting, he once again spoke in detail.
For whom to create achievements?
"Adhere to creating achievements for the people." The General Secretary's speech is simple and profound. The Chinese Communist Party, whose original aspiration is as firm as a rock, "regards serving the people and creating benefits for the people as the most important performance, and regards how many good and practical things have been done for the people as an important criterion for testing performance."
The conference deployed eight key tasks for next year's economic work, all focusing on answering the "people's livelihood paper." When General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) spoke about stabilizing the basic employment situation, he particularly emphasized the need to prevent migrant workers from returning to their hometowns and becoming poor again. In response to the tendency to ignore "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers," he aimed his words: "After the victory in poverty alleviation, there is a transition period. This year it was completed, but completion does not mean that the task has been cancelled. We must still regard the work of 'agriculture, rural areas, and farmers' as the top priority, and grasp the connection between consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization; we still regard the development of rural revitalization and the work of 'agriculture, rural areas, and farmers' as the foundation of Chinese-style modernization."
What kind of achievements to create?
"The view of performance is not only reflected in grasping development, but also in benefiting people's livelihood and ensuring stability; it is not only reflected in the obvious achievements that take effect immediately, but also in the potential achievements that lay the foundation, increase momentum, and benefit the long term; it is not only reflected in solving practical contradictions, but also in solving historical problems." The words contain dialectics.
When talking about the highlights of the "14th Five-Year Plan," the General Secretary mentioned the scientific and technological innovation achievements of going to the sky, entering the ground, and going to the sea, which are "impressive," and "practice has proved that our 'stranglehold' cannot be strangled"; "APEC Blue" has become the norm, and the average concentration of PM2.5 in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) in the first three quarters of this year "has decreased by 54% compared with 10 years ago"; the world's largest renewable energy system has been built, and now one in every three kilowatt-hours of electricity used is green electricity... One by one, "potential achievements that lay the foundation, increase momentum, and benefit the long term" have achieved transformation and leapfrog development in unremitting efforts.
How to create achievements?
"Create achievements with practical work," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) said concisely, "Consciously act according to the laws, do not engage in quick success and instant benefits, falsification, or blind and reckless actions in the pursuit of performance, and eliminate the practice of new officials ignoring old accounts and image projects and performance projects."
At the meeting, he talked about assessment and planning, conveying the value orientation of seeking truth and being pragmatic, and being good at making achievements: "We must improve the differentiated assessment and evaluation system, improve the pertinence and scientificity of the assessment, and make the assessment baton truly effective."
The state and local governments are carrying out planning work, "We must strengthen overall planning, streamline and optimize the tasks of planning and compilation that are cross-cutting, repetitive, and lack effectiveness, and prevent excessive and excessive planning."
"All plans must be realistic and seek real and water-free growth, and promote high-quality and sustainable development. Those who deviate from reality, are impatient and rash, add layers of codes, and spread the stalls indiscriminately will be held accountable." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) said earnestly.
Through the view of performance, we can feel a strategic determination.
Looking outward, under the turbulent tariff war and trade war, sailing against the current cannot be slowed down. China showed the world its composure and self-confidence: "It has demonstrated the ambition, backbone, and confidence of the Chinese people, demonstrated our hard-core strength, and won the respect of the international community."
Looking inward, "Some '15th Five-Year Plan' projects are ready and can be started ahead of schedule, but this must be based on preventing ineffective investment and strictly preventing the problem of being abandoned as soon as they are completed and investment as soon as they are aborted." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) urged, "We must pay close attention to and be calm about the decline in investment. From the perspective of basically realizing socialist modernization, there is broad space for investment in both things and people."
Adhere to determination, root deeply, and do practical work, and strive for a long-term future on the road to rejuvenation. The General Secretary's tone was firm: "In the face of international changes and various risks and challenges, we must maintain strategic determination and unswervingly do our own things well."
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All great achievements are the result of continuous struggle, and all great undertakings need to be advanced through building on past successes.
As the "14th Five-Year Plan" is about to come to a successful conclusion and the "15th Five-Year Plan" is about to begin, the Central Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing (北京) from December 10th to 11th.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) delivered an important speech at the meeting, summarizing the economic work of 2025, analyzing the current economic situation, and deploying the economic work for 2026, steering the Chinese economy to break through the waves.
Anchoring the main goals of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, ensuring a good start and a good step for the "15th Five-Year Plan," the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core unites and leads the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to overcome difficulties and move forward bravely, striving to write a new chapter in the Chinese economy.
Confidence and Determination: "China's economy is moving forward against pressure and developing towards new and better directions"
2025 is a year of great significance in the process of Chinese-style modernization.
Since the beginning of this year, the international environment has been intertwined with turmoil, and China's development has experienced the challenges of transformation and adjustment, with increased pressure on stable economic operation.
Faced with profound and complex changes in the domestic and international situation, the entire Party and the people of the whole country have worked together with one heart and one mind, striving to implement the new development concept and promote high-quality development, and the main goals of economic and social development will be successfully completed.
"China's economy is moving forward against pressure and developing towards new and better directions, demonstrating strong resilience and vitality." At the first plenary meeting on the 10th, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) made a comprehensive summary of this year's economic work.
This is a hard-won and high-quality report card—
The operation is generally stable, with steady progress, and the total economic volume for the whole year is expected to reach about 140 trillion yuan, employment is generally stable, foreign trade is growing rapidly, and the diversification of exports has achieved remarkable results;
The construction of a modern industrial system continues to advance, new quality productive forces are developing steadily, scientific and technological innovation achievements are abundant, and research and application of artificial intelligence, biomedicine, robotics, and other fields are at the forefront of the world;
Reform and opening up have taken new steps, the construction of a unified national market has been promoted in depth, the comprehensive rectification of "involutionary" competition has achieved remarkable results, and autonomous opening up has been promoted in an orderly manner;
Positive progress has been made in resolving risks in key areas, local government implicit debts have been replaced in an orderly manner, the reform and risk resolution of small and medium-sized financial institutions have achieved remarkable results, and the bottom line of preventing systemic risks has been maintained;
People's livelihood guarantees are more powerful, policies such as childcare subsidies and one year of free preschool education have been implemented successively, the level of social security has continued to improve, and the overall social situation has remained stable...
Having gone through the wind and rain and overcome obstacles in 2025, the extraordinary and remarkable development of China during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period is even more evident.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) enumerated the outstanding highlights of China's development over the past five years: "Scientific and technological innovation achievements have impressed the world," "More and more brands are becoming well-known overseas," "APEC Blue has become the norm," "Safe China has become a beautiful national brand"...
"We have effectively responded to various shocks and challenges, promoted new major achievements in the cause of the Party and the country, and achieved a good start in the new journey towards the second centenary goal." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) made a high evaluation of the development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
This is the condensation of confidence and consensus.
Starting on the afternoon of the 10th, the participating comrades conducted group discussions, talking about their understanding, experiences, and suggestions.
Everyone unanimously stated that the fundamental reason for the achievement of these major achievements lies in the leadership and steering of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, and in the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping's Economic Thought.
Standing on a high ground and looking far ahead, clearing away the clouds and seeing the sun.
Focusing on the overall situation, the meeting deeply analyzed the old problems and new challenges facing China's development from aspects such as the deepening impact of external environmental changes, the prominent contradiction between strong domestic supply and weak demand, and the many risks and hidden dangers in key areas.
"Most of these are problems in development and transformation, which cannot be avoided or evaded, but can be solved through efforts." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) firmly pointed out that, on the whole, the supporting conditions and basic trends for China's long-term economic improvement have not changed. We must strengthen our confidence, make good use of our advantages, respond to challenges, and continuously consolidate and expand the momentum of steady economic improvement.
The sober judgment comes from an accurate grasp of the pulse of the times.
Based on previous Central Economic Work Conferences, this meeting further summarized the Party's understanding of the laws of economic work.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) summarized the new understanding and experience of doing a good job in economic work under the new situation with "five musts"—
"We must fully tap the potential of the economy," emphasizing the need to further leverage China's advantages in a complete industrial system, huge market size, and abundant human resources;
"We must adhere to the combination of policy support and reform and innovation," emphasizing the need to not only increase the intensity of counter-cyclical adjustments in macro policies, but also deepen reforms without delay and stimulate innovation vitality;
"We must achieve both 'flexible release' and 'good management'," emphasizing that the purpose of "release" is to remove institutional and mechanism obstacles that affect the development of productive forces, and the essential requirement of "management" is to build a rule-of-law economy;
"We must adhere to the close combination of investing in things and investing in people," emphasizing the need to not only expand effective investment in the real economy and technological innovation, but also strengthen human resource development;
"We must respond to external challenges by practicing internal skills," emphasizing that in the face of international changes and various risks and challenges, we must maintain strategic determination and unswervingly do our own things well.
The participating comrades believed that the "five musts" are a scientific methodology for achieving high-quality development and promoting Chinese-style modernization, further enriching and developing Xi Jinping's Economic Thought, and providing new important guidelines for doing a good job in economic work.
Riding the wind and waves, setting sail for a long voyage.
General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech aroused strong resonance and great confidence: "Strive to cultivate more new growth points in expanding consumption and investment, developing science and technology and industry, and promoting urban-rural integration and coordinated regional development," "Mobilize the enthusiasm of local governments and enterprises to promote the economy to shift more towards endogenous growth," "Continuously strengthen, optimize, and expand the real economy, and comprehensively enhance independent innovation capabilities."
Direction and Path: "Seeking Progress While Maintaining Stability, Improving Quality and Efficiency"
2026 is the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," and the Chinese economic ship welcomes a new departure.
The new journey of pursuing dreams in the future has both open waters and turbulent rapids—
Looking at the world, the century-long changes are accelerating, the international balance of power is undergoing profound adjustments, and a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating breakthroughs. At the same time, unilateralism and protectionism are rising, the international economic and trade order is facing severe challenges, and major power games are becoming more intense.
Looking around the country, grasping the important strategic opportunity period for development, China is unswervingly promoting Chinese-style modernization with high-quality development, but the problem of unbalanced and insufficient development is still prominent.
Changes contain opportunities, and challenges inspire fighting spirit.
"Comprehensively, accurately, and fully implement the new development concept, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, and focus on promoting high-quality development";
"Better coordinate domestic economic work and international economic and trade struggles, and better coordinate development and security";
"Promote the effective improvement of the quality and the reasonable growth of the quantity of the economy, and maintain social harmony and stability";
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General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has a broad vision and deep foresight, pointing out the direction for doing a good job in economic work in the first year.
"Seeking progress while maintaining stability, improving quality and efficiency," these eight characters indicate the policy orientation of economic work in 2026.
The general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability is an important principle for the Party to govern the country and an important methodology that still needs to be consistently implemented during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
To coordinate "stability" and "progress," we must implement precise policies and enhance the foresight, pertinence, and coordination of macro policies.
——Continue to implement a more proactive fiscal policy. Maintain the necessary fiscal deficit, total debt size, and total expenditure.
——Continue to implement a moderately loose monetary policy. Guide financial institutions to increase their support for key areas such as expanding domestic demand, technological innovation, and small and medium-sized enterprises.
——Enhance the consistency and effectiveness of macro policy orientation. Incorporate various economic and non-economic policies, existing policies and incremental policies into the consistency assessment of macro policy orientation.
In the deployment of macro policies, the meeting consolidated the stable foundation of the economic landscape with the stable signal of continuing to implement "more proactive and promising macro policies," and accelerated the transformation of economic development from quantity to quality.
One participating comrade said with deep feeling that next year's policy orientation emphasizes "quality" and "efficiency" on the basis of "stability" and "progress," which not only releases the "stable" signal of macro policies, but also points out the direction of optimization in line with the start of the "15th Five-Year Plan," demonstrating the Party Central Committee's accurate grasp of the times and trends under complex changes.
To improve "quality" and "efficiency," we must anchor our goals and take the initiative in adhering to high-quality development.
In a more unstable and uncertain world, we can only open up new situations in the midst of changes if we follow our own path and remain calm in the face of turbulent clouds.
The meeting deployed key tasks for next year's economic work with "eight persistences," and "adhering to domestic demand dominance and building a strong domestic market" was placed first.
A major feature of a large country's economy is internal circulation.
Expanding domestic demand is not only an effective way to resist external shocks and promote the steady improvement of China's economy, but also a strategic move to promote high-quality development and build a new development pattern.
"Deeply implement special actions to boost consumption, formulate and implement plans to increase the income of urban and rural residents," "Clean up unreasonable restrictions in the field of consumption, release the potential of service consumption such as cultural tourism, sports events, catering, and health care, and at the same time strengthen supervision and standardize order," "Focus on benefiting people's livelihoods and increasing momentum, promote investment to stop falling and stabilize, and urban renewal is an important area of investment"...
A series of important deployments made by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized efforts from both the supply and demand sides, highlighting the need to make up for shortcomings in people's livelihoods in development.
Grasp the key, and everything will fall into place.
In the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal, "building a modern industrial system and consolidating and strengthening the foundation of the real economy" and "accelerating high-level self-reliance in science and technology and leading the development of new quality productive forces" are ranked as the top two of the 12 strategic tasks.
In dealing with changes and doing our own things well, adhering to innovation is the key to breaking the situation.
At this meeting, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) made new major deployments around "adhering to innovation-driven development and accelerating the cultivation and expansion of new driving forces."
Building an international science and technology innovation center with global influence is a major strategic task personally planned, deployed, and promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平).
This meeting proposed building international science and technology innovation centers in Beijing (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei), Shanghai (Yangtze River Delta), and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
"The Party Central Committee has decided to expand the Beijing International Science and Technology Innovation Center to Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the Shanghai International Science and Technology Innovation Center to the Yangtze River Delta. The purpose is to accelerate the formation of the main source of original innovation in our country, jointly build a strategic guide for building a strong country in science and technology, and establish a benchmark for supporting and leading Chinese-style modernization with science and technology." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) clarified the far-reaching considerations behind it.
The development of the cause lies in innovation; the way of innovation lies in obtaining talents.
"Formulating a plan to promote the development of education, science and technology, and talent in an integrated manner," this new measure has attracted the attention of many participating comrades.
"Education is the foundation, science and technology are the key, and talent is the fundamental. The coordinated and integrated development of the three reflects the close combination of investing in things and investing in people. It is an urgent need for high-quality development and an inevitable requirement for dealing with international competition." In group discussions, the participating comrades reached a consensus.
More proactive strategically and more precise tactically.
Adhere to reform and tackle key problems to enhance the动力活力 of high-quality development; adhere to opening up to the outside world to promote multi-field cooperation and win-win results; adhere to coordinated development to promote urban-rural integration and regional linkage; adhere to "dual carbon" leadership to promote comprehensive green transformation; adhere to the people's livelihood as the top priority and strive to do more practical things for the people; adhere to guarding the bottom line and actively and steadily resolving risks in key areas.
Formulate regulations for the construction of a unified national market; deepen the reform of the foreign investment promotion system and mechanism; strengthen the coordination and linkage of key urban agglomerations and deepen cross-administrative regional cooperation; formulate an outline for the construction of a strong energy country; implement actions to stabilize employment, expand capacity, and improve quality; and focus on stabilizing the real estate market... Around the "eight persistences," the meeting proposed a series of new deployments and new measures.
The participating comrades unanimously believed that these "eight persistences" highlight the combination of short-term economic work and medium- and long-term high-quality development goals, which is not only an effective summary of the successful experience during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, but also points out the direction for the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," ensuring that the Chinese economy moves steadily and far on the track of "seeking progress while maintaining stability, improving quality and efficiency."
Unity and Hard Work: "Ensure a Good Start and a Good Step for the '15th Five-Year Plan'"
The more complex the situation, the more necessary it is to strengthen the Party's leadership and form a unified will.
This meeting clarified the Party Central Committee's ideas, tasks, and policies for next year's economic work, and it is crucial to implement them in actual work.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Once it is decided, it must be implemented. All levels and departments must have a sense of the overall situation and execution."
To grasp implementation, the General Secretary has repeatedly emphasized adapting to local conditions.
At this meeting, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) further clarified the importance of adapting to local conditions around the development of new quality productive forces, ecological and environmental protection, and rural toilet renovation.
"Adapting to local conditions is essentially seeking truth from facts." The General Secretary emphasized that implementation requires combining with reality and adapting to local conditions, but it cannot be done arbitrarily or with localism.
To grasp implementation, it is necessary to establish and practice a correct view of political achievements.
The meeting emphasized that it is necessary to adhere to achieving political achievements for the people and achieving political achievements through hard work, consciously act in accordance with the laws, and improve the differentiated assessment and evaluation system.
Seek truth from facts, take responsibility and act. The participating comrades stated that they must consciously unify their thoughts and actions with the Party Central Committee's scientific judgment on the situation, and in accordance with the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments and the requirements of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, enhance their sense of responsibility and mission, effectively improve their ability to deal with complex situations and handle complex problems, and ensure smooth communication and effective implementation.
If policy expectations are stable, the economic landscape can be stable.
The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to fully implement the overall requirements and policy orientation of next year's economic work, adhere to a proactive and pragmatic goal orientation, focus on solving existing difficulties and problems, achieve greater breakthroughs in the effective improvement of quality, and enhance the sense of gain for residents and enterprises; enhance the synergistic effect of reform and policies, and promote the continuous improvement of economic operation and market expectations.
To achieve practical results in economic work, it is necessary to grasp the key points of focus.
The meeting clarified that around strengthening the domestic circulation, expand new space for domestic demand growth; around developing new quality productive forces, promote the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation; around stimulating the动力活力 of high-quality development, unswervingly deepen reform and expand opening up; around continuously improving people's livelihood and well-being, increase efforts to guarantee and improve people's livelihood; around guarding the bottom line of security, steadily do a good job in resolving risks in key areas.
Currently, all regions, departments, and aspects are preparing national and local "15th Five-Year Plan" and special plans in accordance with the "Suggestions" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party.
In this regard, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) clearly required: "It is necessary to strengthen overall planning, streamline and optimize overlapping and ineffective planning tasks, and prevent excessive and indiscriminate planning. All plans must be realistic and pragmatic, pursue real and substantial growth without exaggeration, and promote high-quality and sustainable development."
The next five years are a crucial period for laying the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically realize socialist modernization, and a good start is half the battle.
The drums are beating to urge progress, and time waits for no one.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) issued a powerful call: "The entire Party and society must unite more closely around the Party Central Committee, unite as one, forge ahead, strive to achieve the goals and tasks of economic and social development next year, and ensure a good start and a good step for the '15th Five-Year Plan'."
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), December 13)
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Understanding, respecting, and applying laws are important experiences for our party in governing the country.
We must fully explore economic potential, adhere to both policy support and reform and innovation, ensure both "vibrant deregulation" and "effective regulation," adhere to the close integration of investment in both physical capital and human capital, and respond to external challenges by strengthening our own capabilities. The "five musts" summarized and refined by the Central Economic Work Conference (中央经济工作会议) are a deepening of our party's understanding of the laws of economic work under the new situation based on guiding development practice, and further enrich and develop Xi Jinping Thought on Socialist Economy with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China's development environment will face profound and complex changes. These "five musts" have strong guiding and targeted significance for the economic and social development of the "15th Five-Year Plan," providing action guidelines for striving to achieve the goals and tasks of economic and social development next year and ensuring a good start and a good step for the "15th Five-Year Plan."
It is necessary to deeply understand that fully exploring economic potential means making good use of advantages such as a complete industrial system and a huge market scale, transforming potential into driving force, and firmly grasping the initiative of development in our own hands; adhering to both policy support and reform and innovation means directly facing old problems and new challenges, improving the macroeconomic governance system, and promoting high-quality development in a steady and solid manner; ensuring both "vibrant deregulation" and "effective regulation" means conscientiously implementing the requirements of giving full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation and giving better play to the role of the government, and further liberating and enhancing social vitality; adhering to the close integration of investment in both physical capital and human capital means promoting the coordinated accumulation of material capital and human capital, and achieving two-way empowerment and mutual promotion of investment in both physical capital and human capital; responding to external challenges by strengthening our own capabilities means coordinating development and security, managing our own affairs well, and strengthening, optimizing, and expanding the real economy, so as to always stand invincible in the face of storms.
Here, combined with reality, the focus is on conducting an in-depth analysis of "we must adhere to both policy support and reform and innovation."
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, we effectively responded to various shocks and challenges, and the cause of the Party and the country achieved new major achievements, which is inseparable from the efforts of reform and the support of policies. From promoting the construction of a unified national market in depth and issuing the "Market Access Negative List (2025 Edition)," to implementing the Law on Promoting the Development of the Private Economy and revising the Anti-Unfair Competition Law, a number of reform measures have been implemented and achieved results, continuously releasing market vitality. In the face of increasing downward pressure on the economy, the Party Central Committee took a "milestone-like action" and decisively deployed a package of incremental policies. Since the beginning of this year, the "two focuses" and "two new" policies have been strengthened and expanded, and reserve requirement ratio cuts and interest rate cuts have released liquidity. On the basis of maintaining continuity and stability, policies are more precise and flexible, and timely smooth out possible fluctuations in economic operation.
Currently, China's economic development is intertwined with cyclical, structural, and systemic problems. Solving these problems requires comprehensive measures and continued use of both policy support and reform and innovation. It is necessary to increase the intensity of counter-cyclical adjustment of macroeconomic policies to reduce short-term economic fluctuations; and it is necessary to deepen reforms without delay, stimulate innovation vitality, mobilize the enthusiasm of local governments and enterprises, and promote the economy to shift more towards endogenous growth.
To do a good job in economic work next year, in terms of policy support, the conference proposed "implementing more proactive and effective macroeconomic policies, and enhancing the foresight, targeting, and coordination of policies" and "adhering to seeking progress while maintaining stability, improving quality and efficiency, giving play to the integrated effect of existing and incremental policies, increasing the intensity of counter-cyclical and cross-cyclical adjustments, and enhancing the effectiveness of macroeconomic governance"; in terms of reform and innovation, the conference deployed the key tasks of "eight persistences," including a number of specific reform and innovation measures arranged around "adhering to innovation-driven development and accelerating the cultivation and expansion of new drivers of growth" and "adhering to reform and tackling tough problems and enhancing the driving force and vitality of high-quality development," all of which are proposed in response to practical problems and aimed at solving problems. Adhering to both policy support and reform and innovation reflects a systematic concept and problem orientation. The two work together in the same direction and synergistically, which can not only effectively reduce fluctuations, but also fully stimulate vitality, and more importantly, boost confidence and gather strength, forming a strong synergy to jointly promote high-quality development and promote the effective improvement of quality and the reasonable growth of quantity in China's economy as it climbs slopes and overcomes obstacles.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for laying the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically realize socialist modernization. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialist Economy with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply understanding the regularity understanding of the "five musts," proceeding from reality, acting in accordance with the laws, and doing a good job in economic work in accordance with local conditions, we will surely achieve a good start for the "15th Five-Year Plan" and promote major breakthroughs in strategic tasks related to the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization, and continuously enhance China's survival, competitiveness, development, and sustainability.
Return to TopChina's first polar fixed-wing aircraft, "Snow Eagle 601" (雪鹰601), has officially been in service for 10 years, with a cumulative flight time of over 2,500 hours and a range of approximately 800,000 kilometers, equivalent to circling the equator 20 times, playing an important role in various aspects of Antarctic scientific research.
Over the past 10 years, the tasks undertaken by "Snow Eagle 601" (雪鹰601) have expanded from simple transportation to include aerial scientific investigations, international cooperation, and emergency rescue, demonstrating a profound qualitative change in China's polar aviation support capabilities.
The picture shows "Snow Eagle 601" (雪鹰601).
Xinhua News Agency Reporter Gu Tiancheng (顾天成) Liu Zhenwen (刘祯文)
Provided by the Chinese Polar Research Center (中国极地研究中心) (Published by Xinhua News Agency (新华社))
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), December 13th (Reporter Xing Tuo (邢拓)) - According to statistics from the National Film Administration (国家电影局): As of 2:30 PM on December 13th, the Chinese film market's 2025 box office has reached 50.003 billion yuan, with a total of 1.194 billion admissions. Among them, domestic films accounted for 40.952 billion yuan, representing a share of 81.90%.
Currently, 50 films have grossed over 100 million yuan at the box office throughout the year, including 33 domestic films and 17 foreign films. "Ne Zha: The Devil Child Reborn (哪吒之魔童闹海)," "Detective Chinatown 1900 (唐探1900)," "Zootopia 2 (疯狂动物城2)," "Nanjing Photography Studio (南京照相馆)," and "731" rank among the top five in the box office charts.
Overall, this year's domestic films feature diverse themes and rich genres. Main melody films and animated films have sparked a wave of moviegoing, continuously enriching the spiritual and cultural life of the general public.
Return to TopBeijing, December 13th (Reported by Han Xin (韩鑫) from this newspaper) - The reporter learned from the Ministry of Transport (交通运输部): In November of this year, 54 cities in 31 provinces (autonomous regions, and municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团) opened and operated 334 urban rail transit lines, with an operating mileage of 11,389.7 kilometers, actually operating 3.62 million train trips, completing a passenger volume of 2.83 billion passengers, and an entry volume of 1.68 billion passengers.
In November, the country added 59.2 kilometers of operating mileage, and passenger volume increased by 120 million passengers year-on-year, an increase of 4.4%. In November, the average passenger transport intensity of the country's total operating mileage was 0.832 million passengers per kilometer per day.
Among them, 43 cities opened and operated 275 subway and light rail lines, with an operating mileage of 9,898.5 kilometers, completing a passenger volume of 2.73 billion passengers.
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The Central Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing from December 10th to 11th. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) attended the meeting and delivered an important speech.
In recent days, all sectors of society have earnestly studied and comprehended the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference. Everyone expressed that the conference grasped the overall situation and provided guidance, which is of great significance for strengthening development confidence and steadily advancing various economic and social development tasks for next year. It is necessary to unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, 众志成城 (zhòng zhì chéng chéng - "unity is strength," when everyone is of one mind, even a mountain can be moved) and forge ahead courageously to ensure a good start for the "15th Five-Year Plan" and jointly write a new chapter in Chinese-style modernization.
Grasping the Overall Situation and Strengthening Development Confidence
"China's economy is moving forward against pressure and developing towards new and better directions," "The main goals of economic and social development will be successfully completed," "In the past five years, we have effectively responded to various shocks and challenges, and promoted new major achievements in the cause of the Party and the country"... The Central Economic Work Conference highlighted the "report card" of economic development this year and in the past five years.
"Faced with a complex and severe domestic and international environment, China's economy has overcome difficulties and moved forward steadily. The achievements have not been easy to come by, fully demonstrating the profound insight of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core into the general trend of development and the scientific correctness of a series of decisions and deployments, and fully proving that the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee is the fundamental guarantee for doing a good job in economic work." Zhang Yuyan (张宇燕), a member of the Academic Division of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院), said that standing at a new starting point, it is necessary to take the "five musts" proposed by the conference as ideological guidance and action guidelines, concentrate on managing our own affairs well, and we will surely be able to continuously consolidate and expand the momentum of economic stability and improvement.
Rollers rotate at high speed, and rolling mills roar. In the workshop of the Third Cold Rolling Mill of the Cold Rolling General Plant of Benxi Iron and Steel Plate Co., Ltd. (本钢板材) in Liaoning (辽宁), the market share of ultra-wide automotive steel produced by the world's widest cold-rolled plate production line continues to climb.
After earnestly studying the spirit of the conference, Wang Lei (王磊), the chief engineer of the Third Cold Rolling Mill of Benxi Iron and Steel Plate Co., Ltd. (本钢板材), felt very excited. "We have innovated the entire process from the raw material end to the finished product end, and the market share of high-end cold-rolled plates has increased by 40 percentage points compared with last year, giving us more confidence in development. Next, we will take the spirit of the conference as a guide, hone our internal skills to cope with external challenges, accelerate the transformation towards high-end, digital, and intelligent development, and stand up the steel backbone for Chinese-style modernization!" he said.
Understanding the overall situation and clarifying the general trend. "The supporting conditions and basic trends for China's long-term economic improvement have not changed," the Central Economic Work Conference pointed out.
"This is a major judgment made by the Party Central Committee based on coordinating the domestic and international situations and scientifically analyzing China's development situation." Yan Yilong (鄢一龙), Deputy Dean of the Institute for Contemporary China Studies of Tsinghua University (清华大学), said that China has the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, the advantage of a super-large-scale market, the advantage of a complete industrial system, and the advantage of abundant human resources. We must strengthen our confidence, grasp the historical initiative, and be more proactive in doing a good job in economic work next year, and strive to achieve a good start for the "15th Five-Year Plan."
In the Central Plains (中原) area, high-standard farmland is scattered like stars. Although continuous rain was encountered during the autumn harvest season this year, Hua County (滑县), Anyang City (安阳市), Henan Province (河南省), a major grain-producing county, still achieved stable grain production.
"We mobilized all levels to go all out to fight this tough battle of autumn harvest and autumn planting, and the harvest was hard-won. We have the confidence and methods to deal with various challenges." Fu Haitao (付海涛), Director of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau of Hua County (滑县), said that next, we will increase our efforts in improving the ability of agriculture to resist risks and using technology to increase grain yield per unit area, and earnestly implement the requirement of "unremittingly grasping grain production" proposed by the conference, and always firmly hold the rice bowl in our own hands.
At the construction site of the Huangmaoxia Reservoir (黄茅峡水库) project in Qingyuan (清远), Guangdong (广东), a national "two major" project, excavators shuttle back and forth, and construction work is in full swing. "Investment is a key measure to stabilize growth. This year, Guangdong's (广东) water conservancy construction investment is expected to complete 109 billion yuan, a record high in recent years." Liu Zhiguang (刘智光), Deputy Director of the Planning and Accounting Department of the Department of Water Resources of Guangdong Province (广东省水利厅), said, "We must strengthen our confidence, use our advantages, and implement the deployment requirements of optimizing the implementation of 'two major' projects proposed by the conference, strengthen project planning and reserves, innovate and improve investment and financing mechanisms, and strive to expand effective water conservancy investment, and make contributions to promoting economic stability and improvement with solid actions."
Seizing the development opportunities of emerging industries, Sichuan WoFei ChangKong Technology Development Co., Ltd. (四川沃飞长空科技发展有限公司) is laying out the low-altitude economy track and has continued to break through development since its establishment. "China's large market provides a broad stage for enterprises. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has always attached great importance to supporting the healthy development of the private economy, and the conference has deployed a number of measures to stimulate the vitality of private enterprises. We are full of confidence in future development!" said Guo Liang (郭亮), CEO of WoFei ChangKong (沃飞长空).
Focusing on Key Points and Promoting High-Quality Development
The Central Economic Work Conference deployed eight key tasks for doing a good job in economic work next year. "Grasping the key and taking the lead, the eight key tasks focus on the current development problems and lay out a long-term development blueprint. We must base ourselves on our own reality, focus on key points, and transform all aspects of advantages into the actual effectiveness of high-quality development, and firmly grasp the initiative of development," said Zhang Linshan (张林山), a researcher at the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委).
Among the eight key tasks of economic work next year, "Adhering to domestic demand dominance and building a strong domestic market" ranks first, and at the same time, it focuses on boosting consumption and makes specific deployments: deeply implement special actions to boost consumption, expand the supply of high-quality goods and services, optimize the implementation of "two new" policies, and clean up unreasonable restrictions in the field of consumption...
As night falls, the Jiefangbei (解放碑) business district in Chongqing (重庆) is brightly lit, and the pedestrian street is crowded with tourists. Since the launch of the 2025 Chengdu-Chongqing (成渝) Twin Cities Consumption Festival, a number of measures have released nearly 100 million yuan in consumption dividends. The series of deployments at the conference made Mi Jia (米佳), Director of the Management Committee of the Jiefangbei Central Business District (解放碑中央商务区) in Chongqing (重庆), clearer about his future work ideas: "We will seize the time to combine the requirements of the conference to plan specific measures, explore new consumption scenarios with characteristics, activate emerging consumption fields such as green, health, and emotions, create effective demand with high-quality supply, and continuously enhance economic resilience and vitality."
"Formulate a plan to promote the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent," "Build international science and technology innovation centers in Beijing (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei) (北京（京津冀）), Shanghai (Yangtze River Delta) (上海（长三角）), and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区)," "Strengthen the innovation subject status of enterprises"... Around "Adhering to innovation-driven development and accelerating the cultivation and expansion of new driving forces," the conference made a series of deployments.
In the "Embodied Intelligence Workshop" of the "Model Speed Space" (模速空间) large model innovation ecosystem community in Shanghai (上海), several robots sometimes sing and dance, and sometimes punch and fight. Since its establishment, "Model Speed Space" (模速空间) has attracted more than 200 enterprises to settle in. Zhang Yun (张韵), Secretary of the Party Committee of "Model Speed Space" (模速空间), said: "General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came here for research in April this year and pointed out that 'the development of artificial intelligence has broad prospects.' We must implement the spirit of the General Secretary's important speech and the spirit of the conference, give full play to Shanghai's (上海) advantages in industrial ecology and talent gathering, efficiently connect technology, capital, and scenarios, and strive to transform the 'confidence' of talents into the 'vitality' of innovation, and inject surging momentum into the construction of the Shanghai (Yangtze River Delta) (上海（长三角）) International Science and Technology Innovation Center."
Chinese-style modernization puts people's livelihood first. The conference made specific deployments on employment, education, medical care, and other aspects related to the vital interests of the people.
In the Wenhua Street Community Health Service Center (文化街社区卫生服务中心) in Xingqing District (兴庆区), Yinchuan City (银川市), Ningxia (宁夏), rows of shelves display a variety of high-quality and low-priced centralized procurement drugs. "Striving to do more practical things for the people, the requirements of the conference fully reflect the development thinking of adhering to the people-centered approach, and provide direction and encouragement for our work." Gu Xiaomei (顾小梅), Director of the Medical Insurance Bureau of Xingqing District (兴庆区), Yinchuan City (银川市), said that we will earnestly implement the requirements of "optimizing drug centralized procurement and deepening the reform of medical insurance payment methods" proposed by the conference, promote various people-benefiting policies, allow more low-priced and high-quality drugs to enter the grassroots level, and effectively reduce the burden of medical treatment for the people.
The balance of "three rural" county loans is nearly 11 trillion yuan, with an annual increase of more than 1 trillion yuan; there are 12,700 county outlets, accounting for more than half of the total number of outlets in the bank... In recent years, the Agricultural Bank of China (中国农业银行) has continuously increased its support for the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
"Coordinated regional development is an inherent requirement of Chinese-style modernization. The conference proposed 'Adhering to coordinated development and promoting urban-rural integration and regional linkage,' which has made us more determined to take root in counties and cultivate the 'three rural areas' deeply, and clarified the focus of our next work." Wang Zhaoyang (王兆阳), Director of the "Three Rural" Business of the Agricultural Bank of China (中国农业银行), said that we will take the spirit of the conference as a guide, continue to increase our efforts around key areas such as strengthening county and enriching people's industries, and building livable, workable, and beautiful villages, and inject a continuous stream of financial vitality into urban-rural integrated development.
Practical Work and Responsibility, Writing a New Chapter of the Times
2026 is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," and doing a good job in economic work next year is of great significance. Everyone expressed that it is necessary to implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee without compromise, take the initiative, do practical work, and take the first step in the "15th Five-Year Plan" with the actual results of high-quality development.
Macro policies are an important means to protect the stable operation of the economy. "The conference proposed 'Improving the effectiveness of macroeconomic governance,' which pointed out the direction for us to do a good job in financial work." Wang Tianqi (王天琦), Director of the Department of Finance of Jiangsu Province (江苏省财政厅), said that we will fully implement the spirit of the conference, adhere to seeking progress while maintaining stability and improving quality and efficiency, continue to implement a more proactive fiscal policy, enhance the foresight, pertinence, and coordination of policies, focus on stabilizing employment, stabilizing enterprises, stabilizing the market, and stabilizing expectations, and promote the effective improvement of the quality and the reasonable growth of the quantity of the economy.
In September this year, China's first ultra-high voltage power transmission project spanning the three-level geographical ladder of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (青藏高原), the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau (云贵高原), and the South China Hills (华南丘陵) – the Tibet-Guangdong DC project (藏粤直流工程) – was launched.
After earnestly studying the spirit of the conference, the deployment of "Accelerating the construction of a new energy system" made Dong Yanle (董言乐), the project leader and Deputy General Manager of the Engineering Construction Department of China Southern Power Grid (南方电网), feel a deep sense of mission. "We will go all out to overcome the world-class problems of safe grid connection, ultra-long-distance transmission, and safe consumption of ten-million-kilowatt-level new energy, and build this 'green electricity sky road' with high standards and high quality, provide a continuous stream of clean energy for economic development, and contribute to serving the country's 'dual carbon' goals," said Dong Yanle (董言乐).
Seeking impetus from reform and vitality from opening up. Recently, Changsha (长沙), Zhuzhou (株洲), and Xiangtan (湘潭) in Hunan Province (湖南省) jointly signed the "Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan Integrated Development 2026 Action Plan," which clearly proposed to accelerate the comprehensive reform of market-oriented allocation of factors in Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan (长株潭), and promote the orderly flow, open sharing of factor resources such as talent, technology, and capital. The conference's deployment on "Expanding the pilot of market-oriented reform of factors" made Tang Jifa (唐继发), Director of the Development and Reform Commission of Zhuzhou City (株洲市), more determined to deepen reform: "We will take the lead in trying out in key areas, further improve the efficiency of traditional factor allocation, activate the potential of new factor markets, and fully serve the construction of Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan (长株潭) 'one city' and the overall situation of high-quality development."
Continuing to struggle and starting a new journey.
At the container terminal of Tianjin Port (天津港), rows of containers are ready to be shipped to countries around the world. As the first free trade pilot zone in northern China, the Tianjin Free Trade Pilot Zone (天津自贸试验区) ushered in its tenth anniversary in April this year.
"In this vibrant land, we have truly witnessed the vivid practice of China's unswervingly promoting high-level opening up to the outside world under the guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) economic thought." Liang Yiming (梁益铭), full-time Deputy Director of the Management Committee of the Tianjin Free Trade Pilot Zone (天津自贸试验区), said that standing at a new historical starting point, we must further enhance our sense of responsibility and mission, take the spirit of the conference as a guide, steadily promote institutional opening up in areas such as property rights protection, digital trade, and green trade, shape new development advantages in opening up, and inject stronger momentum into the construction of Chinese-style modernization.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), December 13)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 罗珊珊
On December 13th, the "2025-2026 China Economic Annual Conference" hosted by the China Center for International Economic Exchanges (中国国际经济交流中心) was held in Beijing (北京). Participating guests conducted in-depth discussions focusing on the annual conference theme of "Implementing the Spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference (中央经济工作会议), and Making a Good Start for the '15th Five-Year Plan' with High-Quality Development."
The Main Expected Goals for Economic and Social Development Throughout the Year Will Be Successfully Achieved
This year is a year of great significance in the process of Chinese-style modernization and a very extraordinary year. Han Wenxiu (韩文秀), Deputy Director of the Office of the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission (中央财经委员会办公室) in charge of daily work and Director of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group (中央农村工作领导小组办公室), analyzed that the main expected goals for economic and social development throughout the year will be successfully achieved, and the "14th Five-Year Plan" is about to come to a successful conclusion. Many institutions predict that China's (中国) annual economic growth will be around 5%, which is still the largest engine of global economic growth.
Han Wenxiu (韩文秀) said, looking back at the "14th Five-Year Plan," we have effectively responded to the impact and challenges of the century's epidemic, "decoupling and breaking chains," and natural disasters. The 20 main indicators determined in the "14th Five-Year Plan" outline are about to be successfully completed. China's (中国) total economic output has successively crossed the thresholds of 110 trillion yuan, 120 trillion yuan, and 130 trillion yuan, and is expected to reach about 140 trillion yuan this year. China's (中国) ranking in the Global Innovation Index has risen from 14th in 2020 to the current 10th, making it the only middle-income country in the top ten. China (中国) has built the world's largest renewable energy system, making a significant contribution to global carbon reduction.
Han Wenxiu (韩文秀) stated that in China's (中国) economic development, there are still many old problems and new challenges. On the one hand, unilateralism and protectionism are on the rise, and the global industrial chain and supply chain are being passively reorganized, with obvious uncertainties and instabilities in the external environment. On the other hand, the contradiction between strong domestic supply and weak demand is prominent, and the driving force for consumption and investment growth is insufficient.
"Most of these are problems in development and transformation, and they are also problems that cannot be avoided. They can be solved with effort," Han Wenxiu (韩文秀) said. China's (中国) economy has always grown stronger in overcoming difficulties, and the supporting conditions and basic trends for China's (中国) long-term economic improvement have not changed. We have the advantage of a super-large-scale market, forming a domestic market with a large scale, multiple levels, and sufficient potential, with extremely rich application scenarios; we have the advantage of a complete industrial system, having formed a manufacturing system with a large scale, complete system, multiple varieties, and strong competitiveness. The scale of manufacturing has ranked first in the world for 15 consecutive years. We must strengthen our confidence, make good use of our advantages, respond to challenges, and continuously consolidate and expand the momentum of stable economic improvement.
We Must Adhere to Seeking Progress While Maintaining Stability and Improving Quality and Efficiency
Han Wenxiu (韩文秀) said that the Central Economic Work Conference (中央经济工作会议) proposed a regular understanding of doing economic work under the new situation, summarized as "five musts."
We must fully tap into economic potential. An important feature of a large economy is that it has a large margin for maneuver, can internally circulate, and can be independent and self-reliant. We must further broaden our horizons, innovate our thinking, and strive to cultivate and form more new growth points and open up new spaces for development in expanding consumption and investment, developing science and technology and industry, and promoting urban-rural integration and regional linkages.
We must adhere to both policy support and reform and innovation. Currently, cyclical, structural, and systemic problems in China's (中国) economic development are intertwined and superimposed. There is no panacea, and we must implement comprehensive policies, strengthen macro-control, reduce short-term economic fluctuations, and comprehensively deepen reforms without missing the opportunity, seeking impetus and vitality from reforms, and promoting the economy to shift more towards endogenous growth.
We must achieve both "vibrant release" and "effective management." The purpose of "release" is to remove institutional and mechanism obstacles that affect the development of productivity, rather than letting things drift and giving up after releasing. The essential requirement of "management" is to build a socialist rule-of-law economy and a credit economy, standardize market order, correctly handle the relationship between the government and the market, give full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, and better play the role of the government.
We must adhere to the close integration of investing in things and investing in people. The ultimate goal of economic development is to achieve the comprehensive development of people and enhance people's well-being. We must not only expand effective investment in the real economy and technological innovation, but also strengthen human resource development, promote the coordination of material capital and human capital accumulation, and achieve two-way empowerment and mutual promotion between investing in things and investing in people.
We must respond to external challenges by practicing internal skills. In the face of changing international situations and various risks and challenges, we must unswervingly do our own things well, continuously strengthen, optimize, and expand the real economy, and comprehensively enhance our independent innovation capabilities. Only by strengthening our own strength can we gain the initiative in international competition and cooperation.
Han Wenxiu (韩文秀) stated that to do a good job in next year's economic work, we must adhere to seeking progress while maintaining stability and improving quality and efficiency, increase the intensity of counter-cyclical and cross-cyclical adjustments, and effectively enhance the effectiveness of macroeconomic governance. We will continue to implement a more proactive fiscal policy and a moderately loose monetary policy, and we must enhance the consistency and effectiveness of macroeconomic policy orientation.
Han Wenxiu (韩文秀) said that next year, incremental policies will also be introduced and implemented based on changes in the situation. We must synergistically leverage the integrated effects of existing policies and incremental policies to promote stable economic improvement. A market economy is largely an expected economy. We must improve the expectation management mechanism, do a good job in economic publicity and public opinion guidance, respond to market concerns in a timely manner, and effectively boost social confidence.
Grasp the Key, 纲举目张 (gāng jǔ mù zhāng - "lift the net by its main rope, and the meshes will open," to achieve order and clarity by grasping the key link), and Solidly Do Key Work
Han Wenxiu (韩文秀) said that since the beginning of this year, the policy of replacing old consumer goods with new ones has driven rapid growth in sales of related commodities, the penetration rate of the new energy vehicle market has approached 60% in November, and consumption in sports events, cultural tourism, and other areas is booming. The next step is to deeply implement special actions to boost consumption and formulate and implement plans to increase the income of urban and rural residents. We will adapt to changes in the consumption structure, expand the supply of high-quality goods and services, optimize the implementation of "two new" policies, and give local areas more autonomy. We will clean up unreasonable restrictions in the consumption field and release the potential of service consumption.
Xiao Weiming (肖渭明), Deputy Secretary-General of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展和改革委员会), stated that it is necessary to formulate a plan to promote the integrated development of education, science, technology, and talent, strengthen collaborative research and development led by enterprises, implement a new round of high-quality development actions for key industrial chains, continue to promote the quality and upgrading of key industries, strengthen industrial base reconstruction and major technical equipment breakthroughs, and comprehensively implement the "Artificial Intelligence+" action. Regarding the "Artificial Intelligence+" action, we must see that there may be some substitution effects, but there are also creative effects, and we must clearly see both sides.
Wang Yiming (王一鸣), Deputy Chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges (中国国际经济交流中心), stated that it is necessary to formulate regulations for the construction of a unified national market and deeply rectify "involution-style" competition. Regarding the platform economy, Han Wenxiu (韩文秀) believes that the platform economy involves tens of millions of online business entities, many flexible employment personnel, and hundreds of millions of online consumers. We must adhere to the equal emphasis on development and regulation, and promote the win-win development of platform enterprises, platform operators, and laborers.
Return to TopThe National Development and Reform Work Conference was held in Beijing (北京) from December 12th to 13th. The conference emphasized the importance of deeply understanding the significant implications of the "five musts" proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) at the Central Economic Work Conference, accurately grasping the overall requirements for next year's economic work, and conscientiously doing a solid job in key development and reform tasks for next year.
Compile and implement the "15th Five-Year Plan" effectively. Deeply understand the strategic intentions of the Party Central Committee, adhere to adapting to local conditions, improve the quality of planning, strengthen the review and connection of planning content, and implement the various decisions and deployments and work requirements determined in the "Suggestions" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party. At the same time, strengthen economic monitoring, early warning, and analysis, improve the policy toolbox, strengthen expectation management, do a good job in policy coordination and work coordination between this year and next year, promote policies to take effect in advance, and achieve a good start.
Take multiple measures to promote the stabilization and recovery of investment. Give full play to the role of various government investment funds such as "two major" construction and newly added special bonds for local governments, appropriately increase the scale of central government budget investment, continue to give play to the role of new policy-based financial instruments, and continuously improve investment efficiency. Plan and implement major engineering projects for the "15th Five-Year Plan." Further clarify investment rules, do a solid job in preliminary work, and strengthen the scheduling of investment projects. Thoroughly implement several measures to promote the development of private investment and effectively stimulate the vitality of private investment.
Boosting consumption requires practical and innovative measures. Optimize the implementation of policies for trading in old consumer goods for new ones, actively expand service consumption, accelerate the clearing of unreasonable restrictions in the consumption field, and promote the upgrading of consumption supply quality.
Comprehensively rectify "involution-style" competition and cultivate new driving forces for development. Improve the governance of production capacity in key industries and the regulation of major infrastructure, vigorously cultivate and strengthen emerging industries and future industries, cultivate and strengthen a number of emerging pillar industries, deepen and expand the "Artificial Intelligence +" action, make up for the shortcomings of the science and technology service industry, improve the industrial ecology of the low-altitude economy, and thoroughly promote the high-quality development of the digital economy.
Further comprehensively deepen reform. Study and formulate regulations for the construction of a unified national market, and synergistically promote the integrated reform of "access, scenarios, and factors." Continue to focus on rectifying key issues in investment promotion, bidding, and other aspects, and resolutely eliminate various barriers and obstacles. Develop the private economy with greater efforts, and vigorously promote the construction of supporting systems for the Private Economy Promotion Law.
In-depth expansion of high-level opening up to the outside world. Steadily expand institutional opening up, coordinate "bringing in" and "going out," and promote the high-quality development of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" ("一带一路").
Accelerate the comprehensive green transformation with "dual carbon" as the guide. Steadily implement the dual control system of total carbon emissions and intensity, improve supporting systems, strengthen evaluation and assessment, and strictly control new "two high" projects.
Greater efforts to ensure employment and improve people's livelihoods. Promote employment and income growth through multiple channels, improve the level of public services, ensure sufficient quantity and stable prices of people's livelihood commodities, and effectively enhance people's well-being.
Plan as a whole to promote high-quality population development, accelerate the improvement of public resource allocation mechanisms adapted to population changes, and strengthen the forward-looking layout of educational resources.
Solidly promote urban-rural integration and coordinated regional development, continuously promote people-oriented new urbanization construction, increase the intensity of regional strategy implementation, accelerate the promotion of inter-regional linkage and integrated development, promote comprehensive rural revitalization in a classified and orderly manner and in a district-based manner, and promote the revitalization and development of special types of regions.
Better coordinate development and security, continuously improve the ability to ensure food security, continuously promote the construction of the energy production, supply, storage, and marketing system, enhance the resilience of industrial and supply chains, and actively and steadily resolve risks in key areas.
Return to TopFrom January to November, the container throughput of Shanghai Port (上海港) reached 50.56 million TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 6.7%. This year, it exceeded the 50 million TEU mark one month earlier than last year, and the annual throughput is expected to hit a new record of 55 million TEUs. Shanghai Port (上海港) will rank first in the world in terms of container throughput for 16 consecutive years. The picture shows the busy operation scene of Shanghai Yangshan Deepwater Port (上海洋山深水港).
People's Daily reporter Shen Wenmin (沈文敏) and Ye Zhenyu (叶真于) (People's Vision)
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The launch meeting of the "Group of Friends on Global Governance" was recently held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and the Group of Friends was officially established. On the same day, the 43 founding members of the group issued a joint statement pointing out that the establishment of the Group of Friends is an important step in implementing the Global Governance Initiative, and creates an inclusive platform for reforming and improving the global governance system that gathers collective wisdom and mobilizes joint efforts.
Representatives of various countries attending the meeting highly recognized and supported the Global Governance Initiative, warmly welcomed the establishment of the Group of Friends, praised China's leading role in global governance, and looked forward to the Group of Friends strengthening policy communication and pragmatic cooperation to inject new impetus into maintaining multilateralism and reforming and improving the global governance system.
The Global Governance Initiative Contributes Chinese Wisdom and Chinese Solutions
At present, the Cold War mentality, hegemonism, and protectionism are lingering, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and change, multilateralism and the role of the United Nations have been severely impacted, and global governance has reached a new crossroads. Against this background, President Xi Jinping (习近平) solemnly proposed the Global Governance Initiative at the "Shanghai Cooperation Organization+" meeting held in September this year, emphasizing adherence to the five core concepts of sovereign equality, compliance with international rule of law, practicing multilateralism, advocating people-centeredness, and focusing on action orientation. The Global Governance Initiative is another important public product that China has provided to the world after the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, and the Global Civilization Initiative, contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to the reform and improvement of global governance.
Josaphat Mccalla, Director-General for Political and Diplomatic Affairs of the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that Kenya warmly welcomes the Global Governance Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平), and the five core concepts of the initiative are in line with the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter. Kenya looks forward to working closely with China and other members of the Group of Friends to safeguard a brighter future—a future based on rules-based cooperation, peace, security, prosperity and progress.
Luy Hlatshwayo Sithole, Minister Counsellor of the Permanent Mission of Zimbabwe to the United Nations, said that Zimbabwe appreciates President Xi Jinping's (习近平) vision in proposing the Global Governance Initiative. The core concept of the Global Governance Initiative reflects the multilateralism advocated by the United Nations Charter. The Global Governance Initiative is a solution that conforms to the global vision, especially the vision of the Global South for a just and fair global governance system. Zimbabwe fully supports the Global Governance Initiative.
Mayda Moucharrafieh, Deputy Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations, said that the Global Governance Initiative demonstrates China's constructive role in promoting dialogue and consultation and building consensus within the United Nations framework. As the largest developing country and a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, China's proposal of the Global Governance Initiative is timely and shoulders the important mission of enhancing the voice of the Global South and helping to build a more just and reasonable international order.
Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations, said that Pakistan warmly welcomes the Global Governance Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平). The initiative demonstrates visionary leadership and provides a blueprint for effectively responding to the current crisis. As a friend and all-weather strategic partner of China, Pakistan fully supports the Global Governance Initiative.
Aida Kasymalieva, Permanent Representative of Kyrgyzstan to the United Nations, said that on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, facing unprecedented challenges in the field of global governance, we warmly welcome the Global Governance Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平). The establishment of the Group of Friends is an important milestone. The Group of Friends is an inclusive dialogue and coordination platform, a mechanism for gathering collective voices, and a tool for carrying out pragmatic cooperation in capacity building. It will effectively deepen dialogue, promote cooperation, and achieve tangible results, responding to the ardent expectations of the people of all countries.
The Group of Friends is a Valuable Platform for Conducting Dialogue and Building Mutual Trust
The Global Governance Initiative meets the needs of the world and conforms to the aspirations of the people, injecting valuable stability and certainty into a turbulent world. Since its proposal, it has quickly received clear support from more than 140 countries and international organizations. Under the guidance of the Global Governance Initiative, China's initiative to establish the Group of Friends is to hope to work with all parties to strengthen exchanges and cooperation on major issues in the field of global governance, and promote the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system.
Zéphirin Maniratanga, Permanent Representative of Burundi to the United Nations, said that the world is facing a series of complex challenges such as geopolitical tensions, inequality, climate change, and food and energy crises. These issues cross borders and require genuine collective responses. The Group of Friends can serve as a valuable platform for conducting open dialogue and building mutual trust and cooperation, become an important voice for promoting cooperation, and contribute positively to promoting the establishment of a more just and inclusive international order.
Oumarou Ganou, Permanent Representative of Burkina Faso to the United Nations, said that the current global governance system urgently needs profound reform, and Burkina Faso is sincerely pleased with the establishment of the Group of Friends. Today's world has entered a period of turbulence and change, the pressure on the multilateral system is increasing day by day, and the global governance deficit is constantly expanding. The Group of Friends should uphold the vision of fairness, justice and solidarity to advance its work.
Enkhbayar Nyamdorj, Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations, believes that the United Nations is the core platform for maintaining multilateralism and promoting effective global governance. I believe that the Group of Friends can provide strong support for members to exchange views on key policy issues, strengthen coordination, and conduct substantive dialogue aimed at reforming and improving the global governance system.
Jaime Hermida Castillo, Permanent Representative of Nicaragua to the United Nations, said that China is helping to build a more just, fairer, and truly representative multipolar world, and Nicaragua recognizes China's firm and ambitious leading role. Today's world is facing increasing tensions and deep-rooted inequalities, and the multilateral system is being tested. Faced with these challenges, the Group of Friends will become an important space and platform for defending the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter and supporting the demands of the Global South.
Promote the Construction of a More Just and Reasonable Global Governance System
On December 11, Fu Cong (傅聪), China's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, made a joint statement on behalf of the 43 members of the Group of Friends at the United Nations General Assembly briefing on the "UN 80th Anniversary Reform Initiative," emphasizing that the "UN 80th Anniversary Reform Initiative" must truly improve quality and efficiency, pay attention to the concerns of developing countries, and the process must be transparent and inclusive. The Group of Friends is willing to cooperate closely with all parties to jointly promote the reform in a direction that is conducive to building a more just and reasonable global governance system, conducive to the long-term development of the United Nations, and conducive to the common interests of member states.
Mohamed Siad Doualeh, Permanent Representative of Djibouti to the United Nations, said that at present, countries in the Global South must show determination and work together to address a series of pressing challenges such as climate change, global inequality, and geopolitical turmoil. This is precisely the far-reaching significance of the establishment of the Group of Friends.
Domingos Estêvão, Permanent Representative of Mozambique to the United Nations, said that the establishment of the Group of Friends will help promote the construction of a more inclusive and equitable international order and promote global governance towards a more inclusive, transparent, and fair direction.
Amir Saeid Iravani, Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations, said that developing countries still encounter deep-rooted structural inequalities in the global economic, financial and trade systems. Multilateralism is the cornerstone of the United Nations' success. We need to reaffirm our commitment to multilateralism more than ever. The Group of Friends is a valuable platform for promoting cooperation, solidarity and multilateralism, and pursuing common development.
Coly Seck, Permanent Representative of Senegal to the United Nations, said that the Group of Friends' frank exchanges, in-depth dialogues and collective thinking will surely produce practical and feasible solutions to promote progress towards a more just and reasonable international system.
Vichan Vacharajirathorn, Deputy Permanent Representative of Thailand to the United Nations, said that Thailand is willing to work with all partners of the Group of Friends to enhance global solidarity, promote the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system, and create a more peaceful, sustainable, and just future for mankind.
(Reported from the United Nations on December 13 by this newspaper)
Return to TopProviding new opportunities for the Asia-Pacific and the world with the new achievements of Chinese-style modernization is China's firm choice, and the APEC "China Year" is worth looking forward to.
From December 11th to 12th, the Informal Senior Officials' Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 2026 was held in Shenzhen (深圳), officially kicking off the highly anticipated APEC "China Year." This is the third time China has served as the APEC host, and the first time in 12 years, demonstrating its high regard for and commitment to Asia-Pacific cooperation. All parties hope that APEC will bring new momentum to regional prosperity and development, and look forward to China leading regional members to continuously move towards the goal of building an Asia-Pacific community with a shared future.
China has always been an active participant and promoter of APEC cooperation. President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out at the APEC meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, that China is willing to take the opportunity of hosting next year to work with all parties to build an Asia-Pacific community. This points out the direction of efforts for China to host the APEC meeting in 2026 and promote new steps in regional cooperation. China's proposal to take "building an Asia-Pacific community and promoting common prosperity" as the theme of APEC "China Year" demonstrates its long-term thinking and planning for the sustained development and prosperity of the Asia-Pacific, which has been highly appreciated by all parties. Upholding the original intention of cooperation and gathering regional synergy, China will work with all parties to promote the Asia-Pacific region to always be at the forefront of global opening up and development, and contribute strong Asia-Pacific momentum to the world economy.
Building an Asia-Pacific community requires a clear path. The Senior Officials' Meeting unanimously agreed to take "openness, innovation, and cooperation" as the three priority areas for cooperation next year. Openness is the lifeline of Asia-Pacific prosperity, innovation is the source of power for Asia-Pacific prosperity, and cooperation is the foundation of Asia-Pacific prosperity. Increasing cooperation in these areas is conducive to regional parties jointly responding to the prominent challenges currently facing development, continuously enhancing development momentum, consolidating the pattern of regional unity and collaboration, and integrating the building of an Asia-Pacific community into the specific actions of Asia-Pacific cooperation. The APEC "China Year" is expected to hold about 300 events, involving many fields such as trade, digital economy, transportation, tourism, human resources, small and medium-sized enterprises, energy, food security, finance, and women. From November 18th to 19th next year, the Leaders' Informal Meeting will be held in Shenzhen (深圳), and the CEO Summit, the Joint Ministerial Meeting of Foreign and Trade Ministers and other activities will also be held. This series of plans outlines a roadmap for APEC's progress in the coming year, demonstrating China's cooperative leadership and pragmatic commitment as the host.
China's development cannot be separated from the Asia-Pacific, and the prosperity of the Asia-Pacific also needs China. In the history of APEC, the "Shanghai Accord" (上海共识) and the "Beijing Agenda" (北京纲领) have left a strong Chinese imprint, reflecting China's leadership in Asia-Pacific cooperation, its practice of multilateralism, and its adherence to free trade. Under the current situation, China's role as a source of power and a propeller for Asia-Pacific cooperation is becoming increasingly prominent. The Senior Officials' Meeting arranged visits, and the representatives expressed their admiration for the achievements made in the modernization of Shenzhen (深圳市) and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区). The recently held Central Economic Work Conference made new deployments on adhering to opening up to the outside world and promoting win-win cooperation in multiple fields. Steadily promoting institutional opening up, orderly expanding autonomous opening up in the service sector, optimizing the layout and scope of free trade pilot zones, and solidly promoting the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港)... China, with its ever-widening open door, will continuously strengthen its leadership in overall Asia-Pacific cooperation. China will actively share the market opportunities, investment opportunities, and innovation opportunities brought about by high-quality development with regional partners, and work with all parties to promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, improve the level of regional economic integration, and jointly build an open Asia-Pacific economy.
Providing new opportunities for the Asia-Pacific and the world with the new achievements of Chinese-style modernization is China's firm choice, and the APEC "China Year" is worth looking forward to. China will work with all parties to set off again towards the goal of building an Asia-Pacific community, strengthen opening up and cooperation, release growth potential, and make greater contributions to regional and even world peace and development.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Abu Dhabi on December 13th (Reporter: Guan Kejiang (管克江)) On December 12th, local time, Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, held talks with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah (阿卜杜拉), in Abu Dhabi.
Wang Yi (王毅) said that the United Arab Emirates is a Middle Eastern country with unique and important influence. Our two countries have converging development strategies, similar governance philosophies, and highly complementary economies, making us natural friends and partners. Over the 40 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, China and the UAE have respected and supported each other, and bilateral relations have withstood the test of international vicissitudes, maintaining healthy and stable development. In particular, President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Mohamed (穆罕默德) have established solid mutual trust and friendship, providing the most important political guarantee for the development of bilateral relations and making top-level designs for cooperation between the two sides. China is willing to strengthen communication and coordination with the UAE, implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, adhere to the original aspiration of establishing diplomatic relations, deepen strategic mutual trust, expand mutually beneficial cooperation, continue traditional friendship, and jointly promote the China-UAE comprehensive strategic partnership to a higher level.
Wang Yi (王毅) said that next year, China will host the second China-Arab States Summit, and welcomes the leaders of the UAE to attend in China. It is believed that with the support of the UAE and other countries, the summit will achieve positive results and promote China's relations with Arab countries to a new level.
Abdullah (阿卜杜拉) said that over the 40 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, the UAE-China relationship has developed rapidly on the basis of mutual respect and mutual trust, with fruitful cooperation in various fields, and the friendship between the people has deepened day by day, becoming a model of relations between countries. In particular, President Mohamed (穆罕默德) and President Xi Jinping (习近平) have achieved mutual visits in recent years and maintained good friendship, providing important guidance and injecting strong impetus into the development of bilateral relations. The UAE firmly adheres to the one-China principle, firmly supports China in safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity and achieving national reunification, and firmly opposes external forces interfering in China's internal affairs.
The two sides also exchanged views on the Middle East situation and other issues.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Abu Dhabi, December 13th - At the invitation of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Abdullah (阿卜杜拉), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China Wang Yi (王毅) visited the UAE from December 12th to 13th, 2025, and exchanged in-depth views with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullah (阿卜杜拉) on the overall friendly relations between the two countries and the two peoples, as well as issues of common concern.
Both sides pointed out that the China-UAE comprehensive strategic partnership is developing actively in various fields, which is in line with the expectations of the leaders of the two countries and the two peoples for development and prosperity. The two sides will implement the important consensus reached during President Mohamed's (穆罕默德) visit to China in May 2024 and his meeting with President Xi Jinping (习近平), and work together to raise the relations between the two countries in various fields and at the bilateral and multilateral levels to a higher level.
China firmly supports the UAE in safeguarding its national sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity.
The UAE emphasized its firm adherence to the one-China principle, that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory, its firm support for the Chinese government in achieving national reunification, and its opposition to external forces interfering in China's internal affairs.
China supports the UAE's efforts to peacefully resolve the "three islands" issue through bilateral negotiations in accordance with international law principles, including the Charter of the United Nations.
China appreciates the development achievements made by the UAE in various fields and is willing to deepen the alignment of the "Belt and Road" initiative with the "We the UAE 2031" vision plan and the "50-Year Development Strategy for the Future," and jointly promote development to a higher level. The UAE appreciates the successful convening of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, believing that this important meeting will promote China's high-quality development and mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation with the international community.
The UAE appreciates 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). China invites the UAE to participate in cooperation within the framework of the four major global initiatives.
Both sides highly appreciate the positive results achieved in practical cooperation between the two countries in various fields and are willing to strengthen cooperation in economy and trade, investment, oil and natural gas, renewable energy, water resources, infrastructure, scientific research, and other fields, strengthen cooperation in military, law enforcement security, counter-terrorism, de-radicalization, and other fields, and strengthen exchanges in Chinese education, tourism, civil aviation, and other fields, and continuously enrich the connotation of the China-UAE comprehensive strategic partnership.
The UAE supports China in hosting the second China-Arab States Summit in 2026, supports the simultaneous holding of the second China-Gulf Cooperation Council Summit, and is willing to work with China to promote the complete success of the summit. China is willing to work with the UAE to promote the early conclusion of the China-GCC free trade agreement negotiations.
Both sides reaffirmed their joint commitment to achieving a comprehensive, just, and lasting peace on the basis of the "two-state solution," and to establishing an independent Palestinian state based on the June 4, 1967 borders, with sovereignty, livability, and security and peaceful coexistence with Israel, in accordance with international law and relevant UN resolutions.
Both sides appreciate the efforts of the international community to promote a ceasefire in Gaza and emphasize that all parties should abide by the ceasefire agreement to alleviate humanitarian suffering and create conditions for achieving lasting peace.
China appreciates the positive and influential role played by the UAE in the region. The UAE appreciates China's active efforts and important contributions to promoting peace and stability in the Middle East and the world. Both sides are willing to strengthen communication and coordination on multilateral platforms such as the United Nations, BRICS, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and jointly commit to promoting a more prosperous and progressive world.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘 赫
The Prignitz district in northwestern Brandenburg (勃兰登堡) State, Germany, with its gently rolling terrain, ample sunshine, and low population density, is at the forefront of Germany's new energy development. The Drense solar park is located here.
Stepping into the Drense solar park, an endless "blue ocean" continuously converts solar energy into electricity and transmits it to the German power grid. The park, invested and constructed by the German renewable energy company CEE Group, was connected to the grid for power generation in 2023, with an annual power supply of over 150 million kilowatt-hours. The clean electricity generated each year is equivalent to saving approximately 60,000 tons of standard coal and reducing approximately 120,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions. All 154 megawatts of photovoltaic modules in the park are provided by Chint New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. (正泰新能) (hereinafter referred to as "Chint New Energy (正泰新能)").
Timo Franz, Head of Project Sales for the European region of Chint New Energy (正泰新能), told reporters: "The park hopes to adopt the latest industry technology to achieve higher conversion rates, longer service life, and increase power generation per unit area." After gaining an in-depth understanding of the German side's needs, Chint New Energy (正泰新能) accelerated technological breakthroughs, independently developed high-efficiency N-type batteries, and quickly achieved large-scale mass production. For the widely distributed rooftop photovoltaic scenarios in Germany, Chint New Energy (正泰新能) has specially launched small-sized module products. Franz said: "These types of modules are small in size and light in weight, making them easy to transport and install, which not only reduces construction costs but also pays more attention to the integration of photovoltaics and buildings." The company also actively promotes environmentally friendly processes in the production process, fully complying with EU environmental standards.
"Chinese companies have demonstrated solid technical capabilities." Detlef Schreiber, CEO of CEE Group, said, "The cooperation with Chint New Energy (正泰新能) not only guarantees the high-quality construction of the project but also fills us with confidence in more future cooperation."
Currently, Germany is accelerating its energy transition and vigorously developing renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power. China and Germany have complementary advantages, broad common interests, and huge cooperation space. In recent years, Chint New Energy (正泰新能) has successively participated in multiple large-scale photovoltaic power station projects in Europe, with businesses covering countries such as Hungary (匈牙利), Spain (西班牙), and the Netherlands (荷兰), and has successively established four global research and development centers and more than 20 research institutes in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and North Africa, with a global operation and maintenance capacity of over 50 gigawatts.
"In the future, fields such as household photovoltaics, balcony photovoltaics, and industrial and commercial photovoltaics will become new growth points in the industry, and there is strong demand for aesthetically pleasing and lightweight small rooftop photovoltaic products. The 'photovoltaic + energy storage' supporting system will be an important direction for the German and EU markets to cope with grid consumption challenges," said Ji Xinhua (纪欣华), General Manager of Chint New Energy (正泰新能) Europe.
Return to TopBy: 王 昱
This year marks the 65th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Somalia. China was one of the first countries to recognize Somalia's independence, and Somalia was the first East African country to establish diplomatic relations with the New China. In 2024, during the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, President Xi Jinping (习近平) and Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (马哈茂德) jointly announced the elevation of China-Somalia relations to a strategic partnership, charting a new blueprint for the development of bilateral relations.
Mutual respect and equal treatment are the defining political features of China-Somalia relations. In 1964, Premier Zhou Enlai (周恩来) led a delegation to visit Somalia, receiving a warm welcome from the Somali government and people. Not long ago, I listened to the audio archives of this visit, treasured by the Somali side, at Mogadishu Radio, and the historical moment of China-Somalia friendship seemed to be right before my eyes. Over the past 65 years, China and Somalia have always supported each other on issues involving each other's core interests and major concerns. In 1971, Somalia, as one of the 23 co-sponsors of the "Two Albanias Proposal," firmly supported the restoration of the People's Republic of China's legitimate seat in the United Nations. Somalia has long firmly adhered to the one-China principle and defended the authority of UN General Assembly Resolution 2758. China has also always supported Somalia's efforts to safeguard national sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity.
Mutually beneficial cooperation and moving forward hand in hand are the powerful driving forces of China-Somalia relations. In the early days of diplomatic relations, China, despite its own limited resources, fully supported Somalia's economic and social development, and assisted in the construction of a series of important projects such as Benadir Hospital (贝纳迪尔医院), the National Theatre (国家大剧院), the National Stadium (国家体育场), the Hargeisa Water Supply Project (哈尔格萨供水工程), and the North-South Highway (南北公路). This year, I made a special trip to visit Benadir Hospital (贝纳迪尔医院) and the National Theatre (国家大剧院). At Benadir Hospital (贝纳迪尔医院), several young medical staff greeted me in Chinese, and the hand-drawn bird's-eye view of the hospital by Chinese aid experts was still hanging on the wall. On the stage of the National Theatre (国家大剧院), Somali singers enthusiastically sang songs praising the friendship between the two countries. These projects, which embody the friendship between China and Somalia, still play an important role in the lives of the Somali people. In recent years, Somalia has actively participated in the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road," Chinese goods are very popular in Somalia, and Somalia's high-quality agricultural, pastoral, and fishery products are also constantly entering Chinese households. Currently, the two sides are constantly exploring cooperation in areas such as new energy and digital connectivity.
Cultural exchanges and people-to-people connectivity are the source of vitality for China-Somalia relations. China provides scholarships to outstanding Somali students every year, encouraging them to study in China. Today, many outstanding Somali talents, such as doctors and engineers, have experience studying in China. China also continues to provide various human resource training programs, and this year more than 100 officials from federal agencies went to China for exchanges. "Go to China" and learn from "China's governance" have become the common aspirations of all sectors of Somalia. Under the framework of the "China-Africa Hand in Hand to Warm Children's Hearts" activity, Somali children went to China to interact and exchange with Chinese children. For two consecutive years, I have visited local orphanages to see the children, witnessing the seeds of friendship taking root in the hearts of the next generation.
Upholding justice and fairness is a distinct characteristic of China-Somalia relations. China is a permanent member of the UN Security Council, and Somalia is currently serving as a non-permanent member of the Security Council. The two sides maintain close communication and coordination on a series of major international and regional issues, jointly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the vast number of developing countries and the Global South, constantly correct historical injustices in the modernization process, and oppose hegemony, domineering behavior, and bullying. The Somali side highly appreciates the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative proposed by China, and is willing to work with China to jointly promote the reform and improvement of the global governance system.
China-Somalia friendship has stood the test of time and continues to flourish with vitality. Not long ago, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) was successfully concluded. The meeting adopted the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal, demonstrating the bright prospects of Chinese-style modernization and highlighting China's firm willingness to cooperate and win-win with countries around the world, which will surely bring more development opportunities to the vast number of African countries, including Somalia. China is willing to work with Somalia, under the strategic guidance of head-of-state diplomacy, to continuously enrich the connotation of the strategic partnership between the two countries, work together to promote modernization, and jointly promote the building of a closer China-Africa community with a shared future in the new era.
(The author is the Chinese Ambassador to Somalia)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Colombo, December 13th (Reporter Chen Dongshu (陈冬书)) From December 11th to 13th, Yang Wanming (杨万明), President of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, led a delegation to visit Sri Lanka at the invitation of the Sri Lankan side. He met with Ratnayake (拉特纳亚克), Member of the Political Bureau of the People's Liberation Front and Chairman of the Sri Lanka-China Friendship Group in the Sri Lankan Parliament, who also serves as the Minister of Transport, Highways, and Urban Development of the Sri Lankan government; Herath (赫拉特), Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment, and Tourism; Gamage (加马格), Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports; and Baltazar (巴尔塔扎), Mayor of Colombo (科伦坡). He also held a collective discussion with Abeysekera (阿贝塞克拉), President of the Sri Lanka-China Social and Cultural Cooperation Association, and other heads of Sri Lanka-China friendship organizations on deepening China-Sri Lanka people-to-people exchanges, expressing that the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries will provide assistance within its capacity to various friendly organizations to support Sri Lanka in flood relief and post-disaster reconstruction.
All parties stated that they will jointly implement the important consensus reached by President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Dissanayake (迪萨纳亚克), promote people-to-people, local, cultural, and youth exchanges between China and Sri Lanka, and promote the continuous development of the strategic cooperative partnership between the two countries, which features sincere mutual assistance and 世代友好 (shì dài yǒu hǎo - "friendship for generations," lasting friendship between countries).
Return to Top(People's Daily, Rio de Janeiro, December 13th) (Chen Yiming (陈一鸣), Hou Tianze (侯天泽)) The China-Brazil Science and Technology Innovation Center was officially launched recently at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Science Park in Brazil. The center will be positioned as "science and technology innovation driving energy cooperation," focusing on cutting-edge technology research and development and the transformation of achievements in the energy field.
The President of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Roberto, said that the center will build a bridge for technological exchanges and a platform for sharing achievements for researchers from both countries, and transform the scientific research advantages of the two countries into industrial competitiveness through joint technological research, talent cooperation and training, and other methods.
The Vice President of the Brazilian National Petroleum Corporation, Anjos, said that the four-party cooperation is complementary and will make technological innovation a new engine for promoting all-round cooperation and high-quality development in the energy field between Brazil and China.
According to reports, the center is jointly built by China National Offshore Oil Corporation (中国海洋石油集团有限公司), China University of Petroleum (Beijing) (中国石油大学（北京）), Brazilian National Petroleum Corporation and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (巴西里约热内卢联邦大学).
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Nanjing on December 13th (Reporter Li Changyu (李昌禹)) The CPC Central Committee and the State Council solemnly held the 2025 National Memorial Ceremony for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre in Nanjing (南京) on the morning of the 13th. Shi Taifeng (石泰峰), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee (中组部), attended and delivered a speech.
The memorial ceremony was held in the gathering square of the Memorial Hall for Compatriots Killed in the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders. The scene was solemn and solemn, and the national flag was lowered to half-mast. About 8,000 representatives from all walks of life wore white flowers on their chests and stood quietly in silence. At 10:00 a.m., the memorial ceremony began, and the national anthem of the People's Republic of China was played and sung. After the national anthem was sung, the entire audience observed a moment of silence for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre. Nanjing (南京) sounded air raid sirens, cars stopped and honked their horns, and pedestrians observed a moment of silence on the spot. After the silence, in the melody of the "National Memorial Offering" played by the military band of the People's Liberation Army, 16 honor guards of the People's Liberation Army raised 8 wreaths and presented them to the memorial platform.
In his speech, Shi Taifeng (石泰峰) said that today we gather solemnly to deeply mourn the innocent victims of the Nanjing Massacre, to mourn all the compatriots who were brutally murdered by Japanese aggressors, to mourn the revolutionary martyrs and national heroes who sacrificed their lives for the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, to mourn the international soldiers and international friends who fought side by side with the Chinese people against Japanese aggressors and heroically dedicated themselves, to express the Chinese people's firm and unswerving lofty aspiration to follow the path of peaceful development, and to jointly remember history, cherish the memory of our martyrs, cherish peace, and create the future.
Shi Taifeng (石泰峰) said that historical memories are engraved in our hearts, and the trend of the times is surging forward. Today, Chinese-style modernization has unfolded a magnificent picture and presents an incomparably bright prospect, and the Chinese nation is marching towards great rejuvenation with an unstoppable pace. We must unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, vigorously promote the great spirit of resisting aggression, 踔厉奋发 (chuō lì fèn fā - "energetically strive," to work hard and forge ahead with determination), and forge ahead bravely, and strive to comprehensively promote the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization, and make greater contributions to the noble cause of human peace and development.
After Shi Taifeng's (石泰峰) speech, 88 youth representatives from Nanjing (南京) read out the "Declaration of Peace," and 6 representatives from all walks of life struck the "Peace Bell." Accompanied by three deep chimes, 3,000 peace doves spread their wings and flew high, entrusting endless grief for the victims and unremitting pursuit of world peace.
Wang Xiaohong (王小洪), Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and State Councilor, presided over the memorial ceremony. Zhang Qingwei (张庆伟), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Su Hui (苏辉), Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and Liu Zhenli (刘振立), member of the Central Military Commission and Chief of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission, attended.
Representatives of veteran soldiers and comrades who participated in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, responsible comrades from relevant departments of the CPC Central Committee, the State Council, the military, and mass organizations, and the Eastern Theater Command, Jiangsu Province (江苏省), and Nanjing (南京), responsible persons from the central committees of various democratic parties, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, and representatives of non-party figures, representatives of Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan compatriots, representatives of international friends who contributed to the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression or their surviving family members, representatives of survivors of the Nanjing Massacre and relatives of the victims, representatives of relevant domestic and foreign theme memorial (museum) halls, representatives of relevant domestic universities and think tank experts, representatives of religious circles, representatives of officers and soldiers stationed in Nanjing (宁), and representatives of people from all walks of life in Jiangsu Province (江苏省) attended the memorial ceremony.
On February 27, 2014, the Seventh Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Twelfth National People's Congress adopted a decision to establish December 13 as the National Memorial Day for Victims of the Nanjing Massacre in the form of legislation.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李昌禹 尹晓宇 姚雪青
Laws and regulations are established, and the nation conducts public sacrifices.
On December 13th, under overcast skies and light rain, Nanjing City (南京市), Jiangsu Province, welcomed the twelfth National Memorial Day in the cold wind.
While the National Memorial Ceremony for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre was held, Nanjing City (南京市) simultaneously carried out mourning activities at 17 burial sites of the victims of the Nanjing Massacre, 12 communities, and 6 patriotic education bases for the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Various forms of mourning activities were also carried out across the country.
The same sorrow and remembrance quietly flowed in various places.
"Transforming the blood and tears memories of ancestors into actions to protect the collective memory of the nation"
On the evening of the 13th, candlelight flickered on the Peace Square of the Memorial Hall for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders. Representatives from various circles at home and abroad, dressed in plain clothes and holding candles, participated in the "Candlelight Vigil · International Peace Gathering" to jointly remember the deceased and pray for peace.
Japanese friend Sayoko Yamauchi (山内小夜子) has led groups to Nanjing (南京) to participate in nearly 20 memorial activities. She said, "As citizens of the aggressor country, we should understand what kind of war our ancestors launched and what they did. The best way to remember history is to let people come to Nanjing (南京) and listen to the voices here."
88 years ago, German John Rabe (约翰·拉贝) risked his life to establish the "Nanjing Safety Zone (南京安全区)," providing shelter for more than 250,000 Chinese people. His "Rabe Diary (拉贝日记)" became ironclad evidence of the atrocities of the Japanese invaders. Rabe's (拉贝) great-grandson, Christoph Reinhardt (克里斯托夫·莱茵哈特), came to China this time to donate cultural relics and historical materials to the memorial hall.
Christoph Reinhardt (克里斯托夫·莱茵哈特) said that only those who remember history can learn lessons and lay the foundation for building a better world.
History is the biography of a country and humanity, and it is also the best textbook.
As time passes, survivors of the Nanjing Massacre have passed away one after another. Currently, only 24 registered living survivors remain, with an average age of over 95. "Now some right-wing forces in Japan are unwilling to admit that period of aggression history. We must remember history and strive for self-improvement," said Hu Jingya (胡静雅), a teacher at Yuhua Branch of Langya Road Primary School (琅琊路小学雨花分校) in Nanjing (南京).
Hu Jingya's (胡静雅) maternal grandfather, Liu Guixiang (刘贵祥), was a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre who witnessed his father and younger brother being killed by the Japanese invaders when he was 7 years old. In May of this year, her 95-year-old grandfather passed away, and she, as the fourth batch of Nanjing Massacre historical memory inheritors, continues to tell this history.
As eyewitnesses gradually fade away, the inheritance of memory never stops. "I want to take over my grandfather's baton and transform the blood and tears memories of my ancestors into actions to protect the collective memory of the nation," said Hu Jingya (胡静雅).
"The pain of the nation and the sorrow of the people must never be forgotten"
On the morning of the 13th, the 2025 "Learning History, Reciting Peace, Reading Together" online cloud class was simultaneously conducted in Nanjing City (南京市) and five primary schools in Shenyang City (沈阳市) and Benxi City (本溪市), Liaoning Province, Huaihua City (怀化市), Hunan Province, and Shiyan City (十堰市), Hubei Province. Teachers and students from nearly a hundred schools in 16 provinces watched the live broadcast.
At the main classroom site of Langya Road Primary School (琅琊路小学) in Nanjing City (南京市), Wang Li (王立), associate researcher of the Historical Materials Research Department of the Memorial Hall for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders, started with the "No. 1 Evidence of Jingzi" in the prototype of the movie "Nanjing Photo Studio" and told the students the significance of the National Memorial Day...
"This cloud class made me feel that 'remembering history and cherishing peace' is not only the responsibility of young people in Nanjing (南京), but also the common aspiration of young people all over the country. I will always remember today and study hard for the prosperity of the motherland," said Wang Xiaoxian (王潇娴), a fifth-grade student at Langya Road Primary School (琅琊路小学).
"The Japanese twice used explosives to break through the city wall of Guanghua Gate (光华门). At that time, no one retreated..." The veteran's narration pulled the audience back to the darkest moment 88 years ago. This is the site of the "12·12 Night of Peace" Zhongshan Gate (中山门) relay reading event on the eve of the National Memorial Day for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre.
The mountains and rivers were broken in the past, but today the world is prosperous. Fei Yujie (费玉婕), a freshman at Jiangsu Health Vocational College (江苏卫生健康职业学院) who participated in the reading event at Zhongshan Gate (中山门), felt a lot: "Touching the truth of history makes me understand the responsibility of young people even more. Only by transforming patriotic feelings into professional skills can we truly protect the hard-won peace."
In front of the Memorial Stele for the Victims of the Wanfu Bridge Massacre by Japanese Invaders in Yangzhou City (扬州市), Jiangsu Province, nearly a hundred cadres and people stood in silence facing the memorial stele and presented wreaths. At the scene, students from the East District School of Yucai Primary School (育才小学东区校) recited the "Declaration of Peace."
"Today, participating in the National Memorial Day event, I understand even more how precious it is to be able to sit in a bright classroom and study. We must not forget this history. I want to grow up stronger and protect our motherland in the future," said Ma Yiren (马伊人), a local elementary school student.
In front of the Yanwo Massacre Site in Xuzhou City (徐州市), Jiangsu Province, surrounded by green pines and cypresses, people dressed in plain clothes slowly walked around the memorial stele in turn and presented bouquets.
"History warns us that peaceful prosperity is hard-won, and the pain of the nation and the sorrow of the people must never be forgotten," said Liu Xirui (柳希睿), an staff member of the Party and Government Office of Zhangji Town (张集镇) in Xuzhou City (徐州市).
"It is our responsibility to tell more people about this history, and today's peace did not come easily"
On the 13th, in Beijing (北京), on the Lugou Bridge (卢沟桥), in front of the Museum of the Chinese People's Anti-Japanese War (中国人民抗日战争纪念馆), and under the Wanping City Wall (宛平城墙), many citizens made a special trip to pay their respects.
At 10:00 a.m., the theme publicity event "Remembering History and Cherishing Peace" held in the Anti-Japanese War Sculpture Park officially began. The "little narrators" from Lugouqiao School (卢沟桥学校) of Fengtai No. 2 Middle School (丰台二中) told the historical facts of the Nanjing Massacre in clear and firm voices. "Standing here, I feel that I have a responsibility to tell more people about this history, and today's peace did not come easily," said one of the "little narrators."
On the same day, a memorial activity was held in the Preface Hall of the Museum of the Chinese People's Anti-Japanese War (中国人民抗日战争纪念馆).
At 10:00 a.m. on the 13th, at the "September 18th" History Museum (九·一八历史博物馆) in Shenyang City (沈阳市), as the mourning signal of the public memorial ceremony sounded, all personnel bowed their heads and stood in silence to mourn the victims of the Nanjing Massacre and all the anti-Japanese martyrs.
After the memorial activity began, people presented candles to the reclining stele to express their condolences. Representatives of the museum's young volunteers recited the inscription on the National Memorial Ding with deep emotion. In the exhibition hall, 30 students from the Shenyang Conservatory of Music (沈阳音乐学院) sang "On the Songhua River (松花江上)," singing the suffering of the people in Northeast China and the strong voice of resisting Japan and saving the country after the outbreak of the September 18th Incident.
At the Fuxin Ten Thousand People Pit (阜新万人坑) Memorial Hall for Miners Who Died in the Anti-Japanese War in Liaoning (辽宁), under the guidance of the docent, more than 150 representatives from all walks of life visited the Anti-Violence Youth Workers' Remains Hall and the Ruins Hall successively, and presented bouquets in front of the statue in the Preface Hall.
On the 13th, in Harbin City (哈尔滨市), Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江), the Northeast Martyrs Memorial Hall (东北烈士纪念馆) held the National Memorial Day for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre, using deep remembrance to express infinite condolences to all the victims.
At 10:00 a.m., in a solemn atmosphere, all personnel presented bouquets to the victims. After the flower presentation ceremony, the entire audience stood in silence and bowed their heads in mourning. After the mourning, the Heilongjiang University Broadcasting Station (黑龙江大学广播台) brought a poetry recitation "Inscribe with Snow," and the Young Pioneers of the Harbin Youth Palace (哈尔滨青年宫) brought a poetry recitation "Frozen Flames and Blooming Dawn." The students used powerful and emotional tones to integrate the national grief of the Nanjing Massacre with the bloody battles of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army, telling the suffering and resistance at the time of national crisis, and the responsibility and commitment in the era of peace.
(Our reporters Wang Haonan (王昊男), Pan Junqiang (潘俊强), Liu Hongchao (刘洪超), and Fang Yuan (方圆) participated in the writing)
Return to TopThis newspaper's Hong Kong (香港) December 13th dispatch (Reporter Chen Ran (陈然)) The Hong Kong (香港) Special Administrative Region (特区) government held a public memorial ceremony for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre (南京大屠杀) at the Special Administrative Region (特区) government headquarters on the morning of the 13th to mourn the victims of the Nanjing Massacre (南京大屠杀).
The Chief Executive of the Special Administrative Region (特区), John Lee (李家超), Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Hong Kong (中央政府驻香港联络办) Zhou Ji (周霁), principal officials of the Special Administrative Region (特区) government, members of the Executive Council, Hong Kong (港区) deputies to the National People's Congress and members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, chairmen of district councils, veteran guerrilla fighters of the former Dongjiang Column Hong Kong-Kowloon Independent Brigade (原东江纵队港九独立大队), and representatives of veterans' groups attended the ceremony.
The ceremony began at approximately 10:00 a.m. All attendees stood in silence and sang the national anthem, followed by two minutes of silence. John Lee (李家超) presented a wreath to mourn the victims.
According to Xinhua News Agency, Macau (澳门), December 13th (Reporters Qi Fei (齐菲) and Liu Gang (刘刚)) December 13th is the National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims (南京大屠杀死难者国家公祭日). The Macau (澳门) Special Administrative Region (特区) government held a public memorial ceremony on the same day at the parade ground of the Public Security Forces Superior School (路环保安部队高等学校).
The Chief Executive of the Macau (澳门) Special Administrative Region (特区), Chui Sai On (岑浩辉), Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Macau (澳门中联办) Zheng Xincong (郑新聪), Acting Commissioner of the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Macau (外交部驻澳门特派员公署) Cheng Lei (程雷), Commander of the People's Liberation Army Macau Garrison (解放军驻澳门部队) Yu Changjiang (于长江), as well as principal officials of the Special Administrative Region (特区), people from all walks of life, and teachers and students of Kei Ping Middle School (镜平中学) attended.
At 9:00 a.m., all personnel at the ceremony stood in silence and sang the national anthem. The honor guard presented wreaths to the public memorial platform. Chui Sai On (岑浩辉) and others stepped forward to arrange the wreath ribbons and bowed. Subsequently, all personnel observed a moment of silence to deeply mourn the victims of the Nanjing Massacre (南京大屠杀).
Return to TopBy: 杨烁壁
This December 13th marks the 88th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre and the twelfth National Memorial Day for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre.
Never forget that period of history. On December 13, 1937, the invading Japanese army barbarically invaded Nanjing (南京), creating the inhumane Nanjing Massacre, in which 300,000 compatriots were brutally murdered, becoming a very dark page in human history. The evidence of the massacre is irrefutable. Eighty-eight years have passed, and we have never forgotten those unforgettable pains and those unyielding struggles.
Vow to defend the fruits of victory. Facing the life-and-death contest between justice and evil, light and darkness, progress and reaction, our forefathers, with 同仇敌忾 (tóng chóu dí kài - "common hatred enemy spite," united in hatred against the enemy), rose up to resist, fought for national survival, for national rejuvenation, and for human justice, and achieved a great victory. The history and the fruits of victory written with their blood and lives need to be defended by us forever.
Together, create a bright future. The best comfort for the deceased compatriots and revolutionary martyrs is to constantly create new history. Let us remember history, be determined to rejuvenate, and unite and strive to comprehensively promote the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation with Chinese-style modernization, and jointly create a better and brighter future.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on December 13th (Reporter Xing Xue (邢雪)) On December 13th, on the occasion of the twelfth National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre (南京大屠杀) Victims, the Central Archives (中央档案馆) announced a batch of declassified archival materials of the Soviet interrogation of the Japanese Unit 731 (731部队) transferred to us by Russia. Some interrogation records are being made public for the first time, and the war criminals under trial confessed to their crimes of violating international conventions and preparing and implementing bacteriological warfare.
The archival materials, mainly based on the Khabarovsk (伯力) Trial archives, span three historical stages: pre-trial, during trial, and post-trial. For the first time, they reveal the Soviet Union's interrogation process in the early stage of the Khabarovsk (伯力) Trial, discovering that there were more than 200 people related to the crimes of Unit 731 (731部队). Key war criminals and witnesses were focused on for evidence collection, and finally 12 war criminals were identified for public trial.
Experts introduced that this batch of archives transferred by the Russian side complements and mutually proves the Unit 731 (731部队) site and the Unit 731 (731部队) crime archives preserved in our country. With ironclad historical evidence, it solidifies the crimes of Japan's bacteriological warfare against China, and once again confirms that Japan's bacteriological warfare was an organized, premeditated, and systematic national crime from top to bottom.
The evidence chain in this batch of archives is very complete, and the war criminals under trial cover senior, middle, and junior officers and personnel of the Japanese army. The archives also contain medical appraisal records conducted by academicians and experts in the fields of medicine, microbiology, and parasitology in the Soviet Union, concluding that the purpose of the Japanese in conducting bacterial research was to use bacteria to massively destroy humanity, revealing its anti-human nature.
Return to TopBy: 新华社记者 赵 超 韩 洁
All great achievements are the result of continuous struggle, and all great undertakings need to be advanced through building on past successes.
As the "14th Five-Year Plan" is about to come to a successful conclusion and the "15th Five-Year Plan" is about to begin, the Central Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing (北京) from December 10th to 11th.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) delivered an important speech at the meeting, summarizing the economic work of 2025, analyzing the current economic situation, and deploying the economic work for 2026, steering the Chinese economy to break through the waves and move forward.
Anchoring the main goals of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, ensuring a good start and a good step for the "15th Five-Year Plan," the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core unites and leads the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to overcome difficulties and move forward bravely, striving to write a new chapter in the Chinese economy.
Confidence and Determination: "China's economy is moving forward against pressure and developing towards new and better directions"
2025 is a year of great significance in the process of Chinese-style modernization.
Since the beginning of this year, the international environment has been intertwined with turmoil, China's development has experienced the challenges of transformation and adjustment, and the pressure on stable economic operation has increased.
In the face of profound and complex changes in the domestic and international situation, the entire Party and the people of the whole country have worked together with one heart and mind, striving and forging ahead, unswervingly implementing the new development concept and promoting high-quality development, and the main goals of economic and social development will be successfully completed.
"China's economy is moving forward against pressure and developing towards new and better directions, demonstrating strong resilience and vitality." At the first plenary meeting on the 10th, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) made a comprehensive summary of this year's economic work.
This is a hard-won and high-quality report card—
The overall operation is stable, with steady progress, and the total economic volume for the whole year is expected to reach about 140 trillion yuan, employment is generally stable, foreign trade is growing rapidly, and the diversification of exports has achieved remarkable results;
The construction of a modern industrial system continues to advance, new quality productive forces are steadily developing, scientific and technological innovation achievements are abundant, and the research and application of artificial intelligence, biomedicine, robotics, and other fields are at the forefront of the world;
Reform and opening up have taken new steps, the construction of a unified national market has been promoted in depth, the comprehensive rectification of "involutionary" competition has achieved remarkable results, and autonomous opening up has been promoted in an orderly manner;
Positive progress has been made in resolving risks in key areas, local government implicit debts have been replaced in an orderly manner, the reform and risk resolution of small and medium-sized financial institutions have achieved remarkable results, and the bottom line of preventing systemic risks has been maintained;
People's livelihood guarantees have been strengthened, policies such as childcare subsidies and one year of free preschool education have been implemented successively, the level of social security has continued to improve, and the overall social situation has remained stable...
Having gone through the wind and rain and overcome obstacles in 2025, the extraordinary and remarkable development of China during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period is even more evident.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) enumerated the outstanding highlights of China's development in the past five years: "Scientific and technological innovation achievements have impressed the world," "More and more brands are becoming well-known overseas," "APEC Blue has become the norm," "Safe China has become a beautiful national brand"...
"We have effectively responded to various shocks and challenges, promoted new major achievements in the cause of the Party and the country, and achieved a good start in the new journey towards the second centenary goal." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) highly praised the development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
This is the condensation of confidence and consensus.
Starting on the afternoon of the 10th, the participating comrades conducted group discussions, talking about their understanding, experiences, and suggestions.
Everyone unanimously stated that the fundamental reason for the achievement of these major achievements lies in the leadership and guidance of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, and in the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping's (习近平) Economic Thought.
Standing on a high ground and looking far ahead, dispelling the clouds and seeing the sun.
Focusing on the overall situation, the meeting deeply analyzed the old problems and new challenges facing China's development from aspects such as the deepening impact of external environmental changes, the prominent contradiction between strong domestic supply and weak demand, and the numerous risk hazards in key areas.
"Most of these are problems in development and transformation, which cannot be avoided or evaded, but can be solved through efforts." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) firmly pointed out that, on the whole, the supporting conditions and basic trends for China's long-term economic improvement have not changed. We must strengthen our confidence, make good use of our advantages, respond to challenges, and continuously consolidate and expand the momentum of steady economic improvement.
The sober judgment comes from an accurate grasp of the pulse of the times.
Based on previous Central Economic Work Conferences, this meeting further summarized the Party's understanding of the laws of economic work.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) summarized the new understanding and experience of doing a good job in economic work under the new situation with "five musts"—
"We must fully tap the potential of the economy," emphasizing the need to further leverage China's advantages in a complete industrial system, a huge market size, and abundant talent resources;
"We must adhere to the combination of policy support and reform and innovation," emphasizing the need to both increase the intensity of counter-cyclical adjustments in macro policies and deepen reforms without delay to stimulate innovation vitality;
"We must achieve both 'flexible deregulation' and 'effective regulation'," emphasizing that the purpose of "deregulation" is to remove institutional and mechanism barriers that affect the development of productive forces, and the essential requirement of "regulation" is to build a rule-of-law economy;
"We must adhere to the close combination of investing in things and investing in people," emphasizing the need to both expand effective investment in the real economy and technological innovation, and strengthen human resource development;
"We must respond to external challenges by honing our internal skills," emphasizing the need to maintain strategic determination and unswervingly focus on doing our own things well in the face of international changes and various risks and challenges.
The participating comrades believed that the "five musts" are a scientific methodology for achieving high-quality development and promoting Chinese-style modernization, further enriching and developing Xi Jinping's (习近平) Economic Thought, and providing new important guidelines for doing a good job in economic work.
Riding the wind and waves, setting sail for the distance.
General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech aroused strong resonance and great confidence: "Strive to cultivate and form more new growth points in expanding consumption and investment, developing science and technology and industry, and promoting urban-rural integration and coordinated regional development," "Mobilize the enthusiasm of local governments and enterprises to promote the economy to shift more towards endogenous growth," "Continuously strengthen, optimize, and expand the real economy, and comprehensively enhance independent innovation capabilities."
Direction and Path: "Seeking Progress While Maintaining Stability, Improving Quality and Efficiency"
2026 is the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," and the Chinese economic ship welcomes a new departure.
The new journey of pursuing dreams has both open waters and rapids and shoals—
Looking at the world, the century-long changes are accelerating, the international balance of power is undergoing profound adjustments, and a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating breakthroughs. At the same time, unilateralism and protectionism are rising, the international economic and trade order is facing severe challenges, and great power competition is becoming more intense.
Looking around the country, grasping the important strategic opportunity period for development, China is unswervingly promoting Chinese-style modernization with high-quality development, but the problem of unbalanced and insufficient development remains prominent.
Changes contain opportunities, and challenges inspire fighting spirit.
"Comprehensively, accurately, and fully implement the new development concept, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, and focus on promoting high-quality development";
"Better coordinate domestic economic work and international economic and trade struggles, and better coordinate development and security";
"Promote the effective improvement of the quality and the reasonable growth of the quantity of the economy, and maintain social harmony and stability";
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General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has a broad vision and deep foresight, pointing out the direction for doing a good job in economic work in the first year.
"Seeking progress while maintaining stability, improving quality and efficiency," these eight characters indicate the policy orientation of economic work in 2026.
The general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability is an important principle for the Party to govern the country, and it is an important methodology that still needs to be consistently adhered to during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
To coordinate "stability" and "progress," we must implement precise policies and enhance the foresight, pertinence, and coordination of macro policies.
——Continue to implement a more proactive fiscal policy. Maintain the necessary fiscal deficit, total debt size, and total expenditure.
——Continue to implement a moderately loose monetary policy. Guide financial institutions to increase support for key areas such as expanding domestic demand, technological innovation, and small and medium-sized enterprises.
——Enhance the consistency and effectiveness of macro policy orientation. Incorporate various economic and non-economic policies, existing policies and incremental policies into the consistency assessment of macro policy orientation.
In the deployment of macro policies, the meeting consolidated the stable foundation of the economic landscape with a stable signal of continuing to implement "more proactive and promising macro policies," and accelerated the transformation of economic development from quantity to quality.
One participating comrade said with deep feeling that next year's policy orientation emphasizes "quality" and "efficiency" on the basis of "stability" and "progress," which not only releases the "stability" signal of macro policies, but also points out the direction of optimization in line with the start of the "15th Five-Year Plan," demonstrating the Party Central Committee's accurate grasp of the times and trends under complex changes.
To improve "quality" and "efficiency," we must anchor the goals and win the initiative in adhering to high-quality development.
In a more unstable and uncertain world, the only way to seek development is to follow our own path, so that we can "remain calm despite the flying clouds" and bravely open up new situations in the midst of changes.
The meeting deployed the key tasks of next year's economic work with "eight persistences," with "adhering to domestic demand dominance and building a strong domestic market" being placed first.
A major economy is characterized by internal circulation.
Expanding domestic demand is not only an effective way to resist external shocks and promote the steady improvement of China's economy, but also a strategic move to promote high-quality development and build a new development pattern.
"Deeply implement special actions to boost consumption, formulate and implement income increase plans for urban and rural residents," "Clean up unreasonable restrictions in the consumption field, release the potential of service consumption such as cultural tourism, sports events, catering, and health care, while strengthening supervision and standardizing order," "Focus on benefiting people's livelihoods and increasing momentum, promote investment to stop falling and stabilize, and urban renewal is an important area of investment"...
A series of important deployments made by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized efforts from both the supply and demand sides, highlighting the need to make up for shortcomings in people's livelihoods in development.
Grasp the key, and everything will fall into place.
In the "15th Five-Year Plan" recommendations, "building a modern industrial system and consolidating and strengthening the foundation of the real economy" and "accelerating high-level self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology, and leading the development of new quality productive forces" are ranked among the top two of the 12 strategic tasks.
In dealing with changes and doing our own things well, adhering to innovation is the key to breaking the situation.
At this meeting, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) made new major deployments around "adhering to innovation-driven development and accelerating the cultivation and expansion of new driving forces."
Building an international science and technology innovation center with global influence is a major strategic task personally planned, deployed, and promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平).
This meeting proposed building international science and technology innovation centers in Beijing (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei) (北京（京津冀）), Shanghai (Yangtze River Delta) (上海（长三角）), and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区).
"The Party Central Committee has decided to expand the Beijing (北京) International Science and Technology Innovation Center to Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀), and the Shanghai (上海) International Science and Technology Innovation Center to the Yangtze River Delta (长三角), with the aim of accelerating the formation of the main source of original innovation in our country, jointly building a strategic guide for the construction of a strong science and technology country, and establishing a benchmark for supporting and leading Chinese-style modernization with science and technology." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) clarified the profound considerations behind this.
The development of the cause lies in innovation; the way of innovation lies in obtaining talent.
"Formulate a plan to promote the development of education, science and technology, and talent in an integrated manner," this new measure has attracted the attention of many participating comrades.
"Education is the foundation, science and technology are the key, and talent is the fundamental. The coordinated and integrated development of the three reflects the close combination of investing in things and investing in people. It is an urgent need for high-quality development and an inevitable requirement for dealing with international competition." In group discussions, the participating comrades formed a consensus.
More proactive strategically, more precise tactically.
Adhere to reform and tackle key problems, enhance the driving force and vitality of high-quality development; adhere to opening up to the outside world, promote multi-field cooperation and win-win results; adhere to coordinated development, promote urban-rural integration and regional linkage; adhere to "dual carbon" leadership, promote comprehensive green transformation; adhere to people's livelihood as the top priority, and strive to do more practical things for the people; adhere to keeping the bottom line, and actively and steadily resolve risks in key areas.
Formulate regulations for the construction of a unified national market; deepen the reform of the foreign investment promotion system and mechanism; strengthen the coordinated linkage of key urban agglomerations and deepen cross-administrative regional cooperation; formulate an outline for the construction of a strong energy country; implement actions to stabilize employment, expand capacity, and improve quality; and focus on stabilizing the real estate market... Around the "eight persistences," the meeting proposed a series of new deployments and new measures.
The participating comrades unanimously believed that these "eight persistences" highlight the combination of short-term economic work and medium- and long-term high-quality development goals, which is not only an effective summary of the successful experience during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, but also points out the direction for the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," ensuring that the Chinese economy moves steadily and far on the track of "seeking progress while maintaining stability, improving quality and efficiency."
Unity and Hard Work: "Ensure a Good Start and a Good Step for the '15th Five-Year Plan'"
The more complex the situation, the more important it is to strengthen the Party's leadership and form a unified will.
This meeting clarified the Party Central Committee's ideas, tasks, and policies for next year's economic work, and it is crucial to implement them in actual work.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Once it is decided, it must be implemented. All levels and departments must have a sense of the overall situation and the ability to execute."
To grasp implementation, the General Secretary has repeatedly emphasized adapting to local conditions.
At this meeting, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) further clarified the importance of adapting to local conditions around the development of new quality productive forces, ecological and environmental protection, and rural toilet renovation.
"Adapting to local conditions is essentially seeking truth from facts." The General Secretary emphasized that implementation requires combining with reality and adapting to local conditions, but it cannot be done arbitrarily or with localism.
To grasp implementation, it is necessary to establish and practice a correct view of political achievements.
The meeting emphasized that it is necessary to adhere to achieving political achievements for the people and achieving political achievements through hard work, consciously act in accordance with the laws, and improve the differentiated assessment and evaluation system.
Seeking truth and being pragmatic, taking responsibility and acting. The participating comrades stated that they should consciously unify their thoughts and actions with the Party Central Committee's scientific judgment on the situation, and in accordance with the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments and the requirements of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, enhance their sense of responsibility and mission, and effectively improve their ability to respond to complex situations and handle complex problems, ensuring smooth communication and effective execution.
If policy expectations are stable, the economic landscape can be stable.
The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to fully implement the overall requirements and policy orientation of next year's economic work, adhere to a proactive and pragmatic goal orientation, focus on solving existing difficulties and problems, achieve greater breakthroughs in the effective improvement of quality, and enhance the sense of gain for residents and enterprises; enhance the synergistic effect of reform and policies, and promote the continuous improvement of economic operation and market expectations.
To achieve practical results in economic work, it is necessary to grasp the key points of focus.
The meeting clarified that around strengthening the domestic cycle, expand new space for domestic demand growth; around developing new quality productive forces, promote the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation; around stimulating the driving force and vitality of high-quality development, unswervingly deepen reform and expand opening up; around continuously increasing people's well-being, increase efforts to guarantee and improve people's livelihood; around keeping the bottom line of safety, steadily do a good job in resolving risks in key areas.
Currently, all regions, departments, and aspects are preparing national and local "15th Five-Year Plan" and special plans in accordance with the "Recommendations" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party.
In this regard, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) clearly required: "It is necessary to strengthen overall planning, streamline and optimize overlapping and ineffective planning tasks, and prevent excessive and excessive planning. All plans must be realistic and seek truth from facts, pursue solid and water-free growth, and promote high-quality and sustainable development."
The next five years are a critical period for laying the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically realize socialist modernization, and a good start is half the battle.
Beating drums to urge progress, time waits for no one.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) issued a strong call: "The entire Party and the entire society must unite more closely around the Party Central Committee, unite as one, forge ahead, strive to achieve the goals and tasks of economic and social development next year, and ensure a good start and a good step for the '15th Five-Year Plan'."
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), December 13)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 黄 超
Deqing County (德清县), Zhejiang Province, the hangar at Moganshan Airport (莫干山机场) is filled with the mingled scents of resin's slight acidity, carbon fiber's fine dust, and sweat.
Approximately 150 universities and nearly 4,000 teachers and students are staging a challenge of youth and technology here—the 2025 China College Students Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Design Innovation Grand Prix is entering its final sprint. This is an aerospace science and technology innovation competition sponsored by the Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics (中国航空学会) and open to universities and vocational colleges nationwide. Since its inception in 2022, it has been very popular among college student enthusiasts.
At 3 a.m., Shi Xiaohan (史笑涵), captain of the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (北京航空航天大学) model aircraft team and an undergraduate student at the School of Aeronautics Science and Engineering, put down the tools in her hand, rubbed her eyes, and dialed a number.
"Are you still in the hangar?" she raised her voice into the microphone.
"We've been here all the time, it's very lively here," Yang Wendi (杨雯迪), a key member of the Chongqing University (重庆大学) model aircraft team and an undergraduate student at the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, answered the phone instantly, with the sound of a cutting machine in the background.
"In reality, every type of aircraft has a chief designer. In the field of university model aircraft design, there is also a student responsible for overall coordination, and this person is actually the 'campus chief designer'," said Zhang Liang (张良), instructor of the Beihang model aircraft team and associate professor at the School of Aeronautics Science and Engineering. This work, from designing blueprints and grinding and assembling parts to debugging operating procedures and carrying out test flights, is all done by the students themselves, "in their words, it is 'hand-crafted' aircraft."
Day after day of honing, the aerospace dreams of young people have been condensed from the initial admiration into aircraft that are personally held up and soar into the sky.
For the Love, the Teenagers Sleeping in the Hangar
As the sea of clouds surged, the Moganshan (莫干山) hangar at dawn resembled a brightly lit island.
In the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (北京航空航天大学) preparation area, Shi Xiaohan (史笑涵) issued a "mandatory rest order"—16 people who had worked continuously for 40 hours were "driven" into a small room next door to sleep fully clothed. An hour later, the alarm clock rang, and everyone got up tacitly and returned to the 4.8-meter wingspan aircraft. Before dawn, it must be brought to its best condition.
Not far away, the Chongqing University (重庆大学) preparation area was equally busy. In order to repair the aircraft before the competition, the team members often worked until 11 p.m., and some had to stay up until three or four in the morning. The roar of electric drills and the roar of engines became "white noise" to help them sleep. "I fall asleep as soon as I close my eyes," said Chen Yuxuan (陈宇轩), captain of the major model aircraft team and an undergraduate student at the School of Civil Engineering.
What supports them to spend several days and nights of the competition in this way?
The teenagers sleeping in the hangar gave their own answers. "We have the same pursuit—to turn the ideas in our hearts into flying in the sky," said Shi Xiaohan (史笑涵).
This love often begins with curiosity. Shi Xiaohan (史笑涵) recalled that she was attracted by several senior students in the model aircraft team, "I thought it was so cool for a small person to make a big plane." When she heard the roar of the engine echoing in the sky, she felt that "it was another step closer for ordinary people to conquer the broader blue sky."
Liu Benrui (刘本睿), an undergraduate student at the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics of Chongqing University (重庆大学航空航天学院), was deeply attracted by the unique airfoil and structural design when he visited the drone laboratory. "Why can it fly? One heartbeat made me choose to devote myself to aircraft design and witness the whole process of transforming theory into practice," said Liu Benrui (刘本睿).
To refine love into reliable flight on the field, a set of scientific training system is needed. At Hebei University of Science and Technology (河北科技大学), instructor Yang Zexia (杨泽夏) is a "veteran" who has grown up from a team member and knows the importance of systematic training: "We will ask them to submit their course schedules from the beginning of the freshman selection." The purpose of this is to arrange three weekly training sessions of several hours each in a reasonable way while ensuring academic studies.
People working side by side become "comrades-in-arms." "We are not just a student club, but also a team that tackles tough problems," Hao Yiming (郝一鸣), deputy captain of the Hebei University of Science and Technology (河北科技大学) model aircraft team and from the School of Electrical Engineering, defined it this way. In the studio, when everyone makes composite materials, everyone will invariably lie on the mold and listen intently to whether there is any air leakage; when carrying heavy objects, without being reminded, many hands will reach out at the same time. "We don't say go to the laboratory, we only say 'go home'," said Hao Yiming (郝一鸣).
Peer interaction dissolves the boundaries between schools. They may be opponents on the field, but in the hangar where they share joy and fatigue, everyone shares the same lights and harbors the same desire. This is such a rare confidant.
The "Crash" Moment is Also the Take-off Moment
In the world of model aircraft, the most feared sound is the dull sound of the plane crashing to the ground.
This may mean that months of hard work will instantly turn into debris all over the ground. But tempering often stems from failure. Facing difficulties requires a solid degree of professional learning, flexible resilience in team organization, and the necessary stress resistance.
In August, at the flying field in Fangshan (房山), Beijing (北京), the "perfect work" in the eyes of the Beihang (北航) team stalled and crashed. The reason was that the parameter settings were wrong during landing. The plane, made up of the most satisfactory parts of 8 team members, was torn to pieces, and the team was silent for half an hour.
As the "campus chief designer", Wang Hongkai (王鸿铠), an undergraduate student at the School of Energy and Power Engineering, broke the silence: "Don't be afraid, 'crashing' is common." He encouraged and dragged the team members out of their frustration.
Everyone quickly gathered around to check the structure, export flight control data, and review parameters—textbook knowledge was repeatedly interpreted into real test questions. In one hour, they completed the accident analysis; one day later, a new aircraft was born in the studio.
Model aircraft is a complex system engineering, and another challenge for the "campus chief designer" is to be able to carry out effective organization and scheduling.
The major model aircraft team participated in the "UAV fixed-point airdrop" project of the China College Students Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Design Innovation Grand Prix for the first time this year, and Yang Wendi (杨雯迪) started from scratch: zero technical accumulation, but the team size expanded, and the members had different goals. "I need to take into account everyone's learning plans and personal growth needs as much as possible," she said. The team is divided into groups according to projects, so that members with different goals can get what they want.
Before the competition, the aircraft crashed during a test flight, and the team arrived in Moganshan (莫干山) with the wreckage. With little time left, Yang Wendi (杨雯迪) actively scheduled and started a sprint in the hangar. She and everyone took shifts together: "When the engine group is working, the fuselage group spreads insulation sleeves on the ground to rest, and then takes turns to rest when the work is rotated." As the person in charge, she must not only coordinate technical problems, but also maintain morale during continuous all-nighters. Finally, the aircraft was "ready to go" in the early morning of the competition day.
"At least none of us regret doing this." This year, she built the team from scratch; during the days when the aircraft was reorganized during the competition, she twisted the members into a rope. Consolidating consensus and coordinating resources requires her wisdom.
What Hebei University of Science and Technology (河北科技大学) encountered was a sudden psychological extreme challenge.
More than 10 minutes before the competition check-in, they found that only 1 of the 4 engines could work. "The two project teams can only temporarily share 1," said Cao Zehao (曹泽浩), a member of the model aircraft team. The fault stemmed from the "hidden damage" accumulated by the long-term vibration of the machine, which broke out at the last moment.
30 minutes to complete disassembly, replacement and debugging. Sultry, nervous, and sweating profusely. There was no time to panic, they relied on the muscle memory and tacit understanding of their daily training to complete the task at the last moment. Cao Zehao (曹泽浩) said: "At that moment, I felt that the high-intensity work was not in vain."
"True strength lies not in never failing, but in being able to awaken deeper professional reserves, stimulate stronger collaborative wisdom, and maintain a more stable inner strength after failure," said Yang Zexia (杨泽夏).
Out of the Classroom, Towards the Road of "Chief Designer"
After the competition, the young people who disassembled the model aircraft and put it back in their suitcases and "hand-crafted" the aircraft returned to campus. This is a more important voyage—university, a journey to explore one's own potential inward and respond to the call of the times outward.
The direct feedback from the model aircraft team is that the knowledge in the books has a touch. Zhou Hongyang (周宏仰), an undergraduate student at the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics of Chongqing University (重庆大学航空航天学院), said: "The aerodynamics and structural mechanics learned in the classroom are 'knowing what it is', and through preparing for the competition, we have achieved 'knowing why it is'." From what he learned at school to what he used in the competition, the specific practice made Wang Hongkai (王鸿铠), who participated in the model aircraft team across majors, realize his true love, "I figured out what my major should be used for in the future."
This forging is not just professional learning. Shi Xiaohan (史笑涵) stepped down as captain in November, and she summarized this time: "The model aircraft team has changed me, especially my personal character and the way I get along with people." From an ordinary team member to the captain of more than 60 people, what she experienced was far more profound than the few minutes of flight on the field. In Hao Yiming's (郝一鸣) view: "These years of experience have made me more resilient and cultivated the ability to cope with multiple challenges at the same time."
The gains of the "campus chief designer" jointly confirm the simple power of practice: it makes knowledge come alive, allows interest to take root, and also makes vague youthful expectations become a clear direction in life.
When the transformation of individuals meets with a greater mission of the times, the model aircraft team also connects youthful vigor with national development.
Yang Zexia (杨泽夏) sees every year at the competition that the graduated team members also come to "join in the fun", and private rocket companies and drone companies come to exchange guidance, and even "poach people". The industry's attention has already been focused on these young figures. A technology company once expressed strong interest in the fully autonomous drone system of the Beihang (北航) team, discussing the possibility of reducing its cost and launching it on the market. The students' works are no longer limited to competition, but also touch the pulse of the real world.
Recognition also comes from the predecessors who once supported a sky for the country. During the China College Students Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Design Innovation Grand Prix, many academicians walked into the hangar.
After carefully inquiring about the technical details, many experts left instructions: "Serve the country," "Model aircraft is not a toy, it is an engineering product," "Treat yourself as a craftsman"... "This has planted a seed of serving the country through science and technology in the hearts of many students. Some team members are not from related majors, but they also 'flew' from the model aircraft team to the aerospace field," said Wei Zhen (魏榛), instructor of the major model aircraft team.
In recent years, the faces of Chinese college students have become more and more numerous on the stage of international competitions held in other countries. "In the early days, our materials were backward, so we went out to learn from others and came back to explore on our own," said Zhang Liang (张良). "Now our technology is mature, and foreign teams are asking us how we did it. During the competition, many team members gradually realized that the road to a strong country in science and technology not only requires hard-core technological innovation, but also requires participation in standard and rule-making to win their own voice."
The growth route is never limited to the sky above the flying field. When young people with tested professional knowledge and ignited technological dreams move towards research institutes, tackling projects or the forefront of industry, the "chief designers" in the future engineering field may be among them. The aircraft that was once held up, gazed at, and chased by their youth ultimately carries themselves, flying to the vast sky that resonates with personal ideals and is more in sync with national needs.
(Xue Siyuan (薛思远) participated in the writing)
Return to TopBy: 黄 超
In today's era, university students are increasingly becoming a new force in the field of scientific and technological innovation and entrepreneurship. They harbor dreams and are beginning to stand out in the wave of scientific and technological innovation. On the journey of realizing their dreams, there is a pair of wings supporting them. One wing is the feeling of patriotism, and the other is the love of their major. The two complement each other and jointly support the lofty aspirations of young people.
Schools should start from two levels: love of country and love of major, guiding university students to integrate their personal ideals into national development. Patriotic feelings are the foundation, inspiring young people to take it as their responsibility to serve the country with science and technology; professional love is the driving force, promoting them to cultivate deeply in subdivided fields. This one-body-two-wings concept is an important logic for effectively cultivating innovative talents with both social responsibility and professional competence.
From the perspective of the integrated development of education, technology, and talent, the cultivation of innovative awareness outside the classroom is crucial. Traditional teaching often focuses on knowledge transfer, while easily neglecting the inspiration in practice. Educators should attach importance to discovering students' innovative potential in extracurricular scenarios such as laboratories and entrepreneurial competitions. For example, through project-based learning, students can directly face real problems and exercise their ability to solve complex problems. This kind of cultivation method can ignite the spark of innovation in young people earlier and lay the seeds for future technological breakthroughs.
Innovative ability is not achieved in a day, but requires long-term immersion. The education system needs to build a supportive environment, such as strengthening school-enterprise cooperation to provide practical platforms; encouraging interdisciplinary exchanges to broaden thinking horizons, etc. Only in this way can university students soar freely in the sky of scientific and technological innovation.
Return to TopBy: 吴 月
Recently, while interviewing at universities, I heard students share some "treasure" courses: Tsinghua University's (清华大学) "Mind Exploration" course, where arriving one hour early still meant finding the 200+ person classroom already packed; Zhejiang University's (浙江大学) "Silk Road and Sino-Foreign Cultural Exchange" course, where students both read historical materials and engaged in hands-on practice; Southwest Jiaotong University's (西南交通大学) "Civil Engineering Geology" course, which often takes students out of the classroom and to the front lines of major national projects...
Another voice is also worth noting. On one hand, social media often sees students complaining about "watered-down courses" wasting time; on the other hand, some teachers report that some students are on their phones in class, not looking up, and not interacting, and when questions are posed, the audience is as still as a frozen lake. Some media reports also indicate that the phenomenon of college students finding someone to take classes for them occurs from time to time.
Some courses are very popular, while others have poor results. What is the reason?
Whether students can learn something is an important distinction between the two types of courses. From the demand side, learning methods are changing: learning MOOCs, asking AI, watching videos, and mobile classrooms may be better than the lectures in front of them; finding internships, joining clubs, everything requires energy, competing for students' attention; and some students have "clear goals" as soon as they enter school, hoping that what they learn will directly help them with further education and employment. In this context, students also have new expectations for courses.
In order to improve teaching effectiveness, some schools and teachers have put forward requirements for students' attendance rate, head-up rate, and front-row seating rate, some supervise students to attend classes through roll call and photo check-in, and some advocate "mobile phones in bags" and reduce the use of electronic products. However, "being present" is not the same as "being engaged," and being there does not mean being focused. "Treasure" courses are attractive, not because of roll call and check-in, but because of the quality of teaching.
Reduce the space for "watered-down courses." Some students report that from "8 a.m." to "10 p.m.," the schedule is full, leaving little time for reading and thinking; each course has learning tasks, and sometimes they can only rush to do homework in class. In response, some schools are exploring reducing credits and eliminating "watered-down courses": Fudan University (复旦大学) launched the 3.0 version of education and teaching reform this year, reducing redundant content through stage-by-stage integration; starting from the 2025 class, the training programs for some undergraduate majors at Beijing Information Science & Technology University (北京信息科技大学) will reduce about 30 credits, striving for "0 watering"... Sometimes, appropriately subtracting and leaving more blank space can help students invest in the classroom.
Improve the "gold content" of courses. Some courses are important in themselves, but have become "watered-down courses" due to outdated teaching methods. Students describe them this way: the content is updated slowly, not keeping up with the times; teachers are used to reading courseware and lecturing from the book; and some classes let students give group reports throughout the class, but lack professional guidance. In recent years, education departments and universities at all levels have been promoting the construction of first-class courses, focusing on improving the high-level, innovative, and challenging nature of courses, precisely to create more "golden courses" that students truly love and benefit from for life.
Stimulate teachers' enthusiasm. The key to talent cultivation lies in teachers, but it is also a fact that teachers have heavy tasks, and some schools focus on scientific research and neglect teaching in the evaluation process, which to some extent affects teachers' investment in educating people. Recently, the "Guiding Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of Young Teachers in Colleges and Universities in the New Era" was issued, which proposed that attention should be paid to the application of teaching performance in tenure assessment, professional title evaluation, performance distribution, and award evaluation. Those who devote themselves to educating people are encouraged, and educational innovation will be more motivated.
It should also be seen that a good course is jointly achieved by teachers and students. In reality, there is also such a phenomenon: some students jokingly say that the expectation for the course is "few things to do, low requirements, and high grades"; some teachers worry that strict requirements for students may affect the teaching evaluation results. In fact, learning easily and giving high grades is not necessarily a good course. The standard of a good course is not entirely based on students' immediate feedback, but also on the long-term impact on students; the effect of the course depends not only on the teacher's efforts, but also on the students' investment.
The significance of a good course often becomes apparent after a period of time. Walking out of campus, recalling the courses taken, some have received high scores, but are already vaguely remembered; some have learned hard, but have gained double the nourishment from them; some missed courses are now difficult to hear again... The university is a place for seeking knowledge and cultivating people. Teachers teach with their hearts, and students understand with their hearts, so that a beautiful classroom landscape can be drawn.
Return to TopBy: 夏立新
As a new generation of digital technology aggregation, generative artificial intelligence has become an important driving force for a new round of technological revolution. Promoting the deep integration of artificial intelligence and education is an important measure to accelerate the construction of a strong education nation and run education that satisfies the people, and it is also an inevitable requirement to seize the dominant power in international science and technology competition and accelerate the development of new quality productive forces. Generative artificial intelligence has injected new vitality into higher education and provided new paths for solving educational and teaching problems.
Upgrading the talent training model. From the "teacher-student" teaching of interpersonal interaction, to the "teacher-student-machine" teaching of human-machine interaction, and then to the "teacher-student-intelligence" teaching of human-intelligence collaboration, generative artificial intelligence helps to reshape the education ecology and alleviate the contradiction between "standardized supply" and "personalized demand." For example, creating interdisciplinary research projects, real-time cases, and personalized explanations, infiltrating the entire chain of "teaching, learning, management, evaluation, and examination" such as intelligent Q&A, intelligent lesson preparation, intelligent summaries, and intelligent marking, and building an open field seamlessly connected to the cloud, terminal, and scene ends, promoting human-intelligence collaboration can help teachers and students learn independently, explore deeply, or answer questions instantly.
Improving the level of talent supply. Generative artificial intelligence is of great value for promoting the independent cultivation of top innovative talents. For example, building a virtual-real integrated inquiry-based learning environment, adaptive learning system, and personalized growth path, and guiding students to conduct critical thinking and creative ideas, helps to solve the problem of insufficient excavation of talent potential; sharing AI dual-teacher classrooms, intelligent teaching and research platforms, and teaching resource libraries, narrowing the educational gap between regions, urban and rural areas, and schools, helps to solve the problem of uneven distribution of talent quantity; relying on machine learning, big data analysis, and intelligent recommendation, improving the efficiency of human resource allocation in the whole society helps to solve the problem of mismatch between talent supply and demand.
Releasing the creative vitality of talents. In scientific research, we should strengthen the research and development of large models with multi-modal, multi-scene, and multi-task capabilities, accelerate the convergence of elements such as talent, technology, and data, and accelerate the pace of artificial intelligence-driven scientific research. In terms of industrial form, we should optimize traditional industrial links such as research and development, design, production, and sales, accelerate the deep integration with strategic emerging fields such as information, biology, energy, and materials, and breed new processes, new products, and new industries. In social governance, it should be integrated into the organizational texture of social operation, widely empowering vertical industry fields such as government affairs, finance, and manufacturing, and promoting the deep coupling of the education chain, innovation chain, talent chain, and industrial chain.
Developing new quality productive forces relies on science and technology, the key lies in talent, and the foundation lies in education. Accelerating the deep integration of generative artificial intelligence and education, activating new quality productive forces in education, opening up new tracks for education development, and shaping new advantages in education development will help unswervingly follow the path of independent cultivation of top innovative talents, and provide strong support for comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.
(The author is the Party Secretary of Central China Normal University (华中师范大学), and this article was compiled by Tian Doudou (田豆豆), a reporter from this newspaper.)
By: 本报记者 丁雅诵
On the podium of the No. 3 Middle School in Kuqa City (库车市) , Xinjiang (新疆), a robot, just over 30 centimeters tall, bypasses obstacles, picks up items, and completes weighing, simulating a complete logistics scenario—this is a robot experiment brought by the Graduate Student Support Education Group of Harbin Institute of Technology (哈尔滨工业大学), and also a popular science class loved by local middle school students.
"Where does AI come from?" "How to let computers 'understand' the real world?" Zhou Yuhang (周宇航), a member of the support education group, ignited the students' curiosity with questions, and introduced cutting-edge knowledge such as artificial intelligence and robot programming into teaching in an easy-to-understand way.
Changes are also quietly taking place. With the completion of the HIT (哈工大)-Leju Artificial Intelligence Robot Laboratory, characteristic clubs such as drones, intelligent robots, and programming have taken root in Kuqa No. 3 Middle School. Last year, students from Kuqa No. 3 Middle School won awards in the National Primary and Secondary School Information Technology Innovation and Practice Competition.
Schools and localities work together to build the future. In recent years, Harbin Institute of Technology (哈尔滨工业大学) has taken the initiative and actively played a role in promoting the effective connection between Xinjiang's (新疆) resources and industrial advantages and the school's talent training, discipline construction, and scientific research, using education as a pen and technology as ink, writing an era answer sheet for education assistance to Xinjiang (新疆) at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains (天山).
Technological empowerment injects new impetus into Xinjiang's (新疆) development. Extreme weather is a severe challenge facing the safe and stable operation of the power grid. Facing this problem, Professor Tan Yiqiu's (谭忆秋) team from the School of Transportation Science and Engineering of Harbin Institute of Technology (哈尔滨工业大学) rose to the challenge and collaborated with State Grid Xinjiang Electric Power Co., Ltd. (国网新疆电力有限公司) to successfully develop "photothermal bionic hydrophobic anti-icing" technology suitable for harsh working conditions.
Like a layer of "magic coating," this technology puts an intelligent protective clothing on the power grid lines that combines "tough armor" and the "lotus leaf effect"—it can not only effectively resist ice and snow erosion, but also breaks through the technical bottleneck that anti-icing coatings are difficult to achieve in both durability and hydrophobicity.
"This achievement has been promoted and applied on key equipment such as wind turbine blades, which has improved the efficiency and safety of transmission lines, and achieved significant economic and social benefits," said He Zongjing (贺宗晶), a member of the team and associate professor at Harbin Institute of Technology (哈尔滨工业大学). He said that they will continue to work together to contribute to the construction of the west.
"Around high-end equipment manufacturing, oil and gas exploration and development and utilization, intelligent manufacturing of building materials, park and industrial planning, Harbin Institute of Technology (哈尔滨工业大学) and Xinjiang (新疆) enterprises have carried out more than 70 industry-university-research cooperation projects," introduced Zhao Yijie (赵轶杰), director of the Domestic Cooperation Department and director of the Technology Transfer Center of Harbin Institute of Technology (哈尔滨工业大学). This year, the school and Urumqi High-tech Zone (Xinshi District) (乌鲁木齐高新区（新市区）) jointly built a technology transfer branch center to promote the transformation and implementation of high-quality scientific and technological achievements and help key industries transform and upgrade.
Drawing a concentric circle for Xinjiang's (新疆) development, more talents gather—
"When I came back from supporting education in Kashgar (喀什) for the first time, I couldn't forget the students' eager eyes for knowledge. So, I applied to go to Kashgar (喀什) again to continue the mission of the Silver Age Teacher," said Liu Zhao (刘昭), a retired professor from the School of Astronautics of Harbin Institute of Technology (哈尔滨工业大学), who is over seventy years old. He went to Kashgar University (喀什大学) twice to support education, imparting decades of accumulated teaching experience.
At present, Harbin Institute of Technology (哈尔滨工业大学) has selected 11 Silver Age Teachers to go to Kashgar University (喀什大学) to participate in curriculum construction, professional construction, and guidance of young teachers.
"Through visits and discussions, I have a deeper understanding of the western part of the motherland, and I am also more determined to take root at the grassroots level." Some time ago, a government internship group composed of 11 master's and doctoral students came to Karamay (克拉玛依) to carry out a 4-week government internship.
In 2024, Harbin Institute of Technology (哈尔滨工业大学) signed government internship practice base agreements with Karamay City (克拉玛依市) and Kashgar City (喀什市) respectively. In the past two years, more than 50 students have gone to Xinjiang (新疆) to carry out internship and practice activities, receiving education, growing talents, and making contributions at the grassroots level, planting the seeds of making contributions to the west in their hearts.
"Choosing to return to Xinjiang (新疆) and realize personal value in grassroots practice is very meaningful," said Sarina (萨日娜), a graduate of Harbin Institute of Technology (哈尔滨工业大学) and a selected student, expressing the aspirations of many teachers and students who have taken root in the border areas.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张 烁 贺林平 江 琳
Of the same root and origin, with the same heart and shared destiny, together we pursue the same dream.
At the 15th National Games and the Special Olympics for the Disabled, the concentric fireworks formed by the overlapping and rotating Guangdong kapok, Hong Kong bauhinia, and Macau lotus symbolize the integration and interconnection, and unlimited vitality of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区), backed by the motherland and blooming to the world.
The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) is one of the most open and economically vibrant regions in China. At the same time, the special conditions of "one country, two systems, three customs territories, and three currencies" also present it with the realistic challenges of "daring to explore" and "daring to experiment."
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out that "it is necessary to seize the major historical opportunity of the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) and promote the connection of rules and the alignment of mechanisms for the economic operation of the three places." The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal puts forward consolidating and enhancing the role of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) as a high-quality development engine, "supporting Hong Kong and Macao to better integrate into and serve the overall national development, and strengthening cooperation between Hong Kong and Macao and the mainland in economy, trade, science and technology, and culture."
Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," the connection of rules and the alignment of mechanisms in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) have been continuously deepened: 262 "Bay Area Standards" have been released, 270 "Bay Area Certification" certificates have been issued, more than 8,000 Hong Kong and Macao professionals have practiced in Guangdong, the "Cross-boundary Wealth Management Connect" has been optimized, the "Hong Kong and Macao Medicine and Equipment Connect" has achieved full coverage in the nine mainland cities of the Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区), and 187 high-frequency government service items can be handled "across the border"...
Reform requires not only systematic integration and synergistic efforts, but also grasping the key points and making precise efforts. The connection of rules and the alignment of mechanisms are precisely the "leading strings" for promoting the integrated development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区).
Unifying "Weights and Measures" to Enhance Market Integration
Different standards are like different languages.
A cold chain truck carrying refrigerated and frozen food runs cross-border transportation between Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao. Previously, every time it crossed the border, it had to meet the standards of temperature control and inspection requirements of the place of exit, and then "benchmark" with the place of entry, which was time-consuming and laborious, and sometimes even "broken chain," leading to product deterioration.
The root of the problem lies in the lack of mutually recognized cold chain distribution technology and operating standards in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao. To solve this problem, Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao jointly formulated two "Bay Area Standards": "Operating Specifications for the Circulation of Refrigerated and Frozen Pre-packaged Foods" and "Cold Chain Temperature Control Specifications for Pre-made Dishes." After the implementation of the "Bay Area Standards," the spoilage rate of refrigerated and frozen foods has been reduced by about 15%.
From silk rice, peanut oil, soy sauce, egg rolls, and cookies on the table, to the intelligent operation and maintenance data of bridges, islands, and tunnels at the forefront of the technology industry... Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao jointly build, share, and use "Bay Area Standards," using standards as a "common language" to promote integrated development.
At present, 262 "Bay Area Standards" have covered transportation, medical care, food, elderly care, childcare and other fields. "As a carrier for the common needs and sharing of advanced technologies and management experience in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao, the 'Bay Area Standards' have become a consensus among more and more people in the Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区), and are widely used by all sectors of society as technical specifications, service guidelines, and training guides, and the application scenarios continue to expand," said the head of the Standards Innovation Management Department of the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局).
"This bean sprout is a 'Bay Area Certified' product, buy it with confidence, it's crisp and refreshing." On weekends, Ms. Liu (刘女士), a Hong Kong citizen, was shopping in a supermarket near her home and put a box of bean sprouts in her shopping cart. One item, one code, scanning the QR code on the packaging box shows "The product meets the mandatory national food safety standards of (China) Mainland and the mandatory regulations of Hong Kong and Macao, no growth promoters are added during the cultivation process, no rooting agents are added, and no pesticides or fertilizers are used."
Plum wine without added flavors and colors, table lamps that are closer to natural light, and tile adhesives with better environmental protection indicators... Following the "Bay Area Standards," Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao jointly promote "Bay Area Certification," which has become another important starting point for promoting the integrated development of the Greater Bay Area (大湾区).
"We will actively participate in the 'Bay Area Certification' work, promote the integrated development of quality certification in the Greater Bay Area (大湾区), help more high-quality products enter the Greater Bay Area (大湾区), and let the achievements of 'Bay Area Certification' benefit the three places," said Ir. C. S. Ho (陈沛昌), President of the Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency (香港品质保证局). As of now, "Bay Area Certification" has issued a total of 270 certificates in the fields of agricultural food products, industrial consumer goods, and green building materials. A number of "Bay Area Certified" products such as He Shun bean sprouts and Yantang milk are deeply loved by consumers in the three places.
"One certification, three places pass," "Bay Area Certification" allows high-quality goods to travel smoothly in the Greater Bay Area (大湾区), and has also become a "gold lettered signboard" trusted by consumers.
Creating a "Conversion Interface" to Build a Bridge of Interconnection
"In the past, because Hong Kong credit institutions found it difficult to verify the authenticity of the credit of mainland enterprises, it was difficult to obtain loans in Hong Kong. Now, through the Shenzhen-Hong Kong cross-border data verification platform, a loan of 5 million Hong Kong dollars can be processed in one week," said Fu Xifan (符晰帆), manager of Shenzhen Oriental Ruide Electronics Co., Ltd. (深圳市东方瑞德电子有限公司).
The legal systems, data security, and privacy protection requirements of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao are different, and the credit reports provided by credit service agencies are also not uniform, and there are difficulties in reading each other. The Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission (广东省发展改革委) guided Shenzhen (深圳市) and Jiangmen (江门市) to organize relevant credit professional service agencies in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao to promote the mutual recognition of cross-border credit report standards in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao, and focused on the "conversion" of credit report standards rather than "unifying" the credit reports of the three places, paving the way for cross-border credit services.
The connection of rules and the alignment of mechanisms does not mean "consistency," and sometimes it cannot even be "organically unified." The idea of solving the problem is to find the "greatest common divisor" on the basis of acknowledging differences and respecting differences, and to break down barriers and achieve interconnection through a "conversion interface."
For road transport goods traveling between the mainland and Hong Kong, it was previously necessary to declare manifest data to the mainland customs and Hong Kong customs separately. Now, at Shenzhen Customs (深圳海关), only one manifest information needs to be filled in on the China International Trade "Single Window," and the system will automatically convert the data into the format required by the customs of the two places to complete the manifest declaration procedures on both sides.
Shenzhen Customs (深圳海关) and Hong Kong Customs (香港海关) cooperate to promote the connection of rules, and the "one-time entry, two-place use" of "one single and two declarations" saves time and effort. "It can not only save the labor cost of repeated entry, but also reduce declaration errors," said Zhang Kan (张侃), deputy director of the Comprehensive Business Division of Shenzhen Customs (深圳海关综合业务处). As of now, 2013 declarations have been completed through the "one single and two declarations" of road manifests.
"Gongbei Customs (拱北海关) is based on the inherent advantages of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao cooperation, innovatively implemented 22 customs cross-border cooperation mechanisms, and took the lead in building a 'five-dimensional integrated' customs supervision model of classification, risk, credit, collaboration, and intelligence to help Hengqin (横琴) build a new high ground for the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区)," introduced Zhan Shaotong (詹少彤), Director of Gongbei Customs (拱北海关).
"Hong Kong Cars Northbound" ("港车北上") and "Macao Cars Northbound" ("澳车北上") effectively solve the problem of Hong Kong and Macao private cars entering the mainland by issuing electronic licenses, implementing "guarantee-free policies," and cross-border car insurance "equivalent recognition first"; Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao cargo cross-border "three places one lock," the customs of the three places use the same safety smart lock, intelligent nuclear release of cross-border vehicles and goods, effectively saving logistics costs by about 28%, and compressing customs clearance and transportation time by about 30%...
A variety of "conversion interfaces" allow Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao to continuously promote positive progress in "soft connectivity" without changing the existing system differences.
Weaving a Dense "Collaborative Network" to Jointly Build a High-Quality Living Circle that is Suitable for Living, Working, and Traveling
In the Hengqin Port (横琴口岸) passenger inspection hall, passengers walk towards three transparent automatic gates.
A lady handed the documents to her daughter, and the child skillfully swiped the documents first, passed through the first door; then verified fingerprints and performed face recognition to pass through the second door; the staff of the entry party verified the information in the background and found it to be correct, and the third door opened. The entire customs clearance time takes only about 20 seconds. Looking at the extension line of the middle door, the office area on the side is also bounded by this, and the staff of Macao and Zhuhai (珠海) "work side by side" across the glass half wall, and the communication is zero distance.
The connection of two systems is realized in the same physical space, meeting the different requirements of two sets of standards. Behind the "cooperative inspection and one-time release" is the close cooperation between Hengqin (横琴) and Macao.
"Hong Kong and Macao Medicine and Equipment Connect" has opened up a channel for innovative drugs and equipment to quickly enter the mainland, improved the convenience of medical treatment for Hong Kong and Macao residents working and living in mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area (大湾区), and better met the needs of residents in the Greater Bay Area (大湾区) for drugs and equipment; "Bay Area Social Security Connect" has created an online platform to realize "Bay Area Through-handling" of service items; the Greater Bay Area (大湾区) exclusive critical illness insurance is connected to Hong Kong and Macao, and has been generally recognized by the market... Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao focus on the concerns of residents in the Greater Bay Area (大湾区), weave a dense "collaborative network," and use "small cuts" to leverage "major changes" in the integration of people's livelihoods in the three places.
Taking major cooperation platforms between Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao such as Hengqin (横琴), Qianhai (前海), Nansha (南沙), and Hetao (河套) as carriers, using points to drive the surface, promoting the integrated connection of rules and mechanisms in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao, and promoting the efficient and convenient flow of various factors—
In Hengqin (横琴), the public services of Macau New Neighborhood (澳门新街坊) tend to be the same as those in Macao, and more Macao residents are starting a new experience of living in two cities; Gongbei Customs (拱北海关) pioneered the implementation of policies and measures such as convenient customs clearance for Macao residents to carry animals and plants and household items, making customs clearance more "unfelt."
In Qianhai (前海), the connection of cross-border commercial legal rules and the alignment of mechanisms are realized, the high-level opening of the legal service industry is promoted, and in-depth exchanges with the judiciary of Hong Kong and Macao are promoted; 26 types of Hong Kong and Macao professionals such as Hong Kong tax advisors and Macao accountants can practice after filing (registration).
In Nansha (南沙), the Minsheng Hong Kong Children's School (民心港人子弟学校) adopts the Hong Kong school system, seamlessly connecting with the local Hong Kong curriculum; in the general practice clinic, patients can connect with Hong Kong doctors through remote consultation and prescribe commonly used Hong Kong medicines.
In Hetao (河套), the Shenzhen Park (深圳园区) focuses on common problems in the industry, introduces high-precision and cutting-edge teams, innovates scientific research systems and mechanisms, and accelerates the establishment of a scientific research management system that connects with Hong Kong and integrates with international standards.
The tide surges in the Bay Area (湾区), and thousands of sails compete.
Looking forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) will continue to transform "system differences" into "system advantages," with roads connected, cities integrated, and hearts connected, and a magnificent picture of a world-class bay area and a world-class city cluster is slowly unfolding.
(Our reporter Hong Qiuting (洪秋婷) participated in the writing)
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Following the "Hong Kong cars heading north" ("港车北上") and "Macau cars heading north" ("澳车北上") policies, "Guangdong cars heading south" ("粤车南下") has begun a new journey.
On the morning of November 15th, at the Hong Kong Port transfer parking lot of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (港珠澳大桥), warm applause erupted as a private car with a Guangdong A license plate drove in. The Hong Kong Airport Authority (香港机场管理局) held a special welcoming ceremony to greet the first batch of "Guangdong cars heading south" travelers.
"We drove from the Zhuhai Highway Port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (港珠澳大桥珠海公路口岸), and the whole journey was very smooth. It's much more convenient for the whole family to travel," said Ms. Cai (蔡女士) from Guangzhou (广州), happily holding her young daughter. After parking, Ms. Cai's family can directly reach Hong Kong International Airport (香港国际机场) to catch their flight without going through Hong Kong immigration procedures.
From 00:00 on November 15th, the "Guangdong cars heading south" policy was officially implemented. Eligible Guangdong private car owners can drive through the Zhuhai Highway Port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (港珠澳大桥珠海公路口岸) into the Hong Kong Port automated parking lot. At the Zhuhai Highway Port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (港珠澳大桥珠海公路口岸), qualified Guangdong private cars and owners can pass through the "one-stop" inspection of vehicle inspection, facial recognition, and fingerprint comparison in less than 1 minute. After arriving at the transfer parking lot, it only takes half an hour for passengers to enter the integrated inspection booth, check in their car, and transfer to the airport shuttle bus.
"Guangdong private car owners can take flights from Hong Kong International Airport (香港国际机场) covering more than 200 destinations worldwide after parking. This model realizes the complementary advantages of land and air transportation, and further strengthens the hub status of Hong Kong International Airport (香港国际机场)," said Lam Sai-hung (林世雄), Secretary for Transport and Logistics of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government.
According to relevant arrangements, the "Guangdong cars heading south" policy to enter the Hong Kong urban area will be officially implemented on December 23. "'Guangdong cars heading south' policy realizes one bridge, two-way travel, and benefits all industries, bringing unlimited opportunities to Hong Kong," said Lam Sai-hung (林世雄). People in Hong Kong's catering, hotel and other industries have responded very positively to the policy and are eagerly looking forward to welcoming the first batch of tourists entering the Hong Kong urban area.
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At the Macao Special Administrative Region Government Integrated Service Center located on Avenida de Venceslau de Morais (慕拉士大馬路) in Macao (澳门), the newly added remote service counters are attracting attention. "The counter is like an independent small room, with a whole new world inside." Ms. Li (李女士), who is pregnant and finds it inconvenient to handle related matters across the border, booked a remote counter service through the "Macao One Account for Public Services" mobile app.
Arriving at the appointed time, Ms. Li scanned the reservation QR code, and the door of the small room opened automatically. After taking a seat, an image of a staff member appeared on the screen, guiding Ms. Li to first scan the QR code of her electronic identity card to confirm the applicant's identity, then verify the application materials, submit the required documents, perform facial recognition, and confirm the application matters... The application process was completed in less than two minutes.
In 2024, the Macao Special Administrative Region Government piloted remote service counters for the first time at the Macao Government Affairs 24-hour Self-service Center in the Macao New Neighborhood in Hengqin (横琴澳门新街坊澳门政务24小时自助服务中心). The equipment is linked to "Macao One Account for Public Services" (澳门公共服务一户通) and "Business Community Connect" (商社通), and has functions such as video calls, identity verification, document scanning, and data transmission, facilitating Macao residents in Hengqin (横琴) to communicate with front desk reception staff of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government at zero distance via video to handle Macao government services.
Since November 4, new remote service counters have been added in Macao (澳门) and Hengqin (横琴) respectively, achieving a new breakthrough in handling Hengqin affairs in Macao and Macao affairs in Hengqin, and further enhancing the level of integration between Hengqin and Macao. According to reports, the Macao Special Administrative Region has set up 3 remote service counters at the Venceslau de Morais Government Integrated Service Center (慕拉士政府綜合服務中心). Macao residents can handle or inquire about 120 services from 6 departments in the Guangdong-Macao In-depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin (横琴粤澳深度合作区) without crossing the border, covering commercial affairs, taxation, real estate, and notarization, realizing the handling of Hengqin affairs in Macao. The Guangdong-Macao In-depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin has added 2 remote service counters in the Hengqin Citizen Service Center (横琴市民服务中心), and the Macao government services that can be handled or inquired about have been expanded to 175 services from 11 departments, involving identity certification, social security, etc., realizing the handling of Macao affairs in Hengqin.
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"Come to Fujian (福建) for good fortune, with songs all along the mountains and seas." Recently, at the Kaohsiung (高雄) Winter Travel Fair and the Tainan (台南) Travel Fair in Taiwan (台湾), the Fujian (福建) tourism promotion booths were bustling with people. The "World Heritage Tour," "Tea Aroma Tour," "Maritime Silk Road Tour," "Ancient House Tour," and "Folk Custom Tour" attracted many Taiwanese compatriots to stop and browse brochures and learn about travel routes. Familiar accents made everyone feel even closer.
Not only Fujian (福建), but in recent years, the night view of the Bund (外滩) in Shanghai (上海), the scenery of Lijiang (丽江) in Yunnan (云南), and the ancient city of Kashgar (喀什) in Xinjiang (新疆)... these landscapes in short videos have become destinations for many Taiwanese compatriots to "just go." According to statistics from relevant authorities in Taiwan (台湾), as of August, the number of Taiwanese residents traveling to the mainland this year has exceeded 2 million—behind the numbers is an unstoppable enthusiasm for exchange and an inseparable blood connection.
This wave of exchange has deep historical and cultural connections. Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait share the same roots, the same origin, and the same culture. Chinese culture is the root and belonging of the hearts of compatriots on both sides of the Strait. A girl from Tainan (台南) frankly said, "I want to go to Quanzhou (泉州), Fujian (福建) to see, that is my ancestral home." Inspired by the movie "Chang'an (长安) Thirty Thousand Miles" to yearn for Xi'an (西安), Shaanxi (陕西), searching online for travel guides to Zhangjiajie (张家界), Hunan (湖南), planning to enjoy the great rivers and mountains and taste local delicacies... Many Taiwanese compatriots are no longer satisfied with group tours, but instead do research, buy equipment, experience playing around the mainland with a mobile phone, and rush to this land that is both fresh and familiar.
This sense of closeness is inseparable from the goodwill and convenience continuously released by the motherland. Today, from the ethnic customs of Kashgar (喀什) in the northwest to the northern scenery of Fuyuan (抚远) in the northeast, from the tropical rainforest of Mohan (磨憨) in the southwest to the blue sea and blue sky of Pingtan (平潭) in the southeast, 56 air ports, 27 water ports, and 17 railway and highway ports can conveniently issue one-time valid Taiwan Compatriot Permits, allowing Taiwanese compatriots to travel freely in the mainland for 3 months; Taiwanese compatriots who come to the mainland for the first time are not only exempt from the Taiwan Compatriot Permit fee, but also enjoy free tickets to over 3,000 scenic spots. At the Xiamen (厦门) Wutong (五通) Passenger Terminal in Fujian (福建), you can apply for a mobile phone card and bind mobile payment as soon as you get off the boat; in Huangqi (黄岐), Fuzhou (福州), Fujian (福建), you can apply for a temporary motor vehicle driving permit on the spot and experience a self-driving tour... These measures make it a reality for Taiwanese tourists to "just go," making travel destinations richer, methods more diverse, and experiences more in-depth. Many Taiwanese tourists say, "I've been there several times, and I want to go again."
However, the Democratic Progressive Party (民进党) authorities are moving against the tide, refusing to lift the "ban on group tours" and "orange" warning for travel to the mainland, and refusing to respond to the call to fully restore direct passenger flights between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. Many Taiwanese tourists have to transfer through Hong Kong (香港) and Macau (澳门), taking detours, just to rush to the mainland. "Knowing that I am from Taiwan (台湾), the shop owner will stuff me with a lot of snacks," some Taiwanese compatriots lamented. How can such warmth be blocked by political manipulation?
A shallow strait cannot block the blood ties of kinship. As more and more Taiwanese compatriots cross the strait to personally feel the magnificent mountains and rivers, profound history, and modern vitality of the mainland, the mainland also enters the hearts of Taiwanese compatriots with a more real, three-dimensional, and diverse image. Here, there are not only great rivers and mountains, but also a warm belonging to the bloodline. We look forward to more and more Taiwanese compatriots coming home to visit often!
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Soothing the pain of the fire in Tai Po (大埔), Hong Kong, disaster relief and recovery work are being advanced in an orderly manner; the Legislative Council election was successfully held, and the newly elected members of the Legislative Council are about to take over the important task of serving the people... In winter, countless people in Hong Kong are practicing the Lion Rock Spirit with action, working together, overcoming difficulties, and moving firmly towards governance and prosperity.
When disaster strikes, unity is the strongest defense. The sudden fire caused serious trauma to Hong Kong, and the disaster relief and recovery also witnessed true friendship in adversity. The Central Government showed great concern, the Mainland provided strong support, the Chief Executive and the Special Administrative Region Government responded quickly and effectively, and all sectors of society worked together and helped each other. Donations of clothing, food, drinking water, and other supplies were continuously sent to temporary shelters, and a large number of Hong Kong citizens lined up to donate blood spontaneously... When receiving relief supplies from the Mainland, some could not help but burst into tears: in the face of disaster, they understand what compatriots are even more.
In the election, responsibility is the most distinctive background color. In the face of the fire accident, many candidates stepped forward and rushed to the front line, some contacted and integrated relevant community groups and volunteer teams, some turned the election office material station into a disaster relief material collection point, and some stayed up all night at the temporary shelter... The majority of voters shouted the slogan "If you truly love Hong Kong, vote sincerely," casting a sacred vote for Hong Kong, for the country, and also for themselves, for their families, and for the next generation. This election fully demonstrates the advanced nature and superiority of the new election system under the principle of fully implementing "patriots governing Hong Kong," providing strong support for better promoting post-disaster reconstruction and promoting Hong Kong's courageous progress.
From disaster relief and recovery to the election, what Hong Kong has shown is not only emergency response capabilities, but also a deeper level of cohesion. Human kindness and great unity and love make this city more resilient in the face of trials. As Hong Kong citizens expect, they hope that the new Legislative Council members will go deep into the community, connect with all sectors, understand the people's sentiments, offer suggestions, and promote good governance and better development with high-quality democracy.
Today's Hong Kong is strengthening its security defenses in the process of reconstruction and recovery, and gathering development synergy in the transition between the old and the new. It is believed that with the institutional guarantee of "one country, two systems" (一国两制), and with the concerted efforts of all sectors of society, Hong Kong will surely move steadily forward on the road from governance to prosperity, and write a more glorious future.
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Youth breeds infinite hope, and the art of youth is also promising. In vibrant Chongqing (重庆), a grand art exhibition that gathers the creative power of young people from across the country and surges with innovative vitality—the 8th National Youth Art Exhibition—recently opened at the Art Museum of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute (四川美术学院美术馆). The 482 works, covering nine major art categories including Chinese painting, oil painting, printmaking, sculpture, watercolor/pastel, lacquer painting, illustration, comic strip, and mixed media painting, comprehensively demonstrate the new achievements and characteristics of Chinese youth art creation in recent years.
As a grand event that focuses on reviewing youth art creation and has a wide impact, the National Youth Art Exhibition, since its establishment in 1957, has, after 68 years of accumulation, formed its own development logic and youth narrative with distinctive youth characteristics and innovative spirit. It has become an important display platform for discovering, supporting, uniting, and reserving young art talents, and leading and promoting the development of Chinese youth art creation. Luo Zhongli's (罗中立) oil painting "Father" and Wang Gongyi's (王公懿) woodcut series "Qiu Jin (秋瑾)" that emerged from the National Youth Art Exhibition have become classics of an era.
Faced with the new era, the creative vision and artistic thinking of young art workers have also undergone new changes. Walking through the exhibition hall, the atmosphere of the times is overwhelming. Young creators consciously focus on the themes of national construction, scientific and technological development, ecological civilization, and comprehensive rural revitalization, using artistic brushes to depict the changes in social development, the ever-changing lives of the people, and the new atmosphere of the people's spiritual outlook. For example, Hong Fangzhou's (洪方舟) "Spring Breeze Dyes Eighteen Caves (春风尽染十八洞)" reproduces the prosperous and abundant new look of the Xiangxi (湘西) Miao Village (苗寨) with the unique and agile brushstrokes of Chinese painting; Ge Yihang's (葛易航) "Longjiang (龙江) Bond" freezes the moment when the Harmony (和谐号) high-speed train speeds through the countryside through the clear and moist texture of watercolor painting; Fan Lei's (樊磊) oil painting "Riding the Wind" (踏风行) (see Figure 2) conveys the contemporary youth's love for the country and ambition to strengthen the country through the extraction and induction of formal elements in an image-based form; Yang Zhou's (杨洲) sculpture "Heroine (巾帼)" shows the heroic posture of female pilots returning victoriously with their heads held high, demonstrating the demeanor of women in the new era who 巾帼不让须眉 (jīn guó bù ràng xū méi - "women do not concede to men," women can achieve as much as men). At the same time, Fang Jingwei's (方经纬) oil painting "Future Engineer" and Wang Yan's (王燕) Chinese painting "New Guards" all show expectations and reflections on future development. Diverse themes are presented in the paintings, vividly interpreting the responsibility of young art workers in the new era.
In addition to the attention to the propositions of the times, young creators also show concern for daily life and contemplation of their inner selves. Cheng Yaji's (程雅嘉) Chinese painting "Garden of Love" (爱之园) (see Figure 1) vividly depicts the beautiful scene of gardeners pruning flowers, children playing, and citizens lingering in the garden with meticulous brushwork and boneless techniques; Han Jiannan's (韩建南) Chinese painting "Yi (彝) Costume with Concentric Pomegranate Red" and Li Sixue's (李思学) oil painting "Wedding" depict colorful folk cultures; Huang Weichao's (黄伟超) oil painting "Flying Birds" constructs a spiritual landscape with images such as a young man who seems to be gazing inward, mottled walls, and fleeting birds, expressing the author's yearning for the distance.
Upholding integrity and innovation has always been an important topic in art creation, and young creators are constantly giving their own answers. Zhong Weiyong's (钟伟勇) "Autumn Warm Wind Rises" combines traditional lacquer techniques with modern colors and patterns to create new landscape imagery. Zhang Xiaofan's (张晓帆) "Bian Zhilin (卞之琳) Poetry Illustration" is inspired by Bian Zhilin's poem "Fossil Fish," drawing on the narrative composition techniques of Ming and Qing dynasty book illustrations, and strives to construct a poetic space for viewers to gaze and contemplate. From these works, we can see the conscious inheritance of historical context and the contemporary visual translation of traditional philosophy by young creators.
Youth is the most innovative. Many creators boldly explore diverse media with an open vision and experimental spirit, especially highlighting the "narrative" of the materials themselves, expanding the path of contemporary art creation expression. For example, Zhang Yuhui's (张玉惠) lacquer painting "Ink Dyed Stars" blends the natural texture of lacquer with ink-like brushstrokes through techniques such as covering, stacking, and grinding, creating a quiet artistic conception under the vast starry sky. Jia Wei's (贾巍) pastel painting "New Humans · Symbiosis" depicts portraits generated by AI technology, presenting the imagination of "post-humans" in the AI era. These works interpret "media innovation is reshaping the underlying logic of artistic creation" in the formal language and the in-depth exploration of materials.
Through the 8th National Youth Art Exhibition, we can see the vigorous vitality of Chinese youth art. This vitality stems from the sincere feelings of young art workers for the fiery life, the continuous enhancement of the main cultural awareness, and the artistic consciousness of daring to innovate. By observing the times, observing tradition, and observing the art itself, through continuous and sustained cultivation, young artists will eventually carve their own brilliant coordinates.
(The author is the Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Chongqing Artists Association (重庆市美术家协会).)
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A painter walks out of the studio, allowing body and mind to be immersed in nature, so that brush and ink can resonate with the times. I have always admired Mr. Li Keran's (李可染) landscape paintings, which focus on discovering beauty from sketches, and his artistic ideal of "creating biographies for the mountains and rivers of the motherland" deeply influenced me.
In late 2006, I began to conceive the "Journey of Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" series. Over nearly 10 years, I completed six chapters while measuring the mountains and rivers of the motherland with my footsteps: "Ode to Life" initiates the source of Chinese civilization, "High Mountain Gazing" narrates the root of Confucian culture, "Cloud Mountain Heavenly Music" connects the wisdom of Taoist culture, "Empty Mountain Condensing Clouds" comprehends the wisdom of Buddhist culture, "Resplendent Years" strengthens the ambition of national rise, and "Land So Rich in Beauty" praises the beauty of the country and mountains. These works organically combine the artistic expression of landscape painting with outstanding Chinese traditional culture and national spirit. After being exhibited at the National Museum of China in 2015, they were widely praised, which further strengthened my belief in continuing to move forward along this path.
If the previous creation of "Journey of Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" was to create biographies for the mountains and rivers of the motherland, then the "Hometown Family Mountain" series, which began in 2020, is to compose hymns for the land that gave birth to me and nurtured me. For the past 5 years, with the sincerity of repaying the "sunshine of spring" with the "heart of an inch of grass," I have conducted field investigations and sketching in the six counties (cities, districts) of my hometown, Xianning (咸宁), Hubei (湖北), completing more than 100 works. Among them, 82 works (including 32 large-scale creations) were recently exhibited in Beijing (北京) with the theme of "Hometown Family Mountain: Singing Praises of Xianning." This is not only the seventh chapter of "Journey of Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains," but also the answer I have given to my hometown.
Focusing on the local culture is not only a search for cultural roots, but also a tracing of emotions. Local feelings are an important spiritual source for artists' creations, and my artistic life is also rooted in the fertile cultural soil of Xianning. The ecological texture of mountains and rivers embracing each other, combining strength and softness, and the profound and integrated cultural texture of ancient and modern times, make this regional landscape transcend simple natural presentation and become a cultural field carrying collective memories, which also provides a rich foundation for my brush and ink transformation. I capture memory carriers that have both regional identity and cultural universality, such as Huangpao Mountain (黄袍山) and Yaogu Mountain (药姑山) in Tongcheng (通城), Qian Mountain (潜山) in Xian'an (咸安) and Jun River (隽水) in Chongyang (崇阳), Xiliang Spring (西梁春光) in Jiayu (嘉鱼) and the nostalgic poetic meaning of Chibi (赤壁), and systematically sort out the humanistic environment of each county, weaving historical context, red genes, and natural spirituality into a vivid cultural map.
The visual presentation of landscape painting always follows the tradition of "learning from nature externally and obtaining the source from the heart internally." When depicting the landscapes of Xianning, I adopt the method of "observing things and extracting images," extracting aesthetic images from natural real scenes to realize the modernity transformation of brush and ink. The key to brush and ink transformation is "endowing ink according to the scene," that is, according to the characteristics of different landscapes in Xianning, adaptively adjusting and innovatively applying traditional brush and ink techniques. For example, in "Azaleas are Especially Red on Damu Mountain (大幕山)," when depicting the gentle slopes of Damu Mountain, I increased the use of lying brush and scattered strokes, conveying the unique warm and moist temperament of the southern Hubei (鄂南) mountains while retaining the skeleton of the mountains; in "Huanglong Beacon Fire Reflects a Thousand Autumns (黄龙烽火映千秋)," I used scarlet broken ink to render the mountains, creating a heavy sense of history; in works such as "Ancient Weir for a Thousand Years, Clear Water Flows Long (古堰千年 清水流长)" and "Su Dongpo's Nian Nu Jiao: Nostalgic Poetic Meaning of Chibi (苏东坡念奴娇 赤壁怀古词意)," I used "high distance" to highlight the majesty of the mountains, "deep distance" to express the seclusion of the mountains, and "flat distance" to expand the breadth of vision, forming a multi-perspective, multi-level visual experience... This creative transformation of brush and ink language aims to break away from the fixed patterns of traditional landscape painting and achieve the unity of natural objects and humanistic artistic conception.
Chinese painting is not an ordinary landscape painting. What it wants to describe and express is an atmosphere, the atmosphere of natural landscapes and the atmosphere of the author's heart. From this perspective, the painter's character is more important than the painter's skills. The freshness, brightness, seclusion, and lasting charm in landscape painting best reflect the aura of natural mountains and rivers. The realm of landscape is also a reflection of the painter's state of mind. The key to creating the beauty of artistic conception lies in the heart being "still." Only with a still heart can one remove dust, eliminate浮躁 (fú zào - "frivolous," restless; impetuous), transcend utilitarianism, and enter a high and distant realm.
Throughout the ages, painters have been exploring the language and spiritual expression of Chinese painting, and so am I. I will continue to travel across China, constantly enriching the theme of "Journey of Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains," and tell Chinese stories well with a unique artistic language.
(The author is the former president of the Hubei Provincial Academy of Fine Arts (湖北省美术院).)
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Snowflakes flutter, and the Winter Solstice is approaching. In the north, vegetation has withered, and the days are short while the nights are long. In this cold season when all flowers have faded, perusing the vivid depictions of plants and flowers in the writings of the ancients can bring warmth to the heart. "Flowers and Birds of the Four Seasons" (四时花鸟图卷) (partial view in the picture) by Zhou Zhimian (周之冕), a painter of the Ming Dynasty, is a fine painting suitable for appreciation in this context.
The beauty of the four seasons quietly unfolds in "Flowers and Birds of the Four Seasons." From right to left, the scroll selects several representative flowers from each season in the order of spring, summer, autumn, and winter, arranging them along the picture in the form of broken branches. Spring includes peach blossoms and flowering quince, summer includes pomegranate flowers and roses, autumn includes hibiscus and golden osmanthus, and winter includes camellias, plum blossoms, and bamboo. The branches and leaves of the four seasons' flowers and trees are intertwined, luxuriantly reflecting each other. Although the varieties of flowers and trees are abundant, each group is presented with a clear distinction between the main and secondary elements. The main flowers are outlined with meticulous and delicate brushstrokes, while the auxiliary flowers, branches, and leaves are expressed with relatively rough and freehand techniques. This is precisely Zhou Zhimian's (周之冕) specialty, the "outlining flowers and dotting leaves method," which makes the picture well-spaced and rhythmic. The painter also selected four groups of birds to shuttle among the seasonal flowers, adding dynamism and interest to the picture: in spring, a pair of goldfinches fly wing to wing; in summer, a paradise flycatcher looks down from a pomegranate branch; in autumn, a brightly feathered kingfisher is depicted in a hunting posture; and in winter, a small bird with a gray-blue head quietly perches on a plum blossom branch. Following the birds' tracks, viewers can witness the passage of the four seasons in an instant.
Putting flowers and birds from different seasons together is not unique to Zhou Zhimian (周之冕); it has a long history in painting. The ancients paid attention to the four seasons of heaven and earth very early, and in the Tang Dynasty, the theme of the four seasons entered the field of painting. By the Five Dynasties and the Two Song Dynasties, the theme of four-season flowers flourished. According to the "Menglianglu" (梦粱录) records, the Song people called burning incense, making tea, hanging paintings, and arranging flowers the "four leisure activities," considering them elegant. Flowers became objects of contemplation for literati and officials, and even more so, important themes in their writings. Zhao Chang (赵昌), a famous artist of the Northern Song Dynasty, created works with the themes of "Four Seasons" and "Four Seasons Flowers." Although the paintings are no longer extant, it can be seen from the poems inscribed on the paintings collected in the anthologies of Su Shi (苏轼) and Fan Chengda (范成大) that his selection of seasonal imagery was already very sophisticated.
At the same time, in the late Northern Song Dynasty, the decoration of utensils and clothing saw the emergence of placing seasonal objects and flowers together, called "A Year's View" (一年景), symbolizing good fortune. Since the Song Dynasty, the theme of four-season flowers has gradually developed into a wider range of styles, and paintings with the themes of "Hundred Flowers" (百花) and "Assorted Flowers" (杂花) have become popular. For example, some painters mixed the four-season flowers in one scroll, without deliberately emphasizing the boundaries and order of the four seasons. "Hundred Flowers" (百花图) by an anonymous artist of the Southern Song Dynasty, "Assorted Flowers" (杂花图) by Xu Wei (徐渭) of the Ming Dynasty, "Hundred Flowers" (百花图) by Sun Kehong (孙克弘), and "Hundred Flowers" (百花图) created by Zhou Zhimian (周之冕) in his later years all belong to this category.
Placing the scenery of a year's vegetation on a single hand scroll, allowing flowers to be untouched by time, embodies the ancients' romantic imagination of eternity. This pursuit of "transcending the seasons" is no longer out of reach today—simply taking a high-speed train from north to south can cross time and space in a few hours, from pines and cypresses, withered branches, and red maples to the flamboyant kapok trees as bright as rosy clouds, enjoying the distinct northern and southern scenery along the way. Even if the flowers in front of you have faded, there are still blooming flowers in the distance. As the Song Dynasty poet Shao Yong (邵雍) said in his poem: "It is not only that spring returns and spring is here, there are always flowers of the four seasons in the heart." The withering and flourishing of external scenery are not determined by people, but those who have hills and valleys in their hearts can let the brightness of spring, the splendor of summer, the richness of autumn, and the tranquility of winter reside in their hearts, allowing the world to change, and always maintaining a rich and free poetic spirit and strength.
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The winter cold cannot stop the warmth of art. The "Silk Road - Yang Xiaoyang (杨晓阳) Forty Years of Silk Road Art Creation and Literature Exhibition (Xinjiang Station)," which recently opened at the Xinjiang Art Museum (新疆美术馆), has attracted many visitors to check in. They either stop and stare at the paintings or whisper their feelings. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区), and the Xinjiang Art Museum (新疆美术馆) has a new look. Exhibitions of famous artists have followed one after another, opening windows of art for cultural enrichment in Xinjiang.
Wandering among the more than 500 masterpieces created by Yang Xiaoyang (杨晓阳), my heart is deeply shocked. This shock comes from Yang Xiaoyang's (杨晓阳) 40 years of tireless writing, his special love for the "Silk Road," and his deep affection for the land of Xinjiang. The ancient Silk Road is not only a commercial avenue but also a road of cultural exchange. With the in-depth promotion of high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road," Silk Road culture has become a theme that artists are keen to express. Yang Xiaoyang's (杨晓阳) perseverance is even more prominent in its practical significance. Among the many connections between his works and the Silk Road, Xinjiang (新疆) is undoubtedly particularly important—both the starting point of his research on the Silk Road and his spiritual home. In 1985, Yang Xiaoyang (杨晓阳) spent four months traveling from Xi'an (西安), along the ancient Silk Road to Xinjiang (新疆), conducting a large number of investigations, sketches, and records along the way. Since then, he has had an indissoluble bond with Xinjiang (新疆), and the history, culture, and ethnic friendship of this land have provided him with endless nourishment for his creation. In the following 40 years, he successively conducted field investigations in many countries and regions along the Silk Road, continuously deepening his understanding of history and reality, and enriching the excavation and expression of the Silk Road theme. As presented in the exhibition, his 40 years of creative achievements skillfully connect the ancient "Silk Road" with the new era of "Belt and Road" construction, providing us with a unique artistic perspective for understanding history, observing the present, and looking forward to the future.
This shock also comes from Yang Xiaoyang's (杨晓阳) rigorous artistic spirit and continuous innovation in artistic language. Thanks to his family background, as well as the "Great Art, Great Academy of Fine Arts, Freehand Brushwork" concept advocated during his tenure as president of the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts (西安美术学院), and the practical accumulation when he presided over the China National Academy of Painting (中国国家画院) and the China Culture and Art Development Promotion Association (中国文化艺术发展促进会), Yang Xiaoyang (杨晓阳) has a broad vision and a strong sense of history. He practices the principle of "not repeating the ancients, not repeating foreigners, not repeating popularity, and not repeating himself," and dares to break through and innovate. This exhibition systematically presents Yang Xiaoyang's (杨晓阳) exploration trajectory from realism to freehand brushwork through three sections: "Life Sketch," "Danqing Artistic Charm," and "Ink Spirit."
As one of the series of famous artist exhibitions launched by the Xinjiang Art Museum (新疆美术馆) this year, this exhibition is also an important exhibition celebrating the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区). How to promote Xinjiang's cultural construction and build a bridge for cultural exchange through exhibitions, the Xinjiang Art Museum (新疆美术馆) is exploring its own curatorial path. This year, the museum also launched "The Place I Want to Go - Fan Dian (范迪安) Landscape Oil Painting Exhibition," "Loyal Heart Casting the Soul - Wu Weishan (吴为山) Revolutionary Historical Theme Sculpture Exhibition," and "Simple Spirit - Chen Jian (陈坚) Paper Works Exhibition." These artists either have a deep connection with Xinjiang (新疆) or have long been concerned about and helped Xinjiang's cultural construction. At the exhibition, many of them donated their works to the museum. The exhibition and donation promote the development of the Xinjiang Art Museum (新疆美术馆), help to strengthen the sense of community of the Chinese nation, and will play a better role in promoting future cultural exchanges.
As a large-scale public cultural service place in Xinjiang (新疆), the Xinjiang Art Museum (新疆美术馆) adheres to the positioning of "inheriting classics, focusing on contemporary, based on local, and facing the world," carefully plans high-quality exhibitions, organizes rich public education activities, actively carries out international exchanges, presents Xinjiang's cultural style from multiple perspectives, and promotes the development of local art, becoming an important bridge connecting tradition and modernity, local and international. At the same time, it sends culture to the grassroots level, uses new technologies to strengthen the construction of online art museums, etc., so that more audiences can enter the museum to see exhibitions, and continuously improve the cultural sense of gain, identity, and happiness of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang (新疆).
The times are developing rapidly, and Xinjiang's (新疆) connection with the outside world is becoming closer. Taking painting as a carrier to open up channels for people to understand Xinjiang (新疆), depict Xinjiang (新疆), and embrace Xinjiang (新疆) is injecting vigorous vitality into Xinjiang's (新疆) cultural construction and development.
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Traditional Chinese culture contains extremely rich ecological ideas, especially exemplified by traditional Chinese landscape and flower-and-bird paintings. The ways in which they observe and present objects, create and express mental images, directly reflect the Chinese attitude towards nature, shape a unique model of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature, which can not only contribute Eastern wisdom to global sustainable development, but also provide important assistance for the construction of China's ecological civilization.
The foundation of ecological aesthetics lies in the full recognition of the beauty of nature. Natural creatures exist in countless forms. Throughout the ages, painters have taken nature as their teacher, paying attention to observing nature and experiencing the "Dao" of natural creation, using various methods to depict the mountains, rivers, grass, and trees in their eyes and hearts. The mere four seasons can transform into thousands of appearances in landscape paintings. For example, the sky is "bright in spring, lush in summer, clear in autumn, and dark in winter," the mountains are "gentle and smiling in spring, verdant and dripping in summer, bright and clean in autumn, and bleak and sleeping in winter," the water is "slightly green in spring, slightly cool in summer, slightly clear in autumn, and bleak in winter," and the clouds are "bright in the spring mountains, clean in the autumn mountains, steaming in the summer mountains, and cold and condensed in the winter mountains." In the depiction of flowers and birds, painters also strive for meticulous detail, often raising grass and insects in cages for close observation, in order to achieve realism and vividness. They also worry that changes in the environment will affect their natural expressions and movements, so they release them and observe them carefully, in order to achieve completeness in both form and spirit. Masterpieces such as "Sketch of Rare Birds" (《写生珍禽图》) and "Mountain Partridge and Thorny Sparrow" (《山鹧棘雀图》) by the Huang family (黄氏父子), and "Magpies and Hare" (《双喜图》) by Cui Bai (崔白), every stroke of the line, every color, makes the feathers, scales, toes, flowers, grass, and trees lifelike, and the natural essence is revealed in every detail.
Mr. Zeng Fanren (曾繁仁), an expert in ecological aesthetics in China, believes that focusing on the survival and growth of individual lives is a unique Chinese ecological aesthetic wisdom when explaining "the continuous production is called change" ("生生之谓易"). This ecological aesthetic wisdom in Chinese painting is reflected in the aesthetic pursuit of vividness of *qi* and *yun*. "*Qi* and *yun*" is the rhythm of life, "originating from vitality and obtained from nature." For example, flower-and-bird paintings directly express individual lives, seeking *qi* and *yun* beyond formal likeness. The most taboo is to only express the superficial characteristics of flowers and birds, such as feathers and colors, without moving people and producing deep associations of birds flying and singing, and flowers blooming and overflowing with fragrance. All the artistic elements of flower-and-bird painting creation are focused on life. Painters concentrate on using their painting skills to show the vigorous vitality of flowers, birds, fish, insects, melons, fruits, grass, and trees, and pursue the living meaning hidden in the life of heaven and earth. Landscape painting is different. When facing mountains, rivers, clouds, and rocks, it is necessary to seek *qi* and *yun* beyond formal likeness. The *qi* and *yun* of landscape painting has more spiritual connotations. On the one hand, the ancients believed that all things in nature, like people, have life; on the other hand, landscape, as an object for people to observe, projects people's cultural feelings and spiritual pursuits. Therefore, when portraying landscapes, painters do not depict static geological forms, but express the state of life of all things in nature under the action of "*qi*," and realize the aesthetic ideal of "unity of man and nature" in interaction with landscape and nature.
The prominent characteristic of ecological aesthetics is also reflected in the interconnectedness of life, emphasizing the integrity of humans and nature. In traditional landscape and flower-and-bird paintings, the painter's mission is to experience the vitality of nature with their own life experience, thereby creating vivid artistic images. These images, as bridges for communication between humans and nature, reveal the close relationship of interdependence between humans and nature, which is the key difference between traditional Chinese painting and other aesthetic models.
Traditional landscape and flower-and-bird paintings are undoubtedly paradigms of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature. First of all, they turn natural creatures into observable, sensible, and approachable objects in life, making them a part of people's lives and even their lives. Luo Dajing (罗大经), a Neo-Confucian scholar of the Song Dynasty, said in "Crane Forest Jade Dew" (《鹤林玉露》) that flower-and-bird painters often have the creative experience of Zhuang Zhou dreaming of a butterfly, 不知我之为草虫耶，草虫之为我耶 (bù zhī wǒ zhī wèi cǎo chóng yé, cǎo chóng zhī wèi wǒ yé - "not knowing whether I have become a grass insect, or the grass insect has become me," a state of merging with the object being painted), which is actually an ecological aesthetic realm of merging objects and self, and unifying spirit and charm. The same is true of Guo Xi's (郭熙) advocacy of "mountains and rivers have those that can be traveled, those that can be viewed, those that can be wandered, and those that can be lived in." Secondly, they emphasize that humans are a part of nature. Traditional landscape paintings often use figures as embellishments, not "empty paintings for viewing." The fisherman in the boat, the traveler in the mountains, or the boy under the pine tree, they represent not individual people, but appear on the landscape painting with the overall face of humans, revealing the position of humans in the natural world and the harmonious relationship between the two. The reason why flower-and-bird paintings emphasize vitality and life is also because they adhere to the principle of 天地万物，本吾一体 (tiān dì wàn wù, běn wú yī tǐ - "heaven and earth, all things, are originally one with me," the idea that all things are interconnected and part of a larger whole), regarding all things as equal beings, and being able to discover and feel the beauty of their own lives in the beauty of their lives, and ultimately realize the unity of object and self.
Obviously, the harmonious coexistence between humans and nature reflected in traditional landscape and flower-and-bird paintings coincides with the current emphasis on "building a community of life on Earth." In-depth research and inheritance of the ecological aesthetic wisdom of traditional Chinese landscape and flower-and-bird paintings will inject sufficient energy into promoting this development trend.
(The author is the director of the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Research Institute of the Research Center of the State Council Counselor's Office (国务院参事室) and the Central Research Institute of Culture and History (中央文史研究馆))
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