People's Daily - December 15, 2025

Contributing to a Better Future for Human Development

By: 本报记者 徐 隽 金 歆

"The governance of the cyberspace ecosystem is a common issue faced by all countries in the world. We must actively participate in the formulation of international rules, work with all countries to combat cybercrime, and promote the building of a community of common destiny in cyberspace." On November 28, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized this while presiding over the 23rd collective study of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局).

Building a community of common destiny in cyberspace is an important part of building a community of common destiny for mankind. It is the common responsibility of the international community to develop, utilize, and govern the Internet well, so that the Internet can better benefit mankind.

Ten years ago, on December 16, 2015, at the opening ceremony of the Second World Internet Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) creatively proposed the concept of building a community of common destiny in cyberspace.

This important concept is based on the forefront of the times and conforms to the general trend of the world. It keenly grasps the historical intersection of the world's unprecedented changes in a century and the era of the information revolution. It examines the development and governance of the Internet from the height of the future and destiny of mankind, and provides ideological guidance and action guidelines for promoting global cyberspace security, stability, and prosperity.

Over the past 10 years, under the leadership and promotion of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), the concept of building a community of common destiny in cyberspace has been transformed from an idea into action, from a vision into reality, and has become a glorious banner leading the development and governance of the global Internet, constantly demonstrating the ideological power to promote the historical process of the information age.

Concept

Constantly sublimating in practice, demonstrating the ideological power that transcends time and space

Wuzhen (乌镇), Zhejiang (浙江), where a long history and digital waves, an ancient town of thousands of years and modern civilization, are intertwined.

December 16, 2015, is destined to be a day recorded in the history of world Internet development - the Second World Internet Conference opened in Wuzhen (乌镇), and General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) attended the opening ceremony and delivered a keynote speech.

"Cyberspace is a common space of activity for mankind, and the future and destiny of cyberspace should be jointly controlled by all countries in the world." Standing at the strategic height of the future and destiny of mankind, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) first proposed the concept of building a community of common destiny in cyberspace.

In-depth interpretation of the "four principles" for promoting the reform of the global Internet governance system - "respecting cyber sovereignty," "maintaining peace and security," "promoting openness and cooperation," and "building a good order";

Profoundly expounding the "five-point proposal" for building a community of common destiny in cyberspace - "accelerating the construction of global cyber infrastructure to promote interconnection," "building an online platform for cultural exchange and sharing to promote exchanges and mutual learning," "promoting innovative development of the cyber economy to promote common prosperity," "ensuring cyber security to promote orderly development," and "building an Internet governance system to promote fairness and justice."

The concept of building a community of common destiny in cyberspace proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) continues to develop. Wuzhen (乌镇) has witnessed the continuous sublimation of this important concept in practice, demonstrating the ideological power that transcends time and space -

In November 2016, it emphasized "promoting the realization of the goals of equality and respect, innovative development, openness and sharing, and security and order in cyberspace," which is full of ardent expectations for creating a better future for the world Internet.

In December 2017, it emphasized that "everyone's affairs should be discussed and handled by everyone, so as to achieve common progress in development, common maintenance of security, common participation in governance, and common sharing of results," using "four commons" to further point out the direction for cyberspace in transformation.

In November 2018, it proposed taking the road of "mutual trust and co-governance" to make the community of common destiny in cyberspace "more vibrant," responding to the common concerns of all countries in digital economy and cyber security.

In October 2019, it called for "courageously shouldering development responsibilities and jointly meeting risks and challenges," jointly promoting global governance in cyberspace, reflecting a deep understanding of historical opportunities and risks and challenges.

In November 2020, it pointed out the important role of the Internet in responding to major global public health crises, proving with practical results that building a community of common destiny in cyberspace is an inevitable choice to cope with global challenges.

In September 2021, it clearly proposed "digital civilization," giving new connotations to human civilization, reflecting a deep understanding of the changes in the stage of human social development.

In November 2022, it systematically elaborated on the global digital development path, promoting the in-depth expansion of the concept to practice.

In November 2023, it put forward the major initiative of "jointly promoting the building of a community of common destiny in cyberspace to a new stage."

In November 2024, it issued a new call to join hands to move towards a better "digital future," fully reflecting the profound thinking and forward-looking judgment on the global wave of informationization development.

Over the past 10 years, the "Wuzhen Voice" (乌镇声音) has become a voice of unity leading international exchanges and cooperation in cyberspace, and the concept of building a community of common destiny in cyberspace has been widely recognized and actively responded to by the international community.

Martin Charles, the Dominican Ambassador to China (多米尼克驻华大使马丁·查尔斯), said that international cooperation should be used to narrow the digital divide between developing countries and move towards the correct direction of jointly building a community of common destiny in cyberspace.

"Building a community of common destiny in cyberspace not only helps to achieve global peace and development, but also strengthens cyber security through international cooperation, promotes global stability, and brings lasting well-being to mankind," said Mark Lin, a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (澳大利亚联邦人文学院院士马克林).

In a village in Nigeria (尼日利亚), a dozen villagers are staring intently at a brand-new TV screen, on which magnificent skyscrapers stand in the city... Bako Ota (巴科·奥塔) recalled the scene when his hometown first received satellite digital TV signals, and still could not hide his excitement, "Before that, our lives were limited to what we saw before us, and the 'Wan Village Access' allowed us to see the world outside the village."

In 2015, China (中国) proposed the implementation of the "Wan Village Access" satellite digital TV project to connect 10,000 villages in Africa (非洲) to satellite digital TV signals. As of the end of 2023, China's (中国) aid to Africa's (非洲) "Wan Village Access" project has covered 9,512 villages in Africa (非洲), directly benefiting more than 190,000 households.

Over the past 10 years, under the guidance of the concept of building a community of common destiny in cyberspace, China (中国) has continuously deepened international dialogue and exchanges in cyberspace, worked with the international community to vigorously promote the construction of digital infrastructure, strengthened international cooperation in the digital economy, promoted the inclusive and inclusive development of the Internet, jointly maintained cyber security, actively participated in the reform and construction of the global Internet governance system, and jointly promoted the building of a community of common destiny in cyberspace to a new stage.

Demonstration

Providing experience and examples for global Internet development and governance with Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions

The Internet is the most dynamic field of development in our era. The rapid development of the Internet has brought profound changes to human production and life, and has also brought a series of new opportunities and challenges to human society.

In recent years, China's (我国) cyberspace and informatization cause has developed with high quality, and the people have enjoyed more sense of gain, happiness, and security in cyberspace.

China (中国), which has the world's largest network society, is concentrating its efforts on doing its own things well, and is providing experience and examples for global Internet development and governance with Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions.

The key to doing China's (中国) things well lies in the Party.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized when presiding over the 23rd collective study of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局): "We must strengthen the overall governance pattern of the network under the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央), and form a joint force for governance."

In 2014, China (中国) ushered in the 20th anniversary of its full-featured access to the international Internet. In this year, the first meeting of the Central Leading Group for Cybersecurity and Informatization (中央网络安全和信息化领导小组) was held. In 2018, the Central Leading Group for Cybersecurity and Informatization (中央网络安全和信息化领导小组) was changed to the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission (中央网络安全和信息化委员会).

Holding high the banner and setting the direction, gathering the soul and casting the soul.

The centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央) over cyberspace and informatization work has been significantly strengthened, and the system and mechanism of the Party's management of the Internet has been further improved. The Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办) has strengthened overall coordination and worked with various regions and departments to jointly promote the development of cyberspace and informatization; the three-level work system of cyberspace and informatization has been basically established, and the construction of county-level cyberspace and informatization institutions has been steadily promoted; the "Implementation Measures for the Responsibility System for Cybersecurity Work of Party Committees (Party Groups)" (《党委（党组）网络安全工作责任制实施办法》) has been formulated and implemented, and the whole Party has taken action and jointly managed the Internet, putting the Party's management of the Internet into practice.

Laying out the outline and persevering in action.

Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) as the core, and under the scientific guidance of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important thought on building a cyber superpower, China's (我国) cyberspace and informatization cause has made major achievements: breakthroughs have been made in core technologies in the information field, and the driving and leading role of informatization in economic and social development has been significantly brought into play; the construction of network content has been continuously deepened, and the governance of the network ecology has achieved remarkable results; the network security guarantee system and capacity building have been comprehensively strengthened; the process of legalizing cyberspace has been accelerated, and the Internet has been operating healthily on the track of the rule of law...

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out: "We must grasp the initiative in the development of the Internet in our country, and to ensure Internet security and national security, we must break through the problem of core technology."

Previously, an earthquake occurred in a South Asian (南亚) country, and poor communication between rescue teams from various countries became one of the obstacles to rescue. Chinese (中国) rescue team members used the unique short message function of the Beidou (北斗) system to send rescue locations and rescue information, making an important contribution to the rescue.

At present, more than half of the countries and regions in the world use Beidou (北斗), and more and more people's lives are more convenient, safer, more efficient, and more accurate because of Beidou (北斗).

Key core technologies are the heavy weapons of the country. Examples of independent innovation and self-reliance like Beidou (北斗) are constantly emerging in the construction of a cyber superpower; forward-looking research and technical experiments on 6G are being steadily promoted, and innovative achievements in quantum technology and brain-computer interfaces are shining brightly; the world's largest network infrastructure has been built, and as of September 2025, the total number of 5G base stations in the country reached 4.705 million, and the number of active IPv6 users reached 865 million...

China (我国) is vigorously developing the digital economy, cultivating new driving forces with informatization, and promoting new development with new driving forces.

"We now focus on e-commerce live streaming, and the business season is all year round," said an e-commerce operator in Luoyang (洛阳), Henan (河南), who runs a Hanfu (汉服) business.

China's (我国) digital economy industry is constantly growing, and the scale of the digital economy has ranked second in the world for several consecutive years. In 2024, the added value of the core industries of the digital economy accounted for about 10% of GDP. Digital technology empowers the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, the integration of industries continues to enrich, and the core competitiveness of industries continues to increase.

This is an era of "'everyone holding a microphone' and everyone can create." The construction of network content is crucial to network development and governance.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "If the source is clear, the flow will be clear. We must adhere to shaping cyberspace with positive voices, mainstream values, and the new trends of the times, so that the Internet becomes an important position for ideological guidance, moral cultivation, and cultural inheritance."

In February 2025, Huang Xuhua (黄旭华), the chief designer of China's (中国) first generation of nuclear submarines, passed away, and a short video telling the story of Huang Xuhua (黄旭华) was widely forwarded on the Internet. On social platforms, countless netizens posted and left messages, and the reading volume of related topics exceeded 100 million.

Glimmers of light gather into a torch.

Articles, pictures, and audio and video clips enrich the construction of network content, tell the story of China (中国) in the new era in a more vivid and lively way, and create a good atmosphere of strengthening confidence, gathering people's hearts, warming people's hearts, and building unity.

Today, the positive energy in cyberspace is stronger and the main theme is higher.

"A clear and clean cyberspace with a good ecology is in the interests of the people. A smoggy and deteriorating cyberspace is not in the interests of the people," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized.

The cyberspace and informatization departments, together with the sports authorities, have continued to increase their efforts to govern the chaos of the online sports "fan circle," creating a good public opinion atmosphere for athletes to actively prepare for competitions and for sports events to be held smoothly.

Taking heavy punches and showing sharp swords.

From rectifying malicious marketing in the short video field to cracking down on traffic fraud, online water armies, and online "black mouths" involving enterprises; from strengthening online protection for minors to rectifying the abuse of AI technology... The "Qinglang" (清朗) series of special actions cover key areas and key links of the network ecology, and also focus on new situations, new problems, and difficult bottlenecks, and constantly promote the formation of a good network ecology.

Network security affects the whole body, and profoundly affects the security of politics, economy, culture, society, military, and other fields.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Without network security, there is no national security, there is no stable operation of the economy and society, and the interests of the broad masses of the people are difficult to guarantee."

In recent years, China's (我国) network security work has made positive progress, the network security policy, regulation, and standard system has been continuously improved, and the network security awareness and capabilities of the whole society have been significantly improved.

The National Cybersecurity Publicity Week (国家网络安全宣传周) has been successfully held for 12 consecutive years, promoting the establishment of cybersecurity colleges in more than 100 universities. The national cybersecurity defense system has been initially built, realizing "one-point discovery and full-network defense" against major cybersecurity threats. Data security management and personal information protection have been continuously strengthened, the national data cross-border security management system has been basically established, and the security governance of artificial intelligence has been continuously deepened.

To ensure the continuous and healthy development of the Internet, we must establish rules, manage for the long term, and adhere to managing the Internet according to law, running the Internet according to law, and using the Internet according to law.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized when presiding over the 23rd collective study of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局): "We must coordinate and promote legislation, law enforcement, judicial affairs, and popularization of law in the network field."

Formulating and revising laws and regulations such as the Cybersecurity Law (网络安全法), the Data Security Law (数据安全法), the Personal Information Protection Law (个人信息保护法), and the Regulations on the Management of Network Data Security (网络数据安全管理条例), and taking the lead in carrying out legislation on the development and management of generative artificial intelligence on a global scale... More than 160 laws and regulations have been enacted in the network field, and the "four beams and eight pillars" have been basically constructed.

Continuously increasing the intensity of network law enforcement and resolutely investigating and dealing with various illegal and irregular behaviors online; continuously deepening network judicial affairs, establishing Internet courts, and accelerating the promotion of smart courts and smart procuratorial affairs; increasing the intensity of network popularization of law and innovating to create the "National Network Popularization of Law Campaign" (全国网络普法行) brand, with the reading volume of the entire network exceeding 20 billion times... The coordinated promotion of law enforcement, judicial affairs, and popularization of law involving the Internet has continuously improved governance efficiency.

Adhering to the Party's leadership, adhering to the people first, adhering to upholding integrity and innovation, adhering to the rule of law, and adhering to the concept of systems, in the surging digital torrent, the giant ship of China (中国) is breaking through the waves and moving forward steadily, injecting positive energy and providing a stabilizer for the development of the world Internet.

Action

Adhering to multilateral participation and multi-party participation, working together to address the common challenges facing human society

China (中国) is an active advocate, a strong leader, and a firm practitioner of the concept of building a community of common destiny in cyberspace.

Over the past 10 years, under the guidance of the concept of building a community of common destiny in cyberspace, China (中国) has worked with countries around the world to allow the Internet to better benefit the people of all countries in the world and jointly create a better digital future for mankind.

Promoting interconnection -

"Only by strengthening the construction of information infrastructure, paving the way for smooth information flow, and constantly narrowing the information gap between different countries, regions, and groups of people can we allow information resources to flow fully," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized.

The pace of global digital infrastructure construction is accelerating, and the construction of 5G networks is accelerating; the construction of broadband networks is continuing to advance, and the coverage level of optical fiber and fixed broadband has been significantly improved; the large-scale deployment and application of IPv6 is steadily growing, and the number of users and application support rates are constantly increasing; the scale of the world's computing power infrastructure is continuing to grow, and data centers are gradually transforming to green and intelligent...

Over the past 10 years, the level of interconnection, co-construction, sharing, and coordinated linkage of global digital infrastructure has rapidly improved.

Promoting exchanges and mutual learning -

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The Internet is an important carrier for spreading excellent human culture and promoting positive energy. China (中国) is willing to build a bridge for international exchanges through the Internet, promote exchanges and mutual learning of excellent cultures in the world, and promote emotional exchanges and spiritual communication among the people of all countries."

Martial arts, mortise and tenon joints, dragon dances, and shadow puppetry, with tens of millions of views and millions of likes... Opening overseas media websites, under the Chinese (中国) culture topic, video products with the theme of "intangible cultural heritage" remain popular.
Short video blogger "African Xiaowu" (非洲小五) records interesting stories about his life and friends; a Nepalese blogger showcases the daily life and unique customs of his hometown, gaining millions of likes on the Chinese internet... People from different countries and regions are using "cameras + the internet" to tell stories of cultural exchange, jointly promoting mutual understanding and affinity.

Over the past 10 years, cyberspace has increasingly become an important platform for disseminating outstanding human culture and promoting positive energy. Driven by the wave of information technology, countries around the world have achieved deeper cultural exchanges and mutual learning of civilizations through the internet.

Promoting common prosperity—

"China's door to opening up will never be closed, the policy of utilizing foreign investment will not change, the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of foreign-invested enterprises will not change, and the direction of providing better services for foreign companies to invest and operate in China will not change," President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized.

In the first three quarters of 2025, China's cross-border e-commerce imports and exports were approximately 2.06 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.4%. China is strengthening international cooperation in the digital economy, promoting the formulation of the *G20 Digital Economy Development and Cooperation Initiative*, jointly launching the *Belt and Road Digital Economy International Cooperation Initiative*, signing memorandums of understanding on digital economy cooperation with multiple countries, and developing "Silk Road E-commerce" partner countries.

Over the past 10 years, countries around the world have accelerated the layout of digital economy development strategies. Global basic telecommunications services, electronic information manufacturing, software and information technology services, and internet information content services have shown strong growth momentum. The digital transformation of agriculture, industry, and service industries has steadily advanced. Fintech, e-commerce, and other industries have continued to prosper, injecting new impetus into global economic growth.

Promoting orderly development—

President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out, "Cybersecurity is a global challenge. No country can stand aloof or be immune. Maintaining cybersecurity is the common responsibility of the international community."

"The draft document has been adopted. Thank you very much, and salute to everyone!" New York, USA, local time August 8, 2024, at the United Nations Headquarters conference room, Fauzia Boumaiza Mebarki, Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes, an Algerian diplomat, said amid applause.

This is the first universal international convention formulated under the auspices of the United Nations in the cyber domain, which will provide a legal framework for international cooperation in combating cybercrime worldwide. After three years of negotiations, the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime finally reached a consensus and successfully passed the draft. The Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee specifically publicly thanked China, emphasizing that China's role was crucial. In December 2024, the United Nations General Assembly formally adopted the convention.

Over the past 10 years, countries around the world have increasingly emphasized cybersecurity, continuously improving legislation in the field of cybersecurity, strengthening the protection of critical information infrastructure, data security, and personal information, working together to combat cybercrime and cyberterrorism, the cybersecurity technology industry has steadily developed, and global AI safety governance has entered a fast track.

Promoting fairness and justice—

"International cyberspace governance should adhere to multilateral participation and multi-stakeholder participation, be handled through consultation by everyone, and give play to the roles of governments, international organizations, internet enterprises, technical communities, non-governmental organizations, individual citizens, and other actors. We should not engage in unilateralism, nor should we allow one party to dominate or a few parties to get together and have the final say," President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized.

Holding the World Internet Conference Digital Silk Road Development Forum, the China-Latin America Internet Development and Cooperation Forum, the China-Africa Internet Development and Cooperation Forum, the World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High-level Meeting on Global AI Governance, conducting the China-US Intergovernmental Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence, the China-EU High-Level Digital Dialogue, the China-ASEAN Digital Governance Dialogue, and releasing the *International Strategy for Cooperation in Cyberspace*, *Building a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace*, *Global AI Governance Initiative*, *AI Safety Governance Framework*, *Global Data Cross-border Flow Cooperation Initiative*...

Over the past 10 years, China has adhered to multilateral participation and multi-stakeholder participation, deeply participated in cyberspace exchanges and cooperation under the United Nations framework, firmly supported the formulation of universally accepted rules, norms, and principles of responsible state behavior in cyberspace under the United Nations framework, actively participated in the formulation of the *UN Global Digital Compact*, the Internet Governance Forum and other activities, as well as digital governance in the G20, APEC, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, BRICS and other mechanisms.

With solid actions, China has gathered broad consensus on promoting the construction of a community with a shared future in cyberspace, promoting the international community to transcend differences with a more collaborative and inclusive attitude, working together to address the common challenges facing human society, and building a more inclusive, prosperous, peaceful, secure, equal, and inclusive cyberspace.

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Currently, the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century at an accelerated pace, and a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating breakthroughs. The development of information technology is moving towards a new stage of comprehensive leap in digitalization, networking, and intelligence, bringing new opportunities and hopes, as well as new risks and challenges, to the development of human society.

Cyberspace is the common home of mankind, and the development of cyberspace requires the joint promotion of all countries in the world.

Ten years ago, President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized at the opening ceremony of the Second World Internet Conference: "Let us join hands to jointly promote the interconnection and shared governance of cyberspace, and contribute to creating a better future for human development!"

**行之力则知愈进，知之深则行愈达** (xíng zhī lì zé zhī yù jìn, zhī zhī shēn zé xíng yù dá - "practice strengthens knowledge, deep knowledge guides practice," knowledge and practice promote each other).

Looking to the future, guided by the concept of building a community with a shared future in cyberspace, jointly embracing development opportunities, and working together to address risks and challenges, we will surely promote the construction of a peaceful, secure, open, cooperative, and orderly cyberspace, so that the fruits of internet development can better benefit the people of all countries.

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Focusing on the overall situation, grasping the general requirements and policy orientation of next year's economic work.

By: 本报评论员

How to do economic work next year? The Central Economic Work Conference clarified the general policy and put forward the overall requirements and policy orientation for doing a good job in next year's economic work. This is a coordinated plan made by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, based on a scientific judgment of the situation and a grasp of the general trend of China's development.

"Adhere to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, better coordinate domestic economic work and international economic and trade struggles, and better coordinate development and security," "Implement more proactive and effective macro policies to enhance the foresight, pertinence, and coordination of policies," "Continuously expand domestic demand, optimize supply, improve increments, and revitalize stocks"... We must understand and implement the overall requirements for next year's economic work put forward by the Central Economic Work Conference in the overall situation of the development of the Party and the country.

Since the beginning of this year, China's economic development has faced multiple difficulties and challenges. Tariff clouds have shrouded global trade, and international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have successively lowered their global economic growth forecasts. Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee, China has quickly fought back and taken multiple measures. It has effectively responded by launching a series of counter-attack "combined punches" in many fields, always firmly grasped the initiative, and won the respect of the international community.

Over the past year, we have focused on promoting the transformation of traditional industries, the growth of emerging industries, and the growth of future industries. In the first three quarters of this year, the added value of high-tech manufacturing above designated size increased by 9.6% year-on-year; we have firmly implemented the strategy of expanding domestic demand, and the contribution rate of final consumption expenditure to economic growth in the first three quarters reached 53.5%... From accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system to building a unified national market and strengthening the domestic cycle, we have built a solid foundation for responding to risks and challenges. The scenery of "China's governance" is uniquely beautiful here.

From the extraordinary development course of the past year, we have more deeply understood that the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China listed "adhering to coordinated development and security" as one of the major principles that must be followed in economic and social development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, and more deeply understood the clear requirements of the two "better coordination" put forward at this meeting.

At present, the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, major-country relations are affecting the international situation, and the evolution of the international situation is profoundly affecting domestic development. China's development still faces various uncertain and unpredictable risk factors, and the task of coordinating development and security is more arduous and heavy. Practice tells us that in the face of a complex external environment, we must maintain strategic focus, strengthen our confidence in victory, respond to external challenges by practicing internal skills, unswervingly do our own things well, unswervingly expand high-level opening up to the outside world, focus on stabilizing employment, stabilizing enterprises, stabilizing the market, and stabilizing expectations, and continuously strengthen and optimize the real economy, comprehensively enhance independent innovation capabilities, and respond to various uncertainties with the certainty of high-quality development, so that we can win the strategic initiative. As General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "There is no hurdle that cannot be overcome by withstanding pressure, practicing internal skills, and gaining a firm foothold."

The meeting clarified the policy orientation of next year's economic work, pointing out that "adhering to seeking progress while maintaining stability, improving quality and efficiency, giving play to the integrated effect of existing policies and incremental policies, and increasing the intensity of counter-cyclical and cross-cyclical adjustments," which will effectively guide economic and social development expectations and help fully release and enhance the effectiveness of macro policies. The meeting set the tone for next year's fiscal policy and monetary policy, requiring continued implementation of a more proactive fiscal policy and continued implementation of a moderately loose monetary policy. This is consistent with this year's policy orientation, reflecting the continuity and stability of macro policies, and is a major decision and deployment to continuously consolidate and expand the momentum of economic stability and improvement.

Since the beginning of this year, from arranging 1.3 trillion yuan of ultra-long-term special treasury bonds to increase support for "two major projects" and "two new projects," to creating and implementing a number of structural monetary policy tools to provide assistance for technological innovation and boosting consumption, and then to strengthening the people's livelihood orientation of macro policies and making more funds and resources "invest in people"... A series of policies have been conceived in response to the times, launched in response to the situation, and coordinated to exert force, stimulating the strong momentum of high-quality economic development. Practice has fully proved that effective macro policies and precise macro-control are crucial to promoting the stable and healthy development of China's economy.

To grasp the policy orientation of next year's economic work, an important aspect is to "improve quality and efficiency." We must adhere to a proactive and pragmatic goal orientation, grasp the intensity, rhythm, and timing of policy implementation, give play to the "integrated effect," and continuously improve the accuracy and effectiveness of policies; we must also strengthen the concept of the system and enhance the consistency and effectiveness of macro policy orientation, so that various policy measures can work in the same direction and form a joint force. Giving full play to the role of macro policies as an economic "stabilizer" and making greater breakthroughs in the effective improvement of quality will surely promote the continuous improvement of economic operation and market expectations, and continuously transform institutional advantages into governance effectiveness and development advantages.

Confidence is in the present and in the future. From the overall requirements and policy orientation of next year's economic work, we read confidence and understood China even more. Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, we will move forward step by step and do all our work in a down-to-earth manner. We will surely promote China's economy to continuously reach new levels in "quantity" and continuously achieve new breakthroughs in "quality."

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"Three-pronged Approach" Expands High-Level Opening Up (Vitality China Research Trip)

By: 本报记者 宋 飞 王伟健 周亚军

On the shores of the South China Sea, at the Hainan Free Trade Port one-stop aircraft maintenance industrial base, aircraft from all over the world are "lined up."

In the hangar, workers from Haikou Airport Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Co., Ltd. are meticulously painting the wide-body aircraft of Qatar Airways. Wang Haiye (王海烨), general manager of the company, said: "The bonded aircraft maintenance is very powerful! No deposit is required for inbound maintenance, and the bonded 'aviation material supermarket' has sufficient stock. The painting speed of wide-body aircraft is more than twice as fast as our peers." The high-quality service has led Qatar Airways to directly finalize a three-year cooperation agreement.

In the Lingang New Area of the Shanghai Free Trade Pilot Zone, the production line of Tesla's Shanghai Super Factory is operating at high speed. The factory exported more than 35,000 vehicles in October this year, an increase of 28% year-on-year and 84% month-on-month, demonstrating the strength of "Shanghai Manufacturing."

In Taicang High-tech Zone (太仓高新区), Jiangsu, at the Schaeffler (舍弗勒) Taicang Manufacturing Base's new energy phase II factory, automated guided vehicles shuttle orderly between production lines, efficiently producing key components for drive motors. One road equipped with a complete electric drive system for a new energy vehicle has become a portrayal of some sections of Taicang; Nanjing Road (南京路), Beijing Road (北京路), Guangzhou Road (广州路) and other roads gather industrial chains such as new energy vehicle power systems, chassis systems, and body accessories, and the industrial chain resonance effect is significant.

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed to "expand high-level opening to the outside world and create a new situation of win-win cooperation."

The Central Economic Work Conference pointed out that "we must adhere to opening up to the outside world and promote mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation in multiple fields," "orderly expand autonomous opening up in the service sector," and "focus on stimulating the动力活力 of high-quality development, unswervingly deepen reform and expand opening up."

From maintaining aircraft in Hainan to manufacturing new energy vehicles and building supporting industrial chains in Shanghai and Jiangsu, where does the driving force for high-level opening up to the outside world come from? The answer lies in the "three-wheel drive" of institutional innovation, industrial upgrading, and platform construction. Recently, reporters conducted research in Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Hainan to explore the vivid practices of the three regions in expanding high-level opening up to the outside world with "three-wheel drive."

Institutional Innovation Breaks Barriers, Consolidating the "Hard Support" for Opening Up

The height of opening up comes from the depth of institutional innovation.

With the Hainan Free Trade Port's island-wide independent customs operation imminent, integrated institutional innovation is accelerating the convergence of people flow, logistics, and capital flow. In the first 10 months of this year, the value of bonded maintenance goods in Haikou Airport Comprehensive Bonded Zone (海口空港综保区) reached 47.86 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 71.8%. Behind this is the continuous effort of Hainan's integrated institutional innovation: pilot regulatory programs for temporary entry for repair, management measures for duty-free re-import of aircraft after temporary exit for repair, and other measures have been implemented successively. The innovative mechanism of pre-review materials, immediate approval, and rapid customs clearance has turned the vision of "repairing global aircraft in the free trade port" from a vision into reality.

Thousands of miles away in the Lingang New Area (临港新片区), the numbers on the large screen of the Shanghai International Reinsurance Registration and Trading Center (上海国际再保险登记交易中心) are constantly jumping. Zheng Yongqiang (郑永强), deputy general manager of Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance (China) Co., Ltd. (三井住友保险（中国）有限公司), clicked the mouse to complete an online registration of a reinsurance business. "In the past, reinsurance settlement relied on word of mouth, which was inefficient and difficult to guarantee authenticity. Now, the entire process is traceable online, and business development has obviously accelerated." Since its operation this year, the Shanghai International Reinsurance Registration and Trading Center's online reinsurance business has attracted 128 institutions from 14 countries and regions to register.

Shanghai promotes reform by taking institutional opening up as a starting point, promotes the development of digital finance, offshore finance, green finance, etc., and continuously aligns with international rules and regulations. At the same time, it uses "technology + system" innovation to ensure financial security. The "Collaborative Governance of False Statements in the Capital Market Securities" application scenario established by the Shanghai Higher People's Court (上海市高级人民法院) and the Shanghai Securities Regulatory Bureau (上海证监局) was launched at the Shanghai Big Data Center (上海市大数据中心). Through digital means, it has realized the timely, accurate, and continuous sharing of information on civil compensation cases for false statements by listed companies, and promoted the early detection and prevention of illegal clues and risks.

Taicang High-tech Zone (太仓高新区) in Jiangsu has explored and formed a "chain chief system for the industrial chain" and innovatively optimized the business environment. The person in charge of the development zone serves as the "chain chief" of the key industrial chain, accurately connects with the needs of enterprises, and promotes the coordinated development of enterprises. These days, Bona Environmental Equipment (Taicang) Co., Ltd. (博纳环境设备（太仓）有限公司), located in Taicang High-tech Zone, is carrying out the finishing work of the second-phase factory building. It is expected that the production capacity will double after it is put into operation by the end of the year. Gao Fei (高飞), the company's business development manager, said that thanks to Jiangsu's preferential policies such as the three-year action plan to encourage foreign-invested enterprises to reinvest their profits, the company has increased its investment and expanded its production three times in the eight years since it settled in Taicang. The group's board of directors insists on using 30% of the net profit of the Chinese factory for reinvestment every year.

Through institutional innovation, Jiangsu has effectively optimized the business environment and enhanced the investment confidence of foreign-funded enterprises. The province's scale of profit reinvestment ranks among the top in the country.

In the face of the restructuring of global economic and trade rules, the three regions continue to deepen institutional reforms: Hainan promotes trade liberalization and facilitation through independent customs operations, Shanghai promotes efficient allocation of factors through financial platforms, and Jiangsu stimulates the endogenous power of the market through the business environment, jointly consolidating the institutional foundation for high-level opening up.

Industrial Upgrading Strengthens the Core, Activating New Momentum for Opening Up

Against the background of the deep adjustment of the globalization pattern, opening up provides assistance for the deep embedding and coordinated leap of the industrial chain and value chain. Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Hainan are promoting the transformation of industries from "manufacturing workshops" to "innovation brains," and achieving two-way empowerment of "bringing in" and "going out" with high-quality supply.

In the workshop of Xinan Technology (锡南科技) in Wuxi (无锡), Jiangsu, precision compressor housings for turbochargers are being processed. "The upstream mold error is less than 0.02 mm, and we can achieve 0.005 mm, which is also a very high level internationally," said Gu Dengfeng (顾登峰), deputy general manager.

When Jiangsu's "hard manufacturing" is famous all over the world, Hainan, which is striving to build a free trade port, is relying on its location and policy advantages to open up a new track for the industrial opening up of "soft services." "The curative effect of traditional Chinese medicine is surprising." Yana, a Russian tourist, said after experiencing acupuncture and massage at Sanya City Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital (三亚市中医院). From undertaking overseas charter flights to establishing 4 artificial intelligence remote consultation platforms and setting up 3 traditional Chinese medicine centers overseas, Sanya City Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital has realized the integrated development of culture, tourism, health and wellness. In the first 10 months of this year, the hospital received 8,288 foreign patients, a year-on-year increase of 40.83%.

Boao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pilot Zone (博鳌乐城国际医疗旅游先行区) in Hainan has taken the lead in applying more than 520 kinds of international innovative drugs and equipment. In the first 10 months of this year, it received 564,900 medical tourism tourists, a year-on-year increase of 81.02%. "In addition to traditional Chinese medicine physiotherapy, we also provide tourists with agarwood tasting and calligraphy experience." Hu Lu (胡璐), deputy general manager of Hainan Boao Lecheng (海南博鳌乐城), introduced that it has received 31 international tourist groups this year and launched 35 medical tourism routes.

Facing industrial upgrading, the three regions are making precise efforts: Jiangsu is increasing the added value of manufacturing, Hainan is developing modern service industries by leveraging policy advantages, and Shanghai is deeply cultivating standard setting and rule output by virtue of its international advantages, jointly consolidating the industrial core and occupying a more active position in the global value chain.

Platform Construction Optimizes Ecology, Expanding New Dimensions of Opening Up

At this year's CIIE, Scotch whisky became a "traffic leader." "The platform supports and helps the brand succeed." Zhu Jing (朱菁), deputy general manager of Shanghai Hongqiao International Import Commodity Exhibition and Sales Co., Ltd. (上海虹桥国际进口商品展销有限公司), introduced that Hongqiao Pin Hui (虹桥品汇), which was built relying on the spillover effect of the CIIE, has gathered more than 6,000 brands from 120 countries and integrated functions such as bonded warehouses and live broadcast bases. "Trying out the products at the booth in the morning and launching new products in the live broadcast room in the afternoon" has become the norm.

At present, Hongqiao Pin Hui has gathered 85,000 CIIE products of the same style. In 2024, the transaction volume will reach 30 billion yuan, and the cross-border e-commerce order volume and transaction volume will rank first in the city. The CIIE, a platform for "buying globally," is accelerating its transformation into a channel for "selling globally."

In the Lingang New Area International Shipping Service Center (临港新片区国际航运服务中心), three large screens scroll to display global shipping indices and ship pre-arrival information, equipping the port area with a "real-time brain." "We have turned ship supply services into a visible and traceable digital process," said Chen Huaihai (陈怀海), deputy general manager of the business unit of COSCO SHIPPING Technology Co., Ltd. (中远海运科技股份有限公司).

If Shanghai's platform focuses on linking global factors, then Jiangsu's platform focuses on empowering industrial belts. In the cross-border e-commerce industrial park in Shengze Town (盛泽镇), Suzhou (苏州), the "ancient silk town and famous textile city," a story of coordinated development of "upstairs and downstairs are upstream and downstream" is being staged. Wang Lirong (王丽蓉), foreign trade manager of Suzhou Xihe Textile Technology Co., Ltd. (苏州羲和纺织科技有限公司), displayed the "jacquard random grid" windbreaker, which is an order product to be sent to Mexico. After receiving the order, they found a grey fabric factory in the building to customize it, and it took only 10 days from pattern design to finished product production, which is more than 30 days shorter than the traditional model. At present, the industrial park has gathered 87 cross-border e-commerce and related enterprises, and achieved a cross-border e-commerce import and export volume of nearly 800 million yuan in the first half of this year.

Hainan Lingshui Digital Culture Industrial Park (海南陵水数字文化产业园) relies on the advantages of international submarine optical cables to allow data to "reach" the world in seconds, attracting game, short drama and other enterprises to gather. In the park, the Hainan Free Trade Port multi-functional free trade account supports the integration of local and foreign currencies, and can simultaneously be compatible with multiple freely convertible foreign currencies to use offshore exchange rate settlement. As of the end of September, the multi-functional free trade account has completed more than 200 billion yuan of cross-border fund settlement, and the fund exchanges cover 76 countries and regions around the world.

From institutional innovation on the banks of the Huangpu River (黄浦江) to industrial upgrading in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角), and then to platform construction on the shores of the South China Sea, Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Hainan are driving the open economy towards a higher quality, more efficient, more equitable, and more sustainable direction with the "three-wheel drive" of institutions, industries, and platforms, and are working together to create a new situation of win-win cooperation.

(Reporters Bai Guangdi (白光迪), Ji Juesu (季觉苏), Wang Yinxin (王崟欣), and Dong Zeyang (董泽扬) of this newspaper participated in the writing)

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Wang Bingqian's remains were cremated in Guangzhou.

Xinhua News Agency, Guangzhou, December 14th. The remains of Comrade Wang Bingqian (王丙乾), an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a long-tested and loyal communist fighter, a proletarian revolutionist, an outstanding leader in China's financial and economic front and socialist legal system construction, former State Councilor, and Vice Chairman of the Eighth National People's Congress Standing Committee, were cremated at the Guangzhou Funeral Home in Guangzhou (广州市) , Guangdong (广东) on the 14th.

Comrade Wang Bingqian (王丙乾) passed away in Guangdong (广东) at 3:35 on December 8, 2025, due to illness, at the age of 100.

During Comrade Wang Bingqian's (王丙乾) illness and after his death, Xi Jinping (习近平), Li Qiang (李强), Zhao Leji (赵乐际), Wang Huning (王沪宁), Cai Qi (蔡奇), Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥), Li Xi (李希), Han Zheng (韩正), Hu Jintao (胡锦涛), and other comrades visited him in the hospital or expressed their deep condolences on the death of Comrade Wang Bingqian (王丙乾) and extended their sincere condolences to his family in various forms.

Entrusted by the CPC Central Committee, Zhao Leji (赵乐际), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and others made a special trip to the Guangzhou (广州市) Funeral Home on the 14th to bid farewell to Comrade Wang Bingqian (王丙乾) and express their condolences to his family.

On the morning of the 14th, the Guangzhou (广州市) Funeral Home was solemn and quiet, with mournful music playing softly. Above the center hall hung a black banner with white characters reading "Deeply Mourn Comrade Wang Bingqian (王丙乾)," and below the banner was a portrait of Comrade Wang Bingqian (王丙乾). The remains of Comrade Wang Bingqian (王丙乾) rested peacefully among flowers and cypresses, covered with the bright red flag of the Communist Party of China.

At about 9:00 a.m., Zhao Leji (赵乐际) and others slowly walked to the remains of Comrade Wang Bingqian (王丙乾) in the sound of mourning music, stood in silence, bowed three times to the remains of Comrade Wang Bingqian (王丙乾), and shook hands with the relatives of Comrade Wang Bingqian (王丙乾) one by one, conveying the deep condolences of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and other central leaders.

Relevant leaders of the Party and the state went to bid farewell or expressed their condolences in various ways. Responsible comrades from relevant departments of the central and state organs and Guangdong Province (广东省), friends of Comrade Wang Bingqian (王丙乾) during his lifetime, and representatives from his hometown also went to bid farewell.

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C919 Aircraft Safely Carries Over 30 Million Passengers

According to information obtained by reporters Gu Yekai (谷业凯) and Qiu Chaoyi (邱超奕) from the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (中国商用飞机有限责任公司) on December 14th, Beijing (北京), the C909 aircraft has safely carried over 30 million passengers. 175 C909s have been delivered, accounting for more than 60% of domestic regional jets, and are operating in 12 countries overseas.

The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal suggests "accelerating the development of strategic emerging industry clusters such as new energy, new materials, aerospace, and the low-altitude economy."

The C909 is China's first domestically developed short-to-medium range new turbofan regional jet, developed in accordance with international airworthiness standards and possessing independent intellectual property rights. It seats 78-97 passengers, has a range of 2225-3700 kilometers, and made its maiden flight on June 28, 2016. In recent years, the C909 has continuously expanded its route network and accelerated its large-scale and serialized development. Currently, the C909 has derivative models such as cargo aircraft, emergency rescue command aircraft, medical aircraft, and business jets. It has cumulatively operated more than 700 routes, carrying tens of thousands of passengers and linking hundreds of cities every day, achieving a breakthrough in the commercial operation of domestically produced jet aircraft.

Currently, the C909 has been operating international routes, further promoting exchanges and connectivity between Chinese and foreign cities. The C909 is also accelerating its expansion into overseas markets, with nearly 20 routes opened by three overseas airlines—Indonesia's TransNusa Aviation Mandala Air Services (印尼翎亚航空), Lao Airlines (老挝航空), and Vietnam's Vietjet Air (越南越捷航空)—operating C909 aircraft in Southeast Asia, connecting more than 20 cities.

The C909 has safely carried over 30 million passengers, becoming a milestone in the healthy and steady development of domestically produced commercial aircraft. After 23 years of exploration, the C909 has broken through the design, manufacturing, and operation and maintenance of jet airliners, as well as the safety technology to meet the latest international airworthiness standards, and the operational technology of high adaptability and high reliability in extreme environments. Through the development of the C909, China has completed the entire process of jet airliner design, manufacturing, testing, flight testing, mass production, delivery, and operation for the first time, filling the gap in China's independent research and development of jet transport aircraft, and further consolidating the foundation for the development of the large aircraft industry.

The development of the C909 has explored the entire life cycle development path for China's large aircraft industry, established a technological system, and cultivated a technical team. Through continuous improvement and optimization, the C909 continues to improve performance, crew operating experience, and cabin comfort, winning more and more recognition.

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The core AI industry in China is expected to exceed one trillion yuan this year.

According to the People's Daily Beijing (北京) dispatch on December 14th (Reporter Liu Wenxin (刘温馨)), it was learned from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (中国信息通信研究院) that in 2024, the scale of China's (中国) core artificial intelligence industry exceeded 900 billion yuan, with a growth rate of 24%. Preliminary estimates suggest that the scale of the core artificial intelligence industry is expected to exceed 1.2 trillion yuan in 2025.

Data shows that since the beginning of this year, the application of large models in the production and manufacturing sector has increased significantly, with the proportion of application cases increasing from 19.9% last year to 25.9%, driving the rapid growth of the artificial intelligence industry.

Experts from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (中国信息通信研究院) stated that since the beginning of this year, large models have significantly improved in language and multi-modal understanding capabilities. Currently, 27 data collection sites have been built nationwide to provide high-value data for the training of embodied intelligent models.

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Introduction

Year-End Special Report

This year, we have united and gathered strength with an excellent work style, and earnestly implemented our work.

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Science and Technology Perspective · Experts Talk

How to Leverage the Advantages of the New Type of National System
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Take practical actions to promote new achievements in high-quality development.

By: 新华社记者

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, cadres and the masses in various regions have conscientiously studied and understood the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference. Everyone expressed that they should unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, forge ahead with determination and work hard in unity, accurately grasp the deployment requirements for next year's economic work, continuously consolidate and expand the momentum of steady economic improvement, transform advantages in all aspects into the actual effectiveness of high-quality development, and promote a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan" with practical work and achievements.

Boosting Confidence and Gathering Strength for Progress

On the shore of Beibu Gulf, the construction site of the Madao Hub of the Pinglu Canal is in full swing. The first canal project connecting rivers to the sea since the founding of the People's Republic of China has entered the "countdown" stage for navigation.

"In the past year, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has united and led the entire party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to overcome difficulties and work hard, and the main goals of economic and social development will be successfully completed, injecting strong confidence and motivation into us." Wang Jieyun (王劼耘), Chairman of Pinglu Canal Group, was deeply encouraged after studying the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference at the first time. He said that they will sprint with all their strength to achieve the goal of completing and opening the canal to navigation by the end of 2026, focus on building a multimodal transport system with the canal as a link, and strive to build the Pinglu Canal into a landmark project serving the new development pattern and promoting high-level opening to the outside world.

Jiang Mulin (蒋木林), President of Sigma Co., Ltd., a foreign trade enterprise, has a deep understanding of the meeting's proposal that "we must hone our internal skills to cope with external challenges": "This year has been a year for foreign trade enterprises to sail against the wind. Thanks to a series of government measures to stabilize foreign trade, the company's export orders and shipments have achieved double growth, and its products are sold to more than 100 countries and regions around the world. We will hone our internal skills and continue to increase independent research and development and innovation to win the favor of diversified markets with better products and services."

Anyue County (安岳县) in Ziyang (资阳), Sichuan (四川) accounts for 70% of the country's lemon planting area and output and is known as the "Hometown of Chinese Lemons". At present, all towns and streets in the county have large-scale planting bases, with an annual lemon output of 600,000 tons, driving the continuous income increase of more than 300,000 fruit farmers.

"The Central Economic Work Conference proposed promoting the high-quality development of the county economy. We will focus on lemons to create a characteristic industrial article, continue to work hard in extending the industrial chain, increasing added value, and exploring and cultivating new consumption points. In the future, Anyue (安岳) lemons will definitely sell better and the brand will be more famous," said Tian Jinghua (田景华), head of the Anyue County (安岳县) Lemon Industry Development Center.

This year is the closing year of the "14th Five-Year Plan". In the past five years, facing profound and complex changes in the domestic and international situation, China's economy has effectively responded to various shocks and challenges, demonstrating strong resilience and vitality.

Dong Yu (董煜), Executive Vice President of the Institute for Contemporary China Studies, Tsinghua University, said that based on summarizing the practical experience of recent years, this conference proposed "five musts," which reflects the continuous deepening of our party's understanding of the laws of economic work, further enriches and develops Xi Jinping's (习近平) economic thought, and provides new and important guidelines for doing a good job in economic work. Firmly confident, making good use of advantages, responding to challenges, and earnestly implementing the conference's deployment in all aspects of economic work will surely continuously consolidate and expand the momentum of steady economic improvement and achieve a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan."

Clarifying the Direction and Grasping the Initiative of Development

Ice and snow are like glazed tiles, covered in silver. At the China Travel Songhua Lake Resort (中旅松花湖度假区) ski resort in Jilin City (吉林市), Jilin Province (吉林省), ski enthusiasts from all over the world are speeding freely, raising bursts of snow mist.

"Since the new snow season, we have received more than 200,000 tourists, driving the revenue growth of surrounding accommodation and catering by more than 40%." Huang Zhongrui (黄钟锐), Marketing Director of China Travel Songhua Lake Resort (中旅松花湖度假区), said that the Central Economic Work Conference proposed expanding the supply of high-quality goods and services. The resort will vigorously innovate consumption scenarios, create more than 50 special activities around the theme of ice and snow, such as snow New Year's Eve, and vigorously introduce diversified business formats such as catering and cultural creation to provide tourists with a better ice and snow consumption experience.

The 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)", which made Zhang Jihong (张继红), Director of the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission and the Zhongguancun Management Committee, feel excited and deeply responsible: "We will play a leading role in deepening regional collaborative innovation, jointly carrying out scientific research, and promoting the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, accelerate the construction of co-construction parks such as the Xiong'an New Area Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park (雄安新区中关村科技园) and the Tianjin Binhai-Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park (天津滨海—中关村科技园), and promote the continuous deepening and solidifying of collaborative innovation in the three places."

Green is the distinct background color of high-quality development. The meeting proposed to deeply promote energy conservation and carbon reduction transformation in key industries.

In the production area of ​​Jin Coal Electric Power Tashan Power Generation Shanxi Co., Ltd. (晋控电力塔山发电山西有限公司), the turbine room is clean and tidy, and the electric feed water pump has undergone low-carbon technology transformation, which can reduce the power consumption rate of the electric pump by 0.3% and save about 5,500 tons of fuel coal per year.

"The Central Economic Work Conference pointed out the direction of development for us to pursue 'green'." Yuan Guosheng (袁国生), head of the Power Generation Operation Department of Jin Coal Electric Power Tashan Power Generation Shanxi Co., Ltd. (晋控电力塔山发电山西有限公司), said that in recent years, the company has relied on the smart power plant platform to optimize combustion and intelligent ammonia spraying transformation, and the coal consumption for power supply has been further reduced. In the future, it will continue to actively respond to the "three reforms linkage" and make efforts in equipment technology transformation to promote the low-carbon transformation of key processes.

In Hengqin (横琴), young designers from Macao are working intensively to improve a new batch of guitar design drafts. After production, these guitars will be sold all over the world.

"We will fully implement the requirements of the Central Economic Work Conference on 'strengthening the coordinated linkage of key urban agglomerations and deepening cross-administrative region cooperation'." Nie Xinping (聂新平), Director of the Guangdong Hengqin Office (广东省横琴办), said that Hengqin (横琴) will further deepen the industrial linkage model of "Macao platform + international resources + Hengqin space + results sharing", and work with the urban agglomerations in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) to jointly build a modern industrial system, providing a higher level of regional practice for the construction of a unified national market.

Taking Action as the Top Priority and Creating a New Situation

On the coast of the South China Sea, the wind is rising and the tide is surging. The full island customs closure operation of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) will press the historic "start button" on December 18.

"The Central Economic Work Conference proposed to steadily promote the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港). We will take the customs closure operation as an opportunity to continuously optimize the negative list for foreign investment access and the negative list for cross-border service trade, actively participate in the formulation and implementation of international service trade standards, and strive to build the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) into an important gateway leading China's new era of opening to the outside world," said Guan Jirong (关继荣), Executive Deputy Director of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee's Deepening Reform Office (Free Trade Port Working Committee Office) (海南省委深改办（自贸港工委办）).

Major economic provinces are the "ballast stone" for stabilizing China's economic fundamentals and the "locomotive" for driving economic growth. The Central Economic Work Conference proposed supporting major economic provinces to take the lead.

Conscientiously studying the spirit of the meeting, Lu Yuqing (鲁宇清), Director of the Hubei Provincial Development and Reform Commission (湖北省发展和改革委员会), felt a great sense of mission: "We will keep in mind the requirements put forward by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) during his inspection of Hubei (湖北) to 'accelerate the construction of an important strategic fulcrum for the rise of the central region', unswervingly implement the deployment of the Central Economic Work Conference, accelerate the creation of a science and technology innovation highland with national influence, promote the linkage development of the city clusters in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River with the Wuhan Metropolitan Area (武汉都市圈) as the center, and strive to take the lead, strive for the first, move forward, and set an example in the overall national development."

Chinese-style modernization prioritizes the people's livelihood. The Central Economic Work Conference made a number of deployments, including "stabilizing the employment of key groups such as college graduates and migrant workers" and "promoting the adjustment of the layout and structure of educational resources, increasing the supply of ordinary high school places and the enrollment of high-quality university undergraduates."

In recent days, Guo Chunsheng (郭春生), Director of the Student Employment and Entrepreneurship Guidance Center of Shandong University (山东大学), has been busy organizing many employment guidance meetings, inviting industry experts to explain the latest employment trends to college students. "We will proactively connect with market demand, further deepen targeted cooperation with Huawei (华为), BYD (比亚迪) and many other leading companies in the industry, explore the construction of a production-education integration practice center, innovate new models of local talent introduction and school-city and school-enterprise cooperation, and pave a solid employment path for graduates," said Guo Chunsheng (郭春生).

Daoxiang Village (稻香村) in Baihe Town (百和镇), Hotan County (和田县), Xinjiang (新疆), located on the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert, has winter wheat laying a layer of "green carpet" on the vast fields, and characteristic courtyards such as Daoxiang Academy (稻香书院) are scattered in a well-proportioned manner, transforming the former "sand nest" into a "granary".

"General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized 'taking multiple measures to promote farmers' employment and income increase, and promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside in a solid manner'. We will take the General Secretary's requirements as a guide, conscientiously implement the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference, accelerate the upgrading of farmland water conservancy facilities and the construction of rural complex, focus on creating a integrated development model of 'agriculture + culture + tourism', and achieve villagers living and working in peace and contentment, social stability and harmony, and high-quality economic development," said Qin Hong (秦鸿), Secretary of the Party Committee of Baihe Town (百和镇).

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 14)

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Contributing to a Better Future for Human Development

By: 本报记者 徐 隽 金 歆

"The governance of the cyberspace ecosystem is a common challenge faced by all countries in the world. We must actively participate in the formulation of international rules, work with all countries to combat cybercrime, and promote the building of a community with a shared future in cyberspace." On November 28, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized this while presiding over the 23rd collective study session of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局).

Building a community with a shared future in cyberspace is an important part of building a community with a shared future for mankind. It is the common responsibility of the international community to develop, utilize, and govern the Internet well, so that the Internet can better benefit mankind.

Ten years ago, on December 16, 2015, at the opening ceremony of the Second World Internet Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) creatively proposed the concept of building a community with a shared future in cyberspace.

This important concept is based on the forefront of the times, conforms to the general trend of the world, keenly grasps the historical intersection of the world's unprecedented changes in a century and the era of the information revolution, examines the development and governance of the Internet from the height of the future and destiny of mankind, and provides ideological guidance and action guidelines for promoting the security, stability, and prosperous development of the global cyberspace.

Over the past 10 years, under the leadership and promotion of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), the concept of building a community with a shared future in cyberspace has been transformed from an idea into action, from a vision into reality, becoming a glorious banner leading the development and governance of the global Internet, and constantly demonstrating the ideological power to promote the historical process of the information age.

Concept

Constantly sublimating in practice, demonstrating the ideological power that transcends time and space

Wuzhen (乌镇), Zhejiang (浙江), where a long history and digital waves, an ancient town of thousands of years and modern civilization, complement each other.

December 16, 2015, is destined to be a day recorded in the history of world Internet development - the Second World Internet Conference opened in Wuzhen (乌镇), and General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) attended the opening ceremony and delivered a keynote speech.

"Cyberspace is a common space for human activities, and the future and destiny of cyberspace should be jointly controlled by all countries in the world." Standing at the strategic height of the future and destiny of mankind, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) first proposed the concept of building a community with a shared future in cyberspace.

In-depth elaboration of the "four principles" for promoting the reform of the global Internet governance system - "respecting cyber sovereignty," "maintaining peace and security," "promoting openness and cooperation," and "building a good order";

A profound exposition of the "five-point proposal" for building a community with a shared future in cyberspace - "accelerating the construction of global cyber infrastructure to promote interconnection," "building an online cultural exchange and sharing platform to promote exchanges and mutual learning," "promoting the innovative development of the cyber economy to promote common prosperity," "ensuring cyber security to promote orderly development," and "building an Internet governance system to promote fairness and justice."

The concept of building a community with a shared future in cyberspace proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) is constantly developing. Wuzhen (乌镇) has witnessed the continuous sublimation of this important concept in practice, demonstrating the ideological power that transcends time and space -

In November 2016, it emphasized "promoting the realization of the goals of equality, respect, innovative development, openness, sharing, security, and order in cyberspace," which is full of ardent expectations for creating a better future for the world's Internet.

In December 2017, it emphasized that "everyone's affairs should be discussed by everyone, so as to achieve common progress in development, common maintenance of security, common participation in governance, and common sharing of results," using "four commons" to further point out the direction for the changing cyberspace.

In November 2018, it proposed taking the road of "mutual trust and co-governance" to make the community with a shared future in cyberspace "more dynamic," responding to the common concerns of all countries in digital economy and cyber security.

In October 2019, it called for "courageously shouldering the responsibility for development and jointly meeting risks and challenges," jointly promoting global governance in cyberspace, reflecting a deep understanding of historical opportunities and risks and challenges.

In November 2020, it pointed out the important role of the Internet in responding to major global public health crises, proving with practical results that building a community with a shared future in cyberspace is an inevitable choice for responding to global challenges.

In September 2021, it clearly proposed "digital civilization," giving new connotations to human civilization, reflecting a deep understanding of the changes in the stage of human social development.

In November 2022, it systematically elaborated on the global digital development path, promoting the deepening of the concept into practice.

In November 2023, it put forward the major initiative of "jointly promoting the building of a community with a shared future in cyberspace to a new stage."

In November 2024, it issued a new call to join hands to move towards a better "digital future," fully reflecting the profound thinking and forward-looking judgment on the global wave of informatization development.

Over the past 10 years, the "Wuzhen Voice" (乌镇声音) has become a voice of unity leading international exchanges and cooperation in cyberspace, and the concept of building a community with a shared future in cyberspace has been widely recognized and actively responded to by the international community.

Martin Charles, Dominica's ambassador to China (中国), said that international cooperation should be used to narrow the digital divide between developing countries and move towards the right direction of jointly building a community with a shared future in cyberspace.

"Building a community with a shared future in cyberspace not only helps to achieve global peace and development, but also strengthens cyber security through international cooperation, promotes global stability, and brings lasting well-being to mankind," said Mark Lin, a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

In a village in Nigeria (尼日利亚), a dozen villagers are staring intently at a brand-new TV screen. On the screen, spectacular skyscrapers stand tall in the city... Bako Ota recalled the scene when his hometown first received satellite digital TV signals, and still could not hide his excitement. "Before that, our lives were limited to what was in front of us. The 'Wan Village Tong' (万村通) allowed us to see the world outside the village."

In 2015, China (中国) proposed the implementation of the "Wan Village Tong" (万村通) satellite digital TV project, providing 10,000 villages in Africa (非洲) with access to satellite digital TV signals. As of the end of 2023, China's (中国) aid to Africa's (非洲) "Wan Village Tong" (万村通) project has covered 9,512 villages in Africa (非洲), directly benefiting more than 190,000 households.

Over the past 10 years, under the guidance of the concept of building a community with a shared future in cyberspace, China (中国) has continuously deepened international dialogue and exchanges in cyberspace, worked with the international community to vigorously promote the construction of digital infrastructure, strengthened international cooperation in the digital economy, promoted the inclusive and inclusive development of the Internet, jointly maintained cyber security, actively participated in the reform and construction of the global Internet governance system, and worked together to promote the building of a community with a shared future in cyberspace to a new stage.

Demonstration

Providing experience and examples for the development and governance of the global Internet with Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions

The Internet is the most dynamic field of development in our era. The rapid development of the Internet has brought profound changes to human production and life, and has also brought a series of new opportunities and challenges to human society.

In recent years, China's (中国) cyberspace and informatization cause has developed with high quality, and the people have enjoyed more sense of gain, happiness, and security in cyberspace.

China (中国), which has the world's largest network society, is focusing its efforts on managing its own affairs well, and providing experience and examples for the development and governance of the global Internet with Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions.

The key to managing China's (中国) affairs well lies in the Party (党).

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized while presiding over the 23rd collective study session of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局): "We must strengthen the overall governance pattern of the network under the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央) and form a joint force for governance."

In 2014, China (中国) ushered in the 20th anniversary of its full-function access to the international Internet. In this year, the first meeting of the Central Leading Group for Cybersecurity and Informatization (中央网络安全和信息化领导小组) was held. In 2018, the Central Leading Group for Cybersecurity and Informatization (中央网络安全和信息化领导小组) was changed to the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission (中央网络安全和信息化委员会).

Holding high the banner and setting the direction, uniting the mind and casting the soul.

The centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央) over cyberspace and informatization work has been significantly strengthened, and the system and mechanism of the Party's (党) management of the Internet has been further improved. The Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办) has strengthened overall coordination and worked with various regions and departments to jointly promote the development of cyberspace and informatization; the three-level work system of cyberspace and informatization has been basically established, and the construction of county-level cyberspace and informatization institutions has been steadily promoted; the "Implementation Measures for the Responsibility System for Cybersecurity Work of Party Committees (Party Groups)" (《党委（党组）网络安全工作责任制实施办法》) has been formulated and implemented, with the whole Party (党) taking action and managing together, to implement the Party's (党) management of the Internet in practice.

With the outline in hand, we will persevere.

Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) as the core, and under the scientific guidance of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important thought on building a cyber power, China's (中国) cyberspace and informatization cause has made significant achievements: breakthroughs have been made in core technologies in the information field, and the driving and leading role of informatization in economic and social development has been significantly brought into play; the construction of network content has been continuously deepened, and the governance of the network ecology has achieved remarkable results; the network security guarantee system and capacity building have been comprehensively strengthened; the process of legalizing cyberspace has been accelerated, and the Internet has been operating healthily on the track of the rule of law...

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out profoundly: "We must grasp the initiative in the development of the Internet in our country and ensure Internet security and national security, and we must break through the problem of core technology."

Previously, an earthquake occurred in a country in South Asia (南亚), and the poor communication between rescue teams from various countries became one of the obstacles to the rescue. Chinese (中国) rescuers used the unique short message function of the Beidou (北斗) system to send rescue locations and rescue information, making an important contribution to the rescue.

At present, more than half of the countries and regions in the world use Beidou (北斗), and the lives of more and more people are more convenient, safer, more efficient, and more accurate because of Beidou (北斗).

Key core technologies are the heavy weapons of the country. Examples of independent innovation and self-reliance like Beidou (北斗) are constantly emerging in the construction of a cyber power; prospective research and technical experiments on 6G are being steadily promoted, and innovative achievements such as quantum technology and brain-computer interfaces are shining brightly; the world's largest network infrastructure has been built. As of September 2025, the total number of 5G base stations in the country reached 4.705 million, and the number of active IPv6 users reached 865 million...

China (中国) is vigorously developing the digital economy, cultivating new driving forces with informatization, and promoting new development with new driving forces.

"We are now mainly engaged in e-commerce live streaming, and the business season is all year round," said an e-commerce operator in Luoyang (洛阳), Henan (河南), who sells Hanfu (汉服).

China's (中国) digital economy industry is constantly growing, and the scale of the digital economy has ranked second in the world for several consecutive years. In 2024, the added value of the core industries of the digital economy accounted for about 10% of GDP. Digital technology empowers the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, the integration of industrial scenarios continues to be enriched, and the core competitiveness of industries continues to be enhanced.

This is an era in which "'everyone holds a microphone' and everyone can create." The construction of network content is crucial to the development and governance of the network.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "If the source is clear, the flow will be clear. We must adhere to shaping cyberspace with positive voices, mainstream values, and the new atmosphere of the times, so that the Internet becomes an important position for ideological guidance, moral education, and cultural inheritance."

In February 2025, Academician Huang Xuhua (黄旭华), the chief designer of China's (中国) first generation of nuclear submarines, passed away, and a short video telling the story of Huang Xuhua (黄旭华) was widely forwarded on the Internet. On social platforms, countless netizens posted and left messages, and the number of readings of related topics exceeded 100 million.

Glimmers of light gather into a torch.

Articles, pictures, and audio and video clips have enriched the construction of network content, told the story of China (中国) in the new era with more vivid and lively expressions, and created a good atmosphere of strengthening confidence, gathering people's hearts, warming people's hearts, and building unity.

Today, the positive energy in cyberspace is stronger and the main theme is more high-pitched.

"A clear and clean cyberspace with a good ecology is in the interests of the people. A smoggy and deteriorating cyberspace is not in the interests of the people," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized.

The cyberspace and informatization departments, together with the sports authorities, have continued to increase their efforts to govern the chaos of the online sports "fan circle" (饭圈), creating a good public opinion atmosphere for athletes to actively prepare for competitions and for sports events to be held smoothly.

Take heavy punches and show sharp swords.

From rectifying malicious marketing in the short video field to cracking down on traffic fraud, online water armies, and online "black mouths" involving enterprises; from strengthening online protection for minors to rectifying the abuse of AI technology... The "Qinglang" (清朗) series of special actions covers key areas and key links of the network ecology, and also focuses on new situations, new problems, and difficult bottlenecks, and constantly promotes the formation of a good network ecology.

Network security affects the whole body, profoundly affecting the security of politics, economy, culture, society, military, and other fields.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Without network security, there is no national security, no stable operation of the economy and society, and the interests of the broad masses of the people are difficult to guarantee."

In recent years, China's (中国) network security work has made positive progress, the network security policy, law, and standard system has been continuously improved, and the network security awareness and capabilities of the whole society have been significantly improved.

The National Cybersecurity Publicity Week (国家网络安全宣传周) has been successfully held for 12 consecutive years, promoting the establishment of cybersecurity colleges in more than 100 universities. The national network security defense system has been initially built, realizing "one-point discovery and full-network defense" against major network security threats. Data security management and personal information protection have been continuously strengthened, the national data cross-border security management system has been basically established, and the security governance of artificial intelligence has been continuously deepened.

To ensure the continuous and healthy development of the Internet, we must establish rules, manage for the long term, and adhere to managing the network according to law, running the network according to law, and using the network according to law.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized while presiding over the 23rd collective study session of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局): "We must coordinate the promotion of legislation, law enforcement, justice, and publicity of the law in the network field."

Formulating and revising laws and regulations such as the Cybersecurity Law (网络安全法), the Data Security Law (数据安全法), the Personal Information Protection Law (个人信息保护法), and the Regulations on the Management of Network Data Security (网络数据安全管理条例), and taking the lead in carrying out legislation on the development and management of generative artificial intelligence on a global scale... More than 160 laws and regulations have been enacted in the network field, and the "four beams and eight pillars" have been basically built.

Continuously increasing the intensity of network law enforcement and resolutely investigating and dealing with various illegal and non-compliant behaviors online; network justice is constantly deepening, the Internet court has been established, and smart courts and smart procuratorial affairs are accelerating; increasing the intensity of network publicity of the law and innovatively creating the "National Network Publicity of the Law" (全国网络普法行) brand, with more than 20 billion readings on the entire network... The coordinated promotion of law enforcement, justice, and publicity of the law involving the Internet has continuously improved governance efficiency.

Adhering to the Party's (党) leadership, adhering to the people first, adhering to upholding justice and innovation, adhering to the rule of law, and adhering to the concept of the system, in the surging digital torrent, the giant ship of China (中国) is riding the waves and moving forward steadily, injecting positive energy into the development of the world's Internet and providing a stabilizer.

Action

Adhering to multilateral participation and multi-party participation, working together to address the common challenges facing human society

China (中国) is an active advocate, a strong leader, and a firm practitioner of the concept of building a community with a shared future in cyberspace.

Over the past 10 years, under the guidance of the concept of building a community with a shared future in cyberspace, China (中国) has worked with countries around the world to allow the Internet to better benefit the people of all countries in the world and jointly create a better digital and intelligent future for mankind.

Promote interconnection -

"Only by strengthening the construction of information infrastructure, paving the way for smooth information flow, and constantly narrowing the information gap between different countries, regions, and groups of people can we allow information resources to flow fully," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized.

The pace of global digital infrastructure construction is accelerating, and the construction of 5G networks is accelerating; the construction of broadband networks is continuing to advance, and the coverage level of optical fiber and fixed broadband has been significantly improved; the large-scale deployment and application of IPv6 is steadily growing, and the number of users and application support rates are constantly increasing; the scale of the world's computing power infrastructure is continuing to grow, and data centers are gradually transforming to green and intelligent...

Over the past 10 years, the level of interconnection, co-construction, sharing, and coordinated linkage of global digital infrastructure has rapidly improved.

Promote exchanges and mutual learning -

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The Internet is an important carrier for spreading excellent human culture and promoting positive energy. China (中国) is willing to build a bridge for international exchanges through the Internet, promote exchanges and mutual learning of excellent cultures in the world, and promote emotional exchanges and spiritual communication among the people of all countries."

Wushu, mortise and tenon joints, dragon dance, and shadow puppetry, with tens of millions of views and millions of likes... Opening overseas media websites, under the Chinese (中国) culture special, video products with the theme of "intangible cultural heritage" are very popular.
Short video blogger "African Xiao Wu (非洲小五)" records interesting stories about his life and his friends; a Nepalese blogger showcases his hometown's daily life and unique customs, gaining millions of likes on the Chinese internet... People from different countries and regions are using "camera + internet" to tell stories of cultural exchange, jointly promoting mutual understanding and affinity.

Over the past 10 years, cyberspace has increasingly become an important platform for disseminating outstanding human culture and promoting positive energy. Driven by the wave of information technology, countries around the world have achieved deeper cultural exchanges and mutual learning of civilizations through the internet.

Promoting Common Prosperity—

"China's door to opening up will never be closed, the policy of utilizing foreign investment will not change, the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of foreign-invested enterprises will not change, and the direction of providing better services for foreign companies to invest and operate in China will not change," President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized.

In the first three quarters of 2025, China's cross-border e-commerce imports and exports were approximately 2.06 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.4%. China has strengthened international cooperation in the digital economy field, promoted the formulation of the "G20 Digital Economy Development and Cooperation Initiative," jointly launched the "Belt and Road" Digital Economy International Cooperation Initiative, signed memorandums of understanding on digital economy cooperation with multiple countries, and developed "Silk Road E-commerce" partner countries.

Over the past 10 years, countries around the world have accelerated the layout of digital economy development strategies. Global basic telecommunications services, electronic information manufacturing, software and information technology services, and internet information content services have shown strong growth momentum. The digital transformation of agriculture, industry, and service industries has steadily advanced. Fintech, e-commerce, and other industries have continued to prosper, injecting new impetus into global economic growth.

Promoting Orderly Development—

President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out, "Cybersecurity is a global challenge. No country can stand aside or be immune. Maintaining cybersecurity is the common responsibility of the international community."

"The draft document has been adopted. Thank you very much, and salute to everyone!" New York, USA, local time August 8, 2024, United Nations Headquarters conference room, the chairman of the drafting committee of the "United Nations Convention on Combating Cybercrime," Algerian diplomat Faouzia Boumaiza Mebarki, said amid applause.

This is the first universal international convention formulated under the auspices of the United Nations in the cyber domain, which will provide a legal framework for international cooperation in combating cybercrime worldwide. After three years of negotiations, the Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime finally reached a consensus and successfully passed the draft. The chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee specifically thanked China, emphasizing that China's role was crucial. In December 2024, the United Nations General Assembly formally adopted the convention.

Over the past 10 years, countries around the world have increasingly emphasized cybersecurity, continuously improved legislation in the cybersecurity field, strengthened the protection of critical information infrastructure, data security, and personal information, worked together to address cybercrime and cyberterrorism, the cybersecurity technology industry has steadily developed, and global artificial intelligence security governance has entered a fast track.

Promoting Fairness and Justice—

"International cyberspace governance should adhere to multilateral participation and multi-stakeholder participation, be handled through consultation by everyone, and give play to the roles of governments, international organizations, internet enterprises, technical communities, non-governmental organizations, and individual citizens. We should not engage in unilateralism, nor should we allow one party to dominate or a few parties to get together and have the final say," President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized.

Holding the World Internet Conference Digital Silk Road Development Forum, the China-Latin America Internet Development and Cooperation Forum, the China-Africa Internet Development and Cooperation Forum, the World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High-level Meeting on Global AI Governance, conducting China-U.S. intergovernmental dialogue on artificial intelligence, China-EU high-level dialogue on the digital field, China-ASEAN digital governance dialogue, and issuing the "International Cooperation Strategy for Cyberspace," "Building a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace," "Global Artificial Intelligence Governance Initiative," "Artificial Intelligence Security Governance Framework," "Global Data Cross-border Flow Cooperation Initiative"...

Over the past 10 years, China has adhered to multilateral participation and multi-stakeholder participation, deeply participated in cyberspace exchanges and cooperation under the United Nations framework, firmly supported the formulation of universally accepted rules, norms, and principles of responsible state behavior in cyberspace under the United Nations framework, actively participated in the formulation of the United Nations "Global Digital Compact," the Internet Governance Forum and other activities, as well as digital governance mechanisms such as the G20, APEC, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and BRICS.

With solid actions, China has gathered broad consensus on promoting the construction of a community with a shared future in cyberspace, promoted the international community to transcend differences with a more collaborative and inclusive attitude, worked together to address the common challenges facing human society, and built a more inclusive, prosperous, peaceful, secure, equal, and inclusive cyberspace.

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Currently, the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century at an accelerated pace, and a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating breakthroughs. The development of information technology is moving towards a new stage of comprehensive leap in digitalization, networking, and intelligence, bringing new opportunities and hopes, as well as new risks and challenges, to the development of human society.

Cyberspace is the common home of mankind, and the development of cyberspace requires the joint promotion of all countries in the world.

Ten years ago, President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized at the opening ceremony of the Second World Internet Conference: "Let us join hands to jointly promote the interconnection and shared governance of cyberspace, and contribute to creating a better future for human development!"

**行之力则知愈进，知之深则行愈达** (xíng zhī lì zé zhī yù jìn, zhī zhī shēn zé xíng yù dá - "The more one practices, the more one knows; the deeper one knows, the more one achieves," Progress in knowledge comes from practice, and profound knowledge leads to greater achievement).

Looking to the future, guided by the concept of building a community with a shared future in cyberspace, jointly embracing development opportunities, and working together to address risks and challenges, we will surely promote the construction of a peaceful, secure, open, cooperative, and orderly cyberspace, so that the fruits of internet development can better benefit the people of all countries.

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China's crude oil production有望 to hit a new high this year.

This reporter Ding Yiting (丁怡婷) reports from Beijing (北京) on December 14th. The "2060 World and China Energy Outlook Report (2025 Edition)" was released at the 2025 International Energy Development Summit recently held. The report shows that China's energy structure is becoming increasingly diversified and balanced. In the next 10 years, the energy structure will feature a decrease in coal, stability in oil and gas, and an increase in non-fossil fuels. Oil will show an accelerated trend towards raw materialization and greening, with demand rapidly shifting to the fields of chemical products and new material manufacturing. Natural gas will play an important role in supplementing coal and supporting new power systems.

Data from the National Energy Administration (国家能源局) shows that China's crude oil production is expected to reach 215 million tons in 2025, a record high. Natural gas production could reach 260 billion cubic meters, an increase of 35% compared to the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan" period.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's oil and gas supply capacity has significantly improved, and storage and transportation capacity has continued to strengthen. By the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the total mileage of crude oil and refined oil pipelines reached approximately 67,000 kilometers, and the total mileage of long-distance natural gas pipelines reached approximately 128,000 kilometers, an increase of 4% and 16% respectively compared to the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan" period. The construction of gas storage facilities has been actively promoted, and peak shaving capacity has been greatly improved. At the same time, the pattern of oil and gas imports has become more diversified, and the ability to guarantee resources has continued to improve. As of September this year, the number of crude oil import source countries has expanded to more than 40, and the number of natural gas import source countries has expanded to more than 30.

According to the relevant person in charge of the Economics and Technology Research Institute of China National Petroleum Corporation (中国石油集团), in the next 5 years, domestic oil and gas production is expected to show a trend of "stable oil and increased gas." Crude oil production can maintain a stable production of 200 million tons in 2030, and natural gas production is expected to increase to 300 billion cubic meters. A number of large-scale refining and chemical integration projects and refining and chemical transformation and upgrading projects will be put into production across the country, and the supply ratio of high-end petrochemical products will increase. Based on the development of green hydrogen, ammonia, and methanol, traditional oil and gas will accelerate the transformation to green and new oil and gas.

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China's engineering machinery market share in the international market is rapidly increasing.

This newspaper reported from Beijing on December 14th (Reporter Li Xinping (李心萍)): The reporter learned from the China Machinery Industry Federation (中国机械工业联合会) that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the construction machinery industry maintained stable development, with a significant increase in foreign trade exports. Its business covers more than 170 countries and regions, and its products are exported to more than 210 countries and regions. China's international market share of construction machinery has rapidly increased, and the globalization layout has been deeply promoted. China's annual export volume of construction machinery has increased from 20.9 billion US dollars in 2020 to nearly 52.9 billion US dollars in 2024, and is expected to reach or exceed 59 billion US dollars in 2025, continuously crossing the 30 billion, 40 billion, and 50 billion US dollar marks, showing a strong upward trend overall.

Climbing to new heights, high-end equipment continues to meet construction needs. 4000-ton cranes, super-tonnage hydraulic excavators, 10,000-ton-meter tower cranes, super-large shield machines, high-horsepower bulldozers, large pure electric mining dump trucks, large aerial work vehicles... a number of intelligent high-end major technical equipment have made breakthroughs, playing an irreplaceable role in major domestic and foreign projects.

Riding the "digital" wave, new breakthroughs have been made in digital and intelligent development. Relying on the deepening application of 5G, big data, and artificial intelligence, the industry's digital and intelligent upgrading is evolving towards systematic intelligent solutions such as machine group collaborative operations, showing the characteristics of active technological innovation, rich application scenarios, improved industrial ecology, and significantly improved construction efficiency.

Relevant officials from the China Machinery Industry Federation (中国机械工业联合会) stated that, looking forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," China's construction machinery industry is expected to maintain a simultaneous increase in quantity and quality.

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From December 13th to 14th, Wudu District (武都区), Longnan City (陇南市), Gansu Province (甘肃省), Wai Na Town (外纳镇) joined forces with 6 surrounding towns to organize a "Winter Solstice Grand Market" in the urban area of Wudu (武都). Longnan City (陇南市) is located in the intersection area of the Qinling (秦岭) and Minshan (岷山) mountain ranges. Between the high mountains and lofty ridges, a large number of distinctive agricultural products such as pepper, olive, tea, and citrus are nurtured. At the market, high-quality local specialties from the countryside were showcased, attracting many residents to taste and purchase.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Lang Bingbing (郎兵兵) Photo

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Injecting Strong Impetus into Global Common Prosperity

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, comprehensively summarizing the economic work of 2025, deeply analyzing the current economic situation, and systematically deploying the economic work for 2026. International individuals interviewed by this newspaper stated that in the past year, China's high-quality economic development has been steadily advanced, demonstrating strong resilience and vitality. The year 2026 is the opening year of China's "15th Five-Year Plan," and the stability of China's policies, the stability of economic growth, and the stability of development expectations will continue to be released, injecting more certainty into the world.

"China will remain an important engine of global development"

The meeting pointed out that this year has been a very extraordinary year, "China's economy has moved forward against pressure and developed towards new and better directions." In 2025, facing profound and complex changes in the domestic and international situation, China's economy has maintained an overall stable and progressive development trend, and the main goals of economic and social development will be successfully completed. Recently, many international institutions have intensively raised their expectations for China's economic growth rate in 2025, and "optimism about China" has increasingly become a consensus among all parties.

"The meeting pointed out the direction for China's good start to the '15th Five-Year Plan' next year and the continued promotion of high-quality development," said Iraqi economist Mahmoud Dagher, expressing his full confidence in China's continued steady economic development. As an important stabilizing force in the world economy, China's super-large-scale market advantages, industrial strength, and innovation capabilities will support the stable and long-term development of the economy.

"The meeting fully demonstrated China's strategic focus and development vision in a complex external environment," said Tanglongong Wusentilangu, Dean of the Thailand "Belt and Road" Economic and Educational Development Research Institute. The meeting not only faced up to the realistic challenges such as "strong supply and weak demand," but also clearly emphasized that the supporting conditions and basic trends of China's long-term economic improvement have not changed. "China's rational and pragmatic attitude towards difficulties and its use of institutional advantages and policy tools to respond to challenges are important manifestations of China's economic resilience."

"Against the backdrop of increasing uncertainties in the world, China's economy continues to develop towards new and better directions, demonstrating strong resilience," said Lebanese scholar Tamara Bero.

Farhana Paruk, President of the Cape Peninsula Chamber of Commerce in South Africa, said: "Every time I go to China, I can feel new changes. The continuous advancement of China's free trade zone construction, the continuous innovation of industrial formats, and the successive introduction of new measures to expand opening up all demonstrate the resilience and vitality of the Chinese economy. China will remain an important engine of global development."

Park Seung-chan, Dean of the International Exchange Institute of Yongin University in South Korea and President of the Korea-China Federation, said that China actively promotes trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, plays an important role in maintaining the stability of the global industrial chain and supply chain, and China's continued stable economic growth will bring more positive impact to the world economic development.

Marta Montoro, Vice President of the Spanish think tank China Knowledge Lecture Hall, recently concluded a visit to Beijing (北京) and Hangzhou (杭州). "During my visit, I felt China's firm determination to promote technological innovation and sustainable development. The new development concept is promoting China's high-quality development to achieve continuous results, and it also points out the direction for China's future economic development," Montoro said.

"Contributing to global economic transformation and sustainable development"

The meeting identified eight key tasks for next year's economic work. International individuals have widely focused on "adhering to domestic demand dominance and building a strong domestic market," "adhering to innovation-driven development and accelerating the cultivation and expansion of new growth drivers," and "adhering to 'dual carbon' leadership and promoting comprehensive green transformation," expecting China's economy to move forward firmly along the path of high-quality development and add new momentum to world economic growth.

"China's adherence to domestic demand dominance makes the Chinese economy more resilient in the face of global economic uncertainties, further boosting the confidence of consumers and businesses," Montoro said. China vigorously consolidates its innovation foundation, continuously improves total factor productivity, and its economic structure continues to be optimized and upgraded. China actively and steadily promotes the "dual carbon" goals, accelerates the transformation of its energy structure, and actively promotes green travel, setting a model in promoting sustainable development.

"The meeting's deployment of key tasks such as innovation-driven development and green transformation reflects that the Chinese economy emphasizes 'quality' and 'efficiency' on the basis of 'stability' and 'progress'," said Wusentilangu. In recent years, China has implemented the "Artificial Intelligence +" action and the high-quality development action for key manufacturing industry chains, providing policy support for the growth of new growth drivers such as the digital economy and green technology. In terms of green development, the leading role of the "dual carbon" goals is becoming increasingly prominent, and green transformation is accelerating its integration into the entire process of China's industrial upgrading, "which not only enhances China's international competitiveness, but also contributes to global economic transformation and sustainable development."

Paruk said that China actively implements the innovation-driven development strategy, providing an ideal "testing ground" for technological innovation. In terms of electric vehicles and new energy development, Chinese technology and concepts are driving the development of related industries around the world.

"The meeting set the direction for China's high-quality economic development and is also of great significance to world economic development," said Derabik, a columnist for the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, who has visited China many times and witnessed China's fruitful achievements in technological innovation, green development, and other fields. "China shares its development experience in these fields with other countries, promoting global economic transformation."

"Bringing more development opportunities to countries around the world"

The meeting proposed that "adhering to opening up to the outside world and promoting win-win cooperation in multiple fields" is one of the key tasks of China's economic work next year. The release of the "2025 Action Plan for Stabilizing Foreign Investment," the official signing of the upgraded China-ASEAN Free Trade Area 3.0, and the upcoming launch of full island closure operations in the Hainan Free Trade Port... China is accelerating the construction of a new pattern of all-round opening up to the outside world, and is working with other countries to share development opportunities.

Park Seung-chan said that China has been strengthening cooperation with other countries through multilateral trade platforms. China improves the management system of the negative list for cross-border service trade, promotes market opening, and provides the international community with opportunities to enter the Chinese market. The upcoming launch of full island closure operations in the Hainan Free Trade Port has attracted worldwide attention.

"China's steady economic growth and continuous expansion of opening up to the outside world add more impetus to the in-depth promotion of South-South cooperation," Paruk said. "China strengthens pragmatic cooperation in various fields with developing countries, including African countries. Chinese technology, Chinese solutions, and Chinese experience are being promoted and applied in more and more developing countries, which not only drives local development, but also injects strong momentum into the global realization of common prosperity."

Wusentilangu believes that the meeting emphasized steadily promoting institutional opening up, optimizing the layout of free trade pilot zones, and promoting the high-quality development of the "Belt and Road" initiative, which will inject stability and certainty into the world economy. By promoting trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, and actively developing digital trade and green trade, China not only expands its own development space, but also provides important opportunities for countries to deeply participate in regional industrial chains and supply chains.

"China steadily promotes institutional opening up, orderly expands autonomous opening up in the service sector, and continuously optimizes the business environment, providing broad development space for foreign-funded enterprises," Derabik said. In recent years, China has continued to promote the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road," improving the level of interconnectivity and the degree of trade and investment liberalization and facilitation. "These actions not only promote regional economic prosperity, but also play an important role in the world economic recovery. China's continuous expansion of opening up to the outside world is bringing more development opportunities to countries around the world."

Montoro said that the meeting demonstrated China's commitment to inclusive globalization. China continues to promote the construction of free trade pilot zones, innovatively develops digital trade and service trade, and creates an open, mutually beneficial, and future-oriented economic and trade cooperation environment. "China has become an important partner for countries to work together to address global challenges and build a prosperous and stable future."

(Reported on December 14th from Beijing (北京), Dubai, Bangkok (曼谷), Johannesburg (约翰内斯堡), Seoul (首尔), Madrid (马德里), and Cairo (开罗) by reporters Jiang Bo (姜波), Guan Kejiang (管克江), Bai Yuanqi (白元琪), Zou Song (邹松), Mang Jiuchen (莽九晨), Yan Huan (颜欢), and Huang Peizhao (黄培昭))

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Moving Steadily Forward: Being the Greatest Certainty in an Uncertain World (Harmony Voice)

China's economic pattern of "stability" continues to consolidate, the momentum of "progress" is constantly enhanced, and the characteristic of "resilience" is increasingly prominent, adding valuable confidence to the world economy.

The Central Economic Work Conference was held recently, summarizing and analyzing this year's economic work, and making a series of important deployments for next year's economic work, diagnosing and directing the Chinese economy, and also providing stable expectations, innovative impetus, and growth opportunities for the world economy. With firm confidence, making good use of advantages, and responding to challenges, China will continue to consolidate and expand the positive trend of economic stability and progress, and ensure a good start for the "15th Five-Year Plan."

Not long ago, the world's largest port, Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港), saw its annual container throughput exceed 40 million TEUs for the first time, becoming the third port in the world to reach this milestone. The busy scene at the port reflects the robustness and vitality of the Chinese economy. Facing profound and complex changes at home and abroad, the Chinese economy is moving forward against pressure and developing towards new and better directions. In the first three quarters, the GDP increased by 5.2% year-on-year, and the total economic volume for the whole year is expected to reach about 140 trillion yuan, and the main goals of economic and social development will be successfully completed. In the first 11 months of this year, China's total import and export value of goods trade reached 41.21 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.6%, hitting a record high for the same period in history. Recently, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and other international institutions have intensively raised their expectations for China's economic growth rate in 2025, believing that despite the challenges, the Chinese economy has shown significant resilience. Since the beginning of this year, many foreign-funded enterprises have continued to increase their investment in the Chinese market, and "optimism about China" has become a consensus, and "longing for China" has become an increasing trend. China's economic pattern of "stability" continues to consolidate, the momentum of "progress" is constantly enhanced, and the characteristic of "resilience" is increasingly prominent, adding valuable confidence to the world economy.

The vigorous development of new quality productive forces is promoting the effective improvement of the quality and the reasonable growth of the quantity of the Chinese economy. The Central Economic Work Conference emphasized "adhering to innovation-driven development and stepping up efforts to cultivate and strengthen new driving forces," further stimulating the动力活力 of high-quality development. Observing the strong flow of China's innovation momentum and the continuous acceleration of green transformation, the Latin American News Agency recently praised in an article that "the 'green content' and 'value content' of the Chinese economy have been improved simultaneously." The "Global Innovation Index Report 2025" released by the World Intellectual Property Organization shows that China's ranking has entered the top ten globally for the first time, making it one of the fastest-growing economies in terms of innovation, and the number of global top 100 innovation clusters it owns has ranked first in the world for three consecutive years. China has achieved the world's largest and fastest-growing new energy development, and in 2024, China's newly added renewable energy power generation will account for 60% of the global total increase. The Australian East Asia Forum website pointed out that the green transition solutions and technologies provided by China may "reshape the future of the Chinese economy and the planet."

In 2025, the world economy is moving forward with difficulty in the face of headwinds, and the volatile and tortuous process fully shows that only openness and cooperation can create greater incremental space and promote win-win results for all parties. China has always been a firm practitioner and promoter of openness and cooperation, adhering to "holding hands" instead of "letting go" and "extending the chain" instead of "breaking the chain." The Central Economic Work Conference proposed a series of measures such as "orderly expanding autonomous opening up in the service sector," "promoting the integrated development of trade and investment, and the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade," and "promoting the signing of more regional and bilateral trade and investment agreements," further releasing a clear signal that China is unswervingly expanding opening up. Since the beginning of this year, from the entry into force of the China-Maldives Free Trade Agreement (中国—马尔代夫自贸协定), to the official signing of the upgraded Protocol of China-ASEAN Free Trade Area Version 3.0 (中国—东盟自贸区3.0版升级议定书); from the implementation of the free trade pilot zone upgrading strategy, to the replication and promotion of 77 pilot measures in the Shanghai Free Trade Pilot Zone (上海自贸试验区)... a number of measures have deepened mutually beneficial cooperation between China and other countries. The Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自贸港) is about to enter a new stage of full island customs closure operation, exploring feasible solutions for the liberalization and facilitation of global trade and investment, and contributing Chinese wisdom.

In an uncertain world, China is the biggest certainty and will continue to be an important engine of global growth. With a sound fundamental, strong innovation-driven force, and firm open attitude, the Chinese economy will work together with all parties to achieve mutual success, common development, and inject more stability into the world economy.

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The Fifth Meeting of the China-Saudi Arabia High-Level Joint Committee Political Sub-Committee Held in Riyadh

On December 14th, this newspaper reported from Riyadh (利雅得) (Reporter Ren Haoyu (任皓宇)) - Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, co-chaired the fifth meeting of the China-Saudi Arabia High-Level Joint Committee's political sub-committee with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal (费萨尔) in Riyadh (利雅得) on December 14th.

Wang Yi (王毅) stated that the friendship between the Chinese and Saudi people has a long history, and both countries have strong internal momentum for development and revitalization. Saudi Arabia is an important member of the Arab and Islamic world and an independent force in the multipolarization process. In recent years, under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping (习近平), His Majesty King Salman (萨勒曼) and His Royal Highness Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed (穆罕默德), exchanges and cooperation between the two countries in various fields have been carried out smoothly. China-Saudi relations have increasingly transcended the bilateral scope and become more strategically significant and globally influential. China always regards Saudi Arabia as a priority direction for its Middle East diplomacy and an important partner in its global diplomatic layout. China is willing to work with Saudi Arabia to implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, grasp the direction of China-Saudi relations, firmly support each other on issues involving each other's core interests, coordinate cooperation in various fields, continuously enrich the connotation of the comprehensive strategic partnership, build China-Saudi relations into a new benchmark of mutual benefit, mutual trust, unity and cooperation between countries, and promote the continuous development of bilateral relations to a higher level.

Wang Yi (王毅) said that next year marks the 10th anniversary of the establishment of a comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries. At this important year of **承上启下** (chéng shàng qǐ xià - "inherit the past and usher in the future," to serve as a link between past and future), China is willing to further strengthen high-level exchanges with Saudi Arabia, welcome Saudi leaders to China next year to attend the second China-Arab States Summit, and look forward to working with Saudi Arabia to ensure the success of the summit. China is willing to maintain communication with Saudi Arabia on the preparation for the fifth meeting of the China-Saudi Arabia High-Level Joint Committee, and provide service and guarantee for the major bilateral agenda next year.

Wang Yi (王毅) pointed out that China and Saudi Arabia are important economic and trade partners to each other. China will further expand its opening-up during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, which will bring new opportunities for China-Saudi cooperation. The two sides should strengthen cooperation in traditional fields such as energy and investment, expand cooperation in new fields such as new energy and green transformation, and create more visual results. China welcomes Saudi companies to increase investment in China, supports Chinese companies to invest and develop in Saudi Arabia, and hopes that Saudi Arabia will continue to provide a good business environment for Chinese companies. The two sides should also strengthen exchanges in culture, tourism and other fields, further facilitate personnel exchanges, enhance mutual understanding, and deepen the brotherly friendship between China and Saudi Arabia. China supports Saudi Arabia in playing a greater role in international and regional affairs, supports Saudi Arabia in hosting the 2030 Riyadh (利雅得) World Expo, and is willing to strengthen communication and cooperation with Saudi Arabia in multilateral platforms such as the United Nations, the G20, and BRICS, practice true multilateralism, and safeguard international fairness and justice.

Faisal (费萨尔) said that the current development momentum of Saudi-China relations is good, the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries is deepening, and practical cooperation has yielded fruitful results. In particular, the heads of state of the two countries have maintained close interaction, providing guidance and blueprint for bilateral relations. Saudi Arabia unswervingly adheres to the one-China principle and will never support any "Taiwan independence" separatist acts. Conniving at "Taiwan independence" is tantamount to violating the international law principle of non-interference in other countries' internal affairs, and is tantamount to allowing various separatist forces in the international community to disrupt the world.

Faisal (费萨尔) said that Saudi Arabia highly appreciates China's great development achievements and is willing to strengthen high-level exchanges with China, learn from China's advanced experience, and deepen cooperation in economy, trade, investment, energy, circular economy and other fields to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results. Saudi Arabia is very much looking forward to the second China-Arab and China-GCC summits to be held in China next year, and is willing to make every effort to prepare for them, and is also willing to actively promote the negotiation process of the China-GCC Free Trade Agreement. Saudi Arabia welcomes more Chinese companies to invest and develop in Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Arabia is willing to provide more preferential policies. Saudi Arabia highly appreciates the important role played by China in international affairs, especially its adherence to a fair and just position on issues such as Palestine. Saudi Arabia supports the series of global initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平) and is willing to strengthen multilateral communication and cooperation with China to safeguard the common interests of developing countries and jointly promote the multipolarization of the world.

The two sides also exchanged views on international and regional issues such as the Middle East and the situation in Afghanistan.

After the meeting, Wang Yi (王毅) and Faisal (费萨尔) jointly signed an agreement between the two countries on mutual visa exemption for persons holding diplomatic, official and special passports.

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Joint Press Release of the Meeting Between the Foreign Ministers of the People's Republic of China and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Riyadh, December 14th, Xinhua News Agency -- To strengthen China's relations with Saudi Arabia, at the invitation of Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Faisal (费萨尔), 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) will visit Saudi Arabia on December 14, 2025.

The two foreign ministers held talks, reviewed the friendly comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries, and expressed appreciation for the high level of cooperation between the two countries in the fields of economy, trade, investment, and energy. It was pointed out that this visit coincides with the 35th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Saudi Arabia. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations, the two countries have shared common ideas, and the relations between the two countries have made great progress, jointly benefiting the friendly people of both countries.

Foreign Minister Wang Yi (王毅) and Foreign Minister Faisal (费萨尔) co-chaired the fifth meeting of the political sub-committee of the China-Saudi Arabia High-Level Joint Committee to explore strengthening cooperation between the two countries in various fields. Both sides emphasized that they will continue to support each other on issues involving each other's core interests, implement a series of major initiatives proposed by the leaders of the two countries, and support the friendly two countries in achieving security, stability, development, and prosperity.

The Saudi side reiterated its position of adhering to the one-China policy, emphasizing that the government of the People's Republic of China is the only legitimate government representing the whole of China, and Taiwan is an inseparable part of China's territory.

The Chinese side supports Saudi Arabia's development and enhancement of relations with Iran, and appreciates Saudi Arabia's leading role and efforts in achieving regional and international security and stability.

The Chinese side appreciates the economic development achieved by Saudi Arabia under the "2030 Vision" framework, and appreciates the achievements of the first China-Arab States Summit held in Saudi Arabia in December 2022. The Saudi side supports China in hosting the second China-Arab States Summit and the second China-Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in 2026. The Chinese side will participate in the 2030 World Expo hosted by Saudi Arabia.

The two sides also exchanged views on regional and international issues of common concern, and expressed that they will strengthen communication and coordination. Both sides emphasized their support for efforts to promote a comprehensive and just settlement of the Palestinian issue in accordance with the "two-state solution" principle, relevant UN resolutions, and the "Arab Peace Initiative," and to establish an independent State of Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital on the basis of the 1967 borders.

During the visit, the two sides signed the "Agreement between the People's Republic of China and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Mutual Exemption of Visas for Holders of Diplomatic, Official and Special Passports."

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Preventing the resurgence of Japanese militarism is the common will of all righteous forces (Zhong Sheng)

Japanese militarism has been nailed to the pillar of historical shame, and this will not change with the passage of time.

"Dragon coils and tiger crouches, Yi precepts are inscribed on the tripod, carrying on the past and opening up the future, never forgetting." On December 13th, at the site of the 2025 National Memorial Ceremony for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre, 88 youth representatives read the "Peace Declaration," conveying the firm belief in remembering history and safeguarding peace.

On the same day, the Central Archives (中央档案馆) announced a batch of declassified Soviet interrogation files of the Japanese Army Unit 731 (731部队), transferred to China by Russia. During World War II, the aggressive crimes committed by Japanese militarism against the Chinese people were 罄竹难书 (qìng zhú nán shū - "exhaust the bamboo to write," too numerous to record). The Nanjing Massacre, the inhumane bacteriological warfare, etc., are extremely dark pages in human history. The files transferred by Russia reveal that there are more than 200 people related to the crimes of Unit 731, among which the 12 war criminals who were publicly tried pleaded guilty to their crimes of violating international conventions and preparing and implementing bacteriological warfare. These files, together with the Unit 731 site and Unit 731 crime files preserved by China, complement and corroborate each other, once again solidifying the historical truth with irrefutable ironclad evidence, and further revealing that the Japanese militarism's launch of bacteriological warfare was an organized, premeditated, top-down systematic national crime.

The international community has long made a just judgment on the aggressive acts of Japanese militarism. International legal documents such as the Cairo Declaration (《开罗宣言》) and the Potsdam Proclamation (《波茨坦公告》) established the basic principles of the post-war international order, and made clear provisions on opposing aggression, punishing war criminals, and eradicating militarism. After the victory of World War II, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and the Chinese Military Tribunal for the Trial of War Criminals both investigated the Nanjing Massacre and made qualitative and conclusive judgments on it from a legal perspective. Japanese militarism has been nailed to the pillar of historical shame, and this will not change with the passage of time. However, Japan has never truly reflected on its historical guilt, and the right-wing forces' attempts to overturn history have never stopped. Now, there is even a trend of reviving militarism. Since Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) came to power, she has launched serious provocations on the Taiwan issue, which concerns the post-war international order, while also attempting to revise the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles," relax restrictions on arms exports, and continue to increase defense budgets, exposing the dangerous tendency to revive militarism, undermine the achievements of World War II, and challenge the post-war international order, which must arouse high vigilance from the international community.

Forgetting history means betrayal, and denying guilt means repeating it. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War. Jointly safeguarding historical justice and preventing the resurgence of Japanese militarism is the common will of the just forces of the international community. Russia transferred historical archives, French youth donated photos to China exposing the crimes of the Japanese army bombing Shanghai and massacring civilians during World War II, and Japanese scholars donated color scans of the roster of the "Bote 8604 Unit" (波第8604部队) of the Japanese Army's South China Bacteriological Warfare Unit... We are gratified to see that more and more countries and people are joining the ranks of guarding historical memory and defending human justice. "It is not shameful to admit what has happened, what is truly shameful is to treat what has happened as if it never happened," "Avoiding historical truth will make it difficult to get out of the shadow of militarism"... Japanese right-wing politicians should listen carefully to the voices of these insightful people, earnestly and deeply reflect on the history of aggression, thoroughly liquidate the legacy of militarism, and truly embark on the path of peaceful development, so as to gain the trust of Asian neighbors and the international community with practical actions.

Establishing the National Memorial Day for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre and revisiting the memory of national suffering is not to perpetuate hatred, but to learn lessons and create the future. Today's China has embarked on a new journey of building a modern socialist country in all respects, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is unstoppable. China is unswervingly following the path of peaceful development and will always be a force for peace, stability, and progress in the world. China will work with all peace-loving countries and peoples in the world to thwart any attempts to restore militarism and fascism, jointly safeguard the achievements of World War II and the post-war international order, and make greater contributions to the noble cause of human peace and development.

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Xi Jinping's Special Envoy and Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee Peng Qinghua Attends "International Year of Peace and Trust Forum"

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, December 13th (Xinhua) -- (Reporter Huang Silu) At the invitation of Turkmenistan, Xi Jinping (习近平)'s special envoy, Peng Qinghua (彭清华), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, visited Ashgabat from December 12th to 13th to attend the "International Year of Peace and Trust Forum." He delivered Xi Jinping (习近平)'s congratulatory letter to the Turkmen side, met with Gulmanova (古尔马诺娃), Chairman of the National Council of Turkmenistan, and leaders of major political parties, and participated in the China-Turkmenistan civil society dialogue. Peng Qinghua (彭清华) actively promoted the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the spirit of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s congratulatory letter, stating that China is willing to fully implement the important consensus reached by the top leaders of the two countries, strengthen strategic alignment and pragmatic cooperation in various fields, and jointly build a China-Turkmenistan community with a shared future.

The Turkmen side thanked President Xi Jinping (习近平) for sending a congratulatory letter to the forum and sending a special envoy to attend, saying that this fully reflects China's high regard for Turkmenistan-China relations. Major international occasions cannot be separated from China's participation. Turkmenistan is willing to take China's high-quality development as an opportunity to deepen mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation with China, jointly implement the four major global initiatives, better benefit the people of the two countries, and safeguard world peace.

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Chinese technological innovation benefits African countries.

By: 本报记者 田豆豆 范昊天

The 2025 China-Africa Innovation Cooperation and Development Forum, co-sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (中国科技部) and the People's Government of Hubei Province (湖北省人民政府), was held in Wuhan (武汉) recently. Government officials, experts, scholars, and entrepreneurs from 43 countries and regions attended the forum, engaging in in-depth exchanges around the theme of "New Opportunities for Innovation Cooperation, Working Together to Pursue Modernization." Visiting foreign guests also toured research institutes and organizations such as the Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (中国农业科学院油料作物研究所) and the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院武汉植物园). They stated that strengthening Sino-African scientific research cooperation is conducive to improving the technological level and improving people's livelihoods in African countries, and expressed their hope that both sides will strengthen exchanges and cooperation to achieve common development and prosperity.

Ethiopian Ambassador to China, Andargachew Tiruneh (安达尔古·贝尔赫), said that in recent years, with the continuous deepening of Sino-African cooperation and the solid progress of high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road," Chinese companies have helped Ethiopia build infrastructure such as highways, railways, and airports. In particular, the operation of the Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway (亚吉铁路) has greatly improved Ethiopia's connectivity with neighboring countries.

"China is an important partner of Angola, and the two sides have achieved fruitful results in infrastructure construction fields such as railways, hospitals, schools, and information and communication networks," said Mário Augusto Oliveira (马里奥·奥古斯托·奥利韦拉), Angola's Minister of Telecommunications, Information Technology and Social Communication. Angola and China are transforming towards cooperation driven by collaborative innovation and common development.

"China's scientific and technological innovation achievements benefit African countries. Mobile payment platforms are enhancing financial inclusion on the African continent, and household solar energy systems are promoting the gradual electrification of rural areas," said Gaspard Banyankimbona (加斯帕尔·巴尼扬金博纳), Commissioner for Education, Science, Technology and Innovation of the African Union Commission. He added that by joining hands, Africa and China can leverage their respective innovation advantages to build more resilient economic systems.

At the 4th China-Africa Industrial Innovation and Technology Transfer Cooperation Forum, hosted by Hubei University of Technology (湖北工业大学) and other organizations, Eduardo Mondlane University (爱德华多·孟德兰大学) of Mozambique and Hubei University of Technology (湖北工业大学) signed an agreement to jointly build a new photovoltaic agriculture joint laboratory. Manuel Luís Xemene (曼努埃尔·路易斯·谢内内), Director of the Cooperation Department of Eduardo Mondlane University (爱德华多·孟德兰大学), said that the "joining hands" of the two universities is conducive to promoting Mozambique's technological breakthroughs and industrialization in the field of photovoltaic agriculture, and driving the upgrading of related technologies and the coordinated development of the industrial chain in the local area.

Thirty-nine cooperation agreements were signed, including the China-Tanzania Joint Laboratory for Disease Prevention and Public Health and the Sesame Breeding and Industrialization Development Cooperation, and 23 service platforms such as the "African Intelligent Construction Promotion Center" were centrally authorized (listed)... During the 2025 China-Africa Innovation Cooperation and Development Forum, the two sides reached a series of cooperation agreements in scientific research cooperation, talent cultivation, and industrial docking. Qiu Yong (邱勇), Vice Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (中国科技部), said that China is willing to further deepen scientific and technological innovation cooperation with Africa, strengthen strategic alignment, expand scientific, technological, and cultural exchanges, and promote scientific and technological innovation achievements to benefit the people of China and Africa.

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Second Training Program on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Visits Fujian

This newspaper reported from Fuzhou on December 14th (Reporter Zhong Ziwei (钟自炜)) From December 12th to 14th, the second training course for talents in economic, social, and cultural rights, hosted by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (中国外交部) and supported by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (联合国人权高专办), visited Fujian (福建). More than 40 government representatives from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania, as well as diplomats stationed at the United Nations and officials from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, visited universities, enterprises, and communities to experience China's achievements in human rights development from the perspectives of economic development, social security, and historical and cultural protection.

In Fuzhou (福州), the trainees visited the achievement exhibition of the 30th anniversary of the implementation of the "3820" Strategic Project and the Intangible Cultural Heritage Expo Garden located in Sanfang Qixiang (三坊七巷). The trainees stated that they will uphold the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, strengthen dialogue and cooperation in the field of human rights, enhance mutual learning and 互学互鉴 (hù xué hù jiàn - "mutual learning and mutual appreciation," to learn from each other's strengths), continue to actively participate in global human rights governance, and work together to move towards a community of human destiny.

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Comrade Wang Bingqian's Life

Comrade Wang Bingqian (王丙乾), an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a long-tested and loyal communist fighter, a proletarian revolutionary, an outstanding leader in China's financial and economic front and socialist legal system construction, former State Councilor, and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People's Congress, passed away due to illness in Guangdong (广东) at 3:35 on December 8, 2025, at the age of 100.

Comrade Wang Bingqian (王丙乾) was born in June 1925 in Lixian County (蠡县), Hebei Province (河北). In his youth, he pursued progress, accepted the enlightenment of Marxist ideology, and aspired to devote himself to the revolutionary cause. He joined the revolutionary work in August 1939 and served as a stencil operator in the Lixian County (蠡县) Party Committee office, Hebei Province (河北). He joined the Communist Party of China in January 1940. From August 1940, he successively served as a receiver and dispatcher and researcher in the Jizhong (冀中) Ninth Prefectural Committee office, secretary of the Baiyang County (白洋县) Party Committee of the Jizhong (冀中) Ninth Military Subdistrict, secretary of the Audit Committee of the Jizhong (冀中) Ninth Military Subdistrict, audit officer of the Audit Committee of the Jizhong (冀中) District, audit officer of the Financial and Economic Office, audit clerk of the Financial Department of the Jizhong (冀中) Administrative Office, and deputy section chief of the Audit Office of the Financial Department of the North China People's Government. He paid attention to learning, worked conscientiously, and demonstrated strong theoretical level and working ability.

In October 1949, Comrade Wang Bingqian (王丙乾) entered the Ministry of Finance of the Central People's Government and successively served as section chief of the Accounting Department, director, deputy director, and director of the Budget Department. He conducted in-depth investigations and research, broadened his working ideas, participated in the preparation of the first national budget report of New China, and actively studied and improved China's financial management system and control of basic construction appropriations. He participated in the formulation of policies and measures such as the "Six Guidelines for Financial Work," making positive contributions to the initial establishment of a budget management system and financial distribution system in China and promoting the adjustment of the national economy.

From November 1964 to August 1980, Comrade Wang Bingqian (王丙乾) successively served as a member of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Budget Department of the Ministry of Finance, Deputy Director of the Revolutionary Committee, Deputy Minister, and Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group. He resolutely implemented the Party Central Committee's guidelines and policies, actively organized financial revenue, strictly controlled expenditures, alleviated the tight market supply situation, and did a lot of work to maintain financial and credit balance, safeguard national financial and economic order, and support economic construction, achieving remarkable results. He took the lead in organizing the formulation of a series of policies and measures such as increasing revenue and reducing expenditure, paying attention to improving the financial system and strictly enforcing financial discipline, concentrating limited financial resources to support economic construction and the development of industry and agriculture, making important contributions to the financial security of a large number of national key projects such as the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge (南京长江大桥) construction and carrier rocket research.

In August 1980, Comrade Wang Bingqian (王丙乾) served as Minister of Finance and Secretary of the Party Leadership Group. In June 1983, he served as State Councilor and Minister of Finance and Secretary of the Party Leadership Group. Faced with the serious imbalance in the national economy after the "Cultural Revolution," he resolutely implemented the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party, promptly shifted the focus of financial work to socialist modernization, highlighted the focus of distribution, improved the wage income level of employees, expanded investment in agriculture and light industry, increased the production of consumer goods, opened up new financial resources, quickly reversed the situation of continuous financial deficits, stabilized prices, and effectively promoted the healthy development of the national economy. He resolutely implemented the spirit of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on economic system reform, actively promoted the reform of the financial system, promoted the implementation of the financial system of "dividing revenue and expenditure, and contracting at different levels," changed from the past "eating from one pot" to "eating from separate pots," clarified the financial power and responsibilities of governments at all levels, mobilized the enthusiasm of governments at all levels, and effectively stimulated economic vitality. According to the changes in social development and economic situation, he promoted the improvement and adjustment of the financial system, and successively introduced various system models such as "dividing tax categories, verifying revenue and expenditure, and contracting at different levels" and "revenue increasing contracting, total amount sharing, total amount sharing plus growth sharing, increasing amount of remittance contracting, fixed amount of remittance, and fixed amount of subsidy." In order to better handle the distribution relationship between the central government and local governments, he summarized the experience and lessons of the contracting system, organized the design of a pilot reform plan for the tax-sharing financial system, and carried out pilot work in nine provinces and cities including Liaoning (辽宁), providing rich experience for China's comprehensive implementation of the tax-sharing system reform. He actively promoted tax system reform, changed the original relatively single tax system pattern through comprehensive adjustment of the industrial and commercial tax system, the establishment of a personal income tax system, the restoration and improvement of the tariff system, and the improvement of agricultural tax, and promoted the establishment of a tax system with turnover tax and income tax as the main body, supplemented by other tax categories, multi-link, and multi-level adjustment. He successively organized the issuance of treasury bonds such as key construction bonds, financial bonds, and national construction bonds, which effectively cooperated with and supported the introduction of reform measures in various aspects and fields. He adhered to democratic centralism, consciously maintained the unity of the leading group and the cadre team, maintained close ties with the masses, was good at listening to opinions from different aspects, and promoted the solid results of Party building work in the Ministry of Finance.

In March 1993, Comrade Wang Bingqian (王丙乾) was elected Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress at the First Session of the Eighth National People's Congress, and in the same month, he served as a member of the Party Leadership Group of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People's Congress, with responsibility for liaison with the Environment and Resources Protection Committee. He adhered to the organic unity of Party leadership, the people being the masters of the country, and the rule of law, fulfilled his duties and responsibilities in accordance with the law around the central tasks of the Party and the country, continuously enhanced the effectiveness of his work, and made important contributions to upholding and improving the system of people's congresses and promoting the construction of the socialist legal system.

At the meetings of the Eighth National People's Congress, Comrade Wang Bingqian (王丙乾), as a member of the Presidium of the Congress and the Standing Chairman of the Presidium, participated in chairing the meetings and conscientiously participated in deliberations, doing a lot of practical and effective work to ensure the smooth progress of the meetings. He participated in the deliberation of the draft amendment to the Constitution and the formulation and revision of laws such as the Electricity Law, the Coal Law, the Energy Conservation Law, the Construction Law, the Mineral Resources Law, and the Law on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Waste, making positive contributions to the initial construction of a legal system framework for the socialist market economy and the formation of a socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics. He attached great importance to the supervisory work of the National People's Congress, and proposed that the forms of supervision could be diverse, and that the work of the government should be both supervised and supported. He pointed out that environmental and resource protection is an important part of the national economy and social development, and emphasized the need to accelerate the pace of legislation, strengthen law enforcement, carry out various forms of environmental law enforcement supervision, and effectively ensure the implementation of various laws and policies on environmental and resource protection. He served as the leader of the law enforcement inspection team of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for many times, leading the team to local areas to inspect the implementation of laws such as the Environmental Protection Law, the Forest Law, and the Water Law, and made law enforcement inspection reports to the meetings of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. He attended the China Environmental Protection Century Tour activities for many times, widely publicized environmental protection concepts and policies, and conducted in-depth investigations and research at the grassroots level on major issues in environmental protection work, putting forward many constructive opinions and suggestions. He actively participated in the foreign affairs of the National People's Congress, led delegations to visit many countries, met with leaders of foreign parliaments and international organizations for many times, focused on publicizing China's reform and opening-up policies, introducing the system of people's congresses and China's achievements in democratic and legal construction, clarifying China's principled position and propositions on major international and regional issues, and promoting the international community to enhance its understanding and support for China.

In March 1998, Comrade Wang Bingqian (王丙乾) no longer served as Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. After retiring from his leadership position, he still cared about the development of the Party and the country, was concerned about the lives of the people, and paid attention to financial work and fiscal and tax reform. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he has resolutely supported and supported the leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, and firmly supported the construction of Party conduct and integrity and the anti-corruption struggle.

Comrade Wang Bingqian (王丙乾) was a member of the 12th and 13th Central Committees of the Communist Party of China.

Comrade Wang Bingqian (王丙乾) was loyal to the Party, loyal to the people, and loyal to the cause of communism throughout his life. He conscientiously studied Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of "Three Represents," and the Scientific Outlook on Development, deeply studied and implemented Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and always maintained a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee in thought, politics, and action. He had a firm political stance and strong Party spirit, strictly demanded himself in accordance with the Party Constitution, Party regulations, and Party discipline at all times, paid attention to politics, took the overall situation into consideration, and withstood the test of various storms. He was pioneering and enterprising, sought truth and was pragmatic, and made outstanding contributions in the fields of financial and economic work and socialist legal system construction. He always adhered to the mass line, was approachable, cared for and loved comrades, paid attention to cultivating young cadres, and was deeply praised by the majority of cadres and the masses. He was fair and upright, open and aboveboard, diligent and conscientious, worked hard and complained little, was honest and clean, lived a simple life, and strictly demanded his family members and staff, always maintaining the political character of a communist.

Comrade Wang Bingqian's (王丙乾) life was a revolutionary life, a glorious life, and a life of serving the people wholeheartedly. His death is a major loss to the Party and the country. We must turn grief into strength, learn from his revolutionary spirit, noble character, and fine style, unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, comprehensively implement Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," strengthen the "Four Consciousnesses," strengthen the "Four Confidences," and achieve the "Two Safeguards," strengthen confidence, unite and work together, forge ahead with determination, and strive forward courageously, and unite and struggle to comprehensively promote the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.

Comrade Wang Bingqian (王丙乾) will be immortal!

(Xinhua News Agency, Guangzhou (广州), December 14)

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"Three-pronged Approach" Expands High-Level Opening-up (Vibrant China Research Trip)

By: 本报记者 宋 飞 王伟健 周亚军

On the shores of the South China Sea, at the Hainan Free Trade Port's one-stop aircraft maintenance industrial base, aircraft from all over the world are "lined up."

In the hangar, workers from Haikou Airport Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Co., Ltd. are meticulously painting a wide-body aircraft for Qatar Airways. Wang Haiye (王海烨), general manager of the company, said: "The bonded aircraft maintenance is very powerful! No deposit is required for inbound maintenance, and the bonded 'aviation material supermarket' has sufficient stock. The painting speed of wide-body aircraft is more than twice as fast as our competitors." The high-quality service has led Qatar Airways to directly finalize a three-year cooperation agreement.

In the Lingang New Area of the Shanghai Free Trade Pilot Zone, the production line of Tesla's Shanghai Super Factory is operating at high speed. The factory exported more than 35,000 vehicles in October this year, an increase of 28% year-on-year and 84% month-on-month, demonstrating the strength of "Shanghai Manufacturing."

In Taicang High-tech Zone (太仓高新区), Jiangsu, at the Schaeffler Taicang Manufacturing Base's New Energy Phase II factory, automated guided vehicles shuttle orderly between production lines, efficiently producing key components for drive motors. One road equipped with a complete electric drive system for a new energy vehicle has become a portrayal of some sections of Taicang; Nanjing Road (南京路), Beijing Road (北京路), Guangzhou Road (广州路), and other roads gather industrial chains such as new energy vehicle power systems, chassis systems, and body accessories, resulting in a significant industrial chain resonance effect.

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed, "Expand high-level opening-up to the outside world and create a new situation of win-win cooperation."

The Central Economic Work Conference pointed out, "Adhere to opening up to the outside world, promote win-win cooperation in multiple fields," "Orderly expand autonomous opening up in the service sector," "Focus on stimulating the driving force and vitality of high-quality development, and unswervingly deepen reform and expand opening up."

From repairing aircraft in Hainan to manufacturing new energy vehicles and building supporting industrial chains in Shanghai and Jiangsu, where does the impetus for high-level opening up to the outside world come from? The answer lies in the "three-wheel drive" of institutional innovation, industrial upgrading, and platform construction. Recently, reporters conducted research in Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Hainan to explore the vivid practices of the three regions in expanding high-level opening up to the outside world with "three-wheel drive."

Institutional Innovation Breaks Barriers, Consolidating the "Hard Support" for Opening Up

The height of opening up comes from the depth of institutional innovation.

With the imminent full island closure operation of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自贸港), integrated institutional innovation is accelerating the convergence of people flow, logistics, and capital flow. In the first 10 months of this year, the value of bonded maintenance goods in Haikou Airport Comprehensive Bonded Zone (海口空港综保区) reached 47.86 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 71.8%. Behind this is the continuous effort of Hainan's integrated institutional innovation: pilot regulatory plans for temporary entry for repair, management measures for tariff exemption for re-import of aircraft after temporary exit for repair, and other measures have been implemented successively. The innovative mechanism of pre-review materials, immediate approval, and rapid customs clearance has turned the vision of "repairing global aircraft in the free trade port" from a vision into reality.

Thousands of miles away in the Lingang New Area (临港新片区), the numbers on the large screen of the Shanghai International Reinsurance Registration and Trading Center are constantly jumping. Zheng Yongqiang (郑永强), deputy general manager of Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance (China) Co., Ltd., lightly clicked the mouse to complete an online registration of a reinsurance business. "In the past, reinsurance settlement relied on word of mouth, which was inefficient and difficult to guarantee authenticity. Now, the entire process is traceable online, and business development has obviously accelerated." Since its operation this year, the Shanghai International Reinsurance Registration and Trading Center's online reinsurance business has attracted 128 institutions from 14 countries and regions to register.

Shanghai promotes reform by taking institutional opening-up as a starting point, promoting the development of digital finance, offshore finance, green finance, and other fields, and constantly aligning with international rules and regulations. At the same time, it uses "technology + institution" innovation to ensure financial security. The "Collaborative Governance of False Statements in the Capital Market Securities" application scenario established by the Shanghai High People's Court and the Shanghai Securities Regulatory Bureau has been launched at the Shanghai Big Data Center. Through digital means, it has realized the timely, accurate, and continuous sharing of information on civil compensation cases for false statements by listed companies, promoting the early detection and prevention of illegal clues and risks.

Taicang High-tech Zone (太仓高新区) in Jiangsu has explored and formed a "chain chief system for the industrial chain" to innovate and optimize the business environment. The person in charge of the development zone serves as the "chain chief" of the key industrial chain, accurately connecting with the needs of enterprises and promoting the coordinated development of enterprises. These days, Bona Environmental Equipment (Taicang) Co., Ltd. (博纳环境设备（太仓）有限公司), located in Taicang High-tech Zone, is carrying out the finishing work of the second-phase factory building. It is expected that the production capacity will double after it is put into operation by the end of the year. Gao Fei (高飞), the company's business development manager, said that thanks to Jiangsu's preferential policies such as the three-year action plan to encourage foreign-invested enterprises to reinvest their profits, the company has increased its capital and expanded its production three times in the eight years since it settled in Taicang. The group's board of directors insists on using 30% of the net profit of the Chinese factory for reinvestment every year.

Through institutional innovation, Jiangsu has effectively optimized the business environment and enhanced the investment confidence of foreign-funded enterprises. The scale of profit reinvestment in the province ranks among the top in the country.

In the face of the global economic and trade rules reconstruction, the three regions continue to deepen institutional reforms: Hainan promotes trade liberalization and facilitation through closure operations, Shanghai promotes the efficient allocation of factors through financial platforms, and Jiangsu stimulates the endogenous power of the market through the business environment, jointly consolidating the institutional foundation for high-level opening up.

Industrial Upgrading Strengthens the Core, Activating the "New Momentum" for Opening Up

Against the backdrop of deep adjustments in the globalization pattern, opening up provides assistance for the deep embedding and coordinated leap of the industrial chain and value chain. Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Hainan are promoting the transition of industries from "manufacturing workshops" to "innovation brains," and achieving two-way empowerment of "bringing in" and "going out" with high-quality supply.

In the workshop of Xinan Technology (锡南科技) in Wuxi (无锡), Jiangsu, precision compressor housing processing for turbochargers is underway. "The upstream mold error is less than 0.02 mm, and we can achieve 0.005 mm, which is also a very high level internationally," said Gu Dengfeng (顾登峰), deputy general manager.

As Jiangsu's "hard manufacturing" is renowned throughout the world, Hainan, which is striving to build a free trade port, is opening up a new track for industrial opening up of "soft services" with its location and policy advantages. "The curative effect of traditional Chinese medicine is surprising," said Yana, a Russian tourist, at the Sanya Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (三亚市中医院) after experiencing acupuncture and massage. From undertaking overseas charter flights to establishing 4 artificial intelligence remote consultation platforms and establishing 3 traditional Chinese medicine centers overseas, Sanya Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine has realized the integrated development of culture, tourism, health care. In the first 10 months of this year, the hospital received 8,288 foreign patients, a year-on-year increase of 40.83%.

The Boao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pilot Zone (博鳌乐城国际医疗旅游先行区) in Hainan has taken the lead in applying more than 520 kinds of international innovative drugs and equipment. In the first 10 months of this year, it received 564,900 medical tourism tourists, a year-on-year increase of 81.02%. "In addition to traditional Chinese medicine physiotherapy, we also provide tourists with agarwood tasting and calligraphy experience," said Hu Lu (胡璐), deputy general manager of Hainan Boao Lecheng (海南博鳌乐城). This year, it has received 31 international tourist groups and launched 35 medical tourism routes.

Facing industrial upgrading, the three regions are making precise efforts: Jiangsu is increasing the added value of manufacturing, Hainan is developing modern service industries with policy advantages, and Shanghai is deeply cultivating standard setting and rule output with international advantages, jointly consolidating the industrial core and occupying a more active position in the global value chain.

Platform Construction Optimizes Ecology, Expanding the "New Dimension" of Opening Up

At this year's CIIE (China International Import Expo), Scottish whisky became a "traffic leader." "The platform supports and helps the brand succeed," said Zhu Jing (朱菁), deputy general manager of Shanghai Hongqiao International Import Commodity Exhibition and Sales Co., Ltd. (上海虹桥国际进口商品展销有限公司). Relying on the spillover effect of the CIIE, Hongqiao Pin Hui (虹桥品汇) has gathered more than 6,000 brands from 120 countries, integrating functions such as bonded warehouses and live broadcast bases. "Trying out products at the booth in the morning and launching new products in the live broadcast room in the afternoon" has become the norm.

At present, Hongqiao Pin Hui has gathered 85,000 CIIE products, and its transaction volume in 2024 reached 30 billion yuan. The volume and transaction amount of cross-border e-commerce orders rank first in the city. The CIIE, a platform for "buying globally," is accelerating its transformation into a channel for "selling globally."

In the Lingang New Area International Shipping Service Center (临港新片区国际航运服务中心), three large screens scroll through global shipping indices and ship pre-arrival information, equipping the port area with a "real-time brain." "We have turned ship supply services into a visible and traceable digital process," said Chen Huaihai (陈怀海), deputy general manager of the business unit of COSCO SHIPPING Technology Co., Ltd. (中远海运科技股份有限公司).

If Shanghai's platform focuses on linking global factors, then Jiangsu's platform focuses on empowering industrial belts. In the cross-border e-commerce industrial park in Shengze Town (盛泽镇), Suzhou (苏州), the "silk ancient town and textile famous city," a story of coordinated development of "upstairs is upstream and downstairs is downstream" is being staged. Wang Lirong (王丽蓉), foreign trade manager of Suzhou Xihe Textile Technology Co., Ltd. (苏州羲和纺织科技有限公司), showed a "jacquard plaid" windbreaker, which is an order product to be sent to Mexico. After receiving the order, they found a grey fabric factory in the building to customize it. It took only 10 days from pattern design to finished product production, which is more than 30 days shorter than the traditional model. At present, the industrial park has gathered 87 cross-border e-commerce and related enterprises, and the import and export volume of cross-border e-commerce in the first half of this year reached nearly 800 million yuan.

Hainan Lingshui Digital Culture Industrial Park (海南陵水数字文化产业园) relies on the advantages of international submarine optical cables to allow data to "reach" the world in seconds, attracting game, short drama, and other enterprises to gather. In the park, the Hainan Free Trade Port multi-functional free trade account supports the integration of local and foreign currencies, and can simultaneously be compatible with multiple freely convertible foreign currency types using offshore exchange rate settlement. As of the end of September, the multi-functional free trade account has completed more than 200 billion yuan of cross-border fund settlement, and the fund exchanges cover 76 countries and regions around the world.

From institutional innovation on the banks of the Huangpu River (黄浦江) to industrial upgrading in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角), and then to platform construction on the shores of the South China Sea, Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Hainan are driving the open economy towards a higher quality, more efficient, more equitable, and more sustainable direction with the "three-wheel drive" of institutions, industries, and platforms, and are working together to create a new situation of win-win cooperation.

(Reporters Bai Guangdi (白光迪), Ji Juesu (季觉苏), Wang Yinxin (王崟欣), and Dong Zeyang (董泽扬) of this newspaper participated in the writing)

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Hong Kong Offers Free Traditional Chinese Medicine Consultations to Residents Affected by Tai Po Fire

This newspaper reported from Hong Kong on December 14th (Reporter Chen Ran (陈然)): The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特别行政区) Government's Health Bureau announced on December 14th that starting December 15th, free Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) consultations will be provided to residents affected by the Tai Po (大埔) Wang Fuk Court (宏福苑) fire. All residents of the eight buildings in the estate can receive up to three free TCM consultation services through the District Health Centres in all eighteen districts of Hong Kong (香港) from December 15th to February 28th, 2026, including medication and related treatments as needed based on their condition.

The TCM free consultation services cover potential health conditions arising after the fire, such as mood changes, insomnia, palpitations; coughing and wheezing, dry throat and itchy throat; physical weakness, fatigue, loss of appetite, indigestion; and pain, musculoskeletal injuries, etc. Residents can call the hotline of any Health Centre or go to the centre for assistance, without being restricted by their current place of residence.

In addition, all residents of the eight buildings in Wang Fuk Court (宏福苑), including foreign domestic helpers, and those injured in the fire who were sent to public hospitals under the Hong Kong Hospital Authority (香港医院管理局), will be fully exempted from medical expenses at the Hong Kong Chinese Medicine Hospital (香港中医医院) until December 31, 2026. The exemption covers all government-subsidized services of the TCM hospital, including general, specialist, and integrated allied health outpatient services, as well as day hospitalization, special Western medicine diagnostic procedures, and medications.

TCM clinics in all eighteen districts of Hong Kong (香港) also began to fully support Wang Fuk Court (宏福苑) residents in early December, providing full medical expense waivers until December 31, 2026, covering government-subsidized outpatient services at TCM clinics, namely internal medicine, acupuncture, and Tuina (推拿).

The Health Bureau thanked the TCM community and related organizations for their enthusiastic provision of various TCM support services to the affected residents. The SAR government will continue to coordinate various medical services to support the physical and mental health needs of residents.

As of noon on the 14th, the "Tai Po (大埔) Wang Fuk Court (宏福苑) Assistance Fund" established by the SAR government had received approximately HK$3.4 billion in external donations. Together with the HK$300 million in start-up funds invested by the government, the total fund amount is HK$3.7 billion.

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Page 1 Editors: Hu Anqi, Zhang Shuaizhen, Luan Xinyi; Page 2 Editors: Yin Xinyu, Guo Xueyan, Zhang Anyu; Page 3 Editors: Han Xiaoming, Jiang Bo, Zhou Zhou; Page 4 Editors: Liu Nian, Yang Shuobi, Zhang Xueyan

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Turning a Dilemma into a Win-Win (Commentator's Observation)

By: 吕晓勋

Transforming passive response into proactive perception, taking the lead in discovering needs; promoting passive acceptance into active participation, building a governance community through interaction and leveraging strength; coordinating immediate improvements with long-term establishment, consolidating the foundation of governance in the process of exploring long-term mechanisms.

A city marathon, once it starts, often interferes with citizens' travel. If it is canceled, many runners will be disappointed. What to do?

The approach taken in Nanjing (南京), Jiangsu (江苏) Province, is to: survey the travel needs of residents along the route before the race and coordinate alternative transportation solutions; innovatively promote the "island crossing" method during the race, setting up crossing points to facilitate the orderly passage of the public; extend subway operating hours and add shuttle bus lines during the race.

Ensuring both the event and the people's livelihood, participating runners praised it as "like opening a three-dimensional city biography," and viewing citizens exclaimed that "the marathon did not bring the city to a standstill." Promoting governance through the event and benefiting the people through the event, the city and the people mutually achieve each other, promoting the formation of a virtuous cycle of "event organization - city governance - industry revitalization."

In urban work, there are often many "dilemmas, trilemmas, and multi-lemmas" in reality. To comprehensively consider the overall development situation and take into account the interests of all parties, transforming "dilemmas" into "win-win situations," efforts can be made from three aspects: adhering to demand orientation, enhancing aggregation power, and establishing long-term awareness.

Transforming passive response into proactive perception, taking the lead in discovering needs.

Urban governance should be as meticulous as embroidery. It must adhere to demand orientation, strengthen investigation and research, understand the urgent needs and concerns of the masses, and know where to "insert the needle." To protect the safety of residents' heads, cadres of the Xihe Community (西何社区) in Xi'an (西安), Shaanxi (陕西) Province, after understanding and comparing products from various manufacturers, installed upward-facing cameras in the community to monitor key areas around the clock and trace sources accurately, which not only does not infringe on residents' privacy but also effectively supervises high-altitude projectile behavior. To change the dirty and messy phenomenon of the Hehe Road (禾河路) night market, the Luling New District (庐陵新区) in Ji'an (吉安), Jiangxi (江西) Province, planned a themed stall area, added large-capacity garbage bins and independent flushable toilets, and introduced a professional management company to establish a one-household-one-file traceability system for more than 300 stalls, turning governance pain points into city cards. The needs of the masses are the source of innovation in urban governance. The more in-depth and detailed the understanding of the specific demands of different groups, the more targeted and effective the governance methods will be. Getting closer, thinking one step further, and doing things more carefully can promote the continuous improvement of the quality and efficiency of urban operation.

Promoting passive acceptance into active participation, building a governance community through interaction and leveraging strength.

The key to doing practical things well and making difficult things not difficult is to enhance the power of aggregation, mobilize the enthusiasm of the people, and stimulate everyone's enthusiasm for participating in urban governance. The Hebei District (河北区) in Tianjin (天津) jointly built a "Rider Clinic" with hospitals in the jurisdiction to provide free medical services to riders in need; at the same time, it absorbed enthusiastic riders and deliverymen from stations to become "mobile probes," encouraging them to use their attendance time to take photos and report safety hazards on streets and buildings, effectively improving governance accuracy. The Haidian District (海淀区) in Beijing (北京) established a "Let's Discuss and Decide Together" consultation mechanism, which not only brainstormed good solutions to problems such as parking management and elevator installation, but also turned each individual into "everyone," promoting grassroots governance to embark on a virtuous development track of multi-party co-governance. One person can hardly carry a thousand pounds, but the masses can move ten thousand mountains. Making good use of the "golden ideas" of the masses is the key to improving governance effectiveness. Expanding channels for public participation, ensuring that opportunities for suggestions are fair and open and that opinions are protected, can concentrate scattered wisdom and transform it into a huge potential energy for handling warm and caring affairs skillfully.

Coordinating immediate improvements with long-term establishment, consolidating the foundation of governance in the process of exploring long-term mechanisms.

Urban governance is a dynamic process, often finding the optimal solution under multiple changing constraints. This means that in addition to solving individual problems at hand, it is more necessary to build a sustainable long-term governance mechanism, so as to have a comprehensive overview when planning and be meticulous and appropriate in operation, so as to avoid causing historical legacy problems. Taking Shanghai (上海) as an example, the "carrying night soil buckets" renovation task was placed in the overall urban renewal plan for integrated promotion. After completing the renovation of entire areas, Shanghai (上海) did not stop, but continued to improve surrounding facilities, install age-appropriate facilities, and establish a "15-minute community life circle" to accumulate experience for creating a super-large urban renewal model. Urban governance, based on reality, also continuously enhances its foresight and predictability, so as to remove "old diseases" and prevent "new diseases," and effectively avoid the dilemma of repeated treatment and repeated recurrence.

"Why are people willing to lend a hand? What they value is that we have thought of all the troubles and done the work ahead of time." A grassroots cadre once summarized the experience of doing a good job in community management in this way. The city is the city of the people. Satisfying the people's yearning for a better life is often reflected in the governance exploration and innovative practice of daring to tackle tough problems and daring to touch hard nails. It is advisable to have more care and patience to transform "dilemmas" into "win-win situations," so that urban services are more thoughtful and operations are smoother, creating brilliance in efficient governance and winning the hearts of the people with a quality life.

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Why Foreign Giants Rebrand Due to China's Rule of Law (People's Daily Commentary)

By: 魏哲哲

China is moving towards the world, participating in international affairs as a responsible major country, and must be good at using the rule of law.

A foreign giant ship was renamed "RESPECT" just to pay tribute to China's rule of law. This is not literary creation, but reality. Not long ago, the Supreme People's Court's (最高人民法院) report on the work of maritime trials in people's courts mentioned a case in which the Qingdao Maritime Court (青岛海事法院) properly handled the detention case of the Marshall Islands-flagged "Nirisa" vessel, avoiding huge losses for parties and stakeholders from many countries and resolving the risk of serial litigation. For this reason, the Greek shipowner specially renamed the ship.

This is a vivid footnote to China's judicial service for high-level opening up and China's rule of law winning the respect of the world. Taking maritime trials as an example, the annual number of cases received has increased from 18 in 1984 to 34,400 in 2024, with a cumulative total of 88,000 foreign-related cases, involving 146 countries and regions. More and more foreign parties are proactively choosing to litigate in Chinese courts even when the disputes involved have no actual connection with China. Looking at rule leadership again, more than 50 Chinese judicial cases, including maritime regulations, have been included in the case databases of international organizations such as the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, enriching international law practice and the rule system.

What is the attraction and influence of China's rule of law?

One answer is "equal protection." A market economy is a rule-of-law economy, and the rule of law can protect the legitimate rights and interests of business entities equally according to law. By vigorously implementing the rule of law to create a stable and predictable market environment, all types of property owners and business entities can feel at ease and secure in the process of investment and business development.

For example, at the level of the legal system, the Foreign Investment Law and its implementation regulations have been promulgated to strengthen equal protection for both domestic and foreign-funded enterprises; at the level of judicial practice, attention is paid to equal protection of the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese and foreign parties... Creating a good business environment and implementing equal protection not only demonstrates the achievements of China's rule of law construction and the image of a responsible major country, but also enhances the influence of China's rule of law.

One answer is "China speed." Fairness and justice must not only be achieved, but also be achieved in a timely and efficient manner. In March of this year, the Urumqi (乌鲁木齐) Area Court of the China (Xinjiang) Free Trade Pilot Zone (中国（新疆）自由贸易试验区) was inaugurated. After the court was established, it successfully resolved an international goods sales contract dispute between a businessman from Uzbekistan and a businessman from China in 45 days. The court reduced litigation costs through online video authentication and cleared communication barriers by deploying staff who understood Uzbek. Without having to go abroad to recover the payment, the Uzbek party praised the fairness, efficiency, perceptibility, and sensibility of Chinese law.

Similar cases are too numerous to mention individually. In Shanghai (上海), the local area continues to optimize the one-stop online dispute resolution platform for international commercial affairs that connects "mediation, arbitration, and litigation." Parties can file cases online around the clock, mediate online, participate in court hearings remotely, and receive materials online. From "resolving disputes in 45 days" to "one-stop service," the "China solution" for resolving international commercial disputes fairly, efficiently, conveniently, and at low cost is attracting the attention of more and more Chinese and foreign parties, and is escorting the accelerated development of an open economy.

One answer is "Eastern experience." Mediation is praised by the international community as "Eastern experience" and "Eastern flower." In the resolution of foreign-related disputes, making good use of "Eastern experience" can better pave the way for Chinese and foreign parties to "shake hands and make peace." In a ship collision dispute, the two parties had a large dispute over the amount of the loss. The Ningbo Maritime Court (宁波海事法院) introduced a foreign shipowner's protection and indemnity association to participate in mediation, explored a foreign-related maritime dispute resolution model in which people's courts guide and ship and shipping-related industry organizations jointly participate, clarified the dispute resolution path for both parties, and helped find the best balance of interests. Making good use of "Eastern experience" not only helps to resolve individual cases and stop disputes, but also provides more "Chinese wisdom" for international dispute resolution.

China is moving towards the world, participating in international affairs as a responsible major country, and must be good at using the rule of law. The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划) proposal proposes to "accelerate the construction of a foreign-related legal system and capabilities." Adhering to promoting high-level opening up on the basis of the rule of law, promoting the construction of a foreign-related legal system in expanding opening up, and continuously consolidating the legal foundation for high-level opening up, China will surely provide new opportunities for the world with its own new development and write more new chapters of win-win cooperation.

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Gathering Light and Warmth Through Volunteer Service

By: 叶日者

"Strive to convey truth, goodness, and beauty in serving national strategies, people's livelihoods, and social governance, spread positive energy, and contribute volunteer service to the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation." Not long ago, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) sent a letter of congratulations on the opening of the Third Congress of the China Volunteer Service Federation (中国志愿服务联合会), with earnest entrustment, inspiring countless ordinary workers engaged in volunteer service to continue their efforts and write new chapters.

According to statistics, as of now, China has 240 million registered volunteers and 1.35 million volunteer teams, with 13.32 million volunteer service projects. The vast number of volunteers, volunteer service organizations, and volunteer service workers actively respond to the call of the Party and the people, proactively serve national strategies and people's livelihoods, participate in social governance, and bring strong support to the high-quality development of the economy and society.

Use volunteer service to temper patriotic sentiments and inspire heroic aspirations. In 2025, more than 48,000 college student volunteers from various universities participating in the Western China Volunteer Service Program (西部计划) rushed to the front lines of grassroots areas, carrying out 1-3 years of volunteer service focusing on rural education, rural construction, and healthy villages, practicing the youthful oath of "Please rest assured, Party, a strong country has me" with actions and sweat. Wherever there is a need, there is dedication. For young people, volunteer service is not just a job, but also a vivid "major ideological and political lesson." In personal experience and hands-on practice, individual aspirations resonate with national development, and patriotic sentiments arise from this. Starting from small things, starting from now, working diligently and striving practically, even a faint light can become a torch, and a small stream can become a great river, gathering the surging momentum to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Use volunteer service to promote the modernization of social governance. Volunteer forces are constantly expanding boundaries and extending tentacles, actively acting and effectively filling gaps in various scenarios, effectively activating the endogenous动力 for all parties to participate in social governance in an orderly manner, and are increasingly becoming an important pillar for promoting joint construction, joint governance, and shared benefits. In Yancheng (盐城), Jiangsu (江苏) Province, the "Sunset Red" Rule of Law Propaganda Team has been rooted in grassroots areas for 22 years, spreading legal knowledge by going to villages and households; in Chaoyang Street (朝阳街道), Changsha (长沙), Hunan (湖南) Province, the Worry-Free Volunteer Service Team, established relying on the "Old Shen Speaks" studio (老沈说事), deeply participates in neighborhood dispute mediation, helping to resolve various conflicts; in Longshi Bridge Township (龙狮桥乡), Anqing (安庆), Anhui (安徽) Province, the "Neighborhood Eighteen Craftsmen" volunteer service team, composed of old craftsmen such as barbers, carpenters, shoemakers, and knife sharpeners, uses "unique skills" to solve the urgent needs and worries of the masses, and bring neighbors closer... More and more individuals are participating in the volunteer service cause, contributing to improving the effectiveness of grassroots governance and promoting social harmony and tranquility.

Use volunteer service to enhance the level of social civilization and promote mainstream values. Volunteer service originates from love and is achieved through dedication, and itself conveys the value pursuit of "establishing oneself and helping others, achieving oneself and helping others." At the 15th National Games, 2,950 "Little Dolphin" volunteers used their full enthusiasm to escort the smooth progress of the event, and also became a model of civilization that infected countless viewers; in Huanggang (黄冈), Hubei (湖北) Province, the "Dongpo Riding Love" volunteer riders are both food deliverymen and cultural ambassadors, extending a helping hand to citizens and tourists in need, and transforming into a beautiful civilized landscape of the city. A touch of "volunteer red" subtly integrates the core socialist values into the social fabric, stimulating the powerful positive energy of the entire society to move upward and be kind.

The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal states: "Develop volunteer services and strengthen the management of volunteer service organizations." Facing the future, vigorously promote the volunteer spirit of dedication, love, mutual assistance, and progress, give full play to the appeal and mobilization of volunteer services, and every bit of dedication will surely converge into great love in the world, illuminate our beautiful life, and provide strong support for promoting Chinese-style modernization.

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Photo Story

This year, Ürümqi (乌鲁木齐市), Xinjiang, and Altay Prefecture (阿勒泰地区) have introduced "snow holidays" for primary and secondary school students. Local authorities are focusing on the theme of ice and snow, creating practical courses that integrate culture, sports, science, nature, and labor, allowing young people to get close to nature, strengthen their bodies, and inherit culture in the icy and snowy world. Related measures promote the full release of the advantages of ice and snow resources, forming a consumption linkage effect of "students driving families and families radiating tourists."

This is precisely:

Snow falls early in the border town,
It's the right time to play in the ice.
Laughter spreads with the wind,
Who says the guests are late?

By Xu Zhiwen (徐  之文)

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Faking the Facts Can't Escape the Masses' "Watchful Eyes"

Ding Shenyi (丁慎毅)

Some community members have reported that individual community cadres are using face masks to deceive the facial recognition system used for daily attendance, in order to evade it. "One person holds several people's masks, helping others to sign in." Falsifying attendance exposes problems of an insincere work style and a lack of responsibility.

Considering similar phenomena, some cadres are accustomed to using reports and documented traces to reflect work achievements, as if completing "signing in" means "perfect attendance" and "excellent" work. Being responsible only for the traces, and not for the people, is rooted in formalism.

To puncture the "mask" of formalism, the key lies in 釜底抽薪 (fǔ dǐ chōu xīn - "draw firewood from under the pot," to take drastic measures to weaken or eliminate something). The most effective "attendance machine" is not a facial recognition system, but the sharp eyes of the masses. Whether the community environment is clean, whether neighborhood conflicts are mediated, whether urgent needs are responded to... the masses know everything clearly. Turning the joys and sorrows of the masses into the real performance evaluation of cadres will eliminate the soil for "mask sign-in" performances to exist.

Some places hold government work report meetings in the streets and alleys, allowing the masses to review the governance "answer sheets"; some places implement a "points system" management for cadre services, quantifying the practical things done for the masses into points... Improving the cadre evaluation mechanism and allowing the masses to participate in the evaluation is conducive to promoting cadres to go deep into the grassroots level, solve more people's livelihood concerns, and truly roll up their sleeves and make a difference.

(Excerpted and compiled from *Hebei Daily (河北日报)*, original title: *The Most Effective "Attendance Machine" is the Eyes of the Masses*)

Advertising and Marketing, Don't "Bury Landmines in Small Print"

Yang Yue (杨悦)

According to reports, some brand advertisements are playing the trick of "eye-catching in large print, burying landmines in small print": the main body of the advertisement highlights the core selling points with prominent large characters and vivid videos, while the key restrictions and disclaimers are hidden in the corners in small fonts and dim colors, attempting to induce consumers to ignore effective information and evade legal responsibility with vague expressions.

It is understandable that advertising fonts vary in size, and small fonts are used to indicate non-key information for aesthetic reasons or to highlight key points. What is repulsive is that some small characters are precisely the key information, and some small print explanations even have obvious contradictions with the main information. This violates the principle of good faith, infringes on consumers' right to know, and some are suspected of false advertising. Such marketing tricks are unpopular.

The main role of advertising is to convey information and promote purchases. Even if "burying landmines in small print" advertisements deceive consumers for a while, it will damage the brand's reputation in the long run. In practice, advertising text standards should be further clarified, supervision should be increased, illegal acts should be severely punished in accordance with the law, and the market should be restored to a clear and bright state.

(Excerpted and compiled from *Southern Daily (南方日报)*, original title: *When Will the "Burying Landmines in Small Print" Trick End?*)

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Curbing "Petty Corruption" to Safeguard "Major Livelihood Issues" (Voices of Governance)

By: 邵革军

The people's support is the greatest political asset. The "micro-corruption" around the masses is "micro" at the grassroots level but "dangerous" to the people's hearts. From extortion and obstruction to false reporting and fraudulent claims, and then to favoritism, these seemingly minor matters erode the people's trust in the Party and shake the foundation of the Party's governance. We must make great efforts to resolutely eradicate them. Compressing the living space of "micro-corruption" to the greatest extent can better safeguard the vital interests of the masses and promote the "people's livelihood examination paper" from "solvable" to "excellent solution."

Rectifying "micro-corruption" is the common expectation of the people. The masses feel more keenly about the "flies" buzzing around them, and they are more eager to punish the "ants" that directly infringe upon their interests. In response, we must show the determination and action to "cure" even the smallest details. Since last year, Dazhou (达州) in Sichuan (四川) has promoted the construction of a "five-pronged" linkage system led by the Party committee, mainly grasped by the government, mainly promoted by the discipline inspection commission, mainly organized by departments, and mainly evaluated by the masses, and has seriously investigated and dealt with a large number of "flies and ants" that gnaw at the interests of the masses. The proportion of party members and cadres at the township and section levels who were filed for investigation exceeded 85%. Practice has proved that iron fists can cure chaos. "Zero tolerance" for behaviors that infringe upon people's interests, hurt people's hearts, and arouse public anger is the only way to safeguard the people's sense of happiness.

Rectifying "micro-corruption" is a necessary prerequisite for implementing pro-people policies. The key to opening up the "last mile" of implementing pro-people policies lies in grassroots cadres. In many cases, "flies and ants" are the "stumbling blocks" that prevent policies from being implemented effectively. In recent years, we have seriously investigated and dealt with violations of discipline and regulations by "small five leaders" such as directors, station chiefs, principals, deans, and village chiefs, preventing individuals from seeking personal gain through power in matters such as fund allocation and approval procedures; we have continued to carry out activities to rectify the "10 things that the masses are most dissatisfied with," realizing intelligent supervision of school canteens and timely distribution of 100% of operating subsidies for elderly care institutions. Unblocking the "middle obstruction" and forging a good team can ensure that good policies are not watered down or distorted, and are truly transformed into tangible and accessible people's well-being.

Rectifying "micro-corruption" is an important foundation for creating a good development environment. Economic development and people's livelihood improvement are intertwined and mutually conditional. "Micro-corruption" not only harms the interests of the masses, but also damages the development environment. We conduct special supervision on optimizing the business environment every year, and regularly rectify style issues such as "not being dedicated to taking responsibility, lacking ambition to strive for excellence, not being considerate in serving the masses, and lacking vigilance in complying with regulations and discipline." An excellent work style is the "gold letter signboard" of a good business environment. In recent years, Dazhou (达州) has successfully introduced 10 10-billion-level manufacturing projects, and the "3+3+N" modern industrial cluster has been completely reshaped, making the pace of high-quality development more solid, and laying a solid material foundation for guaranteeing and improving people's livelihood. To escort economic development with a clean and upright atmosphere, it is also necessary to further build a cordial and clean relationship between government and business, and eliminate phenomena such as seeking personal gain by relying on enterprises.

The key to rectifying "micro-corruption" lies in managing "micro-power." We have sorted out and formed a list of responsibilities for townships (streets) and villages (communities), and hired the masses as village-level supervisors of Party conduct and government conduct, starting with small things to eradicate the breeding ground for corruption. Sunlight is the best antiseptic, and the masses are the best supervisors. We must give full play to the role of mass supervision, unblock participation channels, and make "flies and ants" have nowhere to hide.

Whether the fight against corruption is effective and whether the benefits to the people are truly effective, the masses have the most say. Continue to promote the anti-corruption struggle to extend to the grassroots and to the people, tighten the cage of the system, deepen the promotion of reform through cases, cultivate a culture of integrity, and guide party members and cadres to embody compliance with regulations and discipline in enhancing the feelings of the masses and safeguarding the interests of the masses, so that the strength of supervision and discipline enforcement can be better transformed into the temperature of benefiting the people's livelihood, so that the people's quality of life is higher and the happiness is more sufficient.

(The author is the Secretary of the Dazhou (达州) Municipal Party Committee of Sichuan Province (四川省).)

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Delving Deep into the Earth's Mysteries (Towards an Innovative Landscape in the "15th Five-Year Plan")

By: 田丽艳

Strengthen the support and guarantee system for deep-sea and polar expeditions.

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

September 2025, 85 degrees North latitude, Arctic Ocean. The sea wind howls, and outside the porthole is an endless expanse of floating ice. As a marine geology researcher who has worked with rocks for more than 20 years, this is my first time in such a high-latitude polar region. Our destination is not the ice surface, but the abyss more than 5,000 meters below the ice.

As the "Fendouzhe" (奋斗者) submersible I was riding in slowly sank into the cold seawater, the light outside the porthole was gradually swallowed by darkness, and the excitement in my heart overwhelmed my fear of the unknown. This 98-day Arctic scientific expedition relied on China's independently designed and built first icebreaking research vessel, the "Tansuo Sanhao" (探索三号), to complete a series of manned deep dives in a dense ice area in the Gakkel Ridge, where ice coverage exceeded 80%.

Located in the Arctic, the Gakkel Ridge is one of the slowest spreading ridges on Earth, known as an "ultra-slow spreading ridge," separating by less than 20 millimeters per year. It hides the secrets of the upwelling of deep mantle material and is a "key piece of the puzzle" for interpreting the Earth's evolutionary history. In the past, thick sea ice was a natural barrier to our exploration here.

In the Arctic, how to allow the submersible to accurately surface from ice cracks was a major problem we encountered. In conventional sea areas, after the submersible completes its dive, it can be recovered by the mother ship after surfacing; however, in the Arctic, the sea surface is covered with heavy sea ice, which constantly drifts and squeezes with the ocean currents. If the submersible's top is sealed by the ice when it surfaces, the consequences would be disastrous. I remember the first time we dived and recovered, we anxiously searched for a suitable water outlet point on the mother ship, which took more than 3 hours. For deep diving, the submersible's battery power is its lifeline, and every minute of delay increases the risk.

Later, the young scientific expedition team proposed a new solution: since "the ship looking for the submersible" doesn't work, then switch to "the submersible looking for the ship." The mother ship breaks the ice to create a water area, and through an advanced underwater acoustic communication system, guides the underwater submersible to accurately track the mother ship's position, achieving a safe ascent from the ice cracks. This "ship-submersible coordinated" mobile ice diving mode in dense ice areas helps us to operate more safely.

In the 418th and 421st dives, we had to use robotic arms to collect basalt samples, which could help us understand how magma from deep in the mantle shapes the underwater world. To reduce the inconvenience of using the toilet in the cabin, we often had to control our diet and water intake before diving, working for 9 hours in the small spherical cabin. But in the deep sea, seeing the basaltic lava gushing out from the depths of the Earth with the submersible's lights, we felt that all the hard work was worth it!

During this scientific expedition, we experienced a long polar day and encountered a super storm with winds as high as force 13. For more than 40 days, we were in a state of complete lack of network signal. But we insisted on running internal publications and holding academic seminars. Everyone seemed to have a fire burning in their hearts, which was the purest love for science. In addition, from the icebreaking capabilities of the "Tansuo Sanhao" (探索三号) to the underwater navigation of the "Fendouzhe" (奋斗者) submersible, the "hard-core strength" of domestic equipment also helped us realize our dreams.

Back in the laboratory in Sanya (三亚), looking at the rock samples from the Arctic deep sea, I knew that the story of the seabed was far from over. Deep-sea research requires multidisciplinary integration and multi-unit collaboration. Looking ahead to the "15th Five-Year Plan," we look forward to establishing a more efficient exchange and sharing mechanism, allowing more researchers to participate and jointly use valuable polar samples and data to weave a global deep-sea scientific exploration network.

(The author is a researcher at the Institute of Deep-Sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院深海科学与工程研究所). This article was compiled by Sun Haitian (孙海天), a reporter for this newspaper.)

■Reporter's Notes

Breaking the Ice, Sailing to a Deeper Blue

Deep sea and polar regions bring a mysterious and romantic feeling to ordinary people. But for front-line researchers, it means boredom and hardship: working for 9 hours in the small spherical cabin of a submersible, not even daring to drink too much water in order to work; working on the aft deck in temperatures of minus ten degrees Celsius, the sea wind blowing on the face like a knife; seasickness to the point of being unable to stand in storms of up to force 13...

What supports them to go to the deep blue again and again in the face of these difficulties? Tian Liyan (田丽艳) gave a simple answer: "If you don't love it, you can't stick to it." Scientific research requires full commitment, and this enthusiasm stems from curiosity about the unknown, as well as the joy of overcoming difficulties and discovering new knowledge. Behind the challenges to the "impossible" time and time again is the relay of love and persistence of generations of scientific researchers. The Arctic scientific expedition is a breakthrough in technology, but also a breakthrough in self. Facing the unknown dense ice area, from the initial lack of precedent and exploration of experience to the later calmness of one dive a day, this scientific expedition team with an average age of less than 35 years has achieved growth in actual combat.

Chinese deep-sea researchers use the most simple love to chisel through the ice at the northernmost end of the Earth, opening a new window for exploring the mysteries of the Earth's depths. Facing the "15th Five-Year Plan," we have reason to believe that this love will help China's deep-sea scientific research sail to a deeper blue.

■Further Reading

How Advanced Equipment Solves the Challenges of Polar Deep Diving

The Arctic waters are covered by sea ice all year round, and the environment is extremely harsh. Arctic deep diving tests the "polar adaptability" of the entire equipment system. In this scientific expedition, the "Tansuo Sanhao" (探索三号) is China's first independently designed and built manned deep-submersible operation mother ship, about 104 meters long, with a displacement of about 10,000 tons. It has two-way icebreaking capability and can break through 1.2-meter-thick ice at a speed of 2 knots, opening up an operation window for the submersible; the "Fendouzhe" (奋斗者) submersible, as a technologically advanced 10,000-meter manned submersible, has undergone a series of polar adaptability modifications and can operate accurately in low-temperature and satellite signal-free environments.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's deep-sea science and technology equipment developed rapidly. The scientific expedition team established the "Fendouzhe" (奋斗者) manned deep-submersible operation regulations for extreme environments in polar regions, pioneered a new mobile ice diving mode of "ship-submersible coordination" in dense ice areas, and achieved precise guidance and safe ascent, making China the only country in the world to conduct continuous manned deep dives in dense sea ice areas in the Arctic.

The scientific expedition team collected a batch of valuable water, sediment, rock, and biological samples, which will provide important scientific support for in-depth research on rapid Arctic climate change, polar life evolution, and adaptation mechanisms.

(Compiled by Sun Haitian (孙海天), a reporter for this newspaper)

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Leaving children a poetic childhood (Outlook)

By: 本报记者 周 欢

"Bamboo shoots, poking their heads out from under the covers, grow into a pen, ready to write about spring."

Can you imagine this little poem coming from the pen of a rural left-behind child? In Chen Yanyan's (陈燕燕) (pictured, provided by the interviewee) drawer, there are many similar poems.

Chen Yanyan (陈燕燕) is the vice president of the Wuning County Psychological Counseling Association (武宁县心理咨询协会) in Jiujiang City (九江市), Jiangxi Province (江西省), and the initiator of the Wuning "Collecting Poetry" Left-behind Children Care Project (武宁“采童诗”留守儿童关爱项目). Because of her long-term work in psychological counseling, Chen Yanyan (陈燕燕) often comes into contact with rural left-behind children, learns about their mental health, and gradually develops the idea of wanting to help them. In recent years, she has organized more than 200 poetry collection activities, with footprints all over Jiangxi (江西), Gansu (甘肃), Guizhou (贵州), Sichuan (四川) and other places, covering more than 6,000 rural left-behind children.

"Due to the long-term lack of parental companionship, many rural left-behind children are introverted and not good at expressing their inner feelings." In 2019, Chen Yanyan (陈燕燕) formed a social worker team and tried to provide free mental health counseling for rural children.

"Although the children often share with me what is happening around them, I always feel that there is still something separating me from them," Chen Yanyan (陈燕燕) said.

How can we truly enter their inner world? In 2020, Chen Yanyan (陈燕燕) had the idea of teaching children to write poetry.

"Children hide their emotions in their hearts, if they can't say it, then write it down." Chen Yanyan (陈燕燕) said, "Poetry may be able to touch the hearts of children and become an outlet for their emotions and a sustenance for their souls."

"Can you write just by memorizing some poems?" "I'm afraid it's a waste of time." "Poetry creation has a high threshold, and even language teachers may not be able to teach it well!"... At first, there were many doubts around.

"Children have unconstrained imagination, they are born poets!" Chen Yanyan (陈燕燕) firmly believes in her ideas.

The key question is, how to teach children to write poetry? This is indeed a test for Chen Yanyan (陈燕燕), who has no experience in poetry teaching. She thought, poetry creation is originally free, can she put aside those rules and regulations, and guide children to observe the world around them with an exploratory and questioning mentality, and then stimulate creative inspiration? She decided to give it a try.

One afternoon in June 2020, at Luxi Town Central Primary School (鲁溪镇中心小学) in Wuning County (武宁县), more than 30 students in the first, second, and third grades sat together, and Chen Yanyan's (陈燕燕) first poetry class began. "Today's theme of the poetry class is 'Summer Dreams'. What do you think of when you think of summer? What color will summer dreams be..." Chen Yanyan (陈燕燕) and the children tried to develop free imagination around "Summer Dreams."

In the classroom, the tender strokes crossed the manuscript paper, rustling. Seeing the poem written by student Bi Zixuan (毕梓萱): "I want to become a lotus leaf and be a singing stage for the little frog. I also want to become a frog and help people eat the annoying pests," Chen Yanyan (陈燕燕) felt her eyes light up, "It turns out that childlike innocence and poetry are so close!"

With confidence, she decided to innovate teaching methods - moving the poetry classroom to nature. In November 2020, Chen Yanyan (陈燕燕) took more than 30 students from Pengping Village Primary School (彭坪村小学) in Datong Township (大洞乡), Wuning County (武宁县), to the fields for class. After a burst of running and playing, the children lay on the fields after the rice harvest and created to their heart's content.

This attempt was successful. Since then, Chen Yanyan (陈燕燕) has basically taken the children to the wild to "collect poetry" during traditional festivals. Fields, streams, and mountains have become poetic and picturesque in the children's writing.

"Snowflakes are unique, and the sound of falling snow is like two leaves colliding. I embrace the snowflakes, as if embracing my mother from afar." "In autumn, the millet is ripe and the fruits become sweet, but my heart is sour."...

The children turn their longing for their parents into emotions in the words, either strong or light. Every time she reads such sentences, Chen Yanyan's (陈燕燕) heart is like being hit, "After reading the poem, I will find these children, talk to them about the emotions conveyed by the poem, and talk about my heart."

Poetry is like a key, and more and more children are willing to open their hearts, express their feelings, and become more sunny and optimistic. For student Li Qianrui (李芊锐), poetry is not only creation, but also a carrier for communication with parents. "I often show the poems I write to my family, and they will praise me," Li Qianrui (李芊锐) said.

Now, under the leadership of Chen Yanyan (陈燕燕), more than 10 primary schools and kindergartens in Wuning County (武宁县) have opened poetry classes and established poetry clubs.

In the past 5 years, Chen Yanyan (陈燕燕) has led the children to write more than 5,000 poems. "These poems are like windows, leading to the secret corners of children's hearts, with emotional expression, spiritual trajectory, and natural stretch." She said, "Seeing more and more children with light in their eyes and dreams in their hearts, I feel that I have done something meaningful."

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The 22nd Party Newspaper Forum Held

This newspaper reported from Beijing on December 14th (Reporter Liu Jing (刘晶), Ma Fangcheng (马方程)) The 22nd (2025) annual meeting of the "People's Republic of China Party Newspaper Forum" was held at the Communication University of China on December 14th.

At this annual meeting, participating experts focused on the theme of "Systemic Reform of Party Newspapers and Party Periodicals: Theory, Practice and Future Development," and brainstormed on theoretical innovation, practical paths, and future trends in the reform. More than 100 people attended, including relevant leaders, experts, editors, and reporters from 22 media organizations such as People's Daily (人民日报社) and Xinhua News Agency (新华社), as well as teachers and students from 23 universities.

Relying on the resources of Party newspapers and Party periodicals, the "People's Republic of China Party Newspaper Forum" promotes exchanges and mutual learning between the industry and academia, and builds a bridge for the deep integration of theory and practice. Since 2004, it has held 22 consecutive annual meetings and has become a well-known brand in the field of Party newspaper and Party periodical research in China. This annual meeting was jointly hosted by the Party Newspaper and Party Periodical Research Center of Communication University of China (中国传媒大学党报党刊研究中心), the School of Journalism of Communication University of China (中国传媒大学新闻学院), the School of Journalism and Communication of Hebei University (河北大学新闻传播学院), and the School of Film and Media of Qingdao Film Academy (青岛电影学院新闻传媒学院), and co-organized by Communication Magazine (传媒杂志社).

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Photo Story

In Tongjiang County (通江县), Bazhong City (巴中市), Sichuan Province (四川省), the construction site of the Qingyukou Reservoir (青峪口水库) is bustling with activity. The construction team is seizing the golden period for winter water conservancy construction, and is going all out to promote the construction of major water conservancy projects. The Qingyukou Reservoir (青峪口水库) has a total storage capacity of 141 million cubic meters. After completion, it will mainly focus on flood control, and will also have water supply and power generation functions. The picture shows the construction site of the reservoir.

Photo by Cheng Cong (程聪) (Image China).

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Xinxiang, Henan Province, Strengthens Scientific and Technological Innovation Through Collaboration Between Schools, Enterprises, and Local Government

This newspaper Zhengzhou (郑州) December 14th (Reporter Zhang Wenhao (张文豪)) Recently, in the Zhiwei (知微) Microbiology Laboratory in Xinxiang (新乡) City, Henan (河南) Province, the scientific research team of Henan Normal University (河南师范大学) and enterprise technicians are carrying out technical research. Through university-enterprise cooperation, they have successfully developed a new drug with independent intellectual property rights.

Since the beginning of this year, the Organization Department of the Xinxiang (新乡) Municipal Party Committee has taken deepening university-enterprise and university-local cooperation as a starting point, innovated the "key university special session + university and research institute sub-session" docking mechanism, successfully held 33 special events and 36 sub-events, and signed 251 university-enterprise cooperation projects, injecting new impetus into cultivating and developing new quality productive forces and building a modern industrial system. At the same time, through the "online + offline" normalized demand collection model, it helps enterprises analyze industrial trends, market trends, and supply and demand situations. This year, a total of more than 2,200 demands for technology, talent, and projects from 956 enterprises have been collected, classified and established into list ledgers, and accurately matched with advantageous majors in 116 universities and research institutes inside and outside the province, adding innovative impetus to enterprises.

"We will continue to promote the deepening and solidifying of university-enterprise and university-local cooperation, and further cultivate and develop new quality productive forces and enhance the core competitiveness of enterprises," said a relevant person in charge of the Xinxiang (新乡) Municipal Party Committee Talent Office.

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New achievements in China's special census of unearthed gold and silver artifacts

This newspaper reported from Beijing on December 14th (Reporter Yang Xuemei (杨雪梅)) The Science Press's "Compendium of Chinese Unearthed Cultural Relics" added another masterpiece on the 14th - "Complete Collection of Chinese Unearthed Gold and Silver Ware". The "Complete Collection of Chinese Unearthed Gold and Silver Ware" consists of 16 volumes, with archaeologist Qi Dongfang (齐东方) as the editor-in-chief. 364 archaeological and cultural heritage institutions and more than 800 professionals across the country participated in the compilation. It includes 4,234 pieces (sets) of unearthed gold and silver ware from the Bronze Age to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is a systematic special survey result in the field of unearthed gold and silver ware in China.
The editors and archaeologists, after more than ten years of polishing, systematically organized the scattered materials scattered across the country and published this complete collection, which enriched the basic data in the field of research on unearthed gold and silver ware in China, and also laid a solid foundation for the construction of the gold and silver ware discipline system.
"Compendium of Chinese Unearthed Cultural Relics" is a large-scale publishing series that Science Press is committed to creating. Previously, it has launched "Complete Collection of Chinese Unearthed Jade", "Complete Collection of Chinese Unearthed Porcelain", "Complete Collection of Chinese Unearthed Murals", "Complete Collection of Chinese Unearthed Bronzes", "Complete Collection of Chinese Unearthed Painted Pottery", etc. The series constructs a complete chain for understanding ancient Chinese society, economy, technology, art, and cultural exchange.

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Dali, Yunnan: Integrated Tourism Flourishes, Diversified Development of Cultural and Tourism Resources

In October of this year, the Biji Viewing Platform, located in Zhaojiadian Town, Yao County (大姚县), Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture (楚雄彝族自治州), Yunnan Province (云南省), was officially opened. This "Heart of the Clouds" high-altitude glass viewing platform, with a vertical height difference of over 400 meters and an overhang of 21 meters, complements the Santan Waterfall, which has a drop of 221 meters and is known as the "Highest Waterfall in Southwest China," becoming a new landmark for tourists to appreciate the wonders of the canyon.

The Santan Waterfall integrates "beauty, uniqueness, grandeur, danger, and tranquility." The water flows down from the Qingling River (蜻蛉河) canyon, forming a magnificent landscape against the backdrop of the red rock walls. The construction of the viewing platform is a new step taken by Yao County (大姚县) to promote the development and utilization of cultural and tourism resources.

In recent years, relying on the key tourism resource of Santan Waterfall, Yao County (大姚县) has made overall plans for construction, deeply exploring the cultural connotations of the legendary birthplace of "Golden Horse and Azure Chicken" and the route of the Southern Silk Road, and continuously improving tourism facilities. It has invested in the construction of supporting facilities such as Fenglu Square (凤麓广场), Guofeng Square (国风广场), and the Ziqiu Cultural Center (紫丘文化中心), and projects such as the canyon cableway and vertical sightseeing elevator are being promoted in an orderly manner, initially forming a tourism destination that integrates mountains and rivers, culture and tourism, and health and wellness.

Currently, through the "tourism+" model, the Santan Waterfall scenic area has driven employment for more than 200 farmers, and the surrounding farmhouses and homestays have developed to more than 10. During the 2025 Chuxiong Yi Torch Festival (楚雄彝族火把节) "Fun" Yao County (大姚县) mass cultural activities, the number of tourists received in a single day exceeded 100,000, and the once remote mountain secret realm has become an important place for ecological summer retreats and ethnic culture displays.

While the natural landscape is being renewed, Yao County (大姚县) pays attention to inheriting the red gene and promoting the high-quality development of the red cultural tourism industry. In Qijie Community (七街社区), Jinbi Town (金碧镇), Yao County (大姚县) empowers the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside with red cultural tourism resources. Yao County (大姚县) is a place that the Red Army passed through during the Long March. Since 2023, in accordance with the development idea of "Red Culture + Revolutionary Education + Rural Tourism," it has been striving to create the "Hometown of Heroes · Red Qijie" brand, focusing on the protection and development of the Cangxi Village (仓西村) red cultural village, and starting from party building leadership, red demonstration, and green development to create the Qijie Cultural Tourism Town. Let the red resources "live," and let the red culture go from historical stories into the hearts of the people.

At present, the Yao County (大姚县) Cangxi Red Culture Park (仓西红色文化公园) has been rated as a national 3A-level tourist attraction. Yao County's (大姚县) red tourism is deeply integrated with the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, and a new path has been found for red cultural tourism to empower the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.

Shiyang Ancient Town (石羊古镇), the "Millennium Salt Capital," has developed health preservation, Guofeng study tours, and other formats through the implementation of projects such as the "Zhuangyuan Residence" salt culture-themed homestay and the Longyin Academy (龙吟书院), which has been rejuvenated and has become an important node in the ancient town cultural corridor of Yunnan Province (云南省).

Enriching tourism supply, Yao County (大姚县) takes traditional villages, historical and cultural villages, and characteristic tourist villages as fulcrums to cultivate diversified rural tourism formats: the elegant Ziqiu Courtyard (紫丘小院), the secluded Santai Walnut Forest Park (三台核桃森林公园), the pleasant Centennial Ancient Tree Coffee Manor, and the Tanhua Songziyuan Village (昙华松子园村), Guihua Yunxiu Yi Forest (桂花云岫彝林) and other homestay clusters make the countryside a popular destination for living.

At present, Yao County (大姚县) is full of beautiful scenery: enjoy the high waterfalls piercing the clouds at the Biji Viewing Platform, listen to red stories in the Qijie Cultural Tourism Town, taste the elegance of Guofeng in Shiyang Ancient Town, and watch the sunrise and sunset in Baicao Ridge (百草岭). From natural wonders to red hot land, from ancient towns to rural homestays, Yao County (大姚县) is interpreting "There is a kind of life called Yunnan" with diverse formats, and is embarking on a path of all-for-one tourism development with local characteristics.

Data source: Propaganda Department of the CPC Yao County Committee (中共大姚县委宣传部)

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Editor in charge of this edition: Kang Yan, Liu Juanxi, Ma Ruishan

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Why is it so difficult to get approval for rebuilding dilapidated rural houses? (Jin Tai Perspective)

By: 本报记者 赵 兵

Living and working in peace and contentment is the prerequisite and pursuit of everyone's happy life. With the development of urbanization, many places have clarified the requirements and approval process for rural housing construction. However, some regulations have the problem of "**一刀切** (yī dāo qiē - "one knife cut," applying a uniform standard regardless of individual circumstances)" in the implementation process. Some villagers' houses have become dilapidated due to disrepair over the years, but they have not been approved for reconstruction after applying for it. Recently, many readers have written letters and left messages about the difficulties encountered in the approval of rural dilapidated house reconstruction. Based on this, the reporter conducted an investigation and interview.

A villager in Majian Village (马涧村), Lanxi City (兰溪市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省) has been applying for the reconstruction of a dilapidated house for nearly two years, but has not yet been approved.

"Our house has become a dilapidated house, and we have applied for reconstruction many times, but we have not been approved. The reply I get is always 'no housing construction quota'," said Fang Xiaobao (方小宝), a villager in Lanxi City (兰溪市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), in a letter. The reporter recently rushed to Majian Village (马涧村), Majian Town (马涧镇), Lanxi City (兰溪市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省) for a field investigation.

Fang Xiaobao's (方小宝) old house is a two-story tile-roofed house, which has become dilapidated due to disrepair over the years. The Majian Town (马涧镇) government hung two warning signs outside the house, which read: "This house is dangerous, please do not approach, pay attention to safety."

Fang Xiaobao's (方小宝) uncle, Fang Zenghai (方增海), is 63 years old this year. He said that the house was passed down from his grandfather's generation, and their whole family used to live in it. In March last year, Fang Xiaobao (方小宝) submitted a housing construction application to the village committee, but the application for building a house has not been approved. Considering the safety of living, in October last year, Fang Xiaobao (方小宝) had to buy an old collective house without a property certificate in the town area as a temporary transitional house.

In September this year, the local government resettled Fang Zenghai (方增海) and his wife in a vacant kindergarten nearby for temporary residence. Fang Zenghai (方增海) believes that this is not a long-term solution, and he still hopes to rebuild the house as soon as possible.

Why has the housing construction application not been approved for a long time? The reporter came to the Majian Town (马涧镇) government and interviewed Xu Yuanchun (徐元春), the chairman of the Majian Town (马涧镇) People's Congress, who is in charge of residential housing construction. He introduced that the general process for residents of Majian Town (马涧镇) to build their own houses is that residents submit a housing construction application to the village where they are located, and the village initially verifies whether it meets the conditions, and then submits it to the town agricultural office, the self-regulation office and other departments for review and summary, and then publicizes it, and strives for housing construction indicators from higher-level departments.

Xu Yuanchun (徐元春) said that the demolition and reconstruction of Fang Xiaobao's (方小宝) house at the original site cannot be approved, mainly because it cannot be determined whether Fang's (方) house meets the overall plan of Majian Town (马涧镇) for Majian Village (马涧村). The overall village plan has not yet been completed. At the same time, because Fang Xiaobao's (方小宝) house is connected to other villagers' houses, demolition and reconstruction will affect the safety of other people's living. In addition, because housing construction now needs to meet the regulations on reserving fire lanes and road space, the original site and original construction cannot meet these requirements. Therefore, Fang Xiaobao's (方小宝) house must be built on a new site, but the village's construction land indicators are tight. Not only Fang Xiaobao's (方小宝) family, but also many villagers have housing construction needs, which have not been met for a while.

During the interview, the reporter learned that although Fang Xiaobao's (方小宝) reconstruction application has been submitted for nearly 2 years, the application is still in the village and has not been reported to the township. Why is it still at the village level? According to reports, the former village cadre was investigated and dealt with for corruption in housing construction land indicators, which is also one of the reasons why the application has not been approved. A statement on Fang Xiaobao's (方小宝) housing construction matters issued by relevant departments of the Majian Town (马涧镇) government shows that in August 2025, Majian Town (马涧镇) re-sorted and reviewed the housing construction qualifications of 21 households in Majian Village (马涧村) that had been approved but not built in 2023, and found that several of them had obtained housing construction indicators through deception and other means.

Local cadres said that although the application for the reconstruction of dilapidated houses has not been approved for a long time, Majian Town (马涧镇) has not ignored the safety of villagers. Majian Town (马涧镇) has repeatedly asked Fang Xiaobao's (方小宝) family to move out of the old house. During the flood season in 2024, the Majian Village (马涧村) village committee paid for Fang Xiaobao's (方小宝) mother and uncle Fang Zenghai (方增海) to temporarily live in a hotel. During the flood season in 2025, they were resettled in the original Majian Village (马涧村) kindergarten.

Xu Yuanchun (徐元春) said that Majian Town (马涧镇) is formulating a village plan, and will apply to higher authorities for a batch of housing construction indicators at that time to solve the housing construction needs of some residents. Those like Fang Zenghai (方增海) whose only house has been demolished or is a dilapidated house will be given priority.

In some places, there are problems such as ignoring farmers' rights and interests due to "**一刀切** (yī dāo qiē - "one knife cut," applying a uniform standard regardless of individual circumstances)" and "fear of taking responsibility."

In fact, the problem encountered by Fang Xiaobao's (方小宝) family in Majian Village (马涧村), Lanxi City (兰溪市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省) is not an isolated case. The reporter interviewed some of the readers who reflected this problem.

Some readers reported that the application for the reconstruction of dilapidated houses "passes one level, but faces another level" and cannot be approved.

The house of Ms. He (何) in Zhongshan City (中山市), Guangdong Province (广东省) has been inhabited for 40 years. The structure of the house is seriously aging, the walls and floor slabs are seriously cracked, and part of the kitchen has collapsed, which is already a dilapidated house. Moreover, the elderly in the family are disabled and have difficulty moving. Once a danger occurs, they cannot escape quickly.

In 2020, Ms. He (何) applied for reconstruction at the original site. The relevant departments replied that her homestead was located within the control line of the Bijia Yong (笔架涌) river channel, which did not meet the reporting and construction conditions according to the regulations at that time. At the end of last year, the reconstruction project of the river channel was completed, and the river channel was much farther away from Ms. He's (何) homestead, and the housing construction application was no longer affected by this.

"Currently, the application is stuck on the 'regulatory detailed plan' of the Natural Resources Bureau, and we need to wait for approval from the higher authorities, and we are facing the problem of 'no indicators'. We were told to continue waiting, and we don't know when we will have to wait," Ms. He (何) sighed, "Just passed one level, and another level appeared. Why is the application for the reconstruction of rural dilapidated houses so difficult?"

Some readers reported that the problems in the work process of relevant departments affected the reconstruction of dilapidated houses.

"Our family of three generations lives in this old house. The house was identified as a dilapidated house in 2019. We have been applying for reconstruction for many years, but it has always been 'not approved'," said Ms. Yang (杨), a villager in Dali City (大理市), Yunnan Province (云南省). The house has loopholes and some collapses, and it is very uncomfortable to live in because it is "cold in winter and hot in summer."

Regarding the reason for "not approving", the local reply stated that in 2019, when Ms. Yang (杨) applied for housing construction, Dali City (大理市) was in the process of revising and formulating the "Dali City (大理市) Measures for the Management of Personal Housing Construction", and the review and approval of personal housing construction in the city was suspended. At the end of 2021, the approval of personal housing construction was restored. However, in the same year, Dali City (大理市) issued the "Implementation Opinions of the Dali City (大理市) People's Government on the Approval and Construction of Rural Housing in the Three-Level Protection Zone and Its Basin of the Erhai Lake (洱海) Protection Management". According to the provisions of this opinion, in order to maintain the green corridor transparency of the main inflow river channels of Erhai Lake (洱海), the area within 50 meters of the Cangshan (苍山) Eighteen Streams (十八溪) river channel, which is identified as a D-level dilapidated house, should give priority to renovation and reinforcement. If the renovation and reinforcement cannot meet the requirements of safety and stability, it is encouraged to be properly resettled in the three-level protection zone or the town planning area, and the approval of dilapidated house reconstruction will not be accepted.

"We applied in 2019 and have not been approved. Finally, we waited until we could approve it, but we encountered such a regulation issued in 2021. Our house cannot be rebuilt, but it cannot be renovated and reinforced. The local government said that we should apply for public rental housing, which is also unrealistic," Ms. Yang (杨) said in confusion, "It is said that it is to protect the environment, but our dilapidated house is living like this, and the sewage itself is also a problem. Isn't this more polluting to the environment?"

Some readers reported that the difficulty in approving dilapidated houses is caused by the fear of responsibility and inaction of grassroots cadres.

Mr. Liu (刘) from Linyi City (临沂市), Shandong Province (山东省) applied for the reconstruction of his old house, "My old house has stone walls and a grass roof, which leaks when it rains and is very unsafe. It has not been approved for 4 years," said Mr. Liu (刘).

It turned out that during the Second National Land Survey (hereinafter referred to as the "Second Survey"), Mr. Liu's (刘) residential land was designated as garden land, but during the Third National Land Survey (hereinafter referred to as the "Third Survey"), it was changed to construction land, and Mr. Liu (刘) has a legal collective land construction land use certificate. However, the local government refused to approve it because the data of the "Second Survey" and the "Third Survey" were inconsistent. After Mr. Liu (刘) complained to many parties, the local relevant departments now require him to pay 3,000 yuan to change the "Second Survey" result to construction land before he can continue the subsequent approval process.

"I have reported to many departments, and some departments have given me a reply. Over the years, the crux of the problem is that the 'Second Survey' result is garden land. Although the 'Third Survey' result has been changed to construction land, local cadres are afraid of being discovered by relevant departments taking satellite law enforcement photos that we are building houses on the 'Second Survey' garden land. I feel that the cadres are afraid of taking responsibility, so they do not approve it," said Mr. Liu (刘).

Some readers also reported that they are facing the embarrassing situation of "having a house first, then a road, but not being able to rebuild because of the road."

Mr. Li (李) from Shangrao City (上饶市), Jiangxi Province (江西省) and his family of 6 live in 3 old houses. The houses have safety problems such as wall cracks, roof leaks, and foundation settlement. The village committee determined that it was a dilapidated house. Mr. Li (李) submitted an application for demolition and new construction according to the procedure, but the transportation department refused to approve it on the grounds that "the house is less than 3 meters away from the county road, which does not meet the regulations of the highway construction control area."

"We understand the need to ensure the safety of highway traffic, but our family's situation is special. Our house was built before the widening and reconstruction of the county road. It belongs to 'having a house first and then a road', not a new house encroaching on the highway control area. If we strictly follow the 3-meter setback requirement, our existing homestead will not be able to fully accommodate the new house, and there are no other vacant homesteads in the village for relocation," said Mr. Li (李). He hopes that the local relevant departments can consider his actual difficulties and coordinate and solve them.

When implementing relevant policies at the grassroots level, priority should be given to solving the actual difficulties of farmers.

The reasons for the difficulty in approving the reconstruction of rural dilapidated houses reflected by readers are complex, but there are also some common problems. Yang Ren (杨忍), executive dean of the Joint Research Institute of Rural Revitalization of Sun Yat-sen University (中山大学), believes that the difficulty in approving the reconstruction of rural dilapidated houses is the result of the imbalance in urban and rural development, the lack of smooth policy coordination, and the insufficient grassroots governance capacity.

"This problem has not only appeared in recent years, but has been more concentrated in recent years. In the past, rural housing management was relatively loose. In recent years, rural housing construction has been gradually incorporated into standardized management, and rigid requirements such as planning control, ecological protection, and safety standards have increased," said Yang Ren (杨忍). On the other hand, a large number of farmhouses built in the 1980s and 1990s have successively entered the dilapidated house stage, coupled with the tendency of "emphasizing control, neglecting protection, and neglecting service" in the approval of dilapidated house reconstruction in some areas, making the problem more prominent.

Wang Haixia (王海侠), executive director of the Research Center for Rural Revitalization and Grassroots Governance of Beijing Normal University (北京师范大学), believes that at the implementation level, after the power to approve rural housing construction is delegated to townships, some local townships lack comprehensive coordination capabilities. When facing the intersection of policies from multiple departments such as land, planning, transportation, and ecological environment, there is a phenomenon of implementing "**一刀切** (yī dāo qiē - "one knife cut," applying a uniform standard regardless of individual circumstances)" to avoid responsibility, which leads to more concentrated problems in approval.

In the interview, some grassroots cadres revealed that there are also considerations of departmental interests behind some difficult approval problems. For example, in rural areas around some cities, newly built houses that are rebuilt need to be given more compensation when land is expropriated; some places will also suspend the approval of homesteads and housing construction in order to promote the unified planning and construction of new rural areas. Some places will impose strict restrictions on the approval of rural dilapidated house reconstruction in order to promote urbanization and allow farmers to move to buildings. Some cadres are afraid of taking responsibility and worry that safety accidents will occur during the reconstruction process or after the house is built, and they are afraid that the approver will bear certain responsibilities.

Regarding the "planning" restriction problem generally reflected by readers, the relevant departments have issued relevant regulations. In May 2023, the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部) issued the "Notice on Deepening the Reform of 'Multi-review Integration and Multi-certificate Integration' for Planning and Land Use", which proposed that if a village plan has not been prepared, a rural construction planning permit may be issued in accordance with the county or township "general rules" of the territorial space planning management regulations. For the construction of collective land within the urban development boundary, a construction project planning permit may be issued in accordance with the detailed territorial space plan; if local laws and regulations stipulate otherwise, their provisions shall prevail.

"That is to say, regardless of whether there is a rural plan, a planning permit can be issued to villagers. When the rights and interests of farmers conflict with relevant policies, the safety of farmers' lives should be given priority. Policy implementation cannot be "**一刀切** (yī dāo qiē - "one knife cut," applying a uniform standard regardless of individual circumstances)", and transitional measures can be formulated, such as allowing temporary reconstruction under the premise of meeting safety and environmental protection bottom lines, or delineating temporary construction areas," said Yang Ren (杨忍).

Regarding the complicated procedures for approving the reconstruction of dilapidated houses reflected by villagers, experts suggest that the approval conditions and procedures for the reconstruction of dilapidated houses should be clarified, and farmers should be guaranteed to rebuild dilapidated houses in a timely manner under the premise of compliance through simplifying approval and handling them in parallel. At the same time, the appeal channels should be unblocked to ensure that farmers' demands are reasonably responded to.

Regarding the difficulty in reconstructing dilapidated houses caused by "drawing lines after having houses" and "having houses before having roads", experts said that the principle of "respecting history, implementing policies according to different categories, and protecting rights and interests" should be adhered to and properly handled. "Villagers' houses were built first, and subsequent planning adjustments or road construction formed restrictions, which should not be borne solely by the villagers," Wang Haixia (王海侠) believes that the relevant departments should conduct on-site verification to confirm the time sequence of house construction and planning adjustments and road construction, determine the level of dilapidated houses, and issue clear identification opinions.

Experts suggest that if the original site of a dilapidated house can meet the control requirements through technical optimization, it should be allowed to reduce the floor area and adjust the building height for reconstruction in accordance with regulations. If the original site cannot be rebuilt, the government can coordinate the transfer of vacant homesteads in the village, cross-village resettlement or provide public rental housing, and bear the necessary relocation transition costs. For houses adjacent to roads, safety hazards can be eliminated by setting up protective facilities and adjusting reconstruction standards, rather than simply rejecting approval.

"Some cadres are afraid of taking responsibility, and some places set restrictions on approval in order to reduce relocation costs. These practices disregard the housing safety rights and interests of villagers and are prone to triggering social conflicts," Wang Haixia (王海侠) suggested that the renovation of dilapidated houses and the approval of reconstruction should be included in the performance evaluation of local governments to strengthen the people's livelihood orientation.

Yang Ren (杨忍) suggested that the fault tolerance and error correction mechanism should be further improved to clarify the responsibility boundaries for the approval of dilapidated house reconstruction, and provide exemption guarantees for cadres who approve in accordance with procedures and standards to eliminate their worries; at the same time, strengthen supervision and accountability, and hold cadres who force relocation by rejecting approval and act in an inactive or indiscriminate manner accountable to seriously protect the legitimate interests of farmers.

(People's Daily Online reporter Chang Guoshui (常国水) and intern Xue Siyuan (薛思远) participated in writing)

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Damaged electricity meter boxes have all been replaced (feedback).

By: 本报记者 尚嵘峥

On November 24th, the "Reader's Letters" section of this newspaper published an article titled "Missing Electrical Box Doors Pose a Significant Safety Hazard," reporting on the damaged and missing doors of many electrical meter boxes in Tougong Village (头宫村), Uratai Kazakh Ethnic Township (乌拉台哈萨克民族乡), Yizhou District (伊州区), Hami City (哈密市), Xinjiang (新疆), and the potential safety hazards they posed.

On the day the report was published, Uratai Township (乌拉台乡) organized maintenance personnel to conduct an on-site inspection of the extent of damage to the electrical meter boxes, check the aging of exposed wires, and carry out emergency repairs on the spot, completing the replacement of all damaged electrical meter boxes on the same day (see photo).

At the same time, Uratai Township (乌拉台乡), taking this as a lesson to be learned and applying it to other situations, comprehensively carried out a "carpet-style" investigation of power facilities, inspecting 87 irrigation well electrical meter boxes village by village, household by household, point by point, recording the operating status in detail, establishing a hidden danger ledger, and formulating a "one problem, one solution" repair plan.

The local government will also establish a normalized inspection and maintenance mechanism for power facilities, conduct regular facility inspections, and update aging equipment in a timely manner; unblock rapid response channels for public demands to ensure that public concerns are addressed as soon as possible; and improve the closed-loop management mechanism for problem rectification, tracking the entire process from discovery, assignment, disposal, to feedback.

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Villagers' Houses Demolished for Road Construction, Resettlement Still Incomplete (Local News)

In January 2017, the homes of 12 households in the fourth group of Qixing Village (七星村), Chuanshan Subdistrict (穿山街道), Qixing District (七星区), Guilin (桂林) City, Guangxi (广西) were demolished to build a road. Local authorities promised to complete the relocation and resettlement of the villagers within two years and signed relevant contracts.

However, in the following two years, the promised relocation housing did not begin construction. In 2022, local authorities again promised to complete the construction of the relocation housing in 2024, but construction has still not officially started. Although the relevant departments have given the 12 households a certain amount of money for renting houses elsewhere, the amount is low and cannot meet their needs. It is hoped that the relevant departments will pay attention to this matter, fulfill their resettlement commitments to the relocated people as soon as possible, and solve the problem from the root.

Mr. Zhou (周先生), Guilin (桂林) City, Guangxi (广西)

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Strengthening the Supervision of "Agriculture, Rural Areas, and Farmers" Subsidies to Ensure Accurate Allocation of Funds to Households (Suggestion)

The "San Nong" (三农) subsidy policy is an important policy measure in China to support agricultural development and ensure food security. However, it still needs to be standardized and improved in the specific implementation process. For example, there are problems such as inadequate publicity of subsidies, inaccurate identification of subsidy recipients, and even some places engaging in favoritism and corruption. "San Nong" (三农) subsidies are related to the vital interests of farmers and must be implemented fairly and justly.

On the one hand, for subsidy types directly related to cultivated land area, such as land fertility subsidies, the verification of the subsidy area should be based on on-site measurement data to avoid relying on a single report and ensure that the data is true and reliable. In practice, we can continue to promote the verification method of "seeing the person, seeing the machine, seeing the invoice, and seeing the permanent nameplate" to eliminate false declarations.

On the other hand, it is recommended to place the entire process of subsidy distribution under the supervision of villagers. The subsidy details should be publicized in a timely manner by natural villages, and a "scan code supervision" platform can also be explored to collect clues through methods such as "farmer declaration + grid monitoring + department push" to form normalized supervision.

In addition, the issuance procedures should also be standardized, and the direct distribution of subsidy funds through the "one-card system" should continue to be implemented to ensure that the funds are accurately distributed to households. The use and management of subsidy funds should be taken as the focus of special rectification, and irregular spot checks should be conducted to ensure that the policies are implemented in place.

Zhang Xuanchao (张选超), Huangmei County (黄梅县), Hubei Province (湖北)

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Publishing papers should not become a business (Focus of the People)

By: 史一棋 徐 一

"Almost any ordinary journal can publish," "National Day event, Peking University (北京大学) core journals, 14,000 yuan, and get a free ordinary journal from CNKI," "Full refund if not published"... Recently, some readers have written letters reflecting that they have encountered institutions buying and selling papers and ghostwriting and submitting papers on online platforms. These merchants promise "**包过包发**" (bāo guò bāo fā - "guarantee pass guarantee publish," guaranteeing acceptance and publication) and "fast publication" to obtain illegal income and damage the academic environment.
In addition to promising "**包过包发**" (bāo guò bāo fā - "guarantee pass guarantee publish," guaranteeing acceptance and publication), online stores that publish papers on behalf of others also offer ghostwriting services.
Ms. Wang (汪女士), a reader from Haidian District (海淀区), Beijing (北京), found a store called "Zhengkan Shijie" (正刊世界) on a certain platform. The other party claimed, "We can handle everything even if you don't have an article," and would write the topic completely according to the customer's needs. Ghostwriting and publishing are clearly priced, with an ordinary journal article costing between 4,000 yuan and 6,000 yuan, and a core journal paper costing between 40,000 yuan and 60,000 yuan.
"If you need it by June next year, you need to arrange it immediately." The customer service urged Ms. Wang (汪女士) to place an order as soon as possible, citing the scarcity of journal space and the rising prices of submissions year by year, "Prices will increase again in 2026, so arranging it now is the most cost-effective."
Another store claiming to be able to publish core journals had a comment in the product link saying: "My colleague found them to publish a core journal two years ago, so I went directly to them." According to customer service, the cycle from writing to publication is 3 to 6 months, "submitting to journals through internal channels."
Clicking on the customer service's promotional information, a large number of manuscript acceptance notices came into view, covering a wide range of fields. "Another batch of publications will be closed this year, contact us as soon as possible if you need to make an appointment," "Professional, reliable, quality guaranteed, one-on-one service," "Seeing that other people's papers are being published one after another, and promotion opportunities are coming one after another, are you still standing still?"... These are all common sales pitches used by merchants.
These online stores will take various measures to avoid supervision by online platforms.
When the author searched for "ghostwriting paper" on an online shopping platform, no products were found. Searching for "paper journal" also jumped to the "Green Network Plan" promotion page. After changing the search keywords, the reporter found a store claiming to be able to publish ordinary journals in all subjects, and found that it registered the service type of paper ghostwriting and submission as "consultation and guidance services." In the product name and promotional pictures, the store did not directly use the words "ghostwriting" or "ghost publish." Clicking into the customer service interface, an automatic reply was immediately received: "We can do it, the platform allows it." In order to avoid platform detection, customer service prohibits sending words such as "paper" and quickly guides the transfer to other platforms for communication.
Some stores have adopted more covert promotion methods. Ms. Wang (汪女士) reflected that the customer service of a paper ghostwriting and publishing agency added her personal account and constantly sent private messages to promote advertisements. "The customer service joined the campus activity group by scanning the public QR code, disguised as a student, and sent me a friend request," she said. After adding a friend, the other party took the initiative to ask if there was a need to publish a paper, and listed many publications and topics. The other party claimed that master's and doctoral students and higher vocational teachers can publish independently and support expedited publication.
Regarding the above phenomenon, Professor Hu Juan (胡娟) of the School of Education of Renmin University of China (中国人民大学) believes that the "only paper" phenomenon in the academic evaluation system of some schools has spawned a market for buying and selling papers, "The ghostwritten papers often lack originality and thoughtfulness. As long as peer review experts can carefully review them, it is not difficult to find problems."
Hu Juan (胡娟) believes that in the evaluation of academic talents, if only the number of papers, journal level and other indicators are emphasized, and the research direction, quality of results and academic potential are ignored, it is easy to "**只见论文不见人**" (zhǐ jiàn lùn wén bù jiàn rén - "only see the paper, not the person," focusing solely on publications and ignoring the individual's overall capabilities). The evaluation of academic institutions also generally includes the number of papers and journal level into the indicators. The pressure is transmitted layer by layer, and teachers and students may give up on in-depth research in order to complete the task, or even turn to buying papers.
To govern the chaos of buying and selling papers, it is necessary to **正本清源** (zhèng běn qīng yuán - "rectify the root and clear the source," to address the root cause of a problem). Hu Juan (胡娟) suggested that first, we should promote the reform of the evaluation system of academic institutions. For research universities, teaching universities, and higher vocational colleges, different evaluation standards should be set according to their core functions to reduce publication pressure from the source. Second, we should scientifically position academic careers, and academic evaluation should focus on academic contributions. Third, we should scientifically position graduate training, "For students with outstanding abilities, they can be encouraged to publish papers, but it is not recommended to make publication a universal graduation threshold. Completing a high-quality thesis with care is more important for the growth of graduate students."
In addition, some readers suggested cracking down on the gray industrial chain of buying and selling papers in accordance with the law. Relevant departments should work together to seriously investigate and deal with paper buying and selling institutions, punish illegal elements, increase the cost of violations, and create a clean and upright academic environment.

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This Year, Focusing on Unity and Hard Work with Excellent Conduct (Year-End Special Report)

Editor's Note: The Party's work style is the Party's image, which is related to the support of the people and the survival of the Party. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "We must unswervingly implement the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation, promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style construction," and "Forge a good work style with iron discipline, and promote Party members and cadres to start businesses, take responsibility, and create benefits for the people."

The Central Economic Work Conference emphasized that it is necessary to establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, adhere to achieving political achievements for the people, and achieve political achievements through practical work. The Party's work style is a barometer for observing the relationship between the Party and the masses, and the support of the people. Improving the work style should be tangible and accessible to the people. Have the problems raised by the masses been resolved? Are the masses satisfied? At the end of the year, reporters visited many places to see how grassroots cadres are working hard to solve practical problems for the masses.

Using Practical Work to Close the Distance Between Cadres and the Masses
Xu Leipeng (徐雷鹏)
The grassroots level is the "last mile" for policy implementation and the "first mile" for serving the masses. This "one mile" measures not only the geographical distance but also the distance between the hearts of cadres and the masses. Whether the spring breeze of policy can warm the hearts of the people and whether the development blueprint can be transformed into a happy reality depends on whether the work style of cadres on this "one mile" is practical.

The masses judge the construction of work style not by how many meetings are held, how many speeches are given, or how many documents are issued, but by what problems are solved. In the past, some grassroots cadres were accustomed to "waiting" for the masses in the office, "finding" public sentiment in reports and materials, speaking in "official jargon," and "pushing, delaying, and circumventing" when handling affairs. These bad work styles separated trust and alienated people's hearts. We must be soberly aware that the construction of work style is not a "decoration" written in documents or shouted in slogans, but must ultimately be implemented in the specific actions of cadres.

"Grasping frequently, grasping deeply, and grasping persistently" has become a prominent feature of grasping work style construction since the new era. Since the beginning of this year, from carrying out in-depth study and education on thoroughly implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation to repeatedly reporting typical problems of rectifying formalism to reduce the burden on the grassroots, various regions and departments have gone to the problems and focused on solving them, making iron rules more iron and hard standards harder, further promoting the implementation of various deployments and requirements for work style construction, and further boosting the spirit of Party members and cadres to take responsibility, start businesses, and make achievements.

To make the improvement of work style tangible and accessible to the masses, we must keep the affairs of the masses in mind—pay more attention to whether the roads in front of the masses' homes are smooth, whether children go to school smoothly, and whether it is difficult for the elderly to see a doctor. Helping to solve the troubles of "firewood, rice, oil, and salt," meeting the needs of "clothing, food, housing, and transportation," and responding to the complaints of "bitterness, sweetness, and spice" are the only qualified cadres that the masses can trust. Step out of the office and into the homes of the people. Be able to sit on a bench with the masses and chat, be able to roll up your trouser legs and work in the fields together, and take the initiative to "find things to do" by the side of the masses—feet covered in mud can better precipitate true feelings.

The construction of work style is a self-revolution with no end, only a continuous process. Every grassroots cadre must keep in mind the original aspiration and mission, maintain the sobriety of "taking the exam," and with the determination of "**马不离鞍、缰不松手**" (mǎ bù lí ān, jiāng bù sōng shǒu - "horse not leaving the saddle, reins not loosening the hand," to maintain vigilance and not relax efforts), persevere and work for a long time, and use excellent work style to unite people's hearts and work hard to turn the masses' question marks into satisfied exclamation points.

Grasping Grassroots Governance
Going Down to Receive Visits and Solve Community Problems
Zhang Tengyang (张腾扬), Reporter of This Newspaper
What to do if the fumes from the rice noodle shop downstairs often drift into the house?
—Community resident Li Chunbo (李春博)

Rongshengcheng Community in Pangcun Street, Fuxing District, Handan City, Hebei Province (河北省邯郸市复兴区庞村街道荣盛城社区) has 25 residential buildings with a permanent population of more than 15,000 people. There are many shops around, and the problems reflected by residents on a daily basis are diverse and specific. In Building 13, where community resident Li Chunbo lives, many residents have the same problem—the exhaust vent of the rice noodle shop downstairs is located on the south side of the building, and most of the buildings in the community are designed to be ventilated from north to south. Every meal time, the fumes drift into the homes of residents along with the wind, and many residents dare not open their windows for ventilation anymore.

This problem was received by Zhao Jiangtao (赵江涛), Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Pangcun Street, on the "mobile office table." In August of this year, Fuxing District innovatively launched the "mobile office table" work mechanism. In response to the pain points of the masses, such as "no time to handle things during work hours, inconvenience for the elderly to handle things, and difficulty in queuing up to handle things," it organizes cadres at all levels to go down to the grassroots level at fixed times every week and "move" the office to the doorsteps of residents. If it can be solved on the spot, it will be dealt with immediately and revisited regularly to prevent the problem from rebounding; if it cannot be solved immediately, a ledger will be established, the person in charge and the time limit for solving the problem will be clarified, and the handling will be continuously tracked.

On the morning of September 17, Zhao Jiangtao and his colleagues came to the small courtyard of Rongshengcheng Community and set up a "mobile office table." As soon as it "opened," Li Chunbo quickly stepped forward and reported the problem of fumes from the rice noodle shop downstairs disturbing the residents. "Let's go and take a look at the scene!" After listening to the residents' appeals, Zhao Jiangtao closed his notebook and immediately followed Li Chunbo to Building 13 to experience the diffusion of fumes on the spot. Then, he went straight to the rice noodle shop to discuss the renovation plan of the exhaust system with the merchants. Finally, the renovation was completed on the basis of taking into account the interests of the merchants and soliciting the consent of the residents: the exhaust vent was moved from the south side to the east side.

"Has the fumes from the rice noodle shop downstairs drifted into your home recently? Is it normal to open the windows for ventilation usually?" On December 7, cadres from Rongshengcheng Community came to Li Chunbo's home for a return visit. "There's no problem at all. Thanks to our community's 'mobile office table.'" Li Chunbo replied with a smile.

A "mobile office table" not only solved Li Chunbo's troubles but also warmed the hearts of the masses in the jurisdiction. As of now, Fuxing District has cumulatively accepted 2,559 people's livelihood appeals such as property services, facility maintenance, and dispute resolution through the "mobile office table" mechanism, with a problem resolution rate of 96.9%.

Optimizing the Business Environment
Loans Arrive, Enterprises Regain Vitality
Su Bin (苏滨), Reporter of This Newspaper
If enterprises lack funds for development, can the financing problem be solved?
—Wang Mei (汪美), Head of a Technology Company

Difficult and expensive financing has always been a difficulty for small and micro enterprises, and it is also the focus of local efforts to optimize the business environment.

In July of this year, Wang Mei, the head of a technology company in Nanming District, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province (贵州省贵阳市南明区), also encountered similar troubles. "Although the company has received orders, there is a gap in operating working capital, which affects the normal procurement of equipment and even the production plan." Wang Mei was caught off guard.

In order to obtain financing, Wang Mei ran to five or six banks, but was repeatedly rejected due to the lack of sufficient collateral.

The development vitality of a place is closely related to the business environment. In recent years, Nanming District has explored the combination of optimizing the business environment and cadre education and management, and promoted the improvement of the business environment by improving the work style of cadres.

At this time, cadres from the Investment Promotion Bureau of Nanming District visited the company. When asked about the company's development problems, Wang Mei expressed her concerns. The District Investment Promotion Bureau immediately synchronized the problem to the District Finance Bureau to discuss how to solve it. Lu Hao (卢浩), a staff member of the Financial Work Service Center of the Nanming District Finance Bureau, has banking experience, so he took the initiative to contact Wang Mei and proposed a solution—try the Guiyang Municipal Policy-based Credit Loan Risk Compensation Fund Pool (hereinafter referred to as the "Fund Pool").

It turns out that in order to solve the problem of difficult and expensive financing for small and micro enterprises, Guiyang City established a Fund Pool in 2022, with joint fundraising by the city and districts. The actual fund size is 315 million yuan. At the same time, an agreement was reached with 17 banks to provide risk compensation for credit loan losses that meet the conditions.

"That is to say, if a company borrows from one of the banks, it can borrow up to 10 million yuan. If it cannot be repaid after one year, according to regulations, the Fund Pool can take out up to 7 million yuan for risk compensation to help the bank reduce losses." Lu Hao introduced that the Fund Pool supports small and micro enterprises in specialized, refined, and new, high-tech, and green finance fields. Cooperative banks issue loans without collateral, guarantees, or service fees.

After explaining the policy, Lu Hao directly contacted Sichuan Tianfu Bank to accurately match the corresponding financial products. Soon, Wang Mei received a call from the bank and began to prepare company financial statements, business contracts, business qualifications, and other materials according to the credit granting plan.

After that, Lu Hao contacted both parties many times to keep a close eye on the progress. A month later, a loan of 6 million yuan arrived. "We still need to do a good job in policy publicity and provide good services to enterprises with heart and soul." Hearing the news, Lu Hao breathed a sigh of relief.

Adhering to Burden Reduction and Empowerment
Clarifying Powers and Responsibilities, Cadres Lighten the Load
Zhao Shuaijie (赵帅杰), Reporter of This Newspaper
How to solve the dilemma of some things that are "not done or not done"?
—Zhang Qi (张琦), Street Cadre

In the office, Zhang Qi, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Dongcheng Street, Zhaoling District, Luohe City, Henan Province (河南省漯河市召陵区东城街道), showed reporters a special document—the "List of Responsibilities of Dongcheng Street, Zhaoling District, Luohe City" (hereinafter referred to as the "List of Responsibilities"). "This list is like a work 'instruction manual.'" Zhang Qi described that it is clear at a glance who is in charge of each business and who is cooperating, and there is no need to worry about "who should do it and how to do it" anymore.

Some time ago, the Zhaoling Branch of the Luohe Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment issued a letter of supervision to the street, requiring the closure and rectification of a garbage collection station in the jurisdiction within a time limit. But the street does not have the power of compulsory execution, so what should be done? In the past, the street's Urban Construction Office had to visit the site many times to do work, which was both laborious and difficult to achieve results, and it was also easy to fall into the dilemma of "not done or not done" due to unclear powers and responsibilities.

On July 22 this year, the "List of Responsibilities" of Dongcheng Street was approved, providing a clear basis for handling similar problems.

"According to the 'List of Responsibilities,' the street is mainly responsible for the publicity, inspection, and reporting of ecological and environmental protection, and rectification, punishment, and closure are the responsibility of cooperation." Zhang Qi introduced. According to the letter of supervision, the street's Urban Construction Office contacted the village Party branch secretary, grid chief, and enterprise负责人 where the enterprise is located to inform the enterprise of the rectification content and time limit with the letter.

However, as the execution deadline approached, the enterprise still did not take any rectification measures. At this time, the ecological environment department, together with relevant law enforcement units, intervened in accordance with the law. "Seeing that the law enforcement department was serious, the enterprise quickly began to rectify." Zhang Qi said.

Since the release of the "List of Responsibilities," Dongcheng Street has changed from the past "doing everything" and "**大包大揽**" (dà bāo dà lǎn - "undertaking everything," taking on all responsibilities regardless of one's capacity) to being targeted and paying attention to quality and efficiency. "In the past, if something happened in the jurisdiction, the superior departments always made requests based on 'territorial management,' and the street could only bite the bullet and do it." Zhang Qi told reporters that now, if district-level departments have something to do, they directly contact the corresponding departments of the street, such as the Urban Construction Office and the Peace Office, to take their seats and handle affairs in accordance with the regulations.

At the beginning of this year, Luohe promoted the compilation of a list of responsibilities for 58 townships (streets) in the city, clarifying the work responsibilities of townships (streets) from "thousands of lines" into "three lists": a list of basic responsibilities, a list of cooperative responsibilities, and a list of responsibilities withdrawn by superior departments. Comprehensively sort out a number of long-standing and difficult problems that have plagued the grassroots and caused cross-cutting disputes, such as ecological and environmental protection and "satellite image" law enforcement, promote counties and townships to return to their positions, perform their duties efficiently, and reduce the burden on townships (streets), villages (communities).

Improving People's Livelihood Security
Employment Stations, Smooth Job Search Channels
Li Yanan (李亚楠), Reporter of This Newspaper
Lacking information and guidance, can there be more convenient channels for finding a job?
—Bumayeryem Maihesumu (布麦尔耶姆·麦合苏木), Job Seeker

In the winter, with light snow falling, the Xiaoximen Employment Station in Tianshan District, Urumqi City, Xinjiang (新疆乌鲁木齐市天山区) is warm and welcoming. On the second floor, career counselors are conducting employment training for a dozen young people; on the first floor, people push the door in from time to time to register information and match positions. Those who do not have suitable positions for the time being join the job search group and wait for new opportunities.

When looking for a job, the lack of channels and guidance has troubled many young people. Not long ago, 22-year-old Bumayeryem Maihesumu came to Urumqi from Kashgar to look for a job. On the recommendation of her cousin, she joined the job search group of Xiaoximen Employment Station. "In a few days, the staff sent me information about a pastry shop recruiting sales staff. I was hired soon after the interview." Bumayeryem introduced while greeting customers.

Employment is the biggest livelihood issue. "We found in our visits and research that some enterprises are facing difficulties in recruiting workers, while many job seekers do not have information channels." Dong Hu (董虎), Chief of the Human Resources Market Section of the Urumqi Municipal Public Employment Service Center, said that the establishment of employment stations builds a bridge between job seekers and employers and opens up the "last mile" of employment services.

Where should the station be built? Tianshan District provided 4 candidate locations. After on-site visits and comparisons, Xiaoximen business district with convenient transportation and dense flow of people and logistics was finally selected. Dong Hu introduced that Xiaoximen business district has 10 wholesale and retail markets, 1 large supermarket, more than 240 non-public enterprises, and more than 3,300 individual businesses.

To provide high-quality services, dedicated personnel are needed, but the human resources and social security departments and street communities are all very busy. Dong Hu and his colleagues drew on the practices of Foshan and Jiangmen in Guangdong and adopted the model of "government management, third-party operation." The Xiaoximen Employment Station was officially opened. Zhang Ning (张宁), a cadre of the Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, serves as the station director and supervises and guides the site irregularly, while the daily operation is the responsibility of a third-party enterprise.

At present, Urumqi has built 4 employment stations in areas with large traffic volume and put them all into use. The stations have received a total of more than 13,000 job seekers and successfully helped more than 700 people find jobs.

Promoting Income Increase and Prosperity
Helping Farmers Sell, Villagers Increase Production and Income
Wang Yunna (王云娜), Reporter of This Newspaper
Farmers plant in a decentralized manner and lack bargaining power. How can agricultural products be sold at a good price?
—Jian Qingwen (简清文), Bitter Gourd Grower

With the warm sun shining high, Jian Qingwen, a 45-year-old villager in Daqi Village, Donggang Town, Huilai County, Jieyang City, Guangdong Province (广东省揭阳市惠来县东港镇大旗村), is clearing weeds, loosening soil, and fertilizing for the bitter gourd field. "If we do a good job in 'cleaning the garden,' the gourd shed will be 'lively' next year. With the help of the town, the bitter gourd finally sold at a good price this year." Jian Qingwen's dark face showed a smile.

A year ago, the sale of bitter gourd was his worry. At that time, the prices of agricultural products in Donggang Town were not good, and the purchase price was low, which led to farmers "losing money if they sold and rotting if they hoarded." The gourd farmers worked hard for a season, but the harvest was not abundant, and their "hearts were bitterer than bitter gourd."

"This year, we must not repeat the same mistakes!" Fang Jian (方健), Secretary of the Party Committee of Donggang Town, said. What farmers think and expect is the direction for Party members and cadres to work. In early April of this year, he and the Party members and cadres in the town planned in advance, conducted multi-party research, and found out the blockages in the agricultural product sales chain: farmers planted in a decentralized manner and lacked bargaining power. How to increase production and income for farmers?

Immediately, Fang Jian negotiated with local purchasers to guide them to increase the purchase price of bitter gourd and give profits to the people. After repeated docking, it was unsuccessful. It turned out that the purchasers had sufficient sources of goods and could find "alternatives."

Faced with difficulties, Fang Jian decided to lead a team to Guangzhou to find business opportunities. Under the guidance of the Guangdong Huilai Chamber of Commerce, Fang Jian found a company that settled in Guangzhou Jiangnan Fruit and Vegetable Market—Guangzhou Yongchangshun Fruit Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Yongchangshun"). After learning about the advantages of agricultural products in Donggang Town, Yongchangshun sent a professional team to the town for on-site inspection. After that, the two parties hit it off and reached a cooperation agreement: the local bitter gourd and other fruits and vegetables are purchased from farmers by Donggang Town Qiangcun Company in a unified manner, and Yongchangshun is responsible for packaging and sales, and the profits are divided by Qiangcun Company and Yongchangshun.

After opening up his mind, Donggang Town successively opened up multiple sales channels. After no longer worrying about sales, Jian Qingwen devoted himself to the bitter gourd field. "This year, I made back all the losses from last year. Bitter gourd has become 'sweet melon'!" He felt very happy.

"This is just a beginning. How to maintain the lasting competitiveness of agricultural products, we have to think ahead for the farmers." Fang Jian said that after the sales channels are opened, the quality control of agricultural products becomes the top priority. Donggang Town carries out planting technology training to help increase the production and quality of agricultural products, so that the harvest can be truly transformed into the real income of farmers.

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Editor in Charge for This Edition: Zhao Xiaoxi, Xu Leipeng, Li Peiyang, Chi Jiarui

This Issue Coordinated by: Su Xianlong (苏显龙), Ji Jianming (季健明)
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Promote high-quality and full employment (Studying and implementing the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee)

By: 王晓萍

The "Suggestions of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" (《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十五个五年规划的建议》) (hereinafter referred to as the "Suggestions") adopted at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, regards promoting high-quality and full employment as an important part of ensuring and improving people's livelihoods, and puts forward new requirements and makes new deployments. This is a major deployment made by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, adhering to the people-centered development philosophy, from a strategic and overall perspective. We must deeply study and comprehend it, and resolutely implement it.

I. Deeply Understand the Important Significance of Promoting High-Quality and Full Employment

Employment is the most basic livelihood. On May 27, 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) presided over the 14th collective study of the 20th Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and delivered an important speech, profoundly pointing out that "Promoting high-quality and full employment is the new positioning and new mission of employment work in the new era and new journey," scientifically answering a series of major theoretical and practical issues of promoting high-quality and full employment, marking a shift in employment work goals towards greater emphasis on improving employment quality, marking a shift in the main tasks of employment towards greater emphasis on solving structural contradictions, and marking a shift in the theme and main line of employment towards greater emphasis on human resource development and utilization, which has milestone significance in the history of employment development in China, and provides ideological guidance and action guidelines for doing a good job in employment work in the new era and new journey. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's employment situation remained generally stable, with an average annual increase of more than 12 million new jobs in urban areas, achieving relatively full employment in a developing country with a population of more than 1.4 billion. The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for laying the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically realize socialist modernization, and promoting high-quality and full employment has great practical significance.

(I) Promoting high-quality and full employment is an inevitable requirement for strengthening human resource development and utilization and supporting Chinese-style modernization with high-quality population development. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The essence of modernization is the modernization of people" and "Supporting Chinese-style modernization with high-quality population development." Currently, the total population and labor force in China are showing a decreasing trend, and population aging and labor force aging are becoming more obvious. As of the end of 2024, China had 310 million people aged 60 and above, and the average age of migrant workers was 43.2 years old, with more than 90 million migrant workers over the age of 50, making it urgent to promote the transformation of the demographic dividend into a talent dividend. At the same time, Chinese-style modernization is a modernization with a huge population size, and promoting the overall entry of more than 1.4 billion people into modernization is a long-term and arduous major strategic task. This requires us to take promoting high-quality and full employment as the main way to develop and utilize human resources, focus on improving the quality of workers, optimizing the structure of human resources, stabilizing the labor participation rate, and accelerating the shaping of modern human resources, so as to lay a solid foundation for supporting Chinese-style modernization with high-quality population development.

(II) Promoting high-quality and full employment is an inevitable requirement for accelerating the formation of new quality productive forces and promoting high-quality economic and social development. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that "Developing new quality productive forces is an inherent requirement and an important focus for promoting high-quality development"; new quality productive forces "take the leap of laborers, labor materials, labor objects and their optimized combination as the basic connotation." China is accelerating the optimization and upgrading of traditional industries and cultivating and strengthening emerging and future industries, making it urgent to improve the quality of workers. At present, the total number of skilled personnel in China exceeds 220 million, including more than 72 million highly skilled personnel, which is still not enough to meet the needs of high-quality development. Promoting high-quality and full employment, comprehensively improving the technical and skill level of workers, improving the efficiency of supply and demand matching, and optimizing wage and welfare benefits can better stimulate people's potential, encourage workers to innovate, start businesses, and create, and actively explore new technologies, new industries, new business forms, and new models, so as to provide inexhaustible impetus for developing new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions and promoting high-quality development. This requires us to adapt to the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, enhance the foresight, pertinence, and effectiveness of human resource development, promote more funds and resources to be invested in people and serve people's livelihoods, focus on improving total factor productivity, and form a virtuous cycle of high-quality development and high-quality and full employment.

(III) Promoting high-quality and full employment is an inevitable requirement for adapting to the people's new expectations for a better life and steadily promoting common prosperity. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that a happy life is achieved through struggle, and common prosperity must be created through hard work and wisdom. Surveys show that 70% of residents' per capita disposable income and 80% of the net income of poverty-stricken families come from wage income and operating income. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, high-quality development will be further promoted, and social structure, social psychology, and labor supply and demand relations will change. Workers' desire to improve the quality of employment will be more urgent, from paying attention to "whether there are" jobs to paying more attention to "whether" jobs are "good" or "excellent," and employment needs will tend to be multi-level and diversified. Promoting high-quality and full employment, promoting the realization of workers' stable work, reasonable income, reliable security, and occupational safety, etc., is conducive to promoting residents' income growth, narrowing the income distribution gap, and expanding the scale of the middle-income group, so as to lay the foundation for realizing common prosperity for all people. This requires us to adhere to everyone's participation, everyone's best efforts, and everyone's enjoyment, improve the human capital and professional skills of the whole society, improve employment and entrepreneurship capabilities, enhance the ability to become rich, smooth upward mobility channels, promote the coordinated progress of employment quantity and employment quality, the virtuous interaction between high-quality development and high-quality life, and continuously enhance people's well-being.

II. Accurately Grasp the Key Tasks of Promoting High-Quality and Full Employment

The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, adheres to taking employment as the foundation of people's livelihood, adheres to relying on development to promote employment, and clarifies the main goals of promoting high-quality and full employment in the "Suggestions," and puts forward a series of key tasks. We must take promoting high-quality development as the basis, take the implementation of the employment-first strategy as the guide, take strengthening the employment-first policy as the starting point, take solving structural employment contradictions as the focus, take deepening the reform of the employment system and mechanism as the driving force, and take preventing the risk of large-scale unemployment as the bottom line, and continue to promote the effective improvement of employment quality and the rational growth of quantity, and continuously enhance the sense of gain, happiness, and security of the vast number of workers.

(I) Deeply implement the employment-first strategy and actively build an employment-friendly development mode. Promote the implementation of the employment-first strategy in depth at multiple levels such as governance philosophy, national strategy, and social orientation. Always adhere to the employment-first orientation, incorporate high-quality and full employment into the national economic and social development plan, prioritize development goals, development factors, macro-control, development policies, micro-entities, and social governance, and improve the employment driving force of development. Strengthen the coordination of industry and employment, improve the modern industrial system, prioritize supporting key industries and fields with strong employment absorption capacity such as advanced manufacturing, consumption hotspots, major projects, and people's livelihood security, guide the orderly transfer of industries, develop the digital economy, green economy, and silver economy, and cultivate new momentum for employment. Support all types of business entities to stabilize jobs and expand employment, promote the coordinated linkage and simultaneous efforts of fiscal, monetary, investment, consumption, industrial, regional and other policies and employment policies, and increase efforts to broaden employment channels. Strengthen employment impact assessment, and carry out job creation and unemployment risk assessment simultaneously in major policy formulation, major project determination, and major productivity layout.

(II) Improve the lifelong vocational skills training system and focus on solving structural employment contradictions. Tightly grasp the "bull nose" of skills talent training to alleviate structural employment contradictions, start from solving the problem of "no one to do the work" and solve the problem of "some people have no work to do," and accelerate the shaping of modern human resources. Accelerate the establishment of a human resource demand forecasting mechanism, promptly compile and publish a catalog of urgently needed and scarce occupations and future employment needs, accelerate the development of new occupational standards, dynamically optimize and adjust the professional structure of various colleges and universities, and promote the coordination of professional settings with industrial development and adaptation to job needs. Carry out large-scale vocational skills improvement training, deeply implement the "Skills Light Up the Future" training action, focus on key areas such as health and elderly care, advanced manufacturing, modern services, and new occupations, build a diversified training system, mobilize the enthusiasm of enterprises and colleges, comprehensively promote the linkage model of "job demand + skills training + skills evaluation + employment services," and promote more workers to gain skills employment and skills income. Strengthen skills-oriented salary incentives, dynamically release salary level information for skilled personnel, establish classified reference guidelines for the minimum wage for skilled personnel, support state-owned enterprises to demonstrate and lead, and enhance the gold content and attractiveness of skills employment. Create an atmosphere for skills to become talents, focus on building and improving a vocational skills competition system with Chinese characteristics, increase the intensity of honor leadership, and encourage young people in the new era to take the road of skills to become talents and skills to serve the country.

(III) Improve employment support policies by category and increase efforts to promote employment for key groups. In the coming period, China's youth employment, rural labor transfer employment, and re-employment of the unemployed are intertwined. More than 10 million college graduates and nearly 300 million migrant workers each year are of a large scale. Stabilizing their employment will stabilize the overall employment situation. Focusing on young people, especially college graduates, expand market-oriented employment positions, improve the employment service system connecting on-campus and off-campus, and strengthen the bottom-line assistance for graduates from difficult families in a targeted manner, and do everything possible to promote youth employment and entrepreneurship. Focusing on migrant workers, especially those who have been lifted out of poverty, smooth the channels for going out to work and employment nearby, improve the cooperation mechanism between labor importing and exporting areas, vigorously promote the construction of labor service brands, and stabilize the scale of employment of the population lifted out of poverty. Focusing on groups with employment difficulties, especially the elderly, disabled, and long-term unemployed, carry out special actions for employment assistance, make good use of public welfare positions to provide bottom-line assistance, and ensure that zero-employment families are dynamically cleared. At the same time, we will steadily do a good job in the employment of veterans, women and other groups.

(IV) Improve the public employment service system and improve the efficiency of supply and demand matching. At present, China has basically established a public employment service system covering urban and rural areas, providing recruitment services to 100 million workers and 50 million employers each year. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, it is necessary to further promote the full coverage of public employment services to permanent residents, the wide benefit of employers, and the full connection of employment and entrepreneurship, so as to effectively promote the matching of human resource supply and demand. Consolidate the foundation at the grassroots level, integrate public employment services into the scope of grassroots governance led by party building, and include them in the service items of grassroots people's livelihood security. Build "employment service stations at the doorstep" and "15-minute" employment service circles, and rationally lay out national public employment service regional centers. Improve service content, improve the information release mechanism for human resource market supply and demand, widely organize "small and beautiful" and "specialized and refined" classified special recruitment, promote live broadcast job postings and remote interviews, and realize the targeted push of job information. Optimize the service model, strengthen the construction of employment information resource banks, implement "artificial intelligence + employment," promote the service model of "big data + iron feet," and provide convenient services by layer and category.

(V) Increase entrepreneurship support and enhance the employment-driven effect of entrepreneurship. Since the new era, China has adhered to incorporating "encouraging entrepreneurship" into the employment policy, and has promoted the vigorous development of various forms of entrepreneurship activities in a coordinated manner. At the end of 2024, there were 189 million registered business entities nationwide, and more than 10 million entrepreneurs enjoyed the support of the guaranteed loan policy for entrepreneurship throughout the year. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, it is necessary to strengthen the driving role of entrepreneurship and focus on building a new pattern in which the government encourages entrepreneurship, the market guides entrepreneurship, society supports entrepreneurship, and workers are brave in entrepreneurship. Pay attention to giving play to the role of the market, support market-oriented entrepreneurship service institutions to provide professional services, and promote entrepreneurship incubation carriers to carry out project incubation around industrial parks, so as to realize the virtuous cycle of integrated development of "industry-incubation-feeding back." Pay attention to strengthening model leadership, implement policies according to local conditions and categories, and promote models such as "scientific and technological achievements + entrepreneurship," "industrial development + entrepreneurship," "vocational skills + entrepreneurship," and "people's livelihood needs + entrepreneurship" in a targeted manner. Pay attention to policy support and guarantee, play a "combination punch" of policies such as guaranteed loans, entrepreneurship subsidies, site support, and tax and fee reductions, build a full-coverage entrepreneurship service network, and promote the efficient completion of "one thing for individual entrepreneurship."

(VI) Enhance the governance capacity of labor relations and strengthen the protection of workers' rights and interests. Consolidate responsibilities, increase efforts, make up for shortcomings in rights and interests, make labor relations more harmonious, rights and interests protection more in place, and the employment environment more fair. Guarantee workers' equal employment rights, improve a unified and standardized human resource market system, and resolutely eliminate institutional and mechanism obstacles that affect the flow of labor and talent. Improve the rights and interests protection system, accelerate the relevant legislation on the protection of the rights and interests of workers in new employment forms, increase the participation rate of flexible employment personnel, migrant workers, and new employment form personnel, establish and improve the occupational injury protection system for new employment form personnel, and strengthen the basic rights and interests protection of older and over-age workers. Focus on building harmonious labor relations, improve the labor standard system and the labor relations consultation and coordination mechanism, strengthen mediation, arbitration and supervision and law enforcement, and effectively govern employment discrimination, wage arrears, and illegal layoffs. Steadily improve the level of social security benefits, improve the funding and benefit adjustment mechanism, increase the level of pensions, and improve the policy of transferring and connecting social insurance relations.

III. Gather Joint Efforts to Promote New Achievements in High-Quality and Full Employment

Promoting high-quality and full employment is a systematic and long-term major people's livelihood project, which requires party committees and governments at all levels to grasp it as the top priority of people's livelihood, and requires the care and support of the whole society, gathering consensus, enhancing joint efforts, doing our best and acting according to our capabilities, and constantly moving towards the goal of achieving high-quality and full employment.

(I) Adhere to and strengthen the Party's leadership. Run the Party's comprehensive leadership through the whole process and all aspects of promoting high-quality and full employment, deeply study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition on employment work, adhere to the people's livelihood work ideas, adhere to the valuable experience of employment work in the new era, comprehensively implement the employment policy of workers' independent employment, market regulation employment, government promotion of employment and encouragement of entrepreneurship, and promote high-quality and full employment to move steadily and far with a rigorous and pragmatic style and the spirit of nailing nails.

(II) Build a scientific work system. Adhere to goal orientation, enhance systematic concepts, give full play to the role of the employment promotion and labor protection coordination mechanism, establish the concept of "managing industry must manage employment, promoting consumption must promote employment, and launching projects must expand employment," answer the same question and resonate at the same frequency, and solidly promote the quality and efficiency of various tasks of high-quality and full employment with systematic thinking and systematic methods of system integration, coordinated linkage, digital empowerment, scientific management, and legal guarantee.

(III) Prevent and resolve major risks. Strengthen bottom-line thinking, and deeply study and respond to the impact of the external environment, changes in the population and labor force, and the development of new technologies such as artificial intelligence on employment. Improve the statistical monitoring system, and strengthen employment and unemployment monitoring in key areas, key industries, key enterprises, and key groups. Improve the mechanism for preventing and resolving large-scale unemployment risks, and strengthen policy reserves and emergency response. Coordinate and make good use of various funds and funds to improve the quality and efficiency of promoting employment and preventing unemployment.

(IV) Optimize and strengthen publicity and guidance. Grasp the timing, intensity, and effectiveness, start from improving social expectations and boosting development confidence, adopt methods that the masses like to see and hear, summarize and publicize the vivid practices and advanced models at the grassroots level in a timely manner, strengthen the guidance of employment and employment concepts, encourage hard work, innovation, and legal prosperity, strengthen the publicity and interpretation of employment policies, build a Chinese employment theory system, and form a good situation in which workers are secure in their jobs, happy in their careers, do their best, and get what they deserve.

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Get things done, achieve real results (Thinking and Strategizing)

By: 曹雪盟

The Central Economic Work Conference held in Beijing (北京) from December 10th to 11th clarified the overall requirements and policy orientation for next year's economic work, requiring party members and cadres to "establish and practice a correct view of achievements, adhere to achieving achievements for the people, and achieve achievements through hard work." A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. There are no shortcuts to starting a business; only by being down-to-earth can we go far and steadily. In November, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized during his inspection in Hainan (海南): "Our feet must be on the ground. There are inherent laws in everything we do. We must scientifically and orderly arrange the pace and progress of opening up, and advance steadily step by step." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition inspires us that to implement the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference, we must do practical things and achieve practical results one step at a time to promote the thorough implementation of the Party Central Committee's major decisions and deployments and achieve a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan."

Currently, the supporting conditions and basic trends for China's (中国) long-term economic improvement have not changed, but there are still many old problems and new challenges in economic development. The impact of external environmental changes has deepened, the contradiction between strong domestic supply and weak demand is prominent, and there are many risks and hidden dangers in key areas. The more complex the situation and the more arduous the task, the more party members and cadres must have the ambition of the Foolish Old Man who moved mountains and the perseverance of water dripping through stone, hammering one after another to ensure that responsibilities are not absent and work is not interrupted. With a down-to-earth style and the tenacity of hard work, we will gradually turn the development blueprint into a beautiful reality.

In-depth investigation and research are important ways to grasp the objective laws of things and are an important foundation and prerequisite for doing practical things and achieving practical results. Comrade Mao Zedong (毛泽东) conducted investigation and research in Xunwu (寻乌), Jiangxi (江西), staying for more than 20 days and writing the "Xunwu Investigation" of more than 80,000 words, which comprehensively and meticulously demonstrated the political, economic, and social conditions of Xunwu (寻乌). General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Investigation and research are the basis for planning and the way to success. Without investigation, there is no right to speak, let alone the right to make decisions." To do a good job in next year's economic work, we must accurately grasp the "time" and "trend" of economic operation and understand the real situation at the grassroots level and the urgent needs and expectations of the masses through in-depth and meticulous investigation and research. The vast number of party members and cadres must resolutely oppose formalism and bureaucracy, truly calm down and go deep, go to factories and workshops, fields and rural areas, listen to the voices of the masses, and observe the things around the masses. We must deepen and solidify investigation and research in understanding the real situation and dissecting typical cases, find out the situation, identify problems, and implement countermeasures, and transform the results of investigation and research into practical results in solving problems and promoting development.

Adapting to local conditions is an important method for doing a good job in economic work and is a key grasp for doing practical things and achieving practical results. The Central Economic Work Conference emphasized that "all regions and departments should combine their actual conditions and adapt to local conditions to fully implement the Party Central Committee's ideas, tasks, and policies on next year's economic work," providing methodological guidance for doing a good job in economic work. To carry out work in accordance with local conditions, we must adhere to seeking truth from facts and proceed from reality in everything, and act in accordance with objective laws. Li Baoguo (李保国), the "People's Role Model," has been rooted in the Taihang (太行) Mountains for more than 30 years, adhering to the principle of "what the people need, we will study," and has promoted 36 forestry technologies in the Taihang (太行) Mountains, benefiting the local people. Jiang Shikun (姜仕坤), the "National Model for Poverty Alleviation," led the county to develop a mountain characteristic economy and was affectionately called the "Farmers' Secretary" by the masses. "One key opens one lock." Practice has proved that only by adhering to planning the development of undertakings from reality can the ideas, policies, and plans put forward conform to the actual situation, objective laws, and scientific principles, and can we find the correct methods and ways to solve problems and do a good job in economic work with high standards and high quality.

Doing practical things and achieving practical results cannot be separated from the high-spirited courage, but also requires the stability of steady progress and the patience of long-term efforts. In reality, some party members and cadres are focused on taking shortcuts and seeking quick results, with more "impatience" and less "calmness," more "utilitarianism" and less "ordinariness," eager for quick success and lazy in practical work. These unrealistic and unsubstantial manifestations can easily cause the start-up business to deviate from the correct course and even foster unhealthy tendencies. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) warned party members and cadres: "Do not have the impulse to do things quickly and on a large scale, that is, you cannot act against the laws, be eager for quick success and instant benefits, and be eager to achieve results. We must suppress this impetuous psychology and impatient mentality and carry out modernization in a solid and down-to-earth manner." We must know that one cannot become fat in one bite. Only by doing work, starting a business, and seeking development in a solid and down-to-earth manner can we build a solid foundation, win trust, and create a new situation. Party members and cadres must concentrate on doing their "own thing," diligently cultivate their "responsibility field," not seek temporary success, not be greedy for immediate benefits, take every step with the attitude of "being down-to-earth and daring not to deceive others in the slightest," strive hard, respond to challenges, and continuously consolidate and expand the stable and improving economic momentum with practical work and practical results.

The great way is simple, and practical work is essential. Chinese-style modernization is a great undertaking unprecedented in history. The vast number of party members and cadres must work one after another with the spiritual realm of "I don't have to be successful" and the historical responsibility of "I must be successful," step by step, and strive to achieve the goals and tasks of economic and social development next year to ensure a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan."

**大道至简** (dà dào zhì jiǎn - "the great path is simple," profound truths are often simple)

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Enhancing Governance Capacity in the Cultural Sphere Under Informationization (In-depth Thinking)

By: 文丰安

Cultural governance is an important part of national governance and an important component of building a strong cultural country. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "If we cannot pass the internet test, we cannot pass the test of long-term governance." "Adhere to the Party's leadership, enhance the governance capabilities of the cultural field under informatization conditions, and consolidate the Party's foundation for governance and the mass base ideologically, spiritually, and culturally." The "Suggestions" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Party proposed: "Enhance the governance capabilities of the cultural field under informatization conditions." This is a scientific decision made by our Party based on the development needs of propaganda and ideological culture work and a deep understanding of the rapid development of information technology. It is of great significance for consolidating the ideological unity of the entire Party and the entire society. In the face of new situations and new tasks, to thoroughly implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) cultural thought and implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, we must focus on enhancing the governance capabilities of the cultural field under informatization conditions, develop and strengthen mainstream values, mainstream public opinion, and mainstream culture, and help continuously improve the country's soft power.

Currently, the rapid development and widespread application of new-generation information technologies such as the internet, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and blockchain have had a tremendous impact on human production and life. Driven by information technology, the digital economy is booming and the digital society is accelerating its construction, which not only expands the development space of the cultural field and releases the vitality of cultural development, but also provides effective solutions for safeguarding national cultural security and solving problems such as the digital divide, and injects new impetus into cultural governance innovation. At the same time, it should be noted that the rapid development of information technology has also brought new challenges to the governance of the cultural field, making the spread of various erroneous thoughts, noises, and noises "opportunistic," and the situation in the ideological field is more complex and severe. How to address this development trend, promote strengths and avoid weaknesses, take advantage of the empowering role of information technology, and continuously develop a socialist culture that is modern, world-oriented, and future-oriented, national, scientific, and popular, is an important issue for enhancing the governance capabilities of the cultural field under informatization conditions. To this end, we must unswervingly follow the path of socialist cultural development with Chinese characteristics, grasp the timing and trend of digitalization, networking, and intelligence, adhere to the Party's leadership, adhere to maintaining integrity and innovation, take the initiative to recognize changes, respond to changes, and seek changes, and promote the construction of a strong socialist cultural country with high-efficiency governance to achieve new results.

Promote the standardized, healthy, and sustainable development of the platform economy. With the in-depth development of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, the rise of the platform economy has become a trend. Under informatization conditions, the development of China's platform economy is at a critical period. At the same time, the spatial and temporal restrictions on cultural communication have been broken, and the scope of governance in the cultural field has expanded from offline to online, covering various online cultural creation platforms, social media platforms, and video sharing platforms. Promoting the standardized, healthy, and sustainable development of the platform economy and fully stimulating the enthusiasm and initiative of platform enterprises to participate in the governance of the cultural field is of great significance for enhancing the governance capabilities of the cultural field under informatization conditions. To this end, we must thoroughly implement the national cultural digitalization strategy, build authoritative cultural resource databases and efficient digital cultural resource trading platforms, encourage and guide relevant enterprises to create more new forms of cultural industries, actively carry out online and offline theme education activities, and give full play to the role of culture in nourishing people's minds and cultivating people's sentiments.

Give play to the role of digital technology. Under informatization conditions, promoting the deep integration of digital technology and cultural governance is an important path to innovate governance ideas, optimize governance methods, release cultural value, and improve cultural competitiveness. To this end, digital technology can be used to strengthen the creative transformation and innovative development of outstanding traditional Chinese culture, providing strong data and technical support for cultural inheritance and development, artistic design innovation, and immersive interactive experience upgrades. Strengthen institutional and mechanism innovation around key core technology research and collaborative innovation in cutting-edge fields, deepen the integration of digital technology and the entire cultural industry chain, and improve the intelligence, specialization, and refinement of cultural industry hardware and software technology. At the same time, using the data acquisition and processing advantages of information technology, and on the premise of ensuring information security, strengthen information exchange and sharing between different departments in the cultural field, promote the shift of the governance focus from ex-post to in-process and ex-ante, and effectively respond to risks and challenges.

Build a solid security defense line. Cultural security is an important part of national security. With the deep empowerment of digital technology for the development of the cultural industry, the governance of the cultural field presents characteristics such as complex environment, increased challenges, and diversified subjects, which requires that the governance of the cultural field must build a solid security defense line. To this end, we must establish and improve the system and mechanism for cultural security risk prevention, accurately crack down on piracy and infringement, the spread of harmful information, etc., and effectively safeguard national cultural security and the cultural rights and interests of the people. Adhere to the equal emphasis on severely cracking down on and standardizing guidance, and the equal emphasis on rectifying chaos and protecting rights and interests, deeply carry out the "Qinglang (清朗)" series of special actions, focus on rectifying the chaos in the network ecology that the people strongly reflect, and strive to drive the overall optimization of the network ecology with key breakthroughs. Innovate cultural market supervision policies in the digital era, and promote the innovative development of the cultural industry under regulation and the prosperity and prosperity in safety.

Strengthen the construction of talent teams. A high-level cultural talent team is an important force for enhancing the governance capabilities of the cultural field. Respecting the laws of cultural talent growth and increasing the cultivation and support of cultural talents can continuously improve the governance capabilities of the cultural field under informatization conditions. To this end, we must thoroughly implement the strategy of strengthening the country with talents, promote and optimize resource integration, carry out targeted talent training, effectively cultivate and gather high-end cultural talents, and effectively improve the "quality" and "quantity" of the cultural talent team. Build an integrated talent training base for industry, academia, and research, enhance international exchanges and cooperation, and continue to build a high-level platform for opening up to the outside world, so as to make positive explorations and continuous efforts to promote talent empowerment in the governance of the cultural field.

(The author is a special researcher at the Chongqing (重庆) Collaborative Research Base of the Xi Jinping (习近平) Cultural Thought Research Center)

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From "Showing Off Skills" to "Competing in Skills" (Economic Focus)

By: 本报记者 沈文敏

In December, the cold in Shanghai could not stop the heat of innovation. From December 12th to 14th, the Global Developers Pioneer Conference & International Embodied Intelligence Skills Competition (GDPS 2025) was held in Shanghai (上海).

How can artificial intelligence move from virtual algorithms to physical applications? Embodied intelligence is constantly exploring and integrating into many scenarios of human life. This skills competition presented the technological breakthroughs and industrial potential of embodied intelligence in three dimensions through real-world competitions in the three tracks of industrial production, life services, and professional services.

Industrial Production: A Race Against Millimeters and Milliseconds

Walking into the industrial manufacturing competition area, the "buzzing" sound of high-frequency motor operation rose and fell, and the precise meshing sound of metal parts could be heard clearly. At the industrial assembly competition site, a humanoid robot was focusing on assembling precision parts: its robotic arm was equipped with a high-definition vision sensor, which could identify three different specifications of parts within 0.3 seconds, and adjust the clamping force with an accuracy of 0.01 millimeters at its fingertips, completing eight processes such as positioning, insertion, and tightening in sequence, without a single error throughout the entire process. "Each joint servo cycle is 0.5 milliseconds faster, and the entire grasping process can be one manual beat faster." At the edge of the field, a developer born after 2000 was debugging parameters with team members. Their real-time motion control algorithm enabled the robot to achieve a dual breakthrough in efficiency and accuracy with limited computing power.

The competition in the key component track was equally fierce. An engineer squatted on the ground, repeatedly measuring the joint clearance of the open-source robotic arm with a vernier caliper and recording the data. "For software engineers, 'tolerance' used to be an unfamiliar term, but now it directly determines the life and death of the code." The head of the team introduced that their high-torque joint module reduced the joint friction coefficient by 30% by optimizing the material formula and transmission structure. In front of a booth not far away, a foreign engineer pointed to a domestic quadruped robot and said: "Our laboratory has just begun to tackle this kind of terrain adaptability."

Yao Qizhi (姚期智), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), said that embodied intelligence needs to move from local skills to whole-body coordination. "The existing robot's movement ability and operation ability are still two sets of systems. In the future, it is necessary to unify whole-body control and fine hand operation planning to support multi-step general skills." The establishment of the Shanghai Humanoid Robot Pilot Test Alliance (上海市人形机器人中试联盟) is an industrial response to this demand. The alliance members cover the entire industrial chain, including core components, complete machine manufacturing, and application scenarios, and will open up the "last mile" from technology prototypes to mature products, providing support for the technological landing in the industrial field.

Life Services: More Personalized Forms

The competition in the life service track was full of everyday life. In the social service competition area, in a simulated community service scenario, an intelligent service robot was providing assistance to elderly experience participants: it identified needs through voice interaction and accurately pushed community activity information; facing experience participants with limited mobility, the robot smoothly extended an auxiliary handrail, accompanied by a warm reminder of "Please walk slowly," guiding them to safely pass through the ramp. "The robot can understand my dialect and responds very flexibly. It will be much more convenient to have such a helper in the community in the future," commented an elderly experience participant.

The display in the home service track was closer to daily life. A home service robot was demonstrating the whole-house service process: autonomously planning paths to avoid obstacles, accurately identifying ingredients in cabinets and reminding of expiration dates, recommending recipes based on user health data, and flexibly adjusting the sweeping mode to avoid infant crawling areas. Its developer introduced that the robot's multi-modal large model can deeply understand human non-verbal behavior, and judge needs by analyzing the user's expressions and actions, making the service more personalized.

Making intelligent technology not only have technological height, but also have people's livelihood temperature. From community service to home companionship, from daily housework to health management, embodied intelligence is reshaping the new form of life services with flexible and personalized service models, and also opening up new space for industrial development.

Professional Services: Testing Practical Combat Capabilities

The competition in the professional service track was full of "hard-core" challenges. The two major scenarios of emergency rescue and medical rehabilitation tested the practical combat capabilities of embodied intelligence in extreme environments.

The atmosphere in the simulated ruins site of the emergency rescue competition area was very tense: collapsed rubble blocked the way forward, and the visibility in the smoke-filled environment was less than 1 meter. After a tracked rescue robot was started, the sensors quickly integrated data to calculate the optimal path, the tracks rolled over rubble, and the body continuously made subtle adjustments to maintain its center of gravity, finally successfully crossing the obstacle, accurately locating the simulated trapped person and transmitting back vital sign data. The engineers on the sidelines breathed a sigh of relief and waved their fists to celebrate. The short few minutes of crossing were the accumulation of countless extreme environment tests.

The medical rehabilitation track highlighted the balance of "precision and gentleness."

In the rehabilitation training scenario, a rehabilitation robot was assisting a hemiplegic patient in limb training: it sensed the patient's force exertion state through force feedback technology, and adjusted the auxiliary force in real time, which not only ensured the training effect, but also avoided secondary injuries. Another surgical assistance robot demonstrated minimally invasive surgery operations, with the robotic arm performing precise cutting and suturing on simulated human tissue, with the error controlled within 0.1 millimeters. "Medical scenarios have extremely high requirements for the accuracy and stability of robots, which is precisely the key test for embodied intelligence from 'being able to do' to 'doing well'," said an expert in the medical field at the scene.

Jiang Lei (江磊), chief scientist of the National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Humanoid Robots Innovation (国家地方共建人形机器人创新中心), said that the technological breakthroughs in the field of professional services reflect the core mission of embodied intelligence to "serve people," and the robot athletes' collective oath of "strictly abide by instructions, serve people, and pay tribute to technology" is a vivid interpretation of this mission.

The developers' figures of debugging parameters, the robots' precise operating postures, and the experts' forward-looking insights together outline the development picture of embodied intelligence. From "showing skills" to "competing skills," this competition is not only about demonstrating skills, but also about exploring more possibilities from technology to industry.

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The Greater Bay Area Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Industry Conference was held in Guangzhou (广州)

Guangdong (广东) has more than 3,700 artificial intelligence and robotics companies

Guangzhou (广州), December 14 (Reporter Li Gang (李刚) and Hong Qiuting (洪秋婷)) From December 12th to 14th, the 2025 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Industry Conference and the Guangdong Provincial Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Skills Competition were held in Guangzhou (广州), Guangdong (广东).

With the theme of "Intelligent Connection World, Greater Bay Area New Chapter," this conference aims to build a high-end exchange platform integrating government, industry, academia, research, application, and commerce based in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) and radiating globally. The conference simultaneously held the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Carnival Exhibition and the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Skills Competition to promote technological breakthroughs, industrial integration, and ecological co-construction in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics, presenting the results of close cooperation between Guangdong (广东), Hong Kong (香港), and Macao (澳门) in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics.

The conference officially released the Guangdong (广东) Embodied Intelligence Training Ground "1+1+N" system, the 2025 Guangdong (广东) Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Typical Application Scenario Cases, and the "2025 Guangdong (广东) Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Industry Development White Paper," etc. The released results show that as of November 2025, there are more than 3,700 artificial intelligence and robotics companies in Guangdong (广东), including more than 2,000 core artificial intelligence companies, more than 350 artificial intelligence and robotics national-level specialized, refined, and new "little giant" enterprises, and more than 150 artificial intelligence and robotics listed companies.

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Accelerating the Transition to Full Intelligence: Shaping a New Quality Productive Force in Energy and Power

By: 孟振平

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that artificial intelligence is an important driving force for a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation. Accelerating the development of a new generation of artificial intelligence is a strategic issue concerning whether China can seize the opportunities of this new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal puts forward the idea of "comprehensively implementing the 'Artificial Intelligence+' action" and "seizing the high ground in artificial intelligence industrial applications."

China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd. (中国南方电网有限责任公司) adheres to Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as its guide, thoroughly implements the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, implements a comprehensive intelligent strategy, vigorously promotes the deep integration of artificial intelligence and energy and electricity, drives revolutionary leaps in energy and electricity productivity and deep-seated changes in production relations, and promotes the construction of a new energy system and a new power system with digital and green synergy, bravely acting as a pioneer in promoting high-level self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology, building a modern industrial system, and developing new quality productive forces.

Deeply understand the strategic significance of artificial intelligence driving energy transformation, and firmly grasp the historic opportunity to develop artificial intelligence.

The profound transformation of energy and electricity and the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence form a historic intersection. Energy and electricity not only provide a basic guarantee for the development of artificial intelligence, but their transformation and reform process also urgently requires the deep empowerment of artificial intelligence technology.

Developing artificial intelligence is an important engine for leading the energy technology revolution. At present, global energy technology innovation has entered a highly active period, and a large number of emerging technologies such as renewable energy, nuclear energy, energy storage, and hydrogen energy are accelerating their iteration at an unprecedented speed. A new generation of digital technologies represented by artificial intelligence is deeply integrated with energy production, transmission, storage, consumption, and energy markets, giving rise to a series of new smart energy technologies, new models, and new business forms.

Developing artificial intelligence is a strategic support for promoting the green transformation of energy. At present, trends such as high penetration of new energy sources, strong uncertainty fluctuations, and multi-form equipment interaction are becoming increasingly prominent. The form and structure of the power grid are undergoing profound changes, and the system's safety and economy are facing unprecedented challenges. It is necessary to give full play to the deep learning capabilities, strong generalization capabilities, and complex computing advantages of artificial intelligence, strengthen multi-scenario applications, comprehensively empower all links of power generation, transmission, transformation, distribution, and utilization, enhance the power grid's ability to accept, allocate, and regulate clean energy, and strongly support the construction of a new energy system and a new power system.

Developing artificial intelligence is a key path to fostering a modern energy industry. It is necessary to use artificial intelligence to drive the transformation of energy industry production methods, recreate technological paths, and transform competitive advantages, break down original industrial boundaries, cultivate new industrial forms, achieve intelligent, green, and integrated development, strengthen and optimize modern energy industry clusters, promote the upgrading of the energy industry base and the modernization of the industrial chain, and accelerate the development of new quality productive forces.

Give full play to the leading and driving role of energy central enterprises, and actively explore the practical path of integrating artificial intelligence and energy and electricity development.

In recent years, China Southern Power Grid (南方电网) has actively explored the integrated development of artificial intelligence and energy and electricity, seized the first opportunity in the construction of a "digital power grid," and is committed to using digital technologies such as artificial intelligence to drive the transformation of a new power system and empower the construction of a new energy system, forming an artificial intelligence integrated development path with Southern Power Grid characteristics.

Lay a solid foundation and create a safe and controllable power and computing power collaborative base. Actively serve the "Eastern Data and Western Computing" project, build a cross-regional, multi-level "network-province-edge-end" tiered computing power high-speed network, form a systematic layout of energy data centers, and build a fully self-controlled intelligent computing cluster. Based on the advantages of the energy core hub, it innovatively proposes a collaborative development path of electricity-computing-carbon, and takes the lead in exploring a new model of collaborative development of electricity and computing power in key links such as planning, construction, scheduling, and trading.

Data-driven, build a high-quality industry model system. Strengthen the element support of artificial intelligence, promote the optimal allocation and efficient utilization of energy data resources, take the lead in launching the construction of a trusted data space for the Southern Energy industry, and actively cultivate a cross-subject, cross-regional energy data element circulation ecosystem. Continuously break through in promoting artificial intelligence technology breakthroughs and building industry vertical large models, and independently develop "Da Watt (大瓦特)," the first fully self-controlled artificial intelligence large model in the power industry.

Scenario-driven, promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence in all fields. Build a self-controlled artificial intelligence innovation platform for the power industry, providing standardized and intensive computing power, data, and model services for all links of the industry. Around power grid planning, intelligent scheduling, equipment inspection, power trading, etc., create more than 350 high-value intelligent application scenarios, significantly improving the intelligent level and operational efficiency of the power grid. The value of artificial intelligence technology is being transformed into real productivity, and the production and operation mode of transmission, transformation, and distribution professionals has been transformed. The intelligent identification and discovery rate of equipment hidden dangers exceeds 90%; the new energy prediction accuracy based on artificial intelligence is internationally leading, helping the southern region's new energy consumption rate rank among the top in the country.

Ecological collaboration, build an open and shared industrial innovation pattern. Drive industry development with the core capabilities of digital transformation, and continuously build an internally and externally linked, open and shared power artificial intelligence industrial ecosystem. United with 78 units to establish an industry artificial intelligence alliance, and took the lead in building the first national artificial intelligence application pilot test base in the energy field in the direction of electricity. Independently developed the first domestically produced power-specific master control chip "Fuxi (伏羲)" and achieved mass production, and "Jimu (极目)" intelligent sensing products have achieved large-scale application.

Promote high-quality development of energy and electricity through the widespread development of artificial intelligence, and show greater achievements in serving the construction of Chinese-style modernization.

Southern Power Grid (南方电网) will firmly grasp the theme of promoting high-quality development, accelerate digital transformation with artificial intelligence as the engine, and strive to become a pioneer in technological breakthroughs in artificial intelligence in the energy and electricity industry, a leader in innovative applications, a provider of solutions, and an organizer of the industrial ecosystem, promoting artificial intelligence from an auxiliary tool to intelligent creation, from point-like applications to comprehensive penetration, from factor empowerment to paradigm transformation, and from chain collaboration to ecological co-creation.

Strengthen the flexible and intelligent "Artificial Intelligence+" power grid. Integrate artificial intelligence throughout the entire process of building a new power system, promote the large-scale application of artificial intelligence in scenarios such as power grid planning, engineering construction, dispatch control, and operation and maintenance emergency repair, coordinate the planning and construction of power and computing power infrastructure, build new energy infrastructure to a high standard, enhance system safety, reliability, and flexible and efficient operation capabilities, and promote the optimization and allocation of energy resources on a larger scale and the efficient development and utilization of clean energy.

Optimize the "Artificial Intelligence+" service towards intelligence and innovation. Adhere to the people-centered approach, deeply integrate artificial intelligence throughout the entire chain of power supply services, create an integrated, full-scenario intelligent interactive environment, and build a full-process, interactive, and accompanying smart electricity service. Accelerate the creation of a modern electricity business environment with convenient electricity application, high-quality power supply, green electricity consumption, inclusive services, and collaborative supervision, cultivate new intelligent service formats and models with wider coverage and richer content, and provide more personalized, customized, and comprehensive energy solutions to better meet the people's needs for a better life.

Reshape the efficient and lean "Artificial Intelligence+" operation. Drive the improvement of management efficiency with intelligence, comprehensively integrate artificial intelligence into all aspects of enterprise operation and management, build a new organizational model, management mechanism, and operation mode adapted to human-machine collaboration, promote the efficient operation of the enterprise management system, the precise allocation of resources such as human, financial, material, and digital resources, real-time early warning of risks in all businesses and the entire chain, and the integrated and coordinated connection of the entire life cycle of assets.

Lay out the integrated and collaborative "Artificial Intelligence+" industry. Adhere to the direction of intelligent development of all elements, promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, lead the paradigm shift in scientific research with artificial intelligence, and strengthen the efficient supply of key elements such as computing power, models, and data. Accelerate the construction of an artificial intelligence pilot test base, build an open and shared innovation ecosystem, actively expand new business forms such as virtual power plants, vehicle-grid interaction, and electricity-carbon-computing synergy, prospectively lay out new industries such as power-specific robots and artificial intelligence chips, increase strategic investment and integration in the industrial chain, and better support and serve the construction of a modern industrial system.

(The author is the Party Group Secretary and Chairman of China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd. (中国南方电网有限责任公司))

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Efforts to stabilize the real estate market

By: 本报记者 丁怡婷

The recent Central Economic Work Conference proposed to "focus on stabilizing the real estate market, implementing policies tailored to each city to control incremental growth, reduce inventory, and optimize supply," and "deepen the reform of the housing provident fund system and promote the construction of 'good houses' in an orderly manner."

Since the beginning of this year, various regions and departments have accelerated the introduction and implementation of various supportive policies, actively releasing rigid and improved housing demand, and promoting the real estate market to stop falling and stabilize. Experts interviewed said that in the critical stage of adjustment and transformation of the real estate market, the market pattern shows differentiation characteristics.

——The substitution effect of second-hand houses on new houses has been enhanced. As housing development enters a new stage, the decline in the sales scale of new houses and the dominance of second-hand housing transactions will become the norm in the real estate market. From January to November, the proportion of second-hand housing transaction online signing area in the total transaction volume was 45%.

Liu Guiwen (刘贵文), Vice President of Chongqing University (重庆大学), believes that the traditional incremental transaction pattern dominated by new house sales is moving towards a pattern in which new houses and second-hand houses are equally important, and further towards a mature market pattern dominated by second-hand housing transactions.

Liu Lin (刘琳), a researcher at the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), believes that the supply and demand relationship in the current real estate market has undergone major changes. Since the beginning of this year, the new supply in the market has decreased. This is both a positive feedback from the implementation of strict control of incremental growth in various places and a result of the market's spontaneous adjustment.

In response to "implementing policies tailored to each city to control incremental growth, reduce inventory, and optimize supply," the China Index Academy (中指研究院) analysis believes that, next, it is expected that the new land supply in cities or regions with large inventory will be strictly controlled, and local inventory reduction policies will continue to be implemented.

——Some hot cities have taken the lead in showing a positive trend of recovery and improvement. From January to November, the total online signing transactions of new and second-hand houses in cities such as Xiamen (厦门), Guiyang (贵阳), and Wuhan (武汉) maintained year-on-year growth.

Qin Hong (秦虹), a senior researcher at the National Academy of Development and Strategy of Renmin University of China (中国人民大学), believes that the better-performing hot cities have common characteristics such as a solid foundation and coordinated policy efforts. On the demand side, the threshold and cost for residents to purchase houses are reduced by optimizing purchase restrictions and lowering down payment ratios; on the supply side, attention is paid to optimizing the land supply structure and encouraging enterprises to create products that meet demand.

Qin Hong (秦虹) believes that the practice of hot cities shows that increasing the supply of "good houses" is the key to activating the market and stabilizing expectations, especially in terms of quality improvement, supporting facilities improvement, and service optimization to meet market expectations.

——Rental demand has replaced part of the demand for home purchases. Chai Qiang (柴强), President of the China Real Estate Appraisers and Real Estate Brokers Association (中国房地产估价师与房地产经纪人学会), believes that with the rapid development of the housing rental market and the accelerated implementation of the "equal rights for renting and buying" policy, China's housing consumption model is being profoundly reshaped.

Li Yujia (李宇嘉), chief researcher at the Guangdong Provincial Housing Policy Research Center (广东省住房政策研究中心), believes that the current demand for public rental housing from groups with housing difficulties is increasing, but the effective supply is still insufficient, and it is urgently needed to solve the problem by revitalizing the existing stock.

In terms of actively and steadily resolving the risks of real estate companies, the reporter learned that: the debt resolution of real estate companies has made positive progress recently, the industry risks are gradually being cleared, and large real estate companies are increasing their land acquisition in hot cities; at the same time, the battle to ensure the delivery of buildings is being steadily advanced, and projects that meet the conditions are included in the "whitelist" for financial support, and market confidence is gradually being restored.

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

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China Construction Bank Takes Multiple Measures to Support High-Quality Development of Foreign Trade

As one of the "three driving forces" for economic growth, foreign trade is a key hub connecting domestic and international dual circulation. To better serve high-level opening up and give full play to the role of financial institutions in serving the real economy, China Construction Bank (中国建设银行) meets the financial service needs of foreign trade enterprises throughout their life cycle through product innovation and professional services, helps them explore diversified international markets, and injects strong impetus into the high-quality development of foreign trade economy.

Hundreds of Cities and Thousands of Enterprises: Comprehensive Service for Key Foreign Trade Areas

The stable development of foreign trade cannot be separated from the strong support of finance. In August of this year, China Construction Bank (中国建设银行) launched the "Sailing Overseas, Financial Escort - Stabilizing Foreign Trade in Hundreds of Cities and Thousands of Enterprises" series of activities. Starting from Beijing (北京), it passed through provinces and cities such as Shanghai (上海), Guangdong (广东), Zhejiang (浙江), Jiangsu (江苏), Shandong (山东), Anhui (安徽), Sichuan (四川), and Chongqing (重庆). Local business institutions, branches of the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行分行), branches of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (国家外汇管理局分局), Sinosure companies, and representatives of key foreign trade enterprises were invited to participate on-site, deepening bank-government cooperation and strengthening bank-credit linkage. Through the introduction of financial product knowledge and bank-enterprise interaction, more powerful and precise financial support was provided to more foreign trade enterprises.

China Construction Bank (中国建设银行) has tailored a "Stable Foreign Trade Escort Kit - Five Scenarios and Ten Policies" product service package for foreign trade enterprises in key areas, covering five scenarios and ten product services: exchange rate hedging, payment and settlement, foreign trade credit, asset preservation and appreciation, and customs-bank business handling. It covers more than 100 key foreign trade import and export cities, actually reaching more than 10,000 import and export enterprises, supporting more foreign trade enterprises to expand markets, stabilize orders, and prevent risks.

Digital Empowerment: Activating the Development Momentum of Cross-border E-commerce

In March 2015, the first cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone in the country, the China (Hangzhou) Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone (中国（杭州）跨境电子商务综合试验区), was approved and established. As the location of this pilot zone, Hangzhou (杭州)’s cross-border e-commerce has developed rapidly. In the past 10 years, the number of cross-border e-commerce sellers in Hangzhou (杭州) has increased from more than 200 to 65,000, an increase of 325 times, and the scale of cross-border e-commerce import and export has increased by 1266 times. Hangzhou Zhongyi Industrial Co., Ltd. (杭州中艺实业股份有限公司) is an industry and trade integration enterprise. In recent years, it has laid out in the field of cross-border e-commerce and gradually formed a "domestic supply + overseas operation" dual-structure model. In order to help enterprises achieve efficient coordination of domestic and foreign funds, the Zhejiang Branch of China Construction Bank (建设银行浙江省分行) innovated the product portfolio model of new business forms, realizing the T+1 arrival of sales revenue from overseas platforms, helping to reduce settlement costs, and configuring foreign currency deposit products for enterprises to further enhance the comprehensive income of funds.

As a global small commodity trade center, Yiwu (义乌), Zhejiang (浙江) has more than 80% of its exports through market procurement trade, becoming the main driving force for the development of new foreign trade formats. The China Commodity City Platform (中国小商品城平台) of Zhejiang China Commodity City Group Co., Ltd. (浙江中国小商品城集团股份有限公司) is Yiwu (义乌)’s official digital trade B2B comprehensive service platform. Relying on the resources of 45,000 physical stores in the Yiwu (义乌) market, it serves 2 million small, medium and micro enterprises upstream of the industrial chain. The Zhejiang Branch of China Construction Bank (建设银行浙江省分行) connected to the platform as early as 2016, relying on the head office's innovative contract account function to launch the "Cross-border e-Credit" service, providing foreign exchange fund supervision and settlement services for platform and enterprise customers, helping cross-border e-commerce enterprises realize closed-loop collection management for the entire export process. As of November 2025, nearly 4,000 individual industrial and commercial households and enterprise users have signed contracts, and the platform has handled nearly 1.9 billion US dollars in foreign exchange settlement.

Cross-border Matchmaking: Helping Foreign Trade Enterprises Accelerate Overseas Expansion

In order to integrate multi-party resources to solve the pain points and difficulties such as information asymmetry and high transaction costs in cross-border transaction scenarios, China Construction Bank (中国建设银行) launched the "CCB Global Matchmaker" platform to help connect global trade and cross-border investment opportunities. As of now, the "CCB Global Matchmaker" platform has 240,000 registered users and has held 300 digital exhibitions and cross-border matchmaking activities in 37 countries and regions. It has held CCB global matchmaking activities for four consecutive years, attracting nearly 2,000 companies from more than 50 countries and regions to participate, organizing more than 700 negotiations, and promoting more than 200 cooperation intentions. Relying on international exhibitions such as the Canton Fair (广交会), the China International Import Expo (进博会), the China-ASEAN Expo (东博会), and the China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo (中非经贸博览会), it builds a digital bridge for cross-border trade and investment cooperation.

Guangdong Meijieshi Holding Co., Ltd. (广东美捷时控股股份有限公司) (referred to as "Meijieshi (美捷时)") is a leading domestic daily chemical industry enterprise. In 2024, Meijieshi (美捷时) established a sales company in Germany (德国), facing cross-border settlement problems due to language barriers and complicated account opening procedures. The Zhongshan Branch of China Construction Bank Guangdong (建设银行广东中山分行) and the Frankfurt Branch of China Construction Bank (建设银行法兰克福分行) jointly launched a "green channel". Through the "CCB Global Matchmaker" platform, they accurately sorted out the local account opening policies and procedures in Germany (德国) for the enterprise, completed the account opening within 10 working days, and used the "Digital Exhibition" function of the cross-border matchmaking platform to help Meijieshi (美捷时) appear at the Frankfurt (法兰克福) online exhibition, and the company achieved rapid growth in overseas orders.

Precise Efforts: Solving the Funding Problems of Foreign Trade Enterprises

In the face of the intricate and complex foreign trade environment, China Construction Bank (中国建设银行) enriches its product system and actively provides personalized financial services for foreign trade enterprises, targeting the difficulties and blockages in various links of foreign trade. Customs Tax Guarantee Letter is a foreign trade financial service product innovatively launched by China Construction Bank (中国建设银行), mainly providing related enterprises with convenient customs clearance services of "release first and tax later, summary tax payment, local filing, and national use", helping to shorten the cargo detention time, reduce the occupation of working capital, and reduce the customs clearance costs of enterprises. After learning that Heyuan Sibi Electronics Co., Ltd. (河源思比电子有限公司) was carrying out bonded maintenance business, the Heyuan Branch of China Construction Bank Guangdong (建设银行广东河源分行) acted quickly, and issued a customs tax guarantee letter of 300,000 yuan for the company's existing orders to replace the customs duty deposit required for maintenance goods, and applied for exchange rate preferential treatment for the company's export foreign exchange settlement, saving the company 200,000 yuan in exchange costs. In addition, in response to the company's demand for expanding the domestic sales market, the Heyuan Branch of China Construction Bank Guangdong (建设银行广东河源分行) provided a credit line of 35 million yuan and a working capital loan of 9.4 million yuan to help the company alleviate the financial pressure of purchasing raw materials, support the company to open up the domestic market, and realize the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade.

Establishing overseas warehouses is a foreign trade form that my country's business departments have vigorously promoted in recent years. Export enterprises send goods in batches to foreign warehouses through overseas warehouse business, realizing local sales and local distribution in the country. Lege Human Ergonomics Technology Co., Ltd. (乐歌人体工学科技股份有限公司) (referred to as "Lege (乐歌)") is a leading overseas warehouse enterprise in Ningbo (宁波), Zhejiang (浙江), with 17 self-operated overseas warehouses around the world, located in the United States (美国), Germany (德国), the United Kingdom (英国) and other places. During the rapid development of the overseas warehouse business, its funds encountered turnover problems. The Ningbo Branch of China Construction Bank (建设银行宁波市分行) seized the window period of the decline in domestic local currency interest rate prices, linked with overseas branches, and used the "Cross-border Direct Loan" product to directly issue loans to its overseas warehouse operating enterprises from within the country. As of now, it has cumulatively issued loans of 162 million yuan, solving the problem of overseas financing for the company's overseas warehouses, greatly saving overall financial costs, and helping Lege (乐歌)'s overseas warehouses operate and develop steadily.

Innovative Services: Helping Hainan Free Trade Port Open to the Outside World at a High Level

Financial instruments play an important role in enterprises going overseas. The multi-functional free trade account (EF account) of Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) is a "key" that makes cross-border capital flow more convenient. In December 2024, Hainan (海南) issued the "Implementation Opinions on Supporting the Agglomerated Development of Cross-border Capital Centralized Operation Centers in Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港)", and Hainan Rubber (海南橡胶) was recognized as the first batch of cross-border capital centralized operation centers in Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港), and can use the EF account as a capital operation platform to enhance the ability to integrate global resources. As one of the first pilot banks to launch the EF account, the Hainan Branch of China Construction Bank (建设银行海南省分行) handled the credit business under the EF account scenario for Hainan Rubber (海南橡胶) as soon as possible, and invested 472 million yuan in international commercial re-loans to support the company's procurement of raw materials, effectively helping to optimize capital turnover and expand international market share. As of the end of November 2025, the Hainan Branch of China Construction Bank (建设银行海南省分行) has held 20 EF account promotion activities, opened 104 EF accounts, and the settlement volume under the EF account was approximately 15.7 billion yuan converted into RMB; the year-on-year growth rate of international settlement customers was nearly 44%, and the year-on-year growth rates of international settlement volume and cross-border RMB business volume were 89% and 158% respectively.

Financial stability leads to foreign trade prosperity. From the coast of the East China Sea (东海之滨) to the northern grasslands (北部草原), from the manufacturing center of the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) to the forefront of foreign trade in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳), China Construction Bank (中国建设银行) uses the pen of finance to depict vivid pictures of helping foreign trade enterprises ride the wind and waves and sail overseas. In the next step, China Construction Bank (中国建设银行) will continue to optimize financial services, improve customer response speed, expand the breadth and depth of services, and provide professional cross-border financial services to ensure the high-quality development of my country's foreign trade and help high-level opening up.

Data source: China Construction Bank (中国建设银行)

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Warmth Continues to Spread On and Off the Field (Focus on the National Games for Persons with Disabilities and the National Special Olympic Games)

The fifth contestant, Jiang Yuyan (蒋裕燕) from the Zhejiang Team (浙江队), is a multiple gold medalist at the Tokyo and Paris Paralympic Games, a world record and national record holder, and a Laureus Award winner..." As the announcer's voice rose, the audience erupted in cheers. On December 13th, in the women's 100m backstroke S6 final at the National Games for Persons with Disabilities and National Special Olympic Games, Jiang Yuyan (蒋裕燕) powerfully won the championship like a flying fish. "Physical disabilities may bring us difficulties, but as long as we work hard to overcome them, we can turn the impossible into possible," she said.

On December 14th, at the finals of the men's 4×400m relay for hearing-impaired athletes at the National Games for Persons with Disabilities and National Special Olympic Games, Wu Jie (武杰), a Beijing Team (北京队) athlete, sprinted hard in the final leg, winning his fourth gold medal of the event. Speaking of the future, his goal is clear and firm: "Maintain a good state and strive for better results."

At the Macau East Asian Games Dome (澳门东亚运动会体育馆), Qu Zimo (屈子墨), an athlete from the Hebei Team (河北队), won the men's singles WH1 badminton championship. His experience in international competitions over the years has made him more comfortable in the arena. "This is my first time participating in a competition in Macau (澳门), and the comprehensive service guarantees allow us to devote ourselves wholeheartedly to the competition." He enjoys the competition process and is also very happy to communicate with athletes from all over the world. Qu Zimo (屈子墨) is full of expectations for the 2028 Los Angeles Paralympic Games, "My heart to win glory for the country has never wavered!"

With the spirit of self-improvement and tenacious struggle, the athletes of the National Games for Persons with Disabilities and National Special Olympic Games not only dare to surpass themselves, but also feel the power of unity. In the team-based Special Olympics football event held in Jiangmen (江门), Guangdong (广东), the Tibet Team (西藏队), participating for the first time, achieved six consecutive victories and won the gold medal. "Everyone on the field puts their energy in the same direction, and they get along well off the field," said Yixi Czhu (益西次珠), a team member, with a bright smile.

Stepping onto the field, Zhong Yuqi (钟宇琦), the goalkeeper of the Guangdong (广东) Special Olympics football team, is agile; off the field, he is a video editor, and he proudly talks about the sports short films he "directed." "Through sports, team members can not only strengthen their bodies, but also lay a solid foundation for integrating into society," said Chen Ying (陈颖), deputy leader of the Guangdong Team (广东队). Currently, among the 12 members of the Guangdong (广东) Special Olympics football team, in addition to 6 students, the other 6 have achieved employment.

A guide rope writes a beautiful story of integration between people with and without disabilities. In the men's 100m T11 final, Zhao Ping'an (赵平安), an athlete from the Liaoning Team (辽宁队), cooperated tacitly with his guide runner, and the running rhythm and arm swing amplitude were almost the same. The two took the lead in crossing the finish line and cheered to celebrate. It is the day-to-day cooperation and companionship of the guide runner that allows athletes to better exert their strength and bravely pursue their dreams.

The National Games for Persons with Disabilities and National Special Olympic Games is not only a competitive stage, but also a platform for exchange. In the women's individual sabre A-level gold medal match held at the Ma On Shan Sports Centre (马鞍山体育馆) in Hong Kong (香港), Gu Haiyan (辜海燕), an athlete from the Shanghai Team (上海队), won the championship. After the game, Lin Jiawen (林嘉雯), a Hong Kong (香港) athlete, sent her sincere blessings: "I am very happy to see her win the championship. We usually train and communicate together. Welcome my friends to Hong Kong (香港) for competitions. I hope everyone likes Hong Kong's (香港) food and scenery."

Inside and outside the arena, warmth continues to be transmitted. Dressed in cyan volunteer uniforms, Lin Xuanning (林渲甯), a Hong Kong (香港) girl in a wheelchair, has a sweet smile and skillfully performs ticket inspections and guidance services. "I am very honored to participate in volunteer work. As a person with disabilities, I can more keenly capture the needs and emotions of athletes and take the initiative to provide assistance," said Lin Xuanning (林渲甯). "Seeing them strive hard in the arena, my heart is also more powerful."

Technological power helps the National Games for Persons with Disabilities and National Special Olympic Games. Wheelchairs and other assistive equipment have created conditions for more people with disabilities to participate in sports. Shang Ting (尚婷), a wheelchair basketball player from the Sichuan Team (四川队), unfortunately lost her legs in the Wenchuan earthquake (汶川地震). She said: "The wheelchair has become my legs, allowing me to 'run' again!" Yang Huashen (杨华燊), deputy general manager of Guangdong Foshan Oriental Medical Equipment Factory Co., Ltd. (广东佛山市东方医疗设备厂有限公司), introduced: "The wheelchairs used by wheelchair basketball players look like the Chinese character '八' (bā), the number eight, which is for greater stability. We continuously improve our products and services based on the athlete's playing position, body type, and usage habits."

(Reported by Li Shuo (李硕), Sun Longfei (孙龙飞), Yi Shuran (易舒冉), Wang Bo (王博), Zhang Yikai (张艺开), and Shi Fang (施芳) of this newspaper)

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2025 Asian Gymnastics Training Camp Opens

Nanning, December 14th (Reported by Li Weijun (李维俊) from this newspaper) "The 2025 Asian Gymnastics Training Camp and China-ASEAN Gymnastics Training Camp" recently opened at the Jiangnan Training Base (江南训练基地) of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区) Sports Bureau. More than 120 coaches and athletes from 10 countries and regions, including China, Malaysia, and Qatar, participated in the opening ceremony. The training camp will last for 10 days, focusing on three major themes: "Technical Improvement, Tactical Discussion, and Cultural Integration." Chinese and foreign gymnasts will conduct high-intensity intensive training to improve their practical combat capabilities.

In September 2024, the Asian Gymnastics Union Congress reviewed and approved the establishment of an Asian Gymnastics Training Base in Guangxi (广西). The base will be jointly built by the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区) Sports Bureau, the Asian Gymnastics Union, and the Gymnastics Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport (国家体育总局体操运动管理中心).

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The 5th Chinese Women's Go Master Tournament Produces Top Four

This newspaper's Suqian (宿迁) dispatch on December 14th (Reporter Zheng Yi (郑轶), People's Daily Online reporters Hu Xuerong (胡雪蓉), Li Naiyan (李乃妍)) On the 13th, the "Mengzhilan Cup" 5th China Women's Go Celebrity Tournament, hosted by People's Daily and the Chinese Weiqi Association (中国围棋协会), and organized by People's Daily Online, produced the top four in Suyu District (宿豫区), Suqian City (宿迁市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省). Zhou Hongyu (周泓余), Wu Yiming (吴依铭), Fang Ruoxi (方若曦), and Ding Kewen (丁柯文), four post-00s Go players, advanced and will compete in the semi-finals on the 15th. The China Women's Go Celebrity Tournament was founded in 2018. Starting from this edition, the event will be held in Suyu District (宿豫区), Suqian City (宿迁市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省) for three consecutive years. The competition is divided into three stages: preliminary round, main round, and challenge round. The 16 players from the preliminary round and 16 seeded players will compete in the main round. The challenger, determined after five rounds of single-elimination matches, will face the current "Celebrity" Yu Zhiying (於之莹) in a best-of-three final, with the winner earning the title of the new "Women's Celebrity."

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"When facing uncertainty, I choose to believe in myself."

By: 本报记者 季 芳

On December 13th, in the women's final of the 2025-2026 FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup Genting Station, Chinese athlete Gu Ailing (谷爱凌) reversed the situation and won the championship with her outstanding performance in the second round. This is her first World Cup sub-station championship this season, and it also brings her total number of World Cup gold medals to 19. After the game, Gu Ailing (谷爱凌) said that this gold medal has special significance: "It represents the spirit of sports, the victory of will, and also carries my love for skiing."

Genting (云顶) is Gu Ailing's (谷爱凌) "blessed place": at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics (北京冬奥会), she won the gold medal in the women's U-shaped venue skills here, achieving a historic breakthrough; since then, she has topped the podium in the Chongli (崇礼) station of the World Cup for two consecutive seasons.

As the first sub-station of this season's U-shaped venue World Cup, this competition was fierce. In the qualifying round on the 11th, Gu Ailing (谷爱凌) ranked first with a high score of 92.75 points. In the first round of the final, many players made mistakes due to the weather. Gu Ailing (谷爱凌) performed stably in the last jump, scoring 85.25 points, temporarily ranking second. In the second round, she increased the difficulty and added new moves that she had not tried in training, and finally completed the reversal with 91.75 points. "I didn't expect to be able to complete all the new moves," Gu Ailing (谷爱凌) said after the game, "When facing uncertainty, I choose to believe in myself."

In the past year, Gu Ailing (谷爱凌) has been troubled by injuries and missed many events. In November this year, she returned to the Slope Obstacle Skills World Cup Stubai Station, but failed to advance to the final. In early December, she won the championship in the Snow Alliance Ski League U-shaped venue skills competition, gradually regaining her rhythm. This "back-to-back" championship at Genting Station (云顶站) shows that her condition continues to improve, adding confidence for preparing for the Milan Winter Olympics (米兰冬奥会).

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Small Town Produces Cheerleading Champions

By: 本报记者 张 驰

"Come on! Lift your legs higher!" Walking into the sports field of Pu'er College (普洱学院) in Pu'er City (普洱市), Yunnan Province (云南省), a group of young people danced to the commands. "Next April, our team will participate in the 2026 Cheerleading World Championships, and we are now fully preparing for the competition," said Li Dong (李冬), a cheerleading teacher at Pu'er College (普洱学院).

Moving from a small border town to the world stage, this team has achieved remarkable results: in 2019, it won the China Open Championship and obtained the World Championship qualification; in 2021, it won the bronze medal in the World Championship team pom competition, achieving a breakthrough of zero medals for the Chinese team in this event; in 2025, it won several gold medals in the Asian Cheerleading Championships...

How did they do it? "The answer lies in the day-to-day training," said Li Dong (李冬).

"Cheerleading is a group project that integrates dance, music, and artistic performance, and has high requirements for technical skills," Li Dong (李冬) introduced. "In about two minutes, there are many changes in movements and formations, which tests both individual skills and teamwork."

In 2016, Li Dong (李冬) graduated from the Physical Education Training major of Yunnan Normal University (云南师范大学) and came to Pu'er College (普洱学院), wanting to establish a cheerleading team.

"In the beginning, it took a week to learn just 36 hand positions," recalled team member Su Xianliang (苏贤良). Rotating, falling, getting up, and rotating again... From repeated failures to a success rate of nearly 100%, and even "zero errors," Su Xianliang's (苏贤良) efforts were not in vain.

In 2017, Li Dong (李冬) led the Pu'er College (普洱学院) cheerleading team to the National Championship, winning fourth place. "Everyone thought it was great to train like this for a year, but I was very disappointed," Li Dong (李冬) began to reflect, "We must find a unique skill."

Li Dong (李冬) focused on standardizing technical skills and cheerleading choreography. He went to other places many times to learn from experience and study the latest technologies. "Later, I concluded that strength and ethnic characteristics are our strengths." He incorporated ethnic music and dances such as those of the Yi (彝族) and Wa (佤族) ethnic groups into the choreography, making the team more recognizable.

In the 2019 China Cheerleading Open, the winner would represent the Chinese team in the Asian Championships. In the end, Li Dong (李冬) led the Pu'er College (普洱学院) cheerleading team to win the championship. After that, Li Dong (李冬) led the team to participate in world-class competitions many times, accumulating experience and moving towards a wider world.

What does winning taste like? Team member Zhang Miao (张淼) remembers that the podium was large enough for the entire team of 20 people to stand together and watch the national flag rise. "The sweat and tears during training were transformed into excitement at that moment, and we sang along with the national anthem." Li Dong (李冬) also shed tears, "Failure and victory cannot stop the pace of love. Unity and cooperation, 勇往直前 (yǒng wǎng zhí qián - "advance bravely," to advance bravely), meet every challenge, this is the spiritual wealth that cheerleading brings us."

In addition to training, Li Dong (李冬) also insisted on promoting cheerleading in primary and secondary schools, created more than 20 sets of ethnic cheerleading routines, and trained nearly a thousand cheerleading teachers.

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China Drone Soccer League to be Held in 2025

This newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on December 14th (Reporter: Zeng Huafeng (曾华锋)) From the 12th to the 14th, the 2025 China Drone Soccer League (Zhenjiang Station (镇江站)) was held at the Zhenjiang (镇江) Sports and Exhibition Center (体育会展中心) in Zhenjiang City (镇江市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省), attracting 121 participating teams.

The event included three categories: F9A-A (Brushless Power 400 Diameter Drone Soccer), F9A-B (Brushless Power 200 Diameter Drone Soccer), and F9A-C (Brushed Power 100 Diameter Drone Soccer), covering adult and youth teams, with youth teams accounting for nearly 90%.

After fierce competition, in the F9A-A category, Anhui Yifei Team 1 (安徽易飞1队) won the championship, Shanghai Bihang Team 1 (上海彼航1队) won the second place, and Shanghai Bihang Team 2 (上海彼航2队) won the third place; in the F9A-B category, Shenzhen Aosta Team 1 (深圳奥斯塔1队) won the championship, Shanghai Bihang Team 3 (上海彼航3队) won the second place, and Anhui Yifei Team 3 (安徽易飞3队) won the third place; in the F9A-C category, Shenzhen Aosta Team 3 (深圳奥思塔3队) won the championship, Shenzhen Aosta Team 4 (深圳奥思塔4队) won the second place, and Weihai Wendeng District Lanmeng Youngsters Team 4 (威海文登区蓝梦小将4队) won the third place.

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Suzhou Industrial Park Promotes Sino-Singapore Cooperation to New Heights

The winter Suzhou Industrial Park (苏州工业园区) presents a busy scene.

Tower cranes stand tall and machinery roars. Not long ago, the first phase of the China-Singapore Life Science Park (中新生命科学园) project completed its main structure capping and signed strategic cooperation agreements with Yisheng Biopharmaceutical (亿胜生物科技) and other institutions. A cross-border innovation chain connecting scientific research and industry is accelerating its formation.

In 1994, China and Singapore jointly planned their first intergovernmental cooperation project—Suzhou Industrial Park (苏州工业园区)—and broke ground. Thirty-one years later, Suzhou Industrial Park (苏州工业园区) has achieved "three exceeding one trillion": 1.2 trillion yuan in tax revenue, 1.2 trillion yuan in fixed asset investment, and 1.7 trillion US dollars in total import and export volume. It has also won the "nine consecutive championships" in the comprehensive evaluation of national-level economic development zones.

Suzhou Industrial Park (苏州工业园区) has established a vivid model for international cooperative development and construction of industrial parks. Today, it is writing a high-quality answer sheet for China-Singapore cooperation in the new era with a more open attitude and a more innovative core.

From "One-Way Learning" to "Two-Way Empowerment"
New Expansion of Cooperation Fields

The success of Suzhou Industrial Park (苏州工业园区) is inseparable from the support of the Chinese and Singaporean governments and the efficient collaboration between enterprises. The China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Joint Coordination Council, the China-Singapore Bilateral Cooperation Committee, the Suzhou Industrial Park (苏州工业园区) Office for Learning from Singapore's Experience, and the Singapore Ministry of Trade and Industry's Software Project Office form a three-tier structure, providing high-level coordination and policy support. China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Development Group Co., Ltd. (中新苏州工业园区开发集团股份有限公司), referred to as "CSSD Group (中新集团)," was established in August 1994 as the development entity of Suzhou Industrial Park (苏州工业园区) and the carrier of China-Singapore cooperation, playing the role of a "pathfinder" from infrastructure construction to industrial introduction.

In recent years, the cooperation between the two sides has shifted from "one-way learning" to "two-way empowerment." In 2022, Suzhou Industrial Park (苏州工业园区) and Enterprise Singapore (新加坡企业发展局) signed a memorandum of understanding on green development cooperation. In 2022, the two sides jointly established the China-Singapore Biomedical Cooperation Joint Committee. In 2024, the China-Singapore Green Digital Port project commenced construction, accelerating the creation of a zero-carbon building demonstration carrier. In 2025, the ESG Green Unicorn Industry Fund, jointly established by SIP (园区) state-owned enterprise New Town Group (新建元集团) and Singapore's ECapital (毅峰资本), completed registration, focusing on cutting-edge tracks such as new energy and new materials. The cooperation between the two sides is continuously deepening and expanding into new fields such as life sciences, the digital economy, and green development.

This is a joint effort of cooperation and innovation between the two sides. The China-Singapore Embodied Intelligence Industrial Park (中新具身智能产业园) fully utilizes green and digital concepts to plan an integrated industrial community of "production, research and development, and scenario implementation." It commenced construction in April of this year and is expected to be completed and put into use in 2026, becoming a new benchmark for cooperation between the two countries in the field of artificial intelligence.

From "Industrial Forest" to "Innovation Rainforest"
New Breakthroughs in the Ecosystem

Walking into Ascendas-Singbridge Suzhou Innovation Park (腾飞苏州创新园), startup teams from Singapore and Suzhou (苏州) engage in close exchanges in open spaces. Ascendas-Singbridge Suzhou Innovation Park (腾飞苏州创新园) is the earliest industrial enterprise incubator in Suzhou Industrial Park (苏州工业园区), successfully cultivating unicorn companies such as PatSnap (智慧芽). Overseas offshore innovation bases have become important platforms for enterprises to expand cooperation.

In 2021, CSSD Group (中新集团) established the Suzhou Industrial Park International Business Cooperation Center (Singapore) (苏州工业园区国际商务合作中心（新加坡）) in Singapore, serving more than 190 enterprises. Relying on the complementary advantages of the two countries, the big data enterprise Qichacha (企查查) has grown rapidly in Suzhou Industrial Park (苏州工业园区). This year, relying on the center to carry out overseas business, it has achieved a doubling of revenue.

It is not only about introducing projects but also about cultivating an ecosystem. China-Singapore Kuncheng Lake Company (中新昆承湖公司) plans the "One Lake Ten Islands" park, laying out functional blocks such as low-carbon technology, advanced manufacturing, and brand cultural tourism. Since the park was launched three years ago, it has connected with more than 200 high-quality projects, and the total investment in municipal infrastructure and carrier construction projects has reached 8.7 billion yuan. A high-quality lake area integrating "industry, city, and people" is gradually emerging.

Such ecological co-construction is becoming increasingly systematic. The China-Singapore Life Science Park (中新生命科学园) is jointly built by the park and Temasek (淡马锡) to build a cross-border research and development platform. The China-Singapore Green Digital Port (中新绿色数码港) brings together professional forces such as Keppel Corporation (吉宝公司) and Surbana Jurong (盛裕集团) to promote the standardization of green buildings. The China-Singapore Kuncheng Lake Park (中新昆承湖园区) relies on local spatial resources to create a "2+1" industrial highland of "digital technology, new energy + modern service industry."

From "Suzhou Window" to "China Window"
New Leap in the Open Pattern

In October 2025, China and Singapore signed a number of cooperation documents, clarifying support for expanding third-party market cooperation. Around Suzhou Industrial Park (苏州工业园区), cooperation between the two sides has entered a new stage of jointly exploring a broader international arena.

Planning and design are rapidly transforming into cutting-edge practices. CSSD Group (中新集团) is actively integrating into the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" based on the Suzhou Industrial Park International Business Cooperation Center (Singapore) (苏州工业园区国际商务合作中心（新加坡）), promoting the establishment of business cooperation institutions in Southeast Asian countries and regions such as Malaysia and Indonesia, realizing model output and radiation, and further making China-Singapore bilateral cooperation a link for multilateral cooperation.

On this China-Singapore "international corridor," platforms such as the National University of Singapore (新加坡国立大学) Suzhou Research Institute (苏州研究院) and the A*STAR (新科研) Enterprise Cooperation Center (企业合作中心) continue to import international innovation resources. The "China-Singapore Cooperation in Service Trade Innovation" forum has been upgraded to a sub-forum of the Hongqiao International Economic Forum (虹桥国际经济论坛), becoming an important dialogue platform in the field of service trade. Pilot projects such as digital bills of lading and cross-border data dedicated lines have been implemented successively, promoting trade facilitation to move into deeper waters.

For more than 30 years, the "park experience" of "learning, innovation, harmony, and win-win" has built a bridge between China and Singapore that transcends geography and connects the future. In the next 30 years, this land will continue to build a "vivid example" of China-Singapore cooperation and a "China window" of world cooperation with a more open mind and more innovative measures.

Data source: Suzhou Industrial Park (苏州工业园区) Publicity and United Front Work Department (宣传和统战部)

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This edition's editors: Gong Yuhua, Gao Ji, Cheng Huan

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Only by facing history squarely can we better face the future. (First Report)

By: 本报记者 朱玥颖

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. The war of aggression launched by Japanese militarism brought profound disasters to the Chinese people, and the forced conscription and enslavement of Chinese laborers was one of the serious crimes. During the war of aggression, in order to make up for the shortage of domestic labor, the Japanese government forcibly conscripted approximately 40,000 Chinese laborers to Japan to engage in heavy manual labor, and nearly 7,000 people died due to harsh conditions, accidents, and diseases. Recently, a reporter from this newspaper visited many places in Japan to explore the remains of forced conscription and enslavement of Chinese laborers and interviewed relevant Japanese personnel. Japanese people with insight stated that Japan should remember and defend the truth of history, and reflect on the crimes of forced conscription and enslavement of Chinese laborers.

"On such an isolated island, the laborers of that time had almost no way to escape"

The reporter departed from Nagasaki Port (長崎港) in Japan and took a passenger ship to "Gunkanjima" (軍艦島). The sea breeze swept across the sea, and "Gunkanjima" came into view like a black behemoth (see photo, taken by Zhu Yueying (朱玥颖), reporter of this newspaper).

"Gunkanjima," also known as Hashima (端島). Due to the rich coal reserves in the nearby waters, the island was purchased and developed by Mitsubishi Corporation (三菱公司) of Japan in 1890. After multiple land reclamations and expansions, it developed into Japan's coal industry base at that time. Because its shape is very similar to the Japanese battleship Tosa, the island is called "Gunkanjima." From 1939, Mitsubishi Corporation conscripted a large number of Korean Peninsula laborers to mine, and in 1943, it forcibly conscripted a large number of Chinese prisoners of war, and a large number of Chinese and Korean laborers died unnaturally. In 1974, Japan closed a large number of coal mines, and "Gunkanjima" was abandoned.

"Gunkanjima" has harsh climatic conditions, and it can only be landed on for about 100 days throughout the year. On the day of the visit, the weather was fine, and the reporter was able to successfully board the island with the group. During the approximately 50-minute tour of the island, the guide mainly explained the island's history and architecture. Staff repeatedly reminded that the buildings on the island are old and may collapse at any time, and it is strictly forbidden to enter unopened areas. The reporter learned that the mining operations of the "Gunkanjima" coal mine were 1,000 meters below sea level, and the laborers had to endure a working environment of 30 degrees Celsius and 95% humidity, and also had to guard against gas explosions. One visitor lamented: "On such an isolated island, the laborers of that time had almost no way to escape, they could only endure the heavy pressure, which is lamentable and heartbreaking."

Not far from Nagasaki Port (長崎港), the Nagasaki Human Rights and Peace Museum (長崎人権平和資料館) reveals the crimes of Japan forcing Chinese laborers to work. Inside the museum, a striking exhibition board prominently displays the testimony of Chinese laborer Li Qingyun (李庆云): In 1944, a gas leak occurred in the "Gunkanjima" mine pit, and the on-site supervisor ordered the entrance to be sealed. Five minutes later, two Chinese laborers had not returned, but no one helped. Li Qingyun (李庆云) and his companions protested. A Japanese man who claimed to be the mine manager scolded: "We bought you with money, you must work." Subsequently, Japanese police threatened with knives and guns, but still 5 people refused to go down the well. They were locked in a detention room, beaten with sticks and belts, and deprived of water and food.

A Japanese visitor wrote in the message board of the Nagasaki Human Rights and Peace Museum (長崎人権平和資料館): "These inhumane acts are difficult to look at directly. Through photos and testimonies of the parties involved, I learned that the Japanese had repeatedly carried out inhumane acts. It is crucial to maintain reflection and vigilance on the past, and I sincerely hope that Japanese society can continue to reflect and be vigilant."

"The truth of history cannot be erased, it must be remembered in the heart, and warn future generations"

From Hokkaido (北海道) in the north to Kyushu (九州) in the south, there are countless cases of Japan forcibly conscripting and enslaving Chinese laborers during the war of aggression against China. According to the book "Collection of Materials on Memorial Monuments for Deceased Chinese Laborers Forced to Be Conscripted" published by Japan Overseas Chinese Newspaper, in November 1942, the Japanese Cabinet passed the "Decision on the Transfer of Chinese Laborers to Mainland Japan" to solve the increasingly serious labor shortage. A large number of laborers were forced to engage in labor without basic human rights guarantees, and suffered inhumane abuse and persecution. According to Japanese statistics, the number of Chinese laborers who died in Japan alone reached 6,830.

The "Forced Conscription of Chinese" exhibited at the Nagasaki Human Rights and Peace Museum (長崎人権平和資料館), published by Japan's Oriental Press, pointed out that the Japanese government admitted the fact of forced looting of Chinese labor at a Diet meeting in June 1994. The Japanese "Ministry of Foreign Affairs Report" only recorded 38,935 people transported to Japan from six ports including Shanghai (上海), Wusong (吴淞), Lianyungang (连云港), Qingdao (青岛), and Dalian (大连), but did not mention the people "reduced" from prisoner-of-war camps in various parts of China to the ports.

In 2015, amidst great controversy, 23 Japanese "Meiji Industrial Revolution Sites," including "Gunkanjima," were included in the World Heritage List by UNESCO. In 2018, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee made a decision requiring Japan to fully introduce the history of forced labor when promoting the "Meiji Industrial Revolution Sites" for World Heritage application. The Japanese side remained indifferent to this. In July 2021, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee expressed "deep regret" that Japan had not fully introduced the history of forced labor when promoting the "Meiji Industrial Revolution Sites" such as "Gunkanjima," pointing out that the Japanese government had failed to fulfill its commitments to the international community during the World Heritage application process, and at the same time requested the Japanese side to take measures to allow the public to understand the history of forced laborers being forced to engage in harsh labor during the war.

In Nagasaki Peace Park (長崎和平公園), Chinese mineral water is placed in front of the "Monument to Chinese Atomic Bomb Victims" to comfort the deceased. The monument reads: In Nagasaki Prefecture, 26 laborers from Sakito (崎户) and 6 laborers from Shikamachi (鹿町) were detained in the Nagasaki Urakami Branch Prison and became victims of the atomic bomb explosion. The prison is now the location of Nagasaki Peace Park (長崎和平公園).

Duan Jingzi (段景子), president of Japan Overseas Chinese Newspaper, introduced that Nagasaki Peace Park (長崎和平公園) was built to commemorate the atomic bomb explosion on August 9, 1945. Thanks to the efforts of all parties, the "Monument to Chinese Atomic Bomb Victims" commemorating the deceased Chinese laborers was erected in the park in 2008. "Over the years, Japan has repeatedly emphasized its position as a victim of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima (广岛) and Nagasaki (长崎), but has avoided talking about its history of aggression and harm in Asian countries. But the truth of history cannot be erased, it must be remembered in the heart, and warn future generations," said Duan Jingzi (段景子).

"I hope Japanese society can reflect on the past and face history squarely"

Today, in various parts of Japan, some local governments, non-governmental friendly organizations, and ordinary citizens have established memorial monuments for the Chinese laborers who died after being forcibly conscripted, and hold memorial activities, based on deep reflection on Japan's war of aggression against China, mourning for the victims, and determination to promote Sino-Japanese friendship.

In Mii Coal Mine Miyanoura Park (宮浦煤炭記念公園) in Omuta City (大牟田市), Fukuoka Prefecture (福冈县), abandoned coal transportation equipment and vehicles are covered with rust, chimneys stand alone in the sky, and old roads are covered with weeds. Not long ago, the 13th memorial ceremony for Chinese laborers who died in the Miyanoura Pit of the Mitsui Miike Coal Mine was held here. The Japanese government forcibly abducted 574 Chinese people to engage in harsh labor in the Miyanoura Pit of the Mitsui Miike Coal Mine, and 44 of them died. In July 2013, the memorial monument for Chinese victims in the Miyanoura Pit of the Mitsui Miike Coal Mine was completed, and a memorial ceremony is now held there every year.

At this year's memorial ceremony, Yang Qingdong (杨庆东), Consul General of China in Fukuoka (福冈), expressed deep condolences to the deceased compatriots and said that he hoped to take this memorial ceremony as an opportunity to allow more Japanese people, especially young people, to further understand the truth of history, jointly safeguard the truth of history with the Chinese side, and pass on the torch of peace from generation to generation. Hashizumi Kazuo (桥积和雄), Deputy Chairman of the Omuta District Committee of the Japanese Communist Party, said that at the important juncture of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, Japanese society should **以史为鉴** (yǐ shǐ wéi jiàn - "take history as a mirror," learn from history) and face the future, and take practical actions to promote world peace and multicultural coexistence.

In July of this year, a joint memorial event for the deceased in the Sagami Lake (相模湖) Reservoir construction was held in Kanagawa Prefecture (神奈川县), Japan. From 1940 to 1947, Japan successively conscripted 3.6 million laborers to build the Sagami Lake (相模湖) Reservoir, including nearly 300 Chinese laborers who were forcibly abducted to Japan by the invading Japanese army. Due to the extremely harsh working environment and inhumane bullying, a large number of laborers unfortunately died during the construction of the reservoir, including 28 deceased Chinese laborers whose names are recorded.

In order to safeguard this historical truth, Japanese people with insight established the "Sagami Lake Reservoir History Recording Association" in 1976 to excavate the materials of laborers from various countries who died for the construction of this reservoir, and have held memorial activities every year since 1979, which has persisted for nearly half a century. Hashimoto Toshiko (桥本登志子), one of the founding members and current chairman of the Recording Association, said: "Precisely because it is a negative history, it should not be covered up even more. I hope Japanese society can reflect on the past and face history squarely."

Aoki Shigeru (青木茂), a member of the Japanese non-governmental organization "Fushun Miracle Inheritance Association" and an expert in the study of deceased Chinese laborers, told reporters: "During the war of aggression against China, many Chinese laborers paid blood and tears and lives in Japan. For a long time, Japan has deliberately weakened or avoided talking about facts such as forced labor in historical education, and selectively presented the history of aggression. This education method not only affects the Japanese people's true understanding of history, but also makes the younger generation in Japan form a one-sided or even distorted historical concept. Only by facing history squarely can we better face the future."

(Reported from Nagasaki (長崎), Japan by this newspaper)

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International Forum on Basic Education in China Held in Shanghai

This newspaper reported from Shanghai on December 14th (Reporter Cui Yin (崔寅)) The China Basic Education International Forum was held in Shanghai from the 13th to the 14th. Nearly 70 leading talents and well-known experts and scholars in the fields of education and artificial intelligence from 13 countries around the world gathered around the theme of "Artificial Intelligence Development and Educational Reform - Opportunities and Challenges" to discuss educational innovation paths and gather global wisdom for high-quality educational development.

The forum released the "Initiative on Making Good Use of Artificial Intelligence to Help Educational Innovation," which proposed six major action directions: First, proactively seek change and deepen technology empowerment; second, benefit all and safeguard educational equity; third, empower with wisdom and enhance governance effectiveness; fourth, unite efforts and fulfill the mission of cultivating people; fifth, build a solid bottom line and standardize ethical applications; and sixth, open up cooperation and jointly promote global development.

During the conference, five parallel sub-forums were held, focusing on the topics of artificial intelligence technology to help educational equity, help the transformation of teaching and learning, help school management, help education evaluation, and empower teacher development, respectively, to explore the practical paths and innovative achievements of artificial intelligence empowering various fields of basic education.

The forum was co-sponsored by the Chinese Society of Education (中国教育学会), Beijing Foreign Studies University (北京外国语大学), Shanghai Normal University (上海师范大学), and the People's Government of Jiading District, Shanghai (上海市嘉定区人民政府).

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Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Strengthens Exchanges and Cooperation with South African Universities

According to our Johannesburg report on December 14th (Reporters Yang Ou (杨讴) and Zheng Xiang (郑翔)), in order to implement cooperation mechanisms such as the "China-Africa University 100 Cooperation Program," a delegation from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (北京邮电大学) recently visited South Africa and held exchange seminars with universities such as Tshwane University of Technology (茨瓦尼科技大学) and the University of Johannesburg (约翰内斯堡大学), and signed relevant agreements.

This is the first time that Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (北京邮电大学) has sent a delegation to visit South Africa. During the visit to Tshwane University of Technology (茨瓦尼科技大学), Xu Mei (续梅), Secretary of the Party Committee of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (北京邮电大学党委书记), held talks with Tinyiko Maluleke (蒂尼伊科·马卢莱克), President of Tshwane University of Technology (茨瓦尼科技大学校长). The two sides conducted in-depth communication on topics such as innovative development of digital education, international Chinese education, and high-level personnel training, and signed a number of cooperation agreements.

During the visit to the University of Johannesburg (约翰内斯堡大学), the two universities conducted discussions on deepening industry-university-research cooperation in the field of digital economy, promoting the deep integration of digital technology and culture, and deepening the empowerment of artificial intelligence to promote innovative development in education, and signed a memorandum of understanding on inter-university cooperation and a student exchange agreement.

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Industrial Bank Credit Card Center: Practicing the Concept of Financial Services for the People, Effectively Protecting Consumer Rights and Interests

Today, credit cards have become an important tool in people's daily consumption life. Industrial Bank Credit Card Center (兴业银行信用卡中心) adheres to the people-centered approach, integrates consumer rights protection into the entire process of credit card business development, smooths customer feedback channels, promotes the digital transformation of consumer rights protection, and creates a diversified financial education system, making every effort to write a new chapter in consumer rights protection.

Listening to Consumers' Demands and Solving Consumers' Urgent and Difficult Problems

Industrial Bank Credit Card Center (兴业银行信用卡中心) regards listening to customer demands and solving people's problems as an important measure to practice the concept of financial services for the people, and efficiently solves consumers' urgent and difficult problems.

"Pujiang Experience" (浦江经验) and the new era "Fengqiao Experience" (枫桥经验) are the two major "magic weapons" for Industrial Bank Credit Card Center (兴业银行信用卡中心) to promote grassroots governance and resolve front-line conflicts. On the one hand, actively learn from the "Pujiang Experience" (浦江经验), with the person in charge taking the lead in receiving visits and appeals, listening to consumer demands, clarifying the responsibilities for handling complaints on the basis of establishing a standardized reception mechanism, and following up on the effectiveness with a "checklist system." On the other hand, deepen the new era "Fengqiao Experience" (枫桥经验) to take root in outlets, and for difficult and complex problems, adhere to the principle of "adjusting as much as possible," adopting "one case, one policy" to carry out on-site mediation, telephone mediation, and entrusted off-site mediation, and making every effort to resolve conflicts on the front line.

At present, Industrial Bank Credit Card Center (兴业银行信用卡中心) has established a normalized cooperation mechanism with Shanghai Banking and Insurance Dispute Mediation Center (上海银行业保险业纠纷调解中心) and Shanghai Financial Consumer Dispute Mediation Center (上海市金融消费纠纷调解中心). Through methods such as sending mediation to different places, it makes full use of the resources of 57 professional financial dispute mediation organizations that have been established in cooperation with various branches. Data shows that in the past two years, the dispute mediation rate and mediation execution rate of Industrial Bank's (兴业银行) credit card business have reached 100%.

Innovative Application of Digital Intelligence Technology to Safeguard the Legitimate Rights and Interests of Consumers

"Black and gray production" in the financial field not only seriously infringes on the legitimate rights and interests of the people, but also poses a threat to the order of the financial market. In response, Industrial Bank Credit Card Center (兴业银行信用卡中心) has launched a heavy attack with digital intelligence means.

Adhering to the concept of "**马上就办、真抓实干**" (mǎ shàng jiù bàn, zhēn zhuā shí gàn - "handle immediately, work hard practically," act promptly and diligently), Industrial Bank Credit Card Center (兴业银行信用卡中心) began exploring the use of technological means to achieve remote identity recognition as early as 2023, embedding digital intelligence technologies such as real-time algorithm comparison, facial recognition, and video calls into the consumer protection complaint handling process to assist complaint handlers in identifying suspected "black and gray production" characteristics. As of the end of October this year, Industrial Bank Credit Card Center (兴业银行信用卡中心) has completed more than 80,000 comparisons, contributing to curbing the spread of "black and gray production" in the financial field.

Industrial Bank Credit Card Center (兴业银行信用卡中心) actively cooperates with external forces to promote the governance of illegal intermediary chaos. Since 2023, it has jointly carried out special campaigns to combat "illegal agency complaints" with relevant departments and peer institutions, working together to maintain a clear environment for the financial consumption ecology.

Constructing an All-Round Financial Education System to Accurately Protect Inclusive People's Livelihood

Industrial Bank Credit Card Center (兴业银行信用卡中心) actively explores innovative methods such as scenario-based teaching, immersive interaction, and digital communication, integrating financial education and risk warnings into consumers' daily lives to protect consumers' "money bags."

Going through streets and alleys, entering villages and enterprises, Industrial Bank Credit Card Center (兴业银行信用卡中心) promotes the popularization of financial knowledge into rural areas, campuses, business districts, enterprises, and communities. As of the end of October this year, it has carried out nearly 30 financial education "five entries" activities, covering nearly a thousand people offline. At the same time, it has released more than 80 financial education materials on consumer rights protection on its own platforms such as the official website, WeChat official account, and Weibo of Industrial Bank Credit Card (兴业银行信用卡), with a cumulative readership of more than 6 million.

Facing key groups of "the elderly and the young," Industrial Bank Credit Card Center (兴业银行信用卡中心) strengthens multi-party collaboration, interpreting financial fraud cases for the elderly face-to-face in the community; jointly with Shanghai Financial Consumer Dispute Mediation Center (上海市金融消费纠纷调解中心) and other institutions, it entered the Junior High School Affiliated to Tongji University (同济大学附属七一中学（初中部）) to carry out the theme activity of "Financial Security Accompanies Growth," guiding students to establish correct financial and consumption concepts in the form of "professional explanation + interesting interaction."

In the current context of the continuous popularity of short videos, Industrial Bank Credit Card Center (兴业银行信用卡中心) has launched four micro-films, including "Behind the Scam," "Breaking Defense," and "Consumer Protection Journey to the West." Among them, "Behind the Scam" won the third prize in the video group of the 2025 Shanghai Excellent Publicity Works Collection and Evaluation for Preventing and Combating Illegal Financial Activities. At the same time, financial education videos are embedded in the "Xingye Panda Mengqu Diary" (兴业熊猫萌趣日记) section of the Xingye Life APP (兴业生活APP), promoting the organic combination of fun interaction and financial knowledge learning, and injecting new impetus into writing a new chapter in consumer rights protection.

Data source: Industrial Bank Co., Ltd. Credit Card Center (兴业银行股份有限公司信用卡中心)

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This edition's editors: Zou Zhipeng, Zhang Huizhong, Chu Jun

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State Grid Beijing Electric Power: Green Electricity Illuminates the Path of High-Quality Development in the Capital

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, State Grid Beijing Electric Power Company (国网北京市电力公司) (hereinafter referred to as "State Grid Beijing Electric Power") thoroughly implemented the new strategy of "Four Revolutions, One Cooperation" for energy security, accelerated the construction of a new power system, and took the greening of energy supply, the digitalization and intelligence of the power system, and the low-carbonization of energy demand as the main paths, engraving a vivid footnote for the green and low-carbon transformation of the capital's energy, and driving the construction of a clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient energy development paradigm in megacities.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Beijing's scale of external green electricity transfer continued to grow. In 2025, it exceeded 40 billion kilowatt-hours for the first time, an increase of more than 2 times compared with the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan." Green electricity accounts for nearly 30% of Beijing's total social electricity consumption, and about 1 in every 3 kilowatt-hours of electricity used is green electricity. There are 13 500 kV external power receiving channels with 28 circuits, and the external power receiving transmission capacity has increased from 17 million kilowatts to 34 million kilowatts.

The wind of Zhangbei (张北) lights up the lights of Beijing (北京)

In June 2020, the Zhangbei Renewable Energy Flexible DC Grid Pilot Project was successfully put into operation. The project continuously sends wind and solar green power from Zhangjiakou (张家口), Hebei (河北) to the Beijing power grid, and can transmit 14 billion kilowatt-hours of clean electricity annually. During the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, all 26 venues in the 3 competition zones used green electricity, achieving the first 100% green electricity supply for all venues in Olympic history.

Xinjiang's (新疆) afternoon sunshine lights up Beijing's night scene

In April 2025, Beijing and Xinjiang carried out innovative practices in staggered peak green electricity trading. By taking advantage of the 2-hour difference in sunshine time, the "surplus electricity" from Xinjiang's afternoon photovoltaic power was transformed into the "urgently needed electricity" during Beijing's evening peak. Since April, 4 staggered peak green electricity transactions have been carried out from Xinjiang to Beijing, with a cumulative transaction volume of more than 22.3 million kilowatt-hours.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, State Grid Beijing Electric Power continued to tap the potential of local clean energy development and utilization, and actively served distributed photovoltaic power generation with the principle of "all that should be connected are connected, and all that are willing to be connected are connected." In 2024, Beijing's renewable energy installed capacity reached 3.1 million kilowatts, with an annual power generation of 5.67 billion kilowatt-hours, an increase of 42% and 26% respectively compared with 2020, and the "green content" of energy continued to increase.

State Grid Beijing Electric Power is making every effort to build a new power system demonstration zone in the Beijing Urban Sub-Center (北京城市副中心), and accelerate the construction of a digital and low-carbon urban power grid. The National Green Development Demonstration Zone New Power System Experimental Base was established, and the first automated verification and testing production line for charging facilities in the country was built. The main achievements won the gold medal at the Geneva International Invention Exhibition in 2023. In May 2025, the Green Heart Park project in Beijing Urban Sub-Center obtained the carbon neutrality certification certificate issued by TÜV SÜD, becoming the first net-zero emission carbon neutrality certification for a park planned and constructed by the domestic power industry since the international standard ISO 14068 was released.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, State Grid Beijing Electric Power actively and proactively served the construction of "Green Beijing." The "coal-to-electricity" project, as one of the important measures for State Grid Beijing Electric Power to help the capital's air pollution prevention and control, has cumulatively replaced clean electric heating equipment for 1.37 million households in plains and mountainous areas from its launch in 2003 to the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan," reducing coal consumption by an average of 5.2 million tons per year and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 13.7 million tons.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, State Grid Beijing Electric Power actively served the construction of a "charging-friendly capital," and built and operated nearly 1,800 charging stations and 25,400 charging piles. Since 2024, a total of 27 supercharging stations have been built. Among them, the Beijing Jiangzhuanghu (姜庄湖) Smart Green Supercharging Port has realized the "four-in-one" of supercharging, fast charging, battery swapping, and photovoltaic power generation, with an average daily charging service capacity of 3,000 vehicles.

Data source: State Grid Beijing Electric Power Company

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Grain Rain: Deeply Cultivating Raw Material Self-Research, Promoting High-Quality Development of Domestic Brands

China has become the world's largest consumer market for cosmetics, reshaping the competitive landscape of the global cosmetics industry. In recent years, Chinese cosmetics companies have been focusing on promoting the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, injecting momentum into the high-quality development of China's cosmetics industry. In this process, Guyu Biotechnology Group Co., Ltd. (谷雨生物科技集团股份有限公司) (hereinafter referred to as "Guyu (谷雨)") relies on its full-stack self-research capabilities covering the entire industry chain, and explores a new path for the rise of domestic skin care brands with Chinese aesthetics, technology, and skin care solutions.

Foundation: Building a Scientific Research and Innovation Closed Loop Covering the Entire Industry Chain

Guyu (谷雨) adheres to technology-driven development, focuses on industrial development needs and key technical problems, and builds a full-stack self-research model covering raw material research, formula application, efficacy testing, and high-level production across the entire industry chain.

To build this model, Guyu (谷雨) has always adhered to high investment and large-scale independent research and development over the years, consolidating the key foundation for scientific research and innovation.

On the R&D side, Guyu (谷雨) has built the Qingnang R&D Center (青囊研发中心) with over 4,000 square meters, and established physical and chemical laboratories and efficacy evaluation centers certified by China Metrology Accreditation (CMA) (中国计量认证) and China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (CNAS) (中国合格评定国家认可委员会). On the production side, Guyu (谷雨) has a 45,000-square-meter cosmetics manufacturing plant, as well as a 10,000-square-meter synthetic biological raw material plant, a 6,000-square-meter chemical synthesis raw material plant, and a 5,000-square-meter plant extract plant, becoming one of the few cosmetics companies in the industry with three raw material production plants. In the next two years, Guyu (谷雨) will also build a 200,000-square-meter global R&D and intelligent manufacturing center, and integrate the three raw material production plants into a super factory. On the planting side, Guyu (谷雨) has built a research and planting base for *Glycyrrhiza glabra* with over 100 acres in Kashgar (喀什), Xinjiang (新疆), fully releasing the triple benefits of scientific research innovation, green environmental protection, and rural industrial revitalization.

Guyu (谷雨) firmly believes that only by continuously consolidating the key foundation of the entire industry chain from upstream raw materials to product production can it focus on technology research and development, thereby creating more scientific products.

Innovation: Focusing on Independent Research and Development of Product Raw Material Ingredients

Guyu (谷雨) insists on using Chinese technology to create skin care solutions that are more suitable for Chinese skin types, collecting and analyzing nearly 100,000 samples of Chinese women's skin indicators. Targeting the characteristics of Chinese skin types presented by the samples, it uses molecular biology methods to focus on plant raw material extraction and ingredient efficacy research.

Aiming at the inherent problems of glabridin purification, dissolution, and stabilization, Guyu (谷雨) relies on its independently developed "melt crystallization purification technology," "28-nanometer inclusion technology," and "targeted delivery technology" three patented technologies to increase the purity of glabridin to 99%. This breakthrough provides technical support for Guyu (谷雨) to create high-quality glabridin products, and its research and development process and logic also provide important ideas for Guyu (谷雨) to research and iterate other product raw material ingredients.

Aiming at the problems of low content and difficult conversion of ginsenoside CK in nature, Guyu (谷雨) uses biomimicry theory and technology, and simulates the conversion process of ginsenoside CK through the "Intelligent Enzyme Biomimicry Technology" supported by dual patents. Using AI technology, it screened out 6 biological enzymes from nearly 2 million enzymes, and finally obtained ginsenoside CK with a maximum purity of 98%.

In 2025, Guyu (谷雨) took another key step in core raw material innovation. "Preparation Method and Application of Artificial Synthetic Exosomes with Anti-Aging Effect" (Patent No.: ZL 2025 1 0999791.1) was granted a national invention patent. Guyu (谷雨) has completed an important layout in related cutting-edge fields, and is committed to bringing more scientific skin care solutions to consumers.

Relying on the power of technological innovation, Guyu's (谷雨) main raw material library continues to expand. With the advantages of independent research and development of product raw material ingredients and scientific research and development chains, the Guyu (谷雨) brand is accelerating its development, stepping onto a broader international stage, and driving more domestic brands to build raw material self-research advantages and realize brand rise.

Integration: Deep Integration of Industry, Academia, and Research Helps Enterprise Development

While exploring technological innovation, enterprises also shoulder the task of driving industrial innovation, realizing a comprehensive strengthening from product competitiveness to brand competitiveness, and ultimately promoting industrial upgrading and economic development to form a virtuous circle.

In recent years, Guyu (谷雨) has continued to promote industrial innovation while carrying out scientific research accumulation. Relying on the innovative achievements and cutting-edge discoveries in the research and development process of main raw materials, it took the lead in formulating "Calculation Method for Recommended Dosage of Glabridin (Glabridin—90) for Cosmetics" (Standard No.: T/GDMPAS002-2024), "Cosmetic Raw Material Ginsenoside CK" (Standard No.: T/FDSA 0098-2025), "Development Guide for Whitening Skin Care Products Suitable for Chinese Skin Types" (Standard No.: T/CIET 361-2024) and other important group standards to help promote the standardized development of the industry.

At the same time, Guyu (谷雨) has also established R&D strategic cooperative relationships with a number of first-class domestic scientific research institutes, forming an internal and external "dual-top" scientific research talent matrix. It also promotes innovative development by linking the upstream and downstream of the industry through a deep integration model of industry, academia, and research. While jointly building a joint postgraduate training base with China Pharmaceutical University (中国药科大学) and Xiamen University (厦门大学), Guyu (谷雨) and Xiamen University (厦门大学) jointly established the "Xiamen University—Guyu Biomedical Joint Research Center (厦门大学—谷雨生物医药联合研究中心)" in September this year. As an important part of Guyu's (谷雨) R&D system "Qingnang R&D Platform (青囊研发平台)," the center is headed by an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) and a professor at the School of Life Sciences of Xiamen University (厦门大学生命科学学院). In the first 5-year cooperation period, Guyu (谷雨) plans to invest more than 10 million yuan in R&D funds, relying on Xiamen University's (厦门大学) advantages in basic scientific research, focusing on the development and application of biomedical active ingredients, and jointly promoting basic research and innovative applications in the field of skin care.

From single-entity innovation of enterprises to integrating multiple resources to promote overall industrial innovation, from focusing on a single segmented field to linking multi-disciplinary advantages to broaden application prospects, Guyu (谷雨) will continue to deeply cultivate technological innovation, break through scientific research problems, and help the high-quality development of the industry.

Data source: Guyu Biotechnology Group Co., Ltd. (谷雨生物科技集团股份有限公司)

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How to Leverage the Advantages of the New Whole-Nation System (Science and Technology Perspective · Experts Discuss)

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee proposed in its "Recommendations" to "improve the new nationwide system, take unconventional measures, and promote decisive breakthroughs in key core technologies in key areas such as integrated circuits, industrial machine tools, high-end instruments, basic software, advanced materials, and bio-manufacturing across the entire chain."

The new nationwide system is an important way to leverage the advantages of the socialist market economy in concentrating resources to accomplish major tasks, and it is crucial for China to accelerate its transformation into a science and technology powerhouse. How can we fully leverage the advantages of the new nationwide system to help achieve rapid breakthroughs in key core technologies in key areas? How can we further improve the new nationwide system and enhance the overall effectiveness of the national innovation system? We have invited several experts from research institutes, universities, enterprises, and the field of science and technology finance to offer their suggestions.

——Editor

Strengthening the "Nationwide Coordination"
Wang Chi (王赤)

Fully leveraging the advantages of the new nationwide system is an important measure to cope with complex international competition and technological revolution challenges under new historical conditions and to achieve high-level self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology.

The new nationwide system is first and foremost an organic integration of government leadership and market mechanisms. Scientific research institutions are the main force of the national strategic scientific and technological strength, and it is crucial to give full play to the advantages of institutionalization and systematization. To undertake major national scientific and technological research tasks and study the most basic, core, and cutting-edge scientific issues, it is necessary to combine the active thinking of scientists with national strategic goals, and to provide stable support for scientists to continuously carry out basic research through institutionalized platforms, so as to provide a source of fresh water for technological breakthroughs.

To fully leverage the advantages of the new nationwide system, it is necessary to strengthen the systematic capabilities of "nationwide coordination," build a cluster of strategic scientific and technological forces, and achieve breakthroughs in the entire process from scientific discovery, technological innovation, and output of results to talent cultivation. The Space Science Pioneer Program, launched in 2011, is China's first systematic scientific satellite program. Over the past 10 years, we have efficiently organized, selected, and implemented space science missions, gathered internal and external advantageous forces, and built a closed-loop management system for the entire chain of "planning-research and development-application," covering the entire cycle of satellite design, launch, operation, and scientific output, efficiently transforming innovative achievements, and driving the leapfrog development of cutting-edge effective payloads and satellite platform technologies. The new mission system of "chief scientist + two chief engineers" formed by the program allows for the deep integration of scientific goals and engineering implementation. At the same time, we have promoted the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, cultivated a talent team with reasonable levels and outstanding capabilities in practice, and continuously strengthened the construction of discipline systems and key laboratories, laying a solid foundation for subsequent tasks. The birth of multiple international cooperation paradigms has further verified the advantages of the new nationwide system and its international competitiveness.

Looking to the future, it is necessary to more closely integrate national strategic guidance with the international scientific frontier. Strengthen original innovation, make forward-looking arrangements and continuous efforts on major frontier scientific issues, and at the same time encourage scientists to freely explore, and strive to achieve more "from 0 to 1" theoretical breakthroughs and scientific discoveries. Guided by national strategic needs and based on major space projects, tackle key core technologies, adopt mechanisms such as "seeking talents by posting notices," concentrate resources to overcome technical problems such as high-precision physical field detection and autonomous aerospace chips, and build an integrated system of "production, learning, research, and application" to ensure that technology is autonomous and controllable and can be quickly iterated and verified. Proactively initiate and lead international major science programs and projects, attract top scientists from around the world to participate with a more open attitude, and continuously enhance China's international voice and influence in the field of space science.

The advantages of the new nationwide system continue to be demonstrated, and we will surely make positive contributions to exploring the mysteries of the universe and enhancing human well-being.

(The author is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), director and party secretary of the National Space Science Center (国家空间科学中心) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This article was compiled by Li Junqiang (李君强), a reporter from this newspaper.)

Integrating Enterprise Development into National Strategy
Wu Jianxin (吴建新)

Since the first unit of "Hualong One" (华龙一号) was put into operation and connected to the grid in January 2021, it has achieved continuous safe and stable operation, and its various technical and economic indicators are at the global leading level. Jiangsu Shentong Valve Co., Ltd. (江苏神通阀门股份有限公司), as a participant in the project, undertook the research and development tasks of products such as containment isolation valves, shellfish collectors, and sump filters. The successful development of these products is the result of the national organization of industry, academia, research, and application to jointly tackle key problems under the new nationwide system.

"Hualong One" has high technical requirements and requires a large R&D investment. After the construction plan was proposed, should we, as a private enterprise, participate? There were different voices within the company: some were worried about uncertain market prospects, high quality risks, etc. After discussion, everyone believed that China needs safe and reliable nuclear power, and participating in the "Hualong One" project was an opportunity and a responsibility. After unifying our understanding, the company established a task force, took the initiative to connect with the China General Machinery Industry Association (中国通用机械工业协会), and hired experts from units such as China National Nuclear Corporation (中核集团), China General Nuclear Power Group (中广核集团), and State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (国家核电技术公司) to form a joint team to carry out collaborative research under the overall organization of China Nuclear Power Engineering Co., Ltd. (中国核电工程有限公司).

Taking the development process of the containment isolation valve as an example, "Hualong One" has very high requirements for the flow resistance of the valve, and there is no suitable testing device in China. We contacted the Hefei General Machinery Research Institute (合肥通用机械研究院) to help build one; the testing device occupied a large area, and the Qidong Municipal Government (启东市政府) urgently coordinated and solved the site problem in a timely manner; Chen Lin (陈林), a doctor who graduated from Southeast University (东南大学), heard that he was going to participate in the "Hualong One" project and resolutely gave up the generous treatment of other units and joined the team; adding stainless steel waterjet cutting, cemented carbide automatic surfacing and other equipment, there was not enough funds, and the bank quickly provided loans to support the solution... There are many such stories in the construction process of "Hualong One."

With the help and support of China National Nuclear Corporation, the products we manufactured have reached the international advanced level. This makes us deeply feel the importance of industry-academia-research-application collaboration under the new nationwide system. Capable private enterprises taking the lead, jointly undertaking major scientific and technological research tasks with universities and research institutes, helps to form a systematic, institutionalized, and collaborative research organization mechanism. In this process, through institutional innovation and mechanism optimization, unblocking the blockages and bottlenecks between the innovation chain and the industrial chain is conducive to realizing the deep integration and efficient allocation of innovation elements.

The new nationwide system provides unprecedented strategic opportunities and institutional guarantees for private enterprises to participate in major national scientific and technological research tasks, and private enterprises can play a key role in the national innovation system. In the future, we must adhere to the path of specialization, refinement, specialization, and innovation, integrate our own development into the national strategy, break through more key core technologies, and make due contributions to realizing Chinese-style modernization.

(The author is the party secretary and president of Jiangsu Shentong Valve Co., Ltd. This article was compiled by Gu Yekai (谷业凯), a reporter from this newspaper.)

Adhering to the Combination of Effective Market and Promising Government
Zhou Bin (周彬)

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee proposed to accelerate the construction of a space power, sounding the charge and rallying call for the transformation and leap from a space power to a space powerhouse.

China independently completed the historical feat of "Two Bombs, One Satellite" (两弹一星), established a complete national defense science and technology industry system from scratch, and solved the "whether or not" problem of China's aerospace industry. It is a vivid portrayal of the national spirit under the nationwide system. It independently started the "manned spaceflight" project, successfully completed the "three-step" strategy, further demonstrated the national will and the comprehensive strength of the aerospace science and technology industry, and led the "parallel running" situation in the aerospace field. It is a rising style of inheriting the spirit and carrying forward the nationwide system.

China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (中国电子科技集团) is the deputy chief commander unit of major projects such as China's manned spaceflight project and lunar exploration project, a member unit of the Beidou-3 Global Satellite Navigation System (北斗三号全球卫星导航系统) leading group, and also the core research and development unit of satellite payloads, measurement and control communication systems, radars and other equipment in China, as well as the main supplier of core devices (modules). We have always given full play to the advantages of information technology, coordinated and cooperated with various units, supported China's aerospace industry to achieve historical leaps forward, and continuously refreshed the "space height" of the Chinese people.

The aerospace industry is a high-tech field that leads development. It is necessary to give full play to the unique advantages of the socialist system, the super-large-scale market, and the agile and diverse application scenarios, consolidate and improve the integrated national strategic system and capabilities, and lead and drive the high-quality and sustainable development of emerging industries and future industries. As early as the 1960s, the predecessors of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation's various units boldly explored and innovated collaboratively, gave full play to the advantages of various fields of electronic technology, and successfully developed the measurement and control system, computers, batteries and other core equipment for China's "Two Bombs, One Satellite" project, making indelible and significant contributions to the construction of the project.

The construction of a space power is a complex giant system project. Under the new historical conditions, the traditional national aerospace forces and emerging commercial aerospace forces are running side by side and driving each other. It is necessary to adhere to the combination of an effective market and a promising government, give full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, and give better play to the role of the government; establish a new innovative development model of national guidance, local leadership, and market dominance, and build a unified national market that is efficient, standardized, fair, competitive, and fully open.

**一枝独秀不是春，百花齐放春满园** (yī zhī dú xiù bù shì chūn, bǎi huā qí fàng chūn mǎn yuán - "one branch blooming alone does not make spring, a hundred flowers blooming make spring full of the garden," one person's success is not true success, only when everyone succeeds is there true success). As the main force and national team in the construction of a space power, China Electronics Technology Group Corporation will better play its role in scientific and technological innovation, industrial control, and security support, widely unite all parties, take the construction of a space power as an opportunity, help achieve high-level self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology, and promote high-quality development.

(The author is the chief scientist of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation. This article was compiled by Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶), a reporter from this newspaper.)

Scientific Research Forces Accurately Connect with National Needs
Xu Tongwen (徐铜文)

"The level of self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology has been greatly improved" is one of the main goals of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and the new nationwide system is the key to achieving this goal. It is crucial to both adhere to the strategic determination to "firmly grasp key core technologies in our own hands" and give full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation in order to optimize the allocation of scientific and technological innovation resources, promote the tackling of key core technologies, and give full play to the advantages of the new nationwide system.

The "15th Five-Year Plan" recommendations provide a clear implementation path and goal orientation for fully leveraging the advantages of the new nationwide system, avoiding resource dispersion, and ensuring that resources are concentrated to solve "bottleneck" problems. Taking the research and development of ion membrane technology as an example, aiming at the resource utilization of acids, alkalis, and salts, clean production, and low-carbon process reengineering for the process industry, with the strong support of the state, we have achieved a breakthrough in the localization of general-purpose ion membranes and made important progress in the standardization of ion membrane material evaluation systems and the independent and controllable industrial chain. In the process of industrializing ion membrane-related technologies, various production fields are well connected, and industry-academia-research-application are deeply integrated. We have established more than 20 ion membrane production lines in deep cooperation with many enterprises, forming an industrial scale with a total annual production capacity of more than 2 million square meters, which has been successfully applied to hundreds of enterprises at home and abroad, providing a reliable path for the independent and controllable entire industrial chain of ion membranes and related technologies; through molecular innovation design and precise amplification of engineering, while improving the performance of ion membranes, the cost is effectively reduced, further enhancing the core competitiveness of the entire industrial chain. The precise connection of scientific research forces with national needs and the transformation of breakthrough achievements in the laboratory into real productivity are the concentrated embodiment of the advantages of the new nationwide system.

In the future, the field of high-end ion membranes and special ion membranes may become the focus of international scientific and technological competition. Taking the lead in mastering related technologies is of great significance to hydrogen energy, energy storage, and clean energy utilization. We must further leverage the advantages of the new nationwide system with an unprecedented sense of urgency and strategic vision to accelerate the breakthrough of high-end ion membrane technology and achieve overtaking on a curve.

To fully leverage the advantages of the new nationwide system, we must also work hard to improve basic research and original innovation capabilities, promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, enhance the overall effectiveness of the national innovation system, and continuously generate new quality productive forces to inject lasting impetus into high-quality development. As scientific and technological workers in the new era, we must actively undertake major tasks, conduct in-depth basic research, focus on strengthening the tackling of core technologies, promote the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, and strive unremittingly to build a science and technology powerhouse.

(The author is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (中国科学技术大学). This article was compiled by Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶), a reporter from this newspaper.)

Strengthening Financial Supply for Scientific and Technological Innovation
Mi Lei (米磊)

To leverage the advantages of the new nationwide system and accelerate high-level self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology, from the perspective of science and technology finance, it is necessary to take the national strategy as the "anchor," change the traditional single financial value concept, adhere to the integration of "knowledge value-economic value-social value," attach importance to carrying out knowledge value investment, and guide financial capital to gather in fields related to the country's core competitiveness.

Over the past 10 years, CAS Star (中科创星) has been committed to introducing social capital to support the development of hard technology urgently needed by the national strategy and provide patient capital supply for start-ups. For example, we support Aerospace Pioneer (中科宇航), incubated by the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院力学研究所), to carry out the development of serialized medium and large rockets. At present, Aerospace Pioneer has formed a full-chain system of "research and development-testing-production-launch." The Lijian-1 rocket (力箭一号火箭) has performed national missions many times, undertaken international satellite launches, and successfully sent 75 satellites into space, with a total mass of in-orbit payloads exceeding 10 tons. As the angel round investor and long-term companion of CAS Micro Precision (中科微精), we support them to independently develop three-axis to seven-axis ultrafast laser high-end manufacturing equipment, filling the domestic gap and providing autonomous and controllable key equipment and complete solutions for the aerospace and other fields. Under the early irrigation of patient capital, a group of hard technology companies we invested in and incubated are now making breakthroughs and emerging.

If a project does not seem to have a large short-term economic value, but from the perspective of knowledge value and social value, the comprehensive value is very high, we will also invest in it. This is the knowledge value investment concept that we have proposed and practiced.

To leverage the advantages of the new nationwide system, it is very important to improve the science and technology financial system. It is necessary to promote the differentiated development of various types of financial capital with the concept of knowledge value investment. For strategic emerging industries that have been identified, it is necessary to give play to the "main force" role of state-owned financial institutions and the "baton" function of government-guided funds, integrate enterprises, universities, research institutes, and social resources, concentrate resources to make breakthroughs, and expand the industrial scale. For future industrial fields that need to carry out cutting-edge exploration, it is necessary to give full play to the role of venture capital and the function of market resource allocation, adhere to "investing early, investing small, investing long-term, and investing in hard technology," and identify, screen, and invest in the most potential entrepreneurial teams and technology directions for the country.

In addition, it is also necessary to unblock the "Ren and Du meridians" of the primary and secondary markets. Support the expansion of the primary market represented by venture capital and science and technology innovation bonds, dredge the listing channels for science and technology innovation enterprises, further strengthen the secondary market, guide the participation of financial capital from the whole society in scientific and technological innovation, and at the same time, various types of financial capital can also jointly share the dividends of scientific and technological innovation development, and ultimately form a virtuous cycle ecology and promote the solution of the financial supply problem of scientific and technological innovation.

(The author is the founding partner of CAS Star Technology Investment Co., Ltd. This article was compiled by Gu Yekai (谷业凯), a reporter from this newspaper.)

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Further Consolidating Wisdom and Strength (Editor's Note)

By: 李君强

The "Recommendations" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China clearly proposed "improving the new nationwide system." At present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating, and accelerating high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement must give full play to the advantages of the new nationwide system. From "Chang'e" (嫦娥) lunar exploration to "Tianwen" (天问) Mars exploration, from "Jiaolong" (蛟龙) manned deep-sea submersible to "Blue Whale" (蓝鲸) supporting the trial mining of combustible ice, since the new era, accelerating the improvement of the new nationwide system and giving full play to the role of the state as the organizer of major scientific and technological innovations, China's major scientific and technological innovation achievements have emerged one after another.

Practice has proved that to give full play to the advantages of the new nationwide system, it is necessary to focus on major national strategies and the forefront of science and technology, coordinate the forces of the government, the market, and society, and achieve collaborative tackling of key problems across departments, fields, and subjects. From the long-term investment in basic research to the organization and implementation of major tasks, from tackling key and core technologies to the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements, kinetic energy is gathered within a more efficient system and mechanism.

During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, it is necessary to further improve the new nationwide system, strengthen the national strategic scientific and technological forces, optimize the allocation of innovation resources, and achieve a significant improvement in the overall effectiveness of the national innovation system. By gathering wisdom and strength to the places where the country needs them most, we will surely lay a more solid foundation for building a strong country in science and technology and realizing Chinese-style modernization.

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Editor in charge of this edition: Li Junqi

Layout Design: Shen Yiling (沈亦伶)

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vivo S50 Series: Telephoto Live Masterpiece, I Love Me, Every Second is Vivid

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Triggered Family Memories

By: 许金龙

This summer, my daughter, who is studying in Europe, returned to Nanjing (南京) to visit her grandfather and revise her doctoral dissertation before submitting it. After a family dinner, I drove west along Shuiximen Street (水西门大街) to take my nearly 95-year-old father back to the nursing home. About 200 meters from the Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders (侵华日军南京大屠杀遇难同胞纪念馆), the traffic flow in the same direction slowed down significantly, and the slow lane on the right was full of vehicles stopping to drop off passengers. As the traffic slowly moved forward, I could see a crowd mainly composed of teenagers and young people, slowly moving forward under the scorching sun in the hairpin-like passage under the tall, light-black walls. I told my daughter, who was somewhat unfamiliar with the streets of Nanjing (南京), that this was the Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders (侵华日军南京大屠杀遇难同胞纪念馆). My daughter leaned over and looked at the moving crowd, and replied softly, "I came here when I was a child, and it made me feel very sad." Listening to the simple conversation between my daughter and me, my father, who was originally a little tired and had his eyes slightly closed, suddenly perked up and said loudly, "Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall (南京大屠杀纪念馆), Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall (南京大屠杀纪念馆)!" Then he said to his granddaughter, "My old man was stabbed in the thigh by a Japanese soldier with a bayonet..."

My father and mother were both born in early 1931. The catastrophe around December 1937 left them with different traumatic memories, which later became the collective memory of our family members. Before Nanjing (南京) was attacked by the Japanese army, my father fled back to his ancestral home in northern Jiangsu (苏北) with his parents and grandmother. After the war subsided, he returned to Nanjing (南京). The family mainly relied on my grandfather (the "old man" in my father's words) to pull a rickshaw to make a living. The incident my father mentioned happened one day when my grandfather was pulling a customer through Zhonghua Gate (中华门). At that time, the Japanese invaders stipulated that all Chinese people entering and leaving the city had to bow to the Japanese soldiers standing guard at the city gate. My grandfather did not stop the rickshaw at the time, and the bow he made while walking did not reach 90 degrees. The Japanese soldier did not say a word, but pointed the bayonet-equipped rifle at my grandfather's abdomen and stabbed him. In panic, my grandfather grabbed the crossbar of the rickshaw and suddenly jumped up, and the bayonet missed his abdomen and pierced his thigh. After being stabbed, my grandfather fell to the ground. The Japanese soldier stepped forward and wanted to deliver another blow, but after the passenger and other workers knelt down and begged for mercy, the Japanese soldier was willing to stop. The workers put my grandfather on the rickshaw and pulled him back.

What my mother often recounted was the scene of indiscriminate bombing of Nanjing (南京) before the Japanese army entered the city: "The Japanese plane had a 'red mark' on its wings. I saw it dive down, and strings of bombs as big as thermos bottles fell down. Immediately, I saw a burst of black smoke rising from Baputang (八铺堂) near my house, and then I heard a rumbling sound, which was extremely loud. We children ran over and saw that the bombed houses were on fire, and human limbs were hanging on the branches. It was terrible!"

Later, while studying at Wuhan University (武汉大学), I and my classmates from the Chinese Department conducted a social practice survey in Nanjing (南京): interviewing survivors of the Nanjing Massacre (南京大屠杀) and investigating the massacre sites. Among the places where compatriots were killed, such as Yanziji (燕子矶), Caoxie Gorge (草鞋峡), Xiaguan Zhongshan Wharf (下关中山码头), Jiangdongmen (江东门), and Beijige (北极阁), as well as mass burial sites such as Huashen Temple (花神庙) and Torpedo Camp (鱼雷营), the most impressive and unforgettable scene was in the Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders (侵华日军南京大屠杀遇难同胞纪念馆). From the hardened yellow soil, the outline of a pelvis was peeled away, and a bayonet from a Type 38 rifle was clearly inserted into it, with only the handle remaining outside, and the blade completely submerged in the soil that had not yet been excavated in the pelvis... The content of the sign next to the remains showed that, after testing and determination, the remains were female, and her age was between 16 and 18 years old... Many years later, due to work reasons, I came into contact with many people from the Japanese cultural circles, and I also told Kenzaburo Oe (大江健三郎), the Nobel Prize winner and Japanese writer, about my grandfather's experience, repeated the past events told by my mother, and also mentioned the bayonet in the pelvis of that nameless girl.

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Four Seasons at the Saigu Palace

By: 肖复兴

The Jade Magnolias in the Temple of Heaven's Hall of Abstinence are exceptionally beautiful in the spring. There are also Jade Magnolias elsewhere in the Temple of Heaven (天坛), but none are as beautiful as those here.

One location for the Jade Magnolias in the Hall of Abstinence is behind the Hall of Reverent Worship (敬天大殿) on the south side. The trees grow very tall, reaching the blue glazed tile roof of the hall. The Jade Magnolias bloom early. Before the forsythia has bloomed for many days, and before the peach blossoms have even opened, they impatiently sprout their flower buds. The red walls, blue tiles, and pure white blossoms complement each other, making them particularly eye-catching. The Jade Magnolias elsewhere in the Temple of Heaven lack the backdrop of the red walls, losing much of their charm. Jade Magnolias and red walls are a perfect match.

Another location for the Jade Magnolias in the Hall of Abstinence is in the courtyard of the Sleeping Palace (寝宫). Entering through the Hanging Flower Gate (垂花门) and turning right, to the north, you can see them at a glance. The Jade Magnolias here do not grow tall, and they cannot resist the teasing of the early spring wind, their branches gently swaying. One worries whether the slender branches can bear the weight of the goblet-sized blossoms, and whether those blossoms will fall off, top-heavy.

At this time, many people come to the Hall of Abstinence to take photos, mainly of the Jade Magnolias. The Jade Magnolias are more attractive than the Hall of Reverent Worship.

In the Temple of Heaven, the Hall of Abstinence is a unique place. Its history is richer than that of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests (祈年殿). In the past, the Hall of Abstinence was built for the emperor to stay here for a few days before offering sacrifices to Heaven at the Temple of Heaven, to purify his mind and abstain from worldly desires, to show his reverence for Heaven. The Hall of Abstinence was first built in the Ming Dynasty and rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty, with two palace walls inside and outside, separated by two imperial rivers in front of the walls, making it particularly solemn. In the late Qing Dynasty, wars broke out frequently, and the emperor could not care about revering Heaven, only about fleeing for his life. When the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing (北京), they set up their headquarters in the Temple of Heaven, and the invaders lived in the corridors surrounding the outer wall of the Hall of Abstinence, which had more than 160 rooms. The Hall of Abstinence remained silent, having seen all the vicissitudes of life.

The imperial river of the Hall of Abstinence originally had flowing water, flowing in from the Goldfish Pond (金鱼池) in the north, and flowing out to the Shili River (十里河) and then to the Xiao Taihou River (萧太后河) in the south, converging with the Grand Canal. Today, such a scene cannot be seen, and the imperial river has long become a dry river. In the summer, when you come here, you can see the deep riverbed overgrown with weeds, but it is still green, and you can vaguely see the shadow of water flickering. Every time I walk here, I can't help but think of the rippling water in the imperial river in those years. It is said that in 1958, the Temple of Heaven made an effort to restore the imperial river water, pumping water from machine wells into the river, and the imperial river water really rippled, and there were even游船荡漾in the water. Unfortunately, the water leakage was serious, and this kind of water injection was not a long-term solution, and the imperial river water was a fleeting moment.

In the summer, many Beijingers (北京人) come to the Hall of Abstinence because there are many trees and it is cool. I met several old Beijingers who came to the Hall of Abstinence and asked them if they had seen the rippling water of the imperial river. They all shook their heads. They just told me that the Hall of Abstinence used to grow vegetables, grains, and apple trees, and the small Guoguang apples here tasted quite good back then. I knew this. Once, it was also used as an agricultural experiment site.

Someone about my age told me that the Hall of Abstinence used to show open-air movies in the summer. Unfortunately, I never saw one. He shook his head regretfully, feeling a little sorry for me, and said to me: It was free, and there were even fixed chairs with backs!

In the summer, crape myrtles and hibiscus bloom in the Hall of Abstinence, and the trees are very young, all planted later. When the emperor came here to stay for a few days, it was in the spring and winter, and the people below would not think of planting crape myrtles and hibiscus. Who would the flowers be for? Nowadays, crape myrtles and hibiscus are everywhere, and tourists are not surprised to see them, far fewer than the people who come here in the spring to see the Jade Magnolias and take photos.

In the autumn, the Hall of Abstinence does not have the ginkgo or red maple that autumn is proud of, only a few lonely persimmon trees. When the bleak autumn wind blows, the fallen leaves rustle, and the garden seems a bit desolate, and there are not many tourists.

In winter, even fewer tourists come to the Hall of Abstinence. However, I am very willing to come here to walk and paint at this time. That day, I sat on the steps in front of the Sleeping Palace and painted the Hanging Flower Gate opposite and the old pine tree behind the gate. In the winter days, the surrounding trees are withered and desolate, but the old pine tree is green and lush, particularly bright and fresh. Suddenly, a voice came, like a gentle whisper: Grandpa, you paint so well, you are so patient. I then noticed that a young girl was sitting next to me, with a rather large suitcase. I said to her: I don't paint very well, but I still have patience. I asked her: Where are you from? She told me she was from Hunan (湖南). I asked her: Are you here for tourism? She shook her head and said: I work in Beijing, my grandfather came to Beijing from his hometown in Hunan, and I am accompanying him. I was a little surprised, thinking she was still a child, so I said to her: I thought you were a middle school student! She laughed: I graduated from university this year, and I just found a job two months ago. Then, she said to me: This is my grandfather's first time in Beijing, and I asked him where he wanted to go the most? He said the Temple of Heaven. After arriving at the Temple of Heaven and seeing the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, he said he also wanted to see the Hall of Abstinence.

I asked the girl, where is your grandfather? She pointed to an old man sitting on a chair in front of the Hanging Flower Gate, waving to her. Needless to say, it was her grandfather.

Watching the girl dragging her suitcase and her grandfather walking away through the Hanging Flower Gate, I thought that the feelings of those who come here to reflect on the past and look forward to the future are richer than the scenery. I also remembered that I should have added a few strokes in the middle of the Hanging Flower Gate, to paint the girl and her grandfather.

In the winter, the Hall of Abstinence is silent, as if there is a magical paintbrush, and the surrounding scenery has a color that is rarely seen at other times. Especially the Jade Magnolia tree behind the Hall of Reverent Worship, although the leaves have fallen, the buds on the branches above the top of the hall are like silver gems, like small stars, set off by the red walls and blue tiles, and against the clear blue sky, they are as brilliant as a pointillist painting, a sight only seen once a year.

Another rare sight is the red wall of the Sleeping Palace. Because the Sleeping Palace faces west, the red wall opposite faces west, and the light of the setting sun, like gold, shines directly on the red wall, also reflecting the shadows of the bare tree branches that have lost their leaves on the red wall. Those bare tree branches suddenly become golden staffs that bloom in fairy tales, like a thousand-hand Guanyin (千手观音), stretching out crisscrossing branches, illuminated by the setting sun in a golden hue, outlining dreamlike silhouettes on the red wall, as if an impressionist set has appeared on the stage. It is most beautiful to take pictures of people standing in front of the red wall, and this is also a rare sight in the Hall of Abstinence all year round.

At this time, I especially want to bring my family and friends here to see it. At the beginning of this year, at the end of winter, on the coldest day at dusk, my child came to Beijing. I took my child specifically to the Hall of Abstinence to take pictures in front of the wall opposite the Sleeping Palace. In the winter, the Hall of Abstinence is resplendent, shivering in the cold wind with endless whispers.

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The Beauty of Virtue in Classical Poetry (Thoughts)

By: 王 勇

The *Doctrine of the Mean* says, "The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study," which is an extremely concise summary of the character of a superior man. The foundation of a superior man lies in virtue. Confucianism believes that virtue can only be inspired through poetry, and thus regards poetry as an important path to cultivating virtue, especially emphasizing its moral implications when discussing poetry. This was inherited and absorbed by later generations, forming a unique poetic tradition in Chinese history that values the beauty of virtue.

Confucius's (孔子) discourse on poetry is the source of this tradition. He proposed the poetic ideal of "**尽善尽美**" (jìn shàn jìn měi - "perfectly good, perfectly beautiful," describing something that is perfect in every way) and paid great attention to the political and educational functions of poetry. For example, Confucius said that poetry can inspire, observe, gather, and complain, and can serve fathers and rulers, helping to broaden knowledge of names and things. The tendency of Confucius's disciples to interpret poetry with an emphasis on virtue was further developed and consolidated by Han Dynasty scholars. The *Great Preface to the Book of Songs* progressively advances the main idea of "Guan Ju" from "regulating husband and wife, achieving filial piety and respect, enriching human relations, beautifying education, and changing customs," associating poetry with morality, politics, and education. Han Yu (韩愈) of the Tang Dynasty opposed writings without "Dao" (道 - the Way) and advocated "writing to illuminate the Dao," emphasizing that articles must be based on benevolence, righteousness, and morality. Wang Anshi (王安石) of the Song Dynasty believed that the content of the *Book of Songs* was consistent with morality, and its emotions were restrained by propriety and righteousness. The integration of poetry and virtue constructs a unique tradition in Chinese poetics.

Poetry is a carrier of "expressing aspirations," and its essence lies in sublimating individual emotions into moral concerns with universal significance. Poets express their aspirations through objects, originating from personal emotions but ultimately returning to propriety and righteousness, connecting individual joys and sorrows with the family, the country, and the world. For example, the poet Qu Yuan (屈原), patriotism is the most shining core of his thought. In "Ode to the Orange," he expresses his aspirations through objects, showing his determination not to leave the State of Chu (楚国), revealing a firm and profound love for his country. Since then, patriotism has become the core quality of a superior man's virtue and a recurring theme in Chinese poetry for thousands of years. "Donate the body to the country's difficulties, viewing death as returning home," "Sighing four or five times in the middle of the night, often worrying about the great country," "When the King's army pacifies the Central Plains to the north, do not forget to tell your father at the family sacrifice"... These poems expressing patriotic aspirations cultivate our patriotic feelings through generations of recitation.

For ancient Chinese poets, they mostly regarded the cultivation of virtue as the foundation of their lives, using poetry to express their aspirations. Yu Qian's (于谦) "Not afraid of being crushed to pieces, I want to leave my integrity in the world," a firm oath using lime as a metaphor, fully expresses the personality ideal of the Chinese literati's "inner sage." This is not only a firm adherence to integrity but also a declaration of the existence of a higher value above life. This value orientation of placing moral境界 above life is in line with Mencius's (孟子) value of "**舍生取义**" (shě shēng qǔ yì - "sacrifice life for righteousness," choosing righteousness over life), forming the unique spiritual quality of the Chinese nation. Poets temper their pursuit of perfect personality into earth-shattering and tear-jerking verses. This creative practice of casting the national spirit with the soul of poetry makes poetry a spiritual lighthouse for inheriting the spark of civilization, allowing later readers to feel the power of personality across time and space, prompting us to re-examine the ultimate value of life in a noisy modern society.

Therefore, when ancient people discussed the way of writing poetry, they often regarded the cultivation of virtue as a prerequisite. Lu You (陆游) said, "Effort is outside of poetry," which includes cultivating righteousness. Only with upright virtue and a magnanimous personality can one create poetry with a high style. Because poetry contains virtue, it becomes a means of education, forming China's long-standing tradition of poetry education. Poetry education focuses on ethical order on the one hand and emphasizes the cultivation of virtue on the other. When Han Dynasty scholars explained the meaning of the word "poetry," they interpreted it as "holding," and Zheng Xuan (郑玄) further explained it, believing that poetry can support people's temperament and prevent their virtue from being biased. Song Dynasty scholars especially believed that poetry could cultivate individual benevolence and righteousness, making people conform to morality. Ancient people believed that poetry could reveal temperament, and the author's strong moral consciousness and personality cultivation permeated the poetry, transmitting it to readers and imperceptibly washing the reader's spirit. The core of the Chinese poetry education tradition lies in using the beauty of poetry's virtue as a boat to ferry people to the realm of morality, ultimately realizing the perfection of individual personality and the continuation of the national spirit.

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A Qing Tong Tree in a Mountain Village

By: 吴良伦

One side of the water and soil produces one side of customs, for the Chinese Parasol Tree, I don't know if it is common in other places, anyway, in my hometown, every household plants it.

The Chinese Parasol Tree is extremely easy to grow and has a developed root system that can grasp the ground and solidify the soil. The ridges and dams have deep soil layers. Choosing to plant Chinese Parasol Trees on the ridges and dams does not occupy farmland or land, and can also prevent the ridges and dams from being washed away by floods during the rainy season, which has the effect of protecting farmland and land. One day in spring, a two-foot-long section is cut from an old tree and inserted into the ridge and dam. After a period of time, tender green buds sprout, changing day by day. Within a year, it grows to a height of ten feet. For trees with a long lifespan, the roots can penetrate four or five feet deep into the soil layer. When it grows to a certain height, the Chinese Parasol Tree will branch out into multiple forks. Its bark and leaves are green, full of vitality whether viewed from afar or up close, and the air is filled with a faint fragrance, attracting passers-by to stop and linger.

The hometown surrounded by towering mountains produces wheat, and wheat cakes have become a special delicacy in the hometown. Wheat cakes require good cake leaves to wrap them: Chinese Parasol Tree leaves are the first choice. Due to the nourishment of sunlight, rain, and soil, 5 leaves on the Chinese Parasol Tree are orderly connected as one, like a person's open palm. When picking leaves, choose leaves that are neither too old nor too young - if they are too old, they are easy to break and cannot hold the dough; if they are too young, the wheat cakes are easy to stick to, and peeling them off will disfigure them, making the appearance significantly worse. Natural selection, Chinese Parasol Tree leaves are born in due season, as if they have been customized long ago, so the villagers directly call Chinese Parasol Tree leaves cake leaves.

There are also many Tung oil trees in my hometown. Tung oil tree leaves are extremely similar to Chinese Parasol Tree leaves in appearance, and people who are not familiar with them can hardly distinguish them. Although Tung oil tree leaves can also be used, their leaves are thick, and using them to make wheat cakes not only takes a long time, but also the surface of the wheat cakes is dark brown, which reduces their appearance and also has a slightly astringent taste. The Chinese Parasol Tree leaves are of moderate thickness and have good air permeability. The wheat cakes made with them have the original white color of wheat flour, and the bottom is printed with clear cake leaf veins. Break it open casually, it is soft to the touch, it has both appearance and taste, making the villagers satisfied.

When making wheat cakes, the countryside becomes an ocean of joy. Grinding flour, kneading dough, and mixing "cake mother" (homemade yeast) can be seen everywhere. The busiest are the housewives who are good at everything inside and outside the home. They carry bamboo baskets on their arms and come to their own Chinese Parasol Trees with brisk steps, bending the trunk towards their arms. They know that the Chinese Parasol Tree is strong and resilient, and the branches will never break. So, they cut the petioles with scissors, one piece after another, and the cake leaves fall steadily into the bamboo basket. After the cake leaves are picked, they have to be soaked in water, drained, cut, put in a pot... the housewives are so busy that their feet don't touch the ground, but their eyes are smiling.

Making ropes is another function of the Chinese Parasol Tree. Select the appropriate Chinese Parasol Tree trunk, leaving the large ones and cutting down the small ones. Hold one end of a curved knife in each hand, and remove the outer green skin with a rustling sound. Put four or five together, tie the ends tightly with iron wire, and put them into the pond in bundles. After soaking for half a month, take them out, peel off the two- or three-millimeter-thick white skin, pound it with a club, rinse it, and then dry it.

Under the action of specific twisting tools, strands of white skin are twisted together, transforming into thick and thin "braids." Two strands combined into one bundle are thin ropes, and multiple strands combined into one bundle are thick ropes. The thick ones are used to carry the dowry when daughters get married, to lift stones when building houses, and to build dams and tamp foundations when repairing water ponds; the thin ones are tied to storage baskets, soil-carrying baskets, and carrying poles for firewood. Following the shape of the object, the Chinese Parasol Tree ropes do not slip or fall off when tying objects, and their practicality is unmatched by nylon ropes and palm ropes.

Now, taking advantage of the e-commerce era, wheat cakes and Chinese Parasol Tree ropes have already gone out of their hometown and become popular online goods, and many villagers have made a fortune from this.

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The Chinese painting "Little Snow in Lion Grove Garden," by the artist Tong Zhongtao (童中焘).

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Snow Falls on Hawthorn Ridge

By: 段蓉萍

The first snow of this winter came with exceptional ease. Pushing open the window in the early morning, it had already quietly occupied the distant Bogda Peak (博格达峰), covering the plains and cities still in slumber. I harbor an innate fascination with snow. Is it because of its simple and clean appearance, or the ethereal and imaginative quality it bestows upon the world? I can't quite say myself. I only know that once winter arrives, my heart begins to yearn.

I once photographed a snow scene and sent it to a friend in Fujian (福建), eliciting a gasp of amazement. In response, my friend sent pictures of blooming Bauhinia, wild chrysanthemums, and hibiscus in the mountains of Zhangzhou (漳州), a riot of colors. Though the landscapes and customs differ greatly from north to south, what I truly cherish is the six-petaled ice flower that gracefully arrives in winter. Many believe that snowflakes are all the same, but that's not true. Some are like jade pillars, some like silver needles, some like fern leaves, and some like dust-covered diamonds... They come in myriad forms, each with its own beauty. The creation of each flake depends on the delicate interplay of temperature and humidity.

The temperature is five or six degrees below zero Celsius, but the perceived temperature isn't severely cold. I invited a photographer and a friend to go to Hawthorn Ridge (山楂岭) outside the city, wanting to preserve the mountain scenery of this first snow.

Hawthorn Ridge (山楂岭) is hidden in a corner of the Haxiong Valley (哈熊沟) within the Tianshan National Forest Park (天山国家森林公园) in Urumqi (乌鲁木齐), Xinjiang (新疆). We chose to go there because the valley is rich in vegetation and full of life. There are white birches with affectionate gazes, honeysuckles laden with red berries, crabapple trees with leaves retaining a hint of dark red, as well as towering spruces, sturdy old elms, and dense rose bushes... They stand tall and low, each guarding its own place, creating a harmonious natural landscape.

I still remember this year's National Day (国庆) and Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋) holidays, when I accompanied a friend on a hike here. She frankly said that the scenery here has a unique rugged personality. I think this "personality" largely stems from the steep mountains and large areas of sharp schist. At that time, red, yellow, green, and crimson leaves, layer upon layer, covered the valley floor, as brilliant as woven brocade.

Now, after the first snow, everything is covered in white. The pure white conceals the clutter on the ground, as if the world has been reset, returning to a state of tranquility. However, a few clear hoof prints in the snow reveal a secret – life had visited before us. Although grazing is prohibited in the mountains, there is no shortage of traces of red deer, foxes, wolves, wild rabbits, and pheasants. Judging by the hoof prints, I guess it was a red deer.

After the snow, there must be a sunny day, so sunny that it's dazzling. The photographer kept reminding us, "I'm responsible for taking pictures, you have to be responsible for opening your eyes." But the sunlight was unblocked, rushing straight at us, making it impossible to resist. Why bother insisting on the front view? Leaving a back view might be more meaningful. So we walked hand in hand on the mountain path, entrusting our two heavy and slightly clumsy backs to the lens and the snow light behind us.

Looking towards the end of the valley, the continuous snow peaks are like a warm family: the tallest one is dignified and steady, the next one has soft lines, and the closer ones even reveal a bit of playfulness. The wonderful thing is that a satin-like thin cloud is gently wrapped around the hillside of the highest peak, like a jade belt.

"Hello, winter—" my friend suddenly shouted towards the mountains. The sound echoed in the valley, layer by layer, circle by circle.

While talking and laughing, we entered the birch forest. I love these trees with "eyes." I once brought ink and rice paper here to rub the "eyes" on the trees, one sheet after another, until the paper was used up, and I was still not satisfied, so I raised my phone and took pictures continuously. I often wonder, what kind of mood did the Creator have when creating the birch? Why did it uniquely bestow it with such charming "eyes" that seem to see everything? What exactly did it see, and what does it want to tell us?

While I was lost in thought, I suddenly heard the crisp sound of hooves. Looking back, a chestnut horse came through the snow. The man in the saddle had a dark red face and wore a faded cotton coat. Seeing us, especially my companion carrying the camera, he warmly invited us to his home for tea. The photographer politely declined, saying that he needed to return to the city before lunch and would come again next time.

After winter sets in, most of the herders in the mountains move to the "winter pastures." There are also a few nostalgic old people who are unwilling to leave, choosing to stay in the mountains. The mountains are naturally good, quiet, peaceful, and serene. Here, people forget the hustle and bustle of the city.

People should always leave themselves some time to be alone with nature. Look at the mountains, listen to the wind, look up at the spotless blue sky, hug a tree, stare at a stone whose edges have been smoothed by the years, and take a few deep breaths of the wilderness's freshness.

I think that whenever it snows, I must go into the mountains after the snow, to the wilderness, to walk and see.

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Green Vegetables Jiangnan (Duoweizhai)

By: 刘 放

My son returned to Suzhou (苏州) from Hainan (海南) and, seeing me busily buying groceries, advised me not to overexert myself and just stir-fry some green vegetables.

It's rare for my son to come home, so I have to cook a few dishes he likes. Unexpectedly, after the meal, the only dish that was completely finished was the green vegetables. Even the little bit of vegetable broth left in the plate was poured into his rice to mix.

Looking across the land of China, green vegetables are everywhere. The farm gardens in my hometown of southeastern Hubei (鄂东南) are also led by green vegetables, but in my hometown, they are not called "qingcai" (青菜), but "baicai" (白菜). The "baicai" (白菜) that is abundant in the north is called "dabaicai" (大白菜) by people in my hometown. The small green vegetables that Suzhou (苏州) people call "jimaocai" (鸡毛菜) are called "xiaobaicai" (小白菜). When I was a child, I watched my mother grow "dabaicai" (大白菜). When the leaves grew large and refused to form a head, my mother would use rice straw to gather and tie the leaves together, which had some effect, but it was still far from the impressive growth of the northern "dabaicai" (大白菜). My hometown also has the Suzhou (苏州) green vegetable variety, called "Shanghai qing" (上海青), but it is still classified as "baicai" (白菜) and called "Shanghai qing baicai" (上海青白菜).

In my twenties, I went to work in Yumen (玉门), Gansu (甘肃). The vegetables in my bowl were mostly "dabaicai" (大白菜), with only a small amount of green vegetables. People in Yumen (玉门) call green vegetables "youcai" (油菜). But the locals prefer to eat "dabaicai" (大白菜). The green vegetables in Yumen (玉门) have a slightly bitter taste and a poor texture, which I didn't like very much.

In a flash, it has been more than 30 years since I came to Suzhou (苏州), and my taste has naturally been completely assimilated by the locals. When I first arrived in Suzhou (苏州), storage and transportation were far less developed than they are now, and the vegetables in the vegetable market were generally supplied by the suburbs. Green vegetables were the main ingredient in the citizens' vegetable baskets. Every year during the "fu que" (伏缺) period in the hot summer months, there would be a mobilization meeting: "Jiangnan (江南) people will get sores on their mouths if they don't eat green vegetables for three days, quickly rush to plant a batch of 'jimaocai' (鸡毛菜)!" "Jimaocai" (鸡毛菜) is small green vegetable, which can quickly fill the gap on the table. Jiangnan (江南) people love green vegetables and take good care of them. If there is a shortage of green vegetables, they are immediately replenished.

Green vegetables are delicious, depending not only on the variety but also on the season. Green vegetables can be planted in all seasons, but only after the frost falls, as if the maple leaves turn red overnight, do the green vegetables become more delicious after being exposed to frost, and the taste is even better. This is the best season for eating green vegetables in the whole year.

The cooking of green vegetables should not underestimate the control of heat. Nine and a half cooked is the critical point. A little overcooked or unevenly stir-fried will lead to a great difference in taste. Not many ingredients are needed, with mushrooms being common, and the amount should also be controlled, just enough to add flavor.

In recent years, there have also been innovations in the way green vegetables are made in restaurants, which is to serve the whole vegetable on a plate. It's not difficult. Just put an appropriate amount of oil and salt in boiling water in the pot to ensure the green color of the vegetable leaves, hold the vegetable stalk and leaves in your hand and put them into the water in batches, then assemble them on a plate, pour in high soup and ingredients, and it's done. This whole green vegetable has a simple shape, but it shows the Jiangnan (江南) taste in the smoky atmosphere.

Green vegetables also remind me of the compass, one of the four great inventions mentioned in textbooks, namely Sinan (司南), which is a spoon-shaped object that swings on a graduated plate and always points to the south. In my opinion, this "spoon" is like a piece of green vegetable, aiming its verdant direction at the taste buds of Jiangnan (江南) people.

Because of green vegetables, I also specifically asked friends in Shaoxing (绍兴) and Ningbo (宁波), Zhejiang (浙江). They also have a good impression of green vegetables and recognize them as the benchmark of Jiangnan (江南) vegetable varieties, and their love for them is obviously greater than that of my hometown friends in E'di (鄂地). Although my hometown is also located south of the Yangtze River (长江), it is geographically Jiangnan (江南). The Jiangzhe (江浙) area is Jiangnan (江南) in a cultural sense.

Seeing my son likes Suzhou's (苏州) green vegetables so much, I couldn't help but ask, "Are there no good green vegetables in Hainan (海南)?" He said, "Yes, but not as good as Suzhou's (苏州)." Thinking about it, it makes sense. Hainan (海南) has a long "fu que" (伏缺) period every year and little frost, which means that even if the Jiangnan (江南) green vegetable varieties are planted on Qiong Island (琼岛) with great care, it is difficult to have the best taste. Frost makes the Jiangnan (江南) green vegetables more energetic.

Green vegetables are a delicacy bestowed upon Jiangnan (江南) by heaven and earth.

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