Summary: This article discusses China's regional coordinated development as an intrinsic requirement for Chinese-style modernization, emphasizing the need for regions to identify their strengths and avoid simple imitation. It highlights examples of successful regional integration and development strategies in provinces like Anhui and Qinghai, as well as the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The article references the "15th Five-Year Plan" and its focus on enhancing regional development coordination and promoting new urbanization to reduce regional and urban-rural disparities. Wang Changlin, Deputy Director of the National Development and Reform Commission, stated that the internal requirement of building a new development pattern is to promote the rational flow and efficient concentration of various factors in the domestic geographic space and form a regional economic cycle with complementary advantages and coordinated linkage. The article does not discuss the United States.
Summary: The article emphasizes China's commitment to green development and ecological civilization, highlighting advancements made during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. These include reducing pollution, expanding renewable energy, and establishing a carbon emissions trading market. According to Sun Jinlong, Party Secretary of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the focus will be on further promoting green development, achieving carbon peaking and neutrality, and comprehensively transitioning towards a green economy and society during the "15th Five-Year Plan." The article notes the goal of achieving a fundamental improvement in the ecological environment during this period. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: According to this article, Beijing aims to leverage its strengths in education, technology, and talent to achieve high-quality development. Beijing Party Secretary Yin Li emphasized the use of these resources to foster new productive forces and strong momentum for high-quality development. The city is integrating education, science, and talent development, exemplified by initiatives like the establishment of the Zhongguancun College and support for key laboratories. Beijing is also focused on creating platforms to attract and retain talent, with the city's total talent pool exceeding 8 million. The city is promoting the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements, resulting in a continuous conversion of scientific and technological "potential energy" into economic "kinetic energy".
Summary: Rongjiang County in Guizhou Province, once impoverished, is experiencing economic growth by leveraging its unique "Village Super League" ("村超") soccer tournament. The tournament has boosted tourism and drawn investment, leading to increased revenue for locals and new opportunities like food processing and manufacturing. The county is also focusing on developing its local specialty, the luohanguo fruit, by attracting investment in processing facilities. Rongjiang County Party Secretary Xu Bo stated that they will continue to develop local industries to promote economic development. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Southern Power Grid (南网) is implementing China's "Four Revolutions, One Cooperation" energy security strategy by focusing on high-quality energy development. They reported that non-fossil fuel power generation accounts for 55% of their energy, and they are working to increase the reliability of power supply. They have achieved a 99.99% reliability in power supply and have also engaged in cross-border electricity exchange with neighboring countries, exceeding 80 billion kWh. Southern Power Grid is also actively contributing to global green energy transitions through projects such as electrification efforts in Peru. They also share Chinese technical standards through training programs in countries like Egypt.
Summary: Peng Peiyun, former State Councilor, Vice Chairperson of the 9th National People's Congress Standing Committee, and Chairwoman of the All-China Women's Federation, passed away in Beijing at the age of 96. The obituary hails her as an outstanding member of the CCP, a seasoned communist fighter, a proletarian revolutionist, and a distinguished leader in population and health, women and children's affairs, and socialist legal construction. The report focuses on her accomplishments and status within the CCP. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China's air cargo sector experienced strong growth in the first 11 months of the year, with total cargo and mail volume exceeding 9.24 million tons, a 13.6% year-on-year increase. International routes saw a more significant increase of 21.8% compared to domestic routes. Cargo flights expanded their reach to 70 countries and 170 cities, reflecting growth compared to the previous year. The average weekly flight volume reached 1,767 flights, also an increase. The Civil Aviation Administration of China reported these figures, indicating a positive trend in the country's air freight industry.
Summary: The article contains two brief entries. The first discusses the "carbon neutral journey" of a grain of rice. The second mentions new trends in consumption observed in duty-free shops.
Summary: The Xinjiang Production and Research Team is implementing a collaborative water-saving and salt-inhibiting drainage technology to improve saline-alkali land in Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang. This technology, featuring underground drainage pipes, aims to reduce soil salinity and improve crop yields. In pilot areas, cotton production has doubled and soil quality has improved significantly. Over 270,000 mu of severely saline-alkali land in Xinjiang has been equipped with this "underground pipeline network". The team has trained 8,800 farmers in related techniques.
Summary: This article discusses efforts to improve saline-alkali land in Xinjiang, a region where most arable land originates from reclaimed saline-alkali wasteland. A research project led by the author focused on developing water-saving, salt-suppressing irrigation techniques to address water scarcity and improve land productivity. The project achieved breakthroughs in predicting salinization and optimizing irrigation, resulting in a 20% increase in crop yields compared to ordinary saline-alkali land. Current research focuses on cost-effective methods for reclaiming severely saline-alkali land and promoting specialized agriculture suitable for such conditions. The ultimate goal is the industrial utilization of saline-alkali land resources in Xinjiang.
Summary: According to Zhang Yuzhuo, director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), state-owned enterprises (SOEs) will focus on technological innovation, particularly in areas where China faces vulnerabilities, to achieve self-reliance in science and technology. SOEs will also deepen reform by clarifying their functions, strengthening Party leadership in corporate governance, and improving the efficiency of state-owned capital supervision. SASAC will guide SOEs to upgrade traditional industries and foster emerging ones like new energy and AI, and proactively plan for quantum technology and 6G. Zhang emphasized promoting international innovation cooperation. The article does not mention the United States.
Summary: China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) has released draft guidelines on pricing practices in the auto industry, seeking public comment on regulations intended to ensure fair competition and protect consumer rights. The guidelines cover the entire auto production and sales process, from pricing strategies to sales behaviors, emphasizing transparent pricing, fair promotions, and the prohibition of discriminatory practices. They address concerns over hidden fees, misleading pricing, and unauthorized charges for features, requiring clear communication about costs and service details. The guidelines aim to provide clarity on legal boundaries and promote compliance among auto manufacturers and dealers. The guidelines encourage platforms to provide risk warnings on significantly low-price behaviors.
Summary: China's largest offshore oil field, Bohai Oilfield, is projected to exceed 40 million tons of oil equivalent in 2025, setting a new record. The oil field has produced over 600 million tons of crude oil cumulatively. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China's oil and gas production has steadily increased, with offshore crude oil being an important growth pole. Bohai Oilfield's oil and gas production has increased by an average of 5% annually in the past five years.
Summary: This article discusses China's regional coordinated development strategy as an intrinsic requirement for Chinese-style modernization, emphasizing the need for regions to leverage their comparative advantages under the guidance of the central government. It highlights examples like Anhui's rise in automobile manufacturing within the Yangtze River Delta and Qinghai's focus on salt lake resources. The article also touches on the integrated development of urban and rural areas, and the importance of new urbanization, including development of smaller cities, to reduce inequality between urban and rural areas, and between regions. Wang Changlin, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, stated that it is necessary to promote the rational flow and efficient concentration of various factors in the domestic geographical space, and to form a regional economic cycle with complementary advantages and coordinated linkage. The article cites the "15th Five-Year Plan" as an important directive for these development initiatives.
Summary: The first seventh freedom traffic rights route in China, Sanya-Prague, operated by Kazakhstan's SCAT Airlines, launched from Sanya on December 21. This route, operating weekly, allows the airline to carry passengers and cargo between two foreign countries without returning to its home country. The launch aligns with the "Overall Plan for the Construction of Hainan Free Trade Port" which supports opening the seventh freedom traffic rights in Hainan. This pilot program is expected to strengthen regional economic and cultural exchange.
Summary: Xinhua published a political essay on December 21st, outlining Xi Jinping's four global initiatives. These initiatives include the Global Development Initiative, Global Security Initiative, Global Civilization Initiative, and Global Governance Initiative. The article posits these initiatives as a comprehensive framework to address global challenges and promote a shared future for humanity, with development as the goal, security as the guarantee, civilization as the bond, and governance as the support. The essay emphasizes China's role in providing stability and certainty amidst global changes, including navigating the competition between openness and isolation, and cooperation and confrontation. It argues these initiatives offer Chinese solutions for global governance and contribute to a more peaceful and prosperous world.
Summary: The article discusses the 80th anniversary of the victory in both the Soviet Great Patriotic War and the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, highlighting the historical ties between Russia and China during WWII. It notes Xi Jinping's mention of the Soviet volunteer airmen in China during his visit to Russia. It also mentions that Putin was invited to attend related events in China in September. The author, a descendant of a Soviet pilot who fought in China, attended commemorative events in China, including the military parade on Tiananmen Square where Xi Jinping thanked countries which supported China against aggression. The author emphasizes the importance of safeguarding the historical memory of WWII and denounces attempts to falsify it amid a changing international landscape, and also mentions that the U.S. is not mentioned.
Summary: During Xi Jinping's state visit to Russia and attendance at the 80th anniversary celebration of the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War, the grandson of Nikolai Matveyev, a flight commander of the Soviet aid-China aviation team, spoke of the friendship between the two countries during WWII, where they fought side-by-side against fascism. Xi Jinping met with WWII veteran Evgeny Znamensky, affirming the strength of the relationship. Both countries emphasize the importance of remembering history and safeguarding the achievements of WWII. The article highlights youth exchange programs aimed at strengthening Russian-Chinese friendship and promoting world peace. The article does not mention the United States.
Summary: In 2025, marking the 80th anniversary of WWII victory and the UN's founding, Sino-Russian high-level exchanges were frequent. Xi Jinping visited Russia in May at Putin's invitation, attending the Victory Day celebrations where the two leaders jointly observed a military parade. They signed a joint statement deepening the comprehensive strategic partnership and over 20 cooperation agreements. Both countries condemned attempts to distort WWII history and promote bloc confrontation, advocating for multilateralism and a reformed global governance system.
Summary: The "Asia-Pacific Peace and Development Dialogue 2025" international academic conference was held in Haikou, Hainan, focusing on China-ASEAN cooperation in 2026. Around 30 experts and scholars from China and ASEAN nations discussed the prospects for China-ASEAN development, security, and cooperation. Participants emphasized the importance of unity and cooperation between China and ASEAN in the face of unilateralism and protectionism. The need to uphold multilateralism and support each other's core interests was also discussed. The conference was hosted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' Institute of Asia-Pacific and Global Strategy.
Summary: The Chinese Navy hospital ship "Peace Ark," now named "Silk Road Ark," arrived in Barbados for a 7-day goodwill visit, offering free medical services. This marks the second visit of a Chinese naval hospital ship to Barbados since 2015. The ship will provide medical services including internal medicine, surgery, and gynecology, and will engage in exchanges with local hospitals. The ship was greeted by Barbadian officials, personnel from the Chinese embassy, and representatives from the Chinese community. The visit includes medical and sports activities with the Barbadian Defense Force and a deck reception.
Summary: The China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration held the 2025 "Third Eye on China" International Short Video Competition series of events in Beijing, aiming to promote cross-cultural understanding of China through short videos. Activities included screenings, seminars on international short videos and urban themes, and discussions with creators, and a research trip to Zhongguancun. The "Global Vlogger Looks at China" co-creation program was launched to support international creators documenting China's development. The competition seeks multilingual short videos about China from creators worldwide.
Summary: This article discusses the increasing integration of Ganzhou, Jiangxi province, with the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA). It highlights how Ganzhou has leveraged its resources to attract investment from the GBA, with actual utilization of GBA funds reaching 84.065 billion yuan in 2024, more than four times that of 2012. This integration includes infrastructure development, policy alignment with GBA standards, and industrial collaboration, such as Ganzhou becoming a key supplier in the GBA's supply chain. The article emphasizes mutual learning and benefit, with the GBA gaining access to Ganzhou's resources and markets, and Ganzhou benefiting from the GBA's economic dynamism and international connections. Ultimately, this integration aims to promote coordinated regional development and contribute to China's unified market and broader economic strategy.
Summary: This article emphasizes the importance of cultivating both a "young general" (小将) mentality, characterized by a willingness to learn and take risks, and a "great general" (大将) demeanor, marked by perseverance and strategic vision. It argues that these qualities are crucial for achieving success in China's current development goals, such as promoting new productive forces and establishing a new development pattern. The piece uses examples of individuals who embody these traits in fields like rural revitalization and scientific research. It suggests that cadres should embrace continuous learning and be willing to explore uncharted territory.
Summary: The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government announced that the "Tai Po Wang Fuk Court Assistance Fund" has reached HK$4 billion, including HK$3 billion in external donations and HK$300 million from the government. Secretary for Home and Youth Affairs Alice Mak Mei-kuen stated that the fund, aimed at providing long-term support to Wang Fuk Court residents displaced from their homes, would be administered by government departments without administrative fees and be subject to audit. As of December 21, 572 residents had been accommodated in hotels and 563 in youth hostels/camps, while another 3513 have been moved to transitional housing, public housing, or temporary housing, and 1000 long-term housing units are available. The HKSAR government's Transport Department is coordinating with public transport operators to increase services for Wang Fuk Court residents resettled across various districts.
Summary: During China's 14th Five-Year Plan, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway transported over 12.25 million passengers in and out of Tibet, a record high for the period. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway Group has expanded its network, increasing train frequency to 104.5 pairs and extending its operational mileage to over 4,060 kilometers. The railway network, now a "Y" shape with the addition of the Lhasa-Xigaze and Lhasa-Nyingchi lines, is facilitating travel and stimulating economic development in the region.
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Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of theoretical innovation, particularly Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, in guiding China's development and overcoming external challenges. It highlights the concept of "new quality productive forces" (新质生产力) and the "dual circulation" strategy as examples of theoretical advancements driving economic progress and resilience. The "dual circulation" strategy is intended to buffer against external shocks, especially as "the great in and great out environment conditions have changed." The piece underscores the Party's commitment to integrating Marxist principles with Chinese culture and addressing practical problems to achieve modernization. It also notes that China's economic contribution to global growth has remained stable at around 30% in the past five years.
Summary: This article emphasizes the importance of identifying and addressing problems as a catalyst for economic and social development in China, particularly at the start of the 15th Five-Year Plan. It highlights examples of local initiatives, such as problem-focused conferences in Anhui and Sichuan, aimed at uncovering obstacles to development and fostering solutions. The piece stresses the need for proactive problem-solving, learning from the masses, and creating mechanisms for continuous improvement. By institutionalizing problem identification and resolution, the article suggests, China can unlock new development potential. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: In 2025, China's oil and gas production reached record highs, with crude oil at approximately 215 million tons and natural gas exceeding 260 billion cubic meters. Projections indicate a trend towards raw materialization and green development for oil in the next decade, with demand shifting to chemicals and new materials. Natural gas is expected to play a crucial role in replacing coal and supporting the development of new power systems. The article emphasizes increased production and supply security. The author of the poem is Chang Jinwen.
Summary: The article discusses the implementation of AI education in Chinese primary and secondary schools, highlighting concerns about deviations from its intended purpose. These deviations include a focus on rote memorization over practical application, lack of age-appropriate curriculum design, and a trend towards competitive "AI education" focused on exams and certifications. The article attributes these issues to inadequate teacher training and a lack of resources, further exacerbated by commercial entities linking AI education to academic advancement. The author urges for improvement in teacher training, curriculum design, and a renewed focus on holistic development and cultivating interest in technology.
Summary: Since the beginning of the year, Yunnan province has implemented over 1,000 "Parents' Night School" civil practice activities in rural areas, with more than 100,000 parents participating as students. These night schools aim to improve parental education knowledge and practices, addressing issues like ineffective discipline and excessive screen time. The initiative seeks to correct outdated concepts like "spare the rod, spoil the child" and improve communication within families. Experts emphasize the need for accessible and practical support for rural families, including "down-to-earth" teaching methods and strengthened collaboration between families, schools, and communities. It is hoped that the "Parents' Night School" will contribute to breaking the cycle of poverty and promoting rural revitalization.
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Summary: The article highlights China's progress in nuclear fusion research, specifically focusing on the microwave heating technology developed by a team at the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences for the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), also known as the "artificial sun". The team successfully achieved a 1066-second steady-state high-confinement plasma operation in early 2025. The system has a 100% domestic production rate and has attracted international collaboration. The team is now focusing on improving wave coupling efficiency and collaborating with domestic institutions, aiming for further breakthroughs during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. China is planning to have a demonstration power generation by 2030.
Summary: The 2025 China Public Relations Development Conference was held in Beijing, focusing on the theme of "Public Relations + Intelligent Technology to Help Build a Modern Strong Country." Participants from government, businesses, universities, and think tanks discussed leveraging technology to promote innovation in public relations and serve national development goals, particularly in light of the "15th Five-Year Plan." The conference released the "China Enterprise Public Relations Evaluation System (Trial Implementation)" and showcased 80 outstanding public relations cases. Guo Weimin, President of the China Public Relations Association, emphasized the need for the industry to seize development opportunities, strengthen its mission, and explore the integration of public relations and intelligent technology.
Summary: Shanxi Province has designated 40 key migratory bird corridors and implemented a grid management system for monitoring and protection, according to the Shanxi Forestry and Grassland Bureau. The province has also announced 22 birdwatching routes to promote public awareness. Shanxi has strengthened habitat protection efforts, focusing on flagship species like the brown horse pheasant. The province is launching a three-year bird protection campaign in 2025 to combat poaching and trafficking.
Summary: The article highlights the Southern Power Grid's implementation of China's "Four Revolutions, One Cooperation" energy strategy, emphasizing the development of a new energy system. It reports that non-fossil energy sources account for 55% of the grid's power generation, and reliability has reached 99.99%. The grid has also facilitated over 80 billion kWh of electricity exchange with neighboring countries. Furthermore, the Southern Power Grid's international activities, such as electrification projects in Peru and training programs in Egypt, promote Chinese technology and standards abroad. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Yunnan Province will enhance security in its cultural and tourism sectors through measures jointly issued by the provincial Public Security and Culture & Tourism Departments. These measures include strengthening social security in urban and rural tourism areas and cracking down on illegal practices such as price gouging and forced sales. "Tidal policing" will be implemented to increase police presence during peak tourist seasons, and additional community police offices will be established in pilot areas. Police will also actively patrol nighttime cultural and tourism consumption zones.
Summary: Lingshou County in Hebei Province is focusing on industrial transformation towards green energy, new building materials, and cultural tourism to achieve high-quality development. The county aims to upgrade its building material industry through technological innovation and has approved large-scale new energy projects, including solar, wind, and pumped-storage hydroelectricity. Lingshou is also promoting its tourism sector by leveraging its ecological resources and cultural sites. The county has invested significantly in improving living standards through social governance innovations and infrastructure development in rural areas. The report does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article reports on widespread issues with elevator maintenance in China, including superficial inspections, falsified records, and a tendency to prioritize repairs over preventative maintenance, leading to safety hazards. Factors contributing to these problems include insufficient staffing of qualified maintenance personnel, cost-cutting measures by property management companies, and a lack of effective oversight. One consequence of these issues was a fatal elevator accident in Yunnan Province. The article suggests possible solutions, such as shifting the focus from mandatory time-based maintenance to condition-based maintenance, strengthening manufacturer responsibility, and exploring innovative funding mechanisms for repairs. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Residents of the Honglong Square residential complex in Shenzhen's Baoan district are petitioning authorities regarding safety concerns stemming from scaffolding erected three years ago for the nearby Ganglongcheng commercial complex. The scaffolding, located at the residential complex's entrances and around the buildings, remains in place despite the incomplete and slow-moving construction project. Residents highlight the risk of collapse due to rust and loose parts, especially threatening to the elderly and children residing in the complex. They request authorities to inspect, adjust, remove, or replace the scaffolding to eliminate the safety hazard.
Summary: The first article discusses the online sale of health products deceptively marketed as "miracle drugs," highlighting issues such as exaggerated advertising, fake reviews, and the sale of prescription drugs without prescriptions. It urges regulators to strengthen oversight, utilize technology to identify illegal activities, and increase penalties for offenders, while also emphasizing the responsibility of e-commerce platforms to monitor and regulate the sale of these products. The second article addresses the increasing number of abandoned rural schools due to rural-to-urban migration. It suggests repurposing these idle schools into community centers, recreational facilities, elderly care homes, or emergency shelters to revitalize the rural area.
Summary: A recent report highlights increasing consumer complaints regarding the quality and after-sales service of home appliances in China, despite government incentives aimed at boosting domestic consumption. Common issues include product malfunctions, safety hazards, counterfeit goods, and difficulties in obtaining reliable repairs or fair pricing. Experts attribute these problems to unclear responsibilities among manufacturers, retailers, e-commerce platforms, and logistics companies, as well as information asymmetry and high costs for consumers seeking redress. The report suggests strengthening regulatory oversight, clarifying responsibilities, and optimizing dispute resolution mechanisms to improve consumer protection in the home appliance sector. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The People's Daily and People's Daily Online are jointly soliciting public feedback on urgent issues and concerns through the "Reader's Letters" section and the "Leaders' Message Board." Readers are encouraged to submit tips and suggestions via email or mobile applications. The initiative aims to gather information on problems affecting the populace. There is no mention of any official's statements or actions, nor is there any discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Lian Du district is focusing on "innovation" and narrowing the "three major gaps" (urban-rural, regional, and income) to promote high-quality development. The district is upgrading its industries through scientific and technological innovation, attracting investment and talent, and strengthening industrial clusters, such as beauty and health, and smart valve industries. Lian Du is also exploring integrated development in rural areas to increase income and promote rural revitalization through the development of ecological industries. They are further invigorating the city economy through initiatives like developing building economies, attracting first stores, and developing market economies.
Summary: This article discusses the importance of effectively implementing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee's major decisions and deployments, emphasizing the need for improved mechanisms to ensure their proper execution. It highlights the significance of aligning actions with the CCP's central directives and preventing deviations or superficial implementation. The article advocates for strengthening coordination, responsibility systems, and supervision mechanisms to combat formalism and bureaucracy. The text makes no mention of the U.S. or U.S.-China relations. Ultimately, the article stresses the need for political consciousness and accountability in realizing the "15th Five-Year Plan".
Summary: This article emphasizes the need to alleviate burdens on local-level governance in China by reducing excessive paperwork, meetings, and evaluations that detract from serving the people. It argues that these practices stem from a lack of firm ideological grounding among some officials, leading to formalism and bureaucracy, and that superficial improvements are insufficient. The author calls for a shift towards quality improvement, allowing local officials more autonomy and resources to address local needs effectively while also stressing the need to avoid inaction under the guise of burden reduction. The article advocates for a holistic approach that empowers local cadres to focus on problem-solving and development while also promoting incentives and preventing accountability for honest mistakes. Ultimately, the goal is to strengthen local governance as the foundation for achieving Chinese-style modernization.
Summary: The article emphasizes the necessity of constructing a "China-led" urban studies discipline rooted in Chinese practice and culture, as advocated by Xi Jinping. It argues that Western urban theories are inadequate for addressing China's unique urban challenges in its new stage of development. It advocates for a people-centric approach, drawing upon both historical traditions and future trends, while also promoting interdisciplinary research and practical application of research findings. The article highlights the need to address real-world problems such as urban governance and green transition by translating academic research into actionable policies. There is no discussion of the United States in this article.
Summary: To mark the 5th anniversary of Xi Jinping's thought on the rule of law, a central work conference was held, emphasizing the commitment to advancing the rule of law. Xi Jinping stressed the historic achievements in this area and outlined a strategic plan for building a rule-of-law China. The conference highlighted the need to organically unify governing the country by law and the Party by regulations, and to comprehensively build a modern socialist country on the track of the rule of law. The meeting also emphasized the importance of coordinating the rule of law with reform, development, and stability, as well as ensuring social fairness and justice. The Ministry of Justice vowed to implement Xi's directives, focusing on high-quality legal services and guarantees for Chinese-style modernization.
Summary: Shanghai's Jing'an district is revitalizing the Suzhou Creek area by transforming former industrial sites into cultural and creative spaces. Jing'an district is supporting cultural and creative enterprises financially and with policy, with District Chief Zhai Lei saying they are building an ecosystem integrating commerce, culture, creativity, and technology. The district aims to build an international fashion district and promote Chinese creative works globally. The revitalization effort has attracted young entrepreneurs and seen significant tax revenue growth. According to Xiao Yewei, head of the Jing'an District Publicity Department, the area is creating a cultural ecosystem that makes architecture readable and streets walkable.
Summary: Responding to a report on December 19th, police in Dege County, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, rescued three white-lipped deer trapped in a frozen river. Temperatures were -10 degrees Celsius. Police auxiliary Jiàng Yōng Zhāxī led the rescue effort, entering the river to secure the deer with ropes. After the rescue, police and civilians moved two of the weaker deer to a local home, and all three were returned to nature. The local police have strengthened winter patrols and ecological protection to protect the local ecology.
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Summary: An agricultural entrepreneur in Sichuan province, Huang Xin, has successfully produced "carbon-neutral" rice by meticulously tracking and reducing carbon emissions throughout the rice's lifecycle, from seed to processing. By adopting methods like using organic fertilizers and biological pest control, Huang Xin reduced the carbon footprint of his "Ran Yi Gong Mi" rice by nearly 50% compared to conventional farming. The rice received carbon-neutral certification from the Sichuan United Environment Exchange, giving it a "green ID card" for consumers. This initiative aligns with China's broader "15th Five-Year Plan" goals of promoting carbon peaking and neutrality alongside ecological preservation and green economic growth. The article does not discuss the United States.
Summary: The article discusses the growing trend of carbon labels for agricultural products in China, highlighting their potential to enhance competitiveness and promote green agricultural development. It emphasizes optimizing traditional farming practices, such as selecting low-emission crops and reducing chemical inputs, to minimize carbon emissions. The piece advocates for improved regulations, carbon trading rules, and public awareness campaigns to support low-carbon agriculture. It also calls for further research and development of low-emission crop varieties, carbon sequestration technologies, and green agricultural machinery. The article concludes that agriculture can contribute significantly to carbon sequestration and global climate governance through innovation and comprehensive management.
Summary: In Shaoxing, Zhejiang province, the Lizhu Township is revitalizing its orchid industry through Party-led initiatives. The Lizhu Township established an orchid industrial chain Party committee in August 2024 to focus on technology, talent recruitment, and brand promotion, leading to increased sales and the creation of a public brand. The effort links production, sales, R&D, and culture, with sales exceeding 200 million yuan in 2025. National People's Congress representative Liu Jianming hopes to find new operating methods to promote rural tourism projects. Lizhu Township Party Secretary Jiang Honghong aims to deepen Party leadership and technological empowerment to boost rural revitalization.
Summary: TATA Wood Doors held its 2026 Beautiful Living Innovation Conference, showcasing its advancements from doors to comprehensive "new quiet realm" solutions for homes. The company is focusing on intelligent technology, new materials, and noise reduction to meet consumer demand for "good houses," aligning with the government's policy emphasis on safe, comfortable, green, and smart homes. TATA Wood Doors highlighted its smart electric doors and professional-grade noise-reducing doors, demonstrating innovation driven by user needs. The company aims to improve living quality and promote high-quality development in the manufacturing industry through technological innovation. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Zhengzhou is focusing on upgrading its industrial structure by focusing on advanced manufacturing and modern service industries. The city is optimizing industrial development mechanisms, focusing on 20 key industrial chains and establishing a "one chain, one special team, one research and development institution, one map, and eight lists" promotion mechanism. Zhengzhou is also accelerating the digital transformation of industries, building 5G factories and intelligent factories, and promoting the integration of the digital economy and the real economy. Innovation platforms are also being expanded to support basic research and key technology breakthroughs. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: President Xi Jinping has issued a decree announcing revisions to the Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China, effective January 1, 2026. The amendments emphasize the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party in cybersecurity work, guided by the "overall national security concept." The revised law includes provisions to support AI research and development while strengthening risk monitoring and ethical norms. Increased penalties are stipulated for violations related to network security obligations, data protection, and the sale of uncertified network equipment. The law also outlines measures against entities outside of China that endanger PRC cybersecurity.
Summary: The 2025 "National Fitness, Healthy China" National County Football Championship kicked off in Guilin, Guangxi, under the guidance of the General Administration of Sport of China and the Chinese Football Association. Twenty-four winning teams from provincial county finals across China, totaling 335 participants, are competing after a selection process. The event aims to integrate football with local cultural tourism through activities like "Travel with the Games." The tournament, now in its fifth year, was first held in 2021. The event was hosted by the Chinese Football Development Foundation, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Sports Bureau, and the Guilin Municipal People's Government.
Summary: China's cosmetics market exceeded 1 trillion yuan for the second consecutive year in 2024, with domestic brands accounting for 55.2% of total transactions. Domestic brands, such as HBN, are increasingly focusing on research and development to meet consumer demand for effective products. HBN founder Yao Zhelan emphasized the importance of domestic brands focusing on local needs, independent research, and long-term investment in key technologies. Supportive policies and a robust regulatory environment in areas like Shenzhen are fostering innovation and high-quality development in the cosmetics industry. The article does not discuss or allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: 交通 Bank of Communications (BOCOM) Credit Card Center is implementing measures to boost domestic consumption, focusing on a "Hundred Counties, Ten Thousand Stores" campaign. This initiative aims to extend financial services to rural areas, targeting basic, improved, and new consumption patterns. BOCOM is working to integrate online and offline services and collaborate with local governments and businesses to stimulate spending in these regions. They are further driving consumption through promotions such as "Red Friday" and year-end celebrations. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Chinese and Dutch scientists have successfully synthesized a dynamic polymer with a double helix structure inspired by the Shanghai Tower. The polymer, created by a team at the Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center at East China University of Science and Technology, can expand and contract with temperature changes and completely unwind under specific conditions, degrading into absorbable molecules. This new material, made using biocompatible "molecular building blocks," holds potential for biomedical applications like wearable and implantable devices due to its flexibility, biocompatibility, and biodegradability. The research team was led by Professor Zhang Qi, and included Ben Feringa. The study opens avenues for developing biomimetic intelligent materials.
Summary: A research team including members from the Chengdu University of Technology, the Carnegie Institution for Science, and MIT, published a study in *Nature Geoscience* claiming to have found "chemical vestiges" of the pre-impact Earth in deep mantle materials. These findings challenge traditional geochemical theory and suggest that Earth's interior may contain a "time capsule" from the early solar system, with samples analyzed from locations including Greenland, Canada, and Hawaii. The team's analysis of potassium-40 isotopes suggests that the Earth's volatile elements may have originated closer to the sun. Further research will focus on verifying these findings using other element isotope systems and modeling the conditions under which the original mantle material could have survived the impact. The study has implications for understanding the origins of terrestrial planets and conditions for habitability.
Summary: A research team from the UK has developed a flexible, conductive "skin" for robots capable of simultaneously sensing pressure and temperature using a single layer of hydrogel and a novel electrical impedance tomography method. This "skin" uses artificial intelligence to process complex electrical signals, enabling the robot to distinguish between different stimuli, mimicking human touch. The hydrogel material is highly sensitive to mechanical force, temperature, and humidity, and can be molded into complex shapes. While challenges remain regarding stability and response time, this advancement is expected to enhance human-computer interaction and could have applications in robotics, healthcare, and industrial manufacturing.
Summary: A collaborative study by Sweden's Karolinska Institute and Oregon Health & Science University found a correlation between increased social media use and a decline in attention spans among children aged 9-13 in the U.S. The four-year study, tracking over 8,000 children, revealed that increased social media use was associated with decreased attention, but not with hyperactivity or impulsivity. Other screen activities like television and video games did not show a similar association with decreased attention. The findings are relevant given the rising rates of ADHD diagnoses alongside increased screen time. The study was published in the American journal *Pediatric Open Science*.
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Summary: The article discusses the development and application of Chinese large language models (LLMs), focusing on Baidu's ERNIE model and its contributions to various sectors. Baidu claims its ERNIE model ranks second globally in text capability and first in China, highlighting its contributions to the open-source ecosystem. The article emphasizes Baidu's full-stack, independent technology chain, from Kunlun chips to the PaddlePaddle framework and ERNIE model. It showcases applications in energy (State Grid), manufacturing (CRRC), and urban governance, noting the AI model's role in improving efficiency and reducing costs. The article positions China as a global leader in AI development, with the number of LLMs released ranking first in the world.
Summary: Qianxinan Prefecture in Guizhou Province has focused on high-quality development, achieving significant economic growth with increases in GDP, infrastructure investment, and per capita income. The prefecture has deepened reform and opening up, enhancing its development momentum by optimizing the business environment and integrating into national strategies like the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. It has also promoted the coordinated development of its primary, secondary, and tertiary industries, with particular success in tourism, branding itself as a "Health and Wellness Destination." The region has prioritized ecological protection and livelihood improvements, ensuring a stable and safe environment for development. New transportation infrastructure, including the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge and Panxing High-speed Railway, is expected to further reshape Qianxinan's development landscape.
Summary: Shandong province is developing a comprehensive commercial aerospace industry, leveraging its maritime launch capabilities at the Oriental Aerospace Port in Haiyang. The port has supported multiple successful launches, including the Gravity-1 Y2 rocket, and is attracting private companies like Eastern Space, which achieved a record with its Gravity-1 rocket. Shandong aims to build a complete commercial aerospace chain, targeting an annual production capacity of 100 rockets and 150 satellites by 2027. The province is also integrating aerospace technology with various sectors, including transportation and agriculture, aiming for comprehensive integration with the national aerospace development plan by 2035. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China is actively promoting research and development in controlled thermonuclear fusion, supported by the upcoming "Atomic Energy Law" in 2026. The country has launched international scientific programs and is opening its fusion energy experimental platforms globally. China is also participating in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project and collaborating with over 140 international research institutions. China co-hosted the World Fusion Energy Group Ministerial Meeting and IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, releasing the Chengdu Statement. The country aims to contribute to global clean energy solutions and showcase its role in promoting energy transition.
Summary: The article discusses the rise of technological innovation in Tongxiang, Zhejiang, a county known for its industrial base rather than its technological prowess. Tongxiang has increased its high-tech enterprises and R&D spending by leveraging external expertise ("外脑") through collaborations with universities and research institutions like Tsinghua University, resulting in the establishment of the Wuzhen Laboratory and a science and technology corridor. Local companies like Zhongze Technology and Zhenshi, are partnering with these institutions to overcome technical challenges and expand into new markets, such as renewable energy. The local government supports these companies by providing targeted assistance and modifying regulations to foster innovation. Tongxiang is actively building a science and technology city around Phoenix Lake, indicating a strategic effort to create an innovation hub.
Summary: An article reports that smart robots are being used in substations to inspect equipment, identify potential overheating issues, and monitor operational status via thermal imaging. A recent inspection was conducted by a smart robot at the 220 kV Anqiu substation in Weifang, Shandong, focusing on key equipment. The use of these robots leverages visual recognition technology for autonomous inspections. The article does not mention the U.S. or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: New policies in China aim to boost consumption by expanding duty-free shop offerings and accessibility, including online ordering and airport pickup. These measures include supporting the sale of domestic goods in duty-free shops, increasing the variety of products available, and streamlining the approval process for new stores, which are now including cultural products and local specialties. Local governments are integrating duty-free shopping with tourism, such as in Guangzhou where they are launching direct bus routes from Hong Kong airport. The goal is to attract both domestic and international tourists by offering convenient and unique shopping experiences. The article makes no mention of the United States.
Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of "precision" in agricultural insurance, highlighting the innovative "apple flowering period weather index insurance" in Yan'an, Shaanxi, which provides timely compensation to farmers affected by frost. It notes the increasing role of agricultural insurance in ensuring food security and boosting farmer income, especially with the implementation of full-cost insurance and income insurance for major grain crops. To improve the efficacy of agricultural insurance, the article calls for enhanced technical application, data sharing, and the development of tailored insurance products for local specialties. It also stresses the need to improve disaster risk dispersion mechanisms in agricultural insurance to cope with the impacts of extreme weather events.
Summary: The Beijing Stock Exchange (BSE) has seen 286 listed companies raise over 60 billion yuan in the four years since its opening, with small and medium-sized enterprises comprising nearly 80% of these companies. BSE Chairman Lu Songbin stated that the exchange aims to better support technological innovation during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. In related news, ICBC is piloting the first domestic Mastercard multi-currency debit card, integrating RMB and 10 major foreign currencies, including USD, to reduce cross-border transaction costs. The ICBC and Mastercard will continue to deepen cooperation, focus on bank card management, promote consumption, and payment innovation, and continue to enrich the multi-currency payment product matrix.
Summary: This article discusses the recent reforms in Inner Mongolia's rural financial institutions, specifically the consolidation of local agricultural credit cooperatives into the Inner Mongolia Rural Commercial Bank (农商银行). This consolidation has increased the bank's lending capacity and allowed for more tailored financial products for local businesses, such as potato farmers and tech companies. An increase of the credit line up to 60 million yuan has supported the potato industry. The reforms aim to address the previous limitations of smaller, less resilient local institutions and better support the region's agricultural and small business sectors. A financial regulatory official from Inner Mongolia states that this has enabled better services for small and medium sized enterprises.
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Summary: Postal Savings Bank of China's Hubei branch (PSBC Hubei) is focusing on technological finance, green finance, inclusive finance, pension finance, and digital finance to support Hubei's economic development. PSBC Hubei has deepened its technology finance services, establishing technology finance divisions and specialized service systems, and has provided loans to over 6,500 technology companies, with outstanding loans reaching 24.9 billion yuan. The branch has also increased credit support for energy conservation and environmental protection, with green loans reaching nearly 45 billion yuan. PSBC Hubei has also issued nearly 9 billion in knowledge credit loans to 1680 customers. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article describes the author's travels around the "几" (jǐ, meaning "several")-shaped bend of the Yellow River, starting in Lanzhou and ending in Fenglingdu. The author discusses the historical significance of the area, particularly in relation to the "走西口" (zǒu xīkǒu, "Go West") migration movement, where people from Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Hebei sought better opportunities in the Inner Mongolia region within the bend. The author reflects on the ecological changes in the area, including the new greenery in the deserts and the revitalized Ulansuhai Lake. The author also references the Great Wall and its proximity to the Yellow River.
Summary: This article discusses the complex relationship between writers and their hometowns, arguing that while hometowns often serve as a source of inspiration, "foreign lands" can be equally, if not more, important for some authors. The author uses examples like Ibsen, Yuan Hongdao, and contemporary writers like Liu E and Lao She to illustrate how writers can find creative inspiration and a sense of belonging in places other than their birthplaces. The author also reflects on their own experience as a writer from Shandong who found inspiration in Suzhou. The author concludes that both "foreign lands" and "hometowns" can be valuable sources of inspiration for writers, as long as they resonate with the writer's personal values and aesthetic preferences. The United States and U.S.-China relations are not discussed in the article.
Summary: This article evokes a nostalgic memory of rural life in a small mountain village in Xifeng County, Guizhou, during winter. It describes the central role of the hearth in cooking, heating, and storytelling, and the communal warmth it provides, contrasting with the cold world outside. The author recalls their uncle singing traditional songs of loss and change, reminiscent of their grandmother, while also recounting simpler pleasures like buying sweets from the local store. The piece emphasizes the cyclical nature of life and death, attributing both abundance and decline to the unseen fire at the earth's core.
Summary: This article identifies the artwork "Snowy Mountains of Tianshan" by Liang Dong as being held in the National Art Museum of China. The piece is a watercolor painting. The article does not offer any further context regarding its creation, reception, or significance, nor any discussion of Chinese politics or international relations. Therefore, the summary is limited to the artwork's identification and location.
Summary: This is a poem reflecting on the unexpected beauty and romance of a wintersweet (腊梅) blooming in the author's small courtyard. The author contrasts the flower's delicate fragrance with the mundane realities of daily life, finding inspiration for dreams, tears, poetry, and laughter. The poem describes the wintersweet as being more suited to growing in a remote, elevated location, but the fact that it grows in the author's yard instead is a romantic surprise. The author describes the contrast of a thin figure raising up from beside a stove, and the wintersweet blooming in the corner of the yard. The poem concludes with an image of snow falling between the author and the fragrant tree.
Summary: This article is a personal reflection on the author's connection to a local specialty called "fanbao rouyuan," a type of meatball made without meat. The author recounts childhood memories of their mother making the dish and a failed attempt to recreate it with their father while the mother was away. The author's father missed the author's mother, and looked forward to her return. The author's family lived in Jiubao. The author does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The author reflects on a field of sunflowers growing by the sea in Rizhao, noting their resilience against the wind and their unwavering focus on the light. This observation leads to thoughts about Liu Xie, a literary theorist from Rizhao, and his dedication to exploring the "way" of writing. The author connects the sunflowers' persistence with the spirit of the people in Rizhao, who face daily challenges with optimism. As the sun sets, the sunflowers turn towards the sea, creating a moment of collective contemplation and anticipation for the next dawn.
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By: 本报记者 韩 鑫 王云杉
Regional coordinated development is an inherent requirement of Chinese-style modernization.
China has a vast territory and a large population, and the differences in natural resource endowments among regions are rare in the world. Coordinating regional development has always been a major issue.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "China's economy has shifted from a stage of high-speed growth to a stage of high-quality development, which has put forward new requirements for coordinated regional development." "We must form several new sources of power that can drive the country's high-quality development, especially the three major regions of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀), the Yangtze River Delta (长三角), and the Pearl River Delta (珠三角), as well as some important urban agglomerations. Imbalance is universal, and relative balance should be promoted in development. This is the dialectic of coordinated regional development."
The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划) proposal puts forward: "Give play to the superimposed effects of the regional coordinated development strategy, major regional strategies, the main functional area strategy, and the new urbanization strategy, optimize the layout of major productive forces, give play to the role of growth poles in key areas, and build a regional economic layout and territorial space system with complementary advantages and high-quality development." This will continuously accumulate strong momentum for Chinese-style modernization.
Finding the Right Position and Better Leveraging Strategic Synergies
How to release strategic synergies? Observing two provincial samples can provide profound insights.
One is Anhui (安徽), a central province. This year, Anhui has become a "leader" in automobile manufacturing.
Behind the "reversal" is a unique ingenuity that focuses on the big picture and lands on key points.
Shanghai (上海) develops chips, Zhejiang (浙江) manufactures integrated die-casting machines, Jiangsu (江苏) provides batteries, and Anhui produces complete vehicles... Based on the "4-hour industrial circle" of new energy vehicles in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角), NIO (蔚来汽车) has a full sense of gain: logistics costs are reduced, technological innovation is accelerated, and the delivery volume of new energy vehicles in the first three quarters has grown rapidly.
Turning the locational disadvantage of "neither east nor west" into the development advantage of "connecting the east and starting the west, connecting the south and connecting the north," Anhui's automobile industry is accelerating. In the first three quarters of this year, Anhui's automobile production was 2.404 million vehicles, and its automobile exports were 802,000 vehicles, both ranking first in the country.
The other is Qinghai (青海), a western province. In Golmud Industrial Park (格尔木工业园), an engineer presses the start button, and brine from different salt lakes in Xinjiang (新疆), Tibet (西藏), Qinghai (青海), and other places slowly flows into the test tube containing lithium adsorbent, and then the lithium ions in the brine are quickly separated.
"By overcoming key technologies, plateau salt lakes have shown broad market prospects," said the head of Qinghai Cross-border Separation Technology Co., Ltd., adding that revenue is expected to exceed 100 million yuan this year.
Bearing the major mission of maintaining ecological security, Qinghai insists on doing something and not doing something in industrial development. Focusing on salt lake resources, a green, low-carbon, and circular industrial ecology is gradually being built. At present, the 33 salt lakes gather 16 large-scale development enterprises with an annual potash fertilizer production capacity of more than 9 million tons, forming an industrial closed loop from lithium salt extraction to lithium battery materials.
Finding the right position, taking the initiative to advance, making good use of advantages, and adapting to local conditions have become a bright spot for various regions to promote high-quality development.
Anchoring the "central concentrated carrying area for relieving Beijing's non-capital functions," Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) in Hebei (河北) promotes the "same city" of 278 Beijing-Xiong'an government services, and the "city of a thousand years" is growing vigorously;
Based on the "vanguard, pioneer, and experimental zone of reform and opening up," Guangdong's (广东) total import and export volume exceeded 9 trillion yuan in 2024, and the role of "carrying the big beam" is becoming more prominent;
Grasping the "building a national important advanced manufacturing highland," Hunan's (湖南) high-tech manufacturing added value has increased by an average of 13.9% annually in the past 5 years, and the industrial content of "new" has steadily increased;
Deeply cultivating the "ballast stone" of national food security, Heilongjiang's (黑龙江) grain output has ranked first in the country for 16 consecutive years, and the "Chinese rice bowl" is filled with more "Longjiang grain";
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**窥斑见豹** (kuī bān jiàn bào - "see spots know leopard," to get a general idea from a small part; to judge the whole by observing a part) , a methodology is becoming clearer—
"Under the overall leadership of the Party Central Committee, each region should not follow others or simply imitate, but should see where its advantages lie, how to learn from others' strengths and make up for weaknesses, and how to promote strengths and avoid weaknesses."
The world is undergoing major changes unseen in a century, and domestic economic development is showing new stage characteristics, which puts forward new requirements for optimizing the regional economic layout. The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划) proposal proposes "encouraging all regions to give play to their comparative advantages and give full play to their strengths."
"Focusing on the strategic positioning of 'three places and one area,' we will plan and promote a number of tractional work and strategic measures, give play to the superimposed advantages of multiple national development strategies, and show greater achievements in serving the construction of a new development pattern," said the relevant person in charge of the Anhui Provincial Development and Reform Commission (安徽省发展和改革委员会).
"Based on the construction of 'four places' in the industry, we will optimize traditional industries such as salt lake chemical industry and clean energy, strengthen emerging industries such as new energy and ecological cultural tourism, and promote new progress in ecological protection and high-quality economic development on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (青藏高原)," said the relevant person in charge of the Qinghai Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology (青海省工业和信息化厅).
Zhou Yiren (周毅仁), director of the Institute of Territorial Development and Regional Economics of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展和改革委员会), believes that as we move towards the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五), all regions should strengthen the positioning of their main functions, and urbanized areas, major agricultural product producing areas, and key ecological function areas should give play to their respective comparative advantages around their main functions, "Different regions gather together to form a strong development momentum."
Synergistic Integration to Promote Regional Linkage Development
The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划) proposal proposes "enhancing the coordination of regional development" and "promoting regional linkage development."
At the junction of Guang'an (广安), Sichuan (四川) and Chongqing (重庆), factories are lined up one after another. From an "inter-provincial marginal area" to a new city jointly built across provinces, the Sichuan-Chongqing High-tech New Area (川渝高竹新区) is breaking ground, sprouting, and growing vigorously, and is performing a vivid story of linkage development.
There is no precedent for "one district across two provinces and two provinces building one district." How to unify management and scientific layout?
On December 29, 2020, the governments of Sichuan and Chongqing (川渝) jointly approved the establishment of the Sichuan-Chongqing High-tech New Area (川渝高竹新区). As the first new area jointly built across provinces in the country, it has shouldered a major mission since its birth: to explore the reform of the moderate separation of economic zones and administrative regions.
If there are large policy differences, promote the acceptance of matters without discrimination; if taxes and fees are inconsistent, unify 79 tax and fee policies... In the past 5 years, hundreds of reform measures have been promoted in depth, helping the new area to burst into vitality.
Today, looking at the Sichuan-Chongqing High-tech New Area (川渝高竹新区), Sichuan (四川) parts cross provincial boundaries and are directly supplied to Chongqing (重庆) workshops; Sichuan-Chongqing (川渝) vehicles come and go, and new buildings and new shopping malls are emerging... Since the beginning of this year, the new area has signed 10 major projects jointly built by Sichuan and Chongqing (川渝), with a total investment of 2.94 billion yuan.
"As we move towards the '15th Five-Year Plan' (十五五), we will continue to take the lead in pilot projects in the fields of market-oriented allocation of factors and integrated public services, and create the core advantages of Sichuan-Chongqing (川渝) cooperation 'experimental field'," said Li Jia (李佳), full-time deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Sichuan-Chongqing High-tech New Area (川渝高竹新区).
Closely focusing on the two keywords of "integration" and "high quality," regional coordinated development is continuing to exert its strength in accumulating momentum—
Along the coastline from north to south, the three major urban agglomerations of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀), the Yangtze River Delta (长三角), and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) have become important sources of power leading high-quality development.
The total regional economy has reached a new level of 11 trillion yuan. Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) jointly released the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) Industrial Collaborative Development Initiative, and will jointly cultivate world-class industrial clusters in the future;
The number of cities with a regional GDP of more than 1 trillion yuan accounts for 1/3 of the country. The Yangtze River Delta (长三角) released the latest action plan, focusing on the integrated development of metropolitan areas, and seeking to further enhance regional competitiveness;
The Greater Bay Area (大湾区), which gathers 9 trillion-yuan-level industrial clusters, the Guangdong (粤), Hong Kong (港), and Macao (澳) jointly held the National Games, showing the great atmosphere of today's Greater Bay Area (大湾区) to the world...
"Promoting the rational flow and efficient agglomeration of various factors in the domestic geographical space, and forming a regional economic cycle with complementary advantages and coordinated linkage is an inherent requirement for building a new development pattern," said Wang Changlin (王昌林), deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展和改革委员会). As we move towards the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五), we must always adhere to the national overall plan, systematically promote it as a whole, and highlight key points and concentrate efforts to achieve the "leading" of key areas to drive the "galloping" of the whole country.
Urban-Rural Integration and In-Depth Promotion of New Urbanization
Urbanization is the only way to modernization; urban-rural integrated development is an inevitable requirement of Chinese-style modernization. The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划) proposal proposes to promote people-oriented new urbanization in depth.
What opportunities does urbanization contain? The county economy is an important window.
This year's "Double 11" (双11), on the Hanfu (汉服) industry street in Daji Town (大集镇), Caoxian County (曹县), Heze (菏泽), Shandong (山东), logistics vehicles shuttled back and forth, and thousands of large and small shops stretched for several kilometers.
"The daily volume of express delivery in and out of the port is about 700,000 orders, an increase of about 20% year-on-year," said Zhang Longfei (张龙飞), director of the Caoxian E-commerce Service Center (曹县电商服务中心).
A Hanfu (汉服) has transformed a traditional agricultural county that relies on labor export into a new type of county town driven by rural e-commerce.
Promote the city with industry. Aiming at the segmented track and building an industrial system, China's largest original Hanfu (汉服) industrial cluster has formed in Caoxian County (曹县). In 2024, the sales of Hanfu (汉服) will exceed 12 billion yuan, and one out of every two original Hanfu (汉服) is "made in Caoxian (曹县)".
Gather people with industry. To improve the level of public services and continuously improve social people's livelihood, Caoxian County (曹县) has specially introduced guarantee policies to promote brand "longevity" with talent "repatriation". In recent years, Caoxian County (曹县) has attracted a total of 50,000 people to return to their hometowns to start businesses, driving 350,000 people to engage in the e-commerce industry.
"'During the '15th Five-Year Plan' (十五五) period, we will focus on characteristic industries such as Hanfu (汉服) and wood products, build a foundation for revitalizing the city with high-quality industries, and gather popularity and vitality with characteristic business forms," said Meng Lingxuan (孟令选), deputy secretary of the Caoxian County Party Committee (曹县县委) and county magistrate.
Extending from a "light", Delingha City (德令哈市) in Qinghai (青海) has transformed from a desolate small city into a "capital of solar thermal"; starting from a small package, Huaxin Town (华新镇) in Shanghai (上海) has transformed into the "first express delivery town" with a trillion-yuan-level logistics industry...
The county town connects the city on one end and the countryside on the other, and is a key support for urban-rural integrated development. Deeply exploring resource endowments, more and more county towns are writing a vibrant narrative of "many stories in small towns" in the new era.
Large cities are "strengthening their bodies" and small towns are "surging with vitality", and the huge domestic demand potential contained in new urbanization is accelerating its release. Since the "14th Five-Year Plan" (十四五), the urbanization rate of permanent residents in my country has increased to 67%, and the GDP of 19 urban agglomerations has remained stable at more than 83% of the country, becoming a powerful engine for stabilizing investment and promoting consumption.
At present, my country's urbanization is shifting from a period of rapid growth to a period of stable development, and urban development is shifting from a stage of large-scale incremental expansion to a stage mainly focused on stock quality improvement and efficiency enhancement, and there is still a lot of space and potential for urbanization.
"'During the '15th Five-Year Plan' (十五五) period, the urbanization rate of permanent residents in the country is expected to increase to more than 70%. Accurately grasping the historical orientation and actively adapting to changes in the situation will continuously create a new situation in the development of new urbanization," said Xing Wei (邢伟), a researcher at the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展和改革委员会宏观经济研究院).
Scientifically and orderly promoting the citizenization of agricultural transfer population, promoting the modernization of governance in megacities and megacities, and promoting the urbanization construction with county towns as an important carrier by category... Focusing on narrowing regional gaps and urban-rural differences, the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划) proposal deploys a number of pragmatic measures.
"These deployments adhere to a people-oriented approach, better coordinate urban development and rural construction, promote the two-way flow of resource elements between urban and rural areas, which is conducive to further breaking down the urban-rural dual structure, and vigorously promoting the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas and the development of new urbanization," said Xing Wei (邢伟).
On the new journey, firmly establishing the idea of a national overall plan, and each region coordinating and integrating and working together, will surely continue to open up the in-depth space for China's economic development.
(Our reporters You Yi (游仪), Tian Xianjin (田先进), Li Rui (李蕊), and Cao Jiwei (曹继炜) participated in the writing of this report)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 寇江泽
Adhering to green development is a profound revolution in the concept of development.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Promoting the green and low-carbon transformation of economic and social development is a key link in achieving high-quality development."
Thoroughly implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions, all regions and departments are going all out to promote ecological civilization construction, strengthen pollution prevention and control, and improve the people's production and living environment, striving to build a modern country where humans and nature coexist in harmony.
Strengthening the construction of the carbon market, promoting the deep transformation of traditional industries, and cultivating and developing new quality productive forces; promoting the protection and construction of beautiful rivers and lakes, and deepening the ecological and environmental protection of river basins; building a modern ecological environment monitoring system, and improving the ability and level of ecological environment monitoring... During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's economic and social development has made solid progress in its comprehensive green transformation, and the construction of a beautiful China has taken significant steps.
Deeply promote pollution prevention and control and ecosystem optimization, and build a solid ecological security barrier—
Nanshan District (南山区), Shenzhen (深圳市), Guangdong (广东) Province, the Huan Xili Lake Greenway (环西丽湖绿道) is embedded in the mountains and lakes. "In the past, there were many weeds and rocks on the shore, but now the roads are flat and the scenery is beautiful, which makes me feel comfortable." Li Wangqing (李旺清), a resident living nearby, often comes here for brisk walking. In February of this year, the Huan Xili Lake Greenway (环西丽湖绿道) was fully opened to traffic. The local area adhered to low-disturbance development, restored the water system and forest appearance, and provided citizens with high-quality ecological space for walking, cycling, enjoying flowers, and visiting parks.
The battle against pollution prevention and control is advancing in depth. In 2024, the national PM2.5 concentration in cities at the prefecture level and above will drop to 29.3 micrograms per cubic meter, a decrease of 16.3% compared to 2020. The proportion of surface water sections with excellent water quality will be 90.4%, exceeding 90% for the first time. The sky is bluer, the land is greener, and the water is clearer. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the natural reserve system with national parks as the main body has been accelerated. The first batch of 5 national parks, including Sanjiangyuan (三江源), have been established. The area of national land ecological protection red lines accounts for more than 30% of the national land area, and the forest coverage rate exceeds 25%.
Firmly grasp the rhythm and intensity, and actively and steadily promote and achieve carbon peaking—
Zhapu Port Area (乍浦港区) of Jiaxing Port (嘉兴港), Zhejiang (浙江) Province, hydrogen energy trucks shuttle between the yard and the terminal. "Since the first batch was put into operation in 2022, Zhapu Port Area (乍浦港区) of Jiaxing Port (嘉兴港) has cumulatively put in 100 hydrogen energy trucks, replacing 2/3 of the traditional heavy trucks in the entire port, which can save the port about 3 million yuan in fuel costs every year." Zhong Liangliang (钟亮亮), deputy manager of Zhapu Branch (乍浦分部) of Zhejiang Seaport Jiaxing Port Co., Ltd. (浙江海港嘉兴港务有限公司), introduced.
China has incorporated the "dual carbon" work into the overall layout of ecological civilization construction and the overall situation of economic and social development, and insisted on promoting carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth in a coordinated manner. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China has built the world's largest carbon emission trading market covering greenhouse gas emissions, effectively controlling more than 60% of the country's carbon dioxide emissions, and built the world's largest and fastest-growing renewable energy system. The total installed capacity of wind power and solar power has completed the 2030 national independent contribution target ahead of schedule, and the intensity of carbon dioxide emissions has continued to decline. As of 2024, the proportion of clean energy consumption in China's total energy consumption has increased to 28.6%, and the proportion of coal in energy consumption has decreased to 53.2%.
Accelerate the formation of green production and lifestyle, and continuously shape new momentum and new advantages for development—
New energy vehicles transport materials, flue gas emissions are desulfurized and denitrated, and online monitoring of environmental protection facilities is fully covered... During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Angang Steel Co., Ltd. Bayuquan Iron and Steel Branch (鞍钢股份鲅鱼圈钢铁分公司) completed the ultra-low emission transformation of the entire steel production process. In the company's central control room, the ultra-low emission intelligent management platform monitors the main pollutant emission outlets of the plant in real time. "Once the indicators of a point are abnormal, the cause can be immediately identified and the problem can be solved." The relevant person in charge of the company's safety and environmental protection department introduced.
China has vigorously promoted the green and low-carbon transformation of industrial structure, energy structure, and transportation structure, and accelerated the cultivation and development of green productivity. As of now, China has built the world's largest clean steel production system, and 950 million tons of crude steel production capacity has completed the ultra-low emission transformation or key project transformation of the entire process. A green and low-carbon lifestyle has gradually become a fashion, with an average of about 200 million people traveling by public transportation every day.
China's economic and social development has entered a stage of high-quality development that accelerates green and low-carbon transformation. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee proposed to accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development and build a beautiful China.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a key period for the construction of a beautiful China to build on the past and usher in the future and achieve fundamental improvement in the ecological environment. "We must thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Ecological Civilization, firmly establish and practice the concept that **绿水青山就是金山银山** (lǜ shuǐ qīng shān jiù shì jīn shān yín shān - "lush mountains and lucid water are invaluable assets," ecological environment is the foundation for economic development), take carbon peaking and carbon neutrality as the traction, coordinate and promote carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth, build a solid ecological security barrier, enhance the momentum of green development, accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, and promote the construction of a beautiful China to achieve new and major progress." Sun Jinlong (孙金龙), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部), said.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王昊男
To achieve high-quality development, what are Beijing's advantages?
Data is a window for observation: 92 universities, 185 first-class disciplines; 145 national key laboratories, more than 1,000 research institutions; academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (中国工程院) in Beijing account for about half of the country's total... Education, science and technology, and talent are Beijing's greatest advantages.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized in his congratulatory letter to the 2023 Zhongguancun Forum (2023中关村论坛) that "Beijing should give full play to its advantages in education, science and technology, and talent, and promote scientific and technological innovation and institutional innovation in a coordinated manner." The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal puts forward "promoting the development of education, science and technology, and talent in an integrated manner," and the Central Economic Work Conference (中央经济工作会议) has made "formulating a plan for integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent" a key task for economic work in 2026.
To thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, Beijing took the lead in the country to integrate and establish the Municipal Party Committee's Education, Science and Technology, and Talent Work Leading Group (市委教育科技人才工作领导小组), with the main responsible comrades of the Municipal Party Committee directly grasping and personally grasping the work.
"Promote the construction of a leading area for a strong education, an international science and technology innovation center, and a high-level talent highland in an integrated manner." Yin Li (尹力), Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee (北京市委), said that as the capital, Beijing must adhere to the highest standards, make good use of its educational, scientific, technological, and talent resource advantages, continue to exert efforts in developing new quality productive forces and cultivating and expanding new driving forces, and inject strong impetus into high-quality development.
Breaking through difficulties, innovating mechanisms, and cultivating people collaboratively—
From site selection to the start of school, it only took three months. Visiting Beijing Zhongguancun College (北京中关村学院), "behind the unconventional speed is the determination to cultivate talents in an unconventional manner." President Liu Tieyan (刘铁岩) introduced that the college innovatively set up multiple training paths such as artificial intelligence intersection, and created a cutting-edge curriculum system, "breaking the traditional school-running model, students enter the project upon enrollment."
A cross-disciplinary research team composed of students born in the 1990s is using artificial intelligence technology to challenge the problem of transforming photosynthetic enzymes. Cao Chuan (曹川), the team's instructor, introduced that the research is expected to increase enzyme efficiency by 20% and crop light energy utilization by 10%.
Focusing on the "junction" difficulties in the development of education, science and technology, and talent, Beijing continues to explore paths to solve problems. "Guided by the needs of scientific and technological development, national strategy, and the capital's economic and social development, we have established a mechanism for adjusting and optimizing the setting of disciplines and majors." Zhang Yaotian (张耀天), Deputy Director of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission (北京市教委), introduced that in the past three years, Beijing has added 220 urgently needed and in-demand majors such as artificial intelligence, integrated circuits, and quantum technology, and has laid out 99 high-precision and cutting-edge disciplines.
Building platforms, gathering elements, and retaining talents—
First-class talents need a first-class stage. In Changping District (昌平区), a science and technology innovation highland covering hundreds of acres has sprung up, which will become the "new home" for more than 10 national key laboratories of Tsinghua University (清华大学).
"We not only want to achieve the aggregation of physical space, but also promote 'chemical reactions' and create a brand-new scientific research organization model." Cheng Yue (程岳), Director of the Comprehensive Coordination Division of the Science and Technology Innovation Center of the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission (北京市科委) and Zhongguancun Administrative Committee (中关村管委会), introduced.
It is necessary to cultivate talents carefully and retain talents sincerely. In 2024, the Beijing Tsinghua Frontier Interdisciplinary Innovation Research Institute (北京清华前沿交叉创新研究院) was formally established, adopting a private non-enterprise unit mechanism. "The salary and benefits of full-time researchers are comparable to those of Tsinghua's established faculty and staff, and 837 high-level talents have been gathered." said Tian Yu (田煜), Dean of the Institute.
"Continuously strengthen the awareness that 'the key lies in people'." Liu Guangyi (刘光毅), Deputy Director of the Beijing Municipal Talent Work Bureau (北京市人才工作局), introduced that the total amount of talent resources in the city has exceeded 8 million, and key industrial fields have gathered 5.47 million talents, accounting for 68.1% of the total number of talents.
Promoting integration, leading innovation, and releasing kinetic energy—
At the Sky Mirror Industrial Plaza (天空之境产业广场) in Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (北京经开区), an innovative technology of Yanwei Technology Company (衍微科技公司) has attracted attention.
Yu Huimin (于慧敏), the founder of the company and a professor at Tsinghua University (清华大学), introduced that the technology developed by her team uses Bacillus as a chassis bacterium to produce microbial lipid products, which can not only increase oil recovery, but also improve soil and increase yield. "The company has been granted 23 authorized invention patents, and multiple pipeline products have entered the production stage."
"Increase the supply of high-quality technology, strengthen the main position of enterprises in technological innovation, and promote the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements." Zhang Jihong (张继红), Director of the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission (北京市科委) and Zhongguancun Administrative Committee (中关村管委会), introduced that Beijing is constantly exploring new models of full-chain integrated development. The city's technology contract turnover has increased from 631.62 billion yuan in 2020 to 915.33 billion yuan in 2024, ranking among the top in the country.
Driven by innovation, the "potential energy" of scientific and technological innovation is continuously transformed into economic "kinetic energy." In the first three quarters of this year, Beijing's regional GDP exceeded 3.84 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.6%.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 苏 滨
Even in winter, Rongjiang County (榕江县), in Guizhou Province's Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture (黔东南苗族侗族自治州), is unusually busy.
In the village collection points, newly picked monk fruit are piled basket after basket, with villagers busy sorting, packaging, and dispatching; on the production lines in the county seat, machines rumble, and after processes such as extraction and separation, the value of monk fruit also increases significantly.
Rongjiang County (榕江县) was once among the last group of counties in the country to be lifted out of poverty, with weak foundations and a thin base. Leveraging comparative advantages and developing the county's economy in accordance with local conditions has become key to enriching the people and increasing their income.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Develop county economies with distinctive characteristics, cultivate a number of strong agricultural counties, large industrial counties, and famous tourist counties, and promote employment and income growth for farmers in nearby areas."
"Develop county economies with distinctive characteristics" and "cultivate and strengthen rural characteristic industries" were written into the "Suggestions" of the 20th Fourth Plenary Session of the Party.
Rongjiang's (榕江) unique characteristics are closely linked to "Village Super League" ("村超").
Since May 2023, Rongjiang's (榕江) "Village Super League" ("村超") has continued to gain popularity, holding more than 2,700 events, receiving a cumulative total of over 26 million tourists, and achieving a comprehensive tourism income of over 29.6 billion yuan.
The sports event economy directly benefits the masses. Yang Li (杨丽), who runs a rolled noodles shop on the food street 50 meters from the "Village Super League" ("村超") stadium, benefits from the "Village Super League" ("村超") traffic. "When business is good, I can sell thousands of bowls a day." Despite being so busy that she is 脚不沾地 (jiǎo bù zhān dì - "feet don't touch the ground," extremely busy), her annual income has quadrupled, and Yang Li (杨丽) has taken the opportunity to open another storefront, feeling motivated and energetic.
Based on the "Village Super League" ("村超"), it is even more important to break out of the "Village Super League" ("村超").
Rongjiang County (榕江县) leverages the brand influence of the "Village Super League" ("村超") to promote the leap from a single event to multiple business formats, accelerating the flow of factors such as capital, talent, and technology between urban and rural areas, forming a differentiated development and a chain of characteristic county economies.
The change in investment promotion is the most obvious. "In the past, it was difficult to attract investment, and many companies didn't even know where Rongjiang (榕江) was," said Chen Xifen (陈锡芬), Deputy Director of the Rongjiang County Investment Promotion Bureau (榕江县投资促进局). "After the 'Village Super League' ("村超") became popular, many companies took the initiative to come to us for cooperation. The county selects the best of the best, and only those that meet the industrial planning can be implemented."
Monk fruit is a specialty of Rongjiang (榕江). "In the past, the market was singular, lacking processing, and relying on selling fresh fruit to other places, the price fluctuated greatly, and sometimes increased production did not increase income," said Lin Zehe (林泽和), a large-scale grower in Darui Village (大瑞村), Leli Town (乐里镇).
"We saw the business opportunities behind the 'Village Super League' ("村超") brand and took the initiative to invest in building a factory in Rongjiang (榕江)," said Wu Guoliang (吴国亮), factory director of Guizhou Huacheng Green Technology Biological Co., Ltd. (贵州华诚绿科生物科技有限公司). He stated frankly that the total investment in the project is 300 million yuan, including the construction of a monk fruit extraction line and a monk fruit dried fruit production line. After the first phase of production, it has consumed more than 8,000 tons of fresh fruit, with an output value of more than 100 million yuan.
Completing the key link of deep processing, Lin Zehe (林泽和) let go and built a monk fruit collection point at the entrance of the village, signed a guaranteed acquisition agreement with Huacheng Green Technology Company (华诚绿科公司), and supplied fruit uniformly; surrounding villages also took the initiative to join in.
The "village brand" plays the "enriching the people tune." Since the "Village Super League" ("村超") became popular, Rongjiang County (榕江县) has added 9,270 new business entities, cumulatively introduced more than 10 high-quality enterprises in food processing, electronic manufacturing, etc., and reached "Village Super League" ("村超") brand signing cooperation with more than 50 enterprises, forming a product matrix for sales nationwide. The county's gross regional product has exceeded 10 billion yuan.
"To thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the 20th Fourth Plenary Session of the Party, we will continue to adapt to local conditions, cultivate and strengthen characteristic and advantageous industries, and promote the integrated development of industrial revitalization, county strengthening, and people enrichment," said Xu Bo (徐勃), Secretary of the Rongjiang County Party Committee (榕江县委书记).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李心萍
As night falls and the lights gradually brighten, the cities twinkle with lights and the villages resemble stars across the 9.6 million square kilometers of land.
More than 1.4 billion people have access to electricity 24 hours a day, which is inseparable from the support of a new energy system.
In 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) creatively proposed the "Four Revolutions, One Cooperation" energy security new strategy of promoting energy consumption revolution, energy supply revolution, energy technology revolution, energy system revolution and all-round strengthening of international cooperation, which clarified the strategic direction of China's energy development.
To thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions, China Southern Power Grid (南方电网) practices the "Four Revolutions, One Cooperation" energy security new strategy and strives to promote high-quality energy development.
55%, 99.99%, 80 billion - the 3 data released by China Southern Power Grid (南方电网) witness the vivid practice of high-quality energy development.
The proportion of non-fossil energy power generation reaches 55%
On November 9, the opening ceremony of the 15th National Games was held in Guangdong Olympic Sports Center (广东奥体中心), witnessing the new upgrade of this old venue: the installation of photovoltaic panels with an annual power generation capacity of over 420,000 kWh; the access to dedicated transformers to create a flexible regulation system, and the full self-use of photovoltaic power generation...
"We purchased 188,000 green certificates at one time to ensure that the National Games use 100% green electricity, and the total power consumption is expected to exceed 188 million kWh." Zhang Anzhe (张安喆), deputy general manager of the Marketing Department of Guangdong Power Grid Guangzhou Power Supply Bureau (广东电网广州供电局), said that each green certificate has unique traceability information to ensure that the green electricity used in the National Games is real, credible, and verifiable.
Green electricity lights up the lights of the National Games, behind which is a new breakthrough in the construction of China's new power system.
However, new energy "relies on the weather," and its strong uncertainty and instability also bring considerable challenges to power grid operation.
"Clean and low-carbon is the background color of the new power system. To improve the ability to absorb new energy, the power system must be fully upgraded." said Lu Wankun (鲁万坤), general manager of the Strategic Planning Department of China Southern Power Grid (南方电网).
Build new channels to send green electricity out.
In Guangzhou (广州), Guangdong (广东), the ultra-high voltage DC transmission project - Tibet-Guangdong DC (藏粤直流) is about to start construction. In the future, clean energy in the west will be continuously transmitted to load centers such as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) on a larger scale.
The construction of more adaptable power channels is accelerating, allowing new energy power generation to be connected to the grid and flow. The proportion of non-fossil energy installed capacity in the operating area of China Southern Power Grid (南方电网) exceeds 66%, and the proportion of electricity exceeds 55%.
Launch a new system to make good use of green electricity.
Building a digital forecasting platform allows the new power system to have its own "weather forecast." "Relying on this platform, our prediction accuracy for wind and solar energy reaches 89.0% and 93.7% respectively." said Wang Haohuai (王皓怀), manager of the Water and New Energy Department of China Southern Power Grid Dispatch Center (南方总调).
By 2025, the new energy consumption rate in the operating area of China Southern Power Grid (南方电网) will reach 97%, ranking among the top in the country.
Build a new market to make green electricity tradable.
On June 28, the Southern Regional Electricity Market (南方区域电力市场) launched a continuous settlement trial operation, realizing uninterrupted, inter-provincial electricity trading every day.
In July, a normalized electricity trading mechanism across power grid operating areas was officially introduced, covering the national "online electricity mall." From July to September, more than 2 billion kWh of electricity from Guangdong (广东), Guangxi (广西), and Yunnan (云南) were transmitted to Shanghai (上海), Zhejiang (浙江), Anhui (安徽), and Fujian (福建) around the clock through the Fujian-Guangdong interconnection project (闽粤联网工程) and related connecting channels.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the scale of clean energy development and utilization in the operating area of China Southern Power Grid (南方电网) has continued to expand, and green electricity has become the mainstream.
Power supply reliability reaches 99.99%
On September 6, 2024, Super Typhoon "Mojie" landed in Wenchang (文昌), Hainan (海南), causing tens of thousands of power poles to collapse and tens of thousands of kilometers of power lines to fall off. How to achieve rapid power restoration?
Intelligent drones conduct aerial inspections and disaster surveys, and drilling and pole erecting "robots" arrive at the first time, which can dismantle, dig holes, and replace poles in 20 minutes... In the end, China Southern Power Grid (南方电网) only took 21 days to rush through the medium and low voltage transmission lines.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the power supply reliability in the operating area of China Southern Power Grid (南方电网) reached 99.99%, allowing people to go from "having electricity" to "using electricity well."
Good electricity, good in that it is more convenient to obtain electricity -
A company in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东) needs to run a few trips to apply for electricity installation for a project in Nanning (南宁), Guangxi (广西)? The answer is: you can handle it without leaving Shenzhen (深圳).
Xu Wang (徐望) is the project manager of the BYD Nanning (比亚迪南宁) Auto Exhibition Center. Recently, he experienced handling electricity at the company's door. It only took 2 days from the Shenzhen Power Supply Bureau (深圳供电局) collecting materials to the Nanning Power Supply Bureau (南宁供电局) receiving the business and providing the company with a power supply plan.
This benefits from the cross-provincial and municipal electricity handling cooperation mechanism built by China Southern Power Grid (南方电网). Relying on 13 digital government service platforms, 6 electronic license platforms and the "Southern Grid Online" smart business hall, China Southern Power Grid (南方电网) realizes "face-swiping electricity handling" for the entire network, all channels, and all businesses.
Good electricity, good in that the power supply is more reliable -
In cities, the power supply reliability of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) has reached the world's advanced level, and the average power outage time indicators for users in the core areas of cities such as Zhuhai (珠海), Shenzhen (深圳), and Guangzhou (广州) have entered the minute level. In rural areas, China Southern Power Grid Corporation (南方电网公司) has invested more than 170 billion yuan in rural power grid transformation and upgrading in the past 5 years, and the power supply reliability rate of rural power grids has reached 99.9%.
Good electricity, good in that the voltage is more stable -
For high-tech enterprises, stable voltage is the guarantee for enterprises to produce with quality and quantity. Taking semiconductor manufacturing enterprises as an example, even millisecond-level voltage fluctuations may cause process parameters to deviate from the standard, leading to product defects and bringing tens of millions of yuan in losses.
In the Shenzhen (深圳) factory area of China Star Optoelectronics (华星光电), the Shenzhen Power Supply Bureau (深圳供电局) installed 44 sets of power quality monitoring devices in substations, lines, etc., and guided enterprises to configure 57 automatic voltage control devices, reducing the incidence of voltage sag events by 80%.
More than 80 billion kWh of electricity has been mutually supplied with neighboring countries
In Enpu Village (恩普村) near the Namtha 1 Hydropower Station (南塔河1号水电站) in Laos, Xiluo (希罗), a villager, is busy early in the morning. "Now that the village has electricity, life is getting better and better." said Xiluo (希罗).
Enpu Village (恩普村) can have electricity thanks to the construction of the Namtha 1 Hydropower Station (南塔河1号水电站). During the dry season of the Namtha River (南塔河), China uses cross-border lines to transmit electricity to Laos. During the wet season, the electricity generated by the Namtha 1 Hydropower Station (南塔河1号水电站) can also be supplied to Yunnan (云南), China through the power grid.
To date, China Southern Power Grid (南方电网) has cumulatively achieved more than 80 billion kWh of electricity mutual assistance with neighboring countries.
From fully promoting its own green and low-carbon energy transformation to providing assistance for the global green energy transformation, China is continuously contributing wisdom to promoting global ecological civilization construction.
China-Peru power cooperation lights up "thousands of homes."
The Ancon Producers Association Community (安孔生产者协会社区), located north of Lima (利马), Peru (秘鲁), is a suburb of Lima (利马). Before electricity was available, residents had to use flashlights when going out at night, and relied on candles or small kerosene lamps for lighting at home.
In December 2024, Peru Borozi Company (秘鲁博路兹公司), which is controlled and operated by China Southern Power Grid (南方电网), came to the Ancon community (安孔社区) to connect the power grid here. In May 2025, Peruvian industry monitoring data showed that the company's full-caliber system average power outage time had dropped to the lowest level in Peru.
Since 2024, with the support of China Southern Power Grid (南方电网), Peru Borozi Company's (秘鲁博路兹公司) "Thousands of Lights" project has completed the electrification transformation of more than 13,000 households, small and medium-sized enterprises, and schools in the suburbs of Lima (利马).
Carry out personnel training and share Chinese technical standards.
Egypt (埃及), an important economy in North Africa, has been plagued by power supply stability, which has been plaguing local power companies.
"At present, the line loss rate of Egypt's distribution network is as high as 30%. It is very urgent to improve the management level of distribution network line loss." said Inger Abel Rahman (英格·阿贝尔·拉赫曼), regional director of the South Cairo Electricity Distribution Company (埃及南开罗配电公司) in Egypt.
In December 2024, China Southern Power Grid Corporation (南方电网公司) conducted a 3-day special training on distribution network loss reduction in Egypt, and more than 50 professionals from the South Cairo Electricity Distribution Company (埃及南开罗配电公司) in Egypt participated in the training.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China Southern Power Grid's (南方电网) international business cumulatively drove China's technology, capital, equipment, and services to "go global" by more than 7 billion US dollars.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 21st. Comrade Peng Peiyun (彭珮云), an excellent member of the Communist Party of China, a long-tested and loyal communist fighter, a proletarian revolutionary, an outstanding leader in China's population and health work, women and children's work, and socialist legal system construction, former State Councilor, former Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress, and former Chairperson and Honorary Chairperson of the All-China Women's Federation, passed away due to illness at 6:26 AM on December 21, 2025, in Beijing (北京), at the age of 96.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on December 21st (Reporter Qiu Chaoyi (邱超奕)): The reporter learned from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (中国民航局) that since the beginning of this year, the overall situation of air cargo transportation in China has continued to improve, and the scale of business has continued to expand.
In the first 11 months, the national civil aviation system completed more than 9.24 million tons of cargo and mail transportation, an increase of 13.6% year-on-year. Among them, domestic routes completed 5.254 million tons, and international routes completed 3.988 million tons, representing year-on-year increases of 8.1% and 21.8% respectively.
In the first 11 months, China's cargo flights continued to grow, with cumulative service to 70 countries and 170 cities, an increase of 8 countries and 27 cities compared to last year, with an average weekly flight volume of 1,767 flights, an increase of 15.7% compared to last year.
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Strengthen the protection of black soil and the comprehensive utilization of saline-alkali land to improve the quality of cultivated land.
——Excerpt from the "15th Five-Year Plan" Recommendations
In winter, in Jiashi County (伽师县), Kashgar Prefecture (喀什地区), Xinjiang (新疆), patches of saline-alkali land are divided into "small squares" filled with winter irrigation water. After a winter of infiltration, the water will take away some of the salt in the soil, so that the saline-alkali land can better nurture a new season of crops in the coming spring.
"Our land has new technology. It only takes 10 to 20 days to complete winter irrigation and salt suppression, and it's not too late to start half a month later." Shi Qingchun (史青春), a grower in Kezilesu Township (克孜勒苏乡), Jiashi County (伽师县), said calmly as he watched the surrounding fields begin winter irrigation one after another.
The new technology he mentioned is the water-saving and salt-inhibiting irrigation and drainage synergistic capacity improvement technology jointly developed by the Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (新疆农业科学院) and other scientific research institutes and universities. Of the approximately 106 million mu of cultivated land in Xinjiang (新疆), approximately 42% is still saline-alkali cultivated land. Jiashi County (伽师县) is located on the southwestern edge of the Tarim Basin (塔里木盆地), and the degree of salinization is even higher. More than 80% of the county's cultivated land is saline-alkali cultivated land. Since 2022, the research team has established a 1,000-mu demonstration area in Kezilesu Township (克孜勒苏乡) to explore water-saving and efficient saline-alkali land management methods.
At the beginning of the construction of the demonstration area, the highest salt content of cultivated land exceeded 100 grams/kilogram, and the average salt content reached 28.8 grams/kilogram, which is the most serious degree of saline soil in saline-alkali land. "Some places don't even sprout, and the yield of cotton per mu is only more than 200 kilograms. The changes in the past three years have been too great," Shi Qingchun (史青春) said with emotion.
What has changed? The data speaks for itself: In October this year, during the cotton harvest season, an acceptance team composed of experts from China Agricultural University (中国农业大学), Wuhan University (武汉大学) and other universities came to the site to measure the yield. The yield of cotton per mu was 440 kilograms, double that of 2022, and the quality of cultivated land also improved by two grades.
How did it change? "The key technology is underground." Li Pan (李磐), associate researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (新疆农业科学院农业资源与环境研究所), introduced that the most critical aspect of water-saving and salt-inhibiting irrigation and drainage synergistic capacity improvement technology is "drainage." Dissolving the salt in water and draining it as soon as possible is conducive to crop growth. The team adopted the dark pipe salt drainage technology. At 1-2 meters underground, a drainage pipe with water permeable holes is buried every 20-40 meters, just like building an urban underground pipe network.
"For severely saline-alkali land, we must first drain the salt. During winter and spring irrigation, a large amount of surface water is used to leach the soil, so that the salt is drained into the dark pipes or the soil layer below the dark pipes, and the salt content of the cultivated soil will be reduced," Li Pan (李磐) said.
"The groundwater level in Jiashi County (伽师县) is relatively high. When water carries salt and rises to the surface through soil capillaries, it will aggravate the salinization of the soil, and we also need to 'block' the salt." Zheng Luxin (郑鲁昕), deputy director of the Jiashi County Agricultural Technology Extension Center (伽师县农业技术推广中心), said that the high groundwater level is just right for the "appetite" of the dark pipe salt drainage technology. When the groundwater rises to the position of the dark pipe, the water can be "intercepted" and flow into the pipe for discharge, so that salt is not easily accumulated in the surface soil.
"One 'dredge' and one 'block' form a set of saline-alkali land management 'combined punches' to better exert the improvement effect." Li Pan (李磐) said that compared with the traditional open channel salt drainage method, the dark pipe salt drainage technology does not occupy cultivated land, and the improvement cycle of severely saline-alkali land is shortened from 5-6 years to 2 years, and the amount of water used for winter and spring irrigation is also reduced by nearly half. Efficient drainage and salt reduction gave Shi Qingchun (史青春) confidence, and also allowed white cotton to sprout from the white saline-alkali land.
Xinjiang (新疆) has laid "underground pipe networks" on more than 270,000 mu of severely saline-alkali land, and has used water-saving and salt-inhibiting irrigation and drainage synergistic capacity improvement technology; the research team has conducted relevant training for 8,800 growers.
Shi Qingchun (史青春) is looking forward to another bumper year in 2026.
This issue is coordinated by: Han Wenrong (韩文榕)
Return to TopBy: 徐万里
Xinjiang's agricultural history is, to a large extent, a history of struggle against saline-alkali land. Most of the approximately 106 million mu of cultivated land has been reclaimed and improved from saline-alkali wasteland.
The improvement of saline-alkali land usually adopts the method of flood irrigation to wash away salt, but Xinjiang (新疆) is short of water resources. How to achieve more efficient improvement with less water has become a difficult problem to overcome.
To meet the challenge head-on is the responsibility of scientific researchers. In 2021, as the person in charge of the project, I presided over the "Xinjiang Oasis (新疆绿洲) Water-Saving Salt Suppression Irrigation and Drainage Collaborative Production Capacity Improvement Technology Model and Application" project, taking water-saving improvement, quality improvement and efficiency enhancement as the goals.
In the process of research and development, we focused on the entire industrial chain of saline-alkali land improvement, overcame key technologies such as saline-alkali prediction and forecasting, and the construction of irrigation and drainage collaborative models, and developed related products and new equipment. These breakthroughs enable the improvement of saline-alkali land to achieve accurate prediction and precise regulation, greatly improving irrigation water utilization and cultivated land quality, with an increase of more than 20% this year compared with ordinary saline-alkali land.
Now, we are working hard to solve the problems of high cost, long cycle, and repeated effects of improving severely saline-alkali cultivated land, and hope to realize the industrial utilization of saline-alkali land resources.
From the regulation, control, transformation and upgrading of water, fertilizer and salt in mild and moderate saline-alkali cultivated land, to the collaborative irrigation and drainage capacity improvement of moderate and severe saline-alkali cultivated land, and then to the development of characteristic agriculture in saline-alkali land, we look forward to more white saline-alkali land sprouting lush green seedlings.
(The author is the director and researcher of the Institute of Agricultural Resources and Environment of the Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (新疆农业科学院), interviewed and compiled by Shang Rongzheng (尚嵘峥), a reporter from this newspaper.)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李心萍
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "State-owned enterprises are an important pillar and reliance for our party to govern and rejuvenate the country." The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal reviewed and approved by the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party emphasized, "Deepen the reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises, and strengthen, optimize, and expand state-owned enterprises and state-owned capital." In order to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party, the reporter interviewed Zhang Yuzhuo (张玉卓), Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (国务院国资委).
Effectively Improve the Innovation Capability of the State-Owned Economy
Reporter: The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal proposes to strengthen original innovation and tackle key core technologies. How will state-owned enterprises enhance their independent innovation capabilities and bravely become the main force in scientific and technological innovation?
Zhang Yuzhuo (张玉卓): Central enterprises are the national team of scientific and technological innovation and an important part of the national strategic scientific and technological force. In recent years, state-owned enterprises have regarded scientific and technological innovation as the "top priority," fully practiced the new type of national system, and their R&D investment has exceeded one trillion yuan for three consecutive years. They have focused on overcoming a number of key core technologies such as industrial machine tools, industrial software, and basic materials, and have created a number of world-renowned major national instruments such as Chang'e-6 (嫦娥六号), Dream (梦想号), and Fendouzhe (奋斗者) manned submersible.
Facing the "15th Five-Year Plan," we will further enhance our sense of mission and urgency, focus on solving major scientific and technological problems that affect and restrict national development security and long-term interests, vigorously strengthen independent innovation and original innovation, and provide solid support for achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and building a strong country in science and technology.
Focus on increasing the supply of high-quality technology. Actively undertake national scientific and technological research tasks, and strive to achieve greater breakthroughs in the "bottleneck" areas and weak links that are subject to others, especially in areas with large investment, long cycles, and lack of willingness or ability of other enterprises. Unconditionally assume the responsibility for the supply of "root technologies" and key common technologies, and produce more iconic original achievements.
Focus on promoting high-efficiency achievement transformation. Give play to the dual traction role of central enterprises as chain leaders and application scenarios, accelerate the construction of a number of major pilot verification platforms, increase the implementation of scientific and technological achievement application expansion projects, increase the purchase of the first (set), first batch, and first version, and promote iterative upgrades in large-scale applications, and help more innovative achievements enter the market and form tangible productivity.
Focus on gathering high-level innovation elements. Further improve the diversified fundraising and reasonable growth mechanism for R&D investment, especially accelerating the increase in the proportion of basic research investment, building more scientific and technological innovation platforms, strengthening the cultivation, introduction, and use of scientific and technological talents in all directions, and improving the corporate scientific and technological innovation system and mechanism, so that scientific and technological personnel can let go of their hands and feet to do their jobs and concentrate on scientific research.
Focus on building a high-level innovation ecosystem. Proactively give play to the supporting and leading role of large enterprises, strengthen the deep integration of industry, academia, and research led by enterprises, upgrade innovation consortia, accelerate the construction of common technology platforms, deepen international innovation cooperation, improve the mechanism for joint investment of elements, shared benefits, and shared risks, promote collaborative innovation among upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain, and continuously stimulate the driving force and vitality of scientific and technological innovation.
Further Promote the Reform of State-Owned Assets and State-Owned Enterprises
Reporter: The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal proposes to deepen the reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises. What will be the focus of the reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises in the next five years?
Zhang Yuzhuo (张玉卓): The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal puts forward clear requirements for deepening the reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises. At present, the main tasks of the action to deepen and enhance the reform of state-owned enterprises have been basically completed. Next, we will resolutely implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council (国务院), further promote the reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises, adhere to the problem-oriented approach, pay more attention to the quality and efficiency of reform, and continuously deepen the reform at a higher starting point, and promote state-owned enterprises to continuously enhance their core functions and improve their core competitiveness.
Further enhance the ability of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises to serve national strategies. Focusing on strategic security, industrial leadership, national economy and people's livelihood, public services and other functions, further clarify the functional positioning of various state-owned enterprises, strengthen the evaluation of strategic missions, improve the management of main responsibilities and main businesses, and accelerate the concentration of state-owned capital in important industries and key areas related to national security and the lifeline of the national economy, in public services, emergency capabilities, and public welfare areas related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and in forward-looking strategic emerging industries.
Further improve the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics. Effectively strengthen the Party's leadership in improving corporate governance, improve the corporate governance mechanism of state-owned enterprises with Chinese characteristics, accelerate organizational form changes, improve scientific management level, continuously strengthen corporate hierarchical management, and improve corporate decision-making and operational efficiency. Break the routine in talent introduction and training, strengthen positive incentives for key talents, and fully mobilize people's enthusiasm.
Further enhance the effectiveness of state-owned assets supervision. Coordinate "letting go" and "managing well," create a dedicated and professional state-owned assets supervision agency, enhance strategic coordination among relevant management departments, formulate more targeted, more inclusive, and more flexible regulatory policies, improve the classified assessment and evaluation system, improve the "one enterprise, one policy" assessment mechanism, vigorously promote transparent supervision, and continuously improve the professional, systematic, legal, and efficient supervision level.
Promote the Optimization of the Layout of the State-Owned Economy
Reporter: What new ideas do state-owned enterprises have for optimizing the industrial layout in the next step?
Zhang Yuzhuo (张玉卓): In recent years, state-owned enterprises have worked together to upgrade traditional industries and cultivate emerging industries, and have deeply implemented special actions such as industrial renewal of central enterprises, the launch of future industries, and "AI+." During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the average annual growth rate of investment in emerging industries by central enterprises exceeded 20%, and a number of world-class industrial clusters have been built in new-generation information technology, new energy, new materials, high-end equipment manufacturing, and other fields, which have effectively promoted the key industries to overcome difficulties and upgrade their development.
During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, we will guide and promote central enterprises to further focus on their main responsibilities and main businesses, develop the real economy, and promote the continuous leap of the industrial system towards high-added value and high-tech content, and play a leading role in building a modern industrial system.
Grasp the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. Deeply carry out a new round of digital transformation actions for central enterprises, deepen and expand the "AI+" special action, promote the deep integration of information technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, 5G, and the Internet of Things with the entire process and all elements of traditional industries, continuously promote technological transformation and large-scale equipment updates, take the lead in implementing carbon peak implementation plans in key industry fields, promote the efficient recycling of resources, accelerate product iteration and upgrades, strengthen the supply of high-end products, and promote the realization of intelligent, green, and integrated development.
Grasp the cultivation of emerging industries and future industries. Deeply implement the renewal and launch actions, highlight engineering and scenario traction, identify new tracks with sufficient volume, sufficient growth rate, and sufficient prospects in the next five years, adhere to "tiered cultivation and classified policies," continue to focus on key areas such as new energy, new energy vehicles, new materials, aerospace, and low-altitude economy, actively develop the platform economy, and plan ahead for cutting-edge tracks such as quantum technology, embodied intelligence, bio-manufacturing, green ships, and 6G, and promote the continuous transformation of enterprise development momentum.
Grasp the construction of a professional and market-oriented industrial investment and financing system. Give play to the functional role of state-owned capital investment and operation companies, make full use of financial instruments such as the special fund for the development of strategic emerging industries of central enterprises and various venture capital funds, study and build an industrial investment and financing system covering the entire chain of seed stage, angel stage, growth stage, and fund of funds, improve the scientific, professional, and efficient industrial investment decision-making mechanism, build a high-level state-owned capital operation platform, and strengthen the long-term capital, patient capital, and strategic capital for the development of the real economy, and help build a modern industrial system.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on December 21st (Reporter Lin Lili (林丽鹂)) To unify regulatory rules, clarify legal boundaries, and guide all automobile production and sales enterprises to operate in accordance with laws and regulations, the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) issued the "Automobile Industry Price Behavior Compliance Guidelines (Draft for Comments)," and publicly solicited opinions from the public.
The guidelines refine the price behavior norms of automobile production enterprises and clarify the price compliance requirements for each link from complete vehicle to parts production, from pricing strategies to sales behavior. First, implement full-process price management, requiring the establishment of a full-chain price management system covering the entire vehicle sales, financial services, and other links. Second, standardize promotion and pricing behavior, requiring that rebate policies be clear and definite and agreed upon in the form of contracts, and respect the independent pricing rights of dealers. Third, legally crack down on unfair pricing behavior, detailing various forms of expression. Fourth, strengthen fair pricing constraints, prohibiting price discrimination against operators with equal trading conditions, and prohibiting price collusion between producers and between parts companies. Fifth, standardize parts and functional charges, clarifying that "paid unlocking" functions need to inform consumers of the free period and charging standards to protect consumers' right to know.
The guidelines clarify the price behavior requirements of automobile sales enterprises. First, refine the rules for clearly marking prices, requiring business premises and online platforms to truthfully and accurately mark commodity and service information, strictly distinguish between automobile product prices and sales service prices, and strictly prohibit additional charges outside the price. Second, standardize promotional activities, requiring prominent publicity of promotional rules, deadlines, and restrictions, and truthfully indicate gift information. Third, refine the forms of price fraud, explicitly prohibiting misleading pricing, false comparative pricing, and failure to fulfill price commitments. Fourth, establish a risk warning mechanism, encouraging platforms to provide two-way warnings of business risks and consumer risks for significantly low-price behaviors. Fifth, standardize service charges, strictly prohibiting charging without providing services, repeated charging, and passing on charges.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on December 21st (Reporter Ding Yiting (丁怡婷)) It was learned from China National Offshore Oil Corporation (中国海油) that China's largest offshore oilfield, the Bohai Oilfield (渤海油田), will have a cumulative oil and gas equivalent production exceeding 40 million tons in 2025, setting a new historical record. The Bohai Oilfield (渤海油田) has more than 60 oil and gas fields in production and more than 200 production facilities, with a cumulative crude oil production of more than 600 million tons.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's oil and natural gas production has steadily increased, and offshore crude oil has become an important growth pole, accounting for more than 60% of the country's new oil production for five consecutive years. Among them, the average annual increase in oil and gas production in the Bohai Oilfield (渤海油田) in the past five years has reached 5%, and the increase in crude oil production accounts for nearly 40% of the total national increase.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 韩 鑫 王云杉
Regional coordinated development is an inherent requirement of Chinese-style modernization.
China has a vast territory and a large population, and the differences in natural resource endowments among regions are rare in the world. Coordinating regional development has always been a major issue.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "China's economy has shifted from a stage of high-speed growth to a stage of high-quality development, which has put forward new requirements for coordinated regional development." "We must form several new sources of power that can drive the country's high-quality development, especially the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀), Yangtze River Delta (长三角), and Pearl River Delta (珠三角) regions, as well as some important urban agglomerations. Imbalance is universal, and relative balance should be promoted in development. This is the dialectic of coordinated regional development."
The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal puts forward: "Give play to the superimposed effects of the regional coordinated development strategy, major regional strategies, the main functional area strategy, and the new urbanization strategy, optimize the layout of major productive forces, give play to the role of growth poles in key areas, and build a regional economic layout and territorial space system with complementary advantages and high-quality development." This will continuously accumulate strong momentum for Chinese-style modernization.
Finding the Right Position to Better Leverage Strategic Synergies
How to release strategic synergies? Observing two provincial samples can provide profound insights.
One is Anhui (安徽), a central province. This year, Anhui has become a "leader" in automobile manufacturing.
Behind the "reversal" is a unique ingenuity that focuses on the big picture and lands on key points.
Shanghai (上海) develops chips, Zhejiang (浙江) manufactures integrated die-casting machines, Jiangsu (江苏) provides batteries, and Anhui produces complete vehicles... Based on the "4-hour industrial circle" of new energy vehicles in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角), NIO (蔚来汽车) has a strong sense of gain: logistics costs are reduced, technological innovation is accelerated, and the delivery volume of new energy vehicles has grown rapidly in the first three quarters.
Turning the locational disadvantage of being "neither east nor west" into a development advantage of "connecting the east and west, and linking the north and south," Anhui's automobile industry is accelerating. In the first three quarters of this year, Anhui's automobile production was 2.404 million vehicles, and automobile exports were 802,000 vehicles, both ranking first in the country.
The other is Qinghai (青海), a western province. In the Golmud (格尔木) Industrial Park, an engineer presses the start button, and brine from different salt lakes in Xinjiang (新疆), Tibet (西藏), Qinghai (青海), and other places slowly flows into the test tube containing lithium adsorbent, and then the lithium ions in the brine are quickly separated.
"By overcoming key technologies, plateau salt lakes have shown broad market prospects," said the head of Qinghai Cross-border Separation Technology Co., Ltd., adding that revenue is expected to exceed 100 million yuan this year.
Bearing the major mission of maintaining ecological security, Qinghai insists on doing something and not doing something in industrial development. Focusing on salt lake resources, a green, low-carbon, and circular industrial ecology is gradually being built. At present, the 33 salt lakes have gathered 16 large-scale development enterprises with an annual potash fertilizer production capacity of more than 9 million tons, forming an industrial closed loop from lithium salt extraction to lithium battery materials.
Finding the right position, taking the initiative to advance, making good use of advantages, and adapting to local conditions have become a bright spot in various regions to promote high-quality development.
Anchoring the "concentrated carrying area for relieving Beijing's non-capital functions," the Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) in Hebei (河北) is promoting the "same city" of 278 Beijing-Xiong'an government services, and the "city of the millennium" is growing vigorously;
Based on the "vanguard, pioneer, and experimental zone of reform and opening up," Guangdong's (广东) total import and export volume exceeded 9 trillion yuan in 2024, and its role in "taking the lead" is becoming increasingly prominent;
Grasping the "building of a national important advanced manufacturing highland," Hunan's (湖南) high-tech manufacturing added value has increased by an average of 13.9% annually in the past 5 years, and the "new" content of industry has steadily increased;
Deeply cultivating the "ballast stone" of national food security, Heilongjiang's (黑龙江) grain output has ranked first in the country for 16 consecutive years, and the "Chinese rice bowl" is filled with more "Heilongjiang grain";
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Looking at the leopard through a spot, a methodology is becoming clearer—
"Under the overall leadership of the Party Central Committee, each region should not follow others or simply imitate, but should look at its own advantages, how to learn from each other's strengths and make up for weaknesses, and how to promote strengths and avoid weaknesses."
The world is undergoing major changes unseen in a century, and domestic economic development is showing new stage characteristics, which puts forward new requirements for optimizing the regional economic layout. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal proposes "encouraging all regions to give play to their comparative advantages and strengths."
"Focusing on the strategic positioning of 'three places and one zone,' we will plan and promote a number of tractional tasks and strategic measures, give play to the superimposed advantages of multiple national development strategies, and show greater achievements in serving the construction of a new development pattern," said the relevant person in charge of the Anhui Provincial Development and Reform Commission.
"Based on the construction of 'four places' in the industry, we will optimize traditional industries such as salt lake chemical industry and clean energy, strengthen emerging industries such as new energy and ecological cultural tourism, and promote new progress in ecological protection and high-quality economic development on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau," said the relevant person in charge of the Qinghai Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology.
Zhou Yiren (周毅仁), director of the Institute of Territorial Development and Regional Economics of the National Development and Reform Commission, believes that as we move towards the "15th Five-Year Plan," all regions should strengthen the positioning of the main functional areas, and urbanized areas, major agricultural product producing areas, and key ecological function areas should give play to their respective comparative advantages around the main functions, "Different regions gather together to form a strong development momentum."
Synergy and Integration to Promote Regional Coordinated Development
The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal proposes "enhancing the coordination of regional development" and "promoting regional coordinated development."
At the junction of Guang'an (广安), Sichuan (四川) and Chongqing (重庆), factory buildings are one after another. From an "inter-provincial marginal area" to a new city jointly built across provinces, the Sichuan-Chongqing High-tech New Area (川渝高竹新区) is breaking ground, sprouting, and growing vigorously, and is staging a vivid story of coordinated development.
There is no precedent for "one zone across two provinces, and two provinces building one zone." How to unify management and scientific layout?
On December 29, 2020, the governments of Sichuan and Chongqing jointly approved the establishment of the Sichuan-Chongqing High-tech New Area. As the first new area jointly built across provinces in the country, it has undertaken a major mission since its birth: to explore the reform of the moderate separation of economic zones and administrative regions.
If there are large policy differences, promote the acceptance of matters without difference; if tax rates are inconsistent, unify 79 tax policies... In the past 5 years, hundreds of reform measures have been promoted in depth, helping the new area to burst into vitality.
Today, looking at the Sichuan-Chongqing High-tech New Area, Sichuan parts cross provincial boundaries and are directly supplied to Chongqing workshops; Sichuan-Chongqing vehicles come and go, and new buildings and new shopping malls are emerging... Since the beginning of this year, the new area has signed 10 major projects jointly built by Sichuan and Chongqing, with a contractual investment of 2.94 billion yuan.
"As we move towards the '15th Five-Year Plan,' we will continue to take the lead in pilot projects in the fields of market-oriented allocation of factors and integrated public services, and create the core advantages of the 'experimental field' of Sichuan-Chongqing cooperation," said Li Jia (李佳), full-time deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Sichuan-Chongqing High-tech New Area.
Closely focusing on the two keywords of "integration" and "high quality," regional coordinated development is continuing to exert its strength in accumulating momentum—
Along the coastline from north to south, the three major urban agglomerations of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀), the Yangtze River Delta (长三角), and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) have become important sources of power leading high-quality development.
The total regional economy has reached a new level of 11 trillion yuan. Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei jointly released the "15th Five-Year Plan" industrial coordinated development initiative, and will jointly cultivate world-class industrial clusters in the future;
The number of cities with a regional GDP of more than 1 trillion yuan accounts for 1/3 of the country. The Yangtze River Delta released the latest action plan, focusing on the integrated development of metropolitan areas and seeking to further enhance regional competitiveness;
The Greater Bay Area, which gathers 9 trillion-yuan-level industrial clusters, the joint hosting of the National Games by Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao will show the world the great atmosphere of today's Greater Bay Area...
"Promoting the rational flow and efficient agglomeration of various factors in the domestic geographical space, and forming a regional economic cycle with complementary advantages and coordinated linkage, is an inherent requirement for building a new development pattern," said Wang Changlin (王昌林), deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission. As we move towards the "15th Five-Year Plan," we must always adhere to the principle of the whole country as one, systematically promote it as a whole, and highlight key points and concentrate our efforts to achieve the "leading" of key areas to drive the "galloping of ten thousand horses" across the country.
Urban-Rural Integration and In-depth Promotion of New Urbanization
Urbanization is the inevitable path to modernization; integrated urban-rural development is the inevitable requirement of Chinese-style modernization. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal proposes to promote new people-centered urbanization in depth.
What opportunities does urbanization contain? The county economy is an important window.
This year's "Double 11" (双11), on the Hanfu (汉服) industry street in Daji Town (大集镇), Cao County (曹县), Heze (菏泽), Shandong (山东), logistics vehicles shuttled back and forth, and thousands of shops of all sizes stretched for several kilometers.
"The daily volume of express delivery in and out of the port is about 700,000 orders, an increase of about 20% year-on-year," said Zhang Longfei (张龙飞), director of the Cao County E-commerce Service Center.
A Hanfu has transformed a traditional agricultural county that relies on labor export into a new type of county with rural e-commerce as its engine.
Building a city with industry. Aiming at niche tracks and building an industrial system, China's largest original Hanfu industrial cluster has formed in Cao County. In 2024, Hanfu sales exceeded 12 billion yuan, and one out of every two original Hanfu is "made in Cao County."
Gathering people with industry. Improving the level of public services and continuously improving social people's livelihood, Cao County has specially introduced guarantee policies to promote brand "longevity" with talent "repatriation." In recent years, Cao County has attracted a total of 50,000 people to return to their hometowns to start businesses, driving 350,000 people to engage in the e-commerce industry.
"'During the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, we will focus on characteristic industries such as Hanfu and wood products, build a foundation for urban revitalization with high-quality industries, and gather popularity and vitality with characteristic business formats," said Meng Lingxuan (孟令选), deputy secretary of the Cao County Party Committee and county magistrate.
Extending from a "light," Delingha (德令哈) City in Qinghai (青海) has transformed from a desolate small city into the "capital of solar thermal"; starting from a small package, Huaxin Town (华新镇) in Shanghai (上海) has transformed into the "first express delivery town" with a trillion-yuan-level logistics industry...
The county is connected to the city at one end and the countryside at the other, and is a key support for integrated urban-rural development. Deeply exploring resource endowments, more and more counties are writing a vibrant narrative of "many stories in small towns" in the new era.
Large cities are "strengthening their bodies" and small towns are "surging with vitality." The huge domestic demand potential contained in new urbanization is accelerating its release. Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," the urbanization rate of permanent residents in my country has increased to 67%, and the GDP of 19 urban agglomerations has remained stable at more than 83% of the country, becoming a powerful engine for stabilizing investment and promoting consumption.
At present, my country's urbanization is shifting from a period of rapid growth to a period of stable development, and urban development is shifting from a stage of large-scale incremental expansion to a stage mainly focused on stock quality improvement and efficiency enhancement. There is still a lot of room and potential for urbanization.
"'During the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, the urbanization rate of permanent residents in the country is expected to increase to more than 70%. Accurately grasping the historical orientation and actively adapting to changes in the situation will continue to create a new situation in the development of new urbanization," said Xing Wei (邢伟), a researcher at the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission.
Scientifically and orderly promoting the urbanization of agricultural transfer populations, promoting the modernization of governance in megacities and megacities, and promoting the urbanization construction with counties as an important carrier by category... Focusing on narrowing regional gaps and urban-rural differences, the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal deploys a number of pragmatic measures.
"These deployments adhere to a people-centered approach, better coordinate urban development and rural construction, promote the two-way flow of resource elements between urban and rural areas, which is conducive to further breaking down the urban-rural dual structure and powerfully promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside and the development of new urbanization," said Xing Wei.
On the new journey, firmly establishing the idea of the whole country as one, and all regions coordinating and integrating, and working together, will surely continue to open up the in-depth space for China's economic development.
(Our reporters You Yi (游仪), Tian Xianjin (田先进), Li Rui (李蕊), and Cao Jiwei (曹继炜) participated in the writing)
Return to TopSanya, December 21st (People's Daily reporter Dong Zeyang (董泽扬) and Sun Haitian (孙海天)) At 8:05 AM on the 21st, flight DV481 from Sanya, Hainan (海南) to Prague, Czech Republic, took off from Sanya Phoenix International Airport (三亚凤凰国际机场), marking the opening of the "Sanya—Prague" route. This route is China's first operational seventh freedom route, operated by Kazakhstan's SCAT Airlines (哈萨克斯坦斯卡特航空公司), with one round trip flight per week.
The "Overall Plan for the Construction of Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港建设总体方案)" proposes to "implement a more open aviation transport policy" and "support the pilot opening of the seventh freedom in Hainan." The seventh freedom, also known as the "completely third-country traffic right," refers to the right of an airline of a country or region to operate independent routes entirely outside its own country or region, and to carry passengers and cargo between two foreign countries or regions without having to return to its own country. Hainan Free Trade Port's (海南自贸港) pioneering pilot opening of the seventh freedom will help strengthen regional economic and trade cooperation and cultural exchange.
Return to TopThe Xinhua News Agency (新华社) published a political commentary on December 21st, entitled "Following the Right Path to Build a Better World: Injecting Stability and Certainty into a Century of Change with the Four Global Initiatives." The article is excerpted below:
The scroll of human civilization is about to turn the page of 2025.
Years from now, when historians look back at the major changes unseen in a century and explore the internal laws of the evolution of international relations, their eyes will surely focus on September 1, 2025. It was on this day that General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), facing a world intertwined with change and chaos, proposed the Global Governance Initiative.
From the Global Development Initiative proposed in 2021, the Global Security Initiative proposed in 2022, the Global Civilization Initiative proposed in 2023, to the Global Governance Initiative, the four major global initiatives are interwoven and organically unified. The Global Development Initiative consolidates the material foundation, the Global Security Initiative safeguards a peaceful environment, the Global Civilization Initiative gathers consensus on values, and the Global Governance Initiative provides institutional guarantees. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has made profound reflections on "what kind of world to build and how to build this world," and has built a complete action framework for promoting the practice of building a community with a shared future for mankind.
"Development is the master key to solving all problems" and "Development is the key to realizing people's happiness." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition thoroughly clarifies the core value of development for human well-being, demonstrates a people-centered development ideology, points out that development is the fundamental path to promoting common prosperity, and provides fundamental action guidelines for solving global problems.
The Global Development Initiative focuses on the common development demands of mankind, accurately connects with the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and directly addresses the real challenges in the field of global development. This initiative contains profound theoretical value and distinct practical character, contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to jointly promote global development towards a new stage of balanced, coordinated, and inclusive development.
Security is the prerequisite for development, and mankind is an indivisible community of security. The Global Security Initiative came into being in response to the situation, conforming to the adjustment of the international pattern with the concept of unity, responding to security challenges with a win-win thinking, and committed to eliminating the root causes of international conflicts and improving global security governance. The proposal of this initiative fully demonstrates General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) global perspective of peace and development and his leadership style in leading the cause of human progress.
China has been practicing its commitments with consistent action, and has successively released the "Global Security Initiative Concept Paper" and the "Progress Report on the Implementation of the Global Security Initiative," systematically expounding the core meaning and practical requirements of the initiative, and building a complete framework of "ideological leadership - practical empowerment - achievement sharing," demonstrating its firm determination and proactive responsibility in promoting common security. Based on the action direction defined by the initiative, China focuses on outstanding challenges and builds a multi-level and broad-field security cooperation platform.
Focusing on the greatest reality of the diversity of world civilizations and the urgent need to transcend civilizational conflicts, the Global Civilization Initiative effectively responds to prominent issues in civilizational development and provides solid civilizational support for mankind to jointly address global challenges. This initiative is a refinement and sublimation of the experience of civilizational inheritance, innovation, exchange, and mutual learning in the process of Chinese-style modernization, and is in line with the Chinese civilization concept of harmony in diversity and shared beauty, reflecting the distinct characteristics of inclusiveness and conforming to the action guidelines of upholding integrity and innovation.
Based on firm cultural confidence, China adheres to the concept of respecting the diversity of world civilizations and promotes civilizational exchange and mutual learning in a unity of knowledge and action. China has built multi-level international platforms such as the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations, the Liangzhu Forum (良渚论坛), the World Congress of Classical Studies, and the Ministerial Meeting of the Global Civilization Dialogue, and promoted the 78th United Nations General Assembly to unanimously establish the "International Day for Dialogue among Civilizations," incorporating civilizational dialogue into global institutional arrangements.
The Global Governance Initiative solves the governance deficit with clear propositions. Adhering to sovereign equality, abiding by international rule of law, practicing multilateralism, advocating people-centeredness, and emphasizing action-orientedness, the five pillars support each other and outline a clear framework for the reform of the global governance system. As a maintainer of international order and a provider of public goods, China promotes the reform of global governance with pragmatic actions.
The Global Governance Initiative complements the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, and the Global Civilization Initiative, and together constitute the strategic guidance for building a community with a shared future for mankind. Development is the goal, security is the guarantee, civilization is the bond, and governance is the support. The four major global initiatives are promoted in an integrated manner and work together to inject more positive energy into a world intertwined with change and chaos from a global dimension.
In this year, the competition between peace and war, the contest between progress and regression, the tug-of-war between development and recession, the confrontation between openness and closure, and the game between cooperation and confrontation are more intense. The major changes unseen in a century are evolving in depth, profoundly reshaping the global governance pattern, and their impact is spreading to every corner of the world. In such an era, the international community generally expects to gather a joint force to break the situation with consensus and safeguard the right path of peace and development in the world with action.
In the mighty trend of the times, there is a greater need for the courage to step forward and the perseverance to remain true to our original aspiration.
"Looking at the history of human development, only through self-improvement and unremitting struggle can we reap fruitful results and establish lasting achievements that benefit thousands of generations and benefit all people." The four major global initiatives proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) add confidence to the world in turmoil and change, and inject crucial stability and certainty. As a force for world peace, stability, and progress, China has powerfully interpreted the profound connotation of the mutual integration and mutual achievement of its own development and the development of the world with systematic and consistent pragmatic actions.
The evolution of history has its objective laws, and the countercurrent cannot stop the pace of the times. The general direction of human development and progress will not change, the grand logic of the tortuous advancement of world history will not change, and the general trend of the international community sharing a common destiny will not change.
Adhering to the core concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, China grasps the general trend with historical confidence and strives for progress with historical initiative. Following the right path, China will continue to work with other countries in the world to take the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative as strategic guidance, solve global challenges in hard work, improve global governance in joint efforts, and jointly promote the construction of a world of lasting peace, universal security, common prosperity, openness and inclusiveness, and cleanliness and beauty, so that the only home on which mankind depends for survival will be better.
Return to TopBy: 安德烈·马特维耶夫
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War and the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. More than 80 years ago, my grandfather, Nikolai Matveyev (尼古拉·马特维耶夫), as a flight commander of the Soviet Volunteer Group, went to China to fight against Japan, flying warplanes in Wuhan (武汉), Lanzhou (兰州), and other places, and eventually was laid to rest on Chinese soil. As a descendant of a martyr, I have gradually learned about my grandfather's deeds and the glorious history of the Russian and Chinese people fighting side by side against aggression, and I have devoted myself to the cause of Russian-Chinese friendship.
"During the difficult times of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Soviet Volunteer Group 'soared through the skies' in Nanjing (南京), Wuhan (武汉), Chongqing (重庆), and other places, intercepting Japanese invaders, and many pilots gave their precious lives." In May of this year, when Xi Jinping (习近平) paid a state visit to Russia and attended the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War, he specifically mentioned the contributions of the Soviet Volunteer Group in a signed article published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta, which shows the cherishment of the historical friendship between the Russian and Chinese people who fought side by side and supported each other.
As the main victorious countries of World War II, Russia and China jointly celebrating the great victory is of great significance. Following President Xi Jinping's (习近平) visit to Russia in May, President Putin (普京) was invited to attend the activities commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War in September this year. The mutual visits of the two heads of state within the year, and their attendance at the commemorative activities held by each other, highlight the strategic leading role of the two heads of state in bilateral relations, and also inject new impetus into the development of bilateral relations.
In 2015, I went to Beijing (北京) to participate in the大会 commemorating the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. This year, I was invited to participate in the activities commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. On September 3, I ascended the Tiananmen (天安门) viewing platform and witnessed the grand military parade. President Xi Jinping (习近平) delivered an important speech, expressing his heartfelt thanks to the foreign governments and international friends who supported and helped the Chinese people resist aggression, and emphasized: "The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is an irreversible trend! The noble cause of human peace and development will surely be victorious!" The audience burst into prolonged and warm applause, which was very impressive.
The Chinese government and people always remember the international friends who aided China in the war against Japan, which deeply moved me. In recent years, I have been invited to China many times to learn about the history of the Soviet Volunteer Group, exchange ideas with Chinese scholars, and pay homage to the tombs and monuments of Soviet martyrs in various places, and learned that the Chinese government has made great efforts in commemorating and publicizing Soviet pilots. My grandfather sacrificed near Lanzhou (兰州) on the banks of the Yellow River. Today, the Lanzhou Air Battle Memorial Pavilion has been renovated, and the monument records the heroic deeds of the pilots of the two countries fighting side by side in Chinese and Russian. My grandfather's name is also engraved on it, and the local people are very familiar with this history. I am proud of my grandfather's connection with China.
President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized in his signed article that China and Russia should "firmly be the guardians of historical memory, the companions of development and revitalization, and the defenders of international fairness and justice, and work together to strive for a brighter future for the destiny of mankind." I highly agree with this. At present, some countries are trying to篡改二战历史 (cuàn gǎi èr zhàn lì shǐ - "tamper with WWII history," distort or falsify the history of World War II), denying the achievements made by our ancestors with their blood, and we will never allow this to happen. Russia and China, as permanent members of the UN Security Council, shoulder the special responsibility of maintaining world peace and stability. The governments and all sectors of society of the two countries actively join hands to tell the world the truth of history, demonstrating their firm determination to safeguard the achievements of the victory of World War II and defend the correct view of World War II history.
This year has been a very fulfilling year for me. As a member of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Association, I participated in a series of commemorative activities held by the Chinese Embassy in Russia and the Russian-Chinese Friendship Association and other institutions, and also donated a batch of historical materials of the Soviet Volunteer Group to the Lanzhou Battle Memorial Hall. My friends and I are working hard to erect a statue of the pilots of the Soviet Volunteer Group in Moscow (莫斯科) as a testimony to that history and the friendship between Russia and China. I am pleasantly surprised to see that many young people in both countries are inheriting this cause and passing on the deeds of the heroes from generation to generation.
This year, I was awarded the "80th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression" commemorative medal by the Chinese government, which is a heavy honor for me and my family. We will firmly be the guardians of historical memory and make our own contributions to deepening the comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination between the two countries in the new era.
(The author is a descendant of the flight commander of the Soviet Volunteer Group, interviewed and compiled by Xie Yanhong (谢亚宏), a reporter from this newspaper)
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Return to TopBy: 人民网记者 寇 杰
As President Xi Jinping (习近平) was invited to pay a state visit to Russia and attend the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War victory, I interviewed Andrey Matveyev, the grandson of Nikolai Matveyev, the flight commander of the Soviet Volunteer Group in China, in Moscow. Recalling that precious friendship that transcends time and space, he said affectionately: "My grandfather supported the Chinese Air Force in the fight against Japan and also received selfless help from the Chinese people."
As the main battlefields of World War II in Asia and Europe, China and Russia supported the sky of justice with huge national sacrifices, and made immortal contributions to the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War. The friendship of fighting side by side and supporting each other has always been remembered by both sides. On May 9, on Red Square in Moscow, President Xi Jinping (习近平) cordially communicated with Yevgeny Znamensky, a centenarian veteran with medals all over his chest. The veteran held President Xi Jinping's (习近平) hand tightly and said firmly: "No force in the world can defeat us."
As President Xi Jinping (习近平) wrote in a signed article published in Russian media: "The profound friendship forged by the people of the two countries with blood and life is like the Yellow River flowing endlessly, like the Volga River broad and deep, becoming an inexhaustible source of friendship between China and Russia for generations." Today, Andrey inherited the legacy of his ancestors and joined the Russian Association of Descendants of Volunteer Pilots to China and the Russian-Chinese Friendship Association, together with the descendants of many veteran soldiers who aided China in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and is committed to promoting friendly exchanges between the people of Russia and China, so that the friendship between the two peoples will be passed on from generation to generation and will never cease.
The baton of history is being passed on to a younger generation. At a dialogue event between Chinese and Russian youth held on the campus of Moscow State University, Mikhail, a Russian youth, told me about the deeds of his family members participating in the anti-fascist war. Before parting, I presented him with a copy of the *People's Daily* (《人民日报》) dated August 14, 1951. The front page of the newspaper published the news that September 3 was designated as the Victory Day of the War of Resistance Against Japan. Mikhail gave me a set of old stamps from the series of hero cities during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union. These gifts carry the common historical memory of the two countries, and also pin the good wishes of the younger generation to inherit friendship and carry on the past.
For 80 years, the Chinese and Russian people have firmly promoted the correct view of the history of World War II in the consensus of remembering history and creating the future, joined hands to defend the achievements of the victory of World War II, and continued to write new chapters in the traditional friendship between China and Russia. Strengthening exchanges and enhancing understanding between the younger generations of the two countries will surely inject a continuous stream of youthful power into deepening the friendship between China and Russia for generations and maintaining world peace.
Return to TopBy: 张汉晖
The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, as well as the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. In this year of special historical significance, high-level exchanges between China and Russia have been frequent and in-depth, with fruitful results. Head-of-state diplomacy has led the continuous high-level operation of bilateral relations, injecting valuable stability and certainty into a turbulent and changing world.
In May, Moscow was filled with a gentle spring breeze, and the Victory Day flags fluttered on both sides of Red Square. The entire city was immersed in a solemn and warm festive atmosphere. At the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin (弗拉基米尔·普京), Chinese President Xi Jinping (习近平) paid a state visit to Russia and attended the celebration commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War victory. Chinese-Russian friendship imprints were all over the streets of Moscow: bilingual Chinese-Russian slogans welcoming President Xi's visit were visible everywhere, and children waved the national flags of China and Russia.
The Russian side received President Xi Jinping (习近平) with the highest standards of courtesy. After the special plane carrying President Xi Jinping (习近平) entered Russian airspace, Russian Air Force fighter jets escorted it, and the Deputy Prime Minister went to the airport to greet him. President Vladimir Putin (弗拉基米尔·普京) held a grand welcoming ceremony at the Kremlin, had a one-on-one tea chat with President Xi Jinping (习近平) in the presidential office, and held small-scale and large-scale talks, communicating in depth on issues of common concern, with exchanges lasting nearly 10 hours.
At 10:00 a.m. on May 9, the chimes of the Kremlin rang melodiously, and the Red Square parade solemnly began. President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Vladimir Putin (弗拉基米尔·普京) ascended the main reviewing stand together, and the audience burst into thunderous applause. The guard of honor of the Chinese People's Liberation Army marched across Red Square with powerful steps, and 102 officers and soldiers stood tall and had piercing eyes. On the reviewing stand, Yevgeny Znamensky, a centenarian veteran who had personally experienced the Battle of Berlin, gave a thumbs up. At that moment, history and reality converged: 80 years ago, as the main battlefields in Asia and Europe, China and Russia won the victory of justice at the huge cost of more than 35 million casualties and 27 million sacrifices, respectively; today, the two countries jointly safeguard the hard-won glory of peace.
President Xi Jinping's (习近平) visit was fruitful and far-reaching. The two heads of state jointly signed a joint statement on further deepening the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era, providing new strategic guidance for the development of bilateral relations in the next stage; the two sides signed more than 20 cooperation documents covering energy, science and technology, finance, cultural exchanges, local cooperation, and other fields, injecting new impetus into the development of China-Russia relations.
As the Chinese Ambassador to Russia, I deeply felt the widespread resonance caused by this visit. Russian mainstream media highly praised the visit, believing that "this is a solemn tribute to historical justice" and "with Russia and China standing side by side, the world has more stability." Kulikova, the first vice president of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Association, said with emotion: "President Xi Jinping's (习近平) attendance at the celebration demonstrates the high level and special nature of Russian-Chinese relations, and conveys to the world the firm determination of the two countries to jointly defend historical truth and safeguard peace and justice."
Looking back at 2025, high-level interactions between China and Russia ran through the entire year: Following the "May appointment," the two heads of state met again in Beijing in the golden autumn of September, continuing to anchor the direction and blueprint for the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era; the two prime ministers successfully achieved mutual visits in November, focusing on transforming the consensus of the heads of state into practical results and promoting the upgrading of cooperation; the two sides closely coordinated on multilateral platforms such as the United Nations, BRICS, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and exchanges in areas such as local governments, think tanks, youth, and culture comprehensively heated up. China-Russia relations have always moved forward steadily under the strategic guidance of the heads of state, setting a model for a new type of major-country relationship.
In the face of dangerous acts by some who attempt to tamper with the history of World War II and provoke camp confrontation, China and Russia have issued a common voice with a firm stance: history cannot be nihilistic, justice cannot be blasphemed, and peace cannot be traded. As permanent members of the UN Security Council, the two countries have always practiced true multilateralism, firmly maintained the international system with the United Nations as the core, promoted the reform of the global governance system, and promoted the equal and orderly multipolarization of the world and the inclusive and inclusive economic globalization.
Today's Red Square is a symbol of victory and a stage for cooperation. When "Katyusha" and "When That Day Comes" echoed in the Moscow night sky, people heard not only the melody, but also the resonance in the depths of the hearts of the two nations. As President Xi Jinping (习近平) said: "The profound friendship forged by the two peoples with blood and lives, like the Yellow River surging endlessly and like the Volga River wide and deep, has become an inexhaustible source of eternal friendship between China and Russia."
Standing at the end of 2025 and looking back on this year, high-level exchanges between China and Russia have written a rich and colorful chapter. Looking to the future, the two countries will continue to learn from history, work together, and jointly embark on a new era journey of building a community with a shared future for mankind, and jointly compose a new era chapter of peace, development, cooperation, and win-win results!
(The author is the Chinese Ambassador to Russia)
Return to TopThis newspaper reports from Haikou on December 21st (Reporter Zhang Bolan (张博岚)) The "Asia-Pacific Peace and Development Dialogue 2025" international academic conference, themed "Focusing on China-ASEAN Cooperation in 2026," was held on the 21st in Haikou (海口市), Hainan Province (海南省). Nearly 30 experts and scholars from China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, and other countries conducted discussions on the development, security, and cooperation prospects of China and ASEAN.
Participants generally agreed that in the face of individual countries reverting to unilateralism and protectionism, and global development facing challenges such as climate change, the solidarity and cooperation between China and ASEAN countries is particularly important and urgent. The two sides should adhere to true multilateralism, support each other's core interests and major concerns, and build a closer community of common destiny.
The conference was hosted by the Institute of Asia-Pacific and Global Strategy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院).
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Bridgetown, December 21st (Cui Xiaoyang (崔晓洋), Tang Lei (唐磊)) Local time, December 20th, the Chinese Navy hospital ship "Peace Ark" ("丝路方舟"号) performing the "Harmonious Mission-2025" arrived in Barbados and began a 7-day friendly visit and provision of medical services. This is the second visit to Barbados by a Chinese naval hospital ship since the "Peace Ark" ("和平方舟"号) hospital ship visited in 2015.
At 10:00 a.m. local time, the "Peace Ark" ("丝路方舟"号) hospital ship slowly arrived at the port of Bridgetown. Relevant Barbadian military and government officials, staff from the Chinese Embassy in Barbados (中国驻巴巴多斯大使馆), overseas Chinese, and representatives from Chinese-funded institutions greeted the ship at the dock.
During the visit, the "Peace Ark" ("丝路方舟"号) hospital ship will provide free diagnosis and treatment services to the people of Barbados, covering internal medicine, surgery, orthopedics, obstetrics and gynecology, stomatology, and other departments. At the same time, medical teams will be sent to local hospitals for health service exchanges, and medical and sports friendship activities will be held with the Barbados Defence Force, as well as a deck reception.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on December 21st (Reporter Liu Yang (刘阳)) The 2025 7th "Third Eye on China" International Short Video Competition series of events, hosted by the China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration (中国外文局), was held in Beijing (北京) on the 20th. It aims to encourage creators from different cultural backgrounds to use short videos as a medium to tell stories of civilization exchange and mutual learning, and to help the international community understand a confident, independent, open, and inclusive China (中国).
The event was accompanied by activities such as a film screening, a thematic seminar on "International Short Video + City," and an afternoon chat on "International Short Video + Creator." Participating guests conducted practical sharing and in-depth exchanges on topics such as "The Secret to Breaking the Circle and Going Overseas with City-Themed Short Videos" and "New Forces in International Communication, the Growth Path of Foreign Creators." Chinese and foreign creator teams also went to the Zhongguancun National Innovation Demonstration Zone (中关村国家自主创新示范区) Exhibition Center, the Optoelectronics Science & Technology Museum, and other places for research and experience, to gain an in-depth understanding of practices related to scientific and technological innovation.
To further expand international communication paths, the "Global Vlogger Looks at China" co-creation program was launched at the same time. As an extension of the "Third Eye on China" brand, this program aims to provide continuous support for international creators who hope to deeply perceive China (中国) and record the footprints of development.
According to reports, the competition has long been soliciting multilingual and multi-format China (中国)-themed short video works from Chinese and foreign creator teams, and has become a comprehensive new media international communication brand integrating foreign language short video creation, annual competitions, theme competitions, film screenings, creation sharing sessions, and theme-based interviews.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 朱 磊 郭舒然 周 欢
Several key data points decode the "integration" code between Ganzhou (赣州), Jiangxi (江西), and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区).
A 2-hour commute circle breaks down spatial and temporal barriers; Greater Bay Area investment activates the potential of the old revolutionary base area; reduced logistics costs unleash synergistic dividends... Since 2024, Ganzhou has actually utilized 84.065 billion yuan in capital from the Greater Bay Area, more than four times that of 2012.
Behind the data is proof of the mutually beneficial empowerment of "special zone + old revolutionary base area" under the national regional coordinated development strategy.
Proactive opening-up wins the initiative for development. Once, the Gannan (赣南) old revolutionary base area and the Greater Bay Area were separated by "the distance of mountains." From the issuance of the "Several Opinions of the State Council on Supporting the Revitalization and Development of the Gannan and Other Former Central Soviet Areas" in 2012 to the issuance of the "Construction Plan for the Ganzhou Revolutionary Old Area High-Quality Development Demonstration Zone" in 2022... Over the past decade, with continuous policy efforts, Ganzhou has actively integrated into the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, taking steps towards high-quality development.
In the new era, "to make the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area a strategic fulcrum for the new development pattern, a demonstration area for high-quality development, and a leading area for Chinese-style modernization," the blueprint drawn by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) on the edge of the South China Sea continues to bring new surprises: the old revolutionary base area and the Greater Bay Area have aligned their mechanisms and concepts, coordinated their industries, and shared the fruits of development, making the "integration into the Bay Area" path increasingly broad.
In winter, a reporter traveled from Ganzhou all the way south to Qianhai Bay (前海湾) in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东), to understand the breakthrough strategies, collaborative wisdom, and common prosperity behind the word "integration."
Breaking Barriers: Conceptual Integration, Regulatory Alignment
In front of the mottled Meiling (梅岭) stone tablet, children from the Bay Area studying here are listening to Zhang Sijie (张嗣介), the 76-year-old former deputy curator of the Ganzhou Museum, tell a story: "Before Zhang Jiuling (张九龄) of the Tang Dynasty opened the Meiguan (梅关) post road, Ganzhou merchants who wanted to go to Lingnan (岭南) had to travel for three months."
Zhang Sijie exclaimed, "From the Hakka people trekking thousands of miles to the carpenters of Nankang (南康) traveling far to Guangdong, the high mountains and long roads cannot stop the pace of interconnection!"
As he spoke, a high-speed train sped through the Dayuling (大庾岭) area tunnel. The Ganzhou-Shenzhen High-Speed Railway has officially embedded Ganzhou into the Greater Bay Area's "2-hour economic circle."
"Have morning tea in Shenzhen in the morning and eat hot noodles in Ganzhou at noon." Wu Bo (伍簙侃), a 39-year-old artificial intelligence expert from Shenzhen, has been traveling back and forth between the two places for two years, using AI large models to improve the yield rate of processing, saving Ganzhou enterprises millions of yuan each year.
On the land of southern Jiangxi, transportation is "hard-connected" - 7 expressways and 4 railway trunk lines form a pattern of major channels into Guangdong.
What is connected is not only the road network, but also the comprehensive alignment from concepts to rules.
"I waited 28 days for a document, and lost a lot of orders!" Nine years ago, Zhao Zhiguang (赵之光), a Guangdong businessman, almost regretted investing and building a factory in the Ganzhou Economic Development Zone (赣州经开区). Now, he actively acts as a "salesman" at the Shenzhen-Ganzhou Economic and Trade Fair: "Online submission, certificate issued in three days!" "Personal experience, the old revolutionary base area is full of energy!"
Ideological icebreaking, reform breaking the problem.
"Shenzhen's openness lies in the openness of people's concepts!" As one of the first Ganzhou cadres to be seconded to Shenzhen, Wang Jianhong (王健洪) turned a stomach full of questions into exclamations during his year in Qianhai.
After returning to Ganzhou in 2021, Wang Jianhong served as the Minister of the Organization Department of the Xunwu County (寻乌县) Party Committee. The first thing he did was to convene a meeting to liberate thought and promote the selection and dispatch of cadres to Shenzhen for on-the-job learning. To date, Ganzhou City has selected and dispatched more than 1,000 cadres to "learn on the job," with an average stay of more than 3 months.
"The transformation of concepts also requires the reconstruction of external regulations." Everyone's consensus is clear.
Benchmarking against the Greater Bay Area, Ganzhou has identified more than a thousand bottlenecks. Is "copy and paste" feasible? No - "We must combine it with the actual situation in Ganzhou and reshape the entire process for enterprises to handle affairs!" said Liu Shen (刘屾), Director of the Ganzhou Municipal Administrative Approval Bureau.
Drawing on the "exemption from application and immediate enjoyment" reform experience in Nanshan District (南山区), Shenzhen, Ganzhou launched an "artificial intelligence + policy calculator" to achieve accurate policy reward push for enterprises and automatic payment without application.
"Ding..." A text message from "12345" reminded that an industrial electricity price subsidy of 800,000 yuan has been credited to the account. "I didn't fill out a single form, and I didn't run a single errand!" Shu Zeliang (舒泽亮), Deputy Financial Manager of Ganzhou Huajin Paper Industry, was pleasantly surprised.
"Integration" is like flowing water, breaking through rocks and walls.
Currently, 127 Shenzhen matters can be handled "24 hours a day self-service" in Ganzhou. 619 government service matters at the city and county levels in Ganzhou have achieved "same standards as colleagues" with the Bay Area, which means that enterprises in Ganzhou have the same business experience as the Bay Area when handling these matters.
While the old revolutionary base area is benchmarking against the Bay Area, the Bay Area is also learning from the old revolutionary base area.
"From red study tours to two-way cadre exchanges, we are practicing a two-way empowerment model of the spirit of the old revolutionary base area plus the spirit of the special zone." Li Jiashan (李家山), a member of the Party Leadership Group and a second-level inspector of the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Rural Revitalization and Collaboration and Exchange, introduced that through "one-on-one" pairing, Bay Area cadres learn the working methods of Soviet area cadres of "going deep into the masses and solving problems," and Ganzhou cadres learn from the market-oriented thinking of the Bay Area, with a cumulative training of more than 15,000 cadres and talents.
At the joint exhibition of the "Dare to Teach the Sun and Moon to Change to a New Sky" Soviet Area Spirit and Special Zone Spirit held in Pingshan District (坪山区), Shenzhen, the Shenzhen reform and opening-up process "dialogued" with the struggle history of the southern Jiangxi Soviet Area, attracting nearly 180 units and enterprises in Shenzhen to visit. Everyone exclaimed, "After three days of separation, the old revolutionary base area has long been different from what it used to be, and the special zone still has to continue to struggle."
From "observation and learning" to "adapting to local conditions," there is now "joint customization" - in Ganxian District (赣县区), Ganzhou, Futian District (福田区), Shenzhen, sent experts to jointly create a "double-blind" remote off-site bidding system with the Ganxian District Administrative Approval Bureau; in Nankang District, Ganzhou, the electronic seal of the Qianhai Administration of Shenzhen and the Ganzhou government affairs cloud system are mutually recognized and interconnected, and project approval has changed from "document travel" to "cloud consultation"...
What has changed is not only the rules and regulations, but also the thinking of regional integration - closely focusing on "government has a role, the market is effective," deepening institutional reforms, and opening the door to development.
Confluence: Industrial Collaboration, Two-Way Empowerment
"To make the metropolitan area bigger and stronger, actively connect with and serve the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta and the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and enhance the attraction of funds, technology, and talents."
Earnest entrustment points out the path of "integration."
Fifteen years ago, Xinfeng County (信丰县), Ganzhou, went to the Bay Area to attract investment, but could not knock on a single door for more than 10 days; now, more than 30 Bay Area listed companies have taken root here, and the industry is deeply complementary to the Greater Bay Area.
The transformation of Xinfeng is condensed in the story of Guo Qiaosheng (郭桥生), the founder of Chaoyang Jushengtai Technology Co., Ltd.
"At first, I was an OEM for factories in the Bay Area. Not only were the profits thin, but I could also be replaced at any time. It was worrying!" Lao Guo couldn't sleep all night.
At that time, although Xinfeng's electronic information industry had gathered a group of small PCB (printed circuit board) enterprises, it had long remained at the low end of the value chain.
The key to breaking the situation lies in shifting from "single processing undertaking" to becoming a "key link in the Bay Area industrial chain."
Building channels and platforms, Xinfeng County promotes in-depth connection between enterprises and the Greater Bay Area in terms of research and development, supply and demand, production and sales.
Guo Qiaosheng took the lead in seeking change, developing a full-sound information module for new energy vehicles. "Without the county's more than 10 years of follow-up service, a small factory that doesn't even understand patent applications could not become an enterprise with a national enterprise technology center today." Guo Qiaosheng said with emotion, pointing to the plaques on the wall.
Returning to his hometown for 15 years, with ups and downs, Guo Qiaosheng has finally "integrated" into the general trend from imitation to OEM to independent creation. Today, two or three out of every 10 new energy vehicles in the country use Jushengtai products. Guo Qiaosheng still feels insufficient and is building an export platform with leading enterprises in the Bay Area.
From "following" to "running side by side." In 2024, the revenue of Xinfeng County's electronic information industry reached 22.664 billion yuan, an increase of 14.9%, gathering 67 PCB and supporting enterprises above designated size, 72% of which are directly supporting the Greater Bay Area, and was awarded the "Core Area for the Development of China's Electronic Circuit Industry."
"Only by becoming a key link in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain and moving towards the middle and high end of the value chain can we have the right to speak in integrating into the 'dual circulation' with the Bay Area," said Yang Yan (杨燕), member of the Standing Committee of the Xinfeng County Party Committee and Deputy County Mayor.
If the leading enterprises in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area are the main river channel rushing into the sea, the supporting enterprises in Ganzhou are the horizontal and vertical tributaries, complementing and integrating each other, and jointly converging into the ocean of the new development pattern.
In recent years, more than 200 industrial projects with an investment of more than 100 million yuan in Ganzhou have come from the Greater Bay Area, with a total project investment of more than 100 billion yuan. Now, an average of 1 Guangdong enterprise settles in Ganzhou every 2.5 days. At the same time, 1/4 of Ganzhou's enterprises above designated size have formed industrial support with the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, of which nearly 60% of enterprises support the Shenzhen industry, with an annual supply of more than 70 billion yuan.
With the deepening of "integration into the Bay Area," Ganzhou is based on its characteristics, and industries such as new energy, rare earth, and low-altitude economy are rising in a tiered manner, "integrating" with the Bay Area market like the electronic information industry.
Ganzhou wants to "integrate into the Bay Area" in order to use the Bay Area's open platform and market, so what about the Bay Area? "The Bay Area drives the great development of the mainland, better builds a unified large market, so as to form sufficient depth and better integrate into the two major circulations," Xie Baojian (谢宝剑), a professor at the School of Economics of Jinan University, pointed out the essence.
Inside the Shenzhen Research Institute of China Rare Earth Group (中国稀土集团) in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, the "top-down" lighting sculpture is particularly eye-catching.
"'Top-down' means relying on Shenzhen's talent highland, and 'down-to-earth' means making good use of Ganzhou's advantages such as large industrial transformation space and low cost. To open up the 'last mile' from scientific research to industry," said Liang Hao (梁浩), the relevant person in charge of the research institute.
The research institute has broken through the new ultra-fine powder ceramic technology, which will be industrialized in Ganzhou and is expected to break the international monopoly.
"Integration" to the depths can allow various elements to flow efficiently and share resources in a unified large market.
Ganzhou rare earth enterprises have established more than 30 R&D centers in the Bay Area, and the rare earth industry scale has moved towards the 100 billion yuan level, accounting for 1/3 of the country, forming a complete industrial chain from rare earth oxides to magnetic materials to high-end equipment manufacturing.
From one-way blood transfusion to chain complementation, and then to two-way rush. Each "integration" process is a process of jointly shaping their respective advantages into development advantages.
In the production workshop of Jiangxi Yuean New Material Co., Ltd. (江西悦安新材料股份有限公司) in Dayu County (大余县), Ganzhou, large trucks are continuously lined up, and high-end powder materials are sent from here to the world. In Guangzhou, researchers at the R&D enclave jointly built by the company and Guangzhou Nalian Material Technology Co., Ltd. are tackling new printing materials.
"Among the 8 R&D projects established in the enclave, 4 new products have been mass-produced in Dayu County, and 4 invention patents that have entered substantive examination are jointly held by both parties," said Li Shangkui (李上奎), chairman of Jiangxi Yuean New Material Co., Ltd.
Support Southern University of Science and Technology (南方科技大学) and other institutions to cooperate with the Ganjiang Innovation Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院赣江创新研究院) to lay out the upstream and midstream fields of rare earth materials; Jiangxi Province's first industrial data product was traded on-site in Shenzhen; electronic seals in Shenzhen and Ganzhou are mutually trusted and recognized, and Ganzhou has become the fourth non-provincial city after Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong to achieve mutual recognition with Shenzhen...
At the end of 2024, the Policy Research Office of the Shenzhen Municipal Government released a report suggesting further promoting Shenzhen-Ganzhou cooperation and deepening the linkage of advanced manufacturing.
Mutual promotion, mutual complementation, and integration, efficiently and smoothly circulate the economy, and integrate into the unified national market in domestic opening-up.
Into the Sea: Complementary Advantages, Deepening Reform
"It is necessary to deepen domestic and foreign opening-up, promote development through opening-up, build a high ground for reform and opening-up in inland areas, and actively serve and integrate into the new development pattern."
"Integration into the Bay Area" smooths the domestic and international dual circulation and integrates into the sea of the national and even the world economy.
At 4 a.m. at the Ganzhou International Land Port (赣州国际陆港), gantry cranes are busy loading containers printed with the words "Gree Electric Appliances" onto the "Integration into the Bay Area" Ganzhou-Shenzhen intercity high-speed freight train. "It can arrive at Yantian Port (盐田港) in Shenzhen in the afternoon." Liu Liping (刘立平), Deputy Director of the Operation and Administration Bureau of the Ganzhou International Land Port Management Committee, was excited.
Not being near the sea or bordering the border is a shortcoming of inland areas in opening up to the outside world.
Linking Shenzhen Yantian Port and Guangzhou Port (广州港), Ganzhou International Land Port has created a "same port, same price, same efficiency" sea-rail intermodal transport channel, and pioneered the cross-customs area, cross-provincial area, and cross-land-sea port customs clearance model in the country, which is equivalent to the Bay Area extending the "sea outlet" to Ganzhou.
"The average operating time for the entire process has been reduced from 12 hours in the past to 6 hours, and each container can save nearly 2,000 yuan in logistics costs," Liu Liping introduced.
Opening-up is a distinct symbol of Chinese-style modernization. The Nankang furniture industry is a vivid sample for observing "integration into the Bay Area."
In the 1980s and 1990s, 100,000 carpenters from Nankang District went south to Guangdong, starting from wood processing and gradually mastering the entire process technology and management experience of modern furniture production. At the end of the 20th century, a large number of Nankang carpenters returned to their hometowns, driving a modern industry.
However, with the continuous expansion of the international market, the Nankang furniture industry faces many challenges such as high logistics costs and low efficiency.
Deng Wangqiang (邓旺强), chairman of Jiangxi Aiyang Furniture Co., Ltd., calculated an account, "With the international land port, we can declare customs and ship goods at our doorstep, logistics costs are reduced by 30%, and efficiency is increased by 40%, making our products more competitive in the international market."
The establishment of Ganzhou International Land Port not only smooths the logistics path, but also forces enterprises to change their way of thinking.
Today, walking into Nankang, the new industrial form is surprising.
In the Nankang Furniture Industry Internet of Things Center, Zhu Xueqi (朱雪琦), the technical director, clicked on the blockchain platform, and a set of furniture "digital ID cards" jumped onto the screen.
"Customers in the Greater Bay Area have proposed a 'transparent supply chain' demand, and we have installed tracking chips on each piece of wood." As he spoke, the Dongguan Mousse Home Furnishing order was automatically decomposed into 237 processes and distributed to 52 networked factories.
"In the past, we had inland thinking, but now we must look at the world," Deng Wangqiang admitted frankly.
In 2024, the output value of the Nankang furniture industry cluster exceeded 280 billion yuan, and 46% of the products were exported to hundreds of countries and regions through the Bay Area, becoming a sample of the old revolutionary base area integrating into the domestic and international dual circulation.
From 0 to 280,000 TEUs, the leap of Ganzhou International Land Port also verifies the theory of "mutual integration driving development and sharing."
"From the initial agricultural products to modern furniture, new materials, and electronic information products, the types of goods that Ganzhou exports to the world through Yantian Port are becoming more and more abundant," Huang Xuan (黄旋), the person in charge of Ganzhou International Land Port Port Co., Ltd., witnessed the transformation of sea-rail intermodal transport.
"Integration into the Bay Area" has given the old revolutionary base area a "sea outlet" and also given the Bay Area a "hinterland" - Ganzhou International Land Port has become the largest inland port of Shenzhen Yantian Port, and cooperation has spawned international trains such as "Shenzhen-Ganzhou-Europe," adding a second logistics channel to Europe and Central Asia for Shenzhen Port and Guangzhou Port.
Regional linkage is becoming increasingly frequent, and the Bay Area and the old revolutionary base area have more "joint opportunities" - Shenzhen and Ganzhou jointly applied for the third batch of national comprehensive freight hub supply chain and strong chain cities (groups), creating a record of cross-provincial cooperation; Guangzhou Port opened the "Ganzhou-Guangzhou Combination Port," and Ganzhou International Land Port became the second largest feeder port of Guangzhou Port; with the strong promotion of Shenzhen and Ganzhou, the Ganzhou Guomao Center project of the Shenzhen-Ganzhou Port-Industry-City Special Cooperation Zone was launched.
"To understand 'integration into the Bay Area,' we must not only see the economic logic of building a unified large market and realizing regional complementarity, but also see the strategic significance of the country narrowing regional gaps with high-quality development, smoothing the domestic and international dual circulation, and firmly grasping the initiative of development," Xie Baojian believes.
Data shows that from January to October this year, Ganzhou City achieved a total value of foreign trade imports and exports of 103.87 billion yuan, an increase of 14.3% year-on-year. Among them, imports and exports to countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" reached 50.7 billion yuan, an increase of 22.7%.
"Integration into the Bay Area" supports a new high ground for inland opening-up and creates a large market for foreign opening-up.
Integration: Mutual Learning and Mutual Benefit, Joint Construction and Sharing
Zhao Yi (赵义), a poverty-stricken household in Nanqiao Town (南桥镇), Xunwu County, always likes to take out his old account book when he has nothing to do.
Fifteen years ago, Lao Zhao worked odd jobs outside, and the income column was crookedly written with "2,000 yuan per month"; the expenditure column was densely packed: "Food expenses 800 yuan," "Fertilizer 500 yuan"... "**年初有盼头，年末一算账又没了盼头**" (nián chū yǒu pàn tou, nián mò yī suàn zhàng yòu méi le pàn tou - "have hope at the beginning of the year, but after calculating the accounts at the end of the year, there is no hope," describes a situation where one's income barely covers expenses, leaving no room for savings or improvement).
15 years ago, Lao Zhao (老赵) worked odd jobs, and the income column was crookedly written as "2,000 yuan per month"; the expenditure column was densely packed: "Food expenses 800 yuan," "Fertilizer 500 yuan"... "There was hope at the beginning of the year, but after calculating at the end of the year, the hope was gone."
A few years ago, Zhao Yilin (赵一麟), who had been doing business in the Greater Bay Area for 20 years, returned to his hometown to establish Ganzhou Qiaogeng Renjia Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. (赣州巧耕人家农业发展有限公司), producing pickled vegetables and other products, directly supplying the Greater Bay Area.
After training and taking up his post, Zhao Yi (赵义) became a logistics driver for the company, and his first salary was heavily written as "5,000 yuan." Later, Zhao Yi's wife entered the packaging workshop to be responsible for quality control, with a monthly income of 4,500 yuan. His 60-year-old mother became a cleaner with a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan.
In 2020, the old account book recorded a total income of 200,000 yuan.
By the end of 2020, all 1,023 impoverished villages in Ganzhou (赣州) had been lifted out of poverty, and all 1,143,300 impoverished people had been lifted out of poverty.
As the chairman of the company, Zhao Yilin (赵一麟) also has an account in his heart.
Initially, for the sake of the pickled vegetables in his hometown, he gave up his business in Guangdong (广东) and returned to Xunwu (寻乌), "Even the smallest track has technology." This is the true lesson Zhao Yilin (赵一麟) learned after working in Guangdong (广东) for many years: a professional technical research and development team transforms plant enzymes into organic acids through natural fermentation, producing high-quality pickled vegetables.
In the factory, automated production lines are running at full capacity, filling and packaging pickled vegetables and other products, which can be delivered to multiple large catering chain institutions in Shenzhen (深圳) in 4 hours. Zhao Yilin (赵一麟) only took 6 years to develop a small sauerkraut workshop into an enterprise with over 3,000 employees. "Connecting to the vast market of the Greater Bay Area is the secret."
"Give full play to ecological advantages and traditional agricultural advantages to build a regional high-quality agricultural and sideline product production and supply base." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest expectations contain broad business opportunities for coordinated regional development and a practical path to common prosperity.
Currently, Ganzhou (赣州) has created 22 "Shenzhen Farms," 106 "Shenzhen Products," and 126 production bases for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area "vegetable basket."
Regional integration is connected to high-quality development on one end and the vivid practice of achieving common prosperity on the other. The stories of Zhao Yi (赵义) and Zhao Yilin (赵一麟) are like a drop of water reflecting the ocean.
In the past 5 years, Ganzhou (赣州) has introduced nearly 1,000 enterprises of various types from the Greater Bay Area, creating more than 300,000 jobs for the local area. From 2012 to 2024, the per capita disposable income of rural residents in the city increased from 5,301 yuan to 18,656 yuan, and the per capita disposable income of urban residents increased from 18,704 yuan to 46,170 yuan.
In 2022, the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) issued the "Work Plan for Paired Cooperation between Key Cities in Old Revolutionary Base Areas," clarifying the paired cooperation between Ganzhou City (赣州市) and Shenzhen City (深圳市). "In the past, it was called 'paired assistance,' but now it is called 'paired cooperation.' The change in two characters contains profound meaning," said a cadre from Ganzhou (赣州).
The Bay Area and the old revolutionary base area are working together to solve the imbalances in living standards, public services, and ecological resources, paving the way for integration and building the foundation for common prosperity. The source of the Dongjiang River (东江) is a vivid example:
At the source of the Dongjiang River (东江), Ganzhou (赣州) transports more than 3 billion cubic meters of high-quality water resources to the Greater Bay Area every year, accounting for 1/3 of the total water volume of the Dongjiang River Basin; Jiangxi Province (江西省) and Guangdong Province (广东省) have signed and implemented three rounds of ecological compensation agreements for the Dongjiang River Basin, with Guangdong Province (广东省) providing 100 million yuan in compensation funds each year;
Ganzhou (赣州) and Guangdong (广东) jointly developed the "Dongjiang River Source Study Tour." 100,000 Hong Kong (香港) students traced the river upstream, and 6.976 million tourists from the Bay Area traced the source of the Dongjiang River (东江), feeling the spirit of "**饮水思源**" (yǐn shuǐ sī yuán - "when you drink water, think of its source," be grateful for the source of your blessings).
The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee proposed, "Resolutely eliminate the obstacles and bottlenecks hindering the construction of a unified national market" and "Give play to the role of key regional growth poles to build a regional economic layout and territorial space system with complementary advantages and high-quality development."
The "point" of the Bay Area and the "line" of the old revolutionary base area, how can they continue to merge into the "surface" of regional development? Looking forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," the main responsible comrades of Ganzhou (赣州) and Shenzhen (深圳) stated that they will work together to build a new development pattern and promote high-quality development, achieving mutual benefit, win-win results, and common development.
Shaoguan Zhenjiang (韶关浈江), the river is mighty, and 700 miles of waterway witness the integration and symbiosis of the old revolutionary base area and the Bay Area. Moving towards a critical period of consolidating the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically realize socialist modernization, the Bay Area integration "high-speed train" resonates at the same frequency and sails towards the blue ocean.
By: 常 晋
At the 15th National Games, Zhang Yufei (张雨霏) will compete in the National Games swimming pool for the fourth time. This "veteran" in the eyes of young athletes has chosen to return to being a "young general," stating frankly, "I am no longer burdened by the 'baggage' of being an Olympic champion, but instead, I am approaching the competition with a light heart, just like when I was a child." Ultimately, she won two gold medals. These words reveal both a childlike innocence and the demeanor of a "great general."
Just as striving on the sports field requires this, so does starting and developing a career. The greater the achievement, the more one needs to maintain the purity and sharpness of a "young general"; the more arduous the mission, the more one must cultivate the breadth of mind and composure of a "great general." These two qualities are both the "double oars" for navigating through storms and the "double wings" for achieving success in one's career.
To return to being a "young general" means to let go of existing halos, inertia, and fixed patterns, and to embrace new challenges with a "**空杯心态**" (kōng bēi xīn tài - "empty cup mentality," approaching situations with openness and a willingness to learn). While interviewing in Anhui (安徽), I met a commentator who was extremely knowledgeable about automotive technology. Upon further inquiry, I learned that he was not an engineer but a cadre who had recently been transferred to the city's automotive office. From initially working with the home appliance industry to transitioning to the rail transit industry and then the automotive industry, he treated himself as an "elementary school student" each time he changed positions, immersing himself in workshops and studying diligently, eventually becoming someone who was seen by enterprises as understanding the business and being good at providing services. On the new journey, leading the development of new quality productive forces and accelerating the construction of a new development pattern will inevitably face many unknown areas. Only by re-learning and setting off again can we overcome various obstacles and move forward courageously.
The value of "young generals" also lies in their spirit of "**初生牛犊不怕虎**" (chū shēng niú dú bù pà hǔ - "a newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger," fearless and daring). At critical moments, this can often inspire the courage and motivation to overcome obstacles. On the front lines of comprehensive rural revitalization, thousands of resident village cadres dare to be pioneers, exploring distinctive industries, and remain steadfast even when encountering setbacks. In the high ground of achieving self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology, numerous researchers fearlessly tackle "bottleneck" problems, seeking breakthroughs in countless experiments. They do not wait to see results before taking action but are determined to create possibilities through bold exploration and open up hope through solid practice. With this momentum, what cannot be overcome, and what success cannot be achieved?
If the "young general" mentality is a fire burning in the heart, igniting the passion for starting and developing a career and giving us the courage to break through constraints, then the "great general" demeanor is the deep composure and patience that allows this fire to burn longer and brighter. The two complement each other and are indispensable. Without the former, it is easy to be conservative and timid; without the latter, one may be superficial and seek quick success.
To want to do something requires the vigor of a "young general," and to accomplish something requires the tenacity of a "great general." "Desperate Secretary" Fan Zhenxi (范振喜) vowed to "fight as long as I live," repairing mountain roads, digging wells, closing mines, and running enterprises, leading a debt-ridden village to become the richest village in the county. Peking University (北京大学) professor Guo Qinghua (郭庆华) "just keeps running forward," rooting his team in the forest and spending 10 years "counting" China's 142.6 billion trees. To achieve extraordinary undertakings, one must put in simple and sincere efforts, so that one can reap the surprise of accumulated knowledge and experience in the process of accumulation, and achieve achievements that can stand the test of time in the process of tempering.
Some undertakings cannot be completed by one person, or even one generation. What is a "great general"? Achievement does not necessarily have to be through me, but achievement will definitely involve me. General Wu Shi (吴石) devoted himself to the hidden front, dedicating his life to the national liberation and reunification cause, writing a silent glory. Veteran Ling Shangqian (凌尚前) patrolled the border for more than 40 years, turning himself into a boundary marker, just to protect the mountains and rivers. By not seeking temporary achievements or personal fame, one can achieve the "selfless" state of mind that leads to historically significant "self" achievements.
Today, we have won the battle against poverty, but we still need to establish a normalized mechanism to prevent people from falling back into poverty. The sky is bluer, the water is clearer, and the land is greener, but we still need to thoroughly fight the battle to protect the blue sky, clear waters, and clean soil. These all call on us to cultivate the "young general" mentality and be "great generals" with vision and responsibility, continue to uphold the spirit of perseverance, hammering one nail after another, and working generation after generation, to create new glory.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Hong Kong on December 21st (Reporter Chen Ran (陈然)): The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区) government announced on December 21st that the "Tai Po Wang Fuk Court Assistance Fund (大埔宏福苑援助基金)," established by the SAR government, has received approximately HK$3.7 billion in external donations. Together with the HK$300 million in seed funding invested by the SAR government, the total fund amount is approximately HK$4 billion.
麥美娟 (Mak Mei-kuen), Secretary for Home and Youth Affairs of the SAR government, stated that the administrative arrangements for the "Tai Po Wang Fuk Court Assistance Fund (大埔宏福苑援助基金)" are entirely handled by government departments such as the Treasury and the Home and Youth Affairs Bureau (民政及青年事务局), without involving any administrative fees. The fund's accounts will be submitted to the Audit Commission (审计署) for auditing in a public and transparent manner, and the relevant reports will also be submitted to the SAR Legislative Council (特区立法会). The fund aims to provide long-term support to residents of Wang Fuk Court (宏福苑). The SAR government will launch different projects in stages to properly use the fund until residents find permanent housing.
As of the morning of December 21st, a total of 572 residents have been accommodated in hotel rooms coordinated by the Home and Youth Affairs Bureau (民政及青年事务局), and 563 citizens have been accommodated in youth hostels/campsites. In addition, 3,513 residents are currently living in units of transitional housing, Housing Society (房协) projects, or Tuen Mun Po Tin Interim Housing (屯门宝田中转房屋) of the SAR government's Housing Bureau (房屋局). There are currently more than 1,000 units available for longer-term resettlement of affected residents.
The SAR government's Transport Department (运输署) is supervising public transport service operators to strengthen franchised bus, green minibus, and resident bus services, and to dispatch additional vehicles and personnel to support Wang Fuk Court (宏福苑) residents moving into transitional housing in various districts. The online platform for material donations built by the SAR government and the information technology industry continues to operate. To date, it has received approximately 2,000 registrations, and approximately 29,000 items of various types of materials have been distributed to multiple locations.
Return to TopAccording to China Railway Qinghai-Tibet Group Co., Ltd., during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway transported more than 12.25 million passengers in and out of Tibet, setting a new record for the same period in history.
Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," the plateau railway network under the jurisdiction of China Railway Qinghai-Tibet Group has become increasingly dense, the train accessibility rate has significantly improved, and the total number of passenger trains operated has reached 104.5 pairs, forming a full-spectrum transportation capacity pattern covering everything from ordinary speed to high-speed rail. The operating mileage has exceeded 4,060 kilometers, which not only facilitates people's travel but also serves as a "steel engine" for driving the economic and social development along the route. With the successive addition of passenger stations such as Tuotuohe (沱沱河), Budongquan (不冻泉), and Yanshiping (雁石坪) along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the breadth and depth of the network coverage continue to expand. The "Y"-shaped main framework railway network composed of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, Lhasa-Xigaze Railway (拉日铁路), and Lhasa-Nyingchi Railway (拉林铁路) is changing the way local people travel.
Return to TopBy: 本报评论部
Using innovative theoretical achievements to guide new development practices is a distinct characteristic of China's development in the new era.
In the past five years, against the backdrop of significantly increased external shocks, China's contribution to global economic growth has remained stable at around 30%. Significant improvements have been made in hard power, such as the economy, science and technology, and national defense, as well as soft power, such as culture, institutions, and diplomacy. The 14th Five-Year Plan is about to conclude successfully, and a good start has been achieved in the new journey towards the second centenary goal. Looking around the world, the scenery is particularly good here.
Under extremely difficult environmental conditions, the fundamental reason we have been able to achieve new major accomplishments lies in the leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, and in the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Looking back into history, our Party has overcome various risks and challenges, creating one miracle after another. The "fundamental reason lies in mastering the scientific theory of Marxism and continuously promoting theoretical innovation in combination with new realities, enabling the Party to grasp the powerful force of truth."
We must fully tap economic potential, adhere to both policy support and reform and innovation, ensure that we are both "flexible in letting go" and "effective in managing," adhere to the close integration of investment in things and investment in people, and respond to external challenges by honing our internal skills. The "five musts" summarized and refined by this Central Economic Work Conference are a deepening of our Party's understanding of the laws of economic work under the new situation based on guiding development practices, and further enrich and develop Xi Jinping's economic thought.
During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, China's development environment will face profound and complex changes. We must consolidate the foundation and exert comprehensive efforts to ensure that decisive progress is made in basically achieving socialist modernization. Understanding the "logic of China," promoting the "governance of China," and following the "path of China," we have written a new chapter in the "two great miracles" and will continue to write new glories and create new honors.
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From the perspective of practical consciousness, our Party adheres to a practical orientation, continuously promotes theoretical innovation based on practice, and uses it to guide new development practices.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "Our promotion of theoretical innovation is theoretical innovation based on practice, not empty thinking sitting in an ivory tower. We must adhere to discovering truth and developing truth in practice."
Observing China's development in the new era, a new driving force is becoming increasingly strong:
In the vast fields, mobile phones have become "new farm tools" and data has become "new agricultural resources." In 2022, the contribution rate of agricultural science and technology progress increased to 62.4%.
In factory workshops, 3D printing equipment, industrial robots, and other technologies are widely used. As of July 2023, nearly 8,000 digital workshops and smart factories have been built in various regions.
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China's economy has shifted from a stage of high-speed growth to a stage of high-quality development, which requires new productivity theories to guide it. In practice, new quality productive forces have already formed and demonstrated a strong driving force and support for high-quality development, which needs to be summarized and generalized theoretically.
"Integrate science and technology innovation resources, lead the development of strategic emerging industries and future industries, and accelerate the formation of new quality productive forces," "Promote the high-end, intelligent, and green development of the manufacturing industry"... After July 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) conducted inspections and research in Sichuan, Heilongjiang, Zhejiang, and other places, creatively proposing to accelerate the formation of new quality productive forces. The 2023 Central Economic Work Conference deployed the major task of developing new quality productive forces.
Heilongjiang (黑龙江), with its vast forests, is targeting the bio-industry, and new tracks such as bio-manufacturing and bio-energy are becoming wider and wider.
Zhejiang (浙江), in 2025, the "Thousand Projects and Trillion Investments" will prioritize support for artificial intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, and other fields, with new quality productive force projects accounting for 29%.
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The theory of new quality productive forces is constantly being enriched and improved, guiding various regions to accurately identify their positioning based on local conditions, and the Chinese-style modernization is full of vitality. The 15th Five-Year Plan proposal places the development of new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions in a more prominent strategic position and makes a series of deployments, which is precisely to guide new practices with new theories.
Summarizing and refining regular understandings from practice, forming scientific theories, and then guiding practice is a fine tradition of our Party.
In 2020, summarizing the "five fundamentals" that must be adhered to in response to severe challenges, such as "the authority of the Party Central Committee is the fundamental reliance for the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to overcome difficulties in times of crisis";
In 2024, summarizing the "five musts for overall consideration" for doing a good job in economic work, such as "we must coordinate the relationship between an effective market and an active government";
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The Central Economic Work Conference timely summarizes experience and guides China's economic ship to ride the wind and waves and move steadily and far.
Coming from practice and going to practice, we can continue to advance the great cause in the virtuous interaction between theoretical innovation and practical innovation.
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From the perspective of problem consciousness, our Party adheres to a problem-oriented approach, promotes theoretical innovation by timely and scientifically answering new questions of the era, and forms "golden keys" for solving problems and leading development.
Answering and guiding the solution of problems is the fundamental task of theory. The process of solving problems is also the process of theoretical development and advancement.
Looking back to early 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) inspected the Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) in Zhejiang (浙江). Under the impact of the epidemic, foreign raw materials could not enter and domestic goods could not be exported, and the export-oriented economic province was affected.
"The environmental conditions of large-scale import and export have changed, and we must propose new ideas to lead development based on the new situation."
Shortly after returning to Beijing (北京), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed the concept of "dual circulation." In October 2022, "accelerating the construction of a new development pattern" was written into the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
The thinking and adjustment of the export-oriented economic model had already begun. "The 2008 international financial crisis was an important watershed in the evolution of China's development pattern." From this, we can better understand the profound meaning of adhering to expanding domestic demand as a strategic base point.
Remaining the world's second largest consumer market, the largest online retail market, and the world's largest trading nation in goods, in the first four years of the 14th Five-Year Plan, domestic demand contributed an average of over 80% to China's economic growth...
By building a new development pattern to resolve the impact of external shocks and declining external demand, China's survivability, competitiveness, development power, and sustainability have been continuously enhanced. Since the beginning of this year, facing "headwinds" and "reversing waves," the Chinese economy has moved forward under pressure and developed towards new and better directions, demonstrating strong resilience.
The 15th Five-Year Plan proposal points out that a strong domestic market is the strategic support for Chinese-style modernization and makes deployments around "building a strong domestic market."
Accelerating the construction of a new development pattern and offsetting the uncertainty of international circulation with the stability of domestic circulation, we have a deeper understanding of the strategic foresight of the Party Central Committee's preemptive move.
Timely discovery and profound insight into new questions of the era are the source of power and the foundation for the development of theoretical innovation.
Facing the complex situation of "three-stage superposition," making the major judgment that "China's economic development has entered a new normal," leading the adaptation to the changes in speed, structure, and driving force of economic development.
Facing the "demand spillover" phenomenon of consumers' enthusiasm for overseas shopping and "overseas purchasing," making the strategic decision to "promote supply-side structural reform," guiding the improvement of effective supply capacity. Today, the "overseas purchasing" tide has receded, "China shopping" is booming, and "Made in China" is attracting fans around the world.
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The Party's innovative theories are never "philosophies in the study," but are designed to effectively solve the contradictions and problems in practice.
Currently, the "two overall situations" are accelerating their evolution and interacting deeply. Consciously and skillfully using the Party's innovative theories to solve problems, answer questions, and provide solutions, history advances in the continuous resolution of problems.
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From the perspective of the grand historical view, our Party adheres to the "two integrations," consolidating the historical and mass foundation of innovative theories, and enhancing the consciousness and firmness in implementing the Party's innovative theories.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the "Two Mountains" theory. One concept, changing China and leading the era, is precisely an entry point for understanding the Party's innovative theories.
Yucun Village (余村) in Anji (安吉), Zhejiang (浙江), the "birthplace" of the concept, used to rely on the mountains for a living. On August 15, 2005, Xi Jinping (习近平), then Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, came here to conduct research and affirmed the decision of the people of Yucun Village (余村) to close mines and stop factories. The concept that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" came into being.
"As a development concept and an ecological culture," in the "two mountains," there is the ecological wisdom in traditional Chinese culture such as "harmony between man and nature," and the people's hope that "if you earn money, but the air and drinking water are not up to standard, what happiness is there to speak of."
Since the new era, the "Two Mountains" theory has become an important part of the new development concept, transformed into a consensus and action of the entire Party and society, and won widespread resonance globally.
Once a theory is mastered by the masses, it will also become a material force.
In order to manage the Xin'an River (新安江), Anhui (安徽) and Zhejiang (浙江) jointly explored cross-provincial river basin ecological protection compensation, turning "gambling" into "win-win";
Helping to fight the battle to block the edges of the Hexi Corridor (河西走廊) - Taklamakan Desert (塔克拉玛干沙漠), more than 600,000 people in Xinjiang (新疆) tied "green scarves" to the desert;
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With the joint participation and conscious action of all the people, the vast land is becoming more colorful.
"Integrating the essence of Marxist thought with the essence of outstanding traditional Chinese culture and integrating it with the common values that the people use every day without realizing it" is a distinct feature of the Party's innovative theories in the new era.
Inheriting the "value pursuit of no litigation in the world and valuing harmony," adhering to and developing the "Fengqiao Experience" (枫桥经验) of the new era, resolving problems at the grassroots level and resolving them in the bud. In Six-Foot Lane (六尺巷), a new chapter of the "New Era Six-Foot Lane Work Method" is written.
In response to the growing need for spiritual life, the proposition of humanistic economics is put forward, guiding high-quality development and high-quality life to resonate at the same frequency. From the popularity of museums to the popularity of "Su Chao" (苏超), the cultural innovation and creation of the entire nation makes the pool of Chinese culture full of vitality.
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Practice shows that once the Party's innovative theories are loved, recognized, and owned by the people, and transformed into "nutrition" for transforming the subjective world, they can explode with tremendous energy to transform the objective world.
A political party with scientific theories possesses the power of truth; a cause guided by scientific theories has a bright future.
(Written by: He Juan (何娟))
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The problem is the starting point of reform, the focus of policy, and the breakthrough point of development.
At the turn of the year, how to make a good start for the "15th Five-Year Plan" has become the focus of attention in various places. What are the tricks for development? Let's take a look at two conferences first.
One was the "Tucao (Roast) Conference" held in Huoqiu County (霍邱县), Lu'an (六安), Anhui (安徽). A number of units made "Tucao" speeches focusing on the blockages, pain points, and difficulties in the local economic and social development. After the meeting, the County Party Committee Office sorted out and analyzed the problems, formed a ledger, and clarified the leading units and the time limit for rectification.
The other was a symposium on newly introduced policies and newly recruited and registered enterprises held in Jinniu District (金牛区), Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川). Relevant departments took the initiative to provide services, listened to the difficulties in the development of enterprises, responded to the realistic needs of local leading enterprises to grow bigger and stronger, extend the chain and supplement the chain, and also paid attention to the common problems in the growth process of small and medium-sized micro enterprises.
The two conferences have different names, but they all run through the same idea: to break the situation with a problem-oriented awareness, and promote economic and social development in the process of discovering and solving problems. The Central Economic Work Conference (中央经济工作会议) this year pointed out that there are still many old problems and new challenges in China's 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 problem is the starting point of reform, the focus of policy, and the breakthrough point of development. To promote development, we must be good at "finding problems" and transform solving problems into the "fulcrum" of development.
The process of "finding problems" is a process of gathering wisdom and finding solutions to problems.
Today, more and more places realize that whoever can discover problems earlier, more accurately, and more deeply, and solve problems, can gain the upper hand in regional competition. Guizhou (贵州) invites tourists to act as "pain customers" to collect their pain points and suggestions in tourism, and also gives bonuses for valuable content. In the past 8 years, the activity has not only solved a large number of specific problems, but also promoted the cultural and tourism departments and enterprises to enhance their market awareness, service awareness, and communication awareness.
The masses know the actual situation best, are most likely to find problems, and are also most able to create solutions to problems. Using the perspective of the masses, adhering to asking the people for advice and asking the people for needs, can we better find the direction of development and solve problems.
The process of "finding problems" is also a process of building consensus and inspiring fighting spirit.
In recent years, from collecting suggestions in the form of symposiums and forums, to gathering opinions from various parties through TV inquiries and online message boards, various measures have not only promoted the solution of specific problems, but also created an atmosphere of "raising real problems and raising real problems," and promoted many places to form a "list-based, closed-loop" follow-up mechanism.
Forming a virtuous interaction between policy formulation and the needs of the masses not only helps to improve the scientific nature of policy measures, but also enhances the sense of identity of the masses, draws a concentric circle of development, and boosts confidence in development.
"Finding problems" cannot only rely on "passive waiting," but should be "proactive"; after finding problems, it should not only stay at solving specific problems, but should be extended to solving similar problems. In this way, can "finding problems" play the greatest effect.
Take the 12345 hotline as an example. Beijing (北京) makes good use of the 12345 hotline, both "accepting and handling cases immediately" to solve single-point problems, and carrying out special governance of "one topic per month" to actively discover and solve high-frequency common problems; Zhejiang (浙江) integrates the 12345 hotline into the "people call me to do" work system for management, operates in an integrated manner throughout the province, different levels of platforms coordinate and link, and efficiently connects with the 12345 hotlines in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) region to establish an integrated operation work mechanism.
Starting from mechanisms and systems, making the discovery of problems normalized and institutionalized, and putting "one thing" into "one type of thing" to solve, can we better concentrate the wisdom of all parties and make solving problems promote development from "short-term breakthrough" to "long-term empowerment."
Discovering problems tests vision, facing problems tests responsibility, and solving problems demonstrates ability. From the household contract responsibility system in Xiaogang Village (小岗村), Anhui (安徽) breaking the shackles of the system, to Shekou (蛇口), Shenzhen (深圳) becoming a reform experimental field leading the trend of opening up; from the ecological governance of Anji (安吉), Zhejiang (浙江) practicing the "Two Mountains" theory, to the digital twin of Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) exploring the future urban development model, China's development history is a process of continuous innovation in discovering and solving problems. Adhering to the problem orientation is a historical experience and an inevitable requirement for constantly opening up new prospects for development.
Maintaining a problem-oriented awareness, gathering the wisdom and strength of the masses,凝聚发展共识 (níng jù fā zhǎn gòng shí - "build development consensus," to unite and agree on the direction of development), and turning the process of discovering and solving problems into a process of promoting economic and social development, China's development will always be full of momentum.
Return to TopIn 2025, China's oil and gas production both reached historical highs, with crude oil production at approximately 215 million tons, and natural gas production exceeding 260 billion cubic meters, marking nine consecutive years of production increases exceeding 10 billion cubic meters. Predictions indicate that over the next 10 years, China's petroleum industry will exhibit an accelerated trend towards raw materialization and green development, with demand rapidly shifting towards chemical products and new material manufacturing. Natural gas will play a crucial role in replacing coal and supporting new power systems.
This is precisely:
Black gold rolls in, gas stretches on and on,
Increase production and ensure supply, planning for the long term.
Low-carbon transition adds greenery,
Structural optimization opens a new chapter.
Chang Jinwen (常晋文)
Return to TopBy: 张盖伦
Since the autumn semester of this year, many provinces across the country have comprehensively launched AI (Artificial Intelligence) general education in primary and secondary schools. AI entering primary and secondary school classrooms is not only conducive to cultivating modern citizens who can adapt to future society but also helps to reserve talent for national scientific and technological innovation. However, some local AI courses have become distorted in practice, which needs to be taken seriously.
For example, some AI general education courses, although bearing the name of artificial intelligence, simply introduce AI concepts or technologies when teachers teach, emphasizing knowledge transmission and neglecting thinking training, ignoring the practical and exploratory characteristics of AI courses. Some AI general education courses lack coherence and hierarchy in their design and fail to fully consider the cognitive rules and learning characteristics of children of different ages, making it impossible to adapt to the real needs of students. In some places, there are also signs of utilitarianism, turning "AI education" into "AI competition education," engaging in top-notch selection and blindly encouraging participation in competitions and certifications.
There are practical reasons behind the distortion of courses, and the lack of teachers qualified for AI education is an important factor. Although there are many AI training programs for primary and secondary school teachers, the coverage is still limited, and the systematicness and depth are insufficient. According to survey data, very few primary and secondary school teachers have been exposed to neural networks and deep learning. In addition, AI courses are "resource-dependent" courses, requiring students to observe, practice, and summarize. They need to write code, design robots, and deploy local models, but not all schools can provide the corresponding hardware facilities and experimental environment. At the same time, some training institutions fuel anxiety and 推波助澜 (tuī bō zhù lán - "add waves assist surge," to add fuel to the fire; to instigate), linking learning AI with higher grades, causing the courses to deviate from the track of quality education and increasing the burden on students, which may stifle their interest in technological exploration.
It may be possible to break the situation from the aspects of teacher construction, curriculum design, and concept guidance. In terms of teachers, a collaborative training mechanism of "universities + enterprises + schools" can be established to make up for the shortage of teachers with the help of social forces. In terms of curriculum, the old routine of knowledge灌输 should be abandoned, and different teaching methods should be adopted according to different age characteristics, allowing children to do experiments and write code themselves. In terms of concepts, it is necessary to clarify that the promotion of AI general education is to cultivate future talents who can adapt to the intelligent era, and we cannot take the old path of utilitarianism.
The rapid development of AI is profoundly changing human social life. Having AI literacy is becoming a basic ability. The purpose of developing AI education in primary and secondary schools is to promote the all-round development of students and cultivate more compound talents with innovative capabilities for national scientific and technological innovation and social progress. Only by adhering to the original intention of quality education can we enable young people to enter the future of human-computer collaboration more calmly.
(Excerpted from *Science and Technology Daily (科技日报)*, originally titled *AI Enters Primary and Secondary Schools, Don't Lose the Original Intention of Quality Education*)
Return to TopBy: 张 驰
[Keywords] "Parents' Night School"
[Event] Since the beginning of this year, Yunnan (云南) has carried out more than 1,000 "Parents' Night School" civilization practice activities in rural areas throughout the province, with more than 100,000 parents becoming night school students. In village activity rooms and new era civilization practice stations, "Parents' Night School" delivers education to the doorstep, opening up the "last mile" of popularizing scientific education knowledge. Lectures, micro-videos, situational dramas, and other forms are easy to understand, and parents open their hearts to share and exchange their confusions and experiences in family education, learning how to better "be parents."
[Commentary]
"Why is it ineffective to always talk about the child?" "The child watches the phone every day, how to manage it?"... Similar problems plague many parents. Now, these confusions can be found in "Parents' Night School." With the help of lecturers and volunteers, and in the simple local accent, what is changed is the concept of education, what is relieved is family conflicts, and what is shaped is a good family style.
The family is the first classroom in life, and parents are the child's first teachers. In the past, many people believed that family education was a "private matter behind closed doors," and wrong educational concepts and methods such as "emphasizing upbringing over education" and "spare the rod and spoil the child" widely existed. If family education is not done properly, it can cause estrangement and alienation between parents and children, or it may not be able to detect and deal with problems and hidden dangers in the child's growth process in time, and may even cause harm to the child. Some netizens lamented: "Being a parent also requires continuous learning."
It is gratifying that "how to be a good parent" is getting more attention. The "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Promotion of Family Education" (《中华人民共和国家庭教育促进法》), which came into effect in 2022, stipulates that parents should "consciously learn family education knowledge" and "master scientific family education methods to improve family education ability." The "Work Plan for Collaborative Education 'Education Consortium' of Home, School, and Society" (《家校社协同育人“教联体”工作方案》) jointly issued by the Ministry of Education (教育部) and 17 other departments proposes to ensure a more complete collaborative education work mechanism in which the government coordinates, departments collaborate, schools lead, families fulfill their responsibilities, and society participates. In the progress of the times, family education is not only a family matter, but also a national matter.
Compared with cities, there are more lessons to be made up for family education in vast rural areas and remote areas. Parents who are away from home for a long time are "beyond their reach" for family education; "grandparents raising children," the older generation often feels overwhelmed and also makes the child's growth lack emotional care. At the same time, the inertia of traditional concepts and the lack of high-quality services are also problems that need to be overcome.
Promoting educational equity is not limited to school education, but should also extend to more fields such as family education, which requires providing practical support for rural families.
For example, it is necessary to be "down-to-earth" and use forms that the masses like to watch and languages they can understand to solve their doubts. In Dali (大理), Yunnan (云南), "Parents' Night School" staged psychological situational dramas. Straightforward lines are like a mirror, reflecting the daily life of many families, and also guiding parents to reflect on their communication methods with their children. In various parts of Yunnan (云南), from parent communication groups to synchronous teaching in ethnic minority languages, a series of vivid practices organically embed scientific concepts into daily life.
To promote family education services into rural families, it is also necessary to improve the "home, school, and society" collaborative network. The "menu-style" service of the Family Education Lecturer Group in Datian County (大田县), Fujian (福建), accurately matches family needs, and schools and communities "order" classes, realizing the transformation from "broad irrigation" to "precision drip irrigation." Shanghai Parents' School (上海家长学校) has built 100 family education learning points in the suburbs, providing dedicated space and professional guidance for parent classrooms, micro-consultations, small community learning, and other activities. Only by making family education support services more convenient and accurate can the threshold for rural areas to obtain high-quality resources be continuously lowered, and scientific concepts and methods can better enter thousands of households.
The family is the starting point for a child's growth and should also be a warm harbor. When the lights of "Parents' Night School" light up the rural night, and when family education services benefit rural families, these efforts will also become an important cornerstone for blocking the intergenerational transmission of poverty and promoting rural talent revitalization.
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Return to TopBy: 张 伟
Strengthen original innovation and tackle key core technologies.
——Excerpt from the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal
Microwave heating is one of the core technologies for maintaining temperatures of over 100 million degrees Celsius on the "artificial sun"—the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) (全超导托卡马克核聚变实验装置). Our team's main task is to lead the research and development and operation of this critical system on the experimental device. It is like a super "microwave oven," injecting huge amounts of energy precisely into the center of the plasma through electromagnetic waves of specific frequencies to achieve and maintain thermonuclear fusion combustion. However, ensuring that this system operates stably and efficiently under extreme conditions poses many challenges.
The core work of our team is to ensure that electromagnetic waves are efficiently coupled from the transmitter to the antenna and then to the plasma, achieving stable system operation. We have fully mastered the entire chain of research, development, and construction capabilities of the ion cyclotron wave system from the transmitter to the antenna, with a 100% domestic production rate. Tempered by tens of thousands of discharge tests on EAST, the system has demonstrated world-class operational stability and engineering reliability, and more and more international peers are actively seeking cooperation with us.
Behind this achievement is the team's years of scientific research accumulation. While studying for a master's degree at the Institute of Plasma Physics (等离子体物理研究所) of the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (合肥物质科学研究院), Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), I witnessed EAST starting from scratch. At that time, the various systems of EAST were still being improved, and I knew that we still had a long way to go on the nuclear fusion track.
I went abroad to pursue a doctorate in 2014, and in 2021, I returned to China to participate in the construction of China's "artificial sun." After joining the Institute of Plasma Physics (等离子体物理研究所), I formally undertook the construction and maintenance of the EAST ion cyclotron wave system.
In 2023, the microwave heating system developed by the team provided key support for EAST to successfully achieve 403 seconds of steady-state long-pulse high-confinement mode plasma operation. The team supported EAST in achieving another breakthrough in early 2025, significantly increasing the steady-state high-confinement operation time to 1066 seconds.
Now, the team is fully engaged in the upgrade preparation for the next round of experiments. We have also established a collaborative research mechanism with several top domestic research institutions and universities. By jointly optimizing the antenna structure and deeply analyzing the coupling physics mechanism of radio frequency waves and plasma, we strive to achieve key breakthroughs in the core indicator of wave coupling efficiency.
Looking forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," the development of nuclear fusion energy has ushered in a historic strategic opportunity. I will continue to stand firm on the forefront of microwave heating, seeking more original breakthroughs and solving more "bottleneck" problems. I firmly believe that through the collaborative innovation and unremitting efforts of all parties, we will surely realize the beautiful vision of making clean energy benefit all mankind.
(The author is a researcher at the Institute of Plasma Physics (等离子体物理研究所) of the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (合肥物质科学研究院), Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院). This article was compiled and edited by Li Junjie (李俊杰), a reporter from this newspaper.)
Extended Reading
How Far Away Is Power Generation from the "Artificial Sun"?
China has achieved a number of breakthroughs in the field of "artificial sun": EAST created a world record of 1066 seconds of steady-state high-confinement operation at 100 million degrees Celsius this year, verifying the feasibility of long-pulse stable operation; the Compact Fusion Energy Experimental Device (BEST) (紧凑型聚变能实验装置) has entered the final assembly stage and will demonstrate fusion energy power generation for the first time based on EAST.
According to China's development plan, the BEST device will be basically completed by the end of 2027 and is expected to achieve demonstration power generation around 2030. The industry generally predicts that after the technical accumulation of the experimental reactor and demonstration reactor stages, if key problems such as material radiation resistance are successfully overcome, the first commercial fusion power plant will be built around 2050, achieving grid-connected power generation.
(Compiled by Li Junjie (李俊杰), a reporter from this newspaper)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on December 21st (Reporter Qi Yukun (亓玉昆)) The 2025 China Public Relations Development Conference was held in Beijing (北京) on the 20th. This conference was hosted by the China Public Relations Association (中国公共关系协会), focusing on the theme of "Public Relations + Intelligent Technology to Help Build a Modern and Powerful Country." Centered around the strategic deployment of intelligent technology development in the "15th Five-Year Plan" recommendations, it invited leaders and experts from government departments, enterprises, institutions, university think tanks, social organizations, and other entities to jointly explore how to use technology empowerment to promote theoretical and practical innovation in China's public relations cause and serve the construction of a modern and powerful country.
The conference released the "China Enterprise Public Relations Evaluation System (Trial Implementation)" and showcased 80 "2025 China Public Relations Excellent Cases" such as "Su Chao (苏超)." Through case sharing, it centrally presented the practical innovation and value responsibility of China's public relations cause in the new era.
Guo Weimin (郭卫民), President of the China Public Relations Association (中国公共关系协会), stated that the public relations industry should seize development opportunities, strengthen its mission and responsibility, actively explore the "Public Relations + Intelligent Technology" path, strengthen the application of new technologies in the industry, and actively promote the digital empowerment and information transformation of the public relations industry.
Return to TopTaiyuan, December 21st (People's Daily reporter Fu Mingli (付明丽)) On the 21st, a reporter learned from the Shanxi Provincial Forestry and Grassland Bureau (山西省林业和草原局) that in order to protect migratory birds, Shanxi (山西) has designated 40 key migratory bird passage areas and implemented a grid-based patrol and monitoring mechanism of "zoning and segmenting, with responsibility assigned to individuals." In addition, 22 birdwatching routes have been announced, allowing citizens to experience the beauty of ecology up close.
In recent years, Shanxi (山西) has strengthened habitat protection, taking the protection of flagship species such as the Elliot's pheasant, a national first-class key protected wild animal, as a starting point to systematically promote the improvement of forest bird habitat quality. Through the implementation of demonstration projects such as black stork protection and crested ibis introduction, the habitat environment for waterbirds has been continuously improved. A complete chain protection system of "drinking water point construction - habitat restoration - artificial breeding - wild release" has been established, and wetlands have become important stopovers and breeding grounds for migratory birds. For four consecutive years, special law enforcement actions of "Qingfeng" and "Wangdun" have been carried out. In 2025, a three-year special action for bird protection will be launched to form a high-pressure situation to severely crack down on poaching and trafficking of birds.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李心萍
As night falls and the lights gradually brighten, the cities and villages on the more than 9.6 million square kilometers of land are lit up like stars.
More than 1.4 billion people have 24-hour access to electricity, which is inseparable from the support of a new energy system.
In 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) creatively proposed the "Four Revolutions, One Cooperation" energy security new strategy of promoting energy consumption revolution, energy supply revolution, energy technology revolution, energy system revolution, and all-round strengthening of international cooperation, which clarified the strategic direction of China's energy development.
To thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions, China Southern Power Grid (南方电网) is practicing the "Four Revolutions, One Cooperation" energy security new strategy and focusing on promoting high-quality energy development.
55%, 99.99%, 80 billion - the three data released by China Southern Power Grid (南方电网) witness the vivid practice of high-quality energy development.
The proportion of non-fossil energy power generation reaches 55%
On November 9, the opening ceremony of the 15th National Games (全国运动会) was held at the Guangdong Olympic Sports Center (广东奥体中心) in Guangdong (广东), witnessing the new upgrade of this old venue: the installation of photovoltaic panels with an annual power generation capacity of over 420,000 kWh; the access to dedicated transformers to create a flexible regulation system, and the full self-use of photovoltaic power generation...
"We purchased 188,000 green certificates at one time to ensure that this National Games (全运会) uses 100% green electricity, and the total electricity consumption is expected to exceed 188 million kWh," said Zhang Anzhe (张安喆), Deputy General Manager of the Marketing Department of Guangdong Power Grid Guangzhou Power Supply Bureau (广东电网广州供电局). Each green certificate has unique traceability information to ensure that the green electricity used in the National Games (全运会) is authentic, reliable, and verifiable.
Green electricity lights up the lights of the National Games (全运会), which is a new breakthrough in the construction of China's new power system.
However, new energy "relies on the weather" and has strong uncertainty and high instability, which also brings considerable challenges to power grid operation.
"Clean and low-carbon is the background color of the new power system. In order to improve the consumption capacity of new energy, the power system must be fully upgraded," said Lu Wankun (鲁万坤), General Manager of the Strategic Planning Department of China Southern Power Grid (南方电网).
Build new channels to send out green electricity.
In Guangzhou (广州), Guangdong (广东), the ultra-high voltage DC transmission project - the Tibet-Guangdong DC (藏粤直流) is about to start construction. In the future, clean energy from the west will be continuously transmitted to load centers such as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) on a larger scale.
The construction of higher-adaptability power channels is accelerating, allowing new energy power generation to be connected to the grid and flow. The proportion of non-fossil energy installed capacity in the operating area of China Southern Power Grid (南方电网) exceeds 66%, and the proportion of electricity exceeds 55%.
Launch a new system to make good use of green electricity.
Building a digital forecasting platform allows the new power system to have its own "weather forecast." "Relying on this platform, our prediction accuracy for wind and solar energy reaches 89.0% and 93.7% respectively," said Wang Haohuai (王皓怀), Manager of the Water and New Energy Department of China Southern Power Grid Dispatch Center (南方总调水新处).
By 2025, the new energy consumption rate in the operating area of China Southern Power Grid (南方电网) will reach 97%, ranking among the top in the country.
Build a new market to make green electricity tradable.
On June 28, the Southern Regional Electricity Market (南方区域电力市场) launched a continuous settlement trial operation, realizing uninterrupted, inter-provincial electricity trading every day.
In July, a normalized electricity trading mechanism across power grid operating areas was officially introduced, covering the national "online electricity mall." From July to September, more than 2 billion kWh of electricity from Guangdong (广东), Guangxi (广西), and Yunnan (云南) were transmitted to Shanghai (上海), Zhejiang (浙江), Anhui (安徽), and Fujian (福建) around the clock through the Fujian-Guangdong interconnection project (闽粤联网工程) and related connecting channels.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the scale of clean energy development and utilization in the operating area of China Southern Power Grid (南方电网) continued to expand, and green electricity became the mainstream.
Power supply reliability reaches 99.99%
On September 6, 2024, Super Typhoon "Mojie" landed in Wenchang (文昌), Hainan (海南), causing tens of thousands of power poles to collapse and tens of thousands of kilometers of power lines to fall off. How to achieve rapid power restoration?
Intelligent drones conduct aerial inspections and disaster surveys, and drilling and pole-setting "robots" arrive at the first time, which can remove, dig holes, and replace poles in 20 minutes... Finally, China Southern Power Grid (南方电网) only took 21 days to rush through the medium and low voltage transmission lines.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the power supply reliability in the operating area of China Southern Power Grid (南方电网) reached 99.99%, allowing people to go from "having access to electricity" to "using electricity well."
Good electricity is good because it is more convenient to obtain electricity -
A company in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东) needs to apply for electricity installation for a project in Nanning (南宁), Guangxi (广西). How many trips do they need to make? The answer is: they can handle it without leaving Shenzhen (深圳).
Xu Wang (徐望) is the project manager of the BYD Nanning Automobile Exhibition Center (比亚迪南宁汽车展示中心). Recently, he experienced handling electricity at the company's door. It only took 2 days from the Shenzhen Power Supply Bureau (深圳供电局) collecting materials to the Nanning Power Supply Bureau (南宁供电局) receiving the business and providing the company with a power supply plan.
This is due to the cross-provincial and municipal electricity handling cooperation mechanism built by China Southern Power Grid (南方电网). Relying on 13 digital government service platforms, 6 electronic license platforms, and the "Southern Grid Online" smart business hall, China Southern Power Grid (南方电网) realizes "face-swiping electricity handling" for the entire network, all channels, and all businesses.
Good electricity is good because the power supply is more reliable -
In cities, the power supply reliability of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) has reached the world's advanced level, and the average power outage time index for users in the core areas of cities such as Zhuhai (珠海), Shenzhen (深圳), and Guangzhou (广州) has entered the minute level. In rural areas, China Southern Power Grid (南方电网) has invested more than 170 billion yuan in rural power grid transformation and upgrading in the past 5 years, and the power supply reliability rate of rural power grids has reached 99.9%.
Good electricity is good because the voltage is more stable -
For high-tech enterprises, stable voltage is the guarantee for enterprises to produce with quality and quantity. Taking semiconductor manufacturing enterprises as an example, even millisecond-level voltage fluctuations may cause process parameters to deviate from the standard, resulting in product defects and losses of tens of millions of yuan.
In the Shenzhen (深圳) factory area of China Star Optoelectronics (华星光电), the Shenzhen Power Supply Bureau (深圳供电局) installed 44 sets of power quality monitoring devices in substations, lines, and other places, and guided the company to configure 57 automatic voltage control devices, reducing the incidence of voltage sag events by 80%.
More than 80 billion kWh of electricity has been mutually supplied with neighboring countries
In Enpu Village (恩普村) near the Namtha 1 Hydropower Station (南塔河1号水电站) in Laos (老挝), villagers Xiluo (希罗) are busy early in the morning. "Now that the village has electricity, life is getting better and better," said Xiluo (希罗).
Enpu Village (恩普村) can have electricity thanks to the construction of the Namtha 1 Hydropower Station (南塔河1号水电站). During the dry season of the Namtha River (南塔河), China (中国) uses cross-border lines to transmit electricity to Laos (老挝). During the wet season, the electricity generated by the Namtha 1 Hydropower Station (南塔河1号水电站) can also be supplied to the Yunnan (云南) region of China (中国) through the power grid.
To date, China Southern Power Grid (南方电网) has cumulatively achieved more than 80 billion kWh of electricity mutual assistance with neighboring countries.
From fully promoting its own green and low-carbon energy transition to providing assistance for the global green energy transition, China (中国) is continuously contributing wisdom to promoting global ecological civilization construction.
China-Peru (中秘) power cooperation lights up "thousands of homes."
The Ancon Producers Association Community (安孔生产者协会社区) in northern Lima (利马), Peru (秘鲁), is a suburb of Lima (利马). Before electricity was available, residents had to use flashlights to go out at night and relied on candles or small kerosene lamps for lighting at home.
In December 2024, Peru Boluz Company (秘鲁博路兹公司), which is controlled and operated by China Southern Power Grid (南方电网), came to the Ancon community (安孔社区) to connect the power grid here. In May 2025, Peruvian industry monitoring data showed that the company's full-caliber system average power outage time had dropped to the lowest level in Peru (秘鲁).
Since 2024, with the support of China Southern Power Grid (南方电网), the "Thousands of Lights" project (万家灯火工程) of Peru Boluz Company (秘鲁博路兹公司) has completed the electrification transformation of more than 13,000 households, small and medium-sized enterprises, and schools in the suburbs of Lima (利马).
Carry out personnel training and share Chinese technical standards.
Egypt (埃及), an important economy in North Africa, has been plagued by power supply stability for local power companies.
"At present, the line loss rate of Egypt's (埃及) distribution network is as high as 30%, and it is very urgent to improve the management level of distribution network line loss," said Inga Abel Rahman (英格·阿贝尔·拉赫曼), regional director of the South Cairo Electricity Distribution Company (埃及南开罗配电公司) in Egypt (埃及).
In December 2024, China Southern Power Grid (南方电网) conducted a 3-day special training on distribution network loss reduction in Egypt (埃及), which was attended by more than 50 professionals from the South Cairo Electricity Distribution Company (埃及南开罗配电公司) in Egypt (埃及).
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China Southern Power Grid's (南方电网) international business cumulatively drove China's (中国) technology, capital, equipment, and services to "go global" by more than 7 billion US dollars.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Kunming (昆明) dispatch on December 21st (Reporter: Li Maoying (李茂颖)) - The Yunnan Provincial Public Security Department (云南省公安厅) and the Yunnan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism (云南省文化和旅游厅) recently jointly issued the "Several Measures for Coordinated Promotion of High-Quality Development of the Cultural and Tourism Industry." These measures focus on improving the overall social security prevention and control system for the construction of beautiful cities and beautiful villages, and continuously carry out整治 of public security disorder hotspots and industry chaos such as "unreasonable low prices," "black tour guides," "black intermediaries," and "forced buying and selling."
The measures clarify the implementation of "tidal policing" for tourism and residence. During seasonal peak tourism periods,机关 police forces will be targeted to support grassroots units. Seasonal community police offices will be added in pilot areas for high-quality tourism and residence development, or dynamic patrol routes, times, and points will be established. Around nighttime cultural and tourism consumption gathering areas, police forces will be deployed in advance to implement proactive policing.
Return to TopIn recent years, Lingshou County (灵寿县), Shijiazhuang City (石家庄市), Hebei Province (河北省), has deeply practiced the concept that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets." It has revitalized development momentum through industrial transformation, gathered strength for progress through improved livelihoods, and painted a livable picture through rural construction, writing a vivid answer sheet in which ecology and development complement each other on the journey of high-quality county development and comprehensive rural revitalization.
Focusing on Industrial Transformation, Green Clusters Solidify the Foundation of Development
Lingshou County (灵寿县), based on its resource endowment of "seven mountains, two waters, and one field," has constructed a characteristic industrial system of "new building materials + green energy + cultural tourism and health care," promoting the accelerated leap of economic development towards green and high-end development.
The new building materials industry has achieved a chain-like upgrade "from resources to assets." Relying on abundant mica, marble and other mineral resources, it has created a full-chain system of "basic raw materials - building materials production - building materials application." Through technological innovation, it has promoted the industry from "selling raw ore" to "deep processing" and from "raw material base" to "functional material innovation highland." At present, there are 567 new building materials enterprises in the county, accounting for 65.6% of the total number of industrial enterprises. It is estimated that the output value will reach more than 5.5 billion yuan in 2025, an increase of 10% year-on-year.
The green energy industry relies on "fusion-style" development to become a transformation benchmark. It has coordinated the layout of four major fields: photovoltaic power generation, wind power, pumped storage, and energy storage, with a total approved scale of new energy projects reaching 3443.2 MW. The grid-connected scale of photovoltaic and energy storage has reached 1287.7 MW, and the 1400 MW pumped storage power station with a total investment of 10.05 billion yuan is in the peak period of construction. The first unit is planned to generate electricity in 2028, and the annual tax revenue will increase by 130 million yuan after completion.
The cultural tourism and health care industry has been revitalized by ecological empowerment. Lingshou County (灵寿县), as a national key ecological function zone, a creation county of famous tourist counties in Hebei Province (河北省), and a preferred climate tourism destination in Hebei Province (河北省), has three national key protected cultural relics such as the Zhongshan Ancient City Site (中山古城遗址), five national 4A-level tourist attractions such as Wuyuezhai (五岳寨), and one national 5C-level self-driving RV camp. Based on its resource endowment, it has held the Wuyuezhai (五岳寨) Cross-country Challenge, RV Camping Conference, etc., and continues to polish the cultural tourism brand. As of the end of November this year, the county received 7,306,100 tourists, an increase of 64.1% year-on-year, and the total tourism consumption was 6.644 billion yuan, an increase of 57.3% year-on-year.
Focusing on Improving People's Livelihood, Universal Benefit and Sharing Cultivate a Happy Background
Lingshou County (灵寿县) regards people's livelihood projects as the foothold of high-quality development. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the cumulative expenditure on people's livelihood reached 12.72 billion yuan, and 45 practical things for people's livelihood were completed to a high standard and high quality. The quality of medical resources has been continuously improved, the integration and development of industry, education and city has been continuously upgraded, the refined management of the county town has achieved remarkable results, and parks, green spaces, parking lots, national fitness centers, etc. have been successively built, and the happiness index of the masses has been significantly improved.
At the same time, innovative social governance adds color to the background of peace. It took the lead in creating the "Auxiliary Police Management Platform" APP and obtained software copyright, opened a political and legal live broadcast room, and improved the response efficiency of mass appeals by 60% through digital means. The improvement of governance efficiency has consolidated the foundation of social harmony and stability, and the sense of security of the masses has been continuously enhanced.
Gathering Energy for a Beautiful Countryside, Deep Transformation and Construction of a Happy Homeland
Lingshou County (灵寿县) has deeply studied and applied the experience of the "Thousand Villages Demonstration, Ten Thousand Villages Renovation" Project, and continuously activated the endogenous power of rural development through the two-way efforts of hardware upgrading and connotation improvement, promoting the deep transformation of the countryside from "clean and orderly" to "livable and workable." Lingshou County (灵寿县) was selected as a pilot county for the construction of livable, workable and beautiful villages in Hebei Province (河北省), and the Lingshou County (灵寿县) National Rural Industrial Integration Development Demonstration Park was selected into the second batch of National Rural Industrial Integration Development Demonstration Park list.
Adhering to "people's livelihood priority, precise investment," the "appearance" of the countryside has been continuously improved. A total of 192 million yuan has been invested to complete the infrastructure construction of 212 villages, complete the construction of 138.7 kilometers of rural roads, and renovate 29,290 toilets. Around the development idea of "one product per village, one specialty per township," guide farmers to develop the "cooperative +" model and cultivate new agricultural business entities. Develop 769 family farms and 563 farmers' professional cooperatives, and cultivate 48 county-level or above agricultural industrialization leading enterprises, 135 demonstration family farms, and 4 provincial and municipal joint ventures. Taking advantage of the "Science and Technology Backyard," we will expand and strengthen the Taihang Longjing (太行龙井) and edible fungi industries, and cultivate four national geographical indication products, including Lingshou Danshen (灵寿丹参), Lingshou Enoki Mushroom (灵寿金针菇), Lingshou Fragrant Pig (灵寿香猪), and Lingshou Pickled Meat (灵寿腌肉). The total number of "two products and one standard" has reached 37, forming an agricultural industrial pattern with distinctive characteristics and strong ability to drive wealth.
Rural civilization is the key to rural governance and the "soft power" of rural industrial development. Regularly carry out the selection of civilized villages and towns, civilized families, and the most beautiful courtyards, deeply promote the change of customs and habits, explore a series of civilized practice activities of "new style weddings," organize a series of cultural benefit activities of "People's Big Stage, You Can Come If You Have Talent," and cultivate a good village style and folk customs. Launch the "Points Supermarket" to stimulate the "ownership" awareness of the masses and create a good social atmosphere of "everyone participates, builds and shares together."
At present, Lingshou County (灵寿县) is striding forward with high spirits. In the future, Lingshou County (灵寿县) will continue to stimulate endogenous power and strive to write a new chapter in the high-quality development of the county and the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Lingshou County Committee (中共灵寿县委宣传部)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 胡笑源
Elevator safety concerns every household. As special equipment, elevator maintenance and upkeep have strict standardized procedures. Within the industry, there's a saying that elevator safety is "30% manufacturing, 70% maintenance." However, many readers have reported issues with elevator maintenance in their residential communities, such as using repairs as a substitute for maintenance, going through the motions, and falsifying records, which create hidden dangers for elevator safety. The reporter conducted an investigation and interviews on related issues.
Readers reported frequent elevator malfunctions in their communities, but they couldn't see maintenance records or there were issues of falsified records.
Recently, Mr. Wang (王先生), a reader from Chengdu (成都市), Sichuan (四川) Province, left a message on the "Leaders' Message Board" of People's Daily, stating that elevator malfunctions occurred frequently in his community, with nearly 10 incidents of button failure and elevator entrapment occurring within two months.
"Once, the elevator suddenly dropped four floors. The trapped people dialed the rescue phone number posted in the elevator, but the maintenance company said that this elevator was not within their maintenance scope." Afterwards, the property management claimed that it was because the contact information was not updated in time after changing the maintenance company. "Now, although the phone can be reached, the maintenance company only comes to repair the elevator when it malfunctions. Usually, we don't see anyone doing regular maintenance," said Mr. Wang (王先生).
Ms. Fang (房女士), a reader from Taiyuan (太原市), Shanxi (山西) Province, reported that there was no surveillance in the elevator, and the help bell was just for show. "My house is a new house that was just delivered last year, but the elevator has repeatedly experienced sudden stops, doors that won't open, and other malfunctions. A neighbor was trapped for nearly an hour, and repeatedly pressing the help bell in the elevator had no response. There was no signal in the car, and they were only discovered by others who helped dial the rescue phone." Ms. Fang (房女士) said that after the owners complained, the property management promised to arrange regular elevator maintenance, but even though they said there was maintenance, "there are no maintenance records, and the elevator still has problems every now and then."
In some places, although there are elevator maintenance records, there are suspicions of being non-standard and falsified. Some netizens reported, "On the maintenance record sheet posted in the elevator, the date hasn't arrived yet, but the maintenance record has already been filled out"; "The maintenance record sheet is just a form, including the date, the name of the maintenance personnel, and other information. Owners cannot distinguish the authenticity, let alone supervise."
China has strict regulatory requirements for elevator maintenance. The "Special Equipment Safety Supervision Regulations" formulated by the State Council in 2003 and amended in 2009 stipulates that elevator maintenance must be carried out by units or elevator manufacturing units that have obtained relevant qualifications and licenses. Elevators should be cleaned, lubricated, adjusted, and inspected at least once every 15 days. In 2017, the "Elevator Maintenance Rules" approved and promulgated by the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine stipulates that maintenance units must provide 24-hour emergency response services. After receiving a report of an elevator entrapment failure, they usually need to arrive at the scene within 30 minutes to implement rescue. In addition, a maintenance record for each elevator should be established, included in the elevator safety technical file, and kept for at least 4 years.
Why does the elevator need such frequent and strict maintenance? Wang Liang (王亮), a technical consultant for an elevator brand, introduced, "The elevator is a complex electromechanical system with tens of thousands of parts. Wear and aging are inevitable trends. The main purpose of regular maintenance is to detect problems in time and eliminate hidden dangers."
On February 18 this year, an elevator malfunction occurred in a residential community in Kunming (昆明), Yunnan (云南) Province, causing one death. Within just one minute, the elevator car suddenly rose and hit the top of the shaft at high speed, causing the passenger to die on the spot. The investigation report disclosed by the accident investigation team showed that the elevator maintenance personnel failed to clean, lubricate, and inspect the elevator brake iron core in accordance with the specifications, and failed to detect the elevator safety hazards in time, and replace the brake shock-absorbing pad, leading to the tragedy.
According to data released by the State Administration for Market Regulation, in 2024, a total of 41 elevator accidents occurred, killing 27 people, accounting for 31.06% of the number of special equipment accidents in 2024. "It's not to say that elevators will definitely not malfunction as long as they are maintained on time. Elevator safety is also closely related to equipment quality, the use environment, and the daily management of the user unit. However, timely and quantitative maintenance can effectively prevent small problems from turning into major accidents, and is the lifeline for the long-term safe operation of elevators," said Wang Liang (王亮).
Insufficient professional maintenance personnel, property management tends to choose low-cost maintenance, the industry has serious low-price competition, and lacks effective supervision.
In actual use, how is the implementation of elevator maintenance?
According to the "Elevator Maintenance Rules," elevator maintenance is carried out on a half-monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual cycle. Taking the half-monthly maintenance of traction elevators, which are more common in residential buildings, as an example, the maintenance content and requirements include 31 items such as inspection, cleaning, lubrication, and adjustment of the elevator's machine room, hoistway, car, and safety devices.
"In actual operation, it is difficult for maintenance workers to complete all the maintenance requirements on time and in quantity." Chang Ding (常丁) (pseudonym), a maintenance worker for an elevator brand in Hebei (河北) Province, told reporters that there are only 2 elevator maintenance workers in his area, but they are responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of 161 residential elevators, far exceeding the regulations in the "Hebei Province Elevator Safety Management Measures" that each elevator maintenance worker is responsible for no more than 30 elevators.
"There are many old residential communities in my area, and the elevator failure rate is high. A routine half-monthly maintenance usually takes about 1 hour. For elevators with high frequency of use or old elevators, the maintenance time may be extended to more than 2 hours. Even if my colleagues and I work all year round and are on standby 24 hours a day, we can only ensure that we can repair the elevators that malfunction and replace spare parts in time. As for daily maintenance, we can only do cleaning at most, and it is impossible to do dozens of maintenance items from beginning to end," said Chang Ding (常丁).
Statistics show that there are currently 12 million elevators in use in China, but the elevator maintenance manpower is insufficient. The difficulty in recruiting, retaining, and the lack of professional talents are common dilemmas faced by the industry.
Chang Ding (常丁) told reporters that to engage in elevator maintenance, one must hold a "Special Equipment Operator Certificate" (also known as a "T certificate"), but most maintenance workers obtain it after training after being hired. "Before engaging in this work, I had never been exposed to elevator maintenance. After joining the company, I got my T certificate after a few months of training and then started working. If I encounter a malfunction that I don't know how to repair, I ask other masters in the WeChat group."
It is understood that the monthly salary of junior maintenance workers is generally between 3,000 and 5,000 yuan, and skilled workers can reach 5,000 to 6,000 yuan. The professional identity and dignity of maintenance workers are also generally low. "Sometimes elevator maintenance requires suspension of operation. Some owners think that the elevator is always broken and will complain. Many people don't want to do it after a few years," Chang Ding (常丁) admitted frankly.
In the daily use and management of elevators in residential communities, property management usually chooses lower-priced elevator maintenance to save costs.
Ma Ming (马明), manager of Henan Jiaotou Yikang Property Service Co., Ltd., believes that property management tends to choose low-priced maintenance to save costs. He introduced that there are 3 sources of funding for elevator maintenance in residential communities. Property fees generally only cover the cost of routine elevator maintenance and small and medium-sized repairs. If the elevator needs major repairs, it is necessary to apply for residential special maintenance funds, or raise funds from owners according to the principle of "who benefits, who pays."
"As the service life of elevators increases, the failure rate will increase accordingly, and the required maintenance costs will also be higher. Owners are very sensitive to increases in property fees, and the use of residential special maintenance funds requires the consent of most owners, and the application procedures are complicated and lengthy. It is even more difficult to mobilize owners to raise funds. There are often tricky situations where property management wants to repair, but owners don't want to pay," Ma Ming (马明) said helplessly.
After the elevator warranty period expires, the property management company generally entrusts the elevator maintenance unit to be responsible for maintenance through bidding. Ma Ming (马明) introduced, "There are two types of maintenance companies to choose from in the market: the original elevator manufacturer and third-party maintenance companies. The former provides parts and technologies with high compatibility and good maintenance effects, but the price is higher and charged annually. The annual insurance premium for an elevator can reach tens of thousands of yuan. Third-party maintenance companies have lower prices, about 20% cheaper than the original manufacturer's maintenance, and can also flexibly choose to pay monthly."
In terms of the type of maintenance, elevator maintenance is divided into 3 types: clear package, medium package, and large package, with prices increasing in order. Clear package refers to the maintenance company only providing technicians to carry out routine maintenance on the elevator, and the spare parts and repair costs required for repairs are paid separately; medium package and large package refer to the maintenance company providing some spare parts free of charge or bearing all maintenance and repair costs. "Most property management companies will choose the lowest-priced clear package service from third-party maintenance companies," said Ma Ming (马明).
In order to obtain orders, elevator maintenance companies will try to reduce costs as much as possible, and competing to lower prices leads to a reduction in the level of elevator maintenance services.
On October 30, the Market Supervision Bureau of the Daya Bay Development Zone Management Committee in Huizhou (惠州), Guangdong (广东) Province, announced two cases of punishment for anti-involution in the elevator industry. Among them, the original elevator manufacturer's maintenance fee for a residential community was 380 yuan/unit per month. The property management believed that the maintenance fee was too high and replaced the maintenance unit with an elevator company with a maintenance fee of 260 yuan/unit per month, which was far below the normal market price. After the replacement, the elevator failure rate in the community increased significantly, and related complaints increased significantly.
Some industry insiders also revealed that some elevator maintenance companies that provide clear package services will bid low prices to grab users, and their profits mainly rely on the later sale of spare parts, leading to the norm of using repairs as a substitute for maintenance. Some maintenance companies even use easily damaged parts to increase revenue by increasing the frequency of replacement.
In addition, there is a lack of effective supervision of elevator maintenance. Chang Ding (常丁) told reporters that the situation of falsifying maintenance records is very common in daily elevator maintenance. "When maintenance workers cannot arrive at the point on time, they will fill in the next maintenance record in advance. Anyway, the company does not assess it, mainly to cooperate with the property management work."
Ma Ming (马明) said that according to regulations, the property management company should equip each elevator with a safety officer and supervise the maintenance process on site. In addition to the annual inspection as required, the market supervision department will also conduct regular spot checks. "However, some community property management processes are loose, and responsibilities are not implemented. Some old communities do not even have property management, making it difficult to achieve effective supervision."
Strengthen the safety responsibilities of elevator production units, work together to break the industry involution, and innovate the use mechanism of maintenance funds.
How to solve the problem of the failure to implement elevator maintenance?
Zhang Lexiang (张乐祥), Secretary-General of the China Elevator Association, suggested that we should start from the system and rule setting level, innovate and improve the elevator maintenance rules, and systematically manage the chaos in elevator maintenance. He believes that the current regulation that elevators must be maintained once every 15 days is worth discussing. Elevator safety should avoid overemphasizing maintenance needs and ignoring the elevator production link, and product quality should be strictly controlled from the production end.
In July last year, the State Administration for Market Regulation publicly solicited opinions again on the "Special Equipment Safety Supervision Regulations (Public Solicitation Draft)". The revised draft canceled the requirement for elevator maintenance every 15 days, and advocated strengthening the quality and safety responsibilities of elevator production units, increasing the relevant regulations on elevator self-testing by elevator use units, and promoting the transformation of elevator maintenance from on-time maintenance to on-demand maintenance.
Zhang Lexiang (张乐祥) believes that we can gradually try new elevator maintenance models. "For example, pilot monthly maintenance and quarterly maintenance in some areas, and monitor the elevator accident rate and user complaint rate in the experiment." At the same time, through intelligent monitoring, the Internet of Things and other new technologies, empower elevators with predictable maintenance, improve maintenance efficiency, and reduce the workload of maintenance workers.
In response to the low-price competition in elevator maintenance, Wang Liang (王亮) suggested that, on the one hand, government departments should strengthen supervision and verify and clear out unqualified maintenance units. On the other hand, multiple parties should work hard to break the industry involution. For example, disclose the cost composition of elevator maintenance, guide the market to make rational quotations; formulate local standards, clarify the ratio of people to machines and the minimum maintenance time limit; industry associations should promote enterprises to consciously maintain the quality bottom line and resist malicious bidding.
In the daily use and management of elevators, we must innovate management methods. Ma Ming (马明) suggested that we can regularly share elevator safety information with owners, invite owners to supervise the maintenance on site together, and gradually establish awareness, changing passive notification to active participation. In addition, we can also use the Internet of Things, scan code check-in, face recognition and other technologies to ensure that maintenance personnel "arrive at the scene" and eliminate false maintenance.
In response to the problem that routine elevator maintenance is included in the property fee, and maintenance is funded by residential special maintenance funds or owners, resulting in the disconnection between maintenance and repairs, Zhuzhou (株洲) City, Hunan (湖南) Province, has made beneficial attempts by insuring elevators. Xing Min (邢民), director of the Housing Maintenance Fund Management Center of the Zhuzhou (株洲) Municipal Housing and Construction Bureau, introduced that Zhuzhou (株洲) City launched a pilot reform of the "Residential Special Maintenance Fund Value-Added Income Introduction Elevator Maintenance Insurance Mechanism" in 2021, and tried to introduce a market-oriented mechanism of "insurance + service" by promoting "elevator comprehensive insurance."
"Residents pay a large amount of residential special maintenance funds, but spend less. We maximize the income of this fund by increasing the proportion of fixed deposits of the fund. At the same time, the value-added income of the fund exceeding the benchmark interest rate is specifically used to purchase commercial maintenance insurance for elevators," Xing Min (邢民) introduced.
If the elevator malfunctions, the insurance institution is responsible for claims settlement. In order to reduce the cost of compensation, the insurance institution will deeply intervene in the daily maintenance of the elevator, conduct full monitoring and quality supervision, and effectively reduce problems such as "minor illnesses and major repairs" of elevators, maintenance going through the motions, and using repairs as a substitute for maintenance. Xing Min (邢民) introduced that as of the end of November this year, Zhuzhou (株洲) City has completed insurance for 4,665 elevators, with an average elevator repair cycle of about 1 day, which is far lower than the repair cycle of about 20 days for the same batch of elevators that have not been insured. All insured elevators have zero complaints on the 12345 Mayor's Hotline.
(Ma Guodong (马国栋) participated in the writing)
Return to TopWe are residents of the Honglong Plaza (鸿隆广场) residential area on Baomin 2nd Road (宝民二路), Bao'an District (宝安区), Shenzhen (深圳市), Guangdong (广东省). Three years ago, when the Honglong City (港隆城) commercial area near our community was being renovated, a large number of scaffolding structures were erected at the two main entrances and around the residential buildings of the Honglong Plaza (鸿隆广场) residential area (see picture). Currently, the renovation project is still not completed and the progress is slow, with the completion time uncertain. These scaffolding structures, as temporary building materials and structures, are exposed to the elements for a long time, and some parts have become rusty and loose under wind, sun, and rain.
Our community has many elderly people and children who have limited mobility and weak self-protection abilities. If the scaffolding at the entrances and around the residential area collapses, the consequences would be 不堪设想 (bù kān shè xiǎng - "unbearable to contemplate," too dreadful to imagine). We hope that relevant departments will pay attention to the rust of these scaffolding structures, and reasonably adjust, dismantle, or replace the scaffolding according to the actual situation to eliminate potential safety hazards.
Residents of the Honglong Plaza (鸿隆广场) residential area, Shenzhen (深圳市), Guangdong (广东省)
Return to TopStrengthening the Supervision of Online Sales of "Miracle Drugs"
Weight-loss drugs that require no dieting or exercise, whitening pills that whiten the skin with just one dose, eye drops that can correct vision... Some merchants package and promote health products with certain functions as "miracle drugs with special effects." To promote these drugs, merchants exploit patients' anxiety, using exaggerated marketing copy to spread sales through live broadcast rooms, short video platforms, and even hiring online "water armies" to fabricate orders and positive reviews, creating the illusion of booming sales and rave reviews to induce unsuspecting consumers to place orders.
The damage to consumer rights from the hot sales of these health products is self-evident. It is recommended that regulatory authorities strengthen source governance, optimize the online sales drug monitoring mechanism, and use big data, artificial intelligence, and other technical means to timely and accurately identify illegal activities behind the hot sales of "miracle drugs," such as false advertising, illegal additions, and illegal online sales of prescription drugs. At the same time, law enforcement should be strengthened, and illegal merchants and internet celebrity hosts who illegally sell such "miracle drugs" should be severely punished according to law. In addition, e-commerce platforms also need to effectively fulfill their main responsibilities, and cannot only be "rent collectors," but also take on the role of "gatekeepers." By continuously upgrading technical means, strengthening content review and management, strictly regulating the sale of drugs in live broadcast rooms, providing prominent risk warnings for exaggerated information involving drug effects, and promptly removing non-compliant products.
Zhang Limei (张立美), Mengyin County (蒙阴县), Shandong (山东)
Activating Idle Rural Schools
Over the years, as the rural population has flowed to towns and cities, many children have settled in cities with their parents. The number of school-age children in villages is decreasing, and the enrollment of rural schools is shrinking. As a result, some rural schools are becoming idle or are about to become idle. During a visit, the author saw some idle schools overgrown with weeds and school buildings on the verge of collapse; some were privately occupied by villagers; and some were being randomly excavated and built upon, with chickens and ducks being raised.
How to effectively revitalize idle rural school resources is worthy of attention. If rural schools are allowed to remain idle, it is not only a significant waste of resources, but may also pose risks due to non-standard use. It is recommended that idle schools be converted into village cultural and recreational activity rooms, fitness venues, nursing homes, or emergency sites for disasters such as floods and earthquakes. By changing the use or renting them out, these idle resources can be fully utilized to better serve the countryside.
Xia Yang (夏扬), Yiyang City (益阳市), Hunan (湖南)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 赵 兵
This year, under preferential policies such as trade-ins and purchase subsidies, residents' consumption of household appliances has continued to grow. At the same time, many consumers have reported problems they have encountered in purchasing household appliances or after-sales services, calling for strengthened supervision in the field of household appliance consumption.
A newly purchased dryer malfunctioned on its first use, and repair and assessment required replacing the motor; a new TV developed a scrambled screen after only a short period of use; a washing machine frequently malfunctioned and could not be used even after multiple repairs... Recently, on the "People's Complaint" section of People's Daily Online, among complaints in the field of household appliance consumption, complaints reflecting product quality issues such as performance failures, safety hazards, and "three-no" products accounted for the highest proportion, about 40%.
Mr. Yang from Chengdu (成都市), Sichuan (四川) Province, purchased a refrigerator online, thinking he was buying a "Meiling" brand, but only discovered it was "Meiling" after it arrived. What made him even more dissatisfied was that the refrigerator was delivered upside down, with scratches in many places on the exterior, and the freezing temperature was not constant. He reported this to the merchant, "who asked us to pay the shipping fee to send it back, and then said they would sell it to us for half price." After multiple negotiations with the merchant and the e-commerce platform, the merchant finally agreed to a refund and return.
Mr. Li from Qingdao (青岛市), Shandong (山东) Province, complained that in January of this year, he purchased a formaldehyde-removing air conditioner from a well-known brand on an e-commerce platform. After installing and using it for half a year, he inadvertently discovered that the bar codes of the indoor and outdoor units of the air conditioner did not match. "The model of the indoor unit's bar code was two to three thousand yuan cheaper than the formaldehyde-removing model." He complained to the e-commerce platform, but they refused to admit it.
In addition, smart home appliances are not smart. "The smart toilet leaks, and sometimes the toilet lid cannot be opened." "The smart door lock camera is blurry and often cannot be opened"... These issues also give consumers a headache.
When quality problems occur with household appliances, many consumers report that they have experienced multiple instances of no one arriving for scheduled repairs, substandard repair quality, and arbitrary increases in repair prices.
Ms. Wang from Yantai (烟台), Shandong (山东) Province, reported that she contacted a home repair company to repair her air conditioner. "The technician said that adding refrigerant would be enough, charging 520 yuan. However, the air conditioner still did not cool after adding refrigerant. For the second repair, the technician said that the internal unit's main board was broken, charging 300 yuan. After replacing the main board, the air conditioner still did not cool." Helpless, she contacted the brand's after-sales service, and the after-sales personnel checked and said that the air conditioner could no longer be repaired. "I asked the home repair company to refund the repair costs, but they kept delaying. Finally, I called the 12345 hotline, and the repair company took the initiative to negotiate a refund." Ms. Wang said.
Netizen Mr. Liu reported on "People's Complaint" that he spent more than 2,000 yuan to buy an air conditioner, but the installation fee was more than 1,000 yuan. He complained to various parties, and the brand said that it was a misunderstanding and finally charged 500 yuan. Mr. Liu said that although he was satisfied with the outcome of the negotiation, it took too much time and energy.
Yao Haifang (姚海放), a professor at the Renmin University of China (中国人民大学) Law School, said: "Household appliance repair and after-sales service involve professional technology, appraisal, and evidence. Consumers often find it difficult to judge whether the quality of after-sales service and the corresponding charges are reasonable, and are prone to encountering ineffective repairs and chaotic charges. The cost of safeguarding rights is relatively high, and some unscrupulous merchants take the opportunity to 'rip off' customers."
How can household appliance consumption overcome the inherent problems of product quality and after-sales service, and how can consumers be assured and worry-free?
First of all, improving the quality of household appliance products is a prerequisite for improving consumer satisfaction. "Currently, market competition is fierce. Only by optimizing and strengthening product quality, so that household appliance products can withstand the test of daily use, can we win consumer trust." Jiang Zhao (姜照), Deputy Researcher at the Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation (商务部国际贸易经济合作研究院) of the Ministry of Commerce (商务部), believes that on the one hand, household appliance manufacturers need to work hard to improve product quality and strictly control quality; on the other hand, relevant departments also need to strengthen supervision, forcing companies to improve product quality.
"For consumers, high-quality consumption not only means high product quality, but also includes high purchase satisfaction and after-sales satisfaction. Whether these links can provide high-quality services directly affects people's willingness to consume." Jiang Zhao (姜照) said.
In interviews, many consumers said that they had complained to the seller about product problems. Some replies were delayed, and some created trouble by means of telephone harassment and ending the process in the background, hindering consumers from safeguarding their rights.
Ma Yuan (马媛), a lawyer at Beijing Zhucheng Law Firm (北京市铸成律师事务所), said, "The reason why consumers encounter difficulties in safeguarding their rights is that, on the one hand, the household appliance transaction chain involves multiple entities such as manufacturers, sellers, e-commerce platforms, logistics, and installation services. When disputes occur, there are often disputes over the determination and attribution of responsibility, and consumers also face the practical obstacles of information asymmetry and difficulty in collecting evidence in the evidence collection stage. On the other hand, some operators, in pursuit of short-term benefits, exaggerate or omit key information in their publicity, which increases the cost and difficulty for consumers to safeguard their rights."
Experts said that it is necessary to further clarify the responsibilities of all parties. If consumers buy counterfeit or inferior products, is the e-commerce platform responsible? "According to Article 44 of the Consumer Rights Protection Law (消费者权益保护法), if a network transaction platform provider knows or should know that a seller or service provider is using its platform to infringe on the legitimate rights and interests of consumers, and fails to take necessary measures, it shall bear joint and several liability with the seller or service provider in accordance with the law. Therefore, merchants and e-commerce platforms should bear corresponding responsibilities." Yao Haifang (姚海放) said.
How should the problem of e-commerce platforms, merchants, and logistics companies shifting responsibility to each other, which consumers may encounter in safeguarding their rights, be resolved? "If there are problems such as false advertising or product quality defects, the merchant should bear the responsibility for returns, exchanges, and compensation; the e-commerce platform should be responsible for supervising the merchants entering the platform and promptly publicizing the complaint handling process and results; the logistics company should be responsible for fulfilling its obligations for the damage to consumer goods that may occur during transportation." Jiang Zhao (姜照) suggested that the credit evaluation system for different business entities should be further improved, and dynamic supervision should be carried out using digital technology and means to create a reassuring consumption environment.
In addition, in response to the problem of high costs for consumers to safeguard their rights, Jiang Zhao (姜照) suggested optimizing and promoting the "small claims procedure" to establish a fast processing channel for small consumer disputes and encourage online solutions for the entire process; for large consumer dispute events, strengthen the collaborative cooperation of judicial organs, commerce, market supervision, consumer associations and other departments, improve the mediation mechanism, and strengthen the enforcement and deterrent effect of judgments, and jointly create a convenient, low-cost, and efficient consumer rights protection system.
(Xu Yi (徐一) participated in the writing)
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Coming from the verdant mountains of southwestern Zhejiang, Liandu District (莲都区) in Lishui City (丽水市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), is guided by the construction of an "Innovative Liandu" (创新莲都). It focuses on narrowing the "three major gaps" of urban-rural, regional, and income disparities. It breaks through the limitations of mountainous areas through industrial upgrading, deepens the foundation for common prosperity through rural revitalization and integration, and stimulates consumption vitality through urban advancement. It transforms the ecological advantages of the "mountain and water garden" into a winning advantage for high-quality development, painting a new picture of mountainous area development with thriving industries, prosperous people, and a vibrant city.
Establishing the New and Consolidating the Foundation
Strengthening the Modern Ecological Industrial Chain Cluster
Liandu District (莲都区) aims at the development trend of the times and is based on regional characteristics to promote the industry from "manufacturing" to "intelligent manufacturing."
Empowering with Science and Technology, Reshaping Development Advantages. In response to the development dilemma of the weak industrial base in mountainous areas, Liandu (莲都) has built the "Sanjiangkou" (三江口) integrated development demonstration zone for science, education, and human resources. It has established the first future factory promotion regional sub-center in Zhejiang Province (浙江省), and carried out joint technical research with 8 universities and research institutions such as Zhejiang University (浙江大学), Zhejiang Gongshang University (浙江工商大学), and China Jiliang University (中国计量大学). It has realized the localization of C-type wear-resistant ball valves for KOS Group (科斯集团), and the characteristic cosmetic plant new material "Willowleaf wintersweet leaf/stem extract" has been filed by the National Medical Products Administration (国家药监局), achieving a breakthrough of zero in this field in Lishui City (丽水市). Opening up new tracks, strengthening artificial intelligence empowerment, promoting the beauty and health and intelligent valve industry to gather momentum, and laying out emerging industries such as low-carbon energy, and planning forward-looking fields such as synthetic biology. The district has cultivated a total of 111 national high-tech enterprises and 315 provincial science and technology SMEs.
Attracting Investment and Intelligence, Activating Industrial Momentum. Liandu District (莲都区) is anchored to the goal of "1+2+3+X" modern ecological industrial chain cluster, firmly establishing the concept of "all employees and all regions grasping investment promotion," carrying out professional and precise investment promotion, and attracting high-quality enterprises to settle down. In the past three years, Liandu District (莲都区) has cumulatively attracted 59 projects with an investment of more than 100 million yuan, covering national-level specialized, refined, and new "little giants" and other high-quality enterprises. Liandu District (莲都区) has also launched a financial "gas station," issued a package of preferential policies for enterprises, and optimized eight "one-stop" services for enterprises to provide full life cycle services for enterprises.
Chain Development, Strengthening Characteristic Clusters. Liandu District (莲都区) focuses on advantageous industries such as beauty and health and intelligent valves, and promotes the leap from "single enterprises" to "industrial clusters." Taking the beauty and health industry as an example, Liandu (莲都) relies on domestic daily chemical leading enterprise Nice Group (纳爱斯) as the chain owner enterprise, and lays out six tracks of ecological beauty, fashion medical beauty, oral medical care, modern Chinese medicine, healthy tea and coffee, and pet products. It has been approved to establish the city's first Zhejiang Province Pharmaceutical Innovation and Evaluation Flexible Service Station, and promote the high-quality development of the beauty and health industry to expand the chain into a cluster. From January to November this year, the beauty and health industry achieved a total industrial output value of 8.099 billion yuan above designated size.
Rural Revitalization and Integration
Exploring a New Path for "Narrowing the Gap and Achieving Common Prosperity" in Mountainous Areas
Liandu District (莲都区) learns and applies the experience of the "Thousand Villages Demonstration, Ten Thousand Villages Renovation" project, explores diversified paths for increasing farmers' income and comprehensively revitalizing the countryside, so that the fruits of common prosperity benefit more people.
Regional Group Development, Building a Synergistic and Common Prosperity Pattern. Liandu District (莲都区) explores a new path for rural regional group development, integrates scattered resources, and drives the coordinated development of surrounding villages with the industrial advantages of core villages as the traction. Dagangtou (大港头) area relies on Dagangtou Village (大港头村), the core village of Guyan Painting Township Scenic Area (古堰画乡景区), to establish a "6+4+4+3" party building joint consultation and coordination mechanism. Focusing on the oil painting art industry, it links 5 surrounding villages to develop the tea industry and cultural tourism industry, forming an "one core driving five villages, one art promoting three industries" development model that links art creation with the oil painting industry, tea industry, and tourism industry, driving more than 11,000 employees. At present, the collective operating income of 6 villages in the Dagangtou (大港头) area has reached 4.5 million yuan, and the countryside is moving from "fighting alone" to "grouping for win-win."
Green Common Prosperity Improves Efficiency, Promoting the Realization of Ecological Value. Liandu District (莲都区) is based on ecological endowments, promotes the coordinated development of "local specialties to enrich," and the integrated development of agriculture, culture, and tourism, and transforms ecological advantages into capital for enriching the people. Mingye Company (茗叶公司) empowers the tea industry with technology to "connect the second and third industries," and greatly increases the added value of tea products through deep processing. Laozhu She Ethnic Township (老竹畲族镇) has found a new path to common prosperity with "small moss," building a "planting-processing-sales-cultural tourism" model. The annual output value of moss has exceeded 100 million yuan, driving more than 100 villagers to increase their annual income by more than 20,000 yuan per capita, and 12 village collectives to increase their annual income by more than 2 million yuan. Jiulong Wetland (九龙湿地) has restored the habitat of fireflies through scientific management. The "firefly economy" has driven the monthly revenue of surrounding agritainment to increase by 60%, realizing "restoring a piece of ecology and driving one side to get rich." In the forestry field, projects such as ecological management of mountainous areas in southern Zhejiang are promoted, and carbon sink transactions are explored on the ecological product trading platform, realizing a transaction amount of 263,700 yuan, allowing ecological resources to generate economic value.
Public Services Build the Foundation, Painting a Happy Background for People's Livelihood. Liandu (莲都) promotes the integration of basic public services with "same city, same standard," so that public services warm the hearts of the people and benefit the people's livelihood. Relying on the regional health community of primary medical institutions, it has created a "smart mobile hospital" service model of "roaming vehicles + medical equipment + expert team + remote medical care + real-time medical insurance settlement," and regularly carries out "fixed + mobile" roaming diagnosis and treatment services to solve the urgent and difficult problems of medical treatment for people in mountainous areas. From January to November this year, it has visited villages 2,105 times, serving more than 61,000 people. Innovating the "Elderly Care in Liandu" service brand for elderly care in mountainous areas, it has established a three-level linkage operation mechanism of "service center-village and community station-elderly care housekeeper," and built a strong team of 215 professional, localized, and standardized elderly care housekeepers to provide home-based elderly care services for the elderly in mountainous areas. Since 2024, mobile services have benefited more than 2.52 million people. Building a "One-Click in Liandu" public service platform, 237 mobile convenience and common prosperity vehicles have entered the mountainous areas, opening up the production, storage, transportation, and sales of agricultural and special products, and broadening the "common prosperity road" for people in mountainous areas.
Renewal and Empowerment
Stimulating Urban Economic Consumption Vitality
Liandu District (莲都区) takes the city as the carrier and vigorously develops the building economy, the first store economy, and the market economy to create a new engine for economic growth.
Developing the Building Economy, Activating New Urban Momentum. Liandu District (莲都区) regards the building economy as a key project of the urban economy, adheres to the principle of "attracting investment with buildings and gathering industries with buildings," carries out 6 rounds of "building sweeping actions," plans the building development format, builds a building digital service platform and a "park smart housekeeper" system, and holds a "building owner conference" and a "building resource docking meeting" to promote the formation of an information-interconnected, resource-shared, and win-win building economic ecosystem. 120 key buildings in the urban area have gathered 746 enterprises, absorbed more than 8,600 employees, and achieved revenue of more than 10 billion yuan. Promote the coordinated development of industrial platforms such as the Green Valley Information Industry Park (绿谷信息产业园), Lishui Innovation Financial Center (丽水创新金融中心), and Baiqiao Beauty and Health Innovation Port (白桥美丽健康创新港) with the building economy. Key projects such as the Green Valley Cross-border Park (绿谷跨境园), Lianqiao Cross-border Park (莲侨跨境园), Guangying Live Broadcast Park (广盈直播园), and Bihu Digital Valley (碧湖数谷) have been launched. From January to October this year, the online retail sales reached 11.846 billion yuan, and the newly leased building space was 102,600 cubic meters.
Developing the First Store Economy, Enhancing Urban Attractiveness. Liandu District (莲都区) has introduced relevant policies to support the first store economy, actively attracting first stores of various fields such as Hema Fresh (盒马鲜生), Haidilao (海底捞), and Xiaomi Home (小米之家), and exploring new formats such as "first store + art exhibition," "first store + experience," and "first store + market." The first store economy not only enhances the urban commercial level and brand influence of Liandu (莲都), but also extends the spillover effect from the consumption field to the industrial level, forming an effect of "introducing a first store, driving a piece of consumption, and promoting one side of the industry." This year, 44 regional first stores have been introduced, attracting more than 500,000 people from other places to consume in Liandu (莲都), and adding more than 100 million yuan in consumption.
Developing the Market Economy, Rising Urban Atmosphere. Liandu District (莲都区) explores the consumption potential of the market economy, and plans to build 7 key markets such as Impression Xicheng·Qizilou (印象西城·七子楼), Fengqi·Chengxili (凤起·城西里), and Jiguang Street Night Market (继光街夜市), covering catering, cultural creation, entertainment and other formats. Models such as "Youth Talent Night Market" and "Box Store" provide low-cost operating space for young entrepreneurs, making the market economy an important force for driving consumption and promoting employment, and outlining the "second curve" of urban economic growth. Since the beginning of this year, 70 various markets have been cultivated, with more than 4,500 stalls, driving more than 4,700 jobs and driving more than 70 million yuan in market and surrounding consumption.
From strengthening industries towards new heights, to common prosperity taking root, and then to urban vitality bursting forth, Liandu District (莲都区) solves the development problems of mountainous areas with differentiated development ideas. In the balance between ecological protection and economic development, urban prosperity and comprehensive rural revitalization, it continues to explore new paths for high-quality development in mountainous areas.
In the future, Liandu (莲都) will be based on ecological and industrial advantages, and strive to develop the economy, development, and strength with the responsibility of the owner, and strive to forge ahead in the journey of promoting high-quality development, and spread a new picture of high-quality development in the green mountains and rivers.
Data source: CPC Liandu District Committee Office, Lishui City (中共丽水市莲都区委办公室)
CPC Liandu District Committee Propaganda Department, Lishui City (中共丽水市莲都区委宣传部)
By: 孟祥锋
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》) adopted by the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee emphasizes improving the implementation mechanism of major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee to ensure smooth communication and effective execution. It is necessary to improve the political stance, deepen ideological understanding, improve the implementation mechanism, and strive to transform the grand blueprint of the "15th Five-Year Plan" into a beautiful reality.
I. Profoundly Understand the Great Significance of Implementing the Major Decisions and Deployments of the CPC Central Committee
One-tenth of the deployment, nine-tenths of the implementation. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, focusing on the strategic overall situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the major changes unseen in a century in the world, has formulated and promulgated a series of major policies, major strategies, major plans, and major measures concerning the long-term, overall, and fundamental aspects of comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the nation with Chinese-style modernization. These major decisions and deployments have powerfully led the Party and the country to achieve historic achievements and undergo historic changes in their development. Embarking on a new journey, we must constantly strengthen our political consciousness and political responsibility in grasping implementation to ensure that the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee are implemented without any discount.
Grasping implementation is the "touchstone" for practicing the "Two Safeguards". The major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee are the basis for the entire Party, the entire army, and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to unify their thoughts, wills, and actions. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out that "upholding the authority and centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee includes upholding the leadership system, procedures, and rules of the CPC Central Committee, as well as upholding the decisions and deployments and work arrangements of the CPC Central Committee," "speaking of politics must improve political execution," "if the decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee cannot be effectively implemented, how can we talk about the centralized and unified leadership of the Party?" The major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee demonstrate the authority and centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee and embody the fundamental interests of the broad masses of the people. Implementing the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee is an inevitable requirement for resolutely achieving the "Two Safeguards". We must constantly enhance our political awareness, resolutely implement the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee and the important instructions and approvals of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), consciously align ourselves with the spirit of the CPC Central Committee, and maintain a high degree of consistency with the CPC Central Committee in thought, politics, and action, ensuring that there is no deviation in political direction, no temperature difference in actual actions, and no gap in work results.
Grasping implementation is the unshirkable political responsibility of all regions and departments. Promoting the high-quality development of various undertakings of the Party and the country on the new journey requires not only the strong leadership and scientific decision-making of the CPC Central Committee, but also the prompt action and vigorous implementation of all regions and departments. Only when the outline is upheld can the details be clarified. The major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee are the "outline" of the work of the Party and the country, and the work of all regions and departments is fundamentally an expansion and practice of the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee. It is necessary to be good at finding one's own coordinates in the overall situation of the Party and the country, always bear in mind the "most important affairs of the country" (国之大者), and be good at integrating the work of one's own region and department into the overall situation of the Party and the country. It is necessary to deeply recognize that no matter how numerous and complex the work tasks of all regions and departments are, the primary responsibility is to implement the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee; no matter how different the job responsibilities of Party member leading cadres are, the common responsibility is to implement the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee. Party member leading cadres should consciously unify their thoughts and actions with the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee when making decisions, doing work, and grasping implementation, ensuring that the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee are fully implemented and accurately implemented in their own regions and departments. Party member leading cadres should recognize the great significance of taking the lead in implementing the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee from a political perspective, and embody the requirements of Party spirit, political responsibility, and political discipline with practical actions.
Grasping implementation is an important guarantee for achieving the "15th Five-Year Plan" goals and tasks. With good decisions and good blueprints, the key lies in implementation. The "Suggestions" clarify the guiding principles, main goals, strategic tasks, and major measures for China's economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. All regions and departments must, under the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee, be good at unifying the implementation of the spirit of the CPC Central Committee with creative work in light of actual conditions, dare to take responsibility, and work hard in a down-to-earth manner, and resolutely grasp the implementation of the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee with the spirit of **钉钉子** (dīng dīng zi - "nailing nails," to do something with perseverance and precision). All regions, departments, and the vast number of Party member leading cadres must know their responsibilities, shoulder their responsibilities, and perform their duties, and effectively enhance their awareness and determination to grasp implementation.
II. Implementing the Major Decisions and Deployments of the CPC Central Committee Requires Strengthening Institutional and Mechanism Guarantees
Implementing the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee relies both on political consciousness and institutional guarantees. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has further established and improved the institutional mechanism for implementing the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee, effectively ensuring the smooth flow of government orders and prohibitions from the CPC Central Committee.
Establish and improve a work mechanism that runs from top to bottom. The CPC Central Committee, through the formulation and revision of the Working Rules of the Central Committee, the Working Rules of the Decision-Making and Coordination Agencies of the CPC Central Committee, the Working Rules of Local Party Committees, the Working Rules of Party Groups, the Regulations on the Work of Party Organs, and several Regulations on the Work of Grassroots Party Organizations, promotes the National People's Congress, the State Council, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the Supreme People's Court, and the Supreme People's Procuratorate to take the lead in implementing the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee by improving the reporting system, strengthening the overall coordination, overall advancement, and supervision and implementation functions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council (decision-making) deliberation and coordination agencies in promoting the implementation of the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee, strengthening the central and state organs to take the "first kilometer" of implementation well and prevent the emergence of "roadblocks," strengthening local Party committees and governments to run the "middle section" of implementation well and prevent the emergence of "mid-term obstruction," strengthening the grassroots front line to effectively run the "last kilometer" of implementation well and prevent the emergence of "dead ends," and promoting the implementation of the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee in a top-down and integrated manner.
Establish and improve a work mechanism for left-right linkage. Focusing on promoting the implementation of major decisions and deployments in various fields, under the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee, relevant regulations and documents are issued to strengthen the coordinated cooperation of Party and government organs, military units, mass organizations, enterprises, and institutions, forming a powerful synergy to promote implementation as a "chess game." At the same time, focusing on the implementation of major tasks and regional coordinated development strategies, the CPC Central Committee has established and improved a cross-departmental deliberation and coordination work mechanism to promote various departments and units to "divide labor but not separate families" and coordinate the implementation of the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee.
Establish and improve a responsibility system for promoting implementation. Implementing the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee cannot be empty talk, but must be practical and realistic, promoting task implementation with responsibility implementation, ensuring that someone is in charge of, monitors, promotes, and does every task. For example, when formulating and issuing relevant Party regulations and systems, the CPC Central Committee regards the implementation of the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee as the first item of the duties and tasks of Party and government organs, as the first item of determining functions in the "three definitions" (三定) regulations, and as an important content of the responsibilities and obligations of Party members and cadres. The establishment and improvement of rules and regulations focuses on the "key few," strengthening the leadership responsibility of Party committees and governments at all levels, strengthening the主管 responsibility of competent departments, and consolidating the main responsibility of Party and government leading bodies, especially the primary responsibility of the "top leaders" of the Party and government. Focusing on key areas, special Party regulations have been formulated and issued to establish responsibility systems in areas such as united front work, maintaining social stability, ideology, arable land protection and food security, and rural revitalization. Establish and improve a supervision and guarantee system to effectively prevent and correct the problems of formalism and emptiness in implementation. The CPC Central Committee has formulated and issued a number of regulations and documents aimed at eliminating formalism and bureaucracy in implementation. Strict political discipline, through the formulation and revision of Party regulations such as the Regulations on Internal Supervision, the Regulations on Inspection Work, the Regulations on Accountability, the Regulations on Disciplinary Actions of the Party, and the Provisions on Organizational Handling, strictly investigates and holds accountable those who discount, make choices, or make changes in implementation. Since last year, the CPC Central Committee has successively issued the Accountability Provisions for Preventing and Resolving Financial Risks and the Regulations on the Responsibility System for Ecological and Environmental Protection of Local Party and Government Leading Cadres. By letting "iron rules grow iron teeth," it guides and promotes the vast number of Party members and cadres, especially leading cadres, to grasp implementation without any discount, grasp implementation vigorously and resolutely, grasp implementation realistically and pragmatically, and grasp implementation with courage and competence.
III. Further Improve the Implementation Mechanism of Major Decisions and Deployments of the CPC Central Committee
In recent years, all regions and departments have been firm and strong in implementing the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee, but there are still "deviations," "temperature differences," and "gaps" in a few places, units, and leading cadres. Some attach importance to expressing their positions but neglect implementation, some engage in "image projects" and "performance projects," and some lack ability, have an unrealistic work style, and lack the courage to take responsibility, resulting in the distortion and deviation of the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee in implementation and their failure to be implemented. In view of this, it is necessary to deeply study and implement the spirit of this plenary session, adhere to the problem-oriented approach, summarize successful experiences, improve the implementation mechanism in line with the times, ensure smooth communication and effective execution, and promote better implementation of the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee.
First, improve the implementation mechanism of important instructions and approvals of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平). The important instructions and approvals of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) are important guidelines for guiding and promoting the implementation of the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee, and implementing the important instructions and approvals of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) is an inherent requirement for implementing the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee. It is necessary to further improve and implement the "first topic" mechanism, deeply study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and the latest important speeches of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), and constantly improve the political judgment, political understanding, and political execution in implementing the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee. Timely convey and study the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee and the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) relevant important instructions and approvals, clarify the specific requirements and measures for implementation, such as research and deployment, organization and implementation, ledger management, supervision and evaluation, regular "look back," and report and notification, strengthen continuous tracking and effectiveness and full-cycle and full-chain management, and ensure that implementation is in place and effective results are achieved.
Second, improve the mechanism for fully and accurately understanding the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee. To implement the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee, it is necessary to fully and accurately understand them, and prevent distortions and deviations in practice due to incomplete or biased understanding. Improve the communication and learning mechanism, adhere to the principle of integrating theory with practice, deeply understand the essence and practical requirements of the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee, conduct in-depth investigations and research, and come up with specific measures that not only meet the requirements of the CPC Central Committee but also conform to the actual conditions of the region, department, and unit. Improve the relevant training and discussion mechanism to help leading cadres at all levels deeply understand the strategic considerations, goals, tasks, and implementation paths of the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee. Strengthen the policy interpretation and publicity mechanism, relevant departments should timely and accurately interpret the spirit of the CPC Central Committee and the original intention of the policy, and members of the Party committee (Party group) leadership team, especially the "top leader," should take the lead in explaining and interpreting, and effectively unify the thoughts and actions of Party members and cadres with the spirit of the CPC Central Committee.
Third, strengthen the overall coordination mechanism for implementing the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee. Under the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee, give full play to the overall coordination, overall advancement, and supervision and implementation functions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council (decision-making) deliberation and coordination agencies, resolve departmental differences, eliminate blockages between departments and regions, and improve the coordination and effectiveness of implementation. It is necessary to improve the work mechanism for leading and grasping major comprehensive and special tasks, strengthen overall coordination, guidance and supervision, unite efforts, and form synergy, and prevent buck-passing and delaying work. It is necessary to guide and promote all regions to creatively implement the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee, and encourage local areas to conduct pilot projects first and then summarize and promote them. It is necessary to continuously improve the work mechanism for grasping implementation by the general offices (departments) of Party committees and governments at all levels in practice, and effectively fulfill the basic functions of promoting the implementation of the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee.
Fourth, improve the mechanism for undertaking and implementing the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee. After the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee are made, relevant regions and departments should promptly study and formulate specific plans or measures for implementation in light of actual conditions, strengthen organizational leadership, clarify the main body, goals, tasks, division of labor, time limits, responsibilities, supervision and guarantees, and other elements of specific implementation, and explore the project-based, list-based, and ledger-style closed-loop management of promoting implementation. All departments of the central and state organs should take the first phalanx of practicing the "Two Safeguards" well, coordinate the formulation and implementation of policies, and strengthen policy coordination between departments. Improve the consistency assessment mechanism of macroeconomic policy orientation to ensure that all policies work in the same direction and form synergy, and prevent "composition fallacy" and policy "fights."
Fifth, improve the supervision and guarantee mechanism for implementing the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee. Strictly implement the reporting system for major matters, and promptly report to the CPC Central Committee on the progress, work results, and existing problems in implementing the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee and the important instructions and approvals of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) in accordance with regulations. Increase the intensity of supervision and inspection, strengthen tracking and effectiveness, and understand the implementation through various methods such as overt visits, unannounced visits, and return visits, forming a reverse pressure mechanism for grasping implementation. It is necessary to improve the assessment and evaluation work and put the implementation of the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee in the first place. Increase the intensity of situation briefings, both amplifying typical effects, promoting experiences and practices, and grasping negative examples to strengthen warning and spurring. Highlight political supervision, strictly enforce political discipline, give full play to the role of inspections and patrols as sharp swords, strictly implement the accountability system, and seriously pursue accountability in accordance with regulations and disciplines for those who do not implement with heart, are not pragmatic, and do not do their best.
Sixth, improve the long-term mechanism for preventing and correcting formalism and bureaucracy. Formalism and bureaucracy are the great enemies of implementing the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee, and they are also the great enemies of damaging the relationship between the Party and the masses and between cadres and the masses. It is necessary to improve the discovery and identification mechanism for new forms of formalism and bureaucracy that are hidden and mutated, go to the problems and treat the root causes, and resolutely eliminate the practices of implementing in a slogan-like, declarative, and packaged manner. It is necessary to focus on the distortion of the view of power and the misplacement of the view of performance, and continue to deepen the rectification and remediation of phenomena such as "image projects," "performance projects," and statistical fraud. It is necessary to continue to deepen the rectification of formalism to reduce the burden on the grassroots, promote streamlining documents and meetings, streamline and standardize supervision, inspection, and assessment, etc., so that grassroots cadres can go into battle lightly and free up more energy to grasp implementation and do practical things. It is necessary to promote a good work style, grasp the iron with traces and step on the stone to leave marks, and effectively improve the ability to grasp implementation.
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The grassroots level is the foothold for all work, and the effectiveness of grassroots governance is related to the overall work of the Party and the country. Only by unloading the burdens that should be reduced can we improve the effectiveness of governance. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must continue to reduce the burden on the grassroots so that grassroots cadres can use more time and energy to serve the people." The "Suggestions" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party proposed: "Carry out in-depth rectification of formalism to reduce the burden on the grassroots." To implement the important requirements of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and the important deployments of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party, we must unremittingly promote the work of reducing the burden on the grassroots. We must "slim down" and "improve quality" to truly untie and solve problems for the grassroots to start businesses.
In recent years, from clearly proposing the "Grassroots Burden Reduction Year" to issuing intra-Party regulations for reducing the burden on the grassroots, the work of reducing the burden on the grassroots has been deeply promoted, which conforms to the expectations of the masses and demonstrates a new look of work style. At the same time, we should soberly see that there are still some places and departments that are discounting and engaging in formalism, and the stock of problem rectification has not been cleared, and variables have reappeared. Formalism has changed its face and eroded the political ecology. For example, the number of red-headed documents has decreased, but the number of work prompts has increased; the generalization of daily supervision, weekly scheduling, monthly evaluation, and quarterly assessment seems to grasp the timeline very tightly, but in fact, it causes the grassroots to become "institutionalized" and "hollowed out," doing useless work and being counterproductive; some are overstepping their authority, interfering too much and too meticulously in the work of the grassroots, passing on pressure, but shirking responsibility when problems arise... These practices are squeezing the time for the grassroots to perform their primary responsibilities, restricting the space for the grassroots to exert their abilities, and dampening the enthusiasm of the vast number of Party members and cadres at the grassroots level, which runs counter to the requirements of reducing the burden on the grassroots.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Belief is the foundation, and work style is the form. When the foundation is correct, the form gathers, and when the foundation is not correct, the form will disperse." The reason why new problems have emerged in the work of reducing the burden on the grassroots is still rooted in the lack of "calcium" in the ideals and beliefs of a few Party members and cadres, and the long-standing malpractices of formalism and bureaucracy are difficult to eliminate in a short period of time. Disobeying orders and prohibitions on the important decisions of the Party Central Committee to reduce the burden on the grassroots reflects a lack of Party spirit and even disregard for Party discipline; some have deviated from the concept of political achievements, have not firmly established the people-centered development ideology, are seriously detached from reality and the masses, and are not pragmatic or responsible. Of course, there are also reasons for insufficient ability. For example, how to simplify the complex, optimize indicators and processes in streamlining the assessment system, some places and departments cannot jump out of "path dependence" and lack the wisdom of "new keys to open new locks."
By "slimming down" useless work and unloading the "burden" of improper intervention, the grassroots can have more time and space to do practical things and implement them. We must continue to reduce irrelevant matters such as "mountains of documents and seas of meetings" and "tasks at the fingertips" for the grassroots, so that cadres can free up their energy to walk out of the office, go deep into the front lines of production, service, and management, grasp implementation, solve problems, promote development, and protect stability. When superiors set goals and assign tasks to the grassroots, they should follow objective laws, consider actual conditions and affordability, scientifically set progress, reserve necessary completion time, and avoid material "reporting in the morning and evening" and escalating standards at all levels. Correct the simplistic approach of "one-size-fits-all" policies, strengthen classified and precise guidance, fully empower the grassroots to create, and avoid policies being the same and "unsuitable" when implemented. At the same time, we must also leave room for trial and error, create an atmosphere of light loading, strictly implement the "three distinctions," and not arbitrarily hold people accountable.
To reduce the burden on the grassroots, we must "slim down" and "improve quality." "Slimming down" is to eliminate additional burdens and interference constraints for the grassroots, so that they can return to their duties, focus on their main business, and better assume responsibility. It is not to reduce internal affairs or shirk due responsibilities, and we cannot fall into the misunderstanding of slackening, resting, or lying flat. The purpose of "slimming down" is to "improve quality," so that the grassroots can continuously improve their ability and quality in implementing policies, serving the masses, and governing the "capillaries" of society. For example, if the number of meetings is reduced, the meetings should pay more attention to planning good strategies and coming up with practical measures; if there are not so many fancy indicators in the assessment, we should pay more attention to actual results and effectiveness. "Improving quality" not only requires the grassroots to break through inertial thinking, find out the blockages and difficulties, and come up with more hard measures and new methods, but also requires the superior departments to provide training and guidance and build platforms for the grassroots, actively encourage those who are responsible, and use development results and public evaluation to test the actual effectiveness of reducing the burden on the grassroots.
Reducing the burden on the grassroots is a tough battle and a protracted war. We must focus on the new problems of formalism at the grassroots level and continue to rectify them, transform the effectiveness of burden reduction into governance effectiveness, transform it into the people's sense of gain, stimulate the endogenous动力 (dònglì - "driving force," motivation) and innovation vitality of the grassroots, and consolidate the foundation for promoting Chinese-style modernization.
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Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, pointed out: "Contemporary China is undergoing the most extensive and profound social changes in our country's history, and is also carrying out the most grand and unique practical innovation in human history. This unprecedented great practice will inevitably provide a strong impetus and broad space for theoretical creation and academic prosperity." At present, China's urbanization is shifting from a period of rapid growth to a period of stable development, and urban development is shifting from a stage of large-scale incremental expansion to a stage dominated by stock quality improvement and efficiency enhancement. The profound social changes and grand practical innovations in urban development provide a strong impetus and broad space for building China's independent urban studies. Urban work is a systematic project that requires the guidance of scientific theory. The "Suggestions" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee proposed "accelerating the construction of an independent knowledge system of Chinese philosophy and social sciences." At present, urban development has entered a new stage. We must be rooted in the land of China, continue the cultural heritage of the Chinese nation, and consolidate the academic foundation to accelerate the construction of China's independent urban studies and provide academic support for promoting high-quality urban development.
Building China's independent urban studies has profound inevitability. Since the reform and opening up, China has experienced the world's largest and fastest urbanization process. As of the end of 2024, the urbanization rate of permanent residents reached 67%, with more than 940 million people living in cities and towns. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has made a series of important expositions on urban work, creatively proposing the concept of people's city, and achieving original breakthroughs in Marxist urban theory in the new era. Under the guidance of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on urban work, various regions have witnessed vivid practical examples of promoting high-quality urban development, and have formed many vivid samples in promoting urban structure optimization, kinetic energy conversion, quality improvement, green transformation, cultural heritage continuation, and governance efficiency enhancement. These theoretical achievements and practical explorations rooted in Chinese practice and containing Chinese wisdom need to be further studied. At the same time, China's cities face many complex problems in rapid development that need to be studied and solved urgently. It must be recognized that Western urban theory based on Western capital logic and historical experience has limitations and is difficult to fully interpret and solve the realistic problems facing China's urban development; at the same time, relying solely on a single disciplinary perspective is also difficult to study high-quality urban development plans that conform to China's national conditions. We must be based on the new stage of China's urbanization, guided by a strong sense of problem awareness, focus on serving urban development and governance practices, and accelerate the construction of China's independent urban studies.
Adhere to the value position of the people's city concept. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Adhere to the people-centered development thought, adhere to the people's city for the people" and "Adhere to the main position of the broad masses of the people in urban construction and development." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) concept of people's city takes the people-centered approach as the basic value principle of urban development. This requires us to use the Marxist standpoint, viewpoint, and method to deeply study every link of urban planning, construction, and management, deeply grasp the laws of urban development, and provide effective paths for more targeted improvement of urban development quality. For example, conduct in-depth research on high-quality urban renewal, optimization of urban spatial structure, and strengthening of urban natural disaster prevention and control. We must clearly recognize the limitations of Western urban theory and the problems it causes, such as the widening gap between the rich and the poor and the intensification of social contradictions, always anchor the goal of urban development to the all-round development of people, and focus on studying how to build a community of urban governance in urban development and construction, and better realize the fair and just allocation of public goods in urban development, so that research results can effectively serve the people's yearning for a better life.
Form a complete research chain that connects historical tradition, current practice, and future transformation. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Adhere to the Chinese cultural position, refine and display the spiritual symbols and cultural essence of Chinese civilization, and accelerate the construction of a Chinese discourse and Chinese narrative system." Building a logically consistent and distinctive theoretical system of China's independent urban studies not only requires focusing on the current reality, but also requires drawing on the ideological essence of excellent traditional Chinese culture, condensing the theoretical crystallization formed through historical evolution and realistic development, and studying the trend of urban development for the future. In the historical dimension, explore and refine the enlightenment of excellent traditional Chinese cultural concepts such as "harmony between man and nature" (天人合一 (tiān rén hé yī - "heaven and man as one," the concept that humans should follow the laws of nature)), "imitating the sky and following the earth" (象天法地 (xiàng tiān fǎ dì - "model heaven and follow earth," to imitate the natural order in human affairs)), and "neighborly friendship" (邻里友善 (lín lǐ yǒu shàn - "neighborly friendship," harmonious relationships among neighbors)) on modern urban construction, strengthen research on how to scientifically protect historical and cultural heritage, and transform excellent historical and cultural genes into the spiritual nourishment of modern urban construction. In the realistic dimension, we should not only focus on a specific city to carry out specific research, but also study China's unique complex urban system, systematically sort out the rich practices, experiences, and lessons learned in China's urban development and governance, and refine the original concepts and local experiences contained therein, and summarize the inherent laws of urban development. In the future transformation dimension, we must grasp the changing trends of urban development and conduct forward-looking research on new forms of future cities. Pay attention to the integration path of intelligent technology, incorporate systematic factors such as global climate change, energy structure transformation, industrial restructuring, and social structure changes into the analysis framework, and explore the resilient development model and inclusive governance model of cities in complex situations.
Strengthen interdisciplinary integration, highlight practical orientation, and promote research method innovation. A city is a complex system, and this characteristic requires urban theory research to transcend a single disciplinary perspective, break down traditional disciplinary barriers, adhere to systematic thinking, highlight practical orientation, and carry out multi-disciplinary collaborative research. Promote research method innovation, integrate qualitative and quantitative research, and systematically grasp the integrity, correlation, and dynamics of urban operation. Interdisciplinary research teams can be formed to integrate multi-disciplinary knowledge, use big data analysis, artificial intelligence and other technologies, and spatial计量 and other cutting-edge research methods to achieve multi-dimensional analysis, dynamic monitoring, and scenario deduction of urban systems. In recent years, some domestic research teams have made substantial progress in this regard. For example, some interdisciplinary teams focusing on strengthening resilient and safe city construction have made full use of intelligent sensing, artificial intelligence, and large models to strengthen research method innovation, and have achieved a series of innovative results, providing theoretical support and practical solutions for improving the level of urban safety resilience.
Focus on studying real problems and strengthen the transformation and application of research results. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Adhering to the problem orientation is a distinct feature of Marxism." Only by studying real problems, truly studying problems, listening to the voice of the times, and responding to the call of the times can we promote theoretical innovation and transform it into a force for promoting social progress. We must focus on deepening relevant research on issues such as the governance of megacities and megacities, promoting the coordinated development of large, medium, and small cities and towns, and the green and low-carbon transformation of cities, and promote the transformation of research results into operable policy designs, planning programs, technical standards, and evaluation systems to serve scientific decision-making in urban work and urban governance practices. For example, research results related to "smart cities," "resilient cities," "15-minute living circles," and "future communities" have been applied to national policies or local practices, realizing the effective transformation of academic achievements. We can explore the establishment of a mechanism that connects industry, academia, research, and application, and encourage governments, enterprises, and scientific research institutes to jointly build collaborative innovation platforms to promote the deep integration of industry, academia, research, and application. For example, by jointly building joint laboratories in the field of urban governance, forming joint research teams around important issues, promoting the effective connection between academic research and practical needs, and better serving high-quality urban development.
(The author is the Dean of the Zhou Enlai School of Government Management, Nankai University (南开大学))
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This year marks the 5th anniversary of the formal proposal of Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law (习近平法治思想). After 5 years, the Party Central Committee convened the Central Conference on Overall Law-Based Governance again, fully demonstrating our Party's firm determination and will to continuously promote the rule of law and strictly enforce the law. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) specially made important instructions, fully affirming the historic achievements made in comprehensively governing the country according to law in the new era, and making strategic plans for the construction of a rule-of-law China in the current and future periods. His instructions are far-sighted, broad in vision, profound in thought, and carry immense weight, providing fundamental guidelines and action plans for promoting the comprehensive rule of law on the new journey. The conference deeply summarized the latest theoretical and practical achievements of Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law, and systematically planned and deployed key tasks for comprehensively governing the country according to law on the new journey, setting the direction and uniting the people, which has great political, theoretical, and practical significance in the history of socialist rule of law construction in our country. The Party Group of the Ministry of Justice will fully implement the important instructions and spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), fully implement Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law, earnestly fulfill the relevant responsibilities of the Office of the Central Leading Group for Governing the Country according to Law (中央依法治国办) located in the Ministry of Justice, accelerate the high-quality development of judicial and administrative work in the new era, accelerate the construction of a socialist rule-of-law country with a higher level, and provide a strong legal guarantee for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.
I. Study and Understand the Spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) Important Instructions
General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions have strong political, theoretical, practical, and guiding significance. They are an important part of Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law, a major original contribution, and an action program for promoting the comprehensive rule of law on the new journey. They will inevitably have an extremely significant and far-reaching impact on promoting Chinese-style modernization on the track of the rule of law.
Deeply understand and grasp the historic achievements of comprehensively governing the country according to law in the new era. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has included the comprehensive rule of law in the "Four Comprehensives" strategic layout and promoted it vigorously. The overall pattern of comprehensively governing the country according to law has basically taken shape, the socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics has been continuously improved, and the socialist rule of law path with Chinese characteristics has become wider and wider. The fundamental reason for these historic achievements lies in the leadership and steering of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, and in the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law. From "adhering to the socialist rule of law path with Chinese characteristics" to "the socialist rule of law path with Chinese characteristics is becoming wider and wider," is a vivid portrayal of the historic achievements of comprehensively governing the country according to law in the new era, demonstrating our Party's firm confidence in the path and the rule of law in building a rule-of-law China. We must strive forward along the direction pointed out by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), unswervingly follow the socialist rule of law path with Chinese characteristics, and firmly support the "Two Establishments" and resolutely achieve the "Two Safeguards" with practical actions of learning, understanding, and practicing.
Deeply understand and grasp the grand goals of comprehensively governing the country according to law on the new journey. Standing at the overall and strategic height of promoting Chinese-style modernization, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed for the first time "focusing on building a more complete socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics and building a socialist rule-of-law country with a higher level," issuing a new mobilization order to strive to build a rule-of-law China. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee in 2014 proposed the overall goal of "building a socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics and building a socialist rule-of-law country," leading to historic achievements in comprehensively governing the country according to law. The Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee in 2024 included promoting "a more complete socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics and achieving a higher level of socialist rule-of-law country construction" in the overall goal of further comprehensively deepening reform. This year, the "Suggestions" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee further included "achieving a higher level of socialist rule-of-law country construction" in the main goals of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. On this basis, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has put forward new and higher grand goals in line with new practices and the development of the times. Building a socialist rule-of-law country with a higher level has painted a magnificent blueprint for us and pointed out the direction of advancement; building a more complete socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics has drawn a roadmap for us and pointed out the specific path, further enriching and expanding the scientific connotation of the overall goal of comprehensively governing the country according to law.
Deeply understand and grasp the strategic deployment of comprehensively governing the country according to law on the new journey. In the historical process of promoting Chinese-style modernization, the rule of law is always closely linked, mutually reinforcing, and complementary to reform, development, and stability. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed for the first time "paying more attention to the coordination of the rule of law with reform, development, and stability, and paying more attention to ensuring and promoting social fairness and justice," profoundly clarifying the practical requirements for the dialectical unity of the rule of law with reform, development, and stability, profoundly reflecting the inherent requirements of socialism with Chinese characteristics for fairness and justice, and fully embodying strategic considerations based on the present and looking to the future. The "two more attentions" further highlight the urgent need to run the rule of law through reform, development, and stability, declare the fundamental position of comprehensively governing the country according to law to adhere to the people first, and deepen the understanding of the regularity of socialist rule of law construction. At the same time, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) once again emphasized in his important instructions that it is necessary to "comprehensively promote scientific legislation, strict law enforcement, impartial justice, and universal law-abiding, and comprehensively promote the legalization of all aspects of national work." The "two comprehensive promotions" are interrelated and mutually reinforcing, providing a planning arrangement and a scientific method for us to write a new chapter in comprehensively governing the country according to law on the new journey.
Deeply understand and grasp the political responsibility of comprehensively governing the country according to law on the new journey. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that Party committees (party groups) at all levels should assume the main responsibility and grasp the implementation of major deployments, important tasks, and key tasks in the field of the rule of law. Law-based work departments should earnestly perform their duties, take the initiative to assume responsibility, and all departments and fields should strictly handle affairs in accordance with the law, jointly creating a new situation in the construction of a rule-of-law China. This important instruction further strengthens the responsibility requirements for the construction of the rule of law, and constructs a responsibility system for law-based work with clear subjects, clear requirements, and complete chains. Comprehensively governing the country according to law is a systematic project and a profound revolution in national governance. It is necessary to strengthen the Party's leadership and cannot be separated from the coordinated efforts and joint promotion of all parties. All regions and departments should, under the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, earnestly assume the political responsibility of promoting the construction of the rule of law, jointly manage and coordinate, and ensure that the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee are implemented. As law-based work departments, judicial and administrative organs at all levels should base themselves on their functions and responsibilities, improve their political standing, and strengthen their political responsibility in promoting the comprehensive rule of law, and promote the construction of a rule-of-law China to a higher level.
II. Study and Understand the Latest Achievements in the Rich Development of Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law
Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law is a major theoretical innovation achievement that has emerged in response to the requirements of the times for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It is the most comprehensive and systematic system of legal thought put forward by our Party in the past century, and it is also a scientific theoretical system that keeps pace with the times and is open to development. In the past 5 years, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has put forward a series of new ideas, new viewpoints, and new judgments with originality and landmark significance around the comprehensive rule of law, demonstrating a strong penetrating power of truth, ideological appeal, and practical guidance, and realizing a new leap in the Sinicization and modernization of Marxist legal theory.
Deeply understand and grasp the organic unity of adhering to governing the country according to law and governing the Party according to regulations. This is the inherent requirement of comprehensively governing the country according to law, a prominent manifestation of the rich development of Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law, and has an important position and significance in the "Twelve Adherences" core connotation system. Adding this core connotation as the "Twelfth Adherence" demonstrates the distinct characteristics of the socialist rule of law construction with Chinese characteristics, and embodies the Party Central Committee's political consideration of taking governing the Party according to regulations as the basic way of managing and governing the Party and realizing the integration of governing the country according to law and governing the Party according to regulations. Governing the Party according to regulations is the guidance and guarantee for governing the country according to law, and governing the country according to law is the foundation and support for governing the Party according to regulations. The two are unified in the great practice of the Party's lawful governance, unified in the path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics, and unified in the value orientation of putting the people first, which is the unique governance code formed by the governance of the Communist Party of China and the governance of China. If our Party is to fulfill its major historical mission of governing and rejuvenating the country and realize the long-term peace and stability of the Party and the country, it must adhere to the overall promotion and integrated construction of governing the country according to law and governing the Party according to regulations, improve the mechanism for connecting and coordinating Party regulations and national laws and regulations, ensure that the Party governs the country and administers state affairs in accordance with the Constitution and laws, and manages and governs the Party and strictly governs the Party in accordance with Party regulations, and give full play to the complementary role of governing the country according to law and governing the Party according to regulations.
Deeply understand and grasp the adherence to comprehensively building a modern socialist country on the track of the rule of law. The rule of law is an important guarantee for Chinese-style modernization. A modern country must be a rule-of-law country. Developing the fifth adherence of "promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity on the track of the rule of law" into "comprehensively building a modern socialist country on the track of the rule of law" demonstrates the fundamental, overall, and guaranteeing position and role of the rule of law in promoting Chinese-style modernization, and embodies the strategic consideration of better playing the important role of the rule of law in consolidating the foundation, stabilizing expectations, and benefiting the long term. Comprehensively building a modern socialist country on the track of the rule of law is a major conclusion and a major task put forward by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平). It is an important manifestation of coordinating and promoting the "Four Comprehensives" strategic layout. It not only inherently includes promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity on the track of the rule of law, but also has a more grand and far-reaching connotation and extension, goals and tasks, and theory and practice, giving a new mission to comprehensively governing the country according to law and establishing a scientific guide for promoting Chinese-style modernization on the track of the rule of law.
Deeply understand and grasp the rich connotation of the latest development of Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law. In the past 5 years, the rich development of Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law is not only reflected in the expansion and deepening of the core connotation level, but also has many important expositions that have major breakthroughs, major innovations, and major developments in theory and practice. For example, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that "it is necessary to adhere to deepening reform on the track of the rule of law," "further expand the space for the role of the rule of law, and better play the active role of the rule of law in eliminating obstacles to reform and consolidating the achievements of reform"; emphasized that "it is necessary to continuously build a rule-of-law economy and a credit economy" and "the more standardized government behavior is, the more effective the role of the market will be"; emphasized that it is necessary to "build a foreign-related rule of law system and capacity that is compatible with the requirements of high-quality development and high-level opening up"; it is necessary to "strengthen confidence in the rule of law," "tell the story of the rule of law in China in the new era," and "demonstrate our country's image as a major country of the rule of law and a civilized country." These important expositions grasp the pulse of the times, conform to the trend of the times, answer the questions of the times, and lead the progress of the times, fully embodying the theoretical character of Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law of upholding justice and innovation and keeping pace with the times. It is necessary to comprehensively study, comprehensively grasp, and comprehensively implement them, and truly achieve the unity of learning, thinking, using, knowing, believing, and acting.
III. Solidly Grasp the Coordinated Implementation of the Task of Comprehensively Governing the Country According to Law and the High-Quality Development of Judicial and Administrative Work
On the new journey, the Party Group of the Ministry of Justice will focus on building a more complete socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics and building a socialist rule-of-law country with a higher level, perform its duties and responsibilities, and work hard to provide higher-quality legal services and stronger legal guarantees for Chinese-style modernization.
First, we will grasp the in-depth study and understanding of Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law. We will integrate the study and implementation of Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law as the "guideline" and "soul" into all aspects and the entire process of comprehensively governing the country according to law and judicial and administrative work, so that it is internalized in the heart and externalized in action. It is necessary to strengthen study and publicity, study and use the first volume of "Xi Jinping on the Rule of Law" (《习近平法治文选》) and the "Study Outline of Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law (2025 Edition)" (《习近平法治思想学习纲要（2025年版）》), and take the implementation of the Law on Publicity and Education on the Rule of Law and the formulation and implementation of the "Ninth Five-Year Plan" for popularizing the law as an opportunity to promote Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. It is necessary to deepen research and interpretation, organize and implement major special research projects, strengthen theoretical research on the major original contributions of Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law, and promote the formation of a number of high-quality research results. It is necessary to strengthen education and training, promote the inclusion of Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law in the important teaching content of Party schools (administrative colleges) at all levels, strengthen continuous training for administrative law enforcement personnel and legal service teams, and regularly hold the "China Rule of Law Practice Grand Lecture Hall" (中国法治实务大讲堂).
Second, we will resolutely implement and implement the Party's leadership over the comprehensive rule of law. The Party's leadership is the soul of the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics and the fundamental guarantee for promoting the comprehensive rule of law. It is necessary to resolutely implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and instructions and the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments on comprehensively governing the country according to law, strictly implement the reporting system, and report major matters and important situations to the Party Central Committee for decision in accordance with procedures. On December 8, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting to review the "Regulations on the Party's Leadership over the Work of Comprehensively Governing the Country According to Law" (《中国共产党领导全面依法治国工作条例》). This is the first basic and comprehensive Party regulation on the Party's leadership over the work of comprehensively governing the country according to law, and it is a vivid carrier for adhering to the organic unity of governing the country according to law and governing the Party according to regulations. The regulations transform the Party's long-term decisions and deployments, ideas and concepts, systems and mechanisms, and successful practices in leading the work of comprehensively governing the country according to law into institutional achievements, which is of great significance for improving the Party's ability to govern the country and administer state affairs in accordance with the law, building a more complete socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics, and building a socialist rule-of-law country with a higher level. We must implement the main responsibility, take hard and solid measures to coordinate and promote the study, publicity, and implementation of the regulations, and earnestly implement the Party's leadership in legislation, ensuring law enforcement, supporting justice, and taking the lead in abiding by the law.
Third, we will pay more attention to the coordination of the rule of law with reform, development, and stability, and serve and guarantee the development of the Party and the country. Development is the goal, reform is the driving force, stability is the premise, and the rule of law is the guarantee. The overall promotion of the "Five-Sphere Integrated Plan" and the coordinated promotion of the "Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy" cannot be separated from the leadership, regulation, and guarantee of the rule of law. To promote high-quality development, we will accelerate the legislation in key areas such as development planning, finance and taxation, and ecological environment, improve the legal system in new quality productive forces such as scientific and technological innovation, the digital economy, and artificial intelligence, improve the long-term mechanism for regulating law enforcement involving enterprises, protect all types of ownership economies in accordance with the law, remove the blockages that hinder the construction of a unified national market, accelerate the construction of a foreign-related rule of law system and capacity, and create a first-class business environment that is market-oriented, rule-of-law, and internationalized. To promote further comprehensive deepening of reform, we will adhere to promoting reform under the rule of law, actively use various methods such as authorization decisions, reform decisions, legislative review, and package amendments to laws, rely on the rule of law to gather consensus on reform, eliminate obstacles to reform, and consolidate the achievements of reform; improve the rule of law in reform, and coordinate and promote the reform of legislation, law enforcement, justice, and law-abiding. We will firmly safeguard national security and social stability, coordinate and promote prison education and transformation, community correction, resettlement and assistance, dispute resolution, and law publicity, prevent and reduce recidivism, deepen the working pattern of people's mediation as the basis and the connection and linkage of various types of mediation, comprehensively use notarization, mediation, arbitration, administrative reconsideration, and other methods to promote the source resolution, diversified resolution, and orderly resolution of social contradictions and disputes.
Fourth, we will pay more attention to ensuring and promoting social fairness and justice, and increase people's well-being in accordance with the law. We will firmly grasp the value pursuit of fairness and justice in the rule of law, and strive to make the people feel fairness and justice in every legal system, every law enforcement decision, and every judicial case. We will promote legislation in the field of people's livelihood, seize the time to formulate and revise laws and regulations on social insurance, medical security, social assistance, and anti-cyber violence, and improve the legal system for protecting the rights and interests of workers in new forms of employment. We will comprehensively promote strict, standardized, fair, and civilized law enforcement, increase law enforcement in key areas related to the vital interests of the people, such as food safety, public health, and work safety, be strict when it is appropriate, be lenient when it is appropriate, and be proportionate to the offense, and use the rule of law to safeguard the safety of people's lives and property and their health. We will improve the level of public legal services, promote the balanced development of urban and rural and regional public legal services, strengthen the protection of the rights and interests of vulnerable groups, and strive to provide the people with multi-level, wide-ranging, and high-quality legal services. We will strengthen and improve publicity and education on the rule of law, widely use new media and new technologies to accelerate the formation of a new model of accurate law popularization, thoroughly implement the law popularization responsibility system of "whoever enforces the law popularizes the law," strengthen online law publicity and education, improve the legal literacy of the whole people, and create a good environment in the whole society that advocates the rule of law, abides by rules, respects contracts, and maintains fairness.
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In the afternoon, the Jing'an section of the Suzhou Creek (苏州河) in Shanghai (上海) glistens with light. Inside the Kayou Park (卡游园区) on the riverbank, Li Xinlong (李欣隆), a product planner born after 2000, is discussing the design drafts for a new series of trendy collectible cards with his team. Outside the window, century-old industrial heritage buildings and skyscrapers reflect each other. This land, which carries the memory of industrial civilization, has been rejuvenated in recent years due to the intersection and collision of fashion elements and cultural and creative industries.
As one of the birthplaces of modern Chinese industry, the earliest batch of textile factories, flour mills, and silk factories in China were built on the north bank of the Suzhou Creek (苏州河). Historical buildings such as the former site of the Fuxin Flour Mill No. 1 (福新面粉一厂旧址), the Sihang Warehouse War Memorial Hall (四行仓库抗战纪念馆), and the former site of the Bank of China (中国银行) office and warehouse tell of a century of vicissitudes. How to make old buildings and industrial heritage "live"? Jing'an District (静安区) has transformed them into important carriers of cultural and creative spaces through renovation, protection, and functional reshaping.
"We retain the original structure of the buildings and integrate modern design language to make history tangible and perceptible," said Xiao Yeying (萧烨璎), Minister of the Publicity Department of Jing'an District (静安区委宣传部部长). The Suhewan (苏河湾) area has created cultural landmarks such as the former site of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce (上海总商会旧址), Tianhou Palace (天后宫), and Sihang Warehouse (四行仓库), forming a cultural ecology of "architecture that can be read and blocks that can be strolled," attracting a large number of young entrepreneurs to settle down. Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," the Suhewan (苏河湾) functional area has accumulated tax revenue of 35 billion yuan and achieved double-digit growth for three consecutive years.
A deep cultural heritage is a "strong magnet" attracting entrepreneurs. Zhu Yining (朱一宁), a post-90s entrepreneur engaged in CityWalk project design, said: "The factories and warehouses along the Suzhou Creek (苏州河) have been revitalized and have new vitality. Here, it seems that you can hear the echoes of history, which is a unique experience."
In Suhewan (苏河湾), the cultural and creative industry is developing from a single business format to the integration of culture and technology, and culture and consumption. Kayou Company (卡游公司), which settled in last year, initially focused on playing card printing. Facing the impact of the digital wave, it turned to the animation card track. Wang Xuan (王轩), Senior Vice President of the company, said: "We combine traditional printing technology with AR technology to develop Guochao IP, and integrate traditional culture into the lives of young people in the form of trendy cards." Today, Kayou Company (卡游公司) occupies 70% of the domestic animation card market, with annual sales exceeding 10 billion yuan.
The burst of trendy creativity is inseparable from a good industrial ecology. Jing'an District (静安区) provides all-round support for entrepreneurs through policy guidance, platform construction, and event planning. Jing'an District (静安区) provides financial support for cultural and creative enterprises and institutions that carry out technological innovation and R&D design, and for projects that empower the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries with cultural and creative IPs; it encourages the cultivation of original IPs, and provides maximum support of 1 million yuan for enterprises that complete trademark registration or copyright registration; it launched the "Jing'an Suhewan Cultural and Creative Design Plan (静安苏河湾文创设计计划)" to solicit creative inspiration from around the world, and launched a number of online and offline cultural activities to promote cross-border cooperation among enterprises.
Standing in the Party and Mass Service Center (党群服务中心) on the 42nd floor of the Suhewan Center (苏河湾中心), you can overlook the Suzhou Creek (苏州河) winding into the river, and the Pudong (浦东) skyline is fully visible. This area of less than 4.2 square kilometers is becoming an important pillar for Shanghai (上海) to build a world-class design capital.
"Culture is the soul of a city, and youth is the spark of innovation. We accelerate the release of the vigorous vitality of the cultural and creative industry by building a space that allows culture, creativity, and youth to resonate and empower each other," said Zhai Lei (翟磊), Governor of Jing'an District (静安区区长). The next step is to promote the coordinated development of Suhewan (苏河湾) with Nanjing West Road (南京西路), Daning (大宁), and Shibei (市北) and other regions to build an ecosystem of deep integration of "commerce + culture + creativity + technology"; at the same time, accelerate the introduction of top cultural and creative institutions to create a better environment for innovation and entrepreneurship, actively build international fashion and trend blocks, and promote more Chinese creativity to the world.
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"A deer is trapped in the river, about to freeze to death, please come and rescue it quickly!"
On December 19th, the Degé County (德格县) Public Security Bureau in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (甘孜藏族自治州), Sichuan Province, received a public alarm. After receiving the alarm, the Zhongzhake Police Station (中扎科派出所) of the bureau immediately organized police forces to rush to the scene for rescue. At that time, the temperature reached minus 10 degrees Celsius, and 3 white-lipped deer, a national first-class protected wild animal, were trapped in an ice cave. Auxiliary police officer Jiang Yong Zhaxi (降拥扎西) took the lead in jumping into the icy river and used rescue ropes to lasso the trapped white-lipped deer.
After an hour of joint police-civilian rescue efforts, the 3 trapped white-lipped deer were rescued one by one. The police officers and auxiliary police officers and the masses involved in the rescue then transferred two of the weaker white-lipped deer to villagers' homes for care. According to villager Ni Xia (尼夏), the white-lipped deer were trapped in the ice layer while crossing the river to forage for food. The 3 deer have been released back into nature. Since the beginning of winter this year, the local public security organs have continued to strengthen winter patrols and ecological protection to protect the plateau ecology.
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The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal suggests taking carbon peaking and carbon neutrality as the driving force, and synergistically promoting carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth, to consolidate the ecological security barrier and enhance the momentum of green development.
Starting today, this edition launches a series of reports titled "Beautiful China: Green Stories Around Us," closely observing the green practices happening around us and seeing how the concept of green development is deeply integrated into the production and lifestyle of ordinary people.
——Editor
A handful of crystal-clear rice is held in the palm of the hand, and a row of boxed "Ranyi Gong Rice (冉义贡米)" is neatly stacked. As this batch of rice is shipped one after another, Huang Xin (黄鑫), the head of the Xinlei Y耕 Family Farm (鑫磊耘耕家庭农场) in Qionglai City (邛崃市), Sichuan Province (四川省), is filled with a sense of accomplishment.
Recalling September of this year, when the "Ranyi Gong Rice (冉义贡米)" was harvested, Huang Xin (黄鑫) dried and processed the rice, and organized a tasting session in the field. More than a dozen steaming rice cookers contained different varieties of rice. The "judges" included local villagers, as well as experts and scholars. Everyone had to taste and blindly select the best-tasting one. The low-carbon planted "Ranyi Gong Rice (冉义贡米)" had a soft and smooth taste and won the championship.
The "champion" rice is not ordinary. This year, "Ranyi Gong Rice (冉义贡米)" successfully passed the carbon footprint calculation and carbon label certification, and obtained the carbon neutrality certificate issued by the Sichuan United Environment Exchange (四川联合环境交易所), becoming a "carbon neutral" rice.
Why should rice be "carbon neutral"?
This starts with Huang Xin (黄鑫), a local "second-generation farmer" from Qionglai (邛崃)—after graduating from university, he returned to his hometown to become a new farmer, always wanting to bring something new to the fields. As the concept of green and low-carbon becomes more and more popular, Huang Xin (黄鑫) had an idea: "Low-carbon rice cultivation can not only produce more good rice, but also allow us farmers to contribute to 'dual carbon' goals."
Huang Xin (黄鑫) immediately sought support. After listening to Huang Xin's (黄鑫) idea, Zhang Kaiguo (张开国), general manager of Sichuan Guotan Technology Co., Ltd. (四川国碳科技有限公司), was initially skeptical: "It won't be easy for agricultural products to pursue carbon neutrality."
What are the difficulties? Zhang Kaiguo (张开国) explained: "The premise of carbon neutrality is to calculate the sum of direct or indirect greenhouse gas emissions and removals generated by the object within a certain period of time, that is, to clarify the carbon footprint. Industrial enterprises can use mature production information systems to calculate the carbon footprint relatively easily; however, most agricultural production processes are non-standardized and rely on personal experience. The carbon footprint needs to record agricultural activities and emissions in detail." Zhang Kaiguo (张开国) admitted that this recording work is very cumbersome and difficult for most growers to do.
Huang Xin (黄鑫) did not give up. "I already have the habit of recording the use of agricultural materials. I used to only calculate economic accounts, but now I add a low-carbon account." Huang Xin (黄鑫) decided to try it according to Zhang Kaiguo's (张开国) standards.
Looking at the carbon footprint form, the record starts from the transportation process of purchasing seeds and continues to more than 10 links such as planting, management, harvesting, and processing; the data required for field block labeling is even more detailed, exceeding 15 items. Huang Xin (黄鑫) gave an example: "For example, how many kilograms of fertilizer are spread per mu of cultivated land, and how much fuel is consumed by the tractor for cultivating land must be recorded clearly." At the same time, each agricultural activity must be carried out and recorded under the witness of relevant staff and third-party certification agencies. This spring, he planted 200 mu of national first-class high-quality rice, promoting the local historical "Ranyi Gong Rice (冉义贡米)" brand. As the seedlings grew vigorously, Huang Xin's (黄鑫) "low-carbon account" became thicker and thicker.
Recording data is the foundation. How to grow "carbon neutral" rice? The key is emission reduction.
"The use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides will emit a large amount of greenhouse gases." Huang Xin (黄鑫) adopted a combination of biological organic fertilizer, organic and inorganic compound fertilizer, etc. "Biological organic fertilizer can replace part of the chemical fertilizer, reduce indirect carbon emissions in the production and transportation links, and also reduce greenhouse gas emissions such as methane in rice fields." In the corners of the field, Huang Xin (黄鑫) also placed paper bags containing Trichogramma eggs. Trichogramma are the natural enemies of the rice stem borer. "Using insects to control insects has a much better effect than imagined."
When the harvest season arrived, the carbon footprint of 200 mu of rice fields was calculated by professional institutions. The total life cycle carbon emission of each kilogram of "Ranyi Gong Rice (冉义贡米)" was 946.54 grams of carbon dioxide equivalent, which is nearly 50% less than ordinary planting methods; Huang Xin (黄鑫) selected 20 tons of "Ranyi Gong Rice (冉义贡米)" and completed carbon offsetting through the carbon neutrality platform of the Sichuan United Environment Exchange (四川联合环境交易所), successfully obtaining carbon neutrality certification—the carbon neutrality journey of a grain of rice successfully reached its destination.
"With carbon neutrality certification, rice has a green 'ID card'." Huang Xin (黄鑫) said that he customized packaging for "Ranyi Gong Rice (冉义贡米)". By scanning the QR code on the packaging, the product's carbon footprint information can be clearly checked. Efforts have gradually paid off, and Huang Xin (黄鑫) breathed a sigh of relief.
In this year of growing together with "carbon neutral" rice, Huang Xin (黄鑫) also saw many changes—soil fertility is gradually improving, and the quality of agricultural products is better. In Qionglai (邛崃), multiple near-zero carbon emission zones and carbon-neutral agricultural products have emerged one after another, and the concept of green and low-carbon is injecting new vitality into agricultural development.
As the New Year approaches, Zhang Kaiguo (张开国) gave Huang Xin (黄鑫) some suggestions: "Using the 'intermittent irrigation' technology well can also reduce methane emissions from rice fields; applying fertilizer according to soil testing and formula can also compress the amount of chemical fertilizer used..." He smiled and patted Huang Xin's (黄鑫) shoulder: "Energy conservation and emission reduction are always on the road."
Huang Xin (黄鑫) is full of confidence. He plans to expand the planting area of "carbon neutral" rice and continue to refine field management. "I have to steadily walk this road of green and low-carbon planting."
In the winter fields, the fertile fields are vast. Huang Xin (黄鑫) is looking forward to the early arrival of spring, planting new rice for the new year, and planting new hope for the new year.
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From rice to crisp plums, strawberries... in recent years, several categories of agricultural products have obtained carbon label certification. Carbon labels are transformed into competitiveness, becoming a vivid example of green agricultural development. Low-carbon agricultural products pursue high energy efficiency and low energy consumption throughout their entire life cycle from planting to processing and sales, are more environmentally friendly, and are a scientific choice for addressing global climate change.
To develop green and low-carbon agriculture, aim at the fields to find space for emission reduction. Planting low-carbon emission varieties, reducing the use of chemical inputs, and choosing green agricultural machinery with lower energy consumption... In the re-examination and optimization of traditional agricultural production plans, we find that low carbon is not far away.
From farm to table, carbon labels become an effective proof of high-quality agricultural products. At present, consumers' demand for green and low-carbon products continues to increase, and low-carbon agricultural products have the core competitiveness to enter the mid-to-high-end market. At the same time, the brand effect of carbon labels will also bring greater profit margins to producers.
Of course, carbon footprint accounting and carbon label certification require scientific and complete institutional support. Relevant departments should optimize carbon sink trading rules and strengthen low-carbon science popularization and publicity, so that low-carbon agricultural products can receive more support and attention. Scientific research units need to explore innovation and produce more results in cultivating low-emission varieties, emission reduction and carbon sequestration technologies, and green agricultural machinery research and development, to provide technological empowerment for farmers who are engaged in green and low-carbon agriculture.
On the premise of ensuring food security, through research and development innovation, production optimization, and whole-chain management and control, agriculture can become an important contributor to the carbon sink of the ecosystem. In the future, with the promotion and application of more green scientific research results and multi-disciplinary integration and collaboration, the road to agricultural carbon neutrality will become wider and wider, contributing Chinese agricultural wisdom and strength to global climate governance.
(The author is Associate Researcher at the Crop Research Institute of the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences (四川省农业科学院作物研究所), interviewed and compiled by Li Kaixuan (李凯旋), reporter of this newspaper.)
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In the Jiangnan region in winter, orchids exude a delicate fragrance. In the thousand-acre flower market of Lizhu Town (漓渚镇), Keqiao District (柯桥区), Shaoxing City (绍兴市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), layers upon layers of potted flowers display a riot of colors, and flower merchants from all over the country are purchasing flowers for the upcoming New Year's Day and Spring Festival.
In the bonsai park, more than 10 live streamers are participating in a short video competition amidst a sea of pink muhly grass. "This event has driven the sales of thousands of orchids," said Jiang Biao (蒋标), the organizer of the event and secretary of the Party branch of the Lizhu Town (漓渚镇) Thousand-Acre Flower Market.
Not far away, in the intelligent greenhouse of the Guolan Family Farm (国兰家庭农场): orchids stretch as far as the eye can see, and the refreshing orchid fragrance invigorates the mind. Live streamer Zheng Wenping (郑文萍) set up her mobile phone and started broadcasting live. "The orchids here are tissue-cultured 'technology orchids'. The temperature and humidity of the intelligent greenhouse can be automatically controlled. The orchids grow fast and have good quality, which are very popular among consumers," introduced Tong Shuibiao (童水标), the head of the Guolan Family Farm (国兰家庭农场). The Guolan Family Farm (国兰家庭农场) has more than 20 orchid greenhouses, with more than 800,000 orchids in the greenhouses, and annual sales of nearly 300,000 pots, "business is several times better than before."
Traditional orchid cultivation takes a long time, and coupled with single sales channels, the industry development encountered a "ceiling" a few years ago. In response, Lizhu Town (漓渚镇) combined the four chains of production, sales, research and development, and culture, and established the Orchid Industry Chain Party Committee in August 2024, focusing on the introduction of technical talents and brand promotion, reaching cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Mechanization Sciences (中国农机院) and many local universities, establishing youth practice stations in rural areas, promoting scientific orchid cultivation, and recruiting young live streamers.
In order to help orchid farmers expand their sales channels, the Orchid Industry Chain Party Committee launched the "Lizhu Orchid (漓渚兰花)" public brand and established a brand management service center, setting up a brand image store "Orchid Pavilion (兰花小馆)". In 2025, there are more than 5,000 flower and tree practitioners in Lizhu Town (漓渚镇), and the annual sales of orchids exceeded 200 million yuan.
"'Flower-Filled Tangdi (花满棠棣)' is the main rural cultural tourism project of Tangdi Village (棠棣村). I hope to find an operating method to push 'Flower-Filled Tangdi (花满棠棣)' to a higher level," said Liu Jianming (刘建明), a National People's Congress representative and secretary of the Party General Branch of Tangdi Village (棠棣村).
The Orchid Industry Chain Party Committee also extended the village revitalization and common prosperity chain to six flower and tree professional villages, including Tangdi Village (棠棣村), Jiubanqiao Village (九板桥村), and Liufeng Village (六峰村), to build a flower-fragrant Lizhu (花香漓渚) common prosperity area. Tangdi Village (棠棣村) shapes its business format with the whole village operation, creating the "Flower-Filled Tang (花满棠)" common prosperity workshop, undertaking rural comprehensive revitalization training and orchid boutique study tours, with a per capita income of about 130,000 yuan for villagers; the "Flower Maker (花创客)" block in Jiubanqiao Village (九板桥村) has introduced more than 30 college students to start businesses, driving the development of new business formats such as cultural and creative industries, intangible cultural heritage, and Hanfu...
"Party building joint construction brings the orchid industry chain and flower and tree professional villages together, truly realizing group development," said Jiang Honghong (蒋红红), secretary of the Party Committee of Lizhu Town (漓渚镇). In the future, we will deepen the leadership of Party building and the empowerment of science and technology, so that the orchid industry can drive more people to increase their income and promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
Return to TopFrom "housing for all" to "superior housing for all," the people's pursuit of residential quality is driving the home furnishing industry into a new stage of high-quality development with "good housing" as the goal. The 2026 TATA Wood Door Beautiful Living Innovation Conference was held on December 21st, showcasing not only TATA Wood Door's technological iteration from "a single door" to "New Quiet Realm," but also delivering an innovative answer sheet for traditional manufacturing to empower high-quality development with new quality productive forces and respond to consumer needs.
Responding to Policies: Anchoring the Coordinate System for Industrial Upgrading
The 2025 "Government Work Report" explicitly proposed for the first time to promote the construction of safe, comfortable, green, and intelligent "good housing." This has pointed out a clear path for the home furnishing industry to improve quality and upgrade. TATA Wood Door focuses on the three major trends of intelligence, new materials, and noise reduction needs, and systematically promotes the industrial decoding and practical implementation of "good housing" construction.
Intelligence is an important direction for digital technology to empower the living environment, which is in line with the requirements of the Internet of Everything and the intelligent dimension of "good housing"; new materials are the main support for breaking through product performance bottlenecks, and lay a solid foundation for the upgrading of key technologies such as noise reduction; and the continuous improvement of consumers' demand for noise reduction directly points to the comfortable connotation of "good housing." The three major trends jointly outline a value creation path of improving user experience through technological innovation and consolidating the foundation of "good housing" through industrial innovation, transforming policy guidance into practical industrial practices that can be implemented.
Upholding Righteousness and Innovation: The Dialectic of Consolidating Core Competitiveness
TATA Wood Door adheres to its quality commitment, focuses on user value, focuses on long-term development while upholding righteousness, anchors the direction of breaking the局 (jú - "situation," breaking the current situation) in innovation, accurately identifies future trends, and promotes industry development.
During the 26 years since the establishment of the TATA Wood Door brand, it has been deeply involved in the silent track for 13 years, and has accumulated more than 190 technical patents. From 45-degree oblique soft magnetic suction technology to active noise reduction technology, from "single-point noise reduction" to "systematic noise reduction," TATA Wood Door uses the focus of "one meter wide and ten thousand meters deep" to consolidate the "ballast stone" for enterprises to cope with market changes and achieve stable development through cycles.
At this Beautiful Living Innovation Conference, TATA Wood Door followed the trend of intelligence and launched the Smart Sensing Electric Suction Door, which solves the pain points of the elderly having difficulty pushing the door and the inconvenience of opening the door with both hands holding objects; in response to the noise reduction needs of different groups of people, it launched the "Silent Master PRO" 36dB (decibel) professional-grade noise reduction silent door, which integrates super damping materials and a double-layer sealing system to achieve a noise reduction effect of 36dB (decibel) (data is the amount of sound isolation); the "Lingdong+" living space storage system uses modular customization to solve the problems of insufficient space utilization in small apartments and the diverse storage needs of intergenerational families, and forms a whole-house synergy with wooden doors, expanding from "single silent doors" to "whole-house new quiet realm" solutions, realizing the scene synergy of the whole-house silent system, so that innovation always revolves around the upgrading of user needs.
Value Implementation: Let Innovation Effectively Empower a Better Life
The deep value of innovation lies in implementing the principle of "people-oriented." The connotation of a better living environment lies in the respect and tolerance for each stage of life and the needs of each group. TATA Wood Door's innovation transcends simple functional satisfaction and is committed to ensuring that the elderly with limited mobility do not have to adapt to space, that growing children have a safe world, and that green health becomes standard for every family. Starting from "meeting the people's growing needs for a better life," TATA Wood Door integrates innovative genes into its corporate practice, aiming to use the power of technology to promote the realization of the beautiful vision of everyone enjoying a high-quality living environment, and to make "good housing" concretely good products that benefit consumers.
From the silence of a door to the beauty of a home, TATA Wood Door consolidates its foundation with "upholding righteousness" and expands its boundaries with "innovation," transforming the people's expectations for "good housing" into a tangible and perceptible improvement in the quality of life for thousands of households, and helping new quality productive forces take root and grow in the fertile soil of manufacturing through corporate practice.
Data source: Beijing TATA Wood Industry Co., Ltd. (北京闼闼门业有限公司)
Return to TopLayout design: Cai Huawei (蔡华伟)
Return to TopDuring the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Zhengzhou (郑州市), Henan Province (河南省), taking the construction of a national central city as its carrier, has been vigorously promoting the transformation and upgrading of its industrial structure. It has been striding forward on the road of building a modern industrial system led by technological innovation, supported by the real economy, with advanced manufacturing as the backbone, and relying on modern service industries, delivering a bright report card.
Forging Advanced Manufacturing as the "Ballast Stone" and Creating New Advantages for Industrial Development
In recent years, Zhengzhou (郑州市) has insisted on taking advanced manufacturing as the main pillar of the modern industrial system. Taking the chain chief system of the industrial chain as the starting point, it has promoted the steady upgrading of industrial energy levels and gradually built a development pattern of "traditional industries laying the foundation, emerging industries leading, and future industries being laid out."
The industrial development mechanism continues to be optimized. Zhengzhou (郑州) focuses on 20 key industrial chains, establishes a chain chief system for industrial chains contracted by municipal leaders, and innovatively forms a "one chain, one special class, one research and development institution, one map, and eight lists" promotion mechanism to accurately solve the pain points of industrial development. On this basis, it has gradually built a "1566" advanced manufacturing ecosystem: focusing on building the electronic information key industry, vigorously developing new energy and intelligent connected vehicles, high-end equipment, new materials, biomedicine, and energy conservation and environmental protection 5 strategic emerging industries, transforming and upgrading traditional automobiles, equipment manufacturing, aluminum industry, food manufacturing, clothing and home furnishing, refractory building materials 6 traditional advantageous industries, and accelerating the cultivation of hydrogen energy and energy storage, quantum information, brain-like intelligence, future networks, virtual reality, blockchain 6 future industries, forming a synergistic industrial ecology.
The pace of transformation and upgrading continues to accelerate. Zhengzhou (郑州) has thoroughly implemented the "three transformations" of manufacturing, namely high-end, intelligent, and green, solidly promoted intelligent transformation, digital transformation, and network connection, fully implemented the "six new" actions of manufacturing, and promoted the dual improvement of industrial development quality and efficiency. In 2024, the city's energy consumption per unit of industrial added value decreased by more than 8%, and the proportion of the six high-energy-consuming industries in the industrial sector above designated size decreased to 20.7%, a decrease of 5.5 percentage points compared with 2020, ranking among the top in the country; the high-tech manufacturing industry maintained a medium-to-high-speed stable growth, and the added value accounted for 32.9% of the industrial sector above designated size. Significant results have been achieved in the construction of a green manufacturing system. As of now, Zhengzhou (郑州市) has cumulatively created 64 national-level green factories, 2 green industrial parks, and 12 green supply chain management enterprises, with the largest green manufacturing system in the province.
The industrial influence continues to rise. In terms of cluster cultivation, the "Zhengzhou-Nanshang-Xu Superhard Material Cluster" centered on Zhengzhou (郑州) was selected into the 2024 National Advanced Manufacturing Cluster List; the "Gongyi City High-Precision Aluminum Manufacturing Industrial Cluster" was selected into the 2024 list of small and medium-sized enterprise characteristic industrial clusters; Zhengzhou's (郑州) intelligent sensor, automobile, and modern food and processing three major advantageous industrial clusters have entered the top 100 national industrial clusters, forming a multi-level cluster development pattern of "national-level + regional-level + characteristic-level," and the industrial agglomeration effect and radiation-driven capacity have been significantly enhanced. In addition, Zhengzhou (郑州) has continuously received a number of national-level recognitions, and has been successively approved as a national-level service-oriented manufacturing demonstration city and a national production-finance cooperation pilot city, and a number of national-level demonstration platforms have been successively launched.
Activating the "New Engine" of Modern Services and Building a New Pattern of Industry-City Integration
Based on the functional positioning of the national central city, Zhengzhou (郑州) promotes the quality and efficiency improvement and cross-border integration of modern service industries. In 2024, the proportion of the service industry in the regional GDP exceeded 60%, becoming an important engine of economic growth.
The financial industry has achieved upgrading. Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange (郑商所) ranks among the top commodity futures exchanges in the country in terms of newly listed varieties, open interest, and transaction volume. The "Zheng Hao Rong (郑好融)" platform has completed the integration of municipal-level financing credit service platforms, effectively alleviating the financing difficulties of enterprises and providing a solid financial guarantee for industrial development.
The logistics industry is accelerating its upgrading. Relying on the transportation advantages of the Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone (郑州航空港区) and railway hubs, Zhengzhou (郑州) has built a multimodal transport logistics system, and the cultivation of business entities has achieved remarkable results. Innovatively deploying new tracks for low-altitude logistics, the first batch of 3 unmanned aerial vehicle logistics distribution routes were successfully launched, attracting 5 leading companies in the industry, such as China International Marine Containers (中集集团) and Sinotrans (中外运), to sign contracts and settle down, and the efficiency of logistics services has continued to improve. With a solid industrial foundation and innovative practices, Zhengzhou (郑州) was successfully selected as the second batch of national supply chain innovation and application demonstration cities and the first batch of pilot cities in the national modern business and trade circulation system, and the radiation of the hub economy has been continuously enhanced.
New service formats are bursting with strong vitality. Zhengzhou (郑州) focuses on new consumption and new scenarios, and cultivates and strengthens a number of benchmark enterprises. Local leading enterprises are strongly leading the way, and Mixue Bingcheng's (蜜雪冰城) global stores have exceeded 53,000. At the same time, the micro-short drama industry has risen rapidly, gradually forming a new growth pole of the cultural industry with distinctive characteristics and strong momentum.
Building a "Large Platform" for Industrial Carriers and Expanding New Space for High-Quality Development
Zhengzhou (郑州) adheres to the principle of "carriers following industries and industries gathering around carriers," takes provincial-level development zones and professional parks as the starting point, continuously improves the "one county, one main chain" layout, and promotes the upgrading of industrial carriers.
The main engine role of the development zone is prominent. Zhengzhou (郑州) strengthens the positioning of the development zone as the "main battlefield, main engine," focuses on key industrial chains such as the new generation of information technology, superhard materials, and new energy vehicles, and promotes the concentrated aggregation of resource elements. In 2024, there were more than 1,700 industrial enterprises above designated size in the city's development zones, accounting for approximately 58.9% of the total number of industrial enterprises above designated size in the city; Zhengzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone (郑州经济技术开发区), Zhengzhou High-tech Industrial Development Zone (郑州高新技术开发区), and Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone (郑州航空港区) ranked among the top three in the province in the comprehensive assessment and evaluation of advanced manufacturing development zones; Zhengzhou Zhongyuan District Modern Service Industry Development Zone (郑州中原区现代服务业开发区) ranked first in the province in the comprehensive assessment and evaluation of service industry development zones. Among them, there are 2 development zones with main business income exceeding 500 billion yuan, 2 with more than 150 billion yuan, and 3 with more than 50 billion yuan. The development zone has become the main support for Zhengzhou's (郑州) high-quality industrial development.
Professional parks achieve precise empowerment. Around characteristic fields such as computing power, new materials, robots, network security, and micro-short dramas, Zhengzhou (郑州) has fully launched the construction of professional parks, and has cumulatively built 114 small and medium-sized enterprise parks, achieving full coverage of "one chain, one park," providing a concentrated development platform for upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain. At the same time, it promotes the innovative development of small and micro enterprise parks, builds an enterprise cultivation system of "incubation-growth-expansion," and helps enterprises deeply cultivate subdivided fields and achieve quality improvement and efficiency enhancement.
Strengthening the "Driving Force" of Scientific and Technological Innovation and Cultivating New Momentum for New Quality Productive Forces
Zhengzhou (郑州) always regards innovation as the main driving force for industrial upgrading, promotes the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, leads industrial transformation with digital transformation, and injects a source of vitality into the construction of a modern industrial system.
Significant results have been achieved in digital transformation. At present, the city has deployed 61,000 5G base stations, with 41 per 10,000 people, consolidating the foundation of digital infrastructure; the computing power scale has reached 16,000P, ranking firmly in the first echelon of central cities. The digital transformation of industries has been deeply promoted, and 15 5G factories and intelligent factories have been built cumulatively, setting industry transformation benchmarks. With solid transformation results, a new pattern of integrated development of Zhengzhou's (郑州) digital economy and real economy is accelerating.
Innovation platforms provide strong support. Zhengzhou (郑州) focuses on basic research and key technology breakthroughs, and encourages and guides universities, research institutions, and leading enterprises to actively apply for national-level high-energy platforms. At present, there are 5,865 innovation platforms of various types in the city, widely covering leading industries such as high-end equipment manufacturing, electronic information, and new materials, providing full-chain support for industrial innovation. In 2025, the city's future industrial scale is expected to exceed 200 billion yuan, and the cultivation of 32 future industrial sub-sectors in districts and counties (cities) is being promoted in an orderly manner. Quantum information, low-altitude economy, artificial intelligence and other emerging fields have achieved breakthroughs in many points, opening up new space for industrial transformation and upgrading.
The Yellow River (黄河) is surging, and Mount Song (嵩岳) is towering. Facing the "15th Five-Year Plan," Zhengzhou (郑州) will firmly grasp the primary task of high-quality development, accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system, promote industrial upgrading and economic development to a new level, and with stronger responsibility and more practical measures, forge ahead in the journey of building a national central city and creating an industrial highland in the central region, and consolidate the industrial foundation and contribute Zhengzhou (郑州) strength to Henan's (河南) efforts to write a new chapter in promoting Chinese-style modernization in the Central Plains.
Data source: Zhengzhou Development and Reform Commission (郑州市发展和改革委员会)
Zhengzhou Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology (郑州市工业和信息化局)
Presidential Decree of the People's Republic of China
No. 61
The "Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on Amending the 'Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China'" was adopted at the 18th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress (全国人民代表大会) on October 28, 2025, and is hereby promulgated and shall take effect on January 1, 2026.
Xi Jinping (习近平), President of the People's Republic of China
October 28, 2025
The 18th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress (全国人民代表大会) decided to make the following amendments to the "Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China":
1. One article is added as Article 3: "Cybersecurity work shall adhere to the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), implement the overall national security concept, coordinate development and security, and promote the construction of a cyber superpower."
2. Article 18 is changed to Article 19, and the second paragraph is deleted.
3. One article is added as Article 20: "The state supports basic research on artificial intelligence and the research and development of key technologies such as algorithms, promotes the construction of infrastructure such as training data resources and computing power, improves ethical norms for artificial intelligence, strengthens risk monitoring and assessment and safety supervision, and promotes the application and healthy development of artificial intelligence.
"The state supports innovative network security management methods, utilizes new technologies such as artificial intelligence, and enhances the level of network security protection."
4. Article 40 is changed to Article 42, and one paragraph is added as the second paragraph: "When network operators process personal information, they shall comply with the provisions of this Law and the 'Civil Code of the People's Republic of China' (中华人民共和国民法典), the 'Personal Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China' (中华人民共和国个人信息保护法) and other laws and administrative regulations."
5. Article 59 is changed to Article 61 and revised as: "If a network operator fails to fulfill the network security protection obligations stipulated in Articles 23 and 27 of this Law, the relevant competent department shall order it to make corrections and give a warning, and may impose a fine of not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 50,000 yuan; if it refuses to make corrections or causes consequences such as endangering network security, it shall be fined not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be fined not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan.
"If an operator of critical information infrastructure fails to fulfill the network security protection obligations stipulated in Articles 35, 36, 38, and 40 of this Law, the relevant competent department shall order it to make corrections and give a warning, and may impose a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan; if it refuses to make corrections or causes consequences such as endangering network security, it shall be fined not less than 100,000 yuan but not more than 1,000,000 yuan, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be fined not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan.
"If the aforementioned actions cause serious network security consequences such as a large amount of data leakage or the loss of partial functions of critical information infrastructure, the relevant competent department shall impose a fine of not less than 500,000 yuan but not more than 2,000,000 yuan, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be fined not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan; if it causes particularly serious network security consequences such as the loss of the main functions of critical information infrastructure, it shall be fined not less than 2,000,000 yuan but not more than 10,000,000 yuan, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be fined not less than 200,000 yuan but not more than 1,000,000 yuan."
6. Article 60 is changed to Article 62, and one paragraph is added as the second paragraph: "If the actions in items (1) and (2) of the preceding paragraph cause the consequences stipulated in paragraph (3) of Article 61 of this Law, penalties shall be imposed in accordance with the provisions of that paragraph."
7. One article is added as Article 63: "If the provisions of Article 25 of this Law are violated by selling or providing key network equipment and dedicated network security products that have not been security certified, security tested, or have failed security certification or security testing, the relevant competent department shall order the cessation of sales or provision, give a warning, and confiscate illegal gains; if there are no illegal gains or the illegal gains are less than 100,000 yuan, a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan shall also be imposed; if the illegal gains are 100,000 yuan or more, a fine of not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal gains shall also be imposed; if the circumstances are serious, the relevant business may also be ordered to be suspended, business operations may be suspended for rectification, relevant business licenses may be revoked, or business licenses may be revoked. If laws and administrative regulations stipulate otherwise, their provisions shall prevail."
8. Article 61 is changed to Article 64, and "and the relevant competent department may order the suspension of relevant business, suspension of business operations for rectification, closure of websites, revocation of relevant business licenses, or revocation of business licenses" is revised to "and may order the suspension of relevant business, suspension of business operations for rectification, closure of websites or applications, revocation of relevant business licenses, or revocation of business licenses."
9. Article 62 is changed to Article 65 and revised as: "If the provisions of Article 28 of this Law are violated by carrying out network security certification, testing, risk assessment, and other activities, or by publishing network security information such as system vulnerabilities, computer viruses, network attacks, and network intrusions to the public, the relevant competent department shall order corrections, give a warning, and may impose a fine of not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan; if corrections are refused or the circumstances are serious, a fine of not less than 100,000 yuan but not more than 1,000,000 yuan shall be imposed, and the relevant business may also be ordered to be suspended, business operations may be suspended for rectification, websites or applications may be closed, relevant business licenses may be revoked, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be fined not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan.
"If the aforementioned actions cause the consequences stipulated in paragraph (3) of Article 61 of this Law, penalties shall be imposed in accordance with the provisions of that paragraph."
10. Article 65 is changed to Article 67 and revised as: "If an operator of critical information infrastructure violates the provisions of Article 37 of this Law by using network products or services that have not undergone security review or have failed the security review, the relevant competent department shall order a time-limited correction, cessation of use, and elimination of the impact on national security, and shall impose a fine of not less than one time but not more than ten times the procurement amount, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be fined not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan."
11. Articles 68 and item (1) of Article 69 are merged as Article 69 and revised as: "If a network operator violates the provisions of Article 49 of this Law by failing to stop the transmission of information prohibited from publication or transmission by laws and administrative regulations, failing to take disposal measures such as elimination, failing to preserve relevant records, and failing to report to the relevant competent department, or violates the provisions of Article 52 of this Law by failing to stop the transmission of information prohibited from publication or transmission by laws and administrative regulations, failing to take disposal measures such as elimination, and failing to preserve relevant records in accordance with the requirements of the relevant departments, the relevant competent department shall order corrections, give a warning, and issue a notice of criticism, and may impose a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan; if corrections are refused or the circumstances are serious, a fine of not less than 500,000 yuan but not more than 2,000,000 yuan shall be imposed, and the relevant business may also be ordered to be suspended, business operations may be suspended for rectification, websites or applications may be closed, relevant business licenses may be revoked, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be fined not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan.
"If the aforementioned actions cause particularly serious impact or particularly serious consequences, the relevant competent department shall impose a fine of not less than 2,000,000 yuan but not more than 10,000,000 yuan, order the suspension of relevant business, suspension of business operations for rectification, closure of websites or applications, revocation of relevant business licenses, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be fined not less than 200,000 yuan but not more than 1,000,000 yuan.
"If an electronic information sending service provider or an application software download service provider fails to fulfill the security management obligations stipulated in paragraph (2) of Article 50 of this Law, penalties shall be imposed in accordance with the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs."
12. Articles 64, 66, and 70 are merged as Article 71 and revised as: "If any of the following actions are committed, they shall be handled and penalized in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws and administrative regulations:
"(1) Publishing or transmitting information prohibited from publication or transmission by paragraph (2) of Article 13 of this Law and other laws and administrative regulations;
"(2) Violating the provisions of paragraph (3) of Article 24 and Articles 43 to 45 of this Law, infringing upon the rights and interests of personal information;
"(3) Violating the provisions of Article 39 of this Law, an operator of critical information infrastructure stores personal information and important data overseas, or provides personal information and important data to overseas entities.
"If the provisions of Article 46 of this Law are violated by stealing or obtaining personal information by other illegal means, illegally selling or illegally providing personal information to others, and the act does not constitute a crime, the public security organs shall impose penalties in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws and administrative regulations."
13. One article is added as Article 73: "If the provisions of this Law are violated, but there are circumstances for lenient, mitigated, or no punishment as stipulated in the 'Administrative Penalty Law of the People's Republic of China' (中华人民共和国行政处罚法), lenient, mitigated, or no punishment shall be imposed in accordance with its provisions."
14. Article 75 is changed to Article 77 and revised as: "If overseas institutions, organizations, or individuals engage in activities that endanger the cybersecurity of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国), they shall be held legally liable in accordance with the law; if serious consequences are caused, the public security department of the State Council (国务院) and relevant departments may also decide to take measures such as freezing assets or other necessary sanctions against the institution, organization, or individual."
This decision shall take effect on January 1, 2026.
The "Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China" shall be amended accordingly based on this decision, and the order of the articles shall be adjusted accordingly and re-promulgated.
(Xinhua News Agency (新华社) dispatch)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Nanning on December 21st (Reporter Pang Ge Ping (庞革平)) The 2025 "National Fitness Healthy China" National County Football Championship recently kicked off in Guilin (桂林), Guangxi (广西). The event is guided by the Mass Sports Department of the State General Administration of Sport (国家体育总局群众体育司) and the Chinese Football Association (中国足球协会), and sponsored by the Chinese Football Development Foundation (中国足球发展基金会), the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Sports Bureau (广西壮族自治区体育局), and the Guilin Municipal People's Government (桂林市人民政府). After layers of selection through county-level primary competitions and provincial finals, a total of 24 winning teams from provincial county finals from Shanxi (山西), Jilin (吉林), Jiangsu (江苏) and other places, with 335 participants, are competing.
In addition to the exciting games, the event also deeply integrates football with local cultural and tourism resources, and simultaneously carries out distinctive cultural, sports, and tourism activities such as "Travel with the Games," allowing participants and spectators to appreciate the beautiful scenery of Guilin (桂林) and experience its unique culture. It is understood that the event was first held in 2021 and has been held for five consecutive sessions.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吕绍刚
According to data from the China Association of Fragrance Flavor and Cosmetic Industries, the total transaction value of China's cosmetics market in 2024 was 1073.822 billion yuan. The market size has exceeded one trillion yuan for two consecutive years. Among them, the transaction value of domestic brands accounted for 55.2%, indicating huge market potential.
The steady growth of the consumer market and the continuous expansion of development space have brought new challenges and directions to the cosmetics industry. Domestic brands, which once experienced rapid growth through traffic, are now turning to solid scientific research and real efficacy as their foundation.
"The cosmetics industry is not simply a marketing arena, but a typical multidisciplinary application industry," said Yao Zhenan, founder of domestic efficacy skincare brand HBN. He believes that domestic cosmetics need to be based on local needs, focus on independent research and development, adhere to long-term scientific research investment, and innovate key technologies. The company has formed a multidisciplinary R&D team of more than 100 people and cooperated with universities and research institutions to form an open and integrated innovation network. Currently, it has accumulated more than 200 authorized and pending patents, completed the filing of 4 self-developed efficacy new raw materials, and continues to build the brand's core technology system.
The "2024 China Skincare Consumption Trend Report" shows that consumers are becoming more rational, and leading brands in the industry are continuously increasing their R&D investment, using excellent products and differentiated brand highlights to attract public attention and meet consumers' diversified efficacy needs.
How can domestic cosmetics achieve the transformation from volume advantage to quality advantage? In addition to responding to consumer demand with high-quality innovation, it is also inseparable from the precise guidance of industrial policies and the continuous optimization of the institutional environment. In recent years, China's cosmetics industry policy system has been continuously improved, the "Cosmetics Supervision and Administration Regulations" has been fully implemented, and supporting systems such as new raw material filing and efficacy claim management have been implemented. Various regions have also actively combined with industrial realities to cultivate characteristic clusters and optimize the innovation ecosystem.
Policy support gathers synergy, scientific research institutions effectively connect, and research and application are interconnected, forming a good ecosystem that supports the vigorous development of the cosmetics industry in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东). "The high-quality development of the cosmetics industry is inseparable from scientific research support and institutional guarantees. Shenzhen (深圳) not only provides enterprises with deep innovation soil, but also provides a cutting-edge verification platform for the landing of new raw materials and new technologies," said relevant personnel from the Shenzhen (深圳) Municipal Market Supervision Administration.
Against the background of policy and industrial synergy, a group of local enterprises that focus on R&D are constantly accelerating the pace of technological achievement transformation. HBN continues to deeply cultivate the high efficiency, stability, and efficacy verification of new ingredients, accumulate solid experimental data and theoretical foundation, and expand the efficacy dimension and application boundary.
HBN was recognized as a National High-tech Enterprise in 2021, selected as a Shenzhen (深圳) Specialized, Refined, Special and New SME in 2023, and recognized as a Guangdong (广东) Efficacy Skincare Innovation Engineering Technology Research Center in 2024. At the 20th Annual Meeting of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association Dermatologist Branch and the National Cosmetic Dermatology Conference, the group standard "Guidelines for Weight of Evidence Evaluation of Cosmetic Efficacy Evidence" jointly led by HBN and the Cosmetics Technology Center of the China Academy of Quality Inspection and Quarantine was officially approved. "Domestic brands are leaping from manufacturing to 'quality manufacturing' and 'intelligent manufacturing'," said Du Zhiyun (杜志云), Chairman of the Guangdong (广东) Cosmetics Society.
Return to TopConsumption is the primary engine for driving economic growth and a crucial link in smoothing the domestic circulation. As a state-owned major bank, Bank of Communications (交通银行) deeply implements the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council. The Bank of Communications Credit Card Center (交通银行信用卡中心) takes "boosting consumption" as its focus, and takes multiple measures to carry out a series of rich and colorful activities to promote consumption and benefit people's livelihoods.
Service Downward Extension, Weaving a "Hundred Counties, Ten Thousand Stores" Benefit-the-People Network
The "Guiding Opinions on Financial Support for Boosting and Expanding Consumption" jointly issued by the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行) and six other departments emphasized the need to focus on key areas of consumption to increase financial support, innovate financial products in combination with consumption scenarios and characteristics, and continuously promote the quality and efficiency of financial services in the consumption field.
Bank of Communications Credit Card actively responds to the call of policies and launched the "Hundred Counties, Ten Thousand Stores Benefit People's Livelihood" campaign. Relying on the service network of many branches of Bank of Communications (交通银行) across the country, it accurately anchors the county market and opens up the "last mile" of financial services.
The "Hundred Counties, Ten Thousand Stores Benefit People's Livelihood" campaign covers nearly a hundred counties and tens of thousands of merchants, forming a broad network of benefiting-the-people services. The campaign accurately focuses on the financial needs of county residents' consumption, effectively extending the reach of credit cards in rural inclusive financial services, allowing high-quality financial services and products to benefit more people, and contributing to the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
Three-Level Drive, Opening Up New Channels for County Consumption
In order to further stimulate county consumption vitality, Bank of Communications Credit Card takes scenario penetration, ecological integration, and government-enterprise collaboration as its starting points, and constructs a three-level upgrade system covering basic consumption, improved consumption, and new consumption.
At the level of ensuring basic consumption, Bank of Communications Credit Card focuses on the rigid needs of county people's livelihoods and builds an inclusive service network. By integrating high-frequency consumption scenarios such as catering consumption and home services, it establishes a "payment burden reduction" special offer network, forming a consumption aggregation effect, and focusing on building a "15-minute living circle."
At the level of activating improved consumption, Bank of Communications Credit Card targets quality upgrade needs such as home appliance digital products, home furnishing and decoration, and automobile consumption, horizontally integrates policy toolkits such as government subsidies, installment interest waivers, and payment reductions, and vertically leverages the scenario adaptation advantages of credit card products, fully releasing the potential for county consumption upgrades.
At the level of cultivating new consumption, Bank of Communications Credit Card constructs a "digital + scenario" dual-dimensional empowerment system. Taking the "Mobile Payment" APP as a digital hub, relying on the brand momentum of "Most Popular Friday" and other brands, it deploys various scenarios such as online coupon purchases and local life services, combining online and offline, and expanding new consumption space.
Deeply Cultivating Counties, Smoothing the "Last Mile" of Financial Services
In Yiwu (义乌), Zhejiang (浙江), a group of local characteristic merchants carrying the genes of "intangible cultural heritage" and "time-honored brands" are gradually becoming shining regional consumption business cards.
Bank of Communications Credit Card takes "culture and tourism + consumption" as its engine, and uses the "Hundred Counties, Ten Thousand Stores Benefit People's Livelihood" campaign to inject new vitality into local merchants. Nowadays, walking into these stores, residents can not only taste authentic food and experience the charm of intangible cultural heritage at affordable prices, but also learn about financial services such as social security cards and pensions through the introduction of staff stationed in the business district during consumption. The warmth of daily life and the strength of financial services are intertwined here, realizing "people-benefiting services, within reach."
This people's livelihood practice driven by food and supported by finance is a microcosm of Bank of Communications' efforts to promote inclusive financial services to "sink down" and allow financial water to "flow in." In the practice of leveraging county consumption with "Hundred Counties, Ten Thousand Stores," Bank of Communications Credit Card precisely irrigates the county economy with financial water, stimulating new momentum for county consumption.
In the future, Bank of Communications Credit Card will continue to stimulate consumption potential through activities such as "Most Popular Friday" and "Year-End Carnival Enjoy Luxury Gifts," while continuously optimizing and improving the people-benefiting service network, and practicing the mission and responsibility of "finance for the people" with practical actions.
Data Source: Bank of Communications Credit Card Center (交通银行信用卡中心)
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Recently, a new achievement completed by Chinese and Dutch scientists in collaboration was published in the journal *Nature Chemistry*: The research team successfully synthesized a dynamic polymer with a clear inner and outer double helix structure in the laboratory for the first time. The design of this molecular structure was inspired by the unique architectural form of the Shanghai Tower (上海中心大厦). The molecule is only a few tens of nanometers in height and only 2 nanometers in diameter, which is equivalent to reducing the 632-meter-high skyscraper to about one billionth of its original size, or one eight millionth of the thickness of a human hair. Experiments have shown that the material exhibits dynamic behavior similar to that of natural proteins, which can expand and contract with temperature changes, completely unwind under specific conditions, and eventually degrade into small molecules that can be absorbed by the human body without any residual risk. This opens up a new path for the research and development of biomimetic intelligent materials.
From Architectural Wonders to Functional Materials
The research was completed by the Feringa Nobel Prize Scientists Joint Research Center of East China University of Science and Technology (华东理工大学). In 2019, the research team was inspired during a visit to the Shanghai Tower (上海中心大厦). The tower, completed in 2016, is currently the tallest building in China (中国) and the third tallest in the world, marking a milestone in the history of super-high-rise buildings with a number of innovative technologies. The research team paid particular attention to the fact that its unique inner and outer double helix appearance not only gives the building unique aerodynamic stability, but also evokes the helical structures in living systems, such as DNA and certain proteins. As a result, the research team proposed a scientific hypothesis: Can artificial polymers with similar geometric characteristics and dynamic functions be constructed in non-biological systems through chemical synthesis?
Helical polymers in organisms undertake key functions such as information storage, structural support, or catalysis, and their precise configuration is considered the physical carrier of the "code of life." However, for decades, although chemists have been able to synthesize helical polymers, they are often based on rigid skeletons that are difficult to degrade and recycle, and do not have the same dynamic functions as natural helical polymers.
This time, the research team started from the most basic small molecules and tried to connect natural and biocompatible "molecular building blocks" such as amino acids and disulfide bonds through dynamically reversible chemical bonds to construct a stable helical conformation. However, the early designed molecules relied only on weak interactions such as hydrogen bonds to maintain the helix, and the structure quickly "collapsed" once exposed to heat or environmental changes.
After repeated experiments, the research team finally found a key breakthrough: cleverly combining dynamic covalent bonds (especially reversible disulfide bonds) with a rigid amino acid skeleton, so that the helical structure has both flexibility and stability. The study found that the polymer, like a spring, can expand when heated and return to a helix after cooling; in an alkaline environment, the disulfide bonds break, and the entire structure can depolymerize into original small molecules within a controllable range, becoming common components in human metabolic pathways—amino acids and disulfide small molecules.
This achievement shows application potential in biofunctional materials. Due to its excellent mechanical flexibility, biocompatibility, and complete degradability, the material is expected to become an ideal substrate for the next generation of wearable or implantable medical devices. For example, in flexible neural interfaces, targeted drug delivery systems, or tissue engineering scaffolds, it can not only adapt to the complex mechanical environment in the body, but also be safely metabolized after completing its mission, avoiding the risk of inflammation or toxicity caused by long-term retention of traditional polymer materials.
From Nanotechnology to Molecular Factories
One of the core missions of chemical research is to build a bridge between physical laws and life phenomena. From inorganic small molecules after the Big Bang to humans who can think and create today, nature has used only 20 kinds of amino acids and 4 kinds of bases as "sequence codes" to write an evolutionary epic from "small" to "large" and from disorder to order.
In nature, "small" does not equal "simple." Take water as an example: a single water molecule consists of only one oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms, but when a large number of water molecules are arranged in an orderly manner at low temperatures through hydrogen bonds, they can form a honeycomb-like hexagonal network, which then condenses into ice crystals. It is estimated that the possible morphological combinations of snowflakes are as high as 10158—a number far exceeding the total number of atoms in the observable universe (approximately 1080). This extreme complexity emerging from simple building blocks may be the key to water's ability to become the "cradle of life."
The mystery of this "smallness" has inspired generations of scientists. Through ingenious molecular designs, they have completed many important discoveries and inventions. In 1959, physicist Richard Feynman predicted in his speech "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" that humans would be able to assemble from single atoms or molecules to construct substances with specific functions, and that operating and controlling objects on an extremely small scale would generate technologies with extremely broad application prospects—this is widely regarded as the theoretical origin of nanotechnology.
Later, with the development and maturity of modern microscopic imaging technology, humans gradually gained the ability to "see" and manipulate single atoms. In the 1980s and 1990s, French scientist Sauvage and British scientist Stoddart successively synthesized mechanically interlocked molecular structures. These molecules can perform linear shuttle movements like machines on the nanoscale, so they are called "molecular machines." In 1999, Feringa developed the first light-driven "molecular motor" (that is, a molecular machine that can rotate directionally around an axis, with a size of less than 2 nanometers), and then developed a "molecular car" that can move directionally on a metal surface. The molecular car is composed of 4 molecular motors as "wheels" and can drive straight, turn, and brake like a car. The three scientists jointly won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their pioneering contributions to the design and synthesis of molecular machines.
In recent years, the Feringa team has further embedded "molecular motors" into metal-organic frameworks to achieve light-controlled capture and release of gas molecules, which is equivalent to building miniature "molecular factories" inside solid-state materials. In the future, such systems are expected to be used for precise drug delivery or environmental pollutant removal.
From R&D Design to More Applications
The art of "making small" responds to the diverse needs of human society. The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the "discovery and synthesis of quantum dots," which is also a model of "making small." Scientists reduce the size of inorganic semiconductor particles to a range of 1-20 nanometers, so that their electron movement is limited to an extremely small space, resulting in a significant quantum confinement effect—at this time, the physical properties of the material such as light, electricity, and magnetism are no longer determined solely by the chemical composition, but are strongly dependent on the particle size. These extremely small quantum dots can precisely control their optoelectronic properties and show important application prospects in devices, catalysis, sensing, information, and other fields. Currently, display technology (OLED) based on quantum dot technology has entered the mass production stage, showing advantages such as high brightness and wide color gamut compared to traditional organic light-emitting diodes.
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to the field of metal-organic framework materials can also be considered an art of "making small." Researchers manufacture three-dimensional pore structures with specific geometric sizes through the framework assembly of metal ions and rigid rod-shaped molecules, and the pore size of these pores is only a few nanometers, so they can exhibit selective adsorption characteristics for gas molecules of specific sizes, realizing functional applications such as enrichment, storage, and separation of industrial gases. Currently, air water harvesting devices based on metal-organic framework materials have been piloted in arid regions of Africa. Each kilogram of material can capture several liters of fresh water from low-humidity air every day, providing a new solution to the water resource crisis.
In the field of information technology, molecular machines also have huge application potential. Stoddart's team demonstrated a storage device based on molecular shuttle movement in 2007, which can use molecular mechanical interlocking structures to achieve unidirectional movement at the molecular level, and control the switching of molecular states through external stimuli (such as light, heat, or electric fields), thereby achieving data reading and writing. Theoretically, this molecular machine chip can store 100GB of data per square centimeter. Although still in the conceptual stage, its prospect of breaking through the storage capacity limit of existing silicon-based chips is exciting.
In the medical field, the Feringa team is committed to developing nanorobots that can target and eliminate diseased cells in the body. In an ideal state, these 2-nanometer-sized molecular rotors (molecular machines with rotatable structures) can punch holes in the membranes of cancer cells through high-speed rotation, achieving precise killing. Currently, there are still some technical bottlenecks in the application of this technology, such as how to use near-infrared light with stronger penetration to drive the rotor, and how to improve the recognition specificity of diseased cells. Once a breakthrough is achieved, it will also be of great significance for molecular medicine research and development.
Although "making small" technology is changing with each passing day, it still faces multiple challenges in research and development and application: atomic-level imaging and manipulation equipment is expensive and has limited applicable scenarios; the dynamic complexity of the microscopic world makes precise control extremely difficult; the leap from single functional molecules to integrated systems requires long-term accumulation. But we believe that with the development of artificial intelligence-assisted molecular design, automated synthesis platforms, and new characterization technologies, the art of "making small" will inevitably accelerate the transformation to large-scale, engineered technology. In the future, these materials are expected to be deeply integrated into human daily life in the fields of sustainable energy, smart wearables, precision medicine, and environmental governance.
(The authors are professors at the School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of East China University of Science and Technology (华东理工大学化学与分子工程学院), the winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, a professor at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院外籍院士), respectively. This report was compiled from interviews with Cui Yin (崔寅), a reporter from this newspaper.)
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The synthetic polymer reported by Professor Zhang Qi's (张琦) team in *Nature Chemistry* is attracting attention because it can change in two "reversible" ways: one is that it can switch back and forth between disordered structures and helical structures; the other is that it can decompose into the small molecules that were originally used to synthesize it. This characteristic is similar to biopolymers—they also undergo such switching and decompose into the small molecules that make them up. Other scientists have previously reported similar polymers. The mechanism reported this time is more complex because both changes stem from the interaction of internal covalent and non-covalent bonds.
——Catherine Aish, Senior Editor, *Nature Chemistry*
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In recent times, the International Research Center for Planetary Sciences at Chengdu University of Technology (成都理工大学) in China, in collaboration with the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and others, published a groundbreaking achievement in the journal *Nature Geoscience*: Scientists have for the first time discovered "chemical relics" of the pre-giant impact early Earth in deep mantle material, indicating that the Earth's interior may preserve a "time capsule" from the early formation of the solar system. This new discovery not only challenges traditional geochemical theories but also provides crucial clues for unraveling the mysteries of the early formation of the solar system.
For a long time, the scientific community has generally believed that the surface of the primordial Earth, born 4.5 billion years ago, was covered with volcanoes, constantly erupting with hot magma, and the sky may have been shrouded in thick volcanic ash and toxic gases. If described in terms of color, it would be like a mixture of dark red, black, and orange-yellow, a constantly churning "magma ocean." The Earth at this stage was very barren, and because of the extremely high temperatures, substances such as water, carbon, nitrogen, and potassium were difficult to retain. Less than 100 million years after the Earth's formation, a celestial body the size of Mars collided with it, melting and mixing the Earth's interior, completely "resetting" its chemical composition, and the material of the primordial Earth should no longer exist.
So, were the Earth's "internal organs" completely melted and homogenized in that catastrophe? The research team turned its attention to special rocks representing the Earth's deep interior. They analyzed samples from more than 20 different regions around the world, including ancient rocks from Greenland, Canada, and South Africa, as well as analysis results from Hawaiian submarine volcanoes and Réunion Island volcanic rocks, which were shocking: these samples did not match the composition of the Earth's mantle or any meteorite. The samples generally showed a slight deficiency of potassium-40 isotope, which is consistent with the unique characteristics of the primordial Earth. This means that the material of the primordial Earth may have been preserved to this day, and some areas of the Earth's deep interior have miraculously not been changed by 4.5 billion years of geological activity.
High-precision analysis technology for the tiny anomalies of potassium-40 isotope is the "number one contributor" to this research. Potassium is an important volatile element on Earth and an essential nutrient for Earth's life. Potassium exists in three isotopes, among which potassium-40 has an extremely small natural abundance in potassium (only about 0.01%), and its isotopic relative abundance is very sensitive for tracking the origin of planetary constituent materials in the solar system, so measurement technology is the difficulty of the research. The research team led by Wang Da (王达), a researcher at Chengdu University of Technology (成都理工大学), adopted advanced thermal ionization mass spectrometry technology and cooperated with Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交通大学) to achieve higher stability and sensitivity measurements on domestically developed mass spectrometry instruments, and for the first time detected potassium-40 isotope differences in Earth samples, which are very small but "unequivocal."
The research team also used numerical simulations to restore the changes in potassium-40 isotope before and after the giant impact, showing the chemical element characteristics of the giant impact: before the giant impact, the primordial Earth, like other terrestrial planets in the inner solar system, was extremely deficient in volatile elements; and a volatile element-rich celestial body collided with the Earth, this event not only formed the Moon but also brought nearly half of the volatile elements to the present Earth, which may have shaped the chemical element basis of the Earth's habitable environment. In addition, in another study in 2023, the team used this technology to analyze a large number of primitive meteorite samples and discovered for the first time that these primitive meteorites had systematic potassium-40 isotope differences, clarifying that there was a spatial distribution gradient of potassium isotopes in the early solar system—the closer to the sun, the less potassium-40, and the closer to the Earth's value. This discovery supports the new view that "the Earth's volatile elements mainly come from the inner solar system closer to the sun."
Despite the breakthroughs, scientists still face many challenges. Next, the research team will try to find the same ancient signals in other element isotope systems to cross-validate this discovery. At the same time, this discovery also brings a series of new questions: How did the primordial Earth material survive the giant impact, and how did it escape 4.5 billion years of mantle convection mixing? We need to find more precise numerical simulations to restore under what impact angles and energy intensities the primordial mantle material can survive.
Studying the origin of Earth's potassium in the solar system is important for understanding how to create habitable conditions for human life. As a complex planetary body, the Earth's internal structure has a profound "memory effect." The precise measurement of potassium-40 isotope is expected to become a new key to the origin and evolution of terrestrial planets. With this new key, scientists can not only deeply explore the origin of planets and their early evolutionary history but also help seek the driving mechanisms for the formation of long-term habitable conditions on Earth.
(Author's affiliation: Chengdu University of Technology (成都理工大学))
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 褚 君
Can robots have a soft, sensitive "skin" that can sense cold and heat like humans? Recently, a research team from the University of Cambridge and University College London published a study in the journal *Science Robotics*: They developed a new type of flexible conductive robot "skin" that can simultaneously sense pressure, temperature, etc., and can even distinguish multiple points of contact, obtaining information about the surrounding environment in a manner similar to humans. David Hardman, the first author of the paper and a PhD student in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, said in an interview with this reporter: "This 'skin' is made of a single material and only requires one sensor to simultaneously identify multiple stimuli, and it can be molded into various complex shapes, which was difficult to achieve in the past."
Human skin has sensory and motor nerves distributed within it, with nerve endings and special receptors widely distributed in the epidermis, dermis, and subcutaneous tissues to sense various stimuli from inside and outside the body, producing various sensations and causing corresponding nerve reflexes. Traditional robot "skin" often relies on micro-electromechanical systems, laying a large number of micro-sensors on the surface to simulate the human nervous system. However, this type of solution has complex manufacturing processes, soft and hard materials are prone to delamination, the structure is fragile, and there is often signal interference between sensors, making it difficult to achieve large-area deployment, and the function is far from reaching the comprehensive perception level of human skin.
The important breakthrough of the British research team this time is to enable robots to identify multiple different stimuli with one sensor. This detection method, called "electrical impedance tomography," sets 32 electrodes around a single-layer hydrogel membrane, and each combination of 4 electrodes forms a measurement unit, which can generate more than 860,000 different current path combinations, forming a high-density, fully covered sensing network. For example, researchers first apply a weak current to the hydrogel "skin" through a pair of electrodes. When external conditions change, such as temperature increase, humidity change, contact with objects, etc., the electrical characteristics of the hydrogel change accordingly, which in turn causes the previously applied current to change. Another pair of electrodes monitors this change in real time. By analyzing the differences in current patterns, the system can determine what stimuli the "skin" has received.
Since the "skin" is constantly receiving multiple stimuli from the outside world, the "electrical signals" it generates are complex and diverse. In order to effectively process this information feedback, the research team introduced artificial intelligence algorithms for training, enabling the system to autonomously learn and identify which electrode combinations can most effectively distinguish specific stimuli. In short, these electrodes act as "nerves," artificial intelligence acts as the "brain," and specific electrical signals are interpreted as corresponding "sensations" after being identified by the "brain," thus giving the robot a "tactile system."
Another important innovation of this research is reflected in the flexible material it uses. This material is hydrogel, an extremely hydrophilic three-dimensional network structure gel with good electrical conductivity, softness, and plasticity, and is sensitive to mechanical force, temperature, and humidity. It can be directly shaped into complex shapes, such as a proportional adult hand model. The simulated "skin" made of hydrogel is softer and has tactile sensation, laying a material foundation for building a highly bionic and stable next-generation artificial skin system.
"This multi-modal sensing technology based on hydrogel and electrical impedance tomography is not only a new breakthrough in the field of robot perception and materials science, but also reflects a new trend of integration of computational intelligence and biomimicry," said Yu Junzhi (喻俊志), a professor at the Academy of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics at Peking University (北京大学), to this reporter. The study broke through the traditional design bottleneck of artificial skin with a layer of hydrogel, a circle of electrodes, and a set of identification systems, using data-driven methods to allow flexible materials to "learn" to identify complex information. When artificial skin can perceive the environment as finely as human skin, the boundary of human-computer interaction is being redefined.
Despite the significant achievements, this technology still faces challenges. For example, hydrogel is prone to water loss and cracking in the air, and its performance is unstable in high-temperature environments. In addition, the current system takes a long time to complete a full-area scan, which is still difficult to meet the needs of high-speed interaction. The research team said that the next step will focus on developing more stable new hydrogels or alternative materials, and optimizing algorithms to improve response speed.
"In any case, it is of great significance to manufacture 'skin' for robots," said Yu Junzhi (喻俊志). "'Touch' changes robots not only by adding a sense, but also by improving the robot's ability to interact with the external environment, helping it adapt to more complex environments. In the future, this type of artificial skin is expected to be applied to humanoid robots, medical health monitoring, smart wearable devices, smart prosthetics, industrial manufacturing, and post-disaster rescue and other fields. At the same time, this technology will also promote the further development of cutting-edge technologies such as flexible electronics, intelligent materials, and brain-like perception systems.
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency, Stockholm (Reporters Zhu Haochen (朱昊晨) and Xu Qian (徐谦)) An international study involving the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows that children who frequently use social media experience a decline in attention span over time, while no similar association was found with other screen activities such as watching television or playing computer games. The research findings have been published in the American journal "Pediatric Open Science."
A press release issued by the Karolinska Institutet (卡罗琳医学院) recently stated that over the past 15 years, with the substantial increase in the use of electronic screens and digital media, the number of diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (commonly known as "ADHD") has also increased significantly in many countries. The research team hopes to explore whether there is a correlation between different screen usage habits and related symptoms.
This study, conducted in collaboration by the Karolinska Institutet (卡罗琳医学院) and Oregon Health & Science University (俄勒冈健康与科学大学) in the United States, included 8,324 children residing in the United States, with an initial age of 9 to 10 years, and followed them for a period of 4 years. The children regularly reported the amount of time they spent using social media, watching television, and playing computer games; parents assessed their children's attention levels and hyperactive, impulsive, and other behavioral manifestations.
The study found that the amount of time children spent using social media increased significantly with age: averaging about 30 minutes per day at age 9, increasing to about 2.5 hours at age 13. The analysis showed that there was a significant association between social media use and children's attention; children who frequently use social media experience a gradual decline in attention over time. No similar association was found with watching television or playing computer games. The study did not find that children's hyperactive or impulsive behaviors increased with increased social media use.
Return to TopOn city roads, traffic lights seem to have learned to think, autonomously optimizing based on real-time traffic flow to quietly alleviate congestion. In vast fields, power grid inspection drones fly along transmission lines, efficiently completing inspections. Domestic large models built on independent technology systems are deeply integrating into the industrial fabric, helping various industries transform and upgrade. Among them, Baidu (百度) continues to consolidate its independent and intelligent foundation, committed to driving industrial leaps with large models.
Currently, the "Artificial Intelligence +" initiative is being deeply implemented, promoting the deep integration of artificial intelligence with various industries and fields of the economy and society. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal clearly states, "Deeply advance the construction of Digital China" and "Accelerate the innovation of digital intelligence technologies such as artificial intelligence."
At present, a series of large models independently developed by Chinese enterprises are increasingly becoming the intelligent foundation for serving the construction of Digital China and driving the high-quality development of the economy and society, relying on cutting-edge technological breakthroughs, a full-stack independent foundation, and extensive industrial practice. Baidu's (百度) artificial intelligence basic technology foundation, built on the ERNIE (文心) large model and PaddlePaddle (飞桨) deep learning framework, is helping various industries improve efficiency.
Gaining recognition through strength, striving to join the world's first echelon.
Currently, global artificial intelligence competition is becoming increasingly fierce. China, with its ultra-large-scale market, rich application scenarios, and rapid engineering capabilities, provides a unique and rich soil for the technological iteration and industrial implementation of large models, and has also built a globally leading advantage.
According to data from the World Artificial Intelligence Conference held in July this year, China has released 1,509 large models, accounting for 40% of the total number released globally, ranking first in the world. Based on its leading scale, advanced models launched by domestic enterprises have repeatedly achieved excellent results in international authoritative evaluations, further demonstrating the hard-core strength and iterative capabilities of China's artificial intelligence technology.
International evaluation rankings are an important yardstick for measuring the technical strength of large models. In the latest ranking of the internationally renowned artificial intelligence model evaluation platform LMArena, Baidu's (百度) ERNIE (文心) large model's text capabilities rank second globally and first domestically, with outstanding performance in creative writing, complex long-question understanding, and instruction following. Its visual understanding capabilities rank first domestically, demonstrating world-class levels.
At the same time, domestic large models represented by Baidu's (百度) ERNIE (文心) are continuously exploring and innovating in key technology dimensions, contributing to the global open-source ecosystem.
In open-source platforms that bring together global developers, the "visibility" of Chinese models has significantly increased. Baidu's (百度) ERNIE (文心) open-source thinking model ERNIE—4.5—21B—A3B—Thinking topped the global model trend list on the open-source community Hugging Face as soon as it was released. Baidu's (百度) ERNIE (文心) derivative model PaddleOCR—VL also topped Hugging Face's global model trend list within 16 hours of its release. High-quality Chinese large model architectures and technology routes are attracting widespread application by global developers, gathering global wisdom for secondary innovation.
Data from Questel, an internationally renowned patent search company, shows that Baidu (百度) ranks first globally in the number of patent applications in the fields of deep learning and large models. These quantifiable evaluations jointly confirm that Baidu's (百度) artificial intelligence technology capabilities have entered the world's first echelon. Based on this, Baidu (百度) will continue to participate in and strive to promote global artificial intelligence development.
Achieving independence and control, a full-stack technology system consolidates the development foundation.
Artificial intelligence is an important driving force for a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. The independence and controllability of its underlying capabilities directly affect the initiative in industrial development.
Building a full-stack technology system from chips, frameworks, models to applications is the key to winning market and international competition in the field of artificial intelligence. In recent years, Baidu (百度) has been committed to achieving key breakthroughs in the "system competition."
The deep learning framework is equivalent to the "operating system of the intelligent era." Baidu (百度) has made forward-looking arrangements, independently developing the PaddlePaddle (飞桨) deep learning framework, and using it as a basis to carry out large model training, forming an independent technology path from the framework to the model. As China's first industrial-grade open-source platform, PaddlePaddle (飞桨) is not only convenient to develop, efficient, and stable, but also supports ultra-large-scale large model training. This means that Baidu (百度) is not only competitive at the ERNIE (文心) large model level, but also has achieved self-sufficiency in the underlying "operating system," building a solid foundation for the independent development of artificial intelligence.
Deeply rooting requires a strong computing power foundation. Baidu (百度) independently developed the Kunlun Xin (昆仑芯) series of products, which deeply collaborate with PaddlePaddle (飞桨) and ERNIE (文心). Currently, Kunlun Xin (昆仑芯) has been iterated for three generations, providing strong computing power support for the industrialization of AI. As a result, Baidu (百度) has created a complete and controllable technology chain covering "Kunlun Xin (昆仑芯) (chip) - PaddlePaddle (飞桨) (framework) - ERNIE (文心) (model) - various industries (application)." This full-stack layout not only ensures the safety and reliability of the technology chain, but also forms a closed loop of technology iteration driven by feedback from real industrial scenarios, making large models smarter and more closely aligned with actual industrial needs, exploring a practical path for independent innovation in the artificial intelligence industry.
Taking application as the direction, large models accelerate the empowerment of real economic development.
The value of technology must ultimately be tested by application. The key to measuring the success or failure of a large model lies in whether it can "take root" in the main battlefield of the real economy and effectively transform into improved production efficiency and business model innovation.
Currently, large model technology is following paths such as "reducing costs and increasing efficiency," "process reengineering," and "model innovation" to find breakthroughs in key industries of the national economy. A number of successful cases have emerged in fields such as industrial simulation, financial services, and scientific research assistance, verifying the actual value of technology empowering industries.
In the energy field, intelligent technology is becoming an important force for ensuring the safety of critical infrastructure and improving operational efficiency. Through the deep integration of large models and industry knowledge, the operation and maintenance mode of traditional energy systems has been innovated. Baidu (百度) and State Grid (国家电网) jointly created the billion-parameter Guangming Power Large Model (光明电力大模型). Its nationwide unified AI platform has achieved large-scale application of drone autonomous inspections, inspecting more than 5 million towers annually, reducing the number of manual tower climbs by 40%, and significantly improving the safety and efficiency of power grid operation and maintenance.
In the field of high-end manufacturing, the artificial intelligence-driven research and development paradigm shift is significantly shortening product innovation cycles and improving design accuracy. New simulation methods based on the combination of large models and scientific computing provide a new path for solving complex engineering problems. Baidu (百度) and CRRC (中国中车集团) jointly built an aerodynamic simulation large model that shortens the design cycle of high-speed train shapes from several months to several minutes, promoting accelerated research and development innovation. The two parties also jointly developed a virtual sensor model, which achieves more refined equipment health management without adding hardware, and improves the accuracy of fault detection by 10% based on existing sensor detection.
In the field of urban governance, large models are transforming into "smart brains." The Haidian District (海淀区) of Beijing (北京市) receives a large number of complaints every month, involving many departments and various types. In the past, it relied on manual label statistics, with inconsistent standards, which led to difficulties in dispatching, handling, statistics, and early warning. After the system was connected to the Baidu (百度) ERNIE (文心) large model, relying on the large model's interactive capabilities, it improved the efficiency and accuracy of handling complaints, greatly improving work efficiency.
From the AI for Science research platform of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学), to the intelligent code assistant "ERNIE Code (文心快码)" serving over ten million developers, from supporting highly realistic digital humans entering e-commerce live broadcasts, to empowering financial, legal, recruitment and other service industries to improve quality and efficiency, the industrial ecosystem of Baidu's (百度) ERNIE (文心) large model is becoming increasingly prosperous.
From joining the global technology frontier, to building a full-stack independent system, and then to deeply cultivating the industrial fertile land, the growth path of Baidu's (百度) ERNIE (文心) large model is becoming increasingly clear: consolidating the foundation with technological innovation, driving implementation with scenario applications, and expanding boundaries with open collaboration.
Artificial intelligence is deeply integrating into all fields and the entire process of economic and social development. Artificial intelligence technologies represented by large models are increasingly becoming an important basic capability for building a modern industrial system and improving social governance effectiveness. Baidu (百度) will continue to consolidate its independent and intelligent foundation, help improve the industrial integration ecosystem, promote the equal emphasis on technological breakthroughs and industrial empowerment, the synergy of independent innovation and open ecology, inject strong momentum into high-quality development, and contribute wisdom and strength to global artificial intelligence innovation.
Data source: Baidu (百度)
Return to TopQianxinan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (黔西南布依族苗族自治州) is located in the southwest of Guizhou Province (贵州省). The average temperature in summer is 25 degrees Celsius, and the average temperature in winter is 15 degrees Celsius. With spring-like weather all year round, warm sunshine, unique natural resources, pleasant ecological climate, profound cultural heritage, and diverse ethnic customs.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Qianxinan Prefecture (黔西南州) took strengthening the awareness of the Chinese national community as the main line, took high-quality development as the overall situation, anchored Guizhou's (贵州) main strategy of focusing on "four new" and attacking "four modernizations" and the main positioning of "four districts and one highland," and deeply implemented the development strategies of "strengthening the prefecture through industry," "revitalizing the prefecture through culture and education," and "harmonious and stable prefecture." Relying on "a healthy and livable resort, and culturally prosperous Xingyi (兴义)," new achievements have been made in high-quality development.
Focusing on the primary task, achieving both quantitative and qualitative improvement. Qianxinan Prefecture (黔西南州) firmly grasped the primary task of high-quality development, and its economic development has achieved both quantitative and qualitative improvement, laying a solid foundation for achieving a good start in the "15th Five-Year Plan." The prefecture's gross regional product increased from 132.201 billion yuan at the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan" to 147.886 billion yuan in 2024. Infrastructure investment increased by an average of 12.3% annually, and industrial investment increased by an average of 6.4% annually. The per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents increased from 35,154 yuan and 11,441 yuan at the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan" to 43,248 yuan and 15,459 yuan in 2024, with an average annual increase of 5.3% and 7.8% respectively. The "strengthening the central urban area" action was implemented in depth, and the urbanization rate of the prefecture's permanent residents increased to 49.6%, an increase of 3.47 percentage points compared with the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan."
Deepening reform and opening up, activating strong momentum. Comprehensively deepening reform and expanding opening up, the momentum for development has continued to strengthen. The reform of the Qianxinan High-tech Zone (黔西南高新区) system and mechanism has been steadily promoted, the reforms of "three medical treatments," state-owned enterprises, housing provident funds, and finance and taxation have continued to deepen, the "four lists" work model of government services has won the "Guizhou Province Comprehensive Reform Demonstration Award," and the standardization pilot of basic public services for new citizens has been promoted as a national typical case. Polishing the "Guiren Service" brand, continuously optimizing the business environment, the number of business entities increased from 246,700 at the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan" to 322,200 in 2024. Actively integrating into the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区), the Western Land-Sea New Passage (西部陆海新通道) and other major national regional strategies, deepening international friendly city cooperation, the location advantage of "three provinces thoroughfare" has become more prominent. A total of 9 expressways have been built, with a total expressway mileage of 745 kilometers. Panxing High-speed Railway (盘兴高铁) has been opened for operation. Xingyi Wanfenglin Airport (兴义万峰林机场) has opened air routes to 26 cities including Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海), Guangzhou (广州), and Shenzhen (深圳). It is more convenient for foreign merchants and tourists to enter the prefecture, and it is more efficient for agricultural products from the mountains to be transported out.
Coordinating the three industries, building a solid pillar of development. Firmly implementing the strategy of grasping industries, grasping projects, and grasping investment promotion, the three industries are developing in coordination. The primary industry has grown steadily, promoting the development of characteristic industries such as tea, vegetables, and Job's tears, continuing to polish the "Puan Black Tea (普安红茶)" brand, and a total of 38 "vegetable basket" production bases in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) have been identified. 19 agricultural products such as "Wangmo Babu Tea (望谟八步茶)" and "Qinglong Navel Orange (晴隆脐橙)" have been included in the National Famous, Special, Excellent and New Agricultural Products Directory. The processing and conversion rate of agricultural products has increased from 49% at the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan" to 58% in 2024. The secondary industry is booming, and the output of raw coal has increased from 12.2 million tons at the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan" to 14.94 million tons in 2024. Deeply promoting the integrated development of the local power grid and the Southern Power Grid (南方电网) "two networks," the power generation has increased from 34 billion kilowatt-hours at the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan" to 44 billion kilowatt-hours in 2024. Xingren City (兴仁市) aluminum and aluminum processing industry cluster has been identified as a characteristic industrial cluster of small and medium-sized enterprises in Guizhou Province (贵州省) in 2023. In 2024 and since this year, the output value of the gold industry has exceeded 10 billion yuan for several consecutive years, and the contribution rate of industry to economic growth has increased to 41.5% in 2024. The tertiary industry has improved in quality and efficiency, and the proportion of the added value of the service industry in the region's gross product has increased from 50.4% at the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan" to 53.3% in 2024, and the service industry has become an important engine for the prefecture's economic and social development.
Promoting the integration of business formats and building a tourist destination. Focusing on the city positioning of "a healthy and livable resort, and culturally prosperous Xingyi (兴义)" and the tourism brand of "Wanfeng becomes a forest, sunny Qianxinan (黔西南)," promoting the integrated development of culture and tourism, sports and tourism, health and tourism, and bridge tourism, the average annual growth of overnight tourists in the prefecture is 14.82%. This year, the Huajiang Canyon Bridge (花江峡谷大桥), which is the world's first in both "horizontal and vertical" aspects, was completed as scheduled, becoming a super IP that attracts traffic and ignites the tourism market. Wanfenglin Scenic Area (万峰林景区) has successfully created a national 5A-level tourist attraction, Qianxinan Prefecture (黔西南州) has won the title of "World Healthy and Livable Demonstration City," and Xingyi Geopark (兴义地质公园) has been approved as a "World Geopark." The International Mountain Tourism and Outdoor Sports Conference (国际山地旅游暨户外运动大会), the China World Geopark Annual Conference (中国世界地质公园年会) and other events have been successfully held, and the Karst Mountain Outdoor Sports Destination has been selected into the first batch of high-quality outdoor sports destination construction areas. At the same time, deeply exploring the connotation of excellent traditional Chinese culture, inheriting and promoting the "Jiayou Culture (加油文化)," continuing the "Bishan Cultural Context (笔山文脉)," and promoting "Xingyi Culture and Education (兴义文教)," the cultural and educational undertakings are booming. At present, there are 48 A-level tourist attractions in the prefecture, including 1 5A-level and 15 4A-level. There are more than 480 homestays and inns in the prefecture, including 2 national Class A homestays. Within a 25-kilometer radius of the center of Xingyi City (兴义市), there are 1 5A-level and 6 4A-level tourist attractions, forming a unique pattern of the city in the scenic area and the scenic area in the city.
Firmly guarding the five bottom lines, consolidating the foundation for revitalizing the prefecture. Grasping the five bottom-line tasks of consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation, food security, ecological and environmental protection, people's livelihood and well-being, and safety and stability, creating a good environment for high-quality development. Making every effort to consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation, firmly guarding the bottom line of preventing large-scale return to poverty, Qianxinan Prefecture (黔西南州) has been given supervision and encouragement by the General Office of the State Council as a place with significant results in the follow-up support work for relocation and poverty alleviation in the country. In the past 5 years, a total of 21,100 households and 84,600 people of the three types of monitoring objects have been identified, and a total of 17,600 households and 73,000 people have been eliminated from the risk of returning to poverty. The foundation of grain and oil has been continuously consolidated, and a total of 771,500 mu of high-standard farmland has been built. The green development background is more distinct, the forest coverage rate of the prefecture reaches 63.19%, the ratio of days with excellent air quality remains above 99%, and the excellent rate of water quality in the national and provincial control sections and centralized drinking water sources at the county level and above remains at 100%. Strengthening inclusive, basic, and bottom-line people's livelihood construction, the cumulative expenditure on people's livelihood exceeds 140 billion yuan. Deeply carrying out the three-year action of safe production and the special action of "combating illegal activities and rectifying violations," the overall situation of safe production in the prefecture is stable. Comprehensively consolidating and deepening the creation achievements of the National Model Prefecture of National Unity and Progress, and has been repeatedly rated as the "National Model City of Supporting the Army."
On September 28 this year, the world's highest bridge, Huajiang Canyon Bridge (花江峡谷大桥), was opened to traffic, opening up the "artery" of regional transportation between Qianxinan Prefecture (黔西南州) and Anshun City (安顺市); on November 28, Panxing High-speed Railway (盘兴高铁) was opened to traffic, and the journey between Qianxinan Prefecture (黔西南州) and Guiyang City (贵阳市) was reduced to 2 hours. The tremendous changes in transportation are powerfully reshaping the development pattern of Qianxinan Prefecture (黔西南州). The bridge climbs over the height of the project, and the high-speed rail extends the speed of development, jointly forming the era picture of Qianxinan Prefecture (黔西南州) crossing the natural barrier and embracing development.
Moving towards the "15th Five-Year Plan," Qianxinan Prefecture (黔西南州) will continue to adhere to high-quality development as the overall situation, and strive to make new contributions to showing the new style of Guizhou (贵州), and help the Chinese-style modernization of Guizhou (贵州) practice continue to achieve new results.
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Qianxinan Prefecture Committee (中共黔西南州委宣传部)
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In recent times, the Oriental Spaceport (东方航天港) in Haiyang (海阳), Yantai (烟台), Shandong (山东) Province, has been frequently executing maritime launch missions. The Gravity-1 Y2 carrier rocket precisely sent three satellites into their designated orbits. The Jielong-3 Y6, Y7, and Y8 carrier rockets were successfully launched. The Xinghe Power "Ares 1" reusable liquid carrier rocket's first-stage power system sea trial achieved complete success...
Commercial aerospace is becoming a new track for global technological competition and industrial transformation. A deep-seated contest for future space resources and economic patterns is fully underway. Shandong (山东), an economic powerhouse known for its traditional manufacturing, is laying out its plans on this new high ground, gradually forming a commercial aerospace industry cluster with multi-location differentiated development and complementary advantages, building a complete commercial aerospace chain.
Concentrating Resources to Build Reliable Maritime Launch Infrastructure
How long does it take for a rocket to go from the production workshop to the launch site?
Only 2 hours – this is the answer given by the Oriental Spaceport (东方航天港) located in Haiyang (海阳), Yantai (烟台).
Behind the efficiency improvement is a well-considered industrial layout.
On June 5, 2019, China completed its first maritime launch in the Yellow Sea (黄海), with Haiyang Port (海阳港) serving as the guarantee mother port. Yantai City (烟台市) seized the opportunity and initiated the construction of the Oriental Spaceport (东方航天港) from then on.
"Haiyang Port (海阳港) has both natural endowments and industrial accumulation, and has the potential to achieve normalized maritime launches," said Wang Xiaoming (王肖铭), Assistant General Manager of Oriental Spaceport Group (东方航天港集团). He added that the port faces the Yellow Sea (黄海), has excellent meteorological conditions, and possesses natural launch windows, allowing for flexible selection of launch points to meet various orbital launch needs such as small inclination and sun-synchronous orbits. More importantly, Yantai's (烟台) strong marine engineering equipment manufacturing capabilities provide "close at hand" industrial support for aerospace.
In addition to its unique advantages, facing the common problems of the aerospace industry, such as long processes, insufficient launch positions, and high launch costs, the Oriental Spaceport (东方航天港) has clarified its industrial attraction strategy: concentrating resources to build reliable maritime launch infrastructure to attract leading R&D and manufacturing enterprises to settle in; targeting various supporting facilities required for rocket manufacturing, as well as downstream links such as satellite R&D and data applications, and attracting and cultivating them in a targeted manner.
"This 'point-to-surface' strategy enables the industrial chain to gradually extend from a single launch service to upstream rocket R&D and manufacturing and downstream space information services. The ultimate goal is to build a commercial aerospace industry ecosystem covering the entire chain," said Zhang Hua (张华), Deputy General Manager of Oriental Spaceport Group (东方航天港集团).
During the construction process, the maritime launch link poses the greatest challenge. "We not only have no ready-made experience to learn from, but also have to overcome the challenges of the changeable marine environment, the complexity of high-frequency launch organization, and commercial cost control," introduced Teng Yao (滕瑶), Chief Engineer of Oriental Spaceport Group (东方航天港集团). Starting from the transformation of simple launch platforms to the independent research and development of China's first specialized maritime launch engineering ship, and then to the continuous optimization of measurement and launch processes, the Oriental Spaceport (东方航天港) has achieved a leap from technical feasibility to normal and efficient through long-term technological breakthroughs.
Strolling through the Oriental Spaceport (东方航天港), a "Aerospace Avenue (航天大道)" of about 6 kilometers long runs through the east and west. It is not an ordinary road, but a "industrial hub" that closely connects the rocket assembly and testing plant, the satellite industrial park, the data application center, and the launch terminal.
"Through the intensive layout of 'front port and back factory, integrated manufacturing and launch', the rocket only needs a ten-minute drive after being born in the assembly plant to be directly transported to the exclusive terminal and smoothly moved onto the launch ship," introduced Teng Yao (滕瑶). This completely subverts the traditional model – the rocket no longer needs to undergo a long journey of thousands of kilometers, dismantling and reassembling in different places, which improves launch efficiency and reduces the risks and costs in complex processes.
Up to now, the Oriental Spaceport (东方航天港), as the first and only commercial aerospace maritime launch mother port in China, has successfully guaranteed more than 20 maritime launches, sending more than 130 satellites into space.
Private Enterprises Become an Important Force in Leveraging the Commercial Aerospace Landscape
What the Oriental Spaceport (东方航天港) is building is far more than just a launch site. Here, private enterprises represented by Oriental Space (东方空间) have become an important force in leveraging the commercial aerospace landscape.
"The flexible and safe advantages of maritime launches are highly consistent with our development path," said Bu Xiangwei (布向伟), co-founder and general manager of Oriental Space (东方空间), explaining the core reason for locating the headquarters and R&D and manufacturing base in Haiyang (海阳).
As one of the private rocket companies with the most complete maritime launch technology reserves in China, Oriental Space (东方空间) has deeply participated in the construction of the Oriental Spaceport (东方航天港). At the same time, the "front port and back factory" one-stop service provided by the port greatly compresses the physical distance of the rocket from assembly to boarding, winning valuable time windows for this private enterprise that needs rapid iteration.
The survival of private enterprises lies in differentiated innovation. At the beginning of its establishment, Oriental Space (东方空间) anchored the research and development of medium and large launch vehicles, directly addressing the pain points of insufficient carrying capacity in the commercial aerospace market. In January 2024, "Gravity-1 (引力一号)" successfully made its maiden flight at the Oriental Spaceport (东方航天港), setting a record for the world's largest solid launch vehicle with a carrying capacity of 6.5 tons in near-Earth orbit; the second launch was also successful, proving the reliability of its capabilities.
Innovation is not easy, behind which are countless days and nights of overcoming difficulties. When developing the "Gravity-1 (引力一号)" rocket, overcoming the "bundling" technology was the key. Its boosters and core stage need to withstand a concentrated force of up to 200 tons and ensure safe separation under complex aerodynamic interference. "When bundling, it must be bundled firmly, and when they need to untie it in an instant, it needs to be done in one go without error," Bu Xiangwei (布向伟) recalled. The team started from scratch and finally overcame this "hard bone" through self-designed repeatable test schemes.
The second launch mission required even higher requirements, requiring the satellite to be sent into a sun-synchronous orbit. In order to avoid rocket debris falling on land, the technical team innovatively designed a sophisticated "trajectory": after the rocket lifted off, it turned sharply to adjust its course, like a "phoenix wagging its tail," demonstrating autonomous control and orbital planning capabilities while avoiding risks.
Cost control is a key link for enterprises to build core competitiveness. "Gravity-1 (引力一号)" builds rockets like building blocks through modular and standardized design, reducing the launch cost of 500-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit to less than 50,000 yuan per kilogram. Bu Xiangwei (布向伟) admitted that the most difficult cost control link is at the source of design, "**一旦状态确定** (yī dàn zhuàng tài què dìng - "once the state is determined," once the design is finalized), there is very little room for subsequent changes." The team comprehensively considered materials, processes, and even introduced the forging concept of the automotive industry at the beginning of the design, saving at least half a year for the production cycle.
In the ecosystem of the Oriental Spaceport (东方航天港), Oriental Space (东方空间) is not fighting alone. It has formed close collaboration with state-owned enterprises and supporting enterprises such as Shandong Maritime Commercial Aerospace Launch Service Co., Ltd. (山东海上商业航天发射服务有限公司), which is responsible for launch support, and Shandong Aerospace (山东宇航), which provides structural parts. "The supporting facilities at the 'doorstep' solved the urgent needs at critical moments. This deeply integrated industrial chain relationship reduces collaboration costs and forms a virtuous circle of accelerated innovation," said Bu Xiangwei (布向伟).
The innovative practice of Oriental Space (东方空间) is a microcosm of the vitality of the industrial ecosystem of the Oriental Spaceport (东方航天港). At present, the park has attracted 30 aerospace industry projects, including Shandong Long March Rocket (山东长征火箭) and Galactic Energy (星河动力), with a total investment of more than 32 billion yuan. A commercial aerospace industry cluster driven by maritime launches, covering rocket manufacturing, satellite applications, and high-end supporting facilities, is accelerating its rise here, demonstrating Shandong's (山东) strong resilience and potential in competing for the new track of commercial aerospace.
Taking Maritime Launch as the Traction, Forming a Cluster Pattern of Differentiated Development and Complementary Advantages
Stepping into the assembly workshop of the Jinan Satellite AIT Industrial Base (济南卫星AIT产业基地), a large AGV (Automated Guided Vehicle) is carrying satellite components, sliding to the side of a giant six-axis robotic arm; the engineer lightly places the components properly, and the robotic arm is like a steady "space embroiderer," precisely docking the components to the interface of the satellite cabin panel.
This is Shandong Province's (山东省) first flexible and intelligent satellite manufacturing production line, with an annual production scale of up to 100 500-kilogram satellites. The company that built this production line is Jigang Group (济钢集团), which completely shut down its steel main business eight years ago.
"Jigang's (济钢) profound industrial manufacturing foundation is the most solid 'old foundation' for turning to the commercial aerospace track," said Sun Guangting (孙广庭), member of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of Shandong Jigang Aerospace Industry Development Co., Ltd. (山东济钢空天产业发展有限公司). Facing the shortage of core talents necessary for satellite manufacturing, the provincial and municipal governments coordinated support, and the government's space information industry special class and Jigang Group (济钢集团) worked together to attract experts through special policies, laying a solid foundation for the rapid advancement of the project.
Jigang's (济钢) transformation is a concentrated embodiment of Shandong Province's (山东省) coordinated layout of commercial aerospace strategy. Previously, Shandong (山东) listed deep sea and space as one of the 19 landmark industrial chains, promoted the construction of key industrial chains at a high level, and issued the "Several Measures of Shandong Province to Accelerate the High-Quality Development of Commercial Aerospace Industry" (山东省加快推动商业航天产业高质量发展的若干措施). On the basis of consolidating the maritime launch advantages of the Oriental Spaceport (东方航天港), it strengthened the commercial aerospace industrial chain, developed around rocket satellite R&D and manufacturing, data development and application, and other aerospace-related supporting fields, and provided support in technological innovation, talent attraction, enterprise cultivation, and industrial agglomeration.
At present, with maritime launch as the core traction, Shandong Province (山东省) has initially formed a cluster pattern of differentiated development and complementary advantages: Yantai (烟台) focuses on maritime launch, rocket manufacturing, etc., and has formed a commercial aerospace full industrial chain development pattern of "**天上有星、陆上有箭、海上有船、空中有网** (tiān shàng yǒu xīng, lù shàng yǒu jiàn, hǎi shàng yǒu chuán, kōng zhōng yǒu wǎng - "stars in the sky, rockets on land, ships at sea, and networks in the air," a comprehensive aerospace industrial ecosystem); Jinan (济南) and Tai'an (泰安) mainly focus on liquid rocket manufacturing, testing, and satellite R&D and application, and a large number of high-quality aerospace industry projects have been landed and put into production; Qingdao (青岛) focuses on measurement and control services and marine remote sensing applications, and has formed a complete measurement and control capability covering national major projects and commercial constellation operations.
By 2027, Shandong Province (山东省) will strive to create a number of domestically leading technologies and products, initially form a relatively complete commercial aerospace industrial chain, have the ability to produce 100 launch vehicles and 150 commercial satellites annually, and the scale of the commercial aerospace industry will reach 50 billion yuan.
Looking forward, challenges remain. Bu Xiangwei (布向伟) believes that China's commercial aerospace is still in the initial stage of development. In the long run, the development ceiling of the entire industry ultimately depends on whether satellites can achieve larger-scale and wider applications. "Only when the data and information generated by satellites can truly empower thousands of industries and create universal value, will every link in the commercial aerospace industrial chain be based on real social needs and obtain continuous acceleration momentum," said Bu Xiangwei (布向伟).
This test is also the direction that Shandong's (山东) industrial layout has already anchored. "Relying on the Beidou Navigation System (北斗导航系统), combined with remote sensing and communication satellites to build a sky-earth-sea integrated perception system covering the entire province, enrich and expand application scenarios, vigorously develop new formats and new models, and promote in-depth integration and development with transportation and logistics, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, and other fields. Strive to fully integrate into the national aerospace industry development layout by 2035 and become one of the strong provinces in aerospace manufacturing," said the relevant person in charge of the Shandong Provincial Development and Reform Commission (山东省发展改革委).
This blueprint means that the development of Shandong's (山东) commercial aerospace industry is not only about rockets taking off, but also about allowing aerospace technology to take root on the ground and serve the national economy and people's livelihood.
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"The path to fusion" is not only a path of scientific exploration but also a common endeavor for humanity to pursue clean energy.
In January 2026, the "Atomic Energy Law of the People's Republic of China" will come into effect, clarifying that the state encourages and supports scientific research and technological development of controlled thermonuclear fusion, and stipulating relevant safety supervision and management measures. This will both prevent risks and stimulate vitality, using the power of the system to define boundaries and provide guarantees for fusion energy research and innovation.
Not long ago, the "Burning Plasma" international scientific program project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) was officially launched, opening up multiple fusion energy experimental devices and platforms to the world, aiming to focus on igniting the "artificial sun" and jointly explore the future of using fusion energy to illuminate human clean energy.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal puts forward that "promoting quantum technology, biomanufacturing, hydrogen energy and nuclear fusion energy, brain-computer interfaces, embodied intelligence, and sixth-generation mobile communications to become new economic growth points." In today's world, the role of clean energy is gradually shifting from supplementary to primary. From wind, solar, hydro, and storage to hydrogen and nuclear energy, the clean energy landscape is constantly expanding, and fusion energy is the most revolutionary part of it. Compared with fission energy, fusion energy has high energy density, abundant raw material resources, low radioactive pollution, and inherent safety. Compared with other clean energy sources, fusion energy is almost unrestricted by geography and climate, and can achieve continuous operation and stable output, making it one of the important development directions of future clean energy.
As early as when scientists revealed that the sun's energy comes from the fusion of hydrogen nuclei, there was a forward-looking question - can we "tame" this energy on Earth? In the 1950s, humans built tokamak devices and proposed the concept of stellarators. In 1955, Chinese scientists proposed to carry out research on "controlled thermonuclear reactions." Today, the world's largest fusion research project, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), is steadily advancing under the cooperation of various countries, and humanity's exploration of eternal clean energy has never stopped.
The difficulty of fusion lies in "lighting up the sun," and even more in "stable burning." It is necessary to heat deuterium-tritium plasma to temperatures far exceeding the core temperature of the sun, and also to confine the difficult-to-tame high-temperature plasma, so that it continuously undergoes sustained fusion. The difficulties go far beyond fusion itself. Taking magnetic confinement fusion as an example, fusion reactors also need to find structural materials that can withstand ultra-high temperatures and strong neutron radiation in order to develop reliable superconducting magnets and cryogenic systems. It can be said that fusion energy research integrates problems in many fields such as plasma physics, nuclear engineering, and materials science, and is one of the most complex energy technologies to date.
The more we climb the peak of science, the more strategic patience we must have. In the 1980s, China established a "three-step" development strategy for nuclear energy and continued to promote fusion research. China Circulator No. 1, Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) (东方超环), and China Circulator No. 3 (中国环流三号), known as the new generation of "artificial sun," have been successively built, breaking through the "double 100 million degree" ion and electron temperature, marking that China's exploration of fusion energy is moving from basic research to engineering practice in an orderly manner.
Scientific and technological progress is a global and epochal issue, and only openness and cooperation is the right path. Fusion energy research requires large investment and a long cycle, and no country can complete it independently. "The path to fusion" is not only a path of scientific exploration but also a common endeavor for humanity to pursue clean energy.
In recent years, China has actively participated in international large-scale scientific projects. The vacuum chamber module component of the ITER core installation section led by China has been successfully hoisted into place. The ITER magnet support system, blanket shielding module, magnet feeder system, and magnet cold test Dewar (MCTB) developed by China have been delivered on schedule. It has established partnerships with more than 140 nuclear fusion research institutions in more than 50 countries around the world. The China Atomic Energy Authority (国家原子能机构) recently jointly hosted the 2nd Ministerial Meeting of the World Fusion Energy Group and the 30th International Atomic Energy Agency Fusion Energy Conference, and released the "Chengdu Declaration" to promote the construction of a new paradigm of international cooperation in fusion energy of "innovation sharing + peaceful utilization + inclusive development." China is demonstrating Chinese strength and responsibility in promoting energy transformation and building a community with a shared future for mankind.
The dream of the "artificial sun" is becoming a reality. From "chasing light" to "creating light," from "human questions" to "Chinese answers," the exploration process of fusion energy has witnessed the path of scientific and technological innovation of Chinese-style modernization, and also reflects the common belief of mankind towards a sustainable development future.
(Author's unit: China Atomic Energy Authority (国家原子能机构))
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With industry as its foundation, Tongxiang (桐乡) in Zhejiang (浙江) Province ranks among the top 100 counties in China in terms of overall strength. In recent years, there have been encouraging changes here – the "new" content of economic development has been continuously improved. As of 2024, Tongxiang (桐乡) has 746 high-tech enterprises, an increase of more than 80% in the past 4 years; R&D intensity has climbed to 3.52%, maintaining a relatively high growth rate.
Tongxiang (桐乡) does not have a concentration of top universities, nor is it a traditional innovation hub. How has science and technology become an important increment in Tongxiang (桐乡)?
Basing itself on the "inside" and innovating with "external brains" can create a virtuous interaction with the local area and further consolidate the industrial foundation.
With the roar of machines, in the workshop of Zhejiang Zhongze Precision Technology Co., Ltd. (浙江中泽精密科技股份有限公司), square encapsulation tops are coming off the machine tools, ready to be packaged and sent to customers.
Zhongze Technology (中泽科技) is in the fiercely competitive new energy structural parts industry, where products are updated quickly. Whoever can respond to market demand efficiently and with high quality is likely to gain the upper hand.
"To meet the challenges, we no longer fight alone. The material research and development capabilities of the Wuzhen Laboratory (乌镇实验室) complement the company's application development," said Zhou Qing (周晴), administrative manager of Zhongze Technology (中泽科技). For example, when the company designed a product last year, the sample performance was always difficult to meet customer requirements. Finally, in conjunction with the Wuzhen Laboratory (乌镇实验室), the company actively carried out sample failure analysis and process improvement research, and overcame the technical difficulties in 40 days.
In 2021, Tongxiang City (桐乡市) introduced the School of Materials Science and Engineering of Tsinghua University (清华大学材料学院), the Zhejiang Tsinghua University Yangtze River Delta Research Institute (浙江清华长三角研究院), and other institutions to establish the Wuzhen Laboratory (乌镇实验室). According to the relevant person in charge of the Tongxiang Science and Technology Bureau (桐乡市科技局), Tongxiang (桐乡) has a scale advantage in the new materials industry, but its cutting-edge innovation capabilities are relatively weak. The construction of the Wuzhen Laboratory (乌镇实验室) is intended to borrow "external brains" to inject vitality into industrial development.
Not only the Wuzhen Laboratory (乌镇实验室), but also a science and technology innovation corridor is gradually taking shape along Tongxiang Wuzhen Avenue (桐乡乌镇大道). On both sides of the avenue, there are 10 new R&D institutions for university-local cooperation established by Tongxiang (桐乡) in conjunction with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), Tsinghua University (清华大学), the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (电子科技大学), etc., to help Tongxiang's (桐乡) industry move towards the high end.
The development of enterprises requires innovation to expand the breadth of the market; and steady and long-term development depends on the support of the depth of innovation.
In the exhibition hall of Zhenshi Holding Group's (振石股份) New Material Industrial Park, a photovoltaic composite frame is particularly eye-catching. "This is our world's first product. Compared with the mainstream aluminum alloy photovoltaic frame, it is stronger, lighter, and more corrosion-resistant, and can be used for a long time in marine, desert and other environments," said Liu Jinhua (刘金花), director of the R&D Center of Zhenshi Holding Group (振石股份).
As a leader in the wind power materials industry, Zhenshi's (振石) materials are used in 1 out of every 3 wind turbine blades in the world. However, Zhenshi (振石) is not satisfied with this and has turned its attention to other industries, opening up new markets through innovation. Today, Zhenshi's (振石) business scope covers wind power, solar photovoltaics, new energy vehicles, building materials and home furnishings, and other fields.
Putting in "slow effort" in specialization and refinement to achieve "fast" leapfrog development, such examples can be seen everywhere in Tongxiang (桐乡).
Huayou Cobalt (华友钴业) has developed from cobalt mine development to the entire industrial chain of lithium battery materials; Xinfengming (新凤鸣) has focused on chemical fibers for more than 20 years, and its short fiber production has jumped to the first place in the country... In Tongxiang (桐乡), companies that deeply cultivate core technologies can always find new growth space.
"No disturbance without incident, response must be given when there is demand," the effective market is better combined with the promising government.
In Tongxiang (桐乡), the government's attitude towards enterprises is very clear: what should be "reduced" should be reduced to the end – not dominating specific projects, not disturbing enterprise operations, and letting enterprises feel at ease to enter the market; what should be "increased" should be increased in place – if enterprises have needs, they must respond.
This year, a company focusing on innovation in Internet of Things technology has developed rapidly, and R&D requires funding. In the past, industrial investment funds focused on output value and fixed investment. However, this company focuses on R&D and has light assets, which cannot meet the investment conditions. After understanding the actual difficulties, the Tongxiang (桐乡) government's industrial investment fund separately listed R&D-type enterprises, and supported innovative projects to take root locally by modifying the rules.
In response to the needs of enterprises to solve key technical problems, this year Tongxiang (桐乡) selected a group of high-level scientific and technological talents from universities and research institutes to serve as deputy general managers of science and technology in enterprises. By undertaking technical research tasks and building bridges for cooperation between universities and research institutes and enterprises, they promoted the rapid implementation and transformation of scientific research results.
With Fenghuang Lake (凤凰湖) as the center, an area of approximately 16 square kilometers is an important development space for Tongxiang (桐乡). Today, a science and technology city is rising on the shore of Fenghuang Lake (凤凰湖). According to the relevant person in charge of the Tongxiang Science and Technology Bureau (桐乡市科技局): "We want to create a closely collaborative R&D community and create an innovation highland for the future development of Tongxiang (桐乡)."
Return to TopWith the continuous advancement of science and technology, intelligent robots are widely used in the inspection field of substation equipment. Utilizing visual recognition technology and equipped with thermal imaging cameras, intelligent robots can autonomously identify potential overheating hazards in equipment and promptly understand the operational status of substation equipment.
The picture shows an intelligent robot inspecting key equipment at the 220 kV Anqiu Substation (安丘变电站) in Weifang (潍坊), Shandong (山东) recently.
Photo by Ji Xuecong (冀学琮).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王 观 洪秋婷 王崟欣
Duty-free shops are about to "launch new products" again——
Not long ago, the "Notice on Improving Duty-Free Shop Policies to Support Boosting Consumption" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice") issued by the Ministry of Finance (财政部) and other departments was officially implemented. It details measures from supporting the sale of domestic goods in stores, expanding the categories of goods sold in duty-free shops, relaxing the approval authority for duty-free shops, and improving the convenience and supervision measures of duty-free shops, to further increase the attractiveness of duty-free shops to inbound and outbound tourists for shopping and consumption.
From mobile phones, micro-drones, sporting goods, and health foods to time-honored brand products, cultural and creative products, and intangible cultural heritage products, more easily portable consumer goods have been included in the business scope, and more high-quality products that reflect the excellent traditional Chinese culture will enter duty-free shops.
More than a month since the implementation of the new policy, what are the highlights in various places? Duty-free shops are leading a new trend in consumption. What else is worth looking forward to? The reporter recently conducted interviews.
Duty-free goods can be bought in the city, and "online reservation + offline pick-up" is more convenient.
"You don't have to rush to the airport a few hours in advance to snap up goods. You can leisurely pick and choose carefully in the city, and the things are also very cost-effective. This experience is very good." In August of this year, Guangzhou's (广州) first downtown duty-free shop officially opened, attracting many consumers. Because it is located in Guangzhou Friendship Store (Guojin Store) (广州友谊商店（国金店）), the core area of the Tianhe District (天河区) CBD, it has a superior geographical location and was very crowded and lively as soon as it opened.
Compared with the port departure duty-free shops located at the airport, downtown duty-free shops are more convenient in terms of location. Last year, the Ministry of Finance (财政部) and other departments issued the "Notice on Improving the Policy of Downtown Duty-Free Shops," focusing on promoting the healthy and orderly development of downtown duty-free shops. Since the beginning of this year, the first downtown duty-free shops in many places have been competing to open.
In September, Chengdu's (成都) first downtown duty-free shop opened, introducing both international top brands and integrating local characteristics such as Sichuan wine (川酒), Sanxingdui (三星堆) cultural and creative products, and Panda Guochao (熊猫国潮); in November, Xi'an's (西安) downtown duty-free shop met with consumers, marking a new breakthrough in the duty-free consumption scene in Xi'an (西安) and even the Northwest region; also in November, Tianjin's (天津) first downtown duty-free shop officially started operation, adopting the business model of "duty-free + taxable," "imported + domestic," and "offline + online," and is equipped with offshore tax refund services...
Vigorously developing downtown duty-free shops can not only effectively improve the convenience of tourists' shopping, but also become a "signature dish" to boost urban tourism, attract more tourists, and then drive the development of related industries.
Focusing on continuously improving the duty-free shopping experience for passengers, the "Notice" puts forward a number of pragmatic measures. For example, it supports port departure duty-free shops, port arrival duty-free shops, and downtown duty-free shops to provide online reservation services, and allows passengers to pick up goods at port arrival duty-free shops after making reservations at downtown duty-free shops.
"Allowing duty-free shops to provide convenient services such as 'online reservation + offline pick-up' is in line with the current consumer's online shopping habits, continuously improves shopping convenience, and also helps to further boost passenger consumption," said Li Xuhong (李旭红), vice president of Beijing National Accounting Institute (北京国家会计学院).
The person in charge of the operation of the Guangzhou (广州) downtown duty-free shop said that the policy mentions online reservation and other services, which meet the actual needs of consumers. In particular, through online mini-programs, consumers can reserve and purchase goods and pick them up at the airport when leaving the country, which can provide them with great convenience. At present, the company is preparing an online reservation system, striving to further improve the consumer shopping experience after it goes online.
According to reports, in order to improve the convenience of transportation for passengers to come to shop, Guangzhou (广州) has joined hands with Pony.ai (小马智行) to open an autonomous driving Guojin (国金) special line, and is cooperating with Hong Kong China Travel Service (香港环岛中港通) to trial operation of the Sui-Hong Kong (穗港) direct bus, which will gradually realize 20 round-trip trips to Hong Kong Airport every day. At the same time, the downtown duty-free shop is carrying out linkage with cultural and tourism departments, travel agencies, and star-rated hotels, accurately incorporating the downtown duty-free shop into diversified inbound tourism and high-end customized tourism and other themed tourism routes, connecting the entire scene of "eating, living, traveling, shopping, and entertainment," and providing consumers with a new service of "tourism + cross-border transportation + duty-free shopping."
The categories of goods have been further increased, and more high-quality domestic products and international best-selling products are on the shelves.
In the recent "Double 11" promotion, China Duty Free Group's (中免集团) Dalian (大连) downtown duty-free shop achieved good results. The store not only sells international brands, but also has a wide variety of local cultural and creative products, specialties, and famous and high-quality products from all over the country, becoming a platform to showcase Guochao (国潮) characteristic commodities and traditional culture to the world. "The 'imported + domestic' product combination allows inbound tourists to purchase characteristic souvenirs more conveniently, and also makes domestic outbound tourists happy to bring high-quality domestic products to the world," said the person in charge of the duty-free shop.
In the Guochao (国潮) Culture Museum in the Guangzhou (广州) downtown duty-free shop, a tourist from Russia bought a box of "Bing Dwen Dwen" (冰墩墩) Guochao (国潮) doll gift box. A salesman in the Guochao (国潮) selection area admitted that in recent years, more and more overseas tourists like to buy products with Chinese characteristics.
A major highlight of this "upgrade" of the duty-free shop policy is to support the sale of domestic goods in duty-free shops. The "Notice" proposes to encourage enterprises with duty-free commodity business qualifications and foreign-invested enterprises approved by the State Council to participate in duty-free shop operations to increase the procurement of high-quality and characteristic domestic commodities; relevant enterprises purchase domestic commodities and enter port departure duty-free shops and downtown duty-free shops for sale, which is regarded as export, and value-added tax and consumption tax are refunded (exempted); the operating area of port departure duty-free shops and downtown duty-free shops for selling domestic products shall in principle be no less than 1/4 of their operating area.
"Introducing time-honored brand products, cultural and creative products, intangible cultural heritage products and other high-quality products that can reflect the excellent traditional Chinese culture into duty-free shops is conducive to promoting Chinese traditional culture, and is also conducive to further boosting consumption, especially guiding the return of overseas consumption, attracting overseas tourists to enter the country for consumption, and promoting the healthy and orderly development of duty-free commodity retail business," said Li Xuhong (李旭红).
"In recent years, our star products such as the Natural Hall Little Purple Bottle series and the Arctic Holy Water have been favored by more and more overseas tourists. The state has introduced a number of policies to guide domestic beauty products into duty-free channels, which is conducive to us to open up a broader market, directly drive sales growth, and encourage us to strive to convey Chinese beauty technology and cultural value to the world and promote the brand to the international market," said Chen Juanling (陈娟玲), general manager of public affairs of Natural Hall Group (自然堂集团). Natural Hall (自然堂) is actively entering duty-free shops, and is currently selling in duty-free shops in Shanghai (上海), Hainan (海南), Guangzhou (广州), Shenzhen (深圳) and other places, constantly catering to market demand and expanding the influence of domestic brands.
The relevant person in charge of the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce (广州市商务局) said that at present, the local government is actively recommending Guangxiu (广绣), nuclear carving, olive carving and other Lingnan (岭南) intangible cultural heritage derivatives and licensed commodities of the 15th National Games to enter downtown duty-free shops, deeply integrating local cultural symbols, major sports events and duty-free consumption scenarios; at the same time, it assists downtown duty-free shops to introduce century-old Chinese time-honored brands such as Chen Liji (陈李济), Zhimeizhai (致美斋), and Li Zhanji (李占记), and supports domestic brands to enhance market recognition and international competitiveness.
Encourage adapting to local conditions, enrich the consumer experience, and integrate "duty-free +" into more local characteristics.
At 10 am, the joint inspection hall of the China-Kazakhstan Horgos International Border Cooperation Center (中哈霍尔果斯国际边境合作中心) was already a bustling scene. All 30 manual channels and 18 express channels are open, with an average daily inspection of more than 28,000 people, and the highest single-day passenger flow can reach 44,000. In the cooperation center, goods from various countries are dazzling, including characteristic handicrafts, fashionable clothing, as well as high-quality food and intelligent products, attracting visitors. The unique attraction of "national gate + duty-free" makes it a new landmark for tourism in Xinjiang (新疆).
"Chinese socks and gloves are of good quality, new styles, and cheap prices. My customers like to order these." Kazakh merchant Gulinar (古丽娜尔) shared her feelings with a smile while packing her goods, "In addition, the customs clearance is convenient and the policies are good, I can replenish goods at any time, and the business is getting better and better."
In order to support the development of the cooperation center, the Xinjiang (新疆) tax department has specially set up a cross-border tax service post and formed a "multilingual" tax volunteer service team to provide enterprises and merchants with professional and timely guidance and answers on common issues such as cross-border tax policy convergence, application of tax agreements, and tax risk prevention, helping cross-border trade to be unimpeded.
Policy dividends continue to be released, and the service mechanism is constantly improved, which promotes the further enhancement of the vitality of merchants' operations. "Imported goods such as Russian chocolate, Vietnamese coffee, and Australian lanolin are very popular, and the store's turnover has increased significantly compared to before," said Zhang Ling (张玲), the person in charge of a duty-free shop in the cooperation center.
"Duty-free +" leads a new trend in consumption. Recently, the 2025 CDF Annual Grand Ceremony officially kicked off. Until January 4, 2026, more than 30 stores and 3 online e-commerce platforms under China Duty Free Group's (中免集团) Hainan (海南) offshore duty-free shops, airport duty-free shops, and downtown duty-free shops will jointly open this year's "Crazy Shopping Season." The annual grand ceremony will hold parade performances and themed performances such as the Happy Colorful Clown Parade, the Modern Dance Party, and the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fashion Flash Mob Show. Through the dual-wheel drive of "duty-free + cultural tourism," and with full-channel resource integration and immersive performance scenes, it will create a dual value of shopping empowerment experience and experience promotion consumption for consumers. While creating a high-quality consumption experience, it will fully release the effects of the new duty-free policy and tap market potential.
Relaxing the approval authority for duty-free shops and supporting local governments to integrate and optimize the layout of duty-free shops according to local conditions is also a major highlight of this policy adjustment. The "Notice" clarifies that the approval authority for the establishment of port departure duty-free shops and the change of the determination method of the operating entities of port departure duty-free shops and port arrival duty-free shops will be delegated to the relevant provincial departments where the port is located for approval. The current operating area of port departure duty-free shops has also been adjusted to be determined by the bidder or the port owner and the operating entity through negotiation, and the operating entity can flexibly adjust the operating area of the duty-free shop according to actual operating conditions.
"The introduction of relevant policies will improve the efficiency of duty-free shop establishment and operating entity determination, and realize the optimization of the layout according to local conditions, which is conducive to more regions laying out duty-free business formats based on passenger flow, tourism resources, and other conditions," Li Xuhong (李旭红) believes that for consumers, the distribution of duty-free shops is more scientific and convenient, the coverage is wider, and the accessibility of shopping will also be significantly improved. Local governments pay attention to highlighting regional cultural advantages in the layout, which can provide consumers with more local-characteristic shopping scenes and experiences, which is conducive to further enriching consumption supply and improving service quality.
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It is necessary to continue to focus on "precision," innovating local advantageous and distinctive agricultural product insurance according to local conditions.
Yan'an (延安), Shaanxi (陕西) has more than 80 years of apple planting history. The apple industry has become the most extensive, most employed, and most effective rural characteristic industry in driving agricultural development in the local area. When interviewing in Wuqi County (吴起县) and other places, many fruit farmers said that they have "new" insurance for planting apples this year, which makes them feel more confident.
The "new" insurance mentioned by farmers is the apple flowering period weather index insurance piloted in Wuqi (吴起) and Luochuan (洛川) counties this year, which has added risk protection to more than 20,000 mu of orchards. What are the benefits of this insurance? Farmers say that if the apple flowering period coincides with the "cold snap," if the flowers are frozen, not only will there be a poor harvest that year, but if the maintenance is not timely, it will also be affected in the coming year. Traditional apple insurance mostly measures production and settles claims in the harvest season, while the "new" insurance settles claims in a timely manner based on the minimum temperature during the flowering period, so that farmers can use the money to take remedial measures as soon as possible. Not only that, the capital and labor costs of index insurance survey and loss assessment are also greatly reduced, so insurance companies can increase investment to help fruit farmers prevent disasters and reduce losses, and protect seedlings and increase production with more certainty.
Anchoring the needs and pain points of fruit farmers, insurance innovation is targeted, and continues to expand coverage and improve quality. The full cost insurance and planting income insurance policies for the three major grain crops have been fully implemented, and various regions continue to promote the expansion of insured areas; innovate characteristic insurance according to local conditions, and some local characteristic agricultural products have been included in the protection network; protect production and protect prices, and innovative tools such as "insurance + futures" make farmers' income more predictable. In recent years, a series of new agricultural insurance policies and new services have been strengthened and become more effective, effectively improving farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain and farming, and helping to ensure food security. Data shows that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, agricultural insurance provided risk protection for 800 million households of farmers; in 2024, agricultural insurance claims expenditure was 123.743 billion yuan.
Food security is a matter of national importance (国之大者 - guó zhī dà zhě - "the most important thing for the country," refers to issues of paramount importance to the nation's well-being and security). Ensuring agricultural production and increasing farmers' income, the functional value of agricultural insurance is becoming increasingly prominent. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal proposes to "improve the diversified investment pattern of fiscal priority protection, financial key tilt, and active social participation to ensure the continuous increase of investment in rural revitalization. Protect and mobilize farmers' enthusiasm for farming and growing grain, and strengthen policy support and coordination such as prices, subsidies, and insurance." How to further weave a dense and solid "protection network" of agricultural insurance and continuously improve service effectiveness has become a "must-answer question" to accelerate agricultural and rural modernization and solidly promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
Whether agricultural insurance claims are timely and whether they can accurately compensate for actual losses is related to the sense of gain of insured farmers, and it is also an important yardstick for evaluating the level of agricultural insurance services. Promoting the refined and scientific development of agricultural insurance and realizing accurate insurance and claims settlement is of self-evident importance. In recent years, many local governments and insurance institutions have effectively improved the quality and efficiency of agricultural insurance underwriting and claims payment by increasing the application of technology and strengthening departmental collaboration and data sharing. In the future, agricultural insurance services should continue to focus on "precision" and continue to explore new technologies such as artificial intelligence to empower all aspects of agricultural insurance services. At the same time, relevant departments should accelerate the establishment and improvement of a basic agricultural insurance information data sharing mechanism, consolidate the foundation for accurate insurance and claims settlement, and promote the avoidance of average compensation, agreement compensation, and rough loss assessment.
Whether characteristic products can be insured and whether services are implemented in the hearts of farmers are important contents to measure the level of agricultural insurance inclusiveness. Apple flowering period weather index insurance is precisely a combination of local characteristic industries and better meets production needs, and is welcomed by farmers. In recent years, such stories have been constantly staged in various places: on the snowy plateau, yaks have "accident insurance"; in marine pastures, the greater the wind and waves, the more compensation fishermen receive... Innovating local advantageous and characteristic agricultural product insurance according to local conditions has become an important experience in promoting the expansion of agricultural insurance services and improving quality. In the next step, the insurance industry should also conduct in-depth research on the needs of various agricultural business entities, develop and promote customized property insurance, liability insurance and other products, better enhance the risk prevention capabilities of agricultural and rural production and operation, technological innovation, etc., and help the development of rural industries.
It is worth mentioning that when extreme weather and serious disasters occur, agriculture is often the area that suffers the most damage, and the insurance industry bears greater claims pressure. In this regard, the agricultural insurance disaster risk diversification mechanism supported by finance should be further improved, the disaster prevention, pricing, and underwriting capabilities of agricultural insurance should be continuously improved, the ability to respond to major disaster risks should be enhanced, and the economic shock absorber and social stabilizer functions of the insurance industry should be better played.
Return to TopThe Beijing Stock Exchange-listed companies have raised over 60 billion yuan in total.
According to the Beijing Stock Exchange (北京证券交易所) recently, since its opening four years ago, the Beijing Stock Exchange has had 286 listed companies, raising more than 60 billion yuan in total, with an average of about 200 million yuan per company. Among them, small and medium-sized enterprises account for nearly 80%, and national-level specialized, refined, and new "little giant" enterprises account for more than half. At the same time, the Beijing Stock Exchange guides listed companies to actively reward investors. Since its opening, more than 90% of listed companies have distributed a total of 20.179 billion yuan in dividends, and the dividend amount of 16 companies has exceeded the total amount of funds raised from their initial public offerings.
Lu Songbin (鲁颂宾), Chairman of the Beijing Stock Exchange (北京证券交易所), said that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the Beijing Stock Exchange should better play its role in supporting technological innovation, improve the adaptability and accuracy of the listing review system, continuously improve the merger and acquisition restructuring system tools, guide financial resources to gather in key core technology fields, support the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, and better serve the development of new quality productive forces.
(Zhao Zhanhui (赵展慧))
ICBC pilots the launch of Mastercard multi-currency debit cards
Recently, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (工商银行) (ICBC) and Mastercard jointly piloted the launch of the first set of Mastercard "10+1" multi-currency debit cards in China, integrating Renminbi and 10 major foreign currency accounts including US dollars, Euros, Canadian dollars, Australian dollars, New Zealand dollars, and British pounds. It supports cardholders to independently select the corresponding foreign currency account for settlement in cross-border transactions, effectively helping cardholders reduce the dynamic currency conversion fees and multiple exchange rate conversion costs commonly found in traditional cross-border payments. ICBC will continue to deepen cooperation with Mastercard, relying on its advantages in payment business and customer operations, focusing on bank card operations, consumption promotion, payment innovation and other fields, continuously enrich the multi-currency payment product matrix, and expand more high-value scenario applications.
(Ge Mengchao (葛孟超))
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"Taking advantage of the 'tail end' of the starch factory's production season, we're hauling all the potatoes we harvested to sell. In recent years, we've switched to planting varieties with high starch content, selling them to the starch factory for over 100 yuan per 100 kilograms, which is a good price." In Chengguan Town, Horinger County (和林格尔县), Hohhot (呼和浩特市), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区), farmer Bao Guangquan (包广全) is working energetically. Some time ago, many local farmers used small trucks to haul their harvested potatoes, dumping bag after bag into the storage pool.
Gao Rui (高瑞), General Manager of Inner Mongolia Huaou Starch Industry Co., Ltd. (内蒙古华欧淀粉工业股份有限公司), said that the company has been deeply involved in the field of potato starch for many years. With the quality of its products, it continues to expand its market, effectively driving agricultural production and increasing farmers' income. Inner Mongolia Rural Commercial Bank (内蒙古农商银行) accurately matches the needs of enterprises, helping the company's development to run at an "accelerated speed."
"There is a clear change this year, which is the increase in the loan amount," Gao Rui (高瑞) said, the company's demand for working capital to purchase potatoes is large, and loan support is indispensable, "Inner Mongolia Rural Commercial Bank (内蒙古农商银行) has increased the company's credit line to 60 million yuan, which better guarantees the company's capital turnover."
In May of this year, Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) smoothly completed the absorption and merger of 121 rural cooperative institutions and rural banks established within the region, and Inner Mongolia Rural Commercial Bank (内蒙古农商银行) was officially opened. The Inner Mongolia Financial Regulatory Bureau (内蒙古金融监管局) issued a series of regulatory arrangements to promote Inner Mongolia Rural Commercial Bank (内蒙古农商银行) to enhance its ability to serve small and micro business entities.
"In the past, some local rural credit institutions had small asset sizes and insufficient risk prevention and control capabilities. After the reform, relying on asset strength and institutional advantages, we can solve the problems of weak service capabilities, mismatched products, and inability to operate across counties of a single institution in the past, and better meet the capital needs of small and medium-sized enterprises, large ranches, etc., and help the development of local characteristic industries," said the relevant person in charge of the Inner Mongolia Financial Regulatory Bureau (内蒙古金融监管局).
After the reform, the bank's product innovation capabilities have been further improved. "Inner Mongolia Rural Commercial Bank (内蒙古农商银行) has launched a new path for patent pledge supplementary guarantee, and patents have become a 'golden key' for financing," Gao Rui (高瑞) said. Through this innovative model, the Horinger Branch (和林格尔支行) of Inner Mongolia Rural Commercial Bank (内蒙古农商银行) has granted the company a credit of 5 million yuan, specifically for the research and development of potato deep processing technology.
According to reports, after the establishment of Inner Mongolia Rural Commercial Bank (内蒙古农商银行), not only has the product innovation capability been enhanced, but also a large amount of manpower has been freed up to invest in front-line work and strengthen the efforts to visit and connect with enterprises. The bank has visited more than 1 million small and micro business entities. As of the end of August, the bank's outstanding agricultural loans were 220.9 billion yuan, and the outstanding loans to small and micro enterprises were 186.1 billion yuan.
The Hohhot Central Branch (呼和浩特中心支行) of Inner Mongolia Rural Commercial Bank (内蒙古农商银行) flexibly adjusts the loan disbursement and repayment rhythm of Inner Mongolia Zhengshi Ecological Agriculture (Group) Co., Ltd. (内蒙古正时生态农业（集团）有限公司) according to the seasonal cycle of the forage industry; at the key stage of Inner Mongolia Snow New Material Technology Co., Ltd. (内蒙古斯诺新材料科技有限公司) investing in research and development and expanding production capacity, the Xincheng District Branch (新城区支行) of Hohhot (呼和浩特) took the initiative to connect and handle a lightly guaranteed "technology loan" of 30 million yuan for it... One enterprise after another has obtained more suitable financial services, which is an epitome of the success of the reform and risk resolution of small and medium-sized financial institutions.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, financial regulatory authorities have made steadily dealing with the risks of small and medium-sized financial institutions a top priority, and accelerated the reform and risk resolution of small and medium-sized financial institutions with "one policy per province" and "one policy per bank." Some regions have established provincial rural commercial joint banks to uniformly manage rural credit institutions within their jurisdictions; other regions have adopted the form of unified legal persons at the city level to achieve regional resource integration.
"The reform model that adapts to local conditions takes into account the differences in economic development levels in various places, and also combines the characteristics of the governance structure of institutions in various places to ensure that the reform is accurate, effective, and smooth," said Zeng Gang (曾刚), director and chief expert of the Shanghai Institute for Finance and Development (上海金融与发展实验室).
Return to TopAccelerating the construction of an important strategic fulcrum for the rise of the central region is the significant responsibility entrusted to Hubei Province (湖北省). Postal Savings Bank of China Hubei Branch (中国邮政储蓄银行湖北省分行) (hereinafter referred to as "PSBC Hubei Branch") comprehensively implements the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, follows the work requirements of the head office, bases itself on serving "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" (三农), urban and rural residents, and small and medium-sized enterprises, unswervingly follows the path of financial development with Chinese characteristics, and deeply cultivates the regional economic development of Hubei.
PSBC Hubei Branch focuses on the "five major articles" of science and technology finance, green finance, inclusive finance, pension finance, and digital finance, and fully serves Hubei's goal of "building a fulcrum, taking the lead, and writing a new chapter." As of the end of November 2025, the scale of various loans of PSBC Hubei Branch reached 325.5 billion yuan, injecting strong financial impetus into accelerating the construction of a financial powerhouse and promoting the rise of the central region.
Optimizing Resource Allocation to Improve the Quality and Efficiency of Serving the Real Economy
Escorting the full life cycle growth of technology-based enterprises. PSBC Hubei Branch deepens science and technology financial services, establishes science and technology finance divisions in Wuhan (武汉) and Xiangyang (襄阳), deploys 5 science and technology finance characteristic outlets, and builds a professional service system. It has deeply connected with 103 key science and technology parks in the province, signed 72 strategic agreements, and held more than 568 bank-enterprise connection activities. It has launched the "Easy Enterprise Operation" one-stop service system and developed five major product lines: "U Yichuang" integration, investment, communication, wealth, and wisdom, to provide comprehensive financial services for technology-based enterprises throughout their life cycle. As of the end of November 2025, it has served more than 6,500 technology-based enterprise customers, with a financing balance of 24.9 billion yuan, continuously empowering the development of new quality productive forces.
Comprehensively Promoting the Construction of a Green Bank. PSBC Hubei Branch integrates the concept of green development into all aspects and the entire process of its operations, and continues to increase credit support for energy conservation, environmental protection, and clean energy. It has innovatively developed green financial products and successfully issued the first carbon emission rights pledge loan, small enterprise pollutant discharge rights pledge loan, and energy conservation and emission reduction sustainable development-linked loan within the PSBC system. It actively uses the "E Green Pass" platform to implement differentiated credit granting strategies. As of the end of November 2025, the balance of green loans was nearly 45 billion yuan, a net increase of more than 7.7 billion yuan since the beginning of the year, with a growth rate of 21%, significantly higher than the average growth rate of various loans of the entire bank.
Using Manufacturing and Industrial Chain Financial Services to Help New Industrialization. PSBC Hubei Branch closely focuses on the construction of Hubei's "51020" modern industrial clusters and actively supports the upgrading of traditional industries and the development of strategic emerging industries. It deeply cultivates industrial chain and supply chain finance, provides chain-type comprehensive services around key industries, and effectively guarantees the smooth operation and transformation and upgrading of the industrial chain.
Leveraging its inherent advantages to promote coordinated regional development. PSBC Hubei Branch resolutely serves the implementation of major regional strategies, actively guides financial resources to key areas, key industries, and major projects in Hubei Province, fully supports the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the rise of the central region, and provides solid financial support for Hubei to accelerate the construction of an important strategic fulcrum for the rise of the central region.
Deeply Cultivating the Fertile Soil of "Agriculture, Rural Areas, and Farmers" to Promote the Development of Inclusive Finance in Depth
Improving the Specialized Agricultural Service System. PSBC Hubei Branch places serving the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas in a prominent position and strives to be the main force in serving the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. By implementing the "Five Ones" project, it systematically improves service efficiency. It innovatively promotes the "Two Agriculture" credit value loan model and explores "support interest rate + growth interest rate" pricing. As of the end of November 2025, the balance of agricultural-related loans continued to grow, and the outstanding loans for serving new agricultural business entities exceeded 8 billion yuan.
Deeply Promoting the Development of Rural Characteristic Industries. PSBC Hubei Branch, in accordance with the idea of "one industry, one plan," innovatively developed more than 50 exclusive credit products such as "Industry Loan" and "Landmark Loan," and formulated exclusive service plans around local characteristic industries such as grain, aquatic products, crayfish, and citrus. As the chain leader unit of Hubei Province's high-quality rice industry chain finance, it has built a major project financing docking mechanism and cumulatively issued more than 80 billion yuan in loans in key agricultural fields. It vigorously promotes the construction of the "county-level three-level platform," has built 81 county-level platforms, 51 "100 million yuan towns," and 477 "10 million yuan villages."
Deepening the Construction of a Long-Term Mechanism for Inclusive Finance. PSBC Hubei Branch is committed to building a benchmark bank for inclusive finance. In the past three years, it has provided an average of more than 80 billion yuan in loans to small and medium-sized enterprises each year, with an average annual growth rate of more than 20%. It has carried out the "Thousands of Enterprises and Tens of Thousands of Households Visit" activity in depth, and this year has cumulatively granted credit of 40.6 billion yuan to 32,000 small and micro enterprises. It vigorously promotes non-principal renewal loans to effectively reduce the financing costs of small and micro enterprises. It innovatively launched and applied the "Easy Enterprise Operation" one-stop enterprise service system to empower the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises. It comprehensively promotes the expansion and increase of inclusive finance. As of the end of November 2025, the balance of inclusive small and micro enterprise loans exceeded 71.3 billion yuan, and 3,357 new first-time loan customers were added this year.
Practicing Finance for the People and Serving a Better Life with Multiple Measures
The Pension Financial Service System Continues to Deepen. PSBC Hubei Branch actively builds a comprehensive pension financial system covering pension reserves, industrial support, and elderly-friendly services. It vigorously promotes the "U Enjoy the Future" personal pension service, with nearly 450,000 deposit accounts. It supports the development of the pension industry and provides credit to multiple key pension projects. Offline, it continues to promote the elderly-friendly transformation of outlets, has built 4 head office-level "Jinhui" characteristic outlets and 15 provincial-level outlets, with a 100% equipment rate of loving facilities in the outlets, and is committed to building a warm-hearted bank for the elderly.
Focusing on Meeting Residents' Bulk and Diversified Consumption Needs. PSBC Hubei Branch actively responds to consumption promotion policies, established a special fiscal interest subsidy team, and as of the end of November 2025, has issued more than 12.2 billion yuan in consumer loans. It builds a preferential business circle ecosystem covering counties and townships, establishes 15,000 credit card special merchants, and creates 71 active consumption scenarios in cities and counties, effectively stimulating urban and rural consumption vitality.
Helping Urban and Rural Residents Achieve Their Dream of Living in Peace. PSBC Hubei Branch actively implements national real estate-related policies, focuses on supporting residents' rigid and improved housing needs, maintains the stable and healthy development of the real estate market, and provides financial assistance for people to live and work in peace. As of the end of November 2025, the mortgage market share increased by more than 8 percentage points compared with the beginning of the year.
Accelerating Digital and Intelligent Transformation to Innovatively Reshape the Financial Service Paradigm
Building an Efficient, Intelligent, and Convenient Service System. PSBC Hubei Branch empowers its business with technology and is fully committed to building a digital ecological bank. It actively implements the work deployment of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government, completes and launches the Hubei Province Knowledge Value Credit Loan and Commercial Value Credit Loan systems, and has cumulatively issued nearly 9 billion yuan in credit loans to 1,680 knowledge value-rated customers. It optimizes the construction of intelligent outlet ecology, replacing 450,000 authorized transactions and 300,000 dual-person handled transactions through "cloud counters."
Digital Intelligence Empowers Customer Experience and Scenario Integration. PSBC Hubei Branch achieves precise customer reach through electronic service maps and innovatively develops systems such as smart parking lots and housing fund supervision, effectively embedding financial services into diverse scenarios such as people's livelihood and commerce. It continues to explore the deep integration of intelligent technology and financial business, and is committed to providing customers with a more intelligent, convenient, and secure financial service experience.
PSBC Hubei Branch will grasp the direction of high-quality development, give full play to its own resource endowments and network advantages, improve its capabilities, strengthen management, and seek innovation, fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept, further consolidate its foundation, forge ahead, and make new contributions and create new achievements for Hubei to achieve a good start in the "15th Five-Year Plan" and accelerate the construction of an important strategic fulcrum for the rise of the central region.
Data source: Postal Savings Bank of China Hubei Branch
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We can only clearly see the "zigzag" shape of the Yellow River on a map. The "zigzag" roughly starts from Lanzhou (兰州), Gansu, and ends at Fenglingdu (风陵渡), where Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan provinces meet. If the "zigzag" were written more completely, the left "vertical stroke" could extend to Liujiaxia (刘家峡) and Longyangxia (龙羊峡) in Gansu. And the right "bend and hook" should "stroke" to Sanmenxia (三门峡) and Xiaolangdi (小浪底) in Henan, or even further. The Yellow River suddenly turns north from Lanzhou, then twists eastward at Shizuishan (石嘴山), Ningxia. This "horizontal stroke" flows through Bayannur (巴彦淖尔), Baotou (包头), and Hohhot (呼和浩特) in Inner Mongolia, then turns south at Laoniuwan (老牛湾) on the border of Inner Mongolia and Shanxi, until it finishes the Jinshan Grand Canyon, and then "picks" eastward like the "bozhe" stroke in official script.
I have traveled and inspected the inner and outer circles of this "zigzag" multiple times. The outer circle includes the Helan Mountains (贺兰山), Yin Mountains (阴山), and Lüliang Mountains (吕梁山), which forcibly shape the river course into a "zigzag". The inner circle includes most of the Loess Plateau and the Ordos Plateau. I first became interested in the "zigzag" bend because of the "Walking West" series of folk songs. Later, movies and TV dramas repeatedly mentioned this concept, so I always wanted to see it. In Chinese history, there have been many important population migration events, among which "Going to Southeast Asia (下南洋)", "Venturing into Northeast China (闯关东)", and "Walking West (走西口)" are the most well-known. Making a living and finding a way out are the fundamental motivations. Speaking of "Walking West," it was a "maneuvering" towards fertile land with trade and business opportunities. If it weren't for seeking survival opportunities, who would be willing to leave their hometown? Especially when transportation was underdeveloped, one departure could mean eternal farewell. "The people's pursuit of profit is like water flowing downwards," this is only natural. The most important principle of human survival is to find a more suitable place to live.
"Brother, you are walking west, little sister, I really can't keep you, holding my brother's hand, I send you to the gate..." Whenever this kind of sound rings out, no matter how the words change, whether the tune is closer to northern Shaanxi or Shanxi, the heartbreak is the same. That kind of reluctance, helplessness, seems to see a kind of beautiful emotion of the earth-shattering. The brother may be walking with a donkey, passing the gullies and ridges that will never be seen again, and then there will be no trace for three or five years or even a lifetime. What a sentimental and painful story! And this story has been staged for more than 400 years as a "TV series", with many characters, some even migrating as a household, a clan, a village, or a town, from the middle of the Ming Dynasty to the early Republic of China, the curtain slowly fell. Many "scripts" are still the deep folk memory that affects the three provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Hebei. They went out from Fugukou (府谷口) in Shaanxi, Shahu Pass (杀虎口) in Shanxi, and Dushikou (独石口) in Hebei. The destination is in the Hetao area south of the Yin Mountains, also scattered like stars in the depths of Bayannur, Baotou, Hohhot, and Ordos. I have been to these places several times and talked to people, and many people can clearly say where they came from and which generation of their ancestors walked west. And this area is exactly above, below, left, and right of the long "horizontal stroke" of the Yellow River's "zigzag" bend.
That "horizontal stroke" stretches out for more than 800 kilometers, and I have traveled back and forth above and below the "horizontal stroke" several times. This "horizontal stroke" is where the Yellow River's water势 is very vast. As the mother river, it nourishes two major plains here, one is the Hetao Plain (前套平原), and the other is the Houtao Plain (后套平原). And the "vertical stroke" at the beginning also nourishes a Xitao Plain (西套平原). These three major plains make the Yellow River's "zigzag" bend a rich granary, and also a vast commercial road leading to foreign lands. All of this constitutes the "story core driving force" of the "Walking West" "TV series". In the era of agricultural civilization that relied on the heavens for food, the flow of population from dense areas to sparse areas was a natural law of survival. Of course, there was also the "tacit approval" and "guidance" of the imperial court. Because the Yin Mountains have been a military stronghold since ancient times, and the garrisoning of troops and reclamation of land were also important factors for the government to consider migration.
Facing the Yin Mountains, which suddenly blocked the northward trend of the Yellow River, seemingly endless historical stories came rushing in like soldiers and horses. The heroic spirit of "If only General Li Guang were here, the barbarian horses would never dare to invade the Yin Mountains (但使龙城飞将在，不教胡马度阴山)" is still the most magnificent historical echo on this land. The story of humanistic communication and exchange of "Zhaojun's Departure from the塞 (昭君出塞)" also merged into the bleak and mighty long wind in this vast land with the sound of the horse-head fiddle and Khoomei. And the "Yuefu sound" of "Under the Helan Mountains (敕勒川，阴山下)... The sky is vast, the field is boundless, the wind blows the grass low to see cattle and sheep (天苍苍，野茫茫，风吹草低见牛羊)" is even more in the form of a three-dimensional symphony, adding to the ancient epic chant of this magical land. Looking at the ancient rock paintings that have been passed down to this day on the Yin Mountains, it seems like watching a historical documentary replay. And on the Helan Mountains, which hold the first "stroke" of the "zigzag", tens of thousands of vast group pictures and "negatives" of farming, hunting, sacrifice, and conquest since the Neolithic Age are also "sunned out" like "water basin development". Where there is a great river, there is the radioactive continuation of human civilization. The Yellow River civilization at the top of this "zigzag" bend is like sprinkling a plate of pearls in the air, leaving behind the magnificent life landscape of the Chinese nation's long-term lingering evolution here.
In the "new green" of the Ulan Buh Desert (乌兰布和沙漠) edge of Bayannur, and the nearly disappeared Kubuqi Desert (库布其沙漠) and Mu Us Sandy Land (毛乌素沙地) inside and outside the Hetao, I saw a new orientation and new texture of life, that is, the conscious maintenance of ecology. I drove along the "horizontal stroke" of the "zigzag" and rushed left and right. This "world outside the pass (口外世界)" that "the sky is like a dome (天似穹庐)" has become a new oasis with lush trees. Especially that "pearl outside the Great Wall" Ulansuhai (乌梁素海), which means "Red Willow Lake" in Mongolian. I stayed there for a night and found that the starry sky was reflected from the bottom of the lake. And Ulansuhai is a rare multi-functional lake in arid desert areas. Being on the lake will even give you the illusion of entering the ocean. It is the largest natural wetland at the same latitude on Earth. After several treatments, it has opened a new model of blue like a gem and lush aquatic plants. It not only regulates the Yellow River's water volume, but also purifies the Yellow River's water quality with the function of "Yellow River's kidney".
We finally came to the right turn of the "zigzag" - Laoniuwan (老牛湾). The topography here really looks like a buffalo plowing the field, and also like an old cow's "sudden look back" after going into the water, and there are various legends of "divine cow opening the river". In addition to the unique shaping of the earth by the Yellow River, there is also the unparalleled spectacle of the Great Wall and the Yellow River "shaking hands" here. They both guard Chinese civilization, but they only met here, and then went their separate ways. The Yellow River turns sharply downwards from here, which is the "horizontal fold" of the "zigzag". Nature's calligraphy is more vigorous and powerful than any calligrapher. It is after encountering the resistance of the Lüliang Mountains that it "pauses and presses", "folds and goes straight down", and with the deepness of the "vertical center", pulls out a Jinshan Grand Canyon from the Loess Plateau.
This stroke of writing is really powerful. It is also the thickness of the accumulation of loess for thousands of years that gives the "brush tip" a place to use its strength, going down very decisively and richly, forming the "serpentine landform" in geology, shaping the most rugged, strong, and majestic canyon of the Yellow River. The Loess Plateau is inexhaustible. The thousands of feet of thick soil are mostly the product of long-term wind and water blowing and carrying. The wind and sand even come from the vast deserts of Central Asia and Mongolia. After hundreds of millions of years of accumulation and weathering, it is then swept down by the prehistoric power of "the Yellow River's water coming from the sky", and this vigorous "brush power" deeply cuts the plateau into a hundred-meter-deep trough. The dragon is roaring and tearing the water at the bottom of the valley. On the cliffs on both sides of the riverbed, the endless "heavenly books" of "dragon and snake cursive script" are left like a forest of steles. The "cough yo, row yo" rowing, pulling boats, and hauling cables in the "Yellow River Boatman's Song" are awe and confrontation with the strange, dangerous, and turbulent natural forces, and also the most vivid and emotional co-shaping of human survival "participating with heaven and earth (与天地参)". Until it "cuts down" to the Guankou (壶口) pass, the "calligrapher" is completely "unable to reach the pen power", so he pours all the ink pool where he has ink and the calligraphers since Wang Xizhi and his son washed their brushes into the deep bottom of the Guankou with a "rumbling" sound. "The Yellow River in the world is collected in one pot (天下黄河一壶收)", what is collected is not only the rolling river water, but also the thick ink and heavy color of the unyielding life of the Chinese nation that has been splashed down along the source of the Yellow River. It is also from here that the Yellow River's temperament becomes gentle and resilient, but the color is a dignified old yellow, and in the sunlight, it sometimes flashes with thousands of golden scales.
"The Yellow River in the world has ninety-nine bends (天下黄河九十九道弯)", all the places where sharp bends change course are where real force majeure is encountered. But the omnipotence of "water tending downwards" always allows the Yellow River to find new ways to rush back and forth. The "writing" of a great river that stretches for more than 5,000 kilometers is "lightly entering the pen" and crystal clear when it "starts" on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. As it continuously absorbs and accommodates along the way, allowing thousands of large and small rivers to join the rushing and converge into the Yellow River's huge waves, a shallow line "entering the pen" in blue gradually has a chaotic and profound atmosphere. Especially after entering the Loess Plateau, it is already full of mud and sand. The "zigzag" is written to Fenglingdu (风陵渡), the triangular hub area of Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan, it is basically completed its "shape". But looking at the overall map of the Yellow River Basin, we will find that this is a larger "zigzag" shape. The inner "zigzag" is about 2,000 kilometers, while the entire "zigzag" reaches 5,464 kilometers. Roughly in the middle section, about 1,300 years ago, Wang Zhihuan (王之涣) one day lifted his clothes and climbed a place called the Stork Tower (鹳雀楼) and sighed: "The white sun leans on the mountain and exhausts, the Yellow River flows into the sea. If you want to see a thousand miles, go up another floor (白日依山尽，黄河入海流。欲穷千里目，更上一层楼)." I think he not only wanted to see the magnificent scene of the Yellow River flowing into the sea, but also wanted to look at the clear stream originating from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau through the height of "going up another floor".
Return to TopBy: 房 伟
The relationship between literature and one's hometown is often talked about with great interest. We can find a large number of writers who "write about their hometowns." As a writer's spiritual origin and starting point for growth, the hometown has an unparalleled priority of experience and emotional focus. Wang Zengqi's Gaoyou (汪曾祺的高邮), Shen Congwen's Xiangxi (沈从文的湘西), and Lu Xun's Shaoxing (鲁迅的绍兴) have all become unique literary landmarks. The prosperity of Chinese rural literature is related to the homesickness of literary youths living in cities.
However, not all writers take "hometown" as the main body of literature or the subject of creation. "Hometown" is the memory-based arousal of aesthetic experience, while "other places" are the impact of aesthetic alienation. Even "other places" are more important than "hometown" in the writer's creation. The Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen was born in the small town of Skien, Norway, and worked as a medical apprentice until he was in his 20s before going to Oslo. Ibsen was not happy in his hometown, and he openly criticized the conservative and dull life of his hometown. His writings rarely feature the background of his hometown.
"Paying attention to one's hometown" seems to win a moral advantage for writers, while "other places" in the writer's pen, no matter how brilliant, will be considered merely a "choice of material." In fact, "hometown landscapes" involve emotional memories, and "other places' scenery" can also express emotions. The key lies in whether the "literary geography" and the writer can sign a spiritual contract, and which landscape the writer's values, temperament, and aesthetic preferences are more "spiritually compatible" with. A foreigner may be incompatible with the local area for life, for example, Shen Congwen (沈从文) lived in Beijing (北京) for many years, but always dreamed of Xiangxi (湘西). But it is also possible to "make another place one's hometown," such as Yuan Hongdao (袁宏道), a talented scholar from Hubei (湖北) in the Ming Dynasty, who lingered in Shigong Mountain (石公山) on Taihu Lake (太湖) in Suzhou (苏州), and liked it so much that he called himself "Shigongshan Ren (石公山人)." He wrote many poems and articles about Taihu Lake, and also wrote the masterpiece of flower arrangement art, "Ping Shi (瓶史)." This situation is also common in the history of modern and contemporary Chinese literature. Liu E's "The Travels of Lao Can (老残游记)" vividly depicts the customs of Jinan (济南), but he was from Dantu (丹徒), Jiangsu (江苏); Mao Dun (茅盾) of Wuzhen (乌镇), Zhejiang (浙江), wrote "Poplar Trees (白杨礼赞)," which has a northern temperament; Lao She (老舍), who wrote "Winter in Jinan (济南的冬天)," was from Beijing (北京). Closer to home, in the Suzhou (苏州) literary world, Lu Wenfu (陆文夫) is known as "Lu Suzhou (陆苏州)," and is the spokesperson for the Suzhou-flavored "alley literature," but he is actually from Taixing (泰兴), Jiangsu (江苏).
"Suzhou (苏州)," this other place, is also of great significance to me. I dare not compare myself with literary masters, but in addition to teaching, I also like to write. I am from Shandong (山东), and grew up in Binzhou (滨州市) in the Yellow River Delta (黄河三角洲). My parents both worked in the Shengli Oilfield (胜利油田). The cultural factors of the North Shandong Plain and the state-owned petroleum enterprise are integrated into my blood. However, I became a "novelist" after I came to Suzhou (苏州). In the year I was 38 years old, Suzhou University (苏州大学) introduced me, and I was quite uneasy at the time. Before that, I had never been to Suzhou, and my understanding of Suzhou was limited to a few place names such as "Tiger Hill (虎丘)" and "Humble Administrator's Garden (拙政园)." Teachers and friends at Suzhou University told me that it would be good for you, a northerner, to "go south (向)." With this sentence, I came to Suzhou. The light and delicate diet, the mild climate, the elegant dialect, the lingering Kunqu Opera (昆曲) and Pingtan (评弹), together with the pleasant customs and customs, all deeply moved me. In Shandong (山东), I mainly focused on academic research, but the aesthetic experience of Suzhou (苏州) and the gentle literary context of Jiangsu (江苏) activated my creative inspiration. In the past six or seven years, I have published several novels and collections of short stories. A large part of my creative material comes from Suzhou. The year before last, in order to write the novel "All Things Grow in Taihu Lake (太湖万物生)," I lived on Xishan Island (西山岛) in Taihu Lake (太湖) for half a year, traveled to dozens of small villages, and interviewed hundreds of people. The abundant products of Taihu Lake and the villagers' peaceful, natural, open, and inclusive hearts are constantly moving me. This year I continue to live in Taihu Lake, and have written 7 more short stories, and hope to write a novel, as if only in this way can I express my inner love for this hot land. For me, a "new Suzhou person (新苏州人)," "another place is also a hometown," and it is also the most cherished aesthetic sustenance in life.
Mountains, rivers, and desolate islands create different natural landscapes, and also form recognizable "human customs" with the participation of human activities. For writers, whether it is "another place" or "hometown," as long as they follow their inner identity, they should express it with the greatest effort, which is also the mission of writers.
Return to TopBy: 陈咨羽
In the old days of winter, every household would burn a stove fire for cooking, preparing dishes, and heating. The kettle on the stove steamed, and the chimney puffed white smoke. When sleeping in bed at night, one could look up and see the twinkling stars from the window.
When all things were asleep, the wind stopped shaking, and plows and hoes stood motionless under the eaves. All the restlessness subsided, but the stove fire still burned. It seemed that it was that little spark of fire that allowed people in their dreams to follow the path and wake up the next day.
How were people so blessed? By this fire, by the stars overhead, by the moon on clear nights and the mud walls, and by the ancient stories and songs inside the walls. Every morning, they went out with hoes on their shoulders, as if it were the first dawn, to work in the fields, where they dug a bed, dug a roof, and dug a new dress for their children...
Gone, truly gone
Farewell, truly farewell
Like the sun setting
Like the moon passing the village
The sun will rise again after setting
The moon will return after passing
After today's parting
It's hard to say when we'll meet again
My uncle sang, at dusk, he drank white wine, his voice clear, singing as if talking in his sleep with his eyes closed. They were all songs that my grandmother used to sing. He didn't cry when my grandmother left, but at this moment, he was a deeply affectionate and sad uncle, completely different from the taciturn man who herded sheep and chopped wood during the day. The daytime him seemed to be asleep.
The singing was so melodious and long that it seemed it would never stop. That was my favorite moment of the day, when people were full and had nothing more to do. Putting aside the land and all the farm tools, they sat around the fire, adults' faces as red as children's faces. They joked, talked about the past, said that leopards were lying on the big tree behind the house catching chickens, and that wolves walked upright under the moon like humans. They also talked about the deceased, saying that grandmother had long, thick, black hair, that the vegetables in her garden were so lush that they could not be picked all, and that her field ridges were as bright as the main room... Some insignificant things became a person's proud and significant life. Just as we were listening intently, the song changed its tune. Turning to look at my uncle, he looked up and squinted, as if his body was still being propelled by the rhythm, swaying gently, and snoring. He fell asleep so contentedly on the wooden stool, a narrow stool that supported his body, just as a bird perches on a branch and a snake curls up in a small hole.
Sometimes, my uncle would take out two yuan from his pocket. We shouted, grabbed the money, and ran out the door, plunging into the snow. That was the world outside the stove fire, where only the wind was traveling, coming from afar, carrying a biting, unfamiliar smell,钻进眼睛里、鼻子里，钻进衣领中. We stamped our feet, making loud "pat-pat" footsteps, running and running towards the dim light, which was the small shop in the mountains. The owner was putting the door panels in place one by one, leaving only the tail end of the counter. We quickly put the money on it, and the owner grabbed a handful of candy and scattered it...
The candy melted in our mouths, the peanuts crackled on the stove, the sweet potatoes and potatoes were roasted until golden brown, and the snow-white rice cakes puffed up like balloons... In the small mountain village of Xifeng County (息烽县), Guizhou (贵州), the warm and fragrant smell of food filled the room. Those gray-faced fruits dragged from the mud met the fire and emitted a rich aroma. Sometimes, a shivering traveler would come in, sit by the fire, and the firelight would make him bright and stable.
One day when I woke up, the chimney of the distant house was still puffing white smoke, and only mottled traces of snow remained on the ground. The black earth emerged under the blue sky. There must be an indescribable fire roasting the earth deep in the heart of the earth. Otherwise, the snow all over the mountains and ridges would not disappear, and a strong and vigorous person would not slowly wither. The roasted snow and sweat seeped into the underground river. In the increasingly warm weather, when a river full of water flowed through the fertile fields, only those who had been there in that winter would know that countless abundance and withering were related to a raging fire.
Return to TopWatercolor Painting "Snow Reflected on the Tianshan Mountains," by Liang Dong (梁栋), collection of the National Art Museum of China (中国美术馆).
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Perhaps it should grow on a steep cliff face.
Perhaps it should cast sparse shadows, slanting across a
frozen stream, and
transparent ice still clings to a small section of the stone wall,
forming a flowing posture.
Its cold fragrance
floats, condensing in the air into
a cool rainbow.
One end of the rainbow is in the mountains, and the other
just happens to rest in my desolate and cramped little courtyard.
The truth is, before I even began to imagine,
the wintersweet quietly bloomed
in a corner of my little courtyard.
This is undoubtedly the most romantic thing
in this long winter: sipping the subtle fragrance every day,
beyond the medley of flavors like oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar.
So, I begin
to dream, to weep, to write poetry, to laugh heartily.
Such a scene is truly incredibly wonderful.
A slender figure lifts from beside the stove,
a plum tree blooms in a corner of the small courtyard,
a heavy snow falls
between me and a tree of condensed fragrance.
By: 朝 颜
It was rare to return to my hometown. As soon as I got off the bus, I plunged into the snack street. In front of each stall, there were fried bean curd, Ai rice cakes, sour tofu, and rice-wrapped meat balls... Amidst the bustling crowds, what I tasted was not only all kinds of delicacies, but also a kind of warm and unrestrained taste of life.
Every time, I couldn't help but order a bowl of rice-wrapped meat balls. Not only because it is soft, glutinous, and palatable with varied ingredients, but also because it planted a unique memory in my life.
Outsiders may find it hard to understand that the rice-wrapped meat balls in Jiubao (九堡) actually have no meat. Yes, there is really not a single bit of minced meat mixed in. But why is it called rice-wrapped meat balls? I heard from my elders that this is purely a clever trick born out of poverty, with a strong sense of self-comfort. In the past, particular families would eat meat balls on New Year's Day, symbolizing reunion and happiness. Families without meat invented rice-wrapped meat balls, at least the shape was no different from meat balls. Interestingly, with the skill improvement of generations of ingenious women, the taste has greatly surpassed that of real meat balls.
Our family makes rice-wrapped meat balls every year, and the chef is of course my mother. Using stone-ground rice milk as the main ingredient, the shallots, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, spinach, and garlic and other auxiliary materials are chopped, mixed into the rice milk, poured with sweet potato flour, stirred evenly, grabbed a handful, squeezed out from the tiger's mouth, dug out with a spoon to form a circle, and then steamed in a pot, it is considered a great success. I can eat my fill every time.
Unexpectedly, one day the important task of making rice-wrapped meat balls would fall on my shoulders. That year, my nephew was born, and my mother went to Guangdong (广东) to help, leaving my father and me to spend the New Year in our hometown. My father suggested that rice-wrapped meat balls were indispensable no matter what, so I had to be pushed onto the duck's back, cutting and chopping all the vegetables that my father had washed. By the time I finished chopping the vegetables, my father had already ground the rice milk. I recalled the procedure of my mother making rice-wrapped meat balls and began to add sweet potato flour to mix the ingredients. Who knew that my father, in order to save money, rinsed the basin that had contained the rice milk several times, and poured all the washed water into the mixing basin. The filling was too thin to form, so I had to pour large cans of sweet potato flour into it to thicken it.
We waited eagerly for the rice-wrapped meat balls to come out of the pot, hungry and calculating the time. When we took it out and tasted it, it was very chewy and not the familiar taste at all. Looking back, it was all because too much sweet potato flour was added. Obviously, we messed up the rice-wrapped meat balls.
That was truly a year with a unique taste, and I began to miss the days when my mother was at home. In fact, my father missed my mother even more than I did. One day, I inadvertently glanced at my father's daily doodles on his sketchbook, which contained a seven-character quatrain, one of which was "When will my wife return to her hometown?" My eyes warmed, and I stood there in a daze for a while. Later, my mother finally returned home. My father became a little willful, asking my mother to make hometown snacks every now and then, as if to make up for all the lost taste of that year, and of course, rice-wrapped meat balls were indispensable.
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At first, I was a bit surprised. In my impression, sunflowers always belong to vast, thick lands, always gathering in groups on boundless open fields, their roots firmly grasping fertile or barren soil, their large flower heads heavy, full of the earth's simplicity and honesty. But here, it is Rizhao (日照) by the sea, a place where the sea breeze is rampant, the air often filled with saltiness and moisture, and the sand underfoot is loose and clean. Can these "darlings" of the earth, transplanted to the seaside, get used to it?
However, this expanse of gold rushed into my eyes indisputably. Perhaps because of the tempering of the sea breeze, the plants appear lean and tenacious. The stems are a stubborn sky blue, and the leaves are not broad and thick, but have a waxy luster, with the edges slightly curled up, as if to reduce entanglement with the sea breeze. Only the flower heads are unambiguous, all facing in one direction—the source of the first light.
I approached, standing in this silent burning. The sea breeze never stops, howling as it sweeps across Hailong Bay (海龙湾), rushing straight towards this field of flowers. Where the wind passes, every sunflower sways, but not in a weak and boneless dance, but in a resilient resistance. They sway in unison, the golden petals becoming flowing flames, emitting a sound that seems like the friction of metal sheets. This sound, mixed with the roar of the waves crashing on the shore not far away, forms a peculiar symphony. I suddenly felt that these were not the sunflowers in my memory. The sunflowers in the fields bathe in the warm sunshine and endure the gentle breeze, their lives peaceful and full. But these in front of me, every moment of their uprightness is like wrestling with a powerful force. The sea breeze wants them to bow their heads, but they insist on raising their heads; the salty air erodes their bodies, but they transform it into a more intense color.
This is truly a wonderful encounter, with the sea on one side and sunflowers on the other. The sea is free, able to surge to the ends of the earth; while the sunflower is persistent, its life revolving around only one unchanging center. This movement and stillness, release and guarding, vastness and focus, achieve a heart-stirring harmony between the sea and the sky.
My thoughts couldn't help but drift to the distance, drifting to the historical mists of the past. Rizhao (日照), what an apt name, "the first light of sunrise shines first." Throughout history, this land that first bathes in light seems to always have an inextricable connection with souls who are persistent in their pursuit of "light."
I thought of Liu Xie (刘勰), the literary theorist who went from here to a distant place. "Literary changes are influenced by worldly affairs, and rise and fall are tied to the order of the times," what he sought was the "way" of writing, the "heart" of creation, which is also a more profound and rational "light." He is like a silent sunflower, devoting all his energy and intellect to the vast literary sky. His persistence, his focus, his 洞幽烛微 (dòng yōu zhú wēi - "illuminate the hidden and subtle," to see things clearly and thoroughly), built an immortal literary lighthouse for future generations. The light of this lighthouse, crossing thousands of years, still illuminates the journey of literary dreamers today.
The sun turned around, and that fireball burning with flames finally敛敛了光芒, becoming like a warm and lustrous red jade, slowly sinking. The colors between heaven and earth became more intense and magnificent, the clouds were dyed into brocade, and the sea spread out a waterway shimmering with broken gold, leading directly to the destination of light.
And at this moment, the scene that moved me the most appeared. That entire field of sunflowers no longer followed the sun that was about to disappear, but turned their flower heads towards the sea in unison. They drooped slightly, as if completing a solemn ritual, falling into a collective contemplation. The golden petals, illuminated by the sunset glow, glowed with a purplish-red halo, appearing even more serene and peaceful. Is this accumulating strength, waiting for the next dawn?
I quietly left, not daring to disturb this grand waiting. At this moment, the lights are on, and the bustling crowd on the street, their faces bearing the fatigue and satisfaction after a day's work. I think, the people living in this city may have already integrated this "sun-facing" quality into their daily bloodline? They go out in the first ray of light in the morning, they create with their hardworking hands, they are optimistic and tenacious, like the sunflowers, no matter what kind of wind and rain they experience, they always believe that the sun will rise as usual tomorrow.
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